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number of representatives of the agricultural interest must be increased . Mr . Bright wished it to be quite another way ; he -wished for 10 / . voters , or even lower than that to have the election of the members ; but if this Aveie allowed , the agriculturists instead of gaining would lose ; He hoped that the electors would see that the constituencies should be so amended , and the members bo elected , that , whatever Reform B ill was passed , the agriculturists should not lose by it . They ought to believed that
sain a great deal more . He no measure would be acceptable to the country which , while it redistrib uted the representation , did not also extend the franchise . He felt confident Lord Derby would never bring forward a measure on this subject which was not strictly Conservative . Conservatism did not consist in keeping things exactly as they were , but it was a movement in accordance with the times , in which care was taken that while the institutions of the country were preserved , they were also improved and strengthened . the Manhood
Mr . Bkigiit In answer to Suffrage Association of Manchester , the honourable gentleman writes to say that ' he does not consider such an association as hostile to his own views . He , however , is desirous of establishing the suffrage on the basis which has existed in our parishes for centuries ; and he urges that the suffrage question is not the vital point in the coming bill . The vital point is the distribution of seats and members . " Unless this be well watched , " says he , " you may find that you have lost the substance and r . re merely playing with the shadow of popular representation . "
Provincial Reform Movements . —TheJBirmiugham Reform Association has issued a manifesto addressed to the Reformers of the United Kingdom . This has been followed by the important town of Sheffield giving a demonstration of its feeling on the question . A meeting has been held and resolutions embodying the views of the Reform Committee of London were adopted , coupled -with a demand for a 10 / . franchise for counties . The members for Sheffield did not attend , this meeting ; letters were , however , read from Mr . Roebuck and Mr . Hudfield . The Northern Reform Union , which is daily increasing in strength and importance , has appointed a doputation to test the feeling of the northern towns that have not hitherto been visited , upon the subject of Parliamentary Reform . The deputation addressed meetings at Ilawick , Berwick-upon-Tweed ,. and Alnwick during the course of the week . At a meeting at Notthat the
tingham , resolutions were passed declaring Reform Bill should include manhood suffrage , vote by ballot , triennial parliaments , and the equalisation _ of electoral districts , and that the op inion of the meeting should be communicated to Mr . Bright . The members for the borough wrote to say that they could not support eo extreme a measure of Reform- At Norwich there has also been a demonstration . It is contemplated to hold another meeting in the same town . A meeting held at Rochdale on Wednesday went unanimously for manhood suffrage , and in support of Mr . Bright . Another at Berwick-upon-Tweed ended in much the same way , the demand being for manhood suffrage , and the other points of the Reform programme . At Preston , a large meeting in the Corn Exchange Assembly Room has gone for Reform in the Guildhall Coffee-house sense . It was attended by Mr . Grenfell , M . P .
Tins Conservative Land Society . —This association affords an example of successful achievement , It has been in existence six years , has purchased a number of estates , and has succeeded in obtaining receipts of more than 300 , 000 ? . The cash receipts last year were 40 , 893 / . This is the society whose operations , ns it is understood , will cover a larger field on account of the pasbing of the Corrupt Practices Bill of the Government , wliioh allows candidates to pay the travelling expenses of voter ? no mnttor from -what distance they
, may travel . It will bo remembered that an attempt was made so to modify this bill that the payment of travelling expenses would only apply to such as lived in the counties where they voted . Tins , however , would bavo almost entirely defeated the object which the measure vraa really intended to effect ; and so the bill passed in its original shape . Consequently those who havo freeholds guaranteed by the Conservative Land Society may bo e . mvoyed up and down the country at the expense of Conservative candidates .
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CRIMINAL RECORD . The Murder at Akdovkr . — At the close of the examination on Monday of Thomas Alexander Banks , by the Andover magistrates , on the charge of murdering Mr . William Parsons , the prisoner was remanded till Tuesday , the 14 th . The counsel for the prosecution states that he will be prepared with important evidence against the accused at that time . The Exm ; oor Forest Murder . —A man named William Burgess was apprehended at Swansea some
time since , on a charge of having murdered his daughter , a child six years of age . There was a strong suspicion that the body had been thrown into an old mine , filled with water , in Extnoor Forest ' , and has proved accurate . The mine has been pumped out , and at the depth of 207 feet the body of the unfortunate girl was found . Being in a comparatively good state of preservation it was easily identified , and , the remaining link being supplied in the case , the prisoner will be tried at the approaching Somerset winter assizes .
Supposed Murder . —Last week the body of a man named Michael Brown was discovered in the river Irwell , three miles west of Manchester , under circumstances leading to a presumption that he had been murdered . His neckerchief was found stuffed in his mouth , the pockets of his trousers were turned inside out , and his coat was drawn forward over his head , as if he had been dragged some distance by the collar . At the inquest an open verdict of " Found drowned" was returned .
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IRELAND , Tub Packet Station . —The movement in Limerick having subsided , Kerry now occupies the abandoned ground . A memorial is going round the county for signatures , to be forwarded to the Lords of the Admiralty , praying for a fair inquiry into the merits of Valencia Harbour , in comparison with the other Irish ports , as to its suitability for Transatlantic packet purposes .
The Murder of Mit . Ext . —The first instalment of taxes Tor the maintenance of the extra police forco stationed in the parish of Kyle is now being collected . The levy will fall heavily on the small farmers , who are the occupiers of almost all tbe parish , holding from Sir Charles Coote . The lands held by the late Mr . Ely and his brother are exempted from payment of any tax , which leaves the burden heavier on the remainder of the parish . There are three temporary police-stations . No duo to the accused man has yet been discovered . Visit of Amiciuoans to Ihklahd . —In a letter recotved on Saturday last from Now York by a person In Clonmol , the following passage occurs . — " I am sorry to toll you I will not bo nbU > to carry out your suggestion tt > visit the old country with the fltftb Irish American * , as so mnny men carrying arms would not bo allowed to land In Irel'iml . " Mr . John Mitchell , in the columns of his journal , long alnco Informed those gentlemen iu grew and gold that neither too American nor the British Go-
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against a Mr . Capron , a solicitor , for an assault committed upon him the day before his marriage with Miss Delane , " was postponed until the next sessions . Mr . Capron alleged that he had not had sufficient time to prepare his defence . —Thomas Sherwood was indicted for stealing the goods and money of his master . It was proved that the prisoner had been guilty of the basest conduct towards his employer , who had been his friend and benefactor . They had * been schoolfellows , but lost fight of each other for some time ; the prisoner came to the prosecutor one day with a tale of distress , which induced the prosecutor to take him into his service , of which he took advantage to rob him . He was found Guilty , and the judge commented severely on his conduct , saying that he had done his utmost to bring his benefactor to ruin . He sentenced him to penal
servitude for five years . ^ , . Two fresh cases of forgery were investigated before the City magistrates on Thursday . William Cory was charged with having uttered two forged cheques upon the London and County Bank . Mr . Mullens prosecuted for the Committee of Bankers . Prisoner was remanded . The second case was that of Thomas Singfield , lately carrying on business as a wine merchant , who was charged with uttering forged bills of exchange to the amount of 1000 ? ., with intent to defraud Mr . Ford , a publican . The prisoner had also sold him 200 ? . worth of what he called first-class sherry , but which was nothing but coloured water ; the sample was good . He was committed for
trialthe detective officer , was examined , and recapitulated the evidence , with some slight variation , he had given on tbe former trials . Dr . Deane , who appeared for Mrs . Evans , said he could not help expressing his loathing for a man who , like the petitioner , could put himself into communication with such agents as had been employed in getting up the case , and could in these disgusting details expose his own wife ' s infamy-Mr . Huddlestone having replied , Baron Martin commenced his summing up , in the course of which , he
adverted to the prejudice raised in the case by the employment of such a person as Field , and most properly raised , as the people of England had an uncontrollable hatred of the spy system ; at the same time that would not be a justification' for disbelieving his witnesses , who had given their evidence on oath . After deliberating for about twenty minutes , the jury returned a verdictthat Mrs . Evans had committed adultery with Mr . Robinson , and that Mr . Evans did not desert his wife without justification . The plaintiff , therefore , has secured a divorce .
The Eastern Counties Railway Company have discovered a Bystem of fraud by which their servants have been robbing them to a great extent . Henry Newman was charged at Worship-street with having obtained from a Mr . Sproul a cheque for the payment of 20 / . 2 s ., with intent to cheat the Railway Company , his masters . The lawyer said that although the company bad thirteen cases against the prisoner , they would proceed on three only . The accused was committed for trial . From the proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench ,
in the case of Vincent Scully v . Ingram M . P ., it would appear as if the public were never to hear the last of John Sadleir or his rascalities . Mr . Ingram , who appears to have had business relations with Mr . Sadleir , is charged with having made grave misrepresentations in the matter of a certain Irish estate , called Castle Hyde , by which Mr . Scully sustained a severe pecuniary loss . After having been locked up for several hours , the jury , who probably for the first time in the history of British , juries had been permitted to enjoy the luxury of a fire , returned a verdict for the plaintiff , damages 300 ? .
Elizabeth Martha White , wife of a master manner , was charged at Greenwich police-court with cruelty to her step-daughter , six years of age . The poor child was found to be in a shocking state from bruises , excoriations , and cuts . These were proved to be the work of the stepmother , who the father , notwithstanding , gravely affirmed was " a kind-hearted and feeling woman ! " The magistrate sentenced the wife to one month ' s hard labour ; and the women assembled outside the court knocked the husband ' s hat over his eyes when he came out .
In the Court of Common Pleas an action has been brought by the Earl of Shrewsbury against the trustees of the infant son of the Duke of Norfolk for the recovery of the extensive estates which had been bequeathed to that child by the late Earl of Shrewsbury . The Attorney-General contended that the late Earl had no power to alienate the property . The Chief Justice suggested to Mr . Serjeant Shee , the counsel for the defendants , that he should consent to a verdict being taken for the plaintiff , subject to the opinion of the Court above . This proposal was accepted .
Messrs . Davidson and Gordon , who recently suffered a long term of imprisonment for fraud , have appeared before Mr . Commissioner Goulburn to obtain their certificate . The certificate meeting had been adjourned that the evidence of Mr . Chapman , of the firm of Overend , Gurney , and Co ., might be examined ; he was examined at great length with regard to all the transactions which his firm had had with the bankrupts . The petition of Mr . Salomons , charging M . F . W . Stevens , the sharebroker , with fraud , has been considered at the Court of Common Council and dismissed ; the petitioner is likely to be prosecuted for perjury .
The late postmaster of the town of Berwick , W . Cuthbertson , appeared at Bow-street in answer to a summons on behalf of the Crown , requiring him to pay the postage on a number of refused letters , said to have been forwarded by him , containing a sort of circular or handbill abusive of Mr . Rowland Hill , and soliciting subscriptions . The addresses were proved to ; be in the handwriting of defendant ; and Mr . Jardine ordered him to pay 1 / . 0 s . 2 d ., the amount of postage , and 8 / . 10 s , travelling expenses of witnesses . A postman named Pbilp , who had been twenty-three years in the service , was charged with having removed new stamps from letters which had passed through his hands , nnd substituted for them stamps whicU had already been used . Ho was convicted and fined 40 s . He will , of course , lose , in addition , his character , his situation , and his superannuation allowance .
Higgina and Davis , charged with swindling the nurseryman at Chelsea , have been again remanded . The cabman , Field , who attempted suicide , has had paid over to him the whole amount of the donations received on his behalf . The sum is 84 / . 16 a . 6 d . The litigation , involving a lnrgo sum of money , between the London and County Bank and the official manager of the unfortunate Tippernry Bank , has advanced a step by the Judge of the Encumbered Estates Court in Dublin giving judgment in , favour of the bank . The judgment exonerates the bank directors from the imputation of having beon aware of tlie late John Sadloir's frauds , restores to the bank the advances it had mnuo to Sadleir , and deprives the creditors of the Tipporary Bank of a fund which they relied on . An appeal will , no doubt , bo entered .
GATHERINGS I ? ROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . At tho Middlesex Sessions Mary Ann Davis and Edwin Shnylor wore placed at the bar to receive sentence : they wore tried last session and convicted of robbing a policeman of a 10 / . bank-note . Shaylor was a constant associa , o of housebreakers , nnd hud been several timos convivtuu . Davis , also , had boon three timos convicted . Shaylor -wns sentenced to seven , and Davis to three yeurt . ' ponal servitude . —George Matuls was convicted of a robbery upon Sir W . 0 . Anstruther , Bart ., fjwho was looking Into" a shop window , when tho prisoner robbed him of hia purse . A policeman having been called to I . rove former convictions ognlnst him , lie suild he would Have ttiein tho trouble , und would admit all they could say nyalnst him . Sentence , seven years' nounl servitude . T-Tlto notion which Mr . Mowbray Morris had Instituted
A case has been tried this week in the Court of Divorce which in one shape or another has been before tho public for four year * . This Is tho old suit of Evans v . IS vans and Uobliwn , which enmo before Mr . Justice C ' raaswcll at Liverpool . The shnpo it now assumes ia a suit by Mr . Evans for the dissolution of the marriage . The oiiso wns brought to a close on Wednesday . Field ,
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tfo . 455 , December 11 , 1858 . 1 THE LEADER 1341
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 11, 1858, page 1341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2272/page/5/
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