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    vnrse happily enough , melts into reflective symphony , SS « ffiiily : by husbi « id . i- the piano . Still suffering from that impecuniosity , as Doctor _ Samuel Johnson has it , which is the sharpest stone on his lover s walk ? ne y ^ uth finds himself necessitated togo abroad and fight his country ' s battles . TowS «« mterchanged ^ at parting . The music slackens . " I go , " says the youth , E forgft me not . " " But , " say 3 Madame in mournful and desponding accents , " love without wealthy nought , is nought ! " Then conies halting , dirge-like symphonies from the husband , mfavour of * e P-crust quality of lovers' p romises , and hinting at the extreme likelihood of such foolish talk being forgotten with the Iapj ?

    of time "But years go by , " Madame continues , taking up the measure in a vigorous and even noisy manner . " 1 here is ffaiety abroad , and the marriage-bells are sounding fhanpv imitation of bells on the top notes of the piano ) . But for whom ? She will ived a proud andVealthy milord . But there is the clatter of a steed upon the hills ( galloping rumble among bass notes ) . He come 3 ! He comes ! ( startlingchord ) . Mon Dieu ! too late ! too late ! " ( staccato chord . ) Then recurs , heartrendingly and mournfully , the burden : this time conveying a world of reproach , sorrow , and despairing adhesion to the eternal truth , " Car l ' atnour sans bien—sans bi-en—n'estrieh ! n ' est Ri—i—i—iiii—en ! ! f" Dead March in Saul

    Symphony from husband , who seems utterly overcome . The old men present weep hysterically . — Dickens ' s " Household Words . " Great Loss of Shipping i > r the China Seas . — TVe subjoin a list of the British ships reported lost : — The brig Anonyme , the ship Glendower , the schooner Gazelle , the barque Hong-Kong , the ship Shapscote , the ship Kinaldi , the barque Louisa Baillie , the barque Louisa , the barque Moultan , the brig Pantaloon , and the ship North Star . The following are on shore at Swatow : — The ship Alfred the Great , the barque Beverley , the ship Dennis Hill , the barque Harvest Home , and-the "barque William Frederick .

    The Atlantic Cable . —The Tralee ChronMe says : — - " Nothing of importance occurred since my last until Friday , when the weather was so fine that no further pretext could be advanced for not proceeding with the laying down of the shore end of the cable . The vessels accordingly proceeded to sea , and succeeded in submerging the few miles of shore cable , and in making a splice with the deep sea portion about five miles off Doulas Head . I am not aware that the shore cable has been tested since it was laid down , nor is there any

    person of sufficient experience here to do so , and when we recollect that some of the most eminent practical electricians of the . day have differed materially in the manner and result of their testing , we must have very little reliance oivfche opinion of others of far less scientific experience . Nothing is , therefore , known of the present condition of the cable , or whether the laying down of the portion of shore end has materially improved its condition , as the office has been shut iip since the 1 st inst ., and the staff , with one exception , discharged —not removed to London , as hasbeen asserted . "

    The Camden-Town Burial-ground . — At a meeting held in the Court-house , Camden-town , on Thursday , it was announced , amid loud expressions of satisfaction , that a decree had been issued by the judge of the Consistory Court calling in the license or faculty granted on the 23 rd of June last , which authorises the removal of dead bodies in the Camden-town Cemetery , and further calling on the rector and churchwardens to show cause why they should not reinter the bodies already removed . De Montalembkbt ' s Judges . —r A Paris letter says : — " One of the foremost men in France is to bo tried to-morrow , for an alleged political libel , by a tribunal composed of three persons , whose united salaries

    • re loss than the pay of a county court judge . The president of the tribunal will bo M . Borthelin one of the vicepresidents of the Inferior Court , called the Tribunal de Premiere Instance . He will be assisted by M . Benoit , a puisne judge of the same court , and by M , Nacquart , a supplementary judge ( juge suppldant ) . Unless these gentlemen are angols rather than mon no man prosecuted by the Government can rensonnbly expect to receive justice at their hands . The salary of Mr . Yice-Presidont Berthelin is 280 / . a year ; that of his colleague , M . Bonott , is 240 ? . ; and thojuge stippl $ < tnt , M . Nacquart , is an apprentice judge , who reccivo no pay wlmtovev . If Count do Montalembert should be acquitted , M . Berthelin , who possibly may bo a middle-aged mnn with a large family , knows well that ho can never oxpoct to be pro *

    motcd to the bench of the Imperial Court . ' M . Bonott » 1 bo must oithor concur in a verdict of guilty , or ronijrn himself to remain all his life an inferior judge with 240 / . a year , and ML Nacquart , tho aspirant , may try hia " prentice hand'at administering justice till ho grows grey , without over tasting the sweets of quarter-day . Such is the constitution of the tribunal Invented by the Government of the coup d'dtat far securing the condemnation of all obnoxious writers In the pross . Probabl y the sentence will not bo heavy . The forms of ' tlio society in which , they move will prevent the judges from being very severe . They doubtless feel a sympathy tor the man , but , as Peachum says to Locket , ' thoy must provide for their families . ' " Judicial . — -Mr . Serjeant "VVolls , of tho Norfolk

    Clr-Lesseps has received a terrible and severe blow throng ] the retirement af Bf . Barthelemy de St . Hilaire fron the office of Secretary to the Company of the Sues Canal . " The severity of the blow which the scheme Lai received is owing to the high scientific reputation o M . de St . Hilaire ; since his abandonment of the Sues speculation implies that he thinks it no go . Besides being an adept in science generally , M . de St . HjUaire is , we believe , a great hippophagist ; and if he can manage a horse- steaft , but feels a difficulty about getting through the Isthmus of Suez , we may be pretty sure that the latter is a tough job . —Punch .

    The Murder in Bloomsburt . —After the adjournment of the inquest yesterday , the jury agreed upon a memorial to the Home Secretary , requesting him to cause Edward Tombs to be produced before them at the adjourned inquest , on Tuesday , the 30 th inst . This document the coroner forwarded , with a note stating that in case the Home Secretary should see fit to comply with the request of the jury , he ( the coroner ) undertook that Edward Tombs should not be discharged from the custody of the police , and that he should be sent from the adjourned ' inquest to appear at the policecourt at the time stated in the warrant for his remand .

    Lighting up St . Paul's . —The whole of the manythousand jets or nipples attached to the pipes leading from the monster meter in the cathedral of St . Paul , for the accomodation of the congregation attending Divine service in that edifice , were lighted , to test their safety and general effect . They were all pronounced to be perfectly correct , and not the least fear of an explosion may now be entertained . -Liabilit y of Eailway Companies . — -An important decision in reference to articles left in the charge of servants of railway companies has just been given at Leeds . At a recent sitting of the . County Court there a person named Berwick sued the Great Northern

    Railway Company for the sum of 3 . ? . 3 s ., the value of a silk dress which the plaintiff alleged had been taken from a parcel left by his wife in the cloak-room at the Doncaster station . After the evidence for the plaintiff , Mr . Blanshard , barrister , for the defendants , submitted that as the person who packed the parcel had not been called , the robe might not have bean placed therein , and contended that as no felony had been proved against any servant of the company , nor any complaint made by the plaintiff ' s wife at the time she took away the parcel , the defendants were entitled to a verdict . His Honour , however , gave judgment for the plaintiff for the amount sought .

    ... French Corn Trade . —The Echo Agricole gives a table of the imports and exports of grain for the ten first months of the year 1858 , from which it appears that , notwithstanding extraordinary arrivals into Marseilles , probably owing to the return of the sliding scale , the exports have exceeded the imports by about 800 , 000 hectolitres , equal to about 270 , 000 quarters And this difference , the Echo says , is more in reality , because in the importations figure this year large quantities of oats , barley , and rye ; whilst in the exports , on

    the contrary , if the wheat flour was reduced into an equivalent quantity of wheat , it would cause the latter to amount to a much larger number of hectolitres . A very large proportion of all these exports have been directed to Great . Britain and Ireland , and have , no doubt , exercised an important influence on prices there . The arrivals at Marseilles during the month of November have sensibly diminished . It is therefore probable that at the end of the present month the excess of exports will have still further increased to a considerable

    excuit , has accepted the appointment of Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta , vacated by the retirement of Sir A-rthur Buller . Court op Common Council . — On Wednesday a discussion took place on the question of the proposed county rate for the City Paupers' Lunatic Asylum . Various memorials having , been read , the Lord Mayor gave * a summary of the history of the question , from which it appeared that in his judgment there was no alternative but to impose a county rate . A resolution was proposed , rescinding the previous resolution of the court anctioning the rate . This gave rise to some discussion , and the debate was adjourned .

    The Best Wire Trap . —Since Lord Mayor Wire is so fond of laying traps to cateh people , why does he not originate a Reform meeting in the City ? London is about the only large town that has not yet spoken out on the subject . Even Manchester , that of late years has been a political mute , so far as Liberal sentiments were concerned , is about to have its say . Now , it is full time , we think , that the metropolitan members spoke out about Reform , though , instead of being the last , they should have been , properly speaking ; the first to speak . If only Lord J . Russell falls into the trap , it will be well worth setting . We are curious to know what his lordship has to say for himself in connexion with Reform . Will Lord Mayor Wire oblige us by catching him at his earliest convenience ?—Punch . Opium . —A deputation from the Anti-Opium Association had an interview on Wednesday with Lord Stanley .

    They presented him with a memorial , which , portraying the frightful effects of the use of the drug , prayed for the entire prohibition of its cultivation in India . Lord Stanley admitted the evils produced by the opium traffic , and expressed his general sympathy with the antiopium philanthropic movement , but could not consent to the proposed prohibition of cultivation . There were , however , t \ vo other courses which might b ' e taken—a heavy export duty might be imposed , or an excise duty levied at the place of production . He promised that the Government would lend no support or countenance to the trafiic .

    The Cemetery Question . —The question as to the future arrangements for the burial accommodation of this great metropolis will not be disposed of in the single case . of the Camden-town Cemetery . The so-called suburban cemeteries one day " must all be closed , " so declares the report of the General Board of Health , addressed to the Crown in 1850 , and then a new movement must be made further into the country . The railway offers the ready and economic means of reaching any such rural site ; and this mode of transit ha 3 been already adopted in respect of the London Necropolis * at Woking Cemetery , and with complete success . 2 J 6 r has the example so . set remained without imitators . The Burial-Ground Committee of the Birmingham Town

    Council having recently sent a deputation to inspect the arrangements of the Necropolis establishment , were so satisfied with them that they recommended the adoption of a similar plan for that borough , a recommendation which was unanimously agreed to . The committee , in their report , sny of this system of railway funeral transit , that , " already extensively used in the interment cf the daad in the metropolis , it will soon become the universal and only means by which the spirit of the Burial Acts can be satisfactorily complied with by the burial boards of large towns , and their dead conveyed cheaply and decently to their last home , at such a distance from the habitations of tho living as not to endanger the public health . "

    New Egyptian Loan . — It is said that negotiations have been set on foot in London for an Egyptian Loan , but the amount wanted has not transpired . Hitherto tho financial requirements of the Viceroy in our market have usually been met through , the instrumentality of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company . Continental Telegraph . — Posts are now teing carried on between Norwich and London for the purpose of connecting some of the Submarine Telegraph Company ' s continental linos with the metropolis , The existing telegraphic communication batween Norwich and London is vid the Eastern Counties Railway , and is worked by tho Electric and International Tclogrnph Company ; but it is understood that a now and independent route is now being carried out by tho Submarine Company , which has lately submerged two Hues to Hnnover and Holland from tho Norfolk and Suffolk

    tent . This Lesseps Sohkme . —The Groffresso de Egitto ( a semi-official organ of the Viceroy of Egypt ) gives a quiet warning to some of M . de Lessep ' s friends : i— It becomes necessary , therefore , to declare that in no way has the Egyptian government any interest in the financial composition of the company ; and that , whether it be in regard to the contribution or to tho reimbursement of capital , tho government is under no guarantee , nor docs it assume any responsibility whatsoever towards the shareholders . " Crystal Palace . —Return for six days ending Friday , November 2 Cth , 1868 : —Number admitted , including Season Ticket holders , 12 , 660 .

    Duni . op on LiQUOK .-r-On Thursday a deputation from the Temperance Reformers of Greonock , had an interview with A . M . Dunlop , Esq , M . P ., in reference to the Forbes Mackenzie Act , and tho proposed permissive bill for the suppression of the liquor traffic . The deputation , after thanking Mr . Dunlop for his successful oxortiona in the House of Commons , in defence of the Forbes Maokonzio Act , suggested that in the apparently Inevitable appointment of a committee of inquiry , It would boimportand

    coast . SuNDisni < A > 'D . —A crowded meeting was hold in this town on Tuesday night , tho Mayor presiding . The burden of tho wholo of tho speeches was manhood suffrage , as forming tho only really satisfactory basis of a now Reform Bill . Mr . Cowon and Mr . Reed attended as a deputation from tho Northern Reform Union . Tho resolutions , which included tho adoption of a petition , woro unanimously carried . Mb , DioiciuKs and this Gr . Aaaow Studicnts . —Wo ( Glasgow Morning Journal' ) have scon a letter from Mr . Charles Dickons , in which ho repudiates strongly hia nomination to tho Lord Rectorship , and says that the movomont of a soctiou of tho students was not only , without his Bit not ion , but wus expressly opposed by him . A Stiw Niscic—ok Land—liy udvicus from tho Levant wo lean * that " tho scheme of M . Ferdinand do

    ant that it Bhould sit in Scotland , and not in London , that it should huvo power to suggest improvements in the act . Thoy afterwards referred to tho pormissivo bill , and the canvass with ruforenco to it which had ju « t taken place , tho result being oxtromely favourable to the measure . Mr . Dunlop upprovod of tho auffycations made as to the Mackenzie Act , and expressed hid surprise that such an immense majority » ' «} beo » f "" , uli Groonook favourable to tho porinlawve bill , He did not approve of nn absolute Malua ) , iv , but h « , had a great loaning toward * tho permiMlva bill , which placed tbo matter in tho hands of t » ' ° l » ° opl *

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    - » m - " mu . ifomniB 27 , 1858 . G THE LEAJES . 1283

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 27, 1858, page 1283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2270/page/11/