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even b few weeks , to strike out a scheme which would not be liable to grave objections , or which in its progress would not require serious modifications . " We have ( deemed it our duty to bring forward a measure which , as we believe , may effect some of the objects to which I have referred . We laid that measure before the country , purposely and intentionally , previously to the recess , in order that it might be subjected to public investigation and inquiry . We do not deprecate , but , on the contrary , we court discussion . We court the co-operation and advice of Parliament and of the country , with a view to rendering the change which we propose as safe and beneficial as we earnestly desire that it may prove to be . The one thing which we alone deprecate—and which we deprecate , not for the sake of the Government of the day , but on account of the important interests involved both in this country and in India—is that a question involving such mighty interests , and of such overwhelming i mportance , should be made the sport of political parties or the battlefield of rival disputants . " The Earl then referred to the horrors and the heroism attendant on the great Eastern struggle , and expressed a hope that we shall deal with the mutineers in a spirit of stem justice , but that we shall not forget mercy and Christian forbearance , and that those of the natives who have assisted os may be rewarded for their fidelity . His Lordship said he would not allude to any other topic . " I will not even advert , " he observed , " to a matter which must be of great interest to this metropolis—viz ., the measure which has been for some years in agitation for the reconstruction of the great corporation over which your Lordship so worthily presides , except to say that , as 1 trust discussion may have softened asperities and modified extreme opinions , so I trust that it may be possible for the wisdom of Parliament to devise a measure which shall place that institution more in consonance with the habits and requirements of the present age , without , in the least degree , detracting from its dignity , power , or importance , or failing to secure in all future time the same consideration for its chief magistrate , a consideration due to the sentiments of high honour and public duty which , with but very few exceptions , have characterized your predecessors , and which , I am sure , will be -worthily imitated by your Lordship . " CCheersS )
The Lord Chancellor , in responding to the toast of " The House of Lords , " spoke of the popular character of that assembly , as evidenced by himself , a commoner elevated to the Upper House . The Duke of Cambridge proposed the health of the Lord Mayor , in acknowledging which , his Lordshi p gave " The House of Commons , " coupling with it the name of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Mr . Disraeli , in replying , made some humorous observations on financial matters , remarking : — " With regard to the allusion your Lordshi p has made to the difficult position which I now occupy , I must thank you for the very encouraging manner in which you have offered , on the part of the citizens of London , to come forward to supply the deficiency which is at present apparent in her Majesty's exchequer . { Laughter ) . Certainly that exchequer is not now in an overbrimming state ; but , after such an expression of feeling from the representative of the wealthiest city in the world , I can assure you that , when the budget is introduced to the House of Commons—and it certainly cannot be long delayed—I shall enter upon , that difficult and arduous task with much more confidence and courage than I should have felt had I not had the honour of being your Lordship ' s guest this evening . { Laughter . ) The announcement on behalf of the City of London that they are prepared to pay new taxes is one which I have not a doubt will have a very favourable influence to-morrow upon the public securities of this country . " { Laughter ) . After a few more unimportant toasts and speeches , the company separated .
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STATE OF TRADE . At Manchester , Nottingham , Sheffield , Leeds , and Belfast , there was some improvement in the condition of trade during the week ending last Saturday j but in other places dulness continues to be the rule . Jn the general business of the port of London during the week ending last Saturday there has been considerable activity . The number of ships reported inward waa 287 , including 22 with cargoes of corn , flour , rice , &c . j 85 with cargoes of sugar ; and 10 from China with the unusually largo number of 07 , 992 packages of tea , and 2885 bales of silk . The number of vessels cleared outward was 117 , including 28 in ballast , and thoso on the berth , loading for the Australian colonies , amount to 48 .
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IRELAND . Mb . Smith O'Biuen has published in the Nation newspaper a second manifesto addressed to the people of Ireland . He hero admltu that the repeal of the Union is not at present practicable , and that public opinion baa
died out on the subject ; but thinks " it would be den " able that two or three hundred of the ablest andm * t patriotic men in Ireland , including " such representative as you ought hereafter to choose—including also Jr selected on account of their intelligence and inteerit from each corporation and from each body of town eon ? missioners in . Ireland , together with other persona Vh enjoy in a pre-eminent degree the confidence of the Irish people—should meet in permanent session in Dubluito deliberate upon the special interests of Ireland , and als upon all questions in regard of which the interposition of Irish opinion could promote the general interests of mankind . " Agricultural Prospects . — The agricultural accounts from Ireland represent the condition of the land and of the young spring crops as excellent . Rotal Dublin Society . —The Prince Consort has contributed a donation of 501 . towards the erection of the agricultural hall of the Royal Dublin Society . Murder and Robbkry . —A servant woman rathe employment of the Rev . Mr . Norman , of Abbeyfeale , Limerick , was murdered last Saturday night , about a mile from Ardagh . A man named Cullinane was arrested on Sunday , and has acknowledged his guilt . The Police Case . —The commission was opened at Dublin by Baron Greene and Mr . Justice Keogh on Wednesday . The case of the police and the Dublin students , not being yet completed , was postponed till next June .
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AMERICA . The bill to admit Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton Constitution has passed the Senate with amendments to the effect that nothing in the act shall be construed to abridge or infringe any right of the people , asserted in the Constitution of Kansas , at all times to alter , reform , or abolish their form of government in such manner as they may think proper , Congress disclaiming any authority to intervene or declare the construction of the Constitution of any State , except to see that it be Republican in form and not in conflict with the United States Constitution ; that the federal laws , if not inapplicable , be extended into the State of Kansas ; that a judicial district be formed , and a judge , attorney , and marshal be appointed and paid as in Iowa . Judge Calhoun , of Kansas , has declared his decision with regard to the returns of the election from the Delaware crossing precinct . He adds : — " I regret that this decision -will give the control of Kansas to the party which I view as the enemy of the p ^ ace and good order , the constitution , and the laws of the Union " —i . e . the Free State or Anti-Slavery party . The Louisiana State Senate has indefinitely postponed the bill for the introduction of free negroes of Africa into the State to serve as apprentices for fifteen years ; which is equivalent to its permanent rejection . The schooner Palmetto has been lost during her passage from Philadelphia to Boston with a valuable cargo , but no lives were lost . A horrible tragedy is reported from Ruatan Island , where it is said one hundred and fifty of the inhabitants have been murdered by the Indians . The Utah expedition has demanded and obtained further reinforcements ; and a letter has been received from Colonel Johnston , the commanding officer , of such a character that it was deemed advisable not to allow a copy of it to be made . A Mormon prisoner has escaped , and it is feared that there are traitors in the camp . A singular statement is made by the Washington correspondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer , yiho writes : " I do not remembor that I have previously mentioned that Mr . Sailes , of Providence , is said to be charged with a secret mission to Mexico , of wluctt tne object is to sound the principal men on the union of tnai Republic with the United States . " . New York has been amused recently by a granu rcugious * revival , ' as it has been called . Vast numbers oi the people have suddenly resolved to be very good , ana religion has become the fashion . Daily prayer meetings have boen held , and thousands are constantly turneu away for want of room - , but they indemnify thomsoivcs by flocking into the grog-shops and singing hymns , a vacant tlieatro ia the chief place of mooting , anu » ™ the worshippers chant , and pray for themselves anu others , and exhort , and read passages from the uh »* Each pornon in turn is allowed to pray aloud lor imw minutes at a time ; but ho must not exceed that owi mont , and , if ho do , the loader , who stands on the si « b » in front of the curtain , calls him to account . t » meeting lasts an hour , but sovoral are hclu » <¦> course of the day , and many persons go ovor ana « v again within tho four-and-twonty hours . Other tow » ° besides Now York share in tho excitoinont . Voiioquola-tB-in a , very , disordered fltato , mi ^ ripe for revolution . , i , » Colonel Lookbridgo has confirmed a etntomont i » ho was going to leave Now Orleans lor Uosnu on 24 th ult ., nlth tho intention of revolutionizing ^ ern Mexico . i A Gorman banker , named Ferdinand Atledor , « beon captured at Now York , charged with being » ' faultor to tho amount of 400 , 000 dollars from tho w of Stuttgart , Germany , where ho wns one of tho » r " . Atlodor and Kolas , buukors . Ho has boon lougou
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you're all right enough . " The train proceeded , and the jumping motion was renewed , accompanied by a good deal of oscillation from side to side . The speed also was considerable , and at that part of the line there are many acute angles . The passengers , becoming alarmed , called out loudly for help ; but the driver and guard either did . not or would not hear . Away swept the train : and one of the passengers opened the door of the carriage with a view to jumping out . At that moment , the wheels and springs of " the notorious carriage " broke into pieces ; the bottom fell on to the line , and the occupants were either dashed about , or saved themselves bv clinging to the ruins . Previously to this , the carriage had gone off the line , and the coupling chains having broken , some of the other carriages were left behind : these were thrown over by the sudden check given to their speed , and several persons were injured . None of the passengers , however , were dangerously hurt , though several of the occupants of the carriage which went to pieces were considerably bruised . A man and a horse were killed last Saturday near Bramshill , by a f lash of lightning in the course of a thunderstorm which passed over a great part of England . The man had been ploughing , and was leaving the field with four horses when they were all struck to the ground . Three of the horses struggled up ; but the fourth was killed , as well as the driver . The man's hat was torn into shreds ; and the lightning had struck him on the left side of the head near the ear , burning the hair and skin under the chin , and severely scorching the breast , abdomen , loins , and the inside of his right thigh and leg . His flannel shirt was also much , burnt . A farmer at Edgeside , East Lancashire , was knocked down by the lightning on the same day ; and one of his horses was struck blind , while another was killed . The storm was very violent in that district , and a great deal of damage was done to mills and
factories . Thomas Hunt , a man of about fifty years of age , whose occupation was to superintend a clay-crushing machine in the br ick-yard of Mr . W . D . Lowe , Denby , Nottingham , has met with a fearful accident , during which he exhibited astonishing fortitude and presence of mind . He heard some hard substance grinding between the rollers of the machine , and , putting in his hand to remove it , as he had done on former occasions , his finger-ends were drawn in . With a great effort , he prevented his arm following , and , dragging with all his might , he pulled his hand out , leaving the first joints of his four fingers in the machine . So great was the power of the machine , that one of the tendons of Hunt's arm was drawn out to the length of fourteen inches . Immediately on liberating himself , he went to the engine , and stopped it . A surgeon was called in , and all the fingers were amputated . The man is doing well , and is being attended to at the Derby infirmary . The New Shoreham Harbour has been the scene of a melancholy catastrophe . William Thomas King , the foreman of the harbour works , had a strong passion for aquatics , and he constructed a boat which was to compete for the prizes given at the annual Shoreham Regatta . The trial trip took place on Good Friday , and King was accompanied by a mariner named Dinnage , and a harbour pilot named Matthews . A stiff breeze was blowing , and Dinnage , it would appear , managed the boat rather unskilfully . At any rate , a squall caught her , and she was upset . King and Dinnage were drowned , but Matthews , who is very fat , managed to float ashore . Mr . William Austin , a gentleman from Sanquhar , Dumfriesshire , suddenly expired on the night of Good Friday , in a flrst-class carriage on the Trent Valley Railway , near Tamworth . He waa thirty-two years of age , and for the last three years had suffered from bronchitis , which deepened into consumption . On the train nearing Tamworth , he commenced coughing and spitting blood , and at last a quantity of blood forced its way up into his throat , and choked him . An inquest has been held , and has terminated in a verdict in accordance with the facts . William Fallow , a youth employed at the houso of Lord Duffcrin , at Highgate , died suddenly . . last Saturday night , under very painful circumstances . He was eating oysters , when one stuck in tho thorax ; and , after running about in great agony he fell . A surgeon was called in , but his services were useless . On ajwst mortem examination , the oyster was discovered in the air-tubes , whore , of course , it completely prevented respiration . The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of u Accidentally suffocated . " Another person has been sacrificed to tho absurd habit of getting out of a railway carriage -while the train is in motion . A Mr . John Pryatfc , a young man of eight-andtwenty , while in company of his father and brother , got out of a carriage at tho London-bridge terminus of ¦ the'Greon-wich-Railwayj-on-TueBday-nightrbeforeib'hail . stopped . Falling under tho wheels of the next carriage , his logs were nearly out off , and he expired at six o'clock on the following morning .
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A » accident occurred a few evenings ago on the Manoheater , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire railway , indicative of gross carelessness and disregard of the public safety . A train left Manchester at half-past six o ' clock , p . m . ; and It was not long before tho occupants of one of the firat-clasa carriages felt a groat deal of jolting and Jumping , which rapidly Increased . Tho station-master At tho Ant stopping place was informed of this , and replied Jocosely , " Oil , it ' s the notorious carriage j but
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340 THE LEADER . L No - 420 » April 10 , 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1858, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2238/page/4/
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