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      No. 469, March 19, 185 9-1 ^^^ Thoe X E ...

      No . 469 , March 19 , 185 9-1 ^^^ THOE X E A D E B . ^ 1 ^

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      gating on the spot the history and antiquities of the Holy Land , -so-unaccountably neglected by the great bulk of the English residents , has resumed its meetings , under the presidency of her Britannic Majesty ' s Consul , Mr . Einm ( Surveying Expeditions . —Ordiers have been forwarded from the Horse Guards to the head-quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment at Chatham , directing a surveying expedition of the Royal Engineers to be held in readiness to proceed to Montenegro , for the purpose of making an accurate survey of the boundary line to Constantinople . The officers named to accompany the expedition are Captain Cox and Lieutenant Sit well , R . E . Another expedition of the Royal Engineers is also in course o £ formation for the purpose of proceeding by the overlaud route to Persia to survey the Turkish and Persian boundary line . This expedition is likely to be absent from England three years .

      The King of Sardinia completed the 39 th year of his age on Monday . „ „ , -, ¦ , His Royal Hig hness tlie Duke of Cambridge has sent £ 25 towards the St . Paul ' s Cathedral Fund . Tlie Princess Alice will be confirmed at "Windsor during the Easter recess . The ceremony will be limited to its purely religious character . On Thursday , the little Prince Imperial entered his fourth year , Paris -did not illuminate in honour of the event . ¦ ' .. Colonel Tait , C . B ., and aide-de-camp to the Queen ( brother to the Bishop of London ) , expired at London House , St . James's-square ; on Wednesday evening . _ . . „ ,

      The Head Mastership of the King's School , Canterbury , has been conferred on the Rev . John Mitehlnson , M . A ., of Pembroke College , Oxford . At the anniversary meeting of the Statistical Society an Tuesday , it was stated that Lord John Russell had acceded to the request of the council to be placed in nomination for the office of president . Tlie marriap ; e . of Millie . Eveiliund , . < lauglitcv . of the French Consul who was ' murdered at Djeddah , to M . Emerat , was celebrated at tlie church ' of ( St . Clothilde , Paris , on Saturday . At a meeting- of the Richmond Bridge Coinmissioners , on the 10 th instant , it was decided that on the 25 th instant , the toll bar should be removed , and the bridge declared free to the public .

      The National Gallery , Edinburgh , is to be opened on and after the 22 iid , though the permanent and complete arrangements do not come into operation till the ; 6 tli April . A ballot has taken place For the election of a chaplain to St . Pancras Workhouse , in the room of the Rev . Thomas Pugh , resigned . The Rev . J . K . Jennings was declared duly elected . Madame Goldselimidt and her husband will , it is said , visit Leeds in the auturim , and give their services gratuitously at a grand concert in aid of the Leeds-Mechanics' Institution . . - ' Tlie workmen of the Klswick Engine Works , to the number of about 900 , were entertained by their employer , Sir William Armstrong , to a grand dinner in . the Assembly Rooms , Newcastle , on Saturday last , ' . '

      A letter fromlN aples says : — "An American , who had received disjistrous news from home threw himself , while in the . ' presence of a number of persons , into a current of lavjt , at Vesuvius . His body was , of course , almost instantly consumed . " The Jtev . Edivai-d Parry , private secretary and domestic chaplain of tlie latp . and present bishop of London , has beeii rewarded for his services with the living of Acton , Middlesex , the value of which is between 900 / , and . 1 , 0 , 00 / , a year . Tlie Aflghan chief , Sid Dyk Klian , who has been at Constantinople for two years as a refugee from Candahar , has left for Alexandria on board the Siiistria , with a suite of twenty-four persons . He intends proceeding thence to England .

      Arrangements are in progress for- erecting a new pier at London-bridge , on the Surrey side of the river . Persons who land at the steam-boat pier , will be able to pass under the bridge and ascend on the side , of the road nearest the railway . The JSford spoaks of a memoiro which the Abbe-Princo Lucien Bonaparte . has sent to the Emperor upon , the Italian question . ' The Abbo-Princo Bonaparte was educated at Home , ' is . very devoted to the Pope , and has ' up-to . this time rofused all the Honours olFcrcd him by the IDmpevor .. The fir , st stono or' a villa which Rossini intends building at Pussa was laid the other day near the Promenade du Ranolagh . Tlio ma . estro himself officiated on tlie occasion , and placed under the stone an , inscription and a medal which had'been struck in honour of lite Stubat .

      " Amongst the events of the fortnight , " nays the Bengal flur / tcint , ' * are an ordination , at Avhich throe natives from tho north-western provinces wore udmittcd to the order , of deacons . At Burriporo , sixteen miles south of Calcutta , on the 27 th Fob . 102 native Christians wc . ro confirmed . " Tho lato Mr . Commissioner Phillips lofl personalty valued at 30 , 000 / . and bequeathed the whole to his widow , excepting a gold snuff-box , a goblet , and a travelling caso , which contained a knife , fork , and spoon , formerly belonging to tho Emperor Napoleon .

      At Lebanon , Kentucky , a young hilly was waiting in her room ready urossod for nor . marriage , Avhon tho brkluyvoom , on opening tho door , occasioned a draught , whioh blow hoi * voil into tho flro , In a moment sho was in flames , and sp dreadful wore tho injuries sho recolvod that death ensued . Tho Jerusalem Literary Sooiofcy , whioh was set on foot somo years ago for the nuriwso of

      iuvostl-Russiax DixsERs . On the now favourite fashion of dining , on the Russian . model , Monsieur Gogue has a word to say . There can be no doubt but that the old system of laying on all the dishes together , " though it has something grand and noble , and causes an agreeable surprise , ravishing the eyes before satisfying the taste , " still has this serious drawback ; they get a little cold before they can be served , and thus are sure to lose " some of their most precious qualities , " -to say nothing of the atmosphere which the combined savours of so many dishes is sure to trenerate . On the other hand , the Muscovite practice ensures the service taking place with

      extraordinary rapidity , and the viands being eaten at the precise instant they ought to be . It has that incontestable recommendation . It lias also this econonaical . ad vantage—have you twelve or twenty guests : all that is to be done is to reinforce each plate as required , there being no necessity for extra dishes . But what is perfect in this world I Monsieur Grogue darkly hints that , under this Russian cloak , preparations that have visited the table on a previous occasion , may be introduced without danger , of discovery , by w hich unworthy subterfuge , fo r ins tan ce a salmon " that yesterday evening adorned the foot of the table , mav to- day be foisted on the

      unsuspecting guest , in flimsy disguise of ii side-dish ! To sum up all , the Hussian plan seems to countenance good cheer ; but the old French plan is the more noble , more elegant , and splendid of the two I—Household JVords . Official Cokuuptiox ik A : > £ EnicA . —The recent report of the Investigating Committee of the House of Jtepresentatives , demonstrates the painful fact tliat in " the model Republic-of the world , " corruption of the most degraded kind pervades every branch of the public service , dictates the course of tlie Government , and finds a ready and riot always tacit accomplice in the President himself . It charges and proves that the country is governed by

      politics more than policy , and for the prone ot political partisans rather than for the general good ; that the Executive and his Cabinet freely employ the public money to purchase friends and partisans ; and that for tlie gratification of a weak ambition the President of the Republic descends to , the arrangement of the details of bargain , and sale of the meanest of the offices in his gift for the meanest of party purposes . That similar crimes were committed before tho present administration came into power we fear is only too true . That previous impunity has only tended to aggravate tlie ovil , and more firmly establish this system of robbery and vrong at Washington is only too obvious . The Tenoi't of the committee of investigation , indeed , is

      am indictment such as can scarcely find a parallel in modern history , unless wo seek it in tlie recent events in Hay ti . Soulouque , tho black Emperor , plundered his country for his own private emolument— ; - Mr : Buchanan , tho white President , consents to the plunder of his country for tho emolument and advantage of his private friends . Many of our newspapers and all our stump orators are accustomed to mil , in terms unmeasured and with repipaeh un-Btlntud , against tho despotism . of the world . Wo denounce it and repel it . Wo devoutly thank God In tho , faqo of all nations , that wo are not'tis other men , and wo proclaim that nil pooplo to bo freo and happy , must do as we do and bo as wo are . And yet there is no ruler in tho Old World who would , stoop

      to such paltry peculation as has just been rovoaled hero ; there is no Government in Europe that would eondgscond to share tho hiro of the labourer appointed for political purposes ; there is no form of society between tho British Isles and tho Caucasus that would not turn with scorn from any public body guilty of such miserable national pocKetpioking . If such a system bo permitted to continue , tho country can never aohiovo tho greatness to which tho genius , intoUlgcnco , and ontorprlso of the puoplo , if honostly directed , would on tit Jo it . If there bo no punishment for venality in high places , there will bo incossant oncourngomont to venality , because it is profitable in monoy and in powor . — N " ot . v York Times ,

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      Leader Office, Friday Evening, March 18t...

      Leader Office , Friday Evening , March 18 th .

      House Of Lords. A Long Discussion Arose ...

      HOUSE OF LORDS . A long discussion arose in reference to the proclamation of Oude . There was nothing of importance produced , except the statement by the Eai'lof Dekbt , that the Government -were iii full accord with the Governor-General , and that it was tlie intention of the Government to advise her Majesty to raise him a step higher in the peerage . Sorne strong comments were made by Lord Granville on the dispatch written by Lord Stanley to the Governor-General . The Earl of Ellexborotoh said the dispatch was justified by Lord Canning ' s conduct . Some remarks were made about'the appointments of magistrates in Ireland . It was asserted that the system ' of appointment ' s objected to took its rise in . previous administrations . —Adjourned .

      House Of Commons* As Soon As The House A...

      HOUSE OF COMMONS * As soon as the House assembled , Mr . Roeivccic asked Lord J . liussell to ¦ withdraw his motion which stands for Monday , and to substitute a series of resolutions which the Hou . se could take into consideration . If the noble Lord persevered in his course , it could only be for the purpose of throwing out the present Government , ami .. procuring-a dissolution . He could assure the noble lord that it was most undesirable under present circumstances ,

      to persevere , so as to lead io a dissolution , as in that case it might tend to precipitate war on tiie Continent . Tire object of the noble lord ' s motion was to bring those again into , power who had been last year put out of office . This he . could , by no means approve of . He also wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer , whether , in cuse Lord J . Russell con-seated" to what lie asked , whether lie ( Mr . Disraeli , avouUI withdraw his bill , ami bring in . another founded on such resolutions as -the House

      might adopt .. Mr . Cox said he had a similar notice on the books . The Resolution of Lord John Russell did not go far enough , and would not satisfy the Radical party in that House , lie wislicj tl . ic noble lord to state what he intended to do about " the Ballot . He- could tell the noble lord- ( Lord John Russell ) , if he did not give his adhesion to fhe liallot , he would never be considered by fifty members who supported the Ballot , as their leader . Lord J . oirx Rrssiii / L considered this discussion premature . He hoped on ' Monday night to be able to satisfy the House that tlie course ho proposed to take was the right one . When the time came for discussing the question of the Ballot he should be then prepared to avow his sentiments . VOTE OF TliANKS TO LOJtl > CKYDJS , THIS

      GOVERNOR-GENEUAL , AND THE Ofi'ICUUS OF THE ABM . Y , Lord John Russell 'inquired whether it was intended to propose a vote of" thanks to Lord Clyde , the Governor-Genex-al , and the officers who had distinguished themselves in the pacification of Oude . The noble lord accused the Government of conveying , by the sneering- tone of tho last dispatch , the distrust-which they entertained towards the Governor-General . Lord Stanley said it whs tho intention of Government to propose to the House a vote of thanks to all those who , cither in a cjvil or military capacity , had assisted in the pacification of Ouric .

      Lord Palmehstox , adverting to the dispatch alluded to by Lord . John Russell , deeply regretted that Lord Stanley had written a despatch so sneering and ironical "in answer to Lord Canning ' s dospateh , which deserved ilillbrent treatment . QUKUN ' rt AlKiSBKNCiKUS . Mr . Wise inquired wluit was tlio remuneration of tho Queen ' s mossongor-s ; and hpw the 4240 , 000 voted to defray thoir exno ' nses "was disposed of . Mr . FrrzciKUALn would Jay tho papers on the table , which would explain tlio mat tor . The salary ¦ was . £ 550 a year , with n . liberal allowance for travelling oxpensus . this ma- ' oiui him ..

      Mr . Rich gave notice that in Commit too , on the disfranahisombnt of small boroughs , lie should move that property , a 3 well as population , bo taken into account . THE WUPKIIAKNCATJON HIMSir S . Noutucutb , hi iuovIiik that tho Ilou * GBO Into Committoo on tills bill , said , it wiih proowqly sh lar o the bill hitroducwl hy \ U * to """™™™* last year , an < l was intended to wrivct I ho contusion nto wl ich supenu . nuatlo . ifi had fallen buiou tho Act of 1834 , by w . Id . Act all pcrfl . iiiB wcro entitled to JuporaiinuiUlon , except lho » 6 . who V [« ro othorwwo nrovided iV > r by Act of Parliament . J ho hon , K . Kit than nJvortoil to tho object ons that luuX l / deii pulHod against portions of tho hill , and tf avo his Sons why i . o < lkl not think tho objoetions vroU

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 19, 1859, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19031859/page/15/