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« Mv friend who proposed my health did me the honour to name some of my books . ( Loud cheering . ) Though I cannot say I have contributed anything to your exhibition £ the shape of models , yet there is a little wooden clock which I have exhibited to the country containing Bundry moral lessons ; which , I hope , have done some good ; and I think I may say I would be . an ungrateful man and as vain and conceited as ungrateful , if I did not say it , thai ; I am proud those lessons have been read and approved by the farmers in England as well as in my own country . ( Loud cheers . ) I have not the honour to be an fcngusliman—I am a native , and an inhabitant of another part of the world . More than 150 years have elapsed since my
forefathers left this country . Whether they slipped away at the time of the assizes —( Immense laughter and cheering ) - —or whether one of my cloth helped them off at the public expense—( Renewed laughter)—there is nobody old enough now to say , and perhaps it is as well not to be too strict in the inquiry . ( Cheers and laughter . ) It is along exile , though his Excellency the American Mi nister talks of your emigrating to his country . For my part , I should like to emigrate back again . ( Cheers . ) That would be my delight and happiness ; and I am not sure but that , if one of my brother judges would undertake to sentence me to transportation to England , I might be willing to be brought before him —( Laughter)—always provided that I fault two such
had committed no moral . I never spent delightful days in my life as I did yesterday and to-day , in Gloucester , witnessing this exhibition . As a practical farmer , fond of the cultivation of the soil , I came up from the north , where I was on my way to Scotland , for the purpose of being present here , and witnessing the improvements that have taken place during the last ten years . And it gives me great pleasure that , without attempting to say anything civil or to flatter , I can bear my testimony that within the last ten years the improvement has Deen beyond everything that can be conceived . The improvement in the class to which Lord Harrowby has referred—the lower orders—is perhaps greater than has taken place in any other class . They are better fed , better clad , better paid , and they respect themselves more . ( Loud cheers . ) Let me mention one instance where , as a traveller , I see a great improvement . In St .
James' Park in London I saw a notice something to this effect , ' The public are requested to protect the birds and trees in these plantations . ' No man "traps and spring guns there . [ Great laughter and cheering . ] That one fact speaks volumes ; and at Loughborough , the other day , I saw a similar notice—' These grounds are for the benefit of the people , and the people are requested to protect them . ' [ Cheers . ] This is an evidence to me that the people have learned to respect themselves , and that they are worthy of the respect of their superiors . It is a gratifying fact that it should be so . Now , look to this question , on which we have all been engaged to-day—the examination of implements . I see no prejudice now against the use of machinery , as if machines would take away the labouring man ' s bread . Thank God , that day has gone * by ; and , thank God for another thing—the day of the demagogue has gone by , too ; his occupation is gone , for he haa no lazy , idle , pauper population to talk to , and therefore he can do no mischief . ( Cheers . )" In such happy expressions of good feeling the evening passed away , and the pleasant and friendly sayings were well mixed with practical advice .
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WORKMEN AND WAGES . The Kidderminster carpet weavers are still out on strike , demanding the slight addition of Id . per yard to their poor ^ vages . They have received some aid from the Birmingham operatives , and also from the tapestry weavers of their own town . ( The handbills they print are written in a foolish spirit of invective against ¦ "• the rich . " ) The joiners of Ashton-under-Lyne moderately demand an advance of 1 * . per week wages , and a reduction of worktime by half an hour . Both are refused , but the Glossop concession indicates their final success . At Stocfcport , the weavers and spinners , though hard pressed , still hold out , encouraged by the separate concessions of some of the masters . But the main body of the masters are highly displeased , and have combined in an association to resist the present and future movements of the men . In London , many workmen connected with the building trades have struck for higher wages , as yet without success . The Rochdale weavers and piecers have obtained an advance of 12-g- and 10 per cent . The London plasterers and painters have also obtained a slight advance . Policemen ' s wages are evidently sharing in the general advance of the emoluments of working-men . The South Shields town council have determined to advance the wages of the men in the police force in that borough 2 s . per week . The Tynemouth town council have also resolved to adopt the following scale of wages to be given to the police force in that town : —Sergeants , 23 * . per week ; first-class men , 21 s . per week ; second-class , 19 s . per week ; third-class , 17 s . per week . A Leicester paper records— " There is not at this time a single able-bodied man in our workhouse ; and the number of able-bodied women is so small that the
master ' s journal continually contains hucIi reports as this : — ' The master was obliged to hire a washerwoman for three days . ' But this is not the worst . The master begs the guardians to allow tho old men above 60 lialf-a-pinfc of ale per day to coax them into working at tho pump , for , says he , ' vvo are so put about , ' This said pnmp used to bo the principal labour-test for the able-bodied men in tho house , and was tlio terror of tho idle-disposed among them . However , it is now worked principally by tho salaried officers of tho bouse . "
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SHAM NO B I L I T Y . Titles and honours have becomo so cheap in Franco that tboir sale has been attempted as an open commerce . Tho Tribunal of Correctional Police , at Paris , have tried a person calling himself Princo do Gpnznguo , Duke do Mantua , for swindling , illegally wearing decorations , and remaining in Franco , though a foreigner , after an order hud been given for his expulsion . Amongst tho titles he gave himself were these : — Alexander Andrew , Princo of Gonzuguo and CaBtiglione , Hovoroign and legitimate Duke of Mantua , Guitstalla , Pozzoli , and Solforino , Marquis of Luraurn , Count of Alostmnao < lc Mur / . ynowski , Huron of Nemtadt , ( hand Master of the Order of tho 'Kudomption , of tho Order of tho Inimnculato Conception , of the Order of Dovotednoss , of the Feminine Order of Muria Elian of Mantua , of tho Order of tho Four Emperors , of | ho Qrdpr of tho L , ion of Holstcin , and of tho i ' emjnjno
Order of Saint Elizabeth of the Visitation . He also , at times , represented himself as a general of cavalry , an officer of the Legion of Honour , a knight of the Order of Stanislaus and St . Anne of Russia , of the military Order of Poland , and of the Order of Stanislaus of Salm-Kirhurg . The accused is of military appearance , and wears a ! large moustache . His button-hole was ornamented with a ribbon of various colours . Several persons then testified that the " Prince" had sold them decorations ; in some cases for BOO francs and a cigar case , in others for a dinner , in a third for some shop goods . He made an impudent defence , asserting his rights as a sovereign prince .
" Are you not / ' said the President , " a certain Yorbeck who was brought up in a college of Jesuits , and who afterwards became servant to a Murzynowski ?" "I have always been Gonzague Murzynowski , " answered the accused , " and I shall always continue so . " " You first added the title of Count to your passport , and at that time that satisfied your ambition . ' " I have always been a count , and always a prince , but I am no longer anything since I became naturalized a "VVurtemberger . "
In answer to other questions he denied that his wife , the daughter of an innkeeper in Wurtemberg , had given him 1000 florins to get rid of him on account of his ill-treatment of her , or that he had been condemned for adultery . He also denied , that he had been expelled from Vienna by the police , but admitted that when serving in Spain he had been turned out of a regiment , which he said he had commanded ^ for incapacity and cowardice . He further denied that he had received * elief as a refugee at Cahors at the rate of 1 fr . 45 c . a day , but admitted that the Ministry of the Interior had once granted him 100 fr . to pay his expenses to Germany . He then went on to nay he had applied for service in Prussia , and been refused ; that ( being divorced from his first wife ) he had married the
daughter of the secretary of King Ferdinand of Spain ; that he then assumed the style and title of Prince Gonzague , and addressed petitions to the peers and deputies of France to be recognised as such . He had , he said , gone to England to fly from persecution . On his return he did not deny that he had begun to grant decorations , and that he had been created a baron . " By what right did you do so ? ' said the President . " By the right of my birth—the right of the chief of the Gonzagues . I gave decorations to sovereign princes and cardinals , who still wear them , and I never asked for money . " "You are not a Gonzague , " said the President , " M . Lacabane says so , and he is one of the principal genealogists of Europe . " A Lacabane ! Pooh ! I laugh at him ! I am a Gonzague , I say !" He was . convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment .
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THE ASSIZES . TnEJtE havo been cases of infanticide at the Essex , Norfolk , Northampton , and York assizes . Some of them have been recorded m our columns already . The details of all are very painful . In nearly all the cases the motives of tho mothers in murdering tho children have been the fear of exposure In one case , at Northampton , the mother was advised b y her own mother not to suckle tho child , lest sho should get " too fond of it , " and not bo able to part with it . They left the little child—a very fine oneto lie all day in bod without food ; but a neighbour speaking to tho young mother about it , remarked that she cried bitterly in telling of her mother ' s advice . Inquiries were made the next day , but tho child was found dead . Tho ¦ young woman has been acqinttod , but her mother haa boon sentenced to imprisonment for twelve months . Cases of domestic cruelty aro common in tho provinces , but the punishments awarded are proporly more severe than those given in London . At York a man has been transported for ton years for murderously assaulting hia daughter ; and at Winchester , a man who inflicted a cut on his wife ' s nock has bcon transported for life .
In Ireland generally , tho present Assizes aro light , but those in tho county of Monaghan aro very heavy , sovoral cases of murder being in tho calendar . At Abingdon tho list of offoncos is " light , " containing tho names of nineteon prisoners only . Some of tho cases aro heavy—burglary , rapo , and violent assault being numerous in . proportion . None of tho prisoners havo received a " superior education , " and but very few know how to read and write . Tho little county of Itutland is roinarkablo for its maidon assizoB ; but this circuit it has throo or four very ser ious cases in its culondar . Thoy consist exclusively of personal ussnults—uouift of an aggravated kind .
Litigation is not popular at Norfolk , thoro being but ono civil cause . Tho criminal calondar is likewise light , tho most Horious case boing an assault with intent to murder , Thoro wero nino eases of larceny , ono of which wns a charge against Ellen Martin . Sho in a young and very pretty girl of oixtcon , or , as tho gallant ponny-a-linor flayn , " possesses connidorablo personal attractions / ' Thinking that ono bo protty should not want handsome drcBaos , « ho pondorod on a device . Sho know that Mrs . Carter , a lady living noar tho town , woh a customer at Quolch ' s , tho drupor , and she roaolvod to write in her name for tho mutoriala . Sho Bat down , and revellin g in her new power , wroto fojr 10 yards of burfcge , 10 yarda of book muslin , 30 yards of whjto muslin , and a pan- of fltftys , Shp ordered .
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BURMAH REJECTS PEACE . Negotiations with Ava have been terminated by the Burmese Envoys refusing to sign the treaty proposed to them by the British , and declaring that they would not 6 ign away any part whatever of the Burmese dominions . They were ordered to reconsider their answer , or to leave our new territory within twenty 4 bur hours . They left it in ten hours . It is said that Lord Dalhousie does not intend taking any other steps beyond extending tho frontiers , and appropriating tho country seized . Should an attack be made on tho outer territory an iramodiafe advance will be made on Ava , and the King dethroned .
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C IIU 11 C II SIMONY . The following Bill is that which was presented to the House of Commons by Mr . Phillimoro . It has been rejected ; but , some of our readers will like to see tho text of the propositions . Tho enacting clause is as follows : — ' That if any portion , from . the timo of tho passing oC this Act , flhall or do , for any Hum of monoy , roward , gift , profit , or advantage , directly or indirectly , or for or by reason of any promise-, agreement , grant , bond , covenant , or other assurance of or ibr any num . of money , reward , gift , profit , or bonofit whatsoever , directly or indirectly , in his own naino or in tho name of any othor person or por-BonH , take , procure ) , or accept- the next avoidance of or presentation t . o-any benofico-wifch euro of souls , dignity ,, probond , or living ecclcflinNticul , and shall bo presented or collated thereupon , that then ovory such presentation or collation , and ovory udmisuion , irmtitut ion , lnvnutituro , and induction upon the same , shall bo utterly void , fruotralo , and of no efl ' oct in law , and Much agroomont flhall bo dooinod and taken to bo a ftimoniuonl contract ; and that it flhall and may u 0 lawful to and for tho Queon ' s Majoaty , hor hoirn im « l mieeoHHorn , to present or collate unto or give or bestow ovory hucIi konolioo , dignity , probond , and living , ceoloHiuationl ibr that , ono timo or turn only . "
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A CLERGYMAN SUSPENDED . ^" j ^ » ° P « f Durlmm has mispc-ndod n elorgymnn . lho Kov . J . H . Blunt wuh in deacon ' s orders , and appiicfl to be admitted , to tho priesthood at tho bishop ' s
recent ordination . All his necessary papers were lodged for that purpose . Just before the day appointed for the ceremony , some of the congregation of Tynemouth Church memorialized the bishop , stating that the Rev . J . H . Blunt , their curate , was in the habit of preaching the doctrine of the mass , had exaggerated authority of the Church and her ministers , bad insisted upon the evils resulting from the exercise of private judgment , the power of remission of sins vested in the clergy , and the doctrine of transubatantiation ; and that , moreover , on one occasion he inculcated the practice of having the cross upon the altar , and wearing it upon the person . They proceeded as follows : —
" The manner in which Mr . Blunt performs the services appears to us to be Bomish . Previous to entering the reading desk , Mr . Blunt makes a bow or genuflexion to the communion table , and on leaving the reading desk , to assist the vicar in the communion service , he makes a similar genuflexion on passing through the entrance to the communion table . He then takes his place , not at the south side of , or near to the table , but remains ^ at the lower step on the south side of the raised floor in front of the communion table , where , prior to a short prayer , he makes another genuflexion , and whilst praying he kneels with his ba ck to the c ongregation , and on rising trom the ™ . «™ r . hft remains on the same spot , standing with his
back to the congreg ation , never approaching the table , and only turning round whilst reading the Epistle ; and on the conclusion of the service he ? again bows to the table previous to leaving the church . " Mr . Blunt denied having preached Eomish doctrine , and submitted his sermons . The bishop acquitted him of this charge , but alleged that his language was " mystical and confused . " The result is , that the bishop has suspended the reverend gentleman from taking priest ' s orders for the period of twelve months .
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2 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), July 16, 1853, page 682, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1995/page/10/
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