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aid in emancipation without compromising their dignity . That also was rejected . The land is not now given for the specific space of a road , but as a g rant towards the funds of railway co mpanies ; ¦ which we must consider <¦ & positive abuse < xxf authority repugnant to the principles of a-repulflic . 3 n our country we have a dispossessed potentate appearing by his proxy . TEhfi deposed Kuggkof Ou . de comes to ibis Court im * the pewwaa criP'his jnotter , begging for restitution . And to Hook at the rout which has accompanied the royal lady , we
might sing , " The beggavs are coming to town . " Upwards of & hundred of them have entered London in carriages , cabs , and omnibuses — a strange pageant . They are spending their money upon a hopeless mission . They will go "back poorer -than they came ; for , although our Court does not possess the power of giving kingdoms , which Parliament in its justice has taken away from those who defrauded their trust , there are plenty of able men in . this country who can teach . Kings aad Queens of Oxjde , or of any other place , how to spend their money .
the grefcfc war . at the beginning of the century and receivedlthirtean wounds * , yet , -when peace came , undertodfe , in conjunction with Parry , an enter-, prise tosilie Arctic Sea , and who at a later period , on a jshnilar occasion , was absent fourjyears in the iee . "Tbjessculptor ^ anll ffhe . sailor wasse qged men , but'the" naan of lettoss sank into fhe geawe at a comparatively early aage . . "Some gentlemen an th » West Ridmg have gwesn tlnB ffiiarl of GwRDiofcN a swprdaamtt'a dinner . Bfc is a litfteHwcalaafimiration w % nffh flamefti up at "the epoch of- the Balaklava charge among those -who live near the Earl's estates in those parts . Everybody remarks on the long- interval 'twixt now and then . It is clear the admiration must have kept well , or , that -a sworu having been purchased , it must of course be presented . Lord Cabdigan , in his own peculiar style , narrated the execution of the Balaklava charge as a specimen of soldierly conduct , and expounded his views of the duties of a cavalry general . They are not oxirs . The noble Earl says that a brigadier should lead his men into action ; but he says nothing of his duties in leading them out .
Now , the censure muttered against Lord Cardigan respecting this charge is , that he did not stay to carry his men out of action , but that he left it to others . We should like to be accurately informed what the noble earl actually did after he had reached the Russian guns . People say he rode back again before his troops . If it was his duty , as he says , "to keep his men together" in the charge , surely a similar duty was incumbent on him in the retreat .
Other great interests , too , have been imperilled . We have had the Royal British Bank stopping For want of funds . It was an attempt to introduce into London the Scotch system , the main characteristic of which is , that a man shall lodge his funds in a bank and draw interest for it ; that he shall be able occasionally to overdraw his . account , paying interest . This system is well
enough in Scotland , where there is a remarkable companionship of men in business , but it is quite unsuited to our metropolis , where association in business does not imply association in private life . It is at once too slow , as well as alien to English habits . The bank did not take . It appears also to have locked up its funds in an unavailable form . It is an experiment which has not succeeded .
Brilliant weather has restored the hopes of a teneficent larvest ; so that there is a tolerable certainty that the quantity garnered will bear a large proportion to the crops on the ground a month ago . The presence of plenty is not confined to Great Britain ; the Isforth of Europe has evidently been blessed with abundance . Larger "breadths of land have been cultivated , and the : fruitfulness of the season has more than fulfilled ihe hopes of the farmer . In the United States ¦ the crop gathered has been for above the average . GLhe damage done by the rain to
the wheat at home is compensated , perhaps more than compensated , by the beneficial effect of the moisture on all green crops , which were suffering from tie long drought . A stable foundation has therefore been laid for trade and commerce . Birmingham makes a prominent figure in the provincial news . The town has inaugurated a new Music Hall , to break down the monopoly of oratorio performances doled out , once in three years , at the Town Hall ; and Mr . Adderxey Las personally opened a park at Saltlev for the
benefit of the public . This paTk is the gift of Mi . Addeblet . He handed it over to the committee who will manage it in future—a committee cliiofly composed of artizans—fenced in at his expense . _ The ceremonies were conducted with the gaiety becoming a rural festival , and ended with a dance , the county Member dancing with the belle of the -village . This is an example that may -well bo followed by other proprietors . It is not the first time that Mr . Ai >» er : ley has ahown himself alive to the interests of Avorkin ^
men . Threo distinguished gentlemen havo " gone before" within the last ten days . Litorature has lost a nolle son in the person of Mr . Gix » ert Vf ^? ^» o united tho characters of journa"st , wit , and police magistrate with a rare felicity . SottTn ° ' % « ™» -Pww /* will know him any £ 3 £ i SnS ? £ " ? J mlgmcnt »« d kindly £ * BH fanolort an imSlaafS ™? """ T
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BANQUET TO THE EAKH OF CARDIGAN . A public banquet , in honour of the Earl of Cardigan , took place in the Stock Exchange Hall , Leeds , on Saturday last , when a very handsome and costly sword , with an address from , the subscribers , was presented to him as a recognition of his Lordship ' s gallantry in the well-known charge against the Russians at Balaklava , and as a mark of respect for his military conduct . Mr . Edmund Denison , M . P ., was in the chair . Previotis to the presentation of the sword , an address , written in a singularly turgid style , was read by Mr . Beecroft , the chairman of the committee . Mr . Denison having then spoken in a similar style of ornate flattery , and having remarked , in the course of his speech , that he " would tttve spurned with the greatest contempt even his Lordship , or any British subject with , whom lie should come
all the difficulties there were for the leading line to ad vance after getting in among the guns , on account of the . obstruction which the gun-carriages , the limber-car riages , and other machinery of that sort offered , many did advance , and lost their lives ; and when , in twenty minutes from the time we had moved up to the attack passed . over one mile of ground in going- , and the same in retiring , I drew up that remnant of the Jieht Brigade , : there remained but 195 out of 670 men who wemtikitDjaction . The loss of life , of officers , non-comtrittsioned-ofEcers , and men—those who were put hors de ccmbat either by death or wounds , or taken prisoners —was 298 ,. and there were 397 horses disabled and the whole of that occurred in the
short space of twenty-five minutes ; and , gentlemen , I think I may here state that of those who escaped that day it cannot be truly-said that any man ' s life was saved by any \ m _ becoming conduct ; if their lives "were saved it was by the will of Divine Providence , "who decreed that they should be saved , while many died a glorious death . Gentlemen , after this had taken place , I proceeded to lord Raglan to report the circumstances of tlie charge and his lordship expressed to me his marked disapprobation of what had been done , stating that such an attack was totally contrary to the principles of warfare —that is , tie attackirg a battery in front with cavalry I have only to say on the subject that there never wa ?
a . more uncalled-for" attack , inasmuch as we had seen ¦ this Russian battery -with a large body of hea-vy cavalry in its rear at least twenty minutes ; and when this attack was ordered they were neither advancing nor retreating . " After several other toasts ( among which -was one to Miss Nightingale ) had been honoured , the company broke up . — . _ _ _ A-.
in contact , if he refused to obey the lawful command of a superior officer , " Lord Cardigan returned , thanks , and in so doing reviewed the history of the Crimean campaign , as far as he was concerned in it . In alluding to Lord Raglan as one whose memory b . e revered and honoured , and whose good opinion in life he valued more than that of any other man , he exhibited strong emotion . He combated what he regarded as certain fallacies now current , to the effect that a cavalry officer ought , in the case of a charge , to come into personal combat with the enemy in the midst of tho privates , and that , after leading the first line , he should halt and receive tie second line , before bringing his brigade into
action . With Tespect to the first opinion , his Lordship showed that a cavalry officer must keep his regiments together , must lead them at a regular paco , husband their impetus for the final onslaught , and keop the allignrnent of the men . He quoted tho authority "of the late Lord Anglesey , and called to mind that that first of cavalry officers stated ho had never but onco , and that -was in self-defence , used his sword against the enemy . As regards the second fallacy , Ithe Earl observed that a general officer heading the first line has nothing whatever to do with anything but the regiments ho immediately commands . To wait for the second lino in sucli a chargo as that of Balaklava would bo utterly impossible . Lord Cardigan then continued : —
"Well , ladies and gentlemen , I had brought the attacking lino up to the battery ; they were there employed , some of them in cutting down tho gunners—and , gentlemen , it was there that the great loss of lifo took place . It was then , or immediately afterwards , that many a . gallant spirit doparted ^ thisJUfe— it was there" ( his Lordship again had to pause hero from tho intensity of his feelings . )— " it was there that such men as Hotham , arul Goad , and Montgomery , of the 13 th Light Dragoons—as Winter , and Webb , and Thompson , of tho 17 th Lancers —it vras there that they met their death ; it was there that White , and Morris , and Sir W . Gordon wcro cut
- to the ground ; it was thcro that one of my aides-decamp -was wounded , another taken prisoner , and tlicn , or Bomo time later , another met his fato like tho rest—I speakof Captain Lockwood , of tho 8 th Hussars , than whom thcro ncvor was a more gentlemanly or a inoro gallant young officer . ( Cheers . ) This slaughter took place both among officers and men , for tho men gallantly followed their officers wherever they went . At the same time , in tho supporting roglmonts , lioth Parker and Fitzgibboii , of tho 8 th Hussars , Cornet lloughton , of tho 11 th Huss / irs , and others whoso names X am afraid I can ' t recollect , woro cut off . Well , gentlomon , in tho face- of
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PALI OP A HOUSE . A house 3 d Little Swan-alley , situated in the rear of Tokenhouse-yard , and on the east side of Moorgatestreet , fell down a little after twelve o'clock on the night of Tuesday , causing the death of four persons , and injuries to some others . The neighbourhood consists of several small courts and alleys of dilapidated tenements ; and the house in question has been in a dangerous state for some time past . It comprised two floors , with a cellar , half underground , beneath , and was occupied by fifteen persons , one a paralytic woman , who was saved . The four persons killed were a man named Palmer , and Iris three children-in-law , aged respectively fourteen , twelve , and five . Palmer ' s wife , the mother of these children , survives ; but she and her bab 3 r were buried in the ruins , and were much hurt . Mrs . Palmer made the subjoined statement on being dug out from the heaps of rubbish . : —
" We occupied the back room on the first floor of the house , for which I paid a Mr . Crane 2 s . a week rent . There were my husband and myself , the "baby in my arms , my boy , who was out in a situation , and my other children—Elizabeth , James , and Thomas Fallen , by a former marriage . We lived ia the one room . My husband is a dock labourer , and I am in the habit of going out washing and earning a trifle . I was out washing on Tuesday , and received Is . 6 d ., and was very tired . My poor boy was kept later at work at his situation than usual , and so his life was saved . About nine o ' clock , I was preparing my "husband ' s supper , when I heard a noise as if the walls were cracking , and yaw dust falling from the ceiling . I said to my husband , ' Oh , I am sure the house is falling . ' Ho replied that I
was always thinking so , and that it was the man in tho next room sharpening his knife . I said that would not cause the walls to crack or the dust to fall , and I was sure the house must be falling . Nothing further was said , however ; wo had our supper , and shortly after ten o ' clock we went to bed . I am -weaning the boy in my arms , and , in consequence of his crying , I got up about five minutes to twelve o ' clock aad gave him some milk . Ho fell asleep in my arms , when I felt the hoards of tho floor shaking \ inder me . This was a fow minute ? after twelve o ' clock . I felt the shaking of tho floor more and more , and called out to my poor husband , ' Ob , good God ! tho houso is falling ! Save my poor children ! Ho got up , put on his trousers , and was going to tho corner of the room where my throe children lay on the floor , to save them , no doubt . That is the last I saw ' of them . I ran to tho stairs , screaming for Mrs . King to escape with her family . As I got
towards tlio bottom of the stairs they gave way under me , and as tho houso foil I was thrown out , with » iy boy in my arms , on to tho pavement in the court . I can recollect little more than that I and my baby were saved , and that wo were nearly suffocated by tho clouds of dust . My child was hurt by the fall . I have lately had strong doubts about tho security of tho house , mi'l had talked to my husband about leaving . Last Saturday night week , Mr . Crane called upon mo for 2 h ., the week ' s ront . I told him lie had better havo something dono to tho fireplace , for it was not safe , and tho children would fall into tho cellar some of these days . There wns a lnrgo crnck by tho side of the fireplace . He said he would call in a fo w days and look to it . Ho went away , but nothing has been dono to the place or the house 1 paid my rent last Sunday , and I am now in tho mont destitute circumstances . I earned Is . Gd . by going out washing on tho Tuesday , whicli I put undor my bed , I am in hopes I sliall find it . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1856, page 842, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2157/page/2/
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