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Leader (1850-1860), 24th May 1851, Edition Town of 2, Page 485, Untitled Article

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      Bentinck , Esq ., to offer themselves as candicates for " West Norfolk whenever a dissolution may take place . Dr . Nichollwill not retire from the representation of the Cardiff borough ; and Mr .. Coffin declares that he will give the electors an opportunity of asserting the rights conferred by the Jtefurrn Bill . It is said that the electors tf Kendal on the Liberal interest have resolved to return Mr . George Oarr Glyn , their present member , free of all expense , if he will allow himself to be again nominated upon the dissolution of the pr «» ent Parliament . The Royal Agricultural Society of England held their general May meeting on Thursday , at the society ' s house in Hanover-square , hia Grace the Duke of Richmond in the chair . The country meeting of- the present year will be held in the Home-park , Windsor .

      A great meeting of the National Temperance Association was held on Thursday , at Exeter Hall . Mr . Horace Greeley addressed it , as did also a " man of colour . " Mr . Goldsworthy Gurney has succeeded in extinguishing the " burning waste of Clackmannan , " a coalfield which has been on fire for thirty years , over an area of seven miles , by "forcing in a stream of carbonic acid gas . " The tide of emigration from Ireland is flowing on this spring as rapidly and largely as in any previous year . The quays of the principal seaport towns are crowded with emigrants , and the departures from Dublin last week far exceeded those of any . other week during the spring .

      The partisans of the Government and of the Customhouse have been unable tp prevent Mr . Mitchell ' s committee on Customs Reform , from entering systematically into the whole of the questions which have been raised by the recent persecution of the dock companies . It seems to have been the intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and of the Commissioners of Customs to advance the fact of certain legal proceedings being still pending in the Court of Exchequer , as a conclusive reason why no inquiries should be instituted by Mr . Mitchell's committee into the transactions put of which those proceedings arose . This pJea was deemed perfectly inadmissable . The consequence has been that the party opposed to a thorough investigation have been defeated ; and there is now every probability that Mr . Mitchell will be enabled to render the inquiry he has undertaken of the greatest possible service in its results to the com mercial community , both of the metropolis and the

      outports . The sixteenth report of the inspectors appointed to visit the different prisons of Great Britain , which has just been presented to both Houses of Parliament , refers to the northern and eastern district . Mr . F . Hill , the inspector , states that efforts have been made to introduce useful labour into the prisons , and enlarged provisions have been made for instruction in reading and writing at several prisons . If the principle of using each prison solely for the confinement of male or of female prisoners were adopted , he supposes that , with a slight modification of the law , upwards of fourteen prisons might be at once wholly given up . The difficulty of guarding against escapes of prisoners employed in agriculture is reported to have been greatly over-estimated . The num her of prisoners in the district in 1850 was less by 235 than in 1849 , but the number of prisoner * in confinement at the end of 1850 was considerably greater than at the end of

      1849 . By the official Customs returns for the ports of Scotland , we find that the gross amount of duties collected during the year ending January 5 . 1850 , amounted to £ 1 , 953 , 486 , against £ 2 , 038 , 886 in 1849 , and £ 1 , 710 , 016 in 1846 . As regards the foreign trade during the same period , it appears that the British tonnage engaged both ways in 1849 50 amounted to 971 , 920 , against 875 , 349 for 1845 6 . The foreign trade for similar periods stood thus : — 323 , 453 , against 225 , 7 24 . The past week has been one of great excitement at Holyliead , and a serious riot has taken place at the harbour works . For some time past the Welshmen engaged at the works have entertained very hostile feelings towards their fellow labourers , the Irish , on account of their prejudice against the country of the latter . On Saturday evening hint an Irishman stabbed a Welshman in a drunken brawl with a knife . ' The latter

      narrowly escaped with his life , having received a dangerous wound in the neck . On the circumstance pfenning generally known on Monday morning , a party of Welsh , enga < v'd on the mountain , made m furious attack on a number of the Irish , and with much cheering forced fifteen qf the poo * men on board the Irish JSxpress packet , leaving their wives aud children behind . On Tuesday the excitenoent became still greater , business waa suspended , and the shops were closed . All publichouses were ordered to be shut up and mo litiuor to be old . A nrvat number <>/ workmen perambulated the Streets all night . Ou Thursday , after much perauasiun , the men resumed \ vor . k , auel it i » hoped that the aft ay bus

      ended-The first report from the Australian Steam Navigation Committee , now sitting , is looked for witU considerable interest by the purlieu connected with the Australian colouiow . Tho coiiiiu , itua have examined a grout number of witnesses , and have , succeeded in collecting together a large amount of evidence beurinf * upon eiueHtions relative to Australian trade und navigation . The preponderance , of testimony in in favour of tho Cape line as the main roui $ Viwoea thin country mud Australia . Th « ftrnt report will be reudj early in Juut ; - Tho pjobahle loss suptuiued b ) Sir 11 . II . Bruce , in thej destruction of Downhill Houne , Povtmahiie , on Saturday last , will be about £ 50 , 000 . An investigation into the fftotH eoi . nected with the calamity wan held by the district magistrates on Monday , aud they came to the conclunion that tho / ire was the work uf an iuovndjary .

      The accidents on the Derby day were serious . George Jackson , nge : el twenty-nix , witH returning from the rucetj in company with several friends , when the cart in which

      they were riding came in contact with a pleasure-van , whereby those in the former vehicle were thrown out on to the roadway . Jackson sustained a severe scalp wound and fractured ribs . A party of gentlemen in a dog-cart were proceeding at a rapid speed towards town , when they drove the vehicle on to an embankment near S | well , which capsized all of them , when one gentleman , named Tomlinson , was so much injured that he expired on the way home to Southampton-street , Camberwell . Charles Palmer , aged 42 , cabman , was engaged by Jemmy Welsh , Barnash , and other pugilists , to convey them to Epsom and back . When near Sutton , Palmer was knocked off his seat , the wheel of a ' carriage his left

      passing over arm , seriously injuring his head and inflicting various contusions on his body . Faint hopes are entertained of his recovery . Several other accidents happened near the Elephant and Castle , where many thousand persons had assembled to witness the return of the company from the races . William Haroourt , aged forty , standing in the roadway near the Obelisk , was knocked down by a phaeton and four horses , and before the driver could stop , the off-wheels passed over his legs , causing compound fractures of both limbs . In two instances within the week juries in the county of Limerick have found a verdict of " death from starvation and destitution . " The Evening Mail states that it is credibly assured " the bull for the suppression of the Queen ' s Colleges is actually in Ireland . "

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      According to an Imperial rescript issued on the 18 th , the Austrian Government paper money in circulation is restricted to 200 , 000 f . The National Bank will not be licensed to issue more notes than will suffice for the wants of the state . The measures for the gradual withdrawal of the Government notes will be expedited as much as possible . Duke Saldanha published on the 9 th an address to the " People of Lisbon , " recommending calmness . He says : —" Let us reform the constitutional charter ; let us have really free elections , in order that we may be enabled to have a truly national representation , and justice , liberty , morality , and economy , in the place of the immorality , corruption , and robbery that have been proclaimed as the theory of Government . " The troops began embarking for Lisbon on the 9 th .

      Accounts from Home of the 14 th , state that the French general had ordered the surrender of all offensive weapons , including sticks , on pain of trial by court-martial . The Roman Minister of War had refused to remove all the Roman troops , but had removed the most turbulent . It was said that the French had demanded that the direction of the police should be placed in their hands . The Treasury of Baden has brought a formal action against the widow of Bohning , one of the leaders of the insurrection , executed in 1819 , to recover a sum of several millions of gulden , wiih a minimum of one million , as the amount of the damage sustained by the Treasury of the Duchy during the revolt . That the widow can pay any part of it is of course out of the question .

      The political laws for Transylvania , and the ordinances relative to the organization of the law courts in that Crown land , have at length been published . The province , which is divided into five circles , will be under the government of a statthalter , who is to reside at Hermannstadt . In addition to this , another favour has been granted to the Saxou race . The president of' thei circle is to retain his title of " Count of the Saxon Nation . " Clauseuburg was formerly considered the principal city in the province . The new laws on the whole differ little from those octroied for the other Crown lands .

      The new threepenny uniform postage gives great satisfaction in Canada ; but the colonists complain that they pay more for Atlantic postage than the United States do . The Toronto British ( Colonist states , that ior ocean postage they pay Is ., while the United States pay only 8 d ., and that as regards pamphlet and newspaper post . ge , the same difference exists . Arrangements are about to be made for tho withdrawal of a portion of the troops fiorn Upper Canada . It is said that only one garrison will remain in the province , to be stationed at Kingston . A similar arrangement is to be maiie witli references to tlie military posts in Lower Canada , Quebec to be the only garrison town . These pofsts are to be maintained by i lie imperial ( j ' oveiiinicnt as heretofore , while the province is to have ? the option of keeping tip the present military establishments at its own cost .

      The cholera has not . entirely left Jamaica . When the last , packet left , it had broken out again , carrying off its victims , which fortunately wore but very few , in about two hours . It is confidently stated that the Cuban expedition is again abandoned , and a large ? number of men who had e : ollcM ! ted nt JTnokHonville , in Florida , had dispersed , and were re-turning to their homes . ( Jonzales , who it will he remembered , was one of the leaders * in ttie first expedition , was re-ported by telegraph to have been arreste-d in Florida , vvhie ; h may in part account for the ; expedition being given up without e-ve ^ n embarking .

      The . Convention of State Rights Association , numberhig over 500 delegates , were in ^ e'ss iou at . ( "lurU'ston e > n the rtth inHtitnt , and a large majority was in favour ol irnnieeliute . se ? e : ensioii . The- te » u > pe'r of tin * delegates i « tmeh hh to have alurined the ClmilcHton ntere : huitts very greatly , and to have indue : ed the * general e » f the- United States army te > visit all the niilitiuy pe > stn , and review the ) troopH statie > ne >( J there . Orders have been despatched by the wrtr department of the United JStatca to the officer * on the . frontier , urging them te > inerreum'd vigilance and cuvriiy in the-suppression e > f Indian outrngeH , in ceimpli , iiu ; e with the conditions of the 1 treaty with Mexieio .

      A publui meeting has been hfld in Quebec te > take into ooiiHielerutienj the propemal of the British Government to aid in the construction of the Quebec and llulifux

      Kailway . This meeting , from the accounts , was respectable and influential , so much so that it may be said to be the voice of Quebec . A Jate colonial paper notices that the Irish exiles in . Van Diemen ' s Land , wishing to have personal communication wilh Smith O'Brien , who was stationed at New Norfolk , had requested leave so to do ; failing in obtaining which , M'Manus and O'Meagher took the responsibility on themselves and proceeded to New Norfolk ; while there they were arrested , and each forwarded to his respective district . The magistrates gave them a very severe reprimand , but Sir W . T . Denison , on being made acquainted with the particulars of the case , ordered them immediately to be confined in barracks .

      Letters from Sydney state that Sir Charles Fitzroy intends leaving the colony in August next , but no hint is thrown out as to his probable successor . It is aJso hinted that his excellency is anxious the Legislative Council should not assemble until after his departure , and that he will consequently endeavour to prevent its sitting befoie that time . A meeting was held on February 3 , at North Adelaide , to consider the propriety of proceeding to Canterbury in New Zealand . Several speakers addressed the meeting in favour of the measure . The discussion terminated in adopting a string of resolutions declaratory of the intention of those present to proceed to Canterbury , and suggesting the cooperation of all who intended proceeding thither .

      The speculation of importing Coolies into the Sandwich Islands from the East Indies is now on foot , and arrangements have been made with captains of English vessels to land them at 50 dollars a head . Another ship has been destroyed by fire in the Hooghly ! The Kurramany , bound to Mauritius with Coolie emigrants , has been burnt to the water ' s edge . The Semaphore reports that the captain , mate , pilot , and twenty-eight others were saved by a steamer , but says nothing of the 348 emigrants . The Sultan seems determined to create difficulties with , the Pasha of Egypt . As head of the Mohammedan religion he has raised a claim to all lands and property appertaining to the mosques throughout the country , and which have been disposed of in various ways by Mehemet Ali . Objections are also being made tu the railway between Alexandria and Cairo , which Abbas Fasha had declared his intention of carrying into effect .

      It was supposed that the inhabitants of the hills flanking the Khyber Pass had been brought to terms by Lord Dalhousie when he was at Peshawur ; but the supposition appears to have been ill-founded , for two thousand of our best troops have been ordered to enter the pass , to ravage and burn all the crops in the land belonging to the Khyberies , to-hang all who are apprehended for theft , and to imprison all hill-men who may be caught within the cantonment . The Deejerat frontier still continues in a disturbed state ; the hill tribes are collected at the mouths of various passes watching an opportunity for a foray , but the arrangements for their reception are so effective that they have not as yet ventured a descent .

      It was lately stated that the Governor-General of Manilla had left that settlement , with a force of about 5000 men , fur the Sooloo Islands , in the Eastern Archipelago , for the purpose of elestro ) ing the piiates wlio infested those parts . The last accounts from Manilla , state that , e > n the 28 th of January , an attack had been made by the governor-general em the forts at . Sooloo , which resulted in their capture , tejyether with 140 pieces of artillery and oth ( r muni lions e > f war . The Sultan arid many of the inhabitants had fled to the interior . The le ) ss on their sieJe is not staled ; that of the attacking force was about 120 killed and wounded . The defence ' s of the island have been demolished , and the siirroundiii " cemntry laid waste .

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      " Notes to the Pe : ople , " by Ernest Jones , is tho word ejt an earnest man te > his brethren , which we ought to have noticed earlier . Three numbers have already issued from the press , ami they do credit , as literature , even if they had no either merits , to the democratic cause . l \> enis ce > ntinuoiiM , a political talc whose moral is very valuable juat now , political articles em democracy and the eloings of tin : democratic party , ion ign information , and historical hketcheH make-: up the contents e > f this cheap and useful periodical . It isewnphriticidly what it is called , " Note ; s / or the lYople , " and ou ^ lit to hi ; read by the people .

      HICALTU OF LONDON DUIUNU T 11 K WKIiK . ( From the ILe-gisirur-Cjeneral ' s l&eport . ) The rate' of mortality that now prevails in Lonilon Blums that neiareely any improvement in the ; health e > t the population has taken place dining the last m'vcu weieks ; and it eont inucs higher than is usually observer ] in the middle e > f May . In the' week ending last JS . iturelay the number e > f eleathn registered was 1002 ; in the ten e : orre-N |) oii ( ling weeks eif lHll-. 'iO it was ge-nerally under !)()() ; in the thre'e- irmtane-es in which it . e'xeteedccJ that nuinbi'r it wiih !) 78 , l ) f >{) , and 10 , 'W , and the- average was only 881 . Thin iive-ruge , when e , orree » e'd for incieaHc of population , its 9 ( 51 ; compared with which the ' present return exhibits an excess of 41 . A comparison of the

      last . twe > weekti will show Unit , there is still an unusual mortality amongst persons of tender yearn , and that though zymotic or epidemic diseases have d' -rlliicd in their aggregate : fat . ulity fr . emi li ' Xi death * to l ' , i () , yet . in the same ) period thee'laNH which e'omprise'H the M'verul elise-ase'H e > l the respii aloi y organs , exclusive «>< phlhiais anel hooping-cough , lntn linen honi lf > 7 to 17 (> . ' 1 \\ e > eleaths were- iccoieled last week , of which iiiM'inperuiu c in Ht . ited to have ) he-en the oauset ; besides unother cuho in which fiU . tl eli « e : uw gii In , in all IK ) 7 erhiltlre-n , were : registered . 'I l . o average of" nix e : e > rre-sj ) onding weeks in 18 ^ t > -50 wa » 1366 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1851, page 485, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1884/page/9/