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      joicing does nbt * appeai 7 vbut what is certain is , that tie . King , lifer husband , seems resqlvecl that she stall have all the credit belonging W the event . He will not accompany her to church to Xhank lleaven for her sate delivery ; and , more particularly lie Will not go through the a ^ tftent ceremony © f presenting ; the babe upon a silver saLver to a select audience assembled within the palace on such occasions—that cerempiiy being looked upon as the fust act of parental recogaition . JSiit whateTer coBOes of the , Kihg's " res 6 lution , the Carlist cause receives a stunning blow by the birtli ofitMs pfinceV : : The affairs of the Church and of Churchmen have

      leen prominent this week . ¦ A . long , aiid very interesting letter from the Bishop of Exeter deals " with the scrviples which sonae part of his clergyfeel ¦ under tire operation of the 5 Sth . clause of the l ^ ow ; IDivbree Act ^ ^ y hicli will : come in : force ; oa tbe llth of January next . Anything in ore ; unlike the old Henry of Exkkeb , style of letter can-. Abt be imagined , all is so mildly : temperate and reasonable . ; He strongly dissuades the clergymen-. ¦ ¦ to whom ^ lie is writing , in answer to a letter praying for his ; advice ^ against petitioning

      1 hei Queen to uiidp aw act which she hsis voiuiitaiiljadopted , andtovait with patiencetiHan ^ lunity can . bci ^ found to rexaedy the state of things Tinder , waieh ^ they find themselves in tribulation ; Th ^ RevvMr ; ScojBEiit- —^ father of the yo ung 1 lady ^ hose funeral lately -was the occasion : of a : not at Lewes—is nofcso ' patient under what he cdiiceives fro be a grievous wrongs He has pubh ^ long statement ^ of facts in connexibh with tlie religious abductioii of his da « ghter by the he ^ ds of a Pnsesyitp institution , to ^ hioh , a little before the iimeolher 4 eath ; Miss Scc ^ Li ^ birMSister Amt ^ ' as she becanie- ^ beciueathed all the property at her

      ( disposal ; . ^ Litigation will jno-st probably take place en ijiis latter point , when ourioxis revelations will be niade on the subject of the ' JPriesi in the iamily . * Steanwhile , Sir . SeoBEXi , * s letter afibrds food for reflection as to how far a father , in his positioiij is authorized to stanH in the way of the inelinatibiis of his ohildi who niaj possibly be as weU able to judge for herself as he to Jj udge for her > There is some ^ thing strange— . and we wOl ventureto say repulsive wr-in the pleading- of the Bey . Mr . SeoBEii , that his lights over Ms daughter , ^ as hev < ¦ parish spiritual guide , have been invaded by a sect with whoia he happens to have doctrinal differences .

      liOJrd Caio' ^ bw ^ x « ade some good remarks on the aies and abusies of newspaper reporting , aproposof an action for libel tried in the Court of Queen's Be-nch on Wednesday ; , A short time ago a man named Lewis , manager of the Traders and Me-. fthanios' Iioan Society- ^ the * Sdbiety' consisting of bia sister , a Mrs . FosTBH- ^ cUarged a Mrs . Bass , the divorced wife of the tpwn ^ clerk of Dover , and John Edward Coxxett , a lawyer's clerk acting for her , with obtaining tlie sum . of 30 / . under false jwefceixces ; alleging that sl ) ie had signed a declaration which stated her to . bo a widow . The summons

      was dismissed , and . a new ono granted to Golt . ett gainst liBwis for perjury . This oaso was heard by Alderman Rosia and reported in the Daily Teleffrd&t , which stated that ' the magistrate dismissed the summons , there not being sufficient evidence to secure a conviction . ' Lewis entered an action against the propnetor of that paper for the publication of the words in question , as constituting a libel . Alderman Rose said that he dismissed the summons , ' because he thought the evia « n ™ «*

      „ suiftcient to lead to a conviction ; ' and Mr . M / vkxin clerk to the magistrates at Guildhall , produced his notes , which recorded that the summons was dismissed , because tho evidence was ' not likely to ' produce a conviction . " Still the defendant succeeded in satisfying tlie jury that there was no intention to give more than a fair report . Lord Campbell ' s remark that reports of law proceedings should be merely dry accounts of facts , wholly devoid of commentary , and made supply witji tho view of . representing tho truth , gives undoubtedly « reasonable and just definition of tho duty of an nojitist reporter ,

      It is quite possible that lookers-onihiay often sec better tTiart players how the game wculd he best played . ; "We are certain that many of the lookerson at the first attempt to launch the Leviathan could have : suggested ways and means for getting over the difficulty that has perplexed ihe ^ g ineering jbrains of the masters ; and tins they could have done ; by the simple exercise of ; a faculty often \ yanting ¦ ¦ to great scientific minds— -iiiia ^ ihatioii , carrying the vieSv a little -way , a very little Ayajr . ev . cn , beyond the jjaleyof thei known . y iaiid . demonstrable . The positive as well as relative powers of all the instruments provided to get this wonderful ship into the water / liydraulic engineschainsropesand

      , , , bfeanis , were ; no doubt calculated ; witli the perfectton of accuracy ; but they were insufficient . ' Mere . accuracy allows no margin ; it cannot go beyond itself : its usefulness is ^ disputable in summing up r « sultsy but very questibnable in calculating requirements . : Tlie ; vexatious delays ^ and repeated failures jat ^ Millwall ^^ have all Weii co « s « q » ent upoii an nnimagulative dependence upon the accuracy : of certain calculations ; : an imaginative direction ;\ vould have provided an obvious superabundance of means as the reasonable mode of dealing with a great and unusual . undertaking ; and success would have

      stood in ; the place of failure , ^ aiid saving in the place of cost . Engineers have been at fault on the other side : of the ChahneV witJi a melancholy result of death and mutilation to upwards pf twenty ; tiven ; Some ; tirne back , the roof of tne entra » ce-gate of the cttadel at Vinceniies- —a ^ building' tliree or four stories high , built in the 13 tli or 14 th century ^ --Wfis turned into a battery / in whicli some heavy mortars and guns , were mounted ;; the engineers in charge of the work appear to liave taken n 6 heed oi

      the-state of the building , the interior of wKich has ; fallen : down ; under ; ^ tlie jvveight . of the ord ^ nahce placed ^ ; ftppn it . ¦ Onei of the upper floors was ; used , as a place of eonnuehient by- the : police of tie citadel , and ^ the ground-noor w ^ the guardhouse of the engineers . $ he Emperor repaired , to tlie spot as soon as lie \ yas apprised of thipea , tastrpphe ^ and is reportedstp have cpn ^ emtied ^ in . nP measured language , thenegligence bf his '¦ . engineers : Thejforgot that : France has ¦ . ¦ a it here ^ it ary engineer for Emperor . . ' - " .: ' \ y . 7 ¦'' /¦ ...: ¦• ¦/¦¦ i > - ;! -, ' . 'V "' . v . ' ^ .. - .. ' . : - /; -. ; i : . ¦

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      ;;; . ¦;¦ . ¦ . ; , ; STATE QE TRADE . ¦ : v - ^ y ^ :: ; : ' . IJusinkss sUU cdnil ; imies very depressed ; and the daily papers : pul > Usli a gloomy account of the condition of the operative classes in the great manufacturing toiyns .: It is here stated that , '' at Boston , 29 out of 64 cottdii factories ar < 3 fanning short tinaei and two are stopped ; There are 4515 persons working from two to four days per . week , and 467 persons are totally imemplo . yed . In the iron foundries , a considerable number of persons are out of work , and the bulk of tlie handloom weavers are on tlie ' stint . ' Messrs . ArrowsmithaniCo . ' a xriill commenced -working full time on Tliursday- week . At Rochdale , six out of the 96 mills in the town are stopped , aad 13 are rimning i 3 lxt ; rt time . Altogether , there are 15 , 000

      people working short tUnie . The iroa trade , lately bo brisk , is now greatly depressed , At Wigan , eight of the 26 mills in the : town are running short time ; 1500 out of 56 , 000 hands are but partially employed . At Stockporfc , three-fourths of the , mills are working short time , and the distress is great . The applications for poor-lawrelief have risen from 1640 to 1739 , biing an excess of 259 oyer the mimbora of the corresponding ivqelc last year . At Barnesley , two out of the five mills in tho town , aie running short time , atndSOO out of the 1500 hands usually employed are on short eaiuipgs . One mill , employing 100 hands , Uas stopped entirely , At Riidcliffe , 12 out of 21 mills are working short time , and 4180 persons out of 5290 hands are but partially employed .

      At Manchester , out of 233 operative works , 15 have stopped , 145 arc working short time ; and , out of 45 ^ 391 hands usually employed , 18 , ISG are wen-king short time , and 10 , ft 94 are put of « mployment . AtXeicester , a great number of persons aro reported to bo out of work , and still more on short time , but the dis . trcssed population conduct themselves very creditably , At Blackburn , 11 mills aia entirely closed , arid , out of all the mills in the town , only four are working fall time , There have not been seen since 1847 more factory hands out of employment tlian at tho present time . There U an incroaso of 508 applicants for poor-law relief compar « d with tho corror ondbke week

      sp - of laat year . Work has been provided for a considerable , number of hands qa tho public park and cemetery . At Liverpool , a largo number of , persons usually employed at tho docfts aro out of omploymeut , an , d the diatroas has been aggravated by tho recent provalenco of adverse winds , wliioh lia-ve kept about 200 vessels' out of port . At Preston , there aro now 25 , 000 persons either partially employed or totally out of work . All tho - workhouses in the district are quite full ; some of th « inmates sleep on benches , aiwl tho guardians arc almost unable to cope with tho diflioultiea which beaet thorn . Tn South Staffordshire , owing to tlio recent failures , things continue to wear a gloomy aspect . Tho

      whole of the mills at Carlisle are forking ' short time " and the haadloom weavers are gradually becoming more depressed . Id the neighbourhood of ; WhitehaVen ^ the laiUa are running short time , but there is abundince of ^ -o rfc in the rural districts for able-bodied men The slate trade afc Carnar-von continues tolerably brisk jV * Hblyhead , business is very flat , o ^ ing ma inly to tte diminished emplpyment afforded at the New Harbour works . At Dundee , there have been sonie failures and the effects of the panic at Glasgow have been -rather severely felt .,: At Stiemekl ,: there are increasing indica Uqnsj of depression , but it is hoped the traders of the town generally will tide over the crisis . At Lee < K business continuos pretty ' « ady , arid only occasional failures oceux . At Belfast , there is a great want of employment for the girls usually en gaged in the : sewed muslin traded ;

      At the weekly meeting , held oh Tuesday ; of the guWdians of the Erestoa XTnipn ( Mr . H ; Sattertliwaite . tlie chairman , piesiding : ) , Mr . Mainw « rinjg , the Poor Law inspector ^ ^ for ^ he dbtrict , ; attended . From the retuTiis it appeared that , compared with last veefc , there was an increase of 1 . 849 recipients , of outdoor relief , and of 112 ? . 12 s . l () di in the cost . The total number of out < door paupers is now 8038 ; lilr . C . Satterthwaite pointed but : the harashipcoasequeiit upon the Poor Law Board ' s refusal to relax its prohibitory order -with , reference to out-door relief ( witJibut work ) ¦ to able-bodied males Many persons in receipt ' of 6 s . pr 7 s . a week rrpia th 6 mill working short time ; had applied for relief , being burdened with large families ; but the guardians could net give them relief because they were working ^ This lhatter led to considorable discussion , but to no practical result . : : : ¦¦¦; V ¦ ¦' : - ' ¦ ¦ :: ' ,- ¦¦ : > ' .- " : - . . ' : . ¦' : ;¦ ' . ' . : ¦¦ . ''¦ ¦ ¦\

      . It has been resolved , at a ineetiiig of the shareholclers in the Nprthurnberland and Durham District iBank to mak « : a call of 51 , per sharis , to bepayable : pnV the 14 th inst . ^ Tlie liberal conduct : of the- Bank of England iri making ad-vances to the large manufacturers ' aiut coal ownersia the north of England , in order ¦ . ¦ to enable fcliem to pay ^ wages , -has- led -to ail improved feeling : iri tliosc parts ^ . ' . ; . ; , ' : ... ; .. •' . ¦ ¦ ; .. .. ' - : : ; '¦ ,. ; . . .: ' " ¦' --.. ' .. ¦ ' ; ' •; . ¦ .. ¦¦ ¦' . ¦'¦ ,. ¦ ' - •; . ¦ . : . ¦ - ¦ ;; r ' :- ¦ ' The > hajfehpldera pf the v Western Bank of ! Scotland met on Wednesday at Glasgow , Itlr . Jaines Duulop ; the senior director , in the chair . It was resolved to register the under the Joint

      cpmimiay -Stock Banking Companies Act of 18 ^ 7 . Tlie Interim Manager read a financial stat < jrnent showing that on the 9 th of 2 foveuiber tlie assets werelOj e ^ t , ^^ , the liabilities , 8 , 91 t , 9 S 27 leaving an . apparent surplus 6 f ^ ri 5 . § 92 i Up to that time , the known and undoubted losses were 800 , 000 ? . It would depend uppij the course to ; be taken in the realising and the commercial state of the country to " determine what additional losses might accrued , A sharehpldeirs was appointed to go over the books along with the directors , and report % o an adjourned , meeting on ; . the ; j 7 tuinst i- ¦ ¦ ¦¦' - '¦ ¦¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ ; V " - ¦¦ - , - ¦ ¦ Uw . - ;' - ;>" - ; -- ?

      The general business of the port of London during the past -week has been very active . The number of vessels reported inward was 278 . These included ' - ' 47 ' cargoes of corn , flour , rice , &o ; , 30 of dried fruit , and 17 of sugars There were also three arrivals with 16 , 105 packages « ftea r and 1983 bales of silk . The nubbcr of vesssels cleared outward was 115 , including ! 9 in ballast , and the nunxber on the berth loading for the Australian colonies is 59 ; The Robin llood and Northileet have arrived from China with 1 , 025 , 9721 b . of tea , and 3007 bales of silk . ' : ;

      " A numerous meeting of tho sliareliolders of tlie City of Glasgow Bank was held at Glasgow on Tuesday , Mr . Andrew Orr presiding . Tho meeting unauiinously agreed that the bank he registered in . terms of the Joint-Stock Bank Companies Act , 1857 , it being explained that the design-was not to wind up but to secure the same vantage ground as the chartered banks . Th& niceting also agreed unanimously that a committee of gentlemen unconnected with the bank be appointed to investigate its affoirs and report to an adjourned meeting next Tuesday , and . that a guarantee fuud of half ft

      million be raised to enable tho bank to resume business without delay . A deputation ( 8 ay 8 the Ghsgoto Daify Mail ) consisting of nobloni < m and gontlomon of the west of Scotland ^ and accompanied by Mr . Dalglish , member for tho city , prpcecded again to Edinburgh on Fridny week , on tho affairs of tho suspended banks . Tho convcrsntlau tlmt tpolc place with the Edinburgh bank directors -was coiir fidontial , but the general result may bo stated , and that is , that tlio Edinburgh banks are prepared to cuter into liberal and accommodating terms for the li < jui « jation of tlie Western .

      Among tho failures this woek hftvo been tliosc oi Messrs . Henry Ilofl ' mann and Co ., gonernl meicliants , with liabilities estimated at 100 , 000 / . ; Hermann Cox and Co ., of London ami Liverpool , a . well known house , chiefly engaged in tho c otton trade , with liabilities estimated at about < i 0 , 000 £ ; Mossrs . Bischoff , 13 QOr , andCo ., merchants connected with tho Enat India « nd continentivl trade , with liabilities for about 80 , 000 / . ; Messrs , Mendes Da Costa and Co ., an old established firm in tlio West Indi a trade , with liabilities estimated at SiiO , OO 0 / . ; Messrs . Kiosor and Co ., a Gorman morcnntilo house , witli liabilities for about 50 , 000 ? . ; Messrs , Barber , Uoscnnucr , and Co ., Germaa merchants ; Messrs . Hirech , Strothcr , and .. Co ., also a Gorman firm ; and Mr . G . O . Pim , ° t BolfdBt , largely ongnged in tho corn trade .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 5, 1857, page 1154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2220/page/2/