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THE MAYNOOTH ENIGMA. " I/B* us leave chi...
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THE BEDFORDSHIRE EMIGRANT. A BAILWAY 8T0...
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Affairs Of Honour. Tse Affair Of Honour ...
of different natural powers more to a level ; but is there not an evil in the very fact that it thus lendsafactitiotisi impunity to feebleness and fainthear't , to say nothing of * the fact , that it has now become ihes siispected instrument of compromise and evasion ? . .. . , It is expected , frond the -usual force of example , thatatf one hanging is followed by many murders , and olie wedding by a swarm of courtships , the
parliamentary affair of honour at Wey . bndge will generate a flock of " affairs" to bring the cturtain down on St . Stephen's with eclat . We hope not . Perhaps , the suspicions which have dimmed the prditige of the recent combatants , may disincline gentlemen to use a weapon so easily adapted to sham-fight , and may recal them to a sense of the fact , that ihe legitimate instrument for an " Affair of honour" is the brave man's sword . Let custom restore that ice-brook
tempered judge , and it will go far , if not to abolish these encounters altogether ,, at least to weed them of these pop-gun salutes , whose multiplication has imparted to an exploded fashion something of the burlesque and the vulgar .
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The Maynooth Enigma. " I/B* Us Leave Chi...
THE MAYNOOTH ENIGMA . " I / B * us leave child ' s-play , " cries Miss , in Swift's l ? tiiite Conversations , " and go to push-pin , " Parliament leaves Maynooth , and betakes itself to the Derby . The manner in which these Tories , according to their own account , have betrayed the nation , and abandoned it to the Pope , is truly frightful . The Scarlet 3-jady has unconcealed designs on the IJnited Eingdom . The triple tiara . has appropriated Ireland , and is the retainer of the Irish priesthood . England was parcelled out , and its ultimate annexation to Rome was . -only prevented by the resolute energy of Lord John Kussell and Sir Sobert Inglis .
Still the fortress , whose keep had been erected by Beel , the betrayer of Protection for corn and Protestantism , had been suffered to stand even by the Hussell-Inglis heroes ; and it was reserved for Spooner under the auspices of a Stanley to make the onslaught upon that Stronghold . The doctrines taught in the college are immoral , antisocial , anti-loyal . The safety of the empire demanded instant resistance to the insidious machinations carried on in that priestly abode . The safety of our youth demanded the instant exposure of those horrible seductions . Spooner
undertook the enterprise . Stanley watched it with interest , and declared it to be necessary . So stood the matter when Mr . Spooner brought the subject before Parliament , even as Cicero denounced the conspiracy of Catiline . The danger was more imminent , infinitely more horrible . That is the Tory case . But , benold , no sooner is this Ciceronian denunciation ventilated in the House than the pressure is abated . The promoters of the denunciation themselves proposed to adjourn it until the 16 th of June , perhaps the day after the break up of Parliament , laughed
but of that procrastination , they fixed it for the day before the Derby : twice are they invited to adjourn it to that day , but they knew they could not obtain an attendance . There are not 40 of them , neither the followers of Spooner nor the followers of Derby , who can be brought to see the necessity of stopping away fromEpsom Downs to defeat the Catihnian conspiracy . The debate on Maynooth , and all its machinations , degenerates into a squabble between the O'Gorman Mahon and John lloynolds on the irrelevant subject of " a return ticket to Weybridge . " The debate is adjourned from the
morning until the evening . In the evening , without the counter attractions of a Derby , not 40 members are Protestant onough to keep together . The House is counted out , and Mr . Sjjooner ' s proposed investigation into the enormities of Maynooth becomes a dropped order . The question remains for the country , and a very pretty question it is , of the alternative or forked order . . 1 . When Mr . Spooncr ' s allies , including Lord Derby , insisted on the necessity of inquiry into the dangers of the Maynooth machinery , were they in earnest P or were they simply bamboozling the Protestant prejudices of Exeter HallP
2 . If they were in earnest , how can they dofend the awful treachery of which they have been guilty ; tl dragged atyay' by the Derby , or onticod by tnd odours of dinner ^ and abandoning their country to tho Daniel Q'Bourkes of Maynooth P
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OUK " DEBBY" MORAIi . Daniel O' ! R . 6 tTEKB id tke winner \ Barbfiriftn second ! Wothing could excel the astonishment of the Epsom nation at thdse tttriis of fstte ; nothing tne wild T ) oimybtook delight of Irish turfmen and patriots at this double defeat of the Saaton by the Celt / Perhaps the heavy ground might help to acoouilt for it ; l ? ufc accOtint for it howyou may , you cannot explain away the fact which has dethroned the favourites , and Scattered dismay among those nice calculators , who are always itt the " secret of the sfcables . " AflOther unexpected victory was that aquatic
triumph of Thomas Cole over Eoberfc Coombes , champion of the Thames . Coottbes was in fine condition , and everybody thought that he wotild have been abl 6 * 'to walk away froin his man " without trouble ; but Cole was too much fot him . There is no imputation on Coontbes or ^ Etobbie Koble , that comparatively " dark " strangers sur ^ pass them ; it may perhaps rather illustrate * the general spirit of corrupted honour , than the want
of honour in Coombes or Hobbie Noble , that these two occurrences have occasioned a burst of allusions to defeats and betting ^ business . In pugilism , it * is indignantly assertedj yott may get many a man to be thrashed for a few ppufidSi Perhaps it is too hard upon the practical conservatives who keep up the remnant of Our fine national sports , to place them in the same category with politicians and statesmen P To make " a motion or vote in the trust that the tnroppsifcion will be defeated—to enter office under T *
rotedtioriist colours and " declare to win with free trade "—to wink even unto squinting ft * » Spoolier assault on MaynoOth ^ and Aid in counting otft the Spooner—these are practices comnioii enough to another place j" but if the infection has in some degree spread amongst professional sporting men , we are not all at orice to assutne the universality of the abuse in the sp of ting worlds because we find it in the political world . Jockeys are sometimes bad enough ^ but it is not fair to compare them with election-mongers .
A liberal view of the question , however , does not militate against some steps to secure greater purity in sportpng affairs . Heaven defend the turf from its St . Albans ! If the sport is to become a piece of stage play-acting and the cast of fate is to be prearranged by compromise , it is evident to the numblest capacity , that the money passing by bet is swindled out of one set of pockets into another ; and it is equally evident that people can be provoked to bet on purpose that
they shall lose . If you lay with A , a bet that B will lose in a contest with D , A , in conjunction with D , can pocket your cash to any amount without risk . If you astounded at B ' s prowess , bet upon him next time , A can reap another harvest in conjunction with B . And when the business becomes thus systematized , A can make quite a good thing out of you . Decidedly the sporting world wants its Roebuck , not for retribution and oure , but for prevention and timely penitence .
The Bedfordshire Emigrant. A Bailway 8t0...
THE BEDFORDSHIRE EMIGRANT . A BAILWAY 8 T 0 KY . Last week , at the Bletchley junction , a countryman , middle-aged , anxious and attenuated , opened the door of our carriage , and asked , in the Bedfordshire dialect , which I do not here transcribe , whether there was room for his " Missus and children . " On being assured that we would endeavour to accommodate that somewhat indefinite number of persons , he ushered in an interesting woman , with a wondering look and a thin face ^ and a baby at her breasty followed by three other children , appearing very much as peasant children usually do , that
is , looking as though they had grown up m that case of patched fustian and ragged corduroy , commonly called their clothes , and leaving you in doubt , from tho joint effect of the stiffness and tho flit , whether the clotheH have taken the shape of the body or tho body tho Ahapo of tho clothes . A primd fattie anatomical conjecture would incline to the latter supposition . Tho father took his seat by their side , and kissed with unconscious affection his awkward and passive progeny , who neither cried , nor movod , nor spoke . They Beomod to labour
under u genorol inanimation . You co'iild not call the father of tins stolid family " Hodge ; " tho race of tho Hodges is nearly extinct . The countryman , who used to be represented under that nainO , had distended cheeks , a vermillion bronze , and a twinklirig eye , generated by those renowned agricultural compounds , ! fat bftcon , fresh air , contentment , and beer . Whereas the lips off our friend from Bedfordshire had nono of tho genuine rural purple , but wore , iiwtoad , that modorn tingo , that
vfle iirvetition of ^^ 5 Z « e ; and his cheeks , lank and collapsed , were of that saffron and tallow mixture Which comes of labouring % the sun all day * and having nothing substantial fbl difltiery ; /; . ¦ .. '' ' : " :. ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . ;¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ . ¦ •¦; '¦ ' The poor inan had never been out of the fields be * £ of e , and he felt as a child , ati & spoke aa a child , oh this his first venture intd the strange * fide wMd , Iteydnd the hut where he had vegetated * He told tis Who he
was , and where he was going , " That / ' said he , printing tohiswife > << is m * * missusf that'si our ' . ' Dabby * at he * breast ; these two are mf childrerij and that ' s m ? ' n ^ Vvey ^ "— -poking fa the stomach ; a twelve-year old boy / who sat faintly grinning in asifieck-ffrocfc j " and we are all going to Atistraly . His mother cried" ( meaning the ' tievveyY mother ) <* whefit we came away j biifc toe didn't cry . Bttt it was no good him stopping ; she couldn't take careoflinn . My wife didn't cry .
It was impossible riot to snare this ! Irian's just pride at his wife ' s firmness . Yott could see his aticount wad true , as you * looked intd her uticlbtided eye . Those aecastoineot to hear tne Irish partinjg-scream , or witness the coliVTiisive weepiiig of an English einigrant family , as the ship is hauKtig ottt of the docks , could not but notice an exception so agreeable as this . As in some men the cultivated sense of duty casts out the seiise of danger , so in thJs-woirian a deep arid unsophisticated curiosity had cast < rat all sense ) of apprehension . Everything was as new t 6 Bef as to' the Inffiafi captured by Robinson Crusoe . She wandered at every
arch ; she peered at every statioti-house : the tram-Whistle , ) the open panorama of field ¦ ¦ tiiML water rtishing by , the dash under A tuimel . werefcotuids , sights , and incidents ,- which filled her with ecstacy . What a world of bii & s thiswoman woiild experience before she reached the goldetr shore" of Melbourne ! The orient euii showering dowii his million brains to the silver smiling sea , the sight of tmkftowti lands and new racies * the ever-expanding wonder of watef , inoftn , and stars , and all the marvels often thousand miles of travel * would have the inspiring interest of a new existence for such a nature . A stormwould be a world
of astonishment ; the groaning spars , and screaming cordage , a mystery of sotnid , and even in a wreck she would go down prying iiltothe soleiniidepths , thinking them something' new : she was without knowledge and without fear : in full possession of the rarest and richest inheritance of poverty— -the inability to dread . For it is blessed to be without fear , where destiny has left you without hop 6 w An elderly man sat opposite to her , who did , what foolish persons frequently do , suggest to her the difficulties and perils of so long a
voyage . But his simpering folly had no effect . The woman asked , <• Whether the sea was not worth seeing , " and added , " we Time been starved ; we can't be worH off : " and With this simple effort at logic she relapsed into he * primitive wonder at the traifl going without horses , and when her marvelling subsided , she hogged her child closer to her breast , arid tried to shelter it from the cold air by her scanty cloak . Of a chain of reasoning she had flever heard—she could only construct a single link , but it was a link of iron , and
it sufficed for her repone . "We couldn't go out ourselves , " she said ; " tho parish is sending us . " In answer to the question" Do you prefer going ? " the husband answered— - " We can't livo here . I have worked for one master nineteen years , and my wages have been only seven shillings a week , and we clammed on it When we had children . « Bat surely yOu lived rent free ? " — " tfo , " he answered . " Yon had food given you ? you had clothes fonnd out ot
you ?"— " No , ' * he replied , " we had to find all seven shillings rt week . We shall all go out & i can . One man I left behind me has only seven shillings , and he has uix children . I don't know how they live . J « go out if I Was him . The last few weeks mf master g 6 v me eight shillings ; but I never had so much before . Bat I would go . I am to have 40 / . a year « nd an found me in Austrnly . Master said he was sorry to part with mo , but I " wasn't sorry to part with him . did
Emigration wears a different aspect from what it years figo . The working-class used to dread it , no they long for it . At every junction you moot tiiom journeying to distant lands , and leaving , witoou regret , a cotmiry Which gives thert nothing to regr « , nrid riothlrig to romoinhorA Tlie penury of wanuj ! " ' tiiring towns is bad enough ^ but that families ot » v « and eight persons should / he condemned year after yc t 6 subsist on seven shillings a week , sounds as '" " Mo as it is disgraceful . The admissions paid to on grrthd morniWg concert in the height of the h 0 ^ tieclfioH , WoMd support one thousand agrlcnic " fiimiUes a week . Perpetuation and multip lication Concerts , I say , by alt means , but lot not P ™ r ° "lfo Mid pianos beguile you from your duties town famished labourers — charm they nover ^ o ¦ w » J
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051852/page/14/
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