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May 25, 1850.] ®8* ItggftgtV 199 „ ____^...
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ZOOLOGICAL COMPLIMENTS. The idlers among...
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The Agapemone: Judgment. Vice-Chancellor...
visited her or spoken to her unless during his attempt m the spring of the present year to obtain possession of the child . " It is right to say , continues the Vice-Chancellor , that he has from time to time transmitted to her the income arising from her property . Mr . Thomas ' s conduct appeared inexplicable to his Honour , except upon the " supposition" that the ' servant of the Lord" had complete ascendency over his mind , and that Mrs . Thomas had rebelled against this dictation . Now , if the father was to have his child where would he take him , except to the mysterious establishment called the Agapemone .
" It appears that' the servant of the Lord' has founded a cosnobitical establishment , not on the Euripus , but on the Bristol channel , denominated Agapemone—a name , no doubt , adopted in order to make the people of Somersetshire understand or guess its object , which , however unluckily , I fear , few either there or elsewhere in any clear manner do . The establishment scarcely seems to be a convent either in connexion with the Greek Church or otherwise . Its inmates are not few , and are of each sex , can hardly be nuns and friars ; for some , though not all of them , are married couples , and the men and women are not separated . They call themselves brothers and sisters , and there appears to be something of a
religious kind , whether really or professedly , in the nature of the institution , which might be described as a spiritual boarding-house , though to what kind of religion , if any , the inmates belong does not , I think , appear . I believe that they do not attend any place of worship in or out of the establishment . They sing hymns , I think , addressed to the Supreme Being ; but , as I collect , they do not pray . The Agapemonians appear to set a high value upon bodily exercise of a cheerful and amusing kind . Their stables must be unexceptionable . It does not appear whether they hunt . They play , moreover , frequently or occasionally at lively and energetic games , such as hockey—ladies and all ; so that their life may be
considered less as ascetic than frolicsome . The particulars , however , of the Agapemonians' esoteric existence , being not open to general observation , are little , if at all , known beyond their own boundary , but to works of usefulness and charity without they are not , so far as I can collect , addicted . Now this is the establishment in which Mr . Thomas is one of the dwellers , and thither I suppose that he would take his son . But God forbid that I should be accessory to condemning any child to such a state of probable debasement . As lief would I have on my conscience the consigning this boy to a camp of gipsies . It may be suggested , however , that he may possibly be willing and able to find some other abode for his son , and it has
seemed to me proper , upon that supposition and otherwise , to consider whether Mr . Thomas has , or has not , opinions such as to disqualify him for the guardianship of an English child . In the first place , I think it ^ right to say that I am satisfied with his denial of believing ' the . servant of the Lord' to be a deity ; but that I doubt whether Mr . Thomas ' s mind is entirely free from participation in certain views concerning ' the servant of the Lord , ' not very dissimilar from the opinions entertained concerning an eminent personage of the seventh century by those who consider that personage a prophet ; and that I doubt , moreover , whether a man who , having been ordained a minister of religion , as a Christian in a
Christian community , has designedly and systematically given up attending any place of worship—whatever his private feelings may be , and whatever hymns he may singought , in any condition or circumstances , to be permitted in this country to have the guardianship or care of an English child , for whose maintenance and education there exists any other means of providing , though the child be his own . But that particular question I think it not , in the present instance , necessary to decide , and I wish to be understood as not giving an opinion upon it . However this may be , I apprehend that in England a man who holds the opinion that prayer , in the sense of entreaty and supplication to the Almighty , is no part of his duty , but is super-Almighty , is no part of his duty , but is
superfluous— - " who considers , moreover , that there is not any day of the week which ought to be observed as a Sabbath , as a day of peculiar rest , or as one of peculiar holiness , or in any manner distinct from other days , must be deemed to entertain opinions noxious to society —adverse to civilization—opposed to the usages of Christendom—contrary , in the case of prayer at least , to the express commands of the New Testament—and , finally , pernicious in the highest degree to any young person unhappy enough to be imbued with them . I say , I repeat , in England . If this is a just view of such opinions , they must disqualify him who avows them and carries them into practice for the education , and , in my judgment , for the guardianship of an English child , whether his own son or the son of any other . "
The Judge then referred to the affidavits of six Agapemonians , which strenuously denied every important allegation and insinuation made against the " Servant of the Lord " ( the Iteverend Henry James Prince ) , and ascribed the " desertion " of Mrs . Thomas by her husband to her ungovernable temper . It seemed , however , that the Judge was better satisfied with certain affidavits on the part of the Nottidge family opposed to Mr . Thomas , who swore to having been informed of strange things . It was evident that the child would be in danger of " temporary . ruin" and " spiritual peril , " and he , therefore , " could not decline interfering , " both to save the child and •* to avert from the country the infliction of such a citizen . " He accordingly referred the petition to the Master , to appoint some proper person as guardian .
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Zoological Compliments. The Idlers Among...
ZOOLOGICAL COMPLIMENTS . The idlers among the good citizens of London might spend twenty shillings and a day much less profitably than in an excursion to Southampton , on the Ripon ' B arrival there , to witness the debarkation of the living freight she bore away from Alexandria on the 9 th instant . A Nepaulese Prince , with a suite of many
attendants—Persians , Hindoos , Arabs , with the usual motley group of homeward-bound Anglo-Indians—can by no means be reckoned as an unattractive exhibition in themselves ; but , when we add the quadruped to the biped novelties , we may assert with safety that a more rare and heterogeneous collection has never before been landed on any single occasion on the shores of England . A hippopotamus , a Sahara ibex , lions , panthers , lynxes , and reptiles from Ethiopia and Southern Africa , reptiles from Abyssinia , goats fro m Cashmere , and some beautiful Arab horses , form a centre that ought to collect around it the interest of those possessed of taste and information . The hippopotamus , if it survives the voyage , will be the first living specimen that has reached any part of Europe . The animal is still young , and has by
no means grown to its full ; a extraordinary creature both in appearance and habits . Its docility and attachment to its keepers are quite extraordinary ; and it will not suffer the absence of one of the attending Arabs for any length of time . It requires a large daily supply of water , in which it lives for a few hours of every day . Its food consists at present of milk , of which it takes about eighty pints daily , and Indian corn . —Letter from Alexandria . By way of return for the hippopotamus , and other presents of rare animals , which the Pasha of Egypt has been sending to us , a whole herd of beasts have been dispatched to him from this country . Among the passengers by the Indus , which left Southampton on Monday for Alexandria , were twelve horses , eight ponies , five dogs , about twenty pheasants , four swans , half-a-dozen rabbits , and as many barn-door fowls , all of which were purchased in this country at an enormous expense for the Pasha . " The whole of the United Kingdom has been ransacked to get the choicest specimens of the various animals , which the Pasha required . The horses were of the race-horse breed . One of them , a very fine animal , cost eight hundred guineas . The ponies were Shetland , and were beautiful little creatures . They were remarkable for their diminutive size , and their resemblance one to another in height , colour , & c . The swans were black , and noble-looking birds . The pheasants were great curiosities , on account of the variety and beauty of their plumage . The rabbits were high bred , and had all the points most esteemed by fanciers . The male domestic fowls were as fine specimens of the British
chanticleer as were ever seen . The greatest curiosity , however , in the whole collection , were two bulldogs . They were thorough bred , and so fierce and ugly that scores of persons who went to look at them recoiled for a moment with surprise and fear . The bulldogs were fastened to the deck with massive chains , but one of them broke his chain easily and killed some poultry in a hencoop before he could be secured . Two tigers would scarcely be more dangerous to encounter . They would have made admirable models for a painter about to describe the legendary Cerberi , whom the poets describe as guarding the entrance to the infernal regions . "
Murders And Attempts At Murder. The Litt...
MURDERS AND ATTEMPTS AT MURDER . The little village of Dogdyke , near Boston , Lincolnshire , ; has been the scene of an attempt at murder . John Smith , aged fifty , a gentlemen ' s groom , was courting a comely girl of seventeen , named Alice Would . She had been a servant in the same * family with himself at Terry booth , but since Christmas last , she has lived with a Mr . Bones , at North Kyme . Smith was , it appears , of a jealous temperament , and the girl a flirt . He suspected too great familiaiity between her and her master ' s son . On Tuesday , according to country custom , they left their respective services , and he went to fetch her . He insisted on her promising to have him on that day , else he would " end himself . " They had to cross a ferry in the evening . A young woman named Noble was with them . As they descended the bank Alice cried out , in sport , " Oh ! if Master John ( Bones ) was here , how happy should I be ! " Smith said , " I think you expected to meet him here ; " which she denied . He also said , " Some persons have told you I want to murder you , but I would not hurt a hair of your head . " He then hailed the ferryman , who left the opposite shore to fetch them . While the three stood on the stage waiting for the boat , he again said aloud , " Shall I throw her in or not ? " Alice replied , " you dare not ; " upon which he suddenly clasped her round the waist with both arms , and precipitated himself and her into the water , which is at that part six and a half feet deep . He lay undermost in the water , but grasped her head tightly in order to drown her .
The ferryman leaped in . after them , and with great difficulty got them out . The girl recovered , but Smith , though he rallied sufficiently to walk with assistance up stairs to bed , sunk the same night . Before he died , he said that he meant that they " should both go together , and then he could die happy . " The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . A bricklayer ' s labourer , an Irishman , residing at Kensington , in a fit of drunken violence , on Monday , struck his wife for refusing to give him some money . The poor woman attempted to run away , but in doing so she fell , when he gave her a kick on the temple which killed her on the spot . at the next
Three men have been committed for trial Gloucestershire Assizes on the charge of murdering a farmer named Knight . The man had an idiot daughter , whom he had chastised with a whip , for being out late at some dancing at Berkeley . The prisoners witnessed this , and were so exasperated that they waylaid Knight , and beat him most unmercifully . He was found by the police with his skull fractured , and died after lingering two days . Mary Reynolds was charged at Worship-street , on Monday , with throwing herself and her infant child into the ornamental water in St . James ' s-park . IJere had been some sharp words between her and her husband , and she appeared in great mental distress . Xho magistrate remanded her for further evidence , refusing bail .
Miscellaneous. The Prince Of "Wales, Pri...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Prince of "Wales , Prince Alfred , the Princess Royal , the Princess Alice , the Princess Helena , and the Princess Louisa took their usual exercise on Sunday . The Queen of the Belgians and the Duchess of Kent went to Kew on Sunday , and paid a visit to the Duchess of Cambridge . . , . .. The Queen and Prince Albert , accompanied by the Queen of the Belgians , took a drive in an open barouche on Monday afternoon . On the same day the Countess de Neuilly , the Duke and Duchess de Nemours , the Prince and Princess de Joinville , and the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale visited the Queen of the Belgians at Buckingham Palace . The Duchess of Kent and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours paid a visit to Queen Victoria . The ceremony of churching the Queen was performed in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace , on Tuesday morning , at half-past nine o ' clock , by the Honourable and Reverend Gerald Wellesley , her Majesty ' s domestic chaplain . Prince Albert and the Dowager Lady Lyttelton
were present . , , m . The Queen and Prince Albert , with the whole of the children , and accompanied by the royal suite , left Buckingham Palace for Osborne on Wednesday , where they arrived in the evening . On Thursday morning the Duchess . of Kent proceeded to Gosport , en route to the Isle of Wight , to be present at her illustrious daughter ' s birthday anniversary , which will be celebrated as usual , en / amille , at the quiet marine retreat of Osborne . We understand that it is beyond doubt that her Majesty is to visit the Duke of Sutherland at Dunrobin Castle early in the ensuing autumn . This large and princely residence is most magnificently fitted up , particularly the apartments allotted for her Majesty and her consort . —Biffin Courant .
According to the Paris Constitutional , the Count de Neuilly ( Louis Philippe ) is afflicted with an intestinal schirrous tumour , and symptoms of dropsy are said to have declared themselves . A letter from London , in the Ordre , confirms this statement . " A dropsy on the chest is apprehended , announced by some symptoms which care has endeavoured to check . " The Ex-King and Queen of the French , the Queen of the Belgians , Prince and Princess Joinville , the Duke and Duchess de Nemours , the Duke and Duchess D'Aumale , and suite , arrived in Chamberlin ' s Hotel , St . Leonards-on-Sea , at five o'clock on Wednesday . — Brighton Gazette * Th . 6 Infante Don Juan , the Archduchess Beatrix of Este and family , left Kensington Palace on Friday last , after a lengthened sojourn with the Duchess of Inverness .
We Are Happy To Hear, From Recent Inquir...
We are happy to hear , from recent inquiries , that the health of the Very Reverend the Dean of Westminster , Dr . Buckland , is very favourably progressing . —John Bull . The Earl of Roscommon , who died last week , in the fifty-second year of his age , is said to have been the last of that old family . Lord Cockburn is engaged on a life of his late distinguished friend and brother judge , Lord Jeffrey . The life-long friendship between the great critic and his
biographer , and the similarity of their pursuits , can hardly fail to insure an interesting memoir . — Greenock Advertiser . The young Earl of Durham is at present on a tour in the United States . The American papers say he is now at Washington , the observed of all observers . He has attended one or two evening parties at the residence of the President of the United States , and also visited in other quarters—on all occasions in company with the British Minister , ' Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer . It is said that he is bound for the Prairies and California . Lord Normanby met with a rather serious accident on Thursday week . He was thrown from his horse when riding in the Bois de Boulogne , and was considerably bruised . The injury is about the head and in one of his hands , but is not at all of any serious consequence .
Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley and her daughter , who lately left the Havana , were among the late arrivals at Panama , and were for the present staying at the Western Hotel in that city , but were shortly to become the guests of Mr . William Perry , the British Consul . The Jamaica Morning Journal says—" Lady Wortley is the daughter of the Duke of Rutland , and is , of course , allied to the nobility of the British realm , though , in the amenity of her manners and simplicity of her disposition , she seeks not a distinction beyond the Republicans of the New World . Her journey may be extended as far
south as Lima , or the more prosperous city of Valparaiso . On her return to Europe , we are told , she intends visiting Jerusalem and its neighbourhood with their soul-affecting mementos . The purpose of her visit to Panama is to observe the modus qperandi of the great travel setting in the direction of California , to behold the waters of the great South Sea and Pacific coast ( and , possibly , to write a book of travels ) , the treasures and riches of which arc now creating such , a wonderful stir in the world . "
The Rev . W . Maskell has officially resigned the living of St . Mary Church , Devon . —Guardian . We regret to learn that two estimable clergymen , highly beloved and respected for their amiable character and the exemplary discharge of their sacred duties , were received at Rome in Easter week into the Roman Catholic Church . Their names arc the Rev . John Henry Wynne , B . C . L ., Fellow of All Souls' College , and the Rev . James Laird Patterson , M . A ., of Trinity College . —Times . Mrs . , so bitterly denounced in Byron ' s " Sketch , " died lately at Hampton-wick , having been bedridden for some years . Lady Byron and Lady Lovelace called upon her some time previously , to take a last farewell . The East India Company have paid into the Bank of England the sum of £ 2788 to the credit of the represen-
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Leader (1850-1860), May 25, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25051850/page/7/
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