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: V me on "Friday morning that thenceforward , 8 X 1 x 16 " tout the contested election , all bad blood and all & ?< % i f ^ -idiniUy , however , has since thought it expe"? l ° ? eoSSS whole question . First of all , byfcs ^ - . ^ on the publication of the minutes of a d&er-^ »> f which Captain Vivian , on my part was strongly en , to " to wji £ ch he only after long delays and grave 0 ffnAs finally consented ; and secondly , by-theaddress * iS . hefore me , which is very imperfectly correct ^ Ti ^ ffallant colleague states ' that he had no commu-• f ^^ rith me previous to the election of 1850 / I never * £ + w \ e had ; but I asserted , what he does not contra-* $% Si wrote to the chairman of the meeting which wrnSdhim , for the first time , to the electors of Can-^™ ™ Ui ™ upon all my friends to support him .
n w . i Eomilly goes on to say that 'Ms being then Sd' wW ^ otfin his belief , owing to my , supportJ I beiffyethat it was so owing ; and a reconcilement between H op two contrary beliefs is obviously impossible . I am S 3 hSevS , that Colonel Bomilly ( foes not deny , if he nmewhftt ungraciously acknowledges , my assistance , in his hrase ' The fact of that support I am ready to admit . ' P ^ 'My callant . colleague . ¦ ¦ goes on . to state— 'On the sublet of the now approaching ejection I never had any formal interview with Mr . Smvthe . ' Here , again , I never contended that he had . 'It is true that , having met me on several occasions , he ( Mr , Smythe ) h % s ongviatedwnvprsationswithttie on the subject . ' JNow thepoint of this ventured to
sentence consists in the word wnicA . ± Have italicise It is preoisely my charge against Colonel BotnillY that he did allow me to originate conversations on the coming election . My spoken words were these : — 'At anv rate it was xinder the hallucination that our coalition , as 1 had heard nothing to the contrary , still subsisted , that directly after the certainty of an immediate dissolution I spoke to my colleague in the sense of making immediate and joint preparations / .. " Colonel Eomuly remarks , very truly , that ' Mr . Smythe appeared to be annoyed , and expressed himself ¦ warmly on the occasion ; ' but the gallant officer is under a continues but
complete misapprehension when ne —r * ne afterwards distinctly admitted to me that I had acted towards him fairly and openly in the matter . ' The matter to which I alluded in these expressions had no reference ¦ whatever to Colonel Epmilly ' s general conduct towards myself ; they were simply used in courteous acknowledgment of a letter which Colonel Eomilly had sent to me , int imating his intention to hold a meeting of his friends in Canterbury ; and had I known that at that meeting Sir William Somerville ' s name was to be proposed , I certainly should not have complimented Colonel Komilly either upon his openness or his frankness . "
Of course we are not judges of the " difference , " but we put it to our readers whether the reply of Mr . Smythe does not look like a surrender ?
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THE WAGNER CASE AGAIN . Me . Bbthelij carried an appeal before the Lord Chancellor in the above case , praying him to reverse the decision of the inferior Court . The case was argued on Monday and Wednesday . Priority had teen granted to it , as the l « ord Chancellor understood that the question of the jurisdiction of the Court would only be argued ; and be expressed his surprise when Mr . Bethel ! re-opened and re-stated the case . Mr . Bethell ' s address , and the dialogue which arose out of it between himself and Lord St . Leonards , occupied
the whole of the hearing . The points contended for were , that the Court had no jurisdiction , and therefore ought not to have issued the injunction ; that the nonpayment of the money vitiated the contract ; and on this point the weight of Mr . Bethell ' s argument rested on a lost letter alleged to have been sent by Dr . Bacher to the Wagners , on the 10 th of March , offering to pay the money ; and that the agreement had been founded on a misrepresentation on the part of Lumley ' s agent to lull the Wagners to sleep . The Lord Chancellor was of opinion that that amounted to a charge of fraud in any sense , Mr . Betholl thinking it fraud in ono
« ense . Resumed on Wednesday , the Lord Chancellor heard the counsel for Mr . Lumley , who recapitulated the facts already before our readers . The Lord Chancellor then delivered judgment . Ho decided that it was within tho jurisdiction of the Court to grant the injunction in tlvis case , aa well from tho general principles recognised by tho Court , as upon tho authority of procedonts , of which he cited a considerable number . With regard to the merits of tho case , his lordship cleared I ) r . Buchor from any imputation of
misrepresentation or ubuso of confidence , and docided that ho was authorized to act as lie did . With regard to tho payment of the 8002 . his lordship differed from tho Court bolow , in deciding tliatthis was an indopondont contract , but considered that Mr . Lumloy had sot himself right by tendering tho money . Ho docided that M . Wugnor and his daughter had acquiesced in tho ( lolay of payment by returning no reply to the communication of Dr . Baoher , in which ho offered to pay tho 300 ? . Tho atory of tho lost lottor ho thought told "gainst tho Wagners .
Tho rulo of tho Court , thoroforo , was that tho injunction granted by Vioe Chancellor Parker against too defendant * ahould continue in force , And that
Mdlle . Wagner should not be permitted to sing at the Covent-garden Opera-house . In connexion with the above case the following fact may be taken . We presume Mr . Lumley ' s position has necessitated a solemn appeal to the patrons of the old opera , to stand " on the ancient ways" of opera goers , for a large meeting was held on Saturday at the Duke of Cleveland ' s , under the presidence of the Duke of Leihsterj when resolutions -were passed , not so complimentary to Mr . Lumley , as declaratory of a conservative resolve to support the fallen fortunes of Her Majesty ' s Theatre —jtisqw' a la bourse . Upwards of one hundred influential habitues were
present , among them being the Marquis of Clanricarde , Marquis of Worcester , Sir Anthony de Kothscbildj his Excellency Baron Brunnow , his Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio , his Excellency Baron Rehausen , Earl of Shelburne , Earl of Harrington , Lord Ward , Viscount Clifden , Lord Cranbourn , Viscount Anson , M . P ., General the Hon . H . Cavendish , Sir Ralph Howard , Bart ., M . P ., Hon . G . S . Smythe , M . P ., Lord d . Paget , M . P ., Sir Henry Webb , Bart ., Lord Wm . Lennox , W . M . Thackeray , Henry Baring , M . P ., Colonel Dixon , R . W . Packe , M . P ., H . Brerettm Trelawny , M . P ., C . Barry Baldwin , M . P ., General Sir A . Woodford , Mr . Albany Fonblanque .
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CHURCH MATTERS . The Church Estates Commission , established " to facilitate the Management and Improvement of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in England , " issued its first report on the 1 st of March . It has been printed , and is of some importance , as directly bearing on the Church leasehold question . The report is addressed to the Secretary of State for the Home Department * and signed " Chichester , Henry Goulburn , and John George Shaw Lefevre . " It is as follows : —
" Under this act any ecclesiastical corporation may , with the approval in writing of the Church Estates Commissioners ( who shall pay due regard to the just and reasonable claims of the present holders of lands underlease , or otherwise , arising from the long-continued practice of renewal ) , sell to any lessee the interest of such corporation , and may enfranchise any copyhold lands , and may purchase the lessee ' s interest or dealVby way of exchange , or otherwise , as may be agreed upon between the parties . Certain sub-lessees are to be considered as entitled to the
privileges of lessees . " The act further provides , that the surplus moneys arising from transactions under this act shall be appropriated to the common fund of the Ecclesiastical Commisr eioners for England . ¦ . ¦ . « "The short time that has elapsed since tho passing of the act has afforded little opportunity for ascertaining tho extent to which its powers are likel y to be made available , but-we seo no reason to doubt that its operation will materially facilitate the settlement of the Church leasehold question to the satisfaction both of tho lessors and of the lessees . ., " Proposals to sell reversions , or to purchase leasehold interests , have been submitted by the Archbishop of Canterbury , and by the Bishops of London and Norwich , by the Chapter of Durham , and the Vicars-choral of Lichfield , and we have reason to believe that similar applications will shortly come before us from several other ecclesiastical corporations .
" We have also recoived one proposal for tho enfranchisement of five copyhold tenements under tho seo of Norwich . , , , ,, " No purchase or salo has yot been concluded , but tUo sovoral transactions aro progressing satisfactorily towards completion . "
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PROGRESS OP ASSOCIATION . CO-OPBBATIYE LEAGUE . Mb . Kasii road , on May 9 th , a paper upon tho Equitable Labour Exohange , established in Gray ' s-inn-road in 1832 , upon tho suggestion of Mr . Owen . He traced tho cause of that want of success in great part to tho too small amount of capital on which tho institution commoncod . £ 2000 had been named , but only £ 600 was subscribedand of this nearly £ 300 Wiw absorbed
, in payment of arrears of ground rent . There wore , however , other difficulties . The notes which served ns a inodium of exchange , and which at first wore at a premium , gradually foil to a discount , from tho wnnt of a sufficient choico of articles . Tho goods brought for exchange gradually changod their character from goods in which materials wore worth more than tho labour , to those in which tho labour was worth moro than tho
material . Much injury wus dono also from spurious exchanges , which arose and created distrust of tho systorn . Yot goods to tho estimated value of £ 11 , 140 passed through it during tho six months of its oxistomw , and tho value of tho goods deposited for oxchango , m woll as of tho oxchangoa , effected an immense saving , by striking off a vast amount of intermediate profit . Mr . Lloyd . Tones oxprosscd his opinion that to wuch an oxohungo the introduction of articles of food was requisite to koop tho notes at a premium , and that part of tho paymont ought to havo boon modo in cash . Mr . Saull abated difficulties from artioles of food befog
wanted so much more frequently than others . The baker would be overpowered with articles which he did not want . Mr . F . Worsley answered this difficulty by showing that a coat or table was worth inany loaves . Mr . J . D . Stiles stated another difficulty , the want of persons sufficiently skilled in the value of articles ; again , in the want of cash being taken to pay the commission . Mr . Neale called attention to the two principles involved in the Labour Exchange , the bring ing the producer and consumer face to face , getting rid
of unnecessary intermediate dealers > and the introduction of the labour-note , or new medium of exchange , which was liable to be depreciated by the want of a sufficiently wide sphere . In itself he considered the labour note a more philosophical medium , though in the Labour Exchange it was necessarily imperfect , because one man ' s hour of labour could not be valued at the same rate as another , whose labour , though not more useful , was , in general society , more highly paid . Dr . Travis , Mr . Fleming , and Mr . R . Cooper spoke , and the soiree adjourned .
The Executive Committee of the National Association of United Trades have forwarded to us a document , signed " William Peel / ' in which they avow their intention of forming a " National Association of Workers , " not recognising the distinction between skilled and unskilled labourers , but only between idle and industrious workmen . Thus they hope , by forming a comprehensive Association , to escape the fate of the isolated iron trades , and exercise then * fair influence in the labour market .
Proposed Emigration of Engineers . —The em - gration committee of the Amalgamated Society to the trades in general have issued an address to their fellowworkmen , in which , after detailing the well-known facts and sequel of the engineers' strike , they call for pecuniary contributions to enable their unemployed members and their families to emigrate , if desirous of doing so .
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PEEL MEMORIAL . On the 5 th of May a meeting of the Committee of the Working Men ' s Memorial to the late Sir Robert Peel , was held at Mr . Hume ' s house , in Bryanstone-square , and the under-printed set of resolutions agreed to : " ' That the fund shall be denominated 'The Working Men * s Memorial , ' and the amount be transferred to a pub lie and corporate body , upon a declaration of trust , for the following uses : — " ' That the annual income of the fund shall be appropriated to the purchase , binding , and stamping of books useful to working men , comprising works upon history , mechanics , arts , and sciences , and general literature suitable to the working classes .
" ' That each of these books shall be bound in an appropriate cover , and each chapter impressed with a distinctive and appropriate stamp . " * That applications shall bo received from all public libraries , mechanics' institutions , reading-rooms , and literary associations in tho United Kingdom ( where the working classes have access gratis , or at a small charge ) , for alfeueh books . " ' That a preference be given to all towns and places from which the subscriptions have been roceived . " ' That tho annual distribution or gift of such books shall bo in the discretion of the corporate body , according to rules to bo propared by the committee , and stated in the
trust , " ' That tho binding of each book shall bo appropriate , and shall denote that the book ha s been presented to tho particular library , &c , as a momorial of the lato Sir Robert Peel , from a f und subscribed by tho working mon of Groat Britain , to commemorate that s tatesman ' s successful efforts in giving to tho population of this empire untaxod broad , and that tho samo , or a similar appropriate notification , shall bo upon tho stamp . ' " It was also resolved that suggestions as to the carrying out of the above propositions would bo received by Mr . Hume from any subscriber .
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THE ARCTIC SQUADRON . [ From the Morning Herald ^ ( if BOM A OOBBEgr ON » ENT . ) Her Majesty ' s atrip , Intrepid , at Sea , May 8 , 1852 . I embiuoe this opportunity of sending a short note by thcao steamers who havo towed ua to lat . 59 68 N . long . 21 49 W . Wo aro all woll on board tho Intrepid , and I boliovo all tho squadron aro so , as far as I know . Wo aro considerably ndvancod towards tho scene of operations , whore Sir Edward Belcher will havo an opportunity of grappling with an antagonist hitherto a stranger to him . I should recommend those gentlemen who wore ho eager to witnosB tho exploding of tar barrels by the means of galvanism and gunpowder in Woolwioh Dockyard , to mako an excursion this summer to Davjfl Straits , in order to have ocular proof of their effect on the immense floes that choko " Melville Bay . " As for myself , I havo every confidence in tho onergy and perseverance of Sir Edward , but the blowing-up and afterwards clearing away of gam * fifty mltofl or ioa
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May 29 > I - ~ 1 THE LEADER . 509 - ' ' ' " ^ I iTTn " ' n n i i ' ' ' ' ' ' ¦ ' ————^————^»
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 509, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1937/page/9/
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