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      rtow did * hisscandal come before the public ? Lord t ^ onderry threatened , as we have seen , to lay the hole ^ f the letters before his friends . Some of the d espondence was produced ; it oozed out , and partially ot into the Irish papers . Mr . Ker at once wrote to "d ear Lord Londonderry , " expressing his desire that the " whole truth should be known , " and acquiescing . -j ^ d Londonderry ' s intention of publishing the correspondenc e . Accordingly , it was collected , sent to ^ journals , and i ^ now before cand ^_ reader .

      ^ Winding up this pretty piece of scandal , we are nabled to do s ° greatly to the reader ' s amusement and sa tisfaction , When Mr . Ker , on the 13 th of May , duly informed Lord Londonderry that he intended to nublish the letters , his lordship had repented of his threat , and he wrote to his agent the subjoined letter , which that gentleman forwarded to the Belfast Mercury . « Holdernease House , May 14 , 1852 .

      "DeabSik , — I inclose you a copy of a letter just received from Mi-. Ker . I must beg of you to wait upon Turn or his agent , or law adviser , and state I am entirely £ nora » t how a ' Minute of the Down Election' into the newspaper . It bears no official or agent s name ; and T can take oath its publication was quite unwarranted by me or any one connected with me ; and that I will be lield in no manner responsible for it ; but I shall hold Mr . Ker rpsDonsible , and he will be responsible to society and the wlncJi

      world for any autograph letters with signatures passed between him and me , though . not marked ' private , ' yet written , as he knows , in the private confidence which exists between an uncle and a nephew . I could not object certainly to everything connected with the difference with Mr . Ker from being illustrated to the world , to show the true merits of the case ; yet every gentleman must see that private letters , written Under the circumstances that these were , could not be given to the public , as from peculiar expressions which might be considered as unconstitutional in public letters , yet , when passing between an uncle and a nephew in private , can only be interpreted by the practice of every-day life in such communications . To attempt , then , to give a public character to these , as Mr . Ker purposes , appears quite monstrous * and , given inconsistent witn

      in my own handwriting , would be quite general usages and with every law of honour and propriety . I have felt it to be my duty to take this step , and make this protest immediately , lest my not noticing Mr . Ker ' s letter might appear to sanction the course he proposes to adopt . I am aware that Mr . Ker may possibly say that I stated an idea of making public bis promise to me of the 10 th of February , but that was at a moment of excitement at the breach of his contract ; but I immediately gave it up , and acquainted him therewith , by the strong advice of my friends , finding I was very wrong , and should hope Mr . Ker mil now do the same , as I have given him my honour . I know nothing 1 how the statement got into the

      Northern Whig , but if I am betrayed by it , that is not a reason to be betrayed by my nephew ; and the statement alluded to was certainly in manuscript , given by me for the Belfast meeting , at which Mr . Ker also made a statement , but mine was unjustly never produced , and Mr . Ker is called upon , if ho persevere in publishing , to show up his statement to the meeting to the public also . Let Mr . Ker remember there has been no official publication but Mr . Ankctell ' s , which I might more justly complain of than Mr . Kor ' s attempting to resent by vengeance on-me for the statement appearing published , which I deprecate as much as ho can . I hero again offer Mr . Kor , and I request of you to brine him to an exDlicit answor , to placo the whole

      of this most unnatural affair between the nearest relations , to bo roforred to any three honourable gentlemen agreed to by both ; and if ho refuses what all persons in this country who know the circumstances admit as the fairest and inost honouvablo course poasiblo on my part , and shall oithor have published , or intends to publish , without further dolay or communication , and not previously sending to mo tho exact counterparts of letters which ho publishes , enabling mo to comparo them with tho originals , and for mo also to ascertain if ho publishes all or what letters—I then dosiro you to give immediate cognisance of this letter to tho world , in the samo manner in which Mr . Kor lias

      do-< 'idcd in making known my private letters ; and I thon shall proclaim him in all civilized society as having acted jw ft manner contrary to all gentlemanly usages of social intercourse , not alono as botweon tho noarost relations and iriendH , but also between those strangers which would induce another courso to bo takoh upon it , which would make a personal case of tho cruollost and most unnatural ( and as Mr . Kor must know and fool ) and impossible roaort ; and , tlioroforo , wo are both bound in honour , if possible , to arrange , by yielding to a fair and common tribunal against which of tho two tho verdict is to bo pronouncod . "_ Your immediato answer ia urgently roquostod . —I ro-» iain , doar sir , yours very truly , .,-, "VANI 3 LONPONDKUIIY . Koliort , Ciwflidy , Esq ., , Bolfuafc . "

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      M ] t . t fJiiKDBiiiorc Lucas , the proprietor of tho Tahlot , j « « i candidate for Month . In his addrosa , which is very lon tho following passages occur : — ¦ " If from all tluBmasa of iniquity [ tlio acts of tho lato Jv uniHivyj I muBt singlo out any one ? instance- as dosorving ' " Pooial commemoration , ifc would bo tho aubjoct of odu'anon , bocauso it is to tho question of education that all no oiioj ts of tho onomius of tho church aro diroctod in tho I'MHont day , and bocauso it is ohiofly by polluting Iho " » wwm of education for ovory oIukh of tho community that "M \ y hopo to doatroy oi- enslave tho church . Upon tliia uoat 10 n , thon , I will just aay that I humbly and reverently / K 5 T « JJ ° in tho Ootholio Church and in tho Holy ^ poetoiio » oo supremo jurisdiction , in wuvtfcorfl of ftuth ma

      morals ; the right of determining for me , as a son of the church , what modes of education are dangerous to faith and morals , and therefore to be avoided , and what are safe and to be followed ; and that " on all church questions , of whatever kind , my principles are ultramontane—that is , to the best of my knowledge , are in exact accordance with those held by the highest and most trustworthy authority upon earth—the Supreme "Pontiff , the living apostle , the vicar upon earth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ . If I should have the honour of a seat in Parliament , when any attempt is made to legislate on the subject of education , or on any other subject affecting the Catholic Church , upon principles at variance with these , I pledge myself to oppose every such attempt to the fullest extent of my ability /' After a- fierce attack on the Irish Church , he

      says"My notion is that for saving ourselves from the Protestant aggressions by which we are at once assailed and threatened / and securing to ourselves and our posterity that perfect equality be&re the law which is the right of every Catholic , we must begin by battering down the monopoly of the Established Church . " Lord John Russell can call spirits from the vasty deep in a way which beats Owen Glendower hollow ! The Sligo Journal says , that Lord Palmerston has

      directed his agent , Mr . Edward Smyth , to inform his tenantry that it is his lordship ' s desire to support , at the coming election , Sir Robert Gore Booth and Mr . Ormsby Gore , two most zealous advocates of a return to the principle of protective duties , and , of course , ardent upholders of the Derby Administration . We cannot be accused of tenderness to the character of Lord Palmerston , but we venture to doubt the accuracy of the statement , at least as it is made by the Sligo Journal .

      Mr . Kinderley , whom the Freeman ' s Journal calls " Lord Derby ' s attorney , " opposes Maurice O'Connell at Tralee . But Mr . Kinderley avows himself a Tory Free-trader , and favourable to the Maynooth Grant . Canterbury was entertained , and let us hope instructed , by an oratorical display from one of the sitting members , the Honourable George Henry Smythe , on Monday . He claims his re-election on grounds that are somewhat vague . He has not attended well to his Parliamentary duties—partly owing to his own indolence , partly to the unpleasant position of Sir Robert

      Peel ' s party , and partly to his objection to playing ~ the part of Dick in helping Tom ( Colonel Romilly ) to do nothing . He defends his votes against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill , and for the Jewish Emancipation Bill . He eulogizes Lord John Russell in the roost Oriental style—in language fitter for Constantinople than Canterbury . He upholds Free-trade—and he worships that liberty for which Bolingbroke suffered , and Canning died ! However unsatisfactory to the daily reader , these sentiments were declared " highly satisfactory " by the constituents assembled in the Guildhall , who pledged themselves to support the " fanciful" speaker .

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      IRISH SYMPTOMS . Dubun Castle , in the hands of a Viceroy so thoroughly Tory oa Lord Eglinton , was not exactly tho place , one would have thought , wherein to beseech a merciful interference on behalf of Mr . Smith O'Brien . Nevertheless , nine peers , twenty-five baronets , forty members of parliament , fifteen Roman Catholic bishops , seventyfive Roman . Catholic clergymen , and three hundred justices of tho peace , did not think so , for they signed a memorhil , praying for the liberation of Smith O'Brien , and tho Lord Mayor of Dublin and others prosonted that memorial to Lord Eglinton on Monday . For their pains they wore politely snubbed , and rebuked for sympathy with men whoso conduct was criminal , men whoso live * had bo / en spared , who had been treated with unusual indulgence , and yot who had not expressed any contrition for their crimes , nor manifested any sonso of gratitudo or loyalty to tho Sovereign who had given them thoir lives . Tho Viceroy could not recommend tho prayer of tho moinorial to tho Queen ' s

      favourable consideration . While this ceremony was in courso of performance at tho Castle , news ciuno from Enniskillon , dated May 16 th , of another assassination : — " A mounted policeman , " said tho despatch , " is just corno for Lord Enniskillon with news that a Protestant . farmer , niimod Lonnnrd , was shot yostorday , at fivo o clook v . ja .. near Knookminny , not ; many miloH from Jfanniakillon , on Mr . Arthur CoIob' ostato . A dispute about land , from which eomo tenants had boon evicted , was tho origin of tho outraoo . On Saturday Lonnard was at work , wlum a man , a stranger , walked up and naked if ho wanted a labourer ; Uo said no , and tho man drow a pistol , lodged lour slugs in his arm and sido , and rotroafod . Tho wounded man i « not oxpoctod to aurvivo , and tho depositions iiro to bo taken to-day . "

      Two days before , another deed similar in kind was enacted in tho North : — " Tho villago of Donaghadoo , " sayfl ft Belfast paper , " was thrown into a mtato of the groatosfc excitement on Saturday morninglaat , by tho reportof a woman having boon murdered by her husband on tho proooding niffht . ino awful dood was comjoittod . by a mm PiMK * YYUUftm

      M ' Crcady , an innkeeper . The body was greatly mutilated , one arm having been broken in two places , and the other much mangled ; the skull was literally laid open , and one of the legs was also broken . The weapon used was a heavy kitchen poker , which was much bent , and the hall and part of the stair-carpeting were covered with blood . Tho wall , in several places , exhibited marks where the blows intended for the deceased missed their aim . The wretched man is in custody , and the body lies in the kitchen awaiting the coroner ' s inquest . Tho causes of quarrel were jealousy and intemperance . " . . ' But in the same country there are also happier signs . The Cork Exhibition is rapidly making way , and meets with steady encouragement . A School of Design is about to be established at Waterford . And , far better

      than all , is the almost universal concurrence of opinion that a greater breadth of land is under tillage and cultivation than has been known for many years .

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      DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL ART . Among other consequences of the interest created in objects of art intended for useful purposes , and the attempt which has grown out of that interest to blend the useful and the beautiful , is the Department of Practical Art , which has been annexed to the Board of Trade , and placed under the able superintendence of Mr . H . Cole . The rooms of the department are in Marlborough House , where chambers have been set apart as class rooms , a theatre for lecturesj and a museum . The collection of manufactures in the last was privately inspected by the Queen on Monday , and opened to the public on Thursday . To form the basis of this museum a grant of 5 , 000 ? . was awarded from the Treasury for the purchase of suitable specimens from the Great Exhibition . Of this sum 4 , 217 Z . Is . 5 d . has been" expended in the following proportions : —Articles exhibited on the foreign side of the Exhibition , 2 , 0751 . 9 s . ; articles exhibited on the British side , 8651 . 11 s . hd . ; articles exhibited by the East India Company , 1 , 276 Z . Is . The relative expenditure according to the class of objects purchased is as follows : ¦— -Woven fabrics , 996 Z . 16 s . 4 d . ; metal works , 1 , 371 ? . 0 s . 6 ^ .: enamels , 844 ? . 12 s . ; ceramic manufactures , 312 Z . 16 s . Id . ; wood carvings , 691 Z . 16 s . 6 d . Mr . Owen Jones has compiled" a catalogue , and in the prefatory observations he points out with great instance the Indian manufactures as affording the most instructive examples of beauty , inform and colour , in ornamental design . This is true . They are ^ brilliant , sometimes to gorgeousness , as in the shawls , but always harmenious The direct use of gold is striking from the harmonious treatment which , controls it . The more subdued examples of embroidery , rich , but almost sombre , are ex cellent examples . And the freedom of the work , by hand , has a peculiar effect , far more pleasing than the mechanical regularity of our own patterns .

      The specimens of metal work , such as swords , shields , vases , caskets , daggers , are remarkable for the success with which ornaments of great beauty have been subdued to utility . The most notable are productions of eminent French , gold and silversmiths . Chief among these aro a hunting knife by Marrel Frores , finely ornamented on tho handle , with figures from the legend of St . Hubert , so constructed as to fit the hand and not impede its action } a sword , b y Froment Meurice : a silver flagon , by Lambcr and Eawlings ; silver specimens of great elegance from Gough of Birmingham ; and several vases from tho manufactory at Sevres . Three important contributions to tho collection have been made—tho first by tho Queen , is tho celebrated shield from tho Windsor armoury , designed and executed by Bonvcnuto Cellini ; tho second , a shield and

      vase lent by Messrs . Hunt and Koskcll , and designed an < j executed by Vecht 6 ; and the third , a silver gilt cup dosigned by Macliso , and lent by tho Society of Arts . Tho productions of Vechto aro of tho highest interest to our workers in metal , not only from their oxcolloncein design , but also from tho marvellous perfection of execution in ovory branch of tho art . ¦ . ¦ . Thoro is also a collection of designs and studios ^/ ond somo specimens of tho works of the studonts in thtj various schools of design ; not very artistic in the highen branches of nculpturo or grotesquo painting , but very promising in tho humbler walks of lace design , and srnallow oanamonts . On tho whole , it is a good beginning for a Museum of Models , and dosorvos our welcome , as au offspring of tho Exhibition of 1851 .

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      LIFE'S TRAGEDY . STEriraN Walker , a young farmer , about 27 years old , had long wooed Fanny Walker , u publican ' s daughter , living in tho vjllngo of Chcndloy , Staffordshire . Although of tho Homo name , thoy wore not rolnted . Fanny Walkor ' n parents did not like Stephen Walker , and poor Fanny was " sent out of tho way , " as many a young maid had boon before her . But Stophon waH oxcitoablo , which was not wonderful , and possessed a dangerous temper , which proved tragical eventually . Fanny came homo last week , and Stophon

      hairing of ifc , wont on Thursday to see her . Ho had a gun in his hand . Fanny was'kept a , way from hiin . upstairH . Stophon parleyed with the mother , uiul . growvery angry . Pitying his stato , Fanny , against parental advice , walked down stairs . A conversation ensued , during which tho gun was laid aside . Poor Fannywould aho have him—she could not—sho objected " to his course of life . " Stephen , inflamod beyond control , ( matches up tho gun , and IovoIh it at Fanny . Tho mother rushes botweon thorn , puahoH Stophon out of tho room , and bolts tho door . Fanny still remains . Stephen is implacable . Fanny wiU » otstar . Suddonlytho

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      May 22 , 1852 . ] T HE LEADER . ^ 85

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1852, page 485, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1936/page/9/