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TTTlso suffered from the defection of part of their tbey who fled simultaneously with the Lascars on deck , cre hv throwing the work on those whose attention was Quired elsewhere . They , succeeded however in keepq through the most critical part of the night , when a ing naee however short , might have been attended with sto pp » Ki » Th noble vessel , too , seemed instinctively f r ! i as it were , to the peril , and most gallantly did . she f in the unequal strife , and prove the faithfulness of w co nstruction . On deck , when any one , bolder than v fellows ventured from the saloon , nothing could be " or heard above the fierce blast of the tempest but
ficti- * - f _ - _ ^ a «« «• airlift *! AAmtvt t vt s 3 s >*> i ** t * + - % i *\ ^ m * hl clear calm voice of our skilful commander , issuing Vs order ' s as coolly and composedly as if it was a case of n unusual occurrence ; and the equally collected and rornpt responses of his active and energetic officers , as thev proceeded to put them in execution , thereby innirine the most timid with confidence . At midnight * he scene in the saloon was painfully striking . Without " exhibition of active fear , it was evident , from the low and rapid whisperings passing between those who were * hors de combat , the eager crowding round and anxious inquiry of every arrival from the deck , that every tea it tooAlter tne vessel
man knew his danger , ana . was pooped the last time , and the saloon , as before , deluged with water , she remained entirely motionless for a few seconds , and then « the boldest held his breath , ' seeming to cast a glance of mute inquiry around , the Durport of which could not be misunderstood . In these remarks no implication of want of mental courage is intended : on the contrary , the silence and calmness exhibited were well befitting the occasion , and , though the recollection of this « night of terror ' may not speedily pass from the minds of those present , there are occasions on recent record of infinitely less risk where the absence of similar firmness has materially increased the actual danger . The ladies were happily in ignorance of the
danger until it was over . Unlike Wellington at Waterloo ' daylight under any circumstances' was now the fervent wish of all ; and when Captain Baker came down to the saloon , for the first time during the whole of the gale , at 2 . 20 A . M ., his look gave us hope that the worst was past ; and this was confirmed by his opinion that the mercury was rising . Then , and not till then , did we , with feelings of lively gratitude for our preservation , and lightened hearts , proceed to tempt unwilling rest after this eventful night . Day broke on a most dismal and distressing scene . Out of seven fine boats , six were
missing . Fore and main topmasts , companion ladders , stanchion booms , davits , trusses , and many other articles , familiar only to the initiated , were also wanting , and the deck was covered with the debris of the wreck . The other casualties reported were the death of a fine Sydney horse , Goliath , well known on the Hong-Kong turf , and our cow , whose loss was much regretted , besides a fearful mortality in the sheep pen , &c . As the day advanced , the wind and sea gradually abated , and long before midnight we were steaming on our course in safety and comfort , thanks to Him who holds the waters in the hollow of His hand . At noon , barometer 2965 ; midnight , 28-80 . Noon , wind N . E . "
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PUBLIC OPINION . The Manchester Examiner and Times , an organ of moderate Liberalism , in an article on " Louis Kossuth and his Calumniators , " suggested by the " decisive testimonies of public admiration and sympathy" which his -visit had received in Birmingham and Manchester , says that" It would have been impossible for him to have withstood successfully the force of those prejudices which the unscrupulous invectives of his opponents were calculated to raise in this country , had he not been singularly gifted with high and various capacities exactly adapted to confute and overwhelm his calumniators . Never had single man to fight a pitched battle with such adversaries before , and that man a foreigner and a fugitive . "
To the Leading Journal , the " Uriareus of the British Press , " it gives a " bit of its mind" thus unflinchingly . " It has been the boast of the Times newspaper that it makes and unmakes ministers—that it is , in itself , an omnipotence , and has more power to influence the destinies of this country than any other single agency . It professes to be the mouthpiece of English public opinion—that what it shields must , be inviolate—what it necks to destroy must perish . There is a factitious assumption in all this , that sways those minds—unfortunatel y no small portion of the well-to do indifferentism of this country—who never think it necessary to form , but borrow their convictions on every public question from those journals that pander most habitually to all the heartlciut plausibilities whereby every species of
political chicanery in defended and maintained . The Times is the leader and organ of the Pharifiees of every neci , dans , and condition in this country . But it is nothing more . It has a passive power , in passive times , to Rive the tone to , and extend the currency of , opinions that arc made up of cunning , cant , and prejudice . To this K » ound it sticks until it begins to tremble , and then forthwith the Pharisee makes known to all who worship in its wake the necessity of modifying the fashion of tluir phyluHterieH . The Times is the weuthercock , not the wi » d ; and at best can but indicate , whilst it boituts of lulil > K , pui » lic opinion . Credulity has played a large purt ia all ngos and countries , and the Times baa a natural aptitude for trading on this faculty . But the power which menaced the patriot , with destruction him been «! «> iiipelled , if not to proclaim , at least to chronicle bin triumph .
" And could any evidence of the desperate recklessness with which the Times defies every sense of renpon"ibihty or truthfulness be more conclusive , thun the co urse lan guage employed in its leuding columns to O"uruot « rup those immense und highly respectable
assemblages , which both in Manchester and Birmingham have this week done honour to Kossuth ? On no former occasion , we believe , have the wealthy middle classes formed so large a portion of any public meetings held for political objects , and yet these demonstrations have been insultingly described by the Times as composed ' of the scum of the earth . ' If a public journal , affecting to be the most powerful representative of public opinion in this country , can with impunity thus outrage all decency and despise all ' pretensions to truth , what security can the public possess for confidence of any kind , or on any question , in such quarters ? The fact is , the utter powerlessness of the Times , in presence of that public opinion which has so decisively and contemptuously exposed its feebleness , has so signally humiliated the great journal , that it would fain cover , with effrontery , what it cannot conceal . "
The Leeds Times enforces the " right of Intervention " in certain probable eventualities . " When the struggle for national existence is again revived ia Hungary , as no doubt it will be , England will then have to decide whether she ought not , on grounds both of justice and policy , to protest against the intervention of Russia , and to follow up that protest by active resistance , if necessary . " This right of intervention , or rather of preventing intervention , and the exercise of the right within the limits of a fair and just prudence , we think ought not to
be abandoned by England , or any other nation . And we do not think it is for the interest of mankind that the impression should be allowed to get abroad—as we fear it has done already to some extent among the Continental despotisms—that this country will under no conceivable circumstances enforce this right when disputed , and that England ' s protests may , in consequence , be treated as so much waste paper . War is a frightful evil . Let us by all means endeavour to avert it ; by substituting arbitration ; by reciprocal reduction of those armaments , whose very existence is so often a cause of war ; by every means , in short , that can be devised , except such as would make
us accomplices in the crimes of despotism and the ruin of humanity . " On the same topic the Dublin Commercial Journal makes the following sensible distinctions : — " The Times arrays the costliness and frustration of the former interventions of England ; tells us they cost much money ; and only surely bought ingratitude . But , in the main , what were thoseinterventions ? Interferences between the uprisen peoples and hated kings . When a king was thrust down the throats of Frenchmen , how could we expect the permanent gratitude of France ? What people did we assist that we should now demand friendliness ? We fought for the Bourbons in France ,
the Bourbons in Spain , the Bourbons in Naples ; we gave away kingdoms to fugitive counts ; we were thanked neither by the counterfeit sovereigns we passed by means of bayonets , nor by the peoples ' for whose good ' we incurred debts we have not since paid . But at least the interventions now talked of are interventions in favour of a principle common to humanity—a principle which in England has been carried into p : notice , and a principle intimately interwoven with the progress of trade and manufacture . If , as the Times says , English interference produced hitherto nothing but the ingratitude of insult and the thanklessness of contempt , it was simply because no other results could be reasonably expected of interferences springing from ignorant bigotry and insane hatred to popular rights . "
The Nation , the Advocate , and the Northern Wing encourage with hearty expressions of hope and congratulation Mr . Wagstaff ' s scheme for the establishment of a Western Packet Station at Gal way . ' We congratulate Galway ( says the Nation ) , we congratulate America , we congratulate Ireland , on ibis auspicious event . We rejoice for the success of the project that Galway has carried the day , because we believe her waters are the fittest roadsteads for the commercial navy of the States , both by position and national feature . And we rejoice that the old allies , America and Ireland , are to be united in one common fortune . " The Advocate concludes with a rather ambiguous assurance .
" All we would say to Mr . Wag staff is , go on—keep your promise—be not disheartened if you have to work for twelve months instead of six without actual profitpersevere—and , infallibly , your project must succeed ; and , moreover , by the time you shall have succeeded , it is not improbable that our Provisional Committee shall have declared in favour of Galway , nnd have got out a prospectus of an Irish Transatlantic Company !"
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PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . Tlio Court still continues at Windsor performing daily the ordinary evolutions of life . Mr . 10 . M . Ward , A . R . A ., has this year received the hundred-guinea prize of the Manohenter Institution of the Fino Arts , lor his picture of tho " . Royal Family of France in the Prison of the Temple , " - — oik ! of the prominent attractions , it will be remembered , of the last Royal Academy Exhibition . The Hey wood gold medal ( with a sum of money ) has also been accorded to the same artist . Thin ia the third occasion on which Mr . Ward ' s works have been selected for distinction by our provincial Art Institutions : the Liverpool and Glasgow Societies having previously conferred their prizes on him for two pictures of former years , "The South Sea Hubble-, " and "James II . receiving News of tho Lauding of the Prince of OrangC . " Prince Albert addrenncd a letter lately to tho Society of Arts , suggesting a course of lectures on the probable
results of the Exhibition . The suggestion has been adopted , and the inaugural lecture of the course will be delivered by Dr . Whewell on the 26 th . Lady Ward died at Schwalbach , in Germany , on the evening of the 14 th instant . It is stated that she died very suddenly from paralysis of the lungs , after a painful illness of eleven weeks . She was married only a few months ago . Dr . Newman has assumed the personal and legal responsibility of the serious accusations he had uttered and published against Dr . Achilli ; and the action for libel will be tried probably next terra .
On Thursday the application in Achilli v . Newman , for an enlargement of the rule , and the grant of a commission to examine witnesses abroad , was refused , all the judges , Lord Campbell , Judges Patteson , Wightman , and Coleridge , concurring on the ground that it did not appear on the affidavits of Dr . Newman that he had any grounds for making the assertions which formed the subject of the libel . We are informed on high authority , that Mr . Donovan the well known professor of Phrenology , now at Oxford delivering lectures on that subject , has dined at the high table with the fellows of Oriel College . Mr . Sheriff Alison was reflected to the office of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow on the 15 th instant . There was some talk of Palmerston , but it died away .
It is stated that Mr . Keynolds , who has been for a considerable time assistant-solicitor of the Treasury , will be promoted to be the solicitor , and that Mr . Robert Hitchcock the master of the Irish Exchequer , who has prepared several of the measures of law reform propounded or carried by the present and past Governments , will succeed Mr . Reynolds . Dr . Nicholas Parker M . D ., London , and Licentiate of the College of Physicians , was elected one of the Assistant Physicians to the London Hospital on November 11 . Dr . Parker has held , for some years , the appointment of Lecturer on Pathrology at the Medical School , and is highly qualified to sustain ^ the character of a scientific physician .
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Lord de Blaquiere , whose death was announced last week , it now appears killed himself with a pistol shot . He had long been suffering , and the jury held that there was sufficient evidence to warrant a verdict of " Temparary Insanity . " Lord Mackenzie , eldest son of Mackenzie , author of the Man of Feeling , and formerly a Scotch Judge , died at Bellmount on Monday afternoon . General Marchand , one of the most distinguished generals of the Empire , died on the 12 th instant , at his chateau of St . Ismier , near Grenoble , in the eighty-sixth , year of his age .
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The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia and suite have left Vienna for Trieste , where a Russian war-steamer was in waiting to convey them to Venice . The Grand Duke of Hesse Cassel is shortly expected at Vienna , and apartments in the Burg will be prepared for him . " Birds of a feather , " &c . Alexius , an Hungarian artist , has been imprisoned at Pesth , for having executed a bust of the late Count Louis Batthyany . Wishing to leave his native country , he forwarded his luggage to Vienna , where it was opened and the bust discovered . Even a dead lion is a terror to living tyrants . The military commander has forbidden the Protestants of Milan to meet , as heretofore , at the house of Mr . Mylius , for the celebration of their worship . Mr . Mylius is a merchant held in general esteem .
Several arrests have been effected at Padua . Beside the Abbe Nardi , a young man of good family , named de Grandis , has been seized and imprisoned . Aleseandro Calandrelli , one of the defenders of the walls of Rome against ( he French , has been since his condemnation transferred to the bagnio of Ancona , where he wears the red prison-serge and the chains of the convict . The people crowd to see him as ho works in the public places with a hod on his shoulders .
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A discovery of a very interesting nature has just taken place in one of the cells of tlie Castle of St . Angelo , on the wall of which , towards the corner , a rough and nearly ciiaced indication of Christ on the Cross was brought to light a few days ago . This drawing or painting is thought to be that which Benvenuto Cellini , in his admirable autobiography , mentions having executed with charcoal and brickdust on the wall of his prison , when confined by order of Pope Paul III ., in the Caatlc of St . Angelo , in the year lo . 'Ji ) .
The iUnivrier de La ( iironde states that a civil engineer of Bordeaux , named De Vignemon , him discovered tho perpetual motion . His theory ia said to be to find in a mass of water , at . rest , and contained within a certain space , a continual force able to replace all other moving powers . The above journal declares that this has been effected , and th ; -t the machine invented by M . de Vignernon works admirably . A model of the machine w » h to bo exposed at Bordeaux for three days , previous to the inventor's departure with it . for Loinlnn .
Daily , about noon , writes the Wescr Zeitang , the loungers under the " Linden " at Uerliu arc startled by the extraordinary appearance of a tulj , lanky woman , whose thin limbs are wrapped up in a long black robe or coarse cloth . An old crumpled bonnet , covers her head which , continually moving , turns restlessly in all directions . Her hollow cheeks arc iluulu'd with a morbid coppery glow ; one . of her eyes in immovable , for it is of gluMS , but her other ey « shines with a feverish brilliancy , and a strange and almost awful ninile- hovers constantly about her thin lips This woiiimii moves with an unstead y quick step , and whenever her back mantilla it * flung back by the violence of her movements , a small rope «> f hair with a orutiilix at the end is plainly men to bind her wuiHt . Thin black , ungainly woman is the quondam authored , Counteas Idu Halm-Halm , who ha * turned
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Nov . 22 , 1851 . ] ® f ) tf VLeaUtt . 1107
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1851, page 1107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1910/page/7/
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