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    iXma it was not for him to question the right or wrong o f th « Chinese war . Mr . John , Crawford , formerly ( Jovernor of Singapore , pointed oat the evil of political ntrigues on the part of missionaries . Lola Monies . —Among the passengers by the Pacific from New York to Gal way was this celebrated person . The Galway Vindicator Bays : — "The Countess was received with erery attention and respect by the officials and a few friends . We learned from herself that she has come to Ireland for the purpose of delivering lectures at Dublin , Cork , Limerick , Waterford , Belfast , and finally Galway , on ' America , its people , and its social institutions , ' and she added , that she means to talk about them as they are , not as they have been misrepresented by Mr . Dickens , Mr . 'Mack-ay , Mr . Thackeray , and others . "

    Nbw Peeks . —We ( the Lancet ) have reason to believe that Sir B . Brodie is to be raised to the Peerage with the title of Baron Betchworth . The Post says that it is understood Lord Justice Knight Bruce is to be made a Peer , when he will resign his present appointment . Junius . —There is news about " Junius . " Mr . Parkes —Joseph of Birmingham—a very well-read man and a scholar , and with advantages which few have possessed , is to give us , before six months are over , a \ " Life of Sir Philip Francis , " the " Junius" of Macaulay and Brougham , but not the " Junius" of Mr . Dilke . Mr . Parkes possesses all the papers of Mr . Dubois , the secretary of Francis and the executor of Tom Hill . Surely Tom Hill must have " happened" to know who Juniua was ?—Illustrated London News .

    Law Amendment Society-. —At the meeting held on Tuesday , the report of the Special Committee appointed to consider the rule requiring the unanimity of juries , was read and discussed . The committee were of opinion that unanimity should continue to be required of juries who tried criminal cases , but the opinion of the committee was equally divided with regard to the introduction of the majority system into civil cases . The debate which followed the reading of the report was adjourned . wellknown

    Mb . Harvest Combe . —The death of this - sportsman took place on the 22 ud uultimO at his residence at Cobham . Mr . Combe , who was in the Eeventyfourth year of his age , was the head of the great brewing firm of Combe and Delafield , and for thirty 3-ears kept foxhounds and racehorses . Possessed of a munificent fortune , he devotad a considerable portion of it to acts of charity , and his benevolence to several members of the sporting world will be long remembered . He was an active magistrate , and fulfilled the duties of his station in . life in a manner that well deserves imitation : his

    memory will long be respected . Cm Sewkrs . —On Monday , at the meeting of the Commissioners , a letter was read from Mr . S . Gurney , M . P ., who offered to erect , at his own expense , a public drinking fountain in the open space in front of the Royal Exchange . The offer was very cheerfully accepted . Crinoline . —Is there anything more hypocritical than the dress of a lady at the present day ? Is there anything more abominably false than the petticoat of a lady now-a-days ? When you meet them in the streets—one of those walking mountains—taking up

    half your High-street , and , generally speaking , the smaller they are in person the larger they are in dresswhen you see one of these prominently walking ladies , you will say , " Oh , the stately lady—proud lady ! It look * as a Juno . " If they would permit you , by engineering , to measure the basis of their rotundity , you try to do the utmost you can by stretching out your arms . This is an impossibility ; but when you go to embrace them , you find there is nothing , and that you have been grasping at a handful of wind . This is what I call gaining admiration under falae pretences . —Lecture cf Gavazzi at Belfast .

    Taw Cattle Show .- —There is some expectation of her Majesty visiting the annual exhibition of the Smithfield Club thia day . The Prince Consort has a large number of entries in the Hereford short Horns and Scotch classes of cattle , as well as in tho sheep and pig classes . The Duke of Bedford , the Duke of Richmond , the Karl of Yarborough , the Duke of Rutland , the Earl of Zetland , lord , Favorsham , the Earl of Leicester , Lord Bernore , Sir 0 . Knightley , Lord Portman , Earl Spencer , and a large number of noblemen and gentlemen farmers , are also amongst the contributors . The judges make their awards on Monday , and in tho evening thoro will be a private view . The show will open to the public 011

    by the season ticket-holders and . their friends , and have been the most fully attended of the season . The _ concert of to-rday promises considerable interest , comprising , among other pieces , a symphony in C major , and a concerto for pianoforte also in C ( both firet-rate works , but only seldom performed ) , as well as the principal airs and concerted pieces from the opera Die Zauberflote . Madame and Mn Weiss , Mr George Perren , and Herr Pauer are the principal performers . The band is to be strengthened , and an efficient chorus employed on the occasion . Mr . Pepper ' s lecture on the Egyptian Court is to be given

    after the concert . Westminster Play . —The Phormio of Terence will be performed by the Queen ' s Scholars of St . Peter ' s College , "Westminster , on Tuesday , the 14 th ; Thursday , the 16 th ; and Tuesday , tbe 21 st day of December ; on the two latter evenings , with the addition of a prologue and epilogue . Court of Common Council . —At a Court , held on Thursday , an animated discussion took place on the contemplated new Lunatic Asylum . Some speakers strongly argued that sufficient room might be obtained in existing asylums without incurring the expense of a

    new building . There was an almost unanimous feeling against the imposition of a county rate ; and finally a committee was appointed to consider the whole question , With power to confer with the Home Secretary . March of Rationality . —A Mohammedan attorney was duly sworn in before Lord Campbell last week . The Oriental gentleman had served his articles , and been passed by the Law Society , but there was doubt as to the form of his oath , and therefore he came before the Court of Queen ' s Bench . We are happy to add that the enlightened decision Lord Campbell and his brethren did away with the last fragment of the absurdity that affected to see a Christian in an attorney . —Punch .

    Madame Kinkel . —The sudden and melancholy death , on the 15 th instant , of Frau Johanna Kinkel , has created a painful sensation among her numerous friends in London and Germany . She was a woman of no ordinarv powers ; many of her musical compositions have become popular , and her novels rank among the best of which German literature may boast . Her character had something of the heroic , which in her eventful life she had ample opportunity to prove : in 1809 , when Dr . Kinkel stood before a court-martial , at Rastadt , afterwards during his imprisonment at Nauvrerkand Spandau , and last , not least , in an exile of many years .

    —Athenaeum . Tavo little Favours Requested . —Since Mr . Gladstone is so near Greece , would he mind obliging Mr . Punch ( who has done him many a good turn before now ) by making a few inquiries about the Greek Kalends and the Greek Loan ? He is requested to ascertain the future date of the former and the probable payment of the latter ? and to report at large on the chronological chances of the two events , and particularly as to which of them , in his opinion , is likely to be entitled to the priority of concurrence ? At the same time , Mr . Punch humbly begs to apologise to Mr . Gladstone for laying before him only two courses , instead of the three which his active mind generally delights to feast upon . —i-Punch .

    Agricultural Progress in France and England . — The Reforms Agricole gives the following comparative statement of agricultural progress in France and England : —England : 20 , 000 , 000 inhabitants , 16 , 800 , 000 head of cattle , 60 , 000 , 000 sheep . Manure per hectare ( 2 i acres ) equal to that of 19 sheep . Yield per hectare , 20 hectolitres . To each inhabitant more than half an ox killed at the age of two years , and nearly three Bheep . Improvement of the ground by very

    Railway Parcel Post . —On thia head a pamphlet by Mr . W . C . Scoteon contains some good suggestions . A uniform charge of a penny per lb . irrespective of distance , would , he believes , yield a greater average than the existing rates , while the convenience to the public from a fixed system wonld bring an extraordinary accession of business . The plan would be for each company to open a convenient office in every large town , as well as at all their stations , and to transmit parcels over their own and other lines , adjusting their mutual accounts through the Railway Clearing House in London .

    Prepayment should be required by means of adhesive stamps , unpaid parcels being charged extra . No parcel should be conveyed for less than twopence , the subsequent increase being a penny for every pound or fraction of a pound . A charge of a penny per parcel might also be made to cover cost of receipt and delivery . A convenience could at the same time be afforded to the public by all the companies agreeing to receive the adhesive parcel stamps as cash from passengers or others , and tho principle might even be extended to the issue of " rate notes" of 20 b . each , receivable at every station , for fares , &c .

    International ART-CoPYRiGBT .- ^ -At length , if we may venture to trust appearances where facts have had so stubborn a hold in an opposite sense , there is some prospect that piracy in the products of the intellect maybe uprpoted in one of its last strongholds—and Belgium herself , in the matter of copyright generally , be brought within the comity of nations . The month of October witnessed the unwonted spectacle of an international congress on literary and artistic property sitting in Brussels , the very Algiers of the press—with the Belgian Minister at its head . It is a strange and discreditable fact , that two free and enlightened countries like Belgium and the United States should , have lagged so far behind the nations in a question of civilisation like this of copyright ;

    but nowhere—not even in America- —has the cause of piracy been maintained to such dishonourable issues as in Belgium . In this matter , as in so many others , it is very pleasant to remember that England led tbe Vay in the cause of civilisation . It is long , now , since our own Governments showed a desire to deal justly , so far as this question ia concerned , with the claims of intellect . Though much , as our readers know , in certain directions , remains still to be done , yet step by step the copyright in mental produce has been improved and extended amongst ourselves : —and the enlarged

    prin-M . Belly's Canal . —The Courrier de Parit gives ai account of M . Belly's plan fox opening a communicatioi between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans , by means of 1 canal through the Isthmus of Panama . M . Belly , wh < some short time back obtained a concession of the ground required for the undertaking , has lately published a pamphlet , in which he sets forth the advantages of the enterprise , and shows by maps the line of country through which the proposed canal is to pass . The Courrier de Paris adverts to the political bearing of the

    proposed plan , and shows that the intention is to place the canal of Nicaragua under the general protection of the great powers , England and the United States setting the example . The article concludes by alluding to the apprehensions which were for a moment entertained of the United States , through jealousy or ambition , being desirous of interfering with the realisation of the plan ; but Mr . Buchanan ' s Government at present , it declares , only desires to see England and France imitating the example of the United States , and preserving an absolute neutrality of passage between the two seas .

    ciples which we recognised at home , we pushed abroad wherever we could . . . . We have , ourselves , reason to know that many of the authors and artists of Belgium have begun to feel honourably uneasy under the stigma which has so long attached to their country as the stronghold on thia side the ocean of literary and artistic piracy . If the result at which the Brussels Congress have arrived could make its way into the legislations f the country , in spite of the robber-interests that yet oppose it , Belgium would have a better claim than just now she can assert to take her place in the brotherhood of high-minded and enlightened nations . —Art-Journal .

    superior agricultural implements . Machines producing economy and better work in ploughing , harrowing , threshing , &c . — France ; 35 , 000 , 000 inhabitants , 10 , 000 , 000 head of cattle , 82 , 000 , 000 sheep . Manure per hectare equal to that of 2 cheep . Yield per hectare , 11 hectolitres . To each inhabitant not one-third part of an ox killed at from eight to nine years old , and not one sheep . Too much left to the hand of man , who remains a machine , since it ia only tho intelligence which ought to work ; one man ought to perform the work of

    The New Foreign-office . —Mr . G . G . Scott has boen entrusted by the Board of Works with the erection of the new Foreign-office , subject , of course , to future confirmation by Parliament . Mr . Scott will accordingly proceed , after communication with the authorities at the Foreign-office , to remodel his design according to the official information thus afforded , and agreeably to tho suggestion of tho Committee of the House of Commons that the New Foreign-office might be so placed as to range symmetrically with any other public offices ,

    ten . The PnorosEO National Bank op Turiusy . — Tho Daily Neios snys that although the finnan authorising the establishment of a National Bank is actually iu tho hands of the Turkish Minister in London , and is a perfectly valid document , the caution money of 20 , 000 ? . has not yet been deposited , and the affair has made little progress . Tho hitch arises in reality from the fact that some of the gentlemen who are nominated by tho original concessionaires ns ready to proceed with tho undertaking , are not tho most eligible in tho eyes of

    Avhioh might be required from time to time . It has also boon determined to leave tho present Foreign-office standing t \\\ such portion of tho new building as is necessary for tho Immediate occupation of the doparlnwnt is ready to receive it . Besides his many ecclesiastical works and restorations in this country , of whicto wo ueed only specify tho now church at Doncastor , Mr . Scott has a European reputation as too architect of the Hamburg Senate House , and tlio groat Church of St . Nicholas

    tho Turkish Government . The Turkish Ministers aro not blind , but aro porfuctly aware of all the facts connected with tho history of tho lute loan negotiation . They aro naturally grateful for tho important assistance which was so zealously extended to that operation by tho Ottoman Bank . Thia establishment hns consequently and deservodly acquired so groat a degree of prestige that tlio Government mnkes no secret of its desiro that it should not bo excluded from participation in tho project for tho formation of a National Bank . It is , therefore , believed that any combination in which tho Ottoman Bank does not take part will fail of success .

    Crystal rAr . Actf-Roturn for six days , •«« " £ «* - day , December 3 rd , 1858 s—Number admitted , including season ticket holders , $ 220 .

    Tuesday next , and continue open till Friday tlio 10 th , when it finally closes . Sarawak and Lord Di : nnY . — A . correspondent of tho Daily JYews enys . . — " What should provont the Lancashire pooplo taking up Rajah Brooke ' s government and putting it in perpetual commission ? Capital for a email railway would bo sufficient to develop tho settlement and indemnify Sir Jamea into tho bargain , besides testing Manchester management of foreign possessions , against Qomiing-street . " Crystal PALAcn .-r-Tho Mozart concert , hold annually In commemoration of tho death of this groat composer , take « place to-day ( Saturday ) . Theao annual celebrations have boen hitherto received with , much pleasure

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    yo . 4 ^ December 4 , 1858 . 1 THE LEADER . 1313

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1858, page 1313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2271/page/9/