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      ^Oba'sl Vacancy ' -«» Death Of 'J%Ke .Se...

      We are in the enjoyment of an ultra-Protestant , an Orange Government , appealing to bigotry for support , persecuting in the name of civil and religious liberty : making a _fvar-gfv _cfi | _£ aynooth strong in the confidence of tie _rj _^ id zealot * pf Exeter Hall , more papal in _intoleraggp than priest and Pope—yet at Naples not even | oiemn treaties can protect a British Protestant _Afis & ionary from insult and outrage . Tl _jfj Bible is fjie ory of Toryism on the hustingst : — -the Bourbon is the creed of Toryism in Downing Street ! solved

      The Belgian Ministerial crisis is not yet . The King desires to pursue the same policy with weaker men . More than one statesman has declined the responsibility . The Customs Conference at Berlin , is adjourned after weeks of tedious and fruitless discussions , for a short holiday . No harmonious result can be expected . In Tuscany , M . Boccella , identified with the ultra-Papal party , has supplanted the quasi-constitutional M . Baldasseroni . A pure spiritual , as well as Austrian despotism , is now inaugurated . Even the Leopoldine laws are no longer safe . Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer ' s influence has scarcely penetrated into the Pitti Palace . The long announced coup d' & at in Spain is still in the air . French Government organs twit the Camarilla with indecision . Possibly the Spanish Court is waiting for the sanction of triumphant English Toryism . At the same time rumour says that Don Carlos , Lord John Manners ' s old friend , has recalled his abdication .

      The chapter of accidents and offences is full , indeed . Among the principal offences we may class Mr . Baron Alderson _' s demeanour in the trial of certain gentlemen , at Birmingham , for false imprisonment of Derra de Moroda . The case failed on technical grounds , and Derra was nonsuited ; but in the course of the trial , openly to avow a disposition to presume the innocence of Racidula , aliasVon Beck , openly to presume some degree of turpitude in one of the acquitted defendants , and some degree of injured innocence in the non-suited prosecutor—these are but specimens of Mr . Baron Alderson ' s demeanour . They may , perhaps , be added to the volume of his facetiae ; but unlike most summer lightning , they are not characterized by a brilliancy which is harmless .

      The City police-court has disclosed a grand swindling firm , regularly employed in cheating emigrants for Australia . The firm undertook to obtain passages for emigrants ; did obtain the money ; but neglected the other half of the bargain . The firm is exposed , and broken up ; but it is to be feared that others exist , which are fleecing emigrants in a still safer and more effectual way . Numbers are now emigrating in a hurry ; the offer to engage passages , to provide necessaries , and to do all for the hurried emigrant , is accepted ; and we suspect it is often accepted with little more than the appearance of a return . The millions sterling which emigrants are dispensing with hasty hand—in Liverpool alone it has been estimated at 7 , 000 , 000 / . within the year !—are a bait for laud-sharks ; and many a swindler is fattening on the traffic whom it would be difficult to bring into a police court . T

      Child-murder is not a novelty , nor a cause of wonder in this difficult and Malthusian country ; but the point-blank acquittal of prisoners against evidence that leaves the public at large no choice but condemnation , suggests inquiry as to the cause of such flagrant want of logic . Probably it may be found in that capital punishment which used to make jurors acquit forgers , almost as a matter of course . It is now becoming a practice to follow up proof of murder , in certain cases , by u verdict thai ; a birth has been " concealed ; " and then follows a severe sentence for " concealing . " " When courts of law solemnly and publicly keep up a species of acted lie , immorality is powerfully supported by the machinery of " justice . " Another species of murder has also been rife . Besides the railway niuuhIi at Burnley , where the _L Hi Tii

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      11 % _^ p _± Aff direction of tipps « r _^ s wpctically left to an amateur _pointsgjjjn , there his been another fatal accident at jj _# _pckton-upon-Tees , through faulty regulations } and , several j _^ _jgpr " accidenfj _^' _inmost t _^ univgjrgal cause _^ these f _accidents ' js , that _tjiis _macljfnery , _either through the unpro ? _fifcableness of th , § enterprise , or thjrpugh grasping avarice , is ipade _^^ _Je to secure th _^ pafety of thjjjj travelling _public ; and Bnp lishmfip perish , j _& at directors may declare large dividends .

      718 The Eeader. [Saturday, ]

      718 THE EEADER . [ Saturday , ]

      The New House Of Commons. The Following ...

      THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS . The following table is correct up to this day . The letters M . and N . signify " Ministerialist" and " Non-Ministerialists . " SCOTLAND . M . Membebs Elected . M . K . Caithnessshirb . G . Traill ? - 1 Kinsale . J . T . Heard 1 BOSS AND CbOMAETY . Sir J . Matheson _---- - 1 Vick ( Borough ) . S . taing _ . „ .... - 1

      IRELAND . Antrim . Macartney and Pakenham - - - - -2 Armagh ( County ) . "Verner and Caulfield - - - - - 1 ... 1 Aemagh ( City ) . E . 8 . Moore 1 Belfast . _Davison and M'Cairna ... .. 2 Ca . bi . ow ( County ) . Ball and Brien - . - - - « 1 ... 1 Cablow ( BoEotreH ) . Sadlier » 1 Cabrickfebgus . Hon . TV . S . Cottar ... ... 1 Cashel . Sir T . O'Brien .... ... 1 _Cayait ( County ) . Maxwell and Sir J . Young - - - 1 ., 1 Ciabe ( County ) . Sir J . Fitzgerald and O . O'Brien ... 2 _Clonmel . Lawless .... .... 1 Donegal . Conolly and Hayes ... ... 2 Down ( County ) . Lord E . Hill and Kerr .... . 2 DOWNPATBICK . Hon . C . 8 . Hardinge ... « -. 1 Dkoghbda . J . M'Cann .-..--.- 1 Dublin ( City ) . Grogan and Vance - - - ' 2 Dublin ( County ) . J . H . Hamilton and Taylor - 2 Dublin ( Univebsity ) . G . A . Hamilton and Bight Hon . J . Napier - . 2 DUNDALK . G . Bowyer .... .... 1 _Ennis .

      J . D . Fitzgerald r 1 Enniskillen . J . WhiteBido 1 Fermanagh . Capt . M . Archdall and Sir A . B . Brooke - - 2 Galway ( Bobough ) . O'Flaherty and Blake 2 Galway ( County ) . Sir T . J . Burke and Bellow .... 2 Kekby . H . A . Herbert and V . _Brdwoo - - - - 1 ... 1 _Kilbabk ( County ) . W . H . F . Cogan and D . O'O . Henchy - 2 Kilkenny ( City ) . M . 8 ullivan 1 Kilkenny ( Couwty ) . J . Greene and Sergeant Shee .... a King ' s County . P . O'Brien , L . Bland - - - - - - 1 ... 1 _Kinsalb . J . T . Hoard -------- 1 / _bituim ( Coumrr ) . H . L . Montgomery , J . Brady - - - - 1 ... 1 _LlMHBICK . B . Potter , F . W . _Buasell 2 LtuKinoK ( County ) . W . _Qoold , W . _Monsell 2 LlHBUUN . Sir J . E . Tennent ...... _i _LONDONDKKIIY ( CITY ) . Hir It . A . Ferguson -..--- 1 _LONUONDKltKY ( COUNTY ) . T . ButoHon and Capt . T . Jones - 2 Longford ( County ) . Colonel T . _GreviUo and B . M . Fox - - - 2 Louth ( County ) . C . Fortescue and T . Kennedy ... . 2 Mayo ( County ) . ( I . O . _HiggiiiH , G . Moore - 2 Mkath ( County ) . F . _Liiouh , M . E . Corbally 2 _MoNAriHAN ( County ) . C . _T . LohHo , Sir G . FoBter - 2 _' OKTAKI . INUTON . Colonel F . 1 * . Dunne 1 Qvjckn _' h County . Hir C . Cooto and M . Dunne - - - - 1 ... 1 HoBCoMMON ( County ) . l _<\ French , O . ( Jraco 2 do ( Bououoh ) . C . Town . 'loy 1 . hu > ( Count *) . Hir It . G . Booth and B . Swift - - - - 1 ... 1 _'i'itUAuy ( County ) . T . Scully and James Sadlier - . - 2 TUAI'BK . John _O'Connoll -- - - --- 1 TyitON * . _iMvd C , _UftmUton , Hpj » . U . T , I / . _Corry - - 2

      The New House Of Commons. The Following ...

      _r' m _~ ... _urow ( jpitt }* Wats T . Wat * J . "Westmbath W . H . _Wbxtobd ( 3 J . T . Tfev < Wbx » obi > _tQdy : F . 'George , " WicklQw ( Cqun W . F . Hulne . _YOXJGHAI-. ¦ "Power - " . _}? . Urquhart _'Jdahon - rant _Miltoo . 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1

      The Baroness Von Beck Scandal. Constant ...

      THE BARONESS VON BECK SCANDAL . Constant Deeba de Moboda has brought his grievances into court . His case as against Mr . George Dawson , Mr . Henry Tyndall , Mr . Richard Peyton , and Mr . " Arthur Ryland , whom he charges with having falsely and maliciously procured his arrest and iapri . sonment in Birmingham , August , 1851 , was tried at Warwick , before Mr . Baron Alderson and a special jury on Wednesday . The court was densely crowded . Mr . Sergeant Miller and Mr . Field were counsel for Derra ; Mr . Macaulay , Q . C ., Mr . Mella , Q . C ., and Mr . Hayes , for the defendants .

      As only six special jurymen answered to their names a tales was prayed for , and granted . Mr . Sergeant Miller stated that Derra de Moroda was a Hungarian by birth . His father was a gentleman of noble family , and occupied a high position in society . Derra had been educated a _^ the Military College in Vienna , and had afterwards served for some time in the Austrian army . He was prevented by illness from taking part in the Hungarian war , but his sympathies were with his countrymen . His father differed from him in political opinions , and held an honourable office under the Emperor of Austria . It was altogether false that he had been disowned by his family . He had arrived in London , from Brussels , in April , 1851 , and had then become acquainted with the lady known as the Baroness von Beck . That lady had written a work called Personal Adventures of a Lady during the late War of Independence in Hungary , which had been published by Mr , Bentley . The success of this book had induced her to write another . Mr . Derra de Moroda had been requested by a lady whom he met in France to procure the autograph of the Baroness , and accordingly he had waited upon her , when he was struck with her knowledge of Hungary . He had thus become acquainted with her . He found that she was suffering great privations , and he occasionally assisted her . He had been induced to accompany her to Birmingham , where there were two or

      three gentlemen to whom Mr . Gilpin , who had arranged to publish the new work , had given her _introductions . She there saw Mr . Sturge , Mr . _Dawson , andt other gentlemen , who agreed to subscribe to the work , the price of which was K . 4 _> s . Mr . Dawson and some other gentlemen paid their subscriptions . Constant Derra and the Baroness were afterwards introduced to Mr . and Mrs . Tyndall , who paid them great attention , and indt _^ bd the Baroness and Constant Derra to come and live at their house . One evening when there were several ladies and gentlemen present , he was sitting at the piano , playing some Hungarian pieces , when Mr . Tyndall touched him on the shoulder , and said there was a ge ntleman outside who wished to speak with him- . _JQarro went out , and found _himsolP i »» _tha hands of two policemen , who took him to the stationhouse by force . Tandy , the policeman , refused to explain to him why he was arrested , but called him an " impostor and a thief . " He was searched in a public room , and locked up all night . The next morning he saw the Baroness von Beck at the station-house , monning , and asking for a glass of water , and requesting that a physician might bo sent for . At this point in the _counsels narrative , Mr . Baron Alderson interrupted him , saying he did not Bee what the sufferings ef the Baroness had to do with the laintiff ' s case .

      p Mr . Sergeant Miller alluded to her treatment i » order to show a malicious feeling on the part of tlio defendants . When Constant Derra was on his way to the court , he saw the Baroness sitting on a chair apparently in a dying state . She died during the proceedings , which were , notwithstanding , continued , and the charge aguiimt Derra was dismissed . Mr . Sergeant Miller undertook to provo , by means of several distinguished Hungarians , that the Baroness w _« h really the _porson she represented herself to be , and that she had been employed by _Kossuth _' _s government on missions of a delicate and dangerous nature . The policeman Tandy said lie had not _arrested Derra , though he was present at the time . Ho «* the warrunt in the hand of Superintendent Stevens . He had searched Derra at the station-house , and took from him some letters and 11 pocket-book , which were returned the next day .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 31, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31071852/page/2/