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540 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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Our Civilisation. Samuex Seal, Who Was L...
A Lamkntabue Case . —Edward Stanley , -who has been remanded since the 23 rd of last month , was on Tuesday sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment for a ferocious assault upon his wife . He was drunk at the . time of the offence , and so was the woman ; indeed , it appeared from the evidence that the wife was a confirmed drunkard , and that the conduct of the husband had been sober and creditable previous to his marriage . The wife , who had been confined to the hospital on account of her injuries , now admitted that the fault was hers , declined to press the charge , and entreated the magistrate not to send her husband to prison . All she could obtain , however , in the way of mercy , was an intimation that , but for what she had candidly confessed , the prisoner would have been sentenced to a much longer term . The woman then left the court crying . ___ ....
A " Ticket-of-Leave" Man .- —The following case , exhibiting the wretched , and even dangerous , working of the " ticket-of-leave" system , was alluded to in the House of Lords on Thursday evening by Lord Lyndiurst : —Thomas Jones , aged twenty-three , a returned convict on " ticket-of-leave , " was charged at Bow-street on "Wednesday with using indecent language to a constable . The officer stated that , after himself and other ofiicers had quelled a disturbance in Drury-lane , the prisoner followed him for the purpose of abusing him , and he never heard more shocking language used in the public streets in his life . —Mr . Jardine said the language must have been bad indeed to shock a policeman . It formed a striking contrast , no doubt , to the sentiments expressed by the prisoner in his interviews with the chaplain of the prison from which he had obtained his " ticket-of-leave . " On these occasions , it appeared , the
adoption of a hypocritical tone and a canting expression of countenance ( which the worst of them were capable of assuming when it served their purpose to do so ) sufficed to obtain their discharge before the expiration of half the term of the original sentence , with the further advantage of a written character , enabling them to impose upon the public . "Why , he had not presided there any day for some time past without having to dispose of some charge against a " ticket-of-leave" man . The neighbourhood is infested with them . They stand at
the corners of streets at midnight , and , pouncing suddenly upon the passenger , half strangle him and rob him before even an alarm can be given . —Inspector Mackenzie said there were forty " ticket-of-leave" men in the immediate neighbourhood of the court who had returned to their old haunts and to their former course of life . In order , however , to avoid the personal consequences , they usually employed boys and women to assist them ; and these were constantly apprehended while the principal delinquents escaped altogether . —Mr . Jardine committed the prisoner to seven days' imprisonment .
540 The Leader. [Saturday,
540 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
Naval And Military News. The Croesus.—We...
NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . The Croesus . —We regret to learn that the burning of the Croesus was much more fatal than at first believed . The muster roll having been lost with the ship , the extent of the loss of life amongst the troops was not known until some time afterwards . It appears that instead of eight , as at first stated , sixty-eight individuals perished , of whom all were soldiers , with the exception of one , who was a sailor on board the unfortunate vessel . —Malta Times . Mb . Balfour , Fourth Lieutenant of the Euryalus , now serving in the Baltic , has been tried by courtmartial for using abusive language to , and striking , Mr . Bathurst , the Second Lieutenant of the same ship . The sentence of the court was that Lieutenant Balfour be dismissed her Majesty ' s navy .
Captain Swearop , of the Russian Engineer Artillery , who was captured at Bomarsund last year , and sent from the Devonshire , receiving-ship for Russian prisoners , to Lewes , has been granted his liberty to return to Bomarsund with his wife , the latter having been , during her stay in this country , in a very delicate state of health . Captain Swearof arrived at Sheerness on Monday evening , with his wife ; and a Russian soldier , who has been his servant for many years , has had his liberty alao granted to him to accompany his master . The Admiralty have ordered a passage , with cabin accommodation , for Captain Swearof and hia wife , on board the Russell , Captain F . Scott .
Foundkrino of a Tkansport Stkamkr . —Intelligence wns on Wednesday received at Lloyd's of the foundering of the transport steamer Imperatrice , while on her voyage from London to tho Crimea , with shot and shell . This disastrous occurrence took place on Tuesday evening , off Dungeness , by collision with tho Belgian schooner Commerce , which lost her bowsprit , and received other damage . Tho crow of tho Imponitrico was fortunately saved , and landed , with a few of her stores , at Deal .
M.Iscbllan E O U S. Dkatxi Oh 1 The Dkan...
M . ISCBLLAN E O U S . Dkatxi oh the Dkan ok Climax Cuuncir , Oxfoiuj . —Dr . Gaisford died on Saturday at Oxford , uftcr a fow days' illness . Congestion of one lung , and of tho brain , ia understood to have been his disease . Tho Times remarks : — " Dr . Gaisford ' s sorvicoB to literature as a first-rate critical Greek scholar are groat . Ho is one of tho very few classical scholars of tho present day whoso reputation ia European . On tho Continent , his name is
even better known and more highly honoured than in England . In England the recondite nature of his labours , rarely devoted to popular or even well-known authors , has prevented his merits from being appreciated by the public at large to anything like the same extent that they are by scholars . His edition of Herodotus , published in 1840 , and his Lectiones . Platonics , his earliest work , published in 1820 , are almost his only contributions to popular classical literature . The great labours of his life—his & uidas published in 1834 ; his Etymotogicum Magnum , published in 1848 ; and his of order which
Tkeodoret , published in 1854—are an even common scholars do not appreciate . No doubt , however , can be entertained that , as a Professor , Dr . Gaisford has been the most distinguished of the whole Oxford body for many years , and that it will be no easy matter to supply his place . Dr . Gaisford was delegate of the University press , and practically had the chief direction of it . He was also Fellow of the Royal Academy at Munich , and corresponding member of the Institute of France . "—The Rev . H . G . Liddell , Head Master of Westminster School , has been appointed by Lord Palmerston to succeed Dr . Gaisford as Dean of
Christ Church . The Bath Election . -Mr . Tite , the Administrative Reformer , has been returned for Bath by a majority of fifty ; the numbers being—Tite , 1179 ; Wbately , 1129 . At the nomination , Mr . Tite pledged himself in favour of the ballot and of the abolition of church-rates , and professed to be a Whig . Mr . Whateley also called himself a Whig according to the Whig principles of ' 88 ; but he thought the Conservatives had lately done good service , and he was opposed to the ballot , to extension of the suffrage , and to depriving the Church of the rates by Neverthelesshe
which her fabrics are maintained . , claimed to be considered an Administrative Reformer . — We have received the following from a private correspondent . His assertion as to the extreme purity of Bath must of course be taken cum grano salts . ^ " The new member is not a very attractive person , either in manners or attainments . He is a rough diamond , and we hope will turn out a good honest member . There is not in the whole kingdom a constituency so thoroughly honest and independent as that of Bath . Every exertion was made by the Tory party to prevent a defeat ; and now I believe they will give up the contest . "
Lord Goderich on the War and Administrative Reform . —On Thursday week , Lord Goderich was entertained at Huddersfield by his constituencies at a public luncheon . In the evening a meeting was held , at which his Lordship , in a speech which occupied three hours and a quarter , explained his opinions on the present state of the nation , on the necessities arising out of the war , and on the question of Administrative Reform . He advocated a vigorous prosecution of hostilities , conceived that a more determined manner at the outset might have prevented the disasters that have followed , and held that we ought to say to Austria— " This is our ultimatum ; take it or leave it . " With the principle of Administrative Reform he entirely agreed ; but he thought it would not be effected until members of Parliamentand more especially liberal members , forbear
, from place-seeking . He observed : —" Those who talk about Administrative Reform are scarcely , perhaps , aware of the wide bearing which their words have . I think I have shown you , by what I have said , that the task of carrying out effectual reform is not so easy and so simple , that it is not to bo done by arraigning administrators at public meetings , but by the earnest co-operation , I may say , of every man in the country ; and I believe , if what you mean is that the administration of the country shall be carried on , as we often hear the phrase , in the manner in which a private business is carried on , before you arrive at that condition of affairs you will find yourselves called upon to make far deeper and far wider changes tliau perhaps you now contemplate . I , for one , am prepared to face the consequences of my opinion . "
Relicasic of this Rev . I ) k . II . Giles . —On Monday last , Dr . Giles ( who , it will be remembered , was convicted at the last Oxford Assizes of making a false entry in the marriage register book at Bumpton ) , was discharged from Oxford Castle under the authority of tho Queen ' s warrant . It is understood that , in consequence of the persevering efforts of the Bishop of Oxford , aided by memorials from largo numbers oi" clergymen and gentlemen , her Majesty wuh pleased to extend her mercy and pardon to Dr . Giles at the expiration of three months from the period of his conviction .
Miss Jonks and tiiic Kiev . R . Singleton . — Tho application of Mins Jones for an affiliation order against tho Rov . R . Singleton came on for a third hearing beforo tho Stockton magistrates on Thursday week , whan tho magistrates unanimously agreed to mako an order upon tho rovorond gentleman for tho maintenance of tho child . This Hopwooo Will Cask . —Tho reports which have boon circulated a » to tho manner in which this case has boon settled arc to boino extent untrue . Tho trial at Liverpool , it will bo remembered , endod in a decisive verdict in favour of Captain llopwootl , —tho jury having found that tho alleged codicil of April , und will of May , 1858 , wore not tho codicil and will of Mr . Hop wood . After tho verdict , no attempt wan made to obtain a now trial ; whioh clearly ahowu that Captain Hopwood ' s opponents know well that any application to
Vice-Chancellor Wood would be fruitless , or , if granted , that the same verdict would be given by any other jury ] A proposition was eventually made to Captain Hopwood , that if he would not press for any of his own costs against his opponents , all further proceedings should be carried on , and perfected by consent , instead of being conducted hostilely ; and , on consultation with his counsel , and wishing to avoid delay , he yielded to the request . He has , therefore , to pay the costs and expenses incurred by himself ( which are very heavy in- » deed ) , and the other parties have to pay all their own costs .
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Leadeh Office , Saturday , Juno 9 . HOUSE OF LORDS . METROPOLITAN BURIALS . The Bishop of London moved an address on the subject of the inadequate provision for burials in the metropolis , in consequence of the Act of 1852 closing old burial grounds before others were provided , and thus increasing the evil , which demanded an immediate remedy . Earl G-ranville said the matter was under the serious consideration of the Government ; upon which the motion was withdrawn . The Education of Poor Children Bill was read a second time , and the House then adjourned .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS . THE PRESS AT GIBRALTAR . In answer to Mr . Oliveira and Mr . Bright , Lord J . Russell stated that the ordinance issued by the Governor of Gibraltar , preventing the newspapers from publishing certain matters which he considered inconsistent with the public interests of that garrison , was an act which he had the power to perform ; but the ordinance was under the consideration of the Government . The period of Sir Robert Gardiner's Governorship expired last Christmas ; and although he was allowed to remain until the spring , his successor had now been appointed . SIR W . MOLESWOfiTH AND MR . COBDEN .
Sir W . Molesworth , on the motion that the House at its rising should adjourn to Monday , took the opportunity of answering charges made by Mr . Cobden against him , of inconsistency of sentiment between his speech on Tuesday last and those he made in the Pacifico debate in 1850 , and another made at Leeds in 1840 . He denied that there was any inconsistency in his opinions , and he read portions of his speeches to show that he had expressed the same sentiments then as now , with regard to a war to be waged against Russia by England and France in alliance , in defence of Turkey . The passages so read were much cheered by the House . Mr . Colliek also explained that he never said , as was stated by Mr . Sidney Herbert , that the retiring members of Lord Aberdeen ' s Government were guilty of treason . He had never meant to impute any such conduct to those gentlemen . THE DEBATE ON THE WAR . The adjourned debate on the prosecution t « f the war was resumed by Mr . 1 \ Scott , who was followed by Sir F . Baring , who entered on the question of tho reason of his bringing forwardjjis amendment , and said that he had not inserted in it any notice of the conduct of the Government at Vienna , because the conferences had not closed , but the circumstances
were changed now , and he would have changed his motion if it had been possible to do so in order to bring the matter to a real issue . As to Mr . Lowes amendments , he objected to them as committing tlie House to a particular line of conduct on n single point in . tho negotiations leaving the rest untouched . A vote on either of the amendments could not show the real opinions of members of tho House ; and the debate , notwithstanding its length and apparent importance , was , in . fact , a mere trilling with the
country . The Attorney-Gknkhal urged the difficult position in which tho Government was placed l » y the variety of its opponents , who had no feelings in common except a desiro to attack Ministers . « o commented in very strong terms on ( lie language ol Mr . Cobden , and charged him with taunting tnc people for their feeling in favour of the war , ana degrading into what ho termed mere populace time people whoso aid ho coveted in lna Corn-Mi ? struggle , because now they did not agree with l" * . "" ; ht
nions . Iicvigorously assailed the speech of Mr . Hng , which lie stigmatised « s unworthy of tho occasion , and charoctorisud it as filled witli stale jokes , wretched witticisms , and ribald jests . He spoko «» tho oquivocul , not to Bay amphibious , position occupied by tho party called tho l ' oelites , and , in aliwt . replied in very sharp phrase to moat <> i m < - powerml ( speeches against Ministers and tho prosecution of tho war . Ho drew a vivid picture ot tho aggressive tendencies of llussin , illustrating it » y roferoncoa to her past history ; and concludoU l > y stating Ida opinion thut her aggrandising spirit was
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Leader (1850-1860), June 9, 1855, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09061855/page/12/
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