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Nov. 10, 1855.1 THE LEAPER. 1073
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PUBLIC MEETINGS. THE EAKL OF ALBEMAKLE O...
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OUR CIVILIZATION. A Thief's Rrorkt.—John...
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Another Gale. The Eastern Coast Of Engla...
are reported to have been driven asnore , and were Hkelv to become wrecks . In the district of Orfordhaven , a little to the sonthward of the Ness , as many as fifteen colliers are announced to be aahore . At Soutbwold , a short distance lower down the coast , several vessels met a similar fate . While the gale was at its height the Hylton Castle and the Emma , both of Sunderland ; the Ocean and the Cape Horn , of Whitby ; and the Nelson , of South Shields , were driven ashore , but the crews were saved . Two others—the Pilgrim , of Sunderland , and the John Barker , of Whitby—met with alike disaster at Sizewell ; these crews were also providentially' aved . Between this and Lowestoft , at Kessing land , several other colliers , bound north , were carried ashore . The crews are reported to have been saved , but fears are entertained as to the fate of the vessels . The gale has been very violent on the Welsh coast , where several vessels have been wrecked ; but no loss of life is reported .
Nov. 10, 1855.1 The Leaper. 1073
Nov . 10 , 1855 . 1 THE LEAPER . 1073
Public Meetings. The Eakl Of Albemakle O...
PUBLIC MEETINGS . THE EAKL OF ALBEMAKLE ON DRUNKENNESS . The Earl of Albemarle , at the annual meeting of the Shropham and Guiltcross Association , made some further remarks on the drunken habits of our agricultural population . Addressing himself in terms of the most affectionate interest to the consideration of the welfare of the humbler orders , he observed : — " The labouring classes ( it is stated by public documents ) spend one-third , if not one-half of their earnings , which should go to the sustenance of their families , in drink . They are said to spend in this way annually the enormous sum of 57 , 000 , 000 ? . —a sum which would pay the whole of the national expenses . It would pay , including the expense of the army and navy , in time of peace , and the miscellaneous estimates , the interest upon 800 , 000 , 000 * . of debt . It would pay all local rates and taxes of every sort , tithes , county-rates , and whatever comes under the denomination of local taxes ; and it would supply 1 , 000 , 000 families at the rate of 16 s . per week . "
After complimenting his tenants upon their excellent character individually , he said : —" I remember my kind and dear friend Lord Colborne , with that most agreeable manner which he bad , saying to me one day , Corporate bodies can bear being hit rather hard . ' We , were speaking not of a body of farmers , but of a body of clergymen—of a dean and chapter , and Lord Colborne said , ' A dean and chapter shall be composed of the best men that ever lived ; they shall be unexceptionable in their individual characters , but in their collective capcity they would divide a murder among them . ' ( Laughter ) It is in their collective capacity that I speak to the farmers . I am not now alluding particularly to this county , but I say that the farmer ought not to treat the labouring man as a mere
machine out of which a certain quantity of work is to be obtained : but that he should remember that the power he naturally has as an employer of the labourer is a trust to be exercised for the benefit of those whom Providence has consigned to his sympathy and protection . My friends , labouring men , if we tender to you the hand of good fellowship , have we not a right to ask something on your parts in return ? What , do we ask of you ? Do we ask for any favour ? No ; we ask you not to injure yourselves—to abstain from drink ; not to do that which injures your health , ruins your family , blasts your character , and leads you to the perpetration of crimes . We ask you not to squander that which would improve jour household comforts and raise you in the scale of society . "
In conclusion , he touched , briefly upon the system of begging largess : — " I implore every labouring man to set his face against that system when harvest time next comes round . I wish to see your amusements of a better kind . I wish to see the manly sports of our country , such as cricket and quoits , more generally practised . I should even like to see them taught at schools . 1 regret that a very strong sense of duty lias obliged me to intrude so much upon your time , nud 1 can only suy that my ardent and sincere wish is to raise the labouring classes in the social scale . '
Lord Albemarle , in the course of hid speech , offered to the meeting copies of a pamphlet , containing u report of his speech nt Banhum ( referred to in the Leader of September 29 th ) , the speech of the Karl of Leicester at South Creake , und other matter . In presenting each applicant ( of whom there were many ) with a copy , his lordship wrote his autograph , and a few appropriate words in it . THE LOUD LIEUTENANT OF IKELANtt AT BELFAST . Lord Carlisle has visited Belfast ; and in a upeech Which he < lelivcr 6 d after the banquet given him by the city , ho observed , referring to the increased prosperity of Ireland : —
" I have heard lately something of new arrivals being expected in thid country from America . Well , then , gentlemen , will they be all Irishmen , returning homo to till their fields again , to work their looms again , to kiss their wives and families again ? If so , we will heartily bid them welcome , provided tliey at least come
in some moderation . Canjit be that they could comethat any could come here with a hostile intention ? I feel sure that the good sense , as well as the good feeling , of all true-hearted Irishmen or Americans would repudiate the monstrous supposition . ( Loud cheers . ) Iff contrary to all expectation , and all reason , they would so come , I ought not to say that they would be as welcome as the others ; but of this I feel contentthat the Antrim Rifles , whom I left in Dublin , and the North Down Rifles , whom I find m Belfast , will be able to give a very good account of them . But we will not let such monstrous images mar our social harmony , and I would rather leave you with bright impressions of successful commerce , rewarded industry , restored peace , and extending civilization . "
SIB JOHN M ' NEILL ON DIVISION OF . Sir John M'Neill , lately one of the Commisioners in the Crimea , delivered , | on Friday week , the introductory address to the fresh session of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution , in the absence of Mr . Macaulay , president of the society . Speaking of the want of education of a different kind to that generally given in schools , Sir John said : — " Might not instruction in the guidance and management of the common affairs of life be made a part of the ordinary course of the school ? Might not a teacher for example , make his more advanced pupils understano how much might be done , in the ordinary working lifetime of a man , by small weekly savings—explain the accumalation of interest—the advantages of savings
banks—of insurance—of small Government annuitiesand the various means within their reach of making provision for the future—the advantages of a regular settlement of all accounts , and the immediate investment of every available balance , however small ? Might he not enable pupils of riper age to comprehend the relations of employer and employed , and the identity , where rightly understood , of their apparently conflicting interests ? There was another matter connected with this subject to which his attention had recently been more particularly directed by the circumstances of the British army in the Crimea . ( Applause . ) The minute division of labour , which was a result of high civilization , bad a tendency to carry men back to a condition analagous in some respects to a state of primitive barbarism . In many of our manufactories and handicrafts , men spent their lives in doing some very limited part of the work required to produce one article —and could do nothing else as some Russian musicians spend their lives in
; sounding only one note . The person , for examp le , who made the head or the point of a pin , could hardly do anything else . He could not handle a spade or a mattock , an axe or a saw , a hammer or a crowbar . He could not mend his own clothes or shoes , or shirts , or stockings . He could not bake lib own bread or cook his own food ; he was a bad hand at lighting his own fire , or even making his own bed . He could hardly turn his hand to anything under the sun except the head or the point ofa pin , as the case might be . This- was not peculiar to the pinmaker , though he had selected him as a familiar illustration . The same was true of many other occupations . Each person , could do only zone thing . Every thing else was done for-him by persons whose sphere of action was perhaps as limited as his own . Now a part , and not an inconsiderable part , of the sufferings of the British army in the Crimea , during the last winter arose from this very circumstance . " _______
" The intellect of the working classes , " added Sir John , " is narrowed by this attention to minute details and requires the counteraction of a liberal education . Referring to the war , he alluded to the fatalism of the Russian character , and said he had been often told by Russian soldiers that God has given the whole world to the Muscovites .
Our Civilization. A Thief's Rrorkt.—John...
OUR CIVILIZATION . A Thief ' s Rrorkt . —John Stringer , a privato in the G 6 th Regiment of foot , has been committed for trial on a charge of stealing from Mr . Tuckctt , bookbinder to tho British Museum , a box containing , £ 1 3 a . 5 Jd . Ho hud been sentry outside tho British Musoum , and bad broken a window in Mr . Tuckett ' s shop , and abstracted tho box . Afterwards , ho absconded ; and , when captured , ohHcrwd to tho constable , "I did take it : I wish it had boon twenty times ns much . " Before tho magistrate , bis own vcreion of this confession was— " I said to tho constable , If there had been any more than there wan , it would have been worth taking . ' "
UoiiuiNG a RorniKR . — About the end of last Juno , tho houHO or a Mr . Howard , of Hauxton , near Cambridge , was entered by burglars , who took away about 800 / . in gold , and inflicted severe injuries on Mr . Howard . The offenders were not discovered until very recently , and then by a strange accident . Ono of tho principal of th e thieves , named Beaumont , was liimsulf robbed by a man whom he had left in poasession of his house , and , having brought hia loss under the notice of some friend , tho afl ' . iir came to the knowledge of tho police , whose HUHpiclona were aroused , and Beaumont was arrested . He made a confession , and has einco been committed for trial . Another man connected with tho robbery is under remand . An Italian Romance . —Emedio Andrcoli , an Italian
reply , " Primo Mercuric * . " This sign and countersign would identify the parties to each other , when the money was to be handed over to the agent of the society . If he complied with the demand , he would be allowed to go free all over the world , and no further demand would be made upon him '; but , if he refused , death was to be hia certain reward , or , if he attempted to communicate with the police , be would be assassinated ; for the secret society of the Italians was so organized all over the world , that , let him fly where he would , they would follow and kill him . Mr . Azzoni , having read this letter , -went to Sir
was charged with sending a threatening letter to Mr Fernando Azzoni , demrnding the sum of 500 ? . sterling f rona him . Mr . Fernando Azzoni said that , on going to his brother ' s office in old Broad-street , he took from the letter-box an anonymous letter in the Italian language It stated that it came from the secret society of the Italians in London , and that they had decided on levying a forced tax upon him to the extent of 500 / ., which ho must pay in gold as follows , if life were dear to * him : that is to say , he was to put the 500 / . in gold into a parcel , and at twelve o'clock on Friday night repair personally to St . Mariin ' s-le-Grand , opposite to the General Post-office . A person would meet him there , who would use the words , " La paroli di Mario , ' to which he was to
Peter Laurie , -who put the matter in the hands of a detective officer . In accordance with their advice , he went to the General Post-office at the appointed hour , and , as the clock struck twelve , saw Andreoli walking to and fro . The pass words having been exchanged , Mr . Azzoni produced a bag containing three hundred farthings ; but when he put his band into the breast of his coat to bring forth the bag , Andreoli became apparently frightened , and wished to draw Mr . Azzoni further off . This was refused , xind , at a given tign , some police officers , who were concealed close by , rushed out , and arrested Andreoli , who is now under remand .
A " Jollification , " and its Results . —Mary Darcey , and Margaret Darcey , mother and daughter , were indicted at the Middlesex Sessions for having stolen four 10 / . Bank of England notes , the property of Robert Travel , and with feloniously receiving them , kn & wing them to have been stolen . Travel was a dairyman , " of credit and renown , " and of substance , too , and he deposited the notes with his wife for safe keeping . By that lady they were placed in a locked drawer ; but one evening , when Travel was away from home , Mrs . Travel thought to solace herself with a few friends and a little creature comfort . The Darceys and somebody else were invited to tea , after which the gin bottle was circulated , and , in short , as the learned
counsel termed it , there was a regular "jollification . As the evening advanced the influence of the gi n began to tell upon Mrs . Travel , and , to surprise her visitors by a display of her wealth , she went to the box , got out the four 10 / . notes , and boastfully showed them round , together with her ' marriage lines , " as she called her marriage certificate . After passing from hand to hand , the notes were wrapped up in the certificate and carefully rep laced in the box , which Mrs . Travel locked , and , having put the key away , she piled up a lot of articles on the box containing the notea for additional safety . Gin and ale were afterwards partaken of , and Mrs . Travel , in her cross-examination , candidly admitted that at bedtime she was not exactly sober , but indignantly protested that the term " drunk " Travel
was not applicuble to the state she was in . Mrs . , the younger prisoner , and Mrs . Darcey ' a servant , a gill named Quinlan , slept together that night in one bed in . the parlour , the younger prisoner lying between the other two . In the course of the night , Margaret Darcey , the younger prisoner , was discovered on the outside of the bed , to Mrs . Travel ' s somnolent surprise , and on that side of the bod nearest Mrs . Travel s garments : in tho morning the prisoners pleaded a pressing engagement as an excuse for not staying to breakfast ; some time later , Airs . Travel missed the key of the drawer containing the treasure ; and , upon its being forced open , the notes and the " marriage lines " were found to have vunished . The jury found the daughter Guilty , and the mother Not Guilty , on the count fur receiving . The latter was sentenced to a
year ' s hard labour . This REvicnuNn Dr . Vaughan . —A summons has been granted at the Lambeth Police-office against the Reverend Dr . Vaughan , whose ulli ; ged mal-praciises in altering tho parish books of St . Mutthew , Brixton , receiving double burial feo »( land accounting only for mugfe , we noticed a for ! night ago . Mr . Malby , the Bcxton of the church , stilted in hia ovidenco that Mr . Vuughan at one time naid to an undertaker who was about to conduct the funeral of a poison wlio <»<¦• ' out t
of thopuriah ( for which , double fees wens paid ) ' yon say anything about it ( numely , the phwo of dentU ) . « anybody asks you where tho funeral comes from , nay Kobert-atreet ( which was in tho parish ); or , ir tney ask what the foes were , you aro to tell a Ho at . to paying double fcoa . " Mr . Elliott , tho magistrate , »*¦«««' if zrr ^ . ss' ^ s issue" . ss-± . X , "S . » . ^ ss iS . . "~ . -t »« Malby on a charge of perjury in connexion with a
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1855, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10111855/page/5/
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