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caressingcorrespondence—even while lie repeats as true the gross slanders of seventeen years ago . He admits that lie had no stipulation whatever with me about Lord Melbourne on this disputed agreement ; and he denies that he ever ' said or suggested' that he had any such stipulation . Such are his admissions ; I . turn to his assertions . " Mr . Norton ' s appointment was not given or promised by Lord Melhourne before he knew mo or " visited at our house , but , on the contrary , after correspondence and intimacy ; and it was not given as compensation for the loss of his Coinmissionership of Bankruptcy ; on the contrary , the Chancellor insisted on controlling his own patronage ,
and gave notice that Mr . Norton should not be permitted to hold both appointments together . I did not put my husband to needless torment and expense by extravagance and actions from , my tradespeople ; on the contrary , he broke his solemn written pledge with his own referee , Sir John Bayley , and advertised me in the newspapers ; as Sir John Bayley can prove . Sir W . Follett did not advise the trial , or the measures taken by Mr . Norton ; on the contrary , he publicly disavowed him as soon as the trial was over ; as the letter of Messrs . Carrie and Woodgate is extant to prove . "
She states how , from the petty struggle for money , she has been drawn into " all this scandal . " " It is said , wh y all this scandal for a miserable matter of a few hundred pounds ? better any sacrifice than such a struggle . Very true ; but when this petty struggle was undertaken , no human being could have foreseen the falsehood with which it was to be met , and out of which this scandal was to grow . Others , judging where none can judge who do not know our history , wonder I did not quietly take what Mr . Norton asserts he offered . For that , I can only appeal to Sir John Bayley , and to the evidence of Mr . Norton's present conduct . If Mr . Norton would not be bound by his written pledge given to Sir John Bayley in 1837 , nor by the formal document drawn up by Mr . Leman in 1848 , is it credible that he could be bound , by a mere assertion that he would or would not place such and such sums P "
She justifies her womanly resentment . " I resent , not his treachery about the broken agreement , but his attempt to raise the laid ghost of a dead slander to shame me . I resisted it with passionate despair , because , let a woman struggle as she will , fair fame is blotted , and fair name lost , not by the fact , bat the accusation ; and I feel it more now even than in 1836 , because then my children were infants , and it could not grieve them . Those who have commented on the exasperation with which I answered in court , would do Avell to
remember that I stood there answering questions on oath , which had no possible bearing on the case ; well knowing those questions to be put with the express view and purpose of defaming me ; knowing the charges implied by those questions to be false ; knowing ( the most despairing knowledge of all ) that 31 r . Norton lenew they were false , even while he put them ; and that instead of being allowed to prove the debt and agreement , I was onco more being insulted with the echo of tho trial of 183 G , with as littlo ust cause for the insult . "
She closes her solemn and detailed vindication with the following words : — ' ¦ I have done . Tliero will always ho those to whom a slander is precious ; and who cannot bear to have it refuted . There are also those in whose eyes the accusation of a woman is her condemnation , and who en re littlo whether tho story bo false or true , so long as there is or was a story against her . But juster minds , who will pause androviow the circumstances Mr . Norton himself h ; is published , will perhaps think the fato of that woman a hard one , whom neither tho verdict of a jury , nor the solemn denial of a voice from tho dead , nor the petition of her husband for reconciliation and oblivion of the past , can clear from a chargo always and utterly untrue ! 1 did jiot deserve- the
scandal of 1 M , ' 5 (> , and I do not deserve the scandal of 18 f > . ' 5 . Xiord Melbourne did not tempt mo then to break mv wedded faith ; and lii . s naino has not now been the ground of a broken stipulation . On Mr . Norton's own hitler I am content , that people should judge us both . Many friends have wished mo to puss over t hat letter in disdainful silence , as refuting itself ; and perhaps , if I . were happy enough to bo obscure and unknown , that would bo my course . . Hut I havo a position separate from my woman ' s destiny ; I am known as a writer ; mid I will not permit Hint Mr . Norton ' s letter shall remain on tho journals of ( ii-enl , Britain , as the uiicontrmlicted record of my actions . I will , an far as I . am able , defend a name , which mi ^ ht . have been only favourably known , but which my husband has rendered
notorious . The littlo world of my ehuneo readers , may say of mo lifter I am dead and gone , and my struggle over and forgotten—' Tho woman who wrote this book hud an unhappy history ; ' but , they shall not say— ' the woman who wrote this book was a . profligate and mercenary hypocrite . ' Since my one gift , of writing gives mo friends among strangers , I . appeal to tho opinion of strangers an well as that of friends . Since , in however bounded and narrow a degree , there is u chanco that I . may be remembered after ( lentil , I will not ; havo my whole life misrepresented . Let , those women who havo the true woman's lot , of being unknown out of the circle of their homes , thank iiod'Tor
tluit blessing ; it is a blessing ; but , for me , publicity in no longer a matter of choice . Defence in possible to me ; not silence . And I inust remind those who think the right ol n husband ho indofeuHible , that a wife ought rather to nul > - mit to tho martyrdom of her reputation , than bo justified lit . his expense , that I havo refrained . All I ulato now , I might havo stated at any time ( luring the pant unhappy years ; nnd I . never did publicly nta ( e it till now ; now , when 1 find Mr . Norton slandering the mother of his cons by coarse anecdotes signed with his name nnd published by his authority : endeavouring thus to overwhelm inn with infamy , for no oU ' enco but that of having ranhly assorted a claim upon him , which wan found not to be valM in Jaw but only binding on him ' fiH n , man of honour . ' "
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T 1110 WORKING CLASSICS . Tiittiiu iu-o n fair number of successes Huh week . A compromise ) has been effected between the ( . Jlnsgow builders and their operatives . The masons aro to work fifly-scven hours u week , leaving oil' at two o ' clock on Saturday . They urn to bo paid bd . an hour , and six inontlis' notice must be given before any change in these arrangement , ' ! can take place . Official
recognitions ( A working men deserve especial notes for their rarity . The labourers ul , ono of tho Uo . sporf , dockyards having laboured very hardly nt victualling the ' fleet , cheerfully working extra hours , tho Admiralty , tho other day , ordered i , week ' s oxtm pay to ouch num . The , N ; ill , manufacturers at Cheshire huvo , ut tlie request of their men , abolished Sunday work , living midi attendance iiM in necessary to keep in tho liroH . The movomo . nl , which resulted in tho collection wan very
judiciously organized by a working-man ' s societv n , n ., the National Association of United Trades . d The coalmasters about Kilmarnock have atr re i advance the wages of their workmen from 4 s . to 4 ^ cj ° per day . -orf . Of demands our record is brief . The Munch f dyers are likely to fail in their demand for an acly , ^ ^ The masters have got new boys to rep lace one liaVf the men out on strike . The cabmen of Edinbu Ji continue to demand an increase of 3 s . per week on * present wages , and 2 s . Gd . additional for Sunday wo ^ They are likely to succeed . The great strike at T ) l '
lais continues , and the prospects of success for the va increase each day . The make of iron is increasiif and the various works are in full play , so that themf ' who struck are being gradually absorbed into the ofch iron districts . At Dowlais the miners and two m [[ h only are at work , with a sufficient number of labourers to keep the collieries in proper order . The company will , it is said , find it difficult to replace the men alabour is extremely scarce . The lightermen of London are out " on strike , " and some riots and assaults have occurred . There is hope of an amicable adjustment
We have a great many instances of the general well being of the people . Pauperism iu Ireland is almost extinct ; and the Queen has visited a nation of welllooking and well-clothed men . Freehold Land Societies , of all names and kinds , are coming out , and getting on . An estate of six acres , at Sydenham , 400 yards from the station , lias been purchased by the Church of England Freehold Land Society ; and their Harrow estate is in process of allotment . The new
rules of the General Operative Plasterers' Society arc being completed . The managers of this society conduct its business so Well that it is now a-very strong body . At Manchester there has been held a pleasant tea-party , in celebration of the conference of delegates from the co-operative associations of the kingdom . Professor Maurice made a good speech . On the evening before , Mr . JEdward Vansittart Neale lectured on the subject of such associations . In Glasgow the system of a half-holiday on Saturday has become universal .
The day for holding the Manchester corn market is to be changed from Saturday to Thursday . Baths and wash-houses are to be built at Bermondsey . They will cost 14 , 000 ^ , and the ground has cost 20001 . There will be two large plunging and sixty-five private baths—occupying an area of about 122 feet , ly 115 feet . A sailor's home is to be built at Woolwich . The new Nottingham Exchange is being generally used , and with very good effect on the trade of the district .
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THE HURRICANE ON FRIDAY . Along the English Channel , and on our eastern and northern coasts , a fierce and singular hurricane took place on Thursday night and Friday morning-. It set in shortly after eleven on Thursday nig ht , the wind blowing heavily from the S . W ., with rain . As morning advanced , the gale became more sevcro ; nnd at daybreak , in some places it blew almost a perfect hurricane . The effects on the shipping were disastrous . Between Dover and the North Foreland many casualties are reported , and a number of vessels song ' refuge inside the Goodwin , some with loss of qrf * anchors and cables , or other damage , by coining 111 collision . The French mail-boat from Calais was "'»' iiblo to make the harbour of the former port , tflio rim for Deal , and , after much difficulty , landed her nil "* nnd passengers . . lust below Beeohy Heml two liiij vessels were lost in mid-day . One was the - '' laden with timber , from Quebec . . Encountering gale , and the c . vew fearing her speedy ft ) iiii « lci-in (? , ^| -J > for the purpose of preserving their liven , ran her sih k « ¦ the vicinity of Nc . whaven . Tho whole of Mm civ *"] naiged to rench the whore , although in a most I "" ( j conditionThe other vessel was a K «« 1 >»« 1 > '''
. the uslralia , bound to Rio from ( Jrimsby . " "j ' ' ^' that , in anticipation of bad weather , she J ' ^ ]; iy on the previous evening on" Shore-hum . There ij > ^ exposed ( , o tho violence of the galo . * ^ n severely , and , shortly after day break , wns l ^ ^ from her anchors and cuhI , ashore abreast ol - u ' ^ guard . station . Tho critical situation of < 'llC ( : r {) ^ ouf . No ' timo was lost , in launching Ihe ll »( ' - " ^* . lli several bravo-follows volunteering toman her ,. ' ' " , . |; , oil" to tho rescue of the poor creatures on U » " , , After making her way through a , troin « n < oik . h- ^ , gained tho bar <| iie , and taking oil' her iiiilorM "' "' (||() returnedand safely landed them . Ac < 'ordm «
, liwl account , * , tho vessel wim fust going ' ¦ " l '""'^ ;| , in The eastern coast felt , the tfalo Hoveirly ; " ( . , ( l | , i ! feaicd thai tho real extent of U > e disaslcrs ¦* } ' learned . ftm 1 ] " 11 " Similar boisterous weather raged on W "
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848 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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ODDITIES OF THE CHINESE STRUGGLE . Cunsr-KEAisra-FOO is one of the most important cities in China . It is here that . the Grand Canal forms a junction with the river , and the town is considered the key of the vyhole of China . The patriot army having gained possession of this , place , the Tartars'lately attempted . to retake . it , and the Shangbae Taoutao ordered the Imperial fleet to make an attack upon it . This fleet is entirely officered by Europeans , but it failed in taking the town , through the brisk resistance of the patriots . The inert Imperialists showed their usual temper : 6000 looked on at the iight without moving a hand to aid their own fleet . The " mercenary fleet" has now returned to Shanghae , its ardour in the cause of the decadent Emperor not seeming very great .
Doctor Taylor , an American missionary , has given an account of his visit to the camp . He was received with great civility , and in a plain , rational way , quite distinct from the ceremonious manners we have been used to attribute to the Chinese . The patriot army was illprovided with uniform apparel , but what they wanted in this respectj and in military order , they made up by a spirited discharge of duty , and a unity of purpose supplying systematic organization . In their religious
exercises they chant aloud most dissonant hymns , and pray silently , much after the manner of intense Protestant people in this country . Dr . Taylor saw tables placed , With various kinds of food , as offerings to the Supreme Being ; among which were three bowls of tea , one for each person of the Trinity . For further military directions the patriots wait an order from their Heavenly Father . A proclamation , issued by the commander who saw Dr . Taylor , is interesting . The first word is a name , not an exclamation : —
"Lo , the fifth arranger of the forces , attached to the palace of the celestial dynasty of T'hae-ping , who have received the command of Heaven to rule the empire , communicates the following information to all his English ( foreign ) brethren . On the 1 st day of the 5 th moon ( the 5 th of June ) a brother belonging to youi honourable nation , named Charles Taylor , brought hither a number of books , which have been received in order . Seeing that the above-named individual is a fellow-worshipper of God ( Shnng-te ) , he is therefore acknowledged as a brother . The books likawise which he has brought agree substantially with our own , so that it appears wo follow one and the
same road . Formerly , however , when a ship belonging to your honourabla nation came hither ( the Hermes ) , she was followed by a fleet of impish vessels belonging to the false Tartars : now , also , when a boat from your honourable nation comes among us , tho impish vessels of tho Tartars again follow in its wake . Considering that your honourable nation is celebrated for its truth and fidelity , we , your younger brothers , do not harbour any suspicions . At present both Heaven and men favour our design , and this is just the time for setting up the Chinese and abolishing the Tartar rule . Wo suppose that you , gentlemon , are avcII acquainted with tho signs of the times , so that wo
need not enlarge on that subject ; but while we , on our parts , do not prohibit commercial intercourse , we merely observe that , since tho two parties aro now engaged in warfare , tho going to and fro is accompanied with inconvenience ; and , judging from tho present aspect of affairs , we should deem it hotter to wait a few months , until wo have thoroughly destroyed , tho Tartars , when , perhaps , the subjects of your honourable nation could go and como without being involved in tho tricks of these- false Tartars . AVould it not , in your estimation , also bo preferable ? We take advantage of tho opportunity to send you this cornmmiiciition for your intelligent inspection , and hope that every blessing may attend you . Wo also send a number
ol our own books , which please to circulate amongst you . " Moro successes of the patriots are rumoured . It was currently reported that an army , in three divisions , had actually been marched from Nanking for Peking ; but on its becoming known that tho Imperialists were collecting n largo force at the former city , the insurgent force was recalled . The Mandarins at Canton have been busy forwarding reinforcements of men and munitions of war by . iea , and the China Mail any a that 000 , 000 piculs ( above eighty millions of pounds ) of gunpowder , and 2000 trained soldiers , thirty of whom can cast cannon , have also been sent . The Mail , however , suggests that their destination may be Anioy .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1853, page 848, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2002/page/8/
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