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Miscellitn K O It S. Tiik Court.—A New G...
Jhen tak ^ a bend toward * Monte Rotondo , and ends on ia shore easy of access , and presents all desirable security for the cable . The length of this line of soundings is one hundred and twenty-five sea miles ( sixty to a degree ) . The greatest depth is from one thousand nine hundred to two thousand yards , and this maximum depth extends only ten miles . This was the line chosen last year for laying the electric cable , and was rejected this year in consequence of the last accident . The line now chosen takes its direction from Spartivento to Cape Garde , and presents a horizontal distance of one hundred
and twenty-five miles . The depth during the half of this distance is more than two thousand metres , and the maximum fwo thousand six hundred metres . The bottom is formed of gravel , coral , and soft yellow mud . Thus line has the advantage of bringing the cable directly to Bona , in a safe place , sufficiently deep . It was there that the laying of the cable was commenced . There are still seventeen miles of cable wanting to complete the communication with Spartivento . The correspondence with Bona was always perfect during the entire passage . —Times Paris Correspondent . [ The chain has since been broken , ana a portion of it lost . 1
Sympathy with the Indian Sufferers . —About 1000 / . has been already raised in Norwich for the victims of the atrocious conduct of the Sepoys . At Cambridge 'humiliation service' has been held , the Mavor presiding . * Miss Florence Nightingale is now staying at Malvern , and is -under hydropathic treatment . Inland Steam Navigation in Bengal . —Dr . Alexander Beattie , M . D ., writes to the Times : —" The list of passengers given in your Calcutta correspondent ' s letter , dated July 20 th , shows that the steamers and barges of the Ganges Steam and Inland Steam Navigation Company have been ' rendering important service in the present crisis ; ' and it may be satisfactory to knowthat these vessels -were expeditiously transporting European troops up the country . By a letter to my address , dated Calcutta , 17 th of July , from the manager , I learn that the
Mirzapore steamer conveyed a portion of the Madras Fusiliers from Calcutta to Allahabad ( eight hundred miles ) in seventeen days ; the same vessel and tlie Benares , both belonging to the Ganges Steam Company , each having a large iron barge attached , were engaged to convey troops and stores to Allahabad ; and , as the river had become more easily navigable in consequence of rain , it is reasonable to suppose the voyage would be made in fourteen days . General Havelock'a fbrce would not therefore be long vrithout support . Had the Government in England despatched one hundred and fifty soldiers to Bombay or Calcutta as second-class or deck passengers by each of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers twice a mouth , and their arrival been publicly notified , the moral effect would have been excellent . It is not yet too late to adopt thia mode of speedy transport , particularly as i-egards Bombay . "
Mr . John Frost , the Chartist , and ex-Mayor of Newport , claims to be restored to the list of freemen of the borough . The "West Indies . —The islands , at the last advices , continued to enjoy average good health ; but trade , generally , was dull . Several of the persons , men and women , implicated in the outrage up < n the Governor of Demerara and on Mrs . Wodehouse on their late departure from the colony have been arrested , and liberated on
bail , to take their trials at the next session of the Supreme Court , for riot . The Hon . \ V . B . Wolseley , Acting Government Secretary , and his wife , have left for England , after ' a residence of more than twenty-one years , during which the lion , gentleman , gained the respect and goodwill of all classes . Mr . A . F . Gore , the Acting Assistant Government Secretary , also left on leave of absence . The wenthor has been rather wot in some of the islands , which has caused the planters a little anxiety .
THE VVEATHEIt AHD CROPS IN SCOTLAND . Most Tinseasonable weathor for cutting and gathering in the crops of Scotland now prevails , and great fears are entertained for tho results . Ahout one-third of the crop only is secured . The rainy weather has also increased the potato disease , and a writer who has just travelled over the greater part of tho north of Scotland says : — " The loss may bo estimated at one-third ; but a 9 tho potatoes are a -very heavy crop thia season , tho total quantity saved will , after all , be little short of an average crop . " —— Times .
Tub Shrewsbury Ebtatks . —A now claimant to these eatates has been found in the person of a railway porter employed by tho Oxford , " Worcester , and Wolverhampton Railway Company at Worcester station . Tho name of tho claimant is Thomas Evans , and it appears that ho has Boino documents in his possession which will assist in establishing his title . It appears that Evans ' s mother ( now dead ) was a Miss Talbot , and she had boon frequently heard to say that her family ought to bo much bettor off than they were , as tho then Karl of Slirovrsbnry was her great-uncle . Adulteration in the Saokamkntal Cup . —Tho Rev . John Purchas , of Orwell Kectory , suspecting ; that even the sacramental cup in not exempt from adulteration , procured a sample of tont from a London "winomerchant , who distinctly repudiated tho notion that tent' was at all more adulterated than other wino . Ho communicates tho chemical analysis of tho sample , conftlned in tho following note : — " ISovorcnd Sir , —Having
completed the examination of the wine you sent me , I beg to submit the following analysis : —Litmus paper indicated much acidity . Evaporated , it yielded 25 per cent , of a thick syrupy substance , consisting almost entirely of treacle ; which substance , when ignited , yielded 0-78 per cent of ash , differing both in . quantity and chemical composition from the ash of the genuine " grape juice . It does not , however , owe its colouring matter to the ordinary substances used for colouring dark wines , such as logwood , brazilwood , elderberries , or mulberries . From the results of my examination , I am of opinion that the sample of wine you sent me was a compound of treacle , spirits of wine , water , and a small quantity of a genuine but very sour wine . —I remain , rev . sir , yours most obediently , Arthur D . Eck , Chemical and Dispensing Laboratory , Cambridge . " Mr . Purchas adds : — " This analysis proves ' tent' to be quite unfit for sacramental use . "
Suicides . —Louis Felix Crapen , a French hairdresser and perfumer living in Cranbourne-street , Leicestersquare , has hung himself in the kitchen of his house , having first of all locked himself in . He had long threatened to commit suicide , owing to continued ill health ; and , when his body was found , a large knife was sticking in a handkerchief tied round his waist , and his left hand was fastened behind his back with another handkerchief . Th . 6 coroner ' s j ury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . —A gentleman has shot himself
near St . Philip ' s Church , in the neighbourhood of the London Hospital . Nothing is known of his connexions , nor of the motive for the act . —A German residing in Princes-street , Leicester-square , where he worked as a ladies' bootmaker , has hung himself from a hedge at Hounslow , owing , as would appear , to intamperance . Lord Dalhousie and the Indian Insurrection . — The report that Lord Dalhousie had gWren the whole of his yearly pension of 50007 . a year to the Indian sufferers , as long as the present struggle lasts , is now denied . He has , however , given 5001 . to the fund .
Fires- —Serious fires have occurred , in "Wellingtonstreet , Woolwich , and Wells-street , Hackney . In the former locality , several houses were lurnt down , or seriously injured . —A fire broke out on Tuesday morning , about two o ' clock , in King David-lane , Shad well , at the house of a German coffee-shop , which was destroyed , while four other dwellings were greatly damaged . The Welsh Circuits . —The Earl of Powis has addressed-a letter to the Shrewsbury Journal , protesting against the proposed removal of the Welsh Assjzes to towns ., which . wiJl -put the prosecutors , witnesses , and attorneys to great inconvenience in the way of travelling .
Central Africa . —An official despatch has been received at the Foreign-office from her Majesty ' s consul at Tripoli , throwing some doubt on the reported death of Dr . " Vogel . The courier who had been despatched in April last for the frontier of Wadai , to obtain , if possible , some tidings of the fate of thia scientific traveller , having returned to Murzuk , brings with him also a letter from the Sheikh of Borgu . From the report of some people composing a small caravan that had reached Borgu from Wadai , it appears that Dr . Vogel , after
having successively visited several places , had reached Andra , -whence lie was summoned to Wara , the capital of Wadai , by the Sultan , by whom he had been some time detained , but was supposed to be preparing for his departure to Darfur . Upon the receipt of this report , the Sultan of Borgu , who had zealously interested himself in the matter , at once sent off two couriers to Wadai , both of whom had returned with reports corroborating the story of the caravan people . Respecting the death of the gallant Maguireno doubt appears , unfortunately ,
to be ontertamed . —Times . Inner Temple-lank is about to be pulled down , or , at nny rate , the west side of it . Tho Bttildcr calls attention to the fact that at No . 1 in this thoroughfareone cf the doomed houses—Dr . Johnson , Goldsmith , Reynolds , Burke , Boswell , and other of the wits and eminent men of that time , used to hold their meetings under tho designation of the Literary Club . Johnson , in fa « t , lived in the house ; and there is yet over tho doorway tho announcement , Dr . Johnson's staircase . ' Thero may be good reasons for the demolition ; but it is impossible to contemplate without regret tho destruction of a place picturesque in itself , and haunted by many glorious recollections . Such mementos are being rapidly obliterated ; and London will soon bo a city of yesterday .
Representation of Greenwich . —A . crowded public meeting was held at tho Lecture Hall , Royal Hill , Greenwich , on Monday evening , for tho purpose of hearing an address from Mr . Townsend , M . P ., detailing liis parliamentary career during tho past session , and the political persecution to which Mr . Townsend declares he hna been subjected . Tho chair was occupied by Mr . W . Jones , a solicitor , and Mr . Townsond ' a friends muatorcd in considerable Btrongth from Woolwich and Deptford . Mr . Townuend referred to hia privato difficulties , and assorted that these had arisen from tho persecution of a lawyer at Greenwich , who actod aa agent for the defeated candidate . In tlio course of hia addresa , ho alludctl to hislato partner , Mr . Winn , and , at a subsequent poriod of the meeting , Mr . Winn appeared on tho platform with certain doauments in hia hand , and claimed to l ) e heard in reply to Mr . Townsend . An uproarious aceno onauod . The meeting refused to hour Mr . Winn ,
and the yelling and confusion were indescribable At last , there was a perfect fight on the platform , and the meeting terminated abruptly , after Mr . Winn had de clared that he would call a meeting specially for thP purpose of refuting Mr . Townsend ' s statements . Grouse . —The Edinburgh Courant calls attention to the decrease of grouse on the Scottish hills , and antici pates that they will speedily be extinct . The writer adds : — " Large quantities of old birds are found dead on our southern hills ( we refer to Selkirk and Peebles shire ) in the months of October and November . Manv of-these , doubtless , have been wounded birds , and Consequently have died of starvation ; but we haxe frequently made an examination of some of these found dead , and an enlargement of the liver was almost invariably the cause . "
The Character of L'Angelier . —Mr . Adam Pringle , of Sunnyside , Patrick , has published in the North , British Daily Mail what he terms a ' Vindication of the Character of the late M . L'Angelier . ' It consists of an attested copy of his diary , and of letters fro m his mother , and from various respectable persons . A Child-bed Tragedy . —The annexed grim entr y occurs in the miscellaneous observations at the end of one of the Registrar-General ' s recent weekly returns of
births and deathsjn London : — " St . Giles-in-tlie-Fields North . —On 18 th August , the infant daughteis of a ' woman since dead , ' supposed to have been drowned . No medical attendant . ' Mr . Simpson , the registrar , says : —' Twins found in a tub of-water . The mother died four days after their birth . She told a ful ' lowlodger she put them there because they looked so like rabbits . Nothing was provided for her confinement . She frequently asked what would be done to her if she recovered . ' "
The Heat of the "Weather . —The infant daughter of a pipe-maker , living at Pancras , died on the ' 27 th ult . from exhaustion , owing to the heat of the weather . Her age was six months . A labourer died on the 29 th ult . from sun-stroke , after eleven days' illness . Crimean Monument at Sheffield . —The Duke of Cambridge has consented to lay the foundation-stone of a Crimean monument in Sheffield during October . Royal Visit to Weotivobth House . —The Queen and Prince Albert will pay a visit to the Earl of Fitzwilliam at Wentworth House , near Rotherham , on their return from Scotland on the 15 th of October . When Princess Victoria , the Queen visited the house rn 1835 , with her mother , on returning from the grand musical festival at York .
The Doncaster Races . —The Doncaster September meeting has taken place this week . The Doncaster Plate has been won by Mr . Payne ' s Orianda , and the St . Leger States by Mr . J . Scott ' s Imperieuse . In this latter race , Mr . D'Anson ' s celebrated Blink Bonny was fourth . Her Majesty ' s Plate was won by lord " Zetland ' s Skirmisher . The Mormons in ' Exeter . —A Mormon ' Elder' has been preaching in the open air at Exeter ; but last Sunday evening he was mobbed , had to run for it , and , becoming alarmed , sought refuge in the station-house . On the following day , the police superintendent obtained permission to bring him before the magistrates if he should renew his preachings .
Suicide in the Street . —An inquiry has tali en plact before Mr . William Baiter , coroner , at the London Hospital , respecting the death of Captain John Bell , iiged thirty-six , who was found lying dead near St . Philip's Church , Whitechapel , on the night of Friday week . There was a double-barrelled pistol near his left shoulder , and a large wound near his left ear , from which blood was oozing copiously . Emma Spencer , the landlady of the house where liell lodged , in the Mik-cnd-road , stated that he was the captain of a merchant vessel
called tho Patriot Queen . He had latterly been very desponding , and drunk spirits to excess . She buliuvcd he took the pistol from a case which was in liis bedroom when ho went out on tho Friday evening . He then complained of pains in his head . Ho was subject to attacks of brain fever . In his pockets were a valuable gold watch and chain , 13 s . 7 d ., penknife , keys , & c . No money was found in his room , but there was a quantity of valuable property . Tho jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity .
Death op the Principal of Jesus Co > m . kgjo , Oxford . —The Ven . Henry Foulkes , D . D ., Principal of Jesus College , breathed his last oil Thursday afternoon , about half-past five o ' clock . Dr . Foulkes , who is stated to havo been eighty-four years of age , had been principal of hia college forty years , having been elected to succeed Dr . David Hughes in 1817 . The rev . gentlemen proceeded to his B . A . degree April 80 , ' 1794 ; M . A . April G , 1797 ; li . D . May 3 , 1804 ; and D " . D . March 29 , 1817 . Suicidig in Irkland . — Captain Power , of Tonyn Moydow , n few miles from Longford , Ireland , Im * « " <> * himself dead . Ho hud nearly reached his eightieth year . Soino vague idea of impending pecuniary embarrassment seems to havo been tho cause of tho act . The coroner d jurhas returned a verdict of TemrarInsnnity .
y po y This Bank ov En g land . —Tho half-yearly Court ot tho Proprietors of tho Bunk of England \ v « s In .-Id on Thursday , tho Governor , Mr . Sheflield Ncavo , m t »« chair . Tho dividond recommended was fivc-and-a-hi *" per cent , free of income-tax . Tho proiita for the hairyear havo been 775 , 650 / ., making tho total of ' rest on
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¦¦ THE LEADER . [ No . 391 , September 19 . IRK ?
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19091857/page/12/
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