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NEW SOUTH WALES . In the evening , in answer to some questions by Sir John Pakington with respect to the new colony to be formed out of the territory of New South Wales , Mr . Laboucheke said that in passing the constitutional act , on which the institutions of New South Wales depended , the Colonial Legislature provided for the possible separation of the northern portion from the rest of the colony , bv giving to the Queen in Council power to separate Moreton Bay , and fix the boundaries . Having received reiterated petitions from the inhabitants of Moreton Bay , that they desired the separation , he thought it his duty to advise the Crown to grant it . He Government of South Wales
had written to the New that he should advise the Crown to draw the line nearer to Moreton Bav , about seventy miles , between 25 and 26 degrees of latitude , and leave the Clarence River district to the colony of New South Wales . With regard to the question relative to convicts , he could not state too exp licity that it was the fixed determination of Government not to send a single convict to Moreton Bay ; for , although there was once a desire at that place for convict labour , it does not now exist . As regards the constitution , the Government had given a Governor , Council , and Assembly to the new colony . He had written to the Governor of New South Wales ,
calling attention to the debt , requesting him to get a decision of the Legislative Council on the point , and stating that the order in Council would not ; be issued till this question of the division of the debt had been Settled . THE BENGAL ARMV . In reply to General Wysdham , Sir John Ramsden sard he understood that a report had been sent from Sir Charles Napier to the late Duke of Wellington , not entering into the organisation of the Bengal army , but the military occupation of the country , and giving details of great importance to the military administration . But it would not be desirable to lay it on the table . DRTDIG APPARATUS FOR BARRACKS .
Colonel North moved for a copy of any correspond-, ence which had taken place between the War-office and the inventor of an apparatus for drying linen , which would be very useful in barracks , where mucli inconvenience is now felt . —Sir Johx Ramsden said the apparatus had been tried , and found to be . effective and economical , but it was not thought desirable to introduce it at Aldershot , as the object there is to accustom soldiers to privations rather than to comforts . —Mr . Augustus Stafford doubted the policy of accommodating the body of a soldier to vet clothes . { Hear , hear . ) He deprecated that hyper-Toryism of the War-office , which rejects all reform . ( Hear , hear . )—The motion was negatived without a division . THE TINSEL ORDER OF THE BATH .
Lord Hotham called the attention of the Premier to the practice of exacting from members of the Military Division of the Order of the Bath an engagement that the insignia of the Order shall be returned after their death . He suggested that the decorations ( excepting the collar ) should be allowed to be retained for trans-, mission to their descendants . He likewise commented upon the miserable tinsel of which the star is composed . —General Codrxnoton also spoke of the mortification experienced in the Crimea at the contrast presented between the silver star received by the French officers decorated with the Order , and the piece of tinsel g iven on the same occasion to the officers of the English army . —rLord Palmerston could not agree that there was anything unseemly or improper in requiring the return of the insignia . As to the material of the star , ho thought it might bo expedient to reconsider that part of the question .
SUI'l'LT . The Houso then went into Committee of Supply , when the Chancellor of tub ExcnEQUKR moved the supplementary estimate of 400 , 000 / . towards reimbursing tho East India Company a moiety of the expenses of the Persian war . This waa agreed to after a discussion , in which comp laints were again rondo with respect to the Government not having consulted the Houso on tho policy of the Avar . Mr . Wilson , in moving the estimate of 590 , 000 £ . for adjusting tho account with the East India Company of tho expense of tlio late China war , exp lained that there was a set-off ngainst tho Company amounting . to 500 , 000 / ., so that by tho ultimate- adjustment the vote would be reduced eventuall y to 30 , 000 / . —This vote waa also agreed to .
The committee then took up tho consideration of the remaining Civil Service Estimates , when various votos wore agreed to after discussion , and ordered to be reported . The House then resumed , and wont into committee on tho Ecclesiastical Commission , &c . Bill ; but , before nil tho clauses were got t throug h , tho Chairman was ordered to report progroas . Tho Banki . no Bill was then road a third time , and paascd .
IUQSIONATION OF BAUON ROTHSCHILD . Mr . Haytior , moved for a now writ fpr the City of London in tho room of Baron Lionel do Rothschild , who has accepted tho oflico of atoward of the ChUtern Hundreds . —Tho motion waa agreed to . The House adjourned at a quarter to two o ' clock .
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ELECTION COMMITTEES . Maldon . —In the evidence for the sitting member g iven last Saturday , Mr . George Wyatt Digby , solicitor and election agent , said : —¦ " He gave no orders for drink to be g iven away at the "Wellington , and was not aware that any was g iven away . It had been customary for employers to give breakfasts to their servants on election mornings , and he had cautioned some persons against the practice . The other side engaged prize-fighters at the election , and he engaged a dozen ' conductors' to protect voters to the poll—one conductor to each prizefig hter . He never tampered with any of the election accounts . Not a fi gure was altered after the bills were paid . His fee For the election was one hundred guineas , and , including that sum , the whole expenses amounted to 422 Z . At the last registration , he had a clear gain of seventy votes . The number of votes ( 427 ) polled by Mr . Western corresponded within two or three with a return he had made only a few da 3 * s before the election . " The sitting members have been declared duly elected , and the petition against Mr . Bramley Moore is described as frivolous and vexatious .
The Wareiiam Election Committee . —The report of this committee has been published . The resolution declaring the due election of the sitting member , Mr . J . H . Ciilcraft , M . P ., was only carried by a majority of one , the numbers being 3 to 2 . Mr . Lygon and Mr . Mowbray voted in the negative . Weymouth .: —In the course of the evidence before this committee on Mondaj ' , a few humorous points came out . One of the witnesses , a woman , named Ann Bridle , said that Mr . Campbell ( sitting member ) had canvassed her husband . Before the election , she gave a frock to the daughter of her brother-in-law , a baby in
arms . On cross-examination , she said the child had been brought up under the Speaker ' s warrant to support the case of bribery . { Laughter . ) It had been said that Mr . Campbell gave the child the frock , but there was not a word of truth in the statement . Another witness , Isaac Jerrold , said : — " He was a hairdresser at Weymouth , and before the election he had asked a voter named Langford to vote for Mr . Butt . Langford said he could give no decided answer , as Mr . Campbell had been twice to him . A day or two after the election , Langford came to his shop , took out a purse , and paid him a penny for shaving . " ( Laughter . )—The report of the committee confirms the election of the sitting
members . Ipswich . —The inquiry into this election commenced on Thursday . The allegations against the two members ( Messrs . Adair and Cpbbold ) are on the grounds of bribery , treating , and undue influence . Great Yarmouth : Gloucester . — These committees met for the first time yesterday ( Friday ) . In each case , both sitting members are charged with bribery and corruption .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . The Great Western parliamentary down train from London came into collision , on the afternoon of Friday week , with the up express train from Cheltenham , within a few yards of the station at that town . Though both met on the same line while going in opposite directions , and though the shock was necessarily very great , no one was killed , but fourteen persons were severely injured . The cause of the accident appears to have been the neglect of the pointsman , who omitted to turn the express on to the up line . An inquest has been held at Cudham , near Gravesend , on tho bodies of Arthur and Madeline Smith , aged respectivel y three years and three months , who wore accidentall y burnt to death at that village . The parents are poor people , and , being opgnged in agricultural pursuits , had left the children in care of an cldor brother , aged five years . During the absence of the parents , the house was found to bo on flre , the elder boy alone escaping , and the others being burnt almost to a cinder . The flre is supposed to have been occasioned by the children p lay ing with lucifer matches . The jury returned a verdict , of Accidental death . Tho engine of a short passenger train on tho Manchester , ( Shefiiold , and Lincolnshire Railway , jumped oft ' tho lino a few days ago , and dragged all the carriages after it . The guard ' s van was smashed to p ie c es , and tho guard was thrown out , and broke a log and an arm . Tho passengers escaped wltli a severe shaking ; but tho consequences would probably have boon more serious had not tho driver reversed his eng ine , and speedily
brought it to a stand . A Mr . Samuel Gaskell , a solicitor at St . Helens , Yorkshire , and hie clork , George Dixon , a lud about fourtcon years of ago , have boon drowned in * inlHdam whoro they had boon nailing . A rod and lino , with a fish at tho end , wore found near tho spot ; and it eeoma prob a ble that , tho fish having drawn tho rod from tho embankment , tho boy undressed and wont into the water to recover tho rod , having a strong lino fastened to his wriat , and hold by Mr . Gaslccll ; that tho boy , getting near tho centre , suddenl y plunged ovorhdad j that Mr Gaakoll rushed in to aavo him , when ho got his arms entangled with tho cord | « mt that thus both wore drowned . Tho body of tho boy waa found naked } that of Mr . Gaskoll clothed . Tho lino w « b wrapped rounU
the arms and body of the latter , and waa fastened to the wriBt of the lad . Two other cases of drowning are reported in the papers . A youth named Cuthbertson , the son of a solicitor at Maida Hill , went to bathe in the Regent ' s-Park Canal . He was learning to swim , and had the corks under his arms , but they slipped away , and he was drowned . Three Guardsmen have lost their lives in Dublin Bay . They were on a pleasure excursion with five others , when the boat capsized , and the three sank , and were not recovered till after death .
A man who was engaged last Saturday night in assisting a g irl from a burning house in Hatton-garden , sli pped from the fire-escape with the girl in his arms , and fell on to the pavement below . Both were killed . The accident appears to cave resulted from some other man having previously tampered in some way with the machine , though apparently with no evil intention . The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death in each case . An old woman residing at Taunton has been killed by taking a large dose of laudanum in mistake for tincture of rhubarb .
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STATE OF TRADE . The reports of the trade of the manufacturing towns continue without any new feature . At Manchester , the prices of goods still fail to keep pace with the upward movements of the Liverpool cotton-market . Hence , although stocks are low , there is no inducement to an increase of production . The Birmingham iron trade is well supported by orders from the United States and Canada . At Nottingham there has been a slight increase of demand both for lace and hosiery . The woollen districts have not been active , but the prospects of the harvest inspire great confidence . The Irish linenmarkets are without alteration . — Times .
In the general business of the port of London , during the week ending last Saturday , there has been but little change . The number of vessels reported inward was 171 , being 11 less than in the previous week . These included 56 with cargoes of corn , 11 with cargoes of sugar , and one cargo of tea and silk . The number of ships cleared outward was 137 , including 14 in ballast , showing a decrease of 16 . —Idem .
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IRELAND . Party Riots .- —Some further rioting has taken place at Belfast , provoked by the foolish ' relig ious' processions of the Protestants . Several constables have been wounded ; one dangerously . The military , both horfle and foot , have been called out , and a young man has received a . good many bayonet stabs . Mr . Justice Patrick , in opening the Downpatrick commission , commented severely on the mistaken zeal which causes these lamentable occurrences . He hoped that a Protestant is a Christian , and added that unquestionably one of the first duties of a Christian is to obey the laws .
Election of a Roman Catholic Bishop .. —The ceremony of electing a successor to the see of Ross in the room of the Right Rev .. Dr . Keene , translated to Cloyne , took place on Thursday week before Archbishop Leahy and a great number of his suffragan bishops , At the close of the scrutiny , tho result was announced as follows : —Very Rev . Michael O'Hea , di gnissimus ; Dr . Keene , Bishop of Cloyne , dignio r ; Dr . Delaney , Bishop of Cork , di gnus . The Outrage at Mayo . —Two of the men accused of injuring John Gannon , one of Colonel Hi ggins ' s witnesses on the Mayo election petition , have been found Guilty at tho Mayo Assizes . Tho other three prisoners were Acquitted . Sentence has been deferred in the case of tho men convicted .
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AMEKICA . Mr . Secretary Maroy died suddenly on tho morning of tho 4 th inst . of disease of the heart . Ho had retired to his room at Ballston , Saratoga county , after complaining of fooling rather unwell ; and in another hour was found dead in his chair . Ho was in hia seventysocoiul year . The funeral at Albany on the 8 th inat . was very imposing . Ex-Presidents Van Uuren and PiercP , ex-Governors Bouok , F ish , Hunt , and Soward , and many other public men , attended , and tliere was a grand display of military . Tho buildings in the streets through which tho funeral procession passed woro draped with mourning . A fivo on a very largo scale has burst out at Now Orloims . Eleven ' stores' have boon destroyed .
One of those riots on a scale ao extensive ns to amount to email civil wars , for which America in remarkable , took nlaoo on tho same day « s that on which Mr . Maroy died—iuo dav always kept as tho colebration of tho JJooln r ation of " lndopondonco . A knot of '""^ "V" ™" as tho IX-nd Babbit Club , inhabit tho Sixth Ward of Now York , tho St . « lies ' ., of that city . * ' > °£ " ° ™ have long boon nt deadly enmity with ho 4 » owopy Hoys , OTiotlior net of murderous BooundwlBj and they Bolsod tlio 4 th Inst . na an opportunity for huvmga flght . Tho old police had boon dlttbandod tho day before ; tho now polico were not fully organised Tho opposing armica of rascaldom accordingly aalllcd forth , and thv
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No . 383 , JWr 25 , ¦ 1857-1 ' THE LEADER , 701
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Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 701, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2202/page/5/
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