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several wards amounted to . 198 , nearly the whote of wMdh-are surgidal cases . We- Qtteen ^^ grjgj * the Bromptoa baraacfc ^ and : fi » ally * he . m * aili& depot ^ Sfc-MarW . At the ajnchifliao ; of the rfispecttoaishe returned through , the barracks , where the troops , we drawn ; up in line . ; and a royal-salute was fite&from the southern battery on her reacHng-the railway station . The Freedom ^ the < Jity © f Edenb ubgh has been conferred on Major Nasmyth , in . consideration of his heroic defence of Silistria , and his impor tant services at the battles , of Alma and Balaklava . the labourers di
Ov the 1 st inst ., while were gging foundations for the houses on the crescent now buiMing on the Bound HOI Park estate at Brighton , belonging to the members ; of the Conservative Land Society , they discovered an . urn , . evidently Eoman pottery . On being examined , it was found to contain boxes which had been burnt before being so deposited . The urn stands nine inches high , and about six inches broad . No lid could be found ; but that such had belonged to the umiscer ^ tain ,. from the fact that a well-made brass hinge , in good preservation , was exposed to view . Some Roman antiquities were not long since dug out . in the immediate neighbourhood . It is possible , from the character of the land , that a Roman encampnientforanerly-existed in ^ he locality .
The Daily News : American correspondent' says that " things are coming to a crisis , in Mexico . It is reported and believed that Santa Anna ' s reign is about over—that Alvarez has possession of nearly or quite all the Mexican coast on the Pacific—that : Santa . Anna ' s funds are exhausted * and that in . his poverty . and desperation he is resorting , to theiast expedient at hand , and has proposed to the American Minister to sell another portion of Mexico to the United States . But there is no probability thati even- General Pierce ' s administration would entertain theddta of purchasing another province from Mexico . " The Murder in Foley-placb ;—Luigi Buranelli was on Saturday brought up at Marlborough-street for further examination ; but the woman whom he wounded being still in too dangerous a ; state to give evidence , he was remanded for a month .
Ministerial Appointments . —Viscount Monck . has been appointed to the Lordship of the Treasury , . vacated by Lord Alfred Heryey . This completes the Treasury board , which is now constituted as follows : —Viscount Palmerston , First Lord ; Sir George : Cornewall Lewis * Viscount . Monek , Viscount Duncan , and Mr . Chichester Fortescue , Junior Lords . The Right Hon . W-G . Hayter and Mr . James Wilson , Joint Secretaries . Mr . Monsell retains the Clerkship of the Ordnance . —Globe . Release of Carden . —John Carden , who was
convicted last summer of an attempted abduction , has , by an act of disgraceful " grace , " received a , material commutation of his sentence . He is to be released from further imprisonment , on condition of remaining in a foreign land until the end of his term , and of giving security , himself in 20 , 000 / ., arid two sureties of 50001 . each , to keep tbe peace towards Miss Arbuthnot in particular , and her Majesty ' s subjects in general , for ten years . The bail bonds have been perfected , and forwarded to- the . executive .
War Meetino . — At a late meeting of the Newcastle ^ o » -Tyne Foreign Affairs Committee , the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to : —1 . That public opinion in demanding the dismissal of the late Ministry required a change of measures as well as of men ; that tbe war policy of' the newadministration appears to be in no respect an > improvement ; upon , that of the late Cabinet ; that , therefore , the , PaUnerston Ministry can have no claim to the confidence of the people . 2 . That peace in accordance with the terms known as the ' four points' would be dishonourable , illusory , and fraught with consequences dangerous to Europe ; that , therefore , the appointment of a British Plenipotentiary to attend . the
Vienna Conference is either a ridiculous mockery , or part of a plot to commit the country to the terms of a shameful peace . 3 . That this committee recommends and appeals to the British people to hold simultaneous public meetings throughout the country on the 28 th o £ March—the anniversary of the declaration of war—for the purpose of reviewing the course of the first year ' a hostilities , and to make manifest to the Throne , Parliament , and Europe at large , the national will in reference to the future policy and conduct of the war ; and this Committee resolves that a public meeting of the Inhabitants of Newcastle bo holdcn on the day above named For the business herein specified .
Pav ok Ensigns . —The pay of nn ensign is only 86 s . 9 d . a week , and this pittance is subject to many and heavy deductions . Fifty days' pay arc deducted for the mess and band oxpenaoa , nnd 80 a . —that is , upwards of flvo days' pay—for the stump on the commission . The recipient of Una pittance is expected to keep up the appearance of a gentleman , and to enter into the society of young men of that class . Compare with this rate of pay that of somo inferior grades , and . it will plainly appear thut there « ro instances in which a soldier may not bo able to afford the honour of promotion to the rank of ensign , nnd would bo infinitely wiser to reject the temptation of on apparent rise , to be oomperaated by a real fall in hia circumstances . The pay of » corporal in the Sappers and Miners ia 1 / . 17 s . a wcelc , or threepence more than that of an ensign . That
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HOUSE OF LORDS . TICKET OF LEAVE CONVICTS . JLord St . Leonards drew attention to the subject of granting tickets of leave to convicts . He urged that as transportation had . been abolished and penal servitude substituted for it , the system of granting licenses tO ' . convict 9 sto goat large in -certain districts had arisen . It had , however ,, proved to be most dangerous in its effects ; and the noble lord adduced a number of instances to show that most unfortunate results had followed the discharge o great number of persons , who had relapsed into crime from the difficulty placed in their way of obtaining honest employment , which was not a little aggravated by the system of espionage by the police , to which they were subjected . He strongly urged the necessity of some alteration in the system .
The Earl of Granville , while regretting the defective working of the system ,, was yet unprepared at present with any new- plan with reference to the question , although the Home Office was employed in acquiring the fullest information with the hope of future aotion in the matter . He argued that the statements of Lord St . Leonards ware in many respects exaggerated ¦ , and certainly dldTaOtecoirespond with the . information received by the Government . Earl GREx ^ censjired the practice of encouraging policemen to follow returned convicts and prevent their obtaining employment . He recommended the Government to send a large number of convicts to Western Australia and other available colonies .
The Lord Chancellor recognised the abstract advantages of the system of transportation , which had been discontinued only in deference to the feelings of the colonists . With respect to the tickets of leave , he contended that the experiment had , on the whole , proved successful , and a large number of convicts had become honest members of seciety .
THE COLONIAL . OFF-ICE . The Earl of DERBvbroughtforwardthe subject of the present condition of the Colonial Office , and remarked upon the vacancies left in the public service by the absence from England of the Colonial Secretary * He saw no reason to anticipate the early return of Lord John Russell from Vienna , and meanwhile the state of several dependencies appeared to be becoming exceedingly critical . The business of the department had been handed over to Sir G . Grey ad interim , but as that right hon . gentleman wag already charged with the functions of Home Secretary , it was impossible but that some of his onerous duties must be left unperformed . He inquired what steps the Government intended to take to put an end tr » so anomalous a state of things .
Earl Granvillts explained the arrangements for the discharge of the more pressing business devolving upon the Colonial-office , and eulogised the indefatigable industry of Sir G . Grey . He could , however ; afford no information regarding the appointment ot an Undersecretary to the Colonies , intimating that before that post could bo filled up , the bill now before the Legislature , permitting three Under-becretaries of State to sit at one time in the House ot Commons , must have become law . . Their lordships then adjourned at ten minutes past seven otelock .
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( By Continental Telegraph . ) Madrid , Thursday , March 8 . A battalion of marines left Cadiz to-day for Cuba . Bive thousand men will leave in May . The army of IIuvannah will be augmented to 80 , 000 men . _ . Vienna , Friday . The general hope that the . conference * will h « wen satisfactory result has removed tho bad impses » ios which the manifesto of tho Emperor Alexander luu produced .
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of a . sergeant , in fEe same corps is 215 s . a week , or 8 s . 3 d . ' mere AhimtHat'of «»• ensigo : That of a colourseegeairt isfi& ; 8 s » ,. 6 &i .. ajweekt-and ^ that of a sergeantmajor in . tbe Sappers and Miners is 21 . 16 s . a week , or 19 s . . 3 d . more than the pay of . an ensign . —Times . A Chinese Oath . ^—A Chinaman ( that is to say , a native , not a vendor , of China ) was charged at the Thames Police Office , on Wednesday , with wounding one of his countrymen ,, when the following odd scene occurredj— -It : seems' that , on . Chinamen being sworn , a saucer is presented to them , which they dash upon the ground and break to pieces . The prosecutor , though the to him
seated and . very weak , broke saucer presented into pieces ; but tbk second Chinaman , on receiving a saucer of the . stone , siie , which-he threw with violence on the floor ,. could , not break it . Mr . Ingham ( the magistrate ) tola the Chinaman to try again . He did so , but with no better success ; the saucer rolled along the fldorunbrokenj . amid considerable laughter . Aithird arid , a ^ fourth ; time-was- this repeated . The Chinamen were . struck with awe , . and the . Europeans were greatly amused :- Mr . Ingham said the saucer was a strong one , and he wished his own china was of the same strength ; He directed the -witness : 4 © break it on the edge of the witness-box , and he dift sei , and scattered the fragments
on the floor . Fires and Loss of Life . —On Thursday , shortly before noon , a fire broke , out in the premises of Mr . Rouse , in Farringdon-street , by which property to a considerable amount-was destroyed , and owing to which a . young woman , who attempted to escape by jumping from a window , was killed . Another woman was fortunately rescued . The building , was four stories high . Another fire , of a still more destructive character , and attended with the loss of four lives , occurred late on
Wednesday night , in Clipstone-street , Portland-road . Several persons who lodged in the house made thenescape by the staircase through the flames , and reached the street , and two women were rescued by means of the fire-escapes of * the-Royal Society . As soon as . flames were sufficiently subdued , an entry was made into the third floor , in the front room of which the bodies of three ; female lodgers were discovered , and in the back room the body of another , shockingly burnt . The origin ofithe fire is not known .
Peace Efforts of Austria and Prussia . —Immfi-r diately af ter- the death of the Emperor Nicholas , the Austrian and Prussian Ambassadors in Paris ana London , being instructed by telegraph , represented that the situation being now so completely changed , it was highly desirable not to press on the war , but to give the new Emperor of Russia , time to establish himself firmly on the throne , and to encourage by conciliatory conduct the development of his presumed peaceable inclinations
I cannot say whether or not an armistice was in terms asked for ; but this much is not " doubtful , that the German powers recommend that the status quo should be preserved as nearly as possible , and deprecate any assault upon Sebastopol until the Emperor Alexander shall have had an opportunity of negotiating . Very pressing representations in this spirit were made repeatedly on Saturday morning both in Paris and London *—Daily . News . Paris ' Correspondent .
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Leader Office , Saturday , March 10 . HOUSE OF COMMONS . NEW WRIT . A new writ was moved for the borough of Tanaworth in consequence of Sir Robert Peel having accepted the office of a lord of the Admiralty . TirE NEWSPAPER STAMP BILL . The CirABCEixoa of the Exchequer stated that he would move the second reading of this bill on Monday week .
THE EARL OF LUCAN . Lord Elcho , with reference to a motion of Mr ; Henry Berkeley , which stood on the paper for an in-i quiry into the circumstances connected with the cavalry chnrgo at Balaklava , stated that In consequence of the new matter contained in the recently published letter of Lord'liaglan , the Earl of Lucan had again applied to the Commander-in-chief for a court-martial ; and pending that application , ho appealed to the noble member not to bring forward his motion . Mi ; Berkelev agreed to postpone it .
BItEEC" -X . OAT > ING ARSIS . Mr . Maghjiris drew the attention of tho Government to a new breech-loading carbine , which he had seen tried yesterday , invented by a Mr . Sharpe , an American , and pressed the advantages which such a weapon would afford to our cavalry and artillery . Mr . Monsell stated that breech-loading arms were to be adopted in our cavalry forthwith , and that the autlkorities -were only -waiting for the decision of the competent inspectors as to which of several descriptions which had been submitted to them wav the best .
VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS . Mr . Willtams urged'the offers of * a . number qf persons to- form , themselves , into . yofcp £ eer rifle . cojrps . Lord PajLMERSTONdeclaredthai'euetf corps would t * i no use whatever even in case crfioraiiwi , jajacL . declined to encourage their formation . . The- House then went into committieeuof suppLy / en the Ordnance estimates . - • ' - . A discussion arose on the first vote . for the establishment of a camp at Aldershot , especially the item of semi-permanent barracks , which was opposed by Lord Seymour and others , on the ground " that such erections would neutralise the real purpose of an encampment . The whole of the Ordnance estimates were gone through ,, no discussion of any consequence taking place . The remainder of the business consisted of the passing through the orders of the day , and there was nothing in them of interest . The House adjourned soon after eleven o ' clock .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 10, 1855, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2081/page/11/
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