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1038 THE DEADER. [NO. &Q7y Octobeh 31, 1...
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IRELAND. An Okangk Manifesto. — The Cent...
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. Tafe second...
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Public Meetings. The Indian Belief Fund....
morning in the Mayor ' s parlour , Town Hall , Manchester . Colonel Hamilton , secretary to the committee , read tbe report , wherein it ¦ was stated : — " The total number of paying visitors reached 1 , 063 , 538 . The season-ticket holders of both classes availed themselves of their privileges to enjoy 282 , 377 visits , making the total number of visitors 1 , 335 , 915 . Up to the public close of the Exhibition , on the 17 th inat ., the cash receipts from all sources standing : to the credit of the committee may be stated at 98 , 500 ? . The total expenditure up to * the same period , and the further liabilities which are definitely known to the committee , such as cost of police to the end of November , insurance of all kinds , rents , & c , amount to 99 , 500 / . The still further outlay to be
incurred , includes all the expenses of returning the contributions to their respective owners . " To meet * excess of expenditure over the cash receipta , there is the building and . its fittings . The committee are of opinion that the guarantee fund will remain untouched . The following resolutions were carried unanimously : — " That this meeting , as well on behalf of the immediate promoters and supporters of the Exhibition of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom , as the city of Manchester , ¦ where that exhibition was held , and the vast thousands of all ranks and countries who have enjoyed its beautie * and benefited by its lessons , records its sense of profound gratitude for the existence of that social harmony to this country which alone rendered such a gathering possible . It acknowledges for the country at large the munificent liberality and disinterestedness of the
contributors , whether in the highest or the humblest ranks of life , believing-that one and all were moved in their decisions by a sincere sympathy for a great and refining work , and by an honest desire to improve and gratify their fellow-creatures . " " That full powers be-given to the executive committee to dispose of the Exhibition and its fittings in any way thev may think proper . " "That a sum not exceeding 10 O 0 J . be placed at . the disposal of the executive committee , to be ¦ used by them , at their discretion , should they deem it desirable ! to recognize the services of the officers of the committee . "' " That the warmest thanks of this meeting be rendered to the Executive Committee of the Art "Treasures Exhibition , for their unwearied exertions in furtherance of the Exhibition , and the admirable manner in which they have carried out the designs of its pro-Woters . ' '
Tttfi WIG AN MECHANICS INSTITUTION . Lord Stanley- delivered a speech on the subject of education on Tuesday evening on the occasion of the fourth anniversary soiree of the Wigan ^ Mechanics ' Institution , held in the Public Hallj Wigan . Adverting towards tie end of his remarks to the opportunities for advancenietit offered to North of England men , he said : — I Was told lately by one of the heads of a great firm not far from Manchester that they were at that time em ploying three personsin their * business , each of whom
had been an ordinary mechanic on weekly wages—each of whomi had risen from the ranks , and each of whom was at that time in receipt of a salary of 1500 ? . a year , which is just the pay of an Under-8 ecretary of State . ( Applause . " ) That fact I verified ' . I suppose it is not an isolated instance , and I mention it because we hear a little too much about the impossibility of men in an old country like this rising above their actual position . Why , t say that in that respect we are not an old country , but a new country . " ( Hear , hear . )'
THE INDIAN QUESTION . The Earl of Harrow-by at the annual dinner of the Saridon and Marston Agricultural Society ; Mr . Monckton Mimes and Mr . Wood , the members for Pontefruct , at a public dinner in the Town Hall ; the Solicitor-General at the anniversary meeting of the Reading Philanthropic Institution ; Messrs . Miles and Knatchbull , the members for" East Somerset , at the meeting of the Earrington Gurncy Agricultural Association ; and General Sir Frederick Smith , M . P ., at Chatham , have delivered speeches more or less bearing on the Indian question .
1038 The Deader. [No. &Q7y Octobeh 31, 1...
1038 THE DEADER . [ NO . & Q 7 y Octobeh 31 , 1857 .
Ireland. An Okangk Manifesto. — The Cent...
IRELAND . An Okangk Manifesto . — The Central Committee of the ' Grand Orange Lodge' have published an address in reply to the Lord Chancellor ' s recent letter . They indignantly deny that their proceedings have assumed Jin illegal or improper character , and add : — " In the episode of Orange history to which the Chancellor has directed our attention " ( without , it appears , having attended to it himself ) , the character of our society is exhibited . We are asked by some , ' "What good end has-it achieved ?* We are asked by the more sordid , ' What benefit has it conferred on its members ?' ' Has the society been able to accomplish or prevent any great political measure ? ' ' Has it enabled its members
to attain any high i > olitieal or social distinction ? ' ¥ c are not careful to answer such imparcss . Sufficient for us to say , the Orange confederacy kas protected rights of property and person - it has contributed to the maintenance of domestic peace and , pubKe well-being . Wherever it has been powerful ,- the-country has been at peace , and persons of all religious persuasions have been safe under its protections Wherever lawlessness , outrage , an *! murder havo had their satinrnaliay © rangeism has been feeble and unknown . This is- our answer to those who prefer a taunting . " accusation against us . Before Orangeism came into existence , counties in Ulster
were in a state of more sanguinary disorder than has disgraced the-most lawless southern county 3 ince . " Tlie Committee afterwards have the kindnes * to say that , though they have been , so scuTvily treated by the Government ,, they will give the Queen all the support possible in connexion * with India :. — "We know full well the duty of loyalty to our revered monarch , and we feel too deeply because of the deplorable disasters , in India- to permit precipitancy or indiscretion in any portion o £ the executive to recal us from the duty of sustaining , by every possible way , the rights of the throoe and th « deliverance oi" the . oppressed . We utterly repudiate and abhor all sentiments which would inculcate indiffti-miiefi
or disloyalty ,, or which would narrow or pervert the streams of national benevolence on bebalf of our luuchafllicted fellow-subjects * men , womeu , aud children , in that distant portion of tb . e empire . We would hold it utterly unworthy of our high calling ami of our Scriptural principles to seek to avail ourselves at such a time of any other mode of protection or relief than such , aa ia . to be found ia the diguified assertion of the rights of tha Queen ' s subjects , and in the verdict which we fearlessly demand in our behalf from all independent and intelligent men . " A Secret ? Diplomatic Mission . — The Waicrfurd Mail states that the him . member for the borough of Youghal ( Mr- I . Butt ) ia at present at Vienna , ' entrusted by Lord Palinerston with < a secret diplomatic mission . '
Tun Tifpbhaiiy Bank . —The creditors of this bank held a meeting on Thursday week at the office of Master Murphy , Court of Chancery , to select an official assignee , or assignees . Mr . Patrick Stephenson , of Faitbrook , county of Waterford , proposed that the Earl of liessborough , and Mr . John G . Armstrong , of the Hiuik of Ireland , should be appointed joint official assignees , to act in conjunction -with . Mr . Georgo M Dow « U , tha official manugcr representing tha shareholders , i » carrying out the provisions of the act of last session for facilitating tho -winding up . The Rov . Dr . How ley , pariah I priest of Tipperary , seconded the resolution , wUlch was carried unanimoubly .
-Emiohatiow Statistics . —Commenting nyon the official returns lately issued by tho Kogintrur-General of Ireland , tho Demy iStundard ( a leading * 1 ' reabyteriaa organ ) thus sums up the result : —" Last year , tho numbers who loft Ireland , as noted in the Governmont returns , weTe 05 , 700 , nnd thin year thore haa boen a not increase of G 210 emigants . Since tho 1 st day of May , 1851 , to tho lat of September , 1857 , the collective- emigration from Ireland has amounted to 910 , 5 ) 06 persons , —viz ., 460 , 610 nialeH , and 45 O , 32 ( i females , or within a fraction of a total million of tho Iriah population I "
MtiRincn im Ti p i « bkaky . —Mr . Klli . s , a Scotchman , was ahot dead at Tcmplemoro on tho night of Thursday week . Tho net vma committed on the highway , and in tlie sight of several other persona . Ho WRa agent to a
gentleman , and had himself purchased some propertv in the neighbourhood . . ¦ J Atticmpt to Assassinate bvt a Maniac— A farmer named John Doyle , a tenant of The M'Gillicuddy a "en tleman of property residing at YVbitefleW , about-fifteen " miles from Tralee , recently requested that gentleman to keep m safe custody for him the sum of 4 ( R On Wed nesday week , lie went to The M'Gillicuddy ' s house and said he wanted . to draw out 41 ; but he was told to take it all , as it wa 3 not convenient to retain it . As they entered the office , the gentleman perceived that Dovle waa fumbling in his pocket , and afterwards saw hiui drawout a pistol . The M'Gillicuddy seized the weapon and m doing so the contents were discharged , but without doing any injury . Doyle was then handed over to the police , and was found to be insane .
This Kecent Tea Frauds . — No tidings have yet been received of the whereabouts of John James Moore the Custom House swindler . An inquisition has been held at the sub-sheriff ' s office , in pursuance of a writ of extent issued by the Court of Exchequer , at the instance of the Crown , to discover what property Moore possessed at the date of the writ for hia apprehension . The jury ultimately found " that there were two hundred and fifty-six packages often in the Custom House , removed from Moore ' s store , of the value of 1 O 0 OJ . ; that there
was at present in tho hands- of the manager of the Bank of Ireland a certain security or charge on lands in Ireland , on which the directors of the' Bank of Ireland have a lien , and which the jurors valued at 700 / ., less 140 / ., leaving 560 / . of a balance ; that , at the time of takingthe inquisition , there were certain wines and spirits in a cellar of Moore ' s store , which wines and spirits have been claimed by Samuel Gelston as having been bonded by him , and in his name , and that these ¦ wines and spirits are of the value of 20 O 07 "
The lath 5 th Royal Irish Dka « oons . —Colonel Dunne , the lute member for Portarlintgton , is said to have made an offer to the Horse Guards to raise in a short time , so- as to be ready for immediate active service , a regiment of Irish Dragoon ? , to bear the revived title of the 5-th- Dragoons . ' That regiment was disembodied shortly after the Irish , rebellion of 1798 , on a charge of sedition , and it has never again been called together . It was raised in I 688 r and served under Marlborough , as well as in subsequent wars . Many of the men whom Colonel Dtanne would enlisfc are about to proceed to- America ; anxl he thinks that an effort should be made to preserve their services for this country .
The Case or Spoclen . —The grand jury at Dublin have found 'No Bill * in the case of James Spollen , charged with jobbing the late Mr . Little . He will be released from custody at the close of the coinmlsaion .
Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Tafe Second...
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Tafe second inquest in connexion with the accident on the South "Walea Railway , after spreading over some days , was ultimately adjourned to Tuesday , November 10 th . George Cooke wad on the rigging of the barge Mercy , lying off Southwark , last Saturday , when he fell head forflmawt into the hold of the vessel , and fractured his skull and rlbu . A similar accident occurred to William Lawson , who was at work on a scaffold in Fcnchnrchetrcet , when he fell a depth of thirty feet , and fractured his skull .
A dreadful occurrence took plnco on Monday in the neighbourhood Of Rntcliff Highway . A cattle van was coHTeylng from the London Docka a Bcngnl tiger recently imported into this country . The latch or lock of tha doof suddenly gave -way , nnd the animal finding itself at liberty ) lenped into the road , nnd ran In a crovwJhirig position up tho thoroughfare , evidently in some degree alarmed nt its unexpected freedom nnd the novelty of tho auano . Encountering a boy , eleven years old , at a street corner , the tiger sprang on him , and frightfully lacerated , the back of his neck and ltoad .
The keepers , by this time , came up , one of whom repeatedly struck the beast on the head with a crowbar , and at length stunned it ; but one of the blows glanced off , and fell on tho head of the poor wounded boy . He was removed to the London Hospital in a highly dangerous state , but it is thought he will recover . Another boy was also injured , but less seriously . A frightful catastrophe hrippened on the Central Rai lroad , United States ,, on the evening of tho 15 tli inst ., about six miles west of Syracuse . Heavy rains had weakened an embankment at Niue-milo Creek , so that when the train came along it gave way , and the cars were thrown one upon another into the stream . To add to the horror of the scene , the mail car caught fir « , and all the mail bags except one were destroyed . It is stated that , of sixty passengers who were in the cars , two or thr « e were killed outright , and some dozen others were shockingly mutilated .
Ameuica. Tins' Financial News From Tlie ...
AMEUICA . Tins' financial news from tlie United States wears a less gloomy cBsirauter , though , the New York banks suspended specie payment on tho 13 th , being unable to meet the heavy demand for gold . They have required of the Governor of the State to summon the Legislature , for the purpose of passing laws for the relief of the present condition of tilings ; and , they recommend that no dividend shaald be declared until the resumption of cash payments , -which they pledge themselves shall take place as soon as possible , every effort being made to effect that result . A great many fresh commercial failures are reported from all parts of tlit Union ; workmen in large
numbers are thrown out of employ ; and there is much distress . The Boston banks have al « o suspended cash payment ^ and there has been a serious run on some of the savings banks , but it was promptly met . The Federal Government lius suspended redeeming stocks ; but the Pennsylvania Lower Ilouse liud defeated tlie bill of the Senate for legalizing the suspension of payments by the banks . Tho New Orleans batik , at the la « t dates , was considered strong , and the . stock was nut influenced by the revulsion : indeed , in sonic case . s , a slight advance had taken place . The paper of the Illinois Central , Krio , and Michigan Central Hallways has been contested .
The determination to suspend payments in specie , to which nuiny of the banks have cuiiu ; , has lw < l a favourable effect in checking tho panic and the failure of largo houses . One or two important hoiiaus which had stopped have rcHUiuud business under an extension from their creditors . The rate of exchange on Kn ^ huul lins mlvanced from 100 to 108 , and in nil the principal n | R ' . eulative stucka thero haa been un average recovery of ten per cent . The Judges of tho New York Snpntim ! Court huvo adopted and promulgated a code ; of opinions in regard to tho enforcement of tho penalties of tho law »({» " HiiHpended bauku . They ngreo that it is for tiic Imuka to wind up or not , in the e . \ erci « e of a aouiul discretion ' , thut they are not to bo enjoined unless they an . ' » i > sl ) 1 '
Vtillt . «> r UlllosH 1111 illilllir > fioii nm u Iw . llcu'l'SSlirV to l ' re " vent , or unlesH mi injunction may be . net'essiiry to prevent fraud or injustice ; ( hat . : i . suspension <• ' ayeuKpayments in not . proof of insolvency ; mid H ""< u () l " ' junction hUouUI isbuc without giving *» ' l " llUlM " hearing . Sumo details are published with roHpect , to the cloctiouH . In KunsiiH , tho result in Hiipposud to bu in favour of tho Freo Stato parly ; but the Democrats have curried tho day in Georgia and Pennsylvanirt .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page 1038, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_31101857/page/6/
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