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done its duty by the Irish people . "I don't forget tlieir services . to " myself , " said Mr . Rea , " and I intend to repay them . " The case of" Harrison r . Pearco , " for libel , tried in the Court of Exchequer on Tuesday and Wed , nestlay , opeiis that difficult question , the rights of trades' union combinations , or rather the right of workmen to "dictate" the terms upon which they will work for their employers , and the means they may take to secure their own terms , by preventing others from . underworking them . In the present case , Mr . Harrison , the proprietor ot" the Sheffield Times , objected to what he considered the "dicUtion" * ' of the men employed ia his printing-office , who were members of a working printers' union ;
and he proceeded to fill the places of the uaion men with other workmen who were not members of the union . The consequence of this proceeding was the publication of a libellous placard , which was repeated in the Sheffield Daily News , a rival paper , which warmly espoused the case of the outstanding union men . The libel had the effect of greatly damaging the sale of the Sheffield Times , and the jury gave 500 / . damages ^ The point lost sight of throughout the Sheffield struggle appears to have been the perfect right of each party to decide for itself "the terms which would give or receive labour , but not to coerce either side into an acceptance .
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The Riff.—A Letter From Spainsays:—The P...
The Riff . —A letter from Spainsays : —The pirates of the Riff having gained a certain notoriety by their repeated attacks on unarmed ships , it may not be uninteresting to you to know something of their country . The Riff commences at Tetuan , and extends along the coast of Morocco to Nemours , a distance of 150 miles . The country has a depth of territory varying from 10 to 30 miles ; it is mountainous and difficult of access . In good seasons it produces much wheat and a greater quantity of barley , which is the principal food of the inhabitants . Weil cultivated it would produce almost any crop , but at present it is in a miserable state . Excellent honey is found there , and numerous almond-trees . The pasturage is abundant , but of horned animals goats are the most numerous . The Riff is rich in iron , lead ,
and rock salt . The population of the Riff may be estimated at 80 , 000 souls , of which one-fifth is armed . It ia divided into twenty-two tribes , and he among them who possesses a pair of oxen is regarded as a wealthy proprietor . The inhabitants of the Riff are barbarous thieves , whose eutire pursuit is piracy . Muley Abderahman , Emperor of Morocco ; like a true Mussulman , delights in their success against Christians , hut he will not assume the responsibility of their acts . He collects a light tribute from them through a Caid , as the head of their religion , and he leaves the Christian Powers full liberty to punish them for their acts of piracy . It is the general opinion that , without the aid of France , neither Spain nor Prussia can accomplish anything effective against the pirates of the Riff .
St . Thomas ' s Dat . —The municipal elections in the numerous wards into which tho City is divided took place on Tuesday . The question which chiefly occupied the attention of the various meetings was the proposed county rate for the erection of a new lunatic asylum . The opposition to this obnoxious rate was most emphatic , scarcely a voice being raised in its favour . The question of Parliamentary Reform was mooted in two wards , but in only one of them with success . Court of Commox CouNCii * -- * At « special court , held on Monday , it was agreed to refer the question of tho desirability of erecting drinking fountains in the City for the working classes to tho City Lands Committee to examine and report thereon . The chairman , of
the General Purposes Committee brought up a report respecting the arrangements in progress for the fruitmetera . The report was agreed to , and referred back for execution , by the committee . A report was brought up from the Officers and Clerks' Committee upon the mode of conducting business in this department ; but , after a discussion upon some proposed amendments , the consideration of the report was adjourned , and the court separated . Royal . College of Surgeqnh . — , A conference pf members and follows of this body was hold ftt the Freemasons' Tavern on Monday evening , when resolutions
were carried unanimously to the effect that in the opinion of that conference tho council , having excluded members and , follows from a voice in tho election of their representative to tho General Council of Medical Education nnd Registration , under tho Medical Act , had theroby Invaded tho corporate rights of tho members and fellows , and infringed tho provisions of tho act ; and farther , that in the , opinion of tho conference a principle was involved In tho election that would subvert the representative rights granted to tho mombers and fellows by tho J * glolature in llmt act . Tho mooting stands adjourned .
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POLITICAL FOKESHADOWINGS . J [ n . Cium Kwing , M . P . - ^ At the Paisley meeting the hon . gentleman said that he concurred cordially with the resolutions on the ballot and triennial parliaments . Ht » was also sensible of the anomalous nature and iu ^ justice of the present division of the country into electoral districts ; but he had not yet heard any opinion on the subject in which he could fully concur . There was great danger in exact proportion of members to the of Londonwhich
population , and he instanced the case , , on this principle , might have fifty or sixty members , who would , as the metropolitan members now dp , combine for carrying out gross jobs—such , for example , as purifying the Thames—which they would fain have done " at the expense of the whole country , while London ought alone to bear the cost . Mr . Ewiiig said that although not in favour of manhood suffrage , be would not support any measure that did not , in some way or other , recognise household suffrage . ¦
. Provincial MovKMESTS .--On Saturday Lord William Graham was returned for Herefordshire without opposition . The noble Lord avowed himself to be an advocate of Conservative progress , but added that the Radicals had done the State some service . —At Stockport a crowded meeting adopted the Guildhall programme . —At Paisley an enthusiastic assemblage of Scottish men declared in favour of manhood suffrage — At Horsham , a crowded public meeting was held on Monday . A deputation attended from the Ballot Society . A resolution in favour of the ballot accompanying any Reform Bill was voted unanimously , and it was arranged that the proceedings of the meeting should be communicated by letter to Lord Derby , to the members
for the countv , and to Mr . Seymour Fitzgerald , M . P ., Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and member for the borough . —A meeting of the Bradford Liberal Registration Society was held on . Monday . It was stated that Mr . Bright had cheerfully accepted an invitation to address a public meeting at Bradford . —The adjourned meeting of the Manchester Manhood Suffrage Association was held on Tuesday . The principal resolution which was carried , ran as follows : — ¦ " That this meeting having accepted the principle of manhood suffrage , the vote by ballot , triennial Parliaments , and . equal electoral districts , heartily recommend * the Manhood Suffrage Association to the iupport of all thorough Reformers in Manchester and the surrounding districts . "
Bill would draw a line and disfranchise the W T under it . He was satisfied that if they now ch 2 , ? the representation , and should they treat the ereatW of the people with generosity , before twenty 3-Jarsna « , J the course of generosity in 1850 would be found ^ k the path of absolute wisdom . lie then spoke of * k law of entail . The land in Scotland did not bk to the people . Was there any reason why land should not be as free as machinery , ships , household furniture or the goods and manufactures in their warehouses ? He had travelled from the rising to the setting of th * eun upon the lands of one man , and found there few tenants au < i little agriculture . There was little social freedom , little industrial freedom , and less politic ! freedom in districts such as these . He said the laws f
primogeniture and entail were most pernicious , not only to agriculture , bat to all other classes of the country He then spoke at some length upon the selfish and unpatriotic manner in which foreign affaira we ' re conducted . The people of this country knew as little of foreign affairs as did the people of Russia , Austria , and France . He also spoke briefly of the horrors of war . He compared Great Britain to Egypt , and the Foreign-office to an Egyptian temple , in which there were serpents and creeping things , in defence of which the British fleets were traversing the world , and their children ' s blood was shed like water . Reform ' in Parliament would change all this . He then spoke at considerable length on the extravagance of the Govern .
ment . Freedom in land , he said , would produce as much benefit to the country as the abolition of the corn laws , He Eat down after speaking two hours . Resolutions were passed in farour of his scheme of Reform . Mr . Momcrikfp , M . P . —The late Lord Advocate addressed his constituents at Leith , on Monday , after expressing his opinion that the defeat of Lord Palmerston ' s Government was a national misfortune , and giving , his reasons at great length , Mr . Moncrieff considered the general question of Reform , particularly animadverting on the views of Mr . Bright . As a member of a Government which had soven years previously introduced
a Reform Bill , he ( Mr . Moncrieff ) thought the country did not need the advice of Mr . Bright . He was favourable to a large extension of the franchise , though he avoided pledging himself to any precise amount for fixing it . At the same time he showed that the voting mode proposed by Mr . Bright -was totally inapplicable to Scotland * and could never be introduced there . He was in favour of a 10 / . comity franchise , but expressed himself in the moat decided terms against the Ballot , which lie considered to be thoroug hly vicious in principle . He also exposed the absurdity of the system of electoral districts ; and , with reference to the grievance in the ship-building trade , remarked that he would be most unwilling to have the reciprocity clause imposed , believing that , to do so , would be to imperil the advantages which Free-Trade had conferred on the country .
The Ballot Societt . —The weekly meeting of the executive committee was held on Tuesday . Mr . Washington Wilks was authorised to represent the society at Reform meetings in the North of England and in Scotland . A letter respecting the ballot in America , from a citizen of Edinburgh , formerly resident in the States , was read . This letter states : — " Lord Palmerston has said , that he defied anyone to bring proof that there was anything like secret voting in America . How Lord Palmerston got this information I am of course ignorant , but I am not ignorant of this—that there is secret voting in America—and , further , that all Americans , who look up with pride to their constitution , look upon the ballot as one of the most important safeguards of that constitution /'
Mr . Bright nt Glasgow . " - On Tuesday evening Mr , Bright addressed the citizens of Glasgow in the City hall , which was densely crowded . Mr . Walter Buchanan , M . P ., filled the chair , the Lord Provost of tho city having declined . Mr . Bright said they were there to discuss a great constitutional question , and to consider how far they might with security extend tho liberty they had received from their fathers . They might have liberty with monarchy , as they had in this country , and they might have a monarchy without liberty , as there wns in many nations of tho continent . He had been told that he used the same facts and figures in his addressesbut what if ho had UBed other facts and
, figures when the case was the same , ? Suppose ho were to assemble all tho 6 , 000 , 000 men in Scotland upon a heath , which ho would hardly do even in imagination , for fear of disturbing those sacred animals the grouse , tho Constitution would say to 5 , 000 , 000 of these men , ?• Wo don't want you ; you may return to your homes , and the million which remains will do your business for you . " He alluded to tho large number of , members returned by small boroughs , and said It was impossible to devise a system more cumbrous and untrustworthy than that which now existed . Aa to tho inequalities of representation , ho remarked that Edinburgh and Glasgow , 80000 £ had four
with a taxable property of 7 , Q , , only members , while one hundred and one boroughs in England and Ireland had 12 G members , although the value of tho taxable property in thoap boroughs was less than 7 , 484 jOUOJ . Mr . Bright denied that ho had in any way moderated his principle ^ and ho dcclured himself anxious to seo lodgers admitted to tho franch Iho as they are admitted in somo cities of Scotlund , namely , by proving that thoy pay a rent of 10 * . 11 © had not spoken of tbo Ballot nt Edinburgh , and It had boon Insinuated that ho hnd changed his mind . Ho considered the Ballot absolutely indJaponsablo In uu extension of tho suflraKO . Ho presumed that any Reform
Criminal Record. Thk Unfortunate Man, Ed...
CRIMINAL RECORD . Thk unfortunate man , Edward Tombes , who is charged with tho murder of Charles Canty , by cutting his throat . till remains in Newgate , and it ia *« opinion of tte medical officers of tho prison that ho is in a hopeless state of insanity . Ho is constantly raving , ™<\ d *» appear « o have the least consciousness hat he lias cominUtcd any offence . If he should continue . ni thU « j dition he will , of course , remain in custody for the rest ° At \ l !? bxfonl Assizes a young woman' "J ?^ gg Newell , has been tried for iho murder of h « JjJPjJg child by drowning . Tho case was fully proved agwnrt tho prisoner . The defence was that hf . w . « f drnon to a state of madness by tho brutal , ndiflfc » ncj » of ^ the father of tho child , one William *™** X \ £ ? % '" arvC Reading , who . had seduced her and loft » ' ^ 8 t f j speaking also very cruelly to c her who * . ata JPgg , " assistance . She was found Guilty , and sentcnecu death , but recommended to mercy . AND
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GATHERINGS ^ gg ^ LAW POLXOB A ww a » ys « fio a dead body tra . feuiri floating JJJ Margate , and as it was discovered to be \ »«? holes a ' suspicion of foul pl « y was ^^^ ronor ' s inquest returned a verdict of w »» thfl against some person or peraons ; « " ° J ™"' . wft 8 ox-Thames police-court , on Tuesday , the ' J ^^ go plained by ft sailor , who said tliat About al * ™™\ J lie was on board ona of tho light $ XtfJTnl \ o to when a dead body flouted past . * - ffor « V \ p , orfled Mink the body , but thlH beiiitf anttucco »» ful , H vrw j in various placcs-henco tho appear moo ox » Q . which it iirosontoU . Tho body u believed to uo
a Newcastle pilot . T .. , ifti . B ' redorick At tho Thames polico-cour on 1 cstla , } , * J | 0 Ooodoy , who ia charged with hovli « » Jw » I lier murder hi « wife by deliberately ottomj ) U » tf throat , him been committed for trial . ^ 0 J { . The polygamlst , in whom SIr Robort u ( 0 pressed ho great an hitorottr , la HRoi . > , »
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1858, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24121858/page/4/
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