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THE NEW BEER ACT . ses of peccant publicans come before the magistes every now and then . The vexed question is 1 " who is a traveller ?" Vt Highgate , the keeper of the " Spaniards , " nipstead , was charged with having sent a pot of r to a person on the heath during the prohibited its , and for having twenty or thirty persons in gardens . The latter ' were allowed to be " tralers , " but in the case of the pot of beer , as it was t to the servant of a gentleman who was at the , but who had only come three-quarters of a mile ti Hampstead . the magistrates felt themselves md to convict ; but expressing an opinion that the operated hardly on the public and the licensed buallers , they inflicted a penalty of Is ., and 2 s . ts .
; Two Scotch brothers , " says the Daily News , " met London , one on his way home from the Continent , other going to India . They had only one daybe together , but that was Sunday ; and being at erent hotels , one was obliged to be the guest of other . They were found by the police with wine > re them after ten o ' clock . The innkeeper was imoned , and convicted for * serving' the visitor , escaped as regarded his inmate . " If the resident jer only had drunk , the landlord would not have n fined at all ; but the visitor ' s partaking was lI .
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'ENING OF THE STATES-GENERAL OF HOLLAND . e States-General of Holland were opened sit the ; ue on Monday by the King , with the usual 3 Ch . It stated the continuance of friendship with foreign powers , notwithstanding the political poaii of Europe ; the satisfactory state of the colo-? , and the promise of an abundant harvest , erring to material improvements , — We continue to improve the state of our rivers , and we also actively engaged with the amelioration of all water s of . importance . During the past year tlie Netherlands havebeen brought communication at two different points with the railroads he neighbouring states , and there is every reason to hope : a third junction will soon be made . I pay particular attention to the development of this ns of communication , which ; is so necessary to the trade ¦
industry of the country . Active measures Are being taken for the augmentation of telegraphic lines in the interior . Three lines will be ed in communication with those of foreign states . Notwithstanding the impediments caused by the present to our commercial relations , our trade , navigation , and al organisation remain in as prosperous a condition as pre-: unfavourable circumstances will permit . The financial tion of the country continues to be satisfactory . " t still the burthens of the country and the ional debt would undergo revision . Surrounded by the material prosperity which our native ntry doubtless possesses , the public instruction , arts , and iiaes should not be lost sight of . I continue to give this ject my most earnest solicitude . " hough the position of the country was not enly satisfactory , on the whole the state of affairs s encouraging .
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THE SLAVE TRADE . the close of last Session Lord Clarendon made joastful declaration that the efforts of the late ;) tain General of Cuba ( Pezuela ) to suppress the vo Trade had been most successful . The latest ounts do not bear out the statement . A Corresldent of the Times states : — Since my lnst advice , th < rc has been no cessation in tho oduction of negroes on the south side . Tho more rcstrici is attempted , the greater seems to be the increaao evil . The melancholy fact is that Pcgucln , allowing him io lionest , finds the enforcement of his measures imjiblc , through tho want of faithful ngents . There is no or , that parties in confidential trust nuttr hia person have n largely benefited by their influence in tho suppression idiots , and by advice premonitory of their issue , totho . so ) nro engaged in Atric : iij speculation , whereby many Toes have escaped detection . Tho number of bluves inluced since the arrival of I ' eauela , swolla to nearly DOO while it is stated Mint my late calculation as to those
ieli have been deported by capture lor apprentice labour oo largo ; that tho reported seizures have not counted in formity with tho original reports . They socin to get ty from custod y , starve to death , or die of disease with , it facility and in considerable numbers . 1 am advised by orv intelligent person from the vicinity of Trhidml , that arrivals of sl-iivo cargoes dirichargod without disco wry rap very nearly two every week , nml also that Trinidad . ti « Bm «| lvillii ( Toa in tlie vicinity art ) lull of negroes , led " lodmoa" ( old importation ) , hut which arc iu fact nl , or now arrivals , and for the most part held iu second ula on speculation . Tl . o last week a Inrgo nlnvo hIi in was on tho BoutWindo of Cuba , near the » Isle of fines " \ * . ? * hundred no rot ) H found their freedom only lex tho kindly mercy of tlio waves , which covered them over from the pursuit of man . All on board of the iboI perished aavo seven Africans , on « nmvinnn , mid tho ) tnin . who escaped drowning as ho will probul . ly al « o « po hanging , notwithstanding hia muny acts of piracy . "
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REGISTRATION OF VOTERS . The Revision of the Lists of Voters in Middlesex and the City of London have been held . In the City of London matters have gone quietly , there being very few claims or objections . In Middlesex , the Conservative Land Society established seventy-one claims to vote , in respect of plots of land held by the Society's shareholders . Among the claimants objected were Lord Maidstone , son of the Earl of Winchilsea , the Hon . El . C . Lowther , M . P ., Sir C . W . Codrington , M . J \ , the Hon R . T . Rowley , M . P ., P . Rolt , Esq ., M . P ., Sir S . Bignold , Kt ., Mayor of Norwich , W . Forbes , Esq ., M . P ., E . H . Vansittart , Esq ., M . P ., Colonel North , M . P ., Colonel Abdy , the Itev . Mr . Cooper , Iminet Laurie , Esq ., Captain Meyrick , and Benedict , the musical c 6 mposer .
A person claiming under the National Freehold Land Society , was disallowed on the ground that he having sold a moiety of his allotment , and let the other for 2 i . 10 s ., had not shown that there was sufficient value previous to 31 st July last . A claim was made in right of a rent-charge granted by the Anti-Corn Law-League upon certain freehold cottages . It was objected to on the ground that the fee-simple being charged with a number of rent-charges , it came within the provisions against splitting interest in lease for the purpose of creating votes . The rent-charge had not been paid for four years . The claim was ,: disallowed , and the decision had the effect of striking off" thirty-four similar claims .
The Liberal cause , which had been previously siiC ' cessful in Middlesex , was seriously injured by this one day ' s revision
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IS THIS A MINISTERIAL POLICY ? This Times of Thursday has two articles of much significance . The first reviews tlie coui'se pursued by Austria on the Eastern question , and shows them to be most anomalous and unsatisfactory ; and it concludes thus : " An offensive and defensive treaty between Austria , France , and England , which was on the point of signature when the Russians announced that the Principalities should at once be evacuated , was the best of the successive and consistent steps of Count Buol ' s policy . These were accompanied by enormous military . arid financial preparations- for war . Every preliminary measure liad been deliberately and gradually taken ; nothing remained to be done but to give effect to the last resolutions of this long-suffering and muchenduring polky . Russia declared that the terms which Austria made tlie sine qua no . n of peace were utterly inadmissible , and could give rise to no further discussion , but
that the basis and future negotiations must be settled by the fortune of war . And it was at this extreme point that the Emperor Francis Joseph and his Ministers discovered that , after all , they had no ca&us . belli against the author of those calamities , wlioso encroachments they had repelled , and whose ascendancy in the Klack Sea and on the Danube they had declared to be inconsistent witli the independence of Turkey and the balance of power ! Sucli a decision at such a moment did undoubtedly occasion great surprise to those wlio were acquainted with the extent of Austria ' s preparations and tlie language of her assurances ; and , although it can produce no effect upon the great expedition in which the allied Powers are now engaged , it gives them the right to require of Austria , at a suitable and not distant tune , a more precise and positive explanation of her definite intentions , for her present course of policy is calculated only to prolong and extend tho evils of war , and to embroil her with those very Stato whoso cause she had thus far adopted . "
I he other article is strongly condemnatory of the inaction in the Baltic this year , and it winds up uy
saying : — " In any c « so , we trust that from tho present timo tho naval departments of England and France will proceed unremittingly to consider and prepare for more regular oueratbns in tho Bnhic than those of' tho past season . At Sebastopol we may destroy tho influenco of' liuasiu over tho East ; but , unless thrtt blow should icduce the Emperor Nicholas to nslc for terms , it is only by opening tlie road to St . Petersburg that \ vo can reckon on dictating a secure and honourable peu . ee . Cronstiult once tnkcu unri destroyed , tho cnpitiil of the northern empire is for the futuru without defence against the maritime IWors , and the f ' imr of such a catastrophe is more likely than any other means to secure our triumph . "
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MR . DISRAELI AND THE IRISH PROTESTANTS . Mr . DisnAi 5 r , i is offered a new (< situation . " Tho Protestant en use- In Ireland , it seems , is in want of a recognised "loader , " and tho Dublin Protestant Association fixed on tlio member for Bucks to supply th « vacancy . Liverpool followed in alluring to plueo its Protestant Purlinmcntnry intoreata hi his hands ,, and now the Protestant county of Down has joined its voice to tho others in supplicating Mr . Disraeli to join Mr . Spooncr in fighting the bnttlo of tlio great l ' rotestant question next year . Yery strong resolutions havo been passed at n meeting of tha Down 1 'rotustnnt Association , imploring bath these gentlemen to poBtpono all other political questions to this .
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AUSTRALIA—THE GOLD HARVEST . TnEEE seems to be little if any falling off in the quan tity of gold in the Victoria district , the supply from new fields balancing any decrease in the old locations . The last accounts of the gold-receipts are these : — 1853 . 1854 . April 170 , 427 oz . 182 , 807 oz . May 11 G . S 12 143 , 618 June 122 , 695 125 , 078 409 , 934 : oz . 431 , 503 oz . 409 , 931 Increase on second quarter , 185-1 41 , 569 oz . The addition To the population of the district was 912 in the last -week , of which these are accounts , and 26 , 526 in the current year . "Wages run thus : — Labourers ' wages 12 s . to 13 s ., on the road ; carpenters , 25 s . to 27 s . ; masons , 25 s . to 30 s . per diem ; seamen , 45 Z . for the run home ; Calcutta and Callao , 351 . ; on the coast , 9 / . per month .
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INDIAN NEWS . The correspondence from India to 11 th August has been received . The state of affairs in Buvmah was quiescent—so much so , that efforts were being made to establish the electric telegraph in Pegu , It is t o be carried from Rangoon to Calcutta . The Persians were said to be strengthening themselves at Meru , and the Russians continued to negotiate with the Herat chief , who is getting up a quarrel w ith the Cavelhaber chiefs . The only approach to -vivacity la public matters in the Punjaub is the continuance of disputes among the Afredees in the Kholat Pass . The disputes stop their trade .
At the last-meeting of the Paris Exhibitors at Lahore , the display of local manufactures was said to be very creditable , and a large collection will "be sent down to Bombay to be forwarded to Europe . Many merchants in the Punjaub have signified their intention of forwarding goods to the exposition on . their own account . Large quantities of English iron have reachod Atok for the suspension bridge to be thrown across the Indus . Mr . Colvin , it is stated , has sent in a proposition for constituting Nainee Tal the virtual capital of" the north-west provinces , that is for making it the seat of government , and for building a suitable residence for the Lieutenant-Governor , with accommodation for the public offices . There is some apprehension of famine in the Nizam ' s dominions .
The Madras Government has taken up the subject of improvement in native ngriculture , and propose to offer prizes for proficiency . It is stated that Lord Dalhousic will remain in India until 1856 . Sir Laurence Peel , Chief Justice of Bengal , is about to resign his office this year from ill health .
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SEBASTAPOL TO BE TAKEN BY CONTRACT ^* At a recent dinner at the Crystal Palace Sir Joseph Piuxton stated that he heard a conversation between two of the members of Fox and Henderson s staff , in which , after referring to what had been done at the Crystal Palace , one of the interlocutors asked what would be the next great work . The answer was , " Suppose we contract with tho Government to take Sevastopol or Cronstadt . " The Daily News , commenting on this , says" Tlicro is nothing luuglmblc in it . Wo believe in all
earnestness that were George Stophcnson alive now , he would not hesitate to sign a aomijide contract with Powers like Franco or England to tako any fortress or lino of fortresses in tho -whole world . What are apy or all of the great military engineering achievements in the wholo of Europe compared with the covering of Knglnnd with a reticulation of railways ? Did any twelve thousand troops , under tho command of tho most skilful oflicer , ever accomplish hs much as six thousand ' navvies' under the command of n Stophonson , or n Parp ^ aji , or ft Pot op What a trifle is JSitpoleon ' H road ovor the Sininlon compared with tho engineering diflicnltk's' conquered by plum ¦ working men in half tho districts of civilised Euronu !"
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EARLY CLOSING . Tnw movement in favour of closing shops at an earlier evening hour goea on . On Tuesday there was a meeting- at Liui > l > oth of persons connected with the drapery trade . Absolutions were passed , and a committee appointed to carry out a seven o ' clock closing . . Th « chemists and clruffg iflts are taking up the question . Several of tho trmlo are doing their best to shorten tho hours of labour for tlicir assistants , a class to whom relaxation , in many cases , is almost unknown . Mr . Cooper , of Oxford-street , lifts issued n eirrulur , Htatins H' « fc lw h 1 » ui suspend businoBH at nine o ' clock nft « r the 1 st of October , and nuking the on-niMiriition of liifl customers .
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September 23 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 893
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 23, 1854, page 893, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2057/page/5/
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