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HOW TO BRIBE UNDER THIS NEW ACT. By an a...
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^ v &^ m &^ 0 to squander on ; feitiiejf pg ^ ckasing proxies , if the mischief is ~ tod , tucis , ^ *» J them to meddle -with ; or els e 'expecting Hjo purchase immunity . By the ^ s £ gt § nV the commanding officer is a clubfellow , vrho has been particeps criminis , and thinks it fitter to "wink at such practices than
to expose them . Since money , interest , and chance , rule promotion , the fitness of the commanding officer has comparatively little to < do with lis appointment ; though evidently "it requires no ordinary ability to rule L 000 men with our small proportion of officers . But there is another effect of the system of purchase which has been too little noticed . It Brings into the service men of more or less wealth , ; but belonging by birth , education ^ and habits , to different circles . These
different circles all get iirto the army through the Horse Grtiards ; but , "being once there , they ^ strive to ie-arrange themselves according to social sympathy . Exquisites try to purchase or exchange into an exquisite regiment and we have military corps distinguished like ' ¦ ' ¦ y . the . / -Teathj ';* \/ f 6 r ^ xpe-Asive ''' '' e 4 te ' rt ' ain ' ' nt , for neve ? dancing , or other . ;| bpperie ; B ' . ; - ;' - ^ W ' e vlwye ; . ' \ ' ^ sp v '; , quiet ' ' \ regimeiits ^ in which the officei's'f never hear" of such practices t the rough ; fellows who fall into thein . finding the ¦
Society too " , slow , '' gladly exchange with some real gentlenieit , in order to go into a '' fast" regiment . A fast regiment thus becomes acorps of picfeed blackguards , ^ a free iind easy club , T—a riilitary Order / of the Opal Bole , ^ ere it not for this system of selfaeieetioiij the gentlemanly' feeling of some naen wpiild tend to correct the blackgiiardly feeling ptf others ; hu . t iql practice that acLvan'tiige is lost ; and "whileonepart / of the . army get ^ over-refined into an effeminate fastidiousness , there is too much reason to fearthat
other , parts becoine coipfc of concentrated blackguardism * Wei , ^ i £ t ve ; spoken , only of what we know ; we have no opportunity of measuring the extent of such practices , or the proportion of regiments that must confess to them more or less . But we say that the very existence of such degraded conduct in the army calls for a searching anatomy of the whole system , in order to a correct knowledge of the disease , and a vigorous cutting out of the diseased parts .
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How To Bribe Under This New Act. By An A...
HOW TO BRIBE UNDER THIS NEW ACT . By an act of last session , the laws relating to bribery at elections are consolidated and amended . By the consolidation the member or agent is saved much , trouble , since he finds compressed in one view all that he must avoid ; and by the amendment , the process of bribery , rendered a little more difficult for uninventivo minds , is facilitated for those of a higher order . The bill " defines" bribery , treating , and undue influence ; leaying a wide extent outside
the bounds of the definition , a margin , now marked out as safe , The incidence of punishment is made to fall with entire weight on the briber or the provider , not on the bribed elector : it is an offence to bribe , but not to be bribed ; to promise , but not to ask . The penftlty ,, however , falls only upon the candidate ; disinterested parties may bribe and welcome . All exponses arc to bo paid through the election auditor and his accredited agents ;
but conforming to the rule ia that respect , the candidate is absolved from all responsibility . Cockades , ribands , music , flags , and banners , are illegal ; it is doubted whether even the vendor of cockadoa may not be liable to a pennlty for providing them ; though why a haberdasher should bo prohib ^ tel ^ frpm providing" a commodity required h y ' hi / s customers in accordance with the reign ° * ^ w & ion for a brief season we do npt understand . The law" indeed doea not prohibit
good cheer and hospitality , nor a . genial largesse , nor fashions of costume ; it only prohibits the attaining of those luxuries by particular modes , and of course those modes will be avoided . Meanwhile the statute forces upon agents who desire to exercise influence , and electors who wish to be influenced , the task of discovering other modes .
And the task as not impossible , as the cleverest of election agents announces . The cleverest , we say , on the presumption that we recognise tlie initials of " J . C . " to a letter dated from the Heform Club . The members need not so conscientiously have struck out of the bill the declaration " That they have not unknowingly made any illegal payments , and that they will not knowingly hereafter
mate any illegal payments on account of being elected to Parliament > " since it might have been made with safety to conscience , person , and purse . Of course" illegal expenses" are expenses prohibited by the act , all others remaining legal ; and aa the most conservative eandidiate will not need to make payments precisely in any of the modes pror liibited , yhy scruple to cteelare so ? It is easy to pay in modes that the declaration would leave untouched .
" Vy hy , for example , neglect the rouiid robm or triangular plan of election . A desires to get elected for the borough of 2 £ , IB for Y , and 0 for % * :. but why should A bribe the X electors , or either candidate bribe his own borough ? Clearly the sr ^ y will be to bribe the electors of one borough , and to get elected for another . A can bribe B ' s borough , B bribe C's ,, and C bribe A's—r bribe and proclaim the restoration of the gppct old times . And that after all is but a childish plan compared to others that must hrrk in the hrain of a "W \ B , "
Yes , you may as Well try to extinguish Jove , as bribery ; for what , is bribery but one forin . of love—love of good cheer and precious coin in the elector , love of the forbidden seat in the candidate ? Every fine lipon one form of " undue influence" is only a , protection duty upon another form . The most that this bill will do , will be to increase the value of a" J . C . " or a Brown , a ' ' . ' "W . B' ' oraJTlewker , You must destroy bribeability —extinguish temptation to sin , —depose the sovereignty of the thirty pieces of sjlver , before you can pass an effectual bribery act ; and then it won't be wanted .
If any hope lies in legislation , it would be by the verjr opposite courae—by adopting free trade in bribery—in bands , treating , cockades , and every other " influence . " That might be effectual , especially -with an extended suffrage , and therefore at once a wider market and an enhanced price . YeSj if men will bribe , let them open their purses wide , turn them upside down , inside out , exhaust the fund . Bankrupt the bribery class ; and then see if honeat voters cpuldnot carry the day .
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N . CARDINAL WISEMAN DEFENDANT . Those Roman ., Catholics who belong to the true * Catholic , order in religion will hail that action at Quildfopd ^ Assizes which will create such consternation in Rome , llomans of the high Roman party , of the ultramontane order , will be astounded to find that there exists a country in which a plain priest can call a Cardinal to account . ; It is indepd conceivable within tbo regions of romance , that the humblest priced fortified by trutlji and a pure conscience , might advance to the , foot of Me jnfalUWe father , expose the crime of soni © erring Cardinal ( fo » tho Cardinal . ia ,. npt yot pjqonioted , to absolute infallibility ) , and ^ Qurojusticofroni , tbo living fpuntain of { eXl truth upon earth , tho ( Triple Mifcje .
But short of some sublime appeal like that , the poor priest must , in the Roman view , be considered incapable of challenging the rectitude and wisdom of a Prince of the Church . Is not a Cardinal promoted to be next to infallibility , and therefore so many ranks above a priest in piety , knowledge , authority , and organised truth ? Of course he is . So much so , that according to a correct view , the statement of M ! r . Boyle must be ipso facto false uaiuiuai zuiu
xd xa liupusaiuie vnav u . . a priesc can stand in such relations to each other . The story is this . There are in Paris two journals , the XTnivers , organ of the ultramontane party , and the Ami de la JRe % eo % organ of the Moderate party . In the latter paper , there appeared in May lastj articles censuring the conduct of the Cardinal in 1850 , as unwise and impolitic , because calculated to valarm the prejudices and provoke the resistance of the ^ English people . These papers were formally signed by the Abbe Cognat , the Editor but in them the Cardinal supposed that he detected the true authorship
he pounced upon Miv Boyle , and then insinuated reasons why Mlri Boyle should attack him . There was " an isolated priest in England , " anxious to secure undue profit forhiniself . He had represented hinaself as " the victim of episcopal tyranny and oppression ;' he ^ ^ had been '' " expelled from a religious society ;" : a stiperb chiirch had been built by the bishop at an iriiinense cost , and thia priest , serving its offices coldly , occasioned the attendance to fall off , and left the churcla bare and in debt ; wherefore he was removed , and had resisted his removal with
contumacious proceedings at law , and advertised the prebendal house , which he said vi'as his owtt ^ as a lodging- That priest Cardinal Wiseman inferred was the author of the letters which M . Cognat had adopted as articles , and was Mr , Boyle . Now there was a reason why the Cardinal fastened upon this priest . Mr . Boyle ' s case had been mentioned in the articles , but he
was not the author of them : they were written , astounding as it may appear , by another Roman Catholic priest in this country—Mr . Ivors of Kentish Town j and that gentleman had alluded to the case of Mr . -Boyle , which is indeed remarkable . In 184 i 7 Mr . Boyle was appointed to a " mission" at Islington , Supposing himself permanently lodged there , he laid out between three and four hundred .
pounds upon his house , and served his ministry faithfully . In 1850 , however , great events took place ; the Romanists were making large accessions , or appeared to be so . Converts joined them—some of the converts distinguished persona already in orders ; and places had to be found for those converts . Such was the state of things when the Cardinal cast his eyes upon the house occupied by Mr . Boyle : he fouud Boyle tame in his ministrations , but there was a neophyte , hob
ot cour $ e with zeal , distinguished , likely to constitute a spectacle which would attract numbers to the ecclesiastical theatre—that man waa Mr . Oakley , and that man the Cardinal destined for the church at Islington . Mr . Boyle waa told to go . He su )> rnitted , but asked to be repaid the ttionoy lie had laid out ; ho somewhat insisted upon this repayment ; but he afterwards apologised to repayment ; but he afterwards apologised to
tlie Cardinal on his knees ; and was forgiven by that dignitary with n Christian blessing , liuinod in circumstances , Mr . Boylo has subsequently been permitted , to perform mass by Dr . Grant , tho Biahop of Southwark , for which ho received a small stipond , and so ho lives in obscurity , l'oatored to Christianity , if not to good fortune , by tho Cardinal ' s forgiveness , and , benediction .
Two years later Mr . Ivors , touohing upon the arbitrary conduct of Nicholas Cardinal "Wiseman in this country , advances this tale *
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 19, 1854, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19081854/page/12/
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