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JAtttJAR-5? 16, 1853.] fflE LEADER. • 57
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The counsel for Dr. Achilli will show ca...
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Earl Granville was thrown while hunting ...
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Southampton haH boon tho scone of a nove...
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Whatever may be said to the contrary, th...
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The Magdalena, from the West Indies, arr...
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An odd marriage was celebrated on Monday...
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Tho Braeinar carrier, Alexander Grant, w...
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The Duke Of Wellington Has, It Is Unders...
tions of the Provostship he will find that dignified and congenial repose which we trust he may live long to enjoy , to his own happiness , and to the advantage of Eton . *
Jatttjar-5? 16, 1853.] Ffle Leader. • 57
JAtttJAR-5 ? 16 , 1853 . ] fflE LEADER . 57
The Counsel For Dr. Achilli Will Show Ca...
The counsel for Dr . Achilli will show cause against the rule nisi obtained last term by the counsel for Dr .. Newman . Sir Frederick Thesiger , Sir Fitzroy Kelly , and Mr . Ellis are retained by Dr . Achilli ; Sir A . Cockburn , Mr . Sergeant Wilkins , Mr . Bramwell , Mr . Badeley , and Mr- Joseph Atkinson , by Dr . Newman . A respectable contemporary somewhat one-sidedly protests that Dr . Newman ' s persistence . in this case is calculated to bring scandal upon religion . We do not know to what religion our contemporary refers , but we think it more just and more generous to give Dr . Newman credit for no motives of personal animosity or glorification , but rather for a sincere and earnest desire to clear the honour of his Church involved in the issue
of the trial ; and the decided opinion of his counsel , no less than the general voice of Westminster Hall , renders him sanguine of a result favourable at once to the interests of religion , morality , and justice .
Earl Granville Was Thrown While Hunting ...
Earl Granville was thrown while hunting near VVoburn Abbey , on Thursday week , and his collar -bone was broken . The Earl of Stair died at Oxenfoord Castle , on Monday , long known a 9 Sir John Dalrymple , and a hearty Liberal , when it was unsafe to be a Liberal , the Earl of Stair never forsook the good old cause , but was always ready to help in the time of need . He was in his 82 ad year when he died . Sir James Graham attended hia office at the Admiralty on Saturday for the-first time . Letters from Nice inform us that Lord Demnan has suffered a paralytic stroke ; but he is expected to recover . Franklin Pierce is the y oungest man who has ever been elected President . He is 48 years of age . Washington , John Adams , Jefferson , Maddison , Monroe , John Quincy Adams , and Van Buren , were each 58 ; Jackson , 62 ; Harrison , 68 : Taylor , 66 : and Polk , 49 .
Catherine Hayes gave her first concert at San Francisco on the 30 fch of ITovember . " The house was crowded with a brilliant audience , " says the San Francisco Whiff ! Mrs . Harriett Beecher Stowe , the authoress of * " Uncle Tom ' s Cabin , " has accepted an invitation to visit England " free of expense . " Sir Thomas Mitchell , the Surveyor General of New South Wales , haa brought home a diamond , weighing three quarters of a carat , found at the Ophir diggings , west of Bathurst . Some time ago the F rench papers paraded a statement that a General Ry binski , in the name of the Poles in France , had offered , in the most servile manner , the services of his countrymen to the new Emperor-usurper . It turns out that this General Rybinski is the last man who
should have dared so to act . We have before us the protest of the Polish Democratic Committee against his conduct . Rybinski ' s behaviour in the revolt of 1831 is shown to have been treacherous in the extreme ; and every possible pretext for his authority to speak in the name of the Poles is clearly taken away . The parade made of the matter in France seriously injured the success of the Polish ball ; and wo are glad to do the Poles in England the justice of showing that with Bybinski they have no connexion . Madame D'Arusmont , well known as Miss Francos Wright , died , at Cincinnati , on the 14 th of December . She first obtained notice by ah eloquent littlo book , entitled , " A Few Days in Athens . " It is a story , contrasting the philosophy of the schools of Epicurus and Zeno ; written with all the fervor of romance , and much of the accuracy
of reality . Subsequentl y , she published a book , , " Views of Society and Manners in America , " which was oho of tho most popular books on tho subject of that day . After a stay of throe years in Paris , she went to America , and bought a farm at Tennessee . She purchased negroes , gave them their liberty , and directed their labours on the farm , but her health failed , and she was obliged to give up tho project . Tho negroes wore sent off to Hayti at her expense . Ilcr career afterwards , as a Socialist lecturer , through tho United States , was very remarkable Her last book was entitled , " England , tho Civilizcr , " published in London . At tho timo of her death , Madamo D'Arusmont was fifty-Hovon years of ago . She was a tall , handsome woman , with a commanding bearing ; her manners and conversation wero extremely fascinating , and as a roformer of an advanced school , bIio haa exercised a groat influonco on tho progress of tho race .
Southampton Hah Boon Tho Scone Of A Nove...
Southampton haH boon tho scone of a novelty in tho way of banquets—a steam banquet , to colobrato tho connexion of tho General Scrow Steam-ship Company with Southampton . To this banquet wero invited tho chief men of oil tho groat steam companies . After tho loyal toants , Sir Alexander Cockbura ropliod to " HerMajesty s Ministers ;" others for tho Army and Navy ; and the Lord-Lieutenant of tho countv . Thou , " Tho General Stoam Navigation "Company" drank to tho " Peninsular and Oriental Company , " and tho Peninsular and Oriental
returned tho cornplitnont in tho spirit in which a matron would propose tho health of a promising child . Then the two companies united to drink tho houlth of the " Itoyal Mail Stoam Navigation Company j" and finally , this company combined witli the Wo othora in jovial good wishes for tho prosperity of tho " Ocean Steam Navigation Company " By iuo mouth , of its representative , Mr . Croskoy , the Amoricah CoiihuI , thifl company fraternized with the three others . Mr . Oroskey " could not forgot" that " as from the port of Southamp ton tho Maj / flow ^ r went with the first p ' hrrimH to the New World , no it was to Southampton that the first AmeruranBteainer came across tho Atlantic . " At Uio conclusion ot Mr . Oroskoy'u epoech
the four companies drank the health of the " Australasian , Pacific , Australian , and African Steam Navigation Com-Eanies" in a coalition toast . " Tbe whole passed off most armoniously . We understand the directors of the London and North-Western Railway are taking measures to apply to their trains the best practical communication between the guard and driver . The Northern Boards of Guardians , meeting at Manchester , have resolved to urge on Mr . Baines the total and immediate repeal of the amended prohibitory order issued by Sir John Trollope . Malt tax repeal , as of bid , has its rustic supporters ; but now they propose to " waive differences of opinion , " and exert themselves for its abolition . A meeting of farmers adopting this view was held on Saturday at Norwich .
At a meeting of the Council of the Tenant Eight League , held in Dublin on" Tuesday , a resolution , " unequivocally condemning" the conduct of Mr . Keogb and Mr . Sadleir , in accepting office , was agreed to , after a gallant stand made by Dr . M'Knight , of Belfast , and others , in defence of the gentlemen condemned without trial . At the first ballot for rights of choice on the Conservative Land Society ' s estates , on the 8 th instant , at the offices in Norfolk-street , one hundred uncompleted shareholders in Middlesex , Surrey , Hertfordshire , Kent , Essex , Suffolk , Sussex , Herefordshire , Berkshire , Nottinghamshire , Warwickshire , and Derbyshire , were fortunate in the drawing , and will shortly have to select their allotments . Fifty shareholders have the same privilege by seniority of membership , besides one hundred completed shareholders .
In the Bail Court , on Wednesday , Mr . Justice Erie stated that , in conformity with the practice adopted by his predecessor in all cases of verdicts against acceptors of bills of qflchange , and makers of promissory notes , and drawers of cheques , execution would issue in four days , but where the parties were only secondarily liable , execution would not issue for fourteen ^ ays , as those parties might be unexpectedly called upon to pay .
Whatever May Be Said To The Contrary, Th...
Whatever may be said to the contrary , the warfare of surprises is not yet over in Kafirland . Two British officers , with small detachments , were surprised in the early days of November by rebel Hottentots : one had to run for his life , leaving ten horses and five guns in the hands of the enemy ; the other stood his ground . Oxen had been carried away in sight of the troops at Keiskamma Hoik ; and the names of Kat River , Fish River , and Committees Drift , where spoors ( tracks ) have been found , show that the enemy infests his old quarters . General Cathcart was in the Orange Sovereignty , whither he had gone to " settle disputes , " not to make war .
Telegraphic despatches from Trieste announce that Pegu was taken on the 21 st of November , and will be annexed . The campaign may be considered at an end , unless the Burmese government should invade our new territory , which they will probably do . In such a case we should march on Ava . It is stated that Sacramento , lately destroyed by fire , was in great part rebuilt within a fortnight after the fatal catastrophe . San . Francisco had nobly helped in the rebuilding .
The Magdalena, From The West Indies, Arr...
The Magdalena , from the West Indies , arrived at Southampton on Saturday . Eight of her crew had died of yellow fever . No fewer than sixty of the crew of H . M . S . Dauntless had died . The fever was committing frightful ravages in some of the colonies ; but especially among the shipping . As tho last death on board the Magdalena occurred more than ten days from the date of her arrival , she escaped quarantine j but another man died on Saturday . The Fallas , 60 , Russian frigate , having undergone a thorough refit , was towed out of this harbour to Spithead on Monday evening after sunset . She has been supplied with a patent diving apparatus by Messrs . Hoinke * , of Great Portland-street , London . On Wednesday last , a gentleman from tho firm came dowM and tried it before the officers and crow , some of whom wero instructed in tho uso of it with tho improvements made by Mr . Heinkd The trial gave great satisfaction , and tho invention seems a most important and invaluablo one for submarine
operations . Oalignani ' s Messenger gives tho following account of M . Raousset-Boulbon , who is at tho head of tho adventurers who have entered tho Mexican province of Sonora : — " M . do Raousset Boulbon was a few vcara ago a brilliant member of tho fashionable world in Paris . Having lost port of his fortune , ho went with tho remainder to tako jfart in the colonisation of Algeria . Homo unfortunate speculations thero completed bin ruin . Ifo then Hot out for California , where ho hoped to find new occasions for re-establishing bin fortune . M . Raousset-Houlbon is about thirty . fivo or thirty-six years of age , of remarkable
intelligence and warm imagination ; of an active , bold , and chivalrous character ; possessing , in fact , all the qualities which can render him , as a chief of partisans , successful in an enterprise to which ho haH attached bis name . It is stated that the head of tho family of M . llaoiisset- 'HouIbon was tho illegitimate son of a prince of the 11 ouse of Bourbon , and that bo had been authorised to bear il , n name . Subsequently one of his hoirs received a considerable Hum of inonoy to induce him to reriounco the name of tbe houHo which occupied the throne of France , and ho satisfied the desire that bad boon expresnod by simply changing his name lVom Kourbon to Houlbon . "
A quontioii now universally asked in every society in Paris ( sa ^ H a correspondent of tho Daily JNtiws ) in , " llavu you noon the broken window P" Thin refers to an lu-aidont of a very ordinary naturo , followed , however , by an infinitely improlmblo result , which occurred a few days since in tho Rue do la Hourso . M . Molioro , a bootmaker , at No . — in that street , ban bud fortune " thrust upon him" by a cart knocking against his shop-window . Rather late at night , a restive horse barked a cart against the iron shutters of the Hhop-iront , with uuch force , that a pane of plnt (} -glttHfl immediately behind tho part struck wuo crooked into
thousands of splinters . M . Moliere ' s first care was to secure the address of the owner of the horse and cart , and in the morning he was about to send for a glazier , whose bill he would have charged to the person responsible for the trespass upon his property ; but this window was cracked in such a manner as no window ever was before , and M . Moliere observed that every passer-by in the street stopped to look at it , and exclaimed , " Itow curious !" " How extraordinary I" During the whole day , a crowd was collected in front of the house . It then occurred to M . Moliere that since his broken window appeared to possess such attractions for the public , it might answer
his purpose to make the public- pay for the gratification of their curiosity . Accordingly , he put up his outside shutter , and charged one franc per head for admission to his shop . Visitors flocked to the exhibition , and in a few hours the fame of it spread far and wide . Not a single particle of the glass has fallen out , but the cracks radiating from the centre with wonderful regularity , are so numerous , that the pane presents the appearance of a gigantic cobweb . Seen from the interior of the shop by gas-light , it reflects the prismatic colours with extraordinary brilliancy , and may be compared to a peacock ' s tail . A speculator has offered the enormous sum of 4000 francs for the purchase of the fragile property , and the offer has been refused . M . Moliftre calculates that he shall receive that sum in
francs from Parisians alone , and afterwards the pane may be removed in its iron frame , and carried round the provinces . This event has made more sensation than any other that has occurred in Paris since New Year ' s-day . The excitement is on the increase . Crowds , too poor to pay the admission money , stand about the house to talk over the story , and mathematical students in the Quartier Latin are working problems , in the confident tope of finding how to crack another window in the same way . Poor France !
The eruption of Mount Etna , which had nearly subsided , has recommenced with renewed vigour since the 9 th ult . Accounts of the 14 th and 15 th state that violent detonations occur from time to time , and that the lava increases daily .
An Odd Marriage Was Celebrated On Monday...
An odd marriage was celebrated on Monday at the church of St . Peter ' s , Walworth . In King ' s-row , Walwortb , a small building , ordinarily used as a cooper ' s shop , is occasionally occupied as a sort of chapel by a congregation akin to the followers of the late Johanna Southcote . The leader of this band , an elderly woman named Vaughan , deemed it advisable to become betrothed to a young man named Peacock , said to be one of the priesthood of the above sect . Accordingly on Monday morning , about 11 o ' clock , a procession was formed and set in motion towards St . Peter ' s Church . Some of the men wore jackets of light
material , others a species of coronet , and several singular looking caps , while around the waist and across the shoulders of some were polished leather and other bands and belts , inscribed with , apparently , cabalistic and zodiacal characters . The women , about twelve in number , were attired in white , with various singular decorations , and from the head of each depended long showy veils . In this singular procession were borne sixteen various banners , comprising the standard of England , the union jack , one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel , one of the sun , and one of the moon and stars . In the midst of this was a sort
of she p herd's crook , and the bridegroom , who , together with his venerable companion , headed the procession , boro on bis shoulder -a species of mace , surmounted by a crimson velvet cap with gold fringe . On reaching tbe church-porch the bridal party were compelled , by order of the minister , to deposit their flags , Ac . The Rev . F . F . Statham , tho incumbent , performed the marriage ceremony , and tho entry in tho register at the vestry was , " John Clearlight Peacock Peacock , aged « ' 5 O years , married to Elizabeth Fairlighfc Vaughan , aged 00 years . " A t tlio conclusion tho brido conversed very freely with tho rov . minister , whom she urgently endeavoured to convert , declaring that it had been revealed to her that sho was to introduce Shiloh to tho world . Tho procession then departed in tho sumo order as it arrived , amid the hooting , laughter , and jeering of the assembled crowd .
Tho Braeinar Carrier, Alexander Grant, W...
Tho Braeinar carrier , Alexander Grant , was overtaken by a violent snowstorm on tho Cairnwoll , and , finding it impossible to proceed from tbe drifting hiiow , he locked up his van and took his horse from tho carriage , and retraced bis steps to tho Hpital Inn . This h « did with much difficulty . 1 To called his dog to follow , ami did not miss him until ho arrived at tho inn . Alter a diligent search no dog was to be found ; but on the Monday following , Mr . Grant went with assistance to got bis cart , dug out of the snow , when , to bin astonishment , be found his faithful dog alive and in charge of tho van , having watched it two days and two nights . — - / VW 7 * Courier . The ohesnut-trco called " Tbe 20 th of March , " in tho garden of the Tuileriea , in nearly in leaf ; in tho garden of tbe Luxembourg thero are several roue-trees in full bearwonio
ing as in tbe spring ; and at the Jardin dos I'liunes of tbe nbnond-treeH are in flower . Tho mildness of fcho present winter renders the following oniimonition of mild winters of some interest : —Jn the winter of 1172 the trees were covered with leaves , and in January tho birds wero Heoii to build their nests . In 1281 > thero was no winter ; the temperature was ho springlike at CbriHlinas , that tho young girls of Cologne wore violets and sprmg flowers ( luiing the festivities of that part of tho year . In 1421 ( be trees were in / lower in March , and the vines in April .
Kino ohorrien wore gathered in May . In lof . H , December and January behold the gardens vanegatod with bloom . Jn l /> 72 this leaves appeared on tho trees , and birds built their nests in February . In ifiHfi the same phenomena were seen at the name " season . In 1007 , 1 ( 509 , and 1 ( 517 , there was scarcely any winter . In 1 ( 551 ) there waH neither biiow nor frost . In 1722 the month of January wan bo warm , ovon in the north of % ( Jormany , that thero wa « no oeennion to light the stoves , and all tho triWH Wero in flower in tho month of February . In 1807 there wan Beurcoly any winter .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1853, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15011853/page/9/
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