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Oct. 19, 1850.] «** &*«***» ^ " _
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THE SILLIEST DUKE IN ENGLAND. The Duke o...
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LORD STANLEY'S LETTER. In order to pleas...
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NEEDLEWOMEN AT SEVEN-PENCE A-DAY. The Mo...
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AN INFERNAL MACHINE. A most diabolical a...
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MURDEROUS OUTRAGE AT BIRMINGHAM. About f...
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The Tenant League. A Monster Meeting Of ...
f ord—the descendants of the English settlers in the i twelfth century—a quiet , thrifty race , quite remarkable j for their persevering industry and good farming ; but the very high rents still charged by some of the land- i lords in that district having rendered it impossible for : the occupiers to meet their engagements without drawin < r upon the savings of former years , those farmers have determined to leave the country . Indeed , several of them have been paying a rack-rent of £ 3 per Irish acre out of their little realized capital . At the head of this colony is the Reverend Thomas Hoare , parish priest of Tinaheley , in the diocese of Ferns , who has given up his benefice to become the pastor of the new settlement in Arkansas . "
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The Silliest Duke In England. The Duke O...
THE SILLIEST DUKE IN ENGLAND . The Duke of Glen Tilt , formerly of Atholl , seems bent on maintaining his claim to the character of bein <* the foolishest Duke in Great Britain . A fewweeks ago he did his best to prevent Prince Albert la \ in <* the foundation-stone of the National Gallery in Scotland , but did not succeed . Last week he appears to have conducted himself in a rather unseemly manner , in a controversy with the Provost of Perth , touching the arrangements for preserving order during the royal passage through the fair city . The Duke , as chairman of the Scottish Midland , held that he had a right to give orders to the military , while the Provost , not only as a director ot the Central Railway , but as magistrate of the city m which the railway terminus was , contended that he had the best right to adopt such arrangements as he deemed necessary for preserving order in the burgh , and he carried his point . But the most absurd exhibition which the JJuke has made of himself during the present season was on his own grounds a few weeks ago . The story is given at length in the Times of Tuesday , by a Cambridge student , who , relying upon the decision ot the Court of Session , attempted to make his way through Glen Tilt , in spite of the warnings he received at Braemar , that the Duke was still doing his "best to stop all who made use of the path through Glen lilt . It seems that he and a fellow-tourist were on their way from Castletown of Braemar to Blair Atholl , md as the regular road would have been thirty miles round , the pedestrians took the more direct road through Glen Tilt . " Cantabrigiensis describes the pains which have been taken to stop foot passengers , by destroying bridges and other barbarous proceedings , and proceeds to relate his encounter with the Duke and his men : — " After walking eight miles , unmolested , through this lonely and romantic glen , we passed the Duke s huntinglod « 'c , and were just congratulating ourselves on having escaped hindrance , when we met a postilion driving an empty chaise , followed by a gilly driving a gig . The latter , a tall kilted fellow , with moustachios and an imposing imperial , immediately called to us in an insolent tone to stop ; but as we did not condescend any answer , cither verbal or practical , he threw the reins over the horse , and , running round , placed himself before us in the path , and ordered us , with a bullying and menacing attitude , to go back . Upon this I took my journal book from my pocket and asked him his name , which he gave me as Alexander Maclarran , and in answer to another question he stated that he was acting by _ the . Duke of Atholl ' s orders , and that his Grace was just below . As the man kept opposing our progress I threatened him with prosecution for assault if he dared to ^ y hands upon us , and told him that he had now done his duty to his master , whom we insisted upon seeing . After some time , seeing it was in vain to oppose us , he led the way down the glen to the Duke , * ° ~» P « ti » Htdfg ? J of Tullvbardine , the Duke ' s only child , a little boy , about eight years of age . In a few minutes we came in si-ht of a low circular enclosure of stone wall , in which we e two ladies and a Highlander . The latter on our approach called out to Sandy' to know what was the matter , and then , as we kept our course , Ro uted Stop ! in as boisterous a manner as the former hero had done , and finding no notice taken of his summons , ran round puffing and blowing in a great state of excitement and place ^ himself in our way . " He was a shorter man than the former and similarly equipped , with moustache imperial , and kilt . Finding him determined to oppose our moim ' , vociferating ' You must go back . Why don t you stop Sir ? ' I again took out my pocket-book , and preparing to write , said , « What is your name ? ' 'lam the Duke of Atholl , ' he replied , upon which we immediately tendered him our card ( which he ^ ad and pocketed ) , and stated that we wished to proceed to Blair Atholl . However , he insisted that we must , < go . back , to which we urged that the Court of Session had decided that there was a right of way through Glen lilt , and , therefore , we could not be stopped . He replied angrily , < It is not a public way , it is my > private drive ; you shan t come down ; the deer arc coming , the deer are corning . Upon this we expressed our willingness to retire behind the lod « o till his sport was ended , but he said we had boon impertinent , we claimed it as aright and we should not S o down an inch . Hereupon I said that m that case 1 cePtainly would go down , and if he stopped us it would be at his peril , upon which he became impatient , seized my companion by the collar of his coat , and attempted to force him back , refusing to listen to anything he had to R » iy . This unseemly scene took place before the eyes ol the Duchess and another lady , for whose presence he had so little regard as to use oaths and other violent expressions , such as you would scarcely expect to hear from the lips of a gentleman . Finding his strength was ot little avail , he shouted for help to his unwilling grooms , who were evidently enjoying the scene from a distance ,
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and my companion , seeing opposition was useless against four men , allowed himself to be led away by a servant . The Duke then returning , full of anger , gave me over to a . similar escort , and thus we were left to enjoy our reaections at the back of the lodge , while his Grace awaited the descent of his victims from the hills . The old Highlander who had charge of my companion told him the best thing we could do was to wait there till nightfall , and then finish our journey to Blair Atholl in the dark . Finding ourselves thus disappointed for the present , we climbed up the steep side of the glen to view the deer as they were driven over the hills to be slaughtered by the noble and gallant butcher , below . But , alas ! no deer fiiimfi " The Duke had had his sport for that day with us , but he was not yet content . We had been seen ascending ' the brae , ' and accordingly two gillies were despatched after us , who , on coming up , threatened to take us up for poachers , but at length mercifully allowed us to descend the hill ' and pursue our way back to Castletown , a distance of twenty miles ! They told us we should be closely watched , and that if we stirred from the path we should be prosecuted for trespassing . On parting , they took good care to tell us that it was not their fault ; and I will do them the justice to say that they did their work very reluctantly . Well , now , there was nothing to do but to take the old gilly ' s advice , and wait till dark . The hills on each side were very high and steep , so that , besides the danger of being taken up for trespass , it would have been no easy matter to find our way to a village distant ten miles . For four long hours , then , we were forced to walk up and down this bleak vale in order to ward oft the chill of an autumn evening . When it became dark we proceeded on our way , which gave us no little trouble and uncertainty , as the darkness of the night was encreased by the black shade of the pine forests . However , by midnight we reached the hotel , and soon recovered from the fatigue of a day which , after all , gave us a good deal of amusement .
Lord Stanley's Letter. In Order To Pleas...
LORD STANLEY'S LETTER . In order to please the Protectionists , who have been in a state of dangerous excitement ever since -Lord Stanley ' s speech at Bury , the noble lord has addressed a letter to Mr . G . F . Young , in which he SayS S ~~ « Knowsley , Oct . 11 , 1850 . " My dear Sir , —I have this moment received your letter of yesterday , and hasten to reply to it . I have observed , as indeed I expected , that my speech at the agricultural dinner at Bury has furnished matter for various comments on the part of the press , though I have not happened to see the articles to which you refer . Had 1 done so , however , I should equally have abstained , as I always do , from any public notice of any comments which may be made by the press on the language I had used . I own , however , that whatever observations might be made on what I said at Bury , the last inference which I should have expected to have seen drawn was that I had changed my opinions on the subject of protection . In fact , I thought it right in opening a new society at this moment to depart from the ordinary course , and , distinctly referring to recent legislative measures , to state the reasons why , retaining my opinions on the injurious and ruinous character of those measures to the agricultural interest generally , I yet thought that there was room for profitable investment of capital in the particular district in which I was speaking . Those reasons I stated to be , first , that it was not a corn-growing district , and little affected by the price of corn ; next , that not being even exclusively an agricultural district , it had the advantages of an inexhaustible market for its produce , and an unlimited supply of manure at its very doors ; and lastly , that a great portion of it being wholly undrained , and consequently full of water , the simple operation of draining , even if it cost £ 12 the Cheshire acre ( nearly double the statute ) , would encrease the productiveness of the land to an extent which would amply repay the outlay . The fact is that the country round Bury is either in grass or under green crops for the supply of the great manufacturing towns , and a portion of it , lying high , is better fitted for rearing young stock in the summer than for any other purpose ; but a very small portion of it is suited for any description of corn , and still smaller for wheat . It is , therefore , as far as the Cornlaws are concerned , an entirely exceptional case ; and I took care so to treat it , repeating emphaticall y my conviction that , in the purely agricultural districts , and , most of all , in those where the highest farming prevailed , the recent changes had inflicted , and must inflict , most serious injury on landlord , tenant , and labourer . I certainly said that , if good farming would not pay , bad could not ; but I even went so far as to dilate on the distinction between good and high farming , the latter of which , I contended , could not be carried on at such prices as now rule , and as , I think , must rule under free trade . You do me justice in supposing that had I altered my views I should have taken a very different opportunity of making the statement , and not left it to be inferred from any casual expressions ; but my intention at Bury was wholly different , and I hoped I had succeeded in justifying my recommendations to the tenants of that district to do justice to the land , while , at the same time , I adhered most unequivocally to all the opinions I have expressed in and out of Parliament as to the effect of out I recent policy on agriculture in general . —I am , dear Sir , yours sincerely , " Stanley . The Standard of "Wednesday , in its commentary on Lord Stanley ' s letter , makes some savage remarks on the agricultural class for not following Mr Chowler ' s advice , and rebelling against free trade : — " The landowners and farmers , " says our contempo rary , must have been extortioners and liars when thej exacted 50 s . the quarter , and asserted that it was but i
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remunerating price , or they must now be the victims of a grievous robbery ; but if they are consenting victims their conduct has all the effect of a confession of the guilt of extortion and falsehood . We indeed know that they are plundered , but what of that if they themselves are silent ? Men will not believe that there can be beings so stupid and apathetic , so callous , to injury and insensible to disgrace , as to embrace injury and disgrace together . ' Hang care , ' says the thoughtless landlord , ' my tenets must stump up while they have anything . I will not break with the Government that may do something for me in the way of governorship , embassy , or a commission board . ' ' I will take it out of the labourers , echoes the brutal farmer , ' at any rate until my boys are provided for by our liberal ' squire in the Excise or in some colony . ' And so the poor blind creatures go on , drag ruin and destitution upon their respective orders , until one finds his way into an ' Encumbered Estates Court , ' the other into the county gaol . « ' The apathetical landowners are , however , the more scandalous class , because it is impossible for them to be ignorant of what awaits the whole agricultural body ; and their indifference must be the result of some concealed purpose of bringing themselves home by cheating others . "
Needlewomen At Seven-Pence A-Day. The Mo...
NEEDLEWOMEN AT SEVEN-PENCE A-DAY . The Morning Chronicle reporter states , that the women employed in shirt-making in the Messrs . Nicoll ' s establishment earn 20 s . a-week . Many of those employed m the East end make little more than 7 d . a-day , as we learn from the case of a woman named Bosina Herbert , who was brought up at the Thames Police-office last week , charged with having pawned several shirts on which she was employed . The husband of the poor sempstress was out of employment , and she , urged by distress and the cries of her hungry children , had pawned seven shirts to raise as much money as would buy them bread . It was proved that the utmost she could earn , though working as hard as any needlewoman could work , was only Yd . a-day . A gentleman named Frost advanced the money required to relieve the shirts , and the poor woman was liberated on her own recognizances .
An Infernal Machine. A Most Diabolical A...
AN INFERNAL MACHINE . A most diabolical attempt was made yesterday week upon the life of Mr . Frederick East , the son of a morocco leather manufacturer , residing in Bermondsey . While he and his father were in the counting-house on Friday , the foreman brought in an oval box made of wood , addressed to Mr . Frederick East , with two shillings' worth of postage stamps on the lid of it . The foreman ra handing the box over to the young man shook it , and made the remark that it sounded as if it was filled with sand . Mr . Frederick East surveyed it for some time , and then took out his knife with the view of prizing up the lid , when his father advised him to be cautious in the operation , and this caution was rendered the more necessary , as , on the lid being partially raised , a small quantity of gunpowder fell on the desk . Water was now poured through the aperture , so as to neutralize the effects of any combustible ingredient which it might contain , and the lid having been removed without danger , the inside of the box , which might well be termed an " infernal machine , " was exposed to view . It contained nearly a pound of the finest gunpowder , with irregular pieces of lead , and just underneath the lid were a number of lucifer matches and sand paper , placed in such a position that the least violence used in prizing up the top of the box must have led to an explosion . Mr . East immediately communicated the circumstance to Mr . Superintendent Haynes , who dispatched a policeman to the Post-office in order to ascertain if the person who left the box could be identified . The reply was , that the box had been left in the usual way , but there was no recollection of the person who had left it . It is said that suspicion attaches to a person as the party who sent the box , but the investigation necessary to bring the charge home has not yet been completed .
Murderous Outrage At Birmingham. About F...
MURDEROUS OUTRAGE AT BIRMINGHAM . About four o ' clock on Saturday morning last , Mr . Thomas Marston , gold and silver beater , of Great Hampton-street , was roused from sleep by a noise in the house , and on getting out of bed he found that his room , door , which he left ajar on retiring to rest , had been in the meantime closed , and he at once proceeded down stairs . Glancing into the sitting-room , Mr . Marston sawthree men in the act of emptying his sideboard of the plate and other valuables which it contained , and a large heap of the spoil was lying on the floor . He instantly attempted to run back to his bedroom , with the intention of getting his firearms , but the burglars had become aware of his presence , and attacked him with their bludgeons before he was many steps up the staircase . Mr . Marston was obliged to turn upon them in self-defence , and , although somewhat advanced in years , he toro a wooden rail out of the banister , and maintained his vantage position on the stairs for several minutes . At length one of the villains brought a poker from the sitting-room , and with this he struck Mr . Marston numerous blows across the head and legs . Unable to holdout any longer , he dropped at their feet , but even then they kicked and struck him , so as to prevent the possibility of his pursuing them , and asat this juncturea faintingfit deprived him of his senses , they no doubt thought they had killed him . At last they quitted the house , making their exit from the premises by the same way as they had entered , namely , through the ceiling of Mr . Marston ' s warehouse , from which a door communicated with the house . "While the struggle between Mr . Marston and the burglars was going on , several policemen were standing in front of the house watching the proceedings , through the fanlight over the door . Their reason for not interfering was , as they allege , because they thought it was
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 19, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19101850/page/7/
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