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Leader Office, Saturday, April 11th. THE...
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Darlington Entertainments.—There Have Be...
there are few will deny it—I say again , the actor's 5 s > aa » oble 'an art , when rightly employed , as can engage the faculties , mental and physical , of man . " He aleo > referred to the great service which good acting may render to the cause of education and progtess—ia trath which he had learnt from his experience during the past thirteen years , " passed in a somewhat peculiar -position . " — Mr . Buckstone , in alluding , in the course of Ms speech , to the patronage of the drama by the Queen , said : — - " Believe me , I feel proud to declare this -ffveniug , and before such jan assembly , that a demonstration of the small amount given to a certain actor , oil > a recent occasion , for his services there , had nothing whatever to do with the generosity of the
Court , or the director of its theatricals . ( Cheers . ) A liberal sum is allowed for these performances . I . know , as . regards myself , I have always been well and sufficiently remunerated . And the receipt by this actor of the -eraall payment , which he presented to a police poor-box , was a question with which her Majesty had nothing to do . ( Che & rs . ) In these sectarian times , the performer ought to be too proud and too grateful that his royal mistress is pleased to encourage his art in her own . halls , than seek by an exhibition of doubtful taste to question the liberality of a kind patroness ,, who had only the interests of the drama in view when she invited the actors to give a ' taste of their quality' in her own palace . " ( Cheers . ) Mr . Buckstone Laving expressed a fear that their trustee , Mr . Dickens , would have been off during the last few ¦ weeks electioneering-, that . gentleman , in returning
thanks for his health , said : — " God forbid that he should have any electioneering designs on any constituency ¦ whatever . His way of life , his means of usefulness in life , such as they were , had "been long ago chosen , and he had no intention of canvassing for any success beyond that which he had already achieved : —beyond the approbation of that distinguished circle which expanded behind him" ( the ladies on the dais ) " or that of which he had a dim perception in the clouds above him ! ' ( the ladies in the gallery ) . Mr . Phelps in replying to the toast of his health , gratefully accepted the general acknowledgment of the value of the actor ' s profession . He mentioned , however , that this favourable feeling was not universal , as , at a boarding-school to which he had sent his daughter , some of the pupils were removed because the principal had consented to receive the daughter of an actor .
Extensive . and Destructive Fjlre at Leeds . t—Between one and two o ' clock on Thursday morning , the premises of Messrs . R . and J . Harrison , mustard and chicory manufacturers , Jack-lane , Holbeck , Leeds , were discovered to be on fire , and before the arrival of the fire-engines the flames had extended so rapidly , that all efforts to save the main building were ineffectual , and the machinery and stock were entirely destroyed . The damage will probably exceed 5000 ? . Suicide .- —llr . Samuel Wilkes , a clerk at the Sun Fire Office , has drowned himself in the Serpentine out of a fear that lie would he unable to perform the duties consequent on a promotion he had recently had . He has left a mother behind him .
NajionaIi Chara-CTeristics . —It was on a day during spring that we drove to call on some French friends who had bought a country villa near Florence . You approached the house by a grove of cypress trees , interspersed with statues And jeta d ' eau . Before it was a terrace commanding ; a splendid vievr of Florence , and the neighbouring hills . The contadini were busy ploughing the filda , with my black-eyed friends the oxen . The fields of fresh green-corn wore bright with brilliant flowers , and wo stood and gazed entranced at the exceeding beauty . Presently , Monsieur and Madame camo out to welcome us , together with their sister and niece . The ladies all wore coloured handkerchiefs over their
hoada , and there was a grace and gaiety in their welcome that we never use in England . I say use , becauso I will not believe that wo uro either naturally morose * Or ungraceful , but wo do not always think it worth our while -to bo gay and pleasant to those from whom wo aspect nothing in return ; and so , instead of dispensing b * ightn « 8 B ana gladness to those with whom we corne in contact , there . is generally nothing more still * and boring than a * morning call' in England . This ia never the oanfl abroad . ^ I do not remember ever having made a vUUb ' . UlAtt X Qltlnnf . lAn ^ TA fhn ltAiinn Unn ^ Un nn , l iMi ! y « U l . nH Vuit that 1 did not leave the house huppior and brighter
tbanl entered it . One of the greatest characteristics of uotb to « French and Italians is their perfect ease ; there ia < no attempt to hide . anything from you , they do not try to appear what they aro not . Poverty ia no dis-SrAee-nchos are no honour . Thero seems no attempt on-ibo part of one dase to tread on the heels of another , Wll ^ i Milatl 0 " oC flor ™>* ^ d master 5 tenant and SflSlJ * lCr C 0 " fca ( Uni «»« lBig . ior ; shopkeeper andgontlQtnan ; is . much more gracefully and happily Busta . usd . They arc « lwayB friendly together , and you ?™« ??' h ? \ £° T ° ^ e ^ fulueas of tho dilferenoo it has pleased God , in this world only , to make between yon . —Uu , n Abroad ; or , Glimpses of Art and
iNTRHicariNa Discovicmra . —During tho past week sorno very interesting discoveries have lieen mrwlo iii Danny l \ ivk , HuvHtniorpoint . Tl » o remains of a Uomtxn villa have been brought to light on a comm : > n < lhi K situation , near this lvoman . camp on Wolstiuibury-hill
consisting of a regularly built Roman wall , indicating the building of which . it would seeun to form a portion to have been about sixty feet either way . In addition to this many fragments of articles ^ such » as Samian ware , flue iiles of a hot vapour bath , amphorae , glass , iand nails , have also been discovered .- —Brighton Gazette . Fanaticism op the Austrian Clergy-- —An emigration fever is now raging in the Tyrol , and many of the mountaineers have gone to Peru , because the Ultramontane keepers of their consciences have told them that no good Catholics ought to pitch their tents in countries which , like America , are piincipally inhabited , by Protestants . The increasing desire to emigrate is said to have given serious annoyance to this Government . The fire-and-ilanie . sermons of the Jesuit
missionaries have turned the brains of two girls —a servant and a seamstress . The poor creatures , who have become monomaniacs , talk of nothing but the loss of their immortal souls , and of the . hell to which they are doomed . About a fortnight since , the proprietress of one of the first hotels in the suburb of Lcppoldstadt died suddenly of apoplexy , and the priest who had been sent for expressod his indignation that he had been called from his bed to attend a corpse . A day or two afterwards , a Jesuit missionary , in the Church of St . John , began to preach at the relatives of the deceased , who had been renowned for her kindness to the poor , but such a murmur of indignation arose that the reverend gentleman was obliged to change his theme . —Times Vienna Correspondent .
A . Diligence Ovjsbtukjje-d .: —Tie journey of a company of Spanish actors ,-who were on their way from Madrid to perform at the Folies Nouvelles in Paris , has been , attended with . a melancholy accident . The diligence in which they were travelling was overturned near the frontier into a ravine . Two female dancers were wounded in the head , and a third , had her right arm broken . The guard was killed . Wassacee of Frexcii Settlers in "New Caledonia . —Eleven Frenchmen , settlers at Morari , New Caledonia , have been murdered by the native ? , together with fourteen or fifteeiv Kanakas in their service .
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Leader Office , Saturday , April 11 th . THE NEUFCHATEL QUESTION . The Swiss J 3 ttnd gives a statement of the conditions which Dr . Kern brought forward at the £ fth sitting of the Conference , as the only bases on which Switzerland would consent to treat . They are opposed , in almost every particular , to the demands made by Prussia .
The Continent. "I Am Enabled To State, O...
THE CONTINENT . "I am enabled to state , on the best authority , " says the Globe Paris correspondent , " that the amnesty which is to ; crown the visit of the Empeior Francis Joseph to fctungary will be of the most complete description ; it will alone exclude Louis Kossuth . " The Republican party in France has definitively decided on its candidates in the approaching elections . In the provinces , Liberals of local importance will be chosen in preference to names more familiar to the
nation , but whose influence is more of a moral than of a practical character . In Paris , the best men of the party will be brought forward , and the election of one or two of the candidates is nearly certain . The presence of a little opposition in the Legislative Chamber will render immense service to that insipid body . The candidates for Paris will be Cavaignac , Carnot , Bethniont , Dufaure , Guinard , and Goudchaux . In Lyons , Jules Favre will be put forward , and probably elected . —Globe .
Fall Of Houses (Yesterday). A Very Lamen...
FALL OF HOUSES ( YESTERDAY ) . A very lamentable catastrophe occurred yesterday ( Friday ) morning in a court , called Russell-place , turning out of Little Russell-street , Covent-garden . Tho houses there ( five in number ) were in a very dilapidated state , and wero being pulled down . Somo workmen were employed upon a wall at the buck , which fell down shortly before eleven o ' clock , burying several persons in the ruins . Four men were drawn out , —one dead , and tho other throo frightfully injured . It is feared that one of these will die .
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Tins Bishopric ov Noawrcir . —Although tho bishopric of Norwich will not bo filled up immediately , wo . have every reason to share in the anticipation that Mr Pelham will be the successor of Dt , Ilinda in that see . — Globe , ExTRNsrvK Finis at Poplar . —Between tho hours of three and four o ' clock yesterday morning , a iiro , involving great destruction of property , broke out on tho premises of Mr . Broadntair . s , dnirymnn , Alpha-roiul , Millwnll , Poplar . The flnmofi progressed so rnpidly that tho grenteut difficulty nroso ns * to tho removal of tho horses , cows , and other nuimals , which would have ; perished but for tho assistance of tho neighbour * . The tenement was burnt down , and tho adjoining buildings wort ) considerably dmnnged by Iiro . and water . Mr . Broadstuirfl is not insured .
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There is no leartied man but will confess he r ^ - much profited by reading controversies his \ £ t ~ awakened and his judgmentsharpened ! ' If tht ? " be profitable for him to . re ad .,- -why shouldit noi " ^ Leaat , betolerable for b . is adversary ^ wSe j-M uio ,
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THE LAWS RELATING TO THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN " . VXJL - ( To the Editor of t 7 ie Leader . ^ S ^~ Jri ™ Y last letter I discussed at some length the first clause of the petition relati ve to the Pro perty of Married "Women . I now come to the second which afBrms , " that it is usual , when a rlau"tter marries in these ( the upper and middle ) ranks to make , if possible ,. some distinct pecuniary provi ' for her and her children , and to secure the money thus set aside by a cumbrous machinery of trusteeship , proving that few parents are willing entirely to entrust the welfare of their offspring to the irresponsible power of xi husband , to the chances of his character , his wisdom , and his success in a profession . This second clause establishes that the principle ¦ upo n which , the petition was drawn up is virtually conceded by society , although it has not as yet worked into the common law . Whatever may be said on all hands of the trust which a wife ought to repose ia a husband , it is an undeniable fact that those . who ,-in . the present state of female education , or . by right of some prerogative , consider that it is their place to judge for her , concerning her pecuniary affairs , very rarely do allow her , were she ever , so much disposed to do so , to fling all the chances of pecuniary ease
into the same boat with , her husband ' s fortunes , and that were they to do so , society would turn round and stigmatize them as carele & s arid unfeeling for a daughter ' s interests . The common sense of the world is at variance "with the sentiment of the world ; and those who would require from the individual woman a complete renunciation of all ideas of meum and tuum , require that the father shall step in and rigorously fulfil for her that attention to the hard facts of life , of which she must be wholly innocent and oblivious . Hear 'what the father would say to himself , and to the world : —
"My daughter ' s my daughter the whole of her life , and I am not justified in placing her , unable to work , and perliaps the mother oT several children , wholly at the mercy of some one whom I may oaly have known six months . If she chooses to give him the interest of her fortune I cannot help that , but I ought certainly to feel s ure that he cannot take the capital without her knowledge and against her will . Besides , he [ might faiJ , and then wliere would she and the children be ? " And so he takes his 5000 / . or his 20 , 000 / ., and ties it up tightly under care of the most trustworthy person he can think of , and dies under the comfortable assurance that if ¦ the trustee neither dies nor runs -away , his money is safe from his son-in-law ! And I contend that for a
father not to do this , would in general be thought to imply weakness , or culpable neglect ; and that in the easeof commercial houses , inen clearly understand that th < sy are trading witli the husband ' s and not with the wife ' s property , and that few creditors , evea in cases of aggravated failures , would be so cruel as to rejoice in seeing innocent women and children involved in a common ruin , since , be it remembered , they have not contributed to speculations , _ and tha . t the chances of their extrication are infinitely less . It is somewhat analogous to cases of partnership of limited liability , where the basis of a commercial agreement is a priori laid down ; and it will be better for trade when no confusing ideas of the possibility
of the wife ' s fortune being responsible cross tlie judgment of those who have dealings with the husband . It is said to be u scandalous sight , when n man who has not wherewith to pay his creditors , lives in affluence upon the fortune of hie wife ; but which is worse , to see a man indebted to the affection of his wife for rescue from a portion ( and only a portion ) of . the « vil and social disrespect ho has brought upon himself , or to see her children in neod of bread and education for want of a simple unde rstaadiug beforehand that she had a right to secure their welfare , , whatever might occur to him ? Far a mother who brings children into tlio world has n positive
right to demand of society the power to provide lor them , without beitij ? placet ! at the mercy ol" the spoiler or the improvident . To her belongs the pain and the trouble , tho anxiety , and tho largest portion , of moral responsibility to God in regard to their training . All the world admits , nay , insists ^ upon this as a matter of religion and sentiment . To li ^ r , therefore , suruly , must bu accorded tlic very limited right to keep her own and to work for them ; not , mar k me , to take anybody else ' s money , Government or other , but to work i ' or them herself , ia a slate of society where , in apite of many changes for tliu bettor , the struggle- is enormous for tlus iiciiuiluua mother ol
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Leader (1850-1860), April 11, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11041857/page/10/
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