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London, England, 1851-08-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1851.

The dinner of the Royal Agricultural
a
Improve-
ment Society of Ireland, which came , ff in the me-
tropolis of the sister isle on Thursday .
evening last,
Was a prominent and gratifying feature in the opera
er
tions of the grand national cattle show, now
being
held in that city. The Duke of LEINSTER, who
s
e'ier found to afford with readiness the prestige onais
Influence and his name to any measure calculated to
promote the social interests of bie native land, presided
on the occasion ; and it is pleasing to find the prominent
part taken by several Irish noblemen, in giving an im-
palm to the operations of this wjefia Association,

There was one branch of practical farming alluded
to by the Earl of ERNE which it would be well if it
were more generally attended to, especially in Ire-
land. Personal observation enables us to testify to
the wasteful disregard of one of the most useful mi-
nisters towards the production of crops, namely, liquid
manure. The Noble Earl took occasion to illustrate
the advantages of a judicious use of that powerful
fertilizer by adducing two instances of its efficacious
employment in Scotland; one on the farm belonging
to an eminent distiller near Glasgow, on which,
though the soil was of the most inferior description,
yet excellent crops were produced by means of this
liquid manure, dispersed over the farm through iron
pipes by the power of a steam engine; the other on
that of Mr. KENNEDY, of Ayr, who had employed it
in the irrigation of upwards of 300 acres. En-
couraged by the beneficial results which he had wit-
nessed on the grounds of his Scotch friends, Lord
ERNE, on returning home, set himself about the
adoption of the system. " I caused," said the Noble
Speaker, " two tanks to be erected capable of con-
taining 1,000 gallons of this liquid ; I purchased iron
pipes to the length of three miles, which I spread over
350 acres, and after irrigating the land through these
pipes by the pressure of a steam-engine, I computed
the cost of manuring the 350 acres to
be 601., whereas, by the old system I should
have expended 1/. per acre, or 3501." It
is to be hoped that, this plain statement,
coming from a proprietor of so high station, may con-
tribute towards awakening the Irish agriculturists to
the obvious advantages attendant on an imitation of
the skilful Scotch farmer. With a soil, distinguished
in the main for its superior ;natural productiveness,
and with no deficiency of intellect or of observation,
how comes it to pass that the Irish is so far behind
the Scotch agriculturist ? Simply from a want of
steadiness and system, and an idle adherence to an-
tiquated usages. The musquetoon was, doubtless, a
very good weapon in its day, but it would cut a very
sorry figure at the present in competition with a six-
chambered rifle. Improvements must be adopted
and worked out with perseverance to prevent dis-
graceful and disastrous consequences, for in the pre-
sent phase of industrial competition the farmer can
afford as little as any class to pursue a jog-trot rate
of motion. Believing that the Royal Agricultural
Improvement Society of Ireland is conducive to the
promotion of agricultural improvement in a
country where it is so imperatively de-
manded for the prosperity, we may almost say
the existence of the mass of its inhabitants, we
heartily invoke success on its proceedings, and on the
aspirations and labours of its members and adherents.
We trust, with Lord CLANCARTY, that Irishmen will
in future take the lead in developing the resources
of their country, and that they will take agriculture
as their commencement. It is essential to the ex-
istence of that people; it is essential to their comfort,
and would render their country fit to take its proper
place in the commerce of the world.

It might have been imagined that the HENDREN6
and the JERNINGHAMS would, after the unenviable
notoriety they had recently acquired in connexion
with the case of Miss TALBOT, have been contented
to retire into the obscurity from which, had they been
wise, they would never have attempted to emerge.
Such, however, is not the case ; there are some per-
sons, more especially the weak-minded and bigoted,
whose m orbid craving after notoriety is such
that it must be gratified at whatever cost, and the
parties to the intended incarceration of ItitS TALBOT
seem to be labouring under this morbid craving.
This morning has from two distant parts of the
United Kingdom hiought us intelligence of the HEN-
DRINS and the JERNINGHIMS. From Dublin we
hear that HENDREN, the letter-writer par excellence,
whose letters in their relation to the case of miss
TA.Lnor will never be forgotten or furgiven by his
co-priests for the damaging admissions they made,
has, in the indulgence of his favourite propensity of
letter-writing, been making admissions as fatal

to himself as his admissions in his former
letters were fatal to the Roman Catholic cause. In
a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Roman
Catholic Defence Association, he has actually signed
himself IL HENDEEN, Bishop of Nottingham, thus
wilfully violating the enactments of the Ecclesias-
tical Titles Assumption Bill, and wilfully courting
that prosecution which the more astute Dr. ULLA-
THORNE cautiously avoids, by signing his Christian
and surname only, without any titular designation.
Can it be that the unfortunate HENDREN is
the victim of a trick, and that his more
cunning brethren have, by appeals to his vanity, in-
duced him to commit a breach of the law, in order that,
by subsequent appeals to his fears, they may induce
him for a while to seek refuge on the continent, and
thus rid themselves of the presence of the Enfant ter-
rible, whose peculiar vocation it seems to be to inflict
irreparable injury upon every cause which is so unfor-
tunate
as to have his support ? The case of Dr. HEN-
DEEN is amusing; that of the JERNINGHAM family is
deeply painful, and exhibits one of the most remark-
able instances ever recorded of the abject servility
to which the mind is brought which once suffers
itself to be reduced into obedience to the priesthood,
and the utter want of feeling, we are almost inclined
to say the diabolical love cf torture, which the
priesthood ivariably exhibit when they get
into their power those who either expose their
impositions or oppose their machinations. The
Plymouth Journal of yesterday publishes the
following extraordinary account of the abduc-
tion of a Protestant child from its Protestant
mother on Sunday last, at Plymouth, and of its
removal to the notorious convent at Taunton, where,
under the tender care of Miss JERNINGHAM, Miss
TALBOT WES 80 long immured. " Mr. FREDERICK
WILLIAM JERNINGHAM," says the Plymouth Journal,
" is a Roman Catholic, and a brother of that Miss
JERNINGHAM who is at the head of the nunnery re-
cently so notorious as the place of incarceration of
MISS TALBOT. Mr. JERNINGHAM, some years since,
married Miss MANGLES, the daughter of the late Rev.
GEORGE
MAyNGLEB, vicar of Lewannick, Cornwall,
and that lady
!subsequently conformed to the Boum

Catholic faith. They cnetinusel to live tegether for
some years, but diff-rences eventually arose, and a
separation ensued. Mr. ‘hRNINGHAM is like many
other gentlemen, rather needy, and repeatedly,
we are told, were his debts paid by Mrs.
MANGLES. In the year 1847 they separated,
and in 1848, while Mrs. JERNINGHAM was living
with her mother at Southampton, she still re-
tained possession of her children, but one morning in
the month of March Mr. JERNINGHAM was seen
watching Mrs. MANGLES' house, and having a servant
in his interest, he got the door opened fur him. The
two children came down to breakfast, when Mr.
JERNINGLIAM rushed into the passage, threw a bonnet
and shawl over each child, and forcibly carried them
off. The eldest child had been very 111, and was
taken away at the risk of her life, as she had not re-
covered, and the medical man bad ordered that she
should not leave the house. Miss JERAINQIIAM, the
abbess of the convent at Taunton, received these chil-
dren, though against the consent of their mother and
grandmother, on whom the children depended. They
remained at the convent until the stir in Miss TAL-
BOT'S case, when they were clandestinely removed to
the convent of Notre Dame, at Namur, in Belgium."
That Mrs. JERNINGHAM should cease to have any
connexion with a Church which thus wantonly and
inhumanly encouraged the violation of the highest
and holiest ties—those, namely, which unite a mother
to her children, is what might have been naturally ex-
pected; and we are, therefore, not surprised to learn
that Mrs. (IMMINGHAM has ceased to hold com-
munion with members of the Burnish persuasion.
After stating these facts the Plymouth Journal thus
proceeds :—" Recently a gentleman of high conside-
ration in this town had an interview with Mr. JER
NINGHAM in London, and obtained from him a solemn
promise on his honour, that he would not remove his
child from the care of his wife by stratagem. Mrs.
JERNINGHAM'S legal adviser was present when this
promise was made. Probably, as the child was being
brought up as a heretic, Mr. JERNINGHAM has been
able to get a dispensation. It appears that on
Sunday last, from the inquiries that we have
made, while Mrs. JERNINGHAM was in St.
Andrew's Chapel, a stranger entered after the
service bad commenced, and looking over towards Dr.
BUTTER'S seat, where Mrs. JERNINGHAM bad recently
sat before she was accommodated with a pew for her-
self and children, said that he should like to be put
into the Doctor's pew. He then excused himself
from going there, probably from not seeing his wife
there, and asked to be put near where Mrs. JERNING-
HAM sat. He thus became acquainted with her posi-
tion in the chapel, which was near the south door, and
be then took a seat just inside the door, where he
remained till the close of the service. In due time
Mrs. JERNINGHAM came out of the church, being
followed, as she supposed, by her children ; but on
Linking for her little boy, he was nowhere to be found.
She then went house, thinking that be might have
preceded her, but he had not come home, and as
nothing could be heard of him it was feared, and
but too truly feared, that the poor little fellow bad
been seized and carried off." This fear was reduced
to a certainty the next day, by the receipt of
a letter from Mr JERNINGIIAM, stating that he had
carried off the child. It happens, uefertunately, that
the present state of our law permits the perpetration
of these atrocities ; but it is to be hoped that another
session will not be permitted to pass without the
enactment of a law preventing, for the future, the ab-
duction and imprisonment, under the pretence of re-
ligion, of children of tender years. The true
principle of legislation is not to permit that to be done
under pretence of religion which you would not per-
mit to be done under any other pretence. If a show-
man is punished for collecting a crowd by his exhi-
bition, and thus obstructing the public thoroughfares
so ought a preacher who collects a crowd, and creates
an equal obstruction ; and so with regard to monas-
teries and nunneries, the public safety demands that
they should be placed under at least as stringent a
surveillance as other lunatic asylums.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The day being the feast of the Assumption was
observed fill a iete, and the Bourse was closed.

The Patric has the following semi-official pera.
graph _ _

The Messager de l'Assemblie published yesterday
the itinerary of a tour which it declares the President of
the Republic had decided on shortly making. Accord-
ing to that journal the President had at first intended
to proceed to the camp of LuLdville, but afterwards
gave up the idea; and now proposes setting off for the
South from the 20th to the 25th inst. We cannot say
where the Messager has obtained the information
authorising it to give a sort of offi,:ial programme, but
from the intelligence which we have received, and which
we have every reason to believe exact, the President never
had any intention to go to Lut‘ville, where, besides, there
is no extraordinary assemblage of troops. As to the
excursion to the south, which, according to the state-
ment of the Messager, was to include Bordeaux and the
two Charentes, we think 'we can affirm that the Presi-
dent, notwithstanding his great desire to comply, to-
wards the end of the mess, with the wishes of the popu•
istiuns of that part of Francs, has not as yet come to arty
determination on the subject. We consider it almust
utince,ssary to add that ao notice on the subject has been
rartsmitted to the Pretects of these departmehtb."
The Moniteur announces ,the translation of Mgr.
PARIS'S, &Ay of Langres, to the bishopric of Arras,
in the place of Cardinal DB LA TOUB,D'AIPfIaGNE-
LAURAGUAIS, deceased.

The Committee appointed by the Republicans to
watch over the safety of the Republic during the re-
cess consists of MM. CRENIEUX, VICTOR HUGO,
JOLT, CASOAL, RAaPAIL, and MIOT.
BuSINESS DONE IN leoithiGN itALLWA TS AT THF.
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 15,
Central of France (Orleaus and Vierzon), 171,E—Paria
and Strasbourg, 111—Rouen and Havre, Pi—Sambre and
Meuse, 3,A.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived.
They contain no intelligence of political import,
ance.

The Bulsa was closed.

GERMAN Y.

Accounts from Hamburgh of the 13th state that
the Austrian garrison will be immediately withdrawn
from the Hamburgh territory.

STOPPAGE IN MANCHESTER.-It was rumoured
day or two ago that the old and respectable house of
Richard Gould and Co., in the fustian trade at Manchester,
had stopped payment, and a private meeting of creditors
was summoned, it appears, for Wednesday. The balance-
sheet was then found to be not quite ready, and the meeting
wss postponed to yesterday (Friday). The liabilities are
estimated at 48,0001, a-d the assets at about 30,000/ The
,osses will fall principally upon the bankers and upon rela-
tives. Mr. Gould is connected with the firm of Gould and
Cooper, spinners of Oldham, but this firm id understood to be
perfectly solvent. It is expected that a very respectable
composition will be offered to the creditors.

On Monday fiat one of the boilers of the Orion
steam-boat was brought into Portpatnck Harbour. If the
weather continues favourable, it is expected that the whole
of the wreck will shortly be got ashore.

We understand that Mr. James Martin, one of
the surveyors under the Committee for I loyd's Register of
British and Foreign Shipping, has been seat to Dean Forest,
in Gloucestershire, to examine and determine the quwtity
of English oak timber, felled in that forest, which is fit for
shipbuilding purposes. Mr. Martin was brought up is her
Msjesty's dockyard at Chatham, and has had much expe-
rience, as Lloyd's surveyor, in merchant shipbuilding yards.
—.Shipping Gazette.

OTTER HUNTING AT DUNSE.-011f town was early
astir on the morning of the 12th inst , to witness the Duke
of Atholl and his party depart for the sport of otter hunting
on the Whittader. At half-past five .A. 31 the noble Duke, in
the Highland garb, and Lord John Scott,arnved at the Swan
Hotel, and in a very short time the party, followed by se-
veral hundreds of our town's folk, were on their way for
Preston-bridge, where the hounds ware laid on, taking up the
river. The rapid rate at which they followed up, and the
badness of the roads, soon left many in the rear, The noble
Duke is an excellent pedestrian. In following up some
fine sport was had from our own folks, who, unaccustomed
to the exercise. attempted to imitate the true otter hunter,
dashing in and through the water, no matter where; but alas
for them, however well tbey appear on the pavement or other
easy roadwa3s, the ruggeo bottom of the Whittader was too
severe: in several instances they ..'ent souse head over heels,
to the no small amusement of the more surefooted. We fol-
lowed up about two miles, but gave up the spurt as too hard.
During that time no game was raised, although the hounds
before that had made scent. A short way above Elmtord they
fell in with a fine large otter, and killed it after a short tun.
—Bersoich Warder.

TEE EIiGISTRATION.-It should be borne in mind
that the i:sth inst. is the last day on which objections can
be made either to. borough or county voters. The revising
Wme:ctqmuienesnt,er,Ebsila.r;ylbebooronueg,
hFsinsobtuLrya,inabueduiToawnedr
barristers are—City of London, T. G. APChristie, Esq ;
and S. C. C. Fysbe Esq.;
boroughs
lof.
cBHooauumniltlyewt:Orfk,lllSicidlpe:eexd,es'DlEr.sciSladwell. The courts Of revi-
sion will be held between Sep'ember 15th and October 25th.
On Friday night, at a little past eight o'clock, an
explosion of fire-damp took place in the colliery at Shipley,
wheieby one man lost his life, and seven more were more or
less burned, although happily not so much as to greatly
endanger their lives.—Derby Reporter.
LEICESTLE TRADE.—A little more business is being
cone in various branches, but no great amount is doing ge-
nerally.
It is fully expected a gradual improvement will
take place till the eold season sets in, whea full sctiTitY will
cnN9 m9ril tizporieacgd,