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the instructions given by the aeronaut , let go , and the balloon having still sufficient gas in it to give an ascensional force , after losing the weight of the horse , rose suddenly , and the anchor , which held by a tree , being loosened by the sudden motion , the shock upset the car . Mr . Gale , however , clung to the ropes , and was fortunately able to pull the string of the valve to cause a further escape of gas . This being done , he came down safely at a distance of about a mile and a quarter from the place where he had left the horse . "
Lieutenant Gale ' s family believe the report of that gentleman ' s death to be incorrect . They think it is reasonable to suppose that , if the fatal accident had occurred , M > . Gulston and Mr . A . Gulston , Mr . Gale ' s partners and companions throughout the tour in the French provinces , would have immediately sent notice of it to Mrs . Gale , or to their own family , which they have not done . The Nepaulese princes seem daily in better humour with Paris ; and their Oriental mode of testifying satisfaction witn those who minister to their pleasures , by stripping off and presenting their gorgeous trinkets , is highly gratifying to the Paiisians who are fortunate enough to attract their approbation . On Wednesday night Jung Bahadoor gave a signal proof of his taste and
magnificence , which is the talk of all Paris . He and his brothers went to the opera , where Madame Aguado has placed her box at their disposal , to see Ceriio in the Violin dn Diable . The ecstacies of the prince were so intense , that he gladly suffered himself to be led behind the scenes , where he could give freer vent to his rapture , aud take a closer survey of the object which dazzled his senses . Cerito w ? . s panting upon a sofa in the little room to which she retires in the intervals of her performance , when the swarthy visitor presented himself , indicating by smiles and salaams his internal satisfaction . A more solid token of the ambassador ' s delight remained behind , for he unclasped from his wrists a pair of magnificent diamond bracelets , and transferred them with all the gallantry and grace in the world to the arms of the celebrated dansense .
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The Duke of Wellington had a narrow escape on Friday afternoon , as he was returning from Dover to Walmer Castle . When about a quarter of a mile east of Dover Castle , on the Deal-road , the post-horses in his grace's carriage took fright at the sight of some papers ( songs and ballads ) posted for sale during the races , upon a board by the roadside . The post-boy lost command of his horses , and the carriage was precipitated from the road down a declivity of about two feet , into a stubble-field . One of the horses fell , and the post-boy was thrown down under the carriage , but escaped
unhurt-Lord Clarendon paid his promised public visit to Belfast on Thursday . Shortly before twelve o ' clock his Excellency , accompanied by Major Ponsonby and Mr . Corry Connellan , arrived from Garron-Tower , the seat of Lord Londonderry , by the Belfast and Ballymena Railway . At the terminus the corporation , with General Bainbrigge and his staff , the Harbour Commissioners , and other public bodies , and a vast number of the merchants , manufacturers , and other inhabitants , were arranged in order of procession . His Excellency was greeted with the heartiest and
most enthusiastic acclamations , which he acknowledged in a feeling and impressive manner . The procession , in which his Excellency then took his place , proceeded through different streets to the residence of General Bainbriggc , the people cheering with great energy all through . At the house of General Bainbrizge tin * address of the corporation was presented . His Excellency then proceeded to the Linen-Lall , where the addresses of the Ulster Flax Society and others were received . In the course of the day his Excellency visited the great flax spinning-mill of Messrs . Mulholland and Son , and other establishments connected with our staple
manufactures . A collision took place at the Black-lane station , on the Lancashire and Yorkshire liailway , on Wednesday evening , under the following circumstances : —In consequence of the lladcliffe races , special trains had been running several clays between the I 3 ury and Blacklane stations , and at the time of the occurrence a train was at the Black-lane station , near to the race-ground , taking up passengers for Bury . A goods' train
proceeding from Button to Blue Pits came up before the other train cuuld be moved out of the way , consequently a collision took place , which , we are happy to say , was unattended by the loss of human life . When the train arrived at Bury many of the passengers were bleeding in f . onsequence of injuries sustaricd by the violence of the shock ; some had lust their hats , and one person had fainted . Many of the passengers were under the in-11 urnee of liquor , and the station-ground for some time presented a sad scene of contention .
After some five years of unremitting labour , the engineers connected w ' iih the Biitannia Bridge safnly lowered the < l last" of the Britannia tubes to its permanent restiug-place on Friday , so that everything that was difficult or hiizunlmis in the constructive character of the undertaking ia now finished . The Carnarvonshire end of the tube was lowrred three fret , the opposite end being joined on to th-i Anglrsra large tube in the interior of the tower on the Britannia rock ; and , obedient to the law nf the novel operation , the centres of botli tubes , as
before , sprung up several inches . The Government oflicer will bu down on an early day to inspect the entire structure , preparatory to its permanent opening . Nothing beyond a mere fractional deflection has been observed to take place in the tube that has been opened since March , and which has been subjected to the constunt transit of heavy trains and traffic . The total weight of each of the wrought-iron roadways now completed , represents 12 , 000 tons , supported on a total mass of masonry of a million and a half cubic feet , run up at the rutc of three feet in a minute .
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PROGRESS OF CATHOLICISM . Loud is the boast of the Roman Catholics that they are making great progress in recovering Pro - testants from the English to the Roman Church , and Viscount Feilding is a prize of lustre . Not only is he valuable in himself as a scion of the peerage , but the Romanists look forward to his activity as an instrument of obtaining importance in the Legislature , and thus of obtaining an influence under cover of which their zeal may be yet more profitable . There can be no doubt that many who have
a strong appetite for religious authority will share with his desire to accept the infallibility claimed by-Rome . The great obstacle which impedes the pro ^ gress of all proselyte-making missionaries in this country is the absence of strong religious feeling ; and it is that absence which fosters the multiplication of sects . To take only the very broadest distinctions , we find the Established Church in itself virtually divided into many sects ; and yet it holds together . There is the old high Tory Church—the Church and State sect—the
portwine order of clergy whose battle psalm is the " Jolly full bottle . " There are the Puseyites , hovering , like Dr . Pusey , on tbe heels of John Henry Newman—Romanizers , but not Romanized . There is the Low Church party , whose newest champion , Mr . Gorham , is an unseceding Dissenter . There are the Platonizers , who idealize upon the technical doctrines of the Church , until they are wide enough to admit any doubtful men ; and , finally , there is the heterogeneous class of
indifterentists and destructives , who rejoice in the extension of liberal opinion as a something that is neutralizing all zealotry— by which they mean religion—and making daily life very quiet and comfortable . If there were any religious zeal , these differences could not exist in one establishment without breaking up the Church . The Church has continued in its integrity , notwithstanding these differences , by favour of the general apathy . Kven the most extreme opponents give in to that apathy : a Henry of Exeter and a George
Uornenus Vjornam win noin pig - gether" in the same establishment . Nor can Dissent sneer at the Established Church . Although it is split into every variety of doctrine , the great body of Dissent , it is averred , may be divided into tLe old dissent , the vulgar brick chapel conventicle twang of doctrine , and the new dissent , a totally fresh spirit not very alien to the platonizing Neochristians of the Established Church . The thing to be regretted in ihis sort of agreement to
differ is , that the agreement takes its origin rather from an apathetic indifference to the spirit of religion than from any distinct recognition of some one vital principle animating the whole . It is a negative and not a positive agreement ; it is rather an agreement to forego religion than one which fastens upon the true unity of all faiths . To the mind which has any generous zeal , this fashionable indifl ' erentisrn is very distasteful ; and hence we find men flying back to that embodiment of the stronger faith of other days , which the residuary Roman Catholic Church otters , or onward with a more prophetic faith to the light of a new conviction in the future .
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SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 14 , 1850 .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation m its eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
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SAVINGS OF TIIJS WORKING CLA . SS . A whiter in that pleasant and admirable little journal , Household Words , expatiating on the prosperous condition of the country , refers , as a proof of the very satisfactory state of things , to the alleged fact , that " the operative classes of Great Britain alone possess , at this moment , capital in savings banks and friendly societies , the total of which reaches the enormous sum of £ 42 , 000 , 000 . " Now , considering that Great Britain is the wealthiest country in the world , and that the working classes all depend for their living upon wages ,
the fact of their having scraped together an aggregate sum of £ 42 , 000 , 000 , * qual to about 30 s . per head on the entire population during the last fifty years , would not be a very marvellous circumstance , even if that had actually been the case . But it is a gross mistake to suppose that the money invested in savings banks belongs chiefly to the operative classes . The truth is , that a very large proportion of the investments is made by small tradesmen , and by people in easy circumstances , in the name of their children . As a general rule we question if we should be justified in estimating more than onethird of the money in savings banks as belonging to the working class .
Granting , however , the whole of this £ 42 , dOO , 000 to be the incontestable property of the operatives and artisans of Great Britain , it forms a very paltry sum after all * compared with the accumulation of real and personal property in the hands of thie middle and higher classes during the same period From Porter ' s Progress of the Nation we learn that the increase in the value of personal property during the thirty years ending in 1845 was £ 1 , 000 , 000 , 000 . The great bulk of this enormous sum belongs to a comparatively small class of the
community , not more probably than a quarter of a million . at most . Taking them at that number , this gives an increase of wealth to that favoured class of no less than £ 4000 per head in thirty years . But the increase in the value of real property , which belongs to a far more limited number ^ is still more astonishing , especially when compared with the boasted savings of working men . In 1803 the amount of real property assessed to the Income Tax was £ 38 , 691 * 394 ; in 1843 the amount
assessed was £ 95 , 284 , 497 , showing an increase of £ 56 , 593 , 103 , which , at twenty-five years * purchase , represents a capital of £ 1 , 414 , 827 , 575 , or nearly double the amount of the National Debt !! Nearly all this enormous accumulation of wealth has gone to swell the incomes of a comparatively few land * owners and other holders of real property . The respective savings of the wealthy and poorer classes , then , stand somewhat thus , assuming that the whole of the investments in savings banks really belong to the latter class : — INCREASE OP CAPITAL AMONG THE MTDDLE AND HIGHER CLASSES SINCE 1803 . Personal property £ 1 , 000 , 000 . 000 Realdo 1 , 414 , 827 , 575 Total £ 2 , 414 , 827 , 575 SAVINGS OF THE WORKING CLASS 6 INCE 1800 . In savings banks £ 31 , 700 , 000 Friendly societies 11 , 300 , 000 Total £ 42 , 000 , 000 The working class appears , therefore , to have saved about 30 s . per head in fifty years , while the more comfortable classes have accumulated , during i he same period , not less , upon an average , than £ 10 , 000 per head . Superficial observers may call this a prosperous state of things ; to us it seems that the enormous increase of wealth since the commencement of the present century , and its very imperfect distribution , form one of tile most dangerous symptoms in our social condition .
In looking at the very small amount of savings belonging to the working class , however , we must not conclude that it has been altogether want of ability which has kept them from amassing more . The great obstacle to provident habits among the poor , as we have frequently demonstrated , is the want of any proper mode of investment . Fewworking men have that degree of forethought and self-denial which would enable them to lay by a portion of their wages to provide against want of employment and other vicissitudes . \ Vhen well
employed and receiving good wages : they are too much like the landowners , who , when wheat was 12 s . a bushel , adapted their expenditure to the high rents they then obtained , in the belief that such prices would last for ever . The truth is , notwithstanding all that can be said to the working man about the great benefit to be derived from saving a certain sum every week , to form a reserve fund for old age , or when work is scarce , the prospect of advantage is not tempting enough to make him
forego present indulgence , we may regret this , and desire , as we certainly do , to see him better educated , better able to resist the temptations of the present moment ; but still the fact of his being so is undeniable . He may be told that a weekly payment of sixpence , commencing from the age of twenty , will secure to him an annuity of 5 s . a-week , after the aye of sixty-five , and a payment of £ 10 to his relatives on Ms death ; but these advantages arc placed tit fur too remote a period , and cannot
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 14, 1850, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1853/page/11/
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