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August 19, 1854.] THE LEADER. 777 r _ ¦ ...
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Satueday, Atigijst 19. THE ELECTIONS. CA...
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tioners to the Commander-in-Chief as the proper party to address on the subject . The committee had addressed the Horse Guards , but no reply had up to last evening been received . A petition had also been forwarded to her Majesty . Strong hopes were entertained that some alteration would be made in the pattern , and tliat , at least , the change would be gradually worked out , in order that the lacemakers might seek some other ' means of obtaining support for themselves and their families . Some formal resolutions having been agreed to , the meeting broke up . —Morning Advertiser . Great Fire at Cubitt ' s . —A fire broke out at Cijbitt ' s works , Pimlico , on Tuesday night , and , in a few hours , it had become a tremendous conflagration—illuminating half London . A vast property has been destroyed ; and from 500 to 600 men hare been thrown own of employment—their tools annihilated . The insurance does not exceed 10 , 000 / . * and the actual loss will therefore be enormous .
A Proposal to wash the Queen's Fage . —A correspondent of the Daily News points out tiie dirty state of the face of the Queen ' s statue in the Royal Exchange , and says if expense be the difficulty , allpw me to point out that a few inches less of the gold lace on the three-cornered hat of the beadles , or Lord Mayor ' s coachman , would create a fund amply sufficient . ""' JLondon and South Western Kailway Proprietors . —A ballot among this proprietary has taken place this week for the election of a director ; there being two candidates—^ Mr . Wilcox , MiP ., and Sir . Snell . On a'scratiuy , it is found that for one of those candidates- there are nearly fifty false proxies , representingabouta thousand votes . " Highly respectable people" ( who deplore the-state of education , among tiie lower orders ) must have put in the false proxies ; ' : ' . '¦¦
The North Western Enoise-DbiVbrs . — -The diffi ^ - cnltybetvyeen , the engine-drivers and the Board of Directors has . been happily set atrest bya cpmproraise > . ¦ . ' ¦ '¦ ¦ '< : --_ . AusTRAijiAJ ? EMiQRJvNTS . ^ --Some documents Just published ineonnexiqn with the xeceiit course of emigration to Australia convey information on three subjects of interestnamely , the light in which the Chinese labourers lately troduced into New South Wales are regarded ; the experience obtained as to the value of the v labourers fromthe Isle of Skyej sent out b y the Etighland Emigration Society and , lastly ; the - prospect of any fulfilment : of the obligations entered into by Government emigrants for repayment 6 f a portion of their passage ^ money if they should v leave the colony within four years . On each-tioint the statements
are unfavourable . As respects the * Chinese immigrants , the ^ Government Resident at BrisDaney ^ Tew South \ Vales , reports that they are held in great disfavour , chieflv : from their weakl y constitution , and their filthy habits and dissatisfied dispositions . In the case of the Skye labouiers disappointirjerit lias also been experienced , and , although there is no difficulty in the present state of things in their finding employment , the colonists would greatly prefer ., the ordinary agricultural people from England and Ireland . The ' . experience of their capacity thus far obtained was limited , but the impression was that they -were slothful , dirty , and discontented . In relation to the repayment of passage money the report from the immigration agent in the colony of Victoria is that the engagements to that effebt are just so much waste paper .
Ojjeop the Highly EnuCATED Classes . — . —A Bristol paper gives this story of Mr . Slade , Q . G ., a higWy-educated man , who ( ufcfe his speech at the Cambridge hustings this week ) is in favour of Lord Derby , and would not trust the people with power until they are educated . In the course of the trial of the case " Cox v . Carrington , " at the Somerset Assizes last week , Mr . F . \ V . Slade , Q C . * the leading advocate of the plaintiff ; made the following cu lions display of his profound acquaintance with the works of the bard of Avon , In one of the articles in the Bath Chronicle , complained of as libellous , the editor quoted the words of Bottom iu the Midsummer Night ' s Drea , m— . *? 1 * 11 roar you as gently as any sucking dove . " Having first of all read u Boston " for Jiottom , and created some laughter by the mistake , which the learned counsel ingeniously n-noloeiscd for bv
Baying that it appeared to bo so written in his brief , Mr . Slado went on to ridicule the language employed , and which appeared to bo that of the editor . " I'll roar you as gently as mny sucking dove , " exclaimed Mr . Slado , triumphantly ; " why , gentlemen , did you ever hear of a ' sucking dove' roaring ? I KlwuyB thought that' Bucking doven « ooed . " Hero Mr . Serjeant KingUke camo to the' reliuf of Mr . Sladi ' , and quietly informed him that the words in question were Mot the ¦ words of the editor , but of Shakspearn , and by some persons were thought not to bo so ridiculous as his learned friend seemed to imagine . Mr , Slade then escaped from this diffiU oulty by saying that ho was not so learned as liia friend , the serjoant , who knew everything , and proceeded with hia speech . It is said that Mr . Slado is to bo a candidate foi ; Cambridgein conjunction with Lord Viscount Miudatono ;
, the noble lord is himself a poet , and will probably bo aisto . niahed to find that his learnod colleague had So little ao . qumntnnco with the wonks of the greatest of English barda . h ATureu Thames elkvati «> to thk PKiinAau . —The IwUb having prorogued , the Thames ontorcd their House t 1 ) 113 la the story—owe the peers will roud with horror : ior they will wnto and ask Sir O . Barry—was this the atniosphero wo woro iillowed to sit sevon montha in ? , Mut a tow days prior to the inquiry , the manuscript papers nnd rocords of the House of Lords , which woro deposited m the lowest story of the ' Pulaco tit Wostrhin . ator , wqro foiwid to bo saturated with sowago iiltli . In
consequence , it appunr / i , of scime miaUika haTiriR been xnadu Homewhoro , tho sowora overflowed , ond covered tlio Hoora of tneso rooms to tho depth of oix inches ! The presses escaped , > ut the papers on tho floor , in courao of boing arranged ready tor bung pluccd in propix receptacles , w « rc covered with tho Mthy contonta of tho aowor . Stenches of a moHt noisome ? zFOm Bomo thne oxistcd ! " r t'k »«»«« , which t « o olticorB , ttt « recent examination beforo n committee ol ? « w - ' i ° l Ji ncc <) unfc f 0 I > hut lllia occurrence , mny fii « t VV ' , pW I (« n «« t waa proroK « eu on Saturdny
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Satueday, Atigijst 19. The Elections. Ca...
Satueday , Atigijst 19 . THE ELECTIONS . CANTERBURY . ( By Electric Telegraph . ) The Sheriff declared the final state of the poll as follows ;— Lushingtoa ... ... ... 729 SomervUle 699 Butler ... ... 671 Cooper 403 Glover ... , 41 Messrs . Somerville and Lushington have addressed the electors . All quiet .
Windsor Court Martial. Yesterday (16tb D...
WINDSOR COURT MARTIAL . Yesterday ( 16 tb day ) Major-General "Wetherall , the prosecutor , replied tp Lieutenant Perry ' s defence , and the Court adjourned .
Thb Aland Islands. A Telegraphic Despatc...
THB ALAND ISLANDS . A telegraphic despatch , dated Copenliagen , "Wednesday ,. August 16 th , says r ^—! .. ••• W " evhave nevvs .-from Bomarsund to the 15 th inst . The most considerable of the towers was taken on Mondaty by the French , J after four hQura' resistance . The scaling-Iaddexs were ready for ike assault qrdered for tct-day ;
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To Correspqndents. " Hilarioits"—Yes: Th...
TO CORRESPQNDENTS . " Hilarioits "—Yes : the joke is complete : the Secretary to tho new Board of Health is taken from the Punch office . . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters wo re' ceive . Their insertion is often , delayed , owing to a . press of matter ; and wlien omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of tiie communication . " ., '' ¦ '• : No notice can bo taken of anonymous communications . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by tho name , and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of . his good faith . Wo cannot undertake ! to ifettirn rejected communications . AH lettors for tho Editor should be addressed to 7 , Wellington-street , Strand , London . , , Communications should always bo legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If Jong , it increases tiie dilBculty of finding space fo » them .
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rhere la nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing ao unnatural « nd cop ^ vulaivo , as tho strain to k ap things Axod wlicn aLl tho world ta by the vory law of its creation in eternn . 1 progroaa . — Dii . Aknoljj .
Wohic Fob The Recess. Anakchy Waa Tho Gr...
WOHIC FOB THE RECESS . Anakchy waa tho great feature of last seaaiou : can wo take any measures in this recess to obtnin order tor next session ? "Wo ourselves have endeavoured to show that the Govermnonb went wrong bocauao the Hume-ite Jiadicals became abject Ministerialists ; and it is now beginning to l ) o generally perceived thufc dependence upon the Whig aristocracy forbids tho organisation of the Baclicul party generally , Tho out-of-door
but as regards tiie war itself . The "Whigsa party of exhausted old nobles , and producing no young talent whatever—elaborately demonstrated their incapacity for power during the easy period 1846 to 1853 . They thought to save themselves in a / coalition ; and their vanity and their imbecility have damaged the coalitioa . Radical leaders , who are not inveterate ECume-ites , are tlierefore forced to the conclusion that the cause of the people cannot be trusted to suet men . The Toryparty 3 ias not looked dangerous this last session heeaUse it has been a 6 weak . But
Radical leaders—of whom we may number one at least in every large town—members of the middle class , but possessing the confidence of the working class—able men , energetic men , and disinterested men—^ their disinterestedness proved by their not themselves attempting to go into Parliament—have been disgusted and disappointed at the results of the session—not only as regards the condition of all those popular movements which Whig dilitantti have shirked or suppressed as inconsistent with the proper prosecution of a war ,
that its old inhuman and infamous spirit still lives in inveterate virulency vre may detect in the speeches of such persons as Xord JVTaidstone and : Jlr . Slade at thV Cambridges hustings , — -politicians who at a great political crisis can think of no grander dogrha than to declare themselves " -in . favout of liord Derby" and of " out-and-out Gonservatism . " This spirit is ailso observable in the analysis © i * the session made by Mr . Disraeli ( which we quoted from his journal
last week ) . In this he boasts as the great triumph of his corifederation ^ that it succeeded , this year in preventing the House of Commons adopting the principle * of " secular education 1 '' Thus , it is clear , whatever hopes may have been entertained from the dreamy vagueness of expression used during thfe last few years by the great " medicine man . " of the Toiies , that we have still to face in . the
Tory party the traditional enemies of English civilisation and of Europeari . progress . The Peelite party , ;— -which includes men of the middle class , like Mr . Gladstone and Mr . Cardwell , —distinguished by a strong sympathjf with the spirit of tiie age and a Peellike instinct of " impending "— -has not yet bid for the lead of the Liberal party . Those Liberals who are in the Coalition
Grovernment , —men of consummate abiHty , entitled to lead and certain to officer , any Liberal party that can l ) e formed , —we refer to Sir W . Molesworth , a man of aristocratic advantages and statesman-like capacity—to Mr . Lowe , who has n . genius for courage and an ambition for which his countrymen will respect him- ^ to Mr . Oaborne , whose mots would suffice to maintain a party , and of distinct democratic tastes , —have not yefc found it necessary , at least not publicly ,
to express their disgust with and despair of their lordly , lofty , nnd incapable colleagues . Radical leaders , therefore , see that it is necessary , if tho people of England are to have anything to do with tho Government of England , that the mass of intellect and earnestness which distinguishes tho Liberal party , should be so organised as to enable the Radical . party in Parliament to take a distinct position among and against
all other parties , and to bid by itself and ior itself for Place and Power . Our rospectful appeals in this matter have met with a singularly satisfactory roaponao , On tho one side , wo laid tho Pai'limnentary loader of the Independent Irish party aec-opting ; our suggestions and expressing a conviction that but flimsy barriers prevent a junction between his frionda and Exigliah popular members for common action ; and wo have observed with pleasure that from tho vory opposite side a thoughtful politician haa botm indoctrinating
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 19, 1854, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19081854/page/9/
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