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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. Extraordi...
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The Times, which has lately taken up the...
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A manifestation of the students took pla...
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294 Toff * %Tat>Tt. [Saturday,
294 toff * % tat > tt . [ Saturday ,
To Readers And Correspondents. Extraordi...
TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . Extraordinary and sudden pressure on our space has obliged us to omit several papers of interest , including the whole of two departments . We shall hope to fetch up some of these arrears in our next number . The pressure of advertisements in particular has come upon us so rap idly and severely , that the attempt to do justice to all has entailed a very large sacrifice of space ; but we shall endeavour to reconcile the claims of advertisers with those of readers , in rather a more workmanlike fashion than we have been able to command this week . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it encreases the difficulty of finding space for them . All letters for the Editor to be addressed 9 , Crane-court , Fleetstreet London .
, The Following Appeared In Our Second E...
, The following appeared in our Second Edition of last week . ' ] POSTSCRIPT . Saturday , March 22 .
The First Business In The House Of Commo...
The first business in the House of Commons , last evening , related to the disorderly proceedings of Thursday . Mr . Mooke thought the House ought to take steps "to prevent the repetition of those obscenities of prurient senility , and to repel those dastardly insinuations . —The Speaker : The honourable mem ber must retract the w ord dastardly . —Mr . Moore : Those unmanly insinuations against English ladies . ''—Mr . John O'Connell put the following question to the Speaker : —
" An honourable member of this House , the member for Surrey , having spoken in terms of levity and insult of certain , practices connected with the religion of other members , which , although not enjoined upon them as of faith , are , and have long been , sanctioned by competent authority and recommended for devout observance ; and the same honourable member having proceeded to speak in similar terms on subjects usually held in reverence by Christians of all denominations— involving an allusion , the terms of which it is impossible for a Christian to repeat , to the mother of our common Redeemer—is it to be understood that such conduct , tending as it does to outrage not only right feeling and charity , but Christianity itself , was in order ; and that a repetition of it will , therefore , be permitted in the British House of Commons ?"
If it should go forth to the world that in the House of Commons , a Christian assembly , such expressions , touching matters which are held sacred by all Christians , he allowed to pass , he for one could not hope that order would be preserved , for it would be impossible to sit patiently and listen to them . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir HoiiEiiT Inolis thought the subject might be allowed to drop , after the apology which Mr . Drummond had made ; he having expressed his regret at having given any offence . A rather angry discussion followed relating to Miss Talbot , in when , several gentlemen gave each other the lie , in the Pickwickian senho .
Another episode , also flowing out of the wearisome discussion on thePapal Aggression Bill , was introduced by Mr . Mh . nkk Gihson , who called the attention of Ministers to the fact that seven weeks of the session have past , and that only two nights have been devoted to business . He was quite aware that the Papal aggression was the principal cause of this . Many people , no doubt , were anxious to have that question settled , but there were others equally anxious to get on with business . The coffee trade was in a state of suspense , the timber trade and , indeed , the manufacturing and trading interests generally were in a state of HUHpen . se . They comol tune
plained of the unfair appropriation public . No one knew when the debate would end . It was rumoured also that Ministers would find it neeesnaiy to withdraw the bill , in consoqneneo of the lirat clause containing lho . se very provisions which they were anxious to avoid . Under these circuinhtanccH , he thought the best thing they could do would be to lay the question aside for the present ., and ^ et on with the more urgent business . Lord John Ruk . ski . i . would have been very glad ii the debate had been brought to u dose on Monday , but it lay with the . House rather thun with Ministers to miy when it should clo . se . Ah regardM the business of the neM . sion ,
" As . soon a . s the House has decided upon the second reading of ' ¦ ' »<¦ present bill , we hIiuII proceed , on the lirst order night , to the Army estiinatrs . We shall endeavour to take- the votes of the men for the : Army immediately , and the notice will lie given on the next , order of what . Hhap « the Budget Bhull appear in . On tin- next . ortlvr day we shall take the votes on the income tax , and 1 hope Unit this will be perfectly sat is facto , y . ( Hear . )" The formal debute was then begun by Mr . Bkknai , Ohiioiinh , who asked why the isle should be frighted from its propriety because u huimleas act hud bi !» -ii done in an , 'trrogunt mid bombastic manner . He commended Lord John for omitting the two clauseH of the bill , recommending him to omit \ tho preamble uluo ; and then uddr « 8 Hod himself to the arguments urged in mipport of the bill , which
extensive movement in the public mind on subject of Papal aggression ; but he thought it had been cons iderably exaggerated , and it was not a movement in favour of this bill ; what the people wanted was to stop the progress of Popery . How far that could be done by act of Parliament he should not inquire ; but this bill would not have the remotest effect in that direction . If the real wishes of the people were to be gratified , it must be by making the Church of England more Protestant , instead of imitating the worst features of Romanism . The bill had already produced disastrous effects , —a great party shattered , public business obstructed , the tone of deliberation in that House lowered ; and all for what ? To placate the wounded pride of a few titled ecclesiastics . Mr . Walpole supported
the he said , withj one ~ or two exceptions , abounded with vituperation of the Roman Catholic religion . Ihe no-Popery cry out of doors , and the vituperative speeches on the platform and in the pulpit , as well as in that House , reminded him of the Popish Plot in 1678 . While he deprecated legislation against Romish bishops , he admitted there was a grave question touched upon in . Lord John Russell s letter—namely , the state of the Church of England , and how far the Universities conduced to the purity of that Church , and he recommended that , instead of looking to the Vatican , we should reform Oxford . Mr . Cochrane and Mr . Child supported the bill , Mr . Fortescue and Mr . Gould opposed it . Mr . W . J . Fox did not deny that there had been an
the bill in a declamatory harangue , and Mr . Roebuck followed on the other side . After asking what the Queen of a nation like this could fear from a poor , old wandering priest , who , if he came here at all , came clothed only with moral attributes , he said the act of Cardinal Wiseman had been a blunder , for had the Catholics waited a few years , the popular mind would have been in that state that would have allowed them to do as they pleased .
The Attorney-General , whose speech closed the debate for last evening , endeavoured to sow dissension between the Irish and English Roman Catholics . " He was by no means clear that the Papal act was not a first step towards giving the Catholic Church of England a mischievous superiority over therCatholic Church of Ireland . " Mr . Fagan having moved the adjournment of the debate till Monday , Lord John said he would not oppose the adjournment , but hoped that on Monday a division would take place .
The Times, Which Has Lately Taken Up The...
The Times , which has lately taken up the suffrage question much more earnestly than any other daily newspaper , in an article this morning on the desperate condition of the Government , warns Lord John that he must lose no time : — " Unless Lord John wishes to sell his party altogether , and go down to posterity as the last and least of the Whi"s , he must bring in the bill for the further reform of th ^ e British electoral system which he has had in hand for some time . That , however , cannot be expected to pass without a great , deal of debate , extending , perhaps ,
into two sessions . In his own mind , and on a very rational estimate of the labour and difficulties involved in the task , his lordship had reserved the bill to the less occupied session of 1852 ; but the events of the last seven weeks abundantly prove that it is unsafe to postpone a measure of such absolute necessity a day longer than need be ; ior every day brings us nearer to the crisis when we may require the assistance of a new Parliamentary Reform Act to save the country from the most serious of perils—viz ., the temporary ascendancy of a party at utter discord with the public opinion and interests of the empire . "
The election of a representative for Thirsk , in the room of the late member , Mr . John Bell , took place yesterday . The only candidate wan Sir W . Payne Gallwey , Bart ., who , backed by the influence of the Franklund Russell family of Thirskleby , asked for the suffrages of the electors upon Protectionist and Protestant principles , and was returned without opposition . A large and influential meeting of the inhabitants or UhiHgow was held in the City hall , on Wednesday , to petition Parliament to take efficient measures to repel the Papal aggression , and to withdraw all endowments , and every species of state encouragement from Po |) ery . The meeting was addressed by the leading Mstablished and Dissenting clergymen of the city . The speakers condemned the vacillating conduct of Ministers in very Htroiig terms , and culled for strong measures . They called upon
Parliament" I ' d withdraw from tin' Church of Komt ; that , national encour . i ^ eiiH-nt . mill support , which it . now ivi ;< tivi ! n from tin- puhlic . I ' iiihIh and nl . lici winr ; to plan : nil coiivimiI . h and nunnci 1 oh , ami other Kiiuilar « 'st : iMi » hnirnt . H of the Uomaii Catholic Church , under uvular puhlii . in : pi'c . i ion ; to aincmt ( . lit ; lawn of mortmain , iuxI ^ fiKirally to ri ! ninl . the a ^^ icHtiivi' npirit . of I ' opcry . " One of the resolutions was of a decidedly business character . 11 . declared — " 'I'liiit , looking to tint iiiiMHiiul vii-WH on the Polinh qucn ! . ion recently ox |> i i'smmI hy uMlrumni of nil p . uticH , iiml having iT . 'ipi-ct . to the not . distant < lihnolul ion of Parliament , thix
iiiriiliiiLf rciolvi'H to enl iililmh an UHHooiution in ( ilamjow , citlmr independently of , or in connection with tin : HcoUinh llefoinialion Society , recently iiiHtit . iit . ed in Kdinhur ^ h , for the purport !) of procuring and circulating information regarding I ' apul movementh , and of keeping the attention of the country , and eiipecially of the I ' m liiuneiitai y contiUucncieH , alive to the true character innl detu ^ im of Popery , and to thejncccBHity ol Inking ellectual incamin-H li > Heetirc , Unit , effect , hIiuII 1 > i ) l ^ ivcn lo the mind of thi ) pitrtieM on thin nuhje . ' t ,, doth hy the ( Jovernment . and the I ' m liuiiiciit . (>» ' thin kingdom ; mid that a nurtt-|> ei of ^ cntlemen be appointed ; i committee for forming nuch un ariHocution , with power to a < l < l to their number . "
At Nottingham a public meeting of a similar character was held in the Corn Exchange , on Thursday . All sects and parties are said to have joined in the demonstration against Papal aggression . The steam-ship Cambria arrived at Liverpool from New York yesterday , which port she left on the 8 th instant . The news include an arrival from California , which dates to the 1 st of February . Business was very dull at San Francisco . The North America had arrived at New York with 480 , 000 dollars in gold dast . Twelve hundred thousand dollars' worth of gold dust had arrived at Panama . The British steamer Orion had left Chagres on the 24 th of February , with 800 , 000 dollars in silver , and one million dollars in gold . Another fearful steam * boat explosion had taken place , the Oregon having blown up on the Ohio river , killing and wounding about sixty people .
Another explosion , attended with loss of life , has taken place in the neighbourhood of Paisley . On Wednesday night the boiler of the engine attached to the flax-spinning works of Messrs . Finlayson , in the village of Johnstone , three miles west of Paisley , exploded , by which eight men and boys were instantly deprived of life . The works had teen tempora rily suspended while the workpeople were taking some refreshment in the fire-room . A large portion of the building was blown down ; and while exertions were making to rescue the sufferers from the ruins , it was discovered that the mill itself was on fire . This was caused by the hot cinders having been driven through the partitions into the inner apartments of the factory . The fabric , with its valuable contents , has been almost wholly consumed .
The inhabitants of the parish of Wingfield , in the county of Suffolk , were horrified , on Tuesday last , at hearing that a sing le woman , twenty years of age , named Maria Clarke , had murdered her infant , six weeks old , by burying it alive , in a meadow . She had left Pulham union house on Tuesday l & st , for the purpose of being married to a labourer , living in the neighbourhood . In the afternoon she was seen carrying her infant , going towards Mr . Hill ' s meadow , with a spade . During the evening , in consequence of her appearing without her child . she was questioned as to where it was , and she admitted that she had buried it in Mr . Hill ' s meadow . She was taken into custody , and on the following morning the meadow in which she said she had buried the child was searched , when the body of the child was found buried about six inches under the turf ; the spade
with which it is supposed the mother dug the grave was found in a ditch close by , covered with water . After being remanded by the magistrate on the charge she made a confession to the following effectT— " I was fearful that the young man who promised to marry me would not do so if he knew that I had a child , and I , in consequence , was anxious to get rid of it . I had not entertained the slightest notion of murdering my child until I came out of one of our neighbours' cottages , where I saw a spade standing outside the cottage , I took up the spade , went into the meadow , dug a hole , and laid my child in . I then covered the child over with earth , and to stifle its screams I stamped upon the sod . When the child was covered up with the earth I heard it cry . I then sat down upon the place where I had buried it , and in a short time after I went home . '
Elizabeth . Gibbs , cook , was tried at Carmarthen Assizes on Wednesday , for the wilful murder of her mistress , Mrs . Scverne , and of Rebecca Uphill , a fellow servant , at Laugharne . Both deaths had been caused by arsenic administered in food , and one witness »» ia she had seen the prisoner put some white powder in the broth given to Ann Uphill , the day the latter died . Th « jury returned a verdict of not guilty as regards the murder of Ann Uphill , but the prisoner was afterwards to be tried for the murder of her miBtress . The trial of John Firth for the murder of his brother , at Thurgolund , on the 24 th of January , commenced at York on Wednesday , and was brought to a close on Thursday , when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty . . __ ...
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A manifestation of the students took place J » r » ris j an Thursday , in favour of Professor Michelet , { . " ~ to the arrest of a considerable number of the ringleaders in the affair . The procession , which insisted uPon PJ ?" ceeding to the Assembly , was three times put to nigm hy the police before it ultimately dispereed . Welw ^' , forty and fifty of the most obstreperous were arresieu and carried to the Prefecture of Police . ' A strange and thrilling discovery was made in Pans on Thursday by a workman employed ut the re 8 t ° ra"OI \" the PttlniH do Justice . The mummy of a female was found walled up in the portion of the building ne w »» engaged in demolishing . ma « i « » The Socialists of the Croix-Itousse , at Lyons , made » demonstration on Tuesday by attending , in nuin ° " ibout 10 , 000 , the funeral of one of their body , a worKman named Mathey . N <> priest officiated at the interment . Duly about forty persons were admitted to the ™ mei" >' ind when the body was lowered to the grave the crowu was ordered by the police agents to disperse , wluon w lone at once . There was no breach of order , «""•" , military und police w < re kept ready to act at a morm . " * notice . . - ;„„ a A note huH been received from Vienna containing * reply to the Prussian memoriul of the 9 th » n ™* n * : * this note the Austriun Cabinet expresses itH gooawi" » its perfeot readiness to cooperate with Prussia ior h creation of a permanent central Government . JN 0 rVu less , AiiBlria persists in demanding the PrcB * del ? , . " -,, _ i-MiniHteriiU organs protest that the Prussian ° aOIM ! : r r < hoIvimI to tuck the annexation question to the < l f ° of the I'r . Hidency . If Austria insists on the 1 rebiuenty , 1 ' ruHsiu will oppose the annexation . Some rioting took place on Monday at Auriol , » J > JJJ * du Rhone , on tho occasion of the conscription . { ° ® . * l ' thoiitien , aided by the military force , floott restdieU orw -
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Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1851, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29031851/page/10/
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