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Diplomacy In The Desert, A Sort Of Supp ...
presses his opinion . Moshesh is highly pious and biblical in phrase , but not to be outdone in ' worldly shrewdness . He has , no doubt , profited much both fiom the teaching and example of the naissioiiaries . * Peace is the mother of all . I admire what your Honour has mentioned . I do not deny that some of the stolen things have gone in . our direction . I do iiot kno-w the best means of stopping it . Has the Governor eo words of advice V The Governor , howe-ver , would not interfere , and the President proceeded to urge h > is complaints . He said he could state tie exact number of cattle stolen . Moshesh . ' would be delighted to hear it . It was read ,
a ± id a positive assurance required that such ¦ delinquencies should not be repeated . It wou 3 d Beem that the President ' s manner here becatae somewhat warm , and that Moshesh grew stall more polite and sententious . ' The sword of the mouth id ' grievous . ' ' "We had better not speak any longer on these things . We canie here on a Men & ly visit , and did not expect to dispute . ' The President tiTgeB him to reply , and r to state any grievance of Ms own . ' Not to-day , ' says Moshesh : ' let us go hoi & e ; ¦ wecan correspond by letter . He stands on his dignity . £ Advice to a chief ought to be given in private , aaid 'not in public' However , he is willing to hear , and ^ t he Governor delivers a lecture , in whi < eh he" praises
• Mosheslvfor having raised hiinself to so high- a rank <^ d / become the lawgiver of a tnost powerful nation . ffiS hopes that the chief will ' raise his "barbarians in " " ^ he scale of civilisation , ' trust to his own energies , avoid bad advisers , and leave off stealing cattle . ' Ve ought' to praise Mb Excellency for his words / is the 5 o 4 utipus ' reply of Moshesh . He then consents tlvat ¦ lists of the stolen cattle should be madeout , and promises to-lay them "before the suspected delinquents ; % ut he cannot bind himself to > say that there shall be * % o ^ niore stealing-, and concludes by preaching resignation to-the plund ered boors ma ^ ^^ ( ¥ e iiiiust h $ ; patience overcome evil . ' On the whole , his Honour the President and his Excellency the Governbr'have got very little out of Moehesh . "
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¦ z- PUBLIC MEETINGS . ^ EIRMINGHAM ON ; THE INCOME-TAX . - ^ MfefelKa of tlie inhabitants of Birmingham was ; firgld's <) tt Friday week in the town-liall , to take 1 M 6 consideration , the present unjust operation of the income-tax . The principal speakers were the tsvG borough members , Messrs . Muntz and Seholefield , wlo exhibited the unfair operation of the t 65 s in weighing equally on the nian with an assured income from property , and on him whose earnings are from his daily labour , and may cease at any time . They also alluded to the hardship of
forcing a mart to submit to be surcharged , or obliging 'him to lay open a statemeflt of his private affairs jbefore arbitrators who are often composed of his 'fellow tradesmen . Mr . Muntz denied , what would Hprbbably be asserted against them , that tiiey 'Wished to cripple the war resources , and . fciius bring hostilities to a premature conclusion . Tor himself , he had supported the war all along , and < yould resist any peace which' would only give a little breathing ' time to'the enemy , and oblige ua
to begin the contest again de novo . This remark Was received with great teheering . Mr ; Scliolefield Jalso spoke in favour of the war . With regard to taxation , he had always been in favour of direct taxation , but he could not uphold the excessive ^ jiftitiee of the income-tax as at present levied . A fail' and reasonable distinction must be drawn itetweeri the two classes of income . The Income-Tax Association , by which that meeting had been called , insisted on capitalisation of income , as being the best mode of arriving at a just decision on the Subject . But Mr . Scholefield said" that he would
accept from Government the best they could do , even if it were not u perfect measure . Finally , a trieWorial-to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , ^ oibbaying at great length the objections to the ; ro 66 rie * fcax as at present levied , and a petition to tfte House of C 6 mmons to the same effect ,-were unanimously carried .
MR . BUIOHT ON CAPITAL I U & I 8 HMKNT . A . public meeting of the inhabitants of Rochdale was held in the Town-halji on Friday week , fox the purposo of hearing a lecture from Mr , Dynmond , accretary to the Associfttion for the Abolition of W ^ PwHiahrnent , in favour of the principle ad-Wtatfea ' bythe association . The attendance was SSK 2 ' " * Sf ffe' ^ M . P ., ptesided . After tnel 6 « tiUro |[ r ^ Bright' Ittvited discussion , but , as no one tnamfestea any desire to speak , he hirnsolf ' addressed the meeting . He recapltwlated the chief UI S ^ en i ftR ^ V . fcwnwhment by death , and 3 E JKP" }*}" . » . <*> auppcwo" that , because th © custom m old , it is worthy Q f veneration ; " for thorc is nothing ao old as iniquity . " Heqtaoted Wtimon of : a nnlfcawftn , (" 'more intelligent
than many of that class" ) , that murders will never cease until capital punishment is pat an end to . The policeman said that a man who had just committed a murder Md been on the morning of the murder to see a man hanged at Newgate , and had afterwards said , Why , it ' s nothing . It ' s but a kick , and it ' s over in a minute . " Human life , asserted Mr . Bright , is more secure now tlian it was one or two centuries ago ( though there is less hanging ) , because there is now more' gentleness , courtesy , benevolence , kindness , and religious reverence . Speaking of the uncertainty of convictions , and the' liability of inflicting death on the innocent , Mr .
Bright remarked : — " How much depends on jurors—on their calumess , their clemency , intelligence , clearness , benevolence ; nay , to descend to lower causes of difference , look at the very condition of their health , tlieir stomachs , their -tempers , at the time . Then you have the jadge . There have been cases of this nature that have been urged to a sudden conclusion—the judge did not wish to go further that night , or lie did not wish to have the trial postponed or adjourned until tomorrow . Judges are men , notwithstanding that they have wigs and gbwns . I kaow a good many of the judge 8 , and have seen them on many occasions , and I ' m sure they " would be" the last to deny that' they
woulctbe affected by all th ose influences from which none of us are exempt . Then you come to the Home Secretary , and wish to make an appeal to him . He , too , is liable to err , with the most honest intentions , and is very varying in temper in the" consideration of these cases . I have gone to many Home Secretaries in cases of this nature , and in many instances I have found 1 that the convict has had his sentence commuted , and not been hanged ; while oftenerl have found cases , as far as I could judge , not nearly sjo bad , in which the punishment had been inflicted . " Mr . Bright's address was received with much applause . j >
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at the demonstration , immediately gave or & erB to Marshal Vaillant , very much , I believe , against the Marshal ' s advice , to resume n project almost abandoned , for the division of the Polytechnic School into two sections ; one portion , that which educates officers for military engineering , the navy , & c , to preserve its present denomination . The other , comprising the pupils destined to the civil servico , to bo fixed in an establishment hitherto conducted by private teaohors , under tho name of Ecolo Centralo . These nro the limitations to be acted upon ; and if the project ib ctynrjed ' oufc , the army wilL Ioho the ilite of its resources .
LETTER FROM PARIS . { Extractsfrom a Private Correspondence . ) Paris , January 18 . The re has , indeed , been no lack of materials of late . The entry of "the troops ( a real circus melodrama , which ., I must allow , was a complete success ,- For Ohawins * we are still , and Chawins we shall be for a long time to come ) ; the reveille of the students announced by the hisses bestowed on the drama at the Ode { La Florentine ) , and upon the lectures of M . Nisard , who , some twenty-three years since , was one of the writers of the National , in company with Sanxlc Beuve , at the time when the National waB conducted by Armand Car-rel— -the funeral of David T )' Angers , and the overture of Bcranger , with the numerous arrests that followed .
But of all these evidences of opposition , the one that has most struck the Government was the attitude of the pupils of the Polytechnic School , at the cortege of the 29 th December . The delegates of tho Ecole Polyfcechnique had received from their ... schoolfellows an imperative injunction to maintain absolute silence . To those injunctions they were bo strictly faithful , that , even as they passed beneath the balcony of the Emperor , they neither cheered nor oven saluted their youmg- sovereign . Their demeanotu * contrasted so straalgely with that of the pupils of tK ' e Ecole de St . Cyr { Ecole Militaire ) , that it could not fail to strik e all eye-witnesses , and tho Emperor , extremely irritated
I -will explniri how . The civil situations , far more sought after than"the military , were a prisso offered to the competition of all th « pupils of tho school . To obtwin ; ktliem they made exertions which will now bo considered superfluous , \ vhon no oareor ^ will bo open to them but the army , in which tho most soiontifio are by no moans thofio who Bitcoood tho best , ftncl hi which any condotticre who atiokn at nothing and is troubled with mo scruples , a St . Arnaud for iustanoo , liaa o , bettor Ohanoo of rising than their more intelligonfc , mbro consoientiou . H , but Icbh pliant comrades . . . . .
Thoadmonestcttion to tho Benato Iirh astoniwhod everybody , No one can protend to linv ; e undemtood its meaning , but all oonaider it n maladresne , oommi'ttod , too , with a premeditation that doubles itn abaurdity . The artiolo woa writton , I uiulorstand , by
with the special jx > licy of the Emperor ) interpret the matter as follows : — S . M . deaires the Senate to give him . without the trouble of asking more and more soldiers and money . Tb . « Senators are expected to take a run through the province on the plea of ascertaining the public feeling . On their reassembling at the Luxembourg they will offer , on behalf of France , to their glorious master an extraordinary levy , a supplemental tax , or a loan of a peculiar nature , a loan sur cotes ; which me ans that every citizen according to his importance as a tax-payer , will hasten to lend to the State double or triple the amount of his annual quota of taxation .
a Professor of the University ( M . Pierron ) , who is often called in to supply the literary insufficiency of M . Mocquart , the private secretary of S . M . This article had evidently coat a fortnight ' s elabo ration : it was printed at the Imperial Printing-office within closed , doors , with sentinels stationed round the ateliers , jxist as the decrees of the Second of Decenvber were composed ; and it was in like manner posted up at the corners of the streets . All this looked like a grand coup to be struck . Some said , " It is the first step towards the dissolution of the Senate : " others ; " It is a hint to the Senate to declare for peace : " others ( and these are the most hrtitnately acquainted
P « rhaps , on the whole , the last is the most probable conjecture . Only there is some hesitation in ot > - tuaer people ' s minds in understanding the method employed for imposing upon the Senate a spontaneous tribute of devotedness paid in advance , and which maybe always reckoned upon until , at least , the keys of the coffers have changed hands . At all events tile immediate effect of these public incitations is to degrade the Senate already fallen low enough in public opinion to the lowest rank of the dynastic valetaille .
On the Senators livery , already dirty enough , these coups d ^ etriviere leave a stigma of dishonour that nothing can efface . The wretched memTjers of that corps have scarcely dared to show their faces since they received the lashing . Merlme ' e has disappeared from the saloons of Thiers , the Prince $ , & Beauveau , usually an assiduous visitor at Lady Holland ' s , has vanished , & c & c . In short it is a general rout , and a universal shout of laughter * 'among the crowd of spectators . The Senate is hissed like a St . Beitve and a . Nisard . . . ...
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The Rug-Elej Poisonings. {From Our Speci...
THE RUG-ELEJ POISONINGS . { From our Special Correspondent . ) Hugelet , January 22 nd , 1856 . It was in this room , then , —perhaps on this very spot - — -that , a crime was committed now eighteen months ago . The room at that time was comfortably furnished ; a handsome carpet coveted- the floor ; the cold monotony of the walls was relieved by tolerable engravings ; nothing , in short , was wanting that constitutes the idea of " comfort" hi the vocabulary of a member of the middle classes , in easy cirput nstances . At n side table , suitably supplied with writing materisils , sat a lady still j'ouug and fair to behold , though a sad and anxiom expression seemed to have become almost habitual . Her face was deadly pale , hex lips closely compressed , as with Htern resoluteness she slo-wly traced , letter by letter , tho name of Sarah Palmer . Leaning over her chair , and occasionally uttering a Wsid word of encouragement , might have . been seen a Stout , well-dressed man , seemingly about thirty years of age , whose open countenance and easy smile in-( Uoatod bowhorriie , but a bonhomie inspirod by in-tense selfishness . Tho crime was forgery . She wlio committed tho crime was not the real criminal . A . wife was forging tho signature of her mother-in-law , wvhile that mother-in-law'H sou guided he ^ s trembling hrtnd . A husband was teaching felony to his wife . Her only fault was loving him too well : for woman's lovo is man ' s opportunity—because she trusts , he in able to betray . I-Jut her conscience , a fomalo will « ay , should have preserved her from violating tho laws of her country . Her duty to hor husband nliould no \ or havo claBhod with hor duty to hor God . Sho knew that it W « B wrong , and ought therefore to hnve withstood tho temptation , though her husband ' ** auger and oven his ruin might be tho inevitable -consequence . CMll moralist , forbear ; finut listen to * n tulo that should move you to pity , not to scorn .
Anno Thornton waB tho daughtor of a retired East Indian officer residing in Stafford ; hor -wiothor was his houfiokeopor and mistress . Mra . Thornton vvsif * ft low , vulgur woman , often yielding to fit « of ungovornafelo pusnion . Tlio old colonel , evidojitly a man of feohle mind , though ntrong appotiton , would flee from h * r anger to a neighbouring tavorn , and fchoro neok refligo till tho crtorm had blown ovor . : Kot unfrequontly , however , sho would track him to bin rotroat ,
and drag him homo in ignominious triumph . Indeed , or it is naively remarked down hero , "ho might ; ft « well havo beon married . " Amid such scones as these , under tho oaro of nuoh parontw , did tho gontlo and dolloato Anno pans hor infaituy und ohildhood . Ono night hor father wuh foxtnd lying dead upon tho floor —a recently discharged ijiHtol l ) y hia nide . From tlmt hour hor mother nhudderod at dnrknens . Sho would Bit up nil night , and only laid dowu when tho dawn
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 26, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26011856/page/6/
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