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      ^ Qermany. Sept. 14th, 1859.—Tho Agitati...

      intended to take in face of the agitation . This was contradicted , but it is rather singular that the Stettiii address , presented at the beginning of last month , should _haye so long remained unanswered It is a natural conclusion that , but for . such a note from the central States , the "Stettin address would not have been answered at all . . ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . ' This reply of Prussia ' s will cause the Germans to turn their eyes to Gotha again . A few days ago Messrs . Schultz , Delitzsch , Von Bennigscn , "Von Unruh , and Tries ( the last was the author of the programme of Eisenach ) , being on their way to Frankfort to attend the congress of political econo- mists now sitting there , had an audience of the Duke of Saxe Coburg , and afterwards dined with him . A great deal at present depends upon the courage and talent of the Duke . Without a doubt , he is the most popular prince in Germany , and . the most likely to unite peasants and townspeople . The census of 1858 has just been published , by which we find that the population of Prussia is 17 , 703 , 9 . 13 , showing an increase since 1855 of 537 , 082 . From Austria we have the promulgation of an Imperial patent , dated 1 st inst ., regulating the affairs of the Protestant church and schools in Hungaria and the countries contiguous . By the way , I notice that I committed a blunder in my last by writing the Ukrain for the Crain or Carniola . This Imperial patent concedes to the Protestant church very extensive liberties , according to Aus- trian notions . Each congregation is to have the management of its own spiritual affairs , as far as is compatible with the interests of the state . They are to be at liberty to elect their own pastors and teachers , and to perform the marriage ceremony according to the prescriptions of their own Prptes- tant synods . The state promises to grant pecuniary assistance to such congregations as require it for the establishment of churches and schools . At a conference of the Zollverein , held at Harz- burg , Prussia lias proposed to relieve beetroot sugar from the export duty , on condition that the import duty upon colonial sugar be abolished . But , as by all accounts the sugar bakers of / Bavaria and Wurtemburg are in great strait , _owirfg to the decline of prices , it is expected that the governments of those countries will strenuously oppose the proposal , for fear of competition . The North German Lloyd has established a steamboat line between Amsterdam and Bremen . Besides the cholera , a kind of marsh-fever is ravaging the low countries or northern Germany , supposed to be caused by the scarcity and badness of the water , consequent upon the loug drought . _^ * 6 ¦ e

      No. 495. Sept, 17, 1859.] The Leader, 10...

      No . 495 . Sept , 17 , 1859 . ] THE LEADER , 1061 .

      The Dongaster St. L.Eger. This Great Rac...

      THE DONGASTER ST . L _. EGER . This great race was attended on Wednesday by an unusually large concourse of visitors . A clear at- mosphere and a bright sun added to the picturesque effect of a scene which would have appeared gay and animated even on the dreariest November day When the bell rang out for saddling for the first race , the spectators from the stand were enabled to realise a complete idea of the immense multitude on the course . The police had much difficulty in driving the crowds off the running ground , but the people behaved with great good humour , and seemed determined to let no ebullition of temper mar their enjoyment of Yorkshire _' s great sporting saturnalia , The ardour of the _hnokr > r « i nf TVnmiq _*/! Tomi _seemldtoooolffroa _^ _S _^ 6 _X » _M _^ U J _M _^ n tS _^ _lM _^ X _£ - he declined to fl to 4 SummeSe tie _whLr of th _? Oak _^ h _^ ponont , had not a strong number of adherents among the public , but was supported steadilybyher party ThedaV ' ssDortcommencod with tL Land PIat _^ _Handtaw wh £ _lwasTon bv _Cantain _ChriatiVs M _? sa _Julia _^& ieMum _™^^^ Pktofollowed _"Xch were _caS _^ _ZtrTmM _^ _TT _^ So _^ S _^ t _^ _AV _^ _Sltti _Ilover g " The ' S'r Lbgbr Stakks were next contested and the result of _^ Tery _^ _mJ _^ _ToyGdtohl' _^ ri ! _, _n ! r < a \ A _^^ oKb Q tun 08 t « r ' bv tno Cossack , 8 et . 71 b . MV _Saxffitf _^ Baron KotliBohlld _' a Magnum , 8 _ut . 71 b . ( J , _Oaborno ) .. a Mp n w J ° _i ? J do ? b m I i ou _^ u > B _^ . um , l _^ o rBl ? - ( Weils ) . * Mr . W . DaySa'he _* rQmi 8 CdL , ind , _g st . 71 b . ( A . Day } , o Tho others who ran were : —Napoleon , Gladiolus , U ) rafortor , Aston , Lovett , and Uraliiin . The butting at starting was 5 to 4 on The Promised Land , 4 to 1 _Wgalnst Summerside , 12 to 1 against Defender , 16 to J against Gladiolus , 15 to 1 against Napoleon , 20 to * against Gamester , . , Tho horses were drawn up at the post soon after tne appointed time , and they were despatched on tho _nrst attempt . Defender and Gamester wore quickly on their logs , but they _lwJ scarcely got into their « _nUo when Promised Land rushed to tho front and * ooK a load of three or four lengths . Gladiolus ,

      The Dongaster St. L.Eger. This Great Rac...

      Gamester , and Aston being his immediate atten- dantsv Midway up the hill Astoa ran into the second place , Summerside going on , third _s and Gladiolus fourth ¦; Uralian dropped hopelessly into the rear , and was never after- wards seen in the race . On went Promised Land with a clear lead , Aston and Summerside being second and third , Comforter , Gladiolus , Defender , and Gamester next . At the Red House the lot be- gan to take a little closer order , Aston giving way to Summerside ,. and , with Comforter , joining the _beaten ones . Gladiolus held the third place until after crossing the road , when he gave way , and De- fender , next the rails , took his place ; Gamester , on the upper ground , now showing very formidably in their wake . Midway between the road and the dis- tance Summerside was beaten , and at the distance Alfred Day " rode " Promised Land , and a tremen- clous shout was raised of " The favourite ' s beaten , " and such was the fact , for Gamester came out , fol- lowed by Defender ; but the race was now virtually over , and Gamester , ran home an easy winner by half a length ; Magnurn , who caught Summerside at the stand , was beaten two lengths from the second , and finished a head , in advance of the mare , About a length from them came Promised Land fifth , and a similar distance separated Napoleon from him . The others came in at such wide inter- vals that the judge was enabled to place the lot . Uralian walked in long after the horses had passed the post . Promised Land made all his own running , cer- tainly a bold proceeding , and one which indicated the great confidence which his owner placed in his chance . The excitement with which the race was regarded first found vent when , after entering . the straight , it was evident that Summerside was beaten , and a thousand voices proclaimed the fact . When , at the distance _* Promised Land was seen in trouble , the sensation was immense , and was expressed by one prolonged shout , tlie purport of whieli was un-: derstood and echoed by people at too great a dis- tance to witness the favourite ' s disgrace . There- suit of the race was unexpected even amongst York- shiremen , who ever adhere to the Whitewall stable . Indeed , the trainer of Gamester merely expressed his belief in the health and fitness of the horse , and of that there could be no doubt ; but he was not sanguine enough to believe his horse capable of overthrowing Promised Land . Gamester was , we believe , bred by tlie veteran Sir Charles Monck , at Belsay Castle , near New- castle , and is a remarkably handsome brown colt , standing about 151 .

      Blondin A Myth. The New York Times Of Th...

      BLONDIN A MYTH . The New York Times of the 30 th ult . contains the following letter which certainly gives us a peculiar view of journalism in the United States : — " Niagara , Friday , August 2 G , 1859 . _—t have no ob- jeetioa even to a practical joke while it is kept within the bounds of decency nor do I feel it my duty to make myself a knight-errant for the purpose of pricking all the bubbles which crafty speculators may think it worth their while to blow , or exploding all the hoaxes by which some needy character may try to turn his poor little penny . It is of very little use to save a fool from his folly , and what people like to believe I suppose they will believe in spite of reason and evidence alike . Moreover , as a citizen of Niagara , I presume that I shall , in one way x ) r another , be a gainer one of these days by the suaden influx ot money into our . town which has followed the splendid success of the great Blondin . liumbug . _Nevertheless , the thing is _really getting to be so excessively and extravagantly absurd , that I can ' t _W lon _^ er refrilin from speaking the truth abou t it . When it comes to asserting that Blouditi cooks his _" _*« _" _<* ° » * _tifflit rope , ancl feeds the passengers onthe Mald of thQ Mi _^ with omelettes dropped » ke _™ _™ * rom the «* y ,. I must « spoak out in _mating , ' and say what none of the ton thousand imported dupes of our wonderful story can be _expected in deference to human frailty to bo the first to mftlco known — that for ought I know "" ere is no such person in the world , or at _y Qaat j n Niagara , as Mr . Blondin at all } that ho has never crossed the Falls on a tight rope , or a _slack-ropo , or on any rope at all but the string of a very long bow : and . that as the people of Niagara , Rochester , and the western rail ways of New York , have already made perhaps quite . money enough out of their'jest ' s prosperity , ' it is time that the thing should be put n stop to before foolish people elsewhere may bo led Into seri- ous danger by attempting to rival feats tliut have never boon performed . Since the lmmorta . 1 Moon- hoax' there has been nothing so successful , I supposo , in the way of a vast quiz , as tho _ropo-walklng faven- tlon of a bright Niagara _bar-keepor , with its _ochooo from Rochester and other places along our lino of country . As I have not b « en away from homo during the whole summer I think 1 am « tolerably

      Blondin A Myth. The New York Times Of Th...

      creditable witness ; and I must * therefore , assure you . that the whole of this wonderful series of stories has grown up out of a bet made by a person well known in this town that he could bring more people to _Niagara in two weeks than the Falls had ever brought here in as many months . How the rope-dancing dodge occurred to him I don ' t profess to know , but he selected Blond in as the name of his hero , because there was a Blondin once in this country with the Ravels , a very good rope dancer , now retired and living somewhere in the country of Savoy , whocould not of course hear of the story in time to contradict it . Auything funnier or more foolish than the faces of the crowds which have succeeded each other down about the Falls on' each successive day announced for the feats you never saw , and tho hotels have reaped a golden harvest . But you will observe that not a single individual has ventured in . any of the letters from Niagara to say that lie saw Blondin do any of these _ things . Our local editors and others , of course , enjoying the joke , have joined in it , and a very good joke it has been , certainly ; but it seems to me it ought to be regarded now as played put . The good people of our town have had their fun out of you , you must admit , and have madea snug thing of it , too , in a pecuniary way . But a joke , as I said before , is a joke , and has its bounds _, " R . E . P . " On the other hand the Manchester Examiner publishes several letters from _correspondents of its own , denying the truth of the statement in the New York Times that Blondin was a myth , and declaring that they- had themselves witnessed his feat at Niagara , and one " E . Bowker" writes :-r- " Oh the 4 th of July last , I was travelling past the falls of Niagara ; about four o'clock in the afternoon . I saw . a man named Blondin cross the Niagara river , about a quarter of a mile below the Falls , on a tight rope _, xie started from the States side , and half way across he lay down on his back , stood on one leg , and then proceeded to the Canada side amidst the acclanaations of assembled thousands . " ; ¦

      ^ _ P _ . Tvaij *Ok 11 Al-Jc. _ A Commit...

      _^ _ p __ . _TVAIJ _* OK 11 _AL-jc . _ A committee is about to be organised in London to afford active sympathy and assistance to the movement for the emancipation of Central Italy ; and in this committee it is desired that the English element should preponderate . Lord Shaftes bury having been requested to become the president , replies to the Italians who form the deputation to him : —" . _«* could take the same _^ view as you do of my position and influence , I should not hesitate even for a moment to accept the post that your _confidence's offered to me . The claims—nay more , the jusfc demands— of Italy on the sympathy and co-operation of Englishmen are such that it seems impossible for anyone , be * e great or be he small , to hold back any support that it might be in his power to bestow _, Your case and our own are very similar . We long and ardently desired the blessings of civil and reb > gious liberty . To obtain them we got rid of our obnoxious rulers ; chose those who should succeed them , and established a form of government different as little as possible from that to which we were habituated . And all this was done without bloodshed , without violence , without rapine , without confusion , or even disturbance of the or . ier of daily life , and simply by the will of an united people determined to bo free _. Your course has been the same . But great as was our conduct , yours has hitherto been far greater . We had long enjoyed the form and oftentimes the exercise of free institutions ; the principle and practice of then were familiar to , u _* But 1 berty came upon you like a thunderclap , and yet she found you as orderly , peaqoful , ready , as ahve to the _blesaings she gives und tlie duties she imposes , as though you had been trained to them from , your very cradles . So intense is the effect that simply the love of rational freedom can produce on the understandings and the hearts of men ! Wo were told that you did not care for liberty , und that you had not coumgo to assort it . Wo were told that you wore unfit for self-government , and , that Austrian bayonets were necessary to save your beautiful lund from bloodshed , plunder , nnd anarchy , by your own people , We wore told your mutual hatreds and jealousies were such that no one state , no one city could bo in harmony with another . What , in fact , were wo not told to your detnmont and dishonour ? Many believed what thoy heard . I did so at one time myselt , but who can wonder at it ? What prceodent had history afforded of so apparently _suddon a fitness , for the exerclso of the greateat of human callings , —tho exercise of civil und reliKious freedom ? A nation _soomed to be born in a day—born , at ouce , in Its full moral stature , with all tho powers of aelfcontrol , without which there novor was , and there nov _* r will bo , _^ ny true or lasting liberty . " Well , If such things as , thoso will not stir tho hearts of tho whole Anglo-Saxon race , in whlcheTer

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 17, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/sldr_17091859/page/17/