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June 6,1857.1 THE LEADER. . 531
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THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER. How Mr. Bertolac...
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. Early on th...
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GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL. Crystal Palace, 1...
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Imperial Parliament. —*—Thursday, June 4...
allotted to the department showed the confidence its admini stration ha d inspired in the Legislature . Blr . Bass regretted that the Board of Trade -was not empowered to collect statistical returns respecting agricultural produce . —Mr . Bentinck , Sir George Pe-CHELi' , Mr . Baxter , and Mr . Ewakt , supported the motion , which was opposed by Mr . ' Hadfield . —Mr . Horsfall having briefly replied , the motion was negatived without a division .
THE COXDITIOX OF THE WORKING CLASSES . Mr . StAKEY , ia moving for the appointment of a st anding committee , or unpaid commission , to consider and report from time to time on practical suggestions to mve facilities for the improvement in the social condition of the working classes , referred to the changes which had recentlv taken place in the circumstances of those classes , as laving a foundation for the motion . These changes he attributed to three causes : —first , the subdivision of trades and of labour ; secondly , the application of steam power to all our great manufactures ; and thirdly , the Railway system . —Sir George Grey , while warmly recognising the benevolent intentions of Mr . Slaney , thoug ht his suggestion would lead to no practical result . The motion was then withdrawn .
THE BEER ACTS . The House having resolved itself into a committee on the various Beer Acts , Mr . Atiierton moved that the Chairman be instructed to move for leave to bring in a bill to explain and amend the Act to regulate the granting of licenses to keepers of inns , alehouses , and victualling houses in England . The- object was to make it plain that , in boroughs in England having separate Commissions of the Peace and not separate Courts of Quarter Sessions , the borough justices are to have the licensing authority . —Leave was given .
"WIVES REVERSIONARY INTERESTS . Mr . Mallns moved for leave to bring in a bill to enable married women to dispose of reversionary interests in personal estate , as they are now enabled to do with regard to reversionary interests in fret-hold estate . The Attorney-General stated that the bill was intended to remove an anomaly which had been introduced into the law by a decision of the courts . —Leave was given .
D ITCHY OF LANCASTER . Mr . CoNtNGiiAM- moved for a select committee to inquire into the statements set forth in a petition from Mr . F . R . Bertolacci , praying for an inquiry into the proceedings of certain functionaries of the Duchy of Lancaster , in preventing him from exercising the rights , powers , and privileges of the office of auditor of the duchy , and in superseding him by a near connexion of the lleceiver-General in auditing that officer ' s accounts , such
committee to consist of five members to be appointed by the General Committee of Elections . —Lord Cavendish seconded the motion , because he was convinced the investigation would prove the falsity of the charges in the petition against four individuals , one of whom ( Earl Granville ) was his relative . —The motion was agreed to . The Princkss Royal's Annuity Bill , and the Ministers' Money ( Irisland ) Bill , were respectively read a third time , and passed . The House adjourned at half-past twelve o'clock .
June 6,1857.1 The Leader. . 531
June 6 , 1857 . 1 THE LEADER . . 531
The Duchy Of Lancaster. How Mr. Bertolac...
THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER . How Mr . Bertolacci got tiiic Aitointment of Auditou of the Duchy . We reproduce tho subjoined from the Times' report of a conversation in the House of Commons on the 15 th of December , 1854 : — Mr . Wise , seeing the right hon . gentleman the member for Nottingham in hid place , would venture to put a quoiitiou to him with reference to an appointment to what had hitherto been considered a sinecure office . Ho wished to know what wore tho circumstances under which tho appointment of Sir . Bertolacci to the Office of Auditor of tho Duchy of Lancaster took place ? Mr , Strutt suiil lie was very glad to bo able to give tho hon . member tho information ho desired , tho more
oapeoially , aa there had been an erroneous impression that the appointment was altogether of a sinecure character . When ho hold the otlico of Chancellor of tho Duchy of Lancaster , his attention was directed to tho state of tho accounts of tho Duchy , which , although kept with perfect accuracy , wore not kopt in accordance with a system which nllordod that clear , intolligiblo , uml full information which such accounts ought to give when laid before Parliament . Being , therefore , most anxious that thoso accounts should bo placod before tho country in an improved condition , tho gontlomau to whom ho most naturally looked to effect this object was
tho person who hold tho olHoo of Auditor of tho Duchy , which at that time van held by tho luto Mr . Lockhart . Nothing oould bo further from his ( Mr . Slrutt ' s ) intention than to disparage tho memory of that gentleman , tvuq was a man distinguished in literature , boiny originall y appointed in uonauqueuc-o of his literary oralnonco , and who porformod his duties with jwnctuality and ability ; but it would bo perfectly obvious that « eontloman who , throughout tho whole of his llfo , was dovotod to tho puruult of lttoraturo coulil not bo expected to bo perfectly conversant with public account * , nud it would bo unfair to consider him to bo ao . Whoa Mr .
Lockhart resigned the office , he determined to take the opportunity of carrying out his views of reforming the manner in which the accounts wero kept , and it appeared to him that the duty of this office , not laborious in itself , might bo performed by some gentleman holding another official appointment , and that he could not do better than follow the example set with great advantage in' the Duchy of Cornwall , where a gentleman had been appointed Auditor who had great experience in public accounts , and who held another office in the Service . He therefore applied to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to recommend him some gentleman well qualified for the appointment , then filling some public office , whose vocations would allow him to undertake the duties of
this also ; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , after making inquiries , recommended Mr . Bertolacci , a gentleman filling a position under the Board of Ordnance , as a person well qualified in every respect for the appointment . The right honourable gentleman had informed him that Mr . Bertolacci had had great experience in the public accounts , and had already done much service in disentangling them , and was a gentleman of strict integrity and the highest character . He had also consulted those gentlemen under whom Mr . Bertolacci had more immediately served in Government departments , and they all concurrred in giving him the highest
character , and testifying as to his fitness for the vacant office . (/ Tear , hear . ) Under those circumstances he made the appointment , not , however , at the previous salary of 400 £ . a year , but at the reduced stipend of 200 Z ., which he considered a fair remuneration for the services performed . ( Ilear , hear . ") He would only add that he had no personal acquaintance with Mr . Bertolacci whatever , and he believed it was not until he was recommended to him by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , that he had ever heard his name . ( Cheers . ") Ilia only object in making the appointment was to secure efficiency and economy in the conduct of that department of the service . ( Cheers . )
Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Early On Th...
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Early on the morning of last Saturday , several persons ? supposed to be not less than fourteen in number , lost their lives on the sands near Ulverstone , Lancashire , by being carried away by the rising tide , while in a state of intoxication . On the previous night , a number of young men , living at various places at the iHverstone end of the sands , left Kent ' s Bank for the purpose of being present at the Whitsuntide hirings at Lancaster on Saturday . Previous to starting , they spent some time chinking at the Kent ' s Bank Hotel , and afterwards set out for their place of destination in two light onehorse carts . They were then all more or less intoxicated . In the morning , some men walking on the sands that skirt Morecainbc Bay , observed at Hest Bank , about three
miles from Lancaster , several hats , boxes , and other articles , floating on the sea . This circumstance exciting apprehension , they immediately put off in boats , and recovered the things which they had seen in the water . They then went a little further out to sea , and presently discovered the lifeless bodies of eight men floating on the surface closely together . They were brought on shore , and in tho course of the day wore recogniBed by their relatives and friends . One of the carts in which the party had started on the previous night , with the horse harnessed to it , quite dead , was likewise discovered simultaneously with the bodies of the men . Two more bodies have since been washed ashore . Tho accident is thought to have resulted from an attempt to make a abort cut across the sands , which the party in their drunken state could not effect .
Three miners at Now Backworth , Northumberland , mot with a fearful death on the morning of Wednesday week . They woro coming up tho shaft in a corf with another workman , who , on reaching the pit ' s mouth , stopped out . Immediately afterwards , tho hook of tho corf , which had not been properly fastened to the rope , slipped , and tha three who romained in the basket were thrown to tho bottom and dashed to pieces . Their agea wore , respectively , sixteen , eighteen , and twenty . A verdict of ' Chance Medley' ( says the JLdvei' pool Albion ) wns returned , at an inquest hold on Thursday week , before tho Borough coroner , on the body of Edward Jamos Smethurst , aged sixteen months , who had
died tit its parents house , Circus-street , in consequence of an overdose of nn opiate popularly known ue ' quietuoss , ' incautiously administered by its mother . She has had six chililrou , all of whom havo died before attaining tho aga of tho docoascd , and sho had been in the habit of giving tho doccosad tho sumo medicine sinoo its birth . Philip Page , a guard on one of tho trains from ITounslow to London on tho South-Western Railway , fell on to tho lino last Sunday evening while in tho not ,
aa it id supposed , of mounting on to tho roof of tho enrriagos to cloao ono of tho doors . Tho train must havo passed ovor him , aa hia ( load body was found eomo time afterwards pn the line . —On tho eamo evening , n fatal iiccidunt occurred at tho Shoroditch terminus of the ICastern Conntios station . Uoforo a train which was running into tho station had quite utoppod , ayoungman utoppoil from ono of tho carriages , slipp 6 d , and fell botweon tho train and tho platform , against which ho wa « sjo ( severely orunhod that ho died on Monday morning . A flro broke out in tho housu , No . 18 , Upper Manaliulri-plnce , Kontiah-town , on Tuesday evening . A poor
woman named Warner , who works at an adjacent laundry , had left her youngest child in bed in a room on the ground floor . The eldest boy , who was entrusted with the care of the rest , went with them into the fields ; and it is probable that the child got out of bed and began to play with some lucifer matches . When the fire was discovered the poor child was burnt to a cinder . Nothing but the walls were left standing , and great damage was done to the surrounding property . An adder entered the house of Charles Beviss , gamekeeper to G . F . W . Miles , Esq ., of Ford Abbey , near Chard , a few days ago , when his child , about fourteen months old , on seeing it , attempted to take it as a plaything . The creature bit the child ' s hand and arm m two places , and the little sufferer , after enduring great agony , died on the following morning . The adder was killed by the child ' s father .
Mr . H . G . Bonn , the publisher , vras being driven in a cab one day last week over Waterloo-bridge , when the vehicle came into collision with another cab going-in tie same direction . The driver of the latter was thrown off his seat , and was so much hurt that he was taken to the hospital , where he died . Mr . Bohn attributed the accident to one of the toll-gates being closed . An inquest was held on Monday at Ince on the bodies of seven of the men killed by the , late pit accident there . The jury , after deliberating for about half an hour , arrived at the unanimous verdict , " That the deceased met their deaths accidentally in a coal mine by an explosion of gas , but how that explosion originated there was not evidence to show ; " and they recommended the use of safety-lamps in place of candles in the Hindley mine in future .
An infant at Worcester has met with a fearful death . The mother was in the habit of making , in the case of her children , an external application of white lead , in the shape of a powder . Some days ago , she sent for a quantity of this powder to the shop of a druggist named Stringer , and applied it to the child ' s "body . Excessive irritation of the skin resulted . Some more was sent fbr . Mr . Stringer himself this time supplying it from the same drawer from which the previous quantity was taken by an apprentice . The irritating effects continued to increase ; a wound formed , and the child who was about six weeks old , died in dreadful pain . It was afterwards discovered that the powder was arsenic , which , externally applied , has a corroding effect . The poor infant had in fact died of a slow burning , and must have
suffered fearfully . The drawer had been filled for some weeks with the " irritant poison . Mr . Stringer keeps his drugs in a cellar , to which his apprentices have access . The arsenic in bulk and the white lead were kept in barrels of somewhat similar appearance . Some weeks ago , Mr . Stringer ' s youngest apprentice , who had not been in the business four months , seeing the white lead drawer empty , filled it with arsenic from the barrel in the cellar , mistaking it for white lead . The boy states that there was no label ' Arsenic' on the barrel , but this Mr . Stringer contradicts . The coroner , in summing up , said that no legal blame could attach to Mr . Stringer , and the jury returned a verdict of ' Accidental death , ' but at the same time added an expression of their opinion that due care had not been exercised in the management of Mr . Stringer ' s shop .
A workman , named Lewis , went under a platform at the Woolwich railway station , and lighted a fire for the purpose of cooking some meat in a frying-pan , which required cleaning . To effect this , ho poured into it the contents of a bottle supposed to contain water , but which proved to bo turpentine . The flames soon reached Other materials , and'terribly injured the poor fellow .
Great Handel Festival. Crystal Palace, 1...
GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL . Crystal Palace , 1857 . —This , the greatest musical congress over assembled , owes ita existence to the anxiety of the Sacred Harmonic Society to promote by their example the commemoration , in 1869 , of the Centenary of Handel ' s death in such , a manner as would be alike worthy of tho great mastor , and of the widely diffused musical knowledge of tlie prosent day . In carrying out this object , it was found that the central transept of the Crystal Palaoe otfbrod a local for this display far beyond any other existing building . Tho space appropriated to tho orchestra alone occupies a clear area of 108 foot width by 90 depth . This extent exceeds the entire capacity of any other muete-haH in this country , and has tho additional advantage of great height and of ample moans of approach and for general arrangomonts . The orchestra , which has boon constructed in n somewhat flattened curve , rises from the
floor at a front elevation of 8 foot , and ia from thence continued in a norios of 3 emi < jir < jular steps varying from 10 to 15 Inohe 3 each to a total height of -17 foot . Those riHes are 84 in nunabor , of whian 11 ore appropriated to tho band , and tho remaining 28 to tho uhorus . Ample space has been given to the orchestra , tho violins having 15 square foet , and tho double basaeu and violoncellos 24 square foet for each desk . Tho chorus are all plaood on raised benches , ouch individual b « vloff ill inches in width , by DO inches in depth . When it is remomborod that tho usual allowance In ohnroJiea w oniy 10 inches- for each poreon , It will bo aeon H" > ij the « on * vonlonco of tho performers lino boon woll * %£ *** * ° - Tho balance and disposition of tha •»« ln ( lI " ^ "f ^ received much munition from Mr . Costa . Ihe bond
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06061857/page/3/
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