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    Ko. 477 , May 14, 1859.1 THE LEADED $15

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    ¦ —— FACTS AND SCBAPS.

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    ^ .— . m ¦ The new Canadian cent, pieces...

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    sympathy therefore of the merchants ^ and . traders m coast lauds is not quite so . fervid and indifferent to ^ onsea uehcea as the journalists and professors of the fS coupes . The people of the Northern sea coast do not forget the part playeS by Austria and other Soulh-£ n States in the matter of the German Fleet , not to speak of the occupation of Qambureby the Austrians andthe betrayal of Schleswig Holstem , that is , according to German ideas .

    Ko. 477 , May 14, 1859.1 The Leaded $15

    Ko . 477 , May 14 , 1859 . 1 THE LEADED $ 15

    ¦ —— Facts And Scbaps.

    ¦ —— FACTS AND SCBAPS .

    ^ .— . M ¦ The New Canadian Cent, Pieces...

    ^ . — . m ¦ The new Canadian cent , pieces received from England are so peculiarly alloyed that 100 cents , exactly equal one pound in weight , while a single coin measures one inch , thus forming an ever-ready check upon the dishonest dealer . „ , - A lady has been disgracefully expelled from Aikin , South Carolina , for having written a letter descriptive of the slavery there , which got into the northern papers . She was staying at the place with a sick daughter , and was commanded by the mob to leave in forty-eight hours . , . The public ; meeting of the National bociety , fixed for Thursday , May 19 th , is postponed in consequence of her Majesty ' s birthday drawing-room . The Archbishop of Canterbury will preside at a meeting in June .

    . The Pope is about to address a circular letter to all the Catholic bishops , inviting them to order public prayers for peace . ¦ 'the Ecclesiastical Gazette states that the office of ViceJPrincipal of Cuddesdon College has been conferred on the Rev . W . Harrison Dayey , Perpetual Curate of Appledram , Sussex . The Deanery of Glasgow , rendered vacant by the elevation of "Dr . Wilson to the bishopric of that diocese , has been conferred upon the Rev . A . Henderson , M . A ., incumbent of St . Mary ' s Church , Hamilton .

    The Bishop of London has appointed the Rev . Henry Vincent Le Bas , M . A ., late curate of Paddington , to the vicarage of Bedfont , Middlesex ; the Rev . Beauchamp Henry Sk John Pell , M . A ., of Ashwell , Hertfordshire , to the rectory of Ickenham , Middlesex ; arid the Rev . Thonias Sier , D . CX ., late ¦ vicar of Ravensden , Bedfordshire , to the incumbency of St . James ' s Chapel , St . James ' s-square . The late Mr . Joseph Tunnicliff , of Mayfield Hall , near Ashbourrie , has left 30 , 000 ? ., all derived from his own earnings , for the endowment of an hospital , provided that a suitable building is erected , at a cost of not less than 5 , bOOJ ., within ten years . The unfortunate English clown ( Boswell ) who his evolutions

    was attacked with apoplexy af ter on the summit of a pole at the Circus , the other day , in Paris , has fallen a victim to his dangerous employment . He rallied a little at first , but the system was so shaken that he died . From the constant despatch of small pieces of money for the army in the X 4 ombardo-Venetian provinces , the scarcity has become so great that the plan of cutting the , paper florin into four morsels has been adopted , which ( each representing a quarter ) are given and received in payment the shops and public offices ;

    under the command of Col . Holden , have assembled for eight days' training on Balwell Forest , near Nottingham . The men are well mounted and equipped , and have a very soldier-like appearance . One consequence of the defeat of Mr . Layard at York has been the establishment of a Reform Club in that city , its principal object being to attend to the registration , which has been much neglected of late years . The Legislative Council of Canada have taken a firm stand against death-bed bequests , enacting that no bequest will be valid if made within six months of the testator ' s death .

    In St . Pancras it has been discovered that Mr . E . P . Browne , collector , of No . 5 ward , had not paid his weekly collection into the bank , and on sending to his house he was gone . The amount is not yet known . Miss Martineau is shortly to present us with an ^ Essay on England and her Soldiers , " and will demonstrate the disastrous consequences of too much red tape . A committee has been formed in Paris for the

    The introductory ^ lecture to a course of twelve lectures on Public Health , was delivered on Friday in the theatre of St . Thomas ' s Hospital , by Dr . Headlam Greenhow . For the Oxford Middle-class examinations we understand that the total number of candidates for examination , this year exceeds 900 . The examination will commence on Tuesday , the 14 th of June , and will be continued from day to day until it is completed . The higli-niastership of the Manchester Free Grammar School will be vacant in September next , by the resignation of the Rev . Nicholas Germon , M . A ., the present high-master , who has been connected with the school for the long period of nearly forty years .

    Sir Edward Cust , of Leasowe Castle , will preside at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Birkenhead next week , to consider the propriety of enrolling a volunteer rifle corps in the township . It is said that the list of applicants for admission into the proposed corps already includes 100 of the principal residents . . The whole North American continent has only 36 millions of inhabitants , hardly as much as France or Austria . The whole of Central and South America has only 23 millions ; less , then , than Italy . European Russia , with its 60 millions , has as many inhabitants as America , Australia , and Polynesia together . Moire people live in London than in all Australia and Polynesia .

    Mr . Robert Mallett has been elected a common councilman for Walbrook ward for the remainder of the current year , in the room of Mr . Conder , lately elected alderman of Bassishaw ward . The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada , with an uniform gauge of five feet six inches , embraces the most comprehensive system of railway in the world . It engrosses the traffic of a region extending 809 miles in one direct line from Quebec and Portland to Sarnia , on Lake Huron . The vineyards of Savoy never presented a finer appearance at this season of the year than at present . The garden and orchards also promise abundant crops . . ¦ . ¦ . : ¦ ,

    A scrap of paper , on whicH the following was written , was found in a bottle by some seamen belonging to Fareham , whilst sailing between Ryde and Cowes : —" ¦ Bolton leaves all his property to his servant , Doogan , if he is not brought home alive . " The Austrian spy who , as stated by telegraph , was shot at Biela by the Piedniontese , was named Dossona , a native of Pavia . He was sent out to ascertain if the roads had been broken up , and had in his possession a quantity of Austrian zwanzigefs . M . Guizot has left Paris for his country seat at Val Richer , where he purposes to pass the summer . He will there complete the third volume of his Memoirs .

    At the late fire at Brody , 800 public buildings and private houses were destroyed . Ten persons lost their lives . It is thought the fire was the work of an incendiary . It was affirmed , says the Pays , that Rear-Admiral Jurien de la Graviore , who has his flag hoisted on board the Algesiras , screw } ine-of-battle ship , has left Genoa for the Adriatic , to signify . to the military authprities the blockade of the ports and coast of Austria in that sea . Baron Poerio has just arrived hi Paris .

    Among the articles forgotten in Belgium railway carriages during the month of April , says the Emancipation of Brussels , we notice a wig , a pot lid , a small straw mattress , a portrait on canvas , a corkscrew , a pipe tube , and a bag full of snipes . This laet must certainly be at present in a condition to require immediate delivery . The Emperor of the French , in leaving the Tuileries , said to one of the persons who had come to take loave of him , " Wo shall sco each other again shortly . " _ _ ? , . - _ innkeeper de

    The Journal des Debats states that before leaving Austria , to take up his residence in Holland , the Count de Chambord , accompanied by the Duke de Levis , had a private audience of the Emperor of Austria . ¦ . • : •• • • . ¦ ¦ Sir Arthur Ingram Aston died at Acton Hall , near Runcorn , Cheshire , a day or two since . The deceased was envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Madrid from February , 1840 , to November , 1843 . He received the order of the Bath on his return to England . _

    The Rev . W . Hugh Richards , incumbent of All Saints , Margaret-street , says , that the statement of the Weekly Reg ister that the Duke of Leeds was , " a short time before his death , received into the Roman Catholic Church by the Bishop of Beverely " was incorrect . His Grace , on the evening before his death , was visited by the rev . incumbent / and received the sacrament . _ A French journal announces that M . Nicholas Clary , who is in possession of an income of 300 , d 00 f . a year , has engaged as a private soldier in a cavalry regiment which is about to take the field . at

    A butcher having lost several halters , was a loss to account for it . His wife happening to go into the servant ' s bedroom , noticed a 'dress presents ing more than the ordinary appearance of fulness ; upon examining it , she found the missing halters , with the ends cut off , and the rope neatly bound with calico . ' ¦ . , „ -, : For sixteen years the title of the Earl of Coventry has been held by a minor , and during the whole of that period the family property in Worcestershire and elsewhere has been accumulating . The young lord came of age on Monday last , and the event was celebrated by festivities on the largest scale ever before known in the district .

    The Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha , in returning from England , visited the King of the Belgians on Thursday , at the palace of Laeken . His Royal Highness left on Saturday morning for Germany . A small moveable printing office is , by order of the French'Emperor , to be placed at the disposal of the Marshal Majdr ^ -General of the army of Italy . That which was used in the Crimean war is now being re-organised for that purpose . M . de St . Georges , the director of the Imperial printing office , has to select the compositors . The Empress Eugenie gave audience to several persons on Wednesday at . the Tuileries . She likewise signed several decrees as Regent , enthusiasm which

    At Genoa the extraordinary prevails for " i nostri liberatori , " as the . Frenc h are called , has made it necessary for Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers to issue an order of the day against drunkenness , and a notification to the inhabitants , that any one found treating a French soldier to la goutte would be subjected to a fine varying from five to twenty lire . „ . We have to record the death of Vice-Admiral Percy Grace , which occurred at his residence , Greenstreet , Grosvenor-square , on Wednesday last , in the seventieth year of his age . At the Curragh . camp , Dublin , on Wednesday , while a firing party of the 14 th regiment , under the command of an officer , were shooting at a target , a private soldier , who was acting as buttsman , was accidentally shot dead . The officer in command has been placed under arrest .

    Commodore Vanderbilt is about to run another monster steamer , called the Ocean Queen , between Cowes and New York . Such is the number of steamers now running between those ports that French goods are conveyed by them for ten dollars per ton , including their conveyance from Havre to Cowes , the ordinary paying freight being twenty and twentyrflve dollars per ton . It has been stated that the Duke de Chartres has left Turin , and returns to England by the advice of the Princes of Orleans . Wo ( 5 T # «< w ) are requested to declare that this statement is without any foundation . The young duke is at the advanced posts of the Piedmontese army with his regiment .

    The corps of Marshal , Baraguay d'Hilliers , in the late rainy weather , must nave found their quarters anything but ' comfortable . A French officer says , " qu ' on vienne nous parler du beau del d'Italic , mats e ' est pire qv ' en Crimea . " A good many men have had to be sent into the ambulances with fever and dysentery , but the men arc in excellent spirits . The last fair at Nijni Novogor . od has passed qff well . One-tenth more gopds were brought than in 1857 , and not more than one-fourteenth , remainded unsold . The total value amounted to 98 millions of roubles . of which 69 millions were in Russian produco , 10 millions European and colonial , and the remainder came from Persia , China , and other parts of Asia . _ . __ _ .

    At Genoa , a few days ago , nn - clined to accept money for ng 7 ass of brandvaupphed to a Chasseur de Vinconnos , and when the « P * J « g insisted the other said , "No , instead of money ^ ytau as rjsA" ^ smLr £ JW » Sy , % 2 a J *? £ ^ letters from Itajy state ? lias completely recovered from the swelling in So knots from which ho had boon suffering , , Count Nicuwkorko , the director of the tmoevwi museums , while , driving two spirited horees In the oftp s Elys < 3 es , was thrown out pf h * s owiW H ] vory « Sucu 1 mrt . This * s the third or fourth time that , an . accident of tho kiod has happened * o mm -within a short period .

    Madame Ho ' olne , widow of the French general who made ft descent on / the south of Ireland at tho time of the first revolution , has just died .

    purpose of raising subscriptions to enable Italian refugees resident In that city , in which there are great numbers , to return to Italy . They had raised About £ 180 for this purpose . The Austrian frigate Nbvara , on a scientific mission , put into Tahiti , and tho crew and the Austrian men of science met with a cordial reception from the French Naval Commandant ) * who of course waa Ignorant of the foot that his countrymen In Europe were about ) to meet the Auotrians on the field of battle .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14051859/page/11/