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No. 406, January 2,1858.] THE REAPER. $ ...
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Leader Office, Saturday, January 2. SOUT...
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FRANCE. The plenipotentiaries of the sec...
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GERMANY. " Great consternation," says th...
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Murdek of a Child.—James Brown, a brickl...
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been conferred upon the Rev . Dr . Thomas Barclay , of Currie . The Exeteb Hat , ! . Sebvices . —The first series of Nonconformist services at Exeter Hall was brought to a close on Sunday evening . The Sebpenthie . —A correspondent of the Times suggests that the Serpentine should be cleansed and turned into a salt water lake , supplied by pipes along the line of rail from Brighton . Thus Londoners may have the advantage of sea-bathing in their own town ; and the dust in the roads may be laid by salt water , which effects that object better than fresh . Another correspondent remarks that the mixture of salt and fresh water is known to be unhealthy .
Attempted Suicide . —A man , in passing the other day throug h Dulwich Wood , saw another man placing a rope round his neck , the other end being fastened to a tree . The passer-by hallooed , but the suicide threw himself off . He was immediately cut down , upon which he unfastened the noose from his neck , and ran off . He was secured by the police , and found to be mad . Professor Faraday gave on Tuesday at the Royal Institution the first of his annual course of lectures adapted to a juvenile auditory . The subject was Static Electricity . ' The Prince of Wales took the chair—at sixteen years of age ! Mr . Spubgeon , on Tuesday , opened a bazaar on a grand scale at the Surrey Gardens , for the purpose of raising funds towards the building of his new chapel .
Equalization of Poor-rates . —A meeting in favouT of this object was held on Tuesday evening in the vestry-room of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn . Disapproval was expressed with reference to Mr . Ayrton ' s measure , as not going far enough , and it was resolved that the bill which had been framed by the committee of the association for promoting the desired object should be submitted to some eminent counsel for his opinion . Mr . Layabd has arrived at Bombay . The Buckxnchamshike Election . —The election for the county of Bucks ( a notoriously Conservative shire ) has terminated in the return of Mr . Cavendish , the Liberal candidate , by a majority of 163 over Captain Hamilton , his Conservative opponent . The numbers were—Cavendish , 1617 ; Hamilton , 1454 . Captain Hamilton , in addressing the electors , exhibited some mortification at the result , which he attributed to his having been so late in the field .
A Wobksbof for Girls . —The associative principle has been introduced in connexion with female labour in a way which appears to us to be highly commendable . A workshop of girls for the construction of art toys baa been established for the last three years , and has just been brought under our notice by a lady interested in its success . It has not hitherto obtained as much patronage as we conceive it ought , owing to the tendency on the part of the English public to buy the toys manufactured by German artificers . We are informed that the playthings wrought by the dexterous fingers of this guild of English girls far exceed the German articles in beauty ; and , if this be the case , and . the prices be such aa economical parents and relatives can afford , we conceive that the papas and mammas , uncles and aunts , of
England ought to think more of their own fellowcountrymen than of foreigners . Certain special reasons for encouraging this underaking are thus stated by a contemporary : — " First the principle that the employed should benefit by the commercial success of the business —that is to say , that they should not only earn wages , but have a beneficial interest in the profits , which it is proposed to place in the hands of trustees to form a marriage-portion for the girls , or be drawn out by them in adult age , according to certain regulations to be made . The second principle is , that the education of the employed should go on with steady and unremitting progress ; so that , were the experiment to succeed , the workers would in due time become possessors of some money , and persona of well-stored minds . "
State of the Thames . —Mr . Guraeys recent report to the First Commissioner of Works on the state of the Thames ( dated November 3 rd ) bas just been published . Its chief recommendations have been thus summarized : — " Mr . Gurney recommends that all the retrogrades and brattice' cesspools be destroyed ; that all the obstructions to a uniform flow of the river at low water bo removed ; that the projections along shore be rounded off , nnd the hollows filled up ; that the serrated edges of the river ut low water bo made plain and continued along the whole line of low-water mark ; that the width of tho water way at the lowest ebb be not more than one hundred and forty yards from sido to side , ho that tho river may
not only run in a uniform current , but at a minimum rate of two hundred and twenty-live feet per minute ; and that from low-water mark upwards tho beach bo bo constructed that tho ahoro may rise at an angle of about three or four degrees with tho horizon , or , in road-^^ Klffg ' p 1 STlanco ~ of ~ not- 'less- 'than-one-in > -Bixt <) en , ^ to facilitate tho fall of the sewage into the bed of tho river . The cost of this arrangement will not bo so great as would at first sight appear , and tho navigation of tho river would bo improved by it . As regards gaseous or aeriform nowago—a most deadly poison—Mr . Gurnpy suggests tho destruction of tho retrograde , tho proper trapping of tho mouths of tho sewors , and the combustion of tho noxious gases . " Christmas Dinwku . — -Miss Burdott Coutts gave an excellent dinner on Tuesday to throe hundred poor
parishioners of St . Stephen's , Westminster . The Lord Bishop of London was present ; also the Archdeacon of Middlesex , Viscountess Torrington , Canon Jennings , Messrs . Tennant , Garden , Pierpoint , A . F . Tracey , Major Cheetham , & c . The Art Treasures Exhibition . —The resolution of thanks passed by the Manchester Town Council to the executive committee of the late Art Treasures Exhibition was presented on Wednesday afternoon , in the Mayor ' s Parlour at the Town Hall , at a dejeuner at which about eighty gentlemen were present . The Fire near Bethnal-green . — The coroner ' s jury in this case have returned an open verdict .
Fire at the Duke op Portland ' s . —For some time past , the Duke of Portland has been in the habit of inhaling the vapour from a spirit-of-wine lamp , as a means of allaying the pain resulting from rheumatism in the hip . He was doing this , about half-past ten o'clock on Wednesday morning at his house in Cavendish-square , when the lamp was overturned , and the liquid set fire to the curtains and bedding . He was being attended at the time by the house steward , who , with much difficulty , got his Grace out of the room , though . not without being a good deal burnt . The door of the room was then closed , and engines were sent for ; but the fire was got under before their arrival .
Proposed Borough Franchise . —It is generally admitted that , in the boroughs at least , it has become imperative to admit to the right of voting many who do not reside in houses of 101 . yearly value , and who are yet fully entitled and competent to exercise the franchise . An educational test has been suggested . It is objectionable as a new element in this kind of legislation ; it is invidious ; it will render necessary new and complicated machinery ; it will prove very costly and be always liable to mistrust and partiality . The reduction of the amount of qualification from 101 . to 5 / . yearly value is the next favourite suggestion , but the admission of those residing in homes of 2 s . a week value will not include , it is believed , practically a class more entitled to the franchise , or more qualified to
exercise it , than those residing in homes of Is . 6 d . a week value . There is another and simple method which the committee formed at the King ' s Arms recommend for approval . It is this . Strike out from the last Reform Bill the amount of requisite value of the premises to be occupied in the borough . Instead of the person being required to be rated as now , let the required occupation be-of premises which are rated . It is believed that the common practice in England and Wales is . to rate all houses ( not so in Scotland ) ; but where Halsey'a Act is in force , houses below 10 / . a year in value are rated to the landlord , so that you cannot enfranchise in all parishes even 51 . occupyers without being exposed , to perplexity as to the condition that requires them to be rated to the poor If you admit all
resident occupiers in rated premises to vote , the poorrate book , whether under Hasley ' s Act or otherwise , will become a sure guide and a constant check to the register , and fix the premises with which the franchise is connected . Let the new statute recognize with more precision than does the present the right of ' joint occupiers , ' ' tenants in part , ' as our document calls them . Leave residence as it is now , within seven miles of any part of the borough ; but strike out the objectionable arrangement that rates must be paid before the occupier can claim to vote . The act of enfranchisement ought not to do the work of a tax-collector . The practice and decisions of our registration courts have already given legal explanation aa to the meaning and use of tho words ' owner , ' ' tenant , ' ' occupation , ' & c ,
all of which will bo available for tho interpretation of the new statute , if it follows in tho wake of the old . ^ It is not proposed to give tho franchise to ' lodgers , ' in the legal and technical sense of the word , as distinct from ' tenants jn part ; ' but to those only who have exclusive possession of and uncontrolled access to the apartments which they hold . If our present registration law is preserved , it will still bo needful that every person coming on tho register must have hold his qualification for six months prior to tho duto of his claim ; tho register on which his name is inserted is not in force till six months after tho claim is made , and ho must continue to hold his quuliiication up to the time of voting ; so that hero is a possession of the qualification virtually for twelve months before ho can legally exercise hid vote . If tint ) law is continued , and no alteration in thin respect its suggested by our committee , it will
effectually restrict tho franchise to the settled population only . In language that wilt be generally understood , it is proposed that every man shall have a vote who has a homo of his own ; whether it consists of ono room or more , whether it its largo or small , a house by itself or an apartment in a house . —From a Letter by Air . E . S . Pryce . —^ iK ^ y : jKSl jMpni ; a ^|] l ; ojiujBstfon m of , S j 2 P 2 yJ mmigTation has beon considered in an extraordinary scalioiiTof tho Domorara Combined Court of Policy . Ilia Excellence Lieutenant-Governor Walker , having introduced tho subject to tho notice of tho members , a long dobato ensued , which ended in the udoptionof four resolutions , tho general upshot of which was that tho Court pledged itsolf to mako tho necessary financial provisions , at tho proper time , for carrying out tho aohomo . Tho Administrator-General , and tho Hon . Messrs . Koao and Conyorn , dissented from these resolutions .
The Mato Election . —Lord John , Browne was xeturned for Mayo on Wednesday . The Shrewsbury Peerage . —Another claimant has now appeared for the title and estates of the late Earl of Shrewsbury in the person of William Talbot , a sailor on board the Callao , one of the Messrs . Brocklebank ' s ships , which has just arrived at Liverpool from Callao .
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Leader Office , Saturday , January 2 . SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA . Three cases of fraud in Chili have come to light . A clerk of a business house in Santiago has been detected in appropriating his employer ' s funds , and no less than 100 , 000 dollars was said to have been spent by him at the gaming-table . In Valparaiso , a Mr . Bernal , a retail dealer , who for some time past bad forged bills to meet his liabilities , has committed suicide by leaping from a boat into the sea . The amount of his forgeries is set down at 100 , 000 dollars . In the Commissary of Marines' - office , a defalcation of 20 , 000 dollars has been discovered ; the heads of the department were arrested until the matter was investigated . The revolutionary party in the Republic of Bolivia has entirely triumphed . Dr . Linares has been acknowledged Provisional President , and General Cordoba ( the ex-ruler ) has fled from the country . In Salvador , a number of violent , shocks of earthquake have been felt at Copitipeque and the old city of San Salvador . From Nicaragua we learn that General Martinez had been elected President , only eight votes being given against him .
France. The Plenipotentiaries Of The Sec...
FRANCE . The plenipotentiaries of the second Congress of Paris met in conference on Thursday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , and exchanged the ratifications of the treaty relative to the boundaries of the Bessarabian frontier . The Emperor has had a touch of the prevalent disorder , the influenza .
Germany. " Great Consternation," Says Th...
GERMANY . " Great consternation , " says the Globe Paris correspondent , " exists at Augsburg . The Gazette of that town informs Europe of some vampire in human form , who , with aid of chloroform , stupifies ladies at dusk in the streets , and cuts off their hair , without doing any further mischief . Latterly this scalp-hunter has been at his pursuit in the open daylight , and ladies go . attended by armed lacqueys to obviate a rape of their locks . Dark mystery shrouds the affair , and the burgomeister is dumbfoundered . "
Murdek Of A Child.—James Brown, A Brickl...
Murdek of a Child . —James Brown , a bricklayer ' s labourer residing in Ramsay-street , Bcthnul-green , was charged at Clerkenwell yesterday with causing the death of a little girl six years old by striking her on the head With a belt . The child was in the man ' s way , and was told to leave ; but , not doing so at once , Brown struck her , and she ultimately died . He was committed for trial . The Paris Model Lodoing-Houses . —George Delianson Clark , tho projector of tho model lodging-house , at Paris , applied yesterday jn the Insolvent Debtors ' Court to bo discharged on sureties until March next , in order to proceed with an action against Mr . Kennard , merchant , from whom and the Baron Heekereu he claimed upwards of 9000 / . Tho case is a remarkable ono . Tho insolvent had a project to build model lodging-houses at Paris , and had seen the Emporor . The Baron Heekereu , a personal friond of the Emporor , interested himself , and advances wore made by tho French Government . Mr . Kennard , who is an iron merchant in Thames-street , had built tho houses and had laid out a very considerable sum . Tho insolvent alleged that for his management and the offlco matters ho was cntit ' . cd to more than 9000 / . ; but Mr . Kennard denied that ho owed Clark ono shilling : in truth , ho was a creditor . An action had been commenced by tho insolvent , who wished to go on with the proceedings for tho benefit of his estate . No objection was roado on tho part of Mr . Konnard , who was willing that bail should bo taken to a small amount in order to facilitate tho action . Two persons now ton"dored-thomsolves « aB-bail-in ^ 250 / .,. « ud , w , o , rjpj 9 »« ndsuf ___ liciont . Mr . Commissioner Phillips accepted tho bull , and tho discharge was ordered to tho 15 th March , to try the action . „ , Turn Military Outuaok in Wicstminstkr . —1 wo soldiers were examined at tho Westminster police-office yesterday on a charge of being concerned in the disgraceful military riot In tho Broadway to which wolmvo referred In another part of to-day ' s paper . They woro romandod .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 2, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02011858/page/9/
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