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    fries When it was an acknowledged fact that the manufacturers were unable fully of themselves to supply the deficiency it was found necessary to establish institutions in which this knowledge should be for a con-Biderable time imparted . A long time must necessarily elapse , however , before pupils could be trained to the requisite degree of efficiency , and not being capable of being accomplished by private individuals , an extensive combination was necessary to lead to the desired result . Under these circumstances , the' Government , as he thought , very wisely did not seek to interfere with the private proceedings of the manufacturers of the country ; tkev did not force upon them any system , but they supplied great facilities , which they thought desirable to enable the manufacturers to establish institutions of this kind themselves .

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    THE NATIONAL DEFENCES . The Earl of Haedwicke on the Navy . — 'At the annual dinner of the Cambridgeshire Agricultural Association held at Kneesworth , the Earl of Hardwicke , in reply to the toast- of the " Navy , " made a speech , in which he took a review of the state of the navy , and the effect produced upon it by the invention of steam ; he said he was anxi > us to avoid alluding to the navy of anj' particular nation * but it was certain that England that other nations

    Europe when the haughty Spaniards despatched their Armada , and when Napoleon I . assembled his vast force at Boulogne . ¦

    had not advanced in the same degree had in the matter of armaments . He advocated a liberal outlay for the improvement and increase of our forces at sea , and said that it was high time that we should be prepared for any difficulty that might arise , by looking keenly to . the state and efficiency of our coast defences , concluding by stating that the British seamen ought to have the best weapons placed in their hands , and they would show their readiness to make the best use of those weapons .

    Mb . Barrow , M . P . —At the annual meeting of the Collingham Farmers' Club , Mr . Barrow said he confessed that he thought very little of Cherbourg as a standing menace . He had heard of standing menaces all his life , "but he really did not think that they ever proved a source of injury to anybody . In particular -they could le of very little consequence to this country , so long as ive could bring into the field such men as we had Hitherto done . He thought it of great advantage to the country that it should not be drained of its money in the shape of taxes imposed either for the purpose of erecting what were called standing menaces , or of providing an enormous standing army . It was much better that the

    money should be fructifying in the pockets of the people , and that the country should at all times be prepared to make exertions similar to those which were made in the time of the last Russian war . Probably during that war more money was spent than was necessary if there had been better arrangements , but we had at all times in Great Britain hearts and hands ready and willing to execute all the work that might be required of them . A great advantage which this country posssessed was in having at her command the power of raising the means of -warfare at a very short notice , and of securing , and in also possessing , a body of people ready , at an hour ' s notico , to take the field in defence of their native land .

    Siu A . Ramsay , M . P . —At a meeting of Conservatives held at Rochdale , Sir A . Ramsay said that much had been said of Cherbourg , and some" alarm had been | felt at the erection of that groat port . Ho would rather it had been for some useful purpose , but if he knew the feeling of the people of England , there was no dread of danger , for to repel an invader on our coasts their wives and their children would rise up in arms . Mit . Baxter , M . P . —At the Arbroath meeting , this gentleman said : —In nations , as in families , extravagance is the first step towards ruin ; ami no minister

    cculd more fairly earn a title to the gratitude of his country than by proposing and carrying out a bold scheme of economy . But that will bo out of tho question if you allow yourselves to be deluded by a cry of war with Franco . I fool strongly that there is more danger from increased taxation than from a French invasion . If you attempt tho former , you will sour tho masses of tho people , who pay too much already ; against tho latter , if it is attempted , yon can stow a united , industrious , loyal people , every man of whom would rally like his fathors around tho constitution and the throne . Tho Government and its officers

    afreet great zeal for mercantile shipping , but their true object is to erect fortifications . Now I beliovo in no such thing . Our maritime supremacy was established and confirmed without any works of tho kind ; tho courage and aklll and hardihood of our sailors , not behind walls , but on the opon sea , have made this country what it is ; our fleets have always actod on tho offonsivo , and I think wo ought to trust and cherish our navy still . With a powerful , wall-equipped , and properly manned fleet in tho Channel , what noey wo foar an enemy P I will always vote for keeping up an effective army , and a navy which hau no equal ; but I will not vote for rivalling tho continental powers in their system of adding fort to fort and regiment to regiment , nominally to guard against invasion , but really to keep clown tholr people . I am quite Hiiro that our beat lu-otoatlon Against any power mud enough to attempt invasion is that aame healthy national fooling which electrified

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    bezzlement was achieved by keeping back payments received from the customers of the company . Smithers also contrived a fraudulent transfer of 1000 / . stock . Smithers has been sentenced to six years' penal servitude ; and Cox , who had been more than thirty years in the company ' service , to twelve months'

    imprison-. ' The proceedings in the case of Arbnthnott v . Carden were resumed on Monday , at Kingstown police-court . After a lengthened discussion , the magistrates decided on holding Mr . Carden to bail in the sum of 5000 / . to keep the peace towards Miss Arbnthnott . On Tuesda \ -, a cause was brought before the Court of Aldermen , which involved a charge of misconduct in the despatch of their business by Messrs . Price , Gifford , and Hickman , the accuser being Mr . E . B . Hewitt .

    GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A . Stockbroker , named Adolphus Freeman , has been brought before Alderman Salomons . charged with having appropriated to his own use 850 / ., money entrusted to him bv Mr . Austin , a printer of Hackney , for the purpose o ' f purchasing stock in the Three per Cent . Consols . The particulars of the transaction were not gone into , the prisoner being remanded for a week * and bail refused . Woolley , the two "Websters , and Bernard , who have been in custody for some days on a charge of engraving and having in possession plates purporting to be for the issue of Russian bank-notes , and which were intended to defraud the Russian Government , have been again examined at Lambeth police-court . The prisoners were again remanded . The three men , charged with being concerned in stealr ing the copper coffin from the vaults of the church of St . John-, Stratford , were finally examined on Saturday and committed for trial . The municipal elections at Newcastle have caused a great deal of excitement , and party feeling runs very high . A Roman Catholic having been put in nomination a strong antagonism has been aroused against him on account of his faith . The Daily Express ( a penny paper ) has taken up the case in this sense with great vehemence , and letters and articles have appeared commenting with unqualified severity on its opponents , and the means adopted to further their electioneering purposes . A letter appeared in that journal , attributing to

    the French Consul , the Count deMarincourt—the agent , as it called him , of the arch-traitor and plotter against his ebuntrv ' s liberty , Louis Napoleon—an interference wit !) the canvass in the ward . The son of the consul , lately an officer in the French army , called at the office of the Daily Express , desiring the editor to meet him at the Exchange next morning , and threatening to chastise him at his own house if he did not keep his appointment . The appointment was not kept . The Daily Express then produced an article reflecting on the count in the most violent manner , concluding with this advice : —* - " Monsieur must follow Madame . " To understand the last allusion . it is necessary to explain that ' . ' Madame " was the keener of a notorious house in Newcastle , so

    notorious that she was handed out of the town by the police ; On this , the son of the consul proceeded to the office of the paper , demanded to see the . editor , and on the hesitation of the people to tell him where he could be found , the young man pulled out a pistol and threatened them if they would not inform him . On learning the place where * the editor could be found , he drove thither in a cab , and entered his library . He ordered him , with similar threats , to come rnd apologise to the count , his father . He then took him to his father ' s house , where a most humble apology was made , and the

    editor of the Daily Exjiress was released from detention . The count denies havirig ever interfered in the election , and snys he was , moreover , entirely ignorant of his son ' s movements till the editor was brought into his room in captivity . Tho " vicomte" wn 3 brought before the magistrates to answer the charge of assault . The bench decided to hold the defendant to bail , Mr . Manson , the editor , who was present , offering no objection . The defendant was then bound over , himself in 200 / ., and two suroties in , 100 ? . each , for his appearance on Tuesday . — The case was terminated on Tuesday by tho defendant being fined 51 , and costs .

    At the Court of Bankruptcy on Saturday , Benjamin Francis Hallowell Carcw applied for his certificate . The case prosents some interesting features in consequence of the bankrupt ' s relationship as stepson to Colonel Waugh , of London and Eastern Banking Company notoriety , for whose accommodation he had given acceptances to the amount of 68 , 000 / ., without any consideration . Tho sitting was adjourned after a somewhat lengthened hoaring until the first Wednesday in October , 1869 , with liberty to tho bankrupt to apply in tho mean time if ho have paid his creditors who have proved 20 s . in the pound . Protection , in tho mean time , was granted . A meoting of the Huddersfield Improvement

    Commissioners has been held to consider tho defalcations of Superintendent Beaumont of tho police . There were sixty charges of petty peculation against him , three or four of which wore proved . Tho offences wove stated to hnvo consisted in granting bail in en sea of drunkenness , ho having no power to grant such bail ; and in neglecting to summon tho offenders , or to account for the monoy . His manner of keeping books was stated to be characterised by careleesnoss and irregularity ; he being in the habit of receiving money at any timo and in nny place , trusting to memory for its entry . It was resolved to discharge him , without proceeding * criminally against him .

    rlio Commorclal Dock Company hayo , issued a report giving tho full particulars of tho frauds of their « ecrotniy , II . If . Smithors , jun ., nnd their nooountant , Cox . Tho total . amount wns 2 ( J , H ( i 0 i ' ., and extended over a pbvlpil of nt least twenty-ono years . Smithcrd was tho primary offender , but lie eouhl ' not have succoodetl without collusion on tho part uf tho ncgountant . The

    om-Both the petitioner and respondents were brokers . _ A petition was presented in the case to the Court , setting forth at great length the gravamen of the charge , and after it had been read an equally lengthy answer was put in . Each of the parties was then sworn and examined as to the truth of the allegations in the petition , and answer . The court was cleared of strangers , and after the lapse of a qtiarter of an hour they were readmitted , when the Recorder stated that the Court had decided on dismissing the petition .

    Lewis Zucker , a bankrupt jeweller , of Oxford-street , whose examination took place on the 4 th of October , and was adjourned sine die ,-was charged before Alderman Phillips with falsifying his trade account-book , on purpose to defraud his creditors . The evidence went to show that the book referred to contained a record of transactions dated a considerable time anterior to the period at which the paper composing the book was manufactured . This was proved by the fact of the paper being machine-made , whereas no paper of that description was sold by the stationer whose mark it bore until some years later " than the date of several entries in the book . The prisoner was committed for trial , and will probably be also indicted for perjury .

    At Marlborough-streer , a husband and wife , named Law , were charged with detaining a will , which kept Marion Phillips out of property amounting in value to between 150 , 000 / . and 200 , 000 / . The complainant represented herself as next of kin to the testator , who died in Jamaica some years ago ; and not having possession of the will she was unable to administer to the estate . The charge was ultimately abandoned . At the Middlesex Sessions , Alexander Muir was indicted for a misdemeanour . under the Mutiny Act , in having attempted to persuade a soldier in the Royal Horse Artillery to desert . It has become a practice to induce men to desert from the line and other regiments , that they may enter the Indian service , for the sake of the extra bounty . The case having been clearly established , the jury found the prisoner Guilty ; sentence deferred .

    At the Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday , the certificate meeting in the case of Robert Hills , the surviving partner in the firm of Jonathan and Robert Hills , bankers , of Grave . serid nnd Dartford , was adjourned till the 15 th of February . The most experienced burglars of the metropolis have concentrated their forces on Chelsea and Brompton , and we may expect to hear of depredations in that quarter similar to those which took place in Notting-hill about a year ago , unless the police manifest more vigilance than they at present appear disposed to do . .

    An Englishman , named James Foot , has been sentenced by the Assize Court of tho Seine to hard labour for life for having issued a forged jiiece of two francs in payment for wino in a cabaret . Another false piece of live francs was found nt his lodgings , for the possession of which ho gave no acceptable excuse . There was n count for forging tho false money as well aa knowingly passing it , but this tho jury expressly negatived . An alleged accomplice of tho prisoner ' s , one John Barters , has escaped to England .

    At tho Surrey Quarter Sessions , an application for a licenso on tho part of tho proprietors of tho Surrey Music-hall wns met with opposition on tho part of the police . They stated that , boforo tho closo of tho last season , prostitutes were admitted who , in sonio cases , conducted themselves in a disorderly manner and had to be removed . With this exception , which applied only to a period of three weeks , the police admitted that tho Surrey Gardens wore on tho whole a very wellconducted place of amusQmout , Th . o magistrates re * nowed the license .

    At tho Middlesex Sessions , Ann "Williams , n gipsy , was found guilty upon two indiotments charging her with obtaining' property from two servant girls by pretending to tell their fortunds . Tho jury hoped that tho judge would sovoroly reprimand those silly girlu for admitting such persons into their mastors' houses ) . Tho learned judge accordingly called thoin up , nml commented on thalr folly in believing Unit any oiia eaulil toll thorn their fortune ; ha hoped tho loss tlioy had sustained upon this occasion would bo a xvnviitnts not only to thorn but to otiiors . JIo then aontoncoil tho prisoner to twolvo months * ' hard labour .

    Six fumalu liimitlofl , who npponroil nt ono tjmo to have movod in a rcHpocIablo splioro of sooloty , woro brought boforo Aldurman I'liiuis , nt Guildhall , by Mr . Jonp , re-

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    No . 448 , October 23 . 18 S 8 . -1 THE OADER . Hi ?

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1858, page 1117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2265/page/5/