On this page
-
Text (5)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
place of iLord Goderich , about to succeed to the Peerage . - —In Galway a determination has sprung Tip to make Mi ; Lever a Member of Parliament . —Mr . Long has intimated bis intention of retiring from North Wilts .- ^ . TheSheriflf of Linlithgowshire has fixed this day for the election of a representative for that county in room of Mr * George Dundas , who has received a colonial appointment . The Lord Advocate of Scotland ( Mr . Charles Baillie } trill , it is expected , be returned without opposition . —Mr . H . Adams has been re-elected at Boston without opposition . FniaBUBT . —A , public meeting in connexion with the Metropolitan Boroughs Reform Committee was held at the Belvidere Tavern on Monday . Resolutions were passed in favour of conferring upon Finsbury a larger number of representatives , and dividing it into several constituencies .
Mb . H . P ; Sheridan , M . P . —The hon . member has addressed the electors of Dudley . He gave his general approval to Mr . Bright ' s bill , and very strongly denounced Lord Ward ' s attempts to influence the electors of that borough . He thought that in Dudley they knew whether the Upper House did or did not pretend to exercise an influence over the votes of the constituency , so that they could judge for themselves whether Mr . Bright was likely to be right or wrong when he said the aristocracy might exercise an influence of this kind . Lord "Ward , it is asserted , has threatened to use his influence against Mr . Sheridan , whereupon Mr . Sheridan appealed to his constituents against aristocratic dictation . ' ,
The Earl of Dubham ,-The Earl having been invited to take the chair at the Newcastle Reform meeting of the 8 th of February , sent the following reply : — " Being ; obliged to go up to London next week , I am afraid I must decline the honour of presiding at the meeting to be held in Newcastle on the 8 th . Let me assure you at the same time that my sentiments on the subject of Reform are in accordance with those entertained by my father , and that , in my opinion , no measure w : ill be _ satisfactory that is not based on extension of the franchise , redistribution of seats , and vote by ballot . "
_ Edinbubgh . —On Tuesday night a great Reform demonstration was held , at which the chief speakers ¦ were Mr . Duncan M'Laren and Mr . Caird , M . P . Mr ; McLaren very forcibly explained the nature and effects of the proposed rating suffrage in relation to Scotland . Mr . Caii ^ d showed that it was absurd to suppose that . the interests of farmers and their landlords were identical , and that if the former were protected in the free exercise of their votes , they would form very honest and intelligent constituencies . All the resolutions were unanimously adopted , including a vote of thanks to Mr . Bright , and . an expression of confidence in his proposed redistribution of seats .
Paktt Gatherings . —On Wednesday evening Lord Derby , as First Lord of the Treasury , and Mr . Disraeli , as , leader of the Commons , gave full-dress dinners to their colleagues and more prominent supporters . Lord Palmerston also met a party of his dependent supporters over the dinner table at Cambridge House . As leader of . the Opposition in the Peers , Lord Granville also entertained a large party . Thb nbw Lord High Commissioner . —Colonel Sir Henry Knight Storks , K . C . B ., is appointed to succeed Mr- Gladstone as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Inlands , andwill . it is said , set , out next week for his
destination . Sir Henry was Assistant Adjutant-General at the Cape of Good Hope during the JKalBr war in 1846-7 , and was commandant at Scutari ; he was reqently secretary for military correspondence to the Secretary of State for War . The appointment is universally approved as that of a just , simple ; clearsighted , honest English soldier and gentleman , a tried administrator , indisposed to dally with idle rhetoric , and capable of maintaining the authority of his commission with pru , donce , firranoss , and decision . Nothing more tfcan this is wanted at Corfu ; and certainly nothing less , after the flummeries of the last three months .
Untitled Article
NEW MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE Off COMMONS . Several , ohanges have boon made in the House of ! Commons on its reassembling , death having removed three , elevation to the peerage others , and appointments a third class , who wore members of the Parliament which brpke up at the close of the session on Monday , the 2 nd of August last . A few days previous to the prorogation , namely , on the 27 th of July , Sir William JVrtltflfe moved for new writs for South Devpn and North Cheshire , tho former vacant by the elevation to the under the title
peerage of Sir John Yarde Buller , Bart ., of Lprd Chursbon ; and the latter by tin © « ocopt « nce of the- " OWltern Hundreds" by Mr . William Tatton Egerton . For South , Devon , Mr . Kefcowioh has been elootod during the recces ; and for , North Cheshire , Mr . Wilbrahtun Egorion , son of the late member . » Tho throe who Kavo boon removed by death aro Sir John Pottor , M . P . tor Manchester j Sir Joseph BaUey , Bart ., Ma \ for Brecknockshire j and Mr . Booker Hlakemore , M . P . for Herefordshire . In tholr plaoo there have been elected 2 Hr . J . T . Bazley for Manchester , Major G . 0 . Morgan , » . ' ) i '< -lit . Mild . iH-Kl'l 1 J ' ¦ ' ¦• •> ' nJ- < " ¦ ' ¦ ' ' " ' •'• ' * " ¦• ' '' ' '" "
for Brecknockshire , and Lord William Graham for Herefordshire . Three seats became vacant by appointments to the Indian Council , namely— -Reigate , by the appointment of Sir Henry Rawlirison ; Guildford , by the appointment of Mr . Ross D . Mangles ; and Leominster , by the appointment of Mr . H . Pollard Willoughby .. In their places there have been elected the Hon . W . Mdnson for Reigate , Mr . Onslow for Guildford , and the Hon . C . S . B . Hanbury for Leominster . For Linlithgowshire a vacancy has taken place by the appointment of Mr . George Dundas to the Lieutenant-Governorship of Prince Edward ' s Island ; and for Boston by the appoint- ^ nient of Mr . Adams to the Recordersbip of Derby . Mr , Adams will be re-elected , but Mr . Dundas will give
place to another representative . Mr . Whiteside , the Attorney-General for Ireland , will become member for the University of Dublin , in the room of Mr . G . A . Hamilton , who has received the appointment of permanent Secretary to the Treasury , leaving the electors of Enniskilleri to find another representative . The University of Oxford will have to go through the formality of re-electing Mr . Gladstone in consequence of the right bon . gentleman ' s temporary acceptance of the commissionership of the Ionian Islands . The elevation of Viscount Goderich to the earldom of Ripon renders vacant the West Riding of Yorkshire ; while East Worcestershire becomes vacant by the elevation of the Hon . Colonel Rushout to the peerage , under the title of Lord Northwieki These writs will be moved for
immediately after the commencement of the present session ; and , as soon as circumstances admit , a new writ will be moved for the borough of Greenwich , in . the room of Mr . John Townsend , disqualified by bankruptcy . In the event of Sir John Ramsden being elected for the West Riding , a vacancy will take place in the representation of Hythe .
Untitled Article
REPEAL OF THE PAPER DUTIES . A demonstration of publib opinion against the Paper Duties , made at Exeter-hall , on Wednesday , was an appropriate antecedent to the meeting of Parliament . - Mr . Milner Gibson , who occupied the chair , was supported by a platform of gentlemen who are influential and representative , and he was himself received with great fervour by a highly intelligent assembly . So was Mr . William Chambers , of Edinburgh , who delivered a telling speech ,. ; but Hot more so than Dr . Watts , of Manchester , who undertook the special duty of showing tliafc the Paper Duty is a tax upon literature , anf obstruction to education , an impediment to commerce , ahinderance to production , and that it interferes with the process of
manufacture , represses industry , and injures the public revenue . The meeting called upon Mr . Gibson still further to press the House of Commons on this subject , so that in the ensuing session such arrangements might be made as would enable Parliament to dispense with the tax , A petition was also adopted to the House of Commons . Thanks were voted to Mr . Milner Gibson , who in reply said , that the House of Commons had by a resolution condemned the Paper Duty . To pass resolutions and then to ignore them was to bring Parliamentary Government into contempt . That resolution must be dealt with , and unless the House were prepared to go the length of rescinding it , it must be carried into effect . .
Untitled Article
THE WELLINGTON COLLEGE . Sat u epaY last was the day appointed for the opening of this institution by the Queen . The large amount of money , 175 , 000 / ., which some time since was obtained by subscription for tho purpose of erecting a lasting monument in honour of the greatest of our English generals , it was ultimately decided should be applie d to the foundation of a college for the education and maintenance of the sons of military ofllcors . The excitement of the Russian war hastened events , and an addition of 25 , 000 / . having been made from tho Patriotic Fund to tho sum already collected , the projectors of this institution commenced operations with a capital of somewhere about 200 , 000 / .
The site chosen for the Colloge seems to be very unfit for tho purpose , and is universally condemned . A contemporary truly observes that the ground upon whioh the new college stands is perhaps tho most unsuitable—except Dartmoor or the Bog pf Allen—that could , be selected * for an institution of the kind . Tlio visitors on Saturday wore perfectly astonished to see an immense pilo of red and blue brick , rising out of the dreariest of bogs , and only approachable by a hasty out through moist , yellow cloy of tho most extraordinary tenacity . The character given of tho placo by people
whose hard fate obliges them to live in the vicinity is , that it Is a dosort in , summer and a swamp in winter , and that tho heat of ono season and the cold and damp of tho other aro v » ry much aggravated by tho entire absence of shelter . This unfortunate selection appears to hft . ro boon wholly unnecessary . Id to , true that AS acres of the heath , tho , maximum value of which was 3 , 0 / i an acre , wore tho . gift of Mr . Gibson , tho army saddler , of Uovontry-stroof , but 180 moro had , to be purchased from , tho samo gentleman , wit ) " the further oondltlon that , all tho bricks wore to bo taken from hla ( lohUf . Tho profit artolng to tUo fund from the gift must ,
therefore , have' entirely disappeared in the purchase of the extra land , and the price of the bricks . The foundations had hardly been excavated , when a gentleman whose heart had been drawn to the soldiers' orphan by the loss of two sons in the . Crimean war , offered an estate of 200 acres in the immediate vicinity of Windsor Castle , as a / free gift ,, without any conditions whatever . The managers ,, however , determined to stick to their moor , and the college was erected thereon , at- an expense of 75 , 000 A The edifice ia rather imposing to look at , but enormously expensive in construction , and Singularly ill-adapted to be the home of gentle and delicately-nurtured boys . .
The college is distant a few minutes walk from a station which ha 3 been formed on the Reading , Reigate , and Guildford branch of the South-Eastern Railway ; it is about twelve miles south of Windsor ; Wokingham may be seen northwards ; towards the south is a part of the county of Hants , known as the Hartford-brid ge Flats ; and beyond these , in the distance , is Strathnelusaye . . There are at present about one hundred fine boy 8 in the school , all of whom looked exceedingly well in their semi-military costume . They cheered lustily for her Majesty and the other distinguished visitors , and seemed ^ as yet , ' to have suffered nothing in health or spirits from the defects of the locality . The school is intended to accommodate two hundred and forty boys .
Her Majesty arrived at the school about one o ' clock , accompanied by the Prince Consort ; the Princess Alice , and Prince Arthur . The Commander-in-Chief was also in attendance on her Majesty . Her Majesty , who appeared in excellent health , was received at the entrance by the governors , who wore a costume somewhat like that of the elder brethren of the Trinity-house , and was conducted over the building , which she minutely inspected . Amongst tlie company were the Duke ami Duchess of Wellington , the Prime Minister and the
Countess of Derby , and Lady Emma Stanley , Archbishop of Canterbury , Bishop of Oxford , Right lion . Spencar Walpole , Lords Cranworth , J . Russell , and Gough , Earl of Ellenborough ,, Marquis of ( Salisbury , Mr . J . Walter , M . P ., &c . Her Majesty was attended during her inspection of the bnilding by . the Rev . Mr . Benson , head master , Mr . Shaw , the architect , Mr , Holland , the builder , and the officers of the college , by whom she was ultimately conducted to the dais , aeco m * panied by the Prince Consort , and the . young . Prince and Princess . The PrinCe Consort wore the uniform , of
a governor of the institution . . Lord Derby then , as head of the college , read a suitable address , to which her Majesty returned a gracious answer . In the address , a paragraph had been introduced by the Earl alluding to the birth of the Queen ' s grandson , and it elicited a special bow of recognition from her Majesty . The Primate , at the conclusion or ! the reading of the address and reply , offered a short «» d appropriate prayer , and the proceedings terminated with the signing of tho rules and regulations by the Queen .
Untitled Article
GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . On Tuesday the Lord Chancellor took his . seat in the Divorce Court for tho first time , it was said with the view of witnessing the working of tho court , On the bench with him were the Judge Ordinary and Mr . Justice Wightman . Several cases for dissolution of marriage on the ground of adultery or cruelty were hoard during the day . At tho Central Criminal Court , the sittings of whiuh recommenced on Monday , James Hudson pleaded guilty to two charges of embezzling moneys belonging to the City . The prisoner had been employed as n clerk for twelve years in the City County Court , and had taken tho money under strong temptation . Ho was sentenced to four months' hard labour . —Richard
Pike , his wife , and daughter , were tried for coining , The officers surprised the prisoners in their dwelling , tho man had actually a mould in his hand , and the women endeavoured to destroy several portions of moulds . Tho prisoners made a dosneruto resistance . Pike pleaded guilty . His wife was acquitted as having acted under his influence ; the girl was convicted , but recommended to mercy . Tho male prisoner was sentenced to four years' ponal servitude , and judgment was respited as to the girl , to ullow imjuirios to bo nmdc , — Thomas Williams and Robert Frost were indicted for burglary and wounding Alfred Evovshod , a policeman , iu tho house tliuy hud broken ii » Co . Tho constable had
discovered them in tho act of robbing tho house ,. and ho at onoo seissod Williams , when both tho . prisouors made a most savage attack upon him , cutting and wounding hint so severely , that , becoming i ' uhifc from loss of blood , ho was forced to lot them go . They wore spcodUy apprehended , howovor , and woro . now found guilty 5 thoy had also been previously oonviotud , Tho judge ordered sentonco of douth to bo recorded , , in timntiJig that thoy muat sufl ' or ton youM * ponal servitude . His lordship ordered 20 / . to bo given to Evorsbod for his gallant conduct on tho QOoaaion .-r-Thomak Bholunuro , tho St . Pan- > eras dofault 6 r , was tried on sovtwl counts . On soino liQ was acquitted , and on others found guilty , but rouoin . momtod to inoroy . Sontonoo , twelve months' imprison .
Untitled Article
166 THE XEABE "& [ No > 463 , Eebrttaby 5 , 1859 . ^
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 5, 1859, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2280/page/6/
-