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THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN NEWGATE. Mr. Edw...
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A WORD OR TWO ON THE NAYY. We trust the ...
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Street Nuisances.—The Commissioners of P...
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The Straits Settlements. The House Of Co...
certainly protect from invasions of wild beasts an island the greatest- length of which is twenty-seven miles . The Straits settlers generally wish to occupy a new rand more independent position , and we have no doubt but that upon being ranked as colonists , they would undertake several charges which at present it would be sheer tyranny to impose upon them . They have nothing in common with the East India Cbmany . They refuse its currency , they dislike its system of secret rule , they have been compelled to appeal against its interference on several important occasions , and although the whole subject 01 Indian government is to be discussed , the Straits settlements might well be taken exceptionally , and vested y ith privileges which will increase their prosperity without infringing any existing rights .
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376 T H E L E A D E R . [ No . 421 , Aprel 17 , 1858 '
The House Of Commons In Newgate. Mr. Edw...
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN NEWGATE . Mr . Edward Auchmuty Glovek has gone to Newgate for four months as representative of the House of Commons . Had that corrupt body stood in the dock , Mr . Justice Crompton would probably have passed a more severe sentence , for the least of the criminals stood before him as substitute , after the Chinese fashion , for the greater . Seriously , however , to convict Mr . Glover of perjurious misrepresentation was perhaps among the worst pieces of hypocrisy ever sanctioned by a British court of justice . Why , what had he done ? Entered the House of Commons upon an imperfect
property qualification—an offence notoriously committed by scores of honourable gentlemen . He stood upon a qualification vitiated by mortgages . Other men stand upon qualifications altogether fictitious , and make solemn oaths that they have an equitable right in rent-charges entirely nominal . An individual ambitious of becoming a senator , or with urgent private affairs pressing him to procure an exemption from arrest , puts himself forward as candidate for a borough . Some friend manufactures a qualification for him , or , in other words , hands over to him for a few days a property title worth 300 / . a year . Of that money he never receives '
one farthing , but he swears himself to be worth three hundred pounds sterling a year ; swears that , upon his honour , he believes himself to be , to all intents and purposes , obeying the law , and by this whitening of a lie gams admission to Parliament . Then comes Mr . Glover to the table to be sworn , with real titles in his hand , but titles representative of encumbered estates , and so confused are his affairs , that a jury takes three hours to decide whether his error was unintentional or otherwise . A cry from Beverley follows him . Lawfully elected , he is not lawfully qualified . He is unseated . The House is astonished to learn that the late member for Beverley had sat upon a rotten qualification . In its
supreme virtue it resolves to make an example of a political malefactor so atrocious , and with sorrowful severity orders the law officers of the Crown to prosecute him . Hehas been detected , and ,- to deter awkward oifenders , he is imprisoned four months . To be a British Bank swindler is to deserve the Queen ' s Bench ; but to be what scores of the members of the House of Commons are is to deserve Newgate . The property qualification has at all times been a farce , but the Central Criminal Court has now converted it into an instrument of revenge , private oppression , and Parliamentary duplicity .
A Word Or Two On The Nayy. We Trust The ...
A WORD OR TWO ON THE NAYY . We trust the day is far distant when the noblest service in the world—the British navy—will be made the victim of peace-dreamers or parochial economists . The wholesome jealousy of a standing army 19 not inconsistent with a desire that the army , as it stands , shall be as efficient as science and judicious expenditure can make it . But the navy is the national service , and no sane man , within the House of Commons or without , is willing to spare the means of maintaining our supremacy of the seas . Unfortunately , the departmental
administration of this glorious arm has not alway ^ ' ^ e n wortKy ~ of a generous PaHiamont . ' "IMCilliShs have been wasted in reckless experiments , jobbory and favouritism have vied with empiricism and incapacity in our dockyards , and a spirit of rash squandering or of disastrous penny " -wisp retrenchment has alternately presided at Whitehall . The present First Lord of the Admiralty has already , within a few weeka of Hia assumption of an office for which no one thought him fitted , gained goldon opinions from all who have come in contact with him : and the approval of his official colleagues and
subordinates has been ratined / by the House of Commons . Nothing could be more clear , straightforward , and complete than Sir John Pakington ' s statement on Monday evening ; nothing more worthy of a British Minister . Two great principles for the future guidance of our naval administration were established in the course of the debate on the Estimates : — - 1 . The maintenance of a force of continuousservice men . 2 . Keeping ships , in commission for a longer term of years . These are real reforms , and touch the condition of the Navy in its vital parts . The construction of snips is a question admitting of almost as many opinions as there are admirals in the service . But the Times has put the commonsense of the matter most forcibly in asking why the first naval power in the world should be content to follow in the wake of other maritime powers , instead of initiating the changes which science points out and necessitates ? We believe it is the opinion of those best qualified to judge , that the day of three-deckers is passing away , and that future naval engagements will be fought by light , swift ships , with iew but . heavy guns , and plenty of room to fight them ; and that in attacking fortifications , floating batteries ( such as those engaged at Kertch in the late war ) will do the business . While we are chatting about naval affairs , we may be allowed to express our conviction that there is no immediate cause for alarm in the announced junction
of the French squadrons at Cherbourg next July , though the occasion and the fact are highly suggestive . The fortifications at Alderney may be a costly delusion , but a submarine telegraph to that island will enable us to know at a moment ' s notice what is going ^ on within the breakwater of Cherbourg . A good look-out can do no harm : with a Channel fleet and the flag of a William Martin or a Henry Keppel in command , we shall be able to give a good account of friends and foes .
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Street Nuisances . —The Commissioners of Police have issued notifications , in answer to several complainants , to the effect that the police have received orders to suppress the dangerous game of ' tipcat , ' and that every effort will be made to prevent loud street cries on Sundays near churches and chapels during the times of service . The Commissioners , however , have not the power to suppress Sunday trading altogether . A Scarlet Rainbow . — A somewhat singular phenomenon was observed in the neighbourhood of Wigton on the morning of Wednesday week . It was a rainbow of a brilliant red hue , in the west , opposite to the sun at rising , which was about five o ' clock in the morning . Its appearance is described aa very startling . Those who protend to be weatherwise prophesy very great storms . — Carlisle Patriot .
Murder near Taunton . — An old man , named Bucknall , and his wife , were found on " Wednesday morning in their cottage , dead—the man from a gunshot through the brain , the woman from a wound in the throat . The old couple were possessed of a little money . Their grandson has been arrested on suspicion . Meeting ok Middlesex Magistrates . —The Middlesex Magistrates met on Thursday , when a discussion took place arising out of a notice of motion given by Mr . W . Payne . This motion expressed " horror and
alarm" at the doctrines of assassination openly advocated in London , and called on the Government to adopt measures to prevent the country from incurring " the odium and reproach '" of sheltering tho murderer and the regicide . Mr . Cottrell had another motion on the paper requiring the clerk to expunge any notice of motion not having direct reference to business . This motion was carriod , but Mr . Cottrell refused to withdraw his motion , and mado a great fuas about it . However it fell to tho ground , without ovon boing being seconded .
Thm Hknderson Fund . —A subscription has boon opened for the benefit of tho widow and daughter of tho late Mr . Henderson , of tho firm of Fox and Henderson , the contractors for the Crystal Palaces of Hyde Park and Sydenhnm . Mr . Henderson was a man of immenso energy ,- « nd , —at-the-time-he was-attacked-andoarried off , after an illness of only a few days , ho was vigorously preparing to recommence the business which had been temporarily suspended . Such a man haa a claim on the public puree , and wo arc sure that those who were uear to him will not find that claim foTgotten . Mit . Dickens road his Chrhtma * Carol on Thursday night at St . Martin ' s Hall in aid of tho Hospital for Sick Children . The building overflowed with auditors . On Thursday , tho 20 th hint ., Thursday , tho 6 th of May , and Thursday , tho 18 th of May , Mr . Diokcufl will road omo of lila well-known works for h | a own bonoflt .
Manslaughter . —A man named Grundell waa killed in the neighbourhood of the new market , Copenhagen Fields , on Wednesday . He and another man , named Jones , had been beating carpets all day , and in the evening they sat drinking . A dispute arose with respect to paying for the liquor , when Jones felled Grandell to the ground , and he was killed on the spot . The Paper Duty . —A deputation waited on Lord Derby on Thursday , to represent to him the evil effects of the paper duty , and to request him to repeal it . His Lordship announced that he was personally favourable to the objects of the deputation , and that , if the Exchequer was in such a state as to justify a reduction of taxation " he should approve very much of a proposition to take off the duty on paper . "
Alarming Riot and Attempted Murder An alarming riot , accompanied with the use of fire-arms took place at Messrs . Jobberns and Arrowsmith ' s brick and tile works , near Walsall , on Tuesday . A gang of from eight to ten fellows , carrying pistols and guns , broke into the premises between nine and ten o ' clock at night , destroying the bricks and tiles . Some of the people at work endeavoured to prevent them , when they were fired at , and one man , named Gifford , was seriously , if not fatally , injured , one of the charges lodging" in his forehead and right breast . The ' gang also attacked the works of Messrs . J . W . Beddow , adjoining , and committed extensive damage . They then made off , and at present remain at large .
The East India Company .- —The adjourned meeting of East India Proprietors , to consider the two India Bills , was held in Leadenhall-street on Tuesday . Colonel Wilkinson proposed a resolution condemning both bills , and authorizing the Court of Directors to adopt such measures as they might deem necessary either to ensure their rejection , or to obtain the insertion of such clauses as would be calculated to promote the interests of the people of India , and to maintain the rights and privileges of the Court of Proprietors . Mr . Mackenzie moved , as an amendment , that a petition should be presented to Parliament , praying it to carry into effect the principle of Lord Palmerston ' s bill , provided that arrangements be made to place the patronage beyond the control of the Government , by a well-devised scheme of competitive examination . Mr . Malcolm Lewin
proposed another amendment , condemning botU bills as vesting vast uncontrolled authority in the hands of a Secretary of State , and giving him a council which would really possess no p'ower of independence , but would screen him from responsibility : After some discussion , in which Mr . Jones , Mr . Helps , and other proprietors took part , the Chairman ( Mr . Mangles ) supported the resolution , and promised that the Directors , who had seats in the House of Commons , would fight the battle of the Proprietors in that assembly , and would especially endeavour to uphold tliteir cause when the House went into committee ou the bill . The amendments were then withdrawn , and the resolution was unanimously adopted . —Sir Frederick Curric was on Wednesday appointed chairman , and Captain Eastwick deputy-chairman of the Company , for the
ensuing year . Liverpool Borough Bank . —It is understood that the directors of this bank have been served with notices of action by persons who bought shares on the strength of the official reports , and who now claim compensation for being defrauded . Mr . La yard . —By private letters received from Mr . Layard , dated Delhi the 28 th of February , woloarn that that gentleman , having travelled through tuo Nizam ' s dominions and the llnjpootanu States , is on ma way to Calcutta , and expects to arrive in Lnglanu m tho course of next month . —Globe . Govorninonfn
New Australian Bishopric—Tho avo consented to the erection of anew bishopric m Australia , the boundary of which will bo a new province which has been marked out to bo called " Hresbane , or » Moroton Bay , " at present comprised in tho A" > cfa ?\ . Newcastle , which is tho most oxtonsivo ol our colonial sees , not excepting Calcutta and Kunert ' tJ Land . Art ExHHimoN—Messrs . Dickinson have opened a very interesting exhibition at their Art < - »> 1
ft j W « HAL ,.. _ Last evening the Vocal Action , under tho direction of Mr . Benedict , gno t o second of their florioa of six subscription concerts . * Macbaili us it was performed at 11 or xwnjosij s i »» on £ l occasion of the Bridal Festival V ^ om a »^ Tine Si-v System . —An advertisement of . v l * Inquiry Office , " conducted by an oa-deta uv « j « 1 C . man , has appeared in tho newspapers . Ihs oiiwiwiy torn is making perilous oncronolnnonts . DlCATII OK AN AlfllXOAK TlUVBU . BU .- 'n «« »« £ traveller , Huron von Nelnmiw , of liftyrcutli . »» * J r oonla , who intended to inuko a Journey Into tho » m of Africa , In order to ascertain tho fato of Dr . vuB died at Cairo on Hip % & % h of March .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 17, 1858, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17041858/page/16/
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