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      HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IN LONDON . THE GROSVJENOR HOTEL PROJECT . A reference to our advertising columns will readily suggest to the reader that we are at present , immediately interested in the above Grosvenor and West-End Railway Terminus Hotel scheme ; and this will account , therefore * for our editorially noticing it , if , indeed , the general subject of hotel accommodation is not admitted , as we think it should be , to be of very general interest , and even importance . The complaints of travellers about hotel overcharges and short-comings—loud and deep enough though they used to be in all conscience— -never took a popular form till Mr . Albert Smith ran his

      celebrated tilt against the British caravanserai interest . He went , as all radical reformers wilL do , a little too far perhaps ; but it was a very little . Those who came after of course stood upon no ceremony . He and his movement in favour of the Great-British traveller certainly effected a good deal for that helpless being ; and he deserves the thanks of thousands . But though wax-lights are rarely changed in extenso in any but Jermyn-street , or Bond-street , or , perchance , St . James ' s-street hotels ; though the " stick on" for service is not so barefacedly ad libitum as in the dear , good , old days , it is surprising how few hotels for travellers , really worthy of the name , exist in London . A country squire and suite from

      shire may , of course , put up en . route for the Continent , as the Post informs us they do , at some fairly furnished , but generally chintzified , dingy , and aAvfully dear private hotel , and , making a few allowances , obtain , as they say , " all the comforts of a home ; " but these elegant homes for families—so at least , we often think as we pass thetn—are utterly unsuited to the requirements of the manufacturing man , the military man , the engineer , the lawyer—in fact , of the thousand and one bachelor professionals , of every sort and kind , who want large , light , airy coffee-rooms , clean , small , quiet bedrooms ; cheerful , well-ventilated smokingrooms ; -an ordinary , with marvels of plain cooking

      provided by our friend Simpson ; a good bottle of port ( thank Heaven and the comet we may hope for some more of that before we die ); a nice-looking damedecomptoir to give out their letters ; and a night porter to sit up for them and fight it out with their cabby if needful . These sort of men don't want the chintz and the fine carpet , and the rug with the big dog on it , the fusty fussiness , and the crawling flunkeyism of the " genteel hotel for families , " and they mortally hate to pay for what they despise . They hate again the " very cheap and comfortable hotels " for single gentlemen , described in advertisements to

      Bradshaiv ' s Guide as being within ten minutes of every partof town and romantically cheap ; for they have a horror of the nice small sole , the nice rump-steak , the cheap hotel stock-pot and its universal flavour that pervades such establishments from kitchen to garret . These travellers form the class with whoso comforts and discomforts we most sympathise , and for their advantage , whether as permanent tenants ofcha , mbres garnies in a kind of hotel barrack , or as birds of passage , we are glad enough to hear of projected hotels on such a scale as " The Grosvenor . "

      It is alleged that the Great Western Hotel haa paid 25 per cent , per annum in dividends . We hope so . We wish equal success to all , and equal comfort to their visitors . If such a profit can bo established to have been made upon the Paddington speculation —and not otherwise—we hope soon to hear of full share lists fqr the Grosvenor project and half-adozen more . The old proverb says " Good wine needs no bush , " and we never saw lack of customers at a shop that sold good things to eat or drink . We will warrant these hotel companies public patronage if they can only once get their shareholders .

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      ties of the country of their true relation to all classes of the community , as institutions which have been the guide and glory of Christendom , and which ought to dispense their benefits to all ranks of our fellow citizens . " Mr . Gawhobse Hardy , M . P ., and Mr . K . King , M . P . —At the Leominster Agricultural Meeting , Mr | Hardy said no man was more ready to do his best for promoting education than he was , but he must protest against the energies of the poor being wasted on topics of extreme nicety , and their minds being diverted from the use of the material machines which they required to use—viz . to read , and write , and to understand the doctrines of their faith . He approved the present system of education—that the State should aid those who aided

      themselves—but the duty of the State was not to give aid to attaining that degree of refinement that would make them competent to compete with those who . educated themselves from their own resources ; the duty of the State appeared to him to be to put into the hands of the mass of the people the simple machinery which was , as it were , the lever by which to remove any impediments in the way of instruction . They should limit tbe desires of those very fantastic schoolmasters who wished to teach so much . He could not help agreeing with Lord Shaftesbury that nothing opposed education so much , and especially religious education , as the miserable and crowded dwellings in which many of the

      poor resided . If they forced a family of adults to live together in one crowded room they must take the consequences , but they were sowing the seeds of immorality broadcast . In conclusion , Mr . Hardy expressed himself favour . ible to a cheap , plain , systematic method of instruction iii a moral and religious education , and he would add to that , such appliances as would improve the social health of the people and their physical development , so that they might have at the base of society a great , orderly , united , loyal , and religious population . Mr . King King said he did not find that an educated man made a better servant than one who had only been taught the principles laid down by Mr . Hardy .

      Lord Carlisle at Manchester . —The members of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution assembled on Monday evening , to listen to an address from the Earl of Carlisle , K . G ., who had undertaken to distribute tlie certificates of merit awarded by the Society of Arts in connexion with the classes in . the institution . His lordship congratulated the successful candidates on the success w hich they had achieved , and earnestly exhorted them to persevere . He would earnestly endeavour to impress upon them all , wherever their future destinies might lead them , to remember this , that the work of education , properly so considered , did not terminate with the class-room , or professor ' s lecture , or the mechanics ' institute . Each succeeding day of their lives might add to their knowledge ; and every passing moment of that time might promote their personal improvement , which

      was more important still . Let them strive by every means in their power to attain the highest degrees of usefulness to the generation in which they lived . It was not every one who could hope to become a Watt or a Dalton , any more than it was given to any set of men to become Shakspeares or Miltons , but , because they could not attain the very brightest and most immortal chaplets of literature , it was no reason why the common , smooth , current parts of literature and knowledge should be neglected . All could not be at the very summit of the mountain , all could not be at the very top of the tree . The aristocracy of genius was . still more limited than the other aristocracies of birth , of wealth , of personal strength , or beauty . But tho aristocracy of virtue had this peculiarity in it , distinguishing it from all other aristocracies—that it might be co-extensive with mankind—and it was every man's own fault if ho did not

      make one of that peerless aristocracy . The Archbishop op Canterbury . —At tho annual mooting of tho Canterbury Diocesan Education Society , tho Archbishop of Canterbury said that it was to bo regretted that the children loft school so early ; but still they must consider that with that disadvantage much good inuat be done , for the object of a great deal of all education was intended to lay the foundation in youth for improvement and advancement in after life- ** ° understood tho object of all education to bo that of preparing or disciplining the mind for tho situation in whioli the parties might afterwards bo placed rather than in . ft complete storing of thq mind with knowledge . Evening schools , ho thought , would bo very advantageous , especially to those who had loft their schools at an oarly ago , and having neglected thoir reading , &c , might improve themselves there .

      THE EDUCATION MOVEMENT . Mr . Gladstone on the Univbksitibs .- —A crowded mooting was held on Saturday at tho St . George ' s Hall , Liverpool , for tho award of prizes to tho successful candidates at the recent Oxford middlo-olass examinations . Tho Earl of Carlisle presided , and in an eloquent speech expressed the pleasure which ho felt ut tho liberal spirit which was being manifested by tho University of Oxford , that ancient and famous seat of learning , which was coeval with tho whole stream of British history . Tho Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone , who was alao present , moved a resolution of thanks to tho Universities of Oxford and Cambridge for having organised a system of local examinations , Mr . Gladstono intimated that tho universities had not dono their , duty by tho great marts of commerce , and contondod that a town , might at ono and tho same time bo groat in its literary aohiovoinonts and successful in trade . Ho said ho saw in tho examinations " tho resumption by tho anoiont

      unlvoral-Loud Belpisr on Schools op Dksign . — At tho annunl meeting of tho Nottingham Government School , Lord Bolpor said that it occurred to him , in considering tho operation of institutions of this kind boing established throughout tho country , that ono objection wns made against them by those who wore not well acquainted with them , which required some notice . It was said , •? Why should Government interfere in thoso matters P Why introduce anything Hko artificial interference or encouragement to supply this peculiar kuiil 01 demand ? " This argument , ho tho , u « ht r would not do vor / diflloult to answer . For many years it was founa , superior as our manufacturers wore in many rospoow , still In this ono , In tho power of art , and In tho tasto 01 doalgn , they woro inferior to thoao of most othor coun-

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      does not mind displeasing Napoleon the Third—will not drive out the foreigners on demand , and leaves the whole responsibility of the position to the Fer deral Council . Extreme measures might be taken to enforce the orders of the Supreme Government of-tbe United States of Switzerland , nbM : set at defiance ; the national militia might be marched against the intractable city , but at the hazard of a disturbance that might spread until it became extremely inconvenient . to the first mover of the quarrel .

      France , which boasts of furnishing all tho rest of Europe with ideas , is certainly not at present furnishing us with agreeable or useful ones . To introduce the French military mode of dealing with editors of newspapers who are so unhappy as to give offence to French consuls , having French drayons for sons , is not an idea for which we can make France any sort of pleasant acknowlegment . The editor of the Northern Express may have been wrong in Ills mode of fighting the battle of his party in the late Municipal Ward elections of ] Ne \ vcastle-on-Tyiie , but the dray on Vieomte de Maricourt committed—as even his counsel admitted—an enormous mistake in

      supposing that an English editor was to be brought to account in the same way as a French one , by placing a pistol to his head and threatening to blow his brains out . It is an idea that will never be adopted on this side of the Channel . What intelligence the Calcutta mail and the telegrams of last week failed to supply as to recent events in India , has been supplied this week by the arrival of the Bombay mail . "We have now the complete account of the attempt made by the disarmed 62 nd and 69 th Regiments to regain their

      arms at Mooltan , on the 2 nd of September . The telegraphic account was conrect in stating that almost all of the mutineers ,- something over 1200 in number , were destroyed . jii . Oude . the forces of the enemy are said to number 70 , 000 men and 56 guns . Ziord Clyde is at Lucknow , busily organising the next campaign and disposing his forces so as to give a cojnplete " account" of the enemy when he recommences action . Several smart actions have been fought , in all of which the rebels have " suffered severely , while our own loss has been trifling in the extreme .

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      1116 T HE LEADE R . [ No . 448 , October 23 , ' 1858 .

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      Weedon Inquiry . —On Thursday the commissioners resumed their inquiry . Mr . John Calvert , army contractor , was examined , with the view of refuting a statement made by Mr . "Ramsey , relative to the old regimental clothing system , when colonels were allowed to contract for equipping their own men . Mr . Ramsey had said the colonels received the benefit of the surplus clothing in the event of their regiment being reduced after its issue ; thus , if on the 1 st of April the regiment ¦ wa 3 2000 strong , the colonel was allowed to charge for that extent of clothing , but it might happen that before

      the clothing was required , the regiment was reduced to 1000 , and in that case it was a practice with the tailoring colonels to apply the surplus to the next year's clothing , but to charge all tho same for a year ' s clothing of 1000 men . Mr . Calvert positively stated that such an instance had never occurred in his experience , and he had acted for colonels in such matters for a period extending over thirty years . Colonel lloaxd- ilicxi put in a long statement detailing the various delays , mistakes , and vexatious proceedings that had attended his Applications to tho War-office respecting the clothing and equipment of the battalion under his own command .

      African Missions , —Tho Bishop of Cape Town , at a public meeting at Exeter , stated that tho Kaflir difficulty had now passed away , and he thought they might trace its disappearance distinctly and logically to tho fact that the Government had placed ut the service of Sir George Grey 40 , 0001 . a year for threo years for tho purpose of civilising tho people . Tho governor was devoting tho whole of his official incomo to tho work of civilising and christianising the natives of Africa , and had recently brought clown to his ( the right rev . prelate ' s ) house , from the frontier , forty sons of African chiofa to bo educated , and one of the objects which his

      lordship had in view in visiting England was to found a ollego in , which tho eons of chiofa ' from all pnrts of tho country might bo trained for missionary work . In this great object his lordship said ho believed ho might count on the cordial co-operation of Dr . Livingstone . IIq had recoivocl 1500 / . from Mies Burdott Coutta , nnd money from othor sources—making a , total of 300 () J . —but he wanted 1000 / . more for tho erection of tho collage , and then ho should require funds for feeding and clothing tho inmates . Thq right rov . prolate has met with great success in Exotor . Aftor two sermons preached on Sunday 100 / . was collected , and a largo amount has since been obtained .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1858, page 1116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2265/page/4/