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Nov. 22, 1851.] ®|)$ VLtabtt. 1107
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PUBLIC OPINION. The Manchester Examiner ...
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PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP. Tho Court etil...
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Lord de Blaquiere, whose death was annou...
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The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia and...
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A discovery of a very interesting nature...
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A Typhoon In The Eastern Seas. The Penin...
* " * Tifio suffered from the defection of part of their tbey who fled simultaneously with the Lascars on deck , cre \ Z throwin g the work on . those whose attention was ther W elsewhere . They succeeded , however , in keeprcquireu ^ ^^ critical part of the night , when a ing nftire however short , might have been attended with fa ? a l results . The noble vessel , too , seemed instinctively v I as it were , to the peril , and most gallantly did she fain the unequal strife , and prove the faithfulness . of i construction . On deck , when any one , bolder than i !\ ffpllows , ventured from the saloon , nothing could be n or heard above the fierce blast of the tempest but fhP clear calm voice of our skilful commander , issuing v order ' as coolly and composedly as if it was a case of n unusual occurrence ; and the equally collected and Prompt responses of his active and energetic officers , as i v proceeded to put them in execution , thereby innirinlr the most timid with confidence . At midnight
the scene in the saloon was painfully striking . Without env e xhibition of active fear , it was evident , from the low » nd rap id whisperings passing between those who were not hors de combat , the eager crowding round and anxious inquija f of every arrival from the deck , that every man knew his danger , and felt it too . After the vessel was pooped the last time , and the saloon , as before , deluded with water , she remained entirely motionless for a few seconds , and then the boldest held his breath , ' seeming to cast a glance of mute inquiry around , the purport ? of which could not be misunderstood . In these remarks no implication of want of mental courage is intended : on the contrary , the silence and calmness exhibited were well befitting the occasion , and , though the recollection of this ' night of terror ' may not speedily
pass from the minds of those present , there are occasions on recent record of infinitely less risk where the absence of similar firmness has materially increased the actual danger . The ladies were happily in ignorance of the danger until it was over . Unlike Wellington at Waterloo , ' daylight under any circumstances' was now the fervent wish of all ; and when Captain Baker came down to the saloon , for the first time during the whole of the gale , at 2 . 20 A . M ., his look gave us hope that the worst was past ; and this was confirmed by his opinion that the mercury was rising . Then , and nott i ll then , did we , with feelings of lively gratitude for our preservation , and lightened hearts , proceed to tempt unwilling rest after ht
this eventful nig . Day broke on a most dismal and distressing scene . Out of 6 even fine boats , six were missing . Fore and main topmasts , companion ladders , stanchion boom's , davits , trusses , and many other articles , familiar only to the initiated , were also wanting , and the deck was covered with the debris of the wreck . The other casualties reported were the death of a fine Sydney horse , Goliath , well known on the Hong-Kong turf , and our cow , whose loss was much regretted , besides a fearful mortality in the sheep pen , & c . As the day advanced , the wind and sea gradually abated , and long before mid * night we were steaming on our course in safety and comfort , thanks to Him who holds the waters ^ in the hollow of His hand . At noon , barometer 2965 ; midnight , 28-80 . Noon , wind N . E . "
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Public Opinion. The Manchester Examiner ...
PUBLIC OPINION . The Manchester Examiner and Times , an organ of moderate L iberalism , in an article on Louis Kos-Buth and his Calumniators , " suggested by the " decisive testimonies of public admiration and sympathy" which his visit had received in Birmingham and Manchester , says that"It would have been impossible for him to have withstood successfully the force of those prejudices which the unscrupulous invectives of his opponents were calculated to raise in this country , had he not been singularly gifted with high and various capacities exactly adapted to confute and overwhelm his calumniators . Never had single man to fight a pitched battle with such adversaries before , and that man a foreigner and a fugitive . " To the Leading Journal , the " Briareus of the British Press , " it gives a " bit of its mind" thus unflinchingly . " It has been the boast of the Times newspaper that it makes and unmakes ministers—that it is , in itself , an omnipotence , and has more power to influence the destinies of this country than any other single agency . It professes to be the mouthpiece of English public opinion—that what it shields must be inviolate—what it necks to destroy must perish . There is a factitious assumption in all this , that sways those minds—unfortunately no tjtnnll portion of the well-to do indifferentism of this country—who never think it necessary to form , but borrow their convictions on every public question from those journals that pander most habitually to all the heartless plausibilities whereby every species of Political chicanery is defended and maintained . The Times in the leader and organ of the Pharisees of every fiect , cIurh , and condition in this country . But it is nothing more . It has a passive power , in passive times , to Rive the tone- to , and extend the currency of , opinions that are made up of cunning , cunt , and prejudice . To this fjround it Hticks until it begins to tremble , and then forthwith the Pharisee makes known to all who worship in its wakii the necessity of modifying the fashion of their ph yhmteric'H . The Times is the weathercock , not the Wl ; and at best can but indicate , whilut it boasts of ruli "f ? , public opinion . Credulity lias played a large l r » ia nil ,, g ( i . s ttn < i C () Untries , and the Times has a natural aptitude for trading on this faculty . But the power wluch menaced the patriot with destruction lion been «« ni | M « ll «> d , if not to proclaim , at least to chronicle his triumph " And could any evidence of the desperate recklessness with which the Timos defies every sense of jresponmbihty () r truthfulnofls be more conclusive , than the coarse language employed in its leading columns to "naracterize those immense and highly rpapectable
assemblages , which both in Manchester and Birmingham have this week done honour to Kossuth ? On no former occasion , we believe , have the wealthy middle classes formed so large a portion of any public meetings held for political objects , and yet these demonstrations have been insultingly described by the Times as composed ' the scum of the earth . * If a public journal , affecting to be the most powerful representative of public opinion in this country , can with impunity thus outrage all decency and despise all pretensions to truth , what security can the public possess for confidence of any kind , or on any question , in such quarters ? The fact is , the utter powerlesBness of the Times , in presence of that public opinion which has so decisively and contemptuously exposed its feebleness , has so signally humiliated the great journal , that it would fain cover , with effrontery , what it cannot conceal . "
The Leeds Times enforces the " right of Intervention " in certain probable eventualities . "When the struggle for national existence is again revived in Hungary , as no doubt it will be , England will then have to decide whether she ought not , on grounds both of justice and policy , to protest against the intervention of Russia , and to follow up that protest by active resistance , if necessary . " This right of intervention , or rather of preventing intervention , and the exercise of the right within the limits of a fair and just prudence , we think ought not to be abandoned by England , or any other nation . And
we do not think it is for the interest of mankind that the impression should be allowed to get abroad—as we feat it has done already to some extent among the Continental despotisms—that this country will under no conceivable circumstances enforce this right when disputed , and that England ' s protests may , in consequence , be treated as so much waste paper . War is a frightful evil . Let us by all means endeavour to avert it ; by substituting arbitration ; by reciprocal reduction of those armaments , whose very existence is so often a cause of war ; by every means , in short , that can be devised , except such as would make us accomplices in the crimes of despotism and the , ruin of humanity . "
On the same topic the Dublin Commercial Journal makes the following sensible distinctions : — " The Times arrays the costliness and frustration of the former interventions of England ; tells us they cost much money ; and only surely bought ingratitude . But , in the main , what were thoseinterventions ? Interferences between the uprisen peoples and hated kings . When a king was thrust down the throats of Frenchmen , how could we expect the permanent gratitude of France ? What people did we assist that we should now demand friendliness ? We fought for the Bourbons in France , the Bourbons in Spain , the Bourbons in Naples ; we gave away kingdoms to fugitive counts ; we were thanked
neither by the counterfeit sovereigns we passed by means of bayonets , nor by the peoples 'for whose good' we incurred debts we have not since paid . But at least the interventions now talked of are interventions in favour of a principle common to humanity—a principle which in England has been carried into practice , and a principle intimately interwoven with the progress of trade and manufacture . If , as the Times says , English interference produced hitherto nothing but the ingratitude of insult and the thanklessness of contempt , it was simply because no other results could be reasonably expected of interferences springing from ignorant bigotry and insane hatred to popular rights . "
The Nation , the Advocate , and the Northern Whig , encourage with hearty expressions of hope and congratulation Mr . WagstafF s scheme for the establishment of a Western Packet Station at Gal way . ' We congratulate Galway ( says the Nation ) , we congratulate America , we congratulate Ireland , on this auspicious event . We rejoice for the success of the project that Galway has carried the day , because we believe her waters are the fittest roadsteads for the commercial navy of the States , both by position and national feature . And we rejoice that the old allies , America and Ireland , are to be united in one common fortune . " The Advocate concludes with a rather ambiguous assurance .
" All we would say to Mr . WagstafF is , go on—keep your promise—be not disheartened if you have to work for twelve months instead of six without actual profitpersevere—and , infallibly , your project must succeed ; and , moreover , by the time you shall have succeeded , it is not improbable that our Provisional Committee Hhall have declared in favour of Galway , and have got out a prospectus of an Irish Transatlantic Company !"
Personal News And Gossip. Tho Court Etil...
PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . Tho Court etill continues at Windsor performing daily the ordinary evolutions of life . Mr . E . M . Ward , A . R . A ., has this year received the hundred-guinea prize of tho Munclu'Btcr Institution of the Fine Arts , for liis picture of the " Royal Family of France in . the Prison of the ^ Temp le , "one of the prominent attractions , it will be remembered , of the last Royal Academy Exhibition . The
lleywood gold medal ( with a sum of money ) Iuib also been accorded to tho same urtint . Thin is the third occasion on which Mr . Ward ' s works have been selected for distinction by our provincial Art Inutitutions : the Liverpool and Glasgow { Societies having previously conferred their prir . ru on him for two pictures , of former years , " Tho South Sea Bubble , " and " James II . receiving News of tho Landing of the Prince of Orange . " Prince Albert addressed a letter lately to tho Society of Arts , suggesting a courcie of lectures on the probable
results of the Exhibition . The suggestion has been , adopted , and the inaugural lecture of the course will be delivered by Dr . Whewell on the 26 th . Lady Ward died at Schwalbach , in Germany , on the evening of the 14 th instant . It is stated that she died very suddenly from paralysis of the lungs , after a painful illness of eleven weeks . She was married only a few months ago . Dr . Newman has assumed the personal and legal respon sibility of the serious accusations he had uttered and published against Dr . Achilli ; and the action for libel will be tried probably next term .
On Thursday the application in Achilli v . Newman , for an enlargement of the rule , and the grant of a commission to examine witnesses abroad , was refused , all the judges , Lord Campbell , Judges Patteson , Wightman , and Coleridge , concurring on the ground that it did not appear on the affidavits of Dr . Newman that he had any grounds for making the assertions which formed the subject of the libel . We are informed on high authority , that Mr . Donovan the well known professor of Phrenology , now at Oxford delivering lectures on that subject , has dined at the high table with the fellows of Oriel College .
Mr . Sheriff Alison was reflected to the office of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow on the 15 th instant . There was . some talk of Palmerston , but it died away . It is stated that Mr . Reynolds , who has been for a considerable time assistant-solicitor of the Treasury , will be promoted to be the solicitor , and that Mr . Robert Hitchcock the master of the Irish Exchequer , who has prepared several of the measures of law reform propounded or carried by the present and past Governments , will succeed Mr . Reynolds . Dr . Nicholas Parker M . D ., London , and Licentiate of the College of Physicians , was elected one of the Assistant Physicians to the London Hospital on November 11 . Dr . Parker has held , for some years , the appointment of Lecturer on Pathology at the Medical School , and is highly qualified to sustain ^ the character of a scientific physician .
Lord De Blaquiere, Whose Death Was Annou...
Lord de Blaquiere , whose death was announced last week , it now appears killed himself with a pistol shot . He had long been suffering , and the jury held that there was sufficient evidence to warrant a verdict of " Temparary Insanity . " Lord Mackenzie , eldest son of Mackenzie , author of the Man of Feeling , and formerly a Scotch Judge , died at Bellmount on Monday afternoon . General Marchand , one of the most distinguished generals of the Empire , died on the 12 th instant , at his chateau of St . Ismier , near Grenoble , ia the eighty-sixth year of his age .
The Grand Duke Constantine Of Russia And...
The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia and suite have left Vienna for Trieste , where a Russian war-steamer was in waiting to convey them to Venice . The Grand Duke of Hesse Cassel is shortly expected at Vienna , and apartments in the Burg will be prepared for him . " Birds of a feather , " & c . Alexius , an Hungarian artist , has been imprisoned at Pesth , for having executed a bust of the late Count Louis Batthyany . Wishing to leave his native country , he forwarded his luggage to Vienna , where it was opened and the bust discovered . Even a dead lion is a terror to living tyrants . The military commander has forbidden the Protestants of Milan to meet , as heretofore , at the house of Mr . Mylius , for the celebration of their worship . Mr . Mylius is a merchant held in general esteem .
Several arrests have been effected at Padua . Beside the Abbe Nardi , a young man of good family , named de Grandis , has been seized and imprisoned . Alessandro Calandrelli , one of the defenders of the walls of Rome against the French , has been since his condemnation transferred to the bagnio of Ancona , where lie wears the red prison-serge and the chains of the convict . The people crowd to sec him ns he works in the public places with a hod on his shoulders .
A Discovery Of A Very Interesting Nature...
A discovery of a very interesting nature has just taken place in one of the cells of the Castle of St . Angelo , on the wall of which , towards the corner , a rough and nearly effaced indication of Christ on the Cross was brought to light a few days ago . This drawing or painting is thought to be that which Benvenuto Cellini , in his admirable autobiography , mentions having executed with charcoal and brickdust on the wall of his prison , when confined by order of Pope Paul III ., in the Castle of St . Angelo , in the year l < >' , i 9 .
Ihe Courrier de la Gironde states that a civil engineer of Bordeaux , named De Vignernon , baa discovered the perpetual motion . His theory is Haul to be to find in a mass of water , at rest , and contained within a certain space , a continual force able to replace all other moving powers . The above journal declares that this has been effected , and ths » t the machine invented by M . de Vignern « ii works admirably . A model of tho machine was fo be exposed at Bordeaux for three days , previous to tho inventor ' s departure with it for London .
Daily , about noon , writes the Weser Zeitunff , the loungers under tho " Linden " at Berlin arc utnrtlcd by the extraordinary appearance of n t « l / , lanky woman , whose thin limbs lire wrapped up in u lontf black robe or coarne cloth . An old crumpled bonnet covers her head which , continually moving , turnHreHtlcHHly in all directions . Her hollow cheeks are fliiHlud with ft morbid coppery glow j one of her eyes iu immovable , for it in of glasn , but her other eye whines with a feverinli brilliancy , and a strange and almost uwful « mil « hovers constantly about her thin lipn . Thin woman moves with an unsteady quick Btep , and whenever her buck mantilla in flung back by tho violence of her movements , a Binall ropo of hair with a crucifix at the end is pluinly s « en to bind her waist . This bluok , ungainly woman is the quondam , authoress , Counteaa Ida JIuhn-Ilahn , who has turned
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111851/page/7/
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