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    772 - THE LEADER [No. 4a7, -Atotob 1 185...

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    —« ._ Leader Office, Saturday, August 7t...

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    VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO PRUSSIA. The Roy...

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    THE ATLANTIC CABLE. A despatch, dated " ...

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    Chelska New Bridqig will be opened free ...

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    Dock Extension . —A capacious dock , chiefly intended for the accommodation of the timber trade , Las been completed at the north end of the town , and was on Thursday christened by the Mersey Dock Board the " Canada pock . " A Noble Sailor . —The steamship Gipsy Queen , belonging to the West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company , has arrived at Hartlepool this week , having several shripwrecked crews on board , whose vessels were lost on Sunday morning week . Among the crews "Were those of the brig Black Boy , which vessel capsized in the gale off Otteradorf . At the time the vessel capsized , the master had on board his wife , sister , and child . It was with the greatest

    difficulty that the two ladies were got into a boat -while the vessel was on her beam ends , they having been in the water some time . One of the men , George Nosster , undertook , at considerable personal risk , the charge of the child . H « allowed all to get safely into the boat first , and then found that his only chance was to jump -with the child into the boat . He hesitated for a better opportunity , but in the mean time the boat -was driven by the fearful gale away from the wreck , which it was impossible to regain . In this distressing con . dition the father and mother of the child and other persons in the boat knocked about in the open sea until midnight , -when they got on board a galliot , and rode out the gale . In the mean time , Nosster had taken

    to the foretop with his charge carefully folded under his jacket He remained in tbe foretop some time , carefully adjusting a portion of his clothes round the child , ' and thus protecting him from , the heaviest of the seas , and occasionally putting him to his breast to satisfy him , the child not being weaned . About five in the morning , Nosster lashed his charge in the rigging , and ventured down into the cabin , vrhera he succeeded in getting some -wine , with , which be moistened the baby ' s mouth , thus keeping ; him alive . At daybreak , the father of the child thought he saw some one on the wreck , and at about nine on Monday morning the gallant sailor and his infant charge -were rescued by a boat from tbe galliot , and he had the satisfaction of handing the infant to its mother alive and well .

    Made Mad bt Religiok . —The housekeeper to Mr . Thorley , of Spring-gardens , Gainsboro , has become deranged through , it is said , religious excitement . She was connected with the Primitives , and it is supposed that the revival services recently held , at which the feelings are wrought up to the highest possible pitch of enthusiasm , have been too much for her . On Monday , she precipitated herself , at midnight , from one of the bedroom windows , injuring herself considerably . She has since been handed over to the care of her father . —/ Staroford Mercury .

    Tbub Metrofoijta . n Board of Works . — -The first meeting under the n « w act of this Board took place on Tuesday . A motion to exclude the press -was negatived ; and , after a long and somewhat miscellaneous debate , a motion was adopted , affirming that the plans with respect to the sewage question which the Board had adopted should be reconsidered in committee , or . part of them , with power to confer with engineers . School of Senging at Florence . —Madame Cicilia Boccabadati Varesi , the daughter and pupil of the

    celebrated Boccabadatj , and the wife of Felix Varesi , the accomplished artist , has been for several years a distinguished mistress of singing and pianoforte playing ; and she has now decided to open at Florence a school of PerfictionnementArtistique , for finishing the earlier studies The establishment is situated in one of the best parts of Florence , favourable to the comfort of the pupils . In this establishment the pupils are sure to find the instruction they desire to obtain , whatever may be their fortune , joined to the comfort of a home .

    Mb . W . J . Fox addressed his Oldham constituents on "Wednesday evening . Alluding to Cherbourg , - he contrasted the present state of France with her proud position when she " gave the watchword of liberty to the nations . " He feared that the Emperor " would become a nuisance to Europe , " and he looked witli suspicion on the transference to the Queen of the supreme power in India , as she now possesses an army not subject to Parliamentary control . It had been said that the liberties of Franca had been conquered in Algeria : 41 let them look to it that the liberties of England bo not mastered in India . " Mr . Fox concluded by alluding to the ignominious fall of Lord Palmeraton , who had been deserted by the Liberal party because lie had deserted them .

    Mr . J . B . Gocch , the Ti etotal lecturer , was entertained at a 8 oire * e on "Wednesday evening at Manchester . In the course of the evening , it was stated that Mr . Mncaulay , Q . C ., JDr . Lees ' s counsel in the Inte trial for defamation , has written a letter declaring that the compromise into whicli ho entered received the sanction of his client—a fact which the doctor had previously denied . Loud Brougham , on Wednesday , cut the first Rod of the Extern "Valley Hallway , Westmoreland . . At tha dinner which followed , hli Lordship warmly acknowledged the important part played by tha late Mr . Pease In the early development of the railway system , and proposed to drink to his memory in solemn silence- ; which wns done .

    INAUGURATION OF THE BbOTHRRTON MeMOKIACThe statue to th 2 memory of the late Mr . jO 3 hna Brotlierton , M . P waa pubhd y inaugurated on Thursday morning , in the Peel-park , Salford , in the presence of tlie corporations of Manchester and Salford , and a large namber of spectators , among whom were many ladies . The Mayor of Salford presided , and the speech of the day was delivered by the Bishop of Manchester , who highly extolled the character and deeds of the deceased gentleman . Sir John Potter , M . P ., Mr . Thornely , M . P ., of Wolv «? rhampton , and Mr . James Brotherton then briefly addressed the audience , after which the proceedings terminated . AusTBAUA .- ~ The rejection of the Reform Bill at Melbourne has created ! great excitement .

    The Coxsuxar Service . —The report of the Select Committee . of the House of Commons , appointed to inquire into the consular service and consular appointments , was issued on Thursday morning . The committee urgentlj' recommend the establishment of such a system of consular education and promotion as may tend to prevent the employment of any but British subjects as consuls , vice-consuls , or interpreters , in Northern Africa , Eastern Europe , and the Levant ; the prohibition of all consuls to engage in trade , except under certain conditions ; the diminution of the present number of vice-consuls in Europe ; such an organisation of the consular service as may divide its members into separate classes ; and the appropriation of all fees , except in cases of unpaid consuls , to the public account , the expenses of the office being regulated and defrayed bv Government .

    The Lagook . —I pulled rny broad-brimmed cap over ray eyes , and listened indolently to the gurgle of the water among the bulrushes . The boatmen never shifted their position , and I could hear the murmur of their voices a » they conversed with each other , and their low excited exclamation when they found a fish fast and dr «> w it cautiously on board . A flapper which had hidden itself among the reeds dropped noiselessly from the bank , and began swimming and diving rapidly along the shore . The flapping of wings overhead made me look up , and a flock of delicate quail passed me within a stone ' s cast , but veered suddenly round when I raised my arm , and , uttering a low cry of alarm , took a different route to the mainland . And this was the

    Lagoon , —the Lagoon as . it might have been a thousand years before , when homeless fugitives , flying before the hordes of Attila , found rest and refuge upon its barren islands . What was the prospect that greeted them a <* they looked down on the promised land from the passes of Cadore ? A dreary enough spectacle it was , and is again after the lapse of a thousand years . It is in the sea , and yet not of it . Th « tides of the Adriatic ebb and flow through its whole extent ; but the water , except in one or two of the larger channels , is not more than a foot or a couple of feet in depth , and at ebb-tide the Lagoon is a vast arena of mud . Scattered throughout it countless

    are compact sandbanks overgrown with coarse sea-herbs , and lined by gigantic bulrushes , haunted by the wild duck and the Avater-rat ; intersected by canals and open spaces of water , along which , as though it were along the land , white sails speed quickly and noiselessly ; teuanted by bright eyed lizards , and , the scattered huts of watermen , and legions of aquatic birds , whose shrill complaint mingles with the plash and murmur of the gathering tide ! Conceive one of the grandest dramas in European history enacted in a Norwegian morass or a Lincolnshire fen , and you will be able to understand the mysterious fascination of the Lagoon . —Frater ' a Magazine .

    Embezzlement by A Broker ' s Clerk . —Henry William Hunt , late clerk to Mr . Noel Whiting , colonial broker , 14 , Mincing-lane , was brought before the Lord Mayor yesterday , charged with having , sinca February , 1857 , embezzled various sums of money amounting to nearly 600 / ., tho property of his employers . Ho was remanded . Hocussing . —A cabman , named John Knight , was yesterday examined on remand at the Bow-street policeoffice , charged with u hocussing" a young woman at a disreputable house , and robbing her . Ho was committed for trial .

    Dkath op Mr . F . P . Wat-ksby . —The death of Francis Pearson Walesby , Eaq ,, B . C . L ., and M . A ., of Lincoln College , Oxford , barrister-at-law , and Kecorder of Woodstock , is announced . He expired after a short illness at Park-crescent , Oxford , on Thursday morning . Mr . Walesby took hlsB . A . degree in 1827 , having been called to tho bar tho previous year . Jle was formerly Fellow of Lincoln College , and from 1829 to 1884 was professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University . He had also held the office , of public examiner in law and modern history . By his death , tlio Rccordership of Woodstock , nnd one of the proctorships of the Chancellor ' .- ! Court in the University become vacant .

    Irish Party q * ' Independent Opposition . —A general meeting of the members of the Council of tlic Tenant League , and of tho Independent members of Parliament , will be hold on tho 17 th instant , at theCouncilrooms , in Dublin . The proposed object is to comider the course to be taken by tho mombors of tho Independent Irish Opposition party on tho reassembling of Parliament . —Morning > 8 tar .

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    772 - THE LEADER [ No . 4 a 7 , -Atotob 1 1858

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    —« . _ Leader Office , Saturday , August 7 th . THE CONTINENT . The Emperor has decided that , all France shall join in a Te Deum at the moment when he and the Empress are prostrate before the shrine of St . Anne of Aurav on August 15 th . Madame Benoit Fould , on the occ asion of -the death of her husband , has given the munificent sum of 10 OOOfr . to the poor of the second arrbnd issement of Paris ' without any distinction on the ground of religious tenets . On the meeting of the Belgian Chamber of Itepresentatives on Thursday , two Roy al decrees were read by the Minister of the Interior—one withdrawing the Government project relative to the fortifications of Antwerp , and the other pronouncing the close of the session . The Assembly separated immediately . " A certain Count Gaddi-Ercolani , " says a letter from Borne in the Debate , " was some time back arrested in this city , and imprisoned . Long comments were made on the subject ; but it now appears that it is a religions affair , the count having been guilty of lending to some persons the Protestant translation of the Scriptures known in Italy by the n ame of the Diodati Bible . " ' According to accounts froin Tegernsee , of the 2 nd inst ., the King of Prussia has within the last few days had some symptoms of gout . His medical attendants , it is said , consider this as the sign of a favourable change .

    Visit Of Her Majesty To Prussia. The Roy...

    VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO PRUSSIA . The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert , Captain the Hon . J . Den man , will take up her moorings off Gravesend immediately on her return from C herbourg , and it is expected that her Majesty and the Prince Consort will embark at Gravesend next Tuesday , on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Prussia . On the order being received tt Woolwich Dockyard to lay down moorings at Gravesend for the Roy al yacht during the present week , it was considered that her Majesty would disembark at Gravesend on returning from Cherbourg ; but this statement is founded in error . A numerous party of shipwrights , riggers , & c , have left Woolwich for Gravesend , to make the necessary arrangements for mooring the vessel , and preparing for the embarkation .

    The Atlantic Cable. A Despatch, Dated " ...

    THE ATLANTIC CABLE . A despatch , dated " Valencia , Friday morning , " says : — " Electric communication is maintained perfectly . In answer to the signals from our coils , they returned us , this morning , at 8 . 40 , accurately to Greenwich time , as directed , the prearranged landing signal . The complete instruments which were on board the Niagara for speking cannot possibly be adjusted for some days . "

    Chelska New Bridqig Will Be Opened Free ...

    Chelska New Bridqig will be opened free to foot passengers for the first time to-morrow ( Sunday . ) Murder of Two Children by their Mother . — Two children have been drowned bj r their mother ( a married woman ) in a small bay on the coast of Somersetshire . The eldest child was a girl , two years and a half old ; the other was a boy , about a twelvemonth old . The mother afterwards surrendered herself at the police-office at Flax Burton , eight miles from Bristol . She confessed the crime , but did not state her motive . According to report , the murderess is an intemperate and passionate woman , but her husband , a painter , is a very respectable person . Action kou Liiiei ... —An action was brought on Thursday at tho Guildford Assizes , by a Mr . Eastwood , " dealer in antiquities , against tho propriotors of the Athenaeum , for an alleged libel . Mr . Eastwood , last year , purchased a number of ancient relics which had been dug up at Shad well ; and the Athenaum had published a report of some proceedings at a meeting of tho British Archooological Association , at which relics of the kind in question were denounced as forgeries , and the particular relics owned by Mr . Eastwood were apparently glanced at . Mr . Justico Willes , however , was ol opinion that no case of libel had been made out , the assertion having been made in general terms , aiul the report being a bondjide account of what had passed at a public meeting . Tho jury therefore returned a verdict for the defendants . Attempted Assassination ok a Missionary at Amsterdam . —An attempt was tnado on . Sunday to assnaainuto the Rev . Mr . Schwartz , a Free Church Missionary to the Jews at Amsterdam , when about to preach from , tho pulpit . Tho would-bo assassin ( who was at once arrested ) is n Jew youth , actuated by religious zeal . Mr . Schwartz was seriously stabbed . Montkvidko . —A ' mixed commission has boon nppointed to settle tho Anglo-French claims on tho Montovidean Govornment for damages sustained during tho late siege of that port .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1858, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07081858/page/12/