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4ig THE liEAPEB. [No. 371, Saturday,
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reports of disorders on the part of the German Legion , bttt'f & M X 3 ng : Wit & amTs Town . Gazette deetare & that the 5 facts have Been * exaggerated ; TSk © London 1 Society for the Branx—The anjw-. veraasy meeting 1 of this society , the objeet of which is t ^ teaeB-tfi < j bEnd- to read , took place on Monday afternoon air € fie Hanover-sqitare rooms ; the Bishop of Carlisle in iheebsir . Several of the pupils of the school were on the platform , and in the course of the afternoon they
reads tm » chapters , from the Bible and sang several pieces of sacred music . The pages both of the Bible of and the nmaie were embossed . From the report , it appeared that the- association is flourishing . The Rev . Mr . Gowring , who is . Mmseltf blind , testified to the excellence of the method by which the afflicted are taught to read . At the : close of the proceedings , a collection was made at the doorsv and in one of the small rooms there was a sale of fancy articles in worsted and basket-work , made' by the pupils of the
school-Suaxott Saffi . —By invitation of a number of the most inferential inhabitants of D alkeith , Siguor Saffi , ex-TEmmrvir off the Roman Republic , and the eloquent defender of the cause of Italian independence , delivered a- lectore there last Friday week , on the past amd present condition of Italy , and the wants and aspirations of the Italian people . The meeting was numerously and respeefcably attended . —Daily News . Th-e Pkesces of Oui > e have been , visiting Liverpool , Birkenhead , and Glasgow , this week .
An Indian Gentijsman ,. a devout Mussulman , is now staying- at Southampton , and has dined with several of the gentry . His manners are very agreeable , and he isextremely temperate in his mode of living . He speaks English , paretty well . Having performed , with great difficulty , in company with his wife arid father , a pilgrimage to the Holy City , Mecca , he conceives that God has , blessed Mm . with great abundance . His dress is very rich . He is abont forty years of age ^ and his name is Hadgee Jaffa Sulimaa .
The Law Reform Society . —The first meeting of the members of this society since the dissolution of Parliament was held on Monday evening . Mr . Headlam ,, M . P ., occupied the chair . The report , which was read by the Secretary , was adopted , and the meeting Separated-The Watebs we Drink . — The General Board of Health have issued a report stating the results of the microscopical examination which they have caused to be made into the water supplied to the metropolis by the various companies . Dr . Hassall , who conducted the examinations , and who signs the report , comes to these conclusions : —" That the waters supplied by the nine metropolitan water companies under the new act for the
improvement of the water supply of the metropolis still contain ; considerable numbers of living vegetable and animal productions belonging to different orders , generO r and species . That these living organic productions were found to be particularly abundant in the waters supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall , the Lambeth , the New River , and the Hampstead Companies . That they were rather numerous in the waters of the Grand Junction Company . That they were much less abundant in the waters of the Chelsea , West Middlesex , East London , and Kent Companies . That those waters which
contained most organic productions were cloudy and opalescent ,, as the waters of the Southwark and Vauxhalk the Lambeth , the New River , and the Hampstead Companies . That the waters which contained fewer organic productions were clear and bright , as those of the Chelsea , the West Middlesex , the Grand Junction , the East London , and the Kent Companies . It follows that the metropolis is still supplied with water containing considerable numbers of living vegetable and animal productions , and which are not present iu the purer waters , as , for example , that supplied by the Plumstead , Woolwich , and Charlton Company . "
Mountain Railways . —A Report of Captain W . Moorsom , C . E ., has just been published by Messrs . G . Grassi , Velini , and Co , ; 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , on the patent screw locomotive ongine , for the ascent of steep railway gradients , invented by Signor Graasi , of Milan . By the report of the eminent engineer it is proved that the difficulties of crossing mountains Avill bo removed by Mr . Cirussi' . s system , with which an incline of one in twenty will be run with facility by the new locomotive . The invention of Mr . Grusai has attracted the . attention of the industrial world both in England and abroadfor the reason that its application
^ will . laaAi to the suppression of tunnels , and , therefore , a large ecpnomy is to bo attained . One example alone will suffice to convince our readers . The tunnel projected to cross Mont Ceiiis , on the lino from Lyons to ' Smin , ia eafchnmteu to coat more than one hundred million franca , even althoa ^ U there occur n a gradient of 2 l-8 t pec cent ., whilst on tho sumo same lino , Mont Cento may easily be surmou nted by Signor Grassi ' s system « , t a probablo expenditure of three or four million funncs at most nbovo tho coat on ordinary railway ^ , aeanmui g that tho increased length of tho line is . ; threefold that o ( T tho tunnels .
An iNTKi . MaiiN'jj HoHHio . —In tho course of an . action for damages , recently brought in tho Court of Common iUeas by the widow of an oltl man who had boom killed by a borso belonging to tho dufcmlmifc , ono of the witnesses , a policeman , bairt that tho horse , at tho time tho
accident occurred , was trotting quietly down " with , the intention of'being harnessed toi his caxfc . " The sagacity and . devotion of tfhe beast axe- beyond all praiae- ; . and possibly it was awing- to . bis zeal to be ; at his post—car , rather ^ act his shaft—that he raa the old man down . Aldekman Magnat . —The Court of Common Council , on Thursday , adopted , after some discussion , a , motion of Mr . Blake ' s , " that the members of this court be permitted , to inspect all the official documents in possession of the City solicitor affecting a member of this corporation . "—i . e . Sir William Magnay .
Mn . W . H . Russell ' s Lectures . —Mr . Russell—one of the real heroes of the Crimea , whose pen rescued England from the abyss into- which she was falling , and whose genins will perpetuate to succeeding ages the minutest features of the short , fierce struggle with Russia—will , on Monday week , deliver the first of three Lectures on the Crimean War ; the two others- to follow on the ensuing . Thursday and Saturday . The lecturer observes , in his preliminary advertisement , that many little incidents which , he was obliged to leave unrecorded in the hurry of daily writing for the press , will now be > related . He will " sketch , as it were , the private
life and interior economy of the armies and of the camp , and enter upon the description of subjects which during the war it would have been injudicious and impolitic to have communicated to the worLd . " It is impossible to conceive a series of discourses of a more profound and fascinating interest . The general public will now be enabled to see personally tlie man who flushed their cheeks and made their hearts beat stronger day by day during that tremendous period ; and all the wonted spirit , force , vivacity , and colour of the written descriptions will , we doubt not , acquire an additional charm and dramatic interest from the verbal narration .
Sale of the " Moksisg Herald , " & c . —Ihe copyright , plant , Scc . of the Morning Herald , Standard , ami St . Jaanes ' s Chronicle , were put up for sale by auction on Tuesday . They were offered at a reserved bidding on the part of the official assignees of 13 , 5001 ., and it was intimated that one bid of not less than 1007 . would constitute a sale . There being- no offer made , the property was- withdrawn for the present-The Christianity of the Till . —Sitting yesterday in a public place—a pla . ee where human sinners go to satisfy the hungry body with roast and boiled , and the famished miud with the morning's papers , and the
mutual comments that are suggested by their perusal : — we heard a little bit of our national Christianity , associated as it not uncommonly is , with the presence of the table-cloth and with reminiscences of the till . From every side rose up scattered comments on the British Bank disclosures of the week ; and in one locality two comfortable feeders thus discoursed : —" Well , so John M'Gregor is gone ! " " Yes : I suppose he ' s in the lowest hell by this time . ' '—Now , we would by no means put M'Gregor in the catalogue of saints , eveu of Scotland , where saints are bound to be '' canuy ; " but perhaps a pit a little less low than the lowest would " meet the justice of the case , " considering that Bomba has yet to
come . Sm W . V . Williams has denied the truth of the statement that he was about to vacate his seat in Parliament in order to make room for Mr . Frederick l ' eel . Jews in Parliament . —At the Court of Common Council on Thursday , Mr . Andertou moved , " That this Court do again petition both Houses of Parliament that the Jews , and all her Majesty ' s British-born subjects , may have extended to them the rights of civil and religious liberty , and be qualified to hold all civil unices in any of her dominions , without any test of their religious opinions . " The motion was carried unanimously . 1 'oi . sox fob 'Phvskj . —The Malta correspondent of the Daily News says : — Wo had a sad case of poisoning
hero a few days since , which would have most likely proved fatal hud it not been for the prompt rcniuilics that were applied . Miss Cluugh , the daughter of the clergyman of Vuletta , aud her cousin , Miris Graves , tho daughter of tho lato superintendent of tho ports , have lately been practising photography . Miss Cleuyh being unwell hud to take medicine early in tho morning ; unfortunately Miss Graves had left a bottle of the poisonous mixture near tho medicine , and the maid servant , who could not read , gavo tho poison instead of the medicine . Miss Clcu ^ h had fortunately eaten a puico of bread previously , which imbibed the poison ; medical aid was instantly called to her a . sHistanco , and in tt ooupla of days she was all right again . "
Tins Ruins of Covent Gakuen Tuhatue . —A second salo of du 6 rin took place on Tuesday , whon , among other things , tho four niHNsivo Dorio cohuniirt ibrmintf the portico wore disposed uf . These , toyethuf with the adjoining pilastui-H , & c , fetched only 25 / ., though their original coat , it in h . u < 1 , wa « at lo : i » t 50 i ) L Wo cannot Liut velvet thoir Ioom . They won ) a mil ornament to London . Tmo LiJNonn . L Colukuy . — Ij ' our mom bod ion havu been tHttCOvcrci ] ; but ' nothing elso of intercut him occurred during tho woeki
Italy . — " For , Homo days pu . st ,, "» nuvh h lottor from Turin of thq Ji 2 nd nit ,, in tho JNationul ( Jazctta of Berlin , " amovement has been ulmorvod on tho I ' armuso frontier . Forged letters from Garibaldi , ( Uiolurin tf that tho Sardinian Government favours tlio ' inovoinunt , arc t . n \ ld to bo hi circulation . "
4ig The Lieapeb. [No. 371, Saturday,
4 ig THE liEAPEB . [ No . 371 , Saturday ,
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w Eeadek Office-, Saturday , May 2 . PARLIAMENT ( TE 5 TEEDAT ) . The House , of Eoeds assembled at two o ' clock Mj J . Evelyn Denison ,. newly-elected Speaker of tue * House of Commons , was presented ; , and the Commit sioners , on the part of the Queen , signified her Majesty ' s approval of the choice made by the House of Commons . Their Lordships then adjourned . The House of Commons also assembled at two o'clock under the presidency of the new Speaker , and the swearing in of members was proceeded with . No other business was transacted . The members were , taken in the alphabetical order of counties .
Tite Steufchatel Treaty. The Federal Cou...
TITE STEUFCHATEL TREATY . The Federal Council has authorized unanimousl y tfie signing of the treaty . Two members proposed to submit the question at once to the Federal Assembly , tvitb a recommendation in its favour .
The Danubian Principalities. The Reason ...
THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . The reason of the adjournment of the elections for the Divan * is stated tobe a necessity that has arisen for revising some oS tbe articles of the firman , which were not sufficiently clear . This will be done b y the European Ministers at Constantinople . Tbe elections are not likely to come on till the end of this month .
The Grand Ddkk Consxantine Arrh-Ed In Pa...
The Grand Ddkk Consxantine arrh-ed in Paris oil Thursday afternoon . On the same day , the Presse contained an articles—supposed to be inspired by PrfeaBfi Napoleon—eulogising the English alliance as a necessity to European , civilization . Convocation . —The new Convocation assembled for the first time yesterday ( Friday ) . The business , - was merely formal . The Very Kev . Dr . Elliott , Dean of Bristol , was eleeted prolocutor . Tho sitting was . adjourned to the following Friday . Adulieby . — An action for crim . con . was brought yesterday in the Secondaries' Court by a Mr . Smith , of Ulverstone , against the son of M . Duterbe , a resident at Dinan , in France . The damages were assessed at 30007 . M . I ) E MONTALEMBERT ANT ) THE FRENCH GoVESNment . —The Correspondant , the Liberal Catholic lieviewr has received a second warning for Count Montalenibert ' sarticle on the recent condemnation of the Bishop of Moulins .
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[In This Oepautmjent. As Ai-I- Opinions,...
[ IN THIS OEPAUTMJENT . AS AI-I- OPINIONS , nOWEVKIt RXTRKME , AIK ! ALUIIVUli A . Ji USl'UttSSIOJT , TUB liDITUil M £ CU !> iiAltU . X llOUJa ULMSEI . l" KESl'OXSIIILK l- 'OK NUN K . I
There Is No Learned Man But Will Confess...
There is no learned man but will confess he hath much prouted by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then it be profitable for turn to read , why should it not , ai least be tolerable for his adversary to write?—Milton
"Candide" On The Elections. ( To Tka Edi...
" CANDIDE" ON THE ELECTIONS . ( To tka Editor of the Leader . ' ) SIU—I perceive that you , and some of your contemporaries— taking the cue from you—have been sullieiently deficient in gallautry and good tasto , to object to the active interference of ladies at election time . It w numiliutin" - to observe how prone are eveu clever men to prejudice and presumption . Were it not for these cofleuit-bcgotteu mists that so unworthily dim your intellect , you would rejoice wil . h exceeding great joy to Hud Uu * fair women of England en-aging in the strife oi men . kltll If w * i « v , t » w p 2 i . w w . Ill ] wt maliceand all tilt
* . Their freedom from envy , hatred , , little jealousies and meannesses of mankiuil , rojiiierb them peculiarly fitted for work that is so apt to cull into play the bad passions of frail humanity . Absorbed « the exclusive love of country , and actuated only uy tno most lofty and disinterested principles , they devote themselves with all the energy and vivacity ol Uieir nervous organisation to tho elaboration of the gro """ public good , without reference to persona or leeinitfs . And thus they descend into tho arena as tho harbingers of noAco , good-will , and brotherly love . In this light i was particularly impressed by the remark of an active parliamentary ngont iu one of our eastern counties wniu I inquired into tho prospect of sucooss that awaitea
certain candidate . ... » He hiiH a v « rv fiwr chance , " ho »» id ; nnd then , alter a Hliyht pause , significantly added , "ho is going to lot Iooho his wifo and daughters upon the borough-Tho idea iu tho learned gentleman ' s mind was uvitieiiwy that of a flock of snow-white- doves , or funlallH , cm . " with a green olivo leaf in Uh mouth , Uuttoriny < m « l eooiug , and displaying its plumiiK o , ami cilffw j liuc 'V """ ' ' " ntmoaplioru of poneo-, purity , and cliriutiwily h » '"J ""« " ' 1 know Unit you genllomen of tho quill allect lo sneo at a cQi-tnin noble lady , of tho last century who , uiuw tho impulse of patriotism , imprinted a ducal Httluto " tho unctuous « hoek of a bluo-aproiuid hod ol mIuu . ^ ui lint , for my part , 1 honour mid admiru earnestiichh " » " itrt I ' urniH and phiisun , and consMor Biiuh ooiiduct M " c . Htiinublo aud fuminina an that of t , ho chivalrou . i \ wrow
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Leader (1850-1860), May 2, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02051857/page/10/
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