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of the gunboats had been held on Tuesday , "bub the line-of-battle ships were prevented from joining by stress of weather . Sir Charles Wood , First Lord of the Admiralty , Admiral Berkeley , Second Lord , Lord Panmure , Lord Hardinge , and several naval and military officers of high rank , were present . The Queen has invited Sir Edmund Lyons to be her guest on board the royal yacht on the occasion of the review . _ Eussian PRIS 0 UEK 3 of War . —The Imperatriz transport , No . 150 , arrived at Sheeiness on Sunday from the Thames . She steamed up alongside the Russian prison ship Devonshire , Lieutenant Commander Lloyd , and received all the Eussian prisoners of V&r and also the merchant seamen of different northern nations who had been detained for breaking the blockade . The Imperatriz left again the same day for a Russian port in the Baltic < supposed to be Iabau ) . ,
__ _ . .. The Chatham Military Hospitaxs were visited by the Queen and Prince Albert on Wednesday . AtiDBRSHOTT . —The Queen will review the troops at Aldershott this day ( Saturday ) . Wreck op an Amebicaji Bark , neau Deal . — A very heavy gale from the East by North has been blowing during the greater part of the present week ; and the Blanchard , Captain Lawranee , of Yarmouth , United States , has been wrecked near Deal . The crew and passengers were all saved . The water is out in the marshes in the neighbourhood of Deal , and it is reported that considerable losses have been sustained by the graziers , and that many ewes and lambs have been lost .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . — -The Queen ' s Ball , announced for Friday , the 6 th of June , is to take place on Tuesday , the 17 th of that month . Her Majesty has given sittings to Mr . Noble for a colossal bust for the Townhall of Mall of Manchester . The Queen held a levee on Tuesday afternoon , at St . James ' Palace ; a writer , who last year called attention to the same subject , again addresses the Times , to complain that the crush and struggle to obtain entrance are as bad ms ever . FiBES .--Between eight and nine o ' clock last Sunday evening , a fire , supposed to have been caused by an escape of gas , broke out at tlie Vauxb . all-station of the South Western Railway , and destroyed the whole
terminated by the singing of th « National Anthem . It was agreed , with one dissentient , not to support Mr . Dillvvyn ' s measure for introducing flogging as a punishment for wife-beaters . N " A . TioNAri Education . —A meeting has been held at Halifax , to consider the subject of national education . The Mayor presided , and the assembly was addressed by Mr . Edward Ackroyd , Mr . John Abbott , Mr Stores Smith , the Rev . W . Walters , and Mr .
Alderman Crossley . A motion in favour of a general measure of national education , which should not supersede , "but aid , the voluntary principle , was carried by a considerable majority , after some opposition by Messrs . Walters and Crossley , who proposed and seconded an amendment deprecating all governmental interference with the education of the people , as endangering their liberties by increasing ministerial patronage . A petition was adopted in accordance with the resolution .
The New American Ambassador , Mb . Dallas , was entertained at a banquet at the Mansion House on Thursday . He spoke strongly in favour of conciliation . Charge of Fraud AaiiusT a Lady .: —A lady who appeared at the Mansion House as a Mrs . Mary Eliza M'Nair , was charged with having obtained a sum of money ' from the East India Company by false and fraudulent pretences . It appeared that she was the widow of " a Captain M'JNTair , who had been in the service of " the East India Company , and who died in 1838 . The widow then received a pension on the
usual condition that it would be forfeited if she married again . Ten years ago , according to the statement for the prosecution , she took to herself another husband , yet ever since then has continued to receive the pension , the East India Company feeing until the last few days ignorant of the change m her position . The case was remanded ; and , on the lady ' s solicitor hoping that the bail would be small , the Lord Mayor remarked , amidst some laughter , that he supposed tlie lady ' s husband could come forward and bail her without difficulty . To this , the solicitor replied , " Our defence is that she has no husband . "
range of buildings . The business of the station was going forward as usual , when an alarm of fire was given , and at the same moment flames were discovered in a small room adjoining the booking office . The fire quietly spread to the booking office itself , and compelled alL those who were there to retreat hastily front the spot . The conflagration continued to make such rapid progress , that ill a very short time it extended on to the platform ., and soon afterwards the entire station vas on fire . In consequence of the suddenness of the occurrence , the officials were not able to signal the trains then on the line to stop ; and two up trains from . Twickenham and Windsor set down passengers at the station while it was on fire .
No lives , however , -were lost , and the line was soon repaired . — -An alarm of fire , which , for a short time created some confusion , was raised on Saturday night at Drury Lane Theatre . Some experiments were being made , under the sanction of the committee of management of the threatre , by the Fire Anuihilator Company . The instrument , which was being tried on some of the gas battens , had its head blown off by the liberated carbonic acid . The whole of tho stage was immediately enveloped in a mist , and some persons , fancying the place was on fire , rushed out and gave an alarm to that effect ; but matters were speedily set to rights . The inventor of the " aunihilntor" has
siuce written to the Ttmes , to stute that , according to the way tho chemicals used in the machine are compounded by the company whicli has bought his patent—the invention is absolutely dangerous . —The Caledonian Distillery , Edinburgh , u new buildiug , regarded aa-the largest and most complete establishment of tho kind in Scotland , has been destroyed by fire . —Lavender Dock , Rotuerhithe , was discolored on Tuesday evening to be on fire ; but the flames wore got under . —The houso of a wax-chandler and oilmerchant in Albnuy-atreet , llegent ' s-park , caught fire on Tuesday morning , about elevou o'cloak , and was destroyed , together with tho stock . Several of the adjoining houses were damaged by nro and water .
Tna Laws APiasowNa Women . —A meeting of a Bpraowhat extraordinary character was held in tho Town-hall , Leicester , on Monday night . Tho handbills convening it Btnted that tho object was to consider tho lawa rolntivo to the protection of women , and that no men would bo admitted , " excepting , of course , gentlemen of the press . " Tho meeting numbered about two hundred . Tho majority wore womon of middle tvgo , of tho operative class , in genoml respectably dressed . A Mrs . Woodford was voted to tho chair , and tlio principal speaker was a , Mrs . Wig-flold , who mado somo really clover speeches . It waq unanimously rosolvod to support the motion of Sir Erskino Perry for a revision of tho marriage laws . A petition to tho House of Commons waa agreed to , and tho procoodinga , which were conducted with groat nropriuty ,
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THE PEACE . The Presse d'tirient announces that tlie evacuation of the Russian territory by the Allies will begin ¦ with the fortress of Itinburn , and that Eupatoria will follow . At tlie last sitting of the Congress , the members were occupied with questions of detail in reference to' 1 , The free navigation of the Danube ; 2 . The interior regime of tho Principalities , and tho arrangement of the frontiers ; 3 . The situation of the Christians in Turkey . For these purposes three Commissions are appointed : — 1 . A Commission , named by all | the Powers represented at the Congress on the subject of the jOanube ; 2 . A Commission , named by all tho Iowors except Piedmont , on -the frontier question ; { L 8 . A Commission , named by nil tho Powers , with the addition of delegates from tho Divan , to consider the position of tho Christians .
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FRANCE . The Duke de Broglio , as is customary when a now academician has been named , has been presented to tho Emperor . " M . lo Due , " said the Emperor , addressing him after tho first complimonts wore over , " 1 have read with muoh interest and pleasure your address to tho Academy on your reception . Permit mo to thank you for the very flattering manner in which you havo alluded to tho Emperor Napoleon I . my undo . Allow mo also to express tho hope that your grandson will ilnd reason to spoalc as favourably of tho 2 nd of December as you , M . lo Duo , ha-vo spoken of tho 18 th Brumalre . " Tho DuUe answered , " Sire , History will dooido . "
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The Crime am Board mot again yesterday ( Friday ); but no details of gonontl Interest wore elicited . Tn » Huiwoir Poisoning Case . —An action ha » been brought in tho Darlington County Court against Mr . Wooler , to recover £ \( i 12 b . Oil ., U » o charges of Mr . Jackson for attendance on tho late Mrs . Wooler . Mr . Wooler resisted , on tho ground that Mr . Jackson protended to bo a physician when ho waa simply an apothecary , and that ho had not treated Mrs . "Wooler proporly , nor given notice of tho symptoms of poisoning . A vordiot waa awarded for tho amount claimed . Great oxcitomont prevails , * nd public feeling is strong against Mr . "VVoolor . Govehnhent Appointments . —Wo have reason to know that the G < m > rnoral ) li > of Victoria has boon offered by tho Colonial Sooretary to tho Earl of Elgin , and declined by tho noble earl Wo bollovo it h most probablo that V . O \ Martin , Eb < j ,., W . D Iloaao , ISaq ., and John Simons , ISaq ., will bo appointed Additional Innpootora of Charities under the Act 18 and 10 Vic , o 134 . —Qlobe .
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hereditary pensions to the Duke of Grafton and the descendants of the Duke of Schomberg had been purchased for a capital sum of £ 213 , 000 , which had been paid out of the revenues of the Pcst-office and Excise , on which they bad been chargeable . The House then went into Committee of Supply , and was occupied mainly with the Civil Service Estimates till the rising .
EBECTIOUB IN THE PABK . In answer to a question , Mr . Monsell said that the buildings erecting in Hyde Park ¦ were being done with the joint concurrence « f the War Department and the Board of Works . Sir F . Thesigeb—For what purpose ? Mr . Monsexii—For fireworks . Colonel Knox inquired of the President of the Board of "Works if it was 'with his concurrence . Sir B . Haix said that he had nothing to do with sanctioning ; the works . He had been on the ground to-day to see that no obstruction to traffic should result from it , Mr . G-. Dundas asked what these fireworks were for , and the amount of the expenditure ?
The Chakceii-oe of the Exchequer said that , at the proper tune , the details of the expense would be laid before the House . Mr . G . Dundas—But what are the fireworks for ? The Chancellor of tbce Exchequeb said he really did not think , at first , that the hon . gentleman was in earnest . It was to celebrate the p « ace .
NAVAX KEVIEW . On the motion for the adjournment o-f the House , CoL Fbench asked a question relative to the facilities for the members of the House seeing the naval review . Mr . Lindsay asked if the Perseverance placed at the disposal of the members of the House was the same ship that capsized , last yea . If so he hoped the Admiralty would , supply & sufficient number of life-boats . Having spent so much money about the sad realities of war he thought this show might have been dispensed-with . Mr . Layabd asked if it were true that a certain number of gunboats had beea constructed for this review ?
Sir C . wood said that the gunboats had not been built for the occasion . Tlie Admiralty had provided the best accommodation for both Houses of Parliament , but he was unable to accommodate the Wives of the Commons , although he had those of the Lords , their number being few ^ er . The Perseverance was a very good , sbip notwithstanding the accident to her in dock , and he could not be supposed to desire to capsize his own side of the House whatever he migfat do to the Opposition . ' . ' . ¦¦ ¦ , An attempt wa& made by Mr . Hadfield to get the adjournment from to-night to Thursday , but it was resisted by the-Government .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . ADJOURNMENT FOR TUB NWAI . REVIEW . In the course of a conversation with reference to the business of the House , it was announced that the House would bo adjourned on Monday evening next until Thursday—tho objoot , of course , being to allow members to visit the Naval Review on WeilncBday . KA . U 3 . It was arranged that Mr . Wiuteside ' s motion , rolativo to the fall of Kara , should come on on Monday week . NEW PUltLlO . OFFICES . Sir B . IIall gave notice that on tlie 28 th of May he should move for a Select Commlttoo to inqulro into tho subject of founding now Public Oincosin the neighbourhood of Downingstveot . PAKUAarENTAltY KEFOIIM , Sir . T . Walmsusv renewed hla notice of motion for Parliamentary Reform , which was prevented coming on by ilio "No House" the night before , for tho 8 th of Mny . POSTAL COMMUMUATION WITH AUSTRALIA . In reply to Mr . Kvei . tn Ohnison and Siv J . Pakinoxon , Mr . Wiuos utiitod that none of tho tandor . i innda for tho supply of a Postal Service to Aitfltrnlln had boon coimldwcd acceptable by tho Government , and tlio service w « b agreed to bo thrown open to public competition | no but ( decision had boon , oumu to with regard to nny particular route . MONIIMKNT TO TUB DUKE Of WEUUnfQTON , On a question from Viscount Cuki . ska , Sir U . lUu Bt . ateil that a mm * of £ -2 & , 000 , balixneo of tho £ 80 , 000 voted for tho Amoral of the Duko of Wellington , would bo applied to tho erection of a monument to him In St . Paul's ; the de » l £ ii » for which will bo thrown open to competition . HEIIEMTAHY I'ENSIONO , In answer to Sir F . Wa / uino , Mr . Wilboh uald that certain
UEVENUES OP INDIA . On the motion for going ; into Committee of Supply , Sir E . Pebet called attention to the state of tlie Indian revenue , which , he urged , was yearly showing a great deficit as compared with expenditure . He deprecated the principle of annexation , the last instance of which was in the case of the kingdom of Oude . Mr . V . Smith urged that the question should liave been brought forward on the Indian Budget ; and he corabatted the fallacies and arguments , of Sir E . Perry , and defended the policy of Lord Dalhousie . Mr . Otway made some stringent remarks on our oppre 3 Siy Indian policy , wliich was defended , by Sir J . W . Hoeo , who also went at length into the question of the revenues of India .
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Aphil 19 , 1856 . J THE LEADER . 369
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HOUSE OF LOBDS . TOBTDBE IN INDIA . Thi Earl of Eixesbobotjgh : stated that the case of a person convicted of torturing a native of Bengal had been punished by five years' imprisonment in chains , with hard , labour ; which was a satisfactory way of dealing with the offence . Ihe Duke of Ano ^ ci , concurred in that opinion , and produced a special report of the case . TICKET-OF-Z . EAVE Sl'STEM . Tho Marquis of Salisbub'S brought forward the subject of ticltet-of-leave convicts , complaining that the Act of 1853 had not been properly carried out , and moved for certain returns connected with tlie subject . The Duke of Aegylx said that the report of ^ Colonel Jebb , which would shortly be published , would show that the system had on the whole , worked w « H . The three per centage of reconvictions of ticket-of-lcave men , was only eight per cent , in the whole time since 1854 . Earl Stanhope then proceeded to bring the whole question of secondary punishments bofore the House . Tho matter was discussed by Lord LTrrELiOM , Earl Ghan-VHX . E , the Earl of Derby , and the Earl of HUilrowby . Ultimately , Earl Stanhope gave notice that ho should move foF a Select Committee to inquire into the subject . The Houso adjourned at a quarter to nine o ' clock .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 19, 1856, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2137/page/9/
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