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the strength of qualities that seem to iall short of those required fov the discharge of such high ' judicial functions . Mr . L \ yakd returns home with a strong case ; he reiterates every charge of bad government and oppression that has been made since the outbreak of the mutiny , ' and . affirms that lie has found the proofs of their correctness . lie says that it is Ills fate never to he able to " make things pleasant ; " and he has certainly no intention of attempting to do so at iprescnt ^ - i tbe only doufafc 5 s , whether he has not Vought Tbftck with luin % oin India too strong a case . .
Surprises are so common in connexion with the Spanish Court that they surprise nobody ; so that when the electric telegraph brought xis . sadden news t hat , for some unexplained reason , the Queen of Spaix had seen fit to dissolve the Cortes , we felt no surprise , and only troubled ourselves to make an oif-hand guess or two at the probable reason ; was it in consequence of a demand from a 3
certain " personage ' to test his power ? — or a regular coup d ' etat , with a view to wiping out the constitution at one move ? We have not jet been told what were her Majesty ' s inducements ; but it has been whispered that the clearing away of popular objection to the carrying of a French railway into the heart of Spain may have had a good d « al to do with the matter .
There seems , at length , to be a prospc ct of the Kansas difficulty finding a satisfactory solution . A compromise has been , proposed , and has passed both Houses . It takes order for referring the Lecompton constitution to the ^ Ksoplej but qa a question , as to the disposal of land ; thus tie people can reject it en blocii they please , without a direct reference of the Slavery question ; but if they reject it , they must vote a new constitution , in accordance with federal law .
A . case , tried in the Court of Exchequer on Monday last , shows the still precarious operation of the system of crossing bankers' cheques . The action was brought against the London Joint-Stock Bank to recover the amount of a cheque drawn upon it and paid , but from which the cross lines had been erased before presentation . The ruling of the court was , that the bank was not liable , inasmuch as at the time the cheque was presented for payment it was made payable simply " to bearer , " whatever the intention of tlie drawer of the cheque might have been . Now tlierc scons to be a mode
of putting this matter on a clear and easy footing ; it is that , instead-of making crossed cheques payable by crossing through any banker , they should be made payable only to a banker specified in the body of the cheque . The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes lias been busy during the week , and it is evident that its working will be most satisfactory . Already it lias disposed of several causes that would never have been adjudicated under the old , costly , and repressive system ; and the tendency of the judgments is plainly to extend the operation of the new law as -widely as its best wishers can desire .
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PUBLIC MEETINGS . ATVTIBT . s' BKNKVOLKNT FUNI > , TttE anniveraary dinner in aid of this fxiiul took place ltiBt Saturday evening at tho Freemasons' 'Tavern . Mi-Dickons was in the chair , and waa supported bv Sir Charlea Eastlakc , Mr . David Roberts , It , A ., Mr . Elmore H . A ., and several other members of tho Royal Academy ' In proposing tlie tonar , " Prosperity to tho Artists' Be ' nevolent Fund , " Mr . Dickens said : — "In appealing to those around liim on . behalf of a fund comtitutcd for such n purpose , lie would bo no party to tho common cant of presenting to their notice tho iirofoasora of imaart
ginative na a . net or babies whom tlioy ought as it wore , to 'dry nurse . ' On tho contrary , ho should ' monk of them as a class of men whoso care for to-day and tomorrow was not to bo ox <; ecdcd by any other clnsa of men in existence—as a class of men who had rendered immense Bervicca to tho community . Ho-was indeed strongly disposed to boliovo that very fovr debates in Parliament wero half so important to tho public welfare ns n good picture , and that any mvmbor of bushels of tho Oricst legal tihnff that was over chapped would ho cheaply exchanged for ono roally meritorious , really accossiblo , aud really humanizing engraving . At a highly i i
distinguished annual-festival at which he had the honour to lie a gtiest—a festival which was hold behind two fountains—ho sometimes observed that great Ministers of State aud other exalted functionaries seemed to take a strange delight in somewhat ostentatiously declaring that they possessed no knowledge of art , and were very particular in impressing upon "the company the circumstance that they had passed 'their-lives in severer studies . No-w , it had . always struck him upon those occasions that those distinguished personages must regard artists to some extent in the light of dancing-dogs or ; as h ¦ BpeciesoF Pundh '« show , upon which men might look-condescencfingly \ wftien they . had nothing else to do , ; and he liatl . invariably taken the'Ubertv of entertaining his own
private opinion that all that sort of thing-was complacent ' bosh , ' and of reserving to himself the strong belief that the neighbourhood of Trafalgar-square , Pall-mall , and Suffolk-street was quite as important to the head and heart of the empire as that of Downing-street or Westminster-hall . Upon those grounds , and upon grounds not an inch lower , he should submit to those whom he saw around him the ' recommendation of three hundred artists in favour of the Artists' Benevolent Fund , and should beg of them to do honour to that recommendation by giving to it their best support . " Tlie toast was received with the utmost enthusiasm , and tlie amount of subscriptions and donations to the fund was announced , at a subsequent hour of the evening , to he upwards of QOOl .
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St . Mark ' s Hospital , Citv-koad . —In celebration of the twenty-third anniversary of this excellent Institution a dinner was given last evening at the Albion , Altlersgate-street , when Mr . Henry Hoar * presided , and was supported by a very numerous company of gentlemen , most of whom were liberal contributors to its funds . During the past , year , ' two' hundred and eightyfour persons were discharged cured , three hundred and thirty materially relieved , and three only considered as incurable . Since its foundation there hav « been ho less
a number of patients than 10 , 981 . In proposing the toast of the Queen ' s health , the chairman' greatly astonished his auditory by entering into a long argument in support of Convocation , to the alleged , advantages of which he bore testimony , adding that he liad given great attention to the subject . He then said , he intended to give 100 ? . to the fund as a penalty for the introduction of matter so foreign to the subject in hand . The subscription list announced a sum -of . between- 8 . 0 QJ . and 9 OOA for the past year .
Bagged School , Uniox . —This society held its annual meeting on Monday night in Exeter-hall , the Earl of Sliaftesbury presiding . After an opening address from the chairman , the secretary read the animal report , which announced an increased number of scholars in the schools , an improved state of finances , and a general extension of the various operations of tha union . The number of Sunday schools in the union is 13-i , containing 20 , 500 scholars , day schools , 98 , containing 14 , 300 scholars ; week evening schools , 131 , containing 8650 scholars . The voluntary teachers number 2580 , and the paid
teachers , 328 . There are nine shoe-black societies in various parts of London . Of these , the three most important—the red , yellow , and blue brigades , containing 190 boys , earned during the ycav-8227 ? ., about Is . a day for each boy ; 57 of the teachers have been formerly themselves ragged scholars , and 105 of the pupils have become communicants of various Christian bodies . A large number of the scholars have been placed in service at home and in the colonies , of whom several have entered the arm } ' and the navy . The penny hanks have received 2530 ? ., from 15 , 000 depositors .
The Annexation of Oude . —A public meeting was held at Sheffield on Tuesdaj-, at which the seizure of Oude was loudly denounced . The British and Fokeiox School . —The fiftythird annual meeting of this society took place on Monday , in the School-room , Borough - road . The chair was first occupied by Lord John Russell , and afterwards by Earl Granvillc . The former , in addressing tho company , dwelt on the advantages of education ; on the deficiency of instruction in this country ; and on the necessity of pushing forward the good cause without referonce to party . Indeed , he observed , all parties are agre ed ns to the value of education ; and he paid a high compliment to tho present First Lord of the Admiralty ( Sir John Pakington ) for his services in promoting tho desired end . —Some
complaints wero made by Mr . Tnggavt , a Unitarian minister , to tho effect that tho committee had published or sanctioned books of a sectarian character ; but on , amendment , seeking to appoint Mr . Price , M . P ,, and Mr . Alderman Lawronco , to tho committee , was withdrawn , after some discussion . Earl Granvillc , in addressing the meeting , congratulated his countrymen on the spread of education , and observed : — I' There is a museum collected in a -vory ugly liuilding m South Kensington , visited by huH a million , of per-• soiiH in the course of tho year , 40 , 000 of whom , chiefly of tho poorer classes , do not grudge the payment of the student's fee in ordor to study the objects there collected . This is an instance of tho increasing lovo of intellectual amusements and pursuits which the friends of the . British and Foreign School -Society might bo proud of having in no mean degree promoted ¦ rind stimulated . " After sonio further addresses , the meeting separated .
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Jlfondag , May \§ th . LORD CANKrS < i ' s l ^ ROCI . AMATION ANJD THE GOVERSMEST DESPATCH . In the HotJSE of Lonns , the Karl of Shaft ksbury gave notice that on ' Friday he would move a resolution condemnatory of the last despatch of the Government to the Governor-General of India , and he . promised to lay thewowla of the resolution oa the table on the following day . Tlie Earl of . E ' llexiiokoucui begged to lay the i 1 -
spatch in full on the table , for the convenience of the noble Earl . . ( Laughter . ) , He might as well take the opportunity of explaining how it happened that the House of Commons got the whole of the despatch , while their Lordships only got a part . It had been intended to lay the whole despatch before their Lordships and the other House , and the Secretary of the Indian Hoard had the whole despatch in his hand to lay before the House of Commons . It was strictly understood , however , subsequently , between him ( Lord Ellenborough ) and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , that extracts only shonld be given , because they considered it would" be
inconvenient to give certain passages ; but , before any communication of their . intentions was rna < le to the Secretary of the Indian Board , he had laid the whole despatch on the table of the House of Commons . A . S there seemed . to be some -misunderstanding respecting the copy of the despatch that had been given to a member ¦ of ¦ ¦ the'House of Commons , he ( Lord Ellenborough ) desired to give an explanation on the subject . The noble Earl opposite ( Lord (> ranville ) having asked for information respecting the despatch , he ( Lord Ellenborough ) sent him a copy of it , and , having done so , lie considered it was but fair to send a copy also to the member of the House of Commons ( Mr . Bright ) who had likewise put a question in reference to it . -Thenoble
Earl got his first , and the same messenger carried botli copies . Tlie messenger went first to the ' -noble Earl ' s residence , and , by accident , the hon . member of the other House , having left the residence to which it was directed , did not get possession of the despatch for some hours aft « r it reached the noble Earl . —In answer to a question from Earl Gkey , Lord Elt ^ enborougk admitted that the Government was only in possession , of the lirst draught of Lord Canning ' s Proclamation—not the copy actually issued by the authorities in Oude . The Government did not even know with certainty that the Proclamation had been published in India at all . They had received no direct communication from the Governor-General for nearly a month .
An animated conversation en fined , from -which it appeared tliat Mr . Vernon Smith , the late President of the Board of Control , had since his retirement from ollii . c received a private letter from lord Canning , in which he stated that the proclamation he was about to issue would probably require some future explanation , which the pressure of public business prevented him from giving at the moment . That letter had not beon . communicated by Mr . Vernon Smith to his successor in cilice ; and Lord Ellknborough said he was not aware such a letter had been received . —Tho Earl of Matvmkkiu-iiv
observed Hint it is usual for any Minister receiving even a private letter , after quitting office , which Telated to the business of tho department to which he had belonged , to communicate it to his successor . —The Marquis ol ' L . usdowsk explained that Mr . . Vernon Smith did not roci'ivi the letter till the evening of the previous Thursday , after the question in reference to tlie proclamation h / id been asked in tho House of Commons . The Earl of Ai . bekmarlk said he would postpone the resolutions with reference to the annexation of the sinus of native princes in India of which he had given notice . He did not want to have it supposed that he sanctioned
in any way tho extraordinary conduct of her JI .-ijft . iys Government in censuring a Governor-General cnga ^ l , and skilfully engaged , in suppressing ono of the greatest mutinies on record . There were probably few of their Lordships who would not deprecate the tone of tlie despatch which had been written in reference tothoProclamntion of the Governor-General . The conduct of I lie Government towards him \ v « s most unwise and most indiscreot ; and tho publication of the despatch by the President of tho Hoard of Control , before tlie person l » whom it was addressed was coguizant of it , was , hu conceived , positively illegal .
The Ein-1 of Er . r . v / NHonouoi r said tho noble Lord hn ittikh ( No . 2 ) Him ., Iho Exi'isr . Iii' - > and the Exeuiojuicu Honiih ( 2 , 000 , 000 / . ) , wore ivail a third time . Their Lordships adjourned at half-pnsl nix o ' eW' . CITY OP UMK . mOIC KLKOTIOX . In the Hormic of Commons , Mr . 1 > wni . oi « brought » P tho report of tho City of Limerick election < : <» inn » it . ee . The- comnutteo reported that Major Gavan \ ran not duty
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45 S TH 03 LEADE H . [ N " o . 425 , Mat 15 , 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1858, page 458, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2242/page/2/
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