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Leader Office, Saturdoy, Juno G. LAST NI...
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HOUSE OF COMMONS. NEW MEMBERS. Mr. Keati...
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THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. The Siecle (says t...
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BELGIUM. A Brussels letter in tho Paris ...
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CIRCASSIA. Naib Emin, who has been sowin...
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Sunday Music in the Parks.—The People's ...
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• Louis XIV . — From the troubles of the Fronde rose Louis Quatorze , triumphant , not over feudalism only ,, but over parliaments and charters , and the evil and restless spirit of Protestant reform . How splendid was that dawn , with a nation full of life and hope , with all that military administrative and literary genius of Huguenots , Jansenists , old Frondeurs ! How tragic was that evening , with a famished and decimated people , loaded with all the crimes , stripped of all the glory and gain of conquest , with courtier generals , weak and corrupt ministers , desperate finance , genius levelled arid living faith exterminated by the jealous and persecuting pedantry of an omnipotent bigot ; and France , the France of Colbert , Turenne , and Pascal , already launched irredeemabl y on the dark and steep descent that led through the Regency and Louis Quinze to the Revolution ! Spain , too , saw her intractable Cortes prostrated under Charles V ., and stands a monument of that Imperial providence which could bring to atheism , vileness , and famine , a religious and chivalric people , lord of the riches of two worlds . How strong and grand a thing is despotism , if one evil despot , and he but half evil , can in his single lifetime kill a nation l ^ Frdser ' s Magazine . Magnetism in Rome . —A Roman citizen , named Giovanni Fabiani , has been committed to prison on a charge of being a magnetiser and a promoter of the diabolical art . Signor Fabiani had occupied himself with magnetism for his amusement , but he did not practise it as a profession . He invited his friends to witness his experiments , but he did not receive money . Suicide op a Postman .: —A man named George Smithers hanged himself at No . 16 , Bridport-street , Dorset-square , on Thursday morning . His wife discovered him suspended by a cord , which was attached to a nail of the cupboard door ; she cut him down . He had been many years employed in the General Post-office , and was in fear he should not receive a grant from the superannuation fund . He had tied his hands together previously to committing the act . The Lion in Two Characters . —Between the lion that has once eaten a man—once tasted the glory and ambrosial delight of man-beef—and the lion remotely ignorant of the flavour , there lies a chasm . Only in zoological text-books can the two animals be considered as of the same species . In profdunder characteristics , in the complexion of their souls , they differ as the Caucasian differs from the Hottentot . The lion who has once fed on man , carries with him an unforgetful experience ; he has supped with the gods , and Homeric rhythms murmur in his ears . Visions of that ecstatic hour hover before him in his lair , accompany his moonlight marches through the mountain gorge , thrill him with retrospective flavours as he laps the moonlit lake , and fill with a certain blissful torment all his leisure moments . These visions , like the afterglow of sunset on the Alps , tinge his mental horizon , and create a gustatory after-glow which warms his whole frame . Haunted by such recollections , tormented by the appetites they develop , his nature undergoes mysterious modifying influences ; new and grander ferocities are awakened , which , in turn , develop fiercer daring , and render him ten times more formidable to man . Hitherto he has wanted something of the daring commensurate with his strength ; He has always avoided personal combat with a European , when honourably the challenge could be ignored . But now the case is very different ; now , the scent of human blood thrills along every fibre ; arid when sight reveals the proximity of his noble foe , then flashes the tawny eye with sombre fire , the terriblo talons tear up the earth , ho dresses his mighty mane , and prepares for the fight in slow , solemn , concentrated wrath , clearly foreseeing that two issues , and only two , remain open for him—man-beef , or a tomb . —BlacktoooiVs Magazine Sale of the Garricic Theatre . —At the Auction Mart , on Thursday , Mr . Robins offered to public auction the leasehold property known as the Garrick Theatre , situated in Leman-stroet , Goodman ' s-fields , with the acenery , ( properties , and wardtobe . The property was built about two years ago , and affords accommodation for about 1 G 20 persons ; held for un unexpected term of 59 years , at a ground rent of 25 / . per annum , and the theatre is now at a rent of 520 / . por annum . Knoked down at 2950 / . The total cost of the property was stated to have been 6000 / .
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Leader Office , Saturdoy , Juno G . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . In this Houso , a bill was brought in by tho Lord Chancellor on tho subject of Roman Catholic Charities . Tho Princess Royal's Annuity Bill was brought up from tho Commons and road a first tlmo . A petition was presented by tho Earl of Alijemarltc , complaining of the working of tho Merchant Shipping Aot of 1864 , which produced a short discussion . The Probate and Letters of Administration Bill was road a third time and pussed , after some diacuaaion . Tho Houae adjourned at eight o ' clock .
House Of Commons. New Members. Mr. Keati...
HOUSE OF COMMONS . NEW MEMBERS . Mr . Keating , the new Solicitor-General ; Mr . Thos . Baring-, the new Lord of the Admiralty ; and Sir Edward Hayes , took the oaths and their seats for Reading , Penryn ' , and Donegal respectively . COWS IN HYDE PARK . ¦ In answer to Mr . KER Seymer , Sir Benjamin Haia . said he was informed by the deputy ranger of Hyde Park that cows were permitted in the park by the ranger , and the number was limited according to the state of the herbage , payment being made by the owners . Last year 474 / . 14 s . was received and carried to the public accounts . The object was to increase the supply of fresh milk to the metropolis . The only person allowed to keep cows gratis in the park was the superintendent , who kept five , and had done so for the last twenty-nine years , but if it was thought objectionable he would relinquish the privilege without asking for compensation . ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION . In answer to Lord Robert Cecil , Sir George Grey said he hoped to introduce a bill on the subject of the Ecclesiastical Commission in the course of next week . TROOPS AT THE CAPE . In answer to Major "Wortley , Sir John Ramsden said it was not possible at present to withdraw any of the regiments stationed at the Cape of Good Hope , although the time of foreign service of several of them had expired . EDUCATION . On the motion for the adjournment of the House to Monday , Sir John Pakington urged on Lord Palmerston to give him a Government day to bring on his motion on the subject of Education . BRAZIL . Mr . Roebuck asked for the production of papers relating to the communication between this country and Brazil on the subject * of the Slave Trade . ELECTION PETITIONS . Mr . Adderley drew attention to the abuse ¦ ¦ winch was made of the power of petitioning against the return of members to Parliament , which was often used for the purpose of what was called ' pairing petitions' of extorting money , or forcing on compromises with regard to seats , and hi publishing libellous attacks on sitting members . He had himself been subjected to such annoyances several times , and he urged the Government to adopt measures to remedy the evil . —Mr . G . H . Moore complained of advantage being taken of a petition against his return to publish the most scandalous personal attacks on him , which had been republislied and commented on in the newspapers , and even used by Mr . Spooner as an argument against the priests of Ireland in his motion against Maynooth . —Mr . Duncombe urged that the abuse of the power of petitioning against members' returns was well known at the beginning of the last Parliament , and no attempt had been made to remedy the evil , except by the passing of the Corrupt Practices at Elections Act , which had wholly failed in its object . —Mr . Spooner said he only referred to a document in the hands of all members of the House , when he commented on the petition against Mr . G . H . Moore ' s return . Lord Palmerston , in replying to all these questions , excused himself , in the present state of public business , from giving Sir John Pakington a Government day at present for his motion , but promised him one on a future occasion . All the papers relating to Brazil asked for by Mr . Roebuck were in a book in the library , and he would havo the number of the volume and the page marked and sent to the honourable member . With regard to tho abuse of election petitions , ho thought it was undosirablo to restrict the right of petitioning against members' returns ; but ho thought thoro were moans m the power of mombors to prevent any abuse of that right ; and tho House would support thorn in any attempts they made to put a stop to such a system as that of presenting these petitions merely for tho purpose of inducing compromises or extorting money . Lord John Russicll said that ho did not suppose that tho Corrupt Practices at Elections Act would put an end to bribery and corruption ; but tho operation of that net would bo fully tested during the trial of the Election Petitions during tho present session . TnHJ CASE OV JIB , STONOR . Lord John Russell called attention to tho case of Mr . Stonor , whoso appointment to a place in tho colonies had boon cancelled , and asked if ho was always to bo excluded from tho public service . Mr . LAnouoiiERic said that ho thought thoro was nothing in Mr . Stonor ' s conduct pormanontly to disqualify him from tho public service in England , but ho thought it would not bo dosirablo to give him any appointment in tho colonies . —Mr . Housman and Mr . Mauwb both urged that Mr . Stonor had done nothing sufficient to exclude him for ovor from tho public service . tjik sound dues . On tlio motion for going into committee to oonaldor tho redemption > fthoso Uuoh , Mr . Liddkll called attention to tho Transit Dues loviod on Danish railways ,
which should be included in the convention entered into with Denmark for the redemption of the Sound Dues . — The Chancellor op the Exchequer then at length entered into the history of the opposition to the Sound dues , and the negotiation for their redemption , which ended in the convention . by which Russia , Prussia , France , America , Belgium , and other states of Europe agreed to contribute a sum of money to redeem the Dues ; the share of this country would be 1 , 125 , 000 ? ., wMch it was not proposed to borrow , but , owing to the state of the balances on the Exchequer , it was proposed to pay it from that resource . A discussion followed , in which a number of members , principally those connected with trade and finance , took part—after which , a resolution granting the sum required was agreed to . The House then went into committee on the Army Estimates , which principally occupied the remainder of the sitting .
The French Elections. The Siecle (Says T...
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS . The Siecle ( says the London Globe ) publishes two rather curious letters exchanged between the Prefect of the Gironde and M . David , lately Deputy in the Legislative Body for the arrondisscment of Libourne , in that department . The Prefect ' s letter , dated the 24 th . ult ., stated that the Government is of opinion that it -will be right to support the candidateship of M . Armand , one of the most eminent men of the Gironde , and in the full force of his age ; and it accordingly requests M . David to " give a new proof of his devotedness ^ the Emperor and the country by generously abstaining from presenting himself as a candidate , and thereby causing division in the great party of the Imperial cause , which he has always firmly supported . " M . David , in his reply , dated the 26 th , declares that , " tax from giving up his candidateship , he will persist in it more firmly than ever ; " and that he " owes such a line of conduct to himself , and still more to his arrondissement , which revolts against the Prefect ' s pretensions of imposing on it a candidate vrtxo does not possess its sympathies . " He adds that he shall publish some letters relative to the affair , and among them one from the sub-prefect of Libourne , which states that , though he would communicate to him the lists of the electors , he would not allow him to take a copy of them , a declaration which , saya M . David , amounts to a restriction on universal suffrage , in opposition to the "just and liberal ideas of the Emperor . " The official notice given to the press of certain departments to abstain from discussing the electoral question has , according to the Phare de la Loire , been withdrawn . That journal says : — " The Presee -will no longer doubt the correctness of our assertions in reference to the notice addressed to the provincial press . This notice , as we had been led to expect by the circular of the Minister of the Interior , has now been officially withdrawn . "
Belgium. A Brussels Letter In Tho Paris ...
BELGIUM . A Brussels letter in tho Paris Presse says that at a Cabinet Council on Thursday it was resolved to withdraw the obnoxious Bill on Charities , and that two or three ministers tendered their resignations , which the King refused to accept . The Chambers will be couvoked again in a few weeks , but only to vote urgent measures , and after they are passed the session will be dosed . — The disturbances are not completely , though nearly , over .
Circassia. Naib Emin, Who Has Been Sowin...
CIRCASSIA . Naib Emin , who has been sowing dissension , and who refused to lend assistance to Safer Pacha , has beon expelled from Circassia .
Sunday Music In The Parks.—The People's ...
Sunday Music in the Parks . —The People ' s Subscription Band will perform in tho Regent ' s Park , on Sunday next , June 7 th , 1867 , from five till seven o ' clock ( weather permitting ) , and continue every Sunday until further notice . As the people ' s subscription band Bhould bo self-supporting , the committee trust that all persona attending tho performances will purchase a- prognamnae in evidence of their desire for a continuance of the Embezzlement ov upwards op 2000 J . —Information was issued by tho police yesterday moraine that Mr . John Gregory , wholesale and rotail oil merchant , of High-stroet , Borough , who has been declared iv bankrupt , has absconded with upwards of 2000 / . A reward of 100 / . is offered for his apprehension . The Fougrry Cask . —A reapeotablo-looking young man , named William SoholoiioUl , apprentice to a printer in Rathbono-placo , was brought up at Bow-streot , yesterday , charged with being concerned in the Into extensive forgery of cheques upon tho London and Westminster Bank . Ho ia one of two others already under I 0 Tct « mpted MuuDER .-Jolm Greenfield , » flJJJJ " gi-ocer , was charged at Marlboroug h-stroot , joatoraay , with attempting to cut l , h wHo ' a ' }»^ ' " J £ ™* intoxicated . Uo was sent , to prison fowl * month * .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06061857/page/11/
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