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No. 437, August 7,1858.] THE LE ' ADEK 7...
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ACCI1>ENT3 AND SUDDEN DEATHS. An aged wo...
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THE HOYAL VISIT TO CHERBOURG. Tiik great...
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Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. A...
to mak « an explanation . The prisoner had asserted 5 n palliation of his offence that he -was engaged as assistantmaster at 352 . per annum , but -was only paid at the rate of 30 i per annum . The Rev . Mr . Byrth , in the absence of the proprietress of the school , could not give a contradiction to this statement ; but he was now eiabled to do so by the production of Smith ' s own receipts , three in number , each for a quarter ' s salary , from which it appeared that ho had been paid ( in accordance with the agreement entered into with him ) 8 / . 15 s . per quarter , and that the first quarter ' s salary was paid in advance the first day he was engaged , and the others as they became due .
Crinoline is henceforth a suspected article with all Custom House officers . Ellea Casey , a well-dressed young woman , waa observed by Mr . Gardner , a tidesurveyor of Customs , to exhibit great rotundity of person as she was preparing to leave a foreign steam vessel at St . Katherine ' s Wharf . He delicately alluded to the fact , -which -was attributed by the young woman to cr inoline . Not satisfied , the suspicious Mr . Gardner handed the young woman over to one of the female searchers , who speedily delivered her of twenty-two pounds and a half of « igars . She pleaded Guilty at the Thames police-office , and was sentenced to pay a fine of lOOt " or to be imprisoned for six months . " You will have no faith in crinoline again ? " inquired Mr . Yardley of the official . " Never , sir ! " said that infidel , emphatically . " I shall always suspect every woman , who wears crinoline . ' The ladies are now fairly warned . Let them look to it .
Catherine Dunn , the wife of a soldier who has served much in India , was tried at the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday with stealing a pair of gloves in a haberdasher ' s shop . There appeared to be no doubt whatever as to her having taken the gloves ; but it seemed probable that she was in a state of mental aberration owing to the climate of India ( in / which she had been with her husband ) having affected her brain , to excitement with respect to the Indian massacre ? , and to her being then in the family way . The jury therefore Acquitted her ; at which there was some applause in court .
No. 437, August 7,1858.] The Le ' Adek 7...
No . 437 , August 7 , 1858 . ] THE LE ' ADEK 769
Acci1>Ent3 And Sudden Deaths. An Aged Wo...
ACCI 1 > ENT 3 AND SUDDEN DEATHS . An aged woman has been burnt to death in Ogilviestreet , Manchester . She lived with her sister , a Mrs . Latham , who , in the middle off . the night , was wakened by hearing a crackling noise . Sfhe perceived that the adjoining bedroom , in -which h « r sister slept , was on fire . An alarm was given , and the police and fire-engines soon arrived , hut too late to save the life of the woman . The body was found on the floor at the foot of the bed , with the burning bedclothes-wrapped round it . A candlestick was found on a small table near the bed , -with the candle burnt down to the socket . It is supposed that the candle ignited the ' curtains , and that they set fiTe to the bed . The poor creature probably then got out of bed , and dragged the clothes off with her . She-was eighty-four years of age , and very infirm .
Two brothers , named Henry and William Moult , residing at Kirkby-hi-Ashfield , Nottingham , were excavating a well on Monday afternoon . The younger brother , William , had occasion at one time to go down the well by means of a rope ; and , when within & fewyards of the bottom , he was heard to fall . Henry then took hold of the rope , -with the intention of following him ; but lie also fell to the bottom . Assistance was procured , and , after an hour ' s exertion , the bodies -were recovered , for both men by this time were dead . The foul air of the well had so affected them as to make them insensible , and therefore not able to retain their hold on the rope .
Two of the sufferers by tlie explosion of a large boiler at the works of Messrs . Morrison , Ouseburn , Newcastleon-Tyne , on Thursday week , have died from the injuries they received . Their names are James Fielding and Charles Edwin . The other persons injured are recovering . An inquest has been formally opened and adjourned . A melancholy accident took place about a week ago at the village of Mineheud , Somersetshire . Mr . Gower , manager of the Tiverton branch of the National Provincial Bank of England , waa recently married to a daughter of the late F , B . Beevor , Esq ., solicitor , of Chancery-lane , London ; and , immediately after the ceremony , the bride and bridegroom proceeded on an excursion to the principal tovns and villages of Devonshire and Somersetshire . Having arrived at Dimeter , a small watering-place about two miles from Minehead , they
rested there for the night . A little after ais o ' clock on the following morning , Mr . Gower rose , Buying that he was not very well , and would talie a walk by the seaside . Being absent an unusually long time , his wife became uneasy , and , inquiries having been made about ™ i "is hat wo . 8 discovered on the boacb . at Miuolicud , after a long search . As it was then supposed that ho must have been drowned , efforts were immediate ^ - madu to recover the body , and after u few more hours' search it was found lying on the Hands partly undressed . It is conjectured that Mr . Cower had intended to bathe , but that , as he was in the act of undressing , tho tido came rapidl y-up , and tho place nbouitding in snnd-bauks and being one of tho moat < lnngoroua on tho coast , he wjis oarrlod away by tho force of tho current before ho could make his escape .
France, (From A Private Correspondent?) ...
FRANCE , ( From a Private Correspondent ?) The Prohibitionists are evidently massing their forces for tue twofold purpose of offering determined resistance to any attempt that may be made to modify the taxes they levy on the nation , under pretexts worthy only of the most frivolous Chauvinisms ; and , also , to impose , by an appearance of great strength , their wishes —or rather commands—upon the timorous members of the Government . The array of their battalia may loom grandly enough at a distance , but on coming to close quarters it would be found to be not very formidable , for the different constituents have often antagonistic interests . Like an army composed of various races of men , speaking no common tongue , and bound together by no great and truthful principle , but merely united by the hopes of plunder , the Prohibitionists' forces are doomed to fall to pieces . Under the first influenceof defeat , one faction would be willing to sacrifice the rest , in the hope of being able to escape pursuit with its Ill-gotten booty ; and success would set them all by the ears to obtain the largest division of the spoil , like the lieutenants of " Macedonia's madman . " Perhaps , and that is the more probable , investigation would reduce the Prohibitionists ' forces to more modest proportions than they pretend to , like Fahtaff ' s men in buckram . For there is no branch of Prohibitionist traders who , while clamouring for rigorous protection to their own manufacture , do not desire , in secret , free trade in the other departments of commerce . The ironmaster would be delighted if the unfettered introduction of foreign coal were to reduce the cost of native fuel . The manufacturer of muslins and cotton
fabrics would be rejoiced to be permitted to use lowpriced English twist . The machine-maker demands nothing better than the free importation of foreign metals and fuel ; and manufacturers of all sorts of goods would be glad to get their machinery from abroad . And so it is , every class cries aloud to be protected , but would not object if others -were submitted to the regime of free trade . Not long siuce a Lille manufacturer landed at Calais from England , wrapped up in a shepherd ' s plaid , though on a hot night , in order to pass it through tue custom-house without paying duty , on the plea of its being wearing apparel for his own use , and was indignantly surprised , after having given his name , trade , and address , at being told by the officer tnat he must pay the entrance dues , and that he , of all men , ought not t » seek to evade duties imposed for his own benefit and the special protection of native industry .
I have before remarked on the singular manoeuvres to ¦ which- the prohibitionists resort , and the unworthy tactics they employ , to enlist popular prejudice on their side ^ and to their endeavours to revive , for mere trade purposes , national feelings of ill-will which all right-thinking men must desire should be allowed to slumber . But with these gentry whatever serves their turn or lielps to maintain the delusion that their monopoly , that is to say , large profits , is essential to the prosperity and glory of France , is eagerly laid hold ofi Accordingly , a fiction has just been published , in a weekly collection of novels by Alexandra Dumas and other noted writers , which is intended to portray the sufferings and misery of an ironmaster in the Haute-Marne
whose undertaking had been crushed by the competition of England and Belgium ( se trouvait e * crase " e par les concurrences de la Belgique et de l'Angleterre ) . Over the pathetic description of these imaginary woes all the novel readers throughout France are expected to ¦ weep and to be induced by the perusal of the " sorrows of ( an industrial ) Werter " to rise up against perfidious England and enlist under the banners of prohibition . I am not aware that the protectionists of England engaged the services of any novel writer—save Mr . Disraeli—to advocate their cause before their final defeat , nnd have therefore allowed themselves to bo distanced in ingenuity by their brethren on this side of the water .
lit s [> itc of their noisy effort " , tho prohibitionists do not appear over sanguine of much longer maintaining their Hag intact . Bit by bit they seem to anticipate it will be shredded away and they are now casting about to find an equivalent . No one can blame tbe # l for this measure of prudence ; but it seems most inconsistent that gentlemen who cry out against Government interfering with them nnd their profits , should call upon the state to compel others to reduce their prices , as they have done recently on more than one occasion . Paris , Thursday , Half-past Six , p . m . —What with the great heat , which has returned with , redoubled vigour to us within tho last two days , and
the absorbing interest of the Cherbourg meeting , the Bourse opened to-dny very heavily . Rightly or wrongly , speculators here will persist in seeing in the visit of the English Queen to the great military port of France , « n indication of a desire to presorve pence at all hazards , and of a deference to French politics . At first the Bourse was disturbed by rumours set afloat by the advocates of M . dc Leeseps ' Suez canal , that tho Emperor intended to give Lord Malniesbury ( for 1 prcsumo lie -would think of addressing her Maji'Hty on such a subject ) a u bit of his mind" relative to tho opposition of Lord Derby ' s Government to the scheme . Later in tho dny , additional news cnrnn from Cherbourg , although -what was its nature no oncseomod to have tho most
remote idea ; but its effect was to restore calm , and send the Three per Cents , up from 68 f . 20 c , their opening price , to 6 Sf . 40 c . I am inclined to believe , in reality ^ that Cherbourg news has had . very little to do with the improvement , but that it proceeds from the increase in . the railway receipts . The augmentation u stated to be no less than 17 , 000 f . on the Western lin «—here Cherbourg may have exercised aa influence—and 212 , 000 £ . on the Lyons-Mediterranean . Bank of France share * were calm at 3100 f . with a downward tendency to < J 090 f . Discount Bank shares , 670 f ., after payment of the 20 f . dividend . Railway Bank , 290 f ., and Bonnard ' s Bank shares fell to 71 f . 25 c . to rise again to 73 £ 75 c Fortune has favoured the Credit Mobilier to-day Ita shares , which opened at 6 L 5 f ., rose rapidlv to 628 f . 75 c . In the railway market , Austrians roae frotn 626 f . 25 c . to 628 f . 75 c ; Russians stood at 501 f . 25 c- Victor Emanuels rose from 412 f . 50 c . to 415 f . ; while Lombard stood at 573 f . 75 c ; Francois-Joseph at 475 f . 50 c Romans at 470 f . ; and Saragossa at 455 f . Among French lines , Orleans shares , which opened feebly at 1260 f ., rose to 127 Of . ; Lyons-Mediterranean from 765 f to 771 f . 25 c ; Old Northern from 917 f . 50 c . to 920 f . _ and New ditto , to 785 f . ; Easterns from 647 f . 50 c to 660 f ., under the influence of large purchases ; Southerns , which are coming into favour with speculators , went from 512 f . 50 c . to 5 l 5 f . 25 c . ; Westerns from 600 f . to 6 O 2 f . 50 c ; Dauphine from 515 f . to 5 l ? f . 50 c . ; New Ardennes from 470 f . to 472 f . 50 c ; Geneva shares stood still at 577 f . 50 c . at first , but at last reached
5 SOf . ; and Beziers fell to 15 Of ., rising again to 195 f . which must have left a tolerably large margin for profit to the buyer . The exchanges are :-r-On London , 25 f . 7 £ c . sight , 24 ff . 90 c 90 days Frankfort , 212 £ f . „ 212 „ Amsterdam , do . „ 210 f . „ Hamburg , 187 £ f . „ 186 * ,, Berlin , 373 f . „ 370 „ Naples , 434 f . „ 430 „ Vienna , 242 f . „ 239 £ „ St . Petersburg , 373 ^ F . ,, 370 „ Madrid , 517 £ „ 512 * „ The latest quotations of the Paris market are , for Cora per 100 kilcg .: —^ Prime , 24 f . 16 c to 25 f . ; firsts 23 f . 53 c , to 23 f . 95 c : seconds , 12 f . 70 c . to 23 f . 33 c .
thirds , 22 f . 08 c . to 22 f . 5 Oc Flour , per 100 kilog . average , 34 f . 23 c . ; in stock , 10 , 748 quintals of 100 fcilog . each , of which 55 S sold . Best Wheaten Bread , 35 c . the kilog ., equal to about 7 d . the 41 b . loaf . Oats , outside Paris , and therefore exclusive of octroi duties , per 109 kilog ., prime , 2 of . 33 c . to 25 f . 66 c ; first , 24 f . to 24 f . 33 c . ; seconds , 22 f . to 22 f . 33 c . Sugars : Martinique and Guadaloupe , good quality , per 100 kilog ., 125 . f . to 126 f . ; beetroot , 141 f . to 142 f . Spirits ( Montpellier ) , 78 f . the "hectolitre ; first quality , 90 degrees , 5 of . Colza Oil , 107 f . 50 c . the barrel . Soap , mottled , 9 Of . the 100 kilog . ; white ditto , 117 f . French suet , 123 f . the 100 kilog . Cattle at Sceaux on the 2 nd . oxen , 1936 head , the kilog ., first quality , If . 36 c . to If . 40 c . ; heifers , 342 head ; the kilog ., If . 23 c ; calves , 455 ; the kilog ., If . 38 c ; sheep , 16 , 876 ; the kilogl , If . 46 c .
Havke . —The cotton market is calm , and the sales , which rose to over 400 O bales on the 2 nd , fell to 1050 on the 3 rd . The prices are at a standstill , and long staple fell from 25 f . to 4 Of . lower than was anticipated . Nothing doing in sugars in spite of the rise in beetroot . Wool was iii great request , especially South American . Prices were consequently well maintained . 21 bales from La Plata sold at 135 f . to 230 f . the 100 kilog . ; 48 bales Cordova washed , 180 f . to 19 Of . The total sales for July were , Buenos Ayres 793 bales , lOOf . to 235 f . the 100 kilog . ; ditto , £ 0 bales washed , 180 f . to 225 f . ; ditto , 50 bales of lambskins , 7 Of . to 105 f . Bombay , 77 bales , 120 f . to 200 f . Chili , 15 bales , 18 Of . ; ditto , washed , 6 bales 215 f . Australia , 13 bales damaged , 400 f . to 500 f .
Marseim . es . —Wool sells easily , and at former prices ; spirits are firm , the Montpellier at 73 f . the hectolitre . Beetroot spirit has risen to 62 f . in consequence of large sales at 60 f . Lyons . —From the quantity of silk sent in the counting-house , there is every reason to believe that the trade is improving , and that manufacturers are buying largely to replenish their ntocks . The prices are ;—raw silk , Cevennes , 94 to 96 f . tho kilog . ; Itomnns , G 3 f . ; Aubenas , 67 to 70 f . ; Organsin , best , 118 to 120 f . ; and it is remarked , thuf the quality of the silt is far superior to what it was last vcar .
The Hoyal Visit To Cherbourg. Tiik Great...
THE HOYAL VISIT TO CHERBOURG . Tiik great event of tlic season has this week taken plnee \ Her Majesty has visited Cherbourg , and seen tho inauguration of the { treat works which the French Kmporor hns just completed . Tho ahips of war which were appointed to form tho convoy left Spithead Ht nn early hour on Wtidnesdny morning ; and tho Osborno Hoyal yacht , together with the Black Kivgle , bearing the Admiralty Hag , and having Sir . John Pakir . gton , First Lord o > f the Admiralty , oil board , loft Osbornc soon alter ten o ' clock , and proceeded \\\> tho Solent . -At twenty minutes pnsl twelve , tho Victoria and Albert was seen from
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1858, page 769, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_07081858/page/9/
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