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No. 386, Apctst 1S/1857.] THE LEADER, 78...
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Thb Ionian Islands.—Sir John Young, the ...
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No. 386, Apctst 1s/1857.] The Leader, 78...
No . 386 , Apctst 1 S / 1857 . ] THE LEADER , 789
Thb Ionian Islands.—Sir John Young, The ...
Thb Ionian Islands . —Sir John Young , the Lord Hieh Commissioner of the Ionian Islands , closed the I . eeislative Sessions on the 3 rd inst . Tne Government Gazette of the 1 st contains the following announcement : u The Queen has been graciously pleased to make the following promotions in the Order of St . Michael and St . George : —Sir Dionisio Flamburiari , Knight Commander , to be Knight Grand Cross ; Dr . Demetrio Curcumelli , Companion , to be Knight Commander . Flamburiari ( says the Times ) is the President of the Assembly , and Curcumelli is Advocate-General , and a member of the Assembly . Their promotion , it is presumed , is an expression of approbation of their conduct in the meeting of the Assembly -which voted the proces verbal declaring that henceforth the English government in the Ionian Islands is a government not of law , but of brute force . Both the above-named gentlemen strongly opposed the vote . ¦ ¦
__ j Oy . —Joy as well as sorrow has its pageants . Bitter mockeries are they , those acted jubilees—like the forced jests , the forced laughs , of a clown in his motley and his paint . We have little faith in boisterous demonstrations , little faith in the cheers and choruses which come from venison-fed breaths and wine inspired impulses- True joy , as we have generally found it , is a calm , sober emanation—a full , steady sunshine , not a brightening flash ; a soft , suffusing air , not a rushing blast . Yet even in its reality we have known it play strange pranks and take strange * shapes . "We have known it take all the extravagance Of harlequinade , all the tristfulness of penance , and yet be true . We cannot ourself exactly see -the fun of sticking a reed in an inflated pigskin ; of carrying it under the arm and squeezing most hideous the imal still
squeaks from it , as though the ghost of an possessed it , whilst a group of comrades dance and caper under the shade of a wall ; or of finishing off with sour wine and fish fried in oil . Yet thus does the Maltese on his saint ' s day , his holiday , and is happy . A Greek boatman finds himself the owner of a fewdollars , and straightway he puts on a clean shirt , cocks his fez , tightens his sash , calls his friends around him , and starts forth for a wine-shop in the country . There a table is spread with resinous wine , bread , and grapes , in an arbour trellised with vines ; an orchestra is formed , of a fiddle , from which proceed the most monotonous notes ever produced on catgut , of a singer whose cadences are still more monotonous , and of an amateur or two who aid the time by clapping the palms of their hands together ; and forthwith the rest commence the Romaic dance , and continue for hours without cessation
or intermission . The danee is not very exciting , nor the figure very striking- —in fact , if done on compulsion , we should recommend it strongly as a good secondary punishment , a capital substitute for cell and treadmill ; the wine is not very exhilarating , nor the feast very luxurious ; and yet from these elements the poor rogues make a festivity . There are times and seasons when man . is bound to be joyous . At Christmas it is his duty to be jovial- In spring it is his impulse to be glad . It is then the universal festival . Nature marks the times ; nature assembles the choristers ; nature furnishes the decorations ; it is a world-jubilee common to earth and man . So we used to think it , so we used to feel it . But the age has grown too -wise , too practical for such poetic demonstrations , and the celebration of spring has devolved on jacks-o' -the-green and fisher-boys with their garlands and strings of sea-bird eggs . —Block / wood ' s Magazine .
Cottage Gardens . —I love to see a _ cottage garden , with its old-fashioned flowers , —the pale sweet monthly rose climbing almost up to the roof . The borders edged with thrift , and gay with the true Californian coloured marigolds , thyme , sweet-scented thyme , and marjoram for the bees . And generally , the pride of all , a huge lavender bush , whose produce is carefully collected to scent the drawers and old chests with . And the sunflower , which in my younger daya ( when I was at that happy ago of perfect trust and belief in all legends and fairy tales , however impossible ) , having read of the beautiful Clytie , pining away in silent worship of the bright sun , I pictured to myself a slight graceful blossom , with pinky bejls and feathery leaves ; and all at once our socalled sunflower came to my mind with a sudden shock , and I felt a tempest of annoyance at the idea of the large flaring yellow flower with a most plebeian thick stalk , and great coarse green leaves , turning its broad saucy-looking face to the orb of day , as if it were
really staring it out of countenance . I did not then know t iiat it was not the real Clytio after all , but it destroyed that littlo romance for me at the time . But to return to our cottage garden , the spicy smelling old olove-onrnation , in huge clusters carefully tied up , the velvet polyanthus , the oxlips , and , perhaps , the summit of childish ambition , a hon-and-chicken daisy . There , too , you may see the deav old cabbage rose , —the very qucon of all roses , — 'that warm-hearted glowing flower , in which ( barring the inseots ) one could Imprison one s nose for an hour to onjoy the cprdial sweetness which seems to do one ' s heart good . Oh ! I do loyo a cottage garden , and always fanoy that -wherever it is well and carefully tended , and evidently the prido and glory of its owner ' s heart , there is some good and gentle , oven if rough and untaught spirit , which works for good ; at any rate , there arc almost always industry and tidiness , —two virtuos at least , — Wayside Fancies , A Pomtuj Gkntlkman . —A lady of our acquaintance
used often to assert , that a gentleman , then sleeping with his fathers , had been the politest man of his generation , and , as a reason for this opinion , always told the following story . On returning once from school for the holidays , she had been put under his charge for the journey . They stopped for the night at a Cornish inn . Her cavalier led her to the board with the air of a Grandison ; and then proceeded to place all the legs of the birds on her plate . At first , with her school-girl prejudices in favour of wings and in disfavour of legs and drumsticks , she felt rather angered at having these ( as she supposed ) uninviting and least delicate parts imposed upon her ; but in after years , when gastronomic light had beamed on her , and the experience of many suppers brought true appreciation , she did full justice to the memory of the man who could sacrifice such morceaux as woodedeks '
thighs to the crude appetite of a girl ; and who could thus show his innate deference for womanhood , even in such budding form . In these small courtesies we must confess that we have ever found the most gallant nation under the sun very deficient . In the abstract of politeness the Gaul is great ; he is grand . We have seen him dash off his hat at a group of ladies every time they passed him with a frantic enthusiasm which made us tremble for the brim . We have even seen him wave it at their shadow , or after the poodle dog which followed at their heels . Yet alas ! when these same deities appeared at the table d'hote , how blind ! how insensible was he to their presence I how closely did he hug his well-chosen seat , though they were seatless ; how zealously did he pick for himself the tit-bits and the dainties , without regard or thought for their delicate palates!—Blactooodd 8 Magazine .
Emigration for the Wobking Classes .- —A public meeting , convened by the Metropolitan Emigration Society for the Working Classes , was held at St . Martin ' s Hall on Thursday evening , to explain the objects of the society , and to address a petition to Parliament for a grant for emigration purposes , to enable the distressed mechanic to emigrate to any of the English colonies . There was a large attendance , composed mainly of working men . Mr . Ayrton , M . P ., took the chair , and Mr . Robinson moved , " That , in consequence of the overcrowded state of the labour market , and the widespread distress that existed in all parts of the metropolis last winter , and there being no better prospect for the ensuing winter , it is the duty of all right thinking men to support a society , the object of which is the benefit of the working class . " A working man seconded the resolution , which was carried . Colonel Harvey and several working men addressed the meeting , and a petition to Parliament was adopted .
• Kobson ' s Smelting Works . —A case in which Mr . Roffey , the vestry-clerk of Lambeth parish ,. on behalf of the vestry itself , has been the complainant , and Messrs . Pearce and Walling , the owners of premises in Bowlinggreen-street , near Kennington-cross , the defendants , has on several recent occasions occupied the attention of Mr . Elliott , at the Lambeth police-court . The premises in question are used for the purpose of smelting antimony , a business formerly established there by Robson , of Crystal Palace fraud notoriety ; and the vestry
adopted the proceedings against the present owners under the 27 th section of the Nuisance Removal Act , for an intolerabie annoyance experienced by the respectable inhabitants and ratepayers in its vicinity , caused by the gaseous exhalations proceeding by day and night from the chimney and roof of the building These have a fearfully sickening and blighting effect . On Thursday the summons was dismissed ; but the magistrate at the same time informed Mr . Roffey that there was nothing to prevent his indicting the defendants , if such a course should be found necessary .
Anpbbbow. Manchester, Joiners—Isaac And ...
Anpbbbow . Manchester , joiners—Isaac and John Kibk-^ crfsto ^^ mATIONS ^ M . DXOK . Kirklntulook , yam morqhant—J . M'Oavll , Stranraqr , boot makor-O . Lockkeab , Stirling , plumber—A . L . M'Mjjrtbib , Mllngavio , innkeeper—O . J . Allbw , Edinburgh , bill broker . Friday , August 14 . BANKRUPTS . — Wilmam Hipe , North Wharf-road , timber moYolmnt-WlLLiAM Hinsx , Derby , sjlk jpanufluj . turor-Louis Stbbn and Mhxbr koBWiNBonw , Crutoliod Friars-Daniel Mbliiapo , Dover , ship agent - JoffN Walker , Liverpool and Roohdalo , tobacooniat— 'AILS ©!! and OoSpaNY , Nottingham , laco " > akord-RoD » na &™*' bon , Bougellelcf , Durham , draper—Riojiabp Whahy . Leicester , silk morcor— Ouahles Alexampbb Him ., Bristol , oabinot-makor—William Hsslliwbll , Stansflold , Halifax , ^ sSS'IBh ^ BBQUBSTIUMON . - Roubrt Falconer Koith , Banflbhlro , solicitor .
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , August 11 . BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED . — Rowland > Parry , Bangor , flour dealer-Josbph Dopsow , jun ., Wormloy , ^ Wl ^^ S ^^ SSlSSt Busch , Coleman-streetbuildings . Moorgate-streot , merchant —William Ford WaliSwoton , Oxford , tailor-James John Stejhbnson OurriUK . lato of Oakloy-terraco . Old Kont-road , Indies ' oututter-Jonw FibhbbIGoupb , Oheapslde . apothecary-William Chickew , Broraloy , llconeea victualler — Abraham ScoxT . Colcnestor , carrJor-TnoMAS Hbnbt Mat , RSthbono-plaee . ' Oxford-stiroet , baker-Joseph Wright and John Salisbury , Burton-upon-Trent , ironfounders—George Siiearokopt , Long Sutton , Lincolnshire , grocor—Thomas Claphan , Leeds , nurseryman—Henry M « ath > coxb Statbam , Liverpool , attorney-at-law — John Huxhebsal , Aitrinoham , 6 hoshire , chemical manuro manufacturer —William Mipplewoop a « d William
Births, Marriages , And Deaths. Births. ...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . THOMPSON . —On the 12 th inst ., at Kirkby Hall , York , the wife of H . S . Thompson , Esq ., of a daughter . CATTLEY . —August 12 , " at tipper Tooting , the wife of M . Cattley , Esq .: a daughter . COOPER . —August 11 , at Roundhay-grange , Leeds , the wife of the Rev . 6 . Cooper : a son . MARRIAGES . . CALL—HENNELL . —July 23 rd , at St . Pancras , by the Eev . C . H . Andrews , Wathen Mark Wilks Call , Esq ., of Bideford , to Elizabeth Rebecca , widow of Charles Christian Hennell , Esq ., of Woodford Wells , Essex , and daughter of Dr . Brabant , of Bath . PEEL—SHELLEY . —At St . George ' s , Hanover-square , on Wednesday , the 12 th inst ., the Right Hon . Frederick Peel , second son of the late Sir Robert Peel , Bart ., to Miss Shelley , daughter of Mr . John Shelley , Of Ovington House . Winche ' ster , Hants . .. ¦ * PIGOTT—ARUNDELL . — On the 13 th inst ., at Spanish Place , by His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman , John Hugh Smyth Pigott , Esq ., of Brockley Hall , Somersetshire , to Blanche Mary , second daughter of Henry Raymond Arundell , Esq ., of 32 , Oxford-square , Hyde Park . DEATHS . PRICE . —On the 13 th July , at the Island of Tbrtola , Anna , aged 39 , the wife of Thomas Price , Esq ., President administering the Government of the British Virgin Islands and youngest son of the late Sir Rose Price , of Trengwainion . Cornwall . Bart . ROBSON . —Caroline , wife of Thomas Eobson , Esq ., of Holtby House , Yorkshire , aged 70 . WATERFIELD . —Killed , in the mutiny at Delhi , on the 11 th May , aged 20 , Lieutenant William Waterfield , of the 54 th Regiment N . I-, son of the late Major Hill Waterflold , of the Bombay Army .
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London , Friday Evening , August 14 , 1857 . Since our last , markets generally have been very dull , daily decline in prices being observable in nearly all securities . During the early part of the week , and owing to tne non-arrival of the looked-for Indian news , business . operations were much limited , the tone of the markets being universally gloomy , fears also of a loan being necessary to be raised by the Home Government for the Indian Company being entertained , and weighing heavily on the stock and money markets , a measure somewhat prematurely anticipated . Much excitement prevailed yesterday , consequent on- the arrival of the long-looked-for Indian news , which was construed very differently by many ; Consols , hpwever , soon showed an improvement , which was maintained up to the close of the day , when they closed at 904 I for account , and opened this morning 9011 , then went 4 i , and gradually
improved to the close , when they left off 91 , 91 J . The letters of the second edition were read very favourably and the capture of Delhi is considered imminent . The following aro the leading prices : — Blackburn , 74 , 8 J ; Caledonian , 78 , 78 * : Chester and Holyhead , 85 , 36 ; Eastern Counties , 11 , Hi ; Great Northern , 35 4 , 96 * ; Great Southern and Western ( Ireland ) , 102 , 104 ; Great Western , 52 , 624 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , 98 * . 99 ; London and Blackwall , 5 i , 64 ; London , Brighton , and South Coast , 104 , 106 ; London and North-Western , 101 * , iO 2 i ; London and South-Western , 94 , 95 x . d . ; Midland , 83 4 , 84 ; North-Eastern ( Berwick ) . 93 1 , 944 i South-Eastern ( Dover ) , 71 * . 724 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , 6 , 64 ; Dutch-Rhenish , 6 i , 4 | dis . x . d . ; Eastern of France ( Paris and Strasbourg ) , 27 i , 27 S ; Groat Central of France , 234 , 24 ; Great Luxembourg , 65 , 1 . ; Northern of France , 34 * . 34 * ; Pans and Lyons , 36 i , 301 ; Royal Danish , 16 , 18 ; Royal Swedish , 5 . 1 ; Sambre and Meuso , 74 . 7 i «
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CORN MARKET . Mark-lnwo , Friday , August 14 , 1857 . "English Wheat has advanced from Is . to 2 s , throughput the country . There is also a better demand for Taganrog Ghirka Wheats , which will certainly be wanted for mixing with the new Wheat . The sales are—for shipment to end of October 51 s ., middle of October 5 ls . 6 d ., end of September S 2 s ., a cargo on passage by black dipththong vessel 52 a . » and several at 53 s . Gd ., with guarantees of condition—a cargo arrived off the Coast was sold before arrival . Maize is in loss demand , and Odessa , shipping has been sold at 35 s . 3 d ., nor delivered 496 lbs ., with guarantee of condition . Barley is in rather better demand . Odessa floating is offered at 24 s . Oats are unaltered in value , Ono or two cargoes of Arohangel-have arrived , shipped by small shippers , and are in bad condition , and also one or two shipped by the old houses , and these aro in the same good condition as usual .
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BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK , ( Closing Prices . ) Sat . Mon . Tues , Wetf . Thur . Frid . SS & tecz " & % ft 11 "a Hi New 3 per Cent . An . 00 j 90 | 00 $ 00 | 904 © If ^ isx & St ::. :::::: 5 ::: . ? -i « " « :::: " ££ HiS KSfc-axoW : •;; :: | 2 d » g sra src | j KWrtSWRS P- V , a I -yj " c-a a S Bi &» i ::::::::::: pAr HJLJJ » ff
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FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last Oiwioial Quotation purino the Week bwpiwct Thurbpav Evbniwo . ) « - „ * „ giffi ! 8 K » :::::: X ffivssvssz % W fS £ *» - S IS" « SsSst I * IsBfeA'fe . = »
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 15, 1857, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15081857/page/21/
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