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wen conferred upon the Rev . Dr . Thomas Barclay , of Carrie . The Exktbb Hall , Services . —The first aeries of Nonconformist services at Exeter Hall was brought to % close on Sunday evening . The Skbpkictiwb . —A correspondent of the Times uggests that the Serpentine should be cleansed and timed into a salt water lake , supplied by pipes along he line of rail from Brighton . Thus Londoners may lave the advantage of sea-bathing in their own town ; ind the dust in the roads may be laid by salt water , rhich effects that object better than fresh . Another iorreipondent remarks that the mixture of salt and fresh rater is known to be unhealthy .
Attempted Suicide . —A man , in passing the other ay through Dulwich Wood , saw another man placing rope round bis neck , the other end being fastened to a ree . The passer-by hallooed , but the suicide threw him-Blf off . He was immediately cut down , upon which he nfastened the noose from his neck , and ran off . He ras secured by the police , and found to be mad . Pkofessok Faraday gave on Tuesday at the Royal nstitution the first of bis annual course of lectures dapted to a juvenile auditory . The subject was Static Electricity . ' The Prince of Wales took the hair—at sixteen years of age ! Mr . Spuboeon , on Tuesday , opened a bazaar on a rand scale at the Surrey Gardens , for the purpose of rising funds towards the building of his new chapel .
Equalization of Poob-rates . —A meeting in favour f this object was held on Tuesday evening in the estry-room of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn . Disapproval ras expressed with reference to Mr . Ayrton ' s measure , b not going far enough , and it was resolved that the ill which had been framed by the committee of the ssociation for promoting the desired object should be ixbmitted to some eminent counsel for his opinion . _ Mr . La yard has arrived at Bombay . The Buckinghamshire Election . —The election > r the county of Bucks ( a notoriously Conservative hire ) has terminated in the return of Mr . Cavendish , lie Liberal candidate , by a majority of 163 over Caplin Hamilton , his Conservative opponent . The numers were—Cavendish , 1617 ; Hamilton , 1454 . Captain [ amilton , in addressing the electors , exhibited some lortification at the result , which he attributed to his avjng been so late in the field .
parishioners of St . Stephen ' s , Westminster . The Lord Bishop of London was present ; also the Archdeacon of Middlesex , Viscountess Torrington , Canon Jennings , Messrs . Tennant , Garden , Pierpoint , A . F . Tracey , Major Cheetham , &c . The Art Treasures Exhibition . —The resolution of thanks passed by the Manchester Town Council to the executive committee of the late Art Treasures Exhibition was presented on Wednesday afternoon , in the Mayor ' s Parlour at the Town Hall , at a dejeuner at which about eighty gentlemen were present . The Fire near Bethnal-oreen . — The coroner ' s jury in this case have returned an open verdict .
The Mato Election . —Lord John Browne was returned for Mayo on Wednesday . The Shrewsbury Peerage . —Another claimant has now appeared for the title and estates of the late Earl of Shrewsbury in the person of William Talbot , a sailor on board the Callao , one of the Messrs . Brocklebank ' s ships , which has just arrived at Liverpool from Callao .
Fire at the Duke of Portland s . —For some time past , the Duke of Portland has been in the habit of inhaling the vapour from a spirit-of-wine lamp , as a means of allaying the pain resulting from rheumatism in the hip . He was doing this , about half-past ten o ' clock on Wednesday morning at his house in Cavendish-square , when the lamp was overturned , and the liquid set fire to the curtains and bedding . He was being attended at the time by the house steward , who , with much difficulty , got his Grace out of the room , though not without being a good deal burnt . The door of the room was then closed , and engines were sent for ; but the fire was got under before their arrival .
Proposed Borouch Franchise . —It is generally admitted that , in the boroughs at least , it has become imperative to admit to the right of voting many who do not reside in houses of 10 / . yearly value , and who are yet fully entitled and competent to exercise the franchise . An educational test has been suggested . It is objectionable as a new element in this kind of legislation ; it is invidious ; it will render necessary new and complicated machinery ; it will prove very costly and be always liable to mistrust and partiality . The reduction of the amount of qualification from 107 . to 5 f . yearly value is the next favourite suggestion , but the admission of those residing in homes of 2 s . a week value will not include , it is believed , practically a class more entitled to the franchise , or more qualified to
exercise it , than those residing in homes of Is . 6 d . a week value . There is another and simple method which the committee formed at the King ' s Arms recommend for approval . It is this . Strike out from the last Reform Bill the amount of requisite value of the premises to be occupied in the borough . Instead of the person , being required to be rated as now , let the required occupation be of premises which are rated . It is believed that the common practice in England and Wales is to rate all houses ( not so in Scotland ) ; but where Halsey ' s Act is in force , houses below 10 / . a year in value are rated to the landlord , so . that you cannot enfranchise in all parishes even 5 / . occupyers without being exposed to perplexity as to the condition that requires them to be rated to the poor If you admit all
A Workshop fob Girls . —The associative principle as been introduced in connexion with female labour in way which appears to us to be highly commendable . . workshop of girls for the construction of art toys has een established for the last three years , and has just een brought under our notice by a lady interested in a success . It has not hitherto obtained as much pa-* onage as we conceive it ought , owing to the tendency a the part of the English public to buy the toys manuictured by German artificers . We are informed that le playthings wrought by the dexterous fingers of this uild of English girls far exceed the German articles in eauty ; and , if this be the case , and the prices be such i economical parents and relatives can afford , we con-: ive that the papas and mammas , uncles and aunts , of
ngland ought to think more of their own fellowrantrymen than of foreigners . Certain special reasons r encouraging this underaking are thus stated by a antemporary : — " First the principle that the employed lould benefit by the commercial success of the business -that is to say , that they should not only earn wages , ut have a beneficial interest in the profits , which it is roposed to place in the hands of trustees to form a larriage-portion for the girls , or be drawn out by them i adult age , according to certain regulations to be made . he second principle is , that the education of the emloyed should go on with steady and unremitting proress ; so that , were the experiment to succeed , the orkers would in due time become possessors of some loney , and persona of well-stored minds . "
State of the Thames . —Mr . Gurnoy's recent report > the First Commissioner of Works on the state of the names ( dated November 3 rd ) has just been published . ; a chief recommendations have been thus summarized : - " Mr . Gurney recommends that all the retrogrades and rattice cesspools be destroyed ; that all the obstructions > a uniform flow of the river at low water be removed ; iat the projections along shore be rounded off , and the allows . filled up ; that the serrated edges of the river at w water be made plain and continued along the whole no of low-water mark ; that the width of the water ay at the lowest ebb bo not more than one hundred id forty yards from aide to side , so that tho river may it only run in a uniform current , but at a minimum
ite of two hundred and twenty-five fcot per minute ; id that from low-water mark upwards tho beach bo so mstructed that the shore may rise at un nnglo of about iree or four degrees with the horizon , or , in roadiaWng ~ parlanco ,- "Qf ~ not ~ les 8-than-one ~ in * -Bixteen , —to icilltatc the fall of the sewage into the bed of the river , he cost of this arrangement will not bo so great »» ould at first sight appour , and the navigation of tho ver would be improved by it . As regards gaseous or triform sownge—n most deadly poison—Mr . Gurney tggeets the destruction of tho retrograde , the proper applng of the mouths of the sewers , and the oombuaon of th « noxious gases . " Christmas D « ra « R . —Miss Burdctt Coutts gave an ( oollent dinner on Tuesday to three hundred poor
resident occupiers in rated premises to vote , the poorrate book , whether under Hasley ' s Act or Otherwise , will become a sure guide and a constant check to the register , and fix the premises with which the franchise is connected . Let the new statute recognize with more precision than does the present the right of ' joint occupiers , ' ' tenants in part , ' as our document calls them . Leave residence as it is now , within seven miles of any part of the borough ; but strike out the objectionable arrangement that rates must be paid before the occupier can claim to vote . The act of enfranchisement ought not to do the work of a tax-collector . The practice and decisions of our registration courts have already given legal explanation as to tho meaning and use of the words ' owner , ' ' tenant , ' ' occupation , ' &c , all of which will be available for the interpretation of the new statute , if it follows in the wake of the old . It is not proposed to give the franchise to 'lodgers , ' in the legal and technical sense of the word , as distinct
from 'tenants in part ; ' but to those only who have exclusive possession of and uncontrolled access to tho npartmonta which they hold . If our present registration luw ia preserved , it will still be needful that every person coming on the register must have hold his qualification for six months prior to the date of his claim ; tho register On which , his name is inserted is not in force till six months after the claim is made , nnd he must continue to hold his quulHication up to the time of voting ; bo that here is a possession of the qualification virtually for twelvo months before he can legally exerciso his vote . If this law is continued , and no alteration iu this respect id suggested by our committee , it will effectually restrict tho franchise to the settled population only . In language that will be generally understood , it is proposed that every man shall have a vote who has a homo of his own ; whother it consists of one room or more , whother it is largo or small , a house by itself or an apartment in a house . —From a Letter by Air . Ji . S . Pryce .
_ , JXiiKJWJWT-lND * Ba .: Tr 1 The . qwe tion has been considered in an extraordinary session of the Dememrn Combined Court of Policy . Ilia Excellence Lieutonant-Govcrnor Walker , having introduced the subject to tho notice of tho members , a long debate ensued , which ended in the adoption of four resolutions , the general upshot of which was that tho Court pledged itself to mako tho necessary financial provisions , at the proper time , for carrying out the sohome . The Administrator-General , and the Hon . Mossro . Roao and Conyoru , dUsented from ttteae resolution * .
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FRANCE . The plenipotentiaries of the second Congress of Paris met in conference on Thursday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , and exchanged the ratifications of the treatv relative to the boundaries of the Bessarabian frontier . The Emperor has had a touch of the prevalent disorder , the influenza .
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Leader Office , Saturday , January 2 . SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA . Three cases of fraud in Chili have come to light . A clerk of a business house in Santiago has been detected in appropriating his employer ' s funds , and no less than 100 , 000 dollars was said to have been spent by him at the gaming-table . In Valparaiso , a Mr . Bernal , a retail dealer , who for some time past had forged bills to meet his liabilities , has committed suicide by leaping from a boat into the sea . The amount of his forgeries is set down at 100 , 000 dollars . In the Commissary of Marines ' - office , a defalcation of 20 , 000 dollars has been discovered ; the heads of the department were arrested until the matter was investigated . The revolutionary party in the Republic of Bolivia has entirely triumphed . Dr . Linares has been acknowledged Provisional President , and General Cordoba ( the ex-ruler ) has fled from the country . In Salvador , a number of violent shocks of earthquake have been felt at Copitipeque and the old city of San Salvador . From Nicaragua we learn that General Martinez had been elected President , only eight votes being given against him .
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No . 406 , January 2 , 1858 . ] THE LE ADEE . 1 9
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GERMANY . " Great consternation , " says the Globe Paris correspondent , " exists at Augsburg . The Gazette of that town informs Europe of some vampire in human form , who , with aid of chloroform , stupifies ladies at dusk in the streets , and cuts off their hair , without doing any further mischief . Latterly this scalp-hunter has been at his pursuit in the open daylight , and ladies go out attended by armed lacqueys to obviate a rape of their locks . Dark mystery shrouds the affair , and the burgomeiater is dumbfoundered . "
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Murder of a Child . —James Brown , a bricklayers labourer residing in Ramsay-street , Bethnal-green , was charged at Clerkenwell yesterday with causing the death of a little girl six years old by striking her on the head with a belt . The child was in the man ' s way , and was told to leave ; but , not doing so at once , Brown struck her , and she ultimately died . He was committed for trial . The Paris Modki- Lodoino-Houses . —George Delianson Clark , the projector of the model lodging-house at Paris , applied yesterday in tho Insolvent Debtors ' Court to bo discharged on sureties until March next , in order to proceed with an action against Mr . Kennard , merchant , from whom and the Baron Heekereu he claimed upwards of 9000 / . The case is a remarkable one . The insolvent had a project to build model
lodging-houses at Paris , and had seen the Emperor . The Baron Heokereu , a personnl friend of the Emperor , interested himself , nnd advances were made by the French Government . Mr . Konnard , who is an iron merchant in Thames-street , had built tho houses and had laid out a very considerable sum . Tho insolvent alleged that for his management and the office matters ho was entitled to more than 9000 / . ; but Mr . Kennard denied that ho owed Clark one shilling : in truth , ho was a creditor . An action had been commenced by the insolvent , who wished to go on with tho proceedings for tho benefit of his estate . No objection waa mudo on the part of Mr . Kennard , who wan willing that bail should bo taken to a small amount in order to facilitate tho action . Two persons now ton-^ oroail » bTnleir 6 a -ic «^ ba 1 l-1 n" 250 / . Tand-were-found-8 uf fioiont . Mr . Commiaaionor Phillipa accepted tho bail , and tho discharge waa ordered to tho 15 th March , to try
tho action . . n , Tub Miwtart Outkagk in Westminster . —1 wo Boldlcra were examined at tho Westminster polloe-offlce yCHterdayon a oliargo of being concerned in thejlisgracoful military riot in tho Broadway to which wo have roforred In another part of to-day ' u paper . They wero remanded .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 2, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2224/page/9/
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