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      you to be one of that class who are comprehended in the very significant word of two syllables yclept' humbug . ' First of all , you make a deliberate assertion in your place in Parliament , alleging that a man who is far more respectable than ever Richard Cobden can become is ' atrocious pirate . ' When called upon for an explanation , you have the modesty to ask for a reference as to character . When assailed on the ground of sheltering yourself under the privileges of Parliament , you say you will do justice to an injured man if convinced of his innocence . When furnished with facts and dates , you pen an insulting note as to my character and conduct . " Ask yourself a question . Does not the ' galled jade ,. ' Richard Cobden , wince ?

      « ' I am that person who in 1844-1845 , was your correspondent of the Corn Law League . I am that person « vho two years ago , at your request , went to Stockport to vate for your friend Francis Duckingfield Palmer Astley ; and now , in return , let me ask you , ( ' Are you" the Richard Cobden whose bills in 1845 were offered me under the firm of Cobden , Brothers , for discount at 40 per cent . ? " Are you the same person who availed himself of the shelter of Parliament to attack a man behind his back , ¦ who afterwards was furnished with data to enable him to ascertain whether or not those attacks are groundless , and who now endeavours to shelter himself under a paltry quibble ? " I await your answer . Your obedient servant , " Mr . Richard Cobden . " E . GARBETT . "

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      MR . DELAFIELD'S BANKRUPTCY . The proceedings in this protracted case have at last been brought to a close . On Tuesday Mr . Commissioner Fane delivered judgment in the Bankruptcy Court , and , in doing so , he gave an outline of Mr . IDelafield's career from the time of his going to Oxford until he became bankrupt . It appeared that , during the three years he spent at Oxford , the young man exceeded his income upwards of £ 3000 . On coming of age he was anxious to pay these debts , but as the money left by his uncle was not immediately accessible , he borrowed of the gentleman , who afterwards became petitioning creditor and assignee , under the bankruptcy , £ 4600 , with which he cleared off his debts . The commissioner then

      quoted the whole of Mr . Delafield s evidence as given in a former examination , and proceeded to reply to the charges brought against him . The first charge was that of reckless expenditure , but what evidence was there to support such a charge ? From a statement in the balance sheet it appeared that the whole of his personal expenditure , from November , 1845 , to July , 1849 , was about £ 19 , 000 , or at the rate of £ 5000 a year . This was not a reckless expenditure

      for a person who had an income of £ 7000 a year . The next charge was that he had made away with , all his remaining property in favour of Mr . Beale , just on the eve of bankruptcy . Into this part of the case , however , he could not well go , as the assignee had deemed it most prudent to settle all questions with Mr . Beale by accepting from that gentleman £ 1000 in satisfaction of all claims . After a few remarks in extenuation of Delafield ' s conduct

      towards the college friend from whom he had borrowed the £ 4600 to pay the debts he contracted at Oxford , Mr . Fane said : — " It is insisted that I ought , in granting the certificate , to attach a condition that the bankrupt shall pay 10 s . in the pound on his debts , out of future assets , and a decision something to that effect in Lord Huntingtower ' s case was cited to me . I do not know the exact particulars of that case . 1 only know that the case was very peculiar . But I confess I have no inclination to attach a condition to a certificate in any case . I refused to do so in Jullien ' s . The world of industry in which we live is one in which every man not living on

      accumulations is struggling for a subsistence . In that struggle it is difficult enough for any one to ^ win his way , even with character clear and something to begin with . What , then , may be expected to be the fate of one who not only begins with nothing , but is weighed down by the stain of bankrupcy , and by a unpaid debt of 10 a . in the pound on £ 33 , 000 ? I see nothing for a person so burdened but to lie down in hopeless despair , and abandon all future exertion . Were the faults of this bankrupt far greater than they are , I would not condemn him to such a fate . It may bo said that this bankrupt has rich relations . Perhaps he has ; but , if it were true , this argument is one which will never weigh with me . I will

      never be a party to the establishment of any such doctrine as that rich relations arc under any obligation to pay the debts of extravagant connections . A contrary doctrine is a far more wholesome one . It is far better to lay it down that no creditor shall have any means of pressure , direct or indirect , upon rich relations , and thus check the giving credit to the young and foolish . It is the too great prevalence of this credit which in the long run leads to the establishment of laws which , though intended to check the unwholesome credit only which is given to the idle , such as that given in Lord Huntingtower ' s case ,

      ntnl again in this , have a tendency to impede that wholesome credit which , by enabling struggling industry to exercise its calling , is the source of public wealth . And for whose benefit am I to impose this burden ? For that <» f the assignee or for that of the general body of creditors ? If for the assignee , I answer that he Ujic-w at the time ho lent the money that he was lending to a spendthrift , that the money was to pay for past or provide for future extravagance . Why should the Jaw go out of its way to aid such lenders ? They are public enemies . They foster extravagance , encourage

      idleness , and disturb the happiness of families . Even those who advance money to enable others to educate themselves or go into business must submit to the loss of what they have lent , if circumstances turn out unfavourable , and if this be the fate of those who advance money for praiseworthy purposes , why should it not be the fate of those who advance money to supply extravagance r Surely , the loss of what has been so lent is a not inappropriate punishment for persons who thus interfere between the young and their natural advisers and protectors . But it may be said that I ought to impose this condition for the benefit of the other creditors . To that I answer that I do not believe that there is even one who wishes it . I have now been engaged twenty-five years in administering the law of bankruptcy , and in that time I have observed that the most marked feature in

      the conduct of creditors , as a body , towards debtors , is an unwillingness to press harshly on the fallen , and I doubt not that is the feeling which pervades the body of creditors in this case . At all events , not one has appeared to make the slightest personal complaint against him ; but , if a contrary feeling did prevail , I should not yield to it , for I look upon the general body of creditors in this case as co-speculators with the bankrupt ; and , as the speculation has been a total failure , and he the greatest sufferer , all ought to bear their share of the misfortune without repining . On the whole , I think , upon full consideration of all the circumstances , that I shall best discharge my public duty by granting the bankrupt a common certificate , without attaching any condition to it . I hope that the terrible lesson he has received may be useful to him in after-life . "

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      A FOOTMAN IN LOVE WITH HIS MISTRESS . Richard Mac Allister , described in the police reports as rather shabbily attired , " but of whose personal appearance no particulars are given , was brought before Mr . Broughton , at Marylebone Police Office , on Monday , on a charge of having been found near the premises of Miss Bellew , Stockley-house , Primrose-hill , " for an unlawful purpose . " The evidence given , however , was not sufficient to sustain this charge . All that could be made out was , that he had been seen in the vicinity of Miss Bellew ' s house on several occasions , and that when asked to " move on " by the policeman , he had said that he would stay there as long as he pleased . Subsequently he said that Miss Bellew owed him £ 2 . Two years ago

      he had been brought up at the same court on a similar charge , and in default of his finding sureties to keep the peace was imprisoned for six months . According to the prisoner ' s own statement to the policeman , Miss Bellew had promised to many him while he was in her service as footman , and if he had not been a fool , he should , have married her then and there . " But he had become jealous of another person , and that was the reason of his leaving her service . When questioned by the magistrate Mac Allister affirmed Miss Bellew made a positive engagement to become his wife , and assured him that nothing else could ever make her happy . After he left her service she sent a Miss Martin , an upholsteress , who

      had been working in the house , to say that if he would come back she would make him as comfortable as possible , and that he should not be required to wear livery any longer , from which he naturally inferred that she intended to marry him . More especially as he was informed by Miss Mfirtin that she had been told by that lady , "in her dressing-room , " that "he might have made a gentleman of himself if he had not been a fool . " On ( he other hand Miss Bellew declared most solemnly that there was not a word of truth in what" the creature " had stated . Her evidence , which was given under much excitement , was not very encouraging to M'AUister ' s

      pretensions . She said—For the last three years I have lived in terror of mv life through this creature ( looking- at defendant ) , and I dismissed him from my service in consequence of improper conversation used by him in the kitchen . This time two > uars he attempted to seize me and drag me from my carriage on my return from Epsom races , and he declared that my carriage and horses were his , and tr : e house also . —Mr . Broughton : Has he ever said anything to you personally about marriage?—Miss Bellew : No . —Mr . Uroughton : Why do you consider that you coin fear of vour life?—Miss Bellew ( hastily ) : Why do you ask iue this question?—I think I have good reason to be so . —Mr . Broughton : Be a little calm , ma ' am , if you please . I ask you distinctly why you now go in fear of defendant , he having already undergone imprisonment ? What has since occurred to make you really frightened at the present time?—Miss Bellew : Last Saturdaywhile I was giving instructions to my gardener , I

      , saw the most horrid countenance I ever beheld . —Mr . Broughton Is the defendant the person you saw?—Miss Bellew : Yes , that creature there . Hf grinned at me like a maniac . 1 and my family are all in danger , and we expect to be shot . It ' s very hard that , paying so much for rent and taxes , I can't be protected . —Mr . Brnughton : 1 don't think you h ; ivc any reason to complain of want of protection ; the police have constantly been watcliiii" the defendant , and he has been long imprisoned for a former annoyance . Do you owe the defendant nnything?—Miss Bellew ( emphatically ) : Not one farthing , sir , I assure you . lie has been in the service of Mrs . Tyrell , Oxford-terrace , nnd , owing to some mnd acts which he committed there , he w ; is once removed from the house by a policeman . —Defendant : She owi'S niu £ 2 , your worship , and it ' s for board wages . —Mr . Broughton : Jf what you say be true , why not apply to the County Court?—Defendant : I have done so , but , as I duln t wish to expose Miss Bellew , I withdrew the proceedings .

      Charlotte Skinner , the lady ' s-maid , stated that while McAllister was footman to Miss Bellew , she had heard him say that he was about to marry a daughter of the Countess of Westmeath , but that having met Miss Bellew in the Park he had fallen in love with her , and would marry no one else . For this presumptuous speech and " other observations" which were repeated to his mistress , he was dismissed from her service . Mr . Brout ? ht . on said ho should require the ilefcmlnnt to find bail , himself in £ 50 , and two sureties o » £ 2 o each , for his keeping the peace and being of ffood behaviour towards Miss Bellew for one month . Ine lady did not seem at all satisfied at her troublesome follower having been secured for a month only .

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      AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY . A large party of noblemen and gentlemen , consisting for the most part of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries , assembled at Lord Londesborough ' s mansion in Piccadilly on Monday afternoon , for the purpose of witnessing the interesting process of unrolling a mummy which had been recently brought from Thebes by Mr . Arden . The specimen was a very perfect one , and the richness of the case , with its gold embellishments and hieroglyphical characters , led to the belief that the investigation of the body would reveal certain peculiarities not commonly met with in mummies of Egyptian preparation . Ihe inscription on the external surface of the case was read thus , " Anchsenhesi , " " She who lives by Isis , ' thus at once determining the sex of the individual . t Mr . Birch , previous to the ceremony of the denudation of the body , read a short historical sketch , based uponthe authority of Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus , but corrected by modern investigation and research , of the system adopted by the Egyptians in the complicated and expensive process of preserving their dead . The dusty labour of stripping off the family rags from this very brittle and bituminous old lady occupied the anxious antiquaries for nearly an hour , during which , time many speculations were hazarded as to the result of the examination , for it happens frequently that nothing beyond the materials used in the process are found enrolled with the body . The first discovery was that of the

      dorsal strap of leather extending in a chevron shape from the nape of the neck to the lower part of the ribs , the lateral extremities being broader , and inscribed with certain characters descriptive of the family or individual rank , &c , of the deceased . These pieces were carefully preserved , but Ihey did not appear to be of sufficient extent to lead to any important result . Presently after , a roll of papyrus was brought to light , inscribed with portions of the Egyptian ritual . The body being exposed , and the planch incision laid bare , the tin plate covering it was removed , and some further careful exploration revealed a very unusual feature—namely , a silver plate , inscribed with an eye , symbolical of the sun , over the to

      region of the heart . The hands on removal proved have been prepared with great care , all the fingers being encased in silver previous to the application of the coating of bitumen . The figure Hapi or Apis was also found enveloped in linen bandages between the legs , and some grains of wheat were gathered from the folds of the mummy . The black process had been used , and , from the abundant rolls , as well as from the objects above enumerated , it was thought that the lady thus unceremoniously broken up to gratify the curiosity of modern , antiquaries was one of wealth and rank , who lived from one thousand to twelve hundred years before Christ , or about three thousand years ago .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen and the rest of the Royal Family still remain at Osborne . On Sunday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert , the Duchess of Kent , and the Princess Hoyal , accompanied by the Royal suite , attended divine service at Whippingham Church . On Wednesday the Duchess of Kent and the Prince of Leiningen left Osbor ne . The Queen and Prince Albert , with the royal suite , will leave Osborne for London , on Tuesday afternoon . On Wednesday , her Majesty will hold a Privy Council at Buckinghain-palace , and it is said that the Commissioners will then be appointed / or the custody of the Great Seal , rendered ntcessary by the retirement of the Earl of Cottenham .

      Lord John Russell left his residence , at Richmondpark , on Thursday morning , for the Kingston station , travelling by the London and South-Western Railway , en route to Osborne , on a visit to the Queen . The Marquis of Westminster has caused invitations to be issued , by command of her Majesty , for state balls ( full dress ) on the 26 th instant , and the 10 th of July ; and for concerts ( frock dress ) on the 1 st and 15 th of July .

      The CorJc Examiner states that a Killarney correspondent , giving for his authority a gentleman officially connected with the Government , says thai , it is the intention of her Majesty and Prince Albert to visit Cork on the 2 nd of August , for the purpose of witnessing the regatta ; and such ground has the report gained , that , in expectation of the auspicious event , and of a royal so * journ for a few days in Killarney , " parties high in office have already engaged apartments in one of the principal suburban hotels " of that town .

      There are over 300 men , of all arts and trades , &c , at present employed in muking very extensive improvements in and about Lismorc Castle . It is beyond doubt that her Majesty intends to honour the good and noble duke with a visit at his Irish residence on the first occasion of her coming to this country . — Wuterford Mail . The materials of several buildings in the immediato neighbourhood of Ilolyrood Palace , were sold on Tuesday , and operations for their removal were commenced on Wednesday . The alterations and improvements in the apartments in the palace for the reception of her Majesty , on her vi&it in autumn , are proceeding with vigour and activity . They are more of the character of repairs and necessary decorations than of any material change in the structure itself . —Scotsman .

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      Monsieur and Madame Thiers , accompanied by Madame and the two Mademoiselles Dosne , arrived at Mivart ' s Hotel from Paris on Thursday . In the evening , shortly after th « House of Lords had met , M . Thiers entered by one oi' the peers' doors near the throne , accompanied by Sir Edward Ellis . The French ex-minister seemed to be in high health and spirits , and maintained an animated conversation with several peers and commoners who joined him . Lord Palmers ton , who appeared to have been apprised of the presence of the French states *

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      June 15 , 1850 . ] tRtfe &t * Xttt * 271

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 15, 1850, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1842/page/7/