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should be resorted to in the case of the breaking down of a train . " The firing of rockets in an isolated part of the country would be discernible for miles , ' therefore the natural precaution of station-masters -would be to detain the trains until the nature of the calamity had teen ascertained . Again , should a train ( which is not infrequent ) "break down in a tunnel , the continuous lurning of -tha blue light -would indicate the danger ani TvBxn approaching trains that none but the inhabitants axe allowed to lodge here . Again , if at some two or * three miles before reaching a sharp curve a signal rocket ¦ w a » fired , and not answered , it wight with safety proceed . Had such a precaution been observed some six years bygone at the station of Straffan , near Dublin , it would have saved the lives pf many of our fellowcreatures , and nearly 100 , 000 / . to the railway . "
New Method of Beading Timber—Some experiments in a new process of beading timber were-made oa Tuesday afternoon , on the premises of Messrs . Collinge and Co ., Bridge-road , Xambetb . A great deal of curved , wood is required in ship-building , and in the construction , of articles of furniture ; and hitherto the yant has beea supplied ^ either by a very wasteful cutting away of a straight log of timber into the shape demanded , or by an imperfect method of bending , which strained the fibre and seriously weakened the wood- An American scientific gentleman , however , recently discovered a new process , which has been adopted by the United States Government , and which is said to effect a saving of fiveandrtwenty per cent , as compared with the foimer
system . The invention has teen patented in this country ; hut , no doubt , the Circumlocution Office will take good , care to prevent its introduction into our national dockyards and workshops as long as it can possibly he kept out . Several heavy pieces of timber ¦ were successfully bent at Messrs . Collinge ' s on Tuesday , about twenty minutes being the time required for turning a . Jog thirteen inches by seven in thickness . A powerful end pressure forces the timber along a kind of groove j and , on reaching the curve at the end of the machine , the wood is forced to assume that form . The action of bending expels the s ^ p , thus immediately
seasoning- the wood ; the capillary cells are destroyed by being forced into one solid mass ; the fibres are made to interlace , and the density of the wood is increased by the bringing closer together of the particles . The result is entirely novel , and not a little surprising ; for the outer circumference of the bent log , plank , or bar is precisely the same as it was before , while the inner circumference is contracted . The operation is facilitated by previous steaming ; but , when once the wood has become ' , it will never return to its original straightness . This American invention has received the approval of Dr . Hooker , Mr . Fairbairn , Mr . Kennie , Mr . White , and oiher eminent English engineers .
MlDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION IN THE WEST OP EifG-¦ l ajsp . —Some gentlemen of Devonshire have issued a programme , in which they state that , while the education of the upper classes is promoted by the recent improvements in the universities and the examLnation-tests in public schools , and that of the lower classes is zealously aided by the exertions of the benevolent and by Government grants , the middle classes bear the whole cost of the education of their own children , and that they derive less aid from ancient endowments and from the public purse than any other branch of the community . " It is , therefore , intended to offer prizes for competition to boys educated in the west of England , with a view to employments in agriculture , arts , manufactures , and commerce , the . objects aimed at being a good general education , in conformity with the common opinion of Englishmen , that skill in farming , handicraft , and trade , is best acquired by practice .
Persia . —Tho Shah of Persia has rejected the ultimatum forwarded to him by Ferulch Khan . It is expected at Constantinople that a direct alliance will be concluded and published between England and the Irnaqm of Muscat . —The British fleet has taken possession of the fort of Bushiro and tho island of Karrak . . C ^ wa .. —A despatch has been received from Constantinople , giving tUo substance of the Chincso news brough t by the Calcutta steamer . From this it appears that Tea , backed up by the gentry and people , continued obdurate . Tho Trench Folly Fort had been taken and destroyed . The Chinese had set firo to the factories , and all tho Aonga were destroyed . The Oriental , Agra , and Mercantile Banks wore on fire , with no hopes of saving them . One fatal accident had occurred Mr O T . Xane , uephow of Sir J . Bowing , l > oing killed by ' lalbna m of a wall . It was said the citv of Canton
woma mo longer be spared , and that tho discharge of rockets nnd shells had already commenced . T « h Aut Treasures Exhibition at Manchester is making progress towards completion . Several noblemen and santlemen h « vo liberally contributed from their stores of fine arts and archaeological remains ; ami tho Itoyal Academy h « q for tho first timp departed from one ot its moat rigid rules , and consented to allow a selection to be made from iU ' diploma pictures '—that is to sav from those pictures presented to the Aoademy by artists upon cloction to tho full dig-iiity of Itcryal Academician . -ii * T ftro au PP ° BC ( 1 to K » vo tho most complete illuBtnUion of the peculiar characteristics of each pamtor , Dkrui-ATiON to Sir Gjcokgk Gkkt . —A deputation ,
composed of the rector , churchwardens , and . vestrymen of the parish of St . James , " Westminster , had . an interview last Saturday with Sir George Grey , in order to eall his attention to tJhe increasing number of houses of ill-fame and betting-offices in that part of London . They stated that it is now the habit for disreputable people to hire the upper parts of houses , the basement floors of which are occupied as apparently respectable « hops ; so that a lady never knows when she may not be compromising her character when she is mating purchases . Sir George Grey said that he would refer tie first complaint to the Attorney-General . H added ¦; - « - ' With respect to what has been said about prostitutes in the streets , and the power which exists -under the Police Act of dealing with them , the law requires that some act should be done to prove that the person is
really a prostitute . It will never do to place in the hands of the police the power to take up any woman whom they please to suppose to be a person of Improper character . In our anxiety to suppress a great evil , we must take care not to give such instructions to fhe police as might , when carried out , prove injurious and annoying to persons of good character . " As to the betting-liouses , the complaint was rather against the administration of the law than the law itself . Sir Richard Mayne ( who was present ) entered into an explanation of the difficulties experienced by the police in obtaining convictions against the proprietors of betting-houses . Mr . Geesin ( one of the deputation ) said he had been informed that policemen were in . the habit of frequenting gambling-houses . Sir Richard Mayne said he had not received a single complaint on the subject , .
Meeting of Pabuament . —We have reason to believe that the address in the Commons ih reply to her Majesty ' s speech from the throne , will be moved by Sir John Ramsden . —Globe . Mi ? .. Thackeray , on Tuesday evening , gave , at the Marylebone Institution , the last of his lectures on" the Four Georges . " The " first gentleman in Europe " formed the subject , and was remorselessly , but most justly , held up to the ridicule and contempt of the audience . The British Bank . — Several more shareholders
were summoned in the Court of Bankruptcy on Monday , but the cases were heard in a private room . The Commissioner then proceeded to hear claims to prove made by several shareholders under the supplemental charter . Mr . Mellish appeared for the claimants , and said that he now proposed to proceed with a new case . He called Mr . Marsh to state his case ; and this having been done nd some further business transacted , an . adjournment ' was ordered . A petition to the Court of Bankruptcy , on behalf of Mr . Humphry Brown , for the purpose of annulling the adjudication of bankruptcy in connexion with the Royal British Bank , was on Wednesday -withdrawn , matters having been substantially arranged between Mr . Brown and the assignees . Mr . Brown undertakes to give the most efficient assistance to the estate of the bank ; and the parties appear now to have arrived at very amicable terms .
Criminal Pkockss against Admirai . Seymour . — We are indebted ( says the Morning Star ") to a correspondent for the following statement : ~ At the usual meeting of the Bradford Foreign Affairs Committee it was unanimously resolved— " 1 . That Admiral Seymour has unlawfully destroyed human life in bombarding Canton . 2 . That this Committee resolve to co-operate with the Newcastle Committee , to proceed against Admiral Seymour for murder at tho Central Criminal Court . 3 . That as Sir John Bowring and Mr . Consul Parkca were accessory to murder , the Committee therefore resolve to institute legal proceedings against them , " New Educational Museum . — The Committee of Privy Council on Education "have arranged to open the
New Educational Museum at the new buildings , South Kensington , in the spring . It is hoped that tho museum will afford great help to all classes of the public in carrying out the work of national education , and especially those engaged in teaching . The museum will exhibit , under a proper classification , all importan books , diagrams , illustrations , and apparatus connected with education , already in use , or which may bo published from time to time , either at home or abroad . The public will bo admitted free , as a public exhibition , on certain days of the week ; and on other days , which will bo reserved for students , opportunity will bo given to oxaniino and consult tho objects with tho utmost froedom . Tho objects exhibited at St . Martin ' s Hall in 1854 , which were presented to tho Society of Arts , and b
y that eociety given to the Education Board in order to found a museum , will form part of tho Educational Museum . Tho producers of apparatus , books , diagrams , maps , & c , used in teaching ; , will havo tho privilegesubject to certain regulations—of placing their publications , and productions in tho museum , and thus making them known to the public ; and wo understand that a unanimous . dosiro to assist has bocn expressed by all tho great educational societies and publishers . A catalogue will bo prepared , which will contain tho price lints which exhibitors may furnish for insertion . The books and objects will bo grouped under tho following divisions : —1 . School buildings nnd flttinga , forms , Uesks , Blatoa , plans , models , & c . ; 2 . General education , including reading , writing , grammar , arithmetic ,
mathematics ,, foreign languages , histories ; S . Drawing and the fine arts ; 4 . Music ; ft . Household economy 6 . Geography and astronomy 5 7 . Natural history- I 8 . Chemistry ; 9 . Physios 5 10 , Mechanic * j 11 . Appal ratna for teaching the blind end the < lea £ and dumb . Thje Phh ^ ifrlnes .. —A fearful hurricane has deva * tated these islands , and caused a lamentable destruction of life and property by sea and band . The rtorm va » also felt at Borneo and the Moluccas , ax $ as far as Java but in » less viol / eat degree .
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^ Leader Office , Saturday January 24 . THE INCOME-TAX . DEPUTATION TO THE CHANCELLOR OP THE : EXCHEQUER . A deputation , headed by Major Keed , had an interview yesterday ( Friday ) with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence , with a view to urgin g a reduction of the income-tax . In reply to the remarks of various speakers , Sir G : Q . Lewis said : — " The income-tax in its present form might continue until a year after the 5 th of April next , but Government would not take any undue advantage of that . But he must add with regard to the rate of the incometax that it was a case not of taxation , but of expenditure . The question to be considered waSj what would be the expenditure of the following 1 year ? With regard to the interest of debt , there would be , no doubt , some increase on account of the loans contracted during the war . Two millions of Exchequer Bonds would fall'due ' ' next year , and the civil last and civil expenses would be about the same as last year . Upon the expenditure the ways a : nd means of the country must depend . The amount realized by the incdme ^ tax was very large , and the suggestion now made , unless some other tax were proposed—which he presumed the deputation did not contemplate—would reduce it by eight millions . That was , he was afraid , all he could say , and he had stated his views as fully and with as much candour as the circumstances in whicli he was placed would permit . " He also said that he had no desire to continue the malt-tax . A meeting has been held in Dublin against the war addition to the income-tax .
Changes In The War Office. Some Changes ...
CHANGES IN THE WAR OFFICE . Some changes in the higher offices of the "War Department will probably take place next week , with the view of bringing the organization of the office to a state calculated to render the course of business more simple and expeditious . The office of Deputy Secretary will , like that of Secretary at War , be abolished ; and Sir Benjamin Ifawes , who has most efficiently discharged the duties of the office for nearly six ; years , will now become permanent Under Secretary of State , Mr . Peel retaining the Parliamentary Under Secretaryship , and Colonel Mundy obtaining a military command . The office of Secretary to the Ordnance -will also be abolished , as the Ordnance branch is now amalgamated with the army generally . We understand that Mr . Godley , now Director-General of Stores , will be Assistant Under Secretary to tho department under the new organization . —Globe .
Fkance. The Lawsuit Brought By The Princ...
FKANCE . The lawsuit brought by the Princes of the House of Orleans against M . Valette for tho recovery of certain manuscript volumes written by Louis Philippe , was decided on Thursday afternoon . The Princes have been nonsuited and , condemned to the costs . It was proved to the satisfaction of tho court that the two first . volumes of this work wore mere copies ; but the third volume , being written in the handwriting of Count de Girardin , secretary to Louis Philippe , will , by order of tho tri bunal , be handed over to the son of tho Count . *—Globe .
Mr. Roebuck In Liverpool.—Tho Annual Pub...
Mr . Roebuck in Liverpool . —Tho annual public meeting of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association was held in the Concert Hall , Lord Nelson-street , Liverpool , on Thursday night . Laurence Heyworth , Esq ., M . P ., took the chair , and the chief speech of the eveniug was delivered by Mr . Roebuck , M . P . The gist of that gentleman ' s remarks was , that you cannot expect to have Financial or Administrative Reform without first obtaining Parliamentary Reform . He denounced the income-tax as now levied , and attributed the superiority of our nayy over our army to the fact that it is more democratic in its construction .
Mu . Ruskin . —A Conversazione was held by the Architectural Association in the Hall of Icon ' Inn , Newcastle-street , Strand , last evening . Mr . Ruskin delivered an address , which was listened to with dcop interest-nnd attention by an aiulicnco at once crowded and select . Tine Cape op Good Hopk . —Tho latest nows from tho Capo is of a pacific and reassuring character . Cuystal Palack . —Return of admissions for six dnys ending Friday , January 23 rd , including season ticket holders , Co 84 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24011857/page/10/
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