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      736 The Leadeb, [News And

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      Imperial, Parliament. Saturday, June 11....

      IMPERIAL , PARLIAMENT . Saturday , June 11 . The House of Commons met at twelve o ' clock when a very large number of members attended , in the expectation , which was , however , not fulfilled , that some ministerial statement would be made consequent upon the vote of the previous day . The Marquis of HartixCtTON brought up the report on the address as amended , which was ordered to be presented to her Majesty by such members of the house as were also Privy Councillors . On the motion of Lord J . Rossell a resolution was agreed to that the Queen ' s speech should be taken into consideration on Friday following . Sir S . Northcote observing that imder existing circumstances no business could be done and no writs issued , moved that the House on rising should adjourn until Friday . . After some conversation , initiated by Sir C . Napier , relating to the naval bounty , the motion was agreed ; to , and tlie House , at half-past twelve adjourned until the day named .

      The Itfett Ministry.

      THE ItfETT MINISTRY .

      The Times Gives The Following List Of Th...

      The Times gives the following list of the new Ministrv , although , says our contemporary , as it has not 3 'et been approved by her Majesty , some changes may still be rnade : ^ - THE CABINET . First Lord of the Treasury , Viscount Palmerston , K . G . Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr . W . E . Gladstone .

      Secretaries Of State. \ Foreign, Lord Jo...

      SECRETARIES OF STATE . \ Foreign , Lord John Russell . Home , Sir G-. Cornewall Lewis . Colonial , The Duke of Newcastle . ' War , Mr . Sidney Herbert . India , Sir C . Wood , G . C . B .

      First Lord Of The Admiralty, The Duke Of...

      First Lord of the Admiralty , The Duke of Somerset . Lord Chancellor , Lord Campbell . President of the Council , The Earl of . Granville , E . G . Privy Seal , The Duke of Argyll , K . T . Postmaster-Genera ] , The Earl of Elgin , K . T . President of the Board of Trade , Mr . R . Cobden . President of the Poor Law Board , Mr . Milner Gibson . First Commissioner of Works , Mr . Cardwell . Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , Sir G . Grey .

      Not Of The Cabinkt. Joint Secretaries To...

      NOT OF THE CABINKT . Joint Secretaries to the Treasury , Mr . F . Peel and Mr . Brand . Secretary to the Admiralty , Lord Clarence Paget . Under-Secretary fox Foreign Affairs , Lord Wodehouse .. For the Colonies , Mr . Cluchester Fortescue . The Daily News adds the following : —¦ Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , Earl of Carlisle . Attorney-General , Sir R . Bethell . Attorney-General for Ireland , Mr . J . D . Fitzgerald . Solicitor-General for Ireland , Mr . Serjeant Deasy .

      Sir Alexander Cockburn, Chief Justice Of...

      Sir Alexander Cockburn , Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , will , ire are informed , succeed Lord Campbell as Lord Chief Justice of England . It is also said that Sir B . Hall will be raised to tho Pccro-go , and that Mr . Wilson will bo appointed a Member of Council in India .

      Appeared On Behalf Of The Bishop Of Clnc...

      appeared on behalf of the Bishop of Clnchester , to show cause against a rule that had been obtained for a mandamus requiring him to . appoint a commission to inquire into the accusations of Roman Catholic teaching which had been preferred against the Rev . W . Randall , the rector of a parish in Sussex , by his late curate . After speeches by counsel , the Court took time for judgment . —In the case of the Queen v . the Rev . Bryant King , the incumbent of St . GeorgeVin-the-East , the Court decided that the Rev . Hugh Allen , the lecturer appointed by the vestry , could only occupy the pulpit with the consent of the rector , and at such times as he had no

      bona fide use for it . Lord Campbell has delivered the unanimous opinion of the Judges of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , to the effect that the election of Dr . Storrar by the officials of the University of London was a good and valid election , and that it was not-necessary to have an election by the undergraduates of the University , and his lordship accordingly confirmed the election of Dr . Storrar by the senators of the University . John Lockhart Morton , on being brought up for further examination , on a charge of forgery , read a long paper , in which he expressed the profoundest contrition for the crime which he had committed .

      confined , and although she has obtained admission to a lying-in hospital , she will leave that institution in a state of absolute destitution . A novel smuggling case has been investigated by the Lord Mayor . A Mr . Edward Ronssel was charged with being concerned in the illegal importation of three gallons of spirits into this country . The spirits , it appears , were confined in four large bladders , which were placed in a cask of cyder . The cask was sent to the defendant by some friends of his in France , but it did hot appear to be absolutely certain that he possessed a guilty knowledge of the contents of the cask . He was , however , fined in the mitigated penalty of 25 / ., or six months ' imprisonment . .

      It is now reasonably supposed that the disastrous explosion which destroyed the Eastern Monarch was one . of gunpowder and hot of saltpetre , as at first assumed . At the official inquiry which was concluded yesterday , evidence showing a reckless practice on the part of the steward in carrying a naked light into the store room , was taken by the magistrates . In consequence of this revelation Gardner , the steward , was ordered into custody on the charge of manslaughter . An inquest has been . held on the body of a balletgirl who is supposed to have committed suicide ; but there is no proof that she really did , as is suspected , drown herself .

      A sad accident occurred on Tuesday to a party of excursionists at Watchet , off the Somerset coast . "While , a . 'boat was on its way from the shore laden with passengers for the steamer to return to Bristol , it suddenly sunk , and six of the unfortunate people were drowned .

      He had recently found himself in such a position that unless he could immediately raise a large sum of money he must suspend payment , and as this would have brought loss upon some of his business connections , he yielded to temptation and forged the bill which was the subject of the prosecution . He was convinced that he should have been able to take it up when due * and that his assets , if carefully administered , would cover all claims against him . He was fully committed for trial . Samuel Adams , a man living at Hornsey , was tried on a charge of having murdered a woman named Page , he being under the impression that she had instigated his wife to leave him , and knew where she was . He was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death .

      . In the Central Criminal Court , this week , an action for libel has been tried , the p laintiff being Dr . Godfrey , and the defendant William Newton , publisher of a small local newspaper in Whitechapel , who had made some editorial remarks on a late disgusting trial for seduction , in which Dr . Godfrey was the accused person , but was acquitted . In Ids paper Newton reiterated the charges , and said that the verdict of the jury was an unfair one . . In the libel case , much evidence was adduced , at the close of which the jury -were ably addressed by counsel , when the learned Recorder summed up . The jury having retired to consider their verdict , returned in a

      quarter of an hour with a verdict for the defendant . This verdict was received with a burst of applause by the audience . —^ Francis Ingham was put on his trial , charged with making false entries in a certain cash-book , with intent to defraud his creditors . The defendant ' s counsel contended that he did . not intend to defraud , and although he was found guilty by the jury judgment was respited that the case might be further argued , and in the mean time the defendant "was allowed to go at large upon bail . — On Wednesday Mr . Serjeant Ballantine , who appeared for the prosecution , applied for the postponement of Dr . Sniethurst ' s trial . This application was granted , but it is understood that his trial will be the first taken next session . Jeremiah Coghlan , charged with the murder of James Fadden , his brother-in-law , has been found guilty of manslaughter , and sentenced to penul servitude for twenty years . In tho New Court , Michael Goldstein nnd Simon Mark Goldberg were indicted for conspiraoy to defraud the South-Eastern Railway Company , by making a claim for loss which they statod had been sustained by non -delivery of a box ; by tho company , but it was proved that such box was never sent by the railway , and the prisoners being found guilty wore sentenced each to twolvo months' imprisonment . On Wednesday morning * i dreadful murder was committed in St . Pancrns . The neighbours of Elizaboth Craft , the wife of a jeweller residing in Swinton-streot , in consequence of some suspicions , called tho police , who on effecting an entrance into tho house by a window found tho mother and two children lying on a bod with thoir throats cut . Tho whole had ovidently been tho work of tho unhappy woman , who had for some time previous boon

      LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . At the City Sheriff ' s Court , on Saturday , Mr . Korr was engaged in adjudicating in actions on promissory notes hold by loan societies . The judge created muoh sensation amongst tho suitors by a calculation of tho jor-contage which these loan societies charged ,, irrespective of their inquiry foes , fines , & c . In the first case , tho judge said tho interost charged was 400 per cent . ; in another cuso he calculated it to bo 500 percent . ; in a third ho said that tho interest charged was 0 , 650 per cent . ;

      and , in a fourth , ho remarked , to tho astonishment of all in court , tho plaintiff included , that 7 , 300 per cent , was tho very moderate rate of interest charged . In some of tho caHos ho dismissed tho summonses , and In others , although making ordors for payment , would allow no costa , remarking that it was high time for tho Legislature , or some authority , to stop in and pUt a stop to these shameful exactions from the poorer olasnos , In all such cases ho should rofuso to commit , as ho considered the enormous interest charged «» a kind of insurance against loss . In tho Court of Exchequer , Dr . Phillhnoro has

      in a desponding state of mind . Another shocking' murder has been commit tod in South Staffordshire . A beerhouse keeper having quarrelled with his wife , was led away by passion to etab her pa seriously that death has resulted . At tho Thames police-court a gentleman attended to raako a statement respecting tho destitute condition of one of the unfortunato victims of Gloucester Galo , who was convicted in January last on five charges of bigamy . Tho poor creature on whoso behalf this humane appeal was made is about to bo

      Naval And Military. Ox Saturday An Order...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Ox Saturday an order in Council was made ; extending the time for granting the extra bounties , for seamen volunteers into the royal navy , until the 31 st July . fifteen months ago the entire British fleet comprised but twenty-five screw steam ships fit to take a place in a line of battle , while there "were but three more , making twenty-eight in all , which were so far advanced as to be ready for their engines . In this" month of Jiine , 1859 , we have thirty-seven screw line-of-battle ships complete , and three taking in their engines , making a total of forty in place of twenty-eight . ' Other vessels , also , are coming rapidly forward , even more rapidly than was anticipated when the Estimates were produced three months ago , so that by the end of this present financial year we shall have fifty line-of-battle ships of admirable quality to assert our supremacy on the seas . As the navy was already well provided with smaller vessels , and especially with gunboats , its aggregate strength may now be regarded without much dissatisfaction even by Mr . Koebuck himself . On Tuesday a party of officers of the na \ y , army , artillery , and engineers , assembled on board the gunboat . Redwing , in Hamoazo , for the purpose of inspecting the sea-defences and fortifications of the inner harbour and of Plymouth Sound .

      On Monday the Secretary of State for War issued an order that contracts should bo entered into with the London gunmakers for the manufacture of 342 , 580 stand of small arms ( Enfield rifles ) , of which 150 , 000 arc to be naval arms . On the 30 th May there were 258 , 000 stand of small arms in the Tower . The new order is exclusive of the rifles which are being manufactured at Millbank , Birmingham , Liege , and Springfield , Massachusetts . A Madrid journal refers to the subject ot the

      fortifications of Gibraltar , which the English arc strengthening , it says , and insists that the Spanish Government ought to build fortifications to protect San Roquo , which is menacod by theoi . It , however , raalcoa the following odd statement : — " After all , the batteries of the rock of Gibraltar Jiro more menacingthon dangerous , for tho rockitsoli will full down oh the first discharge of tho guns , owing to the profound caverns in its Hanks ; and tho smoke alone will suffocate tho artillerymen ! " tw

      On Monday night the camp at Alders jot surprised by n brilliant illumination with the JJon . Major Fitzimaurico's lights , he haying been sent there by General Pool to test their qun J loi n ml application to military purposes , mul nothing could bS more brilliant andetleotivo than ( ha ^> ' ^^ tra tion that took place . Every kind <> f / final was carried out at immense distances ; ^ huti ot men wore marched in and out , and were distinctly visible at 1 , 000 yards , and tho whole camp around > as illuminated In a most brilliant nmnnor by sweeping the horizon with . a single light , , „ ,,, „ . » Tim / Vrlmiraltv have received tllO ofllOlul rcpol t

      of tho loss of tho Heron sloop , from the fiuimor , Mr . It . Mindry , who is-tho only surviving omoor ; eixtoen of tho crew only were loft , to roach homo . At Washington Captain Dalilgron has officially reported on joslyn ' fl breooh-loadlng carbine , that tho stylo of arm is commondttblo , but that it is too short In tho barrel .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 18, 1859, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18061859/page/4/