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      What factionised Rome ? Gab ! What anarcbised France ? Gab ! What will dismember this Union ? Gab ! This eternal propensity for gabbling , upon all occasions and at all times , is the curse of our country . " Hanwell College . —Mr . J . G . Inge , from Hanwell College , son of the Rev . J . G . Ipge , of Seamer Vicarage , -was one of the successful candidates at the last examination for Commissions in her Majesty ' s Service . Sib John Bowring . —The Bishop of Victoria writes : Our Governor , Sir John Bowring , looks very ill ; and

      I think he cannot last much longer with his many harassing cares in this trying climate . He is involved in a great deal of trouble just now in the internal administration of the Colonial Government ; it is likely that the matter may be mooted in the House of Commons . The greatest enemy Sir John Bowring ever had would be melted to pity and sympathy if he could see the slow but certain progress of sickness and infirmity creeping over him . His public policy and local politics I of course have nothing to do with .

      Cktstal Palace . —The anniversary of the battle of Balaklava is to be celebrated at the Crystal Palace on Monday . The bands of the three regiments of Foot Guards are , by permission of the commanding officers , to take part in the musical arrangements , and the final display of the great fountains for this year is also fixed for the same day . Proposed Railway Terminus . — The model prepared under the direction of Mr . C . Pearson , City Solicitor , of his proposed metropolitan railway terminus in the valley of the Fleet , is to be erected in the great hall after the 9 th of November . The public will be invited to inspect the model , and hear an address upon the whole subjectto be delivered on the spot , by Mr . Pearson .

      Agricultural Discrimination . —At the meeting of the North Somerset Agricultural Association , a prize of 31 . 31 . was given to James Bruce , as the best ploughman ; and a silver cup , value 5 / ., to Mr . G . Nichols , as his employer l ^ -Skerborne Journal Gross Outrage . —A " Septuagenarian Vicar" writes to a contemporary : —¦" . ! am a clergyman , of a nervous temperament , upwards of seventy years of age . I live on the - borders of Oxfordshire and Bucks , in a very beautiful part of the country ; my parish is small , my house good , my income approaching to when read

      170 ? . a year . Judge of my feelings I this morning in your advertising columns the following : —' For sale , the next presentation to a living in a most beautiful part of the country , on the borders of Oxfordshire and Bucks . There is a superior parsonagehouse and grounds , and the income amounts to about 170 ? . per annum . Population small . Incumbent 70 years of age , and a bad life- Apply to Mr . W . H . Hewitt , auctioneer , &c , 23 , Hart-street , Bloomsburysquare . ' What right , sir , has any auctioneer to say that my life Is a bad one , cither morally or physically ? Is there no redress against such bratality ?" Court held

      Court of Common Council . —At a on Thursda 3 the motion to print the sermon preached on Michaelmas-day before the Corporation by the Lord Mayor ' s chaplain , was resisted as an unnecessary expense ( the cost thereof being no less a sum than 5 ? . ) , but the opposition was ineffectual . A memorial was read from Mr , Charles Pearson , which stated that all his efforts to induce the Great Northern Railway Company to contribute their subscription of 175 , 000 ? . towards the Metropolitan Railway Company had failed . The chairman of the Markets Improvement Committee brought up a report upon the question of cattle-driving through the streets . After some discussion , during which the existing nuisance was fully acknowledged

      and deprecated , the report was agreed to , and the committee were instructed to confer with the metropolitan police commissioners with respect to the routes , and the days and hours during which the cattle should be driven through the streets . The chairman of the special revenue committee brought up a report with reference to the mode of investing the mpney in the hands of the Chamberlain , which constitutes the revenue , sinking , and City accumulation funds . The Court decided that the powers to order investments of the funds in question should be entrusted to a ward committee only , and that it . should be referred to the coal , corn , and finance

      committee to give the necessary directions respecting it . The General Post-Office . —la addition to Martin , the letter-carrier , who' was dismissed from his employment , having been chairman of a meeting of postmen at Westminster , Carter , another letter-carrier , and secretary to the committee of men who sought to obtain redress for their grievances , and James , another postman , who has long complained of the harsh treatment of some of his superior officers , were " put off duty" last Friday night , until the " pleasure of the . Postmaster-General respecting their conduct shall be known . " Terror reigns throughout the establishment in consequence of these marked proceedings on the part of the authorities .

      , PIRA . CY in the Black Sea . —The Journal de Constantinople says that the Dutch brig Maria Catherina , _ Capt . Poel , with a crew of seventeen men , left Constantinople for Trebizond with a cargo of sugar and coffee . She took on board a pilot named Panai ^ Arghiri . This man , when they had been three days at ' , and had reached within two miles of Sinope , went into the captain ' s cabin at night , murdered him , and then attempted to change the course of the vessel . The crew , however , and the

      had their suspicions excited , pilot , perceiving the circumstance , jumped overboard and swam towards a vessel which was not at a great distance , and the captain of which is supposed to have been an accomplice of his . The Dutchmen , however , lowered their boat arid caught the criminal ; and being unwilling to put in with their prisoner to a Turkish . port , where justice would probably not have been done , steered for Odessa , where , on their arrival , they made their declaration , and gave up the murderer to the Russian authorities . the

      The Coast Guard . —The Lords of Admiralty have it in contemplation to effect a very considerable augmentation in the Coast Guard . Twenty ships of war now in commission are ordered home from foreign stations , and a very considerable portion of their crews , numbering upwards of four thousand men , will be employed in this service . The Atlantic Cable . —A letter to the various journals from Mr , Saward raises a hope that the cable of the Atlantic Telegraph Company will answer the

      purposes intended . Mr . Saward has certainly received a very intelligible message from Newfoundland as the result" of the most careful efforts to restore communication . Nevertheless , the Secretary of the Company speaks cautiously as to the future , perhaps more so than needful , but he seems afraid of raising expectations that may be disappointed . It is also to be observed that coin * munications from Newfoundland to Valentia nre likely to be more easily restored than communications between Valentia and England , the defect being on our aide and not the American , and therefore leading to that

      consequence . The Westminster Bell . —On Thursday , nil the arrangements having boon completed , the boll was raised to the position in which it is hereafter to bo permanently suspended . The suspension on Thursday Was of a temporary character , but quito sufficient to indicate what the result of the final stop will bo . Aa soon its the boll was hung , Mr . Quarm directed that a royal salute of twenty-one " sounds" should be given , and this order having been complied with , the bell gave its first notice to London that it was in its place and ready for work . Between each stroke of the hammer the men gave throe hearty cheers . Mr ,. Quarm designated tho boll " St . Stephen , " and by that name It will hereafter bo known —" Big Bon , " " Royal Victoria , " and other names which have been speculated upon , having been at once and for over abandoned .

      East India Company . —Tho election of three directors , Mr . W . Dent , Major Moore , and Mr . W . II . C . Plowden , in tho place of Mr . K . Elllce , Mr . T . Prlnsop , and Mr . W . B . Bayloy , who had disqualified , took place on Thursday , at tho house In Loadonhall-atreot . It is understood that their duties will mainly consist in tho supervision of tho capital account and tho distribution of dividends , tho Government of India having now passed completely into tho hands of her Majesty ' s Ministers . Praykr von tub Phkss . —Tho Bristol Times says that " a Dissenting minister , this wcolc , in tho course of the devotional exorcise , fervently prayed for tho success of one of the local owors . "

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      KUSSIA . Advices from St . Petersburg announce tho dooth of General Vrovskii , who has recently distinguished himsolf in tho Caucasus , in his operations ngainst Schnmyl . Ho was mortally wounded while loading his men to tho attack of tho Aoul Kitouri on the 115 th September . An order of tho day from Priuco IJuriatinski rucnls tho servieos of this deceased General , and points out his glorious death as an cxumplc to tho Kussiun army .

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      SPAIN . A Royal decree accepts the resignation , from , il health , of General Cordova , as member of the Consulting Junta of War . The Progressist electors of Madrid hac begun to choose their candidates in the respective dia tricts . M . Olozaga is one of them , at \ d some intentioi was entertained of making Marshal Espartero another The Ifspand has been ' again seized .

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      SARDINIA . It is stated that a difference between Piedmont and Naples , relative to the capture of a Neapolitan vessel in the Sardinian waters , has been satisfactorily arranged , thanks to the friendly and unofficial intervention of tlu French Government .

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      TURKEY . An insurrection has broken out in several points of Bosnia . The insurgents are Christians . In one place fourteen Mussulmans were massacred ; in anothei village several Mussulmans were put to death . The Pasha had marched to the scene of the insurrection with a large body of troops . An explosion is imminent in Candia . The Albanian troops are exasperating the Christians . The Turkish loan having been completed in England , the exchange has fallen at Constantinople . The news that the Montenegrins had put the Turks to flight , and occupied the quarantine building of Sutorina , is confirmed . According to letters received from the Principalities , Prince Danielo was marching against Grahova . Difficulties have arisen which have suspended the settlement of the Montenegrin frontiers . Turkey and . Austria refuse the cession of the boundary near Podgoritza . The Montenegro Conference held its first sitting on the 14 th . Kiamil Bey has arrived at Bucharest with the firman of the elections . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe will probably leave on the 19 th . The . Skouptschiha , or meeting of the national representatives , is adjourned till May .

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      PRUSSIA . A Berlin letter says : —" The change in the Ministry of the Interior has not improved the position of the press . Several journals have been seized , amongst others the National Gazette . This last seizure has occasioned great sensation , having been caused by an article recommending the moderate democrats to join the constitutionalists in the elections on the basis of the programme published by the latter party in Silesia . "

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      THE ELECTIONS—THIS DAY . Leomikster—Captain Hanbury was returned this morning without any opposition . His speech treated of all the leading political topics of the day , the honourable member expressing his sympathy with the present Government . ltiiiGATE . —This morning the nomination of candidates took place . The town was in a state of great excitement . Mr . Monson and Mr . Wilkinson successivelv addressed the meeting , and both dwelt at

      considerable length on their political views . Both declared themselves Liberals , and in fuvourof an extensive measure of parliamentary reform , and a wider basis for the franchise . The show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr . Wilkinson . On the part of the Hon . W . J . Monson a poll was demanded , which will take place tomorrow . Both parties are very sanguine of success . Mr . Monson ' s committee say ho will win by twenty or thirty votes . Mr . Wilkinson ' s committee , on the other hand , are certain that there will bo a majority of ton or fifteen votes in favour of their candidate .

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      Guilpford .- —This morning tho nomination of candidates took place , the candidatod being Mr . W . J . Evolyii a supporter of tho present Administration , and Mr . G . Onslow , on tho Liberal interest . Tho show of hands was in favour of Mr . Evelyn . A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr . Onslow . Aitiiv Clothing Commission ( this v > av ) . —Previous to the examination of witnesses to-day , Mr . Turner , M . P ., one of tho commissioners , mado a statement to tho cil ' ect that tho War-office had consented to place all tho Wcedon books und accounts upon which Commissary General Adams and his stall ' have been employed in tho hunds of Mr . Jay , of tho firm of Quilter , Ball , and Jay , public accountants . Mr . Turner added that ho entortainud a Hauguino liopo that by tho commencement of noxt year tho accounts by this means would bo fully unravelled .

      Funs at Camhruwkli ,. —On Friday morning , at an early hour , a lire , attended with a considerable dealruotion of property , happened in the proinlnps belonging ; to Mr . Scnrlo , a llnoiidrnpor , Denmark-hill , CnmbonvoH . Fortunately tho inmates managed to cllbct a . mfo rutroafc from tho back window . Fivu of tho avoiding houses wovo more or loss damaged , moro cupi'oiiilly by water and tho hasty removal of tho furniture . Jty "'' I ' . / grout nor 6 ovuruneo tho brlgailu sucoupilcxl , hy six ooiocic , a . m ., In gattlng . tlia flro subdual , but not untlltlio promises mul all they contained woro confined . 1 ho prinolnul ( Hillercra wore insured .

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      Leader Office , Friday Night , October 22 nd . FRANCE . The Constitutionnel states that the Minister of the Interior , anxious to increase tho facilities for international intercourse , has given orders to tlia Commissaries of Police at seaports and frontier towns to consider passports henceforward as a title to the aid of tho authorities , and not a cause for delays , or a pretext for petty annoyances . Tho Minister is also occupied in conaidering whether , in order to facilitate foreign travel , it would not bo woll to allow sub-prefects on tho frontiers to grant passports for abroad .

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      aitKECE . King Otho has arrived at Athens . Tho Minister of the Interior has tendered his resignation on account of ill health .

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      PORTUGAL . M . do Pionnos , charged with despatches for tho French Minister at Lisbon , has arrived in that city , and delivered his instructions to tho Mnrquis tie Lisle , who was to put himself in communluntlon with tho Portuguese ) Minister for Foreign Ail'iiira . , M . tie I ' alva , tho Portuguese Minister , wn s to nrrlvo on Thursday at Lisbon .

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      No . 448 , Octobek 23 , 1858 . ] THE LEADED 1121

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1858, page 1121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2265/page/9/