The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

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atempt of court

re disposed, to assume
ied and upright judge who presided at the

as, indeed, w

unnecessary waste of the time of the

the oath to a witness who could not, in
examined on the ground before stated.
aye not prepared to dispute the pro-
- lordship thought it incon-
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pportunity afforded him of punishing
sidewind for an offence which he could
itch proof as was admissible by the

3s of eviden'ce, or that the question of the obedience
Lded by a Popish ecclesiastic to the Queen's Courts
uld he raised by a collateral issue in a civil snit. Be
; as it may, the court ruled that Cardinal Wiseman
Id not be examined as a witness, and that it was use-

him sworn

to this point, glaring as is the injustice done to
r Boyle,—who is, we need not say, ruined for life,
.1. no chance of ever getting his bread, in however
le a way, while under the cardinal's frown and ban,
can only deplore the insufficiency of the law made
aemen and men of truth, to reach popish tyrants
d in by the system of equivocation which the Jesuit
njoins as a religious duty. But there is one circum-

stance iYhich we confess that, for the honour and dignity
of the English Bench, and of the British Crown, repre-
sented by the occupants of that bench, we could have
wished had been otherwise. On "Nicholas, Cardinal
Wiseman" being called by the crier of the court, that

individual was introduced from a private door;
nd, instead of being placed in the witness-box, he was

accommodated with -a
;eat on the bench. Under any cir-
cumstances it may justly be questioned whether this act

A courtesy ought to have been extended to a personage
vhose assumed rank and title] are an ipso facto defiance
A the Queen's supremacy ; but it was singularly inappro-
priate at a moment when the question was raised whether
by the tender of the oath the individual treated with such
unseasonable deference would not be placed in a position
in which, to be faithful to the tenets of his church and to
the obligations of his position, he must have openly re-
pudiated the Queen's supremacy and the authority of that
very court. And it was surely a needless aggravation of
the wrong suffered by the plaintiff, that his oppressor,
vho availed himself of the technicalities of the law to
legal responsibility of a libel of which there can
oral doubt that he is the author, should be enabled
- judgment seat at the foot

a that ver

was hopelessly suing for justice.
It is bad enough that popish iniquity should go unpunished
and unchecked by the law of England, but it is too bad

hick Fat:

from the sacred seat where Justice alone ought
hroned.—John

HONESTY may be ragged for a season, but :the sound
heart that beats beneath the tatters feels a contempt for
well-dressed rougery as he passes, and a confidence in the
path before him,
BE You EVER SO PURE, you cannot associate with bad

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ling into bad odour. Evil company
—you cannot be long in its presence

ying away a taint of it

:TER PROFESSORSIIIP.—An American contempo-
rs the government of Harvard College are said to
pletely nonplussed by a bequest of 15,000 dollars,
certain sentimental Miss to found a Professorship
Heart." We wish the wise men of

Harvard aAappy issue from the perplexity into which
Miss Plummer has involved them.—Musical World.
PORTRAIT OF ESPARTERO.—The Sik/e gives the fol-
' lowing description of the man in whom the interests of
Spain may now be considered to centre :—" His strongly
marked eye-brows, the steady regard of his eye, his slightly-
closed lips, and the width of his chin, announce that no
oscillations are to be looked for in him when once his will
has been declared. Espartero commands respect by other
years
bears oo
fn
agel
his al
lofty physical and moral qualities. Of middle height, sixty
lips
frankness, and
flteyasfto,rbehuetsdn,otinloioliksinbglacmko reeyteh,aanndfi fifty,
hislie
turning readily to a smile, a great appearance of kind-
ness,By the services which heec'urag
the living Spanish commanders.
~.•,,ne towards the contractors.
for his soldiers, and wentk
want of supplies, e carried to recklessness.
has rendered, he is the first of all
He is a good comrade
tio when he assumed theisdit?
Espartereo nlrgagcel his private
saw the troops suffering from
.)rer when he laid ikdown. that way that,
command, he
A his wife, the daughter of a nclehf for
signature
r:aldvb ahniaikine r
it; andwas hesitated to givey. heErspsai
o serve the arm
)thingbut his sword. Of an honest but obscure
nor
as always had the good sense not to denyseuhies
day during his regency there was a
grand
na Vista, and an uncle and two female cousins
sent were announced. The uncle was a small
,ctor for roads in La Mancha, and his daughters,
~ssmakers. The Duke at once went to meet his relatives,
received them most kindly, 'and left every one struck with
that democratic pride which showed itself so gracefully in
the palace of kings. There is nothing in all this, certainly,
which amounts to absolute proof that Espartero will be
equal to the mission assigned to him. And yet a man's
antecedent conduct is one of the elements that serve best
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