On this page
-
Text (3)
-
:Febru^ry 28, 1857.] THE liEADES. 207
-
MENTAL ALISONA.TION. Ceetain respectable...
-
Death of the Eaui, or Harewood.—This nob...
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Ltlee Emigrants And Cotton. Tub Manchest...
nopoly * at present enjoyed , naturally , "by America . They do not propose to cultivate cotton , in India or the colonies , Tmt to encourage practically its cultivation—to render production safe and demand certain . They are able and willing , they declare , to receive materials that would employ the industry of the country , and have ample means of paying for them . That was well known before the actual discussion arose . But Manchester has gone a step further . It is prepared , in eonjunction with Liverpool , to found an association to effect the removal of all obstacles
to the increased growth of cotton in the Britisli colonies and dependencies , to supply , gratuitouslj , the best qualities of seed and the necessary machinery for the preparation of the raw material , and to provide instruction through competent teachers as well as through printed manuals . Manchester , therefore , lias been roused , and is at work . JN ot that it has hitherto been idle . Mr . Mackay ' s Indian mission , and a body of researches in the "West Indies , Africa , Syria , and Australia , prove the contrary . But the time for accelerated movement has arrived . It is
known that the cotton of Australia is of excellent quality ; by the Chamber of Commerce it was declared " really beautiful , " — " well got up , " and " in . perfect condition for -the spinner . " The gold , as the Daily JSTews remarks , has kept the cotton waiting . However , a considerable tide has set in from the diggings to the cultivable plains , and Tve may expect , at no distant day , to hear of cotton cargoes floated down the Murray . At l « ast , the new association will undertake to supply the necessary facilities , and to buy what the Indian or Australian planter in ay produce ;
_ With reference to the Australian plantations , no opening could he conceived more advantageous to the proposed free emigrants thau that which may be created by such an impetus to cotton-planting in the colonies . Mood the Australian colonies with lal ) our , and labour will overflow into the agricultural provinces . Manchester and Liverpool , therefore , having a direct interest in the result , should accept the working classes as allies , and open a path to the colonies for those who are Availing to go .
:Febru^Ry 28, 1857.] The Lieades. 207
: Febru ^ ry 28 , 1857 . ] THE liEADES . 207
Mental Alisona.Tion. Ceetain Respectable...
MENTAL ALISONA . TION . Ceetain respectable gentlemen who had been engaged in a . curling match at Limekilnburn about a year ago , were little aware that they were performing an impromptu drama to illustrate the history ot' Europe , — dramatizing a commentary on Alison ' s huge work . Yet such was the fact . Mr . Thomas Morton " , a Farmer , had borrowed a horse from Mr . Geotigtj Turnbult . / , a merchant in Glasgow , in order to go to the curling match in his gig with some friends . In returning home , the
night was dark , the road was glazed witli ice , and ' tho social glass had had its influences ; although it is assumed , as a matter of course , thab Mr . Mouton M-aa sober , for ho was a _ Free Kirk elder . Near tho top of the hill stood a toll-bar , and near the toll-bar a Jiorae and cart , whoso driver was looking ¦ with a candle for a lost whip . There arc no gas-lights in those parts , and Mr . Mohton did not discriminate between space and the cart and horso ; the consequence Avas a collision , in which- each horse was ^ tabbed with the shafts of tho other vehicle . Mr .
Tinm-BTTLii proceeded ngivinst Mr . Morton Cor the value of the horse . . In 'JSnghuul , » u < : h a claim would bo settled at once ; but in ftcotlnml , it seems , tho borrower in acquit ted if tlic disaster he tho eilbct of accident and not ol negligence ; and accident was the defence set up . The Sheriff Substitute at Hamilton adjudged that tho borrower ahould ptiy the
value of the horse ; a judgment , it will he perceived , which implies that the ! Free Kirk elder was at ; least negligent after the social glass . Mr . Mobtoh" appealed to the Sheriff Principal , wlio is no other than Sir Auchibalt > Aiiiso ^ sr , the elucidator of Europe , the Hhadanianthus before whom all the great men of the country have passed . He pronounced what is called an " interlocutor , " in which he relates the story of the collision . It says : " The judge having heard parties , & c , thinks it proved that the pursuer ' s horse
was left standing in the centre of the road hy the-pursuer ' s servant , when the defendant ' s horse and gig ran into it ;"/ " finds , in point of law , that there were faults on both sides- —on the defendant ' s side in not looking properly and driving faster than was prudent on so dark a night , on the pursuer ' s servant ' s in leaving his horse and cart alone "—and so forth ; and accordingly the judge acquits the defendant , and condemns the pursuer to pay one-half of the defendant's costs . In short , throughout the whole of this recital of the facts , Mr . Sheriff Alison had made the horse which Mr . TtjrnbtjxIj lent to Mr . Morton
figure in both parts—it was the gig-horse driven by Mr . Morton , and also the carthorse belonging to the carrier ; so that , in his view of the matter , Mr . Morton was driving Mr . Turnetjxij ' s gig-horse into Mr . TunKBTTLii ' s cart-horse , and Mr . Turnbull was in the xuifortunate position of having , either by the borrower or his servant , been guilty of the " faults on both sides . " It is a favourite resort of your modern judge to assume that there are faults on both sides ; but we have never seen the faults distributed with such remarkable ingenuity as in the present instance .
vVhen the case came "before the Court of Session , on the further appeal , the Lord Justice Clerk , in his innocence , thought that the wrong judgment had been printed . This is a curious example of defective reasoning ; the Lord Justice Clerk assumed that the interlocutor could not be Sir Archibald's recital , because it was inconsistent with , the facts ; a very large assumption . Sir AitcuiuAiiD has a very historical , mind , and . he brought that to bear in his recital of the case ; ho combined tho parts of Solomon and Gibbon . The composition which was laid before tho Court of Session was a page of
history . It differed , indeed , from common history in some respects . In the first place , Sir Archibald was laid under a peculiar obligation to bo accurate : ; wherefore we may assume that ho applied the very flower of his faculties to tho study of the case . The iaets , too , were simple . It was not , like a question of the Vienna Congress , or the Treaty of Paris , complicated by every kind of consideration , controversy , and obscurity ; hut the facts were few , the evidence \ vaa direct , and tho whole lay within the compass of tho historian-judge . It was with these advantages that ho produced the psigc of history which astonished tho Lord Justice Clerk . There
waa another peculiarity . Pecuniary results turned upon the accuracy of the account ; it was a question whether or not Mr . Tujtiruuxr should lose a horso and something more for having been so indiscreet as to have his horse killed , or whether Mr . Morton should pay that formidable sum , 201 . " and expenses . " I 5 i . it as a , specialty thin last consideration is more true on the nurliicc \ A \\ x \\ in fact . No doubt ; there nuist be mnny a pago of history about uh close to the truth as this brief story of the gig and cart collision , and if it is tmo that tin ; wisdom of ' niiULkind is tho
accumulated knowledge of tlio past , how much deliberate foolishness must be imparted to students of history when the fncts of tho past arc inverted . The breach people , for
example , is represented as wantonly running into the inoffensive French court , and the French nollesseas not driving over a prostrate people , but as wantonly assailed in placid passiveness . If pages of history are read in good faith and such representations are trusted , the penalties wrongfully incurred , and suicidally enforced , must in some cases , though they cannot be so clearly identified and defined , be quite as wrongful as that 20 ? . and
costs . It is possible , however , that evenbefore the disclosure of this exquisite case , Europe had learned to doubt its own biography , written as it is by Sir Archibald Alison . In this ease lie has only performed a more ingenious feat than that of putting the cart before the horse : putting one horse before two carts , he has punished an aggrieved man for having . suffered a wrong , just as he adjudges the verdict in the matter of the French nation .
Death Of The Eaui, Or Harewood.—This Nob...
Death of the Eaui , or Harewood . —This nobleman , who , about the close of last mouth , was thrown from his horse -while hunting and severely kicked on tfc * head , died on Sunday morning at Harewood House , near Leeds , after some three weeks of suffering . He was born in June , 17 D 7 , and in early life was in the ' army . At the Battle of Waterloo , he was slightly wounded . As the Hon . Mr . Lascelles , lie represented the borough of Northallerton in Parliament for some years .
His politics -were Conservative . Strange to say , the previous Earl died suddenly in 1841 after following the fox hounds ; and , several years ago , the late Earl ( before he came to the title ) had a narrow escape from deatli by the bui-sting of a gun with which he -was shooting—an accident ¦ -winch caused serious injury to three other persons , but little or none to Mr . Lascelles . The Earl ig succeeded by his eldest son , Henry Thynne , "Viscount Lascelles . —An inquest was lield on the body on Monday , and terminated in a verdict of Accidental Death .
Dr . Livingston , the African traveller , had an interview with Prince Albert on Friday week at Buckingham Palace . Sir Joseph Paxton , M . P ., Mr . Arthur Anderson ( chairman ) , and Mr- Fergusson ( manager of the Crystal Palace Company ) , Mr . Costa , and Mr . Bowley ( treasurer of the Sacred Harmonic Society ) , had an interview with Prince Albert last Saturday , on the subject of the Grand Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace . A Meteou . — "T . D . S . " communicates to the Times an account of a singular meteor he observed on Blackheath on Sunday night . He writes : ¦— " I was crossing the heath about twenty minutes after eleven p . m ., going south . It was very dark , though the stars were shining-Suddenly I was astonished at perceiving the ground for many yards before me illuminated by a delicate blue
light . It reminded me of tho ' good people ' of other days , now replaced "by garotlers . I looked up , and above head , at a considerable height , was a pale blue luminous orb , so like a Roman candle in shape and appearance , that , had it not been Sunday night , and bo lute , I should , have concl tied it was a . few d'artifice . Tho meteor ( for such it was ) descended obliquely but rapidly towards the west , gradually diminishing in size , but deepening in ( blue ) colour . When it had travelled as far ( apparently , from my point of view ) as the belt of Orion , it collapsed , and vanished , seeming to eject , at the moment of collapse , a small yellow star , which , after going westward about an ( apparent ) inch , disappeared also . The light must have been very powerful when it first appeared , for I saw the road , which is one hundred yards oflf , as distinctly aa in broad da }' . "
u ( j ! ooi > Oi-, i > Times ! " —There is now living in Eppcrstonc , Notts , un octogenarian who has been blind for . several years frvm tlio cifcRts of an accident . lie says that when he was a child white bread was considered a gTeat luxury ; bo rnuch so that when his father ( who was a framework-knitter ) used to take hia work to Nottingham , Iks would frequently promise to bring the children a whitu penny loaf each on his return , and Buch was tlie anxiety of the littloonea to possess the luxury , that they have many times yone the distance of three or four miles to meet their father , in order that they might have it a little sooner , and this in depth of winter , in frost and snow . What would the present generation say to this ? —JjciccslemhireMcrcury ,
This 13 uixisit Embabsv at Constantinople . —Mr . Charles Alinon , Oriental Secretary to her Majesty's KmboH * y at donritantinople , has been appointed Secretary of Kmbassy to the sumo mission , in tlio place of Lord Napier , lately named Minister to the United States . OUU NlCW Rl 61 * RKSISNTATlVIE AT WaHIIINOTON . TllC royal mail steam-whip Persia , Judluna commander , took her departure- from Liverpool lust Saturday for New York , having , bcs-Tidca a large cargo , one hundred and fifty piisHengorH onboard , including Lord Napier , who goes out to rc-catablittl ) diplomatic relations at Washington .
Dkatii ok a ( 1 ASTitoNOMrc . —Chcvct , the famous P-nris retailer of e . ntiibli'H , wan struck at nine o ' clock on tho night , of Friday week with apoplexy at his house in tho Palais lloyal .
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1857, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28021857/page/15/
-