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January 17,1857/] TiSE; X.3EAD EJEt. 57
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NAVAL AND MILITARY. The "Violet.—The mai...
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OBITUARY. Rear-Admiral Robert Henley Rog...
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MISCELLANEOUS. Suicide.—Mr. Thomas Higgs...
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Public Meetings, Loki> Ranmukls Os This ...
Tuesday e vening at the London Tavern , for the purpose of considering what steps should be adopted to procure a removal of the tax upon all incomes under 150 / . per annum . The subjoined resolutions-were agreed io : — " That this meeting has heard with alarm and regret that a large number of warrants of distress and other legal proceedings have been issued for non-payment of income-tax against persona not liable , and who are wholly unable to pay ; and this meeting cannot too strongly condemn the practice of alienating the affections of her Majesty ' s subjects by the infliction of & tax which , on the one hand , erects a barrier against education , fetters trade and industry , and deprives thousands of the comforts and necessaries of life , and on the other hand , opens a door for immorality , fraud , and evasion , especially in its bearing upon incomes from 100 £ to 150 ? . per annum . "— " That this meeting is decidedly of
opinion that , in order to protect persons against a continuance of the present cruel , unjust , and inquisitorial system ; of deciding cases of appeal , all -who feel grieved by any such decision would do well to make a solemn declaration of the facts of the case before the Right Hon . the Lord Mayor , or some justice of the peace , and forward the same to the Board of Inland Revenue ; and in case no means are taken to ascertain the truth of such declaration , then , to forward a copy of the same to the Right Hon . the Chancellor of the Exchequer , soliciting the immediate attention of that right hon . gentleman thereto . "—" That this meeting would recommend all persons who have been compelled to pay any incometax for which they are not liable by law , to make a solemn declaration of the facts of the case , and apply for its return , first to the surveyor of the district , and , if not returned , then to the Board of Inland Revenue . "
Another resolution , expressed as follows , was negatived : — " That this meeting is of opinion that the act of Parliament by which the increased income-tax , was created ought to "be repealed forthwith , and that the remaining charge during the ensuing session of Parliament be placed upon a more equitable basis , or the tax upon trades and professions be totally repealed . " One of the speakers was a Mr . "Winter , a working man , -who related his own case as an instance of great hardship : — " He was assessed at 1007 . a year , out of
which he had a blind wife , his -wife ' s sister , three children , and an aged parent to support . His -wages as an engineer were 38 s . a week , with occasional overtime . Upon appealing to the commissioners , he was ttreated almost like a dog , told he must pay , and because he did not a broker was sent in . Being determined to go to prison rather than pay , he had removed his goods . ( Hear . ") The money was paid by his wife ' s relatives , but the effect upon his wife had been such that for three months she was on a sick-bed . The next
year again he did not pay , and that time he was taken to Horsemonger-lane prison , where he remained for ten days , until he -was released by the intervention of the society which had called the present meeting . " ( Hear , 7 tear . ) The speaker concluded by reading a statement of his last week ' s expenses , ajphich amounted to 21 . 4 s ., while his earnings were only 11 . 19 s . 9 d . —A Mr . Walker , who keeps a small chandler ' s shop at Bromley , and also works occasionally as a dock labourer , likewise illustrated the dishonest t 3 ranny of the commissioners from his personal experience . He said he did not earn more than 40 ? . a year , but he had been assessed at 100 / ., and the demand was insisted on . He was , moreover , in hourly expectation of being taken to prison . — The meeting was very numerously attended and very unanimous in opinion .
A meeting has also been held at Droitwich , at ivluch resolutions denouncing the continuation of the war percentage and the mode of levying were unanimously carried . Sir John Pakington addressed the meeting in the sense of the resolutions , and afterwards made some remarks on our hostilities with Persia and China , in which he inclined to think we were in the wrong , but at the same time wished it to be observed that he would not commit himself to that opinion until the arrival of further details . A meeting , with similar results , has taken place in the Town Hall , Shefliold , under the presidency of tho Mayor .
HALIFAX MECHANICS INSTITUTION . The new building of the Hnlifjix Mechanics' Institute was formally opened on Wednesday evening by a public soiree and meeting . Tho greatest enthusiasm was manifested for some days previous to the opening to obtain tickets of admission . Within a day ortwoof their issue all were bought up , and hundreds found themsolvea shutout from taking part in the event . Upwards of six hundred persons drank tea together in tho rooms of tho building . At the soiree which followed , John Crossley , Esq ., presided , and Mr . Monckton Milnes , M . P ., tho Hon . E . Lnscelles
M . P ., Lord Wharnclifle , Mr . E . Buincs , Mr . F . Crossle 3 ' , M . P ., and others , addressed the meeting on tho excellence of education to the working man . Mr . F . Croasley said ho was propared to give 500 / . towards tho extinction of their debt of 4000 / ., provided the whole debt ivero paid before the 1 st of January , 1861 ; and , until that time , he would give five per cent , on the sum ho bud mentioned . It was also announced that Mr . Brown , who left Halifax when a boy , and went to London , aiul who had risen to eminence na a merchant , had sent , without aolicitation , ono hundred guineas toward * the institution ,
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC . A meeting -was on Thursday held at Freemasons ' Hall , convened by the Society for Suppressing : Opium Smuggl ng . Mr . Thomas Chambers , M . P ., was in the chair , and gave several statistical details on the Subject in question . The following resolutions were carried , and a petition framed on them was adopted : — " That the contraband traffic in opium in China is contrary to the laws of God , an impediment to the progress of the Gospel in that country , and injurious to the social condition of its people . " — - " That the opium monopoly in India , by which the contraband traffic is sustained , is opposed to the laws of this country , to the commercial interests of Great Britain , India , and China , and contrary to the principles of international intercourse recognised by all civilized nations . "
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January 17 , 1857 /] TiSE ; X . 3 EAD EJEt . 57
Naval And Military. The "Violet.—The Mai...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . The "Violet . —The mail bags , supposed to he lost with the Violet packet , which was wrecked during the late gale , have been recovered , owing to the activity , zeal , and . presence of mind , of Joseph Williams Mortleman , the officer who had charge of them , aud who , though he must have seen , certain death before him , brought up the bags from "below , placed them , as it is supposed , on the upper deck , and thus gave them a chance of floating . By these means they were saved . Mr . Mortleman has left a widow and ten children , two of whom are entirely , and one partially dependent on her , a 3 well as an aged father . This is a case into which we are persuaded the public will look . Contributions may be sent to the credit of Captain Knocker , R . N ., at the London and County Bank , 21 , Lombard-street .
The Late Gax . es . —The destruction of shipping property on the Durham and Northumberland coast , occasioned by the late gale , has been very great . Above thirty vessels are ashore on . the line of coast lying between the Tees and the Tweed . More than fifty seamen have been drowned by vessels foundering at sea , within the same area . Several of the small craft employed in conveying iron ore from Whitby to the Tyne have been lost with their crews ; and the loss of life by vessels foundering on the coast between Lowestoft and Berwick will exceed one hundred persons . The Northumberland coast in the neighbourhood of the Coquet and the Fern Islands felt the storm , which was the most violent and destructive experienced for many years .
Another Violent Gale prevailed at Plymouth last Saturday night . Admiral Sir Houston Stewart ' s flagship Indus , 78 , in the basin dock at Devonport , partly broke from her fastenings , and damaged several boats moored in the basin . The next morning she was again secured . The same gale destroyed the tidal bridge which connects the pontoon at Milbay with the land . Unlooked-for Compliment . — After addressing a meeting of electors on the evening of Friday week , Lieutenant-General Sir " William Codrington proceeded
to the Dockyard station of the North Kent Railway for departure to London . While waiting here , a seaman named Robert Gardner , son . of sub-Lieutenant Gardner , of the Royal Sappers and Miners , advanced to the General and presented him with a full-dress sword , which he had taken from the house of the Russian Governor at Yalta during the occupation of that town by the British troops . General Codrington , who was taken by surprise at the circumstance , accepted the present with hearty thanks .
Gallant Conduct . —About twelve o'clock at noon on Sunday , tho J . th inst , the brig Era , of Rochester , while off Easington , was struck by a tremendous sea , by which one of the crew was washed overboard . The vessel was shortly afterwards driven on shore between Castle Eden Dene and Horden , where a number of villagers were gathered together on the shore , among whom were Mr . Rowland Burdon ( chairman , of tho quarter sessions ) and the curate of Castle Eden . Mr . Burdon proposed that a chain of hands be formed for tho purpose of reaching the rope , and that tbo taller
men . should go in first . The proposal waa at once agreed to ; a stalwart gamekeeper -went first , Mr . Burdon second , and tho curate of Castle Eden next . They theu advanced into tho water until Mr . Burdon was up to the shoulders , when the end of tho ropo waa caught , and a communication obtained with tlio vessel , and tho crew were drawn on shore . Mr . Burdon had promptly sent down from tho castle a supply of brandy and other restoratives , together with a quantity of blankets , for the shipwrecked mariners . — Yorkshire Gazette .
Chatham Dockyard . —Several extcusivo improvements and alterations are being carried out at Chatham Dockyard , which , when completed , will make that establishment the most commodious Government dockyard in tho kingdom . Ono of the principal improvements now in progress is ut No . 7 granite slip , -which is to be lengthened sixty feet , giving a length of threo hundred and thirty feet . This Royal Yacht Appointments . —We understand that much dissatisfaction lms been occasioned among lieutenants of good claims for services performed prior to , and during the late war , by tho selection of his Serene Highness tho Prince of Lciningeu to fill tho vacancy in the lioyal Yacht . — United Service Gazette .
This Saiuuna . —In consequence of the absence of a local pilot , and of the London pilot taking bis place , tho Subrinii , of 072 tons ( . belonging to Messrs . Oxloy and
Co ., of Liverpool ) , ran aground on the edge of the Horse Sand ^ in making for Spithead . Subsequently she was towed off by a Government tug , and anchored at the Motherbank . Stranding op the Tyne . —The Royal Mail Steamship Tyne , Captain VaUer , on her passage from tie Brazils , ran aground early on Tuesday morning , during a mist , about five miles to the westward of St . Alban ' s Head , off Chapman ' s Cove , between forty and fifty miles from Southampton . Lieutenant Fuge landed -with a part of the mails , and received some severe bruises about the head in doing so . As the boats were leaving thshi struck thlatter and
e p , a sea e swamped the loats . Some of the passengers were thro-wn into the -water , but they were all rescued . The boats reached the shore in safety , and the passengers were taken care of by Lord Eldon ' s uncle , and conveyed to his estate , Encombe Castle , where he entertained them in the most hospitable manner , and subsequently had the ¦ whole taken in his carriages , or in other vehicles provided by his Lordship , to the Wareham Railway Station . Steam-tugs have been despatched to the assistance of the vessel . A cbast guardman has been drowned ty the swamping of a boat as it was going from the shore to the ship .
The British Shipping at Gibraltar suffered very considerably in the storms which , prevailed on the 25 th and 26 thult . Loss of A Schooner . —On the 21 st of November , a £ ne schooner , named the Invoice , left Cardiff for Genoa "with a cargo of 130 tons of bar iron , since which time no tidings have been received of her . Several pieces of wreck have recently been washed ashore on the coast of Somerset , and since then some papers have been picked up at Watchet belonging to the Invoice , of Plymouth , freighted -with iron . She had on board a crew of nine hands , all of whom , it is feared , have been lost , a 3 parts of the boats have been found . Masts , sails , and chests have been picked up at Minehead and Listock ; and along the coast pieces of wreck have been washed ashore . The Invoice was the property of Mr . Evans , harbour-master of Plymouth .
Cruelties on Board an American Ship . — An inquest has been held at Liverpool on tlie body of a young Dutchman , about nineteen years of age , belonging to the American ship Guy Mannering . He was so frightfully ill-used on the passage of the sliip to Liverpool that he died shortly after being brought ashore and taken to the hospital . His body presented a dreadful spectacle , owing to the injuries which had been inflicted . The jury have returned a verdict of Manslaughter against the second and third mates and the boatswain . The two latter have been committed for trial ; the firat named is still at large- The third mate , who is a young man respectably connected in Liverpool , cried like a child when the verdict was given .
Obituary. Rear-Admiral Robert Henley Rog...
OBITUARY . Rear-Admiral Robert Henley Rogehs died at Pl ymouth on Thursday week . He entered the navy in the spring of 1796 , and was placed on the list of retired rear-admirals in June , 1851 . He distinguished himself in the expedition against New Orleans during the last American war . Mr . Pelham , the solicitor , -who for the last sevenand-twenty years has been more especially distinguished as an advocate in connexion with shipping and mercantile cases , died at bis residence in Arbour-square , Stepney , last Saturday morning-, in his fifty-sixth year .
Miscellaneous. Suicide.—Mr. Thomas Higgs...
MISCELLANEOUS . Suicide . —Mr . Thomas Higgs , coroner for the Ducliy of Lancaster , and formerly for many years deputy coroner for London , has committed suicide in Crosier-street , Lambeth , by swallowing essential oil of almonds . For some time pnst he had boon suffering from , illness and despondency . An indented inquisition paper , such as jurors sign at inquests , was found hanging to tho top of his bedstead : it contained tho following notice in Mr . Iliggs ' s handwriting : — " 20 th of August , 1856 . I seem , dying from cbolie , with stoppage in the Ixrwels of long standing . In the event of my being unable to transact business at inquest , please refer the constables to my deputy , W . John Payne , Esq ., 2 , Tanfielcl-chambers , Temple . Tho inquest account is in small boxes in the back room . Taplett ' s Charity papers in boxes—ono in . front room , tho other in the back room . My friend , I know , would kindly see to my papers . The general and some principal papers are in drawers on tho sideboard . Mr . and Mrs . Roberts will attend to my wants in emergency . ( Signed ) , Thos . Higgs , born 7 th of Februwy , 1787 ; appointed deputy-coroner for Westminster in 1818 ; appointed to tho Duchy of Lancaster by patent datod 17 tli March , 1828 ; second patent , October , 1830 . "—An inquest has beon held on the body of Mr . Gurney , which , as wo mentioned last week , was found in tho Regent ' s Canal , near Cum den-town , and has terminated in a verdict of auiuido under the influence of
temporary insanity . Ilia watch and rings r which were at first supposed to bo missing ( mi idea which gave riso to suspicions of violence ) , have since been found at his house . Mr . Gurnoy was possessed of considerable property , and his motive for killing himself does not appear .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 17, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17011857/page/9/
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