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bidden . Recently a curious instance of the inveteracy of the custom occurred . Lord Koberfc Grosvenor , travelling in a Brat-class carriage , was greatly annoyed by three smokers , who" filled the carriage with smoke . His lordship complained ; bat the conductor of the train declined to interfere . Why ? Two of the smokers were the chairman and vice-clairman of the railway . ; - " In . France people contrive to die even histrionically . What the satisfaction can be we are at a loss to conceive . The other day a young Prussian seated himself in a front box at the Opera , and waited for the Cathedral sc « ne of the * ¥$ phete to blow his brains out in a private bos . Of course the opera was suspended , and the audience -went home in consternation . -Ats the Sultan has placed Christians and Mussulmans on » . fitting of equalitjrjjefore the law , so the legislative anthontnes ofpVlctoria have passed an act admitting the testimony of aborigines and half-castes in courtsof justice .
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¦ Pitcairn ' s Island , the . Paradise of the Pacific , is now overpeopled , and the descendants of the " Bounty" are often in want . Last year Admiral Moresby generously reliieyed ; thejn ; Irot for their permanent safety it is proposed to- traS ^ pbrt tbem to Norfolk Island as soon as the convicts have been cleared away . " xhe' fceel of the gigantic steamer for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company is now being laid in the yard of Messrs . Scott , BusseU , and Co ., Millwall , opposite Deptford Dockyard . Her proportions are to be nearly twice the length of the great Himalaya , and more than three times her tonnage . Sbe is to be completed in two years , and is expected to do tba . distance to Australia in little over thirty days , and , if necessary , to carry sufficient fuel for the voyage out and lj ^ e . ' She is to be iitted with paddle-wheels and screwp ||^ nin ^ : ' poWer , ' ; .. ' . ; ' ¦ / ' ; , ' ' ' ' . ' The Scotsman says that a vote of 6000 ? . is to be proposed for the of
b ^ . Gov ^ rnnieiit obtaining a complete system of a ^ cultufals ^ atistics in Scotland" to be carried , out-through tfie ^ medium oftlie -Highland Society . ; r On . Saturday , at the Gity Sheriff's Court , on Mr . Gnmey , iilft judge , tiMng his seat , only eight of the thirty-six persobos summoned to seryeoa . juries were in / attendance . The ^ d g ^ expressedhimself strongly ; on the subject , and at once xit 3 ictedf : oa « ilie absent- twenty-four persons summoned the TOa ^ l |?^ fe % f- ; ; ^ . . - ¦ :. ,. , .., „ . u __ - \ A ^||^^^ p ^ aples , states thait on the 14 th ult . M . J . 3 > elitU , 1 > fBfemeri , having ascended Mount Vesuvius mth a party of his countryman , went too near the edge of the crater , and , theJrotuttTgiving way under him , he fell into tEef anfM "' . His jgroans were heard from the bottom , * but -wlien ' some-persons descended by means of Topes he was dead . v
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The Judge of the Archdeaconry Court of Middlesex has 4 e ' dde 4 ; that tiie late election for churchwardens at St . Paul ' s . K ^ h ^ brjdge , waa invalid , oh the ground that Mr . Liddeli closed the poll at seveii o ' clock , thereby preventing persons fqrona ., yotin § . > " It haS jbejea decided , m the Court of Queen ' s Bench , that the Linnean Socikv is no / , " and that the Zoological Society , Lou the JJegeat ' jB-park , w , liable to poor-rates in respect of the pren ^ eftjtneT . <> ccapy . -. . % . 0 ne > Tplo ^ neo Jjas been arrested at Lyons , together with fciS companion , an English girl earned Graf ton . Tolomeo ^ as the foreman of Mr . Graftos , a London silversmitli . While in that situation he seduced Miss Graftoh , and induced her to Ieavei 3 ie coitntry with him , and , like Jessica , fa carry jJfflier father' ^ property .
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Saturday , June 3 rd . The business of the House of : Commons , last night , was extremely varied . On Lord J . Kttssell ' s moving tliat no new writs should _ be issued for the boroughs of Canterbury , Cambridge , Hull , Maldon , and Barnstaple , the seats of which are vacant on account of bribery at the last election , without seven days" notice , a smart debate arose , in which the question of the necessity for dealing with bribery in general , and those cases in part icular , was discussed , but eventually the motion was Agreed to .
Sir James Graham stated that he liad received a despatch from Sir C . Napiyr , giving an account of the gallant exploit of the Arrogant and Hecla steamships in the Baltic , in cutting out a Russian vessel from under the guns of the fortress of Ekness . Mr . 8 . Hekbeiw , in reply to an interpellation , said that great improvements in the dress of the army in the East were contemplated ; the leather stock was to be abolished , and tlie question of " shaving" was also under consideration . The Sugar Duties Bill passed through Committee after a discussion and division on the differential duties of Muscovado sugar , which resulted in a majority for the Government of 57 .
On tlic third leading of the Excise Duties Bill Mr . J . O'Connklt , moved that it be postponed for a fortnight , but was beaten on a division by a majority of 29 . Another division was taken at the instnnce of the Irish members for the adjournment of the debate , which wag also lost l > y 48 . In committee on the Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charge Bill , Mr . Gladstonk explained that it was intended to change the system of keeping the national accounts , and placing under the contro of Parliament a jixjmber of payments of salaries , and other expenses , which wore defrayed out of the gross receipts of the taxes before they were paid into the Exchequer . The bill passed through its etnges
with encomiums from Mr . Httme , Mr . W . Whxiajhs , and other members . After the other orders of the day- had been disposed of , Xord Paxmerston obtained leave to bring in a bill to render more effectual the police of counties and boroughs in England and Wales , and also a bill to amend the law relating to youthful offenders . In the House of Lords , Lord ( Monteagxe , in moving for certain returns of transactions between the Government and the Bank of England , took the opportunity of inquiring whether there was any truth in the report that the Government intended to close ifceir connexion with the Bank of England , and . set up a bank for themselves , which was to be a bank of issue ? He strongly deprecated such a course , which he thought most daDgerous .
Earl GrKANViiiLB in reply stated , that the Government had no sintention of setting up a bank . In reply to Lord Cxanhicxrde , the Duke of Newcastle stated that there was no intention of blockading the Russian ports in the White Sea ; and Lord Beaumont having criticised the gentleness with which the war was carried on , Lord Aberdeen declared that it would be carried on with vigour and determination ; and in answer to Lord Eixenbokothjh , he intimated that a Minister of War was likely to be soon appointed . The House them adjourned till Friday next .
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to , ebsponde :. "W . E . in fiav . " Received . Of great interest . Many thanks .
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A MINISTRY OF SURRENDERS : WIIEHE IS IT TO STOP ? The replies which Ministers made to the attacks of Mr . Disraeli , on Monday night , wero so unsatisfactory , that they suggest , us if it wore new , a doubt long repelled by us ; and , unfortunately , that doubt is to n certain extent re-echoed from other quarters . We find Engiaad joining in n close alliance with Austria , the great type of Absolutist Government on tlio Continent . We have never assailed Ministers for that alliance : on the
contrary , inconvenient as it is m many respects . —neccssari l } as it entails upon our Administration a species of acquiescence in the wrongdoing of that tyrannical Government , avc luivo distinctly admitted that when tho alliance of so powerful a state is offered , the responsible Ministers of the Btate would not be iuatified in . refusing that allianco ; a fortiori
they * cannot be expected to refuse . it . Whan the representatives of the National party in Europe complained that in entering upon such an alliance England -would be drawn into the vortex of arbitrary systems , and would re peat that treachery to papular rights which we have too often exemplified abroad , —recanting on the field of Europe the principles that we have Sustained on our own island , —we replied that the necessity of the case
superseded any question of that kind , and that even in alliance with Austria , acting as our Ministers do openly before their own public , they would be obliged to maintain principles that could not fail to benefit even the nations subject to Austria . Bat three events have happened this ¦ week , which make us less firm in out conviction , that the ultimate position * of out Ministers on the field of Europe must of necessity still be an English position .
These three events are the receipt of the Vienna Protocol , annexing the Prusso-Austrian , and the Auglo-Grallican treaties to the transactions of the conference of the Pour Powers , the abandonment of the disfranchisement bills , and the unsatisfactory attitude of Ministers . The Protocol does not define the objects of the convention with complete accuracy and exactness . The fact has been , pointed out by the Times 9 and we . cannot do better than copy the words of a journal certainly not extreme inthe liberalism of its opinions : —
" The Protocol affirms that' the integrity of the Ottoman empire and the evacuation o ££ hat portion of its territory which is occupied by the Busslan army axe , and will continue to be , the constant and Invariable object of the union of the Four Powers . ' But the first article of the Convention between Great Britain and France provides that those Powers ' will do all that shall depend upon tbem for the purpose of bringing about the re-establishment of peace be . tween Russia and the Forte on solid and durable bases , and of preserving Europe from the recurrence
of the lamentable complications which have now so unhappily disturbed the general peace . ' And by tiie second article these Powers agree ' to concert together the most proper means for liberating the territory of the Sultan from foreign invasion , and far accomplishing the cbject specified in Article I . ' ft is therefore impossible to contend that the terms of the Protocol include the whole objects of tlie Anglo-Trench Convention , though , as that document is annexed to the Protocol in extenso , it may be . said to supply the omission in the quadruple instrument . "
Whereas England and France profess to seek a durable peace with guarantees against the renewal of the " lamentable complications " —a phrase only to be construed as a pledge to put restriction upon the lawless encroachments of Russia , the Four Powers limit their claim to the evacuation of the Principalities , as "the constant and invariable object of the
union of the Pour Powers . " Here , then , by a monstrous inversion of ordinary logic , the greater object of the two powers professes to include itself in the minor object of the four . We might suppose that there was some formal diplomatic advantage which the Western Powers would gain irom the union ; but doubts are suggested by what we observe at home .
It is not our business to criticise motives , or wo might perhaps withhold from Mr . Disraeli an expression of approval , which wo miglit , on the contrary , accord to some of tho statesmen whom ho condemns . Let us declare , however , once for all , our belief that sonic ot ' tho men now in office arc as hearty in their own feelings and convictions as they have heeii in their professions , and that they
are prepared to make tlieir actB conform to their promises . IBut avo must spenlc of facts as wo find them , and review the acts of the JVliniaLry collectively , unguided by any diatinet explanation or statement of thoir ulterior intentions in Europe . If Mr . Disraeli is actuated by party motives , if ho casts a stronger colour on one fact and throws another into a kindly shade , wo have at least tho same facts to gonpou , wo arc not at tho mercy of bia con-
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Last night ' s Gazette contains the despatches received by the Admiralty from Sir Charles Napier relating to the recent gallant exploits of E . M . S . Arrogant and Hecla , in Witzend Strait . Substantially Captain Yelverton ' s ( H . M . S . Arrogant ) account does not differ from that which we have printed elsewhere . But we may remark that the gallant Captain , does justice to tlie staunch gunnery of the
enemy . " They returned to their guns twice in the midst of our fire , and were only compelled to leave when their guns were destroyed by our shot . " Of three merchantmen two were aground . Captain Hall ( H . M . S . Hecla ) brought off the third . " The admirable ; way / ' says Captain Yelverton , "in which he went in and brought out his prize under a galling fire from the enemy , deserves the greatest praise . "
Captain Hall succeeded in dismounting and bringing off three of the guns from the battery . The Arrogant had two men killed and three wounded . The Hecla had three men wounded , her Captain slightly , her First-Iiieuteriant ( Crewe Bead , ) very highly spoken of by CaptainHall , severely l > ut not dangerously wounded in the face . This exploit was performed at Elkness , twelve miles up a narrow and intricate - channel . Sir Charles Napier styles it a ' « smart operation , " and says , " it will show the enemy that they are not safe , even in their country towns . "
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616 THE LEADER . [ Satxjrdat ,
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rhere is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as tlie strain to keep thing's fixed when all the world is "by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
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SATURDAY , JUNE 3 , 1854 .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 3, 1854, page 516, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2041/page/12/
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