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Oct. 25, 1851.] SE* Heater. 1011
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PUBLIC OPINION. The Macelesfield Courier...
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PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP. Royalty abidet...
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Married, on Tuesday last, at St. Peter's...
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The railway from Mestre to Treviso was o...
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Mr. Powers, the American sculptor, whose...
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Matthew Hill At Birmingham. Great Praise...
in infinitely to be preferred ? I have now , gentlemen , I Sustl shown that my plan is not open to the objections which have been raised against it ; but I cannot conclude without ( parodoxical as it may appear ) avowing that I am far more gratified than disconcerted at these objections . They prove how deeply Englishmen ar « imbued with instinctive reverence for the liberty of the xubiect This , like every other sentiment , may be carriel to an unwarranted length . On the question before vou I think it has been so treated ; but I for one will ever bear in mind that personal freedom is the surest foundation of our other liberties , and that hostility to any interference with it challenges my respect , even when it exceeds the limits of a reasonable jealousy . If , then , on calm consideration , my proposal shall be found by the verdict of reflective men unwisely to infringe on that noble privilege , none will rejoice more sincerely than at word
myself that I have not been taken my . Grateful shall I be to those who will have saved me from the life-long sorrow of having * inflicteff ) ijj } jury where I nad humbly hoped to suggest an important benefit . "
Oct. 25, 1851.] Se* Heater. 1011
Oct . 25 , 1851 . ] SE * Heater . 1011
Public Opinion. The Macelesfield Courier...
PUBLIC OPINION . The Macelesfield Courier , that lugubrious of country papers , contains the following startling announcement . People say " See the Bay of Naples and die , " we say , read the Macelesfield Courier and take to your bed : — " Many people think it impossible that England should ever again hold the rank among the nations whtdhtt once held , or which many think it stiU holds . It must be confessed that it would be a most desirable thing to persuade foreign countries to abandon war at a time when , according to the Times , two millions out of two millions and a half of the inhabitants of London and its neighbourhood are fed with foreign corn . The inhabitants of London are bound , on pain of starvation , to do all they can to induce Government to submit to every indignity rather than defend its rights—to say nothing of its honour , which some hold cheap . If the impossibility of reviewing the Free Trade measures involves the impossibility of preventing the degradation of England , we can only Bay we are sorry for it , and content ourselves with adding the Moslem expression of pious resignation : ' It is the will of God !'" The Northern Whig touches gracefully upon the topic of last week , the provincial visits of the Queen , comparing the progress of Elizabeth with the tour of Victoria , ending with this question : — " Of what value were all her pomp , and pageants , and parade , to the maiden Queen , weighed in the balance with one hour ' s enjoyment of the domestic felicity that brightens the existence of her successor ? Elizabeth and Victoria—what a suggestive contrast ! The sixteenth century and the nineteenth—the times , of a surety , are wondrously changed . Does any witless mortal linger yet , who , comparing the present with the past , would wish for a return to those old troubled , boisterous days ?" The Nation commences a page of brilliant leaders with an article on the Famine Debts pointing out a way towards Irish landlord rehabilitation : — " Now , if the Irish landlords had common sense they would see that all this lies before them—and that the only way of dealing with it is by malting fair terms with their tenants at once . It is not the Consolidated Annuities Rate that is driving the people to America—that ia only the last straw on the camel ' s back . People would readily pay any rates , if there were no rents . But the camel aforesaid might quite as readily pass through the proverbial difficulty of a needle's eye , as a tenant live liable , with heavy and unjust taxation , to all the irresponsible and expensive burdens of Irish landlordism- When the landlords say Tenant Right and a ' Bill of Particulars , ' we will open our cars very wide to them . Now then , speak up , gentlemen ! " Commenting on Mr . Hume ' s Edinburgh speech , the Leeds Times quotes the passage wherein Mr . llumo says that he does not wish to extend the suffrage as a boon , but as a right : — "On that principle the people ' s party in the house of Commons ought to take their stand ; and , while refusing no offer which will give an expansion to the suffrage , providing it be an honest and not a fraudulent expansion , their business should be to proclaim that such concessions can be only regarded as stages in advance , not as the terminus of the onward movement towards full political emancipation . ' Parliamentary Reform , what is it to be ? " is the home topic of the Preston ( htardian . " Let those who support the state , control the stato" exclaims the ¦ writer : — . "We are not afraid to admit that the adoption of this principle involves the advocacy of universal suffrage , and never will political righteousness bo fulfilled until universal suffrage is conceded . In the mean time , however , we must devote our attention to what is probublo of attainment , and therefore we concur in the demand now being made by the National Reform Association for household suffrage . With this must be associated the ballot , and what in our opinion in equally important , the adoption of comprehensive electoral distnctH , in lieu of the present scatterreil and isolated constituencies . " Toryism speaking plain truths with manly consistency in ulways worth recording . Thus tho Exeter Fl ying Post in blunt phrase comments on French politics : — '' But why should men who uphold a republican form oT ( lovenunent , object to one of its essential elements ? What > ight has any man in a republic to nay that tho
suffrage shall ' notbe universal ? The President was raised to his high office by the people ; and he , at the least , is only consistent when he attempts to secure to them that right which they won for themselves by the revolution . If France be determined to have a republic , let the people enjoy it to the very utmost limit ; and do not let any Government , or faction , interpose its weight and authority to lessen those blessed privileges which republicanism confers . Let the principle contended for be fairly worked out , —let the system of popular sovereignty be carried on in a truly popular manner , —and not have the farce exhibited to the world of a republic with one half of its population disfranchised . "
In an article on the " [ Repayment of Advances the advocate wittily says , " To be sure , the Times , as usual , kicks up a row , and abuses Celt and Milesian to the top of its bent . The drollery , by the way , of making Lord Lucan a Milesian , or Lord Sligo a thorough Celt—the latter being a Brown , and the former a Bingham !" " The liberties of the Continent have been pitched below the prescriptive standard of the Holy Alliance , and for the present appear in very hopeless plight . " says the Liverpool Albion , in a sensible paper on the Continental press : —
" That which for the nonce seems to render the future most disheartening is the unanimous hostility evinced against the chief instrumentality by which not only political freedom has been won but advances made in every line of civilization . The popular sentiment , that the " Liberty of the Press is like the air we breathe , without it we die , " seems reversed in the councils of the despots ; and instead of coupling a wholesome vitality with its exercise , they associate their own humiliation .
Personal News And Gossip. Royalty Abidet...
PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . Royalty abideth at Windsor Castle , whence the Queen and her children walk forth in " the Homepark and slopes , " enjoying the fine autumn prospect , while Prince Albert goes shooting with Lord Granville . Altogether a pleasant contrast to drives through the Pass and among the craigs of Ballater , and deer-¦ talking . Bloomerism is appearing at various places , notably next week at Hanover-square-rooms , where a Bloomer ball is to be held . This is a great fact . " So is the cost of a ticket a large sum . But "it is necessary to keep low vulgar Bloomers" out of the sacred precincts of fashion ; low vulgar Bloomersthat is , people with no ready money , and not prepared to get into debt . It is now pretty freely circulated that at the late council only three numbers of Lord John Russell ' s Cabinet supported his new Reform Bill proposition . The other members were opposed to any new Reform Bill at all . This division in the Cabinet has caused great consternation . —Morning Herald . The Earl of Westmoreland , who reached Vienna on the J 4 th instant , had a interview on the 15 th with Prince Schwarzenberg . The Russian minister , Meyendorf , gave a grand dinner in Lord Westmoreland ' s honour . All the chiefs of embassies were invited . Dr . Ogle is appointed to succeed Dr . Kidd , as Regius Profeasor of Medicine at Oxford . A new " People ' * Hall" was inaugurated at Colchester , on Tuesday week . The chief Bpeaker was Professor Airy . The beautiful porphyry vase contributed to the Great Exhibition by the King of Sweden and Norway , which formed , so conspicuous an ornament in the Swedish department , has been presented by his Majesty to Prince Albert . The office of Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster , which has recently been vacated by the Solicitor-General , haa been conferred by the Chancellor of the Duchy on Richard Bethell , Esq ., Q . C . The election of a representative in Parliament for this borough ( Bradford ) took place on Tuesday , when Mr . Robert Milligan , a Liberal , was elected without opposition , there being no other candidate . At his audit , held last week , the Honourable R . H . Clive returned ten per cent , to his Shropshire tenantry , a similar allowance having also been returned by him at the rent day in April last . The Earl of Powis has likewise made a similar abatement of ten per cent , on his estates . Sir Horace St . Paul , Bart ., high sheriff of Northumberland , has offered , by public advertisement , three prizes , of 100 guineas each , for Essays on Temperance . This is the sheriff who so , ia such " shabby " slate , met Mr . Baron Platt , and who was accused by the Baron of disloyalty ; because his Clarence was not very brilliant , hiu harness only plated , and the sole attendant a footman ! Mra . Fanny Kemblo was thrown from her horse at Brighton , on Thursday week . The shock was great , but she courageously gave the reading announced for that evening . l ) r . Lees delivered a Lecture on Temperance in the Grout Room , Kxetcr-hall , on Monday , to a larg ^ c audience . Mrs . Tracey , an American lady , habited in the Bloomer costume , appeared on the platform . Bloomerism appears in various parts of London ; in the Dean-street Iheatre , at the Horns Tavern , and in the John-street Institution . We cannot say that the cause is at all raised by the advocacy of its fair professors . Bad taste , want of judgment , and a certain vulgarity , have bcuct the whole agitation .
Married, On Tuesday Last, At St. Peter's...
Married , on Tuesday last , at St . Peter ' s Church , Eaton-square , Lord Cosmo George RusBell , son of the late , and half-brother of the present , Duke of Bedford , to Annie , youngest daughter of the Into John George
Norbury , Esq . The ceremony was performed by the Reverend Lord Wriothesley Russell The Honourable Victor Alexander , " Master of Kinnaird , eldest son of Lord and Lady Kinnaird , died at Rossie Priory , on the evening of Saturday , the 18 th instant . He was eleven years of age , having been born in 1840 Died on Tuesday evening , at the rector ' s lodgings aged seventy , John Radford , D . D . Dr . Radford ( says a correspondent ) entered college in 1800 and took the degree of B . A . in 1804 , passing his examination under the shortlived system of the statute of 1801 . He became Fellow of his college in November of the same year as a native of Yorkshire , was tutor for nearly thirty years , and succeeded the well-known and eccentric Dr . Tatham , as rector , in 1834 .
The Railway From Mestre To Treviso Was O...
The railway from Mestre to Treviso was opened on the 14 th instant , Field-Marshal Radetzky assisting at the ceremonies , with all his staff . A book and printseller at Pesth has been arrested and sentenced to eight days' imprisonment for having in his possession portraits of revolutionary personages . Another bookseller is now under examination for a similar offence . The Count de Thomar has left England for Brussels . It is stated to be the Count ' s intention to proceed to Portugal as soon as the Cortes meets .
Yes ! they are all of one Family ; we find that it is so from the Corriere Mercantile of Genoa , of the 17 th instant , which announces the arrival of the Duke of Leuchtenberg , at Naples , on the 7 th . " The Prince , " says the correspondent of that journal , in a letter dated the 10 th , " arrived in the French steamer Langnedoc , and alighted with his suite at the hotel of the Russian Embassy . At one o ' clock he waited on the King , who returned his visit an hour afterwards , dressed in a Russian uniform . The Duke was likewise visited by all the other members of the Royal Family . "
A lady of considerable beauty , and still young , died a ew weeks ago , says the Constitutional , at the Batignolles . As she had lived alone , the Juge de Paix of the district took possession of her furniture and her effects , on behalf of the heirs . Amongst other things was a rather large collection of richly bound books . On . opening one of the volumes , the Juge de Paix found a will ; in a second there was a second will , and in nearly all the others there were others . Each of these wills was of a different date , and each constituted a different person universal legatee . These legatees were all young men—officers of the army , advocates , shopmen , artists , actors , students , architects , and physicians , in short , of every profession , and of almost every class of society . Inquiries having been instituted , it was ascertained that the lady had married eight or ten years before , but being of a romantic disposition , had soon
violated her fidelity to her husband , and having abandoned him , had indulged openly in intrigues with every young man who struck her fancy . Her relations with each were , however , of short duration , owing to the fickleness of her disposition ; but having , it appears , a sort of monomania for making wills , she regularly drew one up in favour of every new lover . Each will thus set aside that which preceded it , but the last of all was valid . The Judge de Paix caused the person named in this last one to be sought for , and he turned out to be a young artist without fortune . He was warmly congratulated on his good luck , and calculated on being placed in comfortable circumstances for life , the lady having an income of 30 , 000 f . a year . But a fewdays ago the husband presented himself and destroyed all the artist ' s hopes , by producing his marriage contract , which established him inheritor of all his wife might leave at her death .
Mr. Powers, The American Sculptor, Whose...
Mr . Powers , the American sculptor , whose Greek Slave formed such a point of attraction in the Great Exhibition , is now engaged , on a statue of great beauty and of great allegorical interest , both as regards his own country and the prospects of the world at large . It represents California , under the form of a beautiful female figure , of the Indian type of feature , pointing wiih a divining rod to a mass of auriferous quartz , which ia skilfully disposed bo as to form the support of the statue . The voluptuous beauty of the figure , the smiling expression of her face , and the richness of her cap , bracelets ,
and armlets of native gold , are sufficient to awaken tho enthusiasm of those who , through avarice or through adventurous spirit , leave all in search of the ; tempting metal ; but here , indeed , we may say " all is not gold that glittera "—the too often deluded hopes of the adventurers and the " deccitfulnesa of riches " are well typified by a bunch of thorns , which the enchanting California holds behind her back in her rifjlit hand , and which in the first burst of admiration are not visible to the gaze of the dazzled spectator . — Carreajwwivnt of Daily News at Florence .
We have picked up the following curious specimen of the lengths which the good genius of Puff will lead astute traders : — " 4 . J , Ncwgnte-Ktrect , London , October 11 , IKA . " Dear Sir , —The demand for pork has been very good this week , and its value in still 41 s . per < : » vt if small uiul good quality . Eggs arc short in supply , but only worth fis . 9 d . and Oh . per hundred ; but 1 look for a sudden advance , if the weather would alter to a keen frost . Butter Hells very slow , and prices are by no means firm . The ' Exhibition Palace , ' as it in termed , doses to-day , and thia will end one of the most monstrous pests that ever bt-HOt a commercial country ; it linn robbed the trade of numerous districts , and destroyed the pcaoe of many a family : besides upsetting tbe industry and productive powers of our nation . —I am , J >< -ai Sir , faithfully yours , " ( xKOKUK I ' KNKON . " Observe the unction of the tiling . Eggs mid butter mixed up with that " monstrous pest , " the Exhibition . Mr . 1 ' eiitiou ought to have a chuir of logic specially instituted for him , that his wonderful faculties may not bo loot unon on indifferent world .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25101851/page/7/
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