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mation , is to me a proof of the sympathy inspired by the policy I have hitherto pursued—a policy in which it is my intention constantly to persevere . " The close alliance existing between the two most powerful nations of the earth is honourable alike to the wisdom of the sovereigns who govern them and to the character of their people . They have understood how preferable is a mutually advantageous friendship to ancient and ill-defined rivalry . This alliance is a new fact in history , and is the triumph
of civilisation . Notwithstanding the misfortunes which have weighed upon niy kingdom , I have entered into this alliance , because the house of Savoy ever deemed it to be ita duty to draw the sword when the combat was for justice and for independence . If the forces which I bring to the Allies are those of a state not vast , I bring with them , nevertheless , the influence of a loyalty never doubted , and supported by the valour of an army always faithful to the banners of its kings .
" We cannot lay down our arms until au honourable and therefore durable peace has been secured . This we shall accomplish by seeking unanimously the triumph of true right and the just desires of each
. " I thank you for the good wishes you this day express for my future happiness and for that of my kingdom . While you thus express yourselves with respect to the future it gives ine pleasure to speak of the present ,, and to congratulate you on the high position attained by Great Britain . This is to be attributed to the free and noble character of the nation , and also to the virtues of your Queen . " The King and his suite left Guildhall a little after two o ' clock . The town was brilliantly illuminated at night .
Previous to starting for the City , the King received at Buckingham Palace several deputations , including one from the Lord Mayor , and one from the Presbyterian , Independent , and Baptist bodies , coup led with rather a long discourse on religious liberty . On his return from the City , the King visited Lord and Lady Palmerston at their house on Piccadilly-terra ^; and then started by train for Windsor , wlier- there was a dinner party in St . George ' s Hall . . On Wednesday , the King was made a Knight of the Garter , and on Thursday he departed for Boulogne .
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THE ORIENT . India . —The Santal insurrection is not yet . sup pressed . Actions , of more or less importance , continually take place ; and , though the insurgents are constantly defeated , they still give considerable trouble . Beerbhooni remains in their hands . A large body of them attacked a party of the 63 rd , under Captaio Phillips , at Karown , but were defeated with a loss of three hundred in killed aud wounded . A . document , purporting to be the confession of Seedoo Maujeo , the leader of the movement , has been published ; and the insurrection is hero attributed , as was at first stated , to the tyranny and extortion of the Bengalee money-lenders . Seedoo says that he 1 b
were suggested from the Hague ; that a Dutch official , specially selected , was sent to Japan ; and that he has since acted as a kind of Foreign Secretary to the Imperial Government . These facts are , indeed , admitted by the King himself , whose notes on the treaty have been published ; and they appear to deserve , if not chastisement , at least attention . The Dutch ha the East are jealous hi the extreme of Anglo-Saxon influence , and by no means scrupulous in their endeavours lo undermine it . M . Dedel ' s cool attempt , in 1852 , to claim the sovereignty of Borneo far this Court is not yet forgotten . " China . —From Shanghai we learn that a formidable piratical fleet has been destroyed to the southward of Ningpo by the English brig Bittern , Captain Vansittart . The pirates made a stout resistance , and the master of the Bittern , Mr . Turner , together with a marine , was killed . Eighteen of our men , moreover , were wounded , several severely ; but tbe whole of the piratical fleet was sunk . Some excitement has been caused at Canton by intelligence of the Imperial forces having been defeated by the rebels on the borders of the province . At Hong-Kong , a demand for imports has lately sprung up , and bids fair to increase , if it be not checked by piracy . Egypt . —Several of the engineers appointed to survey the Isthmus of Suez , and to report on the practicability of the proposed canal between the Mediterranean and Red Seas , arrived at Alexandria from France with M . de Lesseps on the 17 tli of November . The Commission consists of Messrs . Renaud and Lieusson , en the part of France ; Mr . M'Lean for England ; Monsieur de Negrelli for Austria ; Leutz , for Prussia ; Conrad , for Holland . Mr . Rendel , wko was also appointed to represent England , and M . Paleoccapa , on the part of Sardinia , have not arrived . Said Pacha treats the Commissioners with the utmost courtesy . English Commissioners have begun to fix the buoys which are to mark the cliaunel at the entrance to the port of Alexandria . Several robberies of specie and goods in transit . to aud from India have lately been committed on the road between Suez aud Cairo ; a fact which , together with certain delays in tlie passage of the mails from India , have caused the director of the transit , Mr . Lee Green , to lose favour with the viceroy . Price * of provisions have been pushed up extravagantly high , and the port of Alexandria is thronged with merchant vessels .
inspired by tho Deity , whom ho saw descend in the form , of a cart-wheel . The ignorance of the Sautals is very great ; aud it is related that one of our authorities , having taken a number of them , forced thorn to give security-bonds for good behaviour , which the savages looked upon a * " tho Company's orders to murder the Muhajuns . " Kohundil Khan , Chief of Kaudahar , and brother of Dost Mahomed , has died ; and his decease has been followed by civil dissensions among his sons . Dost Mahomed contemplates an armed intervention , as ho fours that the etato of disunion now existing may increase the influence of Persia ; but some doubts aro felt as to whethe
ther the Dost will really march his forces into disturbed region . All ia quiet on tho north-west frontier ; and in Oude tho danger of a contest between tho Mahomedana and tho Hindoos appears to be lessoning , Ameen AH having , according to one account , given up his expedition against tho Hindoo temple , aud returned crest-fallen , owing to the defection of his followers ; though , according to another account , ho has sot out . The King , it is said , has promised his protection to the Hindoos . Tho titular N " awah of tho Carnatic , died on the 7 th of October . The embassy to Ava has boon received by tho King with great splendour . Brigadier Mackenzie continues to progroBa towards recovery . Trade is dull .
Japan . —It i « generally believed in India that the treaties recently signed by the Japanese Govern men t with tho American and English CominiHiiiouora are frauds . Tho Tinea Calcutta correspondent aonertH that ' trade is no more permitted than before . No one is allowed to trado but the Imperial agents , who again will sell only proviaion « . All communication with tho interior in prohibited , and , in fact , both nations ara precisely where they wore . It appears from a Dutoh statement ( published in tho Official Gfazette of tho Netherlands Jthat nil those deceptions
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THE PETITION OF MR , BATES , THE CONVICT BANKER . Mr . Bates has had drawn up a memorial to her Majesty , praying for pardou , mainly on the ground that , though nominally a partner , lie was , in fact , but a head clerk in the firm , and was ignorant to a great extent of the frauds carried on by Strahan and Paul . He entered the banking-houso in 1820 as a junior clerk . . After being gradually promoted , he was at Christmas , 1841 , upon the retirement of Mr . Robert Snow , invited to beeomo s \ partner in his stead , but upon tho distinct understanding that his promotion was not to confer upon him any privilege beyond an increase of his income to £ 800 per annum and of
being announced to the world as a partner . He states that during tho whole period of his co-partuerdhip he strictly abided by the arrangement upon which he became partner , and except in the ordinary routine business of the bank , never possessed any control whatever over the management of tho banking business , either with respect to tho opening of any largo or important account for tho receipt of money , or upon the occasion of any considerable advance of money , his duty in either event being to refer the parties to his partners , or himself to report to them aud act upon their instructions . He states that , on tho . occasion of an application by the Mowers . Gandoll for an advance of money , he advised Sir John Paul
uagement of the affairs of the firm , which were wholly and solely conducted under the direction and authority of Strahan and Paul . On these grounds Mr . Bates aaks her Majesty's most gracious pardon . —Globe .
to refuse , but that tho advance , to tho extent of £ 30 , 000 or £ 40 , 000 , was given ; whereupon he said to his partner , " Well , Sir John , you may date the ruin of the house from tho moment those acceptances aro given . " Mr , Bates then goes on to declare that ho waa not in any manner cognisant of , or privy or party to , the sale of tho bonds belonging to tho prosecutor , Dr . Griffith , by Sir John Doan Paul , in March , 1854 , and that ho wus not informed of it until some time after it had tukon place . Ho says that , although it may be urged against him that Ian remaining a member of tho firm for one moment after he became acquainted with such fact wan a moral weakness on his tlie subordinate and
part , yet ho hopes that comparatively dependent position which ho held , and his natural reluctaucj t <> precipitate tho ruin of liia purtuors , while they had tho opportunity of retrioviug the mischief which had boon done , may not bo disregarded . Ho further states that ho believed tho bonds wore replaced . Iu support of nil these allegations , ho rol ' orfl to affidavits , prepared by Strahan and Paul , and ready to bo sworn in tho Bankruptcy Court , to tho effect that Baton , although a raomlior or partner in the firm , was not entitled to or intdrotitod in tho profits of tho bank , ho receiving in lieu thereof , a fixed unlary of £ 1 , 000 per annum , without having any control ovor , or right or power of interference in , the «< u-
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" March 7 , 1854 . —My dear Johnnie , —It is useless my saying I will not write to you ; I ennnot help writing to you to entreat you to live with me again , I am so very wretched . I hardly think you would persist in refusing my request if you could see my sorrow . When you wrote to me ' to implore that I would return to you , or you should go mad , ' I do say that ; but I beg you to forg ive me , and have mercy on me , and come to ine . lie generous , dear Johnnie , and forgive . You shall never repent returning . If you will return there shall never be any temper again on my part , and I will do all I can to make you happy , and to win back tbe affection which seems gone from me . Do listen to me , Johnnie , and believe me , I am so miserable . Let us meet and never name the past . I am sure your mother would rather we lived together than separate
A GAY LADY . An action for criminal conversation was tried in th « Court of Common Pleas on Monday , the plaintiff in which was a Mr . Hawker , and the defendant Sir Henry Seale , Bart ., a major iu the Devon Militia Mr . Hawker and his wife were married in 1851 ; but unfortunately their tenfpers were irritable , and they would quarrel about the merest trifles with a captiousness worthy of children . Two years after their marriage , they were separated ; and though they came together again shortly afterwards , it was but fora brief period , and they finally parted in the course of 1853 . Mrs . Hawker , however , desired even then to return to her husband , and , in the month of March , 1854 , wrote the following letter to him : —
if we lived in peace and mutual forbearance . With regard to money matters , 1 am grieved your mother has had so much to pay for us . But , for the future , if you will only live with me , I promise on my side to be as prudent as possible , and if you made me an allowance for dress I cotild not have any bills . 1 want to sell the little carriage , and what I get for that would nearly clear the expense of getting settled in this house , and I have not any other bills and never wish to bavo any again . I ) o , dear Johnnie , come to me and forgive me us you liope to be forgiven . I will do anything you wish . If you like , let us sell everything we have and repay your mother as far as we can , and then , starting fairly , let us pray Cod ' s help , and for the future we maybe very happy ; for , as yet , I do not expect you to love uio as before ; but come , and Jet me show ' I love you . —Ever your affectionate wifeLii . ky M . Hawkeh . "
, Shortly alter this letter had been written , however , Miv . Hawker became accounted with Sir Henry Seale ; and the whole course of her affections appeared to be turned . Sir Henry was a married man with a family ; yet it was shown in evidence that for some months ho kept up a . criminal intercourse with Mrs . Hawker . This appears to have token place chiefly at the house of a Minn Spurling , at Westhoc-terrace , wliere Mrs . Hawker took apartments , and where Sir Henry waB a coustan visitor , lunching , dining , and spending the evening , and having at length a certain room set apart for him which was culled "Sir Henry ' s dressing-room . Miss Spurliug , in the course of her cross-examination , said , she suspected that ' something improper was received her rentthat all
Koing on , but , " if she , waa that concerned her . " Sir Henry would often rernaui with Mrs Hawker all iha evening , and would then pretend to be let out by ono of tho scrvantH ( who appears to have been a confidante ) , hut would immediately steal back on tiptoe , reusoend tho stairs , and pass the night in the house . On one of these occasions , tho fact was diacovoredby his foot tripping against a step , and causing him to stumble . Sometimes Mra . Hawker would send down in tho morning for another breakfast-cup , and more broad-aud-buttcr—enough , one of tho witnesses « aid , amidst much laughter , tor thrCo or four people . At other times , when Sir Henry called , and was told Mm . Hawker was in her bod-room , to the rather improbabl
he would reply ( according y statement of Mihh Spurling ) , "Oh , very well ; I will Ko up to her . " Tho baronet ' s military Baali wan one morning discovered «> n Mra . Hawker ' s IkkI ; two indentations were found on the pillowa ; and » t » Il more unequivocal proof of tho intimacy that , 1 ml "wj « " * * jf was revealed to the watchful eyes of « 1 'W . -orvant in tho house . In oouHoquonou of thorn * fuc , 4 h the , m jurod husband wot a dotoctivo H'f l 0 om ^ huuLl ^ { he baronet and the W iJ ^ Z Thi drfiS and tho present ucli . ^» ™ J » " ^ . l and improbawas that tho evidence ><« 2 ' juntify a verdict bio , and thnt t w- not » . « £ ' ^ ™ J ^ r , came to a Sei ^ t SSSSU an ^ ama ^ to the amount
° / Jurthor illuHtmtioii « f tho habita of Wr « . Hawker Aluitlioi " *"" .. v of one of the witneaacu , KHSdt had ^ otrr / amoking in a field with Sir Jlonry Bottle ,
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December 8 , 1855 ] THE LEADER . H 69
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 8, 1855, page 1169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2118/page/5/
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