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    462 ®!>£ 3LV&%et. [Saturday,

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    A TERRIFIC STORM. The American papers wh...

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    A STORM IN PARIS. The Paris papers of We...

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    THE EXILE OP ERIN. A letter from Mr. Mea...

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    THE BARON AND THE ACTRESS. A little poli...

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    A DARING WHOLESALE ROBBERY. A robbery on...

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    The Nicaragua Ship Canal. The Recent Acc...

    not generally understood during the progress of the negotiations lately carried on . The route of the canal , beyond all doubt , will soon be permanently fixed , as the schooner Enterprize has just sailed from New York for San Juan , conveying a corps of engineers , at the head of whom is Mr . Childs , formerly chief engineer of the State of New York , and also carrying out large supplies of provisions , implements , & c , for the use of those employed in the undertaking . The next thing to be looked for is the report of this gentleman and his assistants , which mil finally determine the location of the ship canal .

    462 ®!>£ 3lv&%Et. [Saturday,

    462 ®!> £ 3 LV & % et . [ Saturday ,

    A Terrific Storm. The American Papers Wh...

    A TERRIFIC STORM . The American papers which have come to hand this week contain accounts of a most destructive storm which commenced at Baltimore on the 17 th of July , reaching Philadelphia at noon the following day , and New York in the evening . In the latter place it commenced at sunset , and increased in violence till it reached its climax at sunrise , when it gradually moderated . The rain never ceased to descend in torrents , and the wind , which blew from the east , howled all night long , prostrating the trees , young and old , and carrying away flying signs , awnings , and even the iron awning posts , which were snapped like

    reeds , in Broadway and other streets exposed to the fury of ( he tempest . Many persons who happened to be from their houses at eleven o'clock were detained till morning , vainly waiting for the abating of the storm and the restoration of light . The lamps were all out , and the darkness was so great that a person could not see three inches before him , while slates and bricks were flying in all directions . The consequence was that most of those absent from their residences preferred remaining away from their families , at least till daylight , rather than encounter " the pelting of the pitiless storm . " Several of those who ventured out went astray , and often plunged into water up to their knees , the gutters being

    overflowed , and the streets like a sea . At Brooklyn , the young trees are everywhere broken in the fashionable streets , to which they were so ornamental and refreshing . In many instances the flags were torn up by the agitation of the stems and the working of the roots . Where the trees have withstood the wind , they have been sadly mutilated of their foliage . Upon the avenues above WaBhington-park the effects are lamentable . Trees and vines which have caused the owners years of patience and trouble to rear , arc now laid low , and several frames of buildings have been blown down . Two-thirds of the trees in the City-park are levelled , including all of the silver-leaved lichens and willows bo much admired for their splendid foliage .

    The storm in New Jersey was very severe . The lower part of the city , opposite Hoboken , was completely inundated , the water being at least four feet deep around a number of houses . Indeed , many persons could not get from their houses except by means of rafts . In Harsimus , which has been but a short time laid out , a great portion of the young trees and shrubbery , by which the streets were ornamented , are almost entirely destroyed . A desolate scene presented itself , for scarce a whole tree could be seen , and the tops and branches , which but the day before were the principal beauty of the Slace , were scattered in every direction . The handsome ower-gardens , too , suffered greatly , not one escaping the fearful ravages of the tornado .

    At and near Philadelphia the violent storm from the north-east has done a great deal of damage . Thousands of awnings have been wrecked , fruit and shade trees stripped of their branches , twisted off at the trunks or prostrated at the roots . Several houses have been unroofed , and a number of unfinished buildings blown down . The wharves along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers have been overflowed , and the shipping has suffered considerably . A great many small craft have been either sunk , filled with water , broken to pieces , or driven from their moorings . Some of the brickyards in the suburbs of the city have been greatly damaged , and the telegraph wires of some of the lines are on the ground .

    The steam-boat and railroad lines have nearly all been disarranged ; the Delaware rose in height , and there was a furious freshet , threatening no little destruction to property , in the Schuylkill . The walls of most of the wrecks of buildings in the burnt district were heard tumbling down at all hours last night , and few of them are left standing . Much damage has been done to shipping down the Delaware and in the bay . Steamers which left Philadelphia for Cape May were obliged to put into Wilmington . Great numbers of small craft up the river were sunk , blown ashore , or otherwise damaged . The bridges at Phoenixville , on the Schuylkill , have been carried away ; six men were carried out into the stream , and four of them were drowned . The cars on the

    Norristown railroad were stopped , the water being , in some places , more than three feet over the rails . At Conahohocken four men were drowned . A little girl was drowned on the opposito side of the river . Four men wero also drowned at Manayunk . At the dam above Phconixvillc , the centre wall of the lock gave way . Two boys were drowned and their boat was destroyed . At Baltimore the storm of wind and rain , which commenced on the 17 th ultimo , lasted twenty hours . The wharves were all inundated during the nighta number

    , of cellars have been filled , nnd a considerable quantity of wood and lumber swept off , whilst the shipping was all more or less injured by the chafing . Great damage has been done to unfinished buildings in the course of erection , and in all sections of the city awnings have been torn to pieces , signs wrenched from the walls , and trees torn up by the roots . From the country we learn that the damage received by the farmers is very heavy , whilst the corn is beaten to the ground , the oats left as flat as if they had undergone a rolling process , and those who

    had their wheat and rye still standing will not have the trouble of reaping and thrashing it . The storm had damaged all the lines of electric telegraphs leading to New York . With the exception of the lines of Troy and Albany , none of them had resumed working . The consequence was that there was no telegraphic communications from Washington or Baltimore .

    A Storm In Paris. The Paris Papers Of We...

    A STORM IN PARIS . The Paris papers of Wednesday contain an account of a tremendous storm which visited that city on the previous day . Rain and lightning are said to have been to an extent scarcely remembered by that most unquestionable of all known authorities , «« the oldest inhabitant of Paris . " On Monday the heat was intense throughout . About ten o ' clock at night the sky became covered with clouds of the blackest hue , and flashes of sheet lightning lighted tip the horizon

    nearly the whole of the sultry night . Towards daybreak on Tuesday a soft light mist began to fall . About six o ' clock a mass of cloud , piled heavily and darkly , and charged with the torrents and the thunder , hung like a dark canopy over the city . About eight o ' clock the rain fell like a deluge . The growling of distant thunder was heard . The storm , however , passed off , but only to return with tenfold violence , and about half-past one o ' clock the rain and thunder became awful . The heavens were

    completely obscured , even as dark as a foggy evening in London in the month of November , and in some houses candles were lit . The luminometre in the establishment of an optician in the Palais Royal showed the cloud that shut out the sun and heaven from the inhabitants of Paris to be at least 7 £ miles in thickness . From that hour until nearly seven o ' clock in the evening the rain came down in torrents , though the thunder was neither loud nor frequent . It continued , though with much less intensitj ' , during the greater part of the night . Some persons assert that they even felt a

    slight shock of an earthquake , though this was most probably an exaggeration . In every place the passage of carriages was completely stopped . In the streets Notre Dame de Lorette , Martyrs , St . Jacques , and many others , the horses were in water to the chest ; and the newly macadamised Boulevards presented the cheerless appearance of a long marsh with alternate water and mud . A regular lake was formed in less than half an hour at the junction of the streets Cadran , Montorgueil , and Marie Stuart . It extended for more than 600 feet , and it was with difficulty that carriages and carts could traverse the

    current . The ground floors of the houses were ot course inundated . The square of the Hotel de Ville was a lake . The cellars of many houses were invaded by an element which is not the one that ought to be plentiful there , and bottles of Chateau Margaux , Champagne , Chambertin , and Clos Vougeot , worthy of a better fate , were floating by thousands , and ( horresco referens ) dashed to pieces . Thousands upon thousands of black rats , frightened by the invading element , were driven from their foul retreats

    into the open air , and , with the courage of despair , took shelter in the upper habitations . The whole of the works of the Boulevard St . Martin were inundated , as also those of the Pont Neuf . Paris was covered over with darkness , and inundated three times during the day . It was when the second cloud—thick , black , and awful—hung over the city that the oscillations as if of an earthquake were felt . About two o ' clock the lightning fell in the Gros-Caillou , but there is no account of any serious damage to life or property from it .

    The Exile Op Erin. A Letter From Mr. Mea...

    THE EXILE OP ERIN . A letter from Mr . Meagher to Mr . Gavan Duffy appears in the Nation , in which he of •* the bright sword" gives an interesting account of the voyage to Van Diemen ' s Land and his settlement there . His description of the place where he has taken up his abode is very graphic : — " To Ross , then , I removed in all haste , and lost no time in looking out for a little cottage , or half a one , if a whole one was impracticable . I was not long in fixing upon the one in which I now write this letter . The aptiearance of it was most prepossessing , and the interior

    arrangements singularly inviting . Just fancy a little lodge , built from head to foot witn bright red bricks ; two flower-beds , and a neat railing in front ; a laburnumbush in each bed ; a clean smooth flagway , eighteen inches long , from the outer gate to the hall door ; two stone steps to the latter ; a window , containing eight panes of green glaas , on each side of the same ; and then four rooms inside , each fourteen feet by twelve , and an oven in the kitchen ; just fancy all this , and you will have a pretty correct picture of the establishment in which , with a domestic servant of all work , and a legion

    of flies , 1 have now the happiness to reside . At nrst J . had only the two front rooms . At present I have the whole house to myself , nnd the use of a cultivated plot of ground in the rear , where a select circle of cabbages , a few sprigs of parsley , a score of onions , and a stone of potatoes , with a thistle or two , get on very well together , and have no one to touch them . My landlady is a devout Wesleyan , an amiable female of stupendous proportions , and pioportioned loquacity ; her husband is a Wesloyan too , a shoemaker by trade , and a spectre in appearance ; so much so , indeed , that the wife may be styled , with the strictest geometrical propriety , Uis « b etter half

    and three-quarters . Upon coming to terms with them in the first instance—that is , when I had the two front rooms , and they the two back ones—an agreeable dialogue took place , of which the following may be considered a fair report : — " * Sir , ' said Mrs . Anderson , sticking a pin into the sleeve of her gown , and spreading down her apron before her . " « Well , Ma ' am , ' said I . "' Why , Sir , ' says she , ' you see as how it is , me and my husband be Wesleyans , and we don ' t like a cooking on Sundays ; and so , if it don ' t matter to you , Sir , we'd as soon not dress you any meat a that day , for we ' re commanded to rest and do no work upon the Sabbath , and that you see , Sir , is just how it is . '

    "' As to that , I replied , 'I don ' t much mind having a cold dinner upon Sundays , but then there are the potatoes . Potatoes , you know , Mrs . Anderson , are very insipid when cold . ' " This was a difficulty of great magnitude . Mrs . Anderson paused , and swelled up immensely . When the swelling had subsided a little she cast an enquiring glance at her husband , as if to implore him for a text , a note , or a comment , to help her out of a difficulty in which , like a sudden deluge , the conflicting ideas of a boiled potato and the day of rest had involved her . The glance had the desired effect . Mr . Anderson took off his spectacles , held them with crossed hands reverently before him ; threw back his head ; threw up his eyes , and fixing them intently on a remarkable constellation of flies , close to a bacon hook above him , seemed to

    enquire from it , in the absence of the stars , a solution of the difficulty . A moment ' s consultation sufficed—a new light descended upon Mr . Anderson , and , yielding to the inspiration of the moment , he pronounced it to be his opinion that a boiled potato would not break the Sabbath , and * in that , or any other way , he'd be happy to serve the genTm'n . ' Well , in this " cottage I manage to get through my solitary days cheerfully enough . It costs me an effort , however , to do so ; for , I ' m sure , Nature never intended me for an anchorite ; and often and often I am as companionless and desolate here as Simon Stylites on the top of his pillar . Only one human being , for instance , has passed by my window to-day ; he was a pedlar , with fish and vegetables , from Launceston , and wished to know , as he was passing , if I wanted any fresh flounders for dinner . "

    The Baron And The Actress. A Little Poli...

    THE BARON AND THE ACTRESS . A little police episode occurred in Paris last week , the heroine of which was the wasp waisted Mdlle . Lieven , whose beauties attracted so much attention during her engagement at the St . James ' s Theatre . This lady was some time ago condemned to pay to a Madame Chanal a bill for velvet , satins , crapes , and other articles of the toilet . The actress , however , showed not the slightest disposition to pay , and at length it was resolved to seize her goods . But this turned out to be a matter of some difficulty , Mdlle . Lieven having taken every precaution , and having constantly refused to give admission to her apartment to every one resembling dun or bailiff . At last the huissier procured the assistance of a commissary of police , who , armed with the powers of the law , made an entrance into Mdlle . Lieven ' s residence in the Hotel

    des Princes , Rue Richelieu . That lady was in bed at the time , but the huissier proceeded to make an inventory of the goods . Presently the head of a gentleman emerged from behind the curtains of the bed , and a moment later the gentleman himself stepped forward in his night costume . He announced himself as the Baron d'Azzara , an attache of the Spanish Embassy , declared that all the furniture in the apartment belonged to hirrt , and peremptorily ordered the huissier to desist from his task , under the pain of laying on France and on himself all the wrath of Spanish diplomacy . The commissary of

    police was so frightened at the idea of causing diplomatic difficulties between Spain and France that he recommended the huissier to retire . But the huissier , made of sterner stuff , refused , and effected the seizure of the furniture in due legal form . Next day the gallant attache applied to the Civil Tribunal to declare the seizure null , and , in support of his demand , he maintained that all the articles seized belonged to him . But the Tribunal , attaching no credit to the assertions of the diplomatist , dismissed his application with costs , and , moreover , condemned him to pay 150 f . as damages for his interference .

    A Daring Wholesale Robbery. A Robbery On...

    A DARING WHOLESALE ROBBERY . A robbery on an extensive scale , and executed with unexampled audacity and skill , occurred recently in Paris . The scene of this affair was the Hotel Oaumont , the property of the Count de Caumont , situate in the Avenue des Champs Elysees . The hotel had not been occupied for some months , the count residing alternately in . the country and in the Faubourg St . Germain , and the countess at Brussels ; the house , therefore , with the whole of its valuable furniture , pictures , plate , jewellery , & c , was entrusted to the keeping of the porter . One day last week a friend of the Count de C & iimnnt visited him in the Faubourc St . Germain , and

    in the course of conversation happened to remark as extraordinary , that on passing along the Champs Elyse ' es , he observed that the hotel was shut up , and had the appearance of being completely abandoned . The count , who had not visited his hotel for some weeks , but who believed it to be properly taken care of , proceeded at once with his frien , d to the spot , and found it in the state represented . No answer was made to the repeated summons for admittance , and at length the doors had to be broken open . Instead of finding the hotel filled with sumptuous furniture , it was not only abandoned , but was empty ; in fact thoroughly and completely gutted . Neither the porter nor any of his family were forthcoming . Application was instantly made to M . Carlier , prefect of police , and agents were sent out about the

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 10, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10081850/page/6/