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Leader (1850-1860), 31st January 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 98, Untitled Article

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      profitable and constant customer , either tfrecUy gr jig directly—to the landlord and cultivator of % ! W » J * JJJ food ^ -to the arti « an , who ™^*\*™ %£££ *^ £ S ^^ t ^ S ^ y S ^ S ^ iilisill ^ sf Suntty ; and , if not remedied in a prompt and effective S ? 2 l , ino distant period , convulse , society to its Sri destroy its peace , its enterprise , its happiness , IS lead to greater emigration , greater poverty , suffering , and degradation , than we now experience . _ " That history and observation satisfy us fully that Ireland did and can manufacture extensively , and that nothing is now wanted to enable her to resume her manu-*«« . tiirinir enterm-ises but a widespread and thorough

      system of practice and mechanical instruction , which roust reach the poor and the rich in their respective « pheres , and through their respective schools and colleges ; and that we consider the workhouses and prisons suitable in a special degree to train their present inmates , particularly the younger portion of them , in habits and arts that will , iii the course of a short time , render them independent and useful members of aociety . . . " That a special enactment , authorizing the guardians of the various workhouses throughout Ireland to reciprocally exchange with each other all articles manufactured in their resDective houses , and to export the

      surplus , if any , under regulations , to foreign nations , would tend to instruct the guardians themselves in manufactures , by repeated experiments and improvements , and the poor in their charge in practical knowledge by their own actual operations , the very best system of teaching "; and that this course , we maintain , would bring the Workhouses and prisons of Ireland to a condition as near as possible to self-supporting , and in the most unobjectionable way—would , in fact , convert them into mechanical and manufacturing schools , which would cease to be a burden , and would become a profitable Investment for the nation /' WESTMINSTER AND PIMLICO PEOPLES * INSTITUTE .

      At the half-yearly general meeting , held on Tuesday evening last , in the new Council Rooms , St . Leonard-Btreet , Tachbrook-street , Pimlico , Mr . E . M . Kirched in the chair , the secretary ( Mr . E . Stalwood ) read a ^ report , setting forth a most flourishing financial roll , thanked the Pimlico working builders for placing those new and elegant council-rooms at their disposal , warmly eulogized Che public press for cordially seconding the efforts of the council , announced handsome subscriptions from E . V . Neale , Esq ., C . Lushington , Esq ., M . P ., G . Pouncer , Esq ., F . J . Furnival , Esq ., T . Prout , Esq ., and others ; also that Messrs . Cathie , J . T . Lockhart , Esq ., and Dr . M .

      Oubrey , had given their gratuitous services and lectured on science , history , and politics ; also that B . O'Brien , B . A ., Jonathan Duncan , and George Thompson , M . P ., Dick , Esq ., Author of " The Curse Removed /* and others , bad volunteered their services as lecturers in aid of the building fund ; and that they were about to enter on a ¦ course of lectures , and the formation of classes to teach -writing , arithmetic , mathematics , and also _ for public discussions on moral , political , and social subjects . After brief speeches from Messrs . Lockhart , Stalwood , and Walford , the meeting separated , highly elated with the ¦ success obtained .

      CENTRAL COOPERATIVE AGENCY . The agency transacted business with . Stores at Ullesthorpe , Woolwich , Banbury , Galashiels , Burnley , Leeds , Braintree , Rochdale , Birmingham , and Swindon , An evening party was given on Friday , the 23 rd , when Mn Newton , Mr . Musto , and Mr . Allan , of the Amalgamated Society , met the managers of the associations . Banbury has applied for a lecturer . A petition , praying Parliament to modify the law of partnership , now lies for signature at the Cooperative Agency Office .

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      A deputation , consisting of Viscount Godench , Mr . T . Hughes ( barrister ) , Mr . Pickard ( manager of the North London Builders' Association } , Mr . Cooper •( manager of the Working Tailors' Association , 34 , Castle-street ) , and Mr . Jennings ( manager of the Pim-Jico Builders' Association ) , had an interview with the Jlight Honourable H , Labouchere on Tuesday , at the office of the Board of Trade . A deputation on behalf of the ballast-heavers , including Mr . Vanaittart Neale ( of Lincoln ' a-inn ) , Mr . Frederick JT . Furnivall ( of Lincoln ' s-inn ) , Mr . Henry Mayhew , Mr . Thomas T . Fynn , and Mr . Henry Barthorp , had an interview with the Ri g ht Honourable Henry Labouchere , on Thursday , at the Board of Trade .

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      NATIONAL DEFENCES , The war topic still continues to agitate the public xmind . Several active gentlemen in the Stock . Exchange have agreed to form a club , on the principle of enabling members at their convenience to practise Tifle shooting , it being understood that although each gentleman will suit the time of his attendance to his own convenience , he will , as a member , be pledged to become expert in the practice . Mr . Charles Mitchell , of the Stock Exchange , has been appointed "honorary secretary , pro . tern ,, and Mr . Henry Tudor treasurer . Tho authorities at Woolwich , have con-« ontcd to place at the club's disposal space at Woolwich for practice , to be exclusively used by members at stated times , so as not to interfere with the regular ¦ artillery exerofco , Tho subscription of members will

      ^ he two cuineas per annum , of which one guinea is SbTaftKp riMSt to prizes for the best shots , and one guinea for general expenses . Each member is to provide himself with a rifle , and to pay for such ammunition as he may use . The committee wilL encage an eminent rifle maker to supply efficient rifles It a moderate -cost , arid competent instructors m rifle shooting will be on the ground when required . None but members or subscribers will be allowed to be present at the ordinary practice , but meetings will be fixed when members' friends may attend . ^ Ane club to be managed by a committee selected by the members . This is little better than dilettanteism , and is , in fact , little better than a pigeon-shooting club . The French won't be frightened at five hundred undisciplined gentlemen , who will enter the field " at their own convenience / ' .

      _ Meanwhile the papers teem with letters on rifles , but no earnest movement is proceeding . It is said that a commission , consisting of Major-General Carden , of the Royal Engineers ; Colonel Colquhoun , of the Royal Artillery ; and Sir E . Belcher , Royal Navy , has been appointed to examine and report on the state of the defences in the Channel Islands ^ The United Service Gazette naively thinks there is no ground for alarm . "It is rumoured , in well-informed quarters , that in the budget to be presented to the French Legislature upon its assembling , a proposal will be made , emanating from the highest authority in the Republic , for the reduction of the French army . This , taken in connection with the pacific tone of the circular to the European Powers , ought to disarm apprehension . "

      Military intelligence from Ireland shows increased activity in the war department . Arrangement * for recruiting the army are in progress , and measures are about to be taken to provide enlarged barrack accommodation . The Board of Ordnance , some months since , had issued an order for the sale of extensive barracks in the town of Drogheda ; but that order has just been cancelled , and the buildings are to be placed in a state of thorough repair for the reception of troops . # The Limerick Chronicle states that the recruiting in

      for the Forty ^ fifth and Ninety-sixth that garrison has ceased , the out-pensioners of the district having completed their requirements in a few days ; and it is considered that the out-pensioners will be able to supply all demands for this branch of the service . Notwithstanding the great decrease of the population , from , famine and emigration , that journal , which devotes much attention to military affairs , is of opinion that " by ordinary exertion of a well appointed recruiting staff , with the aid of the out-pensioners throughout the provinces , 10 , 000 young men could be raised in Ireland in one month for the army . " The Athlone Sentinel says : —

      " The general and staff are under orders for removal from Kilkenny , whether to be disbanded or transferred back again to Athlone does not yet appear . One thing , however , is certain , that the military authorities have discovered the absurdity of concentrating three general officers and the military strength of the country into the province of Munster , leaving the whole province of Connaught and the western seaboard wholly unprotected , while the most important position—the key-stone of the kingdom—with almost impregnable batteries and fortifications at Athlone , is falling to decay . Happily for Ireland , her poverty is a sufficient protection from invasion , as her present defenceless state offers no other barrier to the entrance of a hostile power . "

      The following appears \ n the Armagh Gazette : — " The Twenty-fifth and Thirty-ninth Regiments of Infantry , and the Sixth ( Enniskillen ) Dragoons , have recruiting parties in this city , who have enlisted several smart country lads . "

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      THE STATE OF IRELAND . Assassination , threatening notices , a Special Commission , accompanied by troops of dragoons , a Chief Justice denouncing the Riband conspiracy from the bench—these are the moving incidents of contemporary Irish history . But beside these , and forming mere episodes , there have been two meetings , one at Dublin against the Maynooth Grant , and the other at Limerick—the long-talked of " Arundel Banquet . " The Special Commission for the trial of the agrarian murderers was opened by the Chief Justice of tho Queen ' s Bench at Costleblaney , county Monaghan , on Tuesday . He denounced in -solemn words the extensive Riband conspiracy , of whose existanoe he had no doubt .

      . " Whether the murderers of Mr . Batcson wore actuated by private and individual hatred , or whether th «? y were the official assassins , entrusted to curry out the sentence of death pronounced by tho Riband Society , it was not just now , perhaps , a matter upon which it was very important to be informed . But there was one thing clearthese men , however actuated , never would havo perpotratod the offence—nay , would never have attempted to porpetrate it—at tho time , in tho place , and under tho circumstances' it was effected , unless they were assured of that protection , and that support , and that connivance in crime , which tho Riband Society assures to all criminals , no matter how atrocious the oflbnce which they porpetrate . There wai no doubt in his mind

      that this particular crime was committed by persons who ¦ ¦ trusted for safety to that organization . Let them observe the circumstances under which it took place . It took place on the public highway , in the broad daylight , within a short distance of a populous village , at a place where people were passing and repassing every minute , coming to the town and going to and from the fields ; and yet there was no hand lifted , no voice . : raised , no effort made to secure the murderers . There was no man in his senses who would believe that such an attempt would be made , that such a crime would be perpetrated , unless the perpetrators were previously assured of the protection and support of the

      people amidst whom it occurred . It unfortunately happened that they were , in the present case , right in their calculations , to a certain extent ; for , notwithstanding the place , the time , the circumstances , there was no assistance given to prevent or expose the murderous deed . The assassins walked off securely ; and it did not appear that the slightest assistance was given by the people in , following out the track of the murderers . If there was no other fact or circumstance but that one , it would be sufficient to show , clear as evidence could make it , the existence of a wide-spread system of crime and intimidation . In the simple statement which he ( the learned

      judge ) had made of the simple facts of this outrage there was abundant evidence of this fact—abundant evidence to satisfy any one of the existence of that terrible body to which he had alluded . It was a body that had followed the example , and formed itself on the model of several Others of the same kind which had preceded it , and which he was quite safe in stating had proved to-be the severest scourge of Ireland . " He pointed out how these secret societies obstructed the progress of Ireland in the pathway of amelioration ; and he showed with great force how the crimes committed under their sanction were sure to be

      punished , as the informer was sure to appear . Two men named Francis and Owen Kelly were arraigned for the wilful murder of Mr . Bateson , and pleaded " hot guilty . " An attempt was made last week to shoot Captain Morant , agent to Mr . Shirley , M . P . He was walking in his garden , and the would-be assassin fired from behind the wall . The Protestant demonstration took place in Dublin

      on Tuesday ; but it is of small importance . The " Arundei Banquet" came offat Limerick on Tuesday also . :. " ¦* . N . Cardinal Wiseman " and " * D . Murray " sent letters of excuse . Lord Arundel and Surrey was also absent from " indisposition . " There were , however , six members of the Irish Brigade present , and 400 gentlemen . The" novelty of the occasion was the speech of Dr . Ryan , Roman Catholic Bishop Of Limerick , Referring to the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Act , he s aid : —

      " But I proclaim here , and I do so not in any spirit of defiance , that this is a law which will not be observed . ( Loud cheers . ) It is not our wish , as ministers of religion , to offer any insult to the powers that rule over us . We are bound to respect them under all circumstances ; but it is equally our duty to perform our ecclesiastical functions in defiance of any act of Parliament . ( Cheers . ) Whenever the duty of consecrating bishops under the Papal rescripts is to be performed—whenever it may be my duty to attend and officiate—I will do so , be the consequences what they may . ( Loud applause . ) No matter how severe the penalties which they may inflict upon us , our duty we must and will perform . ( Cheers . ) We cannot swerve from it—we must serve God rather than man . ( Cheer * . )" On a more important topic a very broad hint was thrown out .

      " It strikes me that means could be found by which a satisfactory understanding could be come to between the temporal powers and the just and spiritual rights of the Church , and that could be done only by the temporal power coming to a proper understanding with the Court of Rome on this difficult and important question . ( " Hear , hear , " and cheers . ) The groundwork has been already laid in the measure for establishing diplomatic relations between the Courts of St . James ' s and Rome . Let that Measure be given effect to—let those Courts come to an understanding and an explanation—and , if they do not , they will not be acting as they ought , but will be guilty of neglect that must be attended with injurious results . ( Hear , hear . ) The Queen can send an ambassador to

      Rome , and tho Pope one to the Court of St . James a . Nothing Btands in the way but a little matter—that tho Pope at first would onl y Bend an ecclesiastic . I believe that is but a matter of etiquette ; and is the peace or welfare of the country to be sacrificed to etiquette ? I hope not . A layman might easily be found suitable for the duty ; the Pope could easily select a man of wisdom , learning , and trustworthiness , to discharge the duty oi ambassador at the Court of St . James ' s , and I am conndent that his holiness would not sacrifice us to any point of etiquette , nor leave us to tyrannical laws , ( Hear , hear . ) It may be said that this penal law will not bo put rnt j execution ; but I don ' t wish to see a sword auspenaeu over my head by a sincle hair . "

      Dr . Ryan is said to bo tx moderate man , who hft <» only lately appeared in tho political world . ^ oxa John RusBoll ' fi Act brought him there .

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      ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE . Valuable collateral testimony to those views wl" ^ have been constantly advocated in tho Leader , * afforded by a New York correspondent of the iw » « Writing on tho 10 th of Januury , he says ' — " Mr . Walker ' * English speeohos have produced qttjjj a wide sonsation in America . He has certainly t »* 0 M

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1852, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1920/page/6/