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of nations , and of Justice , -Freedom , and Humanity all over the world . " And the people of Derby , who spurned " W . B ., " and despised "horse-nails , " propose to give a dinner to Lord Palmerston , as a man they delight to honour . Mr . John Sadleir , the Catholic Lord of the Treasury , is a person of city eminence , being- chairman of the London and County Bank , and in many ways a-prosperous gentleman . Grand candlesticks , w . orth 600 ? ., hav . e been given to him . by the shareholders of the "bank , as a mark of their : esteem . He deserves the gift ; : for lately when a provident fund for the officers was being arranged , he gave four thousand pounds towards it . Lord John Russell is staying at Roseneath House , on the banks of the Grareloch . His wife and children are with him .
Sidney Herbert and his wife , who seem to have " an unwearied spirit in doing courtesies , " gave a feast to the school children of Wilton on Saturday . There were music , flowers , and a pleasant country-dance , in which the givers of the feast cordially joined . With his "foot on his native heath , "* Mr . John M'Gregor , M . P . for Glasgow , waxed eloquent on Monday in giving an account of what he ( and others ) had done in Parliament . He boasted that no Scotch members had been unseated for bribery or corruption , while 127 English members had been petitioned against .
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New lines of omnibuses between Camden-town , and the West-end , and City , are to be started : the increased traffic between the places requiring more conveyances than at present . The enormous value of building ground in the City is shown by the rent of 1300 Z . a year given lately for a J > iece of ground containing but 400 square yards . This etting , if calculated at its freehold value , at the present price of consols , would represent the extraordinary sum of rather more than 52 O , 00 OZ . per acre . A servant-girl died of Asiatic cholera in Princes-square , on Sunday , after a brief illness . There is no drainage to the house ; there is a cesspool in the yard , which contains all the filthy water , &c , from the house , and it lies in pools in the front of the house all day long . The whole of the residents complain of the bad drainage in the houses of the square , and many are ill .
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company have been compelled to pay 73001 . to the widows and orphans of the persons they caused to be killed on the 4 th of March last . The family of Constantine Carati , a Greek merchant who resided at Glasgow , obtained 3000 ? ., divided equally , one quarter to the widow , and the rest to three children . Another family obtained 2000 ? ., and the other families obtained the remainder in smaller sums . The Company have since stated on their tickets that they are not answerable for accidents . A magnificent mansion between St . John's-wood and Highgate is to be purchased by Prince Albert , and converted into a " nursery" for the royal children .
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Since 1840 the amount of letters posted has increased by 150 , 000 in the day : and oven since last December tho increase hns boon 33 , 000 por day . In lH'll the money orders of tho Posi-oflico amounted but to 0 ( 50 , <) 0 ( M . ; while ' in 1852 they swelled to no less than 0 , 400 , 000 / . !! Tho value of our manufactures exported <; o Australia waa , in 1850 , 2 , 602 , 262 * . ; and in 1852 , 4 , 222 , 250 / .
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Lola Montos has married an editor in California . Mrs . Graham and Mr . Kennedy attempted to get up in a balloon at Dublin , but failed on account of tho balloon not being made strong enough to enrry two . Tho lady , a practised aeronaut , was hurt by being knocked ab ' out rnnong rooffl , tileH , and chimney-pots . At . Bristol three chihlron woro bit . ton by n rat , which rushed into their bod , bit thorn on tho noso and anna , and loft them besmeared with blood . Tho next evening tho father killed tho rat . it was an immonso animal of tho Norway breed—a species of rat which found its way into England about sixty yoarn Hinco , and which has now nearly exterminated tho ancient black rat of England .
A London gentleman , staying with his wifo at Vontnor , wont out in a boat with two imlierinon , and was soon no inoro . On ( ho next morning tho boat wan found washed anhoro . None of tho bodios fiavo boon foum | . Tho diHciplmo and management of tho Borough . Onol at Birmingham , lately noted lor tho alleged cruelty of tho Governor towards tho prisoners , in to bo investigated by Government CominisHionorn . Tho ' Kxotor ami Hoiidh Dovon Tij / lo Corps is male ing progroHH in discipline and practice . It is tho only ono iu . England of tho kind a « yef . mmeliondd by royal authority . An India plant ns good as gutla pordia has boon found , Tts milky juice whondriod bocomos tough and hard . Tlio chemical tosts correspond oxactly with Uio established n > - miltrt of gutta-porcha . It bocoinoa planlio in hot , walor , and has boon moulded into cups nnd vohmoIn . It will unite with tho true gutta porcha . It also producer ein oxediout
fibre , useful in the place of hemp and flax . It is called the Muddur plant of India ( Asclepia gigantea . ) The latest report of Paris fashions says— « ' Bonnets are very small , and are more worn about the nec than on the Over one hundred thousand pounds has been subscribed to tho Wellington' College Testimonial . The Post Office is an exceptional institution of the age : it retrogades . One of its latest faults has been an ingenious arrangement by which the London morning newspapers will not leave town for Glasgow until the evening newspapers are printed . A pleasing fact is tho holiday made for the Ragged School children of Spitalfields by Mr . Gurney , at Upton Park . He feasted 600 of the little fellows , who rejoiced exceedingly at the day ' s excursion .
Railway excavators are now being drafted , en masse , to Australia . Three hundred and seventy labourers , with their wives and families , left Southampton on Monday in the Herefordshire . They are intended for the service of the Sydney Railway Company , to whom they are under agreement to work for two years at 5 s . per day . Cremorne is to see a sight of rare splendour on Tuesday . A grand day and night gala is to surprise the usual visitors and the new folk tempted by the notification that it is the benefit of Mr . Simpson , who for his good works ( in fire and otherwise ) is much liked .
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In the New York Crystal Palace the articles of art and industry from Lombardy were placed in the compartment inscribed " Austria . " This , though politically correct , gave offence to American feeling , and the proper inscription of " Lombardy" was therefore substituted . The mines in California continue to yield richly , and new diggings of great value have been discovered . The trade of San Francesco is rapidly extending . The town of Ophir , in California , has passed through the usual fiery ordeal of Californian cities . It has been destroyed by fire--for the first tune .
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Satttedat , August 27 . The morning ' s despatches do not enlighten us on the Eastern question . It seems quite , clear that the modifications of the note proposed by the Turks are more serious than were at first apprehended . The Times attempts to make political capital for Russia out of the delay interposed by the Turks ; and says the Turks want to get , under the shield of the European Powers , more than the European Powers have awarded to her . But certainly the Western Powers cannot desire to force the Sultan to accept terms which , in the opinion of his very moderate Ministers , are not conducive to the integrity and independence of the Turkish empire . The public must not be seduced from a . just view of the case by the Russian special pleading of the Times .
Some American news of import is in this morning . The despatches relative to the Kossta affair at Smyrna were read before the Cabinet on the 10 th inst ., and Captain Ingraham ' s conduct is to be fully sustained . The members of the Cabinet were desired to ratify the proceedings of the American commander , and to issue , if necessary , another edition of American opinions on European affairs expressed in the celebrated letter of the late Mr . Webster to Chevalisr Hulsemann . The peaceful settlement of tho fisheries dispute seems likely . Despatches received at Washington from the Commander of tho American squadron were of a pacific and satisfactory character . Tho British squadron was actively employed in keeping the Americans without the prescribed limits . At Genoa , tho high price of bread has csuised some riots . Tho people of Spczzia havo complimented Commander Ingraham for his energetic conduct at Smyrna . The vacant Thistle will , i t is said , bo conferred on tho Duko of Hamilton , or tho Duko of Argyll . Tho Duke of Hamilton ' s wife ia a cousin of Louis Napoleon . A dinner to Mr . Gladstone and Mr . Cardwell is contemplated at Liverpool . Lord Piilmerston lias declined the invitation of tho Derby people to a public dinner—bin visit to tho neighbourhood being entirely of a local character . Mr . John ' Francis Maguiro is likely to bo returned for Dungurvan . At two o'clock , on Thursday , bo had polled 150 , while his opponont , Mr . Gregory , had polled but 78 .
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" liattonstein , " Iho Hungarian nocunod of mendicant . imposture , and of having forged n testimonial from IvohhiiMi , ban boon again examined . KohsuMi appeared as a witness , and swore that the certificate wan in his handwriting , but ; ho had given it expressly that tho prisoner might obtain work . The won In on tho certificate are , " Ik is not alms ho wishes to got ; , but work , bo it ever ho hard . '' Kosnut . li said , ho doubted that tho accused was a soldior , but . after tho man had spoken , and shown a plan of ( . ho Hungarian hnMloH , ho stated that ; ho believed Ilio amised had boon iu tho war of indopondonoo . Tho prisoner lias boon rouinndod . -tho polieo oxpeol . ing to firing up in a low days Uio real Itat . tonstojn , who got Mio owliiieuto , and who is now iu tho Penitontiary ouilbring punishment for impofltui-o .
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from a bargain disadvantageous to them . To speak exactly , it is not proper to consider the labour employed by a particular house of business as separated into the individuals composing it . As a matter of political oeconomy , it should be considered in mass , as the employers are considered in mass . There is a firm on one side , the labour on the other . The firm comes to a combined judgment on its own interests , tho partners all acting together . It would be false reason , as well as false justice , to withhold from
RATIONALE OF STRIKES . Seveeal of our contemporaries have been writing lately against strikes , and we see that Mr . William ' Crawshay , the great iron-master , has also entered the field on the same side . But it appears to us that this discussion is a species of beating the air , in which the writers do not come to the point . They talk of strikes , as if a strike were a definite thing , bad in itself , and having always the same kind of consequences . If they were to argue against disputes between masters and men , they would speak , not less , but more to the purpose . What is a strike P It is the withdrawal of men
the men the same right to act on the view of their common interests ; especially as the interest of each man can only be fully attained when all go together . The masters exercise the right of combining ; the iron-masters most especially and systematically havo their quarterly meeting to regulate the price of iron , which 'they withhold from the customer at pleasure . Tho same right justly belongs to the men , although at present it is restricted by one-sided law . to
If tho masters find that they cannot afford pay a certain amount of wages , they would effect a lower amount ; and if the men insisted upon a higher amount than tho masters could really pay » the masters would cease to employ tho men . A corresponding right belongs to tho labourers : if they want higher Avagca than tho masters will givo them , they havo a right to withdraw ironi tho employment , collectively as well as individually . It is always to bo regretted when disputes occur between masters and men : it is to
be regretted if ono Hide obstinately refuses ft reconciliation on reasonable gronndn , and mcn » r ° to blamo who strike without sufficient cause . J > if tho masters refuso to go on according to tJio terms proposed by tho men , their refusal is nothing inoro nor loss than a * ' Hfcriko" of tho masters ; and if their refusal is unreasonable , they arc as much to blnrno an tho mon . In some r « - flpoetfi , indeed , they are more to blamo , since thoy ought to have better information , lint without going into"niceties , lot ; un . be content for tho moment with obaorving , that a roftiHal to work is as much a strike on ono Bide jih on the other ; » that when refunal m made to hack unreiwonaljio terniM , it i . s jib culpable on the ono si < l « » lB '' other . . It ; ibllowH , from thin view , that there can be Htrikfs which are quite jiiHti / iablo and hItikcj which are unjustifiable , but that ; tho want oi reiiHon is not shown in the strike itself , any mon on one side than the other . An instance occurred lately , in which a jniu »" facturor produced hie account to his men , «
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The Irish are making decent and judicious preparations to receive the Queen . Illuminations of private housea are to be dispensed with , but tho public buildings and large shops are to bo lighted . The Exhibition proceeds in popularity . A new valuation of Irish property is to be mado , under tho superintendence of Dr . Griffiths , the Chief Commissioner of Valuation . This will form tho basis of all future taxation .
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A good samplo of African cotton has been shown in Manchester . It was grown near Abbeokuta , on tho Gold Coast . Daguerreotypes in future aro to be passed freo of duty . Pour hundred thousand head of eattlo are imported into Liverpool every year . Tho Himalaya , recently launched for the servieo of tho Peninsular and Oriental Company , is equal in tonnage to tho Duke of Wellington , and sixty foot longer than that immenso war steamer .
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we re ¦ Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matt ^ and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons q uite j r ' pendent of the merits of the communication . mae . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications TVTv ever is intended for insertion must be authenticated bvrt . name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for nuhl tion , but as a . guarantee of bis . good faith . 1 uca < We cannot undertake to return rejected communications All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 7 , Welling street , Strand , Londpn . ^ ngton . Communications should always be legibly written , and on on side of tho paper only . If long , it increases " the difficulty of ¦ finding space for them . • . '
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so -unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Da . Abnolb .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 27, 1853, page 824, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2001/page/8/
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