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Leader (1850-1860), 11th January 1851, Edition Town of 1, Page 27, Untitled Article

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      . " « , « -i rnnseauentlv to shield from dishonour . h AS 5 : S . riJ ^? SW » rf « . ™ y venerable parent , Althougn neariy ^ Ucly uttered a most revolt-? '" « iinuatTon retains still full possession of every f ^ ultv and ^' keen a sense of the honour due to an f M . mt « hed life as others do in earlier years . After Sv ^ gptstd her % s with the respect and esteem of lrriStTknow her , unless the kindness of friends shall keen her inVn « ance of the blow you have t ™* - ** C A nnnnr God only knows what the effect of it may Je upon her Sd or her life . As it has been the first , « n it mar prove a last and fatal stroke . ' ° « I ^ herSfore earnestly and solemnly call upon you , as » Christian , as a gentleman , and as a man , publicly to JefraSt and apologize for the unfounded imputations " hich you have cast upon my parent ' s honour m your Bpeech at Oxford . g . > obedient servant , « Rochefort Clarke , Esq . " N . Cabd . Wisemax .

      Mr R Clarke replies with a disclaimer of any m-¦ innation . an offer to print his own speech in JSl adSng- " And if you will send me a short letter to explain your birth and parentage , and state whether you are a subject of Queen Victoria or not —and if I find your letter of such a character as to iustify me in doing so , I will add it to my pamphlet , and afford you this opportunity of placing your birth and parentage truly before the public , which we Englishmen are naturally anxious to have explained . " At the annual meeting of the Protestant Dissenting Deputies , yesterday week , a long discussion took place regarding a paragraph of the report , in which the Committee condemned the Papal Bull , and ex-Dressed their indignation at the aggression of the

      Bishop of Rome . Most of the speakers were strongly opposed to the paragraph being retained , and the discussion of whether it should be expunged or not was adjourned till yesterday . Thirty-one Irish members , whose names are given below , have signed the following warning to Lord . John Russell : — " We , the undersigned , deem it our duty at the present juncture to declare our unalterable attachment to the principles of Civil and Religious Liberty , and our determination to oppose by every constitutional means any measure tending to interfere by legislative enactment with the discipline or doctrine of any portion of the

      Queen ' s subjects . « M . J . Blake , Castlereagh , M . E . Corbally , W . Sharman Crawford , J . T . Devereux , W . Fagan , J . Fagan , R . M . For , H . Grattan , J . Greene , R . Keatinge , C . Lawless , W . Torrens M'Cullagh , N . V . Maher , W . Monsell , T . Meagher , G . H . Meagher , J . O'Brien , T . O'Brien , M . O'Connell , J . O'Connell , A . O'Flaherty , The O'Gorman Mahon , G . Ouseley Higgins , M . Power , N . Power , E . Burke Roche , J . Reynolds , J . Sadleir , Fras . Scully , J . H . Talbot . "

      The Morning Herald says : — " There is a gentleman of the name of Sir J . E . Harington , who has been carrying on the controversy in Mr . Bennett ' s behalf lately , and who is , we believe , Mr . Bennett ' s churchwarden . Well , a clergyman now in England met with a Sir J . E . Harington in Rome last spring , and supposes that this churchwarden of St . Paul's , Knightsbridge , ' is the same person . But at Rome the Sir i . E . Harington who was there last spring prostrated himself before the Host , and even knelt in worehip of that stupid fraud , the handkerchief of St . Veronica ! ' If there are not two gentlemen of the name , what else than a Papist is Mr .

      Bennett ' s churchwarden ? But this is not the only circumstance connected with St . Paul ' s , Knightsbridge , which has recently come to our knowledge . Romanism ha 8 been practised in that congregation for pome time past in its most dangerous points . We speak from very accurate information when we say , that parents have discovered that their sons were in the habit of frequenting haunts of dissipation , and indulging in habits of gross vice , and then of going to Mr . Bennett , or his curatea , on each Saturday night to be ' confessed and absolved '—then to pursue the same round on the following week . "

      The Reverend Sir Frederick Ouseley , Bart ., and Sir John Harington , Bart ., both of Oxford , have , it is stated , seceded from the Established Church . Sir John Harington wob Mr . Bennett ' s churchwarden . —Daily News . The Standard says : — " It is understood in the neighbourhood of Antony , in Cornwall , that the Reverend H . L . Jenner , the « on of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust , who is curate of a chapel at Merrifield , in Antony , has been suspended from his clerical duties , or received an intimation that he had better resign his curacy , in consequence of some Romanizing practices in which he is « aid to have indulged . There are rumours also afloat as to the Reverend J . F . Kitson , the vicar of Antony , leaving his vicarage for some time , in consequence of the

      uneasiness of some influential persons in the parish as to his mode of discharging hia duties . " Two birds , dressed up as a pope and a cardinal , were set loose by some unknown person in St . Andrew ' s Church , Wells-street , on Sunday , during the celebration of Divine worship . The Pl ymouth Journal says : — " We understand that Dr . Pusey was in this neighbourhood about ten or twelve days since , when it is possible that ho shrived ¦ ome or all of the Sisters of Mercy ; as he now confesses that ho does that kind of thing in four dioceses . If it bo an honourable or a proper duty for a ' priest * of tho Establishment to perform , why are- the doctor ' s visits so mvsterious ? He comes down here frequently—so we are told—and tho bishop ' s mock enquiry brought out tho » ot that he slept in the house , at thut time , of the Sisters of Meroy . '

      The great Gorham case is producing fruits even among the clergy of South Africa . The " bishop and clergy of the diocese of Cape Town " have put out a declaration , in the old English typography of Puseyistn , protesting against the jurisdiction of the Privy Council : — " We cannot consider this court as entitled to express the judgment of the Church of England in points of doctrine ; and , therefore while we are ready and anxious to listen dutifully to the acknowledged voice of the Church , we cannot accept from such a court any interpretations or decisions in a controversy of faith . "

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      THE SHAM MIRACLE . The sham miracle of a bleeding Christ , related in last week ' s Leader , will , no doubt , prove to have been a mere imitation of an old imposture . A correspondent of the Times gives the following parallel case from Collier ' s Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain : — " At the arrival of the Earl of Sussex , the Queen ' s Lieutenant in Ireland , the Litany was sung in English , at Christ Church , Dublin ( Tuesday , August 30 , 1559 ) . Some bigotted Papists were much disturbed at this way of worship , and endeavoured to retrieve their old service by counterfeiting a miracle . To this purpose a marble figure of our Saviour , standing in the cathedral , with a reed in his hand , and a crown of thorns on his head , was observed to bleed through the thorns upon the face of the image . This wonderful appearance happened in service time , when the Lord Lieutenant , the Archbishop , and the rest of the Privy Council , were at church . When this was perceived by the people they were strangely affected , especially when one privy to the contrivance told them that our Saviour could not choose but sweat blood when heresy was come into the church . In short , all the audience not being of the same mind , the miracle occasioned a confusion , and the congregation broke up . Several of the people , however , stayed behind , fell on their kneesand prayed before the image .

      , The Archbishop of Dublin ( Hugh Curwen , a native of Westmoreland ) , suspecting some foul play , ordered the sexton to wash and examine the image . This being done , the man perceived a sponge soaked in blood within the hollow of the head . This sponge one Lee , formerly a monk of the cathedral , had put within the head that morning , and being loaded with blood , it was strained through the cracks of the marble , and fell down in drops upon the face . The cheat being thus discovered , the Archbishop preached in the church upon that subject the next Sunday ; and to make the more serviceable impression . Lee , with his assistants , were planted upon a table before the pulpit , with their hands and legs tied , and their crime on paper upon their breasts . In this equipage they appeared three Sundays , were imprisoned for some time , and afterwards banished the realm . "

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      IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT . A meeting of a very interesting and important nature waa held on Monday afternoon in the Mayor ' s parlour , at the Town-hall , Manchester , on the subject of education . It comprised the Dean , and a large number of the clergy , with several Wesleyan and Dissenting Ministers and the leading merchants and manufacturers of the town . The meeting was called by the Rev . C . Richson , clerk in orders of the Cathedral , to consider a plan drawn up by himself and some members of the Church Education Society " to show the practicability of constructing an effective system of local education on the basis of plans now in operation . " The Reverend the Dean took the chair , and the resolutions were proposed and seconded by Mr . Robert Gladstone , churchman ; the Reverend Mr . Poore , Dissenting minister ; the Reverend Mr . Guyther , Dissenting minister : Mr . C . E . Cunley , the Reverend Hugh Stowell , canon of Chester , and the Reverend S . Oaborne , Wesleyan minister , the latter stating , " we must stick to our principles , but give up our prejudices , " and ' were spoken to by the Reverend W . Birley , Mr . J . Hey wood , M . P ., Mr . Richard Birley , and others . The principal features of the plan are to make use of tho unoccupied room in schools of the various religious denominations in Manchester and Salford ; to provide for tho contingent expenses by a local rate not exceeding 6 d . in the pound , and the management to be by committees elected out of their own members by the municipal councils of the two boroughs . The religious

      convietions of all parties are to be respected and equally protected , by a guaruntee that in all existing schools admitted into union with the district committee no creed or formulary shall be taught to children to which their parents or lawful guardians may , in writing , object . In new schools erected by the Education Committee no distinctive creed is to be taught within tho ordinary school hours , although duily reading of the Scriptures is to be provided for . Tho management of the latter schoola is alao to b , e exclusively by lay persons . The assistance of her Majesty ' s inspectors is to be obtained in estimating the educational wants of any locality , and no school in to bo erected by the district committees or land purchased without tho sanction of the Committee of Privy Council oil Education .

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      HARSH POOR-LAW ADMINISTRATION . In consequence of certain charges contuined in the roport of tho chaplain of tho Hath gaol to tho city justices , ut their last Michaelmas sessions , an enquiry has been going on , during tho lust throe weeka ,

      before Mr . E . Gulson , the poor-law inspector of the district . , The report of the chaplain alleged that the regulations and system pursued by the guardians and their relieving officer were the cause of great destitution , misery , and crime ; and that relief was given or refused at the mere whim and caprice of the relieving officer , regardless of the destitution of applicants . A large number of witnesses were called in the course of the investigation , and the depositions of several persons at present confined in the gaol taken .

      Amongst other things it was alleged that on one occasion a large number of boys and lads , who had no relations or friends whatever , were turned out of the workhouse without any means of support ; and that on becoming destitute they were refused relief , and ultimately most of them suffered great misery , and many were sent to gaol , on charges of vagrancy , &c . Several of these lads were called as witnesses , and deposed to facts corroborative of the allegation . The guardians , on the other hand , admitted the destitute state in which the lads had been ,

      but contended that it was not the fault of the board — alleging that the boys on being asked expressed their wish to leave the house , and stated that they would get work if they did so ; and that they were told on leaving , they might return within three days if they did not find employment . Another charge was the indiscriminate refusal of relief to able-bodied tramps . In 1847-8 , the guardians , in consequence of the large number of vagrants applying for relief , instructed the relieving officer not to relieve any able-bodied vagrants . In consequence of the rigid observance of this article , persons really destitute appear to have been neglected , and several cases of breaches of the peace and thefts from want

      were committed in consequence . W . Sutcliffe , Esq ., late mayor , gave evidence on this point , and deposed to several cases being brought before him , whilst mayor , of persons who were charged with vagrancy or theft after being refused relief , and who were so destitute that he had ordered money to be given them . The guardians , in justification of their conduct , pleaded the peculiar circumstances of the times , the country being overrun with vagrants , and the workhouse crowded , and that their course had been sanctioned by the poor-law board . At the close of the evidence , the commissioner said he should send it to the poor-law board in London , with such remarks appended as he thought proper , and the commissioners would consider the cases , and send down their decision .

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      THE DUTCH CROWN JEWELS . The New York papers received by the last steam packet , contain a long account of certain proceedings relating to the robbery and ultimate recovery of the crown jewels of Holland , which , do not reflect much credit on Dutch royalty . The jewels , which are said to have been stolen in 1829 , were worth more than a million of dollars , and were crown jewels of the Princess of Orange , wife of the then heir apparent to the throne of Holland . She was a sister of the Emperor of Russia , and some of the jewels had been presented to her by that potentate . The Prince of Orange was in somewhat indifferent repute at that

      time , having acquired habits of dissipation and extravagance ; and as the robbery for a long time could not be accounted for , there were some who did not refrain from directing suspicion towards his Royal Highness as being concerned in the affair . The thief ( Polari or Carrera ) , was detected in New York in July , 1831 , having fled thither with part of the stolen jewels , the rest having been buried in a wood near Brussels . He arrived in New York with a woman of bad character , who passed as his wife , and they had with them a young child . The jewels were concealed in the hollow handle of an umbrella , in a hollow qrutch used by Polari , under the pretence of being

      lame , and in hollow toys of the child , and by these means they eluded tho notice of the Custom-house officers . Shortly after their arrival in New York , the woman formed an intimacy with a Frenchman of notorious character named Itoumage , mid disclosed to him where some of the jewels had been buried by Polari near Brooklyn , and placed some of the least valuable of them in his possession . Roumage , who had become an adept in crime , forthwith resolved to profit by the information thus acquired , by giving information to the Chevalier Huygenw , the Dutch minister , und thu » secure the large reward advertised by the Dutch Government ; and in order to have two Htrings to his bow , he also gave information

      to the New York Custom-house officers , h « claiming tho one - fourth part ullowed by the acts of Congress to informers of smuggled goodn . lie exhibited the jewels in hit * possession , which wero not of great value , to verify his statement ; but the most valuublc portion ho took , after the arrest of Polari , from their place of concealment near Brooklyn , and fled with the woman to Philadelphia , and theneo to Liverpool . The Dutch Minister at New York engaged tho services of a Mr . Seeley . of New York , who apprehended Polari , and effected also , by extraordinary diligence- und exertions , the arrest of liouinuge and tho woman , in Liverpool , and tho recovery of tho jowels they had with them , itoumugo

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 11, 1851, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1865/page/3/