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292 THE LEAtiE R . [ No . 314 , Saturday , EBMMn ggaMMB —¦——¦——M—^* ^ | W ' ' AiJI "'" ^ — . ^^ ¦
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delegates from the eighty towns brought into union by this association , and the meeting was the largest yet held . - The meeting unanimously agreed to a motion ordering " That it be aa instruction to the central committee to consider and report on the possibility and desirableness of holding examinations of the students in mechanics' institutions in union wifeh this association , in Manchester ; and of giving prizes for different subjects and degrees of proficiency . "
AaRloxiiiTXJRA . L Statistics . — -The Eight Hon . R . Hamilton Nisbet and Mr . James Banks Stanhope , members for North Lincolnshire , met some of their constituents at the Corn Exchange , Boston , on Wednesday , to give their opinion on the Agricultural Statistics Bill which will shortly be brought forward in Parliament . Neither objected to such a measure in the abstract ; but they pointed out what they eoneeived to be very objectionable features in the Government Bill .
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PRISON-BREAKING EXTRAORDINARY . Two prisoners have escaped from the Model Prison , Pentoiyville , in a most astonishing manner . One of them is a relative of the notorious Hackett , who broke out of the samo gaol som « years ago . How they succeeded in opening the lock , in which nothing appears disturbed , is uttorly unknown ; but , after opening the door of the pell , they must have walked along several passages , where they found au iron trap door , weighing three hundred weight . Thia they must have forced up , and thence got on the roof
of a low building . Having scaled , a lofty wall by means of a ladder made of what shoemakers call wax ends ( which must hava taken them a long time to construct ) , they reachod the roof of the prison , but even , thela had to dosoend nud ascend six times before thoy were entirely froo . TUo ladder was found hanging on the outer wall . The fugitives wore in thoir prison dross ; but they hiwe not beon yet discovered , On © was a shoemaker ; tho other a , bricklayer . An officer of tho prison has beon suspondod .
Another escape , quite aa extraordinary , lias occurred at the now gaol , Southampton , A xnnn namod Anderson was awaiting his tnul at this prison , wlxou ho determined to get off if possible . In tho absence of tho governor of tho gaol , ho oontrlvod , about nooii , to opou the lock of his ooll door by moans of tho plate uaocl to denote hia gaol number : tho look , wheix afterwards examined , exhibited marks of great violonoo . Several workmen wore employed in creating a shod for a trondmllL iu tho yard ; and Anderson arrived horo at tho momont when the men
gone to dinner . He then took a shovel , heaped up a quantity of earth , placed on that a mortarboard , and on that a scaff > ld-board ; and then by mean 3 of a short ladder , and a scramble up that part of the wall to which the ladder did not reach , he effected Ma escape . For some time this man either was , or pretended to be , suffering from rheumatism . Like his London rivals he has not been recaptured . Ciime has lately increased in England to an alar ming extent ; and now it seems we cannot even hold our criminals when we have cot them .
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IRISH ROWS . A Mr . EdmojjjD O * aiiA . DY haa been brought before Alderman Finnis , at Guildha . ll , on a charge of assaulting Mr . James Hamilton Kelly , in . the Green Dragon public-house in Fl « et-3 treet . Mr . Kelly was struck twice in the face , apparently with some instrument and he bled a great deal . Mr . O'Grady , who exhibited muc h excitement at Guildhall , and who expressed himself in a melodramatic manner iu set speeches , admitted the charge , said he would do the same thing again on the like provocation ( and so , he added , would the alderman if he had the feelings of a man in him ) , and accused Mr . Kelly of interfering in his private affairs , of maligning him , and of "
blowing ; the horn of discord ' ' among his friends . He had offered hia adversary " a . fair meeting at twelve paces , " but he refused . Therefore did ¦¦ Mr . O'Grady determine to take the law into his own hand 3 ; " , by —— , I blackened his eye . " He added that it ; was only a common assault , and the alderman " might fine him if he liked . " Hia manner was so outrageous , that the magistrate was obliged to threaten him with punishment for being dl-imk . Mr . Kelly admitted that there had been some . " unpleasantness" in Mr . O'Grady ' s affairs , into which he had unfortunately
inquired . Alderman Finnis observed that a most unwarrantable attack had been committed . " Yes , " said Mr . O'Grady ; " upon me . " Ultimately , he was fined £ 5 , and ordered to provide two sureties of ^ £ 50 to keep the peace for . six . months , or to go to prison for two months . At this he-seamed surprised , and said to the alderman that he could give securities " for all eternity to persons when they behave themselves ; but , " he added , "if you were in the same position , I would treat you in the same way . " He was then re move d .
William Hoare , an Irishman , is under remand at Westminster , charged with , assaulting Michael Walsh , a fellow-countryman , with a hatchet . Walsh , though he had suffered severely on the head , said , after . giving his evidence , "He ' s a sister ' s husband of mind , and I don't want to press the cliarge . " Another Irishman , named Michael Hogan , has appeared before the Thames magistrate on a charge of serious ly injuring James Chapman , a policeman . Chapman has served for twenty years , and is a remarkably steady and well-conducted man ; but he i 3 now so terribly crippled tbat he will be obliged to quit the police , and will not be able to go about except on . crutches . He found Hogau in tho course of the night intoxicated and making a disturb ' ance : and , the officer having declined to see him home ,
Hogan pulled off hia coat and liat , seized the policeman round the waist , threw him , and kicked his leg as he fell . The constable heard his limb snap like tho crack of a whip , and he called for assistance . Hogan was then token into custody b y another policeman . He put in a statement "when being examined beforo the magistrate , from which it appeared that he had been in the army , had deserted , received the Queen ' s pardon , after some years' imprisonment , and started from the Portland convict establishment , for London , on hia way to Ireland . Near St . Kntlierine ' a Docks ) , he was met by some strangers , who made him . drunk , and ho said that he recolleoted nothing of the assault . Ho added that he had a wiie and throe ohildron anxiously waiting his arrival , and he therefore " humbly bogged mercy and forgiveness . " Ho was committed for trial .
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The WHOLissAiifl Tr-vdk in Seduction . — A lottor was submitted en Tuesday to Alderman Cnrdoa at tho Mansion-house , with reference to the frightful system of exporting and importing young girls for immoral purposes . It was addressed to Mr . Markn , Chief Minister of the West London Synagogue of Britinh Jews ; and the writer , who wished hia nurao to bo suppressed , said : — " From what has oomo under my own observation both , in Hamburg and other partis of formany , aa well an in Liverpool , there la no doubt that there is a large and regular traffic carried on botwoou
this oountry and Germany in exporting English girls and importing Germans . One of the portions most actively engaged in this infamous traffic in a woman residing in Liverpool , whore eho koopa n notorious Iioubo of ill-fame . Site is called , but 1 buliovo that her real name ia , and it is a well-known fuofc that she maken several journeys to Hamburg in tho course of a-year , taking with her JSugliwh girl * <«> 1 bringing back GJormaua , generally speaking , of toinloi * yeara—say sixteon ; and 1 have howl that on _ bdiii " occasions eho has had ohildron as young n . 3 Oftoon
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again writes ( Feb . 19 fch ) , for the chief purpose , as it would seem , of pouring forth the vessels of his wrath upon the " factious and undutiful young clergyman . " He adds that , instead of proceeding against Mr . Ellis in the Court of Arches , he intends to proceed against him by a commission of inquiry , " deeply regretting the being compelled to make such an exposure of Mr . Stanley ' s weakness and want of reason" as will be involved in . the " neeessai-y production of our late
correspondence . ' On Fe » . ^ 20 th , Mr . Stanley writes for copies of his letters . The Bishop , in reply , says he will send copies of the letters in a few days ; and states that , on consideration , he shall not proceed against Mr . Ellis by a commission , but by letter of request to the Court of Arches . " 3 n statins the ground of the charge I bring against Mr . P . C . Ellis , I slall make no other mention of your name , nor bring forward any other part of my correspondence with you . "
the insufficient number of services provided for the spiritual wants' / of the .-people' in many of their churches on Sunday , rather than of any decided objection to the tenet 3 of the Church of England . The memorialists felt ; compelled by a sense of duty to avow their belief that , in numerous instances , only one service aiid seriaon are provided in those churches where , on the ground of . population- and revenue , two services could by law bs enforced .- Though they could easily point out many instances of such neglect , they refrained from any mention of individuals , in the hope that the Bishop would make inquiries iato the statements , and ; in the eveut of their being found accurate , would take steps as by law empowered to remedy the evils .
AN IMPUDENT BISHOP : OUR EPISCOPAL " CIVILISATION . " " Virtue with so much ease on Bangor sits , All faults he pardons , though he none commits . " Sib Richard Steele . A . " very pretty quarrel' * has been going forward during the last two months between the Bishop of Bangor and the Hon . AV . CX Stanley , M . P ., on the subject of a memorial recently presented te the former , aud signed by twenty clergymen and some hundreds of laymen , including three niembers of Parliament . The memorial in question referred to the continuous estrangement of the mass of the people in Wales from the Church of England , and expressed an opinion that this alienation was in * a , great degree the result of
To this tern iterate representation ( which the memore lists conceived-would enable the Bishop to express bi 3 , wishes , to the clergy of his diocese with the greater authority ) , a reply of a most singular nature was given . The right reverend prelate acquits Mr . Stanley of any intention of insulting him , but says he knows who concocted the petition , the authorship of which he attributes to the Rev . P . C . Ellis , whom he accuses of " presumption , aud folly . " He greatly regrets that a gentleman like Mr . Stanley , with whom he had been on terms of friendship , for many years , should have given hia countenance aud support to that
" self-willed and wrong-headed man , Mr . Ellis . " The document , " called a petition , " was in fact " a violent attack and bill of indictment against himself" ( the Bishop ); but it was not Mr ; Ellis ' s first offence , as he had formerly been , admonished by the Bishop to desist from his " improper and indecent publications in newspapers , " to which admonition Mr . EHis hod sent a " silly and impertinent reply . " The Bishop - > i $ titnate 3 his willingness to inquire into separate eases of neglect , but he will not resign into other hands '" "tho authority and discretion belonging to his ' '• station . " The letter contains some further stones for ¦
pelting at Mr . Ellis , who is taxed with , " presumption , ^ folly , self-conceit , self-will , and impenetrable obstinacy . " Mr . Stanley replies that he did not act on tho suggestion of Mr . Ellis , but simply carried , out certain views which he had been advocating for years . The Bishop writes again on the dth of February , stating that he shall prosecute Mr , Elli . sin the Court of Arohes for his inauboi'diuation ftud disobedience in publishing the \ so-called petition" in two of tho local newspapers , He concludes by deolining any further correspondence ; but Mr . Stanley on the following day writes to intimate that Mr . Ellis had nothing to do with Bonding tho petltiprt to the nowapapors . Tho Bishop thea transmits anothor letter , in which ho says that it
makes no difference whether Mr . EIHb was a prinoipnl ox ' . vtiL aocostfjbry : he ( tlie Bishop ) must still require a publici tofcvftotation ; and he . is astonished that Mi * . Stanley should . vainly defend "this man . " On tlio 15 fch" tilt . ; tho Bishop says that Mr . Ellis hm endeavoured to justify his conduct ; and ho hopes that Mr . ' Stanley vr ' xW soon aep his error in having boon led , iftt $ ' ?« <* " foolish and inisohievouB agitation . " Mr . oJ-R nley {} * h . 16 th ) fcriofly regrets that tho Bishop e OTW : ^ T «'' Bp i 'oiitU'oly . lpaiaunde ^ tQod the purport of * £ , ? ' fr ^ WonV and oneei move disavows nny iatoution of dictating ^ him . * Baftho 'Bishop , with a pertinaoioua poaolution nofc >; to acfcepb Mr : Stanloy ' s explanations ,
From the date of this communication ( February 22 nd ) to March 7 th , it would seem that no further correspondence took place ; but the Bishop's indignation had probably been simmering , for it boils ove r again at the Jlatter date—the episcopal wrath being this time . launched at the headgof Mr . Stanley himself , who is accused of conduct " highly disrespectful and offensive" to the right reverend correspondent , and " discreditable" to himself , Mr . Stanley . That gentleman is told that his assertion -with respect to having made similar representati ons before , is '' merely a ¦* flourish of high-flying nonsense and palaver , with which you endeavour to varnish over in globing terms your meddling in matters oiit of your own province , and with which you are altogether xraacquainted . " Tile phrases , " wilful ignorance , " " assurance , " and " astonishing boldaess /' are flun ° -
at Mr . Stanley . That gentleman is told that he '' remembers to forget" a reply by the Bishop to a . certain pamphlet on the subject of the Church in . Iforth Wales . .: Lord Monteagle , who some years ago aaade a speecb . on the same subject in the House of Lords , is described as being , " as the saying is , as pleased a 3 Punch with his own performance . " Mr . Ellis and his " dupes" are alluded to ; and tbe Bishop is surprised that Mr . Stanley should liave ventured to ' - ' . bother" him with his " idle boasts , " or should have supposed that be " was fool enough to be frightened with them . " He is also surprised-. sit Mr . Stanley's " assui-ance" in asserting that the petition w ' as signed by various members of Parliament ; and he concludes thus : —^ - " Knowing , as is generally tnown , the pertinacity of your adherence to your owu . opinions , however absurd and unreasonable , and the stubborness of
your self-will , I cannot expect that you will confess yourself to be in tho wrong ; but I hope that you will feel it , and that tha le 3 s ' 6 Tis of self-knowledge and self-control , which I have been endeavouring to teach you , will have a wholesome effect on your future conduct . " In the remaining correspondence , Mr . Stanley begins his letters " My Lord Bishop , " iustead of " My dear Lord Bishop ; " and , ou the other side the " My dear Sir , " is changed into " Sir . " The Bishop speaks
of the gentlemen . who $ e signatures are attacked to the petition having been " entrapped" into appending their names ; and with another disavowal by Mr . Stanley of any offensive intention , and some arguments in support of his conduct , the correspondence concludes . In the Bishop ' s letters , two especial characteristics may be noted : firstly , a resort to tliat coarse and "ungentlemanly mode of address which is common among churchmen ; and , secondly , a pertinacious refusal to believ * the statements of Mr . Stanley .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1856, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2134/page/4/
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