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CANADA. Tuk wwv Canadian Ministry and th...
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OUR CIVILISATION. Ann Wsuls, the wife of...
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«' NORTON STREET," MARVLISBONE. On Satur...
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CATHOLICS IN MUNICIPALITIES. The norther...
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Public Opinion In America. The Position ...
meeting of Congress , for the ratification of the Senate . It is premature to speak of the consequences -which will attend the annexation of the Sandwich Islands to the United States . " A correspondent of the . Times , usually well informed , but of course liable to error , makes an estimate of the next Congress , and of " Young America " in Europe : — " My predictions concerning the effect of the Nebraska Bill upon Northern politics have been more than fulfilled .
Of 70 members thus far elected from the free States only 10 are friends of the Administration , and of these 10 , five are opposed to the Nebraska Bill . Pennsylvania , -which sent to tiie present Congress 16 Democrats to 9 Whigs , has just elected 20 Opposition members to 5 Administration . From Ohio , the Democrats have in this Congress 12 members out of 21 ; in the next they will have none . Wherever the ' fusion' between Whigs and Freesoilers has taken place , they have carried their candidates by immense majorities . The Administration have onlv succeeded in Northern States or
districts where no such union has been made . Enough is known of tbe next Congress to form some idea of its probable complexion ; 86 members are elected , 67 of whom are of the Opposition . Of the 148 to be elected , 74 : are to be chosen from slave States and 74 from free . The members from the slave States will be principally Democrats , and probably all supporters of the Nebraska Bill . It is- not improbable that eveiy member from the free States will be in the Opposition . The anti-slavery
element in the Lower House will be proportionately greater than it has ever been since the adoption of the Constitution ; but the strong pro-slavery constitution of the Senate -will prevent any Legislation on the subject . Thus American politics continue to move steadily and rapidly towards sectionalism . But the Northern party is weak fr om its very strength , and also from the great diversity of interests which it represents , and a reaction maybe loofeedfor , speedy in proportion to the magnitude of the Northern party .
" The reconstruction of the Democratic party on * Young America principles appears to have beeii begun in Europe , if the statements of the correspondence of the morning papers in regard to the diplomatic congress at Baden are to be relied upon . The Central American question , and the bombardment of Greytown not having succeeded . in diverting the attention of the North from tile Nebraska Bill , there would seem to he a purpose on the . part of some of the politicians to again agitate the broader issue of interference in European affairs . I think that the United States are prepared to stand by the doctrine of no European interference -with the affairs of this continent . The Tribune ( the organ of the Northern
party ) says of the new move : — " ' The programme of the conference , as stated by our /• correspondent ^ comprises the Spanish question , the Central American question , and the Gibson question ; but , above all , the question of an increasing insolence of tone toward America on the part of the European Governments . The last point is especially dwelt on as most prominent , and its vague character evidently suits the great Buncombe purposes of the occasion . On that all the humbug of Soule , all . the vacuity of Mason , and all the solemn , inanity of Buchanan can have full 3 \ ring , with some chance of finding a response in the bosoms of all the fools on this side of the ocean . ' " The Herald ridicules the ' Convention ' : —
• ' ' We nave our own notions , however , the objects of this extraordinary congress . We don ' t think it has much to do with the Russian war . There are differences of opinion among them on that subjoct . Belmont is said to be thoroughly Russian on the Avar question , while Robert Dale Owen is , no doubt , just as decidedly for the allies . No ; this American diplomatic congress in Switzerland is called for the purpose of comparing notes , or rather ooats , in connexion with the official circulars of Secretary Marcy on the Court costume of our Ministers abroad . Every one of our Ambassadors in Europe has construed these instructions for himself , and heuco no two of them are on State occasions dresaod alike . ' "
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Canada. Tuk Wwv Canadian Ministry And Th...
CANADA . Tuk wwv Canadian Ministry and the now Canadian Governor aye botli getting under way . TUe Quebec correspondent of the Morning Chronicle , writing on the 14 th * October , saya : — u We liave not yet received an account of the prociso numbora by which Mr . Sponco ' a election was determine *! , but it Is known that ho hod a larger majority over hi » opponent than at the preceding election , Th » i » have live , members of the now AdmmiHtration been returned triumphantly ( four by acoluiuation ) , every oftVwt of
party poTver and artuico having been reeortod to by £ ha disappointed combined factions to defeat these gentlomca at tho htiHtingfl . TJio Legislative A « senibly are now seriously at work on tho butrinwan of tho country . The new Ministry uro fulfilling all their pledget * , although encountered , a « a matter of course , by tho uhuuI obatruotionu of » Parliamentary OppoH & tion— tin Opposition agreed , fcf upon no other aim or principle , upon tho one main point of impeding the march of tho Government The effect of this courae apon tho country will be only to bring greater support to the-Administration .
" Sir Edmund Head , our new governor that is to he , is at present journeying in the United States , and is expected in Quebec shortly ; but it is not supposed that he will immediately assume the government . Lord Elgin is imbued with the chivalry of his older , and disdains to abandon to a' successor a state not perfectly settled within itself . After the recent movements of parties , an agitation naturally remains upon the surface that must obviously demand a brief interval of time before it subsides to a calm . "
Our Civilisation. Ann Wsuls, The Wife Of...
OUR CIVILISATION . Ann Wsuls , the wife of a private in the Eighth Hussars , no \ v in the Crimea , left Exeter , on Sunday , for Salcombe . To save expense , although far advanced in a delicate condition , she determined to walk . She had with hex 1 Ly the whole of her capital in life . Near Powderbam , two men and three women , came upon her . It was dark . They dogged her to a lonely place , and then began to seize and search her . The beasts took her money , and not content with that , they stripped 3 ier naked , and were leaving her , when her cries for some garment induced oae of the women to give her back a shift ! The night was very cold ; the poor wretch was half dead with fear ; she could not move ; and lay on the banks of an estuary of the Exe , until some fishermen attracted by her cries , came to her relief . She was taken care of , and is recovering ; but , when questioned on the subject , is seized with fits . Constables are on the track of the
miscreants . Daniel Jones , or " Dan the Jockey , " an amateur torturerj living at Llanddarog , Carmarthen , went home drunk , beat , kicked , and " placed his wife on the fire 1 She died ; and uncertain whether he had killed her , the infuriated ruffian dropped live coals on her face 1 Mr . Wakley recently held an inquest on . the body of a woman killed by beatings of her husband . In summing up , he ventured a solution of the question as to the proper punishment for the wife-beaters : — ¦ ' IN otiiing , " he said , '' -would j ustify a man in maltreating a woman in such a way . He would not admit any kind of provocation , no matter how great , as an excuse for suet conduct , for a man could easily get out of their way , and adopt other means to deal with them , if they became ungovernable . Such being the case , then , he would 3 iave every man—brute , he should say—who
behaved in this abominable way to women , soundly flogged at the cart ' s tail by the common hangman through the public streets . He was always against flogging as a punishment , but desperate cases required desperate remedies to deal with them , and he feared as an efficient check to the horrible brutalities inflicted upon poor helpless women—and those too , generally , of the most industrious and inoffensive character , as the newspapers made them daily acquainted with—there was no other remedy that seemed to be left . The thing was becoming a national disgrace , and affecting the character of the whole country in its social aspect . A few days ago he held an inquest in the Coldbath-fielda House of Correction , and he was informed that in one prison only , within a mile of where they then sat , no fewer tlum one hundred men were under confinement for boating their wives and their women . "
A fellow named John Guest , has been committed by the Marylebone magistrate for a criminal assault upon Margaret Daley . The young woman was cleaning a house . Guest was a painter , and employed in cleaning the windows . Unawares he canio upon the girl and pulled her backwards . She vainly struggled and screamed . There was only a child in tlie house . He dragged her into another room and threw water over her as she waa fainting . Her cries attracted a crowd ; and a constable , finding tho door locked , climbed down into the axea , and so entered tho house " . Ho found Guest kissing his victim ; but learning tho true state of tho case , he took him into
custody-Mr . Joseph Drew , a solicitor of forty yeara' practice , ban been convicted at the Bath Quarter Sessions , and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for defrauding tho Sun Firo Office of 81 . 19 » . He was an agent of the office , and made an improper charge . He udmitted his guilt , pleaded poverty , and prayed for morcy . But tho directors wore inexorable . Eliza Ashworth , thirty-one , described aa woll oducatod , Waa indicted at tho Middlesex Sessions for having stolen a china dish , voluo Is ., tho property of tho Right Hon . Benjamin Piauaoli , M . P . She was further indicted for having Htolojnhairi »> g and a brooch , v « lu « 6 / ., tho property of Michael Bruw , in hia dwelling house . She pleaded " Guilty" to the latter charge . Sentence , throe months ' hnpMnoninent with hard labour . She -was the wife of Mr . Disraeli ' s coachman .
«' Norton Street," Marvlisbone. On Satur...
« ' NORTON STREET , " MARVLISBONE . On Saturday a deputation oontHHtlng of Dt . Huahford and Mr . Furara , realdontH of Norton-fitroot , nttcndod befoxo tho board to complain of tho immoral and < H . tgrocoful condition of not only tho utroet in which they resided , but tho whole of tho Immediate neighbourhood abutting on Fltaroy-flquarc . Mr . Foreira explained , that flrorcv tiroe . to'tlnwj h «> htt . d made comntalnto of the " dcn »"
in Norton-street , both to the parochial authorities and the police , without procuring any redress , and the consequence was , that the infamous trafiBc iad now got to such a pitch , that some steps , and those determined ones , should be at once taken to suppress the nuisance . In fact , the affair was becoming daily worse and worse , and the neighbourhood was becoming thinned of the respectable inhabitants , who left their houses , in which they had resided for years , unable to stand it any longer . His street , he might clearly say , was nothing more than
a street of loose women and vagabonds . ( Sensation . ") The neighbourhood was always in a continued uproar , and it was a common occurrence to hear cries of " Murder ! " and see females rushing about half naked , and with their heads cut open . He Ln fact could not well describe the scenes that took place , and for the sake of morality , decency , and the welfare of the parish , he did hope the authorities would endeavouT , to the best of their power , to clear the neighbourhood , of those houses which he complained of , and which -were becoming more numerous every day .
Mr . Sodon : How many houses of this sort are there , do you think , in your street ? Mr . Ferara : Fifty or sixty , if not more . Dr . Rushford said in Norton-street there existed a French and English clique , and there -was a regular traffic carried- on between the two houses . No respectable person was supposed to live in Norton-street , and , therefore , any respectable person on a visit to a friend in that street , was immediately put down as a bad character if he asked his way to Norton-street . One of his patients would not allow his -wife to meet him ( T ) r . Rushford ) at his residence a short time ago , as he said she -would be put . down as a prostitute if she were seen near the street . Mr . Ferara further observed that not only would it be necessary to clear the street of the dens it contained , but the name of the street , in consequence of its notoriety , would have to be changed before a respectable person
could be got to live in the houses . With respect to the complaint he had made on varions occasions , he should State that the police had positively declined interfering , as it was not in their power ; and-when the parish solicitor , Mr . Randall , sent one of the parish officials to give notice of indictment to the owners of one of the dens in question , tbe official went inside himself , remained there two hours , and then came out drunk . ( Expressions of surprise and disgust . ") With respect to the indecent sights that were frequently seen * he had on one occasion observed from twenty to thirty of the female inmates of those houses dancing , hal f naked in the street to a band of music , and it was a common occurrence for those wretched creatures to appear in a seini-naked condition at the windows . In conclusion Mr . Ferara remarked that noblemen and men of rank were constant visitors at the houses .
Mr . Ilickman said that he resided in the neighbourhood complained of , and the picture was not at all overdrawn by the deputation . After a short discussion , Mr . Sodon moved , and Mr . Jacob Bell seconded , that the attention of tie parish solicitor should be drawn to the brotliels , and that steps should be taken for their suppression . The motion was carried unanimously , and Mr . Greeavsvell , the Vestry Clerk , was instructed to inform Mr . Randall that he should carry out the wishes of the Vestry without delay .
Catholics In Municipalities. The Norther...
CATHOLICS IN MUNICIPALITIES . The northern towns are generally thought to be the strongholds of Liberalism , but it seems that in one at least of them political freedom stumbles against religious belief . The Preston Guardian , dealing with the ques tion of the elections to principal offices in the town , says : — " It will scarcely bo believed by persons residing at a . distance that the entrance'to our corporation domain , like Edon of old , is protected by a fliuning sword—the sword of true Protestantism . Let a Catholic attempt tho approach , and that sword is unsheathed with ai vongeunce . ' Have you got a candidate for such n ward . ? ' -we hoard one poraou ask another this week ; ? there is Mr . would bo juat tho man for you- ' ' But don't you lenow , ' was tho reply , ' that ho ia a
Catholic 2 If wo were to put him forward , there would bo a regular ' No Popery cry raised , and he would bo boaton out of tho field . ' If wo had , » ot aeeu this more than once , and that not very long ago , wo certainly could not have believed it . CatholUiH pay all the taxou same aa others , join in defending their country , are peacoublo and loynl , and quite as obedient to tho laws us ProtOHtants , und y « t , because thoy are conscientious enough to follow their own convictions in religion—a matter botwixt God and thoir own conscience—such has been the persecution in this borough that we cannot say thorp is ft tangle Catholic amongst Uie forty-uight raombcru Of tUe Council , although , to apeak under tho nuirls , there arc 20 , 000 inhabitawtw of Proslon connected with , that body , and among thorn gentlemen of wealth , tulmmt , and aptilude for baaiuosH . "
Wo shall hnre a Jewish Lord Mayor in London next yearj why not Roman Catholic councillors nfc Jfrcston ?
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04111854/page/6/
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