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      The Englishman Abroad. Our Countrymen Ab...

      of the heart of a mother who dreamed of a brilliant future for the child whom God has preserved to her , and yet is able to do nothing for her—nothing ! Why cannot 1 die ? I 3 ut until I shall die , I beg of you to continue your kindness for the lessons of our Fanny , who , I hope , will prove herself worthy of the tender solicitude of a friend whorn I pray God to preserve to her . If I am ever forgetful , preserve my letter , in order to recal to me all that I owe to your tender devotedness . " The learned gentleman then ' read another letter from the mother to Mr . Wehle , in which she related , with great apparent grief , that her daughter had attempted to commit suicide , owing to the disquietude she felt as to her future prospects , and again entreated him to do something for her . Shortly after this letter Mme . de Loussada wrote herself as follows : —

      " Robert , —I am about to address you frankly as my most sincere friend , and supplicate you to reply to me in the same manner . Will your respective fortune allow you , without any extraordinary privations , to secure my future prospects ? But what prospects , you will say ? If , in order to remain with you , and devote my life to you , I renounce the fortune which I might make for myself , I must sincerely tell you that I would not have a less sum secured to me than would produce me an annual income of 12 , 000 f . God knows that I might hope to do much better in a few years , but I will not here draw a comparison between what I may leave and what I might hope for . But I will not

      have less than the sum I mention , and be at liberty to invest it as I think proper . Oh , mon Dieu ! I have finished ; how have I dared to write all this to you P Forgive me , Robert , but it was necessary . It is well understood that if you accede to my demand all expenses shall be in common between us . But , mon Dieu ! how have I been able to write you all this ? What will you reply to me ? Under any circumstances , believe in my eternal gratitude , and if we never see each other again , I hold at your disposal all that you have given me , or if that suits 3 * ou better , before one year I hope to repay you all you have expended on my account . "One who will never forget you .

      • "Do not , I beg , come to Paris until you have replied to me . " The Substitute of the Procnreur of the Republic said , that it appeared to him that the husband of Mme . de Loussada had obtained money from Mr . Weble , and that , after him , her mother , still more shamefully , had lived on her prostitution . As to the furniture , there was nothing whatever , he said , to prove that it was the property of Mme . Devaisore . The Tribunal decided that Mme . Devaisore should give up the furniture , or in default pay 40 , 000 f .

      9}0 The Leader. [Saturday ,

      9 } 0 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

      Moneys Depo.Siletl In Banking Houses For...

      moneys depo . siletl in banking houses for the purpose of supplying the means of carrying on business beyond the reach and participation of those who had equal claims to tho property . lie regretted that , from what lie had learned from authentic sources , he had strong grounds for apprehending serious losses fo respectable lirnis from the ¦ wi thdrawal of money from hanks upon tho speculations ho alluded to . Of one instance he had been jiint informed by a gentleman , who was , unfortunately , a sufferer by the unprincipled experiment of a partner , who , taking advantage of the power of drawing cheques , had thrown the

      house into Ihe most complete confusion and emharrasslnent . Hut , he believed , there had recently occurred a great many ciihch of tho kind , lie attributed , too , a great deal of tho disinclination of pernonn who were defrauded of money by the advertising HhipbroUors , or pretended nhipbrokerH , to appear before magiKtratcH , in spile oi offers of compromise , lo the fact , that the complainants wero afraid of encountering the demands of individuals who could hIiow hotter claims ( o Ihe deposits t him I hemselves . Sir Peter Laurie hoped that the attention of commercial men would In ' , invited lo the " alarming fact . " This is : i striking picture of golden morality .

      GOLDEN MORALS . AVe have beard of the " golden mean , " and the golden age , of maxims that should be writ in letters of gold , and various other superlative blessings . Sir Peter Laurie supplies tis with a specimen of golden morals , or the morals of the children of gold . Last week , at the Mansion House , Sir Peter made some observations on the subject of the extensive emigration to Australia . He said , that the gold fields lately discovered opened a very wide field for the reception of plunderers from the capital of England—several partners in mercantile houses having availed themselves of the opportunities presented by the unrestrained permission to draw out the

      (1rkat Floods. Fttramhtufi, Lifislc, Lau...

      ( 1 RKAT FLOODS . ftTRAMHTUfi , lifislc , Lausanne , V'evey , Vvenlnn , and the environs of Geneva , wero last week Hooded by a sudden ris < -of tlm Rhine and other rivers . AtSfrasburg the Rhine rose upwards of twelve \ Wi , above highwater murk : ( roops were placed at , the disposal of" tin ; onginoer-inehief , working by torchlight , an well an daylight , and the tocsin kept ringing . At Basle the water wan ho high that the JiAstc ( lazeftc could not bo printed . Instead , the following nlip wu . s forwarded to its subscribers , —• " It , is impossible for uh to print our journal to day . Tho waters of the Rhino have risen to a . height , they hud not reached since IHI 7- Tim whole town in overflowed . Our ollieeH are tilled with wafer . Tho present notice to our Hubncril > ers I iiih been printed in another establishment , which kindly placed itn proafiea at our disposal . "

      The Eerne mails of the 16 th did not reach Lausanne till the evening of the 17 th . Roads were broken up and "bridges exploded ; and the water had risen one foof higher in the lower quarters of the town than in the destructive floods of 1841 . At Lutry the inhabitants have been up and in peril all night . The waters coming from the mountains , and bringing with them things of every kind , rushed in an"impetuous torrent into the town . The lanes are choked up , and most of the dwellings have been inundated . Above Lutry , a house has fallen down , and four other buildings , much undermined by the waters , have been deserted by their inhabitants . A letter from Yverdun declares that the town was an isle in the midst of a lake ; and near Geneva great damage had been done .

      Travelling From Lausanne To Berne, The D...

      Travelling from Lausanne to Berne , the Duchess of Orleans was obliged to deviate from the route ; and during the journey the carriage was upset and the collar bone of the Duchess dislocated .

      "Our Social System." Such Is The Heading...

      "OUR SOCIAL SYSTEM . " Such is the heading given by the Morning Herald to the following police case . There are many boys like John Burns . John Burns , aged 12 years , a boy of prepossessing aspect , and who wept bitterly , was brought up in custody of Police-constable 119 H , charged with stealing two pairs of shoes from the outside of the shop of Mr . Hill , in the neighbourhood of the London Dock . Joseph Ware , a boy in the employment of Mr . Hill , stated that he was standing in his master's shop the previous evening , when he saw the prisoner take down the shoes and run away through Nightingale-lane . Witness immediately pursued him , when prisoner fell down , and a constable coming up he gave him into custody . In answer to questions put by Mr . Yardley , The boy stated that he had no home ; his mother used him crueily , and he was obliged to run away . Mr . Yardley . —How do you get your living ? Boy . —I mind carts and horses in the streets , and sometimes run messages about the Shoreditch Railway . Mr . Yardley . —Have you a father ? Boy . —Yes , sir ; my father is the mate of a ship , but he went away three years ago to the West Indies . He has not come back since , and mother is so cruel to us all . It was further elicited that an elder brother was at sea with the father and an infant brother at home . Mr . Yardley . —Do you care about the baby ? Boy . —Yes , sir ; I should so like to see him . But I am afraid of mother . Mr . Yardley . —How long is it since you saw him ? Boy . —More than three months .

      Mr . Yardley . —What have you been doing since ? Havo you ever been in prison ? Boy . —No , sir . I was sent once to the House of Detention to get rid of the sickness that was about me . Mr . Yardley . —Iteally , this boy does not seem to me like a thief—he seems to mo to bo more the victim of circumstances . I do not know what I can do with him . Boy . — Oh send me to school , sir ; send me to school . M r . Yardley , to afford an opportunity of considering how he should act towards the boy , remanded him for a week , ordering the shoes to be delivered up to tho prosecutor , but at the biiido time reprimanding tho practice of exposing goods out of doors as a lure and temptation to indigence and vice .

      M I S C K L L A N E O U S. The Queen Rem...

      M I S C K L L A N E O U S . The Queen remains at Balmoral enjoying the fresh air and mountain scenery . Prince Albert is now an inveterate deer-stalker ; and the children are driven hither and thither among the hills . The Duchess of Kent lives hard by sit Abergeldio , and visits sue constantly interchanged between her sind her royal daughter .

      A Report Reached Town On Thursday That M...

      A report reached town on Thursday that Mr . Albert ; Smith and his brother had been drowned in the Rhone . We are happy to say that this is incorrect . It is supposed that the loss and finding of Mr . Smith ' s pocketbook gave rise to the . ntory . The Dnlce of Northumberland , patronizing the schoolmauler abroad , laid the foundation stono of ( he Horough School . - * ill . Alnwiclcon Wednesday week . . Lord Lovaino mid his wile were also preHenl ,. John Slokoe , " one of tho MirgeonH in tho Hrititih Heel , ill . Trafalgar , " and " one of the medical adviserH of Napoleon during bin captivity at St . Jlelena , " died suddenly on Monday week at Durham .

      Oldham i .-i now undergoing all the excitement antecedent to a general election . Tho town i . s gay with flags and coloum . Party npirit has risen to a , great height ., and tho authorities are anxiouH for tho peace of tho town . Mr . W .. I . I '" ox is the Liberal eiindi'dalo .

      Telegraphic Wiren Now Connect Tho Cost-O...

      Telegraphic wireN now connect tho Cost-office with tho Admiralty , the Houses of Parliament , and tho ( station at ( . tlmrinir-croHH . Lord Niuih , the Chief Secretary for I reland , Iiiih addressed the following letter to Mr . Roney , tho Hocrelary of the Kxhihition : — Dublin C ' iimMo , ltl . li Hep ! ., JHfilS . Sir , In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of tho ii . lrd lilt ., I beg to acquaint you that , in accordance with the wish oxprcHHod therein , 1 will bo prepared to submit to Parliament earl y in the onauing BOBnion , a bill to extend tho provisions oi tho Douignu Act of 1850 , und togivo

      protection from piracy to persons exhibiting new in ™ ,, * - in the Industrial Exhibition to be held in Dublin AS ? The bill will be similar in its provisions to tho T > •¦ Act , 14 Vic ., c . 8 . I am , sir , your obedient servant ^ Favourable answers to tho Circular of the Internati Postage Society have been received from tho Ministers f Austria , the United States , Spain , Brazil , Sardinia , Port gal , Trance , tho Netherlands , the Sublime Porte the C sul-General for the Hanso Towns , and from every otl ^" representative of foreign countries with whom the assort tion have been in correspondence . With the intention f

      extending the sphere of their operations in this countrv t is intended to form branch associations in the provinc and they have already received promises of support ftf ' this purpose from the following localities : —Bath , Cork ' Cheltenham , Dumbarton , Deal , Dublin , Exeter , Palkirt ' Glasgow , Huntingdon , Huddersfield , Halifax , Hasting / Leicester , Leeds , Merthyr-Tydvil , Manchester , Ne wcastle ' Northampton , Nottingham , Oxford , Portsmouth , Pta mouth , Reading , Rothcrham , Spalding , Swansea , Sheffield ! Sunderland , Staffordshire Potteries , Totnes , Tiverton Wareham , Wisbeach , and Waterford . '

      M . Chatin has just presented to the Academy of Medicine a paper , giving an account of his experiments on the water of Paris , of London , and of Turin . It contains some curious and interesting facts . Of the water with which Paris is supplied , he prefers that of the Seine , ifc being lighter and more iodurated than those of tho Marne Ourcq , & c , but at the same time he expresses his surprise that means are not adopted to take this water from a more distant point , such as Charenton , and bringing it to the

      locality of the Jardin des Plants , for distribution from , thence to the whole of Paris , instead of taking it from a part where it has received contamination from the filth that has drained into it . As regards the water of London , M . Chatin speaks favourably of that of the New River as being very similar to that of the Seine , but objects decidedly to the water of the Thames , which , he says , resembles that of the Canal de POurcq , which contains four times less iodure than the water of the Seine . The water

      of Turin , even including the famous spring of the Valentina Palace , is , says M . Chatin , very inferior to the Seine water ; it is no better than that which is found in the springs of Belleville and Suresne , and which are largely impregnated with gypsum . Mis-statements having crept into the newspapers relative to the militia enlistment , we find , upon inquiry , that the . enrolment for the 2 nd Lancashire ( the Liverpool ) regiment is going forward as rapidly and as satisfactorily as possible . The enrolment commenced in Liverpool on the 4 th instant , and up to the 18 th the number actually enrolled was G 01 . The number examined by the medical

      inspector was 746 , of whom 145 were rejected . At Prescot , on the 17 th and 18 thinstant , 191 volunteers were enrolled ; many of these are labourers at Knowsley , and to whom Lord Derby has promised half wages during the militia training . It is expected that the present week will furnish , voluntarily , the complement for this district . —Liverpool Albion . A meeting of the " British Exodus" company , for tho promotion of emigration on the lottery principle , took place yesterday at the Literary Institution , Leicestersquare , for the purpose of holding the first ballot . In consequence , however , of the following letter , no business was transacted . —" Solicitor ' s Office , Treasury , Sept . 21 ,

      1852 . —Sir , —The attention of her Majesty ' s Government , having been drawn to a scheme entitled ' Tho . British Exodus ; or , National Emigration Fund of the Hunter River Gold Mining Company' having for one of its objects the selection of 4000 free-passage orders to Australia , by ballot , I am directed to inform you that tho proposed ballot is illegal , and subjects those concerned in it to prosecutions under the Acts of Parliament made for tho suppression of lotteries . And I hereby give you notice that proceedings will be taken against the parlies concerned m tho scheme in question if the intended ballot be permitted to take place . —1 am , Ac ( Signed ) , U . It . Kkynom > h . - It was announced that tho promoters intended to carry out the objects of tho company in another way , and mi

      meeting adjourned . The Sholfishani case , says the lj > swirh J ' lrj ' rrss in ff < i » 'h on aw actively as ever . On Monday week the l > e" v thoroughly examined in the presence of Mr . AinUiii'Uj . everything , a * it , is alleged , being removed from " . was ' then carefully made up , and the girl p laced ti ]><> i > > the bedstead being removed fifteen inches irorn IH «; i At noon on tho wuim day the watch commenced m presence of Matchain , sundry nurses , tho ofheiiil waien , proKeuee oi ; vi au imiii , hihiui y iiumra , ••«¦> . , i .

      and many visitors . We hear that it bus gone on "l ' ., ' ^ period at which wo write—a period of hovoh days- w ' | Ml , , any discovery being made by the ) watchers , who <• that tho girl ' has neither taken food nor < lnnk '"" ' "' h , ^ , whole term , and that , she in as cheerful "" 'j ^' ' ^ ,.,.,, ! ,., parasol and harmonica are removed , and the chin ¦¦> I ^^ havo not yet entered the room . V <><>< 1 i . s ol !« mu ; twice a day , but is refused . The gl » ss 1 " »« ruuA . myti Tho watch ' is to continue fourteen days . J-n j Jll () 1 , tli . she Iiiih been getting weaker during ' he pas . , ( , . She thinks she shall live during the fourteen . < Imvm , pecl . M to die shortly aflerwunlH .

      A Line Of Screw-Steamers In About To Com...

      A line of screw-steamers in about to commence it between Southampton ami Hordoaux . .. j _ A farmer living at a , farm near Hrau / rliing , ll ! ,, ' ! ' , ' rt Hhire , wan compelled to apply to the Union a . ^^ Stortford for men to enable him to got in hiH !"" r ; Mi , ,, nu being no labourer out of emp loyment m '''" £ uV () , ' llfrc < l ho wan obliged lo lake seven men , wiiofio "K' !' , . , t | nv <> seventy-three years each , ami he employ "" weeks . tf |> - i ; ,. () VV < "" ''" Twelve of the original members of <«»<' . ' , nu ,, ilicn , ing lmildern' Association , " and their wivch aim ^^^ left London on Tuesday morning , l »» r u J } £ ' lt lyinff Railway , for Dartmouth , to join tho Jnitot & " <¦ ' ' jlftV 0 in thai port , waiting to sail for Melbourne . xn >

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25091852/page/8/