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Leader (1850-1860), 23rd October 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 1006, Untitled Article

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      The news from Australia grows more stupendous as the number of emigrants in the colony increases , and as time enables them to develope the riches of the gold digg ings . Hitherto there appears to be no exception to the rule that the production of gold is exactly measured by the application of labour to the work . More emigrants , more gold —rthat is the rule ; and the latest production has accordingly been the greatest . At the last date , the week ' s produce to be brought into Melbourne

      nearly touched upon half a million sterling ra value , even at the depressed rate in the local market ; exceeding it , according to the standard price of gold . The disturbance of industry in the districts nearest to the gold region continues , and a very large defalcation is threatened in the wool produce of next season j the sheep being sacrificed as mutton to the immediate wants of the gold diggers , with such haste as to waste the wool and tallow . It is evident that a larger emigration from this country would pay both the state and the individual , especially if large measures were taken

      to supply the colonizing bands with provisions . Some anxiety has been expressed by a public writer on that point ; but there is no need for apprehension : the reward is so manifest to all , and so certain , that the mere announcement of the market , in the many places capable of sending supplies , will be sure to bring the supplies . The purveyor ' s trade for the gold diggers will not be one slow of development ; and emigrants need not wait in fear of its being stunted . The great want is an effective machinery to convey as quickly as possible proper persons who want to go to the places that require their labour .

      A subject that has severely agitated a portion of the home community is the railway cab question . Most travellers know that the Railway companies admit certain cabs into their own grounds , at each great terminus , upon certain conditions , of which registration is the most obvious to the public . A certain fine , bonus , or douceur , is said

      to be exacted by the Railway Company from the cab-proprietor . It is reported , indeed , that a species of trafficking in cab accommodation has been carried to a much greater extent by some railway officials , and that the opportunity has been employed as a means of coercing travellers into the use of more expensive vehicles than omnibuses . No doubt there is a convenience in

      having a body of registered cabs , submitting to a peculiar responsibility , which guarantees to the hurried traveller some certainty as to the fairness of charge , safety of luggage , and so forth ; and probably , if only fair arrangements had been enforced , this question would not have arisen . Some provocation , however , has been given . The

      owners of cabs excluded from a railway terminus have proceeded at law against cab-drivers plying at railway stations for breach of the law , which limits the plying to certain licensed stands ; mid the decision of the magistrate is adverse to the railway privilege , though it has been allowed to stand over for the Railway Company to make

      new arrangements . Another railway has been called to account in a very categorical manner by > i young gent lennm who is likely to attract attention . Mr . Slaiicy I ' akinpton , son of the Secretary of State , is a shareholder in the . Birmingham and Uristol Railway , and also n traveller by it ; and apropos to the

      accident at King ' s Norton , he puts , a variety of questions to the managers of the Railway , professedly for the purpose of obtaining materials to icl ' uti tin ; charge of gross negligence ; against those managers . Their answer has not been yet published , mid we do not yet know whether they an able to furnish Mr . Slaney PakinHoii with tin

      desired materials . Various disorderly people have been committing what railway directors would probably call " accidents , " but which it , has hil . lic . rto been usual to call murders , or murderous attacks of rather u more striking kind than the ordinary run . At . Yarmouth , Ilowth , a corn porter , baa attempted

      to murder his fellow servant , Mary Ann Proudfoot , by the old fashioned means of pitch plaster . \ The girl had been bis mistress , indeed was so 4 ^ th e time ; and he took that short method of avoiding ulterior responsibilities . At Bristol , Spear , a shoemaker , stabs his wife for exasperating him with reproaches of having pawned her gown . Independently of these more shocking crimes , however , the police reports just now are full of scenes of social disorder , differing from the offences of the common criminal classes . Conjugal dissensions , violences not conjugal , personal assaults , frauds , are the incidents . These have a correlative

      accompaniment in the multiplying advertisements that continually appear in the Times , praying this or that letter of the alphabet to return to his disconsolate wife , to his afflicted parents , or to his forgiving employers . Society seems to be treating itself badly just at present . The murder in Paris , in which a Spaniard named Perez savagely slays a girl who refuses to accompany him to Madrid , is a melo-drama of real life less unusual in that" capital of strong sensations .

      The duel at Egham must be regarded also as a French rather than an English event . The gentleman who has been killed seems to have drawn his fate upon himself . He had thrown reproaches of the grossest dishonour upon another French refugee ; he had admitted that those charges were unfounded , but had compelled the other to meet him in duel on the strength of a very far fetched punctilio as to the too peremptory terms in which an explanation had been demanded . He had more than once refused an accommodation . The

      adversary and the two seconds have been arrested , and will no doubt be brought to trial before a jury very little qualified to judge of the moral compulsion which makes it incumbent upon any French gentleman to accept a duel , if he be challenged to it . To avoid it is to incur social disgrace for

      ever . English juries have some difficulty in entering into French feeling on that subject ; a difficulty which is the more remarkable , since another section of English society ought to sympathize with the foreign sentiment . We have this week , letters from Calcutta , recounting the really hard case of a young gentleman in that capital . He had been implicated in some trifling quarrel , in which he was not originally a principal ; he drew upon

      himself the anger of one of the litigants , and was publicly kicked . New to the scene , anxious no doubt to follow the proper course , he at once sought advice , but experienced some delay in obtaining it ; and it was three days before his " friend " waited upon the aggressor for an explanation . He is , however , called before a court-martial , under a grave accusation , and at the date of our letters lie had been under arrest for eight weeks , with

      the inquiry hanging over his head . Now , what was the offence of this young man ? He was charged by the Judge-advocate with " conduct disgraceful to the diameter of an officer and a gentleman , for having subjected himself to the indignity of being publicly kicked , without adopting any sufficient measures immediately , or for three ; days , to obtain reparation for such conduct . " In other words , lit ; is penally called to account for riot inviting a duel !

      At last , the period for the Duke of Wellington ' ^ funeral is fixed between the 1 f > th and 17 th , which a contemporary acutely interprets to mean the Kith . The body will be brought from Wahner , to lie in state three days at Chelsea Hospital . It will he conveyed to the Nom ; ( iiinrd /; on the eve of tin ; funeral ; from that building it , will he

      escorted to St . Paul ' s Cathedral by a procession , comprising a thousand soldiers , representative detachments from all the regiments in the kingdom , and officers of the foreign armies in which 1 . 1 k ; Duke held military rank . Probably the Queen ' s will |><; tin ; only eiuringe in the procession ; the ; rest , of course ; , consisting solely of foot and horse . It will form a very striking pageant .

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      1006 THE LEADER . [ SATURDAY ffi '¦ ' . ^ -Sr-g-tTS- , ' | figfr ^^ -p- i

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      REPORT OF THE REVIVAL OF CONVo CATION . Th * ZW of Monday having stated that Convocation T ™ * be ^ vived , after waiting a week the XL fTiwt ^ be a Ministerial or ^ fl the truth of the report . Here is the articled "* " THE FALSE BEPOETS OF Thb UEVIVAL m , CONVOCATION .

      "We are authorized to give the most unqualify tradition for the second time , to an aeserti ^ S , ^ been published by the Times , that it is the intengn % her Majesty's Ministers to sanction the revivalI ? ^ active powers of Convocation . There is not tJir e has been , the slightest foundation for such a rumour * ' « Her Majesty ' s Government have not , we most Atrnctly declare entertained the question for one moment " We understand that it was in consequence of a fn r u wager on the Stock Exchange that our contemporarTSS hoaxed into the promulgation of the absurditv in „„

      But we «* a « l evou ™« r be justified in doubtin g the authority of the denial , if we judge it by si 1 Ministerial statements which have apw , rp ;!| ^" rf Herald . « " * - « ea m the

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      SCHOOLS OP DESIGN—SHEFFIELD . The Duke of Newcastle made a great speech on the influence of Schools of Design on Art , on Tuesday last in the Music Hall , Sheffield . The Duke presided over the annual meeting for the distribution of prizes to the pupils ; and among a vast gathering of local notables were Viscount Milton , M . P ., James Mont gomery , the poet , Mr . Carr , the mayor , Mr . William Fisher , junior Mr . Solly , Mr . John Holland , Mr . H . Hoole , Mr . £ . Hadfield , Dr . Hall , the Reverend T . Sale , vicar of Sheffield , and other clergymen and laymen . The yearly report , read by Mr . Wightman , the honorary secretary , affords the following extract : — " Since the last annual report of the council a complete and important change has taken place in the management of schools of design . The provincial schools have hitherto been under the control and direction of the masters and other officers of the London school , au arrangement for many reasons unsatisfactory . Under the system at present adopted , all the schools of design in the country , that of London included , are placed under a central authority established at Marlborough-houso , entitled ' The Department of Practical Art , ' and forming a component part of the Board of Trade . The two gentlemen pm ^ d at the head of this department have recently paid an official vi sit to

      Sheffield , and expressed themselves in every respfcC . satisfied with the management and efficiency of the school , * n& assured the council not only of the continuance of the present grant , but of further assistance , on condition , however , that some steps should speedily be taken by the town to erect a building suitable for the efficient carrying out of the extended system of art education contemplated by government . That system , embraces the universal diffusion of a knowledge of art throughout tho entire population . The mode in which this system is proposed to be carried out is by the establishment , under tho auspices of the Board ot Trade , of elementary drawing schools throughout the for its centre

      kingdom , each sories of schools having a school of design . Tho school continues to maintain the satisfactory position it has occupied for somo years . J no debt lias decreased materially ; the attendance ot pupils continues steady ; tho studies are carried on in tho samo manner oh heretofore , and will bo rendered more comp eto bv the addition of a class for colour , which it is intended io establish forthwith . Hitherto , such a class has boon considered unnecessary , and so long as tho school was inertly viewed an an adjunct to manufactures , where form a on prevails , perhaps it was . But in order to meet «» ° ° * J ™" *;„ ,., . , w . w nr , t ,. ri „; , „> , ! l , v l . hn irovornmont tho establishment

      If I > T If Jl \/ II l .-AA . UV ^ 'A m' »» a m > v «« - _/ ----- j ^ - of this class becomes absolutely necessary . , , " Tho artiatieal progress of tho school is evidenced by tl « - number of medals awarded to its pupils at tho rfi 0 " t |'" liibition at Murlborough House , and tho high pom live ¦ tirnony to its efficiency given in the jurors ropoitu oi Great Exhibition . " „ .. ... ^ atle When the report was read , tho Duke of Newcastle addressed the assemblage , including both bcxoh , subject . Ho did not confine his observations how Jtho Shellield School , but extended them to the tion of art generally . , 1 ,,. ; ,,, l ini )»¦ " i

      ... , ,, r .. , .- , ,- . i « , ; . ; , he occ . u , He hadhesitatod in taking tho position m > ^ not from unwillingness , but because ho thoug ¦ post , mig ht , have been held by one of those ar . swc ^ ^ urt and science to whom the country is lx ; ? , , . j ) itioll grout measure for the NuccesH of tins < 1 ™ ' » l > * A \ # Hut if he hud hesitated n moment on thut gi ' l ) l ( i felt that , it wjw no concern of hw , and he acW ' ] J ' , alt . post , feeling Unit " no man professing ««» ' » " ofll i ^ isn . aiiHhip—Mint no one occupying the position < . iiry > lutor of this country , whether elective or »« : lalor of this country , wlictner eie » u ,. v ., -- in

      ^ could not but feel the liveliest interest ^^ u und HrioncoB which they are intended «<> . ^ |) irf ( Applause . ) Uvery legislator ought to < ™ ^ ^ power to promote those objects . Unit »« h < (( J ( . ground on which all could u . eot , to ]» " » lloU ''" „ J ,,,,,,, ^ tliu induNlry of tli « country , and enable u - ^ ^ in the great race of rivalry « et bd " ™/ , " nua bc < - <>» plication of art in every department of J " , „ ,, „ , to a vital necessity ; and if , ho continued , y ^ carry succossiully to tuo ends < of tho carvu

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 1006, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1957/page/2/