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MECHANICS' INSTITUTES We have been furni...
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against this harmless being has testified to tbe Protestant fidelity of the enlig htened inhabitants of Wymondley . A year ago a mob broke all his windows , and such performances have been repeated from time to time , in spite of the efforts of the police . . But during the first week in this month the popular superstition was alarmingly excited . A poor Irishwoman applied to Mr . Lucas for shelter , and being lodged in tbe stable where a bed was made up for her , she gave birth to a still-born child . A report was forthwith spread that this woman had been neglected and ill-treated , and her
child had died vn . consequence . On Monday , the 2 nd of August , four men came to Mr . Lucas and asked for some beer , after which they demanded gin . On being refused they became abusive , and at last began to break the windows , in which sport they were joined by many others . The rioters continued to pelt the house for some time , one stone striking Perry , an Irish servant of Mr . Lucas , and breaking two of his teeth . They declared that they would break the house down and pull Mr . Lucas out . Perry fired at them with blank charges , but this was ineffectual . At last he put some small shot into his blunderbuss and seut this
amongst the mob , after which they retired . The chairman of the magistrates after severely commenting on the conduct of the rioters , fined them 20 s . each , and sentenced them in default to a months imprisonment . At the same time , he felt it- necessary to caution Perry against using such weapons as pistols and blunderbusses . Tbey were always dangerous weapons , but especially in tbe hands of an Irishman .
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Mechanics' Institutes We Have Been Furni...
MECHANICS' INSTITUTES We have been furnished with a report of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes . The fifteenth annual meeting of that association was held at Skipton , on the second of last June . The object of this union seems to be generally to promote co-operation amongst mechanics' institutes , and especially to afford facilities to the associated bodies for obtaining the services of lecturer a of eminence . The report shows some increase both in the number of institutes in the union , and in the number of members comprised in the whole . The association now contains 123 institutes , numbering iu all above 19 , 000 members . The annual incomes of these institutes
amount together to between 8000 t . and 9000 _£ . Their libraries contain above 95 , 000 volumes , and during the past year they bave bad above 388 , 000 books in circulation . Mr . T . J . Pearsall , the agent and lecturer of the union , who is paid mainly by contributions , independently of tbe subscriptions of the members , delivered fifty-six lectures during the last year , to the associated institutes . The committee of the union have in tbeir possession a hundred and four manuscript lectures for circulation among the institutes . The report contains
a list of lectures , with the terms on which they may he engaged , and also of gentlemen wdio are prepared to lecture gratuitously . The committee of the union recommend the formation of popular singing classes in connexion with the various institutes . Thc advantages of savings' banks for small sums , are also set forth . In connexion with one institute , a penny savings' bank has produced many good results ; others have provided garden allotments feir their members , greatly to their . _sntisfnett _. ion .
The committee in their report point out the fact , that our present laws do not invest such associations as these with efficient powers , cither for the regulation of their affairs , or the management and protection of their property . It is observed , that a trust deed would involve peculiar difficulties in regard to books and movable property . In accordance with this suggestion , a resolution was passed at the meeting of tho union , recommending the mechanics' institutes throughout the kingdom to unite in an application to Parliament for un act to remedy these evils . A petition was also recommended , praying that copies of parliamentary rejMirfs and other documents , or such of them as might KiH'in desirable , might be afforded to institutions of this kind , free of _exiiense .
What Is An Outlaw? Onk Of This Formidabl...
WHAT IS AN OUTLAW ? ONK of this formidable class of gentlemen has addressed thc following amusing letter to the Editor of the Times : —¦ "Sir , — I huvejust escupeel freim a dreadful calamity—the more terrible _becaime _sei excessively mysterious . I hardly know how to write the words ; but , Sir , feir tho last live months I . havo been ' an outlaw . ' " flow I becumo so I scarcely know , except _, that in endeavouring to assist a friend I burnt my fingers , and wont to a lawyer to have them cooled . This , after several payments at ruinous interests , resulted in a certain series of processes , the climax of whioh was something that , as I wua told , boro the portentous title of ' Execution 1 ' " Tho many friends who sympathized with mo on such an occttttion , und kindly gavo mo tho benefit of tlioir oxpo
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rienco , advised me to what is technically called , 'Keep out of the way . ' But as I had no objection to pay , provided my respectful creditor would wait the arrival of my funds from abroad , and as , if he would not , I Was quite willing to spend the intervening period between his _im-Iiatience and my capability in that Ultima Thule of the aw's revenge , ' a prison , ' I continued to frequent all places of public resort , pay visits , and attend my club as usual . "' I wore a charmed life . ' My lawyer-creditor was rampantly objective to delay , but perseverihgly reluctant to ' lock me up . ' So far , so good ; I thought him singular , but considerate , and reckoned that , as the lawyer had made all the costs he could , the ' friend' might be coming into operation . Vain delusion ! I took Up the Globe one evening at my club , and found myself declared an outlaw .
"An outlaw ! What cOiild it mean ? _TYou must know , Sir , that I am a foreigner , though thirty years resident in this country ; and here was I , who had never injured anyone , who never once in those thirty years committed a breach of the peace , who never entered in my life a magistrate's office , publicly pronounced and placarded in the newspapers an outlaw ! Worse than all , I could get no information about my condition as such . To all my inquiries as to what it was to be an outlaw no man could give me an exact reply . Every one agreed that it was something very dreadful . Some said I could be shot down by any one , like a dog in August under a Lord Mayor ' s uy _uiiv \ jxm _- \ _sj * uvv _** _** 'fi _*** _jxug _uuv i » ii « v _* . mi . _m- * _v _*^» _^ ' _^ u va a
proclamation , by a policeman . Another hinted that it was something between Robin Hood and a ward ih Chancery . Some laughed , and recommended the immediate purchase of 'russet boots , ' and a forester ' s costume , with bow and arrows , a polished ! quiver , and horn and belt , and finally a grave old'friend of mine , an old gentleman of great experience , ruefull y shook his head as he piteously communicated to me , with tears in his eyes , the melancholy tidings that I could no longer sue anybody , or bring an action in the courts of law ; and , worse than all , that I could not he made a party to a suit in your Chancery .
' ' Well , then , I was an outlaw , and so I continued for five months ; yet I never left my residence ; I ate , drank , and slept the same , received my change from cabmen , paid my bills , visited repeatedly -my solicitors , and even indulged in the occasional contribution of a letter to the editor on political questions , giving my name and address ; nor did I suffer other inconveniences during the whole period than the occasional jest of a friend , or the monstrari digito of here and there some quidnunc clubbist , who seemed to regard me as a savage running wild in the midst of civilization .
" Nevertheles , it gave me oftentimes an uncomfortable twinge to know that I was something that I ought not to be , though no one could tell me what that was , and to feel just the same as other people . One fine morning , however , the spell was broken by the rude presence of an officer and his myrmidons , . who summoned me from my breakfasttable to a ' lock-up-house , ' with its beds at 6 s . a-night , and other charges in proportion . " Here , when the day of settlement and liberation at last arrived , the mystery was solved . The proceeding to ' outlawry , ' though producing no possible effect , enabled my lawyer friend to add another large sum to his costs , by a process which , however excessively annoying to his victim friend , added no additional security to that originally obtained by him—namely , the ' execution , ' at enormous costs , which , with those of the outlawry , added exactly one-fourth more to the original amount of my ' friend ' s ' acceptance .
" I don't pretend to understand your laws , Sir , —that task has long ngo been given up by men of all countries , even your own ; yet , after all , as I am a foreigner , and have paid so dearly for it , I should feel deeply grateful to any of your readers , whether legalists or amateurs , who shall inform mc what is the ' meaning , cause , and effect , ' of being first made and then unmade " London , Aua . 14 . " " AN OUTLAW .
Express Trains. The Coroner's Inquest To...
EXPRESS TRAINS . The coroner ' s inquest to inquire into thc circumstances of the accident at Standon-bridge , on the London and North-Western Railway , which took place on the 5 th of this month , was held a few days ago . Tho express train from Liverpool was , on that occasion , unusually heavy , and was twenty minutes behind its time on arriving at Crewe . As is usual in such cases , an additional engine was attached to the train to help it up thc incline , and was detached on arriving at tho top . It is usual for the extra engine then to run ou to Whitmore , which is two miles and a half distance , and there to shunt on to the down line , while thc train passes . In this case , the down line was occupied by a train of cattle wagons , when the engine arrived at Whitmore ,
and although there was a siding into which the engine might have run , yet in the hurry of the moment , the express train being close upon bis heels , tho driver decided to go on two miles further , where there was a crossing by which he might shunt . It seems that , cither through his irresolution , or from sonic other cause " , he was not sufficiently in advance of tho train , Thc plae at which he pulled up was inn cutting where the line makes n sharp curve , and the train ran upon him while he was in the act of shunting . ! The driver of the express train was killed inptautly . _TJio most important witness , Price , tbe atoker of tho express train , having suflered a fracture of the lelt arm and of tho lelt thigh , was unable to attend upon tbe coroner , so that his examination took place in tho place where ho watt lying . His evidence did not throw much fresh
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light upon the matter . He _thought tbat the _»*?« . engine was not far enough ahead of the train at Whi _? more , to shtint . The poor man was unabte to _continue his evidence .. On the jury returning to their roZ the coroner referred to Captain Laffan , who was n _~ sent , whether it would not be desirable tbat the com " pany should lay down some positive rules for the _smiT ance of drivers in an emergency simitar to that whioh had led to this accident ? hlch Captain Laffan said it was certainl y most desirable when an engine detached from another with a _vfew-7 $ shunting at the next station , that there should be a Vm tive regulation for the engine-driver behind either to _S at the station in question , or to approach it very cautious _^ indeed , so as to allow ample time for the other to shunY It appeared to be almost impossible for an engine to leav a train going at the rate of forty miles an four and tl shunt and get out of the way in the space of two _' or th ** : '
mues , unless the engine behind slackened speed _Ther had been an understanding upon this subject which had been practically acted upon for years . The Rev . E . T . Codd ( foreman of the jury ) : An under standing , but no direct rule ? ; Captain Laffan : An understanding which had been in variably acted upon for six years . Coroner : Do you not think it a very dangerous expert ment to cross with an engine at a spot where there is _L curve on the line , and no signal or pointsman on duty ? Captain Laffan : Yes ; this should be prevented . The ? crossing and siding where the accident occurred were nofc at that time properly protected . Since then signals havebeen put up . These had been ordered , I understand months before , and the putting them up was only delayed ? in consequence of the number of other points thai , had to . be protected in a similar manner . The company _havathem
_oeen putting , up as rapidly as possible , and , I believe , now nearly all the necessary points are protected The pointsman who had charge of the Standon coahyardi crossing was not a servant of the company , but of a private individual , to whom that siding belonged . It would , undoubtedly , be better that that man should in future be a \ servant of the company . The Rev . E . T . Codd submitted that a rule regulating ' the speed of express trains under the circumstances of theaccident would be desirable for the safety of the public .
Captain ± janan had never known a rule limiting speed ' in the least available , hecause it was difficult for a driverto know whether he was going 40 or 50 miles an hour _,, and if he were tied down to a particular speed , he would ; declare that he was going at thaf _^ speed , although he _mights in fact be going at a much higher velocity . The Rev . E . T . Codd then suggested that it would probably be better to insist on both engines going on to Stafford .
Captain Laffan said that would bo a safe rule , but whether a better and a simpler one might not be devised was a question for experience . The assistance of the pilot engine from Crewe was only generally required as far as Whitmore . Perhaps the best rule would be one that should provide for a _safo shunting at the latter station . In fact , there were several ways in which accident might ho < provided against . An auxiliary signal would do it , but , that might give rise to inconvenience sometimes , by stopping the express when it was not required . Another plan : would be , to stop the express at Whitmore ; and a third ! mode would be , as you suggest , to send both engines ona to Stafford . In answer to a question as to the relative speed of tRe ? two engines in such a case ,
Captain Laffan said that when a pilot engino waa detached from an express train , tho driver of thet _lnttenr ought , undoubtedly , to keep his engine so in _connsHindl as to be able to pull up at a very short notice . _Thajree would then bo very little risk in tho matter ; but if t & e _oxprestH followed the pilot at full speed , it would , unajK _« tionabty ) bo a most _dangorous practice . Thc Coroner thanked Captain Laffan for tho _informal tion he had afforded tho jury ; and after a short _consuUu .-tion with tho jury , adjourned the proceedings for _amontln .
Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta. The Royal ...
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA . The Royal Yacht Squadron , as the parent institution of the kingdom , has ever maintained a pre-eminent position and importance over the other more recent , hut flourishing branches , and the openiug of the present regatta gives an earnest that , notwithstanding tho closeness of one event upon another , it will prove as brilliant a meeting as on any former occasion . The beautiful waters of the Solent aro now thickly dotted with the mimic licet , and tho display of their distinguishing colours , with the dressing of many of them in their holiday bunting , gives an animation to tho scene which , coupled with tho beauty of thc surrounding country , it would be difficult to equal in any other part of England .
Among tho fleet of yachts now present hero arc fhe Xarifa , the Eurl of Wilton ( Commodore of tlic * Royal Yacht Squadron ); the Capricorn , Mr . C . R . MTalbot , M . P . ( Vice-Commodore ); the Alarm , Mr . Joseph Weld ; the P . uchunle , Mr . 11 . Jones ; the iWL tho Marquis of Anglesey ; the Wmml , Mr . William lh' - hificld ; the lone , Mr . Alinou Hill ; the Elizabeth , tli » Hon . Augustus Moreton ; the Nymph , Sir John _Hayloyv Part . ; the Stella , Mr . Richard Franklin ; the Ai « m ? _A Sir John Welsh , Part . ; the Sea Seriwnt , Lord C . _Fnget > tho Osprey , Sir J . Pctro ; the Constance , the _MwqP * of Conyngham ; tho Gauntlet , Mr . William lft . «* W » » tho Laurel , Cuptain 0 , JI . Williams , JlJ _^ i ; _«»« ' * _"
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21081852/page/6/
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