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±m T H E Ii E A P ER. [No. 412, February...
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Lord Paxhekston thinks it \vould be chil...
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The Reform question hangs nre in Parliam...
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AN OLD STORY OVER THE WATER. (From tJie ...
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IRISH AFFAIRS AND ENGKL.ISH WRITERS. Eng...
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The New National Gallery. —The Royal Com...
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Political Notes. Lord Clauenuon Stated, ...
Xing' FBKBtSAsa > had been treated very weH . So ifell that the blood of the Times correspondent at Naples ' boils * to think of it . So veil , that one of the unhappy men has been reduced to temporary lunacy . Better , indeed , than their Italian companions in misery , whose agonies ¦ have brought them to the brink of death . The proceedings at Salerno are humiliating to this country . Oivis Romanzis pays enormous taxes to keep up armaments and ambassadors ,
and when he falls into the hands of a foreigner he is allowed to rot , be robbed , and go mad , untried and unconvicted . We fail to protect our own subjects ; let us , then , have a cheap Government ; for it is not worth while to raise the largest revenue in Europe merely to defray the cost ot that joint responsibility which , as the J ? reuch official organs say , entails upon us the duty of assisting to maintain order in France .
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± m T H E Ii E A P ER . [ No . 412 , February 13 , 1858
Lord Paxhekston Thinks It \Vould Be Chil...
Lord Paxhekston thinks it \ vould be childish on the part of a great power to resist the amendment of a law because a tew hot-headed French : colonels had menaced us . But the common sense and common feeling of the country repudiate this sophism . We are legislating under the fire of the Monitenr . We are conceding to a menace that which we have frequently refused as a favour . We are establishing a law which , had it existed ei ghteen years ago , would have entailed upon Loins Napoleon a sentence of penal servitude for life , after the murderous affair at Boulogne . A propos of that event , Mr . Dttncombe will do well to read up the incidents of his fast friend ' s biography . He may then discover that the Emperor not only shot a Frenchman at Boulogne , but threatened to shoot an Englishman on board the steamer which took him there .
The Reform Question Hangs Nre In Parliam...
The Reform question hangs nre in Parliament . Lord PaIiMEKSton has a bill ready , which he touches up from hour to hour ; but the scheme is to delay it until after the Easter holidays . Lord Gkanville said , on Thursday , that the date of its introduction depended very much , upon the state . of public business . If it depended on the state of p ublic opinion , there would be no postponement . The country is awake ; the great towns are in motion . The Parliamentary Reform Committee , anxious to make a real advance , has given a very
proper and conclusive answer to the deputation m favour of manhood suffrage . The cry for manhood suffrage is at present mere sectional clamour ; the thinking classes do not join in it . To insist upon this principle as a basis of agitation would be to sink once more into the slough of despond , and to be at the mercy of a few self-elected brawlers who played out their parts many years ago . Mr . John Bright pointed the way to safe and sound Reform when he declared , a few days since , that he dreaded a large extension of the franchise without the ballot .
An Old Story Over The Water. (From Tjie ...
AN OLD STORY OVER THE WATER . ( From tJie Times , August 12 , 1840 . ) " . . . Already we are accused of having launched the City of Edinburgh , with fifty-six crackbrained officers , desperate refugees , and man-cooks in uniform , headed by Monsieur Louis Bonaparte and a live eagle , to upset tho dynasty of Orleans . "
Irish Affairs And Engkl.Ish Writers. Eng...
IRISH AFFAIRS AND ENGKL . ISH WRITERS . English » writers on Ireland have become more Irish than the Irish themselves . c Take up the Dublin newspapers and , you find in one oolumn a report of a successful railway , in another a good , law case , or some criticism on a commoroial company . But if you require plenty of Four Courts gossip , you must lbok to tho Dublin letter in the Times , and' Merrion-squaro scandal - crosses the channel to be served up in spice through our smart contemporary the Press . " Happy is the nation whose annals arc a blank" was a very proper saying when historians would record nothing but wars ; in jEnglandour writers of history now condescend to noto "'" tlio victories " 6 T peace—but m Troland "" t ; ilo triumphs of industry are ignored , and ,, if wo trusted English journalists , wo should beliove that the greatest ; events in Dublin are tlio squabblos of tho lawyers for vacant situations . Tho recent vaoauoies woro unhappily kept open for soino time . Had English judgoships boon in question , tho Times would have Qxoludcd from its columns all tho preliminary tittle-tattle of Westminster Hull , and possibly have ¦ userted a quiet paragraph of four linos to announce i ho new judge ; but speculations as to tho now Irish
judges were given at length day after day in large type , and the final appointment was transmitted by telegraph . In the same way the drivellings of the Nation , — -which was once a very able and , in excited times , a very influential print ; but which is now fallen in character and circulation , and has been expressly excluded from many popular news-rooms , —are paraded in the Times at full length , wliile absurdities as gross and as seditious by one or two miserable publications in this country have been always ignored as below the expression of surprise or contempt . We protest against this system of never noticing Irish affairs except to pick out some outrageous nonsense . Many of those excerpts no more
represent the Irish ' press than Holywell-street represents English cheap literature . We never see an article of the Sepoy journals quoted except in the Times , and we are quite sure that many Irishmen cau say the same . The writers have thus discovered a short cut to publicity ; the more violent their effusions the more may they count on an unpaid advertisement in the leading journal . The contests of lawyers for the legal offices is no doubt of some legal and social interest in Dublin ; but it is never a great question , and one only sees * the occasional rumours chronicled quietly in Saunders , or quizzed in the more lively columns of the Evening Mail . Ireland , ceasing to be the battle-field of English , parties , has been turned into a hunting-ground for correspondents and . contributors hard-up for a subject .
It is greatly to tlie credit of Lord Palmekston that he has diminished party feeling in Ireland by making his Government honest and impartial . His measures have been wise and his appointments good . He has discouraged Protestant bigotry and repressed Roman Catholic outrage ; he has curbed offensive Orangemen , and prosecuted riotous p riests . That his merit may want no sign , he is heartily abused by the extreme men of both parties . His appointments have been made regardless of mere Irish parties . He recalled from retirement Chief Justice BXiACKBtrRNE , an old political Protestant , he erave the Chief Judereship of the Incumbered Estates
Court to another Conservative , Mr . Mabtle y , and he , manufactured the raw material of the fiery Romanist , Keogh , into an excellent Judge . Christian , an unpolitical Protestant lawyer , has been put into the Common Pleas to balance the three of another creed ( giving rise to tlie mild Four Courts joke that that bench is filled by three Roman Catholics and one Christian ) , while a most unobjectionable political supporter , Serjeant O'Bkien , is rewarded with another judgeship . Many of these new appointments gave rise to spasmodic growling from the Protestant papers tliat ' the two high law officers are Roman Cathdlic , ' and that ' three seats in the
Commons Pleas are filled by Papists , ' and so on . But surely in a Roman Catholic country , where the professors of that creed are to Protestants as five to one , the fact that four out of the twelve judges are Roman Catholic is not very surprising . Considering , also , that all the Roman Catholics in Ireland are , like the Ministry , Liberal in politics—that the best Protestant Liberals , being Peclites , declined law offices when Lord Aberdeen went outit is not surprising that two leading Liberal lawyers , chosen as Attorney and Solicitor-General , should be Roman Catholics . Tho humiliating circumstance
of these facts is that it is necessary to mention anything of . the religion of the men appointed to these situations . Their reli g ion has nothing to do with tho discharge of their duties , as has been shown when the Roman Catholic Attorney-General Keogh prosecuted with zeal a Roman Catholic friar , and in the present prosecution by another Roman Catholio official of Priests Conway and Ryan . When English Judges are appointed , wo do not see it stated tiiat they aro Churchmen or Dissenters ; and we hope to sec tho time when important Irish appointments will bo made without the Paul Pjiy penuy-a-linimr addition as to tho creeds of tlie new olnoials .
We may rest assured that the loss we hear of Ireland , the better she is going pn - and we hope ffifiTTihio will arrive when our olueTrecord of"Tfislr news will be in tho share lists and trade reports . Time is only wanted for tho prosperity of Iroland . Its loading railways aro doing very well : wlkile our Great Western is paying one per cent , nnd our Eastern Counties' meetings are screaming farcosy the Groat Southorn and Western of Ireland steadily pays four per cent ., tho Dublin and Kingstown , fil'toen per cent , and tho meetings are dull and stupid beyond oomparison , tho chairman knowing nothing of tha livoly habit of swoaring whioh distinguished Mr
Denison . With the new race of landlords secured by the Encumbered Estates Court , the decline in fierce competition for land caused by the large emigration , and the rise in the value of agricultural labour , traceable to the same cause , we may , without making a fuss about it , or recording all its minute events , lbok forward to a career of solid prosperity for Ireland .
The New National Gallery. —The Royal Com...
The New National Gallery . —The Royal Commissioners having decided against the removal of the National Gallery from Trafalgar-square , the Lords of the Treasury requested the Commissioners of Works to prepare an estimate of the expense of enlarg ing tlie present building . Mr . Hunt , the surveyor , estimate ? . the total expense at 500 , 000 j ., which includes the reinstatement of the barracks and the workhouse buildings ( to be removed for the enlargement of the gallery ) , reinstatement of the baths- and lavatories , the erection of a suitable building for the Royal Academy , and the construction of a building for the National Gallery upon . the enlarged site . The British Museum . —It was resolved on the 21 st ult . by the standing committee of the Trustees of the British Museum , in special meeting assembled , that there is a great deficiency of space for the proper exhibition of the different collections in the various departments of the Museum ; that the trustees are not possessed of any vacant space available for the purpose , and that in providing such space it is very desirable to contemplate the future and progressive , as well as the actual and immediate , requirements of the Museum .. These resolutions were carried nem . con . ; and it was further resolved , by seven to two votes , to adopt Mr . Smirke ' s plan for the purchase of laud to the north of the Museum , as contained in the Librarian ' s report . The resolution has been laid before her Majesty's Ministers , with the plan of Mr . Smirke . Mr . Horsley Palmer . —The death of Mr . Horsley Palmer , whose name for fifty years has been among the most eminent and honourable in connexion with British commerce , was announced yesterday . Mr . Palmer was elected a director of the Bank of England in 1811 , filled the post of Governor for three successive years ( 1830 to 1832 ) , and at the date of his retirement , last . April , was senior member of the Court . His withdrawal from the active business of his firm was notified at tlie opening of the present year . — Times . The Press in Ireland . —Ulster is certainly going ahead . Belfast , its capital , now boasts of three daily , papers , which is as many as are published in Liverpool , and one more than the number in enlightened Manchester . The Northern Whig , long the leading journal of Ireland , commercially and politically , but which , as a great advertizing tri-weekly sheet , withstood any experimentalization under the new Stamp Act , has nowdecided to issue daily , considering that its public has grown , to be rich and numerous enough to justify and require the change . A fact like this should be received by English statesmen as a warning that Ulster Liberalism , insisting on religious equality in Ireland , and political institutions assimilated to those of England , cannot very much longer be played with . —Liverpool Daily Post . Bridewbll Burial-ground . — A meeting of the inhabitants of tho neighbourhood of Bridewell was held on Friday week , when the following resolutions were agreed to : — " That tho burial-ground is at present in a most shameful condition , arising from the Earl of Delawarr ' a tradespeople having placed large quantities of bricks and rubbish there , covering over entirely many of tho tombs , tombstones , and graves ; and that tho vestry is deeply shocked and pained to find that the ground had been leased by his Lordship for a term of ninety-nine years to a builder . That tho vestry cannot but viow tho disgraceful stato of the ground , as well as tho obvious intention to divert it to building purposes , as a gross outrage on the feelings of all those who have relations or friends interred therein , and likewise as a gross violation of public decency . That the chapolwardona , thoreforo , Lo authorized to take each steps as may bo necessary , both legal and otherwise , to prevent such desecration of tho ground , and to have it put into and preaorved and kept in decent and proper order . " The Family of this late Sir IT . R . Bisnor . —At tho close of tho business at tho Mansion House hist Saturday , tho Lord Mayor said ho wished to call public attention to tho present condition of tho family of tho late Sir Henry Bishop . Ho did thin in conscquonco of a representation mudo to him by a friend of the" family who had waited upon him , nnd who said that , owing to the Budden death of tlioir father , flvo young children Iradbeon-loft-ontiroly-destitute ;— 'rho ~ Lord--Mwyoi-iolL ^—that tho case was ono in which benevolent porsoua , especially in tho musical world , would bo glad to intoroat thomsolvos , and , pcraonally , ho should bo happy to undertake the application of any sums whioh might uo sent to him in tho v / ny which mtgljt appear moat conducive ,, to tho intorcsts of tho family . . Vicic-Admiral Tnre Hon . William Gordon , Into Oommandor-in-Chlcf at tho Noro , and brother of tho Earl of Abordeon , has just died . Ho entered tho navy in 1707 , nnd actod with great courage and distinction during tho last war with France .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 13, 1858, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13021858/page/14/
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