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      AMERICA . ACohrespondent ofthe Times , writing from Newport , the fashionable watering place , says i" Newport is a favourite resort For wealth 7 Cubans , of whom there are many here at present . I have been surprised to find how universal is the desire for annexation . They are alarmed at the manifestations against their slave property , and hope for safety under the institutions of the United States . Filibustering expeditions are also openly spoken of as in progress , and the number of men , stands of arms , and even day of sailing , indicated . In the latter , however , the Cubans do not seem to participate . The news of the appointment of General Concha is received by the Cubans with great favour . They regard him as an honest man who > understands the feelings of the island . The impression also prevails that all the Government projects for annexation will be checked by it for the present . "

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . Russian Faith . —At Bxailow , the Russians wanted a Wallachian regiment to accompany their army to Russia , which they positively refused to do « " Well , " said the Russian General , " then t 6 rmorrow come out for a farewell review with my troops . " When the review was over the Wallachians were told to pile arms and partake of a-dinner winch was prepared forthemin company with the Russians ; returning , they found all their arms gone , and in addition they were ordered to give up their pouches and belts , an order which no means now remained for" resisting . Most of them had the uniform buttons cut off their c « ats . This proceeding ; has caused a great deal of indignation , among the Wallachians , and especially among the troops . They say that the Russians are going away without aiiy expectation of returning , and do not care now what the ^ Valiachians think of them .

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      According to the Suabian Mercury , M . de Brunow has taken : a large house at Darmstadt , and intends passing the winter at that place . It has been frequently remarked with surprise tlat neither M . de Brunow nor M . de Kisseleff should have returned to St . Petersburg ; Whether this proceeds from disgrace or diplomatic art no one kaows .

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      Dk . Cohn at Constantinople . —Dr . Colin , the president of the Israelite Consistorial Comrnittee of Paris , had an audience of the Sultan on the 21 st ult ., in . the Palace of Cberagan , in which his Majesty declared that all privileges and immunities hitheuto granted to the Christian * were to be extended also to tlje Jews of turkey , " for that the paternal heart of his Majesty would never suffer tlie slightest difference to exist between the rajahs ( non-Mussulman subjects ) of Iris empire . " The Sultan added : " My heart is vast , and comprises in its love all my subjects equally . " M . Colin was afterwards requested to explain to the Sultan the nature of the establishments of public instruction he had founded at Jerusalem . When he spoke of the Israelite school that was to be opened at Jerusalem , the Sultan interrupted him , saying : " You have the welfare of nw subjects

      in view . " The Sultan , afterwards consented to > raise the nramber of Jewish pupils at the military school of Kumbar Chanah to forty , two of whom to he sent annually to Paris , or to some other capital of Europe , to complete their studies . When Dr . Cohn pronounced the Jewish benediction prescribed in the presence of nionarchs , the Sultan ' s eyes were seen to fill With tears . He thanked M . Cohn , and said : " When you return to Constantinople you shall find your brethren in a better condition , I promise you . " Ferid Eflcndi , who liad introduced Dr . Cohn , said to him afterwards : " I am happy I have been present at tins audience ; I never saw the Sultan so affected before . " Dr . Cohn was on the same day received by Said Pacha , who likewise conceded all his requests in favour of the Jews of Egypt .

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      Rations fok Dkad Soldiers . —A medical correspondent at Bucharest sponks aa follows of the Russian hospital system : — "Thonumber of Russian sick and dead was always great . Every patient who entered tho hospital was considered a lost mun . This persuasion did not ariso from a knowledge of the careless trorttmont of the patients , or of their abominable food , tut from the circumstance of there fceing a magazine for tho dead in tho rayon of each hospital . This is a neqestiary appendix to a Kussian military hospital , l ) ocausothe dead uro not buried ecpnrately . Tiio corpses « rc carried to a room , stable , or warehouse , and , according to the 8120 of tho place , He thero aix , eight , or ton dnys , until it in full . The cause of this custom is not a littlo singular . Tho director of tho military hospital ohwges tho State for the food j modioino , &c , of tho defunct soldier up to tho day , mot of his death , but of his burial , when ho is ofiloially struck oil" tho sick list . "

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      THE ARMY THAT IS DEFENDING CIVILISATION . The Times as very uncouth when it begins to be candid about the civilisation , of which it is tho leading journal . Here is its coarse character of the offlcors of the British army : — " Lord HarUingo will , no doubt , receive plenty of tiug-Gestions from official persons ujion tho subject , but , if il may help to guide him in liis decision , wo can toll him onco fur all wlmt is believed at well-nigh every dinnor-tablo and in every rrivato dwelling upon this most humiliating subject . It ia generally boliuvod that ft spirit of profligacy and debauchery exists at tho present moment among too many of tho vegunouls in tho Quooit ' s service---wo nvo sponkhig , of course , only of tho ofticors—and that in tho various barracks scenes are tolerated which , out of burmcks and barrack society , would injure at onco exclusion from any roapeetablo family to all participators in thum . Dvunkenncas prevails , young woinou itro dobauehod , common strumpota mo brought into tho bnrmcks before tho facca , c » f tho private aoldlers , who may , on tho very next day , bo put under arrest for tho alightoHt diurespoot to thu officers who so littlo roapect thombuIvch . It is boliuvod that a Hyatoni of oppression and exclusion in many rogimonts is organised ugainut anj oilicor , oHpecially any jonng oftioor , who will not share in the shameful foUiun of Iuh compauionu . It ia bollovod that night after might aconos of riot wnd violonco prevail , ouch aa thoHo of which wo have hoard bo much in tho Into revolution of tho condition of th-o 46 th Rvgimont . "

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      A WAR INCIDENT . The following is an extract from a letter , written on board the Asmodee , by a French officer , who was present at the taking of Bomarsund : — " At four o'clock we were signalled to approach the fortress to take on board the prisoners of war . .... We had on board during two hours 250 pr isoners . When we saw the aspect of these poor wretches , many of whom were wounded , and all in a most pitiable plight , the ' horrors of war' appeared to » us in the fullest sense of the expression . Several of the officers spoke French , and they confessed to us how completely they were disconcerted by the attack from the ships . Cannon balls rained upon them , and the ships were so placed that they could not return a shot . The wives and children of the prisoners ( for many of the Kussian soldiers are married and have families ) came on board afterwards . The leave-takings were most distressing , but the despairing cries of the women who did not find the husbands they had come to seek were still more so . These scenes rent the hearts of our brave sailors ; who , as yon know , have under a rough appearance the tenderest of hearts , and do not know what to do with themselves when they see women and children cry . "

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      A LADY'S ASCENT OF MONT BLANC . A " Tourist " communicates to the papers : — " On arriving here from Genoa , I . found the whole village in a state of commotion in consequence of this event . , It appears that Mr . and Mrs . Hamilton , a gentleman and lady who reside near London , accompanied by nine guides , arid by a boy of the village IGyears old , started from . Chamotoi to make the ascent oh Sunday morning last , about 8 o'clock . They arrived at the Grands Slulets at 4 o ' clock in the afternoon , and passed the night in the liut the , guides have recently erected there ; at half-past 3 the next morning they continued their journey , and after meeting with difficulties of no ordinary ; character , succeeded in ; reaching the summit at about half-past . 2 e . mv They rested there about 10 miputes , when the anxiety of the guides respecting the weather induced them to commence the descent , and they got back

      to the Grands Millers . at 6 o'clock , and passed another night in , the hut . On the Wednesday morning they returned thence to Cham ' ouni , and they found this to be the most difficult part of their journey , in consequence of the descent o £ . avalanches . They ' succeeded , however , in-surmounting every obstacle , and were , welcomed on their arrival at the ¦ village by the firing of cannon , the forming of a triumphal procession , and every other demonstration of enthusiastic applause . . . ¦ " A fete was given the next evening iii the court-yard of the Hotel de Londres , which probably surpassed anything of the kind ever seen in Chamouni , not ' excepting that which took place after Mr . Albert Smith's ascent . Mrs . Hamilton

      had so far recovered from her fatigue as to be able to join the dancers , and she did so with much spirit . She spoke in the warmest terms of the two guides , Jean and Victor Tairray , who paid her the utmost attention during the Whole route . An avalanche of immense size fell as they were passing the Grand Plateau , and in its course went over a part of the track they had crossed but a few minutes before , and completel y n'lled _ a crevasse beneath . " This is the first time the top of Mont Blanc has ever been reached by an English lady , although two women have before made the attempt successfully , one being a French lady of Geneva , Mdlle . D'Angcville , and the other a peasant in tho neighbourhood of Chamouni . ¦

      " Two other ascents havo been made this season , both during the present month ; one by a Air . Birkbeck , and the other by a Air . Blackwdl . Dr . Talbot , an American gentleman , has commenced tho ascent to-day , and is nowat the Grands Mulots , where ho will pass tho night , and , if the weather permit him , willcontiuuo his journey to-morrow . " Chamouui , Aug . 25 . "

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      MR . SIDNEY HERBERT AT HOME . The editor of the Salisbury Journal , from which we take the following , bids boldly for the plush of the 1 ' einbroke family : ¦—" Last Wednesday , an event , upon which many a young heart had been act tor several weeks past , came off m th& grounds of Wilton Abbey , for upon that day the liiglit Hon . fciidnoy and Mrs . Herbert gave their annual treat to tho boys and girls of tho national aohools . With colours flying , and animated by t ho spirit-stirriim strains of the Wilton band , the children of tho Wilton and Nctliorliumpton sohools , to tho number of of some 400 or . OOO , arrived nt tho Abbey at four o ' clock , and took thoir scuta at long tables ranged on tho lawn , which were loaded with pyramids of sweet cuko and other odiblos ascertained to bo acceptable to youthful palates . The children were cloan and healthy-looking , and thoir eyes sparkled with delight at tho pvotipeot of tho entertainment and sports that wcro in utorc for thum . Mr . Horbert had iust

      returned from a visit to her Majesty at Osborno . House , but , notwithstanding tho illustrious uociuty ho had lately been in . it was ovidoufc that ho had lost nonu of his uintbility ami urbanity . Ho porHonnlly suparintomlod Jill iho arrangements , and with liin ammbloiuul acoompliHliod parCnor , waited upon tho littlo guests , in which tunic they wore- al > ly assisted by Hurl NuIhou , tho Lord Iiinhop of fcSallnliury , tho Ifi . shop of Now Zouland , and aevoml olhorw . Surely Iho Any will bo long rornombored by thoso youngiUorH wlion thoir wmits were kindly attended to by cnil « mid Wlxijia « nd right hanourablo hidiea and gentlomon , who looked mh UiohhIi tlioy would novor bo tirod of carrying about jiirh of ton and plato ula ol cake Mr . Herbert fttiirti-ii tlio children Mt all thoir sports , and wnfl an much itinimi ' d as Iho morrieat of tliom ; hikI those who liavo flo < Mi th « right hon . gonlloiimu engaged in hi . s arduous dutlcH i" tho wnr-oflloo aw ouorctary-at-war , or irmvoly ( lofoinliiifi noino linpoiiuhcd ONtiinntcB in tho Honso , vvotild havo boon glad to witness him iu the charaotor of her AlHJotity ' B Bcorotnry-rtt-j » c « c « .

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      WAR FINANCE . CFrom the Manchester Examiner . ) Here lies the principal source of future danger to the commercial prosperity which is now opening upon us . The war taxes already imposed by our Government amount to more than 10 , 000 , 000 ^ . annually . This sum exceeds by more than 1 , 000 , 000 / . sterling the whole amount of dividends payable upon the 280 , 000 , 000 / . of capital sunk in our railways . What the balance of the expenditure may prove over and above this sum by the time Parliament meets next session , nobody can conjecture ; but if more

      money is required it will probably have to be raised by loan . Should , however , the necessities of our Government not compel them to compete with our merchants and manufacturers in the money market during the war , it is quite certain , that sooner or later the available resources of this country will be most seriously competed for by the other Governments of Europe . The disasters of this war will , in a commercial point of view , be felt much more at its close than during actual hostilities . TJie longer it lasts the more severe will be the pressure ; for it is self-evident that all these Governments must extricate themselves

      finally' . from' their financial embarrassments by Joans , and theseloans willbe chiefly obtained in England . That floating capital which forms the labour fund of our artisans , and provides the current means for conducting our commercial exchanges at home and abroad , will ultimatel y have to sustain the chief if not the whole cost of the war , however or by vebom > soever incurred ; and it is this fact which looms in the distanc e , and which constitutes the only dark clOud that threatens the otherwise bright prospects before us . TVhen we lend money to governments , we lend capital that disappears for ever ; itfiasbeen

      spent and destroyed ; nothing rerivains of it but the claim to a certain rate of interest out of the taxes of the state which gives the paper bonds . On tlie other hand , the available capital of this country for all reproductive purposes , industrial or 'commercial , will be diminished to the full extent of such loans , and the country will be poorer by the whole amount they represent ; for the interest receivable by the bondholders is not returned out of any profits created ; by the use of this capital , but is paid by taxes directly levied on the subjects of the borrowing state . In a commercial point of view , the war with Russia is

      not so much directly as indirectly likely to interfere ¦ with our prosperity ; its future results on the money market and floating capital of this country are of far more importance than even the 11 , 000 , 000 / . of annual taxation imposed to cover the estimated cost of our own share in it . We shall have to provide , not for our own expenses only , but for all the indefinite liabilities which the other powers will have to meet , when the war is over , by borrowing British capital . A good harvest and good trade will be great Wessings ; but a large share of the prosperity they promise will serve no better purpose than to balance the cost , and conceal without mitigating tho miseries of war .

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      OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN . Tub " Parry case" lias concluded in tliis way : Xiout . Perry , acquitted , on ono charge and found guilty on others , is dismissed from tho service , but an . consideration of tho services of his father , is allowed to sefll hia oonunission . Lieut . Grecr is acquitted , but ordered to sell out . Liout . Waldy , who so conveniently forgot so many memorable things , ia aovoroly reprimanded . The Morning Advertiser says : —• " Nothing oftn Qxc ' ood tho amount of oxcitomeut which jrovaila in military oiroloa beouuno of tho lato verdict iu iJout . Porrj ' a case , partlcnlnrly nsMnjor-Goiwrul Wuthorall , xiio noting Adjntnnt-Gonoral , was thu prosooutor . Oolouoi uarrott , tlu commanding officer of Uio regiment , is now a wcinper of tho United Sorvico Olub , but ia not Ukdy long to

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      September 9 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 846

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 9, 1854, page 845, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2055/page/5/