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318 THE LEADEIy [JSTo. 467, March 5, 185...
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The IiESSEra Scheme . — A Paris letter says : — *« The precious enterprise of M . Lesseps is already declared to be in little "better than an insolvent state . There is no probability that the works will commence in the ¦¦ early part of this year , as promised ; still less that "they will ever be pushed forward with a view to co mpletion . It is even said that the enterprise is- upon the point of being altogether abandonedj and a compromise effected with the shareholders . But this is energetically denied by the supporters of the scheme . An immense sum has , it seems , been spent in preliminary expenses , such as advertising , dinners , poetry , & c . ; so that , if the concern were suddenly wound up , M . de Lesseps might perhaps find himself in possession of a tolerably fat oyster , but the unfortunate shareholders would have nothing but the shells . "
Poet of London . — In- the general business ol the port during the past week there has been no alteration . The number of ships reported inward -was 113 , and those cleared outward amounted to 105 , including 11 in ballast . Of those now on the berth loading outward fifty-two are for the Australian colonies , eight for China , two for San Francisco , and one for Vancouver ' s Island . The actual exports of British goods continue light . Savings Banks . — -At the annual general meeting just held of the pi-incipal City savings-bank , the liondon Provident Institution , Moorfields , it was stated that , although the pecuniary pressure of the dose of 1857 extended into the first six weeks of 1858 : so that during that period the money withts than £ 18000
Boaed of Tiiajde Retuhns . — . The returns for the month of January are published . The indications presented corroborate the impressipn that , should designs tending to political conflagration be checked , the present year may yet be one of extraordinary commercial prosperity . The aggregate exports last month were . £ 9 , 593 , 423 , being £ 2 , 371 , 823 , or 32 per cent ., more than in January last year— when , though the value of : money had fallen to 4 per cent ., mercantile affairs were in a state of collapse—and . £ 535318 or nearly 6 per cent ., inore than in January ,
,, 1857 . Of the increase of . £ 2 , 371 , 823 , shown by the comparison with 185 . 8 , cotton goods alone figure for £ 966 , 603 , and one-half of this increase is in the Indian trade , the " British East Indies " having taken £ 1 , 065 , 139 of " cottons , " against £ 550 , 272 , in the corresponding month of last year , and £ 509 , 235 in 1857 . Symptoms of revival in the American trade ' will be remarked with satisfaction . The exports of " railway iron " now distinctly classified in the Board of Trade returns , as the importance of this branch of commerce demands .
drawn exceeded the receipby more ,, the whole of this large decrease was recovered within the following seven weeks , while subsequently ( with but three exceptions ) every succeeding week of the year has exhibited a surplus . The total receipt of the year has been £ 283 , 849 , and the total of repayments £ 227 , 145 , showing increase of capital , £ 56 y 704 ; 5 , 382 accounts have been closed , and 6 , 759 opened . The actual number of accounts open at the close of the year was 50 , 294 , exceeding i > y 1 , 076 the largest number of accounts the bank had ever before had open at anyone time . That excess has since increased to 2 , 085 , and the bank ' s present number of ( customers is 51 , 303 . The total capital at the end of 1857 was £ 884 , 841 ; ^ ifc the end of 1858 it was £ 941 , 546 . It is now £ 978 , 396 .
The New Indian Loan . — JPiivate telegrams from India state that the newlpanwhichhas been opened is to be in Treasury Bonds , analogous to our Exchequer Bills , and having twelve months to run . They will be for 100 rupees each , with an interest of a quarter of an anna per day ( equivalent to about 5 $ per cent . ) , and will be renewable for another twelve months at the option of the taker . Commercial Mobai-itt in France . —The trial of several managers of the Paris cab company has recently been concluded , after various examinations , extending , over nearly a whole week . The prisoners were accused of fraudulent practices in connexion with that association , paying dividends out of
capital , entering into ruinous contracts for their own personal advantage , & c . An . immense mass of evidence was produced substantiating many of the charges brought forward ; but the details present no special interest for the public . The company seems to have been as ill-managed ever since its establishment as the Dcick !? Napoleon , of famous memory ; Nothing but a series of blunders and of frauds marks its history . The Directors first began by building , work shops , infinitely more spacious and more costly than they required . They laid out 10 , 0 Q 0 j 000 f . in the purchase of land , though they could have saved the greater part of this vast sum by renting the around they reauired . Then , when shareholders
grew suspicious of the company s financial position , and asked for information , they qould obtain nothing but evasive and unsatisfactory replies . At a general meeting which took place on one occasion , a holder of shares asked the chairman some questions Soaring on this subject , and was put down . Another shareholder was even more scurvily treated , for he was actually turned out of the room . And so matters went on from bad to worse , one manager succeeding another , and the financial position of the company every day bccQjning more confused and obscure It-was only when it was discovered that aotual fraud had been coramittod that the affair
came before tljo police tribunal . The various delinquents were let off very lightly . Six wore altogether acquitted ; two were condemned to a year ' s imprisonment and twenty-five francs fine $ and the remaining two were sentenced to even more insignificant punishment , The case is another illustration of the tombly low state of morality which prevails among the speculative members of the . French commercial world . Rapacity and unscrupulouaness eeem to bo the characteristics of one-half of the men engaged in the direction of tvsBooifttod enterprise . They stop at nothing in order to grow rich at once —• fleecing the Innocqnt shareholders as long as the operation is possible , and then absconding .
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BOOKS KECEIVED . The Gallery of Nature . Part V . W . and It . Chambers . Trubner ' s Bibliographical Guide to American Literature . Compiled and edited by Nicholas Triibner . Triibner and Co . The Amateur ' s Magazine . No . G . Piper , Stephenson and Co . Fraser ' s Magazine . " So . CCCLI . / J . W . Parker and Son . . ; ¦¦;¦ '' ... '¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . ¦ . . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' : . .. '¦ ;¦ . Le Follet Journal du Grand Monde , No . 149 . Paris , 69 Boulevard . W . Martin . The Virginians , IXo . 17 . Bradbury and Evans . Charles Knight ' s History of England , No . 38 . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
Bradbury and Evans . , ..:.. The English Cyclopcsdid . Part 2 . Bradbury and Evans . Blackwood ' s ' Magazine . No . 521 . W ; Blackwood . Titan . No . 168 . Edinburgh , Hogg and Son .: Bentiey ' s Quarterly Review . No . 1 . March 1859 . R . Bentley' . : The Englistiicomun ' s Journal . No . 13 , Vol . III . Piper , " Stephenson and Co . Knight ' s Magazine for Boys . No . 1 . Bosworth and Harrison . The National Magazine . Part XXIX . Kent and Co . The Eclectic , fop March . Ward and Co . Tales from " JBlackwpod . " No . 12 . W . Blackwood and Son . ¦ ' .
Spirit of the French Ahjit . - " We have re peatedly heard the story told among French troops " how men who entered the army in a blouse died marshals . Marshal Michael Ney , the ideal of every French soldier , and King Murat , were generally the chief characters in their : . narratives . It is lj u £ natural ^ then , that the French soldier should argiie ' We are as brave men as those with Avlioni the great Emperor led our eagles to glory ; give us the same opportunities for distinction as were so repeatedly given to them , and we will show what we can do . ' But in none of the troops-was sucl . i a spirit disp layed as among the French non-commissioned officers We remember being witness at Marseilles of the
most exciting scenes when the soldiers -srere embarking for the Crimea . Sergeants and corporals were ready to give up their stripes and serve again as privates , if they might be allowed to j oin a battalion serving before Sebastopol ; and in an estaminct on the port we saw a corporal offer his comrade his entire fortune of 2 , 000 francs , if he could only manage an exchange with him . And these 2 , 000 francs had not been lightly earned ; they had been , the price paid him for serving as a substitute during six years of harassing Algerian warfare . The troops knew perfectly well what awaited them before Sebastop ol ; they heard the stories of their comrades who returned as invalids ; they knew of all the privations
the besieging army had to endure , and that it would cost many a bloody sacrifice before the banners of France "would wave over this haughty fortress . And yet this sure prospect of privation , want , and dangers of every description did not in any waydamp the ardour of these warlike non-commissioned officers and privates . They wanted to try their chance on the field of battle , and thought they could become officers more rapidlyunder the Russian fire than in the garrison towns of France . At Kertch . we had many opportunities of conversing with sergeants of that brilliant corps , the Chasseurs d'Afrique , and they repeated ] y toldr . s , •¦ in all seriousness , that they were quite certain of becoming
generals spine day or another . A friend ' of ours , again , formed the acquaintance , in 1848 , of li youn < r man who was bugler in the Chasseurs , and the pure type of the ambitious French soldier , who was quite confident of becoming a general . A / cw years later our friend met r < him in Algiers a sergeuntriiiajor , and in the spring of 1855 he ^ returned wounded from the Crimea , as lieutenant en premier . Our friend saw him in Paris , and he . said , laughingly , ' Six more years of var like the last , and I . am safe to l ) e a colonel . Vive JVapoleonJ—vive'la guerre ! ' And
some dozen chasseurs and voltig ' eurs , standing by , joined in the shout , and told one another that this officer , who already wore the cross of the Legion of Honour , and intended to be a colonel Avithin six years , Was only an enfant de troupe , and bad first served as a bugler . Such scenes truly characterise the spirit of the army , and we can form a better . opinion of it from such than by attending formal reviews , or watching the manoeuvres on the-fcxercising-groxind . " - ^ -Wraa'all's " Armies . " ' ___ '
Kelly ' s Hallway Chtide , for March . Kelly and Co . The Art Journal . No . 51 . Jamea W . Virtue . The Weekly Magazine . Part I . Ward and Lock . Revue Britanniq-ite . Fevrier , 1859 . Paris , Au Bureau de la Revue , Kue Neuve , St . Augustin , 60 . Italy : its Condition : Great Britain : its Policy By Lord John Russell ,- M . P . James Ridgway . Tali ' s Edinburgh Magazine . No . 303 , Vol . XXVI . Edinburgh , Sutherland and Knox . Sir Gilbert . A Novel . R . Bentley . Zife of Charles James Fox . By the Right Honourable Lord John Russell , M . P . R . Bentley . Memoirs to Illustrate tive History of my Time . By Fi Guizot . Vol . II . R . Bentley . Moor ' s Irish Melodies . By M . W . Balfe . No . 1 . J . A . Nbvello . '
Town Swamps and Social Bridges . By George Godwin , F . R . S . Routledge and Co . Davenport Dunn , No . 20 . Chapman and Hall . The Church Distinguished . By Caleb Webb . Houlstone and Wright . Art , Artists ; or Industry in England . By Th < 3 ophile Silvestre , Bradbury and Evans . Rival Rhymes ir \ Honour of Burns , By Ben * Novato , Routle % e and Co . Lyrti Anglicana . A Poem , in four parts . By Courtly Gridley . J . TJnwin , Greshnm Press . The Next ) Testament . Translated from Griesbaqh ' s Text by Samuel Sharjpe . Fourth Edition . A . Hall , Virtue and Co .
Routledge ' s Shakespeare , Edited by H . Staunton . Parts XXXV . and XXXVI . Routledge and Co . Historical Gleanings at Homo and Abroad . By John Francis Jajnieson ., T . C . Nowby . A Journal of the First French Embassy to China , 1608—1700 . Translated by Saxe JBannis , tor , M . A . T . C , Newby . Studios from tho Great Masters . Engraved nhd Printed in Colours by William Dickos . Parts I . to V . Hamilton , Adnms and Co , Parliamentary Rqform , An Essay , by Walter Bngshot . Chapman and Hnjl . A Telegraph half-xoay to America ' , xohy is it not Uaadt Efflnirhfim WUson .
The Worlta of the Mov . Sydney Smith , Part HI . Longman and Co . On the Modifications which tho Ships of tho Royal Navy have undergone during the present Century , § o . By E . Jt KeeU . Robertson ; Brown , and Co . jLeotureaon thq History of jLiteratifro , Ancient awl Modern . From thq Gorman of Frederick Sehlogol . II . G . Bolm . "An Index ofDatas . ' By J ' . 'WUloughby Rosso , In 2 Vojs . Vol . II ., K—Z , H . G . Bolm , Diiary and Correspondence of John JSvohm , F . At . S Edftod ft-orn oi-IgWal MSS , Dy WjilUam Bmy , P . A , S . II . G . Bohu .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 5, 1859, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05031859/page/30/
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