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    THE NEW aERA A new sera is opened to us,...

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    MOLOCH. Ckimks, says tho Morning Chronic...

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    "The Order Of The Lone Star." Cuba Is To...

    republic , also , some intrigues are going on in Europe . . And , in short , for the interests rather of the classes to which the Spanish families of the island belong , the royal and official classes , England is to be arrayed against America . Whether the rumours of such a fact are entirely correct or not , there is no question that they have a considerable influence in moving the popular mind of the republicans , in stimulating them to meet that antagonist force more than half way , and to settle , before the battle is waged against them , the question whether or not the Anglo-Saxon or the Spanish shall be dominant on the waters of the Mexican Gulf . As to the result of that conflict there cannot be

    the slightest doubt . As to the question , whether or not Englishmen sy mpathize more with the upholders of constitutional freedom in America , or with the upholders of legitimacy in Europe , there cannot be much doubt . As to the side on which the material interests of England are staked , there will be but one opinion . If England should chance to be opposed to America in that great contest , her prospects would be thunder-clouded indeed ; her very commercial men would write her horoscope on the Stock Exchange , in " quotations" sufficient to shake the throne itself with alarm . But should that

    contest be waged on the other side of the Atlantic , whichever side might conquer—and who can think for a moment that the Americans would be _conqttered?—whichever side might conquer , we repeat , the contest would be prolonged on this side of the Atlantic ; and the victorious starspangled banner would cross the ocean to avenge in Europe the insult offered by braving it in America . In such case , especially , we ask the most calculating Englishman , whether he would rather see the Union-Jack ranged on the field against the Americans , or whether he would feel more confidence if the two were moving forward side by side ? _i ;

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    The New Aera A New Sera Is Opened To Us,...

    THE NEW aERA A new sera is opened to us , " and the Times proclaims it : " lhat none can doubt . "— "We are come upon an age when the value , the powers , and the wants of man , are suddenly and considerably raised , and when everybody gives more , and receives more in return . How fortunate that on the threshold of this new state of things , more wonderful than any _Av ] jich revolution could have brought us to , we have already got rid of Protection , and have not that old fraud to mar our present good fortune ! We have committed ourselves to thc general laws of Providence , and Providence now rewards our confidence with a

    vista , of social improvements and unexpected blessings such as man had not dreamt of ten years ago . " Tho farmers themselves have discovered that " whatever is fo be done" for them , " must be done by themselves ; " although expecting no more than the forty-shilling average for wheat which they have had for several years , they are not pressing their friends in office . The " country party" which had seceded so long from office , flared up into agitators , and subsided into misanthropes ; learning at the end of several years , "to sit like Patience on a monument , smiling at forty shillings a quarter . "

    Under these conditions , we scarcely wonder at the enormous vicissitudes elsewhere . What with the joint attractions of hope and gold in Australia , of republicanism and prosperity in America , the Irish are leaving those desirable premises which Ihey have so long celebrated as " fhe gem" or "flower of the ocean , " & c . ; and concurrentl y with Ibis depletion of its native race , is going on n quiet settlement by lOnglish and Scotch . A splendid grocer ' s shop is opened in Connoinara

    and the Irish who remain are learning to buy groceries , for cash , to the extent of 00 / . a week ! Such is the effect of fhe reparative operation of the Kneumbered Estates Act , reported to the British Association by Mr . Locke . While an alienated population is leaving the land , that statute is sweeping away the spurious tribe of insolvent landowners ; a . race of gentry whom the grocer aforesaid finds it most difficult to keep oil his books . " The empire" to be proclaimed in France , on or about fhe second of December , will be but a trilling trait of the new turn as compared with this pantomime transformation of . Ireland into tt Western England . Tho Times may well say , " changes are now occurring of the most momentous character , that require as much vigilance

    The New Aera A New Sera Is Opened To Us,...

    on our part as if we were passing through icebergs at the break-up of an Arctic winter . " But , where is the vigilance ? That is the point . Amongst other great movements , there is the migration of the cholera ; and Tottenham , in anticipation of that fashionable arrival , has been preparing itself not to receive the distinguished guest . Tottenham is to belong to the new sera . It has provided itself with drains that will

    perform the office of draining ; with water so soft , that people can really wash with it , or make tea with it , and so pure , that it cleanses rather than pollutes ; and with other arrangements proper to a state of civilization . But London at large belongs to the old sera : its drains no houses draining , its water returning the filth that might escape ; its Smithfield , and its grave-yards , spreading nuisance and pestilence .

    Doctor Franz has been teaching the _ philosophers of Germany how the present age is witnessing the departure of " authority . " Costumes of different ranks are disappearing , and one costume covers all ; the castle and palaces of patrician orders are exchanged for mere large houses , not distinguished from those of bankers or traders ; the railway is abolishing the six-horse carriage and its outriders ; electric telegraphs are about to bring Celestial Empires to our very door ; philosophy , after analyzing the bolt of Jove himself , does not scruple to analyze Institutions . But all this while the princes , who mig ht have allied themselves to the great movements of civilization ; who might have been its

    leaders , have endeavoured to remain behind with the machinery of the six-horse carriage ; in the castle , impregnable to arrows alone ; in the faith , political or ecclesiastical , that will not stand the eye of science . Doctor Eranz rates the philosophers of Germany , and the princes thereof , for being behind the age : possibly he might be able to preach these instructive sermons to people in authority nearer our own home , even to those who witnessed the vast movements , the iceberg risks described by the Times , and the vaster opportunities , and who yet suffer the work of the day to be done against every difficulty by amateurs , or succeed only in postponing it until tomorrow . A new a . ra is come , but the premier for that sera has not yet been " sent for . "

    Here is a chance for an enterprising young man . "Wanted , a statesman for the new iEra . " How many might answer that advertisement , even though " all letters must be post-paid . " But But to whom should the candidate address his tenders ? Scarcely to any department in Downing-street , since he must be unknown there , and so lack " interest "; or , if known , disliked . Should lie address his proposal to V . 11 . direct P His letter would be intercepted : the man of the new sera would not be able to penetrate the

    beefeaters . Should he go to the British public ? British public is always too busy in the hours of business ; and after the hours of business , it never attends to business . Besides , we are told that the British public , the true people , never appears in public , having no time : it stops at home , and attends to business . _Ueally it is not easy to see whom the man of the new . era could apply to . lie could obtain no attention ; or if he did , the official folks Mould get hold of him , and would put him in ofiice—probably making the man of the new mra a Chancellor of tho

    Exchequer , and setting him to blunt his teeth on an Income Tax , or banishing him from the presence , for talking too freely about bottle-holding . Sometimes , indeed , the man of a new _icra can obtain mi exclusive attention from one potentate , — King Mob ; and flint is probably the reason wh y so many a new _aira has commenced so roughly and painfully . Could not the Times add to its information a recipe for beginning the new ara in a , more workmanlike and q uiet style ?

    Moloch. Ckimks, Says Tho Morning Chronic...

    MOLOCH . Ckimks , says tho Morning Chronicle , are often national . Sin is old , and pervades all countries ; but particular crimes become nationalized in particular countries , anil crime in England is acquiring special _characteristics far from honourable to her fame-, thoy are evidently , however , the results of faults in ourselves , and aro not imported diseases . " _I'higlish niUi . inism bus not taken to the knife ; but il , has advanced in the devilish accomplishment ol _biting o | f _iionoh and scooping out eyes . Kicking a mail fo death when hois down , or treating a wife in thc same way- —stumping on an enemy or a paramour with

    Moloch. Ckimks, Says Tho Morning Chronic...

    hob-nailed boots—smashing a woman ' s head with hand-iron—these atrocities , which are of almost dailv occurrence in . our large towns , are not . so much ia ported crimes as they are the extravagant exaggeration of the coarse , sullen temper of an Englishman brutalized by ignorance , and stupified by drink . " . Note—We have made wonderful progress in " putting down" boxing , wrestling , singfe-stibk , and other hardy but hard games , and while our easier classes have become so refined that they scarcely dare to open an omnibus window for fear that " the draught" should make them " catch cold "

    our hardier tribes behave as aforesaid . The sum of the two is what we call " progress . " But certain crimes , says our contemporary are new to our calendar , and are almost peculiar to our country ; they are poisoning relatives to obtain money from Insurance and Benefit Clubs brutal violation of women by several persons in succession ; and infanticide . For the most part these crimes stand on separate grounds . The mercenary poisoning may be traced to that general drift of popular philosophy which has _taught

    attention to parsimony and lucre , and has not cultivated either the intellect or the better feelings . Commercial ' cuteness has outgrown education and natural morals have stood still > , and thus the " common people" have learned to think it clever to turn an honest penny by child , parent , or husband . The principle of insurance amongst the rude and uneducated has practicall y operated as a premium upon death ; not because the

    principle of insurance is in itself bad , but because the unfortunate people have not been taught to handle the edged tools of civilization , and their natural feelings have been stifled in their hearts by the morals of the cruel ceconomy . The brutal violation may be referred to the fact , of the like kind , that the passions have been ignored and hurried from the surface of society , rather than regulated and refined by the higher influences which ought to have been extended along with the restraints of civilization . And still more is

    the crime of infanticide referable to the same ignoring of that which cannot be extinguished , but which remains without enlightenment or regimen . The Morning Chronicle adduces a terrible catalogue of accusations under this head : — July 10—Northampton—One case of concealing birth . July 13—Lincoln— One child murder , one conceal ment of birth .

    destroying her illegitimate infant ; acquitted—insanity . July 17—Nottingham—Emma Lewis , indicted for wilful murder of her infant child ; acquitted—insanity . July 20—Winchester , July 19—Richard Roe , and Frances Roe , indicted for conspiring to kill Alfred Koo son of mule prisoner ; acquitted . July 20—Cardill "— One prisoner charged with murder of her infant . July 20—Ellen Venus , convicted of concealment of birth ( had case ) . July 21—Derby—Selina Ride , charged with murder of her infant child ; acquitted . July 21—Mary Miihoney , charged with murder ot

    her infant child ; acquitted . duly 22—Mary ( Harvey , charged with murder ot her infant child . ; acquitted . July 28--Worcester—Mary Robins , tried for tho murder of her illegitimate cbiid ; condemned to death , but sentence not to be carried into effect . July 24—Dorchester—Louisa Wnlborn , for will _«» murder of ber male infant , by administering vitriol ;

    net putted . .., July 24—Ann Applin , for the murder of her cl » I «; acquitted . At the oloso of tho proceedings , Mr . Huvoii Martin , who tried the caw , observed that the crimo o infanticide wiw most dreadfully common in tbis couu y ( Dorset ) . There hud been six oases last year , < " ° _^ of six prisoners on the calendar for this circtii , wero charged with this crime . They bad both _Ihv acquitted , and in the case just tried most properly _¦*> but those subjected to this temp tation had bettor w _^ warning , or perhaps another case would bo _>< _^ proved , und the unfortunate woman would have > piate her crimo by an ignominious death . i f » rthc July 28 - Maidstone— Catherine _Ilnxiko , tried u wilful ' munier of her male illegitimate child ; « M , _J" ' {() July 21>— Elizabeth Cuni ]> ony , fur attempUj ' b _^ murder ber son , by throwing him into a _!»> " < '

    quitted . .. _« , Uful July HO—Durham-Jane Harhind , ( or the wn murder of'her new-born male child ; acquitted .

    July 14—Home Circuit—Ann Welsh , tried for murder of her female illegitimate child j acquitted . July 15—Nottingham—One concealment of birth . July 17—Norfolk Circuit—Ann Raven , tried for

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11091852/page/12/