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    1180 ®f,e WLtMtt. [Saturday

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    I N T It A M UKAL IN T E It iM E N T 8. ...

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    HORRIBLE AGRARIAN MURDER. One of those c...

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    H 1 <) II H i. x P U () B I ON S. Three ...

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    MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. John Simon has presen...

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    A Plan 1'Olt Itklikvino The 11ukjl Took....

    ible is to secure those remaining in circulation in Ireland , and thus prevent a continuance of the loss sustained by absenteeism . Up to the late dreadful famine year , 1846 , since the Union forty-five years had elapsed , and £ 5 , 000 , 000 had annually been drawn from Ireland by absentees , amounting to £ 225 , 000 , 000 . Had that enormous sum been kept circulating in giving employment to its producers , as it ought to have been applied , the Irish would now be a prosperous nation , in place of being the most wretched on the earth , although united to , and governed by the Parliament of , the wealthiest

    people in the world . The Times has repeatedly stated that the withdrawal of £ 10 , 000 , 000 in one year , to relieve the starving Irish was seriously felt in this prosperous country . Who , then , can injustice deny that the annual drain of £ 5 , 000 , 000 , continuing for fortyfive years , amounting to £ 225 , 000 , 000 , is the principal cause of Irish destitution ? Such a national disgrace "would have been prevented , had the majorities in the British Parliament , who , since the Union , have legislated for Ireland , done their duty by enacting such just laws as would have secured to the Irish people the full benefit of their labour . From this dereliction

    the most calamitous consequences have resulted , unprecedented in any other civilized country . It cannot , therefore , with truth be denied that Ireland has a just claim against Great Britain . To liquidate the debt , and permanently improve the social condition of my poor countrymen , I ask £ 16 , 000 , 000 in labour notes , which , on a population of 6 , 000 , 000 , gives but £ 2 . 13 s . 4 d . a head , and will only cost the price of paper and printing . This credit amounts to

    a little more than one-sixteenth of the £ 225 , 000 , 000 which have been drawn from Ireland since the Union , four-fifths of which have been expended in England . By means of the labour notes , the Irish can be profitably employed , a large revenue raised out of the waste lands , and £ 3 , 000 , 000 paid to its owners , which would enable them to improve their estates , and by employing the labourers considerably diminish the poor rates , and increase the produce of the soil . A new market would be created at home for British

    manufactures , and that greatest of all disgraces to this kingdom , the pauperized Irish , can be changed into an independent , remuneratively employed , fairly paid , and consequently contented people . My patriotic father has proved to the nation how the resources of Ireland can be developed , and I am proud to know that the history of no other country furnishes a like example of such lasting public benefits as those conferred upon his adopted country , at his own expense , by John Anderson , of Fermoy , \ indor whose able directions I have had great practical experience . I , therefore , feel a confidence that my plan , if promptly and energetically acted on , will speedily change the present deplorable condition of the Irish working classes , into a state of happiness and comfort , based on industrious remunerative occupation and . self-relying independence .

    I have the honour to remain , my lord , your most obedient humble servant , James C . Anderson . The Right Honourable Lord John Russell .

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    I N T It A M Ukal In T E It Im E N T 8. ...

    I N T It A M UKAL IN T E It iM E N T 8 . A deputation from the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company , consisting of Sir James Duke , liaronet , M . P . ; Mr . II . C . Lacey , M . P . ; Mr . W . J . "Voules , Mr . J . Ciaidiner , Mr . C . It . Thompson , Mr . F . Dobinson , Mr . W . A . Cooinbe , Mr . II . It . Abraham , Mr . It . Churchill , attended . Lord John ltussell , on . Friday week , at his lordship ' s official residence , Downing-Htreet , to submit their views in reference to the above subject , when the following pointy were propounded to his lordship in reference to their bite at Woking : —That the ** itc comprises nearly ' 2000 acres available for burial purposes ; that it in within forty minutcH of the most central of the London termini , that of the South-Western Railway , which passes through the land ; that the noil at Woking is highly suitable for burial purposes , consisting of gravel and dry sand ; that the hind is , moreover , of great elevation , dryness , and natural beauty—of an undulating surface * , and well adapted to the growth of appropriate and ornamental vegetation ; that the land has been obtained for the sum of JL . ' !/ i , ()()() , and can be rendered available immediately at a very trifling additional outlay , and that the whole cost of adequate chapel accommodation necessary , and ornamental buildings , fencing , &<; ., will not . exceed £ () . ' { , ()()() ; that the company are thus enabled to present , and to bind to themselves to the adoption , of a tariff by which all clauses of funerals will be conducted at a cost of 2 /> per cent , lens than that at

    present incurred !) y the inhabitants of the metropolis for burial in the nearest graveyards and cemeteries ; that the pauper funerals will only be charged I / in ., with permission to send one or two attendants to Woking and back . That the above expenditure shows not . only an individual saving of twenty-live per cent ., but rendeiH wholly unnecessary any advance on the part of the ( jlovcriimcnt , or any rate upon the parishes for a cemetery . The company contemplates the creation of a fund included in their charges for the compensation of the incumbents of those parishes from which bodies are removed , ho that they will continue to receive the fees on interment without being called upon , except when desired , to discharge the duty .

    Mr .. ( . Youluu , the deputy-chairman , said he submitted thu above ( statement with confidence to Lord John Iiua-i aell lor recognition , not ouly ou tho dttonaivo merits of

    the plan and site , but because it superseded the necessity for any advance of public money , and obviated the delay which was so universally deprecated . The deputation met with a most courteous reception , and , after making several pertinent inquiries as to the intentions of the company , his lordship promised to communicate with Lord Seymour on the details . IHEIONDON NECROPOLIS AND NATIONAL MAUSOLEUM

    COMPANY . A deputation , consisting of the following gentlemen , Sir James Duke , Baronet , M . P ., W . J . Voules , deputychairman ; C . R . Thompson , Esq ., John Gardiner , Esq ., directors ; W . A . Coombe , Esq ., solicitor to the company ; H . R . Abraham , Esq ., architect ; and Mr . Richard Churchill , secretary ; had the honour of an interview with Lord Seymour , at the Office of Works , on Wednesday morning , when the deputy-chairman and surveyor mutually explained the proceedings and plans of the company , particularly in reference to the great saving effected by the adoption of their tariff—the cost of pauper funerals , only 15 s ., with liberty to send one or two attendants to Woking and back—that of the class immediately above the poor , including the proposed compensation to the incumbents of parishes from which bodies are removed , £ 1 . 5 s . The deputy-chairman , in . reply to

    Lord Seymour ' s inquiries , said that the company proposed to appropriate portions of their site to the different parishes , who would thus have the control over their separate grounds , and have their own clergy to officiate , if desired , and at the same time be enabled to avail themselves of the inexpensive mode of transit and the ample ; stafFprovided by the company : and that the notices of application to Parliament had been duly given , and the petition for the bill would be presented at the earliest possible period . The foregoing points were particularl y dwelt upon by Lord Seymour , who received the deputation very courteously ; and , in conclusion , the deputy-c ! hairmau said he trusted his lordship would recognize in the arrangements of the company the solution of the difficulty of providing for immediate extramural interment without calling upon Parliament or the parishes for the advance of one fraction of the public money .

    Horrible Agrarian Murder. One Of Those C...

    HORRIBLE AGRARIAN MURDER . One of those crimes peculiar almost to Ireland was perpetrated last week near Dundalk . On Thursday week , about the hour of two o ' clock , Thomas Douglas Bateson , brother to Sir It . Bateson , of Derry , and agent to Lord Templeton ' s property , situated in the immediate neighbourhood of Dundalk , went out to visit a model farm at a place called Corratenty . The model farm is about a mile from . Castleblaney . Having arrived there , he inspected a large number of labourers and tradesmen whom he had employed , and at a quarter after four o ' clock he proceeded to return to Castleblaney . On each side of the Armagh road , in a beautiful and romantic district , stand three houses in a triangular position , and a

    number of small groves of fir-trees are planted here , which afford a sort of covert . One of the houses ( the glebe , occupied by the Iteverend Mr . Hurst ) overlooks the road . As Mr . Bateson arrived at this spot , when about equi-distant from the habitations , a boy named Bailie , aged thirteen , being distant about 100 yards , while driving home his father ' s cows , saw a shot fired ; saw three men attack Mr . Bateson with short sticks or pistols ; heard the sound of the blowia as if a stick were struck against a ditch , followed by n dreadful struggle , in which Mr . Bateson got upon his fe et three times , until he was struck down for ever . It would appear that about ten minutes after tho attack the Armagh omnibus passed by , when Mr . Bateson was found lying in the dike on his

    face and groaning heavily . l ] . e was perfectly insensible . ilis hat was diacovered twelve * yards behind where he was found lying . On being brought into Dundalk Dr . M'Birny was in immediate . attendance , and removed three loose portions of the left temporal boivc , laying bare the brain , and part of tin' brain was found on his coat . The wound appeared as if inflicted by some blunt instrument . On the spot was found a large stone covered with blood and hair , ulso two pistols , one of which had been recently dischargt > d ; the other was loaded , but the percussion cap was broken . The pistols wei e also covered with blood and hair . Mr . Batctioii lingered a faw hours and died . A correspondent of the JStnory Examiner writes of him with great praise : — " Mr , I 3

    atesoii was unmarried , lie was , 1 understand , a man of the most benevolent disposition , and in giving charity he never asked the creed of the object , lie was instrumental in effecting an abatement of < 5 s . in the £ 1 last year , lie caused the whole count y cess to be puid on the estate , and he gave full labour to every tenant on the estate who wished to pay his rent by labour , at the rale of Is . per day , summer and winter . Other things I have been told in his favour , which 1 have not now time to mention . I have heard nothing aga inst him . In fact , he was held up in the neighbourhood as a wort of model both to landlords and agents ; and now that , hi ; lies upon a bed of death it is piteous to hoar the lamentations of the poor who were the objects of his bounty . "

    An inquest was held on Saturday , at Castleblanoy , on the remains of Mr . Halctton ; and several witnesses having spoken to the facts connected with tho frightful occurrence , as already detailed , a venliet of " Wilful murder against threo or more men unknown , " was returned .

    H 1 <) Ii H I. X P U () B I On S. Three ...

    H 1 <) II H i . x P U () B I ON S . Three explosions , in one instance attended with loss of life , occurred on Friday , Saturday , and ( Sunday . On Friday the principal boiler iu the paper mills of Mr . YVoodfall , at JKootscruy , hurst , carrying away upwards of twenty feet of the frontage of the mill , and damaging considerably the outbuildings , knocking away the chimney of Mr . Windfall ' s dwelling house , and Hinushiiig in a quantity of window glass of the adjoining houses . 1 'ho force of the uxpluoiou wan yuoh that the iron girdcru

    were torn from their hold , and driven thi-oi , ^ " tons of coal which were ly ng in the fro ? of ^ *? eral and a double tube , weighing three tow ™ SL Mn mer ' than 100 feet up the stfeaml a pieceZf timber eZtT * one cwt . was blown 600 feet . About 100 pewoS g in the mill at the time , and the whole of £ el ^ Personal injury . ' . The boiler is said to havJ T * thoroughly repaired only about ten days since ™ damage exceeds £ 1000 ; Mr . Woodfall is insured e Gas is not less powerful than steam . On ' sima . morning the good people of Brownlow-hiU and cK

    street , Liverpool , were alarmed by a loud report , resem bung the discharge of cannon , and followed by a rumbiS noise which continued for some moments , which Biih ^ quently turned out to be caused by an explosion of sTa in house No . 4 , Clarence-street , occupied by Mr Thnm » . Smith . Being annoyed by the smellof gas * KpeS the premises , and concluded all was safe ; but when Wr son entered the front room of the house with a candle at eight o ' clock in the morning , he observed a blue fla me arise , and was then knocked down , fortunately receiving but slight injury beyond the scorching and discolour :,

    tion of his hair and eyebrows . The gas exploded ¦ the whole of the front and back parts of the house three stories high , were driven outwards , the floors of the rooms separated from the'Walls , and the wall , windows and doors of the small kitchen in the rear of the premises , forced against the back entrance , so as to prevent the possibility of ingress or egress . But few of the windows were broken . The house is now propped up both front and rear , to keep it from falling , until it can

    be taken down and rebuilt . Fire-damp , more destructive than either steam or gas kills it victims . The colliery district around Sheffield ' so noted for disastrous mining explosions , was the scene of another sad calamity on Saturday last , when three young men perished in the Woodthorpe colliery , two miles and a half south of Sheffield . Their name ' were Charles Stores , aged twenty-three , unmarried ; and Samuel Bacon and William Ramsden , youths of about eighteen years old , both of Handsworth , Woodhouse .

    There was one avenue in the pit that was surcharged with inflammable gas , so that all the colliers avoided taking exposed lights into it . But Ramsden , though a collier , was a stranger there . He had descended the pit to visit Bacon , his companion ; and , for some reason unknown , he went into the dangerous board-hole with a naked candle . The consequence was , that his light caused an instantaneous explosion , so powerful as to project large quantities of debris out of the mouth of the shaft , which is 164 yards deep . Ramsden was consumed to ashes . Stones and Bacon , who were respectively fifteen and forty yards nearer the shaft , were killed by the concussion . The pit is ventilated by only one shaft instead of two .

    A coal'ship bound to Bremen was brought into Ramsgate harbour a complete wreck , on Monday . While off Dungeness gas generated from the coals suddenly exploded , shattering the vessel and killing two men out of four who were on deck . The crew were saved by a Deal boat .

    Miscellaneous. Mr. John Simon Has Presen...

    MISCELLANEOUS . Mr . John Simon has presented another elaborate report to the City Commission of Sewers , urging that body to carry out great and effective measures of sanitary reform . Several breaches of the Factory Act having taken place lately in the manufacturing districts , the delegates met on Sunday , at the Cocoa Tree , Ancoats , Manchester , to consider what is to be done to enforce the law . Dr . Grant , Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark , assisted by Dr . Morris , Bishop of Troy , and Cardinal Wiseman , performed , on Tuesday , Pontifical high mass at the opening- of the new Catholic church on Croomehill , Greenwich , dedicated to "Our Lady , the Star of the Sea . " Two thousand young men of the metropolis presented to Mr . Hitchcock a likeness of himself , painted by Sir J . W . Gordon R . A ., at the Freemaaons ' -tavern on Monday evening , as a testimony of their apprccation of his " noble efforts to secure the abridgement of long hours of business . " A deputation from the National Parliamentary Reform Association met the inhabitants of the Tower Hamlets on Tuesday . Resolutions were passed declaring that any measure less than the extension of the suffrage to every occupier of a house , or part of a house , the arrangement of equalized electoral districts , vote by ballot , triennial parliaments , and the abolition of the property quulincatiou required of members , would fail to meet the wants and to aatisfy the just expectations of the people . At a privy counsel held on the « th , at Dublin , the district of the county of Monaghan , in which the mimlei 1 uin

    of Mr . Thomas D . lJatenon was perpretrated on "" day last , was proclaimed under the Crime and Uutr . igc Act . The district embraces the parishes of cl ( IIltU ) " ' , and Muckno , in the barony of Cremorne . On tn « »<» occasion , the parishes of Derrynoose and Jtea < iy , , ' baroniea of Tiranny and Armagh , county « t A ¦ ' » , Tiudid presented to Madame Kossuth a i-opv . KejUi , nLts and Similes of » hak * m <* rot a vol . in . o Uiu » . nite . 1 by the tasteful ami brilliant pen . « f J ™ * Humphreys . The H wan pn .-tt . ly m-lectcd and a .

    propriutely presented T - T „ tvt i > mime on \ J ^ , ^? = $ ^ ^ Huron Martin and a upocml jury . It w < h in t c

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13121851/page/8/