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    great facility of divorce ; a man may put away his wife for any caprice , but he cannot marry her again until she has been married to another . In order to reduce that disagreeable necessity bo a minimum , a certain class of people undertake the office of being the intermediate husband . There is a man called a " Hullah , " who simply goes through the marriage ceremony , and instantly afterwards , in i > he ^ most formal manner , repudiates the woman , thus qualifying her for remarriage with the original husband . It has been said that , sometimes the Hullah has been so

    stricken with the charms of his intermediate wife , that he has declined to repudiate her ; but we doubt whether the official mind could eTer have been capable of so strikingly violating the fidelity of the routine . Habbi-sok , however , constituted himself a kind of Hullah ; but he took a more practical view of the subject than his Eastern prototype : he totd ^ the simple girl that she would never recover her lover until she had become the

    wizard ' s mistress . It seems that Eliza , was not the -first woman to whom he had propounded that strange method of recovering a lost affection . A married woman stated to the Leeds police that her wish to regain a ¦ wandering husband had subjected her to the same suggestions from Harbison . The married woman took the cunning course of consulting Mrs . Brown , who at once exposed tb her the little trust which could be placed in Habrisony In tie case of Croft ,

    however , the wizard employed a combination of cajolery and compulsion , and succeeded . In those two cases there is actual detection ; but since many simple women and girls went to him upon the same mission , there is reason to suppose that he had recruited his unknown hareem by the same means of juggling , cajolery , and , perhaps , force . Now , to look at , IIabbison ' s house is not more disreputable than many others . It is quite well known that very respectable

    perrelation to the number of the population ; some say that in old cathedral towns they are one per cent . Now , let us for a moment reflect that for Harrison to live , there must come to him daily or weekly a certain , number of ignorant , foolish , and simple women and girls ; the mothers of the present generation , the mothers of the next generation , into whose homes he introduces a tainted

    conscience — perhaps a tainted blood— - a frightened memory , a low credulity , succeeded by a still lower scepticism . How many a skeleton in a family has been provided in the laboratory of a Harrison ! and who can count the families that are thus infected ? There is , we hare said , a meeting-house « , t each end of the South-market , but what is

    the mfluence which those meeting-houses exercise compared with Harrison ' s ? For although he is one against many- —preachers , class-teachers , and missionaries—it is to be observed tliat the influence of the missionary is principally in an arithmetical ratio ; tlie influence of Harrison , who makes the mother of the family his slave , is in a geometrical ratio .

    Two single remarks we make upon this ; case . . . . . ¦ ¦ ' ¦' . . 7 - ¦ . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ' . ' . . '¦¦ ¦ : . ¦ ' ' Religious men are placing their veto upon popular education , unless it be accompanied by religious teaching ; and they are thus leaving the mass of the people in a state to be proselytized by Harrisons . This subject , like almost every other branch of morals which touch the vital state of the

    people , is handled ineffectually , because of a false delicacy . A totally spurious deference to virtue makes men believe that they must not talk openly about such things , wherefore they so abate their language and veil their meaning , that the very discussion becomes useless . It is thus that religious ministers of all sects— -preachers , class-teachers , and missionaries—who would rather let the offences be , than be talked about , and who arrest education , become the accomplices of felons like HA-BBISON .

    sons went to see him . He kept a record of Iris business , like a proper business man ; and the memoranda of Ms dealings with ladies are said to be astounding . Amongst other persons who went to lira was Mr . Dove , a gentleman of independent means , whose case we all remember . Mrs . Bbown was a discreet woman . We have no reason to suppose that she neglected to pay her rent to

    . her own landlord—the test of' respectability ;' hub her discretion showed itself conspicuously in the fact that she was professedly ignorant of all Harrison ' s proceedings — she did not "know what young people came to consult 3 rim for . " The neighbourhood is a quiet neighbourhood ; tho inns and public-houses close by are well conducted , and there is nothing to call attention specially to that particular den .

    Now we notice this case of Harbison because it is by no means singular . 3 ? or the present , probably , Harbison ' s career is stopped—it is at least suspended . But theTe at » e still no fewer than three professors of his art and science of medicine , magic , and futurity within half a mile of his residence , and there still exists , all round , the same mass of ignorance which sends clients to the vn * e > man , and exposes those clients to every Jrind of imposition and extortion , from fire BhulmgB to the nenaltv which t > oor Et , tza

    Okoft was compelled to pay . Girls go to other professors for the purposes of having their fortunes told , their lovers charmed ; wives go to have thoir husbands brought back , their children cured ; and the wizards hve upon the mmerablo ignorance of tho nmss There is scarcely a town in the country where the wiso man is not to be found , i 5 r cheBtep there are ten or twelve . Indeed the professors of the art bear some

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    THE EVASIONS . The Russian Government is manifestly bent upon breaking through the conditions of the Treaty of Paris . The points at issue relate to the cession of Bolgrad and the Isle of Serpents , and the settlement of the new Bessarabian frontier . Sucli , at least , is the statement put forward in behalf of our Ministers to explain the continued naval occupation of the Black Sea , and the semi-hostile position of the several Powers that lately covenanted at Paris the terms of ' perpetual amity . ' The question , however , is , as usual , mystified . There haB been no official

    announcement of policy . If we did not understand an occasional newspaper oracle to be uttered with a certain indefinite degree of authority , we should know simply this : that Russia complains of the diplomatic exactions of England , that Lord Lyons has been stationed as sentinel of the Black Sea , and that tho Western Cabinets , after serious differences , had been reconciled . Wo have , indeed , the

    powers — Lord Lyons manoeuvring whiie Russia negotiates — Austria governing the Principalities by martial law — the Porte wavering between rival influences France giving a temporary support to Russia , Aug . tria to England — the Moniteur questioning the alliance , the Times defying the Moniteitr , and Lord PaiiMersipon , at Man . Chester and at the Mansion House , doubting the durability of the Paris pacification ! if is to be wished we could assure ourselves that

    Russia is not the only Power inclined to falsify the Treaty of March . It does not ap . pear that , under the terms of this Treaty Russia was bound to fulfil her part to the utmost without seeing Austria fulfil hers or the Allies theirs . There is no doubt that her concessions were framed with a view to her old artifices of evasion , but Russian trickery is no excuse for Austrian want of faith . While we are holding high language with respect to Bolgrad aud the Isle of Serpents , have we covenanted with Austria to obtain the release of the Danubian

    Principalities from her protecting' violence ^ or have we secured guarantees that , when tlie Russian Government agrees to a just settlement of the points in dispute , the Austrian Government will withdraw its forces within the Austrian frontier ? Little sympathy as we have with the political interests of Russia , we should entertain a low opinion of the Emperor Alexander ' s policy if he vacated the field altogether and left Austria in possession of the great Danubian valley . It may be convenient , for a time , to ignore the feeling most deeply seated in the English mind—distrust of Austria—and to act in

    concert with th at Power in order to enforce the fulfilment by Russia of the Paris Treaty '; but to represent her as the champion of Ottoman integrity , and to play off Austrian duplicity against French hesitation , would indeed be to misunderstand the public opinion of England , and the cardinal interests of Turkey . The moral that seems deducible from these Protaean postures of diplomacy is , that the Governments which made peace did not believe in it . From the first there was an

    aspect of insincerity in the professions of the five Powers . The Turks , affecting liberality , had no intention of dealing in a liberal spirit with the inhabitants of the Principalities . The Austrians , pretending to be the restorers of European tranquillity , took not a single step towards relieving Moldavia and Wallachia from the weight of a military occupation .

    The Russians conceded territories which they were resolved to hold , if possible . The French plotted the abasement of England , and the English conceived jealousies of France . The Treaty was a falsehood , and the settlement it established may prove an illusion . JSo successful arc the great guardians of order when they propose to ordain peace and goodwill among Governments .

    help of tlie newspaper articles alluded to , but their Ministerial inspiration is not avowed , so that the Government may , at any time , adopt , unchallenged , different grounds of action . It is , then , as we are led to believe , on account of tho retention by Russia of the Isle of Serpents and Bolgrad that tho Allied armaments have not been withdrawn from the Turkish waters .

    That is , Russia is charged with another practical aggression upon the Ottoman territory , and the Western fleets nro performing the same functions as they performed before the battle of Sinopc . Six months of peace—Turkoy under the guns of the combined

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    THE GOLDEN FAMILY . Most persons desire to be respectable , but it is becoming a serjous question whether you can bo respectable without being rich . There are so many trifles in these days , which are very costly , and arc yet ' only right and proper , ' that if you love simplicity , or if you are unable to « do the thing well , ' must consent to bo black-balled for it . No 0110 can

    pretend to say how many forgeries nad larcenies are committed in order that tho thing may be done well ; but tho wisdom ot the ago is hardening into a sort of cant , avw wo are threatened with a return of that pW " losophy which reckoned the poor na tno vile . ' Antiquarians might bo perp lexed to know at what date this purplo tributary oi pride flowed into tho great stream of Christ" *

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    3 . O 94 THE LEADER , 1 ^^

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 1094, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2167/page/14/