The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-27 00:00:00

GOSSIP FROM THE WEEKLIES.

We (United Service Gazette) are happy to s,nnoines
that a very important step has been taken towards the
promotion of education in the army. A " Board of Bal.'
cation" has been formed, at the head of which is the Coo'
mender-in-Chief (ex-oficir), with Major General Cameron'
42ad, for vice President, and Colonels Portlocke RR, au'
Addison, Assistant Quartermaster General, for members;
Everything in relation to the suitable preparation el
officers for first commissions and later advancement will
be under the government of this board. The examies.
tions will no longer j),) conducted at Sandhurst, but by
competent professors, helding their appointments ter?'
porarily, as recommended by the commissioners who liee4
returned from the Continent.
"It will interest numbers of our reedere," sa ye he
Leicester Mercury, "to learn that, at a meeting of t-
ladies' committee, held in fee Mayor's parlour, last laesci
day afternoon, it was reported that the ladies had reeeillbs
7,000 signatures from the women of Leicester to t
address to Sir Joshua Walmsley, and that the sabscrietic
to the testimonial exceeds £125. It was unenimonslYre'
solved that the testimonial should consist of a silemr
piece. The other address from the electors ate
electors still lies at our office for signature."
" On account of his personal character," says the SPefr
tator, there has been the strongest disposition not to
press hard upon the present Lord Chancellor ; even.
Lord Palmerston's government, however, there are irldivt;
duals who have not concealed their own impression ; an
if the Premier will make inquiries among some of his most
admiring supporters, who are not in the law, and are not
in the government, but are in the House of Commons, be
will find no expectation that law reform will be restored
to the progress which it enjoyed even under Lord Derby's
government, until the work shall have been placed in hands
more congenoel to it than those of the respectable judge
now upon the woolsack. This would be done without of
fence, and most approPriately, by appointing a Minister,
of Justice. Thee would be a key to the whole range 01
the subject ; and the minister who adopted that measure
would in the single act surpass the last government whirl'
stands foremost in the records of law-amendment--tbs
government of Lord Derby."
The Press says that sonic singular circumstances owe
their origin to General Ablibarnlien's recent appointment.
" Just previous to the dissolution one of the most severely.
contested elections occurred in a southeou county. The
powerful influence of a relative of the gallant general u
upon that occasion given to the Conservative eendidete•
Meanwhile arose the China debate, and then came,
following the vote, the dissolution and a Chinese war.
second contest occurred in the same county, and this ;tie
influence as well as the honour of General Ashbur?:
ham's relative was thrown into the opposite scale, and of
ministerial candidate as warmly supported as he had bee'
previously opposed. General Ashburnham had been sr
pointed to the command in China."
The Record by no means regrets Sir john Dodsoi°
decision in the case of Aro:lemon Denison. On the °rid'
trary, " We are glad of it, because all the trouble anus
expense of long pleadings in the Court of Arches are thof
saved, and the case is carried up at once to the Court to
Finsl Appeal—namely, the Crown, as repres nted by id:,
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. That theore
cisien f the Court of Arches will be there reversed w—
ean be little doubt."
The John Bull imagines that among the siteratiorl
which will be proposed by certain of Lord Palneel'Otie
school of theology in the Common Prayer Book, °jog
extensive change will be deemed essential in the servie.,,,,a,
the consecration of a bishop. Instead of the words
well-learned man," it will be thought advisable to sub;,
tats " this ready and fluent speaker ;" a bishop wit
days is not to be a teacher of his clergy, but may 'of
person who requires teaching himself, "as in the Mayo
one of Lord Palmerston's prelates, who is obliged to lA,
iecourse to a juvenile tutor to placehim on an equality
point of learning with the clergy under his control. ua
The new number of the Quarterly undertakes to expou r
the Palmerston idea. The Premier, it says, is a trst
to the cause of reform ; he governs by trickery
manoeuvre • he talks of progressive improvement
.:
language which, coming. from Tory lips, would be P 770
nounced icy ' • his promises of progress would not
alarmed Lord Eldon. The Quarterly points to Lord J°.es
Russell as the true Liberal le icier ; it is respectful to 'o
Manchester party ; but warns the country agues
minister who treats political independence as a parlienee:
tsry mutiny, and reform, to use the words of Mr. Loves'.
an electoral cry."
The Lancet sass that the profession mast not deeeir
itself in the matter of medical baronetcies and knight:,
hoods. They are not compliments to the profession. Ti;
are not given to reward State service, nor to mark
value attached to science and scientific men. They sr,'
simply personal ; and they are entirely reserved for
Court Physician or Court Surgeon. Until there are medic";
peers, medicine—the Lancet contends - has not achieve".
its priper social position. of
Shipping, observes the Economist, being that branch
society which partakes most of piogress everywhere, el",l
probably now continue to increase more rapidly than teeve„
°thee portion of society, and to provide regulations 1;
what is so rapidly
.growing is prematurely to stop e;
growth. '.l,te regulations and restrictions of the merchel's
seaman's
act w;2l. do for it, if continUed, what regulati°'
and restrictiorie have done for the population of Fratleeeo
if they,lo not kill it. " The gentleoot
dwarf and enfeeble,
against the merchant seaman:l,oi
who are now agitating
should rather assail its principle eeitetri its details. .J.Poio
feel the operation of these, however,
change now, which will compel them to .7° hereafter
and go for a hog
still greater changes." -
(1 dici"
Herepath argued that the chief destroyer of go-- -er
dende, so far as parliament is concerned, has been the
mission of duplicate and competing lines of railefaloo
those already made. " Without apparently any conSne/,
tion for the expenditure which parliament had sanction.
toe
or the apparent solicitude with which it inquired in° d p
line's prospects of paying a fair dividend, it granter
second line to cut the throat of the first. It ignored silo
gether its own affected solicitude that the capital Beileefere
not be unprofitably expended, and in some cases 11 had
the line granted had proved remunerative, a 7107 Claebti&
been authorised to take away the little profit that it
,ort
Is this justice in parliament ? Is it not, in fact, a noorlaa
and violation justice, a wanton robbery of those er110,,,0.
embarked their money on the faith of parliamentaryr •
tection 2"
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The SaeuPday Rteiftv remarks that the in-,- „ryes
strength of the phalanx of director legislators 06°;;Iley
importance from the contemporaneous decline of e° sfest
other once powerful sections of the house. `the
India interest was once able t o make a stout fight aver it,
the philanthropic party which at last triumphed o,oe
and now it has utterly disappeared. The nabb Ler; of
used to be important enough to make it worth the ivntitif
a minister to listen to their advice, and humour to
caprices. Now there are scarcely half a dozen men ill the
hlinse who owe their position to the rupees, or our
experience which they have accumulated in lire'
lf
Eastern empire. Even the great company itse oea
failed to secure the return of its chairman, who Ilsod
well and so steadily fought its battles through right cot
wrong, and has so often defeated the attacks a opt
tented proprietors and philanthroph;.c enthusiasts• too
short, with the exception of the lawyers, railway diretsc t,cl
form the only section of the House which possesses 11: of
of union distinct from the ordinary political divisi°%lo
the country. Even the lawyers in parliament oe
scarcely be looked upon as a class interest, for °or
of them are returned merely as the spokesmen of 01 to
sectional parties, and the large majority enter the ho 800
fight each tor his own hand, and to use political 011,tial
as a means of advancing their individual profosstv"
interests." fthß
The Weekly Dispatch says that the real offeneel-at of
Manchester school, in the ey es of the people, is ft,4,"
anti-nationalism. They have been guilty of with
When their country was at war in a deadly stroag° 1,0
a powerful foe, they, standiog in our camp, made sign; the
the enemy. They did that in the secure- privilege,
n
senatehey
house, for vihich, had they been in the ten" „tdee
would, by the recognised laws of nations, havebeen ba'dei
over to the provost marshal. Their speeches were placs.rijo
all over Russia, and materially strengthened the
of the Czar in his efforts to cripple us, by justify th°oo.
own subjects the protrac ion of hostilities which theltA.oo.
selves were beginning to condemn and fall away gad
In all their denunciations of their country, they never Aar
a word of reproach to utter against the imperial bearr'the
whose covetous eye hungered for the inheritance L'i'crauclt
sick man,' and whose whole career was that of
'—
cunning, aggression, and spoliation."

FATAL EXPERIMENT.—An inquest was held a evrclroset
ego at Earninster (Devonshire), before Mr.
uTteen'
coroner of the district, en the body of a girl, aged i.--r„igh.
who had been in the employ of a farmer in the 11,; se
bourhood. It appeared that the girl was discovere'cies4;
outhouse , suspended by a rope to a rafter, quitel
.sited
and and it was stated that the deceased had lately " 00
the Devon county gaol, in company with her waste r
„ oot
mistress, and that she had been shown, e1n1911,0 Ehe
thing 4, the place where culprits were hanged. her
arrived home she asked howhang;ng was /greeted, 41"roce0
fellow servants are reported to have described the P biect,
to her. She evinced contiderable curiosity on the
to `try
,tir
g'the
and it was thought she went into the linhaf
experiment, and not with the intention of COwn oath'
suicide, as she was cheerful and contented, and
whatever could be assigned for her committing fj-
an act.