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    1006 THE LEADER. [Saturday ,

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    REPORT OF THE REVIVAL OF CONVO CATION. T...

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    " Since the last annual report of the co...

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    /Convocation To Meet " For The Despatch ...

    The news from Australia grows more stupendous as the number of emigrants in the colony increases , and as time enables them to develope the riches of the gold diggings . Hitherto there appears to be no exception to the rule that ike production of gold is exactly measured by the application of labour to the work . More emigrants , more gold —that is the rule ; and the latest production has accordingly been the greatest . At the last date , the week ' s produce to be brought into Melbourne

    nearly touched upon half a million sterling in value , even at the depressed rate in the local market ; exceeding it , according to the standard jjrice of gold . The disturbance of industry in the districts nearest to the gold region continues , and a very large defalcation is threatened in the wool produce of next season ; the sheep being sacrificed as mutton to the immediate wants of the gold diggers , with such haste as to waste the wool and tallow . It is evident that a larger emigration from this country would pay both the state and the individual , especially if large measures were taken

    to supply the colonizing bands with provisions . Some anxiety has been expressed by a public writer on that point ; but there is no need for apprehension : the reward is so manifest to all , and so certain , that the mere announcement of the market , in the many places capable of sending supplies , will be sure to bring the supplies . The purveyor ' s trade for the gold diggers will not be one slow of development ; and emig rants need not wait in fear of its being stunted . The great want is an effective machinery to convey as quickly as possible proper persons who want to go to the places that require their ] al > our .

    A subject that has severely agitated a portion of the home community is the railway cab question . Most travellers know that the Railway companies admit certain cabs into their own grounds , at each great terminus , upon certain conditions , of which registration is the most obvious to the public . A certain fine , bonus , or douceur , is said to be exacted by the Railway Company from the cab-proprietor . It is reported , indeed , that a species of trafficking in cab accommodation has been carried to a much greater extent by some

    railway officials , and that the opportunity lias been employed as : i means of coercing travellers into the use of more , expensive vehicles than omnibuses . " No doubt there is a convenience in Jlaving a body of registered c ; ibs , submitting to a peculiar responsibility , which guarantees to the hurried traveller some certainty as to the fairness of charge , safely of lug ^ figo , and so forth ; and probably , if only fair arrangements hud been

    enforced , this question would not have arisen . Some provocation , however , lias been given . The OAvners of cabs excluded from a railway terminus June proceeded at law u ^ ainst cab-drivers plying at railway stations for breach of the law , which limits the plying to certain licensed stands ; and the decision of the magistrate is adverse to the railway privilege , though it has been allowed to stand over for the Railway Company to make new arrangements .

    Another railway lias been called to account in a very categorical manner by a young gentleman who is likely to attract attention . Mr . Slaney i ' akin ^ ton , son of the Secretary of State ; , is a shareholder in the Itiiniinghaiu and ISristol Railway , and also a traveller by it ; and apropos to the accident at King ' s Norton , he nuts a variety of

    questions to the ; managers of the Railway , professedly for the purpose of obtaining materials to refute the charge of gross ne « i , li ^ enee against those numa"'er . s . Tlieir answer Ims not been yet published , and we do not yet know whether ( hey an 5 ibl <; to furnish Mr . Slamy l ' akin ^ ton with the desired materials .

    Various disorderly people have been eennnntiing what railway directors would probably call " aecidenlH , " but , which it bus hitherto been usual to cull murders , or murderous attacks of rather a more striking kind than the ordinary run . At Yarmouth , Ilowth , a corn porter , lms attempted

    to murder his fellow servant , Mary Ann Proudfoot , by the old fashioned means of pitch plaster . The girl had been his mistress , indeed was so at the time ; and lie took that short method of avoiding ulterior responsibilities . At Bristol , ' Spear , a shoemaker , stabs his wife for exasperating him with reproaches of having pawned her gown . Independently of these more shocking crimes , however , the police reports just now are full of scenes of social disorder , differing from the offences of the common criminal classes . Conjugal dissensions , violences not conjugal , personal assaults , frauds , are the incidents . These have a correlative

    accompaniment in the multiplying advertisements that continually appear in the Times , praying this or that letter of the alphabet to return to his disconsolate wife , to his afflicted parents , or to his forgiving employers . Society seems to be treating itself badly just at present . The murder in Paris , in which a Spaniard named Perez savagely slays a girl who refuses to accompany him to Madrid , is a melo-drama of real life less unusual in that capital of strong sensations .

    The duel at Egham must be regarded also as a French rather than an English event . The gentleman who has been killed seems to have drawn his fate upon himself . He had thrown reproaches of the grossest dishonour upon another French refugee ; he had admitted that those charges were unfounded , but had compelled the other to meet him in duel on the strength of a very far fetched punctilio as to the too peremptory terms in which an explanation had been demanded . He had more than once refused an accommodation . The

    adversary and the two seconds have been arrested , and will no doubt be brought to trial before a jury very little qualified to judge of the moral compulsion which makes it incumbent upon any French gentleman to accept a duel , if he be challenged to it . To avoid it is to incur social disgrace for

    ever . English juries have some difficulty in entering into French feeling on that subject ; a difficulty which is the more remarkable , since another section of English society ought to sympathize with the foreign sentiment . We have this week , letters from Calcutta , recounting the really hard case of a young gentleman in that capital . He had been implicated in some trifling quarrel , in which he was not originally a principal ; he drew upon

    himself the anger of one of the litigants , and was publicly kicked . New to the soene , anxious no doubt to follow the proper course , he at once sought advice , but experienced some delay in obtaining it ; and it was three days before his " friend " waited upon the aggressor for an explanation . He is , however , culled before a court-martial , under a grave accusation , and at the date of our letters he had been under arrest for eight weeks , with

    the inquiry hanging over his head . Now , what was the offence of this young man ? He was charged by the Judge-advocate ; with " eoneluct disgraceful to the character of an offie'er and a gentle'iinm , for having subjected himse'lf to tlie indignity of being publicly kicked , without adopting any suflieieMit measures immediately , e > r for three ; days , to obtain reparation forsueh e'emduet . " In other we > nls , he ; is penally e'alleel to accemnt for not invitiii '' - a duel !

    At last , the ; period for the Duke ; of Wellington ' s funeral is lixe ; d be'tvve'en the l / ith nntl I 7 th , which a e'onte'iiipoiaiy acutely interprets te > mean the ; Kith . The ; boely will be brought from Wahne'r , to lie ; in state ; tlnve days at Chelsea Hospital . It will be ; e-onveye'd to the Horse ; ( aiiards eni the eve ; of the ; funeral ; from that biiihlinir it will be ;

    ese-orteul to St . Paul ' s Catheelral by a proe-e'SHion , ceiinprising u thousand soldie ; rs , re prese » ntative ; ( Ictaehine-nts from all the ; regiments in the ; kingelom , and office-is of the ; foreign armies in which the ; Duke ; held military rank . Probably the ; Queer ' s Avill be ; the ; only ciu'ringe in the ; procession ; the re'Nt , of cenirse' , consisting se > lely of foot and horse . It will lonn a very striking pageant .

    1006 The Leader. [Saturday ,

    1006 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

    Report Of The Revival Of Convo Cation. T...

    REPORT OF THE REVIVAL OF CONVO CATION . The Times of Monday having stated that Convoe-, f ; would be revived , after waiting a week the 2 fn ? l-Herald , understood to be a Ministerial oro-ail I ¦ the truth of the report . Here is the article :- _ S " THE FALSE BEPQRTS OF THE EEVIVAL op CONVOCATION . "We are authorized to give the most unqualified eon tradiction , for the second time , to aa assertion , which 1 been published by the Times , that it i 3 the intention of her Majesty's Ministers to sanction the revival of tl active powers of Convocation . There is not , and nevel lias been , the slightest foundation for such a rumour " Her Majesty's Government have not , wo most dis tinctly declare , entertained the question for one moment We understand that it was in consequence of a foolish wager on the Stock Exchange that our contemporary wa hoaxed into the promulgation of the absurdit y m avus tion . " ^ Eut we shall even now he justified in doubtino- the authority of the denial , if we judge it by similar Ministerial statements which have appeared in . the Herald .

    " Since The Last Annual Report Of The Co...

    " Since the last annual report of the council a complete and important change has taken place in the management of schools of design . The provincial schools have hitherto been under the control and direction of the masters and other officers of the London school , a ~ i arrangement for many reasons unsatisfactory . Under the system at present adopted , all the schools of design in the country , that of London included , are placed under a central authority established at Marlborough-house , entitled ' The Department of Practical Art , ' and forming a component part of the Board of Trade . The two gentlemen placed at the hend of this department have recently paid an official visit to Sheffield , and expressed themselves in every respect satisfied

    SCHOOLS OF DESIGN—SHEFFIELD . The Duke of Newcastle made a great speech on the influence of Schools of Design on Art , on Tuesday last in the Music Hall , Sheffield . The Duke presided over the annual meeting for the distribution , of prizes to the pupils ; and among a vast gathering of local notables were Viscount Milton , M . P ., James Montgomery , the poet , Mr . Carr , the mayor , Mr . William Fisher , junior ,. Mr . Solly , Mr . John Holland , Mr . H . Hoole , Mr . e ' Hadfield , Dr . Hall , the Reverend T . Sale , vicar of Sheffield , and other clergymen and laymen . The yearly report , read by Mr . Wightman , the honorary secretary , affords the following extract : —

    with the management and efficiency of tho school , and assured the council not only of the continuance of the present grant , but of further a 3 siataneo , tm concision , however , that some stops should speedily be taken by the town to erect a building suitable for the efficient carrying out of the extended system of art education contemplated by government . That system embraces the universal diffusion ot" a knowledge of art throughout the entire population . Themode in winch this system is proposed to be carried out w by the establishment , under the auspices of tho Board of Trade , of elementary drawing schools throughout tho kingdom , each sen-ios of schools having for its centre a to maintain i \

    school of design . The school continues w satisfactory position it has occupied for some years . J . debt ; has decreased materially ; the attendance of pupils continues steady ; tho studios aro carried on m tho sanio manner as heretofore , and will be rendered moro complete by the addition of a class for colour , which it is intended to establish forthwith . Hitherto , such a class lias been considered unnecessary , nnd bo long aa the school was morel ) viewed as an adjunct to manufactures , where lonn alone prevails , perhaps it was . But in order to meet tie extend ^ views now entertained by the government tho establishment of this class becomes absolutely necessary . " __ ¥ i ,,

    " The artistical progress of tho school is evidenced by uu . number of medals awarded to its pupils at tho recent inhibition at Marlbomugli House , and the . lugh l "' 1 V <) ' . ' . 'f ; timony to its efficiency givon in the jurora reports oi '" ( lro . nl Exhibition . " ,, When the , report wan read , tho Duke ; < A Ncwc ^ tl . addressed tho ussenilnage , including both sexes , on W subject . He elid not , confine his observations solely w t . he Sheffield School , but extended them to 1 " « ™ uai ' tion of art generally . . ¦ He had he'situteel in taking the position he "' '' - "l " ^ not , IVoin unwillingness , but , because lie ) thoug h . " post might have been hehT by one of those ansiocn . ts i iirt , and science to whom tho country is b .-holili'" in ¦

    great measure for the success of tlu > < J . vut Ksli . bi «» ; Hut , if bo had hesitated u moment , on that groin" , felt 1 . 1 ml it , was no concern of bis , und he ) iie'cop '' . post , filing thai " no man professing « liu »>« |() * " j ^ maiiHlii ])—that no one occupying tins position ol " n _ lator of this country , whether elective < " hi ' n : < 111 . [' could mil . but , feel the liveliest , intm-sli m <¦¦¦<* ' ¦ ' „ and sciences which they aro Intended to < k'V « . ' I ^ ( Applause . ) Uvery legislator ought . to do "" power to promote , those objects . Thai was II ... < " ^ ( . round on whirl , all «« . M " «»«• <<> I" ™' " ? . ™ ,,, „ ,, to Uu , industry of t . l . o country , and enahlo all to * J ^ iu the great , nice of rivalry koUh'To ^ I '"' ' , , plication of art , in every department <> 1 trmlo hm N (<> u vital necessity ; u .. ( l if , he eonlinucd , y «>" carry Hiuxumiully to tho cihIb of tho onrtl . Una h ¦

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23101852/page/2/