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abolish tlie action for criminal conversation . Who pointed out these omissions ? A man r&Daarkeible for his mastery of law , his clear intellect , and his strong Conservatism—Lord IrXNDHtritST . [ Lord Xyndhttbst is a good measure of the extent to -which reforms might be carried without amounting to what ¦ would be called innovation or subversiveness . Yet the Lord Chawcei-loe does not go even so far as the Lyndhtjust measure .
The second reading was carried . Oxjoip and Exeter stand ready to destroy the Bill in Committee , if the dissolution do not postpone the subject altogether . The Bill , therefore , constitutes nothing more than a markthe highest mark to which the tide of legislation has yet risen on this subject .
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DUTY OP THE UNREPRESENTED . Onte-sixth of tlie voters of the United Kingdom , and one-fortieth of the adulfc male population , will shortly be vested with authority to elect , if they please , a majority of the House of Commons , As there are divergencies of opinion , however , among the electoral sixth , and the national fortieth , one million of men out of six millions will divide the chance of establishing the Government of Great Britain for seven years , upon Tory or liberal principles . To every man who has a vote there are five men who have none ; how then can the unrepresented be said to have duties connected with a general election f
They can influence the electors ; they can compare their own opinions , by shows of liands , with those of the privileged body . It would be a very important result if , at a large number of county and borough returns , the decision of a show of hands at the nomination should have been found to have reversed tipon going to the poll : that would
be one test of the nature of public opinion , as contradicted by electoral opinion . The unrepresented should be careful to attend the elections in . large bodies , and make their voices heard where their suffrages will not be received . They should exhibit no sullenness , wliich would be construed as apathy , but should contrast their broad and multitudinous masses with the shrivelled
shadows so often , called constituencies . Wherever it ia practicable , a candidate should be brought forward on advanced popular principles , so that the returning officer should be forced , upon a show of hands , to declare him elected , although it may not be intended to drive his opponents to the poll : in no case should this opportunity be missed . The liberal party might thus gain a considerable accession of moral influence in the House of Commons .
At the snrno time tho members of the new House of Commons should carry with , them to London a cloud of petitions from tho "unrepresented classes . This would stimulate tho liberal party in Parliament , and force on a seriouB discussion between the advocates and the enemies of reform . Wo can conceive no fallacy more injurious than that which supposes tho unrepresented part of tho population to have no duties to form
per dunng tho period of a general election .. They have tho more important duties to perform , hecausc they are lmrcprcscnted . -Inoy havo to malco an advance towards representation , lleform will bo , iu all probability tho question that will ultimately chvulo tho next Parliament into an Opposition and a Ministerial party . Now , it would Do a grievous error to commit tho interests ot tho non-electors to tho keeping of tho doctors , and to trust implicitly in thorn
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£ 1000 KEWA . TID . Coloinetj TuLtocn and Sir John- M'Nkilt , might have rejected without pain the offer of 1000 ? . each , for forbearing to assert their position as gentlemen , had Lord Panmube iiscussed the point grammatically -with them . Since he stumbled in hia syntax , however , they could not but bo resentful . They have not learned that when men do their duty in England , they receive small Bums in payment ; but that when they fail in their duty , stars and crosses are rewarded as official consolations . A reward of 2 O 0 £ . has been offered
for tho capture of tho lledhill . highwayman ; tho services of Colonel Tuiixoon and Sir . Touts M'NeiMj are severally assosacd at iivo times that amount . Pive acts of cletcctivo sagacity constitute a claim aa great as that of the Commissioners who explained wliy a British army perished , and by tliat explanation saved another army from destruction .
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him to every possible use . W iliiam Padmeb was represented by the snappers up of atrocious rumours as a man who lad spent his whole life in murdering , who had sprinkled a neighbourhood with the graves of his poisoned relatives , -who had possessed himself of all the infernal arts in order to cut off his fellowcreatures .- "Without assigning any limit to that miserable man ' s capacity for guilt , we may doubt whether it is a wholesome practice to assert a multitude of assassinations on
the proof of one . Bacon , charged with having killed his two children at Walworth , was next arraigned as a matricide ; his mother ' s body -was exhumed 5 his father's name was then whispered , and the legend of infamy grew until the horror once attaching to William Palmer was transferred to William Bacon . He had committed arson
•—lie had forged—he had robbed a friend— * he had driven one wife mad—a child by a former marriage had been buried in suspicious haste—a neighbour had disappeared ; by the time he is tried a calendar of crimes will hanglike a convict garment upon him—a San Benito of pitiless social suspicion . It is even imputed to him for wickedness that lie is " a monstrous eater . " Inspector Young- and Sergeant Broad and Constable Keed dispute the honour of having been " superpute the honour of having been '
superhumanly active" in breaking open the sepulchre in which the poisoner had laid his victim . So rancorous , ind eed , has been the detecting spirit of the Stamford population , that the authorities . have teen wearied by their importunity , and have refused to disturb any more churchyard mould . Many persons remember the tales that flevr from tongue to tongue after Bitrke was hanged . How a great house had been discovered inDrurylane , where dead bodies were kept in stock ;
how the arch-murderer had paid a battalion of agents , to whom he forwarded specifications of the ' subject' in demand ; how many a young girl in the country , lured to town by false pi'omises , had entered a certain door , and never emerged , except in a shell , by night . This sort of appetite goes far to prove that the British intellect has not been very highly rectified since the age of sorcery and witch-burning . The lurid lights of superstition—for superstition it is—still strike
upon the minds even of persons wlio would pay for the prophecies of "VVizard Harrison , " or touch with silver the palm of a gipsy , whose native Devonshire complexion has been dyed with walnut juice . By all means let murder be traced and the murderer convicted j but do not encourage this unscrupulous multiplication of imaginary crimes , wlrich feed the fancy with poison , and stain it with blood . Above all , whatever may happen , let us not have a Palmer excitement every three months in the year .
BACON IN THE MANTLE OP TALMElt A susraoxKD criminal becomes at onco the property of malignant gosaipa , who convert
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SUPER PLUKINA BABYLONIS . They sat down and wept by the waters of Batbylon , and thought of the day when , although Baron de Rothsohild could not sit in the high place of Salem , as colleague of Loid John Russell , thab stupendous representative of an afflicted race married a " desolate daughter" to one of the " scattered all weeping away , " - at Grunnersbury Park . There was something paralysing to an imagination not so weak as that of Jjsukins" in the fairyland light and beauty of the Chiswick
feast . It was a cooling sight to see Befjamitt Disraeli , of pale , Asiatic complexion seated like one of Zenoibia's councillors in that eye-delighting saloon , trellised with flowers , roofed with crystal , multiplied by mirrors , and suffused with a rosy glow from flutings of pink silk . " Only the plate of the family was used . ; " assuredly the Rothschilds , always lending , never borrow . No ; they can lay covers for a hundred and forty and their friends can cast at the feet of the bride six breakfast services of massive silver , and one of chased gold , "besides a parasol of lace , every rib of which is tipped with
oval-shaped emeralds and pearls , so that Baroness Alphonse in future may ride if she please in the chariot of the Queen of Sheba . Wonderful were the candlesticks , fit for Solomon's Temple ; prodigious were the fans , each sumptuous enough for a Sultana ; but the Lydian gift of the great promoter was most marvellous of all— -a cheque , they say , for a million ! l , O 00 , 000 Z . ' . Not possible , is it ? Bat then , do not the Rothschilds " date beyond monarchies ? " Are not these their savings since the Dispersion ? Mr . Disraeli said in His etnerial Caucasian "way , that the bridegroom had found a treasure " dearer than rubies . " Ah ! but Baron Ai >
pnoNSE de Uothschild has the treasure and the rubies too ; " one set of jewels alone , the gift of his father , being worth 8 O , O 0 OZ . ; " and the tulle illusion" draping the bride , revealed a Persian , luxury of pearls . The popular man in England on "Wednesday morning was the Benedict of tlie Bourse , but was it on account of the " far above rubies , " or tlie rubies themselves ? "We know not ; yet there is an unctuous loving style of talking about " almost priceless floral gems , " and" triumpTis
of Gtunter ' s art , " " decorations of pure white and gold , " and " costly chandeliers , " and velvet and frippery , that might almost tempt a cynical outsider to doubt whether the lilies of the valley , that neither toil nor spin , would have a chance of respectful recognition in the presence of this gilded gold . Buy Palestine , Baron Rothschild ; and wear your purple on . a throne ! The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem , we are persuaded , will be happy on that condition to " say grace . "
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Manchester Mechanics' Institution and Exhibition op Industrial Akt . — -Tho thirty-third annual meeting of tho Manchester Mechanics' Institution , and tho last that -will lo held in the old building , Cooperstreet , took place on the evening of Thursday week , and drew together some of tho most distinguished men of tho town , including Mr . J . G . Dyer ; Mr . " VV * . Fimbain , C . B ., F . R . S . ; Mr . Roberts , C . E . ; Mr . Fothergill , C . K . ; and others . Mr . Oliver Hoywood presided , and mentioned that some gentlemen were proposing to establish a Working Men's College in connoxion with tho institution . He trusted that the proposal would bo carried into effect . Tho funds of tho institution wore described aH being in a very prosperous condition ; and a vote of thanks to tho secrotary , Mr . Hutchings , for his energetic managementwas unanimously and cordially passed .
, Ahi-Manijfacttjuk Association of Scotla . ni > . — has been resolved that , owing to tho success of tho first exhibition of this association in Hdinburgh , the second shall also bo held in that city at the dose of the present year . Already about 3700 or dOOO subscribers havo been enrolled in the Art Union department , and tho committee nro engaged in tho purchase of prizes to bo distributed nt tho CirHt annual ballot to bo made next Juno . A prize of 2 ( W . has boon offered for the best model of a useful and ornamental article * to bu produced at moderato cost for distribution among tho subscribers .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 7, 1857, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2183/page/14/
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