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to believe , was the father of the present Preach Marshal , whois | therefore , the writer ' s cousin . We believe there S no doubt of the Irish origin of General M'Mahon ; and an attempt is being made to establish a similar parentage for General NieL But our readers will have noticed that almost every European who makes himself consp icuous is claimed by the Scotch or Irish as belonging in some way to them . A " Tb Deom" has been chanted in the cathedral of Sebastopol in presence of Marshal Pelissier . Another church has been placed at the disposal of the English . Pbtnce MENSCfflKOFE- A Mokk . —The JPatrte states that a private letter received by a Russian family in Paris announces that Prince Menschikoff has become a monk . He has enrolled himself , it is said , in a monastery near Moscow . NiCHOiiAiEFF . — The Emperor Alexander , with the Grand Pukes Michael and Nicholas , arrived on the 25 th lilt , at Nicholaieff . Shumla is full of newly-raised troops , who are drilled morning , noon , and night . The fortress of Shmnla is to be strengthened , and five French and two Prussian officers of engineers have arrived from Constantinople to superintend the works . The commanding officer is Colonel Bencole , who went to inspect' the fortifications of Sophia on the 10 th ult .- —Times Vienna Correspondent . KAJis . —A letter from Trebizonde says : —" Reports are rife here of a recent attack by General Williams upon the army investing Kars , which resulted in a loss to the Russians of three thousand men . " " Alma Day" in the Camp . —The 20 th of September the first anniversary of the Battle of the Alma—was celebrated in the English camp by the distribution of medals , clasps , and ribands . " Alma dinners , " with much singing and jollity followed , both the officers and privates commemorating the day with these festivities . The French , also , had their banquets , and , early in the morning , they performed a Missa Solennis for the repose of the dead . I , % / 3 1 1 7 1 i | j . j p t L j \
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PUBLIC MEETINGS . MR . BRIGHT ON FRJENDI . Y SOCIETIES . A " tea-festivai / ' has been given at the Victoria Hotel , Hulme , Manchester , by the members of the three Friendly Societies of that township , for the purpose of presenting a complimentary address to Mr . Bright , and a vote of thanks to Messrs . Milnei Gibson and Sotheron , for their exertions in procuring the Friendly Societies Act of last session , and in defeating the measure introduced on the same subject , in 1854 , by Lord Palmerston . The address was very beautifully engrossed on vellum . Aftei tea , Mr . Bright delivered rather a long speech , in the course of which he observed : — " Something has been said about a bill that was proposed prior to the introduction of the bill on Friendly Societies , which is now the law of the land ; and I unite most cordially in reprobation of that bill . ( Cheers ?) It was the manner in which I felt stung by the scandalous insult which it was endeavoured to offer—in fact , whicb was offered to the people of this country—by a certain clause in that bill , that stimulated me almost more than anything else to give a particular attention to . the subsequent measure which is now in operation . ( Cheers . " ) Il was the present Prime Minister of England who was especially instrumental in offering that insult to you and hundreds of thousands of other members of friendly societies . He knew nothing of your habits—nothing , or little more than nothing , of your interests—he knows far less than anybody here of what passes generally in the minds , and what is the course of life , of the great bulk of the population of Lancashire ; and , acting upon some single case , which , perhaps , was misrepresented or exaggerated , he comes forward to stamp an indelible disgrace upon a vast number of the people of his own country . ( Long continued cheering . "} The contemplated measure would have treated you as if you had no natural affection . Does any man in the world consider that if the natural affection of the parent to his child is not a sufficient guarantee for the safety of the child it is possible for any miserable act of Parliament to give that guarantee ? ( Cheers . " ) Do you think the God who made us , and who has given us those inestimable blessingsthose little children that are our heart ' s life—do 3-ou think He left the preservation of those children to the security of an act of Parliament dictated by my Lord Palmerston ? ( Renewed applause . ) No , surely not ; and I am delighted that the committee to whom the matter was referred sat , and that the pleas upon which this calumny was founded , were overthrown , and that when the proposition was endeavoured to be forced through Parliament by the weight of the then Home Minister , it utterly failed , and that after that failure you succeeded — and I must say to a very large extent succeeded by the exertions of the deputation from your societies—in procuring a measure with which the members of friendly societies generally have reason to be satisfied . " After expressing his opinion that a man with five pounds in a Friendly Society is more likely to be a steady workman than if he had nothing to fall back on , and that he will always be in a position to demand higher wages , Mr . Bright alluded to the emancipation of the newspaper from the penny stamp , and , briefly touching oti the war , remarked that , whether it be right or wrong , it is highly necessary that the people should be informed of its progress , and capable of keeping a check on its management . As an illustration of its effects , he mentioned the increasing number of empty houses in Manchesterthis year , 7000 ; last year , 6000 ; and ( he previous year 5000 . He resumed his seat amidst much applause . MR . BAXTER , Jf . P ., ON " SOMETHING WORSU THAN WAR . " Mr . Baxter , the member for Montrose , has been recently meeting his constituents , in order that he might give an early account of his stewardship , and aiford his constituents an opportunity of expressing their opinions with respect to his Parliamentary conduct . The Town Hall wiis crowded ; and , the Provost having complimented Mr . Baxter on the faithful discharge of his duties , a cordial vote of thanks was passed . Iu the course of his address , Mr . Baxter said : — " There is no man living who is more deeply impressed than I am with the dreadful evils to which war gives rise . Is it not oven at this moment bringing sorrow into a thousand homes , adding to our national burdons , checking our course of free trade legislation , and interfering in countless ways with our prosperity ? But is nothing worse than warV Look at Naples , Accompany me in thought for a moment to the land of the olive and the vino , to the sunny Hides and bright blue waves of Southern Italy . There you have , in ita physical aspect , a garden like that which the Creator first planted by the banks of the Euphrates—in its moral , so full of horrors that Danto alone could adequately doscribe it . The air ia balmy , the soil iu rich , the fig trees embower the gardens , vinos cluster on tho mountains , the plains wave with tho finest wheat , and ' ovory valley ia a Uoshon . But tho last of tho Bourbons , like tho destroying angel of Egypt , hovers over tho territory and fllla
it with woe . The stillness of death pervades every family ; for who knows that his neighbour is not e spy ? Who knows that , innocent and harmless as he is , before sunset he will not be immured in eome dreadful dungeon , the horrors of which no pen can describe ? Every mind is in an agony of suspense—every ear listens for the knock of the sbirrievery eye watches for the myrmidons of a base and detested despot . But it is the silence which precedes the roar of the volcano ; and to my mind , gentlemen , this dreadful silence is worse than war . I know that hostilities , when they do break out , must darken many a hearth . But , were I a Neapolitan , at this very moment I should require no twice-repeated signal to buckle on my armour and say , God defend the right ! ' ( Great applattse . ) It is said that we are a commercial nation , and that fighting is not our province . Now , history may instruct us on this point too . Some nations have striven to perpetuate their existence and their power by conquest ; others have trusted entirely to their wealth derived from trade . The one neglected altogether the arts of peace , the other neglected altogether the means of defence and provision for the public honour ; and both stand out as beacons , warning us to shun extremes and endeavour to pursue a middle course—avoiding , on the one hand , the lust of conquest , and , on the other , that sordid spirit which sacrifices everything to the money-making of the hour . ( Cheers . ) Let us not be blind to the fate of empires which preceded ours ; but , glancing back to the old world , keep in mind that , while the stranger wanders for hours , solitary and musing , among the ivy-crowned columns , the crumbling walls , and cypress thickets on the site of the palace of the Ciesars , in the midst of imperial and all-conquering Rome , commercial nations have fallen too ; for the tideless waves of the Mediterranean break silently in upon that deserted beach where once dwelt , in almost regal splendour , the merchant-princes of Tyre . " HEREFORDSHIRE PASSES JUDCMEKT ON MR . MECHI . The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Herefordshire Agricultural Society was held at Ledbury on Thursday week . A Mr . R . D . Cooke was in the chair ; and this gentleman undertook to " put down " Mr . Meclii . From the marks of approval with which his observations were met , we may fairly judge that he spoke , not merely his own individual opinion , but the opinion of corporate Herefordshire . Mr . Cooke , it seems , does not regard Mr . Mechi as a farmer at all . Mr . Mechi , believing that " any fool will do for a farmer , " has forgotten to ask himself how it is that " farming has made so many wise men fools . " ( Here the meeting , touched as with a personal reference , cheered . ) Mr . Mechi thought that farmers could not go to too great an expense in farming ; but Mr . Cooke could inform the meeting that " gold might be bought too dearly . " Mr . Mechi spent a pound in experiments that he might save a penny in manure . Mr . Mechi had been called " a great 6 tar " in agriculture ; but to the philosophic gaze of Mr . Cooke lie appeared more like a Will-o ' -the-wisp . ( Great cheering . ) His system is " the broad farce of farming : " it is , indeed , " supported by the Times , " but that is because the Times is ignorant of country matters . Nevertheless , the candid Coolco admitted that Mr . Mechi is " a useful man as an experimentalist nnd as a hobby-horses farmer . " Cooke , therefore , does not bear too hard on Mcelri ; but Herefordshire lias pronounced awful judgment , and Mechi is put out of court .
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Mn . Vkknon Smith , M . P ., has been addressing a meeting ot Kettering on the war . His remarks were not of a nature to call for analysis or quotation . Mn . Horsbian , M . P ., Chief Secretary for Ireland , visited Belfuot last week , and was entertained at a grand dejeilner . On returning thanks for hia health being drunk , he congratulated hia auditory on tho astonishing progress which Irelund had mado within the last seven years , and passed high encomiuma on tho Irish character .
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DR . CLJLLEN AND IRISH CATHOLIC " HE FORM . " D 11 . Cultxn , the Catholic Legate in Ireland , is about to introduce certain " reforms" of a rather important nature into tho management of tho Irish Church . The Propaganda , which appears to bo greatly innuenced by Dr . Cullcn , who is now at Home , found out—what Protestants have discovered for a long time past— -that Irish priests are ia tho habit of mixing themselves up to nn undue extent with political questions , of appealing from tho nltnr in virulent language to tho ilorcest pnssiona of the pcoji / e , nnd of forgetting the offices of religion in tho noisy declamation of partisanship . Dr . Ciillen ^ slros . * ° reform this , and so far nothing can bo b ° « oP ' ««» tho ulterior designs ho lins In vi ? w will not meet with much approval among Knff lW »" - * ££% : from Rome , publiahc ., 1 In tho ^^" wrltoTIS ^ --enco , BOts forth tho whole plan . I ho wu or Bays « The ,,, X in favour of Bo . no **« $ & ? T £ S £ SJ ^ xiS ? andUo ^ oW language U
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THE EEVENUE . The official Return of the Revenue for the quarter ended on the 30 th of September presents an increase on the quarter , as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year , amounting to 1 , 924 , 124 / . ; on the half-year , to 2 , 929 , 699 ? . ; and on the year , to 8 , 344 , 781 / . The following is the statement for the quarter : — INCREASE . Customs . £ 364 , 423 Property Tax , 1 , 993 , 590 Crown Lands 4 , 944 Miscellaneous 33 , 963 . £ 2 , 396 , 920 DECREASE . Excise .... £ 266 , 006 Stamps 103 , 344 Taxes 22 , 203 Post Office 81 , 243 472 , 796 Net Increase on the quarter £ 1 , 924 , 124
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BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS FOR AUGUST . The Board of Trade returns for the month ending the 31 st of August were issued on Saturday , and present , a further corroboration of the views entertained regarding the commercial position of the country . Compared with the corresponding month of last year they show an increase in the declared value of our exportntions of 107 , 759 f . Among tho most prominent items pn tho favourable side are silk manufactures , woollen and linen yarn , and tho various miscellaneous products comprised under tho head of uncnumcrated articles . On the other side , tho chief features observable are still those consequent upon tho diminution of tho Australian trade . The general character of tho return , however , is one of remarkablo steadiness , sinco in the great branches of industry , such as cotton , woollen , and linen manufactures and metals , tho totals show very moderate variations . " With regard to imported commodities , an increase is again shown in tho arrivals of wheat and Indian corn ; but flour presents a diminution , owing to tho delay in tho American shipments . Coincident with tho demand for breadstuff ' s , there has boon an augmented importation of rice , ob was also the case last month . Tho consumption of other articles of food or luxury has boon upon a scale to indicate tho oxorciso of economy on tho part of tho people , induced probably by tho high price of grain . Thus , tea , coffee , cocoa , sugar , spirits , fruits , and spices , all show a decline . Tho importations of some of those articles , however , havo boon largo , especially of coffee , cocoa , and tea . Tho comparative imports and exports of raw material show a largo diminution undor every head , euulcicnt to demonstrate that there has boon no overtrading . — Times .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1855, page 953, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2109/page/5/
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