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actly so , for ladies were expected to pay . A kiss on both cheeks was exacted ; that is to say , from the pretty . The ugly and the simply plain were let off free . —Aspects c of Paris . < A "Westbrn Packet Station . —There seems to be a j strong probability that a line of steam-vessels will be s established at Galw ' ay , for direct communication -with c 2 Sew York or Boston . . ' The Irish Bank Retciuts . t—The last returns show 1 an increase in the circulation , as compared with the pre- < ceding month , of 27 , 9492 . i Crime in Spaix .- —The Droit gives an account of < another dreadful crime in Spain . It says : — - " Some < persons of the village of Albalat , near Valencia , con- i ceived violent animosity against the / Mayor , M . 3 Iugnoz . A few days ago , as he was returning from Valencia in a cart , in which were seren persons , three brigands i stopped the vehicle near the bridge of Caraix , and < ordered him to alight . ' They are going to kill me !' said Mugnoz , and ho refused to move . The "brigands made the other people get out of the vehicle , and seizing Mugnoz , dragged him about twenty yards aloug the load . There one of the brigands £ red a blunderbuss Into his heart , and he fell dead ; at the same moment , another fired at him from behind , and the third proceeded to hack his body in a frightful manner with a hatchet . The seven men who had accompanied the unfortunate Mayor not only offered no resistance , but after the perpetration of the deed allowed the assassins to go quietly away I " Cotton from the States . —During the last week ' the wind has been very changeful at Liverpool , but on Thursday morning it veered round and blew stiffly from the N . N . W . The consequence was that many vessels lying in the Channel which were unable to come " north about , " availed themselves of the change of wind and made the port . Among these were a large number of cottou ships , and up to Thursday there had arrived fourteen ships from New Orleans , three from New York , and two from . Charleston , all of which brought part , if not whole , cargoes of cotton . This sudden influx to the cptton market "will , it is hoped , be the means of enlivening it from its present very dull state . India Reform . —A private meeting of a few gentlemen interested in India Reform has been held at the Committee-rooms of the India Reform Society , to deliberate on the best means of enlightening the public as to the resources of India , and the impediments to the development of those resources . 3 Ir . ' Bright was in the chair . After considerable discussion , it was resolved that a report of the proceedings of the committee should be drawn up for transmission to India-French Knowledge of the English . —In announcing the fact that Sir John Pakington , the First Lord of the Admiralty , intended placing vessels belonging to the lloyal Navy at the disposal of men of science , should they require them for the purpose of proceeding to South America , to make observations during the great eclipse of the sun , the French scientific journal , Cosmos , falls into a singular error . From the mere remote resemblance that exists between the sounds of the names of Sir John Pakington and Sir Joseph Puxton , the editor commits the ludicrous error of attributing the creation of the Crystal Palaces of Hyde Park and Sydenham to the respected gentleman who now rules the navy . —Mechanics' Magazine . h ; I ; , i r r i
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? ' Leat > kk Offick , Saturday , Kay 29 th . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . Tnn House of Lords did not sit-HOUSE OF COMMONS . UAUAVAY LKOIBt . ATION . Mr . Wilson Patten gave notice of his intention to draw attention to the state of lailway legislation . ^ THE LASSO IN TUB CAVALRY . - Captain Vkuno . v asked the Secretary for War whether ho wan prepared to recommend the adoption of the lasso instead of the ordinary halter in our cavalry regiments ? —General Pkei , said that the plan hiul been brought forward some years ago and had been highly approved , and recontly it had been ordered that ten men of every troop of cavalry regiments should bo trained to the uso of the lasso . TII 1 C FRKSS AT SII 2 UKA LKONK , Mr . Kokducic said that a newspaper culled the New Era having criticized the acts of the Governor had buen practically suppressed by him , in consequence of an edict by which papers were called on to give fiurclie .- * , and all the sureties of the Nuw Jura had been rejected . IIo naked the Secretary for tlio Colonies if tho Government had taken any steps in . the matter , and whether they intended to recul the Governor . —Lord Stan ' mc y hhhI that such an ordinance as had been stated had been panned in Sierra Leone . Ilia attention had been called totlnecaso in question , and his opinion wan that it could not work satisfactorily , and tho dovcnioi' had been ordered to repeal it . There whs no intoution of recalling tho Governor . r o > ? t I , y 10 w n 11 h , . 1 . « .- 3 i- : v sn : d Id mi u-
DRAINAGE OF THE THAMES . Mr . Griffith begged to ask the First Commissioner of Works , whether the principle just put forth by Dr . Odling , tho Officer of Health for Lambeth , that the perpetual agitation of the water of the Thames , and the flux and reflux of the tide , affect the oxidization of decomposing matters to that extent , " that he has never been able to detect sulphuretted ydrogen in Thames water , " may not be well worthy of further investigation , as offering possibly the means of escaping the hazardous and expensive drainage engineering undertakings that have been under consideration . —Lord John Manners said that a commission had been appointed to inquire into the subject . THE " CAKLISLK KXA 3 IIXKK . " Mr . Clive stated that the Carlisle Examiner , having accused ] him as Chairman of . a ltailway Committee of partiality , and even of corruption , he had moved that Hudson Scott and ¦ Washington Wilks , the printer and publisher , should be called to the bar . He had hoped that in the time which had elapsed some apology , would have been made , but none had been made , and . further defamatory articles had been inserted in the paper . — Mr Duncombe rose' to order . He said that the lion * gentleman had moved that these parties should be called to the bar on certain articles that had appeared in the paper , and lie did not think subsequent articles should be read in aggravation .- —The Speaker said , it was impossible for him to say that the hon . member was out of order , as he might found another motion on the articles he was about to read .- — Mr . Clive said , he only meant to show that the original charges had been reiterated . He moved that Hudson Scott and Washington Wilks be called in . - ^ These parties were then brought to the bar and examined by the Speaker and several members as to the publishing of the article in question . —Wilks said he was aware of it , and explained that in his neighbourhood he had been informed that there were strong feelings asto the partiality of the Chairman ofthe Railway Committee in question , and thought that public notice should be taken of the subject . He declined to name the writer , or to withdraw the article . He believed he could show-that he was justified moi-ally in inserting the article . He could only so far withdraw the imputation on Mr . Clive by publishing his contradiction . One of the facts on which the article was founded vas , that Mr . Cliyo was operating on the Stock Exchange , and that intelligence of the decision of . the committee reached the Stock Exchange unnaturally soon . He could not give the name of any stockbroker employed by Mr . dive . IJe ¦ would give the name of his informant privately to Mr . Clive , and if that gentleman was called before the House he could state all that he had stated to him , At present he declined to give up the name of any of his informants . Hudson Scott stated that he was not the printer .- —The Solicitor-Genkkal moved that the parties do withdraw . —Mr . Disuaicli said , that as Willcs had neither withdrawn nor offered to prove his charge , lie should move that the said article was a false and scandalous libel on the chairman and committee of the rnilway , and that in publishing it he had been guilty of a breach of the privileges of the House ,, and that lie be committed to the custody of tlic Serjeant-at-Arms , and that the Speaker ' warrant do isauo accordingly , which motions wore agreed to . —Mr , lloicnucic—Ought not something to be done with the other?—Mr . Dishaeli = moved that Hudson Scott be discharged . sue . disraeli's spkkcii at slough . On tho motion for going into Committee of Supply , Lord John Russell drew attention to Mr . Disraeli ' s speech at Slough , especially with reference to his comments on the state of parties in tho House , and to th « conduct of foreign nflairs ; - with regard to which latter tho right lion , gentleman claimed the confidence of the House and the country . It was necessary to consider tho reinLion . 3 of tho Government with foreign countries when they were told that tho question of peace and war was a question only of hours . He asked what was the question of peace find war wliich the Government had settled ? If our relations with Franco weru so precarious , why should 20 , 000 trained militiamen he disbanded V He believed tho peoples of France and England were anxious for the alliance between the two nations . He . should like to have an interpretation of this ominous sentiment of tho right . hon . goiulemun . ( The noble Lord commented on Mr . Disraeli ' s . statement of there having been an attempt to involve Naples and Sardinia in war , and the policy to bo pursued towards India , and nuked ^ -who had proposed a policy of extermination there ? Thcso statements required explanation . A very serious constitutional question wns raised by the right lion , gontlemau telling his constituents that , it ' there luid huon a vote of censure on tho ( iovo . rnment , thu bat tl « s would have been fought on thu huntings ; tho only question being whether a particular Ministry should ho in ufticc . He . was of opinion Llmt constitutionally there ought not to bo « dissolution of Parliament . Ho thought , tliu late ( iovommoiit ou / iht not to have dissolved last year , but havo tendered their resignations . He protested against a dissolution Lining held us a threat in lniiusteriju crises . Ho contended that the Ministry was still Hie , sanie with regard ( o Mia House , nnd tho solution oftl «<* question of L \ u : confidence of thu House in thuni was still to be tried .
Mr . Disraeli denied that anything in his speeel justified the impression which the nobl ^ Lord wished to convey . He had cast no imputations on the House but that the Government had received from it a generous courtesy , and that they had saved the Government from the restless intrigues of those -who wished to disturb them . As to the question of peace and war just before the late Government went out , Lord Palnie ' rston said that the asking and answering of certain questions might deckle the question of peace or war with France . Our relations with France then were of a critical character The feeling ; had since changed . He then at length defended himself against Lord John ' s charges ; ' denyjjinon the whole , that he had made any attack on the llnuse of Commons . —Mr . lttcii charact erized the exp lanatio ns of Mr . Disraeli as flimsy and unsatisfactory . If the Government had not recommended that Lord Elleiiboroii > 'h should be replaced in office , groat injustice had been dime to that noble Lord . —Sir G . C . Ikwis , as the only ' mom her of the late Government present , replied to Ittr * Disraeli generally . He urged that the Government should st . itc their policy with regard to India . — -Mr . MiLNiiu Ginso \ after some general observation ? , attributed the positiun of the Liberal party to its being badly led . —3 rr . Coi . uKR read a passage in Mr . Disraeli ' s speech at Slough , to show that Lord John Russell had correctly quoted it with regard to the observations on India . — Mr .- - " VVi / itkside and Mr , Gbiffiths having spoken , the' subject dropped . The House then went into Committee of Supply on the Army Estimates , -which occupied the greater part of the remainder of the sitting .
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INDIA . Calcutta papers' arrived oa Thursday morning at Marseilles , and the Nord of Brussels has a telegram from Marseilles , which is as follows : — " The India mail , which has just arrived , brings Calcutta letters depicting the situation of affairs in very sombre colours . The rebels evacuated A ^ mghur in good order . The English are exhausting tnemselves in useless marches after the enemy , and , at the cost of enormous sacrifices , gain a few . unimportant . ' positions which they are immediately afterwards compelled to abandon . — -Brigadier " \ Yalr > ole sustained a very considerable loss in the attack on 1 ' ort Kapore . The state ? of things in Oude is still most menacing . —In commercial alf-airs enormous losses hare been sustained . "
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CIIIN"A ; The Plenipotentiaries ( says a despatch from Hong-Kong , of April 13 th ) have received lin unfavourable report from Pekhi . Fresh hostilities are -prob .-il . il e . The bad feeling of the authorities at Canton leixlcis ' tlii ! task of the commissioners very difficult . Matters artvery critical . The squadrons are together at Shanghai .
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THE CONTINENT . M . de Kotliychild has iendered his resignation a * ¦ founder and member of tho Council of'Administration of the Austrian ' Credit Mobilier . This rcsimnalion caused the shares of the Credit Mobilier to fall to ' 227 . Closing prices , 227 ; V . The Lottery Loan Shares are at nm . " The electoral operations for the partial renewal of the provincial councils commenced two days back throughout the whole of IBelgium . The first results which have reached tho Minis-try of the Interior by telegraph arc in favour of the Liberals . The Emperor of ltussia has just created a medal of merit specially intended for the class of peasant-. It will he awarded to such individuals as distinguish themselves by their industry mid good conduct . As connected with tho measure of emancipation , this foundation is considered a proof of tho desire manifested by the Government to modify tho condition of tins i > easantry . It ia stated that Count Cavour has forward ' . " ! nn idtimuiuui to Naples ; and that , if Hie dumnnd ha refused , France and England will bo asked to name mi arbitrator . The Montenegrin Boundary Question will be settlcl at Constantinople The Turks are landing large forces at llagusn , but the English and ImtiicIi Consuls am doing their best to prevent collision . Alesaundro Manzoni , the well-known author of / Proincssi iS / iosi , ie » lying inn hopeless stale at Milan . 31 . ( ki l ' eiie still lingers , and hit * state * is not coiiMilrreil satisfactory . The fever liu . s not returned , but . a tcasing hiccough has set in , and the vomiting recurs iit ' mWvuIh . Th «> Prc . w . dwells on the nbsunlity of members "J profession or corporation rendering a writer ivsimiivibl 1 ' - for ( sarcastic rein arks addressed in u collective hIw | h ' . \ says : —" An insult , may dishonour n man , l «|« . [ } cannol , seriously a flout a gruiip of men ; tin isolali'il iudividu » l is insulted and avon ^ ea hiinscll ' , LuL the iirol ' i- ^ .-inii in group remain * invulncrablo , and disdains attafksvv liicli inilict no injury , much they arc aimed at nverylxi'Ly . Fortunately , this collective suscoptihility is of < ni iivlv modern origin , ol . lio . rwisu the profession of comic author would havo been impossible * . Hud tho ina ^ istvatcH and doctors of fornicr days boon susceptible »*
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514 , THE LBADEE . [ No . 42 ?; May 29 , 1 B 58 .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 514, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2244/page/10/
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