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      It was understood , says the Times , on Tuesday , that Messrs . Baring are remitting 3 O 0 , 00 OZ . in half-imperials to St . Petersburg , on account , it is presumed , of the Kua-Bi ' an government . The additional shipments by other firms -were to the amount of 80 . 000 L

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      The Brussels Chamber of Commerce has decided that the government should be petitioned to admit foreign cast ir on intended for the construction of machines free of duty . The Chambers of Commerce of Antwerp , liege , Mons , Namur , Verviers , and others , have come to similar decisions . The Swedish Government has decided on a vast system of railways , the execution of which will be confided to an Unglish company . A School of Mines is about to be established in Cornwall . The New York Crystal Palace is to be kept open through the winter . Lord Shaftesbury , in a letter to the journals , holds up Manchester as an example to our corporate towns . " I am just returned , " he says , " from a short visit to that town , where I heard and saw the many improvements that had been instituted by that public-spirited body . Vast thoroughfares are opened in many parts ; the streets , courts , and alleys , are regularly cleansed ; pavements are almo . 't everywhere laid down ; the smoke nuisance is in rapid course of abatement ; public drains and sewers are constructed ; the cesspools that remain will , I hope , be speedily removed ; and an abundant supply of good and soft water is so admirably distributed , that , in a short time , the smallest tenement will enjoy an unlimited quantity at an almost nominal price . The benefits to the mass of the people arc quite incalculable .

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      It seems just possible that Clonmel will elect Mr . John O'Connell after all . The election committee have decided in his favour . A fortnight will elapse before the election takes place . For the second time a resolution to admit the Sisters of Mercy as visitors to the Castlebar workhouse has been unsuccessful . On the last occasion , the numbers for and ngainst were equal , but the chairman ( Mr . Weal Davis ) having voted for the exclusion of the sisterhood , the former resolution was declared to be affirmed . . The property of ( ho convict Ifirwan , consisting of a rentcharge on lands in the county of Longford , and houses in the city of Dublin , ^ vns sold by auction on Tuesday in Dublin . The attendance was extremely numerous , and the biddings brisk . The whole realized the Bumof 4505 L A scheme for building extensive lodgings for the poor of Dublin" hns been set on foot .

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      The fog settled down upon London this week with great determination .- ' It was very dense on Tuesday night , so much so , that traffic , though not interrupted was greatly obstructed . The nest morning it was tolerable , but gradually thickening during the day ; it became denser than ever ^ ust about sun-set , and continued so until nine o'clock , JW some time the omnibuses and cabs preceded l > y links , made head agninst it , but finding their progress Tory slow and dangerous , the former gave up running altogether . Between eight and nine the streets looked like those of a city whose inhabitants had lied from an enemy . A woman was killed in Carey-street , and several persons were knocked down . On the river the steamers nnd other craft came to nn anchor where they could , and barges drifting agniiifit the bridges sustained some diunnge . The fog has been pretty general over tho countr }' . At Slourbridge four persons got into the canal and wero drowned .

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      Mr . Ilpsketh , the Blackburn manufacturer , whose rusty old engine exploded tho other day , killing several persona , and tho engineer , have been committed for manslaughter on a coroner ' s warrant founded on a verdict of a jury . Tho inquiry has been very searching , proving tho absolute unfitncHS of the engine . The master of tho ship GiddUu ) Star , which went into Belfast with cholera on board , ban been fined for infringing tho Passenger Act , by tho Liverpool magistrates . The < rlinrgcH against him were that uncooked provisions were fr iven to the emigrants ; that u number of wut crclo . sctH hud iw'n cleared uway , leaving lower than required by law ; and that the bulkheml dividing the mule from tho female passengers had been removed after tho nlnp left port . For the defence if was proved that the hospital was not removed until the return of ( Iks vessel , that five , four clom * ts

      in quest ion had become n nuiHunee , and that the surgeon htul ordered them to be removed when the cholera broke out . A surgeon , who was examined , gave bin opinion Hint if the ( hiidiru / / SYrr ? " had not . put into ' Jte . lfuMt . there ; would not have been twenty jxthods nlive when she readied New York . Mr . Mansfield , in deciding the awe , mud that the removal of the bulkhead and wulercloKoin had been eon - nidered necessary to Uie lieall . li of the puHsengers , but the \ k \ t wiih imperative , and he was obliged to convict . Tho general receipts of Hie company that carries on tho pam ' mg-liouse at , Spa , hiive Ibis year amounted to f >() 4 , 00 < ) I ' muoN , and the expennon of Die establishment ( o . 120 , 000 frnnoH , leaving a . net prolit of 414 , 000 francs , of which ¦ . l ' . l *> , 000 frnncH goe « to the government , and 1 W , f > 9 ! 5 francs to Use nlwireholdern , iif ' ler deducting from ( he profile , the charges of I he iidiuiiiiHl ration , the ' port ion of t ho hospitals , and that' of the charitable fund for the poor of the

      commune . Mobbs , tho man who murdered his wile , no brutally , was hung , iii front of . Newgate , on Monday . A gang of Spaniards were ill-treating a woman , nt , Dopfford . Two men ran to protect her , when the rufliaim nltncked , and stubbed tlieui . One of the men is fatally wounded . The . Spaniards tied . ' IVoeoinituble . H have cup ! ured a . oar ! , continuing smuggled brandy , and two Hinugglm-N in charge of it , at , Mayling lulu ml , in JluinjpMhiro . A second carl , and its driver cucaped .

      Six youths have been killed and four wounded , two fatally , l > y the fall of two houses at Plymouth . The houses had been purchased and dismantled for improvements ; boys were playing in them when they fell in . A woman , named Hayes , at Kilbrifcain , near Bandon , has been committed for trial , charged with manslaughter , she having inoculated four children with small-pox matter , two of which subsequently died from the disease thus conveyed into their systems . It was reported that numerous ' other deaths had previously resulted in her practice . The Master of the Morpeth "Workhouse was charged with indecent conduct towards the female inmates . _ The evidence taken before an Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner was transmitted to the Central Board , and Lord Courtenay wrote back , that , although the evidence was not altogether satisfactory to the Board , still there was sufficient to showthat the master had been guilty of much impropr iety , and that ho had better resign .

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      A most wanton and unjustifiable outrage has been perpetrated on a Protestant church at Warmsworth , between two and three miles from Doncaster . The occurrence took place some time during the night of Wednesday last , and those who committed it commenced their attack on the building by first throwing stones at the windows from the outside , a number of which they broke . They then proceeded to force open the church doors , as is indicated by footmarks about the place , but , not succeeding , they went to a window on the north side of the church , broke the glass , tore away the lead from the squares , and removed the casement , by which they were enabled to creep through . Having thus obtained an entrance , they pulled down the

      communion rails , and demolished the stone font . Nothing but the base of the font remains to indicate that one 6 tood there . The velvet cushion on the top of the pulpit , and the one on the clerk ' s reading desk , as well as a great number of the cushions and hassocks in the pews , were cut and torn , and the stuffings strewed about the church and graveyard . Some wood-work near the communion table was also pulled down and broken . The stone near the same place is also pulled up . A number of the books belonging to the congregation have been torn and otherwise damaged , and thrown about the church . Several loose seats used by the poorer class of the congregation were broken and piled one over another . After they had broken or damaged everything they could come in contact with in the sacred edifice , they proceeded to remove the lid or top stone of a tomb , which they rolled over in the

      churchyard , and left it there . It is not possible at present to estimate the amount of damage done to the church property , but it must be considerable . It is pretty evident that the object of the depredators was to gratify some private feeling of revenge , and not to plunder ; ibr , although there is a blue cloth missing , there were articles of A alue in the church which could have been taken away without much difficulty . The present is not the first time that tho property of the church has been damaged , but not to such a serious extent . The Itev . C . E . Thomas , tho incumbent , who is much respected by his parishioners , is instituting vigorous measures for the apprehension , if possible , of the depredators , but tho fellows have shown so much tact and dexterity in the execution of their -work that we fear the authorities will have great difficulty in bringing them to justice . A reward will be offered for the apprehension and conviction of the offenders .

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      There was ; i meeting in the Borough of Soubliwark last ; night , attended by some of tho leading men in the borough , at which resolutions in favour of joining the Parliamentary borough to tho Corporation of London wore adopted . An attempt wan made to obtain tho assent , of the meeting to amendmentM in favour of a distinct , municipality , but they failed . Among the perilous present were ,. Mr . lYitohard , J > r . Challiee , Mr . Apnley JMlaU ,, M . P ., and Mr . Sheriff Wire . Hir William MoloKworth neat a letter , saying that Ik ; would do all ho could to obtain for Soutliwarlc " a just and proper share in the advantages of corporate iiiHtifcutlOlliH . "

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      In consequence of some hitch in ( ho law proceedings the trial of Mr . William Iforest ' onl and nine otlier persons for conspiring ) . „ 1 ,,-Ji ,,. ,, ( , ;|) ,.,. | , y ] ms \) vvn p ,, | poiied . The . Honourable William ( SooU ,, chairman of the . South Western Knihvay Company , made , through counsel , nn application to the Court , of Quoen ' H Hench , for a rule nguinst the Publisher of the Tinu-tt , to show cause why a eriininid information should not he Illed against , him ' for libel . The rule , wiw refunecl , because yesterday being the lasl , day of ( crni , rules of I hat , character are never granted on that day .

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      THE BAD BOURBONS CONSPIRING AGAIN . How long is the patience of the world to be wearied with the most elaborate arrangements , the wildest sacrifice of nations , in order to secure the interest , or even the crotchets , of particular families , and those families none of the best in Europe ? The question is one which is important , and even urgent , to the people of Europe , and particularly to the people of England at the present moment ; for it is evident that great dynastic intrigues are now actually on foot . The Duke de Nemours meets the Count de Chambord at

      Frolisdorff ; one makes a morning call upon the other and the call is returned and that paltry fact is counted so important— -is , indeed , by favour of human weakness , so truly important , that it is telegraphed throughout the whole of Europe within a few hours . And who are , those two persons who thus meet ?¦ One , the Duke de Nemours , is the astutest surviving son of Louis Philippe , not the most favourable specimen of a king , nor yet the worst , as kings go . Louis Philippe , the son of Egalite , the debauched Duke of Orleans , who coq uetted between royalty and democracy— -played

      the adventurer through the early part of his life , now acting schoolmaster in Switzerland ; now courting a Princess in Naples ; then seeking to attain a military position in Spain ; travelling and courting in America , or living in fussy retirement in England ; returning to France with the restoration . Brought to the throne by a revolution and Lafayette ; endeavouring to rest his power on the trading classes alone ; unable to comprehend the national forces by which he was surrounded ; kicked out of jjowct in his old age ; accepting at last edicts of abdication from a newspaper editor ; he fled to England under the

      name of Mr . William Smith , and left behind him a large cellar of wine and private debts of long standing . Ho had a various family , that citizen king—the gallant but not intellectual Orleans ; the sailorly and deaf Joinvillc ; the military and active Aumalc , said to bo his father ' s favourite , and the Duke de Nemours , with whom scandal lias boon more busy than history . Of his life we know nothing , but the busy tongue aforesaid ascribes to him some of the most humiliating incidents related of our George the Fourth' in hw ? scapegrace youth ; and it was stated on the trial of tho Duke do Praalin , who murdered his wife under circumstances so strange , that amongst Ins

      friends was this same Duko de Nemourfl . And who is the other young manP He is tho grandson of Louis XVIIL , bearing , it is said , a remarkable resemblance to tho degenerate line of Bourbon , with much of the bonhomie and dignity of his line , a wen upon his neck , and tho dream upon his mind thai ; tho sacred legitimacy of kings in to be restored ; with an

      incapacity " for dealing with affairs as they really arc . \ V " o have in England scarcely anything with which wo can . compare this person . Only one parallel occurs to uh—that in , a gentleman now living in this country , who has destroyed documents relating to tho life of Cromwell , because Do regards il , as si , public oH ' ciiieo l ; o do anything which can impede , the restoration of the SluartH . A ™ our old protectionist may present tho idea » ' * i

      another JOnglish form . I 1 enri Uinq ma , y uu ;»«» - » a monarch who is impossible , a vagrant apostle , <" the right , divine in partibus , and n sickly gonlleuinii of feoblo mind , whoso ambition is fit only for an antiquarian museum . It is a mooting of this mild antiquity , mid this perhaps reformed waiwais tmjvt tliat tho telegraph proclaims throughout Europe ! -,, . 1 The two meet ; for Home practical purpose- n <> < have competed for tho throno of . t < V » nce— - »> ou > have hereditary claims to it—Honn Cinq bonifa

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      Saturday , November 2 G . The only news of moment that has arrived this morning from the East consists of two telegraphic despatches , one from Constantinople , announcing that General Paraguay d'Hilliers reached that city on the 15 th , that the Turks had repulsed five attacks on their position at St . Nicholas in Asia , aild that a Russifm Bteanior had . stranded , twenty of the crew being Raved by the Turks . The oilier despatch is from OdesHa , dated the 1 : 5 th inst ., and asserts that " a division of the liussian fleet , consisting of three line-of-batfclo fibipa , live frigates , and several steamers , went out from Seb ; iKtopol as noon as Turkish men-of-war appeared in tho Black Hea . "

      Letters describe tho people of Constantinople as raging with joy at tho news of the lirnt battle at Oltenitza .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed ¦ when allthe-worldis"by the very law oi its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Arnold .

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      SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 26 , 1853 .

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      1138 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 26, 1853, page 1138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2014/page/10/