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      September 23, 1854.] The Leader. 893 -

      September 23 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 893 -

      The New Beer Act. Cases Of Peccant Publi...

      THE NEW BEER ACT . Cases of peccant publicans come before the magistrates every now and then . The vexed question is still " who is a traveller ?" At Highgate , the keeper of the " Spaniards , " Hampstead , was charged with having sent a pot of beer to a person on the heath during the prohibited hours , and for having twenty or thirty persons in bis gardens . The latter were allowed to be " travellers , " but in the case of the pot of beer , as it was sent to the servant of a gentleman who was at the inn , but who had only come three-quarters of a mile From Hatnpstead , the magistrates felt themselves bound to convict ; but expressing an opinion that the act operated hardly on the public and the licensed victuallers , they inflicted a penalty of Is ., and 2 s . costs .

      " Two Scotch brothers , " says the Daily News , " met in London , one on his way home from the Continent , the other going to India . They had only one day to be together , but that was Sunday ; and being at different hotels , one was obliged to be the guest of the other . They were found by the police with wine before them after ten o ' clock . The innkeeper was summoned , and convicted for ' serving' the visitor , but escaped as regarded his inmate . " If the resident lodger only had drunk , the landlord would not have been fined at all ; but the visitor ' s partaking was fatal .

      Opening Of The States-General Of Holland...

      OPENING OF THE STATES-GENERAL OF HOLLAND . The States-General of Holland were opened at the Hague on Monday by the King , with the usual speech . It stated the continuance of friendship with all foreign powers , notwithstanding the political position of Europe ; the satisfactory state of the coloni e s , and the . promise of an abundant harvest . Referring to material Improvements , — " We continue to improve the state of our rivers , and we are also actively engaged with the amelioration of all water ways of importance . " Duriiig the past year the Netherlands have been brought into communication at two different joints with tlie railroads of the neighbouring states , and there is every reason to hope that a third junction will soon be made . " I pay particular attention to the development of this means of communication , which is so necessary to the trade and industry of the country . " Active measures are being taken for the augmentation of lhe telegraphic lines in the interior . Three lines will be placed in communication with those of foreign states . " Notwithstanding the impediments caused by the present war to our commercial relations , oar trade , navigation , and naval organisation remain in as prosperous a condition as present unfavourable circumstances will permit . Tho financial position of the country continues to T ) e satisfactory . " But still the burthens of the country and the national debt would undergo revision , " Surrounded by the material prosperity which our native country doubtless possesses , the public instruction , arts , and sciences should not be lost sight of . I continue to give this subject ray most earnest solicitude , " Although the position of tho country was not entirely satisfactory , on the whole the state of affairs was encouraging .

      The Slave Trade. At The Close Of Last Se...

      THE SLAVE TRADE . At the close of last Session Lord Clarendon made a boastful declaration that tho efforts of thq late Captain General of Cuba ( Pezuela ) to suppress the Slave Trade had been most successful . The latest accounts < lo not bear out the statement . A Correspondent of the Times states : — " Since rny last advice , there hns been no cessation in the introduction of negroes on tho south side . Tho more restriction is attempted , the greater seems to bo the incroasojof the evil . Tho mcluncholy fact is thnt Pezuela , allowing Him to bo honest , finds the enforcement of his measures impossible , through tho want of faithful agents . There is no doubt that parties in confidential trust near his person have been largely benefited by thoir influence in the suppression of edicts , amd by advice premonitory of thoir iasuo . to those who are engaged in Atrioun speculation , whereby many cargoes have escaped detection . Tlie number of tilaves

      introcinceu since tno arrival ot 1 ' ckuuIu , swells to nearly 30 , 000 while it is stated that my late calculation aa to those which havo beon deported by capture lor apprentice labour is too large ; that the reported seizures have not counted in conformity with tho original reports . Thoy seem to get awoy from custody , starve to doutli , or die of disease with gr * . it facility and in considerable numbers . I am advised by u very intelligent person from tho vicinity of Trinidad , that the arrivals of slave cargoes discharged without diticovery average very nearly two every week , and also that Trinidad andlhoainallvillaOT 1 ,, tho vicinity aro full of negroes , called " hdinoa" ( old importation } , but which aro in fact boyul , or now arrivals , and for tho most part held in second hands on speculation . The last wc « k a largo hIiivo ship wna lost on tho south side of Ouba , near tho '' lalo of l'inos , " and six or seven hundred negroes found thoir freedom only under the kindly moroy of tho wmw , which covered them lor ever from the pursuit of man . All on bonrd of thu vessel pemheel save seven Africans , one seaman , and tho captain . tvIio escaped drowning us ho will probably also oaonpe hanging , notwithstanding hia many aota of piracy . "

      Registration Of Voters. The Revision Of ...

      REGISTRATION OF VOTERS . The Revision of the Lists of Voters in Middlesex and the City of London have been held . In the City of London matters have gone quietly , there being very few claims or objections . In Middlesex , the Conservative Land Society established seventy-one claims to vote , in respect of plots of land held by the Society ' s shareholders . Among the claimants objected were Lord Maidstone , son of the Earl of Winchilsea , the Hon . H . C . Low . ther , M . P ., Sir C . W . Codrington , M . P ., the Hon . It . T . Rowley , M . P ., P . Rolt , Esq ., M . P ., Sir S . Bignold , Kt ., Mayor of Norwich , W . Forbes , Esq ., M . P ., E 1 L Vansittart , Esq ., M . P ., Colonel North , M . P ., Colonel Abdy , the Rev . Mr . Cooper , Iminet Laurie , Esq ., Captain Meyrick , and Benedict , the musical composer . A person claiming under the National Freehold Land Society , was disallowed on the ground that he having sold a moiety of his allotment , and let the other for 21 . 10 s ., had not shown that there was sufficient value previous to a 1 st July last . A claim was made in right of a rent-charge granted by the Anti-Corn Law-League upon certain freehold cottages . It was objected to on the ground that the fee-simple being charged with a number of rent-charges , it came within the provisions against splitting interest in lease for the purpose of creating votes . The rent-charge had not been paid for four years . The claim was ^ disallowed , and the decision had the effect of striking off thirty-four similar claims . The Liberal cause , which had been previously successful in Middlesex , was seriously injured by this one day ' s revision .

      Is This A Ministerial Policy? The Times ...

      IS THIS A MINISTERIAL POLICY ? The Times of Thursday has two articles of much significance . The first reviews the course pursued by Austria on the Eastern question , and shows them to be most anomalous and unsatisfactory ; and it concludes thus : "An offensive and defensive treaty between Austria , France , and England * which was on the point of signature when the Russians announced that the Principalities should at once be evacuated , was the best of the successive and consistent steps of Count Buol ' s policy . These were accompanied by enormous military and financial preparations for war . Every preliminary measure had been deliberately and graduall y taken ; nothing remained to be done but to give effect to the last resolutions of this long-suffering and muchenduring policy . Kussia declared that the terins which Austria made the sine qua . non of peace were utterly inadmissible , and could give rise to rio further discussion , but

      that the basis and future negotiations must be settled by the fortune of war . And it was at this extreme point that the Emperor Francis Joseph and his Ministers discovered that , after all , they had no casus belli against tho author of these calamities , whose encroachments they had repelled , and whose ascendancy in the Black Sea and on the Danube they had declared to be inconsistent with the independence of Turkey and the balance of power ! . Such a decision at such a momonfc did undoubtedly occasion great surprise to those who were acquainted with the extent of Austria ' s preparations and the language of her assurances ; and , although it can produce no effect upon the great expedition in which the allied Powers are now engaged , it gives them the right to require of Austria , at a suitable and not distant time , a more precise and positive explanation of her definite intentions , for her present course of policy is calculated only to prolong and extend the evils of war , and to embroil her with those very States whoso cause she had thus far adopted . "

      The other article is strongly condemnatory of tho inaction in the Baltic this year , and it winds up by saying : — "In any case , wo trust that from tho present tima tho naval departments of England and Franco will proceed unremittingly to consider and prepare for more regular operations in tlio Baltic than those ot tho past seuson . At Sevastopol wo may destroy the influence ot lJusaiu over the East ; but , unless that blow should reduco tho Emperor Nicholas to nsk for terms , it is only by opening the road to St . Petersburg that wo « nn rockon on dictating a securo and honourable peace . Cronstadt once taken and destroyed , the capital of tho northern empire is for tho future without defence against the maritime Powers , and tho four of such a . catuatroplio ia more likely tlum any ether mean « to secure our triumph . "

      Mr. Disraeli And The Irish Protestants. ...

      MR . DISRAELI AND THE IRISH PROTESTANTS . Mr . Disraeli is offered a new •« situation . " Tho Protestant emiso in Ireland , it seems , is in want of a recognised " lender , " and tho Dublin Protestant Association fixed on tho member for Bucks to supply thy vacancy . Liverpool followed in offering to place its Protestant Parliamentary interests in Iuh hands , and now tho l ' rotestunt . county of Down has joined its voice to tho others in supplicating Mr . Disraeli to join Mr . Spoonor Su fighting the battle of tho great Protestant question next year . Very strong resolutions have boon passed at a meeting of tho l ) own Protostant Association , imploring both these gentlemen to postpone all other political questions to this .

      Australia—The Gold Harvest. There Seems ...

      AUSTRALIA—THE GOLD HARVEST . There seems to be little if any falling off in the quantity of gold in the Victoria district , the supply from new fields balancing any decrease in the old locations . The last accounts of the gold-receipts are these : — 1853 . 1854 . April 170 . 427 oz . 182 , 807 oz . May 110 , 812 143 , 618 June 122 , 695 125 , 078 409 , 934 oz . 451 , 503 oz . 409 , 934 Increase on second quarter ^ 1854 41 , 569 oz . The addition to the population of the district was 912 in the last week , of which these are accounts , and 26 , 526 in the current year . "Wages run thus : — Labourers ' wages 12 s . to 13 s ., on the road ; carpenters , 25 s . to 27 s . ; masons , 25 s . to 30 s . per diem ; seamen , 451 . for the run home ; Calcutta and Gallao , 35 ? . ; on the coast , Ql . pei month .

      Indian Jstews. The Correspondence From I...

      INDIAN JSTEWS . The correspondence from India to 11 th August has been received . The state of affairs in Burnroh was quiescent—so iriu ' clv so , that efforts were being made to establish , the electric telegraph in Pegu . It is to be earned from Rangoon to Calcutta . The Persians were said to be strengthening themselves at Mem , and the Russians continued to negotiate with the Herat chief , who is getting up a quarrel with the Cavelhaber chiefs . Tlie only approach to vivacity in public matters in the Punjaub is the continu . ance of disputes among the Afredees in the Kholat Pass . The disputes stop their trade . At the . last meeting of the Paris Exhibitors at Lahore , the display of local manufactures was said to be very creditable , and a large collection will be sent down to Bombay to be forw arded to Europe . Many merchants in the Punjaub have signified their intention of forwarding goods to the exposition on their own account . Large quantities of English iron have readied Atok for the suspension bridge to be thrown across the Indus . Mr . Colvin , it is stated , has sent in a proposition for constituting jSTainee Talthe virtual capital of the north-west provinces , that is for making it the seat of government , and for building a suitable residence for the Lieutenant-Governor , with accommodation for the public offices . There is some apprehension of famine in the Nizam ' s dominions . The Madras Government has taken up the subject of improvement in native agriculture , and propose to offer prizes for proficiency . It is stated that Lord Dalhousic will remain in India until 1856 . ¦ Sir Laurence Peel , Chief Justice of Bengal , is about to resign his office this year from ill health ,

      Sebastafol To Be Taken By Contbact. Ax A...

      SEBASTAFOL TO BE TAKEN BY CONTBACT . Ax a recent dinner at the Crystal Palace Sir Joseph Pajcton 3 tated that he heard a conversation between two of the members of Fox and Henderson ' s Btaff , in which , after referring to what had been done at the Crystal Palace , one of the inter l ocutors asked what would l ) e the next great work . The answer was , " Suppose we contract with tho Government to tako Sebastopol or Cronstadt . " The Daily JYcws , commenting on this , says" There is nothing laughable in it . We beliovo in all earnestness that wore George Stephenson alivo now , ho would not hesitate to sign a bonAJida contract with Powers like Franco or England to tako any fortress or lino of fortresses in the wholo world . What aro any or all of the great military engineering achievements in tho wholo of Europe compared with tho covering of England with a reticulation of railways ? Did nny twpivo thousand , troops , undor tho 'command of tlie most skilful officer , over accomplish as much as six thousand ' navvies' under tho command of a Stophonaon , or a Dargaji , oraPoto ? What a trillo is Napoleon ' s road over the Simplon compared with tho engindcring difficulties ' conquered by pluiu working men in halt tho districts of civilised Kuropo I"

      Early Closing. Tub Movement In Favour Of...

      EARLY CLOSING . Tub movement in favour of closing shops at an earlier evening hour goca on . On Tuesday there was u meeting at Lambeth oi parsons connected with tho drapery trade . Iteeolutions wore passed , and a committee appointed to carry out n seven o ' clock closing ' . The chemists and druggists aro taking' up the quostion . ( Several of tho mule aro doing thoir bust to shorten tho houra of labour for their iiBBiHtnnts , a class to whom relaxation , in ninny cases , i » almost unknown . Mr . Cooper of Ox ford-street , has issued a circular , ntnting that lio shall suspend Imoineaa at ui » o o ' clock nttcr the 1 st of October , and asking tho eo-operation of his customers .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 23, 1854, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23091854/page/5/