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are reported to have been driven ashore , and were likely to become wrecks . In the district of Orfordhaven , a little to the southward of the Ness , as many as fifteen colliers are announced to be ashore . A . t South wold , a short distance lower down the coast , several vessels met a similar fate . While the gale was at its height the Hylton Castle and the Emma , both of Sunderland ; the Ocean and the Cape Horn , of Whitby ; and the Nelson , of South Shields , were driven ashore , but the crews were saved . Two others—the Pilgrim , of Sunderland , and the John Barker , of Whitby—met with a like disaster at Sizewell ; these crews were also providentially saved . Between this and Lowestoft , at Kessingland , several other colliers , bound north , were carried ashore . The crews are reported to have been saved , but fears are entertained as to the fate of the vessels .
The gale has been very violent on the Welsh coa 9 t , where several vessels have been wrecked ; but no loss of life is reported .
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PUBLIC MEETINGS . THE EARL OP ALBEMARLE ON DRUNKfiNNISS . The Earl of Albemarle , at the annual meeting of the Shropham ami Guiltcross Association , made some further remarks on the drunken habits of our agricultural population . Addressing himself in terms of the most affectionate interest to the consideration of the welfare of the humbler orders , he observed :- — " The labouring classes ( it is stated by public documents ) spend one-third , if not one-half of their earnings , which should go to the sustenance of their families ,
in drink . They are said to spend in this way annually the enormous sum of 57 , 000 , 0007 . —a sum which would pay the whole of the national expenses . It would pay , including the expense of the army and navy , in time of peace , and the miscellaneous estimates , the interest upon 800 , 000 , 000 / . of debt . It would pay all local rates and taxes of every sort , tithes , county-rates , and whatever comes under the denomination of local taxes ; and it would supply 1 , 000 , 000 families at the rate of 16 s . per week . "
After complimenting his tenants upon their excellent character individually , he said : — " I remember my kind and dear friend Lord Colborne , with that most agreeable manner which he had , saying to me one day , Corporate bodies can bear being hit rather hard . ' We , were speaking not of a body of farmers , but of a body of clergymen—of a dean and chapter , and Lord Colborne said , ' A dean and chapter shall be composed of the best men that ever lived ; they shall be unexceptionable in their individual characters , but in their collective capcity they would divide a murder among them . ' ( Laughter ) It is in their collective capacity that I speak to the farmers . I am not now alluding particularly to this county , but I say that the farmer ought not to treat the labouring man as a mere
machine out of which a certain quantity of work is to be obtained : but that he should remember that the power he naturally has as an employer of the labourer is a trust to be exercised for the benefit of those whom Providence has consigned to his sympathy and protection . My friends , labouring men , if we tender to you the hand of good fellowship , have we not a right to ask something on your parts in return ? What do we ask of you ? Do we ask for any favour ? No ; we ask you not to injure yourselves—to abstain from drink ; not to do that which injures your health , ruins your family , blasts your character , and leads you to the perpetration of crimes . We ask you not to squander that which would improve your household comforts and raise you in the scale of society . "
in some moderation . Canlit be that they could comethat any could come here with a hostile intention ? 1 feel sure that the good sense , as well as the good feeling-, of all true-hearted Irishmen or Americans would repudiate the monstrous supposition . ( Loud cheers . ) If , contrary to all expectation , and all reason , they would so come , I ought not to say that they would be as welcome as the others ; but of this I feel contentthat the Antrim Rifles , whom I left in Dublin , and the North Down Rifles , whom I find in Belfast , will be able to give a very good account of them . But we will not let such monstrous images mar our social harmony , and I would rather leave you with bright impressions of successful commerce , rewarded industry , restored peace , and extending civilization . " ^ SIR JOHN M'NEttL ON J > XVISION OF LABOUR . Sir John M'Neill , lately one of the Commisioners in the Crimea , delivered . gon Friday week , the introductory address to the fresh session of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution , in the absence of Mr . Macaulay , president of the society . Speaking of the want of education of a different kind to that generally given in schools , Sir John said :- — " Might not instruction in the guidance and management of the common affairs of life be made a part of the ordinary course of the school ? Might not a teacher for example , make his more advanced pupils understand how much might be done , in the ordinary working lifetime of a man , by small weekly savings—explain the accumalation of interest—the advantages of saving ' s banks of insurance —of small Government annuitiesand the various means within their reach of making provision for the future—the advantages of a regular settlement of all accounts , and the immediate investment of every available balance , however small ? Might he not enable pupils of riper age to comprehend the relations of employer antl employed , and the identity , where rightly understood , of then- apparently conflicting interests ? There was another matter connected with this subject to which his attention had recently been more particularly directed by the circumstances of the British army in the Crimea . ( Applause . ) The minute division of labour , which was a result of high civilization , had a tendency to carry men back to a condition analagoiis in some respects to a state of primitive barbarism . In many of our manufactories and handicrafts , men spent their lives in doing some very limited part of the work required to produce one article —and could do nothing else ; as some Russian musicians spend their lives in sounding only one note . The person , for example , who made the head or the point of a pin , could hardly do anything else . He could not handle a spade or a mattock , an axe or a saw , a hammer or a crowbar . lie could not mend his own clothes or shoes , or shirts , or stockings . He could not bake his own bread or cook his own food ; he was a bad hand at lighting his own ( ire , or even making his own bed . Ho could hardly turn his hand to anything under the sun except the bend or the point of a pin , as the case might be . This was not peculiar to the pinmaker , though he had selected him as a familiar illustration . The same was ( rue of many other occupations . Each person could do only one thing . Every thing else was done for him by persons whose sphere of action waa perhaps as limited as his own . Now a part , and not an inconsiderable part , of the sufferings of the British army in the Crimea , during the last winter arose from this very circumstance . " " The intellect of the working classes , " added Sir John , " is narrowed by this attention to minute detuila and requires the counteraction of a liberal educution . Referring to the war , he alluded to the fatalism of the Russian character , and said he had been often told by Russian soldiers that God has given the whole world to the Muscovites .
In conclusion , he touched , briefly upon the system of begging largess : — " I implore every labouring man to set his face against thufc systucn when hnrvest time next comes round ! . I wish to see your amusements . of a bitter kind . I wish to see the manly sports of our country , such as cricket and quoits , more generally practised . I should even like to see them taught at schools . I regret that a very htrong sense of duty has obliged me to intrude so much upon your time , and I can only say that my ardent and sincere wish is to raise the labouring classes in thu social scale . ' '
Lord Albeinnrlo , in thu course of his speech , offered to the meeting copies of a pamphlet , containing a report of bin speech nt , Biuihurn ( referred to in the Leader of September 2 i ) th ) , the speech of tho l-2 uil of Leicester at South Crcuke , und other matter , hi presenting each applicant ( of whom there were inuny ) with a copy , hid lordship wrote his autograph , and u few appropriate words in it . TUB LORI ) UEUTKNANT Ol' IKKLAND AT BI 3 I , l'AHT . Lord Carlisle has vioited Belfast ; und in u speech which he delivered nfter the banquet given him by the city , ho observed , referring to tho increased prosperity of Ireland : — .
"I have hoard lately something of new arrivals being expected in thia country from America . Wt-ll , then , gentlemen , will they be all Irishman , returning homo to till their fields nguin , to work their looms again , to Wib their wives and families again ? If so , wo will heartily bid them welcome , provided they at least come
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OUR CIVILIZATION . A Timer's ltuoiticr . — John Stiinger , a private in the GGth Regiment of foot , has been committed for tri / il on a charge of stealing from Mr . Tuckott , bookbinder to tho Hritish Museum , a box containing £ \ ' . in . i > l 2 il . lie hud been sentry outnido the British Miwuuni , and had broken a window in Mr . Tuckett ' n whop , ami abstracted tho box . Afterwards , he absconded ; and , when captured , obHerv . d to the constable , " 1 did take it : 1 with it hud been twenty times ns much . " Before tho iiKitfi .-UmU ) , hi » own voraiou of this confession was— " I said to tho constable , ' If thoru hud been any more than there was , it would have been worth takinir . ' "
ltoituiNO a RoiusHR ,. —AbouL tlio und of lust Jun <; , the houHo of a Mr . Howard , of lluuxtoii , near Cambridge , wiih entitled by burglars , who took away about 800 / . in tfo ld , und inflicted wevoro irijurkw on Mr . Howard . Tim offenders woro not riiiKsovoruri until vury recently , and then by a Htrango uocidint . One . of tlio principal of the thieves , numud licuuinont , wns himself robbed by a man whom he had loft , in poMaetision of hi . i house , and , having brought hia loss under tho notice of some friend , tho ull' . iir caino to tho knowledge of tho police , who « o nuhpicloiia were aroused , mid Bouumont wua arroHted . Ho inudo » confodwion , and has since been committed for trial . Another inun connected with thu robbery in under remand . An Italian Romance . —Emcdio Andrcoli , an Italian
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was charged with sending a threatening letter to Mr Fernando Azzoni , demrnding the sum of 5 O 0 L sterling from him , Mr . Fernando Azzoni said that , on going to his brother ' s office in old Broad-street , he took from the letter-box an anonymous letter in the Italian language . It stated that it came from the secret society of the Italians in London , and that they had decided on levying a forced tax upoa him to the extent of TiOOL , ¦ which he must pay in gold as follows , if life were dear to him : that is to say , he was to put the 5001 . in gold into a parcel , and at twelve o ' clock on Friday night repair personally to St . Martiu's-le-Grand , opposite to the General Post-oflice . A person would meet him there , who would use the words , " La paroli di Mario , '' to which he was to reply , " Primo Mu-curin . " This sign and countersign would identify the parties to each other , when the money was to be handed over to the agent of the society . If he complied with the demand , he would be allowed to go free all over the world , and no further demand would be
made upon him ; but , if he refused , death was to be his certain reward , , if he attempted to communicate with the police , he would be assassinated ; for the secret society of the Italians was so organized all over the world , that , let him fly where he would , they would follow and kill him . Mr . Azzoui , having read this letter , went to Sir Peter Laurie , who put the matter in the hands of a detective officer . In accordance with their advice , he went to the General I ' ost-office at the appointed hour , and , as the clock struck twelve , saw Andreoli walking to and fro . The pass words having been exchanged , Mr . A . zsoni produced a bag- containing three hundred farthings ; but when he put his hand into the breast of his coat to bring forth the bag , Andreoli became apparently frightened , and wished to draw Mr . Azzoni further off . This was refused , and , at a given ; -ign , some police officers , who were concealed close by , ru . hed out , and arrested Andreoli , who is now under remand .
A " Jollification , " and its Results . —Mary Darcey , and . Margaret Darcey , mother and daughter , were indicted at the Middlesex Sessions for having stolon four 10 / . Bank of England notes , the property of Robert Travel , and with feloniously receiving them , knowing them to have been stolen . Travel was a dairyman , " of credit and renown , " and of substance , too , and he deposited the notes with his wife for safe keeping . By that lady they were placed in a locked drawer ; but one evening , when Travel was away from home , IUrs . Travel thought to solace herself with a few friends and a little creature comfort . The Darceys and somebody else were invited to tea , after which the gin bottle was circulated , and , in short , as the learned counsel termed it , there was a regular "jollification . "
As the evening advanced the influence of the gin began to tell upon Mrs . Travel , , to surprise her visitors by a display of her wealth , she went to the box , got out the four 10 / . notes , and boastfully showed them round , together with her " marriage lines , " as she called her mamuge certificate . After passing from hand to hand , the notes were wrapped up in the certificate and carefully replaced in the box , which Mrs . Travel locked , and , having put the key away , she piled uj > a lot of articles on the box containing the notes for additional safety . Gin and ale were afterwards partaken of , and Mrs . Travel , in her cross-examination , candidly admitted that at bedtime she was not exactly sober , but indignantly protested that the term " drunk " was not applicable to the state she was in . Mrs . Travel ,
the younger prisoner , and Mrs . Darcey ' s servant , a girl named Quinlan , slept together that night in one bed in the parlour , the younger prisoner lying between the other two . In the course of" the night , Margaret Darcey , the younger prisoner , was discovered on the outside of the bed , to Mrs . Travel ' s somnolent surprise , and on that side of the bod nearest Mrs- Travel's gunncnta : in tlie morning the prisoners pleaded a pressing cngngonicnt u 3 an excusu for not staying to brcukl'ast ; aoma lime later , Mr * . Travel missed the key of the drawer containing the treasure ; and , upon itti being forced open , the notes und tho " marriage lines " were found to have vanished . The jury found , the duu ^ htor Guilty , and the , mother Not Guilty , on : lie count fur receiving . The latter was sentenced , to a
years hard labour . True RrcvitiuiND Da . Vaughan . —A summons has been granted at the Lambeth Police-office against the Riivercnd Dr . Vyiighan , whoso alleged mal-practises in altering the pariah book * of St . Matthew , lirixton , receiving double burial foes , and accounting only for Hingle , wo noticed a fortnight ago . Mr . Malby , the sexton of thocliurch , stated in his evidence that Mr . Vautfhuu at one time tmid to uu uiidcrfcukor wli <> was about to conduct tho funeral of a person wlio ditul out of tho parish ( for which doublo *«<•» woru |>« i < U " {\ on say anything about it ( mimcly , tho plncu <>< ' «»«««»;• « anybody aakti you whoro the funeral <; omen horn , Bay Kobiirt-atrotst ( which wart in tho piinnii ) ; <> r > ll " »« ' ask what tho fotw won ; , you « r « to tol a Uu ( ui to paying double few . " Mr . Kill-. " , tho m . ^ ih r .. lfl , >»• that if warrant hud Inum » nllo « l torhe « I »/« M «*« R . anted wisim iii
a ,., . ii u warrant nuu « '" « •• . . ; , „ , V ., _ ( -I ,,, it ; but thu « ii |* li «» ttion , out of consideration for tho IJ . ctor'H noHllion , wiw only foe a Hunmiowi . —On a laS « ny , J ' V .. u « h « "i obtained a Hiimmon * against Mulby o i a charge % f perjury in connexion with a
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Nov . 10 , 1855 . 1 THE LEADER . 1073
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1855, page 1073, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2114/page/5/
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