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      he was to be carried again into slavery . The jury found him not guilty / A painful termination has been made to the excursion of an historic society to Bolton . A wheel came off a vehicle , and the result was that four gentlemen were thrown violently to the ground , and the horse then breaking off into a gallop , others were subsequently thrown * No fatality occurred , but some of the injuries are of a very serious character . A suicide occurred at Cork last week under more

      than usually horrifying circumstances . A young married woman , in a fit of madness , caused by grief for the loss of a child , threw herself out of a window 40 feet from the ground . Her mother had succeeded in seizing her by the hair , and as she was thus suspended , a man from a window below caught her by the feet . At the same moment the mother had to leave her hold ; the body swung over * also fell from the grasp of the person below , descending to a railing underneath , upon which the wretched woman was impaled , meeting instantaneous death .

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      GENERAL HOME NEWS . The Court . —On Monday the Queen received the Addresses of the Two Houses of Convocation presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean of Bristol . Afterwards there was a grand state dinner ; the same day the Duke of Oporto concluded his visit ; and the Queen and her family , with the King of the Belgians , went to the opera at Covent Garden . On "Wednesday was a Privy Council , at which was a large attendance , and several new members sworn in ; the same evening her Majesty had a dinner and evening party . On Thursday old King Leopold went home to Brussels ; and the royal children were sent off to enjoy

      themselves at Osborne . The Queen and the . Prince Consort , the Prince of Wales , and Princess Alice , honoured the Haymarket theatre with their preoence in the evening . We are glad to be able to announce that the health of the Duchess of Kent is re-established . The Morning Post says that the Prince of Wales will leave London for Holyroodcn Wednesday , where his Royal Highness will sojourn -until the arrival of his parents in Scotland , when the Prince will accompany the Queen to Balmoral . It is not expected that her Majesty will remain in the Highlands this season more . than three weeks . A royal visit to Dublin and the Lakes of Killarney is contemplated .

      The Diplomatic ! Service . — It is reported that IiOrd Chelsea , Secretary of the British Embassy at Paris has been recalled , to be succeeded by the Hon . Wm . Grey , Secretary of Legation at Stockholm . The Hon . Mr . Elliot will remain Minister at Naples , and Sir Arthur Magennis will represent the Queen at Lisbon . Other changes in the diplomatic service ¦ will shortly be announced . Election ' N " rws . —At the election for Monmouthshire Col . P . Somerset , cousin to the Duke of Beaufort , was chosen , after ah opposition speech from Mr . Whitehurst , of the Ballot Society . The new tnena"ber was very explicit on the war question , telling his audience that if France attacked Germany , to

      Teach Belgium , England would have to cease to be neutral . This is an opinion which begins to ooze out in many quarters .-r-At Ennis the Attorney-General for Ireland has been re-elected without opposition . —The contest for Marylebone terminated , on Wednesday , in favour of LordForraoy . The close of the poll showed for the successful candidate a majority of 1 , 930 over Major Lyon , and 3 , 164 over Colonel Dickson ; the numbers being—Fermoy , 4 , 238 ; Lyon , 2 , 308 ; Dickson , 1 , 074 . —rLordHenley , the now member for Northampton , told the people of that town that ho

      was in favour of a great extension of the suflrago And the vote by ballot . —Lord Alfred Paget has been re-elected for Lichfield without opposition . Mr . Cobdbn . —In a letter to Mr . Charles Walker , of Rochdale , Mr . Cobden communicates the fact that ho has refused the seat in the cabinet which Lord Falmorston had offered him , and adds that he would prefer to lay his reasons for so doing before his constituents at a public meeting , rather than by letter . Ho concludes by asking Mr . Walker to consult with Mr . George Wilson , as to the holding of such meeting ' .

      Citt Sewers *—The Commissioners met on Wednesday at Guildhall . A precept trom the Metropolitan Board of Works , requiring payment , on September 29 , of 7 , 394 / . Os . lid ,, as the City ' s share of that board ' s general expenditure for 1859 , was referred to the General Purposes Committee . Dr . Letheby presented his report oh the sanitary state of the City , and the other business having been gone through , the court adjourned . Army Estimates . * ' — On Thursday wasissued a suppiemen tary army estimate for j £ l , 261 , 237 . The further sums asked for are—Embodied militia , £ 410 , 000 ; artificers , labourers , &c , £ 108 , 375 ; clothing and necessaries , £ 50 , 000 ; provisions , forage , &c , £ 93 , 180 ; warlike stores for land and sea service , £ 414 , 537 :

      fortifications , £ 123 , 500 ; civil buildings , £ 23 , 450 ; barracks , £ 36 , 370 ; educational and scientific branches , £ 1 , 825 ; total , £ l , 261 , 237 . This supplementary charge raises the total estimate for 1859-60 to £ 12 , 859 , 297 , of which sum £ 2 , 638 , 742 remains to be voted . The Oxfokd Commemoration . —This annual celebration took place on Wednesday with as much eclat as usual , as far as the display of beauty and fashion was . concerned , and with rather more row than ordinary among the under-graduates . The following are the nami s of the gentlemen on whom the degree was conferred , the presentation taking place in the order in which they stand : —The Right of Balliol

      Hon . John Inglis , M . A ., College , Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland , The Right Hon . Sir John Lavin Mair Lawrence , Bart ., G , C . B ., Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson , of Delhi , Bart , K . C . B ., Colonel Greathead , C . B-, George Boole , Esq ., Professor of Mathematics in the Queen ' s University , Ireland , Antonio Panizzi , Esq ., Principal Librarian of the British Museum . In the afternoon a musical entertainment was given by the Apollo Lodge of Freemasons , in New College Gardens , which was very generally attended by the visitors , who had the treat of hearing the excellent singing of the Orpheus Glee Union , and were otherwise entertained most hospitably .. to the refusal of

      The Board of Trade . — Owing Mr . Cobden to accept the office of President of the Board , the appointment has been accepted by Mr . Milner Gibson , who was appointed to the Presidency of the Poor Law Board , consequently Mr . Charles Villiers has been offered the post vacated by Mr . Milner Gibson , and has accepted it . PtJBWC Health . — As usual at this period of the year , the return of the Registrar-General shows an increase in the rate of mortality in the metropolis . Last week the deaths were 1 , 024 , having been 913 and 970 in the two previous weeks . Diarrhoea is making progress , but at present is principally confined to children . The number of births for the week was 1 , 790 . members of the

      The Fourth of Jult . —The American Association in London , celebrated the eighty-third return of the " glorious 4 th , " at St . James ' s Hall . General Robert B . Campbell , the United States Consul in England , presided : and amongst those present were Mr . Dallas , the American Minister ; Mr . Arcedeekne , the late High Sheriff of Suffolk ; Mr . J . H . Tuck , Mr . S . Warner , and others . Her Majesty lent her portrait by Winterhalter for the occasion ; and it was hung side by side with that of Washington and his wife . The health of her Majesty was given after that of the President . " Young America and Old England " was another of the toasts ; and a large amount of fraternisation prevailed . Mr . Bright was one of the guests and spoke in the following patriotic strain : He felt profound sympathy and profound admiration and human

      for those broad principles of equality right on which the American constitution is founded . He was a citizen of a country in which monarchy had endured for centuries , and in which it had never beou inoro respected than , at the present moment—a country in which a mixed constitution existed , but which he took the liberty to think was not . quite equally mixed , a country in which were laid the foundations of that freedom of which they , the Americanjpeoplo , were so justly proud . After commenting on the present advantages and glorious future of the States , he expressod his opinion , in conclusion , that after numerous generations of Englishmen had passed away the existence and prosperity of the United States would be a blessing to countless millions and an example to freemeu in every part of the world .

      Railwat Hax-ino . —• The contost between the parish of Battle and the South En-stern Company , as to the rating of the railway , has now been settled , and the rate was reduced from 700 i . to 420 / . upon the railway , and from 150 * . to 80 f . upon the Battle station . It wui alsp agreed between the company and the parish , that this rating should continue for flve years , and that * new valuation of the parish on rack rent should at once bo ma < i « by valuers to be appointed by thq Chairman of tlie Sessions , the company having objected to the insufficiency of the assessment upon several largo properties in the parish .

      Gbnisaxqqkux . and Historical Society . —The sixth annual meeting of tliis society was held ou Wednesday evening at Bridgewater House , St . James ' s , the mansion of the noble president , the Earl of . Ellesmore , who occupied the chair upon the occasion . The proceedings were of an interesting character , and wore calculated very clearly to show that the society is most usefully engaged in investigating the history of ancient families , And in illustrating ' those local and personal details wlilch shed so important and so Interesting a light on the condition of pwrt "generations . The splendid gallery of Bridge-Wfttop House was thrown open to the company .

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      No . 485 . Jpi ^ 9 / 1859 J ' THE LEADER . 811

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      KOSSUTH IN ITALY . Kosstjth , having arrived on the 22 nd at Genoav proceeded on . the following day to Turin . All along the way , on every station , a crowd of Italians assembled to cheer him ; a convoy of Hungarian , prisoners met htm at one place , and , recognising the great leader of their country , shouted their eljens At Alessandria Kossuth had to address the crowd in Italian . After two long interviews with Count Cavour at Turin , the Hungarian exile , in companywith a confidential friend of the Sardinian Minister , set out for Parma , to the headquarters of Prince Napoleon . When he arrived after midnight at Piacenza he could quietly go to an' hotel without being recognised . At breakfast , however , the waiter brought the foreigners' book to get the names of the guests inscribed , and seeing the name of " Kossuth , " he rushed out of the room like a , madman . Not five minutes passed , and all the thirty thousand inhabitants of Piacenza know ife already , and , as if called together by an alarum bell ,, they' rush nnder his windows and shout their vivas witli the heartiest good will . At two o ' clock ; p . m . KossutU arrived at Parma . In a fow minutes all the town was alive with , the news ; the crowds assembled outside the hotel ; , ,, and a guard of honour was placed before the door . In fact , if sympathyalone could save Hungary , it would already bo sate ~ But of course the liberation of a country require * something more . On tho 28 th Kossuth sot out for tho lieaguartors of Napoleon , provided with letters of Count Cavour and Prince Napoleon to tne E ffKossuth is rousing tho Hungarians by proclamations against'the House of Hups burg , the expulsion of > vhom ho declares is tho mission of tna H ^ KJ , a uXa ^ erfoC tly reliable financial channel information lms boon unexpectedly obtained ( s » y * the Tim < l . i ) of tho intentions of the Emperor Napoleon V'ith regard to Hungary . They wilt excite surprise but tho character of tho parties from whom the * account is derived , and the nature of their opportunities for obtaining details upon the point , are sucb . as to leave no opening for incredulity . Itossuth b * ae by . this time had ' an interview with the French « u > - narou At hQo 4 quarters , Colonel Nicholas Kis * , w 2 u » -

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      POSITION OF THE ALLIES AND THE AUSTRIANS . The whole French army has passed the Mincio , and the Sardinians have completely invested Peschiera . " The reinforcements which I have received by the ? arrival of 35 , 000 men , led by Prince Napoleon ( saysf the Emperor ) , have enabled me to approach Verona without compromising myself in any way , as I have left a . corps d ' armee at Goito to watch Mantua , and ! am about to assemble another at Brescia to watch : the passes of the Tyrol . " . have announced the

      The Nord says : — " We junction of Prince Napoleon ' s corps with the army oZ Italy . The following were the positions of the different corps before the march upon Verona : —The 5 th corps ( Prince Napoleon ' s ) and the 3 rd ( Canrobert ' s ) were at Goito ; the 2 nd corps ( M'Mahon ' s > at Valeggio , and the 1 st with the Piedmontese army before Peschiera . This fortress is cannonaded day and night by the army , which has completely invested it , and to which will shortly be added the gun boats of the Lake of Garda . The resistance cannot be very prolonged . The Austrian army i » massed entirely round Verona , and also in great part behind the Adige . The French army has advanced ia that direction , and the blow which will .

      be struck at Verona will decide the fate of Venice . The Emperor Napoleon having sent back the wounded Austrian officers without exchange , and having requested an exchange of prisoners , an Austrian officer has arrived with the announcement that the Emperor of Austria will also send back without exchange the wounded prisoners of the Allies , a . nd that His Majesty is equally disposed , foran exchange of other prisoners . From the Adriatic ^ we learn that the French , amountingto 10 , 000 , have disembarked at Lussienpiccolo , and that the bridge to Cherso lias been destroyed ; and a later despatch , adds that two French war steamers have been , reconnoitring off Fiume . 1 , 000 French soldiers have occupied Cherso . The occupation of Fiume by Austrian troops continues .

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      ' ¦ , » , — , THE WAR .

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      AN AEIIS T I C E . The following most important telegram was received in Paris , on Thursday night : — " The Emperor to the Empress : An armistice has been concluded between the Emperor of Austria and mysel £ Commissioners have been appointed to agree upon necessary clauses . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 9, 1859, page 811, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2302/page/7/