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Sept. 8, I860] The Saturday Analyst and ...
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RECORD OF THE WEEK. HOME AND COLONIAL. O...
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Sept. 8, I860] The Saturday Analyst And ...
Sept . 8 , I 860 ] The Saturday Analyst and Leader . 789
Record Of The Week. Home And Colonial. O...
RECORD OF THE WEEK . HOME AND COLONIAL . Our 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 , Dot 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 come 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 JBank 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 novelty of a resplendent sun ; consols reaching 93 | , and other securities keeping pace with them . The fine weather having raised the price of stocks , lias lowered the price of corn and meat—the one effect being as satisfactory as the other . At Mark Lane , in the opening prices of the week , there was a fall ranging between 2 s . and 4 s . per quarter in wheat ; and in the cattle iharkets the prices went down from 2 d . to . 4 d . per stone . The first of September was well adapted 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 , —dnly living in the records of the past and the anticipations of the future , 7—4 ; hey are , at present , in abeyance , hi 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 to' 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 he goes under Governmental auspices , and has been furnished with the official correspondence that has passed between London and Washington on 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 iu all . In January there were 229 , February 154 , March 166 , April 133 , May 124 , June 146 ; making a total of 1 , 108 . Mrs . Yatcs , the actress , and one of the best representatives of that class of characters peculiar to what is called the " domestic drama " that ever trod the boards , died last week at her residence at Oamden Town . ; Sir Henry Q eorge Ward , tho successor of Sir C . Trevelyan , as Governor of Madras , died of cholera soon after his arrival . Ho was the pro prietor of the defunct IVeekly Chronicle newspaper , from its establishment up to 1849 , when he went out as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands . In tho criminnl record of the week , forming so important au item in tho history of a civilized country , figures a desperate affray between some burglars and tho police at JBattersea , which occurred about two 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 alone—ther ' o being three to every policomiin ) , attempted a robbory at Mr . Dives' mill , and live of them , whose numce , us given , are Barton , Willis , Cornwall , Mahoh , nnd Hey wood , have been captured , tho sixth having , as it . was supposed , boon drowned in the river . Policeman Baker roooivod nino blows on the head with what is somewhat inappropriately called a " life preserver , " nnd was left for dead . H , is recovery was oonsidovod doubtful . As a pendant to Iho " private mission , " ascribed to Mr . Lindsay , " Tho Honorable" Mr . Edwin Jamos ( as tho French journalist calls him , who oxomplifios the saying that wo must go abroad to hear news of homo ) , hns been , wo aro gravely assured , doputod to' convoy th , o sympathy and encouragement of tho British Cabinet to Garibaldi j but this canard forthwith had its wings clipped , and was completely " plucked" of nil its fictitious plumago , not being loft a singlo leather to fly with . Tho mortality of London was slightly pn tho increase during tho week ending 25 th August , compared with the previous one , tho deaths having risoa from 937 to 1 , 018 . Tho oorrectod average number , howovor , boing 1 , 1 * 19 , it : follows that this represents nn improvement of no loss thun 131 on tho mean number of tho past 10 yoare . Simultaneously with tho'oxocution of ^ oungnmn , for tho Wnhvorth murder , comes the news of unothor ntrooioua crime perpetrated by a man namotl Thorpo , who , on Sunday , at tho village of Upton , near Pontofraot , having quarrelled with Elizaboth Mitchell , a follow oorvant , shot hor cload witli a gun . Tho wook ' n record of attcidonts ( though somu poourronooa bo called appear to bo misnamed ) , keeps pileo with that of crimes uiyl oH ' cuees . Between Burnloy nnd , Mnnqhoutor two twins woro running towni-ds tho ibriuor pltioo on TiicH ( lny , whim tho cmiplintffl of tho first train gavo wiiy , uml n pnrt of it ; rim buck cm the hindmost ) one , cloven persons boing kille d , according to Iho Ilivt report , nnd 100 more or Jobs injured . From Inrliu wo learn tluil tlio clilllculties « f collecting tho income tax soemod to 1 ' orcnliudow rebellion , in eaeo of that impost being onibrood ,. Diecontont ; provniled in Oude vvltoii iho last news loft . In tho northwest ; provinces a famine was thought : to bo imminont . Wo hour also
that , notwithstanding the proclamation of the English Government , the Governor-General had forbidden the Rajah of Kotah to appoint his successor ; and it was rumoured that the stipulations with the dethroned King of Oude , for the support of his family , would be repudiated * and that this had been publicly announced by the representative of the British Crown . The Prince of Wales having left Quebec , was received at Montreal , on the 24 th , with the usual demonstrations of exuberant loyalty , and 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 tho blowing to pieces of four sailors . ' . v .-,, Mr . F . A . Daviss , the merchant charged with forging a bill for £ 179 , having been finally examined at the Mansion-house , on Wednesdaywas 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 . Tip to a late period in the week no further lig ht had been thrown on the B . oad 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 or 25 th . The Honorable George Windsor Clive has been returned to Parliament as the representative of Lord Powis , who virtually " constitutes the constituency " of the little pocket borough of Ludlow . l £ r . Williani ' Tinaley 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 . Wardrops -Valuable Work ' "The Diseases of the Heart . " .
FOREIGN . The Monileur , apropos of what many consider Prince Murat ' s mal apropos letter , in which , by professing to repudiate , he has been thought to put in a claim : upon the crown of Naples , intimates to the prince that the hope which his lett . er discloses of one day entering Naples 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 ^ i truth except with the intent that you should take it fora lie ? Prince Murat certainly has not realized the ideal of ars est eclare artem , but has failed in practically showing that the only use of language is to conceal thought . the construction
Prince Murat has written a letter protesting against put upon his manifesto by the Monitew : He says what he meant was , that if the universal peoplo 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 . . , ~ ., ,. Eeinforcemonts for the garrison of Rome had been sent off by the French Government as the week opened ; when a despatch «« " *>& , to hand appropriately dated from Perugia , late last week , to ^ the ettect that Larnorieiere , the " Christian . hero" and faithful son of the church , who has so zealously espoused the cause of his infirm , and not veryamiable mother , had promised the soldiers of the cross under his command , that any toVrns which mig ht join in tho struggle for freedom against the despotism by which they are now crushed , would be givon up to them for pillage ; but this really seemed too bare-faced and atrocious to be true
. .... Saturday ' s news from Naples shewed the Government to be in 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 sea captain" who had shewn such skill and courage during tho attack ol the Voloce . General ISosco and tho War Minister Pianclli were the only adhorents the king had left . Garibaldi , inporson , had advanced to Monteleone ; tho king's troops either dispersing or joining the army ot the people : othor troops in the service of the Government which were in the neighbourhood fell back from tho scone of action . At Reggie- the King'a troops woro again beaten by the National Guard in a sanguinary
contest . . , Early in the present week a somewhat startling , though by no means unlookcd for or unwished for announcement reached us , via tho Palria , to the effect that Garibaldi had intimated to the Annexation Committee , that as a definitive solution of the problem that had to be worked out , he would proceed to Naples by Saturday , and assume the Diotatorahip , on behalf of tho King of Sardinia . Count Cavour is more than bubpectod of being unfavourable to Garibaldi ' B pretensions . JUeanwhilo ut Rome , Qonorul Lumorioioro appeared to bo making prepar ations not merelv for the defence of tho city alone , but ; Jor tho surrounding oonntry . lie estimates his available foroes at 20 , 000 men . General Walker , as wo loam from udvioea from Central Amorioa , brought by tho Eut-opn , having landed at Truxillo , captured tho placo after overcoming tho resistance oH ' orod liy its defenders . Fufld Pacha's oilloial report , dated 2 Qth Auguat , states that out of tho 1 M Hal-sons un to tltuli timo found Riiilty , 56 had been hanged ,
and tho remaining 111 shot . ; some of tlie sufferers belonging to the hifthost families . Numerous other arrests had taken place , and tUoee convioted woro to sutfor death . Such oh had aontenoo of hard labour and dotonlion in tho fortrossos woro to bo embarked at Boyrout , ana Bant to Constantinople . . , _ , . _« A ' complication" seems to have arisen with Turkey , out of tie intervention with voforonco to Byvia . One of the protoeola of 3 rd > Auguac waa framed apparently in the interest of the Porte to «> bufc "uoh J construction oY tho Paris treaty of 1850 , ns would give tho groot powora a ri ht of intervention a * diurgod with * ° ™ B 1 °$° * £$ . $£ Wr execution of tho ordinances regulating tho . poBitlon of tho Oh" » Uan population under TiwlcUli rule . The convention ^ ? J ^ uXart , now cnlloil upon In noeopl , howovov , sooiim lo bo objocted to on hifl jarr , aa not in conformity will , tho protocol in quwdoi . JU-iujo tl o mien alluded to , whioli it is to bo hoped diplomacy will bo 'iWe to smoowi down without sloruor and woro soripiw iiioniis boing roeoUod lo Dy way of solution .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 8, 1860, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08091860/page/13/
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