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Mr. F. O. Ward On The Small Tunnel Syste...
V ? Xkd replies with admirable calmness land temper : — " ¦¦¦ Jifr . Bidder . has referred / in terms which ' I cannot b ^ jt , think inconsiderate , to , supposed ct threats ' * and ' ^ Mrsecutions /' iein ployed by me for the propagation ¦ ot ^ iuy idias , the ' only " threats " and " persecutions " I "have used are such as I now employ towards Mr . Bidder . I persecute him with arguments—reasonable , I hope , gopdrhurnoured , I am sure—in favour of progress and improvement . I threaten him with incessant reiteration of my appeals , till importunity weary out resistance . No man has any other kind of threat or persecution to complain of , or to fear , from me . In answer to Sir W . Cubitt , Mr . Wabi > observes : —
' One word , sir , in reply to the note of Sir W . Cubitt ; who contents himself with recording an unexplained dissent from my views . I do not despair of one day obtaining Sir W . Cubitt ' s support , when I reflect that he--now a warm advocate for Messrs . Bazalgette and ; Haywood ' s scheme against John Roe's—pronounced , so lately as June 14 , 1853 , his decided opinion against Sewage Interception generally , declaring such a system 1 unnecessary " if proper means were taken to make the Thames , as it ought-to be , a proper receptacle and sewer , to take away the filth of the metropolis and of the surrounding districts . " ( G . Lond . Drainage Bill Ev . ; answer 3 , 399 . ) Mr . Wabi > concludes his letter in the following terms : — Hie ,. proposition which land my friends now advance , on the strength of John Roe ' s experience , is simply this : that it is possible to save for the north side ratepayers three-quarters of a million sterling , by a judicious modification of the-fcolossal tunnels proposed by our eminent antagonists . Should we succeed in establishing this proposition , we . shall have completed the last link in the sanitary organisation of towns , and may usefully address ourselves to the rural branch of our great argument—the agricultural utilisation of sewage , the transformation of np ^ ious refuse into productive property , and the creation of a large municipal revenue out of a present cause of burdensome taxation . But the tunnel question comes first ; and it is for the press to determine , on behalf of the public , whether a case is made out for inquiry , or whether our opponents are to be supported in ' their demand for the ' peremptory suppression of the debate . I have the honou ' r to be , sir , & c .,-F . O . Ward . - 12 , Cork-street , Burlington-gardens , Nov . 13 .
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[ IN THIS BKPARTMENT , AS aij : - OPINIONS , nOWEVEB EXTEHHB , ABE ¦ AIXOWED AS EXPRESSION , THE KCITOR NECESSARILY HO 3 tD 8 HIKBrtF aE ? PONSIBXE FOR NONE . ]
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There is no learned man but -will confess he hath much . profited by reading controversies , his . senses awakened , and , hijs judgment . sharpened . Ji , then , it he profit-, able for him to read , why should it not , at least , be ' tolerable for hie adversary to write . —MILTOK .
Peace Or War. ¦ , , , (To The Editor Of ...
PEACE OR WAR . ¦ , , , ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) SiJ 8 , — - > The winter , which ia now gradually setting hjjCwill very probably prove a long and severe one ; nor are our political prospects less gloomy than the approaching season . ; With a long and sanguinary war before us , % he results of which no one can foretell—a "war which is rapidly exhausting the patience and the-resourcesof those who have to pay for aV—' the political landscape before us is not particularly cheering ; Nor '< lo I think the state of affairs much improved by "the comforting assurance of the leading jfcurnal , ' that' this is ?* pre-eminently thd-people ' s tvar . The people are already
beginning to grumble at their increased burdens . If thte be Really the people ' s war ; all I Can say is ; I am very sorty for their infatuation , as they will , from first to last , be the great sufferers by it , whatever may be the enormous increase of profits to the leading journal which Supports it , ¦' TjTeall know , to our cost , that bread , ' and the < $$$ * necessaries of lift ? , are not only very" dear now , but every month af < j beiepming morei arid mor ^ so . Our foreign merchants , and otir great n ^ ercaritile houses at home , are fast becoming brakrupts . Shopkeejpers , and little tradesmen , mro ' uKfl tptajce their annual holiday at the sea-¦ We , despite of increased profits , are losing liioriey , ^^ M ^^ PK ^ l 4 ^^ *^ ° *^ tual *« "j n 6 ' ° " orttie detna * uds'bf their customers ; far no one in these days of trouble , parts with a sixpence
withoutthinking twice about it . A great change has taken place : Those who four years ago were enabled to command the luxuries of life , can now barely pay for its mere necessities . The cause of this it is not difficult to explain . Money is scarce , and hard to come by ; provisions dear , and increasing ra value ; taxation doubled upon decreased means of paying it . But this is not all . In the large manufacturing districts of the West and North of England , where the bulk of our labouring population are collected together in great masses , commercial affairs are fast coming to a standstill . I state the following on the authority of an able journal , and leave your readers to say whether there is any exaggeration
on my part . " The high price of provisions , the tightness of the money market , the lack of confidence , through business being carried on without profit , and in many cases , with very serious loss , all cast such a gloom upon our commercial transactions of every description as to make the general aspect very dismal . " It is not difficult to foresee the results of such
a state of things . Already the manufacturers of Manchester , Salford , and its vicinity as well as other large towns in the West of England , have given a formal notice to their factory labourers that this week they will begin to work at short time ( the larger capitalists , according to the Times , have taken twelve per cent . off their wages , which has ended in a strike ) , as they cannot see the utility of producing articles which they are unable to sell except at a sacrifice .
Nor aTe commercial affairs in Paris in a more prosperous state ; money is every day becoming of more value , and credit as rapidly failing . The Bank of France is almost in a state of bankruptcy , from which it can only extricate itself by most ruinous sacrifices which will rebound , at no very distant day , with a terribly felt force and pressure upon every portion of the community even should they be preserved from national ruin . Nor can England , in spite of her superior management and caution , bound up as she is , whether for good or evil with France , escape such a state of things without serious difficulty and
loss , the ultimate effects of which must fall upon the working population ; the consequence I could easily picture , but dare not trust myself to describe—such a picture as would cause the philanthropist to mourn , and even the coldest politician to look grave . Even to those who are fortunate enough to get employment the approaching winter will be a sore season of temptation apd of trial ; involving them in much distress and misery , even if they can keep starvation from their doors . On the bed of sickness and in the hour of their distress , they may be compelled to learn Nature ' s first grand moral
lesson"We need to suffer that we may learn to pity . " There is indeed a retributive justice for nations as well as for individuals ; we ought not therefore to be surprised if some portion of the misery we have heaped upon foreign shores should recoil upon our own , the more terribly felt because unexpected . The large stores of corn we destroyed in the Crimea are now wanted at home . Verily , war is an avenging deity , and exacts his victims from either side , whether by famine or by the sword .
With the exception of some " of the newspapers , " who are making money by the war , we believe all classes are getting very sick of it ; and even " the people" who , the " leading journal" tells us , " havegiven , their whole heart and soul to it , and understand it with a clearness denied to grander personages and more subtle intellects , ' will , I have little doubt , before the winter has passed away , repudiate the assertion of the Times in a manner not the most flattering to the vanity of that most " veracious " journal . A Member or this National Club .
Rhokujss Thadino.—Mr. Commissioner Goulb...
Rhokujss THadino . —Mr . Commissioner Goulburn , in delivering ' judgment in the Court of Bankruptcy on the oaao of . Scully and Scully , cheesemongers , of Ourtainroad , Shoreditch , remarked : —" This caao exemplified atrongly ietoklesa , tradiog , oven to a remarkable degree . But there wasanother question of more eerious importance r— that of obtaining good / j linear fylqo prepuces ; and ,, if they wore found . guilty , ^ he , Cpurt had no option but to withhold prbtectidn . The bankrupts were certainly young and inexperienced when they took to tho business of their
father in 1852 , but that did not justify their subsequent conduct . The reckless character of the trading was apparent from the report of Mr . Pennell , which stated that during two years and seven months , -while the aggregate transactions were 81 , OGOJT ., the profits were retur ned at the very small sum of 487 L We find they never took stock . They kept no stock-book , and , though they kept a cash-book , it did not appear it had ever been cast up or balanced during the trading . While the profits ( 487 l . ~ ) were scarcely a farthing in the pound on their transactions ( 81 . 000 / . ) , the trade expenses were 2 , 669 / . ; the partnership drawings , 1 , 069 / ., and the losses and Lad debts were about the same as the profits . The next question was -whether the bankrupt , Thomai
Scully , had obtained from Mr . Lamin goods fraudulently , or by false pretences . Mr . Lamin had been in the habit of dealing with these parties for a long period , and hal trusted them to a large amount ; and they seem to have been regular in their payments . It was complained by Mr . Lamin , that on the 18 th of May last , shortly before the bankruptcy , Thomas Scully had obtained goods by representing that the firm was iu solvent circumstances . It appeared that on two different occasions subsequent to this transaction , the bankrupts mad * payments for previous purchases . It was true that Thomas Scully , on Mr , Lamin " saving to him that he would not trust thc-m any
more—they must bring cash—replied that they were perfectly solvent , and quite prepared to p 7 ready money . But this was evidently not done with a fraudulent intention , for he did not apply the goods to his own use . The bankrupts appeared to have gone , on hand overhead , till bankruptcy ensued ; but , under all the circumstances , he ( the Commissioner ) could not find them guilty of fraud .- There were mitigating circumstances , aud , therefore , the certificates would be of the second class . The certificate of Thomas Scully would be suspended for twelve months from the date of the adjudication ( 7 th of June ) ; that of the other bankrupt , for nine months . " Protection -was granted .
The West Indies . —By the last mail , we learn that tbe Jamaica House of Assembly was in session , and that the flour market was active ; that at liarbadoes the weather was highly favourable for agricultural operations ; and that at Grenada a great quantity of rain had done much injury to the roads . At British Guiana , the new-Harbour Regulation BUI had passed . The subject of the water supply and drainage was occupying attention . The weather was fine , and all the estates were busily engaged , in making sugar . The canes for the next year ' s crop looked well . At Chili , Congress was adjourned ; there was a great depression in commercial matters ; copper was very scarce . From Bolivia we learn that scarcely had Belzu left before revolutionary movements broke out in-various piace 3 . On the 16 th of September , Colonel
Gutierrez , Dr . Tapia , General Lanza , and Colonel Monstalvo , Yanes , Marin , and many others raised the revolutionary standard in Pucanori . General Mole , a , with a force of about one hundred men and two guns , marched to attack the revolutionists , but Lanza , hearing of his approach , left the town ; he was , however , afterwards met by the Government forces , and Zapata and Moscoso , two of the revolutionary leaders , were killed . In Corocoro , Dr . Linares and others also got up a revolutionary movement , but it was put down by the National Guard , and tho arrival of the cavalry who had accompanied Belzu to the coast . Linares and the other leaders escaped . Some of the periodicals of La Paz slute that the revolution is quite put down in the north , but in Oruro , Cochleanba , Santa Cruz , and La Sierra , all was not yet quiet . in
The Lord Mator ' s Dinner . —At the dinner the Guildhall on the 9 th instant , Lord Pulmerston , acknowledging the toast of his health , observed : — ' If ever there was a moment when those who are charged with such a duty may feel peculiurly proud of the honour conferred upon them , and also peculiurly sensitive as to the deep responsibility which that honourable charge imposes , the present moment is beyond questiou the greatest that ever was in the memory of man j for never did a nation present a nobler spectacle to the world than does the British nation ut this time . We have entered into a great contest , not ruuhly , not hastily , not with levity , but upon full aud mature deliberation . We huve entered into that contest becnuso we felt that the war was neccsHary as well as just , and this nation evinces , from one end of the deliberate
country to the other , a Bteady , a culm , but a determination to submit to every sacrifice which tlie conduct of the war may entail , to show itself equal to every exertion which the prosecution of thut war may require , to exhibit the utmost constancy in carrying on the struggle , and to continue ita sacrifices anil its exertions until peace shall be obtained on conditions such as we may be entitled to demand . " Those remarks were continually greeted with loud cheers . —Lord John Russell , In acknowledging the toast of the Homo or Commons , with which his name wna coup led , was received with mingled cheers and hisses , so loud « s to render his few remnrks inaudible . Having briefly referred to the election of the ¦ present Lord Mayor W an evidence of the , triumph of civil und religious liberty , ho hurriedly sat down . —The abacnva of tho h *« 7 Mayoress at tfoi banquet y / an excused ou tho ground of ill-health .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 17, 1855, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17111855/page/16/
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