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    194 THE LE ADER, [No. 310, Saturday,

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    Heauth of London.—The returns of the Lon...

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    IMPERIAL PAKLUMENTMonday, February 25th....

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    "Vtothing Decisive From Paris! The Pleni...

    to withdraw the bill , and to recommence the consideration of the subject " in select committee . " Mr . Muntz dashed in amongst the currency on Thursday night , and Birmingham had a revel in the House of Commons . The hoiiQurable and gallant member bearded all the' Chajrieeilors of the- ^ Exchequer , past , present , and future , and calledthem roundly to account for their Y stupidity and treason . They had not yet been able , he says , to answer the

    question , " Whafcjis a pound ? " Nor has any currency given to that question a practical answer since the days of William the ; Conqukhoe . At that day , he says , " a pound of silver was worth a pound . " Mr . Muntz , we presume , would propose to revive that silver age . He wishes to make money " cheap , " and to have a pound worth a pound . If he were to bring in a measure consistent with the laws of William the Congiuerok ,

    every cabman would expect a nugget , or at least a piece of papei ; for-Mr . Muntz seems faithful to the Birmingham idea that large masses of silver aid little pieces of pjiper will "be the exact equivalents 6 t each other , if * we will only call them by the same name . How much , of this controversy would be spared , as Mr . Pje ac ock remarked , if four sovereigns were made'from air exact ounce of gold ; and , we may add , if each sovereign were called the

    quarter-ounce , and made the unit . The slight discrepancy between the name and the thing , although we know very well ; that we mean something less than a . quarter pfau ounce , constitutes an obscurity for weak minds ; and is , the _ opportunity in which the Binniraghain philosophy has becoine immortal . All the Jf ^ REMiAHS of the Little , Shilling party came fortli ' 'i ^/ si 7 en ^ k ; ' ^ the . . 9 iI-uiii ? Z £ S , ' the Seooners , 4 ; he : NfiWDEftATEs , The Chancellor of the ExeiffKauiEB showed himself for the sake of

    decorum ; but D (« O ! MMON 3 p , the banker and wit , is the proper / person torans wer men under the currency , delusion . He proposes a , summary stopper , Abthuk YpiJisrG adyisedl that the clerk of the Convention pf Paris should thmst his inkstand down the throat of ; the , first man . that should talk about coin , andMt . Drummonix prescribed the same application to people under the Muntz malady . Mr . Muntz repudiated the pill , and the House repudiated his motion by 116 , to 53 .

    The question of Marriage Law and its judicial treatment was brought before the House of Commons on Thursday night , by Mr . J . G . Phillimorb , who narrated the painful story of Mrs . Talbot . We shall have to deal with that subject and some others next week . The House declined to reopen a , subject judicially decided , and the motion w ^ withdrawn . It was stated ,

    however , distinctly , that a Divorce Bill had been iurtroduced into the House of Lords , that in the course of the next ; month , at the second reading , witnesses would , be examined on oath as to the truth of the statements 5 and that at last we are likely to have a redress of injustice . It ia to be hoped that there is no doubt as < jp the prosecution of . the Divorce Bill , but that it wiH be piessqd to its Jfcaajl , stage ,,

    -Tj'here ai'e , 9 , few , pari | ia , tnentary elecfcipas going , fprvra ^ d , but they are not o £ 9 ; kiu , d to call fpj ? th any , political , feeling . They wijll bq decided , ahn ^ st le ^ tLrely , by personal considerations . Mjr . Sadjlejo haying ja ^ oted , Sligo , three or four gentlernen , hay « . ^^! $ t : ^ # ^ , he , s ^ gapJLo question is , who has wwstf ^ fe ^ H . JWSPP * Wount of individual and local WW ^ ' ¦ ¦&! ^ iffMc ^ the ) Cpunti : y gentlemen :: , Wft !^ y ^ e . , $ p e of , . Lordp , by br inging a ^ fo wp ^ d ^ ecruifr tp > , tljoir , waks , Sir Wjj ^ . ty ^ Bf ^ SfiftStfry . has , ¦ l > een cheated Lord A yjb-W ! P " , $ S ¦« % ( juec ^ cjpd ; by bM sop , Mr . <^ fr » S ^ WWmVWVp , ™ fthereditary pp ^ tioja ^ m % t > d * hi ^ ¦<*?? wm ^ m ^ a

    of Bostchafefo Mi , f P & b ^^ j ; rt Ingra . m , a native of the JLincdfp tow % and * one of the most successful men of Qj ^ day . ThQ . l | dRD Mayor h , fts been hospitably entertainink M »^ BucHANAN- ^ -in , his absence , for the American Minister had a peremptory invitation on thie same day to dine with the Queen . At the Mansion-house Mr . Cob den said some excellent things , which will show to America what is real English feeling ; and will tell reckless men at home what would be English risks in a war witli the United States .

    While administrative reform is arrested at headquarters , the want of it has been allowed to accumulate the most frightful and disgusting miseries io a metropolitan workhouse . Sfc . Pancras is the scene . Remember that the officers there have to deal with a people in a state of peculiar need and weakness—with the debilitated , the sick , and the insane . We find , then , the out-door poor patients crowded into pens , in such an atmosphere , and for so long a time , that the women who come for bread , faint from exhaustion , and numbers ate kept until half-past three o ' clock before they can fee released . In the sick ward , ten male patients

    and two women , are lying on the floor ; in another the children are so crowded , that cutaneous disease spreads by contact ; and the air is charged with I 14 or 2 ' 7 *> per cent , of carbonic acid gas . Prom this workhouse , so inadequate to its purpose that the very insane ward is crowded , many are entirely excluded . Niggardliness is the avowed cause of this mismanagement ; but the new Board of Guardians , which has helped to expose the condir rion of the house , is responsible for its improvement . What , however , is the defence of the poorer classes when such a state of things can arise to continue through successive years ?

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    194 THE LE ADER , [ No . 310 , Saturday ,

    Heauth Of London.—The Returns Of The Lon...

    Heauth of London . —The returns of the London registrars continue to show a very satisfactory state of the public health . In the week that ended on Saturday , the deaths of 1 , 062 persons , viz ., 541 males and 521 females , were registered . In the correaponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was 1 , 200 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1 , 320 . Hence the deaths returned last week were , less by 258 than would have occurred in the present population under the average rate of mortality at this period of the

    year . The six epidemic diseases which , contribute more to the total mortality than any others in the same class , with the exception of cholera at particular seasons , were fatal last week in the following order : —Typhus caused 57 deaths ; hooping cougb , 40 ; scarlatina , 28 ; measles , 17 j diarrhoea , 11 ; and small-pox , 10 . Eight deaths from typhus were returned from Islington West , the sub-district in which the Fever Hospital is situated . Hoxton and Haggerstono seem to suffer from it to some extent . Mr . Upjohn , the registrar of Pontonville , states that hooping-cough haa

    lately been very prevalent in his district ; but in the London districts generally it was loss fatal last week than is usual in the month of February . Twelve children died $ of croup , one of purpura , one of intermittent fever , two of iufantile remittent fever . One person died of influenza , and one of vheumatio fever . Last week , the births of 88 ( 5 boys aiicl 98 S girls , ia nil 1 , 818 children , were registered iu London . In the ton corresponding weeks of tho years 184 C-55 , the average number was 1 , 564 . —Prom , tlto Jieyiatrar-Qcneral ' a Weekly Retv / rn ,,

    A STRANara Stouy from Malta , — " A lady , well known in Maltose society , " says the Malta JJeacon , " the wife of 000 qf our inout respected fellowrcitizeus , who bas herself n , sou in the Turkish Contingent , is accused of having entorod iuto > a plot to betray the city of Tripoli , and the garrison of our Turkish ally , into the hands of . tho rebel Qh-ouma , Tho laxly in is well known

    question in Malta for her liberal sympathies . The dooumoute disolosing this plot have beou brought to light , and hie Exoolloaoy tho Governor wap , written to , to know who tvnd what tho lady w < vb , and W 9 boliovo that aho has already been sent for to tho palaco throe times upon tho Hubjoot . " —It ifl flald that the Turkish . Government hiXB corno to ft oompvoT » i ] s 9 with GUouma , honourable to both parties . The protojuBione of tl > o rob ' ol have boon ao knowledgod , and'ho hna beon reinstated as govornov oi hifl native province .

    Imperial Paklumentmonday, February 25th....

    IMPERIAL PAKLUMENTMonday , February 25 th . THE APPELLATE JtXJBISDIOTION OE THE HOUSE OF LORDSLord Lyndhurst , in the Housj : of Lords , gave notice ^ that , unless some other noble lord should make a motion on the subject , he should in a few days call the attention of their Lordships to the state of judicature in that House , with s , view to applying a suitable remedy .

    COMMITTEE OP MUVrLEGES . Lord Redesdale brought up the report of the Committee of Privileges on the Wensleydale Life Peerage , when Lord Gea . nville declared that the Government had no intention of again dividing the House on the question . The position of the Government was one of no little difficulty , inasmuch as a large majority of the House had declared the illegality of that which the law-officers of the Crown pronounced to be _ legal ; but they desired to consider the question in the calmest light , and they relied on a corresponding feeling on the part of their Lordships . Lord Wensleydale would put himself entirely in the hands

    of the Government , and would not attempt to take his seat until time had been given for due consideration . —Lords Campbell and Debbt expressed their great satisfaction with the assurances given by Lord Granville ; and Lord Derby stated his opinion that it would facilitate the further consideration of the question , if the Queen were to create Iiord Wensleydale an hereditary peer . The introduction of life peerages he thought would be highly injurious . As regards any good resulting in the way of greater facility in the discharge of judicial duties , the remedy -would probably be worse than the disease . He concluded by giving notice of his intention , on Thursday to move for a select committee to consider the expediency of

    making provision for the more efficient discharge of the duties of the House as a Court of Appeal . —The Marquis of Lansdowne congratulated the House on the temperate tone which the discussion had assumed . Nothing could be further from the desire either of himself or of his colleagues than to impair the hereditary character of the House , wliich he regarded with great veneration ; but the creation of a few peers for life would not affect that principle . Their Lordships should recollect that there is another prerogative growing in force every day , the prerogative of public opinion , which would he sufficient to override both the prerogatives of the Crown and the privileges of that House , if either of them were Btrained beyond their due limits .

    After some further discussion , in which Lords MA . LMESBURY , BbOUOHAM , CAMPBELL , GREY , GttANville , and others , took part , the report of the committee was received .

    TASMANIA . In the House op Commons , Mr . Laboucheke , in answer to Mr . Doncombe , stated that he had no objection to lay on the'table tho papei-3 explaining the circumstances connected with the proroguing of the Legislative Assembly of Tasmania , by Sir Henry Young . The Government had sent out instructions whixsh would prevent a recurrence of the like interference with the legislative functions of the colony for the future . Mr . Labouchere was of opinion that the Governor had committed an error of judgment in putting himself in opposition to the Legislative Council , on a point , in . respect to which he was in . tho wrong , and he ( Mr . La-bouchore ) had stated his opinion ts the Governor ; but he could not say whether tho Governor was wrong in proroguing the Council .

    COMMISSION UPON THE CRIMEAN REPORT . Mr . RoiilBUOK gave uotioe that , ou Friday , on the motion for going into Committee of Supply , ho would move the following resolution : — " That to appoint a commission of general officers to report upon the report of Sir J . M'Neill and Colonel Tullpoh is to substitute am inefficient for a very efficient means of iuvostiyn-tiou , and that such appointment will tend to strengthen au opinion already prevalent that ifaa real purpose of such proceeding in to shelter incompetence , mid to exouao the misconduct of those by whom vnriouw departments of ouv army have beon subjooted to tho command of proved incapacity . " The reports , of . tho Committee of Supply , ami of the Committee of Wayb and Meaub , wore brought up and agreed to .

    In a Committee of Ways an » Means , on tho motion of Mr . Wjlson , a resolution was jtgroea to for u grant upon tho Oouaolidatod Fund for tho amount of tho Supplomoutal Estimates .

    LOCAL DUES ON 8 UUVPINQ BILL . Sir Fjikdihriok TuuBiojun moved to dofor tho oocond road ing of this bill for six months . Tho jiriuciplo involved in the measure— that of talcing uway oorporato property without compensation—toweled to nhako tho security of all nuqli property . Tlio uret portion of tho bill , relating to passing tolls , which arc not private property , did not oall for apportion ; nor ( lid tho fc turth part , concerning charities . But groat injuHtico oharooteriaed tho aocond jiart , which proposed to transfer all rates , dues , dutioa , and iinpoafca upon

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01031856/page/2/