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Leader (1850-1860), 10th April 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 344, Untitled Article

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      universal diffusion as the worthiest object of a nation s solicitude , is the calling of a teacher—laborious , anxious , ollrequited , and unhonoured as it is—to be made withal so uncertain and dependent that no man of spirit , or who can eet a living in any other way , would deliberately enter upon it ? Surely , my lords , you will not lend yourselves to this . In the name pf substantial justice , and sitting as the representatives of a king who founded churches cathedral and collegiate , * in order that youth might be liberally trained , old age fostered with things necessary for living , and that liberal largesses of alms , to the poor in Christ , offices of piety teeming over from them , mig ht thence flow abroad far and wide , to the glory of Almighty God and the common welfare and happiness of the subjects of tho realm , ' my lords , I make bold to say that my dismissal cannot be ratified unless those intentions of Henry VIII . are set at nought . "

      When he wound up with the -words of the Minister of Henry VII ., a loud cheer burst from the auditory . Mr . Whiston had spoken seventeen hours . Further hearing of the case stands over until after Easter term .

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      THE MURDER OP MR . BOYD . There is no longer any doubt regarding the fate of Mr . Benjamin Boyd , late of the Stock Exchange , which has excited so much anxiety in the city . He was on a tour in his yacht , the Wanderer , from California to Sydney . The island of Guad alcauar is one of the Solomon group in the South Pacific , and it has been frequently asserted that the inhabitants are cannibals . All that is known regarding this horrible case will be best gathered from the extracts from the ship ' s log-book , which details the whole circumstances , and is attested by the master and crew of the Wanderer .-—" Tuesday , Oct . 14 . —This day , at three o ' clock p . m ., we came to an anchor in a small bay on the south-west of the Island of Guadalcauar , being in south latitude 9 . 40 , east longitude 119 . 50 . 15 . A number of canoes were alongside , all went

      but without any article of tr . ade , and at sundown on shore . The night passed in perfect quietness . —Wednesday , 15 th . —This morning , at an early hour , many canoes were alongside , without any trade or warlike weapons . At about half-past six Mr . Boyd arose in usual good spirits , and taking the small boat , with one native of Ocean Island , went ashore to shoot game . The boat was seen to enter a small creek , and was immediately out of sig ht of the ship . Mr . Boyd fired one shot soon after . Many natives were seen standing near the entrance to the creek . About seven o ' clock another shot was heard , but nothing transpired to excite suspicion . " The details of an attempt by the natives to obtain possession of the ship , in which they were beaten off with great loss , are then given . " We now manned the boat and went to seek Mr . Boyd , but all the traces we found were the place of struggle and the marks where he had fired two shots . From the marks ashore , and the

      situation of the wadding of Mr . Boyd ' s gun , it would seem as if ho was attacked as soon as the boat got out of sight of the ship , and was killed after a struggle in the water , as was also his companion , but what became of the bodies God only knows . That the natives should have attacked us in the face of so many large guns may seem strange to many , but , by their motions , they evidently thought that the fire was the only thing that could hurt them ; for when a musket was levelled at one , he then put up a wicker shield and came boldly forward ; and , in fact , one canoe came up , receiving a two pound charge of grape . That wo should have beaten them , unprepared as wo were , was more than we expected . If they had come up in a body , the tale would never have been told , for what could bo expected of four men to two hundred woll armed savages . As it was , it was a hard fight . " The document concludes with an account of some other futile attempts which were made to recover Mr . Boyd ' s remains .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . On Monday Prince Albert and Princo Leopold of Saxo Coburg Kohary , accompanied by Lord Hardinge , the Master-General , and attended by Colonel Hugh Seymour , visited tho Royal Arsenal at Woolwich , the engineering and gun-boring department , tho gun-carriugo manufactory and tho laboratory . After a prolonged inspection of every object of interest tho princes entered tho royal carringo anil drove to tho east end of tho Arsonal , whore tho officers and non-commissioned officers , under command of Major Brownrigg , of tho Coldstream Guards , wore practising with tho Minio rifle . At tho conclusion of tho firing thoy returned to Buckingham Palaco .

      Sir John Dodson , Dean of tho Arches and Judgo of tho Prerogative Court , was sworn of tho Privy Council on Monday , and took his peat at tho Board . Captain Sir Charles Hothiun , K . C . U ., lias been appointed tho British Envoy to tho Brazilian . Court , to net in conjunction with tho Frenoh Envoy in settling tho ltivor Plato affairs . Mr . Brando has retired from tho post of professor of chemistry at tho Royal Institution , which ho first assumed in tho year 1812 , under tho auspices of Davy and Wolluflton . To Mr . Brando tho chomicul M'orld is indebted for tho introduction of Michael Faraday to tho Bcono of hia triumphs in electrical science Captain Erasmus . Ommannoy and Colonol Frompnt , with Mm . Fremont , from tho United Statos , visited Woolwich Dockyard yofltorday . Colonol Fremont is woll known in all quarters of tho world , his muno boirig ho often mentioned in connexion with tho " digginga" in Culiibrnia .

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      Tho Grand Dukos Michaol and Nicholas arrived at Munich on tho 29 th ulfc . Tho Duchess Ida of Saxo Wcimrvr , sisfcor of tho Into Quoon Adelaide , died at Weimar on Saturday last . The-X ) uoho 8 s wto tho mother of Princo Edward of Saxo Weimar , an officer in tho Grenadier Guards , and who latoly married Lady Auguatu , Gordon Lennox , daughter of tho Duko of Richmond .

      The Indiana , screw steamer , 1800 tons , was launched from the establishment of Messrs . Mare and Co ., Blackwall , on Wednesday . This is one of a fleet , now being embodied by the Screw Steam Navigation Company , for the carrying on of a rapid postal communication between England , the Cape , the Mauritius , and our Oriental possessions . The " baptismal ceremony" performed by Miss Ellis , daughter of the chairman of the company .

      - Lord John Manners has prepared and brought in a bill to empower the Commissioners of Works and Public Buildings to inclose and lay out Kennington _ Common as pleasure ground for the recreation pf the public . A proclamation was ordered to be issued at the Privy Council on Monday , for giving currency to a new coinage of florins . The newcoinhas for the obverse her Majesty ' s effigy crowned with the inscription , " Victoria D . G ; : Brit .: Reg . F . D .: ?> and the date of the year ; arid for the reverse the ensigns armorial of the United Kingdom contained in four shields crosswise , each shield surmounted by the royal crown , with the rose in the cenire , and in the compartments between the shields the national emblems of the rose , thistle , and shamrock , surrounded with the words , " One Florin one-tenth of a pound ; " and with a milled graining round the edge .

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      A meeting of the members and promoters of the Home Counties and Metropolitan Freehold Land Society took place at Anderton ' s Hotel * Fleet-street , on Tuesday ; Mr * H . B . Horton in the chair . Resolutions were passed in furtherance of the movement , and an address was delivered by Mr . Beal , pointing out the objects of this and similar societies . The number of these societies in England alone was 170 , and the number of enrolled mem bers 200 , 000 , while the amount of subscriptions invested was 300 , 000 ? . per annum . On Tuesday the annual meeting of the subscribers to the City of London Ragged Schools Was held at the London Tavern , the Lord Mayor in the chair . The

      report stated that , the average daily attendance ^ at the boys' evening school was 47 , at the girls' evening school 35 . The average attendance at the day-school for infants was 88 . In the Sunday school for females the average attendance in the afternoon was 60 , in the evening 107 ; and the Sunday school for males in the afternoon 29 , in the evening 57 . There were also industrial classes for boys and girls ; and a "benevolent lady had established a sick fund , by which soup and other necessaries had been given to 1054 tlestitute families . During the year three boys Jaad been enrolled in the Shoe Black Society , and three employed as " Broomers . " Several girls had gone into service . The expenditure of the schools had exceeded the receipts by 74 , 1 ., and more subscriptions were urgently required . ~ -

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      Tho differences which for some weeks have existed between the master gunmakers and operative stockers and finishers of Birmingham , have at length been satisfactorily arranged ,, and the Government contracts for a supply of 23 , 9000 Minid rifles will be immediately commenced , and speedily executed . The proposed embodiment of the militia appears , by the accounts which reach us from various parts of the country , to bo less liked as iti-becomes better understood . Meetings to oppose , and petition against , tho bill have lately been held in Cowper-street school-room , Finsbury ; in the Beaumont Institution , Tower Hamlets ; in the Town Hall , Southampton ; at Worcester , the Mayor in the chair ; in tho Brighton Town Hall ; at Scarborough ;

      at Hereford ; Skipton , Clitheroe , Neath Abbey , Hull , and Meflhyr Tydvil . Tho Sheifield Polish and Hungarian Relief Committee announce , that the whole of tho refugees resident in the town , more than fifty in number , are now in a self-supporting position , and that , therefore tho Committee may now be dissolved . " A committee , consisting of Messrs . Groves , Harvey , Ironside , Hemingway , and Glaves , is appointed to wind up nnd audit tho accounts , and to present them to a public soiree , to bo held in commemoration of tho arrival of tho refugees in Sheffield . A small balance remains in tho treasurer ' s hands , which will bo applied to assisting any of tho refugees who may happen to ho in bad health , or whort of employment . Many of tho exiles , working at various handicrafts , aro gentlemen of good family and

      education . On Saturday last tho churchwardens of tho parish of St . Thomas , Winchester , distrained tho goods of tho Rov . Ignatius Coilingriilgo , Roman Catholic priest , for tho nonpayment of two church rates , amounting to 25 » . Tho articles distrained wore removed to tho police station , and wcro sold by public auction , and realized ill . frd . Tho goods wcro purchased by a gentleman of Mr . Collingridgo ' s congregation , and wcro by him presented to liis rovoronco . On Sunday Thomas II . Blundoll , Esq ., of Ineo Blundcll , tho Catholic Hig h Sheriff of tho county of Lancashire , attended high mass at Copperas Hill Chapel , and camo in full state m his carriago , attended by tho Sub-Sheriff , Allen Koyc , Esq ., another Catholic . Tho Sheriff had boon on

      attondaneo on Mr . Baron Aldoraon , who opened tho bprmg Commission lato on Saturday o von ing . On Sunday morning afc 10 , ho with liis officers , and tho Mayor , and sovoral members of tho Town Council , escorted Baron Aldorson to George ' s Church , and then proceeded instate in his carriago to Copperas I Fill , preceded by his javelin men , tho trumpeter going boforo him Bounding tho trumpet . Tho Sheriff , on arriving at tho chapel with his chaplain , tho Rov . Potor Whitonold , was conducted to tho pow of Mr . Koyp , tho javelin mon in livery , with their javelins , knooling boforo tho altar . Hig h mass was then colobratod , and after tho " sacrifice" had concluded , tho High Sheriff roturnodto his hotel in tho samo inannor a « ho camo . An itnmonso crowd of persons followed tho carriago .

      A wolf recently oscapod from WombwolPs monagorio * whilo exhibiting at Monmouth , and committed worjous injuries , amongst HOYorulflockB of uhoop in , tho

      neighbourhood of St . Fagan ' s , Glamorganshire . It was observed bv a labourer , who saw it feasting on the renyiins of three fine lambs which it had just killed . The alarm ¦ was given and a chase commenced , but the beast was riot killed uiitfl . it had reached Canton Common , where it fell , after having been pierced with eight bullets .. , , ; ?

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      On Friday week , the Roman , Gatholic Metropolitan Church at Dublin was arranged for the , ceremony <» f the selection , by the suffragan bishops , canons ; , and parish priests of the Archdiocese , of three ij ^ es , ' i |(> be transmitted to Rome , from which the Pope is . to .. Appoint a successor to the late Archbishop Murray . The solemn paraphernalia of mourning in which the cathedral had been enveloped , since the death of the

      venerable Archbishop , had disappeared during the * preceding night , and the altar was arranged for a J soleiiin high mass . At the conclusion of the mass the laity , and such of the clergy as were not entitle ^ Ho vote , were required to leave the church , and accordingly retired , when the doors were closed , and the election proceeded . The total number of electors in the Arch diocese is 54 , and of these £ hree were absents The votes were as follows : .. Archbishop Cullen ( Dignissimus ) . , ... 23 " . Very Rev . Dean Meyler ( Dignior ) . . ' , '" 9 Rev . L . Dunne , P . P . ( DignUs ) . , . ' , . . ' jj j " Three other candidates , the Rev . Dr . MUey ,, 0 f . the Irish College , Paris ; the Reverend Dr * O'EEaiilon , of Maynooth : the . Reverend Dr . Russell , of Maynooth ; and the Reverend William Meagher , were also put in nomination , but the three who ' obtain the highest number of votes , to which the epithets of digits , digntor , and dignissimus , are applied , , are ; , the ojily ones which will be forwarded to Rome ; and with so overwhelming a majority in favour of Primate Culfcn ,

      even if there had not been any understanding on" tho subject before , it is supposed to be quite certain that the Pope will present Mm'to the vacant see .: The result of this . election , is . a . significant fact . ; No moro marked evidence of the feelings which predominate at present in the great body of the Catholic clergy of Ireland , could have been given , — -feelings olf total obedience to the wishes of Rome , and indifference to the wishes of the English Government , and the ; moderate party in their own church . Manyj people have been at a loss to understand why Dr , . 'Cullen . should have

      been elected to a see which reduces him to a lower grade in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland . The fact is , that although the Archbishop of Armagh is the " Primate of all Ireland , " the occupant of the Archdiocese of Dublin is placed in a much more influential and conspicuous position . Besides this , it is rumoured that Dr . Cullen is , likely tq b ^ i in vested with the privileges of " papal delegate , " legate , if not with the full-blown honours of the cardinalate , dignities which would ride over all minor questions of local rank and precedence .

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      Sir John Harvey , Lieutenant Governor of Nova Septia since 1848 , expired at the Government House in Halifax at half-past eleven o ' clock on Monday , tho 22 nd ulfci Tho number of persons killed in tho United Statos l > y railroad accidents , last year , in proportion to tho number who travelled upon railroads , was ono to a hundred thousand . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ '"'' , Kossuth was at St . Louis on tho 13 th of March . His first speech in that place is said to have created a deep impression . Ho commented boldly and explicitly on tho Socioty of Jesus , and its position towards tho cause ot liberty . Ho also arguod that he was not opposing tho freedom of tho Roman-catholic religion by leaguing with Mazzini for the independence of Italy .

      Theodore Parker lectured last month in flow York on " Tho True nnd Falso Idea of a Gentleman . " Tho Mono Journal , edited by N . P . Willis , indulges in tho following characteristic American sketch of tho lecturer ' s porponiU appearanco : — " His fino arched forehead swells upward , and loses itself in tho bald dome where , as thophronolofp »' assort , tho organ of roveronco is placed , to peal forth ceaseless anthems to tho Creator's praieo . " Afc Toronto , on Sunday , tho 14 th of March ,. M *« Caugluiy , tho colobratod rovivnlist , was preaching to a congregation of Methodists , when an alarm was given t « Juic tho galleries wore giving way . A rush immediately cnenci , and though no lives wcro lost , eovoro injuries , wcro sustained by some of tho assombly . Tho preacher " improved tho occasion" by attributing ( ho panic to tho imincduuo agency of his satanic majesty . , . 1 ¦ ' - ¦¦ ' ¦ " ' - — - — —— n oi

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      344 THE LEIPEE [ Sa ^ rp ^

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      A physician at Prneuo lias just diod a roal " martvr flcioiu-oV ho had boon in tho habit of taking strong , « losc » of poinon , after swallowiiig an antidote , in order to no tho oflbcfcs . On tho 23 rd ult ., ho took so largo a ^"'^" Z of morphino that all tho effort's of norno modical fnonua pi ' oHont at the exhibition could not buvo him . On Friday wook a gentleman , a raombor of tlio Sou Hi Devon Rifio corps , was practising at a mark ° 0 <^ y * dintnnt , with a now riflo wluch had just arrived K « n » gunmakor at Exotor . Tho target was situated Jui " y up a sloop hill , Polo-hill , on tho Dovon OBtoto , A wu «» Htriifik ngainHt a pioco of rock , glanced over th 0 nw « Btruok a woman who was totally out of eight ofwo m ^\ man , inflicting a Hodi-wound in tho thigh . Xno < I"B * f " '„ has boon xnoasurod , and was found to boi no ;¦ Jo > fl' " ' 1880 yards , or more than throo quartors of a xnuo . -

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1852, page 344, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1930/page/12/