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RECORD OF THE WEEK. HOsME AND COLONIAL.
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Gur harvesting prospects began to brighten as last week closed . The novelty of summer < days and cloudless skies , gladdened the hearts of millions , and . saved the expiring month' from being throughout an unseasonable forestalment of November . The Saturday half-holiday movement having been brought to a very satisfactory stage of arrangement the fine weather was taken advantage of by vast numbers , not forgetting the volunteers , who mustered in . their strength . At Knowsleypark , the seat of the Earl of Derby , a grand review of the volunteers and a good dinner afterwards , took place . Simultaneously with the favourable change have coirie reports from all the agricultural districts as to the state of the crops . These interesting and important communications may be summed up by saying , that if the line weather last , the corn harvest -will be above the average ; and that even as it is , an average yield may be expected . Of the potato crop we regret to have nothing favourable to communicate .
It is very suggestive to note how things apparently the most dissimilar are indissolubly connected . "What possible apparent relation is there between atmospheric conditions and meterology on the one hand , and the " books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England " on the other ? Yet so much have the latter been regulated by the former during the past season , that the funds have literally risen and fallen with the barometer . On Saturday the money market in the City , as well as the market gardens in the suburbs , became improved entirely through the unexpected 110 % 'elfcy of a resplendent sun ; consols reaching 93 g , arid other securities keeping pace with them . The fine weather having raised the price of stocks , has lowered the price of corn arid meat—the one effect being as satisfactory as the other * At Mark Lane , in the openingprices of the week , there was a fall ranging between 2 s . and is . per quarter in wheat ; and hi the cattle markets the prices went down from 2 d .. to 4 d . per stone .
The first of September was well adaj > ted for that sport to the " unfledged bipeds " which is death to the partridges . ' ; Parliament having gone out shooting , London being out of town , and the world gone abroad , home politics are now mere vox et priterea nihil , —only living in the records of the past and the anticipations of the future , —they are , at present , in abeyance , in nubibus , that is , locked up in the heads of Her Majesty ' s ministers and of . Her Majesty ' s opposition . We suppose , however , politicians will go down to their respective localities and crow bravely upon their own—platforms . ' . With regard ho Mr . Lindsay's alleged mission to the "United States in . reference to the shipping trade , it appears that that gentleman's visit to America is not to be of a strictly official character , although it seems lie goes under ( governmental auspices , and has been furnished with the official correspondence , that has passed between London and Washington 011 the subject in question .. In case of his being successful in bringing the American Government to negotiations , the matter will then be placed in the hands of the British minister on the spot .
The number of wrecks during August exceeded those of the previous month ( which sunk to the minimum of 60 ) by 36 , there having been 96 in all . In January there were 229 , February 154 , March 166 , April 133 , May 121-, June 146 ; making a total of 1 * 108 . Mrs . Yates , the actress , and one of the best representatives of that class of characters 2 'oenliar to wliat is called the "domestic drama " that ever trod tho boards , died last week at her residence at Camden Town . ¦§ ir Henry George Ward , tho successor of Sir 0 , Trevelyan , as Governor of Madras , died of cholera soon after his arrival . He was the proprietor of the defunct "Weekly Chronicle newspaper , from its establishment up to 18-19 , lvlicn ho went out as Lord Hig h Commissioner of the Ionian Islands .
In the criminal record of the week , forming so important an item in tho history of a civilized country , figures a desperate affray between BOinG burglars arid iho polico at B , attersea , which occurred about fwu o ' clock on Sunday morning . A gang of six men , being a detachment of tho " predatory classes" ( supposed to number near 50 , 000 in London nlone—there being tln-ee to every policeman ) , attempted a rohbory at Mr , Dives' mill , and five of them , whoso names , as givon , are Barton , Willis , Cornwall , Muhoh , and Hey wood , have been captured , tho sixth having , us it was supposed , been drowned in the vivor . Policeman linker received niiid blows on the head with what is flomewhats inapijropi'iately cullod a "lifo preserver , " and was loft for dead .. His reoqvory was considered doubtful .
As a pendant to tho " private mission , " asoribed to Mr . Lindsay , " O . 'ho Honorable" Mr , Edwin James ( as tho French journalist calls him , who exemplifies tho saying that wo must go abroad to hear news of homo ) , hns boori , VQ are gravely assured , deputed to convey the sympathy and onoowHgomont of tho British Cabinot to Garibaldi ; but this canard forthwith had its wings clipped , and was completely " plucked " of all its fictitious j ) lumage , not being loft a single foathor to fly with . Tho mortality of London was slightly on tho inoronso during tho week ending 25 th August , compared with tho previous one , tho deaths having risen from 937 to 1 , 018 . Tho corrected average mimber , however , being 1 , 1 . 40 , it follows that this represents » in improvement of no Iobb than 181 on tho nicun number of tho past 10 years .
Simultaneously with tho execution of Youngmon , for the Walworth murder , oomos tho nowa of another atrocious orimo porpefcrnted by a man named Thorpo , who , 011 Sunday , at tho village of Upton , noar Pcntofraot , having quarrollod with Elizabeth Mitchell , a follow servant , nhot her dead witli a gun . Tho week ' s rooorcl of accidents ( thoxigh some occurrences bo Oftllod appear t 6 bo misnamed ) , keeps puoo with that of orimce and offences . Between Employ amcl Manohcslior t > vo twins wore , running towards tho fovmav place oil Tuesday , when l , ho uoupllnuB of the ftret train guvo w « , y , and a purl ; of it run book on the nimlinost . one , cloven persons being killed , nooordlng to tho Ih'tot ivporl , und 100 moro or Iobh injured . From India woJcuni ( hut ; the diflluultioH of collecting tho incoriio tax Hoonied to iWshmlow rebellion , in cnso . of thut impost being onforopd . ; i ) iaoontonli prevailed in Ouclo wjiun tlio last no \ ys loft . In the northwest pi-oviuoot * 0 Ihinino was thought t , y bo ijnininent . Wo hoar also
that , notwithstanding the proclamation of the English Government , th < Governor-General had forbidden the Rajah of Kotahto appoint his sue cessor ; and it was rumoured that the stipulations with the dethroned King of C 5 ude , for the support of his family , would be repudiated and that this had been publicly announced by the representative of tht British Crown . ¦ , * The Prince of Wales having left Quebec , was received at Montreal ] on the 24 th , with the usual demonstrations of exuberant loyalty , arid the day following , laid the first stone of the Victoria Bridge . During one of the salutes fired by the squadron that accompanies the Prince , an accident occurred which involved no less serious results than the blowing to pieces of four sailors . Mr . P . A . Daviss , the merchant charged with forging a bill for £ 179 , having been finally examined at the Mansion-house , en Wednesday , was committed for trial .
At Bow-street , Miss Pickard , a watch dealer , has been fined £ 100 , and £ 3 costs , for making a false declaration to the Customs , with regard to a quantity of watches imported by her . This was a prosecution under the new treaty . . . Up to a late period in the week no further light had been thrown on the Itoad and Stepney murders . It appears that the Queen will embark at Gravesend for her voyage to Germany towards the end of the present month—24 th 01 25 th . The Honorable George Windsor Clire has been returned to Parliament as the representative of Lord Powis , who virtually " constitutes the constituency " of the little pocket borough of Ludlow . Mr . William " Tinsley the Publisher of the Strand , has announced a New work , by Blanchard Jerrold , entitled " The Chronicles of the Crutch , " also a New and Revised Edition of Dr . Wax-drop's Valuable Work , " The Diseases of the Heart . "
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Sept . 8 , I 860 . ] The Saturday Analyst and Leader . 789
Record Of The Week. Hosme And Colonial.
RECOED OF THE WEEK . HOME AND COLONIAL .
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JLlie Monueur ; apropos 01 wJiat many consider fnnuB . 'B . apropos letter , in . which , by professing to repudiate , lie has been thought to put in a claim upon the crown of Naples , intimates to the prince that the hope which his letter discloses of one day entering ZtTaples with the sanction and support of France , is altogether in antagonism with the views and sentiments of the French Emperor . Was it Swift who said that in diplomacy a lie is never told except with the intent that you should take it for a truth , nor a truth except with the intent that you should take it for a lie ? Prince Murat certainly has not realized the ideal of' ars est eclare -artem , but has failed in practically slowing that the only " use of language is to conceal thought . Pripce Murat has written a letter protesting against the construction put upon his manifesto fey . the Moniteup . He says what he meant was , ¦ that if the universal people called him to the throne , he hoped it would not meet with the disapproval of France any more than the popular wishes , the practical realization of which in other parts of Italy has had the Emperor ' s sanction . ~" . Reinforcements for the garrison of Rome had been sent off by the French Government as the week opened ; when a despatch came to hand appropriately dated from Perugia , late last week , to the effect that Lamoriciere , the " Christian hero" and faithful son of the church , who has so " zealously espoused the cauae . of his infirm and not very amiable mother , had promised the soldiers of the cross under his command , that any towns which might join in tho struggle for freedom against the despotism by which they are now crushed , would be given up to them for pillage ; but this really Beemed too baro-faoed and atrocious to bo true . Saturday ' s news from Naples shewed tho Government to be m a state of collapse . Garibaldi had found a fresh coadjutor in general Nunziante , who had joined his standard , together with one of the best officers in the Neapolitan navy , no less a person than the " eea captain" who had shewn such skill and courage during tlio attack of the Veloco , General Bosco and the War Minister Pianclli wore the only adherents the king had left . Garibaldi , in person , had advanced to Moriteloono ; the king ' s troops either dispersing or joining tho army of the people i other troops in the serVictr of the Government which were m the neighbourhood fell back from tho scone of action . At Beggio the King ' s troops were again beaten by tho National Guard in » sanguinary contost . it . Early in tho present weolc a somewhat startling , though 6 y no means unlooked for or unwished for announcement reached us , via tho JPatrte , to tho efleofc that Garibaldi had intimated to the Annexation Committee , that- as a definitive solution of tho problem that had to be worked out , he would proceed to Naples by Saturday , and assume the JHctatorBlup , on behalf of the King of Sardinia . Count Oavour is more than auspeoted of being unfavourable to Garibaldi's pi'etensions . Moanwhilo at Rome , General Lamorioiero appeared to bo making preparations not inoroly i ' or the defence of the city alone , but for the surrounding country , llo estimates hip available forces at 80 , 000 men . General "Walker , as wo learn from advices from Central Aznerjoa , brought by the Europn , lmving landed at TruxiHo , captured tho place aftor overcoming the resistance offered by its defenders . Fund Pacha ' s oflloinl report , dated 20 th August , states that out of the 167 persons up to that time found guilty , 56 had been hanged , and the remaining 111 shot ; somo of tho Bufl ' orors belonging to the highest families . Numerous other arrests had taken place , and those convicted were to sulTer death . Such as had sentence of hard labour and dotontion in the fortresses were to bo embarked at Eoyrout ; , and sont to Constantinople . „ . A « ' oomplioation" scorns to have arisen with Turkoy , out ot lino intorvoTition with roforouoo to Syria . One of tho protocols of 3 rd August was framod apparently in tho intorosi ) of tlio Porto to robufc suoft » oonsT-ruotion oi t | io Puris treaty of 185 G , os vould gn » tho great potfiwi n right of fntoi-vontion as ohorgbcl vith ^ oing tp ^ ho strwt and iiiir oxeeution of the oHinonocfl re ulating the poHil'io ; . of the OhruUan populution under Turkish rulo . , ' . rho aouvontion whioJ ^ ° ^ J * " } nplv clled upon lo noi-rp * . however , arenie lo be . c ? hjoftIn 1 to on J (> PJJ * j n » not in eonVormity will . Iho protocol in qiMmt . on . J n oo . tho lutcii aUudod tp , which it 18 ' lo bo hoped dip lomacy will b j > »}> h i 0 smooth down without Btorncr and moro serious menus boing resorted to by w » y of solution .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 8, 1860, page 789, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2364/page/13/
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