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      The Northern Whig Of 1 Hursday Supplies ...

      Alderman Warrington , Mr . John Johnson , Mr . Reade Johnson , Mr . N . Barton , Mr . J . C . Chapman , Mr . T . Sheldon , Mr . John Burgess , Mr . J . R . Cooper , Mr . Wilkinson Burslam , of Manchester , Mr . Charles Leese , of the Ribbon Weavers' Association , Chairman of the Committee , which consisted entirely of working men , presided on the occasion , and bore testimony to the unceasing efforts Mr . Booth had made in the cause of moral and social reform . The Rev . W . Fillingham , in presenting the portrait , observed , that he considered himself highly honoured in having to present to so worthy a man the _^ testimonial which his fellow-townsmen had provided for one who had spent so long and useful a life in endeavouring to promote the well-being of those around him .

      Mr . Booth thanked them for the portrait , and said he thought they had greatly overrated his services . He had indeed endeavoured to instruct the orphan and the afflicted , and to improve the character and condition of those around him . The proceedings of this night would assure him that his humble services were appreciated by a great number of his fellow-townsmen , and the knowledge of this would soften the pillow of age . Mr . Alderman Warrington had long been a coadjutor with Mr . Booth . He considered that the town of Congleton was greatly indebted to that gentleman for the reformation of many abuses that formerly existed in the borough . They might differ in their religious opinions , but still he maintained that every man who had the moral courage honestly to avow his opinions was entitled to respect .

      Mr . Wilkinson Burslam , Mr . J . R . Cooper , and Mr . J . C . Chapman , testified to the great exertions made by Mr . Booth in the cause of educational and other reforms . The committee and a number of gentlemen afterwards took supper with Mr . Booth .

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      On Thursday Evening, As The Express Trai...

      On Thursday evening , as the express train of the London and Worth-Western Railway , which left Euston-square at 5 o'clock , was on its way to Manchester from Crewe , a little after 9 o ' clock , it ran off the line under most alarming circumstances . It appears to have attained a speed of about 40 miles an hour , when about three miles north of Crewe , a buffer , with the long iron rod attached , which had probably dropped off a preceding train , obstructed the line . The driver became aware that one of the fore wheel guards was in contact with something , and he slackened speed . About 200 yards further he ascertained that the

      obstruction was still in the way of the engine , and was so alarmed that he instantly reversed his engine and brought the tram to a stand about 100 yards further , just as one of the fore wheel guards had broken , and the two fore wheels of the engine went off the rails and became deeply embedded in the sand forming tho ballast of the line . So well had the driver managed , that he , in reality , brought the train to a stand almost without a _sensiblo shock . Tho passengers , however , were much alarmed by the great quantity of sand which was thrown up , and which found its way into the carriages till tho seats and floors wero coated nearly an inch tbiek . The train was detained about two hours .

      Ihe guard had to run back to Crewe and bring up another engine , and a force of men to get tho engine of tho train oa to tho line again . Tho passengers , 20 in number , wero so pleased with the conduct of tho engino-driver in sticking to his post after ho must havo been almost enveloped in a cloud of sand , that they offered him a handsomo collection , made on tbe spot , but ho declined it .

      Tho Following Notice, With Respect To Tb...

      Tho following notice , with respect to tbo revision of tho list , of voters in tho return of members to Parliament for the cities of London and Westminster and tho borough of Finsbury , and for knights of tho shire for tho county of Middlesex , was _issueil yesterday : —City of London : Mr . fhoinas Young _M'Christio , _barrister-at-law , appointed under the statuto 0 Victoria , c . 18 , for the revision of the lints of voters for tho different parishes , precincts , & c , in the city of London , will hold a court in the Court of Common Pleas , at tho Guildhall of tho said city of London , on Thursday , tho Kith instant , at 10 a . m . Tho parishes will ho taken alphabetically . —Borough of Finsbury : Mr . ' John Krazer Muoqueon , barrister-at-law , will bold a court

      "i the LordB . _Tiistices ' -court , _Lincoln's-inn , Thursday , the Kith instant , at 11 a . m ., for tho revision of tho list ol voters for tho said borough . —County of Middlesex : Ono of the revising barristers appointed to revise tho lists ol voters for the election of knights of tho shire for the count y of Middlesex , will bold _liis court for that purpose at the following places and times within tbo respective distric ts—viz ., _hYiday , the 17 th instant , at tho Castle I'm , Brentford , at , 11 a . m ., for tbo different parishes , towns , _«< - , in that division ; Saturday , tho 18 th instant , at the J lack Dog , Radiant , at , It a . iii . ; Monday , tho 20 th inst ., al , the Sussex Hotel , _Hoiiverie-street , Fleet-street , for the

      _JiunshoH within tho city of London , at 10 a . m . ; Tuesday , _'legist instant , at , tho Lords _Justicos' -court , Westrnin-Mjor-hull , at 10 a . m ., for Lincoln's-inn , and parishes within 111 _« ; _' . y <> t Westminster ; Wednesday , tho 22 nd instant , at 'lie Holvidero Tavern , Ponton-street , ' Islington , at IO a . m . ; ¦•' "day , the 24 th instant , at tbo Green Man , _Bofhiial-Ki _/ jon , at |() a . m . ; Saturday , tho 25 th instant , at tho White Hart Tavern , Uxbridge , at 11 a . m . ; Monday , the -7 th instant , at tho Albion Hall , . Hammersmith , at 10 « ; _>»» . ; Tuesday , the 28 ( , h instant , al , the Chandos Arms , ; '' % "waro , at 11 a . m . ; Wednesday , tho 21 ) th instant ,, al , !» o _Ivmg _' H Head , Fnliold , al , 11 a . iii . ; Thursday , the llOth instant , at ,, 1 , W ! k Straw ' s Castle , _lluuiprttead-hill , at 10 a . m . Alio ro virion of the lists of voters for tho _countisn of Kent « " » d Surrey will follow th * ftbw >« .

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      Saturday, September 11, 1852

      SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 11 , 1852

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      There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...

      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . _Abnold .

      "The Order Of The Lone Star." Cuba Is To...

      " THE ORDER OF THE LONE STAR . " Cuba is to be annexed to the United States ; so has decreed the great society which exists in the American Union—a society embodying the determination of Young America . Hitherto it has been secret , less because it feared the restraint than because it desired to save its Government from the embarrassing duty of recognising the popular movement . But now , like the phantom fate of Otranto , it is too big to be secret any longer . The American citizens have resolved to possess Cuba , and they will not be disappointed . More

      than a year ago we mentioned to our readers the existence of the secret society in New Orleans , with its branches throughout the Union . It is some time since we mentioned the existence of the revolutionary paper , the Voice of the People , in Cuba itself , continued in spite of the attempts of the local Government to suppress it . We have already told our readers that the revolutionary party still maintains its organized existence , partly in the hills of the Island , and partly by favour of the popular connivance , the official or Spanish party notwithstanding . There is no Government which can be established in

      Washington capable of resisting the popular resolution of its own citizens , enforced as that resolution will be by tens of thousands of the most restless and energetic of the American citizens . The public writers of the Union already confess to an organization of 15 , 000 strong : we believe that our own journal was before many of the American papers in announcing the existence of this society ; and we equally believe that the American papers much under-rate , if not the onrolled numbers , at least those vast numbers who are prepared to support and back the movement when it shall take effect . From these facts it

      will easily be perceived that the annexation of Cuba to thc United States is simply a question of time . The leading article in the Times of Monday last , setting forth in animated terms the popular notion against the new Cuban expedition , must be received , we conjecture , in more than one sense . It is , in the lirst place , a very able essay on passing politics , such as the routine of every journal requires to have in its chief columns . Secondly , it is as vivid a statement of the English caso as ono of the most skilful writers in

      one of the most skilful journals in Europe can set forth . Thirdly , we may conjecture that it is not altogether alien to somo understanding as to the probable course which Downing-street may take in the affair . It may be considered as a feeler on behalf of Downing-street—that sort of tentative suggestion which invites public acquiescence without too strongly committing the ollicial party to the course indicated . As tin effort of composition—brilliant , lucid , clear in its purpose , graphic in its illustrationsil must be confessed as an admirable specimen ol tho work that can be turned out of tho richest

      ollico of journalism . It would be difficult to lind a greater number of ideas , of visual allusionsalways the most telling in public writing—and of historical references , within the same space . The power of flie pen surprises the mind of the reader into acquiescence , and many will accept tho conclusions , however false , which are wrapped up in sueh brilliant truisms and glittering analogies . As a representation of tho English _ouso , the feebleness lies rather in that ea . no than in the

      powers ol the advocate . It may be said fo divide itself rhetoricall y into two parts : —One is a suggestion to the United States , how much better it would be for that country to adhere to "the policy of commerce" rather than to " the policy of conquest "—how much more is to bo made by fidelity to " the ulmi _tf hty dollar" _tkauby yielding

      "The Order Of The Lone Star." Cuba Is To...

      to the intoxication of territorial aggrandizement . The second part consists of an _example . The grounds upon which " enlightened opinion" in the United States would sanction the annexation of Cuba are analyzed and marshalled thus— -the sympathy of the discontented Creoles ; guarantee for the permanence of slavery ; extension , of commerce ; and an agreeable retreat from the severities of a New York winter . Such are the

      reasons which Americans are supposed to entertain for the measure . They are not perfectly sound . The Times supposes the sympathy of the Creoles to be negatived by the experience of Lopez : a mistake , since the experience of Lopez only showed that he himself did not understand the geographical distribution of the Island defences . The permanency of slavery is not desired by the leading minds of America . On the contrary , if America be left alone , that institution will bo _extinguished at tbe earliest period of time that is

      possible ; the only delay can arise through intervention from without . The other reasons fail , because the annexation of Cuba is needless to supply America with a field for the extension of commerce , or with a winter retreat . But , argues the Times , after marshalling the supposititious reasonings , we might on similar grounds take possession of Madeira , with a commanding commercial position , and its climate regarded as a specific for the national disease of consumption . "Why , then , do we not make it our own ? - Because it would tarnish our character for fairness

      and we dare not face the retribution which follows on such acts . So says the Times . A strange argument to come from the leading journal of that country which has so recently annexed Hong Kong , and which forcibly retains the Ionian Islands to the British dominions against their will . The Times argues as if annexation were entirely a new passion , and peculiar to the United States : but it is not new , and

      it is not peculiar to the Anglo-Saxon in America since he has become a self-acting " statesman . " The string of annexation may be made out continuously , from Canada , annexed by the English , and the Cape of Good Hope , annexed by the English , through Louisiana or Texas , Hong-Kong or Aden , down to California and Scinde . It is a propensity not peculiar to cither branch of the Anglo-Saxon , and not limited to any period of its history .

      But the proposed annexation of Cuba is by no means an isolated fact ; it * has it _^ context at present but partially disclosed to us ; and it is in reference to that context that the exposition of the Times must be regarded as in part an ollicial feeler . It is evident to ua that some mischievous spirit is at work in Downing-street , intending to array the prejudices of the English people against the interests of the English people . An attempt was made to embroil the _Protectionist interest of fhe Colonies in a contest with

      America . Next , a use lias been made of what wo cannot help regarding as a serious mistake ( not to say a political immorality ) of Mr . Webster ' s , in proposing to seize the Lobos Islands . It appears to us that that seizure would be impolitic , because mean and dishonourable . In spite of the respect which we entertain for the American republic , and for the individual citizens in that republic , we use these strong , if not coarse , expressions because we wish to have the meaning

      of a , journal which they know to sympathize with them and to be honest before them , made thoroughly clear to their understanding . Wo repeat , that the seizure of the Lobos Islands , against the usage of international law , Irom an inferior power , for tho sake of mere commercial advantage , would be dishonourable and mean , and for that reason eminentl y injurious fo the great republic that could be guilty of such an act . "YVo believe , and wo speak with scarcely less confidence , that the use fo which that

      mistake has been turned iu Downing-street is in itself dishonest and fraudulent ; that the aberration of ollicial individuals iu America on a subject utterly paltry in itself , ih systematically used to rouse the prejudices of the fOnglish people against the interests Loth of Eng land anil America ,. If has been reported , with great show ofprobabilify , thaf negotiations are on foot to maintain _theinterests of Spain against those of fhe Anglo-Saxon republicans . Now , Spain has no locus standi iu America : her rule is not beneficial ; if she be left absolutely alone , if will he shaken oil" by her own subjects ; as her rule has already been cast _usido by the republic of Mexico . About that

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11091852/page/11/