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Leader (1850-1860), 8th February 1851, Edition Town of 1, Page 124, Untitled Article

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      warden told him that if he proceeded to disturb the congregation he should remove him by force . Mr . Veitch still continued his reading , whereupon he was pushed off the steps , and forced along the aisle to the church doors , he continuing to read the service until he -Was ejected from the edifice . William Day , aged eighty-five , who has been for half a century a poulterer in Lee ^ enhall-market , Was brought up at Lambeth Police-offic > I on Wednesday , on a charge of having caused the deal / of his wife , aged sixty-eight . Day and his wife had lived apart for the last twenty years , and she had been in the habit of calling upon him in the market for her weekly allowance every Saturday

      evening . Last Saturday she did not call , and her husband went on Sunday to see what was the matter , but could not obtain admittance . On Monday evening he called again , but without success , and on rrtentioning * to the neighbours his suspicions that his wife was dead , they broke open the door but could find no trace of her . Next day a more minute search was made when the body was found doubled up in a small recess , behind some rabbit hutches , a place into which it was thought that she could not have got herself . From careful inquiry it did not appear that there was any good ground for accusing the old man of the murder , if she had met with her death by violence , and he Was accordingly discharged .

      A Mr . John Cooper , formerly head assistant at the Lincoln Grammar School , and who has lately conducted a boarding school at Stanfield-hall , near Todmorden , has been apprehended on a charge of having poisoned his wife . He has been married about four years , and has two children , one about six weeks old , and another about two years . The motive assigned by public rumour for the alleged murder ^ is that Cooper has been on very intimate terms with the daughter of a Wesleyan minister at Alford , in Lincolnshire , to whom he was anxious to be married .

      Three steamboat catastrophes took place in the Clyde this week . On Tuesday night , the Thistle steamer , on its way from Glasgow to Londonderry , ran down the brig Laurel , from Demerara , for Glasgow , near the Pladdu , when all her crew , fourteen in number , were drowned . The same night at a later hour , the Vanguard , steamer , from Glasgow , for Dublin , came into collision with a schooner off Corsewall Point , and was so much damaged that she returned to Greenock . It is not known ¦ what became of the schooner . On Wednesday morning , the boiler of the Plover steamboat , plying between Glasgow and Bowling , exploded while the vessel was lying at the Bromielaw . The engineer was killed and several persons seriously wounded .

      The Toronto , a fine packet-ship , nearly 1000 tons burden , which accomplished some of the most rapid passages on record between London and New York , was totally lost near the Bahama Islands , last month . The crew and passengers were all saved , but the ship and cargo , valued at £ 30 , 000 , were entirely lost . A man named George Firth , forty-three years of age , steward at the Partridge-dale colliery , near Burnsley , was murdered on the morning of yesterday fortnight . On the previous day he had been to Burnsley where he had drunk too freely , and started for home in a state of intoxication , accompanied part of the way by his brother . Just before the latter parted with him two men passed , one of whom carried a gun , and a slight altercation took place

      between them and George Firth . From that time nothing more was heard of him till next morning , between live and six o'clock , when he was found by two colliers as they were going to their work , lying upon the footpath . about one hundred yards from his own house . They assisted him to his own house , but as it was dark they did not see that he was wounded . When subsequently examined he was bleeding profusely from a wound in the back part of his head . He gradually became worse and died next morning . On a post-mortem examination it was ascertained that he had been ohot , and that the ball had gone right through the brain . Nothing has yet transpired to account for his having been shot .

      Two men who had been begging about the neighbourhood of Wulsall for some days previously , broke into the house of a small farmer named Holmes , near that town , on Wednenday night week , and had very nearly accompanied the burglary by murder . They made their way in through a back window , and , after packing up a quantity of plunder , visited the larder and drank two bottles of wine . Jilmboldcnod by their potations they went lip stairs where their first act was to make a deadly iiHsnuli upon Holmes . They struck him twice on the head , with such forct : as completely to shiver the weapon to splinter !* ; fancying they had killed him they then besr . au to plunder the room , but the farmer's skull had been harder than they had calculated upon : he started from bed , caught hold of a stuff and knocked one of the burglars rtenisclrKs on the Hour , the other attempted to run away , but Holmes whs too quick for him . Assistance ? was then obtained , and they were both taken to prison .

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      At the Central Criminal Court , yestef day , Satttnier Hill ; charged with having caused the death : of Mode * Barnes , in a Juiradic asylum at PecKlram ' , Watt' found guilty of manslaughter . The ( Jalway Vindicator confirms , oh the' authority of letters from Home , the statement made in the Southern Keporterj that " no decision hostile to the Queen ' s Colleges is likely to emanute from the Holy See . " From tfye French papers o / Thursday itflpcm ' s very imfl ht

      probable that the Dotation Bill win pads . It wa'thoug that the . djpciiKHum would , take place today , but the decision will not be before Monday tn < tdi probably . * t is reported that M . CrtVto ' n intends to prison ' t d ptofrtmiion to prevent a national Hubacription in favour ot tne President , on the ground thai it would M a ' ni iriatilt 1 <> the Assembly , ui '^ l that , ho defends hik pto ' p'bsiiloii oti t '' ground that the' law forbids a flubtife ' ription ft' * tn ^ P J ' ment of fines imposed by the courts of law : Ami that tlu ; re in no reason wh y the « aine principle should not ho extended to subscriptions got up iii ripposltWh to a decision of the Assembly .

      The Ministerial crisis at Parla is causing much alarm at the Vatican . They are afraid that the French troops may possibly he . withdrawn . In that cksej supposing iiffairi * in the north of Italy should look threatening : aK »> > they could have no help ftoni cither Austria or Naple « - Tlid r «;« nlt would he that the P <»| io would havb to march on ' ce more to Gaetu , or uoincwhfere else . Letters from Vienna of the 2 nd contradict the utatement of the Vienna paperu respecting the alleged dan-{ teruua condition of the Count de Chambord . The count iu slightly indisposed .

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      TO EEADEE 8 AND CQfiRESPOt fDENTS . It Is impossible to acknowledge tire mass of letter * w * e receive Their insertion is often delayed , owing- to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently front reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it encreases the difficulty of finding space for them . All letters for the Editor to be addressed 9 ; " Crane-court , Fleetstreet , London .

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      It is now definitively arranged that a royal commission vrill h «> immediately issued to inquire into the stale ; of the University of Dublin . The Archbishop of Dublin will be at . the head of the new commission . A district , tenant-right meeting- whs held at Hanbrid ^ e , irt the county of Down , on Monday . Tin ; Northern Whit ) HtiitcH that , the attendance , was more numerous limn at other recent , meetings , and that . th <* speeches were , with HC . irct'ly an exception , characterized by an unusual moderation of tour . The Director * of the National flunk of Limerick , haverefused to honour the application of tho Hoard of ( iuivnliaiiH for £ 2600 , and the consequence has been the Bto' ) puj » «» of the workn for erecting Another' ponrhouHf . The Hoard of Trinity College , Dublin , have acquired possession , at the cost of , 'JOO f ttiiiifan , of the identical nword worn by K . ing William at the battle of the Boyne , and have placed il in their museum .

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      Lord John Russell moved , last evening , for leave to bring in a bill "to prevent the assumption of certain ecclesiastical titles in respect of places in the United Kingdom . " He pointed to th& profceedrngs of the Catholic Synod at Thurles , to show the Aggressive interference of the Roman . Catholic hierarchy was not confined to spiritual matters . In the address published by that body , from whose meetings all laymen were excluded ^ the chief tpp ics were national education and the land question . This was a Sample of what would be done if they were allowed to tiroceed without check . He gatfe several

      instances of the encroaching spirit of the Pope in foreign countries , in all of which , Catholic as vtell as Protestant , they found it necessary to pass laws that no concordat or rescript frorri the Pope could be feceived i unless sanctioned by the civil authorities of such states respectively . Considering all these things , he felt the recent proceedings of the Pope * in changing vicars apostolic in this country into archbishops and bishdps ; was highly important ,- more particularly as the alteration took place entirely without the consent or knowledge of the

      Government . He had certainly been , privately informed by an individual that such a project was in cbriiterii plation , and he at once replied that he could no £ consent to any such arrangement , and had subsequently " remained under the impression that the matter was at an end . He believed that in no country in Europe , save only England , could the Pope have dared to offer such an insult to the Sovereign . In England , from the earliest period of our history , our Roman Catholic ancestors had always been jealous of the encroaching power of Rome , and had takeii measures to restrain it : —

      " Government had consulted the legal advisers of-the Crown as to the existing law , who were of opinion that neither by the common nor statute law could the niere assumption of titles be prosecuted as an offehce ; and that , although the introduction of bulls or writings from Iiorne was illegal , and subjected the party to a penalty , the law had been so long in disuse that a prosecution would oh that ground probably fail . After specifying the objections to which other courses were open , the Government ^ , he observed , had , under the circumstances , and with reference to the control which the new Roman Catholic

      prelates would obtain over large endowments in the hands of Roman Catholic trustees in this country , proposed , in the first place , to prevent the assumption of any title not only from any diocese now existing , but from any territory or place in any part of the United Kingdom ; and to restrain parties from obtaining by virtue of such titles any control over trust property . , Jn conclusion , he remarked the beet course Dr . Wiseman could pursue was to renounce the title he had assumed .

      and , as he had assured him ( Lord John ) was his original intention , to reside at Rome ; but if other counsels should prevail , and he should instil motives of ambition or revenge into the Court of Rome , we must prepare lor a long and arduous struggle , in which the part he should take would be guided by the principles which had always governed his conduct in these questions : lie was for the fullest enjoyment of religious liberty , but he was entirely opposed to any interference by any ecclesiastics with the temporal nupieinacy of this realm . "

      Not u single speaker last night gave hia approval to the proposed bill . Mr . Rokhuuk condemned it as ji step backwards in obedience to prejudices out ot doors , but which would be utterly inefficient . Mr . John O'Connki . l said Lord John had done wisely , und even courageously , in preparing to undergo the ridicule which would be heaped on him fur having brought forth this moutte out of a mountain rather than propo . se a severe penal enactment . Mr . IIknhy DitinifMOMi ) doubted whether the Government could beat back the P . tpal aggression by any . such measure . The priests would slip through their fingers , and curry their measures in npite of . Government : —

      " Th <» great object of the i ' ope was to lake away all trust-funds from the English coWrls of law , ami to place them undor the riota management of Archbishop YViHcman . 'Vhdi nuts the real yist of the question .. ( Hoar . ) I'Jic . moyvy wtiH the . thing . ( Hear . ) It matters very littlo whether they called Dr . Wiseman Archbishop of Wt-Htininstcr or Archbishop of Knglnhcf ; but to take the property of Roman Catholics out of the hands of our courts and get . it . into their own—that was an object worth attaining . "

      Mr . E . 1 > . Ro <; hk thought MinisterH were doing a very unwise tiling in extending tho measure to Ireland . Mr . Mookk characterized the Anti-Popery agitation m " a Scotch mist , drenching the nouls of men with a long , drvury drizzle of bcurrility und

      » ¦ cant . " If , however , the people of England really wiB&ed Parliament to resist Popery ^ some stronger measiite than the one proposed wotiid be reiqttired . 3 fr . Bright fidiculeif tfte whole of the Anti-Papal agitation , frbth Hi Cbttiniencem 6 rit by the Premier to its close bjf his introduction of the present abortive measure . ^ Sir , tJfsKAEii # ould not oppose the introduction of tb ! d bill , because he vrilhed the jJeoble of England t 6 6 eeih& pitiful result of thfitietnl&lcaWft

      agitation which had been f ^ stferfed by ^ : Gfbver ^ rfterH The course taken was not only unsatisfactory fbrtfie " present , but extremely perilous for tHe future . •'• T ue noble lord seemed to have chalked out arralmoet illimitable career ; -which commences with petty , persecution , perhaps ; to terminate With national disaster . " Sir RofiEiti IrJGFMg thfinfced Ldrtf John- Rns&elt for his speech arid hid letter , but was « firaid that the bill would n 6 t be satisfactory , 'the < teb ' 8 if § # aV tbien aftjburhed till Mbnday .

      Cari > ina : l Wiseman and Lorb Minto . —Lord Stanley , though perfectly satisfied with : Lofd Minto'd statement on Thursday evening , that he had ffot been privy to any intention on the part of the Pope to organize a Roinan Catholic hierarchy in England , still , considering the pointed statement rifode by Cardinal Wirfeinari" That the measure now promulgated * was not only prefJaVed but printed three jeirs % gp , an'd d copV of it vfia sboWn to Ldrd Mifato by Hie Pope , dn the ObcaBidfl of ah' gt iAieh&e glved to his lordship by His Holinyas "—' wished to know , last . evening , whether , uppn € ii § receipt of the letter addressed to Lord John Russell by

      Cardinal Wiseman in November ^ siny communication was made tdijifm by the noble lord j whether an explicit denial was at the time given by Lord Minto' to the statement j an , d whether , on the part of the' Gove ' rnmerit , that explrcif dental jvas comrnunicated to Cardinal Wiseman ? In reply Lord Minto said that as soon as . the statement appeared lie communicated the fact to Lord John Russell , that no such communication had ever been made to him ( Lord Minto ) , and a letter , by whom written he did not recoHec , t t ^ publish ^ , Jn the newspapers stating dfs ^ tinctly that he ( Lord Minto ) was neither a party to , nor cognizant of the measure : —

      " I afrf quite at a loss td understand on wh 4 t the report is fovtnded or what gave rise to it ; but assuming that the report proceeded from the Pope , it must have occurred from the Pope stating something to have passed between us at the interview which ditl not pa 3 s , or , if it did pass , I was not aware of it , afad can h ' ave no recollection of the matter . It is stated that during- pur conversation the Pope pointed to some papers ori the tat » le , and said , ' these concern you , ' and that I took no notice of the re « - mark . I certainly have no recollection of such an occurrence , but it is very possible such a thing might have occurred , and that it attracted no attentioa from me . Having ^ ait the : same time , more interesing affairs to speak ab ' , ii is possible' that the words might have been used , and that I did rtot notice them . But , as 1 said before , I have no recollection 6 f anything of the sort , df that anything was eatd" or .. done to make me acquainted with the intentions of the Pope . "

      Lord Stanley was hot satisfied with the latter portion of the explanation . It appeared that a communication might have been made to the noble earl and that he had not noticed it . Lord Minto reiterated his inability to recollect that anything of the kind had taken place , and the conversation dropped . In . the House of Commons , Mr . Roebuck referred to the same awkward tppic for Ministers . He said that , since the outburst , of puritanical spirit in England , Lord Minto had received a letter from the Abbate Hamilton , residing at ISome , reminding him of the following circumistancft _ —

      " Tho Abbate Hamilton paid that Lord Minto , coming direct from an audience , wiiji the Pope , tpld him that he had seen a brief by which the hierarchy of the ltoinan Church was established in England . Lord Minto said that thi Pope had shown him the document , but he ( Lord Minto ) told hurt that be had nothing to < lo with it . because with the internal rojfu Tations of the Church of Rome the British Government had nothing to do . —{ Hear , hear . ) . "

      Postscript. Saturday, J'Eb. 6.

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 8, 1851, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1869/page/8/