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further sum of £ 5000 , and bills , apparently available at any moment , to the amount o £ 12 , 000 . Some o these ate certainly forgeries , but several appear to be genuine . After several examinations before the magistrates , ne was committed to take his trial at the next Liverpool
. , „ Louisa Susan Hartley , the young woman accused of administering to her father a quantity of vitriolic acid , in his coffee , with the intention of poisoning him , was tried at the Central Criminal Court on Saturday . It turned out in the course of the case that the prosecutor , who had been in the habit of beating his daughter m the most brutal manner , had been at very great pains in getting up the case against her . Mr . Justice Cresswell , in his address to the jury , said the case res ' ed almost entirely upon the evidence" of the father , who appeared to have set about the task of getting up the evidence in
the most cool and systematic manner . From his own evidence it appeared , that the poison must have been placed in the coffee before his eyes ; and although he stated that he was asleep at the time , it was certainly a very hazardous e xperiment to put the poison in the cup of coffee before the very eyes of the person to whom it was to be administered . The jury returned a verdict of " Not guilty . " It was stated that the prisoner would be taken under the charge of the Ladies' Committee of the gaol , and that some measures would be taken for her future welfare . _ _
Charles Jopling , charged with endeavouring to administer chloroform to his sweetheart , whom he has since married , was brought up on Tuesday , and no additional evidence being forthcoming , was discharged . The deficit in the balance-sheet of an Admiralty officer now deceased , and who held a responsible post in a Government establishment abroad , amounts , we understand , to £ 8000 . — United Service Gazette . The Uloerston Advertiser of Thursday last announces that the trustees of the savings bank in that town have discovered a defalcation to the amount of £ 828 in the accounts . No loss will , however , accrue to the depositorsas the bond of the defaulter is for £ 800 .
, A foreigner , apparently about forty years of age , applied to the doorkeeper of the Duke of York ' s column for permission to ascend to the top , and , having paid sixpence , went up , accompanied by the usual guide . He walked round the gallery several times , but there was nothing remarkable in his manner beyond the fact of his being unable apparently to speak English . After having remained in the gallery some minutes with the stranger , the guide retired to the doorway : he hud scarcely Teached the door ere he heard a slight noise , and , on
looking round , he saw the man from whom he had just parted in the act of precipitating himself head foremost from the gallery . In his fall he carne in contact with the Y > ase of the column , whence his body rebounded on to the flagstones , where it was found perfectly lifeless , and fractuied in almost every limb . From the evidence given at the inquest it appeared that the name of the unfortunate gentleman was M . Henri Stephan . He had been a horn-player in Mr . Lumley ' p orchestra , and had formerly suffered very much from a flow of blood to the head . Such a tendency would be greatly aggravated by ascending to such a height as that from which he threw himself . Tup jury , in returning a verdict of " Temporary insanity , " recommended that iron bars should be placed round the gallery , so as to prevent the recurrence of any similar catastrophe .
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There is scarcely any novelty to report either at the Opera-houses or theatres this week . At the lloyal Italian Opera novelty lias been rendered unnecessary , by the continued attraction of the Huguenots and Zora ; and at her Majesty ' s Theatre the most hopeful part of the bill has been the underlined announcement that Halevy ' s Tempesta is in active preparation . At both houses morning concerts have been given with the greatest success . With , such a band as Signor Costa has to rule over , however , wo are surprised that the concert at Covent Garden did not include one of Beethoven ' s symphonies . Nothing can be more wearisome thun these mere vocal displays .
Th « management of Sadlers Wells Ihcatrc gave a bfnelit on Thuisday night in aid of the Grand Exhibition of 1851 . The performances consisted of Jlenn / tha Eitjhlh , the trial scene of The Merchant of Venice , a concert , and The Silent Woman . An admirable address by Mr . It . II . Home , the author of Orion , commenced the evening ' s entertainment , and the same gentleman very ably supported the part of "Shylutk . " Tlie house- was crowded throughout .
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Tun Ma you ok Hum , on Education . —Those who , seeing tin" failure of the Voluntary system , oppose a tsysUMii of National Education such as that to which our attention is now eallt d , and who thus virtually maintain that , unless the people are trained to . sectarian views , ih < y shall remain in ignorance and depiavity , ere long will—such is tin' rapid advance <> t' public opinion on this all important ( pic . Nt . iim—pl . ien tin in > cl \ es iu a most untenable position . AM education is religious . All knowledge is leligious . Knowledge is the- key by which to unlock the gi . U ! whie . li leads to Heaven , livery moral precept , every scriptural duty , ;\ s embodied iu Holy Writ , are tiii / ciJimi'on property of all , and would necessarily be taught . Kiuirtldlni 1 f ? ives the po » viT by whiuli to unfold tlie hook oi' uatun . Tlieio aie sermons in Nlones —books in the running brooks—which ini . se our minds to that source from whence all earthly blessings i \ uw—which teach us to watch the seasons as they roll , and to exclaim , " Thuse , as they «*) i ; u » i ; i % . Almighty I'alh ' . T , tlii ^ e Ar « but tlu » varied < io « l . " ( Protracted applause , )
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MMM ^^^^ M ^»^ M I - i * ¦ - .. I . i . ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE FROM FRANCE . Paris , Thursday Evening . For the last week the debate on the affairs of Greece , which was fixed for to-day , has been looked forward to with great interest ; but certainly few expected that , instead of a debate , we should have the announcement of the recall of the French Ambassador in London . Although the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced , some days ago , that there was some difference between the two Governments on the subject of the settlement of the affairs of Greece , no one believed that the difference was so great as to induce the French Government to withdraw its Ambassador . It was , therefore , with extreme surprise that the announcement came upon the Assembly to-day . From the lateness of the hour I can do nothing more than transmit the proceedings of the Assembly : — LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY . Sitting of Thursday , May 16 . General Bedeau , one of the vice-presidents , took the chair at half-past one . A number of petitions against the bill to modify the Electoral Law were presented by MM . Delbecque , Arnaud ( de Var ) , Banul , Perinon , Testelin , De Flotte , & c . The order of the day was the interpellations of M . Piscatory on the affair of Greece . General de la Hitte , the Minister of Foreign Affairs , ascended the tribune , and said : —Gentlemen , in the sitting of Saturday last I had the honour of announcing to the Assembly that , in consequence of the failure of our good offices in the negotiations pursued at Athens , the Government of the Republic had considered it its duty to apply to the English Government for explanations . The reply which was given us not being such as we had a right to look for , considering the good intelligence which existed between the two countries , the President of the Republic , after having taken the advice of his Council , gave me orders to recall from London our Ambassador . ( A loud btirst of cheering from the Right , clapping of hands , cries of " Bravo , bravo . '" renewed cheers , and clapping of hands from the same quarter ; the Left all this time remained silent . The approbation continued at least five minutes . ) The French Funds fell nearly If . when this news became known ; they declined still further after the Bourse , in the Coulisse , closing at 86 f . 80 c . It is announced by several of the Paris papers that orders were sent yesterday to the different ports of France to make extraordinary levies of seamen , and to arm several ships . I learn also that orders have been given that all seamen between the ages of twenty and forty , who are unemployed , are to be sent to Brest . The French Government expects that its present warlike attitude will gain it considerable favour among the masses . It hopes particularly that it will prevent an insurrectional movement .
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[ The following appeared in our Second Edition of last week . \ POSTSCRIPT . Satukday , May 11 .
The Latest Ministerial Project Relating ...
The latest Ministerial project relating to the Stamp Duties was explained to the House of Commons last night by Sir Cuahlks Wood , who prefaced his explanation by a brief history of his former attempts in that direction , and of what he considered the very unreasonable opposition which had forced him to abandon them . With reference to the amendment adopted by the House , that the duty on morgages and bonds should be only Is . instead of 2 s . Gd ., as ho had proposed , he said : — " It so happened that a more inconvenient sum than Is . could hardly have been fixed upon ; it not only sacrificed a considerable amount of revenue , but it was a sum the stamp for which would not agree with any existing stamp , and would render it necessary to have a completely new set of stamps , to the gre . it inconvenience of all parties iu the country , there being considerable expense iu making the dirs . After full consideration , lie proposed now to adopt the following course : wnd it would make it necessary to withdraw the present bill and introduce a new one , iontaining the clauses' of the old bill together with those framed in imrsuanee of the suggestions of the hon . member ( Mr . Mulling ) . He should propose that upon conveyances and transfers of property th ? ro should be a unifoim duty o ( one per cent , ml valorem . This would not give so much relief as he had hoped to give to tl . e smaller conveyances . Above £ 1000 the duty wns now one per cent , ami the only eilVct time would be that it would make the scale more equal . Upon mortgages and bonds lie should propose a uniform duty of one-eighth per cent ., or 2 s . 6 'd . ; that would be as near the vote of the House as it was possible to come , consistently with what was really practicable and convenient to the parties
using stamps . The effect would be slightly to raise the duty above what the House had voted , but he thought he should be able to satisfy them that this would be the advisable course ; they fixed on Is ., his proposal would be Is . 3 d . up to £ 50 . He should propose £ per cent , carried uniformly , which would considerably relieve mortgages and bonds up to £ 12 , 000 . With regard to leases , he should propose to leave the bill as it stood , except ( we understood ) as to leases with fines in Ireland . With respect to settlements , he should propose that the duty should stand as in the bill , namely , 5 s . per cent . upon settlements of money or money to be raised on land . Gentlemen had been under a strange misapprehension as
to the intention of the bill , as if it proposed something totally new and never thought of before , in imposing a duty upon contingent annuities . He would admit that he had intended to make more certain the words of the existing law ; but what he should propose was , not only to give up that , but to repeal certain words which were in the existing act . The words of the existing act showed , clearly as he thought , that such contingent annuities were to be charged with duty ; the words were , that every settlement was to be charged , ' whether the money was to be raised at all events or not ; ' whether to be raised ' absolutely , or conditionally , or contingently . ' As he had said , he had intended to make that
more certain . He believed , upon the whole , the duties had not been practically paid ; and he thought it better to omit the words , and , therefore , all contingent annuities would be free from duty . These settlements had been used to escape legacy duty to a considerable extent ; but the duties bore so hardly that he proposed to repeal the words . He proposed to repeal altogether the duty on a lease for a year , and to reduce the duty on transfers of mortgages to an ad valorem if below 35 s ., leaving the 35 s . in all cases above ; and he believed the f ffect would be , beyond that , to relieve almost all transfers where there was ( as we understood ) a further sum
borrowed . He should propose to reduce the duty on memorials from 10 s . to a uniform duty of 2 s . 6 d . With regard to the « progressive duty , ' or duty on ' followers , ' a duty of 20 s . or 25 s . on all skins after the first—which fell very heavily upon Ions : conveyances—he should propose to reduce it to a uniform duty of 10 s . There were some minor points , but he need not go into all the details . He believed the bill would effect a valuable improvement , remove a great deal of doubt and difficulty upon this subject , and prove acceptable to the country—( Hear , hear ) . The loss to the revenue , he believed , would be £ 300 , 000 , but very great relief would be given to the smaller proprietors . "
< , . ! j He then moved that the order for the further committal of the old bill should be discharged ; and , further , that on Monday next the house should go into committee in order to pass the preliminary resolution necessary for the introduction of his new measure . The order was discharged accordingly . The Parliamentary Voters ( Ireland ) Bill was read a third time and passed , after some discussion upon an amendment moved by Sir John Wal .-h that the bill be read a third time that day six months . The amendment was negatived by 254 to 18 G .
j j 3 ^ Lord Hotham , alluding to some statements which have appeared respecting the conduct of the late Archbishop of Canterbury , in relation to the Itegistrarship of the Canterbury Prerogative Court , declared that the abstinence of that prelate from nominating a relative to the reversion of the appointment in question , was strictly a matter of principle , and was in entire accordance with many previous acts in the life of Dr . Howley : — " The inference that might be drawn from the statement that the bill of 1847 only passed a few months before the death of the late archbishop was , that had his life been prolonged , he might have been
induced to make an appointment to the office . He ( Lord Hotham ) would undertake to say that theie was not the slightest foundation for any such supposition . ( Hear , hear . ) The bill in question , which was a Government bill , was introduced by the Lord Chancellor on the 1 st of July , and received the royal assent on the ' 22 nd of July . The archbishop ' s death did not take place till the following February ; and he ( Lord FIo :. ham ) would leave any one to judge whether , if Dr . Howley had been inclined to appoint to the office , he had not abundant opportunity of doing so . Lest it might be supposed , howevpr , that , ths archbishop was at that time , in such a state of health as to preclude his attention to
business , lie ( Lord ILtriam ) might observe that , the bill having passed on the 22 nd of July , the archbishop was attending his duties at convocation in . tho following November . But he ( Lord Hotham ) was happy to be able confidently to state to the House that the objection of the late archbishop to nil up this valuable office arose from principle . ( Hear , hear . ) The feeling of the arrhbixhnp was i liat , with respect to any situation in his gift which had become actually vacant , it was competent , to him to deal as he thought proper ; but he did not feel it consistent wiiii his hinh station to anticipate , an event the occurrence of which no one could fort tell , and he did not think it proper to appoint to any uflice in reversion . ( Hear ,
hoar ) , lie ( Lor 1 Iloiham ) couU , however , carry the caso still further , by showing that at un earlier period of his career , Archbishop Howley had carrird out the principles upon which he 1 ml ac : ecl in this case . At the tjino Dr . Howley was Bishop of London , a sinecure office , worth some hundreds a-year , which had been held by the son of one of' his predecessors , who was appointed to it when only ten years of age , became vacant . Dr . Ilowl » » y appointed to the office a gentleman in whom he reposed confidence , but he only conferred it during pleasure , and the present Bishop of London had followed tho same course , continuing the same gentleman in the situation . After Dr . Howley became Archbishop
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Leader (1850-1860), May 18, 1850, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18051850/page/8/
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