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for purchasing her husband ' s interest . E ^ concluded bv Srking that he was lecturing onhis ownrey t ! ofhilitv : he had , however , corresponded with the SP ° ^ tive L Ldndon ^ and it was understood that he S 3 SSS Lancashire for his parish , m Which to Ste the subject of associative labour . The lecturer was frequently applauded , and received avoteof thanks at th & close of his address . . CENTRAL COOPERATIVE AGENCY . The agency transacted business -with the following stores •—TJllesthorpe , Braintree , Galashiels , Leeds , T > or , wv . Haslineden , Burnley , Bradford , Derby ,
Brighton , Mauchline , Swindon , Birmingham , Hawick , and Glasgow . An application was received from Mr . Henry , of West Moulsey , for some members of the * agency to attend a meeting there for establishing a store . Mr . Wooden attended from the agency , with Mr . Furnival , of the council of promoters , and Mr . Walter Cooper , manager of the Working Ta il ors ' Association ; the estabiisment of a store in that village was decided on . The spinners of Bolton , 400 in
number , intend forming a store in connection with the agency . The last public discussion in Halifax between Mr . Lloyd Jones and Mr . Ernest Jones took place before a crowded audience , and it ended very favourably to the cooperative movement , as it is at present carried out . Several applications have been received during the week for prospectuses and catalogues of the agency , and for Mr . "Vansittart Neale ' s pamphlet , May I not Do what I Will with My Own ?
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The Arctic Expedition. Extract From The ...
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION . EXTRACT FROM THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF AN OFFICER OF THE EREBUS . At Sea , June 26 , 1845 . A delightful day we have had , quite calm , hot sun . Thermometer 42 degrees . All sorts of beasts being caught in nets . We take turn to fish with a net at the end of a . long pole , and bring tip most strange animals . Crozier dined on board , and Hodgson came , looking very ill . We saw several icebergs a long way off , which we hoped would come near us ; the scenery and rugged peaks of Greenland twenty miles off .
- 27 th . To-dayhas been hot and calm and delightful ; got bottom in forty fathoms , and pulled up starfish and shells and strange beasts , and , what is better , pulled up plenty of large codfish—enough for a good feed or two for all hands . This afternoon a thick fog suddenly came over us , with a north wind , in which the thermometre fell to 35 degrees , where it now stands , and we are sailing in smooth water , and small whales bounding about in all directions . Latitude 64 degrees . The fog has cleared away , and we have lost the transport . This morning a brig came close to us , and her skipper came on board—a rough old fellow , from Shetland . He has come to fish for cod on the banks , and for . salmon in the " Fiords "—a new scheme quite in these parts . He came to see the little old man who had the wife at Stromness , who had been a mate with him .
29 th . —To-day we have had sea smooth as glass , very cloudy , and a cold air . Thermometer 35 degrees ; and to my delight passed several icebergs , within a mile of a large one . The effect was very fine , for the horizon happened to be a dark distinct line , and these bergs , catching an occasional gleam of sunshine , shone like a twelfth cake . I had fancied icebergs were large transparent lumps , or rocks of ice . They look like huge masses of pure snow , furrowed with caverns and dark ravines . I went on board the Terror
an the evening , for it was quite calm , and found Hodgson better . When we came on board , we pulled up for Goodsir beasts , star-fish , mud , and shells , from a depth of 250 fathoms , and caught more cod . Last night I remained up till a late hour trying to read a watch by the light of certain blubbers , remarkable jolly-like fish , which emit a bright phosphorescent light when shaken in a basin . Land in sight , under dense masses of clouds . We have found the transport and a Danish brig is close to us . 30 th . — --Tho coast of Greenland is now very fine . We aro nearer than over—about twenty-five milesbut it looks close , and dense clouds overhang the Whole ruerffed and snowv coast . I saw several darnera
to-day , but the clouds were too dense to sketch anything , though tho effect is very fine of the masses of cloud and snow relieved by dark blue craigs . Tooay , at six o ' clock in tho evening , wo crossed the Arctic circle , latitude 00 degrees 30 minutes , and tne sun s declination happening to bo more than ^ uogrocs 10 minutes , ho will not sot to us to-night JJ . } : , I regret that it is too cloudy to sco him at "" anight . This evening sea smooth , no icebergs . July 1 . —To-morrow wo expect to got to Disco , or , rather , to tho Whale-fish Islands close to itwhere
, we shall unload the transport of provisions and coals , ana start as soon as we can . I shall , thoroforo , conwnuo my journal up to the present time , and if you near nothing moro from mo you must bo satisfied that wo navo nrrivod at Disco , and are gono on in proseou" pv f ouv Journey . « w « morninK was damp and foggy , but it cleared « wny , and wo uro now sailing with tho dark blue land JJ , ° ur n « b-t , twenty miles off , relieved by snowy poaics , and u lino of craggy iooborgs , ns far as the
are to Lancaster Sound . Parry was fortunate enough , in his first voyage , to sail right across in nine or ten days—a thing unheard of before or since . In his next voyage he was fifty-four days toiling through fields of ice , and did not get in till September , yet Lancaster Sound is the point we look to as the beginning of our work . If we are fortunate we shall be there by the 1 st of August , which will be time enough ; sooner would probably put as among the clearing ice . No expedition has ever been able to leave Disco before the 4 th or 5 th of July , though some have sailed a month before we did ; except Ross in his first voyage , and he got away by the 16 th of June , and was , I believe , a month going sixty miles further . So you see all is conjecture j we may do well this year , and again , we may not .
eye can reach ahead . In a few hours we shall be among them . I have just been up in . the ^ crow ' s nest , and the appearance of these icy craigs and pinnacles is beautiful and singular ; fair in , close to the land , is a perfect glacier , equal to any Swiss one . Still on we go—on , on— -the three of us , though the transport wishes herself back again , no doubt . This evening we sailed in among a shoal of some hundred walrusses ; tumbling over , one another , diving and splashing with their fins and tails , and looking at us with their grim , solemn-looking countenances and small heads , bewhiskered and betusked . There are sixty-five icebergs in , sight . ' , In talking to Sir John Franklin , whose memory is as good as his judgment appears to be correct , it appears that one great difficulty is to get from where we
Midnight , 1 st . —I have just been on deck to look again at the splendid icebergs we were passing through , and saw one about 200 feet high topple over and come down with a crash , which raised a cloud of foam and spray and mist like an avalanche . It is a fine clear , sun-shiny night ; the Danish brig is closer in-shore , occasionally hidden from our view by a berg ; 180 were in sight at one time . 2 nd . —The weather was so thick , that we could not see when we had gone far enough , but found ourselves in the forenoon right under a dense , blacklooking coast topped with snow , with long furrows and ravines of snow , and canopied with a mass of
clouds and mist . In bold relief , at the foot of this black mass , the most fantastically formed and perfectly white bergs shone out . This was Disco , and we showed our colours to the Danish flag , hoisted on the-house or hut of the Governor of the Danish settlement , called Lievelly , near its south end . We are now beating up to Whale-fish Islands , which are in the bay , formed by the south end of Disco and the main land , where we clear the transport , & c , and shall probably be in to-morrow morning early , as we are now ( ten p . m . ) eighteen miles from them .
The scenery is grand , but desolate , beyond expression . I could not help thinking of the Frenchman who , after a long account of the misery of the rain and fogs of England , wound up with— " Pour quitter ce triste sol je m ' embarque a , Liverpool . " Osmar has just come from on deck ( midnight ) , and is dancing with an imaginary skipping-rope . I said to him , " What a happy fellow you are , Osmar ; you are always in good humour . " His answer is , ?« Well , Sir , if I am not happy here , I don ' t know where else I could be . '' Reid says we shall see the ? ' Huskimays" to-morrow morning . ( To be concluded in our next . ' )
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MR . O'CONNOR IN COURT AND PARLIAMENT Tho following extraordinary scene took place on Monday before Master Humphrey . The case before the Master was the winding-up of the Land Scheme , and the special business of the court the examination of Mr . O'Connor . Mr . Roxburgh : Can you inform us , Mr . O'Connor , how it was that portions of the Great Dodford estate that had been sold by you do not appear , as wag required in the schedule to the act of Parliament ?—Mr . O'Connor : I think it is there . Mr . Roxburgh : You had better look at the act . This is such a gigantic scheme that we shall get confused if we are not careful . Mr . O'Connor : It is a gigantic scheme , sir , and I have been greatly confused by it .
Mr . Roxburgh : It would appear , from the various accounts to tho House of Commons , that you have received £ 16 , 000 on account of the company since 1848 ?—Mr . O'Connor : Yes , more than that , I dare say . Mr . Roxburgh : Well , what have you done with it ?—Mr . O'Connor : All tho accounts have been published in the Daily News and Northern Star . M $ . Roxburgh : But wo cannot find any materials in them to test tho correctness of the statements they contain . . ¦ . '
Mr . O'Connor : It is published word for word in the Daily News . I got the particulars from the passbook of the Gloucestershire Bank . I have , I may state , in this movement apont £ 150 , 000 to improve and elevate tho condition of the people , and am abused for it , whereas if a middleman or a nobleman had done it , it would have been very different . If Prince Albert had built these cottages and located these lands , there would have been ofiloea to promote them in « very street in London for the benefit of theae poor popple , under tho patronage ot the philanthropic prince ; but now , if my Lord or L & dy Nincompoop happens to bo driving through those estates , and tho daughter in tho oarriago happens to say , Lor ,,
mamma , cottages ; " parent pulls down the blind , exclaiming , "My dear , it was that ruffian Feargua O'Connor built them . " ( Loud laughter *) Mr . Grey , who , at the instance of the House of Commons , reported on the accounts of the company » has a " sofa full * ' of receipts and vouchers , and might sit on them . { Laughter . ) You are asking me the most nonsensical questions , and 1 know what you want is to juggle me . . : The remainder of Mr . O'Connor ' s evidence was given in such a semi-serious but insulting manner as to call frequently for the marked reprobation of the Master , whom he turned to on one occasion with the utmost nonchalance , and asked to have a " pinch of snuff , " a wooden box full of which he throughout the day drew supplies from , using it every now ana then as a tatoo on
the table during the pauses between question and answer , at the close of many of which he deliberately shook his fist at the learned counsel , exclaiming loudly ,. " You ruffian / ' He did not know a man of the name of " Cotton , " but knew a man named " Worsted , " and asked the learned counsel if he meant " Piddlecomb" for " Biddlecomb . " The learned counsel ( at four o ' clock ) must be hungry , and if he liked he would order him a mutton chop . ( Laughter . ) This was all that he ( the witness ) on one occasion had one day at O'Connorville , when he stuck it on the tongs and fried it for himself . ( Laughter . ) The Master : Will you be good enough to look at these ledgers , Mr . O'Connor , to refresh your memory ? Mr . O'Connor ( balancing a ledger in his arms , amid loud laughter ) : But just look what thundering books they are ! ' . The Master : Thundering or not , you must do it . ( Laughter . ) . ¦ '
__ _ ., _ ,,.. Mr . O'Connor : Oh ! you can get it from the Daily News and in the " Stars . " ( Laughter , ) All I received and paid . ,-, '• . The Master : We must put you to the trouble of looking at these books . Mr . O'Connor : Oh ! dear , I could not look at them . ( Laughter . ) Mr . Roxburgh : We shall require you to-morrow . Mr . O'Connor : I cannot be here . I must be at the House . Mr . Roxburgh : I think you will find that the summons of this court has precedence over the House of Commons .
Mr . O'Connor : Have you done with me ? Will you let me go ? You have been examining me nearly five hours . Mr . M'Grath and Mr . Doyle tell me that the directors have all the books , showing the wages and other matters paid . Mr . M'Grath is one of the most amiable men in the world—( laughter)—and he tells me all the books have been given up ; and M'Grath is one of the most honest and independent men . Mr . Roxburgh : We are all independent men . Mr . O'Connor : You are not an independent man . You are a ruffian . ( Se ? isation and laughter . ) The Master here interposed .
Mr . O'Connor , laughing : Oh no , he is a jolly fellow . I make him laugh . You know h « wants to juggle me . You ' ve examined me five hours , and have not asked me a single word connected with the Land Company . Have you done with me now ? Mr . Roxburgh : No , nor am I likely just yet . It may be a long time before . Mr . O'Connor : Oh , my God ! Oh dear , oh dear ! Will you have a pinch of snuff ? ( Laughter . ) The Master : Allow me to look at that book . Mr . O'Connor ( lifting it up ) : Oh dear , oh lor ! Now , have you anything more to ask me ? He ' s been at . me five hours . I'll take a hatchet and cut your head' off . ( Laughter . ) The Master : Did you take any entries from this book to make out the account you have . alluded to ? have the
Mr . O'Connor : No , M'Grath tells me you books with all the wages paid ; he is one of the moat amiable , and upright , and honest men in the world . The Master : We shall have another opportunity of judging of his amiability . Mr . O'Connor : Don ' t bother me any more , you old ruffian ( understood to be directed to Mr . Roxburgh , who was about to resume his questions ); examine M'Grath . Come up M'Grath now and be examined . ( Loud laughter . ) Come up M'Grath . Mr . Roxburgh : None of the books we have show the expenditure . „ Mr . O'Connor : Hold your tongue , you ruffian 5 ( the witness here directed first one fist and then another at the learned counsel , and was about to direct also one ot the smaller ledgers at him . ) _ The Master ( with remarkable mildness ) : Really , Mr . O'Connoryou must not do that .
, The Master here retired into one of the side rooms , followed by the learned counsel ; and in the interim Mr . O'Connor , addressing some one in the crowd , exclaimed , " Here , now , do you get on the bench . " On the return of the Master and Mr . Roxburgh , Mr . O'Connor , addressing the latter , said , " Ah , you ruffian 1 will you have a pinch of snuff ? " and , on the Master taking his seat , " Silence , gentlemen , for the noble Lord . !' Mr . Roxburgh : Have you any books at all ? Mr . O'Connor : None .
The Master . Did yott e , ver have any ? Mr . O'Connor : I never had any . I cannot come hero to-morrow ; I must bo at the Houae . The Master ; The Speaker will bo ready to excuse you , if there is any necessity . ( Laughter . ) Mr . O'Connor : Will you excuse me ? The Master : No , I cannot excuae you . Mr . O'Connor here laughed outright . Tho Muster : I adjourn thenc proceedings until tomorrow , when Mr- O'Connor and all parties must bo
present . Mr . O'Connor ( putting on his hat , and retiring laugh ing ) : Oh dear , oh dear i
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07021852/page/11/
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