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Mb. Fubdebiok Ltjoas, the proprietor of ...
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IRISH SYMPTOMS. Dublin Castle, in the ha...
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Election Hattebs. The " Vain" Londondbbb...
w ow diet this «» ndftl come before the public ? Lor < l Tnndonderty threatened , as we have seen , to lay the hole of the letters before his friends . Some of the ^ rrespondenCe was produced ; it oozed out , and partially ^ ot Sto the Irish papers . Mr * Ker at once wrote to Sear Lord Londonclerry , ' * expressing hia desire that the" whole truth should be knbwn / ' and acajuiescing L jjord Londonderry ' s intention of publishing the correspon dence . Acwrdingty , ifc was collected , sent to the journals , and is now before the candid reader . Winding up this pretty piece of scandal , we are enabled to do so greatly to the reader ' s amusement and sa tisfaction . When Mr , Ker , on the 13 th of May , duly informed Lord Londonderry that he intended to publish the letters , his iprdship had repented of his threat , andhe w ^ rote to his agent the subjoined letter , which * that gentleman forwarded to the Belfast
M ercury- « Holdernesse House , May 14 , 1852 . " Deab Sib , —I inclose you a copy of a letter just received from Mr ! . Ker . Xmust beg of you to wait upon him or Ma agent , or law adviser , and state I am entirely ignorant how a ' Minute of the Down Election' got into tie newspaper . It bears no official or agent ' s name ; and I can take oath its publication was quite unwarranted by me or any one connected with me ; and that I will be held in no manner responsible for it } but I shall hold Mr . Ker responsible , and he will be responsible to society and the world for any autograph letters with signatures which passed between him and methough not marked private ,
, yet written , as he knows , in the private confidence Which exigts between an uncle and anepneW ; I could not Object certainly to everything connected with the difference with Mr . Ker from being fllustrated to the world , to show the true merits of the casej yet every gentleman must see that private letters , writtenSunder the circumstances that these were , could not be given to the public , as from peculiar expressions which might be considered as unconstitutional in public letters , yet * when passing between an uncle and a nephew in private , can only be interpreted by the practice of every-dayhTe in sudh communications . To attempt , then , to give a public character to these , as "MV TfW niirtiospn . armears auite : monstrous , and , given
in ay own handwriting , would be quite inconsistent with general usages and witli every law of honour and propriety I have felt ft to be my duty ^ to take this step , and make this protest immediately , lest my not noticing Mr . Ker ' s letter might appear to sanction the course he proposes to adopt . I am aware that Mr . Ker may possibly say that I stated an idea of mkking public his promise to ' me . . of the 10 th of February , but that was at a moment of excitement at the breach of Ms contract ; but I immediately gave it up , and acquainted him therewith , by the strong advice of my friends , finding I was very wrongs and should ^ hope Mr . Ker will now do the same , as I have given him my honour . I know nothing how the statement got into the itthat is not
Northern Whig , but if I am betrayed by , a reason to be betrayed by iny nephew ; and the statement alluded to was certainly in manuscript , given by me for the Belfast meeting , at which Mr . Ker also made a statement , but mine was unjustly never produced , and Mr . Ker is called upon , if he persevere in publishing , to showup his statement to the meeting to the public also * Let Mr . Ker remember there has been no official publication but Mr . Anketoll ' s , which I might more justly complain of than . Mr . Ker ' s attempting to resent by vengeance on me for the statement appearing published , which I deprecate as much as he can . I here again offer Mr . Ker , and I request of you to bring him to an explicit answerto place the whole
, of this most unnatural affair between the nearest relations , to be referred to any three honourable gentlemen agreed to by both ; and if he refuses What all persona in this country who know the circumstances admit as the fairest and most honourable course possible on my part , and shall either have published , or intends to publish , without further delay or communication , and not previously sending to me the exact counterparts of letters which he publishes , enabling me to compare them with the originals , and for me also to ascertain if he publishes all or what letters- —I then desire you to cive immediate coffnisanoe of this letter to
the world , in the same manner in which Mr . Kor has de « cidod in making known my private letters ; and I then shall proclaim him in all civiluefl society as having acted in a manner contrary to all gentlemanly usages of social intercourse , not alone as between the nearest relations and friends , but also botween those strangers which would induce another course to be taken upon it , which would make a personal coae of the cruellest and most unnatural ( and as Mr . Kor must know and fool ) and impossible resort ; and , therefore , we are both bound in honour , if possible , to arran ge , by yielding to a fair and common tribunal against whioh of the two . the verdiot is to be pronounced .
' Your immediate answer is urgently requested . —I ro main , dear sir , yours very truly , "VANE IiOHDONDBBBY . " Kobort Caanidy , Esq ., , Belfwst . "
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Mb. Fubdebiok Ltjoas, The Proprietor Of ...
Mb . Fubdebiok Ltjoas , the proprietor of the Tablet , js a candidate for Moath . In hie address , whioh is vory * > g » the following passages occur t— , "If from all this mass of iniquity [ the acts of the late ¦ Miniatry ] I must single out any ono fristanco asdesorvtag ot apodal commemoration , it would be the subject of cdu-* atl ° n » because it in to the question of education that all the efforts of the enemies of the churoh are dirqotod in tho present day and because ifc is chiefly by polluting tho SK of education for every class of the community that "Kty hope to deafcroy o * ansWe the ohurob . Upon this VW « tioa , th * n , I witfjust say that I humbly and reverently ¦ okaowledge in tha Ontholio Church and inJbeMW A pootolio See nupreme juxifldiotion in matters of fawn and
morals ; the right of determining for me , as a son of the church , what modes of education are dangerous to faith and morals , and therefore to be avoided , and what are safe and to be followed ; and that on all church , questions , of whatever kind , my principles , are ultramontane—that is , to the best of . my knowledge , are in exact accordance with those held by the highest and most trustworthy authority upon earth—the Supreme Pontiff , the living apostle , the vicar upoii earth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ . If I should have the honour of a seat in Parliament , when any attempt is made to legislate on the subject of education , or on any other subject affecting the Catholic Church , upon principles at variance with these , I pledge myself to oppose every such attempt to the fullest extent of my ability . " After a fierce attack on the Irish Church , he
says"My notion ia that for saving ourselves from the ProteBtant aggressions by which we are at once assailed and threatened , and securing to ourselves and our posterity that perfect equality before the law which is the right of every Catholic , we must begin by battering down the monopoly of the Established Church . " Lord John Russell can call spirits from the vasty deep in a way which beats Owen Glendower hollow ! The SHgo Journal says , that Lord Palmerston has
directed his agent , Mr . Edward Smyth , to inform his tenantry that it is his lordship ' s desire to support , at the coming election , Sir Robert Gore Booth and Mr . Ormsby Gore , two most zealous advocates of a return to the principle of prot & ctive duties , and , of course , ardent upholders of the Derby Administration . We cannot be accused of tenderness to the character of Lord Palmerston , but we venture to doubt the accuracy of the statement , at least as it is made by the Sligo Journal .
Mr . Kinderley , whom the Freeman ' s Journal calls " Lord Derby ' s attorney , " opposes Maurice O'ConneU at Tralee . But Mr . Kinderley avows himself a Tory Free-trader , and favourable to the Mayttooth Grant . Canterbury was entertained , and Jet us hope instructed , by an oratorical display from one of the sitting members , the Honourable George Henry Smythe , on Monday . He claims his re-election on grounds that are somewhat vague . He has not attended well to his Parliattientary duties—partly owing to his own indolence , partly to the unpleasant position of Sir Roliert
Peel ' s party , and partly to his objection to playing the part of Dick in helping Tom ( Colonel Romilly ) to do nothing . He defends his votes against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill , and for the Jewish Emancipation Bill . He eulogizes Lord John Russell in the most Oriental style—in language fitter for Constantinople than Canterbury . He upholds Free-trade—and he worships that liberty for which Bolingbroke suffered , and Canning died ! However unsatisfactory to the daily reader , these sentiments were declared " highly satisfactory " by the constituents assembled in the Guildhall , who pledged themselves to support the "fanciful" speaker .
Irish Symptoms. Dublin Castle, In The Ha...
IRISH SYMPTOMS . Dublin Castle , in the hands of a Viceroy so thoroughly Tory aa Lord Eglirtton , was not exactly the place , one would have thought , wherein to beseech a merciful interference on behalf of Mr . Smith O'Brien . Nevertheless , nine peers , twenty-five baronets , forty members of parliament , fifteen Roman Catholic bishops , seventyfive Roman Catholic clergymen , and three hundred justices of the peace , did not think so , for they signed a memorial , praying for the liberation of Smith O'Brien , and the Lord Mayor of Dublin and others presented that memorial to Lord Eglinton on Monday . For their pains they were politely snubbed , and rebuked for symp ' h . Vhy with men whoso conduct was criminal , men whose lives had been spared , who had been treated with unusual indulgence , and yet who had not expressed any contrition for their crimes , nor manifested any dense of gratitude or loyalty to tho Sovereign who had given them their lives . Tho Viceroy could not recommend the prayer of tho memorial to tho Queen ' s
favourable consideration . While this ceremony was in course of performance at the Castle , news came front Enniskillen , dated May 16 th , of another assassination : —* " A mounted policeman , ' * said tho despatch , " is just come for lord Enniskillon With nfaWs that a Protestant farmer , named Lonnard , was shot yesterday , at five o clock P . M ., near KnOokminny , not many miles from Enmskillen , on Mr . Arthur Coles' estate . A dispute about land , from whioh some tenants had boon evicted , was theorimnot the outrage . On Saturday Lennafd was at work , When a man , a fttWer , walked up and asked if he wanted , a Ja-^ ouror ; ho sSd no , and the man drew a pfotoV ^ d four Blugflin his arm and side , and retreated , The wounded man is not expected to survive , and the depositions aro to bo taken to-day . "
. . , Two days before , jinothor deed similar in kind was enacted in tho North : —» " Tho village of Donaghodeo , " says a Belfast paper , " wasthrown into h stAtft of the greatest axoitdmanton Saturday mominglAsft , by the rtportof awomaft h * vfngb « en murdered by he * hualfcnd on the pwoeding / Mifhfc The ' awful deed was cofluoittod by ft man uMtd miuam
M'Cready , an innkeeper . The body was greatly . mutilated , one arm having been broken in two places , and the other much mangled ; the skull was literally laid open , and one of the legs was also broken . The weapon used was a heavy kitchen poker , Which was much bent , and the hall and part of the stair-carpeting were covered with blood . The wall , in several places , exhibited marks where the blows intended for the deceased missed their aim . The wretched man is in custody , and the body lies in the kitchen await-
ine the coroner ' s inquest . The causes of quarrer were jealousy and intemperance . " But in the same country there are also happier signs . The Cork Exhibition is rapidly making way , and meets with steady encouragement . A School of Design i * about to be established at "V ^ aterford . And , far better than all , is the almost universal concurrence of opinion that a greater breadth of land is under tillage and cultivation than has been known for many years .
Department Of Practical Art. Amon& Other...
DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL ART . Amon & other consequences of the interest created in objects of art intended for useful purposes , and the attempt which has grown out of that interest to blend the useful and the beautiful , is the Department of Practical Art , which has been annexed to the Board of Trade , and placed under the able superintendence of Mr . H ^ Cole . The room * of the department are in Marlborough House , where chambers have been set apart as class rooms , a theatre for lectures , and a museum . The collection of manufactures in the last was privately inspected by the Queen on Monday , and opened to the public on Thursday . To form the basis of this museum a grant of 6 , 000 ? . was awarded from tie Treasury for the purchase of suitable specimens from ; the Great Exhibition . Of this sum 4 , 2177 . 1 ft 5 dt has beeti expended in the following proportions { - ^ Articles exhibited on the foreign side of the Exhibition , 2 , O 76 i . 9 * . ; articles exhibited on the British side , 865 ? . lls . 5 d . ; articles exhibited by the East India Company , 1 , 2762 . 1 * . The relative expenditure according to the class of objects purchased is as follows : —Woven fabrics , 996 j . 16 s . 4 d . ; metal works , 1 , 371 ? . 0 s . 6 d .: enamels , 844 ? . 12 * . $ ceramic manufactures , 312 ? . 16 » . Id , ; wood carvings , 691 ? . 16 * . dd . Mr , Owen Jones has compiled a catalogue , and in the prefatory observations he points out With great instance the Indian manufactures as affording the most instructive examples of beauty , in form and colour , in ornamental design . This is true . They are brilliant , sometimes to
gorgeousnesB , as in the shawls ,-but always harmonious * The direct use of gold is striking from the harmonious treatment which controls it . The more subdued examples of embroidery , rich , but almost sombre , are ex ' cellent examples . And the freedom of the work , by hand , has a peculiar effect , far more pleasing than the mechanical regularity of our own patterns . The specimens of metal work , such as swords , shields , vases * caskets , daggers , are remarkable for the success with which ornaments of great beauty have been subdued to utility . The most notable are productions of eminent French gold and silversmiths . Chief among these are a hunting knife by Marrel Freres , finely ornamented on the , handle , with fierures from the legend of St . Hubert , so
constructed as to fit the hand and not impede its action ; a sword , by Froment Meurice : a silver flagon , by lamber and Eawhngs ; silver specimens of great elegance from Gough of Birmingham ; and several vases from the manufactory at Sevres . Three important contributions to thd . collection have been made—the first by the Queen , is the celebrated shield from the Windsor armoury , designed and executed by Benvenuto Cellini j the secondj a shield and vase lent by Messrs . Hunt and Raskell , and designed and executed byVechte '; and the third , a silver gilt cup designed by Maclise , and lent by tho Society of Arts . Tho interest to
productions of v echte are ot the mgnest our workers in metal , not only from their excellence in design , but also from the marvellous perfection of execution in every branch of tho art . There is also a collection of designs and studies , and some specimens of the works of the students in tho various schools of design ; not very artistic in tho higher branches of soulpture or grotesque painting , but very promising in tho humbler walks of lace design , and smaller oanamonts . On the whole , it is a good beginning for a Museum of Models , and deserves our welcome , as on offspring of the Exhibition of 1861 .
Life's Tragedy. Stephen Waiikbk, A Young...
LIFE'S TRAGEDY . Stephen WaiiKBK , a young farmer , about 27 years old , had long wooed Fanny Walker , a publican ' s daughter , living in tho village of Choadley , Staffordshire . Although of the samo name , they wore not rolated . Fanny Walker ' s parents did not like Stephen Walker , and poor Fanny was " sent ? out of tho way , " as many a young maid had been before her . But Stephen Was exciteablo , which was not wonderful , nnd possessed a dangerous temper , which proved tragical eventually . Fanny came homo lost week , and Stephen
liearing of it , wont on Thursday to seo her . Ho had a gun in his hand , Fanny Was kept away from him upstairs . Stephen parleyed with tho mother , and grew very angry . Pitying his etdto , Fanny , against parental advice , walked down stairs . A conversation ensued , during whioh the gan was laid aside . Poor Fannywould she have him- ^ sho could noli—sho objected " to his course of life . " Stephen , inflamed beyond control , snatches up tho gun , and levels it at Fanny . The mother rushes between them , pushes Stephen out of tho room , and bolts the door . Fanny still remains Stephen is implacable . Fanny will not stir . Suddenly the
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Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1852, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22051852/page/9/
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