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      Miscellaneous. Tiik Court.—The Queen, It...

      Camming , Mr . Joseph Payne , Mr . Tordham , Mr . Vanderlrist , and other gentlemen . The Hobctcoi / turai . SociErry of London . —This admirable society , parent and type of many flourishing societies in the country , has issued the regulations to toe observed at its exhibitions during the present year . Some very important changes have been introduced , which we are incline ! to believe will be found beneficial to the society and to the public . In an important section of the Exhibition , headed " Horticultural Manufactures , " it is proposed to admit all kinds of manufactured articles connected with horticulture . An autumnal fruit exhibition is also projected , to take place in October- The present council of the society have teen anxiously directing their attention to the great object of rendering the society's exhibitions conducive to the promotion of good gardening , as the Royal

      Agricultural Society s exhibitions are an incentive and an encouragement to good farming . Among the general results of their deliberations -we find—1 . The establishment of a new class of two guinea members . 2 . The abolition of admission fees ; all new subscriptions being in future payable in advance . 3 . The reduction of the expenses at the Garden until it could be placed tinder one general superintendent , -whose standing in the horticultural -tforld would secure general confidence . Such a person has beea found in Mr . George M'Ewen , formerly gardener to the late Duke of Norfolk . With this accession of practical ability , and the aid of funds voluntarily provided by a large number of fellows , the council , we think , are justified in believing that the public attraction and utility of the gardens at Chiswf ( £ k will be materially increased , and that it will become fin every sense a centre of instruction , as ¦ well as of experimental horticulture . " We cordially wish the Society

      all auccesa China aud the Late Division . —Some of the principal London firms connected-with the China trade have transmitted an address to Lord Palmerston , thanking him for the firmness he has exhibited in connexion with the Chinese question ; expressing their fear that the effect of the late division will he to create still further difficulties and disasters at Canton ; and praying : him to devise such measures as will be calculated to protect our fellow countryman and their interests , as well as to lead to the fulfilment of all treaty obligations and to the establishment of our relations with . China on a permanent footing , of security . peace . —A Court of Common Council -was held on Monday , for the purpose of

      expressing the opinion of the members on the recent vote in the House of Commons on the China question . After considerable discussion , and the proposal of two amendments , -wrhich were lost , a motion was carried , approving of the conduct of our Ministers in China , censuring the decision arrived at by the majority in the House of Commons , and thanking Lord Palmerston and the Government generally for the course they pursued on the occasion of the recent debate . —The Premier has declined an invitation of several of the merchants of the City to be put in nomination for the metropolitan constituency . —The Liberals of Bath , having met on Monday in the rooms of their association , passed a vote of confidence in Lord Palmerston .

      The Reform Club . —George W . Harris , Esq ., late stipendiary magistrate of Granada , lias been chosen secretary of the Keform Club . The candidates were a hundred and twenty-six in number . Honduras Ihteroceanic Railway . —A meeting of merchants and others was held on Monday in the Manchester Town Hall , in reference to the proposed Honduras Railway , connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans . Mr . E . G . Squier attended at the head of a

      deputation from the board of directors , and gave some particulars with the view of showing the superiority of the proposed route ( from Puerta Caballos , on the Atlantic , to the Bay of Fonseca , on the Pacific ) over all othor routes , and the healthy , fertile , and rich character of the lands over which the rail -would pass . This railroad would shorten the distance from New York to San Francisco by 1300 miles , or ten days * time . A resolution affirming the advantages of the proposed line was unanimously adopted .

      Missions to Seamen Afloat . —A public meeting for promoting these missions at home and abroad was held yesterday at " Willis ' s Rooms , under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury . The society proposes approaching the sailor on his own element , and from ship to ship , and proacliing the Gospel to him , by means of chaplains ) and lay agents , whose sphere of action -would be the windbound shipping in roadsteads or vessels lying in harbours and docks . Resolutions in favour of the society were unanimously carried . This Lund Hill Colliery Explosion . —The

      adjourned inquest was held on Monday . Seven miners who vore working ia the pit at the time of the accident gave evidence . They all said they had nothing tocorrvplain . of , and that they considered the pit to have been -well ventilated . One of them said he considered himself aa fl » fe ia the pit as when ho was at homo . John Thompson , one of the collien ? , however , apoke of neglect by the ' trappers , ' who frequently collected togothcr to tulle , instead of being at their stations . The inquiry has not yet terminated . Water ( says a writer from tho spat ) continues to be poured into tho pit , and it is expected that a week will elapse before it will have risen to the

      height necessary to extinguish the fire . It will require several weeks to get the water out again ; so that a month or six weeks will probably elapse before any of the bodies can be recovered , and no hope is entertained that any of them will be recovered in such a state as to be capable of identification . The number of men in the pit has now been ascertained to be 189 . Mb . Speaker Lefevre . —Mr . Speaker Shaw Lefevre was elected to his high office on the 27 th of May , 1839 , by a majority of 18 votes over the late Right Hon . Henry Goulburn , the numbers having been 317 and 299 . The right hon . gentleman was subsequently re-elected to the chair nem . dis . in the three successive Parliaments of 1841 , 1847 , and 1852 . His term of ofiice has been nearly 18 years . His predecessor , Mr . Abercromby , was elected in 1835 by a majority of 10 over Mr . C . Manners Sutton , afterwards Viscount Canterbury , and held ofiice about four years .

      The New Dean op Canterbury . —The Rev . Henry Alford has been appointed by the Crown to the Deanery of Canterbury , rendered vacant by the death of the Very Eev . William Howe" Lyall , D . D . Death of the Irish Senior Master in Chancery . —William Henn , Esq ., Master in Chancery , died suddenly at Dublin on Monday morning . As Senior Master , his salary was 25 O 0 Z . a year . Fires . —A fire broke out on Monday night in the extensive mansion belonging to Lady Ann Beckett , of Stratford-place , . Oxford-street . It was speedily subdued . —The premises of Messrs . Perkins , Bacon ' and

      Bache , " Whitefriars-street , Fleet-street , steel plate engravers to the Government , and manufacturers of the postage and receipt stamps , were burnt down on Wednesday night . The factory is of immense height and width . Various land engines , as well as the large steam floating engine on the river , poured copious bodies of water on the flames ; and , by half-past twelve o ' clock ( the fire having burst out shortly before nine ) the conflagration was got under control . The promises aud almost all they contained were destroyed . The loss of property is roughly estimated at 30 , 000 ? . ; but the greater part is covered by insurance .

      Australia . —The last advices from the great southern continent contain little political iiews . The intelligence has reference chiefly to the gold produce , which appears to be at about the average . The Melbourne , Geelong , and Ballarat line of electric telegraph was opened on the morning of the 16 th of December . The Budget submitted to the Legislative Assembly of Tasmania exhibits an unfavourable condition of finance . . Mr . Butler Cole Asfixall . —We see by recent Australian papers that Mr . Butler Cole Aspinall ( well known in connexion with the London press , to which he was a valuable contributor ) , is about to be chosen Chairman of Committees for the Legislative Council of Victoria . The selection of so young a man for a post of such importance is a striking testimony to Mr . Aspinall ' a success in hia nuw homfi .

      Parliamentary Reform . —A meeting of gentlemen favourable to a reform of Parliament was held in London on Monday , at which resolutions were adopted to the effect that an opportunity should bo given , for expressing public opinion on the questions to be made tests at the ensuing election ; and the holding of a public meeting for that purpose was urged and agreed to . The Earl op- Fike died at Duff House on Monday night , in his eighty-first year . He is succeeded in his title and estates by his nephew , James Duff , Esq ., M . P . for tlie county of Banff .

      Fire is a Chavez . —The congregation of a new Wesleyan chapel , at North Shields , were alarmed last Sunday evening , during service , by observing that the roof of the building had caught fire from the gas . There was , of course , an immediate rush for the doors ; but a body of sailors , at that time present , kept back the crowd with characteristic calmness . Two of the doors were speedily thrown wide open ; and , as the , preacher and other officers behaved with great courage and selfpossession , all present got out with tolerable deliberation and in perfect safety . The seamen and the other officers of the place then speedily got tlie flames under .

      AKREST OF A PRESnYTERIAN CUSIIGYMAN . —TllC KCV . Mr . Gamble , a Presbyterian minister , of Cnstlctlawson , Ireland , was taken into custody last Saturday , at bi . s own house , under a warrant signed by a Htipendiary magistrate , and conveyed by the constabulary to Dcrry , in order to be lodged in the county gaol . His imputed ofTcnco is that of having incited a riotous mob to use violence towards her Majesty's troop * . Ho asserts that hois entirely innocant ; and , indeed , this . seems to be probable . Mit . Smith , M . P . on our Cotton Si : ri'i , y . —A public meeting of gentlemen connected with the cotton trade

      wan held on Tuesday afternoon , in the large room of the Town Hall , Manchester , for tlie purpose of hearing uu address from J . B . Smith , Esq ., M . P . for Stockport , " the importance of full and n < l « quato supplies of cotton being obtained . " About two hundred Hpinners , manufacturers , and othcr . H were present ; Mr . T . Uazlcy , president of the Manchester Clia . mb <; r of Commerce , occupying tho chair . The facts stated by Mr . Smith in hia very interesting uddrens were mainly the name as those which have already been brought before the render ' s notice in tho lending columns of this journal . The hon . member wa . s erected , with loud applause . The meeting

      was also addressed by Mr . Alexander N . Shaw , formerly a revenue collector in India , and now a candidate for the Northern Boroughs , anui who stated that India could produce the finest cotton , and might , in his opinion , in due time and -with proper management , undersell arid supply the Americans -themselves . Some other gentlemen having spoken , the meeting separated . —On Wednesday , Mr . Smith spoke at the Cotton Sale Rooms , Liverpool , on the same subject . Lamartink . —Stauding on the steps of the Hotel-de-Ville , with the waves of an angry multitude surging up fiercely towards him , the orator waved them proudly back , and sending forth his sonorous and practised voice

      among them , excited tlieir curiosity , riveted their attention , and stilled their passions . In parliamentary warfare , however , mere impassioned speaking is not enough . They who undertake to make laws for a great people look more for breadth of thought , steadiness of views , and stability of personal character , than for an artificial rhetoric and poetical figures of speech . Louis Napoleon soon discovered Lamartine ' s weak side , and ceased to fear liis opposition . I 3 y a few plain strong words , implying in the speaker an iron will and indomitable courage , he totally neutralised the effect of Lamartine'a

      rhetoric . When he rose in the National Assembly , he greatly reminded all historical students of the first appearance of Cromwell in the British Parliament ; not that there was an exact resemblance ? , but that both possessed that peculiar quality which , when a man speaks , rivets the attention of his listeners , partly through apprehension , partly through the desire to penetrate tho dark problem of liis character . From the day on which Louis Tfapoleon was elected President of the Republic , Lamartine ' s reputation began to wax pale and dim . —Louis Napoleon , by J . A . St . Joint .

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      March 14 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 249

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      Lkader Offick , Saturday , March . 14 th . LAST EIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . THE COMING . DISSOLUTION . The Earl of Derby having induced the Earl of Albemarle to postpone a motion of his which stood for next Monday , gave notice that on that evening , on the second reading of the Income-tax Bill , he should make a statement with reference to the appeal about to be made to the country . TKBSIA . The Marquis of Clanbicarde having moved for certain papers connected with the expense of the war with Persia , the Earl of Malmesjujry pressed the Government for information as to tho causes of the war , and the nature of the treaty with Persia which had been recently entered into . —The Earl of Clarendon explained that the war wa 9 caused by the attack of Persia on Herat ; and then proceeded to state that , by the treaty just entered into , tlie Persian troops could be withdrawn from Hernt and-Afl'ghanistan within three months of the ratification . The Shah liad renounced all claim to Herat and Aflglianiotan . As regarded commercial matters , Knglund "was to bo placed on the same footing as tho most favoured nations . The treaty against the slave trade in the Persian Gulf , which would expire in 1862 , was renewed for ten years more . —Tlie Earl of Ellenbokough remarked that the war with Persia was in fact a war with Huasia ; and ho urgod tlie necessity of the most vigorous measures being taken to preserve our Indian Empire from the aggression of Russia . After a few words from the Karl of Aluicmakle , the House adjourned at a quarter to seven .

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      IIOUSK OF COMMONS . I'JTCRHIA . Iii answer to Sir Arciuhali > Camtukll , Lord Paamkh . ston declined to go into the general question of tho treaty with l ' urwln , but Htatcd , with reference to tho practice under which foreign ininaions in Persia exercised protection over Persian subjects in British employment , that it wan intended to discontinue it ; thus removing ono of tho moMt fertile causes of disagreement between tho two countries . CHINA . In answer to Sir IIisnry WiLLouoimy , Mr . La-UOUCiucKK rtuicl that by tho last accounts tho utmost tranquillity prevailed in all the northern parts of China . TirB SPKAKICR . On the motion of Lord Palmkuston , a resolution wfla agreed to in committee of Bupply , granting an annuity of 4000 / . a year to tho Speaker on his retirement from the eliuir of the House . A 11 MT I 5 HT 1 MATKW . On bringing up tho report on the Army Bat ' unntea , Mr . Staffoi »> complained that tho recommendations of a committee of that I Iouho with regard to tlie army medical department , hud not been carried out . —Mr . Frkdkuicic Pjkkj , urged that much had been done to improve that department . —Sir W . V . Williams stated that nothing could be bettor than the Htate of the luiU *

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 14, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14031857/page/9/