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City , sat at the top of the Treasury Beach oa the right ° Australia . — By the last mails we learn that O'Shaug hnessy succeeds as Chief Secretary at Melh * urne Coster , Treasurer ; Greeves , Trade ; Duffy , 5 S Lands ; Hone , Public Works ; Chapman , Atfornly-GeTeral ; Wood , Solicitor-General . The Assembly adjourned for one month to give time for the elections and other arrangements . The exports of gold ? rom Melbourne to the 13 th of March were-517 , 313 ounces , against 613 , 041 ounces last year . Money was plentiful and credit good . At Sydney , two public meetings had been held—one for the formation of an Electoral Reform League , the other to establish a society for the promotion of a Protectionist policy . Business was rather inactive , but without positive
depres-Tiib Hop Plantation . —Reports from all parts of the country represent the bine as coming in a very weak and sicklv condition , from the bleak north-east winds which have prevailed so much lately ; the cold nights and cloudy days being most unfavourable for a healthy and strong development of the plant . — Maidstone Journal . The Russian Railways . —It is affirmed that the Russian railway subscription in London has proved an almost total failure . The applications in France , Amsterdam , and Germany are stated to have been limited and unsatisfactory , but the want of success in this country has been still greater . — Times . Religion in Scotland . —Mr . Armistead , one of the
candidates for Dundee at the late general election , was accused by some of his enemies of having danced at Blemel on a certain Sunday . This was denied b } - Mr . Armistead , and he brings documentary evidence from Memel to prove the truth of his denial . But what if he had ? New Passport Regulations at Calais . —The following notice has been given by the authorities at Calais : — " His Excellency the Minister of the Interior has just ordered the suppression of the visa of passports for all travellers , without exception , coming from England through the port of Calais , having for their destination either Paris or Belgium and Germany . "
The Margate and Broadstairs Boatmen . —The medals and awards allotted by the President of the United States to the lifeboatmen of Margate and Broadstairs , who saved the lives of the crew of the Northern Belle , were delivered to those gallant men last Saturday morning in the Town Hall of Ramsgate by Thomas Whitehead , Esq . The recipients were addressed by Mr , Whitehead in an appropriate speech . John Lang , Esq ., of Broadstairs , returned thanks on the part of the men . Mr . Thackeray delivered one of his lectures on " The Four Georges" at the Victoria Rooms , Bristol , on the evening of Friday week . The attendance was not large , owing , it is said , to the mismanagement of those who had the conduct of the entertainment .
Letter from Mazzini . —The treasurer of the Hawick Italian Committee has received the following letter from Mazzini , accompanied by an acknowledgment of a sum of money collected in Hawick in aid of the fund for the emancipation of Italy : — "My dear Sir , —Will you be so kind as to forward the enclosed to the committee , and with it my most sincere thanks for your noble exertions in a noble cause ? There has been a great deal of misgiving spread in the hearts of my
countrymen since 1848 by the ever doubtful , and sometimes hostile , conduct of your Government in Italian affairs ; but such a warm , liberal , efficient sympathy as evinced by your own and some other Scotch towns will dispel the cloud . Through long sojourn and affections , I look upon Great Britain as upon my own second country ; and so far as my influence on the Italian people allows , no seed of the future alliance now sown by you will bo lost or neglected . — Yours faithful ! v , Joseph Mazzini . April 29 , 1857 . "
The Kino of Oude . —A meeting was held on the evening of Friday week at the Manchester Athenccum , to tako into consideration our recent seizure of the kingdom of Oudo . Major Bird was present , accompanied by Mouldco Mohammed Musseehood-dcen , the King ' s accredited agent and the writer of a book on tho subject which has just been published . A long address was delivered by tho Major , who gave a rather cloudy account of tho alleged grievances of tho Oudean royal family . This Cliuikionwicll Ragged Schools . —Tho twelfth annual meeting of the friends of theso schools took place on Monday evening in tho Amwell St . Schoolrooms , the Karl of Carnarvon in the chair . Tho report showed an encouraging condition of things .
Thundkustokm . —Tho neighbourhood of Doncaster was visited by a heavy thunderstorm , accompanied with hail and rain , on tho afternoon of Friday week . A man in tho service of Mr . G . Innocent , farmor , Rosuington , was employed in dragging in a fluid near that village with thrco horaos , all of which wero struck dead by tho electric fluid ; tho swinglotrcoa wore nplit from ond to ond , and tho man holding tho stilts was thrown down , and . it was nocossary to carry him homo . His logs were found to bo quite black . Ho in now recovering . 0 A Cuuitoii struck i « y Lioutning . —Tho ato ' oplo of tho parish church of Wisbqroug h Groon , fcius .-iox , wa » struck by lightning and Hot on lire last Saturday about upon . The pngjnpH woro sngortHy brought k > till ? f » n « t ,
but it was not until six hours had elapsed that the flames were subdued . This is the third time that the steeple has been struck . Persia and the Persians . —Lieutenant-Colonel Sir H . Rawlinson , K . C . B ., delivered on Monday afternoon , to a numerous and fashionable audience assembled in the lecture theatre of . the United Service Institution , Whitehall-yard , a lecture on Persia and the Persians . Lord Elgin , Envoy Extraordinary from the English Government to China , embarked at Marseilles on the 1 st inst ., on board the English Post-office packet Caradoc , for Malta .
Seizure for Church Rates . —Some goods belonging to Mr . Joseph Proctor , a miller at Wallsend , and a member of the Society of Friends , have been seized for a church-building rate , which Mr . Proctor refused to pay . The clergyman is a Puseyite , and the parish will not grant him a church rate ; but a special act exists for levying an annuitant or church-building rate . Mr . Proctor ' s goods are seized every year , and always for a greater amount than the rate for which they are taken . The Very Rev . Dr . Manning , formerly a clergyman of the Church of England and Archdeacon of Chichester , but who recently went over to the Church of Rome , was on Tuesday morning inducted into the office of canon and provost of the Papistical church in Horseferry-road , Westminster . The service was conducted by Cardinal Wiseman . Canal Ferdinand de
The Suez Ship . —M . Lessep made a statement on Wednesday with reference to hi projected Suez ship canal , before the directors of th e Manchester Commercial Association , who held a special meeting for the purpose . Having set forth his views , M . de Lesseps retired , and received in the course of the day a letter from the Secretary thanking him for his exposition , and enclosing a resolution promising the support of the Association provided proper guarantees are given for the neutrality of the canal . Lady Ashburton died at Paris on Monday , aft er a long illness . Field-lane Ragged School and Night Refuges . —The fifteenth annual meeting of this institution was held on Wednesday evening in the Lecture Hall , 165 , Aldersgate-street . The Earl of Shaftesbury took the chair , and the chief speaker was Lord John Russell . The report showed that the institution is prospering .
The Victoria Cross . —The Gazette of Tuesday contains a notification of the bestowal of the _ Victoria Cross on four military officers ( including an assistant-surgeon ) for brave conduct in the Crimea . Equalization op Poor Rates . — A deputation of clergy from the east end of London in favour of this object , had ' an interview on Wednesday with the Poor Law Board . Mr . Bouverie , the President of the Board , did not hold out the least hope of the Government acceding to the wishes of the reverend gentleman . — A meeting of City ratepayers , in furtherance of the deat the
sired reform , was held on Thursday evening London Coffee-house , Ludgate-hill . Mr . Alderman Sidney took the chair , and a petition to Parliament was adopted . Suicide of an Officer of the House of Commons . — Mr . James Gudge , who for the past forty-two years has held some important offices in the House of Commons , and for the greater part of that time has filled the position of Chief Clerk of the Journals , a highly lucrative post , put an end to his existence at the Houses of Parliament , on Wednesday morning , between twelve and one o ' clock . lie had been in a low and
irritable state for the last few days , owing , was supposed , to overwork ; and , on Wednesday morning , he was observed to lower himself gradually from the coping-stone of the terrace outside the river frontage of the House , and to drop into the water . Ho was speedily got out , and lingered for some hours , when he died from congestion of tho brain and lungs , owing to tho immersion , lie had been sufl ' uring from an irritated state of tho brain for ten or fifteen years , and at times he wandered in his mind . His nge was sixty-two . Tho jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . King ' s College , London . —Wo have authority for stating that the paragraph which ia going tho round of the papers , headed " Reinstatement of the Rev . F . D . Maurice in his Professorship , " is wholly without foundation . — Times .
Nicw Catholic : Skio .- Tho Weekly Jte . fft . ster announces thnt it id intended to divide tho present Roman Catholic diocone of Liverpool , anil form a new sec for North Lancashire , at either Preston or Lancaster . Gakuick . and Foud . — Garrick was an honoured member of tho Steaks . Perhaps tho hat and sword now among tho insignia of tho club wore tho identical ones ho wore that ' night , when , announced for Hanger at Drury Lano , ho lingered at tho club so long , that tho pit began to growl and tho gullory to ring with tho
ominouH civil of " Manager , manager ! ' Garrick had boon Bent fur to Covont Garden , whore tho Stouka then dined . Carriages blocked up Uuijsoll-stroot , and detained him at tho crossing . When ho reached tho theatre , ho found Dr . Ford , one of tho patentees , walking up anij , down in anxiety ; As Garrick carno panting in , " I think , David , " said Ford , " considering tho stako you and I have in this houso , you might pay more attention to its business . " " True , my good friend , " returned Garrick ; " but I woh thinking of my ateak in $ ho OtJlQP louao , "—National Review ^
Coining . —Now I am telling you odd events , I most relate one of the strangest I ever heard . An elderly woman gave information against her maid for coining , and the trial came on at the Old Bailey . The mistress deposed , that having been left a widow several ^ years ago , with four children , and no possibility of maintaining them , she had taken to coining ; that she used to buy old pewter-pots , out of each of which she made as many shillings , &c , as she could put off for three pounds , and that by this practice she had bred up her children , bound them out apprentices , and set herself up in a little shop , by which she got a comfortable livelihood ; that she had now given over coining , and indicted her maid as accomplice . The maid , in her defence , said , " That when her mistress hired her , she told her that she did something up in a garret into which she must never inquire ; that all she knew of the matter
was , that her mistress had often given her moulds to clean , which she did , as it was her duty ; that , indeed , she had sometimes seen pieces of pewter-pots cut , and did suspect her mistress of coining ; but that she never had had , or put off , one single piece of bad money . " The judge asked the mistress if this was true ; she answered , " Yes ; and that she believed her maid was as honest a creature as ever lived ; but that , knowing herself in her power , she never could be at peace ; that she knew , by informing , she should secure herself ; and not doubting but the maid ' s real innocence would appear , she concluded the poor girl would come to no harm . " The judge flew into the greatest rage ; told her he wished he could stretch the law to hang her , and feared he could not bring off the maid for having concealed the crime ; but , however , the jury did bring her in not guilty . I think I never heard a more particular instance of parts and villany . —Letters of Horace Walpole .
A Point of Law . — Dick Wilson , Eldon ' s portwine-loving secretary , deserves to be mentioned , as a member of the Beefsteak Club , for the great singularity of his fortunes . He was first steward and solicitor , and afterwards residuary legatee , of Lord Ched-¦ worth . He is said to have owed the favour of this eccentric nobleman to the legal acumen he displayed at a Richmond water-party . A pleasant lawn , under a spreading beech-tree , in one of Mr . Cambridge ' s meadows , was selected for the dinner ; but on pulling to the shore , behold a board in the tree proclaiming , " All persons landing and dining here will be prosecuted according to law ! " Dick Wilson contended that the prohibition clearly applied only to the joint act of " landing and
dining" at the particular spot . If the party landed a few yards lower down , and then dined under the tree , only one member of the condition would be broken ; which would be no legal infringement , as the prohibition—being of two acts , linked by a copulative—was not severable . This astute argument carried the day . The party dined under Mr . Cambridge ' s beech-tree , and it is presumed were not " prosecuted according to law . " At all events , Lord Chedworth , who was one of the diners , was so charmed with Dick ' s ready application of his law to practice , that he engaged him in the management of his large and accumulating property , of which , as we have said , Dick was ultimately left residuary legatee . —National Review .
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Leader Office , Saturday , May 9 . HOUSE OF LORDS . In this House a renewed discussion took place in tho case of General Ashburnham , and Lord Campbell obtained the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into tho present state of tho law relating to reports ill newspapers , and another on tho subject of altering tho mode of administering oaths to witnesses in tho Houso of Lords . Tho House adjourned early .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . MAYNOOTH . Mr . Spoon eh gave notice of hfci usual motion as to tho grant to Maynooth , amidst great laughter . FUI 1 LIC-HOUSES AND BEEU-SIIOPS . In answer to Mr . Knit Skymish , Sir Gkouoe Grey said that tho present state of the law relating to publichouses and beer-shops required revision , and would meet with tho consideration of tho Government .
THE ADDRESS . Mr . Dodson brought up tho report of tho Address iu answer to tho Speech from tho Throne . —Mr . Hadfiuld made some objections to that part of tho Speech which referred to tho commercial prosperity of tho country , and especially -as regarded our trade with India nnd tho Colonies , tho restrictions on which require to be removed .
VII 15 TRANSIT . Mr . Lindsay brought tho subject of the Transit troop-Bhip before tho Houso , and made a statement of tho condition of tho ship sinoo hav departure , after hqr repairs from her first nooidunt . Ho also drew attention to rocont dlsnutroua voyages of tho Porsovoranco and the Urgent whon oonvoying troops . Those ships wore built by Messrs . Maro , but it was said thoy lv »« boon ftltorea oinco they had boon bo . ugM by tho Govommont ,
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Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2192/page/9/
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