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The Week.
discharged his duties , as Comptroller of the Navy , in the most efficient and praiseworthy manner . On Tuesday the Marquis of Clanriearde moved for a despatch relating to the treatment of natives by European planters in India , together with the report of Mr . Reid to the lieutcnaut-Governor , referred to in that despatch ; and presented a petition from certain natives in India , praying for legal reforms , and for their admission into higher offices of government than are now open to them .
The Earl of Elleiiborough suggested that the governor-general aud council of India should have a power of passing measures at any moment , aud also the power of taking the opinion of an efficient consultative council on all measures affecting native laws or customs . He also expressed his deep regret at the loss that the recal of Sir C . Trevelyan would inflict on India . The Duke of Argyll promised to produce the papers required , aud asserted that the present form of the Indian Legislative Council had been settled after mature consideration .
In the HOUSE of COMMONS , on Monday , the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained that the reasons for making the changes proposed in the Newspaper Conveyance Bill were purely departmental and administrative ; but that partly upon the ground of the objection taken to the measure by parties concerned , ! and partly on account of the illness of Sir Rowland Hill , he should proceed no further with the measure at present , and ho therefore asked leave to withdraw it . The bill was withdrawn accordingly . Lord Palmerston drew attention , as he had promised
to do , to the informality committed on Thursday night in reporting resolutions agreed to in committee of ways and means , in connection with the Wino Licences Bill , to the house the same night , and moved that , as that step had been taken " without urgent cause , " the report should be declared null and void , and should be brought up again . The Chancellor of tho Exchequer said that as the reception of the report had been informal , the proceedings of the committee on the AAlne Licences Billwhich immediatelsucceededwere necessarilinformal
, y , y also , and that , consequently , the clauses of the bill which had been agreed to would have to be brought up again . Tho house then went into committee on the Refreshment-houses and AAlno Licences Bill , resuming at clause IT ; the first eleven clauses having passed on Thursday night , aud clauses 12 and 13 having been postponed by consent . Clauses IT to 23 , inclusive , having been agreed to , Mr . Baines moved an rmendment on clause 2 T , with the view of prohibiting refreshment houses
having wine licences from being open oil Sundays . In tho course of a long discussion which ensued , a very decided opposition was offered to the amendment . Ultimately it was negatived on a division Ly 117 to 52—majority 65 .. The remaining clauses of the bill were agreed to , with the exception of the postponed clauses 12 and 18 , which were withdrawn . On Tuesday Mr . John Locke asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether her Majesty ' s government were in possession of any intelligence whatever to the effect that Russia has concentrated a considerable army on
the Pruth , and that tho Ottoman government has assembled a corps d ' armee at AA iddin ; and whether her Majesty ' s government had been advised , or in any way informed , that Prince Gorfcschakoff had assembled the representatives of all the Powers except Turkey , and had stated that the condition of the Christians in the Turkish dominions was every day becoming less supportable , and that his government hoped to obtain the concurrence of the other Powers , and would make a strong remonstrance to Turkey upon the subject 1 Lord J . Russell said
hoi-Majesty ' s government had received no intelligence such as that referred to in the first question ; but that with regard to tho second question , ho had on the previous day received a despatch from Sir J . Cranipton , our ambassador at St . Petersburg , very much to the effect of the question ; and he had also received a despatch from Lord Cowley , at Paris , stating that he had had a conversation ivith M . Thouvonel , who said that if any action of the sort look place , it should bo , not tho action of Russia alone , but of the five great Powers jointly . Sir C . Napier moved for a return of the names of the gun and mortar
boats that had been constructed with tho short bolts , and the names of the builders . Lord C . Paget declined to give the names of the builders , on the ground that it would be unfair to prejudice them while legal proceedings were likely to bo taken against them . He had , however , no objection to give the names of the defective gunboats , as far as possible . After some discussion , tho motion was withdrawn . Lord Lovaine moved an address for copy of all correspondence between tho Home Office and the directors of the
South-Eastern Railway Company , in the years 1859-60 , relating to the conveyance of persons intending to commit a breach of the law , in doing which he referred to tlie late prize fight , and accused the South-Easteni Company with having carried down two or three thousand ruffians into a peaceful district . Lord Palmerston said that there was nothing to object to in the motion , but at the same time , ho thought the exaggerated language of its proposer would have been better avoided , for , as for carrying down the railway two thousand or three
thousand ruffians , there were great differences of opinion as to the merits of prize fighting , and he did not see that two thousand or three thousand people assembled to see one were move likely to load to an actual breach of ' the peace than an equal number of people assembled to witness a balloon ascent , Stile , in law , they wore no doubt breaches of the peace . On AVednesday the Lord Advocate moved tho second reading of the Annuity Tax Abolition ( Edinburgh ) Bill . Mr . ITadfield objected on the grQund that the hill , while affecting to repeal the tax , would in reality perpetuate it in another form , and moved that it should be read a second time that day six months , After considerable discussion , the Lord
Advocate intimated that it was his intention , when in committee , to introduce a clause providing that , instead of the accumulation of a permanent fund of .- £ 120 , 000 for paying salaries of . € 600 a year to thirteen ministers , the payments should be made out of a rate to be levied for that purpose . Mr . ITadfield then withdrew his amendment .
GENERAL HOME NEWS . —On Tuesday morning the ceremony of confirming the election of the Right Rov . Joseph Cotton AVigram , D . D ., to the bishopric oi Rochester , took place with the usual ceremony , at the parish Church of St . Mary-le-Bow , Cheapside . The new bishop was consecrated on Thursday , iu the parish church of St . Mary , Lambeth , by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , who was assisted by the Bishops of London , Winchester , Oxford , and other prelates . The Registrar-General ' s return for the week that ended last Saturday exhibits a
considerable reduction in the deaths of London . In the previous five weeks they ranged from about 1 , 200 to 1 , 400 ; they have now ^ declined to 1 , 111 . In April the mean temperature of the air was 42 . 5 degrees ; in the last fortnight it has been 51 . 5 degrees ; and latterly the south-west has been the prevailing wiud . Last week the births of 7 SG boys and SI 9 girls , in all 1 , G 05 children , were registered . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1 S 50-59 , the average number was 1 , 627 . In the Landed Estates Court of Ireland , more than £ 40 , 000 worth of
property ivas sold on Friday before Judge Dobbs . It is reported that a great number of petitions for sale are under consideration , and that there is a prospect of activity in the land market before tho close of the year . A meeting was held in the Polytechnic Institution on Monday , for tho purpose of furthering the interests of the company which has undertaken the management of that admirable institution . The claims which it possesses to public support were very ably and eloquently set forth by the various speakers ; and we have much leasure
p in being able to state that the financial prospects of the undertaking are on the whole encouraging . A serious accident took place on the North London Railway , at Bow , on Wednesday . The engine of a train from Camden Town went off the line , dragging with it two passenger carriages . Fortunately , however , no lives were lost , and the escape of the passengers , and especially of the stoker and fireman , was , under the eireumstances , almost miraculous . The proceedings of that excellent institution , the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals were diversified on AVednesday by the presentation of the society ' s ¦ gold medal to Mr . Raroy , an honour to which no man was ever more justly entitled . The letter carriers of the Post Office held a public meeting at St . Martin ' s Hall on Monday night , in order to make known their grievances . Only two or three days have elapsed since the Duke of Argyll issued a notice requesting the men to abstain from agitation , because a Committee bad been appointed for the purpose of inquiring into their complaints . On Sunday last the Rev . Mr . BonwelL was served in the vestry of the church with a prohibition from the Bishop of London , ordering him not to continue to
minister to tho congregation ol St . I'hilip's , Stepney , during the proceedings now ponding against him concerning the birth of a child in the school-room of the schools belonging to that church . The articles delivered to him called upon the reverend gentleman to appear and answer certain charges contained in the articles before Dr . Lushington , in the Ecclesiastical Court , at tho instance of the Bishop of London . On Saturday an accident , resulting in the death of one man , and serious injury to several persons , occurred at Gospel Oak Colliery , AVednesbury .
It had been known for some time that a portion of tho workings was filled with " fire-damp , " and , consequently , every precaution was used for the 2 'revention of accident , till Saturday morning , about seven o ' clock , when an explosion occurred . The cause of Hatch v . Plummer has been brought to a termination . Baron C'hannell ' s summing up occupied nearly eight hours , and the jury took upwards of two hoiu-s to consider their verdict , which was one of giiilly . The jury coupled with their verdict a recommendation that the extreme mercy of the court should be extended to the irl and that
g any imprisonment to which she might be subjected should be accompanied by a proper course of training , her education having , in tho opinion of the jury , been neglected . The popular feeling ran entirely in favour of Mr . Hatch , ancl the verdict was received ivith loud applause by the crowd both iu and out of court . Eugenie Plummer was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment in H ' olloway prison , and subsequently to two years' confinement in a Reformatory School . Mr . Baron Channcllin passing sentencestated that
, , as , judging ^ from the verdict , it was the opinion of the jury that the prisoner had suffered from a defective education , ho desired Io pass as lenient a sentence as possible . He intimated that her friends had made certain proposals with regard 11 her which , if accepted by the Home Secretary , would have the effect of remitting the sentence . Pullinger , the late cashier of the Union Bank , was also placed at the bar to receive sentence . He made a brief statement to the effect that he had given up to the directors all that he possessed , and that had it not been for the bad faith of brokerwith whom he bad last
a , dealings year , he would have been able to make full restitution . Mr . Baron Chanuell sentenced him to twenty years' penal servitude . The case of Richardson , the late secretary of the London Rifle Brigade , was postponed till next session , on account of the illness of one of the witnesses .- On Wednesday morning considerable excitement was created in the vicinity of Shovcditch , in consequence of the discovery of the body of a female named Hart , ivho it waj alleged had been brutall y murdered b y a man ' named Raddon , a pipe-maker , who has since ( frowned himself- his body has been found , R . iddoii hod cohabited for some time ' with
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The Week.
discharged his duties , as Comptroller of the Navy , in the most efficient and praiseworthy manner . On Tuesday the Marquis of Clanriearde moved for a despatch relating to the treatment of natives by European planters in India , together with the report of Mr . Reid to the lieutcnaut-Governor , referred to in that despatch ; and presented a petition from certain natives in India , praying for legal reforms , and for their admission into higher offices of government than are now open to them .
The Earl of Elleiiborough suggested that the governor-general aud council of India should have a power of passing measures at any moment , aud also the power of taking the opinion of an efficient consultative council on all measures affecting native laws or customs . He also expressed his deep regret at the loss that the recal of Sir C . Trevelyan would inflict on India . The Duke of Argyll promised to produce the papers required , aud asserted that the present form of the Indian Legislative Council had been settled after mature consideration .
In the HOUSE of COMMONS , on Monday , the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained that the reasons for making the changes proposed in the Newspaper Conveyance Bill were purely departmental and administrative ; but that partly upon the ground of the objection taken to the measure by parties concerned , ! and partly on account of the illness of Sir Rowland Hill , he should proceed no further with the measure at present , and ho therefore asked leave to withdraw it . The bill was withdrawn accordingly . Lord Palmerston drew attention , as he had promised
to do , to the informality committed on Thursday night in reporting resolutions agreed to in committee of ways and means , in connection with the Wino Licences Bill , to the house the same night , and moved that , as that step had been taken " without urgent cause , " the report should be declared null and void , and should be brought up again . The Chancellor of tho Exchequer said that as the reception of the report had been informal , the proceedings of the committee on the AAlne Licences Billwhich immediatelsucceededwere necessarilinformal
, y , y also , and that , consequently , the clauses of the bill which had been agreed to would have to be brought up again . Tho house then went into committee on the Refreshment-houses and AAlno Licences Bill , resuming at clause IT ; the first eleven clauses having passed on Thursday night , aud clauses 12 and 13 having been postponed by consent . Clauses IT to 23 , inclusive , having been agreed to , Mr . Baines moved an rmendment on clause 2 T , with the view of prohibiting refreshment houses
having wine licences from being open oil Sundays . In tho course of a long discussion which ensued , a very decided opposition was offered to the amendment . Ultimately it was negatived on a division Ly 117 to 52—majority 65 .. The remaining clauses of the bill were agreed to , with the exception of the postponed clauses 12 and 18 , which were withdrawn . On Tuesday Mr . John Locke asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether her Majesty ' s government were in possession of any intelligence whatever to the effect that Russia has concentrated a considerable army on
the Pruth , and that tho Ottoman government has assembled a corps d ' armee at AA iddin ; and whether her Majesty ' s government had been advised , or in any way informed , that Prince Gorfcschakoff had assembled the representatives of all the Powers except Turkey , and had stated that the condition of the Christians in the Turkish dominions was every day becoming less supportable , and that his government hoped to obtain the concurrence of the other Powers , and would make a strong remonstrance to Turkey upon the subject 1 Lord J . Russell said
hoi-Majesty ' s government had received no intelligence such as that referred to in the first question ; but that with regard to tho second question , ho had on the previous day received a despatch from Sir J . Cranipton , our ambassador at St . Petersburg , very much to the effect of the question ; and he had also received a despatch from Lord Cowley , at Paris , stating that he had had a conversation ivith M . Thouvonel , who said that if any action of the sort look place , it should bo , not tho action of Russia alone , but of the five great Powers jointly . Sir C . Napier moved for a return of the names of the gun and mortar
boats that had been constructed with tho short bolts , and the names of the builders . Lord C . Paget declined to give the names of the builders , on the ground that it would be unfair to prejudice them while legal proceedings were likely to bo taken against them . He had , however , no objection to give the names of the defective gunboats , as far as possible . After some discussion , tho motion was withdrawn . Lord Lovaine moved an address for copy of all correspondence between tho Home Office and the directors of the
South-Eastern Railway Company , in the years 1859-60 , relating to the conveyance of persons intending to commit a breach of the law , in doing which he referred to tlie late prize fight , and accused the South-Easteni Company with having carried down two or three thousand ruffians into a peaceful district . Lord Palmerston said that there was nothing to object to in the motion , but at the same time , ho thought the exaggerated language of its proposer would have been better avoided , for , as for carrying down the railway two thousand or three
thousand ruffians , there were great differences of opinion as to the merits of prize fighting , and he did not see that two thousand or three thousand people assembled to see one were move likely to load to an actual breach of ' the peace than an equal number of people assembled to witness a balloon ascent , Stile , in law , they wore no doubt breaches of the peace . On AVednesday the Lord Advocate moved tho second reading of the Annuity Tax Abolition ( Edinburgh ) Bill . Mr . ITadfield objected on the grQund that the hill , while affecting to repeal the tax , would in reality perpetuate it in another form , and moved that it should be read a second time that day six months , After considerable discussion , the Lord
Advocate intimated that it was his intention , when in committee , to introduce a clause providing that , instead of the accumulation of a permanent fund of .- £ 120 , 000 for paying salaries of . € 600 a year to thirteen ministers , the payments should be made out of a rate to be levied for that purpose . Mr . ITadfield then withdrew his amendment .
GENERAL HOME NEWS . —On Tuesday morning the ceremony of confirming the election of the Right Rov . Joseph Cotton AVigram , D . D ., to the bishopric oi Rochester , took place with the usual ceremony , at the parish Church of St . Mary-le-Bow , Cheapside . The new bishop was consecrated on Thursday , iu the parish church of St . Mary , Lambeth , by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , who was assisted by the Bishops of London , Winchester , Oxford , and other prelates . The Registrar-General ' s return for the week that ended last Saturday exhibits a
considerable reduction in the deaths of London . In the previous five weeks they ranged from about 1 , 200 to 1 , 400 ; they have now ^ declined to 1 , 111 . In April the mean temperature of the air was 42 . 5 degrees ; in the last fortnight it has been 51 . 5 degrees ; and latterly the south-west has been the prevailing wiud . Last week the births of 7 SG boys and SI 9 girls , in all 1 , G 05 children , were registered . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1 S 50-59 , the average number was 1 , 627 . In the Landed Estates Court of Ireland , more than £ 40 , 000 worth of
property ivas sold on Friday before Judge Dobbs . It is reported that a great number of petitions for sale are under consideration , and that there is a prospect of activity in the land market before tho close of the year . A meeting was held in the Polytechnic Institution on Monday , for tho purpose of furthering the interests of the company which has undertaken the management of that admirable institution . The claims which it possesses to public support were very ably and eloquently set forth by the various speakers ; and we have much leasure
p in being able to state that the financial prospects of the undertaking are on the whole encouraging . A serious accident took place on the North London Railway , at Bow , on Wednesday . The engine of a train from Camden Town went off the line , dragging with it two passenger carriages . Fortunately , however , no lives were lost , and the escape of the passengers , and especially of the stoker and fireman , was , under the eireumstances , almost miraculous . The proceedings of that excellent institution , the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals were diversified on AVednesday by the presentation of the society ' s ¦ gold medal to Mr . Raroy , an honour to which no man was ever more justly entitled . The letter carriers of the Post Office held a public meeting at St . Martin ' s Hall on Monday night , in order to make known their grievances . Only two or three days have elapsed since the Duke of Argyll issued a notice requesting the men to abstain from agitation , because a Committee bad been appointed for the purpose of inquiring into their complaints . On Sunday last the Rev . Mr . BonwelL was served in the vestry of the church with a prohibition from the Bishop of London , ordering him not to continue to
minister to tho congregation ol St . I'hilip's , Stepney , during the proceedings now ponding against him concerning the birth of a child in the school-room of the schools belonging to that church . The articles delivered to him called upon the reverend gentleman to appear and answer certain charges contained in the articles before Dr . Lushington , in the Ecclesiastical Court , at tho instance of the Bishop of London . On Saturday an accident , resulting in the death of one man , and serious injury to several persons , occurred at Gospel Oak Colliery , AVednesbury .
It had been known for some time that a portion of tho workings was filled with " fire-damp , " and , consequently , every precaution was used for the 2 'revention of accident , till Saturday morning , about seven o ' clock , when an explosion occurred . The cause of Hatch v . Plummer has been brought to a termination . Baron C'hannell ' s summing up occupied nearly eight hours , and the jury took upwards of two hoiu-s to consider their verdict , which was one of giiilly . The jury coupled with their verdict a recommendation that the extreme mercy of the court should be extended to the irl and that
g any imprisonment to which she might be subjected should be accompanied by a proper course of training , her education having , in tho opinion of the jury , been neglected . The popular feeling ran entirely in favour of Mr . Hatch , ancl the verdict was received ivith loud applause by the crowd both iu and out of court . Eugenie Plummer was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment in H ' olloway prison , and subsequently to two years' confinement in a Reformatory School . Mr . Baron Channcllin passing sentencestated that
, , as , judging ^ from the verdict , it was the opinion of the jury that the prisoner had suffered from a defective education , ho desired Io pass as lenient a sentence as possible . He intimated that her friends had made certain proposals with regard 11 her which , if accepted by the Home Secretary , would have the effect of remitting the sentence . Pullinger , the late cashier of the Union Bank , was also placed at the bar to receive sentence . He made a brief statement to the effect that he had given up to the directors all that he possessed , and that had it not been for the bad faith of brokerwith whom he bad last
a , dealings year , he would have been able to make full restitution . Mr . Baron Chanuell sentenced him to twenty years' penal servitude . The case of Richardson , the late secretary of the London Rifle Brigade , was postponed till next session , on account of the illness of one of the witnesses .- On Wednesday morning considerable excitement was created in the vicinity of Shovcditch , in consequence of the discovery of the body of a female named Hart , ivho it waj alleged had been brutall y murdered b y a man ' named Raddon , a pipe-maker , who has since ( frowned himself- his body has been found , R . iddoii hod cohabited for some time ' with