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THE_ WAE, Lighting has again commenced i...
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K Ars Has Fallen To The Russians—At Leas...
£ veCke e per , at whose house he was a customer , deposited Iff 15 and some shapings "to hm em- players' account , and abscond witi ^ 33 The solicitor brings an action against the tavern- keeper , for that balance , on the ground that the tavern-keeper had improperly cashed the chequein spite of the crossing . The tavern-keeper ' s reply was , that he had reason to believe the clerk to be a respectable man , and the Chief Justick decided that he was not bound to exercise any peculiar caution on account of the crossing . The crossing of cheques , therefore , in future will be a precaution of that kind , which . , by giving a fal- Lions appearance of safety , renders the docu ment less secure . The safety fails at the very moment when its operation is required . If people choose to observe the precaution—that is , it they are perfectly regular and respectable people—it will be observed : if irregulars get hold of the instru ment they may neg lect the crossing with impunity Now so many people have no bank , and nnd the crossing an obstruction , that undoubtedly it will he disregarded , and evidently some new arrange ment is needed . The Times suggests an Act of Parliament ; the Globe , the reversal of the position of the crossed banker ' s name and the payee s put ting the banker's name in the body of the cheque the payee ' s across . Meanwhile the public should know how invalid this security is . The Assize Courts have continued in lull play and an unusual amount of the romance of real life has been recited before them . The most con spicuous case is that of Joseph SnaithWooler accused of poisoning his wife Jane . In interest it exceeds the case of Laffakge ; for the crime poisoning is ascertained , it is traced by the same careful analy sis and accumulation of evidence , but to the surprise of everybody the husband is ac quitted , —is pronounced to be manifestly inno cent ; while the Judge on the bench declares that his fancy points to some other person , and the medical men stand convicted on their own tes timony of strange reserves and equivocations . Another romance , too , is kept before the public Just at the time when the publication of a succinct account of the affairs of Strahan , Paul , and Bates has been laid before the public at the Bankruptcy Court—just at the time when , from this more complete survey , some degree of leniency is extended to the unhappy men by observing the degrees with which they were led into their fatal crime—just at this time they are subjected to additional punishment : they are pilloried in effigy amongst the figures of Madame Tussaud s Ex hibition , with " the benevolent Pius the Ninth . The several districts of London have now appointed their new vestries ; the vestries have elected their representatives in the Board Works ; and London City even , after making some wry fuces , has appointed its three to sit with forty and be swamped—for such is the expectation in the City . In the election of the vestries contest has lain between the continuance of the members under the new law , and the constitution really new bodies—and the new bodies liave pre vailed . We have a new broom , then , in the vestrie and must expect an overruling energy in tlie new Council of Forty presiding over the federal republic of the metropolis . We trust that the fears the City will be verified , for what we apprehend is not tyranny but apathy—not innovation routine ; in short , not the health we hope to have but the chronic disease of neglect and dirt und which we have laboured . The name of the Puinck Consort appears among the officers of tho Guards , memorialis the Crown to retain the privileges of that body distinguished from ofllcera of the Line . Officers the Guards hold a titular rank nbovo their Mink ; but , moreover , they expect promotion according to their titular ,: and not to their rank . A Captain of tho Guards is called " Lieu tenant-Colonel , " and 1 ms hitherto been permitted to be made a General as if he hnd been Lioutcnan Qeneral from the dnte of his Captain ' s commission Tho present Government has overridden this in reference to the war , placing the Guards the Lino on a level . The Guards complain ; F & inck is Colonel of the Grenadier Guards j he has suffered his name to follow the memorial There can scarcely bo a doubt that Her MajkSty will refuse ; and , aa tho Times remarks ,
k s < p t s h ai t < r , 1 a a s - t J c t - 1 , i 1 1 - I - , , - , ol - - - . an , - ol the the old ot - s , of but , er ing us in real real - t- . rule and the and . tho unadvised use of the Prince ' s name subjects him to share in the refusal which his Consort must give ! , 1 The Reverend B . Jowett , whom we have ^ known as the promoter of the pedantic civilservice school , has published a work which contains f passages throwing a new light on the doctrine of ( the atonement . From the passages , published } separately , the reader must infer , that he does not t hold God to have been reconciled to man by tlie { sacrifice of Christ , but men to have been reconciled < to God by the sacrifice . Philosophy would ( mention many arguments to this second view ; but , Dr . Macbri ' de and Mr . C . P . GoLiGHTLY , made , an appeal to the Vice-chancellor of Oxford , ] asking him to challenge Mr . Jowett again to , . sion the thirty-nine Articles , one of which dis-• tinctly expresses the exact opposite view . Mr . ( i Jowett signed at once—believing one way otti- ( ; ciallv , another intellectually ! r Mr F . O . Ward continues vigorously his cont test with the " eminent engineers , " against whom - he is pitted ; and who , to say truth , have by no means the best of the battle . Foiled va . Ins attempt e to get his powerful antagonists before a mathema-1 tical tribunal , and batter them with a plus b , Mr . - Ward proposes , with a grave simplicity in winch , f ( if we mistake not ) there lurks a touch of scareasm , a to bri no- the dispute to a practical issue , by swim-- niing a turnip down the Fleet river , and so timing > the velocity of its current , and the discharging d power of the ten-feet tunnel through which its waters roll . This float , by Stephenson ' s formulae , ( , should only go two miles an hour ; Mr . Ward il backs it to go ten miles an hour ; and the ratel- pavers , he observes , have . £ 800 , 000 staked on this t , new kind of race . To the permanent interest it of the question , Mr . Ward adds that which > f is derived from its bearing on the election , e now pending , of the chairman to the New tt Central Board . For Mr . Jebb and his supporters , - he tells us , back Stepenson and the low-velocity .- formula ; , involving the more costly and colossal it works ; and Mr . Jebb , as our readers know , is e chairman of the existing Commission ol » e \ vers , ; - and candidate for the chairmanship of the fteiv Board now coming into office . Mr . Ward s - unanswerable letter on this subject appeared last : t week , in all the daily journals , except the Times . e The Trial ' for Bible-Burning . —This trial took n place on Friday week , and resulted in the acquittal ¦ v of Father Peclierino , on tho ground that there was I lot sufficient proof that he knowingly and wilfully 1 threw the Bibles into the fire . In the course of his defence , Mr . O'Hagan gave the annexed particulars of the n . ther mysterious Redemptoriat lather : — tie P' is a stranger , gentlemen , coming from a strange land c" here ami though his residence has been long enough " and Similar enough to make him one of ourselves , he lW in his own land waa born , I behovo , oven ot noble l'e family , and ocoupiod a high position and a p lace ot of public trust in the University of his country , and had ae opened before him a great career of honour . Ami , ie gentlemen of tho jury , ho in nob to bo blamed for this , n that ho sacrificed all worldly advantages nnd burst all . „ earthly ties at the mandate of his conscience and his II duty . Ho is a stranger hore ; ho has been some loure toon or twenty years an alien from his own land , bo-Ot cause , with tho impulses of ooiiHuionoo strong upon e him ho felt that tho opinions which were early lun , ! 8 > could not bo so for any longer time ; and he abandoned ! lv homo and family , country old association * , dun-mhod lie friendships , fair hope .-t , and a fair ambition , to dovoto of himself in utter poverty and Bolf-negation to- the aclul vancomont of tho immortal salvation of his lellow ut men " A soono of tho most tumultoua oxultfitj . ni ,. follo ' wocl tho declaration of the verdict ; ami tho , „' . Greatest , joy has boon manifested by tho lower orders in Dublin at , tho acquittal of their priest . John Hamilton , a boy , has also boon acquitted on a similar ira charprc ; but Kdward Hayclon waa found guilty ot an lg uiroruvatod assault upon ono of the witnesses examined llH for the Crown during tho trhiK Ho was n . omin mended to morcy ; but tho court aontoucod him to !» 1 three months' imprisonment . on Mn . Qeoikim L . Purchase haa addrceaoa a lettur to J « l tho shareholders of tho Crystal 1 ' olaco Company , rooomu- monding that tho " government" of thoooncorn should cd bo " constitutional , " and under tho control of tho Hharoit- holders ; and suggesting various improvement . ' ) in tho management with ronpoot to tho surplus proporty , tho i moans of acooHH and departure , tho rovoune and worki intr exponsos , tho refreshment departmont , & o . n ( ltuvojLT ov Tina Basiii-Basjouks . — The Brvsluhe liassouka in ISnKlinh pay have committed excesses nt n ( l Adrianople . Othors havo revolted on board tho * - Tancred , but wore arrcntocl by tho brig-of-war L . OUyioi ' rv nt Smyrna . Tho resisted , and caused nomo deaths , he nnd many wore wounded .
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THE LEADER . [ No . 299 , Saturday ,
The_ Wae, Lighting Has Again Commenced I...
THE _ WAE , Lighting has again commenced in the Crimea . Vhe French Minister of War has received a telejraphic despatch from Marshal Pelissier , communicating the substance of a report from the general in Command of the First Division of the first Coups , who says that a body of from two to ihree thousand Russian infantry , and about four or ive thousand horse , attacked Baga , Orkousta , and Bkvaka , at daybreak on the morning of last Saturday- After a sharp fusillade , which lasted for an hour and a half , the enemy retreated , leaving some thirty prisoners ( two of whom were officers ) in the hands of the French , whose loss was insignificant . " Baga , Orkousta , and Skvaka , " says the Daily News , " are three villages situated at the eastern extremity of the valley of Baidar , and form the extreme rig ht of the French position as well as that of the Allied army . Our Allies are posted very strongly here , and their reserves are close at hand . " . . Recent despatches ( dated , however , previously to the foregoing news ) say that the Russians are fortifying their position near Inkermann ; that they are removing from their lines of defence , and concentrating troops at Baktchi-Serai and Simpheropol ; that the corps on the Belbek has been reduced ; that the northern forts do not fire much now that the Allies have constructed twenty-six batteries to attack those forts ; and that three hundred and sixty cannon are in position on our lines of the Tchernaya . Russia still holds on with a determined , though perhaps desperate , grasp ; and the winter will not , as was at one time supposed , see her expulsion from the Crimea . Winter , indeed , will offer her some facilities for maintaini ng- her stand ; and we are are already told by the Kreuz Zeitung that , since the snow has been covered with a crust of ice , enormous trains ot " sleds , " six miles long , have entered the peninsula by Perekop and the Spit of Arabat , loaded with provisions and other articles for the use of the army . The closing of the navigation of the bea ot Azof is looked on by the Russians as securing their left and rear in the Crimea , and as releasing several of their troops from mere purposes of defence . The Neva , also , is becoming closed . lee showed itself there for the first time on November 23 rd , and on the morning of the 25 th the river was frozen over below the town . The fall of Kars appears now to be certain , llie news is announced and criticised with the utmost confidence by the Morning Post , which adds that "Ismail Pacha ( General Kmety ) , with another officer , who succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the Russian outposts , have effected their escape . When they quitted Kars , General Williams had been compelled by famine to send a flag ot truce to the Russian camp , offering capitulation . It appears that , on the 9 th of November , ten thousand men , under Selim Pasha , left Er acroum to relieve t ! ie'belea « nircd city ; hut the assistance was too late . The smallnesa of his force , and tlie alertness ot the Russians , have prevented the arrival ol fcelim to the succour of his distressed countrymen , inc Muscovites , therefore , have for once had a tnuniph j but the heroic defence by a handful ot men , under a scarcity amounting almost to starvation in the case of the human beings , and quite so in that of the horses , is a triump h also , und one which tin world will know how to honour . . Omar Pacha was loft by the most recent advice * ., on the banks of the Marini , nt a very short » hsrnneo from Kutuis . He was waiting the arrival of the division of Mustupha Pacha and the I . gjptiau division , 12 , 000 strong . , The Journal d : St . Petersburg publishes the loilowinjr intelligence from Kara and its ne ^ hbouihood , relating to a period antecedent to the sunmission of the town : — . i ,, niAi " Tho Turks havo reinforced then' Ivobou c-u detachment by n landing of NissamH , iin . l , **\ ov \ f ™] » occupied Logvy and Otohk . unour with regular tiooph , they commenced their offensive movement . " » " { 2 » th October ( 10 th November ) , about lour hi »<< o men left tho tit . Nicholas Htation , and took u direction of tho Tchokhat bridge , w . ol j 11 ' boon destroyed by us , but mot on thw l- « t y - U uriol militia , thoy withdrew with « ^'" lU l O 1 killed and wounded . , nc ., vy "On tho 30 th October ( Uth Novonibor ) , I ^ ay massof , of tho enemy's infantry and oavalry « u J « ( , » tho village of Likhaour ( houUi ot UBUi >; Uctti ; , on thiH poim also aftor an hour ' H coinU . il , u J book on tho rivor Tohlok . Wo had throe , in Ut > a » killed and three wounded . It is reported tuat
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 15, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15121855/page/2/
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