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perfectly cortfect in regarding the Poorfkvr provision ^ s tlie conventional quittance of that elaim . But the best of the joke is , that the -Lords—the aristocrats of whom those Working men . are so envious—are mi the GwHer ' s of the soil from whicn they draw theii * title they are but poor men managing to lite in the horned of rich men . The way they do it is Hot grand . If a man can make pjeople believe that he has an income from fifty to a huo-dreo thousand a year , they will always fend him money ; and 30 long as he
can manage to keep tip that fictitious bener , lie can , on the plan of the French financier , keep 'on raising loans , and paying the interest with the bans . In Encumbered Estates Court would burst that aristocratic bubble ; but the moist pitiable part of it would be the moral show up of a powerful , wealthy aristderacy . And of gentlemen-at the clubs , how many are gentleinen in the old-fashioned sense of the word , how many are swindlers and thieves ? Joseph : WisriHiE Coie would have
passed muster at inany clubs ; and a De a n Pjitri , is really better than many of his class , - ^ much better . Between th 6 s © gentlemen and the Club model & Would be extremely " difficult to definfe all the degrees ; they are innumetfable . 'The Court of Bankruptcy of this week gives US an amusing example of the Society at the Atmy and Havy 'Club . Some time since , thete was about town a Mr . Kjlt , a young . geatleman reputed to have a large fortune , a&d certainly he had a very handsome incoine . This Oeestes had a 3 ? yi , ai > es —a Captain JbHirstON , of the Army and jSTavyOlub—a gentleman whose manners and customs tire described by Mi . Bagkley : —
m "He hadbrtt very small means at the beginning , had lived ^ rith all the outward and viaible signs of affluence for a wnnber of years ; for it often happened in this country that ihe appearance of wealth was as effectual in enabling persons to enjoy it—at least for an interval —as the absolute possession of wealth itself . Mr . Johnston kept carriages and hunters . He had a house in Hillstreet , Berkeley-square ; a country-house at Peltham , near Hounslo w ; and a third house in the Rue Gastiglione , Paris . He moved in the aristocratic circles . So things went on till April , 1855 . He had given an order to a tradesman to make a greenhouse for 800 ? . The
greenhoose-was erected , and , he supposed , enjoyed by the aristocratic proprietor . But the tradesman , not being satisfied with the honour of having erected the greenhouse for Captain Johnston , wanted his money ; and Captain Johnston , being unable to pay , was arrested , and conducted to " prison . Immediately other tradesmen who had supplied Captain-Johnston with luxuries lodged detainers . Captain Johnston remained quiet in the Queen's Bench one year . He then petitioned the Insolvent Court , and filed a schedule , from which it appeared he had creditors to the amount of 119 , 500 / ., for 80 , 000 / . of which he stated ho had received no
consideration . He was appointed to come up in the Insolvent Court on the 18 th of June , 185 G , Imt being opposed by creditors , ho declined to go through that ordeal , and returned to prison , but very soon was discharged . " Of course one can understand the nexus between the young gentleman of fortune and the older gentleman of distinction . Both were to be seen at Hounslow , in Paris , about Berkeley-square 5 and how could any stranger tell the difference between the two ? One would look as good as the other , as « warm , ' ¦ would be as open-handed , as gentlemanly . " The Obestes
has become bankrupt ; he is pursued in the Bankruptcy Court . By whomf By his Psxadus . That is how Habmoditts and Aiw 3 tog : biton of our day arrange the matter of security between them . For a time , at least , the Bhow is as good as the reality ; the outside paint and stucco will serve the purpose , if you tako care never to let a Eobhht Pjeei , within , your doors a man with eyes to see and a tongue to poach . It was this secret that constituted the great source of Paul , not Joii : tr Dean , but John , ot the 'City of London Union . Twenty years had he been the accredited officer ; and so
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BARON MARTIN AND HIS ASSAILANTS . People are scandalized because Baron Martin desires justice even for the lowest in the land . The loudest and most formal of his assailants is one " Demos , " who writes in the Daily News . Everybody remembers the Judge ' s words ; " Demos " echoes them : — " Wherefore , my lord , should you feel more degraded to find yourself in the place of Pierce than , in that of Tester and Burgess , his confederates ?
company . He feels for the Wongs of % commercial association as keenly as lor ' those *> f woman . He would address his verses as soon to the one as the other . We can only say to him , " Laseia le donne e studia la m&tfematica . 'V " Demos '' thinks that Ac'gae , remains " in the enjoyment , " &c . —ignorant that Aga ' S enjoys nothing . " And why to herP " Because she had been unjustly treated . To render justice is "to encourage
prostitution , " and the moralist "would put down " the peculiar institution" of this country by denying justice to the poor slaves of Begentstreet . This is morality with a yfeVengeattfre \ The bonds were the rightful property of 3 ? ann' £ Ka ¥ . They hare strayed into tfre hands of the Crown \ but they are hem She has that right , held so sacred in , this country , the right of ownership . She has another Tight , sacred in the eyes of Mr . BaTon Martin—she is defenceless . And
there have been some who have thought that even Magdai / ens might be "recognized by the Eternal Spirit of Justice .
" True , Agar had trusted Pierce ; but had no trust teen reposed in Tester and Burgess ? Are we to be told —told , too , by those -who should le the exponents of all morality—the judges of the land—that the breach of such a trust as Agar ' a is worse than the breach of such , a trust as that reposed in Burgess and Tester by the railway company who "were their employers ? Are wo to be told that the property thus entrusted to their care is less sacred than the proceeds of a life of crime ; that the trust to Apply this last as the criminal desired is to be more dearly heeded than the trust of the honest , laborious citizens by whose care the railway had been constructed ?
" Nay , is not the ' honour among thieves' itself a serious evil to society , and is such 'honour' to bo advocated by the judges of the land ? " Yes , whon the Beggar ' s Opera spoke the morality of society , and the burglar and pickpocket wero heroes , then indeed it might have been that Pierce should be contemned , and Agar become the hero of the scene ! ****** " Again , I ask , would it not be a good thing to take away from criminals the proceeds of their crimes ? Yet do you suffer Agar to remain in the enjoyment thereof . " Can anything , again , bo more indefensible than your declaration that , if you had the power , you would order the Turkish Bonds to be giyen up to Agar ' s prostitute ?
" What encouragement to prostitution ! What encouragement to forgers and to thieves 1 And why to her ?" It is a thankless task to deal with a man who does not know that there is a moral in the Beggar ' s Opera . No wonder lie cannot tell why Pierce is more degraded than Burgess orTESTEB . Men can ; but "Demos" cannot . To betray the- trust of a companion is usually felt to be worso than to betray the trust of an employer ; but " Demos" sees no distinction between Policy and a joint-stock
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INDIA . A PAEA . GBAPH , extracted from tne Galeurtta Morning Chronicle , has been going the round of the London press , to the effect that po > sitive instructions had been sent out from this country for the annexation of the independent States of Rajpootana . The date even-was given of the imaginary despatch , authorizing this act of spoliation . "We are
in a position to give the most emphatic denial to this report . The Court of Directors have not the slightest intention or desire to annex those States , so long as they preserve the semblance of nationality . On the contrary , they have endeavoured , by all means in their power , to impart stability and prosperity to the Rajpoot Principalities . Some time ago a similar rumour was circulated , with equal mendacity , regarding the Ghiicowar ' s dominions . It is yery clear that the object of these mischievous misstatements is to create
a feeling of unrest in the minds of the native princes , and to Tender them jealous and distrustful , of the British Government . Perhaps it might be well if ILord Cannin g -were to imitate the open , straightforward policy of his predecessor , and freely communicate to the Indian press such information m may
enable -them to distinguish between authentic statements and foolish canards . In the present instance , the consequence of his Lordship ' s reticence has been the uneontradicted circulation of a report , based on an imaginary despatch , calculated to irritate the native community , and to throw discredit on the Indian Government .
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There 13 no learned man but ¦ confess he hath much , profited by reading controversies , 'his senses awakened , and liis judgment sharpened . If , then ,, it be profitable fox him to read , why should it not , at least . 'be tolerable for his adversary to "write 1—MiLTOIT .
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SHAL L T URKEY BE RE GE N ER ATE ? ( To the Editor of the Leader . ") Sik , —Many of your readers , in common with inysel £ must have perused with astonishment an articlo in this day ' s Times ( Jan . 13 ) , in which hopes of the regeneration of Turkey aro Tiased on the assump tion that the Porto has no longer anything to foar from foreign enemies . But thia security ia not derived from a consciousness of its own s trongth—it is owing to its ownac 3 niissionof its impotence , and the recognition of ita intrinsic insigniflcanco by tlio European Powers . Wisdom may proceed from the mouths of Toixbea « nd sucklings , and out of tho Btrong may como forth sweetness , but , in . human aflaira at least , strength has never yet been perfected in weakness . A man who has lost his own self-respect and that of hiB
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honest was he , that everybody trusted him . The other collectors saved themselves trouble by getting him to carry their moneys to the bank , which fee did with great discrimination —conveying those moneys , not to the bank of the "Union ., but to his own bank . "When the Union found itself in want of a round sum of money , Paux was appointed to divide the amount into the quotas of the several parishes ; aid , by making each of the
ninetythree ' quotas a little larger than it should have been , he created a handsome surplus , which went into his own pocket ; and since everybody trusted to him so much , nobody was inclined to take the trouble of asking after those particular quotas , of easting up the items of "the sum , and establishing a total . If that simple act had been performed , the parishes would soon have found that they were annually paying more than they were called upon to pay . N " ow Jos !* Paul was
evidently an . artist ; he did not trust to appearances alone , t ) ut he made others help Mm . He performed for himself that which the poet of the opera performs for his hero—he provided himself with a chorus , He got up a club called " the Concrete , " composed principally of parish officers . He was tne soul of its conviTialities , a jolly good fellow ; and the delighted guardians , Ac , never ceased their admiration of their servant ia-nti leader . They gave him a -title , —they dubbed him " Honest John PAtjL . " "Who can doubt a man who
throughout the City of London is known by the title of " Honest John Pattl ? " On the strength of that , plain John Paul , a man with a modest , middle-class salary , and no pretensions , was able in one year , it is said , to draw tie handsome profit of eighteen thousand pounds .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1857, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2177/page/14/
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