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jESve lives have been lost from a boiler explosion at BrierlejChill , Stoiurbridce . A boy at Shields has' died from the bi $ e of a eat . A lady bag been killed by an omnibus in BSagvrare-xaad ... While the body was -being conveyed to the hospital wine scoundrel stole a ring from the lady ' s finger . A flaan has "been killed by the shaft of a waggon in liccadiUy . , A woman fell down dead in Hay-hill , May-fair . . The warehouse of Hargrave and Sons , Gresham-sfcreet , was , on Taesday night , plundered of 6000 ? . in notes , bills , UulBtoQk . ' . '¦ . r A fire ; ajb Bromley , on Monday , destroyed property worth Sdveral jQipiisands of ' pounds , belonging to the Clatissen ' s Rtentlfiix ' Mill'Company . The firemen succeeded only in wiring , the engine-rooms and bleaching houses at the east end of" the boildine . ' the other portions of the premises laving
been so noach injured as to render them useless . Many per-¦ CHUuue cafartunately thrown out of employ by this disastrous jotsnt . . . t The Parliament House and buildings at Quebec were -roriarelr destroyed by . fir * at two o ' clock on the 1 st Fef tyoary , togrther"wita the moat of their contents , including - B ; valaabl « VSupxj . The flames were not discovered until they had gained , tpo much headway tobe got under , nofrwithstandine that a sentinol was on doty near the spot . The fire originatedin the south of the boHdings from the furnace . It iabwiwedtnat part of tiie valuable library was saved , but t £ e Historical Society ' s library and apparatus were almost entirely consumed . Tba manuscripts are all gone , and the ri *
nuueuiniUS mucu xojcreu . a j »» vv » y « «»« . «» **«*« w «* The furniture and all the paintings in the Council aad Asswnbly chwnbers , ^ ere > destroys bu | the porbraits of the QaeenaadSirAlUnM'Nab were sa'red from the Speaker ' s climber . The dome fe ^ at 1 ^ -j ^ tmx o ' clock in th « morn-*« jt .-iinSj ^ Cor ^ ells ! ^ ere ( i A ^ inis | ritor Rowan to save t ? ro-tbird £ of theedifioa ifh ^ would Mltm up the roof ; three - city i councillors oppos « d it , and all was consequently destroyed . The west wingmight hare been saved but for a lack of water ; there , > erog ' two ; engiMS on the spot and a large oonwurse of people . The troops rendered great assist&nccr The buildings were ' insured for 30 , OOOL and the Proviacial library for 60007 . - It is not y * t knowa which be ad
Qflices ^ ire the heaviest losers . No irater was to T » , and it wm very fortunate that the night was calm . The insnr ^ ccs are chiefly ie Liverpool jCoiApanies . IjNo fewer , tban 134 adders were fiiuad by some labourers employod ? in blastiaf ^ and removing some granite boulders insthe grounds ofi . ^ uu . iHouse , Borkcudbnghtshbe , lying concealed in a state of torpor , under the stones . Tfas add era were killed forthwith . ^ . " ' v On Tuesday afternoon the 3 . 0 p . m . train from Bradford rah into a goods tfaia belonging to tbe London and North Western Company , " at the ^ Whitehall junction , near Leeds , and broke in pieces tea waggons , but . none of the passengers were injured . Thei driver of the passenger train states that the signal was not snown , and the signal man asserts the contrary . The line was blocked up for several hours .
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: A correspondint of the Durham Advertiser says , it is repotted that the Rev . Peter Bartow , incumbent of Coekfield , £ as giv-en so much oflence tosev « tal of his parislouers by weanng his beard , tfcat they have discontinued their attendance at charch ! In Sweden a new religious sect has sprang up called the Contemplators , because they believe that in meditating incessantly on the essence and qualities of God , which they call contemplating Gad . they attada the perfection of saints .
They- are more intolerant than the other sects in Sweden , as tfiey think that everybody who does not join them will certainly be damned . Ten days ago , a peasant named John Olsson , of the village of Ottealaett . in the district of Teguely , province-of Gothenburg , cut the throats of his two children , one aged a year and the other 18 months , to , as h « said , preserve them from eternal condemnation .
Large numbers of Mormonltes , belonging to all classes , are emigrating from W " ales to America . ' The Great Britain has arrived at Liverpool from Melbourne , after a passage of 72 days . The Himalaya has returned to Southampton , after an extremely short passage . Some of the old portraits of Hngs and councillors in the Bristol Council House have of late been undergoing a renovating or cleaning process , in course of which , according to the Bath Chronicle , a poor daul of a picture was washed '¦ entirely off one canvas , and a picture disclosed beneath which ia believed to be one of C . Van Steen ' s , worth 400 guineas ; ¦ while in another instance , a portrait of Charles II . resolved itself into another representative of bis predecessor , James I .
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Satttbdav , February 18 th . Bom Houses sat last night , tbe Commons discussing the Eastern question , and the Lords engaging in n mild debate on national education in Ireland . ] n the House of Commons , Mr . Layaiu > called the attention of the House to the present relations between England and Turkey . " Now that the House was called to go into committee to vote the navy estimates was the most appropriate time for the subject . The Ministers
had continued to maintain bo great a reserve , that tha country was naturally doubtful as to its position in relation to foreign affairs , and lie hoped those doubts would lie now cleared , not only ns to the fact , but aB to the future proceedings of the Government . Disclaiming any party feeling , ho could not but declare that he had long ugo come to tho conclusion tliut the policy of tho Government was wanting in vigour and straightforwardness , and the perusal of tlic recent Blue Uooks ho 4 not changed his opinion
in that respect . He contended that even in the earlier months of last year the British Government had warning of the approaching danger from the military preparations , and from the diplomatic proceedings of Bussia . He compared the despatches on both sides , and argued that the Government had overlooked the most obvious facts , and had misunderstood the unmistakeable tendencies , and trusted to most fallacious assurances . The Ministry had insinuated that they could not at first get France to go with them ; bat every despatch showed -that Franca from the outset of the proceedings was prepared to go forward and act in defence of Turiey ,
and erery proposal for action , from the first , came from the French Government ; whose conduct offered a striking contrast to that of the English Government . With regard to the affair of Sinope , he thought it demanded considerable explanation . On the 9 th of October Lord Clarendon gave instructions that the fleets should he employed in defence of the Turkish territory ; and to inform the Russian admiral at Sevastopol that they would resent acts of aggression ; but instructions were also sent -which prevented the Turkish fleets from conveying troops in the Black * Sea , and -these contradictory proceedings looked like the cause
of that catastrophe . He contended that he made out the case against the Government that every step they had taken was a mistake . He then asked what the Government was going to do . They were told "that we were neither at peace or war ; he wanted to know on what terms the Government would make peace . The terms were contained in the letter of the Emperor of the French , viz ., that the fleets should be withdrawn if the principalities were evacuated , and Bussia should send a plenipotentiary to negotiate alone with Turkey . This last was the point Russia had all ' along contended for—that she might interfere in tbe internal affairs of Turkey ; and
it was to be yielded . After all tbe sacrifices to which England had been put in consequence of Russian aggression , he believed that the people would not allow the Government to negotiate on the terms proposed , and he would always oppose it , and he thought he would be supported by a large party in the House ; for those terms would not touch the present treaties , and would establish the " status quo " before the commencement of the the existing differences . After all that had been done , sind all the blood had been shed , "we were embarked in a war * which , must be prosecuted until the treaties between Bussia and Turkey were placed on a new basis , till the Danube and Circassia were thrown open to the commerce of th « world , till the Black Sea was no longer a " mare clausum "' and the
high-Lord John Russell expressed his sense of the course taken by Mr . Boebuck , and objected to that taken by Mr . Layard , as calculated to deteriorate from the efficiency of the proceedings of this country , inasmuch as he attacked the conduct of the Government , and heaped accusations upon-tfiem -without taking steps to put the issue on a question of want of confidence ; he Warned and censured them , yet said they might take the votes . He declared his opinion that the conduct of Bussia had been deceitful and untrustworthy all through the transactions which had taken place . Tbe noble lord then went into a narrative of the negotiations , and vindicated the conduct of the Government with much spirit . At the close of his speech , Mr . Cobden moved the adjournment of the debate . Lord J . Russell expressed a wish -that the vote for the navy should be taken before going on with the debate ; But , on Mr . Disraeli stating that it was of importance that it should proceed before the vote vras taken , The delate was adjourned to Monday . The House shortly after adjourned .
way to Persia given up , and the pretensions © f Bussia to interfere with the Christians of Turiey put an end to . He defended at length , and with great effect , the conduct of Turkey towards her Christian subjects , and combated the argument of Earl Grrey , that Bussia should be allowed to do as she pleased with Turkey , and take any position slie chose in Europe . Alluding to the difference between the ambassadors and admirals at * Constantinople , he urged that the instructions to the military commanders of the forces sent out should be precise and unambiguous , so as to prevent such occurrences for the future . He concluded "by hoping that the Government would to-night remove all doubt as to our position , and he believed that if they did their duty the country would support them .
Sir J . Grahah commenced by putting the question as one of confidence or no confidence in the Ministry . The Tight honourable baronet showed by a reference to dates that England had been always forward in her assistance to Turkey , and contended that the course pursued by tho Government had enabled them to cement a cordial union with France , to combine'Austria and Prussia -with the Westera Powers against the pretensions of Russia towards Turkey , and had succeeded in isolating the Czar and changing the quarrel from a Turco - Bussian
to an European one , in which Bussia stood alone . He urged that Government vas prepared to carry on warlike preparations vigorously , deprecated the notion of interfering with going into supply by a side-wind motion against tho Government , demanded that the straightforward , manly course of a direct motion of censure should be adopted , and concluded a very ingenious speech by declaring that lie was ashamed to have trespassed so long on tho House on a mere motion that the speaker do leave the chair .
Lord JociitvK and Lord Dudle y Stuart followed and strongly defending the cause of Turkey as against Russia , aud blaming the Government for their dilatory proceedings . Mr . Kobiiuck inclined to the opinion , Unit it would be better not to cavil and try to pick holes in the past conduct of tho Government , but to support them at this juncture , and expressed an opinion , that although they -might have gone on rather slowly , yet , that if they hail gone on faster those persons wlio were now blaming them for being dilatory , would liave been the Ural to censure them for tardiness .
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Colonel Boxdebo brought the position of the naval assistant-surgeons before the House , with regard to their— accommodation on hoard ship , and complained that a resolution of the House , of 1850 , had not leen carried out , and he made a motion , embodying that resolution , and pledging the House to see it acted up to . Sir J . Graham opposed the motion , and urged that the accommodation , required would interfere with the efficiency of ships of war . Some discussion followed , and the House divided . J ? or the motiou 104 Againstit . 216 ' 112 In reply to Lord Seymour , Ijord Johk BVsseli , stated there was no intention of placiag all the military departments under one Ministerial control . . Sir J . Graham , in reply to Mr . J . O'Connell , said , that he had not heard of any interference o f the Botnan Catholic priests in the volunteering in Ireland . The debate in the House of Xor 4 s was preceded by the presentation of a petition by Earl JfriTzwjixiajc , from the patrons of several national schools in Ireland , relative to the resolutions on the 8 th of July last .
The Earl of Egmniotjn moved tor the appointment of & Select Committee , to inquire into the practical working of tlie system of national education in Ireland . He said he brought forward bis motion in consequence of the circumstances which caused the retirement from the direction of these schools , Ia 3 t year , of two emineat members of the Irish Bencli , and the Archbishop of Dublin , and wliich involved great innovations in the system . He traced the system of national education in Ireland from its establishment in 1831 , and showed that originally it was arranged that such religious
teaching as might be approved of by the Board should be admitted , and certain works were allowed which it was thougut would afford sound religious instruction without giving offence to the Boman Catholics ; the reading of them , however , was not enforced on those children whose parents objected to them . In 1339 , what was called the 8 th rule was established , by which these religious books were forbidden to be read during the time of secular education , and not read if any parents objected ; and it was said this meant that the books might be excluded if one parent objected . In the autumn of 1852 , the Archbishop of
Dublin found these books had nerer been read m the model school at CLomnel , and pthers . He com ' plained to the board , differences arose , and a resolution , excluding these books , was come to by a majority of the board , and all combined religious education was abolished in the schools ; accordingly , Mr . Blackburne , Baron Greene , and the Archbishop retired from the boarxL This case demanded imperatively Parliamentary inquiry , which was due to the retiring commissioners and the Protestants of Ireland . The Earl of Aberdeen , when first the notice of tho noble earl was given , had intended to resist it , because ho thought it might thiow a doubt on the
value of that system which had bestowed such inestimable benefits on Ireland ; but as the noble earl had entered on his task in no hostile spirit , bat the contrary , ho hud thought it bettor to agree to the motion ; and as there was to be an inquiry , he should enter into a discussion on tho question . Ho expressed his strong regret at the retirement o > f the Archbishop of Dublin . He stated that on the Slat of December , 1852 , the number of schools was 4 , 063 , and on the same datu in 1053 tho number was 50 , 750 ; and the scholars in 1852 amounted to 544 , 604 , while in L 853 they were 5 ( 55 , 707 ; so that tho system was flour ishinu r .
The liishop of Down , tho Earl of Clancartv , Lord Dosurt , and Lord Monteaglo addressed tho House Tho motion was agreed to .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 18, 1854, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2026/page/12/
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