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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS.
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Accidents And Sudden Deaths.
CONTINENTAL NOTES . '¦ ¦ ¦"¦ „ ¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ .: '¦ france ; ¦ The preparations for war are . going on with increased energy in every department of ibe naval and military services . The Emperor is evidently bent on war somewhere , while his Ministers are as anxious to preserve peace , no doubt being full y convinced that their individual interests point out a pacific course . " The uniform tendency , says the correspondent of the Elqpress , of all the evidence which now presses upon my ear at every moment is to show that war was thoroughly resolved upon at the moment when the Emperor made his ever-memorable New-year's speech to M . de Hubner ; and that all semi-official statements and despatches to the contrary have only been made and written with a view to deceive . " Orders have been issued to call home all French ships of war on foreign stations which can possibly be spared from the particular service on which they now are . The , Minister of Marine is shortly to make a tour of inspection in the French ports . An ordinance reorganises the seamen employed in effecting a landing , and it is stated they are in future to be exercised in the use of the rifle . Toulon is full of troop 3 . Front a French port in the north of France one General is said to be forwarding at the rate of two hundred ^ horses a day to the army . Naval preparations on a large scale are going on , and quantities of camp equipage sent both to Toulon , and Marseilles . Our First Lord of the Admiralty can say whether it is correct , namely , that the Mediterranean has become pretty nearly a French lake ; that the English have but three sail of the line at Malta , while the French have ten in their ports , and that the Russians are also doing Something in these waters . .
It is authoritatively denied by a Government journal in Toulon , which largely circulates in the French army and-navy , that the Emperor of the Frengh has proposed that a European congress should decide on the state of Italy . - . ' - , '• ¦• ' ¦ - . - " •_ ¦ " ¦ . ' ¦ .. The Daily News , having asserted that France could only spare 130 J 000 men for an expeditionary corps , the Constitutionnel / has been ordered to prove that the Emperor has a disposable force , for foreign service , of half a million . ¦ .
The correspondent of the Express says : — " Unless the Emperor is preparing an immense surprise for the world by his speech on ihe day after to-morrow , we are certainly on the eve of war . This impression is more widely diffused to-day than I have yet seen it . The journals speak of war in a matter-of-course tone which is most alarming . The ConstitutionneFs article in reply to the Daily News , boasting of the immense forces which France could at once bring into the field , is looked upon as a menace , and perhaps contributed more than anything else to the great fall at the Bourse . "
The popular feeling in France is extremely adverse to war . The suspension of business is felt in all the great commercial and manufacturing centres , at a time of year when work should be busiest and the greatest number of hands employed . Humours which are " fun " at the Tuileries may be " death" in the faubourgs when work is wanting and orders fall off , and something of the distress of war is felt before war has ceased to be more than a menace or a boast , In order to attain b , is ends more easily , Louis Napoleon is intriguing for the overthrow of the Derby Ministry , and a correspondence , more active than ever , is going on between certain political men in England and the Tuileriea .
On account of the interest attached to public affairs at the present moment , tup Emperor is anxious that the opening of the sessions of the Corps Ldgislatif should be attended with unusual ceremony and pomp . With respect to the speech , it is drawn up with immense care ; but those who are initiated in the matter have reason to believe that it will not bo so pacifio as the official and financial world would desire . It is said that the Duke do Montobollo , not Count do Persigny , will replaco the Duke of Mnlakoff at the Court of St . James ' s . It seems to be certain that JMHssior is about to assumo the command of the army of Paris . Princo Napoleon having distinguished himself so greatly as a Crimean general , will now , it appears , receive the title of High Admiral ,
A pamphlet has just appeared , destined to make a considerable sensation . The title is " L'Emporcur Na ~ poltfon ot ritalie . " The writor is announced to bo M . do la Guorronibre . The moral of it will bo , that although the Emperor desires peace , things in Italy cannot remain as they are—c ? yo , no alternative but war Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda arrived at tho Tullorled at half-past threo o ' clock on Thursday afternoon . SARDINIA . Tho Government continues tho most active preparations for war , which la conaidorod at Turin to bo In * evltablo .
General Niel has visited ail the fortified places of Piedmont , and has declared that they cannot be got ready before the end" of March . - He has written to Paris recommending delay . It appears that the King will be generalissimo , that General Niel will be the chief of his staff , and' La Marmora commander-in-chief of the Piedmontese army . A corps of the French army , it is said , will act in Yenetia , and Garibaldi , who has just arrived ; at Genoa , will hold with his volunteer corps the provinces bordering the Lago Maggiore , Comb , and the Sondrio . . A letter of M . Felix Solar to the Journal des Chemins defer states that people in Turin are by no means so hot upon war as they are supposed to be in Paris—that , in fact , it is only the party of the refugees who really wish for war , and that the French are at this moment as coolly received in Turin as the Aus . triaus .
. The marriage of Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda was celebrated on Sunday last with great pomp . The newly married couple were present at the theatre the same evening , and at a grand ball on Monday night . The enthusiasm shown by the Turinese was very small indeed , and the illuminations at night paltry and by no means general . . The Grand-Duke Constantine left his sick wife at Palermo a few days since , and privately came to Turin . He was only seen by the King , M . de Cavpur , and some few partisans of the Court . The Chamber of Deputies have voted the sum of 20 , 000 ?; for the dowry of the Princess Clotilda . A despatch from Turing dated February 3 , says that a loan has been decided upon , and that the project will be immediately presented to the Chambers .
A rumour is current that the King of Sardinia is about to marry a Russian princess . The Pays publishes a letter from Turin , which states the fact positively . The name of the princess in question is the Grand-Duchess Maria Nieolaiewna , the eldest daughter of the Emperor Nicholas , widow of the Duke de Leuchtenberg , who- died November 1 , 1852 . The Grand-Duchess is now at Rome , where it is alleged the Marquis Alheri has succeeded in negotiating , the marriage .
AUSTRIA . Reinforcements continue to pour into all the Austrian garrisons in Italy . The Opinione of Turin states , that the- garrison of Payia has been reinforced with the regiment Kinski , so that it- is now composed of 8000 men . A corps of observation , according to the same paper , has been formed between Comp , the Lago Maggiore , and the Tieino . The Milan Gazette of the 29 th ult . announces that the University of Pavia is to be reopened immediately on the same conditions for the students as that of Padua .
The generalissitno of the Austrians in the anticipated struggle will be , it-appears certain , the Archduke Albert , son of the celebrated Archduke , Charles , and who gives every promise of worthily following in the steps of his father . He commands at this moment the army of Hungary . Numerous arrests have been made at "Venice . . Nevertheless , there has not been any attempt at disorder . On the 26 th ult . two fresh ' battalions of Croats arrived there ; they were immediately despatched into the interior . The Duchess of Parma has returned to her capital . The Messrs . Rothschild have issued propositions for an Austrian loan of 5 , 000 , 000 / ., at the price . of 80 / . for every 1 Q 0 J . stock , bearing interest at the rate of five per cent , per annum ; and English capitalists have so poor an opinion of their security that they will not givo more than 784 for it .
Tho Empress of Austria and her sister , the Duchess of Calabria , bnvo arrived at Trieste . Tho exportation of horses towards tho frontiers of Lombardy , Tyrol , and tho Soogrenze ( borders of tiio Adriatic ) , has been prohibited .
Switzerland . A lottor from Borne , dated Jan . 29 , says : — " Tho Federal Assembly has been closed , The President in his speech aaid— - ' We will maintain our independence na h united and armed people , but without giving offence to neighbouring states . ' "
TORTUOAL . A telegraphic despatch informs us that the Portuguese Chambers have unanimously voted ninety oontorf of rois to tho Infanta Mary Anno , and thirty contos of rota for tho celebration of tho marriage . HAVAltlA . A letter from Munich announces that tho sossion of the Chambers of Bavaria was opened on the SJGih by Princo Luitpold , brother pf tho king . No speech was mado on tho occasion . Tho real opening took phicw a fortnight boPoro , aB , according to tho constitution of Bavaria , tho Chambers first assemble to form tliuir bureau , after which thoy aro convoked for t » o royal sitting . SAXONY . Tho Dresden Journal contnullots the nows * of tl » o Ministry having resigned , and declares that there hrffj not boon , and will not In its opinion bq , any mluistoniM crisis during tho present parliamentary session . gruilKisx . Two principal rlngloivdow in tho massnoro ot tuo
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opinion of military men here make very short work of sieges , which Napoleon I . during his Italian campaign was compelled to abandon in consequence of his deficient materiel . The experiments were quite satisfactory , so much so . indeed that several batteries are to be armed with the guns as speedily as they can be got ' ready ;
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . The tempestuous weather of the past week has , there is reason to fear , produced much disaster . From Holyhead we learn that both the inner and outer harbours have been crowded with vessels seeking refuge during the late gales , as many as 300 sail being counted at one time . The harbour is now comparatively empty , though some vessels had been there as long as six weeks . A large quantity of wreck has turned up along the coast , particularly in the Bay of Cardigan . The week has been also marked by several terrible fires in provincial towns , which have destroyed a vast amount of property . On Sunday night one broke out on the premises of a timber merchant at " West-bar , Sheffield . 'The stock was immense .. The conflagration extended over the whole premises , and threw up a blaze many yards above the loftiest surrounding buildings . The whole of the buildings are completely gutted ;
nothing saved . There was a tremendous crowd , and the military were called ' out to clear the streets . The building is insured in the Sheffield Fire-office . Stock not insured ; estimated damage over 10 , 000 ^ . —On Tuesday a fire of a most serious nature broke out in the factory of Hine , Mundella , and Co ., hosiers , Statioiistreet , Nottingham . The progress of the fire was stayed some time when it had reached a part of the building which had been made fife-proof . At eleven o'clock , however , it burnt through the roof , the flames lighting the country for many miles round . About halfpast one the flames were mastered . The damage sustained is immense ; all the machinery is destroyed , together with the factory and the unfinished goods . Several hundreds of workpeople are thrown put of employment , the factory being one of the most extensive of the kind in Nottingham .
An inquest was held on Wednesday , at Camberwell , on the body of a young lady aged seventeen , named Mary Ann Hearn , who was killedby the discharge of a gun . On Monday morning James , the brother of deceased , being about to go out shooting , had laid a double-barrelled rifle loaded on the table , and while in the , act of lifting it , the weapon , by some unexplained accident , went off . The sister , who sat in the room , received tne . contents in her head , having her brains blown out , and expired almost immediately . The jury returned a verdict of Death by Misadventure .
The captain and crew of the British barque Franklin , which was wrecked at sea on the 7 th ult ., have arrived at New York , in the packet-ship Manhattan , which rescued them from the wreck on the forenoon of the 10 th . The captain ' s lady and only child were lost at the time that the vessel capsized , and one young man perished afterwards .
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Treasure Trovb . —Our readers may be aware that , by an ancient Scottish law maxim , " What belongs to nobody belongs to the Crown , " and consequently that all ancient relics , ornaments of the precious metals , and coins , are claimed by the CJrown when they happen to be discovered . The consequence of this state of thing * has been , that comparatively few such discoveries become known , as the finders have so many motives for concealment , and every year many valuable and curious
relics of antiquity find their way to the melting-pot . We are gratified to be able to announce that this state of things no longer exists . The Society of Antiquities of Scotland , and the Commissioners of Supply in the different counties , recently memorialised the Treasury on the subject , and an official order from that department , just promulgated , henceforth recognises the right of finders of ancient coins , gold or silver ornaments , or other relics of antiquity in Scotland , to receive from the Treasury their actual value , on delivering them up on behalf of tho Crown to tho sheriff of the county in which they may be * found . We cannot doubt that this is a most important stop for the better preservation of our national antiquities ; and wo trust that tho liberal provision of tho now Treasury arrangement will soon become generally known throughout the kingdom . —Scotsman .
Pujbmo HbamMi . —Tho Registrar-General ' s return marks an improvement in tho state of health of tho metropolis . During last week the deaths declined to 1829 , having been 1880 jha the previous week , but were in excess of tho avgrago by 51 . There is no decrease jn the mortality from scarlatina and dipthoria . The number of births for the week was 1980 . Dr . Lothoby ' s return shows tho deaths for the Cifiy to bo above thq average . Vbutc Hiton Church , —Sunday being tho anniversary of " King Charles tho Martyr , " the Vicar qf Leeds ( Dr . Molesworth ) took occasion to complain that the opeoial service for the day had been suppressed without tho heads of the Church beting consulted in tho matter . He remarked that It was their duty to bow to that as well as all other legal decisions , but he hoped that tho day was not far distant when the Church would be allowed to conduct Ha own affair * .
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168 THE LEAD | E . [ No . 4635 February 5 > 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 5, 1859, page 168, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2280/page/8/
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