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tice in the Duchy . Mr . Coningham dfiKPu ** ' « Po the amounts paid to the Duchy by Earl Q-XAJSYii > XJa correspond with the sums entered in the account laid before Parliament as having been received by his Lordship ?" ' " No . " The sum said to have been paid corresponded with the rental falling due . Was not investigation necessary ? to have
In fact , Earl Granvil-le seems had what Mr . Sothebon Estcoxtet calls " a current arrear of about 4000 Z . " We say again , it must be very pleasant to be Lord Gteanville . But , interposes Lord Habby Vajte , " the fact is , there were other persons also in arrear . " Of course , and that is one proof of mismanagement . But the auditor was required to sign false statements with respect to favourite tenants only . And there was no person , except Lord GritJLNViiii / E , who , being a defaulter to the Duchy , was made its Chancellor .
So far , we regard Mr . Bebtolacci ' s . position as impregnable . It has been made out "by evidence . He has already proved that the affairs of the Duchy were irregularly and scandalously managed , that his privileges as auditor were unconstitutionally interfered with , and that his supercession was illegal . It is a question , then , of restitution or compensation . Nothing else will be satisfactoiy —not even an attemyt to prove that Mr . BeeaoiiAcci ' s honesty was something more than abnormal .
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THE LEADER . [ No . 380 , JTOY it , 1857 .
Detectives At Fault. The Dublin Police H...
DETECTIVES AT FAULT . The Dublin police have shown themselves so stupid in the matter of the murder of Mr . Little , that the authorities are bound to interfere and discover the cause of the defects ; * for this effect defective comes by cause . ' Irishmen are not usually destitute of mother wit , and we cannot think so badly of Dublin as to imagine that something in the air deadens the faculties of its detectives . A
parallel case of maladroitness seems turning up in the Glasgow poisoning case , where , as it already appears , the documentary evidence is in danger of being put out of court , simply for want of its strict identification and security from the death of the deceased up to its production in the witness-box . Both cases suggest great doubts as to the capacity of our provincial police for tracing extraordinary
crimes . Shortly after the murder of Mr . Little we took considerable pains to analyze the evidence'line by line . "We came to the conclusion that the murder must have been committed by some person familiar with the building , with the room , and with the habits of the murdered clerk . We also indicated that the murderer must have had an ordinary right to pass about the building and to enter the room . This conjecture has been
established by the evidence now tending irresistibly to implicate the man Spollen . Spoi / jiEir has not yet been convicted ; he may be innocent ; but if it be proved that he is the murderer , nothing can be too severe in reprobation and punishment of the Dublin police . They have no excuse for not having suspected Spo : l : len and for not having discovered the places where he concealed the
money . Sjpollen had been painting Mr . Little ' s room some days before the murder ; he was officially entrusted with the cleaning of all the office windows ; he could invent an excuse at any time for traversing any corridor and entering any room ; he lived near the station , and his cottage window commanded a view of Mr . Little's room . We suggested at the time of the first investigation that a very simple course would tend to narrow the circle of suspicion . A private committee
might be formed , consisting of the Chairman of the Eailway and a Commissioner of Police before this committee , every person connected with the station might have been asked to account for their time for the four or five hours during which the murder was undoubtedly committed . The Chairman might have initiated the voluntary statements , and thus , without arresting any person , it might easily have been ascertained that a-certain number of employes should not be suspected . This process of gradually exhausting the grounds
of suspicion might not have narrowed the ground to SpoLLEisr , but it would have certainly included him in the remnant of persons against whom suspicion should be sustained . It is now said , that Spollew was arrested at the time of the murder and examined as to the disposal of his time ; lie gave an account of it , and on tho wife being separately examined , ' without having communication with her husband , ' she gave the same information . This , ' without having communication with her husband , ' refers ,
however , only to the period after his arrest ; and as the murderer , whoever he was , had the whole night to concoct any story with a confidant , the concurrence of accounts between a suspected man and his wife should have gone for nothing . Yet , on finding this concurrence , the Dublin police decided that Spollen" was innocent , and he was released from arrest .
We pointed out at the time of the murder that no plan of the room was prepared , and that the dimensions of the room , the relative positions of the pieces of furniture , and the space in each compartment were not published . We regretted this as a grave defect . It now turns out that what was said to be impossible ( the hiding of a man in the room )
did actually take place , and that the murderer concealed himself behind an office partition during Mr . Littxts ' s temporary absence from the room . Of course we write on the not very violent supposition that Mrs . Spollen ' s accusation , confirmed by the other evidence already obtained , will be borne out on the trial .
There would have been another great advantage in , as we suggested , adopting as a leading idea that a general suspicion rested on the staff at the station , and asking them individually to clear themselves . It would have been a relief to some most respectable persons who were painfully subjected to suspicion . It was no secret in Dublin , though it was not noticed in the London press , that one of the most eminent officials on the railway was named by lying gossip as the murderer , and reports of the police having ' dug up his garden' and ' searched his house , ' were circulated about the town . The ridiculous
secrecy of the police proceedings helped on these scandals . There were stealthy raids made by night into suspected quarters ; houses were suddenly searched , and countrymen arrested in the provinces ; and all this while Spollen , as he said himself , was ' laughing at them ; ' and while the money was hidden within the precincts of the station itself , and in a place very likely to be selected for concealment .
Mr. Uoebuok's Political Levee. Wia Menti...
MR . UOEBUOK'S POLITICAL LEVEE . Wia mentioned , last week , that Mr . Roebuok had held a special political meeting at the King ' s Arms , Now l ? alace Yard . We said " not more than from forty to fifty members were prosent . " Por ' members ' read ' persons . ' Only eight or ten , members of Parliament responded to Mr . "Roebuck ' s invitation . The rest of the little assembly was composed of private gentlemen , ana among them a good many Oharfcist familiars . Mr . lioiujJUOK is to be congratulated upon
his success in forming a party , JNot more than ten memberB of the House of Commons lent him their countenance ; a vast majority of the Liberals declined to be present , and he made up a quorum from John-street and the forums of Eiusbury . His next attempt was to arrange a following on the Iris h viceroyalty question ; but after the worst has been said with reference to the new Parliament , it is not so degraded as to supply a following to a person who , like Mr . Koebxtok , is politically disgraced , and dares not meet the charges that reflect upon his public reputation . Of course , the King ' s Arms meeting will come to nothing . The Heforin question has virtually been taken out of the hands of Mr . Hoebuck . Scnrcely
any one will trust him after the exposures that have taken place—for exposures we must consider them to be until he condescends to clear himself . Wo crfli assure our readers that , at Sheffield , a strong feeling has been raised ; Mr . Hoebttck has been posted up as the G-overnment buffer , ' and it is in that capacity that he is now generally regarded . Before the break-down 13 irretrievable , let him exonerate himself , if he can .
The Late Colonel Finxis.—Colonel Finnis,...
The late Colonel Finxis . —Colonel Finnis , of the 11 th Native Infantry , who was shot by the mutinous soldiers of the 20 Regiment at the outbreak of the revolt at Meerut , was tie last surviving brother of the present Lord Mayor of London , and the third who has fallen in the service of his country . The elder brother , Robert , a Captain in tho British navy , was killed in an engagement on Lake Erie in 1813 ; and another , Stephen , a Lieutenant in the Bengal Native Infantry , fell in India in 1822 . Colonel Finnis , though only in his 54 th year ,
had been in active . service in the army upwards of thirty-two years , during which period , besides serving at the siege and taking of Moultan , and in several other engagements , he was employed on many important missions . The Colonel was with his regiment in command at Allahabad until ordered to Meerut , where he had arrived orily a few days before the outbreak which closed his career . With kind consideration for the feelings of his bereaved family , the Governor-General has transmitted a letter to the Lord Mayor , informing him of the melancholy fact , and highly eulogizing his
brother . The Grape Blioht . —An important report on this subject has been communicated to the SociJtc d'Encouragement pour l'lndustrie Nationale , by M . Barnil , in the name of the committee appointed by the society to decide whether the prizes offered by it for the discovery of a remedv against tlie blight should bo awarded or not . From this " report it appears that sulphur is at length proved to be tho only efficacious and infallible remedy against tho ravages of the oidium tucJceri , and that the prize of 10 , 000 f . offered by tho French Government in
conjunction with the society is jointly due—1 , to "Mr . Kyle , an EnglishJiorticalturist , who iirst applied sulphur to this purpose in 1848 ; 2 , to M- Duchartre , Professor of Agronomy at Versailles , who first introduced the method in Franco ; 3 , to M . Gontior , a horticulturist al Montrouge , neur Paris , who was tho first to apply it on a large scale ; and 4 , to 31 . Henry Mares , Secretary to the Society of Agriculture of tho department of tho H ( 5 rault , who by numerous experiments has proved tho superiority of sulphur over all other agents previously tried , and pointed out the surest and most economical way of applying it .
Marriages at Registrars' Offices . —In tho year 1855 , tho number of marriages in tho offices of superintendent registrars , under tho 6 th and 7 th of'William IV ., cap . 85 , amounted to 7441 , to which it had risen from 1098 in tho year 1887-88 . Tho number has steadily riaeu every year , with tho excoption of 1856 , when it slightly declined ( from 7598 to 74 dl ) . In tho yours from 1858 to 1841 ( proceeding by retrograde motion ) the numbors woro roapootivoly 7598 , 7100 , 6818 , 0207 , 5558 , 4790 , 4258 , 4107 , 8977 , 8440 , 2817 , 2857 , and 2004 . This Chops continue to look very healthy , and to promise a bountiful harvest . Tho flno warm weather , tornporod with occasional showers , is doing a groat deal to bring tho cereals forward .
The Priuks' iAUMioriwcTims . —A loading article in tho Times of Monday , on tlie subject of tho recent dobnto in tho House of Lords on Lord Campbell ' s bill for chocking tho salo of immoral publications , concludes thus : — " Tho capo ia ono in which dobntos may bo advantageously oonoiao , for it is not ( loslrftblo that our roportoro should bo compelled to omit particular spoochoB as unlit lor publication . " Tins Duke op Mmluoiiouoii died on Wednesday at Dlonheiin nftor a very uhort Ulricas , in tho sixty-fourth yoar of bin ago . Ho la uucccodod by his boh , tho Marquis of JJlamU ' ord , tho ru'osont inombor for Woodstock .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 4, 1857, page 638, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_04071857/page/14/
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