Current:

Leader (1850-1860), 26th December 1857, Edition 2 of 2, Page 2, OUR CHRISTMAS HOMILY. I Oub readers wilt...

Page 2
Page 2
2 of 24

On this page

  • Text (2)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Rphotjsands Of Liearts Will Be Lightened...

      tenced at the Bodmin Summer Assizes to-, one year and nine months' imprisonment for the alleged offence of blasphemy , lias received a free pardon ; Sir George Grey having advised her Majesty to that effect . Mr . Cokingh & m hadk presentaiM . to the Home Office a mcmorialTffoiiWLjJrightonrcon tlSflrt matter . The inhabitants of the paris & Lof St . George ?^ , Hanover-square , havevwitnessedtviaorc sharp ^ debate among their ward representatives on the question between economy and public comfort . The advocates of effective administration , headed by Dr . B & EWER and Mr . Bertolacci , have succeeded in obtaining a committee of fifteen to conduct a formal inquiry' . Another reform has emanated from volunteers . A memorial has been presented to "Lord Pai / mersto ?? , and has been published , proposing- an educational franchise . The scheme is exceedingly peculiar . Almost .. all' - Reform . Bills : have contemplated some kind of qualification -which would enable the voter to give his voice for the members of the borough or county in which lie lived or held his property . The universities are represented , and it has been proposed to extend the . representation-. to . other'bodies' of a similar kind , as the London University , or the Queen ' s College in Ireland ; but we now have for - . the- 'first , thue any well supported suggestion for a perfectly new constituency , extending- over the whole of Great Britain , formed exclusively of educated persons , and returning special members added to to , the present House of Commons . If the scheme Had originated with any Radical , or any member of the working classes , it would , have been exposed to nothing but ridicule , as ' revolutionary , ' fanciful , ' utopian / It can , indeed , bear no comparison , in point of practical character , to the People ' s Charter . It is a suggestion to give seventy members , as the representatives of a separate class throughout the country , -who may be called the class of ' competent persons . Supported as it is by the most , eminent names in the Church , in both . Houses of Parliament , in the professions , and amongst savans and litterateurs , it has been received by the public as scarcely worth attention ; any attention that it has had has been given to the names attached to it , not to the measure . . Lord Derby ' s good-natured little canard about the letter to the Peninsular and Oriental Company has been fairly run down at last .. Interrogated by ^ L In ¦ j % / » ^^_ . ii ^^ ^ h _ ^* m ~ J _ . J ~ 1- I * 1 _ L— I W «» - ^ v ^ . * J » ' ¦ mm I I ^" x w ^ m-m , m * T ^

      __ JVLI . VV AXUU . M X-fcj-LU Ul lllii 1 UU 1 H JJUaLU , J . VLI . AJAJW . & L . L . , of the Peninsular and Oriental Company , answers that he never heard of any letter of the kind spoken of ; and Mr . Axlex , also of the same Company , affirms that he ' never heard of a letter , or received aonessage direct from the Board of Control to the effect named by Lorfl . Debdy ; ' but , he adds , that ¦ while the subject of the conveyance of troops by the Egyptian route was on the tapis at the ofh . ee of his company , he remembers sonic reference being made , at one of the interviews , to some communicationwhether verbal or written he cannot rem

      emberwhich had been received at the India House irom the Board of Control . On application to Mr . li . W . Mangkes , the President of the Board of Directors , Mr . Yekxon Smith has been so happy as to get what will stand for a good final answer to Lord Derb y , and at the same time open an interesting question , namely , what will his lordship say now ?—Mr . Mangles ' s answer is , that the only application he remembers Mr . Vjbiinon Smith to have made at the period referred to , related to ' certain flp . tilils ftf t . lif JivrnnorrvmAiif whir ' . h Il . 'lfl lmnil r > Dll-¦ ¦ ¦ !¦ ¦ ¦ rf mi 4 \ j » it ¦

      m . vw ^^^~ ¦ ' m ^ »* u » . v ^ ., ^ v 4 . " . i ^^ j ^_ m ^ A ¦ » ^ J AA > V ¦ T »»*¦ ** w A . * » ** mama - ^ - * m ^ m ^ *•* m ^ — .. ^ eluded , sucli as the certainty of an ample supply of provisions throughout the passage , and the like . ' Several great trials ha , ve been brought to a conclusion during the week . The affaire Jeufossb , at Evreux , is in every way remarkable . The successful defence set up by the advocate of the accused is calculated to fill the English mind with astonishment ; it was , that Gtjillot , the man killed , was a forcible trespasser upon Madame db Jetjfossb ' s grounds and promises , and that the law gave her the right to protect herself and family fro in the noc-\ voulu uucoi

      turnai nioicsuuion ot me - -uc : se . ., us mucn as it gave her the right to defend hoi- propert y from the attacks of the midnight robber endeavouring to carry oil" property from lierliou . se or grounds . And the jury decided thai Madame pb . Fkiji'osse vua , justified in instructing her gamekeeper to shoot u scoundrel who had lyingly bragged of having dishonoured the daughter oi' an ancient house , and sought by any mcans to ' friakc good his vilhmous "boaet . The Times says—and possibly says

      trulythat , in iBft ^ La ' nd ,.-ar ducking in a horse-pond would be the piurisfahieiit awarded oy society for the offence of which GitaLLOT was guilty ; but it is a national feeling alone * , that can determine the nation ' s ' point of lionouif ; ' - and in treating Guiixot like * a dog , perhaps * there has beerL . liitle outrage ddnetto the uuiveEsal idea : of justice ; . Tlip-man John Be Alphas been found guiBy of murdering the * woman whose body was discovered in the-Lcig-h . -Woods near-Bristol . The ' only * -point upon wiiieh Iris counsel-couldiay any strcsa ^ wsis that his-identity with the man who was last seen with her was not clearly proved ; but evidence in other respects was piled against him- by nearly twenty witnesses , aud his counsel ,-while he endeavoured to show that no motive for the murder had been niade out , was obliged to admit that the possession of the murdered woman ' s clothes by the accused was only to he accounted for on the supposition that she had gone away with somebody else and left her clothes in Beale's keeping . Mr , Justice W " ili / es might well express his satisfaction with the verdict of the jury . In the law courts we have had several remarkable cases . The extraordinary libel case in Ireland' . SIreveks . v . Campion '—is going on , without much chance of its being brought to a conclusion before Christmas . The' defendant , according to the latest intclligence , hadbcennearly two days under examination , and his account of the .-state-of'affairs between the plaintiff , Sxb . evens > and his aunt , the murdered Mrs . IvELtrjy is certainly damaging to the p laintiffnone the less from the fact that much of it was obj ccted to by the counsel on the other side . At present , it appears that Campion , after giving up his profession to take charge of Mrs . Kelly ' s -affairs , had made repeated attempts to get a settlement of the accounts between Streveks and Mrs . Kelly , which settlement the former always evaded . He explained that the will which had been altered by his advice , and by which the plaintiff had in some degree been injured , was altered for the general benefit of the family . He denied using the words which were imputed to him , but explained that , from the manner in which Streve ^ s came to him to announce the murder which had been committed , explaining that his " aunt" had been murdered by two men , lie had said , with reference to . that fact , " Here comes the man who can tell how this was done . " _ An extraordinary case of alleged perjury has been occupying the Court of Queen ' s Bench for several days . " A Mr . Evans has sued for a divorce against his wife on , the ground of adultery , her criminality It * - > . * i- » ,-w f * -w-j ~ ^ t -J- r \ V \«* r » / vi » r * 'if f \ ti » t » nor nr wTii nf * m ^ Oft KJ jimuwvij

      Ijljill * ' oVV ^ Jli-X LVJ \ tfc iiiV / UU . ^• - *» . **«^« - » fcj *^ u » The case id one of those in which the services of Inspector JFielb have been employed for the purpose of getting up the evidence . The alleged adulterer , a ' Mr . KoniNsoN , swore in the Ecclesiastical Court that there was not a tittle of truth in the evidence given against the lady , and as this as-; sevcration amounted to a charge of conspiracy ,, ag-ninst Mr . Evans and his witnesses , the present proceedings have been taken , the . issue of which is to prove extraordinary perjury on one side . or the other . But the result has been unexpectedly detuciiisuivcs uuuuitiu

      1 erred by tne jury unamg ; come to a decision upon the points submitted to them by Lord Campbell .. So there will be a new The soft heart , and not too hard head , of the Hon . Mary Jones , sister to the present Lord IUnelagii , have led her into such straits that nothing —« lic seems to have thought—but the Court ^ of Exchequer could extricate her . Her story is very simple , the moral too obvious to need comment . She lived at 74 , Ebury-strcct , Pimlico .

      At the same house , lived—a hero , a political martyr , an exile from the land of his birth . The dear romantic Duck styled himself the Count j > e VVaszkowski , son of the ' celebrated Prince "Wittgensxkin . ' He was alone in the world . He would aspire to the delight of making the acquaintance of the Hon . Mary Jones . He pressed the lady ' smaid to he the bearer first of bouquets , then ot billets : the maid coidd not resist his prayers—the mistress returned his iLowers , both figurut . ivo anil real . But the son of the celebrated Prince Wjtt-_ __„_ ... J . T . J * 1 J 1 ... 1 .. -I . _ . .. !¦ t \ r \ m >/ -M" < il' / W fiKNSTioiJs nniukjuiiv riu i

      persisted , . n ; was "u « u' « - " by his audacity that she determined to see him and tell him , once for all , to desist , from his pursuit . Tlmt interview cost the Hon . Many . 100 / . good money . He told her his sad , his intci'esting story ; and she consented to become the brulo of the son of Uio celebrated Pi'iuco bulbro namwlhaving heard that the expectations of the illustriously descended exilo wero about 40 , 000 / . per annum , on the death of his great father . But ;

      wi & tcvettliis expectations , his ' remittances ' were somehow , a little irregular , and he blushinn-l ooafided : to his bride-elect that the loan of 100 / . would really be of service—until the arrival of ; his ' remittances . ' Slic handed him tlie paltry sum without an objection , and all went well ; until the-time . ' . was-nearly arrived for tie wedding--to . be ; celebrated . Then , she thought it time to talk . of settlements . The Count repudiated H the need for any such absurd conventional arrange- V meats . But the Hon . M-Aiiy Jones was iirnvin Ecr B determination to have her . property settled upon B herself ' all regular . ' This led to a sharp discussion » - —to the breaking off of the wedding—and , w \\\ . m mately , to an action for the recovery of the 100 / . I lent . The Count ' s defence was worthy of his cause . ¦ He put in as a set-off a long bill for expenses in- I curred in preparation for the expected , riinrria '« e- — ¦ one of the items was for the-wcddiiig-cakc ! Ee ¦ admitted that he had received money from many I ladies ; in one case he Was engaged to be-married to 1 a lady , and her family gave him 300 / . to give up her I letters ' and go . ' And , as a wind-up , he said that , I ' when he had done with one lady he took up with I another . ' A sentiment which the jury honoured I by giving a verdict against him for the full sum I claimed—which , in the uncertainty of his ' remit- I tanccs , ' he may find some difficulty in paying . ler- I haps he may yet induce the lion . Mary Jones to I remit it . * ¦ I

      1226 The Leade B. [No. 405, December 26,...

      1226 THE LEADE B . [ No . 405 , December 26 , 1857 . 1 ' ¦ — ¦ — — - ' — : __ ¦ H

      Our Christmas Homily. I Oub Readers Wilt...

      OUR CHRISTMAS HOMILY . I Oub readers wilt receive this week ' s paper during- I their Christmas holidays . It will find them sur- I rounded by children and friends . They will have I digested tlie religious truths ot the season—a few I words on its political aspects may not be unacecpt- I able . : : . ¦ ¦ ¦ . /¦ ' : . '¦' ; . ' . ' ¦ ¦ ' / ' " \ - -V ,. .. ¦ ¦; ' v . . ... . . I ' Peace on earth , good-will towards men , ' has no j narrow and restricted signification . Peace , not to I our own country alone , but to the whole world .. ¦ Good-will , not to our own sect and party only , but to all mankind . Sympathy , not merely for the suffering and ignorant among our fcllow-coimtrymen , but for all who , through oppression spiritual or political , are deprived of that blessed gift of liberty which we so highly prize for ourselves that we would see it extended to all . The politician ' s good-will includes all classes from the Queen to the beggar . He exult s when ' rulers are efficient ; he rejoices in any plan that-would convert the reprobate into a productive . citizen . His sympathies are with-the artisan , for he has learned to

      appreciate the dignity of labour . He would lend a helping hand to those who in mid-winter . are innocent sufferers through the reckless cupidity of gamblers . He limits not his beneficence to the plum-pudding and p int of porter provided for paupers and paraded in the public papers ; he would rather cultivate in the working population thai spirit of independence which enables them to bear and to suffer manfully the large burden of evils to which they arc liable . If he gives money he docs it with delicacy and consideration ^ not as conferring- a gift , K , » 4- r , c ' ir .-. i ^ i .-i rr n linvi rl in 51 ]~ >\ T \ i ]\ PV it ' ll (! ETIVCS

      counsel , it is not as a teacher but as a friend , who in his turn would be glad to be advised . He gives his assistance less to societies with their secretaries and other salary-bearing consumers of alms than to families whom ' he kuo \ vs personally , to hospitals which do an untold amount of good at the least possible cost , and to schools which minister to the starving mind and cure the festering sores ol ignorance . His . sympathies arc now especially drawn towards his noble fellow-countrymen and couatry-. - _ i - • i iM * * 1 . J a .. Ahrtrl MIC wnuiui

      women in India , whose sulterings nave - heart , whose heroic achievements have won Ins deepest admiration ' ; he mourns with those wlio have lost their dearest in the deadly sirilo . Way , ' more , while he execrates the base and cowardly monsters who have committed crimes nvispeakable , he prays that something may be cllccled even in Ins day towards emancipating Ihfi hundreds ol nu lions of our Asiatic fellow-subjects from the mental . me sp iritual bondage thai midces them the viJcsl ol A . ' . i .. iwllm . # l lir . v ,-. o- ! iv ( 1 k his tenants as somi'lhins

      more ( hiiii mcro channels of income ; lie loves 10 sec ; bis labourers well lodged , and tlicir children warmly clad and decently educated . But Christmas ( inds inauy wilh ht- < l « <> '" l "' . ! ^ lo give , to others—their table npiuv . —Mu-ir iuu . scarce , liven to them il is not denied to hue noble , aspirations after good , and warm sympatl its for th « suH'cring and oppressed throu-houM- o ! world—to them it is not denied to do good )\[

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 26, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26121857/page/2/