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      5jj Ssks^Sfei^ ?** Parliament. R.^ P^^'-...

      5 jj SSKS ^ Sfei ^ ?** PARLIAMENT . r . ^ P ^^' -v ^ f ? fj §| r 4 ? Be Council on Monday Parliament -was ordered t / 3 fjssa * £ *" * ^ 'rifcfo berjfurther prorogued from Thursday last , the 16 th p * 1 || f J 1 hS | f * 3 M £ ? f Thursday , the 14 th of December .

      V" Vr%^,-^- "* Health Of London. ^ . ^ J...

      V" Vr % ^ ,- ^ - " * HEALTH OF LONDON . ^ . ^ jLJ ^^ Thb Registrar-General reports that last week the total number of deaths registered in London , was 1160 . In the tea corresponding weeks of the years 1844-53 the average number was 1011 , and if this is raised in proportion to increase of population it becomes 1112 . From a comparison of the results it appears that the mortality is now not much ha excess of the usual amount , but it exceeds in a more important degree the point to which the usual mortality , in an improved condition of London , might be reduced . Cholera , which was fatal in the two previous weeks in 66 and 31 cases , was fatal last week in 23 . In the same weeks diarrhaja numbered 46 , 33 , and 35 deaths . Mae of the deaths from cholera occurred on the north side of the river , the remaining 14 on the south side ; 3 of which are returned in the subdistrict of St . Paul ' s , Deptford , 4 in the district of Lambeth . Scarlatina has for some weeks predominated among zymotic diseases .

      The Weak Shipwrights. Sunderland, Fov. 1...

      THE WEAK SHIPWRIGHTS . Sunderland , Fov . 14 . The efforts which have been made to bring to a termination the unfortunate strike of the ship carpenters on the Wear have not yet been attended with success . The men , about 1200 in number , have now been out for six weeks . The employment in other trades connected with ship-building is injuriously affected , and the consequences are felt seriously on the general trade of the town . The men had been

      anxious for a conference with the masters , in the presence of disinterested parties who would act as arbiters , and last night about thirteen of the principal builders met the committee of the Shipwrights ' Society ; but the result , as detailed at a large public meeting of men held this afternoon , was unsatisfactory . It appeared , from the statements of the speakers at this meeting , that the masters would neither allow the presence of reporters at the conference , nor suffer the interference of the two gentlemen , who had been waiting as arbiters .

      Ireland. The Otttrach: On Mr. Djuujan's ...

      IRELAND . The Otttrach : on Mr . Djuujan ' s "Workmen . —On Saturday a meeting of magistrates took place at Limerick . The result -was the discharge of fourteen of the parties implicated , and the remand of four others . The Baiiway Outkaoe at Trillick .- —A public meeting has been held in the Court-house , Downpatrick , for the purpose of condemning the attempt made to upset the railway train at Trillick , and to

      congratulate those passengers whose lives were imperilled on their narrow escape . The chair was taken by Mr . Reilly , the High-Sheriff . Various resolutions -were moved and carried , strongly abhorrent of the outrage . They concurred in thinking it had been planned by the Ribbon Society , which acted under the guidance of the Church of Rome , which was encouraged by the present Governmentwhich Government ought rather to suppress Ribbonmen , and prevent the extension of Romish principles .

      Insurance For The People. A, Votmg Irish...

      INSURANCE FOR THE PEOPLE . A , votmG Irishwoman complained to Mr . Binghitm , at Mariborough-streefc , that her mother ' s policy in the British Industry Insurance Office had been cancelled , although she had regularly paid tho stipulated threepence a-week . They had given her two-andeixpenco as a settlement of her claim . Tho secretary explained that their former agent having absconded , tliey had requested all holders of policies granted by him to attend at tho office for investigation of their cases , and when tho woman in question presented herself they found her to be at least ten years older than had been stated . The society required proof of Irirth . Mr . Bingham considered that perfectly fair , tut the applicant Baid her mother could not bring any proof of her birth , being a Roman Catholic , and a native of Ireland . Tho case was dismissed , and also another of a similar diameter .

      Prince Albert A " Question" Again. Tma L...

      PRINCE ALBERT A " QUESTION" AGAIN . Tma Luu > Times contains , in its current number , an article on " tho Prince Consort , " which is very freely attributed to a vivacious ox-I ^ ord Chancellor . The article , though in ostensible reprobation of the traducers of tho Prince , is eevcro towards hie defenders , especially tho Lord Chief Juatico . Tho lteviowor says :- — " To tho aatoninhment of all lawyors , but alao of all men , yiho know tho Constitution , tho Chief Juntlco declared in tho House of Lords thnt tho Prtnco is the alttr ego of tho lloyul Consort . . Now , wo fool bound , - > vitU a ]

      possible respect for this eminent judge , to express how entirely we join in the wonder felt in the profession especially , but certainly not confined to it , at this extraordinary statement , extraordinary in a lawyer , but in an historical writer hardly to be believed . There is no such thing , and there never was in the most rude periods of our constitutional history , under the most despotic of our princes , anything resembling the alter ego of the absolute monarchies in the South , the Spanish , and the Sicilian . The sovereign with us , whether in England or in Scotland , never had the power of handing over to another the Royal Prerogative . Imperfect as our Constitution

      has been left in respect of regency , or the supplying a temporary defect in the regal functions , and obscure as our constitutional history is on that subject , no doubt or obscurity whatever hangs over it , and no ambiguity has ever existed as to the Royal Prerogative being exercised by the Sovereign alone when there is no such defect . It is , indeed , remarkable how distinctly the inalienable nature of the royal functions was perceived and acted upon in practice , even at an age when little refinement of principle might be supposed to have place , and when proceedings of a violent and irregular kind in other respects were of ordinary occurrence . "

      Commenting on this , an able and ingenious writer in the Liverpool Albion says : — " The reviewer professes to have beea forced into the ' broaching of these delicate topics by the high legal functionary who made it impossible to avoid them ; ' but there certainly are topics much , more delicate than any touched upon by the Chief Justice broached by Ms commentator , who implies , that , for the first time probably within your or your readers' knowledge , the subject of making his Royal Highness King Consort has recently been discussed , and is even yet by no means disposed of . It is stated as one argument of some weight against the higher title , that an awkward consequence would follow from the Prince , as well as the Heir-apparent , surviving ,

      the Queen ; -1 aamely , that we should then have two Kings in the country ; and ' thus the unavoidable inconvenience of a person sinking into a private station who had enjoyed much of supreme power in fact , though not in name , would be considerably increased by the circumstance of his retaining the name under which that ample power had been exercised . The mere circumstance of his being called King Dowager , as must almost inevitably happen , notwithstanding all the respect that might surround him , would of itself furnish a reason for avoiding the alleged honour . ' King Dowager ! Only fancy Field-Marshal Albert King Dowager , Commander-in-Chlef , these piping times of war too . It appears , however , according to our horse-haired oracle ,

      that the Consort could no more have got the whole of the Horse-guards than he could have got the half of the irerogative , the dictum of the Duke of Wellington to the contrary notwithstanding . The point is thus put : — ' It was said that his being successor to the great man wlto held the office had been mentioned during his life by himself , and that the Prince had at once intimated his intention to decline it if the Sovereign , should be advised to make the offer . It is quite manifest ho never could by possibility have taken the office ; and the wonder is that any one , above all the Great Captain himself , should for an instant have allowed such a notion to pass through his mind . It is no fault of Prince Albert , and it is not his misfortune—it is- his good

      fortunethat he was born into the world after the war had ceased , and that bo has nover seen service . To have placed him over all the warriors of England would have been an act which his worst enemy could hardly have advised ; to havo taken that position would have argued in him not only an entire loss of tho great discretion by ¦ which bo lias ever been guided , but a want of even ordinary prudence . ' There ia something exceedingly Broughamic in all this ' damning with faint praise '—a good dual in tho fashion that tho Xord Harry exorcised his industry on the Hours of Idleness in tho brilliant Byronic times of four-and-forty years ago . Tho depreciating animus under the guise of panegyric is further evinced in tho remarks on that -unfortunate Challis

      abomination of an Exhibition Memorial to his Royal Highness , whereof it is said- ^—* The clumsy and overdone flattery of tho City , in proposing to raise a statue , had greatly disgusted the community , tlie rather because a severe pressure had been exerted on many persona in official stations , especially on those connected with tho Court , in order to obtain subscriptions , whereby tho contrivers of tho scheme might bo the better enabled to perform the part of parasites , or pemdvonturo to obtain some of the distinctionH in which tho civic mind delights . Men had marvollod at tho Princo not at onco intimating , what all considered must bo bis wish , that thin most

      unseemly proceeding should be utoppcd , uh it coultl only end in hia declining tho intended compliment . I Jut perhaps ho did better by not rofusing before it wua offered . ' liefurring to his recommendation that tho fund raised Hhould Ijo applied to « omo institution for promoting tho instruction of tho induHtrioun cIubhoh , there occ-ura a note which would alone almost , suftico to tttump tho whole article nis being written ut tho instigation of tho veritable Vnux , to wit—' It is Homewlmt humiliating to remark tho different fate of the City subscription when it was believed to bo for ruining a Hint no to a l ' rincc , living 1 and do » oly connected with tho Crown , and another sulmaription fur u HtuUio to tho gruntout goniun that over appeared

      in the world—the mighty glory of England . Abou * 30001 . were subscribed in less than a week for the-Prince's statue ; it took six months to collect half as much , for a statue to Newton , to whom , it appeared that not even a marble slab had ever been dedicated , except at the expense of his own family . They who compared the sums given by the same individuals to the two statues—50 J . or lOOt to that of the Prince , 10 ? . or only 5 ? . to that of the philosopher—saw at a glance how little the former subscription could be regarded as voluntary . ' "

      The Leader, [Saturday,

      THE LEADER , [ Saturday ,

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      Leader Office, Saturday, November 18. Th...

      Leader Office , Saturday , November 18 . THE WAR . The following despatches have been received : — " Vienna , Friday , Half-past 1 p . m . " A fierce battle was fought before Sebastopol on tho 5 th . The Russian troops newly arrived from Perekop attacked the English , position . " After a battle which lasted seven hours , the Russians were repulsed with , a loss of 8000 men . " The English lost 102 officers and 2500 men , and the French lost 48 officers and 1300 men killed and wounded . " Three English . Generals were killed—General Catb .-cart , and Brigadier-Generals Goldie and Strangways . " Five were wounded—Generals Adams , Bentinck , Buller , Torrens , and Sir George Brown . " General Caniobert is also wounded . " The British Guards suffered , very severely . " On the 6 th and 7 tk the allies were fortifying their positions . "

      (By Submarine And British Telegraph.) Vi...

      ( By Submarine and British Telegraph . ) Vienna , Friday Evening . Suleiman Paslia , who commanded the Turkish troops in the Crimea , has been degraded by the Sultan . The Charlemagne , Napoleon , and Jena returned to Constantinople on the 5 th . The frigate Egyptienne was wrecked at the entrance to the Bosphorus . Prince Napoleon , who is suffering from dysentery , has returned to Constantinople . The horses of the allies in the Crimea have suffered so much from want of water , that it is doubtful whether powerful cavalry reinforcements ought to be sent there . The Egyptian ship Abadid Schibad is said to have gone down , with the Admiral and 700 men on board .

      Steamers have been sent to fetch 4000 men of the garrison of Tahuruksu to Sebastopol . The Russians have retired from the neighbourhood of Balaklava , to wait for reinforcements . TTp to the 7 th there had been little rain at Balaklava .

      France. Paris, Friday Evening. According...

      FRANCE . Paris , Friday Evening . According to advices from Constantinople of the 6 tli , CO 00 French troops had left for the Crimea . There was no recent intelligence from tho army in Asia . Four thousand Tunisians had embarked at Batoum for the Crimea . An imperial decree , published this day , reconstitutes the Cth company of the third battalion throughout tho 100 regiments of tho lino . Tho measure ia to bo executed immediately .

      Spain. A Telcffrnphic Despatch Of The 11...

      SPAIN . A telcffrnphic despatch of the 11 th from Madrid states that there was a rumour thnt Marshal Espurtoro was about to rotiro from tho Ministry .

      G It E E C E. Athens, November 10. Repor...

      G It E E C E . Athens , November 10 . Report sniyH that Kalcrgis has threatened tho Russian Minister -with expulsion .

      Symptoms Oi A A Wintkr Cawaign.—Wo Mitjc...

      Symptoms oi a Wintkr Cawaign . —Wo mitJcr-Htand tluil . contracts were accepted yenl « rdny by tho Wnr-oiuuo for wootlon Iiouhoh for tho army in tho Crimea . Tho houH « H arc to bo of a nizo miilicient to uocoinmoduto twenty miju in oaoh Iiouho , and on tho wholo are to provide lodging for twenty thounaiid moil . So prawn ! n £ am the authorities in enforcing expedition on tho contractor *) , tlint tho liittor have undertaken to havo two hundred xisady for uhiitmcut ou Monday next .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 18, 1854, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18111854/page/10/