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Royai . London Yacht Club—Mr . Thomas ttroadwood , of the Dawn cutter , has been elected ViS- Cornmodore of the above club . The vacant office of Bear is expected also to be filled up in a few davs This yachting society already numbers above five hundred members , aud boasts a very large fleet ° Th ^ Ckikan Canal . —A farmer on the banks of the canal , who suffered by the late terrible overflowinff of the waters , says , > ' My farm was swept over ( almost every foot of it , excepting the knowe , where the dwelling-house stands ) by a volume of water not less than ten feet deep . Six of my corn stacks were taken away clean , and as far as I saw them , going down towards the sea , they were quite wholenot one " sheaf of them removed from another . The
place where the water broke forth and entered into the canal is about 100 j'ards above Carinban Inn . It carried walls , embankments , locks , and everything that stood in its way before it . The walls and roof of the inn are still standing , but all the man ' s furniture and effects are a total wreck . You can have no idea , nor can I describe to you , the appearance of the first approach of the flood coming down my meadows , about a mile above my house ; The noise of the waters was most alarming they carried everything before '¦ them * the cattle and people that happened to be on the road at the time flying for their lives . I was in bed when the alarm was first
given ; and you may depend upon it there was very little time lost in dressing . I had just got all my cattle and horses out of the byres and stables , and upon to the high ground at my own door , when _ in a few minutes I was completely surrounded—¦ nothing to be heard but the roaring of waters on all sides of me , my friends and neighbours meanwhile running round the sides of the hills seeking me , thinking they would never seejne again until they found me in Loohfine among the fresh herrings . The canal is in the hands of Government , arid it is hoped that they will not allow me and others to come to such a sad loss . ' '—Glasgow Herald .
The Prince op Wales at Rome . —OF course the visit of the heir to the throne of England to the city of Romulus will be a season of vast interest and excitement to the tuft-hunters—whose name is legion ^ -and the quidnuncs , who are as innumerable as the sands of the sea-shore . The English colony at Rome have already , we hear , gone out to meet the Prince , en masse , in curricles , tandems , and ortehorse chaises . The members of the English Club will be anxious to secure the eldest son of Queen Victoria as an honorary member ; and the subscribers to the Roman Hunt Will be eager to enlist his Royal Highness for a scamper across country , and to show him that a fox can be as malodorous and
as cunning in the campagrta , as in Leicestershire . There may be some wiseacres who look at the young Prince ' s sojourn at Rome as the first step towards a concordat between our Sovereign and the Pope , or the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Court of the Quirinal . Another section of the idle and impertinent may be intent on match-making , and build up straightway a phantom marriage between the Prince of Wales and the sister of Prince Albrecht of Prussia . Darker misgivings may exist nearer home ; but we trust they are destitute of foundation . We do not think there is the slightest necessity for Clapham to he up in arms , for the Protestant Asso * Paul Foskett sound the warning
ciatlon and Mr . tp trump , or for Exeter-hall to match the popguns of its platform against the " thunders of the Vatican . " , Poor old Papal thunderbolts 1 they are very fiinVsy and wiredrawn now— -are useful as troi ^ es to point a paragraph and adorn a diatribe—but nothing more . The Protestantism of the Prince of Wales rests on too sure and firm a basis to be shaken by all the bulls in Bulldom , from " unigenitus" to " in coend Domini "—by all the shovel-hats of the Propoganda or exempts of the Holy Office , or by all the persuasive artillery brought to bear on the distinguished stranger by the General of the Jesuits . That Protestantism has its firmest foundation in the education and the preqepts of an admirable mother , and in the enthusiastic confidence of a free people , whose
Protestantism is the chiefest element of tho liberty they enjoy—who have poured forth their blood and their treasure for ages in the maintenance of Protestant principles—and who , all traditionally loyal as they are , sternly bado the hoir of a hundred king * stand aside , and shook the genealogical tree of Europe to its very last bough to find a descendant of the Stuarts who professed tho tenets of Luther . Of scarcely any political or theological importance , the visit pf the Prince of Wales to Pio Nono ie , nevertheless , one of considerable social significance . ' ^ Telegraph . Episcopal , —On Thursday the ceremony of consecrating pr . Hills , late incumbent of Great Yarmouth , to tho bishopric of British Columbia , took Place in Westminster Abbey , In tho presence of a largo number of bishops , clergy , and former parishioners of the new prelate
Mr . R . V . BoTLB . — -This gentleman , the civil engineer of the East India Railway , whose services in the defence of Arrah were as conspicuous arid valuable as his share in the fighting arid his skill in preparing the feeble little post were great , has been munificently rewarded by the Government . He has received a grant of land worth 1 , 000 / per annum , free of taxes during his lifetime ; after his death to be charged with 500 / . per annum . The lands belonged to Koer Singh . A correspondent of the Times says , "In this case the Government seems to
have set an admirable precedent , and there are surely many gentlemen to whom similar grants might be made , with advantage to the State and to their own contentment . I do hot mean to disparage the services of niy old schoolfellow , but he would , doubtless , be erlad to see others of the elass of Englishmen in India , to which he belongs rewarded , in proportion to their services , by the Government , 911 which they have not the claims possessed by the covenanted or unepvenanted servants of the old Company , or the soldiers and sailors who fought side by siiie with civilians in the common cause . " rifled with
French Autillery . — The cannon , which Louis Napoleon expects to < lo so much , are thus described in a letter from Paris : — " The newsystem of artillery which has been under examinar tipn for more than two years past is , I am assured , completed , and the last experiments have decided its adoption . The various calibres that before existed are , . according to this plan , reduced to two —12-pounders or siege guns , and 4-pounders fieldguns . The pieces are rifled ; the projectiles are hollow , and produce a double effeet- ^ -that of solid shot and of shell . The i r form is conica l , and leaden ailettes give to the ball a precision never obtained before . In order to give an idea of the terrible effects of these new pieces , it suffices to say that a 12-pqunder ( new model ) will , with one-half the number of shots of the old pieces of 24 , ijroduce the same effect ; and the new pattern 12-pounder
produces at 70 metres the same result as the old 24 at 35 , and requires no more than one-sixth of the . charge . The projectiles penetrate into a block of stone of the hardest cement , to an extent of 80 centimetres , and an enormous _ breach is made by the explosion . The advantages of the 4-pounder are still more remarkable , It requires but 500 grammes of powder t 5 throw a ball a distance of one kilometrical league . The precision is such that at the distance of 3 , 100 metres it strikes a single man on horseback , and at that distance would destroy a body of cavalry or infantry . All the pieces constructed on the new system are loaded at the muzzle , the loading at the breech being given up , as many experiments have shown it to be inconvenient , and even dangerous—so muph so as to counterbalance the advantages .: Scientific men affirm that these improvements have raised the art of destruction by artillery to all but perfection .
Something like a Question . —Happening to be in Court during the trial of the case Dickson , v . Lord Wilton , Mr . Punch was much struck with the briefness , neatness ; and precision of the questions which her Majesty ' s Attorney-General , Sir F . Kelly , put to the witnesses . One of these questions was so beautifully epigrammatic , that Mr . Punch could not help taking a note of it , that he might preserve it as a model for cross-examining counsel . The punctuation is exactly Sir Fitzroy ' s i— " Now Colonel Dickson will you bo kind enough—I hope that you will indulge me so far my Lord—I am now coming to wore general matters—but I wish just to satisfy myself on one or tw . o points affecting these matters of account—those I . mean we went into
yesterday—Colonel Dickson now are you prepared to say from all your lengthened experience both in the Lino and in the Militia here and elsewhere in the service of Hi ; r Majesty speaking as an officer you know to to give me an answer—lam obliged to put this my Lord to give me an answer to one simple question—You have here two itema Colonel Wilton—I nieuri Dickson—can you I say from your own knowledge now do let me ask you looking at tho fact that after perusing these nceounts I must take the the answer as you give it to me you know you yourself being most capable in many years' service both in the Lino andin tho Militiasinceyou paidthemoney as you told mo yesterday—Can you say I say —( Lord C \ it Rnnllv TVTi . A Ifni'iinv ' ^_ l rnnlli' mlisf . rhv mv C' * Really MrAttorney )—X really must stiy
. . my Jjord that my learned friends who had more time to » . lovoto to this particular head of inquiry than myself cannot find at least in these vouchers how to account for certain discrepancies—can you of our own knowledge and tell mu us briefly as possible I will thank you not to waste time by many words—Now bo good enough to give mo a plain ansvaar . ' No wonder the trial was so short , and the verdict so logical . —Punch . JLoitD Cowlky .- —• His Excellency arrived in . London from Paris thin week . He has been entrusted with n . special mission to Vienna , with fhu object of eiliioting a pacific arrangement between France and Austria .
Sir W . Armstrong .:- At her Majesty ' s levee , the honour of knighthood was conferred upon Mr Armstrong , the inventor of the pew rifle gun , who is further described as " Engineer to the War Department for Rifled Ordnance / ' This appointment is a very significant fact . Indeed , the effect that will be produced upon our armaments by the introduction of the rifled ordnance invented by Sir W . Armstrong is the most important branch 6 f any question respecting the National Defences . If these new inventions turn out to be as formidable in
practice as they are startling in description , it would seem as though all the old military and naval arrangements of the world must soon pass away like the airy dramatis personal of a morning ' s dream . What known fabric that floats upon the seas—aye , or what existing fortress raised by human handscould , resist a storm of bolts and shells , each of 80 lb . or 90 lb . weight , and cast from a distance of from five to seven miles ? We congratulate her Majesty most loyally on her last new knight—Sir William Armstrong .-: —Times . At the
Singular STAXEMENT .- ^ last ordinary meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , the Rev . W . Gaskell read the following extract from a letter * " Admiral Cosby told me that at the time that we were in possession of Corsica , and when Sir Gilbert Elliott was Govenor-General of the island , General Paoli introduced Bonaparte , then a young man , to the Governor and to the Admiral , as a friend of his who would be glad to be employed in the service of England ; but these men , not haying Lavater ' s skill in physiognomy , rejected the proposal , which obliged Bonaparte to offer his services to the French , and this was the rise of Bonaparte ' s fortunes . "
Deaths . —On Wednesday was announced the decease of Mr . Abel Smith , the head of the banking firm of Smith , Payne , and Co . Mr , ' Smith was in Parliament for upwards of thirty years , and sat for a greater part Of that time for Hertfordshire . —Mr . W . Baker , tlie coroner for the eastern division of theeounty of Middlesex , died at his residence in the Regent ' s-park on Tuesday . His duties , for a time , will be transferred to Mr . Wakley . Election Items . —The Enniskillen election ended
in favour of the Hon . Mr . Cole . Three other can-r didates were far behind , one of them polling only one vote . —For Greenwich , we hear that Mr . Montague Chambers will not stand , and at present the unopposed candidate is Mr . Angerstein ;—At the East Worcestershire election , Mr . Calthorpe has been returned . Tlie numbers polled were ; Calthorpe , 2 , 284 ; Pakington , 1 , 963 . —Mrl Edwin James was elected for Maryleboue on Thursday , by a majority of 3 , 202 , ' .. __ _
Du . Bunting ' s New System of House-Breaking . — Dr . Bunting had the honour of appearing before her Majesty , the Prince Consort , and the Members of the Royal Family , by command , on Thursday the 17 th instant , for the purpose of displaying his new Horse-break , and his method of subduing horses . The exhibition took place at the Riding School , Buckingham Palace , under the superintendence of Mr . Meyer . One of the royal carriage-horses was first put into the break , and her Majesty tmd his Royal Highness expressed their entire satisfaction of the simplicity of the construction of the machine , as well as of its great utility . A horse belonging to Colonel Mount joy Martyn , 2 nd Life Guards , on
which every previous ' effort to tame had proved unavailing , was then exhibited , when Dr . Bunting , without the use of straps , induced the animal to lie down , get up , follow him , curve , pivot , and stand on a sPrt of platform . ' . This exhibition elicited the warm approval of the royal party , and the horse is now , we understand , rendered so perfectly traotableas tp be ridden with the greatest . ease . The doctor then operated upon one of the royal ponies belonging to her Majesty , without the assistance of the break , with-which her Majesty and tho Prince also expressed their great satisfaction . Many of the nobility arid others interested in tho management of horses have since witnessed tho advantages to be
derived from the use of Di . Bunting ' s invention , ftt Mr . East ' s stables , White Horse-street , Piccadilly , und from the simplicity and inexpensive nature , 01 tho machine , it will no doubt bo generally adopted . By its use , the breaking and bitting of colts ana other horses , which havo hitherto been a work ot time , and attended with considerable expense , may bo performed In a fow days , and at a trifling cost , with the certainty of the uiodt vicious animal being rendered perfectly and permanently tractable , without the adoption of eithor violence or punishment . Dr . Bunting , who has recently arrived from Montreal , will shortly take his departure to exhibit his invention to the crowned heads of Europe .
MiNisTBiuAU- ^ -It is stated tha , t Lord Derby hns issued a circular to his Conservative' supporters , inviting them to meet him on tho 'first of next } month , that is to say , on the day after Mr . Disraeli lias submitted his Reform Bill .
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No 46 & February 26 , 1859 / 1 THE LEADER . 265
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 26, 1859, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2283/page/9/
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