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Escape TROat Jedoah.— A German lady and ...
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T>ROFESSOR WTLJALBA FRIKELL.— A POLYGRAPHIC HALL.Kins? William-stroet, Charing Month
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Escape Troat Jedoah.— A German Lady And ...
Escape TROat Jedoah . — A German lady and her brother , who were present in Jeddah at the time of the massacre , escaped safely to Aden , whence they arrived at Bombay on the 22 nd of July , having obtained a free passage on board the Success , in charge of twenty-four negro slaves—boys and girls . This lady was robbed at Jeddah of all her property and valuables . The lady and her brother were at the Port police-office , Bombay , on the 22 nd of July , with the twenty-four slaves , who were lodged in the chowky , until some provision could be made for them . .-...,
The French Law of Bankruptcy ^—A rabbitskin merchant , named Michel Liandier , was sentenced on . Monday , at the assize court of the Seine , to eight years' imprisonment as a fraudulent bankrupt . This man , although , be could neither read nor write , carried on business on a very large scales and in one year turned over as much as 160 , 000 & Having many branch estas blishments in the provinces , his correspondence was very voluminous , but he carried it all on through an ecrivain public , a man who sits in a little hut scarcely
big enough to hold two people , and whose ordinary occupation consists in writing servant-girls' love-letters . This man not only wrote Liandier ' s letters , but posted * np his books at his dictation . For some years Liandier was prosperous , but when the crisis of 1 S 57 came he bought rabbit-skins at high prices on credit , and sold them at once at low prices for cash , and showed as much skill in dictating false entries as if he had been able to write them himself . His manoeuvres were , however , detected—not without difficulty—by an
accountant . The Alleged Mutilations . —In reply to an official letter from Mr . Cecil Beadon , Secretary to the Government of India , Mr . J . W . Sherer , magistrate of Cawnpore , writes .: — " Although I accompanied General Havelock ' s force to this place , and have remained here ever since , I have never heard a story I considered credible , of mutilation , torture or dishonour ; I would also state that there were no dead bodies tying about in the enclosures of the house , nor in the house itself where the ladies were massacred , that there was no writing of any kind on the walls of the building , which were carefully examined , and that the only paper found throwing light on the miserable events that occurred between the 27 th
of June and the 15 th of July , were a Hindoo list of the prisoners , a medical memorandum apparently written by a native doctor , and a brief diary in outline , believed to have been kept by a member of the Lindsay family . " Vebt Cool . — Mr . Argent , writing to . the Daily News , says . *— " Will it be believed by the world that we , the unfortunate shareholders of the Royal British Bank , after being ruined and hunted out of the country , and now trying to forget the past , and endeavouring by renewed exertions to recover our positions , should be most unfeelingly reminded of our misfortunes by a request to sign a petition for the release of Esdaile ?"
Foreign-office PA $ spoBTS . r—Since the 25 th of June , the date of the establishment of ? he agency of the Foreign-office at this port , to the end of . the month of August , Mr , Edward Glynh , the agent at Newcastle , has issued 102 passports : to British subjects intending to travel in foreign countries . The extent of the convenience to the public— -who were formerly obliged to apply in London—must be very greats—Newcastle Chronicle . General Steam Navigation Companx- — The sixty-seventh half-yearly meeting of the shareholders
of this company was held on Tuesday at their offices , 71 , Lombard- street ; John Wilkin , Esq ., in the chair . The report of the directors , and a statement of the accounts for the half-year ending the 30 th June last , were read to the meeting , and unanimously adopted . The usual dividend , at the rate of 10 per cent , per annum , was declared , and the cordial thanks of the proprietors voted to the chairman and directors for their continued zealous services in the management of the company ' s affairs , after which the meeting separated .
CpLBFOItD , Mq KMOUTH , USK , AND P . OWTYPOOL RAILWAY . —The report states that since the company have worked the line , the weekly returns of traffic have been as favourable as could bo expected ; and the passenger traffic to Monmouth already exceeds the estimate submitted to Parliament for the whole line to Coleford . The directors are still most anxious to cross the river Wye , eo as to carry out their expressed intention of reaching the minerals of the forest of Dean ; and arrangements are about being made to enable them to do so . It is not proposed to declare a dividend at the half-yearly meeting .
Harvest in Sussex . —The Sussex Advertiser says :- — " The weather has been oil that could be desired during the past week , and has enabled the concluding labours of harvest to bo completed under the most favourable oiroumetanoes .-w-In-this-diatriotT . the ^ harveflt-inay-prac tically be said to be finished ; there may bo a little corn still " out" hero and there , but , as a rule , our haryoBfc is over , and . it has certainly been got up most satisfactorily And in # rst-rato condition . The wheat crop is a good ftyejragQ in quantity , and although there is some un-© YPnnosa | n quality , yefc on the whole it is in this reepeot quite as good , if not better , than in the average of seasons , there having been no drawback from wet duripg tlw process of . harvesting . "
A Vein of Coal on Fire . —A serious accident occurred on Monday in the Evail Fack coal pit , at Tindu , Glamorganshire . Early in the morning some passers-by observed a volume of smoke proceeding from the air shaft , and the mineral agent was immediately apprised of the circumstance . He descended , and discovered that a vein of coal had caught fire , it is conjectured , from a spark emitted from the engine used underground . With as little delay as possible steps were taken for the safety of the men employed , and in less than an hour the whoie of them were brought out , no one , fortunately , having sustained the slightest injury . ; The water course was then turned into the pit , and will continue to run till the fire is quite extinguished . The . pit will of course be stopped for some time , and the damage done will be considerable .
Singular Bigamy . — At Wandsworth police-court John Curie , who was charged last week with bigamy , for having married Susan Grace Sparks , his first wife Sarah being still alive , surrendered to his bail . His defence was that the first marriage was never consummated , as he . and the woman he had married parted at the church door and never cohabited at all . Proof was given of both marriages , the first with Sarah Wheeler and the second with Susan Grace Sparks , and the magistrate , saying that the fact of the non-con 3 ummation did not affect the marriage contract , committed the prisoner for trial . Sarah Wheeler , otherwise Curie , was then placed : at the bar charged with intermarrying illegally witli Charles Thomas Farmer , she being a married woman , and her offence being clearly established , she was also fully committed . Bail was . taken for Curie , but Wheeler was locked up . -
SumiARiNE Telegraph for the Colonies . — -A . sub marine telegraph cable of about 300 miles is in course of manufacture at Mr . Henley ' s works , to connect the colony of Victoria with Tasmania . Extraordinary Season . - ^ Diminishing Rainfall . —The year 1858 will be noted as a season of great drought in many places , but especially so on the northeast coast . At Berwick-upoh-Tweed there has not been an available shower of rain from August , 1857 , to August 1858 , and numerous springs are dry which the " oldest inhabitant" cannot remember before to have
failed ^ local waterworks have , as a consequence , run short of water ; the waterworks at many other places have also partially failed , as at Bolton , at Liverpool ( the Pike ) , and at Manchester . At Washington , near Durham , the actual recorded fall of rain for nipe months ( November , 1857 ; to July , 1858 ) , has been 8 . S 6 , or a little more than eight and three-quarter inches , in the nine months . ; It has been noticed for the last fifteen months that the seasons are modified , and the fall of rain is diminishing . Will cultivation and land-drainage account for the change?—The Builder .
Good News for Metropolitan Anglers . — -The efforts of the conservators of the River Thames to preserve the fishery within their jurisdiction have this season been attended with considerable success . It may not be generally known that the part of the river between Staines and Putney is carefully watched by the river keepers of the conservators and of the Thames Angling Preservation Society , whose officers hold deputations under the conservators . Her Majesty and" the Atlantic Telegraph . —It is with much pleasure that we are able to state that an intimation Of her Majesty ' s intention to confer the honour of knighthood upon Mr . Bright and Captain Preedy has reached us . This permanent testimonial of her Majesty ' s intelligent interest in the lato gigantic undertaking will very fitly commemorate ita success , and will be gladly approved by the country . — Mechanics' Magazine .
Something New , — "A Bachelor" calls attention to the following notice which has been published : — " On the 24 th ihst ., at St . Paul ' s , Lorrimore-squnre , Newington-butts , by the Rev . T . Mitchell , incumbent of the church , assisted by the Rev . J . Going , M . A ., with choral service , Paul , eldest son of Paul Jerrard , publisher , of 170 , Fleet-street , to Harriet Alban , youngest daughter of Thos . Dinn ,. Esq . " ,. Ho then asks ; " Can you . inform the public what is the peculiar and beneficial effect of being married ' with choral service ; ' who sings it , the bride or the bridegroom , or the bridesmaids , or the incumbent , or his assistant , or the clerks , or the friends of the two families ; how much it costs , and whether the clergyman who has invented this novel process has taken out a patent for itP "
A Niflsx of Snakes . —One day last week one of tho kitchen gardeners at Dangstoin House , Rogato , was moving a heap of rubbish , and found iu it nearly 200 snakes . — West Susaem Gazette . Anomaly oit tub Criminal Law . —A man named Callondar was on Thursday conviotod of an aosault at anJlriflh- ^ akQ _ upQii-ft _ pQrflpii ^ naw ^ Chester ; but as tho complainant was not able to pay 1 Kb ' fees for the prisoner's committal , the ease was postponed until to-day . If M'Donjnot can raise tho money , Callondar will go to gaol ; but If not , tho offender will escape punishment . Such a state of things is worthy of attention by law reformers , Its absurdity and impropriety nro too obvious to need remark . A sensitive Official . — " A letter from Alexandria of tho Dtb , " says the Malta Times , " mention * that a
young man , the medical dflieer of the French Consulate there , unknown to the officers' of the Lazaretto , had contact with a patient in that establishment supposed to be attacked with plague , tho servant of a M . Nani , of Bengazi , and afterwards freely communicated with many parties in the town , nntl thereby compromised the public health , rendering necessary the issue of a touched or doubtful bill of health . This circumstance bad so worked upon the injnd of tho director of the quarantine , a European , who had' held tho appointment for nniny years , and grown infirm in the service , that he attempted to destroy himself by firing a pistol at his head ; but , from the arm having been loaded some time , the desired intent was not immediately accomplished , though sufficient injury was caused to render it very doubtful whether his life will be spared . " _ _
The Better Class of Paris Artizans . —When you enter the often pretty spacious inhabitations of certain classes of Paris artizans , you are frequently astonished by the refinement apd elegance of their arrangement ? , which reproduce , in a peculiarly pleasing manner , the luxury of the middle classes blended with a certain patriarchal element . There are not a few families of this kind who possess pieces of furniture which have not yet penetrated into the abodes of the working classes in Germany . A family of the working class in tolerable employment is seldom without a large pendulum clock , several looking glasses , some tasteful vases on the chimney piece ; and on the walls copper engravings , even though the latter may only have been obtained as premiums for subscribing to illustrated serials .
The centre of all this splendour is usually the . sleeping apartment of the married pair , in which the chief fu rniture is displayed , and this special luxury of the ar isan family developed . The bedsteads are of walnut wood , and supplied with -sheets and curtains of dazr zlingly white linen .: A chest of drawers , a desk , a sideboard with glass doors , all of walnut wood , an . elegantly ' ornamented ., ¦ round ' table standing in the middle of the room , complete the comfort of the thoroughly clean and respectable menage . The windows , too , are tastefully hung with curtains . Nor are . there wanting the adjunct of a little library ,, in . which you remark books of entertainment and education , and frequently an illustrated History of France , recently published in numbers . —Herr Muiult . ' '
¦ Currax's Sox . —Mr . W . II . Curran , late one of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court , died , on . Tuesday at his residence in Dublin . He was son of the late celebrated John Philpot Curran , Master of the Rolls . The Dean of Rochester . — We ( Sussex- E . cpvess ') are sorry to hear that the Very Rev . the Dean of Rochester , who is at his vicarage of West Farlei ^ h , is indisposed . The venerable head of our cathedral chapter is in his eighty-second year , we believe , but has generally preached in his church on Sunday afternoons .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1858, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04091858/page/30/
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