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London, England, 1857-06-17 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,
_JUNE_ 17, 1857,

HAMPTON RACES.—(This Day.)
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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Closing Prices
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Business
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COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins at Westminster, bet* Lord Camp-
bell and a Special Jury.) =
THE QUEEN V. ERLAM-ABDUCTIQN.
Captain Earlam surrendered this morning to his bail,
charged with felony in tho abduction of a Jewess named
Rosa Goodman. The defendant was indicted at the Old
Bailey, and the trial was afterwards removed into this
Court by certiorari.

BETTING STAND PLATE.

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Four ran.

NEWTON RACES.—(This Day.)
(BY ELECTRIC TELEURA.PII.)

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine prosecuted ; Mr. Sergeant Shea
and Mr. Giffard defended.

LATEST BETTING.
GREAT NEWTON HANDICAP.
4 to 1 apt Mongrel (taken)
6 to 1 agst Odd Trick (taken)
7 to 1 agst Ellermize (taken)

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine having detailed the particulars
of the case, which will be found in the subjoined evidence,
said that the defendant was indicted under the Ode Geo. 4,
c. 31, sec. 20, which made it felony for any person to
take from the custody of her parents or guardians
any unmarried girl under the age of 16 years. The defen-
dant was originally in the Austrian service, and had
lately held. some office in the Middlesex Militia, and
when he first incarno acquainted with the prosecutrix
she was only between fourteen or Mean years of
age. He represented to her th at he wished to marry
her, but that his mother, who was a religious woma t, ob-
jected to a Jewess. The prosecutrix being a person of in-
experience, considered his intentions to be honourable, and
under that impression she went with him to B mlogne to
be married. When she got there the marriage was put off,
and ultimately he admitted that he was a married mat.
After that she upbraided him for his conduct, wed many
quarrels took place between them, and when at Mayence
he very much ill•used her. She then wrote to her father,
and he went over to bring her home. The defen lent was
about to leave Mayence, when the prosecutrix insisted on
returning with him to Ostend, where she met her father,
the defendant following them to Eng'and. The defendant
was informed that if ho molested the prosecutrix, he
would be given into custody, and in consequence of his
being found loitering about the father's house, there it
was that he was apprehended on this charge.
Rosa Goodman was the first witness called, and ex-
amined by Mr. Ballantine. She is rather a good-looking
girl, but has the appearance of a child not more than 15
years of age. She deposed that in Ju'y, 1856, she was
living with her parents at Hammersmith
•; her mother at
that time was very ill, and had since died. In July, 1856,
she was walking out with a cousin who was staying with
her, and they met the defendant in the afternoon, in the
public road, at Turnhara-green. A band was playing at
the time, to which they were listening.. He came up to
them; and gave her a programme of the music and entered
into conversation with her for a short period. lie told
her who he was, and said he had been trying to get an in-
troduction to her, but that ho hal not been able to do so.
She met him again the next day near Turnham-green, and
several times after at the same place. At one interview he
gave her his card, which some time after she gave her father
who threw it in the fire. Soon after that she went with
her family to Brighton, whore she saw the defendant seve-
ral times. He there asked her if she would marry him,
and she consented. She returned to London shortly after
and saw him frequently. He spoke of their marriage.
He said his mother was a religious woman and would not
consent to his marrying a Jewess in England, but that if
she would leave England be was sure she would consent to
their marriage. She declined to do so at that time. The
matter was spoken of several times by him, and on Satur-
day, the 23d of August, she left her father's house in Ox-
endon-street, without communicating to her father or
mother that she was about to leave. She met Captain
Erlam at the bottom of the Haymarket according to an
appointment made on the Wednesday previous. He had a
brou zhs.m waiting, into which she got, and they drove to
the South-Eastern Railway, London-bridge, where she
found a coupee engaged, into which they got, and
went by train to Folkestone, and thence to Boulogne,
and, without stopping, to Amiens, where they passed
the night, sleeping together in the same bed (the witness
here drew down her veil, but was requested to put it up).
Before getting to Amiens the defendant said he would
write to his mother and get her consent, and marry her a ,
few days after at Frankfort. From Amiens they went
to Brussels, and ultimately to Mayence. During this
time he frequently said he would marry her directly they
got to Frankfort, but they never went there ; he never
made any other excuse, than the one she had mentioned.
He said he was perfectly able to marry her as soon as he
got his mother's answer. At the end of about three
week's time at Mayence, he showed her a letter, purport-
ing to be from his mother, stating that witness's father
knew that he (the defendant) was a married man. Up to
that time she did not know that he was married, and after
that she refused to live with him as she had before. They
had apartments at Mayence; and he said to her that
it was treeless for her to leave, that she had better remain
in the same house, and in the meantime he would write
to England, get a divorce, and marry her in a
few weeks. Defendant then had another room in the
same , house and remained there till sho wrote to
her father. She was then left in the house with the ser-
vaat, and remained there until she received an answer by
telegraph from her father, and she went to Ostend, accom-
panied by the defendant. They arrived there before her
father. The same day that her father arrived he returned
with her in the packet to England. From that time
(October) to the 27th of April this year she did not see the
defendant. She then met him by accident in Regent-
street, and she afterwards informed her father of it. She
did not speak to him in Regent-street. When she left her
father's house she did not take any clothes with her, be-
cause it was arranged that the defendant should provide
her with what was necessary, and she found them ready
for her in the Brougham when she got into it.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Shee—She had been
living at Turnham-green between three or four weeks
when she first met Captain Erlam. Her companion, Miss
Cohen, had only been there about-a-Week. Daring that
week she had frequently walked out with her. She knew
where the militia barracks were, but she did not fre-
quently walk past them. She walked past them seve-
ral times, but she was unable to say how many. She
did not know the mess-room window. She thought
some of the officers lived at the hotel. She had not
spoken to any of the officers before Captaiu Erlam
spoke to her. No one was with him at the time he first
spoke to her. He never called at her residence. She gave
the defendant's card to her father, ho did not find it. She
could not recollect how many times she had spoken to
Captain Erlam before she gave her father his card. She
could not say how often she had spoken to him. She had
walked several times with him and Miss Cohen, and
another gentleman, before giving her father his card. She
sometimes walked out purposely to meet him. She did
not meet him after dusk. She sometimes appointed to
meet him. She did not write to him whilst she resided at
Hammersmith. She told. him where she lived in London,
in Oxendon street. The house had two entrances. Her
father kept a tobacconist shop in Oxendon-street, and he
was the owner of the house in Coventry-street. She re-
turned to London from Hammersmith at the and of July,
and she frequently after met the defendant in London.
She wrote to him from London, addressing the letters
to him, either at Hammersmith or Kingston. She wrote
several letters to him, sometimes making appoint-
ments with him, and she rerestedly • met him in St.
James's Park. She was alone, but a person named, Page
was gen-rally with him. She generally met him
about four o'clock in the afternoon, and remained with
him half an hour or an hour. They walked about the park.
She never walked with him in the streets of London. She
met him once by appointment at her dressmaker's. After
that she went to Brighton, but she did not inform him she
was going there. She did not write to him from Brighton.
She first saw him there four or five days after her arrival;
she was on the parade with her mother. She did not then
nod or beckon to him. She took no notice whatever of
him. She scarcely saw him, she saw his friend. She did
not know if ho saw her; his friend followed her home.
She did not see that Capt. Erlam was following her. She
was residing then on the Old Steyne. She saw him on the
next day ; he asked her what time she would meet him,
and she wrote the hour on an envelope and threw it out of
window to him. She wrote on the envelope where she
should be and the time; he did not meet her; the hoar was
rubbed out, and she met him the following day at the same
place, when she appointed. to meet him .at the Pavilion
Gardena. During the time she remained at Brighton she
met him nearly every day about eight o'clock in the morn-
ing at the Pavilion Gardens. She walked with him several
times on the pier, but never in the evening. Her father
Her Uncle
was at Brighton the whole of the time.
Richard was there a few days. She did. not know
that he saw her with the defendant. She knew a person,
named Mitchelldeut she did notknow if he was ahorsedealer.
She knew a Mrs. leijtchell there. They lodged in her house.
She did not know the:. she was not Mitchell's wife. Wit-
ness had lodged at her Le 11 se the two summers she was
at Brighton. She went out v,eith her whilst at Brighton.
Er
She went with her and Captain lam once to Rotting
Dean. He first spoke to her aieau.t leaving home at
Brighton. He did not tell her that h‘e could not marry
her—that he was so circumstanced that he could not
tharry her. She did not say to him that she 1:lid not care
about his marrying her, for that she would rather live
with him as his mistress than marry one of he: (the
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never knew in England that he was so
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stanced that he could not marry her. She
almost daily at Brighton, and on her return to London
before she left home. She informed him by letter,
commencing "Dearest Erlam," the day that she was to
leave Brighton, and requesting him to have his likeness
taken for her. Whilst at Brighton she did not know if
she dropped a piece of paper out of her pocket by acci-
dent with Captain Erlam's address on it, and of its
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lose several hundreds a-year. She did not agree to live
not marry her in England, because by doiug so he should
with him as his mistress before leaving England. The
letter produced was in her handwriting, but she was unable
to say whether it was written before or after she left
Brighton. In it she stated that her reason for being so
changed and serious arose from her thinking of the pro-
mise that she had made to him, the consequences of which
she did not at the time fully understand, and how dreadful
it would be to her if, after a few years, ho ceased to love
her. The promise she referred to was leaving England to
marry him. He said he should go to America after the
marriage, and as he had an appointment at the Cape of
Good Hope, she thought that most probably she would
never again return to England. He did not tell her, either
in London or Brighton, who were his relation.. He said
his mother resided at Kingston. She only mentioned his
name to Mrs. Mitchell, who said she knew him well. She
was at Amiens when she first wrote home, to either her fa-
ther or mother. She wrote from there the first night sho
passed with Captain Erlem. They went up the Rhine to
Mayence when they went into lodgings. She did not dis-
agree with him before he showed her the letter referred to.
She had been there three or four weeks before
he
she saw the
letter. She was there about four weeks altOgetr. He
pretended to be ill at Mayence. She did not know if he t -
kept his bed, He might have done so one day.
A end
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the servants without money, and she could not understand .
pictures will be exhibited in the erected ex-
the new gallery
told he had
a word the female servant said. She was that preesly to receive them.
her with the person upstairs to take her Museum The admission of the public to
left 40 dollars for
to England, and that lee bad gone either to Italy, Paris, or
the lighted up in the evening is tile first expe-
Vienna. He struck her several times, anti threatened to lenient of the kind with a public institution, and, It is
out her throat when she threatened to write to her father. • hoped, will be acceptable to those who work in the day.
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we believed !

Mr. Sergeant Shee—l think that circumstances ought to
be submitted to the jury on that point. If your lordship
wishes me to give a distinct answer to the question I will
do so.

Lord Campbell--I hive no wish to ask you to state any-
thing that might prejudice your case, Sergeant Shoe, but
unless you show the consent of the father to the abduction,
however gross his conduct might have been afterwards, it
does not purge the offence committed by the abduction.
Mr. Serzeaut Shee—ln answer to that question I think
it my duty to give a direct answer. lam not in a condi-
tion to prove any previous consent of the father.
Lord Campbell--I think there can be no doubt that the
case leads clearly to the conclusion that there was no pre-
vious consent on the part of the father.
Mr. Sergeant Shee—lt is a question for the jury whether
or not he knew all about it.
Lord Campbell—l think all the circumstances of the
case show that the elopement was without his consent.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine- -I think if your lordship heard
two letters read it would put it beyond all doubt.
Lord Campbell--They ought to be read. This is a pain-
ful inquiry, and one much to be deprecated. lam anxious
to hear as much evidence as is necessary for the ends of
justice, but beyond that I think we ought not to go. It
has been solemnly determined by the judges, and on which
I acted long before that decision, that the consent of a
child under 16 years of age did not prevent a case of this
kind from coming within the act of Parliament, be her
consent ever so free. _ _

Mr. Sergeant Shee—l am well acquainted with those
cases my lord, and I cannot deny that that is the state of
the law. lam plainly in that position that I can't
show consent by the father. Whatever fault has been
committed, and I say nothing now on the conduct of the
young girl, I think it is a case in which any honourable
man ought to have made reparation.
Mr. Seijeant Ballantine then put in the letters referred
to, which were read. The first was from the defendant to
the father, dated from Amiens, in which he stated that
the daughter was under his protection as her husband ;
that he was devotedly attached to her, and that he should
study to promote her happiness and welfare, but asking
for the divorce of his marriage to be kept secret from his
family. Ho hop,,d.bia-conduct would be looked on leniently,
and said thati.is Rose was his that nothing would make him
forget the serious duty he had taken upon himself for life.
Lord Campbell —That is conclusive evidence that the
ab luction was without the consent of the father.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine then bad the other letter from
Mayence read from the daughter to the father, in which
she complained of the villany of the defendant, and- that
she was not aware of his being a married man.
Lord Campbell—l am willing to hear evidence in miti-
gation of the offence, or any observations, but I don't
think the prosecution need be carried further.
Mr. Sergeant Shee said that under the circumstances he
thought he should be best consulting his client's interest
by ab-taining from calling evidence or offering any obser-
vation to his lordship in mitigation of punishment.
Evidence was then given to prove that Rosa Goodman
would not be 16 years of age till October next.
Mr. Sergeant Shee then put in a letter datediDecember,
27, 1856, purporting to be from the father to the defendant,
in which the former said that ho was surprised at the
latter continuing to press his daughter to leave her home,
an I asking the defendant to act up to his promise given in
October previous, when he might be able to come to some
arrangement with him.
Mr. Goodman was called, but denied writing this letter.
He admitted writing the one to his daughter at Mayence.
The witness was being cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant
Shee as to his keeping a cigar shop, and being a betting
man, and his connection with Running Rein and Macca-
bees, which Lord Campbell stopped, as having no refer-
ence to the case.
Lord Campbell, having called the attention of the jury
to the terms of the Act of ParliameLt, asked them if
they ccnsidered the offence proved by the evidence laid
before them.
The jury said they bad not the least doubt about it, and
returned a verdict of guilty.
The defendent was then called up and received judg-
ment. His lordship after expatiating on the enormity of
his offence, and referring to the mitigatory circumstances
connected with it, in reference to the father's t,onduct, and
to the fact of the defendant being a married man,
sentenced him to three months imprisonment in the Mid-
dlesex House of Correction.
Mr. Sergeant Shee said that the defendant had been
separated 15 years from his wife.
Lord Campbell—That is but a very slight palliation of
the offence.
The defendant is a tall, fine looking man, rather bald,
and wears large whiskers and moustache. The girl, Rosa
Goodman, is a slight, good-looking girl, and has the ap-
pearance of being young, though from the manner in
which she gave her evidence she would lead a person to
believe her to be considerably over age.
The prisoner was then removed in custody.

CRIMINAL COURT —(This Day.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Barons Watson and Channell.)
THE MURDER IN THE CALEDONIAN ROAD.
This morning Robert Robinson Tripp was indicted or
the murder of his landlord, a person of the name of Scott.
Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Met-
calfe defended the prisoner.
Mr. Metcalfe said he bad an application to make on the
part of the prisoner, namely, that his trial might be post-
poned until to-morrow. Mr. Bodkin had that morning
Ahown him an important piece of evidence, and it was ne-
ces,,iary he should make further inquiry previous to the
trial coming on;
Mr. Bodkin said he had no objection to the post-
ponement.
Mr. Baron Watson then directed that the trial should
come on to-morrow morning.

CHARGE OF RAPE.
Harris Michael was indicted for a rape on the wife of a
person named Lewis, in whose house the prisoner lodgor .a
Mr. Sleigh, on the part of the prisoner, applied f
postponement of the trial till next session. It
psi over ' a very
•serious case, and the evidence necessary for the ps
defence was incomplete.
Mr. Baron Watson granted the application.
The counsel for the prisoner then made an application
for the admission of the prisoner to bail.
Mr. Baron Watson refused the application.
CHARGE OF RENDING THREATENING LETTERS.
Rebecca Rice Ffamilton was indicted for sending threat-
,raanll:l-
- letters to Mr. William .A.llingham, a surgeon, with
intent to extort money.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor said the letters were of the moat infa-
mous description, and were calculated to do him the most
serious injury.
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prove the prisoner's handwriting.
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the jury returned a verdict of guilty.
portation for life.

NEW COURT.
Nothing of the slightest interest occurred in this Court
up to the time of our report leaving.

at the table d'hôte Ho said something to her IRISE PATRONAGE AND PATRIOTISM.
about looking at him. She did not wish to ride
out with him when Erlam was ill. She did
nut recollect him giving het a bouquet of flower?.
Shs never saw him except in Erlein's presence. Erlern
gave her one. She did not crush his and place the other in
her bosom. ...She believed she threw them both out of win-
dow, because Earlem said something about it. She did not
quarrel with him in cmsequence of her extravagant de-
sires. Her father wrote her two letters at Mayence. A
person came to her from Capt. Erlem and said he would
take a letter for her to him, but that he would not tell her.
where ho was staying. Shel sent the letter produced, re-
ceived from her father, to Captain Erlem, with an addi-
tion to it written by herself. The letter stated that her
father had seen the defendant's mother, who, he said, was
as bad as the defendant, and that it was a concocted thing
between them. He asked if the villain had left her, and
said if he did not behave properly to her he would advertise
him, and offer a reward for his apprehension. The addition to
the letter in the witness's hand-writing was :—" Dearest
Josh,—l don't, even for a moment, believe your mother
knows anything about it, or ever will ; and I don't think
you are a villain." (Laughter.) She never lived with
Captain Erlam after .they left Mayence together. He
said ho would take her to Ostend, and meet her father.
They wore not good friends before leaving Mayence. He
came back to her lodging at Mayence two clays before they
left, but he slept in another room upstairs. On their way
to Ostend they stopped at Cologne, arid he said that if she
did not write a letter at his dictation ho would leave her
to get to Ostend the best way she could. They quer, oiled
about it, when he said he would leave her. She was ob-
liged to comply, because she had no money. They were
at Cologne together about three or four hours.
The letter produced was written after she received
a letter from him, in which he said he was
getting a divorce. It was to this effect :—" Dearest Josh.,
- •You cannot think how happy the reading of your letter
has made me. Whatever papa says about you cannot
wake me love you less ; and believe me, dearest, that I
will do everything you desire if you will try me once
more." After some further protestations, she concluded
by saying —" I always did, and always will, love you."
The letter from Cologne was also put in and read. It
commenced in the usual style, " Dearest Josh.," and went
on to state that she wrote the letter by her own
free will, and that she wrote the letter to ask him to try if
they could go on again, and that she would do all in her
power to please him. A postscript to the letter stated she
did not wish him to go to hell, though it was so cold there
(Cologne), it would not be a bad place. (Laughter.) She
denied writing the postscript, and on being asked if she
was in the habit of telling him to go to hell, she at first
denied it, but afterwards said she might have said to him,
"God damn you—go to bell." She never attempted to
strike him, being too much afraid of him. She remained
with him two days at Ostend, and walked about the
streets with him. When her father arrived she first saw
him in the coffee-room of the hotel they were staying at.
She did not know if her father went out to take awalk
with Capt. Earlam, and smoke a cigar together. Her father
went out, but the defendant remained behind, and came into
her roots and spoke to her after. She did not see them
smoking cigars together. They all three dined together in
her bed-room. She left with her father, and shebelieved•
Captain Erlam foll Owed them part of the way, and said
he should soon come to England. Her father said that if
he did he would give him into custody. When they dined
together he father did not tall him so. She did not think
they were friendly at dinner, or that her 'father spoke to
him. No objection was made to Captain Erlam dining
in her bed-room, but he insisted on paying his dinner bill.
She believed her father paid for all the dinner, including a
bottle of rod wine and two cigars, but she did not recollect
if they smoked them in her bad-room. She did not notice
if Erlam poured out the wine. She did not recollect him
saying, when drinking the wine, " here's hoping
we shall settle the thing amicably," but she heard
Erlam sag that he hoped soon to get a divorce. She did
not hoar her father say "if they had been going to stay
there he could have put them in the way of making
money."
Lord Campbell—Do you propose to show that there was
previous knowledge of the abduction on the part of the
father ?

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What pleasant thoughts it inspires in some se-
cluded family when the intelligence suddenly
reaches home that the scapegrace son and brother
has made his fortune in Australia by delving and
digging among auriferous deposits ! Dreams of the
! most fantastic kind immediately pass heft re the
excited imaginations of those ,who stand nearest
and dearest to that charmiiag prodigal, who, to
speak the simple truth, had been somewhat
ignominiously banished from domestic joys with
anything but complimentary prophecies as to
his future fortunes and the ultimate conclu-
sion of his eventful career. It is presumed,. of
course, that nuggets- gtid-. natural affection go
together, and that the first thought of that interest-
ing outcast will
_be for the dear ones at home-
"That•niagget will send little Bob to school ; this
big fellow will pay the bill for the repapering and
fresh painting of the paternal hall, and for putting
he roof in a state of thorough repair • the smaller
parcel of gold-dust will enable Sister Nell to com-
pete on more equal terms, as far as drapery is
concerned, with her flaunting rivals for the pos-
session of the village attorney:" There. is not
an aspiration in which any member of the
family may have indulged, from a run up to
I,•)ndon to attend the Handel Festival down to a

sneaking desire for a new bonnet, which is not now
to be realised because the wandering broth r bas

made, or is reported to have made, a fortune in
Australia. Pretty much the same thing is it with our
Irish friends when any one from any county or dis-

trict in their island has made a hit Of it in the poli-
tical world. " Sure and he won't forget the old times

and he'll get me a place," says one; another gen-
tleman replies, "Sure and he'll think of the new
times ; and he'll get me a place." " Didn't I
vete for him ? and out of gratitude he'll get me

• _ _ _
a p!ace." " Didn't I vote against him? and to
show that he bears no spite he'll get me a
place." "Didn't I drive him trorn BallybaroO to
Louophporridge? and he'll get me a place. "Didn't
. .

I take up his honour's boots when he was stopping
at the Collbriggan ..4r-rums ? and he'll get me a
place." Now, we by no means wish to main-
tiin the pr3position that English members are
not bullied and pestered by their constituents for
petty places and petty favours ; that assertion
would be precisely the reverse of the truth ; but
what we do say is that the intelligence th%t our
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"talented towtyinian" has been converted into a

Junior Lord of the Treasury, or that our distin-
guished county member has been made Score-
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fary to the Tape and Sealingwax. Department
in consequence of his political achievements,
does not spread the same excitement through

an English as through an Irish borough or
county. Has not Colonel Herbert just been
made Irish Secretary, and has not the great

news flown from hill to bill throughout romantto

Kerry—swift as the beacon's flash lif the old days,
when Homer was " Our Own Correspondent," and

swifter than the fiery cross, which was passed from
hand to hand by those sentimental mountaineers
whom Sir W. Scott invented, and in whom, as boys,

Colonel Herbert, who seems to know his coun-
trymen well, fairly took the bull by the horns the
other day, when he presented himself before them
for re-election. Just in the same way that Eng-
lish candidates fairly grapple with the Jewish or
the Maynooth difficulty upon such occasions, and
endeavour to give utterance to such a confession
of faith as will secure to them the utmost number
of votes, at the same time that it ties their hands as
little as possible, so did Colonel Herbert fearlessly
plunge into his own sea of troubles. When we say
that he plunged in we perhaps use an inappropriate
phrase, for be seems rather to have sidled and
shuffled into the surf in a complacent and lady-like
manner, with one eye upon the incoming wave and
the other upon the bathing-woman.
" There isane more question to which I wish to ask
your attention. It is rather a delicate one, but I trust
to the good humour, kindness, and good sense of my
countrymen to listen to me for a few moments on the
subject. I allude to the subject of patronage. You all
know, probably—at all, events, you all believe—that in
consequence of the appointment I have received I have
a considerable amount of what may be called, in familiar
language, 'the loaves and fishes' under my distribution.
"Con. Lamb (an elector).—Signs by, "you'll be trou-
bled with a great deal of applications. (Laughter.)
"Col. Ilerbert.—You are quite right. That's what
I was coming to. (Laughter.)
" Con. Lamb.—'Tis the most troublesome situation a
man can bold, God help you! (Laughter.)- And half of
them that would cut your throat are bowing and serapincs
about you now. (Laughter from the gallery.) You
want a couple of dozen clerks to read and answer your
letters. I hope you will be after making out an easy
berth, you know, for me now in my old days."
(Laughter.)
Mr. Con. Lamb discharges the functimis of the
chorus in a Greek play. He warns, he admonishes,
I he encourages, he mourns for the people ; he ex-
presses their sympathies, their wants, and, certainly,
if we may judge by the conclusion of his speech,
their feeling and their wishes, which are all summed
up in a demand for an easy berth. In the foregoing
. self-denying declaration Col. Herbert seems to have
considered that he had gone too far, so that it had
become necessary to right himself with a little jo-
cularity which might mean much—something, bnt
not much, or nothing at an, accordingly as it was
understood by the bearer or the speaker :
" Colonel Herbert.—So much do 1 consider myself in-
debted to the electors of the county, not only for the
honour of electing me, but for the kindness with which
they have always viewed any efforts of mine, and the
forbearance they have exercised towards me, that I realty
speak the honest truth when I tell you hat, if I con-
Butted my own feelings, every man in Kerry who wanted
a berth should have the very best place I could give hint
with the least possible to do and the largest possible sa-
lary& (Laughter.)
" Con. Lamb.—That would just suit my knuckle to a
niceHatyving ." (Laugh
thuster op.)
ened his difficulty generally,
Colonel Herbert proceeded to enlarge upon
it. The preceding declaration might, have
gone too far upon the side of humanity ; it
will be seen that Colonel Herbert recovered him-
self, and for the moment was quite the Roman
again. From the Roman, however, be passed ra-
pidly to the mental condition of the man of the
world, and from that of the man of the world to
one much better understood and appreciated- by
his audience—that of an Irish patriot prepared to
insist upon the most favoured nation clause with
regard to his own constituents, in any little matter
; of patronage that might fall to his disposal.

" Colonel Herbert—But I am placed in a public and
responsible position, in which it is my duty, as far as I
am able, to consult the public interests. I mu,t just
ask you to consider that if I am guilty of perpetrating a
job I disgrace myself and reflect disgrace on you—
(hear, hear)—because if a man has been without oppo-
sition for 10 years your representative it reflects on
your choice it it can be fairly said of him, when he
comes into an official position, that he has been
guilty of a job. Do not for a moment suppose that I
am such a fool as to think I am going to inaugurate a
period of perfect purity, and do not imagine thatioliti-
cal and personal considerations will not have their
weight. But I must remind you that the tendency of
public opinion has been of late—most properly, in my
mind—to put down, as far as it is possible, anything
like jobs or unfair patronage. Within the last few years
a system has been adopted in Dublin of holding up for
competition some of the Lest offices to be given away
by the Secretary. Do not suppose for a moment that I
can attempt to put aside that system. Still, do not sup-
pose that it will not be my wish, whenever I can legiti-
mately, to serve any oue of my fellow-countrymen ;
but I entreat of you to remember that I bare now
the hoi.our to be not only your representative, but
that the whole of Ireland has other claims upon me."
(Hear, (Hear, hear.)
The oddest part of this strange scene is, that tho
declaration of purity should have been received
with so much enthusiasm, while the vast bulk of
the persons present were only waiting their oppor-
tunity to press on their newly elected member
each the little pet job which " would fit his
knuckle to a nicety." As we before said, we do
such things in England—but in a different way.
This is the Irish model of electoral purity and stern
patriotism.—Times.

THE MURRAIN.--The murrain subsisting among the
cattle on the Russo-Prussian frontier having ceased, th•
usual intercommunication has been provisionally re-es-
tablished,

MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. Another
large
an influential meeting of the Catholic nobility and
gentry was held yesterday afternoon at the Stafford.
street Club, for the purpose of considering the course
which it is desirable for their representatives in Neje•
merit to adopt in reference to the Parliamentary Oaths
Bill. The following resolution was proposed by the
Hon. Charles Lau dale seconded by Mr. E. Ryley,
i and carried with only six dissentient voices—" That
this meeting believes that the fifth clause of the Bill
re-enacts the Catholic oath, which is acknowledged to be
offensive in its terms even ty Protestant gentleman, and
subjecting Catholics to offensive imputations, and there-
fure hopes that Catholic members of both houses will be
induced to continue to oppose its re-enactment." A
petition to both Houses of Parliament, in accordance
protestin
with the spirit of the above resolution, and
against the " inviduous distinction" still maintained in
the disfavour of the Catholic body, now lies at the
Stafford•street Club for signature.
mils. Gortic's NEW NOVEL, entitled "The Two Aris-
tocracies," is just published, by Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett. It will be generally nonsidered one of the
very best works that has yet come from the pen of this
brilliant and popular writer. The same publishers have
also just issued "Nothing New," by the author of
,I" John Halifax," in 2 volumes. "The reader will find
these narratives Gays the John, Eu 11) fully calculated to
. I remind him of that truth and energy of human por-
traiture, 1 I that spell over human affections and emotions
• 1 which have stamped this author one of the first novelists
of our day. '
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