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The Week.
cation had been received from the French Government since last autumn in reference to interference iu the American , war . The questions having been disposed of , Mr . Roebuck moved his resolution for the recognition of the Southern States . Mr . Roebuck entered at length into the history of the dispute , and contended itliat the Confederates had fully established their claim to
recognition , as an independent Power . He narrated what passed at Ms late interview with the Emperor of the French , and pledged his word that the Emperor had stated he was more than ever ¦ anxious to interfere in the American war . Mr , Lindsay seconded the motion . Lord Robert Montagu moved an amendment in -favour of neutrality , and denounced i Mr . Roebuck's conduct in
the strongest possible terms . Arguing the question , he contended > that the time for recognition had not come . Sir . Clifford followed ¦ in the same strain . The Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed Mr . Roebuck's motion . While . lie regarded the war as of a hopeless character , he altogether condemned the proposal to recognise tho Southern States at this time . Mr . W . E . Forster
subsequently pointed ont the necessity of maintaining a strict neutrality , and Mr . Bright followed on the same side . The debate was ultimately adjourded to Thursday . On Wednesday Mr . Ewart moved the second reading of a bill to introduce the decimal and metric system of weights and measures into this country . A lengthy discussion took place upon the bill ,
which was strongly opposed by the Government . On a division , however , the second reading was carried by 110 votes to 75 . GENERAL HOWE NEWS . —The mortality of Loudon , after long ruling high , has at last fallen below the average . The deaths last week were 1158 , while the average of the ten years
is 1236 . It is satisfactory to find , too , that small-pox is on the decline . Scarlatina is just now the most fatal disease . The number of births was 1959 , which was 47 more than the average , and SOO more than the week ' s deaths . The revenue return for the past quarter—the first of the financial year—has been issued . There is an increase on all the items except Excise , on which the decrease is nearly half a million . This is partly accounted
for by the postponement of the payment of the malt duties , but also , no doubt , by the continued depression in the cotton districts . The Customs , notwithstanding the reduction of the tea duties , show a slight increase , and the net income on the ¦ quarter amounts to £ SO , O 00 . The net increase on the first four i-martevs amounts to nearly a million , Imt tlis first tbreo need
hardly be reckoned now , as they were taken into account in the Chancellor's last budget . A memorial statue of the late Lord Herbert of Lea , was uncovered on Monday at Salisbury . Lord Palmerston was to have ' officiated at the inauguration , but his recent attack of gout prevented him from being present . Earl
do Grey and Ripon , however , occupied his place and uncovered tho statue . The ceremony wont off very well . At the meeting of the Central Executive Relief Committee , Mr . Farnall reported a further decrease of 1613 in the number of persons receiving parochial relief in the cotton districts . There are , still , however , about 300 , 000 persons who are dependent upon the
poor rates and the contributions of jiublic benevolence . This -number is something like 150 , 000 below the highest point of indigence reached during last winter ; but it was urged by Sir James Kay-ShuttlcworUi , at a meeting , that this favourable change in the position of affairs arose from causes which would cease to operate - as winter approached . The Royal
Commission appointed some time ago to inquire into the subject of secondary punishments have sent in their jreport , which is said to he unfavourable to the present system . It is stated that the Commissisners recommend considerable alterations in the regulations with reference to short sentences of penal servitude , with the view o ( rendering punishment more certain and more severe . The report , if is added , condemns the ticket-of-loavc system , and urges the
transportation of the strong and sturdy perpetrators of violence . It is stated that the Custom House authorities at Liverpool have declined to give a clearance to the steamship Gibraltar , which is lying at that port , unless two heavy Blakcley guns she lias on board are re-landed . This vessel is probably our old friend , the Sumter . It will be remembered that Capt . Semmes' noted cruiser lay for a long time at Gibraltar , closely watched by Federal war vessels , and that finally
she was sold to an English firm , and re-christened after the renowned Rock where she had so long found secure shelter , According to one account , the detained vessel was intended to proceed to Callao—to Nassau , according to a second statement . Colonel Dickson ' s action against Lord Combormere and Lord Wilton for conspiring to remove him from the command of one of the Tower Hamlets militia regiments , was brought to a close on Saturday , after a nine days '
trial . General Peel was originally included in the list of defendants , but after the case had been partly heard he was dismissed from the suit . The Jury , without hesitation , returned a verdict in favour of the defendants . A singular will case was decided before the Lords Justices of Appeal from the Master of the Rolls on Saturday . A gentleman agreed in the marriage settlements of his sous to pay or bequeath to them sums of £ 2500 each . He afterwards fell into
reduced circumstances and his estates were considerably involved . The main question was whether his sons , under the marriage settlements , were to be paid first , or whether they were only to rank with other creditors . The Master of the Rolls , and after him the Lords Justices , held that it was a special debt , and that the sons must be paid before the creditors ; but , under the special circumstances of the case , they declined to give the costs of appeal .
It would be well that persons who indulge in coarse language should know the rislc they ran of swearing away their whole estate . A case was tried in the Bail Court , where an unlucky person was fined 40 s ., being at the rate of 2 s . an oath , in a series of which ho had been
indulging . It appears from the case that the law has established a regular tariff of oaths ; anil further , that Shakespeare ' s scale ha 3 since his time been reversed . The captain is more sharply dealt with than tho soldier . A gentleman is fined five shillings , while a labourer , soldier , or sailor , gets off with one . People in the middle classes have their oaths assessed at the rate of 2 s . a piece . The mysterious star gazer , Zadkiel , appeared at the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Monday ,
in the prosaic character of plaintiff in an action for libel . Our great ruler of planets and prophet is a retired commander in the navy , named Morrison . It appears that some time ago , Sir Edward Belcher wrote a letter to a London contemporary , in which Zadkiel was very broadly charged with obtaining money under the false pretence of enabling persous , by means of a mysterious crystal globe , to see all sorts of visions . Zadkiel considered this a libel , and brought the
action which was tried on Monday . He produced several witnesses , including Lady Harry Vane , Lady Ailesbury , Lord Wilton , aud the Bishop of Lichfield , to prove that they had seen the marvellous globe , but were charged nothing for the inspection . The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff , with 20 s . damages , but the Lord Chief Justice refused a certificate for costs . A meeting of the St . James ' s Vestry has been held , when the case of the young milliner ,
Mary Anne Walkley was brought before them . Dr . Lankester , who had visited the premises , reported that the work and bed rooms were scrupulously clean and otherwise well managed , but that the ventilation was defective . It was remitted to a committee to consider how far it would be desirable to iuspect houses where more than a certain number of persons worked or slept . A discovery has been made at Stoke Newington which discloses conduct of so revolting a kind
that it is difficult to believe it possible . For some time past suspicions have been entertained that an undertaker , carrying on business at Stoke Newingtoa , instead of burying bodies entrusted to him for that purpose , disposed of them iu lome other way . From his own premises the most disgusting odours came , and at length au official examination was made . Under a quantity of rubbish in a shed in the garden were found coffins containing the decaying remains of children , and another coffinalleged by the undertaker to contain the dead
, body of a pauper who had died six weeks ago . On examination , however , it was found that this coffin was empty .- ; On Thursday , a gymnast , named Valerio , was engaged in walking along a high wire-rope at the Cremorne Gardens , when it gave way and he fell heavily to the ground . He was fearfully injured , and died a few hours aftarivards . An inquest has been held on the body and a ver-
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The Week.
cation had been received from the French Government since last autumn in reference to interference iu the American , war . The questions having been disposed of , Mr . Roebuck moved his resolution for the recognition of the Southern States . Mr . Roebuck entered at length into the history of the dispute , and contended itliat the Confederates had fully established their claim to
recognition , as an independent Power . He narrated what passed at Ms late interview with the Emperor of the French , and pledged his word that the Emperor had stated he was more than ever ¦ anxious to interfere in the American war . Mr , Lindsay seconded the motion . Lord Robert Montagu moved an amendment in -favour of neutrality , and denounced i Mr . Roebuck's conduct in
the strongest possible terms . Arguing the question , he contended > that the time for recognition had not come . Sir . Clifford followed ¦ in the same strain . The Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed Mr . Roebuck's motion . While . lie regarded the war as of a hopeless character , he altogether condemned the proposal to recognise tho Southern States at this time . Mr . W . E . Forster
subsequently pointed ont the necessity of maintaining a strict neutrality , and Mr . Bright followed on the same side . The debate was ultimately adjourded to Thursday . On Wednesday Mr . Ewart moved the second reading of a bill to introduce the decimal and metric system of weights and measures into this country . A lengthy discussion took place upon the bill ,
which was strongly opposed by the Government . On a division , however , the second reading was carried by 110 votes to 75 . GENERAL HOWE NEWS . —The mortality of Loudon , after long ruling high , has at last fallen below the average . The deaths last week were 1158 , while the average of the ten years
is 1236 . It is satisfactory to find , too , that small-pox is on the decline . Scarlatina is just now the most fatal disease . The number of births was 1959 , which was 47 more than the average , and SOO more than the week ' s deaths . The revenue return for the past quarter—the first of the financial year—has been issued . There is an increase on all the items except Excise , on which the decrease is nearly half a million . This is partly accounted
for by the postponement of the payment of the malt duties , but also , no doubt , by the continued depression in the cotton districts . The Customs , notwithstanding the reduction of the tea duties , show a slight increase , and the net income on the ¦ quarter amounts to £ SO , O 00 . The net increase on the first four i-martevs amounts to nearly a million , Imt tlis first tbreo need
hardly be reckoned now , as they were taken into account in the Chancellor's last budget . A memorial statue of the late Lord Herbert of Lea , was uncovered on Monday at Salisbury . Lord Palmerston was to have ' officiated at the inauguration , but his recent attack of gout prevented him from being present . Earl
do Grey and Ripon , however , occupied his place and uncovered tho statue . The ceremony wont off very well . At the meeting of the Central Executive Relief Committee , Mr . Farnall reported a further decrease of 1613 in the number of persons receiving parochial relief in the cotton districts . There are , still , however , about 300 , 000 persons who are dependent upon the
poor rates and the contributions of jiublic benevolence . This -number is something like 150 , 000 below the highest point of indigence reached during last winter ; but it was urged by Sir James Kay-ShuttlcworUi , at a meeting , that this favourable change in the position of affairs arose from causes which would cease to operate - as winter approached . The Royal
Commission appointed some time ago to inquire into the subject of secondary punishments have sent in their jreport , which is said to he unfavourable to the present system . It is stated that the Commissisners recommend considerable alterations in the regulations with reference to short sentences of penal servitude , with the view o ( rendering punishment more certain and more severe . The report , if is added , condemns the ticket-of-loavc system , and urges the
transportation of the strong and sturdy perpetrators of violence . It is stated that the Custom House authorities at Liverpool have declined to give a clearance to the steamship Gibraltar , which is lying at that port , unless two heavy Blakcley guns she lias on board are re-landed . This vessel is probably our old friend , the Sumter . It will be remembered that Capt . Semmes' noted cruiser lay for a long time at Gibraltar , closely watched by Federal war vessels , and that finally
she was sold to an English firm , and re-christened after the renowned Rock where she had so long found secure shelter , According to one account , the detained vessel was intended to proceed to Callao—to Nassau , according to a second statement . Colonel Dickson ' s action against Lord Combormere and Lord Wilton for conspiring to remove him from the command of one of the Tower Hamlets militia regiments , was brought to a close on Saturday , after a nine days '
trial . General Peel was originally included in the list of defendants , but after the case had been partly heard he was dismissed from the suit . The Jury , without hesitation , returned a verdict in favour of the defendants . A singular will case was decided before the Lords Justices of Appeal from the Master of the Rolls on Saturday . A gentleman agreed in the marriage settlements of his sous to pay or bequeath to them sums of £ 2500 each . He afterwards fell into
reduced circumstances and his estates were considerably involved . The main question was whether his sons , under the marriage settlements , were to be paid first , or whether they were only to rank with other creditors . The Master of the Rolls , and after him the Lords Justices , held that it was a special debt , and that the sons must be paid before the creditors ; but , under the special circumstances of the case , they declined to give the costs of appeal .
It would be well that persons who indulge in coarse language should know the rislc they ran of swearing away their whole estate . A case was tried in the Bail Court , where an unlucky person was fined 40 s ., being at the rate of 2 s . an oath , in a series of which ho had been
indulging . It appears from the case that the law has established a regular tariff of oaths ; anil further , that Shakespeare ' s scale ha 3 since his time been reversed . The captain is more sharply dealt with than tho soldier . A gentleman is fined five shillings , while a labourer , soldier , or sailor , gets off with one . People in the middle classes have their oaths assessed at the rate of 2 s . a piece . The mysterious star gazer , Zadkiel , appeared at the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Monday ,
in the prosaic character of plaintiff in an action for libel . Our great ruler of planets and prophet is a retired commander in the navy , named Morrison . It appears that some time ago , Sir Edward Belcher wrote a letter to a London contemporary , in which Zadkiel was very broadly charged with obtaining money under the false pretence of enabling persous , by means of a mysterious crystal globe , to see all sorts of visions . Zadkiel considered this a libel , and brought the
action which was tried on Monday . He produced several witnesses , including Lady Harry Vane , Lady Ailesbury , Lord Wilton , aud the Bishop of Lichfield , to prove that they had seen the marvellous globe , but were charged nothing for the inspection . The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff , with 20 s . damages , but the Lord Chief Justice refused a certificate for costs . A meeting of the St . James ' s Vestry has been held , when the case of the young milliner ,
Mary Anne Walkley was brought before them . Dr . Lankester , who had visited the premises , reported that the work and bed rooms were scrupulously clean and otherwise well managed , but that the ventilation was defective . It was remitted to a committee to consider how far it would be desirable to iuspect houses where more than a certain number of persons worked or slept . A discovery has been made at Stoke Newington which discloses conduct of so revolting a kind
that it is difficult to believe it possible . For some time past suspicions have been entertained that an undertaker , carrying on business at Stoke Newingtoa , instead of burying bodies entrusted to him for that purpose , disposed of them iu lome other way . From his own premises the most disgusting odours came , and at length au official examination was made . Under a quantity of rubbish in a shed in the garden were found coffins containing the decaying remains of children , and another coffinalleged by the undertaker to contain the dead
, body of a pauper who had died six weeks ago . On examination , however , it was found that this coffin was empty .- ; On Thursday , a gymnast , named Valerio , was engaged in walking along a high wire-rope at the Cremorne Gardens , when it gave way and he fell heavily to the ground . He was fearfully injured , and died a few hours aftarivards . An inquest has been held on the body and a ver-