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November 29,1856.] THE LEADER. 1141
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DESTRUCTION OF CHILDREN IN ENGLAND. A co...
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The Working Of The County Police Act. Th...
prevent outrage , robbery , incendiarism , and ifcauda upon the excise , would assume alao the functions of inspectors of " weights and measures and surveyors of roads . Captain Acheson" adds , also , ' lodging-houses ; ' but we hardly see low such a duty could be performed _ by county constables . We agree with him far more cordially when he advocates the general adoption of Captain MoHabdx's sjstem carried out in Essex , by which the inspectors of police are not only made responsible for the inspection of weights and measures , but are required to do the
duties of assistant-relieving officers to the unions . By these means the professional robber Is prevented from obtaining from the workhouse that assistance which is intended for the honest poor , and the burdens of the county are lightened in proportion . The authorities quoted on this subject " do not in any degree differ in their opinions with respect to the means of suppressing petty pilfering , or the more serious crimes committed by vagrants who have been , in the habit of applying to the unions for relief and a night ' s lodging ; , professing to be merely travellers on their road to obtain employment . "
Even more important than this , however , is the proposal to establish an effective communication between the County , Borough , and Metropolitan Police . Those bodies ought to be in continual correspondence ; instead of which , they continually act apart . The police of one county are powerless in another : in one county an offender is exposed to detection , in another he may almost reckon upon impunity . But if a proper
understanding were established , any given line of investigation would be carried across boundaries and jurisdictions , infringing no prerogative , invading ; no local rights , serving only the ends of justice and social safety . It is demonstrable to a certainty that , unless some scheme of the kind be adopted , the newA . ct will be only partially available for the purposes to which it was intended to be applied . Of this , any one must be convinced who is familiar with the circumstances that
usually attend rural , crime , and the difficulty of maintaining an adequate superintendence over one county exposed to the visitation of marauders from the next . A burglary is committed ; the offenders escape ; the police track them from Sussex to Surrey ; in Surrey the guardians of life aiid order know nothing of the case , take no interest in it , and can give no information . Your Sussex constable , therefore , might as well pursue his object in Australia .
The public interest iu the protection of life and property , and tho punishment of crime , is one ; and the public organization for these purposes should bo one also . Let us conserve to the utmost our municipal institutions , oar local laws , the English independence of our counties ; but lot them act together , where all aro equally concerned , and we feel convinced the new Act will be a formidable power in the hands of the magistracy for the establishment of that social security of which the vural districts especially have been so long deprived .
November 29,1856.] The Leader. 1141
November 29 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 1141
Destruction Of Children In England. A Co...
DESTRUCTION OF CHILDREN IN ENGLAND . A connEsrosrDENT sends us , iii the JBridport New & , as the account of an inquest on the body of a little boy , a painful scene of manufacturing life and death . The boy ' s clothes caught fire while his sister wns frying sorao fish for supper ; and although the children ' s shrieks brought neighbours promptly to thoir assistance , the burning proved to be fatal ; as it usually " is , from the ' shock . ' Children arc burned in other towns , but iu Bridport there ate special reasons for the frequency of thia
particular accident . At the time of the disaster there were three children in the house — --Mairt Anna Male , aged ten years , the sister who was acting as housekeeper ; Heitby , aged nine ; and George , aged six . In speaking of their occupations , the daughter said , " Patlier goes for fish . " Their mother is always out . The girl herself goes to the business of turning , from six o ' clock in the morning until nine at night ; and so does her brother Henby . Early years for such long labour and household cares !
The Ten-hours Bill has been spoken of as an interference with < freedom of trade ; ' it is , however , in its most stringent enactments , only a counteractive to the reverse of freedom— -to compulsion . Parents who are ignorant and needy believe their interest to lie in early farming the industry of their children as soon as possible . The Ten-hours Bill first secured freedom to those who , as children and women , are under bondage . It is . however , our correspondent says , evaded in the district , because the children are employed , not in factories strictly so called , but in covered sheds . It would be hard , indeed , to charge the death of the little boy to the negligence of his sister , or his parents . A girl ten years of age , whose faculties are strained by labour from , six : in the morning to nine at nightwho then finds household duties to performcan scarcely be the one to keep watch upon a restless infant . The toiL is rendered the worse by its monotony . In this case it consisted of twirling a wheel for twelve hours at a time , interrupted by a run now and then " to . gather up the ends after the men . " Of course , in such a district children are not destroyed by accident of fire alone ; there is , a constant undermining of mind and life . We say nothing of the neglect of education in ifes broadest sense ; we speak only of the stunted intellect and the actual murder .
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There Is Nc Learned Man But Will Confess...
There is nc learned man but will confess he . hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakeneS , and his judgment sharpened . If . then . be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write ?— Milton .
The Moon's Rotation. (To The Editor Of T...
THE MOON'S ROTATION . ( To the Editor of the Leader . * ) Sir , —The fact which proves that the moon does rotate , namely , it always presents the same face to the earth , is by some minds so misinterpreted as to seem to them to prove the reverse . It was with the object of correcting tins misapprehension that I , with your kind permission , proposed two very rude , although conclusive , experiments to such of your readers as might be interested in the question . In these experiments the basin is , because field with the same side always towards the experimenter , made to rotate on its axis . The water and the straw are made use of to prove this fact ; the fact affirmed and denied in the controversy , namely , a body , which in revolving round another body always presents the same face to it , must also rotate on its own axis . In the first experiment , the water remaining at rest , has an apparent motion , on account of the real motion of the basin containing it . In the second experiment , the water being made to rotate on its axis in the same time that the basin does , like it appears to the experimenter to be at rest , because the same part of it is always towards him . Your correspondent , " John Taylor , " made two remarks , which , as I do not understand them , I must request him to excuse my not giving them any answer . I really do not know of any " relative or subordinate motion depending on the primary motion of the earth , " which the moon has . I believe , too , tlio proposition would bo as new to Sir W . Herscholl us it is to myself . I am also quite at a loss to sec why the " revolutions which every thing , large or small , on tho earth , considered as separate from , tho mass of the earth , " makes , should not " bo considered axial . " This confession will , I know , be the occasion of much mirth to some sturdy astronomical heretics . So be it . Laughing is a much more profitable
employment than running one's head against such , stone walls as the doctrine of the moon ' s rotation . I am , & c , Wir , rx * M : Kenward .
The Moon's Rotation. (Tothe Editor Of Th...
THE MOON'S ROTATION . ( Tothe Editor of the Leader . ) 20 ta November , 1856 . Srii , —Tour correspondent Mr . Taylor is in the same error as to the " moon ' s motion" that all the other parties to the controversy have fallen into . They , one and all , forget that the moon ' s motion round the earth is only an appearance , similar to > that of the sun rising . But the fact is , the moon , does not really move round the earth at all ; but moves , in close company with the earth , around the sun once a year . It is the losing sight of this grand astronomical fact that first led my friend Mr . J . Symon 3 to fancy he had detected a new fact in astronomy . It is quite evident that as the moon does not really move round the earth , it is equally a solecism to declare that she turns on her axis while movinground the earth , as it is to deny it . Both parties I declare to be in a maze of error . But if the question of the moon's axial motion be mooted , then v « t may say that in the period of a month ' s motion , or synodical period ( the moon moving in that time through space at the mean rate of 63 , 000 miles per hour , and going through over 48 millions of miles ) , she does really rotate once on her axis . This is proved by the fact of her turning during that period every part of her face to the sun—which she could not do if she did not turn round on her axis . Yours respectfully , R . J . Mobrisost , Xieut . R . N . 10 , South-parade , Bath .
Db. De Jongh.—The. King Of The Belgians ...
Db . De Jongh . —The . King of the Belgians has conferred the dignity of a Knight of the Order of Leopold upon this gentleman , whose name is associated with his useful researches into the nature and properties of Cod Liver Oil . The same sovereign , and also the King of the Netherlands , some time since awarded to Dr . De Jongh Medals of Merit in approval of the services rendered by his investigations . —Medical Times and Gazette .. .- • . .. ¦ ¦ . ' ' . ¦ ¦ " . . .: ¦ ¦ .,. ¦ ¦ -. ; . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ •; ¦ ¦ ¦ , .- ¦ ¦ . - . ¦ '" - .. Mr . Spuuqeo 2 ? once more at the Surrey Gardens . —Another sermon was delivered , last Sunday morning by Mr . Spurgeon in tie Music Hall of the . •¦ Surrey Gardens—the first time lie has appeared there since the terrible catastrophe of October . No more than five or six thousand persons were permitted to enter the building . Mr . Superintendent Lund , assisted by about twenty policemen and some detectives , was present , and everything passed off quietly , though several noiei thieves were observed in various parts of the hal ] . Mr . Spurgeon made no allusion in Ms sermon ( which wasi less eccentric tban usual ) to the accident , though in a prayer wkieb . preceded it he invoked consolation for the persons bereaved of their relatives , and forgiveness for those with whom the calamity originated . In the course of his sermon he denied that * his contemplated new chapel would be capable of holding 15 , 000 persons . He only desired to accommodate 5000 . On this occasion , Mr . ' Spurgeon was provided with an immense pulpit , which gave him room to walk about at his pleasure . Mns . Seacole , the hospitable vivandib'a of the English army in the Crimea , whose name was venerated and beloved throughout the camp , has become a bankrupt . Surely those who were so generously assisted iu their wretchedness by this heroine of the war will do their utmost to assist her now that she is under the shadow of adversity . Loim Chief Justice Cockbuuh took his seat in the Court of Common Pleas for the fret time Ia 3 t Saturday . Decrease in the Yield of Salt . —Mr . Samuel Bracegirdle , a salt proprietor and ship-builder , of Northwich , states that there lias beeiv ] n . very great subsidence , within the last few weeks , of tlio brine in his mines . He attributes thia to a sinking of the land in the neighbourhood , causing the brine to flow in a contrary direction . Eoansu Perversions . —Mr . John Cummiug writes thus to tho daily papers : — "A paragraph has appeared in most of the newspapers , stating that the Duchess of Atholl lias been received by Dr . Manning into tlie Roman Catholic Church . In a more diluted form I rend the same statement in several of the Roman Catholic o rgans also . 1 have authority for stating that there is no foundation whatever for tho report . It may also be as well to add , that it has become a policy not unworthy of Ignatiua Loyola to circulate paragraphs announcing new accessions to the Church of Rome in tho case of persons of rank , some of which I know are totally devoid of truth . The rumour does its -work before tho contradiction is known . " The Maine Law Movement . —A public meeting waa held on Monday evening at tho Shire Hall , Gloucester , in advocacy of the adoption of the Maine Liquor Law in this country . From seven to eight hundred persons were present . Mr . S . Bowly and Mr . S . Popo were tho chief speakers . No Rpoaker on tho other side presented himself , and tlie meeting broke up in a very orderly manner .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 29, 1856, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29111856/page/13/
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