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Leader Office, Saturday, June 19th. LAST...
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Miscellaneous. The Counr.-—The Queen And...
wick , Richard Plantagenet Grenville Nugent Chandos Temple ( commonly called Marquis . of Chandos ) , the Bight Hon . ; Edward Cardwell , Vice-Admiral William Fanshawe Martin , Sir James Dalrymple Horn Elphinston , Bart .,- Captaia John Shepherd , Royal Navy , bearing the rank of commodore ; William Sch aw Lindsay , Esq ., John Shepherd , Esq ., Deputy Master of the Trinity House ; and Richard Green , Esq ., to be her Majesty ' s commissioners to inquire into the best means of manning the navj ' . " Mr . Dickjkns , on Thursday , read , at St . Martin ' s Hall , " The Poor Travellers , " " Boots at the Holly Tree Inn , " an d ¦ " Mrs . Gamp . "
The Case of Sir Henry Mevx . — -This protracted inquiry , de Ittnatico , concluded on Thursday . The evidence for the defence tended to show that Sir Henry was perfectly sane at the time the disputed will ' and ' codicil were made ; and family matters were gone into to a great extent . . Sir Henry , ifc appears , was rather a hard drinker , and there is ho doubt as to his present imbecility . The finding of the jury left the case in all the obscurity out of which it was sought to be dragged . The jury , while agreeing as to Sir Henry ' s present insanity , Avere unable to agree as to whether or not he was in a sound state of mind when he wrote the codicil to his ' will , by -which , in the event of bis death , the whole of his vast fortune would come into the possession of his wife and child . The three sisters , who promoted the suit , appear to have been amply provided for by Sir Henry ; and their conduct has therefore excited some disapprobation among-the public .
Dr . Bernard has been lecturing at Newcastle-onon-Tyne on the present political condition of France . He was very-well received . The Recent Division on the Ballot . —The Ballot Society has put forth fhe subjoined as an analysis of the last division on Mr . Berkeley ' s annual motion : —Ayes —Present , 197 ; pairs , 23 ; tellers , 2 : total , 222 ; Noe 3 Present , 294 ; pairs , 23 ; tellers , 2 : total , 319 . Majority against the motion , 97 . Total number of votes on both sides , 541 . Baron Rothschild , favourable , but unable to vote , 1 ; Speaker , 1 ; absent Liberals , 29 ; absent Conservatives , 8 ; absent opponents , 60 ; absent friends , 14 : total , 654 .
Fall of- Rock at Xlanberis . — -On Tuesday night , a heavy thunderstorm occurred in the vicinity of Snowdon , and it is supposed that the lightning must have cleft one of the mountain masses in the Pass of Llanberis , as , about three miles up the pass , immense heaps of rock . block up the road and render it completely impassable . The disjointed rocks , riven from the heights above , must amount to , many hundreds of tons . Destruction of Old Rochester-bridge . — The destruction of the remaining arches of old Rochesterbridge was successfully accomplished on Thursday afternoon , undeT the general direction of Colonel H . Sandbam , R . E ., Director of the Royal Engineer establishment at Chatham , by the troops of the Royal and East India Company ' s Engineers , in the presence of a large number of Engineer officers and other spectators , who crowded the banks of the Medway .
Health of LoNi > ON .-= ~ The population of London now appears to be in a very healthy condition . In a metropolis which in a few years more will be able to count its third million of inhabitants , the deaths in a week do not often fall below a thousand ; for a reduction of the weekly deaths below this point occurred only nine times in 1857 , though the total mortality of that year was less than the average . At this season of the year , the mortality has been observed to be least ; and last week , ending June 12 , the deaths which had been about 1100 , fell to 963 . In the ten jears 1848-57 , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 982 ; but , as the present return is for a population which has annually increased , for the purpose of comparison the average should be raised in proportion to this increase , and it -will appear then that tho deaths of last week
wore less by 117 than would have occurred under tho average rate of mortality for the early part of June . Eighteen persons died of diarrhoea last week , which is just the average for this season ; and four of cholera . With one exception , tho cases of cholera occurred to children not above seven years of age , and are described as '' English cholera . " It is stated that frequent cases of fever have occurred in Highbury-vale , and that they are supposed to owe their origin to a large open , aewer which runs near the dwellings , and to which public attention has been repeatedly called , but hitherto without effect The nuisance is not to bo abated till it can be included in the general drainage of the north of London . —Last week , the births of 854 boys and 772 girls , in all 1620 children , wore registered in London . In tho ten corresponding weeks of the years 1 . 848-57 the average number was 1507 . From the Registrar General's Weekly Return .
The Oxford Commemoration . —This lias been Commemoration week at Oxford . Tho noblemen and gentlemen honoured with the dogreo of D . C . L . were Lord Stratford do Redcliffo ; Viscount Everaloy , late Speaker of the House of Commons ; the Right Hon . Sir Laurenco Pool , late Chief Justice of Bengal ; Sir John Shaw Leflevre , K . C . B . ; Mnjor-Gcneral Inglis , the hero of Lucknow , Mr . Thornao Dyke Acland , M . A . ; and Mr . Justice Haliburton . Catta-in Grant's ( Amur ) Kitchens . — Sovora
official papers on the working of Captain Grant's kitchens now in use at Aldershott and Woolwich were lately printed for general circulation . The report of a board of offi-cers appointed by the Commander-in-Cbief is very favourable to the , invention of Captain Grant , as being decidedly superior to the present apparatus for cooking . But , although tlie general principle is approved , there are " many points of minor detail" which are objectionable , and might be improved . A Rare Bird . —A bird of the eagle species , from Costa Rica , was landed at Southampton from the royal mail steamer Atrato a few days since . It is a comparatively small bird , with a powerful beak . Its name in Central America denotes the king of the eagles . All other birds retire from where it feeds , through fear of its disposition and prowess .
Destruction of thb Barque Henry Jones by Fire . —A report was received at Lloyd ' s on Thursday ., from the receiver of wrecks at Southampton , of the loss of the barque Henry Jones , of Caernarvon , by fire , while on her voyage from Liverpool to Coquimbo , with a cargo of 530 tons of patent fuel . The cause appears clearly to have been spontaneous combustion . Bitrnino Paper Money . —The amount of the Russian paper currency just publicly burnt at St . Petersburg is twelve millions of silver roubles . Mr . Hodge , of Glastonbury , Somersetshire , Orsini's testamentary executor , has left Genoa for England , by the long sea route , on board the British steamer Teneriffe .
The Fares to Manchester . —The London and North-Western Company , announce that , " from and after the 21 st of June , " their fares between London , Liverpool , and Manchester , will be assimilated to the Great Northern - New Submarine Telegraph . —The Jersey papers announce that t * he arrangements for laying dowm the submarino telegraph cable between Portland and [ the Channel Islands are completed , and that a telegraphic communication between England and those islandj will be established in the course of a month .
The Lord Chancellor , it is stated , has issued an order , declaring that , having regard to the present state of the business in the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy , the vacancy occasioned by the death of Commissioner Stevenson ought not , in his opinion , to be filled up , and directing that it shall not be filled up until further order . Gored to Death by a Bull *—On Tuesday an inquest was held at the Salisbury Iufirmary , before Mr .
R . M . Wilson , on the body of John Wingrove . The deceased , who was about sixty-five years of age , was attacked on the previoua Friday by a bull belonging to Mr . Selfe , of Woodford . Some of his ribs were ; fractured , and he was bruised on the right shoulder . The poor man was removed to the infirmary , where he died . The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death . " The bull had alway been considered to be a very quiet animal .
Pimzes . —The gold medals founded by the late Sir Robert Blane , to be presented to the naval surgeon whose diary shall possess the greatest merit , have juat been awardad by the President of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy to Messrs . William Richard Edwin ' . Smart , M . D ., * of her Majesty ' s ship" Diamonp ( 185-5 ) , and Alexander Eugene Mackay , of her Majesty ' s ship Fantome .
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Leader Office , Saturday , June 19 th . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . THK INDIA BILL . The Marquis of Lansdowne asked whether the freso . lutions on the subject of tho Government of India , which had passed tne House of Commons , would be brought before their Lordships previously to the bill coming before them . —The Earl of Malmesdury said that Lord Derby wns still unable to be in his place , and asked for a repetition of the question on Monday . —A long discussion took place with regard to tho mode of conducting private business in Parliament . Several bills were advanced a stage , and the House adjourned at half-past seven . HOUSE OF COMMONS . NKW WRIT . A . new writ was ordered to issue for tho election of a member for Haat Norfolk , in the room of Sir Edward Buxton , deceased . THK O Kit MAX LKGION AT THE CAPE . Sir Dk Lacy Evans begged to ask the Secretary of State for War , from what fund the German Legion at the Cape of Good Hope have been paid during tho lant year the field allowances nnd full pay which the governor of tliat colony is stated to have iaoued to them . —Genora
Pkel said they were paid out of the Commissariat chest , by order of the governor ; orders had been given that no further payments of the kind should be made . KISSING A LADT . Mr . Fitzroy , begged to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to a case which has recently occurred before the Wareham Petty Sessions , when a carpenter of the name of Craft was sentenced , under . the Aggravated Assaults Act , to six months' imprisonment , with hard labour , for kissing the daughter of the Reverend H . C . Collins , of Farringdon Rectory , Devon , on landing from a steamer between Poole and Swanage . —Mr . Walpole said his attention had not been called to the case , but if the facts werelaid before him he would look into it and see if the Act of Parliament did not require amendment .
CHINA . Mr . Horsfall , begged to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there is any truth in the reports which appear in the French papers of an arrangement restricting the discretionary powers of the Plenipotentiaries in China , and ordering them to negotiate at Canton , Pekin , or elsewhere . —Mr . Seymour Fitzgerald said there -was no truth in the report .
THE MILITIA . Colonel French begged to ask the Secretary of State for "War if it is his intention to recommend the disembodiment of any additional regiments of Militia , and if he -will inform the House on what principle the sixteen regiments lately disembodied -were selected . He complained of the manner in which his regiment—the Roscommon—had been treated . —General Peel said it was not the intention of the Government to disembody anymore regiments , and no more would be embodied . The sixteen regiments in question were selected on the ground that they did not give their quota of men to the Line . . ' ... ¦ ' . . ¦"¦'¦ ¦ V . . ' - ¦'•¦ . '
THJS WELLINQTON MONUMENT . Mr . Stirling begged to ask the Chief Commissioner of Works if it is the intention of her Majesty ' s Governmenc io order any one of the prize designs for the Wellington monument , now exhibited in the Conference Room , to be executed for St . Paul ' and , if not , whether he will state the course > whjch the Government proposes to adopt with regard to the design and construction of the monument .
THE THAMES . Mr . Ross Donnelly Manoles begged to- ask the Chief Commissioner of Works what steps he has taken , or proposes to take , to preserve the health of the members of the two Houses of Parliament from being destroyed by the present pestilential condition of the River Thames . —In reference to Mr . Mangles ' s question , Mr . Alderman Cubitt defended the Metropolitan Board of Works , stating that they had been required to do an impracticable work , and in which they were thwarted by the late Chief Commissioner of Works . —Mr . Warren urged the inability of the Metropolitan Board of Works to prevent the sewage of London flowing into the Thames . He asked Sir Benjamin Hall
if he was satisfied with that strange body . —Lord John Manners , answering the above questions , said , that with reference to the Wellington monument , he had come to the conclusion to select one design which , had been mentioned by tlie authority of Mr-Pearson . It was the design numbered 18 . With reference to tho state of ( ho river , he could only say that he had no power or jurisdiction to interfere . He daily received reports from Mr . Goldsmith Gurney as to what he proposed to do with regard to permanently cleansing the river , which amounted to a statement that he could do nothing ; but
he could place contrivances against the windows of tho Houses of Parliament tokeep out the stench , and he was also throwing quantities of lime \ jnto the mud of the river . —Sir Benjamin Hall said t 1 % at he had exercised his right , as Cldef Commissioner of Works , in rejecting the plans submitted to him by the Metropolitan Board of Works for draining the river Thames , because they were contrary to the Act of Parliament . He thought it would be best for the Government to take the matter in . their own hands . —After some further discussion , tho subject dropped . THE MURDER OF MR . ELLIS . In answer to The O'Donoohuk , Mr . Whitbsidb entered into a statement of the facts connected with the murder of Mr . Ellis , in Tipperary , and tho circumstances connected with tho trial of tho murderer , denying that the trial was not a fair one . He declined to state where the witnesses -were whoso evidence had obtained tho conviction of tho murderer . THE CONFESSIONAL IN UKLQUAVIA . Mr . Butlkk begged to ask tho Chancellor of tho Exchequer , whether it is tho intention of her Mujosty ' s Government to take any steps in consequence of the practices alleged to have taken plnco at tho Confessional in the district of St . Barnabas , Pimlico ; and tho statements that similar practices are being continued by othor ministers of our Church in that neighbourhood ; and whether her Majesty ' s Government is in communication with tho proper ecclesiastical authority , in orJor to tho punishment of all who may have taken part in such practices . —Mr . Waltolk answered tho question an
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1858, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19061858/page/13/
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