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1179 THE LEADER. [No. 350, Saturday ,
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1179 The Leader. [No. 350, Saturday ,
1179 THE LEADER . [ No . 350 , Saturday ,
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ad , ir „ n M » . 1 t y i £ i | THE POST-OFFICE DIRECTORY . I \ The Post-ojpee London Directory for 1857 . Kelly and Co . I I As usual , the Post-office Directory reappears ( for the fifty-seventh time ) with I I material improvements . Important arrangements have been introduced for I I dividincr London into ten postal districts , persons addressing letters for 1 London and its neighbourhood being l-equested to add to the direction tbe I initials of the postal districts in which their correspondents reside . This may be easily done by following a simple plan simply explained by the Editor . The alterations rendered necessary by the great increase in the number of Post-office Order-offices have also been conspicuously noted , as well as the reduction on French postage , coming into operation on New-Year ' s-day . As one instance of the lateness of the corrections , we maymention that the appointment of the Chairman of the Inland Revenue 1 Board is recorded in the Official Directory . Ia every way , indeed , l the reputation of the worlc is maiatained . It is an indispensable volume of reference for every commercial man . Indeed , tlic London . Post-office Directory I > is a publication which must be useful to every one , and to which every one I 3 should , at least , have easy and immediate access . ¦ h » I ¦ _ ' ' — ' ¦¦— - - — ---.- -. _ ~ — - ' . ^
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The Case Of Swtsfen ». Swtsfen.—Further ...
The Case of Swtsfen » . Swtsfen . —Further argu- ments , to a -very great length , have been heard in this appeal case in the Court of Common Pleas , with xefe- reace to the alleged misconduct of Sir Frederick Thesiger and other counsel , to which we alluded last week . Mr . Kennedy again characterized that conduct in very strong language , and asserted that Sir Frederick , in order to coerce Mrs . Swynfen into accepting the arrange- ment he had made in her name , but against her consent , had had " the audacity " to assert that he had been in- formed in high quarters that tlie case would go against her . Counsel appeared on the other hand in defence of the arrangement that had been come to , and asserted tkat it ia quite legal for counsel to come to terms on their own authority . Mr . Justice Cresswell said the Court would deliver judgment on the first day of next term . In the course of his several addresses , Mr . Ken nedy accused Sir Frederick of being no gentleman , of "bullying everybody , of uttering falsehoods , and of bein guilty of joining in a foul conspiracy and a contemptible juggle . The judges found it necessary to check this in temperance of language . The Main Dkahtage Sckeme . — The Metropolitan Board of Works , on Tuesday , proceeded to consider the report of the deputation to Sir Benjamin Hall ; also , r eport made fcy Mr . Bazalgette , the engineer of the Board , upon an extension of the drainage outfalls north and Bouth of the river , and adopted by the Board on the 22 nd October ; likewise the points suggested in Cap tain Burstall ' s letter to the Chief Commissioner , and ap proved of by him . The engineer described in his report the nature of the works required for carrying out tho plan approved of by the C hief Commissioner , and stated that the total estimate for tho Metropolitan drainage , . thereby designed , would bo 2 , 880 , 000 / . It was pro posed by Mr . Leslie , and seconded by Mr . Dennes , th the report of the engineer should be rejected ; but t proposal was negatived by a . majority of 17 against The further consideration of the question was postponed to next Tuesday . —On Thursday afternoon , at three o ' clock , a deputation from the Metropolitan Board of Works waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer Cwho wan accompanied by Six Bonjamin Hall , the First Commissioner of Works ) , at hla official residence in m
^' " * «? ll 8 t m v ' P ™ t ] P y 9 - * ^ g - ' ' , a I ] - - as . - at ho 4 . Downing-street . Their object was to discuss the financial fcearings of the drainage scheme . Mr . Ihwaites , the chairman , said that he had made a calculation W , if the Government enabled them to borrow four millions sterling , to be raised by four annual payments ot ^ one million , by spreading the charge over a period ot liity years , then taking the present ratable value of the property in the metropolis , which was increasing annually , at 11 , 450 , 00 OZ ., the rate for the area which was subject to their taxation would be 3 5-8 ths pence in the pound , which would entirely repay the interest and principal of the sum required for these works in Mty years . The Chancellor of the Exchequer said the question was one for Parliament , and that he would consider the matter during the recess . _ Lord Lucan ani > the " Daily News" —The threatened action against the proprietors of the Daily News for an alleged libel on Lord Lucan in connexion with the late " war was tried in the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday , and terminated in a verdict for the defendants , the announcement of which caused a burst of cheering from tho persons present . Sir Frederick Ihesiger was the counsel for his lordship ; and , in the midst ^ of his -wailings over the liberty of the press , and ita al-° leged « licence , ' lie observed , apparently with Bomo reft gret , that " there is no power to check ita progress—I no public censor . " In tie course of his cross-examination ' tho Earl was obliged to confess to his discreditable squabblings with Lord Raglan , his superior , and Lord Cardigan , his subordinate ; and Mr . Edwin James , Q . O ., " who appeared for tho Daily -A ejo « , remarked , in the n course of his address , that had Lord Kaglan possessed ! the firmness of l the Tron Dulce , ' both Lord Lucan and [ a Lord Cardigan would have been broken for their con-It " sir Riohakd Betiieu ., the new Attorney-General , " having presented himself to liia Aylesbury constituents , 4 , a vote of confidence in him was passed without a dis-» , i sentient . ,
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THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES . 1 The Surrey has produced another of its ' dramas of breathless interest , ' I derived , as usual , from the French . It is called Birds of Prey , and has reference I to railway schemers , swindling bankers , assassin duellists and other gentry « f I thP same kind , who weave between them a rather complicated plot , and give I Mr Oreswick and the other members of the company plenty of opportunity ¦ for exhibiting all their energy and skill . The play concludes with another I repetition of the Corsican Brothers duel scene ( which appears to ^ have grown I into one of the settled conventions of the stage , predestined , probably , to a fifty I years ' existence ); and there is much crime and remorse for the edification of I ^ Ma ^' approval having been expressed by the critics of the Westminster I Bridge Road on the production at Astley ' s , a few months ago , of an cquestnaa I version of Jticfiard We Third , in whibh " white Surrey' ; ^ as ventably " saddled ¦ for the field " the manager has produced Macbeth in sirai ar wise . The equine ¦ spectacle ? or show of horseflesh , however , is confined to the warlike portions at I thrcommencementandendr and ^ acJer /^ W I horses abreast , nor does his wife jump through hoops and over scarfs to typ fy ¦ I er self-satisfied conception of that - ' vaulting ambition which ^ oerlcaps itself ,- I or tfexpSss , mystically and symbolically , the ease ^ atlrAv udi she ^^ : the obstacles placed by conscience in the way of her desires . ¦ ^ o , theres to ¦ m S ^ mB ^ m «^ «^ ^^ . ^ -jsssarffssi C ; x ' & szt ** t- * Beethoven ' s Ftdehov . as pertormea , a « n ^ Reiciiardt as ffi' ^ eCSS . ^ - ^ - ^ f :
Miom The London Gazette. Tuesday, Dectmh...
miOM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , Dectmhar 3 . BANKRUPTS . —Thomas I'bruy . High-street , Southwork confcctioaer-BDvrAUD Smith . iBfowortH . bakcr--Sitt Abams . Brighton , lacoman-XEoroiJD Rbupatji
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATH S . BIRTHS . . ,,. PEEL .-On tho 28 tli « lt ., at Goodwick . PcmbroUcslnxo . M SA A NT «^> r oOUi ult the wife - r JgSftK vasour Sandford ., Daq ., _ L . R . C . fc > ., Ij . s-a ,, vt light Infantry : a bon . Btillborn . MARRIAGE . nfNvnco Tal , ° ^ u ^ ^^& s % S «&»¦ 2 ^^ fi a ^^ j £ ^^^ ^ ^ HorotowUhlro . DBATIIB ^ . ^ Icnco , BEEOUEY .-On Saturday , the , JWtli ^ * J & Frcde-K' ^ BlS iTcS ^ S . B ^ VfflS-t of tUe W * g SBE ^ aSftr SJSSS & affie eSKed «
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1856, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06121856/page/20/
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