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    Judges are all talking in the same strain " Transportation I" they cry . But , if none of the existing colonies will receive transported convicts ? Then , says the Times , let us send the incorrigibles " to Caffraria , "— and so provoke a new Cape rebellion ; " to Vancouver ' s Island , " - —and so make another JS ' orfolk Island ; " to the Falkland Islands , "ditto 5 or to the islands that gem the Pacific , — and so stud that distant ocean with a multiplicity of Norfolk Islands ! Denied transportation , England is put in no worse position than other countries which are without

    colonies—Prussia or Prance , for instance . Are we more criminal , that we are less able to contend with our criminal population ? Do we not pretend that we are wiser , more c practical ? ' Have we really arrived at that pass that we must proceed at once to chain or kill the 16 , 000 Markets that keep " Tyburniensis " in trepidation ? "We might grant the light to kill as many Marleys as could be found ; but are we not sometimes mistaken ? Are there not Copes mingled among the Marxeys ? Are the 16 , 000 really

    16 , 000 criminals ? It is a critical question ^ If men -will follow the inquiries of those who have taken the pains to go among the criminal orders and the classes which recruit them , we shall find that a large proportion of that 16 , 000 are not there by their own free will or the impulse of malice , hut by the neglect of those who ought to know better . They have been , perhaps , thrown out of work ; they may have

    churches ought not to be built without arrangements for admitting the ' lower orders / and treating them as Christians , instead of sending them into corners and galleries , and so ^ degrading them by social comparisons in the House of God . When we have given - to the seducible classes strength against temptation ; when

    we have ceased to forfeit our claim by unequal justice ; when we have put ourselves right before the highest Power by equal religion ; then we may ask what we shall do to deal effectually with the 16 , 000 , or the incorrigible part of that number . Pour thousand offenders for a population of two millions and a half ! Is that so formidable ?

    Would it not be possible , even within the bounds of our own country , to construct great prison establishments open to the view , surrounded by a deep ha-ha , with aninsurmountable wall in the midst , and there to set the incorrigibles upon supporting themselves by compulsory industry . In that rough school we might find that some few of the

    ineorrigibles were not incorrigible . Those that were so we should force into a more healthy mode of life than they , with their stunted and confined faculties , can shape for themselves . It appears to us that in this whole process more would be done to preserve life , than by hanging up twenty Mableys for every Cote , or adopting the indiscriminate use of Mr . Cheek ' s " Stunner . " '

    been born out of work . The Daily Neivs was showing on Thursday how the whole class of domestic servants are incompetent , idle , dishonest , aud treacherous , because they have no training to their work ; so , badgered by harsh masters and mistresses that will not teach them , they are cast upon their own resources , and are open to be seduced by the epicureans that abandon them ,, or by the gentry prowling about Tyburnia that use them as a means of admission to" the

    household . We have no schools that the young of the country can go to ; we make destitution a disgrace ; we have thousands upon thousands of females around whom every temptation is crowded , and supply them with no teaching , with no intelligence , no knowledge of the world , to prevent their becoming the procuresses of crime . If we look a little closer , perhaps we . shall find that the 16 , 000 might be reduced ; and , in point of fact , Mr . ADDEitLEr has calculated that , by withdrawing those who ought , to be taught better , we might reduce the number of criminals by three-fourths .

    When we have done that , as a mere matter of school teaching and industrial provision , we have then other duties to perform * Before we can demand full protection of the law against Avrong , we must ourselves do equal justice . Police magistrates have lately astounded ' gentlemen' by inflicting upon them the same punishments that they would to the ' lower orders . ' Yet to this day a

    HotiiscuiLD can command an amount ot police assistance for following his cash , which is denied to an humble victim ; wliilo the highborn thief shall be spared under charitable arrangements , with charitable constructions that his propensity is a ' disease . ' Small pity fox that disease in a man whom liunger bids to steal . Equal justice first , and then , complete protection .

    But we speak to tho consciences of men , — arraign them before a ' higher tribunal , ' and bo forth . Through what influence ? Through the influence of religion . And where shall that be taught ? In . church And yet we have waited until this day , until the appointment of Dr . Tait , before wo have it confessed by a Bishop of London that

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    LESSONS TO JOURNALISTS . Tue exasperated ILord Hastings called on the editor of the 'Norfolk JVeivs to punish him . Being not a man of proud stature , andiinding a gentleman who could have hung him over a clothes-peg , as a certain Hibcudbeight was hung not many years ago , he confined the punishment to violent infliction , of " words that burn . " His behaviour was purely ridiculous , and liot criminal , as it might have been had Jacob Astley possessed the valour of Thomas Astlet , the good knight killed at Evesham . Or was it tlie thrift of Gilpin that made his hand ' shake , but delay to strike , " like tlie hand of Death in the epic ? Certain it is that the writhing Justice , who imprisoned the poor labourers of Holt , made his way out of the office , and that all Norfolk is laughing at him . But there are Hastings out of Norfolk , jjyot to recal the painful follies of Lord I / ucAisr , or the blunder of the Dumbarton Sheriff , there has been a little burlesque at Oldham . The actors were : a Mr . Fjexdinck

    Chairman of the Board of Guardians , aud fourteen other individuals ; a fifteenth , Mr . WiUTWOiiTiT , exempted himself from the ridicule elicited by the j > roceedings . Well , then , it was declared by Pielding- that the Oldham Chronicle had attacked the board . Neither he nor the board could point out any inaccuracies that have appeared iti the reports or articles published by that journal , but they were exasperated , and therefore , in their exasperation , could think of nothing

    moro dignified than expelling tho reporter . The reporter was expelled ; but not until the guardians had uttered several ludicrous tirades , without a shadow of an attempt to prove that they hnd been misrepresented or maligned . Of course , under such circumstances , the affair is * a compliment to the Oldham Chronicle . We notice it , however ,

    chiefly because it illustrates tho growth of a foolish feeling on the part of petty individuals , and of corporate bodies equally petty , to tamper with the press , some resolving to intimidate an editor with a walking-stick , others by expelling a reporter , others by going to a jury for damages . All tlieso means havo hitherto failed j and it is time that others were adopted .

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    PENS AND DAGGERS . A weekly centemporary recommends the Italian patriots to revive no bitter bygones This wise and charitable advice is given apropos of the narrative we lately published of M . G-ALiiEifGA ' s scheme to assassinate the father of the PiedmonteseKing , from whom h ? has been glad to receive employments and rewards . " Let bygones be bygones . " But the proceedings of M . Gajgienga , which have extorted the testimony that has ruined him , are not bygones . The friends of Italy will

    understand what we mean when we say that , not content with vilifying M . Mazzini in his pretentious but untrustworthy work on Piedtese history ^ he has since been engaged in writing against him and his party . M . Mazzini detected him , and M . Gallenga well knows with what object these attacks were levelled against his compatriot and former friend—the great revolutionist from whose table he took the dagger with the handle of Tapis-lazuli . It is not a forgotten act of a

    young enthusiast that M . Mazzisu has punished ; ib is a perpetual attack from whicli he has shielded himself by unmasking the author of anonymous insinuations , not injurious to an individual alone , "but to the cause of Italy , and the true interests of the Italian people . There are some things whicli we should be glad to count among bygones ^ -the libels that are sent from "Turin to London , and imposed upon certain of our contemporaries ; the English misrepresentations inspired by Italian , malice ; the false accounts of Mazzox ' s

    political position ; the miserable efforts made to increase the popularity of the Piedmontesa Court , by calumniating all men who are not courtiers or their agents . These are not bygones . They are the work of the day . Their authors are persons who must be exposed , because some of them occupy positions into which they have crept by abandoning their duties , satirizing their friends , and forgetting the afflictions of Italy . Other letters may be produced in addition to that from Egypt , the publication of which M . Gai-¦ lekga ' s friends affect to invite ; bat of which M . G-AXLisifGA himself has not ventured to

    furnish an account even to the Opinionc . This we may say , —that there have been in certain quarters attempts to ruiuM . Mazzint . and that when he printed at Genoa theletteiwhich , within three months , has become celebrated , lie did no more than had "been rendered necessary i ' the sake of his reputation , aud for the sake of the principles of which he is so eloquent and so honourable an advocate . As for M . Gali / bnga , he has sunk into ignominious obscurity . Compelled to resign the decorations lie had not been ashamed

    to wear at the Court of victor . Emmanuel , whose father ' s steps he . haunted withaknifeiu his hand , lie can never again come forward under pretence of serving the Italian cause . Miserable as liis 'discomfiture has been , ho ' merits it , for he had not played a patriotic or manly part . Ho was afraid to use a daggeragainst Charles AiiBEitT , but in the service

    of Charles Albert ' s son . he has used a pea which he hoped would give him the privilege of being an onvier and a detractor with impunity . In self-defence , tho distinguished Genoese has recriminated , and has crushed his assailant . This is not a " squabble of Italian patriots . " It is an exposure rendered unavoidable by M . Gallenga himself . Bofctor that tho world should be witness to

    this quarrel than that secret agencies should be at work to undermine the foundation ot Italian hopes . But we are spared tho tasZt of apologizing for the letter from Genoa . M . GaltjKnga accepts it , and is doing public penance at Turin . He ia now indeed a bygone—and a bygone we are willing he shall be .

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    December 1331856 . ] THE LEADER . 1189 ¦ " ^^^ ____ ^ _—__^____^_ — _ . . i ¦ i I , - ¦ _ - ... .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 1189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2171/page/13/