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THE EVASIONS. The Russian Government is ...
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THE GOLDEN FAMILY. Most persons desire t...
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Wiza11d Harrison And His Accomplices. On...
great facility of divorce ; a man may put away bis wife for any caprice , but he cannot marry her again until she has been married to another . ° In order to reduce that disagreeable necessity to a minimum , a certain class of people undertake the office of being the intermediate husband . There is a man called a " Hullab , " who sun ply goes through the marriage ceremony , and instantly afterwards ^ in thes mask formal > manner , repudiates the woman , tfrus qualifying her for remarriage with the original ! husband . It has-been said that' sometimes the- Hullah has been so
stricken with ; the obarms of his intermediate wife , that tie has declined to repudiate her ; but we doubt , whether the official mind could ever have been capable of so strikingly violating the fidelity of the routine . HabrisoKj however-, constituted himself a kind of Hullah ; but he took a more practical view of the subject ; than Ms Eastern prototype : he told the * simple girl that she would never recover her > lover until she- had become the ¦
wizard ' s mistress / It seems- that Euai-waa not the first woman to whom he had propounded that strange method of recovering a lost affection . A married woman stated to the ! Leeds police that her wish to regain a wandering husband had subjected her to the same suggestions from Harbison . The married woman took the cunning course of consulting ^ Mrs . Brown , who at once exposed to herthe little trust which could be placed in Harrison . In the case of Croft ,
however ^ the wizard employed a combination of cajolery and compulsion , and succeeded . In those two eases there ia actual detection ; bufc since many simple women and girls went to him upon the same mission , there is reason to suppose that he had recruited his unknown hareem by the same means of juggling , cajolery , and , perhaps , force . Hovtj to . look atj Harbison ' s house is not more disreputable than many others . It is quite well known that very respectable
persons went to see him . He kept a record of his business , like a proper business man ; and the memoranda of his dealings with ladies are said to be astounding . Amongst other persons who went to him was Mr . Dove , a gentleman of independent means , whose case we all remember . Mrs . Brown was a discreet -woman . We have no reason to suppose that she neglected to pay her rent to
her own landlord—the test of respectability ;' but her discretion showed itself conspicuously in the fact that she was professedly ignorant of all ; Harbison ' s proceedings—she did not " know what young people came to consult him for . " The neighbourhood is a quiet neighbourhood j the inns and public-houses close by are well conducted , and there is nothing to call attention specially to that particular den .
Now we notice this case of Harrison because iti is by no means singular . For the present , probably , Harrison's career is stopped—it is at least suspended . But there are still no fewer than three professors of his art and science of medicine , magic , and futurity within half a mile of his reHidenoe , and there stilL exists ^ all round , the same mass of ignorance which sendB clients to the
¦ vnse man , and exposes those clients to every kind ; of imposition and extortion , from fivo BtriUingB to the penalty which poor Eliza G olwp ™* oompelled to pay . Girls go to otheti profeaaoxa for the purposes of having their fortunes told ; their lovera charmed ; wive * go to jmve their husbands brought back > the , r children cured ; and the wizards live upon- the mieerable ignorance of the f a ! l ! T . ™ % a town in the country where the wise man ia not to be found . a £ a * S , I here are teUiO * twelve - Indeed- the profeseora of the art bear some
relation to the number of the population ; some say that in old cathedral towns they are one per cent . Now , let us for a moment reflect that for Harrison to live , there must corae to him daily or weekly a certain numb & r of ignorant , foolish , and simple women and girls ; the mothers of the present ! generation , the mothers of ? the next generation ^ into- whose homes he- introduces a tainted
conscience — perhaps a tainted blood — - a frightened memory , a low credulity , succeeded by a still lower scepticism . Haw many a skeleton in a family has been provided in the laboratory of a Habeison ! and who can count the families that are thus infected ? There is , we have said , a meeting-house at each end of the South-market , but what is
the influence which those meeting-houses exercise compared with Harrison ' s ? For although he is one against many-i—preachers , class-teachers , and missionaries—it is to be observed that the iniliience of the missionary ia principally in an arithmetical ratio ; the influence of HABBisoiiiiy who makes the mother of the family his slave , is in a geometrical ratio .
Two single remarks we make upon this case . ; ¦; ! y , ' . ¦¦ . ¦ ' . . ' . V- ; - . ;/ : . ' Religious men are placing their veto upon popular education , unless it be accompanied by religious teaching ; and they are thus leaving the mass of the people in a state to be proselytized by Harrisons ; This subject , like almost every other branch of morals which touch the vital state of the
people , is handled ineffectually , because of a false delicaey . , A totally spurious deference to virtue makes men believe that they must not talk openly about such things , wherefore they so abate their language and veil their meaning , that the very discussion becomes useless-. It is thus that religious ministers of all sects- —preachers , class-teachers , and missionaries—who would rather let the offences
be , than be talked about , and who arrest education , become the accomplices of felons like Harrison .
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The Evasions. The Russian Government Is ...
THE EVASIONS . The Russian Government is manifestly bent upon breaking through the conditions of the Treaty of Paris . The points at issue relate to the cession of Bolgrad and the Jsle of Serpents , and the settlement of the new Bessarabian frontier . Such , at least , is the statement put forward in behalf of our Ministers to explain the continued naval occupation of the Black Sea , and the semi-hostile position of the several Powers that lately covenanted at Paris the terms of ' perpetual amity . ' The question , however , is , as usual , mystified . There has been no official announcement of policy . If we did not understand an occasional newspaper oracle to be uttered with a certain indefinite degree of authority , we should know simply this : that Russia complains of the diplomatic , exactions of England , that Lord Lyons has been stationed aa sentinel of the Black Sea , and that the Western Cabinets , after serious differences , had been , reconciled . We have , indeed , the
help » of the newspaper articles alluded to , but their Ministerial inspiration ia not avowed , so that the Government may , at any time , adopt , unchallenged , different grounds of action . It is , then , as we are led to believe , on account of the retention b y Russia of the Isle of . Serpents and Bolgrad that the Allied armaments have not been withdrawn from the Turkish waters
That is , [ Russia is charged witli another practical aggression upon the Ottoman territory , and the " Western fleets are performing the same functions as thoy performed before the battle of Sinope . Six months of peace—Turkey under tho guns , of the combined
powers —Lord Lyons manoeuvring while Russia negotiates — Austria governing the Principalities by martial law — the Porfce wavering between rival influences— France giving a temporary support to Russia , Austria , to England — the JMoniteur questioning the alliance , the Times defying the Moniteur , and Lord Palmerston , at Manchester and at the Mansion House , doubting the durability , of the Paris pacification I I ? is to be wished we could assure ourselves that Russia is
not the only Power inclined to falsify the Treaty of March . It does not appear that , under the terms of this Treaty Russia was bound to fulfil her part to the * utmost without seeing , Austria fulfil hers or the Allies theirs . There is no doubt that her concessions were framed with a view to her old artifices of evasion , but Russian trickery is no excuse for Austrian want of faith . While we are holding high language with respect to Bolgrad and the Isle of Serpents , have we covenanted with Austria to obtain the release of the Damibian
Principalities from her ' protecting' violence , or have we secured guarantees that , when the Russian Government agrees to a just settlement of the points in dispute , the Austrian Government- will withdraw its forces within , the Austrian frontier ? Little sympathy as we have with the political interests of Russia , we should entertain a low opi nion of the Emperor Alexander ' s policy if he vacated the field altogether and left Austria in posr session of the great Danubian valley . It may be convenient , for a time , to ignore the feeling most deeply seated in . the English mind—distrust of Austria- —and to act in
concert with that Power in order to enforce the fulfilment by Russia of the Paris Treaty ; but to represent her as the champion of Ottoman integrity , and to play off Austrian duplicity against French hesitation , would indeed be to misunderstand the public opinion of England , and the cardinal interests . of Turkey . The moral that seems deducible from these Protoean postures of diplomacy is , that the Governments which made peace did not believe in it . Prom the first there was an
aspect of insincerity in the professions of the five Powers . The Turks , affecting liberality , had no intention of dealing in a liberal spirit with the inhabitants of the Principalities . The Austrians , pretending to be the restorers of European tranquillity , took not a single step towards relieving Moldavia and Wallachia from the weight of a military occupation ,
The Russians conceded territories which they were resolved to hold , if possible . The French plotted the abasement of England , and the English conceived jealousies of France . Tho Treaty was a falsehood , and the settlement it established may prove an illusion . So successful are the great guardians of order when they propose to ordain peace and goodwill among Governments .
The Golden Family. Most Persons Desire T...
THE GOLDEN FAMILY . Most persons desire to be respectable , but it is becoming a serious question whether you can be respectable without being rich . Thore are so many trifles in these days , which are very costly , and are yet ' onl y x'igM au < * proper , ' that if you love simplicity , or if you . are unable to ' do tho thing well , ' you nmsfc consent to bo black-balled for it . No one can > rf * f * »• » f c * »^ - * * i "WV r ^ f ^* M . L & VX' ^* - WlktAVV ^ , * V ^* rfb v —• ¦ — ¦¦
pretend to say how many forgeries an . " larcenies are committed in order that the thing may be clone -well ; but the wisdom ol the ago aa hardening into a sort of cant , aud wo are threatened with a return of that ^ plii--losophy which reckoned tho poor as ' the vile . ' Antiquarians might bo perp loxod to know at what date this purplo tributary ^ prido flowed into thogL'eat stream ol'Ohristwo
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15111856/page/14/
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