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      seller of bread is also required to cause to be fixed in fiome 'conspicuous part of his shop a beam , and scales ana proper weights , or other sufficient balance , in order 'that all bread there sold may from time ~ it > time be -weighed in the presence of the purchaser thereof , except as aforesaid ; and in ease any such baker or seller of ¦ i xread shall neglect to fix such beam and scales or other sufficient balance in manner aforesaid , lie shall forfeit and pay . for every offence "any sum . not exceeding 91 . "

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      In connection with this -matter it may be stated that , in the case of John J 3 onser , a . person charged with firing on the mob during the . recent bread , riots at Not ting-ham , further evidence , has 'been taken , -and it appears that—Sarah Machin , a woman about fifty , was wounded by small shot at the back of her head and ears , and was confined in the hospital eight days , owing . to the injuries she then received . Glana JBarker , 14 years of age , was shot in the left eye , -the £ ight of which she : has partially lost in consequence . Sarah Anal Lily was shot in the face , and was also laid inr for -several days . Arthur Barker , aged 16 , was slightly wounded , and William Morris , a lace-maker , was also > -wGunded , but not severely . The ifirst four of these were -. wounded at , the same time . All

      these witnesses distinctly -swore that they saw Mr . " Bonser shoot from ' . his window in Prospect-street ; and -John . Flinders , the landlord of > the Pheasant-inn , ' - opposite , deposed ? to the same feet . JThe-examination was adjourned .

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      Gn Wednesday , a great-number of the bakers in the metropolis increased the price of their'bread a halfpenny the 41 b . loaf . In the poor and densely populated localitiesthe ordinary price among the cheap bakers is now 7 ^ d . for what is termed " best wheaten bread , " and for 41 good wheaten bread , " or " seconds , " is . a halfpenny less ; but where competition among the bakers is keen , the former quality is frequently to be had for 7 d . the 41 b . loaf . Other bakers are selling their bread at various prices up to 9 ^ d . * 41 b . loaf . The corn chandlers are selling their flour'at . from 2 a , fid . to Ss . per peck of 141 bs .

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      POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN IRELAND . The Tenant Xeague : held a conference -this week . reparatory to the Meeting the Nation has had a fewwords to say . Contrasting the present aspect of the country , with the facts at the time of the Meeting of the Council of theXeaguefoux years ago , it is said : — " Of > the hundreds df priests , miaisteTs , and laymen of - « very sect and every , province , who there assembled in ihe attitude of a great National Council , each came -Ahrough . waste ilands , through roofless houses , through roads thronged ¦ with . paupers or emigrants , through & ( Country . that seemed ; to be literally rotting-and dropping > asunder . Now , as the stranger passes through the land , . his--eye is charmed 'with the luxuriance of a glorious harvest , with the look of hope on the farmer ' s face , with . the . air of- -well-paid labour , with a reviving appearance

      of health and prosperity on every hand . For the space of four years , through all the turmoil and the pauses of the agitation , a . great national -revolution has been working with alow , terrible , at'last salutary throes , side by aide with it , to "the Same end ; and coming near the end of it , we sec that Tenant Right has ceased to'bo a question of life and death as it was then , has ceased to be the profound an'd awful political problem , it was thenis becoming more anil more every day a question of Pounds , Shillings , and Pence , of social mechanics , anu legislative reform . The country , disgusted with the treachery of corrupt rcpresentativea , has also silently Tccognised some compensation 'for its baffled political hopes in the great social -changes which 'havo silently taken place . "

      Now liow has all tliis been brought about . What . has changed the relation of "Landlord and Tenant ? The answer is thart , " Within that period , the 32 jicumbarc < l . Estates Court . has cleared the country of nearly twelveimnured of the worst of the landlords —tho worst , because the most en-* cumbered , and , therefore ,, the moat rack-renting . More . than a . twelfth of tho whole area of the island h « a thus -changed owners , ; andfor one ( landlord in possession then there tiro four now- On tho other hand , wo hardly exaggerate in saying that 100 , 000 teniuits have been cleared out . But theso figures , astounding na are tho results which they disclose , arc not , perhaps , tho most striking in the series to which they belong . Within those four years , at least half a million of our populu-, tion haa emigrated , At tho beginning of tho same per iod , in the , yoar ; l 849 , there were two millions of people Wceiving Poor-lawttfilief in [ Ireland . There in not one

      pauper now ifor twenty who were then , AnXl , « s if to unark theoloaoof this fateful * oyole , two harvests of superabundant fcrtility-harc , this year and lout year , at la » t recompensed the , farmer for so many soasona of blight , ¦ distress , and oppressive fcajooB . Wo miss tho old pleasant populous , look of the country ; but we mim , , in aereatmoa 3 ar © ,, tl * e ; inia < wy and squalor which marred mo many « fuir ao « no , in Inland ; and , thank . God ! the , UJgM of a levelled . fc < m « o , ia row rar « to *» . With « wful -euuerlog , with , a tanfflc uprooting of human ties , and

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      A FEMININE M . D . It is becoming « v matter of course for ladies to graduate 3 n medicine in America , and to practice . It seems thnts in tlneir scientific researches they wish to extend their inquiries to this country , but nt present without success . Edinburgh has been tho first , placo "frighted from its proprioty . " Tho Edinburgh Conrant saya : " A lady graduate of Cleveland Col ) o # o , Olilo , named M » hb Bluckwoll , aftor having UC 1 )» "i"l » 1 ( 'y ()( l ft lilu'rt timo in tho ttoyal Mutornity Hospital , appllod Jo tlm > " » " «¦ gcra of tho Royal Infirmary for ] w » v <> to vJ « H tho tvmula wardH of that inntitutioi .. 1 ' crmlaslon to v «« H tho Infirmary is , wo boliovo , at nil tin » en most roadily granted to gentlemen who have ff wlunted at Knglbh or foreign univorHltio 9 , ami who muy , on vMU » k thin city , uomrc it . The request of tho IaiIy , however , waa to the manaircrflan unprcco < Jcn < t !< l one , and they considered it to bo their duty roMi > eotf"lly « - «> decline weecdujg to it . "

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      destruction of human lives , has all this come to pass . But it has come to pass , and is plain to see—whether we please to recognise it or no . " That being so , the duty of the Conference is to deal with the actual impediments in the way of legislation , which are summed up thus : — " In the first place , there is the matter of Famine Arrears . This question above all lias , we believe , been < ssatisfiedby the last , and the . present harvest . The very Statuteof Limitations almost removes them . We are pressing for ; a -remedy where the grievance has altogether or almost abated . " Hhe second elause added to Mr . Crawford ' s Bill secured tenants who were desirous of making improvements from eviction for a certain limited -time . It is worth considering how far the Leasing Powers Bill ¦ of , BIr . ifapier would meet their- ease .

      " Upon the peculiar Tenant Right of Ulster , which has been shamefully abandoned by the Ulster Tenant Righters themselves , we should prefer to say nothing . , Bnt-we ^ certainly would-not be a party to its interfering for one moment with the security of the tenantry of these other provinces , who have borne all the brunt and suffered / all-the sacrifices of the agitation . * 4 finally , we = say , it is for'the Conference to consider how many of the grievances of the tenants have been i cured by mere flux of time and change of circumstances ; •< and taking . into consideration -the concessions made in the Various . measures proposed upon the landlord -side , to see how a speedy and satisfactory settlement of the question may best be obtained . "

      ^ M r . John O ^ Connell lias been as -successful a- man in swamping associations in Ireland as his father was in keeping them up . Nothing daunted , he is trying lira'hand again . It appears that"A meeting has been held in the Mechanics' Institute , " Dublin , When Mr . John O'Connell , M . P ., moved-a series of resolutions for the formation of an association , to be called " The Liberal Association , " for the purpose of attending to the parliamentary , municipal , and poor-law franchises of Ireland . Subscribers of 1 / . to be members , and of Is . to be associates . The resolutions -were seconded by Alderman Reynolds , and passed . " The conference of the Tenant League was held on Wednesday . It was not fully attended . Mr . Lucas and Mr . P . O'Brien were the only members . Mr . Serjeant Shee had declined to attend , and stated his reaso-ns , which were in substance

      that"No conference deserving that description will assemble , or if assembled , could deliberate to any useful purpose , until the union between the north and the south , unhappily broken at the conference of last year , is restored , and reparation has been made for the unfounded accusations of , personal pecuniary baseness , by which the Irish Liberal representation was distracted and lowered during the late session of Parliament . Never , since the world began , has perseverance in a system of insult and menace conduced to hearty cooperation , disposed men to friendly conduct , or won them from inexpedient courses . Our effort for the

      improvement of the relation between landlords and tenants in Ireland will be brought to a prosperous issue , without , the wid of Dublin conferences , so soon as the adherents of the Government , in both Houses , and some distinguished members of the Cabinet ate convinced that -we have ceased to quarrel amongst ourselves , ami that the Government will receive no party support from the Irish Liberal members until , in addition to an effective protection of the religious liberties , establishments and endowments now secured l > y act of Parliament to tho Irish people , the passing of a good Tenants' Improvements Compensation Bill iamade a Cabinet question . "

      The standing aloof of Sergeant Shee was made the stibject of discussion , and-it was resolved that the resolutions of the conferences of 1852 and 1853 have not been carried into execution : •' That during the last session of Parliament . no bill was brought into the House of Commons , in accordance with these resolutions , and that , by this omission , a great injury has been dope to the tenant cause , " The following resolutions , as to the future course to be adopted , wero also agreed .

      upon*—That steps be taken forthwith to commence a series of iiKfctings to be . held during the autumn in different parts of-the country , in ordw the more effectually to collect and put on reoord before next session tho opinion of tho frieuda of ten-ant right as to tho present state and future management « f this question , and that arrangements bo at cmoo mode to extend tho tonaut right movement by procuring the junction with tho League of members and aHsociates throughout tho country , and that tho . aeer « t « ry bo instructed to prepare cardn miitablo to oaoh .

      That arrangements ho made to hold such meetings at different districts throughout tho country , end that the first meeting ( subject to tho approval of our friends in the county of Kilkenny ) bo hold thoro on as oarly a day « a 3 > o 3 sR > le . That in January next , on a day to bo fixed and duly notified by tho Council of tl » o League , a Conference bo held , to t « lco into eoimd « ration tho draft Landlord and Tenant Bill , to u « te » nino to what momboru of Parliament tho bill » s approved of by tho Tenant Loaguo elmll bo entruiited , niul genorully to consider tho boat means for promoting ita auccoai ) .

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      THE RAILWAY OUTRAGE IN IRELAND . A public meeting has been held at Londonderry , "to take into consideration the proper steps to be adopted towards discovering the perpetrators of the late diabolical outrage , and to give expression to the general feeling of horror at that atrocious attempt on human life . " In speaJting to -a , -resolution to that effect , Sir Robert fiateson denied that , the excursion -was a party demonstration , —it had nothing to do with Oraogeism ; and he who took part in it was not himself an . Orangeman ,. and it was only on condition that there was to be no party exhibition that he consentedto join in it . A slight scene followed .

      Mr . Alexander Mehan , who was standing near the chairman , said he should be very sorry to interrupt the harmony of the meeting , but he could not remain silent and agree with statements made by Sir Robert Bateson , that the display of . Friday last was not a party demonstration . ( Hisses . ) He denied that it was not a party demonstration . It was considered as such by every Roman Catholic , an « d by many Protestants , in this city . ( iVb , no ; hisses and cheers , intermingled with cries of " Put him out . " ) J The Mayor requested that Mr . Mehan mighiTbe heard . "Mr . Melian continued : If it-was not intended as such

      , it had produced that effect—( hisses ')— -and therefore he could not agree , although he entertained a high personal respect for him , with What Sir Kobert Bateson had stated-( flisses and cheers . ) Nobody deplored more than he did the atrocious deed which had been committed ; but he was indignant that . it should be attempted to fasten the commission of that crime oh . members of the religion Which he professed , as had been attempted by a portion of the press . ( Hisses and cheers . ) He repeated that those displays were insulting to his co-religionists ; and the mayor should have recollected , when he put himself forward on Friday last , that he was more or less

      insulting the Roman Catholics of tliis community . 'He ( Mr . Mehan ) respected their maiden walls as much as any of them 5 but he thought that instead of having such foolish displays , they should invite their friends to visit and co-operate with thenvfor some such laudable object as founding a mechanics' institute —endeavouring to fill their stores with produce , and their docks with shipping , or having their town ' studded with groups of tall chimneys , and their streets traversed by crowds of industrious artisans . These would be more 'worthy objects than haying such-periodical displays . ( Hisses and cheers . " ) Sir R . Bateson : "What party demonstration did they make to insult-their Roman Catholic fellow-citizens ? Mr . Mehan : Waving Orange handkerchiefs . ( Laughter and hisses . )

      Sir R . Bateson : Am I to suppose that sensiblo Koman Catholics are like turkey-cocks—insulted by tho gutter of any partieulnr colour which may be held before their eyes ? X . Lou& cheers and laughter . ) This little difference was arranged , and two clergymen spoke to a sentiment of the ' meeting :: — " That they desired on their part , and on the part of others , to return thanks , with all reverence , to Almighty God , for his special and providential care over the lives of so many unsuspecting persons , appointed as sheep for the slaughter . " A letter was Teail from Dr . Loughlin , a Roman Catholic , as follows : —

      Execrating , as I do with all my heart , the lato sanguinary and demoniacal attempt to destroy the lives of so many of our fellow-boingu , and approving cordially of the object of the meeting to bo hold to ~ dny , namely , to offer a reward , for tho discovery of the miscreant perpetrators of this horrid deed of blood , have the kindness to put down my name for whatever amount you may think right . Subscriptions wore entered into to form a fund from which rewards of hWl . and flOO / . would be paid to persons discovering any of tho perpetrators of the act , and also for the relief and assistance of tile sufferers who were in tho train . A person named Michael Griffin died in thoinlir-, mary , at Derry from the injuries lie received .

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      September 30 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . : 9 i >

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 30, 1854, page 919, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2058/page/7/