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neetmg of Congress , for the ratification of the Senate . . t is premature to speak of . the consequences which will itteoid the annexation of the Sandwich . Islands to the United States . " A correspondent of the Times , usually well inforrneil , but of course liable to error , makes an estimate of the next Congress , and of " Young America " in Europe : — "My predictions concerning the effect of the Nebraska Bill upon Northern politics have been more than fulfilled . Of 70 members thus far elected from the free States only 10 are friends of the Administration , and of these 10 , ftve are opposed to the Nebraska Bill . Pennsylvania , which sent to the present Congress 16 Democrats
to 9 Whigs , has just elected 20 Opposition members to 5 Administration . From Ohio , the Democrats have in this Congress 12 members out of 21 ; in the next they will have none . Wherever the ' fusion' between Whigs and Freesoilcrs has taken place , they have carried their candidates by immense majorities . The Administration have only succeeded in Northern States or districts where no such union has been made . Enough is knowm of the next Congress to form some idea of its pro > bable complexion ; 86 members are elected , 67 of whom are of the Opposition . Of the 148 to be elected , 74 are to be chosen from slave States and 74 from free . Th * members from the slave States will be principally
Democrats , and probably all supporters of the Nebraska Bill . It is not improbable that every member from the free States -will be in the Opposition . The anti-slavery element in the Lower House ¦ will be proportionately greater than it has ever been since the adoption of the Constitution ; but the strong pro-slavery constitution of the Senate -will prevent any Legislation on the subject . Thus American . politics continue to move steadily and rapidly towards sectionalism . But the Northern party is -weak from its very- strength , and also from the great diversity of Interests which it represents , and a reaction may be looked for , speedy in proportion to the magnitude of the Northern party .
4 i The reconstruction of the Democratic party on ' Young America' principles appears to have been begun in Europe , if the statements of the correspondence of the morning papers in regard to the diplomatic congr ess at Baden are to be reli « d upon . The Central American question and the bombardment of Grey-town not having succeeded in diverting the attention of the North , from the Nebraska Bill , there would seem to- be a , purpose on the part of some of the politicians to again agitate the broader issue of interference in European affairs . I think tb _ at the United States are prepared to stand by the doctrine of no European interference with the affairs of this continent . The Tribune ( the organ of the Northern party ) says of the new move : —
" ' The programme of the conference , as stated by our correspondent , comprises the Spanish question , the Central American question , and the Gibson question ; but , above all , the question of an increasing insolence of tone toward America on the part of the European Governments . The last point Is especially dwelt on as most prominent , and its Vague character evidently suits the great Buncombe purposes of the occasion . On that all the humbug of Soule " , all the vacuity of Mason , and all the solemn inanity of Buchanan can have full swing , with some chance of ¦ finding , a response in the bosoms of all the fools on this side of the ocean . ' " The Herald ridicules the ' Convention ' : — '
., ' Wo have our own notions , however , of the objects of this extraordinary congress . Wo don't think it lias much to do with the Russian war . There are differences of opinion among th « m on that subject . Belmont is said to be thoroughly Russian on the war question , while Kobert Dale Owen , is , no doubt , just as decidedly for the allies . No ; this American diplomatic congress in Switzerland is called for the purposo of comparing notes , ot rather coats , in connexion with tho olliuiul circulars of Secretary Marcy on tho Court costumo of our Ministers abroad ; Every one of our Ambassadors in Europe has construed these instructions for himself , and hence no two of them are on Stato occasions droaacd alike . ' "
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CANADA . Tin * now Canadian Ministry and the now Canadian ., Governor » ro both Rotting under wavy . The Quebec correspondent of the Morning Chronicle , writing on tho 14 th < ) c"iober ( esiya : — " Wo huvo not yot received an account of tho prociae numbers by which Mr . Hpomio ' a election was determined ., but it ia known that ho had a larger majority 1 over his opponent than at . tho preceding election . TJius havo flvo mmi » burn of tlm now Administration boen roturnod triumphantly ( four by acclamation ) , ovory- effort of
party powwr and artifice having boon resorted to by tho disappointed combined factions to dof « nt tho . so | $ ontlemen at tho hiiHf . iiitfH . Tho Logislativo A ««« inbly aro now Horioiirtly at work on tho bui * in < o »» of the country . Tho now Ministry nro fulfilling ( ill theii pleritfnivilthoiigh encountered , as n nuiittor of couroo , by thu usual obntruction . s of a I '/ irliaiiiuntary Opposition—an Opposition « p ; ro « d , if upon no other aim or principle , upon tho ono main point of importing tho march of th « Government The ufl ' out of tluH course upon tho country will be only to bring greater support to th « Administration ,
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OUR CIVILISATION . Ann " Wijxs , the wife of a private in the Eighth Hussars , now in the Crimea , left Exoter , on Sunday , for Salcombe . To save expense , although far advanced in a delicate condition , she d-etermined to walk . She had with her 21 ., the whole of her capital in life . Near Powderham , two men and three women , came upon her . It was dark . They dogged her to a lonely place , and then began to seize and search her . The beasts took her money , and not content with that , . they stripped her naked , and were leaving her , when her cries for some garment induced one of the women to give her back a shift ! The night was very cold ; the poor wretch was half dead with fear ; she could notmove ; and lay on the banks of an estuary of the Exe , until some fishermen attracted by her cries , came to her relief . She Avas taken care of , and is recovering ; but ,, when questioned on the . s . ubject , is seized with fits .. Constables are on the track of the
miscreants . Daniel Jones , or v Dan the Jockey , " an amateur torturer , living at Llanddarog , Carmarthen , went home drunk , beat , kicked , and placed liis * wife on the fire ! She died ; and uncertain -whether he had killed her , the infuriated , ruffian dropped live coals on her face ! Mr . Wakley recently held an inquest on the body of a woman killed by beatings of her husband . In summing up ,. he ventured a solution of the question as to the proper punishment for the wife-beaters : — " Nothing , " he said , " would justify a man in maltreating a woman in such a way . He would not admit any kind of provocation , no matter how great , as an excuse for such conduct , for a man could easily get out of their way , and adopt other means to deal with tlem , if they became ungovernable . Suqh being the case , then , he would have every man—brute , he should say—who
behaved in this abominable -way to women , soundly flogged at the cart ' s tail by the common hangman through the public streets . He was always against flogging as a punishment , but desperate cases required desperate remedies to deal with them , and he feared as aa efficient check to the horrible brutalities inflicted upon poor helpless women—and those too , generally , of the most industrious and inoffensive character , as trie ? newspapers made them daily acquainted with—there was no other remedy that seemed to be left . The thing was becoming a national disgrace , and affecting the character of the whole country in its social aspect . A few days ago he held an inquest in the Coldbath-fields House of Correction , and he was informed that in one prison only , within a mile of where they then sat , no fewer than ono hundred men were under confinement for beating their wives and their women . "
A fellow named . John < j | iiest , has been committed by the MuTylebone magistrate for a criminal assault upon Margaret Daley . The young ' woman was cleaning a house . Guest was a painter , and employed in cleaning the windows . Unawares ho came upon tho girl and pulled hor backwards . She vainly struggled and screamed . There was only a child in the house . He dragged her into another room and threw water over hor as she was fainting . Her cries attracted a crowd ; and a constable , finding the door looked , climbed down into tho area , and so entered , tho house . He found Guest kissing his victim ; but learning ; the true state of the case , lie took him into custody .
Mr . Joseph Drew , a solicitor of forty years' practice , has been convicted at the Bath Quarter Sessions , and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for defrauding tho Sun Fire Office of 8 f , 19 a . He was an agent of tho oilice , and made an impTopor charge , lie admitted his guilt , pleaded poverty , and prayed for mercy . But tho directors were inexorable . Eliza Aahworth t thirty-ono , dcaoribod as woll educated , was indicted at tho Middlesex Sessions for having stolon a chirm < liah , value- la . 7 > tho'property of tho ltight Hon < Benjamin Dtaraeli , M . P- Sho was further indicted for having stolon airing . ' and a brooch , value Bl . y the property of Michael IJruae , in Hio dwelling Iiouhq . She pleaded " Guilty" to tUo . latter charge . Sentence , thrco months ' imprisonment with hard labour . She vv « a tho wife of Mr . Djuraeli ' tt coachman-
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" NORTON STREET , " MARYLTCBONE . On Saturday a deputation confuting of Dr . Knshford and Mr . Forara , re . iidoutH of Norton-street , attended before the board to complain of the immoral and ( Ungraceful condition of not only tho utreet in which they resided , but tho wholo of tho Iminodiato neighbourhood abutting on FitsBroy-onuiire . Mr . Forma explained , that from tUnototimo ho ha 4 mndo cwnpluiuta of tho " dens "
in Norton-street , both to the parochial authorities and the police , without procuring any redress , and the consequence was , that the infamous traffic had now got to such a pitch , that some steps , and those determined ones , should be at once taken to suppress the nuisance . In fact , the affair was becoming daily worse and worse , and the neighbourhood was becoming thinned of the respectable inhabitants , who left their houses , in "which they had resided for years , unable to stand it any longer . His street , he might clearly say , was nothing more than a street of loose women and vagabonds . (¦ Sensation . The neighbourhood was always in a continued uproar
and it was a common occurrence to hear cries of " Murder ! " and see females rushing about half naked , and with their heads cut open . He in fact could not well describe the scenes that took place , and for the sake of morality , decency , and the welfare of the parish , he did hope the authorities would endeavour , to the best of their power , to clear the neighbourhood of those houses which he complained of , and which were becoming more numerous every day . Mr . Sodon : How many houses of this sort are there , do you think , in your street ? Mr . Ferara : Fifty or sixty , if not more . Dr . Kushford said in Norton-street there existed a
French and English clique , and there was a regular traffic carried on between the two houses . No respectable person was supposed to live in N " orton-street , and , therefore , any respectable person on a visit to a friend in that street , was immediately put down as a bad character if he- asked his way to Norton ^ street . One of his patients would not allow his wife to meet him ( Dr . Bushford ) at his residence a short time ago , as he said she would be put down as a prostitute if she were seen hear the street-Mr . Ferara further observed that not only would it be necessary to- clear the street of the dens it contained , but the name of the street , in consequence of its notoriety , would have to be changed before a respectable person could be ' got to live in the houses . With respect to the complaint he had , made on varions occasions , he should
state that the police had positively declined interfering , as it was -not in their power ; and when the parish solicitor , Mr . Randall , sent one of the parish officials to give notice of indictment to the owners of one of the . dens in question , the official went inside himself , remained there two hours , and then came out drunk . ( Expressions of surprise and disgust . ') " With respect to the indecent sights , that were frequently seen , he had , on one occasion observed from twenty to thirty of the female inmates of those houses dancing half naked in the street to a band of music , and it was a common occurrence for thos « ¦ wretched creatures to appear in a semi-naked condition at the windows . In conclusion Mr . Ferara remarked that noblemen and men of rank were constant visitors at the houses .
Mr . Hicknian said that he resided in the neighbourhood complained of , and the picture was not at all overdrawn by the deputation . After a , short discussion , Mr , Sodon moved , and Mr . Jacob Bell seconded , that the attention of the parish solicitor should be drawn to the brothels , and that steps should be taken for their suppression . The motion was carried unanimously , and Mr . Greenwell , the Vestry Cleric , was instructed to inform Mr . Randall that ho should ca-rry out the wishes of the Vestry without delay .
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CATHOLICS IN MUNICIPALITIES . The nor them towns are generally thought to be the strongholds of Liberalism , but it seema that in ono at least of them political freedom stumbles against religious belief . The Preston Guardian , dealing with the question of tho elections to principal offices la tho town , says : — " It wall scarcely bo bolioved by persons residing at a distance that the entrance to our corporation domain , like ICclcn of old , is protected by a flaming sword—thu sword of truo Protestantism . Lot a Catholic attempt tho approach , and that sword is unsheathed with a vengeance . ' Have you got a candidate for such a ward ? ' wo heard one person aak another this wuok ; ' there is Mr . would bo just tho man for you . ' But dpn't you know , ' was tho reply , ' that ho ix a
Catholic ? If wo wore to put him forward , thcro would bo a regular ' JSTo Popery' cry raised , and ho would bo beaten out of tho field . ' If wo had not seen thia more than onoe , and thut not very long ago , avo ccrtniuly could not huvo bolioved it . Catholics pay all the taxoa mima n » others , join in defending their country , am poacoablo and loyal , and quite us obedient to tho laws us Protestants , and yet , bcauusa they aro conticicntioud enough to follow thoir own convictions in religion—a . mutter botwixt God and thoir own conscience—such Una b « on tha persecution in this borough that we cannot nay there itt a tuuglo Catholic mnong « t the forty-eight mo inborn of tho Council , although , to optiak under tho murk , thoro aro 20 , 000 inhabitants of Pioaton connected with that body , and among them gontlomon of wealth , tulunt , and npUludu for business , "
Wo ahull have a Jewish Lord Mayor in London next yearj why not * Unman Catholic councillors ut Preston ?
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" Sir Edmund Head , our new governor that is to be , is at present journeying in the United States , and is expected in Quebec shortly ; but it is not supposed that : he will immediately assume the government . Lord Klgin is imbued with the chivalry of his order , and disdains to abandon to a successor a state not perfectly settled within itself . After the recent movements of parties , an agitation naturally remains upon the surface that must obviously demand a brief interval of time before it subsides to a calm . "
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_ 1038 THE LE A D E R . ISatvkda y ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page 1038, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2063/page/6/
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