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4 June 6,1857.] THE LEADER, 537
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? WbM ^ nTdecfc played the Russian National Anthem . Sfe Royal Tacht Squadron battery at Cowes also « 1 ated as the Osboroe passed , and , soon after , her M ^ estv ' s Ship Eurydice , which was at anchor near naborne paid the same compliment . The yacht arrived ff Osbo ' rne at five-and-twenty minutes past one , p . m . " ? . ° tain the Hon . Joseph Denman pilt off in the Queen's Wee . and landed his Highness on the beach , where a cuar of honour of the 93 rd Highlanders , under Captain Middleton , was drawn up . Carriages were ready on the beach to convey the party to Osborne House . The Queen the Princesses , the Duchess of Kent , the Duke of C ambridge , and the Earl of Clarendon , were waiting at the hall door to receive the visitor . Lord Palmerston was present at dinner . On Sunday , the royal yacht Victoria and Albert , with the Queen and Prince Albert and their visitor on board , together with the Duke _ of Cambridge , took a trip out to sea , passing and repassing Spithead . A stiff breeze prevented a sail round the Isle of Wight , and the yacht therefore returned to Osborne . In the evening , the Grand Duke and suite re-embarked , and slept on board . They departed on the following morning . —On Thursday , the Court returned to London . The Duke of Cambridge at Birmingham . —The new park on the south side of Birmingham was inaugurated on Monday by the Duke of Cambridge . The ground has been munificently presented by Lord Calthorpe , from whom the park will be named . Monday was observed as a general holiday , and the town was decorated with streamers and various devices expressive of the good feeling of the people towards his Royal Highness . The Duke arrived about noon , and was received by the Mayor , the Earl of Shaftesbury , Lord Calthorpe , Sir Harry Smith , the Bishop of Worcester , & c . He was escorted to the Town Hall , and was cordially greeted by the crowds which lined the way . On arriving at the building , the party lunched , and an address was presented to the Duke , to which he replied in the usual terms . Some other addresses—including one from the council of the Midland Institute , and another from the military arms trade of Birmingham—were then presented ; the National Anthem was sung ; and the Duke , together with the other noblemen and gentlemen , started for the park . The route was two miles in length ; and the greatest enthusiasm was manifested all the way . Between sixty and seventy thousand persons had gathered in the grounds , where a salute was fired by a company of artillery as the Duke entered . The difficulty of finding a tangible ceremomy by which to mark the inauguration was got over by his Royal Highness , Lord Calthorpe , and the Mayor , each planting a small tree . The Duke then announced that the park was opened for the use of the populace . His Royal Highness proceeded direct to Wydrington , the residence of the Mayor . In the evening , the Duke was entertained by the Mayor at a magnificent banquet at Dee ' s Hotel , where two hundred and twenty guests sat down to dinner . The Mayor also gave a free concert in the evening at the Town Hall , and a free ball took place at the Music Hall . The entire expenses of all these entertainments were defrayed by the Mayor himself . im
Interference of Peers at Elections . —An - portant petition is to be presented to the House of Commons by Mr . Roebuck from certain electors of West Norfolk , praying for an inquiry into an nllcged interference in the late election for the * division by the Earl of Leicoster , Lord-Lieutenant of the county , Lord Hastings , Lord Sondes , and Lord Walsingham . The Presidency of Madras . —Papers relating to the revised survey and assessment of the Madras Presidency and on the Godavery and Kistna Annicuts wore published last Saturday , on the motion of Mr . Seymour , M . P . The court of directors consider that the urgent necessity for a survey , with a view to the reassessment of the land revenue in the greater portion of the districts under the Madras Presidency , is established beyond all doubt ; and they proceed to review the proposals of Lord Harris and to state their approval or disapproval hereof . In conclusion , they express their entire satisfaction with the liberal and enlightened spirit in which this importtant subject has boon discussed , and with the able and lucid manner in which the conclusions and recommendations of Lord Harris have been placed boforo them . The second letter of the directors refers to the Kistnu and Godavery Annicuts . — Times . Civil Survicis Superannuation . — Tho commissioners appointed to inquire into tho operation of the Superannuation Act , and to consider the complaints of the civil servants of tho Crown , have presontod their report to the Treasury , and it was issued last Saturday in a bluo-book for presentation to Parliament . They have come to thoso conclusions : —" That retiring allowances ( should be continued upon tho same principle as heretofore . That tho salaries of tho civil servants should bo really what they nominally purport to be , without abatement from that amount . That tho deductions established by tho Act of 1884 should theroforo coaso in all cases to which they have been applied , and that those salaries whioh have been subjected to deductions should bo raised to their nominal amount . That tho ago at whioh retiring allowances may bo grunted shall coinmonco at sixty instead of sixty-five , and that retirement from tho Borvice shall bo compulsory at tho latter ago . " Mr . Gnohau Hudson , M . P . —A requisition , signed
by upwards of one hundred tradesmen and others at Whitby , Yorkshire , was forwarded last week to Mr . George Hudson , M . P ., inviting him to a dinner at the Royal Hotel at that town , "in consideration of the great services he had rendered to the town and trade of Whitby . " Mr . Hudson replied , expressing his regret that he felt compelled to deny himself the great pleasure of accepting the invitation . : The Discoverer of the Collodion Photographic Process . —The Queen having been informed that Mr . Scott Archer , the discoverer of the application of collodion to photography ( a process which has superseded all others ) had died , leaving a young family unprovided for , has headed a subscription by a gift of twenty guineas . The Photographic Society of London have followed with a grant of 50 / ., and a very handsome testimonial is expected to be raised . The committeeroom is at 226 , Regent-street , and Sir William Newton , R . A ., has undertaken the office of treasurer . Fire at the Atlantic Cable Factort . —The portion of the Atlantic submarine cable waiting for shipment at the works of Messrs . Glass , Elliott , and Co ., at East Greenwich , where it was manufactured , narrowly escaped destruction last Saturday morning through the outbreak of a fire in one of the bending sheds connected with the factory . It was occasioned by a boy dropping a piece of lighted yarn into the shed where he had gone to look after some lost article . The cable , which was in the docks , was not touched , though for some time it was in danger . The West Indies . —Very little news is furnished by the last West India mails . The islands are generally healthy ( though yellow fever has appeared at St . Thomas ' s ) and the crops in excellent condition . Shocks of earthquake were felt on the 30 th of April and the 10 th of May at Grenada and Jamaica . Trade for the most part was active .
The Crumlin Viaduct was formally opened on Monday in the presence of several engineers and an immense assemblage of spectators from various parts of the country and from London , various special trains bringing a host of sight-seers . The viaduct , by far the largest in the world has been erected , ( says the daily papers ) for the purpose of extending the Newport , Abergavenny , and Hereford line to Taff Vale , thus opening means of communication between the rich mineral districts of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire . Its height is 200 " feet ( that of the Monument in London , it will be remembered , is 204 ) , and beneath runs the Western Valley line of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company . It is almost exclusively constructed of iron . The centre piers consist of an arrangement of 140 cast-iron columns , each 17 feet long and 12 inches in diameter , p laced in tiers of fourteen columns each . The heads of the columns nre retained in their positions by cast-iron girders , and the area of base is 60 feet by 30 feet , forming an irregular decagon , tapering upwards 24 feet by 16 feet , the whole being laterally and vertically strengthened by a complete system of cross-bracing . The first column was fixed in December , 1853 , by Lady Isabella Fitzmaurice . A Conservative Banquet . —The Duke of Cleveland presided at a Conservative dinner at Darlington on Monday , given by Mr . Farrer , the late member for South Durham . About four hundred and fifty electors were present . In the course of a speech which he- delivered after dinner , tho chairman said that having , during the fortyfive years he had been a member of the Upper and Lower Houses , studied tho parliamentary history of his country , he could state as tho result of his experience , that , looking at counties ( which oven before tho Reform Bill of 1832 were always largo constituencies ) , it has almost invariably happened that , where different opinions have boon nearly balanced , tho constituents have aeknow- lodged that one party should have one member and tho j other the other . If tho minority , however , should bo so j small aa only one-fifth , then I think tho four-fifths have a right to return both members . Tho numbers , however , were very nearly balanced at tho laat election for this county , and I say that 2000 men are unrepresented at ; this moment . But one thing is quito certain—before another election wo shall have a new Reform Bill . What I have not seen I can givo no opinion about , but I shall bo prepared in my place in Parliament , whenever that bill conies boforo us , to givo it that serious attention which tho subject will deserve , and to assist in making such corrections as tho honourable members of the House of Commons now present will oxcuse mo for saying are sometimes necessary in bills that come from that Houao . ( ' J / car , ' and faity / itcr . ) Ho hoped that small constituencies , which are a disgraco to the country , will bo done away with , and their members givon to larger bodies of persons . Ho would enlarges tho franohi « o in counties , giving it to ppraons having CO / , a year , no matter from what source , and to won of education . But ho hoped to God ' it would never bo given to tho renters of 10 / . houses . " Rely upon my words , if that is once done , tho landed interest in ovory county in England is extinguished for ovor . Upon what principle ) , lot mo aflk , is jtho journeyman mason or carpenter , who resides in one town in one county this year , and in another county next yoar—who has no pormanont residence or stake in any county—upon what principle is ho to claim a county vote ? " 1 Mb Graco thon proceeded : " Lord John Kuusol ) , aeoing tho hurUahin of U 000 out of
6000 ( for example ) monopolizing the whole representa- ' tion by split votes , indicated a way in which this could be obviated . The only way—and , though it was not his own proposition , he hoped it would be adoptedwas to allow electors in counties returning three members to give only two votes . In Berks , Herts , and other counties , it had before iiow happened that , by coalescing , three agricultural candidates had kept out their opponent—call him Whig ,. Radical , or what you will . " In ' some subsequent remarks , the Duke insisted that Conservatism is not dead , though old Toryism is ; and Lord A . Vane Tempest and Mr . Mowbray , M . P ., followed in the same strain , upbrading the Whigs for their lavish expenditure and their oligarchical rule . The late Double Return for Huntingdonshire . — The petition presented by Mr . Edward Fellowes against the return of Mr . John Moyer Heathcote for Huntingdonshire , recites some singular facts . It alleges—i . That many persons voted in the election twice for Heathcote , and that both such votes were reckoned in casting up the poll . 2 . That persons voted in the wrong booths . 3 . That many votes recorded in favour of the petitioner were struck out by the returning officer or his deputy , and were omitted to be cast up with the petitioner ' s other votes . 4 . That many voters were reckoned on the poll in favour of Mr . Heathcote who did not , in fact , vote for him , but who were personated and fraudulently represented by other persons ; and that many persons who had no right to vote in the election personated other electors or deceased electors , such votes being reckoned in favour of Mr . Heathcote . 5 . That the votes of many persons who were not upon ( or who ought not to have been upon ) the register of electors were reckoned in favour of Mr . Heathcote . 6 . That many persons' votes were reckoned in favour of Mr . Heathcote , whereas they voted for the petitioner ; and that others were reckoned as having voted for Mr . Rust and Mr . Heathcote , whereas , in fact , they voted for Mr . Rust and the petitioner . 7 . That persons voted for Mr . Heathcote whose names were erroneously retained upon the register by the unintentional mistake of the revising barrister . 8 . That many persons' votes were reckoned in favour of Mr . Heathcote whose names were upon the register , but who were disqualified by legal incapacity from voting at the election . 9 . That . many persons voted in favour of Mr . Heathcote in respect of property of which they were only mortgagees or trustees . 10 . That many persons voted in favour of Mr . Heathcote in respect of qualifications not in the county of Huntingdon . 11 . That several persons voted , and their votes were reckoned in favour of Mr . Heathcote , in respect of one and the same identical qualification . 12 . That the petitioner had a majority of legal votes . A cross petition has been presented on behalf of Mr . Heathcote . Open-air Preachino has been commenced by the Rev . Francis Trench in the picturesque old village of Islip , near Oxford . A large assemblage now meets each Sunday evening under the ' Cross Tree . ' The Duke of Norfolk , has just presented a contribution of 100 / . to the Associate Institution for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women .
: : The Police in Liverpool , —The Liverpool lown Council has unanimously decided on an increase of the police force . Alderman Samuel Holme said it was proved by statistics that the immorality in Liverpool is greater in proportion to population than that of London . Flower Shows . —The first flower and fruit show at the Crystal Palace this season took place last Saturday . The attendance was large and brilliant , and so were the flowers and fruit . Upwards of 900 / . was distributed in I prizes . Some 13 , 000 visitors were present ; nnd over the glowing richness of the flowers and the ladies' dresses rolled tho sonorous music of tho bands of the Coldstream Guards and tho Royal Artillery , and of tho building itself , varied by a performance by Mr . Brownsmith on tho organ now in course of erection in tho transept for tho coming Handel Festival . A display of the great fountains concluded the day . —The annual spring flower show of tho Horticultural Society was held on Wednesday at Chiawick . Hunk and fashion crowded the grounds * , and formed , together with tho bright and flaunting buds round wliioh they clustered like gigantic beos , a gorgeous picture . Unfortunately , tho sky was clouded , and ovory now and then a little rain fell ; but thouhowwas very s ' ueeoasful , and the gardens , with their musses of flowering trees , their eoft turf , and tho young Hummer green of their foliage , looked most beautiful . Tho bands of tho Grenadier , Coldstreum , and Life Guards wero in attendance , nnd , towards the close of tho day fraternized in one Btorm of harmony . Guano is thought to have been discovered on tho southern coast of tho island of Cuba . A Truly Bisaiubu Child . —Some huntsmen wero following tho chaise , in the yoar 1001 , in tho forest of Lithuania , Poland , when thoy perceived a groat many boars together , and in tho miilttt of them two of small aizo , which exhibited some aulnity to tho human sbapo . The men followed closely , and ut length capturedI one of thoso strange creatures , though it defended itsolf witn its nails and teo ^ h . it appeared td bo . about nine years old , and of course was tnkon boforo tho klnff and < l"Gon , as a sight worthy of tho royal g . i « o . The « l « JV'J ™ wero extremely white , tho limb * wull-proportioi od and ' strong , tho viaago fair , and tho oyoa blue , but the
4 June 6,1857.] The Leader, 537
4 June 6 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER , 537
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06061857/page/9/
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