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King O ^ BBBBSVufD had 'been treated -very wdll . 80 wdifthattfi&blooB . ttiiihvSHmes correspondent atTHaples ' boils * to think of it . ' 80 well , that one of the unhappy men has been reduced to temporary lunacy . Better , indeed , than their Italian companions in misery , whose agonies have ^ brought them to the brink of death . The proceedings at Salerno are humiliating to this country . Civis Romantts pays enormous taxes to keep up armaments and ambassadors ,
and when 'he falls into the hands of a foreigner he is allowed to rot , be robbed , and go mad , untried and unconvicted . We fail to protect our own subjects ; let us , then , have a cheap Government ; for it is not worth whue to raise the largest revenue in Europe merely to defray the cost of that joint responsibility which , as the French official organs say , entails upon us the duty of assisting to maintain order in Prance .
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XN OLD STORY OVER THE WATER . ( From the Times , August 12 , 1840 . ) " .. . . Already we are accused of having launched the City o Edinburgh , with fiftynsix crackbvained officers , desperate refugees , and man-cooks in uniform , headed b y Monsieur Louis Bonaparte and a live eagle , to upset the dynasty of Obmianb . "
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IRISH AJTFA . TR 6 AND ENGLISH WRITERS . English writers on Ireland have becomo more Irish than . the Irish 'themselves . Take up the Dublin newspapers and you find in one column a report of a successful railway , in another a good law case , or some critioism on a commoroial company . But if you require plenty of Four Courts gossip , you must look to the Dublin lotfcor in the Times , and Merrion-squaro scandal crosses the channel to be served up in spico through our smart contemporary the Press . " Happy is the nation whoso
annals arq a blank * ' was a . very proper saying whon historians would rcoord nothing but wars ; in England our writers of history now condosoend to nT 3 td ^ tlre"wviotorie 8 "" of '' peaGe- * butr 4 n- 'Ii < elaud--tho triumphs of industry are ignored , and , if wo truatod English journalists , we should believe that iho greatest ovenfcs in Dublin arc the squabbles of the lawyers for vacant situations . Tho recent vacancies wore unhappily kept open for somo time Had English judgosliips boon in question , tho Times would have excluded from its columns nil tho preliminary iiUleviwttlc of iWestminstor Hull , and possibly have maoirtadiaiquiotjparagraph of four linos to announoo i ho / newijiu 3 go ; : but speculations as to tho new Irish
judges were given at length day after day in'large type , and the final appointment was transmitted by telegraph . In the same way the drivellings of the Nation ,- —which was once a very able and , in excited times , a very influential print , but which is now fallen in character and circulation , and has been expressly excluded from many popular news-rooms , — ' -are paraded in the Times at full length , while absurdities as gross and as seditious by one or two miserable publications in tin ' s country have been always ignored as below the expression of surprise or contempt .
We protest against this system of never noticing Irish affairs except to pick out some outrageous nonsense . Many of those excerpts no more represent the Irish " press than Holywell-street represents English cheap literature . We never see an article of the Sepoy journals quoted except in the Times , and we are quite sure that many Irishmen can say the same . The writers have thus discovered a short cut to publicity : the more violent their
effusions the more may they count on an unpaid advertisement in the leading journal . The contests of lawyers for the legal offices is no doubt of some legal and social interest in Dublin ; but it is never a great question , and one only sees the occasional rumours chronicled quietly in Saunders , or quizzed in the more lively columns of the Evening Mail . Ireland , ceasing to be the battle-field of English parties , has been turned into a hunting-ground for correspondents and contributors hard-up for a subject .
It is greatly to the credit of Lord Palmerston that he has diminished party feeling in Ireland by making his Government honest and impartial . His measures have been wise and his appointments good . He has discouraged Protestant bigotry and repressed Roman Catholic outrage ; he has curbed offensive ^ Orangemen , and prosecuted riotous Eries ts . That his merit may want no sign , he is eartily abused by the extreme men of both parties .
His appointments have been made regardless 01 mere Irish parties . He recalled from retirement Chief Justice JSjLACKBtTRNE , an old political Protestant , he gave the Chief Judgeship of the Incumbered Estates Court to another Conservative , Mr . Martle y , and he manufactured the raw' material of the fiery Romanist , Keogh , into an excellent Judge . Christian , an unpolitical Protestant lawyer , has been put into the Common Pleas to balance the three of another
creed ( giving rise to the mild Four Courts joke that that beuch is filled by three Roman Catholics and one Christian ) , while a most unobjectionable political supporter , Serjeant O'Brien , is rewarded ^ with another judgeship . Many of these new appointments gave rise to spasmodic growling from the Protestant papers that ' the two high law officers are ( Roman Catholic , ' and that ' three seats in the Commons Pleas are filled by Papists , ' and so on . But surely in a Roman Catholic country , where the professors of that creed are to Protestants as five to one , the fact that four out of tho twelve judges Catholic is not Jtloman Uatnolic is ot
are Roman very surprising . Conare nvery surprising , uonsidering , also , that all the Roman Catholics in Ireland are , like . the Ministry , Liberal iu politics—that the best Protestant Liberals , being Peclitos , declined law offices when Lord Aberdeen went outit is not surprising that two leading Liberal lawyers , chosen as Attorney and Solicitor-General , should bo Roman Catholics . Tho humiliating circumstance of theae faots is that it is necessary to mention anything-of the religion of the men apj ) ointcd to those -situations . Their religion has nothing to do
with , tho discharge of -their duties , as has been shown when tho Roman Catholic Attorney-General Keoqh proseouted with zeal a Roman Catholic friar , and in the . present prosecution by another Roman Catholic official of Priests ConwajY and . Ryan . When 'English Judges are appointed , we do not see it stated that they arc Churchmen or Dissenters ; and wo hope to sec tho time when important Irish appointments will be made without tho Paul Prot ponny-iitlining . addition as to tho orceds of tho new officials .
Wo may rest assured that the less wo hear of Irolnnd , tho 'better she is going on ; and we hope the-timQ-wilUprive-whon-ouivohief . recprd-QL . IwsJL news will be in the oharo lists and trade reports . Time is only wanted for tho prosperity of Ireland . Its lending railways are doing very well : whilo bur 1 Groat Western io paying ono per cent , and our Eaatorn Oouutiqs' meotings nrc screaming farces , tho Great Southern and Western of Ireland steadily nays four per cont ., the Dublin and Kingstown , fifteen por cent , and tho meotings arc dull and stupid boyond comparison , the ohainnan knowing nothing of tha lively hnbit . of swearing -which distinguished Mr .
Denison . With the new race of landlords secured by the Encumbered Estates Court , the decline in fierce competition for land caused by the large emigration , and the rise in the value of agricultural labour , traceable to the . same cause , we may , without making a fuss about it , or recording all its minute events , look forward to a career of solid prosperity for Ireland .
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1 $ S ^ THE LEAB EH . ffio . i ! 2 , ffEBTnr&icr 13 , 1858 .
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Lord Palmerston thinks it would be childish on the part of a great power to resist the amendment of alaw because a few hot-headed French colonels had menaced us . But the common sense and common feeling of the country repudiate this sophism . We are legislating under the fire of the Monitenr . We are conceding to a menace that which we have frequently refused as a favour . We are establishing a law which , had it existed eighteen
years ago , would have entailed upon Louis Napoleon a sentence of penal servitude for life , after the murderous affair at Boulogne . A prqpos of that event , Mr . Dttncombe will do well to read up the incidents of his fast friend ' s biography . He may then discover that the Emperor not only shot a Frenchman at Boulogne , but threatened to shoot an Englishman on board the steamer -which took him there .
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The Reform question hangs fire in Parliament . Lord PAL . 3 CBRSTON has a bill ready , which he touches up from hour to hour ; but the scheme is to delay it until after the Easter holidays . Lord Granviile said , on Thursday , that the date of its introduction depended very much upon the state of public business . If it depended on the state of public opinion , there would be no postponement . The Couutrr is awake ; the great towns are in motion . The Parliamentary Reform Committee , anxious to make a real advance , has given a very
proper and conclusive answer to the deputation in favour of manhood suffrage . The cry for manhood suffrage is at present mere sectional clamour ; the thinking classes do not join in it . To insist upon this principle as a basis of agitation would be to sink once more into the slough of despond , and to be at the mercy of a few self-elected brawlers who played out their parts , many years ago . Mr . John Bright pointed the way to safe and sound Reform when he declared , a few days since , that he dreaded a large extension . of the franchise without the . ballot .
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The New National . Gallery . —The Royal Commissioners having decided against the removal of the
National Gallery from Trafalgar-square , the Lords of the Treasury requested the Commissioners of Works to prepare an estimate of the expense of enlarging the present building . Mr . Hunt , the surveyor , estimates the total expense at 500 , 0007 ., which includes the reinstatement of the barracks and the workhouse buildings ( to be removed for the enlargement of the gallery ) , reinstatement of the baths and lavatories , the erection of a . suitable building for the Royal Academy , and the construction of a building for the National Gallery upon the enlarged site .
The British Museum . —It was resolved on the 21 st ult . by the standing committee of the Trustees of the British Museum , in special meeting assembled , that there is a great deficiency of space for the proper exhibition of the different , collections iu the various departments of the Museum ; that the trustees are not possessed of any vacant space available for the purpose , and that in providing such space it is Ycry desirable to contemplate the future and progressive , as well as the actual and immediate , requirements of the Museum . These resolutions were carried nem . con . ; and it was further resolved , by seven to two votes , to adopt Mr . Smirke ' s plan for the purchase of land to the north of the Museum , as contained in the Librarian ' s report . The resolution has been laid before her Majesty ' s Ministers , with the plan of Mr . Smirke .
Mr . Horsley Palmer . —The death of Mr . Horsley Palmer , whose name for fifty years has been among the most eminent and honourable in connexion with British commerce , was announced yesterday . Mr . Palmer was elected a director of the Bank of England in 1811 , filled the post of Governor for three successive years ( 1830 to 1632 ) , and at the date of his retirement , last April , was senior member of the Court . His withdrawal from the active business of his firm was notified at the opening of the present year . —Times . The Pr ' ess iff Ireland . —Ulster is certainly going ahead . Belfast , its capital , now boasts of three daily papers , which is as many as are published in Liverpool ,
and one more than the number in enlightened Manchester . The Northern Whig , long the leading journal of Ireland , commercially and politically , but which , as a great advertizing tri-weekly sheet , withstood any experimentalization under the new Stamp Act , has now decided to issue daily , considering that its public has grown to be rich and numerous enough to justify and require the change . A fact like this should be received by English statesmen as a warning that Ulster Liberalism , insisting on religious equality in Ireland , and political institutions assimilated to those of Engjand , cannot very much longer be played with . —Liverpool Daily Post .
Bridewell , Burial-ground . — A meeting of tho inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Bridewell was held on Friday week , whon tho following resolutions ¦ wore agreed to : —' " That tho burial-ground is at present in a most shameful condition , arising from the Earl of Delaware ' s tradespeople having placed large quantities of bricks and rubbish there , covering over entirely many of tho tombs , tombstones , . and graves ; and that tho vestry is deeply shocked and pained to find that tho ground had been leased by his Lordship for a term . of ninoty-nino
years to a builder . That the vestry cannot but view the disgraceful state pf tho ground , as well as tho obvious intention to divert it to building purposes , as a gross outrage on tho feelings of all those who have relations or friends interred -therein , and likewise as a gross violation of public decency . That the ohapolwardons , therefore , bo authorized to take such Btopa as may bo necessary , both legal and otherwise , to provent such desecration of tho ground , and to have it , put into and proscrvod and kept in decent and proper order . " At
This Family of tub latk Sir II . 11 , Bishop .- — tho cloao of tho business at tho Mansion Hoiiso last Saturday , tho Lord Mayor said ho wished to cull l »» b J ' attention to tho present condition of the family of tno late Sir Henry Bishop . Ho did this in consequence ot a representation mado to him by a friend of tho inmuy who had waited upon him , and who said that , owing to tho sadden ( loath of thoir father , five young children had boon l « ft entirely destitute . Tho Lord Mayor loit tlfivFtlici ' c a p " ivWren " e 1 irwhich-bonevolon t poisons , fljjnjjoially iu tho musical world , would bo glad to wLcresi thomaelvos , and , poraqnully , ho should bo happy t <> undertake tho application of any sums which »> i « lit » ° sont to him in the way which might appear most conducive to tho interests of tho fumll .
y , . Viok-Admihal otiw Hon . Witxtam Goudon , wm Oommnndor-in-Ohiof at tho Noro , and brother oi i "" Earl of Aberdeen , l »« s ju » t died . Ho entered tho navy In 1707 , and aotod with ftroat courage and dlaUuoMwi during tho last war with Franco .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 13, 1858, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2230/page/14/
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