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THE SEAfeCH AFTER SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. Ano...
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THE SCOTT MURRAY-CAMPBELL CONTROVERSY. M...
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THE CRYSTAL PALACE. LettebS have/been ad...
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DESTITUTION IN THE METROPOLIS. " Does it...
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LIFE OF A "MAN ABOUT TOWN." A case illus...
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American News. A Few Minntes Before The ...
the treaties Entered into % the United States with the nations o £ Europe . It is a great scheme of intervention in the affairs of foreign nations , if not by the government , at least by the people of the United States . If the organization succeeds to the extent of its wishes , how long would the government of the United States he able to keep from meddling with foreign quarrels ?"
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The Seafech After Sir John Franklin. Ano...
THE SEAfeCH AFTER SIR JOHN FRANKLIN . Another expedition has returned without throwing any light upon the doubtful fate of the missing Arctic voyagers . The enterprising Dr . John Rae , who commanded the party which started in the early part of last summer , with boats , sledges , and dogs , has . arrived at Detroit , in the United States * and has detailed the results of the expedition in the following letter to Mr . A . Barclay , the secretary of the Hudson ' s Bay Company in London : — - Biddle-hpnse , petroit , ITnited States , Feb . 23 , 1862 . « Sib , t ^ -I beg to acquaint you that I arrived here today , and that my search for Sir John Franklin has been fruitless . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' . ... A , , " The furthest point reached during the summers voyage on the Arctic : Sea , was lat . 70 deg . 30 min . north , long . 101 deg . | . * est , on Victoria Land , about 80 miles west of the magnetic poj ^ Here we were arrested by ice for nearly a fortnight , and despairing of being able to push on further , we commenced our return on the 19 th of August ; : . ¦ "On our way to the Coppermine River , wo pieces ^ wood , the one oak , the other pine , were picked up . The former appeared to be a stancheon , in the upper end of which there had been a hole , through which a chain had evidently been passed . The wood on one side of the hole
had been torn away , as if by pressure against the chain The piece of pine looked like the butt end of a small flagstaff , and had certainly belonged to one of Her Britannic Maiesty ' s ships , as there was a piece of line , arid two copper tacks attached to it , all , of which bore the Government mark . The thread in the line is red . The line , tacks , and portions of the Wood are preserved , and Bhall be delivered to the Admiralty oh my reaching England ; We had a quick but rough passage of 11 days to the Coppermine , left one of the boats and a quantity of pemmican at the Bloody Fall , ascended the stream With the otherboat , transported it from the Kendal Biver to Bear Lake in Athabasca Lakeand
six days , aii 3 took it on as far as , two days' journey up Athabasca Biver , when we were stopped by ice , and obliged to return to Fort Chipewyan on foot . ¦• • ¦¦ ¦ ¦ .. ¦' . . •' • ¦ ' .. ¦ . ¦ ¦ . ' . ' • ' ¦ ¦¦¦ ... - ¦ . ' ¦¦"'' ¦ "On the 17 th of November ( aftera detention of three weeks ) , the ice haying become sufficiently strong for travelling , I started , in company with eighf persons , for the Bed Stiver colony , and arrived there on the 10 th of January , having walked all the distance , on snow shoes , in 44 ) days , exclusive of the detention at the trading posts . "Having several arrangements to * nake , I did notleave Red River until the 31 st of January , and in 10 days afterwards arrived at Crow Island , being the quickest journey ever made to that place from the colony . There being littlo snow further south , my men and does were sent back from Crow Island , while I came on hither by stage
and railroad . "I shall leave New York for England by the steamer of the 10 th of March , and expect to be in London on or about the 22 nd , when I shall have the honour of handing you a moro detailed report of last summer ' s operations , and also a rough chart of tho new coast examined , about 600 miles in all , including the shore traced in tho overice spring journey . ' "I am happy to say that , with two exceptions , the conduct of the party under my command was excellent . " I have the honour to bo , Sir , your most obedient servant ,
( Signed ) " John Bab , O . F ., " Commanding A . S . Expedition . "
The Scott Murray-Campbell Controversy. M...
THE SCOTT MURRAY-CAMPBELL CONTROVERSY . Mn . Soott . Mubbay has published a rejoinder to Lord Campbell ' s reply . Referring to tho case of Mr . Whitgrcave's shrievalty , in 1837 , Mr . Scott Murray declares , on the authority of tho Rev . Mr . Huddleston , the Roman Catholic chaplain on that occasion , and of Mr . Robinson , the undor-sheriff of that year , that Mr . Coltlwell , Lord , Campbell's informant , is certainly mistaken in his recollection of the facts : ¦ — " that Mr . Whitgreavb was attended by his Roman Catholic chaplain when ho conveyed the judges in hia carriage ; that his chaplain frequently took his place beside tho sheriff in court ; that ho was on such occasions kindly noticed by tho judgos ; imd that from Mr . Justico Bolland ho rocoived an apology for not having invited him . to dinner with the grand jury , which tho judgo said had arisen from a mistake . "
Sinco Mr . Scott Murray addressed his first letter to tho cluof justice , ho has become acquainted with anothpr precedent , that of tho Hon . Charles Clifford , wlio was high sheriff of Lincolnshire in the year 1844 . In that year tho judgos , at the Spring-Assizes , wore tho lato Chief Justice Tindol and Mr . Baron Gurney ; and at tho Summer Assizes , Chief Justico Donmnn and Mr . Justice Coltmun ; and on both occasions tho high sheriff , attended by his Roman Catholic chaplain , in tho " usual clerical Ml dress , " rode in the carriage
with the judges ,:-accompanied- - 'them intocourt , and sat by them on the bench . And this was not allowed to pass by the judges per incuriam , but with the express assurance of Lord Denman and the other judges , in answer to the inquiry of the sheriff , that they wished him "to act in all respects as his own religious feelings should dictate . " ; .,- . .., ; , Mr . Scott Murray acknowledges that on one point he had fallen into an entire misapprehension of Lord Campbell ' s meaning : " Your Lordship ' s emphatic statement to the grand jury was , that ' the Protestant religion is the religion of the iudffes of this country . ' I and others understood this
to be the enunciation of a great constitutional principle , whereas your Lordship ' letter construes it by a videlicet . that' all the judges of England who go as judges of assize are Protestants ; ' a ' fact , ' you add , < uncontested and notorious . ' You also say that you ' cannot imagine that any sheriff , with the knowledge of this fact , would do anything to offend their Protestant feelings , from a consideration that , in point of law , persons of a different rehgious persuasion may be appointed judges . ' " S 6 that the " essence" of the high sheriff's " misconduct consisted , not in having shown disrespect to the seat of justice , but in his having offended the 'Protestant feelings' of the eminent individual who filled it . " "As , therefore , the question is no longer one of constitutional rightand as your Lordship is the first
Pro-, testant judge who has found personal cause of offence in the presence of a chaplain not of his own religion , I would fain hope that what your Lordship -calls the ' incuria , but what r should venture to designate the deliberate courtesy and . consideration for the feelings of others , which has hitherto prevailed on the bench , and which has been sanctioned by the honoured names of Denman , Abinger , Tindal , Gurney , BoHand , Coltman , Coleridge , Maule , Alderson , and Parke—to omit others unknown to me— - will yet continue to operate , and that your Lordship's opinion that the personal feelings of a judge of assize are to dictate to a sheriff of a county the character of the superior officers by whom he may think fit to be attended , either in his own carriage or in his place in court , will not meet with universal acquiescence . "
We hope these are the " last words" of this hitherto not Wholly uninteresting controversy , but now ^ rapidly verging on the confines of the wearisome .
The Crystal Palace. Lettebs Have/Been Ad...
THE CRYSTAL PALACE . LettebS have / been addressed by Messrs . Fox and Henderson to all tlie daily papers , complaining of the misconception of Shr Joseph Paxton ' s evidence , which has led the Commissioners appointed by the Lords of the Treasury , to recommend the contract under which the Crystal Palace was constructed should be allowed to take its course , in accordance with which it must be Entirely removed before the 1 st of May . This recommendation was principally founded on the belief that a winter garden could be entirely formed for a less sum than would be required to render the Crystal Pakce permanent . On this point Messrs . Fox and Henderson remark : — ¦ . ¦
" Wo have no hesitation in saying that this is a monstrous mistake , and that if th ^ present structure is thrown away , it is simply a wanton destruction of 160 , OOOZ . worth of public property , which is not likely to be replaced except under an amount of excitement equal to that which produced the Great Exhibition . ¦ " * ¦<¦ ¦ ' . - ;* . >¦>' " The building can only now be proservod by a manifestation of public opinion in i ts favour , and that tho most ample opportunities for that purpose may be afforded , wo shall for the next week throw open tho doors to all visitors froo of charkO . Wo leave the fate , of tho building to this final court of appeal , confident that if our views aro sound they will yot be carried into effect . "
A correspondent of the Times , under tho signature " Z ., " declares that there is somo manoeuvring going on , and that " public opinion is dreaded . " Ho thus explains the matter further : — "By jumbling expenses together , tho Commissionore mako Sir Joseph Paxton say , in their Report , that thojpurchaso of tho building , and tho conversion of it into a wintor garden , would cost 160 , 000 ? . ; and that for this sum ho could put up a much finer and more appropriate structure . " In tho first place , tho Commissioners have exaggerated Sir Joseph Paxton' a estimate byjBMM . ; next , tho Comb that 0001 ot
missioners aro not candid onoug . wTlsay 54 , . this estimato aro chiefly for oxponsos which would bo common to any building for a wintor gardon , such as warming , walks , heating apparatus , & o . " Tho fact is , that tho building , which has cost tho public abovo 100 , 000 ? ., may bo purchased for loss than 05 , 000 ? ., and would roquiro an outlay of 26 , 000 ? . to put in thorough ropair . So that a total of 02 , 000 ? . would ; not only purchase this building for a wintor gardon , hut ho tho moans of economising a projected outlay of at least 200 , 000 ? . lor additional buildings at tho British Museum . " Sir Joseph Paxton has also written a lottor of indignant denial .
Destitution In The Metropolis. " Does It...
DESTITUTION IN THE METROPOLIS . " Does it not appear a strange result of tho terrible etatiaticu of society / ' says tho Times , " that upon an average ono portion out of twenty of tho inhabitants of this luxurious metropolis is every day destitute of food and employment , and every night without a place for
shelter or repoee ? " Rich are we ^ loxurious ; and charity stretches forth its hundred thousand arms ; yet are there every day one hundred thousand persons who rise in want , if they have a bed to rise from , and who go to rest in want . Destitution is one of our permanent institutions ' ; it is perennial j nothing stays it for long . In the Registrar ^ General ^ Report , for 1849-it is stated " that nearly one human being-died weekly in this wealthy metropolis from actual starvation . " In the corresponding report for 1851 we find that twenty-eight adults died from starvation , and 252 infants from want of breast-milk or want of food . In the month of December , 1851 , five adults died from starvation , and twenty-nine infants from inanition .
What is { he remedy for this state of things ? A society has been formed , which endeavours to give a practical answer to the question / and here are some of the results of their labours : — " During the year 1850-51 this establishment relieved , with soup and bread 64 , 208 poor persons at the Kitchen ; 141 , 352 with two quarts of soup and portions of bread , at their own homes ; 7405 were provided at the Eefuge with clean , comfortable beds , suppers , and breakfasts ; 1687 gallons of soup and 908 quartern loaves were given to the Ragged Schools ; 113 , 714 men , women , and children
accommodated-at . the lavatories and waterclosets ; and 285 men and 374 women obtained good situations at the Free Registry . On Christmas-day last , 22 , 500 persons enjoyed good Christmas fare of roast beef and plum-pudding , besides presents of tea , coffee , sugar , & c : 2973 children of Bagged Schools had a similar dinner given to them and , during the last month of December , 15 , 078 * poor people were relieved with soup and bread at the Kitchen ; 21 , 671 at their homes ; . 783 with a bed , supper , and breakfast ; and 17 , 859 visited the lavatories , waterclosets , & c . "
As may be inferred from the preceding extract from their report , the efforts of the society are mainly directed to the establishment of a number of asylums throughout the metropolis in which the destitute denizens of London may meet with one or other of the four following forms of relief : —1 st , a soup kitchen ; 2 nd , a refuge for nightly shelter ; 3 rd , a free registry for procuring situations and work for servants and labourers ; 4 th , a free lavatory , & c . The figures given above represent the success which has already attended the efforts of the society at their institution in Leicester-square . It is a brave work , and that success may attend it is our hearty wish .
Life Of A "Man About Town." A Case Illus...
LIFE OF A "MAN ABOUT TOWN . " A case illustrative of the manners and customs of sporting men about town was tried at the Guildhall , Westminster , on Wednesday , before Mr , Witham , and a bench of magistrates . Two brothers , John Phineas Davis , and David John Davis , solicitors , at 5 , Holies-street , Cavendish-square , had been largely connected in sporting transactions with Mr . John O'Brien , described by his counsel as a " gentleman of great respectability , " educated at Trinity College , Dublin , where he had not taken a degree , and living on his own means , at tho Talbot Hotel , Richmond . " Mr . Ballantine , counsel for the Daviscs , ( who surrendered to take their trial for assaulting Mr ; O'Brien , and beating him severely with large sticks in the Haymarket , ) drew out from O'Brien in cross-examination , that the difference commenced by the Messrs . Davis being employed adverse to him in an affair in which he was charged with having obtained bills , fraudulently , to the amount of several thousand pounds from a Mr . Clifton . At first he said that he thought he ought not to bo compelled to state what tho exact amount was . Then he said ho could not swear how many thousand pounds he was charged with defrauding "Mr . Clifton of , but he believed that he had claimed 34 . 001 . as money lent , and as an arrangement tor assisting him out of a scrape . To tho best of his knowledge and belief he liod never advised Mr . Clifton to say that his kneecap was broken , and that he was going to remain in London , and thence going to Clifbon ; " but if I havo said so , you can produce the letter if you have one . " A lottor was then handed up to Mr . O'Brien , which ho acknowledged to bo his , and offered to read it hiin ^ solf . It was as follows : — " Friday . "My beak CiiiBTONy—I did not receive your lottor yesterday till after post time . Poole will givo you your things . I havo arranged with Bennett to pay your Scotch debts ; I put thorn down as 260 ? . Tho pfoco m Scotland will bo hv your name , otherwise you may bo arrested ; this also I havo arranged . So liolp mo , my — — , you ought to givo mo a largo annual allowance to attend to your affairs . It has Cbst mo since I camo to London at least 50 ? . in cab hire , and I ow . o my arrest to waiting in ¦ town to do your business . " Now , aa to taking you on a capias , tho law Bays , if a man expresses an intontion to leave England ho can bo hold to bail . I am afraid they could provo you was going to Scotland . If you wore not going to Scotland , or had not oxproseed an intention of going , no capias would touch you . But I toll you what you will do , and this will bo an effectual bar to a capias—write mo a lottor saying you havo broken tho cap of your knee , and that you ar «
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Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1852, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27031852/page/9/
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