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      Our- Civilisation. Tbb Assize Intelligen...

      bered lie used to defy the bailiffs with dogs , and was only captured after a campaign ) is not to be shortened—he is sent back to York Castle , the case being adjourned sine die . But there is no crime in the matter . The commissioner said" He had given- his opinion on- feiie case . It was a most calamitous failure , and had resulted in a great degree from the want of discretion . The case was free from vice , as to the creditors * but it was , not one in which be could say in the words of the act , that the debts had been incurred ' without culpable negligence . '"

      Juxy 22, 1854] The Leader. 679

      Juxy 22 , 1854 ] THE LEADER . 679

      The Royal Free Hospital Case. On Tuesday...

      THE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL CASE . On Tuesday , the jury at last gave a verdict in this case , after five hours of retirement from court : — " We find that the- deceased Alfred Richardson died of inflammation , caused by an operation unskilfully performed by Mr . Thomas Weedon Coolce and Mr . Thomas W'akley , jun . " The coroner inquired if the jury wished to prefer a criminal charge against any one ? Which , was replied to in the negative by the foreman . In the course of the last day evidence not medical , and rather immaterial , "was given . Mr . Wakley , sen ., the coroner for the county , and who had been charged with an attempt to prevent the inquest being held , was put into the witness-box ( where

      he was hissed ) and offered laboured statements to show that he had done nothing whatever to arrest inquiry ; and further , that he had done nothing to eject Mr . Gay from his position at the hospital . It ¦ will be remembered that the profession was exceedingly indignant at the dismissal , by the committee , of Dr . Gay , an excellent and eminent hian ; and as Mr .- Wnkley ' s son succeeded Dr . Gay , it is not difficult to truce the demand for this inquest on-the first fatal case - which presented itself to vindietiveness against young Mr . "Wakley . Very likely the verdict of the jury is quite just ; but do we not know that surgeons are ahvays experimenting in the hospitals , very frequently to the xuiu of the poor—most likely pauper—patient ?

      Louis Napoleon And Mr. Anderson. The Wiz...

      LOUIS NAPOLEON AND MR . ANDERSON . The Wizard of the North persists in his . assertion that Louis Napoleon once borrowed 500 / . from him . In writing to the Times he says : — " M . Mocqnard charges me with having unwarrantably claimed acquaintance with his Majesty Niipoleon III ., and asserts that ' V'Empereurria jama is connii , jamai ' s vu , le Professor- Ande ? 'son . ' My answer is , that when Prince Louis Napoliion took a private box of me for the seasons-it the Adelplii Theatre fourteen years a < ro , ocenpied that box

      very frequently , and did me the honour of" applauding my performances , I am afraid M ., Mocquard did not form one of his suitu . The public ar & the witnesses I call in court . " I should bo exceedingly . sorry to do or say anything likely to gjyo offence £ o the great ruler of our brave allu-s ; but , as to whether at any Lime I have served him or not , is a matter oa which he can . speak . Most truly do I regret having , in reply to questions , made some inadvertent allusions ; but , in a communication 1 have addressed to his Imperial Majesty , I have given such explanations as will doubtless be considered by him to bo satisfactory .

      " Possibly the mistake—for such it i .-s—lies in a small compass . $ lie ' Wizard of the North' is tho title by which 1 was ltnqwn , at the . Adelphi Tlieatre , while the Professor Anderson of the Glasgow Citizen is possibly thought to be some distinguished person lioldiug a . chair in a university . " The Emperor should set himself right .

      Omar Pasha. Tmk Turns Correspondent, Who...

      OMAR PASHA . Tmk Turns correspondent , who is at the liend quarters of the English troops in the Kast , describes Omar PnRha's appearance at the review got up for him by Sir George Brown at Devno : — . " Oinur Pasha was drea . sed wit !) neatness and aimplkitv —no order glittered on hid breast , and his dose- ! Uting blue frock-cont displayed no ornament ) beyond a plain gold shoulder-strap and gilt buttons . Ho woro the ffesc cap , which showed to advtwtagu tho clear well-marked linos of his calm and resolute face , embrowned by exposure to wind and weather fur many n year of a soldior ' a life , and the hue oi which was well contrasted with his snow-white whiskers . In tho rudo uud rat hoi ; Hensual mouth , with , coiiiprosbod thick lips , was traccublq , if physiognomy Ilavo truth , onornxoua Mrinucsa and resolution . Tho chin , full mid square , evinced tbo oniao quuljtlus , which might ubo be discerned in tho gonpiviL form of tho h < i » d . Those who remember tlio stiUufli of liudotaky at tho Grunt Exhibition will understand want I moan . All tho rougher foutunw , tlio eoarau nose , ami tho ai p ; lit prominence ot tho cheek bonca , aro moro thait rouooinod by tho quiok , lioiintrutiiiir . im . l itxiiri > Kniv « cvA . fnii

      ot auiotcouraguMid geuiim , and by tho enhn though rather stubborn brow , marked by lines , of thought , lisiag abovo tho tluclc Hlmggy cyobrow . In person ho appeared to bo rather Uolow than above thq ordinary hoi lu ; but , bin horwo , a welltralned Kiray , w , <«« not iw tnll tin . tho . English churger . i beside n ,:, !" , ' 1 . * ™« WW * l ^ bB move thnu . ) foot . 7 on « . His tho url t f ? W'V" * flfiUvo , and hia B 0 < iL on howubuuk , 3 ° * urkmU tor our notions of wlm » trwn propriety and Si " - ,, } ° wllil " > B » ov «» cud « u » at ' boots rue at BSo i * °¥ ' " ° T in « 8 tor vw / wo » •» l' »« TA . * ™ ffiv T . "" "? w « lUppoiut « d nuiot liciicluiiinii .

      « issod I Z ^ i i i ? ' > tllB lnilll > wll ° » " « 1 » l boon , lis-S tlio Ilici and \\ uu : ^^ W *™ j ««« l « , u , to tho front dt-lSt ' lMWMd lum W'thufliasiioall y / to lib great

      Missions To The Heathen. The High Church...

      MISSIONS TO THE HEATHEN . The high church confederation for looking after the religion of the heathen , had a meeting at the Mansion House on Wednesday , putting the Lord Mayor in the chair , where his lordship individually iadieated , with his usual condescension , hour complete is our education at home . The Archbishop of Canterbury moved the first resolution : — " That the recent providential openings for the diffusion of Christianity in heathen lands constitute a call upon the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to extend its improving operations . " ( ^ Cheers . ) His grace showed , amiably , that the Gospel was tupning the sword into the ' pruning-hook" in savage lands , —and concluded by asking for some subscriptions .

      The Bishop , of London (" who was received with applause" ) supported that suggestion in an eloquent speech ; and being , just now , undergoing abuse for Puseyism , he thought it wise to indicate that he had even a greater horror of the Roman Catholic th . au of the worshipper of Munibo-Jurnbo , as thus : — " In the Mauritius there were half a million of souls , and only live Church of England clergymen . The Eoman Catholics , on the contrary , had a well appropriated mission , and were labouring earnestly and zealously , and but too successfully . ' -

      The Bishop of New Zealand moved the second resolution . Referring to the determination of the Government to discontinue the salary hitherto paid him , the right rev . prelate said he did not complain of that decision , and was willing to make the experiment of maintaining a self-supporting episcopate . No one was so well qualified as he was to do so , because twelve years' residence there had made him acquainted with the best fern roots , the haunts of

      birds and nsbes , and the processes of native cookery . { Laughter and cheers . ) They would see , therefore , thstt he was prepared to return to his diocese , and dig , or begj ot both , while engaged in the duties of his office . He said this iu order to remove any doubts as to the course he would take under the circumstances he was placed in . { Cheers . } His lordship seemed to think that every missionary should be a bishop , there being something , in his opinion , peculiarly touching in the air of a bishop-.

      —" Any earnest Christian man going into a heathen land with the authority and graces of a biohop , would be ablo to create around him an effective native ministry . " Sir George Grey spoke generally , but guardedly , to the effect that a missionary was a good thing , and he illustrated his case like a man of genius ; " for , " said he , " when you are shipwrecked on a savage island , " it is pleasant to find that a missionary has preceded you , and taught a Christian dietary to the barbarians ! The Bishop of Oxford proposed a resolution ple d ging the society to support new missions , aiid confessed thafc among all his noble and great friuids , who , knowing him , must be Christians , he could not get money enough to support a Natal mission : —

      " The resources of this society were so crippled that the other day , when it was found that in consequence of amisunderstanding as to tho amount tho society could place at the . disposal of the Bishops of Natal and Graham ' s Town , that they were deficient 800 £ ., tlioy could not find a single quarter from which that paltry amount could be got . Out of that difficulty had originated that great meeting , and , God willing , iu > t only the 300 / ., but the 20 , OOOf . for which they iiriki'd , should come . " The Bishop of Natal seconded this resolution . Money was subscribed , and then tlio archbishop pronounced I 113 benediction—and tho company separated for dinner .

      The Quern And The Akmy Clothing. In The ...

      THE QUERN AND THE AKMY CLOTHING . In the lioport of the proceedings in the House of Commons ou Thursday evening , we iind Mr . S . IIickiiiskt said , tlio now patterns fur tho Army clothing were to be submitted to hor . Mnjuaty to-morrow . AVe would hnvo given something to be present at tho interview between her Mujesty uiul tho Secretaryat-Wjir . Wo hope one of . the beat-looking men of tho Lin o whs taken to tho Pulueo by Mr . Sidney Herbert , Unit the Queen might judge of the general ofl ' ect of the costume , which wo find is to consist of what wo have for years recommended—tho froelc and the helmet . It would naturally euuso her Majesty a

      pang to part with the " Albert , " which has made our men look t ? o oomicul for the past tenor twelve yours , but tho feelings of tho wife uro in subjection to the wisdom and duty of tlio Sovereign , aiu ' l therefore wo enn believe that the queer tiling is for ever put aside . We hope , however , that her Mujesty has yone further than merel y inspecting tho cut and tho nppeiimneo of tho costume . Wo trust that , in her cure and consideration for her good soldiers , Queen Victoria him graciously candusceiulcil to fval the cloth—to hold it up to tho ligrlifc—to rub it , mid stretch it—and ho satisfy herBolf that thu inuteriul it » something better than that wliicli , under tho old wystuin , waa ibrcod upon the soMior .- United Xervica Jounutf .

      Me. Cakden's Wooing. The Nation Says:— M...

      ME CAKDEN'S WOOING . The Nation says : — M We have noticed in the press and throughout society , a sort of mawkish , half-apologetic sympathy for Mr . Garden . It is a diseased pity , which needs to be cauteriiied . Either the man is a raving lunatic—dangerous to leave at largf-( and there ia nothing in his antecedents as the associate of the Tipperary gentry to indicate this ) , or he is a cowardly culprit who has richly earned the convict brand , since tie law refuses to make his life the forfeit of his unmanly outrage . " ' Mr . Carien is a gentleman , and was madly in love , ' it is pleaded . Unluckily for his chivalry , the wealth of the coveted bride was even more remarkable than her charms . Abduction is the most vulgar and least defensible crime that stems Irish annals ; and it is remarkable that vulgar greed—u « t generous passion—has been nearly always its mainspring . " We should like to inquire what pity qe pardon the Pharisees , who are so lenient to this deputy-lieutenant and justice of the peace who has overridden all law in the prosecution of his amour , have ever shown to the frantic outrage of a plundered , evicted , famished Tipperary peasant ? It was not to stimulate his jaded passions , nor to qyuench his lust for gold or beauty , that he has been known , at times , to rush Ironv the roofless and smouldering walls the law had left him , and with the agonised gaze of his wife yet scorching his brain , and thewuil of his famished children still ringing in his . ears , to deal a wild justice on his . oppressor . " Taking what the world calls the fairest view , of the case , a repulsive and loathsome marriage ( for all forced marriages are loathsome ) is the doom of the- woman .

      " By what nglit , then , dues society , tolerate suph & a evil ? Why do the gentry in Ik . Cardeu's county wink at a crioje always so disastrous , so perilous in example , and in his case so audaciously planned , and if we are to judge by the fire-arms provided , prepared to be carried oat with murderous unserupulousness ? Is the old . saying in Ireland to be for ever true— ' There is one law for the rich and another for the poor . ' " *

      Industrial Exhibition At Oldhaih. We Fin...

      INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT OLDHAIH . We find this paragraph in the Times , an , d read ifc wonderingly as to the connexion between the working man and the Working-man ' s Hall , adorned by bishops , peers , and anti-union manufacturers . The patronage of the people by the Earl of "Wilton occjus to us as interesting : — "An interesting ceremony took plaoe at OHharn , on Monday , when nn Educational and Industrial Exhibition was opened in the Working-man ' s H .-ill , with a view to raising funds for tho erection of a new building for the Oldham Lyceum , the one hitherto used having become much too small and inconvenient for the piupo . sus uf that institution . By mean . ) of contributions fruin sumo of the principal English manufacturing towns , and f rom thenolrility and gentry

      oftlio kingdom , a Very hir ^ e and'interesting collection . Of objects has been brought " together , his R » yal Highness Prince Albert , the liurfof Wilton , Lord Brougham ^ and the Bishop of il .-inchester being among tho lending contributors . The Exhibit ion was opunuit on Mon < lay morning by the Earl of Wilton , who delivered a short address , and a very large number of visitors sit tended . A banquut took place in the Town-ball in the afternoon to celebrate tho event , at which Mr . JamesPlutt , of tho linn of Plan . Brothers and Co ., tho eminent cotton machine manufacturer * , presided ^ and addresses were delivered by the Bishop of Mane luster , the Rev . Dr . Vauglmn , Mr . JnuieB l'latt , and the lvn-1 of Wilton , who hoped the establishment of this Exhibition for such an object would have a good effect upon tlio minds of the working classes , as an uvidence of kiul feehn-g ou the part of their employers . "

      A Proposed Railway. The Thames' Central ...

      A PROPOSED RAILWAY . The Thames' Central Kuilway is a bold scheme , and , to many , will seem a wild one ; yet it is propounded by an engineer who has done , and is doing , great things ; and we must be cautions how we venture to smile down anything from suuh a quarter . At present , legislative sanction is wanting ; but the day may arrive when both skiLl ami capital will bo forthcoming to complotu . the work . Let us imaging n railway rising boldly abovo the level of tho Thames , and running along nearly equidistant between its shores . It will run from Westminster-bridge to London-bridge . 1 t .-i supports will bo so light and . graceful as ti > ofl'er no obstruction to tho view from Whitehall-gardens ami the Temple-gardens , uud the few other spots whence a view can bo obtained . The

      railway will , in efleet , bu a station nearly iroin end to end , whoreby tho greater railways may form a junction . There will bo a water-way for baniuoa anil email craft beneath , and two water-wuys for tfte . uw . T 3 between the railway and the respective shores . By means of floating 1 ' onderH connected with the supporting columns , the river traillc will be dellnHely arrunyed into distinct trains or stivauis—perhaps with gri'iiter fm-ilitiw for river trade limn il no railway exittlerf . There will be approaches Ironi all fcho bridges , whereby to pick up pnuseiitfora lroin ovQrywhero to ovurywhurc—Hlwayn iirovhled that tho existing companion will carry their lmo » from tho prcHuiil loniilni to ihi' biuikH of tlio Tl » nu » o » . Barges and cral ' l , will recoivu gooda from the railway , or ( supply goods to it , by a due arrai )» ement of the apace bchvueu tlio eulmnna . —Dklmm ' s " Houstdu / IJL Words "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 22, 1854, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22071854/page/7/