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6«0 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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THE HOOD MONUMENT. A correspondent write...
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A TORY VIEW OF THE HOUSE OF LOTIDS. The ...
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THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ACROSS THE ATLANT...
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MISCELLANEOUS. Tub Windsor Barracks offi...
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6«0 The Leader. [Saturday,
6 « 0 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
The Hood Monument. A Correspondent Write...
THE HOOD MONUMENT . A correspondent writes— " Perhaps some of your readers may be interested in an account of the ceremony that I witnessed to-day at the Kensall- green Cemetery , viz ., the inauguration of the memorial to the late Thomas Hood . The day being one of the finest and most ; genial that we have had this bitter summer brought out a good assemblage of the friends and admirers of poor Hood ; not the common-place , over-dressed fine ladies and gentlemen who usually compose an English crowd , drawn together b y idle curiosity or mere invitation , but principall y mechanics and artisans , with a sprinkling of lit erary people and foreigners .
" The site of the poet ' s last resting-place commands a lovely view over the Surrey hills , with the glorious Crystal Palace , which , had he lived he must have rejoiced in ; and on the other side the woody heights of Harrow , with its church pointing skywards . The railway close beneath , with its rushing trains at intervals , recalling one to the bustle of the outer world . " Richard Monckton Milnes—one of the kindest and most genial of the world's ' curled darlings' who has passed through a life of fashion and popularity untouched and scatheless—had come to do honour to the memory of his brother poet . Nothing could be better in taste and feeling than his inaugural address
—r-a graceful and withal earnest review of Hood's life . His simple character , his goodness , the effect that his poems had produced and are producing amongst all classes , especially those in whose behalf he wrote , the story of his difficulties , and the ready assistanc e of Sir Robert Peel when made aware of them , were briefly dwelt on by Milnes . The drapery with which the bust of Hood was covered was removed , and the ceremony thus ended , all crowded round the . last memorial of the ¦ * people singer , ' and thanked the orator in spirit for his loving tribute to the memory of him who sang the Song of the Shirt . ' These Words , with the name and date of his death , compose the inscription—an all sufficient one . "
A Tory View Of The House Of Lotids. The ...
A TORY VIEW OF THE HOUSE OF LOTIDS . The Press , in . its last number , presents an article , in reference to the votes of the House of [ Lords on the Oxford University Bill , which indicates by its style the authoritative Tory writer : — " The ? dislocation of . political parties which has oflate years rendered the ¦ working of our parliamentary Government so feeble and so vacillating , has told with equally powerful effect upon the House' of Lords as upon the House of Commons . While the effect lias been equally powerful , it has , from the peculiar constitution of theUjrper Chamber , necessarily been more permanent . " When'Sir Bobei't Peel , intoxicated with that power which he owed entirely to party , first meditated the idea of governing without party connexions , two influences arose , which
an . the course of events were to be substituted for that ancient system of Church and State which a free aristocracy was peculiarly adapted to uphold . These were Bereaucracy and Tractarianism . The first would have secured centralised patronage , and the second aspired to govern the multitude by _ a theocratic revival . Both , if successful and united , might havo formed a strong Government , though at the ultimate expense of public liberty and national character . u The Newman defection liad alread y opened the eyes of sound Churchmen , however liigh their views , to the abyss they were approaching , when the Papal aggression roused tho _ entire nation ; and that Protestant revival commenced jv )) ich ,, if wisely guided , may yet save and secure the liberties and greatness of this country . On the other hand , the fall of Sir Robert Peel was ' heavy blow and creat
discouragement to the developing bureaucracy , although his Whig suppessors ( have at . times , ratlicr from instinct than design , feebly attempted to pursue li ^ s plausible projects . Notwithstanding , therefore , the break-up of parties and the inconsistent and incoherent conduct " inseparable in a popular assembly from the absenco of traditionary opinions , tli ' e tendency of the House of Commons of Into veariJ hag been Conservative in the best and widest sense of the epithet . Public opinion has operated upon the popular branch , and , in « great degree , neutralised the evil working of the exotic influences introduced by Sir Robert X ' col nndihis disciples , and which , if consummated , would havo spjttled JSpgland . under a constitution combining tljo peculiarities of , tfiq . fjerman Chancery , wittuthpso of the Roman Synod , 'fluvB , rimjid ¦ the parliamentary chaos , a powerful Conservative party jn . tho House of Commons has pruclually formed iUJetf . and " aav . h
day repeivinc fresh accessions of strength . Peinftjtho only political discipllqo extant , the season has witnpejflqd ., MM ' igh jn ppposUion , ifca accruing . power and ita frequent triumphs , though Conservative , it is papular in it » sympathies ftfitliiul to Church and Stuto , it would uphold tlio Church on u broad and OxtapM Prptoftnt Wjb ^ MdJ . fc would ( inamfcun the other , institutions of t \\« country , $ par ^ pqiJQ ^ iQu Xqrnxed on traditionary influences andJoimlauthority , nit i » opposed , thejreforo , to Centrnlioationnnd 'i ' lVictariiuiisirtjHixl » " > to , ob jpot ^( . as well as in the u ^ urepB of Us , nptyor , ; ty is j-iW in tl » e House of Lords ( tfl ' uiru nro far otherwise . iTtoeco . ttsiMqa . 1 opinion has very little , if ut nil , modified tho conartwn . ppddaocd by tho dislocation of parties and tMoTcol system . In tho House of Lords the forces of tho Whig and lory partios are about equal , whilo the pnrty which acceded * ro ^ l » o' < 3 oiteorvative ranks , under tholnfluAijop oflWip Utv Kun < S * iYM ? ""^ "t ;? \ f > number- ' to bfit ^ be'V ' thfrty and Boraory . Tlie Mgttiill ftntqrva of Una eo ' iUwon town lu
the House of Lords , not only in their original unpopular forrn , but perhaps even aggravated , and with less disguise . Here we find Ministers of State with no following in the country , while ambitious prelates combine to substitute for the power which political party has hitherto alone supplied in England , the influence of tlie great corporation of which they are the chiefs , and which influence they are seeking to extend and enforce by means alike audacious and empirical . The statesman , resting on Bureaucracy , will ultimately establish Centralisation ; while the bishop , assuming that the whole population of the country is in his fold , prepares for that synodical action which is never for a moment absent from , the thoughts of this anti-national confederacy . The Duke of Newcastle may be looked upon in the House of Lords as the model typo of the Bureaucratic Minister , -while the Bishop of Oxford is the prelate who is to render the Church in England both catholic and popular . Both individuals act under the Jesuitical inspiration of Mr . Gladstone , who is prepared at the same time to reform the civil service on Chinese principles , and givetlie Church of England a Parliament of its own .
" To establish in England centralised authority and priestly domination is not an easy task , and requires no ordinary powers , yet it is one on which the House of Lords , unconsciously no doubt to many of its members , is now actively intent . So far as regards the constitution of this country , it is a destructive process , a system , essentially revolutionary . "
The Electric Telegraph Across The Atlant...
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ACROSS THE ATLANTIC . In its article on the electric telegraph , -the " Quarterly " brings up the latest news as to transatlantic telegraphing : — Cl The restless spirit of English engineers , having provided for the internal telegraphic communication of Great Britain and her principal dependencies , seems bent upon stretching out her lines to the East and to the " West , so as ultimately to clasp the entire globe , the project of connecting , telegraphically , England with America isi at the present moment , seriously engaging the attention of scientific and commercial Oien . ^ _ The more daring engineers are sanguine of the practicability of laying a sr ibmarine cable directly across the Atlantic , from Galway to Cape Race in Newfoundland . Now that we have Lieutenant Maury ' s authentic determination of the existence of a shelf across the North Atlantic , the soundings on which are nowhere more than 1500 fathoms , the feasibility of the project is tolerably certain . The principal question is whether , if a line were laid , an electric current can be passed through 3000 miles of cable . No doubt , by the expenditure of enormous battery power , this might be accomplished through wires suspended in the air , but it is a question whether it can be done along a vast length of gutta-percha coated wire passing through saltwater . There is such a tiling as too great an insulation Professor Faraday has shown that in suoh circumstances the wire bectrtnes a Leyden jar , and may be so charged witli electricity that a current cannot , without the greatest difficulty , move tlirough it . This is the objection to a direct cable between the two continents- " , if , however , it can be overcome , doubtless the ocean path would in all possible
cases be adopted where communications had to be made lotween civilised countries having intermediate barbarous , erungenial lnn < ls . To escape this at present dubious ocean path , it is proposed to carry the cable from the northernmost point of the Highlands of Scotland to Iceland , by way of the Orkney , Shetland , and Ferroe islands—to lay it from Iceland across to the nearest point in Greenland , thence down the coast to Cape Farewell , where tlie cable would again take to tlie water , span Davis ' s Straits , and make right away across Labrador and Upper Canada to Quebec . Here it would lock in with the North American ineshwork of ¦ wires , which bold themselves out like an open hand for the European grasp . This plan seems quite feasible , for in no part of the journey would the cable require to be more than
MO miles long ; and as it seems protty certain that a sandbank extends , with good soundings , all tho way to Cape Farewell , there would bo little difficulty in mooring the cable to a level and soft bottom . The only obstacle that we see is the strong partiality of tho Esquimaux for old iron , iind it would perhaps bo tempting them too much to hang tl > cir coasts with this material , just read y to their banda . The want of settlements along thia inhospitsiblo arctic coast to protect the wive is , wo confess , a groat drawback to tlie ( scheme ,- but wo fancy posts might bo organised at comparatively a small coat , considering tho magnitude and irahbvtance of 'the undertaking . ' The mere cxpensfe of mak-intr' anil ilnying-tho cubic would not bo much more fclmni double that of building the new ¦ WeBtxninstcr-bridee across the Thtunos / ' . . *" ' u ¦ ' 111 ¦ ¦ i .. i
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' i ¦ . ' , r i - . ' n ¦ i i COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON CAPT . CHILD . ' ,,. ¦!' , ' " , ' A ' . Jt- o ' vBR frp . d juty £ ujramp (' , ' ' 1 '' , ^ CAfiTAW Ciiim ? , m officer , jn tho Lancers ,, wen $ * nad , aornq yp | irs , AgQ ,, a . n . < l , wa , s , shut , up jn a , lunatic »« fi WP , by ,, his ,, fyroUy ,, , T |^ . Lunufcto \ Friend a' £ 3 or tycty became ^ quainted . with his ca ? e ,, decked tlj ^ jt lio was not n ^ ad , ^ nd : indited , on , a , uomnuasMMik of inquiry . It hue been held in CloincntVinn Hall , this week , before Mr . Francis Barlow , a MiiBtor in ¦
Lunacy . i , ' . i ... • Sir F . The 8 igerJw | ioi » i Vpetvryd for tho fiunily , and m support of the cojnmisqiqn , commenced by compla , inin , gj oC ;^ Q . o ^ eioiia , and , as he said , unjustifiable' conduct of ( . ho Lunatic Friends' Society , "in meddhW' ^ ith ' thifl enso ; arid'Tio t « w Btfttocil tho fiictft , 1 n jtffltlocation of tho eohtlttdt l v > t 'hte tfliehtb : I < inio . tt * 8 O » tilcm which hadUieen < nltid «' . lliat ' Ciiptiiun fChj / d , luMt'fcpt'ivi ' w moro ( thnwi twalyo yeftrn cnmner lessly placed in conflrKiiiijicni > hy ^ is fi jMy ^ w ^ -WWto
in entire ignorance of the circumstances of the ease . Captain Child was the second son of Mr . Child , of Kinlet Hall , in Shropshire , and was entitled to the reversion of 4000 / . a year on his father ' s decease . He was now in his 43 rd year . In 1838 he became possessed with the extraordinary infatuation that the Queen had a marked attachment to him , and that she evinced her affection in an evident manner every time they met . He had at last even written to her Majesty , inviting her to open a correspondence ; and he quarrelled with his brother and other members oi his family , who had implored him to desist , and endeavoured to disabuse him of his unfortunate notions
These letters to the Queen , though not signed by Captain Child , were traced to him , and the result was a conference between his father and Lord Hill , Commander-in-chief , and the Marquis of Normanby , the then Home Secretary : —the result being confinement in a lunatic asylum . The Secretary to the Lunatic Friends' Society produced 203 letters written by Captain Child , while in confinement , some of them in cipher , the key of which had been obtained ; and he submitted these in proof that the " party" was of sound mind . They all , more or less , contained protests against the continuance of his detention , and the legality of his first incarceration in an asylum . In one he had declared that he had never entertained the idea that
the Queen had formed an attachment for him since the month of June , 1840 , and that lie had been misled into the impression that she was attached to hicn , by what he conceived to be some peculiarity in her manner tow-airds him at the Opera . The letters were admitted to indicate great mental acuteness , and were written in an excellent , compact , and finished style . Mr . Leman , of the State Paper office , deposed to having easily succeeded in deciphering the letters . The words ' Serat" and " Gemo" meant the Queen ; " Lorenzo" stood for Prince Albeit ; and " Dore " signified the Duchess of Kent . The letters " It B . " meant her Majesty ' s ) Ministers ; and " Friend" was applied to Louis Napoleon .
Lord Sliaftesbury had examined the lunatic in 1852 , and deposed that he had then regarded him as of unsound mind . Capt . Child was then introduced , his appearance excited considerable interest . He is of slender build , about five feet ten inches high , with a thorough military bearing . His answers to the questions put to him were given with , great shrewdness . Their substance was that he had certainly considered that the Queen's manner to him at first had been somawhat marked , and he could excuse the letters he had written to her , though he could not justify them . Other persons had thought that the Queen had paul him marked attention . He must decline to say who they were , but he would tell anything to settle the
question of his insanity . The Queen paid him attention both , before and after her marriage in a marked manner , but , lie did not mean to say that anything wrong was intended by it , but there was a marked manner . He would much rather not say who beside himself observed it . He , had Bupposejl from the Queen's manner that her marriage with Prince Albert was a sham , it was not a fixed opinion , but a mere supposition , which ho got rid of , not by lapse of time , nor by treatment , but by proofs that it was not a sham . It did happen that there was something in the Queen ' s manner , but he would not draw tho least inference from it , he would not even say it was intended for him , but it was for some one close by where he was . The proceedings were then adjourned .
Miscellaneous. Tub Windsor Barracks Offi...
MISCELLANEOUS . Tub Windsor Barracks officers' row baa been some-whnt pmalelled by a case in the navy : —A . Court-martial assembled on loard her Majesty ' s ship Impregnable , lOi , Captain Wise , on Monday , Admiral Stopford , president , to try Lieutenant Frederick G . Leigh , on a charge of drunknenm-ss . Tlie Court sentenced the prisoner to bo dismissed from lier Majesty ' u service . A cdrieappnderit of ^ i « Times ' civea instoncea of tuo py 6 te * n confessed in tlio Windsor Harrucl ^ a Affair ;—persecution of the " ^ poon . " Not long ago wo bad a court of inquiry in Dublin , in which it was proved thut one of the olficcrs of a regiinont , tlien qtiArterpd in tho Royul burrocks , bad been for years , tho viotiin of tlio grossest outrages on tho part of his brother officers , with tho « n »^ wra iwiiuiwiiu
..,. . > .. v ,,, v » _ v * ,, jiuu uuyau no aiiciT ^ pc to put an end tp such cruelan 4 disgjrncofuVprocecdmgs . On the occasion which gflyorjse fa tho inquiry , a body of the ouicora hud riiahed intotho victim ^ rpom ut night , h «< l cut the whole of ( ho hair , off ilia head , cloap to tho roots , and h ( vd then tossed him in a bjunket . until lie ftccoino iimonaiblo . A fovv yours ago , 1 , wns consulted by a young gontluniah , only 17 ymm of a $ q , who bqlpogod to one of tlio < irat fmiilkti in thio country , und who |» ad a ftw mquths boforo Jnscn uppojntca to thu —tl » Rogwnont , t | io » aorying « lw in DuUn gun-won . Ho informed nle thai his lift ) waa miserable owing to th « w « y la vfhich ho wa * b ^ JUed , b y , hin b ' ro ^ liQr aub « ltKni 8 , andthftttl ^ t vary momipg onoVf . Ao . lip ^ tqnjvntu l ^ vci UM him , before , flovcr ^ Uthats , , <» , thftt ha . wm a « ur «« d . whtlp , « nd tlwttho next timoliu op ' ohed hto i \ w \ v > woujd kWk him yw tpf Wip , it \ am-room . "r ) , wlyfaefr ( . liq poor yout » g . | fejl <> w r ^ lio . w / wpft . Q p ^ thojnoH ^ B ^ WLl ^ mflidy bc > y , i » I bvok «» vt nvith ) fo « oinp , lnm to hia ,, co / oij » cl , fl o » aid , l » o W done Mo . uiul lmd only boon luug ' IioU At .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 22, 1854, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22071854/page/8/
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