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      Oct. 13, 1860] The Saturday Analyst And'...

      Oct . 13 , 1860 ] The Saturday Analyst and'Leader . 869

      Wotf Lntigam, Or The Convict Settler Of ...

      Wotf lnTigam , or the Convict Settler of Jervis Bay . A tale ofthe Church in Australia . Loiicloii : J . IK aml-S . Parker , 377 , Strund . This is one of the series of miscellaneous tales issued by the . above firm . It contains a good deal- of information about the . subjects it is intended to elucidate , and gives us a deep insight into life under the peculiar conditions it professes to describe . Messrs Ucust & Blackett ' s New Works . —We see that the Great Marlborough-street firm announce the following : — " Meirioirs of the Courts and Cabinets of "William--IT " , and Victoria , from original Family Documents , " by the Duke of ^ Buckingham , 2 vols . — "Studies from Life , " by the Author of "John Halifax , Gentleman , " 1 vol . — " Memorials , Personal and Historical , of Admiral Lord Gainuier , with original Letters from Lord Chatham , Lord JSVlson , Lord Castlcreagh , Lord Mulgrave , Fox , Canning , Ac . " edited , from Family Papers , by Lady Chattcrton , 2 vols . — " British Artists , from Hogarth to Turner , being a Series of Biographical Sketches , " by Mr . Walter Tho . riib . ury , 2 vols . "A Book about Doctors , " by Mr . j . C . Jeiiilresori , 2 vols . — " Six Years of a Traveller ' s Life in Western Africa , " by Francisco Valdcz , 2 vols . — " A Saunter through the West End , " by Leigh Hunt , 1 vol . — " The English Sportsman in the Western Prairies , " by the Hon . ¦ Granlley Berkeley , 1 vol . with- Illustrations . — "Two Years in Switzerland nnd Italy , " b y Fretlrika Bivmcry translated by Mary Ilovitt , 2 vols .: — "The Tall-. y of a . Ilunderd Fires , " by the Author of "Margaret and her Bridesmaids . " 3 vols . — " Katherine and her Sisters , " by Lady Emily .-Ponsonby , 3 vols . — " Ths House on the Moor , " by the Author of Margaret Maitlmp , " £ e . 3 vols . — "nigh Places , " by CKT . Lowlh , Esq ., j Author of the " . Wanderer in Arabia , " & c . 3 vols . I Proposed " Xj £ \ v Lloyds . "—We see that a new Marine Insurance j - Company is now in eou . rso' of formation at 79 , Lombard-street . The . novel-and important feature being that the -whole of the Direction- is to consistof Underwriters . Such an institution as this promises 'to be ' -. come one of t lie requirements of the tilnos , as those who peruse our ! ' article " Wrecks of 1850 " may well conclude . To tlio superficial it i might-, at the Ih * sb blush , appear asif the gresiterthe number of wrecks , the | worse for the Leader writers ; but the unerring law of" averages " settles | this in favour of the Insurance Olfices , by the supplemental fact , that the greater the risk , the . ' greater ' the nuriiber of insurers ; the real result being that ¦ -there isthus afforded a profitable field for the in-: j vestment of capital in the Marine' Insurance business , which would inot b-. i open to commercial enterprise , if storms did not cuter so largely j into nil ufcuiosplierii . ' phenomena j or if the . application . of science had ; brought about a state of things in which maritime" casualties" had \ disappeared . from out record of current history . There . is every pros- ! ¦ jK * ct . of ( he Company Inking a high position ; combining as it will all the dements of suruess that arcs to be found in capital , givat practical espericjice , both in t he busjiicfcs and general management a > £ the Company , with a connexion that id practically "without limit . j " t e y d 1 1 y i - 3 - } - [ i j : j ' | i | ; ! j ; I

      Record Of The -Week. Home 'And Coloxial....

      RECORD OF THE -WEEK . HOME ' AND COLOXIAL . Last week close : ! "with line weather-at home and good naw .-j from nbroad , so far as tho success of the liberal arms in , Italy is concerned , tit-ill the possible complications that iniy nriso out of the critical position of aifaira in that country , caused a slight depression in pubJiu socuritiea , which went down about an eighth . The bullion in the bank hud diminished ty the extent of dU ; iSu ' , b ! . > 3 , being -.-615 , 8 ( 39 , OSS in all , as against , C 1 U , 255 , O 51 in the previous week . The . closing price of consols lust woek was 1 ) 3 } to i | opening this week at the samo- figure , and with great steadiness . Lust Sunday , tho riots in St . Gvorgo ' s in the East were rehowod with redoubled energy and y . est , as if tho malcontents were determined , now that tho evenings aro dravring-in a-oaoc , to make ajjort in good earnest aftor tliti irreverent fashion . Sheer mischief and unuoyanoo is clearly tho object of tho rioters j and such disturbances Wo havo rea / jon to believe will now bo summarily- put down . . Tho deluges of wet wliich have recently done scavenger ' s work on a gigniitic ccale , Ilioroughly cleansing tho etrools and flushing tho sowers , Imvc , however , considerably impeded tho main draiimgo works . At tha last meeting of tho Metropolitan Board of Works this was staler ! , and it was announced tint thov would now bj vigorously carried on . The question as to the liability of vohurtrfoivi to pay toll again camo boforo tlio magistrate nt Murylebono on S : » 1 urd : » y , when lie decided that tii . o oxotnpl ions in thu not , not uuroly include infunlry on tho march bill applied to all volunteers when ongnged in tho publio sorvici ) . The summons , t here-fore , wliiuli hud boon taken out to recover toll from a volunteer sergeant who had lvfusod to pay , was dismissed . The erijnin '; i ! record of tho wools oontiiinii the aommiltnl , both by tho magistrates nnd tho coroner ' s jury , of Euinm Stringer , tho accused in tho Wakefk'ltl poisoning cusp , which has occupied so inucli attention lately . It ia n curious and suggestive eiroumatunpo that this season , which hns been one of . ijieleincni ; weather throughout , there hiis boon n greater amount of excursion ti-nllle on tho various lines of ruihvay diverging from tho niotropolii than hin boon reoot'ducl in any previous Buinnun * Tho Brighton Knilwuy and thu lines to tlie South Ooust havo boon conspicuous for their stations ontloavourci to place tho fiiuilitius nfl ' . iriled by cheap pxeimions into tho rounlry and to tho soanidi ? , within tho roach ol all by Urn cnii'icncy ol' tliuir nrritii ^ MinontB , nnd 1 . 1 m lowm-sa of llioir fares , Tlioexcjuirion trnvolliug by these linos to tho most , favonrito roijortu op our cousts , and ( lirou ^ li tho vovy "/ prardoij of Jinghmd , " hns boon at thonife of about a furlliing a iniK ' . Tlio impotim lima given to olionp travelling I ins spread , lts inlliuMico in every direction i nnd vnst inulliiiulcs , during tho oxcursion season whioh tonninutos this month , huvo availud tlieinat'lvvrt of it a ndvantngos . Homo of I ho Hlinday trains , na tho short one On tho Grout Northorn lino , duo af , KingV Orpsfl at l > o ' clunlc , were taken oil ' lunt Hunday . Tliu ritmunurutivo ylmra'btoi' of Iheso oxoiiroiou trains ia niiothor illustration of tho truism t . ) wt tho ninountofoustum wliicli low in'iees are wrtHiu toBOCiiro in o « 8 os lilce this , proves far moreprofllablo than the old » yatom of high chnrgoB , |

      The fine -weather of last week was simultaneous with a slightly increasing mortality . The , deaths in t lie metropolis reached 1 , 075 , a somewhat higher number than thofie of the week preceding . If we take the general average , liover . er , the ' result-will preseiit . a satisfactory -aspect .-: . During the quarter tliat terminated en -the 20 th September t . Lere were 12 . 919 registered death ' s in London '; vliile dining the correeponding quarter in thcprcvioiisfour yi { U £ t ] icrevvere , in 1 SD 9 no loss than 19 , 010 ; in 1658 there were 14-, 3-i 5 j in ] S 57 there \ vcre 1 J . 2 C 9 : and in 1 S 56 there were 14 0 C 6 ; and the 12 , 216 deaths of tlie past quarter of it ho present , year , are upon a population increased beyond the number of the previous years . ] N o doubt-the cold . weather , so ' unfavourable to various iir . d of vegatable productions , Lad an opposite effect as' re : gards human health ; but it must . be remembered that the lowncss of the mortality of this season , is in scire measure rJucto the great munj bers of iuilrni lives prematurely killed by the curly and continued frost i of lust vinter . . ! In cycry department of licire news . this week there is a perfect i . dearth cf matt rials . With the exception of theatrical novelties there j feemo nothing stirring but stagnation . There is , however , one very j painful subject en ' wliicli there are unhappily new items to chronicle . [ We allude to the criminal , record of tie week . Ann Pad field has been j committed from Worship-strict , for the child murder at Lea-bridge ; j and tlie coroner ' s jury has ibuiid , a verdict of wilful murder against ! Milncr Lockey , -who shot Thomas Harris on , at Urpc-rlh near -JS ' ew-. castle-upon-Tyne . . ' A Siivirii MiDAxhas been awarded to Mr . Tliorley for his famous Cattle Food Condiment . The following is a copy of the letter from the-Ivei ghicy Acric-ullural Society on the subject : — . ¦ " Xeighloy , 3 rd Oct ., 1 SC 0 . et Sir , —I am directed- by the -. Committee of the -Keighley Society to forward to you tho Society ' s Silver Medal on account of the Cattle Food you exhibited at their Show on ( he . 5 th September . I forward tliis letter and the Medal by the same post . "I ain , Sir , yours trulr , " Mr . J . Thorlrty , London . "B . FAWCIiTT , Secretary . " FOREIGN . Tiding 3 having arrived as last week drew to a close of a collision ¦ . '¦ between Garibaldi and tlie Neapolitan troops , attended with entire suecess to the former . Along the whole line " of . operations the position of ' the liberating nioverneat wasplnced on a more satisfactory footing than the sinister i ' orobodings , hastily ventured upon misunderstood faefs ^ wore calculated to m . ; ko th'j publiu believe . ^ To less than 5 , 000 prioonei's were said to ba taken by the victors , while tlie scattered remnants of tho enemy who escaped capture were flvincy fronj the scene of action in all directions . Count ' favour lj ' iia dVuiefl , and with considernble energy ¦ of rs | rivs'S-ioii , . that it was ever intended to mako j'ver tJie Island oL' Sardinia to France , and did not scruple to atti-ibuto tho rumour to a EOiuvp which ' spreads ita owull ni-id adverse iiifluonce i from Palermo to Vienii . ij i ( liaving been at these two places that tlie : report ia question was siimiltancoiisly put fort-i . The news that arrived as the week opened showed that the Sardinian troops had not J crossed tho JSTenpoUhm frontier , and tho strain and stress of the j strut ^ i'lo appeared for tho time to be between Garibaldi and tho King I of Naples , the latter having received a check , and the former preparing for a spring , 13 ertani hud strcnoinly denied , through tho press of Turin , that he or Garibaldi ever intended to present imy obstacles to the Sardinians crossing tho frontier of Naples , muoji less to attack tho French troop ? . At mid-week intelligence reached' us thai tho Sardinians , under the command of Victor . Emmanuel in person , were about to enter tho Neapolitan territories on scvoral points at once . Simultaneously with this step enm ' c forth tho Kind ' s manifesto , staring tho course ho hud determined upon pursuing-. There was every symptom of the proceedings of tho Sardinian Monarch being , as far as they had gone , in conformity willi tho wishes of tJio people concerned ; whether the Italians deairo " unnoxittion , " ov this erection of an united Italian kingdom , or no kingdom nj-all , but a great Italian republic , tlicro has hardly as yet cmorgivl n . ¦' ufiicicnt amount of sure data for determining , From Nuplos wo rcceivod tidings that Ma / . zini liad received a warning to withdraw from the placo , on the part of Garibaldi ' s pro-cliotalor Pallavioini . The advanced Liberals seemed to regard this as an evil omen , portending tho ndrendnncy of , to say tho least , but semi-liberal counsels . If wo turn now to e . \ tru-Italian agenoio 3 bearing , however , upon tho fate of thnt ; country , wo / hid a government print : at Paris hinting pretty clearly thut Russia , Prnsl ? i « , and Austria Jiavo entered their protest ngainwt tho invasion of Neapolitan soil by Sardinian troopa . Now by i-very . jpopsible interpretution of tho non-intervention principle , the Ilnlinns havo a right to bo loft per foot ly Iroo to dinposo of themselves ostliey pleiiee , not . to bo dictated to nnd disposed of by alien dyiinslii' 8 , with no H yninnthios foi' Ilicjn , and no faculties oven for understanding tlu-ir tonciencics and genius . If they choose to havo Victor JCrnmnnucl for their ruler , or if they chooao to establish a republic , tiny linvo an undoubted ri ^ ht to do bo , whioh cannot bo interfered with except by an ill tor and / lngrant broach of the non-intorvoni tion policy , Meanwhilo tho Popo iseirmod to havo made \ ip his mind , ut . tlio fliiggostion of liis advisers , to remain nt . Itomo , and continue ] " protesting . " It would opponr thnt though I'mseiu iiad declined to coiUmiv with Russiu in treating tho Into proocodinga of Victor Eninuimipl tie mi adequate euuoo fur tho ¦ withdrawul of hoi'a inbassudor to tho Court of Sardinia , tlio latter power hatt determined upon tiikin ^ f that otop , considorful of ho much iinportanco in a diplp-Hintio view , but wliicli Iiiih often in reality amounted to nothing but a decent ( nr indecent ) show , i \ n tlio cuso niny be , of kocp / ng np ujipoiirancos . Tlio foi'thcoining'Wni'aaAveonfi'ronco \ vn » becominfltlicproniinont topic of ( lirtoiifsion nnd propliocy us tlio week op < ii (!< l . it wiih rcmorled tluU tho Prince- tti' / ji'iit ol ' Pnisain , tholCmpci'oi of Auslriii , Count . Mi- 'hloinilz , mid Count Ki'filibci'g would ho at tlio veiidegt'onx on ilic Ji ^ nd iiiPtant , when Husaiu would bo' pi-eriout in tho pornous of her throo niinintorn ut JJorlin , Turin , and Yioiirm , who wwo ooiinnisfiiomxl to nUoiul Ilio meeting . Of oowvm it vn « BUrininc'd thnt an uttcmpl . U > ni . iiingn tho . nifhirs ot Holy i ' ov hor , inaload of ndluM'Ing to tho non-intorvontion dootrino , and letting thoIt »] i « ns aoitlotiioifown busliwM , woul < l bo Iho objoct pf the ?

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 13, 1860, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13101860/page/13/