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      rendered to the State by the Maharajah of Putteeala , the Government have conferred on him a valuable jagheer in the Jbujjur territory . The jagheer is said to be worth 60 , 000 rupees per annum . Our informant also states that a jagheer worth 40 , 000 rupees per annum has been bestowed on the Jheend Rajah . This also is in the Jhujjur territory . —Lahore Chronicle . Insects Kevek Geotv . —Many people fancy that a little fly is onl y little because it is young , and that it

      wgrow up in process of time to tie as big as a bluebottle . Now , this idea is entirely wrong ; for -when an insect has once attained to its -winged state , it grows no more . All the growing , and most part of the eating , is done in its previous states of life ; and , indeed , there are many insects , such as the silkworm moth , which do not eat at all from the time when they assume the chrysalis state to the time when they die . — " Common Objects of the Country , " ly the Rev . J . G . Wood .

      Sir John Ingus , K . C . B ., is on" his way home , the state of hi 8 health not permitting him to remain during another hot season at Cawnpore , where he lias been in command . He will probably arrive at his father-inlaw ' s ( the Lord Chancellor ' s ) on the 27 th inst . Vernaculau Education of Imoia . —A meeting was held on Thursday , at St . James ' s-ball , Piccadilly , for the purpose of instituting a society for establishing in the great towns of India Christian vernacular training institutions , and for supplying , in each of the native languages of India , school-books and other educational works prepared on Christian principles . Resolutions in accordance with these objects were adopted .

      , " Miracx . es" Contrary to French Law . —A girl , named Savy , of Lourdes , in , the Hantes Pyrenees , has created some excitement owing to pretended interviews -with the Virgin . The Prefect of the department , however , coming at length to the opinion that she was an imposter , has ordered that all persons who pretend to Bee visions shall for the future be sent to the hospital at Tarbes and be subjected to medical treatment , and that those who spread "the absurd tales" of heavenl y visitations shall be prosecuted for propagating false news .

      Tenacity of Life in the Newt . —The tenacity with which these creatures cling ; to life is quite surprising . -Experiments have been tried purposely to see to what degree a body could be mutilated , and yet retain life . They have even been frozen up i n a solid block of ice , and , after the thawing of their cold prison , revived , and seemed none the worse for it . I may as ¦ well mention that none of these experiments were tried by myself , for"I am not scientific ' enough not to care anything for the infliction of pain but on one occasion I did try an experiment , and , as it turned out , a very cruel one , although it was not intended for an experiment . I was studying the anatomy of the frogs and newts ; and having eight or ten fine specimens of the

      latter creature , determined to take advantage of the opportunity . The first thing was , of course , to kill the creature without injuring its structure , and I thought that the best mode of so doing would be to put it into my poison-bottle . This was a large glass jar filled with spirits of wine , in which was held corrosive sublimate in solution . This mixture generally killed the larger insects immediately , and seemed just the thing for the newts . So they were put into the jar—but then there ivas a scene I will not describe , which I trust never to see again , and of which I do not even like to think . Suffice it to say , that nearly a quarter of an hour elapsed before these miserable creatures died , though in sheer mercy I kept them pressed below the surface . — Common Objects of the Country , by the Jiee . •/ . G . Wood .

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      Leader Officic , Saturday , May 22 nd . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OP LORDS . THE OATJIS BILL . The Earl of Luca . n gave notice that , on the consideration of the Commons' reasons for disagreeing with the Lords' amendments to the Oaths Bill , he should move that the IIouso do not concur in those reasons . THIS CAGX . IAIU . In reply to the Earl of Minto , the Earl of MalmksnrjiiY stated that an answer had been received from Naples in respect of the demand made for compensation toth . o engineers of the Cagliuri . , Tho demand was not complied with , nor yet absolutely refused . It was " an argumentative reply , " and had only been received within tho lust two hours . The House adjourned at half-past six o'clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS . BRKAC'II OK 1 'RIVIL . KOK . MrX ' uvu moved that tho printer and publisher of tho Carlisle V . scammcr be brought to tho bar of tho House next Friday , for n breach of privilege in accusing bun . of improper conduct as chairman of a railway committee . —Agreed to . ADJOURNMEN T I'OIC THIS HOI , n > AYH . —MH . CAR » AVKU / s MOTION WmilMtAWN . On tho motion thnt tho IIouso at its rising do adjourn to 3 iext Friday , Lord Pausiicuston nslced if any covering despatch hud been received from Lord Canning with

      the papers which bad been laid before the House that morning . He also asked if the debate on Mr . Cardwell ' s motion could be concluded that night . —Mr . Disraeli said he proposed that the debate should conclude that night . No covering despatch had been received with the papers from Lord Canning . He also stated , in answer to Mr . Labouchere , that no authentic copy of the Proclamation had been received by the Government ; and in answer to Mr . Gladstone , that the first intimation the Governnient received of Lord Canning ' s intending to send a letter

      explanatory of the Proclamation was from Lord Lansdowne publicly in the House of Lords . —Mr . Clay then rose and made an earnest appeal to Mr . Cardwell to withdraw his motion , urging that it was inexpedient , after the resignation of Lord Ellenborougb , and still more so since the receipt of the papers by the last mail . —Mr . Bowyek also urged the withdrawal . ; —Mr . Cardwell declined to withdraw it . — Sir De Lacy Evans said that the real question relating to Indian policy had never been considered , and he gave notice that after the recess he should move

      " that , in the opinion of the House , the Proclamation of the Governor-General confiscating the proprietary right i n the soil of the landowners of Oude was not equitable in policy noi calculated to promote the pacification of India , and therefore ought not to be carried into effect . " - —Mi ' . . Dru 3 Imond asked Mr . Cardwell if the rumour that he had intended to withdraw his motion was true .

      —Mr . Cardwell said it was entirely unfounded . — After a long and desultory discussion , in which Mr . Duxcombe and a number of Liberal members took part , urging on Mr . Cardwell to withdraw his motion , lord Palmerston rose , and said that the papers received that morning , while they established the fact lhat Lord Canning -was still pursuing a policy of ¦ clemency , liad altered the state of things , inasmuch as they would counteract in India the ill . effect of Lord Ellenborough ' s despatch ; and , as i t appeared to be the ' general , wish of the House that the motion should be withdrawn , he should advise that it be done . — -Mr . Cabdweli then consented to . ' withdraw his motion .

      Mr . Gladstone strongly defended Lord Canning , but intimated that he could not have supported the motion . He . urged , however , on the Government to make some declaration of their confidence in the Governor-General . —Mr Disbaeh said that , as a mere matter of the convenience or safety of the Government , he should not have been , inclined to assent to the withdrawal of , the motion , which he was prepared to meet , but considering the grave interests involved , arid believing that the cessation of the existing party discussion would be for the benefit both of England and India , he would agree to its ¦ ¦ withdrawal . After some retrospect of the course pursued by the Opposition , he stated that the Government had already signified to Lord Canning that he should have their support .

      Lord John Russkll , expressed bis satisfaction at the declaration of the Government that they would support Lord Carning " , and he also agreed to the withdrawal of the motion . —Mr . Bright expressed a hope that the events which had now occurred would operate as a ¦ warning to the Government , ami also act on the Liberal partj' in such a manner as to unite and strengthen them . —The motion for adjourning to next Friday was then agreed to . ¦ ¦ The other orders of the . day were disposed of , and the House adjourned at eight o'clock .

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      INDIAN CORRESPONDENCE . Tiik despatches from India to which reference was made in both Houses of Parliament on Thursday evening were published yesterday . Tho first is a letter from George Couper , Esq ., Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oudc , to G . F . Ed monotone , Esq ., Secretary to the Government of India . It states that the Chief Commissioner "is of opinion that the landlords [ of Oude were most unjustly tiented under our settlement operations ; " that , consequently , they should be considered , not as rebels , but ns " honourable enemies ; " that , if their lands are restored , they will at once aid us in restoring order ; but that , "if their life and freedom from imprisonment only be offered , they will resist , " and . a guerilla war will be begun which will involve the loss of thousands of Europeans . Mr . Edmonstone , in convoying the reply of the Governor-General , snys : — " Tlie Governor-General entirely agrees with you in viewing the tnlookdnrs and landholders of Oudc in a very different light from that in which rebels in our old provinces arc to bo regarded . The people of Oude had bctti subjects of iho British . Government for little more than one year ivhcn the mutinies broke out ; they had become so by no act of their own , By the introduction of our rule , ninny of th « chiefs hnd suffered a loss of property , and all hud cxpcriiMiei ' d a diminution of the importance and arbitrary pow « r which they hnd hitherto enjoyed ; and it is no marvel that those amongst them who had thus been loser . should , when they saw our authority ( Unsolved , lm-vc hastened to shako off their new allegiance . The Governor General views these circumst « nce » as ft palliation of nets of rebellion , even where hostility has been most active and systematic . Accordingly , punishment by death or imprisonment is at onee put aside by tho proclamation in the ciihc of all who shall submit themselves to " the Go vernment , and who tiro not murderers : and , whilst conlis

      cation of proprietary rights in . the land is declared to be the general penalty , the means of obtaining more or less of exemption from it , and of establishing a claim to restitution of rights have been pointed out , and are within , the reacli of all without injury to their honour . Nothing more is Tecniired for this than that they should promptly tender their adhesion , and help to maintain peace and order . . . That unjust decisions were come to by some of our local officers in investigating and judging the titles of the landholders is , the Governor-General fears , too true ; but the proper way of ^ rectifying such injustice is by a re-hearing where complaint is made . This , you are aware , is the course which the

      Governor-General is prepared to adopt , and to carry out in a liberal and conciliatory spirit . It is a very different one from proclaiming that indiscriminate restitution of all their ancient possessions is at once to be yielded to the landholders . That the hostility of the taloolcdar 3 of Oude who have been most active against the British Government has been provoked , or is excused , by the injustice with which they have been treated , -would seem to be your opinion . But I am to observe that there are sonie facts which deserve to be weighed before pronouncing that this is the case . " Several of these facts are then mentioned , and the letter concludes with the remark that the Governor-General cannot with justice be equally lenient to all .

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      THE CONTINENT . The French Senate closed its session on Wednesday . The Mediterranean squadron has left Toulon harbour for some unknown destination , supposed to be the Adriatic . The ships of the line Ulm , Donauwerth , Arcole , Prince Jerome , and La Bretagne ; the screw frigate Isly , and the war frigates Impe ' rieuse , Griffon , and Salamander , form part of the squadron . A telegram received in Paris states that the Bedouins of Damascus have stopped and robbed a caravan of pilgrims going to Mecca , and have obtained an immense booty . ¦ ' .. '¦ ¦ ¦ : ' . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦¦• . ' . Rumour states that there is a ' ministerial crisis in Turkey , and that the Grand Vizier is on the point of resigning" ! The Prince Regent opened the session of tlxe Norwegian Storthing at Ghristiania on the 14 th inst . The Indepetidente of Turin , of May 16 th , states that Count Cavour is preparing an ultimatum in reply to Commander CarafFa ' s last communication . " It will , perhaps , " says this journal , "be after the refusal of this ultimatum that recourse will be had to the arbitration of the European Powers . "

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      Limbuick . Election . —Mr . Ball , the Palmerstonian candidate for Limerick , has withdrawn , and Mr . Spaight , the Ministerialist , will have a walk over . The Quee >\—The Court Journal is " able to mention , on' an authority which admits of no doubt , that her Majesty is once more in that condition which gives us fair hopes that before the end of the year there w ill be an increase to the Royal family . " "

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      IN THIS IIBl"AItTMV : NT . A !< Al . l- OPINIONS . HOWEVER EXTKKMK , AUK ALLOWED AS IS SI-It KSS 10 N , rllB KDU'Olt JJECKSSAKILY HOLDS IIIJISBI . K K 1 ! SI'ONSI 1 ' . LK l'OII N ON IC ]

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      ^ There is no learned man but will confess tic halh . much profited by rending controversies , his senses awakened , and riisj udgrrlentsharpened . If , then , is be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least . be tolerable for nisadversary to write?—Alij / roN "

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      ! '' s ' - - THE STAMP DUTY" ON DRAFTS . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ' ) Sin , —In referenco to the " Stamp Duty on Drafts Bill , " just passed by the House of Lords , some anxiety lias been expressed by the managers of certain savings banks in correspondence with this institute , as to whether drafts drf . wn on their treasurers for the "benefit of depositors would bo liable to tho duty . I wns therefore directed to submit to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that , ns it is a custom in numerous savings banks ( for the prevention of fraud ) to \>!\ y every "withdrawing depositor by a cheque upon the treasurer of the bank , such cheques ought to be exempted from the operation of tlie proposed stamp , and I have now the satisfaction to subjoin , for tlie information of such of your renders ns may be interested in the matter , tlie following reply from Mr . Ryan : — " The Chancellor of the Exchequer desires mo to acquaint you thnt the drafts drawn by tho managers of savings bunks on their treasurers will not be liable to stump duty , us they conic within tlie provisions of tlie 44 th section of the Act 0 Geo . IV ., cap . *);> . " : I . inn , sir , your obedient servant , ' EdWAUD . WM . BllABKOOK , [ Corresponding Secretary . ' - friendly Societies' Institute , 4 , Trafalgar-square .

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      No . 426 , May 22 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . - 493

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1858, page 493, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2243/page/13/