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      sums , making a total of 447 , 4367 . Her Majesty ' s privy parse was 60 , 000 / ., and , with the other allowances , the civil list amounted to 385 , 0007 . George III . had not surrendered the whole of his hereditary revenues . It appears that above 6 , 000 , 0007 of his hereditary revenues were received by him , being one-half of the whole revenue , while no such sum had been received by her Majesty . George III . received for some time the whole revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall ; but , in the present reign , all above the expenses of the education of the Prince of "Wales had been invested for his benefit . In former reigns , debts were incurred beyond the civil list , wnich were paid off by Parliament . The amount of such debtsin the reign of George III ., was 3 , 297 , 000 ? .,

      , which were paid by Parliament ; so that , with his hereditary revenues and these extra grants , George III . received above 10 , 0007 . beyond his civil list . George III . s consort had 68 , 0007 . a year , while her Majesty s consort has only 30 , 0007 . ; and allowances were also given to the children of George III . at an early period . _ Her present Majesty had been subjected to extraordinary expenses , such as her visit to the Emperor of the French , for which she had asked no grant , as George IV . had done under similar circumstances . The Queen had also voluntarily subjected herself to a payment of Incometax of 6 , 0007 ., and during the augmented war of 15 , 0007 ., a year . That being so , he thought that the well to the

      provision he was about to ask appealed as justice as the sympathy of the House . Her Majesty had incurred no debts ; and the civil list made no provision for the younger branches of the royal family , or for their marriages . He then cited the precedents of the Princess Royal , daughter of George II ., who married the Prince of Orange in 1734 , and received an annuity of 50007 ., with a dower of 80 , 0007 . ; and of the Princess Royal , daughter of George III ., for whom a similar provision was made . It was proposed to follow these two precedents , but to alter the proportion which the annuity bore to the dower . They would therefore propose an annuity of 80007 . a year , and a portion of 40 , 0007 . amendment to the effect that

      Mr . Roebuck moved an provision be made for the Princess Royal by a fixed sum . —Mr . Wiliiams supported the amendment . —The Chancellor of the Exphequer said that the amendment did not specif } ' any sum , and he thought it a better bargain for the taxpayers of the country to pay an annuity for the life of the Princess Royal than to lay down a large sum at once . Annuities of 90 , 0007 . a year had been granted to members of the royal family during the present year ; but annuities amounting to 256 , 0007 . had also ceased . —Lord John Russell approved of the proposition of the Government , and urged its acceptance by the House .- ^ Mr . Roebuck said the proposed annuity might be calculated at a capital sum of 216 , 0007 . He still argued for the adoption of a fixed sum . —Mr . Bass supported the motion .

      Mr . Disraeli strongly advised that the House should come to a unanimous vote on a great question like this . —Mr . Coningham supported the amendment . —Mr . Roebuck , however , withdrew it ; and that part of the motion granting an annuity of 80007 . was agreed to . The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved to g « into committee of supply to consider the grant of 40 , 0007 . Sir George Pegu ell interposed with some remarks on the Cuban Slave Trade ; but the motion was at length agreed to . The House then vent into committee of supply on the Naval Estimates , which occupied the rest of the sitting .

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      DENMARK . The Danish Government ( says a contemporary ) has Bent a reply to the two last notes addressed to it by the Governments of Austria and Prussia respecting the Duchies of Holstoin and Lauonburg . The reply is laconic . It simply says that the King of Denmark , desirous of taking into consideration the representations made to him by Austria and Prussia , will convoke the States of the Duchies of Holstein and Lauonburg towards tho end of next August . Tho Danish note is dated 13 th of May .

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      Crystal Palace . —Return of admissions for six days ending Friday , May 22 , 1857 , including season ticket holders , 22 , 782 . Mr . Blani > ford . —Two of tho presumed murdcrora Of Mr . Blandford , tho English gentleman killod at Naples , have boon arrested . One admits having dealt a blow at Mr . Blandford . Chapman v . Van Toll : Van Toll v . Chapman . — Sir Frederick Thealgor , with wham was Mr . Hawkins , moved in tho Court of Queon ' a Bench , yesterday , on tho part of Mr . Chapman , an attorney , at Richmond , for rules for new trials in tho abovo causes , which were tried before Lord Campboll at Wootminator in tho course of last week , nnd of which tho main facts were related in our previous iasuo . Tho Court granted a rulo to alin-nr Aanan

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      No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . "We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from rca sons quite independent of the merits of the communica tion .

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      THE EIGHT TOWNS TAX . A cttbious scene was enacted in the House of Commons on Tuesday last . There were four hundred and ninety-two members present , including the Speakek , and four hundred and eighty-seven voted on Mr . Fa g an ' s motion for the " abolition of ministers' money in Ireland . Forty-six members paired off on the same question , so that five hundred and thirty-eight of our legislators took part in the verdict of the evening . The debate was of unusual warmth ; but the volleys of cheers that broke from side to side of the House

      could not be said to have ai'isen from any special interest felt in the question whether eight Irish towns should contribute 12 , 000 Z . a year to the support of Protestant pastors . The question itself lies in a narrow compass . The Protestant clergy of Dublin , Cork , " Waterford , Limerick , Clonmel , Kilkenny , Drogheda , and Kinsale , being unprovided

      with funds to pay themselves , have been accustomed , under legislative sanction , to tax the Catholics for that purpose . Indeed , there were scarcely any Protestants to tax ; and the principle of tho Establishment required that there should bo ministers whether or not there were congregations . The Ecclesiastical Commission in Ireland ,

      however , having a vast surplus , and very lew Catholic Irishmen having a surplus of any kind , Mr . ITaciaw has for some years busied himself in obtaining tho concurrence of the Government in his opinion , that tho Protestants having a general re von uo , amply sufficient for their necessities , it is inexpedient to extort a special tax from tho eig ht Catholic towns . His idea seems particularly reasonable when it is considered that tho eight

      towns refuse to pay on demand . Thoro are seven suits ponding in the Exchequor , and the litigants are utterly in the dark . Ministers ' Money amounts , in fact , to no moro than a soui'co of acrimony and vexation ; Mr . I ' aoan proposes to abolish it ; Lord Pai / mebston consents ; but that is not tho reason why nearly five hundred members of Parliament aHsombled in tho House of

      Commons on Tuesday evening . . For the Tories , it was tho first opportunity of tho aos-( linn a Tin 4- lltnir i-arsinf ' n 11 * r trki a / tnisfclilffct'rJt / l J 111 M

      mismanaged their strength . The Liberals mustered three hundred and thirteen votes the Tories a hundred and seventy-four ' The new members were present in great force . Among the stock traders in legislation on the Tory side , the oratory was confided to Mr . Napier , Mr . Whiteside , slr Fbedbeick ^ Thesigeb , and Mr . Walpoie Lord John RtjsseiiI ,, Lord Pazmeeston " Sir George Gbe y , and Mr . Hoesman proved how far the debating talent of the Whig party preponderates over that of the

      Opposition . There was a regular engagement on the floor and in the lobbies ; Mr Disbaeli seemed remarkably eager , although he reserved his lungs for the distention of the following day at Newport Pagnell . Vast efforts had been made to bring the party together ; with Mr . Disraeli voted the silent ancients of his creed—Yobke , ~ Wynn , Pjgxnant , Neeld , EmijYN , Buxler , Boldeeo

      and the rest of that familiar cohort ; but Sir BuiiWEB Litton , giving countenance to the report that he is a rebel in the camp , stayed away . Evidently , the energies of the faction had been strained to make a respectable appearance at the real opening of the political campaign , and the Tories produced a hundred and ninety-nine names , including pairs , to contrast with the three hundred and thirtyeight of the Liberal party .

      " With respect to the absence of Sir Bulwee Lytton , ^ may have been for no political reason ; but it is far from being a secret that lie resents the nominal leadership of Mr . Disraeli . Nor is he the only obstinate member of the Carlton Club . Lord MAiiMESBUBY has recently proved unmanageable . A section is falling off at Mr . Bentinck ' s instigation . No one can persuade the Earl of Derby that there is any hope for him or his friends , or even that

      public affairs are of much consequence to him , as a man and a peer . Fraco re fa forte gentefraca . A weak leader makes a weak ' party . Not a few of the Tories concur \ rith the idle Earl . Why should they be eager to baffle the Government , with no chance of retaining office themselves ? Mr . Disraeli , of course , has his schemes , and a variety of vain or needy gentlemen , old and young , are ready to back up in behalf of their own pretensions ; but what would be the activity of the opposition , if there were not a band of Tory lawyers yearning for the woolsack and ift of the

      the other law appointments in the g First Minister ? The party debate on Tuesday brought forward Toryism for the first time this session , and exposed its weakness . Lord Palmebston was accused of bargaining with Mr . Fag an for the support of the Irish members , but he replied with perfect justice , that he was independent of it , and he might have added that every Minister has a rig ht to conciliate support by salutary and timely concessions . The tax ; has been unfairly levied in tho eight Catholic towns , and its absolute repeal is an act of simple justice .

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      NEW SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OE VICE . The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill will , if passed , establish at once a bad law , and a groat improvement . In comparison with tho present law , it is wisdom ; viewed by itself , or in comparison with what it ougn to bo , it is folly . As it has come from tho hands of its author , it is full of tho old leav en of absurdity . What doos it do ? It establishes a new Court of Marriage , with an ** - clesiasticnl Court Judge at its head , taiun from tho Prerogative Court ; advocates ana nrn ^ nrH fro m tbosauio ecclesiastical region ,

      and it ia to act upon tho principles oi i" . Ecclesiastical Court . So far , bad . J 3 ut t »« nrofioodino-s aro to bo vivd voce ; matters u

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      492 THE LEADER . [ No . 374 , Saturday ,

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      FRANCE . ( By Electric Telegraph . ) Paris , May 22 nd . Prince Napoleon has just returned from Germany . The operations against Kabylia commenced yesterday . French troopa number 26 , 500 men . A desperate resistance is expectod .

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      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . The Majtchesteb Aet Tbeastjbes Exhibition . — The third letter of our special correspondent will appear in our next . Phiio-Homo . —Pressure of matter , during : the Parliamentary season , often precludes the insertion of letters not bearing strictly on matters of fact . Our Glasgow friend seems to suffer under the sayings of " Candide . " It may console him to know , however , that another Edinburgh correspondent thinks the account so faithful that none but a Scotchman could have written it . "The Memoirs of St . Simon . "—A notice of these volumes is unavoidably postponed until next week .

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      ^ There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by tnevery law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .

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      SATURDAY , MAY 23 , 1857 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 23, 1857, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2194/page/12/