Current:

Leader (1850-1860), 18th January 1851, Edition Town of 2, Page 58

Page 58
Page 10
10 of 24

On this page

  • Departments (1)
    • POSTSCRIPT. Saturday, Jan. 18.
  • Text (3)
  • 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.

      Untitled Article

      A Sad BiAJNDER .-Amongthe recent deaths in Prussia is that of M . Link , the senior Professor of Berlin University , celebrated as a botanist and writer on natural philosophy . According to custom , a funeral oration was pronounced over his grave ; but unfortunately the clergyman selected being a strictly orthodox pietist and not being able to approve of the spirit of some of the writings of the deceased , censured them in most unbecoming language , to the indignation of the numerous friends present . A ° Noble ExAMPLE .-The picture-gallery in Bridgewater-house , is to be completed forthwith so that the collection may be opened to the public and foreign visitors during the Great Exhibition As the scaffolding is only now being put up to begin the internal works , efforts will be needed to get it done . We mansions win

      hope other owners of collections ana nne take the hint thus afforded , and set their houses in order . England has wonderful collections of works of art , but too many of them are sealed . — The Builder . Rural Orthoepy . —The assistant overseer of a parish in Gloucestershire attended a petty sessions , near Chepstow , the other day , with a list of defaulters to the poor rate , for the purpose of making out his " excused list , and having it confirmed . The list , which was assisted hy some quaint marginal preferences , among whicJLj" O ^ P . " was very conspicuous , was duly handed to the presiding "Justice ; " when the magistrate enquired , " Mr . . what does this ' O . P . * mean ? " The worthy parish official , with polite deference , rejoined , " On't pay , please your honour . " t 1 i . _

      A Sceptical Austrian Empekob . —A German newspaper , in speaking of the alleged miraculous flow of blood from the wounds of the Saviour in the Saturnin Chapel , in France , says there are persons still living who remember that the illustrious Joseph II . was a great disbeliever in miracles , and that he actually prohibited the growth of a beard on a figure of Jesus Christ which is near one of the doors of the Cathedral of St . Stephen , in Vienna . He ordered a couple of sturdy grenadiers to mount guard on the spot , and so great was the fear which their formidable moustaches inspired that the wooden image did not venture to disobey the imperial mandate . It has long been a saying in Austria that Joseph was born half a century too soon . .

      Priestly Proprieties . — The Catholic hierarchy is determined to make the outer man of the inferior priesthood what it should be , for the Consistorial Court of the Archbishop of Salsburg has issued orders that the tonsure is to be kept well shaved , and that the priest ' s collar is always to be worn . The waistcoats of the clergy are to be buttoned up to the throat ; no blouse , pantaloons , or calabrese ( slouch ) hats are to be worn . A dandified cut of the clothes is to be carefully avoided , and when officiating the priest is to wear his clerical gown ( talar ); buckles are to be worn in the shoes on high days and holidays . Some hints are also given relative to the unseemliness of frequenting public-houses , stopping out late at night , and smoking .

      A Deliberate Assassin . —Last month , while divine service was going on in the church at Tapsony , in the Suroegh Comitat , a man called out to the organist to cease playing , as he was about to kill the parish priest and the schoolmaster . This was no empty threat , for , taking a gun from under his cloak , he fired at the schoolmaster , but , fortunately missing him , the bullet took away the top of his chair . The priest , hurrying from the altar , called on his congregation to arrest the miscreant , but they declining to do so , because " he had not offended them , " left the church . As the assassin , who had reloaded his mm , still remained , the priest and the schoolmaster , taking heart , made a rush at him , and at last , with the assistance of a gentleman ' s haiduck ( a servant ) , succeeding in disarming him . lie is now in the county prison at Kaposvar .

      Unitakianism . —An important theological question lias been brought for decision before the Prussian Upper Tribunal . A man in Konigsberg was condemned for " blasphemy against God , " in consequence of irreligious expressions regarding thn person of Jesus Christ ; The Court of Appeal decid ed that in this case no " blasphemy against God" had been substantiated , because , even , according to the second article of the apostolical confession of faith , the person of Christ is not identical with the Deity ; the defendant could , therefore , only have been condemned for " outrage against the Christian religious societies . " The public prosecutor has applied for cassation of thin judgment , on the plea , " that , according to the doctrine of the Christian Church , Jesus Christ not only possesses all the distinguished properties ( auH » ezeichnete Kigensuhaften ) of CJud , but in one and the same with God . "

      Thk Law Church oi- Knoi . and . —The Daily News , in noticing Home church appointment made by the Bishop of Winchester , complains of it as a peculiar hardship , that the parishioners were not consulted . Why should they be ? Will the Daily News tell us that . ? J ) o they piiy him anything ? Do they think to have a spiritual guide and teacher maintained for their advantage out of national funds , and have the tree choice of him too ? Church congregations , it jh said , ought to have a voice in the selection of their clerical pastors . What ?

      entitles them to expect it Where they pay the minister there is sense and justice in the complaint . Where they are content to be spiritually fed at the public expense , what right huve they to claim liberty ? " HrgirarH must not . be choosers ; " and it is , to say the least , indecorous to " look a gift horse in the mouth . " Let the laity of the Church of Kngland take their losses with their gains . They have their incumbents for nothingif they are worthiest ! , they are at least equal to what , is given for them . For our part , we Nee as strong un objection to surrender Church property to the irresponsible control of parish congrcgationn as to any oiher body- What belongs to tin ; nation ought not to be handed over without conditions to a uect . —Nonconformist .

      TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . J . F . is informed that the Index to the first volume of the Leader will be given in a week or two . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it encreases the difficulty of fin din ? 6 pace for them .

      Untitled Article

      The Reverend Mr . Bennett , of St . Paul ' s and St . Barnabas , has declared his determination to resign , notwithstanding the remonstrances of his friends . He states his intention to " sign the necessary legal document on Tuesday , March 25 , " and adds , " I hope you will consider that sufficient time will thereby be given for pursuing any further course in this matter which you maY _ deelm _ adyisable . " The churchwardens of St . Paul ' s have accordingly written to the Bishop of London , asking him to specify what alterations he wishes made in the administration of the services . They say as their reason for asking this information , " We are determined , with the least possible delay , to take the best legal advice as to the means of trying in the Ecclesiastical Courts those questions for which your lordship has pronounced Mr . Bennett to be unfaithful to the Church of England . ' " The Bishop of London declines to give the information required , and there the matter rested on Thursday last . The Daily News of this morning says , " it is now understood that the Government have decided upon the surrender of the window tax , and the substitution of a moderate house tax . There is reason to hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have so considerable a surplus at the end of the financial year that he can easily afford a million or twelve hundred thousand for this longdesired object . By the substitution of a house tax calculated to raise about £ 600 , 000 , for the window tax , raising about £ 1 , 800 , 000 , the sacrifice of revenue will not exceed £ 1 , 200 , 000 . Such a tax will in the first instance fall much lighter than the present window tax , and will not interfere with the construction of our dwellings . " The Marquis of Northampton died at an early hour yesterday morning , at Castle Ashby , the ancient seat in Northamptonshire . He was born on the 2 nd of January , 1 7 90 , and , consequently , has just completed his sixty-first year . On the 24 th of July , 1815 , he married Margaret , eldest daughter of Major-General Douglas Maclean Clephane , who died at Rome on the 2 nd of Apvil , 1830 . He leaves a family of four sons and two daughters , namely , Earl Compton ( now Marquis of Northampton ) , Lords William , Alwyne , and Spencer Compton , Lady Marianna Alford , and Lady Margaret Compton . For a short period he sat in the House of Commons for his native county , but , being defeated at one election , he was never induced again to enter on the field of politics . He rarely spoke in the House of Lords since he succeeded his father in the Marquisate in May , 1828 , but he was invariably present at all important divisions in that assembly , voting for Catholic Emancipation , Reform , the Repeal of the Corn Laws , &c . In 1838 , when the Duke of Sussex resigned the Presidency of the Royal Society , the Fellows immediately solicited the noble Marquis to become the successor to the Royal Duke . His attention at the general meetings , and his brilliant reunions of all the distinguished men in science , literature , and art , at his mansion in Piccadilly are well known , and when he retired in 1819 it may be safely said it was with the unanimous regret of not only the Fellows of the Royal Society , but a large circle of literary and scientific friends . A young man named William East , was apprehended on Thursday night , on suspicion of having caused , the death of the labourer who was shot on Thursday afternoon , while heaving at a winch on board the schooner Lively , in the Regent ' s Canal Dock , Limehouse . He had been firing at u mark in the yard behind his premises , but did not think that his gun would have carried so far , the distance being about 250 yards . Kast was brought up for examination at the Thames Police Office yesterday , but the evidence was ho very conflicting that he was remanded till to-day . Thomas Johnson , shoemaker , Graham-street , Isling- ton , charged with the wilful murder of his wife , last Sunday morning , was brought up for final examination , yesterday , at . Clerkenwell police-court . The evidence ; was clear as to his having beuten and abused his wife a few hours previous to her death . One of the witnesses said he seemed to he mnd drunk . The prisoner was committed on the charge of manslaughter . A young lady , a governess in a family , and said to be n relative , near Shinronc , in the county of Cork , eloped a few days ago with the herd of the gentleman at whose house she was engaged , and it is supposed ham gone with him to the new world . The lady is said to be entitled to several hundred pounds in her own right . The struggle between the President and the mo jo- rity in the Assembly has not yet , finished apparently . The debute waH resumed on Thur . sduy , and the ge- neriil impression w ; ih that if , would not clone boforo last night or to-diiy . Tho Hprec . h of M . do Luh- teyrie , on Wednemliiy , appears to have been u telling one : —

      " He entered upon a complete exposure of all the facts which had reached his knowledge with regard to the society of the Dix-Decembre , the military banquets of the Elysee , the reviews of Satory , and the dismissal of General Neumayer . After giving an animated picture of the ruffianly assaults which he himself witnessed during four hours at the terminus of the Rouen Railway on the President ' s return from Cherbourg , he asked whether that was the conduct of members of a society of mutual aid , of benevolence , ' like the institution of St . Vincent de Paul , ' as the Minister of the Interior had said ? ( Laughter . ) He then read the prospectus of the society , describing its organization under commissaries 2800

      40 founders , 280 -general , special commissaries , 28 , 000 chiefsof sections , and 200 , 000 brigadiers , who would have an unlimited number under their orders . ( Great laughter . ) It had been asked if this society was dangerous . As far as conviction or feats of heroism wag concerned , it was certainly not formidable . But did they think that seven or eight thousand rascals ( great laughter ) —thrown on the streets of Paris on a given day at the signal of chiefs for whom nobody is responsible , would not be a danger ? With such materials had been made pronunciamentos which had desolated and dishonoured Spain ; and days like the 15 th May had been produced in Paris . But no ; the Society of the Dix Decembre was not dangerous , because General Changarnier commanded the army of

      Paris . " The chief speakers on Thursday were M . Berryer and M . Lamartine . The latter declared that he would stand by the flag of the Bepublic , and maintained that it was the partizans of M . de Kemusat's proposition who did their best to crush the parliamentary system . Four new orders of the day have been distributed ; one , by M . Sainte Beuve , is a simple declaration of want of confidence ; the other , by M . Adelswaerd , would pronounce a new act of adhesion to the republic ; a third confines itself to the expression of regret for General Changarnier ; the fourth is an accusation against the President and the ministry . An unusually large number of persons attended the ball at the Elysee on Thursday night .

      The Ddbats announces that the Conferences at Dresden are nearly concluded . The plenipotentiaries have arrived at a result which appears to be definitive . On the 12 th they signed the following resolution : — " The German Confederation is reconstituted on a new basis . In place of seventeen votes , of which the old Diet was composed , the new one is reduced to eleven votes , which will be distributed as follows : —Austria , with alHts States , including the Italian States , 2 ; Prussia , 2 ; Hanover , 1 ; Wurtemberg , 1 ; Kingdom of Saxony , 1 ; Bavaria , 1 ; Grand Duchy of Baden and the Two Hesses , 1 ; Saxe-Coburg , Saxe-Gotha , and Saxe-Weimar , 1 ; Mecklenbourg-Schwerin and other little States , including the Hanseatic towns , 1 ; total , 11 . The Presidency of the Diet is to belong alternatively to Prussia and Austria . The Diet will keep up an army of 130 , 000 men .

      It appears from a letter in the Cologne Gazette , that Austria has contracted two loans , one of from forty to fifty millions from Russia , to be paid in silver ; and the other of 100 millions , on state obligations , at 6 per cent . In consequence of these loans , her paper issues are to be diminished considerably , and the silver currency encreased . The conferences between the Danish , Austrian , and Prussian Commissioners at Hamburgh have been adjourned . General Thunen has gone to Berlin for further

      instructions , and Count Mensdorf has gone to have an interview with Field-Marshal Legeditsch . Count Mensdorf ' s journey to Hanover , or rather to Hildesheim , must have reference to the promise of the commissioners with respect to the march of the troops . The Denmark commissioners are waiting for despatches from Copenhagen , and also the return of the Austrian and Prussian commissioners . Four thousand dollars have been recently sent from Hamburgh to the fund for the succour of the Hessian officers who , from fidelity to the constitution , have thrown up their commissions .

      ' i t t Advices from Spain , dated Madrid , Jan . 11 , have been received f stating that Queen Isabella had accepted tho resignation of Narvaez , who , after taking leave of their Majesties , had set out lor France . Pidal , it appears , had undertaken the formation of a new cabinet ^ o f which he and Mon will form the base . Letters from Malta make mention that about half-past two , a . m ., on the 6 th instant , from a perfect calm there instantaneously arose a most terrific tornado , such as is sometimes experienced on the coast of Africa , but fortunately it ; passed over in the short space of twenty minutes , when it fell aa dead calm as before , without causing any injury either to the aquadron or merchant shipping . At a few minutes after seven , however , on the same morning , two very violent shocks of an eurthquak © were felt throughout the island , and were even perceptible shi sta

      t , « i i \ <; \ s h {' c i , c on p-board in the harbours , where sentries - tioned at cabin-doors in the ships of war ran id to answer bells which they found had been set ringing by an invisible power . Similar confusion occurred m the most occupied hotels and lodging-houses , in some of which bedroom doors with alight fastenings were Bhaken open , and the waiters running in all directions to answer hells , when , in some canes , the lodgers were found sprawling on the floors , having been jerked out of their beds by the first shock , and neurly frightened out of their HcuBiu by the second . The first was a lift , or upward moveim-nt ; the second , immediately nuocecdiuK , tt vio " lent bhuke ( not an undulatory motion ) frornN . W . ti . K . It was quite culm at the time , and shortly previous heavy ruin had fallen . No damage whatever has occurred , beyond the cruckinir of a few walls in aome old houses .

      Postscript. Saturday, Jan. 18.

      POSTSCRIPT . Saturday , Jan . 18 .

      Untitled Article

      58 mt > t % t&Htx *

      [ Saturday ,

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 18, 1851, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1866/page/10/