Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

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The dtfendaut had for some time been a tenant of Cap-
tain Hopwood, who desired to get possession of the farm
for the purpose of converting it into aDpark ; he there-
fore gave the defendant notice to quit on the 22nd of
June, 1858. The notice was given requiring possession
to be given up at the customary periods. The defend-
ant, instead of -- 1 h the terms of the notice

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boy, aged line years, said he
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that he knei little Thompson, who was drowned.
re saw him taken away by a woman the day before he
ras drowned, and he thought she was a yellow woman,
ut he could notsayhe would knowher. The day after he
ras taken away I heard Mrs. Thompson say to a woman
let he was drowned. He saw the prisoner at the
woner's court. He was told to look around the court
nd see if he could see a woman like the one that took
[rs. Thompson's little boy away, and he again identi-
ed Mrs. Leathern as

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Mr. Cobb said it woula be necessary to have the evi

MR. BRIGHT AND HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW.

(From the Saturday Review.)
Patriots, like their fellow-men, are born to trouble as
the sparks fly upward. A cloud has descended on the
House of Bright, and dimmed its glory. The tale is a
sad one, albeit an instructive. Here was one who was
the great Apostle of Reform. Autumn after autumn
he was wont to raise the fiery cross, and to rouse the

clans, and to thunder a terrible crusade against iniquity
throughout the land. This was a wicked world, he

vountry gentlemen were corrupt,
the aristocracy was insolent, journalists were venal. As
for the Peers, he loved nothing better than tumbling
them, especially the spiritual ones, in the dust. Ile
tilted -

,t the Press, and left that abandoi

prostrate in the mud. But Purity of Election was his
favourite battle-cry. The sword of the Lord and the
ballot-box ! No tampering with independent voters !
Electioneering noblemen trembled ; domineering land-
lords were conscience-stricken, and shuddered at the
thought of an approaching epoch when Birmingham
and Principle should have it all their own way ; men
-

bowed their faces, and cried with one accord—" Be-
hold ! John Bright is honest and upright, and he is
terrible in his wrath."
When an Apostle requires buffetinq_ hA is crivAn

amount of buffeting are afflicted with two.
came to Mr. Bright in the domestic guise of his
in-law. How often has a " brother near the throne,"
by ill-conduct brought discredit on the reigning Sove-
reign ! It is a significant and pleasing fiction of the
Spanish constitution, that the Queen of Spain has no
legs. An over-mundane walk, a human personality,
too much intercourse with the world, ties of friendship
and kinsmanship, bring royalty into difficulties. Just
so, great public characters should keep clear of the
various trammels of social and domestic life. If Brutus
never had possessed sons, his theories would not have
set at nought in his own home. Why did Mr.

an especial
Humiliation

Bright have brothers-in-law ? It was very unwise of
such a man to commit himself to relatives at all. He
should have retired, like a hue prophet, into the wil-
derness; apart from men, and there remained with a
leathern girdle about his loins, fierce, solitary, and un-
compromising, feeding only on the largest locusts and
the very wildest honey.

This Is the way in, which the House of Bright was
buffeted for its pride. In an hour when some malicious
electoral influence ruled the planets, and the star of
Bright was not in the ascendant, the citizens of Wake-
field and Huddersfield cast their eyes about for repre-
sonintivn mem 4,, ,m,,,11 4.-11

and to strengthen the

'ommons,

With all his popular prestige, Mr. Bright
a lonely life in that aristocratic place. It is
ideed a sad thing, as it has been well said, to be the
only believer. To continue properly his mission, Mr.
Bright must have his friends about him. And
What firmer friends than a man's own kinsmen ? Where
should unwavering fidelity and uncompromising. purity
be found if not in the family of John Bright ? So
thought Wakefield and Huddersfield, each anxious to
be a humble instrument in the exaltation of that
illustrious race. As they had proposed, so it was
arranged. Mr. Bright's brothers-in-law, like the
brethren of Napoleon, had greatness thrust upon them,
and with much the same result. Huddersfield and
Wakefield obtained the privilege of raising Mr. E.
Leatham and Mr. W. Leatham to honour, and of delegat-
..

ing an Aaron and a Ilur to uphold the hands of thegr, eat
legislator in his conflicts with the Amalekites.

Why should malicious Fortune select they and
loftiest for her lash ? Parliament has met, Election
Committees have sat, and sad things have happened.
The enemy has been too strong for the Prophet and his
supporters. They have turned his batteries in the
most unfair - way against himself, and played on
him with his own artillery. This is, indeed,
audacity, and it is most irregular. They insist on
strictly scrutinizing all the details of the election of the
two :Fare brethren. What ! Shall not the race of Bright
pass unarrested ? Are the pockets of people connected
by marriage and religion with the apostle of no-bribery
to be felt ? A clouanier might as well insist upon search-
ing the Pope's person for smuggled Bibles, as an Elec-
tion Committee question the strict integrity of a pure
Leatham. Why, ye simple inquisitors, it was to defend
our English constituencies from the poisonous influence of
corruption that these two virtuous gentlemen were sent to
Parliament. It is not their side, it is the other side that
is corrupt. Fair play is fair play, and those who have
said Shibboleth ought, in common justice, not to be
detained. Would ye seethe a kid in its mother's milk,
and ^ unseat the kinsman of a Bright for. bribery ?

ht's marriage connections are
Strange and needless as it may seem,
mimittee nevertheless met, heard evidence, and has
lally adjudicated on the Wakefield and Huddersfield
ections.

e suspicion

Upon perusing the reports of the two cases,
obvious thought will occur to most minds. What an
expensive principle Purity of Election must be when
you take it with you to the hustings ! Who would sup-
pose that £l,lOO had been necessary to persuade the pure
electors of Wakefield to vote for the pure candidate ?
Individual purity in that enlightened town apparently
cost from £lO to £3o—little or no reduction being
made on the strength of a connection with Mr. Bright.
Beer, too, seems in a wonderful way to have been mixed
up with Purity of Election in the heads of the non-
electors; and Wakefield for a short time enjoyed
a saturnalia of the two combined. While the Par-
liamentary Committee abstained from asserting that
Mr. W. Leatham had taken a personal part in the pure
proceedings in question, they could not but recognise
the fact that bribery had been practised, and the
blameless Licinius lost his seat in consequence of a vio-
lation of his own much-loved sumptuary law. So one
of the Apostle's bretheren is lost to the House of Com-
mons. Though one is taken, the other, happily, is left.
A. similar purity of election had prevailed at Hudders-
ield, but there was no proof that Mr. E. Leatham or
is agents had been implicated in the matter. Purity
ad, alas, been bought also at Huddersfield.- It is true
-+ Huddersfield it was not uniforthly paid for, and

o, perhaps, was less expen
ecured by

Its - triumph' was
...nanging pigs at double their value, by
porter, by bank notes, unfortunately only pay-
Ale • Bank of Elegance. But, at Huddersfield,
/lowed as a marketable commodity, have uo doubt
it rising. This, of course, explains all. The com-
Aittee have cleared the friends and agents of the sitting
nember from the imputation of illegal zeal in the cause
puritK. Licinius the Second is only convicted of
laving ad injudicious adherents. He himself escapes.
sincerely cmgratulate Mr. Bright that his domestic
The Society for the Diffusion
n Parts might have been

Motion is not greater. '
f John_Brights. in Forei,

erwhehire4
Looker

-on grieve that the devoted troop bas suffered
Lny loss. Their leader counted them at break of day,
md by noon where are they ? But Mr. Bright rides
on undaunted in his Parliamentary crusade. The
Moral Guard may be unseated, but they never surrender.
Thinned by the enemy's cross fire, dropping here and
there about the field, the little band press on with flying
colours. The Apostle of Purity never resigns—never
is humiliated. Merses profundo—pYrior evenit. The
following ,day he' appears more radiant, if possible,
than ever with purity and intolerance. Brutus
did net abdicate bec;ause his family were beheaded.
Next morning finds him with his axes and his lictors
hard at work. He executes awful justice on the mem-
ber for Pontefract, whom he condemns before his crime
is known. He is all for stern measures and no compro-
mise of principle. Never was he greater than upon the
iniquity of Mr. Overend. We are sorry for it. We had
hoped that the result of the Walrpfinm - -