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      Tirk Mmitiikikld Cluh Show. Tnih Week Th...

      the sources of fat beasts and fat farmers have not dried up ; but , on the contrary , are more plentiful than ever . After all , "foreign cattle" cannot compete with the unprotected British Bull . The entries have been larger than ever . The novel feature in the show is the new classification of animals into breeds . The classes were 33 in number , and tlie entries 333 , Jin increase of 20 over last year . The show was remarkable , also , for the sustained excellence

      throughout ; and it is observed that , on the whole , the formers and graziers exhibit cattle- superior to those sent by the great amateur agriculturists—Prince Albert , the Duke of Richmond , the Earl of Leicester , the Earl of Aylesfbrd , the Marquis of Exeter , Lord Radnor , Lord Spencer , and others . In fact , the merits of the show may be considered quite independent of the aristocratic contributions . With reference to the great fault of previous shows , the Times has some sensible remarks : —

      " The grievous cruelty and -waste of over-fattening is less to be complained of than on former occasions , especially among tlie cattle , and we sincerely hope that Freetrade , among other advantages , will at length teach our farmers that there are limits to oileake feeding , and that they manufacture for the butcher—not the tallowchandlcr . While on the subject of feeding , a point strikes us as of some importance in connexion with these winter exhibitions . The conditions imposed by the club upon competitors , require them to specify the kind of food given , but not the quantity . Wow , in going through the country , nothing is more common than to find agriculturists pampering aniraals which they intend to send to Bakerstreet at an unheard-of outlay—one far beyond the limits

      of possible reeompence m the market , and which , besides outraging every rule of economical management , is the secret cause of the rage for over-fattening , against which lEarl Ducie and all our great authorities on farming " , have long vigorously protested . We have known instances of bullocks maintained at a weekly outlay equal to the support of a labourer and his family . This is , upon the fnce of it , a monstrous extravagance , and the Smithfiold Club might surely do something in their regulations , if not to suppress , at least to discourage it . Might they not , for example , make the cost of feeding an element of consideration with the judges , or at least take some step by which economy of management would have its due reward ?"

      Prince Albert , the Duke of Richmond , and the Marquis of Exeter have carried off some prizes ; but , on the whole , especially considering the advantages of the territorial aristocracy , the farmers arc masters of the show-yard . The annual dinner was held on Wednesday nt the Freemasons' Tavern . The Duke of Richmond was in the chair . It was very well attended . In proposing " Success to the Smithfield Club , " the Duke admitted that notwithstanding the depression of the times , the present show was better than almost any which had preceded it . The health of the President and of Mr . Pusey werjB drunk with applause . Then ciune the " Judges , " tho " Stewards , " the Successful and Unsuccessful Competitors , the Secretary , Mr . UrnndrethCJibbs , the Royal Agricultural Society , and Prosperity to the Labouring Classes . The Duke of Richmond

      said" All persons present- must led deeply the importance of having labourers on thoir farms who felt an intercut in the . welfare- of ( heir employers . Though , from tlieir station and grade in life , labourers were too of ( on placed in a position in bad years of not being nblo to got a lair dny's wages for u fair day ' s work , be was happy lo nay that that was Neldom ( lie ruse in ( bin country , Cor ( lie occupiers of land in Knglnnd had everywhere shown themselves the best and fastest friends of tho labouring community . Thero wart not . ono present , who was not fully aware of the kindness of ( . he fanner to the labourer and his family , when they were in Hick ness and temporary distress . ( Cheers . ) lie believed I hat ( lie labouring classes

      with sound —( Cheers ) thai , they looked up ( o ( heir employers an their best , friends , and he felt ( . hut in any meeting huoIi as the present , or in any meeting of the tenantry and landownorH of Knglimd , ( hey ought , ( o drink prosperity to tho labouring classes . ( Cheers . ) They were the nl . ro . ngth and mnew of our land , and if ever----which Cod forbid--they should be culled upon to engage | . he enemy , where were , they to look lor men to man their ships ami recruits for our army , but . to the sturdy yeomanry of Kng-Jand . ( Cheers . ) ( Jive him disciplined Knglish labourers , and he feared not ( ho conflict , with any men . Ho Irnd had some little knowledge of Ihe vuluo of ( he labouring classes of ( bis country in this respect . In limes lon > r foiie bv ,

      when a boy of IK years oI age , it was Ins honour l . o bv , under t he lulo I hike of Wellington , in I he I ' ciiiiiHidnr war . There ho had often met . with Hrilish troops recruited from I ho labouring classes , and hud scon them cheerfully ay , and cnor"etically too , hazard ( heir liven in ( be protection of the ofliecru placed over ( bom . ( Cheers . ) Ho felt justly proud of the agricultural labourers of I bis count ry , mid ho bnlieved ( hero was not a farmer who would not cheerfully , not only drink to their prosperity , hit do his utmost , io promote their welfare . ( Cheers . ) If ( he liimlloidn , Umtuils , and labourers would Hi-knowledge that their intoreHt . H wore one mid the Hume , and cordially pull together in one direction , lie should like (<> see the people I hat would dare to stand up against thin country . ( Cheers . )"

      The toastwaH drunk wiih three tiine-Hhree . Colonel Sibthorp responded for the labourers . This wiih i \ u ^ final toast , ami the company scpuruiod about nine o ' clock .

      1180 The Leader. [Saturday,

      1180 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

      Thackeray In" America. There Could Be Ve...

      THACKERAY IN" AMERICA . There could be very little doubt in the large circle of Mr . Thackeray ' s admirers here as to the sort of reception his lectures would meet with among the cultivated audiences of America ; but it is very satisfactory to find our anticipations so thoroughly verified as they have been by the New York Tribune . The critic ,, or rather notifier , of'the lectures , in that paper , seems to have given the prevailing opinion of the crowded

      audience in his reports of the first two of these celebrated lectures , delivered before the Mercantile Library Association , in a large church in New York . Most of our readers are too well acquainted with the course to require any reminder of the subject matter ; but they will be curious to know the impression produced by tho lecturer on the elite of Yankee society—the ereme de la crime of New York . " We quote from the ample and able report in the Tribune .- —¦

      " The spacious church ( Rev . Mr . Chapin ' s ) waa filled to the extent of its capacity at an early hour , by an audience comprising a large proportion of young men , and an unusual number of the distinguished literary and professional celebrities of New York . The fashionable circles were fully represented by an imposing array of ladies . Mr . Thackeray stood on an elevated platform in front of the pulpit . He was introduced by the Chairman of the Lecture Committee of the Mercantile Library , and was welcomed with the subdued expressions of applause due to an eminent author , with whom the audience were to form an acquaintance in a new capacity . In personal appearance , which in respect to the curiosity of the public we

      may be permitted to allude to , Mr . Thackeray is a fine , well-proportioned specimen of a stalwart Englishmanover six feet in stature—with an expression of quiet intelligence—and the self-possessed bearing of a man of the world , rather than the scholastic appearance of the occupant of a library . . His intellectual head , which bears many silvery traces of the touch of time , is carried erectly , not without an air of reserve , some would say of defiance . " We cannot agree with the writer in the Tribune , when he says that " the English journals have not done Mr . Thackeray justice in respect of his elocution . " We believe that all English journals , whose opinion would be worth anything in such matters , praised it highly ; though we are quite ready to -acknowledge that no English journal ( as far as we remember ) ever

      praised Thackeray ' s style of delivery more happily and gracefully than our Trans-Atlantic contemporary ; e . g . " The calm flow of his speech ia so transparent that the sense shines through it without subjecting' the mind ' s eye to a too severe trial . His voice is rich , deep , flexible , and equally expressive of emotion and thought in its intonations—the words aro delivered with that clean finish which bo often distinguishes the cultivated Englishman—hia emphasis is pregnant with meaning—and , without any apparent effort , his ringing tones fill the ear of the most remoto listener . Mr . Thackeray uses no gesture , except occasionally a convulsive clinching of the fist , or an emphatic thrusting of the hand into his pocket or under his coat . Tn short , his delivery was that of a well-bred gentleman , reading with marked force and propriety to a largo circle in ( he drawing-room . "

      As to the style of composition , tho enthusiastic critic continues : — " The composition of his lecture- was masterly . Graphic , terse , pointed , epigrammatic , abounding in keen dashes of wit , alternately gay and pathetic , it displayed tho samo suhtlo perception of character , and condensed vigour of expression , which distinguish Tlmekeray above most , shall wo nut say all , modern writers of fiction . No report can do anything like justice to the numerous felicities of tho lecture . Their effect would bo ruined by changing ono word of the language . Wo might an well transmute tho inimitable dialogue of ' I ' endonnis' into an article for our daily columns uh ( o attempt , to reproduce the brilliant humour nnd sententious criticimn » of this unrivalled specimen of literary art . "

      Then follows a full and faithful account , of tho first two lectures , without , any criticism ; without oven a query as to the possibility that , Thackeray overrates Addison innnoiiHely , and is a ^ re : it dual harder upon Swift , than that unhappy genius deserved . In New York , as in England , the lectures wen ) " received by fix ; audience with that profound attention which shows an intelligent , appreciation , 1 letter flmn all outward sig-ns , though several of its most admirable passages could not , he heard without , interrupting the prevailing intense stillness of the bouse . "

      Mk. Ciiaitlks L'Liimilpn In 1952 As In I...

      MK . CIIAItLKS l'lIIMilPN IN 1952 AS in ih : m . In tho Insolvent , Court over which his Honour Mr . Commissioner Charles Phillips presides , Mr . I'etfigrow applied , on December 4 th , to be admitted l . o bail . One of the proposed sureties wan rVIr . ( 1 . J . Holyoake , of Wobiirn liuildings . The particulars of what , then occurred , variously Hinted by the papers , wore we believe us follows : The Clerk of flio Court informed his Honour that there would he objection raised as to 1-1 io oath . Air . ( ! oiiunissioiior Phillips . Let us boar that ( irw ( . The Clerk of ( he Court handing ( . lie Now Testament to Mr . llolyoako . ¦ - Do you object , to be Hworn P Mr . I lolyoo-ko . — -Please to rend to the Court the low

      words on this paper—handing to the Clerk a paper on which he had sought to express , in the least objectionable manner to the Judge , the explanation he had to offer . The Clerk read as follows : — " This gentleman wishes to state to your Honour that upon a late occasion , when called to make oath in a Chancery suit , he , before being sworn , obtained permission of the Judge to declare- — that while the oath was legally binding upon his conscience it was not a confession of his faith , and he prays leave to make the same declaration now . " The Bar manifested some surprise at this proceeding in that Court , where scruples of conscience are somewhat rare .

      The Commissioner ( after a pause ) . —What do you mean by the oath not being a confession of your faith ? I don't understand it . Not seeing how he could assist his Honour ' s understanding the deponent said nothing . Commissioner resuming . —I suppose you mean that you do not wish to be bound by the faith of a Christian . Deponent . —I do not wish it , your Honour . Commission . —I thought so ( in a harsh tone ) . Pray what do you call yourself ? Deponent . —If I must give myself a name I should call myself a Secularist . Commissioner . —What ' s that ? I never heard of that . What ' s Secularists mean ?

      Deponent . —A Secularist , your Honour , is one who gives the precedence to the duties of this life over considerations which pertain to another world . Commissioner . —O ! you mean that you consider your duties to man superior to your duties to God . Is that it ? Deponent . —I cannot , your Honour , answer such a question with the brevity which the Court will require . Commissioner : ( In a louder voice . )—Do you believo in God ? Deponent . —In the Chancery Court , the judge Commissioner . —I don't want to hear what the judge said . i

      Mr . Holyoake proceeded no further . He wished to have added that Mr . Commissioner Eyland said ho should follow a precedent set by Lord Brougham , and the Court would administer the oath in the sense in which it was binding on the deponent ' s conscience . Commissioner : ( More peremptorily . )—Do you believe in God ? Deponent . —I am not prepared to answer that question with the brevity the Court will require .

      Commissioner . —> What do you come here for , and offer yourself as bail , if you are not prepared to take an oath ? Deponent . —I am prepared to take the outli , after making the declaration the Court bus heard read . Commissioner . —It is a scandal that a man should come forward in a Court who is not prepared to say whether ho believes in God . ( After a pause : )—I will not hear you . Deponent bowed to the Court , and loft the box . Commissioner : ( In a coarse tone . )—Go and attend

      to your Secularism . Mr . Holyoake left the Court , that the Commissioner might , have no opportunity of recalling him , ; is h's did Julian Hibberf , in 3834 , whom he grossly outraged . At that , time , Mr . Phillips received the ; thanks of Mr . Alderman Hrown , for the course he had pursued , and the jury joined in crying " Turn him out , '"— meaning Mr . " Julian Hibbert . ' In this case , however , tho Court gave his Honour no encouragement to proceed . Not ii voice vvus raised , and rather disapproba tion than otherwise glanced in tho eyes of the Mar : " » d tho auditors . Tins public have ' improved , but not no tliu

      judge . It , in certainly not conducive to tho reconcilement of discordant , faitliH that the strictest exactors of compliance with ceremonial Christianity should so frequently display , even in high places , a harsh , gross , and intolerant , spirit .

      Morn Ok Tiiu " Mnluoljknh-Ii A Vino Been...

      MORN OK TIIU " MNLUOlJKNh-II A vino been dinn / rr ,, mbly fuscimitod by tho mishaps of thin dim-reditablo . Screw , wo may » t . itt . <\ with whu ovoi satisfaction if is possible to feel , l . hnl , h ! i « has at , Him |< ^ Lisbon to inn-Hue her voyage towards Australia . . 1 'ijrmf , a month in the Tugus , " her crow wore deserting < ln " . y . Nino hud dom-rlod ><» mnaso , Home of Iho potty ollirei » included . I ' orfugueHO sailors were fthipped , although ii oJlieoron board understood ( heir Umtfu . igo . Hpinis u < smuggled on board almost ovory nig h ! ,, » nd U »« niUlU ' . " oonticuiioiien wiih drunk oiiiioihm and violence , among tai - -

      IIMIUOUIIOIII I' 111 ! - " ••» .--- « -r-- - . crow , resulting " downrig ht mutiny mid bloodshed . VVIh . ii Iho Tagun Hi earner loft IJh 1 m . ii , nl . oiit . s . Uy i . asHoi . frorH remained ( here , of whom < t . great yu . nbm w " comnollo . l by Ml . eor necoHsity to ooatinuo their vo . y » K « j tho \ fllt , lf , < J ; , « . Many l .. ul Hpont all ( ho . r mo ... y , <» woro even obliged to Hell ( heir watohou , and Homo ui < C Am ) rdiiifr <<• <> 'O report on tho sanitary "tftlo T ° / Jj ^ Melbourne ftftor tho repairs the had undergone at Li « bon ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 11, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11121852/page/8/