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4 174 ffftt QLtaiiet. [Saturday,
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The authorities of Trinity College, Dubl...
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PROTECTION OF SERVANTS AND APPRENTICES. ...
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. The concl...
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[The following appeared in our Second Ed...
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The first stage of the debate on Papal A...
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The Premises Belonging To Messrs. Wigan ...
Diamonds have lately been extracted from the mines called " Riven et Cuithe , " near Rio . Amongst them was one weighing 291 grains , which was sent to England by the Linnet packet . The stones are very similar to those from Cuyaba , but much more crystallized . A great many persons have engaged in the search . The printing-press of a daily paper in Boston , United States , is driven in a manner of which there is no example in any other city in the republic . Through a two-Chochituate water is intro
inch lead pipe , a stream of - duced into a meter , which only occupies twenty-four square inches . The fall of water between the Boston reservoir and this meter is about a hundred feet . This two-inch stream will discharge eighty gallons of water each minute , and in passing through the meter will give a motive power equal to what is called three-horse power . This is more than sufficient for driving the press . It is less hazardous than a steam-engine , requires no attention , and is always in readiness .
One of the principal coachmakers of Paris has just received an order from the Egyptian Government to build fifty diligence-omnibuses , for the transport of passengers across the Desert . These carriages , which are to be constructed on a new model , will combine comfort and solidity . The line which they will have to serve has been completely established , and the number of travellers which take this route to India considerably increases every year . The New York Journal of Commerce , of the oth instant , sayS : — « ' Captain F . Bernssee , of the barque Frances Watts , at this port from Rio de Janeiro , in lat . 15 N ., Ion . 55 , saw a serpent that passed within thirty or forty
feetof his vessel , and appeared to be about sixty feet on the water . It passed so near the vessel as to be distinctly seen . Its motion was up and down , like the swimming of a leech ; not horizontal like the motion of a snake or an eel . It appeared to be about as large as , and shaped like , the main-yard of the barque , tapering off towards the extremities . Its progress through the water was very rapid . When first seen , it was approaching from the S . E ., and it passed the barque heading N . W ., without any apparent alteration of its course . Its head differed from that in the drawings published of the one seen by Capt . McQuhae , of one of her Majesty ' s ships , nearly two years since , and its whole body was on the surface of the water , and distinctly seen . No fins were seen . Its colour was apparently very dark green . "
4 174 Ffftt Qltaiiet. [Saturday,
4 174 ffftt QLtaiiet . [ Saturday ,
The Authorities Of Trinity College, Dubl...
The authorities of Trinity College , Dublin , have received an intimation from Government that the commission of inquiry into the state of the university is to consist of the following members : —The Archbishop of Dublin , the Bishop of Cork , the Earl of Rosse , Chief Justice of the Queen ' Bench , Mr . Commissioner Longfield , and Mr . Cooper , of Markree . The registry for the county of Westmeath , just closed , leaves the new constituency at 2963 . The revision for the borough of Youghal shows a curious and unexpected result—the electoral list having suffered a diminution of 157 . The numbers under the old act were 418 , and according to the new they have dwindled to 261 .
Protection Of Servants And Apprentices. ...
PROTECTION OF SERVANTS AND APPRENTICES . The bill lately introduced by Mr . Baines , " For the better Protection of young Persons under the Care and Control of others as Apprentices or Servants , and to enable the Guardians and Overseers of the Poor to institute and conduct Prosecutions in certain Cases , " is a measure which will meet with general approval . It combines two qualities seldom found in an act of Parliament—simplicity and efficiency . He proposes to enact that , whenever any master or mistress " shall , wilfully and without lawful excuse , neglect or refuse to provide
any such younuj person with necessary food , clothing , or lodging—or shall unlawfully and maliciously assault him or ] ier—9 O as either to endanger the life or injure the health of the said young person , such master or inistr < s shall be puilty of a misdemeanour , and , being convicted thereof , shall be liable to be imprisoned , with or without hard labour , in tho common gaol or house of correction ^ for any term not exceeding three years . " Securities of a preventive character are added to the penal ones . At present the poor law guardians , when they have once trot quit of the child , are under no obligation to look after it . Nut . a clause in the bill empowers and requires guardians and overseers to send some duly authorized officer , " at least four times in every year , " to visit every young person apprenticed or hired out from
the workhouse ; and the ofhocr is " to report to them if ho shall find reason to believe that such young person is not . supplied with necessary food , or is subjected to cruel or illegal treatment in any respect . " The remaining clauses of the bill extend a legal protection heretofore unknown to all " poor persons under the age . of eighteen years . " They provide that , in every case of an indictable bodily injury inflicted upon any such person , the committing magistrate may certify that he considers it . necessary for the purpose of public justice that the Guardians of the Union should undertake the prosecution of the offender ; whereupon they shall be authorized and required ( and their clerk or other officer bound over ) to conduct such prosecution , at the publio expense . Altogether the bill ia highly creditable to Mr . Baines , and we trust that no damage will be inflicted upon it in its passage through Parliament .
To Readers And Correspondents. The Concl...
TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . The conclusion of the letter on " 8 ir Edward Sugden and the Court of Chancery " will appear next week . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we re ceive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one eide of the paper only . If long , it encreases the difficulty of finding space for them . All letters for the Editor to be addressed 9 , Crane-coar , Fleetstreet , London .
[The Following Appeared In Our Second Ed...
[ The following appeared in our Second Edition of last week . ' ] POSTSCRIPT . Saturday , Feb . 15 .
The First Stage Of The Debate On Papal A...
The first stage of the debate on Papal Aggression was brought to a close last evening , after a pretty sharp discussion , which was opened by Mr . Fagan . He vindicated the character of the Roman Catholics from the aspersions thrown upon them so liberally during the late agitation . He had been surprised to hear Lord John Russell describe the Catholic religion as having a tendency to fetter the intellect and enslave the soul . Let them not forget that it was the much-maligned society of Jesuits who first introduced the maxim * " The Sovereignty of the people , " and that it was the Protestant
controversialists , the opponents of the Jesuits , who first broached the doctrine of the "DivineRight of Kings . " He warned Lord John not to light a flame he could not establish . He ( Mr . Fagan ) had voted with the noble lord last evening , but there might soon be a proposition which he and his friends could support , and then , " if the noble lord persisted in his course of oppression , he would see them arrayed against him . " Mr . F . Peel , who was received with marked attention , said it was not his intention to anticipate the course which he would pursue with the bill , in the further stages of its progress , ignorant as he was of its provisions . It appeared that the bill satisfied neither 6 ide of the House : —
" Honourable gentlemen on the Government side of the House considered the provisions of the bill went beyond the necessity and emergency of the occasion . Honourable gentlemen on his side of the House considered that they did not come up to the emergency . Now , he h ? d no intention to make any observations in reference to the course taken by honourable gentlemen on the opposite side of the House , but honourable gentlemen on his side of the House had in the course of their speeches contrasted the measure of the noble lord with the speech in which he had vindicated the measure in the same indignant spirit as that which had obviously dictated the letter to the Bishop of
Durham . They thanked him for his speech , they thanked him for his letter , but his bill , if they accepted it at all , they accepted only as an instalment of what was due to them . Now , lie was not surprised that honourable gentlemen who had at the numerous meetings throughout the country argued this question with so much warmth during the recess as an attack on our liberties , as an assault on the supremacy and prerogatives of the Crown , as an insult to the Church of England and to her bishops , should feel some little disappointment when they found that a question which they had argued on so extended a basis should be reduced into thn narrow dimensions of a bill for the purpose of
extending and enlarging the provisions of the ltoman Catholic Relief Act of 1829 . But he protested against this question being argued as if it had been prejudged by the sense of the country , however united the voice of that country might have been . He thought their functions there were something more than simply to endorse the opinions pronounced " by the country . ( Hear , hear . ) They were bound to discuss that question for themselves ; and the question which they had , as ho conceived , to consider was whether the provocation which had been given by the Court of Rome justified the interposition of any legislative enactment ; and if it did , whether any measure could be framed of a more binding and stringent character than that which the noble lord hud announced his intention of introducing , without infringing on the sanctity of religious liberty . ( Hear , hear . )"
As to the bill it could not claim the merit of being a permanent and comprehensive settlement of the question . They had been told by tho Attorney-General that it « only object was to afford a remedy for a specific : offence , and thnt it wan a wise maxim in legislation not to attempt more tliim that . JJut that might be a very wise inuxim in general ; he questioned whether it wan ho in the present instance . 1 Le thought the position of the Roman Catholic Church in thin " country , in its relations to the Government and the people ought to be more clearly defined . It ought to be placed on mich a footing as to render it impossible to have any recurrence of the agitation and tumult through which the country has passed . They mum not leave out of night the fact that tho Church of Rome wuh ehsentially an Episcopal Church , and , if Bishops were prohibited here ,
the hierarchy was incomplete ; and to that extent the Roman Catholic Church would be interfered with . It wuh contended that the act by which a temporary system of episcopal government was exchanged for a permanent one was inconsistent with the law of the land and the rightN of the Crown ,
and the bill was directed not only against the mere assumption of titles , but against parcelling out the country into dioceses , as being contrary to public law . He was not satisfied , however , that publio law was applicable to other than Roman Catholiccountries . It had been said that the bill would prevent synodical action , snd the introduction of the canon law—a code which Lord Stowell had eulogized ; but the canon law , without the consent of the Legislature , would impose only a voluntary obligation ; and he questioned the policy of protecting the Roman Catholic laity against a code to which they paid only a voluntary submission . If the intention of Ministers was to interfere with that code , and to prevent synodical action , he feared the resources of the Legislature were miscalculated , and that the attempt would afford another illustration of the impotence of temporal power to deal with mind .
" One word on the theological part of the question , for it assumed a twofold aspect , part political and part theological . Unquestionably there had been a virtual denial or non-recognition of the Church of England , and of its claim to be deemed a branch of the great Catholic Church . We had been told that our bishops were no bishops , that our clergy were no clergy , and that our services and sacraments had no more binding force and virtue than mere civil ordinances and regulations of the State . These allegations had doubtless exercised a strong influence on the minds of many persons ; but , for his part , he did not desire his view of the question to be influenced by any considerations of that kind . He did not wish to trust to any act
of Parliament for the vindication of the Anglican Church . ( Hear , hear . ) He relied with great confidence on the power of controversial writings—on the power of appeals to the good sense of the people—on the power which we had of demonstrating that the pretension of the Church of Rome to spiritual headship was not only claimed without warrant in Scripture , but utterly opposed to it . ( Hear , hear . ) The present time was marked by no feeling of indifference to the Church of England and the extension of her influence . The opinion , perhaps , might not be shared by many , but he _ was strongly impressed with the conviction that at no periodand this was , in a great measure , owing to the absence of legislative restrictions—was the Church of England
notwithstanding the differences and dissensions prevailing in her bosom—notwithstanding the efforts of those who weie labouring to overlay the simplicity of the Common Prayer-book with the ritual and ceremonial observances not in consonance with the spirituality that characterized Protestant worship—notwithstanding the efforts of those who were labouring to give the clergy the character of the interce 8 sorial and mediatorial priesthood which did not belong to them—notwithstanding all these unfavourable circumstances , his conviction was that the Church of England was never more deeply grounded in the affections of the great bulk of the people than at this moment . ( Hear . ) Looking around him , and observing in every
direction the zealous cooperation of the clergy and laity in . building endowed schools , erecting churches , and making provision for the spiritual instruction of the people , he could not close his mind against the conviction that the Church of England was well founded in the affections of the English people . Whatever might have been the past condition of the Church , experience had shown that it could maintain its ground without the aid of artificial support—nay , that she could not only maintain her ground , but make way against rival religious denominations by daily drawing within her pale an ever widening circle of the people of this country . The Church of England had nothing more to fear from tho Church of Rome . The basis on which our Church
rested—the Scriptures , which every man could read and exercise his judgment in interpreting—rendered her impregnable to the assaults of Rome , and he confessed he saw more evil in abandoning that wise and prudent course of granting full toleration to every denomination of religious associations in this country , which the Church of England , with a true appreciation of her own interest , and with a clear insight into what was conducive to her real interests , had , tardily it might be , but still he hoped heartily , consented to recognise . ( Cheers . ) " Sir Jamkh Duke , Mr . C . Bhucb , Mr . F . Maulk , Colonel SinTiionr , and Mr . Muntz supported the motion , as did also Mr . Uhothkuton , on the ground that the Roman Catholic laity required protection : —
" He would enable the House to judge as to the right he had for entertaining this opinion . He had received several letters from Roman Catholics of great influence in MunchcHtcr and Salford . There were , in fact , no persons who exercised greater influence than they did in both boroughs . They were the constituents of his honourable friends as well as being his own constituents . He would iead a letter which he had received from one of them . It ran thus : — ' I feel considerable interest in the matter , and am confident that unless Government will protect uh all our charity , land and all other property given to our charities , will pass into the sole control of the Court of Rome . ( Cheers . ) Ab an Englishman , I acek to have our charities administered according to the lawa of our own country , and not by a foreign Courtand under foreign laws . ' ( Cheers . )"
Mr . Dauinu Waij , condemned the bill as an aggressive measure by which Lord John Russell had recanted his former opinions , and the practical effect of which would bo to made every Roman Catholic a Jesuit , and every priest a spy . Mr Sadi . kik treated tho measure uh tho product of a " No-Popery" agitation created by a bugbear—tho rescript of the Pope . Mr . MiLNKii GntsoN lamented tho backward atop which Government had taken . Ho had been in Parliament since 18517 , and during that period he had
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 22, 1851, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22021851/page/10/
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