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author to represent them . Instead of thus seeking to emulate the University , it Las returned to its ' premiers amours / aud has set aside Mr . Thackeray for M > . Caiutwjsli ; . Many causes could be discovered for this choice , which appears rather to reverse the recent decision ef the city iu electing Mr . Neate . Desperate efforts on the other side , and JNir . Thackeray ' s unfamiliarity -with electioneering matters , have contributed to his defeat . Many thought that lie could not add any lustre to his name by adorning it with the title of M . P . and , without either regret or mortification , he resumed his old ground in the literary world . On the very . next day , on opening his lecture in memory of Douglas Jjsbkold , he confronted his position by beginning , " Walking yesterday in the High-street of a certain ancient city , "—and the friendly laugh from the whole of the audience told how he was ¦ welcomed back again . After the humbug of the elections , the Trench Government has turned to more serious business , with which it did not like to interrupt its political amusements . Tin ' to try the persons who have been arrested on the charge of seeking to compass the life of the Emperor . The men have confessed and avowed that among their accomplices were Mazzini and Ledutj Rollin ; but confessions are always suspicious things . Hahvey Birch played the traitor , iii order to win the . gratitude of his country , and it is quite possible to suppose that men could be found ,, belonging to any nation , who would undertake a contract from Paris to enter France , let themselves be arrested , and confess an accusation against anybody whatsoever . Signor Cahvipanjella , one of the persons accused , has solemnly declared to the Times that he had nothing o do with the assassination .
This consideration should come home to our Government , for it has itself been made an object of attack entirely through a pretended conspiracy . Some persons in the Ionian Islands who can see through a millstone , have discovered a petition addressed to the English Government , begging that Corfu might be made an English colony . There is no doubt , however , that the whole story of the petition i ^ a pretence , got up simply as a pretext for a sudden burst of patriotic Greek feeling in the Assembly . The petition , was denounced , —it was ascribed by implications to the English authorities , — the President stood up to declare the wish of the Ionians lor annexation , to Greece , —office-bearers took part in this unanimous demonstration of the Chamber , —and an official report of the sitting has been industriously circulated . The scene took place on the 2 nd of July , and is very likely to have been prompted by the example of the Bengal mutiny . It may at once be a hint of the opportunities that our enemies would take , and of the manner in which conspiracies can be got up by those who pretend to be prospective victims . In other quarters abroad events are brewing , but have not yet happened for our record . The intrigues in the east of Turkey are tending to union of tho Principalities , although there is a report that Prussia hus been won over to side with Austria against the union . Spain scorns to go on with what the papers call ' disturbances , ' much as it does with -what the papers call' tranquillity . ' The American journals render reports of the Now York disturbances quite uninteresting in . comparison with tho announcement of Mr . Maroy ' s death , whioh is in itscll ' a political event . , i , . „ 4 ,. ITrunoe and England have been both illustrating the peculiar condition of their commerce . In France , at Besanoon , we have tho « aae of M . Monnot , a clerk in the Branch Bank of lYanoe , who has for a sorics of years boon engaged in embezzlements , Tho peouliur character of the oaao consists in tho faot that tho man was neither very extravagant , nor did ho put b y money ; but he lias laid out tho produce of his pilfering in a number of small , \ ineuocobslul speculations , —a grocer ' s shop , an hotel , advances on worthless bills of ejcohango , and so forth . But tho wholo amount of Monnox ' b embezzlements baroly exceed 16 , Q 00 / .-Hnot . hing compared to our great defalcations . In fact , the French do not appear to have Arrived at tho trap art of swindling , savo under cqvw . , of a joint-stock machinery and tho
assistance of legal forms . The defalcations of Monnot bear no proportion to the abstraction of capital from the { London and Eastern Banking Incorporation , which is found to have lent more than its paid-up capital of 250 , 000 / . to the brilliant Colonel Waugii and his brother directors . The case has been closed by private compromise , and has been brought to a termination before Sir Richard Bktheul ' s Fraudulent Trust ' Bill , conies into operation . But we suspect that gentlemen of the City , who get up these great schemes , will find out a method of circumventing Sir . J & tchatj . d BjsTHELii ' s bill quite as easily as any existing law .
698 The Leader. __ [Ko. 383, Jult 25, 18...
698 THE LEADER . __ [ Ko . 383 , Jult 25 , 1857 .
A Seaport.— Tha Streets Were Something N...
A Seaport . — Tha streets were something narronv , and the houses were curiously jammed , and had a permanently blackened look ; but what they lacked in size or beauty , they compensated for in Dumber . Seafaring men stood talking in groups at the corners of the crossings . Every pair of trousers in the place was more or less daubed with tar ; and some of those who wore them were fine stalwart specimens of the Saxon race , with bullet head , bull-dog neck , handsome sunburnt face , and crisp flat yellow curls . Small boys of five years old wore their fathers' ' -westers . One jostled another as he passed along the street ; another young ' un was climbing up a coast-wall , in a sort of fly fashion , insert- ' ing his toes in invisible chinks , and holding on by projections not to be discerned by ordinary eyes . He fell more than once , and from a fair height too ; but rose nothing daunted , and doggedly recommenced the ascent . They all wore a reckless , self-reliant air , and were , I suppose , of the proper stock to make British sailoxs . Even the less respectable of the women who were wrangling among the men , differed strangely from the faded worn-out objects who are daily placed before the magistrate in our London police-courts . Their laughter was loud , their voices deep , their limbs massive . Very virile indeed they looked , and were . Further on to the right , ' some stupendous works were in course of construction . Thews and sinews were to be seen there , such as only England produces , toiling doggedty and perpetually . " Steam-engines of various forms and uses were toiling also after their fashion—here to pump ¦ water in , and there to ^ fpump water oat . Besides these , there were some hundreds of big horses dragging enormous loads , calmly , as if they were quite used to the engines , and cared less than nothing about their noise . They were of the sort of animals foreigners are so much smitten with when they see them in the
dray-carts in London , very carefully tended ; many or them were gaily ornamented with ribbons , plaiting of hair , brass settings , and the like , according to the taste and ability of the man who looked after each parti c ular horse . The works themselves were well worth an examination . The workers were pushing out groins and breastings which must haye astonished the sea as they gradually forced it out of its old landmarks . It happened more than once that it had arisen in the nighttime and revenged itself , and that in a few hours the labour of months had been swept avray . But the next day saw men calmly setting to work to repair the damage with double care , and replace tho wall with fourfold strength . More than a score of broad acres wore already redeemed from the salt waters . Here and there miglit be observed thoughtful-looking men standing , watchingkeenly and with contracted brows tho progress of things . — Dickens ' s " Household Words . " A Razzia m India , — An Anglo-Indian officer , writing to a friend , under date Juno 5 th , says : — " Last evening , a most successful rush was made three miles off by Lieutenant Cookburn and fifty men . The robbers had collected in numbers of fivo hundred , and were stopping and plundering every one on tho road in a moat shameful manner . Cockburn sent a bullock-cart with red curtains , such as women go in , but with four troopers representing the weaker sex . The main body kept four hundred yards in tho rear , and wore to rusli up when tho four mon fired . A capital ruse , as tho object was to got tho robbors to show thomsolves . " Well , the wretches made a rush for plunder 5 the four women instantly fired , and Cockburn ' s party galloped up at full speed to tho spot . They had rough ground at first , and tho robbers broke , of courso , but too lato to save thomsolvoa . Oookburn was nearly unhorsed by a . man who , after making a cut at him , which ho parried , seized him by the leg . Cockburn . swung round his horse , and killed h . im with his sword . His troopois killed fifty , and made prisoners of others . A number also jumped down wells , and unless rescued must have been drowned . Nono . of hia mon woro touched , and tho moral effect in tho country round in the present crisis will bo vory groat . " Tho same Lieutenant Cookburn lias nlso burnt n village , apd killed several others of tho disaffected . Thm AnoHXTKoruuAL Museum , South Kensington . —Tho annual aonvcraaziono was hold horo lust Saturday evening . Earl do Grey , President of tho Society , waa in tho chair ; and tho speakers iaqludcd Professor ; Donaldson ( who presented , on bolialf of Mr . XL G . 1 Bohn , a copy of his now publication on Pottery and For- celain ) , Mr . Powell , Mr . Godwin , Mr . Colo , Mr . S . O . ' Hall , tho Right Hon . William Cowpcr , M . P ., And tho IJRqv . JDjt , Whewoll .
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . —<¦— : — Monday , Jzily 20 <& . thames conservancy bill . Lord Sx . Leonards , in the House of Lords , moved the second reading , of this bill , the object of-which is to carry out a compromise made between the Crown and the City of London of certain law-suits going on for a series of years , respecting the soil of the bed or the river Thames . It was agreed by the compromise that , whenever a sale takes place or licenses are t , 'iveii , onethird of the money shall be paid to the Crown and two-thirds to the conservancy account . It was agreed also that a new board shall be established , consisting of seven City , and fivo Government members . —The Dnke of Newcastle , who had formerly filled the office of Chief Commissioner of 'Woods and Forests , moved that the bill be read a second time that day three months . He objected to handing over the conservancy of the river to a body of men who are not fit to discharge the duty . —Lord Campbell thought nothing could be clearer than that the soil of the river belongs to the Crown : —Earl Granville supported the bill , which was read a second time by 44 to 5 . MERSEY CONSERVANCY BILL . The Duke of Newcastle moved the second reading of this bill , and trusted , after the decision just come to , their Lordships would agree to the motion , and refer the matter to a committee up-stairs . The bill was promoted by both the commercial and railway bodies interested in the matter . It would only incidentally touch the tolls , and would not abolish them . It would form a new body for the administration of those tolls , ' and place them in hands whose interest it would be to maintain them . The reports of the Board of Admiralty , the Board of Trade , and of various committees of the House of Commons , were in favour of the principle of the measure ; and a great many petitions praying for some such bill had been presented to both Houses of Parliament . — Lords Ravenswortbt , Wensleydale , Deeby , and Redesdale , opposed the bill , -which they denounced as being very arbitrary , inasmuch as it deprived the corporation of Liverpool of their property ; and Lord Ka ^ vensworth moved that the bill should be read a second time that day three months . —The Marquis of Clanricarde objected to . disposing of the measure so summarily . —Lord Stanley of Alderluy supported the bill . —The . Duke of Newcastle replied , and the Housedivided , when there appeared—For the second reading-. 23 ; against , 15 : majority , 8 . The bill was accordingly read . a second time .
THIRD READINGS . The following bills were read a third time , and passed : —Atlantic Telegraph Company ; Larceny , & c . ; Offences against the Person ; Malicious Injuries to Property ; Forgery ; Libel : Coinage Offences ; Deer , Game , and Rabbits ; Accessaries and Abettors ; Crowded Dwellings Prevention ; and Turnpike Trusts Abolition ( Ireland ) . The House adjourned about half-past nine o ' clock . ORDINATION OF CLERGYMEN IN AMERICA . In the House of Commons , among the private bills was one bearing the title , Shepherd's Disabilities Removal Bill . On the motion for the second reading of this , Mr . Fitzroy explained that the object of tho measure was to allow a clergyman ordained by a Protestant bishop in America to hold church preferment within her Majesty ' s dominions . He did not express any opinion as to the advisability of granting this application , but wished the House would 3 ay whether tho general law of the land should be sot aside in favour of any clergyman rich enough to bear tho expense of tho special legislation . Ho would put it to the House whether , if this privilege was to bo acceded to at nil , it would not be more expedient to decide such cases by a general law . —Mr . Foster and Mr . Estcoukt objected to a general measure ; and Mr . Kinnaird doprecated special legislation .-rr-Mr . Patten" supported tho second , reading ; and Mr . Gladstone , while considering that the Chairman of Ways and Means had acted judiciously in calling their attention to this subject , held that they could not do other than pass tho bill , which was founded upon precedent . At the same time , ho considered it necessary to introduce a general act to amend the law which allows the ordination of Jumpers , Shaker ? , and Mormons , who conform to tho Episcopal Church , whilo it excludes Protestant ministers on account oi the performance of the duties of their profession . — Sir-George Gkey admitted the absurdity of the existing law , but would not object to tlio second reading of tho bill .- —Mr . IioKHUOK urged thnt nn immodlato romedy should bo provided for tho law , which makos ordination in England a disqualification for ordination in America . —Tho bill was then road a second time .
I ' ALICIIUC BURGtltS ICLECTION . Sir John Pamnoton reported to tho Houbo from the committee appointed to try the petition complaining of undue election for tho Fnlkii'k Burghs , that James Morry , Esq ., \ v « s not duly elected for tho said burghs , and that tho late election w « a void . Tho committee had also agreed to resolutions to tho effect that thoro had boon brlbory and treating at tho Into clod ion by tho agents of James Merry ; that there was no proof of hia cognizance and thut tho requirement by tho Aot 17 and
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Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25071857/page/2/
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