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htvre beenneglectod for protecting the lives of the workmen . That the factory building was unsuited for the purpose of the manufactory , and placed in a position highly dangerous to the Turkmen on the works , the passengers by the company ' s trains , and the surrounding neighbourhood . "
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . Accident to a Boat ' s Crew . —A . boat belonging to her Majesty ' s ship Herald , Capt . Denliam , was overturned , " on the 20 th of October , 1856 , " to quote from the captain's report , " while returning from the island Wakaya , adjacent to Ovolau , in the Fejees , while under a pj » ss of sail , with an overload of cocoa-nuts , through which the officer in charge , Mr . A . K . Nugent , midshipman , aged twenty , and five seamen , lost their lives , while so free from turbulence was the channel between the island and ship , that two of the crew swam back to the shore—a distance of two miles in the wind ' s eyeand another gained the ship with the sad intelligence . All the united efforts of the small craft of Ovolau and the ship ' s boats failed in even recovering the bodies of our lamented shipmates . "
Pjsmbroke Dockyard . —The extension and improvements of the dockyard at Pembroke are this year to be carried out to the extent of 120 , O 0 OZ . The Victoria Cross .- —This decoration consists of a Maltese cross , formed from the cannon taken from the Bussians . In the centre of the cross is the Royal crown , surmounted by the lion , and below it a scroll bearing the words , " For valour . " The riband is blue for the navy , and red for the army . On the clasp are two branches of laurel , and from it , suspended by a Roman V , hangs the- cross . The execution of the work has been entrusted by Lord Panmure to Mr . Hancock , of Bruton-street . The decoration carries with it a pension of 10 ? . a year .
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MISCELLANEOUS . ¥ atheb Paul Mary ( the Hon . and Rev . ¦¦' . 0 . R . Packenham ) , Passipnist , died at Dublin , in the convent of the order , last Sunday . He was brother to the Earl of Longford , and nephew of the late Duchess of Wellington ; and he accompanied the Queen , on her first visit to Ireland , as one of her aides-de-camp , being at that time an officer of the Guards . He resigned the profession of arms on the occasion of his conversion to the Romish faith a few years since , and then joined the order of the " Barefooted Clerks of the Most Sacred Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ . "
is- proceeding favourably . In Demerara , the ravages of cholera continue , but without increase of virulence . A fast bad been appointed . The death of ther Honi . John Cameron , of Barcaldine , is recorded . 1170 immigrants had arrived in the course of the year from the East Indies . Sib John M'Nexll and Colone * , Tulloch have received an address from the city of Bath , signed "by numerous gentlemen , and expressing the highest approval of the Crimean Commissioners' Report . An address has also been sent from Preston . —A letter , dated February 20 th , from Lord Panmure to Si * John M'Neill and Colonel Tullocli , has been published . It contains
the offer of 1000 Z . to each which was recently alluded to in Parliament ; and also the annexed paragraph : — "I have reason to believe that you have felt hurt by the omission made on my part of the usual official acknowledgment of so important a document as the report laid by you before the Government . I at once admit the ground of this complaint , and express my personal regret that it should have existed , but the fact was that , having accepted the report from the hands of one of the Commissioners at a personal interview , without , so far as I can trace , any formal letter accompanying it , and my mind being much occupied by important affairs at the time , I omitted that formal acknowledgment of your services which courtesy and my own opinion of their value required . " Sir John M'Neill , in his reply , says : — - " If I rightly understand this statement of the grounds
on which the grant is tendered to me , it means that the sum of 1000 ? . is intended to be considered not merely as a , recognition by her Majesty ' s Government of the manner in which the duty was performed , but likewise as the pecuniary equivalent of the results of the inquiry—that is , the money value of the advantages which the country has derived from , those results . This estimate alone is sufficient to lead me , without further consideration , at once to decline a proposal which , as explained by your lordship , appears to me to involve the admission that the results of my labours have been so insignificant as to be almost without appreciable value to the public . The thanks which your Lordship ' has done me the honour to convey to me avouM have been far more acceptable if they had been unconnected with such an estimate . " Colonel Tulloch lias also declined the proffered sum .
Mr . Serjeant Wilkins died on Wednesday morning after a long and painful illness . Neufchatel and Pejrsia . —The first conference on the Neufchatel question met on Thursday in Paris at one o ' clock . —A treaty of peace between England and Persia was signed by Lord Cowley and Ferukh Khan at Paris on Tuesday . Reinforcements for China . —Orders have been received at Plymouth to prepare , with the utmost despatch , the Saiispareil , Himalaya , and another vessel , for the conveyance of reinforcements , ammunition , &c , to the China station .
The Royal British Bank . —A meeting of the creditors and depositors of this bank was held on Tuesday evening at Evans ' s Hotel , Covent Garden , to consider a compromise proposed by the shareholders . After considerable discussion , the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — " That this meeting is of opinion that it is not expedient to accept any offer of a composition from the shareholders of the Boyal British Bank until an official statement has been laid before the depositors of the actual pecuniary resources of the shareholders ; Hot without receiving the most ample and satisfactory Security for the payment of any composition , should any Offer from the shareholders to that effect be accepted by tlUB meeting . "—A general meeting of the depositors in
the Royal British Bank was lield on Wednesday evening , at the Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street , for the purpose of obtaining their assent to the compromise proposed by the shareholders , and which had been approved by the committee of depositors . After a great deal of dissension , Mr . James Wyld was called to the chair . The following resolutions were carried , though not without opposition : —That , in the opinion of this meeting , it is essential to the interests of the creditors of the Koyal British Bank , that the proposed composition of Cs . Cd . in tho pound , beyond the assets in bankruptcy , should be accepted , and that the shareholders should bo required to pay the same by two
instalments before tho 30 th of April nex * . That it is dcairablo that the acceptance of such composition by a majority of the creditors should be binding upon tho -minority , and that an Act of Parliament for that purpose should bo obtained , the , application' for which tUia mooting pledges itself to support ; and that tho petition already prepared in favour of such act bo jresonted to both llouHea of Parliament " Lectukics on Italy . —Miss J . M . White lias been lecturing with groat success , to very largo audiences in tho principal cities and towns of Scotland , and lias elicited the strongest expressions of public sympathy With tho aspirations of tho Italian people .
A Jiswiau WKi > i > iNG . —Thti daily papers , oven at this exciting period of political crisis , contrive to give lone accounts of tho mrrriugc , on Wednesday ( nt Gunners ! bury lurk near Clmwielc , tho country-sent of Baron Lionel d « Rothschild ) , of Miss Leonora , tbo daughter of tho Baron , to Huron Alplionse , tho eldest boh of Baron James Rothschild , or IVih , Tho ceremony seems to Have taken , place in a perfect light of jewels and of gold and atlvor plate . Some of tho observances were singular , but wo have no room to detail them . Tnw Capk ok Good ITovic . —Tho last news from the \ V ° Sr 0 ort llop 0 is to th 0 pffcct thftt "ll -i < tranquil
, . lim Wicsr Ijcmra .-. Very little of importance i . s brought b y tho last mail * . Tho islands for tho moat part nrc healthy , and the process of sugar manufacture
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MOLDAVIA . After tho death of the Kaimaikan of Moldavia , a Provisional Government wna installed with tlic consent of tho foreign consuls , and this Government will act until the Porte shall have made some other appointment .
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Another Colliery Explosion . —Throe explosions of iiro damp have occurred nt a pit belonging to Mr . Mundy , at Shipley , eight miles from Derby . Three men and two boys were killed , and thirteen other persons have been injured . Desperate Attempt to Munmcu in a Railway Cauriaoe . —About eight o ' clock on Thursday night , much alarm prevailed at tho Cnmden-town . station of the North Western Railway , in consequence of tin : cries of murder having been heard to proceed from a railway carriage attached to a Bluekwnll and Camd < m-to \ y n train . The driver as soon as possible stopped the train , when , on the guard opening the door of tins carriage from which the crion proceeded , ho found a gentleman from whose neck blood was profusely flowing . A man "Wii 3 in tho enrriugo , who wiis charged hy tin ; gentium an ¦ with having stubbed him in t \\ u neck willi some sharp instrument . Tho person accused wuh immediately Hi ! t : uri ; d . 1 » ° 1 , 'nvc hi . 1 name as Webb , Robbery was supposed to be the object .
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Leader Office , Saturday , March 7 th . LAST NIGHTS PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . The House met for a quarter of an hour , but transacted no business . HOUSE OF COMMONS . liURIAL ACTS . In answer to Sir Db Lacy Evans , Mr . Massett said that the Government had tho subject of the amendment of the present Burial Acts under consideration , "but of course , at present , they could not \ indertake to bring in a bill on tho subject .
" WKST LONDON UNION . In answer to Lord Claud Hamilton , Mr . Botrvimra said that inqniTy had been made by the Poor-Law Commissioners into the accommodation for tho casual poor in tho workhouse of tho West London Union , and it was found that , when tho workhouse itself was full , the casual poor were sent to a place which was wholly unfitted to afford them decent shelter . Means had been taken to remedy that state of things . rKRSIA . In nnswor to Mr , Layaud , Mr . Vkrnon Smith said thnt , although peace was concluded with Pcrsin , it was still objectionable to produce the papers relating to tho difference with that country until after the treaty had been ratified . Ho vote for the expense would probably bo taken this year . —Mr . Gladstone complained that no opportunity would bo afforded for discussing the Persian quostion before tho meeting of tho now Parliament THW itKSOI . UTH . Iii answer to Mr . Kvim / yn , Sir Cuaivucs Wood explained that what hurt been done with tlio Arctic ship Reaoluto wan not done witl \ any discourteous intention townrtlH tho American Government , but solely with n view to her preservation . CHINA . Sir FiTzuor Kku . y inquired whether tho Government intended to continue to act . on the Colonial Onlinnncc with reference to tho carrying of the British < lng
in ! tbe Chinese waters , for it was clear that that ordi naaee was illegal .- ^ -Lord P-Axjeeroton said that thehrvn " and learned' gentlemeft seemed to wish to reorjen tTe Chinese debate . Therti was no intention at present to discontinue acting on the ordhiance in question
TfiE . COUKSE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS . On th& motion for going into Committee of Wavs and Means , Mr . Disraeli rose to state the course he pro posed to take with regard to the modified arrangements which the Government had indicated they were about to bring forward with a view to a dissolution . He and his party wished to consider the proposition of the Government without offering obstacles to it , and thev were prepared to consent to the arrangement of the income-tax proposed , so that it was consistent ; with the spirit of the settlement of 1853 ~ But the whole
, on , he was disinclined to per mit the present Parliament to deal with taxation , as the new Parliament which would meet in May would have ample time to , make fiscal arrangements . It waa not unusual to have a budget" in May , and he had even known one in August . —The Chancellor of the Exchequer urged that the plan he proposed was the only really feasible one , and thought it would be desirable to go into Committee of Ways and Means to . discuss the Tea Duties . —Mr . Gladstone concurred that it would be a more convenient course to take all discussion in committee . TIIE TEA DUTIES . The House having gone into Committee of Ways and Means , the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved a resolution that , in lieu of the Customs duties now chargeable on tea imported into the United Kingdom , the following duties shallbe charged : —To the 5 th of April , 1857 j inclusive , ^ Is . 9 d . in the pound ; from and after the 5 th April , 1857 , to the 5 th April , 1858 , inclusive , Is . 5 d . in . the pound . Mr . Gladstone moved as an amendment that the duty on tea shall be , after the 5 th April , 1857 , Is . 3 d . per pound , and after the 5 th . April , 185 8 ,-Is , per pound ( 18 & 19 Vic . c . 97 ., Act of 1855 ) . —Lord John Russell said he approved of the plan of finance of tlie Government as it was now modified : — -A discussion followed , in which the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was criticised by Mr . Eicakdo , Mr . BIilner
Gibson , Mr . Malins , Mr . Horsfall , Mr . Laing , Mr . Hey worth , and Mr . Moffatt . —Mr . Muntz believed that the difference in the tea duty proposed by Mr . Gladstone ' would go into the pockets of the importers , and not of the consumers . He should prefer a reduction of the income-tax to that of the duty on tea . —Mr . Diskaeli again objected to entertaining- the question of new taxes in the present Parliament . He believed , that a duty of Is . 5 d . on tea , though it was said to be only 2 d . —which , however , represented a sum of half a million of taxation . —would press on the consumer and interfere with an important branch of trade . —In answer to Lord John Russell , the Chancellor of this Exchequer said that by his present proposition he did not pledge himself not to propose a higher duty on tea after April , 1858 . —Mr . Henley supported the proposition of the Government because he did not wish to risk revenue too
sud denly . The House divided : — For the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer 187 Against it . 125 Majority 62 . THE SUGAR DUTIES . The alterations in the sugar duties were tlien agreed to as proposed by the Government , —namely , on the principal sugar , 1 ? . per cwt . to 8 th April , 1857 , and 18 s . 4 d . from 5 th April , 1857 , to 8 th April , 1858 , &c , — Mr . Gladstone having withdrawn hia amendment to reduce them to the amount proposed by the Act of 1853 . The other business was disposed of and the House adjourned at half-past eleven .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 7, 1857, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2183/page/10/
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