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Judge . There is often a vulgar prejudice against a man so generally accomplished and esteemed as CocKBiTRj * . People fancy he cannot be a good lawyer , because he is so ruuch besides ; but no man can have attained to Cockbttbn ' s position , with the competition of the bar , under the scrutiny of the Bench , and escape acquiring a thorough knowledge of English law . His admirable faculties of sifting
The murder of Little , int frelarid , is held to be a great wonder ; as if it were any tiling wonderful , now-a-days , for a gentleman quietly engaged in his business to be knocked on the head . The novelty of the matter is , that the murderer ' s motive appeal ' s to have been plunder , not revenue or religious sentiment—the -usual iftcentives m Ireland .
evidence and of explaining it to a jury were shown in the Palmer case . His power of penetrating to the pith of a subject Las often been displayed in Parliament * There is , indeed , sometruth in the counter allegation , that lawyers make indifferent members of Parliament , and are almost by necessity waiters upon Providence and upon Premiers ; but if Cockjjurn has advanced his party , he has adorned the House .
Sir KicirARD ^ Betheli ., of course , succeeded Sir Auexandek as Attorney-General ; but some surprise is expressed at the gif t of Sir Hichabd ' s post as Solicitor-General to Mr . Stxjart Wokti&Y . He had retired from practice . His legal qualifications are very respectable , but they were not so high as to make it a duty of the Ministers to place the office at his disposal ; and in doing so Lord pAXiMEKSTON has passed over many men . at least as able as Mr . WoBTXEr , who were attached to the Government as well as to the Liberal
party . . ' ¦' . . -- . , " - ; .- . . - . . ; . - . " : - . ¦¦ - , . - ¦ ¦ . .-V The appointments have given rise to some curious electioneering manoeuvres at Southampton . Mr . Edwijt James has advanced as heir to Sir Alexander . Before him had been Serjeant Pigott , "who was abruptly cut short in his canvass by a telegraphic : Cockburnian message— " I have not yet resigned . " So Pigott came to town , — and James went to Southampton 1 Mr . Edward Chad wick , too , it is said > had ' expressed a wish ' to represent Southampton ; and really Mr . Chad - ¦ wi ck would be a very useful man in much practical business that comes before the House of Commons .
Sir John Pakingtoet has been making a demonstration at Manchester . He has gone down to visit the head-quarters of Secular education , and there has been a decided rapprochement between the representatives of the Pakington " bill and the Mi user Gibson bill , while Sir John , in a capital speech at the Manchester Athenaeum , held out the right hand of fellowship to Lord John Kusseix . If Lord John should go into the Upper House , as some suppose , and as Lord Paxmerston wishes , really it would seem possible that he should be the head of an Education Cabinet , with Pakingtost for his leader in the Commons .
A . strange drama was performed in St . Paul's , Knightsbridge , on Sunday last . The Bishop of Londox , ' splitting the difference , ' has allowed Ltodecx to have papistical candles and candlesticks on the altar , but not to light them . The fog , however , afforded Liddeli , and his clergy the opportunity of raising spiritual fire under pretext of enlightening the djirkness ; and the candles were lighted . The undaunted Wbstehtok came up with an extinguisher , literally as well as metaphorically , and put out the light . The rallying Liddeix recommenced his lamplighting miesion ; and the baffled Westebton acquiesced . To us the Papistry of the candle is
puerile ; but the Protestantism of the extinguisher is not really more dignified . This is the Church , however , with its LiddejoivS and Westjehtons , for which Mr . Gladstone , at a meeting of the " Additional Curate Society , " is asking recruits , and for which the Bishop of St . Asaph is asking endowments . Before we give the curates , or can expect landed proprietors to supply the endowments , we must settle the institutes of the Churoh ; we must detcrmino whether jf ; is candle or no candle , beforo wo * please to
remember the grotto . ' The Redpatii disclosures havo been followed up . The accomplice , Kent , is advanced almost to a level with Rohson in the scale of his operations ., ana an accountant lias been caught nabbing in the . same oflfce . ., ^ g ? ld robbery is followed up by a refusal of tne Company to take the loss upon themselves , with an attempt to throw it upon the real owners pt the gold ; audit comes out that in a previous £ tTm ? u >? °° » P l'omiaea tho loss . Itonlly 1 , 1 ^ 1 ji w * ™ ^ lin ^ between the Hobso / and xespqctable commexcial moo .
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PUBLIC MEETINGS . LORD ALBEMARLE OX BENEFIT CLUBS . Lokd At ^ bejiarle presided last week at the an nual dinner of the Shropham Agricultural Association . In returning thank 9 for the toast cf his health , lie made some remarks on the importance of benefit clubs for poor men . " This , " he observed , "is a . subject in which , of course , the labourer is particularly concerned ; but it is hot merely the labourer's , but the farmer's and the ratepayer ' s , question . . ' Mr . Tidd ' . Pratt" stated- at the anniversary of a benefit club at which , he was present that , from documents which , as Government Registrar , he
la a speech of considerable length , Sir Jbhh cxnn ™ , /! hia viewa on the subject of education in EnguSEh-f were the same as those he has frequentl y uttered ' a S T ^ . OnQn I On 8 ) ' quoted statistics exhibiting I wide diffusion of ignorance . " Gentlemen , " he nr , E - * "i « i «« pB ~ Wttyaur We . tfIluW ^ t 5 ^ g 3 I continue of the same opinion which I have repeated expressed , that the state of education in England i 7 sufficient , unsatisfactory , and unworthy of tnis cm L ?" I utterly- wjeet theidea , although I respect th ? S & lul
n Bnxr crt ittnt- nuv i-vxAm . no ?„ v . _* ; j . ... . . WOO say so , that our progress is what it ought to be ti are , I believe , three changes which are indispensable S a better state of things . The first is that , in some ™! or another , what is called the half-time system shonW be adopted , so as to be in use for all classes in Z \ country , and . not to be limited , as it now is , to factoSS or establishments of one kind . Secondly , we must hill a better , more complete , and more perfect organization . Thirdly , we must have a larger and more certain sunniv of money . " V ™
On IVednesday , Sir John Pakington visited the Model Secular School at Manchester , and on the same day alsa the School for Out-door Pauper Children . A ¦ conference afterwards took place between the hon . baronet and tie principal gentlemen connected with the rival schemes of education originating in Manchester . Several points ia favour of establishing schools , supported by local rate ? in -which the religious teaching shall be given at separate hours , parents who object to that species of tuition bein « - at liberty to withdraw their children at the time when it is imparted .
had in his possession , he Relieved benefit clubs saved the poor rates 2 , 000 , 000 / . a year . Mr . Neison , the most distinguished actuary upon this subject , has said that nearly the -whole of tho -povertywhich fills the -workhouses with our labouring population , would be prevented if a proper system of benefit clubs "were introduced . " His Lordship then went on to make some observations with respect to the benefit society called the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows , -with -which ho had had a dispute . He considered that " it embraces the most objectionable principles of all the worst clubs in the country ; " and he was further of opinion that it is not solvent . ¦¦ . " .- ¦ . . . ' . ¦" ¦ - .- ¦ ' ; ' " . - .. ¦ , : ; . . ¦''¦ ¦ ' " DR . BKADY A 2 JD > HIS CONSTITUENTS . A meeting of the Leitrim Liberal Club was held at Carrick-on-Shannon last Wednesday week . " The success of the club , " says the Irish Midland Counties Gazette , " is now an established fact . But two years established , it has already accomplished much—has , in truth , secured the independence of Leitrim . "VVhen , some three years since , we urged the liberals of Leitrim to organize a county club , we stated our belief that in no
Irish county there existed better or more available materials for such an organization . Sanguine as Are were , we confess that our hopes have "been more than realized . The county of Leitrim-is already independent . The liberals are as three to one on the registry . It alone remains to provide Dr . Brady with an honest and worthy fellow-representative , so that the votes of Jolin Brady may be no longer neutralized by the hostile votes of a Conservative colleague . . This , we have no doubt , the club will take measures to accomplish . "
ADDITIONAL CURATES SOCIETY . The Society for Promoting the Employment of Additional Curates in Populous Places held its annual meeting in the Music-hall , Chester , on Tuesday , at noon . The Right Rev . the Lord Bishop of Chester presided . There was a , very numerous attendance of the clergy , gentry , anil their families resident in the city and neighbourhood ; and . from the report , it appeared , that the funds of the society are increasing . Tho chief speech was that of Mr . Gladstone , who said that the funds are still inadequate to the objects contemplated , and who pointed out the low pay of the working clergy , and eulogized the courage and devotion of city missionaries . THE MEMBERS FOR BRISTOL BEFORE THEIR COSTSTITUENrS . The annual dinner of tho Anchor Society of Bristol , one of a series of annual festivals to commemorate ) the great local philanthropist , Edward Colston , was held in the Bristol Athenicum on Thursday last . In the absence of the president , Sir A . H . Elton , Bart ., tho chair was occupied by Mr . W . H . Gore Langton , M . P . The Hon . F . H . Berkeley , M . P ., was also present , and addressed tho company on the topics of tho day . He applauded Lord Palmerston for tho part lie had taken in the war , but doubted if ho would now turn his attention , as he ought to do , to reform . IIo agreed with tho
Administrative Reformers in their desire to remove ' aristocratic dummies' from tho House of Commons ; but ho thought that could only bo done by reforming the House , and reform could only be enforce ! by the people resolutely demanding it , and tlio people would only demand , it when they wevo move ! by some great disaster . After an allusion to his favourite topic of tho-ballot , Mr . Berkeley sat down . Mr . Gore Langton then-addressed tho meeting , expressing , among other opinions , great aversion to tho King of Naples , but adding that ho feared a collision with him would involvo us in a wur with all thoabsolutiat powers of Europe . Sin JOHN VAKINCtrON ON NATIONAL EDUCATION . Sir John Pukington delivered , on "Wednesday evening , an address on National Education to tho members of tho Manchester Athonaouin , in compliance with an invitation from tho directors of that institution . Sir E . Armitago presided oh tho oconsion , and thoro wcro proacnt Mr . . T . 8 . Pnkington ; Mr . "Watts , Mayor of Manchester ; Sir J . Potter , Mr . llnzloy , Mr . J . A . Turner , Sir J . Bardaley , tho ltov . "W . ( iaskcll , and Mr . Fairbairn , C . 1 D .
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LORD KAVENSWOTH AND THE BLAYDON INSTITUTE . WrnxreferencetoLord RavenswortVs attack on theElaydon Institute , Mr . J . Cowen , jun ., secretary of that society , writes to the . rimes to deny that the body with which he ^ is connected is essentially ' infidel . ' He subjoins a list of the periodicals taken in at the reading-room and among these the one most likely to provoke his lordship ' s wrath appears to be bur own journal . The alleged 'immoral' books are—" The Positive Philosophy cf Auguste Comte , " by Harriet Martineau , and Voltaire ' s " Philosophical Dictionary . " The lecture-hall is let on Sundays to the Wesleyan Reformed Methodists , vrho preach there , and hold a Sunday School . A public and unsectarian day-school is also held there during the week . At night the room is used for lectures , concerts , &c . The institution is purely educational and
there is no theological , or anti-theological test for admission . Any person is allowed to lay on the table of the reading-room any publication -H-licb is . not'of-an immoral character ; and this permission has been taken advantage of both by the orthodox and the heretical . On one occasion , tho lecture-hall was let to some orthodox gentlemen for the purpose of supporting their views ; and it was afterwards let to some heterodox gentlemen with a view to supporting theirs . In short , the institution appears to have been conducted in the most impartial manner , and its conductors seem to be absolutely neutral . " No polemical lectures , " sajs Mr . Cowen , " are delivered under the auspices of the institution . " The secretary concludes with a little bit of advice to Lord Ravensworth : — " I would respectfully
suggest to him that , when ho again ventures to recommend books to working men , he selects some higher writer on morals than Paley , and not an exploded commentator on law like Blackstone , for his commendation . " The name of Mr . Cowen must be well known to a large number of our readers . Mr . Cbwen is a leader of the most liberal party in Newcastle and the district around , and ho haa been , active in tho establishment of This
the Blaydon News-room and Literary Institution . association is a ' Mechanics '' Institution in fact as -well as in name . It possesses a large and convenient building , which is freehold property ; and it has expended 900 / . upon tho establishment during the last four years . The building contains an excellent and even elegant lecturehull , capable of holding live hundred people , a comfort . able reading-room and library , and a class-room . Annexed to it aro a cottage for an attendant , and a spacious playground for the school .
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OBITUARY . Lieutenant Alexander . Forsyth Park , ono of our naval o « icera at tho Nilo and Trafalgar , ivlio ) i been ( to tho discredit of tho authorities ) a lioutenanuu fifty years , died on tho 8 th inst . of parulysls , at mo » b of seventy , at llaslar Hospital , with which no «» officially connected . A ,, « nnof Phinok LiciuitraEN , the half-brother of the Queen u England , died on the morning of Thursday v « t » , Wald Lohungen , in tho fiftieth year of lu « ntfc Mr . David IJoaur .. —Wo regret to have to anno « n tho sudden death of Mr . Bogue , tho pixblinhcv- oi i « ^ street , in tho forty-sixth year of hia ago . ii « ' asaociutcd with many cxcollent works , both m i « o ( of light reading and of more important l ' nlIlu . llC literature . In hia clicap reprints of stnndnnl i > oo ^ aided tho cauao of education ; and hw aontn rcgrottca by all who wore ac ( j . uaiutod with hiuu
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H 06 THE LEADER . | No . 348 . SaTOebat
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 1106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2168/page/2/
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