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    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 furnished by a national clergy , if that body would in good faith bestow itself to expound to the unenlightened poor " laws of Nature and of the God of Nature . " 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 . Believed 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 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 mission which every member of it is supposed to 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 . Kichard Perry was brought up at Lambeth Police-court , charged with killing his wife . The wretched woman had come home intoxicated , very late , after the j ) risoner was in bed . Early in the morning they were heard to quarrel , and she was heard to threaten the " ruih ' an" 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 he called some people in the home to assist him , as his wife " had no strength in her . " The woman was dead . Her life had boon sacrificed in a brutal quarrel . But these closing scones nvc commonly the least horrible part of the existence which they disclose . That the woman was quite dead was in itself a shocking diet , but how much more horrible is it to discover that the whole of her hack , from the

    head downwards , was a mass of bruises . She had lived a life of such subjection ; and how horrible that must have been ! flow terrible the state of mind of tin ; man who could bo the instrument daily of inflicting buch an existence upon the partner of his life . How horrible the state of mind of the woman ¦ whose existence ; wan a daily enduranee of that kind—a daily suffering , without a visit of help ; she not knowing how lo escjipe , or bow to appeal to the inextinguishable sp irit of justice and affection which probably lay in the middle of that case-hardened heart : but rnfher in her

    perverse indignation , in her dinensed seriNe ol justice , more exasperating the brutality which she challenged , He , on the other hand , unen - lightened as to his responsibilities , as to the discipline which ho might exercise over an erring partner—not nor fng his way in any manner , or at any time , out of that degraded or mistaken ] jf ( . _ < knowing where to turn ; and , in the desperation of n rage , justifying itself with her outrages , suddenly venting the rage of despair upon her in the shape of fatal blows . Ulows more merciful than those of former times , beciliiho they were , fatal . Hero ih work for u 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 v . 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 used 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—what is the testimony of Eichard 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 faith ? 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 .

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    HINTS TO NEW M . P / S . BY AN EXPERIENCED " STRANGER . " 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 J ) edlock that you are a martyr to your public duty . You leap into your Brougham or your Hansom , and drive to the Keform or to the Carl ton , 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 early cigar ; and they tell you that they left at ten , wlien " that solemn ass" Soand-so WJis on his legs—" his hind ones , of course ;"—but that "Dizzy" or Lord John was

    expected to be " up" every minute . You hasten out of the club back to your cab . " To the Jlouse . " You whirl along dark Pall-mall , and past deserted Charing-oross , and down empty Whitehall . It is an odd contrast , the silent streets and the busy , bustling scene , alive with light and life , oven at midnight , you are 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 the far corner , on the T / hames ; and you—is it not strange ; the policemen do not bend us you rush by P—are going to lend a , hand . The Horse Guards strike twelve ; as you pass—the ; strokes ivve'rl ) e ; ra , ting through the ; still air ; and if is an eflort of the ; parliamentary imagination to credit tlmf the ; . Imperial legislature can be ; iif work , anel flu ; Imperial iVejplcof'fhc capital—having gone ; to beel—so utterly iiielillcrcnf to if . Hut as yemr vehiclehastens em by the Brielgo , you meet a couple of cal > H galleming eastward ; you se ; e ; that . the ; y are ; carrying I lie ; familiar JaccH e > f Times ov Daily News repeirters ; anel you judge ; by the ; mael spcoel fhe ; y are ; going at that there is something " iinpe > rfanf " in progress . If is a . sign e > f life ; , anel ye > u are ; ne > w glue I ye > u left Laely De'dlock ' s in such goe > el time ; . Ye > u turn into 1 ' ulucu-ya . nl , eruinineel with , fourwhe ; elcrs , and horse's , ami gre > e > ins , anel porters ; the new House and tho old Hull uro a blaze of

    gas ; and you are satisfied and even begin te wonder how the division will so Yrm nT the well-lighted but silent hall ' of EufiTf ! Hastings , and get into the lobb y—emptv T 7 ghastly with excess of glare . Tuffnell receiv you with a wink , or Mackenzie with a erin V haul down your white vest , and square your tr * and make your curls all taut ; lift your hat si A ' along the vestibule , and enter the House a you have gone on , since you alighted from " von J cab , you have heard , from porter , policemen messengers , stray members , and the whinne ™ i « that " Mr . Disraeli is up ; " and hints have flS

    about your ears that he is making a " great speech . " As you reach the vestibule , you 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 door , your every vein is bursting with eagerness .

    The House of Commons is before you , and your sensations undergo an instantaneous collapse . Your eye takes in the scene ; a full House listening , too , but lazily and loungingly ; the cheer 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 Lorel John , and faces the

    House . He speaks slower ; he 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 bee-onies more oratorical , and he fixes attention . "What he is now saying is the manifesto of a party ; jind not a syllable is lost . He is ncaring a meaning , and his articulation is elaborate ; and the ; re is a eleael silence . But he is still unexcitcd ;

    dexterously and quietly ho e ; ludcs the meaningsoars above it , in one ; or two involuted closing sentences , delivered with a louder voice ; and with move ; ve ; heinent gestures ; and having got tho e-hee-r sit the ; right spot , this grnif orator , concluding , sinks into his seat , as nonch alant us though he hael beem answering a question about ' Fahrenheit , and immediately ( Mackenzie having ( old him how the division will be ;) Lurns to hhic Lord Hemry Lennox whether Glrisi was in tf °°

    voie ; e that night ! This is an ave'rage ; appearanco of things on an average great de'bnto night ; and this _ lri ^ daguerre ; ofypo of Disraeli on sue ; h an exviiHion ^ a man proper fe > be ; singled out , as a specimen u House ; ol' Commons' orator , fhftt ho ih 1 <»« ' ' cial " le « ade ; r of fhollou . se , " anel that the ; him » - lion of his life ; ( anel what such men aim nt w J hit , ) has been to sue : e ; e ; e « el in that iiNSe-mMy-Iooho affifuele of the ; I louse answers to tin' '; UHlMli mill inn : oi Mil ) inmnu wio" - i l ! in

    chatty style of flu ; orator . The-re ; is no ( ' ( / ol < ne > ss in the ; ussevmbly , anel the ; re is no vl !' '" ]( jri vehemence in the ; speaker aelelre > ssing j < - ' „ flie ; assembly of" the lira I ; ge ; ntle ; men in K » r <» l ^ anel the' sty le ; of the ; p lne ; e ; , you erun ne'e , ' e' « sy anel tin ; geTitle ; inanly sty le ; . Those > " *¦ ( t nioiily e \ evw felle > ws do not want mi '"« , ,,. . or an " appeal : eneh has seffleel how he WH , anel all they re-quire ; is a " preW tVo . n «¦ P ^ , . sfafe > sine ; n for anel against the ; vote IVH • ^ j Iiiih e-, ommanele > el fhe > m all by l >< " « tf ultt '" . ' , his orafeu-y e-e > nsisfs of * lucid statPiuenlrt < I n tie-al e ; n . He ; H , muele ; agre ; eal > lo by politc « i < wH ^ parties and rendered amusing by ^ VVJ

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1852, page 922, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1953/page/14/