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    fore the Duke of Wellington , who resolved to take no steps in the md&er , and who commanded General Hall tp let the subject'drop , and not to talk of it . In the following year , another anonymous letter from the same writer was received at the Horse Guards , containing twenty-one charges against General Hall of a stilfmore serious character . The Duke of Wellington ordered the General to reply to these , and an inquiry was made by various officers of the array , the result of which was that General Hall was complimented for the facilities which le gave for the investigation , and for the discretion and forbearance he had

    exhibited . In a subsequent interview with the Duke of Wellington , his Grace cordially concurred in this feeling . But in March , 18 5 $ ( in consequence of General Hall objecting to serve under General Cavendish ) , a Court of Inquiry was instituted , to asceiiiain whether General Cavendiah was the author of the anonymous letters , or cognisant of their being sent ; and the result was that , after a grea . t deal of very nicely-balanced evidence , the Court decided that General Cavendish was not the writer . To the statement of these facts ,

    General Hall adds : —* I have applied to Lord Hardinge to know whether the language attributed to him by Colonel Cavendish—namely , ' to treat me and my suppor ters with the contempt which our despicable conduct deserved '—had been UBed by his Lordship . Lord Hardinge > in answer , ' most unequivocally denies having used these expressions , or anything like them , at any time . '" With reference to this statement , General Cavendish has written to the Times tp say . that he has appealed to Lord Hardingeto direct a public military inquiry on oath .

    Widows' Pensions in the Army . —A Royal Warrant has recently been issued , making certain rules and regulations for granting a fixed sum of . money in lieu of pensions , compassionate allowances , and gratuities to widows , families , and relatives of officers killed in action , or dying of wounds I'eceived in face of the enemy within six months after being wounded .

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    affords no ground for remonstrance : we must all decide for ourselves -wherein lies the ess « nfis of true religion . That you should express your "belief to persons of your own sect and way of thinking is natural , and in accordance with the rights of all ; but that you should circulate it indiscriminately to all residents in the parish is , I think , a piece of priestly assumption , requiring a public protest from those who are not content to be stigmatised as enemies of true religion because they have the misfortune to differ from the

    Rev . Michael Gibbs . I shall only add , that I consider the intense intolerance of the observation to be as much at variance with the spirit of Christ ' s teaching , —with the charity that vaunteth not Itself , is not puffed up , doth not behave itself unseemly , is not easily provoked , thinketh no evil , ' whose law is to 'judge not , that ye be not judged , '—as I believe the Sabbatarian views in support of which it is enounced to be in direct contradiction of every word recorded as spoken on the subject by Christ or by his Apostles . I lave the honour , &c , P . A . Taylob . "

    of the band , and he found that , after the conclusion of the music , all the public-bouses ia the neighbourhood -were filled ; but , in answer to a ques tion from Six Benjamin Hall he said he was not prepared to say that the police courts on the Mondays following the playing of the band have more charges of drunkenness than on any other Mondays . Sir Benjamin furthermore asked if the deputation looked upon skating in the parks on Sundays as improper : Mr "Wayland replied that they certainly did ; but Mr .

    Haldane added that ifc might be impolitic to interfere with that which had been so long established , although it was certainly a desecration of the Lord ' s-day . Finally , Sir Benjamin Hall gave a direct negative to the wishes of the deputation , but promised , with reference to a wish expressed by several of the members , that , should anything like " revelry *' ensue on the playing of the band , he would consider how far it would be bis duty to advise that it should , be stopped .

    Pea . oe Deputation to Lord Paxmerstgn . —The Premier has received a deputation from Mr . Cobden , Mr . Milner Gibson , and other members of the Manchester peace party , who urged the insertion in the approaching treaty of Paris of a clause binding the Powers to adopt arbitration in all subsequent disputes . Lord Palmerston replied with great courtesy that the Government would give to the memorial all the attention due , not only to the spirit in which it was conceived , but to the persons from whom it emanated ; but ha suggested various reasons why arbitration , though adopted witli success between individuals , is impracticable between nations . Defdtatiok in Favour ot Polish Independence

    —A deputation , consisting of the Marquis of Breadalbane ; the Marquis of Townshend Viscount Raynham , M . P . ; Colonel Pinney , M . F . ; Mr . . E . Beales ; Mr . W . L . Birkbeck , and Captain Charles Szulczewski , had an interview with Lord Palmerston , on Saturday , for tie purpose of presenting to hitn a memorial from the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland , and of begging that he , would impress on the English Plenipotentiaries at Paris the necessity of bringing before the Conferences the claims of Poland to be emancipated from her present state of subjection . Lord Palmerston , \ vho appeared to listen with great attention , promised that the question should receive the earnest consideration of the Government ; andjthe deputation withdrew .

    Hamfstead Heath . —A motion by Mr . Turner at the Metropolitan Board of Works , for referring tile memorial from the vestry at Hampstead , as to securing the heath as a place of public recreation , to the Committee of Works and Improvements , has been rejected by a large majority . State of Thade . —The reports of the general trade of the country during the week ending last Saturday , are most favourable . At Manchester there has been a good average business , and the transactions would have been larger but for the firmness of prices . At Birmingham , the " iron trade continues dull , owing chiefly to the orders from , the United States being

    unusually limited . The other manufactures of the place are also , with some exceptions , inanimate . A meeting has been held in the Potteries for the purpose of memorialising the Government to propose a mutual abolition of import duties between France and England . At Wolverhanxpton it has been resolved to establish a Chamber of Commerce . The proposals for creating new joint-stock banks in Birmingham are no longer viewed with favour . T"he Nottingham repor t desoribes great activity . In the woollen districts , also , the transactions have been large , Btocks are low , and confidence prevails . In the Irish linenmavketa the tendency to improvement is well maintained . — Times .

    Death of a Cohviot pbom alleged Neglect . —An inquiry which had been six times adjourned was resumed , and concluded on Monday on board the Unity Hospital ( convict ) ship before Mr . Carter , the coroner for Kent , respecting the death of a convict named Charles Seddon , aged twenty-five . Seddoti was ruptured , and had undergone an operation a few weeks « go . On the 15 th ult . ho complained of a Bovore pain in the stomach , but it scorns that he was not properly attended to , and at leng th ho died from Btrangulated hernia . The jury returned a verdiot . to that effect j but , considering that there had beon considerable neglect on the part of the officials in obargo of the convicts on the night of the death , they recommeiitdod that the coroner should report the facts to the Scoretary of State , with a request on their part that the Government would order an inquiry to bo

    made into all the ciroumstanoea . Suioidh in St , Paui / s Cathedtial . —The metropolitan cathedral was on Friday week the soeno of a mont appalling suicide . Alexander Smart , a man -who was onoo n , watoh and clock-maker , but who lias recently rotired from bueineuB , wont to the whiepering gallery , and , exaotly aa the clock struck twelve , mounted the handrail , gave three hysterical laughs , crying out each time " Ah I ah I ah ! " and flung bint 8 elf over . Two of the vergers observed the preliminaries of the catastrophe from a distance , and instantly ruaUod forward : but they -were too late , end the man

    ' The Queen Threatened by a Maniac . —Mr . Jardiue , solicitor to the Treasury , and Sergeant Lockyer , of the detective police , have been conducting an inquiry at St . Alban ' s , into the conduct of a Mr . Parker of that town , who has recently addressed two letters to the Queen , describing himself as " the prophet Elijah , " asserting Ms claim to the Crown , requiring her Majesty to sunrendeT her lights and dignities to hiin , and adding that , if she refused , he should seize the throne by main force at the * point of the bayonet , and that she must take the consequences . From a medical examination , it became apparent that the man is of unsound mind , and he has therefore been removed to Bethlehem Lunatic Asylum .

    MISCELLAIEOUS . The CouBT .- ^ - The King of the Belgians arrived at Dover on Monday night , on a visit to the Queen ; and on Tuesday he reached Windsor . — -The Princess Boyal was confirmed in the private chapel of Windsor Castle on Thursday ; the Archbishop of Canterbury presiding . The Queen , and the various rnembei * s of the royal family were present , together with the Princess ' s godfather , the King of the Belgians . The

    Court newsman is rather meagre in his details of the ceremony ; but he gives an ample list of the " distinguished" company ( which included the Ministers ) , and he does not forget to > chronicle that " the Princess Royal wore a rich white satin glace" gown , with five flounces pinked , the "body richly trimmed with white riband and Mechlin lace "—very sumptuous humility indeed . After the ceremony , the Queen entered the Green Drawing-Roona , where she received tho'" congratulations" of "the distinguished company . "

    Mr . Roebuck on the Faii , ob > Kaks . —A letter from Mr . Roebuck has appeared in the Sheffield Times , stating , in allusion to > some remarks recently made in a lecture , that he believes the charge against Lord Palmerston of being a , traitor to his country , and of having caused the fall of Kars by means of the money furnished by the Turkish Loan , is wholly unfounded . He disagrees with many of the Premier's official acts ; he thinks Lord Stratford to blame , and therefore the ministry ; but that Lord Palmerston has designedly betrayed England , he regards as a '" monstrous calumny . " Von BiEiXi . —The continental papers record the death of the Austrian astronomer , Von Biela , discoverer of the comet which bears his name . He died at Venice on the 18 tli of February .

    The Rev . Michael Gibbs repboved . —Some impertinent observations in connexion with the Sabbath question , recently put forth by tho Rev . Michael Gibbs , have been reproved , with admirable spirit and temper , in a letter which we here reproduce : — " Carey - lane . City , March 13 , 1856 . Reverend Sir ,- —I have received a small pamphlet called ' Fourteonth Annual Report for tho united Parishes of Christ Church , Newgate-streot , and St . Leonard , Foster-lane . ' It ia addressed , ' My respected Parishioners , ' and , signed * Michael Gibbs , Vionr and Rector . ' I presume it is in tho nature of a oiroular , and that it is , sent to every householder . The second paragraph commoucoa thus : — 'But while there is a prospect of peace from fo

    reign war , it may be feaved that there will bo strife at home . The enemies of true religion are not backward in showing their determination to do all in their jpower to separate tlio laws of God from tho laws of tho Hud , so that the lacter shall no longer promote tho obsorvanco of the former . ' It ia evident from a eubaoquent passage that you are alluding to recent 4 attempts to repeal the lawa which prevent the opening of tho British Museum and other places of amusement on the Lord ' s day . ' That you should , oppoeo buoU attempts can bo no subject for criticism : all men ehould act up to their opinions . That you should believe auch attempts to bo wicked , and their supporters to bo enemies of true religion ,

    Mb . Latakd has been reinstated as Lord Rector of Marisehal College and University , AJberdeen . He was entertained at a public breakfast , when he expressed doubts as to the peace which 3 s about to be concluded being satisfactory to the English people . The Metbopoijtan Thoroughfares— -A motion submitted to the Metropolitan Board of "Works , directing " that it be referred to the Committee of "Works and Improvements to take into consideration and report upon a comprehensive plan for making , "widening * , and improving streets ^ roadSj and Ways for facilitating the passage and traffic between different parts of the metropolis ^ ' has been carried after some discussion . A Fire has occurred at University College , Oxford ; but it has not done much damage .

    Mr . Augustus Stafford , M . P ., on" the Cbtmean Campaign . —A lecture by this gentleman , giving an account of his experiences in the Crimea , has been delivered by him at the Assembly Rooms , Stamford . The details were of the same nature as those with which we are already familiar . The Band in Kensington Gardens . —A deputation from the West London Sunday Rest Association has ¦ waited on Sir Benjamin Hall , at the office of Public Works , an order to urge on him the propriety of putting a stop to the playing of tho band in . Kensington Gardens on Sundays . Mr . Haldane , in introducing the deputation , said that a large number of the constituency of Marylebone are opposed to the Sunday performances of the band , and he held out a threat that they would make their displeasure manifest at the next election if the cause were not

    removed . Sir Benjamin Hall said it appeared to mm that the deputation viewed with even greater horror the playing of the band on Sundays , than the opening of the British Museum , &c ., on Sundays . ( At this there were cries of " Hear , Hear . " ) Now , from his own observation , and from information supplied by a police superintend ant , he could state that tho 76 , 000 persons generally attending the gardens on Sunday during the performance of the band behaved with the most remarkable propriety , not even pluoking a flower . He wished distinctly to understand what those who were originating this movement wanted to do . If they wanted to deprive the people of every species of reoreation on the Sunday , let them plainly

    Bay so . FirHt , they said they wanted to get rid of tho band in Kensington gardens . It would seera that tho industrious classes wore to have no reoreation—no band in Kensington-gardens , no steam-boats , no admittance to Kew-gardena nor to Hampton-courb ; but that they might walk about tho streets of London where no reoreation is to be found , excepting in tho gin-shop and publics-houses . He had as mucli respect for tho Sabbath as any one ; but military bands played on Sundays in the courtyard of the Rogent'a-parlc barracks , in the Colour Court of St . James ' s , and on

    tho tori'ace of Windsor Castle , as woll as in many ot tho garrison towns throughout tho kingdom ; and , unless in those places it could be shown that tho people nre worse Christian or worse subjects than in other places , they could make out no case . —Mr . Haldano said , with regard to tho playing of the band in military places , they wore not at liberty to interfere with dJBoiplme , however wrong they might think tho act . Sir . Benjamin Hall , said discipline had nothing to do with it . Mr . Wayland , a tract deliverer to tho London Missionary Society , stated that ho distributed tracts ia Kensington Gavdona during the performance

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    Mauch 22 . 1856 . 1 THE LEADER . 273

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 22, 1856, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2133/page/9/