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the . clerical inEuence as the Lane and pest of Oxford , add ^ tereby drew from Mr . Gladstone an" a ^^ remarkable , that we shall giy 6 it" ih Ha own -words . " He did dot believe it would be possible to induce ParHament to enact provisions which would fjSr ^ lsJy alter tbe clerical influence in Ox-& $$ . * ¦ * - But ^ t ^ erfceijsion of studies which had taken placo in Oxford would undoubtedly , he thought , ; have a tendency to release them from that influence , and this state of things he idM ^ not look at either with dislike or id
a ^ m . " i ^ in strange variety of opinion it isJ 3 urprisin 0 to find an appearance of . such genei ^^ unammi ^ nr ; but it is obvious that iki ^ Sty of jbhe amehaniehts to be proposed by the Tory pj > J ) 6 sitiba are , in fact , aggressions upon the essential -principle of the bill . On these points it . TOJl be impossible for Qovernitf # n , t to yield , but there is every reason to believe that the measure will' undergo mate-4 * 1 Ik 1 « TY 4 * A « M ) f 4 *« Av « vva -li-ci Tvnrts-rWtcrcf ¦ ^ rWrwt-irtT * ¦ aaW »_ 4 % ui t
**!** - ^ vvxwvavu . - ., Ava rf n vu ^ vugu wuamittee . It is unlikely that Ministers will feel tind by the restrictionsi which are proposed the tenure of fellowships ; and yre may ex-< T tpLf fiiijd ! thatV tHe ; opinion expressed by aflSM ^ ejfexy speaker as to the importance of connecting exhibitions with pubhc schools , yffl Have effected a considerable modification ? tt fef | j ^ 3 ^ - * - : \ "• ¦ - ¦•• - ' " }¦ -- •¦ ' ¦ ¦ - a f . ^^ w ^^ wBTbe done with religions tests ?
How far is Parliament inclined to favour the admission of Jhssenters to the national universities ? Or ^ onjwhat other terms can we demand their interest " ortheif sympath y in W ^^^^^^ mt ^ ^ i J ^ Pakington had no sooner announced his intention of assenting to the second reading of % e' f % S $ 6 ^ M rii ^ 1 kt , th ^ f the Cissentmg ^ in i ^ rileffe % ^ e'lC 6 iui 6 e : "What was it ^ to ^ n ^ ^^ er p ^ bra slipulii be gprernea b ^
brprofessors : what interest could they feel in ^ tne disposition of collegiate revenues , or iSfe ; 'S ^ feibTitapiiL of fellowships and jjcholar * aBip& ® , £ &Jj % » igj as . ttjiey were excluded from ' partaking ia a single benefit to be derived tkj& rerorM t ' Bitit the battle may yet be ; ^^^^' ^^ W'C ^ m matB : On the 'fit ^ t- ^ 4 ay ; '; aflfei'theiecfess an opportunity will ' . "tie giveiai ' for ^ lie expression : oi * opinion on this Vejry ; p ^ int ; fend we' wish—we are afraid to ^ qwe ^ ilifat f r ( 3 jovernment could be shamed ^ itoijo' a policy "demanded alike , by every prm' ibij > le of justice , and by the force oi public opinion . ^
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received , instruction for the journey to a totally different region . > The method , then , to follow their example is this . Conspire with some persons that may . be willing to murder , an unconscious gentleman ; which will qualify you for admission into Monaghan gaol ; after remaining under the proper instructions of the chaplain of the gaol for a short period , you will be conveyed from the gaol to an open place in the town ; in that place there will be specially prepared for you a flight of wooden steps leading on to a platform ; on that platform , will stand two
posts with a cross-bar at top , and from the middle of the cross-bar will hang a loop of rope . The certified path of Heaven , therefore , lies in the road from the place of the murder into the gaol , then , to the open place in Monaghan city , up the steps , across the platform , and through the noose . Three men have just performed that journey in Monaghan , and they departed with the assurance thai ; in one moment after they had placed their necta in the noose they would De in Heaven . Mr . " Smith told them so .
" We have , therefore , " the JSradshaw of the shortest route to Heaven . This is no exaggeration : three mien , — Quiii } Chant , aacL Copiney ,-r murdered Mr . Bateson ; were tried and condemned , and were hanged on Monday last . The process wliich they had undergone had thoroughly qualified them for death under , the happiest auspices . l ^ e still repeat the assurance from their own 3 ^ ps on the authority of . J £ iv Smith , the chaplain of the gaol . So strong was jbhis conviction that Quiii announced his intention , if it
had been offered to him , of declining a reprieve . C | oomey begged permission to go"May I now go , gentlemen ? " he' s , aid . — -too courteous even to hasten upon his road without leave ! The newspaper reporters who visited the ' men found tfHem walking in the prison yard , after an excellent "breakfast ; two of them , were smoking , and all were in the best of spirits . Instead of exulting in their peculiar grace , they expressed great concern for
those who were not equally prepared with themselves . They wished that their visitors might be as ready for death . a 3 they were . Not having had the ministrations of Mr . Smith , nor the breakfast , —not be } hg sustained by pious . counsel , or pipe of tobacco , — the reporters might feel greater diffidence in offering themselves for the last journey .
Moreover ,- the reporters had not performed a murder ; which , we must remember , was a constituent part o > f the three men ' s qualification . No wonder , therefore , that the visitors went away much , edified , sadder and wiser men , and conscious of the difference between them and the superior beings to whom they had just bid farewell .
THE WAY TO HEAVEN ! Them is nothing more perplexing than to arrive at a cross-road , and to find no direction for indicating the way you shall go ; -and every traveller whose weary steps have wandered in strange lands knows how he . blesses the xiirection which tells him how to 'I \ bend his path "to Such-a-place . " How much more delightful would he the discovery of a finger-post telling you which way to Heaven . "
Yet it would appear that the plain road has been discovered—the very shortest road that human fteingi ^ ave yet . found out ; and . wo have all tiw * stages * oipxhe journey ex > plftibed on authority . There is a building in oiite of the three kingdoms where the whole method of
travelling is taught to thoae who qualify themselves for entering the school ; for it is a buildiug so exclusive that none can enter or depart save by promotion and on due qualification . Those who have qualified themselves liav-e received the proper instruction , even as Ulysses and JEneaa are feigned to have
There are many inscrutable ttyngs in what certain ^ authorities call a religious " persuasion . ' ' - The public are summoned to witnesB a capital execution as a means of deterring them from murder and other grave crimes ; yet when they come to the spot , they find , on authority which they ought to reverse , that the murderers have become peculiarly qualified for beatification . They are as likely to be perplexed as Christians in Turkey and Russia must be ; for there is indeed one
eminent person wbo has excelled Quin , Grant , and Caoittey in the vastaess of his achievements . Nicholas , who has broken every law , from that of " gentlemen" to that of nations , exhibits himself to his admiring subjects and his expectant allies in Turkey as the Christian par excellence . And those who cannot penetrate these mysteries are not more perplexed to understand how Christianity cau be promoted by the gigantic swindling of the Czar , than they are to understand its advancement by sucli exhibitions as that at Mouaglmn .
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A " STEANGER" IN PARLIAMENT . I "venturkd to ask , at the meeting of Parliament last February , " Why does Parliament meet ? " and a proper question now to ask is , " Why are these Easter holidays for Parliament ? " We have had eight weeks of a Session ; in which time the only thing done has been—the postponement of a Reform Bill . In the * ' business" of Parliament can any one see any cause for Parliament ? Supposing that the recess had been continued thus far into the Session , should we , as a nation , have been worse off or better off than we are now , or , in any otheT sense in a
different position from that which we now occupy ? Do we know anything more of the war than we woiild have known had no Parliament been , sitting ? Are we in the slightest degree nearer the triflingest domestic reform ? Perhaps we have gained one advantage from the movement of our magnificent constitutional machinery : —have we not got a double Income-tax ? Yes : —so far of the year 1854 Parliament , we can sing what was sung of Parliaments 200 years ago—when " active" and "independent " members were as yet undiscovered : — " Many things complained of , few things mended : A subsidy granted—and Parliament ' s ended !"
But , as there is nothing to do at home , and the interest of the public service requires that a selfgoverned people should get no information of what is doing abroad , . there' w ; as great discretion in hurrying on , and extending , the Easter holidays . Why , however , meet , again on ' the 2 7 th ? What for ? The Reform Bill is dropped—everything is dropped . When there ' s nothing to do but for Ministers to mention twice a week that the interests of the public
service require that no questions should be answered , why should Parliament re " -assemble ? Mr . Hayter would smile at the question : to vote a second Budget ( a treble Income-tax , or a . loan ) to be sure ! To be sure : that is a consideration which suggests how great , indeed , is our advantage over the Continental countries * which are without representative institutions . Tet why go through this routine , unsuited to a " crisis" like the present ?
The Coalition Cabinet includes the country : has carte blanche : and need not go through the formalities of being sneered at by Mr . Disraeli or advised by Mr . Murrough . Home , when she was in a mess , prorogued indefinitely : and sent for the nearest genius and made him dictator . Are our Cabinet equal to a coup cTefa * , —afterwards , all the Talents to take enlightened despotism by turns ? I am convinced if Prince Albert appeared at the bar and ordered Colonel Grey to take away that bauble , the Radicals would cheer him , and the nation would approve . Hord John would cry and hysterically mention Eliot , and Hampden , and Sydney , but in the end would move an address to the Crown ,
congratulating the Crown on its strong measures : so that it wouldn't matter . Labouchere ( who would empty the House , and so be loyal ) would solemnly congratulate his noble friend on . his disinterested cowardice ; and George Grey would extol his noble friend ' s patriotism ia not impeding the national war of a nation which is not represented ; and Joseph Hume would say , " Raylly , he was astonished , but then didn ' t the noble Lord pass the bill of 1832 ?" and John Bright , overcome by his good-nature , would say that sooner than he would say anything to annoy the noble Hord , why the Constitution be—ah , set on
one side . And next day the great English organ which represents Russia would intimate that the common sense of a commercial people would applaud the noble IiOrd , and sympathise with him in his mental struggle ; and the smaller organs , which represent liberalism , and accordingly don't get on among a commercial people , would say , by way of consolin g the imaginary distressed liberal readers , " It ia true we are sacrificing England , but then see for how great an object—are we not preserving the independenco and integrity of that fine people , the Turks ?"
As my readers will be kind enough to remember , I did not believe in the sincerity of Ministers wheathey introduced the Keforax Bill , and formed a very strong opinion tluit it was not a bill for which Liberals should be enthusiastic . I was not greatly surprised at the scene of Tuesday , und certainly cannot deplore the result I was not greatly surprised , hat I was a little surprised , far I thought Lord John hud courugo and
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Leader (1850-1860), April 15, 1854, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2034/page/16/
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