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the special authority of an Act of Parliament . He 3 trbrigly deprecated tlie permanent increase of the National Debt , and suggested expedients for relieving the Exchequer-bill market . —Sir S- Nortiicote explained that the funding operation alluded to involved . no increase in . the National Debt . He justified the course which the Government had pursued , contending that the responsibilities that , devolved upon them in connexion with , the savings-bank funds were administered strictly in accordance with the public interests—Sir H . T ^ ixxbt'G-iiBY insisted upon the necessity of establishing sOme control over the Government dealings with the large fund created by the sayings-banks deposits . —Sir G . G . Lewis , that the motion
agreeing in this conclusion , remarked . before the house pointed to ho practical result . The only available method was to 'bring' in a bill on the subject . —Mr . T . Barin g said it always appeared to him most objectionable that such a power of transferring unfunded to thefunded debt , without any previous notification to the public , should be intrusted to the Government . —Mr . Gx . ab < Sto > 'k observed that this Whole subject was oive upon which it was inexpedient for the House to come to any conclusion not founded upon a more thoroug h investigation . The powers entrusted to the Prime Minister , as trustee of the savings-banks funds , were most anomalous , and required revision . Future changes of sectirities might , to committee of
he suggested , be regularly submitted a that houses-Mr . Henley dissented from certain views of Mi * . Gladstone regarding savings-banks money .-r The Chanceli-ok of the Exchequer , remarked that the motion was equivalent to a vote of censure upon the funding of Exchequer bills , ¦ which he had himself authorised Upon discovering that the savings-banks funds in their existing investment entailed a loss upon the country , which that-step would obviate . Deprecating the adoption of the motion before the House , he admitted that the position of the unfunded debt was most . unsatisfactory , and required revision b y the legislature ;—ISIr . Wilsox having briefly spoken— -after a few ivords of reply , Mr . Haxkei- withdrew ; the motion .
3 IILITAKY" ORGANISATION . < Japtain "Vivian moved for a select committee to inquire into the effe&ts of the alterations in military < frganisation regarding the War-office and Board of Ordinance which were made in the year 1855 , and also to inquire whether any changes were required to secure . the utmost efficiency and economy in the administration of military affairs . —General Peel assented to the motion , and after soine discussion relating to various points of detail connected with the administration of the army , the committee was ordered .
CHURCH RATES . Sir A . Elton moved a series , of resolutions affirming the expediency of discontinuing churchr ates , confiding the maintenance of the fabric of the church to the zeal und liberality of the clergy and laity ; of ^ empowering a corporation , formed of the incumbent and churchwardens , to hold and . administer property appropriated to the clvurch ; : and of transferring the powers of the present vesti-y with reference to the parish church to a new vestry , consisting of contributors . to the church funds , the churchwardens to be chosen therefrom . . ; He stated reasons why , in his opinion , the abolition of
churchrates must form the main ingredient of any measure on this subject , and ho proqeedeid to discuss the resolutions seriatim . Those who desired to see the settlement of this painful question should , h o said , prOyido some reasonable machinery that would enable the churchmen to bear the burden that would bo cast' upon them , and thereby sectiro the passage of the bill in another place . —The Hoaiu Secretary could not assent to the resolutions , at all events until ^ the House had formally determined to abolish church rates . — -Mr . Cowi'Jkiv supported the motion , which was opposed by Mr , Nkwdegate . —Sir A . Eivpon then consented to withdraw his resolution .
TUB NEWFOUNDLAND VIS . HJBIUEB . Viscount Birxtv culled attention to tho Newfoundland fisheries , arid moved an address to her Majesty fpr copios or extracts of any correspondence betweon the English and French authoi'itios in Newfoundla n d , or botweon tlie Governor of Newfoundland and the Secretary of State for tho Colonies , or between tho English and French Governments , which might show the construction placed by the French authorities upon tho treaties which now regulate the Newfoundland fisheries . Tho French , ho
observed , had advuueoil largo claims , and obtained inany concessions ; and ho thought that Parliament should know on what basis the negotiations which were now said to bo in progress had been framed . — Sir- E . B . I / v'tton said this was a suhjoet on which ho had formed a very decided opinion , but the question involved very subtle points , and some grounds of danger . He hoped that tho question would by settled and tho danger provonted by nniicablo negotiation . Ho detailed tho substance of communications botwoon tho two Governments , expressing « firm hope that tho result of a commission about to
be appointed would pave the way to negotiations that would settle ail disputes .- —Mr . Labouohere described the complication with which the question had become surrounded through the conflicting claims and rights of England and France . He rejoiced to learn that hopes existed and means were being taken for an amicable adjustment of the controversy . Not to thwart their endeavours , he suggested that the motion for papers should be withdrawn . — Mr . M . Gibson expressed much suspicion that the lights of English subjects on the coast of Newfoundland had been sacrificed without necessity or equivalent . He agreed , however , that the motion should not be pressed while the negotiations were still in progress . —After a few words from Mr . Wtld , and some farther exp lanation of the diplomatic position of the question by Mr . S . Fitzgerald , the motion
was withdrawn . The Municipal Elections Bill passed through committee , after its clauses had undergone a very long debate . The Law of Property and Trustees llehef Amendment Bill was committed pro forma .
CirUKCH RATES . Sir J . Trelawny moved the second reading of his Church Kates Abolition Bill . —Mr . B . Hope protested against proceeding with so important a measure at that late hour ( half past twelve o ' clock ) . He moved the adjournment of the debate . —After sortie remarks from Sir '' 'J . Trelawny , the House divided on the question of adjournment : for , 108 ; against , 173 ; majority 65 . The resistance to further progress was , however , renewed , and ultimately the supporters of the measure gave way , and the debate stood adjourned . . The house also adjourned at one o ' clock .
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . At the assizes at Hertford , on Saturday , Mark Wood and William Edwards , two athletic countrymen were indicted for poaching , and for grievously injuring a gamekeeper , whose skull was fractured in the attempt to capture them . Baron Martin sentenced Wood to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve , and Edwards , to four months ' imprisonment . —rElijah Smith was indicted : for nighjfc poaching and shooting at a keeper named John West . It was hot clearly made out whether the gun was discharged by accident , or designedly ; and the jury therefore acquitted the prisoner . He was then tried for poaching , convicted , and sentenced to four months' imprisonment . A smith named Charles DavieSj living in Clerkenwell , was charged before Mr . Come with attempting to murder his wife . On Sunday morning the police , hearing cries of " murder , " entered the house , and found that the drunken savage had inflicted such wounds on his wife ' s head with a bill-hook that she lies in a hopeless state at St . Bartholomew ' s . Hospital , whither she was conveyed . The prisoner was remanded for-a week .
An examination took place at Clerkenwell Police Court regarding numerous charges brought against a man named William Heathcoate , of pr e ying up o n advertisers for situations . The prisoner ' s mode of doing business appears to have been to repl y to advertisements , representing that he could procure a situation , the very thing wanted , and then , under various pretences , squeeze as much money as possible out of his grateful victims . The prisoner was r emanded , and bail refused .
At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Tuesday , a certificate meeting was held in the case of Jonathan Hills ' , the surviving partner in tho firm of Hills and Hills , the Gravesend and Dartford bankers . He ) had left this country for Australia , in the hope , it was stated , of raising money ffom some relations who had accumulated wealth in that colony . The sitting was adjourned si n e die , it being understood , however , that no appointment for a new meeting should be made without special leave and due notice being given to the croditoi's . Henry Gibson , described as a merchant in Grawohuroh-street , thon appeared to pass his last examination . This bankrupt had been engaged in various transactions extending over several years with tho bankrupt Hills , and that , on
tho last occasion , the ; sitting for his last examination was adjourned for the purpose of further inquiry being made by the assignees into the accounts of both bankrupts . The assignees in Hill's ease now sought to prove for a sum of 11 , 672 ? . against the estate of Gibson , whoreatj Gibson contended that he was a creditor upon the estate ,, of Hills , After a lengthened inquiry , tlie Commissioner determined to suspend until tho qortifloato meeting any further discussion of the question whether there should bo a proof or a claim by the assignees of Hills against the estate of Gibson , and allowed Gibson to pass his last examination , subject to all questions tho assignees might raise at the next sitting . At tho Middlosox sessions , on Tuesday , several well-known thievos and housobroakors were tried
ever , that she was guilty , been more than , once " in trouble " before . The Assistant-Judge said it was evident she was a dangerous person to be at . large , and sentenced her to four years ' penal servitude . —William Davis and Mary Ann King were convicted of stealing a purse containing money * It was stated that the man was well known in the prisons , and that the woman had been committed at least 200 times since 1847 . They were not sentenced , but remanded for inquiry to be made respecting their antecedents .
and that she had and convicted , and were sentenced to . various periods of penal servitude . On Thursday , at the Middlesex . Sessions , Harriet Newman was convicted of obtaining by false prepretences from . Frances Hill a quantity of linen , she stating that she-was a laundress . ' The case has been several times before the police courts , when the prisoner stated that it must have been her sister who cpmrnitted the crime , and declared her own perfectinnocence . On the trial it turned out ,
how-At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Thursday , the certificate ( third class ) of . Captain GeoTge Washington Chasseaud , who was described as a merchant in Cornhill , was suspended for three years without protection ; , and the Commissioner said that , if any naturally indignant creditor chose to vindicate public justice by putting the bankrupt into prison . any application for discharge would be disregarded until he had suffered at least six months' incarceration .
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CRIMINAL RECORD . A communication from-Fremantle , Western Australia , announces the arrival of the celebrated convicts , Robson , Redpath , Agar , Tester , and Sawnrd , alias Jem the Penman . . They are all engaged on tlie public worts , naakiiig roads , &c . liedpath and . Robson are engaged wheeling stones ,- ¦ with shackles upon their persons . Their health appears to be good , but they seem wretched and dejected , and wedry of their lives . The celebrated Rev . Dr . Beresford , who * with a living of 1 , 000 / . a year , committed forgery to an enormous extent , has . also arrived in the colony , and is employed sweeping the
wards in the new convict prison . On Sunday morning , at Manchester , a shoemaker named John Mackie stabbed two men , with a knife , one of the victims expiring almost immediately , whilst the other lies in a dangerous condition in the infirmary . The murderer was drunk and quarreling with a woman , when a man , John Wheeler , interfered , and was deliberately stabbed in the back . William Benson , a joiner , followed the assassin , who turned upon him , and inflicted a mortal wound witli the same weapon in the abdomen . Mackie made off , but has since been apprehended , and committed to take his trial for murder in accordance with the verdict at ths coroner ' s inquest .
. It has been intimated that , looking to the fact that by the Fraudulent Trustees Act lately passed the offence for Avliich Mr , Strahan and Sir John Paul were sentenced to , fourteen years' imprisonment would now be visited by a punishment limited to three ye ? vrs , the infliction in their caso will be commuted to a period of four years . Their liberation will , consequently , take place in October next . On Sunday a murder was committed in a house in . North-lftne , Aldershot , by a soldier of tJio 9 th , named Henry Benjamin Hayhcs . The house wns tins
a beershop called *? the London Tavern . ' un occasion some soldiors were in the house , and ,, loua screams boing heard , a rush wns made to the room , when Haynes was seen with a razor m Ins hand , and a young girl named Mary M Cowan , profusely bleeding from a wound in tue throat , ana in a minute or two she died . The soldior Hnynes was taken by some other soldiers , and on •/! . uos < J , ny an inquest wns held on the body before Mr . Chandler . of Bauingstoko , deputy-coroner . The jury roturnou a verdict of < " Wilful murder , " and Ilaynos w . is committed for trial .
John Buchanan , andArohibnkl Mitchell , oiiKifloe " of the steam or Bogota , were charged before tho Liverpool magistrates on Tuosdoy with pausing tWiMk'Utno . a fireman named Launder . Several witness's , fliidiy firemen , stuv tho man tied to a ladder vitlwn Uilr ysix inches of the furnaces , and afnte'd that- Ik- cr . oa most pitcously to be released from his poHilioii . " >' was tied to the ladder as a punishmont for *• hIcuiking , " but according to the evidence of tin 1 Him > ioii . ho complained that ho could not perform his woik on aceouut of the heat . Life was nearly extiiut when ho was brought from tho atulto-hulu , niu J ' ; subaoquont Applications cnustid him to rnlly , nitwon said they < ljirod not . intorforo lest llu-y s-moum ho punished . Their evidence ehiouy went m eiio ^ that the ciliiof omcor , nlthough ho Raid , "II tho mn » doea not do his work , tlo him , " did not inrilici' i terfore . IVfr , Munsflold remanded tlio pjimc ? to \ w > day , but ndmittcd Buolianan to bail in two surctie * of 100 / . each ,
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Leader (1850-1860), March 12, 1859, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2285/page/6/
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