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one morning the community was startled , and , tor the most part , horrified to discover the bodies of four of its leading men hanged to as many trees : they were all of the " American" party . Verily , young as brother Jonathan is , ha-has lived . 'long enough in the world to Lave shaken off somewliat more of his primal savagery , to have learnt the use of better political arguments than revolvers and bowie -knives in the Senate , and halters eveu . in its most distant country-places .
A spirit-stirring letter in the Times of Thursday sets forth the perils of the late telegraphic expedition during the thirty-three days it was out at sea . Contrary to all the calculations which had been made with regard to the weather , the expedition was overtaken , almost immediately after it left land , by a series of storms of unexampled violence . The Agamemnon , whose adventures arc specially recorded in the letter , was throughout these storms
in the greatest danger from her overloaded state , and her escape really appears little short of a miracle . The utter failure of the attempt to lay the cable in . the face of these adversities is nothing surprising ; but it demonstrates the necessity for calling into play much greater , as well as more manageable powers , than have lulherto been employed . For the sake of the company , as well as for the sake of the two countries whose interest in the success of : the
undertaking is so great , every chance of future failure should be removed , as far as chances can be calculated . And while the xeasons for losing no moment that can possibly be saved are obvious , we can think of no better or more promising plan than that suggested by the Times , namely , to employ the Great Eastern . The Archbishop of Cantehbury has ratified the sentence passed upon , the Rev" . Mr . Poole by the Bishop of London , and so the case ends , as between Mr . Poole and his clerical superiors ; but it still remains open , as between the public and the
dismissed clergyman . The public has been grossly scandalized by the attack made upon the curate-of St . Barnabas , and though it is prepared to raise its voice loudly enough against the systematic practice of confession in the Protestant Church , its love of fair play will not suffer it to join in blasting the character of a clergyman because his notions of his religious duties are not in accordance with its views on the subject . There is , in fact , a strong reaction in favour of Mr . Poole personally , and subscriptions are pouring iu . from persons of all shades of opinion to enable Mr . Poole to punish the auth ors of the wrong that has been done him .
The Civil Service . —Mr . James William Cusack , President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland , has been appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to her Majesty in Ireland , ia the room of Sir Philip Crampton , deceased . A . Kew Peer . —We believe we may announce that Sir John Yarde Buller has consented to accept a peerage , and will take the title of Earl of Churston Ferrers . The second title will probably be Viscount Lupton . —Plymouth Mail .
The Liverpool Chamber op Commerce and the Mexican Forced Loan . —A special meeting of the Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce was hold on Friday week , Mr . Christopher Bushel in the chair , to consider a letter addressed to the council by the- Mexican houses here and various documents , on tlio subject of tho recent decree of tho Mexican Government imposing u forced loan upon the capitals of merchants engaged In trade or industry . Tho matter was fully conuldered , and was referred to a special committee , -who , we understand , have sent up a memorial to tho Earl of Malmcabury , expressing tho opinion of the chamber on the question , and soliciting his Lordship ' s aid in the protection of British interests in that country .
Mr . Albert Smith loft for China , vi& tho o-vorland route , on the 8 th inst . Ma . Georgk Thompson , after an absence from India of two years and a lmlf , arrived in London on Sunday . Hia health was very bad during tho voyage ; but ho is now recovering , though he is still debilitated . Tub Siiakspearb Autograph ia enshrined in tho British Museum . It lies on velvot , in a sloping mahogany case , with a plate glass before it , an , l curtains of blue silk to protect It from too strong a light . " What a change , " says the Illuttrttted London Newt , "from Jviag in a dirty chest , in a three-patr-baok attic off Chancery-lane !"
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Monday , July 12 th . * OATHS BELL . In the House of Lords , on the order of the day for considering the report of the reasons to be offered to the House of Commons for persisting in their Lordships ' amendments to the Oaths Bill , Earl Granville expressed great doubt as to the , policy of persisting in the amendments after the passing of Lord Lucan ' s bill . The House of Commons might say that no reply to the reasons was necessary , since their Lordships had ahopted the very course denounced by the reasons . Three of those reasons were far from conclusive , and the others
were offensive to the House of Commons , or insulting to those who are now to be admitted to Parliament . —The Earl of Derby said that the reasons were quite consistent with the course taken . They iad not changed their opinion on the propriety of admitting Jews to Parliament , but , for the sake of conciliation , they had given a permissive-authority to the other House to admit them . However , he would propose to substitute another reason for the fourth in the report , and . to omit the sixth altogether . —The Marquis of Lansdowne thought the course proposed most singular and inconsistent—viz ., that the records of the House for the same day should contain a declaration that Jews are morally unfit to legislate for the country , and a bill admitting them to seats in the Legislature . — -Lord Malm :. esbury said that ,
if there had been a concession , it had been made to a political necessity ^ not to a moral conviction . The reply to the Commons had been drawn up by a majority of their Lordships' House ; and he thought it unusual for the minority to object to reasons so approved . —The Earl of Carlisle condemned the course taken by the Government . The reasons for disagreeing with the Commons -were inconsistent and discreditable .- —The Earl of Hardwicke supported the reasons , which were opposed by Lord Stanley of Alderley , who said that they made the concessions appear grudging and ungracious . —The Duke of Newcastle suggested the propriety of dropping the Oaths Bill altogether , considering that Lord Lucan ' s measure "would effect the object in view . ' . ¦ ' ¦ ' " ' . ' . ¦ - ¦ .. ¦'¦ ¦ .
The question was put on the three first reasons , and , though opposed , they were carried . —Ori the fourth reason being put , the Earl of Derby proposed to omit the part in which it was alleged that their prayers would be a mockery if the Jews were admitted , and to substitute a statement that the denial of the Saviour ' s name by the Jews renders them morally un 6 t to take part in the legislation of a Christian community .---The House unanimously agreed to omit the words proposed to be struck out ; but the Opposition resisted the insertion of the words proposed to be introduced in place of the words omitted . — Their Lordships divided on the question that the words proposed to be introduced should be inserteil .
THE EMBASSY HOUSE AT PARIS . On the motion for going into Committee of Supply "Mr . Wise called attention to a charge in the esti mates . of 19 , 00 Of . for repairing the Embassy House in Paris , and asked for the production of the reports of the surveyor and architect . Including the purchase-monev this builtling had cost the country altogether 135 ooo / —Mr . Hamilton was not at all surprised that the additional vote , after the enormous expenditure which had already taken place , should create some observation . He should be happy to lay on the table the report and correspondence which formed the foundation of the present vote—Mr . Wilson explained that Mr . Hunt had been sent to Paris by the late Chief Commissioner of Works to examine the building , and he reported that it would be necessary to expend something more thai-18 , 000 / . in repairs . A French architect had estimated the expense at somewhat more , and in that state the matter stood when the late Government left office .
The House liaving gone into Committee op Supply , several votes were agreed to , though some met with opposition .
TOWER SALES AND WEEDON ESTABLISHMENT . In the evening , in answer to Captain Yivian , General Peel said that he had seen a statement with respect to sales of boots at the Tower , but that he believed that 70 , 000 , and not 170 , 000 , pairs had been sold since the conclusion of tlie late war , and that no portion had been received back at Weedon , or reissued to the troops . A part , however , had been bought by officers of militia , and he believed they had given every satisfaction . Ten clerks had been added to the Weedon establishment previously to Captain Marvin being sent down . TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA .
The Chancellor of the Exchequer , replying to Mr . Bkady , said that it was not the intention of Government to adopt Mr . Serjeant Glover's scheme for establishing a submarine telegraphic communication from Plymouth to Cape Rocco , near Lisbon ; thence to Gibraltar and Malta , whence it-would join the established line from ftfalta to Corfu , en route to India . Arrangements were nearly made , and he ( Mr . Disraeli ) thought that the plan -which had been decided on was preferable to that of Mr . Glover .
THE MASSACRE AT JEDDAH . Mr . Liddell , referring to the report which had appeared of a massacre at Jeddah , inquired whether the attention of the Government had been directed to the occurrence , and , if so , whether they had taken any steps in conse ^ quence . —Mr . Seymour Fitzgerald stated that the only information the Government had of the tragic occurrence was from the telegram in the hands of members : but he had m > reason to doubt that the story was unfortunately too true . Immediately on the receipt of the communication , his noble friend at the head of the Foreign-office sent a telegraphic message to Malta to intercept the Indian mail . This telegram contained instructions to the commander of the Cyclops to go immediately to Jeddah and to bring the perpetrators of this , terrible outrage to justice . At the same time , instructions were given to Captain Watson of the Indian squadron to send two vessels to Jeddah to co-operate in every way with the Cyclops . THE SLAVE TRADE . On the motion for again going into Committee ol Suppty , Mr . Hutt called attention to the report of the committees on the slave trade in 1848 and 1849 ; and moved " That it is expedient to discontinue the practice of authorizing her Majesty ' s ships to visit and search vessels under foreign flags , with a view of suppressing the traffic in slaves . " It had aways been said that , as long as there was a demand for slaves , there would bo a supply , and tiiat the great law of commercial intercourse would frustrate any attempt violently to suppress the traffic . That conclusion hud been confirmed by oxperience : Our system had failed , and wo had caused a vast amount of suffering to tho negroes smuggled from Africa
Contents ... ... 50 Non-contents ... 42 Majority ... ... —8 Tho fourth reason , amended as proposed by Lord Derby , was then adopted , and also the fifth reason . Tho sixth reason was struck out . ; THE JEWS BILL . The Earl of Ltjcan moved the third reading of this bill ; and the Earl of Galloway moved that it be read a third time that day six months . The amendment having been seconded by Viscount Dungannon , the House divided , and tho third reading- was affirmed by 33 to 12 . On the motion that the bill do pass , Lord Redesdale proposed to add two clauses , first , that duo notice should be given of moving a resolution for the admission of the Jews into either House , and secondly , that such motion should only be made once in each session . —Tho Earl of Derby hoped the noble Lord would not press the clauses . —Lord Rkdesdale withdrew the clauses Tho Earl of Harrington moved that no member of the House of Commons , who should make a loan to a foreign state after his olection , should be allowed to sit in Parliament until ho should bo re-elected , as the interests of such loan contractor might be opposed to his duties as legislator . He also moved that no member of Parliament of the Jewish faith should be allowed to vote on any question connected with the interests of tho Established Church , or of any Christian sect . —Tho Earl of Derby opposed the amendment , and urged tho noble Earl not to press it . —It was understood that the amendment was withdrawn , no question having boon put on it . —Tho bill then passed . The Joint Stock Companies Act Amendment Bill , and the Ciiurohes &o . ( IrblanjO Hill , were road a third time , and passed . Tho House adjourned at a quarter past eight . NEW WRIT . In the House oir Commons , at tho morning sitting , Sir Wiuiam iovwim moved that a writ should iaauo for the election of a member for tho borough of Stamfc-rd in tho room of John Inglis , Esq ., who , sinco bin election , has accoptod the oillco of her Majesty's Lord Justice Clerk in Scotland . —This was agreed to . Mr . Fitzroy brought up tho roport of Supply , which ¦ was received .
to America . " When the point of embarkation is blocked up by tho British cruisers , the negroes are put in warehouses , where they remain sometimes for months , and there have been cases where they have been massacred by tlieir ownors . Add to the number dying in this way , and by disease , thoso who perish in the \ ong marches , from fatigue , hunger , and thirst , and tho rosull is fearful to contemplate . Then como tho horrors of the middle passage , tho stories of which have passed into a by-wordL Tho blacks are so packed on board the ships , that during tho whole passage across the Atlantic they arc unablo to change position or to stir tlieir limbs , and the putrify ing dead cannot bo removed from immediate contact with tho living . Lot tho House think of tho sufferings of thosa who survive , of tho permanent injuries they must receive , and of the agonies of thoso who die under circumstances ao horrible . It had been cnlculatod thattUo number of thoso who'pcrwh during tho middle passage is about twenty-five per cent . ; and for these doaths , thoso who might put an end to tho cause and do not arc partly responsible . " Another disastrous consequence of tho Bystom ia that it had dragged this country to the verge of hostilities with two maritime states with which it in our interest to remain on terms of mnity . Mr . CARDWKLti opposed tho motion . It had been said that it was hopeless to attempt to put down tlie slave trade -with Brazil ; yet the traffic wkU that country
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674 THE LEADER , [ JN o . 434 , July 17 , 1858 ~^ — —^— . j
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1858, page 674, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2251/page/2/
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