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      into the sbrt of cdaUtion iitf questioriv ^ otigfc was not in a position to answer ' for him , or for Mr . Gladstone . Mr . Bright , as a member of the Peace Society , might very fairiy be snpposed to desire that an end should be put to the war . For his friend Mr . Disraeli , however , he thought he could answer more explicitly . As the leader of the Conservative party in this country , and as one who must , therefore , consult the feelings of those who acted with him , Mr . Disraeli—he thought he could undertake to say . they might depend upon it- ^ would never consent to any terms of accommodation with Kussia which would not be likely to lead to an honourable and a lasting peace . They all knew the ' dodges ' played by parties . This rumour of a coalition might be one ; but he believed such a coalition to be utterly impossible . " In conclusion , Lord Galway expressed his conviction that Lord Palmerston is now conducting the war in a satisfactory manner , and assured the meeting that the Conservatives are not the men to make peace at

      any price . The Earl of Eixesmere on the Wak . —The Literary Institution of Worsley , on Tuesday night , was honoured by a lecture on the War , by Lord Ellesmere . Reviewing the course of hostilities , both by sea and by land , his Lordship approved of the general , conduct of affairs , and replied to the various objections that have been made to matters of detail . He admitted , however , that we entered on the struggle unprepared , and threw blame on the nation for not attending to the warnings given some years ago by himself and the late Duke of Wellington . This remissness was contrasted with the conduct of the Czars , who are always preparing their forts and their armies for war . Nevertheless , said his Lordship , " Russia Proper is not a warlike nation , and

      the Russians themselves have not the turn for war . I am not now speaking of the Cossacks and Tartars—^ -people who live on horseback , and may be included in her dominions ; but the inhabitants of the solid empire of Russia are very averse to military service , and I think , by their own consent , the emperor would not gain a single military volunteer among them , if the system of enlistment were the same as in England . But a nation to be military need hot be warlike in its own native tendencies . If you were to ask me which was the most warlike nation in the world I should say the United States of America . They have many thousand miles of frontier , and they have next to no army at all ; but they have a large population , accustomed to the use of arms , and ready to volunteer in any

      military expedition ; and when the invasion of Mexico was projected , which was rather a buccaneering sort of an expedition , they advertised for men , and an army of 20 , 000 were forthcoming in a fortnight . That is what I call a warlike nation . But , if you advertised in Russia , you would find no such eagerness ; the population there are pressed into the service , put in chains if necessary , made soldiers of , and in the course of two years' drilling they become the soldiers we have to deal with at Sebastopol—very serious foes to encounter , obedient and docile to their officers , endowed with great passive courage , and ready to die at any time at the post which is assigned to them . With regard to

      the officers , I don't believe there are men of higher military instruction in the world . " Lord Elleamere denied that we have not been instrumental in the capture of Sebastopol , and stated his opinion that , from the French press being silent on the disasters of their troops , the disproportion of loss during the winter might be more apparent than real . Adverting to Lord Raglan v he said that his presence in the camp was more frequent than had been supposed , as he often rode there in a private dress . He quoted the estimate of a competent authority that the Russian losses altogether have amounted to 400 , 000 ; but doubted if Russia would yield as yet , and r idiculed the idea of our humiliating her , which he , for one , had no wish to see .

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      DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTII . This country has sustained a loss , which has excited deep and general regret , in the death of Sir William Molesworth , the Minister for the Colonies , who expired on Monday at noon . His disease was gastric fever , which , acting on a body enfeebled by constitutional scrofula , led to a rapid exhaustion of the system . Sir William Molesworth was a member of an old Cornish family of large landed possessions , the first baronet of which was Governor of Jamaica , and was created by William III . a noble of the Revolution of 1688 , the date of the baronetcy being the year after .

      of a reaction in favour of Toryism , he was 'defeated by his former constituents , and he became comember with Mr . EdVirard Baines , of the Leeds Mercury , in representing the city to whiph . that journal belongs . On the dissolution in 1841 > he did not again contest Leeds , but remained out of Parliament until 1845 , when , in spite of the bigoted opposition of Mr . Miall , of the Nonconformist , who objected to Sir William on account of his editorship of Hobbes , he was returned for Southwark , which borough he has represented ever since . In January 1853 , he was made First Commissioner of Public Works under the Aberdeen administration ; and , on the resignation of Lord John RusselL in July last , he became Secretary for the Colonies . His accession to that post was hailed by a large party as an evidence of " the right man" being "in tHe right place ; " but he has not had sufficient time granted him to exhibit practically whether or not he possessed the requisite faculty for the office . Sir William ' s parliamentary speeches—many of which have taken a permanent position- ^ -were elaborately prepared , and : exhibited the characteristics of the literary man . For a brief period s he was the proprietor and editor of the Westminster Review , to which he contributed essays on politics . and political economy ; but , finding that he lost money by the property , he parted with it . His chief literary performance was his edition of the works of Hobbes of Malmesbury , for which he himself prepared a most copious index . The sale of this splendid work , which was in eleven volumes , illustrated with numerous engravings , has been very small . The intended biography of the philosopher remains in an incomplete state . In 1844 , Sir William married Mrs . West , widow of Mr . Temple West , of Nathon-lodge , Worcestershire , by whom he has left no issue . His last brother died unmarried . One sister survives , married to Mr . ltichard Ford , the author .

      The late Colonial Sacretary was born at London in 1810 ; so that his decease has been painfully premature . He was left fatherless at thirteen ; was sent to Cambridge , and was " rusticated" for despatching a challenge to his tutor ; was transferred to Edinburgh , where he learnt classics , mathematics , and metaphysics , from an Italian refugee ; went to Germany , and studied philology and history , uuulo the tour of Europe , and returned to England jn 1831 . He soon distinguished himself as an advocate of the Reform Bill , and became member for the Eastern Division of Cornwall in December , 1832 , without any opposition . In th « summer of 1837 , however , under the influence

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      OUR CIVILISATION . A Terrible Child-bed .- —A case of great inhumanity was brought before the notice of the Bow-street police magistrate at the close of last week by the chaplain of King ' s College Hospital . From the statement of a police officer , it appeared that , about a fortnight ago , he found a young woman in Red Lion-square , at midnight , supporting herself by the railings of the enclosure and holding a dead infant in her arms . On inquiry , he ascertained that she had just been turned out of a house in the neighbourhood , where her confinement had taken place only a few minutes previously . — The case was further investigated on Tuesday , when Isabella Ward , the person accused of thrusting the girl out of doors , appeared before Mr . Jardine . A good deal of evidence was received , from which it appeared that Joyce ,

      who is an unmarried girl of twenty years of age , without any place of abode , went to St . Giles ' Workhouse on the night of the 6 th of October , and requested admission on the ground that she was close upon her confinement . The porter , as a witness alleges , pushed her in the stomach , and said , * ' Oh , there is nothing the matter with you , " and discredited the statement - but , on the order of a medical man , he sent her up to the nurse of the lying-in-ward , who , being frequently deceived by girls making similar allegations for the sake of getting a night ' s lodging , refused to believe her story , but said that sho was suffering from disease . The nurse alleges that she offered to let Joyce remain in the receiving ward , but that this was refused by her : the girl denies the offer , and says she was forcibly turned out of the house .

      Be this as it may , she ultimately met a young man whom she knew , who took her to the place where Ward lives , and paid eighteenpence for a night ' s lodging for her . She went to bed ,, and was shortly afterwards confined . On calling out , Isabella Ward came up , was informed of the circumstance , and , as the girl alleges , forcibly pushed her out into the streets , upbraiding her with coming into a strange house for such a purpose . She then fetched a policeman , and told him the girl had been confined in the open air ; and the policeman brought her some hot brandy-and-water » and took her in a cab to King ' s College Hospital . The woman Ward states that , on her upbraiding the girl , the latter herself volunteered to go , and that the

      false Btory was told to the policeman in order that Joyce might bo taken to the hospital . Ward contended that she acted from humanity . — Mr . Jardine , as far as the workhouse was concerned , referred the matter to the Board of Guardians ; and , with respect to the woman Ward , remanded her for a week , ponding the result of the inquiry which the governor of the workhouse promised tiliould bo made . In the moanwhile , he expressed the extraordinary opinion that her conduct appeared to have boon " roasonubly humane and proper . " Considering that , upon her own showing , she caused the removal of the unfortunate creature from the room for which sho had paid , for the crime of being confined there , it gecms difficult to award any praise for humanity or propriety . Nbglect by a Pakisu Medical Assistant . —Ann Royce , an elderly woman , died a few days ago At the

      Union Workhouse ; West-street , Smithfield . It was proved at the inquest that she had suifiuftdJgfeidy from spasms ; that a friend went to the house of Mr . Hutchinson , the Union ' surgeon , ' and saw his assistant , on . a certain Sunday evening j and that , although urgently requested to . come immediately , he did not visit ! tfce woman till the following Tuesday evening . The next day he recommended that Sirs . Royce should be taken to the workhouse , which was done ; but she died a few . mijittifes after reaching the place . The jury returned a verdict of Natural Death , but severely censured the assistant . Mr . Hutchinson , in consequence , expressed his intention of resigning his office as surgeon to the Union . — -Another case of workhouse neglect came out at an inquest at Camden Town . Charlotte Young , aged sixty-six , was an inmate of St . Pancras workhouse . She was ill ,, and was attended by nurses who were very old women , and unfitted for the duty . One of these , finding the sick woman dead , as she supposed , " laid out ' the body without sending for the medical man . A complaint was also made that a son of the deceased , on applying to see his mother in her last illness , was roughly pushed from the gate by the porter . Escape of a Burglar . —A man who recently made an attempt on the house of Mr . Hume ,. son of the . late M . P ., and who , having broken his leg in endeavouring to escape , was conveyed to , the Middlesex Hospital , was taken thence between two and four o ' clock in the morning by four men , who got over the garden wall in thp rear of the hospital , entered the institution by means or picklock keys , and removed him from his room by dropping him out of the window . The policeman who had charge of the man was in bed and asleep . They then succeeded in carrying him through the garden , placing him in , a cab , and getting clear away . Murder in Northumberland . — An old woman , living at the village of Waterloo , near Matfen , hi Northumberland— -a secluded spot occupied by a few cottages which are resorted to in the summer and autumn months by tramps , broom-makers , and other vagrants—has been murdered for the sake of some money which the poor creature hoarded in her dwelling . She was found lying on the floor , with her hands strapped together with a leathern belt , and her feet tied with a rope . Her head was beaten in with some heavy instrument . The murderer has escaped . . ' . Embezzlement . —Thomas Page , an omnibus conductor , has been committed for trial , charged with embezzling large sums of money from his employer . A superannuated police sergeant having been employed to ride in the omnibus , it was found that the conductor appropriated about ten shillings a day . Page , to a certain extent , admitted that these accusations were true , but asserted that the utmost of his holdings-back was about a passenger a journey , out of which he had to treat the coachman . It appeared that he earned 20 s . a week , besides luggage money . —Two other cases of embezzlement were heard at Lambeth , the . one against Thomas Wallace , a boy of sixteen ; and the other against Thomas Benn , for absconding with 1 ( 5 ? ., flho moneys of his master . In the first case , the prisoner , as the prosecutor did not appear , was given ttp to his friends ; and , in the latter , the prisoner was remanded for the attendance of other witnesses . A Scottish Maiden . —Alice Grey , alias Alice Christie , alias Anastasia Huggard , is under remand at Wolverhampton , charged with perjury . The system pursued by this woman , who is a native of Scotland , is very singular . For some years post she has been in the habit of bringing false accusations of robbery against various persons , and so complete has boen her assumption of modesty , simplicity , and artlessness of character , that she has generally succeeded in procuring convictions , and has imposed on magistrates , police , and judges , to tho extent of repeatedly getting money assistance . A fetor daj's ago she procured the conviction of two boys for robbing her ; but shortly afterwards she was recognised as having been concerned in a similar case , which broke down . She was therefore arrested , and is now charged with wilful perjury . She had previously obtained assistance from several benevolent persons on a variety of pretences , her assertions always being aided by a marvellous appearance of modesty . But , before the Wolverhampton magistrates , on being asked whether she had any questions to put to tho witnesses , sho made some impertinent reply , accompanied by foul expressions towards tho magistrates , telling them that they might go to , and distributing similar compliments to the clork , tho bar , and the press . And , liberally showering this filth about her , she was removed . Unwomanly Women . —Bridget Williams and Mary Donovan , two Irishwomen , have been sent to p rison for twenty-one days for Ill-using a child while they wore In a state of intoxication . , Highway Robbery . —A daring attack vraa made about twelve o ' clock on Tuesday night , cloao to Uoxwn Church , on Sergeant Ward of the City M » l » tta ^ Two men made a violent assault on the « orgeant , •* »*»"" money from his pocket , snatched his ^ atcj . , " * «"« £ voured to make off . But the Sorff eant , ^ gg valiantly with his assailants , and recovered his wateh . Mrs , Wak who aeaisted ^ ^ t ^ ZSSS ^^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 1025, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2112/page/5/