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Eakl uraxvjlle has been . appointed Chancellor of the London University in succession to the Eai-1 of Burlington , resigned . Attempted Murder , by a Wife . —A ivomnn , naraul Catherine Todd , was charged at Clerkenwell yesterday / with murderously wounding her husband . The mac came home on the previous night drunk , ami , finding that his wife bad h ' sh for supper , he got out of temper , anil took up a knife , with which he attempted to stab lier . A quarrel ensued ; and tlic wife , taking the knife away from him , plunged it into his temple . The police were called in , and the man wits conveyed to the workhouse , where an operation was performed which ma }' have the effect of saving his life , though he is still in a doubtful state . The woman Avas remanded .
The K > 'igjitsbiudc ; k Church Case . —Sir . rolnt J > odson has announced , officially , to the Hog-islivir of the Court of Arches , that he will deliver his lon ^ -pending judgment in these suits on this day ( Saturday ) at eleveu o ' clock . Run on the National Bank or Tn-i-KiiAnv . —In consequence of the late decision of the Lord Chancellor with regard to banks , there was a run by tlie depositors on the National Bank , 'l'ippcrary , last ] Mr > n < lay anil Tuesday , Tlie manager was obliged to send for a party of police to keep order while the depositors , who quite blocked up the place , wore waiting to receive tlieir respective amounts . On Tuesday and Wednesday , there was a similar run on the branch of the Rational Hank in Cashel .
Crystal Palace . —Return of admissions for six days , ending Friday , December 19 th , 18515 , indudhi £ season ticket holders , G 108 . Caitajn IIaktstkin . —We regret to ' announce that , owing to the immediate departure of Captain Jlartstein and the American officers of her Majesty ' s shiji Resolute . the invitations to dine with the President and Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society and other public bodies Iinvo necessarily been declined . Captain llartatein and olliccrs and crew will , we believe , return to the United States in her Majesty ' s steamer Retribution , now at Portsmouth . — Times .
Tub Royal British Bank . — . Tuikimkst . — J < ord Justices Knight Bruce and Turner delivered _ , ju
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of being relieved from a policy on the life of WshZ Palmer , to insure a sum of 13 , 000 ? ., for which aW premium , exceeding 17 0 OZ . was paid . Within at days after the insurance was effected , an absolute assiST ment of , t was executed by Walter Palmer . to his Ser William Palmer . Walter Palmer died some short ti ™ afterwards , and William Palmer has since been hu 2 for murder . The consideration for the assignment If * debt alleged to be due from Walter Palmet to wE ™ Palraer , and which was less in amount than the suS paid for the premiums . A-Mr , Pratt had had poss eS Z ^ &Fl- ^ . was . suggested , in the bill tha ? he claimed lien itbut l
a upon , y his answer lie dk claimed any such interest , and lie appeared to admit tho whole case made by the bill , which was that the noliev was obtainedby fraud . He had given up the uolicv which was now in the hands of the court The other defendant was the : Attorney-General , any property of William Palmers at the time of Ms execution bein ^ vested in her Majesty . He was not in a situation to say whom they should desire to appoint . The court might , if it thought fit , appoint the widow of Walter Palmer . By her answer she . disclaimed anv interest The court decided to appoint Mrs . Walter Palmer , upon Mr . Roundel ! Palmer promising that she should be
intiou derived from the patronymics of eminent men m literature , science , art , statesmanship , arms , &c . Metkopolitak Drainage . — -The Metropolitan Board of 'Works resumed , on Tuesday , the consideration of the report and plan of the engiueer upon , the points of discharge for the drainage of the metropolis , suggested in Captain Burstall ' s letter , and approved of by the First Coanmissioner of Works . Dtr . Few supported the motion moved by Mr . Carpmael . cn the last day the question was debated , namely , that the report of the engiueer in respect of the outfalls suggested in Captain Burstall ' s
report , and . approved of by Sir Benjamin HalL be adopted . Major Lyon proposed , as an amendment , that before adopting the plan , the board should take the opinion of some eminent engiueer on such parts of it as might be deemed expedient . The amendment , after a long discussion , was negatived , and the resolution of Mr . Carptnael was carried by a majority- of 23 to 13 . A resolution to send up tile plan to Sir -Benjamin Hall by the Chairman , accompanied by the engineer and clerk , was carried by a majority of 21 to 13 . A protest against the plan was handed in by Mr . Daulton .
The Georgian Eomasce Mr . Airowsmith . has written another , letter to the 2 'imes , again asserting the truth of lis celebrated Georgian railway narrative , but ¦ without bringing forward any testimony to confirm his story . One or two more letters , pi'o and con ., have likewise been published in the Times-during the week . One of these contains a communication addressed to the Savannah Republican ., and published in that journal of November 24 th , the writer of which states that a " mail agent "has told him that tlie story was concocted by himself , and read by him to an English , traveller , in the course of a conversation about " Southern atrocities . " The traveller requested a copy of this production , and TVas supplied with one . This was afterwards published in the Times in the form of the letter -which has given rise to so much controversy .
AD ^ naisTRATiVE Reform . —A letter has "been addressed to Mr . Roebuck , Chairman , of the Administrative Eeform Association , by 3 Ir . Gassiot , with an analysis of the divisions in the House of Commons during the last session of Parliament , as regards members for "boroughs enfranchised by the Reform Act of 1832 . In tliis letter BTr . Gassiot calls attention to the reniissnjess of independent members of Parliament , as exhibited by their frequent non-attendance , the result being that bad Government measures have beem passed which might have been thrown out , and many good popular measures been thrown out which might have been passed .
Mr . Baron Nathan , long known as " master of the ceremonies' at Kosherville Gardens , Gravesend , died on Saturday , the 6 th inst-, at his residence , Kenriingtoncross , from the rupture of a blood-vessel in the head . He was much , respected by those who knew him . M . Kossuth has be « n presented with the freedom of tne burgh of Hamilton . The Southampton Election . —Mr . Andrews , the Mayor , having come forward as a candidate , addressed his supporters at a meeting held on Thursday evening . His opinions are liberal , and he is inclined to the principle of non-intervention . An attempt has been made to form a junction between the supporters of Mr . We-Jjuelin and Mr . Andrews ; but the former refused to come to terms , and each division of the Liberal party is now determined " to fight iL out to tlie last man . "
Proposed Kemovax of the Courts of Law . —A deputation from , the council of the Incorporated Law Society waited on Thursday upon Sir Benjamin Hall , at his offices , Whitehall-place , relative to the removal of the courts © f law from Westminster and tlie erection of a building in the neighbourhood of the inns of court , in which all the courts , both of law and equity , and all the law offices might be concentrated under one roof . Sir Benjamin concurred in the opinion that the courts at Westminster are highly inconvenient and insufficient , and advised the deputation to communicate with tho Attorney-General .
The New President op the United States . —The President elect , Mr . Buchanan , having been tho President of the Board of Trustees of the Franklin and Marshal College since its organization in 1853 , tile students , to . the number of over one hundred , provided themselves with a band of music , and waited upon Mr . Buchanan at his residence , Wheatlands , for tho purpose of congratulating him on Ms election . The visit was suggested and arranged among the students themselves , who laid aside for the occasion all their party preferences and prejudices . On their arrival at Wheatlunds , they were received most cordially by Mr . Buchanan . He thanked
tions upon his election to the high and responsible office of President , but -whether the " event would prove to be a matter of congratulation time alone could determine . Without saying -which party -was right or -which was wrong , the fears of the " father of his country" had at last been , realized , and they now behold a sectional party—one portion of their Union arrayed in , political hostility against the other . The object of his administration -would be to destroy any sectional party ; NoTth or South , and harmonize all sections of the Union under
a national and Conservative Government , as it was fifty years ago . Unless this were done , the time might come ¦ when the sectional animosities which now unliappily existed might break up the fairest and most perfect form of Government the sun ever slione upon . In conclusion , he said that if he could in any degree be the honoured instrument of allaying this sectional excitement and restoring the Government to the principles and policy of their fathers , lie would then feel that he had not assumed the arduous duties of the office in vain .
Lietjt .-General Sir Stephen Lakeman waa married on the 1 st . inst . at Bucharest , to the Princess Marie de Philippeseo . Sir Stephen by his marriage will inherit a princely fortune ; he also become a Wallachian noble , ' BoyaTd' of the first class . — Court Circular . Burials in Madeira . —About a month ago there appeared in the English papers a statement of the death of Rita Gomez , at Madeira , whose body had to be cast into the sea because the Romish authorities refused to allow a Protestant to be buTied on shore . Public
attention was called to this illiberal proceeding , and it has seen announced by the Protestant Alliance that the Roman Catholic authorities 3 n Madeira have been so far influenced as to permit the interment in the British cemetery of the body of Luisa Gomez , the sister of the deceased Protestant Rita Gomez . It is considered that after such a precedent has been conceded by the Madeira Government , the right to burial on shore may be considered secure for all Protestant ^ inhabitants of the island . ¦' : ' ¦ ' " ... ¦ : ¦ : ¦ . - . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ - .- ' ¦¦ ' ¦ : ' ¦ . ¦ -. ¦ ¦• ! . . -
Judge Haliburton ox our Colonies .- —^ The Hon . Judge Haliburton delivered a lecture on Txiesday evening at the Manchester Athenociuh " On the British Colonies , " alluding more especially to Canada . He showed the complete dependence of that colony on England for all manufactured articles , and concluded by , ' recommending ' that it should be allowed to send representatives to the British Parliament . : Revision of the Bible . —The Rev . Dr . Gumming delivered a lectiire on Tuesday night in Exeter ' .. Hall' on the revision of the Bible . After referring to some learned authorities on the subject , he remarked that they differed as much about the texts thev impugned as
the texts they approved of ; and . ho maintained that so long as unanimity does not exist on the question , they would do well to standfast by tho Greek text they have , which had received the approval , not of half-a-dozen of persons , but of all the accomplished scholars of Christendom , lie quoted the opinion of Canon Wordsworth in support of his views , and explained that what he ( T > r . -Gumming ) contended for was , not that alteration or improvement was impossible , but that the present state of Greek scholarship is so unripe that they should not meddle with the matter until it has reached the culminating point of excellence , which he hoped it would very soon attaiu .
The Westminstkr Sciiolaus' third performance of " Andria" took place on Thursday evening , before a crowded audience , among whom were tho Turkish Ambassador , Sir Benjamin Hall , Lord Robert Grosvenor , Mr . R . Lowe , M . P ., Mr . Forster , M . P ., Dr . II . Phillimore , Mr . Slade , &c . The Winter Speeches at St . Paul ' s School were delivered on the same day . A Sadliciu Case . —The case of Fullerton v . Ithodes and Edmonds was heard in the Court of Exchequer on Thursday . The plaintiff is an iron merchant , and this was an action against two of the directors of the Royal Swedish Railway Company to recover 700 / ., the amount of a bill of exchange drawn by Dunn , llattersly , and Co ., on the 28 th of January , 1856 , at three months '
date , on the chairman and directors of the company , and accepted by tho then chairman , John Sadleir , j > ~ ro self and co-directors , " and endorsed to the plaintiff for value . To this action the defendants pleaded several pleas , and among them one denying their acceptance , which raised the following questions—viz ., 1 st , whether Sadleir had authority from the defendants so to accept bills ; 2 nd , whether , if he had not fiuch authority , the defendants had rendered themselves liable by recognizing and ratifying his acts ; and , 3 rd , whether they -were liable by reason of having held out to tho public that such acta were , adopted with their approbation . A verdict was given for the defendant Rhodes , and a verdict tor tha plaintiff for 718 ? . as against the defendant Kdinonda .
lua young friends for tho visit , for he was sure that tlieir congratulations-were sincere , as they sprang from the warm hearts of youth which had not yet hud time to becoine corrupted and hardened in the ways of the Tf ii There < wero many little eccentricities in the life oi a conege student-which might bo pardoned or ovcr-^ iwJ th ?™ on (! haWt which , if formed at SStf « n A v u y < uth ' w 0 llld clin S to tHem through Jll f ^ fulre 8 t Prospects . He referred wS rt . *« fctin liquors . Ho urged them to learn thoroughly all they undertook to learn , to acquire uL ° 7 , ? H r Uy ' ^ n th ° y * ould be able to X £ J i Ud y ? ntnt ' , \ n after « fe . Ho hoped his young fnenda would avoid the practice of having a smntterine of everything . He thanked them for the ^ ir congrS
The French Inundations . —Sir Jamsotjco Jejeebhoy , tho munificent merchant of Bombay , has transmitted , through the recent Lord Mayor , a aum of 600 / . in aid of tho sufferers by tho French inundations last Juno . Tiik LATE Walter Paijhkr . and thk Prince ov Walks Insurance Comivany . — -Mr . Koundoll Palmer , with whom was Mr . Hustings , moved in the Equity Court for tho court to appoint a person to represent the estate of Walter Palmer , deceased . Tho bill was filed by ttoe Prince of Wales Insurance Company , for tho purpose
demmued against the costs . The Outward India Mails . —Intelligence reached Southampton ¦¦ ' oh Thursday , that the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steamer ' . Kip on , . ' ¦ winch left Southampton . ' on " the 4 th instant with the India mails , encountered a succession of heavy gales from the south and west , and was obliged to mm into Comimu . iShe kept close tinder the lee of the land but on opeiiin " Cape .-Finister-re-. the ' - wind became more violeut ; au 2 the captain was anxious to get a safe ' anchorage .- "
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Leader Offick , Saturday , December 20 . NEUFCHATEL . TirE Royalist prisoners ( says a despatch from Berne ) now enjoy all liberty possible . People are admitted who come to ' visit . them . Several of them , including M . de Pourtales , have obtained their pro visional '¦ ' . enlargement under security .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1856, page 1210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2172/page/10/
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