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witness their deaths . We know that English officers have the habit of disobeying regulations by advancing too for in front of their men ; we believe that any Englishman out of the ranks put in the same position would do She same ;* feat at is not for us to dispute with Sh \< 3 eorge . Suffice it to notice the extreme narrowness of that understanding , which could not suffer the idea . of abolishing neck stofcks in the torrid weaiiter of a Levantine summer , and returns , oppressed with the experience of the Crimea , to preach upon the policy of looking to the escutcheon or private income of our officers , before we intrust tBfem ¦ wi th humbler men . Yet Sir George , let us remember , stood second in euccefifiion * o Lord
Raglan—superior to James Simpson . Amongst personal notabilities , too , let us note the retirement of Mr . Duffy from Parliament and British life , and his contemplated retreat to golden Australia . Prosperity be with him , and peace be found in his new abode . ' In these times of war , our sphere is decidedly too quiet for him ; but in Australia he may perhaps raise some Irish question—discover some rrght of the Milesian to the exclusive possession of that soil ; nay , perhaps , discover that Miletus , after all , was not the original land of the Irishman , but Australia .
1 Some exception to the rale of smoothness appears at first sight in the failure at the launch of the Marlborough . The vast ship , 245 feet long , by 206 broad , and 26 deep , was to have been floated on the waters ibr which it is destined in the presence of the Queen and a gay assemblage at Portsmouth on Tuesday . Everything went smoothly , excepting the keel of the ship . There was & hitch . The Court had to make the best of
its way out of danger , and the launch bad to be completed in the absence of royalty . Sailors in the vessel will probably remember the omen j for Queen Victoria has been so accustomed to be petted by Fortune , that the hitch under her gracious countenance looks like a calamity . Perhaps there may be a moral in the reverse . Are these very big ships exactly the thing we want just now ?
There has been no hitch in the French loan-Loins tiAvozEon is certainly the grandest borrower that ever appeared ; even the exhaust ! ess Prrr did but enjoy a fraction of the Emperor ' s facility . The Heaven-bora once attempted an ppenloan , but at ruinous interest , and the measure ¦ was botched in the mode of working . It did bring out one thing—that volunteer lenders were very anxious to conic forward whenever there "was
an appeal made to them in that direct form . Louis Napoleon asks for 4 * 0 , 000 , 000 / . sterling , and he is offered 186 , 000 , 000 * ., besides 8 , 000 , 000 / . from foreign sources . It is true that some portion of the subscriptions may be tendered in the forecalculation that the . amount would be reduced , some portion may be simply ostentation on the part of men that could not produce the money ; but . making every allowance , it is manifest that he is thepetof the lenders .
, JFbajscis Joseph , of Austria , must look on with wonder and envy at such easy modes of raising the wind . For the Austrian Government is obliged "to reduce its army in order to save expense , and yet it cannot raise money enough for present purposes . After a brief enjoyment of ; better credit it sees its financial state declining again ; and the once productive Lombardo-Vone-i tian kingdom yields nothing bnt disappointment . Germany is in a curious state . The minor governments are so far in-want Of cash , that they ' arc understood to be defaulting in the matter of . keeping up the force which they are bound to the resolution of the Dietthat
, . maintain under , they * shall remain in a state of preparation for war . The people of Wurtemborg see in this state ' of things a happy opportunity to enforce the claim t / to > constitutions for all the German States ; the . more ainco the Western Powers ( say the cunning people of Wurtcmborg ) eeo the necessity of con-Bblidating Germany against the encroachments of ' Russia . Uncomfortable enough must kings and 'Courtiers feel at this ominous movement of the ttfnround beneath their feet ! The Hanoverian . Ittoverzunent has lately been attempting to retract the constitution given in 1848 , but the people protest . The governments view -with
dismay the recruitment of our Foreign Legion with Germans and Poles—a recruitment which , during t *» e week , Mr . Milner Gibson has by hints ask <* d Lord Paxmerston to g ive up ; but in vain , rfor Lord Palmbb « ton perseveres . It is not -wonderful that under these oircumslances German exchequers should be shaky . If we turn our regard from simple politics to business finance , the prospects of this country and the world at large , we shall find the promises of the early season thus far sustained . J ho agriculturists have been holding their society meeting at Carlisle , and exhibiting machinery to the natives ; and Mr . Mechi has had his philosowith of
phical dinner at Tiptrce Hall , a survey his farm . They have furnished contributions towards a review of the world ' s wealth , bnt not , perhaps , so much as they might , if we could have anything like an industrial Council somewhere m this season , to report progress . Journalists do something , but evidently we want a more systematic collection and concentration of reports from the several parts of commerce that bear upon eacu other . If our Money Market has been dull , the very dulness which stands in lieu of vicissitude shows how stout is the practical steadiness in the market . The decrease of Bank bullion to the extent of 685 , 000 * , the
cloudiness of the weather , the reports from Germany , cannot affect our money public with more than a shade . Nothing is more conspicuous than the steadiness of business reported from every province of manufacturing industry . " Steadiness "—that is the almost universal word . Commercial philosophers say that the absence of speculation , and the general tendency to make work to order , which are now the rule , are not likely to continue through the prosperity that they will produce . Limited liability , and a reaction in favour of joint-stock banks as compared with private banks , or any pretext for extravagant action , will , say the prophets , set us spinning a ^ ain , with a grand crash at the end . "Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof . " Perhaps increased publicity , and sounder views of credit , which are gaining ground every day , may in future check this over-excited speculation , and block out " crisis . " In the meanwhile tbe reports of good crops at home continue to be confirmed , and the reports from abroad are good , especially from America . In Canada they tell us that the "rain crop -will be the largest ever gathered . It is more set off to this prosperity that the o'idium or cryptogamous parasite which infests the vine , has Bhown itself extensively in Italy ; but bread promises to be abundant everywhere . Industry amongst ourselves is working to order , credit is good and not abused , and hence in great part the smoothness which we have noticed .
Not that we are without our rubs . We have already noticed one hitch ; a serious friction continues here and there , both in public and private life , sometimes amounting to shock . The committal of Davii > son and Gordon to Newgate for trial reminds us of unsound parts in our commercial system . Strahan , Paul , and Co . continue to make weekly appearances at Bow-street , and are likely to do so until September , then to be committed for trial .
The police inquiry into the disturbances at Hyde Park is almost a daily entertainment . The great Hughes has been examined , and as Ciapelletto confessed that he " qnce did spit in the house of God , " Hughes candidly allows that he did say " Damn your blood , men , feel your left !" ' —but he " only used the expression once 1 " There is the select committee to investigate our adulterations ; before which come witnesses , wellinformed men , who justify adulterations , either by saying that they are only " impurity , " or that the public likes them , or thnt , as the girl said when Bho wns convicted of an unaccountable infant , " it IB very little . "
Ei > wari > Rawlk exemplifies another taint Rawuo is a . maater mariner , competent , probably , to navigate a ship when sober ; but unfortunately he put to sea when his head wns top-hoavy with spirits . The water was riaing to ln ' a knees in his own cabin before ho could rouse himself to go on deck to witness the loss of lfit ) Hhip and of many on board , and to save—one baby ! For tin ; instinct of humanity was not dead in the man , and it probably helped the jury to their wonderful verdict of acquittal .
The severest shook comes droin Darlington , in Durham , where a gentleman of high Htntion in the county is accused of slowly poisoning liin wile , ' —
/ 6 f beingia « o | 1 € LLaffakgb , a Tawkm , of high rank ; iandsotae > oF the circumstantial evidence already oollectedsia formidable . One sign of poisoning by arsenic , r for example , is tingling of the hands tingling off the bands did Mrs . Wooler feel ; and when tie me ' eUcal man noticed it , the husband said that at had been observed " the day before ;" on which'She reminded her husband that she had asked .-him . to tell the physician several days before . The wife -dies , and Abe body is examined ; and
there is arsenic ^ surely enough ,, and traces of many another injury inflicted by our ways of life on a poor lady . It is Society pursuing its self-anatomy with the scalpel — and much of that frightful havoc upon the wife ' s vitals was going on , poison or no poison , while Mr . Wooler was displaying * ' the hospitality of an English gentleman , " and his admiring guests were boasting over the happiness of our moral land , "in which vice , " & c .
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Imperial Parliament. Criminal Law. In Th...
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . CRIMINAL LAW . In the House of Lords , on Monday , Lord Brocgham obtained certain returns , in continuation of a former return , having reference to the Criminal Law . Several bills were forwarded a stage , and their Lordships adjourned .
CLOSE OF THE SESSION . The House of Commons , at the . morning sitting , was occupied in committee with the details of the Limited Liability Bill . In the evening , Lord Palmerston called the attention of the House to the state of the public business , and , observing that there were reasons upon which he would not dwell why the session should be closed by the 14 th or 15 th of August ( following the precedent of last session ) , moved that orders of the day have precedence of notices of motion . The motion was agreed to . SIR JOHN MACNKILL ' S MISSION TO THE CRIMEA . Lord 1 ' almerston , in answer to Lord Hotilam , said it would not bo for the benefit of the public service if the report of Sir J . Macneill were submitted to the House .
THE MALLAOUEA AFFAIK . Lord Palmerston laid on the table papers from Sierra Leone connected with this affair . TUB DECORATION OF THE HATH FOR NAVAL SERVICES . On the order for going into Committee of Supply , Admiral Wai . cott , in moving for a copy of a minute by the Board of Admiralty relating to the claims of certain officers to be reconi mended for the honour of the Bath , complained of injustice done to officers , himself included , who had been passed over . —The motion was seconded by Captain Scobell , and
supported by Sir G . I ' eciiell , Lord John Maksbbo , and Sir De Lacy Evans . —Sir Ciiaui . es Wood said that the object of the motion was to coerce the Admiralty into granting certain honours—an object which the House ought not to entertain ; mid Lord 1 ' almekston observed that it would be utterly impossible to carry on the military and naval services if the prerogative of the Crown were interfered with by the House . — Ultimately the motion was negatived ; Admiral Walcojt observing that the Admiralty might break his heart , but they should not break his spirit .
SCOTCH SCHOOLMA 8 TER 8 . Mr . K . Lockhakt called attention to the inconvenience that would arise from the net regulating < the salaries of the parochial school masters of Scotland being allowed to expire without further provisions to meet the exigencies of the case . —The Lord Advocate said there , would be nmplc time for making the necessary provisions next session . The House then went into Committee of Supn . y upon the Civil . Seuvick Estimates . "Various vote * ¦ were agreed to , after discussion , and the Chairman reported progress .
hat . is of beck bill . After several bills had been forwarded a stage , Mr . II . JJerki . i . ky moved the second rending of the Sale of IJeer , & e ., Bill , the object of which is to modify and amend the act of last session , in accordance with the suggestions of the Committee which had jual concluded its aittings . The kill proposes that public , houses shall bo closed from twelve o'clock on Saturday night to one o ' clock on Sunday , when they arc to be open till three , then to bo closed till live , and then opened till eleven . —After somo little verbal opposition , the bill was rend a . second time . —The bill passed through committee on Tuesday night , after am attempt on the . part of tho Marquis of Hi . andt'ORi > to defer tho committee for three months— "i » amendment which was negatived by <> 2 to 10 .
THIS HOVAI . BOOIUTY . Lord GiuwviLLio , on Tuesday , in the House oi LnrdH , explained , in amwer to somo remnrku by Lord IJiiouuuam . tho circuiuHtanccs under . which tin
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 4, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04081855/page/2/
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