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      soners , and to intimidate witnesses or jurors . The evidence of two of the approvers appears to warrant the decided measures taken by the Irish Executive . No doubt is left as to the existence of the . Phoenix Club , with its machinery of illegal oaths , drilling , and the collection and manufacture of arms ; The accident at the lloyal Polytechnic Institution , following so soon after the Victoria Theatre catastrophe , lias given a sad memorability to the Christmas holiday , amusements . As far as has been ascertained , the Polytechnic has been entirely accidental ; the inquest , however , has been adjourned to admit of a move searching inquiry being made by architects appointed by the coroner . Up to the present time only one death has taken place .

      86 The Leader. .. ..[No. 45&, January 8,...

      86 THE LEADER . .. .. [ No . 45 & , January 8 , 1859 .

      England's Police In Italy.—If War Breaks...

      England ' s Police in Italy . —If war breaks oiit in Italy , what is England to do ? We think her course is plain . She could not think for a moment of actively aiding Austria , so long , as the only question at issue ¦ was the freedom of Italy . As little could she think of taking a part in the war as an ally of France . We havev had quite enough of alliances in which France reaps the glory , and we have to find the money and do the hard work . The . notion , also , of England and France joining together to promote liberty is a chimera ! If liberty in France means the Empire , we cannot help to spread abroad a liberty so unlike what we mean by liberty . Nor can we again join France as champions of international law and of the rights of nations . Louis Napoleon has chosen to trample on international law , and to violate the first rights of independent nations , by Ms conduct towards Portugal . What England must do is to stand strictly neutral . If the Austrians , as is possible , provided they are not threatened by Russia in their rear , succeed in holding their own in Italy , we shall pity the Italians most sincerely , but we shall have no call to intervene . If the Austrians are driven :. out of Italy , then will be the time for England to come on the stage , arid to insist , in conjunction with Prussia , that the war shall not be carried into Germany , and also that Italy shall be left to her own princes and governments according to her unfettered choice , and that She shall not merely change her masters and become the tool of France instead of the slave of Austria . We most heartily wish that the struggle between Austria and the Italians could be delayed until France is free . We dread the effect of Imperialism on the Italians after they have assumed a nominal independence . But we cannot disguise from ourselves that it is hard for desperate men to wait with the patience of a long-sighted policy . The struggle may come sooner than the best friends of Italy could wish . If it does come it will be the part of those friends to counteract the Jevil effects of this precipitation to , the . utmost of their power . — ' - Continental Review . Diphtheria . —This is a new-fangled name for an oldfashioned disease , malignant quinsy , says an M . D . writing to a contemporary , which in the days of bur grandmothers was successfully treated by emetics and bark . It is a disease -which is making great ravages at present , and much alarm prevails respecting it . How to prevent it , according to another M . D ., is to see that all drains , water closets , and other sources of malaria are in good order . Also to endeavour to keep the general health in the best order by good H y ing , and adequate Out-of-door exercise . As a preliminary symptom of the disease , there is always some slight stiffness and uneasiness complained of . This , ought to draw attention to ' the throat , whan the peculiar appearance of the ulcer will at once determine its nature . The . treatment recommended is , to give sesquicarbonate of ammonia dissolved' in a little water and sweetened—from two grains to a baby of a year old to ten grains to an adult , repeating it every hour , together with as much nourishment of every kind as can possibly bo got down . At the same time to rub the outside of the throat with a strong embrocation of camphor and ammonia . When this treatment ' is begun early and judiciously continued tho diphtheria , or skip , from which it takes its name , is rarely seen . As to infection , there is reason to believe that the disease oftener arises from malaria . Juvenile Etymolqott . — -Mamma dear ! Now isn ' t this called Kissmas Time , because Everybody kisses Everybody under the mistletoe ? Ada says it isn't .- — Punch . . The Northern Herring Trade . — -Engagements still continue to bo made with me fishermen at varying prices , say generally about 15 s . per cran , and 20 / . bounty . At these rates the ! fish cannot be sufely sold under 27 s . per barrel . There is , of course , nothing yet said as to contracts for next catch , though there is talk as to what may come to be the practice with respect to the 4 d , —Bavfl' Journal , ' The Exetek Hall Services . —Tho Rev . Edward Garbott , incumbent of St . Bartholomew ' s Church , Gray ' s Inn-road , who was to have preceded qhe scr * raon next Sunday evening at Exeter Hall , will be unable to fulfil hia engagement on account of illness . The Rev . Thomas Nolan , minister of Regent-square Church , will supply hia place . Mr . Garbott will , If possible , preach the lost of the series of Exeter Hall sermons .

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      POLITICAL FORESEE ADO WINGS . Meeting of Parmament . —The Ministers have all been summoned to return , to town from their Christmas holidays for . the 10 th inst . Shortly after this date a , preliminary cabinet will be held , at which the date for the meeting of Parliament will be fixed . This will be submitted to the Queen , and her Majesty will then hold a Priv } ' Council , and give her formal sanction to the arrangement . — Court Journal . TiieRt . Hon . E . Cari > we £ , l , M . P ., and Mr . Langston , M . P . —At an annual meeting of the Loyal Order of Druids , held in the Town Hall , Oxford , on Monday evening , the members for the city were present . Mr .

      Langston said it appeared that all parties were nonagreed that the time had arrived when the question of Reform ought to be fully and fairly . considered . It was agreed upon all hands that a large extension of the suffrage should take p lace , and that many persons who were excluded by the first Reform Bill from a voice in the choice of their representatives should be admitted to the privilege . There were many small towns which now returned members to Parliament which ought to be disfranchised , and the members given to larger and more influential , constituencies ; but , at the same time , he thought that svstem might be carried a great deal too far , for he did riot believe that the largest constituencies The

      of the . country always elected the best members . measure brought forward by Lord John Russell several years ago sought to disfranchise certain small boroughs , and to add , in some cases , additional towns and villages to neighbouring boroughs ; but that was an arrangement which he did hot think would be found to work well in practice , and he would much rather disfranchise the place altogether than add a country population to it . —Mr . Cardwell said , after some introductory remarks , " My friend lias referred to a bill brought in four years ago by a Government of which I myself had the honour to be a member . It may be that subsequent experience may suggest to those whore anxious duty it will be to amendments and

      the teaching of a gentleman who contradicted himself at one meeting , and forgot -what he had said at a previous one . Mu . Bright . —In reply to an invitation to attend a meeting at Bristol , the hon . member has replied : — " It is with reluctance that I write to say that I cannot undertake to attend any more meetings before the qpening of the session of Parliament . I have engaged to be present at a meeting to be held at Bradford on the 17 th of January , and beyond this I am unable to go . " Provincial Movements . —On Friday last a meeting

      on the subject of Reform was held at Bonhill , near Dumbarton . Resolutions were adopted in favour of a large extension of the franchise , vote by ballot , & c , and a more equal apportionment of members to Parliament . A great meeting was held on Monday night at Durham . The meeting was both large arid influential , and was attended by Mr . Atherton , one of the members for the borough , who expressed his sympathy with its objects . Resolutions in favour of a rating suffrage , a redistribution of scats , and the vote by ballot , were unanimously adopted . On Saturday a crowded meeting was held hi of

      Dewsbury , to take into consideration tho propriety memorialising Lord Derby on the subject of having Dewsbury enfranchised in the forthcoming Reform bill , at which a resolution was carried , to tike effect that a petition should be drawn , praying for the passing of a Reform Bill embracing extension of the suffrage ; the readjustment of the House of Commons—the adoption of the ballot—and also that Dewsbury might be enfranchised in any new Reform Bill . —An important Reform meeting has been held at Merthyr Tydvil . Mr . Bright ' s leadership on . the Reform question was accepted , and resolutions in support of the now well-known programme were unanimously adopted * .

      bring forward a Reform Bill , important changes in the details of this measure ; but everybody who refers to that measure of Lord John Russell will see that , whether its details were right or wrong , at all events its object was to add those individuals to the constituencv who corresponded to the test of intelligence and education . With regard to the redistribution of seats , disfranchisement was the order of that bill , for , if I recollect right , about sixty or seventy seats would have fallen , to be taken from small places and reapportioned to the great seats of industry and commerce ^ It may be that some other number is now more suited to the exigencies of the time , and we shall hear the reasons which dictate the change ; but this I say , that if in the extension of the franchise there be no arbitrary

      rule , but a sincere desire to make the fitness of the elector the cause of this election regardless of consequences to party or to class—if , in the redistribution of seats the desire be to remove manifest defects and to give power to great combinations of industry andf intelligence , to add strength to the institutions of this country , the bill , whether it correspond to the details of the bill of 1854 , or differ from them , will deserve to be considered an ample bill and an honest bill , and come from whatever quarter it may , I trust it will receive tho cordial and generous consideration of all independent persons , both within and without the walls of Parliament . " The right honourable gentleman concluded by urging the importance of increasing the efficiency of tho national defences .

      Viscount Inoestjre , M . P . —At a meeting at Stokoupon-Tront , his lordship , in the course of a long speech , adverted to the importance of social science as a subject of discussion and earnest consideration . The day would come when tho consideration of these subjects would bo forced upon tho Legislature . Without being political , he must say that they wero of importance equal with , if not greater , than a now Reform Bill . Attempts had been made to excite the jealousy of tho country against tho class to which ho belonged , but ho did not bcliovo that tho people would bo jealous of that class so long as tho members of it discharged their duty to their country . Thoy were as anxious as any class to give their attention to the subject of Reform . As an Englishman , lie would

      protest against attempts which had recently been made to excite fllifooling towards the class to which ho belonged . He onco looked on Mr . Bright as an honest man , but he looked on him now as a factious man—as a destroyer of the rights df property . He was a dangerous man , and tho country ought to bo on its guard against him . If tho pooplo of England vuluod their liberties , they would not entrust them to tha kooping of Mr . Bright ; and those remarks , ho repeated , ho did not make politically , but simply as an Englishman dofonding his own class and other , men of property , who had boon tho subjects of wanton attacks . Ho believed tho public had no sympathy with Mr . Bright , ami that it would reject his leadership . Lot thorn rather attempt to unite class with class in social mootings , and lob the franchise bo fairly extended ; but lot tharo not follow

      Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. O...

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . On Monday the Central Criminal Court commenced it 3 session . The Lore ! Mayor " was present for the first time since his late severe indisposition . The Recorder saul the cases that would be brought before the grand jury were not of a serious character . —William Glendinning was charged with forging a cheque on the Union Bank of London of 250 ? . The case was rather complicated , but the prisoner was found Guilty , and sentenced to twelve months' hard labour . —James Dell was found Guilty of stealing seven hampers , containing boots and shoes , valued at 200 / ., the property of Charles Stanton , and sentenced to six months' imprisonment ;— -Cas . es of forgery appear to be remarkably prevalent at the piesent time . No fewer than five persons were tried f . r

      this offence on Tuesday . In one of these cases , William Jlenry Cory , a clerk , pleaded Guilty to two charges . He i $ a young man respectably connected , who had distinguished himself during the Crimean war , but has been carrying on a regular system of forgery since his return to this country . He was sentenced to six years' penal servitude . —Lieutenant Higginson was tried for his assault upon Alderman Salomons . Ho kept the coiirt the whole of the day in cross-examining witnesses , and reading his own defence , and nobody but himself could see the relevancy of anything he said . Nobody , and least of all Alderman Salomons , wished to be severe with him , and so ho was liberated on entering into his own recognisances , ami promising to appear for judgment whenever called upon . He promised never again to interfere with Alderman Salomons . — Kochanowsky , the

      soi-disant Russian noble , and his two confederates , were tried on Thursday on the charge of manufacturing forged plates of Russian promissory notes . Thoy were convicted ; Kochanowsky was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude , and the others to five . —George Lelievre was tried for the manslaughter of Charles John Williams , by knocking him down , whereby his log was broken , from the effects of which he died . The prisoner assaulted the deceased , who was passing through the street , because ho refused to assist in picking up prisonor ' a friend , who , as well as himself , wan intoxicated . The jury found him Guilty , and ho was sentenced to three months' imprisonment , without hard labour . —Roper , the Greenwich corn dotilor , has also been triod on a charge of arson and fraud , the theory of the prosecution

      being that ho had sot fire to hia own house , thereby causing tho death of two of his children , and that ho had inserted in his claim on tho insurance company property which ho had removed before tho flro . Tho case occupied the whole of tho day . Tho crosa-oxamination of several of the witnesses for tho prosecution gavo a turn to tho evidence favourable to tho prisoner . Mr . Serjeant JUnllautiito delivered a vory forcible address on behalf of tho prisoner , and tho jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty . —Gloucester Galo pleaded Guilty to marrying six wives , and was sentenced to four years poma servitude . — Tho three mpn charged with Btoalinir « valuable boll from tho mansion of Alderman Finnis , at \\ iiu * stead , wore discharged , owing to tho evidence not being sufficient to convict thorn . , Tho young woman , Annie Collyor , in custody on too charge of Hutting ( lro to tho house of her nuwlor , ac Wamlsworth , has boon ro-oxamlnod . It will bo remembered that previous to tho total destruction ot i"fl dwollinK Ovo distinct tiros wore oald to have broken out

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1859, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08011859/page/4/