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PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP. The Court, whi...
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Mr. George Sydney Smythe has published i...
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Mr. Horace Greeley has been in Ireland, ...
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Rumour runs that the Emperor of Austria ...
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A respite for Sarah Barber, under senten...
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IMH.KJK. ^ ()u The balloon* nro getting ...
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to combine , in crder to induce men in the employ of their mastrr 3 to leave their employment for the purpose of compelling their masters to raise their wages . One set of counts charged that the defendants conspired to obetruct Mr . Perry in the carrying on of his business , by persuading and inducing those workmen hired by him to leave his ' service , and so to force him to a change in the niode of carrying on his business . There was no intimidation charged on that set of counts . Another class of counts charged that they conspired , some to obstruct , and some to molest Mr . Ferry in the mode of carrying on his trade . He took it that if a manufacturer had his capital embarked in his trade , and had accepted I orders for execution , and any persons conspired to take away all his workmen , that would be a molesting him in his manufacture . Though workmen have the right to agree that none of those who make the agreement will go
into employment unless at a certain rate of wages , they havs no right to molest , intimidate , or annoy other workmen , and there was , therefore , another class of counts , which alleged that the defendants conspired to force the workmen who were hired by Mr . Perry to leave his employment , by unlawfully molesting the workmen who were so hired . Some of the counts in this set charged that they molested by intimidation , and others by threats . If they believed any of the witnesses who spoke to intimidation or tnreats , they would find them guilty on those counts . Another set of counts charged that the defendants conspired , when workmen had contracted with Mr . Perry to serve him in his trade , to peisuade them to absent themselves from his service ; and the last class of counts charged that they conspired by making the workmen drunk , and by other unlawful means , to cause them to leave his service . "
The jury returned a verdict of guilty on all the counts except those which charged threats , violence , and intimidation . A similar trial of the same men , under similar indictments , took place on the 29 th , and lasted until late on the 30 th . The main of the evidence was brought forward to prove intimidation , threats , and violence , and the agency of the accused in getting the men to leave the employ of Messrs . Perry <'» nd Son . The summing up of Mr . Justice Erie embodies the whole case , lie observed : — " That the indictment contained several counts , which he would endeavour to reduce into classes . The first class related to the intimidation and molestation by the defendants of the workmen generally ; the second related to the intimidation and'molestation of hired
workmen , or woikmen unuer contracts ; the third , to the intimidation and molestation of the prosecutors ; and the fourth class , to the obstruction of the prosecutors in carrying on their business , or in forcing them to make an alteration in it . The law he took to be clear , that workmen had ariuht to combine for their own protection , and for the purpose of raising wages , and he said nothing on the legality of other persons combining with them ; but a combination for the purpose of injuring another was altogether of a different nature . The rights of the working classes were conceded to the full extent advocated by the learned counsel , and woikmen not under contracts of hiring had a perfect right to leave their employment ; but the exercise of free will
was equally conceded to the master by the law . Iiach of the parties had a right to promote their own inteicst . The object of the alleged conspiracy was to force the Messrs . Perry to adopt a book of prices , and if the defendants combined to ( fleet , that purpose by unlawful means , the indiciinent was sustained . The statute of the ( iih George IV . ( the Combination Act ) prohibited intimidation of evciy kii . d , and the first c-lasH dl counts in t \ io indict ment \\ a « framed to inert this oll ' ence . His lordship then referred to the evidence of tin- Mcsa : s . Perry , and o ' lKervcd that no direct threat of ¦ vio lence had been < , li . rcd cither to the persons or property of those gentlemen . They appeared to have : been placed in a vei y dillieult position , and stood lirutly by
what the law allowed to them—viz ., freedom of action . The bonk of prices prepared by the workmen appeared to be very fair and reasonable ? . Mr . Robinson , the Mayor of Wolvci hampton , had offered to mediate between the parties ; it might , have been heiter for tin ; Messrs . Perry to have availed themselves of ihat mediation , but they bad : l pei feet light to exercise their own free-will in the matter . If , as had been Htated in ibis case , the : masters agreed togellicr not to employ certain wnilcmcn because they were obnoxious to Home of them , hucIi conduct would be highly reprehensible and illegal . A placard fiignt'd by l ' ei 1 , and einanaiing from the trades ' association , had been given in c \ idcncc , and coercive measures wr-re therein alluded to . It also spoke of forcing the book upon the non-conforming employers . " The jury returned ; i verdict , of ( iuilty on all the counts against , all I Ik ; dcle . udiint . s . We must , Mt ; it , <; that , the juries were " special . " { -Sentence' haa not yet , been i ^ ivrn . The following resolutions were agreed te > at . a meet inf . ; of the National Association for the Protection of . Labour ni London : — " Ihat it . h . iK always been con .-iiilered by the woikingrla . HM'H of ( in at . ISrit . uin that the ri . jli ' t of peaceful indu-stli , ; l com 1 ) 1 ll . it ion for the mutual piolection ( if their common intcitsts , was amply and nernii'iicntly secured to ( he in by I lie act of Parliament , (> ( J i o . 1 , cap . l' 2 O , and they solemnly repudiate and will resist by every lawful meant ) any and every nl tempt , by any power to encroach upon or invalidate this their essential an ; l invaluable privilege ; 'I'll . it this meeting , representing t . <• indu .-ttiial cla . viCH of the British metropolis , bin watched with great intercut , the 1 'ite lii-iln for c . on ; i ;> ii ae y , intituled by it clique <> f : he master manufact hicih of \ Vnlvcrliainptnn , mid fiom the icporlH of thone trials which have reached them , they perceive with much Kurpiiat ? and indignation
that an insidious attempt has been made to pervert _ the ancient and invaluable institution of the 1 rial by Jury into an engine of oppression , and a means of reducing the British labourer into the mere unreasoning seri and tool of capital when in the hands of bad men ;—And that while seriously deprecating any unlawful invasion ot the rights of capital , the intention , now for the first time openly avowed , of constituting ' peaceful persuasion : an indictable offence , is a violation of the spirit and letter nt the statute law hefore referred to . and an intolerable
encroachment upon the liberties of the British labourer . This meeting does , therefore , pledge itself individually and collectively to use its most strenuous efforts to furnish the pecuniary resources requisite for the defending this invaluable right , and if necessary , of carrying up their appeal to the highest court of judicature , and failing there , of commencing an active agitation through the length and breadth of the land , for such a legislative enactment as shall place upon a fair and ^ equitable basis the laws relative to master and workman . "
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Personal News And Gossip. The Court, Whi...
PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . The Court , which has so long sojourned at Osborne , arrived in town on Thursday , the Queen coming up personally to prorogue Parliament . The fetes in in Paris , and the extraordinary behaviour of the Lord Mayor thereat , have furnished infinite occasion for gossip . The Exposition , also , has supplied something to talk about—the immense Tee-totaL invasion , and the singing of a song in Welsh , which produced such a btartling effect upon a man present , that before hd could be secured he knocked down three women ! Sir George Grey recovers but slowly , and is still too unwell to transact business .
The Marquis of Lansdowne met with an accident last week , being thrown from his horse . The injury is not very serious . He was sufficiently recovered on Monday to resume his official duties , though obliged to carry his arm in a sling . Foreign correspondence continues to announce that Mr . Gladstone's letters are published by several papers , that they are read with avidity , and that they have created an immense sensation in Italy . Mr . Hume and Mr . Roebuck , who have been absent of late from the House through indisposition , were in their places on Wednesday . Mr . Lewis Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt , of the Innrr Temple , is appointed a police magistrate for the district of the metropolis , in the room of Mr . Burrell , of the Westminster Court , whose resignation will date from Thnrsday next , August 7 . —Observer .
Mr . Anderson , the tragedian , passed through the Insolvent Court this week . There was no opposition , except from a poor girl , who claimed a sum of upwards of five pounds , for the maintenance of an illegitimate child . This claim was settled . The Commissioner spoke highly of Mr . Anderson , whose books showed no extravagant items , anel who had simply failed in a speculation in which he had risked and lost considerable capital . " Yesterday morning the Reverend Prince Hohrnlohe
officiated at mass at St . George ' s . A somewhat general expectation that the Prince would preach was disappoinicd ; but the assistance at this celebration of so near a relative of royally was of itself a great satisfaction to the vny numerous congregation , Protestant as well as Catholic , which attended . " We give this paragraph entire , iirst , because it appeared in ihe columns of the Morninr / Chronicle of Monday last ; and s < condly , because we should like to know what " satisfaction" Prott slants could derive from the appearance of the clerical
prince . The annual Ministerial fish dinner , in anticipation of the clone of the . parliamentary session , was held on JSatuiday , at the Trafalgar , Greenwich . ' 1 ho company proceeded from 11 . ung < rford pier , nt live o'clock , ia the steamer Waterman 12 , and s . it down to dinner at six o'clock , under the presidency of Sir Alexander Cockbnru . ' 1 he following members of the Government and of the royal household were present on the occasion : — Lord John ltu ^ sell , Lord Palinerstou , Lord Grey , Marquis of Westminster , Lord Clanricarde , JKurl of Morley , Lord Clarence Paget , Admiral Dundas , General Pox , Honourable W . Cowper , Mr . It . W . Grey , Mr . liaineH , Lord Marcus Hill , Mr . Cornewall Lewia , Mr . HiiwcH , Sir \ V . G . Craig , Mr . Bellow , Mr . Rich , the Attorncy-Geniral , and the tiolicitor-Gi neial .
Mr. George Sydney Smythe Has Published I...
Mr . George Sydney Smythe has published in the MorniiHj ( 'hronicltt a parody on Byron's " Isles of Greece , ' " called Ihe " Penal Bill . " We pick out four fitan / . iis not without , point , and vigour :--" The lisle of SaiutH , the Isle of Saints ! Where liuniint / Calvin lives mid reigns , "Where ruves MacneiU—where Stowell rants— - Where ; Lambeth whines , and Fulhaiu feigns . Kternal Cant ruliM o ' er the la ( I , And all except , thitt (' ant be el—d . " Again , a ^ aiu ! Bring screws and cords , For ere Inn ! 1 ; we inunt come to Unit ; ( 1 here is a Law for I ' apisl . IiokIch , While Truro treads on Wisefnan ' s hat !) Hark , answering to the glorious tall . How uiibwcr . s each bold Kx'ter Hull ! " You have the Kentish ( ire us yet ; Whcic arc the Kcntndi fa : ;^ otn gone ? Of the two lesions , why f < rg't ' ihe nobler and the innnlier one ? You have John Rum > cH ' . s letter — then , Why not . the Make at J ' euenrlen ? " Then place me on the Causeway ' s Bleep , Where nothing but tho waves and 1
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep In amabean bigotry . Fill up yon bowl—the Pope be d d ! We must , we will , lose Ireland /" The last line surely ought to have been written : — " Fill up yon bowl—the Pope be dannd ! We must , we will , lose Ler-land !"
Mr. Horace Greeley Has Been In Ireland, ...
Mr . Horace Greeley has been in Ireland , specially visiting Galway , to examine its merits as a packetstation . Lord Arundel left Limerick on Friday evening after his election , and proceeded to Tarvoe , the seat of Mr . Monsell , M . P . Mr . Russell , the unsuccessful candidate , is reported to be in London , attending the funeral of a relative who has bequeathed him a large legacy . The Limerick Chronicle contradicts the statement that Archdeacon Keatinge and two other Protestant clergymen had volunteered their support to Lord Arundel at the late election . The Honourable C . S . Hardinge , eldest son of Visc ount Harditige , is the only candidate spoken , of for the seat vacated at Downpatrick by Mr . R . Kerr . He is a Conservative , and will probably be returned without any opposition . In the Freeman ' s Journal , on the 2 nd . of August , a document , pertaining to matters concerning the establishment of the Catholic Uuiversity , was published . It bore the signatures of the four Archbishops , and of three Bishops , with their titles set forth in full . A meeting was held in Galway on Wednesday week last , convened by the High Sheriffs of both the county and the town of Galway , for the purpose of expressing disapprobation of the report of the Packet Station Commissioners . The county High Sheriff took the chair , and among those who addressed the meeting were Mr . A . O'Flaherty , M . P ., Mr . Blake , M . P ., and Sir T . Burke , M . P .
Rumour Runs That The Emperor Of Austria ...
Rumour runs that the Emperor of Austria is afraid to pay his promised visit to his " beloved" people , the Milanese . Field Marshal Paskiewitsch ( observe the tenderness ) , stood sponsor to a pair of Jews , who were christened on the 22 nd ultimo in the Church of the Cross in Warsaw , one seventeen , and the other fifty-eight years of age . The Duchess of Berri , accompanied by Count Lucchesi and suite , has left Frohsdorf for Venice . On the 29 th , the King of Wirtemberg arrived there under the assumed name ot Count von Teck , and numerous persons of distinction are expected . The visit of the King of Saxony to the castle of Aglie " was , it is reported , not at all political ; but simply to see his niece , the Duchess of Genoa .
Prince Christian , of Glutksberg , is residing at the castle of Rungenheim , near the Rhine . The Duke of Nassau and Prince Metternich and his son have visited the Prince this week , and long consultations have been held on the subject of the Danish succession . Accounts from Rome of the 22 nd ultimo relate , that General Gemcau seized all the gunpowder stores in the magazine , and had them conveyed , with the cannon belonging to the Papal army , to the Castle of St , Angela . A few months since , a person bearing the name of Altieri passed himself off as a cardinal in different states of Italy and also of Germany . This man , who , it seems , is perfectly initiated in all the secrets of the Roman Court , has just been airenlcd , and delivered up to the Roman authoiities by Austria .
M . Rosenthal , the painter , recently arrrsted at Pesth , as a revolutionary agent , is said to have * hung himself in prison . Five persons who were arrested at the same time have" been set at liberty . Great interest is created at Florence by the publication of a work entitled Apolot / y of the Political Life of ( iuerrazzi , written by himself . The fact of the Government having permitted the publication of this woik is much commented on . Advocate Ceroni , who was imprisoned at Florence m consequence of the Santa Crocc disturbances , has been released from captivity ,, but with orders to leave Tuscany immediately .
The Herman Journal of Frankfort Btates that the Bishop e > f Bruim lias formally excommunicated the Priest Juraneck , who lately quitted the Catholic Church . Destructive inundations have taken place during tho past week , on the Rhine and the Rhone . Ah a religious procession waa passing over n bridge at Wladimir , in Russia , the arches gave way—149 person 8 were killed , and OH wounded .
A Respite For Sarah Barber, Under Senten...
A respite for Sarah Barber , under sentence of death for poisoning her husband , reached Nottinfl huin on Tuesday . Facts which have come to light fiince the trial , tending to show that she Mas an accessory to the murder only alter the fact , Reem to have led to this respite . Another balloon accident has occurred . Madame P « ' - inyn « Gurmron ascended from Batty ' s Hippodrome on Wednesday . The wind wan light and the balloon flouted very near to the house tops . Finally , one bag of ballast being discharged , the machine came ia contact with " ir . irret window of one of the Madoley-villan opp <> sit « Victoria-ro . id , the car half inverted ituelf and Madame GnriK'i ' na was he-cn hanging heud downwardu over 11 Hide . A bag of ballast rolled out , and uh the cro « a expected to s « f the lady borne away in her peiilous <; 0 " ~ dition , the netting got entangled in u chimney , the l ' illl ^ ' collapsed and left her lying on the roof . She i unhurt , and fuintly bowed an acknowledgment to (¦ heeling crowd .
Imh.Kjk. ^ ()U The Balloon* Nro Getting ...
IMH . KJK . ^ () u The balloon * nro getting into ihe Police Courts . ^ Saturday , Mr . Brig |! H , partner in n linn of oilmen , * " '„ a Matcnent befou ; hir Peter Laurie , r * "l » cctl ' f . CI , bulloon , which , on tho pievioua evening , hud fallen
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1851, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09081851/page/10/
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