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suggested to his tenants th « propriety of improving thei farms as much as possible , in order that they might be prepared to meet any sadden check to the prosperity which they were then enjoying . The tenantry , to show their high appreciation of the liberality of their landlord , « ntered into a subscription for the purpose of procuring & full-length portrait of Mr . Fox , to he presented to Mrs . Fox . This was recently done at a large gathering of the tenantry . The Governor of the Gaol of Newxsate . —The
following report "was agreed to in tke Court of Aldermen last Saturday :- — "We , the undersigned visiting magistrates , to whom it was referred to ascertain the truth of the allegation respecting tie Governor of INewgate receiving presents of game from the friends of a prisoner named Octavius King , annex the statements made , and are of opinion that there is not the slightest foundation for the statement made against the Governor of Newgate .- — "W . T . CoPEiiA 2 Ji > , WuxxAJat Lawkence . —Saturday , Dec . 13 , 1856 . "
The Middlesex Reform Registration Society was obliged to dissolve on Monday , in consequence of its funds being insufficient to carry out the objects in view . The ¦ well-known Mr . Coppock , who moved the dissolution , observed : — - "As to returning members free of expense , that was impossible in Middlesex . The last election cost 4000 L , and it was impossible to fight it for less . He was thoroughly disheartened with the conduct of the Liberal electors . " Health op London . — -After a sudden increase of mortality , the weekly return again exhibits results of a very favourable character . In the week that ended last Saturday , the deaths registered in London decreased to
for East Kent , has issued an addresa to his constituents m which he states that , owing to severe sickness , heS . been recommended hy his medical advisers to pas * * hl winter and spring in Egypt ; and he therefore solicit the indulgence of the electors . UUH . The Duke op Rutland and Lord Ellesmerp The ^ health of these noblemen ( more especially that " rf the latter ) 13 improving . EDTJCATroxAi , Institutions . — -The inaugural Wi-c-oi cf the new Industrial Schools was held on Sclav £ 5 in the Exchange-room , Dundee . The Industrial SclE were erected by the liberality of George Duncan S
M . P ., who devoted to that object the gift of lift n 7 **' scnted to him by his constituents , as a mark of their ¦« spect for his character and of their appreciation of Ms parliamentary services ; and in celebrating the opening of the new building , appropriately named " The Duncan Testimonial , " the directors of the Industrial School Society resolved to embrace the opportunity of " -iviriff a public expression of their gratitude to Mr . Duncan for his valuable gift . Lord Kinnaird , president of the society , occupied the chair , but the chief speech of the evening was that of Lord Panmure , who dwelt upon tlie necessity for encouraging reformatory institutions
especially now that we luive been obliged to abandon transportation . A soiree of the members and frionds of the PonteftaetMechanics Institution—which has recently been amalgamated with tke Pontefract reading-room and old subscription library—took place in the town-hall of that borough on Tuesday evening . Fully three hundred and fifty persons sat down to tea , each tray .-being ptV sided over by a lady frieudly to the institution . Mi . Monktoa -Milu . , M . P ., and others , afterwards addressed the meeting . The report showed that the society is progressing favourably .
10 CO . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number of deaths was 1269 ; but if the excess of deaths in the fifty-first week of 1847 , when influenza nearly doubled the mortality , be excluded from the calculation , and the average , thus reduced , be corrected for the iucreased population of the present time , it will be found that the ordinary rate of mortality at this season would have produced 1300 deaths last week , and therefore , more by 240 than the number actually returned . —Last week , the births of 868 boys and . 823 girls , in all 1 C 91 children * were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was 1465 . — From the Registrar-General ' s Weekly Return .
A Strange Story about Crimean Stores . —It has just been discovered at Newark that a large amount of stores—consisting of hams , bacon , wines , spirits , porter , ale , cheese , tobacco , warm clothing , &c—which the townspeople had subscribed for , in order to send out to the Crimean army iu 1855 , hayc never been despatched , but have been lying all this time in one of the rooms of the Town Hall , still packed up . They were consigned to the then Mayor for forwarding . The present Mayor has notified that such of the goods as are not spoiled by keeping will be returned to the subscribers .
Murder of a Policeman . — -An inquest was held at Birkenhead on the body of a police-officer named Vaughan . Early on Tuesday morning , a young man , a dock labourer , named Thomas Smith , was creating a disturbance by kicking in the panels of street doors , when Vaugban attempted to take him into custody . Smith immediately drew a knife and stabbed V ; iughat > under the heart . The latter exclaimed " I'm d . o" £ rm done ! " and died soon afterwards . Anoth ^ i- officer ' came up at the time and called upon Su ^ n to surrender ' ; he refused to do so , and the oi ^ r knocked him down with S stick . . At the ^ quest ? Smith said that the officer jT / i . - ' .. ^» d t t he only acted in self-defence . A yercuc ^ i "Wilful Murder was returned against him , and -ue was committed for trial .
Mr . Macready's Schools at Sheeboioje . ;— 'A very large party of both sexes assembled in the British School Room , 011 Tuesday evening , to witness the distribution of prizes amongst the boys , on the breaking up of the school during the autumnal recess . Some twelve months since a school of fifty boys was opened in the upper rooms of the Literary Institution buildings , by Mr . Macready , at his sole expense . Applications for admission became so numerous that the founder of the school enlarged his plan of operations , but , after steps had been taken to form a council , and to organize the school , he was met by objections to the proposed schoolroom—the only convenient available building—on the score that it was not a neutral ground on which churchmen and dissenters might co-operate . The tuition aftbrded within the school is not of a character to excite
jealousy of this kind ; it may be termed " secular education , " beLng confined to reading , writing , and arithmetic , with , occasionallj ' , a little Scripture geography . The objeccion to the room , however , being to some an insuperable one , it was arranged that the newly organized school ( which was to bo supported by voluntary subscriptions ) , should be continued at the rooms of the institution . It was soon found tliat even after the outlay of a sum , considerable in comparison with the amount of the subscriptions , the institution rooms could not be made convenient ; and after a short trial Mr . Macready removed to the rejected school room , and was followed bv
most of the boys , and here , with the aid of a paid master , and the occasional services of some of the inlrabitants , he , on three nights in every week , instructs the youth of our poorer neighbours . —SJicrbornc Journal . The Sewage ok - Towns . —We understand that a Treasury commission has been issued , appointing Lord Portman , II . Ker Seyincr , Esq ., M . I ' ., I . K . JJrunusl , Esq ., O . K ., Robert Kawlinson , Esq ., O . E ., Professor J . T . Way , J . B . Lawes , Esq ., and ( Southwood Smith , Esq ., M . D ., to inquire into the most effectual means of distributing the sewage of towns nnd of applying it to beneficial and profitable uses . —Globe .
C 11 RIBTMAS-1 M . Y was , ushered in this year by weather Hiich an old people are fond of Buying reminds thorn of their young days . Though the previous day had been mild nud rainy , Thursday , the 25 th , even before it was light , brought with it a hard white frost , added to which , early in the morning , there was a thick fog , wadly trying the lun / jH of the . uhthmatiuul . In private- houses , it " is to bo presumed , there was tho ordinary amount of genial feasting ; and , iu tho vorkhouHOB , charity , as uHunl , came Hohttcrinfr roast beef nnd plum-pudding , alo and tobacco , to gladden tho hrnvt nnd irradiate tho fucuH of those wIioho evcry-day life is of tho dusiiest and dullest . East Kicnt . —Sir Edward Doring , one of tho nicmburo
Greenwich Election . —A letter appears in the Times of last Saturday , signed " B . W . A . Sleigh , " in which the writer affirms that a member of the Government promised him the influence of his department at the forthcoming Greenwich election . Some such expression of political sympathy as Mr . Sleigh quotes may certainly have been used , but that it was done by inadvertence may be assumed from the fact that the gentleman in question forgot the rule of the Admiralty prohibiting political interference at elections . We may add our belief that at the time he wrote he had no personal knowledge whatever of Mr . Sleigh . —Globe .
The Lxcome-Tax Moatement . —A meeting of the inhabitants of Cirencester , to oppose the war addition to the income-tax , has been held in the Town-hall .. The memorial adopted prayed that the war tax of 9 d . in the pound be abolished from the 5 th of April , 1857 , and that further inquiry be made as to the practicability of substituting a bond Jide property-tax in lieu of the present income-tax . A meeting has also been held at Cheltenham , with the same results . The Wardbiotes . —The various wards of the City of London were convened on Monday , according to annual custom , for the purpose of proceeding with the election of common-councilmen and other officers for the ensuing year . In many of the wards , the income-tax was discussed , and resolutions were adopted urging its early reduction . Baron Rothschild ' s lengthened absence from the House of Commons was mentioned at several of the
meetings , and the Government was urged to adopt steps for the introduction of measures for a speedy removal of Jewish disabilities . The elections were 'continued on . subsequent days . " Mr . A . N . Shaw , of Uewhall , Fortrose , b »>« - * . n # >/ i . _ address to . the electors of the North-- -r ~* ^ - ^ that it is his intention to offer * -- ; . Bxir e > ff ^ their suffrages at the n- , " ^ ? * . candidate for to the sitting - v -- ^ t general election , in ^ c-pposition LiberaL f-- - "ember , Mr . Lamg . Mr . Shaw is a fo < ^ . . -. tvourable to " a comprehensive measure of re-. * in , including an extension of the franchise , and a more equitable distribution of the electoral districts , " a supporter of the present Government , and , on religious subjects , a participator in the views which predominate among the Scotch members .
Representation of Merthyr . —Mr . John Frost , the Chartist , has announced his intention , of becoming a candidate for the representation of Merthyr , at the next election . The Main Drainage Soixeme . —A deputation consisting of Mr . Thwaites ( Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works ) , with Mr . Woolrych ( Clerk of the Board ) , and Mr . Bazalgette ( Engineer of the Board ) , had an interview with Sir Benjamin Hall , at the office of Works , Whitehall , on Monday , to submit for the approval of the First Commissioner of the Queen ' s Works , the plan of intercepting drainage approved by the Board . Sir Benjamin intimated that he should lay the plan "before two civil engineers and one military engineer , in order that they may thoroughly examine it . The Royal British Bank . —The affairs of this Bank
again came before the Court « f Bankruptcy on Monday . Ifc was the day appointed for the consideration of the petition to the Commissioner to direct an application to the Court of Chancery for the appointment of a receiver under this bankruptcy . Tho potition was dismissed , and the 8 tli of January was fixed for discussing the disputed proofs of debts . —On Tuesday , a first dividend of 6 s . 6 d . in the pound was declared under the estate of the Royal British Bank on debts amounting to 380 , 000 / .
The assignees have not retained anything to meet legal or other expenses . It is expected that a further dividend will be declared in about six weeks . —A dividend Bitting took place in tho Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday , when a largo number of depositors and creditors attended to prove their debts . At the conclusion of tho Bitting , it was stated that tho debts proved that day , tali o ™ 1 \ m ) thofle P rc > ve ( 1 on a former occasion , amounted to duO , 0007 ., and the assignees proposed to divide 5 s . G < 1 in tho pound .
Church Extension in St . Pancrah .- —Tho Bishop of London on Tuesday consecrated a handsome and commodious new church , Bituatcd in the vicinity of Oakley-square , Bedford New-town , in tho populous parish , of St . Pancrns , and dedicated to St . Matthew , in the presence of a largo number of the surrounding inhabitants and Bovcral of tho neighbouring clergy
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Leader Office , Saturday , December 27 . SWITZERLAND . A patriotic dinner has been given at Geneva , at . ' which Generals Dufour and Klapka were guests . In the course of an after-dinner speech , the former said :- — " I have worn'the uniform of an officer for half a . century ,-and have served as a Federal officer for the last forty years ; and in a time like this rny heart grows young , in spite of the weight . of years .- I am old and weak , hut , should : my country call on me , I shall not hesitate to take the lield with my fellow-brethren . Perhaps "we shall meet 6 u the Held of battle . " . After speaking of the dangers which menace the Confederation , lie continued : — - " But we must not be discouraged by these dangers : we mnst confront thbm . I have faith in the Federal
troops—in their patriotic spirit and martial qualities ; and I rely on the population of Switzerland . 1 feel , for my own part , that the close of ray career is approaching :, but I am entirely at the orders of my . fellow-citizens , and at the disposal of my country . " The Berlin correspondent of the Times , ' writing ' on December 28 , says : —" The hopes to which the telegraphic news from Frankfort gave rise yesterday evening , just before I closed mv letter , of an approach to
something like an arrangement between the King of Prussia and the Swiss Confederation , have been crushed in the bud by the result of the . inquiries 1 have made today . No diplomatic mediation , no overtures , no deputation , nothing of the kind U known , of or expected here ; the matter remains as it did in the early part . of last week , when IIerr von Sydow was instructed to break off all diplomatic relations with tho Federal Government . This , hy-thc-by , he did by note from Sigmarinfrcn , in Hohenssollcrn , where ho is residing , and not orally- "
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ITALY . The explosion of the powder magazine near the King ' s palace is now said to have been tho result of a plot . An attempt to nsHOHMinatc Major . Zarnhclli , of the CarabihecrH , has been nwulc at lmola . He was vsilking with a brother officer when he was fired at , and tin' ball struck his clonk . The two officers pursued the assassin . but h « escaped . The individuals accuped of the imirder of Count Loviitelli have arrived at Holognn , and arc to be tried by tin Austrian court-martial .
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East Suffolk Kmcction . —Lord 1 Icnndtcr -was returned yesterday morning for tho eastern -division ol Suffolk , 'without opposition . Christmas DfipKicuATioNs . —The poliec-omcos yesterday morning presented their usual Christmas lVuMiru ot robberies of Christmas dinners from pantries hy prowling freebooters . To-dny , in all probability , thoy will hnvc a goodly array of drunken cases nnd l rows , ' con-K ' U - ' on tlic'thno-honourod custom of ' boxing . ' ClIAUOK OF OUTAI ^ INU ( iooi ) K 1 JY KaI . KH 1 ' ltK Tl " . N '« 'KS . —Suit Edward l'aekti . Harbor , the secretary of tlic !? anmritiui ' Institution , iu Wont-at reel , SmiUili * - ' !'' ) waa summoned yesterday by Mr . Henry 1 ' otter , hi-foiv Sir liobort W . Cavden , churned vith olttuinin . u- gooilrf iVom divers persons hy false mid frnuduh ' . nt pretences . Alter tho reception of a good deal of evidence , the further hearing wan adjourned till Tuesday . Ckvbtai , 1 ' ai . ack . — 'ltistum of ailmiflMionH for . six ilnys ending Friday , Dcconil ) ur 2 t'th , 185 ( 5 , including si-ason ticket liolders , 31 . 518 .
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1234 THE LEADER . [ No . 353 , Satubdat —~——— . ^__^^^^_^_^^^_^ _ . _ .- . ^^ . . ^ _ ^^^^^^^ T ^ ^^^ ' ^^^^ —^^— i ii 11 M . p ¦ M - 7- .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1856, page 1234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2173/page/10/
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