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No. 434, Jtjly 17, 1858.] THE LEADER, 68...
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The Assizes. Tins Summer Assizes Commenc...
ham , three youths aged sixteen and eighteen , were tried at the same Assizes on the same day on a charge of wilfully causing the death of Benjamin Clarkson , a man employed at a factory at Barnsley . The accused had some slight quarrel with Clarkson about the possession of an instrument , and all three set upon him , and beat him about the head with a hammer , & c . From the wounds thus received , the man afterwards died . AH the prisoners were found Guilt }' . Mr . Baron Martin , on hearing that they bad been in prison three months , and that the brother of one of iheni and the father of another had entered into recognizances for their future good behaviour , ordered them to be discharged . The brother of Poppleton then came forward and thanked his Lordship for his leniency , and said that two of the boys were fatherless , and supported their mothers .
No. 434, Jtjly 17, 1858.] The Leader, 68...
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Miscellaneous. The Court.—Nothing Of Int...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —Nothing of interest has occurred during the week at Osboroe . The Arches Court . — -The offices of Dean of the Arches and Official Principal of the Arches Court have been conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury on the IJight Hon . Dr . Luslungton . It is reported that Dr . Travers Twiss will succeed Dr . Luslungton as Chancellor of the diocese of London . The ltpVAC Ai-bkrt Brirgis . —The second tube for carrying the Cornwall Kail way across the Tamav at Saltash was safely lodged on the river piers last Saturday . Gas in the Metropolis . —The select committee « f the House of Commons have determined to hear no further evidence this session . They . recommend to the House their reappointment in 1859 .
The Hew Mr . ' Edouakt again comes before the world as the opponent of the Exeter Hall services . He has served each of the twelve gentlemen advertised to preach with a notice m which lie protests ' -against the services as illegal , and hints -. that unless the } " - are abandoned he will further interefere for their suppression . ¦ Salt ^ of Poisons Bill ,. —A meeting of the chemists and druggists from all parts of the kingdom , condemnatory of the bill ( now before Parliament ) , was held sit the house of the Pharmaceutical Society , Bloomsburysquare , on Monday . r ; Lady BulwerLyttos .--It is stated that all matters in reference to this Lady , about whom paragraphs have recently appeared , are in process of amicable settlement , by family arrangements , to the satisfaction of all parties concerned .
Pension to the Widow ; of IIogan , the Sculptor . —We are gratified to learn that Lord Derby has conferred a pension of 100 / . a year on the widow of John Hogan . For this kind . consideration his family are largely indebted to the zeal of the Earl of Eglinton . — Dublin Freeman . This General Post-office and the Irish Opfickrs . —In . the report of the late ' Postmaster-General , the establishment of a model lodging-house for the men is strongly advocated , and in support of the ' project there appears in the appendix a report from Dr . Lewis , the medical officer , in which occurs the following paragraph reflecting on the Irish officers : — " I am sorry to say that the lodgings of the Irishmen in the force are , generally speaking , in a most unsatisfactory condition . They are much more overcrowded , close , and dirty , than are those of the English . I have constantly to make the
same remurk of their personal condition , " The Irish oiJlccrs , who number about a hundred and fifty , feeling much annoyed by these charges , which they assert are contrary to facts , liave taken steps to-vindicate their character ; but all the satisfaction they can get is tlie following communication from the Postmaster-Generul : — " The further communication from the Irish otlicers oi the minor establishment has been subinitti-d to the Postmaster-General ., and his Lordship has desired ]\ h \ llokcnhain ( the controller ) to inform them that the Irish officers have been in no way injured in tlie eyes of their superior officers , as they always have boon and still nro regarded in exactly the same li & ht as their English iVllow subjects born at this side of the Channel ; and as regards Dr . Lewis , his Lordship considers that they ought to be quite satisfied with what has passed , and canreopen the * question . "
Siiakspicaue ' s BiiiTii-rLACK . —The late Mr . John Shakspear , who died lately at Lnngloy Priory , Leicestirsliirc , has bequeathed by his will tho Hum " of 2 . JD 0 A to carry out the work set on foot by him during his lifotimo , of restoring the birtli-plnco of SlmlcKpeare nt Stratford-on-A yon to tho condition in which it \ sm during the lifetime of tho poet . He lias also boqncatlii'd a sum of GO / , u year in perpetuity in furtherance of the same object . Povr-Oivicrc OiiTiioauAriiY . — A handsome zinc plate , with beautifully coloured letters , has recently been placed over ono of the receiving . boxes nt the . Churing-croas branch of tho General PoKt-oilicc , informing those vrlioin tha information inny concern , that that ih the plnco intended for letters of delivery in tho "Surburbnii districts . "
line Conbkiivativk Land Sociicty . —The twontythird quarterly general nieeting of tUis society was Ue ' at tho ollicen , ; 1 O , Norfolk-Btreet , Strand , on Tutwdav , Viacount Itunolnirli . in the chair . Tho noble chuii-mnu
read the report of the Executive Committee , which showed that the quarterly receipts amounted to 11 , 865 Z . 19 s . 3 d . ; the grand totals to 14 * 212 3 h « - \ res , and 847 , 849 / . 16 s . 2 < 1 . receipts ; and tho total sale of land to 214 , 832 / . 8 s . 5 d . The return of the register of rights showed 7293 shares entitled , of which 2772 are unexercised . The new estates offered were the Winchester , on the 29 th of April ; the Prestwich property , near Manchester , and seven choice plots on the second
portion of St . Margaret ' estate , on June 24 th . On the Winchester estate , four plots have been appropriated to the erection of a new church , with one adjoining plot for a parsonage-house . The committee , having deemed it to be botliprudent and expedient to contract the purchase and allotment uf land this year , have not yet undertaken the enlargement of business in other directions ; but , unless some decided improvement in the building trades should manifest itself , the committee feel that thev must
not trust for the futuie to the land as a permanent source of profit . The capital of the members , they remarked , can be adequately turned to advances on every description of security ; but , to transact this new business to any extent , it may be found requisite , in additon to the taking of money on the general share system , to receive money on deposit account , allowing fixed rates of interest thereon . The committee have come to the resolution , notwithstanding the low rate of money , of continuing the rate of interest on completed shares and shares paid in advance , at five per cent , until the close of the financial year . The report was unanimously adopted , and a drawing for rights of choice subsequently took place .
The Countess ov Cardigan diod on Thursday morning at her residence in Simth-streer , Park-lane , ' rather suddenly . She was in the sixty-first year of her age . . ¦ ¦ , . ' - . . Sir John Key , the City Chamberlain , died on Thursday , at Streatham , of gout . Mr . Thomas Alsop . — -The law office-s of the Crown having expressed an opinion that it is not advisable to take any further steps in the prosecution against Mr . Thomas Alsop ,. her Majestys Government have consequently determined to put an end to the proceedings against him , and to withdraw the offer of a reward for his apprehension . . The New Adkli'hi Theatre . —The first stone of the new Adelphi Theatre was laid by Mr . Webster on Thursdaw ¦
Siege Operations at Chatham . —The whole of the troops belonging to the Royal Engineers and the East India Company's Sappers and Miners , together with a strong force selected from the depots of the regiments of the line attached to the three battalions ' . ; infantry , at Chatham , and tho battalion of Royal Marine Light Infantry , -were engaged until nearly midnight on Wednesday in a grand night attack " and some interesting siege operations on Chatham Lines , in the presence of a numerous body of spectators . Mus . London , the authoress , is just dead .
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w — Leadkr Office , Saturday , July 17 th . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDkS . Tine India Hill was considered in committee , when amendments were proposed ( but withdrawn or negatived ) by Lords UitouoiiTorf , Eli . enbokougii , and Gkanvillk . Previous to this , Lord Redicsdalic moved for papers connected with the Convocation of the Province of York , and a long discussion ensued , but with no result . At the 83 rd clause the further proceeding with tho bill was stopped , and the House adjourned , HOUSE OF COMMONS . COIJKUPT ritACTICKS AT EI . KCTIONS f'ONTI 2 » UANCK BILL . The Home had a morning sitting 1 , and proceeded in committee with the Corrupt Practices at Elections Continuancc IJiH . In the couiso of the discussion , a great many deliuitions of bribery were given , and , after several divisions , the bill was at last got through committee . MLI . KTINM 1 HOMUKXIH . —TIIH TUI 11 CIRII MKDAL . At tho evening sitiing , ( joneral Coimungton interrog » U ; d the Socretnry-iit-VVnr on tlio subject of Hie present system of billeting soldiers ; r . ml Mr . Hkunal Okiiounh asked wUou tho medals promised by the Turkish ( jovemnient to our troops who nerved , in the Crimea would be distributed . ' — ( ju neral - 1 ' r . p . i , replied that it would not bo possible to do anything this year with regard to billoting ; hut ho would think ( if it , although it would cost millions to Iiouhc all this poldiors thnt might at times bo under arms . As to thu Turkish medals , tluiy had hut just arrived . Jilt . I MITT ' S MOTION ON TIIH SI , AVK THADK . On thn motion thnt tlm Ilouiiu at its rising do adjourn to Moixlny , Mr . IIiitt protested against tho division on his motion on tho African Slave Trade being any test of tho opinion r . f tho IIoiih » . and expressed his resolve to bring it on n ^ am next year ,
The Irish Attorney-General, Especially A...
the Irish Attorney-General , especially as reflections had been made by that gentleman on the conduct of Mr . Moore O'Ferrall . —In reply , Mr . Whiteside said that the matter was made too much of ; he had made no accusation against Mr . O'Ferrall of unduly enlisting Roman Catholics into the force . lie only thought that it would be better 5 f both Commissioners were to retire . Several Irish members started up , the ex-Attorney-General being the foremost ; and the discussion waa angrily continued in spite of the audibly expressed disinclination of the House . —Lord Naas consented to produce the ' correspondence . " *
ST . JAMES ' S PARK . Mr . Cogan—a gentleman who has got up a grievance in the shape of the restrictions on members of Parliament in carriages and on horseback in passing through the reserved parts of St . James ' s Park and the Horse Guards —said it was too late in the session to make , it worth while to press the matter at present ; but he would return to it next year . He then complained that a correspondence between Colonel Browne and the Irish . Government in reference to the organization of the Dublin Metropolitan Police had not been produced by
st . Bernard's reformatory . MivSrooNER ; asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department , " whether he has made any inquiry in ' . o a statement wliich appeared in the public papers , relative to a feast having been given to the convict children in the St . Bernard ' s Reformatory , and what has been the answer to such inquiry ; whether the Reformatory at St . Bernard ' s receives public grants on account of such convicts ; -whether other children not convicts are received at St . Bernard ' s ; and , if so , whether the convicts associate with such , children ; if the Secretary of State would lay on the table of the House a return of the names of such convicts , where they were convicted , and whether the parents of such convicts have contributed towards the maintenance of their children in that Eeformatorw and to ' what amount . "—Mr . Walpole
said he had inquired , and he was assured that the feast would never be repeated . He followed up this by announcing that he meant to withdraw the Sale of Poisons Bill . . THE- . LADIES I 3 f THE GALLERY . Major Edwakds made some observation on the necessity for affording further accommodation for ladies in the gallerv of the House . . -
THE JEWS BILL . Lord Joiin t / El ssicll , without comment , moved the second reading of this bill . —Mr . Newdegate moved its rejection , and mournfully declared , his feelings of regret at the falling away of Lord Derby on the question , and he urged , with more force than usual that the bill introduced a new principle , namely , that it gave the House of Commons the poAver of judging whether a member returned by a constituency should have a scat in the House or not . —Mr . Spooxkb reiterated Mr . Ncwdcgate ' s arguments against the bill . —Mr . Bentincic followed , and ,-in very strong language , protested against the House being driven by Lord John Jtussell , without discussion , into the carrying out of his long-cherished plan of unchristianizing Parliament . — After some further discussion , the House divided , when there
appeared—For the second reading ... ... 156 ¦ For the amendment ... ... 65—91 The bill was tlien read a second time , and ordered for committee nex . t Monday . Supplies were ' voted for the service of the present year . A discussion was raised in committee on tho Chelsea Uitmcno Uili ,, and it division taken on an amendment that tho tolls be abolished , which was lost by 118 to 41 . —Another division was taken on a technical amendment ,, which was lost by 11 C to 41 , and tho bill pnsHcd through coin m it toe . The other orders of the clay were disposed of , and the House adjourned .
The Massacre At Jeddaii. A Telegraphic D...
THE MASSACRE AT JEDDAII . A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople , received liy the Turkish Ambassador Extraordinary in Paris or by the French Guvcrnim-iit ( says the ' J'imes of to-day ) , announce * that the l ' orte lnul went to . Jeddah n corps of 2000 men , for the purpose of inflicting exemplary chastisement on the assassins of tho French and English Consuls . M . limuat , who wns Chnncellor to tho Consul ut that place , and who , under tho trying circumstances he ruined through , showed great resolution and courage , has been nunicd Knight of the Legion of Honour . It is said that orders have been sent to tlie Commandant of the navul division in the Chincso Seas to dcspatcli two tulips of war at once to the Red Sea . Tho admiral commanding on tho Greek Htation is ordered to proecvd to ( . ' andin . [ According to tho AfoiiiteHr , tho English ami I'Ycnnh ' Clnvcvtituanta arc- taking measures in concert for merurhig satisfaction . J
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] MONTKNK < ilM > . The Turks have attacked thu Montenegrins . The latter , after having hce . ii t hrice nssnilotl , have withdrawn into thuir mountains iniiwuli tin ; enemy .
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Tin . ; Kxri < osioNS in rid : \ N ' i : vi \ minhti-. h Koah . —An inquowt was opened yoMd-rday on tho bodies of the two girl . s who perished in ' ( lie uxp ' loMoiis in tlio NN ' cstininwtcrroad , but « tands adjounifd .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1858, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071858/page/11/
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