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L Nother Diplomatic Conference—But Not A...
would not be longer foiled in the promulgation of bis message ; so , sending it to the still unconstituted House , he resolved to " shame the fools , and print it ! " We have great doubts as to the legality of such a step ; but doubts not less strong as to the possibility of bringing the President to account . He might plead , with much force , that the longer suppression of the message was calculated to occasion decided inconvenience , especially in Europe ; and if General Pierce should fail in his hopes of re-election , it will not be because he has
struck such a blow at the constitution as the promulgation of his message without a President of Representatives to read it . The Emperor of the French has addressed to his faithful Senate , not a verbosa et grandis epistola , but an admonition , composed and published with extraordinary secrecy . and solemnity . The admonition takes the form of a discourse on the Imperial Constitution , celebrating its manifold wisdom and ascribing any slight flaws in its operation to the common imperfection of all human
ordinances and instruments .. This confession of the mortal element distinguishes the Neo-Csesarisrn of the nineteenth century . But all that is mortal in the Imperial Constitution is to be found in the Senate and the Legislative Corps ; and to them , particularly to the Senatej the present admonition is addressed . There is something exquisitely ludicrous , as the Paris correspondent of the Times remarks , in the notion of the Imperial Senate being
treated as an independent body ; but as the Romans made a deity of Fortune , so the French nation of our day worships Irony . The admonition suggests that the senators have misunderstood their mission , for , like Monsieur Jourdain , they do ixot seem to be aware , that they have been talking " prose all their life . " Perhaps they have understood the one part of their' duty only—the duty of pocketing the affront of 30 , 000 francs per annum . Why drag then : splendid liveries in the Baud of responsibility ?
The disclosures at Rugeley have not yet terminated . We have already four distinct cases , besides the abortive case of George Bate , Esq ., which was only prophetic . The jury have returned a verdict of " Wilful niurder" in . the case of Anne Palmer , the wife . In the case of Walter Palmer , which stands over till the 23 rd , Professor Tavlor has thrown put the opinion , that the man Vas u poisoned with gin . ; " and a chemist has proved
that . William Palmer had bought prussic acid just before his brother's death . William was seen at an inn in Stafford playing with small bottles—one of them , very small indeed , containing a liquid as clear as water . Immediately after his brother ' s death , he wrote to the widow , urging one payment , and hinting at another , as not more than his due for having assisted " poor Walter ' so " many , many times . "
The case of the postmaster at Rugeley is a siding . It turns out that Palmer had not only induced the postmaster to open a letter , but he had sent a copy of Professor Taylor's , first letterwhich seemed to imply that no poison had been discovered—to the coroner , avowing his wish for a verdict of " Death from natural causes . " William Palmer , however , not only gent this letter to the coroner . He had previously , it would seem , sent to the same functionary a present of game .
The railway system 18 brought more closely to book each successive week . Cambridge has now followed the example of Norwich , but has improved upon the example . Norwich secured the report of Colonel Wynne upon one line of the Eastern Counties network , and has thus obtained many guarantees for the immediate safety of the traffic , and has thrown a great light upon the state of the whole iron network of the United Kingdom . Cambridge carries forward the wo * k , asking Government to grant an inspection of four more branches in the same network , and pointing out
that the supervising power exercised b y the Board of Trade is not sufficient for the positive control of railway management . While this is going on , th . e South-Western Railway Company has had a special meeting to consider the propriety of extending the railway in the direction of Salisbury and Yeoyil ) between which a separate line is projected by a separate company . This branch has been repeatedly proposed to the propr ietary , and as repeatedly rejected . At the meeting , it waa shown that it woujd probably cast . £ 800 , 000 ; that the profits would jt » o very doubtful ; thnt ¦ 4 & 100 , 000 would be required as an advance to the separate company ; and that the object of the
e xtension—the desire to forestall competition— ii the motiv . « which has led the Great Western R alt way Company into a course that lias reduced ^ dividends from 8 per cent , to 2 per cent . T ^ meeting , however , was swamped by proxies in tli e pockets of the great shareholders , and the extension was carried . Thus , while Norwich antlr Cambridge are protesting against the lax construction and management of the -existing railway , the leading men in the South Western are planning , as other railway managers are , a further spread of the weak and vitiated svstetn .
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Hbaxth of London . —Eleven hundred deaths were registered in London in the week that ended on Saturday . In the second week of the last ten years ( which corresponds to last week ) , the average number was 1 , 289 . If , for comparison with the deaths in the present increased population , this average is raised by a tenth part , it becomes 1 , 363 . The present state of the public health must be regarded , therefore , as comparatively good ; and if last week is compared with the same week in 1854 and 1855 , when the deaths rose to nearly 1 , 500 , the result becomes still more satisfactory . Fatal eases produced by diseases of the respiratory organs have decreased in the last
fortnight ; the numbers in the last three returns having been 348 , 253 , and 238 . Bronchitis , the most fatal of the diseases which constitute this class , numbered : in the same periods 204 , 141 , and 126 . The return for pneumonia ( or inflammation of the lunqs is not heavy for this season . Phthisis was fatal to 118 persons , the corrected average being 151 . 21 deaths occurred from sniall-pox , four of which took place in Woolwich . Mr . Rixon , who registered three from that disease in the Royal Ordnance Hospital , mentions that it has been extremely prevalent there but is
now abating ; that there were upwards of 30 cases at one time in that establishment , and some of the worst description . Two deaths frorn typhus , one from " fever , " and one from , erysipelas , occurred on the 5 th and 8 th of January iu St . Luke's Workhouse . Measles carried off three very ypjaug children in the Westminster Workhouse . Last week the births of 798 boys and 76 * 5 girls , in all 1 , 563 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 the average number was 1 486 . —Fvom the Registrar-General ' s Weekly Return .
The Registrar-General ' s Quartjerly Summary of Deaths in London . —In the last 13 weeks of the year 1855 , 13 , 840 persons died from all causes iu London ; 3 , 079 from zymotic diseases , 620 from dropsy , cancer , and other diatlietiediseases '; , 233 from tubercular diseases ; 5 , 733 from inflammations and other diseases of-particular organs ; 45 from malformations ; 357 from premature birth and debility ; 407 from atrophies ; and 537 from old age . The causes of 103 deaths , generally sudden , were not ascertained . 448 persona died violent deaths ; namely , 5 by cold , 22 by poison , 7-5 by burns and scald- ! , 15 by hanging , 40 by suffocation , 76 by drowning , 162 hv fractures and
contusions , 30 by wounds , 17 by other violence . Of the zymotic diseases , scarlatina ( 774 ) , typhus ( 608 ) , hoopingcough ( 441 ) , and diarrhoea ( 316 ) , are most fatal . Of cancer , 271 persons , of consumption , 1 , 627 , of bronchitis , pneumonia , and pleurisy , 2 , 208 died . 2 , 496 of tbfc deaths , or nearly 1 in 6 , ocouired in the public institutions of London ; 1 , 333 in the workhouses . 71 in military and naval asylums , 873 in civil hospitals , 81 in military and naval hospitals , 12 in hospitals and asylumes for foreigners , 98 in lunatic asylums , and 28 in prisons . 77 deaths took place in St . George ' s , 88 in the London , 94 in St . Thomas ' s , 100 in Gliy ' e , and 143 in St . Bartholomew ' s hospitals . 422 deaths took place in five large workhouses ; 52 in the East London , 80 in Lambeth , 81 in St . Giles , 100 in Marylebone , and 109 in 83501 of the
Panora-. , persons who died wore men of the age of 20 and upwards ; 113 w « ro engaged in tlio Government service , general or local ; 205 wore in tlio army or navy ; 82 were members of tho learned professions , or their subordinates ; 29 wore engaged in literature , the fine arts , or sciences ; 442 wore engaged in entertaining , clothing , andporfonningpersonaloffices for man ; 172 wore capitalists , proprietors , merchants , or clerks ; 4 So were engaged in tlio carrying tmclos ; 76 were agriculturists or gardeners ; 34 were engaged about horeos and othea * animala ; 624 wore engaged in art and mechanic productions ; 17 ;} worked and dealt in animal substances ; 420 in vegotablc substances 253 in minerals ; 248 were labourers or of other , ill ' defined classes ; 133 wore persona of rank or property not returned under any office or occupation .
METiiorouTAN Board or- Wouks . —Tho Board has determined that tho salary of the onginoor-in-ohief shall bo one thousand a-year , including travelling and incidental expenses ; aud that tho salary of tho accountant shall bo £ 450 a-year . A Farmer kim , is )> by a Bum-. — A farmer at Northill , Bedfordshire , haa beo » killed by a bull . Ho had entorod tho animal ' ^ stall while hia hauda were Woody from killing a pig ; nud it i » auppo » o < l that thie irritated tho beaut .
The War. At Length, There Is A Prospect ...
THE WAR . At length , there is a prospect of our War heading giving place to a Peace heading . Russia accepts the Austrian terras as a basis for negotiations ; and unless—a § , frequently is the case—the whole thing splits on sanie proposed modification , or some unlooked-for mode of interpreting those terms , the Spring campaign , foi which such , vast preparations have been uiadev . on both sides , will remain unacted
The receipt of this rather surprising intelligence necessarily deprives the war news , which had previously arrived from various quarters , of a large part of its interest . It must of course be read with an eye to the modifying intimation from St . Peters - burg ; but it is not yet quite time to close oui War Ledger , and therefore , we proceed briefly to chronicle the sum total of the news from the week ' s Crimea , the Baltic , and Asia .
A telegraphic despatch has been received from Prince GortsehakoflF , stating that a party of French , wearing white cloaks ( probably that they might not be perceived in the snow ) , advanced by night , and surprised Baidai * . They bayonetted the outposts , but retreated when the Russian reserves came up . The Russian loss , adds Gortschakoff , was three killed and three wounded . This is an advance upon the one Cossack .
Numerous ambushes have been laid by the Cossacks round the camps of the Allies , but the vigilance of the latter has completely defeated the schemes of the enemy . An English transport , laden with gunpowder , has blown up at Eupatoria . A French ship of war , which ha . d run aground in the Sea of Marmora , has been got off by the steamfrigate Labrador . All goes well at Kertch , notwithstanding the recent alarm . The enenm with the exception of
a few straggling Cossacks , lias not re-appeared in the neighbourhood ; the defences are described as excellent , and the garrison as fully competent to repel attack . The cold is intense ; but , according to one account the -town and troops ave abundantly supplied with fuel , and all sorts of provisions . According to another , however , there is * a scarcity of provisions already . .. . Intelligence has been received from Constantinople , stating that the Russian advanced posts are within three hours' march of Erzeronm . The
campaign of the Turkish army in Imcritia is definitively abandoned , in order to cover that city . The ground in . Armenia is covered with snow . General Mouravieff has sent to Gumri for reinforcements , and is fortifying Kars , which , should the war continue , is to be the basis of his operations next Spring . Omar Pacha is concentrating his forces at Usergette ; but an English war steamer , it is stated ; has received orders to proceed from Sinope to Soucboum-Kaleh , to bring him to Constantinople . It is rumoured in some quarters that he is coming to England . The official account of the fall of Kara has at
length been published . Its tendency is to shift the blame from the shoulders of the Ministry on to those of Omar Pacha . " This jjersonug-e , '' says tf letter from Constantinople , " htt 3 endeavoured to turn asido the storm which threatens lum by sending his confidant , Colonpl Simmons , to Constantinople . The Coloml has arrived ; but he was preceded by twenty-four hours by the-president of the Military Council , Hulku Pacha , vvlio camo from Trobisond , where ho instituted a summary investigation . Colonel Simmon * sees , however , that ifc is too lato to act at Constantinople , and is accordingly preparing to leave for London , in order to civuso the English presn to
tr . ipport Omar Pacha . Ho saytj that nothing is more simple than his justification , and he undertakes to prove , that the responsibility of the fall of Kara rents entirely -with the ministry , and principally with Rizu Pnchft . Ho / states that Omivv Pacha , in proceeding to Kutaia , know perfectly well that Kara was about to full , and that lie oven expected to receive the howh of the capitulation before sotting out . Colonel Simmons oddn that tlio roads wore in such , a Btnto that it was not possible ) to send au army of 40 , 000 men to Erzoroum . Thin assertion , however , i « contradicted by the arrival of Bolitu Pacha in that town , and by tho concentration of troops which tho Governmont i « eu'uctmg there . " to th
Tlio Times se ^ ks row the blame on Lord Stratford tie ltedeliffe , < nir irritable and jealous ambassador at Constantinople , and haa preferred against him charges of the gravest nature . According to this authority , his Lordship withheld Biiccour because General Williams was not of his appointing :: and actually refused to answer or re-
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 19, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19011856/page/2/
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