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No. 395, October 17,1857.] THE LEADER. ™...
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The 11oyal Irish Academy. An Address Del...
r to a \ ohc Our great National Museum contains specimens not only from Trelfnd Northern Europe , Mexico , and the United States , but among its Svptian collection there is a collection of flint arrows taken from the sepulchres of the Wady Magara . In the cases containing modern Esquimaux weapons—darts , similarly pointed , repose in the same quiver with those headed with bone , iron , & c . . Celts a name derived from the barbarous Latin celtis , a chisel , are very numerous in the Museum of the Irish Society . They are , in fact , stone wedges , and were attached to a wooden handle , according to the nature of which , this Implement might be used as a chisel , a mattock , or a battle-axe . Ihey still prevail , in the Polynesian Islands and in New Zealand , where the handle and stone head are bound together by grass cord in a series of layers and interlacing , extremely symmetrical and pleasing to the eye . However rude and ed ^ eless this implement may appear , with it and some sharp fragments of flint the New Zealand savage felled the great p ine of which he con- structedhis war canoe , often seventy feet in length , hewed it into graceful outline , hollowed the interior , and finished off all that exquisite carved work along its sides and upon its lofty prow , which excites the admiration and tha cupidity of his curiosity-seeking European visitant . The native Australian also uses the stone axe when engaged in close quarters with a herd of kangaroos , and for making those consecutive notches in the gum- tree , by placing his toe in which he nimbly ascends to seize the opossum and her young . He , however , is able to dispense with the lashing , by burying his lump ^> f granite with its handle in a mass of grass-tree gum , which , when cold , becomes so hard and tenacious that no ordinary violence can detach them . " It is well known , " observes Mr . Kemble , " that certain races connect a strong superstitious feeling with the possession of these ancient stone implements , treasuring them up as something supernatural . In many parts of Germany , and , as I am informed , in Ireland and Scotland , they are still looked upon as amulets , particularly valuable in the diseases of cattle . The collector meets -with no greater difficulty than that which occasionally arises from the disinclination of the possessor of such a stone to give up what he
looks upon as a useful remedy tor the sickness ot or neigiiDOiirs . The concurrent testimony of ecclesiastical and secular history proves to us that the Germans attached a superstitious veneration to stones . " The Teutonic god Thor had a stone hammer for his sceptre . The primitive inhabitants of New Zealand , separated from Europe by an ocean journey -of more than 16 , 000 miles , regard their stone implements with equal solemn veneration . The Maori maiden , whose ear it lacerated by a huge A « rlnv ^ i ^ -P omvii t- * t .- % -r \ cmn \ mn 4- rf-. V * ow 1 Iii * i ckofnomc if anrl t . Vio « rntp < : finpl \ r nflrvprt iv -- ¦—
TJCUUilLlU Ul DCUll'l / iaUOUaiCUU UU ^ IUlClllj \^ OU \^ l ~ 4-lXt 7 AVy Lli *\* v . j _ , » v * wu *^ u J * " - — stone idol suspended around her neck , as the most ^ precious of her simple decorations . No inducement , save indeed the promptings of an impulse even more potent than that of superstition , can procure their transfer to another . liiuner ins »/ uurb
The grim cmeitam , ner , equauy reverences er * , a . s > , ssuarpedged greenstone club , at once the terror of his foes , and the symbol of patriarchal authority . It is deposited with him in the grave , but dug up again after the lapse of a certain period , and then descends to his successor , as the tutelar idol of the tribe . The collection of bronze celts in Dublin , and also in our own Museum , is considerable . They are classed under the separate heads of looped , socket , side-ridge , and stop-ridge celts . These distinctions refer merely to the mode of securing the wooden handle . We have seen a bronze socket celt , in which ' a portion of wood still remains , fitted probably by some ancient nidii ui ij
JOHLISH III Liailll niuic uvu muusauu ^ ll o ' Iii reference to the bronze swords in this Museum , we do not quite agree with Mr . Kemble that the smallness of the hilt would indicate their owners to have been a diminutive race . In most specimens we have seen , the shank is pierced with holes , and the very rivets remain by which , as in modern swords , a covering of wood , horn , or ivory was secured , nnd com-1 . 1 * 11 " i 1 /• ll _ .. _ * _ . f * . I * --. ,. 'I M . ™ I-.... ** . 11 r-. n . ... «• ' « oi ineu imamiiu
picteu a nanuie suiceu mr i-nc grip wumaiy . ; , sijuhic , sharp-edged metal hilt affords no purchase to the user ' s hand , and would certainly soon put him hors cle combat by its singular non-adaptation to the end in view . "Where the hilt remains undrillcd , such swords probably left the armourer ' s hand incomplete . The Royal Irish Academy ' s collection of tiaras , fibula ; , rings , brooches , and other ancient ornaments of native gold , is extremely valuable . But mines of the precious metal have always existed in Ireland . As late as the close of the last century , a lad , crossing a torrent of the Wicklow range ,
. I , j j j j } picked up a single nugget worth more than twenty pounds . The whole district soon gathered to the spot , but the authorities , dreading a famine from the total neglect of cultivation , wisely sent a detachment of soldiers to occupy the ground , and the diggers were soon dispersed . Among the auriferous specimens from these same Croghlan Hills , deposited in the British Museum , is one lump of pure metal equalling a good walnut in size . As the author of this pamphlet makes no mention of the torque , we presume no specimen exists iii his collection . The non-archaeological reader may be interested to know that this Celtic emblem of chieftain dignity was a collar , often of twisted " gold , sometimes of bronze , about eight or ten inches in diameter . A magnificent gold torque is preserved among the . collec-I tion of antiquities at a palatial mansion near Chester . We remember i one of these valuable relics being discovered some years ago in North . i Wales , under remarkable circumstances . A tourist descending Cader Idris , j lost his footing , and was hurried onwards at a pace more speedy than safe ; to check his involuntary speed , he planted his foot against a large stone , half buried in the path before him . It was uprooted , and in the cavity he discerned a portion of some object very bright and glittering . By the aid | of his knife he soon drew out a beautiful torque of pure gold , and we are i not quite certain but this may be the specimen just named as so charily 1 cared for at Eaton Hall .
No. 395, October 17,1857.] The Leader. ™...
No . 395 , October 17 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . ™<> _?_
Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. C...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . COIltJITT . —On tho 13 th inst ., at Clarc-strcet , Dublin , tlie wife of D . Corbott , Esq . : twin sons . DRAPjGR . —On t )» o 12 th inst ., at Ilfracombo , North Devon , tho wifo of Commander J . S . Draper , I . N ., retired : a dauphtcr . FAIR 15 AIRN . —On ; tho 12 th inst ., tlio wife or P . Fairbairn , Esq ., of Manchester : a daughter . MAltRIAGKS . BACKIIOUSE—NICHOLSON . —At Tholwnll , Cheshire . John Backhouse , Esq ., lato II B . M . 's Vices Consul at Amoy , son of tho lato J . Backhouse , Esq ., Under Secretary of Stato for Foreign All'airs . to Anno , daughter of tho lato Poter Nicholson , Esq ., of Thelwall Hall . COLLINS—BLA . NDFORD . -At St . Goorgo ' s , Ilanovoraquaro . tho llov . W . H . Collins , Missionary to Shanghai , son of Jamos Collins , Esq ., of l ' utWsy , near Hereford , to Helen Jane , daughter of J . F . Blaudlbrd , Esq ., of Bruton-strcot . DEATHS . ASHURST .-October lSth . at All Souls' College , Oxford , tho ttev . T . II . Ashurst , D . C . L .. aged 7 : 3 . BIUNTON . —October 12 th . at Frnnoho House , near Kidderminster , 11 . Brinton . Esq ., ag ( id 85 .
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PltOM THE LONDON GAZETTK . Tuosdnj / , October 13 . BANKRUPTS . —Jamks Ciia . ki . uh Johns , DuohosR-stroct , Portland-placo , commission iwnt —Cuaui . HS EnwAitn Back , U ' ottenhnm-court-road , grocer—Win , i am Fisiiikk , Kllburn , Middlesex , butcher—Vjibdkuiok HiiAciiKit , Old Jewry , City , tnllor—Miciiakl Bankh , Wnlliug-slruot , sowod muslin warohousoinati— . Tamkh Wai > u , PostftmlmillB . Cliilworlh , Surrey , papermakor—CirAitmta Stahkjsy , Brunswick-wharf , Agar-town , King'u-crosH , dust contractor —Cii-aui / bs I ' oiji . I ) , Cannon-street , City , morohant—John
Auingtos , Norwich , grocer—Grack Simonitk , Birmingham , iron plate worker—JonN Rogeu IIkks , Llanelly . Carmarthenshire , grocer—Herbert Bennett , Chester , draper—Joun Stocks Booth , Shctlleld , pianoforte dealer —William Lonuard Thomas Lutton , Shawforth , near Rochdale , cotton spinners . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —J . M'Creath , Glasgow , dairyman—J . Hunter , Maryhill , near Glasgow , provision dealer —S . LinrcitNAN , Glasgow , oil-cloth manufacturer—J . Young , Glasgow , commission merchant—A- Robertson , Botriphnic , Banirshirc , farmer—S . M'Innes , Edinburgh , wholesale grocer-II . O » r , Glasgow , grocer—A . Smitii , Paisley , coachbuilder . Friday . October \ G . BANKRUPTS . —CiiAutKs Reed , Upper "Whitecrossstrnet , Middlesex , draper — William Nathan Svkeb Corn , Goswell-strcet , Middlesex , cigar niorchant—Thomas UAOKiiouai ., Lueds , painter—Richard Palmer , Brighton , plumber—Jamks Blackhurst . liivernool , attorney—Tiros . MuRY . Salford , Jjnncashiro , dyer—Jos . Moski > ale , Coventry , engineer—John Taylor , Leicester , manufacturer of fancy hosiery—Jamks Thomas Rundi / k and Bickton Hull Runim . k , I'lymouth , linen drapers—James Stkediman , Albany-stroot , Regont ' s-park , pianoforte manufacturer—1 ' jinvAKi ) HtixLKY . Old Civvendiyh-stroet , surgical bandage makor—Chaiilkh Zonoapa , St . Mary Axe , importer or gilt mouldings and general merchant—James Anduewahtha , Forest-hill-torraco Kont , builder—Samuel Mmkiiy , UirniiiiKham , rollcir of motnls — Edwtn Milks Tayluu , Coal l <] xcnango Vaults , Lower Thanies-a t ., " City , vino merchant . SCOTCH SKQURSTRATIONS . —David 1 ) ickson 1 amoutt . Water of Loith , near lOdiuburgh , skinner—James Piiiivia , Kiluiarnock , procer—Youno , Fotiikuinoham , and Co ., Glasgow , provision merchants—William Tayi . oii , Kiluiarnock . salesman—Brunton and Thomson , Kirkcald . v , builders—Mrs . Ouihstian Clark , Kuwhavon , in the county of Edinburgh , hotol-kcojier .
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NEW EDITIONS . We have a few new editions to mention . Mr . Bohn , in ' The Historical Library , ' has published the third and concluding volume of Jesse's Memoirs of the Court of England During the lleign of the Stuarts , enriched with thirteen steel portraits ^ and , in ' The Scientific Library , ' the first volume of a seventh edition of Dr . Mantell ' s Wonders of Geology , to be completed in two volumes , edited by Mr . T . Rupert Jones . Messrs . Blackwood , of Edinburgh , send us a secondedition , revised and enlarged , of Thomas Aird ' s characteristic and fascinating book The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village . From Messrs . Kent and Co ., the successors of Mr . Bogue , we have ' an entirely new edition ' of Mr . Timbs ' s popular volume Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated .- a Book for the Old and Toimg- We know of few better books for young persons ; it is instructive , entertaining , and reliable . Mr . Bentley has added to his two shilling series Major Warburton's remarkable History of the Conquest of Canada—a work of profound interest , written witii rare ability . In the same series we have also Mr . Shirley Brooks's Aspen Court , and in Mr . Hodgson ' s * Parlour Library' one of Mrs . Trollope ' s successful novels The Days of the Regency . Messrs . Knig ht have reprinted Mrs . Trollope's Father Eustace , a Tale of the Jesuits , in one handsome volume .
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THEATRICAL NOTES . Miss Amy Sedgwick , a lady known to the provinces , but not to Londoners , lias ljcen acting successfully at the Haymarket in the part of Pauline in the Lady of Lyons , and of Constance in the Love Chase . A Very Serious Affair- is the rather suggestive title of a farce produced at the Lyceum last Saturday as a makeweight to the opera . Two very cowardly gentlemen—played respectively by Mr . Tilbury ( who commences an engagement at this theatre ) and Mr . George Honey — get into a quarrel and become involved in a challenge . They only give each other their Christian names , and their addresses at coffee-rooms ; " and the next day they play at hide-and-seek in _ Z * - ~ -. _ X . _ ~~ 1 l * An w H f ~ - If . i J 1 \ . »^/ - «» -tfV ^ % •* % - » # - > r \ li ^ r T ^» t turn w !¦» net n li * - » . ^ oo T n xiumucu iiLuuni him it iiuu iu
SpaSIllS Ol HlULUill ICiU . JU / . juoj / j , jh- uj , , ou Camberwell , and here lie secretes himself ; but his wife lias put up a bill to le $ a room , and this room is taken l > y Mr . TJieophilus , the antagonist of Mr . Muffy . Here he thinks he shall be safe from his bloodthirsty foe ; but he soon finds that Pate has directed him to the residence of tlie very man'he most seeks to avoid . The two timid gentlemen are at length induced to fight a mock duel in t . h « rl . trk . an assurance beinir triven to each that the pistols shall merelv be
loaded with blank cartridge . On the lights being extinguished , they hide themselves in the window curtains , and ultimately , at the first explosion , tumble backwards out of window—one falling into the water-butt , and the other into some equally ignominious receptacle . The story is preposterous enough ; "but it would have been amusing had it been shorter , and not obscured , as it is , by an underplot with respect to which we ' confess we are in the dark . Messrs . Tilbury and Honey act with much spirit and humour , though they play to almost empty benches ; and the farce may perhaps protract its existence for some weeks .
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London , Friday Evening , October 16 , 1857 . TnE stringent measures taken by tho Bank of England on Monday at cloven took tlie City by surprise . Every ono was forced to admit that tho Bank directors wore acting prudently , but tho rate of discount—7 per cent ., with the threat of 8 per cent , being demanded bo lore tho end of the week , unless tins restriction produced less demands on tho resources of tho Bank—weighed hoavily on tho market . Tho Funds fell 3 and 34 per cent . Turkish Six per Cent . Bonds , 6 to 7 per cent ., and affairs look black enough . Rumours of several houses , provincial and metropolitan , being in dilHculties , made every onoanxious . Tuosday being tho llrst day of dividends on Three per Cent . Reduced , and Now Three-and-a-Half per Cent , oeing paid , a reaction took place—people reinvesting ? thoir dividends . The arrival of tlio Royal Charter ana another vessel from Australia , with nearly half a million of bullion has produced a further improvement to-day , but this afternoon brings very littlo bettor tidings of affairs in Now York , with advorso exchanges . The Railway Share Market has maintained a bettor position than Government securities . Somo heavy failures m tho Stock Exchange hero and elaowhero , also defaulters « t Glasgow , Liverpool , Manchester , L « cdH , Hradford , io .. aoprocfated the value of Eaatorn Counties , Caledonians . Gront Westerns , and Dovers . r J'h « ro lias since been considerable ronKion in Knstcrn Counties . Canadian and hitst Indian railway shares have boon dull alLtlic week . Grand Iruiik us low " ah OH- Great . Wont .- ™ of Cniiada . onco last year at 2 ( tf . are now 18 Z . per 2 ( tf . nliare . French shares aro about tho ' BBino ? no improvom «» t . Miscellaneous shares havo ' Nhiing ' siiaro " havo bean ( inquired after , Whoal Edward ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 17, 1857, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17101857/page/21/
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