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demand , he could not doifcy inasmuch asit was a mere point of discipline , and would render necessary the introduction of a new act . ( Oh , oh . ) Mr . Fitzroy again alluded to the disagreeable feeling caused by the strike , when he ( the speaker ) said it would be exceedingly easy to do away with that feeling by granting all the demands made- ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Fitzroy replied that Parliament might have been in a position to do so , but their very foolish movement had put it out of the question to do it now , and they had themselves to thank for that . ( Laughter . ) He replied to this , that he believed the movement would never . have been attempted if it had not been for that very unfortunate decision at Bow-street about Phillips . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir Richard
Mayne said—" Yes , yes ; that was very bad . " But Mr . Fitzroy said—" You ought not to come here and blame me for any decision of a magistrate ; " and yet Mr . Fitzroy had told him on a previous occasion that the Home-Office was the proper place for appeal . Sir John Shelley also blamed him for the step which they had taken , and asked why they had not first brought the matter before those who were so anxious to do them justice ?—( laughter)—and yet Sir J . Shelley had told him when asked to present their petition , that he was entirely against them ; and he should have done very wrong to go to him after that . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir J . Shelley also told him that there was an application before Parliament to work 200 hackney carriages , Mr .
Fitzroy adding , that they had made arrangements so that the licenses could be had , and that the capital employed would be immense . He ( Mr . Rider ) said , " So much the better , for they would want it all . " ( Laughter . ) Mr . Fitzroy said , " The feeling of the House will be against you , " and the member present , whose name he did not know , added that he had intended to vote for them , but would go against them now , solely because of their conduct , as he had seen too much of combinations . Mr . Fitzroy referred him to the important meeting of Monday , and his reception of them then , is a fact which should have kept them from adopting the step which they had taken ; but he told that gentleman that he had not promised to alter the act this
year , and he admitted that he had not , because he could not commit the Government ; and yet it might be inferred from his statement in the Blouse that he had given a distinct promise . ( Hear , hear . ) He told Mr . Fitzroy that it was not the object of the proprietors to withdraw their property from the streets , as they wished ' -to pursue their business ; but he thought the concessions were the very least , they could ask for , and if those concessions were diminished one iota , it would be impossible to carry on business . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Gamble , one of the deputation , told Mr . Fitzroy that the omnibus interests were considering whether , under the circumstances of the bill , they should take the same step as the cab proprietors had done
—( cheers )—when Sir R . Mayne said that " no class of men could be permitted so to set themselves up above the law , " and asked , "Is there no law to prevent this ?" . ( Laughter , and a voice : — " Is there no law to prevent a shopkeeper shutting up his shop ? " ) Mr . Fitzroy told them to expect nothing further than the concessions to which he had consented , and to which Parliament would assent . He replied that it would not be sufficient for the trade . Mr . Fitzroy did not exactly ask him whether they would go to work again , but it was evident he wished to know , for ho said the railways had made arrangements to bring up conveyances from the country ; ana as for members of Parliament , they would rather ride in carts than submit to the conduct , of the cab proprietors . ( Hear , hear , and
laughter . ) He replied that ho should be sorry to soo members riding in carts , and that such a proceeding might bo easily prevented by agreeing to all they requested . Mr . Fitzroy repeated that it was perfectly impossible . He would say no more , and must leave it to the sense and discretion of the trade . In the end Mr . Fitzroy took him aside , and told him he was quite sure the bill , with his amendments , would answer their purpose ; and Sir R . Mayne finished up by saying , " Go to work , men ; go to work . " ( A voice—" Yea , and bo pulled up next day . ") So the question stood , and the meeting must decide upon any further steps to bo taken . ( Hear . ) Mr . Beadle asked the meeting whether Mr . Fitzroy ' s concessions were what they wanted ? and the reply was an unanimous " No , no . "
Mr . Beadle—We must have the shilling for the first hiring under two milefl . ( Cheers . ) A Proprietor—And we muat have the appeal . ( Loud cheering . ) Another Proprietor—Wo must have what we ask , or ntop at home . ( Hear , hear . ) A long discussion followed upon the policy of making another attempt to get the shilling for tho first hiring ; but the meeting finally resolved to " keep as they wore , " rather than make any further appeal to the I Tome-office . Tho meeting pledged itself to keep all their cabs at homo to-morrow ( this day ) , and separated apparently with ii full determination to have " tho bill , tho wholu bill , and nothing but the bill , " as drawn by themselves .
Wo are also threatened with the withdrawal of nil tho omnibuses . On Monday next a meeting of tho proprietors is to bo hold to consider the necessity of that step , tho deprivation of a right of appeal being 1 tho peculiar grievance of that elans . A . now decision on tho Cab Act was made on Wednesday . It was decided that n . person "employing a cab by -timo muHt pay 4 s . if ho keep tho cub for even one minuto boyond tho first hour .
Iho caso of tho cabman Phillips , recorded lost wook , haw aroused public interest . Phillips wan adjudged wrong in Iuh estnnato of distance , and because ho was not provulotl wiMi f >» . to pay for a . special measurement . Mo was , therefore , sentenced * to n . month ' s imprisonment . It now itppnarn Mint ho was right in his estiinato ; but ho was not released from prison until ho paid , wrongfully , a lino of 4 , 0 s . The new act . admits no appeal from a jtuttgiatrato ' a docinion however haaly or presumptuous .
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RIGHTS OP CONSCIENCE . The Archbishop of Dublin presided , on Monday , at the first meeting of the " Society for Protecting the Rights of Conscience , " at the parochial infant school , Kingstown . The attendance was chiefly composed of clergymen . His Grace the Archbishop , in addressing the meeting , said : — - "We are entirely unconnected with conversions , except so far as converts may be exposed to -persecutions for conscience sake . We enter into no connexion with any society for diffusing religious knowledge of any kind . By rights we understand not necessarily that every one is right in the religion that he adopts , but that his neighbours have no right to interfere with him . We merely maintain that a man has a right , not necessarily a moral right , nor a right in point of j udgment , but a civil right , to worship God according to his own conscience , without suffering any hardships af the hands of . his neighbours for so doing * We limit ourselves entirely to those descriptions of persecution in which the law can give no relief . As for assaults and violence of any kind , where the law provides and holds out a remedy , we leave all persons to seek that remedy for themselves ; and we do not undertake to guard , or to remunerate , or to compensate any persons who are exposed to obloquy , to curses , denunciations of divine vengeance uttered by men , to ridicule , or to any sort of annoyance of that kind . They should be taught to
bear it and to support it with joy and satisfaction through divine help , and rejoicing that they are counted worthy to suffer in the good cause . But when attempts are made to compel men to conform to what they do not conscientiously believe , by the fear of starvation , by turning them out of employment when they are honest and industrious labourers , by refusing to buy or sell or hold any intercourse with them , then I think it is , and then only , that a society like this ought to come forward , and that all persons , whatever religion they may be of , or whether they are of no religion at all or not , in a feeling of humanity and justice , ought to look with a favourable eye on such a society as yours , provided it keep itself within its own proper bounds . "
How far will the able and humane prelate be disposed to carry out his principles ? Does the unbeliever in all religious systems come within their range ?
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RAILWAY REFORM . The Fifth Report of Mr . Cardwell ' s committee , ap * - pointed to consider the principle of amalgamation as applied to railway or railway and canal bills , has just been issued . It states that it appears to the committee to have been established in evidence that competition fails to afford the public the same security in respect of railway accommodation which it gives in the transactions of ordinary trade . The report reviews at considerable length the evidence given before the committee on various subjects relating to the management and working of the railway system , and concludes by stating the general views of the committee thereon . For the purpose of carrying into effect these views the committee recommended : —
" 1 . That the mode in which railway bills are now dealt with in the House of Commons should be revised , with the view of securing , by the institution of a committee , of a character more permanent than has heretofore been the practice , a comprehensive review of all schemes submitted to Parliament in every session . That to this committee the Railway Department of the Government should afford all the advice and assistance which the committee may desire . " 2 . That , for the investigation of contested bills , tho
committee should divide . the whole country into districts ; should decide questions of principle , and make arrangements for the decision of questions in which more than ono district might be interested ; and should so direct the investigation of schemes within tho several districts as to secure for the public , within each of them , the utmost advantage which might bo derived from a judicious combination of now lines with those which already exist ; they should also make provision for facilitating tho passing of unopposed bills .
" 3 . That no scheme should bo investigated without security being taken that , in tho event of its passing into a law , the works will bo actually made . " 4 .. That the practice of locus standi should be adapted to tho necessity which exista for trying , in a direct , manner , and with a comprehensive regard to tho general advantage , the public issue involved in nny scheme , nnd that provision nhould bo made for tho payment of costs in cases whore the proceedings of any party shall appear to have been illusory , vexatious , or unwarranted .
" 5 . That working arrangements between different companies for tho regulation of traffic and tho division ol profits should bo sanctioned under proper conditions and for limited periods , but that amalgamation of companies should not bo sanctioned oxcopt in minor or special cases , where it clearly appears to tho standing cominitteo that the true and only object of such amalgamation is improved economy of management and consequent advantage to tho public . "( f . That running powers should generally bo discouraged , on the ncore of danger , and conceded only in cases where tho public object , of free transit from ono system to another cannot practically bo insured by other moans .
" 7 . 1 hat every railway company should bo compelled to afford to tho public , in respect ; both of goods ana of pas-Hongers , tho full advantage of convenient interchange from one system to another ; to afford to every elans of traffic , including postal communication , jun <; facilitioH , and to observe all statutory provisions , especially those requiring equal charges under tho same circumstances : and that
where complaint arises that any company has violated of these obligations , provision should be made for u ! hearing and decision of such complaint in open court Ja power to make use of the interference of the railw department , for the purpose of ascertaining by WW specific and detailed ar rangements such complaint mavlh effectually redressed . y ° " 8 . That where any dispute arises between two or taor * railway or canal companies , and the companies agree t refer it to the Board of Trade , that board should be em ° powered , if it think fit , with a view to the public interest " to entertain the reference , and its decision should be valid and binding on the companies .
" Since the general principle of increasing the stringency of the criminal law in England , so as to render liable to prosecution persons guilty of culpable negligence tehdiau to the risk of human life , even in the cases in which no fatal consequences ensue , is under consideration in a select committee of the Blouse of Peers , to which a bill , embody , ing such a provision , has been referred , your committee having already stated then ? views upon * this subject , now recommend that for the better management of railwavs if ; ill J' ¦ I ¦ i ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦ 'V *" will be
desirable" 9 . That every board of directors should be required to register with the Railway Department some one person , to whom should be delegated the chief authority over all the external discipline of the company and its servants ; also , for every part of the line , some person should be regis . tered as resident engineer ; and for every portion of the locomotive stock , some person as locomotive engineer . " 10 . That the general regulations of each company , from time to time in force , should be transmitted to the Railway Department , and that the inspectors of that de > partment should have power at all times to examine the books in which the arrival and departure of the trains from the several stations are registered , and the books i n which the particulars of the moving stock of the company are recorded ; also , in cases of inquiry into the causes of accident , to examine the servants of the company .
¦ " . 11 . That provision should be made for enforcing the means of constant communication between all the servants , to whom the safety of the passengers in any train is entrusted . "
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DISTRESSING ELOPEMENT . "We noticed in our last week ' s paper , " says the Plymouth Herald , " that an officer of the 35 th Regiment had run off with the wife of a baronet , residing in the north of Devon , under circumstances of a very disgraceful character . We regret to state that there is no doubt of the truth of the statement ; the officer is Captain Berkeley , of the ^ abovenamed regiment , and his unfortunate companion in guilt Lady Wrey , wife of Sir Bourchier Wrey . It appears that this man is now with his " regiment , and still wearing her Majesty ' s uniform ^ though it is currently reported that he will be obliged to leave the army ; and the lady , it is said , is in London . The North Devon Journal of the 14 th inst . in noticing the disgraceful circumstance , says Sir Bourchier Wrey , Bar !; ., has recently been staying at his marine residence in Barnstaple . For some weeks past , Captain Berkeley , of the 35 th , son of Sir George Berkeley , had been visiting at the house of the honourable baronet , whoso hearty hospitality is only surpassed by high-minded and unsuspected candour . This town became agitated on Friday with the startling and painful intelligence that this guest of the hon . baronet ' s—the man who had been receiving his hospitalities—had taken the opportunity of domestic intercourse thus afforded to him , to draw from her conjugal duty the wife of his friend ; that she had , in fact , that morning eloped with her paramour . They drove off , it would appear , about half-past one that morning , ot
Barnstaple , and from thence to the Tiverton station tho Great Western Railway . Their course from this point we are not curious to trace . That this lady should havo left in such a manner , and for such a man , a home replcto with all tho earthly good that earthly wealth can furnish , a husband dotingly fond of her , and without a shadow of the causes usually assigned in such cases , is an aberration of conduct only to bo charitably covered by a verdict of temporary insanity . Ecport Bays thnt already has tho dreadful hallucination passed away , and reconciliation beon sought . Wo give , of course , simply report , but it is highly probable that such is tho case , as wo know that such must bo tho courso tho moment the mind recovers its equilibrium . Sir Bourchier returned that same ovening to Tawstock Court . "
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CRIMINAL RECORD . Tni 5 character of tho present Assizes is very painful . 1 y ° cases of murder are not comparatively mnny , but brutality and beastliness scarcely less atrocious appear to bo more than usually epidemic . Tho outrages on women by tho now common brutalit y of violent assaults , with intent to bruise , to maim , ana to kill , and in tho worso form ot other and more felonious attempts , have formed the st « pl ° of tho cases in the Northern counties . A still worse enrno scorns common in the Midland Counties . On the wholo tho Assizes rovoal tho utterly unmanly and degraded stato of a largo proportion of tho English peasantry . John Pitcher was tried at Norwich for killing J » 9 mothor . She was n very old woman , nearly 85 . Ho iJ " " quontly beat her in a moat savage manner , ' . and left Jicr for days without food or clothes , uncared for in a wretch *" room . She wan found by tho police dying , biting the bo iclotlK-s in tho agonies of 1 hunger . HJjo died ; and tho wretch has been transported for life . — Edward Pft 9 B > ,
drover , lived on offensive and immoral life in IJoMinft - green . A young married woman , named llailos , remon-Htratod with him on his conduct . In rovengo Pass struct her violontly , beat her about tho head and faco , (> " * knocked her down . " Four months' imprisonment i »» been awarded . ' —Ann Vickors was in tho constant h" *" : ° beating her little nlop-daughtor—a mere child . vvno brought boforo tho court the body of tho child was bruioc * all over , and dreadfully diacolourcd . She Jina boon een-
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¦ " ¦ : . . ¦ :. ¦ ¦ , ¦ . . .. J 730 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ; ; : ; ¦¦ - ¦¦— ---. ¦ i ¦ ¦ ' *¦ ' ... ——————^_^^ »^——M ^ —1^—W ^——¦^»^»_^___ . . " ¦
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Leader (1850-1860), July 30, 1853, page 730, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1997/page/10/
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