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Leader (1850-1860), 10th April 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 337, Untitled Article

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      has risen in indignation , and washed away . Protection from the S t ^ of Bristol . ( Loud cheersA WhaVwi U tiie Thafaes doP I don't think the present Government can turn it . ( Lovid cheers . ) Gentlemen , what will the Cl y de do ? Bo vou think they will return Protectionists for Glasgow ? TOries of " Never . " ) No . ( 4 voice , " Yes , " and reiterated cries 6 $ - " No" ) But there is a river which the Government believe will reverse the order of nature , and flow back to its source ; and there is a population that . the ( Jovernment believe to have been ' so insensible to the blessings of Free-trade " that they can be cajoled , or persuaded ; or by some other cry hoodwinked , until they give their consent to reverse it . That river is the Mersey—( Cries of " Never , " arid immense cheering)—and that

      population are the people who used to return Canning , who used to return Huskiason , who used to return lord Harrowby , arid whom the humble individual who now stands here has had the honour of representing as the humble advocate of Free-trade . ( Cheers . ) Well , and thenj gentlemen , when I . try . io confine the issue to Freetrade , what sort of herrings do they trail across my path ? ( Laughter . ) I think I have disposed of them already ; but I will read to you about another . I find in the Liverpool papers of to-day that Mr . Cobden , Mr . Bright , Lord John Russell , Sir James Graham , and others ( my humble name is edged in ) , are about to dishonour the Thtone and the Church . I refer you to the papers for the things

      which it is asserted we are about to do . ( Sear , hear . ) Now I say I will take very good care they don't catch me about any such nonsense as that . ( Laughter . ) I will confine myself to my mission ,. ( Cheers . ) If you enable me to prese those blessings for which Sir Robert Peel encountered obloquy of every kind , and made the greatest sacrifices t hat man can make , in order to confer on youif you will enable me to maintain them , I will not go about any o f this ridiculous nonsense which they think proper to attribute to me . ( Cheers . ) Gentlemen , I say that that policy is a beneficial policy , and therefore it is a Conservative policy ; and I tell you that there are two kinds of destructives—not one . there is the one destructive

      who rashly pulls down venerable institutions ; but there is another kind of destructive who attempts to take away from a contented and grateful people blessings which they justly enjoy , and which would deprive society of that heartfe lt cement of affection which unites the Throne to the people , and the people to the Throne , and makes us one loyal , thriving and industrious population . " ( Loud applause . ) Mr . Cardwell concluded by entreating the electors of ~ Liverpool " not to consent to reverse or to alter , or to modify , but to be resolved to secure , maintain , and extend that Free-trade policy which is the blessing of the age . " "

      After a short address from Mr . Joseph Ewart , the following resolution . was proposed by Mr . Rathbone , seconded by . Mr . Nicol , and carried unanimously , with loud cheering . - " That this meeting pledges itself to use all constitutional means to secure the return to parliament of Edward Cardwell , Esq ., and Joseph Christopher Ewart , Esq ., a 3 Members for this borqugh at the next election . " Some other resolutions with respect to details having been put and carried , the meeting separated with loud cheers for the two Free-trade candidates .

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      EJECTION MATTERS . On Thursday week a public meeting of the inhabitants of Gateshead was held at the Greyhound Inn , to consider the claims of the three gentlemen , Mr . Hutt , the present Whig member , Mr . Walters , and Mr . Liddoll , who have offered themselves aa candidates at the ensuing election . A resolution was unanimously adopted , recommending Mr . Ralph Walters " as the most fit and proper person to represent the borough . " Mr . Waltors is an advocate for Household suffrage , and the separation of Church and State . Mr . Liddell , a Conservative , is said to have no chance . The contest

      will bo between Mr . Hutt and Mr . Walters . The progress of liberal opinions may be judged of hy the fact , that in the episcopal city of Wells , the Bitting Tory member , who has held his sent for many ycavs , has announced to his constituents his intention ot retiring from parliainenfc . This has brought out *'• Serjeant Kinglako , who , in a manly and spirited address , has declared his determination to contest tho scat ( if nocessary ) on liberal and froo trade principlos . Ihe present members for Tavistock , the Hon . E . & ¦ Wiiasoll , and Mr . J . S . Trolawny , will have to fight tho « oxt election with Mr . S . Carter , tho barrister , on tho radical interest .

      Ilio canvass on behalf of Mr . Roundoll Palmer , Mr . JJrmno , Mr . 11 . p . Collier , and Mr . Biokluun Escott , 11 1 ¦ l ymouth , has been prosecuted with great vigour uuring tho past week . The friends of tho several ow 8 USWr * tlmt moh of thom is suro of tho «« ction , | md thoro docs not appear nt prosont , any piosnoet of thoir being convinced that defeat is possible Mr . John Choetham ; of Stulybridgo , was introduced ? J } Sectors of South Lancashire , at a mooting hold Manchester on Tuonduy , oh a candidate for tho eancy which will bo created by tho rotiromont of A f l 0 xi »» dQr Homy . Mr . George Wilson prosidod . res , f * . thunktt to Mr ' HoIU'y for hls 3 Ol < vic ° S » « WMl tt cm-rid m iiivourofMr - Chootlmm woro unwiimouuly tent ' H ° Cmvon F « Borkoley has announced his in" of » t « mdin for Cheltenham , hi accordance with

      a requisition numerously signed by the Liberals of the borough . Sir Willoughby Jones is talked of by the Conservatives . Mr . W . J . Fox was at Oldham on Monday evening , and addressed an assemblage of about 4000 persons at the Working Men's Hull . A vote of confidence in Mr . Fox was carried ; by an overwhelming majority . ¦ Mr . Bernali the invaluable chairman of Committees of the House of Commons , and' Mr . Twisden Hodges , the two sitting members for Rochester , will most probably be again returned without opposition .

      The Conservatives of South Shields had the temerity to try a public entry of their candidate , the Hon . H .-.. T . Liddell into the town on Monday . As soon as he with his supporters arrived at the railway station they were received with hisses ; and hootings ; and the carriage , band , and banners besprinkled with mud by the working men and sailors ' wives who accompanied them to the Golden Lion Inn . Mr . Liddell attempted to address the people from one of the inn windows ,

      when a similar scene ensued , the honourable gentleman being received by a volley of yells and hisses , mixed with cries of " Give us the franchise , " " No Tories , " " The cheap loaf / " " You want to steal our bread , you rogue , &c . " After making a few remarks , most of which were inaudible , in consequence of the clamour , he was obliged to retire . Mr . Mather , a Protectionist Radical (!) candidate , is in the field also ; but the Freetrader , Mr . Ingham , is considered safe .

      Admiral Sir Charles Napier , and Mr . Torrens M'Cullagl ) , M . P ., addressed a large meeting at the Corn Exchange , Yarmouth , on Monday evening , and were well received . They both expressed themselves in favour of a large and comprehensive parliamentary reform , and the extension of Free-trade . Mr . Hadfield has retired from the contest for Sheffield ; and , from the tone of a letter received at that town , from Mr . Touhnin Smith , it seems doubtful whether he will continue to stand , as his supporters are divided . Mr . Roebuck and Mr . Parker , the present members , have , therefore , some chance of being reelected without opposition . - ..- ¦

      The whole of the Roman-catholic press of Ireland is now joined in opposition to Sir Thomas Redington , the rival of Mr . Duffy , at New Ross . The Tablet denounces him in a furious article as " the slave of Pontius Pilate !" Mr . Serjeant Shee has addressed the electors of the county of Kilkenny . His principles are those of tenant right , free trade , anti-state-church endowment , and anti-Ecclesiastical Titles Act . There is very little doubt of his success . A meeting of the Tralee Chamber of Commerce was held on Thursday , at which Mr . Maurico O'Connell , M . P ., was present . After various and prolonged " interpellations" between , the Rev . Mr . Mawe and Mr . O'Connell , as to that gentleman ' s political stewardship , the meeting came to an unanimous determination to , support him against " all comers . "

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      THE LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD : 454 MEN DROWNED . About noon on Tuesday , men about town , merchants , journalists , and other persons who fall in tho way of exclusive news , heard with a shudder of alarm and astonishment that the Birkenhead had struck on a rock in Simon ' s bay , Capo of Good Hope , on the 27 th of February , and had broken up and sunk—upwards of 400 men sharing her fate . It was a mere rumour of the clubs and newsrooms . It was only in tho newspapors . No intelligence had reached tho Admiralty , and the First Lord , tho Duko of Northumberland , lmd to endure the mortification of tolling Lord Montoaglo ,

      and through him tho whole house on tho sumo evening , that ho knew nothing about it except through tho newspapers . So matters remained until Wednesday morning , when full accounts woro published by tho daily journals . It should bo remarked that the BirJcenhead was on her way from Simon ' s Bay to Algoa Bay and Buffalo Mouth , thoro to disembark tho drafts of tho different regiments sent out to reinforce Sir Harry Smith . Tho best- account of tho wreck is contained in tho following report which has been addressed to tho Commandant of Cnpo Town by Captain Wright , of tho 91 st regiment , 0110 of tho survivors : — ' ' " Simon ' HBiiy .-Marohl , 1 W > 3 .

      " StR , —It is with feelings of tho deepest regret thai ; I have-to announce to ' you tho lo . ss of Her Majesty'h steamer JBirkenheady which took . place on a rock about two and tt half or three milos oft' Point Dungoiyafc % a . m ., 2 Gth February . " Tho son was smooth nt tho time , and tho vossol wus steaming at tho rate of eight and a half knots nn hour . Sho struck the rock , and it penetrated through hor bottom just aft of the foremast . Tho rush of water was so groat that there is no doubt that most of thQ men in tho lower troop dock woro drowned in tholr

      hammocks . The rest of the men and all the officers appeared on deck , when Major Seaton called all the officers about him and impressed on them the necessity of preserving order and silence among the men . He directed me to take and have executed whatever orders the commander might . give me . Sixty men were immediately put onto the chain pumps on the lower afterdeck , and told off in three reliefs ; sixty men were put on to the tackles of the paddlebox boats , and the remainder of the men were brought on to the poop , so as to ease the fore part of the ship . She was at this time rolling' heayily . The commander ordered the

      horses to be pitched out of . the port gangway , and the cutter to'be " . got ready for the women and children , who had all been collected under the poop awning . As soon as the horses were got over the side , the women and children were passed into the cutter , and under charge of Mr . Richards , master ' s assistant , the boat then stood off about 150 yards . Just after they were out of the ship the entire bow broke off at the foremast , the bowsprit going up in the air towards the fore topmast , and the funnel went over the side , carrying away the starboard paddlebox and boat . The paddlebox boat capsized when being lowered . The large boat in the centre of the ship could not be got at .

      "It Was about twelve or fifteen minutes after she struck that the bow broke off . The men then all went up on the poop , and in about five minutes more the vessel broke in two , crosswise , just abaft the engineroom , and the stern part immediately filled and went down . A few men jumped off just before she did so , but the greater number remained to the last , and so did every officer belonging to the troops . All the men I put on the tackles ; I fear , were crushed when the funnel fell ; and the men and officers below at the pumps could not , I think , have reached the deck before the vessel broke up and went down . The survivors

      clung , some to the rigging of the mainmast , part of which , was out'of the water , and others , got hold of floating pieces of wood . I think there must have been about 200 on the drift wood . I was on a large piece along with five others , and we picked up nine or ten more . The swell carried the wood in the direction of Point Danger . As soon as it got to the weeds and breakers , finding that it would not support all that were on it , I jumped off and swam on shore j and when the others , and also those that were on the other pieces of wood , reached the shore , we proceeded into the country , to try to find a habitation of any sort , where we could obtain shelter . Many of the men were naked , and almost all without shoes . Owing- to the country

      being covered with thick , thorny bushes , our progress was slow , but after walking till about 3 p . m ., having reached land about twelve , we came to where a waggon was outspanned , and the driver of it directed us to a small bay , where there is a hut of a fisherman . The bay is called Stanford ' s Cove . We arrived there about sunset , and as the men had nothing to eat , I went on to a farm-house , about eight or nine miles from the Cove , and sent back provisions for that day . The next morning I sent another day ' s provisions , and tho men were removed up to a farm of Captain Smales' , about twelve or fourteen miles up the country . Lieutenant Girardot , of the 43 rd , and Cornet Bond , of the 12 th Lancors , accompanied this party , which amounted to sixty-eight men , including eighteen sailors .

      " I then went down to the coast , and during Friday , Saturday , and Sunday , I examined tho rocks for more than twenty miles , in the hope of finding some men who might have drifted in . I fortunately fell in with the crow of a whale boat , that is employed sealing on Dyer ' s Island ; I got them to take the boat oiitsido the sea-weed , while I wont along tho shore . The * ea-weed on the coast is vory thick , and of immense length , so that it would have caught most of the drift wood j

      Happily , tho boat picked up two men , and I also found two . Although they were all much exhausted , two of them having boon in tho water thirty-eight hours , they woro all rig ht tho next day except a low bruises . It was oighty-Hix hours on Sunday afternoon , when I loft tho coast since tho wreck had tnkon placo ; and as I had carefully examined ovory part of tho rocks , and also sent tho whalo boat over to Dyer's Island , 1 can safely assort that when I loft , there was not a living hoiiI on tho coant of those that had boon on board tho

      'ill-fated Birkenhoad . \ v " On Saturday , I mot Mr . Mackny , tho civil cominissionor of Calodon , arid also Field-comet Villiers , Tho former told mo that ho had ordered tho mou who had boon at Captain (^ males' to bo clothed by him , ho having a utoro nt his farm . Forty soldiers received clothing thoro . Mr . Mockuy , tho iiold-cornot , and iny » Holf , accompanied by u party of inon brought down by Mr . Villiors , wont along tho count us far a « tho point that runs out to Dyer ' s Island , and all tho bodies that woro met with woro intorrod , Thoro were not many , Uowover , and . I regret to say it could bo easily a , c «

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1852, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1930/page/5/