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servant-girls . By so doing he might beget a family that would come between his relations and a handsome inheritance . A gentleman who went down to inquire about the matter , said that the girl would make Mr . Leach a very good wife—perhaps more suitable than a " lady" fresh ¦ . from society . Mr . Leach , in his very sane remonstrance against the injustice of being kept in a madhouse , points out with great force that if he had seduced the girl his relations would have said nothing , but because he adopts the manly and religious course of marrying her , they can him mad ! Ay , indeed ! How many acts of real insanity , of miserable insanity , are there , exactly the reverse of those committed by Mr . Leach . How many men , poor enough in mind and body , would disdain even to give a friendly greeting-, or to talk to some of their fellow-men , and simply because they are servants or labourers ? How many ruin health and purse in unholy and reckless connexions with women of the same class as that from which Mr . Leach lias taken his wife ? They are not mad ; they are simply following the fashion of the day !
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THE UNIVERSITY GF DUBLIN . If the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College had been well advised , they would have kept a complete silence as to their shortcomings and delinquencies . They did maintain this silence for some lime and with some success ; but conscience doth moke cowards of us all , and knowing that they had a bad cause they tried to stop all talk about the matter by censuringI ) r . " Shaw for writing a temperate letter to a Dublin newspaper . The Fellows underrated the apathy of the public , and the great virtue of silence . If we were the legal advisers
of any close and corrupt old corporation , we ' should earnestly advise them to take no notice of any attacks . The public is a fickle audience ; it soon gets tired of hearing the best .- arguments without reply ; it begins to suspect that a great deal may be said on tlie other side , or some Indian mutiny or foreign war comes to drive the whole question into obscurity . But let a controversy be once aroused , the public , who like a fight , will listen eagerly , and will condescend to inquire into the subject for the
sake of enjoying the combat . The Dublin authorities have not alone failed to silence the Reformers , but they have made future silence absolutely impossible . Their censure has led to a visitation , and at this visitation the whole truth must come out . The visitors arc the Archbishop of Dublin , Dr . ¦ Whately , au original thinker and an Unprejudiced , person , and the Lord-Chief-Justice Blackburne , a man eminent for judgment and integrity . The ostrich-like absurditv of the " seven
champions " of college abuses is curiousl y illustrated by facts that have raised a -laugh in Dublin , hut which suggest the more grave suspicion that the College authorities have very little to say for . themselves when they attempt to suppress discussion . In the University Magazine for last month there appeared a very judicious and reasonable article stating the whole case of the College reformers . The publishers of the U ? iiversity Magazine ( Messrs . Hodges and Smith ) arc also publishers for the " University , and the authorities insisted that they should cease to publish the Magazine . The publishers , unwilling to lose the name and profit of " Publishers
to the University , " abandoned the Magazine . Another Dublin publishing firm , of equal respectability ( M'Glashan and Gill ) were about to succeed to the publication of the periodical , when one of the firm , who happens to be printer to the University , - was deterred by , a threat that , in that case , he should lose the official employment . We laugh and ridicule these kinds of tactics when Louis Napoleon adopts thorn in Paris ; but these Dublin University dons attempt in Ireland tactics as old-fashioned and absurd as are the abuses they protect . If they have
do they l ' ear discussion ? They surely do not pretend to say lie should have appealed for reform of old evils to the very men who bad sustained them for years / They cannot protend to say that the public is uninterested m the prosperity of the oldest and wealthiest educational institution in Ireland They eaniiofc surely hopo to convert a noble and ' ancient seat ot learning mto a family party , vhero discords arc to be discussed at home P This was the way of making things pleasant which brought to grief the gentlemen who acted on the silent system in the Koyal British Bank . In this country , where nub-S ; j V rul ° f f ccrcc -V exception , an unfeigned horror of public discussion is almost a
certain symptom of something that will not bear the light . At the present visitation , ' . the College authorities talk loudly of their readiness to allow inquiry . But this present visitation is not held at their call . It has been obtained by the reformers who would not submit to their censure . Had Dr . Shaw and Mr . Carmichaol apologized " ( as did a scholar who had offended in like manner ) , the Board would have condoned their offence and have still kept all dark ; but when these gentlemen braved the risks of a censure ( though , fully conscious that three censures legalize an expulsion ) ., this visitation followed as a natural consequence of their appeal against the sentence of the Board . The Board are now the parties indicted ; and Strahan and Paul might as ¦ well have claimed credit for submitting to an inquiry ' as the College authorities for replying to the charges now publicly laid at their door .
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CAVOUR AND ITALY . In order to appreciate the full force as well as boldness of the speech delivered by Camillo Cavour in the Chamber of Deputies , on the 19 th and 20 th of May , we must understand the position in which his Government is actually placed , abroad and at home . It is well known that Austria has been increasing her fortifications and troops upon the frontier of Piedmont , equally against treaties and against reason , unless she contemplates some exercise of her force upon the weaker power . Russia has , ever since her own difficulties in the East , been offering some kind of support , to the Government of King Victor Emmanuel ; but everybody knows that the aid-given by Russia -would depend upon her own interest at the moment : it cannot be counted-on . France ' has
been cullrvating Sardinia , having some kind of views on the peninsula which are inscrutable ; but the dominant statesmen of France have actually prevented any kind of guarantee like that which Count Cavtmr asked from the Western Powers as the reward for the spontaneous aid so nobly given by Sardinia to them in the East . How far , then , can France be ti-usted ? She would never do anything unprompted by her own purposes , and she has too many embarrassments at home just at present to be counted upon for assistance in Italy . ' , We . know how our own Governments have
played fast and loose with their pledges to Sardinia ; we have , indeed , so completely lost even moral control that Naples laughs at our intervention . The latest news is , that the Neapolitan Government has -lit , once refused the compensation claimed for Park and Watt ; and also , refusing the mediation of any second-rate power such as Sweden —who might be impartial—Naples has intimated willingness to . admit the arbitration of a first-rate power , such as . Austria ! What our own Ministers have done lately , we do not know ; but it is known that Lore ! Mahnesbury has rather
encouraged the idea of * ' arbitration " after lie had talked of " mediation . " Sardinia is half pledged to lake up arms in vindication of justice against Naples , and the pledge is strengthened in its moral obiiga * tion by the expectancy , not only of the subjects of King Victor Emmanuel , but of other Italian states ; for even the Governments of many of the duchies have shown some disposition , to take part with Sardinia in vindicating the independence of Italy against the continued encroachments of " the Stranger , " as Austria is called from the Alps to Cape Sparl ivento . Such is the position of Sardinia abroad ; a position anxious , dangerous , but not
unhopeful . Atliomc , there is the same conflict , of influences . The Government ' has great public works—a railway here , which will render profitable a beautiful valley little visited for want of access , and endowed by nature with great mineral riches ; there , a magnificent haven , which the first Napoleon destined to hold vast fleets , a harbour of great political and not less great commercial importance , since it offers access for trade to Austrian Italy as well as Central Ital y ; and here , again , a railway through Mont Cenis , uniting Italy to the railway system ot Europe .
Ihcse works arc employing great numbers of 3 sLwg Victor Emmanuel ' s subjects ; they arc , with the aid of foreign capital and foreign science , training the Italians in such enterprises ; they arc calling out Line resources of his kingdom . From her conspicuous good fnitli in finance , Sardinia can command advances at moderate rates , and she lias always managed to keep down her debt by means of an easy sinking fund ; so that now it will not exceed 29 , O 0 O , () OO / . sterling , even including the loan which the Minister is asking as a means of
keeping up the necessary expenditure . But he has great obstacles to surmount ; there is the general dislike to taxes—the " vulgar impatience of taxation" which Castleveagh deplored , and which has made all peoples-anxious'to diminish the expenditure of a state . He has against him the Radical party , who believe that all increase of outlay smacks of Toryism , and ouglit to be diminished . He has the opponents represented by the Conservative party , who resist the scheme because it is his . He has against him the clergy , who hate railways and all that railways belong to ; and he has the vis inertia , rooted especially in those country districts 3 even . of Northern Italy , recently painted by GaUenga
m colours even too deep . Some brilliant economists have suggested to the Finance Minister a confiscation of clerical property , the priests to " be salaried by the state . In short , one idea'd patriots , priestridden Conservatives , old-fashioned Royalists , are willing enough to thwart , trip up , or inveigle Cavour into political blunders / Such is his position when he takes his stand before the elected representatives of the Italian States , representatives who embody the most conflicting opinions and interests , in-order-to vindicate the whole course . of his Government , his owa action , and the proposed loan . He defined , his
position -with unmistakable clearness , and defended it with ¦ ¦ un flinching- courage . He refused to meddle with the Church property , or to make the priests stipendiaries of the state ; the very way , he said , to destroy the beneficial influence which they exercise in society , to make them at once the agents of centralized government and the spies of an alien power . He avowed his absolute conviction , " that , in the actual condition of Piedmont , it is impossible to have a national and Italian policy abroad if the internal policy be not liberal and reforming ; as it would alsobe impossible to follow a liberal and reforming policy at home
without having a national and Italian policy abroad . " We-intend-to . continue , he said , in the path of reform and liberty . But while maintaining the political position without compromise , he refused to be restrained from '¦ ¦ using- ' the aid of those who may politically dissent from him . He had faith in the patriotism of his political adversaries , whether on the' Right or Left . He had employed Count Revel to negotiate a loan in England ; anil the . Count fulfilled the mission to the complete satisfaction of the Ministry and that of the country ; " but lie did not return from England more favourable to the ministerial policy . " He would again employ Signor Dcpretis , if the Cabinet were called upon to treat
serious international negotiations relating to railways ; and if General La Marmora required to command an army , he would not scruple to filL the foremost file witli the generous sons of the brigade of Savoy . Cavour , therefore , will not allow his opponents to stir him from his political position ; ho will not abate a jot of his demands upon the Chambers ; he will not waive his claims upon the patriotism of all Italians , whatever may be their party . The speech is Conservative ; it conveys distinct moral pledges to the Moderate reformers of every state in Italy—of Lombardy as well as Venice , of Tuscany and Home , of Naples not less than Parma .
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CENTRAL ASIA AND BRITISH INDIA . Wv . believe that all doubt is at an end as to the continued retention of the Herat territory by Persia . The Persian war , therefore , was a sham which cost two millions sterling , and the Persian treaty has been abandoned . In a letter published in the Duily JSfeics a statement has been made by a writer obviousl y well informed which demands immediate explanation in the House of Commons . The charges against the late and present Government arc as specific as if they had been drawn for investigation by a Com-t-niavtial , and they amount to a positive assertion that the public has Wn wilfully misled as to the fulfilment of- the late treaty by Persia , that Persia is still in armed possession within the . IIcmt frontier , and that our representative- at Teheran has been instructed not to press for the fulfilment of the treaty , So far , according to the statement in the Daily News . We have to add that , after Herat hud been abandoned hy Lord Pnlnjerston , Lord Mnhncsbury sanctioned that betrayal , and that betweel ' the Into and tho prc sent Cabinets the objects for which two millions sterling were spent upon the Persian expeditior have been absolutely cast aside . Lord Malmes bury , no doubt ., would have been eager to expose the conduct of his predecessor , hud his owji beei : susceptible of explanation .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 517, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2244/page/13/
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