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GUY FAWKES' DAY
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Lord Shaftesbdby Has been entertaining his workpeople in a harvest home ,-none the worse " because be toot them to church - arid the service was none the w orse because they marched to it to the sound of music . To descend , the Board of "Works has been presenting to Sir BexjaminHauc an inadmissible proposition—a plan of sewage inconsistent -with
the Act of Parliament , and frightful to Eritb ,-who has by deputation protested . The Board , ia fact , proposes to discharge the drainage of London right into the face of Erith ! Robsou , the Crystal Palace swindler , has been convicted and sentenced to twenty years' trans r portation . He was sketching likenesses while the evidence was convicting him , and he stepped out with a jaunty air to have his head cropped .
Chabpentieu , too , has been seized , for the grasp of the offended Rothschild can reach even Into the heart of the American Republic . The J ^ orthAVestern Railway has been offending against the laws of life , this time , however , witli some excuse . The collision , of an express and a fcroken-down coal train proved , experimentally , that a new plan which the company has established , of signals all along the line ., is not quite sufficient to prevent accidents . A little change of the system . —probably checking each train from passing a signal-post until the train before it should have passed twosignal postswould heeffectual . ;
We look abroad again to those far lands which will not readily interfere with our European politics . In the United States , we have in the accession of Indiana , a new guarantee of Buchanan ' s election . At tbe Cape of G-ood Hope Sir George Grey has gone to the frontier , in the liopes of subduing the Kafirs by diplomacy . But even he will find the Black man top obstinate and intractable for his purpose . From Madeira they report a clean bill of health , and they wish us , most
emphatically , to understand that the island is as salubrious and more cleanly than ever , and its wine as excellent as ever . A panic fear may prevent those invalids , to whom , the climate is a blessing , from conferring on the islanders that visit which insures to them a livelihood in ministering to the visitors' wants . And a mere delusion about tne vine produce may pi'eyent that demand for Madeira which , while adding a variety to the wine-table , will add a mite to the narrow means of the Madeirans .
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GUY FAWKES' DAY : BIGOTBY REPROVED FROM THE * tA 2 fSIOX HOUSE . A tine sermon on tolerance -was preached last Saturday , and again on Monday , at the Mansion House , by our Israelitish Xord Mayor . On the first of those days , Mr . William John O'Connell , kinsman of the late Daniel O'Connell , attended at the justice room , and , after some preliminary observations , said : —• "I do not know whether your Lordship has over witnessed a most foolish exhibition which generally takes place in this country on the 5 th of November . If the persons -who indulge in such absurdity -were to confine th « mselves to the representation of Guy Fawkes , or any miserable diabolical conspirator of that description , I certainly should not have troubled your Lordship ; but , ¦
of France rushing to the assistance of our troops at Inkerman , and proceeded : — "My Lord , as you belong to neither denomination of creeds that I have mentioned , I earnestly appeal to your
These observations also were loudly annl-,,, ^ < md Mr . O'Connell , after expressing his obSS ^ the kindness and courtesy of the Lord Mavor fc « I and withdrew . J ' DOwe d Of course , these matters could not pass wi « arousing the ire of the bigots ; and one of ' that l class presented himself on Monday , in the person ! f a Mr . Clark , and said he wished to answer sSnX ? servations made by . Mr . O'Connell , and cilcuktedt affect ; tke character of the boys and population of' ti , | 2 kingdom .- The Lord Mayor urged somelj cation to the justice room being turned into a debatino- S but consented to hear Mr . Clark after the cW J business . The gentleman heroically kep t hi s' Sh 2 during the morning , and then again came fonvC when the Xord Mayor said that , "if he ( Mr effi had been a little boy , and wanted to say sbWthini oa behalf , of Guy Pawkes , he could hear SS that he must not attack the Koraan . Catholics ' Mr Clark then continued : — '
lordship to throw out a suggestion which I have no doubt will be taken up by the police authorities and the magistrates generally of this great and pcrwerful metropolis , and that an end will be put to this ridiculous and barbarous exhibition—at least that portion of it that puts forward the effi gy of a Catholic bishop . I thank your lordship for the kind indulgence which you have shown to me upon this occasion . I have * ead with great satisfaction your admirable decisions during your year of office , and I miust be permitted to say , without flattery or egotism , that if the ashes of the great Lycurgus could be collected from the briny waves and formed into man again , and were to preside in the chair which your LoTdship so worthily and so honourably occupies , he could not have acted with greater ability or more decided impartiality than have characterized the whole of your actions duringyour Mayoralty . "
A considerable amount of applause followed the conclusion of Mr . O'ConnelFs speech ; and , when this had subsided , the Lord Mayor , who was sensibly moved , and who received Mr . O'Connell with marked courtesy , replied : — " I thank you for the compliment you liave just paid me . I may say that it lias been my anxious desire , and I believe it is the desire of every magistrate of this metropolis , so to act in the administration of justice as that our conduct may merit public approbation . With regard to the more immediate subject of your appeal to me , it is one that depends more upon public taste and public feeling than iipon any jurisdiction I can exercise . It is very difficult in any country to get rid of traditional
customs . The annual exhibition of the effigy of Guy Fawkes has come down to us from the time of Janies I ., when party feeling between Catholic arid Protestants ran very high , and the conspiracy to blow up the Houses of Parliament ha 3 always been held by historians to have been a Roman Catholic conspiracy . Tlie burning of London in the year 1 GGG was attributed to the same source , and it is only recently , through the exertions Of the present City Solicitor , that the libellous inscription upon the Monument oh Fish-street-hill , attributing the fire of London to the Roman Catholics , was by order of
the Court of Common Council eTased . We cannot , however , conceal from ourselves that all our party struggles at almost every period have been quickened by feelings arising out of a presumed Catholic or Protestant ascendancy . I , however , regret extremely that the exhibition of Guy Fawkes , instead of being a mere memorial of a treasonable plot , should have lately assumed the offensive form of which you so justly complain ; that the figure , instead of being the figure of an abominable conspirator , Guy Fawkes , should be exhibited as an individual dressed in the hahilimeots of a Roman
Catholic ecclesiastic , bearing on . his breast the emblem whiclx all Christians are bound to honour and to worship . Such conduct must be obnoxious to every one , and most offensive and painful to members of the Roman Catholic communion . I lament that any custom should be kept alive in our times , even among boys , calculated to give pain to any single individual . I hope , therefore , that your representation will be conveyed through the public press , and that it may have the effect of modifying this annual exhibition , if it does not altogether get rid of it . If this cannot be accomplished , let us , at all events , have a Guy Fawkes whom hoys should only recollect as a -wicked traitor who a # lght to blow up the King and Parliament , and not taught to mix up with it
anything calculated to wound the feelings of their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects . How desirable it is that -we should all act together upon a comprehensive principle , that we should not be prone to condemn whole communities on account of the faults or the frailties of a few ! I venture to say , as you have alluded to the subject of the French and of the Irish Catholics and Protestants all fighting side by side , as I trust they always will , for the honour and glory of their common country , that you might have included the Jows . Thero are a considerable number of Jcwisli soldiers in the French army . In France , there is a conscription to which all persona are liable . The army is not composed of vohintcors as it is in this country , but every one is there liable to military service . Of late years , thero have been a great many Jews in the rank 3 of the French army . A few days ago , I had transmitted to mo from
Constantinople an account of a special funeral service , which was attended by the Turkish and French authorities and held in one of the synagogues at Constantinople , in honour of the French Jewish soldiers who had fallen during tho campaign in tho Crimea . Now , I hope that , whatever the loligious community to which wo belong , we shall over bo united in oiiq common feeling of loyalty to our country , and of attachment to tho Government that protects us . Wo ought to try to promote tho public good by extending kindly and benevolent jfeelinga towards each other , and to avoid anything which may wound tho susceptibilities , or ridiculo the religious peculiarities of any class of our foliow-subjects ; and if your representations have the oli ' ect of mitigating or reducing tho nuisance of Guy Fawkes' day 3 I shall truly rejoice . I am sure that this representation will bo convoyed to tho public through tho ordinary organs , and I trust that It may havo the effect which you so ardently wish . "
when I -witnessed on tho 5 th of November lost the effigy of a Catholic bishop with his pontificalibus , with a large cross upon his back , paraded about the town in the most insulting manner , I consider that that ia an indignity to those loyal subjects of her Majesty who profess the Catholic religion , and I am perfectly satisfied that the period has now arrived when bigotry and intolerance should be for ever buried in tho trenches before Sobastopol , where it is known that tho Protestants , the Presbyterians , and tho Catholics , -were fighting with the most indomitable bravery foot to foot and shoulder to flhoulder , and that their blood flowed in the same stream to uphold the honour and glory of this great country , and to do away for over with all sectarian differences .
The bravery exhibited by the Catholic soldiers at tho Alma and Inkerman , with their Protestant brethren , never can be forgotten . His Royal Highness the chivalrous Duke of Cambridge witnessed their courage and Bhared their dangers , and , I am perfectly sure , would highly disapprove any insult being oftored to their religion . His Excellency tho Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland , than-whom a moro dignified or high-minded Englishman never entered the pottals of the Castle of Dublin , 01 reproaentod Majesty in my native land , spoUo of them an tho most liheral and handsome manner at the grand display the other day in Dublin , when a dinner was given to foul- thousand Crimean heroes , irrespective of religious consideration , by tho Ftoteatants and tho Catholics of tho Irish metropolis . Tfao ppoaker then alluded to tho Catholic soldiers
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A very alarming collision took place on Monday afternoon , on the London and North-Western Railway , about a mile and a half north of King ' s Langley . It is thus described in the daily papers : —" Between 1 liree and four o'clock r . M ., the engine of a coal train on its journey to London , became suddenly disabled and stopped near a place called Nash-mills , about midway between the stations of Boxmoor and King's Langloy . The express , which was travelling up to town behind on the same line , at its usual high rate of speed , ran right into it while in this state of suspense , and in the collision the break van of the coal train was smashed to utoms , nnd the engine of the passenger train thrown ofl' the lino , hut
not overturned . The carriages of tho passenger tram . were also injured , but not so seriously as might hnvc been apprehended ^ a few of the buffers and axle guards were torn off or dislocated , and the coujxf of one carriage was crushed ; but , strango to say , with , the exception of tho engine , no part of tho train left tho line of . rails . The whole of the passengers immediately after tho collision were naturally more or less in a stato of alarm nnd excitement . Mr . Donaldson , the landlord of tho Swan Inn . Hcmcl Hcmpstead , who was in tho immediate vicinity at the time of the accident , and who , with other .- , proceeded at once to tho spot to render what nstiislancolio could , describes the pitiable condition of the travellers , especially the Indies , most of whom had been removed of
from the carriages and wore lying , some on each aide tho lino , and somo in an adjoining fiold , wliilo others kept their seats or sat outside on the footboards of tho carriages . Many of them were bleeding from the contused wounds they had stiHtaincd in the hoiul anil f " j by tho collision , and tho eyes of others wore bruised nuu discoloured . Medical assistance wa » soon despatched t 0 them . They wore also under great obligations to Jj ' Dickinson , tho eminent papcr-malccr of Abbotshjli , v'ho resides in tho immediate neighbourhood , for wine niw other comforts which ho cnusod to be distributed among them , and whoso workmen lent their aid in fho ^ m ^" gency . About a quarter past four o ' clock , Mr . hll | b . ' tho etatioumaater at Watford , received a telcgwF "'
Guy Fawkes' Day
I wish to say that there was one point which Hr O'Connell improperly omitted to touch upon ; for your Lordship and all here must remember that , before the year 1850 , nothing -was exhibited by the hoys and lads but the effigy of Guy Fawkes , and in that year tl-e Roman Catholics insulted Protestant feeling , not onlvon the 5 th of November , but daily , when the Eoman * Catholics took their stand in the face of the laws of the country and the proclamation of the Queen . " ¦ ¦ . The Lord Mayor thought all this did not justify insulting the lloman Catholics . But the undaunted Mr . Clark , solicitous for the character of the boys returned to the charge after this fashion : — '
" Only a few days ago , I saw a placard in which it . was stated that a new Catholic Bishop was to be consecrated by the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster and the Bishop of Southwark , and , if the men and lads of thiscouutry take the trouble to read , and know there are no -such bishops allowed by law , can you be surprised that they «« 7 .: e it their business to vindicate the law which the law officers of tke Crown neglect to do ?" The Lord Mayor thought Mr . Clark ' s argument tended to the justification of lynch law ; and , after a little more discussion , the doughty cli ' ariiiJioii of juvenile Protestantism left the scene of combat , first bestowing a knightly compliment to his opponent . The 5 tli passed off without any very marked
features . Some large Guys were carried about as usual , and at night several bonfires were / kindled , and there was much ' squLbbing . ' Some enterprising Protestants , having been driven by the : police from , the summit of Tower-hill—a ' -favourite , place for these a utos-da-fe—adjourned to a piece of ' waste groundat the end of Farringdon-street , and there vindicated their religion with much warmth and brilliance , undisturbed by misbelieving constables . It does not appear whether Mr . Clark was present ; but no doubt he was . Large crowds collected , and two boys and a woman were severely burnt "by fireworks , for the honour of the Anglican Church . Some very riotous proceedings have taken place at Brighton . and several persons have been fined .
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1058 THE LEADEE , [ No . 346 , SATTmjpAy
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 8, 1856, page 1058, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2166/page/2/
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