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      Infantici De.—Its Itumkdiks. Wnun Wo Sai...

      which visits the woman after the time for forethought has past . m ., It is true that cases do occur m which either parent may equally be bent on the crime of infanticide , through ' brutal ignorance , or under the pressure of poverty . For the ignorance , education is the direct remedy ; and one most valuable part of education ought to be famished by a national

      clergy , if that body would in good faith bestow itself to expound to the unenlightened poor " the iaws of Nature and of the God of JNature . " For the intolerable pressure of poverty there is also a direct remedy , in giving to every able-bodied person needing relief reproductive employment . Were that the case , women would not despair of providing for their offspring , nor would the child remain for ever an intolerable burden , ifcelieved

      from despair , with responsibility shared , enlightened by information , and sustained by a church which ought to know how to cheer penitence while it corrected error , women would soon cease to indulge in the depraved practice of destroying their children .

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      Work For A National Church. If We Had A ...

      WORK FOR A NATIONAL CHURCH . If we had a National Church , it would extend the knowledge to which we have already pointed —the knowledge of the laws of nature and of the God of nature—to abodes as yet unvisited by any such moral health , The Church should be the enlightener and sustainer of the lowly ; it should be the helper of the helpless ; it should be the defender of the defenceless ; not for the pay which the journeymen in the Establishment may expect as their wages , but for the sake of the to

      mission which every member of it is supposed undertake . If we had a National Church , a frequent recurrence of the scenes which are familiar in this city would be impossible ; but the Church is content to remain in the respectable parts of town , and leaves the most essential part of its mission to be executed in an indifferent manner by its substitute , the police . The police cannot enlighten , elevate , and sustain—it can only arrest and bring before the police magistrate—it can only disclose what has been , and not prevent what may be .

      Amongst the many shocking cases which illustrate the desolate part of life amongst and around us , one of the most revolting is related in the police record for Monday last , llichard Perry was brought up at Lambeth Police-court , charged with killing his wife . The wretched woman had come home intoxicated , very late , after the prisoner was in bed . Early in the morning they were heard to quarrel , and she was heard to threaten the " ruilian" that she would not remain with him any longer . The dispute closed with

      a heavy fall . Soon after , the prisoner came out upon the stairs , and made a show of asking who had fallen there ; and then lie called some people in the house to assist him , as his wife " had no strength in her . " The woman was dead . Her life had been sacrificed in a bru / al quarrel . But these closing scenes arc commonly the least horrible part of the existence which they disclose . That the woman was quite dead was in itself a , . shocking fact , but how much more horrible is it lo discover that the whole of her back , from the

      Lead downwards , avjih a mass of bruises , bhc had lived a life of hucIi subjection ; and how horrible that must have been ! How terrible tho . state of mind of tho man who could be the in-Htrmnent daily of inflicting bucIi an existence upon the partner of his life . How horrible the ; state of mind of the woman whose existence was a , daily endurance of that kind—a daily suffering , without a visit of help ; she not knowing how to escape , or how to appeal to the inextinguishable ; spirit of justice and affection which probably lay in the middle of

      that case-hardened heart ; but rather m her perverse indignation , in her diseased sense of justice , inoro exasperating the brutality which she challenged , lie , on the other hand , unen - lightened an to J iih responsibilities , as to the discipline which he might exercise over an erring partner—not weeing LiH way in any manner , or lit miy time , out of that degraded or mistaken lift , —n () t knowing whore to turn ; and , in the desperation of a rage , justifying itself with her outrages , suddenly venting Hie rage of despair upon her in the " shape of fatal blows . . Mown more merciful than those of former times ,

      because they were fatal . Jlero is work for a Church to do , without wandering to Patagonia or Central

      Africathough each , indeed , should follow his vocation ; and if a man be' seized with the impulse to regenerate Timbuctoo , it ' is better that he should sacrifice himself to that remote endeavour than not make any sacrifice at all . Perhaps that is all he is worth : to be one of the dead bodies in the big ditch between civilization and barbarism over which the redeeming army of mankind shall march ; but , in the meanwhile , for spirits of more application there is a Timbuctoo and a Patagonia even in this very London . Not , indeed , that the regeneration can be carried to the hearts of the people in the shape of theological doctrines , as to prevenient grace or subvenient grace . While after

      the priest is inculcating the before or , no grace can come at all to those abandoned hearts , Neither can it reach them in the form of reproach for that which they have done . They are use 4 to reproaches . The sinner knows that he has sinned ; and if you reproach him with his sin , he will cast it in your face , and ask you why it should have been so . Tell him how it needs not be in future , and you will be to him a real redeemer . Explain to him practically how his life can be , not a dogmatic sanction for the truth of this or that doctrine—Avhat is the testimony of Richard Perry to the truth of the Scriptures worth?—but how it can be in itself an obedience to those laws of manifest life which are the acts

      of God in every sense , recognized by every faithr Even though Kichard Perry had been , brought to be a Christian in the very humblest and rudest form of obedience to the main spirit of the national profession , he would have been actually redeemed , and Jane his wife would not have died by a violence after a life of violence . That would indeed be a redemption by a National Church—a sort of Church extension infinitely greater than the building of the best stone edifices , whether after the fashion of Bennett or of Baptist Noel .

      Hints To New M.P.'S. By An Experienced "...

      HINTS TO NEW M . P . 'S . BY AN EXPERIENCED " 8 TEANGEE . " V . Gentlemen , —I undertook , in my last letter , to furnish you with some useful hints about the House of Commons' school of oratory . Let me , as before , teach by reference to examples . You have been at Lady Dedlock ' s party , out Chelsea way . You have danced , or played whist , or heard songs , or flirted , or been bored in some other way ; and at about eleven you discover that , having undergone sufficient of the horrors of English society , there is to be a division down at " the House , " and you impetuously get away , convincing the Hon . Misses Dedlock that you are a martyr to your public duty . You leap into your Brougham or your Hansom , and drive to the lteforni or to the Carlton , to ask what is going on down at the bottom of Parliamentstreet . You meet somebody shirking- Mr . Tuflnell or Mr . Mackenzie , avoiding the " whip" over a late cutlet or an earl y cigar ; and they tell you that they ] effc at ten , when " that solemn ass" Soand-so was on his legs — " his hind ones , of course "—but that " Dizzy" or Lord John was

      expected to bo " up" every minute . You hasten out of tho club back to your cab . " To the House . " You whirl along dark Pall-mall , and past deserted Charing-eross , and down empty Whitehall . It is an odd contrast , tho silent streets and the busy , bustling scene , alive with light and life , even at midnight , you nro hurrying to , and which you have already pictured on your brain , exciting you as the colours mingle . Mighty London is putting its pulses to rest ; but the heart—the Senate—is pumping away the sustaining blood of the nation , in tho fur corner , on the Thames ; and you—is it not strange the policemen do not bend as you hihIi h y ?—aro goinj * to lend a hand . The Horse Guards strike

      twelve an you pans—tho strokes nworberatnig through the still air ; and it is an effort of tho parliamentary imagination to credit that the imperial Legislature can be at work , and the Imperial I ' eople of tho capital—having gone to bed—so utterly indifferent to it . But as your vehicle hastens on by the Bridge , you meet a couple- of cabs galloping eastward ; you see that they are earrying the familiar faces of Times ov Daily News reporters ; and you judge by the mad Hpeod they are going at that there is something " important " in progress . \ i , is a , sign of life , andyou are now glad you left Lady . Oedlock ' n in such good time . You turn into Palace-yard , crammed with fourwheelers , and horses , and grooms , and porters ; the new House and tho old Hull aro a blaze oi

      gas ; and you are satisfied , and -even be * nn + wonder how the division will so . Yon fy , , the well-lighted but silent hall of KI * Hastings , and get into the lobb y—emptv V i ghastly with excess of glare . Tufl hetf recehl you with a wink , or Mackenzie with a grin Yn haul down your white vest , and square your ti and make your curls all taut ; lift your hatslid along the vestibule , and enter the House ' A you have gone on , since you alighted from ' VOur cab , you haye heard , from porter , policed

      messengers , stray members , and the whrone ™ C that " Mr . Disraeli is up ; " and hints have £ about your ears that he is making a " jn-eat speech . " As you reach the vestibule , yo u hear swelling cheers ; and your fancy , in spite of your experience , if you have any , will insist that there is a fervent orator within , consuming his hearers with burning eloquence , and wielding fierce M . P . dom with overwhelming power . Your blood tingles through your limbs with expectation ; and as you push open the green 3 oor , your e very vein is bursting with eagerness .

      The House of Commons is before you , and your sensations undergo an instantaneous coli lapse . Your eye takes in the scene ; a full House listening , too , but lazily and loungingly ; the clieer yon heard having been made up of an aggregate half laugh , half sneer . You see the orator , there at the top . His body is half thrown across the table , one hand resting behind him , flirting with a laced cambric , the other white hand tapping gently a red box . And he is making a great

      speech ? He is talking to Lord John , whose arms are crossed carelessly , whose thin lips are parted with an easy smile , and who seems to think the eloquence rather amusing . Mr . Disraeli has a most exquisite voice , and he is using only its gentlest modulations . He is quite colloquial , and his tone is friendly and familiar , —especially when he comes to a bitter innuendo , when he turns his head to the country gentlemen , that they may hear it and laugh—a low , simmering chuckle , that just agitates the surface for a moment only , Lord John , and the Whigs and the Radicals smiling , too , as though the sarcasm were

      a good-natured joke . Mr . Disraeli is getting near the end of his speech , and is now recapitulating and fastening all the points ( not mathematical ones ) together , as is his wont ; and this is his argumentative style . He approaches the peroration—his forte ; and here he raises his head ; he throws back his collar ; he puts by his cambric ; he turns from Lord John , and faces tho House . He speaks slower ; ho ceases his affected stammer ; he is more serious and more solemn , but still quiet and unpretending . Talking now to the many , and not to one or two , he becomes more oratoricaland he fixes attention . What

      , he is now saying is the manifesto of a party ; and not a syllable is lost . He is noaring a meaning , and his articulation is elaborate ; and there is a dead silence . But ho is still unexcited ; dexterously and quietly ho eludes the meaningsoars above it , in one or two involuted closing sentences , delivered with a louder voice and witu ofc tno

      more vehement gestures ; and having g cheer at the right spot , this great orator , concluding , sinks into his seat , as nonchalant as though ho had been answering a question about Fahrenheit , and immediately ( Mackenzie fmvinj , told him how the division will be ) turns to iwjc Lord Henry Lennox whether Grisi was in g <> ° u

      voice that night ! This is an average nppoaranco of things on an average great debate night ; and tlufl is ^ daguerreotype of Disraeli on such an occuHioii ^ a man proper to be singled out , as a "P . '' . !'""!/!! a House of Commons' orator , that he is tlio < ; II 11 UUBU Ul V ^ UIllIUWlin Ul < lixu , u »« — « --- i - tho

      dni " leader of the House , " and that nn >» - tion of his life ( and what sudi men aim nt i » J hit , ) has been to succeed in Unit assemblyloose attitude of the House answers to u ' ° ' , ' chatty style of the orator . There is no j " '"' , „ . ness in the assembly , and there in no vi ""' ^ vehemence in the speaker addressing' ' „ the assembly of" the first gentlemen in . JMJi 'I j ' . ¦ . ¦ *» . ¦ . ...- / inn * 44 * t . in l le f the lace can net , >

      _ and the styo p , you , easy and the gentlemanly style . JJ """ ' nt nioidy clover fellows do not want an aih .,. or an" appeal : each has settled how he wl ' ,, |( , and all they require in a " procw ln > ni 'J ^ ,, ; statesmen for and against the vote , ivn- ; || n ( j Iiiih commanded them all by being uhci " »> , bis oratory consists of lucid BtateiuenW " ^ ^ tical cases , made agreeable by JP , ' * " jut y »* portion , and rendered amusing by napi J

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1852, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25091852/page/14/