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JOTB aa, .18W-] . THE LEADER. &63
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THE UNITED STATES.—SURRENDER OF WALKER. ...
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FRANCE. Tho Monitcur officially announco...
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DltKADFUL ACCIDENT AT FLORENCE. , Panis,...
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Doucu.as Jkrrold.— Tho funeral of the la...
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same amount for the next three months . The other Tnan was discharged . The Maine { Liquor Law . — -A conference of ministers rof religion 'from various parts of the country assembled . on Tuesday at the Town-hall , Manchester , to devise measures for aiding the Maine Liquor Law movement . The sittings are to continue for several days , and are to be followed by a public meeting at the Free-trade hall . The Parliamentary Oaths Bill ,. —A deputation , comprising Catholic noblemen , members of Parliament , . and other influential gentlemen , waited on Lord Palmerston on Monday at his private residence , Cambridgehouse , Piccadilly , for the purpose of urging on . his Lordship the propriety of including Catholics in the relief from the objectionable passages in the oaths now taken by members of the Legislature . The deputation was introduced by his Grace the Duke of Norfolk , and included several noblemen and gentlemen of distinction . Lord Palmerston ' s replies not being considered satisfactory , a meeting was held subsequently at the Staffordstreet Club , Piccadilly , his Grace the Duke of Norfolk in the chair , " for the purpose of adopting such steps as might be deemed expedient in reference to the result of the interview with the Premier . " Further operations ¦ were resolved on . The Chairmanship of the City Sewers Commission . —Mr . Deputy Peacock has been compelled by illness to vacate the Chairmanship of the City Sewers Commission . Election Petitions . —The General Committee of Elections has fixed Monday , the 29 th of June , for the trial of the Maidstone and Sunderland petitions , and Tuesday , the 30 th of June , for the trial of the Oxford , Tewkesbury , and Bury . petitions . Fire . —The Red Lion Inn , Hounslow—a considerable range of premises—was burnt down early on Sunday morning . The inhabitant ? , who were in bed at the time , escaped with difficulty . The supply of water was insufficient , and at one time same of the adjoining houses were seriously threatened . The Atlantic Telegraph Cable . —The completion of 1250 miles ( one-half ) of the cable for the Submarine Atlantic Telegraph by Messrs . Newall and Co . was celebrated at their works j" Birkenhoad , on Wednesday , by a dinner given to aboiit six hundred of- their workmen , with their wives and families . Alderman Eagleton has resigned his gown , owing to ill health . "Weights and Measures in the Citv . —Alderman Copelarid , in the Court of Aldermen , on Tuesday , brought ¦ up a report on the return of the inspectors of weights and measures for the last year , and for granting them the usual gratuities . He felt much gratification in assuring the Court that the poorest people in the most populous districts of the City are deriving important advantages from the exertions of Mr . Knott and Mr . Harvard , the inspectors appointed by the court ; and that severed remarkable instances of deception and attempts , at plunder in connexion with the necessaries of life had been recently detected by those officers . The report was unanimously agreed to . Health op London . —The return ? for the week that ended on Saturday , Juno 6 , exhibit the gratifying fact that the remarkably small number of 868 deaths was registered in that period in London . There has been a constant decrease of mortality since the temperature rose , and in the first week of Juno the deaths are nbout 200 less than they wore in the first week of May . In the ten years 1847-5 ( 5 , the average number of deaths in tho wook corresponding with last week was 979 . But , as the deaths of last week occurred in an increased population , the average , with a view to comparisou , must be raised in proportion to the increase , and in this case it will become 1077 . The result is that the deaths now returned are leas by 209 than the average rato of mortality nt this period of the year would have produced . In the first week of Juno , 1817 , the deaths were 786 , in that of 1850 they wore 8-14 ; and these furnish the only instances in corresponding weeks in which the deaths wore not more numorous than those of last week , though each successive year has added to the number of persona living within tho bills of mortality . Only three persons whoso deaths tiro returned had attained tho age of 90 years or upwards . Two women wore 93 years old ; and a widow clioil in llorcford-streot , Marylobono , At tho great ago of 06 years . —Last wook , the blrtha of 774 boys and 708 girls , In nil 16-12 children , wore registered in London . In tho ten correspond ing wcoks of tho years 1847-56 , tho average number was 1497 . — From the Registrar-Genera ? a Weekly Hut urn . Miletary Education . —Sir Do Lacy Evans will move tho following resolutions on Military Education in tUo House of Commons on tho liOth inst .: — " That , as tho nuinerloul strength of tho British army avallablo for European war is far loss than that of any other groat Power , and as our Government have for many years neglected tho oduoation of the commissioned ranks of tho sorvico , while othor Governments have boon devoting to this objoot largo annual same and very groat attention , It is tho opinion of thia House that a higher standard of professional instruction than of lalo doomed requisite ' ought to established for our officers gonorally , but especiall y for thoso of tho Stair . That this oannot bu ofl ' oottvoly aoaomplishod in this country , whaio powerful jnfluoncos obstruct tho boet intentions of thoso Invested
with patronage , without having recourse to the principle of competitive examination , in conformity with the recommendation of her Majesty ' s Commissioners on Civil and Military Appointments and Education , recorded in their reports recently presented to Parliament . That the candidates nominated by the Commander-in-Chief for commissions in the Line be therefore subject to the condition of competitive examination previously to their being appointed to commissions ; and that officers of a sufficient term of regimental service , desirous of qualifying themselves for the Staff in the senior department of instruction or Staff school , should receive their admissions and final certificates of qualification on the same principle . That commissioners , consisting of an equal number of military officers and civilians , should be nominated by the Secretary of State for the purpose of superintending these examinations , and that the educational establishments for the Line and Staff be under the direction of the Secretary of State , who is responsible to Parliament for the administration of the army , and who is already charged with the control of the existing schools and examinations for the artillery , engineers , and the non-commissioned officers and privates of the armj' . " Oxford University .- —A Congregation was held on Wednesday for the decision and consideration of various important matters . The series of statutes affecting professoi-s was first brought forward . These were all passed with the exception of the clause to which objection was made on the promulgation by Mr . Kawlinson , of Exeter , whereby professors were allowed to hold college prselectorships with their professoi-ships if permitted by decree of Convocation . This clause , which was put to the vote six several times in connexion with six different professorships , was in every case rejected by majorities varying from 32 to 62 , the largest number of supporters which it found being 17 , and the smallest 4 . There was a division on the main clause in the statute on the Sedleian Reader , but this was carried by 57 votes to 18 . On the other professorial statutes there was no division . The Craven Statute was rejected by 54 votes to 31 , the main objection ( as we gathered ) being to the assignment of three scholarships to Physical Science . The statute taking power to alter the Bampton Lecture Trust was also rejected by 49 votes to 38 . The form of statute establishing an " examination for the middle classes was then read and submitted to the vote . The main provisions of the statute were carried by 81 votes to 16 , and the title of " Associate in Arts" by G 2 votes to 38 . The Provost of Oriel spoke a few words in Latin against the giving of any title to the persons examined , and the public orator ( Mr . Michell ) handed in a protest against proceeding with the statute , on the grounds of insufficient notice . Murder at Weymoutii . — "William Xewton , a labourer at Tutten Farm , near Up way , is in custody at Wevmouth on a charge of causing the death of one Charles White on the highway by stabbing him with a knife in the course of a quarrel . The Handel Festival . —The arrangements for tho Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace are rapidly progressing , and are on a gigantic scale . " A very liberal allowance , " says the Times , " has been made of counter space . No less than 1600 visitors can now at once set down to dinner , and , hi addition , 2000 can be served at counters : draught bitter ale will bo served everywhere , and icc 3 , quarter bottles of sherry ; with glass , and packets of biscuits , will be ready for instant delivery at tho intervals between the programme . "
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Leader Office , Saturday , Juno 18 . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . HER MA . ) ESTY * 3 DUAWINO-ROOM . Lord Ravensworth brought this subjoct before the House , complaining of tho want of accommodation at St . James ' s Palace . —Earl Guanvillu suid that plans wore to bo prepared in order to adbrd greater space on these occasions . Ttio Princess Royal ' s Annuity Bill passed through coinmittoo . Tho Pknal Servitude Bill was brought forward in committee , and passed through that stage after some discussion . DIVORCE HILL . Tho roport of amendments on tho Bill wore brought up , and wovoral of ( horn woro rojeetod . Tho DUhop of Oxford gavo notice that on tho third reading ho should move tho rejection of tho Hill . Tho Houso adjourned at half-past nine . HOUSE OF COMMONS . TltOOI'S KOU CHINA . In answor to Mr . LAumrc , Sir John Kamsdicn said that Bomo troops woro on their way from tho Mauritius to China , but it was merely In the ordinary course . The troops wore not to roooivo anything boyond tho colonial allowance , which they would havo rocoivad at 1 long-Kong .
THE DRAWING-ROOM AT ST . JAMES ' S PALACE . Mr . G . Dundas brought forward the subject of th . insufficient accommodation for the ladies and other attending her Majesty ' s Drawing-room . He made out a very pitiable case of suffering and loss Of dresses on the part of the ladies ; and urged the necessity of -much better accommodation being provided . —^ -Sir Benjamin Halt- said that the apartments in question were ortly adapted for the reception of a : few hundred and xioffsr a thousand or twelve hundred persons . Order wasrgivte ' ii to prepare plans for alterations commensurate with the requirements of such occasions . PRESTON WORKHOUSE . Mr . Cobbett complained of undue influence having been used by the Poor Law Board to induce / the guardians of the Preston Union to build a new workhouse . — Mr . Bouverie stated that the Poor Xiaw Board bad only pursued the usual and legal practice . —Mr . Drummond wanted the Poor Law Board to have more power ; and that the guardians should be made to think less of the interests of the rate-payers and more of that of the poor . ST . james ' s park . Sir F . Baring brought forward the subject of expenditure having been incurred for works in St . James ' s Park without any -vote being come to on tlie subject by Parliament . In cases on winch estimates have been exceeded , Parliament had censured Ministers , even when the necessity of the case was undoubted ; but here the expenditure had been incurred without necessity . — Sir Benjamin Hall said that the chief expense kaa arisen from the operation of draining and cleansing the lake in the Park , the outlay being sanctioned by tlie Treasury on the ground of necessity , arising from sanitary causes ; and , on their own responsibility , trusting to obtain the sanction of Parliament . —After some discussion , the House went into committee on THE CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES . Mr . Wilson gave a general explanation of the estimates in order to account for an excess on them in the present year over that of 1856 ; a good deal of it "was more apparent than real in consequence of the transfer under Mr . Gladstone ' s Act of 1853 of a large number of items of the Consolidated Fund to the annual votes . Of the total augmentation no less than 1 , 430 , 000 ? . -was explained , leaving only 880 , 000 / . to be otherwise accounted for . There had been on the last few years an increase of 331 , 0002 . for the Education vote , 180 , 0 O 0 £ , for Harbours-of Refuge , 242 , 000 * . for Printing and Stationery , 114 , 000 / . for Prisons and Convict Establishments , and 81 , 000 / . for Public Buildings . He then dealt with a further excess of 598 , 000 / . which had bean occasioned by acts and resolutions passed by Parliameat . In short tho increase in the expenditure had been caused by the inci-eased requirements of the country . A short desultory discussion followed , after which the House proceeded in committee to deal with the votes on the estimates in succession , and this business mainly occupied the remainder of the sitting .
The United States.—Surrender Of Walker. ...
THE UNITED STATES . —SURRENDER OF WALKER . The latest news from Nicaragua is to the effect tliat Goner . 11 Walker capitulated on the 1 st of May to Gaptain Davis , of the sloop of war St . Mary ' s , having then less than throo hundred men and but two days' provisions . Kivas is in the hands of the allies . Walker . and a portion of his officers were taken to Panama -by tlio United States sloop of war St . Mary ' s , and others obtained passage by the steamer Panama . Walker and his stall" arrived at New Orleans on tho evening of the 27 th ult . llo was enthusiastically received . With reference to tho alleged ill-treatment of seamen on board American merchant ships , Lord Napier has made u representation to tho Washington Cabinet , and received from General Cuss a reply in which , he Btates that tho laws now in force on tlio subjoct are sufficient for tho protection of sailors .
France. Tho Monitcur Officially Announco...
FRANCE . Tho Monitcur officially announcoa that the labours of tho Senate havo terminated for tho present session . Madllo . Rachel is rapidly sinking .
Dltkadful Accident At Florence. , Panis,...
DltKADFUL ACCIDENT AT FLORENCE . , Panis , Friday . At Florence , on Thursday night , tho scenery of tho theatre caught firo during tho performance of ?' The ' Sioge of Sobastopol . " A panic arose forty-three por-! sons woro killed , and one hundred and thirty-four woundod
Doucu.As Jkrrold.— Tho Funeral Of The La...
Doucu . as Jkrrold . — Tho funeral of the late Douglas Jerrold will tako plaoo on Monday at Norwood Cemetery . It wlh bo strictly private . Tho friends will moet at the comutery at half-past ono . . ,
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Leader (1850-1860), June 13, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13061857/page/11/
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