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    December 22, 1855.] THE LEADER. 1219

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    OBITUARY. Samuel Roamits.—Thin veteran p...

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    NAVAL AND MILITARY NKWP. ,., ••('iiai'.m...

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    Pjoaoe Pnosi'jbcts.—A Cloud Of Ministeri...

    tion , as finally resolved on . " The Morning Post vouches for the authenticity of this , and Le JYord with great confidence discredits it . The Times Paris correspondence of Monday contains the annexed : — "Tie difference which existed between the French and English Governments relative to the conditions on which they would make peace with Russia are terminated , arid the propositions which Count Valentine Esterhazy will have to communicate to M . de Nesselrode are such as are considered acceptable by England and France . I cannot state in a positive . manner what was the real ground of difference ; whether , as some say , it referred to a ' material guarantee ' of a permanent character , or to a war indemnity ; but it is not doubtful that for some time

    th . e English Cabinet , or a portion of it , was unwilling to accept a settlement on the terms which this Government deemed sufficient . It is , however , certain that the difference , such as it was , has now disappeared . It is believed at Vienna and elsewhere that France is more desirous of peace than England , and this desire , perhaps too clearly and too often manifested , may add to the obstinacy of Russia , and produce its effect on Austria . " A despatch from Berlin , of December 16 th , is as follows : — "It is currently reported that , about the 15 th of November last , Prussia addressed a despatch to St . Petersburg , with an earnest request to the Russian Government to accept the interpretation given by the Allies to the

    third point of guarantee . Russia has not yet replied . " From a debtor and creditor account of the Bank of France , made up to Thursday week , it appears that the metallic reserve has decreased during the past month 18 , 370 , 334 f . in Paris , and increased 2 5 , 721 , 801 f . in the branch banks . The discount accommodation has decreased in Paris 23 , 202 , 716 f ., and in the departments 14 , 985 , 699 f . The advances on public securities have decreased in Paris 14 , 985 , 699 f ., and in the departments 2 , 045 , 700 f . The notes in circulation have decreased 15 , 671 , 700 f . in Paris , and 5 , 792 , 800 f . in the departments . The Treasury account current has increased 1 , 277 , 509 f ., and those of private persons have declined 37 , 577 , 857 f . in Paris , and 4 , 199 , 247 f . in the departments .

    With the new year ( says the Tunes Prussian correspondent ) Berlin will possess two new establishments in full and beneficial activity , for which it is indebted , in the one instance to English capital and talent , and the other to English example . The Berlin Waterworks , which have just been built , with exclusively English capital , by Sir Charles Fox and Mr . Or £ 21 "ton ( the latter being the actual d" ! 5 ""? 1 - ' ? . ™' - engmeer ; , are in pionjess or being ojDened . For the present only a few of the more prominent buildings , such as Ministeri-en ( public offices ) , the Opei-a-house , and various hospitals , are being supplied with water , but with the turn of the year the numerous parties who have already made application will be supplied , tinder the auspices of a company which I hear has been formed in London for the purpose of keeping Berlin supplied with that very necessary article , water . The other establishment is one for bathing , washing , and ironing , the same as we have in London , Liverpool , and elsewhere .

    The Piemonte gives the following account of the Btate of the prisons in the Papal dominions : — In 1850 there were imprisoned 10 , 430 In 1851 „ 11 , 279 In 1852 „ 11 , 707 In 1853 „ 12 , 035 In 1854 ,. la , 000 Showing an augmentation of 2 , 570—nearly oue-fourth in five years . On tho 31 st of last August , the same authority states there were 683 persons imprisoned in Fort Urbano , whom it divides under the following heads : — Condemned by the Sacra Consulta 21 Condemned by tlio ordinary tribunals 087 Oondemned by the military tribunals 101 Condemned by tho diocesan tribunals 7 Awaiting judgment 2

    In , x Detained as a measure or precaution ; 12-1 Boulogne has been tho scene of a very extensive fire , by which tho house of Mr . Barnard , of that port , the well-known custom-house aud general agent , has been entirely destroyed . A vast amount of valuable property has perished , including the papers and aooouut-books of tho agency of tho South-Eastorn Company ; but tho house and its contents nro insured . The inmaton escaped with difficulty . A firo has taken place in tho Palais < 1 oh 13 oaux ArtB ,

    and the fresco-painting by M . Delarocho , representing the history of painting , sculpture , aud architecture , down to tho roign of Louis XIV ., has been damagod . In Copenhagen ( says tho Times Borlin correspondent ) a otory ifl nfloat , affording ample and jriquant opportunities for tlioso who know somo little of Russian ways to indulge in vory unfavourable suspicions of the Ruseiuu diplomatists there It is rolatod that uh General Onnrobort one evening returned Bomowhut earlier than usual to hie apartments in tho Hotel d'Anglotorro , ho found a strange man landing at his secretaire , which had been broken open , or oponod

    with a false key , and so busily occupied in examining his papers that he did not observe the General ' s entrance . In high indignation , the latter is represented to have seized a candlestick , or , as others say , some sharp-cutting object , and to have flung it at his head . The stranger , turning round , received a severe wound in the head , in the neighbourhood of the eye , or , as others say , had his eye knocked out . That is the story ; the fact is , that the same evening a valet de place was conveyed from the Hotel d'Angleterre to the hospital , where lie seems to be under some danger of losing his eye from a hurt he has received . "

    The Invalide of the 8 th inst . publishes officially that the betrothal of the Grand Duke Nicholas with . Princess Alexandra , the eldest daughter of Prince Peter of Oldenburg , took place November 26 th , the Grand Duke having first received the blessing of his mother , the Dowager Empress , and the permission of his brother , the Emperor . It is stated that the English Government has demanded from the Court of Vienna an explanation of the motives which have induced it to reduce the Austrian army . The organisation of the militia will be extended in the spring to the Polish provinces . Rumours have reached Bordeaux of the death of Mademoiselle Rachel in Philadelphia , from inflammation of the chest . The report , however , is not yet confirmed .

    The Gazette des Tribunaux publishes the constitutive act of the London General Omnibus Company , for a period of sixty years , and at a capital of 25 , 000 , 000 francs ( £ 1 , 000 , 000 ) , divided into 250 , 000 shares of 100 francs ( £ 4 ) , each . Messrs . Arthur M'Namara and James Wilking , of London , and M . Nicholas Felix Carteret , formerly member of the Council of State of France , are to be the directors of the company . The contemplated canal from Rassova to Kostendje has , it is said , been abandoned .

    An appalling description of the Bagnio prison , on the Pera side of the Horn at Constantinople , has been communicated to the Times by Mr . S . G . Osborne . The writer was conducted down a dark passage , obscurely lit by a lantbern which bis guide carried . " In this darkness existed a number , I kuow not how large , of my fellow-creatures—chained , for we heard their movements—probably chained to one spot , for the jiath was clean . The stench was almost intolerable ; there must have been many . We were saluted with yells from each side of 'Bono Johnny J' 'No Bono !' Their eyes , habituated to the dai-kness , could make us out wb «™ w «» nrmlrl Rfarcelv perceive the outlines of any of them . I am inclined to tmnx , on uiiouier ground , that they were chained to particular spots ; we had only two guards , and a stick seemed their only weapon . " Having visited an aucieut Greek chapel at the end of this passage , " we had to retrace our steps through this abode of the ' chained in darkness . ' As we went , we were again greeted with that horrible chorus of groaning , laughing , aud I presume cursing , with its accompaniment on the irons and chains of the poor wretches as before . I can . scarce say I saw a single prisoner ; guessing with the eye , one fauced one made them out , but then it was only a sort of shadow of moving bodies , clothed or unclothed . " Baron de Sejcune is to set out for Teheran in order to ratify a treaty of commerce aud amity already contracted between Franco and Persia .

    December 22, 1855.] The Leader. 1219

    December 22 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 1219

    Obituary. Samuel Roamits.—Thin Veteran P...

    OBITUARY . Samuel Roamits . —Thin veteran poot and lover of art , who has outlived bo many generation * of men , and about whose age ho many witticimiiB have been shot for th for tho last thirty years or ho , lias at lunt succumbed . Mr . Rogers died early on TuoHday morning , in his liinofcy-sixth year . IJiw house in St . James ' s-placo was the hcouo of hiH domino . The life of Mr . Rogern spread over ho largo and bo important a period of tiiuu that it prcrioiitfl within itnelf one of tho mont extraordinary KericB of historical , personal , and literary tableaux over contained within tho caroor of one man . Tho 7 'i » ic » , contemplating thin marvellous panorama , Hiiyn : —" Lot uh t . tko tho moHt notable historic drama of tho century- -1793-1815—tho rise , declino , and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte . This waH but an episode in tho life of . Samuel Rogers .

    Ho " was u young innii of somo standing in tho world , fully of an ago to appreciate tho moaning aud importance of the event , when tho tttaten-0 ioiioral wore nn-Boinblod in Franco . If wo romembor right , ho aotuull } r wan present in Paris at or about tho timo , and may have hoard with his own oars Mirubeau hurling rlouanoo at tho Court , and neon Danton and Robcsspiorro whispering to euoli other that their- timo was not yet ooino . Lot uh go buck to other event * aB HtandawlH of admeasurement , Ah tho war of tho French Revolution and that against Napoleon Boimparto yvvro opirtouuH in the ripo manhood , ho was the Ainoriuiin war an episode in the boyhood of RogoiM . lie wiih of an age to appreciate the grandeur , if not the political moaning of events , when Rodney won bin naval viutoriow and when ( Jonquil Elliott Hucoo .-trtfully rlofomlod Gibraltar . He could remember our

    tlilliirences with our American colonies and the battles ol Bunker ' s Hill , Brandywine , and German Town , aa well as a man now in manhood can remember the three glorious days of July and the Polish insurrection . " The Daily Naos , writing from a similar point of view , remarks : — " He heard ' the talk of the town' ( recorded by Dr . Adams ) ou Johnson ' s Letter to Lord Chesterfield ; and he lived to see the improvement of the copyright law , the removal of most of the taxes ou knowledge , and so vast an increase of the reading public as has rendered the function of patron of authorship obsolete . Samuel Rogers lived through the whole period when the publishers were the patrons , and witnessed the complete success of Mr . Dickens ' s plan of independance of the publishers themselves . He -was a youth of fifteen or thereabouts when half * the town " was scandalised at Dr . Johnson's audacity in saying What he did to Lord Chesterfield , and the other half

    was delighted at the courage ot the rebuke . It was not long before thnt the ' Lettera of J unius' had burst upon the political world ; and Rogers was quite old enough to understand the nature of the triumph , when the prosecution of Woodfall failed , and the press j > reserved its liberty under the assaults of royal and ministerial displeasure . His connections in life fixed his attention full on the persecution of Priestley and other vindicators of liberty of » peech ; while he saw , in curious combination with this phase , that kind of patronage which even the 1 ' rieBtloys of those days accepted as a matter of course . H o b ; iw Gnrrick , and watched tho entire career of every good actor sinoe . All the Kemblcs fell within his span . He heard tho

    first remarks on the 'Vicar of Wakefield , ' and reBd , damp from the pren . s , all the fiction that baa appeared since from the Burneys , the Edgeworths , tho Scotts , the Dickenses , and the ThackerayH . " Birth tho Times and the Daily News bear hearty testimony to the many generous actions of Rogers ; but the latter journal shows the dark pido of the picture in representing the combined servility ami caustic * bitterness of his character , adding : —" Whether ho over was in earnest , there is no sort of evidence but his acts ; and the eonwjuuence was that his flattery wont for nothing , except with novice * , while his causticity bit as deep as he intended . He would begin with a aoriori of

    outrageous compliment * , in a measured Btyle which forbade interruption ; and , if he was allowed to finish , would go away and boast how much bo had nmdo a victim Bwallow . A multitude of his nayings are rankling in people ' s nieinorie » which ooukl not possibly ^ have had any otf >»»; \& n '( ] 1 . '' , „ . ' . ( 11 Bivlllg --- - -- " " "'» atrocioiiri jih to Huggeist tho idea jjr tiiu . ouuio n \ jM . v ~ - ¦ •¦ i . that be had a sort of psychological curiosity m *« C how people could bear Hiich iuHictionri . Except tho worship paid to the Railway King for bin wealth , wo know of nothing in modern nociety ho extraordinary and humiliating as the deference paid to Rogers for

    his ill-nature . ' Colonki . Siivriioiir . — This eccentric , but thoroughly honest embodiment of old Toryism , died at the latter end of last week at Lincoln , the city with which ho wan connected by birth , and which bo repreHcnted so long in Parliament . " The deceased goi'tlen-an , " « iy « the Times , " was descended from an ancient family settled upwards of a century and a half at Cauwickball , near Lincoln , many of whoso mimibeiB from time to timo have represented that city in Parliament .

    His father , the late Mis Humphry Waldo Hib thorp , nat for Hcvcral years at the commencement of the present century . Charles Dolaet Waldo > Hibthorp tho deceased Colonel , wns first elected in tho high Tory intorost in 182 ( 5 , and with the exception of the brief Parliament of 1833-4 , chosen under the excitement consequent upon tho passing <>! ' the Reform Bill be continued to represent Lincoln to the day of bin death . Colonel Sibthorp wns for many years a mauistmU * and deputy-lieutenant for tho county of T . inr-olii . and in ] 8 . 02 was gazetted to tho Colonelcy

    of the South Lincolnshire Militia . He Htrenuously and consistently opposed »¦ n 11 their Htagew Cathoho Emancipation , thu Reform Bill , and the Abolition of Jewish JHsabilithis , and wiw one of the minority ol fiftv-throo who ooiiHiired froo trade when Lord Derby wan in office in November , 1852 . " The Colonel for many yearn i-orforiiiod tho part of merry-maker to the JJous « i--an ofueo winch I . uh recently boon partly occupied by Mr . Jlein-y Druinmond , by whom the cap and bolls will now bo entirely engrossed . ]¦ >!• W V . Chambknb , Into physician to tho Quooii , died , on the 10 th hint , at his mur ^ .. ' -. ' , Jlo . vl o ouse near Lymington , Hampshire , *» "' " hJ * - \> - " * M' » *««• of hitt age .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 22, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22121855/page/7/