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"We are in the enjoyment of an ultra-Protestant , an Orange Government , appealing to bigotry for support , persecuting in the name of civil and religious liberty : making a war-dty of Maynooth j strong in the confidence of t ! & rtttiifl zealot ! W Exeter Hall , more papal in intolerable than priefct and Pope—yet at Naples not even Mfemn treaties can protect a British Protestant Ml ^ lionary from insult and outrage . Thfe Bible is tk ^ fcry of Tory * ism on the hustings : —the Bourb ' dn is the creed of Toryism in Downing Street !
The Belgian Ministerial crisis is not yet solved . The King desires to pursue the same policy With weaker men . More than one statesman has declined the responsibility . The Customs Conference at Berlin , is adjourned after weeks of tedious and fruitless discussions , for a short holiday . No harmonious result can be expected .
In Tuscany , M . Boccella , identified with the ultra-Papal party , has supplanted the quasi-constitutional M . Baldasseroni . A pure spiritual , as well as Austrian despotism , is now inaugurated . Even the Leopoldine laws are no longer safe . Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer ' s influence has scarcely penetrated into the Pitti Palace .
The long announced coup d ' etat in Spain is still in the air . French Government organs twit the Camarilla with indecision . Possibly the Spanish Court is waiting for the sanction of triumphant English Toryism . At the same time rumour says that Don Carlos , Lord John Manners ' s old friend , has recalled his abdication . The chapter of accidents and offences is full , indeed . Among the principal offences we may class Mr . Baron Alderson ' s demeanour in the
trial of certain gentlemen , at Birmingham , for false imprisonment of Derra de Moroda . The case failed on technical grounds , and Derra was nonsuited ; but in the course of the trial , openly to avow a disposition to presume the innocence of Racidula , aliasYon Beck , openly to presume some degree of turpitude in one of the acquitted
defendants , and some degree of injured innocence in the non-suited prosecutor—these are but specimens of Mr . Baron Alderson ' s demeanour . They may , perhaps , be added to the volume of his facetiae ; but unlike most summer lightning , they are not characterized by a brilliancy which is harmless .
The City police-court has disclosed a grand swindling firm , regularly employed in cheating emigrants for Australia . The firm undertook to obtain passages for emigrants ; did obtain the money ; but neglected the other half of the bargain . The firm is exposed , and broken up ; but it is to be feared that others exist , which are fleecing emigrants in a still safer and more effectual way . Numbers are now emigrating in a
hurry ; the offer to engage passages , to provide necessaries , and to do all for the hurried emigrant , is accepted ; and we suspect it is often accepted with little more than the appearance of a return . The millions sterling which emigrants are dispensing with hasty hand—in Liverpool alone it bus been estimated at 7 , 000 , 000 / . within the year ! are a bait for land-sharks ; and many a swindler is fattening on the traffic whom it would be difficult to bring into a police court .
Child-murder is not a novelty , nor a cause of wonder in this difficult and Malthusian country ; but the point-blank acquittal of prisoners against evidence that leaves the public at huge no choice but condemnation , suggests inquiry as to the cause of such flagrant want of logic . Probably it may be found in that capital punishment which used to make jurors acquit forgers , almost as a matter of course , It is now becoming a practice to follow up proof of murder , in certain cases , by a verdict that a birth hns been " concealed ; " then follows a severe sentence for " concealing . " When courts of law solemnly and publicly keep up u species of acted lie , immorality is powerfully supported by the machinery of " justice . " Another species of murder has also been rife . Uesidea the railway smash at Burnley , where the
direction of tw&s i& * ffefc&caUy left to an amateur pointsnAili , therfc jrfi& been another fatal accident at St 8 fekton-upon-Tees , through faulty regulations j ftttd several miiibr " accidendkf * itfinost tnl univemi cause ttf t&efe « accidfeftis' * ilj that tM machlttery , either fchrbugh the unp . rofckblenesfc fcf thfe fenterprise > M through grasping Avarice , is ihade ^ uftfce to seCiite the Safety of th ^ travelling public j and Erifciishmfeft perish , tfoifc directors may ' declare large dividends .
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THE NEW HOUSE OF 0 X 3 MM 0 KB . The following table is correct up to this day . The letters M . and N . signify " Ministerialist" and " Non-Ministerialists . " SCOTLAND . Membebs Elected . M . N . Caithnessshire . G . Traill - - . - 1 Kinsale . J . T . Heard - - - 1 BOSS AND CKOatABTT . Sir J . Matheson ------- 1 Wick ( Bobott&h ) . S . Laing ------- 1 IRELAND ; Aktbim . Macartney and Pakenham ----- 2 Aemagh ( County ) . Verner and Caulfleld - - - - - - 1 ... 1 Abjtagh ( City ) . B . S . Moore -- 1 Belfast . Davison and M'Cairna ----- 2 Cablow ( County ) . Ball and Brien - - - - - - - 1 ... 1 Cabl 6 w ( Bobou&h ) . Sadlier --------- 1 Cabbickfebgus . Hon . W . S . Cottar 1 Casebl . Sir T . O'Brien 1 Cavan ( County ) . . Maxwell and Sir J . Young - - - - 1 ,. 1 Clabe ( County ) . Sir J . Fitzgerald and O . O'Brien ... 2 Clonmbl . Lawless ... --.-- 1 DONEGAL Conolly and Hayes .--.-- 2 Down ( County ) . Lord E . Hill and Kerr 2 DOWNPATBICK . Hon . C . S . Hardinge - 1 Dbo&hbda . J . M'Cann 1 Dublin ( City ) . Grogan and Vanoe ------ 2 Dublin ( County ) . J . Hf Hamilton and Taylor - ... 2 Dublin ( University ) . G-. A . Hamilton and Bight Hon . J . Napier - - 2 DUNDALK . G-. Bowyer -------- 1 Ennis . J . D . Fitzgerald 1 ElTNIBKILLEN . J . Whitesido ------- 1 Febmanagh . Capt . M . Archdall and Sir A . B . Brooke - -2 Galway ( Bobough ) . O'Flaherty and Blake 2 Galway ( County ) . Sir T . J . Burke and Bellew - ... 2 Kebry . 11 . A . Herbert and V . Browne - - - - 1 ... 1 Kildabii ( County ) . W . H . F . Cogan and D . O'C . Henchy - 2 Kilkenny ( City ) . M . Sullivan -------- 1 Kilkenny ( County ) . J . Greene and Sergeant Shoo - / - 2 Kino ' s County . P . O'Brien , L . Bland l .. * J . T . Heard 1 Leitbih ( County ) . ^ H . L . Montgomery . . T . tt- » Uy _ . - - 1 ... 1 IJIMKUICK . B . Potter , F . W . BusboII 2 Tjimhriok ( County ) . W . Goold , W . MonBoll 2 JjIHllUBN . 8 ir . T . E . Tennent ... - - - 1 Londonderry ( city ) . Sir It . A . ForgUHOn .. - -.- 1 lONDONDKUKY ( COUNTY ) . T . BatoNon and Capt . T . Jones - - 2 LomavoRD ( County ) . Colonel T . Orovillo and 11 . M . Fox ... 2 Loutii ( County ) . C . Fortencuo and T . Kennedy - - - 2 Mavo ( County ) . O . O . lligginfi , ( 1 . Mooro - 2 AlifATii ( County ) . K . 'LueaH , M . , K . Corbally 2 Monaoman ( County ) . C . I' . LetiHe , Sir U . FoHler - - - - 2 POIITAKI . INIITON . Colonel F . 1 » . Dunne 1 Quekn ' h County . Hir C . Coofo and M . Dnnno - - - 1 „ .. 1 Koisoommon ( County ) . V . l < Yen < : li , <) . draco ------ , 2 Hi . ioo ( BoRounii ) . C . ' Townoley - _ ¦ --- - J Miiicio ( County ) . Hir It . G . Booth and It . Hwift - - - - 1 ... 1 Tiri'KitARY ( County ) . T . Hcully and Jamvu Hadlier - 2 Trai . kk . . lohn O'Connoll 1 Tvkonh . Lord 0 . Hamilton , Hon . U . T . L . Corry - - 2
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THE BARt > NESS VON BECK SCANDAL . Constant Deeea de Moeoda has brought his grievances into court . His case as against Mr . George Dawson , Mr . Henry Tyndall , Mr . Richard Peyton , and Mr . Arthur Ryland , whom he charges with having falsely and maliciously procured his arrest and iiupri . sonment in Birmingham , August , 1851 , was tried at Warwick , before Mr . Baron Alderson and a special jury on Wednesday . The court was densely crowded . Mr . Sergeant Miller and Mr . Field were counsel for Derra ; Mr . Macaulay , Q . C ., Mr . Mella , Q . C ., and Mr . Hayes , for the defendants . As only six special jurymen answered to their hanies a tales was prayed for , and granted .
Mr . Sergeant Miller stated that Derra de Moroda was a Hungarian by birth . His father was a gentleman of noble family , and occupied a high position in society . Derra had been educated at the Military College in Vienna , and had afterwards served for some time in the Austrian army . He was prevented by illricss from taking part in the Hungarian war , but his sympathies were with his countrymen . His father differed from him in political opinions , and held an
honourable office under the Emperor of Austria . lib was altogether false that he had been disowned by his family . He had arrived in London , from Brussels , in April , 1851 , and had then become acquainted wfth the lady known as the Baroness von Beck . That lady had written a work called Personal Adventures of a Lady ( fairing the late War of Independence in Hungary which had been published by Mr . Bentley . iFhe success of this book had induced her to write another .
Mr . Derra de Moroda had been requested by a lady whom he met in France to procure the autograph of the Baroness , and accordingly he had waited upon her , when he was struck with her knowledge of Hungary . He had thus become acquainted with her . He found that she was suffering great privations , and he occasionally assisted her . He had been induced to accompany her to Birmingham , where there were two or three gentlemen to whom Mr . Gilpin , who had arranged to publish the new work , had given her introductions . She there saw Mr . Sturge , Mr . Dawson , and other gentlemen , who agreed to subscribe to the work , the price of which was 11 . 4 ^ . Mr . Dawson and some other gentlemen paid their subscriptions . Constant Derra and the Baroness were afterwards introduced to
Mr . and Mrs . Tyndall , who paid them great attention , and induced tho Baroness and Constant Derra to como and live at their house . One evening when there were several ladies and gentlemen present , he was sitting at the piano , pluying some Hungarian pieces , when Mr . Tyndall touched him on the shoulder , alid said there was a gentleman outside who wished to speak with him . Derra went out , and found himself in tho
hands of two policnmcn . who took him to tlia . atjWao " - nonse by force . Tandy , tno policeman , refused to explain to him why ho was arrested , but called him an " impostor and a thief . " Ho was searched in a public room , and locked Tip all night . Tho next morning ho saw tho Haroness von Beck at the stoition-housi :, moaning , and asking for a glass of water , and requesting that n physician might bo sent for .
At this point in tho counsel ' s narrative , Mr . Baron AlderHon interrupted him , saying ho did not sco what tho Bufferings of the Baroness had to do with tbo pluintilPs cane . Mr . Sergeant Miller alluded to her treatment m order to show a malicious fooling on tho part of tho defendants . When Constant Dorm wuh on hit ) way to tho court , he saw tho BaronosH Hitting on a chair apparently in a dying Htnte . Sho died during the pro-( MMidingn , which wore , notwithstanding , continued , and tho chargo against Dorra was dismissed . J " * Sergeant Milhd- undertook to prove , l > y means of several diHtinguiHluul HungariiuiH , that tho Baronojw wan really tho person , slio roproftentod horsolf to bo , and tlmt ' sho hnd been employed by Koflsnth ' fl government on misHioiiH of a dolicate and danjrorous nature .
Tho policeman Tandy nai ( l lit ) had not arrested Dorm , though ho wan present ufc tho time H « HftW tho warrant in tho hand of Superintendent Stevonn . Ho had HOiu-chod Derra at tho Htation-houso , And too'c from him some lottciH and a pocket-book , which wove returned tho next day .
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718 THE LEADER . [ Saturday , ^ M f ^^^ -.. St ^ ffj i ^^ frfc " . "" . _ j _ i ^! _^
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Leader (1850-1860), July 31, 1852, page 718, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1945/page/2/
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