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i ' . 848 THE LEADER. [Sa^ur ^ay,
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ODDITIES OF THE CHINESE STRUGGLE. Chin-k...
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THtt WORKING CLASSES. TiiieitK are a fai...
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THE HURRICANE ON FRIDAY. Ai,ONa tho Engl...
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Mrs. Norton's Rejoinder. Mits. Noeton Ha...
caressingcorrespondence— -even while he repeats as true the gross slanders of seventeen years ago . He admits that lie had no stipulation whatever with me about Lord Melbourne on this disputed agreement ; arid he denies that he ever * said or suggested' that he had any such stipulation . Such are his admissions ; I turn to his assertions . " Mr . Norton ' s appointment was not given or promised by Lord Melbourne before he knew me or visited at our house , but , on the contrary , after correspondence and intimacy ; and it was not given as compensation for the loss of his Commissionership of Bankruptcy ; on the contrary , the Chancellor insisted on controlling his own patronage ,
and gave notice that Mr . Norton should not be permitted to hold both appointments together . I did not put my husband to needless torment and expense by extravagance and actions from , my tradespeople ; on the contrary , he broke his solemn written pledge with his own referee , Sir John Bayley , and advertised me in the newspapers ; as Sir John Bayley can prove . Sir W . Follett did not advise the trial , or the measures taken by Mr . Norton ; on the contrary , he publicly disavowed him as soon as the trial was over ; as the letter of Messrs . Currie and Woodgate is extant to prove . "
She states how , from the petty struggle for money she has teen drawn into " all this scandal . " " It is said , wh y all this scandal for a miserable matter of a few hundred pounds ? better any sacrifice than such a struggle . Very true ; but when this petty struggle was undertaken , no human being could have foreseen the falsehood with which it was to be met , and out of which this scandal was to grow . Others , judging where none can judge who do not know our history , wonder I did not quietly take what Mr . Norton asserts he offered . For that , I can only appeal to Sir John Bayley , and to the evidence of Mr . Norton ' s present conduct . If Mr . Norton would not be bound by -his written pledge given to Sir John Bayley in 1837 , nor by the formal document drawn up by Mr . Leman in 1848 , is it credible that he could be bound by a mere assertion that he would or would not place such and such sums ?"
She justifies her womanly resentment . " I resent , not his treachery about the broken agree * ment , but his attempt to raise the laid ghost of a dead slander to shame me . I resisted it with passionate despair , because , let a woman struggle as she will , fair fame is blotted , and fair name lost , not by the fact , but the accusation ; and I feel it more now even than in 1836 , because then my children were infants , and it could not grieve them . Those who have commented on the exasperation with which I answered in court , would do well to
remember that I stood there answering questions on oath , which had no possible bearing on the case ; well knowing those questions to be put with the express view and purpose of defaming me ; knowing the charges implied by those questions to be false ; knowing ( the most despairing knowledge of all ) that Mr . Norton knew they were false , even while he put them ; and that instead of being allowed to prove the debt and agreement , I was once more being insulted with the echo of tho trial of 183 G , with as little ust cause for the insult . "
She closes her solemn and detailed vindication with the following words : — ' I havo done . There will always bo thoso to whom a slander is prcoious ; and who cannot bear to havo it refuted . There are also those in whose eyes the accusation of a woman is her condemnation , and who care little whether the story bo falso or true , so long as there is or was a story against her . Butjustcr minds , who will pause and review tho circumstances Mr . Norton himself lias published , will perhaps think the fa to of that woman a hard one , whom neither tho verdict of a jury , nor the solemn denial of a voice from tho dead , nor tho petition of her husband for reconciliation and oblivion of the past , can clear from a charge always and utterly untrue ! I did not deserve the
scandal of 18 M , and I do not , deserve the scandal of 1853 , Lord Melbourne did not tempt me then to break my wodded faith ; and his name has not . now boon tho ground of a broken stipulation . On Mr . Norton ' s own letter 1 am content that pooplo should judge us both . Many friendH havo wished mo to pass over that letter in disdainful silence , ns refuting itself ; and perhaps , if I were happy enough to bo obscure and unknown , that would be my course . Hut I havo a position separate from my woman ' s destiny ; I am known as a writer ; and I will not permit that Mr . Norton ' s let tor shall remain on tho journals of Croat Britain , as the uncnnt . nulictcd record of my actions . I will , us far as I . am nblo , defend a name , which mig ht , havo been onlyfavourably known , but , which my husband has rendered
notorious . Tho little world of my chance readers , may say of mo after I urn dead and gone , and my struggle over and forgotten— ' Tho woman who wrote this book had an unhappy history ; ' but . they shall not say— ' tho woman who wrote this book was a profligate and mercenary hypoorito . ' Since my one gift , of writing given mo friends among strangers , 1 appeal to the opinion of strangers as well as that of friendH . Since , in howover bounded and narrow a degree , thoro in a chance that . I . may bo remembered after aeath , 1 will not havo my whole life 7 ninreprosente < l . Lot those women who have tho true woman ' s lot , of being unknown out of tho circle of their homos , thank ( Jo < I for
that blessing ; it in a blowing ; but , lor mo , publicity is no longer a matter of choice . Defence is possible to mo ; not Hilonoe ., And I must remind those who think the right of a huHb ' and Hoindolbasiblo , that a wile ought rather to submit to tho martyrdom of her reputation , than bo justified at Inn oxponso , that I . ha refrained . AH I ntato now , I might havo stated at anytime during the pant unhappy yoarw ; nnd I never did publicly ntato it till now ; now , when I liiul Mr . Norton slandering the mother of liin hoiis by coarse anecdotes signed with Iris name and published by hid authority : endeavouring tliuH to overwhelm me with infamy , for rib ollonco but that of having rashly assorted a claim upon him , which wan found not to bo vaiitt in law but only binding on him '«« n man of honour . '''
I ' . 848 The Leader. [Sa^Ur ^Ay,
i ' . 848 THE LEADER . [ Sa ^ ur ^ ay ,
Oddities Of The Chinese Struggle. Chin-K...
ODDITIES OF THE CHINESE STRUGGLE . Chin-keang-iOO is one of the most important cities in China . It is here that the Grand Canal forms a junction with the river , and the town is considered the key of the whole of China . The patriot army having gained possession of this place , the Tartars lately attempted to retake it , and the Shanghae Taoutae ordered the Imperial fleet to make an attack upon it . This fleet is entirely officered by Europeans , but it failed in taking the town , through the brisk resistance of the patriots . The inert Imperialists showed their usual temper : 6000 looked on at the fight without moving a hand to aid their own fleet . The " mercenary fleet" has now returned to Shanghae , its ardour in the cause of the decadent Emperor not seeming very great .
Doctor Taylor , an American missionary , has given an account of his visit to the camp . He was received with great civility , and in a plain , rational way , quite distinct from the ceremonious manners we have been used to attribute to the Chinese . The patriot army was illprovided with uniform apparel , but what they wanted in this respect , and in military order , they made up by a spirited discharge of duty , and a unity of purpose supplying systematic organization . In their religious
exercises they chant aloud most dissonant hymns , and pray silently , much after the manner of intense Protestant people in this country . Dr . Taylor saw tables placed , with various kinds of food , as offerings to the Supreme Being ; among which were three bowls of tea , one for each person of the Trinity . For further military directions the patriots wait an order from their Heavenly Father . A proclamation , issued by the commander who saw Dr . Taylor , is interesting . The first word is a name , not an exclamation : — -
" , the fifth arranger of the forces , attached to the palace of the celestial dynasty of T'hae-ping , who have received the command of Heaven to rule the empire , communicates the following information to all his English ( foreign ) brethren . On the 1 st day of the 5 th moon ( the 6 th of June ) a brother belonging to youi honourable nation , named Charles Taylor , brought hither a number of books , which have been received in order . Seeing that the above-named individual is a fellow-worshipper of God ( Shang-te ) , he is therefore acknowledged as a brother . The books likewise which he has brought agree substantially with our own , so that it appears we follow one and the same road . Formerly , however , when a ship belonging to
your honourable nation came hither ( the Hermes ) , sho was followed by a fleet of impish vessels belonging to the false Tartars : now , also , when a boat from your honourable nation comes among us , tho impish vessels of the Tartars again follow in its wake . Considering that your honourable nation is celebrated for its truth and fidelity , we , your younger brothers , do not harbour any suspicions . At present both Heaven and men favour our design , and this is just tho time for setting up the Chinese and abolishing the Tartar rule . Wo suppose that you , gentlemen , are well acquainted with tho signs of the times , so that wo need not enlarge on that subject ; but while we , on our parts , do not prohibit commercial intercourse , wo merely observe that , since tho two parties aro now engaged in warfare , tho going- to and fro is accompanied with
inconvenience ; and , judging from tho present aspect of affairs , wo should deem it bettor to wait a few months , until wo havo thoroughly destroyed tho Tartars , whon , perhaps , tho subjects of your honourable nation could go and como without being involved in tho tricks of these falso Tartars . Would it not , in your estimation , also bo preferable ? Wo take advantage of tho opportunity to send you this com-. mimioation for your intelligent inspection , and hopo that every blessing may attend you . Wo also send a number of our own books , which pleaso to circulate amongst you . " More successes of tho patriots are rumoured . It was currently reported that an army , in three divisions , had actually been marched from Nanking for Peking ; but on its becoming known that tho Imperialists were collecting a largo force at the former city , the insurgent force was recalled . The Mandarins at Canton
have been busy forwarding reinforcements of men and munitions of war by sea , nnd tho China Mail my * that 000 , 000 pieuls ( above eighty millions of pounds ) of gunpowder , and 2000 trained soldiers , thirty of whom can east cannon , havo also been writ . Tho Mail , however , suggests that their destination may be Anioy .
Thtt Working Classes. Tiiieitk Are A Fai...
THtt WORKING CLASSES . TiiieitK are a fair number of successes this week . A compromise has been effected between the Glasgow builders and their operatives . The masons lire to work fifty-seven hours u week , leaving off at two o ' clock on Saturday . They are to bo paid Cut . an hour , and six months' notice must ,, be given before any change in these arrangements win take place . Official recogni :
tioiis r . f working mini doscrvo especial note for their rarity . Tho labourers at , one of thoUosport dockyards having laboured very hardly at victualling tho fleet , cheerfully working extra bourn , the Admiralty , tho other day , ordered a week ' s extra pay to each man . Tim Hull , manufacturers at Cheshire have , at tho request of their moil , abolished Sunday work , Having nuch attendance as in iHMwmnry to keep in tho fireH . Tho movement which resulted [ n the eoncousion was very
judiciously organized by a working-man ' s society , called the National Association of United Trades . The coalmasters about Kilmarnock have agreed to advance the wages of their workmen from 4 s . to 4 s . $$ per day . > ' ... Of demands pur record is brief . The Manchester dyers are likely to fail in . their , demand for an advance The masters have ' gbt ' new boys to replace one half of the men out on strike . The cabmen of Edinburgh continue to demand an increase of 3 s . per week on the present wages , and 2 s . Qd . additional for Sunday work
They are likely to succeed . The great strike at Dowlais continues , and the prospects of success for the men increase each day . The make of iron is increasing , and the various works are in full play , so that the men who struck are being gradually absorbed into the other iron districts . At Dowlais the miners and two mills only are ac work , with a sufficient number of labourers to keep the collieries in proper order . The company will , it is said , find it difficult to replace the men , as labour is extremely scarce . The lightermen of London are out " on strike , " and some riots and assaults have occurred . There is hope of an amicable adjustment .
We have a great many instances of the general wellbeing of the people . Pauperism in Ireland is almost extinct ; and the Queen has visited a nation of welllooking and well-clothed men . Freehold Land Societies , of all names and kinds , are coming out , and getting on . An estate of six acres , at Sydenham , 400 yards from the station , has been purchased by the Church of England Freehold Land Society ; and their Harrow estate is in process of allotment . The new
rules of the General Operative Plasterers' Society are being completed . The managers of this society conduct its business so well that it is now a very strong body . At Manchester there has been held a pleasant tea-party , in celebration of the conference of delegates from the co-operative associations of the kingdom . Professor Maurice made a good speech . On the evening before , Mr . Edward Vansittart Neale lectured on the subject of such associations .
In Glasgow the system of a half-holiday on Saturday has become universal . _ The day for holding the Manchester corn market is to be changed from Saturday to Thursday . Baths and wash-houses are to be built at Bermondsey . They will cost 14 , 000 £ , and the ground has cost 2000 / . There will he two large plunging and sixty-five private baths—occupying an area of about 122 feet , by 115 feet . A sailor ' s home is to be built at Woolwich . The new Nottingham Exchange is being generally used , and with very good effect on the trade of tho district .
The Hurricane On Friday. Ai,Ona Tho Engl...
THE HURRICANE ON FRIDAY . Ai , ONa tho English Channel , and on our eastern and northern coasts , a fierce and singular hurricano t ook place on Thursday night and Friday morning . It set in shortly after eleven on Thursday night , tlie wind blowing heavily from the S . W ., with rain . As morning advanced , the gale became more severe ; and at daybreak , in some p laces it blew almost a p erfect hurricane . Tho effects on tho shipping were disastrous . Between Dover and tho North Foreland ninny casualties aro reported , and a number of vessels songM refuge inside the Goodwin , some with loss of spars or anchors and cables , or other damage , by coming m collision . The French mail-boat from Calais was unablo to make the harbour of the former port . Hl » o 1 'f " for Deal , and , after much difficulty , landed her inniw nnd passengers . Just below Beeehy Head two lnrtf " vessels were- lost in mid-day . One was tlic Jirem'i , laden with timber , from Quebec . Encountering U «> gale , and tho crew fearing her speedy foundering , tlioy , for the purpose of preserving their lives , ran her UMlion ; " » the vicinity of Newhaven . Tho whole of tho w « w "' " ' naged to reach the Hhoro , although in a most pit" *>" condition . The other vessel was a fine barque , « ii" « tho mtralla , bound to Ilio from Grinisby . - '' "f' }"""' , thatin anticipation of bad weather nho broug ht » I ¦ a * M | ¦
, , ' u ^ llll |||\/ i I ( ll \; il \/ M . */ l (\ I IV « . ( ill >*>^> ^ - 1 ,-on tho previotiH evening off Shoreham . There "lie J exposed to the violence of tho galo . Slw llll " " ^ , severely , and , shortly niter daybreak , was <»•« ^ from her anchors and cast aslioro abreast ol ^ ( ' ° . ^ , guard station . Tho eritienl situation of the «! n 5 V [ | . [ mediately excited tho attention of tl «> so on tho ' ^ out . No time was lost , in launching < ll <) "lo-boi \ l , i sov . oriil bravo fellows Volunteering to man her , who ^ ^ off to t , he rescue of the poor creatures on the wi ^ After making her way through a , tremendous m , ^ gained the barque , and taking oil" her unfortunato - ^ returned , and safely landed them . According i » Iswt accounts , tho vessel was fast going to l" « <;() H j . jM The eastern coast fell ; the galo severely ; " »< ^ |)() feaied that tho real extent of the disasters M vo < loarnod . Mar li '"" Mhnllur boisterous weather raged on tiio
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1853, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03091853/page/8/
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