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October 9, 1852.] THE LEADER. 9 $5
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Saturday, October 2. The question of the...
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Mr. William Shaw Lindsay, the eminent sh...
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Major William Beresford will not easily ...
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A fire broke out on Wednesday at Sheerne...
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October 9, 1852.] The Leader. 9 $5
October 9 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 9 $ 5
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . « - -niTHJssible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . ^ -rhSr insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; I when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite indecent of the merits of the communication . w rrfice can be taken of anonymous communications . "Whatis intended for insertion must be authenticated by the mnand address of the writer ; not necessarily for publicarion but as a guarantee of his good faith . mr V-annot undertake to return rejected communications . aji letters for the Editor Bhould be addressed to 10 , " Wellington-Comm & catfons should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .
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Saturday, October 2. The Question Of The...
Saturday , October 2 . The question of the moment on the continent is the independence of Belgium . Seeing the strides made by the master of France , the hostilities of his press , and the antagonism of his negotiators , there is nothing which we may not expect . Belgium is a constitutional state : first offence ; Belgium is required by the Bonapartes to round the French territory , and withheld : second offence ; Belgium shelters exiles : third offence . By Jesuitical intrigue and priestly coercion , a reactionist majority has been elected ; and , as our readers know , have driven the liberal ministers from power . It becomes a grave consideration whether M . Bonaparte intends to complete his conquest by arms or annexation after the American model .
It is a significant fact , and worthy of note , that the Times of to-day enters into speculations upon the probable defence which Belgium could make against an aggression from France .
The Telegraphic Despatches Announce The ...
The telegraphic despatches announce the arrival of the Prince ' at Aix and Nismes , where he was saluted with cries of " Vive Napoleon III . " This seems now to be the mot d ' ordre .
Mr. William Shaw Lindsay, The Eminent Sh...
Mr . William Shaw Lindsay , the eminent shipowner , made a confession of faith at Newcastle , on Thursday . The occasion was the launch of the first of a line of splendid iron ships , intended for the Australian emigration trade . The vessel , which is 1100 tons burden , and fitted * up with all the latest improvements , is named the W . S . Lindsay , to whom she belongs . A dinner took place after the launch , in the spacious drawing-room . Mr . Lindsay presided , having around him Mrs . Chisholm , Mr . James Morrison , of London , the Mayor of Gateshead , and other influential gentlemen . Sir John Fyfe and the Mayors of Tynemouth and South Shields , filled the vice chairs . Nearly four hundred ladies and . gentlemen sat down to dinner . The usual loyal and national toasts having been drunk ,
Mr . Hutt , M . P ., proposed " The Health of William Shaw Lindsay / ' ( Cheers . ) "Timid men were desponding , and calling upon the legislature for measures of impossible retrogression ; but men of steady purpose and sagacity did not budge an inch in this emergency . They pushed forward with more prudence and circumspection , indeed , but with more spirit and resolution than ever . If they found one avenue closed against thorn , they carved out other avenues of success to themselves . ( Applause . ) If the old wooden walls , from circumstances to which ho need not advert , did not hold out the Bamo jirospects of success as formerly , they turned to other and newer materials of construction . If shipbuilding on the Thames was too expensive for success , they turned to tlio cheaper materials and tho abounding skill and ingenuit y of tho Tyno . " ( Cheers . )
Tho toiwt was drunk with enthusiastic choorH , tho bund playing immediately afterwards tho well-known air , " bo ' s a hearty good fellow . " Mr . W . S . LindHny wiih very warmly cheered , lie thanked them for tho kindly manner in which hia health bud boon proponed , and received , and observed 'hut tlie proHj ) erity of our whipping became a mutter oi national concern . "He was uwaro thero would ho , in that room , as olsojvhere , a difference of opinion as to the best mode of maintaining tho mercantile marine efficiently . Ho would , Jiovvwer , give them bin opinion honestly as a plain man ol "iiNiiujHH , and if that opinion should bo different from
< nmrn , ho was sure they would not be ofl ' ondod with him |<> r expressin g it . Ho , for one , conscientiously believed "' a t tho true way of maintaining its efficiency was free and "" lettered trado . ( Cheers . ) So believing , ho would nay «¦<> thoNo who dissented from him , Abandon tho phantom Protection—it is a delusion , a fallacy . Tho more h « i thought '"> < no subject , tho more ho was convinced that tliiH wan ' «> fact . When ho eonsidorod tho resources of England , I . " '' h « skill , industry , and energy of Englishmen , ho unkod '' iiiiHolf , What have wo to fear from any nation on tho fnoo <> 1 ( lie eiirth , OI , l y £ ivo UH fm , 1 U 1 ( 1 unfettered trade P ljM > I > lauso . ) H < , wu 8 , iwar « , that some said tho laws of J'ljvor Cromwoll had mado us what wo are ; but this was r ' _ J * ° P ruBourcos of the country , the onorgy of our waiklWi , ft * pcitiaa of England aft no wlnnd of &••»*
were the cause then , as now , of our prosperity , and restrictive laws only retarded our commercial advancement . " Mr . Lindsay mentioned some statistics of increase , concurrent with modifications of the Navigation Laws ; and continued : — - " These were facts which they could neither gainsay nor overthrow . Let them take another period of still more recent date . They could not tell yet what the effect of the total repeal of the navigation laws would be , but one thing was clear—if they went to the banks of the Wear , they would find the shipbuilders more actively and busily employed than ever , Larger ships being now built—ships better fitted for the open competition of the seas—than were built before . He had heard it said that these vessels were built
on speculation , but he did not believe such stories : and even if this were the fact , it would make no difference , for he understood nearly all the vessels -were sold . This convinced him that , instead of the repeal of the navigation laws having done injury to the British shipbuilders and shipowners , it had done them a great deal of good , by teaching them to depend on themselves , instead of clinging to the back of the chair of protection . ( Applause . ) He admitted the hardship of existing facts . For instance , as the head of a large ship-broking firm , he one day chartered two ships from Calcutta , one an inferior French vessel , and the other an high-classed British ship—the first received 51 . 10 s ., the latter SI . 15 s . per ton . But wh y was this ? Whilst the French ship could freely enter British ports , the English vessel could not enter any port in France ¦ . m . i m ¦ i 1 i 1 _• _ 1 _ J _ f __ _ X . T- A _ witnoutainerentiai iar
; a aucy Deing anargeu , mure mau the difference in the freight . This appeared a great hardship ; but who paid the difference of freight ? The French people , on the articles of consumption ; it was therefore a question for them rather than us ; and he trusted their eyes would soon be opened to the injustice and impolicy of maintaining differential duties . But if this were not so , was England to follow the beggarly policy of France and Spain ? If those countries would not adopt our policy , were we to return to theirs—a policy which had brought anarchy to their throne , ruin to their merchants , and destruction to their trade ? The eyes of Holland had already been opened , and she was following ifco a large extent our example ; and they might depend upon it , that in time other nations would see it to be their interest to follow in
our footsteps . ( Cheers . ) He trusted , therefore , that the shipowners would banish from their minds all ideas of protection and reciprocity , which was but protection ^ in another shape and under another name , and , making the best use of all their energies , advantages , and resources , he knew that the flag of England—that flag which has braved a thousand years , the battle and the breeze , and which everywhere had been the harbinger of peace , Christianity , and civilization—would never be furled . ( Cheers . ) Let them , as it became them as Englishmen , move onwards , removing those clogs which pressed unfairly and injuriously upon their industry and skill . There were many things which might be borne in the days when they leant upon the State for protection , which , now that they
were left to the free competition of the world , should be removed . He had felt this , and as most of them were aware , he desired to enter the House of Commons in order that he might do what in him lay to remove the burdens which press upon the shipowners of England . Ho was sorry to say , ho found the ordeal necessary for him to pass through to enter the senate of his country such as he would not undergo . Ho had occasion tho other day to ask a plain man , lbut a great man—one who would nave honoured them with his presenco that day had not unavoidable engagements prevented him — he had asked him who was to take the lead of the shipping interest in . the House of Commons . That gentleman was none other than tho man of unadorned eloquence , Itichard
Cobden . ( Cheers . ) Ho would read them part of a note which ho had received from Mr . Cobden , because that gave him reason to hopo that ho would look after tho interests of tho shipowner . [ Mr . Lindsay road portions of the lotter , in tho courso of which Mr . Cobden said : " As respects tho removal of all restrictions and exclusivo burdens from tho shipowners , nobod y will more heartily co-oporato for that end than myself ; but , to give a ehanco for tho co-oporation of Free-traders , they must cease to invite us to liston to bleatings after protection . " ] It would occupy too much of their timo were ho to enter upon tho burdens which ought to bo removed . On this point ho was not satisfied with tho
conduct of tho lato Administration , who ought to have accompanied tho repeal of the navigation laws by a removal of these fetters on their energy , and by a simpliiication of tho maritime codo , so that , instead of having fourteen acts to guido tho shipowners , they might , have had ono act level to tho meanest , comprehension . Thero remained , however , various matters to which it was tho duty of tho present Government to attend , such as tho system of consulago abroad , tho Trinity Houso , and tho Dover and itamsgato dues ; and now that tho great general who hold the oflico of War ' den of tho Cinque Ports had gone to his rest , ho could not help exprosHing his surprise that Lord Derby , tho First Minister of tho Crown , who hud always said that ho felt , for tho shipowner and desired to tteo their burdens removed , should have- stepped into
ono of thoso bunions himself , and appointed himself to thin fdnoouro of WXX )/ . a-year , tho revenue for tho maintenance of which is drawn from tho pockets of tho shipowners of England . ( Hear , hoar . ) It would have bettor become him , considering tho profoHsionn ho had made , if , instead of accepting thatoffioo , no had abolished it . ( Cheers . ) JIo would only add ono word , and it should bo connected with iron shipping . They wero nwnro that twenty yearn ago Homo persons would not boliovo that iron would swim , and it was a long time boforo HtoamhoatH wore built of iron ; now thero were scarcely any of wood . ILo believed that in live or six . yearn thero would bo very low ships built of wood [ and what a marked superiority that would give them over tho nation which moot interfered with them aw competitor * I Amwric * laboured hard to maintain th « iupr ««
macj of the seas , but we had now a material for |> ullding Bhips which America did not possess , and for which she would have to come to us . This would open her eyes to the impolicy of maintaining a duty of thirty per cent , on manufactured iron , for the freight and charges alone would be quite sufficient to operate as a protection to the British shipowner . ( Hear , hear . ) Several other toasts were proposed and speeches delivered , and the company separated .
Major William Beresford Will Not Easily ...
Major William Beresford will not easily be allowed to forget that he called the people a vile rabble . At the annual meeting of the Dunmow Agricultural and Labourers' Friend Society on Tuesday last , Mr . W . Beresford opened the proceedings by alluding to the objects of the society , and expressing the satisfaction he felt in taking part in anything calculated to benefit the poor . It had been stated in this county that because he would not submit to the insults of a hired mob at
Braintree , he was not a friend to the labouring classes . That was not true ; there was nothing he would not do to promote the interests of such men as he saw before him come to receive the prizes of the society ; but when men passed the bounds of decency as they did at Braintree , they were no longer respectable and excellent men as mechanics and citizens , but became a hired mob ; and it was because he was sure no such class was to be found at a meeting at Dunmow that be had so much satisfaction in coming amongst them . He urged upon them the good the society was intended to do them by promoting their comforts and
stimulating their industry . ( A voice " Raise our wages . " ) He -was afraid those who paid wages had not so much to pay them with as they had , and if the labourer , by an alteration of the law , got a cheap loaf , he could not expect to have the same wages—if they had things at a much cheaper rate , and had nearly the same wages , they were in a much better condition than they were before . ( A voice , " I get only 7 s . " ) You are much better off , said he , with 7 * . now than with nine before ; but if that man had 9 s . he would want 11 * ., for a discontented mind is never satisfied ! [ What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh , and Major Beresford ' s insolence is instinctive . ]
A Fire Broke Out On Wednesday At Sheerne...
A fire broke out on Wednesday at Sheerness , at the Clarence Inn . Strong bodies of men from the ships and garrison were soon on the spot , but the progress of the flames was so great that the artillery-men were compelled to pull down some bouses to arrest them . One marine was burnt in his bed ; four or five were missing on Thursday , and an artillery-man was killed by the fail of a stack of chdmnies . A goods train went off the rails near Biggleswado yesterday ; the guard jumped off and was greatly injured . Mr . Winstanley , chemist , member of a well known firm in the Poultry , committed suicide by taking poison in a cab yesterday . Thero was a fire at Dockhead yesterday doing serious
damage to the premises of a draper in Thornton Street . Mlaggs , the Somersetshire burglar , was on Tuesday committed for trial charged with two burglaries . The evidence was similar to that on which his companions , Sparrow and Hurd , have already been transported . Newport , the constablo , captured the prisoner at his house last week , just as he was in tho act of escaping through tho thatch : and deposed that on searching Maggs ' s premises lie discovered seven bags of skeleton keys , containing 130 altogether , concealed under tho iloor in a loft , and that lying with them , was a pair of knitted socks , such as housebreakers wear over their shoes to prevent noise ; they wero wet , and the fresh grass upon them clearly showed that they had boon recently worn . in tho habit
A Government official in Bermuda wan some years ago of sending packages of arrowroot to tho Duke of Wellington , out of kindness and respect , lor which ho used to receivo notes from tho Duke acknowledging tho receipt of tho packages , and expressing thanks for thorn . Tho supply of arrowroot at Apsloy House must have exceeded tho consumption ; and its accumulation appearn to have been inconceivably largo , for tho Bermuda official was surprised to receive a note , of which the following in a copy : — " V . M . the Duke of Wellington prcsontM his compliments to , and hogs to inform him that ho thinkn ho now has arrowroot enough . " In the report of the committee of the Itouso of Commons on tho operation of tho lawn relating to friendly societies ! ( just issued ) , reference in mado to invcHtmontH by friendly societies into tho National Debt-ofHco . Sir Alexander
Spearman , tho Controller , Htated in his evidence that Iiih ollico has at present no means of cheeking or verifying any sums transmitted by any society to him for investment beyond a simple declaration tendered at the sumo timo with the money ; that tho interest payable is higher than that which tho ( Jovormnent receives ; ' that fcho societies might draw out , the money , and the difference between tho pneo whom Bold and when invested would be ho much Iosh to tho country ,- besides , tho funds might go down ; that , hiiiiih have Holdout boon drawn out . when once invested with tho
National Debt () ouiiniHsionerH , and it in open to Hurrmso that tho claimn which ought to bo met from moneys no invented have been liquidated from other moans , and ho the capital which bourn a very high rato of interest ban remained untouched to tho prejudice of the public revenue . Sir A . Spearman agrees with Mr . Tidd Pratt , the registrar m hiH Huinrontioii thai , it board nhould be formed tor tho nmnair « monl ; of friendly societies Then ; , ani variouH recoHimeridationH with regard to the now bill to bo brought befor * Pnrli « m « nt on the ubjoot of fnendly soci « UeB .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09101852/page/9/
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