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      Miscellaneous. The Court.—The Princess O...

      Gibraltar , He denied the accasation , but was taken before a , magistrate . A request to be confronted with the . captain of the Merlin was complied with ; and that officer said that Kelly , the seaman in question , had been with him sixteen months , and that his ship had never been at Gibraltar . Nevertheless , the sailor was removed , handcuffed , to London , whence he was subsequently sent to Portsmouth , and put on board the Victory , where he was kept in irons three weeks , waiting the arrival of the C » sar from abroad . Three days after the ship came into port , Kelly was taken aboard , and the utter falsity of

      the story against him was shown beyond dispute . ^ He was then * of course , released ; but the Merlin had sailed , with all his clothes and other property aboard , and he was left quite destitute . To his representations , the only answer returned was that nothing could be done ; and he was put ashore . The poor man then applied to the Portsmouth magistrates , who referred him to the Port-Admiral . From him he received a pass to London and thence to Liverpool , and five shillings to keep him from starvation . But we feel moved to ask—what compensation is to be made to the victim for the scandalous oppression by which he has suffered ?

      Nottingham Election . —Mr . Charles Paget , of Ruddington Grange , a moderate Liberal , has been elected for Nottingham , in place of Mr . Strutt . Mr . J . R . Mills , who also came forward in the Liberal interest , and Mr . Ernest Jones , who offered himself on Chartist principles , withdrew from the contest , and there wasw . consequently no poll . Eabl Granvillb ' s Mission to Moscow . —His Excellency Earl Granville , Ambassador Extraordinary to the coronation of the Emperor Alexander II . of Russia , left Carlsbad on Saturday last for Dresden , accompanied by the Countess Granville , en route for St . Petersburg . A Friendly Response to the address of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association has been despatched from Philadelphia , and received by Mr . Robertson Gladstone , the president of the association .

      Explosion of a Powder-mill . —An explosion of an alarming character occurred on Monday evening at the Worsborough gunpowder mills , which are situated in a secluded part of Worsborough-dale , near Barnsley . The explosion took place in one of the mills charged with a composition for the manufacture of fine sporting powder ; the roof and sides of the mills were blown to atoms , and the floor and foundations were dislodged . All the hands employed in the establishment had left work , and no loss of life or personal injury occurred . Li ^ TfENANT J . F . Dougal . — Lieutenant Dougal , 90 th Highland Borderers Stirling Militia , who was lately sentenced by a general court-martial , held at Edinburgh Castle , to be cashiered , has , in consideration of his youth and inexperience , received her Majesty ' s pardon .

      The Ex-Pkovost of Leitii . —We understand that the sentence passed on Mr . Robert Philip of transportation for life has been commuted to imprisonment for two years , -with hard labour . —Edinburgh Courant . A Delicate Compact . —In the course of an action to recover 40 ? . on an I O U , tried at Chelmsford , on Wednesday , the widow of the man alleged to have given the doenment was examined . She had married again , the new husband being a man named Dowsett ; and the reasons for that second marriage thus came out : —" Her

      first husband died in June , 1864 , and she married the second in November . Mr . Dowsett and his wife , during her lifetime , were very friendly with witness and her husband for a great many years . He courted his wife at her house , and they all made an agreement that if witness ' s husband should die and Mr . Dowsett ' s wife should die , or if she should die and Mr . Dowsett should die , the survivors Bhould get married . ( Laughter . ') This agreement was made in the year 1826 . Mr . Dowsett did not court her after his wife died—in the lifetime of

      her husband . ' ( Laughter . ' ) She was quite suro of that . ( Renewed laughter . ) On the contrary , she had a very great dislike to the man for a long time . Her husband had sometimes said to her , ' You have been to see that Dowsott , ' and Bhe used to tell him she had not , and that was tho fact . After the death of her husband , she and Mr . Dowsett made it up . She rocollected the solemn promise she had made to her poor husband , and thought she could not do better than marry tho man . ( Renewed laughter . ' ) They wore very good friends now . " Tho verdict was in favour of the plaintiff , and against Dowsett :

      Gekkiial Williams presided on Thursday at the distribution of the prizes to the successful students in medicine at University College , London . Ho alluded in warm terms to his friend Dr . Sandwith , and also to Dr . Parkes . - who was attached to tho army of tho East . — The htird of Kurs was on Thursday presented « t a Court of Contmon . Council -with tho freedom of tho City of London , andtwith a handsome sword . Oafb ob ^ Good Hbi-E . —Tho aspect of aflTairs at tho Cape of Good Hopo has induced tho authorities to call upon those artillerymen who have served in tho Crimou to voWttteer their services for that station . Tho men camel forward as soon ns they received tho intelligence , and to tho number of above three hundred gave their tn ? u * * ° ! ^ elr Jtespectivo commanding officers as wUUt fjr ' tb enter for that service However , out 6 f the ^ jJ W ^ J ^ rtji only fifty were allowed , and those havo iSSJSS' ¦ to Cleayoljind ' B company , npw preparing to proteW W the Capo . THo heavy portion of their

      armament and stores is being shipped in the Victoria Docks Morning PosU Thb Moobs . —The accounts from the Scotch moors are not very encouraging for the lovers of autumnal " sport . " Mazzini and Manin . —A long letter from Signor Mazzini to Signor Manin on the Italian question has been published . Mazzini accuses Manin of impolicy in accepting the King of Sardinia as the hope of Italy . He points to Charles Albert ' s conduct as a justification of distrust of all kings , and says that Sardinia is too much bound up with England and France to be really useful to the Italian cause . After upbraiding Manin for dividing , irritating , and alienating the republican party by his

      " ridiculous" conduct , he observes : — " That army for which you are ready to forget the entire nation , we shall have with us . But we shall only have it by rising , armed ourselves , to invoke the aid of its arms . That king whom you now flatter , as formerly you flattered his- father , to curse him afterwards—you may have him—God send you do not live to repent it . " Mazzini , however , thinks that , if Charles Albert had not betrayed the cause of the people , but had led them , " no party could have withheld from him the crown of Italy . " He proceeds : — " Do you imagine that King "Victor Emmanuel will suddenly take the field , pass the Ticino and the Magra , command various other sovereigns of Italy to give place , and fronting excommunication and the arms of his imperial ally , desire the Pope to yield up his temporal sovereignty ? Do you

      imagine that , making himself a leader of insurrection and overthrower of territorial equilibrium and the rights of governmental Europe , he will throw down the gauntlet to the entire league of the kings ? You , were you king , would not do it . " Signor Mazzini concludes by saying : — " Let the nation save the nation ; let the nation , once free and united , decide upon its own destiny . Is this an exclusive programme ? Can a national party exist without such a formula ? Cannot , ought not , all those who seek a common country , to whatever fraction they belong , to embrace each other and unite beneath the shelter of that flag ? Does not the future remain open to each ? "We , republicans to-day , as we were republicans yesterday , do not seek to impose the republic . We declare the country the sole umpire . You , republicans yesterday , seek to-day to impose the monarchy . " Which of us is exclusive ?"

      Mr . Allan Pollok :. —Three ejectments at the suit of Mr . Allan Pollok and his wife have been tried at the Galway assizes . At the preceding assizes , there had been eighteen , in which the plaintiff was nonsuited on points of law , but subsequently the nonsuits were overruled on argument in the Court of Common Pleas . The only defence made on the present occasion also was of a technical character ; but the judge , having said that he would take a note of the objections , allowed the case to go to the jury , and a verdict was returned for the plaintiff . In two of the cases , the verdict was entered by consent , and -without costs , execution to be stayed until November next , and all rent to be forgiven up to that date . Mr . Pollok attended in person , and tho deepest interest in the proceedings was evinced by the public .

      Crystal Palace . —Return of admissions for six days ending Friday , August 1 st , 1856 : —Number admitted , including season ticket holders , 58 , 554 . A Case for the Benevolent . —Our attention has been called to the case of Miss , daughter of the Into Captain , who died in the service of his country . An application to Lord Palmerston in her behalf , in the hope that some relief might be accorded out of the Royal Bounty Fund , has not been successful . The lady who made this application received 101 . from tho Royal Bounty Fund three years ago ; she ia fifty

      years of age , nearly blind and ( excepting the very little aid that the means at the disposal of tho Officers ' Widows Society have enabled tho directors to give her ) has nothing but 121 . per annum on which to subsist . Under these circumstances , subscriptions will bo received by Messrs . Drummonds , 49 , Charing-cross ; Messrs . Herries , Farquhar , and Co ., 16 , St . Jamcs ' satrcot ; Messrs . Mosterman and Co ., 05 , Nicholas-lane , Lombard-strcot ; and by tho Hon . Secretary of the Officers' Widows and Orphan Society , at tho offices , 139 , Charing-cross ( throe doora from tho Admiralty ) .

      A Girl Prison Breaker . —A girl , twelve 3 'eara of age , has escaped from tho Iluddorafield lock-up , by squeezing herself through tho hole in tho iron door of her cell , and then running out at the front door . She got clear off " . 1 Cartiio , uakk . —A very destructive oartbqiiako has occurred in tho island of Great Snngir , one of tho Moluccas . The loss of life is immense , extending to nearly 0000 persons . IIoiihos havo been destroyed in an equal proportion ; and , tho fields being desolated by tho floods of lava and showera of ashes , a vaut amount of property , in tho shape of croon , hat ) been loHt .

      Susncioufi Death . —An inquest has boon bold 011 tho body of Mrs . Elizabeth Froat , the wife of a tnvomlceopor in London Wall , who died , according to tho opinion of the medical man who attended her , of typhus fever , but whoso end w « 8 attended with various circumstances which scorned to suggest the prosonco of poison . After her death , her husband went into tho room whom she lay , looked at tho body , and in throe hours afterwards went nwny altogether . A groat difference of

      opinion existed among the jurymen as to whether they ought not to go to view the body ; but the medical man having been examined , and having declared his belief , confirmed by the result of a post mortem examination ^ that the woman had died of typhus , which in the last stage-was combined with diarrhoea and delirium tremens , the coroner said he did not think they need go . There was no assistant medical man in the performance of the post mortem , examination . A verdict of Natural Death was returned . Ceemoknb Gardens . —A " day and night gala , " for the benefit of the proprietor , Mr . Simpson , took place at these gardens on Thursday . The entertainments were of a varied character , and the illuminations at ni ght were extremely gorgeous .

      An English Fair . — If work and . its fair recompense be a preventive against crime , occasional leisure and recreation are not less good prophylactics in their way . The unbent mind is , at times , ia as much peril from temptation as the unemployed . Even holidays are tedious , unless they interpose one kind of mental or bodily activity for another : and the ale-house is filled as much by those who are wearied with doing nothing , as by the habitually intemperate . If proof of this assertion be required , let the reader accompany us for a moment , in imagination , to a village wake , or even to the larger assembly of a town-fair . He will see there an assemblage of people in better than than their ordinary attire , and bearing the traces of a recent application of soap and water . The smith ' s sooty visage looks scarified by his ablution , and the miller and mason are no longer to be detected by their professional hue . If it be

      Whitsuntide or May-day , there [ is some approach to a feast of Tabernacles , for the booths and skittle-grounds are decked with boughs — the nearest approach now to pastoral sentiment in England . The whole affair , indeed , has a very business-like aspect . Listen to the conversation of the groups of holiday-makers , and it is mostly of a serious cast—of markets and prices among the men , of family casualties and scandal among the women . Now and then , the children appear a little exhilarated by the apparition of Mr . Merryman , or the conversation of Mr . Punch . As the afternoon wears on , it may be expected that tbe mirth will become fast and furious . The contrary is generally tlrie case . Ti »© rucu ; are besotted : the women weary , and anxious to rciurn home : and , probably , in low life as well as in high life , a day ' s pleasure is one of the most truly wearisome in the year . — Westminster Review .

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      Leader Office, Saturday, August 2. Lates...

      Leader Office , Saturday , August 2 . LATEST FROM SPAIN . The Madrid journals of the 26 th ult . have been received , but they contain little intelligence of interest . The Gazette publishes several royal decrees . According to accounts from Calatayud , small detachments of troops and of private persons , who had succeeded in making their escape from Saragossa , were arriving in that place . A number of the National Guard had also contrived to elude the vigilance of the insurgents , and to get out of the town . Saragossa journals to the 22 nd ult . had reached Madrid ; they contain a number of violent proclamations . The conservative port of the population was much alarmed at the attitude assumed by tho insurgents . Several persons were quitting the place as fast as they could contrive to do ho . Tho son of the Marquis d'Albaida has sent an address to the President of the Cortes , protesting against the imprisonment of his father at Valencia . M . Orense in still closely confined in tho citadel of that place . Some despatches from Spain , contained in the Monifeuv of yesterday state that tho whole of Catalonia lias recognized the Queen ' s Government ; that Navarre and tho Basque Provinces are in a state of perfect tranquillity ; that the Government is employed in nominating different functionaries in the provinces ; that the last strongholds of the rebellion—Malaga and (» rcnada in tho south , and Teruol ia Aragon—have mibmitted ; and that tho insurrection ia now con fined to Saragossa . —These Htutements , however , come from a very suspicious Hourco ; and the reader will accept them with caution . Next week will bring more reliable accounts , and may very possibly show that the contest is Htill maintained with vigour .

      Italy. Tho Ofilcial Gazette Of Piedmont ...

      ITALY . Tho ofilcial Gazette of Piedmont has tho subjoined on tho recent attempt at insurrection in tho Duchy of Moilona : — " Tolcgruphio despatches , received from tho Spczziu , Btato that a movement was attempted near Masaa and Carrara in tho night of tho 25 th ult . in tho morning , ubout 100 niuii , who appoured to be iuiihju ^ wore HC (! ii at La I ' lirmignoln , on tho ( . errilory <>>¦ I £ nto . They had , it waa Haiti , ncized on tho uniskuls of tho frontier guards of Kato and on tho custom-ollU : of Parmignolu . The attempt , however , could n () t ' havo been attended with ' any HerjouM consequences , '" tho lost MccountH , received yoatoruuy by tel < 'K''"l '' ' unnounco that tho most purled tranquillity prevailed . at Carrara , Matuja , and alung our frontier . Tho King * Govorninnnt' hud adopted nil I ho precautionary n » catuircu required by circiimatancca . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02081856/page/10/