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is a feat I have but little faith in . I doubt much whether " Old Zero ' s" barriers will not be " bomb proof" against " galvanic batteries ; " however , this time , one and all of us are determined to do our best , and 8 how the world what Englishmen can do : and should we be compelled to return unsuccessful , it will not be until the last thread of human endurance is brought to its " maximum strain / ' I may have an opportunity to write to you again from the scene of operations .
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( from another coreespondent . ) May 3 . Blowing fresh from S . W ., ships unable to communicate as was intended . Signal for tenders to coal as soon as weather will permit . The Intrepid is much improved in her sailing qualities , in consequence of her masts being lengthened . At ten o ' clock last night the tugs cast loose from us for the first time since leaving Stromness . All ships making sail ; strong breeze . At four o ' clock this morning the Intrepid five miles ahead of the squadron .
We are much lumbered on deck , indeed too much so to weather out a gale of wind . The weather has been very favourable to us as yet , but I am afraid there is a gale brewing . To-morrow , if the weather permits , we shall receive coals from the steamers , and part coinany from them . We left Stornoway on the 28 th of April , in tow of the steamers , and parted company with them on the third morning , after filling up with coals from them .
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IRISH CRIME AND OUTRAGE . One of the most infamous charges ever brought against a public political society is alleged to have been made a few days ago by an Irishman , by Mr . Napier ' s packed committee on " Crime and Outrage . " Our authority for this is the Banner of Ulster , quoting from the Dublin Telegraph :- — " Mr . Maxwell Hamilton , Crown Solicitor for the North-Eastern Circuit , who was called in . by Mr . Napier to corroborate the assertions of Major Brownrigge , informs the committee—' The Tenant League , I am sorry to say have lately employed the Hibborimen to commit outrages ' - Mr ^ OTiiAHEBTT here interpolates ^—" Q . You think that the Tenant League are the originators of outrage in that part of the country ? A . This is a very late state of affairs .
" Q . You state that to be the case from , your experience as Crown prosecutor ? A . I think so . " Q . You state that they ( the Tenant League ) employ a certain class of persons to carry out their views ? A . They apply through some agency to the beads of the Ribbon society . " Q . Do you mean to state that the Tenant League are the propounders or the originators of murders f A . I think they are in that way . " Q . By the Tenant League I mean a certain association which has been established in Ireland for the purpose of procuring what is called tenant right for the country generally ? A . As to tenant right , ' I think what they want is a reduction of rent .
"Q . You will understand that , in the question I put you , I was alluding to a certain body , organized principally in the city of Dublin , called the Tenant League Association—they have meetings in different parts of Ireland ? A . Yes . " Q . As far as the law of the land goes , they are not , I believe , considorcd to be an illegal body ; but I wish to know whether , in answering my questions with reference to that body being the originators , as you have stated , of crime in the North of Ireland , you allude to tho body I havo now described , or to any other body P A . It has never been traced up to any or them that they directed a murder j but I moan to say that tho speeches which are made , and tho writings of various parties , aro incontives to murder .
" Q . Aro tho committee to understand that you adhere to your original answers to tho questions put to you , or notP A . I rather think I havo adhered to them . " Q . As Crown prosecutor , havo you any official knowlodgo of tho Tonnnfc League having tokon any part in committing crimo , or give any intimation or directions for tho committing of crime ? A . No . " Again : Mr . Whitesido is tho interrogator . " Q . You havo stated that tho reduction of rent has not reduced crimo , and that , when a reduction of ront was obtained , they lookod for a still furthor reduction , and , finall y , to got tho land ? A . Yos . "Q . But what do they do with tho propriotors of tho JandP A . They do not caro much about that part of tho business .
" Q . If ow aro thoy to dispose of tho propriotors ? A . Starve them out I take it . " Q . Any other process P A . Yos j if necessary , they MUBDBB XHBM OF OOUItBK . " This , " of coiirwe , " has oxcited- grout indignation . Tho tenant leaguers at onco called a mooting , which was hold on Tuosday , under tho presidency of the Lord Mayor . The speakers were Mr . James Burke , barrister ; Mr . Lucas , of tlio Tablet ; Mr . J . P . Maguiro , of tho Cork'Examiner ; tho Rev . David Boll , Prosbytorian minister ; the ltov . Mr . Hardiman , P . P ., &c . ; and a RorioH of repudiating resolutions having been adopted , the proceedings terminated . An address ia to bo presented to tho liord-Iiieutonant .
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MISCELLANEOUS . It is rumoured that Mr . Archdeacon Manning will return to tho Established Church . Mr . Daniel Wobstor woe , thrown from his . carriage-, noar Boaton , on tho 10 th of May , and sorioualy hurt .
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The number of petitions presented against the militia enrolment ; , up to the 21 st inst ., was 1 , 194 , containing 199 , 344 signatures ; against the bill 131 j 3 etitions had been presented , of 20 , 534 signatures , and only one in favour with 15 signatures . Ofalway is rising in the world . We hope some day , not ; a hundred years hence , to see her a packet station for the west of Ireland . Among other signs of improvement , we note that a new journal has been started hero . It is happily called the Galway Packet , and bids fair to take creditable rank among the Irish provincial press . Its politics are Liberal and National .
Six peers and twenty-two members of Parliament met at Palace-yard , on Friday week , to promote a speedier communication with . Ireland . The result of the meeting was the appointment of a committee to devise means for effecting the object . The project before them was , that Mr . Lang , of Chatham , had pledged himself to build a steamer to go 25 miles an hour . The Championship of the Thames was contended for on the reach between Putney-bridge = and Mortlake on Monday . Kobert Coombes , who has successfully asserted it for so many years , was beaten by Thomas Cole , of Chelsea . The struggle was severe . The river was alive with boats . The contest decided a match of 200 ? . as well as the
honorary rank . The West London Anti-Enclosure Society , at a meeting held on the 24 th inst ., resolved to present a memorial to the Post-office authorities , praying for the remission of the heavy postal duties Which are particularly obstructive to the operations of societies , in preventing the transmission of their publications . The society again considered their plans for obtaining more land for field gardens , and some hopes were expressed of obtaining fields near London .
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A young man at Hull has been garotted to death , and robbed afterwards , in the suburbs oi that town . Two men have been arrested . Mr . George Thomas Minor , at tho 'Worship-street Police Court , brought a charge of assault on Wednesday against , a Mr . Thomas Witcher , builder , in the following words : —I am a linendraper in Chapel-street , Somers ' - town , and am porsonally acquainted with Witcher , in whose house I formerly had apartments , but left them some timo since , and now have a private residence in Shrublandgrove , Dalston . The nature of my business and the distance of the two places sometimes preclude my sleeping at my private house , and I do not think , from what
afterwards transpired , that I was expected to come home last night . I , however , did ho , about 10 o ' clock , and on ontoring tho house was surprized to find that my w ife was out , and had been so for a long timo . I waited for her anxiously till past 1 o ' clock in tho morning , when I honrd a cab driven up to tho door , and rushed out to moot hor . Directly I got out Witcher opened tho door of the cab , and on seeing mo there jumped out of tho vehicle . I suspected my wife was inside tho cab , and was going to look , whoa Witohcr interposed himsolf j and holding out his hand wanted mo to shako hands with him , saying , "Ah , Minor , how do you do P" I indignant ! y refused his offer , and said , « How is this P This is not a fifc ' hour for you to be out wiln my wife . " I thon wont past him , and on looking int <> « io cab saw my wife sitting o n tho scat , with hor ^ or ^} eJ broken both at tho front and back , and hor dross rulllpa most clis
in a peculiar manner ; eho was evidently in a - gracoful state of intoxication and oxcitomont , hor comofl wore out of hor hair , which was hanging looso , one of hor earrings was missing . Witohor was not sober-I lifted my wife out . of tho cab , and having g ot hot "" tho Jiouso attomptod to cloao tho door , when vVitenur rushed up to it and exclaimed , " I will como in . " I »« ° » to koop him out , and said , " You shall not , " whon Witcnor struck mo a most violent blow upon tho mouth witn i »» clonohod fist , and eaid to mo , " You aro a .- — : — - ^ S " bond to accuso mo of anything . " Ho then again struck mo another violent blow on tho chest , which was dohvcrocl w «* Huch forco that it caused mo to fipit blood for more than are hour afterwards ; upon which I called out for assistance , and upon a constable coming up I gavo him itt" > custoay * Tho case was eonfc before a jury .
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A lady unable to ascend Skiddaw , on foot or horfloback , was taken up by six guides , who curried hor in an ftr chair . This is a novelty . » Tho KUkemyModerator reports tho . fall of a"tow * ° J " black rain , " invitee tho attention qf tho aeriontjflc , *« " ?*» ua that a similar sfcowor ifoU in ttio lost yew of « " > « BV "
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510 THE LEADER . igATtTRDAY ,
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THE BETTING OFFICE NTJISANCE . We have received the following communication on a subject occupying the public mind very prominently at this moment . The facts here stated we commend to the earnest attention of our readers :- — Sib , ;—As your paper appears to devote its powers , in a great measure , to the amelioration of the conditiott of the poorer classes , I think that the crying evil which is now sapping the foundations of all morality among them in this great city is worthy of a few remarks .
The mania for betting is of such great antiquity in England , that we can never hope to see the habit fall into disuse ; as long as its consequences were confined to the annual disappearance of a few " swells" about town , the injury it did was so small , as to require no comment . Within the last four years , however , establishments called betting offices ( which are detested by all true sportsmen , as tending immensely to increase the trickery and chicanery already too rife on the turf , ) have appeared in almost every street in London .
The originator of the system was himself a respectr able carpenter , who , finding he could make money by betting round in shillings , gradually increased his opera * tions , till he was enabled to leave his trade and take to betting as his occupation . In six years he has , by his integrity and general respectability so prospered , that his name is now good for any amount , arid you will have some idea of the extent of his business when I tell you that some of the outsiders that started this week for the Derby , one of which ran second , would have won him 50 , 000 ? .
His system is to bet all the year on every race that is run , giving tickets to those that back horses with him in exchange for these stakes , with the sum he jays against the horse written on the ticket . The day after the race , the holders of the winning tickets are punctually paid . This man ' s prosperity of course attracted notice , and forthwith everywhere betting offices sprung up . The " Leviathan , " ( as he is called , ) I must here remark , does not keep a betting office , but issues his tickets at a small public-house near the Strand .
The new class of men who suddenly opened shops , with large fronts and racing pictures in them , surmounted by " betting oflice" in large letters , are , with one or two exceptions , the very scum of the population j several of them have been frequently confined in Newgate , two or three have been under sentence of transportation , many of them were croupiers and " bonnets " in the lowest gambling houses , generally termed " Copper Hells / ' and some others have found it a more profitable occupation than their former hardly less respectable business of brothel keeping .
However , with these facts well known , these men go on and prosper . After every great race some of them of course shut up shop , and are not heard of again for some time , decamping with the money invested in their hands on other races , as well as on the one which has caused their retirement . Tradesmen , artisans , errand boys , clerks , women , household servants , every class , may be seen hurrying to these dens ; you may often observe some apparently well-to-do tradesman swagger in , and with a most knowing tone of voice , throw down his money on his peculiar bet for the next year ' s race ;—on some animal whoso owner has probably not the slightest intention of even starting him : —others immediately follow suit , and the presiding scoundrel has a good morning of it .
Whon Voltigeur won tho Derby , every servant in town was " on him , " Tho consequence was , that almost every betting shop in tho West End was closed within tho week . I have sketched out in tins note tho origin of theso nuisances , and in a future letter I will , if you think proper to insert this , endeavour to portray tlio misery they bring upon a very largo class of tho community , and tho dishonesty and immorality thoy give rise to . * I sco in tho Globe of Wednesday , an absurd proposition that theso dens should bo licensed . How aro wo to licence them , and at tho samo timo prosocuto tho gambling houses ? Whore in tho distinction ?
No' hnlf-mcosuros must bo tried with them . War to tho Icnifo must bo proclaimed against thorn by every labourer in tho cnuao of philanthropy . Tho attention of hucIi men as Lords Carlisle and Shaftesbury must bo called to tho , subject , and thon perhaps this hydra headed monstor may bo destroyed . Tho ovils of tlio system , its fcarfiil consequences , cannot bo exaggerated . I am , sir , yours , Q .
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* Wo nhall bo glad to hoar again from our correspondent . -t-Ed . of Leader ,
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Mr . X . Kicardo , M . P ., was ridmg in Bptten row Tuesday , when , owing to the disgraceful state of the ^ i . ? 11 his horse fell , and dislocated the shoulder of the hon able gentleman . Lord John Manners willlose favour ?" MayTETair . This is the second serious accident . The Honourable J . C . Talbot , Q , C ., died suddenlv ™ Tuesday last . As lately as Friday week he addressed a parliamentary committee for several hours in favour of proposed line from Oxford to Brentford ; and the excite * ment arid exertion of this occasion seem to have great ] affected his health . The cause of bis death is said to b water ori the chest . oe The duel between Colonel Bomilly and Mr . Smythe was fought in a wood about four miles from the Wevbrirlif Station . The " parties" proceeded from the railway ina "fly , " Mr . Smythe on the box ; the Colonel " inside " The distance measured out was twelve paces . Neither , of the " combatants" spoke to each other during the journey to or from . * ¦
A meeting was held ori Saturday last , May 22 , at Lansdowne-house , for the purpose of raising a fund in order to erect a monument to the late Sir James Mackintosh ; and on the motion of the Eight Hon . T , B . Macaulay , second ed by Yiscount Mahon , it was resolved that immediate measures be taken with that view . On the motion , of Mr . Henry Hallam , seconded by Lord IBroughton , a committee was appointed to carry this intention into full effect , Lord Lansdowne consenting to act as chairman , and Sir E . H . Inglis as secretary .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1937/page/10/
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