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    7a ^ THE LEADEH, [No. 279, Saturday,

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES. A recent statement th...

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    MISCELLANEOUS. The Cottrt.—Princess Alic...

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    themselves on iho success of their , plan ? , which is tha more stdKng Scorn the fact of only six months having elapedvhsaasum Of 20 , 000 , 000 / . was raised upon teims rather less favourable than those now obtained . It must be wmarked , however , that , although the policy adopted may have been the most suitable in France under existing circumstances , the result is not such as to warrant a general imitation of it , in preference to the old system of inviting the competition of individual contractors . Tie profit offered by the French Government h ^ s been ia each case nearly 3 $ per cent ., while in the 16 , 000 , 000 / . English loan lately contractor with Messrs . Rothschild . tUe marginvwas only 2 per cent . It is , true thai ; the main plea in favour of a popular subscription is , that it distributes among the masses instead of among a few capitalists whatever gain may arise , but practically , so far from , achieving this end , it produces an effect

    exactly , contrary . The gain to each individual subscriber under 50 £ . rente is only about 17 . 10 s ., even , if he be . able to supply his own deposit-money , while in the great majority of instances the privilege is parted with to speculators for a few francs . The advantage therefore falls into the hands of a limited number , just as under . ; the old method , with this difference , that they are not persons of equal respectability ; aud when it is estimated that to cause it to be obtained many thousand applicants have spent for the past week entire nights outside the Government offices , and thus unfitted themselves for wholesome labour , to say nothing of the demoralisation inevitable from the chicanery of speculative agents among the people , it will be admitted that the innovation presents no feature by which it can be permanently recommended—From the Times City Article . Thursday .

    7a ^ The Leadeh, [No. 279, Saturday,

    7 a ^ THE LEADEH , [ No . 279 , Saturday ,

    Continental Notes. A Recent Statement Th...

    CONTINENTAL NOTES . A recent statement that M . de Fonton , the Russian Minister at Hanover , has been appointed to act also for Russia at Hamburg , Bremen , and Lubeci , is said to be incorrect ; BE . C . KoudriafFsky having been nominated Charge" at the latter places . The other general diplomatic arrangements of Bussia now are , that Baron Brunow acts at Darmstadt and the Germanic Confederati n , M . de Kisseleff at Rome , Prince Gortschakoff at Vienna , M . de Titoff at Stutgardt , and M . de Fonton at Hanover and Oldenburg . M . de Balabini , formerly at Paris , tales M- de Fonton ' s place as Councillor of the Embassy at Vienna .

    Some correspondence found on the dead body of a Carlist chief discloses a few particulars connected with the designs and objects of the late insurrection . The movement was to take place simultaneously in various parts of the northern provinces ; the Count de Montemolin was to be at the head , and his brother Don Juan was to have the chief command in . Catalonia . The writers , however , complain that , while a . great deal of money v / fts being spent , the people did not appear

    correspondingly earnest in the Carnal cause . —The band of rebels . commanded by the brothers Hicrros are following a brigandish life in Old Castile ; and the Captain-General of the province has commanded the inhabitants of the villages to give immediate notice of the arrival of Carlists , . under certain penalties . A watchman is to be kept . constantly in the church-tower of each village . The Carlists , on their side , threaten vengeance on all who betray them .

    Andalusia , Navarre , and Aragon , are suffering greatly from cholera . The Times Madrid correspondent says that . General Shelley and all his family have been car * rle , d off . by it at their country seat near Seville , We continue to hear , through , the neutral states of Germany ,. accounts of the distressed condition of the landed proprietors And of the mercantile classes of Russia . X & o restrictions placed upon commerce by the blockade ; tbe largo draughts made from the serfs , or latub-culuvrating classes , in order to keep up the . army toithe requisite-standard ; and tho constantly-increasing burden of taxation , are all working tuoir effect upon the very life of . Russia , and producing a sense of depression i and alarm . " We cannot hold out against this blockade . another year , " is a remark wliicu is said to bo now constantly made .

    In tho spring of , last year , tho exportation of corn from Odessa was prohibited by the Russian Government ; but it was announced that the value of . tho stock would bo handed over to the several proprietors in the form of ready money . Several months passed , however , without the -owners receiving anything beyond an acknowledgment of tte amount in hand . At length , in answer to . several remonstrances , the , Jfcuuaaian Government appointed a committee to inquire into the matter j and .. after considerable -delay , an announcement , appears

    to the effect that the decision of tlie , cojamitteo ia to l > e submitted ! to the GovenioivOeneral , -nao wilL nubmit it io the . Military Council in St . Petersburg , who will , enbmitdt >>«(> the iMJoteter of 'War , wuo will submit it to the Ministerial Committee , who will , of course ( though this is not stated ) , submit it to tho Emperor , who , perhaps , will submit it to hia brothor Constantino ; and , after all those submlttale , tho final decision is to be "^ dependent on political circumstance *) " —which , no doubt , " la equivalent , to tho owners never getting , anytntii £ » taiL

    According to the official A & strian Correj & ondencethe Austro-Yenetian , Central Assemblies are to be convoked * y decree . These . assemblies form the bases of the pseudo-national representation previously decided on . The same paper contradicts officially the statement of * he Cologne Gazette , that * Baron Hubuer had been re-! called from Paris , and Baron de Bourqueuey from "Vienna * The news of the fire at Novgorod is contradicted . It as to Wladimir , in the government of Yolhynia , that the statement applies . The Arabs of the pac halic of Tripoli have revolted . A body of Turkish , troops sent against them were driven back into the city with a loss of from 1700 to 2000 . to the

    M . Pacheco is about to present a memorial Spanish Government on the diflfcrences with the court of Rome , and a circular will be sent to foreign courts . Some troubles , said to be not of political origin , havo broken out at Badajoz , but have been appeased . De Felici , who attempted the life of Cardinal Antonelli , was decapitated at Rome on the 11 th inst . He made no confession . It will be particularly gratifying to the Engkah public to learn that tlie Grand Puke of Tuscany ' s lagt victim , the wretched Cecchetti , who was imprisoned for the crime of reading the Bible with his own family , and whose sentence was commuted to exile on the application of the British Minister at Florence , has arrived in Turin ; and the Piedmontese Government , at the instance of Mr . Erskiue , our Charge' d'Affaires there , has given Cecchetti employment in one of the royal tobacco manufactories . — Times Turiu Correspondent .

    Several Mazzinian plots have , it is said , been discovered in various parts of Italy , and a simultaneous movement , -with a republican and democratic object , is dreaded by the authorities . In Naples , the Government is agitated by fears of a politico-military revolt . The Neapolitan Government is showing its sympathy with Russia by immediately publishing auy news unfavourable to the Allies , and keeping back as loug as possible their successes . The affair of the Black Warrior , long pendiug between the Government of the United States and that of Spain , has at last be « n settled . The amount to be paid by the Spanish Government by -way of indemnity , for which 300 , 000 dollars was asked at first , has been reduced to 40 , 000 dollars , which Spain lias agreed to pay in order to put an end to the question .

    An Imperial Russian ukasi ) ( says a telegraphic despatch from Berlin ) forbids the Jews to settle as agriculturists or to purchase laud in the Governments of Tchernigeff and Poltawa . It is reported that the local boards of administration in Poland are to be dissolved and incorporated with the Government offices at St . Petersburg . Marshal Puskiewitsch is understood to have expressed a desire to withdraw from office . Political offenders are subjected to martial law in Poland . A communication from Marseilles of July 24 th states that tbe conditions relative to the guaranteo of the loan by the Turkish Government have been exclianged between the Porte , Lord Stratford , and M . Bcuedctti . The 5 , 000 , 000 / . have been lent by Rothschilds at six per cent , interest . The Duke of Newcastle and Omar Pacha have arrived at Constantinople .

    A long despatch from Baron Manteufful to Count Arnim , dated Jujy 5 th , bos been published . With a degree of misty circumlocution which is perfectly marvellous , the Baron . says—or seems to say—that the position of Prussia remains , and will remain , unchanged ; that she still refuses to participate in the treaty of December 2 nd ; that she cannot approve of all the objects of the Western . Alliance ; that she agrees with tie first two points , without binding heraelf to all four ; and that she will be constantly prepared to defend , by arras if necessary , the interests- of Germany from all attacks .

    The Pays contradicts the report of Count Walewski having announced to the French diplomatic agents that the Western Powers no loflgcr feel themselves bound by tho four guarantees . As , liowcver , Lord Pulmcrston has repudiated , so far as England is concerned , those antiquated " points , " there can bo little doubt that the French Government has in fact done tho same . Etbem Pacha has been sent on another mission to the Crimea . The Porte has accepted the conditions proposed by Franco and England for the guarantee of tho loan to bo contracted by the Ottoman Government . Tho French ICmperor and Empress havo left for tho Pyrenees , but will shortly return to Paria .

    Half of Chamouni has been destroyed by lire : fortunately , no lives havo been lost- In reference to this melancholy visitation , Mr . Albert Smith Uus oxpreswed his readiness to receive any subscriptions , however small , for tho present aid of tho poor a « d excellent people of tho village . These tmm » are to be uent to the Box-ouico of tho Egyptian-hall . Tuo natives of tl \ o Danubian Principalities resident in Paria havo aont an address to Lord Clarendon , * in which they express their mortification that tho AlHo * did not arm tho Danubian population againat Russia ; that a " Roinnneo" was not present at tho Confcroncoo at Vienna ; and that their country remains in . tlio solo occupation of Austria . They also protect against anything being done in future in reference to the Principalities without , tho provioua consent of the , Priuciiiulitioa .

    Miscellaneous. The Cottrt.—Princess Alic...

    MISCELLANEOUS . The Cottrt . —Princess Alice has been attacked wi scarlatina . Prince Arthur , Prince Leopold , and Princi Louisa are convalescent . Hn > B Park on Sunday . —There was a slight gath < ing in the Park last Sunday ; but it was of the feeble possible nature , and the people soon dispersed , witho doing any mischief . The Sunday " demonstrations" a probably now extinct . Amterica . —Mr . Jefferson Davis has recently bei making a speech , in Mississippi , on the Cuban questic He is stated to have observed that he -would on the fii pretest raise the standard of the United States in Cuba hinting that the present time offers a good opportunit as the European Powers are engaged in war . Sever Germans have petitioned the President to interfere their favour , in order to rescue them from tho EnglL Government , which , they allege , has induced them go to Nova Scotia under tho false pretence of givir them work , and has then imprisoned them because their refusal to enlist in the Foreign Legion . Fra

    California we hear that the prosperous mining town Auburn has been almost entirely destroyed by fire , at that a serious conflagration had also occurred at Sa Francisco . All remained quiet at Cuba at the late dates ; but the news from Mexico represents Santa Anr as being in a very grave position , and the insurrectional army as growing every day stronger and more sucees . fill . A gale has destroyed in the harbonr of Mazr . tla several English merchant vessels with valuable cargoe Colonel Walker and his party from San Francisco liav according to one account , taken San Juan del Sur witl out resistance ; but another report states that the h vatlers were defeated . The question between Paragu . and Brazil has been settled amicably /

    JIystekiol's Death . —A very painful and obscui ense has been recently investigated before the coroner : Great Burdon , near Darlington . Mrs . "Wooler , the aviI of a gentleman of considerable property , was taken i early in last May . and was attended by Dr . Jacksoi who , after a time , suspected , from certain symptorr which he observed , that his patient was taking sma doses of arsenic . Mr . Wooler being dissatisfied wit Dr . Jackson ' s treatment , two other medical gentlemc were called in , both of whom ultimately entertained tl same suspicions as those which had already occurred t Dr . Jackson ; and they were afterwards confirmed by a analytical examination . An antidote was- given , h consent of all the three medical gentlemen ; but Mr Wooler died on the 27 th of June from tetanic spasm ;

    Her hnsband agreed to a post-mortem cxamiuatioi which disclosed the presence of arsenic . From tho fn < of Mr . Wooler having often administered the medicin < with his own hands , and from his having been seen 1 > Dr . Jackson with a medicine basket containing arsenic , painful feeling was aroused , and Mr . Wooler was hiinsc examined at the inquest . Dr . Hcnzell , one of the m < dical attendants , said that Mr . Wooler bad often cs hibited a degree of pleasure at hearing of unfavournbl symptoms , and that he received the news of his wife death with great coolness ; but several other ¦ witness gave precisely opposite testimony , and the incdk'iii basket , which was produced , was not found to c <> ntai any poLson . The j ury accordingly returned an ope verdict .

    This Statue ok Sir Kouekt Peei ,, at tho wi-r-t eu < of Cueapside , was on Saturday uncovered to the view < . the public . A few . City gcutleincn were present ; bti there was no ceremony . This Kaici < ok A-Ntium died on tho night of Wvdncd day week at his ancestral castle in Ireland , in the forty fourth year of his age . Tins West Inducs . —The latest news from the We * Indies is devoid of interest . The isluuri . * , with the c . n co ] ition of Porto Eico and St . Thomas , where yvllo \ fever was making severe ravages , were healthy , bit trade was extremely dull . An English coniineiciu schooner , tho Charles , and a brig , the Atruto , have bixi lost , but only ono life wan sacrificed .

    Tuk Thames Wati 4 b : Inteuoisitwo Skwkiw . —I ; reply to a deputation from the inhabitants of Wnlwjorth a feiv days ago , Sir Benjamin Hall ntated that , under M bill for the " Bettor Local Management of the Metro polin , " ono of the first acta the Metropolitan Board v Works would be called upon to porfurm woidd bo I . carry out two main intercepting sowers , ono on each « iil < of the r iver Thames , so that there would bo no oxuu .-r ii the river was not speedily relieved from tho sewage . Ai act , paaaed in 1852 , would also comes into operation oi tho ttlwt of August , ltiHO , compelling tlio metropolitan wutcr companies deriving thuir supply from tho TJiinntto take that aupply from ubovo Tedduigton Lock , and boyoud tho tidal influence . Govcrmncut would tulu steps to liuvo the act enforced .

    Kx-VKKSiimyv Fii . i . MOHic ( who i « nt present in ( . ironl Britain ) viaited tlio birth-plueo of lluniH on Thur . idn \ week , and embarked for Belfast in tho evening . lJAKON KOTIIHCUILU AMD TUK ClT V KlSl'ltBSKHTATIO . S —A deputation which waked on Baron . KothachiM « vported to a inwtlajr . of tho electors held on VrUlay w « . vl < that UL » intention wu » to adhoro to tuo ntiwiscninliou <> J tho City , awl . to contest it on every occuyiun tliut xu \ a M ocuur .

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), July 28, 1855, page 714, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_28071855/page/6/