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    make lanation The ^ Na jg^ AuGUST 7, 185...

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    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. An aged wom...

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    FRANCE, (From a Private Corespondent.' )...

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    THE KOYAL VISIT TO CHERBOURG. Tiui groat...

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    Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. A...

    to make an explanation . The prisoner had asserted in palliation of his offence that he was engaged as assistantmaster at 35 ? . per annum , but -was onlv paid at the rate of 30 t per annum . The Rev . Mr . Byrth , in the absence of the proprietress of the school , could not give a contradiction to this statement ; but he was now e . iabled to do so by the production of Smith ' s own receipts , three in number , each for a quarter ' s salary , from which it appeared that he bad been paid ( in accordance with the agreement entered into with him ) 8 / . 159 . per quarter , and that the first quarter ' s salary was paid in advance the first day he was engaged , and the others as they became due . _

    Crinoline is henceforth a suspected article with all Custom House officers . Ellen Casey , a well-dressed young woman , was observed by Mr . Gardner , a lide ^ surveyor of Customs , to exhibit great rotundity of person as she -was preparing to leave a foreign steam vessel at St . Katherine ' s Wharf . He delicately alluded to the fact , which was attributed b y the young woman to crinoline . Not satisfied , the suspicious Mr . Gardner landed the young woman over to one of the female searchers , who speedily delivered her of twenty-two pounds and a half of cigars . She pleaded Guilty at the Thames police-office , and was sentenced to pay a fine of 100 / . or to be imprisoned for six months . "You will have no faith in crinoline again ? " inquired Mr . Yardley of the official . "Never , sir ! " said that infidel , emphatically . "I shall always suspect every woman who wears crinoline . ' The ladies are now fairly warned . Let them look to it .

    Catherine Dunn , the wife of a soldier who has served much in . India , was tried at the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday with stealing a pair of gloves in a haberdasher ' s Shop . There appeared to be no doubt whatever as to her haying taken the gloves ; but it seemed probable that she was in a state of mental aberration owing to the climate of India ( in which she had been with her husband ) having affected her brain , to excitement with respect to the Indian massacres , and to her being then in the family way . The jury therefore Acquitted her ; at which there was some applause in court .

    Make Lanation The ^ Na Jg^ August 7, 185...

    ^ Na jg ^ AuGUST 7 , 1858 , ] THE LEADER . »«* ^ — ^ ^_ . ^^ ^— _ : ^__

    Accidents And Sudden Deaths. An Aged Wom...

    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . An aged woman has been burnt to death , in Ogilviestreet , Manchester . She lived with her sister , a Mrs . Latham , who , in the middle of the night , -was wakened by hearing a crackling- noise . She perceived that the adjoining bedroom , in which her sister slept , was oh fire . An alarm was given , and the police and fire-engines soon arrived , but too late to save the life of the woman . The body was found on the floor at the foot of the bed , ¦ with the burning bedclothes wrapped round it . A candlestick was found on a small table near the bed , with the candle burnt down to the socket . It is supposed that the candle ignited the curtains , and that they set fire to the bed . The poor creature probably tlien got out of bed , and dragged the clothes off with her . She was eighty-four years of age , and very infirm .

    1 wo brothers , named Henry and William Moult , residing at Kirkby-hi-Ashfield , Nottingham , were excavating a well on Monday afternoon . The younger brother , William , had occasion at one time to go down the wollby means of a rope ; and , when within a few yards of the bottom , lie was heard to fall . Henry then took hold of the rope , with the intention of following him ; but he also fell to the bottom . Assistance was procured , and , after an hour ' s exertion , the bodies were recovered , for both men by this time were dead . The foul air of the well liad so affected them as to make them insensible , and therefore not able to retain their hold on the rope .

    Two of the sufferers by the explosion of a large boiler at the works of Messrs . Morrison , Ouseburn , Newcaatleon-Tyne , on Thursday week , have died from the injuries they received . Their names are James Fielding and Charles Edwin . The other persons injured are recovering . An inquest has been formally opened and adjourned . A melancholy accident took place about a week ago at the village of Minchcud , Somersetshire . Mr . Gower , manager of the Tiverton branch of the National Provincial Bank of England , was recently married to a daughter of the late F . B . Beevor , Esq ., solicitor , of Chancery-lane , London ; and , immediately after the ceremony , the bride and bridegroom proceeded on an excursion to the principal towns and villages of Devonshire and Somersetshire . Having arrived at Dunster , a small watering-place about two miles from Minchcad , they

    rested there for tho night . A liltle after sin o'clock on the following morning , Mr . Gower rose , saying that lie was not very well , and would take a walk by the senside . Being absent an unusually long time , hid wife became uneasy , and , inquiries having been made about him , his hat was discovered on tho beach at Minohead , after a long scarcli . As it wus then supposed that he must have been drowned , efforts were immediately mudu to recover the body , and after u few more hours' search it was found lying on the sanda partly undressed . It is conjectured that Mr . Gower had intended to bathe , but that , as ho was in the act of undressing , the tido came rapidly up , and tho place abounding in sand-Lanka and being one of the most dnngerouH on the const , he was carried away by the force of the current before ho could make his escape .

    France, (From A Private Corespondent.' )...

    FRANCE , ( From a Private Corespondent . ' ) The Prohibitionists are evidently massing their forces for tue twofold purpose of offering determined resistance to any attempt that may be made to modify the taxes they levy on the nation , under pretexts worthy only of the most frivolous Chauvinisme ; and , also , to impose , by an appearance of great strength , their wishes — -or rather commands—upon the timorous members of the Government . The array of their battalia may loom grandly enough at a distance , but on coming to close quarters it would be found to be not very formidable , for the different constituents have often antagonistic interests . Like an army composed of various races of men , speaking no common tongue , and bound together by no great and truthful principle , but merely united by the hopes of plunder , the Prohibitionists' forces are doomed to fall topieceSi Under the first influence of defeat , one faction would be willing to sacrifice the resfc , in the hope of being able to escape pursuit with its ill-gotten booty ; and success -would set them all by the ears to obtain the largest division of the spoil , like the lieutenants of 41 Macedonia ' s madman . " Perhaps , and that is the more probable , investigation -would reduce the Prohibitionists ' forces to more modest proportions than they pretend to , like FalsiajFs men in buckram . For there is no branch of Prohibitionist traders who , while clamouring for rigorous protection to their own manufacture , do not desire , in secret , free trade in the other departments of commerce . The ironmaster would be delighted if the unfettered introduction of foreign coal were to reduce the cost of native fuel . The manufacturer of muslins and cotton

    fabrics would be rejoiced to be permitted to use lowpriced English twist . The machine-maker demands nothing better than the free importation of foreign metals and fuel ; and manufacturers of all sorts of goods would be glad to get their machinery from abroad . And so it is , every class cries aloud to be protected , but would not object if others were submitted to the regime of free trade . Not long since a Lille manufacturer landed at Calais from England , -wrapped up in a shepherd ' s plaid , tiiough on a hot night , in order to pass it through the custom-house without paying duty , on the plea of its being wearing apparel for his own . use , and was indignantly surprised , after having given his name , trade , and address , at being told by the officer that he must pay the entrance dues , and that he , of all men , ought not to seek to evade duties imposed for his own benefit and the special protection of native industry .

    I have before remarked on the singular manoeuvres to which the prohibitionists Tesort , and the unworthy tactics they employ , to enlist popular prejudice on their side , and to their endeavours to revive , for mere trade purposes , national feelings of ill-will which all ight-thinking men must desire should be allowed to slumber . But with these gentry whatever serves their turn or helps to maintain the delusion that their monopoly , that is to say , large profits , is essential to the prosperity and glory of France , is eagerly laid hold of . Accordingly , a fiction has just been published , in a-weekly collection of novels by Alexandre Dumas and other noted writers , -which , is intended to portray the

    sufferings and misery of an ironmaster in the Haute-Marne , whose undertaking had been crushed by the competition of England and Belgium ( se trouvait e ' erase ' e par les concurrences de la Belgique et de l'Angleterre ) . Over the pathetic description of , these imaginary woes all the novel readers throughout France are expected to weep and to be induced by the perusal of the " sorrows of ( an industrial ) Wetter" to rise up against perfidious England and enlist under the banners of prohibition . I am not aware that the protectionists of England engaged the services of any novel writer—save Mr . Disraeli—to advocate their cause before their final defeat , and have therefore allowed themselves to be distanced in ingenuity by their brethren on this side of the

    water . In spite of their noisy efforts , the prohibitionists do not appear over sanguine of much longer maintaining their flag intact . Bit by bit they seem to anticipate it will fce shredded away and they are now casting about to find an equivalent . No one can blame them for this measure of prudence ; but it seems most inconsistent that gentlemen who cry out against Government interfering with them and their profits , should call upon the state to compel others to reduce their prices , as they have done recently on more than one occasion .

    Paris , Thursday , Ilalf-jiast Six , p . m . —What with the great heat , -which has returned with redoubled vigour to us within tho last two days , and the absorbing interest of the Cherbourg meeting , the Bourse opened to-day very heavilj ' . RighMy or wrongly , speculators hero will persist in seeing in the visit of the Knglish Queen to the great military port of France , an indication of a desire to preservo peace at all hazards , and of a deference to French politics . At first the Bourse was disturbed by rumours set afloat by the advocates of M . de Lcsseps ' s Suez canal , that tho Emperor intended to give Lord Mnlmosbury ( for I presume lie would think of addressing her Majesty on such a subject ) a " bit of his inind " relative to tho opposition of Lord Derby ' s Government to tho scheme . Later in the day , additional news came from Cherbourg , although what wus its nature no one seemed to ha \ e tho most

    remote idea ; but its effect was to restore calm , and send the Three per Cents , up from 68 f . 20 c , their opening price , to 6 gf . 40 c . I am inclined to believe , in reality that Cherbourg news has had very little Co do with the improvement , but tlat it proceeds from the increase in the railway receipts . The augmentation is stated to be no less than 17 , 000 f . on the Western line—here Cherbourg may have exercised an influence—and 212 , 000 f . on the Lyons-Mediterranean . Bank of France shares calm

    were at 31 O 0 f . with a downward tendency to u ^ c . isconnt Bank shares , 670 f ., after payment of the 20 f . dividend . Railway Bank , 29 Of ., and Bonnard ' s Bank shares fell to 71 f . 25 c . to rise again to 73 £ 75 c . Fortune has favoured the . Credit Mobilier to-day Its shares , which opened at 6 l 5 f ., rose rapidly to 62 8 f . 75 c . In the railway market , Austrians rose from 626 f . 25 c . to 628 f . 75 c ; Russians stood at 501 f . 25 c ; Victor Ennanuels rose from 412 f . 50 c . to 415 f . ; while Lombards stood at 573 f . 75 c . : FraneoiR-. TnRAnVi at A 7 K-F- kAa . ¦ ' . stood at 573 f . 75 c . ; Francois-Joseph at 475 f 50

    ; c . ; Romans at 470 f . ; and Saragossa at 455 f . Among French lines , Orleans shares , which opened feebly at 1260 f ., rose to 1270 f . ; Lyons-Mediterranean from 765 f . to 771 f . 25 c . ; Old Northern from 917 f . 50 c . to 920 f ., and New ditto , to 785 f . ; Easterns from 647 f . 50 c to 060 f ., under the influence of -large purchases ; Southerns , which are coming into favour with speculators , went from 512 f . 50 c . to 5 l 5 f . 25 c . ; Westerns from 600 f . to 602 f . 50 c ; Daupnine from 515 f . to 517 f . 50 c . ; New Ardennes from 470 f . to 472 f . 50 c ; Geneva shares stood still at 57 7 f . 50 c at first , but at last reached 580 f . ; and Beziers fell to 150 f . » rising again to 195 f . wliich must have left a tolerably large margin for profit

    to the buyer . The exchanges are : — On London , 25 f . 7 £ c . sight , 24 f . 90 c . SO days Frankfort , 2 l 2 £ f . „ 212 „ Amsterdam , do . ,, 210 f . „ Hamburg , 187 £ f . „ 186 £ „ Berlin , 373 f . „ 370 „ . Naples , 434 f . - „ 430 „ Vienna , 242 f . „ 239 | „ StPetersburg , 373 £ f . ,, 370 ,, Madrid , 517 £ „ 512 § » The latest quotations of the Paris market are , for Corn . per 100 kilcg .: —Prime , 24 f . 16 c . to 25 f . ; firsts 23 f . 53 c , to - 2 . 3 f . ' 95 c . ; seconds , 12 f . 70 c to 23 f . 33 c . thirds , 22 f . 08 c . to 22 f . 50 c . Flour , per 100 kilog .

    average , 34 f . 23 c . ; in stock , 10 , 748 quintals of 1 O 0 kilog . each , of which 553 sold . Best Wheaten Bread , 35 c . the kilog ., equal to about 7 d . the 41 b . 16 af . Oats , outside Paris , and therefore exclusive of octroi duties , per 109 kilog ., prime , 25 f . 33 c to 25 f . 66 c ; first , 24 f . to 24 f . 33 c . ; seconds , 22 f . to 22 f . 33 c . Sugars : Martinique and Guadaloupe , good quality , per 100 kilog ., 125 f . to 12 ( if . ; beetroot , 141 f . to 142 f . Spirits ( Montpellier ) , 7 8 f . the nectoHtre ; first quality , 90 degrees , 55 f . Colza Oil , 107 f . 50 c . the barrel . Soap , mottled , 90 f . the 100 kilog . ; white ditto , 117 f . French suet , 123 f . the ICO kilog . Cattle at Sceaux ori the 2 nd . : oxen , 1936 hea < 1 , the kilog ., first quality , If . 36 c . to If . 40 c . ; heifers , > 542 head ; the kilog ., If . 23 c . ; calves , 455 ; the kilog ., If . 38 c ; sheep , 16 , 876 ; the kilo £ ., If . 46 c .

    Havre . —The cotton market is calm , and the sales , wliich rose to over 4000 bales on the 2 nd , fell to IO 50 on the 3 rd . The prices are at a standstill , and long staple fell from' 25 f . to 40 f . lower than was anticipated . Nothing doing in sugars in spite of the rise in beetroot . Wool was in great request , especially South American , Prices were consequently well maintained . 21 bales from La Plata sold at 135 f . to 230 f . the 100 > kilog . ; 48 bales Cordova washed , 180 f . to 19 Of . The total sales for July were , Buenos Ayres 793 bales , lOOf . to 235 f . the 100 kilog . ; ditto , 50 bales v / aslied , 180 f . to 225 F . ; ditto , 50 bales of lambskins , 70 f . to 105 f . Bombay , 77 bales , 120 f . to 200 f . Chili , 15 bales , 18 Of . ; ditto , washed , 6 bnle 3 215 f . Australia , 13 bales damaged , 400 f . to 500 f .

    Mar . skim . es . —Wool sells easily , and at former prices ; spirits are firm , the Montpellier at 73 f , the hectolitre , lieotroot spirit has risen to 62 f . in consequence * of large sales at 60 f . Lyons . —From tho quantity of silk sent in tho counting-house , thero is every reason to believe that the trade is improving , and that manufacturers are buying largely to replenish their stocks . The prices are : —raw silk , Cevennes , 94 to 9 Of . the kilog . ; Romans , 68 f . ; Aubenas , ( 57 to 70 f . ; Organsin , best , 11 » to 120 f . ; and it is remarked that tlie quality of the silk is far superior to what it was last year .

    The Koyal Visit To Cherbourg. Tiui Groat...

    THE KOYAL VISIT TO CHERBOURG . Tiui groat event of the scusou has this week tnken pluec . Her Majesty has visited Cherbourg , and sucn the inauguration of the groat works which tlto French Emperor has just completed . The- ships of wnr -which wero appointed to form tho convoy left Spithead at an early hour on Wednesday morning ; and the Osliorne Koyal yacht , together with the Hlack Eagle , bearing the Admiralty Hag , and having Sir John Piikington , First Lord of tho Admiralty , on board , loft Osboruo soon alter ten o ' clock , and proceeded up tho Solent . At twenty minutes past twelve , the Victoria ami Albert was seen from

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07081858/page/9/