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The Gas : Monopoly . —The delegates from the various , metropolitan parishes assembled last evening at the St . Martin ' s Vestry-hall , to consider the further steps to be taken for the protection of consumers against the monopoly of gas companies . Mr . Pettar , churchwarden of St . Martin ' s parish , occupied the chair . Mr . Beal , the hon . secretary , reported ¦ the interview with the President of the Board of Trade , and announced that the gas companies would wait upon the Home Secretary oh Friday next . He also stated that he had obtained a great number of signatures , amounting to about a
thousand , to the petition which had been drawn up for presentation to Parliament , and urged the delegates personally to solicit signatures . Their bill had been eent to Mr . Buller , the counsel , for revison , in accordance with the decision of the delegates , tind the people of Croydon and other towns had sent requests to be allpWed to co-operate in the movement . The solicitor . ( Mr . I ) angerfield ) stated that he had sent to the companies notices of the intention to introduce a bill . Mr . Hughes then read a report in reference to the contracts of various parishes for the supply of eas , which was received and adopted .
St . George-ix-the-East . —On Sunday there was much less unseemly opposition and disturbance at the services in the church of St . George-in-the-East than for some time past , and the day passed over in a manner affording ground for hope that the fierce party spirit of which it has long been the scene has well-nigh exhausted itself . Not that there was no irreverent behaviour on the part of many of the congregation at all the services , always excepting that of the afternoon lecturer ; but it was confined to a comparatively few people , anil much less remarkable than at any time heretofore since the disturbances first commenced . The services were again , as for several Sundavs
previously , conducted under the protection of the local divisional police , of whom upwards of forty , under the direction of Mr , Superintendent Howie , were stationed in the pews and aisles of the church . Mortara in England , —Signor Momola Mortara , whose child was surreptitiously baptised by a servant maid , and abducted from its parents on this frivolous pretence , is now in London . Having had an interview -with the Emperor Napoleon , he has now visited tlic metropolis of England , to induce the British Government to bring his case before the forthcoming Congress on Italian affairs . M . Mortara is of Hebrew extraction , but evidently has in his veins some of the blood of the old Roman . He
Seems deeply to feel the loss of his child , who is now eight years ol < l , and is detained by the Jesuits at Rome . Hud he remained at Bologna , the authorities there would have complied with the dictates of our common humanity , and would have delivered llim to his afflicted parents . M . Mortara has called upon the late Lord Mayor , Sir Culling Eardley ( chairman and deputy-chairman ) , and Messrs . Gurney , M . P ., and B . Scott < the official secretaries ) , for procuring the signatures to the Mortara protest , to assure them of his gratitude , and to express his estimation of the Christianity which has produced ill this country results so different from those exhibited in the conduct of tho authorities at Rome .
Public IIkai / tii . —There was no increase in the mortality of the metropolis last week : the total number of deaths was 1 , 304 , which is a little under the estimated average . The births during the week numbered 1 , 827 . The number of deaths registered in the City was 70 , being the exact average for the corresponding period for the last four years . ' JTew Peek . —The Gazette announces that Lord Ebrington is called to the House of Lords under the style and title of Baron Fortescue . There are also appointments of less importance which are at the same time mentioned . A supplement to the Gazette is occupied with a long Privy Council document , stating new regulations under the Public Health Act , which are of universal application .
Tub Norwich Scandal . —A special meoting of the Town Council of Norwich was Jheld on Tuesday , with the view of getting a motion passed that " the peace and welfare of . tho city will be best promoted T > y tho cessation of political strife , and that , with a view to the attainment of this object , tho resolution of the Council , with referor . coto tho charge of bribery made by Mr . Fox , bo cancelled , and all further legal proceedings for conspiracy bo stayed . " Tho Council decided to atop tho inquiry into tho alleged bribery practises here , by twenty-eight votes to nineteen . take
The Liberals will , however , it is understood , further proceedings in tho matter . They have dotermined to contluuo tho inquiry by means of a private subscription . Tho city is greatly oxcitcd on tho subject , and it will bo difficult to calm tho troubled wafers . On Thursday tho Norwich magistrates were engaged for nearly four hours in further hearing ; the charge preferred against Mr . Albert J . Collins , of conspiring with Mr . Henry Croxford and others to bribe Mr . Joel Fox . by offering Mm £ 500 to voto for eight Tory . aldermen on the ' 0 tb of November . ¦ Mr . Power , Q . C ., again appeared to
conduct the case on the part of the prosecution , and Mr . Serjeant Ballantine and Mr , Haworth Hall for the defendant . It was decided by a majority of 15 to 6 . not to commit the defendant , but , at the same time , it was determined by 12 to 10 to call upon him to enter into two recognizances of . £ 250 each and himself in . £ 500 , to answer any future charge . Mr . Serjeant Ballantine said he should advise his client to decline entering into the proposed recognizances , except under protest , and until he had been taken into custody by force . This " force" having been theoretically exhibited by one of the officers of the court laying his hand on JVfr . Collins , the recognizances were entered into , and the proceedings in the case terminated , at any rate for the present . Mr . Serjeant Ballantine announced that it was not bis intention
to offer any evidence to support the charge of bribery at the general election , preferred against Sir W . Foster and the Messrs . Wilde . Mr . Askew , solicitor , also withdrew , amid slight laughter , the countercharges preferred by the Liberals against Sir Samuel Bignold , Captain lyes , and other Conservatives . Mr . . Roebuck ' s Charge against the Prince de Joinville . —In a speech which he- made last week , Mr . Roebuck intimated that , no matter what dynasty ruled over France , there was a settled intention to attack England , and to prove this he ventured upon a revelation—namely , that a certain nobleman , now
dead , told him that the Prince had , even after being driven to England by misfortune , made plans of our shores , and pointed out where we . could best be attacked , and sent his plans to the Ministry of Fiance . The Prince de Joinville writes to say that he never drew up any plan of the coast of England , that he never devised any project of attack against this country , and that he could not , -therefore , have communicated anything to the French Ministry . The Prince adds , that he should be the last person to desire the principles which now rule in France should be extended to England .
City Matters . — On Thursday the Court of Common Council met for the consideration of several matters of importance ; the Lord Mayor presided . The questions submitted to the Court related to the proposed railway station at the Bank , the accommodation to be-given to the Court of Admiralty , the management of the markets , the conservancy of the Thames , cattle shows , the gaol of Newgate , regarding which a report was presented ; the Central Gas Company , the proposed new dead meat market , the finances of the City , with a long report ; Blackfriars Bridge , corporation reform and coal dues , and the last business of the day veas the adoption of a resolution that £ 500 should be given by the Court in aid of the fund arising from the gifts of persons on their admission to the freedom of the City , annually distributed by the Chamberlain to the poor widows of freemen on St . ThoraasVday .
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CENTRAL ITALY . A Timm correspondent of a contemporary says :- — " It is , however , pretty clear that tho oxpwUtlon ot Central Italy being made a part of Sardinia Is not at all Btrong—tho statement that England and * ranee having arrived at a compromise with thu view or forming that part of tho Peninsula into an inaopeudent sovereignty being accepted with considerable willingness . Hero , however , would ariao , supposing , aa I do not , that such a compromise lms
been made , another very difficult question . If Central Italy is to be a kingdom , and not under Victor Emmanuel , who is to be the sovereign ? Is a French Prince of the house of Bonaparte to . be put forward , or is one of the late dukes to be proposed as the King of the three provinces , to leave out the vexed question of the Legations , when he could not rule one of them without making every free-minded person in it his bitter enemy ? And if so , who is to be the man ? Surely , the Duke 6 f
Modena is out of the question . Is it , then , to be the Austrian Archduke , or the heir of the Bourbons ? Would either be accepted by the Italians without a struggle , an' could either be placed upon the throne without a most flagrant violation of justice to the other ; and , whsit is of far greater importance , without falsifying the motives which led to the late war , and committing a most gross act of tyranny towards the people of the Duchies . "
On Friday last , in a Council held at Turin , the two Tuscan delegates who had been invited to take part in it had been brought over to recognise the wisdom of the existing state of things , and of accepting Buoncompagni ' s appointment ; but it seems that since then , Baron Ricasoli has once more protested against it . Another project is said to be now entertained to divide the administration of the Central Italian states into , first , a Gis-Appenine province , embracing Parma , Modena , and the Legations ; and second , a Trans-Appenine one , consisting of Tuscany alone , with Massa and Carrara added to it . ' ' " ¦ ¦
Farini has published a decree , organising a single government for Parma , Modena , and-Romagna , and assigning as a reason , the wish , to facilitate the movement by which they shall hereafter form an integral portion of King Victor Emmanuel ' s constitutional State . Mazzini . —A Turin letter of December 4 , in the PreSse , says that Mazzini has published a letter , severely criticising General Fanti . M . Mazzini says , that in 1848 he was greatly deceived about this officer , who had just then returned from Spain with a military reputation not borne out by facts ; that Fanti stands quite apart from the revolution , and is merely the " king ' s general , " and that Central
Italy cannot reckon upon his being staunch . Mazzini has also published at Lugano a pamphlet , addressed to the youth of Italy , in which he in 60 pages explains what he considers the false direction the movement in Italy has taken , and in which he appeals to the Italian youth , who have enlisted as volunteers , to rally round Garibaldi and to fight the Holy war . The pamphlet is . dated November 14 , — that is , before the dismissal of Garibaldi , in consequence of which an appendix is addc-d , dated November 20 . In the pamphlet itself the name of Garibaldi does not occur , but the append . ix contains a direct appeal to him to take matters into his own hands . '
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THE CONGRESS . The Pays announces that not only England , but Austria , Prussia , and Sardinia have sent in adhesion to the Congress . Contrary to an assertion of the Morning Post , sent by telegraph from London this morning , the Pays says that Count de Rcchberg , the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs , will be tho first Austrian plenipotentiary ; M . de Schleinitz will represent Prussia . The Pays states that Russia and Portugal have also given in their adhesion to the Congress . The adhesion of Spain to the Congress has been received , and M , Mon will be her second plenipotentiary . The Gazette del Popolo tbe certain that
says that it now appears o Cpunt Cavour will represent Sardiniain the ensuing Congress at Paris . According to this journal , it may not be impossible for this illustrious Piednmontese statesman to return soon to tho ministry . According to correspondence from Berlin , published in the Debats , the States of Central Italy will not appear in the Congress upon the same footing aa the great Powers , but will be invited in tho form established by the precedent of tho Congress of Aix-lu-Chupello . The same letters aver that the English and French Governments uro consulting together upon an arrangement of tho Italian question which will not probably satisfy Austria , but . which will encounter no serious objection at Berlin or St . Petersburg .
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CRISIS IN TURKEY . A Ministerial crisis has been brought about by the dissensions between Fuad Pasha and Riza Pasha . Fuad had tendered his resignation , which was refused by the Sultan , but a permanent agreement between the two Ministers appeared impossible . Fuad Pasha was the only Ministor who continued to oppose the Suez Canal . M . de Thouvenel and Baron Prokescli , the Ambassadors of France and Austria , had made joint representations ill favour ot the adhesion of the other Con
M . de Lesseps , and . * tinental Powers to his scheme was expected , as tlie language of their ambassadors was extremely favourable The Grand Vizier was endeavouring to wort ; out reforms , but tho combination to reduce tho paper currency was prevented by the insufficiency of the means at tho disposal of tho Treasury . The StoSfifof f tpm 20 to 30 per cent , of the salaries of tho employe ' s in the superior public establishments and the taxation of licences had boon ordered .
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AMEHICAN AFFAIRS . A Washington tologram of Novombor 25 , Baysi--" The Secretary of War to-day rooo Ived the following despatch from Liout .-Gonerttl Scott , dated Straits of Fuca , and sent by way of J , ea von worth : — " Two days ago I dispatched from Fort Townspnd a communication to 'Governor Douglas , proposing a tSSporaryadjustment of the existing dffflouUies on tueCssugg ^ toa by tho Prosidont to mo . There his been no answer yet , but there is no doubt the
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Romk . — Tho session of the Counc 1 of State has been opened by tho President Cardinal di Piotro . The Financial Consulta was received by the Pope , and Cardinal Savelji ( its president ) i ^ kly explained tho wishes of the Assembly . His Holinoss replied that ho will consider what stops are necessary to give satisfaction .
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No . 507 . Dec . 10 , 1859 J THE LEADER . 1341 ¦ aaaKaP ^ ¦ t * " * " llli * ' i ^^^ — ^^ ^ 1 ^—awfc ¦»<» taMB——^ cmMMB ^ fj—^—^
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 10, 1859, page 1341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2324/page/9/
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