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Decembeb 6, 1856.] THE LEADER. 1157
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Decembeb 6 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 1157
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¦ | El Ti ing V 20 to E in this L and as ' STATE OF TRADE . ** The trade reports from the manufacturing towns for th „ . tveek ending last Saturday con tain nothing of importance * ^ h A . t Manchester , notwithstanding tie receipt of further ^ Favourable advices from India , the markets have been c j i ery inactive consequent upon the contraction caused by g ( the rates of discount . The Birmingham accounts de- j e scribe a tendency to firmness in the iron trade , which jj ; would be more apparent but for the underselling induced xi by the pressure for money . At Nottingham there has in been a moderate business in lace ; and in hosiery , owing y to the stocks being unprecedentedly light , a very active « 2 C spring demand is relied upon . In the woollen districts , to the operations have been to a full extent at firm prices , j £ and the Irish linen-markets are unaltered . — Times . j £ In the general business of the port of London during j n the same week there has been diminished activity . The ^ h number of vessels reported inward was 176 , being 104 l ( less than the previous week . These included 34 with ^ cargoes of corn , flour , and rice ; 7 with fruit of all sorts ; 13 with sugar ; and 6 with tea , the latter comprising the very large number of 88 , 732 packages ; 40 , 950 of ^ which were brought by the Americaa ship Spitfire , The number of vessels cleared outward -was 110 , showing an a . increase of 7 , the number in ballast being 6 . —Idem . „ The Excise statements for the first nine months of the present year have been published . There has Veen a cc con iderable increase in paper and spirits . The decline ai observable in malt is attributable to that article having , / in August , 1855 , been made free for distillery purposes . a ' A large meeting of the depositors and shareholders of j the Royal British Bank was held on Tuesday night in 'J Freemasons ' -hall , for the purpose of considering the ^ course pursued by the official manager in appealing ^ against the decision of the Tice-Chancellor , and thereby v preventing the declaration of a dividend . Mr . James j Wyld was called to the chair , and speeches were delivered and motions carried , denunciatory of the litigious ^ opposition to the depositors , and to a speedy and com- e paratively cheap settlement of the affairs of the bank , n exhibited by Mr . Harding , who . iras accused of prolonging legal proceedings with a view to jputting costs in his own pocket . ; Tlie order for preparing the balance-sheet of the Royal British Bank was agreed upon in the Court of 1 Bankruptcy on Tuesday . On the same day , Mr . Law- 1 ranee applied , for leave to give notice of motion for Fri- s day , to compel the assignees to apply to the Court of s Chancery to appoint a receiver under 28 th sect . 7 and 8 j Viet ., cap . iii , for the purpose of protecting shareholders £ against individual creditors . Tic Commissioner de- ^ clined , to accede to the application . ] Fr co ' a ^ l ! *; ve ° P pa ^ . m ^*' _' V ¦( ~ f ^ | c
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A PXiATONIC AFFECTION . Great amusement has been caused in the Court of Queen ' s Bench by an action brought for the recovery of the sum of 500 / ., being the arrears of an annuity alleged to be due upon a bond . The plaintiffs were the executors of a young lady named Caroline Priscilla Dignam , de- ceased , and the defendants were the executors of Francis Mills , deceased . The bond was executed by Mr . Mills , a rich and elderly gentleman of sixty-one , on the 1 st of January , 1853 , in favour of Miss Dignam , his j ) rotef / i ! e , and by it he secured to the young lady an annuity of 400 / . during her lifetime .. The annuity was payable quarterly , on the Sth day of January , April , July , and October in each 3 ear . The defendants pleaded payment , and , the proof of the issue being on them , their witnesses were first examined . Mr . Edwin James , Q . C ., who ap- peared for the plaintiff , then stated that " Mr . Mills was a very rich old gentleman , who had died , leaving personal property sworn to be under 140 , 000 / . Mr . JDignam , the young lady ' s father , was formerly his attorney . Mr . Mills had formed an attachment to the daughter when she was only fourteen years of age . Mr . Mills was sixtyone years of age , and the learned counsel believed it vas admitted on both sides that the attachment was quite of a Platonic character . ( Laughter . ) However , he had fallen in love With her , and it was said that love , like the small-pox :, was most severe when taken late in life , ( Laughter ^ He had paid for her educa tion , and , when he took the house for her at Stockwell-place , there could be no doubt that , independently of this annuity , he bad treated her with every possible kindness , and had been very lavish of his money towards her . " To show the passionate fondness of the old gentleman , Mr . James r « ad the two following letters written by him to Miss Dig- nam : — " Half-past 4 . —My dearest Cary , —Thank God your letter has just come . 1 have watched my door all day , and ran to each knock of the postman . I can never bo well nor happy unless I know that you are so . Yes , your plan is excellent ; get some one to livo with you . ... . Keceive me as your guardian . Get two re- spettable female servants . Do not mind the expense , I can Bupply all your wants , and more than all ; and I do know this , that unless my mind is at case about you I Bhall sink into old age and infirmity directly . I breathe free now . I will come out and see you on Monday , and will be at Kennington-gate at three o ' clock My doctor has given me terrible remedies , and to-night he does so again . Thanks , dearest child , for your note Had you not written I should havo suffered tortures Now I do not care about being ill . I hasten to put this in the post before five , that you may get it to night—Your affectionate Father . —Follow my advice strictly . Nwer mind the cost . Your homo may be mine when I come to town . But be respected by all , and to be so you must be virtuous . " ( On closer inspection ' the word appeared to bo " visited . " ) ' * Go into the ¦ country for a short time . I shall do so . "— " London . — My dearest child , —a happy , merry Christmas to you \ and recollect I shall expect a Christmas-box also—but it must bo of your own work . I do not trouble you with long letters . Pray , pray do not stint yourself for any I thing . If you will not use what you have got yo \ i dc I privo mo of my great pleasure in giving to you . I do love my dear child more than ever . —Your affection I ato Father . " I Lord Campbell was of opinion that Mr . James had I proved his caae . Miss Dignam was shown to have rc I ceivod money from , time to time , amounting probabl I to much more than the annuity ; and this barred I further claim . A verdict waa therefore given for I defendants .
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THE ORIENT . ¦ . ¦ ' INDIA . ' ' . ' ' . ' . The account of the revenue of Pegu up to May , 1856 , has reached England from Calcutta . It shows a revenue of thirty lakhs of rupees , while tlie expenditure is less than twenty . The exports from Pegu last year amounted altogether to 660 , 000 / . sterling , and the imports to 1 , 260 , 000 / . Several rumours have been current with respect to a contemplated insurrection in Oude ; but they appear to have no better foundation than on « of those panics which sometimes seize upon the public . " The Government of Bengal , " says the Times Calcutta correspondent , " has just published a report on a new iron field examined by Mr . Smith , a viewer sent out by the Court of Directors . It is at Barrool , a place about ten miles beyond Raneegunge , the last station on the existing railway . It is close to the coal mimes , and the means of carriage both by rail and water are close ' . at hand . The quantity of ore Mr . Smith estimates at , about G , 400 , 000 tons to the square mile , but the limits [ of the field remain to bo ascertained . " "We rea-d in the i same letter : — " Dr . Balfour , an uble surgeon at Madras . has just published a curious volume of reports on cholera . t He started some years ago a theory that there were . many places absolutely exempt from the scourge . In-. vestigation has confirmed his opinion . In Madras alone t there are thousands of villages which have never felt - the visitation , though surrounded by infected districts . c Minute lists arc supplied , and each place is to be a separately examined . At present , the only facts known I are that places in very exposed situations , or very well , drained , are comparatively favoured . " e The fall of Herat before the Persians is vory generally - contradicted in India . It appears probable , however , ; that an engagement between the besiegers and the it besieged took place on the 29 th of August ; that the h Persians for a time succeeded in establishing themselves r- in some of the outworks , but that they were ultimately j- driven forth by Esa Khan at tlie head of the besieged , I who slaughtered great numbers of the enemy , and chased l- tliem back upon their main body . On the other hand , the LaJiore Chronicle still declares its belief that Herat ot has yielded . e- Of the Persian expedition , it maybe stated that it y , has probably by this time arrived off Buahire . The ill Bombay Times reports that " the expedition consists of lie twenty-six sailing transports , ot an aggregate of 24 , 000 tons ; of three of the Peninsular and Oriental Company s > 3 J l > 1 > 1 ¦ 4 B 1 1 T h < ol tl al 1 ci h si c n b a t t t , i < i . 1 , i . ¦ - , ; - - I - not - y , all the
: steam-ships , the Chusan , Singapore , and Pottinger ; besides three lesser vessels of the Bombay Steam Navigation Company , of an aggregate burden in all of thirty thousand tons , at a freightage charge of above a thousand pounds a day . The men of war are nine firstclass steamers—the Punjaub , Assaye , Feroze , Ajdaha , Semiramis , Victoria , and Hugh Lindsay ; the steam tenders Napier and steam yacht Goolanar ; the sloops phinstone and Clive , and the brigs Euphrates and gris—or twelve vessels in all , the total fleet amountto forty sail . A portion of these have been sent to ingorla , to take on board her Majesty ' s 64 th and th Native Inianty from Belgaum ; to Porebunder , receive the 3 rd Cavalry from Rajkote , and to Kurrachee to ship the Belooch battalion , the 2 nd uropeans , and Brett ' s Battery . The fighting men all amount to about six thousand , with about double number of camp followers . Admiral Sir Henry eeke , Commander-in-Chief of the Indian navy , has been authorized to take the command . " CHINA . There is scarcely any political news from China . Admiral Seymour has returned from Japan to Hongkonf , will shortly depart for India ; and her Majesty's steamers Sampson and Barracouta have gone up to Whampoa ( where the Sibylle is already stationed ) : in . consequence of some outrages committed by tne Chinese authorities on the crew of a vessel flying English colours . In Hongkong , a public meeting has been , called , to take into consideration the state of the colony affected by the misrule of the present Governor , whose late acts have been of a most startling nature . The American Consul at Foochow , failing to obtain the satisfaction he desired for the death of Mr . Cunningham , has declined to enforce the payment of duties by American vessels , and several have been despatched accordingly . The English Consul has , therefore , intimated that , until the Chinese insist on the payment of duties by American vessels , English slips must share the same exemption . A man has been brought to confess to the murder of Mr . Cunningham , and he vrill be executed . Trade , on tlie whole , is in a prosperous condition . ¦ _ ' ¦ " ¦ ' " . . ¦' . •¦ •; . ; ¦; . "¦;¦ ' . ; SIAM ., . . ; . ¦¦ ; .: . ' ' . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ ' ¦ ' An attempthas been made to kill the King of Siatn . The story is singular , and very Oriental in its features . The king was invited to . a banquet by one of his richest subjects , and he consented to go , though such condescensions are very unusual in that country . But his Majesty ' s brother suspected something wrong , and suggested an expedient like some of those resorted to in fairy tales . He proposed that a courtier should go disguised as the ¦ king , the monarch not choosing to exhibit any feeling of distrust after having accepted the invitation . This was done . The courtier ( who was very like the king ) made his appearance at the appointed place , was conducted to a throne , and sat down . Instantly , there -was a tremendous explosion , and . the ill-fated courtier -was blown into fragments , together with seven other persons who stood by . And thus was the king ' s life saved . His ' existence is said to be valuable , as he is " very enlightened for an Asiatic , and can write a letter in Ecglish , " to quote from tlie Madras Athemeum , from which paper the details of this story are derived . " Russia , " says the Chinese correspondent of the Times , " has concluded , at Pekin , a treaty with China . Three thousand acres of land and a safe harbour upon the west coast of Chusan are ceded in perpetuity by the ' Son of Heaven' to the Czar . A Russian Consul General , with ample diplomatic powers , has been nominated and accepted , and will reside at the fort , which is to be immediately commenced on that site . Ho is authorized to appoint , without needing confirmation , three other consuls and diplomatic agents for other provinces of the Chinese Empire . " ,
Ireland. The Education Question.—The Cer...
IRELAND . The Education Question . —The ceremony of distributing the prizes awarded to the successful students at the examinations held in June at the Queen ' College in Cork , took place on Thursday week in the spacious examination-hall of that institution , and in the presence of a numerous a ssemblage . At the conclusion of the ceremony , the President ( Sir Robert Kane ) read , amid loud applause , a long address , in which lie indicated , and enlarged on , the progress which the college has made during the seven years in which it has been in existence . , . Tub Catuomc University . —An Irish priest , writing in the Tablet , mentions some circumstances which , in hia opinion , account for the admitted failure of the Catholic University . He states : —" While Dr . Cullen acted merely as one of the body , and bofore his translation to Dublin , Ireland contributed 23 , 000 / ., Heath and Dublin contributing nearly 4000 / . each . After Uis translation and his evident change of policy , the falling off in the collection was most remarkable , the metropolitan pariah of Dublin contributing scarcely 3 Ql . Up to the time indicated , several bishops used to attend the committee in Dublin . At one of those meetings , a venerable bishop i offered some suggestions in reference to tlie university , % when the Archbishop of Dublin is reported to have floid i that disobedienco or a refusal to adopt hia viowa was i disobedience to Rome ! «¦ That , in this matter of tno
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1856, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06121856/page/5/
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