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Leader (1850-1860), 27th October 1855, Edition 1 of 2, Page 1032, Untitled Article

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      SPAIN AND ENGLAND AT THE CENIRAL CRIMINAL COURT . It is not easy to draw the line between banking licences , as they have recently been interpreted in practice , and the newest devices of sharpers in the land of Quevedo , author of JE * aul , the Spanish Sharper . Only in the modern instances , Paul is not " the Spanish Sharper , " and the " Spanish Sharper " is not PatjXi . Strahan , Paul , and Bates did not resort to forgery ; they only appro * priated to their own uses property left in their keeping . The forger does not always break faith with those who trust him : his

      machinations may abstract only from the stores of the wealthy ; and if we test the comparative offence , therefore , by its violation of faith or its deplorable consequences , we must confess that the line of distinction drawn between the banker and the forger would not be favourable to the banker . Between the two , society is . mulcted more than regular folks could suppose possible .. What bouse so quiet as the bank of Stbahan , Paul , and Bates , " near Temple Bar , " where it had been since - the days when its founder , Snow , still bore the ancient title of " gokU smith ? " The Pauls had married into the

      Snow family and into the bank j the most conspicuous member of the firm , as it lately existed , was by inheritance , therefore , a good apprentice , an ancient banker , and a pietist . Who could have mistrusted air those material and moral guarantees ? Yet to trust was to be betrayed ; and the old . bank " near Temple Bar" exists no more . The other tale is more picturesque , but not so sombre . It carries us back to the ancient city of the Moors in Spain , / Valencia—still beautiful in its decayed architecture , still

      basking under that Mediterranean sun on that 6 th day of August , when the very clerks in the house of Calhina Brothers suspended their labours , lounging in all the permitted languor of a torrid day . But on . that same day , and in the same place , two men did not suspend their labours . They were a strangely assorted couple . One was a person who seemed to be rather under than over the prime of life : a gracefully-made man , carrying himself gracefully and displaying the gentleman in everything . The otUer was a stouter , rougher

      man , who might be several years older , notwithstanding the blackness of his thick beard . He looked a man one would be more likely to meet in a mountain pass than in a saloon ; and ^ indeed , there are those who think that he has been seen in a mountain pass , with some few men behind him rougher than himself , but scarcely so audacious . These men are together in Valencia ; they approach the post-office , ami letters are dropped . in . Exactly one week afterwards , two letters are received in London —one by Messrs . Mukbieta and Co .. the merchants of

      Gresham House , Old Broad-street , the other by Senor Josfe TfaLEaiAS , the Spanish merchant of Walbrook . In the first letter Sofior Fjianoiscq djs Muriueta recognises the well-known hnnd of hia correspondents in Valencia , . 'Oaluina Brothers , informing him that their friend Don Manuel » h Cam # o will arrive in Tuondon , to Which place lie ia ' a stranger ; asking , the London firm to aid him in any way that ho may deaire , and to supply him with money to the extent of 11 QOZ . sterling . ; Evidently Don Manuel x >» Oa ^ h'o m a person of consideration j and the way for

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      Mb 1 ^ aW ^^^ re ^ ffe ^ d ; p ^ eMti ^ The : to consolidate and blend the various ! j | dv 3 £ : $ S | e ^ liw ^ populations of enjpire , it had been Smith : speaks of- threevsexes-r-men , women , resolved io ^ abolish the prohibition ; Here « tti d' ¦•^ erg ^ iaien « : the Jesuit clergy are a the Church intervened ; the Concordat was moiisrtrpTis race , det ^ hed from liiiinan sym ~ proposed j and one condition to which the pptiyV J V . 3 ut ; ih ©; CEu ^ for ^ Papal Government most tenaciously adhered « s position on its military resources . It , is was , that it should be licensed to increase the not the less a Power because it eannob defend amount of human misery by embittering reits ; tdm ^ orsflaiithority . The Pope in exile , ' ligious feuds , tyrannising over the natural OTi ' f ^ y" ^ ptivitj " ,. ' 'is Bia . U . .-P " o ' , supreme pyer affections , keeping alive the animosities of millions of hearts , and while " protected ^ " races ; and persecuting offenders by breaking © reserves , in ail its perfection , the sway of up their-families and denying the legitimacy fu& spiritual gfceptre , Therefore , he and his ot their' children- This point , one of the most Cardinals madegood terms at Vienna . For important for which the Church contended , value received the Emperor FBAtfcii Joseph it has gained . The policy of Austria is reconceded to them the domination of the versed . The Pope has declared a war of public mind in the Catholic provinces of opinion throughout the empire . Happily , Austria . The Imperial veto is abolished , the German nation is not now what the The biahpps . are placed in direet relation to Spanish nation was when suspected heretics , the Papal Chair , and invested with a mono- in flame-coloured buekrairi , died by fire , poly ' almost absolute , of ecclesiastical pai Protestantism in England is either insintrbnage . ; ' cere or exhausted . Otherwise it would be " < " Tat ^ ower of the Church extends fnrther . more attentive to the movements proceeding By a significant generalisation It is coinmis- in Germany and France—to the miniature sipnVd " to prohibit dangerous books , " which inquisition of Buckeberg , in the atomic prin--at bjic ^ places the literature of the empire cipality of Schaumberg-IJippe—to the reli-** ant [ ej : its ^ censoranip . It is the supreme gious persecutions in Paris—to the over-. saperintendent of education- It is the sole whelming influence of the Roman crusaders ^ dispenser bf licenses to teach or preach . ; It in Austria . By Protestantism we do not x ^ ay punish its clergy for canonical offences * mean unctuous bigotry at Exeter Hall—or the without appeal from its decision to that of purulent flow of sermons against the Scarlet flny civil court . "SToung Luthera will be Woman , or prophecies against Anti-Christ , consigned to the holy oubliette . On . the other That is the frivolous and theatrical side of Baiid . it requiresthe civil courts to give formal the matter . Protestantism , when it is a npltiC ^ of ^ Wr intention to . prosecute a priest , virtue , and not a passion , when it is mteland ^ , priest , if cpndem ^ ed , must be un- ligent , and not narrow and vulgar , means a tainted by " lay" society in prison . More- repudiation of ecclesiastical tyranny over over , the press is brought within range of body and soul—an engine strictly political , tbis Catholic terror by a clause in the Con- No man is a candid Protestant who does not eppdat ,: e ^ j ^^ ha ' t '^^ ett ^^^ iiiattti ;^ sympathise with the efforts of oppressed the Church shall be permitted in no . form nations to obtain for themselves those free whatever ; This , considering thafc the Papal institutions which are the only securities of System esteems all philosophy as defama- a free church . Further , the Protestantism ilira , is , one iftdre blow at the rising minds of of jib man is worth saving unless it compels Germany . The slight remains of free speech him to look with aversion and disgust upon in the empire are abolished in the same clause the existing Government of France . The by a provision that " oral" criticisms of a co * % d ' etat of December gave the French '' defamatory" character are equally within nation into the hands of the priest and the ike ecclesiastical jurisdiction . , soldier ., The massacre on the Boulevards The Church cannot establish new bishop- established the same principle that was esricsi or r ^ disfaribut © the existing aeeB , without tablished by the slaughters of St . Barthothe forni ^ l consQnii of the Emperor . This loinew . apparenti liijiiitatiipn , of , itp . privilege ^ is atphed . Within the last fortnight a man of unsoiled for . tby full liberty to manage its property , to character and of high education has been keep that property inviolable ( niyiolability condemned in Paris for writing against the leaning exemption ) , to augment it , to levy doctrines of the Catholic Church . The tithes in p , ejppetuity , a ) id Jiji every P ^ hex re- Church promoted the prosecution . Instiepect to remJate ecclesiastical niptterfl by th , e gated by dynastic venality , the Em * eboji law and will of the Colleges at Uiome . . approved the sentence . ^ The unforfcunate 'The work of centuries is abrogated by this controversialist is sentenced , in addition , ire they say , in the slang of the hour , that at | jaW 8 ' way ftfcj ^ ffS , ^ f ^^ aas found ( i government fit for the ; subject ofmarriage . , ,.,, , , i " . |(' r ' . . [ , 1 . 1 lijeir . '!? , ; , ,.. | .: 1 . ' , ' . ' . , \ . ' ' ,. " c ' In tl > ie question : ar& invplved ; to a < greater < It ia an illusion . Intelligence and morality deisree than may at first be n ^ ar ^ nt ; the are under the same cloud . Wen are not bo r ^^ gipju ^ jlibei ^ iea of Germ any , Mairi ^ igeB venal as ytc aee'in ' Perhapff even the civic Wweon . . Catb , olws andJPrptestojata , t ( UougTi rijtuntf . itlfep ,, of ^^ Lcj ^ pa wlp , one day be lontfrsanctioned by the praotice of tho Boman aal ^ amed . of , tli ^ iir ,, apeeiclies and tjijejlr , medaln . Qftrnplicfhiernrchy , were never approved at Greater revolutions have happened . Cara-$ * $%$ ¦ ' ^ e ^ t ^ trjkni en >^ erorst ^ fiile nTt ^ i ^ oai / EA wouldi in ' oUr tiine , be Garaoam . a Wis ^ ' ^^^ mMi ^ &r ^^ ^ -- ^ ' 3 r % ^¦¦¦ ff ^ i lSM ^ M ^ - ' ^ ?^ " )*>' . ** & JWkft . an . anathema by encouraging swU c ^ ainpio ^ , . qt prdQr ; , M ^ pt ^ . ^ psi Tej ^ x . w . oulq contractsl Heoentlyy hoWovor ; ia order be . an nesasain . , ,

      In Austria the new position of , tfae Chw ? cb . ' is" somewhat analogous tb 'its position in France early in the eighteenth century . If events have a meaning , the results will not ? be dissimilar . Everywhere the omens of re- ; volution are visible .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 1032, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2112/page/12/