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A large majority of the iron ordnance offered lor the ^ sp fbtiouVcLnel WmoughbyandMr Arno inspecting officers , who have been engaged for some Ss 'in selecting guns for the coast defences in India , have been rejected as nnfit for ^ the intended service The Elswick Works on the Tyne are being furthe r extended , with a view of making Armstrong guns of larger calibre than was at first contem-** A letter from some person on board the United States' ship Savannah , off AspinwaU , gives ^ anyof her Majesty
thing but a nattering description ^ s ship Diadem . He says :- " We left ^ . Greytown her Britannic Majesty ' s steam hne-of-battle ship Csesar , 90 gunr , and the new steam-frigate Diadem , 30 guns . The latter vessel is an experiment , bfae proves to be a good failure , being a miserable seaboat . Having on board her present battery , consisting of 10-inch guns ( the largest calibre ) , she rolls herself gun wales under . Her officers and crew must suffer terribly . She was intended to compete with our magnificent specimens of naval structurethe Wabash , Roanoke , Colorado , &c , but in our opinion , fall far from the mark . "
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THE NEAPOLITAN EXILES . A committee has been formed for the purpose of appealing to the public for funds to assist the Neapolitan exiles . Lord iShaftesbury will be chairman , and the Earl of Zetland , Viscount Pahnerston , Lord John Itussell , Mr . Gladstone , Sir Benjamin Brodie , the Dean of Sk Paul ' s , Mr , Ellice , Mr . Heath , the Sardinian Consul-General , and several other noblemen and
gentlemen have consented to act on it . Offices have been taken at 118 , Pall-mall . The Hon . Arthur Kinnaird , M . P ., has bean requested to act as treasurer , and Mr . Panizzi , of the British Museum , will be honorary secretary . The Lord Mayor , acting on suggestions which have been made to him , has announced his willingness to receive subscriptions , and the ¦ atarylebone Vestry have granted the use of their hall for a public meeting . A demonstration at Drury ^ lane Theatre is also talked of .
At a meeting , of . the committee of the Reform Club . on Friday , it was unanimously resolved to open a subscription for the exiles . Mr . Charles De la Pryme , one of the committee , will act as honorary treasurer . In reference to the mission of M . Raffaelle Settembrini , for the rescue of his father , the Cork Reporter says , it was in no way set on foot by the Italian Society in London ; he proceeded to Cadiz , in discharge of filial duty . This young man received the greater part of his education in England , and was a student in King ' s College , London .
The inhabitants of St . Pancras have proved themselves amongst the foremost to express their sympathy for the exiles . On Monday evening a highly respectable meeting of the trading arid middle classes of Camden-town was held at the Britannia Tavern , High-street , for the purpose of taking steps to afford them substantial assistance . Among the names added to the committee we find those of the Marquis Townsend , the Earl of Clarendon , Lord Broughton , the Chief Justice of the Common Pjeas ; the Recdrder , Sir Geo . Grey , Right Hon . H . Labouchere , Right Hon . Edw . Horsman , M . P . ; the Right Hon . Jarnes Stuart Wbrtley ; the Right Hon . R . Vernon Smith ; Sir Janaes Duke ; Charles
Dickens , Esq . ; Russell Ellice , Esq ., M . P . ; Sir James Ferguson , Bart . ; Thomas ITairbairn , Esq . ; Milne Gaskell , Esq ., M . P ; Geo . Carr Glyn , Esq ., M . P . ; Sir II . Holland , Bart . ; Austin , H , Layard , Esq . ; Joseph Locke , Esq ., M . P . j Sir R . Murchison , Bart , ; Samuel Morley , Esq . ; W . Tite , Esq ., M . P .. ; W . M . Thackeray , Esq . ; J . v Tollemaohe , Esq ., M . P . ; Aspinall Turner , Esq ., M . P ., Wilbraham Taylor , Esq . ; and many other distinguished men . The subscriptions include the Marquis of Lunsdowne , 100 / . ; Earl of Durham , 100 / , ; Earl Fortesque , 25 / . ; Earl of
Zetland , 100 / . ; Viscount Palmerston , 100 / . ; Lord John Russell , 20 / . ; Lord Overstone , 100 / . ; Sir . Benjamin Hall , Bart ., 50 / . ; Sir John Rjunsden , Bart ., 50 / . ; Right Hon . E . Ellice , M . P . 50 / . 5 lion . E . Kirinaird , M . P ., 50 / . ; t"he Mayor of Cork , 100 / . ; R . Monckton Milnes , Esq ., M . P ., 20 / . ; J . Benjamin Heath , Esq ., M . P ., 50 / . ; W , B . Beaumont , Esq ., M . P ., 50 / . ; Lord Broughton , 50 / . ; Right Hon , R . Vernon Smith , 25 / . ; the Earl of Shaftesbury , 10 / . 10 s . i . T * B . Hdrsfall , Baq ^ M . P ., 50 / . } . Right Hon . W . B . Gladstone , M . P ., 25 / . ; A . Panizzi , Esq ., 20 / .
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Cxtt Sewers .- —< Tho commissioners mot on Tuesday at Guildhall , when Mr . Ilaywood , the city engineer , presented his annual report of the works executed ay the commissioners during the year 1858 . Tho report was very voluminous , it was ordered tobq printed , and a copy to be sent to every member of the court , and of tho Court of Common JJouncil . After disposing of tho jromaining business tfco commissioners separated ,
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POLITICAL MEETINGS . On Monday evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of Mary lebone , convened by the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association of the borough , was held a t the Court House , to consider the Government Keform Bill . The borough members , Sir B . Hall and Mr . Edwin James ; addressed the meeting at some length , declaring their intention to offer every opposition in their power to the bill . Several resolutions were carried condemnatory of the' bill , and embodying various opinions regarding the degree of" extension of the franchise desirablej and other alterations in the representative system . At tile Literary Institution in the Borough-road , on the same evening , the inhabitants of Southwark held a very turbulent meeting-, at which resolutions were passed condemning the bill , and going for manhood suffrage and shorter parliaments . Sir Charles Napier and Mr . Locke were present , and both spoke against tlie latter resolutipnsj though they approved the first . A very large meeting was held on Monday night at the Town-hall , Brighton , convened by the Mayor . to
The meeting was addressed ^ -rin addition several other speakers , who denounced the Government measure as a sham and a Conservative juggle—by Sir George Brooke PecheH , Bart ., and W . Coningham , Esq ., the borough members ; and also by J . G . Dodson , Esq ., M . Pv A petition against the bill was adopted . At Chatham , on the same day , a meeting passed a resolution calling upon their representative , Sir IV Smith , to vote against the measure ; and at Worcester a petition was adopted in favour of the ballot and against the bill .
generally . On Tuesday , at the Mechanics' Institution , Southampton-buildings , was held a meeting of workingmen to discuss , or rather condem n * the Government measure . ' . Messrs . Dunconibe and Cox were expected , but the former stayed away . The manhood suffrage , re-distribution of districts , and the ballot were insisted upon , while Mr . Cox , M ; P ., asserted that lie arid a . f ew other Radicals were the only real representatives of the people in Parliament , and that he ( Cox ) and his friends would take care to obtain for htsTumultuous
the Working inert their just rig . applause followed this senatorial declaration . At Woolwich , the same evening , a crowded meeting was held , io take into consideration the provisions of the bill . The chair , was . occupied by the Rev , J . Carlile , ELD ., and on the platform were Messrs . C . W . Martin and J . Whatman , the members for West Kent ; Alderman Salomons , M . P . ; Pi W . Martin , Esq ., M . P ., and Mr . W . Angerstein . Condemnatory resolutions wQre passed as usual , and a petition adopted founded thereon . h nd Hereford Councils
Botlv the Edinburga Town have adopted petitions against the Government measure . At Edinburgh some fanatic moved a resolution for the disfranchjsement of all Roman Catholics , T ) ut did not find a seconder . At the Guildford meeting , Mr . Onslow , M . P ., attended to raise big voice , against the bill . A great Reform meeting was held at Nottingham on Tuesday night . . 'Mr . Walter was not present , but he wrote a letter , which was read to the meeting amid shouts of dissapproval . He supported the Government bill , and thought that it presented a fair basis for the settlement of the question .
At Manchester , on Tuesday evening , a public meeting , convened by the Lancashire Reformers ' Union , was held in the Free Trade Hall , " to support Mr Briglxt ' s measure of parliamentary reform , in opposition to that of Mr . Disraeli . " The hall was crowded . George Wilson , Esq ., occupied the chair . After resolutions had been passed in favour of the ballot , and an extension of the suffrage in counties not loss than such as shall confer the franchise on all occupiers of 10 / . a year ; an extension in boroughs not less than such as shall confer the franchise on all persons rated or liable to be rated to the poor for any tenement or part of a tenement . Mr . Thomas Barnes , of Bolton , movecj : — That this meeting expresses its thanks to John Bright for his great exertions in the cause of reform , and pledges itself to give him its continued support to bring his efforts to a < successful issue . '' The motion was passed unanimously .
At Cambridge a meeting was hold at the Town Hall , on Tuesday evening . Mr . Boales proposed a resolution , condemning the bill , and the proposal to give graduates of the university the right to vote for both university and town . Mr . Beales supported his resolution in a speech of some duration , every word of which , however , was lost to tho audience , owing to tlie antagonism to everybody and every " thing raging in different parts of the room . The first object of tho undergraduates was to put down the mayor , Tho townsmen , some of whom supported the mayor against the undergraduates , and vice versa ¦ wore equally divided , or nearly so . Some faint notion of tho " row" that ensued may bo conceived , the uproar arriving at such a pitch that tho
mayor ( Mr . Balls ) , after several notifications , of his intention , declared the meeting dissolved . Neither resolution or amendment . was put ; the gas Avas turned down , and the meeting resolved itself into sections , Mr . Wilson ( a tailor ) . commanding : ' tlie largest number of partisans or . attendants . At last Wilson had to be escorted out by the police . The undergraduates proceeded in a body to the residence of the mayor . ; some hooted , some cheered ; some appeared to be disposed to break his worship ' s windows , but the presence of a strong body of police prevented the accomplishment of the last-named design .
On Wednesday , a crowded and public meeting of the inhabitants of Gravesend was held , for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the merits of the bill . On the platform were Messrs . C . W . Martin , M . P ., and J . Whatman , M . F . R . Oakes , Esq ., was called to the chair . Mr . Hyde Clarke moved a resolution , to the effect that the bill introduced by the Government into the House of Commons disappoints the just expectations of the country ; and , while recognising the claims of Gravesend to be constituted a parliamentary borough , confers on Gravesend , with its 16 , 000 inhabitants , only the same privilege as that which is retained for thirteen English towns having each less than 5 , 000 inhabitants . A petition was unanimously adopted in accordance with the foregoing resolution .
Important meetings have been also held at Bolton , Stirling , Chester-le -Street , HuddersfieloJ , Bath , Preston , Accrington , Mary port , Chester , Carlisle , and Darlington , at which petitions against the Government measure have been adopted . The inhabitants of Liverpool met at the Royal AmphitheatreonThursday riight , to discuss the question of Reform , and to decide ' upon a petition to Parliament condemnatory of the Reform Bill introduced attendan
by the Derby Government . The . ce was numerous , all the leading Liberals of the borough being present . Mr . T . Brockiebank occupied the chair ... Resolutions of a strong character were passed against the . bill , and a petition adopted . Mr . J . C . Ewart , MJP . for the borough ,, said that he should give his strongest opposition to Mr > Disraeli's bill . A vote of thanks was passed to Mr . Ewaxt . Some . Conservatives interrupted the speakers at intervals , but all the resolutions were carried by large
majorities . At Dublin on Thursday , the meetingwas a success , the attendance being both influential and numerous . Sir James Power , Bart , presided . A resolution condemnatory of the Government -bill , and of its treatment of Ireland , was passed . Resolutions were also adopted in favour of the ballot , a large extension of the franchise , and for the abolition of freemen suffrages . A public meeting of the citizens of Manchester
was held in the Town-hall . on Thursday , the Mayor presiding . Tlie hall and approaches were ; densely crowded . There were probably 1 , 500 persons piesent . Neither the members for Manchester were present , which greatly disgusted the assembly . A resolution Avas carried pledging the meeting to adopt every legal means to oppose the passing of the bill ; this was not , however , unanimous . A Whig opposition was attempted , Mr . Entwistle , a banker , being selected as tlie organ of the unpopular party . But he could only muster some forty supporters .
At Bristol the resolutions did not go far enough , and on the motion of Mr . Hantlel Cossham , a comprehensive rider was enthusiastically adopted . Mr . Berkeley delivered a witty and effective speech , in . which he . found it necessary to explain his present relations with the Ballot Society , respecting which some misconceptions had arisen . Mr . Langton , the other member , was , of course , equally on the right side . At the Bath meeting , Sir Arthur Elton opposed the Government bill , although expressing his agreement with some ' of its clauses . Ho advocated the enfranchisement of the working classes 5 the grouping system as the basis of a redistribution of seats ; und the vote by ballot . Mr , Tite also took the anti-Ministerial view .
At Great Yarmouth the Whig members , Captain Young and Mr . Mellor , delivered almost Radioal speeches ,. Meetings have also been held at Salford , Coventry ( where Sir J . Paxton . strongly advocated the cause of tlie working elassos ) , Groonock , Heading " , and many other placos . On Thursday night a mooting of the Camborwoll Radicals was held at tho Rosemary-branch tavern . Messrs . Williams , M . I ., and Roupoll , M . P ., wero present . Some furious speochos wore made , and Messrs . Williams and Roupoll wore requested to giro their determined opposition to the second reaaing 01 tho Government Reform Bill . At Greonwioh , on tho samo evening , a . lar « o mooting of tho inhabitants of Blaokheatli , & > c . f was attonded by Alderman Salomons , M . P ., and by Mr . Angerstoin , tho oandidato for tho representation of Greenwich , who moved resolutions entirely to tho taste of tho » u-
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No . 469 , M ^ rch m 859 r ] __ THE DEADER . 35 »
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Leader (1850-1860), March 19, 1859, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2286/page/7/
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