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The Family of Hbnrt Cokt . —The family of Henry Cort claims compensation ftojn the British nation for the unjust forfeiture of their father's rights . This Henry Cort was the inventor of the process for the conversion of pig iron into malleable iron by the flame of pit coal in the puddling furnace . Before his time our iron-masters were compelled to employ charcoal for fuel . Having thus got pig iron into a malleable condition , Henry Cort invented a further process for drawing it into bars by means of grooved rollers . In other words , he reduced the labour and cost of producing iron to one twentieth of what they were before his day , and the iron was of a better quality . How , it may be asked , can the is it
for preventing the erection of illuminated indicators was agreed to , and the court adjourned . ' Protestant Alliance . — -The annual / meeting of this society was held yesterday , at the Freemasons ' Tavern * but was very thinly attended . The Right Hon . the Earl of Shaftesbury occupied the chair . On the platform were the Hon . A . Kinnaird , M . P ., Signor X . Bianchi , Rev . Canon Champneys , Mr . Oliphant , &c . The report stated that great mischief was likely to arise from the late Government
having appointed Roman Catholic chaplains to the army and navy , with the rank and pay of the established church clergy ; but a good step had been taken by the military authorities with reference to the non-saluting of the Host at Malta . . It needed , however , all the energy possible on the part of the society to recover the lost ground . The balancesheet showed the revenue of the past year to hare been 9652 . 18 s . 3 d ,, and the expenditure left a balance of over 1202 . in hand .
children of such a man be in want ? How they are not among the wealthiest of the land ? The answer is this : —Mr . Cort had entered into partnership with a certain Mr . Adam Jellicoe , at the time Deputy-paymaster Of the navy . Jellicoe advanced money , and was to receive in return half the profits of the trade . Cort assigned to him , besides , his patent rights , as collateral security . In the year 1789 Jellicoe died , and was found to be a public defaulter . The Navy Board issued extents against the trade effects of Cort and Jellicoe , and confiscated Cort's patent rights , which they treated as valueless . The hardship of the case was this : a property which should have been estimated at the value of 250 , 0007 . was forfeited to insure payment of a debt which the estate would have satisfied seven or eight times over had it been fairly handled . Nobody but the
ironmasters profited by this mismanagement , and the Corts were ruined . It should be emphatically remarked that it is not even suggested Cort had anything to do with Jellicoe ' s defalcations . He was " purely-the victimof a swindler ; but , although it might be right to cause the firm to refund the sums in which one of the partners stood indebted to the public , it was utterly wrong to destroy the noble fortune which this ingenious man had Won by the force of his intelligence and industry . England is indebted for a large share of her present prosperity to Henry Cort ' s inventions , but now his four surviving children—all of them being persons about seventy years of age—are beggars , and only saved from the poorhouse by pensions amounting in the aggregate to 90 J . per annum . There should be more gratitude in an iron age to the children of Henry Cort . —r Times . . ¦ : .
Society for the Propagation op the Gospel . On ¦ Wednesday-therer was a special choral service in Westminster Abbey , the sermon being preached by the Rev . Henry Drury , B . D ., Prebendary of Salisbury , and Chaplain to the House of Commons , in aid of the Society . The rev . gentleman astonished the congregation by giving out a text which no one recognised as a passage of Scripture . The . words were , " We may—we must—we will , " and he obtained them in the following manner ; - — "We may , " from the 3 rd of Genesis , 2 nd verse ; " we must , " from the 14 th of Acts , 22 nd verse ; " we will , " from the 24 th of Joshua , 2 lat verse . The combination of the three formed the text , from
which he proceeded to argue that we may , we must , and we will evangelise the world . The rev . gentleman adverted to the vast operations of this the oldest missionary society in connexion with the Church , to its hundreds of missionaries , schoolmasters , and catechists scattered over the colonies and dependencies of the British Crown , and adverted particularly to the great strides which it would have to make in India in consequence of the openings recently made there for the spread of the Gospel . His appeal on behalf of the society ' s funds was responded to by a liberal collection . The Finance of Loxjpon . —The Chamberlain of the City , in his annual accounts , acknowledges
himself a debtor to the amount of 162 , 3921 ,, and a creditor to the amount of 20 , 2132 ., leaving a balance of 130 , 1782 ., being the surplus of the several duties and payments to the 6 th January , 1859 , to be carried to the account of application of , surpluses . The duty on coal yielded 145 , 7032 ., and the duty ou wine , 4 , 7082 . Public Health . —The return of the Registrar-General gives a very unfavourable view of the health of the metropolis for tho past week , the deaths numbering 1 , 400 , an excess of 300 over the estimated average , The mortality from diarrhoea has rapidly increased during tho lnst four weeks , and last week tho disease was fatal to 264 persons ,
tho larger proportion of them being infants and foung children . Dr . Letheby reports a slight ncroaso in the mortality of the City . Cxiy Sewers , — 'The Commissioners met on Wednesday at . Guildhall . The general purposes committee presented a report on ft minute referred to them respecting mx intention of the Metropolitan Board of Works to apply to Parliament for powers to levy rates by their own collectors . Tho general purposes committee thought there was no ground for such a step . Report agreed to . Dr . Lothepy gave in his report on the sanitary state of the City . A petition to the House of Commons against tho bill
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THE PEACE . ARRIVAI . OF NAPOLEON in . AT ST . CLOUD . The Emperor arrived at St . Cloud at a quarter after ten on Sunday morning . The Empress , with the Imperial Prince and the ladies and . officers of her household , was in waiting to receive him for more than an hour at the Orleans station of the " Ceinture" railway by the park wall of St . Cloud . The Princess d'Essling and Mesdames Bruat , Brandon , Fleury , and Conneau , were grouped about the Empress like the ladies in Winterhalter ' s * , wellknown picture of her . The little prince wore his
corporal ' s uniform , and had a laurel crown in his hand ready to give to hisfatheron his arrival . A privileged public , among whom were a great many actors and actresses of the Theatre Fran $ aise , were permitted to watch the scene from behind one of the park gates . As soon as the Emperor arrived he kissed the Empress , and then took the Imperial Prince in his arms and held him for some minutes , and afterwards gave his arm to the Empress and handed her to an open carriage , which conducted their Majesties and the imperial infant to the chateau . At noon the Emperor attended mass , and immediately after he received his ministers .
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NAPOLEON'S JUSTIFICATION . On Tuesday , the Emperor received the great bodies of the State , the Presidents of which , M . Troplong , Count Moray , and M . Baroche , addressed congratulatory speeches to his Majesty , The Emperor said : — " Arrived beneath the walls of Verona , the struggle -was inevitably about to change its nature , as well in a military as in a political aspect . Obliged to attack the enemy in front , who was entrenched behind great fortresses , and , protected on his flank by the neutrality of the surrounding territory , and about to begin a long and bar ran war , I found my self in face of Europe in arms ready either to dispute our
successes or to aggravate our reverses . Nevertheless , the difficulty of the enterprise would not have shaken my resolution , if the means had not been out of proportion to the result to be expected . It was necessary to crush boldly" the obstacles opposed by neutral territories , and then to accept-a conflict on the Rhine as well as on the Adige . It was necessary to fortify ourselves openly w-lth the concurrence of revolution . It was neces <; nary to go on shedding precious blood , and at last risk that which a Sovereign should only stake for the independence of his country . If I have stopped it wns neither through weariness or exhaustion , nor
THE PARISIANS AND THE PEACE . The terms of peace have not only occasioned a feeling of disappointment , discontent , and . . event indignation among all those who took a sincere- , interest in the object of the war , but have very seriously damaged and lowered the Emperor in the opinion of all classes of society . The working classes more especially , who three months ago thronged the Lyons railway station every evening to cheer the troops as they started for Italy , perfectly understand that the blood of their sons and brothers has been shed in vain , and they deeply resent the trick that has been played upon them . At the same time the . commercial men and tradesmen , whose interests
naturally lead them to look upon all war with disfavour , have little confidence in the peace , and reflect with consternation that the same , unscrupulous and inscrutable will which plunged the nation into the Italian Avar upon false pretences , may at any moment begin another . It is certain that a project was formed to hail the Emperor as he passed along the Chemin de Fer de Geinture with cries of " Vive I'Armee ! " " Vive lTtalie 1 " " Vive la Liberte ! " but I suppose it was given up as toodangerous . Many Orleanists , legitimists , and republicans view the state of affairs with various degrees of satisfaction , because they think or hope that the Emperor has made a fatal mistake .
The Crironde of Bordeaux , which has been guilty of giving expression to the general feeling of regretr and disappointment , in a leading article concluding with these words , " Happy Man in ! to have died before this day ! " has received a warning . The last proclamation relating to the peace , which was posted up all along the Faubourg St . Antoineas elsewhere , was found the next morning to be adorned with the additional title of « Traltre , " after the signature of " Napoleon , " by which it is terminated , and the gendarmes were , employed the whole morning in tearing it down amid the jeers and laughter of the workmen , who repeated with affected emphasis the last bonmot with which Thiers has gratified us , or at at all events the last which he has been made to utter on the occasion . "Louis Napoleon knows best how to make war but sapristi ! Francois Joseph knows best how to make peace . " .
through abandoning the noble cause which I desired to . serve , but tho interests of France . I felt great reluctance to put reigns upon tho ardour of our soldiers , to retrench from my programme the territory from tho Mincio to the Adriatic , and to see vanish from honest hearts noblo illusions and patriotic hopes . In order to servo the independence of Italy I made war in the face of the opinion of Europe , and as soon as the destinies of my country might be endangered , I concluded peace . Our efforts ana our sacrifices , have they boon merely losses ?
No . we havea right to bo proud of this campaign ; we Fiavo vanquished an army numerous , bravo and well organised ; Piedmont has boon delivered from invasion ; her frontiers have . been extended to the Mincio . The idea of of An Italian nationality has been admitted by those who combated it most . All the sovereigns of tho peninsula comprehend tho imporloiw want of salutary reforms . Thus after having given a now proof of tho military power of France , tho peace concluded will be prolific of happy results . The future will every day reveal additional cause for tho happiness of Italy , tho influence of France , and the tranquillty of Europe .
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Paris Gossip . — -Never since the coup d ' etat have there been such wholesale seizures of English journals as now . All the London papers , both morning and evening , have been confiscated with the exception of the Chronicle and Post , t do not know on what principle the latter escaped , for it has now added its voice to that of the rest of the English press . The Chronicle alone continues to write articles on foreign affairs fit for quotation in the French papers . The police are busily taking out of the print sellers' windows of Paris all caricatures that might be displeasing to Napoleon IIL ' s late enemy but now close friend , the " youngand chivalrous " Francis Joseph , Emperor of Austria and Venetia , and principal member of the Italian Conffidern .
tion' The Emperor when he travels is constantly followed by a numerous body of gendarmes in plain clothes . No further back than yesterday the copy of a despatch , that only has an imaginary existence , was put into circulation . In this ,, amongst other things , ve were assured that Mantua and Peschiera would belong to Piedmont , and that Venice was to be erected into an independent archduchy . The head and manager of these singular contrivances is
the ex-perfect of police , Pietri , who has had long and strictly private interviews with JCossuth and other Hungarian chiefs . <• Since the news of the peace ( says a correspondent ) the number of spies employed to listen to private conversation in cafgs and salons has been doubled . Several ladies have been enlisted in tho service . I do not give this news as a rumour , it reaches mo from an official source . A good many arrests continue to be made in the Faubourg St .
Antoints" Idees Nai » ombonxhnne 8 .- —The rage for a dynasty has taken tho fiercest hold upon . Napoleon III . while in Italy , and it is ascertained beyond all doubt that tho acquisition of the ashes 6 f the Duo do Reichstadt entered largely into the conditions of ponce . . Those poor ashes were refused before Tho answer returned by tho Court of Vienna to tho application to obtain them was , indeed , scarcely courteous , remlndincr Franco , that thoucrh it had been pleased to
donominate the Due do Reichstadt Napoleon II ., yot as he had never reigned either in franco or olsowhere—the young man could novpr bo regarded otherwise than as an , Austrian Archduke , and as such , occupied in death tho place most fitting to hie remains , But all this is changed now ., Napoleon HI . is welcome to all that ever did belong to Napoleon It—his bonce ? and Austrian pleasantry , deolarea that tho Emperor of Austria not only courteously acceded to Napoleon ' s demand of tho corpse ot tno Duo de Keiohstadt , but ? jocosely ottered to throw in
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Leader (1850-1860), July 23, 1859, page 860, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2304/page/8/
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