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JtTLY 21, 1855.] THE LEADER. 697
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WIFE AND NO WIFE. A PO8T80BTPT to our pa...
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THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR. We have received...
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Chandernagpee. Sixteen Miles Above Calcu...
Eurasians especially love to be initiated into the " mysteries of iParis , '' as they are understood and exhibited at Chandernagore . And while this little town is a perfect nuisance to the British authorities , it is not of the slightest value or importance to the French Government . Should war ever again break aut—may . all propitious deities avert the omen !—between the Powers now so happily allied , Chandernagore would behold St . Geobgb ' s banner floating over its walls within twenty-four hours after the intelligence had reached Fort William . Nor is it of any service to the revenues of France , for the expenses of its government exceed its incomings from every source . It is , therefore , a permissible hint that advantage might be taken of the cordial feeling now existing between the two nations to obtain the transfer of Chandernagore for a pecuniary or other consideration . Holland and Denmark were readily induced to concede their respective settlements , and we cannot doubt that the French would courteously follow their example . There can be no question as to the hearty co-operation to be expected from the Honourable East India Company in bringing About such a desirable result , and in any case it is a matter well worthy of the serioud attention of Government .
Jttly 21, 1855.] The Leader. 697
JtTLY 21 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 697
Wife And No Wife. A Po8t80btpt To Our Pa...
WIFE AND NO WIFE . A PO 8 T 80 BTPT to our paper on Mrs . Norton s pamphlet is suggested by a new pamphlet in the case of Mrs . Tai ^ bot . * As frequently happens in this class of cases , justice is Outraged in opposite ways . Here is Mrs . Norton , who desires to be divorced from her husband ; and she would have been so if she had been willing to admit as true an accusation of conduct which she regards as guilt . If she would confess herself degraded in her own eyes she might be free . It was indeed requisite that she should acknowledge an accomplice iu an old friend—the Prime Minister of this country . Not having been proved to have committed a breach of the law , her character being at least judicially free from any taint , she remains under slavery to the man , who accused her . It so happened that the evidence brought against Mrs . Norton was of a kind which , if not true , must have been manufactured : it was juditjially pronounced to bo untrue . But if the conspiracy against hei had been rather more criminal , then again she would have been free . There was in her case either an insufficient amount of offence against the law on her own part , or of successful conspiracy on the other aide ; and the result is , that she remains incapable of extricating herself from the bonds of a matrimony which she knows only in its disabilities . The case of Mrs . Ta-ldot is exactly the reverse . No reader , we presume , can have perused the pamphlets of Mr . Paget without rising from them conviuccd that the stories respecting Mrs . Talbot ' s conduct were absolutely without foundation . The Ecclesiastical Court iu Dublin , however , taking such one-Bided evidence as was produced bofore it , affirmed that she was guilty of the conduct ascribed to her . On the appeal , the leading judge in tho Court of Delegates , happening to take up the pleadings intend of the evidence , pronounced that the judgment of tho Court Wow was correct ; and the Upper Court Qdded another peculiarly logical four do force fa its grounds of judgment . " It has de-Jh * VTamiot w . Tamiot . —A Letter to tho Hon . Justice ftpnena . By John Pngot , E « iiM of the Middle Temple , giftrriater-fct-Law . With a Report of the Judgment of the CUtfb Court of Delegates , delivered on June 14 , 1856 . " W »« eta : Thoraaa Blonkarn , Law Bookseller , 29 , Belled , Lincoln ' * Inn . 1855 .
clared that admissions made by Mrs . Tai / bot were occasioned by the ' wandering of a diseased imagination , not based upon reality , and as such should not be received by a court of justice , ' and has then quoted and relied upon them because they were sincere ; in other words , because she was herself deluded by her delusions ! " The result is , that j Mrs . Talbot is divorced . The law leaves Mrs . Norton undivided from her husband , but knowing marriage only in its disabilities . It leaves Mrs . Talbot divorced , but knowing divorce only in its disabilities ; and in this fate her husband shares . The manifest object of the divorce for him was to obtain another wife , and by that means the chance of an heir , who would intervene befween himself and his nephew in the inheritance . By the fortune of Ecclesiastical Courts Mr . ' Talbot has arrived at a divorce in that kind of tribunal . In doing so , however , he haa been necessarily compelled , as a matter of form , to display before the public the evidence upon which he relies ; and we can judge pretty well of its result if he should carry the case forward to the House of Lords ; who can alone complete the divorce civilly .
" To that bar he must come , " says Mr . Paget , " if he means to clear away the stigma which your lordship ' s emphatic condemnation of his witnesses , as * infamous * and for some motive , neither * truthtelling nor trustworthy , ' must otherwise affix upon his character . " He must bring the Rev . Mr . M'Clelland , and confront him with my brother and my self . He must bring his brother-in-law , the Rev . Mr . Collis and his witnesses , Joseph O'Brien and Susan and Mary Benn ! He must bring Maria Mooney , to be again contradicted by Margaret Hall . He must bring Hester Keogh , to tell the arts that have been used to induce her to « swear false against her mistress ; ' again to ' refuse to belie her , as Halloran and Finnerty had done ; ' again to tell how , during that horrible night , her mistress ' protested her innocence ; ' again to give her emphatic testimony to the falsehood of the charges brought against her . He must bring the Rev . Mr . Kemmis , and his confederate Mrs . Tennant , alias Mrs . Trueman . He must himself appear , attended by his chosen servants , Michael Halloran , the convicted forger ! and Brien Finnerty , alias Dennis Delany . ' " AVe can , as we have said , pretty well calculate beforehand the result of an appeal to the House of Lords . In the ineauwhile , though Mr . and Mrs . Talbot are divorced by the power of the Ecclesiastical Courts , they are undivoreed by the civil courts ; they are strangers to each other under the Ecclesiastical law , they are man and wife at common law ; they are ' single so far as relates to any comfort or aid to each other , they are bound in matrimony so far as relates to their incapacity for seeking companionhood elsewhere . The law , therefore , retains Mrs . Norton in bondage to the husband whom she has left , and who has advertised her in the public newspapers—the law retaining hor in the boudagc because she is not guilty . It has pronounced Mra . Talbot to be divorced on the kind of evidence that we have reviewed , and she is insane by consequence of the proceedings against her . Mr . Talbot , who desired freedom for the sake of a new chance that he might have an heir , is referred to the House of Lords with such evidence as we have seen .
The Conduct Of The War. We Have Received...
THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR . We have received from Brussels a copy of a pamphlet published at Geneva under the title of Second Memoir addressed to the Government of his Imperial Majesty Napoleon III ., on the Expedition into the Crimea , ' and the Conduct of the War in the East . By a General Officer . In his seventh chapter tho writer rccapitiilatcs , under tho following heads , the blunders , military and dip lomatic , committed hitherto in tho conduct of the war ; with special reference to tho responsibility of the Kmperor of the French , the prime author of tho Crimean expedition : — 1 . Goneral adoption of the system of jilwolutiat alliancoa in preference to alliaitcos with nationnlitiea .
2 . Pursuit of the Austrian alliance . 3 . Ready consent to the conclusion of a special treaty between Austria and Turkey . 4 . Abandonment of the true theatre of war , the Danubian Principalities , the culminating point from which the "Western Powers should have directed their operations of ¦ war and of diplomacy . 5 . The idea of the Crimean expedition started by Austria , and accepted without reflection by the Allies . 6 . The conception of the plan of campaign due to the . Emperor , unacquainted as a politician with operations of war , and particularly with the general state of facts existing in the East . 7 . The siege of Sebastopol by the southern side , and the winter campaign in the Russian territory . 8 . Selection of Generals of streetfights and skirmishes , destitute of notions of geography , topography , and ethnology , without experience of practical strategy , and without knowledge of la grande guerre ; relying on the bravery of their troops more than upon their own initiative . 9 . Pursuit of the Prusso-Germanic alliance without any compensation offered either to peoples , or to sovereigns . 10 . Systematically harsh demeanour towards the brave Piedmontese nation . 11 . Unreasonable pressure upon the Cabineta of Copenhagen and of Stockholm , without offer of guarantees for the future . 12 . Persistent rejection of the idea of an eventual re-establishment of Poland : as the vulnerable flank of Hussia , and a continental appui given to the three Scandinavian States , Denmark , Sweden , and Norway . 13 . Impolitic hostilities on the part of the combined fleets against the Finnish nationality , and useless violence against the Lapona and the Samoiedes : among other instances , the bombardment of Kola , 68 . hit . N . 14 . Majestic impotence of the naval campaign in the Baltic , and in the Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland . 15 . Unlucky publication of an obituary article on the Czar Nicholas at the moment of the reopening of the negotiations on the basis of the guarantees accepted by Alexander II . 16- Publication of the military article of the Momteur , on the Crimean expedition , discouraging to the officers of the" army . 17 . Publication of the diplomatic article of the Monxteur , on the negotiations , an article subservient to Austrian interests . 18 . Bombardment of Sebastopol from the 9 th to tie 27 th of April , without forces sufficient to risk an assault . ~~ We have not space this week to enter into any ietailed examination of these criticisms . There a more than one of them in which many of our political readers may be disposed , partially at Least , to concur ; there are others in direct opposition to the facts as they are generally known to political circles in London . We allude more particularly to the fifth charge , " The idea of the Crimean expedition started by Austria . ' This seems a little inconsistent with the leading statement of the first " Memoir , " repeated with emphasis in the second , that to the Emperor of the French alone was due the design of the Crimean expedition : a statement now universally accepted , and never officially denied . On the other hand , the generally accepted fact is , that Austria objected last autumn to the Crimean expedition , because it carried off those forces which she desired to support herself in case of actual collision with Russia . It is even affirmed that , to prevent that removal of support , Austria offered to lead an advance into Bessarabia , thus anticipating by some months the tardy " cry of _ insubordination against dip lomatic necessities , which , according to the " Memoir , " was only extorted from the emotion of the Emperor of the French by the disasters of Inkerman , when he assured his army that a powerful diversion was " about to be effected in Bessarabia . " The fact that Austria did make some such otter seems to be indicated by the argument of our own Ministers against an advance into Bessarabia , on the ground that it would remove the British torce from their legitimate base of operations—the sea . INow , considering the position which the ^ ngiisii force would then have held in conjunction with the French , the Turkish , and the Austrian forces , this argument appears weak enough ; but tne same argument put forward in reference to the Austrian invitation , almost confirms the statement that such an invitation was made , x . vus fact reminds us of what should " « ver be forgotten , that we have at no time had a «<« ^ Zr ™ Austrian case . Wo . lo pof know ho Awtmn official per contra to tho ^ stjitemon of ou , oim Ministers , nor w it possible to tu ™ . liaouasod S ? SSSSS . -rt :
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Leader (1850-1860), July 21, 1855, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21071855/page/13/
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