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him is well prepared . The letter is thrown aside On the 16 th of August , a gentleman presents himself—a traveller , of graceful fio-ure and self-possessed bearing . He presents a letter—the duplicate of that already received ; but does not make any request . Only Senor Pbancisco is happy to make the acquaintance of so perfect a gentleman , the visitor departs , and , as the French would say , leaves behind him the perfume of his esprit . Next day , however , he calls again , and happens to want 11007 . A cheque is banded to him at once , and he is ushered to the door with the most benevolent wishes .
It must now be counted among historical parallels , that the same circumstances , the same dates , the same results , attend the visit of Don Majstuee j > e Campo to the house of Senor Ygi . esias ; only that here the sum which Don Ma . ntjei , was authorised to have , and happened to want , was not more than 700 / . It was an accident which made the bank of
Messrs . Stone , Martin , and Co . pay De Mubeieta ' s cheque in small notes—fives and tens , with five pounds in gold . Now , travellers have a preference for gold , and Don MantjeIi at once proceeded to change hia notes for gold at the house of Messrs . Spieiman and Co ., the money-changers in Lombard-street . Had the cheque been paid in large , notes—say two 500 Z . and one 100 ? . —the changing of the paper would have created no surprise ; but to need gold for so many fives and tens— -that was suspicioustraced to
and it was suspected : Campo was the ^ London Tavern , and met by the police entering ifc . Another man had just come in too , and went up-stairs ; but did not come down again : that man was his Valencia companion , Massip . Campo was not in the tavern as Campo , but by another name , and eventually is found to be Coetazab . He said that he could account for all , and that he had given the notes in care of a friend ; and he actually took the police to many places of amusement , and yet gayer abodes , in * search of his friend—in vain . Nor was the money found ,
though Massjp was , after a time . But the cash had been spirted away . All the probable resorts were examined , in vain . At last it was presumed that the post had been used , and the telegraph transmitted orders , sanctioned by Groverninent , to procure a search of the post-office ; and , curious coincidence ! two letters were found in . Paris , addressed in Massip ' s handwriting to himself , containing the amount of the produce of the two forged letters of credit , save 2002 . The plan , therefore , was quite successful , except through the consequences of the accident that made the cheque be paid in small
notes . The two letters of credit , probably , did not exhaust the ingenuity of the couple , nor were the places named all that they had visited . Massip , we believe , has been seen in Italy and France as well as England ; CortazAb . had honoured other commercial houses with his viaits besides the two iu [ London : he had paid attention to others on the Continent , in one instance , at least , without any immediate demand for cash ; no doubt hying a foundation for other and future transactions . Ho
seems to be really well connected with commercial families in Spain , and is exactly the man to be invaluable in a " Co . " of the peculiar kind to which he ultimately belonged . Nor ia . it-probable that he and ^ VTASStP are the only partners in the firm—there are others still uhcondemned or even unarrested . And t 6 * certain extent it maybe said thab thei tribe is as immortal as that of Stbahan , Patjb , and I Cd « Spain is not ft thoroughly tranquil : 'country ^ with an ' omni p otent and omnipresent ? police : there are Mnsaips in
the mountain passes , and Cortazars in the cafes ; with cousins-gerrnan . probably in commercial firms . Our own . trading classes recognise the principle of the short cut ; and Cobtazab only took a short cut to the possession of wealth . The growth of sharpers is not likely to be arrested in Spain for some time to come ; nor is it probable that in the
commercial towns of Europe , where the quickest acquisition of wealth is the test of " position , " the opportunities of the tribe will be contracted . Before we can expect such blessed results , we must expect Espabtebo to have introduced constitutional selfgovernment into Spain , and the clergy of the English churches to have introduced Christianity into trade !
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There is no learned man but will confess he natb much profited by reading controversies , his sendee awakened , and hi 3 judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him " to read , why should it not , at leastbe tolerable for his adversary to write . —MiLXOK .
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SOCIAL , REFORM . ( 7 * o the Editor of the Leader . ') Sra , —It is an old saying that a straw shows which way the wind blows ; and when we see a great many straws all blowing determinedly in one direction , * it suggests the idea that there is a very high wind indeed . This was my thought when I read the admirable notice in your last number of works by writers so widelv apart in point of time as Mary Wolfstonecraft
and Margaret Fuller , —it was one of the many signs of the times . On one hand we read in the advertisements that Mrs . Norton ' s Letter to the Queen has reached a third edition , proving the extensive circulation of a work not remarkable for cheapness , and whose interest lies in the strong , eloquent presentation of one phase of English domestic life . On the other , we see the Quarterly Reviews devoting articles to the consideration of the laws relating to the female sex , and the weekly papers taking up the subject at intervals .
I have often thought that tlie progress of reforms might be generalised into something like an invariable process . The idea which they contain is first germinated in the mind of some solitary thinker . A Spinosa builds up in his garret some intangible theory of ethics or theology ; a Bacon sketches , by the force of some marvellous divining intuition , the gigantic and shadowy outlines of a science whose realisation it will take centuries to fulfil . A Jean Jacques Rousseau broaches theories of republican
equality in the face of an enslaved Europe , which vainly endeavours to accept the doctrines , and sinks back exhausted into the rdgime of 1815 . St . Simon , and Fourier , and Robert Owen , preach to bare walls , or at least try some experiment with materials that crumble under their hands . A Shelley utters hia cry of despair , his prophecy of triumph , and dies at 29 ; a Mary Wol / stoftecrafl fliogs a solemn and solid word into the startled ' society of " bas blvus" and the respectable matronship of England .
And of all but the man of science ( whom comparatively few would take the trouble to read ) has the world declared that their words are vain;—the solitary voice is overpowered by the din of an opposing multitude , and it seems as though the words and the meaning are quenched for ever . Not so ; they penetrate little by little into the dense mass of prejudice—they seize upon two or three , or , at most upon a dozen , impressible minds , who are to bo the Apostles of the New Thoughts . They shake the dust off their feet in testimony against an unbelieving generation , and go their ways , pariahs and outcasts . But the hope of the world is the young . A few more and a few more of those spirits upon
whom no print of prejudice is yet impressed , and the phantom rises slowly into a question of domestic discussion . Then a solitary editor ia seized with the unlucky ideality of adherence to the new faith . If it be a matter of politics he has time to consider it more deeply in prison , like Leigh Hunt ; if it bo a matter of religion , his house is burnt , nud ho flies for his life , like Dr . Priestley j if it bo a scheme of social regeneration , his nirmo ia tabooed as the symbol of everything coarse and immoral , like a disciple of Fourier ; if it be the Uighta of Woman , the writer ia quietly looked up in a closet and condemned to one dusty edition in fifty years , and his renders are abused and laughed at . But tho buttle has begun . Eroin books it creeps into papers ; from papers to tho
Parliament ; from parliament to meetings an * mobs ; it rages , it roars , it is attacked , it trembles ; it fen * grosses all the "bad language in the dictionary ; it ; arouses all the angry passions of the human heart . ' Toryism rallies a . dying energy , and absolutely foarn > at the mouth : it will succeed—it will not ; it shaU- ~ it shall not . It is a point of thought , a scattered dream , a nebulous notion , an ardent conflict , art . Enactei > Law . It is a Reform Bill of ' 32 , a Limited
liability Bill of' 55 . Look at the -written history of every reform ; acr cording as the subject is connected with the deeper feelings of the human heart , or with the external necessities of commerce , so is the conflict more or less in length , in passion , in bitterness . But the good day comes at length ; comes with sure and advancing feet . Let all those who struggle for a principle learn by heart the history of the past , and set their faces forward like a flint . It ia a noble and a
hopeful thing to be " At ouce a new thought king and prisoner . " " Endurance is the croioning quality , And patience all the passion of great hearts . " Endurance , not of wrong , but of the contumely cast on the opposers of wrong ; Patience , not in thraldom , but in the stejuly upbearing against power , against prejudice , against the almost unconquerable might of lazy acquiescence in the things that be . Ta those who feel keenly upon the atrocious state of the laws relating to women , who take simply one point in hand—the property laws against which Mrs . Norton in veiglis—the existing state of things would be
sufficiently discouraging but for such considerations as lhave dwelt upon above . The laws themselves are a confused jumble , a terrible labyrinth of threads , a sort of texture of rough , coarse power , patched here and there with tighter stuff from the Courts of Equity . Unmarried women are remarkably free m England ; so far as freedom may avail them with their scanty means of earning money ; married women ^ are ma state of legal slavery at which the sense of catholic and continental nations revolts . The practical feeling which operates in domestic life is one of considerable indulgence , allowing scope of course for isolated cases of barbarity , and for an immense quantity of petty oppression which is never
jrecognised by either party under its right name . To the man it his " prerogative , " to the woman her inevitable " stalu quo , " to which she submits , as We do to frost in winter , -with an occasional grumble . Society is courteous to women who keep their place , " fiercely intolerant to women who go out of that indefinite locality . Men , as men . in their literature , their pulpits , their clubs , their senate , are , with a few noble exceptions , utterly oblivious of the other sex , out of the plane of a novel or a poem , and bitterly satirical or vehemently combative to any the custom of tho
overt plan of changing the law or country . I find indeed , in a little pamphlet published by Chapman , one of a series on the condition of woman , and entitled a Brief Summary of the Most Important Laws Concerning Woman , ' -that Equity is defined to bo a correction or qualifleiitipn of the hiwf generally made in the part wherein it faileth or is too severe-, " bat I also find in the concluding remarks the very obvious question , " Why should not these legal devices be done away with by the simple abolition of a law which we have outgrown . " ,
It ia time tliiU we bestirred ourselves on , this qucation time that we endeavoured to collect the floating opinions of the day into a more impressible and tangible form—that we should aak ourselves whether these laws being what they are , antf a large portion of the more intelligent public having been at length roused to tho perception , whether we cannot make some effort to extend the feeling to those whoso task it is to frame and alter tho laws . Yours truly , A SvuacaiBEn .
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Tim Pai'ai- Lkoatb ih Ireland—Tho freeman a Journal announces that the first meeting of tho ( Koman Catholic ) Cathedral Chapter of the diocoae of Dublin , tho desputch of capitular business , -which has not been convened for centuries ( the last meeting having boon hold before tho Reformation , in tho year 1617 ) , took place on Thursday week in tho avchiepiscopalrcHidoncom Kccles-Btreet . It was called ( continues tho Roman orgun ) by his Graco tho Archbishop , to receive a brief of hit * Holiness tho Pope , conferring several important privileffos on tho chapter , it has been determined that tho oliuptor shall henceforth meet regularly once a month lor
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27101855/page/13/
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