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The Proceedings Of, Loi-D Dekby's Govern...
_ _ — = —^ the strcBgth " of qualities - . that seem to fall short ot j those required for the discharge of such high judicial functions . Mr . L , vvabd returns home with a strong case ; he reiterates every charge ot bail government and oppression that has been made smcc ... t -C i L « . ^^ . ^^«^ , f rtTi /^ nA ^ invi si ¦ fr . nnr . lift ^ hn £ ot * —
the outorcaK mu iuuliuj , ««« .. " *»»••»•• " - found the proofs of their correctness . He says that it is his fate never to he able to " make things pleasant ; " and he has certainly no intention of attempting to do so ajfc present ? itbe only doubt ; as , whether he has not " brought Track with hun % om India too strong a case . Sumrises are so common in connexion \ Tith the
Spanish Court that they surprise nobody ; so that when the electric telegraph brought us . sudden news that , for some unexplained reason , the Queen of Spai * had seen lit to dissolve the Cortes , we felt no surprise , and only troubled ourselves to make an off-hand guess or t ^ vo at the probable reason ; was it in consequence of a demand from a certain " personage ' to test his power ? — or a regular coup d ' etat , with a view to wiping out the not
constitution at one move t \ A ' e nave jet own told what were her Majesty ' s inducements ; - -tut it has been whispered that the clearing away of popular ¦ olqeetiou- to the carrying of a French railway into I the heart of Spain may have had a good deal to do with the matter . There seems , at length , to be a prospect of the Kansas difficulty finding a satisfactory solution . A compromise -lias been proposed , and has passed . bo . tk »««« = « ¦ Tt . takes order for referring the
Lecoi-npton constitution to the people , but on a question as to the disposal of land : thus . tie people can reject itc » blocii they please , without a direct reference of the Slavery question ; but if they reject it , they must vote ' a . new constitution , in accordance with federal law . : A . case , tried in the Court of Exchequer on Monday last , shows tlie still precarious operation of-the system of crossing bankers' cheques . Tlie action was brought against the London Joint-Stock Bank j _ i _ _ ^ ^ .-.-. 4- ft P « - » rtKrtrmo n rn'MTii minil lh inc tuuuuuu ui wkv ^ uv « . Ltv * « w
- , to recover * . ** ,.. -. r ., and paid , but from which the cross lines had been erased before presentation . The ruling of the court was , that the hank was not liable , inasmuch as at the time : tlio cheque was presented for payment it was made payable simply " to bearer , " whatever the intention of the drawer of the cheque might have been . Now ' there seems to be a mode j of putting this matter on a clear and easy footing ; it is that , instead-Of making crossed cheques payable by crossing through any banker , they should he made payable only to a banker specified in tho body of the cheque . . Tlip . fjnurt for "Divorce and Matrimonial Causes
—— — lias been busy during the week , and it is evident that its working will ! be most satisfactory . Already it has disposed of several causes that would never have been adjudicated under the old , costly , and repressive system ; and the tendency of the judgments is plainly to extend the operat ion of the new law as widely as its best wishers can do sire .
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— . — . — . - I I . - j PUBLIC MEETINGS . ATVTIST . s' BENEVOLKNT FUNI > . i The anniversary dinner in aid of this fxinil took plncc ltiBt Saturday evening at tho Freemasons' Tavern . Mr . Dickens "was in tho chair , and -was supported by Sir ' Charles Enstlakc , Mr . David Roberts , R . A ., Mr . Elmore , B . A ., and several other members of tho Royal Academy . In proposing tlio toast , " Prosperity to tlio Artists' lionevolent Fund , " Mr . Dickens said : — "In appealing to those around liim on behalf of a fund constituted for such a purpose , lie would bo no party to tho common runt of nresontincr to their notice tho professors of
imaginative art na a net of babies whom tlioy ought , as it wore , to ' dry nurse . ' On tho contrary , ho should apeak of them as a clnaa of niqu -whose caro for to-day and tomorrow was not to bo ox < : ecdcd by nny other class of men in existence—as a class of men wlio had rendered immense services to tho community . Ho was , indeed , Btrongly disposed to boliovc that very fow debates in Parliament wore half so important to the public welfare ns n good picture , and that any numbor of bushels of tho driest logal uhnflf that -was over chopped would bo phoaply exchanged for ono really meritorious , really aocossiblo , and really humanizing engraving . At a highly i i
distinguished annual festival at which he had the . honour to be a Rtiest—a festival which was held behind two ' fouv £ u » s-ho sometimes observed that great Ministers of State aud other exalted functionaries seemed to take ° \ tnncc delight in somewhat ostentatiously declaring thtt they possessed no knowledge of art , arid ^ ere very particular in impressing upon-the company the-oircum-? : J"V * w ? WW massed their lives in severer studies . 1
^ Vi imd alwaysstruck him upon those occasions that those distinguished personages must regard artists some -extort In the light of dancing-dogs or m ^ peciesof Pundtf * show , upon whmh men might look-condescehtBngkr w * cn . they . had nothing else to do , ; « nd he . triava ^ jr taUenthe ^ atyorenterlainine-I . M ^ u m-ivate opinion that all that sort of thing" > vas coinplaient ' bosh , ' and of reserving to himself the strong beh . f S that tl , e neighbourhood ^/^ f ^ gar-s ^ e PalUman , d i ™ '
and SuaolK-strecc was cm ^ = .... — - and heart of the empire as that of Po ™ " ^ *^ Westminster-hall- Upon those grounds , ami upon grounds not an inch lower , bo should submit to _ those whom he saw around him the recommendation of three hundred artists in favour of the Artists' Benevolent Fund , and should beg of them to do honour to that 10-commeiidation by-giving to it their best support . -I e toast was received with the utmost enthusiasm and tlie amount of subscriptions and donations to the fund was announced , at a subsequent hour of the evening , to 1 > e upwards of 6 O 0 Z .
St . Mark ' s Hospital , Crrv-nqAiv-In . celebration , of the twenty-third anniversary of this exec lent I sti- I tntion a dinner was given last evening at the Albion Aldersgate-stteet , when Mr . Henry . Hoar * presuled and was supported by a very numerous compiny -of gentlemen ' most of whom were liberal contributors to ^ its funds . During the past year , two hundred and eightyfour persons were discharged cured , three hundred and thirty materially relieved , and three only considered as incurable . Since its foundation there hare been no less a number of patients than 10 , 981 . In proposing the \ . *~« . * ne th » CWe . n ' s health , the chairman greatly asto-.
nished his auditory by entering into a long argument in support of Convocation , to the alleged ^ advantages o I which he bore testimony , adding that he liad g ^ 'en . greatattention to the subject . He then said he intended to K ive 100 ? . to the fund as a penalty for the introduction of matter so foreign to the subject in band , lhe subscription list announced a sum of between bOOZ . and 90 ^^ S ^ oo ^ o .. - This society held its ^ nnual meeting on Monday night in Exeter-hall , the Earl of Shaftesbury presiding . After an opening address fiom the chairman , the secretary read the animalreport , \ Inch announced an increased number of scholars in the school ., . i _*„ ... „ „? n ^ onMo ji rifl n treneral extension suit ui imun —— --
fin lmnrovBu e ^ - ) o - „ of the various operations of the union . The number of Sunday schools in the union is 134 , containing 20 , o 00 Sholars ; day schools , 98 , containing 14 , 300 scholars ; ] week evening schools ' , 181 , containing 8650 scholars . The voluntary teachers number 2580 , and the ^ paid teachers 328 . There are nine shoe-black societies m various parts of London . Of these , the three most im-. portant-the red , yellow , and blue brigades , containing 190 bovB , earned during the year 3227 ? ., about Is . a day for ' cach boy ; 57 of the teachers have been formerly themselves ragged scholars , and 105 of the pupils have become communicants of various Christian bodies . A large number of the scholars have been placed m service at home and in the colonies , of wliom several have entered the army and the navy , 'l'hc penny banks have received 25307 ., from 15 , 000 depositors .
The Annexation of Oude .-a putmc meeunjj > v « a held at Sheffield on Tuesday , at which the seizure of Oude was loudly denounced . The British and Foreign School . — lhe fittythird annual meeting of this society took place on Monday , in the School-room , Borough-road . lhe chair ^ vas fi rst occupied by Lord John Russell , and afterwards by Earl Granvillc . The former , in nddress-; ,,, r ti , mnnnnv . ilwnlt on the advantages of
educa-\ tion : on the deficiency of instruction in this country ; and on the necessity of pushing forward the good cause without refcronce to party . Indeed , ho observed , all parties arc agreed ns to the value of education . and he paid a high compliment to tho present lurst Lord of the Admiralty ( Sir John l ' akington ) for his services in promoting tho desired end . —Some complaints were made by Mr . Tnggurt , a Unitarian minister , to tho cfTeet that tho committee had published or sanctioned books of a sectarian character ; but M \ amendment , seeking to appoint Mr . 1 rice , M . P ., nnd Mr . Alderman Lawror . cn , to tho committee , was withdrawn , after some discussion . Earl Granvillc ,
in addressing the meeting , congratulated ma < : uuuuymun on tho spread of education , and obocTvcd : — " There is a museum collected in a -vory ugly liuilding in South KoiiHington , visited by half a million of pcr-Kons in the course of tho year , , 000 of whom , cluc . dy of tho poorer classes , do not grudge the payment of tho student ' s feo in ordor to study theobjoct . s there collected . This is an instance of tho increasing love of intellectual amusements and pursuits which the friends of tlio British and Foreign School S ociety might bo proud of having in no mean degree- promoted -liml stimulated . " After aomo further addresses , tho meeting separated .
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I IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . 1 ¦ Monihty , May \< Hh . M LORD CANNES < l ' s PROCLAMATION AJ 3 ID THE GOVEKNMEXr WL I DESPATrll . § a | Is the Ho « se of Lorhs , the Earl of SnAFTicsnuny | if , » n ,. » nn *\ na tlmt . on " Friday he would move a resolution ffil f
condemnatoTy of the last despatch of the Government m to the Governor-General of India , and he . promised to W lay the words of the resolution on the table on the fol- W O > The Earl of Eu-usitououGii begged to lay " the da- M snatch in full on the table , for the convenience of the . M : noble Earl . . ( Laughter ) . He . might as . well take the Mopportunitv of explaining how it happened that the . . « , House of Commons got the whole of the despatch , while -M ui i v — — —
tueir JLorusuips-ouiy b- " ""*« * . -- - -.- «• „ . ^_ to lay the whole despatch before their Lordships and the m other House , and the Secretary of the Indian Board had M the whole despatch in his hand to lay hefore the House M of Commons . It was strictly understood , however , sub- M sequently , between him ( Lord Ellenborough ) and the ¦ m Chancellor of the Exchequer , that extracts only should M I be given , because they considered it would be in- S § convenient to give certain passages ; but , before any K communication of their-intentions .-was . made to the B Secretary of the Indian Board , h ^ had laidL the . m whole despatch on the table of the House of Com- K 10 wiuc iUiiui " ™
mons A . S there seemea ue . « ...... » .- b »; ,-I respecting the copy of the despatch that had been given B | to a member of the House of Commons , he ( Lord Ellen- m borough ) desired to give an explanation ^ on the subject . ¦& . The n ^ ble Earl opposite ( Lord aranville ) having asked K for information respecting the despatch , he ( Lord Ellen- fc , borough ) sent him a copy of it , and , having done so , he Wk considered it was but fair to send a copy also to the B | member of the House of Commons ( Mr . Bnght ) who B | had likewise put a question in reference to it . -. lhenoblo . W , Earl got his first , and the same messenger carried botli .- « copies . The messenger went first to the noble Larh §| ^ i :. i » r . nA n , ! , ! ' hv accident , the lion , member , . of-the m
other House , having left the residence to which it : \ v « E directed , did not get possession of the despatch for some M > hours after it reached the noble Earl . —In answer to a B . question from Earl Grey , Lord El . xj 3 Nborougk admittal m . that the Government was only in possession , of the lirst » drau gh t of Lord Canning ' s Proclamation—not the copy m actually issued by the authorities in Oude . The Govern- m ment did not even know with certainty that the Proola- fe mation had been published in India at all . fhey had - & received no direct communication from the Governor- M General for nearly a month . ,., -. * An animated conversation ensued , from which it ap- -fc peared tl . at 5 Ir . Vernon Smith , the late President of the * I .-. , " <• / -I ... * i i , «/ i t . ; nno liii . vpfirpmfint from olluc s ? nuui ^ i ^^ v »
. xsoaru oi tiu , nan . , .. .... _ _ ... received a private letter from Lord Canning , in which he | I stated that the proclamation he was about to issue 5 . ; would probably require some future explanation , which g : the pressure of public business prevented him iroin x Uivin- at the moment . That letter had not beon . rom- |; municated by Mr . Vernon Smith to his successor in cilice ; | and Lord Ellknborough said he was not aware such a , | letter had been received . —Tho Earl of Mawiesisl-uy ob- | served that it is usual for any Minister receiving even | a private letter , after quitting office , which Telated to the | business of tho department to which he had belonged , to | communicate it to his successor . —The Marquis ol Lass-. I DowNic explained that INIr . Ternon Smith did nut reewve 1 the letter till the evening of the previous Thursday altci 1 the question in reference to the proclamation had bte « nsked in tho House of Commons .
The Earl of Albisiuiaulu said he would postpone uu resolutions with reference to the annexation of the slnie > of native princes in India of which he had given notice . He did not want to have it supposed that he sanctioncl in any way tho extraordinary conduct ot her iMnjiM . y Government in censuring a Governor-General cnga ^;' . and skilfully engaged , in suppressing one of the gron w mutinies on record . There were probably fovy ot u » e « 1-r .. i . 1 ¦ _ .. i , « _ .. „ . . l . i «« . # . \ ntiw / % t \*\ + n tlio tr * n (^ ot tnC Ucj " \ iA \> € * ^
| , JLjOlUSLliptt \ VilU wuuiu nub AU | u »^ u . «~ .---patch which had been written in refcrcn-ce to t ' loJ 1 " " damn tion of the Governor-General . The conduct 0 tie Government towards him was most unwise ami mjj indiscreot ; and tho publication of the despatch u v I President of tho Board of Control , before ^ the P" ^ ^;" whom it was addressed was cognizant of » t , was , 11 " ccived , positively illegal . ,, ] The Earl of Er , r . ira « onournr said tho noble i . »> rn ' done justice to 0110 Governov-denoral , and he lu »| . eii would do justice to another . The rusoliilioua <> noble Lord conveyed the strongost l > oss » Ul . . ' " i « t . riii-Lord Dalhousie ; but they did not state kurl . V " » I , ,. inln i , nnn which ho hadac . tcil . 1 f the pohcy oi , '/ , , win
DnlhoiiBio wns to bo censured , the priu « iL » lc by --was guided should ho stated in hia own words . The subject then dropped . ,, , , The Ciistomk T > irriKH ( No . 2 ) liiu , llio Exr . M . and tho Exoiikqukh Bonds ^ , « t )« i ' - > ' wcru third time . . . . i ,,,, ] . Their Lordships ndjouriioa at half-pftst six ^<" CITY OP TAMiatUMC KM 5 CTIOM . In tho Howie ok Commons , Mr . DuNwn- hrn . „ ( J _ tho report of tho City of Limerick election « - <•"" ' , Tho committed reported that Major Gavan vrns not
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Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1858, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15051858/page/2/
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