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DETECTIVES AT PAULT. The Dublin police h...
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MR. ROEBUCK'S POLITICAL LEVEE. Wn mentio...
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The late Colonel Finnis.—Colonel Finnis,...
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Granyille The Expert. It Must Be. Very P...
tice ia -the Duchy . Mr . Conin ^ ham " JKo the amotmts paid to the Duchy by Earl GranviIiTiE correspond with the sums entered in the account laid before Parliament as having been received bv his Lordship ?" " No . " The sum said to have been paid corresponded with the rental falling due . Was not investigation necessary ? to have
In fact , Earl G-banviiiLE seems had what Mr . Sothebon Estoottrt calls " a current arrear of about AOOOZ . " "We say again , it must be very pleasant to be Lord Gtbanyiixe . But , interposes Lord Harry Vane , " the fact is , there were other persons also in arrear . " Of course , and that is one proof of mismanagement . But the auditor was required to sign false statements with respect to favourite tenants only . And there was no person , except Lord G-RA ^ viiiiiE , who , being- a defaulter to the Duchy , was made its Chancellor .
So far , we regard Mr . BeetoTjACCi ' s position as impregnable . It has been made out by evidence . He has already proved that the affairs of the Duchy were irregularly and scandalously managed , that his privileges as auditor were unconstitutionally interfered with , and that his supercession was illegal . It is a question , then , of restitution or compensation . Nothing else will be satisfactory —r-not even an atternyt to prove that Mr . Beb-TOiiACCi ' s honesty was something more than abnormal .
Detectives At Pault. The Dublin Police H...
DETECTIVES AT PAULT . The Dublin police have shown themselves so stupid in the matter of the murder of Mr . Lttti / e , that the authorities are bound to interfere and discover the cause of the defects ; ' for this effect defective comes by cause . ' Irishmen are not usually destitute of mother wit , and we cannot think so badly of Dublin as to imagine that something in the air deadens the faculties of its detectives . A
parallel case of maladroitness seems turning up in the Glasgow poisoning ease , where , as it already appeal's , the documentary evidence is in danger of being put out of court , simply for want of its strict identification and security from the death of the deceased up to its production in the witness-box . Both cases suggest great doubts as to the capacity of our provincial police for tracing 1 extraordinary
. Shortly after the murder of Mr . Little we took considerable pains to analyze the evidence line by line . We caine to the conclusion that the murder must have been committed by some person familiar with the building , with the room , and with the habits of the murdered clerk . "We also indicated that the murderer must have had an ordinary right to pass about the building and to enter the room . This conjecture has been
established by the evidence now tending irresistibly to implicate the man Sfoi / len . Spoiii . EK has not yet been convicted ; he may bo innocent ; but if it be proved that he is the murderer , nothing can be too severe in reprobation and punishment of the Dublin police . They have no excuse for not having suspected Spollen and for not having discovered the places where he concealed the
money . SpoiiLbn had been painting Mr . Littjce's room some days before the murder ; he was officially entrusted with the cleaning of all the office windows ; he could invent an excuse at any time for traversing any corridor and entering- ally room ; he lived near the station , and his , cottage window commanded a view of Mr . Little ' s room . We suggested at the time of the first investigation that a very aim pie eourse would tond to narrow the circle of suspicion . A private committee
might be formed , consisting of the Chairman of the Railway and a Commissioner of Police : before this committee , every person connected with the station might have been asked to account for their time for the four or five hours during which the murder was undoubtedly committed . The Chairman might have initiated the voluntary statements , and thus ,
without arresting any person , it might easily have been ascertained that a certain number of employes should not be suspected . This process of gradually exhausting the grounds of suspicion might not have narrowed the ground to Spoli-ets-, but it would have certainly included him in the remnant of persons against whom suspicion should be sustained . It is now said that Spollek was
arrested at the time of the murder and examined as to the disposal of his time ; he gave an account of it , and on the wife being separately examined , ' without having communication with her husband , ' she gave the same information . This , ' without having communication with her husband , ' refers ,
however , only to the period after his arrest ; and as the murderer , whoever he was , had the whole night to cOncocfc any story with a confidant , the concurrence of accounts between a suspected man and his wife should have gone for nothing . Yet , on finding this concurrence , the Dublin police decided that Spoi / len" was innocent , and he was released
from arrest . We pointed out at the time of the murder that no plan of the room was prepared , and that the dimensions of the room , the relative positions of the pieces of furniture , and the space in each compartment were not published . We regretted this as a grave defect . It now turns out that what was said to be
impossible ( the hiding of a man in the room ) did actually take place , and that the murderer concealed himself behind an office partition during Mr . Little ' s temporary absence from the room . Of course we write on the not very violent supposition that Mrs . SpolIiEn ' s accusation , confirmed by the other evidence already obtained , will be borne out on the trial .
There would have been another great advantage in , a 3 we suggested , adopting as a leading idea that a general suspicion rested on the staff at the station , and asking them individually to clear themselves . It would have been a relief to some most respectable persons who were painfully subjected to suspicion . It was no secret in Dublin , though it was not noticed in the London press , that one of the most eminent officials on the
railway was named by lying gossip as the murderer , and reports of the police having ' dug up his garden' and ' searched his house , ' were circulated about the town . The ridiculous secrecy of the police proceedings helped on these scandals . There were stealthy raids made by night into suspected quarters ; houses were suddenly searched , and countrymen arrested in the provinces ; and all this while SroLXiBN , as he said himself , was ' laughing afc them ; ' and while the money was hidden within the precincts of the station itself , and in a place very likely to be selected for concealment .
Mr. Roebuck's Political Levee. Wn Mentio...
MR . ROEBUCK'S POLITICAL LEVEE . Wn mentioned , last week , that Mi * . Roebuck had held a special political meeting at the King ' s ArmB , New Palace Yard . We said " not more than from forty to fifty members were present . " l <\) r ' members ' read ' persons . ' Only eight or ten members of Parliuinent responded to Mr . "Rombuok ' s invitation . The rest of the little assembly was composed of private gentlemen , and among them a good many Chartist familiars . Mr . Bodbuok is to be congratulated upon
his success in forming a party . Not more than ten members of the House of Commons lent him their countenance ; a vast majority of the Liberals declined to be present , and he made up a quorum from . John-street and the forums of Finsbury . His next attempt was to arrange a following on the Irish viceroyalty question ; but after the worst has been said wi th reference to the new Parliament , it is not so degraded as to supply a following to a person who , like Mr . Roebuck , is politically disgraced , and dares not meet the charges that reflect upon his
public reputation . Of course , the King ' s Arms meeting will come to nothing . The Reform question has virtually been taken out of the hands of Mr . Roebuck . Scarcely any one will trust him after the exposures that have taken place—for exposures we must consider them to be until lie condescends to clear himself . We can assure our readers that , at Sheffield , a strong feeling has been raised ; Mr . Roebuck has been posted up as the Government buffer , ' and it is in that capacity that he is now generally regarded . Before the break-down i 3 irretrievable , let him exonerate himself , if he can .
The Late Colonel Finnis.—Colonel Finnis,...
The late Colonel Finnis . —Colonel Finnis , of tho 11 th Ifative Infantry , who was shot by tho mutinous soldiers of the 20 Kegiment at the outbreak of the revolt at Meerut , was tho last surviving brother of the present Lord Mayor of London , and the third -who has fallen in the service of his country . The elder brother , Robert , a Captain in the British navy , was killed in an engagement on Lake Erie in 1813 ; and another , Stephen , a . Lieutenant in the Bengal Native Infantry , fell in India in 1822 . Colonel Finnis , though only in his 54 th yedr , had been in active service in the army upwards oi
thirty-two years , during which period , besides serving at the siege and taking of Moultan , and in several other engagements , he was employed on many important missions . The Colonel was with his regiment in command at Allahabad until ordered to Meerut , where ho had arrived only a few days before the outbreak which closed his career . With kind consideration for the feelings of his bereaved family , the Governor-General lias transmitted a letter to the Lord Mayor , informing him of the melancholy fact , and highly eulogizing his brother .
The Grape Bhqht . —An important report on this subject has been communicated to the Sociute d ' Hncouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale , by M . Barrsil , in the name of the committee appointed by the society to decide whether the prizes offered by it for the discovery of a remedy against the blight should be awarded or not . From this " report it appears that sulphur is at length proved to be the only efficacious and infallible remedy against the ravages of tho oitHum tnckeri , and that the prizo of 10 , 000 f . 'offi ! rGd by the French Government in conjunction with tho society is jointly due—1 , to Mr .
Kyle , ah English horticulturist , who first applied sulphur to this purpose in 1818 ; 2 , to M . Duchurtrc , Professor of Agronomy at Versailles , who iirst introduced the method in France ; 3 , to M . Gontier , a horticulturist at Montrouge , nenr Paris , who was the first to apply it ou a large scale ; and 4 , to M . Henry Mares , Secretary to the Society of Agriculture of tho department of tho Hdrault , who by numerous experiments has proved tho superiority of sulphur over all other agents previously triel , and pointed out tho surest and most economical way of applying it .
Makkiagics at Rbgistkars' Offices . —In tho year 1855 , tho number of marriages in tho ofllcos of superintendent registrars , under the Oth and 7 th of "William IV ., cap . 85 , amounted to 7441 , to which it h « d risen from 1098 in the year 1887-88 . Tho number has steadily risen every year , with tho exception of I 860 , whon ifc slightly declined ( from 7508 to 7441 ) . In tho yours from 1858 to 1841 ( proceeding by retrograde motion ) tho numbers wore respectively 751 ) 8 , 7100 , 0818 , < J' 207 , 5558 , 4790 , 4268 , 4107 , 8077 , 8440 , 2817 , 2307 , and 2064 . Tub Cuonra continue" to look very honlthy , and to promise a bountiful liarvoat . Tho lino warm weather , tampered with occasional sliowora , is doing a gront deal to bring tho cereals forward .
Tina Pkbrs' JLjuritoritrKTiRs . —A lending article in tho Tirnea of Monday , ou tho subject of tho rocant dubnto in tho House of Lords on Lord UninpboH ' u bill for chocking the Sftlaof immoral publication ^ concludes thus : •—" I hu enso la one in which debutes may bo iiclvnntngoounly concise , for it ia not desirable that our reporters » h »>» " » bo compelled to omit particular spooohos u « unlit lor publication . " This Duicn op MAiti . noitouoir died on Wodncadny nt ¦ Blenheim after a vory short Illness , In tho sixty-fonrm year of hiu age . lie ia succeeded by his eon , tho Mnvquis of ManUford , tlxo present member for Woodstock .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 4, 1857, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04071857/page/14/
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