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Canal The de Parts No. 454, December 4, ...
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Miscellaneous. The Count.—Iicr Majesty C...
firms it -was-not for him to question the right or wrong of the Chinese war . Mr . John Crawford , formerly Governor of Singapore , pointed out the evil of political ntrigues on the part of missionaries . Lola Monies . —Among the passengers by the Pacific from New York to Galway was this celebrated person . The Galway Vindicator says : —" The Countess was received with every attention and respect by the officials and a few friends . We learned from herself that she Las come to Ireland for the purpose of delivering lectures at Dublin , Cork , Limerick , Waterford , Belfast , arid finally Galway , on ' America , its people , and its social institutions , ' and she added , that she means to talk about them as they are , not as they have been misrepresented by Mr . Dickens , Mr . Mackay , Mr . Thackeray , and others . "
New Peers . —We ( the Lancet } have reason to believe that Sir B . Brodie is to be raised to the Peerage with the title of Baron Betehworth . The Post says that it is understood Lord Justice Knight Bruce is to be made a Peer , when he will resign his present apj ointment . Junics . —There is news about " Junins . " Mr . Parkes —Joseph of Birmingham—a very , well-read man and a scholar , and with advantages which few have possessed , is to give us , before six months are over , a " Life of Sir Philip Francis / ' the " Junius " of Macaulay and Brougham , but not the " Junius" of Mr . Dilke . Mr . Parkes possesses all the papers of Mr . Dubois , the secretary of Francis and the executor of Tom Hill . Surely Tom Hill must have " happened" to know who Junius was ?—Illustrated London News .
Law Amendment Sociktv . —At the meeting held on Tuesday , the report of the Special Committee appointed to " consider the rule requiring the unanimity of juries , was read and discussed . The committee were of opinion that unanimity should continue to be required of juries who tried criminal cases * but the opinion of the committee was equally divided with regard to the introduction of the majority system into civil cases . The debate which followed the reading of the report was adof this wellknown
Mk . Harvk y Combe . —The death - sportsman took place on the 22 ud uultimo at his residence atCobham . Mr . Combe , who was in the seventyfourth year of his age , was the head of the great brewing firm of Combe and Delaficld , and for thirty years kept foxhounds and racehorses . Possessed of a munificent fortune * he devoUd a considerable portion of it to acts of charity , and his benevolence to several members of the sporting world will be long remembered . He was an active magistrate , and fulfilled the duties of his station in life in a manner that well deserves imitation ; his
memory will long be respected . City Sewers . — On Monday , at the meeting of the Commissioners , a letter was rend ^ from Mr . S . Gurney , M . P ., who offered to erect , at his own expense , a public drinking fountain in the open space in front of the Royal Exchange . The offer was very cheerfully accepted . Crinoline . —Is there anything more hypocritical than the dress of a lady at the present day ? Is there anything more abominably false than the petticoat of a lady now-a- * days ? When you meet them in the streets—one of those -walking mountains—taking up
half your High-street , and , generally speaking , the smaller they are in person the larger they arc in dresswhen you see one of these prominently walking ladies , you will say , " Oh , the stately lady—proud lady ! It looka as . a Juno , " If they would permit you , by engineering , to measure tlie basis of their rotundity , you try to do the utmost you cun by stretching out your arms . This is an impossibility ; but when you go to embrace them , you find there is nothing , and that you have been grasping at a handful of wind . This is what I call gaining admiration under false pretences . —Lecture of Gavazzi at Belfast .
TnB Cattle Show . —There is some expectation of her Majesty visiting the annual exhibition of the Smithfield Club this day . The Prince Consort hns a large number of entries in the Hereford short Horns and Scotch classes of cattle , as well as in the sheep and pig classes . The Duke of Bedford , tho Duke of Richmond , the Earl of Yarborough , tho Dukoof Rutland , tho Earl of Zetland , Lord Faversham , the Earl of Leicester , Lord Homers , Sir 0 . Knightley , Lord Portmnn , Earl Spencer , and a large number of * noblemen and gentlemen farmer * , are also amongst tho contributors . The judges make their awards on Monday , and in tho ovening tlioro will bo a private view . Tho show will open to tho public on Tuesday next , and continue opou till Friday tho 10 th , whqn it finally closos .
Sarawak and Loru Dkruy . — A correspondent of tho Daily JYeios says : —" What should provent tlio Lancashire people taking u |> Rajah Brooke ' s government and putting it in perpetual commission ? Cupital for a small railway would be sufficient to develop tho settlement and Indemnify Sir James into the bargain , besides testing Manchester inanngoinont of foreign possessions against Dovrning-street . " Crystal Palace . — Tho Mozart concert , hold annually in commemoration of tho doath of this great composer , takes placo to-day ( Saturday ) . These annual celebrations have been hitherto received with much pleasure
by the season ticket-holders and their friends , and have been the most fully attended of the season . The ^ concert of to-day promises considerable interest , comprising , among other pieces , a symphony in C major , and a concerto for pianoforte also in C ( both first-rate works , but only seldom performed ) , as well as the principal airs and concerted pieces from the opera Die Zauberflote . Madame and Mr . Weiss , Mr George Perren , and Heir Pauer are the principal performers . The band is to be strengthened , and an efficient chorus employed on the occasion . Mr . Pepper's lecture on the Egyptian Court is to be given
after the concert . _ Wkstminster Play . —The Phormw of Terence will be performed by the Queen ' s Scholars of St . Peter ' s College , Westminster , on Tuesday , the 14 th ; Thursday , the 16 th ; and Tuesday , the 21 st day of December ; on the two latter evenings , with the addition of a prologue and epilogue . Court of Common Council . —At a Court , held on Thursday , an animated discussion took place on the contemplated new Lunatic Asylum . Some speakers strongly argued that sufficient room might be obtained in existing asylums without incurring the expense of a almost unanimous feeling
new building . There was an against the imposition of a county rate ; and finally a committee was appointed to consider the whole question , with power to confer with the Home Secretary . Mahch of Rationality . — A Mohammedan attorney was duly sworn in before Lord Campbell last week . The Oriental gentleman had served his articles , and been passed by the Law Societj-, but there was doubt as to the fdrm of his oath , and therefore he came before the Court of Queen ' s Bench . We are happy to add that the enlightened decision of Lord Campbell and his brethren did away with the last fragment of the absurdity that affected to see a Christian in an attorney . —Punch .
Madame Kinkel . —The sudden and melancholy death , on the 15 th instant , of Frau Johanna Kinkel , has created a painful sensation among her numerous friends in London and Germany . She was a woman of no ordinary powers ; many of her musical compositions have become popular , and her novels rank among the best of which German literature may boast . Her character had something of the heroic , which in her eventful life she had ample opportunity to prove : in 1809 , when Dr . Khikel stood before a court-martial , at Rastadt , afterwards during his imprisonment at Nauwerk and Spandau , and last , not least , in an exile of many years .
—Atherunuin . Tavo little Favours Requested . —Since Mr . Gladstone is so near Greece , would he mind obliging Mr . Punch ( who has done him many a good turn before now ) by making a few inquiries about the Greek Kalends and the Greek Loan ? He is requested to ascertain the future date of the former , and the probable payment of the latter ? and to report at large on the chronological chances of the two events , and particularly as to which of them , in his opinion , is likely to be entitled to the priority of concurrence ? At the same time , Mr . Punch humbly begs to apologise to Mr . Gladstone for laying before him only two courses , instead of the three which his active mind generally delights to feast upon . —Punch .
Agricultural Progress in France and England . —The Reforme Agricole gives the following comparative statement of agricultural progress in France ami England;—England : 20 , 000 , 000 inhabitants , 16 , 800 , 000 head of cattle , 60 , 000 , 000 sheep . Manure per hectare ( 2 4 acres ) equal to that of 19 sheep . Yield pur hectare , 20 hectolitres . To each inhabitant more than half an ox lulled at tho age of two years , and nearly three sheep . Improvement of the ground by very
superior agricultural implements . Machines producing economy and better work in ploughing , harrowing , threshing , & c . — France : 35 , OOT ) , 000 inhabitants , 10 , 000 , 000 head of cattle , 32 , 000 , 000 sheep . Manure per hectare equal to that 6 f 2 sheep . Yield per hectare , 11 hectolitres , To each inhabitant not one-third part of an ox killed at from eight to nine years old , and not ono sheep . Too much left to tho hand of man , who remains a machine , since it is only the intelligence which ought to work : ono man ought to perform tho work of
M . Belly ' s Canal . —The Coumer de Parts gives ^ an account of Mi Belly ' s plan for opening a communication between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans , by means of a canal through the Isthmus of Panama . M . Belly , who some short time back obtained a concession of the ground required for the undertaking , has lately published & pamphlet , in which , he sets forth , the advantages of the enterprise , and shows by maps the line of country through which the proposed canal is to pass . The Courrier de Paris adverts to the political bearing of the « ^ ^ . fc . « " ^ + t '' rr % * sv _ _ . __ - ~^ _ 3 T _ ^^ — ~ - _^* * ^ . a «
proposed plan , and shows that the intention is to place the canal of Nicaragua under the general protection of the great powers , England and the United States setting the example . The article concludes by alluding to the apprehensions which were for a moment entertained of the United States , through jealousy or ambition , being desirous of interfering with the realisation of the plan ; but Mr . Buchanan ' s Government at present ,, it declares , only desires to see England and France imitating the example of the United States , and preserving an absolute neutrality of passage between the two seas .
Railway Parcel Post . —On this head a pamphlet by Mr . W . C . Scptson contains some good suggestions . A uniform charge of a penny per lb . irrespective of distance , would , he believes , yield a greater average than the existing rates , while the convenience to the public from a fixed system would bring an extraordinary accession of business . The plan would be for each company to open a convenient office in every large town , as well as at all their stations , and to transmit parcels over their own and other lines , adjusting their mutual accounts through the Railway Clearing House in London .
Prepavment should be required by means of adhesive stamps , unpaid parcels being charged extra . No parcel should be conveyed for less than twopence , the subsequent increase being a penny for every pound or fraction of a pound . A charge of a penny per parcel might also be made to cover cost of receipt and delivery . A convenience could at the same time be afforded to the public by all the companies agreeing to receive the adhesive parcel stamps as cash from passengers or others , and th . 9 principle might even be extended to the issue of " rate notes" of 20 a . each , receivable at every station , for fares , & c .
International Abt-Copyright . —At length , if w « may venture to trust appearances where facts have had so stubborn a hold in an opposite sense , there is some prospect that piracy in the products of the intellect maybe uprooted in one of its last strongholds—and Belgium herself , in the matter of copyright generally , be brought within the comity of nations . The month of October witnessed the unwonted spectacle of an international congress on literary and artistic property sitting in Brussels , the very Algiers of the press—with the Belgian Minister at its head . It is . a strange and discreditable fact , that two free and enlightened countries like Belgium and the United States should have lagged go far behind the nations in a question of civilisation like this of copyright ;
but nowhere—not even in America-r-has the cause of piracy been maintained to such dishonourable issues as in Belgium . In this matter , as in so many others , it is very pleasant to remember that England led the way in the cause of civilisation . It is long , now , since our own Governments showed a desire to deal justly , so far as this question is concerned , with the claims of intellect . Though much , as our readers know , in certain directions , remains still to be done , yet step by step the copyright in mental produce has been improved and extended amongst ourselves : —and the enlarged
principles which we recognised at home , we pushed abroad wherever we could . . . . We have , ourselves , reason to know that many of the authors and artists of Belgium have begun to feel honourably uneasy under the stigma which has so' long attached to their country as the stronghold on this side the ocean of literary and artistic piracy . If the result at which the Brussels Congresa have arrived could make its way into tho legislations i the country , in spito of tho robber-interests that yet oppose it , Belgium would have a better claim than just now she can assertxto take her place in the brotherhood of high-minded and enlightened nations . —Art-Journal .
ten . TiiB Proposed National Bank of Turkey — Tho Daily News says that although tha lirinnn authorising the establishment of a National Bank is actually in tho hunds of the Turkish Minister in London , and is a perfectly valid document , the caution money of 20 , 000 ? . has not yet been deposited , and tho aft ' air has made little progress . Tho hitch arises in reality from tho fact that soino of tho gentlemen who are nominated by tho original coticoaaionairea ns ready to proceed with tho undortakiiur , « ro not tho most eligible in tho eyes of
Tub Nkw Foreign-office . —Mr . G . G . Scott has bocn entrusted by the Board of Works with the erection of tho new Forelgn ^ -office , subject , of course , to future confirmation by Parliament . Mr . Scott will accordingly proceed , after communication with tho authorities at the Foreign-oflice , to remodel bis design according to tho official information thus afforded , and agreeably to the suggestion of tho Committee of tho House of Commons that tho Now Foreigu-offlco might bo so placed as to rango symmetrically with any other publio offices ,
tho Turkish Government . Tho Turkish Ministers are not blind , but uro perfectly aware of all tho facts connected with the history of tho Into loan negotiation . Thoy nro naturally grateful for tho Important assistance wlilcli was so zealously extended to that operation by tho Qttoman Bank . This establishment has consequontly and deservedly acquired so groat a degree of prestige that tho Government makes no soorot of its dosiro that it shbuld not bo excluded from participation in tho project for tho formation of a National Bank . It is , therefore , bollovo < l that any combination in which the Ottoman Bank ( loos not tako port will fall of success .
which might bo required from tlmo to time . It has also been determined to leave tho present Foroign-o / Hco standing till such portion of the new building as is necessary for tho immediate occupation of tha department is ready to receivo it . Besides bia many ecclesiastical works and restorations in this country , of wliIcH wo need only specify tho mow church at Doncaster , Mr . Scott-has a European reputation as tho architect of the Hamburg Senate House , and the groat Church of St . Niouolus .
Crystal Pai . aob :- Return for ilxd » B , ending Friday , December flrd , 1858 : — Number admitted , including season ticket holdore , 5220 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04121858/page/9/
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