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    A yx > ung . man ,- said to be an officer in the Dutch service who has for some time past been a yearly frequenter of the ' Kur-saal , ' and had just lost everything he possessed at play , blew out his brains wMle sitting at the gaming-table , A . momentary pause took place , but very shortly , even "before the poor man ' s blood had keen washed from tie floor , gambling was resumed as madly as before . A -week only previous to this event an English officer destroyed himself under like circumstances at Homburg . It is said—and I trust there ia truth in the report—that the Duke of Nassau will shortly expel the hell-keepers from his dominions , and that he -will exert his influence with other German princes to induce them to do the same . "

    Piracy At Quebec . —Piracy is carried to such , an extent in the harbour of Quebec , that , night after night ships are boarded by ruffians armed with revolvers , who carry off the ciew , threaten the masters and officers with instant death if they resist , and plunder the vessels of all valuables . The dead loss during the present season ¦ will not be less than 100 , 000 ? . The authorities seem to be powerless to resist . "Ihe Poor-law Board in Collision with ATbuou . —One of the largest unions in the west of Englandthat of St . Thomas , near Eseter- ^ -bas come into

    unpleasant collision with the Poor-law IB oard . The guardians , on the death of one of their relieving officers , did not wish to nil up the vacancy , but to pay the remaining three better salaries , so as to enable them to keep good horses and do the work efficiently . The Poor-law Board sent their assistant commissioner , Mr . Gulson , to confer with the guardians , and the result is that a peremptory order has been received , requiring the St . Thomas's guardians to proceed to the election of a fourth relieving officer , notwithstanding their request to be allowed a trial of three for six months . The parish authorities are determined to resist .

    Tbe Koyal Bbitish Bank . —The- petition for an adjudication of bankruptcy against thia bank has been dismissed by Mr . Commissioner Holioyd , on the ground that an incorporated company cannot be made bankrupt under the Bankruptcy Consolidation Act , and there were no reasons ^ o suppose that the company had committed an act of bankruptcy under the Wiriding-up Act . An Act of Intolerance . — -Ashort time ago , at Soanghae ( says the China Matty , a Singapore-born Chinese , who had purchased a carriage , was driving on the race-course with liis wife and children—his wife being also a British subject , and speaking the English language—when he was accosted in a rude and threatening manner by a clerk in an English mercantile house ,

    and ordered off the course under risk of having his head broken . He preferred the former alternative , and left tlie course , hut appealed to the secretary of the race committee , complaining of the uncivil treatment he had receives , and claiming the privilege of other British subjects , of admission to the course- upon payment of the usual subscription . The reply , -worded in the most courteous language , contained , a refusal on the part of the committee , on the ground that though they had no objection to the applicant personally , still he was " a Chinese in all respects but that of birth , " and that could only . be known to acquaintances ; they were therefore , though sorry he should be disappointed , " obliged to include him in this particular among the inhabitants of the place , to whom access to the course is denied . "

    The New Representative at Naples . —The mission at Naples , vacant by Sir William Temple ' s death , will , we hear , he reserved for Sir Henry Bulwer , after ho shall have returned from bis present temporary- employment in the Principalities . —Daily News . The Case op Hen-ry Cort . —It is satisfactory to hear that the appeal which has boen made on behalf of the son and two surviving daughters of Henry Cort , and which has been backed up by the approval of the most eminent engineers and ironfounders in the kingdom , is now beginning to tell . What is required now is merely a subscription to defray the cost of the publication ol " this case , and application to Parliament for the redress of the great injustice which has been done to a grcnt national benefactor . The names of Messrs . Maudslay and Field , and Mr . Robert Stephenson , are first in the list of contributors . —Daily Mews .

    ¦ without the intervention of multiplying gear . This quickness of piston motion , which is not attainable at low pressure , is one of the main advantages of the application . Anotner is the great saving- of space and weight , amounting to more than one-half . But what seemed to excite admiration most was the ease and quickness with which the motion was reversed , which was repeatedly effected under unfavourable circumstances , and against the fall steam pressure of a hundred and forty pounds ' on the inch , seven and eight times-within thirty seconds . Upon the wliolej it is not too much to say that this very admirable arrangement bids fair to jsupersede all other applications of steam power to marine purposes , especially for screw steamers . —XeedaMercury .

    Suicides . —A girl , twenty-one years of age , named Emma Louisa Felstead , the daughter of a gun-implement maker at Islington , has committed suicide by drowning . She was described by the witnesses at the inquest as being , a very sensitive , high-minded girl . A yoong man , natned Parrott , was paying attentions to her , and they had an altercation between nine and ten o ' clock on the evening of Monday week . According to the testimony of her father , " she said to her lover , ' You ridicule and satirize tb \ e family when we are together , and I cannot bear it . ' After this , she went upstairs to her room and divested herself of her bracelets , combs , &c , and , when the family retired , to rest , slipped quietly out of the house , and . wa 3 never after seen alive

    Upon her body was found a letter addressed to Parrott , where she had begun with several broken sentences , and saying , ' Dear Jasper , I cannot stand this parting ; no one can tell how I love yon . ' She had never evinced any suicidal tendency ; on the contrary , she was always expressing her astonishment how persons could be so weak-minded that way . Her friends -were not aware . pf the intensity of her attachment . WlatpTeyed upon her mind very heavily was tfes rsturn of ten shillings to her by Parrott , on jts ilonday night , which he bad borrowed fromjtgg-on the eveninc of the illuminations ;" with

    Thej ^ nrv ^ g ^ on-fed a verdict in accordance the tesfeSnonyof the witnesses . —A man named George Bradley has lolled himself by swallowing a large quantity of laudanum . He had just married a servant girl ; but poverty prevented his furnishing a hbuse , or living with his wife , and he appears to have put an end to his existence in a fit of de ' spair . A verdict of Temporary Insanity y vas returned by the coroner ' s jury . —A factory worker in Bishopsgate-street , City , has hung himself on account of alleged hard treatment by a salesman on the premises .

    Cheshire Agricultural Society . —The nineteenth anniversary of this society has been held at Nantwich . Mr . Tollemache , M . P ., presided at the dinner ,, and called attention to a Scotch harvest-cart , which would undoubtedly carry nearly as much as any waggon ( the Scotch themselves said more , but that he questioned ) , and which was much lighter , presented , far greater conveniences , and was about one-fifth of the expense . "Waggons had b « come almost extinct in Scotland ; they were disappearing from Northumberland and other of the northern counties ; and he hoped they would soon vanish from Cheshire . With respect to farm agreements , he did not think it possible , since the repeal of

    the corn-laws and the recent discoveries of gold , to frame such a notion of the future price of agricultural produce as to form a fluctuating scale whereon to let farms for a term of fourteen years . He had therefore adopted a portion of the Scotch system of farm tenure , the whole of which system , however , he trusted would never be intro-< laced in England ; but his tenants ( particularly those 3 n _ Suffolk ) diBliked this plan , and lie had since determined on adopting annual agreements , with clauses Which secure to the tenants compensation for unexhausted improvements . His Suffolk and Northamptonshire tenants were well satisfied with this plan , and he intended to introduce it on his Cheshire estates .

    __ Hoyal Humane Society . —The Hoyal Humane Society at their last meeting awarded to Mr . John Laws Milton , surgeon , of Castle-street , Falcon-square , City , their honorary bronze medallion , and a vote of thanks inscribed on parchment , for his successful exertions in plunging in and rescuing a child from out of tho Med-• way Canal , near Gravesend , on the . 9 th ult ,, the child liaviug fallen in while playing on the banks . Salfoud Pjree Library and Museum . — Thia valuable institution is about to bo enlarged by tho addition of a now wing , and other architectural improvements , at a cost of above 2500 ? . The Museum has been

    very , successful . It now possesses an excellent library of modern literature , amounting to 18 , 000 volumes . It lias issued the largo number of 410 , 000 volumes to the randiaa who daily frequent tho reading-room . A lending library la attached . Three-fifths of tho boolts borrowed ^ rTv ght aml Peasant tales , novels , and romances , S ' T T 01 ? v ittiDg ' two-fifths aro works upon history and bSoLT t , b ° 0 k 8 - , Niao-tenthfl of tho 2300 borrowers SSSSc ar ? t ^ Otldag -cla 880 B ' - flfth of tho entire KrU ™ JS g WOmotl ' 15 ( > arc soWiers ° f tho Wv ^ Sor 20 0 ° 0 n ! , d attbo Salford barrnok 8 ' ^ aa 7 L the yea ^ ** ^ nmaCum * librft ^ Ireland , Hungary , and Potjlnt . ur \ 1 1 ^ wsmSSSS

    Austrian Government to refute you ( impar congressu ^ f ) , and who asserts that Ireland is more oppressed than Poland or Hungary , be kind enough to inform us how many of the Irishmen taken prisoners by the Russians volunteered to serve against the tyrannical English ? because it appears , by returns in the-English War-office , that out of 274 Poles taken at Bomarsund , . all , excepting eight only , enlisted in the Turkish service without bounty , and on condition of receiving the same pay as the Turkish soldiers—about Is . per week . It might also be well , if he would at the same time explain how it

    happens that England , with considerably fewer than 20 , 000 soldiers , can coerce Ireland ( writhing under her unparalleled wrongs ) , when 200 , 000 Austrians were unable to reduce Hungary to subjection without the assistance of 180 , 000 Kussians ? - —and -what is the reason that Queen Victoria dares to permit Smith O'Brien ' s return to distracted Ireland , while the Emperor Francis-Joseph not only keeps in exile Kossuth and innumerable other Hungarians , but makes it a ground of complaint against her Majesty ' s Government that it affords them an asylum , in a spot so near as England to the Austrian dominions ?"

    The late Turkish Contingent .- —A correspondent of the Times complains of the illiberal treatment of the English officers of the late Turkish Contingent ( of whom he was one ) , and of the hardships-to which the men have been abandoned , and contrasts these grievances with the favours showered on the officers of the German , Swiss , and Italian Legions , who were allowed to make a bargain-beforehand , and -who are now to be rewarded with , grants of land in the colonies . A Noble Woman and an Ignoble Man . —An instance of womanly presence of mind and unmanly parsimony occurred , at Soutnead last Satusday afternoon . A gentleman bad engaged a bathing-machine , and had swum out about a hundred feet from the machine ^ when a cry was heard of " Save me , save me ! " He -was attacked with cramp ; his arms were upright and his fingers extended . A young man swam out to him , and

    couldhaye brought him ashore had not ] the drowning man clasped him round and prevented further action ; they both sank twice together . At this moment , a delicatelooking , young woman , about twenty years of age ( Miss Emma Ingram ., residing at the Royal Southend Baths , near the pier ) , rushed into the sea and swam out to them with all her clothes on , and succeeded in holding both up until a boat arrived and rescued them . The drowning man was taken ashore insensible , and the usual remedies were . applied with success ; but what was the reward offered to this young woman who had risked her own life for a stranger ? and -vvhat was the -value of this gentleman ' s life ? Just one shilling , for that was the amount he tendered to Miss Ingram , and "has since added ingratitude . to his meanness , by stating that he was not in such danger as was supposed . —Correspondent of the Times . ..

    The Belgian Congress and British Chambers of Cohsimerce . —The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has appointed a deputation to the Free-trade Congress about to be held at Brussels , and it has selected for this duty its chairmen , leading men , and secretary . It was expected that tho Liverpool Chamber would have also beeu represented , but it seems that tfte council of that body has decided otherwise . In the report last week , the subject was referred -to , but no naotion was made when the report was read ; and the council , in consequence , has resolved not to appoint a deputation . India and China . —The last mail from the East does not bring much intelligence of importance . In India , a treaty , is being negotiated with the Momund chiefs , hitherto tbe only disturbers of the peace on tho north-west frontier . Butmah is to be made over to tho

    Madras army . Oude is perfectly quiet , and our forces there are to "bo reduced . Lord Canning is at Calcutta : Ms health has improved . The annual report of the trade of Calcutta shows great improvement . —In China the rebels took possession of Tanyang on the 6 th of July—a step which brings them close to Souchow , the capital of tlie province , and tho outlet of commerce from Shanghai . The Imperial fleet of forty sail is cooped up near Nankin . Tho American house of "Wctmoro and Co . has suspended payment . 3 Ir . Howard Cunningham has been killed by tlie Chineso .

    Australia . —Heavy Tains havo hindered tho diggers , but , nevertheless , tho yiold of gold continues good . The total gold leceived at Melbourne Ly escort from tho beginning of tho year to tho 19 th of June was ovor 1 ) 00 , 000 ounces . The balance of trade continues largely in favour of tho colony . In tho week ending tho 19 th of June , tho value of exports was 305 , 000 ? . ; imports , 243 , 000 ? . The two Houses of tho now Sydney Legislature mot for tho first time on tho 22 nd of May , when Mr . Daniel Coopor was elected Speaker by a casting majority of one vote . Nkw Zealand . —At Nnranankl , on tho 8 ru of May , tho natives fought witli tho British troops , when eighteen wore killed nnd wounded . Gold has been discovered near Nelson , as well as a largo lodo of copper at the height of 1800 feet on the Dun Mountain . Uninsured property , valued at 25 , 000 £ , has boen destroyed by fire at Wellington .

    The Gaming Tawlics on tub RniNic . —Two tragedies of the German ' bolls' aro related by a correspondent of tho Times , who , writing from Wiesbaden , says : — "A terrible scene occurred hero lnst Monday ( the 1 st inst . ) .

    A Patient Inquiijeb . —Tho ever-inquiring Herman Hoinfettcr has once moro made his appearance in the advertising columns of the papers , seeking for spiritual knowledge in connexion with "the authority for the non-observance of tlio Seventh Day . " The main body of the advertisement as dated " lat Sabbath of 1852 ;" then comes this postscript , dated September 1 st , 185 C : — " Again , for tho One Million Three Hundred Thousandth time , I inquire , ' Hath tho Lord as great delight ia burnt-offerings and sacrifices , as in obeying the voice of tho Lord ? ' " It j a surely timo to give up inquiry , if

    no answer is granted to so many iterations of the same question . Mr . Heinfottor comes to this conclusion : — " It appears , That tUoro is no authority for the Nonobservance of the Seventh Day , above Dogmatic Teaching ; or , Tho Edict of a Living Infallible- Head . Miry Almighty God grant us to consider , Whether if the Non-observance of the Seventh Day is not prcaclml by St . Paul , and whore is it preached by him ? we are not cursed by the apostle-, if we so l ' reach , evon though we claim to havo powers equal to tho ' Angels of Heaven . ' See Galatians , 1-8 . " Tub Di . stuic 8 . sico Curate . —The Essex Curate , whose

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1856, page 874, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2158/page/10/