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The protest of thirteen of the Irish Roman Catholjc bishops , deprecating any condemnation of the Queen ' s Colleges , will be forthwith despatched to Borne by the hands of one of the subscribing prelates . " The Bpirit of opposition to the payment of rents , " says the Boyle Gazette , " appears to progress through the country . On Monday last Mr . Lawder had forty police at Drumlish , in order to enable him to collect rents under the courts . Mr . Lawder succeeded in making seizures , but the show of opposition was so great ( exceeding 300 persons ) that the bailiff ' s refused to remain at night unless the police also stopped to protect them , which could not be done . Mr . Lawder proposed to forego all arrears , some of which were for five years , provided he got a half-year ' s rent . The proposition was met , and the tenants got a receipt in full . "
Negotiations are now on foot with Government for the establishment of a submarine telegraph over the sixty miles of sea from Holyhead to Kingstown , and on to either Cork or Galway , to be thence connected by steam-ship with the nearest telegraph station on the other side of the Atlantic . # Another agrarian murder has taken place in Ireland . The victim was Mr . Roger North , a magistrate and landlord in King ' s County , who was shot dead , within one mile of his house on Monday afternoon . It is said that he was murdered owing to his having lately used some of his tenants with great , severity . The introduction of the manufacture of laco veils into
the western part of the county of Mayo has been attended with the most beneficial rpsults . The young females under instruction have made the most rapid progress , and are already able to earn a considerable amount of weekly wages , and there is still room in the factory for the employment of a number far exceeding what can readily be procured .
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WORKINGS ASSOCIATIONS OF PABIS . Pianoforte Makeks . Ascending the Faubourg St . Denis towards the Great Northern . Bail way , after passing numerous busy workshops , bazaars , coach-offices , dirty alleys , and national schools , resounding with the songs of children , you reach the hospital of St . Lazare . Turning to the left you enter the Rue de Chabrol , one of those new , half-built , desolate-looking streets , so common in the neighbourhood of modern railway stations . No carriages are heard there , no busy foot passengers are seen passing to arid fro ; only now and then a solitary slip-shod woman , or a
wretchedlyclad , pale-faced man , may be seen creeping silently along the deserted street . You enter a sort of narrow court , where the sun can scarcely penetrate ; you stumble over loose stones , logs of wood , and heaps of dung ; pass stable doors wide open , old broken vehicles and barrows , in which men and even women are harnessed like beasts of burden ; hens and chicken wander about under your feet , flies congregate on a patch of sunlight that serves but to show the filth arid misery of an old boarded shed , the emblem of tottering age and poverty . On one side of this court is perceived a low doorway ,
leading to a narrow ricketty flight of wooden stairs , up which you creep ; on arriving at the top you enter a small , inconvenient room , and find yourself surrounded by a number of pianos , which , for richness of ornament and material , for elegance of form and solidity of construction , might grace the noblest drawing-rooms of our cities . Here , in this humble abode , have these honest , industrious , and independent workmen built their fortress against the attacks of poverty from without . Engaged in a manufacture that requires the greatest skill , taste , delicacy of touch , and a considerable knowledge of science , these men
have neglected nothing to make their goods the most perfect of their kind ; every new invention is introduced , and improvements are added by themselves , so that they might compete with the most celebrated in the trade had they the means to hire a warehouse in some fashionable street where they could expose their goods to the best advantage . As it is they hold a second rank , and , besides their Paris customers , have a considerable export trade . We were shown pianos , worth £ 40 or £ 50 , of the richest tone , for we had an opportunity of judging when one of the members entered , and at the request of the ge ' rant sat
down and played with great taste and considerable execution . By the report which I have before me , it appears that in December , 1849 , they possessed a capital of more than 16 , 000 f . ( £ 640 ) , of which about COOOf . form a reserve-fund , derived from deductions on the salaries of the members ; and the rest consists of money placed in the funds by the twenty-nine members , at 5 Of . each , of stock , tools , &c , and of profits obtained since March , 1840 , after deducting the expenses and labour of organization , which involved a period of two unproductive months . They are paid by the piece , and keep the profits for
extending their business , buch a result , in so short a period , is an evidence of the superior intelligence with which their affairs have been managed ; and yet this association is comj > osed entirely of working men , not a single master having joined them ; and when they applied to the Government for a portion of the three millions voted to the associations , they Were refused , on account of the representations of the master manufacturers . With courageous hearts , however , they set to work , some bringing their five or twenty francs , others their tools ; some pawning their watches and others their clothes : and they
went without fire in the winter , drank no wine , not even on Sundays ; lived upon bread , though working so hard , and , what was worse than all , they made their children live on it too ! Thus they deprived themselves of every comfort , and even of the necessaries of life , in order to amass the small sum of 300 f . ( £ 12 ) , which , with their tools and the savings of the adherents who worked in private establishments , amounted to about lOOOf . ; a paltry sum that many a young lordling has squandered in ore night in profligacy . They hired the miserable rooms I have described ; induced a benevolent timber-merchant * to lot them have the most valuable woods
ou trust ; made a piano , sold it , and with the price were able to make two others : sold them , and in ado four more ; invented , and by friendly mutual criticism , perfected important improvements in the manufacture of pianos , for which they have become so celebrated that they have more orders than they are able to accomplish , having refused an order for fifty-six pianos to bo purcliused , and one hundred and twenty to bo lot on hire ; and when we visited them , had already engaged inoro spacious ateliers , to which they intended to remove in a few days . They only regretted that their friend and benefactor , citoyvn Louis Blanc , to whom they were indebted for tho first establishment of these associations , was not among
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and arrangements have been entered into with Herr Marschner and the renowned Spohr for new works . Since the beginning of last year thirteen new Congregational Chapels in London have been projected or built . Besides these , four others may be expected to be undertaken soon . A large party of Parisian excursionists , about 400 in number , arrived in London on Sunday afternoon . These excursion trips between our own metropolis and the French capital have become so popular , that it is intented to continue them throughout the present and succeeding month of October . The very moderate cost of 30 s . entitles each passenger to the journey to and from Paris , without any extra cost whatever .
A meeting was held on Sunday last in Bonriers-fields , near Victoria-park , for the purpose of sympathizing with the distressed Hungarian refugees ; the afternoon being fine , there were about 2000 working men present . The amount collected was £ 1 3 s . 4 &d . Another meeting will be held on Sunday . Additional baths and washhouses are about to be erected at Newcastle-upon-Tyne , at . the expense of the corporation . The existing establishment , so far from being a burden , has paid its expenses , including interest on capital , and left a surplus . The Health Committee of Liverpool have just increased their sanitary staff by the appointment of an assistant-surveyor at a salary of £ 300 per annum .
At a meeting of the subscribers to the Peel monument , at Birmingham , on Tuesday , it was resolved that a bronze statue , of the value of two thousand guineas , shall be erected in memory of the late statesman . The third meeting of the United Agricultural Societies of Manchester and Liverpool took place on Wednesday morning at Warringtori . The show took place in a large field convenient to the station of the London and North Western Railway , and successive trains brought up great numbers of people from Lancashire and Cheshire . Among the earliest visitors oil the show-ground was the Earl of Derby . Amongst other noblemen and gentlemen present , were Lord Stanley , Honourable B . G . Stanley , Sir Tatton Sykes , Honourable W . Wilson , J . Wilson Patten , Esq ., M . P ., and other gentlemen of the county . Sir T . J . de Trafford carried off several prizes , among others one for the best short-horned bull .
The Rhuddlan Royal Eisteddvod was held atRhuddlan Castle this week , on which occasion the lovers of Welsh and literature enjoyed a rich treat . The festival closed on Thursday , and yesterday the degrees were to be conferred on the successful candidates . A Bad accident happened on Thursday , the third and last day of the Festival . While a young girl , Miss Lovitt , was performing on the harp , competing for one of the prizes , the centre department of the platform of the great northern gallery , close behind the chair of the President , Lord Mostyh , suddenly gave way , and a large number of ladies and gentlemen were precipitated into the vault beneath . The crowd that filled the body of the hall
rushed spontaneously to the platform , and attempted to climb up the barriers , eager to render assistance , and much harm was effected by well-meaning persons , who , stepping on the broken compartment of the platform , caused other beams and fragments of planks , to fall on the unfortunate persons below , who , as the fracture occurred in the middle of the platform , were cooped up together in such a manner that to extricate them was a difficult matter . At length , however , an opening was effected behind the platform , through some canvass that covered one of the larger apertures of the decayed walls
of the castle , and in a short time every one was got out . Several ladies were severely injured , but no one dangerously . The cause of the accident is not stated . Among the passengers by the Indus which left Southampton on Friday with the Indian mail was the young African snake-charmer , whose daring feats with snakes and serpents in the Zoological Gardens have excited so much attention for the last few months , on his way home to Grand Cairo . He stated that he should return to England in a short time with more snakes , scorpions , and other wild animals .
The Archdeacon of Sarum , at his late visitation , suggested to the clergy the necessity of being prepared for that reduction in their incomes , which must inevitably take place if the present prices of grain should continue . Assuming that in the present and six following years the average price of wheat would be 40 s ., barley 24 s ., and oats 16 s . per quarter , he stated that the sum which the tithe-owners would receive for each £ 100 of rent-charge in their apportionment would be as follows : —1851 , £ 96 15 s . " 5 jd . ; 1852 , £ 03 5 s . 3 ? d- ; 1853 , £ 89 14 s . 2 jd . ; 1854 , £ 85 12 s . O ^ d . ; 1855 , £ 77 Is . lid . ; 185 G , £ 74 Gs . 4 £ d . ; 1857 , £ 73 4 s . 10 id . On the other hand , 000 in
if California should send us £ 10 , 000 , a year golddust , the price of grain may possibly rise as high as it was under the corn-law . The value of gutta percha as a conveyer of sound has been realized in the Glenorchy Chapel , Matlock , Bath . An apparatus has been put up for the benefit of some who are troubled with deafness , and had not heard the sermon for several years . They are now enabled to hear quite distinctly by the use of the tube . At the weekly meeting of the board of guardians of the Swansea union , last week , there was not a single application for relief from one of the seventeen agricultural parishes comprised in this union . The only applications made
were by persons residing in the town , and those numwere by persons residing in the town , and tnose numbered only two . According to a trade circular , there is a spurious tea manufactory in Jersey , whore the bad and damaged tea from the bond warehouses , the tea leaves purchased at the hotels of the metropolis , and the indigenous leaves of the island are converted into what is sold for tea . It is said that a tree with a green leaf upon it will soon be as rare a sight in Jersey us a May-flower in England at Christmas . A [ severe thunderstorm visited Glasgow on Sunday , which lasted for more than an hour . Several accidents
resulted from the lightning , in two of which the escape from instant death was most miraculous . A considerable portion of the slating o Bartholomew ' s Mills , near BarrowBeld Toll , was torn from the roof and thrown to the ground . The chimney was also demolished . In the neighbourhood of Paisley , a cow belonging to Mr . Pillans , the artist , was killed by the lightning . An extraordinary gale in the Irish Channel , on Saturday , was attended with the loss of life and many riverboats on the Mersey . The storm appears to have been unprecedented in the suddenness with which it burst over the waters . About half-past nine , or thereabouts , the wind had assumed a westerly direction , and was aceomDanied bv drizzling rain . In an hour afterwards a
strong gale sprung lip from N . N . W ., and the change is described to have taken place as u nexpectedly as a flash of lightning or a clap of thunder . Such was the strength of the gust , that the small craft were , with the greatest difficulty , preserved from being capsized at the onset , and , a heavy sea setting in , they were tossed about like so many shells upon the waves . It required the greatest skill to keep them from beiner turned over or filled with water . Two of the gigs , in different parts of the Channel , were completely overpowered , and a boat , called the John , was capsized about a mile and a half outside the north-west light ship , and one rnari drowned . An explosion took place in the gun-barrel proof house at Birmingham , on Monday rnorning , by which two men were seriously injured , one of them , it is feared , fatally .
The establishment of Messrs . Walters and Co ., of Globe " Works , Sheffield , was thrown into great confusion and alarm , on Saturday morning , by the sudden fall of a great part of their grinding-mill while the hands were at work . The building is three stories high , and the part which fell consists of three rooms , measuring about fifty feet by twenty-four . Several of the men in the top room were involved in the ruins . They were quickly extricated , and conveyed to the infirmary . It was found that one of them , had sustained a compound fracture of the left leg ; another had received a severe concussion of the brain and nervous system , besides various bruises . A boy named George Hill , aged twelve years , died at Cheltenham on Saturday from excessive smoking . His symptoms were those of a person suffering from narcotic
p . A daring robbery and attempt at murder occurred at Beauval Cottage , Jersey , on Thursday week . The cottage is inhabited by a Mrs . Haycock , her three daughters , and a female servant ; and it appears that whilst the ladies were at tea on Thursday evening the servant went out to shut the greenhouse . When she entered the house , on her return , a man stood before her with a knife in his hand , with which he struck at her over the heart . The weapon was rendered almost harmless by her stays , and she escaped with a slight incision in the breast , but she fainted with terror . The ladies hearing the noise raised cries of distress , which were heard by a neighbour , who ran to their assistance . The villains thus surprised , had already taken flight , but had carried with them two small caskets which they had stolen from a bedroom on the ground floor , and which contained £ 25 in money , and plate and jewellery of considerable value .
Sarah Chesham , the alleged poisoner of her husband and two children , after a final examination , has been committed for trial at the next assizes for the murder of her husband , by administering poison to him . In our last number we gave an account of the suspected murder of a lady and three of her servants by poison , at Laugharne , near Carmarthen . It now turns out the poisoner was a woman named Elizabeth Gibbs . She was cook in the house , and appears to have deliberately planned the mu rder of the various parties , though with what motive has not yet been ascertained , except in the case of the housemaid , against whom she had a grudge . On taking a person to see the corpse of the latter , the cook said , " This is the devil that would have sot me out of my service . I hope she ' in heaven , for I ' m angry in my heart with her . " The woman has been committed to gaol on the charge of murder .
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Sept . 28 , 1850 . ] ftfte &t& 1 ftV + 633
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 28, 1850, page 633, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1854/page/9/
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