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      made for the pulpit where Gavazzi stood , and one fellow mounted the stairs . He was instantly seized by the Italian and thrown over the reading desk . Disengaging himself from his robe , the padre then grasped the pulpit chair , and with it felled three or four others who endeavoured to scale his stronghold . « It was a memorable sight to witness the coolness and undaunted bravery with " which the Italian defended himself singly against his assailants . " The conflict would , however , have been but brief , had not a sergeant of artillery , named Lawson , and Gavazzi ' s secretary , forced their way through the crowd to the assistance of the preacher . For a space of twenty minutes these three held some

      sixty wild Irishmen at bay . Enfuriated at the failure of their efforts , a reinforcement of several hundred of the rioters were sent for , and quickly made their way to the scene of action . Paoli , the secretary , first fell . Gavazzi—who had continued to deal terrible blows with his stool , as the wretches assailed him , shouting , " Let us murder him in the church !"—was seized by the legs , and thrown from the pulpit into the crowd below . Gavazzi himself says , in telling the story : — " This was to have been the hour of my death , and could have been . The falling with such violence might have sufficed to crush my skull ; but God was there to protect his poorbut confident servant . I fell on a floor of

      ene-, mies' heads and shoulders , and it was afterwards said that as I was of iron disposition , I weighed also as iron itself ; but I sustained no wound from my fall . The crowd then dispersing , I found myself stretched out on the ground , with a legion of savages over me , overjoyed at being able to slay me . I then received a kick on my chin , which has produced a slight wound , and a contusion on the jaw ; as the great crowd prevented the use of sticks , they endeavoured to supply it with their feet . I perceived that nothing but a gigantic effort could save me , and I employed it accordingly . I rose in spite of them , and by blows the

      opened a passage to the staircase which leads to subterraneous place where the Sunday schools are , and having met assassins on the stairs , I overcame them . The last , who from his size impeded my passage as it were a barricade , and threatened me with his large stick , calling me by the vilest names , I very coolly rolled down the stairs , and jumping over him reached the entry of the Sunday school . Fortunately the school was dark ; having examined it in the morning I became acquainted with its structure . I took the left path , among an innumerable quantity of benches , while the savages , who were still pursuing me , were obliged to delay before thev could reach , the door . "

      Gavazzi thus escaped , but unimpressed with the danger of assault , or the evil of disturbance , he proceeded in a few days to Montreal , where he also delivered an anti-Catholic lecture . Here also a riot took place . The reporter of the Montreal Herald thus describes the scene around the church : "At about a quarter to eight o ' clock , a band of ruffians we learn—for , although in sight , wo were at too great a distance to see more than that a general vielSe had taken place—attacked and overpowered the police ( Captain Ermatingcr receiving n severe wound on the head ) , and proceeded to force their way into the church , from which a body of fifteen or twenty repulsed them , several shots from guns

      and pistols being flrod from both sides . Tho assaulting party were effectually routed ; two or three of their numbor were left dead or severely wounded on the ground , but wore shortly afterwards removed in cars by their friends . Soon after this occurroneo , a company of tho 2 Gth Carnoronians murchcd from Craig-street , and wore drawn up between tho engino-houso and that street . All seemed perfectly quiet , and remained so until about a quarter-past eight o ' clock , at about which timo tho lecturo was concluded , and tho audience inside the church had begun to leave for homo . At this timo the troops wore marched across Craig-street , and took their position in two lines , across ltadayondc-streot—ono lino nearly opposite Zion Church , and tho other some- hundred paces nearer

      Craigfttroot . A good deal of hooting arid noise prevailed at tins time , and on tho M'Oill-Htreot side of Craig-Btreet , some disturbances with tho lowest lino of troopH occurred , and two or threo Hhots woro firod ; in other rcHpecttt all seemed peaceable . Wo were , at this timo , at tho cornor of St . JuinoH-Htreol . and M'Gill-street , and had a clear and distinct view of the troops , arid of tho people in their immediate vicinity . There we saw no violence on tho part of the mob —nothing , indeed , but the peo ple hurrying from tho church—when , to our uttor astonishment , wo heard and Haw tho troops firo two distinct running vollieu among tho apparently , to uh , peaceable eitizeiiH . Thinking it high timo to attend to our own nullity , we bent a rapid retrait from this apparent wcono of wanton and uncalled for slaughter . " The riots lmvo caused much painful sensation in the two cities .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen has been as active as ever . this week ; nay , she has made it a week distinguished above many others in her reign . She has appeared at the head of her army in the camp at Chobham . Beside this , her Majesty has given a grand concert , and held a Drawingrooin . It is somewhat curious that Prince Albert and the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha visited , on Saturday , the famous scene where popular justice did its best to mark tho Austrian brigand , Haynau—Barclay and Perkins ' s Brewery . Lord Eglinton received the Order of the Thistle at a Chapter held at Buckingham Palace , on Saturday .

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      Tho Queen is to vitiit Hull . Tho preparations for her reception are to cost tho people 3000 L , dispensed by tho town council . A curiously-composed "dinner-party" met at Sir William Molesworth's , on Saturday . There were the Bishop of Oxford ; the French Ambautjador , and Mr . Delano ( reputed editor of the Times ) , Mr . Cobden , M . I' ., and the Earl of Aberdeen , Sir James Graham , the Duke- of Newcastle , and others of the Ministerialist ; party . Mr . Maurice O'Connoll ( eldest non of Daniel O'Connoll ) died suddenly of apoplexy oa the morning of Saturday lant . Ho had represented Traloo for tho last twenty years . His younger brother , Mr . Daniel O'Connell , is likely to obtain tho place without any difficulty .

      Lord Niuih has Buffered an unneee . SHary addition of diHcredit . It was Htatod that Lord NaaH had told Mr . Edmund O'Plahorty of bin having made an offer of oflieo to Mr . Koofjjh ; thin Lord NauH directly denied , although rorninded of the timo and place of the conversation . Mr . O'Klahorty now reiterates bin ticcount of tho conversation , and britigH Mr . Martin of Kohh to confirm it . Mr . T . JVEyncourt , member for Lambeth in tho last Parliament , Iiuh got a haridtu > iiio vase , worth 4 ( X ) guinoas , au a fimtimonial from hit ) late count ituen In . Mr . P'Kyncourt ih an old reformer , and celebrated in his political career for bin many election contcnta , having won nine victorioH , and Buffered but ono defeat , namely , at tho lant election for Lambeth . M . do i ) illo , Duniflh Mininlor at thin Court , died nuddenly on Saturday morninir from dinenHo of tho heart .

      " Waterloo day" was celebrated in nuito a novel way thin year . The choir of German vocaliHlH , now in London , visited the new CryHtal Palaoo , and a friendly party of diHtin ^ umlicd men were invited to meet them . After innpeitiii (_ r ( i 1 ( , paldc ^ , ( , 1 m vocalint . H tried thoir united voicon in an impromptu concert , to tho great delight of the workmen , who ceased the clatter of their thousand hanimnrn to linteii to their swelling Hong . M r . ( JladHtono and bin wife , . Kobort Chambers and bin family , Mdllo . Rachel and M . Jtognior , and the Duke of LoiiiHtor , were among the company , and joined in tho luncheon which tho directors prepared for the party .

      One hundred Derbyites met at Lord Derby ' s on Wednesday . They agreed to support Lord Stanley ' s amendment . The Globe says : — " Mr . Disraeli appeared among the invited , but it was quite manifest that he nei * ber sought nor received the confidence of Lord Derby and hjs friends , and that he has been in some degree supplanted by Sir John Pakington , as leader of the Commons . The Eoman Catholic section of the National Education Board in Ireland have obtained a triumph . The Evening Mail " records with shame" that the warfare waged against AroTihisTinn Whatelv ' s Evidences of Christianity has been

      successful . The work , in fact , is " rejected , expunged , by an overwhelming majority of ten to one , from the list of books used in the National Schools . It further transpires that " the Presbyterian Commissioners fought under the scarlet banner of Archbishop Cullen , " that the task of conducting the opposition fell exclusively upon the shoulders of Mr . Blackburne , the ex-chancellor of Ireland , Archbishop Whately being absent on a tour of visitations , and Mr . Baron Greene being again unable to attend the meeting of the board owing to the pressure of his judicial duties . . ¦ .

      The Court of Proprietors ( East India Company ) have considered the Government measure . All the company of the proprietors praised the go vernment of the directors , and attributed all the evils of India to the interference of the Board of Control . Mr . Ayrton mildly dissented , and advised that the proprietors should take up an independent position , and not volunteer to defend the directors . Mr . Sullivan also condemned the directors for not having protested against the interventions of the Board of Control , and for not having publicity in all their proceedings . Sir Charles Wood ' s bill was universally condemned as improper , and , in connexion with his speech , as highly ule had been successful

      illogical ; for if the Company ' s r , why abridge their power ? Mr . Sullivan also advised an . enlarged constituency and an independent Indian council . A " scene" took place in the lobby of the House of Commons , on Monday evening . There were several noblemen and gentlemen congregated in the little office of the Telegraph Company ; and , among- them , Lord de Mauley dictated a message to the Duke de Brabant , at Brussels . The Duke was waiting at the other end of the wire , and returned a courteous reply . The message was pretty long ( being eleven lines in the daily papers ) , but its transmission and the receipt of the answer did not occupy more than five minutes . Then Lord Howard de Walden

      ( Brussels ) asked Lord Cadogan ( London ) was he soon coming to Brussels , and Lord Cadogan eaid , " "—' the whole question and answer not occupying thirty-eight seconds . Lord Howard de Walden sent a short message to his wife ; and Sir James Carmichael ( at Brussels ) cut short the conversation by advising his English friends not to let their luncheon get cold . Upon the hint , the directors lunched . Shortly 200 continental cities will be admitted to the international conversation , and talk with the antipodes will be possible , if Mr . Brett ' s wire across the Mediterranean , Africa , Egypt , the East Indies , to Australia , be carried on as proposed . A college for the education of negroes is to be established at Bermuda . At a meeting of its promoters , the Rev . Hampden Gurney said that " while the college invited those of dark shade , it did not exclude the white ; thus a struggle with respect to caste might arise ; but when he saw how in the West Indies brown men sat on

      the bench , ho saw that this prejudice was not insuperable . Judge IFaliburton expressed his opinion that tho institution would be a benefit to tho black race ; but ho would have preferred " not quite so fine a name as college , as that pro-supposed its being devoted to gentlemen . " A meeting took place , in tho Town-hall , Oldham , tho Mayor in the chair , on Monday , Juno 13 th , to petition parliament in favour of the opening of tho Crystal Palace . The object of the meeting was diverted from its purpose by the conduct of tho Mayor and a number of persons sent to tho meeting to break it . In consequence , says tho Matichester Guardian , of what tho promoters of the former meeting , held on Monday evening , considered to bo tho unfair decision of tho Mayor , they engaged tho

      Working-Man b Hall , and issued placards , calling a meeting to bo held on the Wednesday evening , at eight o ' clock . Mr . JTenry ItobbordB was called to tho chair . Mr . Quarmby moved a resolution in favour of abolishing all laws causing Hiich institutions as tho Crystal Palace to bo closed on Sundays . Mr . Knott seconded tho resolution . Mr . Chester oppoaed . Mr . DavioH , ono of tho deputation , said it had been reported that tho Crystal Palace Company , being rich , had sent them out with tho view to profit , but that statement wan not true . Tho Crystal Palace Company had refuflod to take any step in order to agitato the public

      mind . It was the working men of London who had sent Mr . Prideaux and himself to enlist thoir sympathies ; and Nuroly they would extend them to their brethren . Ho was frequently and loudly cheered . Mr . ironfall , of Jtoyton , from the gallery , said it wus charged that an inn was to bo built at tho very gates of the CryHtal Palace . He would link if there w / ih a church in tho country which had not itH public-houHo at every gate ; and if the Crystal Palaoo woro cloned on that ground , they miiHt on tho Hamo ground close all tho churehen . The involution being put , a forest of hands wan held up in its favour , and tho chairman « aid thirty or forty wuh hold up agahjwt it . Tho

      improvement of the dwellingH of tho poor in London HeoiriH Homowhat checked , if we tuko the condition of tho Metropolitan AHHociation uh a tewt . Some of its rooms remain unlot—why they cannot « uy—and thoir enomioH accuse fhom of amfuBum in thoir accounts . They lmvo declared a dividend of one-and-a-half per cent . A largo building in tlndoll-Btroot , Long-aero , ban boon lilU'd up with batliH anil wiihIi-Iiouhoh for the poor , it contains one hundred private bathn , two largo plunging batbn , and a washing department where lifty worn mi can wiiHh and iron at the same timo ( and , wo proBUino , talk during the operation . ) The Ballast Board having invited tondors for tho construction of a new graving dook , it woe responded to by

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      TIIK TKMPTKR AND TIIK TIIIKF .. " IjICAO not into temptation , " in a maxim an well uh a prayer . Tho following Hceno in tho Thames Police-court llliiHtratcH its nocoHnity . Sarah ClomoiitH , a poor woman , aged thirty-Hnven , of ! J , Cathorinc-Htroot , Limeliouso-fioldH , wan charged with stealing a pair of iikiii'h hIiooh . Jamoti ThoimiN , a tdiopkeopor in LimehoiiHO-cuusoway , Htatdil that a quantity of boots and nhoos wero exposed for nalo outnidu Iiih Hliop , on Monday evening , and wliilo bo wuh behind tho counter bo Haw the primmer handling the hIiooh in u innnncr which excited hm suHpieion . lie went out , and noticed that a pair of hIiooh had been partially imtuHtonod . Ho allowed them to remain uh they wore , and followed tho priiionor a short distance , and thon returned to hiH uhop . Ho was curving a ountomer whon ho noticod

      and he thought the conduct of the prosecutor was both selfish and heartless . The prosecutor appeared to have been angling for a thief , for he saw the woman meddling with the string which fastened the shoes , and after suspecting her allowed them to remain as they were until the woman stole them . Mr . Thomas : I gave her an opportunity of going away . Mr . Yardley : And you gave her an opportunity to steal the shoes . Why did you not give her a caution when you suspected she was going to do wrong ? It would have been more charitable and more Christian-like to have done

      the prisoner meddling wi th the shoes again , and on going outside missed a pair . He charged the prisoner with stealing them , and she denied it ; and he then opened her shawl and saw the shoes concealed beneath it . He took them from her , and gave her into custody . The prisoner , a wretched-looking creature , begged for mercy , and said it was her first offence , and that she had three children to maintain . Mr . Yardley said , the exposure of . goods outside tradesmen ' s houses and shops was a temptation to do wrong ,

      so . Mr . Thomas : I have done so several times with others , and have since been robbed of boots and shoes exposed for sale outside the shop . Mr . Yardley : Then why do you continue to tempt people to steal ? You had much better have stopped her at first . The prevention of crime is much better than the detection of crime . It is the duty of every good citizen to prevent crime as much as possible . Mr . Thomas said , he had no wish to press the charge , as the poor woman was tempted by poverty and the cries of three children for food .

      Mr . Yardley said , he should give effect to the wishes of the prosecutor by allowing the prisoner to go at large , and he hoped she would not repeat the offence . At the same time he could not help repeating that it was a bad practice to expose goods for sale outside houses and shops . It was also a very selfish practice and a moral wrong . Mr . Thomas said , he was quite aware it was an evil , but his neighbours would do it , and he could not do business without it . / Mr . Yardley said , it was perfectly shocking to hear a respectable tradesman , or one who wished to be considered

      a respectable tradesman , coming forward , admitting that he was doing a great moral wrong , and justifying it because others did it . If the shopkeeper ' s argument were to be carried out , it would justify every wrong , every bad act , every crime . Mr . Thomas was not justified in committing a great moral wrong because others did it . He was surprised to hear such a thing . Mr . Thomas : I can't help exposing my goods outside my shop ; others do it . Mr . Yardley : You can help it , Sir . Don't talk such nonsense . The woman is discharged .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 25, 1853, page 610, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1992/page/10/