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December 8, 1855] THE LEADER. U6g
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THE ORIENT. India.—The Santal insurrecti...
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THE PETITION OF MR, BATES, THE CONVICT B...
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A GAY LADY. An action for criminal conve...
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Victou Emmanuel In England. After Hia Ar...
^ ^ m ^ ma ^ mm ^ m ^^ a ^ mmm ^ amK ^^ amm ^^ m ^ m ^^^^^^^^^^ mm ^^^^ m ^ mation , is to me a proof of the sympathy inspired by the policy I have hitherto pursued—a policy in which it is my intention constantly to persevere . " The close alliance existing between the two most powerful nations of the earth is honourable alike to the wisdom of the sovereigns who govern them and to the character of their people . They have understood how preferable is a mutually advantageous friendship to ancient and ill-defined rivalry . _ This alliance is a new fact in history , and is the triumph of civilisation . Notwithstanding the misfortunes which have weighed upon rny kingdom , I have entered into this alliance , because the house of Savoy ever deemed it to he ita duty to draw the sword when the combat was for justice and for independence . If the forces which I bring to the Allies are those of a state not vast , I bring with them , nevertheless , the influence of a loyalty never doubted , and supported by the valour of an army always faithful to the banners of its kings . " We cannot lay down our arms until an honourahle and therefore durable peace has been secured . This we shall accomplish by seeking unanimously the triumph of true right and the just desires of each nation . " I thank you for the good wishes you this day express for my future happiness and for that of my kingdom . While you thus express yourselves with respect to the future it gives me pleasure to speak of the present , and to congratulate you on the high position attained by Great Britain . This is to be attributed to the free and noble character of the nation , and also to the virtues of your Queen . " The King and his suite left Guildhall a little after two o ' clock . The town was brilliantly illuminated at night . Previous to starting for the City , the King received at Buckingham Palace several deputations , including one from the Lord Mayor , and one from the Presbyterian , Independent , and Baptist bodies , coup led with rather a long discourse on religious liberty . On his return from the City , the King visited Lord and Lady Palmerston at their house on Piccadilly-terra j ; and then started by train for Windsor , wher- there was a dinner party in St . George ' s Hall . . On Wednesday , the King was made a Knight ot the Garter , and on Thursday he departed for Boulogne .
December 8, 1855] The Leader. U6g
December 8 , 1855 ] THE LEADER . U 6 g
The Orient. India.—The Santal Insurrecti...
THE ORIENT . India . —The Santal insurrection is not yet . suppressed . Actions , of more or less importance , continually take place ; and , though the insurgents are constantly defeated , they still give considerable trouble . Beeibhoom remains in their hands . A large body of them attacked a party of the 63 rd , under Captaio Phillips , at Karown , but were defeated with a loss of three hundred in killed aud wounded . A document , purporting to be the confession of Seedoo Maujeo , the leader of the movement , has been published ; and the insurrection is hero attributed , as was at first stated , to the tyranny and extortion of the Bengalee money-lenders . Seedoo says that he Is inspired by tho Deity , whom ho saw descend in the form , of a cart-wheel . The ignorance of the Sautals is very great ; aud it is related that one of our authorities , having taken a number of them , forced them to give security-bonds for good behaviour , which the savages looked upon an " tho Company ' s orders to murder tho Muhajuns . " Kohundil Khan , Chief of Kaudahar , and brother of Dost Mahomed , has died ; and his decease has been followed by civil dissensions among his sons . Dost Mahoinocl contemplates an armed intervention , as ho fours that the etate of disunion now existing may increase the influence of Persia ; but some doubts aro felt as to whether the Dost will really march his forces into the disturbed region . All in quiet on tho north-west frontier ; and in Oude the danger of a contest between tho Mahomedana and tho Hindoos appears to be lessoning , Ameen AH having , according to one account , given up his expedition against tho Hindoo temple , and returned crest-fallen , owing to the defection of his followers ; though , according to another account , ho has sot out . Tho King , it is said , has promised his protection to the Hindoos . Tho titular Hawaii of tho Carnatio , died on the 7 th of October . The embassy to Ava has boon received by tho King with great splendour . Brigadier Mackenzie oontiuues to progress towards recovery . Trade is dull . Japan . —It i « generally believed in India that the treaties recently signed by the Japanese Government with tho American and English CommiHsiouoru are frauds . Tho Tinea Culoutta correspondent assorts that ' trade is no more permitted than bofore . No one is allowed to trade but the Imperial agents , who again will sell only provisions . AH communication with tho interior is prohibited , and , in fact , both nations ara precisely where they wore . It appears from a Dutoh statement ( published in tho Official Gazette of tho Netherlands Jthat all those deceptions
were suggested from the Hague ; that a Dutch official , specially selected , was sent to Japan ; and that he has since acted as a kind of Foreign Secretary to the Imperial Government . These facts are , indeed , admitted by the King himself , whose notes on the treaty have been published ; and they appear to deserve , if not chastisement , at least attention . The Dutch in the East are jealous hi the extreme of Anglo-Saxon influence , and by no means scrupulous in their endeavours to undermine it . M . Dedel ' s cool attempt , in 1852 , to claim the sovereignty of Borneo far this Court is not yet forgotten . " China . —From Shanghai we learn that a formidable piratical fleet has been destroyed to the southward of Wingpo by the English brig Bittern , Captain Vansittart . The pirates made a stout resistance , and the master of the Bittern , Mr . Turner , together with a marine , was killed . Eighteen of our men , moreover , were wounded , several severely ; buttbe whole of the piratical fleet was sunk . Some excitement has been caused at Canton by intelligence of the Imperial force 3 having been defeated by the rebels on the borders of the province . At Hong-Kong , a demand for imports has lately sprung up , and bids fair to increase , if it be not checked by piracy . Egypt . —Several of the engineers appointed to survey the Isthmus of Suez , and to report on the practicability of the proposed canal between the Mediterranean and Red Seas , arrived at Alexandria from France with M . de Lesseps on the 17 th of November . The Commission consists of Messrs . Renaud and Lieusson , en the part of France ; Mr . M'Lean for England ; Monsieur de Negrelli for Austria ; Leutz , for Prussia ; Conrad , for Holland . Mr . Rendel , who was also appointed to represent England , and M . Paleoccapa , on the part of Sardinia , have not arrived . Said Pacha treats the Commissioners with the utmost courtesy . English Commissioners have begun to fix the buoys which are to mark the chaunel at the entrance to the port of Alexandria . Several robberies of specie and goods in transit . to aud from India have lately been committed on the road between Suez aud Cairo ; a fact which , together with certain delays in the passage of the mails from India , have caused the director of the transit , Mr . Lee Green , to lose favour with the viceroy . Price * of provisions have been pushed up extravagantly high , and the port of Alexandria is thronged with merchant vessels . mm
The Petition Of Mr, Bates, The Convict B...
THE PETITION OF MR , BATES , THE CONVICT BANKER . Mr . Bates has had drawn up a memorial to her Majesty , praying for pardon , mainly on the ground j that , though nominally a partner , he was , in fact , but j a head clerk in the firm , and was ignorant to a great extent of the frauds carried on by Strahan and Paul . He entered the banking-houso iu 1820 as a junior clerk . . After being gradually promoted , he was at Christmas , 1841 , upon the retirement of Mr . Robert Snow , invited to become tx partner in his stead , but upon tho distinct understanding that his promotion was not to confer upon him any privilege beyond an increase of his income to £ 800 per annum and of being announced to the world as a partner . He states that during tho whole period of his co-partnership he strictly abided by the arrangement upon which he became partner , and except in tho ordinary routine business of the bank , never possessed any control whatever over the management of tho banking business , either witli respect to tho opening of any large or important account for tho receipt of money , or upon tho occasion of uny considerable advance of money , his duty in either event being to refer the parties to his partners , or himself to report to them aud act upon their instructions . He states that , on tho . occasion of an application by the MossrH . Gandoll for an advance of money , he advised Sir John Paul to refuse , but that tho advance , to tho extent of £ 30 , 000 or £ 40 , 000 , was given ; whereupon ho said to his partner , " Well , Sir John , you may date tho ruin of the house from the moment thoso acceptances aro given . " Mr , Bates then goes on to declare that ho was not in any manner oognisiuit of , or privy or party to , the sale of tho bonds belonging to tho prosecutor , Dr . Griffith , by Sir John Dean Paul , in March , 1854 , and that ho was not informed of it until some tiino after it had tukon place . Ho says that , although it may be urged against him that Ins remaining a member of tho firm for ono moment after ho became acquainted with such fact was a moral weakness on his part , yet ho hopes that the subordinate and comparatively dependent position which ho held , and hi « nutural roluctancj to precipitate tho ruin of hia purtnors , while they had tho opportunity of retrieving the mischief which had boon done , may not bo disregarded . He further states that ho believed tho bonds wore replaced . Iu support of all these allegations , ho roforfl to affidavits , prepared by Strahan and Paul and ready to bo sworn in the Bankruptcy Court , to tho effect that Baton , ulthough a mouilior or partner in tho firm , was not entitled to or intdroHtod in tho profits of tho bank , ho receiving in lieu thereof , a fixed salary of £ 1 , 000 per annum , without having any control ovor , or right or power of interference in , the
management of the affairs of the firm , which were wholly and solely conducted under the direction and authority of Strahan and Paul . On these grounds Mr . Bates aaks her Majesty ' s most gracious pardon . — Globe .
A Gay Lady. An Action For Criminal Conve...
A GAY LADY . An action for criminal conversation was tried in th « Court of Common Pleas on Monday , the plaintiff in which was a Mr . Hawker , and the defendant Sir Henry Seale , Bart ., a major iu the Devon Militia . Mr . Hawker and his wife were married in 1851 ; but unfortunately their tenrpers were irritable , and they would quarrel about the merest trifles with a captiousness worthy of children . Two years after their marriage , they were separated ; and though they came together again shortly afterwards , it was but for a brief period , and they finally parted in the course of 1853 . Mrs . Hawker , however , desired even then to return to her husband , and , in the month of March , 1854 , wrote the following letter to him : — "March 7 , 1854 . —My dear Johnnie , —It is useless nay saying I will not write to you ; I eannot help writing to you to entreat you to live with me again , I am so very wretched . I hardly think you would persist in refusing my request if you could see my sorrow . When you wrote to me ' to implore that I would return to you , or you should go mad , ' I do say that ; but I beg you to forgive me , and have mercy on nae , and come to me . lie generous , dear Johnnie , and forgive . You shall never repent returning . If you will return there shall never be any temper again on my part , and I will do all I can to make you happy , and to win back the affection which seems gone from me . Do listen to me , Johnnie , and believe me , I am so miserable . Let us meet and never name the past . I am sure your mother would rather we lived together than separate if we lived in peace and mutual forbearance . With regard to money matters , 1 am grieved your mother has had so much to pay for us . But , for the future , if you will only live with me , I promise on my side to be as prudent as possible , and if you made me an allowance for dress I cotild not have any bills . 1 want to sell the little carriage , and whab I get for that would nearly clear the expense of getting settled in this house , and I have not any other bills and never wish to havo any again . Do , dear Johnnie , come to me and forgive me as you hope to be forgiven . I will do anything you wish . If you like , let us sell everything we have and repay your mother as far as we can , and then , starting fairly , let us pray God's help , and for the future we maybe very happy ; for , as yet , I do not expect you to love mo as before ; but come , and let me show I love you . —Ever your affectionate wife , Lii . ky M . Hawkeh . " Shortly alter this letter had been written , however , Miv . Hawker became acquainted with Sir Henry Seale ; and the whole course of her affections appeared to fce turned . Sir Henry was a married man with a family ; vet it was shown in evidence that for some months ho kept up a . criminal intercourse with Mrs . Hawker . This appears to have taken place chiefly at the house of a Miss Spurting , at Westhoc-terrace , wlieie Mra . Hawker took apartments , and where Sir Henry waB a coustan visitor , lunching , dining , and spending the evening , and having at length a certain room set apart for him which was culled "Sir Henry ' s dressing-room . Miss Spurliug , in the course of her cross-examination , said , she suspected thnt ' something improper woa coin * on , but , " if she received her rent that was all that concerned her . " Si r Henry would often remain with Mrs Hawker all iha evening , and would then pretend to be let out by ono of tho servants ( who anpears to have been a eonfid » nte ) , hut would immediately steal back on tiptoe , reasoend tho stairs , and pass the night in the house . On one of these occasions , tho fact was discovered by his foot tripping against a step , and causing him to stumble . Sometime * Mrs . Hawker would send down iu the morning for another breakfast-cup , and rnoro broad-aiad-buttcr-cnoug h , one of tho witnesses said , amidst much laughter , tor tluoo or four people . At other times , when Sir Henry called , and was told Mm . Hawker was in her bod-room , ho would reply ( according to the rather »» P ™ bft b ° statement of Mis * Sparling ) , " Oh , very well ; I will ko up to her . " The baronet's military bohIi was one morning discovered , « Mrs . Hawker's Led ; wo mdentations were found on the pillows ; an < « Ull moie unequivocal proof of tho intimacy f' ^^ Z ^ it was revealed to the watchful oycH , of > » g ™ « 3 JJ £ * in tho house . In oouHoqucnoa of t <> m , jured husband not a dotootivo jjohoe « J < £ »« £ f ™ J baronet and the ''"' ^ i ^^^^ ""' ho defence and thoproHont ac . ^ a w »« ^ K a , ul im ba . was that tho ovulouco « og g «« ft verd . ot bio , aud tortfw ^ T ^ lwlvo r , came to a different cSuln , undV-Lmago * * ** •—of wtrs - or % 2 *~ Xniiat n ' ad ^ rr / smoking in a floW with Sir Jlonry Settle ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 8, 1855, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08121855/page/5/
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