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      Gibraltar . He denied the accusation , bat was taken before a magistrate . A request to be o 0 ** 0 **** TgS the captain of the Merlin was complied with ; and that officer said that Kelly , the seaman in question , bad Been ^ th him sixteen months , and that his ship had never been at Gibraltar . Nevertheless , the sailor was removed , handcuffed , to London , whence he was subsequently sent to Portsmouth , and put on board the Victory , wherehe was kept in irons three weeks , waiting the arrival of tne C » sar from abroad . Three days after the ship came into utter of

      port , Kelly was taken aboard , and the falsity the story against him was shown beyond dispute . He was then , of course , released ; but the Merlin had sailed , with all his clothes and other property aboard , and he was lef t quite destitute . To his representations , the only answer returned was that nothing could be done ; and he was put ashore . The poor man then applied to the Portsmouth magistrates , who referred him to the Port-Admiral . From him he received a pass to Xondon and thence to Liverpool , and five shillings to keep him from starvation . But we feel moved to ask—what

      compensation is to be made to the victim for the scandalous oppression by which he has suffered ? Nottingham Election . —Mr . Charles Paget , of Ruddington Grange , a moderate Liberal , has been elected for Nottingham , in place of Mr . Strntt . Mr . J . R . Mills , who also came forward in the Liberal interest , and Mr . Ernest Jones , who offered himself on Chartist principles , withdrew from the contest , and there was consequently no poll . , East , Gkanville ' s Mission to Moscow . —His Excellency Earl Granville , Ambassador Extraordinary to the coronation of the Emperor Alexander II . of Russia , left Carlsbad on Saturday last for Dresden , accompanied by the Countess Granville , en route for St . Petersburg .

      A Friendly Response to the address of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association has been despatched from Philadelphia , and received by Mr . Robertson Gladstone , the president of the association . Explosion of a Powder-mill . —An explosion of an alarming character occurred on Monday evening at the 'Woraborough gunpowder mills , which are situated in a secluded part of Worsborough-dale , near Barnsley . The explosion took place in one of the mills charged with a composition for the manufacture of fine sporting powder ; the roof and sides of the mills were blown to atoms , and the floor and foundations were dislodged . All the hands employed in the establishment had left work , and no loss of life or personal injury occurred .

      Lieutenant J . F . Dotjgal . —Lieutenant Dougal , 90 th Highland Borderers Stirling Militia , who was lately sentenced by a general court-martial , held at Edinburgh Castle , to be cashiered , has , in consideration of his youth and inexperience , received her Majesty ' s pardon . The Ex-Provost of Leith . —We understand that the sentence passed on Mr . Robert Philip of transportation for life has been commuted to imprisonment for two years , Ttith hard labour . —Edinburgh Courant . A Delicate Compact . —In the course of an action to recover 40 / . on an I O U , tried at Chelmsford , on Wednesday , the widow of the man alleged to have given the document was examined . She had married again , the new husband being a man named Dowsett ; and the

      reasons for that second marriage thus came out : — " Her first husband , died in June , 1854 , and she married the second in November . Mr . Dowsett and his wife , during her lifetime , were very friendly with witness and her husband for a great many years . He courted his wife at her house , and they all made an agreement that if witness ' s husband should die and Mr . Dowsett ' s wife should die , or if she should die and Mr . Dowsett should die , the survivors should get married . ( Laughter . } This agreement was made in the year 1826 . Mr . Dowsett did not court her after his wife died—in the lifetime of

      her husband . ( Laughter . ) She was quite sure of that . ( Renewed laughter . ) On the contrary , she had a very great dislike to the man for a long time . Her husband had sometimes said to her , You have been to see that Dowaett , ' and she used to tell him she had not , and that was the fact . After the death of her husband , she and Mr . Dowsett made it up . She recollected the solemn promise she had made to her poor husband , and thought she could not do better than mnrry tho man . ( Renewed laughter . ) They were very good friends now . " Tho verdict waa in favour of tho plaintiff , and against Dowaett .

      _ General Williams presided on Thursday at tho distribution of the prizes to ' tho successful students in medicine at University College , London . Ho alluded in warm terms to hia friend Dr . Sandwith , and also to Dr . Parked ^ who was attached to tho army of tho East . —¦ The herO of Kara was on Thursday presented nt a Court of Common Council with tho frcoclom of tho City of London , « tv # with « handsome sword . Cap * o ^ Oew Hos'E .--Tho aspect of affairs at tho Cape of Good Hope hfta induced tho anthoritios to call upon those arUUeryin enwho have served in the Crimea to volunteer their eervices for that station . Tho men camo forward as soon a » they received tho intelligence , ™ 1 ? £° ?"" £ *? * ** * ° *^ ed hundred gave their «< ft ? «? * I "fP ** ™ commanding officers as 52 K £ , ^ * ?* £ BOrvic <) - Howevw , out of tho SfiSfSSS ?? ° nlyfl ^™™ »» owed , and these hnvo iwS 2 * % 5 S « ! avel S . \ P any » " < w preparing to proce ** to thfl Capo . The heavy portion of thcik *

      armament and stores is being shipped in the Victoria Docks . Morning Pott . The Moobs . —The accounts from the Scotch moors are not very encouraging for the lovers of autumnal " sport . " Mazzini and Manin . —A long letter from Signor Mazzini to Signor Manin on the Italian question has been published . Mazzini accuses Manin of impolicy in accepting the King of Sardinia as the hope of Italy . He points to Charles Albert ' s conduct as a justification of distrust of all kings , and says that Sardinia is too much bound up with England and France to be really useful to the Italian cause . After upbraiding Manin for dividing , irritating , and alienating the republican party by his That for

      " ridiculous" conduct , he observes : — " army which you are ready to forget the entire nation , we shall have with us . But we shall only have it by r ising , armed ourselves , to invoke the aid of its arms . That king whom you now flatter , as formerly you flattered his father , to curse him afterwards—you may have him—God send you do not live to repent it . " Mazzini , however , thinks that , if Charles Albert had not betrayed the cause of the people , but had led them , " no rJfcrty could have withheld from him the crown of Italy . " He proceeds : — " Do you imagine that King Victor Emmanuel will suddenly take the field , pass the Ticino and the Magra , command various other sovereigns of Italy to give place , and fronting excommunication and the arms of his imperial ally , desire the Pope to yield up his temporal sovereignty ? Do you

      imagine that , making himself a leader of insurrection and overthrower of territorial equilibrium and the rights of governmental Europe , he will throw down the gauntlet to the entire league of the kings ? You , were you king , would not do it . " Signor Mazzini concludes by saying 1 : — " Let the nation save the nation ; let the nation , once free and united , decide upon its own destiny . Is this an exclusive programme ? Can a national party exist without such a formula ? Cannot , ought not , all those who seek a common country , to whatever fraction they belong , to embrace each other and unite beneath the shelter of that flag ? Does not the future remain open to each ? We , republicans to-day , as we were republicans yesterday , do not seek to impose the republic . " We declare the country the sole umpire . " You , republicans yesterday , seek to-day to impose the monarchy . Which , of us is exclusive ?"

      Mr . Allan Pollok :. — -Three ejectments at the suit of Mr . Allan Pollok and his wife have been tried at the Galway assizes . At the preceding assizes , there had been eighteen , in -which the plaintiff was nonsuited on points of law , but subsequently the nonsuits were overruled on argument in the Conrt of Common Pleas . The only defence made on the present occasion also was of a technical character ; but the judge , having said that he would take a note of the objections , allowed the case to go to the jury , and a verdict was returned for the plaintiff . In two of the cases , the verdict was entered by consent , and without costs , execution to be stayed until November next , and all rent to be forgiven up to that date . Mr . Pollok attended in person , and the deepest interest in the proceedings was evinced by the public .

      Crystal Palace . —Return of admissions for six days ending Friday , August 1 st , 1856 : —Number admitted , including season ticket holders , 58 , 554 . A Casefor the Benevolent . —Our attention has been called to the case of Miss , daughter of the late Captain —— , who died in the service of his country . An application to Lord Palmerston in her behalf , in the hope that some relief might be accorded out of the Royal Bounty Fund , has not been successful . The lady who made this application received 101 . from the Royal Bounty Fund three years ago ; she is fifty

      years of ngc , nearly blind and ( excepting the very little aid that the means at tho disposal of the Officers ' Widows Society have enabled tlie directors to give her ) has nothing but 121 . per annum on which to subsist . Under those circumstances , subscriptions will bo received by Messrs . Drummonds , 49 , Charing-cross ; Messrs . Horrios , Farquhar , and Co ., 16 , St . Jamos ' sstreet ; Messrs . Mastorman and Co ., i ) 5 , Nicholas-lane , Lombard-street ; and by tho Hon . Secretary of tho Officers' Widows and Orphan Society , at the offices , 3 ' . ) , Charing-cross ( three doors from tho Admiralty ) .

      A Girl PnisoN Bkeakeu . —A girl , twelve j'ears of ago , has escaped from tho Iludderafield lock-up , by squeezing herself through tho hole in tho iron door of her cell , and then running out nt tho front door . She got clear off . Earthquake . —A very destructive earthquake has occurred in tho island of Great Sangir , ono of tho Moluccas . Tho loss of lifo in immense , extending to nearly 3000 persona . Houses liavo been destroyed in an equal proportion ; nnd , tho fitsldH being desolated by Hie floods of lava nnd showorfl of ashen , a vast amount of property , in tho shape of crops , has been lost .

      ousriciOTJH Dbatii . — An inqucBt has been hold on tho body of Mra . Elizabeth Frost , tho wifn of a tavornkcopor in London Wall , who died , according to tho opinion of tho medical man who attended hor , of typhus fever , but whoso end was attended with varioun circumatances which Boomed to miggout tho presence of poison . After her death , her hunband wont into tho room whero she lay , looked nt flio body , and in throe hours afterwards went away altogether . A grout difference , of

      opinion existed among the jurymen as to whether they ought not to go td view the body 5 but the medical man having been examined , and having declared his belief , confirmed by the result of a post mortem , examination , that the woman had died' of typhus , which in the las t stag * was combined with diarrhoea and delirium tremens , the coroner said he did not think they need go . There was no assistant medical man in the performance of the post mortem examination . A verdict of Natural Death was returned . Cremorne Gardens . —A " day and night gala , " for the benefit of the proprietor , Mr . Simpson , took place at these gardens on Thursday . The entertainments were of a varied character , and the illuminations at night were extremely gorgeous .

      An English Faib . — If work and its fair recompense be a preventive against crime , occasional leisure and recreation are not less good prophylactics in their way . The unbent mind is , at times , in as much peril from temptation as the unemployed . Even holidays are tedious , unless they interpose one kind of mental or bodily activity for another : and the ale-house is filled as much by those who are wearied with doing nothing ; , as by the habitually intemperate . If proof of this assertion be required , let the reader accompany us for a moment , in imagination , to a village wake , or even to the larger assembly of a town-fair . He will see there an assemblage of people in better than than their ordinary attire , and bearing the traces of a recent applicatiou of soap and water . The smith ' s sooty visage looks scarified by his ablution , and the miller and mason are no longer to be detected by their professional hue . If it be Whitoach to feas

      suntide or May-day , there ^ is some appr a t of Tabernacles , for the booths and skittle-grounds are decked with boughs — the nearest approach now to pastoral sentiment in England . The whole affair , indeed , has a very business-like aspect . Listen to the conversation of the groups of holiday-makers , and it is mostly of a serious cast—of markets and prices among the men , of family casualties and scandal among the -women . Now and then , the children appear a little exhilarated by the apparition of Mr . Merryman , or the conversation of Mr . Punch . As the afternoon wears on , it may be expected that the mirth will become fast and furiciis . The contrary is generally the case . The men are besotted : the women weary , and anxious to rctt : n home : and , probably , in low life as well as in high life , a day ' s pleasure is one of the most truly wearisome in tho year . — Westminster Review .

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      ITALY . Tho official Gazette of Piedmont has tho subjoined <» i tho recent attempt at insurrection in tho Duchy of Modona : — Tologruphio despatches , received from the Spczzia , state that a movement wan attempted near Manna and CarraTu in tho night of tho 26 th ult . In * ho morning , about 100 n » on , wlio appeared to l > o nnw'd , woro noon at La Purmignola , on tho territory <) l Koto . They had , it was said , soi / . ed on the nuiMl" ' of tho frontier guurdti of Kttto and on tho custom ollico of Pui'inignola . Tho attempt , however , could not have boon attended with any soriouH conHoquoiiw . 'S '" the lust accoun t * , received yesterday by toh ' K '" ! ' ' / innounco that tho mont perfect tranquillity pri > vi > il''d at Currura , Muhhu , and ulonjr our frontier . Tim Ki"tf ' ri Government lind adopted all tho precautionary muiiaurcH required by uircumntanccu . "

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      Leader Office , Saturday , August 2 . LATEST FROM SPAIN . The Madrid journals of the 26 th ult . have been received , but they contain little intelligence of interest . The Gazette publishes several royal decrees . According to accounts from Calatayud , small detachments of troops and of private persons , who had succeeded in making their escape from Saragossa , were arriving in that place . A number of the National Guard had also contrived to elude the vigilance of

      the insurgents , and to get out of tho town , hanigoss . journals to tho 22 nd ult . had reached Madrid ; they eontain a number of violent proclamations . Tho conservative part of the population , was much alarmed at the altitude assumed by tho insurgents . Several persons were quitting tho place aa fast as they could contrive to do so . The son of the Marquis d'Albaida has sent an address to tho President of tho Cortes , protesting against the imprisonment of Mb father at Valencia . M . Orcnse is still closely confinod in tho citadel of that place .

      Some despatches from Spain contained in the Montfeitr of yesterday state that tho whole of Catalonia ban recognized the Queen ' s Government ; that Navarre and the Basque Provinces are in a state of perfect tranquillity ; that tho Government is employed in nominating different functionaries in the provinces ; that . the last strongholds of tho rebellion—Malaga and ( Jrenuda in tho south , and Ternel in Aragon—havo , sul » - initted ; and that the insurrection is now confined to Sarogossa . —These statements , however , conw from a very suspicious source ; and tho reader will aoee . pt them with caution . Next week will bring more reliable ncconnts , and may very possibly show that tho content in still maintained with vigour .

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      «* rt THE LEABER . [ No , 332 , Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1856, page 730, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2152/page/10/