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      receive the Victoria Cross is made out , and that for the army ia in preparation . . ' . "; . ' ' IOT > IAN RAILWAYS . In answer to Mr . Oliveika , Mr . Vebnon Smith said that no positive rule had been laid down by the East Indian Government against any guarantee to future railways , but , as they had already guaranteed twenty millions for that object , they did not wish to extend it .

      THE SrEGiERA TKOOP-SHIP . Sir John Pakington brought the subject of the Megiera troop-ship again before the House , urging that she -was in a leaky state , and not seaworthy -when she started for the Mauritius . —Sir Charles "Wood read several reports from the authorities at Plymouth and Portsmouth to show that the ship was in good order when she started , and that any accident which had occurred was caused by heavy weather , and could not have been provided against by any fitting out .

      TREATY BETWEEN RUSSIA AND PERSIA . —THE NEGOTIATIONS IN PARIS . Xn answer to Mr . Latard , Lord Palmerstow said that it was not true that the negotiations which had been , going on with the Persian Ambassador at Paris were broken off ; but , on the contrary , there was every prospect of their terminating favourably . DESTITUTE SOTJDIERS' WIVES AT COIiCHESTER . Sir John Tyrreli * drew attention to the destitute condition of a number of the families of soldiers in the camp at Colchester , and asked what the Government meant to do in the matter . —Mr . Frederick Peel said that the General commanding at Colchester had been directed to report on the subject ; but he deprecated tbe notion of relieving the destitution of soldiers' -wives from the money voted for the support of the army .

      NEW WBIT . A new writ was ordered to be issued for an election for North Leicestershire in the room of the Ifarquis of Granby , now Duke of Rutland .

      THE IXNANCIAL MEASURES OP THB GOVERNMENT . Mr . Disraeli brought forward a resolution of which he had given notice— " That , in the opinion of this House , it would be expedient before sanctioning the financial arrangements for the ensuing year , to adjust the estimated income and expenditure in the manner which stall appear best calculated to secure the country against the risk of a deficiency in the years 1858-9 and 1859-60 , and to provide for such a balance of Revenue and Charge respectively , in the year 1860 , as may place it in the power of Parliament at that period , without embarrassment to the finances , altogether to remit the income-tax . " He approved of the course taken by the

      Government with regard to the reduction of the incometax ; but against the Budget generally , he urged two main objections—firstly , that it threatened to involve the revenue in serious embarrassment ; and secondly , that it Tendered the promised abolition of the incometax in 1860 not only difficult , but impossible . —The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that Mr . Disraeli ' s criticism had not touched the financial arrange - ments of the ensuing year . The income and expenditure of future years being uncertain , could hardly be arranged for in advance , and he must decline to frame a Budget for more than a year . Ho objected to pledge the Legislature to a particular course of dealing with a particular impost , and declared that he would stand by liis Budget as it stood . — Mr . Gladstone accused the Government of inconsistency in adopting a scheme of

      finance quite opposed to that which most of them had agreed to when ho was their colleague . The present Budget was altogether at variance with the principles Which the Legislature had adopted for th « last fifteen years . ^ The Income-tax was originally introduced with the object of removing other burdens , but now it was renewed without accompanying remissions . The great fault of the Budget was , that it was baaed on a principle of excessive expenditure—a subject he monnt to bring before the House on the first time of going into Committee of Supply . He gave his hearty support to Mr . Disraeli s amendment , believing it an honest declaration against the risk of incurring a deficiency in tho revonue hereafter . — Mr . J . Wilson and Mr . L-aino having spoken , the debate waa adjourned , and tlio House rose soon after .

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      THE NEAPOLITAN TORTURERS . Wo learn from Naples , date . 9 th of February , that five , wine merchants wero arrested on tho cliaree of haviqg sold the spirits in which tho body of AgeaUfto Milano to plunged . Those unfortunate persons wore subjected to tho torture , from tho severity of which one of their number , Salvatoro Desimoni , died tho followinK day . Arrests are continually taldng placo , although tho pnaona arc now overcrowded .

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      PERSIA . The Teheran Gazette of the 8 th January publishes a proclamation of the Shah , announcing the capture of Bushire , and stating his intention of taking the most energetic measures to repel the invasion of the English . At the same time , it expresses the hope of an amicable settlement . " There is every reason to suppose , " says the Morning Post Paris correspondent ( this day ) , ' that Russia has already offered assistance to China . It is also declared that a new secret treaty was signed between Russia and Persia within the last eight weeks . It is known , from despatches that have reached Paris , that considerable forces have been sent lately towards the Chinese and Persian frontiers . "

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      AMERICA . By the papers brought from America in the Arago , which arrived yesterday morning , we learn that the Atlantic Submarine Telegraph Bill hangs fire in the House of Representatives , but that there appears no doubt of its passing ultimately . The National Theatre at Washington was destroyed by file in the afternoon of the 6 th inst , and only the bare walls remained . News from various parts state that the ice is disappearing and the rivers gradually rising . Official accounts from the Philippine Islands state that 15 , 000 houses were destroyed by a hurricane . Considerable damage was also done at Manilla . There is some confirmation of the accounts of the invasion of Tampico by Garcia , and the possible seizure at the house of the British Consul of 240 , 000 dollars belonging to foreign merchants .

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      EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM AT SOUTH KENSINGTON . The following regulations for the guidance of contributors to the Educational Museum have just been issued by the Department of Science and Art : — 1 . The Museum will be open free to the public on Mondays , Tuesdays , and Saturdays ; and on Wednesdays , Thursdays , and Fridays , to students and the public generally , on payment of < 6 d . each , or a subscription of 10 s . a year or 5 s . a quarter , payable in advance . 2 . Contributions forwarded for exhibition will be classified and arranged by the officers of the Museum . 3 . Exhibitors will be requested to attach to their contributions descriptive labels , giving their names , uses , &c , the size and form of . such , label to be hereafter determined . 4 . It is desirable that the usual retail price should be distinctly marked on all articles sent for exhibition .

      5 . As it is the wish of the Committee on Education , and the evident interest of exhibitors , that the Museum should at all times represent the then existing state of educational appliances , every facility will be given for the introduction of new inventions , books , diagrams , &c , relative to education . 6 . Books , and other educational appliances out of date , or the utility of which may have been superseded ! or articles that may have become injured , may be removed or replaced at the option of the exhibitor . 7 . To prevent confusion , and the possibility of articles being removed by persons not properly authorized by the exhibitor , due notice in writing of th « intention to remove articles must be given , and no book or object is to be removed until it has been exhibited at least twelve months .

      8- In order to protect the property of exhibitors , no article will be allowed to be removed from the Museum without a written authority from tho superintendent . 9 . On Wednesdays , Thursdays , and Fridays the books and other objects in the Museum will be open to students and to the public for inspection and study , under such regulations as are usually found convenient in a public library . 10 . A catalogue will from time to time be published , so as to keep pace as much as possible with the additions to the Museum , and tho withdrawals from it . 11 . Exhibitors desirous of advertising in the catalogue , may send their prospectuses , illustrations , price lists , &c , 1000 copies at a time , and printed in demy 8 vo ., so that they may be bound up in the catalogue . Tho binding will be free of cost to tho exhibitor ; but exhibitors will bear any depreciation in the value of the objects from their use by visitors .

      12 . All contributions forwardod to the Museum , to bo addressed to the Secretary of tho Department of Science and Art , Cromwoll-gardons , South Kensington , care of Richard A . Thompson , Esq ., superintendent of the Museum .

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      Another Episode of Tins " Madame Denis" Histohy . —Tho man Adolphus Harrison brought another action , similar to that against tho Marquis of Bath , in tho Court of Queen ' s Bench yesterday . Tho defendant was Mr . Knightley , M . P . for Northamptonshire . Harrison did not appoar , owing , as his solicitor stated , to thoro being somo difficulty as to proving tho delivery of tho wino ; and ho waa accordingly nonsuited . Tuisro « y a Servant and A-ttempteo Suicide ov Tine Thief . —Hippolyto Boulangcr , a hatter , of Castlestreet , and Patrick Carroll , a labourer , were , chargod , at

      Southwark , yesterday , with receiving a large auiMi «« -, T * French hat-plush , stolen from the premises of Mr Gilbert , wholesale dealer and importer of French Boofl « Unxon-fltree - t , Borough , by their porter , a manfaS Hearn , who , on being discovered as the thief cut wl throat in a frightful manner , and now lies in the hosniSl in a dangerous state . Tie case was remanded

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      There is no learnea man but will confess hP } , „ « . much profited by reading controversies bis S e ^ £ awakened an . a his judgment sharpened ? ' If tSi ? be profitable for him to read , why should it not '» £ least . betolerableforbisaaversaryto writet-Miii ' oJ

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      THE BEMEDY FOR THE UNEMPLOYED ABTISANS . ( To the Editor of the Leader . " ) Sib , —On the occasion of opening Parliament for the present Session , her Majesty expressed her gratification at the " general well-being and contentment of her people , " while at the very moment the statement was being made , thousands of industrious artisan 3 were parading the streets of the metropolis in order to incite the charity of the public to provide that sustenance for themselves and their familiesj which , however willing , they are , at present , unable to obtain . For many years -there has not been so much distress in the country as there has been during the last year . It is a fabrication to say there i 3 no distress . More honest and far more truthful is the

      language of the Emperor of the French . " The country is prosperous . Among a portion of the people , however , great misery prevails : and , unless Providence shall send us a good harvest , the millions given by private charity , and by the Government , will be but feeble palliatives . Iiet us redouble our exertions to remedy evils beyond human foresight . " And so say we . The Emperor points to science to overcome nature—and to the development of the colony of Algeria , its cultivation and its commerce . While France can point to her one colony , England can speak , of many colonies , to which she may , by a proper and systematic organization , ship off the re . dundant population of her shores , where her willing sons of labour and her skilled artisans might find

      openings for their toil and skill , and be not only comfortably settled in life , but look forward to leaving their children a few acres of land for their own . Emigration is , then , the remedy we propose for the present distress of thousands of the" people for whom England can find no adequate employment—no ricli prairie lands , awaiting only the hand of cultivation to wave witli fields of golden grain . The present depressed condition of the artisan class calls to my mind the proposition of Mr . Scratchley , of the Friendly Societies Institute , to establish a series of local benefit emigration societies in the United Kingdom , for the purpose of carrying out , with tho view to systematic colonization , the principle of freehold assurance , in union with that of ordinary benefit building societies .

      The principle involved in the plan of the proposed societies has been successively tried in Great Britain , as the fund amental element of upwards of two thousand associations , generally called benefit building societies . The novelty is not in the principle , but in its application to the proposal of aiding intending colonists , whether in the New Forest , Ireland , or New Zealand , in Natal , Texas , or New York , to acquire the freehold of lands in feo simple' in connexion , when necessary , with an adequate supply of labour , and also of affording , by the same means , facilities to small capitalists for safe and profitable investments . Intending emigrants join a benefit society as investors , and perform tho conditions attached to that

      position . After tlicy have acquired sufficient standing , they become by rotation , or by ballot , eligible to be sent out as colonists ; that is to say , land and other requisites ore supplied to them on selected spots , of & value exceeding the money they have paid , credit being given for a term of yeara ( or for the whole ot life , if with a policy of assurance ) for the excess >« tho value of tho property handed over to them , for which , however , they execute a legal mo rtgage to tho society . It is obvious that , by such a system , not only the bare land is given to the colonist , but material improvements in its condition can bo

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      180 THE LliABEl [ No . 361 , Saturday

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      THE NEUFCIIATEL QUESTION . Lottera from Berlin stato that no arrnngomont—not oven a provisional ono—lias boon entered into for tho settlement of tho Noufchatol question

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1857, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2181/page/12/