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      Accidents And Sudden Deaths. A Majj Empl...

      hare been neglected for protecting the lives of the woTkmen . That the factory building was unsuited for the purpose of the manufactory , and placed in a position highly dangerous to the workmen on the -works , the passengers by the company ' s trains , and the surrounding neighbourhood . "

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      Naval And Military. Accident To A Boat's...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Accident to a Boat ' s Ckew . —A boat belonging to her Majesty ' s ship Herald , Capt . Denham , was overturned , " on the 20 th of October , 185 G , " to quote from the capfain ' s report , " while returning from the island Wakaya , adjacent to Ovolau , in the Fejees , while under a press of sail , with an overload of cocoa-nuts , through which the officer in charge , Mr . A . B . Nugent , midshipman , aged twenty , and five seamen , lost their Irves , while so free from turbulence was the channel between the island and ship , that two of the crew strain back to the shore—a distance of two miles in the u'ind ' s eyeand another gained the ship with the sad intelligence . All the united efforts of the small craft of Ovolau and the ship ' s boats failed in even recovering the bodies of our lamented shipmates . "

      Pembroke Dockyard . — The extension and improvements of the dockyard at Pembroke are tb-is year to be carried out to the extent of 120 , 000 ? . The Yictoria Cross .- —This decoration , consists of a Maltese cross , formed from the cannon taien from the Russians . In the centre of the cross is the Royal crown , surmounted by the lion , and below it a scroll bearing the words , " For valour . " The riband is blue for the navy , and red for the army . On the clasp are two branches of laureL , and from it , suspended by a Roman V , hangs the cross . The execution of the work has heen entrusted by Lord Panraure to Mr . Hancock , of Bruton-street . The decoration carries with it a pension of 101 . a year .

      Miscellaneous. Father Patjl Mart (The Ho...

      MISCELLANEOUS . Father Patjl Mart ( the Hon . and Rev . C . R . Packenham ) , Passionist , died at Dublin , in the convent of the order , last Sunday . He was brother to the Earl of Longford , and nephew of the late Duchess of Wellington ; and he accompanied the Queen , on her first visit to Ireland , as one of her aides-de-camp , being at that time an officer of the Guards . He resigned the profession of arms on the occasion of his conversion to the Romish faith a few years since , and then joined the order of the "Barefooted Clerks of the Most Sacred Passion of cur Lofd Jesus Christ . "

      The Royal , British : Bank . —A meeting of th « creditors > and depositors of this bank was held on Tuesday evening at Evans ' s Hotel , Covent Garden , to consider a compromise . proposed by the shareholders . After considerable discussion , the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — " That this meeting is of opinion that It is not expedient to accept any offer of a composition from the shareholders of the Royal British Bank until an official statement has been laid before the depositors of . the actual pecuniary resources of the shareholders ; nor without receiving the most ample and satisfactory security for the payment of any composition , should any offer from the shareholders to that effect be accepted by this meeting . ' *—A general meeting of the depositors in the Koyal British Bank was held on Wednesday evening , at the Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street , for tho purpose of obtaining their assent to the

      compromise proposed by the shareholders , and -which had been approved by the committee of depositors . After a groat deal of dissension , Mr . James Wyld \ va 3 called to tho chair . The following resolutions were carried , though not without opposition : —That , in the opinion of this meeting , it is essential to the interests of the creditors of tho Royal British Bank , that tho proposed composition of Gs . Gd . in the pound , beyond tho assets in bankruptcy , should bo accepted , and that the shareholders should bo required to pay the same by two instalments before tho 30 th of April next . That it Lj desirablo that tho acceptance of such composition by a majority of the creditors should be binding upon , tno minority , and that an Act of Parliament for that purpose should bo obtained , tho " . application" for which this meeting pledges itself to support ; and that the petition already prepared in favour of such net bo presented to both Houses of Parliament "

      Lectures on Italy . —Miss J . M . Whito lias boon lecturing with groat buccoss , to very largo audiencos in tho principal cities and towns of Scotland , nnd has elicited the strongest expressions of public sympathy With tho aspirations of tho Italian people . A JewishiWbdbwq . -The daily papers , oven at this exciting period of political crisis , contrive to give Ionic accounts of tho mrrriago , on Wednesday ( at Guiincrs-V ^ fTVT ^ K ™* ' « o »« try-seat of Baron Lionel do Ivothsclnld ) of Misa Leonora , tho daughter of the Baron , to Baron Alphonae , tho eldest son of Baron . lames Kothscluld . of Paris . Tho ceremony seema to lmvo taken place m a . pcrfect light of jewels and of gold and silver plate . Some of tho observances wev 0 singular , lmt wo havo no room to detail them

      V . ^ r , ° t ? ° ? IIopB — 'nw »> a » t nowa from the & Sr °° Ior > o 11 J to tho cflfci : t tllat « W * ' tranquil Tim Wkst iNimcs .-Vory littl « of important ' in brought by the last mails . Tho Mnnds for tho most pnrt aro healthy , and the process of su ^ nr manufacture

      is proceeding favouraaly . In Demerara , the ravages of cholera continue , but without increase of -virulence . A fast had been appointed . The death of the Hon . John Cameron , of Barcaldine , is recorded . 1170 immigrants had arrived in the course of the year from the East Indies . Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tuixoch have received an address from the city of Bath , signed by numerous gentlemen , and expressing the highest approval of the Crimean Commissioners' Report . An address has also been sent from Preston . —A letter , dated February 20 th , from Lord Panmure to Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch , has been published . It contains

      the offer of 1000 / . to each which was recently alluded to in Parliament ; and also the annexed paragraph : — " I have reason to believe that you have felt hurt by the omission made on my part of the usual official acknowledgment of so important a document as the report laid by you before the Government . I at once admit the ground of this complaint , and express my personal regret that it should have existed , but the fact was that , having accepted the report from the hands of one of the Commissioners at a personal interview , without , so far as I can trace , any formal letter accompanying it , and my mind being much occupied "by important affairs at the time ,. I omitted that formal acknowledgment of your services -which courtesy and my own opinion of their value required . " Sir John M'Neill , in his reply , says : — " If I rightly understand tlis statement of the grounds

      on which the grant is tendered to me , it means that the sum of . 10 00 L is intended to be considered not merely as a recognition by her Majesty ' s Government of the manner in which the duty was performed , but likewise as the pecuniary equivalent of the results of the inquiry—that is , the money value of the advantages which the country has derived from those results . This estimate alone is sufficient to lead me ^ without further consideration , at once to decline a proposal which , as explained by your Lordship , appears to me to involve the admission that the results of my labours have been so insignificant as to be almost without appreciable value to the public . The thanks which your Lordship'has done me the honour to convey to me would have been far more acceptable if they had been unconnected with such an estimate . " Colonel Tulloch has also declined the proffered sum .

      Mr . Serjeant Wilkxns died on Wednesday morning after a long and painful illness . Neufchatel and Persia . —The first conference on the Neufchatel question met on Thursday in Paris at one o ' clock . —A treaty of jeace between England and Persia was signed by Lord Cowley and Ferukh Khan at Paris on Tuesday . Reinforcements for China . — -Orders have been received at Plymouth to prepare , with the utmost despatch , the Sanspareil , Himalaya , and another vessel , for the conveyance of reinforcements , ammunition , & c , to the China station .

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      . Leader Office, Saturday, March 7th. La...

      . Leader Office , Saturday , March 7 th . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . The House met for a quarter of an hour , hut transacted no business . HOUSE OF COMMONS . BURIAL ACTS . In answer to Sir De Lacy Evans , Mr . Massey said that the Government had the subject of the amendment of tho present Burial Acts under consideration , but of course , at present , they could not undertake to bring in a bill on tho subject . WEST LONDON UNION . In answer to Lord Claud Hamilton , Mr . Botjtverie said that inquiry had been mado by thePoor-Law Commissioners into the accommodation for the casual poor in the -workhouso of tho West London Union , and it was found that , when tho workhouse itself was full , the casual poor were sent to a place which was wholly unfitted to afford them decent shelter . Means had been taken to remedy that state of things . PERSIA . In answer to Mr . Laxaud , Mr . "Veunon Smith said that , although peace was concluded with Persia , it -was still objectionable to produce tho papers relating to tho difference with that country until after the treaty had been ratified . No vote for the expense would probably bo taken this your . —Mr . Gladstone complained that no opportunity would bo afforded for discussing the Persian question before the meeting of tho new Parliament THl ! UKSOLITTK . In answer to Mr . Ktki . yn , Sir Chaklks Wooi > cxplnincd that what had been dono with tho Arctic ship llcaolnto was not dono with any discourteous intention towards tho American . Government , but solely with 21 view to her preservation . CHINA . Sir FiTznoY Kicltvy inquired whether the Government intended to continue to net on the Colonial Ordinance with reference to tho carrying of the British liny ¦

      in the Chinese waters , for it-was clear that that « n ^ nance was illegal . —lord Paukebston said thattheh ^* and learned gentlemen seemed to wish to reopen fTr « Chinese debate . There was no intention at present t discontinue acting ' on the ordinance in question . T 3 tE COtTBSE OF PtTBUC BUSINESS . ^ On the motion for going into Committee of Wavsanrt Means , Mr . Diskaeli rose to state the course he n ™ - posed to take with regard to the modified arrangements which the Government had indicated they were abont to bring forward with a view to a dissolution . He and has party -wished to consider the proposition of the Go vernment without offering obstacles to it , and thev were prepared to consent to the arrangement of the income-tax proposed , so that it was con sistent with the spirit of the settlement of 1853 But , on the whole , he was disinclined to permit the ' present Parliament to deal with taxation , as the new Parliament which would meet in May would have am Die time to make fiscal arrangements . It was not unusual to havea fcudget in May , and he had even known one m August . —The Chancellor op the Exchequer urged that the plan he proposed was the only really feasible one , and thought it would be desirable to so intoComrcrittee of Ways and Means to discuss the Tea Duties . —Mr . Gi ^ adstone concurred that it -would be a more convenient course to take all discussion in committee . THE TEA DUTIES . The House having gone into Committee of Ways and Means , the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved a resolution that , in lieu of the Customs duties now chargeable on tea imported into the United Kingdom , the following duties shall be charged : — To the 5 th of April , 1857 , inclusive , * Is . 9 d . in . the pound ; from , and after the 5 th April , 1857 , to the 5 th April , 1858 , inclusive , Is . 5 d . in the pound . Mr . Gladstone moved as an amendment that the duty on t « a shall he , after the 5 th April , 1857 , Is . 3 d . per pound , and after the 5 th April , 1858 , Is . ¦ per . pound-( 18 & 19 Vic . c . 97 ., Act of 1855 ) . —Lord John Russell said he approved of the plan of finance of . the Government as it was now modified . —A discussion . followed , in which the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer-was criticised by Mr . Ricakdo , Mr .-MnsEB Gibson , Mr . Mamn s , Mr . Hobsfall , Mr . Laixg , Mr . Hey worth , and Mr . Moffatt . —Mr . Muntz believed that the difference in the tea duty proposed by Mr . Gladstone would go into the pockets of the importers , and not of the consumers . He should prefer a reduction of the Income-tax to that of the , duty on tea . — -Mr . Disraeli again objected to entertaining the question of new taxes in the present Parliament . He believed that a duty of Is . 5 d . on tea , though , it was said to be only 2 d . —which , however , representeda sum of half a million of taxation—¦ would press on the consumer and interfere with an important branch of trade . —In answer to Lord John Russell , the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that by his present proposition he did not pledge himself sot to propose a higher duty on tea after -April , 1858 . —Mr . Henley supported the proposition of the Government because he did not wish to risk revenue too suddenly . The House divided : —¦ For the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer 187 Against it . 125 Majority ..... 62 THE SUQAIt DUTIES . The alterations in the sugar duties were then agreed to as proposed by the Government , —namely , on the principal sugar , 1 / . per cwt . to 8 th April , 1857 , and 18 s . 4 d , from 5 th April , 1857 , to 8 th April , 1858 , & c , — Mr . Gladstone having withdrawn his amendment to reduce them to the amount proposed by the Act of 1853 . The other business was disposed of and the House adjourned at half-past eleven .

      Moldavia. After Tho Death Of The Kaimaik...

      MOLDAVIA . After tho death of the Kaimaikan of Moldavia , a Provisional Government was installed with tho consent of tho foreign consuls , and this Government will act until the Porte shall have made some other appointment .

      Another Colliery Explosion.—Three Explos...

      Another Colliery Explosion . —Three explosions of fire damp liave occurred at a pit belonging to Mr . Mundy , at Shipley , eight miles from Derby . Tlirec men nnd two boys were killed , and thirteen other persons have "been injured . Desperate Arrrcsrrr to Murder in a Hailway Carriage . —About eight o ' clock on Thursday night , ! much alarm prevailed at the Camden-town station of 1 the North Western Railway , in consequence of tlio cries of murder having been hoard to proceed from a railway carriage attached to a Blackwall and Cumden-towu train- Tho driver as soon ur possible stopped the train , t when , on tho guard opening the door of the currinye fr ° 1 which the cries proceeded , lie found a gentlinvum from 1 whoso nook blood was profusely flowing . A man was in the carriage , who wna charged by the gentleman with having stabbed him in tho neck with nomo sharp instrum « nt . The person accused wan immediately secured . «<* - 1 £ i \ v ( - his name as Webb . Robbery was supposed to be ; I tho object .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 7, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07031857/page/10/