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The Lord Chancellor's Dit011ce Bill. The...
abolish the action , for criminal conversation . Who pointed out these omissions ? A man remarkable for his mastery of law , his clear intellect , and his strong Conservatism—Lord LiNDHUBST . IiOrd IiTNDHTJEST IS a good measure of the extent to ¦ which , reforms might be carried without amounting to what would be called innovation or subversiveness . Yet the Ijobd Ch : a .: nceLLOB does not go even so far as the I / tndhubst measure . _ ^ _^ _ _ B ^ V A ¦ ^ _ A
The second reading was carried . Oxi ? ob : d and Exeteb . stand ready to destroy the Bill in Committee , if the dissolution do not postpone the subject altogether . The Bill , therefore , constitutes nothing more than a mark— - the highest mark to which the tide of legislation has yet risen on . this subject .
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DI 71 Y OJF THE UNREPHESENTED . Oite-sixth of the voters of the United Kingdom , and one-fortieth , of the adult male population , will shortly be vested with authority to elect , if they please , a majority of the House of Commons . As there are divergencies of opinion , however , among the electoral sixth , and the national fortieth , one million of men out of six millions will divide the chance of establishing the Government of Great Britain for seven years , upon Tory or Liberal principles . To every man who has a vote there are five men who have none ; how then can the unrepresented be said to have duties connected with a general election ? They can influence the electors ; they can compare their own opinions , by shows of Lands , with those of the privileged body . It would be a very important result if , at a large number of county and borough returns , the ^ decision of a show of hands at the nomination should have been found to have reversed upon going to the poll : that would be one test of the nature of public opinion , as' contradicted by electoral opinion . The unrepresented should be careful to attend the elections in large bodies , and make their voices heard where tlieir suffrages -will
not be received . They should exhibit no sullenness , which would be construed us apathy ; but sliould contrast their broad and multitudinous masses with the shrivelled Bhadows so often called constituencies . "Wherever it is practicable , a candidate sliould be brought forward on advanced popular principles , so that the returning officer should be forced , upon a sliow of hands , to declare him elected , although it may not be intended to drive his opponents to the poll : in no case should this opportunity be missed . ' The [ Liberal party might thus gain a considerable accession , of moral influence in the House of
Commons . At the same time the members of the new House of Commons should carry with them to London a cloud of petitions from tho unrepresented classes . This would stimulate the liberal party in Parliament , and force on a serious discussion between the advocates and the enemies of reform .
" We can conceive no fallacy moro injurious than that wMch supposes tho unrepresented part of the population to have no duties to gerform during the period of a general election . They have the more important duties to perform , because they are unrepresented . J . hey have to make an advance towards representation . Reform will be , iu all probability tlio question that will ultimately divido the next Parliament into an Opposition and a Ministerial party . Now , it would bo a grievous error to commit the interests ot tho non-electors to tho keeping of the electors , and to trust implicitly in them
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BA . CON IN TIIE MANTLE OP PAX . KEU A BUSPfiOTOD criminal becomes at onco tho property of malignant gossips , who convert
him to every possible use . "William Palmer was represented by the snappers up of atrocious rumours as a man who "had spent his whole life in murdering , who had sprinkled a neighbourhood with the graves of his poisoned relatives , who had possessed himself of all the infernal arts in order to cut off his fellowcreatures . Without assigning any limit to that miserable man ' s capacity for guilt , we may doubfc whether it is a wholesome practice to assert a multitude of assassinations on ^ v ' . ^ ^ B ¦ . _ . _ 111 — _ - » . _ ^^ T ^ B _ . L
the proof of one . Bacon , charged with having killed his two children at "Walworth , was rrext arraigned as a matricide ; his mother ' s body was exhumed ; his father ' s name was then whispered , and the legend of infamy grew until the horror once attaching to "William Palmer was transferred to "William Bacon . He had committed arson —he had forged—he had robbed a friend— - he had driven one wife mad—a child by a former marriage had been buried in suspicious
haste—a neighbour had disappeared ; by the time he is tried a calendar of crimes -will hang like a convict garment iipon him—a San Benito of pitiless social suspicion . It is even imputed to him . for wickedness that he is " a monstrous eater . " Inspector Young and Sergeant Beoad and Constable Reed dispute the honour of having been " superhumanly active" in breaking open the sepulchre in which the poisoner had laid his victim . So rancorous , indeed , has been
the detecting spirit of the Stamford population , that the authorities have been wearied by their importunity , and have refused to disturb any more churchyard mould . ' ¦ Many persons remember the tales that flew from tongue to tongue after Burke was hanged . How a great house-had been discovered in Drurylane , where dead bodies were kept in stock ; how the areh-murderer had paid a battalion of agents , to whom he forwarded specifications of the ' subject' in demand ; how
iuiiuy a . young girl in the country , lured to town by false , promises , had entered a certain door , and never emerged , except in a sliell , by night . This sort of appetite goes far to prove that the British intellect has not been verv highly rectified since the age of sorcery and witch-burning . The lurid lights of superstition—for superstition it is—still strike upon the minds even , of persons -who would pay for the prophecies of Wizard Habbison
or touch with silver the palm of a gipsy , whose native Devonshire complexion has been dyed with walnut juice . By all means let murder be traced and the murderer convicted ; but do not encourage this unscrupulous multiplication of imaginary crimes , ¦ which feed the fancy with poison , and stain it with blood . Above all , whatever may happen , let us not have a Palmer excitement every three months in the year .
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£ 1000 BJEWATID . Colonel ' Tullock and Sir Jokn M'Neill might have rejected without pain , the offer of 10002 . each , for forbearing to assert their position as gentlemen , had Lord Pakmube discussed the point grammatically with them . Since he stumbled in his syntax , however , they could not but bo resentful . They have not learned that when men do their duty in England , they receivo small sums in payment ; but that when they fail in their duty , stars and crosses arc rewarded as official
consolations . A reward of 2 O 0 Z . has been offered for the capture of tho Hedhill highwayman ; tho services of Colonel Tulloch and Sir . To UN M'Nkill are severally assessed at five times that amount . Five acts of detective sagacity constitute a claim as great as that of tho Commissioners who explained why a British army porished , and by that explanation saved another army , from destruction .
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SUPER ELUMINA BABYLOKIS . They sat down and wept by the waters of Babylon , and thought of the day when , although Baron de Bothschixd could not sit in the high place of Salem , as colleague of Lord John RusSEll , that stupendous representative of an afflicted race married a " desolate daughter" to one of the " scattered all weeping away , " at Gunnersbury Park . There was something paralysing to an imagination not so weak as that of Jenkins in the fairyland light and . beauty of the Chisvvick "^^* T ^ ^^^^ . * q ^^ ^ v ^ h . 44 ^^^ 4 ^ 4 *^ ^ b ^^ . ^ « M * — a _~ _ _ _
feast . It was a cooling sight to see BejtjamikjDIsraeli , of pale , Asiatic complexion seated like one of Zenobia ' s councillors in " that eye-delighting saloon , trellised with flowers , roofed with crystal , multiplied by mirrors , and suffused with a rosy glow from flutings of pink silk . " Only the plate of the family was used ;" . assuredly the Rothschilds , always lending , never borrow . No they can lay ^ covers for a hundre d and forty ] and their friends can cast at the feet of the bride six breakfast services of massive silver and one of chased gold , besides a parasol of lace , every rib of which is tipped with
oval-shaped emeralds and pearls , so that Baroness Alphonsb in future may ride i £ she please in the chariot of the Queen of Sheba . "Wonderful were the candlesticks , fit for Solomon's Temple ; prodigious were the fans , each sumptuous enough for a Sultana ; but the Lydian gift of the great promoter was most marvellous of all— -a cheque , they say , for a million ! 1 , 000 , 0002 . ! Not possible , is it P But then , do not the BiO'ihschii / ds "date beyond monarchies ? " Are not these their savings since the Dispersion ? Mr , Disbaeli said in his etherial Caucasian way , that the bridegroom had found a treasure "dearer than rubies . " Ah ! but Baron
Alphonse de Rothschild has the treasure and the rubies too ; " one set of jewels alone , the gif t of his father , being worth 30 , 0007 . , " and the tulle illusion , " draping the bride , revealed a Persian luxury of pearls . The popular man iu England on Wednesday morning was the Benedict of the Bourse , but was it on account of the " far above rubies , " or the rubies themselves ? We know not ; yet there is an unctuous loving style of talking about " almost priceless floral gems , " and " triumphs
of Gtttnteti ' s art , " and " decorations of pure white and gold , " and " costly chandeliers , " and velvet and frippery , that might almost tempt a cynical outsider to doubt whether the lilies of the valley , that neither toil nor spin , would have a chance of respectful recognition in the presence of this gilded gold . Buy Palestine , Baron Rothschild ; and wear your purple on a throne ! The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem , we are persuaded , will be happy on that condition to " say grace . "
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Manchester Mechanics' Institution a ^ jd Exhibition of iNDusTitiAi Akt . —Tho thirty-third annual meeting of tho Manchester Mechanics' Institution , and the last that will be held in the old building , Cooporstreet , took place on tho evening of Thursday woek , and drew together some of tho moat distinguished men of the town , including Mr . J . 0 . Dyer ; Mr . " \ V . Fairbain , C . E ., F . R . S . ; Mr . Roborta , C . E . ; Mr . Fotliergill , C . E , ; and others . Mr . Oliver Hoy wood presided , and , mentioned thnt some gentlemon were proposing to establish a Working Men ' s College in connexion with tho institution . Ho trusted that the proposal would bo carried into effect . Tho funds of tho institution were described as being in a very prosperous condition ; and a vote of thanks to tho secretary , Mr . Hutchings , for his energetic managementwas unanimously and cordially passed .
, Art-Manufactwkis Association of Scotiano . —J-t has been rosolvcd that , owing to the success of the lirst exhibition of this Association in Edinburgh , the second shall also be held in that city at the doao of the present year . Alroady about 3700 or dOOO subscribers have been enrolled in tho Art Union department , and tho committee nre engaged in the purchase of ju'i / . ca to Iks distributed at tlio iirtit annual ballot to he made next Juno . A prize of 2 OF . lias boon offered for the best model of a useful and ornamental article to bo produced at moderate cost for distribution among tho aubsoribcrs .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 7, 1857, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07031857/page/14/
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