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Aug. 24, 1850.j ffif>e 3Lt&1lt*. 513
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. liltvaiLUU gaui. The Encumbered Estate...
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THE TWO WORKMEN. The substance of a rece...
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THE IRRATIONALITY OF GOVERNMENTS. London...
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noon , they arrived off Eastham about half-past seven in the evening , and as the eight o ' clock steamer was about leaving the pier she observed a boat about half a mile from the shore capsize , and in a few minutes afterwards they saw several parties scrambling in the water , endeavouring to gain the shore . The Eastern steamer made off towards the boat , and succeeded in picking up two men and a boy ; but eight others met with a watery grave . Several of the parties in the boat were said to be in a state of intoxication .
Reports have been received in Liverpool of the total loss of the brig , William Hush ton , in the Channel , and the loss of seven of her crew . It appears that at one o ' clock on Tuesday morning , when in the Channel , somewhere off the Ormes Head , she came into collision with the steamer Minerva , bound from Kingston to Liverpool . The concussion must have been great and severe , for in le ? s than fifteen minutes after the vessels struck the William Rush ton went down . Every effort was made on board the steamer to avert the calamity . The engines were reversed , the ship ' s course altered , her boats lowered , and everything possible done to preserve the lives of the crew . We regret , however , that these efforts were not effectual ; of the crew , eleven in number , seven perished , the master , cook , and two seamen only being saved .
The weather has generally been favourable for harvest operations during last week , and a large portion of the wheat crop has been got in . There are great complaints of the yield from many parts of the country . In Lincolnshire the wheat crop has suffered very " severely from mildew . Taking the whole county , the full average will be full three sacks per acre less than last year . The Sheffield Town Council has resolved that an address be presented to Lord John Russell , requesting him to advise her Majesty to order a new issue of copper coinage . The last lift of the last tube of the Britannia Bridge was completed amid much acclamation on Friday , and everything is understood to progress so satisfactorily as to lead to the conclusion that the entire structure will be opened a fortnight earlier than was expected .
A highly important discovery in gold refining has been made by Mr . R . S . McCulloh , Professor of Natural Philosophy in Princeton College , and the late melter and refiner at the Philadelphia Mint . This gentleman profebses to have discovered a new , quick , and economical method of refining argentiferous and other gold bullion , by which the work may be done in one half the time at present required . It appears that the new method would save in labour and materials about one half of the cost required by the process now used in the mint of the United States , so that the charge to depositors for refining , which is now fixed , according to law , at the actual cost , may be considerably reduced .
A carriage containing a gentleman and lady , and diawn by four horses , wiih postillions , drove up at a rapid rate to the Cross Keys Hotel , Milnthorpe , from Lancaster , on Tuesday afternoon . Having changed horses , they proceeded on their route to Gretna-green . The enamoured couple , it is said , belonged to the neighbourhood of Milnthorpe . — Lancaster Guardian . A married man and a married woman eloped from Halifax last week , having borrowed and obtained all the money they could . They were traced to Liverpool , where it was found they had sailed in the Constitution liner to America .
A murderous assault was made by a wife on her husband at Gatehouse , in Dumfriesshire , last Saturday . The woman is a Jewess , whom her husband , a Dr . Mason , lately married , after having converted her while residing in Constantinople . Dr . Mason relates that on Saturday morning last , when he was dressing , his wife suddenly jumped out of bed and attacked him in the most furious manner with some sharp instrument—a razor , probably , or surgical instrument—with which she inflicted some severe wounds . He succeeded in rushing
from the room and ran into another , where he fell down exhausted from the loss of blood . An alarm was immediately given , and aid afforded to the wounded man . On entering the room where the assault had been committed Mrs . Mason was found sitting quietly in an apartment filled with smoke proceeding from the bed , which she had set on fire . The flames were with some difficulty suppressed , and her person secured . Dr . Masonis considered to be in a very dangerous state . His wife has been sent to Kircudbright gnol .
A most unaccountable attempt to murder was committed atThurlton , near Loddon , Norfolk , on Thursday week . The parents of a girl named Caroline Warnes , aged 14 , having gone to their work as usual , a labourer named Ualdry , who lodged with them , went to the bedroom of the daughter , and asked if she was not going to get up ? She said , ' ? Not yet . " He then struck the child a number of severe blows on the head with a hammer , by whi' ; h her skull was fractured . The child is not expected to live . Baldry has been apprehended .
A fatal affray took place at Hebburn , a colliery village about three miles from South Shields , on Saturday about midnight . Saturday was <( pay-fortnight" among the pitmen , and a number of the men belonging to Hebburn colliery had a quoit match , and after that a supper at Hebburn Hall public-house , in the village . About twenty-nine minutes to twelve , eight seamen came to the public-house and called for some ale , which the landlord refused to fill for them . The seamen hearing the
pitmen in the adjoining room , made to it , and forced themselves in , when a row commenced . The landlord came , and put both seamen and pitmen to the door . A most fearful conflict then took place between them ; stones , broken bottles , and ilints flying about in every direction . In the middle of the fray a stone was seen to come from one of the seamen and hit a pitman named John lrdle on the jugular vein , which killed him on the spot . The final sentence of tho law was carried into effect yesurduy wee ! :, at Edinburgh , upon William Cernis ^ i ! ,
for the murder of his wife by poison . The culprit made a full confession of his guilt to Mr . Hay , of the Methodist Chapel , Leith , a few days after his condemnation , although in retiring from the dock on the day of his trial he appealed to Heaven that he was innocent , and implored forgiveness for those who testified against him . Bennison admits in his confession that he mixed the arsenic with which his wife was poisoned amongst a pot of porridge , of the contents of which she alone partook . Although evidently very weak , he walked with a firm step to the scaffold ; and the rope having been adjusted , and the signal given , he was launched into eternity after a few convulsive struggles . After hanging for about half an hour , the body was cut down , and , agreeably to the terms of the sentence , buried within the precincts of the Calton gaol 1
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. Liltvailuu Gaui. The Encumbered Estate...
. liltvaiLUU gaui . The Encumbered Estates Commissioners have completed a formidable list of sales , to commence immediately after the close of the recess on the 16 th of October , and to continue almost daily to the close of the year . The Irish Jurist mentions as a fact highly creditable to the commissioners , that no appeal from their decisions has as yet been brought before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . Vast crowds of emigrants continue day after day to quit the south of Ireland for the United States . The outward flow seems rather to increase than to dimmish . By emigrant ships in the Irish ports , or by steamers to Liverpool , where other ships wait to receive them , large numbers of the peasantry depart . "
, . Several of the Roman Catholic bishops have arrived in Dublin , on their way to Thurles , to attend the Synod , which was to commence on Thursday . It is likely that all the bishops ( twenty-seven in number ) will be present , with the exception of Dr . Egan , of Kerry , who is suffering from illness . Vast numbers of persons from Dublin , and from other parts of Ireland , will visit Thurles by the railway , to witness the ceremonials at the first " National Synod " which has been held in Ireland since the reign of Henry II . There have been provincial the since the thir
Synods , but none convened by Pope - teenth century . The chief business of this Synod will relate to matters of ecclesiastical and church discipline . The question of education will also occupy much attention . An experimental trip was made on Saturday on the Grand Canal , near Dublin , to illustrate the advantages of the application of steam as a propelling power , by the agency of the screw , to boats and vessels engaged in inland navigation , and the result of which seemed highly satisfactory to numerous scientific persons and others who attended to witness it . The estimate is , that by the
adoption of the plan of the inventor the requisite motive power can be obtained at the rate of 4 d . per mile , including the cost of engine , fuel , and wages of engineman and fireman ; while it is alleged that the average cost of haulage of similar boats by horse-power is Is . 9 d . a mile . The following dialogue is reported to have taken place at the Queen ' s County assize , between a medical witness and a barrister : —Mr . Hayes ( the barrister)— " If a person , lying on wet straw , were deprived of all the comforts or necessaries of life , would it not hasten death ? " Dr . Edge— " That would greatly depend upon whether he had been accustomed to them . " Mr . Hayes— "Do you mean to tell us that if a person lived in a horse-pond , it would not be injurious to him ? " Dr . Edge— " I think not , if he had lived sixty or seventy years in it . "
The corporation of Drogheda , at their weekly meeting held on Thursday , resolved to cut down the salary of . the mayor from £ 200 to £ 130 . Mr . Willans , the consul for Russia in Dublin , has issued a notice to all . Russian subjects resident within his district to furnish him with their names and addresses , «• in order , " as he says , " that the same may be transmitted for the information of the Imperial Government of St . Petersburgh . " Tho whole contents of the Slieo union workhouse are
at present under execution , at the suit of the contractor ; and , as the commissioners have refused to allocate any of the Government money to redeem the property , it will be sold in a few days by auction , and the unhappy inmates consequently turned adrift . A most barbarous murder was perpetrated on Saturday night last , near Clare , Galway . The name of the unfortunate victim was Thomas Mullowncy , who it appears had a quarrel some considerable time since with the at
sister of one William Glennano . On Saturday night , ten o ' clock , deceased was met near Clare , by Glennane . An altercation took place between them , when suddenly Glennane drew out a knife , and gave the deceased several stabs with it in the abdomen , and then fled . The wounded man was conveyed home , but lingered only until Mon ay evening . An inquest was held upon the body , and a verdict of " Wilful Murder" returned against Glennane . He has not yet been arrested .
Two magistrates , John O'Brien , Esq ., R . M ., and James Molony , Esq ., D . L ., appointed by the Government for the purpose , were engaged the whole of Saturday last at Tulla , in the county of Clare , in the investigation of a charge against a gentleman named Smith , a magistrate of that county , of having endeavoured to procure the murder of his own mother by the instigation of others to commit tho crime ; and two men , named Martin M'Namara and Patrick Connellan , were charged with being accomplices in the intent . Mr . Smith was arrested admitted
on this charge some weeks ago , but was then to bail , and was again arrested a few days ago to abide the result of the present enquiry . A number of witnesses were examined , but for tho most part they were not of the most credible or creditable character , being themselves partly implicated in the alleged crime , as stated by the counsel for Mr . Smith , who strongly urged his client ' s discharge on the ground that the whole was a vile conspiracy , gut up from vindictive feelings by a set of ejected tenants . The magistrates in the end decided on sendiri" the * caso for trial , but agreed to admit the parties to bail .
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THE TWO WORKMEN . The substance of a recent dialogue between two workmen on the subject of Association may , perhaps , be usefully repeated in public as indicative of a tone of feeling in quarters calumniated . It "was as follows : — First Workman . Merton , I hear " Communism " or " Socialism" spoken of everywhere . It mixes itself up with every form of politics now . What is meant by it ? Second Workman . That depends upon who speaks of it . The Political Economist considers it the dream of folly , the Clergyman of wickedness , the Statesman of insubordination , the Master of idleness , the Rich Man of plunder , the Newspaper of demagoguism . 1 st W . That ' s not what I want to know . The opinions of these people do not concern me . They who do so little for the poor workman cannot be so very obliging as to think for him . These are opinions for themselves , not for its . As I have to feed myself I have to enquire for myself , therefore let me have your opinion . 2 nd W . The way in which the matter appears to me is this . Men a little civilized combine or cooperate together for the attainment of some end , not to be reached singly . Hence we have Association , which is an arrangement of interest regulated by conventional Justice . This is artificial life still . But a family in which interest is regulated by affection is a purer state , and some have felt this , and sought to extend the family principle to a home colony , where interest should be regulated not by conventional but by moral justice ; and this is the crime which you have heard characterized by the name of " Communism . " 1 st W . Then is Socialism the same , or does the " folly , " " wickedness , " and " spoliation , " lie there ? 2 nd W . With the majority of people «• Socialism " and " Communism " mean the same thing . With others Communism relates to the government of a colony on the family principle ; and " Socialism " means the federation of all peoples in the same bond of affection—it means the whole work of the world done by the whole capacity of the world , and the fruits divided for the world's benefit . 1 st IV . I thank you . The gospel of freedom and progress is only preached now as ever , by the poor to the poor , and I thank you for your explanations , but I want farther to understand the question . Is there not some force in the objection to this grand scheme of equality , that if we were all made equal to-morrow we should not continue so the next day ? 2 nd W . Don ' t you trouble yourself about that . There's nobody going to make us all equal to-morrow ; when there is , then consider the consequence . When the skies do fall the little birds will be killed , I suppose ; but the skies are not down yet , and the birds are not uneasy , nor need you be . The question is , not shall we attain to equality to-morroto , but shall we not endeavour to reach it as the future of humanity ? At present the practical question for us is , can we not do somethings to diminish that inequality which we find , from which we suffer , which makes the poor slave and the luxurious despot ? 1 st W . But T have been given to understand that the scheme of " Communism " is founded on Equality . 2 nd W . You will be given to understand many things which are not true , unless you examine for yourself . Communism does not begin , but ends with equality . Equality is not a fact but an aim ; and universal equality , like perfection , is a salutary endeavour though it may not be a strict possibility . Is * W . Still it is not clear to me what the Communist would be at . There are two ways of attaining equality , one by depressing the rich , the other by raising the poor . 2 nd W . A moment ' s reflection will enable you to answer the question for yourself . Communism isnot war but progress . It Is very well that the rich are rich ; so much work is done . The next step is to make those rich whose hands create riches . The old cries of sects have grown obsolete , and are superseded by the cries of Industry . We no longer shout " No Popery , " but " No Poor " , mark you , not no rich , but no poor . 1 st W . But is Communism solely a question of interest to the poor ? 2 nd W . Far from it . If I am poor , competition starves my body ; if I am rich , it starves my affections . No man will persuade me that that is a moral life in which my welfare depends upon my resembling the Spartan thief , upon my being able to overreach my neighbour without detection—a state in which I plot how I can supplant my iriend even while I assure him of my regard . The interest of the poor is indeed double , because the rich are a misery to others , the poor a misery also to themselves . 1 st W . What then should be done by one who is with you ? 2 nd W . Help those who help the people . Cooperate with those who cooperate . Associate with those who promote association . Join some society which seeks their establishment ; and , where Association takes the more perfect form of Communism , there give the freest and most earnest help , for there is being made the most generous effort . Ion .
The Irrationality Of Governments. London...
THE IRRATIONALITY OF GOVERNMENTS . London , August , 1850 . The world , as it is now governed in all the districts into which it has been artificially divided , is a compound of folly and misery . It everywhere ex-, hibits absurd farces , incongruous comedies , and cruel tragedies . It is too grossly ignorant , and now too evidently opposed to the progress in knowledge and
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 24, 1850, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24081850/page/9/
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