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quaintance ? Let us suppose the case . He tnocks , and asks admittance . The voice is known . He enters , axid engages the cashier in parley . Mr . IiiTTLE was not a firm man ; even "where the intruders into his office were Jew pedlais he found it hard to get rid of them . He might not have liked , le might fear , the presence of this friend , who may have "been of any rank in life , from - the humblest man known to him up to the highest in rank among his friends . But he was not the man to tell the intruder to go away .
Perhaps he indicated his unwillingness to be disturbed "by returning to his work , and then felt on his head that stunning blow which crushed him down , and left him a senseless victim for repeated wounds . " We have indicated above the defects of the newspaper reports , and of the coroner ' s inquiry . 3 &or instance , tlie dimensions of the room are not stated , nor the distance between Mr-Little ' s chair and the counter- —but we may guess the latter , when we find that " a large table " was between them . The instrument with
which , in all likelihood , the murder was effected , has been found—it is a heavy hammer , with a . handle ei ghteen inches long . The Dublin police have more than once signally failed in detecting secret crimes . They now appear to liunt up eagerly some strangers who were seen about the office : they should first quietly exhaust suspicions against every one who knew Mr . Littxe , knew the office , and knew the business habits of the casliier .
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THE TVALEWSEI ESTATES . Tele Observer recently announced that the Czar Alexandeb , II ., appreciating the services rendered to Russia during the late war by Count Wa : l : ewski , had restored the Polish estates of the family , confiscated after the events of 1831 . It is well known that M . ¦ Walewski , now a Minister of the Empire , was then ah officer on the staff of the insurrectionary Polish army . The Times repeated , in emphatic type , the statement of the Observer . Immediately the Paris JDebats and Consiitutionnel circulated a contradictory sneer , concluding with these words : —
The Belgian National remarks , justly , " may judge , from this new example > how much confidence should be placed in the ' communicated' paragraphs of the journals devoted to M . " Waxewski . " But no French newspaper will be allowed to reprint the ukase ; so that the French public will be left to believe that " the IRussian Government never confiscated any property belonging to the family . "
The statement that the family did lose estates in this manner , las been set down as originating in ignorance and propagated by malice . JSTo Respectable journal in this country , liowever , approved the ridiculous violence of the Constitutionnel . We have yet to learn whether -we niay congratulate the house of Walewskx upon the resumption of its ancient domains .
M . " Walewski never possessed any property in Poland , nor has the Russian Government ever confiscated any possessions ^ belonging to his family . Thus do the assertions of the Observer and tlie Times , which we have no language to qualify , fall of themselves to the ground . " We have nothing to do with the assertion that M . Walewski was , during the recent wax , a servitor of the Russian Government . His policy may "be construed in that sense
or at may not . But the two privileged French journals have published that which is distinctly , unmistakably , and thoroughly incorrect . The Hussian G-overnment did confiscate the estates of the " WTaxewski famil y . Here is the notification contained in the number of the official llusaian organ , the Tygodnik PetersbursJci ( published at St . Petersburg weekly ) of September 12 ( 24 ) 1844 : —
A decree of the Council of Administration of Poland , passed in the month of July , 1844 , says : — " "Whereas , Alexander Count Walewski , after having , on a decree presented in 1833 , obtained an amnesty , has not taken advantage thoreof , hereby is decreed the confi scatio n o bis goods , also the inscription in the hypothecation register , to the credit of the State , of the titles of the property in stock pertaining to the aforesaid Walowski . " " If , " says the Belgian National , " the Dcoateand "the Constitutionnel are particular on the point , we will give the name of an important domain that was confiscated . "
Yet the denials of the Constitictionnel and tho X > eba ( s were communicated . * " What it tho Moniteur be as false when it contradicts ita semi-official contemporary ? and what il the Nord should venture to affirm that no such , decree exists in the Ifcussian archives ?
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THE TJNCONVICTED . A QBE at light lias burst upon us . Weunderstand the spirit of the age better than we did a few hours since . Mr . Little has been murdered , says the Dublin Protestant Institution , because the Government has neglected its duty . This is indeed an alarming riddle . "Why should the unoffending JIittxe be slain because the Government has done something
amiss ? It implies thai the G-overnment of the country is in some way or other pledged on the side of those who have destroyed Little . It implies , too , that the Dublin Protestants are in the secret , and know the motives of the vengeance . There is evidently a connexion between the murderer , the Dublin Protestants , and tlie Government , who are all of a story .
victed , perhaps a majority . Go into church , and count the Bedpaths , the Kents , the Hob - sons , who have not yet been found out . Ofovr these persons have influence with constituencies ; they place their Sadlmrs in the House of Commons ; they have placed their 1 Honourable Mr . ' in the public offices ; and they carry the election of their directors on railways . They are all governed by one contrated
cen purpose—pelf taken from us , the innocent , and self-protection for themselves . Their business is to look after the moneysafe which is going along the railway journey ; and what care they for passengers and collisions ? "With this worse than Russian preponderancy in the State , are we to wonder that the garotter or the burglar is favourably regarded / by the policeman , who averts his eye , if he does not avert himself ?
J \ ow , then , we understand how it is that the House of Commons passes laws to prevent children being taken out of Mr . Eagin ' s school ; now we understand how it is that laws a . re maintained , ostensibly for the protection of credit , but really for fructifying in these immense bankruptcies , so profitable to the predominant interest . " We see it all . It is this solidarity of interest among ; the t
Unconviced , that enormous class , which explains all the apparent solecisms and inconsistencies of our administration and legislation . The TTneonvicted is in the majority , and it is able to arrange laws convenient to itself ; leaving us , the unsuspecting minority , to get along as we may , among defaulters , directors , burglars , honourables , embezzlers , members of Parliament , garotters , clergymen , pickpockets , and officials .
Mow this would he simply an insoluble riddle if we had not other facts to elucidate it . The number of proceedings called frauds lias become so considerable , and is as yet so evidently unexhausted , that we are driven to ask for the statistics of the population engaged in such transactions . The vast num - ber of persons in some kind of office , the distinguished gentlemen in commerce , persona
of distinction in fashionable neighbourhoods , and eminent for their religious and charitable qualities , who accidentally deviate into our criminal courts ., challenges inspection by Mr . Mann . If the Uncouvicted of . the class bear a fair proportion to the convicted , their name is Legion , and we must further ask , what proportion , the Unconvieted bear to the guiltless ?
The answer suggested throws considerable light upon the state of parties and of politics . We observe that the Unconvicted interest has its representatives in all places of power and influence : has its nobles and its members of Parliament ; it has posted its agencies amongst the directors of our great managing companies , amongst the clerks ; and , like Russia , it has a wide-spread agency throughout all classes of society . We suspect that it is not unrepresented even iu the church or tho aneeting-house .
" We have formerly been perplexed to know how it is that there is annually such a gigantic mass of bankruptcy , fraudulent bankruptcy , which takes property out of the hands of the Guiltless to enrich the Uncon- > victed . Again , bow is it that tho garotter is wandering about tho streets unrestrained ? How is it that the burglar can mark the house tht \ t he desires , and appropriate its
contents , without hindranco ? The whole of this perplexity is explained by the suggestive complaints of tho Dublin Protestants . Evidently , there is a solidarity ot" interests hostile to the harmless . The aggressive population , Convicted and Unconvieted , immensely outnumbers us . If you go to an evening party at the West End , you may be tolerably certain that there is a largo infusion of the Uncon-
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' ¦ JUDGMENTS '—AND WANT OF JTJDG-¦ ¦¦ : . . " ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦/ . V / -MEN . T . " ¦ - ¦ ¦¦ . -: ¦ ' . . ¦ . ; ' ' Mb . Joseph Cowen has told us the character of that ' . * infidel institution . ' that Iiord Ea-¦ VEjrswoKTii denounced . It will be perceived that the institution , takes in the Leader , which Lord Ravens worth ' s friends probably class among the infidel publications ; that is , it does not support the party which uses calumny ,, misrepresentation , and the
lecture-hall of one institution for the purpose of getting up a rival institution , as a means of ingratiating a bigoted creed with the honest working classes of a manufacturing town . We need not , however , vindicate the character of our own journal ; we leave that question to be settled between the Havenswobth party of clerical gentlemen , and the many clergymen who are our own regular subscribers .
3 n facfc , we regard the paroxysm of agitatioa among the so-called religious faction just tit present , with compassion ; we perceive the reasons for their distress , and tlie excesses into which it leads them . The clerical prophet has discovered in Ireland the reason for " the foul and fiendish murder of the lato Mr . Samuel George Little , " and the Dublin Protestant Institution has adopted the theory in a formal resolution . The reason is : —
U'hat our rulers , in their blind obstinacy , have carried out a policy for tho last quarter of a century calculated to impede the coiirso of God ' s truth iu the land , to darken tho hearts of men , and propagate a spirit of contempt for oil laws , divine and social , throughout society in general . This reminds us of the discovery of Monsiguore Tji . vnzoni , that Victor Emmanuel was chastised for schismatic conduct in secularizing the property of the Church , by the death of bis father , his brother , and his wife , in rapid succession .
Tho Dublin Protestant Institution resolvet " a prayer" " that Ho wilL not deprive the country of all consular wisdom . " " What this moans wo do not know ; but we know thai Mr . Disraeli , who has had friendly relations with the Dublin Protestants , formerly
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^ November 22 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 1117
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 1117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2168/page/13/
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