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Record Of The Week. Homis And Colonial. ...
at their rooms in St . James ' s Square , at which Colonel bykes presided . A paper was read by Mr . Newmarch on Indian currency and banking- ; in which he strong-ly objected to the plan of finance proposed by Mr . "Wilson to be established in India , because it proceeded upon the principle of separating the banking department from the' issuing department . It was his firm belief that if they separated the function of issue from the function of banking-, they Would' have no means at a moment of crisis of saving- the country . The lion . , gentleman dwelt / with much , earnestness upon the injurious effect which Mr . Wilson ' s scheme would . Lave upon discounts and the monetary operations in India . The proceeding's of the eveningclosed without any formal result , it not being- in accordance with the rules of the society to come to any resolution on questions discussed . .
A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday at Guildhall , the Lord Mayor presiding-. On the motion of Sir P . Laurie , thanks were voted to the Bishop of Gloucester and the Rev . H . Christinas , M . A ., Chaplain to the Lord Mayor ; for their sermons preached by themat Christ Church on Easter Monday and Tuesday . A coramiinication was received from the Justices of the City of London relative , to the office of Pass-master of Irish and Scotch vagrants , recently rendered vacant by the death of Mr . Gill , and recommending that the future salary attached to the office should be £ 50 per annum '; An order was made based upon the terms of the report . The installation of the Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone , M . P ., as Rector of the University of Edinburgh , took place on Monday , April 16 th , in the Music-hall there . v The amount annually collected by rates , tolls , and dues , in the United Kingdom is £ 14 , 902 , 090 , as far as the same has been ascertained . ¦ '
Shortly after 11 o ' clock , on Monday night , a fire , which has resulted in the destruction of thirteen houses , broke out on the premises of Mr . W . Hunter , of Wood-wharf , Greenwich , immediately facing the river . The origin of the disaster is unknown , and unfortunately the larger number of the sufferers are uninsured . On Tuesday , April 17 th , the great . fight between Heenari and Savers for the championship of England took place at Farnborough , close to Aldershott . It lasted upwards of two hours , and _ was brought to a close partly by the interference of the police , neither of the combatants being pronounced victorious , but both being dreadfully punished . Among the spectators were members of both Houses in plenty ; authors , poets , painters , soldiers , and even clergymen , were present . __ __ _ . ; . . ' , _ . and th
The weather was last week unusually cold for April s e mortality of London was high , though , as in the previous week , it was considerably lower than it had been in the last three weeks of March . The deaths in the week that ended last Saturday were 1 , 407 . Last week the births of 932 boys and 934 girls , in all 1 , 8 ( 50 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1350-59 , the average number was li GS 4 . A murder of a peculiarly shocking character was perpetrated in Birmingham on Wednesday morning 1 last . The murderer is a young innri named Price , twenty-four years of age , a shoemaker , and his victim the young girl to whom he was attached , a servant at a small inn in foeritend , The murderer was apprehended immediately , and he admitted that a feeling of jealousy had prompted the crime . The . deed was committed in a house a short distance from the Swan Inn . The murderer used an extremely sharp shoemaker ' s knife . The poor girl ' s head is said to have been nearly severed from her body . .
On Thursday morning * London was visited with a snow-storm It commenced about half-past seven o ' clock , and continued for about hnlf-an-hour . At half-past twelve there was . n sharp hail stovnV mixed with snow . Some interesting and valuable statistics relative to the colony of New Zealand have recently been published . They include tho results of a census , from which it appears that within tho last seven years the population of Now Zealand increased from 2 ( 1 , / 0 / to 59 , 277 ; while live-stock increased from 290 , 115 to 1 , 727 , 997 ; the land under crop , from 20 , 1-10 to 140 , 905 acres ; and the livnd fenced , from 30 , 470 to 2 : 35 / 1 ^ 8 acres . Tho stati s tics show a corresponding increase in tho diffusion of general ' education ; there aro 9 , ( 572 day and Sunday schools . Tho total value of imports lias inurensod during the last five years from , C 507 , 8 : 27 to £ 1 , 141 , 273 , and tho total value of exports from dB 3 O 3 , 282 to £ 158 , 023 . The incroase in the export of wool i ' s most striking , having risen from £ ' 00 , 000 to upwards of ; £ 254 ., 000 . Tho amount of gold exported in 1858-0 \ vns £ 92 , 880 .
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Foueiqn. From Paris, Saturday, April 14,...
FOUEIQN . From Paris , Saturday , April 14 , tho Monitouv nnnouncos that tho Legislative Body hua agreed to tho contingent of 100 , 000 mow for tho present year , by 238 against 0 votos . By a private messugo from Marseilles it is announced that an m-Burveotiun l » ns ' tttkonj ) lnco nt . Mopsinu . Tho Monitour of Sunday , April 15 , publiwlios a decroo reducing-, by ono oonthnotra , tho minimum height required for roeruitn . Tho paoltot from Naples , via Mnrsoillefl , April It , brings nn oflioinl report affirming that tranquillity reigns at Palermo . From'Turin , April 15 , wo loam thnt tho cession of Nice to l < rnnco was an absolute necessity for Piedmont , in order to obtain from Napoleon III . tho guamntoe of Lombnrdy nnd tho Duohy of Parma . This guarantee appears to bo expressed in a neorot article of tho treaty of the 3 'i . th of March lust , rdutivo lo tho cession of Savoy nnd Nioo . Franco has , howovor , refused to guarantee to Piedmont tho other annexed provinces , viz ., Tusonny u , ml tho Legations .
The news from New York , April 1 , is that the Bavaria had arrived out , and that the siege of Vera Cruz had been abandoned after six days' bombardment . From New York , April 5 , the election in Rhode Island has resulted in favour of the Democrats . The House of Representatives at Washington have passed the Bill for the suppression of polygamy in Utah . The Stock market is heavy , and prices have slightly declined . Cotton dull . Sales , three days , . 3 , 500 bales . Middling Uplands , ll ^ c . Flour firm , and prices are rather dearer . Wheat dull , and lc . per bushel lower . Corn firm , at higher rates . At New Orleans , April 4 , cotton unchanged . Sales to-day , 12 , 500 bales ; sales yesterday , ( 3 , 500 bales . Middling quoted lOJc . to lie . Sales of three days , 26 , 000 bales ; receipts ? , three days , 15 , 000 bales . Increased receipts at all the Southern ports , 707 , 000 bales .
From Berne , April 10 ^ the intelligence respecting Switzerland and Savoy is that it is a mistake to suppose that separate ; negotiations have been entered into between France and Switzerland , the matter having- been placed in tho hands of the powers of Europe . The 3 £ o ? iiteurpublishes the following despatch , dated " Nice , Sunday , 3 p . m : At 1 o ' clock p . m . to-day , out of the total number of 7 , 000 voters , 5 ; 000 had already registered their votes . The news from the neighbouring communes is excellent . The voting- in favour of annexation to France is unanimous , " From Geneva we learn that on Saturday evening , April . 14 , a Genevese deputation , representing all parties , presented Sir Robert Peel with a testimonial consisting of a cup and a rifle . Sir Robert Peel promised the support of England for the preservation ^ of the independence and neutrality of Switzerland . The ' . deputation expressed their thanks to the English Ministry and Parliament .
M . Thouvenel having stated in a despatch of the , 13 th of March , to M . Til / lbs , that the Federal Council had proposed a secret treaty for a partition of Savoy , the Fede . ral Council has given an . official denial to the statement of M . Thouvenel . The archives of the Legations of Russia and England have been transferred'from Florence to Turin . From Vienna ,. April 10 , we learn that the total amount subscribed to the hew loan is about 75 , 000 , 000 florins . The quotation on the Exchange is 93 . 50 . Humours of ministerial changes are circulating-. According to advices from Sicily , the revolutionary movement is increasing in the country , whieh is full of armed men . ' The news from Madrid ,. April 15 , is that the factious partisans of Count de Montemolin are every where disappearing .
] NTews has been received at Washington , by a telegram from Charlston , that during a legitimate trading voyage on the coast of Africa , the brig- Jehossee was overhauled and taken forcible possession of by a British vessel of war , and the officers and crew treated with gross indignity . From Paris , April 17 , we learn that M . Thouvenel has informed the representatives of the Powers who signed the Final Act of Vienna of the nature of the reception France will give to the circular note of the Swiss Federal Council of the Oth of April respecting the convocation of an European Conference . " When the cession of Savoy and Nico , freely consented to by Piedmont ,, shall have been / sanctioned and ratified by universal suffrage of the inhabitants , and by the vote of the Sardinian Parliament , Franco will lake possession of those provinces . Immediately afterwards she will consent to the assembling of a Conlbronco , for the purpose of reeoiving a communication , of tho treaty concluded on the 2 < l , thof March last between Napoleon HI . aiid King Victor Emmanuel . "
Tho llonitcut ? of this morning gives Hie following as the definitive result , of the voting- in the city , of Nico ;—For annexation , 0 , 810 ; flgflillHt , 11 . Prince Gortscliakofl" , in his reply to . the note of Switzerland , states that , it is the true political intercut of Europe to preserve Switzerliuid from all foreign influenoo . According to udvieos from Naples'to'the 14 th ins ( ., it i . s ansci-ted that on Thursday last a lar ^ o bomb waf ? th rown before ' tho Puhico , The explosion shattered all tho windows . No person was injured . The .-revolutionary , attempt-of tho 8 th , at Mossina , commenced by the killing 1 of two senliimlts . Flying 1 columns vvoro pursuing- tho bands of insurgent * . Ihtelli ^ onco from Rome adds , that tho Popo had rusolvud to take i . o initiutivo in a war in tho Komagim , and that General Lamoritiiero would only conceiitrjito a corpw in Umbria , between Kono and Ancona ,
Tho insurrection has Hpreud to Trapani , whoro llio Provirtionftl Government and tho Na . tionul Guard have joined tho insuryonts . Paris , April 18 : Tho CunatUutiuHiud , in an article signed by M . Konifnco , pays it is authorized to declare that tho pamphlet , La Coalition , i ' a entirely tho work of a privtilo iudividiuil , who hae , lKjither diroetly ixir indirectly , boon inspired by ( iuvorninont ^ Ihc Btiur « o remiiiiis dull , and yr ' u-CH flat , lloiiles'i-closea at 09 t . OCc , beinR a fractional declino niaeo yosturday . From Jionie , April IS : The Fodiiral Cimuoil lms received favourable news . Tho nigiis of u fuvoiirable solution of tho ponding quoations aro ' incroaimig , and exi « Ui > t ? ( I-uvh will , without doubt , soon be romovud . l < Vom Conetiintinople wo learn that Franco will make tho Porto responsible . for the danm ^ o canned by the GrooltH on Friday lust . Tho latest howh from MoxiVo is that the Liberals ( loftjJilefl the ' 1 th Regiment of Cavalry , belonging to Miramon , on tho Cth ult .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1860, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21041860/page/21/
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