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956 THE L E A DE R. [No. 443, September ...
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POLITICAL FORESHADOWINGS. lin. Henlet, M...
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THE METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL. If there...
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IRELAND. Cardinal Wiseman.—This personag...
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AMERICA. The Arabia has arrived at Liver...
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COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. BRITISH COLUMBIA....
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956 The L E A De R. [No. 443, September ...
956 THE L E A DE R . [ No . 443 , September 18 , 1 S & 8 .
Political Foreshadowings. Lin. Henlet, M...
POLITICAL FORESHADOWINGS . lin . Henlet , M . P . v d Oxfordshiee . —The annual meeting of the Oxfordshire and Banbury Agricultural Association , yras celebrated on Tuesday at Banbury . In the afternoon , a dinner was held in the Town-halL at which Colonel North , M . P ., President of the Society , presided . In the speech of the evening , Mr . Henley , after congratulating the meeting on the dying away of the Indian rebellion , and the termination of the-war -with China , and also after having , in allusion to Cherbourg , expressed his gratification that peace with China would enable us to have more ships cruising about our shores , spoke as follows : —At many of the meetings which have lately been held in various parts of the country there has been a considerable quantity of loose talk , by what I might almost term " loose fish , " in reference to the Government . Persons who are now occupying similar positions to that which I have the honour to fill have been subjected to somewhat coarse remarks . Some have abused us for being Conservatives , and others have abused us because they say we are Liberals . Now , I am old enough to remember when the name " Conservative" first came up , for , unfortunately , I am not a young man .- I believe , however , that the three points which were then raised , and the defenders of which were called . Conservatives , are now scarcely known . At any rate they have long ceased to be attacked . Those three points were , first , an indiscriminate attack upon the Irish Church ; secondly , a demand for Church property to be put into secular pockets ; and , thirdly , the independence of the House of Lords . Those were the three points on which the Conservatives stood ; two of them were furiously attacked for some years , but now all of them have died away . I certainly don ' t see why we should be abused for being Conservatives , and for not going whooping and hallooing about these matters , when nobody makes any attack upon them . If similar questions should ever be raised again I don ' t think that the Conservative party will be found wanting in their defence . With regard to the future I am sorry that I cannot pretend to say anything at all . You know very wellthat the Government are in this position—the parties who made the Reform Bill have chosen for the last six or seven years to find fault with their own work . Mind you , ife was no work of the Conservatives . But , at the same time , if there is any possibility of our amending it so-as to satisfy all parties , I see no reason why we should not make the attempt . The Members for North EssEx .-r-Major Beresford and Mr . Du Cane met their constituents at Walton-onthe-Naze , on Friday . The Major informs us that the Esses farmers are blessed with harvest stores in the best condition , and that " prices are not likely to be affected by foreign competition . " He expressed a hope that they would , therefore , meet their landlords with " pockets full of money . " Mr . Du Cane ' s speech demands more attention , for , besides being a review of the last session of Parliament from a Conservative point of view , it made special reference to what the hon . gentleman did not hesitate to call the forthcoming Reform Bill . From what Mr . Du Cane said it would seem that the Conservatives have a great anxiety to solve and settle this question . He remarked that it was impossible to speculate upon the provisions of the bill which the Government would introduce , but he hoped it would be of a comprehensive and impartial character , and mch a settlement indeed that it might hr rrc ~ flTfWTr t ( T Baal . ^ s 7 Saa m . 0 »*^^ iaU ^^ - ^ - ^ Sf ^ pTAND Mb . Nkwdegatb , M . P ., ~> , D | 1 bwiokshibe , —A dinner of the Sparkenhoe AgricuLturOT Association took place on Tuesday , at Tamworth , and was presided over by Mr . R . Spooner , M . P ., supported by Mr . C . N . Newdegato and a large gathering of the farmers and gentry of the county . In proposing the " Health of the Queen , " Mr . Spooner expressed warm indignation at the manner in which her Majesty's pome had been passed over on recent festive occasions jn Ireland , but added that he had no doubt the loyalty of tne ' Warwickshire farmers and the agri-, cuUurists generally throughout the country would induce them to drink it with enthusiasm . Mr . Newdegate in the course of the evening proposed the toast of " The House of Lords . " He said : — ?* In other nations you may find representative assemblies elected more or less according to the will of the people . In other nations you will find sovereigns , with power more or less absolute or more or less controlled , but in England alone you will find a balance of power , which 1 b established by tbe existence of three co-ordinate estates—that of the Sovereign , the House of Lord ? , and the House of Commons . Tbe House of Lords is appointed arbiter between the jwiU of the people and the discretion of the Sovereign . Of ten liaFittaTw 2 a its roost glorious characteristic , to stay the arbitrary invasions of the Crown , or check the wanton impulses of tbe people . Depend upon it that the debt which England owes ) te House of Lords la far greater than those who jthtok lightly of our interests can estimate it at . I believe the ( louse of Lords is independent because it is hereditary 5 and it is that , therefore , which gives it true value . I beg to propose " The Health of the House of Lords , " lamenting that we should have to do so in the absence of the , distinguished members who have boon
prevented attending by illness ; but I ask you to drink this toast , because the House of Lords is a great institution in . England , and the embodiment of the independence of the country against arbitrary power . Long do I hope it will continue to be so , and longdo I hope that England will continue to be the sanctuary of freedom and the glory of the world , " Mr . Spooner's health haviDg been drunk , that gentleman , in returning thanks , said , that he had always looked upon the agricultural interest as one of the most important in the country , and it was therefore With the deepest interest that he had watched the enormous strides the science of agriculture had made of late years , for he said , without any fear whatever , that upon the improvement and success of agriculture depended in a great measure the success , the prosperity , and the happiness of the empire of Great Britain itself .
The Reform Movement in the North . —An active agitation in favour of Parliamentary Reform has , for the last eight months , been conducted in the two counties of Durham and Northumberland by the Northern Reform Union . From a report submitted last week to the Members of the Newcastle branch of the Union , by the treasurer , Mr . Jos . Co \ ven , jun ., we learn that Upwards of thirty public meetings in Connexion with the Union have been held in the . northern districts , commencing with Newcastle , and comprising North Shields , South Shields , Hexham , Blyth , Hartlepool , Darlington , Middlesboro ' , and nearly all the large colliery and manufacturing villages between the Tyne and the Tees .
All the meetings have been numerously attended , and at none has the least opposition been offered to the resolutions of the Union , or a single hand held up against them . The council are preparing to extend and complete their organisation , and they declare that in every centre of population in the northern comities there shall he , before Parliament reassembles , a'local branch of the Reform Union . A great gathering of Reformers is to be held in Newcastle in the course of a few weeks , at which the winter campaign is to be formally commenced ; .
A Meeting was held in Glreenwieh on Thursday to support Mr . Ernest Jones in his candidature for tbe representation of that borough , and also to advocate , the principles of the Political Reform League . A resolution in favour of the , objects of the . League was adopted ; but a resolution . pledging the meeting to promote the return of Mr . Jones as member for Greenwich was , not so successful . An amendment declaring that it was inexpedient to select a candidate until the period of the elections ha d more nearly approached was carried by a large majorit 3 ' -.
The Metropolitan Free Hospital. If There...
THE METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL . If there is a work of real charity , or one which they who have not time or facilities for investigating * ' cases worthy of their attention , " it is the assistance of a public hospital . To all public hospitals we ever readily volunteer our small aid , but to none with such special interest and anxiety for a successful issue to our plea as to the two or three free ones which the co-operative charity of a few subscribers seems barely to keep open for the gratuitous relief of the sick and destitute poor . Sentimental pleas for such institutions have been worn threadharpJiiw—ii Haiti iriimmnorinl in charity Sermons , governors' reports , treasurers' appeals , and other forms of prayer , but the miserable fact remains that the hospital accommodation of London for pauper in-patients is
fearfully deficient , and shows not the slightest symptom of increase in proportion to the population . An occasional gleam starts athwart tho darkness of this subject—a darkness favouring the death-murch of pestilence—when we hear of a noble legacy left by some dying patriot to some one or two institutions ; but , on the whole , much as wo may in theory admire the voluntary system of charity , we must own that , in the case of hospitals , tho spriwg is yet inadequate to , the demands upon it . It is incumbent upon all , then , who may have the craft of the divining rod , to discover , and , if possible , to tap now founts of charity . Wo all know that they are under tho soil of tho world of Mammon washing through golden sand-beds , but few may forgo that stubborn land to yield her golden treasure and her fair stream together . Lazarus from Spitalfields , sorry , sore , and sick of the typhus , appeals , while it h yet time , to tho living Dives for a gift to tho Free Hospital thore . Answer him Dives , for It is better that thou give a little now , than think of bribing Heaven in thine hour of palsied fear with fifty thousand pounds . Of charitable givers who . knnw . nob ^ Lazanis .-beoauay , hq j » in the smoke and dirt of tho East , and rejoices in no rloli noi ^ TWOTSnttTrd inenmbonta to plead for him , our client ask « but a little dole out of the lapful . Of the traders especially , who , earning their wealth all about him , and , by tho help of his very hands , dine Jovially on food ho may hardly dream of ,- and eleop luxuriously in air thut ho may sniff on Sunday , ho has a right to crave a mite ; and a vary little n » ito from all on whom ho has a claim would stand him in good stoud . The Metropolitan Free Hospital is in
Devonshiresquare , Bishopsgate-street ; and Mr . Renton , the secre tary , writes us that 2800 medical and 1800 surrfcal cases were treated there in 1857 . The institution * we were pained to learn , had during the . same year only 1410 / . of revenue , and incurred a debt ( in meeting the most indispensable outlay ) of 250 / ., in addition to 17707 . or thereabouts , the amount of its previous incumbrances ! It is not ' possible" that a charity relieving in a year no ' less than 4600 of the sick poor , will be allowed to clos e its doors for ever in default of little over 2000 / . We have contributed our humble offering in thus making known the deficiency . Let our brethren do likewise and that deficiency will be soon changed into a surplus *
Ireland. Cardinal Wiseman.—This Personag...
IRELAND . Cardinal Wiseman . —This personage returned to Dublin on Friday from Maynooth , and delivered an eloquent lecture in the Music-hall for the benefit of the " Catholic Young Men ' s Society . " ; For some time before the hour announced for the commencement of the lecture an immense crowd collected in the neighbourhood , and the applause which greeted him on arrival was tumultuous and repeated . The building was completely filled . The Right Hon . the Lord Mayor and Mr .
George Bowyer , M . I \ , occupied seats near the lecturer . Apropos of this ecclesiastic , we read in the Weekly Register : —• " We have received some interesting intelligence from Spain . We are informed that the account Of the reception in Ireland of the Cardinal Archbishop has created the liveliest satisfaction , and that an invite tion has been forwarded , soliciting him to pay a visit to Spain , and to become the honoured guest of the English College at Valladolidi His welcome Would be as enthusiastic as that he experienced in Ireland . "
The Lord Matob and the Cardinal . —From the Dublin papers we learn that Lord EgHnton and his colleagues are not tho . only persons who have sinned unpardonably in declining to dine with Cardinal Wiseman at the Dublin Mansion . On Monday , at a special meeting of the Town Council , Alderman Reynolds gave notice of a resolution : —" That ; Alderman Lambert has , by refusing to accept the invitation of the Lord Mayor to dine at the Mansion-house on the 1 st instant , on the ground that Cardinal Wiseman was to have beeii .
present at the banquet , grossly violated his promise not to interfere in politics ; that such refusal , sent to the lord Mayor at half-past six o ' clock on the day of the banquet , and signed . James Lambert , Lord Mayor elect , is an insult to the whole Catholic body , and more particularly to the Catholic members of this council , and . Wlieviug as we do that political or religious prejudices ought not to prevent or Obstruct social interrjtirse , we are of opinion that Alderman Lambert is wot a fit and discreet person to be elected to the o ^ of Lord Major , and therefore that the nomination to that office be cancelled , "
America. The Arabia Has Arrived At Liver...
AMERICA . The Arabia has arrived at Liverpool , with dates frora New York to the 1 st instant . Another grand celebration in honour of the Atlantic Telegraph was to take place on that day . The order of the procession , which was to march through the streets , occupied four columns of tits New York papers . The yellow fever at New Orleans was advancing with rapid strides . The deaths on tho 30 th nit . reached ninety-two . This terrible epidemic continued without abatement at Charleston .
Considerable excitement existed at Kansas m consequence of the recent arrivals from the e * ° c > V *" Piko ' a Peak confirming the existence of the precious metal in abundance in thai looalitj ' . The gold found to similar to that pf Frozer River and California . A secoud Frazer River excitement was apprehended . Mormon affairs appeared to be getting worso ond worse , and Brigham Young ' s financial prospects wore u becoming
a sad plight . The Indian tribes in Utah were troublesome , incited , it is supposed , by tho Mormons lor the ' -purpose of diverting tho attention of the army from themselves . .., „ From Oregon wo learn that in a fight with one oi mo hostile tribes on tho Columbia River threo oflicera « na thirty men , under tho command of Colonel btepidi killed nvi nuisui 1
were . . <• ... » u . * ... A destructive tornado recently visited Bovorni 01 u » towns in New York State , destroying everything »« «" course , tearing up trees , demolishing buildings , ie »<^ and blowing down dwellings . Orders had boon received in Now York for tlio con struction of two magnificent stoamors for trading I poses on tho great rivers of China .
Colonial Intelligence. British Columbia....
COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE . BRITISH COLUMBIA . fl Sm . E . Lytton bos made arrangements for pP " ' !^ , bank at Vancouver's Island , and ultimately in " Columbia . Ho has also suggested a p lan Jor uni » » fortnightly postal communication to Now f " " by South Aurttralia vid Panama , with a i > o « tul son * tho same route to Vancouver .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1858, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18091858/page/4/
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