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      The Education Movement. Mr. Gladstone On...

      tries When- it was an acknowledged fact that the manufacturers were unable fuUy of themselves to supply the deficiency , it was found necessary to establish institutions in which this knowledge should be for a considerable time imparted . A * mg . time must necessarily elapse , however , before pupils could be trained to the requisite degree of : efficiency , and not being capable of bein <* accomplished by private individuals , an extensive combination was necessary to lead to the desired resuH . Under these circumstances , the Government , as he thought , very wisely did not seek to interfere with the private proceedings of the manufacturers of the country ; thev did not force upon them any system , but they supplied great facilities , which they thought desirable to enable the manufacturers to establish institutions of this kind themselves .

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      The National Defences. The Earl Of Hardw...

      THE NATIONAL DEFENCES . The Earl of Hardwicke o . v the Navy . —At the annual dinner of the Cambridgeshire Agricultural Association held at Knees worth , the Earl of Hardwicke , in reply to the toast of the " Navy , " made a speech , in which he took a review of the state of the navy , and the effect produced upon it by the invention of steam ; he said he was anxijus to avoid alluding to the navy of any particular nation , but it was certain that England had not advanced in the same degree that other nations had in the matter of armaments . He advocated a liberal outlay for the improvement and increase of our forces at sea , and said that it was high time that we should be prepared for any difficulty that might arise , by looking keenly to the state and efficiency of our coast defences , concluding by stating that the British seamen ought to have the best Weapons placed in their hands , and they would show their readiness to make the best use of those weapons .

      Mb . Barrow , M . P . —At tlie annual meeting of the Collingham Farmers' Club , Mr . Barrow said he confessed that he thought very little of Cherbourg as a standing menace . He had heard of standing menaces all his life , but he really did not think that they ever proved a source of injury to anybody . In particular they could be 6 T very little consequence to this eountrj-, so long as we could bring into the field such men as we had hitherto done . He thought it of great advantage to the country that it should not be drained of its money in the shape of taxes imposed either for the purpose of erecting what were called standing menaces , or of providing an enormous standing army . It was much , better that the

      money should " be fructifying . in the pockets of the people , and that the country should at all times be prepared to make exertions similar to those which were made in the time of the last Russian war . Probably during that war more money was spent than was necessary if there had been better arrangements , but we had at all times in Great Britain hearts and hands ready and willing to execute all the work that might be required of them . A great advantage which this country posssessed was in having at her commaud the power of raising the means of warfare at a very short notice , and of securing , and in also possessing , a body of people ready , at an hour ' s notice , to take the field in defence of their native land .

      Sir A . Ramsay , M . P . —At a meeting of Conservatives held at Rochdale , Sir A . Ramsay said that much had been said of Cherbourg , and some alarm had been ^ felt at the erection of that groat port . Ho would rather it had been for some useful purpose , but if he knew the feeling of the people of England , there was no dread of danger , for to repel an invader on our coasts their wives and their children would rise up in arms . Mr . Baxter , M . P . <—At the Arbroath meeting , this gentleman said : —In nations , as in families , extravagance is the first step towards ruin ; and no ministor could more fairly earn a title to the gratitude of his country than by proposing and carrying out a bold scheme of economy . But that will bo out of tho

      question if you allow yourselves to be deluded by a cry of war with France . I feel strongly that there is more danger from increased taxation than from a French invasion . If you attempt tho formor , you will sour tho masses of the people , who pay too much already ; against the latter , if it is attempted , you can show a united , industrious , loyal people , every man of whom would rally like his fathers around the constitution and the throne . The Government and its officers affect great zeal for mercantile shipping , but their true object Is to erect forciflloatlons , Now 1 believe in no such thing . Our maritime supremacy was established and confirmed without any works of tho kind ; tho courage and skill and hardihood of

      our sailors , not bohind walls , but on the open sea , have made this country what it is ; our fleots have always acted on tho offensive , and I think wo ought to trust and cherish our navy Htill . With a powerful , woll-oquippod , and properly manned fleet In tho Channel , what need wo fear an enemy ? I will always vote for keeping up nn effective army , and a navy which has no equal ; but I will not veto for rivalling tho continental powers in thoir system of adding fort to fort and regiment to regiment , nomi nally to guard against invasion , but really to Hoop clown tholr people , I am quitu « uro Mint our best protection against any power mad enough to attempt Invasion is that flame healthy national fooling whloh electrified

      Europe when the haughty Spaniards despatched their Armada , and when Napoleon I . assembled his vast force at Boulogne .

      Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. A...

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A Stockbroker , named Adolphus Freeman , has been brought before Alderman Salomons , charged with having appropriated to his own use 850 / ., money entrusted to him bv Mr . Austin , a printer of Hackney , for the purpose o * f purchasing stock in the Three per Cent . Consols . The particulars of the transaction were not gone into , the prisoner being remanded for a week , and bail refused . Woolley , the two Websters , and Bernard , who have been in custody for some days on a charge of engraving and having in possession plates purporting to be for the issue of Russian baak-notes , and which were intended to defraud the Russian Government , have been again examined at Lambeth police-court . The prisoners were again remanded . The three men , charged with being concerned in stealing the copper coffin from the vaults of the church of St . John , Stratford , were finally examined on Saturday and committed for trial . The municipal elections at Newcastle have caused a great deal of excitement , and part }* feeling runs very high . A Roman Catholic having been put in nomination a strong antagonism has been aroused against him on account of his faith . The Daily Express ( a penny paper ) has taken up the case in this sense with great vehemence , and letters and articles have appeared commenting with unqualified severity on its opponents , and the means adopted to farther their electioneering purposes . A letter appeared in that journal , attributing to

      the French Consul , the Count de Marincourt—the agent , as it called him , of the arch-traitor and plotter against his country ' s liberty , Louis Napoleon—an interference with the canvass in the -ward . The son of the consul , lately an officer in the French army , called at the office of the Daily . Express , desiring the editor to meet him at the Exchange next morning , and threatening to chastise him at his own house if he did not keep his appointment . The appointment was not kept . The Daily Express then produced an article reflecting on the count in the most violent manner , concluding with tin ' s advice;—*¦ " Monsieur must follow Madame . '' To understand the last allusion it is necessary to explain that " Madame " was the keeper of a notorious house in Newcastle , so

      notorious that she was handed out of the town by the police . On this , the son of the consul proceeded to the Office of the paper , demanded to see the . editor , and on the hesitation of the people to tell him where he could be found , the young man pulled out a pistol and threatened them if they would not inform him . On learning the place where the editor could be found , he drove thither in a qab , and entered his library ; He ordered him , with similar threats , to come rnd apologise to the count , his father . He then took him to his father ' s house , where a most humble apology was made , and the

      editor of the Daily Express was released from detention . The count denies having ever interfered in the election , and says he was , moreover , entirely ignorant of his son ' s movements till the editor was brought into his room in captivity . The " vicomte" was brought before the magistrates to answer the charge of assault . The bench decided to hold the defendant to bail , Mr . Manson , the editor , who was present , offering no objection . The defendant was then bound over , himself in 200 / ., and two sureties in 100 / . each , for his appearance on Tuesday , — The case was terminated on Tuesday by the defendant being fined 5 / . and costs .

      At tho Court of Bankruptcy on Saturday , Benjamin Francis Hnllowell Cnrcw applied for his certificate . The case presents some interesting features in consequence of the bankrupt ' s relationship as stepson to Colonel Waugh , of London and Eastern Banking Company notoriety , for whose accommodation ho had given acceptances to the amount of 68 , 000 ? ., without any consideration , The sitting was adjourned after a somewhat lengthened hearing until the first Wednesday in October , 1859 , with liberty to the bankrupt to apply in the mean time if ho have paid his creditors who have proved 20 s . in the pound . Protection , in tho mean time , was granted .

      A meeting of the XlucUlersflold Improvement Commissioners has been held to consider tho defalcations of Superintendent Beaumont of the police . There were sixty charges of petty peculation against him , three or four of which wore provod . Tho offences wore stated to have constated in granting' bail in cases of drunkenness , ho having no power to grunt auch bail ; and in noglcoting to summon tho ofl ' ondoM , or to account for tho money . His manner of keeping books was statod to be characterised by carelessness nnd irregularity ; he being in tho habit of receiving money at any time and in any placo , trusting to memory for its cntiy . It was resolved to discharge him , without proceeding criminally ngainst him .

      I ho Coramorcial Dock Company have issued a report giving tho full ¦ particulnrfl of the frauds of tholr secretary , II . K . Smithers , juu ., niul their accountant * Cox . The total amount won 2 ( 1 , 800 / ., and extended over a poriod of at lonat twonty-ono yonrs . Smithors was tho primary offender , but ho could not have succeeded without collusion on the part of tho accountant . The onh

      bezzlement was achieved by keeping back payment received from the customers of the company . Smither also contrived a fraudulent transfer of 10007 . stoch Smithers has been sentenced to six j-ears' penal servi tude , and Cox , who had . been * more than thirty years ir the company's service , to twelve months' imprisonment . ' . ' . . . . ¦ The proceedings in the case of Arbuthnott v . Carder were resumed on Monday , at Kingstown police-court , After a lengthened discussion , the magistrates decided on holding Mr . Carden to bail in the sum of 5000 / . to keej the peace towards Miss Arbuthnott .

      On Tuesday , a cause was brought before the Court of Aldermen , which involved a charge of misconduct in the despatch of their business by Messrs . Price , Gifford , and Ilickman , the accuser being Mr . E . B . Hewitt . Both the petitioner and respondents were brokers . A petition was presented in the case to the Court , setting forth at great length the gravamen of the charge , and after it had been read an equally lengthy answer was put in . Each of the parties was then sworn and examined as to the truth of the allegations in the petition and answer . The court was cleared of strangers , and after the lapse of a quarter of an hour they were readmitted , when the Recorder . stated that the Court had decided on dismissing the petition .

      Lewis Zucker , a bankrupt jeweller , of Oxford-street , whose examination took place on the 4 th of October , and was adjourned sine die , was charged before Alderman Phillips with falsif 3 'ing his trade account-book , on purpose to defraud his creditors . The evidence went to show that the book referred to contained a record of transactions dated a considerable time anterior to the period at which the paper composing the book was manufactured . This was proved by the fact of the paper being machine-made , whereas no paper of that description was sold by the stationer whose mark it bore until some year 3 later than the date of several entries in the book . The prisoner was committed for trial , and will probably be also indicted for perjury .

      At Marlborough-street , a husband and wife , named Law , were charged with detaining a will , which kept Marion Phillips out of property amounting in value to between 150 , 000 / . and 200 , 000 / . The complainant represented herself as next of kin to the testator , who died in Jamaica some years ago , ; and riot , having possession of the will she was unable to administer to the estate . The charge was ultimately abandoned . At the Middlesex Sessions , Alexander aiuir was indicted for a misdemeanour under the Mutiny Act , in having attempted to persuade a soldier in the Royal Horse Artillery to desert . It has become a practice to induce men to desert from the line and other regiments , that they may enter the Indian service , for the sake of the extra bounty . The case having been clearly established , the jury found the prisoner Guilty ; sentence deferred .

      At the Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday , the certificate meeting in the case of Robert Hills , the surviving partner in the firm of Jonathan and Robert Hills , bankers , of Gravesend and Dartford , was adjourned till the 15 th of February . Tho most experienced burglars of the metropolis have concentrated their forces on Chelsea and Brompton , and we may expect to hear of depredations in that quarter similar to those which took place in Notting-hUl about a year ago , unless the police manifest more vigilance than they at present appear disposed to do .

      An Englishman , named James Foot , has been sentenced by the Assize Court of the Seine to hard labour for life for having issued a forged , piece of two francs in payment for wine in a cabaret . Another false piece of five francs was found at his lodgings , for the possession of which he gave no acceptable excuse . There was a count for forging the false money as well as knowingly passing it , but this the jury expressly negatived . An alleged accomplice of tho prisoner ' s , one * John Barters , has escaped to England , At tho Surrey Quarter Sessions , an application for a liconso on tho part of tho proprietors of the Surrey Music-hall was mot with opposition on the part of the police . They stated that , before the close of the last season , prostitutes were admitted who , in some cases , conducted themselves in a disorderly manner and had to be removed .. With this exception , which applied only to a period of three weoks , tho police admitted that tho Surrey Gardens were on tho whole a very wellconductod placo of amusement . Tho magistrates renewed the license . At tho Middlesex Sessions , Ann Williams , a gipsy , was found guilty upon two Indiotments charging her with obtaining property from two servant girls by pretending to tell their fortunes . Tho jury hoped that tho judge would severely reprimand those silly girls for admitting such persons into their masters ' houses . The learned judge accordingly called them up , and commented on thoir folly in believing that any o \\ o could toll tliom thoir fortuno ; ho hoped tho loss thoy hrnl sua- taluod upon this occasion would bo a warning n ° t on ' to thont but to others . Ho . then sontonood tho prisoner to twelve months' hard labour .

      Six female htnatios , who apponrod atone time to have movod in a ro . spoctablo sphoro oC society , were brought before AWonnciu Flnnls . at Guildhall , by Mr . Jopp , re-

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23101858/page/5/