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SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1852.
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Satxteday, May 29. The Case Of Mr. Mathe...
humanity and respect for the laws ; cauia explain it . But after this lapse of time , while the question was pending in a court of justice , it was a most extraordinary interference for two noble lords , members of the late Cabinet , to say that this case had been neglected . Lord CtexniCAxpE explained that he always had au idea that some charge would be made by somebody somewhere , in this matter : but it was not his duty . Lord
Caexisle followed him . Both disclaimed all idea of making a charge of neglect against anybody . The latter had only heard of the case within these three weeks . In like manner Lord f bubo knew nothing about it . He defended the magistrates , however , especially as a trial was pending . All the speakers regarded the matter adversely to the men of Birmingham ; and seemed to be acquainted with only one side of the facts .
In the House of Commons , Maynooth again occupied considerable time . In stating the course he proposed to take with regard to public business , Mr . DisbabIiI saidr—- «« With regard to the motion respecting Maynooth College , it tj-as bis opinion , after all that nad taken place , that it was expedient that that question should be brought to an issue ( hear , hear ); and , with that view , he should propose that the debate be continued next Friday morning , and he hoped there would be a determination on both sides to bring the question td a conclusion on that day . ( loud cries 6 ? ' Hear , hear . ' ) These were the prospects he had at present to hold out to the House . Several subjects of great interest and importance were likely to engage their attention , which he thought might ; be dealt with in the morning sittings . It would-be requisite after that to
consider the necessities of the public service , and to proceed with supply . He trusted by these arrangements the result might be arrived at which he believed all the members of the House at present desired . ( Hear , hear . )" A discussion arose on this statement . A great many members , like Mr . Labouchere , looked upon the decision of the Government as very unsatisfactory ; encouraging as it did the idea that an inquiry , which , as proposed , must be a delusion , could take place within a fortnight of the prorogation . Nearly all the members concurred in regarding some inquiry as unavoidable , now that the matter had gone so far in that House . Mr . Keogh attacked the conduct of the Government
on this question , for the thimble-rigging course they had pursued . The Chanceiclob of the Exchequer justified the Government , observing that it would indeed be a farce and a mockery if the House should refuse to entertain such a question as whether the national intentions in founding the College of Maynooth had been fulfilled — an inquiry into which the House might enter without at all prejudging the question . With respect to the proposition of Mr . Goulburn , which had been already made by Lord J . Bussell , he ( Mr . Disraeli ) had objected that an inquiry by a Boyal Commission ,
which could not compel the attendance of any witness , would not be satisfactory , in the present state of public opinion ; on the contrary , nothing could be more calculated to disgust the people of this country , than transferring the inquiry from the hands of the House of Commons into those of the Cabinet . It was because it was a question upon which that House should have an opportunity of expressing its opinion whether an inquiry should take place or not , that he had taken the course he had done , with no other object than to fulfil his duty , and the consciousness of having done it bustained him under the attacks he had experienced .
Mr . Hobsmuit called attention to the statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to the result of the Government inquiry into tho case of Mr . Bennett , tho vicar of Frome—namely , that , according to the opinion of the law officers of tho Crown , redress might be obtained under the Clergy Discipline Act . Tho complaint , Mr . Horsman observed , was against tho conduct of tho Bishop of Bath and Wells , and ho had ascertained that , although as against a clerk there was
a nominal redress under tho act referred to , as regarded a Bishop who instituted a prcsontco to a living , whatever tho religious opinions of tho presontco , thoro was no law under which nny redress could be obtained against tho Biahop . The Attobney-Genebai . admitted that Mr . Horaman had stated tho law correctly thut if a bishop abused hifl discretion in tho institution of a presentee , there was no legal remedy . Under these circumstances it wos useless , as tho Chancellor of tho Exchequer had stated , to issue a commission of
inquiry . Nothing more arose from this discussion . A good deal of miscellaneous work was afterwards done . Mr . Anstoy being unable to obtain tho consent of tho Houbo to on adjournment on the Now Zealand Bishopric Bill , said " it would bo hifl painful duty to keep hon . members out of their beds for two hours , which ho would occupy in speaking against the bill . ( ' Oh , oh ! ' and luughtor . )" He kept his word , gained his point , and the debate was ultimately adjourned . The House then adjourned , without having voted any eupplteu , at ft quarter to three , until Thursday next .
A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles this , morning announces the arrival of the Indian mail , with papers from Bombay of May 3 , and Calcutta , April 22 . Rangoon and Matarban , with 130 pieces of cannon , are captured , at a loss , on our side , of 150 men killed and wounded . .. ^ The nomination for a successor to Mr . Grenfell took place at Sandwich on . Thursday . r The show of hands was in favour of Lord Clinton , and the Mends of Captain French demanded a poll * which opened yesterday , and closed with the following result : — Lord Clinton . V . . . 439 Captain French . . * . . 251 Majority ' , . ... —188
Yesterday , a numerous meeting of the publishers and booksellers of London t ^ k place at Exeter Hall . The committee of the combination resigned their functions , accompanied with many expressions of extreme regret for the untoward termhiatiOn of their labours , and expressed their convictions that the booksellers are a misrepresented and injured feody . After an irregular discussion and struggle of four mortal hours , the combination itself expired by suicide . The act was forced upon it by a threat from Mr . William Longman * who deserves praise for" his firm and straightforward manner throughout the proceedings . Mr . Chapman spoke in favour of the motion of dissolving the combination , and met with constant interruption .
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Epsom Races Concluded Yesterday. For The...
Epsom races concluded yesterday . For the Oaks there were fourteen starters . They got off about a quarter past three ; betting 2 to 1 against Songstress . Red Hind , who was very restive at the post , delayed the start at least a quarter of an hour , and when the flag was dropped , jumped round and lost at least one hundred yards . The lead at starting was taken by the Infidelity filly , followed by Lady-in-Waiting and Plumstead , Sally , Gossamer , and Bird-on-the-Wing , Songstress lying in the rear with Plot and Kate ; They ran only a short distance in this order , the running then being taken up by Gossamer , attended by Ladyin-Waiting , Sally , and Trousseau ; next them
Bird-onthe-Wing , with the ruck laid up . On making the bend , Bird-on-the-Wing drew up to the front , and at the Banstead-road took the lead , Gossamer following her , Trousseau third , with Sally , the favourite , Ladyin-Waiting , and Kate in their wake . Songstress took the third place in the bottom , headed Gossamer at the distance , caught Bird-on-the-Wing at the stand , left her a few strides from home , and won very cleverly by a length j- two lengths between Bird-on-the-Wing and Gossamer , Kate a bad fourth , Trousseau fifth , and Lady-in-Waiting sixth . The race was run exactly in three minutes . The race , like the Derby , went into John Scott ' s stable by the assistance of Songstress , who has thus added another laurel to the wreath of the
celebrated Irish Birdcatcher , whose produce , af ter winning the Derby , were to-day first , second , and third . Frank Butler , who rode his first Derby winner on Wednesday , has now won the Oaks six times , and four times in succession . i _ There was a good attendance ; the weather was favourable ; fashion and rank swarmed in the Stand , and along the course ; and altogether it is reported as the best Oaks day for many years .
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Letters have been received from officials at St . John ' s , Newfoundland , respecting the ships alleged to havo been seen on tho ico by tho captain and crow of tho Renovation As no whalers woro lost lost year , tho ships are considered to havo been a " deceptive uppearanco which icoborgs assume under some peculiar action of tho atmosphere . " Tho Globe regrets to announce the death of Mri'Scropo Davis , who had been for many months in bad health , and who died suddenly , on Monday last , at hie apartments in tho Ruo do Duras , Paris . Mr . Davis was educated at Eton and Cambridge , and at the tirao of his decoaso was Senior Follow of King ' s College , Cambridge- Ho was tho intimato friend of Lord Byron , who had the highest
opinion of his critical taste , and dedicated ono ot his poems ( English Jfards and Scotch Reviewers ) to him . Tho Washington correspondent of tho New Fork Journal of Commerce eaya : — " I foar that Congrosa and tho country will soon , very soon , bo called upon to boBtow funoral honours on ono whom they havo long honoured in life . Mr . Clay asked very earnestly when his eon , Mr . John Clay , of Kentucky , would arrive Ho "was pleased to know that ho would soon be hero On Sunday ho asked Dr . Jackson , of Philadelphia , whether his death would be a painful ono , and whether it would not bo by suffocation , which ho had feared . Dr . Jackson replied that his death would not bo by suffocation—that it
would bo perfectly easy—that Jbie nervous onor /* ios woro ontirely destroyed , and naturo would y ield without a utrugglo . Mr . Olay has boon porftjotly ohocrM throughout ma protracted illness , and ia still calm and in full pos-Beasion of his mental faculties . Ho talks of death with no rogrot at its approach . Ho has neither expected to recover , nor exprcseed any anxiety for it . Ho was anxious for some weeks to got to tho Sonato Chamber onco moro , intending to express hie yiows on tho subject of iatorvontion , but this watf denied to him . Ho has left dying injunctions to his countrymen against all the dootrinep and tho measures that would involve the country in foreign broils or in domestic diooeneione , and w ready to popart /'
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There Is Nothing' So Revolutionary, Beca...
There is nothing' so revolutionary , because there i * nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is hy the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Abkoid .
Is Not The Depth To Which Gambling Has E...
is not the depth to which gambling has eaten into society , even when we : find we knownothotv many betting-house keepers suddenly eyading the claims of their overwhelming constituency ;—it is not the want of administrative power which makes us impotent to deal with the Australian crisis , sinking as much under the weight of gold in the colony , as we do tinder redundant labour at home , without the poorer pf remedying the reciprocal overbalance ;—it is not the precarious
SEALMESBUKY AND MATHER . " Cbomwell would not have passed over this , " says a military correspondent on the Mather Outrage ; but the ' ' days of Cromwell are past . The worst symptoms of our national atony are not to be sought in the immense pauperism which presses more upon our repute for public wisdom than upon bur poor-rates . It is not the 1 , 200 , 000 adults dependent upon charity within the year , nor the million of starving heathen children ;—it
position of our empire in ' India with Madras Sepoys refusing to march , and Bengal Cavalry leaving their officers to charge alone ;—it i 8 not even the effeminate habits exposed by the most popular of the middle class daily journals , and exemplified by the puny carriage or our trading and professional young men ; hut it is rather in the dastardly sentiments avowed in the very highest places that we find the most ominous decay of ^ English heartiness .
We do not take advantage , indeed , of the equivocations of Lord Malmesbury , under the cross-questioning of party opponents , nor do we rest even on the indignant appeals of the outraged victims . On Thursday week , the representative of England before Europe , the Earl of Malmesbury , Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , declared that the result of the negotiation with the Tuscan government in the Mather affair had " terminated in their giving to Mr . Mather
a pecuniary remuneration equivalent to the am « unt of damages which he would have received from an English jury in an English court of justice , if he had appealed to a jury for the redress of such an injury . " On the previous Monday , in a letter written to Mr . Mather by the direction of Lord Malinesbury , Mr . H . Addington declared that Her considered that
Majesty's government had not this sum was equivalent to the injury which Mr . Mather suffered , or to that which an English court would have awarded him as damages lor his wrongs ; but it was less than Mr . Scarlett was instructed to demand . On the Friday , wJien cross-examined by Earl Fitzwilliam touching this letter , Lord Malmesbury declared that Mr . bcarlctt had " recommended that a sum should do given to Mr . Mather , equivalent , & c . & c . , 1 «» J Mr . Scarlott probably took a different view or in xi /
iiio vaiue oi iiKjuuy tuj mm *¦« " *»» - — < -, a thousand francosconi , or 24 QL , being a muca larger sum in Italy than in this country ; ouv that Mr . Scarlett acted on his own judgment , perhaps not logically , jbut , continued the JWJ , '' I cannot say unwisely . " It is not on these discrepancies that wo are disposed to rest any argument , ugly as they are in themselves , y v brush them aside as trivialities , cqualhr ^ Lord Malmcsbuxy's suggestion , that Mr . Scarlcu has been dangerously ill through ^ pJotmJw anxiety . We must regret Mr . Scarlett s dlnees , we can sympathize with him in the feeling oi humiliation Sat caused it , but we are not _ w Ions surprised that tho British minister shouia ^ blind to the real sting of the charge against Aim . Whon he flays that Mr . Scarlett obtamedm tw money bargain the liberation of twoEnghab g ^ iJemen , who had been long iT ^ fS accusations , we can . as littfo adnut tho ea ™
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Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05061852/page/12/
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