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760 T K E Ii E A J). E R. [No. 385, Attg...
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LORD GllANVLLLE'S llHADAMANTHUS. Iia.st ...
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YOUNG TORY GARBLING. A weekly journal, w...
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Fishmongebs' Hall,.—The anniversary fest...
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Torture Of The Treadmill. Tim First Quar...
cubic inches , as opposed to 27 , 000 cubic inches in the quiet sitting posture , and the Ms-ear of the "body would be in a somewhat similar proportion . Dr . Smith then proceeded to consider the effects of this exertion upon the system , and showed that the excessive exercise of the lungs and heart must ultimately produce consumption , asthma , and congestion of various organs , with disease of the heart ; and in persons with diminished capacity of the
lungs and ' weak hearts , ' the effect must sooner be injurious . As to food , Dr . Smith states his opinion that the reparative ( nitrogenous ) food , such as flesh and bread , was very ample in the first class , and required revision only in the distributing of it ,- —as , for example , the removal of 2 oz . or 3 oz . of the Goz . of cooked meat , allowed at the dinner four times per week , to the breakfast , which consists only of bread and cocoa . lie also pointed out the importance to all , but especially to those who could masticate but imperfectly , of rendering the meat tender , and
of allowing more time between the meal and the return to work , on the ground that otherwise the food is partly wasted , and the disturbed stomach seriously hinders the action of the lungs and heart . The great and most serious defect which he pointed out was in the respiratory food , since neither fat nor sugar is allowed , except in combination , as in the -j J q- part of an ox-head , or the briskets of beef , and in 2 oz . of milk and cocoa . No sugar , lard , suet , bacon , butter , or dripping are allowed , and of course beer and alcoholic liquors are excluded , and these , with starch , are almost the sole articles which meet the
wants of respiration . Dr . Smith has explained the mode of working the wheel , and showed that the labour consists not only in raising the body as the wheel descends , but in maintaining it erect in opposition to gravity , since the centre of gravity is external to and in front of the body . He proved that it is an unequal punishment , the inequality not being that of guilt , but of physical conformation and health ; and , moreover , that the resistance
offered by the wheel is not uniform m various prisons , and has been greater than it now is in the Coldbath-fields , and hence that the lives of the prisoners are at the mercy of uneducated engineers . He proved that the old , the tall , the heavy , the feeble , those having unsound teeth , and diseased lungs and heart , those not accustomed to climbing and slow walking , and those with small bones and muscles of the arms , shoulders , and back , must suffer the most ; and hence , that the
punishment falls with different degrees of severity upon different classes , He also fiointed out the fact that weak hearts and essened vital capacity of the lungs may exist with a fair amount and appearance of health , and hence would not be necessarily known to the prisoner or to the surgeon on a cursory examination . He was of opinion that it is a
punishment unfit for the age ( as its discontinuance in many prisons seemed also to imply ) , and was certain , if long continued , to induce disease and a premature old age , and not only render the prisoners a greater cost to the community whilst in prison , by reason of the increased quantity of food which the labour demands , but subsequently to their parish ; and since the labour is not employed to meet the cost of maintenance of those who furnish the power , it is so much of human flesh and life wasted . Each hour ' s exercise on the treadwheel is equivalent to walking three times up the Great Pyramid ,
760 T K E Ii E A J). E R. [No. 385, Attg...
760 T K E Ii E A J ) . E R . [ No . 385 , Attgttst 8 , 1857 .
Lord Gllanvllle's Llhadamanthus. Iia.St ...
LORD GllANVLLLE'S llHADAMANTHUS . Iia . st week , at a provincial meeting , Lord GiiAJsrvii ^ B and Lord GtoDimion stood upon
the same platform . Lord Q-odbeioh spoke of « his noble friend' Lord Gbasvlilib ; Lord Gbanvii . IiE of his ' noble friend' Lord Godebich . " . For six weeks , " the Earl said , elegantly pointing to the Viscount , "he has been sitting in judgment upon me . " In judgment ? In justification ! Can a Viscount sit in judgment upon an Earl , especially when it is his noble friend ? We fear not ; we fear , moreover , that to be noble is to be not liberal . You can scarcely help it . You are the member of a select circle , and how can you jar upon its harmony ? If a juryman
in a box saw a friend , albeit not noble , in the dock , indicted for misdemeanour , shall we not pardon something to friendship when the dear companion of the dinnertable puts his hand upon his heart and says , " Not guilty , upon my honour !" Thus , Lord Godebich , with the best possible intentions , took part with the noble Three—BsiiPEB , Harbowbit , GfiANViiiiiE—and was smiled upon by Mr . Estcottrt for so . doing —Estcotjbt the blameless , beloved of Pax-MEBSTOir . We have a sympathy with this freemasonry ; but it is too bad that Lord ( ttra-nvii / lt : should talk of Lord Godebich
as sitting in judgment upon him . Besides , Lord GRA-irviiiiiE was accommodated with a seat upon the bench , and permitted to construe his own conduct as he pleased . To liberal constituencies it may be hinted that noblemen are not adapted to do their work ; the Earl and Countess will have their way , whatever the electors think ; and if Lord Godekioh : is member for the West Riding , is he not also heir to the Earldom of Kipon , and will he not be Gbanville ' s junior on the bench of Earls ?
Young Tory Garbling. A Weekly Journal, W...
YOUNG TORY GARBLING . A weekly journal , which was formerly supposed to represent a juvenile section of the Tory j > arty , endeavours to attract out attention in a singularly amusing way . It publishes a letter supposed to have been written in Paris , and professing to contain an extract from the Leader of July 25 th . Our readers are probably aware that when this journal expresses opinions on French affairs , it is generally seized by the French police ; aiul although it may be possible to obtain a si g ht of it , we doubt much , whether any one so uuinfluential as the correspondent of our contemporary must be could have enjoyed that privilege . The letter in question was apparently fabricated in London . We should not have thought it necessary to advert to this subject if the writer had exhibited common honesty in his quotation . But , instea d of giving our words , he makes up an extract of detached phrases in order to prove that we have sympathies with assassins . Any of our readers can convince themselves , by turning back to the number in question , that we never used such an expression as , " Proceedings are earned on for months in secrecy against Liberals who have not been successful . " If we had , however , no candid pen over would have put upon it the distorted interpretation of our contemporary . The gist of our remarks was that we did not believe that assassination was
intended ^—no one does believe that now ;— that every conspiracy , when a conspiracy does take placeand there seems to have been no real conspiracy this time—is travestied by the police into an attempt against tho life of the Emperor 5—and that uninformed and , malicious persons , like the writer of the letter we refer to , arc eager to seize on the calumnies of tho agents of power in Paris , and to circulate them for tho purpose of damaging tho Liberal
cause . Tho assertion that we write in the interest of tho Orleans dynasty is indeed ' too ridiculous to merit remark / we suspect that Claremont would bo as eager to disclaim any such alliance as wo ourselves . However , wo may admit that any government based at all on law mid tho popular will- —whether capped by a D'OftLEANs or a Ivopublican . General—would seem to us preferable to tho present violent nzid corrupt r & gime . "Wo aro represented to have wrongl y dosoribed tho proceedings of tho French criminal courts . What we said was , that tho ' public trial * was
socretl y prepared lone , before ; and that no means of check existed . That this is the case in France every one knows ; bub our statement receives confirmation from the well-known article of the Monttear- , itself . The alleged conspirators seem to have been actually in the hands of the police long before the public knew anything of the matter , and the French . Government takes credit for not publishin » the circumstance during the elections . As to the fact that an appeal is allowed , every one knows that ; but the verdict cannot be said to be definitively given until that appeal is decided on . The execution following the rejection of the appeal has
been on more than one notorious occasion disgracefully precipitated . We chose as an illustration the case of Verger—a criminal with whom ; though he did assassinate a Catholic archbishop , even the bitterest Protestant can scarcely feel any sympathy . That miserable man appealed against his sentence . His appeal was rejected on a Thursday evening ; but tlie ' fact was kept from him until eight in the morning next day , and at half-past eight he was no more . Our contemporary makes us say—by dint of jumbling scattered sentences together— " The verdict is hurried on—the sentence is pronounced—the scaffold is raised with disgraceful precipitation— -the nnnrlomno ^ ic Avacrcrc * t \ nii i ^ Ar +. Vl f > lrniTft Ilia vpmnn .
strances are stifled , and , as the French reporters phrase it , ' human justice' is satisfied . " Our readers will hardly believe that we are gravely rebuked for applying this description to the Cour d'Assizes ; and told that we confound its proceedings with "the ordinary proceedings of the Police Correc-Honelle , which has only a circumscribed and inferior power ! " We now learn , for the first time , that the guillotine is used for the purpose of punishing street squabbles and the vulgar peccadilloes of town life . We need do no more than repeat—without
reference to our contemporary— that the system adopted by raany " London journals of publishing and aggravating charges made against individuals with whose political opinions they differ—whilst those individuals are on trial for their lives—is highly improper and unjust . It should be remembered , too , that all articles condemnatory of the Trench Government are rigidly excluded from France , whilst all articles that flatter it and pander to its purposes are eagerly translated ; and the loyal Parisian population is told : " See what our unbiased neighbours think ' . "
Fishmongebs' Hall,.—The Anniversary Fest...
Fishmongebs' Hall ,. —The anniversary festival of the Fishmongers' Company was held last Saturday being the day on -which the coat and badge given by Thomas Doggett , the famous comedian , in commemoration of the accession of the family of her present Majesty to the throne , was rowed for by six young watermen . Mr . Graham , Prime Wavden , took the chair , and was supported by a very large company , among whom were Lord Brougham , Lord John Russell , Mr . ¦ Vernon Smith , Sir Benjamin Hall , Mr . Robert Lowe , Major-General Sir W . F . Williams , Bart ., M . P ., Lieutenant-Colonel Teesdale , Admiral Bowles , Sir K . Ferguson , M . P ,, Mr , Crawford , M . P ., & c . Various speeches were delivered by the chief guests , and the present state of India was alluded to by Sir \ y . F . Williams and Mr .
Vernon Smith , with a gravity befitting the crisis , but with confidence as to the result . Lord John Russell , in the course of his speech , adverted to tho system of carrying on elections in this country , and observed that , although it was to be regretted that bo distinguished a man as the Vice-President of tho Board of Trado should have been the victim of popular excess , still ho would rather see that excess of free election than hftvo the mode pursued in France adopted in this country . ( Jlear , hear . ) They could not have freo election without a good deal of abuse , and ho would rather have tho English system of complete freedom , with a little abuse , than be liable to be denounced by tho Prefect of the Thamos aa unfit to sit in Parliament . ( Cheers . ) --iw prizes were distributed to tho successful candidates
during the ovomng . Thb Lord Mayou and this Shok-i »& aok Societies-—The boys of tho several Shoe-black Societies woro entertained by the Lord Mayor at his house at Wanstoau on Friday week . T | ie boys , with their friends , loft tue station at Fonohuroh-stroot at eleven o ' clock a . m . uy special train for Loytonstone , and returned nt oigm o ' olbqk in tho evening . Tho numbers of tho brigades present were as follows : —Bod , 62 ; blue , 54 ; yd }™< 40 ; brown , 20 ; groon , 6 ; and purple , 10 : total , iuo . On arriving at Loytonstone , tho boys walked in procession to Wanstoad Park , headed by the bund <« wo Yellow Society . Tho Lord Mayor regaled tho boya wiw roast beof and plum-pudding under a tent in tho Bro » "JJ and afterwards entertained a numerous party of laa " and gentlemen at his house . Among tho company prosent warp tho Earl of Shaftesbury , Mr . Juatico Uojhburton , Mr . Robort Hanbury , M . P ., tho Rev . n . Champnoys , tho Rev . W , Cndina . 11 , & d
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08081857/page/16/
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