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Inquiry Into The Conduct Of The Police. ...
ances , but that motive ought to be a reason , not for granting , but for assisting , or even heading the inquiry . The cases of violence are very numerous ; the particulars are given with extreme distinctness ; the persons injured can in many cases prove their totally inoffensive character , their casual presence in the place where the disorders arose , and the purely gratuitous aggression of the Police . Mr . Roebuck stated one case ; Mr . Thomas Dvncombe was prepared with others ; several
more have coine within our own knowledge , the name and address also being easily accessible . These cases , so far from lying within any one set of people , belong to various classes of society , and have nothing in common except the fact of unmerited injury on the one side , und wanton attack upon the other . That nould be sufficient cause for inquiry . If ^ -soldiers had been employed instead of police , -and if any of the privates had fired without orders , or had rushed from the ranks and
used the bayonet , the civil power could have interfered in the event of actual wounding or death ; but are we to suppose that any commanding officer would have neglected such examples of gross discipline in his men ? The inquiry is demanded , not only for justice to the persons injured , but for the character of the force . It is most desirable to show that the particular individuals who did the wrong were culpable individually , and that the force retains that character which on former occasions it has deserved . There is a
motive , however , for endeavouring to fend off inquiry , though the motive , we repeat , ought to be an additional reason for granting it . We-have reason to believe that the character of the force is very seriously deteriorated . Many men have been drafted from it to the Crimea ; the " place has been supplied in a hurry , and a number of loose
Irishmen have been admitted . To be a policeman is better than to be a haymaker ; and there are many Irishmen who can come up to the standard in point of height and can get inquiries as to character answered , but who belong to the old generation of Celts , and not to that which is rising under the influence of extended education . It is no
reproach to Ireland to say that the force has been deteriorated by admitting the refuse of that country ; for it is well known that the police in Ireland itself is superior , at least in stature and appearance , to our own , and consists of a more picked class of men . Now , it is important to the public to know how far the force established by Sir Kobebt Picei * , and preserved in a high state of discipline for so many years , has deteriorated under the new kind of recruitment .
Another reason for deterioration is , that the pay is not sufficient to attract the proper class of men ; though by a proper graduated scale of pay and steady promotion for wellconducted men , it would be possible to make the attraction powerful , without very burdensome expense to the public .
Ministers may desire to prevent attention from , being drawn to the actual state of the force , and we can understand the motive for the discretion ; particularly as it may be mingled with some desire , to shield Sir George Goiey > after too recklessly placing his deteriorated machinery at the service of his noble friend Iiord Robert
GhaosvENOB . If , however , the police is still to retain a repute for good conduct and good management , it is most desirable that nny ruffians who may have been connected with ^ hfe brutality should ' be identified , and cast iforth ^ in order that the infamy which they That © justly incurred may not attach to the whole force . On , many occasions we have ta ^' if ^ HiQji to observe with satisfaction the gpodft ^ refciirig which was preserved befswedn
the police and the people . Ministers are now giving a reason why the people should regard the police as gendarmerie , whose ruffianism is to be shielded by official obstructions to inquiry . We are no adulators of Government ; but it is in no unfriendly spirit we say that the mistake thus committed is very serious .
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Austrian Confederation In Italy. (From A...
AUSTRIAN CONFEDERATION IN ITALY . ( From a Correspondent . ") It has recently been intimated by more than one of your German contemporaries , that the journey of the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian , brother to the Emprkob of Austria , into Italy , has a politico-military object ; and if we are to believe informants who are seldom quite unofficial , that object is nothing less than to unite , on the model of the German Confederation , the kingdom of the Two Sicilies , the Grand Duchy of Tuscany , the Duchies of Parma and Modena , and the
Lombardo-Venetian provinces . Each of the confederated states would be required to furnish a contingent of money and of troops ; the supremacy to devolve upon the King or Napijbs and the Austrian Empkbok in turns ; the Diet to assemble alternately at Milan and at Naples . IJpwever inconsistent and difficult of application this project may appear , there is , perhaps , in the mere rumour , a key to the tortuous hesitations and expectancies of Austria . The project itself dates as far back as 1815 ; since then it has been the topic of repeated diplomatic and confidential pourparlers , but its realisation has been arrested by difficulties hitherto
insurmountable . After the fall of- Napoleon , Austria hoped to become dominant throughout Italy , and it was a subject of bitter jealousy to her to find the man who had held the Pope in hostage , seeking , at the last gasp of his power , to re-establish the Papacy in the States of the Church . No exertion was spared * to prevent the annexation of Liguria to the Sardinian States , and the strengthening of Piedmont : and amidst the vaster schemes of
aggrandisement , the immediate possession of Lombardy and of Venice , and the investiture of the states of Tuscany , Parma , and Placentia , seemed a trifling acquisition . It was to deprive Piedmont of all influence in Italy , and to station Austrian garrisons in every fortress of the Peninsula , that Austria devised the Italian Confederation , to which not only the King of Sardinia and the Court of Home objected , but all the European Powers , and Russia herself .
When Prince Schwarzenbbrg proposed that Austria should enter into the German Confederation with all the component elements of her heterogeneous empire , he meant to bind to her all the Italian States , so that she might be dominant over the whole of Germany on the one side , and over the whole of Italy on the other ; and thus sho would be able to employ the one against the other in the event of national insurrections . The execution of this project was , however , prevented by the other German Courts , and by the French and English Governments .
At present , the alliance of Piedmont with the Western Powers , the discredit into which Austria has fallen from the failure of the Vienna Conferences , the reduction of her army nt such a crisis , her equivocal attitude of quivsi-neutrality , and the conduct of her troopa in the Principalities—those and other considerations make her more than usually anxious to strengthen lier position and to consolidate her resources in the Italian peninsula .
But the moment seems ill chosen for the resumption of thcj project of 1816 : if it were « ffticted , it wtfuld amount . to an indirect and virtual declaration of war against Piedmont , whom France and England are bound to assist and protect . JJemdes , as the Toys is necessarily excluded from
this partial compact of one only of the Catholic Powers , and as France has still a footing in Rome , such a confederation -would be dissolved by the landing of a French corporal ' s guard upon the Neapolitan frontier , or by the apparition of halfa-dozen British line-of-battle ships standin g on and off Naples or Leghorn . It is believed that the extraordinary mission to Paris and London of the Marquis Massimo d ' Azegijo , accompanied by M . Negbx , Chief-Secretary of the Ministry of War , is partly , if not chiefly , directed against this new encroachment of Austria .
Developments. " Evix. Communications Cor...
DEVELOPMENTS . " Evix . communications corrupt good manners . " The Pbince Coksobt has employed a British ambassador to bring down a quasi-ofiiciul warning on the Journal des Debuts , of all journals in the world , for an article on his recent manifesto at
the Trinity House : an article wntten with all the good taste , perfect moderation , and refinement for which our admirable French contemporary is justly celebrated . The Pbince Consobt has not , that we are aware , interfered even indirectly with the free speaking of any English journals , but only , it will be supposed , for the best of all reasons—that the " morbid satisfaction" we feel in
free speaking will not permit interference . On Sunday and Monday last the police , acting under the instructions of Sir George Gbbv , assaulted inoffensive men , women , and children , indiscriminately , just as the soldiery of a certain Potentate , for whom the Pbince Consobt has conceived so recent an admiration , assaulted the citizens of Paris in December 1851 . With this
slight difference , that the London police only break heads , the praetorians sabred bodies and blew out brains . The misconduct of the police is arraigned in open Parliament ; the devotion of the praetorians is merged in the Empibk . Certainly , as his Royal Highness remarked , our constitutional system is undergoing a trial . We have still some progress to make—towards a silent press and an imperial police .
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There Is No Learned Man But Will Confess...
There is no learned man but will confess ho lath much profited by reading controversies , his .-... iises awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be prontabifc foi him to read , whir should it not , at least , be tolcraole for his adversary to write . —Dlu . 'i'OK
Sabbatarian Ism. (To The Editor Of The L...
SABBATARIAN ISM . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ^ Sib , —Between your principles and mine there can t > e no compromise and no surrender . But in the mode in which our views might bo stated , probably a greater degree of fairness might bo the result , it the opposing parties came , in one , form and another , more in contact . Your recent articles on " Subbatariauism , " editorial and reviewing , seem to me to involve the dangerous error of extemporising opinions out of one ' s particular province , l ' robably clergymen ( I prefer the scriptural word ministers for myself ) would not edit newspapers well ; with equal probability may we suppose that editors and literary assistants in journalising may commit errors , when , with Uttlo reading on theology , they venture to express sentiments of a theological kind . Sabbatarians , say you , -in reviewing Sir W . l- >
omville's book , nre past reasoning- with . Is this either true or fair ' / You mu » t know thut such men as Dr . Guthrie ami Hugh Miller ( that foremost of working men ) in Scotland , my nutiva country , not to speak of men usually able , and equally well known to the general public , whoso birthplace is to the south of the Tweed , arc thorough defenders of the Pourth Commandment . It ma * bo easy and ( for tho moment ) even pleasant thus to pooh-pooh Sabbatarians ; but does your cause require such aryunwrttt" You seem to suppose thut it " ( see Leader , Juno 30 ) merely mtnctimonious in tho " Methqdiat ;" ,, ( are Wceloyaus ^ ha only Sabbatarians ?} , ; $ o keep tho Sabbath strictly . Could you find no © flier epithet ? your vocabulary is rich an < l Choice on other topics , l ) p , sirVjustico to yourself , by greater temper in future assaults on . us . Ouc
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Leader (1850-1860), July 7, 1855, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07071855/page/12/
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