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presses hia opinion . Moshesh ia highly pious and biblical in phrase , but not to be outdone in worldly shrewdness . He has , no doubt , profited much both from the teaching and example of the missionaries . ' Peace is the mother of all . I admire what jour Honour has mentioned . I do not deny that some of the stolen things have gone in our direction . I do not know the best means of stopping it . Has the Governor no words of advice ? The Governor , however , would not interfere , and the President proceeded to urge his complaints . He said he could state the exact number of cattle stol-en . Moshesh would be delighted to hear it . It was read ,
and . a positive assurance required that such delinquencies should not be repeated . It would seem that the President's manner here became somewhat warm , and that Moshesh grew still more polite and sententious . ' The sword of the mouth is grievous . ' 'We had better not speai anylonger on these things . We came here on a friendly ¦ visit , and did not expect to dispute . ' . The President urges him to reply , and to state any grievance of his own . ' N " ot to-day , ' says Moshesh : ' let us go home ; we can correspond by lettei-. ' He stands on his dignity . ' Advice to a chief ought to "be given in private , and not in public' However , he is willing , to heax , and the Governor delivers a lecture , in which he praises
Moshesh for having raised himself to so high a rank # nd become the lawgiver of a most powerful nation . He hopes that the chief will ' raise Ms barbarians in the scale of civilisation , ' trust to hia 6 wn energies , avoid bad advisers , and leave off stealing cattle . * We ought to praise Ms Excellency for his words , ' is the eautioxis reply of Moshesh . He then consents : that lists of the stolen cattle should be made out , and promises to lay them before the suspected delinquents ; but he cannot bind himself to say that there shall be no more stealing , and concludes by preaching resignation to the plundered boars in a Pauline test , * We must by patience overcome evil . ' On the whole , his . Honour . the President and his Excellency the Governor have got very little out of Moshesh . "
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PUBLIC MEETINGS . BIRJUNGHAM OjST EHE INCOME-TAX . A meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham was held on Friday week in the Town-hall , to take into consideration the present , unjust operation of the income-tax . The principal speakers were the two borough members , Messrs . Muntz and Scholefield , who exhibited the unfair Operation of the tax in weighing equally on the man with an assured income from property , and on him whose earnings are from his daily labour , and may cease at any time . They also alluded _ to-the'hardship of
forcin g , a man to submit to be surcharged , or obliging Mm , to lay open a statement of his private affairs before arbitrators who are often composed of his fellow tradesmen . Mr . Muntz denied , wliat would probably be asserted against them , that they -wished to cripple the war resources , and thus bring hostilities to a premature . conclusion . For himself , he had supported the war all along , and would resist any peace -which would only give a little breathing time to the enemy , and oblige us to in the
than many of that class ) , that murders will never cease until capital punishment is put am end to . The policeman said that a man who had just committed a murder had been on the morning of the murder to see a man hanged at Newgate , and had afterwards said , " Why , it ' s nothing . It ' s but a kick , and it ' s over in a minute . " Human life , asserted Mr . Bright , is more secure now than it was one or two centuries ago ( though there is less hanging ) , because there is now more gentleness , courtesy , benevolence , kindness , and religious reverence . Speaking of the uncertainty of convictions , and the liability of inflicting death on the innocent , Mr . Bright remarked : —
" How much depeuds on jurors—on their calmnesa , their clemency , intelligence , clearness , benevolence ; nay , to descend to lower causes of difference , look at the very condition of their health , their stomachs , theii * tempers , at the time . Then you have the judge . There have been cases of this nature that have been urged to a sudden conclusion—the judge did not wish to go further that night , or he did not wish to have the tiial postponed or adjourned until tomorrow . Judges are men , notwithstanding that they
have -wigs and gowns . I know a good many of the judges , and have seen theni on many occasions , and I ' m sure they would be the last to deny that they would he . affected by all those influences from which none of us are exempt . Then you conle to the * Home Secretary , and wish to make an appeal to him . He ., too , is liable to err , with the most honest intentions , and is very varying in temper in the consideration of these cases . I have gone to many * Home Secretaries in cases of this nature , and in many instances I have found that the convict has had his sentence
commuted , and not been hanged ; while oftener I have found cases , as far as I could judge , not nearly so bad , in which the punishment had been inflicted . " Mr . Bright * s address was received wit 3 x much applause *
beg contest again de nqvo . This remark was received with great cheering , Mr . Scholefield also spoke in favour . of the war . With regard to taxation , he had always been in favour of direct taxation , but he could not uphold the excessive injustice of the income-tax as at present levied . A fair and reasonable distinction must be drawn between the two classes of income . The Income-Tax Association , by which that meeting had been called , insisted on capitalisation of income , as being the best mode of arriving at a just decision on the subject . But Mr . Scholefield said that he would
accept from Government the best they could do , even if it were not «• pexfect measure . Finally , a memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , embodying at great lpngth the objections to the incomeTtttx as at present levied , and a petition to $ he House of Commons to the same effect , were unanimously carried .
mr . 'jon capital punishment . AoruftLic meeting of t 3 ie inhabitants of Rochdale , was held in the Town-lmll on Friday week , for the purpose of hearing a lecture from Mr . Dymond , secretary to the Association for the Abolition of Capital Punishment , in favour of the principle ml-YO , ca , tecl . by the association . The attenflanco was numerous , and Mr . Bright , M . P ., presided . After the leoture , Mr . Bright " invited discussion , but , ns no one manifested any desire to speak , ) io himself addressed the meeting . Ho recapitulated the chief arguments npainafc punishment by < lo « th , and \ yarned the public not to suppW that , because the custom is old , it is -worthy of veneration ; " for there is nothing so old « s iniquity . " He quoted on . nior \ of a Dni : " « man ' ( "morc intelligent
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LETTER FROM PARIS . ( Ej tracts from a Private Correspondence . ) Paris , January 1 S . There has , indeed , be ' en no lack of materials of " " late . The entry of the troops ( a real circus melodrama , which , I ninst allow , was a complete success , for Cfiawins * we-are still , and Chawins . shall be for ' a long time to come ); the reveille of the students announced by the hisses bestowed on the drama at the Oddon ( La Florentine ) , and upon the lectures of M . Nisard , who , some twenty-three years since , was one of the writers of the National , in company with Sanile Beuve , at the time when the National was conducted by Armand Carrel—the funeral of David D'Angers , and the overture of B < 5 ranger , with the numerous arrests that followed .
But of all these evidences of opposition , the one that has moat struck the Government was the attitude of the pupils of the Polytechnic School , at the cortdg-o of the 29 th December . The delegates of the Kcolo Polytoolmique had received from their ( schoolfellows an imperative injunction to maintain absolute silence . To those injunctions they were bo strictly faithful , that , even aa they passed beneath tlie balcony of the Emperor , they neither cheered nor even sainted their young sovereign . Their demeanour contrasted so strangely with that of the pupils of the Ecolo de St . Cyr ( Ecole Militairc ) , that it could not . fail to strike all eye-witnesses , and the Emperor , extremely irritated
at the demonstration , immediately gave orders to Marshal Vaillant , very much , I believe , against the Marshal ' s advice , to resutno n project almost abandoned , for the division of the Polytechnic School into two sections ; one portion , that which educates officers for military engineering , tho navy , &c ,, to preserve its pretjont denomination . Tho othor , comprising tliu pupils destined to tho oivil Borvico , to bo fixed in an establishment hitherto conducted by private teachers , under tho name of JSoolo Centralo . T ) ic » o are tliq limitations to bo acted upon ; and if the project ia enrried out , the army will loan the Site of its resources .
I will explain how . Tho civil situations , far inoro Bought after than tho military , were a prize offered to the competition of all the pupils of tho school . To obtain , thorn they made oxortionn whioh will now ho considered superfluous when no career will bo opoii to them but tho army , in which tho mont Hcloufciflo arc by no moans those wlio succeed tho beat , and in which any condottierc who stiokn ivt nothing and is troubled with no scruples , a St . Arnaud for instance , has a hotter cb . an . oo of rifling than thoir more intelligent , more oonnoiontiouH , bvit Ionb pliant comrades . . . . ...
Tho ad'nionestation to tho Senate Iioh nfttontahed ovorybody . No one van protond to have uudorflfcoort ita moaning , but all conHidoi it a vuUitdrciwc , cominittod , too , with a premeditation that duublon its absurdity . Tho article was written , I uiulorutand , by
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THE R U G E L E Y POISONINGS . { From oier Special Correspondent . ) Rugele y , January 22 nd , 1856 . It was hi this room , then , —pei-haps ou this very -Spot —that sa crime was committed now eighteen mouths ago . The room at that time was comfortably furnished ; a handsome carjiet covered the iloor ; the cold monotony of the walls' was relieved by tolerable engravings ; nothing , in short , was wanting that constitutes the idea of " comfort" hi the vocabulary-of a memberof the middle classes , in easy cii-cuuistances . At a side table , suitably supplied with writing materials , sat a lady still young and fair to behold , though a sad aud anxious expression seemed to have become almost
habitual . Hor face was deadly palo , her lips closely compressed , as with atom , i-e . 9 oluton . ess sljo slowly traced , letter by letter , the namo of Sarah Palmer . Loaning over her chair , and ' occasionally uttering a kind word of encouragement , might have beou seen a stout , well-dressed man , seemingly about thirty years of age , whoso open countenance- and easy smile indicated bonhomie , but a bonhomie inspirod by intense selfishness . Tho crime was forgery . Sho who committed the crime waa not tho real crimiual . A wife was forging the signature of her mothw-iu-law , while "that mother-iu-law ' s son guided hor trembling
hand . A husband was teaching felony to his wife . Her ouly fault wan loving him too well : for woman's love in i innn '« opportunity—because she truuts , he i . s able to botray . But hoi-cou . sciouco , a female will « ay , should huvo preserved her from violating tho laws of her country . Her duty to her husband should never have clashed with hor duty to hor God . She know that it was wrong , and ought thoroforo to have withstood tho temptation , though hor husband ' s augor and oveu bis ruin might bo tho inevitable consequence . Chill moralist , forbear ; first listen to a tale that should inovo you to pity , uot to acorn .
Anno Thornton was tho daughter of n rolired East Indian officer residing In Stafford ; her mother was his houHokeeper and miHtroas . Mra . Thornton was a low , vulgar woman , often yiolding to fits of ungovernable passion . Tho old colonel , evidently a man of feeble mind , though strong uppotitos , would floe from hor anger to a neighbouring tavern , aud there seek refuge till tho storm had blown over . Not iiiifroquontly , however , who would track him to his rotroat ,
aud drag him homo in ignominious triumph ) . Indeed , an it i » naively remarked dowu horo , " ho miglit an well have boon iwavriod . " Amid such hooiioh uh thowo , under tho oaro of wuch parents , did tho gentle and delicate Anno puns hor iufuiioy u «< l ohildhood . Ono night hor fathor was found lynig dead upon tho floor —a recently discharged pistol by his wide , l ^ rotu that hour hor mother shuddered at darkuonn . flho would hit u |> nil night , and only laid doww when tho dawn
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r fS THE LEADE R . [ No . 305 Saturday ,
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a Professor of the University ( M . Pierron ) , who ia often called in to supply the literary insufficiency of M . Mocquart , the private secretary of S . M . Tina article had evidently cost a fortnight's elabora tion : it was printed at the Imperial Printing-office -within closed doors , with sentinels stationed round the ateliers , just as the decrees of the Second of December were composed ; and it was in like manner posted up at the comers of the streets . All thU looked like a grand cowp to be struck . Same said , " It is the first step towards the dissolution of the Senate : " othera , " It is a ninfc to the Senate to declare for peace : ' ' others ( and these are the most intimately acquainted
with the special policy of the Emperor ) in . terpret the matter as follows : — S . M . desires the Senate to give him without the trouble of asking more aud more soldiers and money . The Senators are expected to take a run through the province on the plea of ascertaining the public feeling . On their reassembling at the Luxembourg they will offer , on behalf of France , to their glorious master an extraordinary levy , a supplemental tax , or a loan of a peculiar nature , a loan sur cotes ; which means that every citizen according to his importance as a tax-payer , will hasten to lend to the State double or triple the amount of his annual quota of taxation .
Perhaps , on the whole , the last is the most probable conjecture . Only there i 3 some hesitation in obtuser people ' s minds in understanding the method employed for im , ) iosin , y upon the Senate a spontaneous tribute of devotedness paid in advance , aud which may ^ e always reckoned upon until , at least , the keys of the coffers have ciianged hands . At all events the immediate effect of these public iucitationa is to degrade the Senate already fallen low enough in public opini 6 n to the lowest rank of the dynastic valetaille .
On the Senator ' s Livery , already dirty enough , these coups d ' etriviirc leave a stigma of dishonour that nothing can efface- -The wretched , members of that ' corps have scarcely dared to show their' faces since they received the lashing . Merimde has disappeared from the saloons of Thiers , the Prince de Beauveau , usually Jin assiduous visitor at Lady Holland's , has vanished , &c , &c . In short it is a general rout , and a universal shout of laughter among trie crowd of spectators . The Senate is hissed like a St . Beuve and a Nisard . . . • ' ¦ ¦ " a .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 26, 1856, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2125/page/6/
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