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PARTIES ANP PROSPECTS. Signs are not wan...
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Suicides.—Mr. Carter, coroner for East S...
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Another Right Royal British Bank. A. Hil...
scheme , like the manager of the Boy al British Bank ; that he committed habitual forgery , like the equally tasteful and sumptuous IiioNEii Eedpath ; that he forged and niched like the pious Patti . or the aristocratic Stkahan ; or that he constructed a gigantic system of swindling , like Joseph Windle Cole . Instead of assuming a resemblance between
these cases , what the past evidence tends to establish is , the infinite variety in these incidents of our huge credit system . Endless are the ways in which the law for the enforcement of credit can be turned into instruments for the conveyance of capital from one hand to the other , even so that the left hand knoweth not what the right hand doth . As in some other cases , ' protection' here appears to have the effect of defalcation .
F ¦ - ' ' - 712 The Li E A D Jb R. [No. ...
f ¦ - ' ' - 712 THE li E A D JB R . [ No . 383 , July 25 , 1657 .
Parties Anp Prospects. Signs Are Not Wan...
PARTIES ANP PROSPECTS . Signs are not wanting that Xord Pai < meeston ' s majority is becoming unmanageable The frequent divisions in the Lower House , the gradual consolidation of the independent Xiiberal party , and the Premier ' s reduced personal energy , are by no means good omens for the Government . Yet Lord
Pajdmeeston , from time to time , breaks out in his old manner ; last week he must have highly nattered the noble statesmen of the Whig connexion by telling them that he cared not a straw for the opinions of Lord John Russell . We congratulate the Bedford influence upon the contempt so discreetly enunciated by Patjmebstotj Victor . Mr . Gladstone does not seem inclined to
sit so tamely under the jeers of the strong Minister . He is returning to his former Parliamentary position , and what may he not do , with Paxmekston on the wane , if he will but cut his ecclesiastical clients adrif t , and become a finance and reform politician ? As for the Tories , the peers have eifectually closed the doors of office against them , and no doubt they regret the vote that excluded Baron Rothschild . Until the Jewish question is settled , a DiEBBY administration is an impossibility . It is true that Lord John Bttssell and Sir Jamjes Graham are building an arch over which the peers may retreat , but will
they ? The only section in the House to which power is accruing is that of the independent Reformers . During the past week they appear to have been drawn together by some scheme of common action , and the stand they have made upon the estimates has been vigorous and serviceable . In the midst of the Liberal anarchy — the Premier being archranarcU—they have stood firm aad united . Lord John Hussem competes with them ; Sir James Quaham makes it his business to declare for Liberalism upon a large scale ; Mr . Gladstone ' s torpor is obviously coming to an end : —all these are hopefulindications .
A Crew For The It.Ying Dutchman Gahhatt,...
A CREW FOR THE IT . YING DUTCHMAN Gahhatt , the great goIcUrobber , was for some years the leader of convict tfo » in Bermuda . His associates regarded him with admiration ; he was the masterspirit of their yellow-coated confederacy . Ultimately , Mr . ICxrwan , condemned ( justly or not ) for the murder of his wife in Ireland ' s Eye , arrived in . the colony . GABttATT at once resigned
the lead , and said , courteously , he could not think of revising precedence to Mr . Kmwan . Upon the same principle , the banks of the Swan , in " Western Australia , may be expected to become the scene of a social flutter ; for an aristocraoy is to be planted in the soil . On the 25 th of August a good ship will sail from England , bearing to the Swan Sir John Dean Paul , Mr . Stbahan , Mr , "Bavw , Mr . Leopam ) BfljWATH , Mr .
Robson , Mr . Sawabd , Mr . Agab—three celebrated embezzlers , three celebrated forgers , and the inimitable , vengeful Agab . "With the exception of Agae and Sawabb , between whom an antipathy may naturally be supposed to rankle , many mutual feelings will harmonize this aristocracy of detested crime . Common reminiscences and a common fate unite them . What strange contrasts in their lives ! Paul looking baek through the gratings of Millbank to that Ai
happier time when he sat with Baron - dehsost on the bench of justice ; Stbahan to his ' elegantly planted park and residence in perfect taste ; ' Bates to the hour of gratified ambition , in which he became the partner in a firm with a baronet at its head . Through Redpath ' s dreams may flit the auction at which he bid successfully against the French Emperor for a wondrous work in buhl ; through Rob son ' s the triumph of his dramatic
productions" Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it now , the glory and the dream ?" Neither Agab nor Sawabd can have sympathies with men or with regrets like these . The latter was for twenty years a miserable Jonathan "Wild , a master forger , a burglars ' agent , whose nightmare was Newgate ; to the former penal discipline has been the routine of years ; he knows what it is to labour in the hulks ; he must have calculated , half a life ago , upon no euthanasia better than a ticketof-leave . But , in some respects , Redpath
and Robson stand upon a level with him ; they gambled every day , and hazarded liberty for luxury ; they could scarcely have looked for perpetual winnings . Depend upon it , many a time and oft did a prophetic shadow of penitentiaries and the Australian settlements obscure the glitter of Chester-terrace , and the gaiety of Kilburn Priory . We do not believe that the three bankers ever imagined such a possibility ; breaking the old bank in the Strand , ana losing their commercial reputation—that was , no doubt , the climax of fear in the minds of Paul ,.
Sxbihan , and Bates . With four hundred inferior criminals they go — these social bankrupts — to Western Australia . Well , there is something upon which to congratulate even this criminal crew . It is a change—from tll 6 monotony of that hideous desert of brick and whiter wash at Millbank , from the wards of Newgate , from the motionless hulk in . the Thames . They cross the ocean ; they have a new life before them ; there will be freshness in the
sight of the Australian shores ; there is the prospect of tickets of leave . But how the population will crowd to gape at the convict baronet , and revive the story of Redpath ' s ' glory '—upon which ballad-singers have ao unctiously expatiated ! How will the old leading men' of the Swan River Settlement resign their precedence in favour of five gentlemen so accomplished , and , up to a certain point , so flattered by society ? Agae and Sawabd will not be similarly respected j they have only their distorted talents to recommend them ; they have never been gentlemen , or sat on the bench , or
inherited estates , or outbid Louis Napoleon , or achieved a dramatic success . But let the captain of the vessel chartered at Lloyjd ' s look well to his navigation . There is a story that the Flying Dutohman has for ages been wandering in search of a crew . And would not the seven great convicts prefer the perfidious bark , built in the eclipse , and rigged with curses dark , to the grey soup , canary-coloured jackets , and dull severities of a penal colony ? Never , perhaps , was a more remarkable band of criminals embarked together , or one in which mutual recognitions were more likely to tak e
place . The . five ' respectable' individuals moved pretty inuch in the same ' sphere , ' except that their sympathies were different . Robson , although a poet , had nob the delicate tastes of Rjedpath , and as for Sir John Dean Paul , his ' seriousness' kept him apart from turfnieu and philosophical virtuosi .
Suicides.—Mr. Carter, Coroner For East S...
Suicides . —Mr . Carter , coroner for East Surrey , held an inquest last Saturday on the body of Mr . James Sebastian Yeates , a stockbroker living in the Crescent , Albany-road , Camberwell , who had died a few days previously from the effects of prussic acid . Mr , Yeates ' s son went one morning to the house of his father to see him on a matter of business , and , after tapping several
times at the door of his room without receiving any answer , informed his mother of the circumstance . The latter immediately proceeded to her husband's bedroom , and shortly afterwards raised an alarm , on which the son went again to the room and found his father lying dead in his bed . A surgeon was sent for , but neither he nor the young man could detect the smell of any drug in the room , and they did not notice at the time that there was any bottle in the place containing poison . However , about twelve o ' clock the same day , Mr . Yeates , jun ., again went into the room , and he then saw on the dressing-table a small bottle not labelled , which smelt strongly of almonds . Mrs . Yeates declared that she had never seen any such bottle in her husband's
possession . Another medical gentleman , a friend of the family , was sent for from Peckham , and , seeing the bottle , he took it up , and detected in it a powerful smell of prussic acid , half an ounce of which was afterwards found in the phial . A .. post mortem examination , of the body revealed the presence of that deadly poison . All the members of Mr . Yeates ' s family said that they had neither seen nor heard anything about the bottle of prussic acid until it wa 3 found on the dressing-table . The inquest was adjourned till Monday , whjn the jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . —George Morley , a hairdresser of Gloucester , has drowned himself
and his two daughters in the ship-canal of that . town . The bodies of the , father and the youngest child were discovered about a mile from Gloucester , at the distance of about six feet from the bank of the canal . The left arm of the father was passed round his daughter ' s waist , while his hand grasped her wrist , and . his other arm was likewise curved , as if he had held his eldest daughter in the same manner as the younger . Her body was discovered some way off . The man , for some time past , had been suffering greatly , both from bad health and from the depression of his affairs owing to pecuniary difficulties . The jury , as in the preceding case , returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity .
The Oxfojri > Election . —The nomination of candidates for the town of Oxford took place on Monday in the Town Hall-yard , where upwards of two thousand persons assembled . The candidates were the Right Honourable Edward Cardwell , and Mr . Thackeray , the novelist . The former gentleman did not appear ; the latter addressed the meeting- He excused himself for not being a good public speaker ; but he made a dashing oration , after all . He spoke highly of Mr . Neate , the gentleman who has been unseated by an election committee of the House ; and then made a trenchant
onslaught on the Peelite party , to which Mr . Cardwell belongs , and which he accused of endeavouring during the late war to make us lick tho boots of the Czar , of encouraging the murderous Chinese in their insults to our nag , and of indirectly causing the present mutiny in India . Mr . Thackeray declared himself ia favour of liberal measures , including the ballot , though ho thought they did not want that in the coming election—• they were too plucky , too honest , ' The show of hands was greatly in favour of Mr . Thackeray ; and a poll was then demanded for Mr . Cardwell . The election took
place ou Tuesday , when Mr . Cardwell was returned by 1085 over 1018 who voted for Mr . Thackeray . The defeated candidate then addressed th , e electors in a speech conceived in a very generous and manly spirit . Ho highly eulogized Mr . Cardwell , and said ho would be Jikely to servo Oxford much better than ho himself cpuld hope to do . In conclusion , ho attributed his defeat to the unpopular opinions ho entertains with respect to the propriety of allowing tho people a little recreation and sight-seoing on Sunday after church hours . Antiquities xcrqm Hahoaknassus . <— Tho British
Museum is , -we understand , soon to bo enriched by u new collection of antiquities . Those , tho fruit of tho researches instituted at Budmn , the ancient Halicaruassus , by Mr . 0 . Newton , her Majesty ' s Consul at Mity lono , have already left Malta in the steamer Gorgon , and arc expected to arrive in thia country in tho course of a fow days . They till belong to the renowned sepulchre of King Mausolus ( many alaba from which , found worked into the walls of tho modern town of Uudrun , huyo already boon for some years in tho national collection . — Literary Gazette ,
Thm Nomrofcrc Rabbit Casio . —Tho quarrel botwoon Mr . Tillott , editor of tho Norfolk News , and Lord Hastings , with reference to tho eolebratod ' rabbit enso at the latter ond of last y « ar , has boon adjusted by mutual apologies and rotwiqtatlonfl of offeaalvo l » njuago ,
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Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25071857/page/16/
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