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      bility of the disasters in the East . There is a degree of moral force in the retribution which has thus come on that home-keeping martinet . The avowed principle of the report is that all these officers had made the " necessary requisition , " and if they did not get what t &*& aske < Lfcafc , the fault lay with somebodjt-etoe . " ®| ion similar stfcH * - ing , any General might plead frtexcuse for ifcdeUfct

      in the field that he had parted the necesiBBty parade orders to hia nieiy JSisce ColojjeL Sifcr .-loch broke down « ttder $ && bullying , Sfftr-JoHN M N " Eixii declined to attend , and only half the case was before the judicial board of General Officers , they of course found it the more easy to deliver this one-sided judgment ; just like tte Irish judge , who said that he never found any difficulty in decidinsr a case tHl he heard the other side .

      Some inquiry continues to be made respecting the two great frauds that have engaged attention fbr so many months . On Thursday night Mr . Roebuck moved to expel James Sadleir , the accomplice of John in the vast frauds of the Tipperary Bank ; and in the Bankruptcy Court , on the same day , there was a further instalment of Joseph Windub Cork ' s disclosures , tending to elucidate that extensive branch of commerce . There is a good deal of sympathy for Joseph , who was once so wealthy and is now so candid ; but the stern House of Commons extracts from Lord

      Palmee-Stok a promise that James Saj > i . eir , Esq ., shall iiot be appointed Steward to Her Majesty ' Manor of the Chiltern Hundreds , so as to evade any formalities designed for him by Mr . Roebuck on taking leave of the House . The smaller and more ferocious criminal , Dove , has been treated by jury and judge provisionally . As to the fact , there was no doubt—he poisoned his wife ; the difficulty was , to determine whether he was actually insane , or only a very low type of the brute and fool . The jury pronounced him guilty ,

      But recommended him to mercy on the score of deficient intellect ; which is as much as to say l £ at he was sane , but may have been insane . The jftrdge following up this indecisive decision , sentenced'him to be hanged , and enjoined him not to entertain hopes " which mag be delusive "—and of course may not be delusive . The proper mode of fulfilling this sentence would he to provide for the hanging , and to let him escape ; instead of grappling with him as madman and brute that he is , and subjecting him to the discipline that might tame the animal , call his condition what you will . But the criminal classes are getting on better

      in high quarters . One of the greatest scoundrels that the world has ever seen is now the successful Minister of Spain . O'Doiweix , a soldier of fortune who made his riches aa the accomplice of unlawful slave-trading in Cuba , —who lent himself to EJ » A . tWRBO ' 9 liberal ministry for the purpose of playing cnckoo in that nest , —has now turned out his ^ chief , and has accomp lished a real rebellion in Spain , none the less lawless or criminal since he Mas ' seduced the-Queen into aiding it . He used his position suddenly to eject the unenergetic EsrABTEBO , to take military possession of the capital , and to throw the whole country under martial law . There is an instant rush of Spaniards

      o £ « U persuasions fromthe French capital . The Jhnench Emperor , too , appoints an " army of observation'' to watch the frontier ; bufc Lord PalauaauaTON affirms that Napoubok will not follow the example of previous French monarchy by burning his fingers in Spanish intrigues . Oii-r no , Napoleon is at present turning hia e ^ « H & re * y to works of peace . He has- put forth

      a > va « fc- engineering scheme , to save France from tbos « -gre « A ' inua < lation « which have heretofore at uncertain periods ravaged France . The proposal is . conveyed in a letter to the Minister of Public Works , arid Ss very Btrikinrr . Tho Emperor seems to ba *© studied the dynamics of the matter . He fhxLfc that' water flowing over low lands is sponged ua flndrun * away slowly ; but shed upon Alpine BVppefl , it accumulates ,, oud ruthoa down in a

      broad rapid torrent . In Switzerland * the lakes receive * these sudfteW floods , and hold them until they can ^ gkdtni ^ p ' Sbw away through the channels between tpi rocfe . The Emperor would imitate nature , life would make great artificial lakes to collect & bb floods , and would construct weirs * in the nMfetttd channels Ufe © heck the floafc-where rt codWRnces ^ and so ttonender & slowiml eogjftble : ancR & is h « # inks cam He efone at a practicable expei « fewith 4 * certaint $ W # ipre « Bnting those "dHasters

      forvinch dptes are biktftreacJtorous palliatifaM , failing ^ Ae *« ey are-naM ^ waited . N abomwn thb First dKused himseff' to Be struck on a : medal in the likeness of Jove dictating to the earth with the thunderbolt in his right hand : the new Napoleon takes his attributes from the Christian aara , and presents himself to his admiring subjects as a special agent of Divine Providence , regulating the elements of nature , and subduing them to the

      service of man . Mr . Mechi ' s annual gathering at Tiptree Hall has been the leading agricultural event of the week . It is a singular fact , and strikingly illustrative of the working of our free institutions , that a London tradesman , who has made a fortune by retailing razor-strops , finds himself influential enough to attract every year to a remote village in the heart of Essex assemblages of several hundred persons , many of them eminent in political and diplomatic life , luminaries in the learned professions , or leaders in the great social and sanitary movements of the day . Nor is it less

      remarkable , as indicating the practical sagacity of our national character , that the individual who has acquired this influence , so far from being distinguished by any uncommon attainments , has not himself contributed a single invention , great or small , to agricultural and sanitary progress , but owes his success solely to the persevering energy and enterprize with which he has embraced and executed the valuable discoveries of others , so as to turn to practical account the chemical researches of such men as Wat and Liebig , and the philosophica Iconceptions of such reformers as F . O . Ward . Perhaps Mr . Mechi ' s heartiness and good humour contribute to his success ; and these qualities were never more conwhen he exhibited

      spicuous than last Saturday , his tubular irrigation works , hia sanitary cattlesheds , and' his luxuriant wheat and grass crops , with all his usual liveliness of exposition ; and after a sumptuous dinner , and a series of complimentary speeches ( for which , by the way , speaking of a more practical character might well bo substituted on future occasions ) , the guests returned to town , strengthened , doubtless , in their adhesion to the principles of tubular sewage collection , and tubular sewage irrigation ; and , perhaps , even prepared to entertain the still more recent and bolder innovation of duplicate drainage , embodied in Mr . F . O . Wabb ' s formula— " All the rainfall due to the river , all the sewage due to the

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      soil . " soil . " Employers and Employed . —On Monday evening last , Mr . Alderman Spiers entertained , at his father ' s late residence at Iffley , the whole of the persons employed at his establishments in the High-street and Cornmarket . They proceeded by water from Christ Church meadow sooji after five o ' clock in the afternoon , and on reaching Iffley , the party , numbering about forty , exclusive of six or eight of the juvenile portion of Mr . Spiers s family , partook of tea and coffee . Tho remavnder of tho evening was spent in various out-door amusements until nine o ' clockwhen the party sat down to an elegant

      , supper . Mr . Aldorman Spiers presided , and his superintendent of tlie High-street establishment , Mr . Harvey , officiated as vice-chairman . On tho conclusion of tho supper ; loyal and appropriate toasts were done justice to in sundry bowls of punch , while tho more abstemious were supplied with copious daughta from tho crystal spring . Many addresses of an interesting and gratifying nature were delivered in tho course of the evening , and it wb delightful to witness tho kindly fooling whioh oxiata between the employer and tho employed , and tho degree of unity which predominated among the youngest and oldest , and the highest and lowest members of those establishments . The superintendent of the Corn-market

      establishment , Mr . Seaman , took occasion to - cate to tho party thut Mr . Spiers was about to give another practical illustration of hi . s de . siro to promote thoir welfare , by conceding n half-holiday every Saturday aftornoon to one-third of his establishment , without junking any deduction from their wages . This announcement , which w as quito unex pected , was received with the utmost enthusiasm and Hutitifaction . Tho song and toast passed marrily round , and it would bo difficult to find any gathering where so much good feeling prevailed , or a greater doairo to contribute to ouch othor'a happiness . — Oxford Journal .

      Imperial Parliament. A ? Monday, July 21...

      IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . A ? Monday , July 21 st . ' lir tfie HbtrSE of Lords , the Royal assent -was given by ccawmiAeidn to several bills . —Lord Pasmdke laid on the tablfethe report of tlie Crimean Commissioners . - — The LoBD Chancellor mentioned that , next session he ^ UUeaded to bring in a bill for the registratio n of hmortjtageS' and ether encumbrances on real propertv . CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATUTE LAW . 13 * e LoKDGiiAHCEiiOK laid on the table a series of intaie bills , intended to consolidate the statute law in certain > departments of jurisprudence . It is proposed that officers should be appointed to perform , -with regard the which is in

      to public bills , duty a great measure discharged by the examiner of private bills ; and that a similar officer should be appointed in a similar way by both Houses , with a competent staff . His duty would not be to interfere -with the policy of bills , which of course rests with tlie legislature ; but it happened that even in Govemmeut bills , there being no one to see whether they harmonize with existing law , or do not clash -with the language of existing statutes , great blunders crept in every session . The measures now laid on the table , tho commissioners believed , embodied all the enactments of forty acts of Parliament , and portions of 150 others , and from his own inspection of them he believed that they did all that they professed to do . The rule -which the commissioners had laid down for their guidance in framing these bills was to make jio change in the law ; but in some few cases it had been found

      that that rule could not be adhered to . It had also been an object with the commissioners to maintain as nearly as possible the language of the acts they consolidated ; but , inasmuch as they found that the same offences were described sometimes in one set of words , and at others in another , they had adopted that set of words which they thought the best , and had adhered to it throughout . At present , the written laws of the country extend over forty volumes , and embrace some 15 , 000 acts of Parliament . The commissioners thought that the whole might be reduced to about 300 ( some were sanguine enough to say 250 ) statutes which might all be brought within the compass of three or four moderate sized volumes . Tli £ bills were read a first time . The Bishops of London and Durham Retiiiemext Bill -was read a third time , and passed .

      DISPUTE WITH BRAZIL . The Earl of Malmesbubt called the attention of the House to the dispute which had arisen between the English Government and Brazil , owing to tlie nncourteous behaviour of our minister at Rio , on a matter arising out of the slave trade , and to his having been supported by Lord Clarendon . The noble lord concluded by moving for papers connected with the affair . — Lord Claresidov explained tha oincuinstanees of the

      case , which had arisen from an apprehension justly entertained by the English Minister at Rio that great preparations were being made for the extension of the slave trade in Brazil . The Government had thought it to be their duty to support its agent abroad , but be was happy to say that , after the mutual explanations which had been given , the Brazilian Government harboured no ill-will against the Government of this country . —After some observations from Lords Aberdeen and Mai-mesbuky , the motion for papers was agreed to .

      THE LATE WAR . Lord Malmebbuky asked Lord Clarendon whether it was true that tho fortresses of Reni and Ismail had been dismantled by the Russians ; whether any other fortresses would bo erected on that river ; and wlion the new Russian minister might be expected to arrive in this country . Lord Clarendon replied ho had no doubt that the fortresses in question had been dismantled , the Russians conceiving that they had a right to treat them ns they chose up to tho time of handing them over to tin * 1 » rks . With respect to tho arrival of a now Russian Mi mater , information had been received that Count (• ivptowicn had been appointed to the Russian Legation in this country . —After some further discussion ( in the course of which tho Earl of Ellknuohouoii and the Kim ol Derby expressed their opinion that there hud been neglcot on our part in tho matter ) , tho subject drowned .

      THIS RAJAH Ol ' COOItO . Tlie Marquis of Clankicahok complaint of certain hardships to wliicli ho flaid the Rajah of Coor * i «« ' »«*•" subjected , in not being allowed by tho East India i •<>»> - pany loave of absence in this country for nn > r < tll ; 1 " yoar , whero ho wns prosecuting a claim in < 'li «»;' ' V ngainst tho Company , who threutoned that , » '" ' " " yarded their injunctions , they would Htop hi * nllowinu , or a confllilernble portion of It . —Tho Duko ol Ait < . i ¦ ¦ , who professed to . be not very well informal »« l (> circumstances of tho case , tiaid that tho JtiijnU v «» prisoner of war ; that the Compuny had a rifrht to tho term of hia absence from India ; and thai tin < mand to return could hardly ho cnllod a tyranin . i . ««•«•• - Thi ) Harl of KujcNlionouun Haid tho Hoard ol on had no power whatever in thin mattor , but . at [ h timo ho thought tho conduct of tho Hunt India I "'»!>» ' in withholding tho Rajah ' s stipend was very i . i » K ' " ( IU "

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 26, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26071856/page/2/