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intercepted letter is by Mr . Evans himself ; but lie previously sent it to Mr . Cadogan , who received it as an insidious attempt to extort money to purchase suppression ; and he has instituted preliminary proceedings in the MaxLborough- street police-court , binding over Mr . Evjvars and a fiaend to take their trial for libel . The third submarine question is not less important . Lord Palmekstok has definitively aa > nounced in Parliament that Government wil £ jaot give a subsidy to tlie EupnWtes Valley Railway and Telegraph , but wall employ any electric telegraph to India actually established . This leaves the way clear for the Suez project . - While we" arc disputing over the great works
that we couM create , and delay only by our own bickerings , the French people , united' under a beloved Emperor , are constructing immense works in Paris and elsewhere . In the loyalty of their hearts , they are building houses chiefly for the wealthy classes , and have crowned that act of self-devotion by finishing the Louvre , which Francis I . began , Napoleon the Fikst struck out in a new style , and Napoleon the Last completes—with honours and feasts for the architects , artists , and artisans . It is a strange circumstance that this beloved Emperor , who is thus making work for the people of Paris and other towns , should see his own fete
daywhich ought to be a holiday in Paris—kept no doubt by the officials and the soldiery , but pass as dull as the dullest of our November days—a failure . Another great measure is said to be preparing for the benefit of the French people . The trade of butchers in Paris is to be thrown open . It has hitherto been a monopoly , at the same time that the butchers have been restrained by aii excise fixing the price of meats—all the different kinds of joints . The French Government is even £ oing to try free trade , or , what we rather suspect , is about to substitute for the humble monopoly of butchers some grand scheme of joint-stock interference , got ur > bv those masters at ioint-stock gambling with
which Paris abounds . But the United Kingdom beats the French Empire this week in the example of unblushing effrontery ; for not even the Court of Louis Napoleon can produce such a specimen of shamelessness as the scene that Dublin has exhibited in its Assembly Rooms . On the stage of that building , with some tawdry scenery for the background , Spollen , who was accused of the murder of Mr . Littxe , has appeared , to deliver a monologue on his own participation in the trial . His narrative turned out to be a begging petition for the means wherewith to
emigrate * without a word of explanation to clear up his conduct . On the contrary , when questions were put to him—and they were many—he either avoided the answers , or was eagerly recalled to silence by his son . 'Jtfhe effect of this exposure has . been the very reverse of what Spolmsn intended , so . far as regards , the strengthening of belief in his innocence . But it does appear to have brought him some money . Many parsons in Dublin could not resist the opportunity of seeing the ouriosity for a shilling . Some weufc in to sec how few the man ' s impudenqe cpuld . carry him ; and the man , actually , made something pf himsolf , as a show .
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Twb . Aj RBaaoAN Mwrowanoj Sbrvicis . —A Kamsgate fishingr-luggor , a few days ago , picked up a sailor about nine miles out at soa , just after ho had sprung from , a paoket-ship > steering up tbo Channel . We was taken into Hastings , and , conveyed , before the . Mayor , whon ho ptatod that his name was Freoland , and that ho wa ^ a nativo of Londonderry . On the 28 rd of July , ho was staying- at a seaman ' s boarding-ihouse at Now York , to the master of which Ho owed nine dollars . Ro was drugged nnd rendered insonsiblo , and , on rocovoring his consciousness , found himself on board a vessel bound for London * Ho was hero brutally ill-used * and was finally told to leap overboard . This ho did , and they then
throw him a Hfc-buoy . Jn about ton minutes ho was picked up by the Rnmsgato lugger . During tho voyago , another man had boon kicked overboard , nnd wns drowned ; and ono mnn loaped into tho sea , but was recovered nnd brought back , whon ho was severely beaten . Freoland had . had bnt acanty fnvo while on board tho American vessel , and his person was much bruieed . Tho Mayor ordered that ho should bo sent up to London , and paid his . . necosqary expenses . Wmnnfcb or ? tiiid i-atis Mn . Choker , —Tho mortal remains of tho Into Bight Hon . John Wilson Crolccr wore consigned to tholr last roating-plaeo , at Moualoy , ^ ur o ^ , ^ mTey ,. on . Monday . The Amoral w « a of a i > AvRt , e oWaotor . ' »* p ^^^ ""i ^ ta ^^^^*^**'
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Saturdhy , August 15 th . The HouaJfc of Commons sat for two hours last Saturday mova&sg , for the purpose of forwarding certain bills . SCOTCH COafitetttMATIONS . • M * Hadeield asked'wHctrier it is the fttfehttarof . the Lord Advocate to bringijia- . mil to remove the ! present legal' difficultibs that preyentrScdtch confirmatibnjtitiaviiig operation over the estates of deceased persons S » Engas well in Scotland and sShtr whe
land oc I relaae ^ as- ; - ther ft& ascended to itti ^ ftduc ** measure to ^ estend the operation of English or Irish probates over the property of deceased persons in Scotland . —The Lord Advocate said he bad been in communication with the Lord Chancellor on the subject of putting ; Scotch confirmations on tlie same footing as English and Irish probates , and he should lose no time next session in doing for Scotland what is- now in course , of- ' being done for England , and Ireland .
THE LATE MEMBER FOR BEVEELEY . Mr . Locke presented a petition froea Mr . Glover , fate member for Beverley , praying for the appointment of a committee to inquire whether , on the 28 th of March , 1857 , he was possessed of a qualification to entitle him to be returned for the borough of Beverley , —The Speaker was of opinion that the question had been already decided by the election committee , and that the petition could not be received . The Charitable Trusts Acts Continuance Bill , the Mutiny ( East India ) Bill , and tlie Parochial Schoolmasters ( Scotland ) ( No . 2 ) Bill , were read a third time , and passed . CONSOLIDATED FUND ( APPROPRIATION ) BILL .
The House having gone , into committee on this bill , Mr . Caird complained that the grant for the Edinburgh Industrial Museum had been disallowed . — -Some discussion on the subject ensued , and a Wish was expressed by several members to have the vote of 10 , 000 ^ . for purchasing a site for the Museum re-introduced , even at the eleventh hour . The proposition , however , was opposed by Mr . Hadfield and other members , and ultimately withdrawn . ^— In the course of the debate , the-CHA » - cellor of the Exchequer made some explanatory observations touching the recent increase in the estimates for civil services . This , lie observed , was not for any corrupt or profligate objects , but for purposes of general and public utility , such as the proposed Museum for Edinburgh , which the House had refused to sanction . The proposal -would be made again next year , according to a suggestion thrown out by Mr . Gladstone .
CROWDED DWELLINGS PREVENTION BILL . Upon the motion for going Into committee on this bill , 'Mr . Ayrton complained of its arbitrary character . He thought the existing law was sufficient , and that the Government would do well to consider whether they should go on with the present measure , —Mr . Cowper said that all the bill attempted to do was to define how far the word ' family' extends . Lodging-house keepers and frequenters had acknowledged that they had benefited by the Lodging-house Act . Order now reigns in these houses , instead of confusion and profligacy . The present bill simply introduced an amendment in one small particular in the old act . —At the suggestion of Mr . Henley , tlie committee was' postponed to Monday ; and , several bills having been advanced through various stages , the House adjourned . Moiiday . August nth .
In the House of Lords , the Royal Assent was given by commission to a great many bills , and their Lordships considered the Commons' amendments ta several other measures . With respect tp the difference of opinion between the two Houses , as to the Jora $ Stock Companies Bill , the Lord Chancellor proposed a compromise . Ho thought it might be reasonable to allow the dividend of 2 s . in tho pound to be retained by those creditors who had received it ; but he moved that tueir 'Lordships should insist upon their proposal that such creditors should not be entitled to receive any further ) dividend , or to have recourse to any other remedy tuan could bo obtained in respect df the judgments , against lands . —This was ultimately agreed to by 11 to 0 . —The amendments on the Dulwioh Collisgb Bill , with respect to tho constitution of tho governing body of the collagewore thrown ou , t .
, Tho Scotch Lunatics Bill was . passed ; several other bills woro forwarded ft etngo ; nnd tho Appkopriation Bill was road a first time . Their Lordships adjourned at half past six . MBRSEY , O 0 N 8 BRVANOY BPJU At the morning sitting of tho Housw of Commons , Sir Jamks Graham moved that a select committee bo appointed to inspect tho Lords' journals rolativo to the . Mersey Conservancy bill , and to mnko a roport thereon It would bo ell to
to tho House . Ho considered that w Introduce a now bill to givo effect to tho arrangement Bottled beforo tho committee of tho House of Lords , nnd so put an end to a . moafc angry controversy . Tho oommittoo ho , ankod for would Report tl * n , t tho formor bill Wfts at an end , and then ' ho would move to introduco tho now bill , and to lmvo it pnssod through all its etngos . — Mr . Ewart aocomlod tho motion . —After a fow words from Mr . Hjsnluy , tho motion wae agreed to , And the committee -was appointed .- —In tho evening , Qlr Jamksk
Graham brought up the report of the select committee arftTtiJiflitsed for and obtained leave to bring in the new . fati , to suspend ' the standing orders , and to read the bill * a flisfc' am * second time . This was accordingl y done . dSWOrce and matrimonial causes bill . The HsbaseXtent again into committee on this bill , conimencing- ^ vitli . the 28 th clause , which authorizes and requires tli » Court in certain cases to dismiss a petition for divoBoa . Several alterations were proposed , some of which were adopted by Government , and assented to by the Bouses Among these w , as one moved by Mr . jB&VMCL , wi 0 thought there would be a difficulty in flfeking . the commission of the adultery at any " time during the marriage , without reference to the time or the fact of its condonation , a complete bar to divorceand he therefore moved the omission of the words , " shall find that the husband has been guilty of adultery during the marriage . " — Another of the amendments agreed to originated in Mr . Butx ,. who , in order to avoid collusive suits , moved the insertion , of . the words , " that- tlkv petition- has . bieen ^ presented- or prosecuted in eolrusibtt witfi . either of ' rtie other parties . " The-succeeding clause , authorizing and requiring tlie Court , under certain conditions , to pronounce a decree of dissolution , was likewise materially modified . —Mr . Walpole proposed to include in the proviso to this clause , " that the Court shall not be at liberty to pronounce a , decree of dissolution where the petitioner should have been guilty of adultery not condoned j" but this amendment was negatived upon a division . —The Attorney-General moved to include in the proviso , " that the Court shall not be bound to pronounce such decree if it shall find that the petitioner had'during the marriage been guilty of adultery . "—This amendment was agreed to , as well as another , also proposed by the Attorney-General , including among the exceptions in the proviso wilful separation before the adultery without reasonable excuse , and wilful neglect or misconduct which shall have conduced to . the adultery . —The clause , thus amended , was opposed by Mr . Mostsell , because i ; authorized divorce a vinculo ; but it was carried by 88 to . 21 . —With this division the sitting of the Committee terminated . . The House having resumed , the Consolidated Fuxd ( Appropriation 1 ) Bill , the Probates aktd Letteks of Administration ( Ireland ) Bill , and the Jurisdiction in Siam Bill , were read a third time , and- passed . EFFECT OF IHE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT . In the evening , Mr . Coninghaju inquired whether Mr . F . O . Ward had been correctly reported to have said , at the International Congress at Brussels , last September , that the application of the Public Health . Act to two hundred houses in England had diminished the mortality by fifty per cent ., and had in their vicinity quadrupled the fertility of the soil . —Mr . Cowprk said he had a copy of the speech referred to ; and the passage in question was only a portion of what was stated . Mr . Ward spoke of the mortality existing in the most wretched parts of the several toyrns , arising from the class of diseases- resulting from impure air and polluted water . What he stated on this point was in relation to Croydon , Leicester , Rugby , and other places . When , he spoke of the fertility caused by sewage irrigation , he alluded to that which was known to have taken place in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh and Ayr . INDIAN FINANCES . In reply to an inquiry by Lord Claude Hamilton Mir . Vernon Smith said that the Government had decided not to bring forward tho usual annual statement on the Indian finances . Recent events would make any estimates perfectly fallacious ; and members had already had one or two occasions of expressing , their op inions with respect to the Indian crisis . THE MALTA LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL . Mr . Labqucherid , in answer to Mr . Kinmairr , said that it was intended to prohibit in futuro any priest or other minister of religion "from being elected a member of the Legislative Council of Malta . THE ! PRESS IN INDIA . Replying to Mr . Disraicli , Mr . Vehkon Smith snui that there would bo no objection to lay ing on tho tuwc of tho House the papers connected with the Act oi tnc Legislative Counoil of India restricting tho liberty oi tne press in the dominions of the East India Company . THE DIVORCE WILL . . . Tho House then again wont into committoo on tnw bill . —Tho 81 st clnuso empowers tho court , whero im . adultery has boon established , on tho petition ot tno iiuhband , to impose a fine upon tho adulterer , ho nnvinfc , been made a co-respondent , and to order him to pay ii « - costs Mr . PuLLEXt proposed to amend this clause u > empowering the Court to punish tho respondent ' !"" ''"" respondent by fine , or imprisonment , or botli , us n eonviotod of a misdemeanour . —Tho Attohnky-Oknuuuobjqetod to making adultery a criminal ofl ' onco . --Altai long discussion , tho clause was agreed to , with tlie oiu sion of tho words authorizing tho imposition oi n n » upon tho adulterer , which tho Attornoy-Qonoriu P posed to make tho subject of another clause . ' In tho C 2 nd clause , which sanetldiiH nn ni'l' 01 ' 1 t 0 . " , Hoiibo of Lords , tho limitation of tho apnoul to qiiosiiow . of law was expunged . . ii . Tho noxt clauso , enabling parties to n inamnfeo iw > solved under Uio Act to marry ngain , ns if tno \> u »
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 22, 1857, page 794, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2206/page/2/
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