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Leader (1850-1860), 13th December 1851, Edition Town of 2, Page 1180, Untitled Article

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      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 in justice 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 , * md 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 Permoy , under 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 , Jam us C . Andkuson . The llight Honourable Lord John Itusscll .

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      1 N T It A M V 11 A I , IN T 10 K M E N T S . A deputation from the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company , consisting of ( Sir James Duke , Baronet , M . I ' . ; Mr . 11 . C . Lacey , M . l \ ; Mr . W . J . Voules , Mr . J . Gardiner , Mr . C . Jv ,. Thompson , Mr . 1 1 . Dobinson , Mr . W . A . Cooinbe , Mr . II . It . Abraham , Mr . R . Churchill , attended Lord John Russell , on . Friday week , at . his lordship ' s oflicial residence , Downing- street , to submit their views in reference to the above subject , when the following points were propounded to his lordship in reference to their site at Woking : —That the . site comprises nearly 2000 acres available for burial purposes ; that it i : > within forty minutes of the most central of the London termini , that of the South-Western Railway which .

      passes through the land ; that the hoiI at Woking m highly suitable for burial purposes , consinting of gravel and dry sand ; that the land is , moreover , of great elevation , dryness , and natural beauty—of an undulating Burf . iee , and well adapted to the growth of appropriate and ornamental vegetation ; that the land has been obtained for the sum of £ . ' 5 /> , ()()() , 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 , X'C , will not exceed £ !); i , ()()() ; that the company are thus enabled to present , nnd to bind to themselves to the adoption , of a tariff by which all classes of funerals will be conducted at a cost , of 2 f > per cent . len « than that , at

      present incurred by the inhabitants of the mrtropolin for burial in the nearest graveyards and cemeteries ; that the pauper I ' uneralH will only be charged l ; ~ ) n ., with permission to send one or two attendants to VVoking and back . That the above expenditure shown not only an individual saving of twenty-five per cent ., bin rendern wholly unnecessary any advance on the part of the Govcrnnirnl , or any rate upon the pai islu h fora cemetery . The company contemplates the creation of a fund included in their charges for the compensation of the incumbents of t . hone parishes from which bodies are removed , so that they will eontrnue to receive the lees on interment , without being called upon , except when desired to discharge the duty .

      Mr . . ) . Voules , the deputy-chairman , said he Hubrnittod tlio above statement with confidence to Lord John Ru «~ tioll for recognition , not only on the extensive 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 .

      THE LONDON 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 staff provided 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 particularly dwelt upon by Lord Seymour , who received the deputation very courteously ; and , in conclusion , the deputy-chairman 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 .

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      HORRIBLE AGEA . RIAN 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 Tempieton ' s property , situated in the immediate neighbourhoodof 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 retu . n 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 housed ( the glebe , occupied by the Reverend Mr . Hurst ) overlooks the road . As Mr . Eateson 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 p istols ; heard the sound of the blows as if a stick were struck against a ditch , followed by a dreadful struggle , in which Mr . Bateson got upon his feet three times , until he was struck down for ever . It would appear that about ten minutes after the attack the Armagh omnibus passed by , when Mr . Bateaon was found lying in the ; dike on his

      face and groaning heavily , lie was perfectly insensible . His hat was discovered 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 bone , laying bare the brain , and part of the brain was found on hia coat . The wound appeared an if inflicted by some blunt instrument . On the spot was found a large stone covered with blood and hair , also two pistols , one of which had been recently discharged ; the other was loaded , but the percussion cap was broken . The pistolu were also covered with blood and hair . Mr . Uateson lingered a h-w hours and died . A correspondent of the Neivry J'lxununcr writes of him with great praise : — " Mr .

      Baleson was unmarried . He wan , 1 understand , a man of the most benevolent disposition , and in giving charity he never asked the creed of the object . He was instrumental in effecting an abatement of . 'Ls . in the £ 1 last year . He caused the whole county cent ; to be paid on the estate , and he gave full labour to every tenant on the estate who wished to pay bin rent by labour , at the rate ; of Is . per day , summer and winter . Other tilings 1 have been told in his favour , which 1 have not now time ; to mention . 1 have heard nothing against him . In fact , he was held up in the neighbourhood as a nort of model both to landlords and agents ; and now that he lies upon a bed of death it is piteous to hear the lamentations of the poor who were the objects of his bounty- "

      An inquest , was held on . Saturday , at Oastleblaney , on the remains of Mr . Batoson ; and several witnesses having . spoken to the facts connected with the frightful occurrence , us already detailed , a verdict of " Wilful murder again » t three or more men unknown , " was returned .

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      s y . ni o ii h i ; x > i , o - ; i o n - Three explosions , in one instance attended with loss of life , occurred on . Friday , . Saturday , and Sunday . On Friday the , principal boiler in the paper mills-of Mr . Woodfall , at l- ' ooiHcray , burst , carrying awny upwards of twenty feet of the frontage of the mill , and damaging considerably the outbuildings , knocking away the chimney of Mr . Woodl ' iill ' s dwelling house , and smashing in a quantity of window glass of the adjoining houses . The ; force of the explosion was ouch that tin : iron g irderts

      were torn from their hold , and driven th ™ ,, ^ ~ tons of coal which were lying in the front A **? eral f , , Jo ^ le tube , weighing three tSn ?^!* 6 nver > than 100 feet up the stream ; a piece of timSi p ? T one cwt ., was blown 600 feet . About 100 person * * * in the null at the time , and the whole of tE ° " ? personal injury . The boiler is said to W £ thoroughly repaired only about ten days £ £ V * damage exceeds £ 1000 ; Mr . Woodfall is insured he Gas is not less powerful than steam . On ' sima morning the good people of Brownlow-hill and cE street , Liverpool , were alarmed by a loud remn-V T Ce " bling the discharge of cannon , an 5 fouJweV ^ a ronK noise which continued for some moments , which « nh- g ?_ ! ntly t " ? ° ?* to be caused ^ an explosion of ' I in lx uiarencestreet

      nouse o . * , - , occupied bv Mr tk « ° Smith . Being annoyed by the eme / of gas * K pe ^ the premises , and concluded all was safe ; but when ifson entered the front room of the house with a canX at eight o ' clock in the morning , he observed a blue flam * arise , and was then knocked down , fortunately receivin but slight injury beyond the scorching and discoloura 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 names were Charles Stories , 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 . HJe 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 an"d 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 Ramagate harbour a complete wreck , on Monday . While off rJungeness 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 .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . Mr . J ohn 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 !> y Sir J . W . Gordon R . A ., at the Freernasons ' -tavern on Monday evening , aH a testimony of their apprecation of his " noble efforts to secure the abridgement of long hours ol business . " . A deputation from the National Parliamentary Kctorm Association met the inhabitants of the Tower Hamlets on Tuesday . Resolutions were passed declaring that any measure lens 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 quahtication required of members , would fail to meet the wains and to satisfy the just expectations of the people At n privy counsel held on the 8 th , at Dublin , UU . district of the county of Monaghan , in which the « " > irael of Mr . Thomas D . Uateson was perpretrated < m Illlirs " day last , wan proclaimed under the Crime and Uutr . igc Act . The . district embraces the parishes of Uontiorti

      and Muckno , in the barony of Cremorne . On the s . u c occasion , the parishes of Derrynoose and Jveady , in '"' - baroniou of Tiranny and Armagh , county of Aiiiiagn . were proclaimed , that locality being one of those ; m wmimi the Ribbon conspiracy is known to be most rite Lord Lieutenant , presided at the council-KosHuth ' s striking use of texts from our great diftniati « t , has already « u geste , l a gift- which dors not . Htipfisml « : OougluH Jen-old ' s ; but rather plays harlmiK" < * companion to that . When Mr . Ti . ulal brought- up tlu-Birmingham subsidy to the Leader of Unwary , Mr-Tindal presented to Madame Kos . suth a copy «»« Sv . ntimrnts and Simile * of Shak ^ tire , a volume illu nated by the tasteful and brilliant pencil of No Humphreys . The gift w as prettily selected and up

      nronriately presented . , „ „„„ ,,. ( , n 1 The cane of Mr . Aldermun Salomons , M . I ., 'e arn , on t ^^^^ ns- ^ ss

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1851, page 1180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1913/page/8/