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362 THE LEADEE. [No. 317, Satorhav
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The Attorney-General, on Wednesday, appl...
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excising the customary guile of that Governmentfiiat they have been " doing the polite " light and left ; and perhaps , in deference to that politeness , our Plenipotentiaries have waived some tilings by which they ought to have stood . Austria has promised to evacuates thj |^ rije ^^ lities , j ? al ^* atification of the treatv / 'iand ^ wait to taee h far > d o
so ; but if she should evacuiS | the Turkish-Pfiipfcipalities , she has occupied | jj | te Italian—a plaster fcreach of public Jajv and . gfl » tfpfaith than hiBt ^ elay on the Danube ^ Phis o 1 $ insibly is to maintain order in the Italian duchies , hut it is manifestly an act of hostility against Piedmont- Our Government has formerly encouraged . Italy and then leffcf Iier in theJureh : how does the case stand now ?
The same inquiry has to be made with reference to the United States- The papers are promised as soon as they shatl be completed , which is not yet the case . Iu the meanwhile , at the Mansion-house dinner , where Mr . I > all . as acknowledged the eaurtesy of the Lord Mayor and City publicwhere he found Lord Sta . nuey to speak to him « n behalf of the British House of Lords , the American Minister reciprocated the compliments , l > ut made a remarkable reservation in his speech . Animated by a friendly spirit , ? ' anxious for the restoration of the rnost harmonious friendliness of
telati . oiis , if I fail , said Mr . Dallas , —'' 1 may fail—it will be because of some inexorable overruling State policy , or some foregone conclusion not to be undone by ¦ uniform , steady , persetrering , frank , and honourable conciliation . " In that sentence Mr . Dallas spoke truly ; but wrhat the British public is concerned in is to know how the facts stand . . The seizure of a slave ship , the Falmouth , in the port of New York * is a proof of good faith on the part of the United States Government which we
are bound to recognise , but which we are bound to say is not singular . Whenever distinctive evidence of fitting out slave vessels has been laid before the Executive of the United States , the proper officers haye been ordered to arrest the vessel , as in this instance . We in fact pass a slight npon the United States when we acknowledge acts of this kind with too much emphasis . Lord Dalhousie is conrino- W' mm India . " C ° mUIS «^ ic worn India
h Vh , w ere ne _^~ attained a success which might be a lesson for the fainfantise of public men at home . Although he has not been a popularity-Imnter , no * courted the high society of Calcutta , lie departed " amidst the strongest evidences of affection as well as esteem from all olassess . And why ? He is reproached as . on annexationist , somewhat arbitrary in his policy and somewhat austere , extending the limits of our Indian Empire , and ruling with a strong hand . He did not fall
into routine , he did not conten-t himself with bit by bit reform . He annexed the Sikh territory , punished Bunnah by annexing Pegu , confiscated Oude -r-all points that may be questioned . He has assisted in beginning reforms calculated to subvert the whole system of India .. Public duty may have sustained him . ; but ambition must have been his impulse : he wanted to make to himself a great name . He has made himself a great name j and in achieving renown for himself , Kb has done
immense service to India , Wq want such n man at liqrne . Ho is coming back ;; and if . not broken dxrvm by exertion and the climate , eycn he may BtxlV raise up a better standard for public action m thia country . ' " The traueti thai gets on beat at home still appears to b ( 3 i the ^ mjinajLlnjtqresI ; . Tfce women ' s meeting at Leicester , , t ^ ,, aunp . ort certain a , mew 4 na «» ts of the law which would give women greatei 1 indejfenactictr in rfetfara ^ o " pWperty , ended with a de-W ?* "Kainat M * . 'DiuOTwrtto Bill for hogging fcu 9 baria Sf ^ at beat th ^ ir WMrea , Jt is the old story ^ TPJ ^ P !' . # «* M » Ma } 9 r 6 Lui , whqrothc who nrea up asj soon as the husband that has beaten her w threatened with retribution . If a
wife-bfiater is taken 4 o ;* task , he still finds his best protectiotpat hftajte , \ j The ini ^ i getftgpbp ^ ation of Darlington has been giving a jttijjiw judgment in the Wooler case . Dr . jACKSO ^ the attendant on Mrs . Wooler at her deatK , Remanded to be p $ id for his services . We remeBBJber'wJiat those ^ Eyices . were . Mi :. - Wo . oler refused to > acknowledgeit ~ hat the first attendant on Mira . V"Woc * ifflR had done Ms ^ uty and re fusefltfcherefo ^ e Jto ptliy . The Boetor brings his action ; in Court it is-shown that tpr . Jackson is oafcjr prh y ^ sicia ^ under a Bavarian diploma obtained . Without residence ; that he is not what he previously professed to be , a surgeon ; that he is only an apothecary . He admitted that he might have
made mistakes in . his prescriptions ; he admitted athajfc he long suspected . poison in M ^ . Woolek '« case , but did not avow his suspicions or act upon them .. Everybody knows that Mrs . Wooler" poisoned , nobody knows how the poison got there ; but there was not a man in the world so responsible for finding out the truth , obtaining all means of finding- out the truth , and acting upon it as Mr . Jackson . Everybody knows that Mrs . Wooler was poisoned ; there was no proof that her husband administered the poison . The local jury , however , awarded to Mr . Jackson his money , and the local public cheered every point that told against the husband . Certainly we have not got to the end of the Wooler case yet .
362 The Leadee. [No. 317, Satorhav
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The Attorney-General, On Wednesday, Appl...
The Attorney-General , on Wednesday , applied in the Court of Queen ' s Bench ( under -the powers of the act just passed : ) for aJtx order for trying t iae case of William Palmer at the next sessions of that court . Lord Campbell gave permission , to the Attorney . General to take a rule to sh . ow cause . Mr . Gray then applied on behalf of the same prisoner for a copy of Dr . Taylox- ' s statement with , respect to the analysations of th « contents of the stomachs of John Parsons Cook and Ann Palmer . This -was refused . Another request—that the witnesses for the defence might have leave to inspect z , cerban part of the body of Ann Palmer , called the ovary—was granted .
The Tha , mes Embankment . —A memorial from the Thames Embankment Company has been presented to the Metropolitan Board of Works , calling attention to their scheme for embanking the Thames from Westminster-bridge to Soutkwark-bridge , constructing a public road , earned on viaducts , between Whitehall-place and Chatham-place , Blackfriars , and laying down a railway from Queenhithe to Manchester-buildings , adjoining Westminster-bridg « , with an extension lhie to the Greycoat Hospital , Victoriastreet , tliere to join the " Westminster Terminus " Railway . After some discussion , it was resolved by a small majority to refer the memorial to the Committee on Works and Improvements .
A Fatal Mistake . —An inquest has been held at Bebington , a village near Birkenhead , on the body of Frances Mary Fielden , second daughter of the Rev . R . M . Fiolden , rector of the parish , who died from the effects of a wineglaasful of eulphate of nine , selfadministered , in mistake for fluid magnesia . A verdict of " Accidental Death , " was returned . The Eev . G . C . Gobham and his pAurpHioiTEBs . — Some disagreeable biokering has recently arisen between Mr . Gorlxam and a portion of his parishioners at Bamford . - Speke , Devonshire . Mr . Gorham Mmself , in a communication to the Times , in answer to a previous account , saya that the dissensions have been
eplely created by an insignificant section , about seven iu number , who havo withheld their incumbent ' s tithe xent-charge , with the avo wed intention of forc ing him to take legal proceedings , and thus render himself unpopular . On Eaater-eveu , Mr . Gorham was required to sign ft certain offensive , if not illegal , notice . He refused , and demanded that the churchwarden who brought the document should withdraw it . So far from this being done , tho notice was posted up . Some argument ensued 5 and Mr . Gorhnm , though ho asserts that he used no irritating language , received a , notice
of prosecution for " brawling , " unloss he would " arrange the mutter out of court . " Mr . Gorham replied that ho was quite prepared to defend himself , and has sinoe heard no more of " tho idle threat . " Boiler Explosiok at Glasgow . —A boiler used at the Clyde Qi-uin Mills , Oommoi'cial-road , Glasgow , exploded on the evening of Friday week . The boilerhouse was blown to atoms j some of tho adjoining buildings were injured ; two men and a horse were blown ftorosa the road , and buried in ruins ; nnd five lives were loab .
Commutation of Sbntbnob . —Wall and Cnrr , two men condemned < at Liverpool to bo hanged for the murder of a seaman hy strangulation , havo had their aontonoa commuted to transportation for lifo . The Bishop ob- Nonwian .-i-The health of the Bishop of Norwich has boon slowly iiwptWing for flomo tiruo post . It is now so for re-established *&«& ho proposes to hold a general ordination , « n < l also a confirmation , during tho ensuing month .
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/ * 'tIMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . I < Monday , April lith . V JTHE kmntB BRIGADE IN THE HOUSE OP LORDS Lord Redjsdale presented to the House of Lortw the report of the .-Library Committee on the donation of the law books of the late Lord Truro . He subse quently apprised their Lordships that the whole of t iie fire brigade attached to the building had been Oischargea $ ritkou . t . any notice to the officers of the Ha « 80 , awl tfhe duties of the firemen made over to ^• • police , Loial Redesflale thought the change objectionable , as the police , being frequently changed could nat acquice the same ^ cility in managing the mains , & c , as - 'the firemen , wno have the advantage of long and continuous experience . —Lord Stanley op Alderley promised that he would cause inquiries tq be made into the matter .
TORTURE IN MADRAS . The Earl of Albemarle moved four resolu tions condemning the infliction of torture to collect the revenue in the Presidenc y of Madras , and pledging the House to adopt the speediest and most effectual measures in its power to suppress the practice . These resolutions were supported by extracts fro m the report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject , which snowed that torture is frequently inflicted , sometimes to the extent of death resulting from the prolonged agony . This tyranny though exercised by the native police , is tacitly permitted by the European officers , whom , therefore , Lord AVbemarle could not acquit of participation ! The evil , he thought , lies in over-assessment in connexion with , the land-tax . Let them reduce that
assessment ; but reduction alone would do nothing There must be no annual . assessment , but a fixed and " determined land-tax , settled for a long period , with a condition that , when an alteration takes place , it should , be a fixed and determined one—say , of five or ten per cent . But , in the meanwhile , the " honour of the country , as well as the cause of humanity require that a stop should be put to the crying evil of torture as it now exists ¦ in ' British India . The Duke of Argyll expressed the feeling of horror with which the Government view the practice denounced by Lord Albemarle . That practice had not been countenanced b y the Government ; and he believed
the Indian Government had been ignorant of its existence , for it was only to be found in localities remote from the stations where the European officials reside . The system had not originated with us , but with the native dominion which preceded ours ; and the natives were not shocked by its employment , but , on the contrary , conceived that ifc was necessary . He would propose some alterations in the resolutions , to which he hoped -the noble Earl would consent . In the first place , he thought it important that the whole facts should be stated , and should therefore propose the insertion pf words , to the effect that the practice had not grown up under the Indian
Government ; and , secondly , that it is wholly inimical to . our laws and customs . He would also indicate the opinion of the House , that the awards against native officers , in case of conviction , are often insufficient . He would next strike out of the declaratory pavfc of the resolutions , the assertion that torture is still practised by legal officers of the Government in the realisation of the revenue and the administration of the criminal law throughout twenty provinces . In the second resolution , he would insert words showing that the practice , although existing , is illegal . Fox the remaining two he would substitute—if the noble Earl would permit him—words to the effect that
that House viewed with great regret and disapprobation the very inadequate punishment awardocl to the perpetrators of these crimes , and that it relied on the zeal and exertions of the Government both in thia country and in India to extirpate a practice which is derogatory to the Government , and odious to the feeliuga of the people of England . The Marquis of CxA . NWiaA . nDJB said that lie could not acquit the East India Company of participation in the iniquity complained of . The Governors sent out from England were probably iguorant of tho faofc ; but the East India Company was not so , yeb it wilfully and disgracefull y concealed its knowledge Had there not boon a double responsibility iu Indian affuira , the Home Government would long ago havo been compelled to interfere . But at tho bottom of
tho whole raattor was the question of money . If tho Indian Government had proper officers to collect tlio revenue , aud a proper police , tho subject of complaint whiob . then oooupied their Lordships' attention could never havo arisen . —The Earl of EkLHNBonouaii flftidl that , during the whole of his official connexion with Indi » , ho was utterly ignorant of the oxistonco of such a practice , and he considered it a reproach to tho local officers that they did not nrnko tho fact known to tho heiwlfl of tho Government . The officials ought to spend sis months every year in ipneinng through tlio country , and becoming acquainted with tho veol Condition of tho people . —Lord Montigacims boliovod < l » b pracrtiitse existed in other presidencies hosidett Madras . —Some further remarks having been offered by fcho Earl Harrowb y ( who , wMlo denouncing tho
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Leader (1850-1860), April 19, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19041856/page/2/
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