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scheme , like the manager of the Ifcoyal British Bank ; that he committed habitual forgery , like the equally tasteful and sumptuous IaoirEi . Rbdpath ; that he forged aud niched like the pious Paul or the aristocratic Stka . han ; or that he constructed a gigantic system of swindling , like Joseph AVindib Com . Instead of assuming a resemblance between these cases , what the past evidence tends to establish is , the infinite variety in these incidents of our huge credit system . Endless are the wavs in which the law for the
enforcement of credit can be turned into instruments for the conveyance of capital from one hand to the other , even so that the left hand knoweth not what the right hand doth . As in some other cases , ' protection' here appears to Lave the effect of defalcation .
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PARTIES AND PROSPECTS . Signs are not wanting that Lord Paxmeeston ' s majority is becoming unmanageable The frequent divisions in the Lower House , the gradual consolidation of the independent Liberal party , and the Premier ' s reduced personal energy , are by no means good omens for the Government . Yet Lord
PaxftiEBSTON , from time to time , breaks out in his old manner ; last week he must have highly flattered the noble statesmen of the Whig connexion by telling them that he cared not a straw for the opinions of Lord John Russeil . "We congratulate the Bedford influence upon the contempt so discreetly enunciated by PAXMEKSTpN Victor Mr . Gi . Ai > STOirE does not seem inclined to
sit so tamely under the jeers of the strong Minister . He is returning to his former Parliamentary position , and what may he not tJo , with PaIiMbbston on the wane , if he will but cut his ecclesiastical clients adrift , and become a finance and reform politician ? As for the Tories , the peers have effectually closed the doors of office against them , and no doubt they regret the vote that excluded Baron JJoTHBOBXtiD . Until the Jewish question is settled , a Debby administration is an impossibility . It is true that Lord John Busselii and Sir James G-kaham are building an arch over which the peers may retreat , but will to which
they ? The only section in the House , power is accruing is that of the independent Reformers . During the past week they appear to have been drawn , together by some scheme of common action , and the stand they have made upon the estimates has been vigorpus and serviceable . In the midst of the Liberal anarchy — the Premier being arch-anarch . —they have stood firm and united . Lord John UusseijIj competes with , them ; Sir James Gbaha , m makes it his business to declare for Liberalism upon a large scale ; Mr . GxADSTOOi ' s torpor is obviously coming to an . end : —all these are hopeful indications .
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A . GREW SOK THE PLYING DUTCHMAN . Gauuatt , the great gold-robber , was for some years the leader of convict ton in Bermuda .. His associates regarded him with admiration ; he was the master-spirit of their vellow-ooated confederacy . Ultimately , Mr . XiawAN , condemned ( justly or not ) for the murder of hia wife in Ireland ' s Bye , arrived in the colony . Gabbatt at once resigned
the lead , and said , courteously , he could nofc tbiak of refusing precedence to Mr . Kjbwan . Upon the same principle , the banks of the Swan , in Western Australia , may bo expected to become the scene of ft social flutter ; for an aristocracy is to be planted in the soil . On the 25 th of August a good ship will sail from England , bearing to the Swan Sir John Djsan Paui ,, Mr . Stbahan , Mj . Batwgs , Mr , Lbopald jRswpavh :, Mx .
Robson , Mr . Sawarjd , Mr . Agab—three celebrated embezzlers , three celebrated forgers , and the inimitable , vengeful Agab . With the exception of Agab and Sawakd , between whom an antipathy may naturally be supposed to rankle , many mutual feelings will harmonize this aristocracy of detested crime . Common reminiscences and a common fate unite them . What strange contrasts in their lives ! Patjx looking back through the gratings of Millbank to that with Aii
happier time when he sat Baron - debson on the bench of justice ; Stbahan to his * elegantly planted park and residence in perfect taste ; ' Bates to the hour of gratified ambition , in which he became the partner in a firm with a baronet at its head . Through Uedjath ' s dreams may flit the auction at which he bid successfully against the French Emperor for a wondrous work in buhl ; through Robson ' s the triumph of his dramatic
productions" Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it now , the glory and the dream ?" Neither Agab nor Sawabd can have sympathies with men . or with regrets like these . The latter was for twenty years a miserable Jonathan Wild , a master forger , a burglars ' agent , whose nightmare was Newgate ; to the former penal discipline has been the routine of years ; he knows what it ia to labour in the hulks ; he must have calculated , half a life ago , upon no euthanasia better than a ticketof-leave . But , in some respects , Uedpath him
and Robson stand upon a level with ; they gambled every day , and hazarded liberty for luxury ; they could scarcely have looked for perpetual winnings . Depend upon it , many a time and oft did a prophetic shadow of penitentiaries and the Australian settlements obscure the glitter of Chester-terrace , and the gaiety of Kilburn Priory . We do not believe that the three bankers ever imagined such a possibility ; breaking the old bank in the Strand , and losing their commercial reputation—that was , no doubt , the climax of fear in the minds of Paul .
Stbahan , and Bates . With four hundred inferior criminals they gO — these social , bankrupts ¦— to Western Australia . Well , there is something upon which to congratulate even this criminal crew . It is a change—from the monotony of that hideous desert of brick and whitewash at Millbank , from the wards of Newgate , from the motionless hulk in the Thames . They cross the ocean ; they have a new life before them ; there will be freshness in the
sight of the Australian shores ; there is the prospect of tickets of leave . But how the population will crowd to gape at the convict baronet , and revive the story of Bedpath ' s ' glory '—upon-which ballad-singers have so unctiously expatiated ! How will the old * leading men' of the Swan River Settlement resign their precedence in favour of five
gentlemen so ( accomplished , and , up to a certain point , so flattered by society ? Agar and Sawabd will not be similarly respected ; they have only their distorted talents to recommend them ; they have never been gentlemen , or sat on the bench , or inherited estates , or outbid Louis Napoxeon , or achieved a dramatic success . But let the captain of the vessel chartered at Lxoyjd ' s look well to his navigation . There
is a story that the Flying Dutchman has for ages been wandering in search of a crew . And would not the seven great convicts prefer the perfidious baric , tmilfc in the eclipse , and rigged with curses dark , to the grey soup , canaxy-coloured jackets , and dull severities of a penal colony }* JSTever , perhaps , was a more remarkable band of criminals embarked together , or one in which mutual regognitfp ; na were more likely to take
place . The five ' respectable' individuals moved pretty much in the same ' sphere , except that their sympathies were different . Robson , although a poet , had not the delicate tastes of Bedpath , and as for Sir John-Dean Paui-, his * seriousness' kept him apart from turfmen and p hilosophical virtuosi .
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Suicides . —Mr . Carter , coroner for East Surrey , hold an inquest last Saturday on the body of Mr . James Sebastian Yeates , a stockbroker liviug in the Crescent , Albany-road , Camberwell , who had died a few days previously from the effects of prussic acid . Mr . Yeatcs ' si son went one morning to the house of his father to see him on a matter of business , and , after tapping several
times at the door of his room without receiving any answer , informed his mother of the circumstance . The latter immediately proceeded to her husband's bedroom , and shortly afterwards raised an alarm , on which the son went again to the room and found his father lying dead in his bed . A surgeon was sent for , but neither he nor the young man could detect the smell of any drug in the room , and they did not notice at the time that there wa 3 any bottle in the place containing poison . However , about twelve o ' clock the same day , Mr . Yeates , jun ., again , went into the room , and he then saw on the dressing-table a small bottle not labelled , which smelt strongly of almonds . Mrs . Yeates declared that she had never seen any such bottle in her husband ' s possession . Another medical gentleman , a friend of the
family , was sent for from Peckbatn , and , seeing the bottle , he took it up , and detected in it a powerful smell of prussic acid , half an ounce of which was afterwards found in the phial . A . j > ost mortem examination of the body revealed the presence of that deadly poison . All the members of Mr . Yeates ' s family said that they had neither seen nor heard anything about the bottle of prussic acid until it wa 3 found on the dressing-table . The inquest was adjourned till Monday , when the jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . —George Morley , a hairdresser of Gloucester , has drowned himself and his two daughters in the ship-canal of that town . The bodies of the father and the youngest child were discovered about a mile from Gloucester , at the distance of about six feet from the bank of the canal . The left
arm of the father was passed round his daughters waist , while his hand grasped her wrist , and his other arm was likewise curved , as if he had held his eldest daughter in the same manner as the younger . Her body was discovered some way off . The man , for some time past , had been suffering greatly , both from bad health and from th « depression of his affairs owing to pecuniary difficulties . The jury , as in the preceding case , returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . The Oxford Election . —The nomination of candidates for the town of Oxford took place on Monday in the Town Hall-yard , where upwards of two thousand persons assembled . The candidates were the Right Honourable Edward Card well , and Mr . Thackeray , tha
novelist . The former gentleman did not appear ; tlio latter addressed the meeting- He excused himself for not being a good public speaker ; but he made a dashing 1 oration , after all . He spoke highly of Mr . Neate , the gentleman who has been unseated by an election committee of the House ; and tben made a trenchant onslaught on the Peelite party , to which Mr . Card well belongs , and which , he accused of endeavouring during the late war to make us lick the boots of the Czar , of encouraging the murderous Chinese in their insults to our flag , and of indirectly causing the present mutiny in India . Mr . Thackeray declared himself in favour of liberal measures , including the ballot , th ough he thought they did not want that in the coming election— ' they
were too plucky , too honest . The show of hands waa greatly in favour of Mr . Thackeray ; and a poll was then demanded for Mr , Cardwell . The election took place on Tuesday , when Mr . Cardwell wqs returned by 1090 over 1018 who voted for Mr . Thackeray . The defeated candidate then addressed the electors in a speech conceived in a very generous and manly spirit . He highly eulogizod Mr . Cardwell , and eaid ho would bo likely to servo Oxford much bettor than ho himself could hope to do . In conclusion , ho attributed hia defeat to the unpopular opinions ho entertains with respect to tlio propriety of allowing the people a littlo recreation and sight-seeing on Sunday after church hours .
Antiquities itrom Halioahnassus . — . Tho British Museum is , wo understand , eoon to bo enriched by u new collection of antiquities . Those , tho fruit of tho researches instituted at Budrun , tho ancient Hulicurnassus , by Mr . O , Nowton , her Majesty ' s Consul at Mitylono , have already loft Malta in tho steamer Gorgon , nnd are oxpooted to arrive in this country in tho course of a few days . Thoy all belong to tho renowned sepulchre of King Maueolus ; many slabs from which , found w orked into tho walls of tho modern town of Budrun , have ulrqady been for some years in tho national collection , — Literary Oazetto .
This TSonvoi . it , > Babbit Cask . — -The quarrel between Mr . Tillott , editor of tho Norjolh News , and hoxCL Hastings , with reference to tho oalobratod ' rabbit case ' at tho lattor ond of last year , has been adjusted by mutual apologies and rotraotatlona of offouaivo to » - fiuago .
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„ - << , THE LEADER . [ No , 383 , July 25 , 1857 . . i \ a . . _ _ . _ .. - ^ i—_ i ^ = m . ^ ————————— —^——;
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Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 712, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2202/page/16/
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