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Possesses over the constituency for the return of his son . fre- hear that a requisition is being got up to induce Mr . J . S . Pakington * son of the First Lord of the Adnuraltv . ' to cbme forward as a candidate . Dockyabj ? V 6 tkrs . —Captain Goldsmith , C . B ., the snDerinterident of Chatham Dockyard , has received directions from the Admiralty , authorising him to inform the heads of the departments and officers connected with the several establishments of the dockj-ard that under no circumstances will they be permitted to be in any way connected with any political patronage committee that might be in existence in the neighbourhood , and that dismissal from her Majesty ' s service would follow any infringement of their Lordships' order . The various officers have also received orders not to interfere in the slightest degree with the votes of any of the artisans or workmen * ¦ ¦ _ _ ¦ .
Provincial Movbments . — The Earl of Derby has declined to receive the deputation appointed by the town council of Doncaster to wait upon his lordship to represent to him the claims which that town possesses to a direct representation in Parliament . — -At Manchester , on Friday , the Lancashire Reformers' Union -was thoroughly organised . The principles of the association were adopted , and Mr . George Wilson was elected its president , and Mr . S . P . Robinson its secretary . Mr . Wilson delivered a speech on the claims of Lancashire . —A meeting of the provisional committee , appointed at the Reform conference held last week at Bradford , vras held on Monday at St . George's Hall . A resolution was passed declaring it expedient and necessary to form a Reform Association for the West Riding , with branches
in the different towns arid villages- The provisional committee are still retained in office till the object be realised .- —A Reform meeting has been held in the county Tipperary , preliminary to a great county demonstration . Resolutions in approval of Mr . Bright's bill were unanimously agreed to , and much stress was laid upon-the absolute necessity of the ballot , to relieve the Irish voters from landlord coercion .- *—A great meeting will be held at . Thurles on the 14 th of February , with a view to promote Reform and Tenant Right . — -An important Reform meeting has been held at Blackburn , at which Mr . Pilkington , M . P ., expressed his general agreement with Mr . Bright ' s bill , and a vote of thanks to that gentleman was unanimously adopted-. —At Glossop a meeting had been held to petition for its conversion into a boroughi- ^—A Reform Association has been formed at Peterborough .
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THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM . Intelligence of the Princess Frederick" William of Prussia having been safely delivered of a son arrived at Windsor Castle at three o ' clock on Thursday afternoon . The Royal mother and infant Prince are doing well . The event was communicated to her Majesty through the electric telegraph , a message by which reached Windsor Castle from Berlin in six minutes after the occurrence . At one o ' clock the Queen was apprised of the Princess being taken in labour , and the Duchess of Kent was immediately apprised of the circumstance at
Frogmore Lodge . Several communications have since been received at the Castle , announcing that the Princess and her child were going on favourably . Immediately the intelligence became known to the inhabitants of Windsor they gave expression to their sympathy and joy by suspending in front of their houses various banners bearing the arms of England and Prussia and . other loyal devices . The bells of the Chapel Royal and St . John's Church sent forth merry peals , and in the evening many of the Royal tradespeople , illuminated their houses .
Upon this event a contemporary observes — - ' Under the guidance of its present ruler , Prussia bids fair to become a valuable ally to the cause of temperate freedom and conscientious government . If the birth of a Prince tend to strengthen the bonds which unite the two countries , then we may speak of it truly as an auspicious event . The youthful mother has for a year post been the cynosure to which the eyes of hopeful Liberals have been directed . Wo may hope that now universal Germany will see- in the event whith crowns her hopes the
opening of a new- prospect of happiness and good government . At this moment , top , men will rejoice ot anything which tends to unite Powers that are labouring to preserve Europe from the confusion into which an unscrupulous despotism would plunge it ; Our own excellent Sovereign will not have her joy , diminished by the reflection that the event which connects her more closely with a great Continental Throne is looked upon by tho world aa a guarantee of those principles which render her own dynasty secure in the nffeotions of her people . "
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ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES . WJuwEs pAT being the sovonfcy-firsfc anniversary of th © settlement of the Australian Colonies , a dinner took Pj aoe At the Albion Tavern to celebrate the event . The cnair was occupied by Mr . Honry Moor , late member of we I-eglslative Councils of New South Wales and of Vio-Wrta . The vice-chairmen were—Sir William Montague wanning , liL . X > ., representing New South . Wales } Mr , JMnfc A , Youl , Tasmania 5 M * . E . P . S . Start , Victoria }
Mr . E . Stephens , South Australia ; Mr . James E . Fitzgerald , New Zealand . Among the guests were Sir E . L . Bulwer Lytton , Sir John Pakington , the Earl of Carnarvon , Lord Alfred Churchill , M . P ., Mr . Rowland Hill , Sir James Stirling , Colonel Gawler , Captain Gallott , Mr . Duncan Dunbar , Mr . J . D ; Smith , commissary-general ; Mr . Wilcox , M . P ., Mr Samuel Morley , Mr . James Allen , Mr . Gardner , Mr . Jdmes Spicer , Mr . Henry Sewell , and Sir H ; Watson Parker , and upwards of one hundred and sixty other gentlemen . After the usual loyal toasts , the Chairman proposed " The Army and-Navy . " Colonel Gawler returned thanks for the army .
Sir J . Pakington , in returning thanks for the navy , said he deeply felt the responsibility of his position , more especially at the present moment , and as long as he had the honour to fill it , he would devote every energy which he possessed to the attempting to restore that power , that efficiency , that unquestioned superiority of the British navy , which the general use of steam had for a moment partially impaired . He referred to our ships , and not to those gallant officers or those brave seamen whose discipline , whose gallantry , whose power of serving their country , was as great then as it had . been at any former period . Sir John then alluded to his good fortune in being at the head of the Colonial Department at the particular crisis when those great and wonderful discoveries of gold , which had given such
increased prosperity not only to the Australian Colonies , but to England also , were made , and just when those colonies were commencing that wonderful career of wealth and prosperity the rapidity of Which had never been equalled in the history of the world . And , addressing as be was a large body of gentlemen connected with that distant part of the world , he owned that , deeply interested as he felt in the British ; navy , and zealous as he was in the performance of his duty towards that British service , he could not help feeling a pang of regret that he was no longer connected with those colonies . He must , however , express his conviction that their welfare had never been , and could not be , entrusted to better hands than those of his right hon . friend Sir E . B . Lytton . ' ..: : " - '¦ ¦ " ¦ . ' . ; ' ¦ ' . , ¦ " ' ' : - . - ¦ '
The chairman then proposed , " The Right Hon . Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , and the rest of her Majesty's Ministers . " Sir E . B . Lytton , in responding , said : — " The Chairman has placed in my hands a toast which I have to propose , and that toast reminds me that it is now just seventy-one years ago since the first Australian colony was founded . Only seventy-one years ago ! Why , that is just the lifetime of a single man who attains to the verge of old age ; and in that period—a period which may be embraced in the career of any ordinary peasant in any of our obscure , villages—Australia has be ^ n enabled to attain a position in which she has more than 1 , 000 , 000 British subjects , a revenue of more than
5 , 000 , 000 £ , imports amounting to 27 , 000 , 000 / ., and exports amounting to upwards of 22 . 000 , 000 * . ( Cheers . ) And while her material progress and prosperity have been so great and so startling , what has been the advancement of Australia in all that can dignify and ennoble man ? We turn from the penal settlement , which was the first spectacle presented by Australia , to communities presenting the highest standard of morality , enjoying the utmost degree of liberty , and proving by the loyalty and order which pervade them that they appreciate and are worthy of the blessings which they have attained . The aristocracy of intellect , the aristocracy of civilisation , the aristocracy of elevation of character is not forgotten in Australia . While you
hare promoted the welfare of the working classes , you have manifested a growing perception of the great fact that communities rise in the social scale , not merely by the increase of population , but also by the diffusion of those generous notions and that intellectual advancement which arise from educational culture . There is one cause especially to which I trace the identity of character between England and her Australian colonies . The first settlers in America were refugees from England before England had acquired civil and religious liberty . Hence there arose a long rankling feeling of hereditary resentment , and perhaps an hereditary misconception . But you , gentlemen of Australia , took with you from this country ho bitter and angry resolutions , no associations pf the reigns of the Stuarts , but on the contrary , you carried with you feelings of affection for « free country ,
and for a benignant Queen , and the tie has been all the Stronger because it is the more gently felt . I cannot help thinking how much Australia proved her sympathy in the glory and in the distress of the mother country during the Crimean war and the Indian mutiny . These things make us feel that , though oceans divide us , we have all English hearts , and that the sceptre of Queen Victoria is an electric rod which unites in kindred sympathy the extremities of our glorious empire . The time may come when these new colonies of ours will be great States and nations . It may so happen in that distant day that England may be in danger $ the groat Powers of old Europe may then rise ujp against thevenoraulo parent of many free commonwealths . If that day should arrive ; I believe that her children will not be unmindful of the tie which binds them to the dear mother country ; and that to her rescue , across the wide ocean , vessel *
¦ will come thick and fast , among Which , there will be heard but one voice— - ' While Australia lasts England shall not perish . ' With that hope and belief , gentlemen , I nowgive you the toast which has been placed in my hands—viz . 'The Anniversary of the Foundation of the Australian Colonies . '" . .
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CAPTAINS BURTON AND SPEKE . A numerously attended meeting of the Royal Geographical Society was held on Monday evening a ^ Burlington-house , Sir Roderick I . Murchison , president , in the chair , when the second paper read was " Reports from Captains Burton and Speke , of the East African Expedition , on their discovery of Lake Ugiji , " . &c ; , with route maps . These enterprising officers had left the shores of Lake Ugiji in the month of May last , and halted at the main depot of Arab trade , Unyanyembe , whence Captain Speke purposed proceeding to the Ukerewa Lake , of which the Arabs give grand accounts , twelve or fifteen days' march north . . If successful in this , they will be enabled to bring home authentic details of the four great waters which drain Eastern Central Africa , namely , the Nyass , the Chiwa , the
Ugiji , and the Ukerewa Lakes . On Captain Speke ' s return , both will repair to the east coast , which they hoped to reach in December . The explorers had encountered numerous and fearful difficulties , and suffered severely from the un healthiness of the country , and other causes . All their asses , thirty in number , had died . Many of the native attendants had deserted them , and , but for the kind and generous assistance of the French consul at Zanzibar , M . Ladislas Cochet , who , after Colonel Hatnerton ' s unfortunate decease ,, proved himself an active and energetic friend , they would have been unable to proceed . " Still , " they write , " we are slowly improving , and the thought of finishing our labours with what we hope will be considered most valuable results , has much diminished the terrible wear and tear of mind caused by wants during our J ourney westwards . "
The president dwelt upon the importance of these explorations , which he remarked were second only to those of Dr . Livingstone . Captains Barton and Speke had penetrated into the interior a distance of about five hundred miles at great hazard ,, and amid appalling obstacles , through a country entirely unknown to and unvisited by Europeans . The results , he said , confirmed the views of Dr . Livingstone , and those advanced by himself in his presidential addresses to the society , iiamely , that the interior of Africa is a vast trough or basin encircled on all sides by higher ridges .
Sir Henry Rawlinson mentioned that when the death of Colonel Hamerton became known in England , Captain Rigby , an expert Arabic scholar , had been appointed to succeed him , with instructions to afford the expedition every assistance in his power . Further reports were daily expected , by the Indian Council ; and lie trusted that they would soon be in a position to announce the safe return to the coast of these courageous and enterprising officers . '
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND EQLICE COURTS . Some English workwomen , who had been employed in * French , factory , waited upon Sir R . W . Garden a few weeks ago at the Mansion-house , and complained of their treatment _ in the foreign establishment . A letter has since been received complaining that these stories were unfounded , and referring to the French Ambassador and Sir Peter Fairbairn , as able to testify to the respectability of the house . The statement made by the girls that they were required , to take out their wages in " truck" is left untouched .
The proprietor of the German Fair has performed avery humane act . He has prosecuted two girls named Smith , in his employ , for robbing him to a serious amount , but being anxious to give them another opportunity to recover their lost position , he has withdrawn from the prosecution , and they have been plac " ed in a reformatory institution , into which none of the convicted criminal class are admitted . At the Wandsworth police-court , a fisherman of Twickenham has been heavily fined for poaching on the Thames , and not having the name of the owner painted on his boat , Richard Frowley , a labourer , is charged with stabbing John Bourke , with intent to kill him . A quarrel h « d taken place in a publlcrhouse in the Edgeware-road , on .
Saturday night , when the prisoner » drew a . knife and stabbed Bourke in several places . The unfortunate man now lies at St . Mary's Hospital , in a hopeless state . Frowley denied the charge , and was remanded , A few days ago Mr . Coward , of the Morniny Pott , brought an action for false imprisonment against Mr .. Baddoley , an officer of the fire-brigade , who had caused him to be locked up for interfering at a fire , asserting that Mr . Coward was intoxicated . The evidence showed that Mr . Coward had been subjected to , very improper treatment at the Islington police station . Mr . Coward obtained damages , and Sir Richard Mayne h »» 8 in , ce suspended , the inspector on duty for a week , without pay , and has reduced a sergeant , who appear * to U ( VT 9 WWH the most culpable , to the rank of constable , An important case under the Extradition * Act h < u
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fffo 462 , Janua ry 29 ^ 1859 ] THE 1 . ^ APE B . ' 133
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1859, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2279/page/5/
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