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T He Money Pressure Is Beginning To Tell...
Judge . There is often a vulgar prejudice against a man so generally accomplished and esteemed as Cockbubn . People fancy he cannot be a good lawyer , because he is so much besides ; but no man Can have attained to CocxBtraN ' s position , with the competition of the tar , under the scrutiny of the Bench , and escape acquiring a thorough knowledge of English law . His admirable faculties of sifting evidence and of explaining 1 it to aJury v / Qte sbovra in the Palmer case . His power of penetrating to the pith of a subject has often been displayed In Parliament . There is , indeed , some truth h > the
counter allegation , that lawyers make indifferent members of Parliament , and are almost by necessity waiters upon Providence and . upon Premiers ; but if CocKiiTiRN has advanced his party , he has adorned the House . Sir Kichaed Bjetheix , of course , succeeded Sir Alexander as Attorney-General ; but some surprise is expressed at the gift of Sir Richard ' s post as Solicitor-General to Mr . Stuabt Wobtxet . He had retired from practice . His legal qualifications are very respectable , but they were not
so high as to make it a duty of the Ministers to place the office at Iris disposal ; and in doing so Liord P . Ai . ME 3 iSTo : sr has passed OTer many men at least as able as Mr . WoKxtiET , who were attached to the Grovernmeut as well as to the Liberal party . ' .. ¦ : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦" ¦' . ' : ¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦¦'¦ . •'¦ ¦ The appointments hare given rise to some curious electioneering manoeuvres at Southampton . Mr . Edwin James has advanced as heir to
Sir AxEXAKDER . Before him had been Serjeant Pigott , who was abruptly cut short in his canvass by a telegraphic Cockbumian message— " I have not yet resigned . " So Pigott came to town , — and James went to Southampton 1 Mr . Edward Chadwick , too , it is said , 3 iad ' expressed a wish ' to represent Southampton ; and really Mr . Chadwick would be a very useful man in much practical business that comes before the House of
Commons . Sir John Pakingtoit lias been making a demonstration at Manchester . He has gone down to visit the head-quarters of Secular education , and there has been a decided rapprochement between the representatives of the Paktngton bill and the Miusteb Gibson bill , while Sir John , in a capital speech at the Manchester Athenaeum , held out the right hand of fellowship to Lord John Russjeuu If Lord John should go into the Upper House , as some suppose , and as Lord Paxmerston wishes , really it would seem possible that he should be the head of an Education Cabinetj with Pakington for his leader in the Commons .
A strange drama was performed in St . Paul ' s , Knightsbridge , on Sunday last . The Bishop of London , ' splitting the difference , ' has allowed Liddell to have papistical candles and candlesticks on the altar , but not to light them . The fog , however , afforded Lidjdexjl and his clergy the opportunity of raising spiritual fire under pretext of enlightening the darkness and the candles were lighted . The undaunted Wjesterton came up with an extinguisher , literally as well as metaphorically , and put out the light . The rallying Lxddexl recommenced his lamplighting mission ; and the baffled Westehton acquiesced . To us the Papistry of the candle is puerile ; but the Protestantism of the extinguisher is not really more dignified . This is the
Church , however , with its Liddeixs and Westertons , for which Mr . Gladstone , at a meeting of the " Additional Curate Society , " is asking recruits , and for which the Bishop of St . Asapii is asking endowments . Before we give the curates , or can expect landed proprietors to supply the endowments , wo must settle the institutes of the Church ; we must determine whether it is candle or no candle , before we ' please to remember the grotto . ' The Redpath disclosures have been followed up . The accomplice , Kent , is advanced almost to a level with Koiison in tho scale of his operations ,, and an accountant has been caught nabbing in the same office .
; T fe , gold robbery is followed up by a refusal of tno Company to take tho loss upon themselves , WH & an attempt to throw it upon the real owners ? nJm !? * u * ' »™*» teani « s out that in a previous instance they had compromised the loss , lteally 111 i ? 1 1 ? drawt & Kn « between the Robsobb and respectable commweial men
The murder of LirrtE , in Ireland , is held to be a great wonder ; as if it were anything wonderful ., now-a-da . 78 , for a gentleman quietly engaged in his business to be knocked on the head . The novelty of the matter is , that the tonrderer ' s motive appears to hare been plnndeiy not revenge or religious sentiment—the usual incentives in [ reJand .
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PUBLIC MEETINGSLORD ALBEMARLE OS BENEFIT CLUBS . Loed Albemaule presided last week at the annual dinner of the Shropham Agricultural Association . In returning thanks for the toast of his health , he m a de some renaarks on the importance of beaefit club « for poor men . " This , " he observed , " is a subject in which , cf course , the labourer is particularly concerned ; but it is n o t merel y the labourer ' s , but the farmer ' s and the ratepayer ' s , question . Mr . Tidd Pratt stated at the anniversary of a benefit club at which , he -was present that , from documents which , as G overnment R egistrar , he
had in his possession , he believed benefit clubs saved the po or r a tes 2 , 000 , 000 ? . a year . Mr . ITeison , the most distinguished actuary -upon this subject , h a s s aid that nearl y the whole of the poverty -which fills the -workhouses with our labouring population , would l > e prevented if a proper system of benefit clubs -were introduced . " His Lordship then went on to make some observations with respect to the benefit society called , the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows , with which ho had had a dispute . He considered that "it embraces the most objecti o nable princi ples of all the -worst clubs in the country ; " and he was further of opinion that it is not solvent . .
» B . BEADY AJSTD HIS CONSTITUENTS . A meeting of the Leitrim Liberal Club was held at Carrick-on-Shannon last " Wednesday week . " The success of the club , " says the Irish Midland Counties Gazette , " is now an established fact . But two years established , it has alread y accomp lished much—has , in truth , secured the independence of Leitrim . When , some three yeara since ,-we -urged the liberals of Leitrim to organize a county club , we stated our belief that in no
Irish county there existed better or more available materials for such an organization . Sanguine as we ¦ were , we confess that our hopes have been more than realized . The county of Leitrim is already independent . The liberals are as three to one on the registry . It alone remains to provide Dr . Brady with an honest and w o rth y fellow-representative , so that the votes of John Brady maybe no longer neutralized by the hostile votes of a Conservative colleague ., T hia , lve have no doubt , the club will tale measures to accomplish . "
ADCmOKAti CURATES SOCIETY . T h e S ociety for Promoting the Employment of Additional Curates in Populous Places held its annual meeting in the Music-hall , Chest e r , on Tuesday , at noon ; The Right Rev . the Lord Bishop of Chestee presided . There was a very numerous attendance of the clergy , gentry , and their families resident in the city and neig hbourhood ; and fro m the report , it appeared that the funds of the society are increasing . The chief speech was that of Mr . Gladstone , who said that the funds are still inadequate to the objects contemplated , and who pointed out the low pay of tho working clergy , and e ulog ized the courage and devotion of city
. THE MEMBERS FOB BRISTOL BEFORE THEER COHST 1 TUENTS . The annual dinner of tho Anchor Society of Bristol , one of a series of annual festivals to commemorate the great local philanthrop ist , Edward Colston , was held in the Bristol Athenroum on Thursday last . In the absence of the president , Sir A . H . Elton , Bart ., tho chair was occupied b y Mr . "W . II . Gore Langton , M . P . Tho Hon . F . H . Berkeley , M . P ., w as also present , and addressed tho company on the topics of tho day . He app l a uded Lord Palmerston for tho part he had taken in the war , but doubted if ho would now turn his attention , as he
ought to do , to reform . Ho agreed with tho Administrative Reformers in their desire to remove ari s t oc ratic du m mi e s' from the House of Commons ; but ho thought that c o uld o nl y be done by reforming tho House , and reform could only bo enforced by the peop le r e solutel y de m anding it , and tho peop le w ould onl y demand it when thoy were moved by some great disaster . After an allusion to his favourite topic of the ballot , Mr . Berkeley sat down . Mr . Goro Langton then addressed tho meoting , expressing , among other op inions , great aversion to the K ing o f Naples , but adding that ho foarcrt a collision with Mm would involve us in a war with all tho _ absolutist powers of Europe .
SItt JOHN PAKINGTON OJT NATIONAI-. KDUCATION " . Sir John Ptikington delivered , on Wednesday ovening , an address on National Education to tho members of tho Manchester Athemcum , in compliance w ith nn ' invitation from tho directors of that institution . Sir E . Armitago presided on the occasion , and there wore prosent Mr . J . S . Pakington ; Mr . WnttH , Mayor of Manchester ; Sir J . Potter , Mr . Buzloy , Mr . J . A . Turner , Sir J . Bardsley , tho llov . AY . Gaskell , and * Mr . Fairbairn , C . E .
_ Ins speeehof considerable length , Sir John exno ,, ^ has views on the subject of education ia . EneWfSS ? TO th * same as those he has ^ frequentl y utwW H * ™™ ° ns ) , aTld qUoted statistics exS" i * wide dMtoiotrof ignorance . « Gentlemen , " heproSS T ^^^^ th r request , I have BtatStoSjW I codtbroe of the same . opinion which I have reiat 5 ' expressed , that the state of education in EnriaK ^ sufficient , unsatisfactory , and unworthy of this on , ^ I nttetlr «* ect the idea , althoug h I respebt « S say so that our program is what it ought to he " T S ° are , I fceheve , tfcrec charts which are indispensable T a better state of things . The first is that , in sS ° or aether what is caUed the half-time USfSS bo adopted , so as to be in use for all classes in ??• country , and not to be limited , as it now is tn % o \ or establishments of one kind . ' Secondly , we mSfh " * a better , more c omplete , and more perfect onranizJw ? of moS ™ ^^ *** * laiSer ^ ° ie ce S Cly
On Wednesday , Sir John Pakinglon visited the Model Secular School at Manchester , and on the same dav ik ! the School for Out-door Pauper Children . A conference afterwards took place between the hon . baronet and th * principal gentlemen connected with the rival schemes of education originating in Manchester . Several points in favour of establishing : schools , suppor t ed b y local rates in which the religious teaching shall be given at separate hours , parents who object to that species of tuition beinc at liberty to withdraw their children at the time ¦ wkenit is imparted .
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LORD RAiVENSWOTH AND THE BLAYD 0 K ,, . INSTITUTE . With reference to Loia Ravensworth ' s attack on theBlaydon In stitu t e , Mr . J . Cowen , jun ., secretary of that society , writes to the T i mes to deny that the body with '• which ' he is connected is essentially ' infidel . ' He subjoins a list of the periodicals taken in at the reading-room and among these the one most likely to provoke his lordsWp ' 3 wrath , appears to be our own journal . The alleged ' immoral' "books are— " The Positive Philosoph y of Auguste C omte , " by H arriet M artineau , and Yoltaire ' 3 " Philosophical Dictionary . " The lecture-hall is let On Sundays to the Wesleyan Reformed Methodists , who preach there , and hold a Sunday School . A public and unseetariaa day-school is also held there durhig the week . At night the room , is used for lectures , concerts , & c . The institution is purely educational , and there is no theological , or anti-theological test for admission . Any person is allowed to lay on tie table of the reading-room any publication which is not of ad immoral character ; and this permission has been taken advantage of both by the orthodox and the heretical . On one occasion , the lecture-hall was let to some orthodox gentlemen for the purpose of supporting their views v and it was afterwards let to some heterodox gentlemen with a view to supporting theirs . I n short , the institution appears to have been conducted in the most impartial manner , and its conductors seem to be absolutely neutral . * ' No polemical lectures , " saja Mr . Cowen , " are deli verejl under the auspices of tic institution . " The secretary concludes with a little bit of advice to Lord Ravensworth : —• " I would respectfully suggest to him that , when ho again ventures to recommend boots to working men , he selects some hi gher writer on morals than Paley , and n o t an exploded commentator on law like Blackstone , for his commendation . " The name of Mr . Cowen must be well kuo \ sn to a largo number of our readers . Mr . Cowen is a leader of the most liberal party in Newcastle and the district around , and ho has been active in the establishment of the Blaydon News-room and Literary Institution . This association ia a ' Mechanics '' Institution in fact as well as in name . It possesses a large and convenient building which is freehold property ; and it has expended 9 O 0 £ upon tho establishment during the last four years . 1 li « building contains an excellent and even elegant lecturehall , capable of holding five hundred people , a comfortable reading-room , and library , and a class-room . . Annexed to it are a cottage for an attendant , and a spacious playground for tho school .
Obituary. Lieutenant Alexander Foneytn P...
OBITUARY . Lieutenant Alexander FoneYTn Pabr , o n e of o « r naval officers at the Nile and Trafalgar , who ha been ( to tlio discredit of tho authorities ) a lieutenant 10 fifty years , died on tho 8 th inst . of paralysis , at tlic » fc of seventy , at H aslar H o s pital , with which ho ff « s officially connected . - „ e Piunce Leininoen , tho half-brother of the Queen 0 England , died oai the morning of Thursday vecu , Wald Leiningen , in tho fiftieth year of hid nge . Mr . Da . vid Boaurc . —We regret to have to «"" ° " tho sudden dontlv of Mr . Boguo , tho publisher ol r » ^ str e et , in tho forfcy-eixth year of his age . H 1 3 » 11 ^ associated with many excellent works , both 111 u o ' of li ght reading and of more important bnuie »« ^ literature . In his cheap reprints of stnn < lanl i '"»« ^ aided tho cause of education ; and hid death xi ^ rogrottoa by all who woro acquainted ^ vith luui .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111856/page/2/
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