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      One of the Bristol pilots reports that there is a Turkish barque and a Russian barque in Penarth roads , ready loaded , sod each bound to their respective countries ; that the captain of the latter fears to proceed to sea , as his antagonist jbas nine guns ready to play upon , his enemy as soon as he can catch him clear of the roadstead . —Shipping Gazette . The 50-gnn ecrew frif&te , Carlo Alberto , Duilt far , the Sardinian Government , left the Tyne on Tuesday , in the presence of an . immense concourse of people , "who thronged the banks of the river . She is the largest vessel ever built in the north , and is looked upon with great pride by Tynasid » people . She is manned by Italians ; and goes to Woolwich to take ia her armament .

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      Mr . Jeremiah Smith , Mayor of Rye , has beenMConvkted of perjury before the Recorder , sitting At the Central Criminal Court . The offence was this . In giving evidence before the Bye Eiectiop Committee , Smith swore ae did not pay for a certain dinner given- on behalf of the c&ndiiate in . 1852 , Mr . HacMnnon . Subsequently he contradicted that statement , and said he was sdrry for having made it . Mr . MacKinnon yras called as a witness , and caused great merriment ; by saying that he ; , had put notes to the amouaat » f 2 $ 0 L under a sofa , cushion in the Bed Lion Inn ;; that he did not know why they were to be put there , but that he yutrtheni there because desired pi do so . Another witness waa then examined —* vMr . KeevesL 'farmer . He saidi ' "I-d « not know of any notes being * < given to defendant . I-did give him a roll of paper . —Do you call notes paper at Rye ? It was like a bundle of notes . — "Was it ? - where did you find it ? I found it upon the sofa . Buller was there , and said it , was desirable It should be given to Smith . —That was very , kind where was Smith ? He Was at the Red Idon . ~ Did he seem surprised ? 3 Jo , TK > t at alL I swear I do not know what the bundle « on-, tained . —Hare , you no bilief as to what waft there p No , none . —After some hesitation , and being pressed very closely by the Recorder , he admitted that he believed , the bundle was a rbll of notes . It was proved that fc » ilih \ n&d ' ordered the ¦ dinner , arid had paid for it . Verdict © f guilty * , sentence : twelve months' imprisonment . ' . ' : ¦

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      Inan , affirayat Bristol ,, between the crews of a Spanish and a British ship , a . sailor liamed Murphy has been stabbed to'death ' . The lower orders of Irish , who made common cause with their countrymen , were restrained with difficulty irom carrying the Spanish ship by assault . A strange story has covae a long way— -in fact , all the way from Umoalla , in the Punjab . An officer dismissed his bearer ¦ ' but tor some reason again' sent for him . When he arrived , H is said , the officer liad him tied up and k 31 ed him by repeated blows with a riding whip . - < The officer says the bearer and six other men robbed bun , and that he unfortnnately killed the man . He was placed tinder , guard * Martha Gandy , aged 36 , the daughter of a solicitor at Liverpool , has shot herself with a pistol . £ heleft behind the following letter;— " My dear Father , —Forgive nre for the rash act I ana about to commit . I cannot live in misery . Adam [ her lover ] will not come when lie promised us . ' He never perform * it . Whenever "I « ee Mm Joe treats me with the greatest cruelty , and I have not had a happy home for the last two or three years . Never mind . Grieve not after me . I shall be far happier in heaven than being in this world . All that I have to name is not to allow Ned [ her brother ] to follow me to the grave . The Almighty will reward him for his conduct to me . Adieu for ever . — Martha Gandy . " The jury returned a verdict % of " Suicide under temporary insanity . ' s Two men entered the house of Mr . Delanv , 139 , York-Btreet , Hulme , Manchester , about eleven o ' clock in the forenoon of Monday , and finding Mrs . Delany alone , they tied her hands behind her , tied her legs together , coiled a rope rather tightly round her nock to stop her cries , and left her lying on ler face whilst they robbed the house . They obtained upwards of 61 . in money , and got safely away . Mrs . Delaay was found soon afterwards by some neighbours frothing at the mouth , and nearly strangled .

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      Manchester suffered from a terrible conflagration on Wednesday night . One warehouse was completel y destroyed , value 120 , 000 ? ., and several were injured to the « xtent of 40 , 000 L more . The fire , it is supposed , arose from the carelessness of packers , who were working late ; and it was stimulated by the firing of the gas at the main . There were plenty of engines and abundance of water . The warehouse destroyed belonged to Messrs . Rylands , and was situated between Now High-street and Bread-street . It was 300 feet long , 42 feet wide , and in one part three , in another four stones high . No fewer than sixteen cottages , inhabited by labouring people , were destroyed by fire , near Bkckwall , on Thursday . They were thatched with straw . In exploding a lucifer a curtain ignited , and in a moment the roof was in a blazo .

      Last Saturday morning the cotton factory in the occupation of Mr . W . Warburton , Giggs , near Bury , Lancashire , was destroyed by fire . The building was four stories high , 150 feet long and 42 feet wide . Tho propert y was insured in tho Iioyul Exohange nnd the Rqyal Liverpool Insurance offices . It is not known how the fire originated . The- glass manufactory of Mr . Apaley Pellatt , M . P ., haB been partially destroyed b y fire . An emigrant shi p , the Stafibrtlshire , recently went into the rocks oft the Seal Islands , Nova Scotia , and went down with 17 o human beings on board , inoliuling tho captain . Tho lour mates , twenty-one seamen , and twenty-h ' vu passengers lncluuingonl y one womanwero Raved .

      , Hallway accidents have not been bo frequent of Into llHTowus one , however , on Monday . A goods train , dia re gar ding a Hignal , run into u pausniger train near to Stock port . I-iirtunatfl y the pa . ssi-ngera csenpod with bruises .

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      Dbere ia nothing so revolutionary , because ttaere is nothing « o unnatural and convulsive , asi thei ^ train to keep things fixed when all the world ia by the ^ very law of its creation in eternal progress . —DB . AhnOXD .

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      the Poor Law will strike another blow at the bar , by aepri * - jug it of the jprofkable business litigation on removal and settlement . What a pity I , y , , .-nn-Money-order offices nave just been established at Bouingfcon . in Chester 5 Lund , in Yorkshire ; TXewquzy , in Cardigan ; C / alton , in Glasgow ; Barrhill , in Ayr , and lilliesleaf , in Selkirk .

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      Makch 4 , 1854 . ] THE LEAD EK . 203

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      Sajujm **^ March 4 th . Utarr&BB proceedings ' with ibe Reform Bafl wero postponed last night until tiie 27 th of April . This Announcement gave rise to a spirited debate . Parsuant to notice , Lord John Rcs&buc moved the postponement of the bill to that day , giving Jus reasons . He commenced by saying that the bill- was brought in in conformity with the declaration , on the subject of the representation of the people . Soon after the Hon . Member for East Kent gave notice of

      an amendment on the second reading , which seemed rather one of hostility to the government than to the bill itself . After the introduction of th « bill , the Government had to consider both the state of public business and the state of * our foreign affairs before fixing the time for the second leading . With regard to the state « f public business the estimates which it was so necessary to hare passed had been dealt with in a most devoted manner by the Housej ; but the budget by which the ways and means lor the supplies granted were to be obtained would come oh on Monday .

      Slfe m B ^ «***>*»«* many numbers tf 1 VST » " » WHflfi 4 to sit inWkoBse , might not be turned to bis advantage if , in fce ^ JiSeof the war , supplies weie not > roted with theTsMiffl alacrity as now , and unpopular tare * were earned by small majorities consisting of the iretV men whom h « had thus denounced , Bfe drew a picture of the four principles on which Lord Aberdeen ' s Government had beea formed- ** . namely , the extension of free trade , which had not been extended ; the maintenance of peace , which had

      not been maintained ; the extension of educa&on wiien no bill had been introduced for the purpog ^ L and the only educational measure of the session haul t ^ een opposed toy the Government ; and a comprehensive reform in Parliament which was carried "onttonry byiJieintroductloir « r a bill which was to be abandoned . After an energetic Teplyfrom I / ord J . Robssll , the motion first put forward was agreed to . On going into Committee of Supply , Mr . Luca drew attention to the ioadeduata provision of Roman Catholic priests in the army and navy . Sir . J . CrSAJSUJK ¦ and Jj&r ,... SkOBJEX tr-m \ mnxrt' * QXm

      pressed themselves incl&ed { tok promote the object which the hoaourable gentleman , had in view , but there were rSonie ^ i £ Bcultie ^ m \ ^ e / wuy ; They were in coxxmiumcktion ^ ththeBomatt 4 ^ oa ^ thesubject ; ' - ' " ¦ j- ¦ . > •;¦ : ¦> ¦ ... ' . •¦ .., ¦ ¦ la Committee an addition of 15 , 000 men to the army was vot « d , and a sum . of & 0 O , 000 / . fbr their pay aadvictaiHing granted . Sums were also voted fat AadifintM tr % ¦ $ »* *** $ : ^ pfl . ¦ r ' ^ mtninmrja ^ i : . Early in the evening { Lord J . XUj 88 KU . rgave notice uxat on' Friday next he . should move fiat leave to bring in a bill for the reconathxition of theUniveraity of Oxford . , ,

      The exigencies of the public business would therefore prevent his moving the second reading of the Reform Bin so soon after the financial statement . But a stronger reason Was to be found in . the aspect of our foreign relations ; for unless : tiie final demand to Bussis , ito ieyacuate the Principalities should be complied with , / it would bettie duty of Government to come to Parliament with amessage frpia the Crown , equivalent to a declaration of war . The answer , to that demand might be ^ pected by the end ( pf the month , and the present would not be an advantageous moment for the discussion of the measure of JParliapaeatary Reform . The second Teaditig of the Bill would therefore b © postponed until the 27 th April , and in the mean time the Befbrm Bills for Scotand and Trelarid Wonld be introd « eed .

      Sir JToetn Shelley in very strong terms expressed his disappointment at ' the postponement of the measure , and expressed a fear that its introduction was only a sham . ¦ Sir E . DEKEca did not intend by the notice heiiad given to interfere with any measure of Reform , fbr he was a strong advocate of a comprehensive measure of that kind ; but while war was impending over the country he could not think it a fitting time to discuss such a measure . If the second reading was moved on the 27 th of April , he should move an amendment fbr its postponement . Lord A . Lennox said that Lord J . Russell had

      pronounced a funeral oration over the Reform Bill , at whose obsequies he was chief mourner , and JLord Palmerston a mute . Mr . Laboucuire supported the course tak ; en by Ministers , and expressed his belief that the honour of the country was safe in their keeping . Colonel Sibthoep vigorously hoped that this was the last time they should ever hear any more k of Parliamentary reform . Mr . Phinn , though an ardent reformer , agreed that it was advisable , under existing circumstances , to postpone the bill , which at a more convenient season he was inclined to support .

      Sir J . Pakjnoton denounced the course taken by Ministers in introducing the Reform Bill , and stigmatised the position of the Government as discreditable and humiliating . He accused them of something like deliberate deception in the course they had taken , for they must have known , when they brought in the Bill just as well as now , that tlvey would not be able to proceed with it . Mr . Hume warmly defended Ministers , expressed his strong confidence in them , although , he regretted that they did not press the Bill , which had been accepted by the country at once . If they did not go on with it at the time to which it was pos tponed , they would be abased , and lose all character for honour and good faith .

      Sir George Ghev . ardently vindicated the Government from the attack naade on them by Sir J . Pakington , who ought not , if he was sincere in his opinion of the character of Ministers , to have entrusted them with tho supplies for carrying on the war , but rather to have made his refusal of so much confidence in them the Parliamentary test of hia sincerity . Mr . Disraki . 1 characterised the reasons given for the delay of the measure as unsatisfactory , and deprecated the course taken by Lord John Rusaell in stating the details of his measure , if , as ho believed , it was not intended to procoe < l with it thiB session , lie reiorted on tiir Georgo Grey his strictures ou Sir JT . rakiagton , ridiculed tho overweening confidence of Mr . Hume in tho Ministers ;

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      NOHIGES TO OORBESPONDBNTB . In the "News of the 'Week , " , in our Jast number , a typographical error represented the cavalry regiments ordered abroad as "the 8 th and ~ the Ofclu" Our information stated " the 8 th and . the 17 th . " In the last paragraph , of the article on "The Progress of Indin , " the flnal word" Britain" was accidentally dropped out . 1

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      We deeply regret ; to announce very serious riots at Preston , yesterday , in consequence of the introduction of large . bodies ' of strangers , in pursuance of the masters' notification . . The IWot Act waa read , out-door meetings prohibited , and 100 policemen ordered from London . "The aspect of the town is alarming .

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      TPfB only matter of importance in the House of [< ords iras an inquiry by tbe ! &arl of Bbb&t whether it was tme that the Beferm £ > iU was $ o be postponed , and if so , until what time—^ ras it a real postpone ment , or * n abandonment of the Bill $ 02 the session ? The Earl oC A miRmncy ttated that ia his opinion the country mprov « d of too Bill , and considered it os ^ liberal bones ^ and £ ur 1 but the Government thought it bait to proceed wifli the ntiancial meflir Bures . which die provision JG > r the [ Impending cW » c r «» uiredtal ) e ^ gone through as soon as possible . The Bill woiddtUeWore ^ be ^ atponed til l the 27 th hi April , when itwas the intention of the Obvernment to proceed with it . " 1 " " ¦ •' _ ' ¦ ' ¦ . ; ¦ - - ¦¦ , , _ . -.:

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      In the article on the Belgian girl abduction , for "Lord Bkejme" recUl " Lord 81 »« io . "

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      Several papers are unavoidably omitted this week .

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      .. y-¦ 11 1 -1 ¦¦» ¦ ¦ - SATURDAY , MARCH 4 , , 1854 . ... _ .....

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      HOW REFORM BILLS ARE SECUKED . Tine Reform Bill was held out to the English people by Lord John Russell . It was not all that wo required ; it was more than we expected , andl such of us as cared to more for anything short of a national franchise declared that so far as it went we should like to haineit ; and Ministers wanted to g ive ituH . But there ia a " false medium , " which lias stood between , and deprived us of tho gift . It coukl not have been done if certain

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      ^^^ w ^ Mmai The inquiry into the explosion at Wi g an is proceeding . As yet no satisfactory account of the accident has been given , and the inquest is adjourned . The sixth anniversary of the Whittington Clnb was celebrated on Thursday evening by a grana concert , ball , and supper , given in th « rooms of the Society , Arand el-street , Strand .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 4, 1854, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2028/page/11/