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Leader (1850-1860), 10th April 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 343, Untitled Article

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      surface ° f the ground ... Another letter from Melbourrie 6 You may imagine , with such an extraordinary gold fipld so near to Melbourne , what a state the city must be Many of the large establishments , where many hands ~ required to carry on the work , are closed . The ships in " harbour are all but deserted , and the prices of the necessaries of life are very high , the butchers and bakers having either started to the diggings themselves , or been left without journeymen . « j am afraid we shall have a great deal of

      drunkenness and debauchery about Christmas and the new year , and unfo rtunately , there will be no police to keep them in order as the whole police force of the city , with the excention of six , have sent in their resignations , and they will be entitled to their discharges on the 1 st of January . The Government will be also , I am afraid , placed in an owirwftrd predicament , as numbers of their officers and clerks have also sent in their resignations , and it will be very difficult to fill their places . How the public service in fin be carried on is iiow a difficult question . "

      The Melhoitfne Argus of December the 20 th , gives a general summary , founded partly on ascertained facts , and partly on " careful conjecture / ' of the amount of gold " dug up * and ready for market , " estimating the value at 32 V an ounce . In the banks in Btelbourne and Geelong , on the 19 fch November , 42 , 000 ounces . . . .. . 43 i 25 , OO 0 In private hands in Melbourne and Greelong , at the same date , 8 , 000 ounces . ... . ., .. 24 , 000 Amount by escort , on the 19 th of November , 10 , 138 dunces ... . . . . . . . . 30 , 414 Ditto , 26 th of November , 12 , 106 ounces . . . 38 , 318 Ditto , 3 rd of December , 16 , 669 ounces . . . 50 , 007 Ditto , 10 th of December , 26 , 656 ounces . . . 79 , 968 Ditto , 17 th of December , 19 , 492 ounces . . . 58 , 476 Amount estimated to have been brought in by private conveyance , 28 ^ 353 oun ces _ . . . . 85 , 059 Amount estimated in the hands of diggers , on the gold field , 80 , 000 ounces ...... 240 , 000 Total , 243 , 414 ounces , or 20 , 282 10 * 121 b ., or 202 cwt . 821 b . 10 ounces , or 10 tons 2 cwt . 821 b . 10 ounces ... . .... . . £ 730 , 242 These astonishing results have all been arrived at in less than three short months . On the 29 th of September the announcement of the first large yield in Victoria was made known . The same paper thus points the moral of this golden tale : — ¦ — ' "To the good people of Great Britain we commit the consideration of these statements . We beg to remind them that even before this discovery burst upon us , this was one of the finest and most prosperous of British colonies . Let the gold fields cease their yield to-morrow , and we still retain all the elements of national wealth and national greatness . Those who venture to share our wealth may venture boldly , for boundless plenty smiles side by side with countless wealth . Our splendid harvests are now whitening for the sickle , with no men to reap them . The same land which ia thus pouring forth its mineral treasures , is still feeding the finest sheep and cattle that ever were fattened upon natural grasses . Their fate has hitherto been that shameful waste , the Wlting-pot . It is a land literally flowing with milk and honey . It wants but population to jjivo it a degree of progress unequalled in the history of the world . Let the overcrowded of the mother country c omo freely and fearlessly . Wo can make room for them by thousands or tens of thousands . " Why should English labourers be allowed to starve in Dorsetshire , while food , shelter , clothing , and gold , are literally waiting for them in another hemisphere P

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      OXFORD A 3 TD CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE . On Saturday afternoon the great annual contest between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was "oculed by an eight-oar race over the usual course from Putney-bridge to the well-known Ship Tavern at Mortlake—a distance of somowhat more than four mucs . It is very nearly two years and a half since lather Thames" was enlivened by a similar match , on which occasion the Oxonians were victorious through a lord on the part of their adversaries . Long beforo tiio tnno appointed , the whole course of the river to l ntnoy was alive with bustle and excitement . Twelve Hteamers were chartered to uccompany the race , but a v » wt number of porsons were disappointed in obtaining piaceB About twent y minutes after ono o ' clock the uxtord cvew rowed away from Scarlo's yard , at Putney , and wore followed shortly after by the Cantabs . At a quarter to two the rival boats took thoir respective muiat oh « , the Oxford boing on the Middlesex feido , the uintabs on the . Surrey . The two crews , who wove wast vociferousl y cheored , wore composed of tlio following gentlemen : — i 1 > m « , , ? , Y oltl ) - oAMimiuaK . 2 * o , ™ S , ; ° n <> so . 1 . M'Nuughton , Trinity . S ' lJ ^ l JH ' - ditto ' 2 . Brandtrditto . * 4 . ' Su !\ Z tw ? huxoh - 8 - Tuckov » « ' Jo n '« - f ) 3 ) m ' Tr lol < *• l ? * wd . Trinity . 0 ] £ ?' * y % - 6 . Hawloy , Sidney . 1 \ zL ' VT > , nwonono . «• Longmoro , ditto . 8 ( fi' , ° mb . < - 7 . Norrifl , Trinity . ' Oni y > 7 , ? lho 1 («* roko ) 8 . Johnstono , Trinity 0 o A ; ' ^ i 8 t Clmroh ( stroke ) . ' * K 0 xa' f Cvomo , Vixwti ( coxe . )

      Mr . C . Selwyn officiated as umpire , and Mr . E . Searle undertook to start them , which he effected at about ten minutes to two o ' clock . The race maybe described in a few words . Both crews started at an astonishing pace for some hundred yards , when the Oxford obtained a slight advantage , which they gradually improved upon . At this point the Cantabs , under , the guidance of Robert Coombes , the champion , kept to the Surrey side ; whilst the Oxonians steered up the middle of'the river . On nearing Hammersmith-bridge , the Cambridge , putting on a spurt , appeared to lessen the distance between , and their partisans asserted that they would come out level from their plan of steering . At

      Chiswick Eyot , however , the Oxford had increased their lead , in despite of the most strenuous exertions of their opponents . All efforts after this were fruitless , for the Oxford coxswain , taking off bis cap , cheered , on bis crew and steered them on to victory , which they gained by about six boats' lengths amidst the deafening cheers of thousands . The boats were both built by Messrs . Searle for the occasion ; the Oxford one being sixtythree feet in length , the Cambridge sixty-two . Several boats were upset by the swell from the steamers , and amongst others the Xieander . The parties , however , fortunately met with no accident beyond the ducking . The Oxford and Cambridge crews dined together as usual after the race , at the Albion , Aldersgate-street .

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      THE CASE OF MR . WHISTON . The Reverend Robert Whiston , M . A ., has pleaded his own cause this week , on an appeal made by him , in the Court of the Bishop of Rochester , against his removal as Master of the Rochester Grammar School . For convenience the Court was held in the Court of Arches ; and Dr . Lushington and Baron Parke assisted the Bishop . The Dean and Chapter of Rochester , who dismissed Mr . Whiston , were represented by Dr . Addams and Mr . Cowling . Dr . Griffith , the senior canon , was present . Mr . Whiston began pleading on Monday , and continued on Tuesday and Wednesday , when lie concluded .

      The ostensible ground of Jus dismissal was for the publication of a pamphlet on Cathedral Trusts , which it was alleged contained false and scandalous libels against the Dean and Chapter and the Bishop of Rochester . Mr . Whiston . insisted that the libels were not false or scandalous , and alleged a series of facts to prove the truth of the said libels . The leading facts of the case , stated in his own words , were as follow : — " In November , 1842 , I was elected to the head mastership of the Cathedral Grammar School at Bochcsfcer . At that time there was not a single scholar in the school . The number was soon raised by myself to nearly eighty . Wot long after that I fell in with a copy of the Cathedral

      Statutes , and I discovered that four students ought , m conformity with the directions of the founder , to bo maintained at the universities , and twenty boys also at the school . And I also observed , that the allowance for that purpose had remained , from the time of Henry VIII . to the present time , unchanged—namely , 5 / . for the students , and 21 . 13 s . Aid . for tho grammar boys ; while the income of tho canons , which at the foundation was 20 ? ., had been increased to 680 ? . A correspondence then followed with tho Chapter . In August , 1848 , I applied for an augmentation of [ the 22 . 13 s . 4 * 1 . allowed to tho grammar boys . The request which I mado was not granted , and nothing was done . Subsequently I applied to tho Bishop of

      Rochester , and it is port of tho unhappmess ot my position that I am compelled to say that I was kept in doubt by hia lordship for four months , and then referred by him to the Court of Chancery . On the 28 th of May , 1849 , I was dismissed by tho Dean and Chapter , by a deed poll , which states that tho pamphlet published by me contained scandalous libels , and passages directed against tho Dean and Chapter , and also against tho Lord Bishop of tho diocese , and against tho mombors of divors other cathedral churches , particularly at page so and so , and then going on to Bpecify tho passages charged as boing libollous . I then applied for an injunction to restrain tho Chapter from carrying out this deed poll , but the injunction was rofused on tho

      ground of want of jurisdiction . On tho 10 th of August I was served with a notico to tho effect that tho Chapter had cancelled tho deed poll . On tho 13 th I was served with a citation , reciting pretty nearly tho same facts as tho deed poll—namely , that tho said pamphlot contains divors false , scandalous , and libellous pasnagos diroctod against the Hivid . Dean and Chapter , and also against divers other cathedral bodies in tho kingdom . ' It recited also the sanio passages that were recited in tho deed poll , by which I was ( VismiBHod unheard . Perhaps I ouerht to have mentioned that tho

      notico cancelling tho deed poll acknowledged mo still as tho master of tho school .. Tho citation summoned nio to appear bqibro tho Dean and Chapter ^ and answer for having written tho pamphlot for winch in tho first inijtaneo . 1 baa boon dismissed without a hearing . Various proceedings fbllowod , which woro ondod on tho 10 th ult . Ity a second clood of dismissal . I then appealed to tho Court of Quoon ' s Zfonch , whoro tho rulo was mado absolute for lnvrosloration , but subsequentl y discharged on tho ground that tho rot-urn of tho visitor was hold a suflicionl ; answer , without tlio Court going at all into tho merits , "

      Mr . Winston laid down fifteen propositions which in bio long speech ho endeavoured to HubHtuntiiito . Ho ullogod that the pamphlet was not false and scandalous , but eubstnntinlly true , juatilied by fuctn / ov antecedent

      provocations , and intended for the public good ; that if it were libellous , it would not furnish legal ground for his dismissal ; that the publication of such a pamphlet was , if not commanded , encouraged under a special statute ; that if the offence had been committed , the sentence was invalid , as having been passed without the accused being heard- in defence , and the chapter judges in their own cause ; "that he bad . not proved himself unworthy , and was not , in fact , entirely unfit and unworthy to be entrusted with the instruction of the foundation boys of the school ; and that the deau and chapter had not been actuated by a regard to the interest of the school in dismissing him . Mr . Winston , at erreat length , showed how lie had

      been insultingly treated by Dr . Griffiths , the canon in residence , on account of his proceedings in relation to the cathedral trusts . He showed that the Dean and Chapter of Rochester had not applied the monies left for that purpose to the maintenance of the Grammar School boys , and in the sending of students to tho Universities ; while , at the same time , their own incomes had increased from 201 . to 680 ? . 19 * . It was represented that the revenue in excess was paid to a mysterious entity , or non-entity , known as domus ; but what Mr . Whiston wanted , was a sight of the accounts of the Dean and Chapter , to see what had become of the money . He stated some striking facts connected with , the administration of the trusts .

      " Mr . Whiston said that there was this simple undisputed fact , that whereas Henry VIII . gave to the deans and canons of Rochester only 2202 . a year , about four times as much as to the foundation scholars , either they or domus , or they and domus together , in 1838 , took 5 , 500 times as much . There was in that year one boy receiving 12 ., tho original allowance being 532 . 6 s . Sd ., and , according to tho returns made to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , the Dean of Rochester was receiving 1 , 4262 . a year , and tho six canons about' 4 , 0802 . ; so that , instead of its being 2202 . versus 532 . 6 s . 8 d ., ; it was 5 , 5002 . versus 12 . * * * * In 1542 ' the net receipts were 2202 . ; in 1834 , the average for seven years was 5 , 5112 . ; the expenses of the grammarschool in i 542 , in which he included the salaries ot" the masters and the stipends of four students , were 992 . 18 s . 64 . ; the 126213 Id

      average for seven years ending in 1834 wag . s . ., which was rather mysterious , because , in 1834 , there were only lix boys in the school . In 1542 the portion of the whole endowment apportioned for the schools and students was one-eighth ; in 1834 it was 1-233 . In the passage " cited he had laid down two principles ; first , that it was only just to dispose of the church ' s lands as the founder intended ; and , secondly , that it was binding on clergymen to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them . Would any one deny that the 'details , he had given proved the truth of what ho had stated ? Tho net receipts of tho dean and canons was raised from 2202 . to 5 , 5112 ., and of each canon from 202 . to 6802 . 19 s . ; while , out of the 532 . 6 s . 8 d . allowed for scholars ' , not more than 202 . was ever paid to them until 1842 . "Wns there not , then , a preference for money to principles of justice P

      As to the domus , the great money absorber , the threw some strange light upon him , her , or it . The Bishop of Rochester said that Mi \ Whiston knew that the Chapter had to pay subscriptions to a great variety of objects in tho diocese out of tho cathedral funds , " which amounted to a large sum-annually . But Mr . Whiston always spokp as if ho wished ttf make ifc appear that tho money wont into tho pockets of tho Dean and Chapter . The domus , in fact , was expended for objecta directly tending to fcho public good . Mr . Whiston—Yes , my lord ; but thoso subscriptions being paid out , of domus , must savo tho pockets of tho Dean and Chapter , and thus , pro tanto , iucrcaso thoir dividends . The Bishop—That may bo so .

      Mr . Winston ' s peroration was very eloquent , and does him great honour . Ono passage ia stored with remarkable facts , and tolls its own tale . " As for thoir persecution— ' dabit Detcs Jiis gnoqua fi ncm ; ' and far rather would I have to bear ovon it than endure tlio burden of thoir solf-roproach—for what ia moro heavy to bear than evil fame doservod , or who can boo worse- days than ho who , yofc living , follown at tho funeral of Iuh own reputation ? An J . have said olaowhere , I havo boon supported by tho consciouHncHs and cheorod by tho happiness of doing right . Already tho poor bedcHinon of Rochester , Homo of whom havo fought and bled for thoir country , fill a placo which had boon ompty for almost a century , and rocoivo a Htipond which Domux had received

      for nearly 80 years . Tho poor chomtorM of Canterbury no longer hand over thoir lirBt liaU-yoav ' H pittance to tlio organist , while tho lay dorks havo 402 . a-year moro than they used to have . Tho grammar boys at WoreoHlor receive not 3 , v . l () d ., but 22 . 13 s . 4 . 4 . ; tho 10 boys at Durham have now 42 . a-year more than over thoy had before ; tho 24 ' a't Chester havo Had their ! 12 . i \ s . ftd . ou < sl ^ restored ; , and the visitor Iiiih declared that tho lour oxhibitortt are Jionco-J'orth to bo nmintainod at the UnivorHitien . The old eutliodral Hchool at Carlituo , which dutoH from the Hovonth con * tury , dinplayH now buildings , and booHts of its 70 boyn ; and JWly itHoll ' , a « it' ashamed of U ; h bad prominence , in , uh it appears from tho public printw , to bo reformed anil made , I . hope , not ; unworthy ot ilw dean . Whatever , then , may roHitlt to inyftoU '—como what may , I « ay , ' JJaiula-bor tamon oxtinxiaso nojxts . ' "

      Agnin" Nay , my lordn—in tho pro . iont outcry for education , while every one profoHiwn it to bo tlio greatest of acquired blowwinga u ' ud tho olioicout of mail ' s gil ' tn , and proclaims its

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1852, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1930/page/11/