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Leader (1850-1860), 10th November 1860, Edition 1 of 2, Page 933, Untitled Article

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    • RECORD OF THE WEEK. HOME AND COLONIAL.
    • FOREIGN.
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      thought he might safely say that they could be enabled at any rate at the annual meeting to declare a dividend of five per cent , on the paid-up capital in the four months' ¦ working . It was proposed by the resolution to convert the 101 . shares into shares of 11 . each . The newshares would be offered , in the first instance , to the existing shareholders , and in the event of their not taking up the amount required , they would be offered to the public . In conclusion , he moved the resolution passed at the former meeting be confirmed . Alfred Wilson , Esq ., seconded the resolution , which was unanimously agreed to , and the meeting then separated . A dividend of 51 . per cent , upon . the first four months ' . working is about to be declared by the Asphaltum Company . The chief manufacture of the company is ojl for domestic use and for the lubrication of machinery , the demand for which is so considerable that the directors have just obtained power from the shareholders to raise 50 , OOOZ . additional capital in 11 . shares , in order to increase their production .

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      Nov . 10 , 1860 ] The Saturday Analyst and Leader . 933

      Record Of The Week. Home And Colonial.

      RECORD OF THE WEEK . HOME AND COLONIAL .

      Foreign.

      FOREIGN .

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      The aflairs of Italy brightened an last week oloeed . Capua capitulated , and its gavriaoa , variously estimated at from 8 , 000 to 11 , 000 men , had beon oapturod as pvisonors of war , according to tlio ilrafc aooounts ; but aooording to subsequent intelligence ) , it had retired to Quota , where , however , it was oxpooted to do little beyond overcrowding thq pJuoo ana consuming the provisions . Meanwhile the aucoeas of Iho Sardinian array along the whole line of the Volturno , had the eiVoot of driving the Neapolitan troops , which had attempted to defond it , baok upon Gaeta . Numoroua prisoners woro taken by tho Sardinians xn theao contests . Wo have alluded in another paragraph to tho eternal ot tlio stalemont that ) Admiral Poraano had bombarded the Neapolitan camp , and beon warned oJF by the Fronoh Admiral Bnrbior lo Tinan . Tho news which x'oaohoa us aa tho week oponod of the auaoeaa of Victor Emmanuel along tho Volturno , stated that Admiral ^ wano from the z ^ T ^^^ &asi ^^^^^ -

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      Consols left off last week at 92 g to 93 . The amount of bullion in the bank last week was 307 , 403 Z . less than the preceding week , being in all 14 , 127 , 873 ? . The news of events abroad , described in their respective places ,, caused a rise in the funds as the week opened , Consols having got up to 93 to 93 f , and a corresponding improvement took place in the French funds : more gold left the bank at the commencement of the weekj a sum of £ 20 , 000 having been withdrawn to send abroad . The coroner ' s inquest on the deaths caused by the King ' s Cross explosion , was adjourned at the beginning of the present week , for a fortnight , the Government inspector not being present . According to two of the engineers , Messrs . Jay and England , the explosion occurred through there not having- been enough water in the boiler ; according to another , Mr . Amos , there must have been some original default in the boiler itself . . We can easily understand that such an accident might occur through a combination of these causes . The latest accounts of the harvest tend to show that the yield has fallen short of the average . . The Road murder occupied prominant attention as the week commenced . Not only at home ,, but abroad , has the public mind been stirred by this terrible mystery . It is urged , on the one * hand , ~ that in such matters the routine coui * se must be rigidly adhei-ed to ; on . the other , that extreme cases require extreme proceedings . We certainly cannot see why , if the routine course is powerless to unfathom the mystery , and discover the criminal , more efficacious measures of invest :- , gation should not be had recourse to . We think that the whole power of the state , ordinary and extraordinary , may well be brought to bear in clearing up such a inatter . If tho Government have the power to institute a more searching inquiry , they ought at once to exercise it j ¦ and if they have not , they ought to be invested with it by Parliament . Let it be remembered , that on the eflicacy of our police for bringing criminals to justice , depends the safety of society— -the lives and properties of the community . Such a power as we indicate cannot be employed for evil , because it is simply the power to investigate ; and whatever inconvenience may attend , it , can only weigh like dust in the balance against the good it must produce in the long run . We shall watch this subject narrowly , and return to it in a more prominent article , according to the course events may take . As the week opened , the quidnuncs whose mental pabulum is Court tittle-tattle , found abundant matter for gossip and speculation in the . announcement that the rumoured alliance of a matrimonial nature between her Royal Highness the Princess Alice of England and his Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt ( a little pigmy principality of about a fraction of tho importance of some English counties ) was premature , but that , at the same time , such an ovent is not without the confines of possibility . Such a mighty matter as this must not be alluded to in common phraseology . At Dartmouth , the Conservative candidate , Mr . Hardy , has been returned by a majority of 2 , there having been , wo hear , 222 votes recorded out of a constituency of 26 : 1 . It is reported that a now order of knighthood is to bo instituted for the reward of services rendered in India . As the week opened , tho report of Lord St . Leonard's illness was formally contradicted . Quiok upon tho heels of tho fearful explosion at King ' s Cross , oame tidings of another at sea . The Tonning steamer , on nor passage to London , laden with 700 hoad of cattle and sheep , has been blown up ancl sot fire to by tho bursting of the engine . Seven injured men belonging to the vessel were taken to Yarmouth hospital , in a fearful state , some not oxpeoted to eurvivo . The bodies of throe who were killed had been taken to tho workhouse of tho samp town . Others bolonging to tho ship were missing when the intelligence reached us . Last week it was our melancholy duty to record the death of one of England ' s greatest heroes , tho lion-hearted Lord Dundonald , who in bravory was unsurpassed by any warrior ancient or modern , and who in fertility of resources and inexhaustible inventiveness was the equal of Hannibal himself . This week it is our painful duty to announce that tho namo of Sir Charles Napier has now to be added to tho obituary of distinguished men for the year I 860 . Tho lives and exploits of those naval warriors will bo found recorded in duo oourso in appropriate places in our oolumns . —Tho deaths registered in tho week that ended last Saturday woro 1049 . The average for corresponding wooks in tho ton years 18 ^ 0-9 , after correction for increase of population , is found to bo 1170 . Hence it . appears that tho number of persons who died last week was loss by ISO than the number that would have died if a rate of mortality oqual to tho average for this soaeon had prevailed . The prorogation of Parliament took plaoo on Tuesday morning in tho House of Lorda . Tho Lord Olianoolfor , who was prpoodod bv tho Deputy Sorieant-ftt-AnnB with his maoo , and who was habited in hia full robes oi state , entered tho house ana took hia seat immediately in front of tho throne , aooompaniod by the other commissioners , Hia

      lordship then commanded the Usher of the Black Rod to summon her Majesty s Commons to the bar to hear her Majesty ' s commission for prorogation read . Colonel Clifford , the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod proceeded to the House of Commons , and summoned the House to the House of Peers to hear the Royal Commission read , and the House of Commons , represented b y Mr . Ley and one or two clerks , proceeded to the House of Lords , when it was announced to the Lord Chancellor that her Majesty ' s faithful Commons were at the bar Sir J . G . Shaw Lefevre then advanced to the table , and read the Royal Commission , commanding the Royal Commissioners present , in the name of her Majesty , to further prorogue Parliament to Thursdav January 3 , 1861 . The words " for the dispatch of divers and urgent affairs" being omitted , the meeting of Parliament on that day will again be of a purely formal character . The Royal Commission having been read , the Lord Chancellor , in the name of her Majesty the Queen declared Parliament prorogued until Thursday , the 3 rd of January next . His lordship then declared the House adjourned . In the Berwick election scandal , the resumption of the inquiry into which was recorded in our last number , Mr . Disraeli has been this week examined , and explains away the charge made against him by Brodie , by stating that having received an application from that person to get justice done to him ( Brodie ) by the Government , he ( Mr . Disraeli ) gave him a note to Mr . Rose , a Conservative electioneering agent , requesting the latter to give the man a hearing . It seems that Mr . McGalL the Berwick-on-Tweed man in the moon , has become non esf , or , as Lord John Russell would say , conspicu o us by his absence , having written to say that he has found it expedient to quit the country , as a sojourn in Newgate during the brumal season would not , he considers , be for the good of his health . Mr . Leatham having applied for a new trial in reference to the Wakefield election , the Court of Queen ' s Bench has , after taking time to consider its judgment , decided in favour of granting the applicant a rule nisi . Another new trial has been applied for in an election case , Mr . Edwin James having moved for oho on behalf of Boyes , convicted of bribery at Beverley . The court took time , as in the preceding case , to consider its judgment , the question raised being whether the uncorroborated evidence of one witness was sufficient to convict of . the offence charged . . There are two Liberal constituancies now going a-begging ; namely , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , vacated by the . acceptance of office by Mr . G . Ridley , and Southwark , now open through the lamented death of Sir Charles Napier . Mr . Gladstone has been delivering some important utterances at Chester this week ( Monday ) . He approves of the Volunteer movement at homej and the liberal movement in Italy , denouncing in terms of generous indignation that atrocious fact , which we hope is being rapidly abolished , of " the armed force of the alien trampling upon the necks of men , " ' and' that " hollow and treacherous peace" kept up by it . " He also , introducing "Oriental politics , " observes that the late war with Russia , though it had checked the aggressions of that power , had not regenerated Turkey . On the same day , opinions were delivered by Mr . Coningham , and Mr . White at Brighton , on subjects of equal importance . Mr , Coningham believed that the Italian movement would spread to Hungary ( an opinion we huve ourselves persistently enforced ) , and that arising of the Poles and other enslaved populations would free Europe from the iron despotism by which it is ground down . He condemned the do-nothing character of the last session , denounced the course pursued in retaining the paper duties , approved the new commercial treaty with Prance , and ridiculed the chimera of surroundingjthe shores of England with stone fortifications , instead of trusting to an efficient navy . Mr . White denounced the lavish expenditure of the past session j tho wretched tampering with the reform question ; the scurrilous abuse of the people , by the anti-liberal faction , and the " rowdyism " which characterized that obnoxious party . He was adverse to tho fortification scheme , considered the working classes eminently qualified for tho enjoyment and exeroise of tho electoral franchise , and believed that in five years , through tho new troaty with Franoe , our trade with that country wouldonly bo exceeded by our trade with the United States . In default of pretoraatural gooseberries and colossal turnips , liberties have this year boon taken with the ohrysanthemums in the Temple . Imaginary flowers havo been invontod before the chrysanthemums were in bud , and paragraphs eulogistic of this floral figment have been " going the round of tho papers , " until tho gardener wrote to tho Fimes to oontradiot them . Now , however , tho plants really are in luxuriant bloom . Rich MlEK .-r-By tho uso of Thorloy ' s Condiment , Sir John Pringle ' s cow gave three timos tho quantity of milk , tho quality being riohor ; so that upwards of three timos tho quantity of tho albuminous matter of her food was manufactured into tho ohsoin of tho milk , matter which previously wont to tho dunghill . Another cow , by the uso of tho same condiment , works up into tho milk more than four times tho quantity of protein compound . A proportionally larger amount of all tho other elements of food , including tho condiment itself , is also worked up into milk roanoctivelv in both oases , and in a thousand caeca bosidea ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1860, page 933, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2373/page/13/