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TO KEADEK8 AND OOBItESPONDENTS. AN Appbo...
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April 5, 1851.] ^%T %*£&$?* 317
April 5 , 1851 . ] ^ % t % * £ & $ ?* 317
To Keadek8 And Oobitespondents. An Appbo...
TO KEADEK 8 AND OOBItESPONDENTS . AN Appbovino Hhadbr ask 3 if a certain " Mutual" Life Assurance Association ia respectable , and if , as an assurer , he -would be liable for the debt * of the company . K ^ ery assurer is so liable , but some companies hare a guarantee fund . We know nothing of the office in question beyond its name . ¦ £ . W . T . next week . It is impossible to acknowledge the mas 3 of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it tncrwises the difficulty of finding space foir th « m . All letters for the Editor to be addressed 9 , Crane-court , Fleetstreet London .
New Work. The Library For The Times. A S...
NEW WORK . THE LIBRARY FOR THE TIMES . A Series of Cheap Popular Works » adapted For the School , the Cottagre , the Drawing-roots , and the Study . On the 1 st of May will be published , price One Shilling , THE HISTORY of the CHURCH of ENGLAND during the Reigns of Henry VIII ., Edward VI ., and Mary : beinsr the first portion of the Ecelesiistical History of this Country from the Reign of Henry VIII . to the Reigns of the House of Hanover . The plan of the Work comprises three distinct series , arranged under the following heads : — I . THE HISTORICAL SERIES . II . THE BIOGRAPHICAL SERIES . III . THE MISCELLANEOUS SERIES . Portions of one or other of these Series , in Parts or in Volumes , will appear Monthly . Each Volume will be complete in itself , handsomely printed in foolscap 8 vo ., occasionally illustrated with Engravings , and will ¦ vary in price according to thickness . TO BOOKSELLERS . —Prospectuses and Snowboards will be ready in a few days , and may be had on application . Agents ¦ wanted for the principal towns . London : 4 , Crescent , Blackfriars ; and all Booksellers .
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RASER'S MAGAZINE for APRIL , Price 2 s . 6 d ., or , by Post , 3 s ., contains : — 1 . The Cloister-Life of the Emperor Charles V . 2 . Episodes of Insect Life . 3 . The Best of Three ; or the Officer's Charger . 4 . Sketches of American Society . By a N ew Yorker . —Life at a Watering-Place . —The Lion in the Toils . 5 . Materialism . —Miss Martineau and Mr . Atkinson . 6 . Phantoms and Realities . —An Autobiography . II . Noon . 7 . The Philosophy of Living . 8 . Mozart's Pianoforte . 9 . The Ministry and the Papal Bull . 10 . An Antediluvian Romance . 11 . The Age of Veneer . Part III . 12 . Financial Projects and Calculations . London : John W . Parker , Weat Strand .
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Next week will be published , SKETCHES of the POETICAL LITERATURE of the PAST HALF CENTURY . In Six Lectures , delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution . By D . M . Mom ( Delta ) . In foolscap octavo ( pp . 330 ) , price 5 s . William Blackwood and Sons , Edinburgh and London .
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[ The following appeared in our Second Edition of last week . ~\ POSTSCRIPT . Satukday , March 29 .
Lord John Russell Gave Another Dissolvin...
Lord John Russell gave another dissolving view of the JBudget last night . The country is to remain in suspense for another week . After all the time that has already been , wasted , Ministers cannot make up their minds to say what they intend to do till they had some more time for deliberation . Lord John was called up , early in the evening , by a question from Mr . Reynolds . The Member for Dublin wished to know at what period of the session he intended to introduce a bill for the abolition , of ministers' money in Ireland ?—" Lord , ) . UuasRi-r- said , that before he answered the question of the honourable gentleman , it might be convenient if he stated to the House whut was the course he intended to pursue with respect to public business . It was absolutely necessary they should proceed that evening with the consideration of the army esti uatcH , in order to receive the report of the Committee of Supply . He proposed to go on with the Committee of Supply on Monday , when the Ordnance estimates would ho taken and on Friday the Chancellor of the Kxohequer would state the alterations he proposed to muke in his iinnncial arrangements , and () the Bame day he would move in a Committee of Wnyn and Meann resolutions in respect to the renewal of the continuance of the income tax . If tho debate took J'luoe early they could go into debate on the motion of ' , ''« ri ght honourable gentleman the member for Slam'or « l , but , if it were inconvenient to the right honourable K « 'nt . ]<> i » i ! in , or was late in the evening , he should pro !" >!¦« to titke it on the following Monday ; the only day wlrioh he thought would be free for orders of tho day be' <> ro JSaster would bo necessarily applied to tho financial "" "ilnjrernents . He very much regretted that in eon-N j' < l"enfioof that necessity he was unable to'iprooeed an he would wish to do after the second reading of the Keole-K'aHticl Titles Hill . He could not proceed with it \> e' " ¦ o Kitater , and he had stated the other night that he should not propose to take it on Monday , April 28 , hut he thought it would be perfectl y fair to tuke it on the next order day , which would be the Friday following . He sluaild . therefore , propose to take tho committee on the Ecclesiastical Titlea Dill on Friday , the 2 nd of M » y .
( Heats near . } With , regard to other measures of which he had given notice , one of the most important , and which he had stated he should bring forward in the present session , was the Bill for the Abolition of the Office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . ( Hear , hear . ) It appeared that since the propasal was made last year there had been a much stronger opinion in Ireland than existed last year with respect to the continuance of that office ( hear ) , and he should say the general opinion of Iceland was favourable to its continuance at the present time . ( Hear , hear . ) His opinions as to the advantage to be gained to the empire , and more especially to Ireland , from the discontinuance of that office , remained unaltered ; but seeing the ^ quantity of business must be such as to throw that measure late
into the session , and seeing the opinions that had been expressed on the subject , he did not intend to press that measure . ( Cheers . ) With regard to the particular question of the honourable Member , it certainly was his intention to bring forward a measure on the subject ; but there were other measures which it was indispensably necessary to propose , and , if he should find there was time for that measure in the present session , he should introduce it , but he was not prepared at present to fix a time , or to say absolutely whether or not he should introduce it in the present session . He should add that , when the House had gone into committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill , it would be most desirable they should proceed to the main stage of the bill , and should finish it as soon as possible . "
At a later period Mr . Hume tried to prevail on Lord John to make the financial statement before asking the House to vote away any money . He even wished to move that the House should not go into a Committee of Supply till the financial statement had been made ; but the Speaker told him that was out of order . Lord John said he had distinctly intimated his intention to go into committee after the recent debate was disposed of . Mr . Htjme : " Will the noble lord bring in the Budget on Monday ?" Lord John Russell made no reply .
Mr . W . Wii / liams expressed his astonishment that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should have delayed his financial statement a moment longer than was necessary . Mr . Bern At Osbokne asked whether the Chancellor could say what course he intended to take with the window tax , and the timber and coffee duties ? Sir Charles Wood did not think that it would be for the benefit of the public service that he should make the statement at present . " He did not mean to say that he could not make his financial statement on Monday , but it was indispensable that no time should be lost in taking some votes . "
Mr . Stuart Woutley gave notice of his intention to call the attention of Government on Tuesday , " to the nature , numbers , and character , of the foreigners at present residing in London , and should inquire whether they had taken , or proposed to take , any steps for keeping the peace of this city , and for preventing any disturbance of our relations with foreign and friendly powers . " Mr . Baixlie Cochkane was also anxious to know whether Sir George Grey hud had any communication with foreign Governments regarding the inconvenience that might arise from
large bodies of foreigners coming to thia country m their uniforms and with side-arms during the Exhibition , and whether Government intended taking any steps to prevent foreign agitators coming to England holding meetings , and making speeches " calculated to excite anarchy and sedition in the kingdoms of our allies ? " Sir Geoiiok Grey said he had not meddled with the side-arms question , and as for the threatened political meetings , Government would not fail to take all the necessary steps to prevent any breach of the law .
Tho House having gone into a Committee of Supply , Mr . Fox Mm ; lu moved the Army Estimates , which appear to differ very little from those of last year . The gross sum required for effective and noneffective Hervice is £ < V . ) ' 2 'V . ) 4 , ' > , a induction *> f £° -3 , < lf > 2 upontheoorresponding charges of lastyear . Mr . IIu . mk expressed lm gratification < u the economy which has been exercised of late years . They bad in ado considerable progress , but Htill he was not satisfied . IFe proposed a resolution to reduce the ; number of men by /)()()() . Sir William Moi . kswortii , in supporting the motion , remarked upon the largo increase , in the forces employed iii the American colonies , occasioning an cnhimcemcntof more than . 000 , 000 int . hu annual
In the evening the Queen and Prince Albert attended Drury-lane Theatre . The Princess of Prussia has received an invitation from Queen Victoria to visit London during the Exhibition . She will leave in the beginning of May , and will be followed shortly afterwards by the Prince of Prussia . A deputation , consisting of the Lord Mayor , Mr . Gr . Barnard , M . P . ; Alderman Copeland , M . P . ; Mr . R . Cufrie , M . P . ; Mr . G . Dundas , M . P . ; Sir J . Duke , Baronet , M . P . ; Sir E . Filmer , Baronet , M . P . ; Mr .
Masterman , M . P . ; Baron Rothschild , M . P . ; Alderman Sidney , M . P . ; Mr . Stafford , M . P . ; Mr . Wyld , M . P ; and a number of other gentlemen , waited upen Sir George Grey at the Home-office yesterday , on the subject of the projected removal of Smithfield-raarket . Baron Rothschild , Sir J . Duke , and Mr . Alderman Sidney urged strongly the injustice and impolicy of precipitating a decision upon so important a question without affording an impartial hearing to all the parties concerned . Mr . Barlow Childs , surgeon to the police , remarked that Smithfield was the healthiest of the six districts into which London is divided : —
" He regarded Smithfield as one of the lunss of the city—as a reservoir of pure air , essential to the health o ? a densely crowded district . It was a remarkable fact that , during- the visitation of cholera to this city , in 1848 , there had occurred no case within the area of Smithfield . Out of 150 ca 3 es of spasmodic diarrhoea in the police force , not one had happened in the Smithrleld district . " Sir George Grey asked whether that fact was not referable to the open area rather than to the cattle-market ? " Mr . Childs assented ; but asked whether the open area was not necessitated by the cattle-market ?
" Ihe Reverend J . Jackson , A . M .: As vicar of St . Sepulchre , he must say it was his deliberate conviction that the scheme of the corporation would confer a lasting benefit upon the community . The physical , sanitary , and especially the moral interests of his parishioners , were seriously involved in this question . Ten or twelve acres of miserable courts and alleys , abounding- in physical and moral abominations , would be exchanged for an open area provided with suitable accommodation for the industrious poor . " Sir G . Grey said he had no disposition to undervalue the positive advantages of the corporation plan . It constituted an unquestionable improvement upon things as they were . " Sir George Grey , after listening attentively to trie various arguments , assured the deputation that the Government had no other interest in the matter than that of meeting the views and wishes of the public .
On Monday morning next , the 31 st instant , the enumerators will make their rounds in every parish and district of the kingdom ; and we earnestly hope that the public will facilitate , in every possible way , the labours of those functionaries . With that view we would urge all householders and occupiers of apartments to inquire at once for the census schedules , which will no doubt have been delivered at their houses in the course of the past week , but which may possibly have been overlooked or thrown aside by servants ; and it will be most desirable that they should fill in the requisite particulars , either at an
early hour on Monday morning , or previously to that day—though , in the latter case , due care must of course be given to the making of any corrections which may have become necessary in consequence of the unexpected presence or absence of an inmate to-morrow night . We trust that a general desire will prevail to make the required returns with promptitude and accuracy , and with , strict regard to the printed instructions which will be found on the schedule . A very moderate degree of pains-taking on the part of every individual is all that is needed to the smooth and punctual performance of thia great national work . —Morning Chronicle .
In order to remove any apprehension which may exist in the public mind that the opening of the Crystal Palate will be delayed beyond the originally appointed day , a notice was posted at the building yesterday , stating tiiat one c : f the latest resolutions upon which the Commissioners had determined was , that the Exhibition should positively be opened on the 1 st of May , aa originally announced . From various parts of the kingdom we continue to receive accounts of the election of delegates to the Chartist Convention , which meets in London on the , ' 51 st instant . At Dundee a meeting was held for the purpose on Wednesday evening , when Mr . J . Graham was unanimously appointed delegate from that town .
expenditure . An these ilopiMHlene . ieH were now endowed with the incaiiHof Hell-government , they might be called on to provide for their own protection . Lord John Rknmi : m , deprecated the proposal of reduction to he . effected upon the forces now on service in North America , tho total number of which was a littlo over 8000 men . On a division only 47 voted for tho amendment , and 180 against it . After hohui remonstrances against proceeding with money voUih at ho Into an hour , l , or < l John RushoII agreed to Htop , on condition that the committee of tmppl y hhould tuko precedence of other Ihihiiu-hh on Monday . This wiih agreed to after Nome demur from Mr . AnnKiu . KV , and tho House ; rotoc ; at ; half-past , one . 1 ' rineo Albert ; presided yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for promoting and encouraging the line arts in the rebuilding the Palnoo of Westminster .
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A file of the h < dal Witness , with dates to January 17 , has been received . The outbreak of war at the Capo colony was known at . Nata | on the l (> th , and great anxiety was felt as to the probable influence of that event on the new settlement . The local authorities have not issued any notice on the subject . Mr . Shepstone , it wan stated , had issued orders to the natives to be in readiness to accompany him—to the number of ' 20 , 000—into the old colony . Many of the servants at d'Urban had left their places with u view of joining tho commando , and the projected route laid down was through l '' uku \ s territory . The natives appear to be willing for the work , and it . wus expected that a body of 20 , 000 strong , coming in the rear of the Kafirs who were ; attacking the old settlementH , would bo followed b y desirable effects . Tho Swiss journals of the 2 /> th contain but few additional details on the affair of 1 , 'Viburg . On the insurgents were found the list of n provisional ( Government charged to draw up a new constitution and a decree for estnbli « Uing ii oourt-niartial with absolute power . There was also found ii proclamation announcing the dissolution of tho present Government , the ( limuinHal of all functionarien , Sic . The lie trim di > ( ianvnn states that , eight or nine peasants were killed in the attempted inHtirrection , and that Canard , tho leader , umJ many more of the inaurgenta were taken prisoners . The Council of Stato hud declared the town in a state of siege . Neither tho townsmen nor the country people at tho market allowed any sympathy with the movement .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 5, 1851, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05041851/page/9/
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