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Leader Office , Saturday , August 8 . LAST OTGBT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . The business in this House was confined to the forwarding a number of Bills through various stages , with ¦ very little discussion . The House adjourned at twenty minutes to seven .
HOUSE OF . 'COMMONS . The House held a morning sitting . rUtOQHEDA ELECTION ' . The Report of the Committee on the Drogheda Election Petition -was brought up , and it was stated that Mr . McCann was duly elected ; aud that riotous proceedings had taken place on the day of nomination , and . it did not appear that proper precautions to secure good order had been taken by the authorities . . The New Zeajcajstb Loajs Guaeantee Bill and the Sale of Waste Land ( New Zealand ) Bill were read a third time and passed , as was the New Zealand Government Bill . The Metropolitan Police Station Bill was read a third time and passed .
- The Dtjlwich College Bill and the Dunbar Harbour Loan Bill were considered , and ordered to be read a third time . The sitting was suspended at twenty minutes to one o ' clock until six , when the House resumed .
DUBLIN ELECTION . The Committee in the Dublin Election Petition reported that Mr . Grogan and Mr . Vance were duly returned at the last election , and that promises of money to vote were held out to freemen of the , city of Dublin , but not with the knowledge of the sitting members . THE EUPHRATES ROUTE TO INDIA . Mr . Sotheean Estcourt , who had a motion on the paper to call attention to the subject of adopting the route of the Euphrates Valley to India , postponed it in consequence of the absence of Lord Palmerston .
TROOPS AT BOMBAY AND MADRAS . In answer to JUr . W . Vansittart , Mr . Verxon Smith said that regiments had been sent to Bombay and Madras Presidencies to supply the place of those which had been sent on to Bengal . A large force was also being concentrated at Point-de-Galle , Ceylon , to be at the disposal of the Governors of Bombay and Madras , besides which a clue proportion of the artillery which had been sent out to India would be stationed at those Presidencies .
CONSOLIDATION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW . A series of bills consolidating the criminal law , which had come down from the House of Lords , and stood for second reading , were withdrawn by the Government . THE PARLIAMENTARY OATHS COMMITTEE . Mr . Newdegate complained that in appointing the committee to consider the statute relating to Parliamentary oaths , the phrase , ' gentlemen of the long robe , ' was a very extensive one , and he wished to know if it applied to all barristers in the House , or only to such as were actually in practice—the list only contained I he names of the nominated members . —The Speaker said that the standing orders of the House had been fully complied with in the nomination of the committee . ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW . THE ASSIZES .
In answer to Mr . Warren , Sir J . Pakington said th . nt the Report of the Commission to inquire into the Administration of the Common Law Courts and the future arrangements of the Aasizea had been signed ; and there was a recommendation to alter and modify the present arrangement of the Assizes . THE CHIMNEY-POTS OF SOMERSET HOUSE . THE DRAWING-ROOMS AT ST . JASIES ' S PALACE . la answer to Mr . Stafford , Sir Benjamin Hall
said that no sufficient trial had been made of Mr . Binny ' s new chimney-pots in Somerset House to enable him to state that they would be adopted . "With regard to any expenditure on St . James ' s Palace for the bettor convenience of persons attending her Majesty ' s Drawingrooms , no estimate could bo made without application to Parliament . At the last drawing-room , arrangements had been made by which no inconvenience was suffered , and it was not at present intended to make nny further alteration .
TUB DIVORCE BILL . The House then wont into committee on this bill , resuming at clause 16 . Tho discussion in committee occupied the remainder of the sitting .
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THE PRINCIPALITIES DIFFICULTY . It ie stated ( on the assurance of despatches from Constantinople , dated August 5 th ) that M . Thouvenel has again threatened a rupture of diplomatic relations , in consequence of tho refusal of the Sultan to reciil tho Knimaknn of Moldavia . TJio Sultan haa declared that ho will co mmunicate directly with the Emperor of tho l'xanoli by an autograph letter . A tologi'Aphio message from the samo city , dated tho Ctli , aaya : — " Tho Porto having refused to accede to M . Thouvonol ' s demand for tho annulment—immediate , absolute ,
and without examination- —of the Moldavian elections , he has broken off di plomatic relations with the Turkish Government , and to-day , at half-past twelve , the flag of the French Embassy was hauled down . It is not yet known whether the Ministers . of Russia , Prussia , and Sardinia , -who have threatened to follow the example of their colleague , will do so . "
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THE CONTINENT . Two hundred houses have been destroyed by fire at Galata . The establisfcnent of the Saews Frangaises was saved . The tribes of the MutuaKs have pillaged the Christians in the town of Sour . M . de Lesseps , French Consul at Beyrout , has gone , to the spot to demand a public reparation of the outrage . Russia ha 3 made an application to the Porte with a view to such a modification of the Treaty of Paris as ¦ will enable her to employ a larger number of vessels of war to carry on her present operations on the coast of Circassia . A serious affair has taken place at Isalatavia in the Caucasus between the Russian troops and the main body of the forces of Schamyl , in which the latter were defeated , with the loss of four hundred killed . The Russians had eight men killed and forty-seven wounded .
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Crystal Palace . —Return of admissions , including season tickets , for six days ending Friday , August 7 th , 55 , 859 .
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There is no learned maa but -will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then ., it be profitable for him to read , -why snotild xt not , at least , be tolerableforhisadversary to write?—Milton .
The Duchy Of Lancastek. (To The Editor O...
THE DUCHY OF LANCASTEK . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) August 5 , 1857 . Sir , —The energetic manner in which you have followed up , with a public spirit and feeling of justice my endeavours to bring under the notice of Parliament the subject in which I have been engaged , induces me to call your attention to the following facts : — Mr . Coningliam , the honourable Member for
Brighton , . applied to the House of Commons on 19 th May to be allowed to appoint an ordinary Committee of fifteen to inquire into my petition for an investigation of the proceedings of certain high functionaries of the Puch y of Lancaster , in first ' preventing me from exercising the rights , powers , and privileges of my office of Auditor , and ( afterwards ) in superseding me by a near connexion of the Receiver-General to audit that officer ' s accounts for Parliament . '
This Petition called in question the acts of Lord Belper , Earl Granville , and the Earl of Harrowby , who had been Chancellors of the Duchy—also the proceedings of the Receiver-General , his deputy , and the Clerk of the Council . The opposing powers would assent only to a Committee of Jive members , and on condition that they were not to be appointed by Mr . Coningham . This Select Committee have published a Report on the subject , but without it being accompanied and confronted by the evidence upon which it profeeBes to have been drawn up , although I have protested against such a course being adopted when a limited number of copies of the evidence have , for some weeks , been printed for the Committee .
The evidence , which the Chancellors and other functionaries of the Duchy have put forward in attempting to justify their endeavours to deprive the Auditor of the means of checking their proceedings , have been merely tho expression of their own opinions by which they have asserted that the Chancellor of the Duchy is ' autocratic' and , even , if he required tho Auditor to sign a document containing a fraud , he ought to do so . My evidence on the contrary has , throughout , been
supported by the production either of the correspondence , Acts of Parliament , Charters , Patents or other documents , and by tho legal opinion of Sir Fit ? Roy Kolly that the proceedings of tho Duchy Officials , in preventing mo from being present at the Council of the Duchy and interfering with the functions of my office , have been illegal . The Committee have , however , ahufc their oyes to these facts nud acted only on tho unsupported statements of tho noblemen and other officials of tho
Uucby . I therefore ask , and trust , that as I have had , nnd still have , to contend upon my own resources against what is daily termed to me tho 4 overpowering influence' nnd combinations which havo been brought to bear against mo , you will not allow your judgment
to be overruled by the Beport of the Committee ; but , that you will form your opinion of the matter on the evidence itself . ¦ ¦ ¦« ¦ Throughout the whole of the Bxaniitiatioii X wpfl pressed by the Committee , but more paptipularjhr fey the Chairman , to draw inferences from tb , e &^ 0 , £ pA » t forward in Evidence , unt il , at the risk of giving offence , I positively refused to commit myself to any other statements than Jfacfe , - after which the Ghaus * man framed some of his questions as inferences . Tp . e Report , which avoids noticing the evidence I have produced to prove separately each paragraph of m # Petition , now throws its whole Weight to prejudice the facts by alluding to them as inferences on my
This matter cannot be allowed to rest , and I hope you will exercise your power in directing public attention to the Evidence , and in procuring a searching investigation into the Management of these Ducal Estates for some years back . I am , Sir , Your most obedient servant , Francis Robert BbrtoIjACci . 5 , Cornwall-terrace , St . George ' s-road , Pimlico . p . S . —The Committee was composed of Sotheran Estcourt , Esq ., ( Chairman ) , Member for North . Wiltshire ; Lord Harry Vane , Member for the County of Durham , South ; Viscount Godencn Member for the West Biding of Yorkshire ; James Hans Hamilton , Esq ., Member for the County of Dublin ; and Thomas William Br amston , ± iSq ., Member for South Essex .
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A HARD CASE . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ~ ) gIR _ a case came under my especial observation a few years since , involving a judicial decision yvlncnl have always considered to have been most false and unjust . The national schoolmaster was accused by a girl , at the instigation of her father ( a policeman ) , of an aggravated assault ; he was committed , and convicted under Chief Justice Jervis , and sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour . Immediately after the apprehension of the accused by the father , he went to two houses to obtain corroboration of his daughter ' s statement but met with a direct contradiction . Throughout the parish
generally the charge was , and is to this day , considered altogether afalse one . Memorials signed by three-fourths of twelve hundred householders were sent to the Home Office , his wife appealed to the judge , the place of the prisoner's birth also forwarded memorials , the prisoner himself petitioned the Home Office and Quarter Sessions for further inquiry , but all to no purpose . I applied personally to the Home Office and by letter to the judge , but with a similar result , and the j ury also tried their best for a further inquiry by a memorial . The injustice still continues ; two girls who gave evidence in favour of the prisoner were treated as perjured ; more evidence that was forthcoming but not called for would have confirmed them : and the uncorroborated testimony of the prosecutrix availed over all . I had of my own
knowledge testimony that would have gone far to prove the girl unworthy of credit , it was not called for . The policeman continues in office and has been recently made a sergeant . Endeavours were made to convict the girl of perjury ; a true bill was given by the grand jury , but on coming on . for trial , Baron Alderson would not allow it to proceed . I own the case does appear on the surface a difficult one to deal with , but , intimately acquainted aa I am with all the parties , I have no hesitation in saying the charge ia a cross act of perjury . I have neither spared time nor expense to obtain a reinvestigationj a barrister of twenty years' standing has had all the papera before him , and is of my opinion ; the chaplain and governor of the gaol also , a magistrate and M . P . of the c »« nty , who hoard the first trial , satisfied of the falseness oi the charge , tried for further inquiry , and contributed
towards the expenses of a second trial , but without effect , and thus the matter now rests . Still I am not satisfied , and I wrote some time since requeflting acceee to the papers that have been presented to the Home Office , in order to copy and publish them , but ¦ was denied . However , I have sufficient papers by me and others forthcoming to make out a good cane for publication , and I hope some day to do it , bn . t X muet wait a bit ; the expenses attendant on the above were not light , the master was but a poor nuiu , so that from first to lust my responsibilities in . the matter were little Jobs than 100 / ., which for a curate are not easily overcome Should you think uny thing more of this communication and could uolp in bringing about an investigation , I should Xoei tmJy
thankful . I am , Sir , yours faithfully , W . J Brqokb Steven's . Assistant Curate . Suttonwithfluld , Notts , August 0 , 1857 . p . S . —I have lind ucoentcan years' experience as a curate .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08081857/page/11/
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