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      utmost that had , been done . by these parties , had been to versuade -people -who might be going to work t © leave-that-employment . In th& case of TA « Quew Y . Selsbyand < otkers , cited in Burns ?* Justice of « fte . Peace , Lord Granwoxtb , then Mr . Buron Eolie , thus Uud down the Jaw ;—« Workman may meet and say , J 1 W e will not work for $ nch and such a sum , and if parties thick to employ us on low wages , ir « agree we will not work for them , and we agree to forra » ftind and support one another until we get diem to came to proper terms . ' . It is doubtless lawful Tor nemdft to aatee amoni ? thenaselves not to work except noon

      -not therefore , at present , offer any evideace against him . Gregson was therefore ordered to be discharged . After the depositions had been read , the ten de-r fendants were liberated , upon bail being given for their appearance at the Liverpool assizes , and the proceedings terminated-for the present .

      certain terms ; that oeiugBo , I am sot -aware of any illegality in their peaceably trying to persuade others to adopt we . same view . Jf . it is lawful for half a dozen people to agree together and say , ' We will not work unless Messrs . Jones and Potts ( the prosecutors in that case ) raise our wages , ' so it is perfectly reasonable to say to a third man , * You had better do that too , ' if they do not use threats to deter him feom doing it . My opinion is , that if there were no other object than to persuade people that it was their interest not to work except for certain wages , and not to work under certain regulations , complied with in a peaceable way , it was uot illegal . "

      All the testimony went to show that the people bad been acting peaceably . That the defendants wished to act peaceably , he thought was clear from all the evidence before the court . It was not because thes « were people contending with the owners of great amasses of wealth , that therefore they could be -prejudiced one way or another . Mr . Bla « khurst followed on the same side , and concluded by urging upon the magistrates that no case had been made out to justify them in sending these mea to . Liverpool

      The magistrates retired for consultation , anct upon their return the Mayor said , if Mt . Noble arid Mr . Blackhurst had stated that they intended to call witnesses they should lave thought it their duty to postpone the case . His worship then pointed out that Lord . Campbell and Mr . Justice Erie lad expressed opinions differing from those of Lord Cranworth , as cited by Mr . Noble ; that considering there were some doubts of , fact , and also many questions of law involved , they thought that they should be doing an injustice to the defendants themselves if they were to decide upon the case , and that they had therefore come . to the conclusion to send them to answer th « charge at the Liverpool assizes .

      Bail having been pat in for the appearance of the defendant * on the following morning , the Court adjourned . The proceedings on Thursday morning « tere opened shortly after 9 o ' clock , when Williajn Parkinson , Joseph Dolphin , and James Waddington were placed at the dock . Mr . Noble appeared for Parkinson and Waddii ) gton > and Mr . Blackinixst for BoJphhx m The offence charged against these defendants- consisted in baring- met at Fleetwood a consignment of 141 Irish dhands , beingfeonrayed to Messrs . Birley ' s mill , and liaving succeeded in persuading 1 O 1 out of that number to return to Belfast . Several w itnesses

      were examined in support of the case , and the reporter for the Preston . Chronicle deposed to a speech having leen delivered by Waddington at a meeting held upon Ribbleton Moor , on the 7 th of March , and from which the following is extracted : — "In no country or place under God ' s heaven wna there ever a set of " men treated like the factory slaves of 1853 and 1854 . If the slaves of America happened to have been driven from their cities , and abandoned to starve , to- beg , or die , there would have been men sent over to see if they could not < lo something for them , when they werft driven from their homes . But because it happens to be . England ,

      we are not . allowed the privilege of meeting again , f don ' t know ' why this should haTe been , as long as we were peaceable and quiet . It is said that there have been riots in Preston , bnt nobod y knows anything about them . I don ' t know anything , but that- a few young women liad been laughing and smiling . If you will only stick together as you havo done hitherto , we will secure the ten jer cent . You are not perhaps aware that Birley ' s ' knobsticks ' will not come to work this morning , and what for ?'—because they intend to be clothed like English people , and w !* en they have gottonthem well fed , they will not be so bad to get back again to work . It grieved me when I went to Fleet wood to see a set of innocent women and children driven from their

      own country , and brought to Preston , and gulled bj a set of ** reston masters . I had not been in Fleetwood five minutes before they told me they would lock me up , because I happened to say I wondered they could For shamo to go to Belfast to seduce a lot of people to come over . 1 said all you who want to go back to Belfast follow me , and I managed to get seventy-eight baok nguin . " When the case fox the prosecution was closed , Mr . Noble said that from the experience they had had during the past three days , he thought that anything he might « say would only unnecessarily take up tlie time of the Court . The magistrates retired , and after deliberating for about flv « minutes , the Mayor announced that it was their intention to commit the defendants for ""ml at the Liverpool itsaizea .

      Mr . Aacroft intimated that thcro was itnother party m custody , named Thomas Gregson , Itit that oe Had not had timo to give proper attention to hia ^ -ase ; and perhaps there might bo some doubt with regard to the part taken by Grefrson . He should

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      THE IRISH COMMITTEE . TarB chief witness who has appeared before the Committee on Irish Corruption this week has made hitnself famous , not for what he has Terealed , but for what he properly declined to reveal . ¦ - 'Mri Mowbray Morris , the manager of the Timesy appeared on Tuesday . Questions were put to him bjr Mr . G . fi . Moore , touching the articles la the Times of . the 19 th September and the 9 th February , on the

      corruptibility of Irish members . He was asked-to state "the grounds on which -those articles ^ were written . The article of the 9 th February he said was founded oa the speech of Dr . Gray , at Tuam ; he could not redoll « ct anything' about the other at that moment . But he posed tie committee , by declining to answer any questions respecting the authorship of articles in the Times , oi its secret information . Upon this he was ordered to attend another clay .

      Accordingly the ne ^ ft day he appeared . Iu auccession Mr . Moore , Mr . Bright , J&r . Butt ,, and Colonel , Benfcinck , endeiWfoured to extract &vowal 8 / fromhjna as to the traith of the . articles an ^^ tioa ^ Yttihe . grounds for them ; what . they- uieanti&ow , f&r in- ; formation ia the Times iQffice coudd j 6 Uftain f , theq ^;^ whether he knew of any facts touching t ^ e jtreseoti inquiry ;; what were his opinions , as % manager , \ of the Times , and the like , all of twbach heeitW : i » efused 4 Q : answer , absolutely , or refused tp answer , a # the r ^ preseniative and wath the , authority rof Jfoi&Jliimes . He wished , thecooamittee to underst ^ nd ^ hat he thought hinaself not bound to answer aay ^ tuestioiM resDecting eitber t ) f the articles . As Mr . Moore fluted , Mr . Bright took up the cause ; bathe . metmtibii ^ Q better fortune . Mr . Morris , in reply to Mr . ] foigh \ thus ma ^ e good his negative ppsition :- ^ -

      Mc . Brjghtr-Then you are notprerparsdto Jaty before ; the committee any facts whatever on which : the condodtorfr tf the Times undertook to circulate , through djO f MQ * qpie ** of their journal in one day , so grave and insulting a charge against not an individual member , but the ivboJe body of Irisli nnambers ? , 1 ~ . .- . Mr . Morri * s * Wb . eur I say I am not prepared $# < d * it ^ d ** notiwish to be understood assaying that ab w ^ uMlnot 1 » , possible to do sq ; bat - simply .. because ,. I do-Joot think jit . cma- ' sistent with vnj duty to do so . And perhaps tTiisisfanttiiig time for me to state the reasons why I have refused to an-!

      swer these questions . I submit that' to have questions put to me by the committee on the subjects on which thej have summoned me to speak would be prejudicial to the press of this country . I think the press of this coumtry- ^—there - being no censorship established in England' —is amenatfe to no authority whatever , Accept tte counts of law ; tiot even—and I say it with all' due deference ^ and respect—to a . committee of the House of Common * . It would ha doings in my opinion , « grievous injury to th « press of this country if 1 were to answer questions of that ; nature .

      Mr . Butt—Would you extend that . opinion to statements of fiacts as well as to expressions of opinion ? Mr , Morris—To everything whatever . Mr . Butt—You . do not say , in your own juigment , what sources of information the Times may have had Mr . Morris ( interrupting)—I have made no statement whatever on the subject . I wist that clearly to be understood . Colonel Bent i nek tried Ms hand at extracting evidence with a , like result . Colonel Bentinck—You admit partly that the charge ol gross corruption against the body of Irian members Mr . Morris ( interrupting )—1 admit nothing more than wluit appears in the article !

      Colonel Bentinck—Then , in your capacity of manager of the Times newspaper , you are not prepared to offer any explanation or justiiacntioii as to tliat charge ? Mr . Morris—I am not . Colonel Bentinck—Is this an exception , or is it the custom of the Times to bring forward grave accusations like theso witkout being prepared to explain or justify tlom ? Mr . Morris—I am not prepared to answer that question . Colonel Bentinck—Then , 1 may presume the answer would be in the affirmative ? Mr . Morris—That may bo the inference which you as am individual may draw 5 but I hopo the committee will be to « just to draw it .

      Mr . Fottcrcll , a Dublin solicitor , told how amir named Coleman paid 500 / . to a Mr . O'Callaghan for resigning a paiymastership of constabulary , in order that Coleman might be appointed . Culeman was appointed by Sir William Somerville , wlio seems not to have been aware of the money bargain . Mr . G . H . Moore and Mr . Bright gave instances to show that a general belief in the sale of places by-Members of Parliament existed in the West of Ireland . A Mr . William Dane charged Mr , Keogh with inducinga gentleman t « accept bills to the tune of 1000 / ., on the promise of ( jiving him « place ; that the gentleman was ruined i : i consequence , that M * . Keogh had obtained an appointment for his son . It is fair to state that the statements of this witness rest on reports only .

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      HEALTH QE LONDON , \ ( From the Regigtt ^ 'Gen&aT ^^ j . ¦ ¦ < j The total number of deaths ^ eg ^ f / r ^ M . ] & $ &h $ p 0 & Mf ' the week tlafcended last Satai-aay , 'Was ii ^' aM eihiBit # i decrease on that of the pr « ce 4 ingrwe » k , when I 3 ^ ¥ ^ r « rtt ' [ registered . In the ten weeks , correeWffaif lg ^ Mtweek / of thejears 1844 ^ 53 , the average ffuWb ' et % 81 ai »;! # firapirJ raised in proportion to inci « fise . <^ 0 ^| p | |^ . ' ti ^ p ^ tSl $ l ? ' ithe calculated amount . ' " ' * ' ' - " . ' . \' - > - : ;> '• "' ¦ ° rV ^' \ Last week the tilths of 83 ^ 4 o ^; at ! L ^« Si 3 e ^ s ; WWiMI ? children , veie registered ia Iioiiadn . 'Ijrl ; bie matSMsdir isponding weels of thejears 18 ^ 5-, & 3 &e aver ^^ u ln ^^

      At the Xoyal Observatory , Greenwich ., ; the ntoean reading of the barometer in the week waa 23 ' 9 Sj ^ 'iq 6 t IM . imait daily reading was above 30 in . on Wedrie ^ aj , ^ rhttrpdfcy , and Friday . The mean temperature rose froin 4 ^ B demf that of the previous week , to 4 t-2 dega . iffihtf 3 iBt , ' wnifeII ri 5-7 degs . above the average of the , weeks , odrrespoildlttgtO ' last week , in 38 years . It was above the averagelasf week on every day except Saturday . The highest mean 6 f tha week occurred oa Monday , anl waaJ 52 l degd ., or 10 9 degs . above the average ; the lowest was 41 degs . oia Saturday , or 0-8 deg . below the average . The highest temperature of the week was 64 * 2 degs . on Monday , the lowest 31 * 3 degB . on Saturday . The mean dew-point temperature wag' 8 " 9 ' 5 degs . The wind blew from aoath and south-west till ThuiBday , when it changed to north-west and north . No raiufell till Saturday , on which day the fall was 0 ' 13 in .

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      M I S C ELI , A NEO US . The chief Court fact of the week is the levee oa Wednesday—the- third vt the season ; The names of military men abound in the list of presentations .. Among the Queen's guesto this week have been tha new brigade officers , Sir Richard England , LordL Lucan , and Sir de Lacy Evans . Prince Albert has presided o-ver two meetings of the Governors of the Wellington College .

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      The vacant judgeship has been given to Mr . Crowder , Member for Liskeard . The new candidates for Lxskeard are Mr . John Salusbury Trelawney , Mr . K . \ V . Grey , "p rivate secretary to Lord Palmerston , and Captain Hay Morice Reede . The Honourable F . Caltliorpe stands for Utbfield ia the room of his father , now Lord Ualthorpe . The Reverend Canon Hamilton has been apfointed to thff vacant sec of Salisbu ry . Ho was educated under Dr . Arnold , and took tlio liigliest honours at Oxford . When the Jatt Dr . Denison hold the living of St . Peter ' s-in-tbe-Kast , at Oxford , Mr . Hiunilton was hia curate . An election committee of influiry into the last hhgo elec . tion Jias reported three acts of bribery mado by a partisan of Mr . Jolin Sadleir , but withoat the knowledge or consent of him or liis agents . Mr . Sndleir is declared duly elected .

      Count Wulewslii , the Ficncli ambassador , gave a grand dinner , on Tuesday , at hia new residence , Albert-gate , to the Duke of Gu * iL > riitg « and Lord UagUm , preparatory to their departure lo join luo eotpediiionary army in the East . These wero present besides , the Dukeot Newcastle , the Marquis of Lansdownc , t he Karl and Couivtess of Clarendon , Viscountess I ' ulmcraton , L » dy Huglan , Lor < l de Iioa , Sir James and £ < ady Graham , Mr . Sidney Herbert , JH . P ., and Mrs . Herbert . Lord i ' ulmerston luihapmly liad the gout and' could not go . The Duko of Cambridge bits becn ' wectod Preeidfiot of Clirist ' s Ho 8 j ) itul , by a m « iori . ty of 216 to 87 over Lord

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      THE PROTESTANT INQtHSITWMH ,-: TmsinqTiiry into cancrents » na Tnoiurtttei 0 » : tmaniS f and obtained by Mr . Thomas OiambSlffjSS ' voted ar strong counter-movement Mxmsta ^ &S ^ man -Gatholics , who wrtai ^^ ewia ^^ e ^ SS ' Protestant Inquisition . A Iat ^ numb ^ ^ f SwiBh men assembled in St . MartinVhaU , on Tttesdiyw ^ a made some spirited speeches ^ against tlm img ^ x counselling the ladies who would be « aUe * before $ &Q committee to refuse to answer ^ aesikM ^ s ^ riflecttEur their religion . The Honourable ' Charles tangflate presided , and among , the speakets irere ^ he Chsfaman , -Sir Edward Blount , Sic Jom > ^ imeonT ^ t Maguire , MJ » ., Mr . O'Brien , M . P ., BCr . Bowyf tr , M . P Lori Petxe , Colonel Vaughan « nd other * TheJSallowiug resolutioas ; v « i » e aareed ; to ^ : —

      " That the ^ roposedinquiry . into religRHiS ; h < niseB r is * lt 4 (> be ; an insult to the fathers snd ^ brothers of theilwUesTwhoan inmates of those houses , an offensive reflection on thetrtM ^ ft Catholic body , and a gross cjotram x > n Jhe dadies / tkeifaselvss . "— "Tiatas nocaseforinqiiu-yteidf |) e » i established , and as no nets m support of sscha ^ caMfexis ^ itbemR ^ caed inquisition is a . violation of the principles ? df oanstitattOMil r law . "— " Tha * the iproposed irj ^ tti ^ is ^ n -to ^ orthf ^ ontislsion to a faction , animated by a ? oliad haired ftEthe ' GWhblkreligion , and a step towards toev mbvcrsioife ti& reUgbca x liberty . "— 'That the propoeed uiquiryyo * Bn 6 fcifiwl toiexniti ?

      me aeepest inaignation among ; tae ~ y « thoiic . . mpttlation 01 1 ) Great Britain and Ireland ,.. a&dL to _ infl £ une ; xeli £ [ i (> u 3 animosities at a crisis when the onion of all classes ot her Majesty's subjects is required to resist a , fdrwgn'li ^^^^ tps meeting pledges itself to use every-ekertioB'td (^ ptSWJthe - W- ^ » le « tion of every member of Par&ameiit' who n ^ y * letidiM » i ^ iselfto the present attack upon the Mnout f tbi ^ ri ghtSj-taid r sth « e religion of'Catholics . "— ' ^ f hat thts tne 6 tiD ^ t « g « rdl > tl » tbajeatenedertension of the ^ in ^ oiry so a ^ % iticauiJe ^ ikewi *' tth ^ religious ^ ousea of men ^ as demorisfeatiBfe ttiS ' n ^ ettiittf '? , oP sweeping from the statute-book the laat reciififclit df tto ^ peurtMaws . ' ; . ; - ' - ; ' ''¦ :- ¦? ' > - ¦ . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ s * - > . - ; z A petafiom embodying these resoliitioDs ^ aii . i& ^ tagreed-to . ¦ '¦ " . : ¦ ¦ '• = ¦ - ^ n u- ¦ ;¦ *; .

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      M ^ ac h 2 ^ 1854 . ] ITtfB LEAPIt R . ^ i

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), March 25, 1854, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2031/page/11/