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for that purpose the wages paid to farm labourers have formed the topic of discussion . At & meeting held last Thursday week ia the town of DawlisJi , where liberal measures were adopted towards relieving the distress of the poor , the subject of labourers ' wages was much discussed , aad some important observations were made . Mr . P . Hoare sent & donation of 101 . towards the relief ftmd , but accompanied it with a letter in which he stat&d that the present distress was owing to the low late of wages prevalent in the western counties . It -was then remarked that it was impossible for a labouring man to support himself and family upon 9 s . or 10 s . per week . Mr .
Sneyd obseTved , that even this amount "was not paid wholly in money , for it was a general practice to pay part in . money and part in drink . It might happen that the labourer was a strong man , to whom the drink did no injury ; but in other cases it not only did a positive amount of karni , but deprived his wife and children of that benefit which they other--wise might enjoy were the wages paid wholly in money . He believed the system to be a bad one , and that those who kept it up were causing a deal of ^ mischief , and doing that which tended to the pauperizing of the district . Indeed , he did not know whether they were not liable to b « punished for it , under the Act for the Suppression of the Trubk System . The farmers were now a tliriving class , and he considered that they should pay their
wages in money , and in such an amount as would enable their labourers fairly to support themselves and families . It was the general opinion of the meeting that the present rate of wages paid to agricultural labourers was insufficient for the maintenance of their families , and that much distress , sickness , and suffering prevailed among them . Mr . Palk stated that a case had come before him , as a magistrate of the district , in which a man had stolen some bread from bis employer . La this case the man was receiving but 8 s . per week , out of which a weekly proportion was stopped for Ms cottage amounting to 4 L per annum . This , together with a stoppage in the pay for something else ,-reduced his wages to 6 s . per week ; and on this he had to support Jus wife and two children .
After some discussion , it was resolved to adopt measures * for the relief of those who needed it , and the meeting broke up . Avast number of agricultural labourers have emigrated from Devonshire during the last few years , and it is evident that , if farmers do not remunerate then * labourers better , thej will not be able to get men to do their work after a short time . Farmers now obtain for their wheat 10 s . and 11 s . per bushel ; barley and oats in proportion ; for their cattle , 10 s . 6 d . per score ; mutton 6 id . per Ib . ; pork ditto ; butter , Is . 5 d . per lb . ; and poultry , equally higli prices .
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Two scats in Parliament have lately becomo vacant , both by death . Brecon by the death of Mr . Morgan , and South Shropshire by the death of the Honourable H . R . Clive . Sir Edward Bulwer Lyttoo delivered an address to the Leeds Mechanics' and Literary Institution in the Music-ball of that town , on Wednesday . The occasion was at soiree , on the plan of the yearly displays at the Manchester Atheneatn . The Lord Mayor of Dublin , Sir Richard M'Donnell , gave his inaugural banquet on Monday . It was attended , among others , by the Lord Lieutenant and Mr . Recorder Shaw , wlio both agreed that prosperity has at length dawned upon Ireland . A temporary pedestal will "be erected in front of the Mansion House , to try the effect of the statue of Peel which the city of London is about to set up . The statue of Richard Conr de Lion has been set up , temporarily , in Palace-yard , to test tbe fitness of that site . The New York Tribune announces the receipt of private letters from M . Kossuth , Btnting his intention of leaving on the 23 rd ult . for Constantinople . * Sir Robert Peel delivered a lecture , on Monday , at Derby , in aid of . the Midland Comities' Association of Mechanics Institutes * It i * stated by a local paper that the late Marshal Beresford lias bequeathed his estates , in the county of Carlow , fcgether with a sum of 15 , 000 / ., to the eldest son of one of his gallant oompanions in many a hard fouglit field , the late Goneral Sir Denis Pnck o-f the county of Kilkenny . The money ia to be expended in building a suitable residence on the property . James Macfarlane , a young man in the humble ranks of life , is about to publish a volume of poems of great mark and likelihood . Andrew Park purposes issuing a collection of ail his works . Rumours are abroad of a new University Album , got up under the auspices of thu Liberal students ; that genial and most lovable of our local ramblers , " Caleb , " will shortly bring out his delightful wanderings round Glasgow in a neat little volume ; while Young Glasgow has made quite aaensation , and has created no small amount of vrrath Jimongst those parties whose toes have been trampled on . With regard to Alexander Smith , it is said that 13 , 00 & copies of his book have been disposed of in the United States , for which , we « re told , lie never received a single penny . —Glasgow Miscellany . Mr . Alexander Smith ia now chained ns another " Ayrshiro Hard . "' He was lorn « t Kilmamoek in 1829 . M . Tictor Hugo is about to leave Jersey with his fwnily , to reside in Portugal . Wo reijrret to liei » r of the djineerous illness of Silvio IVllioo , tho well-known author of " L « Mie J'rigioni . " Cilice his liberation in 1830 ho lias le « l a retired life , and has ncvor t . ikcn any part in jxililk : * . licit a mun of most muiublo didnoM
tion , and is universall y beloved aad esteemed . —Turin Paper . ¦ ¦
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Monday ' s journals contained the following statement : — " A deputation from the Peace Society has just left England for St . Petersburg to endeavour to indue * the Czar to come to terms with Turkey , Th « deputation consists of Mr . Henry Pease , of Darlington , Mr . Joseph Sturge , of Birmingham , and a gentleman from Bristol whose name we have not heard . " The next day Mr . Richards , Secretary of the Peace Society , wrote to say that the gentlemen must have been deputed by the Society of Friends ; they had no commission from the Peace Society . An important meeting was held at Edinburgh , on Wednesday , Lord Panmure in the chair , to come to some conclusions on the question of National Education . As usual the settlement . or the question ia hampered by religious difficulties . The Established Church put in a claim to control tbe schools . That great offshoot , theFree Church , whose
representatives composed a great part of the meeting , also puts in its claim to a share . -The meeting did not decide the point as to who should control the schools ; but the tenor of the meeting was in favour of local rates , local management , and liberty of conscience . Tho Rev . Hugh Stowell presided over a Protestant demonstration in the Manchester Corn Exchange , on Monday , when the following resolution was adopted : — " That this meeting regards the proposal to appoint aad endow flemish priests for Government prisons as altogether unfair—unfair to the National Church , and no less unfair to Christian bodies in general ; that the design to endow priests for our prisons
is signally impolitic , as likely to foster , not abate crime , and hinder , not further , the ends of justice ; and that the Home Secretary ' s scheme is fitted to provoke Almighty God , and to involve our Protestant faith in glaring inconsistency . " It has been resolved to establish a girls' reformatory school at&irxningham . Mr . Mason , of Ellington and Mason , has offered 1000 / ., and a donation « f 100 ? . a year towards the project ; and Miss Burdett Coutts and Air . Chance 100 ? . a year each . The members of the Islington Parochial Reform Association dined , spoke , and danced , at Highbury Barn , on . Tuesday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the association . '
. A public meeting was held in Exeter Hall , on Thursday , to support the proposed Cosmos Institute . Mr . Hyde Clarke explained the objects of the institution to be the acquisition of tho I' Great Globe , " Leicester-square , and the collection of maps in the possession of Mr . Wyld ; and , secondly , the establishment of a library and reading-room for colonial newspapers and information . Farther , it was proposed to establish an ethnological museum , and , in short , generally to aid the diffusion of knowledge on colonial and geographical subjects . The remainder of the address referred to the details by means of which the design was to be carried out . Mr . Digby Seymour , M . P ., and Captain Inglefield supported the project . Lord Stanley , formerlj chairman of the society , has withdrawnfran it .
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By the enterprise of Mr . Francis Cadell , the noble river Murray , connecting ! South Australia with Victoria and New Sooth Wales , has been opened to steam navigation . He first took a boat inland , and made a voyage with a volunteer crew ° f diggers down the stream for 1 B 00 miles . Next , in spite of the bar , he entered the Murray from the sea , in the Lady Augusta steamer , built in the colony , and when last heard of he was at Swanhill , 1300 miles up the rivtr . There he ha 4 been joined by Sir John Young , and was going further
upwards . Barracks for the Norfolk Militia are about to be erected at Great Yarmouth , at an estimated cost of 12 , 000 ? . The Dean and Chapter of Peterborough are making extensive alterations in their grammar-school , which is about to be re-opened en an extended scale . The Great Northern Railway Company are - about to establish a circulating library along their line . The Sheffield Board of Guardians project the establishment of an Industrial Training School in connexion with the workhouse under their jurisdiction .
The ratepayers of King ' s Lynn have rejected , by a large majority , the proposal made to them to erect baths and washhouses in the town at the public expense . A new landing pier was opened at Billingsgate on Wednesday . Great efforts arc being made in many of the metropolitan parishes for the relief of the distressed ; poor , in addition to the workhouse relief . The receipts of the various railways do not appear to
have been diminished by the impediments to locomotion occasioned by the late extraordinary snow-storm to the extent which lni ^ ht have been anticipated . For the week ending the 7 tli wst , in the course of which the traffic of some lines was wholl y suspended , the incomes of the eight companies linking their termini in the metropolis fell off 9641 J . only ; and in the following week the comparison of their revenues with those of the corresponding period of last year presented no unusual features . When tlie character of the weather at the commervcement of the month is
rernemuered j this result must b « especially gratifying to railway proprietors ; at any rate , it indicates an extraordinary possession of physical courage and energy on the part of their countrymen . Many of the servants of the Great Western Railway Company have signed the following pithy declaration : — "We , the undersigned , feeling the force of the arguments adduced by the Daily Neu > 8 and other journals in favour of beards , and the abolition of tho razor as an instrument of torture to the faco , hereby forswear the use of tho snme , and intend for tho future to appear as nature intended us to do . Her Maiosty's Commissioners of Emigration continue to ?; ivo periodical notice of their readiness to receive tenders or the supply of vessels to oarry emigrants to Australia . They require two more for V ictoria , one- for Geelong to be ready on tho 7 th , and tho other for Geclong for the 10 th March .
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Wo understand that Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson , and several othor officers of her Majesty '* service , Woolwich , visited thus
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The present high price of coals in the metropolis is rendered almost inexplicable by the enormous increase in the quantities delivered . The railways brought up 629 712 tons in the course of the past year , against 877 , 908 tons in 1852 showing an increase of no less than 251 , 804 tons , or 40 per cent , Phis increase was not confined to the first half of the year , for in the last six months the delivery was augmented to the extent of 134 , 829 tons . The quantities brought by canals show a slight decrease , but the falling off is too small to have any appreciable effect . iHow prices can bave advanced , in the face of such immense supplies , is hard to be understood , for it is . impossible that the legitimate demand can hive increased in an equally rapid ratio : and if thff consumption has been mainly speculative , a glut in the markets - nay be speedily anticipated . Already , indeed , it appears to lave arrived .
An establishment for the manufacture" of oil from tbe cotton seed has been started in New Orleans . It is asserted that the oil is of a bland pleasant taste , possessing all the qualities of olive oil , that it burns witli great brilliancy , and is peculiarly fitted for using upon machinery , on account of not gumming or drying . If the oil is really valuably tfce manufacture will sooa become an important one , far Bra quantity of raw material is unbounded . There were twenty-five deep sewer * substituted last vear for shallow ones in the city ; 280 houses were drained , making total of 11794
a ,, and 4206 still undrained . The engineer and surveyor of the City Sewers Commission recommends that the churchyards now closed shou . 14 be paved , and-where practicable turfed and planted with , trees , to prevent foul exhalations from causing disease . ' ' On the 1 st of January 1854 there were 15 , 5 J . 0 railes of railway open for traffi «—an increase of 2194 Since 1853 . The City Commissioner of Police has declined the testi monial contemplated by the men oi the force , as lie'may have to punish some of tbe subscribers themselves in the execution of his duty . . . .
Ia 1850 , the number of children educated in fixed schools in Sweden was 143 , 526 ; in 1853 , it was 152 , 039 . The number in ambulatory schools was in 1850 , about 126 , 000 ; in 1853 , about 132 , 000 . In the public gymnasia were educated , in 1850 , the number of 6228 children ; In 1853 , 6292 In private schools , 17 , 465 children vere taught in 1850 , to 17 , 856 in 1853 . In 1850 , 128 , 996 were educated at home , to 136 , 736 in 1853 . In 1850 , about 14 , 280 children-were left untaught ; and in 1853 only 9669 . The number of letters , delivered in the United Kingdom in 1853 , was 411 millions—an increase over 1852 of 3 lj millions and over 1851—the Exhibition year , . of SO , millions . Mr . E . T . Smith , the lessee of Drury Lane , is about to build a large theatre . at the East end of London . The Californian papers , in their announcements of births , add to the sex of the child its weight ! The statistics of play-going in Paris exhibited a largely increased attendance in 1853 over 1 S 52 . There were eighty-one convicts set free by tickets of leave in 18 » 3 .
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William Cumming , the seaman who murdered nis wife , was lmng at Edinburgh on Wednesday . From the scaffold he made a speech against drunkenness . The soldier M'Donnell was on Thursday week last taken from the military prison at Devenpoit ( where he is undergoing punishment by sentence of court-martial ) , and marched under an escort of soldiers , to Roborougli-down , to . affoid him an opportunity of pointing out tbe spot where he had deposited the remains of the woman whom he still persists in declaring he has murdered . Mr . Giffard , chiof of the Devonport police , and other persons , vere on the spot ; but after the day had been passed in a fruitless search for the alleged " fcody , " the escort returned , tired and jaded , fully impressed with the conviction that they had been hoaxed . The fellow has borne a most disgraceful character in the regiment from , the time he entered it . The first piratical expedition to Lower California , has been suppressed ; a second started , but we have not heard of its fate .
A seaman , named Archibold , and a boy have performed a gallant action . Tlioy were left behind in a vessel , when the master and crew deserted her in a storm , cooped up below . Tbe master d'd not know they were there . Archibold cut his way out from lelow , and safely carried the slip to Hartlepool . He is to liave IQ 01 . A terrible fire has destroyed a new large structure at New York , known as the Lafiarge Hotel . It ia estimated that no less than seventy-five vessels , of 20 , 000 tons in the aggregate have been lost during tho paat yearj and that tho losses by land and sea to tbe United States amount to fifteen millions of dollars . .
Mr . Thurstori , a . nursery gardener , of Brockford , in Suffolk , has beon accidentally shot dead . He put a loaded gun ia an oven to dry it , nod when ho went to withdraw it the . charge exploded , and passed throug h his body . The Volcano stoam-veasel . Commander Kobert Coote , has brought home intelligence of tho murder of Acting Second Muster Carr , a Una young officer , who was turned over from the Prometheus steam-sloop to tlie Myrmidon steam-vessel , still acrvin <* on th « west coast of Africa , as she lias six months of her time ' to aer-vo on that unhealthy station . The murder was brutally effected on the 28 th of November , at an island cjilled Knnzabac , one of the Bijonga group , air . Carr had lauded on some rucks , intending to spear fish . Ho had not b « . en on the rocks ten minutes wlien ho was fired at from the
bush , and tie either tumbled or jumped into the sea . The ssvuges instantly madutbeir nppcarence , and one of them ran down and stood on the jnpeks , where ho watched till Carr rose , tlie impression or » boarAjtho steamer being that lie had dived , and tho Afiican then slot him tlirough tho head . The whole
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quarter on Thursday , and inspected the Printfield Works presently standing unemployeaYfor the purpose of ascerS ing i they were smtable for turning into a Wnufactory for small arms . A powder-miu , we believe , is also contenrakted in the same district . —Aberdeen Herald wnteippiatea The British fleet in the Tagus put to sea on the 19 th under Admiral Corry . ?
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January 28 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 3 ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 28, 1854, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2023/page/9/
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