Current:

Leader (1850-1860), 1st July 1854, Edition 1 of 2, Page 611, Untitled Article

Page 611
Page 11
11 of 24

On this page

  • Text (4)
  • 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

      hoped that his brother Byles had acted with sincerity in expressing the defendant ' s regret at having written this letter ; hat he could not help agreeing with Mr . Lefroy , that a man who could , tinder any circumstances or from any provocation , write such a letter to his wife , from whom lie was divorced , was not fit society , for gentlemen . He quite agreed that a man who could write such a letter was not fit to sit down with gentlemen . This was assuming it to be untrue , and it was not pretended that these ladies were the abandoned characters which he had stated them to be ; but , on the other hand , the plaintiff ' s counsel had gone out of his way , and had put these ladies into the box in order to defy the other side to cross-examine them . The statements were , in fact , admitted to be false ; and nothing could justify a man in saying things which he knew to bo false . The defendant had sent the letter to his wife ; and as to the question of publication , he was of opinion that this was sufficient . Verdict , 1000 / . damages . Mr . Serjeant Byles tendered a bill of exceptions to the summing up .

      Untitled Article

      " London : 45 , Weymouth-streefc , Portland-place , 2 nd June , 1854 . " Gentxemen , —In the Morning Advertiser of yesterday I observe a letter , which is introduced as being a recent one from Mazzini , addressed to an Abolition Society at Manchester . The letter is , however , without < 3 atej and as Mazzini is not now in London to answer for himself , we are left to guess at the time it was written . It speaks against slavery in general , but not a word occurs in it of American affairs in any way ; and at concludes by the emphatic and weighty declaration , that free men only can achieve

      EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY AND AMERICAN SLAVERY .

      ' the work of freedom ; ' and that c throughout all Europe' . . . . desecrated by arbitrary tyrannical powers '— ' by Czars , Emperors , and Popes' . . . . * are millions of white slaves , suffering , struggling , expiring , in Italy , in Poland , iu Hungary , ' whose emancipation he earnestly entreats may not be forgotten in zeal for that of the black race . I regret , therefore , to see the letter so introduced , by the gentleman giving it publicity , as to lead to the impression that it was intended by Mazzini to bear upon the exciting slave controversy now convulsing the United States .

      " In Mazzini ' s absence , the great importance of an explanation going out to America by the mail , which will carry his letter , and the knowledge I have of the perfect understanding which exists between yourselves and Mazzini , induce me to ask , in justice to myself and the question , that you will correct me if , in recent statements of mine to friends at home , I have , through my misapprehension , misstated the views of the republican leaders in regard to European interference with American internal affairs . " From my repeated interviews with you all , during my stay in London , and our close and earnest discussion of all the leading points of your policy , I have felt authorised to say that it is your deliberate judgment

      that such interference was in opposition to the principle of State rights , a cardinal principle of the democratic statesmen of Italy , Hungary , France , Poland , and Germany . A paper declaring this , was , beforebeing sent to America , expressly shown to Mnzzini ; and was then sent to the Louisville Democrat ( Kentucky ) , and will be found in a March issiio of that journal . It states , as the sentiment of the European republican leaders in London , that they have faith in the honour and generosity and justice of the Southern States , that they will do of themselves what is right in regard to the slaves , and the better for being left calm and free of irritation from any extorn al influences .

      " The republican statesmen of Europe , deeply interested in tlto history of the struggles and glorious success of the great Republic of America , must kuow that tho existence of slavery in the United States is an inheritance from the British Govornment , and that it involves at the present day questions of much groator magnitudo than the simplo cash value of tho slaves ; and that social and political equality cannot be created by foreign intervention . But that the wliolo history of the United States as a government , and us a people , shows that they have practically douo more than any other nation for tho advancement of tho African race . " And that , in taking tho lead of every government in the tforld , in the abolition of the slave truck 1 , which was continued many years after by tho British Government ;

      " In the condition of tho ncgroos in the Southern States , who < iro not , as iu Italy , Hungary , 1 'Yuneu , and Poland , n refined and civilised people abased nnd crushed by tho tyranny of their rulers , but n benighted race advancing under tho care of their American masters from tho bnrbnrism which led thorn to sell imch other into slavery for a few trinketH , to a highly respectable grmlo of civilisation nnd Christianity ) tho visible proof of which is shown in tno prosperity and # ood government of tho American nogrro republics of Liberia , whoso respectable president is u manumitted American aluvc , from the Southern Stuto of Virginia ; " In tho establishment of thia Amcrieo-African

      colony , by the purchase of several hundred miles of slave coast , and the appropriation , by state legislation and individual donation , of hundreds of thousands of dollars for the comfortable passage and prosperous establishment of the American blacks ; the most generous , the most disinterested act of benevolence ever shown by one people great and powerful , to another inferior and weak , through which gleams for all known ages , the first light which has beamed upon Ethiopia , a benevolence in which the southern state governments and southern , masters have been the leaders and munificent patrons ; " In that the United States is the only country on earth where white men and women are really free , and where even the soldier and sailor in service is not under the degradation of the lash ;

      " Lastly , —In the heroic republican , act of the chivalrous Ingraham , a citizen of the southern state , who struck a blow for free citizenship , which resounded under every throne in Europe ; " In all these instances , they must recognise a national character , to which can safely be trusted all questions of its own internal policy , with the certainty of a solution honourable to America , to Christianity , and to mankind . " They know that strife and ill-blood between the northern and southern people of the United States , are music and luxury to the enemies of democracy , now enthroned on the necks of the people of the European Continent ; and must feel that , at this moment , critical of the fate of millions on millions of the finest races on earth , struggling for the sway of mind over force , of free thought over brute obedience ,

      it is most urgently important that then * only unshackled friends on earth—the people of the United States—should harmonise all differences ; so that they may present to Europe an unbroken front , antl give vigour to the movement having for its aimthat the virtue and intellect of Europe shall guide its destinies ! " Satisfied as I am that the republicans of Europe •—because of their appreciation of the Constitution of the United States , and of their joy in the onward and expansive career of our country and peopleoffer the only element of power that would be faithful to America , in the event of the United States becoming involved in a war with any European monarchy , I am anxious that no misrepresentations , designed or accidental , should place their chosen representatives in a false position before any portion of the American people .

      " With these views I respectfully ask you to say whether or not I am justified in assuring friends in the United . States that the republican representatives of Europe , do in no way desire , to interfere with any domestic question in the United States , and especially with one wherein , besides the subject of slavery , so many other considerations of a political character are involved . " Your faithful friend , " Geohgh N . Sanders . "To Louis Kossuth and others , representatives of Jeifcrsouiau Republicanism in Europe . "

      KOS 8 UTH S UEl'LY . " 21 , Alpha-road , Kegents Park , London , June 3 rd , lS . 'H . " Dear Sir , —Upon carefully reading your letter , I reply , that while deploring the existence of slavery anywhere , all my principles are against foreign interference with the domestic affairs of another nation . Besides , though be it from natural necessity , be it from the impassivity of its loading statesmen , the United States do not yet appear conscious pf their competent position ; still I consider the strength and

      prosperity of the only republican power on earth so important to tho future destinies of the world , that I certainly would never contribute anything to its internal divisions . Nay , true to my principles , I cannot recognise any division in America ; I look to the brotherhood of tlio great Republic as a whole , and have too high a respect for the . American people , as one undivided body of sincere republicans , as not to believe they ¦ will of themselves , with all the light before ) thorn , make their nation a model for every other .

      " You are quite right in your belief that Mazzhn ' a letter has no reference to tho present agitation in the United States . " With high regard and sincere esteem , - " VTours respectfully , " L . Kos&ejth . " George N . Sanders . "

      Untitled Article

      THE ROYAL VUKE HOSPITAL CASK . Tine invcHtimition before Mr . Coroner Unkex na to tho death of tho cliild Kielmrdhou , « t . tliu Itoyul Free Hospital , wus renamed on Tuesday . Nlr . Brent , Deputy Coronw , wun the chief wit liens . On t lie night of tho Kith of Mhv , tlto copy of iv lot lor l ' mm ltiuhardinMi wan received by Mr . \ Vuliloy , calling upuu Kvhuh , the uolicitnr , to htop tho iiuiuo . it , Mxoii Tor tho next ilny . That , iinhiwd Mr . WnkU'y to countommnd it . lint next < l « iy ho dircult'd Mr . Hruiit to iixiuiio wlii'tlior itichiirilKon had rvnlly written tho lotter . Mr . ltroul wiw Mra . lllchnrdaun , and who declared that the ituiucut had ik > L

      been stopped with her consent . He also saw Bichardson at the house of bis employer , and he said tha t since he had signed the letter referred to he had altered his mind . la order to obtain an explanation Mr . Brent next -went to see Evans ; the result of the interview was , that EvaaB sent bis clerk with Mr . Brent again to Eichardson , who said he had been deceived by the lawyer , and repeated his desire that the inquest should go on . Mr . Brent and the clerk then went to Mr . Wakley , who sent to Evans for the original document signed by Richardson ; but Evans refused to give it np ^ and th « clerk came back saying that Richardson was satisfied . Then Mr . Wakley , -who had neither directly nor indirectly attempted to throw any impediment in the way o £ the inquest , directed the discbarge of the jury . Richardson , the fatherwas recalled and examined by

      , Evans . He threw no new light upon the matter ; but in the course of the cross-examination Evans handed him a document , the demand for the inquest , and asked , him if the signature \ yas his , as he had previously sworn . " By your deception it is not , " was the reply , followed by applause Richardson said the reason he had sworn that the signature was his was , that three or four documents were shown to him at the same time , and he mistook the right one . He also read two items from Evans ' s bill . One of them was this : " 16 th May . Attending Mr . Steele , of Lincoln ' s Innfields , informing him what had passed , and that you would not prosecute the inquiry further on being paid 201 . " The other was : " Attending Mr . Steele to be paid 100 ? . ; charged to Richardson 6 s . 8 d . " The inquest was resumed on Thursday , llr . Thomas "

      Chaplin , a surgeon and apothecary to the Bloomsbury Dispensary , deposed that he was present there on two occasions when Mr . Cooper sounded the child . He also himself sounded , but did not discover a stone in the bladder . On testing the urine he found some indications of stone . Being asked whether the spasmodic action caused by the introduction of a sound might not cause a stone to be enfolded by the mucous coat of the bladder so that it could not be detected by the staff , he said that this sometimes happens , but chiefly in old people , and not in the young . Mary Roper , a nurse , had held the child in her lap when he was first examined at the hospital . Mr . Scobell said there was no stone at all ; Mr . Cooke said tlere was one , and the child must come into the hospital . He did so . on Tuesday , the 11 th of Aprii , and the witness ' stayed with the

      child , the mother having told Mr . Scobell that she wished her to be present at the operation . ' The child played about in the ward . He screamed very much when making water , and his bowels were very confined . On Thursday witness took the child to see its mother , and returned about one o'clock , wheu the hospital nurse made her get the child undressed in a great hurry , for the operation at which sha promised that witness should be present . Afterwards sha saw the doctors would not allow it . She . had before thia taken away the child , and the doctors were Very nearly two hours over him . The day-nurse brought him back at a quarter to four , dashed him down on the bed , and said : " It would be a good job if the dirty little wretch was dead . " He was left there , and uo instructions were given as to what was to be done for him . He called for drink , and the

      nurse came , and said : " I will jump down your damned little throat , teasing me for drink . " No surgeon saw the child after the operation until half past ten the following morning . A . nurse gave the child brandy between five and six on Thursdaj-, the day after the operation . On Fridaymorning Mr . Cooke and Mr . Scobell ordered brandy again , and said the child would not get over it . On Saturday morning they came again , shook their heads , aud ordered more brandy . They saw no more of it , and the cliild died before eight on Saturday morning . On the evening of the operation witness heard the mother ask Mr . Scobell if there was any stone in the child , and ho said ho did not think there was . Mr . llotort Home Popham , member of the medical Faculty of Glasgow , had been present as a spectator at the operation ; the first steps of which were mado in tho usual way , the child being under the effects of chloroform . Mr . Cooke having failed with a iirst forceps used a second , and repeatedly introduced his iingcr into tho wound . The

      witness saw no istone . JMr . CooUe said something to Mr . Wakley , junior , who hitherto hud taken no part in the operation , but now introduced his finger into tho wound . A staff or sound was now introduced , witness believes , by Mr . Wakley . Witness , and other gentlemen present , listened to tho sound by the car and the stethoscope ovor tho bladder . Some said they heard the stone , witness said ho did not . Tho operation proceeded , all tho rest of it being done by Mr . Wakley ; but what instruments he used witness could not say positively . Mr . Wakley did not succeed in finding u stono . Tho child wns kept longer under tho operation than witness would havo kept him : it would hnvo been bettor that ho had been removed when Mr . Cooko had finished , Tho whole time tho child was under operation wns ubout an hour and a half . After it ho was in a stato of collapso from loss of blood and prolonged use of chloroform , which is itself a depressing agent . That would bo itself a reason for ( shortening tho operation . The proceedings were ngain adjourned to Monday .

      Untitled Article

      MISC ULLANKOUS . Vkuy guy tho Court has been this week . Tho Queen , licfr husband , and some of the children visited Mr . Albert Smith's exhibition on Wednesday . Tho roynl pair bavc visited the Italian Opera twice ; tho l ' rincosa ' s and tho Opera Comiquo once , l ' rinco Albert lias done civil mul military business . Ono day wo IInd him inspuctiiiK tho Essex . Rifles ; another looking over the splendid lodging-houHOB In Victoriastreet ; a third attending nt the llatrrow School spcodi-tlny . The sober business of politics has occupied I he . Queen two days ; on Wednesday Lord Cliu'umltHi , and on Thursday the Earl of Aberdeen , had uiulU-ncos . The young King of Portugal and hia brother left

      Untitled Article

      July 1 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . sll

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 1, 1854, page 611, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2045/page/11/