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AN-ACCIDENT IN LANARKSHIRE . The new member for Hamilton Palace is Mr . Baiilie Cochbane . Lanarkshire looked on , but said nothing , while Mr . Iifar-is and Mr . Chancellor pretended to be asking for the suffrages of the electors . There are no electors in the county . The Duke of Hamilton is the hereditary Lord Protector of tlie population , and Mr . Baill . ie Cochieane is one of his delegates . Mr . Cochrake , however , -was anxious for a cheer , and suddenly
promul-Dukes . It is really time that the Highlands and Lowlands should talk of reform . What can Glasgow think of such a political partner as Mr . Baixlie Cochbaios , the slave of the Hahimon Aladdins ? And what does Mr . Cochbane think of himself , after eating the Italian toad , and waking up to find himself once more a Member of Parliament ? The affair is accidental ; but the country is liable to such accidents . You may bviy a seat in the House of Commons , or some one may give it to you ; but it rarely happens that you are a constitutionally-elected representative . "rv .-i ' tT ^ m ^ m «>
gated , to all whom it might concern , that he hated despotism , and pined for the einaneipa tion of the world . In fact , he has been reading his own book on Italy , and discovers that he never was a flatterer of the Italian despots , or a libeller of the Italian Liberals . He was , however , though he says he was not , and he may paraphrase this as he pleases . He defended the King of Naples without reserve . He defended the Papacy . He declared that the Roman Itepublic was established and guarded
by " foreigners . " Of the hundred and fifty members of the Constituent Assembly , there were only seven who were not citizens of the Eoman States . ~ Of the fourteen thousand who fought during the siege , at least twelve thousand were [ Romans , while about t \ vo thousand were Lombards , Tuscans , or citizens of other Italian States—not such " foreigners" as protect the Pope and the
King of Naples . Their leaders governed Rome for five months , and while in power condemned not one man to death for a political offence , and exiled no one on suspicion . They even allowed Panteoloni and Mamiamt , their avowed enemies , all the privileges of the Republic . "What would be thought of us if we described Louis Napoleon as CALiauLA \ Tithout his courage ? Yet Mr . Co cubage wrote that the Roman
revolution only differed from the Reign of Terror in being conducted by men of greater bravery and more determination . The largest and wealthiest constituency in Scotland finds itself suddenly represented by this person . It haa no choice . As Buteshire is humiliated by the prerogative of the Butes , and Dumfrieshire by the prerogative of the Queensberbys , so Lanarkshire is the fief of the Hamiltons : there are no forty-shilling
freeholds there ; the little man is selected by the great house , and the premier peer of Scotland enlists a new soldier for his bodyguard in the Commons . He is a Duko with a double title , a Marquis with a treble title , an Earl with a treble title , a Baron with an eightfold title , and a Member of Parliament by deputy . " What has Lanarkshire to balance against the claims of this clustered pillar of the peerago ? It is merely a vast county , with an area of moro than six hundred
thousand acres , a population of half a million— - and not three thousand jive hundred registered electors . The truth is , that the electoral system in Scotland is worse than our own . Nearly every Scottish county is an Old Sarum of private- influences , whore the tenants-in-ehief of tho Crown and fifty-seven years leaseholders and lifolioldcrs arc parcelled out as tho property of those singularly narrow-minded individuals , the Scottish
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COUNSEL AND CLIENT . A most important political principle was decided in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Monday , settling tlie rights of laymen as distinguished from lawmen . Mrs . Swtneen claimed ' an , estate of 6 O , 00 OZ . under the will of Samuel Swynten ; and the heir-at-law contested the reality of this bequest . Mrs . Swtnfen ' s attorney was a Mr . Simps on-, her counsel Sir Ekejossick Thesigeb . Circumstances came out which . induced Sir Frederick to think that Mrs . Stvynfen ' s
interest would be best served by accepting a compromise offered on the other side , 10002 . a , year . Her attorney appears to have agreed in the opinion , and she consented so far as to promise that she would consider tlie subject . She went out of town , and telegraphed a message signifying her dissent . Nevertheless , when the case came on in court , Sir Fbedebick stated that it had been arranged out of court ; and subsequently proceedings were taken to declare Mrs . Swtkten " in
contempt , " and to conrpel her to carry out the arrangements ! It was contended , on the part of Sir Frederick : Thesiq-er , that a counsel is invested with a general agency , that the arrangement was clearly for the interest of Mrs . Swynfen " , and that as he had accepted it in his discretion , she -was bound . Mr . Justice Cjrowdek laid down the law distinctly . A client is bound by the acts of his counsel , when those acts are in the ordinary course of law ; because it is presumed that the client lias entrusted his counsel to
carry out the cause in a regular manner . But , by a strict application of the same principle , the client is not bound by his counsel in . any extraordinary course without special instructions . " A client , " said Mr . Justice Cboavjdee , " might think a particular barrister an excellent advocate , and might , therefore , employ him , but might have no confidence in his power as a negotiator of the terms of compromise . " The distinction settles the case .
Mrs . Swynfen " , therefore , is not to be punished for having refused to carry out an agreement which she had always repelled . She is permitted to carry on the cause at whatever risk . Sir Peedekiok Thesigkbu , indeed , appears to take seriously Lord Uldon ' s dictum , that if any man claimed a field from him , he would give it up so that the concession were kept secret , rather than carry on proceedings at law .
But , for Heaven ' s sake , let ua exercise our own discretion in carrying out the dictum of Eldon . Law and lawyers are formidable enougli ; but what frightful slavery should we all have been handed over to , if tho High Court of tTusticcs had laid down , tho rule that as soon as we employed a counsel he is our master , and wo no better than his wards . Counsel ' confer' together ; "they ' arrange' matters : wli at wonderful division of ' my client ' s' property miglit not have been carried out , if the Tjiebighsk principle had l ) oen recognised , and its working duly developed .
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A little silken rainbow ds on her neck ; a golden serpent guards a turquoise on her wrist ; she might trip over rocks and thistles without harm , in those costly and sensible boots of Balmoral , which have superseded , among us , the sandals of the white-footed classics . There is a rumour that more material is in , future to be used in the bonnet , and less in the skirt , so that Ett : pheosy : ne will better preserve the rich colour of her hair , which fades in the light , and will more successfully assert her sisterhood to tlie G-races , who never wore hoops . Hoops , the authorities announce , are to be abolished , having failed , like the wood-pavement A 3 i-H-. l « nillr / vrt i » s » iri'h rYDD -ia fin liflr Tior » lr tt
" resembling rivers of pearls , " and " medallion fringe , " have more affinity with Bashi-Bazoukism than with tlie grace of our pure Euphrosyne . Etty , when he went to Venice , could not find a box of colours ; but even Titian-, when he lived there , could not have found colours to reflect the full-dress of certain Engligh circles . If our costume is to come to that , let eaeli , for the sake of consistency , revert to doublets of green and amber , and cavalier hais and plumes . < t « annniUinn ~ . ^ «~ ^ X ? „__! -. J J _
A conscientious contemporary ; , however , has taken all the Etjphrosynes to task , not for copying all the colours in a cathedral window , but for rendering needlework a complex art . It is difficult to interfere without committing as many blunders as a civilian discoursing on strategy ; l ) ut it is tlie lily itself that makes a sacrifice -when lost in a Field of
the Cloth of Gold . The Queen of Otjde must wear a G-olconda of rubies and a Persia of pearls to decorate the dark austerity of her countenance ; but why should our Etrpiiitosyne wear African earrings , Assyrian mantles , Bayadere drapery , or the jewels of iNbiTRMAHAii ? Or , if she does , why not add the little golden "bells of Arabia , and the little golden coins of Paristan , and the kohl of Egypt ( instead of the deadly belladona ) , and the mirrors of Barbary , and
henna dye , and campae blossoms ? The Daily JSTeios will ask what is all this to end in at Christmas ; but we might as well ask the typical lily of our laud to turn black as to put away " those sweet thoughts she thinks , of violets and of pinks , " or to forget ( if she ever knew it ) that / as iu the Malayan tongue a woman and a flower are synonymous , if one is' a bluebell , another might as well be a rose . Instead of joining in this cold crusade against milliners' bills ,
we say , Study taste more and fashion less ; dress as richly as you please , so that your splendour be graceful ; and , if you cannot emulate the Indian lady , who imprisoned a thousand fireflies in her skirt of gauze , let the needle do all it can . with the silk and the dyes of the East . Dressmakers , instead of calling your profusion , cruel , will be glad of the employment that abounds in a gay season . Tlie claim , they have da , that when EtJPHRosYNE is going to Court or to a fancy
ball , she shall plan her costume soon enough to give the poor work-girl time to finish it , without wasting her life away by night , wearing out her heart by bending twelve hours together over the fabric of lace and lustre that is to sweep over Aubusson carpets , under ' rich roofs embossed , ' and constellations of light in opal and crystal globes . It is cruel to say that a delicately-nurtured girl is heartless , when she is only ignorant of
the slavery that is ordered in her name . What does she sco of the sem-pstress ? She enters a " West-end shop , more brilliant , perhaps , than her own "boudoir ; her orders are received by a glittering lady ; mot one of the pale dressmakers appoars . They are out of eight . The dress comes home ; the wearer is delighted ; the maker , perhaps , faints ; but the maker and the wearer stand apart . The one has not been taught to reflect upon tho necessities of tho other .
Has sho been taught even "to know when she appears beautiful or not ? Does she , in fact , care for beauty bo much us for fashion ? " We submit that aomo of tho present combinations of Greek sleeves , Rapiia'btj boddices , Bayadere skirts , basques , brotellca , epaulettes , lacings , flouncings , feathers , and ' solid-gold buttonh , ' of taflbtn , silk , velvet ( Terry and other ) , chenille , embroidery
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January 17 , 1857 . ] I THE LEADER , 63 )) et l """""" ¦ " ¦¦¦ ^^
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 17, 1857, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2176/page/15/
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