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Hay 23,1857.] THE LEAD ER. 481
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LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT. Leader Office, ...
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Miscellaneous. The Court.—Prince Leining...
ments in the dockyard , Woolwich , during the last week by authority x > f the Government and in the presence oi the principal officers of the Engineer department and other official personages . He lias succeeded in proving to their satisfaction that he can produce steel of a very superior quality from the most ordinary cast and puddled iron , and pieces of iron in an 3 * state , at an extraordinary redaction in price . M . Pauvert has secured his invention by a patent from the British Government . —Times . Election Petitions . —Two electors of Maidstone have presented a petition against the return for that borough of Mr . A . J . B . Beresford Hope and Captain Scott . The petitioners allege against the sitting members bribery , treating , and intimidation , ' ^ both before and during the election , and pray that the election may be declared null and void . Two electors of Sunderland petition against the return of Mr . George Hudson , on the ground of want of property qualification . Mr . George Montagu Warren Peacocke , the defeated candidate at Maldon , has petitioned against the return of Mr . Thomas Su-tton Western , on the ground of bribery , treating , and corruption , and prays that the return may be declared null and void . General , Todleben . —This distinguished Russian engineer has fixed the first -week in September for visiting England and attending the banquet to be given to him in London by the officers of the Royal Engineers . The Crops . —The hot weather which set iu a fortnight ago has had an excellent effect on the crops , which were previously looking very backward . The young wheats have greatly improved , both as respects colour and strength of blade ; and the other esculents have shown a corresponding change for the better . The rain which has fallen within the last few days will do still further good . The Artists' Benevolent Fuxn . —The thirtieth anniversary festival of this fund took place at the Freemasons' Tavern last Saturday . Mr . Godwin presided , and the company included Sir Charles Eastlake , F . R . A . ; Sir W . Ross , R . A . ; David Roberts , 11 . A . -, E . M . Ward , R . A . ; J . R . Foley , A . R . A ., & c . The subscriptions announced in the course of the evening amounted to 500 / ., including the Queen ' s annual donation of 1001 . The Literary Fund . —The sixty-eighth anniversary festival of this fund took place at the Freemasons'Tavern on Tuesday evening . Earl Granville was to have occupied the chair ; but , being obliged to attend in the House of Lords , the Right Hon . W . Cowper , M . P ., presided instead . Besides a large gathering of literary men and other celebrities , the Prince of Oude and the Rajah of Coorg were present , dazzling the black-coated company with the splendour of their vestments and the Oriental lustre of their gold and jewels . Mr . Monckton Milnes , in proposing the toast ' The Literature of the Colonies , ' coupled with it the name of Mr . Justice Halliburton , the author of Sam Slick , who has come to spend the remainder of his life in England . Mr . Halliburton made a humorous reply , in which he said that he could not assume to represent ' the Literature of the Colonies , ' because there is none to represent . The colonies are too much occupied with hard works of Utility to think of anything else ; and besides , added Mr . Halliburton , who pleaded guilt ; .- to being ' an old Tory , ' there is too much of equality in the colonies , and in the United States , for the development of a sterling literature , as equality is fatal both to the line arts and to liberty . Mr . Thackeray proposed the toast of the occu-¦ sion , ' Prosperity to the Royal Literary Fund ; ' and several other toasts occupied the remainder of the evening . The subscriptions announced exceeded 1200 / ., including the Queen ' s twentieth donation of lOo / . Health of London . —The total number of deaths registered in London in the week that ended last Saturday was 1050 , of which 514 were deaths of males , 530 those of females . In the ten years I 817-5 ( i , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 104 ( 5 ; but , as thodoaths of last wook occurred in an increased population , it is necessary for comparison that the average should bo raised in proportion to the incroaso , in which case it will become 1151 . It appears that the number of persons who died last week was less by 100 than would hnvo died if tho average rato of mortality had ruled , a result which must , bo accepted as | proof of a favourable condition of tho public health . In tho present returns are tho deaths of six nonagenarians —a man 90 years of ago , a widow 92 years , a man 9 ) 1 years , a man and a woman 91 years , and a woman who died in tho Merchant Tailors' Almshousos at Loo at the ngo of 97 years . —Last wook , tho births of $ 711 boys ami 809 girls , iu all 1 C 82 children , wore registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of tho years IH 47-50 , tho average number was 1 (> ' 2 S . —From the Jicyistntr- ' General ' n Weekly Return . Tun Picaoh Society . —Tho annual meeting of this society was hold on Tuesday evening iu Finwbury Chapel . Mr . Charles llindloy , M . I ' ., occupied tin ; chair . From tho report it appeared that upwards of ( 500 , 000 publication ^ advocating poaco principles , had been put , iu circulation during tho past yoar ; and pamphlats , circulars , bills , and placards , / showing tho horrors of war and tho blessings of penoo , had also been distributed during tho roccnt election in tho different shires and borough * by a separate organisation , formed for electoral purposes , for which funds had boon expressly raised . Tho present . position of tho poaco oauso wan a source of sorrow and ¦
, regret to the committee , it being believed by them tha * a warlike and unchristian spirit is abroad ; but at th L same time it was thought that the cause must finall ; j triumph , and wars cease from one end of the world t <¦ the other . The official account showed the total incon ; for the past year to have been 1538 / . Is ., and the tota expenditure 1210 / . 18 s . Id ., leaving a balance in favou ¦ of the society t > f 817 ? . 2 s . lid . Resolutions - wen unanimously agreed to , expressing confidence in thi , society , sorrow at the proceedings against the city o Canton , and congratulation at the improved spirit oi kindness and reconciliation now existing between England and America . Middle-row , Holborn . —A meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held on Tuesday , when a report from the Committee of Works and Improvements I was read , giving an estimate as to the probable cost oi i removing Middle-row , Holborn . The district board e 3 tij mated the cost at 83 , 000 / . ; but the superintending I architect of the Metropolitan Board thought the imiprovement might be made for 50 , 000 / . A resolution j affirming the desirability of removing the row , and instructing the architect and solicitor to endeavour to make conditional arrangements ( the ultimate purchase of property , goodwill , & c , to depend on the financial arrangements with the Government being satisfactory to the Board ) , was carried , after discussion . The Fall of Houses in Tottenham-court-road . —The inquest was resumed on Tuesday , when the chief witness was Mr . Redding , surveyor , who deposed that about the 4 th of March he received instructions from Mr . Hunter relative to alterations to be made on his premises after the fire . He prepared the plans , which were approved by Mr . Hunter , and the works were commenced by Mr . Johnson . During their progress , he was constantly there . Mr . Baker , the district surveyor , did not state to him that the wall was rotten ; but on the 7 th of May he wrote a letter , stating that , the wall not having been pulled down , he should take proceedings at the Clerkenwell ;' police-court . On the Friday evening , he again saw Mr . Baker , when he told him where the chimney-breastwork had been cut away , and had been only half filled up , he should require the entire to be cut down and rebuilt . Mr . Hunter was desirous of taking the wall down on the report that it was rotten ; but Mr . Maple declined , saying that the rottenness of the wall was on Mr . Hunter ' s side , and he ought to build it up . So far as his ( Mr . Reddiiig ' s ) opinion went , the accident arose from the improper manner in which the works were carried on at 146 and 147 . —The inquiry was again adjourned till Friday . Mysterious Death of a Servant Girl . —An adjourned ^ iuquest on the body of Sarah Goodhallj aged fifteen , who was found drowned in the Thames , was resumed on Tuesday . The girl was tha daughter of respectable people in Angel-court , Strand , and was in the service of a lady living near the Angel , at Islington . On Wednesday week , she left her mistress ' s house to attend a class of candidates for confirmation , did not return , and the next morning was found drowned in the Thames off Maudsley and Field ' s wharf . None of the witnesses could throw any light on the cause of the act ; and an open verdict was accordingly returned . Eakl Fitzhardinoe has so far recovered from his accident on the 25 th of last February , when he was thrown from his horse , that he has taken carriage drives . Hit . W . II . Russell ' s Lectures . — On Saturday evening , May 1 ( 5 th , Mi-. Russell delivered his third and final lecture to a numerous and sympathetic audience . With rare felicity of expression ho pictured the soldiers ' battlo at Inkorman , tho terrible gale of the 14 th November , and tho horrors and monotony of that . dreadful winter before Sobnstopol . Equally graphic was the description of tho various assaults on tho Mamelon , the Quarries , the Malakhon " , and the Redan . And especially effective were the anecdotes occasionally introduced , which wore rendered still nioro piquant by tho raciness of a rich Hibernian accent . Wo are glad to observe that Mr . Russell proposes to ropoat his very interesting narrative ( but , wo are informed , with alterations ) , in the samo rooms , on tho 2 !) rd and 28 th of May , and tho 1 st of Juno . Tho price of admittance has boon judiciously reduced to one guinea for tho series , or half a guinea for each lecture . A CJood Idka . —Mr . Blanc-hard , Jon-old , in an interesting loiter to tho A / anc / tenter Examiner and Times , suggests that Manchester , small entertain tho artists of all nations at a festival . " It would bo a noblo sight to soo Horace Vornct and Ary Solicitor , and Cornelius , and Rosa Bonhour , and Decamps , ami . leanron , and Meissouior , and Kiuius , mid Gustavo Doro and Rousseau , gathered about one table in tho Froo-Trado Hall . " Walk ok Lkopold Rici > i « atii \ s Efkiccts . —Tho first day ' s salo of tho choico collection of mcdiawiil and modern works of art , at Messrs . Christie ' s , look placo on Thursday , and sumo of tho lots realised very high prices . Tims Fall ok IIouhios in Russisli .-flack , Covicnt-Oaiidkn . —Mr . Bedford , tho coroner for Westminster , hold an inquest , yesterday morning at tho now board room , King ' s College Hospital , on the body of John . Sliohan , aged forty years , one of tho men who was injured by tho fall of housou on Good Friday in Ruiisollplaoe , Coveut-garden . Tho inodioal evidence showed that tho cauuo of doatli w « h not tho injury received at ,
* it the accident , but inflammation of the lungs . A verdict e of " Natural death " was returned . y Convocation . —The Convocation of the Prelates 0 and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury was on b Wednesday prorogued in the Jerusalem Chamber , 1 Westminster , by the Vicar-GeneraL Dr . Travers Twiss , r under a commission from the Archbishop of Canterbury , b to Friday , July 10 . 3 A Manchester Satyr . —At the foot of the stairs in f the Manchester Exhibition Building there are two ref markable figures of heroic size . A Yorkshire la < £ j "» - somewhat puzzled at these works of art , and still more puzzled by the attempt to find them described in the - catalogue , exclaimed , " Ah , this is one of the Satyrs 2 " The Pook-Law Board and the Parish of Mary-» lkbone . —A joint deputation from the vestry and the : Board of Guardians of Marylebone waited on Sir Benjamin Hall at the office of the Board of Works on : Monday , to make a complaint relative to the alleged aggression of the Poor-Law Commissioners on the right of local self-government . Mr . Hodgens , on the part of the vestry , and Mr . Taverner , on that of the Board of Guardians , explained that Mr . Farnell , the poor-law inspector of the metropolitan district , attempted to take his seat at the meeting of the Board of Guardians In assertion of his legal right to do so ; that the guardians , on the assumption that the general act did not override the local one , prevented his doing so ; and that they were now threatened with legal proceedings , to the cost either of the parishioners or of the people at large . Sir Benjamin Hall , in reply , went at great length into * the details and correspondence connected with the flogging of the women in the workhouse , and with the report of the Lunacy Commissioners relative to the state of the wards for the insane , and said that they so established the charge of mismanagement against the guardians that it was impossible for the commissioners not to interfere , especially as in the first case they had been invited to do so by the churchwarden of the ratepayers , and in the second upon the representation of the Lunacy Commissioners . As he understood that the parish authorities were about , in regard for common decency and humanity , to make the necessary accommodation for the lunatics , by removing the boys to another building , he should represent to the Poor-Law Commissioners the propriety of not meddling again in Marylebone . The interview lasted for nearly three hours , and at times the gentlemen forming the deputation , on the one hand , and Sir Benjamin Hall , on the other , grew rather warm .
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LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . Leader Office , Saturday , May 23 . HOUSE OF LORDS . In this House , Lord Pan mure stated that there would soon be an improvement in the system of military education in this country , founded on the report of the commission for inquiring into the system in foreign armies . The Probate and Administration Bdh . passed through Committee with some amendments . HOUSE OF COMMONS . THE BALLOT . Mr . Henry Bekk . ei . ky gave notice that he should bring in his motion for the Ballot after Whitsuntide . NEW AVRIT . A now writ was ordered for Penryu in the room of Mr . Thomas G . Baring , -who has accepted tho office of a Lord of tho Admiralty . TOUT URIC IN INDIA . Lord Claude Hamilton was making somo observations on tho subject of torturo in India , when lie was interrupted by Mr . \ V . O . Stanley , who said he was out of order . —The Speaker decided that ho was not ; but Mr . Stanley continued several times to interrupt tho noblo lord , sotting tho authority of tho Chair at dofianco . A scene of great confusion ensued , but tho Speaker was supported by the House , and Mr . Stanley subsequently apologised . THIS I'RINCICSS ROYAL . On tho motion for going into committee to consider tho dotation of tho Princess Royal , Mr . Uoisjbuck rose and expressed his warm dosiro to provide for the Princess Royal handsomely and liberally , and his sense of the noble character of tho Queen ; but , at tho same time , he urged that former precedents of granting annuities should not bo followed , but that a grant should bo given of « i fixed sum . Tho Llouso having gono into committoo , tho Chancellor ok the Exchequer statod the naturo of tho arrangement undor which tho maintenance of tho Royal Family is placed . In former days the Crown possessed largo hereditary revenues , out of which its exponsofl were defrayed . . They had boon surrendered to l ' arliamont , which engagod to make adequato provision for tho Royal Family . Tho sovereign whs Uuia entirely dependent on the bounty of " » ° . ! > C 0 |> "' Tins was not tho ease in other kinK < loi » H ol Jm" >[>«• Ho proceeded to contrast the present , ulvil H « t willi u »™ of Qoorgo HI . Tllo privy purso of Ooortfo HI . was 00 , 000 / ., with 21 )< i , U 0 ()/ . for household bills , and other
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Leader (1850-1860), May 23, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23051857/page/11/
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