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& J * €$ ^ $ t j ? PABLIAMENT . S ^ j ^^ p ^^^» , Monday Parliament was ordered n R ^^ r ^^^^^ KP ^ ogued from Thursday last , tie 16 th - ^ ^^^^^ feW ^' the 14 th of December . ^ 2 61 iSf ^ h ' ¦' if $ EpLTBi OF LONDON . *" ~ ^^ r ^^^^^? 1 i : 3 l f ^ eaQTa ^ P ' *^ ^ ^ * « ek the W ( f °$ & ¦ waJfeffiRM lofer ~ j jg deaths registered in London was « 5 vv ^ taw ^ J ^ & ^ fieBWi corresponding weeks of the years N »^^ a ^< l ^^ - -average number was 1011 , and if this is rSftseB—ffii proportion to increase of population it becomes 1112 . From a comparison , of the results it appears that the mortality is now not much in excess of the usual amount , tut it exceeds in . a more important degree the point to which the usual mortality , in an improved condition of London , rnight be reduced .
Cholera , which was fatal in tlie two previous ¦ we eks in 66 and 31 cases , was fatal last -week in 23 . In the same weeks diarrhoea numbered 4 S , 33 , and 35 deaths . Nine of the deaths from cholera occurred on the north side of the river , the remaining 14 on the south side ; 3 of which are returned in . the subdistrict of St . Paul ' s , Deptford , 4 in the district of Jjambeth .. Scarlatina has for some weeks predominated among zymotic diseases . .
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THE WEAB SHIPWRIGHTS . Sunderland , Nov . 14 * The efforts which have been made to bring to a ¦ t ermination , the unfortunate strike of the ship carpenters on the Wear have not yet been attended ¦ with success . The men , about 1200 in number , have bow been out for six weeks . The employment in other trades connected with ship-building is injuriously affected , and the consequences are felt seriously on the general trade of the town . The men had been
anxious for a conference with the masters , in the presence of disinterested parties who would act as arbiters , and last night about thirteen of the principal builders met the committee of the Shipwrights ' Society ; "but the result , as detailed at a large public meeting of men held this afternoon , was unsatisfactory . It appeared , from the ¦ statements ' of the speakers at this meeting , that the masters would neither allow the presence of reporters at the conference s nor suffer the interference of the two gentlemen who had been waiting as arbiters .
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IRELAND . The Outrage on Mr . Daugah ' s WoiuayrEN . —On Saturday a meeting of magistrates took place at Iiimerick . The result was tlie discharge of fourteen of the parties implicated , and the remand of four others . The Bail way Outrage at Tkiixick . —A public meeting has been held in the Court-house , I > ownpatriclc , for the purpose of condemning tlie attempt made to upset the railway train at Trillick , and to
congratulate those passengers whose lives were imperilled on their narrow escape . The chair was taken by Mr . Reilly , the High-Sheriff . Various resolutions were moved and carried , strongly abhorrent of the outrage . They concurred in thinking it had been planned by the Ribbon Society , which acted under the guidance of the Church of Rome , which was encouraged by the present Governmentwhich Government ought rather to suppress Ribbonmen , and prevent the extension of Romish principles .
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INSURANCE FOR THE PEOPLE . A yottno Irishwoman complained to Mr . Bingham , at Marlborough-streefc , that her mother ' s policy in the British Iudu 3 try Insurance Office had been cancelled , although she had regularly paid the stipulated threepence a-weok . They had given her two-tmdeixpence as a settlement of her claim . The secretary explain ed that their former agent having absconded , they had requested all holders of policies granted by him to attend at the office for investigation of their cases , and when the woman in question presented herself they found her to be at least ten years older than had been stated . The society required proof of birth . Mv . Bingham considered that perfectly fair , but tho applicant snid her mother could not bring any proof of her birth , being a Roman Catholic , and a nativo of Ireland . Tho caso waa dismissed , and also another of a similar character .
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THE LIVERPOOL FREE LIBRARY . The Liverpool Albion says : — " According to theannual report of the committee of the Liverpool Free Library , great care is taken of the books by the readers generally . Scarcely any case of wilful inj ury has been noticed ; and out of 36 , 000 volumes lent only one volume , of the value of 2 s . 6 d ., has been lost without replacement . Eight books have been lost by borrowers and replaced , and only in two instances has a guarantee been called on to pay for the defalcation of a reader . Some of the working classes are great readers . A labouring man in the north district has read , since the library opened , Gibbon ' s Rome , Universal History , Macaulay ' s England , and
is now going through Lingard , as he says he wishes to know both sides of the question . Another in the same district has read Macaulay , the Universal History , and is ¦ now reading Alison . At the south two working men have read Moore ' s and Scott's Poetical " Works , and one Byron . Another has read Rollin's Ancient History , and is at present going through . Alison . A poor man at the extremity of Toxteth-park has been reading the ' Mirror ; ' he has now reached the 33 rd volume . To obtain this one book it is calculated he has already walked upwards of 100 miles . It is a noticeable fact that the larger proportion of solid reading is among the really working classes , the lighter literature more among the young men iu offices and shops . "
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Dr . Beax , e Case—and its ^ Mokal . —The trial of Dr . Beale , the Philadelphia dentist , indicted for violating the person of a young lady while she was under the influence of etheT , administered for a dental operation , has resulted in a verdict of guilty . But the jixry recommended mercy , since it seemed highly probable that the young lady might have been labouring under one of the hallucinations which generally attend the administration of ether , particularly on delicate subjects . But the verdict 3 s universally approved ; for it is far better that one innocent dentist should suffer for a while , than that
justice should appear to suffer always . One great good promises to grow out of this painful investigation . Tho attention x > f American women has thus "been turned to the dental profession , as a sphere of exertion specially adapted to tlie female sex—quite as much perhaps as obstetrics . There is , I think , but one medical school for females in this country . It is growing : in favour , and others will be established . There is quite room enough for the display of the finest talents in these two fields , -without rendering it necessary for our " fast , " or " Bloomer , " " Women ' s rights" ladies to enter " politics" or make " screaming speeches" in noisy conventions . —Daily News Correspondent .
Seven Lives Lost at a Coixhsry .- —On Saturday morning as a party of men and boys , seven in number , were being lowered into a coal mine at Rochdale , known as tho " Beljneld Colliery" ( Messrs . John Knowles and Co ., owners ) , the platform on -which they stood suddenly foil to tho bottom , carrying them with it , and all were killed on the spot . The depth of the shaft is 75 yards The accident is snid to have been caused by tho breaking of ono of tho links of tho iron chain by -which tho platform was lowered into the pit . It is said , that according to habitual practice , tho chain luiA been minutely examined by the blacksmith on the ground on the preceding Tuesday . A correspondent , however , throws some doubt upon this , as ho stntoa that im cxmnination of tho fractured link shows that the broken ends are completely corroded , as if expound to the iiir for some eonHidorablo time .
Tiim Sic am hn ' s Hospital Sooikty . —The Kmperor of Axiatrin , in consideration of tlie sorvicoH rendered to Austrian noaman by the Senmon ' n Hospital for nil Nations , Ima been pleased to present to the Society , through tho consul-general in London , a donation of 1 . 0 Of . This assistance is described as bei up ; peculiarly acceptable at tho present time , ns tho groutly enhanced cohL of provisions , tho largo increase in the average number of p « tionts , and tho uxponao of maintaining n Hepnruto ship for eholora patients , have made nhoitvy excess of expenditure over incomes .
WaiIjH to Auhtkaija . —It appears that there , ih Home clangor of postal commumuntiou with Australia hoinj ; sHHp « mii !( l for Homo time Tho General Screw Company , which l » un tho contract , for the next until oul , hijcI cannot lake it , wanted to send the bi »^ n tiy tho I !< mI Jacket , milling from Liverpool on Lint 4 th of Deet'inbor ; Init tho owners of the K . « l Jacket will no | solid liur Tound to call at . Southampton , and , though a ttpueinl train could run from London to Liverpool iu live hours , Lord Cunning , PostinaMtor-C'junurju , xiihImU ! on thu call ait tioutluunpton . In not thin abuurd 't
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possible respect for this eminent judge , to express how entirely we join in the wonder felt in the profession especially , but certainly not confined to it , at this extraordinary statement , extraordinary in a lawyer , but in an historical writer hardly to be believed . There is no such thing , and there never was in the most rude periods of our constitutional history , under the most despotic of our princes , anything resembling the alter ego of the absolute monarchies in the South , the Spanish , and the Sicilian . The sovereign with us , -whether in England or in
Scotland , never had the power of handing over to another the Koyal Prerogative . Imperfect as our Constitution has been left in respect of regency ^ or the supplying a temporary defect in the regal functions , and obscure as our constitutional history is on that subject , no doubt or obscurity whatever hangs over it , and no ambiguity has ever existed as to the Royal Prerogative being exercised by the Sovereign alone when there is no such defect . It is , indeed , remarkable how distinctly the inalienable nature of the royal functions was perceived and acted
upon n practice , even at an age when little refinement of principle might be supposed to have place , and when proceedings of a violent and irregular kind in other respects were of ordinary occurrence . " Commenting on this , an able and ingenious writer in the Liverpool Albion says : — " The reviewer professes to have been forced into the ' broaching of these delicate topics by the high legal functionary who made it impossible to avoid them ; ' but there certainly are topics much more delicate than any touched upon by the Chief Justice broached by his commentator , who implies , that , for the first time probably within your or your readers' knowledge , - the subject of making his Royal Highness King Consort has recently
been discussed , and is even yet by no means disposed of ; It is stated as one argument of some weight against the higher title , that an awkward consequence would follow from the Prince , as well as the Heir-apparent , surviving , the Queen ; namely , that we should then have two Kings in the country ; and ' thus the unavoidable inconvenience of a person sinking into a private station who had enjoyed much of supreme power in fact , though not in name , would be considerably increased by the circumstance of his retaining the name under which that ample poWer had been exercised . The mere circumstance of his being called King Dowager , as must almost inevitably happen , notwithstanding all the respect that might surround him , would of itself furnish a
reason for avoiding the alleged honour . ' King Dowager ! Only fancy Field-Marshal Albert King Dowager , Conxmander-in-Chief , these piping : times of war too . It appears , however , according to- our horse-haired oracle , that the Consort could no more have got the whole of the Horse-guards than he could have got the half of the prerogative , the dictum of the Duke of "Wellington to the contrary notwithstanding . The point is thus put : — ' It was said that his being successor to the great man who held the office had been mentioned during his life by himself , and that the Prince had at once intimated his intention to decline it if the Sovereign should be advised to make tho offer . It is quite manifest he never could by possibility have taken the office ; and the wonder is
that any one , above all tho Great Captain himself , should for an instant have allowed such a notion to pass through his mind . It is no fault of Prince Albert , and it is not his misfortune—it is his good fortunethat he was born into the -world after the war had ceased , and that he has never seen service . To have placed him over all tho warriors of England would have been an act which his worst enemy could hardly have advised ; to have taken that position -would have argued in him not only an entire loss of tho groat discretion by which ho has ever been guided , but a want of even ordinary prudence . ' There is something exceedingly Broughamic in all this ' damning with fnint praise' —a good deal in tho fashion that tho Lord Harry exercised
in the world—the mighty glory of England . About 30 OOJ . were subscribed in less than a week for the Prince's statue ; it took six . months to collect half as much foT a statue to Newton , to whom it appeared that not even a marble slab had ever been dedicated , except at the expense of his own family . They who compared the sums given by the same individuals to the two statues—50 ? . or 100 L to that of the Prince , 10 / . or only hi . to that of the philosopher—saw at a glance how little the former subscription could be regarded as voluntary . ' "
PRINCE ALBERT A "QUESTION" AGAIN . T « jr Law Times contains , in . its current number , an article on " tho Prince Consort , " which is very freely attributed to a vivaciouH ox-Lord Chancellor . The article , though in ostensible reprobation of the tmducers of tho Prince , is aovero towards hie defenders , especially tho Lord Chief Justice . Tho Kcviowor says : — k > To the Astonishment of « . ll lawyers , but nlao of nil men -who know the Constitution , tho Chief Juntice declared in tho House of Lor < ln that , the Prince in tho alter cyo of the lloyul Consort . Now , we feel bound , with all
his industry on the flours of Idleness in the brilliant Byronio times of four ~ and-forty years ago . Tho depreciating animus under the guise of panegyric is further evinced in tho remarks ont that unfortunate Chnllia ahominatiou of an Exhibition Memorial to his Royal Highness , - whereof it is said— ' Tho clumsy and overdone flattery of tho City , in proposing to raise a statue , had greatly disgusted tho community , tho rather because a severe pressure had been exerted on many persons in oflicial stations , especially on those connected with the Court , in ordor to obtain subscriptions , whereby tho contrivers of the schoino might "bo tho . better enabled to perform tho part of parasites , or poradvonturo to obtain some of tho distinctions in which the civie mind delights .
Man had marvellod at tho Princo not at onco intimating , what all considered must bo his wish , Mint this moat unseemly proceeding should bo stopped , hh it could only end In his declining tho intended compliment . Hut perhaps ho < lid botter by not refusing baforo it avuh offered . ' lieferring to his roeomnieiicliition that t . lio fund rained should ho applied to hoiiki institution for promoting the instruction of tho iiuhiNtrUnm ulnmiow , thorn occurs a note which would ttlono altnoHt . Hiiflloo tr > at / mi |> the whole article HH being written at tlio inHU ^ ation of tho veritable Vmix , to wit- —' It in iwinawhnt . humiliating to remark tho different fato of tho City ( subscription when it . wus believed to l > o for mining a liutmi to n Priuoc , living imd closely connected with tha Crown , and another mibHcription for u atatuo to the gruntcat kqhIuh that ever appourod
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 18, 1854, page 1090, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2065/page/10/
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