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establish direct taxation will require views far more extensive and precise than those which yet prevail ; and above all , they will necessitate an inviolable regard to those " natural circumstances and permanent conditions , " as well of a moral as of a material order , to which , we presume , Mr . Disraeli intended to attribute our-present prosperity . These observations , arising , like those of last week , from the Chancellor of tlie Exchequer ' s speech on the Budget , prepare us for an examination , in our next , of the Budget itself .
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BEEF AS A THEOIiOGICAI . INFltJElfCE . The Duke of Cambridge gives an ox to the Leicestersquare soup-kitchen ; the Lord Mayor gives a quarter of an ox to the City Hospice—a remarkable inversion in a matter of viands . One might hare expected that the hospitality of the Mansion-houso towards the Hoepice would have been at least ten times as great as the hospitality of a mere cadet of royalty for the Rag and Famish of Leicester-square . ,
In past times there has been a condition annexed to the hospitality of the Hospice : the ' poor who ¦ were indulged with a breakfast , were expected to follow it up with church . Probably a condition of a similar kind will . be annexed to the Christmas beef ; and if so , we detect our City niagnato in a species of transubstantiation . The assertion is not so wild as the reader might suppose , and it may be made out physiologically . The beef is to be assimilated , and with it the doctrine ; the hungry man is to be converted at once to comfort and belief ; and while he is converted to belief , the beef is converted into him ; ergo , the beef itself is converted to Christianity . Q . E . D . If my Lord Mayor can concoct a certain number of Christians out of a quarter of beef , how many might the Duke of Cambridge convert with a whole beef ? It is a question in practice .
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THE DTJTT OP THE IOKD 8 . The way in which the present Ministers treat Parliament is not complimentary to the importance of that body . Mr . Disraeli declines to answer " a private Member , " and Lord Derby keeps the Peers meeting from day to day , only for the purpose of seeing his face ; since , like the _ stars , " they have nothing else to do . " He was so kind as to apologize for it the other day , and insinuated that it was the bad
manners of the Commons , who would go on debating his man ' s Budget , instead of passing it , as persons in their rank of lii < 3 ought to have done . The Peers , therefore , it seems , have sunk to tho duty of > watching by the bed-side of the Ministry , while it is sick . The bold Barons , in their old age , have taken to the trade of hired nurse ; and as they administered pap to Parliament in its cradle , so now it is their duty to give gruel to our constitution : in its dotage .
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THE STAFFORD-HOUSE LADIES . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sie ,- —Several papers have raised an outcry against a meeting held at Stafford House some short while ago Now , as I believe that meeting to be one which reflects lustre on those who took part in it , you will perhaps permit me , through the " Open Council / ' to express my concurrence in its objects . Ingeniously written articles , which remind noble ladies to look at home for a charitable field to work in ; and letters which support these articles with signatures of " Common Sense , " " A Soldier's Wife / ' &c . &c , are quite as applicable to other efforts now being made by different parties . Those ladies who have been told to look at the condition of those who enable them to appear in magnificent dresses , before expressing their desire to ameliorate the condition of slaves , may as well retort , that gentlemen should first look to those who make their coats , their bread , and many other things , before making appeals for help to distressed Hungarians , Poles , Frenchmen , and Germans . For surely if the blacks are not to have our efibrts for their liberation until every little or large evil is destroyed here , I don ' t see why we should be called upon to extend our assistance to those on the continent who desire what our coloured brethren do- —and that is freedom . Will our opposing friends look to this , and ascertain whether they ' are acting wisely in dispensing , n 6 t only their sympathy , but their pecuniary' mites , to those who elsewhere are struggling for liberty . If not , we bad all butter join the peace-at-any-price niovcmeut , and abjure the non-intervention principle of Ivossuth and Mazzini , and ding to that Which practically allows the strong to practise enormities upon the weak , provided we are left unscathed . As the Jjea . de . ir and other liberal papers have exerted themselves nob ly for the liberal cause oh the continent , 1 trust they will wot oppono by s trictures and otherwise those efl ' prtu which wou ) d give the black tho wnno liberty which the white possessseH ; and if an agitation is originated by lords or ladies , artisans , labourers , or the humblest peasants , let them have cheerfully tho dutiful assistance which huc ] i it giinemus canne deserves . FUEDKUIOII A . < J « JEJflI > . . Ou . HlVoll Komi , iHlillgtoll . , ' ¦!
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THK CASK OV MR . KIRWAN . ( To the . Editor of the . Laalrr . ) Nik ,--I much fear ih ; i ( ., in the name of justice , » n act of moat fearful injustice i . s ; ibou <; to be' committed in Ireland . Mr . Kirwiin , i \\\ artist , haH b <; eh tried for t . h « niimlrr of bin with ; tioho but , circumstantial < widonc < t Iiiih boon brought forward n ^ ain . st hiift , yiii on Uli * liu him l ) t !( iii found guilty , and \ h coiulciunotl Ut illo liy tin ) hands of the coinmon hiiiigmuii , and no hopp of mercy in held out by the judge . In vending the evidence , I wils struck with the apparent desire on tho part of Mm witncHHt'H to prove ; the prisoner guilty . At ( Ik ; coroner ' s imiucwt they did not accm to cohtfiuer that tltcro wli / i
anything out of the ordinary course , but that the death of Mrs . Kirwan was accidental . Once , however , the suspicion of murder was excited in their minds , they , with the usual imaginativeness of Irishmen , seem to have jumped to the conclusion that he was guilty , and gave importance to circumstances , as tending to this conclusion , of the most trivial character . For instance , the finding of the clothes of the deceased , and the boots and clothes of . jMr . Kirwan being wet , are looked upon as conclusive evidences of guilt . Now , what more likely than that , late in the evening , when the search
took place , the clothes were overlooked , from the darkness , or even owing to tlie excitement naturally attendant on the discovery of a dead body ; and , surely , in wandering about , as Mr . Kirwan seems to have done , in , search of his wife , in a situation whichwas . covered with the sea . at high tide , an ^ where , pool ^ of water probably abound , or , at any rate , where he threw himself on the dead body of his wife , as described by one of the witnesses , is it not more than probable that Mr . Kirwan should have wetted his feet and legs in the pool in ,. which Mrs . Kirwan ' s feet and legs are described as renting , when she was discovered ? ¦ ¦¦
JJut it-is to tlie cause of death that I am most anxious to draw your attention . Mr . aad Mfs . Kirwan , it appears , were in the practice of frequenting the island , ' and spending several hours there . They took with them a basket of provisions , and dined there ; on the day in Question , at any rate , they did so , and Mrs . ' Kirwan bathed before dinner . She was in the practice of rernamfrig a long time iu the water , and even of swimming ; but on this particular day , she is
said to have been interrupted by a party of visitors to the island . Having dined , however , she left her husband for the purpose of bathing a second time . Now , every one experienced in bathing knows that nothing is more dangerous than doing so after a jneal , particularly after a full nieal ; and as Mrs . Kirwan had been wandering about for hours , as well as bathing before dinner , it is most likely she partook freely of food .
JSiow , looking to these facts ^ and the appearances presented by the body , I have no doubt whatever that either Mrs . Kirwan was seized with a fit after bathing , and that the receding tide had left her body where it was found ; or what seems still more likely , she had ascended the rock , at the base of which she was discovered , after bathing ; ' that she had , there been taken ill , aud had fallen from a height to the foot of the rock . This latter supposition is quite warranted by tho description of her appearance and position when found . The whole of one side of the body discoloured , as from a severe bruise—the eye on that side congested with blood—the ear-ring torn from the ear , with that portion to which it was attached—wounds on the breast ,
and scratches on the face , such as would naturally be inflicted by the sharp odgea of the rock , in falling—the clothes drawn up uudei' the arms , as would naturally occur from the body sliding down the rock . Bleeding from one ear was spoken of by one of the witnesses , but he did not seem to be certain whether it was from the injured car , externally , or from the internal car ; bilt , in thd latter ease , it is n most frequent . symptom of fracture of the huso of the skull , or from a heavy full or blow on tlie wide of the head , as wo see frequently described in tho wise of accidents ' or in prizelights . What in described as bleeding from the body may , after all , have arisen from other natural causes , or j f blood , might bo from uterine hiKinorrhiige , a very common disorder .
Taking all theso circumstances into consideration , I cannot undcr . Htand how the judge and jury could . arrive at the ooncl unions they wjuin to havo dmwn , and lw ho completely Hatisliud of the guilt ; of tho accused , . lust eontriiKt with thin cuso one which wan reported in ( he Man of tho liith . An inquest is thero reported UK liavin ^ been held on tlie body of a poor woman whose husband hud frequently iJlrUHtul her ; ho had boon ween to strike her , and , to pull her about the room by the- hair of her head , and had been heard to threaton hoi- Mint " he would jump her soul out , " and wiih constantly uwing tho most awful lungiingo to her ,
ho Lhul , ' hUc hud < ixpv iuu bad been guilty of a foul and deliberate lmirdor ? Yet , ho id riiftMiHMod b y tho coroner wiih n seVere rcprinmnd , the coroner exjmiHHiiig itn opinion " thai thorn Wiih no ! , HuHUient evidence U > ensure , a conviction before a higher tribunal . " Looking to IjIm / ho livo hiscm , Hiutil w <; <; dl them instiuK-es of " even-baiMM justice" i I do hooe Mint hI , ic , iiuou 8 oll ' ort . s will bo lnadi ) oil behalf of Mr . Kirwim , to induce a re-coiiiiiclciation of
his case . The medical evidence was certainly most unsatisfactory * but , as far as it went , was in his favour ; and I feel quite certain , that had a jury of medical men sat on this case , they would , without the least hesitation , have acquitted the prisoner . The wise laws of our country have decided that medical men shall not sit on juries , —they and butchers are excluded ! Now , I would ask what class of men
are so intimately acquainted with human nature , its motives arid springs of action , as medical men ? And wlio so capable , in cases of doubtful crime , to fathom the mystery as they ? If not allowed to sit on juries at least they ought to be employed to lend their aid to juries in their deliberations in such cases as I have referred to , ; ..,,. . I am , Sir , ypur obedient servant , ¦ ...... . Mjgdicus .
, p . S- X forgot to allude : to tlie frothing at the mouth described , as one of the . appearances ii ^ Mrs . Kirwan's case . Now , this is the almost invariable accompaniment of fits . There is another circuinstanoe which I omitted to speak of : The rock at the'base of which the body was fyund is described as a «< very high rock " by the counsel . for the prosecution in his opening address ; this , lends the more probability to the supposition that Mrs . Kirwan may have ascended it , and fallen from a height ,- and the further fall might have been arrested by the . sheet on which the body was found , and which had probably been placed there for use after bathing .
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* 1210 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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NOTTOJO TO CORURM'ONWKNTH . . Kkhati / ju . in oim . , I < aht . — -I n th <) arl . ielbiiiii . JUmitoii l '« irl . n <| rijliip , p . 1 tM 5 , tliird column , ci ^ lilceu liueH 1 V < nn tlm •'<><><¦ () ' 'j'J ] /> " / , ' « , I ' or ' * J ) O , ()< H « . morn thitrt Avvor pohAi'HHwl , " rend "fl OOw . . J te . , , , , ___ _—
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Ai . i ' i ^ -jc FioitA .- —The llrNt climractcinstic ' mark in the aliHerice of frees ; < ivon bushes iiro only found iii the lower parts of the . Alpine amt \ and hoio th « i h < Hlodcn-( lronn , or A , l )) iiic ro «« w , i > lay a jwoujinouli part , funning a deiiso Kcrub . Tlnj nh < u-t kuuuuvi " , limited to two or three inonUiH , and tlu ) nocf . iirind iiowt vyhich occurrt (!\ ' <^ n during the warniest , months , niuko it rcadHy conceiviibloi that iio j > liint can ]> roduec long hIiooI / H \ wrv . ; from the liu- ' ge , w « ghty niiiMHCH of Hiiow , and tho , " " letitwhHlHUjion ilumi iuftghU , it in otehrthut tho young n ( ems or uhootu iduhI b « brol (»> n , und tliat , (!( H » m'q > H ! Idly » when h | . ( juim or Hhuoiw ilo iirc ^^ uiti thvuiwilveH , thoy < ""u riHdi only aijcyv iiuljiy * froiu , ihv vwih ^ uv ih" ^ - ' ^ cveuJH , Hiipju ^ iii ^ flu-in to ftcquiji o Home len ^ 'M * ^} ' ^ nre eonipe . lleil to < : n ; 6 p along upon tho curlh or cliil' »« Soiiouw ' s JSurt / i , Plants , anii ' Mail .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1852, page 1210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1965/page/14/
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