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tioners to the Commander-in-chief as the proper party to address on the subject . The committee had addressed the Horse Guards , but no reply had up to last evening been received . A petition had also b « en forwarded to her Majesty . Strong hopes were entertained that some alteration would be made m the pattern , and that , at least , the change would be gradually worked out , in order that the lacemakers might aeek some other means of obtaining support for themselves and their families . Some formal resolutions having been agreed to , the meeting broke op . — Morning Advertiser . Great Fire at Cubitt ' s . —A fire broke out at Cubitt's works , Pimlico , on Tuesday night , and , in a few hours , it had become a tremendons conflagration—illuminating half London . A vast property has 1 ) een destroyed ; and from 500 to 600 men have been thrown own of employment—their £ ools annihilated . The insurance does not exceed 10 , 000 / ., and the actual loss will therefore be enormous .
A Proposal to wash the Queen's Fack . —A correspondent of . the'Daily News points out the dirty state of the face of the Queen ' s statue in the Royal Exchange , and says if expense be the difficulty , allow me to point out that a few inches less of the gold lace on the three-cornered hat of the beadles , or Lord llayor ' B coachman , would create a fund amply sufficient . London and South Western Railway Proprietors . —A ballot among this proprietary has taken place this week For the election of a director ; there being two candidates—Mr . "VVilcox , M . P ., and Sir . Snell . On a scrutiny , it is found that for one of those candidates there are nearly fifty false proxies , representing about a thousand votes . " Highly respectable people" ( who deplore the state of education among tho lower orders )" must have put in the false proxies .
The Nokth Western Enoine-Drivers . —The difficulty between ... the engine-drivers and the Board of Directors has been happily set at rest by a compromise . Australian Esiigrants . —Some documents just pub lished in connexion with the recent course of emigration to Australia convey information qn three subjects of interestnamely , the light in which the Chinese labourers latel y introduced into New South Wales are regarded ; the experience obtained as to the value of the labourers from the Isle of Skye , sent put by the Highland Emigration Society ; and , . lastly , the prospect of any fulfilment of the obligations entered into by Government emigrants for repayment of a -portion of their passage money" if they should leave the colony within four years . On each poiat the statements
are unfavourable . As respects the Chinese immigrants , the Government Resident at Brisbane , New South Wales , reports that they are held in great disfavour , chiefly from their weakl y constitution , and their filthy habits and dissatisfied dispositions . 3 n the case of the Skye labourers disappointment has also been experienced , and , although there is no difficulty in the present state of things in their finding emyloyment , the colonists would greatly prefer the ordinary agricultural people from England and Ireland . The experience of their capacity thus far obtained iyas limited , but the impression ras that they were slothful , dirty , and discontented . In relation to the repayment of passage money the report from the immigration agent in the colony of Victoria is that the engagements to that effect are just so much waste paper .
One ok the Highly Educated Classes . A Bristol paper gives this story of Mr . Slade , Q . C ., a highly-educated jn : in , who ( vide his speech at the Cambridge lmstings this week ) is in favour of Lord Derby , and would not" trust the jeople with power until they are educated . In the courso of tlie trial of the case " Cox v . Carrington , ' at the Somerset Assi / . cs . last w « ek , Mr . F . W . . Slade , Q . C ., the leading advocate of the plaintiff , made the following curious display of his profound acquaintance with tlie works of the bard of Avon . In one of the articles in the Bath Chronicle , complained of as libellous , the editor quoted the words of Bottom an . the Midsummer Night ' s Dream— " I'll roar you as gently sis any sucking dove . " Having first of all read " Boston " lor Bottom , and created soine laughter by tho mistake ,
wlucji tho learned counsel ingeniousl y apologised for by tiuying that it appeared to bo so written in his brief , Mr . Sliule vent on to ridicule tho language employed , and which up . poured to bo that of tho editor . " I'll roar you as gently : is imysuckingdovc , " exclaimed Dlr . Slailo , triumphantly ; " why , jrt'iitlcmcn , did you ever hear of a ' sucking dove' roaring ? I always thought thnt' sucking dove * ' cooed . " Here Mr . Serjeant Kinjjjake came to tho relief of Mr . Slado , and quietly informed , him thnt the words in question wore not tho words of the editor , but of Slmlcsnearn , and by Borne persons wcro thought not to bo so riJiculous as 1 > U learned frioinl seemed to imagine . Mr . Slade thon escaped from this dilfi-« ulty by saying that ho w « s not so leiirned as his friend , tho sorjeunt , who knew everything , and proceeded with liia speech . It is said thnt Mr . Sliido in to bu a candidate for Cambridge , in conjunction with Lord Viscount Maidatono } the noble lord is himself u poet , and will probably bo iihLo . niahed to liucl that his lunrncul colleagno had so little no . ijUHintimco with the works of tlio greatest of EnjjlUh Imriln .
VATIIKItTHAMICS KLKViV' 1 'r . O TO THIG pKICUAOK . —TllO Lorda having prorogned , tho Thames entered thuir House ! llna is tho story—ouo the peers will roml with horror ; for they will who and ash Sir C . Barry—wan tljia tho ntmospliorti tvo woro allowed to nit seven months in ? But a tow days prior to tho inquiry , tho iniinnscript papura and records of tho House of Lords , wliioh wuro UoyoMtccl in the lowoat ntory of thu ' l'uluco tit Woatin ' mstor woro found to bo nut united with nowngo filtli . In 9 onHcquenc « , it appunrrt , of Kimio iniatako having been imulo bmnowliorp , thu ho wo rn overflowed , mid covmul tlio lloora of tlieso rooms t » tho depth of six . inches . Tim i . rcH . soa oacupt-d , but tho pupitra on the « oor , in ooumo of being nrraiieoil ready U . r « iwii placed , n nropiT rcooptiiclud , wru oovormlwllh Ilio ll tl . y oonijintM of tho aowor . Stouoliun of a moat noiHoino c i . u-notor Iuiyo for » omo Umo cxiat .-d in tlii «« Hounu , vlifcli t oofltcorx , » t a recent cxmnlniulon livftoo n conmiiitua of 1 nwI , 1 i . , T * account fol < . »>» ttl . UocciuroiicUmay iZtrU T ft 'VT »« ' thia diaR ,, Bii ,, nbomiimlio ... Is I ¦ VV } M }* m *™ w «» priroRucd on SutunUy
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WINDS OR COURT JklAHTIAI ,. Yesterday ( 16 th day ) Majox-General Wetherall , the prosecutor , replied to Lieutenant Perry's defence , and the Court adjourned .
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THE CRIMEA . We read in a letter , dated Constantinople , 3 rd instant :- — : " The great number of shells which have been lately received by the fleet proves that tlie expedition about to be undertaken is serious . Marshal St . Arnaud , who arrived here on Monday in tlie Derihollet , and left yesterday for Varna , told his wife on parting that probably they would not meet for some time . " Intelligence has been received from Constantinople to the 5 th , Admiral Douer Willaumez was for some days exercising the tTdops in effecting the landing of cannon of long range . In addition , new vessels were . sent from the Bos-phorus for Varna .
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Saturday , August 19 . THE ELECTIONS . CASTEEBCRTt . ( By Electric Telegraph . ') The Sheriff declared , the final state of the poll as follows ;—r Lushington 729 Somerville 699 Butler ... 671 Cooper 403 Glover ... 41 Messrs . Somerville and Lushington have addressed the electors . All quiet .
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Hadical leaders—of whom we may number one at least in every large town . —members of the middle class , but possessing the confidence of the working class—able men , energetic men , and disinterested men—their disinterestedness proved by their not themselves attempting to go into Parliament—have been disgusted and disappointed at the results of the session—not only as regards the condition of all those popular movements which "Whig dilitantti have shirked or suppressed as inconsistent with the proper prosecution of a "war ,
WORK FOR THE RECESS . Anahoilv was tlio great feature of last seawion : can wo take any measures in thia roceaa to obtain order for next ; session ? Wo ourselves Imvo eiuleavourod to show that tho Government went wrong bocauso tlio llunio-ito ltadicnls became abject Ministerialiwts ; mul it ia now beginning to bo generally perceived that denondeuco upon tho Whig aristocracy forbid a tho organisation of tho itadieul party generally . Tho out-of-door
but as regards the war itself . The Whigsa party of exhausted old nobles , and producing no young talent whatever—elaborately demonstrated their incapacity for power during the easy period 1846 to 1853 . They thought to save themselves in a coalition ; and their vanity and their imbecility have damaged the coalition . Hadical leaders , who are not inveterate Hume-ites , are therefore forced to the conclusion that the cause of the people cannot be trusted to such men . The Tory party has not looked dangerous this last session because it has been so weak . IBut
that its old inhuman and mfamous spirit still lives in inveterate virulency we may detect in the speeches of such persons as Iiord Maidstone and Mr . Slade at the Cambridge hustings , —politicians who afc a great political crisis can think of no grander dogma than to declare themselves " in favour of Lord Derby" and of " out-androut Conservatism . " This spirit is also observable in the analysis of the session made by Mr . Disraeli ( which we quoted from his journal
last week ) . In this he boasts as the great triumph of his confederation , that it suc-t ceeded . this year in preventing the House of Commons adopting tlie principle of " secular education !'' Thus , it is clear , whatever liopes may have "been entertained from the dreamy vagueness of expression used during the last few years by the great " medicine man" of the Tories , that we have still to face in the
Tory party the traditional enemies of English civilisation and of European progress . The Peelite party , —which includes men of the middle class , like Mr . Gladstone and Mr . Card well , —distinguished by o- strong sympathy with the spirit of the age and a Peellike instinct of " the impending "——has not yet bid for the lead of the Liberal party . Those Liberals who are in the Coalition
Government , —men or consummate ability , entitled to lend and certain to officer , any Liberal party that can be formed , — " \ ve refer to Sir W . Molesworth , a man of aristocratic advantages and statesman-like capacity—to Mr . Lowe , wlio has a genius for courage and an ambition for which his countrymen will reapeqt him—to Mr . Osborne , whose mots would suftice to maintain a party , and of . distinct democratic tastes , —have not yet found it necessary , afc least not publicly , to express their disgust with and despair of their lordly , lofty , and incapable
colleagues , Hadical lenders , therefore , see that it is necessary , if tho people of England are to have anything * to do with the Government of England , that tho mass of intellect and earnestness which distinguishes the Liberal party should bo so organised as to enable the Jindieul party in Parliament to take a distinct position among and against all other jmrtiea , ami to bid by itself and for itaelf for Place and Power . Our respectful appesUa in thia matter have met with a singularly satisfactory response . On < he one side , wo find the PaVlianieiilary louder of tho
Independent Irish party aeeophng our ( suggestions anil expressing a conviction that but iliinay barrier * prevent a junction between his friends and Kngliah popular members for common action ; and we Imvo observed with pleasure that from the very opposite side tt thoughtful politician has boon nidoctriunting
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THE AXAND ISLANDS . A telegraphic despatch , dated Copenhagen , Wednesday , August 16 th , says : — "We have news from Bpmarsund to the 15 th inst . The most considerable of the towers \ ras taken on Moriday by the French , after four hojirs' resistance . The scaling-ladders were ready for the assault ordered for to-day .
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TO CO-RESPONDENTS . " Hu , ARior 8 " T-Yes : tlie joke is complete : the Secretary to tho new Board of Health is- taken from the Punch office . , It is impossible to jicknoMiedge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owine to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frcquontly from reasons quito independent of the merits of tho communication . No notice can bo taken of anonymous communications . Whatovcr is intended for insertion must bo authenticated by tho name and address of thes writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All letters for tho Editor should bo addressed to 7 , " Wellington-street , Strand , JLondon . Communications should always bo legibly written , and on one side of tho paper only . If long , it increases the dilliculty of finding space for them .
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SATURDAY , AUGUST 10 , 1854 .
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August 19 , 1854 . ] TH'E DEADER . 777
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 19, 1854, page 777, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2052/page/9/
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