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    without the intervention of multiplying gear . This quickness of piston motion , which is not attainable at low pressure , is one of the main advantages of the application . Another is the ijreat . aaruie of . space £ id weight , amounting to more than one-half . But what seemed to excite admiration most was the ease and auickness with which the motion -was reversed , which T ^ as repeatedly effected under unfavourable circumstances , and against the full steam pressure of a hundred and forty pounds on the inch , seven and eight times within thirty seconds . Upon tha whole , it is not too much to say tiat this very admirable arrangement bids fair to supersede all other applications of steam power to marine purposes , especially for screw steamers . —Leeds Mercury .

    . Qvkxv es , —A girl , tweaty-one yeais of age , named Emma Louisa Felstead , the daughter of a gun-implement maker at Islington , has committed suicide by drowning . She was described by the witnesses at the inquest as being a very sensitive , high-minded girl . A young man , named Parrofrt , was paying attentions to her , and they had an altercation between nine and ten o ' clock on the evening of Monday week . According to the testimony of her father , " she said to her lover , ' You ridicule and satirize the family when we are together , and I cannot bear it . ' After this , she went upstairs to her room and divested herself of her bracelets , combs , & c ., and , when the family retired to rest , slipped q uietLy out of the house , and was never after seen alive .

    IJpon her body was found a letter addressed to Parrott , where she had begun with several broken sentences , and Baying , ' Dear Jasper , I cannot stand this parting ; no one can tell how I love you . ' She had never evinced any suicidal tendency ; on the-contrary , she was always expressing her astonishment how persons could he so weafe > minded that way . Her friends were not aware of the intensity of her attachment . What preyed upon her mind very leavily was the return of ten shillings to her by Parrott , on the Monday night , which he had borrowed from her on the evening of the illuminations . "

    The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the testimony of the witnesses . —A man named George Bradley has killed himself by swallowing a large quantity of laudanum . He had just married a servant girl ; but poverty prevented his furnishing a house , or living with his wife , and he appears to have put an . end to his existence in a fit of despair . A verdict of Temporary Insa . nity was returned by the coroner ' s jury . —A factory worker in Bishopsgate-sfcreet , City , has hung himself on account of alleged hard treatment by a salesman on the premises .

    Cheshtre Agriculturai , Societt .- —The nineteenth anniversary of this society has been held at Nantwich . Mr . Tollemache , M . P ., presided at the dinner , and called , attention to a Scotch harvest-cart , which would undoubtedly carry nearly as much as any waggon ( the Scotch themselves said more , but that he questioned ) , and which was much lighter , presented far greater conveniences , and was about one-fifth of the expense . Waggons had become almost extinct in Scotland ; they were disappearing from Northumberland and other of the northern counties ; -and he hoped they would soon vanish from Cheshire . " With respect to farm agreements , he did not think it possiblesince the repeal of

    , the corn-laws and the recent discoveries of gold , to frame Bucb . a notion of the future price of agricultural produce as to form a fluctuating scale whereon , to let farms for a term of fourteen years . He had therefore adopted a portion of the Scotch system of farm tenure , the whole of which system , however , he trusted would never be introduced in England ; but his tenants ( particularly those in Suffolk ) diBliked this plan , and he had since determined on adopting annual agreements , with clauses which secure to the tenantB compensation for unexhausted improvements . His Suffolk and Northamptonshire tenants were well satisfied with , this plan , and he intended to introduce it on his Cheshire estates .

    ^ EoTAii Humane Society . —The Royal Humane Society at their last meeting awarded to Mr . John Laws Milton , surgeon , of Castle-street , Falcon-square , City , their honorary bronze medallion , and a vote of thanks inscribed on parchment , for his successful exertions in plunging in and rescuing a child from out of the ftledway Canal , near Gravesend , on the 9 th ult ., the child having fallen in while playing on the hanks . Salford Pree Library and Museum . — This valuable institution is about to bo enlarged by tho addition of a new wing , and other architectural improvements , at a cost of above 25007 . The Museum has been

    Xary successful . It now possesses an oxcellenfc library Cf modern literature , amounting to 18 , 000 volumes . It has issued tUo large number of 410 , 000 volumes to tho !*?* £$ ?? who daily froquont tho reading-room . A lending fiTFl ' B ^ tuched . Three-fifths of tho books borrowed fma 7 iT ^ ¥ * P » sftnt tales , novels , and romances , KM ^ two-fifths are works upon history and * SEm £ rtv ** ' , . Nine-tcn" > 8 of tho 2300 borrowers uSXL JPl ^^ S-elasses , one-fifth of the entire SS R « rfm Jt ° TrOnum > * nd 15 ° aro soWiers of the llavemlrTof 2 noT 8 tat ! C > ncd at tho Salford barracks . W e 5 Ty > t theycaT ^ *»* « ™ 30 ura «* library Ireland , Hungauy , and Pola-nt * '" '• i n i i ^ , Ks ~^ rirSi

    Austrian Government to refute you ( zmjpar congressmf ) , and who asserts that Ireland is more oppressed than Poland or Hungary , be kind enough to inform us how many of the Irishmen taken prisoners by the Russians volunteered to serve against the tyrannical English ? because it appears , by returns in the English War-office , that out of 274 Poles taken , at Bomarsund , all , excepting eight only , enlisted in the Turkish service without bounty , and on condition of receiving the same pay as the Turkish soldiers—about Is . per week . It might also be well , if he -would at the same time explain how it

    happens that England , wath considerably fewer than 20 , 000 soldiers , can coerce Ireland ( writhing under her unparalleled wrongs ) , -when 200 , 000 Aus . trians were unable to reduce Hungary to subjection without the assistance of 180 , 000 Russians ?—and what is the reason that Queen Victoria dares to permit Smith O'Brien ' s return to distracted Ireland , while the Emperor Francis-Joseph , not only keeps in exile Kossuth and innumerable other Hungarians , but makes it a ground of complaint against her Majesty ' s Government that it affords them an asylum , in a spot so near as England to the Austrian dominions ? " . .

    The late Tvrkish Contingent . —A correspondent of tue Times complains of the illiberal treatment of the English officers of the late Turkish Contingent ( of whom he was one ) , and of the hardships to which the men have been , abandoned , and contrasts these grievances with the favours showered on the officers of the German , Swiss , and Italian legions , who were allowed to make a bargain befbre"b . and , and who are now to be rewarded with , grants of land in the colonies . A Noble Woman ant > ait Ignorle Ma ^ . — -An instance of womanly presence of mind and unmanly parsimony occurred at Soutbend last Saturday afternoon . A gentleman had engaged a bathing-machine , and had swum out about a hundred feet from the machine , when a cry was heard of " Save me , save me ! " He was attacked with cramp ; his arms were upright and his fingers extended- A young man swam out to him , and

    could have brought him ashore had not ' the drowning man clasped him round and prevented further action ; they both sank twice together . At this moment , a delicatelooking young woman , about twenty years of age ( Miss Emma Ingrana , residing at the Royal Southend Baths , near the pier ) , rushed into the sea and swam out to them with all her clothes on , and succeeded in holding both up until a boat arrived and lescued them . The drowning man was taken ashore insensible , and the usual remedies were applied with success ; but what was the reward offered to this young woman who bad risked her own life for a straiiger ? and -what was the value of this gentleman ' s life ? Just one shilling , for that was the amount he tendered to Miss Ingram , and has since added ingratitude to his meanness , by stating that he was not in such , danger as was supposed .- —Correspondent of the Times .

    The Belgian Congress and British Chambers of Commerce . —The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has appointed a deputation to the Freertrade Congress about to be held at Brussels , and it lias selected for this duty its chairmen , leading men , and secretary . It was expected that the Liverpool Chamber would have also been represented , but it seems that the council of that body has decided otherwise . In the report last week , the subject was referred to , but no motion was made when the report was read ; and tlic council , inconsequence , has resolved not to appoint a deputation .

    India and China . —The last mail from , the East does not bring much intelligence of importance . In India , a treaty is being negotiated with the Momund chiefs , hitherto tho only disturbers of the peace on the north-west frontier . Burmah is to be made over to tUo Madras army . Oudo is perfectly quiet , and our forces there are to bo reduced . Lord Canning is at Calcutta : his health has improved . The annual report of the trade of Calcutta shows great improvement . —In China the rebels took possession of Tanyang on the Cth of July—a step which brings them close to Souchow , tho capital of tho province , and the outlet of commerce from Shanghai . The Imperial fleet of forty sail is cooped up near Nankin . The American house of Wotmore and Co . has suspended payment . Mr . Howard Cunningham has been killed by the Chinese .

    Australia . —Heavy rains havo hindered tho diggers , but , nevertheless , the yield of gold continues good . The total gold received at Molhourno by escort from the beginning of tho year to tho 19 th of Juno was over 900 , 000 ounces . The balance of trade continues largely in favour of the colony . In the week ending tho 19 th of June , tho value of exports was 805 , 0007 . ; imports , 243 , 000 ? . The two Houses of tho new Sydney Legislature met for tho first time on tho 22 nd of May , when Mr . Daniel Cooper was elected Speaker by a casting majority of one vote . New Zealand . —At Narananki , on tho 3 rd of May , the natives fought with tho British troops , when oightoon were killed and wounded . Gold has been discovered near Nolaon , aa well as a large lode of copper at the height of 1800 feet on tho Dun Mountain . Uninsured property , valued at 25 , 0007 ., has been destroyed by fire at Wellington .

    1 he Gaming Tables on the Rhine . —Two tragedies of tho German ' hells' are related by a correspondent of tho Times , who , writing from " Wiesbaden , sayB : — "A terrible scene occurred , hero last Monday ( the 1 st inst . ) (

    A young man , said to he an officer in vthe Dutch service who has for s « n » e time past been a yearl y frequenter of the '•* Kur-saal , ' and had just lopt everythuig he possessed at play , blew out bis brains while sitting at the gaming-table . A momentary pause took place , but vary shortly , even before the poor man's blood had been washed from the floor , gambling was resumed as madly as before . A week only previous to this event an English officer destroyed himself under like circumstances at Homburg . It is eaid—and I trust thaje is truth in the report—that the Duke of Nassau will shortly expel the hell-keepers irom his dominions , and that be will exert his influence with other German princes to induce them to do the same . "

    Pjcracy at Quebec- —Piracy is carried to sucu an extent in theharbour of Quebec , that , night after ni ^ ht ships are boarded by ruffians armed with revolvers , Tvlio carry off the crew , threaten the masters and officers -with instant death if they resist , and plunder the vessels of all valuables . The dead loss during the present season will not be less than 100 , 0 . 007 . The authorities seem to be powerless to resist . The Poob-law Boar 3 > in Collision with a Union . —One of tbe largest unions in tho west of England that of St . Thomas , near Exeter—has come into

    unpleasant collision with the Poor-law Board . The guardians , on the death of one of their relieving officers , did riot wish to iill up the vacancy , but to pay the remain ing three better salaries , so as to enable them to keep good horses and do the work efficiently . The Poor-law Board sent their assistant commissioner , Mr . Gulson , to confer with the guardians , and the result is that a peremptory order has been received , requiring the St . Thomas ' s guardians to proceed to the election of a fpurth relieving officer , notwithstanding their request to be allowed a trial of three for six months . * The parish authorities are determined to resist .

    The Roy-ax . British IBank . —The petition for an adjudication of bankruptcy against this bank has been ^ dismissed by Mr . Conunissioner Holroyd , on the ground ^ that an uicorporated jconapany . cannot "be made bankrupt under the Bankruptcy Consolidation Act , and there were no reasons to suppose that the company had committed an act of bankruptcy under the > Winding-up Act . An Act of Intolerance . —A short time ago , at Shanghae ( soys the CJiina Mail ) , a Singapore-born Chinese , who had purchased a carriage , was driving on the race-course with his wife and children— -his wife being also a British subj eet , and speaking the English language—when he was accosted in a rude and threatening manner by a . clerk in . an English mercantile house ,

    and ordered off the course under risk of having his head broken . He preferred the former alternative , and left the course , but appealed , to the secretary of the race committee , complaining ; of the uncivil treatment he had received , and claiming the privilege of other British subjects , of admission to the course upon payment of the usual subscription . Tie reply , worded in the most courteous language , contained a refusal on the part of the committee , on the ground that though they had no objection to- the applicant personally , still he was " a Chinese in all respects but that of birth , " and that could only be known to acquaintances ; they were therefore , though sorry he should be disappointed , " obliged to include him in this particular among the inhabitants of the place , -to whom access to the course is denied . "

    The New Representative at Naples . —The mission at Naples , vacant by Sir William Temple ' s death , will , we hear , be reserved for Sir Henry Bulwer , after he shall have returned irom his present temporary employment in the Principalities . —Daily News . . . The Case op Henry Cort . —It is satisfactory to hear that the appeal which has been made on behalf of the son andl two surviving daughters of Henry Cort , and which has been backed up by the approval of the most eminent engineers and ironfounders in the kingdom , is now beginning to tell . What is required now is merely a subscription to defray the cost of tho publication of this case , and application to Parliament for the redress of the great injustico which has been done to a great national benefactor . The names of Messrs . Maudslay and Field , and Mr . Robert Stephenson , are first in the list of contributors , —Daily 2 S [ ew 3 .

    A Patient Inquirer . —The over-inquiring Herman Hcinfetter has once more made Iiis appearance in the advertising columns of tho papers , seeking for spiritual knowledge in connexion with " tho authority for tbo non-observance ef the Seventh Day . " Tho main botly of the advertisement is dated " lat Sabbath of 1852 ;" then convsa this postscript , dated September 1 st , 185 G : — " Again , for the One Million Three Hundred Thousandth time , I inquire , ' Hath the Lord as groat delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices , as in obeying tlio voice of tho Lord ? ' " It is surely time to give " up inquiry , ii

    no answer is granted to so many iterations of tlio same question . Mr . Heinfotter comes to this conclusion : — "It appears , That thoro is no authority for the Nonobservance of tho Seventh Day , above Dogmatic Teaching ; or , Tho Edict of a Living Infallible Head . Mny Almighty God grant us to consider , Whothcr if the Non-observanco of ttio Seventh Day is not preached by St . Paul , and whero is it preached by him ? wo arc not cursed by tho apostle , if we so Preach , even though we claim to have powers equal to the' Angels of Heaven . ' See Galatians , 1-8 . " This Distressed Curate . —The Essex Curate , whose

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• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13091856/page/10/