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Leader (1850-1860), 25th September 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 916, Untitled Article

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      of the heart of a mother who -dreamed of a brilliant future for the child whom God lias preserved to her , and yet is able to do nothing for her—nothing ! Why cannot 1 die P 13 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 whom I pray ( rod to preserve to her . If I am ever forgetful , preserve my letter , in order to rccal to ine all that I owe to your tender devotedncss . " 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 niter this letter Mine , de Loussada wrote herself as follows : —• " Robert , —I am about to address you frankly as my most eineere friend , and supplicate you to reply to me in the Mine 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 .

      G ^ od 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 ? Forgive me , llobert , 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 you better , before one year I hope to repay you all you have expended on my account .

      " One who will never toeget 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 Mine , de Loussada had obtained money from Mr . Weble , and that , after him , her mother , still more shamefully , laid lived on her prostitution . As to the furniture , there was nothing whatever , lie said , to prove that it was the property of Mme . Devaisore . The Tribunal deckled that Mine . Devaisore should give up the furniture , or in default pay 40 , 000 f .

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      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 .

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      " OUR SOCIAL SYSTEM . " Such is the heading given by the Morning Herald to the following police ease . 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 II , charged with stealing two pairs of shoes from the outside of the shop of Mr . Iiill , 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 cruelly , 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 ? Have you ever been in prison ? Boy . — , sir . I was sent once to the House of Detention to get rid of the sickness that was about me . Mr . Yardley . —lteally , this boy does not Heem to me like a thief—he seems to mo to be 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 . Mr . Yiirdley , 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 the prosecutor , but at the same time reprimanding the practice of exposing goods out of doors as a lure and temptation to indigence and vice .

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      MISC E L L A N E O U S . The Queen remains at Uahnoral 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 at Aborgeldio , and visits are constantly interchanged between her and her royal daughter .

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      A report reached town on Thursday that Mr , Albert Smith nnd his brother hud been drowned in the Khone . We are happy to any that this is incorrect . It in supposed thai , the loss and finding of Mr . Smith's pocketbook gave rise to the story . The Duke of Northumberland , patronizing the schoolmaster abroad , laid tho foundation Mono » f the Horough Schools at Alnwiek on Wednesday week . Lord Lovaine and his nili' were also present . . lolm Ntokoo , " oiid of the surgeons in tho Uritish fleet ill . Trafalgar , " and " ono of the medical advisors of Napoleon during Imh mplivit . y at St . . Helena , " died suddenly on Monday week at Durham .

      Oldluim is now undergoing nil the excifoinentontocedent to a general election . Tho town i . s gay with lings and colours . Party spirit has risen to u great height , and the aul lioritiet ; axe anxious for the peace of the town . Mr . W .. I . l '' o \ is tho Liberal candidate . Telegraphic Aviros now connect ( lie I ' ost-oflice with ( ho Admiralty , I he Houses of Parliament , and tho station at (/ liiiring-croHH . Lord Nuiih , tho Chief Secretary for Ireland , lias addressed the following letter to Mr . ' Honey , tho secretary of tlu- Exhibit ion ; Dublin Castle , Mill Hciil ., IHW .

      Sir , In acknowledging the receipt of your loiter of fho y . Jrd ult ., I lie ^ r | , acquaint yon Mint ., in accordance with the wish oxproHsed therein , | ' will bo prepared to submit , to Parliament , earl y iu « Jto onHuing HOHwion , a bill to extend tho proviyiona oi ( he Doeigna Act of 18 G 0 , and togivo

      protection from piracy to persons exhibiting new invents m the Industrial Exhibition tp be held & DuTlSlnTS The bill will be similar m its provisions to the DeS Act , 14 Vic ., c . 8 . I am , bit , your obedient servant ^ Favourable answers to the Circular of the InternltbL Postage Society have been received from the Ministers f Austria , the United States , Spain , Brazil , Sardinia Porf gal , France , the Netherlands , the Sublime Porte the Co sul-General for tho-Hanse Towns , and from every nth * representative of foreign countries with whom the assooi *! ° " ^ I n ^ l S dence - Wi % > intention of

      _ ^ ^ F ^ .. ^ extending the sphere of their operations in this eounfcrv if is intended to form branch associations in the province and they have already received promises of support for this purpose from the following localities : —Bath Cork Cheltenham , Dumbarton , Deal , Dublin , Exeter , Palkirk Glasgow , Huntingdon , Huddersfield , Halifax , HasthW Leicester , Leeds . Merthyr-Tydvil , Manchester , Newcast le ' Northampton , Nottingham , Oxford , Portsmouth , Plv ' mouth , Reading , Rotherham , Spalding , Swansea , Sheffield Sunderland , Staffordshire Potteries , Totnes , Tiverton Wareham , Wisbeach , and Waterford . '

      M . Chatin has just presented to the Academy of Mecli-/ : ine 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 , it being lighter and more iodurated than those of the Marne Ourcq , &c , but at the same time he expresses his surprise that means are not adopted to take this water from a moro distant point , such as Charenton , and bringing it to the locality of the Jardin des Plants , for distribution from

      thence to the whole of Pans , 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 l'Ourcq , which contains four times less iodure than the water of the Seine . The Avater 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 mto 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 Liveqjool on tho 4 th instant , and up to the ISth the number actually enrolled was 601 . The number examined by the medical inspector was 746 , of whom 145 were rejected . At Prescot , on the 17 th and 18 th instant , 191 volunteers were enrolled ; many of these arc labourers at Ivnowsley , 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 Album .

      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 , —Tho attention of her Majesty ' Government having been drawn to a scheino entitled ' The British Exodus ; or , National Emigration Fund of the Hunter Kivcr Gold Mining Company' having for one of its ob-Australia

      jects the selection of 4000 free-passage orders to , by ballot , 1 am directed to inform you that the proposed ballot is illegal , and subjects those concerned in it to prosecutions under the Acts of Parliament made for the , suppression of lotteries . And ! hereby givo you notice thai . proceedings will bo taken against the parties concerned m the scheme in question if the intended ballot be permitted to take place .- I am , Ac . ( Signed ) , U . K . Ukv noi . ps . — It was announced that the promoters intended to carry out the objects of the company in another way , nnd tlio

      meeting adjourned . The Shotiishaia case , says the Ipswich Mt-pri'ss , is g »»> R on as actively as ever . On Monday week tho bed wan thoroughly examined in tho presence of Mr . Ma ! churn , everything , ns it , is alleged , being removed from ' ¦• ' was ' then carefully made up , arid the girl p laced upon ii , tho l » cdstead being removed fifteen inches from the . \ va" . At noon on tlio same day tho watch commenced in <"' presence ! of Matehiim , sundry mures , the official watched , I / Ilt 7 \ , jl \ t ' */ l 1 VI IVI V . lllllll ^ I 1 **!!*! * T Itl 1 »» x » r ' *• ' - ~ j 1 1

      and many visitors . We hour < hut , it has gone on up . '"" period at which wo write a period of seveiidays "''" . " ^ any discovery being made by tlio watchers , who . l (' ' . thill , tho girl ' has neither taken food nor drink during "' whole term , and thai she in as cheerful as over . 'J ^ parasol and harmonica are removed , nnd the child M l )! ll ( . havo not yet , entered the room . Kood is olferod o i ^ twice a diiy , but . is refused . Tho glass lias run ; .: "' " The watch is to continue fourteen days . Tho child m > she has been getting weaker during the p »> ' " / ' Sho thinks she shall live during tho fourteen days , !>'" ' ' "

      poets lo die short ly afterwards . A lino of screw-steamers is about to commence riinni" ( T between Southampton and Hordeiuix . ' . A farmer living at a , farm near ilraughing , in "' ' ! "'> H shire , was compelled to apply to Mio Union at . I $ 1 H jj .,.,, Slorl lord for men to enable him lo go I . in his harvest . , ^ beinj' no labourers out . oi' emp loyment , in Ins pitrif , > , he was obliged to tako seven men , whoso ages » ^^ seventy-three yearn each , and he employed Ilioiu weeks . . .. \ Viirk-Twelve of the original members of tlio " I ' . n . l . co \»« ing Guilders' Association , " and their wives and " ( , loft , London on Tuesday morning , per iil'''" . ,, i i ,, g Ituilwuy , f « r Dartmouth , to join Mio Jauot Mttcl" '' > J hi that port , waiting to sail for Melbourne . J- »« V

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      GKUAT FLOODS . S'l'KAHinrno , H / isle , Lausanne , Vevey , Vverdun , and Mio environs of Geneva , wen ; last week Hooded by a sudden rise of I be Kliimi and other rivers . AtStrasbiirg Mio IMiine rose upwards of twelve feet , above highwafer mark : troops were placed at . Mie disposal of the oiigiiieer-inchief , working by torchlight , as well as daylight , and the tocsin kept ringing . At Hash ; ( he water was ho high that the Jiuste . ( hizcltc could not , he printed . Instead , the following slip wan forwarded lo its subscribers , — " It , is impossible for hh to print our journal lo day . The waters of tho Khino have risen to a height they had not , reached . since IH 17 . The whole town is overflowed . Our ofliceH aro filled with water . Tho present , notice to our subscribers ban been printed in another establishment , which kindly placed jt . n presses at our disposal . "

      The Berne 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 foot 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 .

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      G O L D EN MO 11 A L S . AVe have heard 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 us 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 . Jle said , that , the gold fields lately discovered opened a very wide field for the reception of plunderers from the capital of England—several partners m mercantile houses having availed themselves of the opportunities

      presented by the unrest mined permission to draw out the moneys dcpo . sii . cd in hanking 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 . He regretted that , from what , he had learned from authentic sources , he had strong grounds for apprehending serious losses to respectable firms fr < nn tho ¦ withdrawal of money from hanks upon the speculations ho alluded to . Of one instance he had been just informed by ji gentleman , who was , unfortunately , a Kiiflerer by the unprincipled experiment of a partner , who , taking advantage of the power of drawing cheques , had thrown the

      house into the most complete confusion and embarrassment . Hut , he believed , there had recently occurred a great many cases of the kind , . lie attributed , too , a great deal of tho disinclination of persons who were defrauded of money by the advertising shipbrokors , or pretended shipbroke . rs , to appear before magistrates , in spite ol oilers of compromise , lo the fact , that , the complainants were afraid of encountering the demands of individuals who could show belter chums to the deposits than thein-Holves . Hir Peter Laurie Imped that , the attention of commercial men would bo invited to the " alarming fact . " This is a striking picture of golden morality .

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      916 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1852, page 916, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1953/page/8/