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      the existing copper coinage ; and in Manchester have been constructed the engines to drive the stamping presses to be used , and also the boilers needed for that purpose . The engines and boilers have been made by Messrs . It . Ormerod and Son , ol Hulme . The latter have already been forwarded to their destination , the works of Messrs . R . Heaton and Sons , of Birmingham , who have executed all the copper coins struck for this country for many years , and who also successfully competed for the

      execution of the French currency issued by Napoleon III . The metal to be used for the new coinage will be very much harder than copper , and as in striking coins from the latter metal the resistance will sometimes check , and even stop , the machinery , there have been-special appliances added to these engines , which , by means of levers , will enable wheels to be slipped and the engines in effect thrown out of gear , % vhile other levers will enable the working arrangement to be gradually and easily restored .

      Northern Reform TJnio : n . —This body , acting on the suggestion of Lord Brougham at the late Social Science Conference at Bradford , have appointed a Vigilance Committee < to watch the proceedings of the coming municipal elections , and have pledged themselves to prosecute , under Mr . Cross ' s recent Act , all persons found indulging in corrupt practices . The Gloucester and Wakefield Commission's . — The Gloucester inquiry has been resumed on Saturday , after a week ' s adjournment . A number of witnesses testified to the corrupt transactions in which they had been engaged , making merchandise of their votes . Mr . Julius Bernard , who acted as the " friend" of Sir R . Carden , was under examination a

      long time , giving a good number of . ' hesitating . unsatisfactory replies . At the Wakefield inquiry on Saturday Mr . Charles worth \ vas reeaUed , and asked who the " Man in the Moon " , about whom they had heard so much . The short reply was , " I do not know , nor do I know who sent him here . " Other questions respecting the absence of important witnesses were answered in much the same way , although Mr . Charlesworth declared Ms wish that they should make their appearance . The Wakefield Election Commission has now taken all the evidence that it can get , and when it next comes together the meeting will be hi London . It was impossible to obtain the attendance of witnesses connected , with the bribery on the Conservative side . The Gloucester . Election Commission may also be said to have concluded its evidence .

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      Jack Ashore . —The Malta correspondent of a contemporary lias the following amusing description of the freaks of British sailors on that station : — - The seamen of the fleet now in Malta , consisting of six screw iine-of-battle ships and a proportionate number of smaller vessels , have had a good long cruise on shore , and to all . appearance have been enjoying themselves . They landed well stocked with money . The great eftbrt of the sailors appear to be to create a sensation , and to have a crowa gazing at them . They are to be scon in all direccostumes if it

      tions , in all sorts of grotesque as was carnival time—many in " long togs . " Many have been driving about in the very best carnages that could be hired , driving to the garden of the Caffi dc la Reinc , having ice creams and wafers sent tatueir carriage , making the waiter take one himself ana pelting hiarwith the change , and then driving off , fanning themselves in the most InckiKliusical way . At the Opera it was their acting , not that ot tuo performers , that the audience had to «« end . to . Most had some extraordinary pets—young pip S sSaclos on , little dogs .. dressed up , rabbiCS ,

      monkeys , &c ; these occasionally esoapoci , » " «• " «» very unceremoniously gave chuso , tfunMng i « the ri ^ rp teT wi . " sx * & « £ $ 5 EisrKrr ^ £ r ^ n 7 a | s ^ vented the possibility of attending to the music . The sailors do not understand Italian , nor are they rostrKnod by any false modesty in lotting- that fact bo Eiown . -Tlfo demand for an English song was loud and vociferous . An old Italian gentleman in the S " t took " omo trouble to translate , one o thei song * «« it was sunff . To show the Bailor ' s gratitude , half" dSS" St of nun wore passed to him to drink , tnm The old iientleman . at last mad ? his escape

      from his friends , who as ho left pressed upon mm * botSeofrumtor his old woman at Homo . ¦ T * Jg scones aro pleasingly varied In tho theatre wttfr battles botwoon tlio Bailors and their natural foes , the pSloo , who have a long and standing hatred to each other . Tlio coromony before the Maltese magistrate is very short ; neither party understand * n

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      Tma Russian and Prussian Rulers . —The Emperor of Russia and the Regent of Prussia mot at JJroslau on Sunday , The Eniporor of Austria , having oxpresse his desired to be honoured by a visit from the Ozar . tho latter declined , saying that his journey to Breslau wns merely the visit or a rotation to the Prince of Prussia .

      The Hoix Father .- —" His Holiness the Pope returned to . Rome on Thursday week . "A great crowd was assembled on his passage through the city . " The Paris correspondent of the Independance of Brussels states that the Pope entertains the idea of reconstituting the order of Knights of Malta on a . military footing . There would be a regiment called after each Catholic state , and composed of subjects of that state . The writer adds that though the project is certainly entertained , there is little chance of its being realised .

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      JSTo . 501 . Oct . 29 , 1859 . THE LEADER . I * *

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      " General" Meagher . —New York papers say that Thomas Francis Meagher ,. the ex-Irish rebel , sailed in the last steamer for Costa Rica , for the purpose , it is said , of commanding " a wing of Walker ' s army . " As Walker is , however , daily expected back in custody , it is feared that the gentleman ' s military career , if ho ever enters upon it , Avill be short and inglorious . Alleged Letter of the I " jrench Emperor . — A letter , signed' " Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , " has been reproduced , and attributed , to the present

      ruler of France as having been written by hun to Pope Gregory XVI ., when a young man , and in the year 1831 , at the time when ' the Prince was in Romagna , endeavouring to do something for the independence of liberty . This epistle makes the Pope acquainted with the circumstance , that if he would abandon temporal power he would become adorable . Such an epistle was likely , when published' in our day , to produce tho most lively remarks throughout the civilised world , but the Moniteur is now instructed to say that this letter was not written by the Emperor , but by the brother of his Majesty , who died in 1831 . That brother was Charles Louis

      Napoleon Bonaparte . New Theory ov Cholera .. ;—A supposed discovery in physiological science is making " , a sensation in ,. Germany at present . Doctor Martin Konigsberger has ocoupied himself , during his flveand-thirty years' residence in the East , in the almost exclusive study of that frightful disease , cholera , and has arrived at tlio conviction that it is occasioned by tho absorption of atmospheric animaloulte invisible to the naked eye , and inhaled into the lungs , whence they distribute themselves throughout the whole system , corrupting the blood 1

      and poisoningthe fountains of life . Dr . Martin Konigsberger accordingly combats tho enemy with quaBtia , known to * be fatal to insect life , and administers tho remedy under the form of vaccination , which arrests on the instant the decomposition of the blood , and the patient is cured as if by a miracle . It appears that during tho raging' of the disease at Mecklonburgh , the doctor exerted his powers with the most brilliant success . Tho account of his labours at Hamburg has not yet reached Paris j but our great medical celebrities appear for once to admit that there may bo other medical systoms on the woe of the earth as worthy of attontion as their own .

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      THE EMPEROR AND CENTRAL ITALY . From Florence one of the ablest correspondents of our ^ contemporaries writes : — "I am not able to give you the actual words , used by the Sovereign of France , but it is certain that the deputations left his presence with great satisfaction . To the Parmese he intimated that there were no serious obstacles against . their annexation to Sardinia . His language to the Mbdenese was held by them to ' signify that the return of the Duke had become impossible . As for the Tuscans , with whom he conversed for a considerable time , he repeated to them several time *' that they would best consult their interests by taking the young Ferdinand the Fourth of Lorraine for their prince , who would return to grant them a complete amnesty , and truly liberal

      institutions . But he ( Napoleon ) did not wish to extort their compliance , and they would remain the arbiters of their own . destinies . He further led the Tuscans to understand that there would be no firmed intervention on the part of any power , whether foreign or peninsular ; that he was greatly pleased at the order and tranquillity the Tuscans had maintained , and he beggedtheni to persevere in that course , inasmuch as it was that by which they might best attain their object . From all this it is concluded that the Emperor has not exactly declared himself in an express and direct manner respecting the annexation , but that he has assured it by implication to Parma and Modena at least , though not to Tuscany . Even to the last he has not uttered any formal disapproval or prohibition .

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      THE CONSTITVTIONNEL ON NAPOLEON'S POLICY . On Tuesday the Canstitutionnel , in an article signed by its principal editor , M . Grandguillot , in reply to the assertions of the English press , that the policy of the Emperor of the French left a state of political incertitude in Europe , endeavoured to state the aim proposed by the Emperor at the beginning of the war , and compared it with the advantages gained by $ he war , and accuses the English journals of inconsistency . The absurdity of the Grandguillot article is so palpable , that notwithstanding the high authority under cover of which it may be supposed to appear , even the French papers venture to speak of it in

      terms of contempt . The Presse , without denying that the thesis is one very good to argue , thinks that the Constitutionnel supports it but feebly . In the same paper M . Peyrat protests against the attacks upon England now to be . carried on in certain journals of Paris and the departments with a " significant simultaneity which has been much remarked in Europe , " and he thinks the English papers quite justified in the remarks they have made on finding that the treaty of Zurich Avas but a confirmation of that " immense disappointment , " the preliminaries of ViKSfefranca . The Opinion Nationale ironically answers M . Grandguillot by echoing one of his own phrasesr— " To state the facts is to replj ' . "

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      The French expeditionary force to Morocco is to be augmented by two brigades , in the first of which are comprised the 1 st and 3 rd regiments of Zouavos , who have already arrived at Oran from Genoa . The second brigade will follow hard upon the first . ?* The expeditionary corps ( Pu-rmee is ready to take the field . Letters received from colonists express the hope that complete justice will be done for the murdors committed on labourers as well as on children . Indemnity for depredation done is to bo claimed , and security for the French colonists is to bo obtained by rectifying tho line of frontier . "

      . SPAIN , FRANCE'AND MOROCCO . The latest accounts seem to do away with all hope of an arrangement of the quarrel between Spain and Morocco ; while there is little doubt that there is an understanding between Franco and Spain upon the subject , A despatch from Madrid , of the 25 th , sayS : — " xhe rumours which have beon current concerning a peaceful settlement with Morocco are without any foundation . Generals Zabala and Serrano , and other chiefs of tho army , take their departure this evening . General Olano will leave on Saturday . The Spanish Consul was still at Tangiors on the 24 th inst . " A decree appointing Marshal O'Donnell to the command iij chief of the military forces is expected to appear in tho official gazette immediately . Tho marshal will start at the ond ' of the week . General enthusiasm prevails among the people .

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      THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE SULTAST Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 19 th inst . Four chiefs of the late conspiracyhave been condemned to death , viz .: Hussein Pacha * a Mufti , a colonel , and an individual who was to have killed the Sultan . These condemnations had provoked a fermentation among the populace , and . direct threats of revenge had mysteriously reached the palace of the Sultan . The executions have been delayed . The Sultan has written a letter to the Ministers reproaching them that the reforms have been incomplete . The Montenegrins have begun again to commit great atrocities against the Turks . The members of the Commission for the settlement of the Boundary Question escaped them quite by chance . A conspiracyhas been discovered at Aleppo , and arrests have taken place there ' . .

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      New Yonk News . — A duel in California between ? Mr . Broderick , United States senator for California , and Chief Justice Terry , resulted in the death of the former . Another fatal duel had occurred in California between Dr ; Peterson Goodwyn and Colonel William Jeff Gatewood , and resulted in the death , of the doctor . According to the New York Herald , " the Americans were preparing for a permanent occupation , of the island of San Juan . "

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      CHINA . Despatches from Hong-Kong to the 12 th September announce that the American ambassador had returned from Pekin , without having obtained the ratification of the treaty at that city . The ratification had taken place by commissioners at Pehtangi . The steamer Thebes , which had been hired by the French , was wrecked on the passage between Hong-Kong and Turin .

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      FOREIGN INCIDENTS .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 29, 1859, page 1195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2318/page/7/