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Leader (1850-1860), 10th January 1852, Edition Town of 1, Page 34, Untitled Article

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      Fortescue , a large resident landed proprietor , has lately been compelled to surround himself with an armed guard when he appears in public , and it is said that he will quit the country as his life is in danger . The following letter to Saunders ' a News Letter makes one feel the insecurity of life very vividly . ¦ " Armagh , January 5 . —The people are in a fearful state of alarm in this and the ! neighbouring counties ; but , for m ' y part , I am under no apprehension , even though the agent of an insurance company in Belfast refused to insure my life at . any premium . You know I am in vigorous health , and not thirty-five yet . I have just heard the latest outrage A respectable tenant a few days ago paid his rent privately to the agent of the property on which he holds , not far from this neighbourhood .

      He was summoned to a meeting where the Roman Catholic curate and others m % t to petition the landlord for a further reduction , one having been made in the Michaelmas gale amounting to nearly twenty per cent . The curate proposed a series of resolutions , which were opposed by the honest tenant , but carried , and he refused to attend again . What was the result ? On Thursday night last , about eight o ' clock , he was returning from Newry , when seven ruffians fell upon him , and left him for dead . Three of his ribs were actually separated from his spine , and he lies in a most precarious state . The landlord , long resident , always generous and improving , is so disgusted that he is deliberating whether or not he will quit the country , stained with so much innocent blood . " Mr . Eastwood still lingers , and little hope is felt that he will recover .

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      The movement m support of the projected Ministerial Reform Bill has extended to Bristol , where a meeting was held on Tuesday , attended by the Honourable F . H . Berkeley , M . P ., and some leading local politicians . Mr . George Thomas presided . The resolutions were not very " strong , " the main one being worded as follows : — " That this meeting desires to express its deliberate conviction that any measure of Parliamentary reform which does not provide for the vote by ballot , the abolition of small constituencies , and the more fair and equal distribution of electoral districts , the extension of the franchise to all ratepayers , triennial Parliaments , and the abolition of the property qualification for members of Parliament , will be inadequate and unsatisfactory to the nation at large . " A petition based on this was agreed to . Mr . Berkeley expressed himself in favour of even annual Parliaments .

      Mr . Walter Cooper , from London , delivered ^ m ~ admirable lecture upon the subject of cooperation in the Old Chapel in Yeadon , on Thursday evening , the 1 st instant , to a numerous and attentive audience . Several questions were put at the close of the lecture , and the answers given were such as could hardly fail to satisfy the most fastidious opponent . Being the first lecture of the kind here , many of the master manufacturers were in attendance , who generally concurred in the views advocated by the lecturer . Two working men ' s associations were already in process of formation in this place , their object being to manufacture light woollen cloths , shawls , &c . These two societies conjointly number nearly 100 members ; a healthy sign , as little more than two months have passed since the first steps were taken to promote cooperation , in a place where so little was known on the subject before .

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      The flagrant state of inefficiency in which our army now is in point of arms has been exposed in the daily journals . Disorganization seems to pervade not only the Cabinet but the administration of affairs . The scandal at Portsmouth respecting " preserved meat" in a state of putridity , is not the only fact against the Admiralty . On Saturday the Royal Steamer Megaera sailed with the ltifle Brigade for the Cape . On Wednesday we read as follows : —The Megsora steamer has put into Plymouth in a thoroughly disabled state , unable to proceed with the first battalion Rifle Brigade to the Cape of Good Hope . There were 900 men on board this crazy vessel , almost without conveniences of any kind . She was crammed with her living and inanimate cargo . A gale sprung up , and she is disabled .

      Some alarm has been created by certain letters in the Times upon the inefficiency of the arms of our infantry . The writers arc military men , and speak from observation and experience . The first apprehensions were created by the letter of " An Old Light Division Officer , " and this has been followed up by a long epistle from Sir Charles Shaw , on the deadly perfection of the French model rifle . Thene weapons in trained and skilful hands arc said to kill at the distance of 1500 yards , with certainty , if fired into a crowd ; at 1100 to hit one man out of four , and at G 50 yards to kill a single man . There are 14 , 000 men armed with these weapons in the French arm )' .

      " The ground is marked out for the recruits , beginning at 200 yards from the target , and increasing by 100 yards finishes at 1150 yards . It is found that at 328 yards a man has the appearance of one-third his height , at 437 yards one-fourth , at 516 one-fifth . By a very simple in-Htrurnent of the tuze of a penknife , called a stadia , distiuiccH can be jneuHured ucOurately to 500 yards , and the aighis of the rifle can be ' iuljusted to the space indicated by the stadia , I have tried this stadia and measured the distances indicated , and pacing the ground found it correct . At a distance of 705 yards , this rifle would to a certainty knock down a life-guardsman in spite of his cuirass , and a front of 10 men at 1100 yards . " These feats of skill arc notoonfined only to the practice ground .

      ' The loss of officers and men in Algeria was so great , that in 181 ) 8 the Duke of Orleans , before going to Africa , organized a buttnlion of the Tirailleurs de Vincennes ( then called Chasseurs d'Afriquc ) to take with him . As an instance of the perfection of this weapon even in 1838 , it may be mentioned that tjio Duko while rcoonnoitedng

      was annoyed at the pranks played by an Arab Sheik at a distance of about 650 yards . He offered five francs to any soldier who would knock the Arab down . A soldier ( M . P . ) stepped out of the ranks of the Chasseurs d'Afrique , and instantly shot this Arab chief through the heart . The arches below the County Fire-office at the Quadrant , in Regent-street , are distant from the Duke of York ' s pillar about 6 . 00 " yards ' , so the officers of the Senior and Junior United Service Clubs may form some idea of the efficacy of these French rifles . " Sir Charles proposes that the troops employed against the Kafirs should be armed with this terrible rifle ; and that , as a measure of precaution against invasion , the 40 , 000 sportsmen of England should each be so armed .

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      Prince Albert has intimated to the Government School of Mines the intention of the Prince of Wales to grant two annual exhibitions ( to be named the " Duke of Cornwall ' s Exhibitions ")) the amount of each being sufficient to defray the expenses of the course of instruction at that institution . On a plot of barren ground contiguous to the Shadwell station of the Blackwall Railway a range of dwellings , exactly similar in size and architecture to Prince Albert ' s model lodging-house in Hyde-park , have been erected . They are two stories in height , each floor having three rooms .

      A brigade of shoe polishers , from the ragged schools , made their appearance in Liverpool on Monday , attired in a kind of uniform of blue frocks , with white badges , and oilskin caps , and suspended over the breast a box locked , into which are to be dropped the pence of the customers . The boys are to deliver the box up when they return to the school in the evening , themselves receiving a certain sum per day as wages .

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      Four lives were lost on Wednesday , by a boiler explosion near Dudley at an iron foundry . Two fires occurred on Sunday night doing great damage . The first was a timber-yard in Gravel-lane , Southwark ; the second some houses in the Westminsterroad . - A medical student named Butler ' was , on Monday , sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour at Cambridge , for stealing two gold watches , a dressing case , and other articles , from Magdalen and Emmanuel Colleges . He was well connected . A prisoner in the Old Bailey , who had been sentenced for fraud , committed suicide on Monday , by tying a handkerchief tightly over his face , and then ( thrusting his head into a pail of water .

      The trial of Thomas Bare for the murder of his wife , took place yesterday . The facts have been already set forth . Bare was found guilty of manslaughter only by the jury ; but the court to mark Its sense of the atrocity committed by Bare sentenced him to transportation for life . An abominable murder was perpetrated near Glasgow on Thursday week . Margaret Lyle , a woman of loose habits , and the mother of three illegitimate children , was keeping New Year ' s-day in the house of a carter at Long Govan . In the afternoon she was seen in bed with the carter , both of them completely intoxicated , his daughter and another woman being also in the room . Early on Friday morning a Dr . Smith was awakened by- Neil Strachan , the carter , who said that a woman was dying in his house . Dr . Smith went , and found Margaret Lyle dead , her body shockingly bruised and wounded , and her face disfigured in the most frightful manner . Four persons have been apprehended .

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      NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION . The circular recently issued by Sir Joshua Walmsley , M * P ., the President of the National Parliamentary Reform Association , that the council hare resolved to convene a general conference of reformers , to assemble in London from all parts of the kingdom , on the meeting of Parliament , has created considerable attention . The objects sought in convening this conference are , that the introduction of a Ministerial measure of Parliamentary Reform should be a matter of certainty ; that there should be such a manifestation of public meeting as shall cause that measure to be Radical and complete ; and that means should be taken to insure its success , and to obviate the necessity for further agitation . "We understand that the invitations of the council to attend this conference have been most extensively circulated ; and that by the arrangements in progress , the opinions of all classes will be represented . The answers already received are uniformly favourable , and it has been well observed by one of the most zealous advocates of reform , that * ' a delegation from a National Conference ' upon a subject in ¦ which , the whole country is interested , * must be strictly in harmony with Russellian notions of deputational etiquette . '' We think that the council of the National Reform Association have done well in convening a general conference of reformers in London ; and we confidently trust that every city , parliamentary borough , and town in the

      kingdom will send their representatives and thus render it a trul y National assembly . Such a response is most justly due to the council of an association which , in the language of Mr . Cobden , has " kept burning the lamp of reform , and trimmed it , at a time when it was very likely to have been neglected by the great body of the people . " The country cannot refuse attention to the call of a body of men who , during a long season of apathy and indifference , have in three years held nearly 600 meetings , and published upwards of 250 , 000 addresses , tracts , and other papers . At every such meeting resolutions have been unanimously passed in support of the principles of the Association . By these energetic means the principles of the Association have been disseminated far and wide .

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      The Comtitutionnel of yesterday says : — " We believe we can announce that the Constitution will be promulgated between the 15 th and 20 th of this month . It would have been done sooner if the Government had not determined to publish at the same time some of the most important organic laws . " The Moniteur publishes a report from the Minister of War on the central administration , and proposing a new organization with a view to facilitating business . The report is followed by a decree rearranging the different divisions in the department , reducing the number of employes , and increasing the salaries of

      those retained . The same journal announces that on Thursday morning the few trees of liberty still remaining in Paris were cut down by order of the Prefect of the Police , and that workmen had commenced effacing the words , " Liberte—Egalite—Fraternit 6 , " on the public buildings . But these " popular institutions " are only symbols , and utterly valueless at present . The National Guard is a reality , and it is to do forthwith iliasohed— " a Guard of the President of the Republic" is to be organized , and confined to those who can pay for a lazy life and a brilliant uniform . It is said the regiments in Algeria are in insurrection . May it prove true I

      A despatch headed " By Submarine Telegraph , Paris , Friday , " appears in the Daily News t \ & follows : —¦ ' * The prisoners of Ham have been set at liberty on the frontier , with injunctions not to return to Franco . " A Hamburg newspaper and the Cologne Gazette have almost simultaneously published a statement that the Porto has written to our Court , to protest against the return ofKoasuth to England . It is further asserted that Kossuth ' s residence in America was the main condition upon whioh the Turks conBented to

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      BIRTHS . On the 31 st of December , at Bryanstone-square , Madame Musurus , the wife of the Turkish Minister : a daughter . On the 31 st , at Oweraby Vicarage , Lincolnshire , the wife of the . Reverend Henry Robert Lloyd : a epn . On the 2 nd of January , at Lissadell , the aeat of Sir Itobert Gore Booth , Baronet , M . P ., the Countess of Dunraven : a son , On the * , at Wear-house , near Exeter , Lady Duckworth : a On the 5 th , at Abingdon , the wife of James Hammett , Esq .: a da ughter—prematurely . On the j > tl > . in New-street , Spring-gardens , the wife of J . Bonham Carter , Esq .. M . P .: a son . On the 6 th , at Broadway-house , Hammersmith , the wife of Thornton Hwnt , Esq .: a son . On the 6 th , in Stanhope-street , the Lady Cromorne : a uftugiii t-r . »«¦ /~»

      _ . _ On the 7 th , In Eaton-place , the Honourable Mrs . George Cadogan : a daughter .

      MABJUAGE 8 . On the 19 th of December , at the British Embassy at Florence , Colonel Sir Henry Fairfax , Baronet , to Sarah , eldest daughter of the Into William Astell , Esq ., M . P . for Bedfordshire . On Now Year ' s-day , at Great baling , Middlesex , Samuel Lover , Ebo to Mnry Jane , fifth daughter of the late William Waudby , Esn . ' of Coldham-hall , Cambridgeshire . On the 1 st of January , at Swanscombe , Kent , Charles Burney Younir Esq .. of the Stock Exchange , to Nora Creina , fourth daughter ol General and Lady Charlotte Bacon , of Swuiiacombe-° ' the 7 th , at Trinity Cl » urch , St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , Mr . Edward Conroy , to Eliza , daughter of Mr . William Long , of Harrow . „„ . „ . „„

      DEATHS . On the Sand of November . nt'Moerut . of fever " , in the twentieth yenr of his ago , Lieutennnt Lovick Henry Cooper , Firat Battalion European Fusiliers , youngest aon of Branaby B . Cooper , Esq ., of " ° O ntT ^ l X ™ C ; » t Nairn , North Britain , Sir Frederick William Uunbar , Baronet , of Boath , aged thirty-two . On the l » t of January , at his residence . Brighton , aged cightyr iBht General Sir Frederick Philippe ltobinuon . G . C . B ., Colonel ^^ S ^ SiitZV ^ U ^ l Joh n Lort Phillip , . late Captain in the Twenty-third Jloyal Welsh Fusiliers , nged 1 on tho > 7 th , the wife of Jameu Hammett , Esq ., of Abingdon , in the twenty-eighth year of her nge .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS .

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      . Saturday , January 10 . The Times has a slashing leader this morning , containing views on the Ministry similar to those which will be found elsewhere . Parliament will meet on the 2 d or 3 d-of February , and Lord John and his crew havemadeuptheirminds to face the storm , and try the experiment of doubling Cape Horn , with a mutiny on board . Meanwhile , the Morning Herald

      exultingly anticipates the advent of the great Conservative party , and consoles us with this naive assurance that " in the course of a very few weeks the reins of Government will be again in the hands of a party competent to handle them , and ready to do whatever ^ work the hour may call forth" ! The same authority asserts that , "A constant associate of the Marquis of Lansdowne said yesterday , without reserve or hesitation , that the Marquis had resigned , and merely held office until his successor was appointed . " '

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 10, 1852, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1917/page/10/