The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

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Esq." Of the man with many names we hear no
more ; but the Rev. Jon DUDLEY decides that
there is no occasion to bind Mrs. TILER to keep the
peace, but that she must pay 38s. costs. This unex-
pected penalty alarms the conscience, or moves the
compassion, of the complainant. Ile handsomely sub-
scribes the half, and pays " 19s. or 19s. 6d." But
"poor MARY Ave " is the wife of a labour, r, with
five children, from two to thirteen years of age to
support out of his earnings, which are 10s. a
week. She tells the Rev. JOHN 10.01,5 x of the
impossibility of her raising the remainder. There-
upon the preacher of charity orders her to the House
of Correction in the county gaol, for fourteen days'
hard labour " unless the said sum of 385., and the
further sum of 9s. fur her ranreyance to prison be
saoncr paid."
On the 11th day (May •1, 1846) from the com-
mittal, Sir JAMES Gictittst informs the Rev. bolls
DUDLEY that "the whole of these proceedings was
contrary to law," and threatens to tell the LORD
CHANCELLOR of him " if such a thing should occur
again."
Whether the late or the present LORD CHANCELLOR
has ever been told of the Rev. J. DUDLEY, we know
not ; nor whether anybody has told his bishop of
him. But, through Mr. CHRISTIE'S intervention,
the House of Commons has told the public of
him; and the public will do the duty of Chan-
cellor and Bishop so far as the administration of
mere rebuke is concerned. That is all the penalty
which the public can levy. It is a very light one for
such a perversion of justice. What a sentence ! 38a.
for being the object of an unsustained charge; 9s.
for going to prison; and fourteen days' hard labour
in gaol fur nut having saved 475., out of los. a week
for thesupport of the labourer,his wife, and five young
childri rt. The Rev. J. DUDLEY acts upon a singular
theory of crimes and puaishments. lie will make
his parishioners remember being poor, and not being
guilty. lie punishes poverty as the French punish
military treason; condemning the culprit to pay for
the powder and shot of his own execution. If
there be no cash, he sends them to oakum-
picking or the treadmill ; to take their change
out of that. Was Mrs. TYLER conveyed in a hackney-
coach to the House of Correction? Nine shillings is
a long fare, as she had no luggage. This was pro-
bably the dearest ride in her life. Was it meant to
give her a taste of comfortable travelling? After all,
" nothing can come of nothing." The poor woman's
limbs are put under the screw, but no cash flows. The
clergyman's vagaries are a cost only to the county;
and his cruelty runs to waste.
The Loughborough Sessions rejoices in another
clerical justice ; the Itev. Wit. ACWOIITH, of Itothley
vicarage. His exploit consists of sending to gaol
JAMES .1.110 IS, a pauper, seventy-five years old, but
certified by the surgeon to be remarkably stout
" for his age," for refusing to pump water in the
poor-house. His sentence was for twenty-one days; but
as the Rev. W. ACWORTH pithily expresses it, " Be-
fore the imprisonment expired, the man died." We
presume the worthy incumbent officiated at the
funeral of " our dearly beloved brother," who had
taken the liberty of expiring before his imprison-
ment. And this man tells Sir JAMES GRAHAM that
he has been " foully vilified and misrepresented in
one or more of the Radical Leicester papers." Ho
tries to curry favour as a brother Tory, intimating
how " it has been peculiarly painful to his feelings
to find that, under the sanction of the present Govern-
ment (May 8, 1846) a petition from a quondam
reporter for a scurrilous and Radical Leicester journal,
was printed, fie." Of the two offences "scurrilous
and Radical," the latter is evidently regarded as the
mist heinous. As for the old man's death in gaol,
that was " the visitation of God," and to be acqui-
esced in patiently. A visitation of radical complaint
and censure was not to be endured. What worse than
his own statement was made of the fact, it is not easy
to imagine. The old man of 75 a•us ordered to the
workhouse pump, as " employment suitable to his
age and condition ;" and he eras committed to the
House of Correction for 21 days, as punishment
suitable for his offence. And he did die in the gaol,
as a conclusion suitable to the character of the pro-
ceeding. Everything is as it should be ; provided we
lived in a world turned upside-down. The Rev. W.
Acworent is perfectly satisfied with himself and his
doings. " Whatever is, is right ;" except that we
can suppose him repining that a Tory ministry should
not have authorised his ordering radicals to the pump
and the gaol, after the old man who slipped through
his fingers and escaped from imprisonment into tho
grave.
'fire third case brings together both the clergymen
and their lay appendage with the number of names.
It is that of a girl, CATHERINE Srem;s, who, besides
doing the household work of the farmer her master,
milked the cows, and carried their dinner to the hay-
makers, and so was construed to be a " servant in
husbandry," and therefore liable to punishment for
not discharging her duties—which she did discharge:
only that, having 'a lover at a distance, about whom
her mind was disturbed, she was going to run
away. The intention was made, by those
mock-Christian teachers, to cost her two months'
imprisonment with hard labour. Mr. Itocsits,
Queen's Counsel, who was sent down by Sir JAMES
GRAHAM to inquire into the circumstances, reports
that the conviction would hare been right (in law) if
the fact of service in husbandry had been given in
evidence, which it was not. And he also reports
that the Magistrates considered the intention to run
away a " misbehaviour ss
give them all the benefit
that the legal flaw was only
men, had they been Turks
devised some more lenient

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