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certainly protect from invasions of wild beasts an island the greatest- length of -which is twenty-seven miles . The Straits settlers generally wish to occupy a new and more independent position , and we have no doubt but that : upon being ranked as colonists , they "would undertake several charges which at present it would be sheer tyranny to impose upon them . They have nothing in common with the East India Comany . They refuse its currency , they dislike its system of secret rule , they have been compelled to appeal against its interference on several important occasions , and although t 2 ie whole subject of Indian government is to be discussed , the Straits settlements might well be taken exceptionally , and vested with privileges which will increase their prosperity without infringing any existing rights .
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THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN NEWGATE . Mr . Edwakd Axjohmuty Glover has gone to Newgate for four months as representative of the House of Commons . Had that corrupt body stood in the dock , Mr . Justice Crompton would probably have passed a more severe sentence , for the least of the criminals stood before him as substitute , after the Chinese fashion , for the greater . Seriously , however , to convict Mr . Glover of perjurious misrepresentation was perhaps among the worst pieces of hypocrisy ever sanctioned by a British court of justice . Why , what had he done ? Entered the House of Commons upon an imperfect property qualification—an offence notoriously committed by scores of honourable gentlemen . He stood upon a qualification vitiated by mortgages . Other men stand upon qualifications altogether fictitious , and make solemn oaths that they have an equitable right in rent-charges entirely nominal . Aji individual ambitious of becoming a senator , or with urgent private affairs pressing him to procure an exemption from arrest , puts himself forward as candidate for a borough . Some friend manufactures a qualification for him , or , in other words , hands over to him for a few days a property title worth 300 / . a year . Of that money he never receives one farthing , but he swears himself to be ' worth ' three hundred pounds sterling a year ; swears that , upon his honour , he believes himself to be , to all intents and purposes , obeying the law , and by this whitening of a lie gains admission to Parliament . Then comes Mr . Glover to the table to be sworn , with real titles in his hand , but titles representative of encumbered estates , and so confused are his affairs , that a jury takes three hours to decide whether his error was unintentional or otherwise . A cry from Beverley follows him . Lawfully elected , he is not lawfully qualified . He is unseated . The House is astonished to learn that the late member for Beverley had sat upon a rotten qualification . In its supreme virtue it resolves to make an example of a political malefactor so atrocious , and with sorrowful severity orders the law officers of the Crown to prosecute him . He has been detected , and , to deter awkward offenders , he is imprisoned four months . To be a British Bank swindler is to deserve the Queen ' s Bench ; but to be what scores of the members of the House of Commons are is to deserve Newgate . The property qualification has at all times been a farce , but the Central Criminal Court has now converted it into an instrument of revenge , private oppression , and Parliamentary duplicity .
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A WORD OB TWO ON THE NAVY . We trust the day is far distant when the noblest service in the world—the British navy—will be made the victim of peace-dreamers or parochial economists . The wholesome jealousy of a standing army is not inconsistent with a desire that the army , as it stands , shall be as efficient as science and judicious expenditure can make it . But the navy is the national service , and no sane roan , within the House of Commons or without , is willing to spare the means of maintaining our supremacy of the seas . Unfortunately , the departmental administration of this glorious arm has not always been wortliy-of-a-generous-Parliamont . ^ Millioiia ^ hayo been wasted in reckless experiments , jobbery and favouritism have vied with empiricism and incapacity in our dockyards , and a spirit of rash squandering or of disastrous penny-wise retrenchment has alternately presided at Whitehall . The . present First Xtord of the Admiralty haa already , within a few weeka of Ins assumption of an office for whioh no one thought him . fitted , gained golden opinions from all who have come in contact with him and the approval of his official colleagues and
subordinates has been ratified t > y the House of Commons . Nothing could be more clear , straightforward , and complete than Sir John Pakington ' s statement on Monday evening ; nothing more worthy of a British Minister . Two great principles for the future fuidance of our naval administration were estalished in the course of the debate on the Estimates : — 1 . The maintenance of a force of continuousservice men . 2 . Keeping ships in commission for a longer term of years . These are real reforms , and touch the condition of the Navy in its vital parts . The construction of snips is a question admitting of almost as many opinions as there are admirals in the service . But the Times has put the commonsense of the matter most forcibly in asking why the first naval power in the world should be content to follow in the wake of other maritime powers , instead of initiating the changes which science points out and necessitates ? We believe it is the opinion of those best qualified to judge , that the day of three-deckers is passing away , and that future naval engagements will be fought by light , swift ships , with few but heavy guns , and plenty of room to fight them ; and that in attacking fortifications , floating batteries ( such as those engaged at Kertch in the late war ) will do the business . While we are chatting about naval affairs , we may be allowed to express our conviction that there is no immediate cause for alarm in the announced junction of the French squadrons at Cherbourg next July ^ though the occasion and the fact are highly suggestive . The fortifications at Alderney may be a costly delusion , but a submarine telegraph to that island will enable us to know at a moment ' s notice what is going on within the breakwater of Cherbourg . A good look-out can do no harm : with a Channel fleet and the flag of a William Martin or a Henry Kcppel in command , we shall be able to "give a good account of friends and foes *
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Street Nuisancks . —The Commissioners of Police have issued notifications , in answer to several complainants , to the effect that the police have received orders to suppress the dangerous game of ' tipcat , ' and that every effort will be made to prevent loud street cries on Sundays near churches and chapels during the times of service . The Commissioners , however , have not the power to suppress Sunday trading altogether . A Scarlet Rainbow . — A somewhat singular phenomenon was observed in the neighbourhood of " Wigton on the morning of Wednesday week . It was a rainbow of a brilliant red hue , in the west , opposite to the sun at rising , which waa about five o ' clock in the morning . Its appearance is described as very startling . Those who pretend to be weatherwise prophesy very great storms . — Carlisle Patriot . Murder near Taunton . —An old man , named Bucknall , and his wife , were found on Wednesday morning in their cottage , dead—the man from a gunshot through the brain , the woman from a wound in the throat . The old couple were possessed of a little money . Their grandson has been arrested on suspicion . Meeting of Middlesex Magistrates . —The Middlesex Magistrates met on Thursday , when a discussion took place arising out of a notice of motion given by Mr . W . Payne . This motion expressed " horror and alarm" at the doctrines of assassination openly advocated in London , and called on the Government to adopt measures to prevent the country from incurring ' ? the odium and reproach '" of sheltering the murderor and the regicide . Mr . Cottrell had another motion on the paper requiring the clerk to expunge any notice of motion not having direct reference to business . This motion was carried , but Mr . Cottrell refused to withdraw his motion , and made a groat fuss about it . However it fell to the ground , without oven being being seconded . Thk Henderson Fund . —A subscription has boon opened for the benefit of the widow and daughter of the late Mr . Henderson , of the firm of Fox and Henderson , the contractors for the Crystal Palaces of Hyde Park and Sydenham . Mr . Henderson was a man of immense energy , and , at tlio time lie was attacked and carried " oflrrnfteran ~ i Hnes 8 " ofonly-a 'few-dayBj-he"wn 3-vigorouslypreparing to recommence the business whioh had boon temporarily suspended . Such a man has a claim on the public purse , and wo are sure that those wlto wore uear to him will not find that claim forgotten . Mr . Dickens rend his Christmaa Carol on Thursday night at St . Martin ' s Hall in aid of the Hospital for Sick Children . The building overflowed with auditors . On Thursday , the 20 th iiist ., Thursday , tho Oth of May , and Thursday , the 18 th of May , Mr . Dlokooa will rcivd ome of his well-known works for his own banofit .
Manslaughter . —A man named Gfundell was killed in the neighbourhood of the new market , Copenhagen Fields , on Wednesday . He and another man , named Jones , had been beating carpets all day , and in the evening they sat drinking . A dispute arose -with re-. spect to paying for the liquor , when Jones felled Grandell to the ground , and he was killed on the spot . The Paper Duty . —A deputation waited on Lord Derby on Thursday , to represent to him the evil effects of the paper duty , and to request him to repeal it . His Lordship announced that he was personally favourableto the objects of the deputation , and that , if the Excheq uer was in such a state as to justify a reduction of taxation " he should approve very much of a proposition to take off the duty on paper . " Alarming Riot and Attempted Murder . —An alarming riot , accompanied with the use of fire-arms took place at Messrs . Jobberna and Arrowsmith ' s brick and tile works , near Walsall , on Tuesday . A gang of from eight to ten fellows , carrying pistols and guns , broke into the premises between nine and ten o ' clock at night , destroying the bricks and tiles . Some of the people at work endeavoured to prevent them , when they were fired at , and one man , named Gifford , was seriously , if not fatally , injured , one of the charges lodging in his forehead and right breast . The gang also attacked the works of Messrs . J . W . Beddow , adjoining , and committed extensive damage . They then made off , and at present remain at large . The East India Company . —The adjourned meeting of East India Proprietors , to consider the two India Bills , was held in Leadenhall-street on Tuesday . Colonel Wilkinson proposed a resolution condemning both bills , and authorizing the Court of Directors to adopt such measures as they might deem necessary either to ensure their rejection , or to obtain the insertion of such clauses as would be calculated to promote the interests of the people of India , and to maintain the rights and privileges of the Court of Proprietors . Mr . Mackenzie moved , as an amendment , that a petition should be presented to Parliament , praying it to carry into effect the principle of Lord Palmerston ' s bill , provided that arrangements be made to place the patronage beyond the control of the Government , by a well-devised scheme of competitive examination ; Mr . Malcolm Lewin proposed another amendment , condemning both bills as vesting vast uncontrolled authority in the hands of a Secretary of State , and giving him a council which would really possess no power of independence , but would screen him from responsibility . After some discussion , in which Mr . Jones , Mr . Helps , and other proprietors took part , the Chairman ( Mr . Mangles ) supported the resolution , and promised that the Directors , who had seats in the House of Commons , would fight the battle of the Proprietors in that assembly , and would especially endeavour to uphold their cause when the House went into committee on the bill . The amendments were then withdrawn , and the resolution was unanimously adopted . —Sir Frederick Currie was on Wednesday appointed chairman , and Captain Eastwick deputy-chairman of the Company , for the ensuing year . Liverpool Boiiough Bank . — It is understood that the directors of this bank have been served with notices of action by persons who bought shares on the strength of the official reports , and who now claim compensation for being defrauded . Mr . Layard . —By private letters received from JUr . Layard , dated Delhi the 28 th of February , wo learn that that gentleman , having travelled through tuo Nizam ' s dominions and the Kujpootanu States , is on his way to Calcutta , and expects to arrive iri England in tho course of next month . —Globe . New Australian Bishopric—Tho GovernmentDave consented to tho erection of a new bishopric in Australia , the boundary of which will bo a now province whioii hna been marked out to bo called " Mrcsbano , or " Moroton Bay , " at present comprised In tho diocese oi Newcastle , which is tho most cxtonsivo of our eoioniiu sees , not excepting Calcutta and Rupert ' s Land . Art Exhibition . —Messrs . Dickinson have opened a very interesting exhibition at their Art Galleries , i « , Bond-Btroet , of their best works , now for the secoii time collected , consisting chiefly of portraits ( many them life size ) of distinguished persona . At Mb . Burfoud ' s Galley , in Loicoater-squaro ^ o panorama of Luoknow taken from tho KeBiduncy . andcom manding a view of the city anil country iidjaocnt ia no added to tho panorama of Delhi , and both are well worm a jAMBS ' B Hall . —Last evening , tho V ° « ftl Ration , under tho direction of Mr . Benedict , gave w eecondof their series of hix subsection concert" , i first part of the concert consisted of J ^ koa music MacLtft , aaJt wjib nerformod at II or Majesty a I noou , oTt ^ o ^ Tine Spv Sybtbm . — An advertisement of ft 1 " Inquiry Office , " conducted by an »* - «»« 1 « "JJ 8 yaman , has appoarod In tho nowapiipem . A h * » dloua BJ torn ia making porilous encroachments . ^ Dkatii oi « AN Ai-mcAN T « AVKLLKn .- Tl . o loan , traveller , Baron von Nclmaiw , of Bayrouth , in « conia , who intended to make , a Journey Into . t > o inw of Africa , In ordor to usoertnln tho fato of ur . we died at Cairo on tho 10 th of March .
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376 THE LEADER . [ No . 421 , Apbil 17 , 1858 '
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Leader (1850-1860), April 17, 1858, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2239/page/16/
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