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994 THE IiE AD ER. [No. 1^4, September 2...
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_ . ¦ AMERICA. The following are some pa...
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THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We have received ...
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FRANCE. (From our own Correspondent.) Pa...
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mons , it was urged in reply to the charge that the cdmpanv-was not in a position to register , as Mr . M'Kenna , the " manager , was the only bond jxde shareholder , no others having paid up their shares . The summons was accordingly dismissed . Mr . Henry Burridge , late collector of taxes at Richmond , was tried on Wednesday at the Surrey Sessions on the charge of having fraudulently collected taxes after he had ceased to be a collector . The jury acquitted the prisoner , who was , however , detained at Che « iit of the Grown for debt .
A novel attempt at swindling is presumed to be indicated by a singular story about a horse-which was consigned to SL Soyer , after his death . A letter was addressed to rM . Soyer , . from . Leith , apprising him that his " Crimean mare" had been forwarded by steamer to London , and asking for a draft for 221 . 16 s . in payment of the expenses of the keep , & c . M . Soyer ' s relatives are satisfied that be never owned such a mare , and accordingly they refused to receive her or to pay the bill . The view that ¦ ¦ they take of this transaction is obvious . The Central Criminal Court commenced its sittings on Monday .. . and tried several ordinary cases . Thomas Ferryman and his wife were tried for coining on an extensive scale . The woman was acquitted , but the
man found guilty , and sentenced to eight years penal servitude . —On Thursday , Robert L . Wilson , Samuel Beale , and John Bushel ] , three Post-office letter-carriers , who had pleaded guilty to indictments charging them with stealing letters containing moneys ,, were placed at -the bar to receive judgment . Mr . Baron Watson said , the integrity of letters passing through the post , must he protected ; and sentenced the prisoners to be kept in penal servitude for four years .- —A lad named James Trench , was convicted of the offence of arson , committed apparently from a feeling of revenge against his employer in consequence of his having dismissed him from his 'employment . He was sentenced to be kept in penal
• servitude for four yearsi— -Angel Hyam Cohen , surrendered to take his trial , for having in his possession Admiralty stores . The same evidence given lately at the Mansion House was produced , but the Court considered it insufficient to support the charge , and the jury accordingly acquitted the prisoner . — -In the New Court , Joseph Ruscovitch was found guilty of forging a bill of exchange for 4601 ., with intent to defraud the Messrs . Gillespy , and sentenced to six years' penal servitude *—A brute , named William Saving , Was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude , for anjPassaul t on his own daughter , - theVrefrnlt . f > fwhich reas-ftifl Kirtfo of a Child . William SteSSmtfc-VK profession sorcerer and . com-William Ste ' lntnar ^ HBy profession sorcerer and .
commission-agent , was brought up at the Thames Polioscourt , to answer the charge of obtaining 187 . from 4 » Andreas Mag , by fraudulent pretences . Both parties are natiyes of Prussia , and said to be well educated . The dupe was led to believe that by paying to his agent certain sums of money , in certain coins , putting these -through certain magical manoeuvres , muttering the laord ' sPrayer , and performing several other mum-< mer ies , a , - valuable prize in the Grerman lottery would be secured to him . Mr . Yardley sentenced the man of ¦ magic to six weeks' hard labour in the House of Correction , where he has to carry with him the comforting reflection that another prosecution for a like offence 'awaits him at the expiry of that term . At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Thusday , the examination of the Directors of the London and Eastern
Banking Corporation was adjourned sine die , as under the : order by the Court of Chancery no funds are provided for any inquiry in : this Court .
994 The Iie Ad Er. [No. 1^4, September 2...
994 THE IiE AD ER . [ No . 1 ^ 4 , September 25 , 1858 .
_ . ¦ America. The Following Are Some Pa...
_ . ¦ AMERICA . The following are some particulars of the destruction of the quarantine station on S tat en Island : —Many years ago , when New York was much smaller and this island » wilderness , the quarantine was established there , vjfow the greater part of the island is occupied with j . ^ untry residences , and villages have grown up about all thh stations , iuoluding ^ that of quarantine , The detention of all the yellow fever patients in the midst of such a population has created an excitement which has eereral times threatened ,, to break , out . in violence . The JBoardt of Health of Castleton resolved that quarantine ¦ was a nuiaance which the citjizens might abate . This -was the only excuse wanted . On the night of the 1 st inst . « 'large mob broke into the quarantine grounds , and destroyed several of the hospitals . On tine succeeding
• aright , finding that through culpable neglect no force bad ' beensent to protect the buildings , they finished the work of the night . before . The nick patients wero taken oat ifcy the toobiinto ithe cold night air , arid loft . The very bedding on whioh they had been lying was made a bonfire of . After thQ mischief waa done , a police , force was ent down to take care of the ruins . The destruction of ihe buildings and the brutal treatment of the sick have iclicited a very strong proclamation from the Governor of y ^ evr York State . A number of persons occupying high ipositions have been arrested . Tho frigate $ abine haa |> een anchored near the shipping at Quarantine , to aftyrd » . * ny protection whioh might bo required , It h stated tjUat five hundred of the National Guard had been Wdered to the scene of rJot . On the 8 th matters wore « emarkably quiet . Tho military had not made their
appearance , and people at Staten Island thought Governor King ' s proclamation was issued merely for effect-, and by influence of political motives . . There was no abatement of the yellow fever at New Orleans and Charleston ; the disease was beginning to spread into the country . At the former city the deaths for the week ending the 7 th were four hundred and fifty . ' ¦ . . ¦ . . . ¦ ' - ¦ ¦ .: ' . '¦' . ' Two or three persons had been killed by an accident on the'Hudson River Railroad . The laying down of the Atlantic cable was celebrated with great pomp on the 2 nd instant . In the evening
there was a grand banquet , at which Lord Napier was present and delivered a speech which was characterised by admirable good taste . The suspension of the despatches by the Atlantic telegraph had occasioned anxiety , and the following despatch was published : —¦ " I have received from Newfoundland a despatch , informing me that although the insulation of the ocean cable remains perfect , no message has come over it for several days . The last telegraphic despatch that I received from England was dated Sept . 1 . What maybe the cause of cessation I do not know , but I conjecture that it is the change of shore end at Valentia , which I was informed was about to be made . —tCyisos W . Field ,
New York , Sept . 8 . " The Rev . Eleazar Williams , generally known on account , of his claiming to be the son of Louis XVI ., died at Hogansburg , in the state of New York , on the 28 th of August . He lived very retired , and nearly in a state of indigence .
The Cape Of Good Hope. We Have Received ...
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . We have received files of papers from the Cap e to the 28 th July . We take the following from the Argus of the 27 th : —^ " The Governor left Cape Town * to mediate between the Boers and Basutus ,: yesterday morning , at ten o'clock . There could not have been fewer than 2 . 000 persons present to witness his Excellency ' s departure . It was generally remarked that the appearance of the Cape Town Volunteers and their conduct oh this occasion did themselves and the metropolis of the colony infinite credit . His Excellency spent last night at the Paa ' rL at which place , as well as at Beaufort and other places en route , the inhabitants have made arrangements to " give him an enthusiastic reception . We wish him ' God speed . ' " Great hopes are entertained of the successful termination of his Excellency ' s mediation between the Free State and Moshesh , and it is expected that his visit to the frontier will be attended with other happy
results . A dispute with the Portuguese authorities in the Mozambique had occured , arising out of the seizure by them of a British vessel for not paying some local dues . The British Consul has left for England to represent the affair to the Foreign-office .
Naval And Military. Admiralty Inspection...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . Admiralty Inspection . — The Lords of the Admiralty paid their ordinary half-yearly visit to Woolwich Dockyard on Saturday . They examined the ships in progress of construction and repair , and visited the saw-mills , testing-house , stores , riggiugrhouses , factories , and the new church . Sham : Fight near Dudmn . —A gTand military spectacle , comprising a sham fight and subsequent encampment of the troops , similar to that which took place a month ago at Woodlands , tho seat of Colonel Henry White , M . P . for Longford , was repeated last week , and attracted a large concourse of spectators . There were upwards of four thousand troops on the . ground , under the command of Lord Seaton . The Earl of Eglintoun was present ..
The Defences . —It has been determined greatly to extend and strengthen the defences of Spike Island , at the entrance of Queenstown harbour . It in understood that all the defences at Queenstown , including Carlisle and Oamden Forts , are to be placed in the highest state of efficiency . Rifmcd Cannon . —A correspondent of the Daily News wrjtes :- — " In addition to the fact stated on the authority of the Prince de Joinville , that the rifled steel cannon is a » regulation weapon " of tho French navy , I beg to state , upon tho authority of tho Continental JXevietp , that the Emperor Napoleon HI . has ordered ninety batteries of six guns each of this formidable weapon for field service . Mr . Armstrong , of
Newcastleon-Tyne , in 185 < £ , submitted Ids steel rifled cannon to the Duke pf Newcastle , and his fiold-pleco has boon repeatedly tried at Shoeburyness . The gun is only of 2-rinoh boro , and tho projectile , described as a pointed cylinder , weighs only 51 b ., and is fired with a charge of ton ounces ; y < st , with an elevation of eleven degrees , its range was 8000 yards ; and at 4 . 20 degrees it hit a mark at 1500 yards distance . It is , quite possible that a 08-pound nbot may attain an extreme range of from 7000 to 8000 yards , ^ n short , there can bo no doubt but that rifled steel cannon are as far superior to ordinary artillery as tlio Enfleld rifle is to ' Brown Boas . ' Tho tremendous power of rifled stool cannon must prove destructive to any opposing force not similarly armed .
Surely , therefore , it behoves our Government to adopt this formidable weapon . " New Men-of- War . —The screw line-6 f-battle steamer Hood , 31 , which has been , several years in building in . Chatham Dockyard , is so far completed that she could if required , be launched during tho present year . She is armed with the new description of guns of the heaviest calibre . The Admiralty authorities have ordered the Hne-of-battle sailing ship Trafalgar , 120 fitting at Chatham , for a screw steamer , and the ' Orpheus , 22 , screw corvette , to be pushed forward with all despatch .
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FRANCE . ( From our own Correspondent . ) Paris , Thursday , C £ p . m . The contest between Free Trade and Protection has assumed most singular proportions within the last fewdays . The battle rages fiercely , and the incidents hare taken quite a dramatic turn . Algeria is , for the nonce , made the scene of contention . In the early part of the present month , the Minister of Algeria and the Colonies , the Prince Napoleon , -whose liberal views on commercial
and political subjects are no secret , presented a report to the Emperor . The length of this important document , and , probably , the press of other matters , preclude the daily journals from giving to it that publicity and attention which it merited . It is for this reason , and in order to a clear comprehension of the present state of the question , that I return to its consideration . The condition of this province—colony it cannot be called— is as strange as it is unsatisfactory . After twenty-eight years' possession , the expenditure of at least a quarter of a million of lives , and . of untold millions of money , how incommensurate are the results , is shown in the Prince-Minister ' s report . ¦ ¦ " And ,
nevertheless , colonisation is almost nothing ; scarcely two Lundred thousand Europeans , of which the half are French , less than one hundred thousand agriculturists , capital scarce dud dear , the spirit of initiative and enterprise stifled , property yet to be constituted in the greater portion of the territory , discouragement thrown among the coloni .- > ts and capitalists who present themselves to fertilise the soil of Algeria : such is the true situation . " Of the correctness of this statement there can be no doubt , and the nation ought , to ^ be grateful to the Minister , even though he . a . Prince , who has had the courage and contempt for popularity-hunting to set before them their short-comings in the true light . Few Frenchmen are so
well informed as Prince Napoleon . None are more ardent in the research after the great truths of civilisation , or less encumbered with that false sentiment which here passes , current for patriotism . To one so well informed and free from narrow prejudices , the contrast afforded by the different degrees of success which have attended the efforts of English and French races at colonisation cannot fail to have appeared amazing . During the same period , while Englishmen-Hind I use the term in ita broadest sense to include our kindred of the United States—have colonised the chief portion of
the two Canadas , Arkansas , Michigan , FJorida , lexas , Iowa , Wisconsin , California , Minesota , ICansaa , Oregon , Utah , New Mexico , Nebraska , Tasmania , Australia , New Zealand , tho chief portions of South Africa , and various smaller stations on the globe , increasing their colonial populations by millions , the French have just managed to locate under a hundred thousand cobniata within a few hours' sail of their southern ports . There is nearly one soldier to every colonist , and while tuo average emigration from Franco to Algeria has not been more than 8500 persons niuiualJyi to tho United States it was nearly us muen
lust year and morq than double the preceding year Yet Algeria may be more cheaply reached , tho soa passago is much less , the climate more conyoniul to tuo inhabitants of France , tho oxteut of territory ouormdus ( 500 miles of sea-coast and reaching inland as fur as may bo doaired ) , and tho market for supplying two consumption of 80 , 000 soldiers , ample . Why then should tho colony remain in this state of penury , ami bo a constant drain upon the resources of tho metropolitan » tnlor . If French emigrate in such numbers to tlio Uiiitou States as they do , besides tho emigration to South America , and the various countries of Europe , it ia eviaem . is
that they are not so firmly rooted to the soil as assorted . Tho Minister pointed to the true oauso oi um astounding feature , when ho said that , for « oolony w » prosper , " there is required , besides security , more werii / , and . " the successive emancipation of men ana * nter ™§ The report of the Prince could have but one « B » »«* tion to the protectionists . Those gentlemen Una , fluu oeoded in converting the Minister of War , M & rjcnw Vfllllant , to their view ' s , when , just in tlmo , ho »«" Heved of tho difficulty of deciding by the "Ithdruww of Algeria from his control . Under thoso oiroum
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25091858/page/10/
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