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Satttedat , January 8 . Mb . Gladstone regained yesterday the ground he had lost by the Carlton Club surprise . By half-past eleven he had a majorit y of 6 , which increased every hour , and left the relative numbers thus at the end of the day c Gladstone . ;„ ... 468 Perceval ..... . 412 It is quite clear that tlie exposure of the shameful manoeuvres of the opposition has weakened their cause . Mr . Gladstone has written a letter to Mr . Greswell and another to Sir W . Heathcote , in which he states his true position . He had been asked the questions referred to .
" The first , whether I conceive that the interests of the Church are as safe under the Administration of Lord Aberdeen as they were under that of Lord Derby . And the second , whether in accepting office under Lord Aberdeen I have compromised or changed the principles which I have hitherto held , and on the faith of which the University has twice returned me to Parliament . " With respect to the first , my answer is as follows : —Unless I had had a full and clear conviction that the interests of the Church , whether as relates to the legislative functions of Parliament or the impartial and wise recommendation of fit persons to her Maiestv for hiffh ecclesiastical offices , were at least
as safe in the hands of Lord Aberdeen as in those of Lord Derby ( though I would on . no account disparage Lord Derby ' s personal sentiments towards the Church ) , I should not have accepted office under Lord Aberdeen . As regards the second , if it be thought that during twenty years of public life , or that during the latter part of them , I have failed to give guarantees of attachment to the interests of the Church , to such as so think I can offer neither apology nor pledge . To those who think otherwise , I tender the assurance that I have not by my recent assumption of office made any change whatever in that particular , or in my principles relating to it . "
Dr . Hook , of Leeds , has written an excellent reply to Archdeacon Denison , which he winds up as follows : — " I do not myself agree with Mr . Gladstone in all his opinions . I disapproved of the course he took in regard to the Papal Aggression , and spoke my mind to him with freedom . But if I could convince you as clearly as I feel convinced myself , that he is a patriot devoted to the best interests of bis country , a philanthropist desirous of promoting the welfare of the working classes , a Christian illustrating the principles of Christianit y in an unblemished life , and a Churchman who loves the Church of England , and desires to maintain her in that via media in which she has providentially been placed , you will vote , as I have voted , heartily for Mr . Gladstone . " The Record draws by no means a flattering picture of Mr . Denison in his new character as a coalitionist .
We expected that his Low Church friends would estimate his conversion at its proper value . In last Thursday ' s impression of tho above-named journal , we find the following complimentary allusions to Mr . Denison : — " Mr . Perceval suffers much by being afflicted with Archdeacon Denison ' s patronage . There- are many clergymcn , who disliko Mr . Gladstone , at this moment hesitating whether it can be worth while to go to Oxford merel y to vote for a candidate recommended by tho Venerablo G . A . Denlson . " " It ia a strange sight , on entering Mr . Porceval ' a committee-room , to boo Mr . Georgo Anthony Donison , formerly the most strenuous of Mr . Gladstone ' s committee , nowtaking tho lead on tho side of his opponent , and still more to hear him openly maintaining that ho supports Mm on no-Popory grounds . It is most amuHing to see him eoatod in tho midst of tho lowest of Low Churchmen ,
adopting towards them , tho most conciliatory language and demeanour . ' Think not , ' ho says , ' that wo wish to drive you gentlemen out of tho Church ; we want to combino with you against tho common onemy , Popery ; when wo come to bo more thrown together , wo shall no bettor friends . I deem it right to montion this , with the view of apprising your readers of tho ground on which the- Archdeacon openly professes to bimport Mr . Pereoval , as it in to bo feared nothing will tond more to damp the ardour of tho Protestant , elocto ^ fl and dolor thorn from coming forward . Jlonoo , such a nomination as tho Vicar of Kast JJront ' s . Let thorn rememlmr that tho question is ' now or novor . ' If they make a vigorous effort now , they will certainly oust Mr . Gladwtoiio , and obtain in his Htoad a moderate High Churchman ( it w truo ) , but a Protestant , an anti-lalitudinarian , and 11 mombor of tho National Club . "
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Tho Qucon gavo yesterday tho first of a nories of dramatic representations , commencing with King Henry IV . ( Purl- 11 . ) Among thoporfornmrH wero Mr . l'hiiljw , Mr- Alfred Wigan , Mr . Hartley , Mr . Homy MuiHton , Mr . Hurley , M ihh Kate Tony , und Mix . W . Daly . Sir Cliarlos Wood , Prosuluut of the Board of Control for tho affairs of India , tmntmotod business yostonliiy , for the first thno , at tho Hoard of Control .
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The Prussian Minister jn-osontcil 1 » im erodentiulH on Thursday . Huron Prokcsoh Osten in appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and President of tho ( Jormunic Confodorntion .
Birmingham was the scene of a novel banquet on Thursday . The banquet originated in a combined movement on the part of the Society of Artists , the Fine Arts Prize Fund Association , and the Society of Arts and School of Design , together with what may be styled the floating literary and artistic element of the town of Birmingham , and accordingly it attracted a good deal of local interest . Before the convivial part of the proceedings began , a body of ladies and gentlemen waited on Mr . Charles Dickens , and presented him with a diamond ring and salver , of Birmingham manufacture , as a testimony of their appreciation of his writings . About two hundred guests sat down at Dee ' s Hotel . The chair was occupied by Mr . H . Hawkes ,
the Mayor of Birmingham , and the duties of vice-president were discharged by Mr . P . Hollins . Among the company present were Lord Lyttelton , Sir C . L . Eastlake , P . R . A ., Mr . Charles Dickens , the Venerable Archdeacon Sandford , Mr . W . Scholefield , M . P ., Mr . Muntz , M . P ., Mr . Geach , M . P ., Mr . George Dawson , Mr . Ward , the painter of " Charlotte Corday , " the picture which has received the first prize of the exhibition at Birmingham ; Mr . J . Forster , Mr . J . Pye , Mr . D . Roberts , R . A ., Mr . Maclise , R . A ., Mr . S . A . Hart , R . A ., Mr . C . R . Cockerffl , R . A ., Mr . Willmore , R . A ., Mr . Pickersgill , R . A ., Mr . Creswick , R . A ., Mr . . T . Hollins , A . R . A ., Mr . D . Cox , Mr . J . Leach , Mr . JKenney Meadows , Mr . S . C . Hall , the Rev . Chancellor Law , the Rev . E . H . Gifford , the Rev . A . Vaughan .
There were some good speeches by Sir Charles Eastlake , Mr . Dickens , Mr . Scholefleld , M . P ., and Lord Lyttelton . Their topics were the condition and the influences of the arts and of literature .
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Earl St . Germans arrived at Dublin on Thursday . After the oaths of Chief Governor had been administered he took formal possession of his post , and held a Privy Council . He was to have left Dublin again yesterday or to-day .
THE CONTICT KIEWAN . The facts in relation to the following paragraph , which appears in the Evening Packet , have been the subject ( writes the Times correspondent at Cork ) of general conversation for npwards of a week past ; but it was understood to be the wish of the authorities that the press should take no notice of the affair until the informations were wholly completed , which it was expected would not be the case until Monday next : — " Yesterday the magistrates of the Head-office of Police were engaged in the preliminary investigation of a charge of a most serious character against the convict Kirwan . We understand that it amounts to murder . An artist named Boyer , who had been on intimate terms with Kirwan , disappeared from Dublin in a most mysterious manner some years ago . His wife has tendered evidence calculated to criminate this wretched culprit in hia disappearance . "
The Freeman ' s Journal adds further particulars : — " The above charge has been the subject of public rumour and gossip ever since the proceedings were taken on the part of the Crown to discover and seize tho property of tho convict after his sentence . The story in circulation , whatever bo its accuracy , ran thus : —Mrs . Boyer , who had been receiving an annuity of 40 £ . per annum from Kirwan for some years , camo forward and claimed tho house in which he had been living , in Merrion-street , together with other houses , and a large portion of tho furniture , pictures , and ornaments , on tho ground that Kirwan , who had been a constant companion of her husband , whose property they were , had obtained possession of them from him ; that her husband middenlv and mysteriously disappeared ; and that Kirwan had
a deed whereby , as lie alleged , her husband had made over all his property to him , but that ho agreed to pay to Mrs . Uoyer tho sum of 4 A ) L per annum during- her life . She , not hoing in a condition to contest the point , was obliged to accept tho arrangement ; but when his conviction at once stopped her annuity , and seized nil that was his at tho tiino to tho uso of tho Crown , sho threw herself upon tho justice and mercy of the law-officers to regain possession of what was hers b y right . Tho examination into tho truth or falsehood of her strange story has led them step by step to tho investigation which is now pending , and , ll rumour speaks truly , there will bo even further investigations into other mysterious matters connected with tho career of tins culprit . "
The following is from the Dublin correspondent of tho Limerick and Clare J'Jxamiwr : — " Now that tliero no longer existri a doubt of tho commutation of U 10 sentence of this man , there can bo no injiintico done him by tho mention of a pnsHtigo or two 111 his previous life , which would not bo ho appropriate if hut position wore unchanged : —Homo four or live years ago JMr . Kirwan induced a young and interesting girl , of respectable connexions hero , to abandon her homo and 110-eompany him to Kngland , where they lived for some tiino
together . After tho oagornona of appetite passed , the unfortunate creature was abandoned in Liverpool . I have no < learned what her fato wom since ho returned to Dublin . After his return ho was met by tho brother of his victim , who attacked him , and gavo him a tremendous beating , by which he was prevented for a considerable timo from appearing in public . Ho Boon us ho had recovered , however , ho Hummoned his assailant , before tho inagiatrateH , Hooking informatioriH for tho unsault . Tho provocation , however , transpired boforo the ina ^ iatrateH , who , after a no very complimentary comment on Inn conduct diamiuBcd tho chargo .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Abnold .
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WHAT MINISTERS MIGHT DO ABROAD . On entering office , tke new Ministry finds itself in possession of two favourable circumstances : every species of expectation has been stifled in the country , inasmuch that we are reduced to a forced contentment with what we can get , except that the great administrative and parliamentary resources within the Cabinet itself justify an expectation that it will exceed its promise in performance . " The only difficulty before the Ministry , with a path so well cleared before it , consists in the necessity of doing justice to its own powers ,
and in two of the three grand departments of administration , allotted severally to her Majesty ' s Secretaries of State at home and in the colonies the first measures in which the policy of the Government should be adopted are plain and unmistakeable , and they are included within the programme of the Prime Minister . Extension of Law Reform , of Education , and of the Franchise , with a sensible adjustment of our finances , are the measures expected by the public and promised by the Ministers , and there is every reason to believe that Ministers will be able to fulfil
their promise , in measures not so showy perhaps as some that have preceded them , as sensible and useful . In the colonies , the principal difficulties are so distinct and so definitely point to the proper remedies , that little question can arise there . The first department , therefore , which raises some doubt whether the new Cabinet sufficiently conceive either its duties or its opportunities is the foreign department .
We are led to doubt both the msight and the resolution of Ministers by their own statements . We might expect that the colleagues of Mr . Gladstone should have a just conception as to the duties of sympathy between nation and nation , and the further duty of standing up for the right wherever it is violated ; but the champion of the injured Neapolitans is put in the department of finance , where his powers of reasoning and his generous sympathies can have little chance of development . Three of tho other
Ministers have uttered sentiments employing tho very reverse of a . just conception . Lord Aberdeen ' s idea , in brief , is , that for thirty years wo have- persisted in accepting every foreign Government , de facto , in abstaining from interference- in tho "internal concerns" of every foreign nation , and in Hooking the amify of every foreign nation . It would bo diflieult to describe a grosser violation of history than in this statement , of tho Prime Minister ; but a man who misconceives the past scarcely knows how to start for tho future . Again , Sir James Graham describes tho effect of ballot and universal sullrage in Franco as if tho people had made a real decision on tho famous 2 nd of December , overlooking tho
oai-e-fully planned conspiracy through u standing army , and the fact of a surprise unprecedented in history . Sir James construes the example- of France to indicate the policy of a limited franchise and no ballot in England ; and if you drive bin argument home , you might suppose him to be satisfied rather with the -progress of absolute power by the instrumentality of standing armies , and -pleased at the defeat of popular power . Lord John RuhkoU somewhat follows Lord Aberdeen . Non-interference and amity form his motto , with . | ho addition that English travellers , no long as they lire not engaged in conspiracy against foreign Governments , must bo protected .
If Lord John Kussell in prepared to carry out this last determination with spirit and firmness , it will bo a good beginning ; wo are not sure thai , he perfectly understands how far it may lead him- If wo rightly interpret tho principle , it amounts to this , that every British subject travelling abroad should obey tho laws of the fcStato in which he happens to be , and that b 6
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1853, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1968/page/11/
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