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A Subscription For European Freedom. To ...
the opponent armies— " Cossack or Republican "—shall be prepared to fig ht out their quarrel . , On which side should we appear ? On ^ the side of the fear and the Jesuits-Brute Force and Fraud—or on the side of Rig ht and Freedom , the party of European Democracy ? Can we hesitate ? . Now ; especially , since France , has fallen into the Russian camp ? The more need for our exertion , the move momentous our duty . Have not our hearts already promised for us—burning with indignation when despotic " order" reigned in Warsaw--when heroic Rome fell before her dastardly assailants ? Did not our voices repeat the same generous impulse when millions shouted welcome to the
Prisoner of Kutayeh ? Poland is yet unredeemed ; Italy is in bondage ; the Hungarian Exile has left our shores ; our voices are hushed— -can our hearts be silent too ? Have we done enough in feeling strongly , in giving tongue to our vehement thought ? When Despotism , trampling upon France , scowls on us across the narrow seas—when already we are bidden to drive the Refugees , the Martyrs , from our shores , or else beware the Cossack— -shall we be content , with some talkers who never do , in " passing the challenge to America , " calling upon America to give active service to the Cause of Progress , because we can afford only a wordy
sympathy ? Let us do something to show that our sympathy ia not mere " idle wind ; " something to disprove the imputation that we are but a set of selfish traders , with no abiding reverence for the Heroic and the True ; something In earnest protest against the cowardly and unprincipled dogma of non-intervention which is put forth as the sum and substance of our faith in God , as our best interpretation , of duty to our neighbour . Let us make at least a beginning of real help for the struggling Peoples of Europe . To this end we , whose names are hereunto subjoined , ask our countrymen and countrywomen to aid us in
raising A SUBSCRIPTION FOR EUROPEAN FREEDOM . ~ We propose to collect a subscription jof one ^ shilling each from every earnest friend of Freedom : one shilling t / earlyif the continuance of the struggle shall require it : and that the sum so collected shall be paid into the London and Westminster JZanlc , to the joint credit of Joseph Mazz 1 : nt and Lotris KossuTH / or the use of the European Democratic Committee .
The province of the Undersigned will be simply to act as Treasurers : to receive and acknowledge subscriptions , from individuals , from individual collectors , or from committees ( which it is hoped will soon be formed in every locality ); and to account for the entire sum to the whole body of subscribers . So soon as a sum of 501 . shall be collected , a credit will be opened with the London and Westminster Bank in the names of Mazzini and Kossuth ; and thereafter each of the Treasurers will pay in his receipts so often as they amount to 1 OZ .
It is requested that all persons collecting for this Subscription will furnish to the Treasurers the name , address , and calling of each subscriber ; except when any subscriber may prefer giving only initials , or such mark as may identify that particular subscription in a printed list ; the Undersigned promising to publish , on the 1 st of January , 1853 , a list of all who shall have contributed to the Subscription . The subscription is limited to One shilling from each person , in order to obtain the greatest possible numbor of subscribers : # that Europe may seo how many of us really care for the Freedom of the Nations , how many of us abjure the shameful doctrines of non-intervention and peace-at-any-price .
Tho subscription will not indioato a profcrral of War , nor any disposition to meddle with tho internal politics of other countries : but it will bo an emphatic recognition of tho duty which the strong owo to tho struggling , which one people owes to another—an assertion of tho universal right to combat Iniquity—and an expression of respect for those who duro all honest things to achieve their freedom .
Wo would have it distinctly understood that tho subscription is not for any special modo of action ; but to help tho struggle ! for European Freedom in whatever manner it way seem good to Europe- to , work that out . Neither is it for any particular form of freedom which wo may think best fitted , for such a time or place ; but for such freedom as tho Nations' thomsolvcs may choose . Only on those grounds lot any suliNcribo .
It is to holp tho struggle for European Freedom , not merely for Italy or Hungary . Tho money i » not for any local preparation , for nny partial attempt : but for tho European War , whenever ami wherever that shall ? They who can afford more , need not stint their liberality . They can subscribe to tho Polish " Refugee Fund , to tho Koisuth Fund , or to tho Italian Loan .
again break out . We would offer it as our contribution to the Cause of Humanity , our protest against the policy that excludes us from bearing our share of the warfare in which all Humanity is concerned , the earnest of our intent to be again a Nation among the Nations—ari organized and active worker for Freedom and for right . ' ., February 3 , 1852 . Rev . Charles Clarke , 152 , Buccleuch-street Glasgow , Thomas Cooper , 5 , Park-row , Knig htsbridge , London , Joseph Cowen , Junior , Blaydon-Burn ,
Newcastle-on-Tyne , George Dawson , M . A ., Birmingham , _ R . H . Horne , College-road , Haverstock-hill , London , Dr . Frederic Richard Lees , Leeds , William James Linton , Mitcside , Ravenglass , Cumber-Henry Lonsdale , M . D ., 4 , Devonshire-street , Carlisle , Rev . David MAginnis , Belfast , ^ George Searle Phillips , West-parade , Huddersneid , James Watson , 3 , Qucen's-Hcad-passage , Paternosterrow , London .
N . B . Single subscriptions may be sent in postagestamps , but it would be better to send a number of subscriptions together by a post-office order . All sums below twenty shillings to be sent to one of the Honorary Secretaries to the Subscription , Joseph Cowen , Junior , Blaydon-Burn , Newcastle-on-Tyne , W . J . Linton , Miteside , Ravenglass , Cumberland , To whom all inquiries are to be addressed .
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Prison Charities In The City. The Past A...
PRISON CHARITIES IN THE CITY . The past and present management of a vast number of charitable bequests , left in the fifteenth , sixteenth , and seventeenth centuries , in trust to several of the great City Companies , for the benefit of poor prisoners , is undergoing a searching investigation by a Commission of Inquiry , presided over by the Chief Baron of the Exchequer . The particulars of these various charities , administered by the JVfercers ' , Merchant-Tailors ' , Drapers ' , Grocers ' , Fishmongers' , Goldsmiths' , and some other minor Companies , have been already published in the reports of the " Commissioners , ' . ' laid before Parliament in 1839 . The inquiry from which this report
resulted was resisted by several of the Companies , and the advantage of the present Commission consists in its having power to examine witnesses on oath , while the former tribunal was subjected to those refusals which great corporations are always so well qualified to give to those who moke inconvenient inquiries into the disposal of their funds . The pith of the matter lies in this : that although many of the sums devised two or three centuries ago in trust for poor prisoners were small annual payments ; yet as the testators in numerous instances required that the principal should be invested in land or houses , these investments are supposed in
some cases to be yielding very large revenues . In the first case that was brought before the Commission , that of the will of Frances Ashton , it appeared that although the testatrix died in 1727 , leaving to trustees the annual sum of 951 ., out of a rent-charge , to be applied to tho discharge of poor prisoners , not one single payment had been made in tins space of a hundred and twenty-fivq years . The solicitor for tho present trustees , "highly respectable persons / ' Sir Robert Inglis , tho Governor of tho Bank of England , & c , pleaded expensive Chancery suits , crippled resources , and confusion of accounts , but promised that for the future
95 / . a year should bo regularly paid . In several cases in which tho Merchant Tailors were trustees , tho bequests appearing to have been specific as to tho annual amount , and tho payments having been regularly made , tho Court wcro of opinion that tho Company had a right to dispose of tho residue . Tho case of Peter Blundcll , who died in 1599 , is tho most important that has yet been investigated . Ho gave by Avill to each of six Companies , amongst which is tho Merchant Tailors ' , the sum of 150 / ., to bo laid out in lands or houses , out of which 40 * . was to bo paid annually for evor to poor prisoners in Newgate . In several instances the original sum of 150 / . is supposed to bo now producing
several thousands annually . In tho particular case of tho Merchant Tailors ' , tho clerk of the Company admitted that a portion was laid out in tho purchase of premises in Threadncedlo-street , which produced 187 / . por annum , tho Company feeling that they woro entitled to disposo of tho remainder after paying 2 / . annually to tho prison authoritioH ! This case was adjourned for tho production of tho will of tho testator . Tho investigation has canned much surprise among tho Companies , as fcho power of tho Act undor which tho Court sits had novor boon exorcised before . From tho information that has already boon olicitod , it i « expected that those charities for tho future will bo enormously productive .
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place after " midnight , " and the time is abstracted from the narrow margin apportioned for sleep . Certain of these men met on Wednesday night , after twelve , at the Parthenium , in St . Martin ' s Lane . But even here they were apparently pursued by the proprietors , who made a disturbance , and rendered peaceful proceedings impossible . The proprietors , we are called on to believe , have caused their men to sign a "declaration , " expressing approval of conduct of said proprietors—under penalt y of dismissal . They admitted the signing of the declaration , and shortly insisted that the men had not been menaced . Charge and counter-charge , here ; and so , with " gaslights failing , " the meeting finished in desperate confusion .
WRONGS OF THE « 'BUSMEN . " " Omnibus servants" are a hard-worked , badly paid 8 f of men . They are , of course , more fully aware of th + fact than we can be , and there are some symptoms am I them of a strong desire to remedy their grievances x \ f * have heard eloquent explanations , in the " unadorned '' style ; from oppressed drivers , ' and certainl y the facts ar such as require attention and amendment . An onmibu servant works sixteen and seventeen hours per day evcrv day , with the most restricted meal-times . He receive nominal wages of 1 / , per week ; but out of this sum nearly ten shillings go for extra expenses connected with the working of an omnibus , which certainl y not he , but the proprietors , ought to pay . Remedy for grievance also lies afar off . If they would hold a public meeting , it must tnlr »
Ireland. The Depopulation Of Connemara B...
IRELAND . The depopulation of Connemara by wholesale evictions still continues . The agent of the Law Life Insurance Company served notices on the relieving officers of the Galway Union , already heavily burdened , to prepare board and lodging for seventy-two families , about to be evicted from the villages on the Company ' s estates . But the English Company are not the only parties engaged in this ' crusade / Four hundred arid forty individuals were lately evicted in the neighbourhood of Gort by recent purchasers in the Encumbered-Estates Court . Lord Gort was the former proprietor of these estates , and is said to have been a kind and indulgent landlord . The tranquillity and freedom from agrarian crime which have so long characterized the southern counties , have been disturbed by the murder of a man named Cleary , a pensioner from the 18 th Royal Irish , and bailiff to the Rev . Tyrell Evans , imcl to-Mv . C . Davenport . Cleary had frequently been threatened , and ^ jo had been lately engaged in turning out several persons from the lands of the Rev . Mr . Evans , in the county of Limerick . He was returning from Askeaton to Carduff , where he lived , and was shot on the road with a pistol which he carried for his own protection , and so near to his dwelling that his sister heard the report . The body was not found until the next morning , when his wife went to look for him . The students of the Queen ' s Colleges , Belfast , have signed a petition for tenant-rig ht . The petition was introduced without tho knowledge of tho president or professors , and they are deliberating as to what shall bo done . The commission for tho county of Louth was op ened by Mr . Justice Ball , on Tuesday last ; The grand jury found a true bill against Mr . Carton , editor of the JDundalk Democrat , for a seditious libel . The app lication of his counsel , Mr . Pcrrin , to remove tho case to the Queen ' s Bench , Dublin , was granted .
Lagos—Additional Information. The Dispat...
LAGOS—ADDITIONAL INFORMATION . The dispatches of Captain Lewis Jones , of tho Bloodhound steamer , and of Captain Henry Lyatcr , of t » 0 Penelope , addressed to Cominodorp Bruce , published in tho Gazette of Friday last , furnish some additional particulars regarding this sanguinary affair . No roaso is given by Captain Jones for tho inaction of Christina day . Ho merely Kays , "It was determined that > should bo a day of rest , and it was a quiet day , w * tho exception of tho enemy wasting a viust aon ammunition . " Tho lino of soa-defenco is desenbeu extending from tho south p oint of tho Island oi A . « g to tho north point , a distance of two miles ; an < i parts where tho water wbh sufficiently deep for ? f fc land , stakes in double rows wcro driven in H 1 X" 1 water ; and along tho wliolo of this distance w « h » embankment with n ditch for tho protection ot »"'"" ; £ and at chosen points strong stockades , made ot co - nut trees , wcro erected for guns . No wornW boats' crows found so much difficulty , ftn ( V " ! , uuch loss , in attempting to laud . Wkcu ,., {' Lystor was withdrawing With his division ot l ) Oll J ' after spiking tho guns in ono of tho batteries , an being attacked by an overwhelming force oi enemy—it was suddenly found that tho lu < lw \ .
, ( natives * of tho coast , enrolled in tho steamers iw men ) had let go tho anchor of tho iron roclcoi without orders , at tho very tlmo that tho onol y ,.,, ;„ pouring in a destructive five at ' pistol-rang ®* u * '
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1852, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28021852/page/10/
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