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Freemasons' Tavern , which was convened to extort from our Government better protection for English , subjects abroad , especially in cases where they are unjustly persecuted for Protestant opinions . The Papal aggression in Holland , the Maltese code , and the new code of Italy , with the persecution of the Madial and Miss Ouninghame , were the prominent topics . Iiord Shanesbury called upon , our Government to be as bold as Elizabeth , as forward as Cromwell , and as fiery as America ; but the memorial could suggest
nothing more energetic in realizing these vigorous suggestions than to withdraw an ambassador from any country which should resort to measures so barbarous as those of Tuscany and of Borne . This is a lame and impotent conclusion of the somewhat boastful language with which Lord Shaftesbury introduced the business of the evening . The fact is , that Protestants of Lord Shaftesbury ' s stamp are , we believe , not prepared to take the steps necessary for sustaining either
their doctrine in religion , or their claim in politics ; they are not prepared to defend the weak ; they are not prepared to be martyrs . Canon Miller , who saw the false logic of the proceeding which proposed to dictate internal laws to a foreign Government , declared that there was no hope of success by that means ; that true religion can only be sown in catholic countries by loosening the ground with the blood of martyrs . But we do not learn that Mr . Miller destines
even one ounce of his canonical blood to that blessed purpose . 3 STor has Miss Cuninghame been subjected to actual depletion on account of her religious enthusiasm . These are the martyrdoms to which English Protestants safely adhere , at Freemasons' Tavern and Exeter Hall . They do not go fortlr as martyrs , they do not go forth as defenders either of the faithful or of the persecuted . It is not that there is no wort for Protestants :
there is more than one ground on which their cause is to he sustained . Piedmont has been but imperfectly supported , although it is a country whose position involves a species of national Protestantism , in many respects more hopeful for the overcoming of Home than any case of individual proselytism . Home , too , is making encroachments , as we have mentioned , on the Upper Rhine ; an ecclesiastical province , created in that part of Germany , which includes Wirtemburg , Baden , Nassau , and Hesse . The church of Home has claimed the right of appointing to ecclesiastical offices without consent of the State :
the GoA ernmcnts have resisted such acts ; in retaliation the Archbishop of Freiburg has excommunicated the officials . Priests reading the excommunication in churches have been arrested , and there the matter stands . The arrogant Archbishop and his clergy are sustained by the active sympathy of the hierarchy in Austria , and by the Archbishop of Posen ; so that tho contest involves a very extensive territory ; and on this ground , again , wo ace how acquiescence in the tyrannical -presumptions of the Absolutist Powers facilitates the encroachments of liome .
Our hierarchy has been consecrating two Bishops to administer the functions of the church at Natal and at Graham ' s Town ; the Protestant Alhiinee meets in Freemasons ' -hall for the purpose of asking Lord Clarendon to coerce the petty Grand Duke of Tuscany , and , if possible , to frighten the Pope , or to alarm the paltry Government of Portugal ; but the real contest
between the two great principles of oppression and freedom , with Absolutism and ultra-inontuniHm on the one Hide , and Constitutionalism ami freedom of conscience on the other , ia sullored to make eoiiHiderable way before the representatives of constitutional authority in Europe- can make up their minds to a , determined aloud on behalf of their 'principles !
Our own a I fairs at home do not present much Bubjed ; for remark . The strike in Lancashire continueH . We might almost stereotype the HbilrnuMit . on tho subject . The contribution to the conunittee jit Preston keeps up ; but a ; t Burnley and a , t other places tho working people sire accepting the oiler of the uiaNtertf conveyod ' the opening <> f their mills for a , short ; time—only four ( l » , yH n , week , — -and the attempts to procure tfupport , whether for the strike or for tho proposed . "Jaliour iHirliaiuont , " in now quartern , do not . meet with the ex peeled , response . Bimiingh ; un , for ( vxanij ) le , responds with apathy and with . ni ! enco . Tho acquittal of ci ^ ht copper-plato -printers
charged with attempting to drive a fellow workman from employment , establishes the right of working people to send one of their ^ number to Coventry ; so that they dp not threaten their emp loy ers with any bad consequences for continuing the man in service . In this case the motive" of dislike was , that the ^ nan had acted for substitute' in the house of Mr . Tailis , where Workmen had struck for wages . The caution of Mr . Baron Aldersoni that the printers would hayje' done better if thejj ' had acted separately instead of Jointly , will not
have the eflrect of making the working classes better understand the law , because his qualification is not positive . In fact , it only weakens their confidence in the law by making them suppose that the judge is " against" them . Another report has been issued by a committee of the Oxford Tutors' Association . It contains several recommendations on the subject of university education , and indulges in severe criticisms on the scheme of the commissioners , which it describes as " far too revolutionary . The
Tutors seek to develope a wider system out of the existing elements , rather than to introduce any organic changes . Their suggestions , however , do not seem to attack the great evil of the present system , which affords no stimulus to exertion on the part of the Tutors , and throws the education of the University into the hands of men whose duty it is to teach every conceivable subject , without leaving time or holding out inducements for the successful prosecution of any particular branch of learning .
Australian shipping has been illustrating the great defect in the conduct of emigration ships , of which the colonists , in New South Wales , are complaining . The Adelaide , not the worst vessel belonging to the Royal Australian Mail Steam Packet Company , has been abandoned by the under-writers , i'he Company has been sustaining a trial , brought by a passenger home in the notorious steamer , Melbourne , the charge involving complaints of the most filthy condition and food onboard . And , through the reckless sailing of the master , Mr . Hernaman , the ship Meridian has been lost , on the island of Amsterdam , on tha
voyage to Sydney . This last event forms one of the most striking stories of shipwrecks in the history of the sea , excellently told by a gentleman connected with the Morning Chronicle , who took a leading part , after the shipwreck , in rescuing the people , and keeping order amongst them , and economising their stores , for the thirteen days during which they were , confined on the desert island . From the initial " L , " and other circumstances , we conjecture the writer to be Mr . John Leitch , whose name has been mentioned before ,
in the literary part of our paper , —mentioned for his accomplishments and his wit , but now immortalised by his fortitude and courageous humanity . Practical Positivism is making way . Even emigrant ships are bettor managed than they used to be , before tho Passengers' Act ; for tho hardships of the Melbourne present no parallel with the miseries habitually endured on
board the North-American ships , some few years since . At home we are beginning to conquer the material ills , Avhicli we have suffered to conquer us so long . John Simon has been telling the City of London how to attack tho cholera at its foundation , in the sewer ; and his masterly lie port has had bo great an effect , that people are actually expecting that the City will go and do what their admirable medical officer tells them .
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THE WltECK OI ? THE MERIDIAN . TuiflMomiwf 6 / m ) 3 m ;/ e published yustorday an account of a shipwreck out in tho Indian Ocean , on a . rocky inland , far away from all land . It iH from tho pen of a gentleman connected with that journal—Mr . John . Loitcli , wo presume , from tho initials . Ho daton 1 wh account from Port ; Loiuh , Maur i LiiiH , October " 12 . Tho Meridian was a first-clasH ship , commanded by an able and estimable man , who bad boon four thnoH to . Sydney . Hut the ship wan undermanned , having only ten able seaman to work the ship , although hor crew was nominall y twenty-three . ( JoiiHeciuontly , no look out could be regularly kept . Wo append Home tvxfcraotH from " 1 j . '" h letter , giving a graphic ami touching account ; of some of tho dangers undergone by the paHHongoi-H : —
" Wo hud ono of ( lie finest passages that ; ever was made , till wo readied tbo aot' . li degree of Houl / lt latitude . . A ftor l . hii'f we mot ; with hallling winds ,- calms and squalls , and hooii iifterwu . rdn a smart gale , which , however , did not . hint ; long . Hut on tho night of ( lie t >; tvd of Auginit ., when we were . running for SI , Vnul ' s , which tho captain wished ( , o Might , in . order to correct a nunpeetod error in bin ohroiioinoi . or , wo encountered a Hlrong gale , which induced the captain t , o tdtor our courao , ulul boar up for Amutordani , un inland in
the sanae meridian of longitude as St . Paul ' s , but fifty miles to the southward of it . The gale continued all night and the following day , in the course of which we passed the barque Jo / pn Sugars , of London , bound for Sydney and winch w-e ascertained , by a printed list of departures to have Jeft Grravekend fourteen days before us . We had spoken several Vessels in the course of the voyage , and had invariably found ; oh comparing notes , that we had made a quicker passage than Uny of them . Captain Hernaman was strongly in ^ uehced by a sense of professional emulation ; he coulcj not bear to be beaten by another ship , and soon after passing the John Sugars , he ordered the ship ' s course to be altered a point , steering E . by S ., so as to let the Meridjidn go more freely before the wind , though tho
night \ yas very dark , the gale increasing , and he himself believed that his chronometer required correction . He told his passengers thait he expected to make Amsterdam about twelve o ' clock at night , and he contented himself by telling Mr . Lamburd , the first mate , whose watch on deck commenced at six o'clock , to keep a good look-out . It is but justice to that officer to state , that he , as well as the rest of the officers and crew , had been up all the preceding night , and was , no doubt , much fatigued ; but it is equally due to truth to add , that there was no look-out on the forecastle , and that he and the whole of his watch ( except the man at the wheel ) were engaged a little before seven o ' clock in baling the water out of his cabin , which had been partially inundated by a sea , which had just
before then burst ; over the vessel . After this the course of the vessel was altered , by the captain ' s direction , to east . The tea-things in the cuddy had just been cleared away , and many ot the children were being undressed , when a smart shock shook the vessel from stem to stern . At first I believed that we had run foul of another vessel , but in a minute or two afterwards five or six more violent shocks , accompanied by a peculiar grating sound at the bottom of the vessel , left no room for doubt upon the nature of the misfortune which had befallen us . Mr . Tulloch , tho second mate , who came shortly afterwards into the cuddy for an instant , told me in plain terms that the vessel was on shore , and for a time all was confusion , terror , and despair . ..
"The moment that the vessel struck , Captain Hernaman , who was standing in the passage leading to the cuddy , rushed up the poop stairs , exclaiming three times , ' Where is Mr . lamburd ? ' ( Mr . Lamburd , as he himself told me afterwards , was going at the time towards the galley fire , on the main-deck , for the purpose of lighting his pipe . ) As the captain gained the quarter-deck , the awful truth burst upon him , and , with another exclamation of 'My God ! it . is the island ! ' he seized the wheel , and put the helm hard a-starboard . He then stripped ofF his coat , waistcoat , and trousers , shouted ,
' Wow every man for himself / and bade one of the hands , named Charles Snow , assist him in casting off one of the hen-coops . While they were thus engaged a heavy sea burst over the poop , and swept him and Snow overboard , but Snow caught a rope as ho fell , and climbed up again into the mizen rigging on the port side , and thence over to tho starboard side of tho poop deck , from which ho descended to the main deck , and sought a temporary refuge in the main rigging . Mr . Lamburd and some of the crew climbed into the maintop , others held on to other parts of the rigging , exposed , of course , to tho fury of the waves , which repeatedly washed over them .
" Meanwhile , tho situation of tho passengers in tho 'twecn-docks was awful in the extreme . Tho vessel lay very much over on her port side , towards the shore , and every sea that swept over the decks deluged the second cabin with water , and broke in tho cabins on the Ice side in less than 11 vo minutes after the vessel had struck . In a few minutes afterwards , tho water roso bo hig h that it reached to tho waiats of those who had cabins on that side , and some wero immersed almost as high as their necks before they succeeded in climbing over tho tables and reaching tho starboard side of tho vessel . There they ronmined in tho expectation of instant death , clinging to
every projection that offered itself , lent they should bo washed away by tho serin which came pouring down tho hatchway , till about , half-past ; nine o \ -loek , when Mr . Wovt . bington , the third rnato , and Snow , the Bailor already mentioned , assiNtod by Mr . Tulloch , the second mute , down at tho rink of their lives to extrieiito the wretched creatures from their perilous position . With great , diluculfcy and danger—for tho cargo was now floating about m the ' tween decks , threatening destruction to all with whom itcaino in contact—this object was accomp lished , after tho lapse of about an hour , when tbo breaking up of the vosho ! Heenied imminent ; . Tho lower dock bad jnvon way , and
one poor woman , the Ian ! , who escaped , full into the ho d among tho provision tins , but was dragged out , dreadfully bruised , by two of her children , and passing along by tho hUIb of the cabin doors on the starboard siije , which still stood firm , they wove helped up the companion-ladder by tho siiilor Snow . Tlieinothor , bruised as showas , oanio up hint , and who had hardly platted her fool ; on l . ho deck wlioa tho ladder was washed away by a soa . Ah the seeonileahin passengers came up from below they were passed into tho cuddy , where the chief-cabin passengers worn nearly all assembled , or they huddled , together in groups by the steward ' s pantry , presenting a most pitiable spectacle . Mirny of thorn , the younger children part wiiliir y were in their night drosses , having retired to bed More Mio vessel struck , and all were drenched to l . ho skin anu Nhivering with cold . They were rather excited at hrst , ¦> " - noon , however , became calm , and soomed prepared to nie < '„ tho fate which they felt , awaited them , wiouoror lalor , WJi . a
becoming resignation , to tho will of ( iod . " In tho chief cabin , tho situation of most of tho nassengeni , though equally alarming , \ viih yet comparatively confortable . All tho ladies , and Home of the gentlemen , iiu stationed t-henitwlvos on tho starboard mdo , and M " escaped l . ho heavy hciih which poured every other mini " through tho nl < ylightn , and drenched to the « Uin those / , <¦» - MoiiM . il who wore compelled to stand on tho port »>< ' <•> «"" to cling to tho table fur support . Ono oi Iho lamps w « w
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 3, 1853, page 1154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2015/page/2/
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