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738 THE LEADEB. [News and
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The Cornt.—The Queen Was Much Engaged Du...
The Late Ministers . —The Queen has conferred © n the Earl of Derby the very high honour of making him an extra Knight' of" the Garter .. Her Majesty has . also been graciously pleased to mark her sense of the services rendered by the Earl of Malmesbury and Sir John Pakington by conferring upon them the Civil Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath . — Herald . Adulteration of Food . —Mr . Scholefield , M . P ., lias revived his bill for preventing the adulteration of articles of food or drink . Analysts will be appointed by vestries , district boards , and town councils ; and tradesmen , duly convicted of the crime of corrupting the food of their fellow men , will be heavily fined , and branded as adulterators , at their , own expense , in the public newspapers . Scotland and Ireland are not to enjoy the advantage of this beneficent law .
Death of Jcdge M'Cak . —Mr . M 'Can one of the judges of the Irish Court of Bankruptcy , has died very suddenly . He presided the . previous day in his court , and appeared in the enjoyment of good health . The emoluments of the judgeship are 2 , 000 / . a-year . The Hon . Mr . Plunket is the second judge , and his retirement has for some time been spoken of . . Legal Appointments . —It is stated that the following legal appointments have _ been settled : —Lord Campbell Chancellor ; Lord Chipf Justice Cockburn , Chief Justice of England , with a peerage ; Sir W . Erie , Chief of the Common Pleas ; Mr . Justice Willes transferred to the Queen ' s Bench j and Sir H . Keating ajipointed to the vacancy in the Common Pleas .
Louis Kossuth . —This personage , it seems , did not leave England last week . We learn from a photographer ' s puff that he was in Regent-street on Wednesday , for the purpose of having a portrait taken previous to his departure for Italy . He was to leave England on Thursday , Madame Kossuth remaining behind . . Eight Hon . C . B . Adderlet upon tuk Change of Government . —At a meeting at Stoke-upon-Trent , on Monday , the right hori . gentleman said he had looked through the debate to see if he could find out anything which would show the jeasori for the change of Ministry ; but he could find out nothing . The country had little more confidence in
Lord Palmerston than in Lord Derby ; and as far as he ( Mr . Adderley ) could see it was not quite clear that Lord Palmerston would be able to form a Government , fiter Majesty had felt the difficulty of having two rivals in office , and she had adopted "the wise course of calling in a third person , under whom the two * rivals would serve . When Lord Granville , a most able and competent man , and one of the best of the whole Whig party , responded to the royal appeal , ho found Lord Palmerston most willing to serve under liim—which was creditable to Lord Palmerston—but he found Lord John Hussell would not do it ; and that upset the new Government . They must say that Lord J . Russell ' s opposition ' was not very promising to the new Ministry . The new Government will include Whigs ,
THE NEW ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH . A new company has been formed , under the best auspices , and , without troubling the Government about subsidies , have carefully matured their plans . The British Transatlantic Telegraph Company propose , within this year to lay their cable from the Land ' s End , in Cornwall , to Blanc Sablon , an island in the Straits of Belle Isle , at one of the entrances of the Gulf of St . Lawrence , and a little to the north-of Newfoundland . A short wire , to be laid by a separate company , takes the cable in from Blanc Sablon to the island of Anticosti , _ where it meets lines already open , communicating with Quebec , Montreal , and , indeed , all parts of Canada . Anticosti will
Another short line from be submerged to Cape Breton , where it will join the network of lines , which communicate with Halifax , Nova Scotia , Boston , New York , & c . The advantages which such a route presents over one starting from the west coast of Ireland are immense , both in point of economy and freedom from the submarine dangers which beset the track from Valent ia to Newfoundland . The increased distance is very little over 150 miles ; Jbut a message arriving at Land ' s-rend is transmitted direct to its destination at a small cost , while the cost from Valeritia is much greater , and the message itself has to be re-transmitted always four times , and sometimes oftener . The cable used by the
former Atlantic Telegraph Company , it is now known , was unsuitable for the purpose . The British Transatlantic Telegraph Company propose to use a cable of the very lightest description . Its lightness , in fact , is made its strength , and the outer covering of wire is entirely done away with . The conductor is to he composed of seven copper wires , having about twice the . sectional area of that used by the old Atlantic company . It will be coated with a combination of gutta percha , with manifold insulators , the outer portion being wound round with a textile fabric in a peculiar manner , so as to perfect and strengthen the rope and its insulation to the utmost . The outer covering of all will be of hemp , interwoven
longitudinally , so as to be without either turn or stretch . This outer covering , before being used , will , no doubt 7 be passed through a solution of either india-rubber or gutta percha ; the rope afterwards being compressed under a steel die will insure a uniform gauge , and the solution penetrating to the very utmost . The diameter of the gutta percha insulator will be about double that used in the rope of the old company , and the diameter of the whole cable about two-thirds of an inch . The weight is less that 8 cwt . per mile , the breaking strain about two tons , or
eq . ua . 1 to supporting neaily six miles of its o ^ vn -weight in air , and nolessthan twenty-five miles of its weight in sea water . The cost of the whole cable will be about half of that which was lately lost by the old company . This cable is to be contracted for under a special arrangoment , which guarantees the shareholders against any risk of loss . The contract will not be at so much per mile , but for a certain sum under 350 , 000 * . the contractors undertake to make the wire , insure it , submerge it , and deliver it over to the company in working order .
Liberals , and Radicals , and he was sorry Mr . Bright was not one . He was sure that the best place for Mr . Bright was in office . It was better and easier to deal in abstractions than in facts and realities , and he ( Mr . Adderley ) should like Mr . Bright to know what it'Was to work as well as to talk . lie would then sing another song than ho did now , as one of the members of the House of Commons said the other day . He hoped that while the Conservatives were the strongest party in Parliament , that they should , while deprecating opposition , which could have no other object but to serve party purposes , maintain their strength and integrity , and that her Majesty and the country might know that there was u party ready to resume , the roins of power and devote itself to the service of the country whenever it should be required .
Hit . Coddex . —The Manchester JSxavifner says : — "We understand that Mr , Cobden will sail from Quebec , by the Indian screw steamer , on Saturday next , the 18 th inatunt , and will therefore probably arrive in England on or about the lust day of the present month . Pakmamentauy RiaifORM Committejo . —At a meeting on Tuesday , a resolution was adopted to tho « floct that , in ordor to scouro a re-construction of the Liberal party upon a per man on t basis , it is
necessary that every section of Roformors should bo iaiiiy represented in the now Cabinet . It was also resolved to send a . copy af this ' resolution to Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell . A mooting of the committee of tine Ballot Society was also hold yesterday , at whloh it was resolved that tho committee , on behalf of the friends of tho ballot , desires to express its rogrot that a Liberal Ministry is about to be restored to " power without any stipulation being mado for thoir conceding tho ballot . "
738 The Leadeb. [News And
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^ runr . ic Hic . vr . Tir . —The Registrar-Gcnernl ' s report obtain presents a favourable ) view of the health of the metropolis . Last ' week the total number was 938 , being less by 144 than tho estimated average , Tlie number of births was 1 , 068 , being 730 in excess of the deaths . ' CoxsKcn . vTiox ov TiiRKR Bisnoi's . —Tuosday was fixed for tho Consecration , by tho Archbishop of Canterbury , of three clergymen who wore to be raised from tho priesthood to the episcopal order . They were the Von . James Colnnhoun Campbell , D . D ., to
the bisopric of Bangor , in the room of the Right Rev . Dr . R . Bethell , deceased 5 tho Rev . Edward" Wyndham Tuffhell , D . D ., to the newly-erected bishopric of Brisbane , Australia ; and tho Rov . Piers Calyoly Claughton , D . D ., to'tho newly-erected bishopric of St . Helena . The ceremony took place in Westminster Abboy . In addition to tho Archbishop there were present tho Bishops of London , Oxford , Salisbury , Columbia , Western Now York , JLUmdaff , Urochin , and Capo Town ; the Dean of Westminster , the Sub-Dean ( Lord John Thynno ) , and a largo number of clergymen in their robes .
Manual Arias , mate of the stcamor Tor , from Havanna to Liverpool , has been fined £ 100 by tho Liverpool magistrates for having concealed in his oatrin smuggled tobacco . Captain Coallnmtor , of tho ship Moorsoroft , from Manilla to Liverpool , was also fined in alike sum * Piopolomini , wo aro told , has gained reputation , but not much money , by hor trip to tho States . As soon as hor ongagomont with Mr . Ullman ceased sho sang for Mr . Lumley . If sho remained in tho States ivnd was hor own managor she would not I ( 50 , 000 dollavs In a year or oighteon months . A rumour is very prevalent that a potition is in course of preparation against tho return of Mr . IT . Pool for tlio borougli of Bury .
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probably by this time only a few miles from their destination . At the same time their troops on the south of the Po , at Ferrara , Bologna , and Reggio , have all been withdrawn , and are no doubt on . their way to join the main Austrian army on the north bank , which will be to some extent reinforced by the detachments just recalled ; In the meantime the Allies are advancing apparently in several columns . Garibaldi in the north has alreadv reached Brescia .
ADVANCE . OF THE ALLIES . After abandoning Pavia , Piaconza , and Pizzighettone , blowing up the bridges , spiking the guns , and throwing the ammunition into the river , the Austrians still pursue their retreat along the north bank of the Po to Mantua and the line of the Mincio . The Austrians have now crossed the Oglio , and they are
On the 12 th the grand head-quarters were at Gorgonzolo , between fifteen and twenty miles from Milan , on ihe railway between that city and Verona . And the same day the King of Sar < dinia crossed the Adda at Vaprio and Canonica , just after its junction with the Brembo , whilst the Emperor crossed' lower down at Cassano . There are besides French troops on the road to Lodi , Crema . and Cremona , following close upon . ' , the Austrians ,
who have already arrived at Cremona , but they will scarcely remain long there , as the French arc-already pushing across the Adda , and even the more distant Oglio has never been thought a favourable position for defence . They have therefore probably by this time reached the triangle formed by Peachiera , Verona , and Mantua . It seems , pretty clear that they will not call a halt until they reach thoir own selected battle-ground , and all fortresses that intervene between the Ticino and the Mincio will fall . If
Peschiera should fall , the Lagodi Gardii . falls with the hands of the conquei-or ; the valley of the Adigc would then necessarily be interrupted , and the only other communication bv which Verona could receive supplies is the line of rail which runs , through Vicenza , Padua , aiid Venice . But Venice herself is in danger , and if the French should succeed m effecting a landing there , and in placing an army upon the river Piave , they will turn the line of the Adige , as they have already turned the line of the Po and the Adda . Even without this advantage , it is yet to be seen what stand fortified places can make against those rifled cannon with which the French army is now provided , and which , if their power is fairly described , ought to be able from a safe distance to keep down the fire of any number ot
the old guns . . p . The Nord says : —" The second series ot the military operations of the allied armies are being pushed on with great vigour . They will be simultaneously commenced by sea and lancl We shall see if the Austrians will be more foi-tnnato behind their fortresses than upon iht rivers of Italy and in open field The Emperor of the French and tho King of Sardinia will put : nil thoir troops in movement in ovdor to invent tiio Austrian fortresses . Prince Napoleon , with the . iouv under his command , will proceed without do hxy towards tho lesser Po , to support tho movement * ot the
right wing of tho French army . b A Paris letter adds :-Tho . Emperor , it upi e » r * . purposes to carry on simultaneously the s . cge o he Austrian fortresses in Lombardy , and ior that pmpose 100 , 000 men are required iVom l-ranco .
THE AUSTRIAN ARMV . Tub official Weiuer Zeituugcontains tlio following .- — '' To Emperor will forthwith assu . no tho uumodmtu con mandiin-chier , and has ordered a now , „ , « Uon for the army , which will be taken up in tho best ^ ItT rumouJou that Baron Hess i « to be Comnm ^ P-In-CWo *? , General Bonodok hi * Adlatus , and General Ramming his Quiirtormustor-. C e noin ,, it tho only reliable news rocoivod irom Vow aisuuu Hess , as Commandor-in-Chiof , is ™" * hion was nmmniainir that navfc of the Second Army « ii cn was
opposed to tho allies on tho 4 th ana « " - " ^ w ™ « that Gyulai ' s dispositions wore s ° ° ^« ibly J that thei Sardo-Frouch army ^« m a I a . vo boon amo to march to Milan with little mo ostut > i , hoanoi tho vanguard of Clam ' s corps chanced to ni jive ^« t the Lombard capital on the 2 ndInnl . „ ^ o « P pointmont ot Hoss to bo our eommiuidor , wiuoe an Austrian officer to his wlfo , " would bo s got as u victory gained , for all of , us aro wo ixv , w o hat e knows how to handle a groat army . ' A hoi tfH the Austriaus wore so wnipletoly dofonto on tho 4 n lnst . ( says anotlior Austrian ) that ho Mod 1 able to marcli to Milan , you must not bo »« vo that tho campaign is rapidly drawing to a 0 lop 0 . » etopo tho worfd is ton days older another tfroat buttle will
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Leader (1850-1860), June 18, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18061859/page/6/
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