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intercepted letter is by Mr . Evans himself ; but he previously sent it to Mr . Cadogan , who received it as an insidious attempt to extort money to purchase suppression ; and he has instituted preliminary proceedings in the Marlbbroiigh-street police-court , binding over Mr . Estaxs and a firiend to take their trial for libel . The third submarine question is not less important . Lord Palmerston has definitively announced in Parliament that © otfernmenti wiE . not give a subsidy to the Euphrates Valley Hallway and Telegraph , but will employ any electric telegraph to Iiidia actually established . This leaves the way clear for the Suez project . . While we are disputing over the great works
that we ceMiicL create , and . eblay oaLy by our own bickerings , the French people , united under a beloved Emperor , are constructing immense works in Paris and elsewhere . In the loyalty of their hearts , they are building houses chiefly for the wealthy classes , and have crowned that act of self-devotion by finishing the Louvre , which Francis I . began , NaeoijEQN the First struck out in a new style , and Napoleon the Last completes—with honours and feasts for the architects , artists , . and artisans . It is a strange circumstance that this beloved Emperor , who is thus making work for the people of Paris and other towns , should see his own fete daywhich ought to be a holiday in Paris—kept no doubt cioo oo : uiui
DY WlC OllltJiaiS ILLLU . U 1 KS SUlUJ-Ol ^ j UU-b ^ J as the dullest of our November days—a failure . Another great measure is said to be preparing for the benefit of the French people . The trade of butchers in Paris is to be thrown open . It has hitherto been a monopoly , at the same time that the butchers have been restrained by an excise fixing the price of meats—all the different kinds of joints . The French Government is even going to try free trade , or , what we . rather suspect , is about to substitute for the humble monopoly of butchers some grand scheme of joint-stock interference , got up by those masters at joint-stock gambling with which Paris abounds . ¦ . . But the United Kingdom beats the French
Empire this week in the example of unblushing effrontery ; for not even the Court of Louis NAPouaoN can produce such a specimen of shamelessness as the scene that Dublin has exhibited in its Assembly Rooms . On the stage of that building , with some tawdry scenery for the background , Spoixen , who was accused of the murder of Mr . Little , has appeared , to deliver a monologue on bis own participation in the trial . His narrative turned out to be a begging petition , for the means wherewith to emigrate , without , a word of explanation to clear up
his conduct . On the contrary , when questions were put to him—and they were many—he-either avoided the answers , or was eagerly recalled to silence by his son . The effect of this exposure has been the very reverse of what SrQLiasN intended , so far as regards the strengthening of belief in his innocence . But it does appear to have brought him some money . Many persons in Dublin could not resist the opportunity of seeing the curiosity for a shilling . Some wemt in to seo how far the man ' s impudence could carry him ; and tho man actually made something of himself as a show .
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Thje American Merchant . Service .- —A Ramsgato fishing-lugger , a few days ago , picked up a sailor about nine miles , out at soa , just after ho had sprung from a patilset-sTiip steering up tho Channel . Ho was taken into Hastings , fWd . conveyed before tho Mayor , when ho stated that his name was Iceland , and that ho was a native of Londonderry . On fho 28 rd of July , he was staying at « . seaman ' s boarding-flhouso ftt Now York , to the mastor of which ho owed nine dollars . He was drugged and rendered insensible , and , on recovering his cpnsoiousncss , found himself on board a vossol bound for London , ltd was hero brutally ill-used , and was finally told to leap overboard . This ho did , . and thoy then threw him a life-buoy . Xn about ton minutes ho was picked up by the Ramsgato lug ' gor . During tho voyago , another man had boon kicked overboard , arid was drowned ; nnd one man leaped into the sen , but was recovered and brought back , when he was severely beaten . Jfreeland had had but scanty faro -while on board tho Amorioan vossol , nnd his person was much brulabd . The Mayor ordered that ho should bo Bent up to London , and paid his nocossary cxponaes . Funmual op tixm latjtc Mr . Choicer . —Tho mortal , * j 3 matps of tho late Right Hon . John Wilson Crokoy ' ^«* e- ' consigned to tholr last resting-place , at Mousley L ^& iplr ^ h , Surrey , on Monday . Tho : funeral was of a q ^ l ^ to character , ii ^ , *** * f
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . . "¦ ¦ r 0 — Sdturdaa / , August 15 th . The House of Commons sat for two hours last Saturday mormas , for the purpose of forwarding certain bills .
SCOTCH COBS 5 RMATIONS . Mr- Hadbsbld asked ' a ^& etherifc . is the intention of the Lord Advocate to bring ' Sai a ibill to remove the ^ present legal ( iifficuliiffis that prerent Scotch confirmatiensiaving operation ovrar the estates of deceased persons ** England or Ireland , as well as in ( Scotland ; andv-aitee wherther be intended to wtteoduoaa measure tq . 4 BSrtend the operation of English or Irish probates over the property of deceased persons in Scotland . —The Lord Advocate said he had been in communication with the Lord Chaneellor on the . subject a £ putting Scotch confirmations on the same fooling as English and T-riah probates , and . he should lose no time next session in doing for Scotland what is now : in . course of being done for England' and Ireland * THE LATE MEMBER FOR BEVERLEY . Mr . Locke presented a petition froEa Mr . Glover , late member , for Beverley , praying for the appointment of a committee to inquire whether , on the 28 th of March , 1857 , he was possessed of a qualification to entitle him to be returned for the borough of Beverley . —The Speaker was of opinion that the question had been already decided by the election committee , and that the petition could not be received . ' The Charitable Trusts Acts Continuance Bill , the Mutest ( East India ) Bill , and the Parochial Schoolmasters ( Scotland ) ( No . 2 ) Bill , were read a third time , and passed . CONSOLIDATED FUND ( APPROPRIATION ) BILL .
The House having gone into committee on this bill , Mr . Caxbd complained that the grant for the Edinburgh Industrial Museum had been disallowed . —Some discussion on the subject ensued , and a wish was expressed by several members to have the vote of 10 , 000 / . for purchasing a site for the Museum re-introduced , even at the eleventh hour . The proposition / however , was opposed by Mr . Hadfield and other members , and ¦ ultimately withdrawn . —In the course of the debate , the Chant cellor oe the Exchequer made some explanatory observations touching the-recent increase in the estimates for civil services . This , he observed , was not for any corrupt or profligate ohjects , but for purposes of general and public utility , such as the proposed Museum for Edinburgh , which the House had refused to sanction . The proposal would be made again next year , according to a suggestion thrown out by Mr . Gladstone .
CKOWBED jyWEtXJNaS PREVENTION BILL . Upon the motion for going into committee on this bill , Mr . Axrton complained of its arbitrary character . He thought the existing law was sufficient , and that the Government would do well to consider whether they should go on with the present measure . —Mr . Cowpbr said that all the bill attempted to do was to define how far the word ' family' extends . Lodging-house keepers and frequenters had acknowledged that they had benefited by the Lodging-house Act . Order now reigns in these houses , instead of confusion and profligacy . The present bill simply introduced an amendment in one small particular in tho old act . —At the suggestion of Mr . Henley , the committee was postponed to Monday ; and , several bills having been advanced through various stages , the House adjourned .
Monday , August Vlth . In tho Hoose of Lords , the Royal Assent was given by commission to a great many bills , and their Lordships considered the Commons' amendments to several other measures . With respect to the difference of opinion between tho two Houses as to the Joint Stock Comp anies Bill , the Lord Chancellor proposed a compromise . He thought it might be reasonable to allow the dividend of 2 s . in the pound to be retained by those oroditore who had roceived it ; but he moved that their Lordships should insist upon their proposal that such creditors should not bo entitled to receive any furthor dividend , or to have recourse to any other remedy than could bo obtained in respect of the judgments against lands . — . This was ultimately agreed to by 11 to 9 . —* The amendments on tho Dulwioii College Bill , with respect to the constitution of the governing body of tho college , were thrown out . The Scotch Lunatics Bill was passed ; sovorftl other bills wore forwarded a stage ; and tho Appropriation Bill was read a first timo . Their Lordships adjournod at half past six . MEK 9 KY CONSERVANCY BILL . At tho morning sitting of the House on Commonb , Sir Jamjcs Graham moved that a solaot committee be appointed to inspect tha Lords'journals rolativo to the Mersey Conservancy bill , and to make a roport thereon to tho House . He considered that it would bo well to introduco a now bill to glvo ofl ' oot to tho nrrangomont settled boforo the committoo of the House of Lords , and eo put an end to a most angry controversy . Tho committee ho naked for would roport that the former bill was at an end , and then ho would move to introduco the now bill , and to havo it passod through all its stages . —¦ Mr . Ewart Hocondod tho motion . —After a few words from Mr . IIhnlhiy , tho motion waa agreed to , and tho cpnvnittoo was appointed .- * - !** tUo evening , $ ir JAaiica
Graham brought up the report of the select committee fflefd" mireed for . and obtained leave to bring in the new T > ui , to suspend the standing orders , and to read the bill a , feat auSsecond time . This was accordingly done . DOBORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL . The Honse-iBent again into committee on this bill commencing : i ? i £ h .. ihe . 28 th clause , which authorizes and requires tile Court in certain cases to dismiss a petition for diyotee .. Several alterations were proposed , some of which waiEe . adopted by Government , and assented to by the House . Among these was one moved by Mr
tfflofVTLL , aiho thought there would be a difficulty in snaking the commission of the adultery at any tirae during the marriage , without reference to the time or the fact of its condonation , a complete bar to divorceand he therefore moved the omission of the words " shall find that the husband has been guilty of adultery : during the marriage . " — Another of the amendments agreed-to originated in Mr . Butt , who * in order to avoid collusive suits , moved , the insertion- of the words , " or that the petition has & een presented or prosecuted in collusion with either of -the other parties . "
The succeeding clause , authorizing and requiring the Court , under certain conditions , to pronounce a decree of dissolution , was likewise materially modified . —Mr . "Walpole proposed to include in the proviso to this clause , " that the Court shall not be at liberty to pronounce a decree of dissolution where the petitioner should have been guilty of adultery not condoned ; " but this amendment was negatived upon a division . —The Attorney-General moved to include 5 n the proviso , " that the Court shall not be bound to pronounce such
decree if it shall find that the petitioner had during the marriage been guilty of adultery . "—This amendment Was agreed to , as well as another , also proposed by the Attorney-General , including among the exceptions in the proviso wilful separation before the adultery without reasonable excuse , and wilful neglect or misconduct which shall have conduced to the adultery . —The clause , thus amended , was opposed by Mr . Monsell , because it authorized divorce a vinculo ; but it was carried by 88 to 21 . —With this division the sitting of the Committee terminated .- . The Hpuse having resumed , the Consolidated Tcxd ( Appropriation ) Bill , the Probates amb Letters oe Administration ( Ireland ) Bjliv and the ^ masi > vc tion in Siam Bill , were : read a third time , and passed . EFFECT OP THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT . In the evening , Mr . Coningiiam inquired whether Mr . F . O . Ward had been correctly reported to have said , at the International Congress , at Brussels , last September , that the application of the Public Health Act to two hundred houses in England had diminished the mortality by fifty per cent ., and had in their vicinity q u adrupled the fertility of the soil . —Ulr . Cowpf . r said he had a copy of the speech referred to ; and the passage in question was only a portion of what was stated . Mr . Ward spoke of the mortality existing in the most wretched parts of the several towns , arising from the class of diseases resulting from impure air and polluted water . What he stated on this point was iu relation to Croydon , Leicester , Eugby , and other places . When he spoke of the fertility caused by sewage irrigation , he alluded to that which was known to have taken place in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh and Ayr . INDIAN FINANCES . In reply to an inquiry by Lord Claude Hamilton , Mr . Vernon Smith said that the Government had decided not to bring forward the usual annual statement on the Indian finances . Recent events would make any estimates perfectly fallacious ; and members had already had ono or two occasions of expressing their opinions with respect to the Indian crisis . THE MALTA LEGISLATIVE COUNOrL . Mr . Labouoherw , in answer to Mr . Kimnaiiu ) , Baul that it was intended to prohibit in future any priest or other minister of roligion from being elected a member of the Legislative Council of Malta . THE PRESS IN INDIA . Replying to Mr . Disraeli , Mr . Vbrnon Smith sftul that there would bo no objection to laying on the tablo of tho House the papers connected with tho Act oi tjio Legislative Council of India restricting tho liberty oi tne press in tho dominions of the East India Company . THE DIVOnOE HILL . . . The House then again wont into committeo on tin * bill . —Tho 81 st clauso ompowors tho court , where mo adultery has boon established , on tho petition of the niuband , to imposo a flno npon tho adnltoror , no having been made a co-respondont , and to order him to pay uw costs . —Mr . Puller proposod to nmond this clauno uy empowering the Court to punish tho rosponilunt uiki corespondent by flno , or imprisonment , or both , ns u coi - vioted of a misdemeanour . —Tho ATTonNisY-GKNKKAiobjoctod to making adultery a criminal on ' oiico . ^ Mior " long discussion , tho clauso was ngrcod to , with uic oim - eion of tho words authorizing tho imposition ol a »»• upon tho adulterer , which tho Attornoy-Oonera i proposed to make tho mibject of nnothor clauso . In the 52 nd clause , which sanotlons < m appeal to u «« House of Lords , tho limitation of tho appeal to questions of law was oxpungod . 1 ] fl . Tho noxt clauso , onabllng parties to a marriage « w solved under tho Act to marry again , as If t » o l > n "
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 22, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22081857/page/2/
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