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Imperial Parliament. . Monday, April 4. ...
England and Ireland , by which the Postmaster- - General engaged to pay the contractors 105 * out of the revenue of the Post-office , contrary to the inrovisions of the act 17 th and 18 th Victoria , cap . 94 , observing that he concluded the violation of the Act to be not intentional , but the consequence of some blunder . —Sir S . Nortitcote admitted that it ¦ was owing to an oversight . supply . The House then went into a Committee of Supply , -when votes were agreed to for paying off Exchequer Bonds and Bills , and of sums on account for the Civil Services , the Revenue Departments , and the ITavy Estimates , after a discussion of a diversified and miscellaneous character ; among other topics , ^ touching upon the finances of the country , naval expenditure , the form of the estimates , Dover harbour , the naval defences and Channel squadron , and -the conduct of the late Board of Admiralty in relation to the building of large ships and frigates , and -to the protection of our coast , which was defended Ijy Sir C . Wood at considerable length and with a profusion of details—Sir J . Paxington replied to t-his defence , and the debate continued until the -time arrived for closing it . The House adjourned at six o ' clock . Thursday , April 7 . EAST INDU . LOAN BILL ; In the House of Lords on the motion for the « ecbnd reading of this bill , Lord Derby said that the Bouse would look on this bill as a grant on account , which it was necessary to obtain before the dissolu--tion of Parliament , but that a further sum of JE 5 , 000 , 000 would be required . He informed the House that a day of thanksgiving for our successes in India was about to be appointed , and that a vote Of thanks was to be given to Lord Clyde and the -officers and troops under his command . He explained , in answer to Lord Ellenborgugh , that the question » f railway deposits was one not of revenue ^ but of
the purpose of paying off the Indian stock ; fund had now reached the sum of £ 4 , 700 , 000 , and he suggested that the British Government should guarantee interest upon that stock , and thereby they would at once set free the whole of that sum for the present exigency . The real difficulties of the case were to be met , not merely by lightening taxation , but by good government , in order to render tne people content , and so to dispense with the presence of a large military force . —After some farther remarks from the Earl of Albemablb , I ? Earl of Donoxjghmore , and Lord Monteagxe , the bill was read a second time , and , the standing orders , being dispensed with , was afterwards carried through tlie remaining stages and passed . . - ¦ ¦
The Patents for Inventions ( Munitions of War ) Bill and the Common Rights ( War Department ) Bill were read a third time and passed . _ Their lordships then adjourned at half-past eight .
THE STATE OF EUROPE . In the House of Commons Lord Palmerston announced that on Friday night he should call attention to the state of our foreign relations , and ask her Majesty ' s ministers to explain the precise position to be held by England as mediator or negotiator in the pending discussion at Paris , or in the future Congress to be held elsewhere , with respect to the affairs of Italy and Europe in general . The Lords' amendments to the Manor Courts ( Ireland ) Bill were considered and agreed to .
. The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up , and on the vote of 2 , 000 , OOOZ . to pay off Exchequer Bonds , Sir G . Lewis inquired whether the Bonds were to be actuall y paid off or renewed . —The Chancellor of the Exchequer said it wa-s intended to pay them off definitively .--The report was agreed to . . The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply , when votes on account for the remaining Navy Estimates and the Army Estimates were agreed to , after discussion , in which the policy of sending out to India batteries of the Royal Artillery was canvassed . ' . . . 1858
The Lords' Amendments of the Medical Act ( ; Amendment Bill were considered , and in part agreed to . The Tramways ( Ireland ) Bill and the Superannuation Bill were read a third time and passed , after a short conversation on the subject of the latter bill . Certain other bills were read a second time , and the Poor Relief ( Ireland ) Acts Amendment Bill was withdrawn . NEWSPAPERS , ETC ., BILL . In Committee on the Newspapers , & c ., ' Bill , Mr . Estcourt suggested that the bill should be abandoned for the present session , iindertaking , on the part of the Government , that the subject should be considered , and a bill be brought in in the ensuing session . —Mr . Ayrton assented , and the bill was virtually withdrawn . The Combination of Workmen Bill passed though Committee .
THE IRISH YACHT CLUB . Mr . Cogan called attention to a letter from the Admiralty to the Royal Western Yacht Club of Ireland , dated the 26 th of June , 1858 , withdrawing the privilege of wearing the White Ensign from that Club , although granted them by Royal Warrant , dated the 6 fch of February , 1832 , and confirmed by letters of the Admiralty of the £ ( Qth of July , 1849 , and the 29 th of April , 1853 , and ratified by vote of the House of Commons the 29 th of July , 1853 ; and moved for copies of papers and documents . —After a short conversation , in which Lord Burgiilby , Mr . Lygon , Sir J . Graham , Lord Lovainb , and Colonel French took part the moition was agreed to . The House adjourned at ten minutes past seven , o ' clock .
account . He then proceeded to detail the steps -which had been taken to reduce the enormous ^ military expenditure . The number of Europeans of all arms in India was 112 , 000 , to which a native army of about 320 , 000 , inclusive 6 f police , was joined . The native army at the present moment exceeded by 50 , 000 men the native army which existed before the mutiny . Orders had been sent out -to reduce as far as possible the native troops , and to ^ prohibit new levies . Of the eighty-five regiments of Queen ' s troops ten were to be sent home ; but this could nofc . be done aC once , as - ifc would be attended with great expense , and would derange the estimates by ! increasing the expenditure for ¦
troops in ¦ this country . He would not express an opinion on the nuinber of European troops necessary far a peace establishment , but if , as had been proposed , 80 , 000 Europeans and a native force of 200 , 000 were to be kept up , it would require an expenditure of at least 15 , 0 Q 0 , 000 Z . a-year;—a sum which the revenue of India could not be expected to pay ; and therefore a great reduction of those numbers would be necessary . The reductions which were about to be mada would be a cessation of extensive field operations and extraordinary commands , a diminution of the native army and of the British troops in India . This would require great caution , and must not be done in too great haste , as it would be
necessary for some time to keep a large force in India . — The Duke of Argyix wished to have the principle strongly and . at onco enunciated , that under no « ircumstances should the British exchequer be made responsible for Indian debts . This he insisted upon , . as a measure of justice both to England and India ; the creditors of the Government in Hindostan having , as he observed , lent their money exclusively upon the credit of the local . government , obtained a correspondingly high rate of interest in consequence . — Xord EtxENBOROuem entirely agreed with the Duke m £ Argyll on the question of guarantees , not so much as regarded England as for the injury it would inflict on India . In an exceptional case , like this Loan Bill , however , it might be advisable to extend the protection of a guarantee . It had been' stated that the sum of 40 , 000 , 000 J . had been guaranteed for
railroads , and charged on the revenue of India . He protested against such a system as that ,-for it had saddled the Government of India with a dead loss of 0 , 000 , 000 ? . AU tho present financial difficulties arose out of those railroads , and ho trusted that the Government would put an end to the present state of things . Ho regretted that tho Government , while thoy wore about it , hud not asked for more money , for in finance , as in war , time was everything . Ho thought tho Homo Government had some reason to ramplain of a want of foresight in the managoawent of tho Indian finances , and in some measure * ho Govornor-Goneral was responsible . Ho sng-« o « tpd that 100 , 000 . persons should , bo albruok off the roll of tho native troops . Tho European force , ihowGvor , ought to bo double what it was before the -mutiny . Ho informed tho Houso that a fund had boon set apart by the Aot of 1833 to accumulate for
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were , 16 th inst . — -On Tuesday the petition for a winding-up order presented against the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company Okiinited ) was dismissed . --Messrs . Oak and Snow , bankers , of Blandford Eorum , whose certificate meeting has been adjourned severai times for the purpose of enabling them to supersede the adjudication , offered , with that view , a payment which , with the dividend already made , would amount to a composition of 6 Si in the pound on their joint debts . The proposal was rejected by a majority of the creditors . —William Lemon Oliver , the notorious stockbroker of Austin-friars , who is undergoing his sentence of 20 years' imprisonment , passed his last examination ; . —A winding-up order was made against the European and American Steam Shipping Company ( Limited ) .
A house in Gravel-lane has been on fire ten times in the last two months . There was too much method apparent in such a succession of outbreaks for the cause to be classed as accidental ; and from the resulting suspicions a woman named Emily Elizabeth Fairburn was charged at Southwark Police-court with wilfully setting fire to the house-The prisoner stands in the relation of daughter-in ^ law to the occupant of the house , and the evidence was designed to show that she possessed a latch key fitting the door , and , admitting herself by means of this , had made these several attempts to destroy the house . In defence , the accused denied the charge , declaring that it was a conspiracy against her . Mr . Burcham , however , committed her for trial .
William Butt , landlord of thelving s Arms , Dukestreet , Grosvenor-square , answered the charge at Marlborough-street Police-court , of allowing his house to be used as a common betting-house , and four other persons the charge of assisting to conduct the same ; in addition to these there were about two dozen more connected with the proseciir tion , charged with being present in the house while betting was going on . The ease being proved , Mr . Beadon fined Butt 50 Z ., three , of the others 201 . each , and di scharged all the rest ;
At the Central Criminal Court , oil Wednesday , Robert Newman , a pipe maker , was found guilty of attempting to murder his wife by attacking her with a hatchet as she lay asleep in bed . ' Sentence of death was recorded against the prisoner . —John Harris , a clerk , was acquitted of a charge of feloniously shooting at Nicholas Henwood , his employer . In the New Court , Ambrose Ilaynes , solicitor , was indicted , with three persons of the name of Bennett , who tlid not appear , for . having conspired to deto deafness in ten
fraud , by pretending cure minutes . As the case rested entirely on the uncorroborated testimony of two accomplices , the jury at once acquitted the prisoners . —The charge ot . hbel against the proprietor of the East London Observer was postponed , —James Thomas was fined f > OZ . for a libel aguinst aliiverpool merchant . At the Middlesex sessions , William Ilcathcoto was found guilty of fraudulently obtaining money from persons advertising for situations , under pretence that he was able to procure them what they wanted . The prisoner was scntcuccd to four years
penal servitude . . .. ~ A summous granted at the instance of the Commissioners of Sewers , against tho City or London , was answered at the Mansion-house , before Mr . Alderman Cubitt , on Wednesday . The ground of compl & nt was , that a sum of £ U 2 15 s , 5 d ., expe nses incurred by the Commissioners in executing certain works which ought to have been done , by the uiy , had not been paid on demand . There was some ditferenco of opinion as to tho construction to bo pub upon certain clauses in tho Sowers Acts , but tius being settled in favour of the City , the ense u iw adjourned , that the account might bo modified in nccprdanee with the decision . „ „„ . „ A person calling himself tho Rev . Charles Geary , nnd whoso clerical toilet was faultless , lias been finally examined at tho Lambpth Police-court on JJ fllranra - of fraudulently obtaining money irorn vni i > us lnetltal
GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE . COURTS . At the Guildhall , on Saturday , the Board of Conservancy summoned the City Gas Company on a charge of allowing noxious fluid to flow into the Thames . Dr . Letheby gave evidence that tho fluid was noxious , while Professor Taylor , who was callo 4 for the defence , entertained an opposite opinion . Tho magistrates decided in favour of tho company . Another gross act of Vandalism has been perpetrated in Marylobono , this time at tho Marylobono
parish church . Some miscreant effected an entrance into the church , and destroyed a beautiful painting , by Benjamin West , and defaced several of tho monuments . Groat indignation is felt by tho parishioners , and a reward of 150 J . is ofierod for tho discovery oi tho offender . At tup Courb of Bankruptcy , on Monday , a further hearing was given to tho application for a certificate by Messrs . Bchlosingcr , Sohleaingor , and Parfltt , drysaltors and general merchants , of Baainghallatrect . Tho proceedings occupied the entire day ,
persons in support ot a charitable »« an jj iad no existence , and sentenced by Mr . w uois u > three months imprisonment with hard liiboui . James Clark and Joseph Smith , said to belong to a gang who commit extensive depredations on " " river , woro charged at Lambeth r ° l » oo-0 O " n LV * a having stolon a boat , a largo quantUy ot oats , » number of sacks , and other things . Tho mUoieia were taken in tho aot oflanding tho oats , \ v Uicn iwu been carried off from a bargo nt Quoonhltlio . *» " Elliott oommlttod both tho men for trial . At tho Central Criminal Court , ton Thursday , Frederick Shaclsleford , soho & lmastor , ploadotl gm J to ombe ' jsssllng tho sum of 122 ? ., and other amins . «» J proporty of his master . The prlsonor l > J ° JJ master of an Industrial school at WestniInsto , «»» absconded with tho money , which was tho V ™™ w > of tho boys' earnings . Sentence , tliroo years "onw sorvitudo .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 9, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09041859/page/6/
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