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c ^ er ^ fell into a scouring-tub during an epileptic fit . The water in the tub was ten inches deep , and the lab fifteen inches high . Cultivation of Dartmoor . — Great improvements ¦ have recently been effected on many parts of Dartmoor , -and a . large quantity of waste land has been reclaimed . Twenty acres of grass-land were let the other day for 54 J . 10 s . until next November . In 1846 , the same land let for only 31 . 10 s . The Reformatory School Movement has extended into Yorkshire . In the North and East Ridings an association has . been organised for the reform of juvenile offenders ; and the magistrates of the West Riding have unanimously passed a resolution in favour of the same object .
A New Method of Robbery has been brought to light by a recent police-case . The thieves engage the attention of ladies in the streets by asking them tie way to certain places ; and while the victims are goodnaturedly doing their best to indicate the desired route , their pockets are delicately lightened . Murder and Suicide in the Isle of Man . —A Mr . Thomas Christian , living in the Isle of Man , attempted , a few Sundays ago , to stab his wife . The woman , together with her children , escaped , and fled for protection into the house of a neighbouring farmer named Knowles , who had recently coine to the island from Liverpool . Mrs . Knowles went to her rescue , and succeeded in taking the knife from the maniac , who had been thro-wn down
by his servant man ; but , on endeavouring to regain her house , she found that Mrs . Christian , in her terror , had bolted the door . She was then exposed to the full fury of Christian , who , having broken away from his man , seized a pair of cart " hames , " followed her into a corner , and struck her several blows on the head , returning for a second attack after he had concluded the first . The servant escaped over a hedge ; and the murderer then went to his own barn , where , * fter an ineffectual attempt to cut his throat , he hung himself . Mrs . Knowles was taken into a neighbour's house , "where she immediately expired . Christian , for some time before the tragedy , had been in low spirits ; and the verdict of insanity " returned by the jury at the inquest seems to have had more applicability in it than is usual in such
cases . The Manchester Town TTat . t . had a narrow escape from destruction by fire about four o ' clock on Monday morning . The ceiling over the clerks' offices in the Borough Treasurer's department was discovered to be on fire ; but the flames were soon ' got under , and the damage was but slight . A Robbery of Bullion , to a large amount , has been committed between London and Paris , evidently by persons who were acquainted -with the extent and the mode of the consignments . The gold in bars and American coins amounted to between 13 , 000 ? . and 14 , 000 ? .. The valuable property had been deposited id three boxes , which were separately consigned to Paris
from the bullion-brokers , Thomas , Bult , and Spielman , and were taken in the mail-train of the South-Eastern Railway , which set off from London at half-past eight o ' clock on the evening of Tuesday , the 15 th inst ., to Folkestone , whence they were to be taken , via Boulogne and the Northern Railway of France , to Paris . It was found that the three boxes which were , when delivered in London , hooped and sealed , had been reopened and plundered , and then , rehooped and resettled . It is rather remarkable that the depredators left in one of the boxes between 6 , 000 ? . and 7 , 000 ? . worth of gold ; but it is conjectured that this was done because they had not
materials at command to supply what might have been the deficiency in weight . They had filled up that box with sporting shot Nos . 4 and 7 , and the other two boxes were supplied with a quantity of shot sufficient to represent in weight the amount of gold abstracted . It is supposed that so well-planned a scheme could not have been executed in the rapid passage by railway from London to Folkestone . However that may be , upon the arrival of the boxes at Paris , it was found that other hoops , nails , and seals had been substituted for those used by the three houses in London to -which the property had been consigned . The French as well as the English police are engaged in the investigation .
Nkwsvkndors' Benevolent Institution . —A meeting of this institution was held on Monday evening at the Freemason ' s Tavern . Mr . Dickens , the President , was in the chair , and made one of his admirable speeches , combining sound sense with humour . Having commented on the admirable way in which newavendors manage their affairs , and contrasted the order and harmony of their proceedings with the way in which matters are conducted in " other places , " Mr . Dickens observed— "From the excellent way in which this
uoclety is conducted , I have every hope of its success ; but , if / my friend , Mr . Wyld , were appointed to carry pn the , distribution of newspapers , simply because his neat-great-great-grandmother had been appointed , 'I should have rery little hope indeed . ( Lcttiffhter . ) Again , if' X ' received papers two or thTce years old , with all sorts of publications which I do not want , and if the newsve ^ dors' staff could do no more than stand on their heads , or ' over' all the street-posts upon their boat , instead of distributing papers , while some juvenllo junior ! a « d < their ollakhx ' portfolio , ' I should have also very Httlehope . "
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HOUSE OF COMMONS . MR . PHINN ' S SEAT FOR BATH . A discussion arose , originating with Sir W . Jolliffe , as to whether a new writ should be issued for Bath , in consequence of Mr . Phinn ' s having accepted the office of second Secretary to the Admiralty , and it was stated that that was not office under the Crown which vacated his seat , but that he had applied for the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds , and would retire from Parliament , and above all that he would not vote in the division of last night . THE CONFERENCES AT VIENNA . In answer to Mr . Roebuck as to whether the Conferences at "Vienna had again been sitting ,
Lord Palmerston said that the Conferences could not sit again till our Minister at Vienna had received authority to attend them . Mr . M . Gibson said he understood that Lord Westmoreland had power to confer at Vienna , and he asked whether that power had been withdrawn ? Lord Palmerston aaid the power had not , especially from his own friends in the Government ; but so great was his horror of the evils of the war , which had already cost tho lives of half s million of men and fifty millions of property , that lie could not shrink from tho duty of showing that an opportunity had been thrown away for arresting the continuance of these evils . Ho contended that it was an ill-advised step to reject tlio recent proposals of Russia , which held out a fair opening for such further negotiation as would have led to tho conclusion of pence .
THB PROSECUTION OF TUB WAR . The adjourned debate on Mr . Disraeli ' s motion was renewed by Mr . Whitesidm , wlio said ho found ample cause for supporting tho resolutions in tho speeches made against them by Mr . Gladstone and Lord John Russell . He contended that those speeches showed the inconsistency of opinion and uncertainty of conduct of the government . From
the details of the Vienna Conference he drew proof of the unskUfulness of the plenipotentiary and the incapacity of the government . He taunted Mr-Gladstone with having assumed the lead of the Peace party , and with being willing to risk everything upon a treaty with Russia , who never kept the faith of treaties , which he showed by several historical references ; and concluded a most fervid and eloquent speech by denouncing the pacific speech of Mr . Gladstone , which he enforced with the language of a glowing address to the Crown moved by a Chancellor of the Exchequer a hundred years ago , w . hich language he urged should now be adopted by the House of Commous , if they wished to have the support of the people in carrying on a just and necessary war for the supremacy of England and advance of the liberties of the world . Mr . Lowe at length argued , that neither the motion of Mr . Disraeli nor the amendment of Sir F . Baring were fitted to obtain the opinion of the House on the real question , which was , whether Russia , having rejected to negotiate on the basis of the limitation of her preponderance in the Black Sea , which meant the limitation of her naval power in that sea , there was any further room for negotiating at all , and it was with the view of raising that question that be had moved his amendment . Mr . Cayley expressed his dissatisfaction with Mr . Diraeli ' s motion , and his approval of Lord John Russell ' s speech , which put an end to the notion of a division in the Cabinet ; and he stated his earnest hope that the war would be carried on with vigour . Mr . Koundell Palmer , as an advocate of peace , repudiated the notion that those with whom he acted wished to humiliate the country ; but he deprecated the desire of going on with the war merely for the purpose of military triumphs . He urged that no war was justifiable except for defensive purposes . The object which it was said we were contending for , namely , the integrity of Turkey , would not be secured by fighting , but only by a renovation of the internal system of that empire by the education of the Turks into civilisation and independence . Lord Stanley in a speech of much power criticised the conduct of the war , and expressed his determination to support Mr . Disraeli ' s resolution , he was followed by Mr . La yard , who went at great length into the whole question of the war , embracing almost every topic connected with it , and showed that the only gainers in the matter had been Austria and Russia . He earnestly prayed the Government to uphold the Crown and glory of England , and declared the people not to be sick of the war , but sick of those who mismanaged it and the affairs of the country generally . Lord Palmerston , in a speech of much earnestness , vindicated the course of the Government . Mr . Disraelt replied , and the House divided , when there appeared—For Mr . Disraeli ' s motion 219 Against it 319 Majority 100 A discussion then arose as to whether Sir F . Baring ' s and Mr . Lowe ' s amendment should be put , which ended in the consideration of the amendments being adjourned . The House adjourned at a quarter-past three .
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A NEW CAMPAIGN . A Paris correspondent of a contemporary writes : — " 1 have reason to believe that the French Covernjmeut is about , either officially or semi-officially , to contradict the report that the recal of the expedition to Kertch proceeded upon a misunderstanding of a telegraphic despatch . According to information , which I have no doubt is in the main correct , a new plan of campaign , suggested by General Pelissier and approved by the Emperor , renders the immediate occupation of of Kortch comparatively unimportant . It is probable that at this very moment the allied armies are carrying into offect against the Russians a manoeuvre similar to that
which they attempted against us at Inkerman . A general attack upon their positions on tho Tchernaya river will doubtless be reported by telegraph within a very few days . The following la a closely approximate estimate of tho allied forces now in tho Crimea ; 120 , 000 French , 30 , 000 English , 15 , 000 Sardinians , 06 , 000 Turks , and 10 , 000 Egyptiana—in all 210 , 000 men . It is considered that 80 , 000 men will abundantly suffice to hold tho trenches before Sobastopol , and tho remaining 130 , 000 , besides reinforcements , ore likely to be employed during the summer to scour tho Crimoa . Ine latest Government accounts state that the amouut of the Russian force in the Peninsula is much less than has been supposed . "
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The Times of yesterday , in its second edition , published the following despatch , dated 11 Vienna , Friday momingr " A Conference will bo hold to-morrow , without thA Russian Plenipotentiaries ; and another on Monday , M which those Plenipotentiaries will probably bo proaont .
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Leader Office , Saturday , May 26 . HOUSE OF LORDS . THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE . Earl Grey brought forward his motion for an address to the Crown , thanking her Majesty for having laid the Protocols of the Vienna Conference before the House , to inform her Majesty that the House deeply deplores the failure of the attempt to put an end to the calamities of the war by negotiations ; to express the op inion of the House that the proposals of Russia were such as to afford a fair prospect of concluding a peace by which all the original objects of the war might have been gained , and by which England and her allies might have obtained all the advantages which can reasonably be demanded from Russia ,. He commenced by expressing his regret at being compelled to bring forward a motion which would meet with so much opposition , and be withdrawn ; but still it was one thing to have the power and another to exercise it when the circumstances were not considered fa-vourable by the Government . He then proceeded to recapitulate the objects and principles for the enforcement of which we had engaged in war , and contended that those principles had not only been realised , but much exceeded in the concessions already made by Russia . With regard to the propositions of the Vienna Conferences , he said that he preferred the proposals made by Russia , remarking that the demand to limit her fleet was insulting to an independent power ; and in reply to the assertion that Russian faith could not be relied on , he said that the objection would be equally applicable , and the observance of the treaty equally uncertain , whatever were the terms in which it was concluded . He inquired what were the expectations that could induce the country to protract the war , urging that all practical objects were now secured , and nothing remained but some vague and uncertain advantages , contended for under the impulse of an unjustifiable animosity against Russia . Tracing the rise and progress of the conflict from the beginning , he argued that the English government and ambassador at Constantinople might have avoided the outbreak of war , or topped hostilities at various opportunities ; and he brought against them , for their omissions in other respects , heavy charges of negligence , partiality , and recklessness . The Earl of Clarendon replied to Lord Grey , stigmatising him as the advocate of Russia , and entered into a general defence of the course of the Government . The debate ranged through Lords Malmesbury and Lyttelton , the Duke of Newcastle , the Bishop of Oxford , and the Earl of Derby , the only supporter of Lord Grey being Lord Lyttleton , and partially the Bishop of Oxford , and at the close of the discussion Earl Grey withdrew his motion .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 26, 1855, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2092/page/12/
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