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evidence that may be tendered to them , either for or against the corporation . Prom the terms of the commission , the inquiry-will of necessity be a most extensive one , and it will naturally divide itself under some or all of the following heads : 1 . The relation of the City to the metropolis at large , and the proportion which it hears , iii respect of population , property , and extent , to London properly , so called ; 3 > the limits of the corporate jurisdiction ; 3 , the constitution of the corporate body ; 4 , the constitution and machinery of the governing bodies , including the election of mayor , aldermen , common-councillors , &c . ; 5 , the number , duties , salaries , and mode of election or appointment of the corporate officers ; 6 , the courts , civil and criminal , within
the jurisdiction of the corporation ; 7 , the division of the city into wards ; 8 , the management of the police , state of the prisons , &c . ; 9 , the regulations of the port of London and the conservancy of the Thames ; 10 , the appointment , functions , and privileges of city brokers and porters ; 11 , the markets , their condition , sufficiency , and revenues ; 12 , the constitution and management of the Irish Society ; 13 , the property of the corporation , their annual revenue and the mode of its disbursement ; 14 , the jurisdiction of the corporation in the borough of Southwark ; 15 , the constitution , functions , income , and expenditure of the various livery and other companies . The ordinary income of the corporation , as estimated on an average of three years , endimr 1 S 32 . amounted to the enormous sum of
14-S . OOO / ., and the average annual expenditure during the same period was 133 , 000 ^ . It is not too much to assTiuie , looking at the rapid increase in the value of all property in the city ( a piece of ground the other day , at the corner of Finch-lane , was sold at the rate of half a million sterling per acre ) that that income has augmented during the 20 years that have since elapsed , by at least 50 per cent . The-Commissioners of Inquiry are Sir John Pattison , Henry Labouchere , Esq ., and Gr . Cornewall Lewis , Esq .
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WESLEYAN REFORM . A pabty of Wesleyan Methodists are making vigorous efforts towards the reform of the body , and its release from the dictation of the Conference . The numbers united with Conference have become reduced by 10 , 000 in the last year . There is now a war going on within the walls which will further the reform movement , and in the end , it is hoped , bring it to a successful issue . The reformers are determined to carry the war throughout the whole of the 252 circuits , in which no reform organization has yet been effected , and for this purpose they have determined to appropriate 50001 . a year .
At a meeting of the reform party , on Wednesda y evening , the secretary brought forward the resolutions adopted by the delegates at Bradford , the principal of which were , to persevere in their principles , adopting the motion , " No secession , no surrender , and no supplies , " to organize the movement in the 252 districts at present deficient of such organization , to extend it to Ireland and to Canada , and to set aside 50001 . a-3 'ear , for ten years if necessary , in promotion of their object , towards which the delegates at Bradford had subscribed 900 Z . in about half an hour , and which object was in effect " not to destroy rule and order in the Wesleyan Church ; but , acknowledging Christ tho head , to irivo the government of the Church to tho
Church itself . A Mr . Chipchasc also made a speech . He deprecated amalgamation with any of tho brandies broken oil" from tho Wesleyan stock ; but urged perseverance in their reform principles , maintaining tho organization and order which they already had , but oflcring tho right hand of fellowship to all who would como in and join in the movement . "Mr . Shiel , in a debate on tho Mayuooth grunt , once said , thivt , whenever a piece of ecclesiastical tyranny was proposed to bo perpetrated by any Minister , the Wesleyan parsonn would pat him on the back . But the laity of tho Wesleyan connexion are lileo the laity of the Church of England , as described by Lord Shaftesbury—no longer content to bo mere hewers of wood and drawers of water , but determined to assert their freedom from ecclesiastical domination and tyranny . "
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TUN WORK [ NO CLASSES . The " strikes" ntill accumulate . At Manchester «" W 00 looms have been stopped by strikes , and tho stoppage of 2000 more i . s anticipated . The local papers and tho London Times , in reporting one of the district movements , nay : — " Jn Ashtqn and Bolton tho operatives have transmitted thoir ultimatum . " * ' This > h a stately Htyle indeed . " The sendorn of this ultimatum are tho weavers of domestics by power loom ; and their final demand is ten per eeiit . —a phrnno that linn become a war-cry in the Lancashire factory district . The lmtinukoi-H of Denton , Ashton , and Stockport are alno *' on tho move ; " and the hstter-press printers of Manchester auk for tho advance lately given to thoir brothers in Liverpool . Tho Dovonpoi't phoumukcrp on strike aro
getting a large amount of public sympathy . The London seamstresses have refused to work any longer for the poor wages hitherto given : the eiact extent of their demand we do not know . London carpenters employed on some public buildings have asked 6 d . a-day advance : and some London bricklayers have made the same demand . The Wigan Collieries demand another advance , which , with three late advances , will make a total of sixty per cent . The dyer ' s strike at Manchester continues . Some men at the Hull flax and cotton mills having left work without the stipulated month ' s notice , have been fined by the magistrates .
The successes of the week are few in number , but remarkable . The common policemen of Sunderland have got an advance from 18 s . to 20 s . a-week ; and their officers' salaries have been proportionately increased . The workers in the Nottingham trade of " handmade hosiery" respectfully demanded an advance . A few of the leading firms consulted together , and agreed to give the workmen advances on all hose , halfhose , &c , varying from 2 < # . to Is . a-dozen—the largest and most general advance we have ever had to record , and without either a strike or an angry word being exchanged . The farm labourers of Scotland are
getting fetter wages . The workers at this harvest are getting- 2 s . an acre more than was obtained last year . The London lightermen have gamed their demand—5-s . for Sunday work , the previous payment being only 2 s . Gd ., and 3 s . Gd . for night work , being Is . more than they obtained up to the strike . Common farm labourers in Ireland have obtained Is . 4 d . per day , and expect to rise to 2 s . Gd . per day . The Dowlais strike seems ended , but things have not returned to the old state . Some of the men have returned , but the majority have migrated to other places . This is a new and most suitable move on the part of operatives .
Industrial prosperity and improved circumstances for craftsmen are shown in many quarters . Tlie price of building ground in our great towns is on the increase : at Manchester , ground for a warehouse was sold at 101 . per square yard ; and in Birmingham , at 14 ? . 7 s . 6 d . per yard . A great number of new factories are being built at Birmingham . ( It is boasted , that in trades peculiar to the toion of Birmingham there has been no strike ; masters have granted advances on friendly demand . ) As a full Gazette betokens decadent or disorganized trade , so the idleness of the Bankruptcy Courts now indicates the reverse . The business of the
Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy is reduced almost to nil , and the various offices attached to it fast becoming valuable sinecures . Seeing the great expenses attached to two courts , and the very few cases brought before them , it has become a question whether one would not be amply sufficient . If trade progresses as it docs , the present business of the court , consisting chiefly of old fiats , will be completely worn out , and the County Court itself sufficient for all purposes of law in connexion with bankruptcy as well as insolvency . A Belfast paper tells a singular story of Irish life : — "All around us are to bo witnessed the most pleasing
indications of enterprise and happy industry . Merchants are very busy , capital finds ready channels for its successful investment , manufacturers push production to its extreme point , and mechanics , artisans , and labourers rejoice in an extended market for thoir exertions . " Tho keen competition thus at work in old paths induces a trial of new lines of labour , as we note from timo to time . A silk manufactory has been recently established in Helston by an enterprising gentleman , and is now in operation ; several experienced weavers have arrived from Spitalfields , and Komo beautiful pieces of silk , isatin , and velvet have been already worked . Tho
factory will a ( lord great employment for young persons , find its novelty in tho county excites great interest . Railway trade also indicates the general advance : tho English railway traffic for the last week of last month , compared with tho name for th <* last week of August , 1852 , shows an increase of 49 , 271 / ., or 1 . 4-8 per cont . The money receipts on all lOnglish railways for tho first eight months of thin year show an increase of ltt'tt per cent . Another sign of railway prosperity is the oponing of the Lord Warden Hotel , at Dover . Its opening wits celelirnted by a convivial ceremony . Tho building is very large and very handsome ; and in its costliness and convenience is more a palace than a hotel . An direct means for making workers happier , we note that in Edinburgh tho haberdasher now closo thoir . shops at fivo o'clock , a great boon to their assistants . In another ? Scotch town , UhiHgow , wo see that the health of tho people m beiiitf cared for . Tho ( JhiHgow Agricultural Hodety Iuih offered premium s for " essays on tho best means for collecting , storing , Rolling , convoying , and dibti-ibiiting an manure for land , the sewage of the city . " Ah it London fact , wo note that the ground for tho park at Hatf erwea in being cleared , promising tt now Hupply of i ' ronh air for our city workers .
Our trade proceeds in a course of prosperit y , duii f record , but of solid interest to many . The expo f our manufactures and other produce amounted in v S i ° ^ to 7 , 995 , 0862 ., being an increase over the exports f the corresponding month of 1852 of 1 , 405 , 918 ; ° l an increase , as contrasted with 1851 , of 1 , 576 , 88 . ^ o an analysis of the . return , as regards the value of t ^ goods exported , there appears to be an increase in buT ter , coal , cotton manufactures , earthenware , haberdasb " ery and millinery , leather , linen manufactures , metals * salt , silk manufactures , thrown silk , and woollen inanu ' factures ; but there is a decrease in cotton yarn lin yarn , thrown silk , and sheeps ' wool .
With regard to the Import trade there appears to have been an increase in the supply , of animals , coffee corn of nearly all kinds , but of wheat and barley in particular , and Indian corn , dyes , glass manufactures gnano , leather manufactures , metals , potatoes , provisions , both salted and fresh , butter , cheese and eggs rice , seeds , rum , silk , and silk manufactures of Europe both raw and refined sugar , tea , timber and wood to ! bacco , wine , and cotton wool ; whilst there is a decrease
in pats , flour , cotton manufactures , and cotton yarn flax and hemp , hides , oil , spirits , tallow , and sheeps ' wool .
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THE YELLOW FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS . The statistics this year of this annual visitation at New Orleans are very startling . The Times quotes the New Orleans papers , which give full accounts . The Delta writes : — " Deducting our native population and those who have had the fever and become acclimated , wo should regard it as a large figure to fix the unacclimated at 30 , 000 at tho breaking out of the fever . Of that number at least 3000 have already been buried , and every day adds 200 more to the ghastly record . Should it continue in the samo ratio , this frightful number will be swelled to 5000 by the 1 st of September , which is usually the date when the epidemic begins its ravages in pur city . For the week ending on the 7 th of August its victims were 1 O 0 O . That for the week now passing will be as large , and thus , unless some 6 udden and unlooked-for change occurs , the month of August will be held ever memorable in our annals for the largest proportionate mortality which has ever occurred in the history of pestilences . _ It will equal the violence of the Black Plague of the 14 th century , and exceed that of the Plague of London in 1665 . The latter lias been regarded as the severest pestilence of modern times ; and yet , out of a population of 600 , 000 , it onl y slew 60 , 000 in one year , whereas the present epidemic is destroying afc the rate of 4000 per month , out of a total population of not over 80 , 000 , and of a population liable to tho diseaso of not over 30 , 0001 "
The New Orleans Crescent describes the ghastly funeral marches and the burials of the dead : — " Afc the gathering points , carriages accumulated , and vulgar teamsters , as they jostled each other in tho press , mingled the coarse jest with the ribald oath ; no sound but of profane malediction and of riotous mirth , tho clang of whip-thongs « and the rattle of wheels . At tho gates tho winds brought intimation of the corruption working within . Not a puff but was laden with the rank atmosphoro from rotting corpses . Inside thov wore piled by fifties , exposed
to the heat of tho sun , swollen with corruption , bursting their coffin lids , sundering , as if by physical effort , tho ligaments that bound their hands and foot , and extending their rigid limbs in every outrS attitude . What a feast of horrors ! Insido , corpses piled in pyramids , and without tho gates old and withered crones , and fat huektorwomen , fretting in their own grease , dispensing ice-creams and confections , and brushing away , with brooms made ot bushes , the green bottloflies that hovered on their merchandise , ana which anon buzzed away to drink dainty inhalations from tho and festering .
green corpses "Long ditches were dug across tho great human diarnoi . Wido enough wore they to entomb a logion , but only fourteen inches deep . Cofiins kid in them showed thoir tops above tho nuriaeo of tho earth . On thoso was p iled'jua to tho depth of a . foot or more , but so loosely , tliai myriads of flics found entry between tho Iooho clods , ( 1 () W to the cracked seams of tho cofiins , and buzznd a » ' «" thero their ova , creating each hour thoir now liatcliou
swarms . . . » " . But no flound was there of sorrow within tliftt vim Gohenim . Men used to tho flcont of diwolution had iorgotton all touch of sympathy . Uncouth labourer * , »• their bare shock heads , stood under tho broiling beat <> i w ^ hum , digging in the earth : and as iinon they wouli ' *^ j ' it ni ^' lll ii counter an obstructing root or stump , would "y . ' ^ j hideous oath , remove to another spot , and go <>» < "W > , jj iim before . Now and then tho limttork or tho H l ) iul ( \ 7 ji ) r distiirb tho bones of Homo former tenant of tho 1110 U . .- m gotten thoro amid tho arininn of tho ac-ounndntod v » j ¦ and tho sturdy labourer with a gyvo would Jlin 'J ' , broken fragments on tho sward , growl forth a " < lll ( "L , ro ( l-ii , and ohuddo in his oxcosh of giro . Skull bono * > y dug up from thoir long sepulture , with g hastlnioHH &u " out
' From < moh luoliluntro , oyoloHH liol <> > | without eliciting an 'Man , jioor Yorick , ' and wiW J rn oxdanmtkm from tho digger of . ' Koom l « ' 3 bettors . ' . . ]( . | ila" Moonomy of spaco was tho Noureo of i ( !" y " - < lo w ,, ro lion in bontowing away tho dond men . 8 ido by Hl ( . ^ laid two , of gigantio proportion !* , bloated by < ; <) ' ' " . ' ' f | jnH tho sizo of Titans . Tho central projection ot U "' ' ,,,,, ; loft npacoH botwoou thorn at thoir \ uuuh ami 'I "' ^ oiild was two much space ( o bo filled with earth . » " .. fclwJid » tho ( spftco bo fMtrod ? Opportunely tho jimtoriiu W »
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872 THE LEADER . tSATuin > AY ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1853, page 872, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2003/page/8/
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