Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-06
MORNING LEADER.
FOREIGN GsossiD.


The sudden call for five hundred thous-
and sovereigns in England, on Spanish ae-
count, not only caused the recent advance
in the rate of interest by the Bank Of Eng
land, but cansed loss in public and pri-
vate securities Of forty millions of pounds
At least 50 says a writer well posted, in the
last number ofthe London Despatch "a
The water In the Thames, in some parts
Of it, is so discOlored as to look like Ink.
The discharge Of the sewerage Of Banbury
into the Cherwell has been complained Of
by a miller who lives lower down tha-
stream, but who is likely to die if he re-
mains there and whose wife and family
have been nearly poisoned by the perilo1s
and unsayory stuff. with which It's bosom
is loaded by the townFp-s De above. This
has killed the fish by thousands, but great
ly promoted the growth Of weeds in the
river, being a species Of mater which,
though destructive to animal life, even to
that of jack and eels, is meat and drink to
the vegetable kingdom. Nausea and Yom-
iting are the effects which the Cherwell,
qualified by Banbury, produces on persons
in its vicinage. 1t enits and odor at which
the nose Of everybody who approaches is
offended, particularly when it is stirred up
by Spoke's mill-wheel. It is nearly as black
as ink, and has been used as such for the
direction Of parcels, which were punctual-
". delivered. Londoners get some of it
through the Isis, which connects the Cher
well with the Thames
The Galway fishermen claim the exclu-
sive right Of fishing along forty miles of
their coast, and will not permit any inter
ference with their rights. This has led 10
extensive pauperism in the neighboring
villages, and large increase in the poor
rate
What the English editors think Of the
Germans may be inferred from an extract
in popular journal.
"Englishmen might well cease to feel an
interest in Germany. With the feeling
that the Germans are morally incapable of
doing justice to Others, must come the be-
lief that they have not the stuff in them to
do patriotic right to themselves. Their
character at present is that of a stupid ego
tism; their condition that of a great blue
bottle half smothered in the treacle he Gov
eted"
Eight hundred thousand souls are said
to be dependent on the railways in Great
Britain. So said an Irish baronet in late
speech. log
In the matter of the Suez canal, the re-
cent decision of the Emperor is in favor of
the Lesseps Company, and be has spoiled
the Egyptians" to the tune of eighty-four
million francs.
From intelligence lately received from
tbs Hediaz, it appears that Mecca and its
environs are now ravaged by typhus fever,
which is attributed III a great measure to
the unusual influx of pilgrims to the Had
jis, this year. Their number is estimated
at two hundred thousand. The city has
already been abandoned by great num-
Der of the inhabitants, among whom is the
GovernOr-General who has retired to Saref
with his entire staff.
The enlistment of seamen at Calcutta
for the federal cause in America has attract
ed the notice of the authorities there, who
are on the watch for the detention of some
federal agents who are believed TO have al
ready freighted one ship for the northern
states with unemployed sailors.
The introduction of uniform standard
of weights and measures throughout India
is at present under the consideration of
India, and will soon be brought into oper-
alton.
Two Archbishops and twenty-four Eng
lish and Welsh Bishops, and one Arch
bishop and three Bishops of Ireland, sit in
=, ., of o,-rI1 1 Doov;s-
The junior English or Welsh Bishop for
the time being Except the prelates of Lon
don, Durham and Winchester, who are
members of TIE House from the day of
their Conservatory does not sit in the
House. The Archbishops of Armagh and
Dublin sit alternately from session to ses-
sion, and the Irish Bishops sit in annual
rotation, in the following order; 0ssory,
Cork, Killaloe, Meath, Kilmore, Cashel,
Tuan, Derry, Limerick and Down
st. Johns Servants School, at West
bourne Grove, is place for training girls
to household work, cooking, washing and
needlework. They are all instructed in
reading, writing and arithmetic. Admis-
sion is obtained partly by payment by
friends and partly by the nomination o,
benevolent persons. The terms vary, ac-
cording to the girls age, from eco to fl3o.
If the payments are made by the year, the
charge is twelve guiAeas for girls over thir.
teen, and fourteen guineas for girls undel
thirteen. One would think that those per
sons who had to take service would be Lit
tie able to pay such heavy charges.
Forty thousand dollars have been sub
scribed to erect e monument to the memo
ry of Daniel o. Connell. ~ ~