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THE PRINCIPALITIES DIFFICULTY . It la stated ( on tlio assurance of despatches from Gontnntlnople , duteil August 6 th ) that M . Thouvonol has gain threatcnotl n rupture o < diplomatic relations , in Hinequonco of tlio rofusnl of tho Sultan to reonl tlio Kuljakan of Moldavia . Tho Sultnn ha 3 doclarod that ho ill communioato directly with tho Emperor of the ronoh by an autograph letter . A telegraphic measage from the same oity , dated the Lli , any a :- *—"The Porto having refused to acaodo to M . Thouvo-) l ' s demand for the annulment—immediate , nbsoluto
and without examination—of the Moldavian elections , be has broken off diplomatic relations with the Turkish Government , and to-day , at half-past twelve , the flag of the French Embassy was hauled down . It is not yet known whether the Ministers of Russia , Prussia , and Sardinia , who have threatened to follow the example of their colleague , will do so . "
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THE CONTINENT . Two hundred houses have been destroyed by fire at Galata . The establishment of the Scaurs Francises was saved . The tribes of the Mutualis have pillaged the Christians in the town of Sour . M . de Lesseps , French Consul at Beyrout , has gone to the spot to demand a public reparation of the outrage . Russia has made an application to the Porte with a view to such a modification of the Treaty of Paris as will enable her to employ a larger number of vessels of war to carry on her present operations on the coast of Circassia . A serious affair has taken place at Isalatavia in the Caucasus between the Russian troops and the main body i of the forces of Schamyl , in which the latter were de - feated , with the loss of four hundred killed . The Russians had eight men killed and forty-seven wounded .
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Crystal Palace . —Return of admissions , including season tickets , for six days ending Friday , August 7 tb , 55 , 859 . .
There is no learned man . but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least be colerablefor his adversary to write?—MiiiOM-.
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THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER . ( To lie Editor of the Leader . ) August 5 , 1857 . Sir , —The energetic manner in which you have followed up , with a public spirit and feeling of justice * my endeavours to bring under the notice of Parliament the subject in which I have been engaged , induces me to call your attention to the following facts : — Mr . Coningham , the honourable Member for
Brighton , applied to the House of Commons on 19 th May to be allowed to appoint an ordinary Committee of fifteen to inquire into my petition for an investigation of the proceedings of certain high functionaries of the Duchy of Lancaster , in first ' preventing me from exercising the rights , powers , and privileges of my office of Auditor , and ( afterwards ) in superseding me by a near connexion of the Receiver-General to audit that officer ' s accounts for Parliament . ' ¦
This Petition called in question the acts- of Lord Belper , Earl Granville , and the Earl of Harrowby , who had been Chancellors of the Duchy—also the proceedings of the Receiver-General , his deputy , and the Clerk of the Council . The opposing powers would assent only to a Committee of Jive members , and on condition that they were not to be appointed by Mr . Coningham . This Select Committee have published a Report on the subject , but without it being accompanied and confronted by the evidence upon which it professes to have been drawn up , although I have protested against such a course being adopted when a limited number of copies of the evidence have , for some weeks , been printed for the Committee .
The evidence , which the Chancellors and other functionaries of tho Duchy have put forward in attempting to justify their endeavours to deprive the Auditor of tho means of checking their proceedings , have been merely the expression of their own opinions by which they have asserted that the Chancellor of tho Duchy is ' autocratic' , even , if he required the Auditor to sign a document containing a fraud , ho ought to do so . My evidence on tho contrary has , throughout , been supported by the production either of the correspondence , Acts of Parliament , Charters , Patents or other documents , and by tho legal opinion of ( Sir Fitz Roy Kelly that the proceedings of tlio Duchy Officials , in preventing me from being present at tho Council of tho Duchy and interfering with the functions of my office , have been illegal .
The Committee have , however , shut their oyes to these facts and acted only on tho , unsupported statements of tho noblomon and other officials of the Duchy . I therefore ask , and trust , that as I hiivo had , and still have , to contend upon my own resources against what is duily termed to mo the ' overpoworing influence' nnd combinations which have been brought to bear against mo , you will not allow your judgment
This matter cannot be allowed to , and I _ hope you will exercise your power in directing public attention to the Evidence , and in procuring a searching investigation into the Management of these Ducal Estates for some years back . . I am , Sir , Xour most obedient servant , Fbancis Robert Bbktolacci . 5 , Cornwall-terrace , St . George ' s-road , Pimlico . p . S . —The Committee was composed of Sotheran E 3 tcourt , Esq ., ( Chairman ) j Member for North Wiltshire ; Lord Harry Vane , Member for the County of Durham , South ; Viscount Goderich Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire ; James Hans Hamilton , Esq ., Member for the County of Dublin ; and Thomas William BramstOn , Esq ., Member for South Essex .
rest to be overruled by the Report of the Committee ; but , that you will form your opinion of the matter on the . evidence itself . Throughout the whole of the Examination I wai pressed by the Committee , but more particularly by the Chairman , to draw inferences from the facts I put forward in Evidence , until , at the risk of giving offence , I positively refused to commit myself to any other statements than factsj after which the Chairman framed some of his questions as inferences . The Report , which avoids noticing the evidence I have produced to prove separately each paragraph of my Petition , now throws its whole weight to prejudice the facts by alluding to them as inferences on my P ^ t . ... .. .
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A HARD CASE . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ") Sir , —A case came under my especial observation a few years since , involving a judicial decision which I have always considered to have been most false and uujust . The national schoolmaster was accused by a girl , at the instigation of her father ( a policeman ) , of an aggravated assault ; he was committed , and convicted under Cliief Justice Jervis , and sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour , Immediately after the apprehension of the accused by the father , he went to two houses to obtain corroboration of his daughter ' s statement but met with a direct contradiction . Throughout the parish
generally the charge was , and is to this day , considered altogether a false one . Memorialssigned by three-fourths of twelve hundred householders were sent to the Home Office , his wife appealed to the judge , the place of tlie prisoner ' s birth also forwarded memorials , the prisouer himself petitioned the Home Office and Quarter Sessions for further inquiry , but all to no purpose . I applied personally to the Home Office and by letter to the judge , but with a similar result , and the j ury also tried their best for a further inquiry by a memorial . The injustice still continues ; two girls who gave evidence in favour of the prisoner were treated as perjured ; more evidence that was forthcoming but not called for would have confirmed the
them ; and the uncorroborated testimony or prosecutrix availed over all . I had of my own knowledge testimony that would have gone far to prove the girl unworthy of credit , it was not called for . The policeman continues in office and has been recently made a sergeant . Endeavours were made to convict the girl of perjury ; a true bill was given by the grand jury , but on coming ou for trial , Baron Alderson would not allow it to proceed . I own the case does appear on tho surface a difficult one to deal with , but , intimately acquainted asl utu with all the parties , 1 have no hesitation in saying the charge is a cross act of perjury . I have neither spared time nor expense to obtuin a reinvestigation ; a barrister of
twenty years' standing has had all the papers before him , and is of my opinion , ; the chaplain and governor of tliu gaol also , a magistrate and M . l . of the county , who heard the lirst trial , satisfied of the falseness of the charge , tried for funher inquiry , nnd contributed towurda thy expenses of a second trial , but without effect , and thus the matter now rests . Still I am not satisfied , and I wrote some time since requesting access to the papers that have boon presented to tho Home Office , in order to copy and publish them , but was deuied . However , X have auMciont papora by mo and others forthcoming to make put a good case
for publication , and I hope some day to do it , bat must wait a bit ; the expenses attendant on the above wore not light , the rimater was but a poor man , so thut from first to last my responsibilities in tUo matter wcro little less . than 100 / ., which for a curate arc not easily overcome . Hliould you think anything more of this communioiition and could help in bringing about an investigation , 1 should feel truiy thankful . I am , Sir , yours faithfully , W . linooRU Stevens . Assistant Curate .
Suttonwitluicld , Notts , August ** , 1857 . P . S . —I have had twvonlevn years' experience as ft curate .
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^— - — Leaser Office , Saturday , August . 8 . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT , HOUSE OF LORDS . Che business in this House was confined to the forwaring a number of Bills through various stages , with rery little discussion . The House adjourned at twenty minutes to seven . HOUSE OF COMMONS . The House held a morning sitting . DBOGHEDA ELECTION . The Report of the Committee on the Drogheda Elecion Petition was brought up , and it was stated that Mr . icCann was duly elected ; and that riotous proceedings [ ad taken place on the day of nomination , and it did not , ppear that pi-oper precautions to secure good order had een taken by the authorities . The New Zealand Loan Guarantee Bill , and the ale of Waste Land ( New Zealand ) Bill , were read third time and passed , as was the New Zealand Go-ERNMENT BlLL . The Metropolitan Police Station Bill was read , third time and passed . The Dulwich College Bill and the Dunbar fARBOUR Loan Bill were considered , and ordered to be Bad a third time . The sitting was suspended at twenty minutes to one ' clock until six , when the House resumed . DUBLIN ELECTION . ¦ The Committee iu the Dublin Election Petition reorted that Mr . Grogan and Mr . Vance were duly reirned at the last election , and that promises of money > vote were held out to freemen of the city of Dublin , lit not with the knowledge of the sitting members . THE EUPHRATES ROUTE TO INDIA . Mr . Sotheran Estcourt , who had a motion on the aper to call attention to the subject of adopting the > ute of the Euphrates "Valley to India , postponed it in . ) nsequ . ence of the absence of Lord Palmerston . TROOPS AT BOMBAY AND MADRAS . In answer to Mr . W . Vajstsittart , Mr . Vebnon mith said that regiments had been sent to Bombay id Madras Presidencies to supply the place of those hich had been sent on to Bengal . A large force was Iso being concentrated at Point-de-Galle , Ceylon , to be ; the disposal of the Governors of Bombay and Madras , isides which a due proportion of the artillery which ad been sent out to India would be stationed at those ' residencies . CONSOLIDATION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW . A series of bills consolidating the criminal law , which ad come down from the House of Lords , and stood for : cond reading , were withdrawn by the Government . THE PARLIAMENTARY OATHS COMMITTEE . Mr . Newdjegate complained that in appointing the jmmittee to consider the statute relating to Parlialentary oaths , the phrase , ' gentlemen of the long robe , ' r very extensive one , and he wished to know if it pplied to all barristers in the House , or only to such as ere actually in practice—the list only contained Ihe nines of the nominated members . —The Speaker said lat the standing orders of the Housa had been fully > niplied with in tho nomination of the committee . ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW . THE ASSIZES . In answer to Mr . Waruen , Sir J . Pakington said lint the Report of tho Commission to inquire into the . dministration of the Common Law Courts and tho iture arrangements of the Assizes had been signed ; and lere was a recommendation to alter and modify the resent arrangement of the Assizes . THE CIirMNET-POTS OF SOMERSET HOUSE . THE DRAWING-KOOMS AT ST . JAMES ' S PALACE . Ill answer to Mr . Stafford , Sir Benjamin Hall , lid that no sufficient trial had been made of Mr . inny ' s nqw ohimney-pota in Somerset House to enable im to state that they would bo adopted . With regard > any expenditure on St . James ' s Pulaco for the bettor mvenienco of persona attending her MqjeHty ' s Drawingioms , no estimate could bo made without application to urliament . At tho last drawing-room , arrangemonts id boon made by which no inconvonienco wns Biiflbrod , ul it was not at present intended to make nny further iteration . THIS DtVOItO Q BILL . Tho House thon went into committee on this bill , ssuming at clause 1 G . Tho discussion in committee : oupied tho remainder of tho sitting .
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riN THIS DEPARTMENT , AS ALL OPINIONS , HOWEVER EXTRKME , AKB ALLOWED AN EXPRESSION , THE EDITOR NECESSARILY HOLDS HIMSELF RESPONSIBLE . FOIi UONE . j
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 755, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2204/page/11/
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