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      The Koyal Visit To Cherbourg. Tiui Groat...

      Cowes coming down the Roads , and -was immediately saluted by the yachts and other vessels lying about . Five minutes later , tlie Royal vessel was abreast of West Cowes Castle , and at that moment the Medina steamer , from Southampton , came alongside with a numerous party on board , who loudly cheered her Majesty as she passed . Those compliments were acknowledged "by the Queen from the deck of the Koyal y acht . The Victoria and Albert tlien steamed up the Solent towards the Needles , and in the evening , about half-past six o ' clock , arrived in . the roadstead of Cherbourg , accompanied by the Royal -Albert . A salute was immediately fired from the whole French fleet and the forts .

      Some two hours previously , the Empeior and Empress had arrived at tlie Western Railway Station , where the . officials connected with the town and port of Cherbourg , together with a great crowd of visitors and townspeople , were in waiting to receive them . The naval and land forces lined the path leading from the station to the prefecture , and the Imperial party were cheered all the way . As soon as the Emperor heard of the arrival of her Majesty , he proceeded at once to pay his personal respects to her on board the Royal yacht ; and , on his return , the illuminations < which were very general ) shone forth , from the ships in the harbour , from the public offices , and from most of the houses ia the town .

      On Thursday morning , after breakfasting with their host and hostess , the Queen , Krince Albert , the Prince of Wales , and the Ministers in attendance , landed , and visited the town , the docks , the forts , and the other naval and military works . Her Majesty was lieartHy received by the people . The Boyal party partook of refreshments at the Prefecture in company with the Emperor and Empress ; after which , the Queen returned to the harbour , and dined with the Emperor and a select company on

      board the Bretagne . The illuminations of the previous alight were repeated after dark . The weather was raagni 6 cent , and the roadstead presented the inost animated appearance . Great numbers of English were in tlie townj and the English and French sailors have got on together with the greatest harinonyy According to the Times of to-day , 40 , 000 passports have been granted at Paris for Cherbourg . Sixty thousand strangers are said to be in the town , the ordinary population of which is under 20 , 000

      770 The Leader [No. 437, Atjqtj St 7, 18...

      770 THE LEADER [ No . 437 , Atjqtj st 7 , 1858 .

      Assaults By Negroes. Two Cases Of Assaul...

      ASSAULTS BY NEGROES . Two cases of assault upon ship-captains , arising each from a similar cause , were heard on Monday by Mr . Yardtey at the Thames police-office . The first of these charges was against three American negroes named Adam Young , John Ray , and James Augustus Samuels , who , without provocation , had furiously attacked Captain Anriis , master of the American ship Satellite , from Calcutta , in the immediate neighbourhood of the policecourt , to which he had been summoned by eleven of his crew , all negroes , on . a charge of refusing to pay them their wages earned at sea . A certificate having been put in from-the United States Consul to the effect that

      the vessel was a foreign one , belonging to the port of TSocUland ia the state of Maine , Mr . Yardley came at once to the conclusion that the case was beyond his jurisdiction , and therefore dismissed the summons . Scarcely , however , had Captain Annis left the court , when he was followed and attacked by several of the blacks , who , amidst much hooting anU yelling , threw him down into the middle of tlie road , and struck and kick « d him repeatedly about the back , head , and face . The captain believed that they would finally have killed him , hud not the police interfered and protected him from further -violence . He then returned into the court

      bleeding at the nose and mouth , and greatly disfigured by the injuries he had received . When the case was brought before the magistrate on the following dav , Captain Annis stated that his crew consisted entirely of negroes With tho exception of two men , and that the ship of which lie was master vws under seizure on a bottomry bond ; consequently , he could neither pay tho mom their wages , nor get any money until he had an order to that effect from the persons who had seized tho -vessel . Mr . Ynrdlcy ordered Samuels and Young to p .-iy a fine of 6 i each , or be imprisoned for two months in default . As it could not be proved that Hay had joined in the attack on the captain , lie was discharged . Warrants were then issued against two other men named Fraser and Sydam , both of whom had taken part in the outrage , tlie former being the Arst to strike Captain Annis as lie wns leaving the police-office .

      The other charge was against four seamen , named M » cha « l Ryan , Emanuel 1 ' eana , Laurence Cornelius , and Richard Crosby , the tf rat of whom was an Irishman while tli * other three were men of colour . They were 11 charged with assaulting Captain M'Noil , nuutter of the English ship Henrietta . As in the preceding coae , the captain had bean summoned to tho Thuin « s policeco « rt by three of his crow for refusing to pay them tlwlr wages , and ho then toUl tho magistrate that the skip sailed from London on a whaling voyago in the South Seta , in May , 1856 , and that Captain Holmes , U »« then efM 3 t « r , committed suicide on tho puasnge . The

      vessel had afterwards put into- St . Helena , where fifteen seamen were sentenced to threes months' imprisonmen t and hard labour for desertion , and fifteen others were taken on boaTd as substitutes . Finally , the ship pu t into the Dutch settlement of Ternat , and here the captain entered into a second agreement to pay the men monthly wages . This summons was also dismissed by Mr . Yardley , who said that , as the men had signed a written contract to share in the profits of the adventure , according to the usual custom in South Sea whaling

      ¦ voyages , tho last agreement was null and void . Directly Captain M'Neil had left the court , he was attacked by the seamen who had summoned him , in much the same way as the American captain had previously been . One of tlie fellows grasped , him by .. the throat , and would probably have strangled him if the police had not come up and taken the men into custody . The magistrate sentenced Ryan to . a fine of 3 / ., or six weeks ' imprisonment , and Peana 2 J ., or a fortnight's imprisonment . The other two were fined lL each , or eight days ' imprisonment .

      Obituary. Mr. E»Ward Teask, Sometimes St...

      OBITUARY . Mr . E » ward Teask , sometimes styled " The Father of Railways , " from the part which , he took in the projection and carrying out of tlie Stockton and Darlington line , the earliest in the kingdon , died on Saturda } - evening , at his bouse in Darlington , at the advanced age of ninety-two . Gesekal Sib Feedkiuck Ashworth . —The death of Lieuteiiant-General Sir Frederick -Ash-worth occurred at his residence , St . George ' s-place , Hyde-parkcorner , on Sunday evening . The deceased . General was born at Dublin in 1788 . M . Soyek . — "We are sorry to observe in the ' papers of yesterday a report of the death of tlie renowned Alexis Soyer . This gentleman , who , according to the Daily News , ' * had suffered from an affection of tlie liver ever since his return from our camp in the Crimea , was at Norwood on Wednesday night , ' - ' . when a sudden attack of disease obliged him to return to hU home at St . John ' swood- On Thursday morning he became insensible , and died about ten o ' clock at night . We are informed that the portable cooking apparatus invented by him , which is being constructed at Woolwich Arsenal , was to have been tested in the presence of the military officers deputed by tlie Government oue day next week . This , and bis other plans for the reform and organisation , of the army cooking system , remain to be carried out under the sureriuteiiclence of Mr . Warren , his secretary . "

      Success Of The Atlantic Telegraph. The G...

      SUCCESS OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH . The great and truly civilising task of connecting the British islands and America by the electric telegraph has at length been crowned with success , after two failures . Tlie directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company received on Thursday the following despatch , dated from Valentia , Ireland : — " The Agamemnon has arrived at Valentia , and we are about to land tlie end of the cable . The Niagara is in Trinity Bay , Newfoundland- There are good signals between the ships . We reached tlie rendezvous on the night of the 28 th , and tho fiplice with the Niagara cable made on board the Agamemnon the following morning . By noon on the 80 th , 205 nautical miles were laid

      between the two ships ; on the 31 st , 540 ; on the 1 st of August , 881 ; on tho 2 nd , 125 ( j ; on tlie itb , 1854 ; on anchoring at six in tlie morning , in Doulu . s Bay , 2022 . Tlie rato of the Niugara during tho whole time has been nearly the same us ours , the length of cable paid out from the two ships being generally within tea miles of each other . With the exception of yesterduy ( Wednesday ) , tho weather has been very unfavourable . " The utmost enthusiasm was exhibited at Liverpool when the news reached thtre . The English flag at the Town Hall ajid Exchange , and the , United States flag at the American consul ' s , were immediately hoisted . The cotton and produce markets were not sensibly affected ; but Atlantic Telegraph shares were quoted at the Kxuliiingo at from 800 / . to 1000 £

      Naval And Military. Distribution Ok Tub ...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Distribution ok tub Victoria . Cross nr the Queen , —Her Majesty , on Bfondny , presented the Victoria . Cross to about a dozen officers and privates , at SoulUsea , near PortsniDuth , as a Toward for distinguished conduct in tho field . A good deal of military pomp graced the scene , and large crowds of people looked on . Tlio Qween came from Osbome to attend tho ceremony , and returned after ita completion . The following are tlio names of the recipients of tho Cross : —Lieut .-Coloncl K . W . D . Hell , 2 nd Battalion of 2 !) rd lUgimcnt ; Brevet Lieut-Colonel M . D . Dijcon , R . A . ; Deputy Inspector-General of HoRpUals James Mouatt , CIS ., late of the « tli Dragoon * i Mhjot Thomas Esmondo , lato of tlio 18 th Foot ; Major D . M . Trobyn , 2 nd l ' unjuub Cavalry ; Captain li . C . Eipliinstone , K . E . ; Captain A . S . Jones , 18 th Hussars , Into 9 th Lnncera ; Lieutenant Robert Bluir , 2 nd Dragoon Guards ; Deputy Assiutant-CouinilsMtry of Ordnance John Duckley , Honourable East India Company ' s Service ; Colour-Sergeant Henry

      M'Donald , K . E . ; Sergeant Henry Rama «? e , SnclhrT goons ; Private Joel Holmes , 8-lth Regiment Tiik t . atk Gale . —The advices received ' at iy . last Saturday brought a numerous list of casualty which happened during the recent heavy galc from ' tli N . 3 ST . W . Upwards of a dozen vessels foundered in tl It North Sea , some with tlie loss , it is feared , of .-ill hands The Dutch and Danish coasts appear to have suffers i severely , and the mail of Saturday , from the variou parts , announces a serious destruction of property ' * Armodbku Sekgeasts . —The Secretary of War anl tlio authorities at head-quarters having judged it exna

      client to establish a more perfect " system of obtaining qualified armourer sergeants , for service in regiments ' battalions , and corps of the regular army and re g iments of embodied militia , a Koyal warrant lias W been issued by the Secretary of War b y which it is ordered that all armourers intended'for service in tlie regular army and regiments of embodied militia shall be enlisted and formed into a corps to be called "The Corps of Armourer Sergeants , " which corps is to be attached to the Royal Small Arms Factory at Milbank . The men so enlisted are to be governed b y various rules which arc particularised in tlie warrant .

      New Mimfe Rifi . e Musket— A new species cf breech-loading Minie rifle musket , an American invention , was received at Woolwich last Saturday for the inspection and approval of the select committee of tlie Arsenal . The calibre and weight are similar to the ordinary muskets ' at present in use in . our service . No derangement of the barrel is required in loading , the cartridge being applied-tlirbuyh " the medium of a " small piece-of mechanism , resembling a trap , over tlio lock . The . cartridge- bags arc of metal , nicely ' lilting tlie chamber , and plugged with india-rubber , the centre of . the plug containing tlio percussion cap , and tlie charge is gua - ranteed by the inventor to be secured from injury when exposed to nny moisture , even under water . On preparing to reload , " the action of raising the small cover at the breech withdraws tlie empty cartridge case , which is liable to the same amount of wear as thn .

      gun itself . Admiral Loud Lyoxs gave . a grand , banquet on board : the Royal Albert at Spithead , oil Tuesday evening , to Marshal the Duke of MaiakofF , his Lordship ' s guest to Cherbourg . Trial , of Rifles . —Some additional trials took place on "Wednesday on the marshes near St . Mnry ' s-creek ,-. Chatham ,- , for the purpose of still further testing . the greatest amount of accuracy to be obtained in iiring at long ranges with the Lancaster rilled musket and the Enlidd rifle . ¦ The . rifles used on the occasion were tlie Lancaster elliptical bored , musket , the same as used by the men of the ' Royal . arid * East India Company ' s Engineers , and the ordinary Enfidd rifle in use by the troops of the Line and at the school of musketry , llytlie . The . result ' confirmed the previous impressions with respect to the superiority of the Lancaster rifle .

      Old QuAiiTEuaiASTEiis .- —A copy lias just been published , by order of Parliament , of a memorial addressed to the lato Secretary of Suite for the War Department , by certain quartermasters who wore placed on half-pay previous to the date of the declaration of war with Russia . Some of the petitioners have been in the army since 1797 ; and they pray that the provisions of the Royal Warrant of the 17 tli of last December may bo extended to them . The BiLLK'ma of Soldikks . —The Select Committee ; of tlie House of Commons appointed to inquire into tliid subject have published their report . They- do not object to billeting in toto , but suggest various modifications , and think it ought never to be continued for a long time at one house .

      ritOMOTIOJ * AND ltliTIHKMBNT IN" TIIK AnMY , —UlG Commissioners appointed by her Majesty , on the 12 th of last April , to inquire into tho tfteet of the system recommended in the report of tlio Royal Commission dated tho 17 th of June , 185-ij and into the question . of promotion and retirement in tlie higher ranks of the army , commencing with tho rank of Mnjor , liuve just reported ( in a Ulue-book ) the result of their deliberations . Tho chief points in tho report have been thus summarised : —^ " The Comitiiasionors do not appear to think that the warrant of 1854 him been long enough iu force to ullow them to judge of its operation upon the

      promotion in tho G uards . They reject the suggestion to shorten from six . to five years tlie period of service as a Acid officer required to qualify for unattached pay in tho cuse of a Mnjor-Genoral . They also refuse to countenanco tho abolition of Heutenant-colonvlciQS and tho creation of a new permanent rank of Brigadier-General , with increased half-pay . To induce retirement on full pay , it ia suggested that colonels and lieutenant-colonels accepting such retirement should receive 20 a . vice 17 s . par diem , as now ; and they think that , as a general rule , no colonel should bo allowed to retain the command of a regiment after flixty years of aye , unless reported to the Hotho Guards as clliciont . "

      Miscellaneous. Tmc Couut.—Her Majesty, L...

      MISCELLANEOUS . Tmc Couut . —Her Majesty , last Saturday , gave tlio annual fdte , in honour of tho Prince Consort ' s birthday , to tho seamon of the Koyal yachts , tho dotauUmuut oC

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07081858/page/10/