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      Joseph Cleasby , a lad about fifteen years of age , was charged at Guildhall on Wednesday with robbing his employer of 211 . The theft had been committed on two separate occasions . In answer to a question by the Alderman , the boy admitted that he had taken the money , and said he had spent it in going to different place ' s of amusement at the Westend . He went to the Panopticon , the Great Globe , the Diorama , the Colosseum , and the Polytechnic during the day , and at night he went to the theatres " tcTthe boxes . " When the theatres were over he slept at the nearest coffee-shop each night . He was remanded in order that his companions might be discovered .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . Mr . E . M . Ward , A . R . A ., has been elected a Royal Academician . We congratulate the Academy on the accession . Banquet to General , Vivian . —The Directors of the East India Company gave last Saturday evening a banquet in honour of General Vivian and the other English officers appointed to the command of the Turkish contingent . The dinner took place at the London Tavern ; and the speakers were—The Chairman , Colonel Oliphant ; M . Musurus , the Turkish Ambassador , who spoke in French ; General Sir C . Pasley , General Vivian , Lord Palmerston , Mr . Vernon Smith , Lord Panmure , and the Duke of Argyll .

      Explosion of Gunpowder - mills . — About ten minutes after 9 o ' clock two explosions took place in two gunpowder-mills , which adjoined each other , at Dartford . The disaster has not been attended with loss of life ; but a man named Millar , who was employed in the works , has been seriously burnt , and is considered in danger , and another workman has been injured by a portion of the machinery striking him on the back . The damage to the firm has been very serious , and the concussion caused by the explosion was so great that all the houses in the town of Dartford were shaken . The origin of the calamity is not known .

      Opposition to the Public Health Bill- —A meeting of manufacturers was held on Monday night at the Bridge-house Hotel , London-bridge , for the sake of agitating against Sir Benjamin Hall ' s Nuisances Removal and Public Health Bills . The chief arguments of the speakers were to the effect that the acts tended to a despotic centralisation , and would entirely prevent many manufactures of great importance . Melancholy Death . —An inquest was held at Camberwell on Tuesday upon the body of Mrs . Sarah May , aged forty-five , who had been found dead in a field near

      Forest Hill , Sydenham , on Sunday morning . It appeared that the poor woman had been wandering in her mind ; and , having gone out on Saturday to make a call , had probably strayed about until she perished from cold and fatigue . A policeman had met her on Sunday morning about one o ' clock , a . m ., and had found her then walking without shoes or stockings ; and the medical man who made a post mortem examination , said she had , apparentl y , been crawling about on her knees , but he was confidentsheihadnot ' b ^ w ^ blis ¥ dpainvas ' 1 "first"th () ugh"t ;' A verdict of " Natural Death" was returned .

      The Recent Escape from Newgate .. —The convict Bell , one of the three prisoners who recently escaped from Newgate , was arrested the other morning between the Kingsland and Hackney roads . The other two men had been previously captured . A committee of aldermen is inquiring into the circumstances of the case ; and two of the turnkeys have been suspended . Death of Sir Georgk Larpent , Bart . —This gentleman , formerly well known in political and commercial circles , died on the 8 th inst ., at his residence in Conduit-street , aged about sixty-seven . Sir George , in 1847 , was a candidate , on liberal principles , for the City of London , and ho ran Mr . Masterman to three votes . He had previously been M . P . for Nottingham for a short time .

      Finchley Cemetery . —The new cemetery for the parish of Marylobone , situate at East-end , Finchley , was consecrated by the Bishop of London on Tuesday last . The ground , consisting of twenty-six acres , was purchased by the burial board of the parish , under the provisions of the new Metropolitan Buildings Act . Accident nx Machinery . —A man named James Brown was killed by machinery at Salford on Monday afternoon . He was employed to manage a hoist in the machine-making shop of Messrs . Higgins , and in consoquenco of the damp weather , it became necessary to put soft soap on certain parts of the machine to make it run easier . For this purpose he had to got about eight feet

      higher than the hoist ; and , at a distance from him of only seventeen feet , there was a ladder to bo used for tins purpose . To save troublo , however , lie got into the hoist , and then upon a cross-bar over it , and so began to uscend , putting the soap on as he went . In this way ho appears to have lost sight of the dnnger he wan in , and , the hoist going to the top of the building with him , hia head went against the pulley , through which the ropos pass , with auch force , that ho was crushed to death Almost in a moment . An inquest was hold before Mr . Kutter , county coroner , when the jury found a verdict of " Accidental Death . " A New Capital for Egypt . —A lottor from

      Alexandria , of the 24 th ult ., in the Pays , says : — " Said Pacha has paid several visits recently to this city ; on the last occasion he took a trip by sea to the environs , and afterwards left for the barrage of the Nile , where he has resolved x » n building a town , which appears destined to become the capital of Egypt . The position is excellent in every respect . The barrage is established at the southern point of the Delta-formed by the two branches of the Nile , of Damietta and Rosetta . It is the centre of Egypt ; the air is pure , and there are nojnarshes for some distance ; in addition , the Delta is the most fertile province . As a military position , it can be fortified in a formidable manner . General Gallici-Bey , of the engineers , who is employed by the Viceroy with the authorisation of the French Government , to whose service he belongs , has been commanded to prepare the plan of the fortifications of the new town . The Viceroy intends to lay the first stone himself , and on that occasion a grand fete is to be given , to which a vast number of persons of Alexandria and Cairo have been invited . All the steamers of the Government and of the , Indian Transit Company are to be placed at the disposal of the guests . Advices from the C ape of Good Hope up to the 29 th of January inclusive , state that the colony was tranquil . Fatal Occurrence on the Eastern Counties Railway . —On Saturday morning , on the arrival of an early luggage-train at the Brick-lane station , Bethnalgreen , from Cambridge , a guard was found to be missing from his usual position near the tender . Search was immediately made down the line , and the missing man was discovered lying across the rails , with the upper portion of his head cut off , and various parts of the body shockingly injured . The medical gentleman who was sent for gave it as his opinion that the train had passed over him , and that death had been instantaneous . From New Mexico we have reports that the Indians were becoming exceedingly troublesome . At Pueblo , on the 25 th of December , fourteen men were massacred by the savages , and several women and children carried off . The inhabitants of Santa Fe expected an attack from a arge force of Apaches , who had determined to take the town . The 1 st Dragoons had a fight with a party of Indians at Sacramento Mountain on the 25 th of January , when twelve of the latter were killed . A captain and three privates , however , were slain by the Indians . Lieutenant Sturges completely routed a party of Alpaches sixty miles from Santa Fe " , and recovered a number of stolen cattle . Great disapproval was manifested at Santa Fdjo ^ he refusaL of the Governor to adopt summary measures for the suppression of hostilities . The Fast Day . —A numerous meeting has been held in Liverpool , to protest against days of Humiliation and Fast by command . Mr . Robertson Gladstone presided , and the meeting was addressed by Mr . W . Rathbone , Rev . Mr . Graham , Mr . White , Mr . Johnson , Mr . Shiel , and other gentlemen . The chief points in the resolutions were , the opposition to dictation in religious matters , and the inexpediency of Past days , which deprived the poor of the profits of one working day . A memorial , which was an embodiment of the resolutions , was agreed to , and is to be forwarded to Lord Palmerston . Iir virtue of the New-Leek Act , public-houses will he closed on the Fast Day . Fire and Loss of Life . — -A public-house in Salisbury-court , Fleet-street , took fire on Wednesday morning . The policeman had perceived an unusual light coming from the house about two o ' clock in the morning , and gave an alarm . The fire-escape from Bridge-street having arrived , two persons were saved ; but the escape itself then caught light . A female servant appeared at one of the attic windows , shrieking for help ; and the men , expanding the juinping-sheet , called out to her to leap . This , however , she appeared too much alarmed to do , and shortly after sank back into the flames . The occurrence , on more than one occasion , of the escape catching fire , suggests the query whether it would not be possible to make the machine entirely of noninflammable substances . Lynch-Law and otiiicii Amenities of California . —The Times Californium correspondent relates the following story : — "An American named Brown was found guilty , after a legal trial , of murder , and condemned to be hung on the same day -with a Cnliforniun , also legally condemned for another murder . Brown ' s execution was ordered by the Supreme Court of the State to bo stayed on an appeal , on the ground of a flaw in the indictment , which would probably have given him a new trial . The people , however , determined that both criminals should have even-handed justice meted out to them , and after the Coliforninn was executed by the constituted authorities a mob broke open the prison and hanged Drown . Tho Mayor , after ho had performed his part at tho legal execution of the Californinn , resigned his office , to enable him consistently to assist in his private capacity' in the Lynching of Brown . By Inst accounts ho was a candidate for his former office , with every prospect of success . No doubt Brown was guilty , and , an Los Angolos has long been tho scene of murders and other horrible crimes , tho people determined to innke a salutary cxamplo by an act of stern impartiality . The three men hanged at Turner ' s-ferry were guilty of cattlc-stoaling—a crime which has of late been carried to such an extent na to have required a striking example- to put a atop to- it . 'here arc several horso-stealera in custody , who wore

      rescued from mobs just as they were preparing to execute summary justice upon them . " The same writer speaks of hunting and shooting down convicts ; of the prevalence of " murders , duels , robberies , burglaries , assaults with deadly weapons , larceny , rape , and minor offences ;" and of the explosion of a steamer , owing to excessive racing , by which sixty persons were killed , and thirty severely wounded . —A promising young State . ! A Disastrous Fire broke out on Thursday morning , at Bermondsey-wall . Several warehouses have been either destroyed or greatly injured . The damage is computed to amount to 15 , 000 J .

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      Leader Office , Saturday , March 17 . HOUSE OF COMMONS . In the course of the preliminary business , it was stated by Mr . Wilson that arrangements would soon be made to enable the public to send paper and envelopes to Somerset House to be stamped with postage stamps . THE BUDGET . The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that he did not propose to make his financial statement before Easter .

      . Sir J . Pakington brought forward his motion for the better encouragement of general education in England and Wales . He had taken up the subject , believing that the Government or Lord Aberdeen had abandoned it , and he thought that his notice had induced the proposition of Lord John Russell on the same subject . He commenced by objecting to the Committee of the Privy Council as having too great an interest to manage without having a mori distinct recognition as a body , and being without representation in the House of Commons ; and also that sums voted for Education were misapplied by

      the Committee . The President of the Council was , in fact , a Minister of Public Instruction , and his department ought to be represented by a responsible Minister . He gave several instances of the want of wisdom and management in the proceedings of the counciL He would give that council more power , but under a different administration . After these pre !| liminaries , he adverted to the slow progress of edu =-cation , which was proceeding at a lesser rate than it did twenty years ago ; besides which , the education that was afforded was lamentably deficient . He proceeded to analyse the latest statistics of education , and commented on the large number of children

      shown by-those statistics to receive no education at all . The cause came not from the number of children at work , but from the poverty and indifference of the parents , that indifference being caused by the want of education in the parents themselves . Yet more important were the defects of such education as was given . He read returns which showed the relative state of education in England and the rest of Europe , England being at the bottom of the scale , _ and .. that _ tlve _ education given was even inferior to that of almost every country . " TileT results

      were shown in the great proportion of criminals to the population generally , and in the frightful amount of crime in the uneducated districts of the metropolis , and the great towns ; and he stigmatised the state of things as worse than barbarism . With regard to religious differences preventing all improvement in the system of education , he thought that a greater obstacle was that a vast number of persons knew nothing of any religion at all . He then stated the plan he proposed . His bill was to be permissive in the first instance , and he proposed to frame it on the structure of the Poor Law Board .

      The educational areas of towns were to be those of the Municipal Corporations , and in the country those of the Poor Law Unions . It should be optional for the rate-payers to adopt or not the provisions of the act . If they did , they were to elect Educ ational Boards , the qualification for a member of which would be an income of 30 / . a-year . Mag istrates were to be ex officio members , and the Board was to have power to establish new schools , and to levy an educational rate . Ho believed the voluntary

      system could not succeed in ensuring n proper system . Tho rates might be assisted by grants ns nt present from the Consolidated Fund . Ho insisted strongly that the schools ehould bo free , and he argued that such a system alone would bo satisfactory or efficacious . He then proceeded to deal with tho question whether tho education should bo scriptural or secular . Ho argued elaborately that tho adoption of tho secular system would be disand ho thatschools

      tasteful to the country , proposed , for persons of nil denominations should receive assistance from tho rates ; and that o \ ory school should bo open to children of nil denominations , without their having forced on thorn any particular religious tonchers ; but at tho same time , tho prevailing religious teaching in each achool should be guided bv tho principle that the religious tenets of tho majority of persons in tho district should bo tho cat of that teaching . Ho showed that some such

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 17, 1855, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2082/page/9/