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    H4 THE LEA I) E|. [Kb. 461y January 22 ^...

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    hearty good feeling and his general kind...

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    VIRTUE AND ITS: REWARD—IN THE IIAYMAKKET...

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    Is An Abomination In His Sight. Well, Af...

    quarrelling with his audience . The dispute between the disciples who objected to being crammed to death for the sake of JRpebuck , and the teacher % ho refused to be dictated to as to . where and when and how he ought to speak ; proceeded to such length ? , that the prophet stuck his hat upon his head and prepared ta leave the room . At last , a compromise Was agreed upon , the meeting was ad- ^ journed to a larger room , and the benefit of Roe-Duck ' s counsels was happily not lost to an ungrateful country . The orator had taken the chief part in the aceat Guildhall meeting , at which the standard

    of Reform was raised ; it was his voice that had proclaimed Mr . Bright the leader of the causey his hands that had placed upon thV shoulders- of the member for Birmingham the mantle which he himself had worn , as ex high-priest ,. Neither he > therefore , nor , we suspect , Mr , Bright , were surprised at learning from j & oebuek ' s inspired lips that Reform was a mistake , that the agitation baa been a , failure , and that the sooner we all washed pur hands of . the concern the better . After demolish-Bright , the speaker next turned the flow of his invective against the constituents and the members of the manufacturing districts . The electors were

    all servile adulatbrs of wealth without brains . The elected were all ignorant and tuft-hunters . The inembers carried no weight in , the House , and did not deserve to carry it . The constituencies had no infLuence , and had nobody but themselves to thank for the loss of it . There may be truth in this , but then injustice to the metropolitan andmanu facturing constituencies it' should be remembered that there are some hundred of seats and only one Roebuck . This graceful and appropriate compliment to the merits of his fellow-members was only a parenthetical ebullition . The main object of his harangue was a repetition of his peculiair creed . England ; vre learn from him * has been insulted , is being insulted now , will , be insulted again ; and , worst of

    . all , » we . are not aware that we are insulted ; indeed , like " Uriah Heep , " we rather like to be despised . Heaven help us if we had not a Roebuck to remind us of our wrongs ! We can sleep in peace . " Tear ' em" is biting the heels of every passer-by , « nd even if his bark is not melodious , we must put up with the annoyance in consideration of the security . One wordi however , in sober earnest . We are no admirers of Louis Napoleon , or of the ¦ French empire ,, but we assert unhesitatingly that the language used at Sheffield with reference to _ a < Jovernmenfc with which , we are in close alliance is most unbecoming an English statesman . At any * ate , the Queen ofEngland-As able to preserve her person ^ dignity unsulued , even without the counsel of Mr . Roebuck .

    "We confess ,, too , that Mr . Roebuck ' s bragfadbcio and indignation is less offensive to us than is perpetual assertion of his own honesty and independence . He may be a sort of unrecognised Aristides , ; for all we know to the contrary , still the very fact of this constant self-laudation . forces upon us the recollection that the position of a paid agent of the colonies used not to be considered , the most independent of political positions . We are also unpleasantly reminded that Mr . Roebuck appears to complain of the exclusion of the Radicals from ojffiee with more personal bitterness than is consistent with his boasted contempt for all parties and ifclinisters .. We would remind him , once for all , that Lucretias should not be too much in . the habit of talking of their chastity .

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    H 4 THE LEA I ) E | . [ Kb . 461 y January 22 ^ 1859 .

    Hearty Good Feeling And His General Kind...

    hearty good feeling and his general kindness as a landlord . George . A . Hill is the well-known Lord George Hill ; of Gweedpre , also a very improving landlord ; and the J . W . L . Naper is Mr . Lennox Naper , of lioughcrew , again an intelligent and active agriculturalist , with ' the best objects in view . The proteased purpose of the agitation is " to consider the propriety of forming a permanent association for obtaining such amendments in the law as may appear from time . to time necessary for the better protection of life and property in this country . " To carry put the object , the •' committee , whose officers we have named , propose to convene a meeting on the 27 th instant , and the resolutions to which we have alluded sketch out . the plan of

    action . They declare that the law needs to be amended in order to render it more effective for the protection of life and property against the most atrocious agrarian crimes , with the recent revival of Riband societies and other illegal combinations . The alterations of the law suggested are : power to change venue in trials for agrarian crimes ; to give the Crown the right of requiring a special jury ; to avoid small shopkeepers , publicans , and others who sympathise with the lower classes ¦; to select more competent stipendiary magistrates ; to give the commission of the peace only to gentlemen of station and character , with immunities and privileges equal to those of . the stipendiary ; to strengthen the police ; impose more effective

    restrictions on public-houses ; grant compensation to families in cases of murder , or to the individual in cases of malicious personal injury ; to declare those who harbour and conceal accused persons shall be guilty of felony ; and to improve cottage dwellings . Thislast is the luinp of sugar which is to make the poison go down , and as-we shall see presently , the sugar was quite effectual to make the poison attractive . Now , this set of resolutions implies a description of the Irish by Irishmen , of Irish law by Irish legislators and magistrates ; but anything more confused and \ illusory it would be difficult to compose . There is scarcely a paragraph that does . not imply something that only avoids the name of falsehood , because evidently it is riot intended to be false . Perhaps it would , be better to make a more careful selection

    of stipendiary magistrates , gentlemen heretofore chosen for their political antecedents ; audit would be well for the Tories to begin a better system if they can . It is not true that the Irish trading classes sympathise with the lower classes , or have any leniency for agrarian crimes ; on the contrary , Irish juries have rather a tendency to convict where the evidence is at all conclusive . The idea that the unpaid magistracy are more efficient than the stipendiary , which is insinuated , is simply reversing the facts . The unpaid , no doubt , are more unpopular than the stipendiary , and for several reasons . The old Irish dislike of the Saxon

    an ancient institution passing away . If men of the Mitchell and Nugent ckss have provoked the same kind of sympathy and ambition in Irish youth , they belpngj not to the Ribband order , but to the trading class in towns . ; they represent exclusively the sect of theoretical politicians in most countries who go by the title of "Young ; " and because , of this folly , —because a few reactionary conservatives amongst the Irish labourers , who cannot accommodate themselves to high wages and peace , are vainly endeavouring- to make a fuss _ with partial success in a few counties , and total failure in most , Lord Downshire and his friends -come forward to proclaim Ireland so seditious , murderous , and unsafe , that there must be a recruited police , a strengthened magistracy , and the severest coercion laws of Ireland ' s dark agosl .

    Nothing save the bitterest party animosity could have made any considerable portion of the Irish nobility , gentry , and others , join a movement conceived " in such a spirit . Tarty feeling has died out in . Ireland even as it has in England . In Ireland we see the Government offering appointments , oil occasion , to Liberals . The Ministers themselvesthe Lord-Lieutenant , or the Lord Chancellor—arc quite as liberal as many who claim the title . The progress that the island has made towards tranquillity has called forth better feelimjs amongst landlords as well as labourers ; and this

    proposal to go back to the dark ages , m order to fetch out light , is met by the strongest protest from many an independent landlord . Some letters to this effect . have been ' published . The Duke of Leiuster has declined to join the movement ; Mr . Lcvinge , Mr . Morgan Tuite , of Sonna , have done so ; Mr . Bland and Mr . Bagwell have announced amendments which they intend to move on the 27 th—one aseribing the improvement of Ireland to the relaxation of coercive measures ; the other declaring the existing laws sufficient for the

    preservation of . life and property . In fact , men of business and sense perceive how suicidal it is to proclaim that Ireland is unsafe . Mr . Ralph Osbornc , who married an Irish property , comes forth with a very pointed-exposure of the whole scheme . It turns out that Mr . Naper himself agreed with the Duke of Leinster iii disliking coercion , and only contemplated an association for the improvement of cottage property by means of a public loan . Imagine a public loan to carry out a Coercion Bill ! Just ask what the stock would fetch in the moneymarket of London .

    and the landlord still exists , though it is dying out , and the stipendiaries arc not landlords ; next they represent constituted authority / towards Which the Celtic mind inclines to . bow ; thirdly , whatever may be their deficiencies individually , they busy themselves exclusively to carry out tho law , and cannot generally be chargeable with involving themselves in local conflicts . These traits render the allpendiaries not unpopular . However , amongst the unpaid there prevails a certain blind , blundering notion that unpopularity is in itself a proof of efficioncy . / But it is in tho description of Ireland that the

    Sreject of the now conspirators is most false j they escribe the laud as being rife with murder , unsafe for property , with conspiracies reviving , aud demanding coercion laws , Tho law wluoli they propose is about tho severest which has over boon suggested for any country—that those who harbour , not the convicted but tho accused , shall bo ipso facto guilty of felony . It is a law that would be considered severe even at a time of oivil war ; and this is uttered by Irish landlords at a time when Ireland is more tranquil than it has over

    THE NEWEST IRISH CONSPIRACYTj $ e Jatest conspiracy in Ireland , regarded from an [ English point ot view , is the most characteristic of « SHj its malignity is relieved by its good intentions , its misphievousness is frustrated by the disclosure of the scheme beforehand . It is a , plan for ameliorating Ireland by coercion } aud in prder to carry it out , a body of noblemen , gentlemen , and others interested in the poaoo And prosperity of Ireland , have endeavoured to form au organisation 'for the

    purpose ofc veuevrngj the civu contacts o \ tuo v * roen Island . The / conspiracy , ia characteristic at every . ftjtaga ; it seems . lohavQ begun , with thoso who meant something different ^ and it ia about to cud apparently in , ft * towbetween , itjs promoters . Jimst week appeared , a circular" signed George A . Hill and 3 . W . L ,. Naper , honorary secretaries and appended to / ifc was a draft ; of resolutions , bearing the names of the honpvary seoretaviea and of J ) ownehire , chairman . Lord JPownsluro , as everybody kuows , is a Tory nobleman ! distinguished for his

    boon before . In tho qounty of Wqatinoatli , for example , the number of prisoners in gaol avorages 70 , against 800 as tho average of past ye ^ ra . It is tho same iii . tho county , of Longford . Everybody knows that wdgos have , neon in Ireland from 3 s . Od . or so , with' conacro , to 0 s . » 7 s ., 8 s ., or ovon 9 s . But a class whioh is rising in tho world is never seditious . If Ribbandmen at tempted to revive old suporstitions , it ia booauso they think tho Irish pooplo aro forgot ting the art '} and there are some antiquarian conservatives' amongst tho Gaol who regret to sec

    Virtue And Its: Reward—In The Iiaymakket...

    VIRTUE AND ITS : REWARD—IN THE IIAYMAKKET . We have been told , till the saying has become trite , that " virtue is its pwu reward ; ' yet it is impossible to repress a feeling of sadiicss and humiliation when we read of the ingratitude with which a vaiu and callous world lias " treated its greatest bpncfactors . The Marquis of Worcester spent a . million and a half of money in the cause ot the Stuarts ; yet it was npfc without difficulty that he obtained from Charles the Second the trifling concession of a patent for some hydraulic inventions . Captain Coram founded an hospital , aud died without u p enny . Italy bauished lJantc , and locked up Tusso in a madhouse ; Portugal suffered Camoiius to starve , and Scotland allowed Bums to earn hid bread by the ignoble occupation of spirit-gauyiug . , A CastiUn y koon

    Nuovo monuo dia Colon ; yet Christopher Columbus was . transported , loaded with chains , from the Spanish main to the Havana . Jacques Cceur supported at his own charges the monarchy of Franco , yet in his latter days was brankrupt and proscribed . The doscoiulanta of the innocent Lesurques still vainly p lead for justice to their ancestor ' s name ; Caxton is without a statuo ; and Nelson ' s monument ia incomplete It is truly refreshing , gratifying , encouraging , when wo find , once in a way , that justice has boon done to a meritorious individual during his lifetime ; 1

    that his admiringcontemporaries have not oven to wait for his death to read tho glowing panoff . yncs on his virtues , to contemplate tlio " labours of an . age in piled stonos , " erected over his honoured bones . This ago lias not boen without suoli bright and pleasing qxamplos , Mr . Richard Cobdo ' u ami Sir Joseph Pax ton both roooivod goodly lumps ol " solid pudding" of many thousand pounds' value , for demolishing tho corn-laws and dosiffiiintf the Crystal Palaoo . Mr . Moon , tho printsollor , has boon made a Baronet ; and tho iuoimblo l > lum »> ot tho Privy Purso , has boon gratiflod with tho Ordoc

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1859, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22011859/page/18/