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^ T ^ : imoualy carried . Memorials from Cardiff and Swansea ii in favour of the proposed refotmatory were then presented , f an influential committee-was appointed for the purpose £ of obtaining donations and annnal subscriptions , and a v vote of thanks was awarded to the High Sheriff for a presiding- -..- ¦ ' . The Southampton Election . —Mr . Edwin James , r Q . C ., addressed a meeting of the Liberal electors at p Southampton on "Wednesday evening . He was received with much favour , and the opinions he expressed were in t accordance with enlightened principles of progress . The 3 meeting was adjourned till Tuesday evening , to afford c Mr . Weguelin , the other candidate , an opportunity of t explaining his views . Sir E . Butler , a Conservative t supporter of Lord Palmerston , is also in the field . Mr . i Serjeant Pigott has retired , rather than divide the 1 Liberals with Mr . James . ' Fires . —A very destructive fire occurred on Thursday £ pght at the premises of Messrs . Hbdgkinson and Rolls , ] patent envelope mamifacutrers , Church-passage , Upper i Thames-street , City . It was not until a large body of e water tad be « n thrown on the building that the flames were subdued , and tbe warehouse was then found to be i completely destroyed . Some damage was also done to the belfry and steeple of St . Bennett ' s Church , hard by , 1 for which at first great fears were entertained . The 1 vestry likewise suffered , and the total damage amounts < to maay thousand pounds . —The premises of Messrs . ; Horton , flannel manufacturers , of Bromley , Middlesex , ' were nearly destroyed by fire on Thursday morning . The State of the Metropolis . —Sir George Grey ' has been waited upon hy a deputation from Paddington , which called his attention to the inefficiency of the ; police arrangements . Australia . —By the latest advices from Melbourne . « brought ^ by the Lightning ,-we learn that the Ministry < has been overthrown . Mr . Cowper has formed a new ] Government . The SoiitciTOB-GEKERAXSHip . —The Hon . Stuart ' Wortley has accepted the office of Solicitor-General . This creates a vacancy in the Recordership of the City , ' which , it is Relieved , Mr . Bodkin will fill . New Woekhouses . —The deputation appointed at a naeeting of ratepayers of the "West London Union , held on Tuesday evening , to protest against the erection of the proposed new workhouse , waited on Thursday by appointment upon the Poor-law Commissioners at Gwydyr House , Whitehall . After they had stated their objections , the Hon . Mr . Bouverie said that he-was informed that in the time of pressure the present workhouse had not adequate accommodation . He thought the guardians Were the better judges of "what was required than he was . The guardians were selected by the ratepayers , and , if they did not fuily represent them , that was a question for the ratepayers . M . KosscTH . —The last of M . Kossuth ' s three lectures at Manchester was delivered on Saturday . The subject was tbe Austrian Concordat , which the patriot loudly : denounced . He mourned over the decline of Protestantism , and warned this country against forming an alliance with so base a power as Austria . The Persian Expedition . —Sir James Outram , K . C . B ., has left Southampton for Bombay , in order to take the command of the British force destined to operate against Persia . The Sewage Question . —The Board of "Works had an interview with Sir Benjamin Hall on Thursday , with reference to their differences on tbe drainage question . After an explanation from Mr . Thwaites , who conceived they had substantially complied with the Act of Parliament , Sir Benjamin Hall read a letter , in which Captain Burstill , a gentleman appointed "by tho Admiralty to report on the question , recommended that , at the south side , the outfall should bo at the upper part of the Erith Reach , fifteen miles from London-bridge , 7-8 th of a mile from Erith Church , and a quarter of a mile below Jenningtree-point , nearly opposite Raynham Creek , and at the north side . Sir Benjamin said he would be satisfied with this outlet , and the board indicated a disposition to adopt it . 1 ,- , ; . » . . . [ a " j t _ ' ' 0 , d l" £ \ i 3 ~ 1 ! ~ _ ,
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Lkader Office , Saturday , November 22 . THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY FRAUDS . Redpath and Kent were agnin examined nt tho Clerkenwell police-court yesterday ( Friday ) . Tho former appeared -very hapgard , "but Kent looked extremely lively and indifferent . Mr . Gifford ( who appeared for tho prosecution ) Bai < l ho did not propose to occupy tho attention of tho court witli details . On tho last occasion , two cases wcro proved , and ho should now proceed with four more , malung siJc cases in all . lie should show that Redpath had received dividonda on tho amount of stock fraudulent ^ ' standing ia 'his name . With respect to the aharo Kent liad in the transaction , it would be shown that ho had made entries in the book which contained Mr . Rodpath ' a account , and it would bo shown that ho must have boon cognizant of those fraudu-| lent transfers . He should also call the attention of tho « Olirt to another class of frauds which had been comho ho x- " < 1 art cro » re , etl- ) ck 'ect it jok bo tlu- tho > m-
¦ ¦ mitted jointly by the two prisoners . There was a transfer of stoci from Stephen George Hammond to George Sidney , and the attesting witness was Charles Kent . It was believed that the name of Sidney was a forgery , and that there was no such person in existence . It would be shown that Sidney did not live at the place represented , but that Redpath , when he was out of em- ployment , resided there some years ago . The evidence was then gone into , and corroborated these statements , the general effect being that the £ gure lad in several cases been added to certain amounts consisting- simply of a few hundred and odd pounds , so that there was a fraudulent gain of 100 Z . upon each of the transactions . In the cross-examination of Mr . Clarke , formerly registrar of the Great Northern Railway Stock , he said : —" The next account to Redpath ' s , on page 554 , is Robertson and Watson ; it is a joint account , and comprises a considerable number of items . " Mr . Wontner : " Now , look at this , and see if nearly all the items are not written on erasures . " Witness : " I don't see it . " Mr . Wontner : " Look again , and be particular . " Witness : " I think I see two . " ^ Mr . Wontner : "Can't you find four or six there . If not my eyes have deceived me . " Witness : "I really cannot see more than two . " A lighted candle was procured , against which witness held the page , and minutely examined it , adding , "I really do not see more than two— : iftwo . I think there is but one . " He again minutely examined the page , and said he could see but one erasure Possibly , he continued , what Mr . Wontner pointed out were erasures , but he would not swear that they were . The following letter from Kent to Redpath was produced and read : — " My dear Sir , —I enclose you three letters . Nothing has been wanting . You may depend on my keeping everything straight " ( this word was un- derscored ) , " and I will not leave the office . I am very much obliged for your card . lam much in want of 30 / . Had I not better sell some of my stock?—Yours very truly , —Chas . Kent . " ! It was mentioned in the course of the trial that the clerks frequently received assistance from Redpath , and that he was very kind tothem . Both tie accused were remanded for a week . A petition in bankruptcy was yesterday presented against Redpath . The case has been allotted to Mr . Commissioner Goulburn , and Mr . Pennell 13 the offi- cial assignee . It is understood that the petitioning creditors are stockbrokers in the City . THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE . Sir Alexander Cockburn , yesterday morning , took his leave of the benchers and members of the Middle Temple ou his accession to the Chief Justiceship of the Court of Common Pleas . The hall was crowded with barristers and students , who gave the new Judge a most enthu siastic farewell . Sir Alexander was afterwards s-worn in in his ovyn Court , and he will this day go through the same ceremony in the Courts of Queen ' Bench an Exchequer , and will then proceed to the Common Pleas and take his seat as Chief Justice . THE GUNBOAT AFFAIR IN THE BLACK SEA The Paris Pays states , with reference to this affair that " the two commanding officers ( Russian and English ) having exchanged explanations , agreed to refer the matter to the two Embassies at Constantinople and , this course having been taken , the dispute was , we understand , amicably arranged . " Insurrection in Spain . —The garrison of Malag lias been attacked by a band of persons proclaiming the Republic . The troops behaved gallantly , and order wa soon re-established . Five of the insurgents were killed The garrison had seven men wounded , The Eaul , of Luc an and the Daily News .- lujhis case , Mr . Field ( for the Daily News' ) moved for a rule show cause why the defendant should not be allowed put two pleas upon the record in an action at present pending between the plaintiff and the defendant , Mr George Frederick Smith , the registered proprietor of t Daily News , for an alleged libel upon his lordship . _ The pleas were to the effect that the article was a legitimate comment on the public acts of a public man ; that others had been criticized with equal severity , & c . The rule was refused . The British Bank . —The Vice-Chancellor has an nounced that lie intends to deliver judgment in case this day ( Saturday ) or Monday . Tmc Supposed Mukdeu- at Ekitii . —A young man named Thomas Cartwright Worrell , a carpenter aiding nt Kennington , destroyed himself by swallowing a quantity of prussic acid yesterday morning , whilst locked up in tho cell of the Greenwich police-station on a charge of having wilfully murdered George Carter -whoso body was found on the grounds of Captain - \ Vheatley , at Erith , on the 1 st inst . Very strong sus picion rested upon Worrell ; but , when arrested , a letter addressed to his father , expressing and protesting innocence of the crime , was found upon him . Mk . William Russkia . — A letter was received yesterday morning from Mr . William Russell , of t Times , to one of his friends , dated " Bakstchi-Scrai Nov . 4 , " in which ho states that ho is on liis homo , after a most agreeable and interesting journey but that he will return through Russia to the Prussian frontier .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . Lobd Ravenswoh . th ' 8 Speech . —We have received a lettei from " J . P ., " statingthat it was the Northern Daily JEx ~ press—not , as we had it , the N ~ ewcastle Daily Expresswhich first published Lord Ravens worth ' s speech about the Blaydon News-room , criticized by ua last week ; and that the same paper has always printed full reports of " similar meetings at the other Institute ( called infidel ) at Blaydon . " , M . Gaxxenga ' s Bygoites . —Our supplementary explanation on this subject is unavoidably postponed . The Moon ' s Rotatioit . —Lieutenant Morrison and , ' w Kenward ' s communications in our next . "We do not undertake to return rejected communications . j ^ i i 1 \ jj i Ti ^ __
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PRESIDENT BTJCHAUATS . Howevee strangers may regard the election of Mr . Buchanan as a triumph of the South , over the North , there is at least one person who \ rill smile at the idea , and that is James Buchanan . It is often assumed in England that the contest "between South and North ought to have settled the subject of slavery , that those who have taken part in the presidential conflict -were the furious Proslavery men on the one sidej or the Total Adolitionists on the other . If that were so , how strange would he the result . Our own readers do not need to be informed that there were other considerations . " What is the ' Republican' party , which has f set itself up against the Democratic ? It is j too new to lie defined . It professes to con - sider the Democratic party not new enough , I not enough go-ahead— -ultra-Conservatives ! 1 We cannot place the new party . There was something , too , in the personal character of the candidates . Colonel Fremont is an enterprising , intelligent man . He may have an honest zeal in promoting pari ticular questions , hut one thing he _ most 3 certainly desires to promote , and that is , the I adva ncement and glory of Pjlidmont . As a , i Western explorer , a promoter of mines , and the contractor for a new cause , he is admired , a just as we admire a fast horse ; but who could e give him a good sound character ? Mr . MiL-? lard Tillmobe , elected as "Vice , succeeded to the Presidency on the death of the full is President . He became President 'by the o visitation of God ; ' and got through his duties ° respectably . Moreover , he had been received l r at court in England 1 Those were -his . quali-10 fixations . The other candidate was James ie BUCIIANAK . te Aud who is he ? He is the inheritor of [ J a fortune sufficient to render him independent . In early life ho entered into the law i- and mastered the statutes in common law of is his country . He lias served in most offices of the Union , he has represented it in the c " autocratic court of Russian Nicholas , and ig in the constitutional court of Queen Vicst tohia . In every variety of situation he is n > known to sustain tho interests and dignity { £ of his country with firmness , and to behave is- with a courtesy which disarms his antagoer , nists . It is quite evident that his unflinching iis conduct in tho Central American question , and in the Enlistment question , caused him nc to bo regarded with rancour by the British ai , Government . A parade has been made of ° -y conceding to the courtesies of Mr . Dallas 7 * ' points which were denied to Mr . Buchanan ian as if Mr . Dallas were the more successful ~ £ „ ° p J jj -v s p ] jj f -y , s t - £ ^ ^ d < . : , 1 1 , £ a s . to to . ho this rc- , , - , his he , way ;
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111856/page/9/
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