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1210 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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BEEF AS A THEOLOGICAL IwyLTJEjSfflB. The...
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establish direct taxation will require views far more extensive and precise than those which * yet prevail ; and above all , they will necessitate an inviolable regard to those " natural c ircumstances and permanent conditions , " as well of a moral as of a material order , to which , we presume , Mr . Disraeli intended to attribute our present prosperity . These observations , arising-, like those of last week , from the Chancellor of the Exchequer ' s speech on the Budget , prepare us for an examination , in our next , of the Budget itself .
1210 The Leader. [Saturday,
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BEEF AS A THEOLOGICAL IwyLTJEjSfflB . The Duke of Cambridge gives-nn ox' to the Leieeatersquare soup-kitchen ; the Lord Mayor gives a quarter of an ox to the City Hospice—a remarkable inversion in a matter of viands . One might have expected that the hospitality of the Mansion-house towards the Hospice would have been at least ten times as great as the hospitality of a mere cadet of royalty for the Rag and Famish of Xciccster-square .
In past times there has been a condition annexed to tlio hospitality of the Hospice : the poor who were indulged with a breakfast , were expected to follow it up with church . Probably a condition of a similar kind will be annexed to the Christmas beef ; and if so , we detect our City magnate in a species of transubstantiation . The assertion is not so wild as the reader might suppose , and it may be made out physiologically . The beef ia to be assimilated , and with it the doctrine ; the hungry man is to be converted at once to comfort and belief ; and while he is converted to belief , the beef is converted into him ; ergo , the beef itself is converted to Christianity . Q . E . D . If my Lord Mayor can concoct a certain number of Christians out of a quarter of beef , how many might the Duke of Cambridge convert with a whole beef ? It is a question in practice .
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IKK DUTY OF THE LOEDS . The way in which the present Ministers treat Parliament is not complimentary to the importance of that body . Mr . Disraeli declines to answer " a private Member , " and Lord Derby keeps the Peers meeting from day to clay , only for the purpose of seeing his face ; since , like the stars , " they have nothing else to do . " He was so . kind as to apologize for it the other day , and insinuated that it was the bad
manners of the Commons , who would go on debating his man ' s Budget , instead of passing it , as persons in their rank of life ought to have done . The Peers , therefore , it seems , have sunk to the duty of watching by the bed-side of the Ministry , while it is sick . Tho bold Barons , in their old ago , have taken to the trade of hired nurse ; and as they administered pap to Parliament in its cradle , so now it is their duty to givo gruel to our constitution in its dotage .
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TIIK CASE OK MR . KIKWAN . ( To the Editor of the L <« dcr . ) Km ,-- 1 , much tour that , in the name of ju «(; i ( V ; , an nef , of most fearful injustice i . s about to bo oonuiiittcd in Ireland . Mr . Ivirwan , tin artist , hu » been tried A ' the murder of his wife ; none ) hut oiroUimstantial ovideuvc has been brought forward ngainut him , yet on this luj has been found guilty , and is condemned to did by the hands of tho common hangman , and no liojKS of mercy in holdout , by the judge . In rending the evidence , I woh struck with the apparent desiro on tho part of tho witnesses to prove tho prisoner guilty . At tho coroner ' s iiKiucwt they did not seoui to consider thnfc there was
anything out of the ordinary course , but that the death of Mrs . Kirwan was accidental . Once , however , the suspicion of morder was excited in their minds , they , with the usual imaginativeness of Irishmen , seem to have jumped to the conclusion that he was guilty , »" gave importance , jto circumstances , as tending to this conclusion , of the most trivial character . For instance , the finding of the clothes of the . deceased , and , the bopts and clothes of Mr . Kirwan . being wet , are looked upon as conclusive" evidences of guilt . ' Now , what mdre likely thnti that , latent' the evening , when the search took . place , the clothes w , ere overlooked * fronx the dark' .
ness , or even owing . ifcq . tlie excitement naturally atten ^ dant on the discovery of a dead bod y * and , surely , in wandering about , ! as Mr . Kirwan seems , to have done , in search of his Wife , in a situation which was covered with the sea at ' high tide , and where pools of water probably abound , or , at any rate , where he threw himself on the dead body of his wife , as described by one of the witnesses , is it not more than probable that Mr . Kirwan should have wetted his feet and legs in the pool in which Mrs . Kirvvan ' s feet and legs are described as resting , when she was ; discovered ? . But it is to the cause of . death that . I am most anxious to draw your attention . Mr . and Mrs .
Kirwan , it appears , Were in the practice of frequenting the island , and spending several hours there . They took with them a basket of provisions , and dined there ; on the day in question , at any . rate , they did so , and Mrs . Kirwan bathed before dinner . She was in the practice of remaining a long time in the water * and even of swimming ; but on this particular iday * she is said to have been interrupted by a party of visitors ; to the island . Having dined , however , she left her husband for the purpose of bathing a second time . Now , every one experienced in bathing knows that nothing is more dangerous than doing so after a meal , particularly after a full meal ; and as Mrs . Kirwan had been wandering about for hours , as well as bathing before dinner , it is most likely Bhe partook freely of
food . Now , looking to these facts , and the appearances presented by the body , I have no doubt whatever that either Mrs . Kirwan was seized with a fit after bathing , and that the receding tide had left her body where it was found ; or what seems still more likely , she bad ascended the rock , at the base of which she was discovered , after bathing ; that she had there been taken ill , and had fallen from a height to the foot of the rock . This latter supposition is quite warranted by
the description of her appearance and position when found . The whole of one side of the body discoloured , as from a severe bruise—the eye on that side congested with blood—the ear-ring torn from the ear , with that portion to which it was attached—wounds on the breast , and scratches on the face , such as would naturally be inflicted by the sharp edges of the rock , in fallings—the clothes drawn up under the arms , as would naturally occur from the body sliding down tlio rock . Bleeding from one oar was spoken of by one . of the witnesses , but lie did not seem to be certain whether it was ' from
the injured ear , externally , or from tho internal eur ; but , in the latter case , it is a most frequent symptom of fracture of tho base of tho akull , or from a , heavy fall pr blow on tho / side of the head , as wo i » oe frequently descril ^ ed in tin ; case of accidents or in prizelights . Wluit } H described as bleeding from the body muy , after all , have arisen from ^ th er natural causes , or if ' blood , mi ght bo from uterine liajruorrhitge , a voyy common disorder .
Taking nil these circumstances into consideration , I cannot understand how tho judge and jury < iould Arrive at the conclusions they seem to have drawn , and bo so completely satisfied of the guilt of ilyu tWAiuwd . Just contrast with thin easo one which was reported in the /?«« . of the 115 th . An inquest is there reported as liMving been held on JLhe body of a poor woman wlio . se husband had frequently ill-useflher ; ho had been seen to striko her , and to pull'her ' about the
room by tho hair of her head , and had l «* cii hoard to threaten her that "lie would julnp her bouI out , " and was constantly using the mot-it awful language to Ju ? r » so that who had expressed fears of her life , beujgjn danger from his violence . On a certain day she in hoard screaming " Murder ! " and for two hours and a half her tior
niiui Jmd i > wu guilty of a foul and drliberuto murder ' r Yet ho is diwinJHSed by the enrpmir with u MV < T « ropriniaud , the coroner expressing sin . opinion ' , ' l \ u ^ there vv / ih not Hiiuu-iunt evidence to ( insure a conviction lx'foro a higher tribunal . " Looking to theno two eiiHt-s , shall wo call them instances of ' " oVon-handed justice" i ' 1 do hopti that strenuous oHorttf will be made , on bohalt of Mr . Kirwan , to induce u rc-conaidurution of
his case . The medical evidence was certainly most unsatisfactory , but , as far as it went , was in his favour ; and I feel quite certain , that had a jury of medical men sat on this case ,, they would , without the least hesitation , have acquitted the prisoner . . .. . .... The wise laws of our country have decided that medical men shall not sit on juries , —they and butchers are excluded ! Now , I would ask what class of men are so intimately acquainted with hmriari nature , its motives and springs of action , as medical men ? And who so capable , in eases of doubtful crime , to fathom the mystery as , they ? If not , allowed to sit on jurits , at , least , they , ought to h , e . employed , tp lend ,. their , aid » ; juries in theijr deliberations in such cases ,, as ] , hare referred to . ., .,., I am , Sir , your obedient servant , Mkoictrs . P . S . I forgot to allude to the frothing at the niouth described as one of the appearances in Mrs . Kirwan ' s case . Now , this is the almost invariable accornpaniment of fits . There is another circumstance which I omitted to speak of . The rock at the base of which the body was found is described as a " very high rock " by the counsel for the prosecution in his opening address ; this lends the more probability to the supposition that Mrs . Kirwan may have ascended it , and fallen from a height ; and the further fall might have been arrested by the sheet on which the body was found , and which had probably been placed there for use after bathing . . i
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THE STAFFORD-HOtTSE LADIES . , ( Jto the Editor of Me Reader . ) SiR ,- ^ Several papers have raised an outcry against a meeting held at Stafford House some short while ago . Now , as I believe that meeting to be one which reflects lustre on those who took part in it , you will perhaps permit me , through the "Open Council" to express my concuiience in its objects . Ingeniously written articles , which remind noble ladies to look at home for a charitable field to work in ; and letters which support these articles with signatures of " Common Sense , " " A Soldier's Wife , " & c . & c , are quite as applicable to other efforts now being made by different parties . Those ladies who have been told to look at the condition of those who enable them to appear in magnificent dresses , before expressing their desire to ameliorate the condition of slaves , may as well retort , that gentlemen should first look to those who make their coats , their bread , and many other things , before making appeals for help to distressed Hungarians , Poles , Frenchmen , and Germans . For surely if the blacks are not to have our efforts for their liberation until every little or large evil is destroyed here , I don't see why we should be called upon to extend our assistance to those . on the continent who desire wliat our cploured brethren do—and that is freedom . Will our opposing friends look to this , and ascertain whether they are acting , wisely in dispensing , not only their sympathy , bi ^ t their . pecuniary mites , to those . who elsewhere are struggling for liberty , if not , we had all better join the peace-at-any-pricc movement , and abjure the non-intervention principle of KqsHuth and Mimini , and cling to thajb which practically allows the strong to pructisp enorniitiea upon tlio weak , provided toe lire left unscathed- , , , As tjio Leader and other . Jiberal pipers have exerted themselves nobly for the liberal cause on the continent , 1 trust they will not ' bppoWs'by strictures and otherwise those dForts which wtiuld give tho black tlio tonic liberty which the wh » fc $ possesses ; and if an ag itation is originated by lords or ladies artiw » WH , labourers , , thp humblest peasant , let ; tl } C > n hayo , cheerfully . U' « dutil " uj . itwiatancc w | iich auchit ficnertWP . causo dpHOJ , v «! H . " ' FltKPifHI ^ K A . ClUCKD . OohwoII ' Road , Ttilingiofi ' . ^_ _
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1852, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18121852/page/14/
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