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imously carried . Memorials from Cardiff and Swansea in favour of the proposed reformatory were then presented , an influential committee-was appointed for the purpose of obtaining donations and annual subscriptions , and a vote of thaoks was awarded to the High . Sheriff for presiding . . The Southampton Election . —Mr . Edwin James , Q . C ., addressed a meeting of the liberal electors at Southampton on " Wednesday evening . He was received with much favour , and the opinions he expressed were in accordance with enlightened principles of progress . The meeting was adjourned till Tuesday evening , to afford Mr . Weguelin , the other candidate , an opportunity of explaining his views . Sir E . Butler , a Conservative supporter of Lord Palmerston , is also in the field . Mr . Serjeant Pigott has retired , rather than divide the Liberals with Mr . James .
Fires . —A very destructive fire occurred on Thursday night at the premises of Messrs . Hbdgkinson and Rolls , patent envelope marmfacutrers , Church-passage , Upper Thames-street , City . It was not until a large body of water lad be « n thrown on the building that the flames were subdued , and the warehouse was then found to be completely destroyed . Some damage was also done to the belfry and steeple of St . Bennett ' s Church , hard by , for which at first great fears were entertained . The vestry likewise suffered , and the total damage amounts to many thousand pounds . —The premises of Messrs . Horton , flannel manufacturers , of Bromley , Middlesex , were nearly destroyed by fire on Thursday morning .
The State of the Metropolis . —Sir George Grey has been waited upon by a deputatioa from Paddington , which called his attention , to the inefficiency of the police arrangements . Australia .- —By the latest advices from , Melbourne brought ^ by the Lightning , -we learn that the Ministry has been overthrown . Mr . Cowper has formed a new Government . The SoiitciTOB-GEXERAXSHip . — The Hon . Stuart Wortley has accepted the office of Solicitor-General . This creates a vacancy in the Recordership of the City , which , it is lelieved , Mr . Bodkin will fill .
New Workhouses . —The deputation appointed at a meeting of ratepayers of the " West London Union , held on Tuesday evening , to protest against the erection , of the proposed new workhouse , waited on Thursday by appointment upon the Poor-law Commissioners at Gwydyr House , Whitehall . Af ter they had stated then * objections , the Hon . Mr . Bouverie said that he Was informed that in the time of pressure the present workhouse had not adequate accommodation . He thought the guardians were the better judges of-what wa 3 required than he was . The guardians were selected by the ratepayers , and , if they did not fuily represent them , that was a question for the ratepayers .
M . Kossbth . —The last of M . Kossuth ' s three lectures at Manchester was delivered on Saturday . The subject was the Austrian Concordat , which the" patriot loudly denounced . He mourned over the decline of Protestantism , and warned this country against forming an alliance with so base a power as Austria . The Persian Expedition . —Sir James Outram , K . C . B ., has left Southampton for Bombay , in order to take the command of the British force destined to operate against Persia . The Sewage Question . —The Board of Works had
an interview with Sir Benjamin Hall on Thursday , with reference to their differences on the drainage question . After an explanation from Mr . Thwaites , who conceived they had substantially complied with the Act of Parliament , Sir Benjamin Hall read a letter , in which Captain Burstill , a gentleman appointed "by tho Admiralty to report on the question , recommended that , at the south side , the outfall should bo at the upper part of the Erith Reach , fifteen miles from London-bridge , 7-8 th of a mile from Erith Church , and a quarter of a mile below Jenningtree-point , nearly opposite Itaynhnm Creek , and at thenorth side . Sir Benjamin said he would be satisfied with tins outlet , and tho board indicated a disposition to adopt it . .
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THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE . Sir Alexander Cockburn , yesterday morning , took his leave of the benchers and members of the Middle Temple , on his accession to the Chief Justiceship of the Court of Common Pleas . The hall was crowded with barristers and students , who gave the new Judge a most enthusiastic farewell . Sir Alexander was afterwards s-vyorn in in his own Court , and he will this day go through the same ceremony in the Courts of Queen ' s Bench . and Exchequer , and tvill then proceed to the Common Pleas , and take his seat as Chief Justice .
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THE GUNBOAT AFFAIR IN THE BLACK SEA . The Paris Pays states , with reference to this affair , that " the two commanding ofiicers ( Russian and English ) having exchanged explanations , agreed to refer the matter to the two Embassies at Constantinople , and , this course having been taken , the dispute was , we understand , amicably arranged . "
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Insurrection in Spain . —The garrison of Malag a lias been attacked by a band of persons proclaiming the Republic . The troops behaved gallantly , and order wa s soon re-established . Five of the insurgents were killed . The garrison had seven men wounded . The EaulofLucan and the Daily News . —Injliis case , Mr . Field ( for the Daily News ) moved for a rule to show cause why the defendant should not be allowed to put two pleas upon the record iu an action at present pending between the plaintiff and the defendant , Mr . George Frederick Smith , the registered proprietor of tho Daily News , for an alleged libel upon his lordship . The picas were to the effect that the article was a legitimate comment on the public acts of a public man ; that others had been criticized with equal severity , &c . The rule was refused .
The British Bank . —The Vice-Chancellor lias announced that lie intends to deliver judgment in this case this day ( Saturday ) or Monday . Tun Supposed Murdeu at Emm . —A young man named Thomas Cartwright Worrell , a carpenter residing nt Kennington , destroyed himself by swallowing a quantity of prussic acid yesterday morning , whilst locked up in tho cell of the Greenwich police-station , on a charge of having wilfully murdered George Carter , whoso body vas found on tho grounds of Captain Wheatley , at Erith , on the 1 st inst . Very strong suspicion rested upon Worrell ; but , when arrested , n . letter , addressed to liis father , expressing and protesting his innocence of the crime , was found upon him .
Mit . William Russkll . — A letter was received yesterday morning from Mr . William Russell , of the Times , to one of his friends , dated u Bakstchi-Serai , Nov . 4 , " in which ho states that ho is on his way homo , after a most agrceablo and interesting journey ; but that he will return through Russia to the Prussian frontier .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . Lobd RAVENSWOttTH ' s Speech . —We have received a letter from " J . P ., " stating that it was the Northern Daily JExpress—not , as we had it , the Newcastle Daily JExpresswhich first published Lord Ravensworth ' s speech about the Blaydon News-room , criticized by na last week ; and that the same paper has always printed full reports of " similar meetings at the other Institute ( called infidel ) at Blaydon . " M . Gaxxenga ' s Btgontis . —Our supplementary explanation on this subject is unavoidably postponed . The Moon ' s Rotation ;—Lieutenant Morrison and , ' W Kenward ' s communications in our next . We do not undertake to return rejected communications .
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PRESIDENT BUCHANAN . Howeveb strangers may regard the election of Mr . Buchanan as a triumph of the South over the North , there is at least one person who will smile at the idea , and that is James Buchanan . It is often assumed in England that the contest - "between South and North ought to have settled the subject of slavery , that those who have taken part in the presidential conflict were the furious Proslavery men on the one sidej or the Total . Abolitionists on the other . If that were so , how strange would he the result .
Our own readers do not need to be informed that there were other considerations . " What is the ' Republican . ' party , which has set itself up against the Democratic ? It is too new to he defined . It professes to con sider 'the'Democratic party not new enough , not enough go-ahead— -ultra-Conservatives We cannot place the new party . There was something , too , in the personal character of the candidates . Colonel F :
be-MoifTis an enterprising , intelligent inan . He may have an honest zeal in promoting particular questions , hut one thing he most certainly desires to promote , and that is , the advancement and glory of Pbimont . As a Western explorer , a promoter of mines , and the contractor for a new cause , he is admired , just as we admire a fast horse ; but who could
give him a good sound character ? Mr . Millard ITiLiiMOKE , elected as Vice , succeeded to the Presidency on the death of the full President . lie became President ' by the visitation of God ; ' and got through his duties respectably . Moreover , he had been received at court in England 1 Those were his qualifications . The other can did ate was James
BUGIIANAK . And who is he ? He is the inheritor of a fortune sufficient to render him independent . : In early life ho entered iuto the law and mastered the . statutes in common law of his country . He has served in most offices of tho Union , he has represented it in the autocratic court of Russian Nicholas , and in the constitutional oourt of Queen Victoria . In every variety of situation he is
known to sustain tho interests and dignity of his country with firmness , and to behave with a courtesy which disarms his antagonists . It is quite evident that his unflinching conduct in tho Central American question , and in the Enlistment question , caused him to bo regarded with rancour by tho British Government . A parade has been made of conceding to the courtesies of Mr . Dallas points which were denied to Mr . Buchanan as if Mr . Dallas were the more successful
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Lkader Office , Saturday , November 22 . THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY FRAUDS . Redpath and Kent were agniu examined nt tho Clerkenwell police-court yesterday ( Friday ) . The former appeared -very hapgard , "but Kent looked extremely lively and indifferent . Mr . Gifford ( who appeared for tho prosecution ) said ho did not propose to occupy tho attention of tho court with details . On tho last occasion , two cases wcro proved , and ho should now proceed with four more , mailing siJe cases in all . lie should show that Redpath had received dividends on tho amount of stock fraudulently standing ia hia name . With respect to the aharo Kent liad in tho transaction , it would ho shown that ho had made entries in the book which contained Mr . Rodpath ' a account , and it would bo shown that ho must have been cognizant of those fraudulent transfers . Ho should also call tho attcntioa of tho Wlirt to another class of frauds which had been
cornhe said : . —" The next account to Redpath ' s , on page 554 , is Robertson and Watson ; it is a joint account , and comprises a considerable number of items . " Mr . Wbntner : " Now , look at this , and see if nearly all the items are not-written on erasures . " Witness : "Idon't see it . " Mr . Wontner : " Look again , and be particular . " Witness : " I think I see two . "^ Mr . Wontner : " Can ' t you find four or six there . If not my eyes have deceived me . " Witness : " I really cannot see more than two . " A lighted candle was procured , against which witness held the page , and minutely examined it , adding , "I really do not see more than two— : if two . I think there is but one . " He again minutely examined the page , and said he could see but one erasure Possibly , he continued , what Mr . Wontner pointed out were erasures , but he would not swear that they-were .
mitted jointly by the two prisoners . There was a transfer of stocl from Stephen George Hammond to George Sidney , and the attesting-witness was Charles Kent . It was believed that the name of Sidney was a forgery , and that there was no such person in existence . It would be shown that Sidney did not live at the place represented , but that Redpath , when he was out of employment , resided there some years ago . The evidence -was then gone into , and corroborated these statements , the general effect being that the £ gure 1 lad in several cases been added to certain amounts consisting- simply of a few hundred and odd pounds , so that there -was a fraudulent gain of 100 Z . upon each of the transactions . In the cross-examination of Mr . Clarke , formerly registrar of the Great Northern Railway Stock ,
The following letter from Kent to Redpath was produced and read : —• " My dear Sir , —I enclose you three letters . Nothing has been wanting . You may depend on my keeping everything straight " ( this word was underscored ) , " and I will not leave the office . I am very much obliged for your card . lam much in want of 30 / . Had I not better sell some of my stock ?—Yours very truly , —Chas . Kent . " It was mentioned in the course of the trial that the clerks frequently received assistance from Redpath , and that he was very kind to them . Both tie accused were remanded for a "week . A petition in bankruptcy was yesterday presented against Kedpatb . The case has been allotted to Mr . Commissioner Goulburn , and Mr . Pennell is " the official assignee . It is understood that the petitioning creditors are stockbrokers in the City .
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SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 22 , 1856 .
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There ^ is nothing so revolutionary , "because there is nothing-so -unnatural and convulsive , as xhe Btrain to keep ; things fixed ^ rhen aU the -wotIcL is by the very ia-wor ita creation in . eternal progress . — Db . Ajinold
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 1113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2168/page/9/
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