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1208 THE LEADER. [Saturday ^
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THE NORTHERN STRIKES. . Tip following ad...
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HEALTH OF LONDON. (From tlic Registrar- ...
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MISCELLANEOUS. The Court is still at Osb...
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Queen Victoria has subscribed 1001. towa...
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After all, Lord Paget will not stand for...
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Tho Irish priests of Dublin have aent a ...
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Testimony Op A "Tkaveller In Italy." Som...
4000 of its defenders and made a rash attempt to cross Italy to the Adriatic , thus hoping to make his way by sea to Venice , where the last ray of Italian liberty still lingered . He was quickly surrounded with Austrian troops from Florence , Bologna , and Ancona , and he reached with difficulty , with a portion of his force , the little republic of San Marino ; here 900 men gave -up their arms to the authorities of the republic , who , as authorities of an independent state , proposed to make terms for . them with the Austrians . They were , however , made prisoners and sent to Mantua , many of them first being ignominiously flogged . Garibaldi and about 300 companions reached the shore , and embarking during the night on board some fishing ^ boats , made sail towards Venice ; as morning dawned the wind fell ,
and two Austrian steamers wsre in sight . Some boats were taken , others sunk , and two only , I believe , reached the shore near Rimini ; in one of these were Garibaldi and his wife , a lady of the Urazils , who had insisted on accompanying her husband on his retreat from Rome . Garibaldi and his companions immediately separated themselves , as the only chance of escape , and carrying his wife in his arms , who was unable to support herself from fatigue , left the shore and went inland . Two days afterwards lie appeared at the cottage of a peasant , still carrying Uh wife , and asked for water to be given to her , bnt she expired as he put it to her lips . His companions were hunted about , and most of them shot down like beasts of chase . Two months later Garibaldi arrived at Genoa , having passed through the midst of the Austrian forces in various disguises , and he who had always refused to enrich himself by war , who disdained self-intertst , and
defied all perib in devotion to a noble cause , now thinks it no dishonour to earn his living as the captain of a merchant vessel trading between China and America . He has been called a brigand and a leader of Condottieri ; but let those who reflect compare Garibaldi with the French and Austrian generals whom lie fought against in Italy . Among the companions of Garibaldi who were made prisoners was a priest named Ugo Bassi , who had distinguished himself dm ing the siege of Rome by riding Unarmed among the combatants , consoling and assisting the dying and wounded . He was sent to Bologna , where , by order of the Papal authorities , he had the skin peeled from-the crown of his head and from the thumb and two first fingers of his right hand , and , when this Christian-like ceremony was performed—which was considered to remove his'priesthood —lie was turned over to the Austrians to be ^ shot !"
" Such , " continues the traveller , " was the fate of the remnant of that brave army of volunteers which had defended Rome , composed of men from all ranks of lift , in which the nobleman , the peasant , and youths who had kft the peaceful study of professions and the arts , fought side by side , united in love for their country ; their courage had been ¦ wasted , and their force consumed in resisting France , nt a moment when most needed against the Austrians . The Austrian power in Lombardy rested on , a volcano , ready to burst beneath her feet . The battle of Novara , so suddenly and decisively won , checked its explosion , but it still existed , and such a resistance to the Austrian forces as the French
encountered at Rome might at that moment have influenced the fate of Italy . And these defenders of Rome have been calumniated as a band of desperadoes , of soldiers of adventure , of anarchists , and revolutionists of nil nations J In vain the French envoy , Lesseps , wrote to his Government the unwelcome truth , that Rome was defended chiefly by those classes which in Pax-is defend the cause of order ; lit ; was unheeded in the necessity which the French Government was under of justifying the hiege by any means , and imputing it to any motive but tlm true one The deatli of Rossi—the act of a single man—was paraded as the crime of a wholo people . The man who had como forward almost alone to
support by his talent and reputation the Pupal Government in its now open hostility to Italian freedom , who had no : an ally , who would hardly have found a gendarme to obey him , who stood alone opposed to a whole city , whose power inu . st hnve fallen of itself in a few days , < lid more harm to the Romans by his death than he could have done wliile living . The Republic was said to have been founded on an assassination , and unworthy to exist , and 2 , 001 ) Italians died at Rome to defend it . In Franco the lower and middling class , a had learnt to distrust each other ; the violence of the Socialists produced n reaction , a . retrograde spirit , and Italy suffered for this . Its results were the , re-cstahlishmrnt of the Papal authority , and the present despotism in France .
" Should a day of deliverance ever arrive for Italv , it ia difficult to foretell what effect it may havonpon tho ' Uoman Catholic Church . The temporal power of the Pones being wrested from tliem , their spiritual power would bo used ¦ without moderation or remorse to recover it , as it is now used for its defence ; hence must arise a resistance , an onpotition to the spiritual power also . " The letter , us our readers will sec , is ably and feelingly written ; and its importance i » certainly heightened by its publication iu the Times .
1208 The Leader. [Saturday ^
1208 THE LEADER . [ Saturday
The Northern Strikes. . Tip Following Ad...
THE NORTHERN STRIKES . . Tip following address to the " Master Spinners and Manufacturers of PreHtoii , " has been just issued : — " For ft considerable period you an-1 your consocmtcH throughout Lunen . shiro have been bu ily engaged in propagating th <; notion that trade , especially the cotton branch of it , was in a depressed condition , and that coiiuequiMitly you would not bo warranted in raising the \ vag <\ s of your workpeople by 10 pur cent . I < li > nut , nj > edli < : iilly allude to the last placard you ittHiu-d , though , of course , the
Hialemont is found there , Early in November you addroHHtnl to your workpisoplo a kind of manifeNto , which distinctly iuli mated that tmdo was ' bad , ' and tlii . s intimation lms Ikjcii again and again iterated by your cimfrares all ovor tho country . Now , will you bo kind enough to reconcile the fltatementH ho Hcduow-ily disseminated with the tables pul > - liulicd by the Hoard of Trade ? Either you or Ilio ojliciuls of that hoard nr « guilty of iiii .- < rt !]> ruMMitatioii ; for what you aver to bo true and what their iiguivs tench « ro directly nt variance- with each otlior . I beg to direct your attention
to the following figures—exhibiting , as they do , a most satisfactory comlidion of the trade of the nation generally , as well as of your own . For the 10 months' eniing the 5 th of November , 1852 , the declared value of all kinds of goods exported was ' 59 , 247 , 104 / . For the 10 months ending the oth . of November , 1853 , the declared value of Uie ' quantity exported amounted to the enormous sum of 73 , 155 , 755 / . This sum represents an extraordinary degree of activity in trade , of which your branch has certainly derived its proportionate share of benefit " . Now , -let us . look at the
aggregate value of all kinds of goods exported in the month ending tho-otli of November . 1852 , and the corresponding month of the present year . For the month ending the 5 th cf November , 1852 , the value of goods exported was 4 , 855 , 660 / . For the month ending the 5 th of November , 1853 , the value is returned as ( 3 , 168 , 626 / . Thus you perceive that 1 , 312 , 960 / . more of the goods which England lias fo . export were sent abroad in the month ending the 5 th of November , 1853 , than in the month ending the 5 th of November , 1852 . You will probably think this might be the case , and yet that tho cotton and woollen trades might , nevertheless , be on the
decline . # " Let us see what information on this point the tables of the Board of Trade will yield to the public . For the month ending the 5 th of November , 1852 , the value of the cotton manufactures exported was 1 . 460 , 483 / . ; for the month ending the 5 th of November , 1853 , the value of the same kind of goods was 1 , 560 , 791 / ., being an increase over the corresponding month of last year of goods to ^ the value' of 103 , 508 / . For the month ending the 5 th of November , 1852 , the value of cotton-y « rn exported was 469 , 079 / . ; for the corresponding month of the present year the value is returned as 597 , 736 / .,
being an increase over the same month of last year of no less a sum than 128 , 655 / . For the month ending the 5 th of November last year woollen manufactures and woollenyarns were exported to the value ot 620 , 495 / . ; during the corresponding month of the present year the value of woollen manufactures and woollen-yarns exported is returned as 757 , 736 / ., being an increase of 137 , 241 / . These facts spe .-ik for themselves . It is for you and your scribes to explain them if you can , and to reconcile them with the alleged depress ' on in trade ; otherwise , whatever for the future you may say on this-subject will be deemed worthy of very little consideration . '
" I do not deny that this general increase of the trade of the country is compatible with the depression of particular branches ; but , if no in your case , it is evidently local and temporary in character and duration . In fact , if you were to have six months of ' bad trade 'every five or six years , that would bo no reason why you should attempt to ' grind the faces' of your workpeople . During such incidental occurrences , be satisfied , like other tradesmen , if you can make both ends meet and leave the wages of your hands alone . It will be much better for yourselves and others to
run short tune during such emergencies than to attempt to reduce the wages of your workpeople . If you do not bear this in mind , some of yon will live to see your childicn reap the bitter fruits of conduct- almost without parallel for the folly and blunders by which it has been characterised . I have no wish to see anything but all classes in this country frre , prosperous , and happy ; but remember it will be intolerable ( and will bring retribution if yon persist iu the attempt ) for all the effects of free trade , of the discoveries in Australia , and of the mechanical ingenuity of the country , to find their way into the pockets of such a small section of the community as yours . " What the men may expect , is shown by the following- anecdote , which we quote from the Leeds Intelliyencer : — ¦ " A Lancashire cotton-spin :: er with whom wo had a conversation a few days ago , and whose premises are in the strike district , said , ' W » : cave the advance , and so our hands are still at work . Hut when the strike is over and the mills are all going again , of course we shall pull them down at the first opportunity . ' " The bottle-makers of the Tyne have obtained 2 s . advance , and so their strike is at an end . Keports from Glasgow speak of a strike as imminent amongst the cotton operatives of that town . The cause is a comtemplated reduction of wages .
Health Of London. (From Tlic Registrar- ...
HEALTH OF LONDON . ( From tlic Registrar- GcneraFs Returns . ) Thk present return discovers a decrease of mortality in London on the two previous weeks , but it still indicates a not very favourable state of the public health . The deaths registered in the last four weeks were llf > 2 , 1339 , 1414 , and ( in the week that ended last Saturday ) 1308 . In the ten weeks corresponding to last week of the years 1843-52 , the average number was 121 r > , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1337 . The actual number of deaths being 1308 , it differs but to a small extent from the estimated amount . The increase in the deaths caused by disease « of the res piratory organs has been the principal feat ure of late rcturitH . The numbern referred to thin china have been in the last four weeks 180 , 297 , 379 , and 343 . From phthisis in tho tubercular class they were in tho same periods 133 , 160 , 175 , and 157 . Last Meek bronchitis was fatal in 159 cases , while the corrected average of ten corresponding weeks ( in IS 13-52 ) wan 113 ; pneumonia was fatal in 142 , while Uie- name average was 134 . Typhus nnd hoopingcough predominate ut present amongst epidemic diseasco , the former numbering 64 fatal cases , tho hitter . ) 6 . Typhus hIiowh an increased tendency to prevail . Cholera rapidly declines ; it reached its maximum in tho first week of November , when the
deaths were 102 ; in the five subsequent -week * * W have been 93 , 72 , 40 , 28 , and ( last week ) 13 ine * Last week the births of 833 boys and 790 eirla all 1623 children , were registered in London . In \ P eight corresponding weeks of the years 1 845-52 th average number was 1397 . r ' e At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich ; - the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30 001 in Tho mean temperature of the week was 39-3 de ? which is rather below the average of the same wept in thirty-eight years . ' The mean dew point term ™ rature was 38 0 deg . .. ¦ * " *'
Miscellaneous. The Court Is Still At Osb...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Court is still at Osborne . Lord Aberdeen and Lord John Kussell have visited the Qaeen this week . The Duke and Duchess of Brabant went home on Monday .
Queen Victoria Has Subscribed 1001. Towa...
Queen Victoria has subscribed 1001 . towards the fund for building a church for the English Episcopalians in Paris . In consideration of the severity of the season , and the " excessive price of every necessary of life , the Queen has announced her intention of contributing 2501 . towards the funds of the Association for Promoting the Belief of-Destitution-in the . Metropolis . ' The electric telegraph is now stretched to Osborne the house of the Queen . '
After All, Lord Paget Will Not Stand For...
After all , Lord Paget will not stand for South Stafford . shire ; the Liberals have lost their labour , and will have to seek a new candidate . [ This is a Tory report ; and , we are informed , not correct . ] All hope of opposing Mr . John O'Connell has been alandoned ; and there is little doubt but that he will be Member for Clonmel before we can go to press . The ladies of Durham , taking pity on the wretched case of Lord Adolphus Vane , who was ousted from the representation of the city , on petition , have consoled him with a snuffbox and a diamond ring . When those valuables were presented to his lordship , on Tuesday , lie was " deeply affected , " saith the reporter ; but with what , said reporter sayeth not . The widow of-the Kttrick Shepherd has obtained a pension at inst . The Queen lias granted her 50 / . a vear .
Mr . Cobden has been on a visit at Oxford . On Tuesday he was present at the examination in the School of Law and Modern History . A son of Solouque , Emperor of IFayti , is at present in England ; He calls himself M . Dulval . Jenny Lind has been singing at a concert at Dresden . This is her first public appearance in Europe since her marri . iga and return from America . John Mitchell landed in New York on the 29 th November . The Irish received him with exulting demonstrations ; and the militia regiments serenaded him . The Cambridge Independent prints a circular which has been sent to the leading Dissenters , inviting them to sabscribe for a testimonial to the Reverend Mr . Maurice , whole dismissal by tho authorities of King ' s College has excited ao much public notice .
Paisley has declared upon the Russo-Turkish question . At a meeting on Monday , the Provost in the chnir , resolutions in favour of .-upporting the Turks were adopte-. ! . Maklstone rejoices in J 04 inhabitants who consider that , if England aids cither Turkey or Kussia , she will nssuredly offend , perhaps draw down the judgment of God upon us . Said 104 have memorialised Government to withdraw from all military interference . Lord Palmerston gave offence when in Scotland , by talkin «• nhrtnr " Knirinnrl " iin / 1 " RnflmhmtMi " AScOtcIimdll ing about " England" and " Englishmen . " A bcoiciimnn
has put his complaint into wordt » , and Mr . Henry Fitzroy has been directed to convey ' to him " Lord Palmerstona assurance , that in using the ivorda ' English , ' ' Englishmen , 1 England , ' his lordship meant no disparagement to Scotland , Ireland , or Wales ; but only used that form of . speech winch i . s usuall y an . l conveniently adopted in speaking of tfio United Kingdom nnd ita inhabitants . " .. Tho Admiralty have refused to send out another expedition to explore the Arctic Seas ; and Sir John FriffiKlims fairly given up . [ This statement it contradicted by some papers . ]
Tho Irish Priests Of Dublin Have Aent A ...
Tho Irish priests of Dublin have aent a letter of sympathy to tho Archbishop of Freiburg . . , , We are informed that the Bishop of London , assisted dj Dr . Lushington and Sir James Patteson , sitting a ; i assessors , will commenco an inquiry into certain alleged abuses c nected with St . Paul ' s Cathedral on tho 9 th of January . — Globe ,. . , , Tho IShdiop of Gloucester and Bristol has just i ^ 110 ?* pabtoral letter to the inhabitants of tho latter city , > fiJM ? them to use every exertion for tho establishment ot m » u lodging-housed . _ _ . . „ .. . » luugmg-iiuunen . » i
"St . Columba" is tho name of an Iri » h CoJJ ^ o- ' warden is " tho Reverend Mr . Williams , of the Umveiw- / of Oxford . " Ho was suspected of Punoyism . " . '" 'V mcmoriiil ngainat Bishop ( jobat was set on frfot ho S . 'K" flj In contrnqiiviu-e of that act , it in 'Supposed , tho I mlUl ^ Ireland linn withdrawn his nniiio an tho chief patron 01 college . , p CK (] ay Dr . Harington , Principal of Brazenoso , died on l « > la . st . Ho caught cold on Friday and it proved fatal , ^ Ilaiington was a moat nctivo and staunch au |> p » l |(' 1 ' ° . jn movement party in the University . Ho also to <» ic I >»» , city uHVuh . Ho wus formerly a Fellow of tho College ,
was ek'Cjfd Principal in 1842 . . . » Olirisluiaa will i ) o pr .-tty goncrully kept on Wo " " ^ j 0 UHiial , and tho nwyurn of towns seem to lmv « lent s » P' c ( tins movement . At the mwtingof tho Oxford ' !<>**> Y , ,. | th « la . st wtM-k , the mayor , Mr . Kiulmrd J-Mium Spier " , "roll 6 iy attention of" tho council to thonubj « ct , and they u » tt "" . urt | , er agreed to recoiniiieiid Um Husponsion of buHint'st * - ' . ' in « n M « id ,. in nimwer to an inquiry whether tlio w 0 r r ocjp le would be puid their w « go « lor that day , that M ^ P !—— -
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1853, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17121853/page/8/
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