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before the polling day , be left Taunton for Bath . But on the polling day Webber suddenly returned , darting to Taunton by an early train , and back again , after having polled for Badcock , ( not Ramsden . ) ( Pitman , however , represents the whole story as " a lie . " ) . Even postboys were treated with kindness . Mr . Jack Daw , an attorney ' s clerk , calls on Davis , postboy at Giles ' s Hotel , and showing his pockets full of money , orders a carriage and pair " for a drive . " He then affectionately insisted on having Davis as his postilion , and paid bin * 1 * . Gd . a mile for his driving . Davis had a vote ; but after all this kindness , he did not vote aa Mr . Jack Daw wished . Sir John Banisden has however been declared duly elected , tliese practices not being traced to him or his agents .
Mr . Forbes Mackenzie and Mr . Cliarles Turner have been unseated for Liverpool . The election is declared void , and they , by their agents , guilty of bribery and treating . The Committee do not recommend the suspension of the writ . The proceedings of this Committee were very protracted : 102 witnesses were examined , and the expense to the parties on both sides is estimated at 15 , OO 0 Z . Mr . Churchward , sub-editor of . the Morning
ITerald , was examined before the Plymouth Committee , on Wednesday , regarding his promises of Government situations to Tory voters at Plymouth . He admitted the fact of several applications , and of his examination of candidates . " If Mr . Thomas had said , ' So and so has promised Mr . Mare , will you use your influence to get him a situation V I should have done so if the party was respectable . " He kept up a correspondence with Mr . Gnuat , the private secretary of Mr . Stafford , for the object of getting the Plymouth vacancies .
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ELECTIONS . Captain Vebnon , a Conservative Free-trader , has been returned for Chatham , by a majority of 610 to 597 ; Admiral Stirling , Ministerialist , being the unsuccessful candidate . This result is a rare one at Chatham ; the Ministerialist candidate being almost invariably successful . Mr . Bagshaw ( Liberal ) has been returned for Harwich by a majority of 140 to 115 over Sir William Frazer , the Conservative candidate . The seats , vacated at Liverpool by the dispossession of Messrs . Turner and Mackenzie , are again sought by two Conservative candidates—the Hon . Henry Thomas Liddell , eldest son of Lo rd Rave nsworth , and Mr . Thomas Berry Horsfall ( late member for Derby , but unseated for the use of " horsenails" in his election agency . ) On the Liberal side , Mr . Robertson Gladstone ( brother to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) is mentioned as a candidate . He would obtain much Conservative support—and a compromise , by which one Liberal and one Conservat ive would come in , is not
improbable . Mr . W . S . Lindsay , the great ship-owner , is a candidate for Tynemouth . He is likely to succeed—no opposition having as yet appeared . The Duke of Northumberland had influence in the town , but ho has lost much of it of late , owing to hia opposition to a dock and railway promoted by the people of the town .
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INDIAN NEWS . THB Burmese Court lias got thirty days to consider the final terms prop osed by the Governor-General . If they are rejected , a fleet of steamers is to proceed at once to Ava Tlio negotiations still proceed : two Roman Catholic priests—one , a French Jesuit , and the other , a Portuguese missionary-aiding the Burmese Commissioner ., in the management of the affair , lhero is some controversy as to the proper limits of legu—it is doubted whether Promo is in Pegu ; but our Commissioners jiRturally object to give up a post that bus cost u » some trouble und expenso in securing .
The insurrection at Pegu is at an end . On the recapture of Beling , Paug-tha , one of the rebel leaders , took to the jungles , but n n ative chief cut ofl I ns head , and sent it in salt to the British Commissioner as a friendly ffift- From other parts of India there is not much riots . Along the north-west frontier ^ 1 " ° ? is quiet The Nizam has coded ( in liquidation of his debt to us ) Bornr , the richest cotton district in India . At Bombay , the affair of thedumped ^ Judgesis rf . ll had left for land to lay his
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been numerously signed in Bombay both by Europeans and natives . The Governor-General is at Calcutta . The Governor of Bombay is " on the hills . " Sir Frederick Currie and Sir Joseph- Thackwell have left India for good ; the latter has served in India for twenty years . The Bombay Native Association have sent home another petition , on the renewal of the Charter , praying for delay of legislation , and inquiry iu India .
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AMERICAN NOTES . A NEW war with Mexico is not improbable . The supposed organ of the Cabinet—the Washington Uniondeclares , that " unless the seizure of the Mesilla Valley by a Mexican force is disavowed , the United States cannot hesitate how to act . " English capitalists have invested largely of late in American securities . Of these the most secure are the United States Debt , and the Stocks of large municipal Corporations .
The Southern Convention , to meet at Memphis , not alone aims at making southern commerce independent of New York , but also independent of Liverpool . Aroused by the hostility of the late Anti-Slavery agitation here , it seeks , in revenge , "to set up in Havre , or some other port in France , a depot for cotton , to which English merchants would be compelled to go , whether they willed it or not , to get their supplies for Manchester . " Lord Ellesmere arrived at New York on the 10 th . He and his colleagues are not alone to inspect the Exhibition , but also to examine the industrial resources of the United States .
Santa Anna has suppressed 40 newspapers , and put down smoking in the theatres ! The army has been reorganized ; and the National Guards formed into an active Militia . The whole ariny consists of 91 , 000
men . Jamaica is without a revenue , the feud between the Council and the Assembly being still active . No business is done in the Assembly ; it simply adjourns from day to day .
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MANCHESTER OPINION ON INDIA . Manchester has added its voice to the pronouncements on the India Bill . A meeting " respectable but not numerous , " assembled there on Monday evening to consider and discuss the Government Bill . Mr . H . Ashworth spoke as one of authority on the subject of cotton in India . " Sir James Hogg had recommended Manchester skill , intelligence , and capital , to be applied to India . But on what sort of security ? Mr . I ) ickenson , a writer upon India , in a most excellent publication which liad recently como out , stated , ' It is supposed in England that Europeans may now freely settle in any ports of the interior of India for purposes of business . Nothing can bo more contrary to the fact . Europeans can only settle in the cotton districts by permission of the Government , on a
short lease , and under liability of being turned out of the country at once by a Government officer , and of having their property confiscated , without any judicial appeal being allowed . ' If gentlemen liked their security they might invest . As to the cultivation of cotton being a question of price , Mr . Davios , a collector of Gaizerat , estimated tho cost of growth of Indian cotton at l \ d . per pound at tho place o ? growth ; and tho cost of freight from India to this country , on tho average of last year , was 14 i-32 d . per pound , or not quite £ d . ; that made 2 d . pelpound . There must bo something more to make it a question of prico , and it was that about tho same expense had to be incurred in transport from tho place- of growth to the place of shipment . Would tho Manchester people consent to embark their monoy where the mode of transit was to bo conducted by bullocks ? If Manchester spirit must go to India railways must go . "
Mr . Bright followed in a speech of somo length , reiterating many of his old facts and arguments . After setting forth tho bad condition of India , he said : — " Then camo tho quostion , Who was to blame P W as it Leadenhall -street , or was it Cannon-row P Somo men said that Leadenhall-atroet was , af ter all , a very reputable place , and Cannon-row ( tho Board of Control ) was to blame . Well , it was of no consequonco to us which was to blame . Tho two were there ; tho two Governments , by some kind of hocus pocua , managed tho government of India ; and ho believed the two together , were they good or bad singly , formed about the worst Government that human ingenuity could possibly contrive . But it wasvory mischief
odd , if Cannon-row had been doing all tho ihr twenty years , wiry Loadenhall-streot never protested . Tho pith of the question lay in this—should thoro bo a double government for India or not P JJo must say ho thought the bill which had been introduced waa an especial mark or demonstration of that stage of decrepitude which appeared entirely to have overtaken the Whigparty . Tho present Government was formed about oflo-holf of Whigi , and the other half of what wore called , for want of a better namo , Pcolites . He supposed they acted somewhat in this way , — that when there was anything in tho Poolilo department , tho PeolitoB had their own way about it ; and whon thoro won anything in the Whig department , tho Whig noction had ita own way about it Mr . Gladstone , in tho Peolite department , wan pormitted to have his fling in the budget ; an * now Bit
Charles "Wood , in the Wing department , was permitted io have his fling m the India J 3 ill . He intimated , in conclusion , his intention of supporting Lord Stanley ' s amendment , and attacked the Daily News for its dissent from that view . The following resolutions were passed : — " That this meeting unhesitatingly avows its extreme dissatisfaction with the results of the past government of British India , and its deliberate conviction that the gross neglect of the material advancement of the people of that country , which has been exhibited during the currency of the last charter , is to be attributed to the irresponsible
system under which the affairs of India have been directed . That this meeting cannot discover in the bill which Her Majesty ' s Ministers have brought before Parliament even a latent hope that their project for the future government of India will provide any sufficient remedy for the glaring omissions of the past , inasmuch as the system is not reformed in any essential degree , and no security can be found in it for an actrve development of agricultural resources , or that an adequate portion of the revenue shall be applied to the much-needed internal amelioration of the country , instead of being , as heretofore , wholly lavished on territorial aggrandizement . "
A petition to Parliament , founded on these resolutions , was then ordered , and the meeting separated . The principal persons composing the demonstration are the leading Members of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce .
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WAGES . The Stockport " turn out" is the greatest of the day . Twenty thousand weavers have struck work . They expect support from the weavers and connected operatives in the district , and a kind of tax of fivepence per loom has been partially levied , as yet without much effect . At Blackburn there is a similar strike , and the entire number out of employment in the district is computed at thirty-five thousand . The contest promises to be bitter and protracted . Some of the masters have yielded , but the majority maintain a firm attitude . At Manchester the employers evince a better spirit . " One manufacturer , on hearing the other day
that his weavers were holding meetings , sent for them immediately to a conference . A reply was returned suggesting a deputation . ' Deputati&n ! ' exclaimed the employer , ' I want no deputation , to risk a misapprehension or misrepresentation of what I say ; let the whole of them come / They all came , and the result was , that hearing from him the exact position of his bargains and his profits , they were so convinced that loss and ruin would ensue on the enforcement of their demand , that they returned to work without further argument . " At Blackburn and Darwen the loomers ( workmen who supply warps to weavers ) have struck ,
and the weavers support them . At Bradford the stonemasons demand 28 s . instead of 26 s . a week . At Cheltenham the journeymen painters ask 4 s . a day , in consideration of their want of work during winter . The Stirlingshire nailors , the painters and glaziers of Southampton , and the carpenters of London , are contemplating a movement Tho operative glass-makers of Manchester are still unsuccessful . The Devonshire shoemakers continue tho " strike " with some likelihood of success ; and the dispute at Llvnfi works ( Wales ) is unsettled . In the latter place the men protest against being paid in t ickets for meal , and throe thousand of them are about to leave .
The operatives have succeeded at Dowlas and Bezfore « t ( Wales ) in obtaining an advance of 5 per cent . ; a further increase of 10 per cent . Jias been promised . In tho Manchester district the men have succeeded almost universally in obtaining the " short time" they have demanded ; and in Birmingham the movement for a half-holding is winning general success . Tho shoemakers of Birming ham arc the only discontented operatives in that town at present . In the north of
Ireland business in tho linen-trado is restricted by tho want of hands , and weavers cannot bo had even at an advance of 15 per cent , on former wages . In tho cotton trade—especially in tho sowing and embroidery tradeemployment has been greatly increased . At Manchester tho dispute between the police and the municipal authorities is likely to be settled . Tho South Shields policemen are likely to obtain tho increaso they have dumunded , from 18 a-. to 20 s . a week .
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A GAVAZZI KJOT IN QUEBEC . Quebec is a city full of lloman Catholics—many of them Irish lioinun Catholics . Father Guvazzi , tho Italian preacher against tho Church of Rome , came to Quebec and delivered one of Iuh uhuuI sermons in a Wcsloyan Church . As ho made somo allusion to tho intolerance und despotism of tho Irish priesthood , a man in tho crowd called out " That ' s a lie ! " others chorused , " Put him out ! " and u ficono of disorder commenced which it in no cosy matter to describe . Showers of stones were thrown from outside , breaking tho windows , and scattering terror and injury among tho audience . A bund of mfliana rushed into tho church , without molestation from the police . The foremost
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June 25 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . _____ ^
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Leader (1850-1860), June 25, 1853, page 609, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1992/page/9/
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