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The Press. — 1854-04-08 (London, England)

IMENWOMP,‘  RINNI  APRIL 8, 1854.  rect opinion. The writer should have omitted the anecdote relating to an old associate and rival of Talfourd, and many will concur with US in thinking that if the entire article had been omitted nobody would be a loser. In " Literary Leaflets" we have some shreds and patches of criticism on " Isaac Taylor," the writer referring to "the sort of testi" menial paid to Mr. Taylor's genius in Sir James " Stephen's Essays "—of a very different sort from that scratchy tribute given to him here. " A Fortnight in Finland " reads like extracts from a forgot ten book of travels—the title is the best part of the contribution. Mr. Jolly Green contributes a burlesque account of the peace deputation of " Mr. Beans " to St. Petersburg, but we trust that the enemy will be exposed to a more dangerous fire than that opened on him by the not very dangerous wit of " Mr. Jolly Green." The article on the " War with Russia " is heavy, and its speculations have been an • ticipated in the journals. On the whole the variety of matter in the present number is not sufficiently sustained by the excellence of the particular contributions.  Ainsworth is a mixture of travel and fiction ; the latter gleaming alternately with ancient armour and modern silver forks.  Tait has twelve articles, the first on an interesting subject, the " Recent Travels and Discoveries in Syria."  Macplutita Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal has seven articles. An " Inquiry into the Origin and History of Proclamation of Bans of Marriage" is concluded in this number.  The Art-Journal's three chief engravings are, " Christ lamenting over Jerusalem," " A Summer Holiday," by Goodall, and the "Surprise," a well-known female figure by Dubufe.  Dick Diminy the Jockey, No. VI., opens with the " Polite Conversation" of boys attached to a racing stable. The incidents are sufficiently melodramatic to satisfy the most voracious of the " mysteries of, &c.," school. Three lords enjoy a carouse in a Newgate cell with a condemned murderer the night before the latter is " scragged ;" and a " Running Rein " affair, in which an English baronet is the principal performer, is perpetrated.  Orr's Household Handbooks. No. IV.—" Household Medicine."—This contains good surgical information. We should suppose it consisted of the lectures of some eminent medical man if vulgar expressions, strangely discordant with the general tone, did not here and there militate against that supposition. The author says that " the rage" for this species of knowledge is endangering national modesty. If so, why did he publish this work, than which nothing can be more explicit?  Orr's Circle of the Sciences. No. XV.—We have before had occasion to remark on the useful instruction to be derived from this and similar works. The present number, containing information on comparative anatomy, is not inferior to its predecessors.  The True Briton furnishes varied and respectable matter; The Home, ➢ir. Oastler's cheap weekly publication, maintains its consistency and its thorough English tone ; and Bentley's Monthly Review and Paul Peabody are average numbers.
The Press. — 1854-11-18 (London, England)

THE PRESS.  that of Lord Aberdeen. It was then that the Czar of all the Russias deemed the time ripe fur the realisation of Muscovite ambition. But now comes, in its due time and place, the error of circumstance. The Republic of France, inaugurated after the flight of Louis Philippe, was but a disjointed state of national incompetency. The revolutions of Germany had utterly failed in con structing the Utopian Federation of the Fatherland after a republican shape, and the assassinations at Frankfort and elsewhere had disgusted the more honest and prudent of its partisans. Kossuth bad ruined the cause of constitutional Hungary by the declaration of stern republicanism ; and the fact of his having been accessory, by harangue, to the murder of General Latour alienated from him still more the confidence of the Magyars. At that moment the , Emperor Nicholas came forth as the protector I of European monarchy, prostrated Austria by his fatal aid, and fomented with the full weight of his influence the insincere conduct of the King of Prussia against the Germanic interests of the house of Hapsburg. In the meantime the President of the French Republic ascended the imperial throne of his uncle. The English Ambassador at Paris, the Marquis of Normanby, in an official note found in the Foreign-office at Paris, treated and spoke of the Emperor of the French as " a paltry scamp," and " a hungry adventurer, not worthy of notice." Two Whig Ministers of the Crown, also, at public assemblies convened for especial purposes, reviled the Emperor of the French as "a rogue and vagabond," a "traitor," "perjurer," and " butcher " and exhausted every epithet of contumely familiar to the denizen of the gin palace. Relying upon the faith and the sincerity of the English Minister, and upon the supposed insecurity of the imperial throne of France, and the inability of its occupant, the Em peror Nicholas broke ground. This was the fatal mistake. The "scamp" of the Marquis of Normanby, and the " Vaurien " of the " Arcades Ambo," has proved himself to be as superior in rectitude of conduct to the Russian autocrat and the English Minister as he has outgeneralled them in the higher branches of state policy. He has cemented betwixt the two countries a union which the Minister, through his colleagues, together with the insulting note of Lord Normanby, had striven to vitiate by personal abuse ; and he has unmasked the Czar by a straightforward determination of purpose, in strong contrast to the insincerity and " timides avis " elsewhere displayed. The present disturbed state of Europe, and the Russian war, are the emanations from the prejudices entertained by the English Minister against France from a blind obedience to Muscovite interests, according to the spirit of the congress of Vienna; and further, be it said, that they proceed from a mental infirmity which does not permit a just discrimination betwixt the earnest appeal of an alien friendship and the sterner demand of patriotic virtue. Jebel Taif. C. A. H.
The Press. — 1858-03-20 (London, England)

EOLINTOUN. His frank and genial manners are peculiarly suited to please a generous people like the Irish ; and it is no " State secret " that Lord EGLINTOUN has always appreciated the finer instincts of Irish character. The nomination of the new Chancellor has given great satisfaction. Lord Chancellor NAriEit was the first man at the Irish Bar; for ten years he represented the University of Dublin, and his Lordship, while engaged in practice, was repeatedly taken special to the House of Lords. He is a jurist of great attainments, and a philosophical lawyer, well qualified for taking a great part in practical amendments of the law. The new Irish Attorney-General has already distinguished himself in office by bringing to justice at Nenagh the murderers of the late Mr. Ewa; and the Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman showed remarkable tact and energy in that arduous prosecution. There cannot be a doubt that Lord NAAS will make an efficient Chief Secretary for Ireland ; and the other appointments are also well filled. We observe that the Morning Post has attacked Lord DERBY on account of his former antagonism to the late Mr. DANIEL O'CoENELL. But Lord DERBY, unlike Lord J. RUSSELL, never insulted the Roman Catholics with a " Durham Letter," and his views on the " Irish Church " are not different from those expressed by Lord PALMERSTON, who stated that the Act of Union was a complete bar to the opening of the Irish Church question. Lord DERBY is not bound to give appointments to the (self styled) " Liberal Protestants " of Ireland ; but we have no doubt his Lordship's promotions will be made with a fair claim to the pretensions of qualified candidates. We challenge the Morning Post to say a word against Lord DERBY as an Irish landlord ; and it would be very easy to draw a contrast between the qualities of Lord DERBY as an Irish landlord and some of the notabilities mentioned by the Morning Post. But comparisons in such oases are—what the proverb says.  By the Gazette Return of the Bank of England, just issued, we find that the notes and bullion now in the hands of the Bank amount to nearly thirty millions  Bullion and Coin Notes  £30,290,010 In November last, during a few days, the same items fell below ten millions.  Mr. RALPH OSBORNE has again come forth in CONGBEVE'S character of If-throesld, and has sought to produce effects by composing a cent° of old points. His speech on Monday night was made after a careful study of Lord MACAULAY'S ingenious and brilliant performance at the Edinburgh hustings in 1852, when Lord MACAULAY contrasted the sentiments entertained by various members of the Protection party. It is quite enough to have that sort of thing done once and well; and after Lord MACAULAY'S adroit cross-readings we have no patience for the second-hand wit of Mr. RALPH OSBORNE ; for the whole framework of his speech on Monday is old, with modern scraps of Hansard hung
The Press. — 1858-02-27 (London, England)

CONSPIRACY TO MURDER BILL. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 19. CoNseraAcr TO MURDER BlLL.—Order for second reading 6, read ; motion made, and question proposed:—" That the bill be now read a second time." Amendment proposed, to leave oat from the word " that " to the end of the question, in order to add the words " this house hears with much concern that it is alleged that recent attempts upon the life of the Emperor of the French have been devised in England, and expresses its detestation of such guilty enterprises ; that this house is ready at all times to assist in remedying any defects in the criminal law which, after due investigation, are proved to exist, yet it cannot but regret that her Majesty's Government, previously to inviting the house to amend the Law of Conspiracy by the second reading of this bill at the present time, has not felt it to be their duty to make some reply to the important despatch received from the French Government, dated Paris, January 20, 1858, and which has been laid before Pathsment,"—( Mr. Milner Gibson)—instead thereof:— Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question :"—The house divided; ayes, 215, noes, 234.  Adair, H. E. Fitzgerald, W. R.S. Moffatt, George Adams, W. H. Forestcr,llt.ElnCol Montgommy,Sir G. Adderley, C. B. Forster, Charles Morgan' Gamins Akroyd, Edward Forster, Sir George Naas, Lord Alcock, Thoinu Fos, W. J. Napier, ltt. Hon. J. Annesley, Hon. H. Fraser, Sir W. A. Napier, Sir Charles Archdall,Captain M Galway, Viscount Newdegate, C. N. Ayrton, A. S. Gard, it. S. Newport, Viscount H. J. Garnett, W. T. Nicoll, Donald  , Ball, Edward Gaskell, J. M. Noel, Hon. U. J; Baring, Thomas Gilpin, Charles North, Colonel Bernanl, T. T. Gladstone, Rt. Hn. Packe, C. W. Bass, M. T. Graham, Rt. Hn. J. Pakington,SirJohn Baxter, W. E. Greenall, Gilbert Palk, Lawrence Beach, W. W. B. Greene, John Palmer, Robert  Beale, Samuel Grenfell, C. W. Paull, Henry Bective, Earl of Griffith, C. D. Peahen, Sir G. B. Bennet, Philip Grogan, Edward Peel, Sir Robert Berkeley, Hn. H. F. Hadfield, George Pevensev, Viscount Blackburn, Peter Hamilton, Lord C. Philips, .R. N. Bolder°, Colonel Hamilton, G. A. Pigott, Francis Bovill, William Hamilton, J. H. Pilkington, James Brumley-Moore, J. Hamilton, Captain Powell. E. S. Bridges, Sir B. W. Hardcastle, J. A. Price, W. P. Bruce, Major C. Hardy, Gatborne Ricardo, J. L. Buchanan, Walter Headlam, T. E. Robertson, P. F. Buller, Sir J. Y. Heatbcote, Sir Wm. Roebuck, J. A.  . _ Bunbury,W.B.3l`C. Henley, Et. Hn. J. Roupell, William Bury, Viscount Herber., Bt. II n. S. Russell, Lord John Itlyng, Hon. George Hodgson, Win. N. Scliolebeld, Wm. Caird, James Holfurd, R. S Sclater•Booth. G. Cairns, H. M.C. Hope, A. J. B. B. Scott, Hn. Francis Carden, Sir It. W. I lopwood, J. T. Seymer, H. K. Cardwell,Rt.HonE. Hursman,Rt.Hn.E. Shelley, SirJ. V. Carnac, SirJ. R. MAIM, Lord Sheridan, H. B. Cecil, Lord Robert Hume, W. W. F. Sibthorp, Majur Cheetham, John Hunt, G. W, Smith, J. B.
The Press. — 1858-08-14 (London, England)

CON• STANTINE. There were those among the blessed Apostles who saw the beginnings of it even with the natural eye. And the first great enterprize of that polity, once organized, was against the supremacy of conscience: its first struggle was to bring into captivity the moral sense of mankind.  To have attempted boldly to sanction vice, to have set up adultery and treachery and murder for virtues in an emperor or his wife, would have been stupidity,—it would have been as idle as atrocious. It was neither possible nor necessary for the success of Jesuitry that men's habits of  774  love and admiration for what is lovely and gene- I rous, or of contempt and hatred for what is vile and execrable, should be forgotten or abandoned. And it is a strange mistake to think it ever was the object of the Papacy to make men socially or individually wicked, or that it was ever generally regarded as a necessary means to gain the great end which the Papacy has ever had in view. That end was always and is always simply political ; it was to keep men in helpless and dependent tutelage. And it is not necessary utterly to demoralize a community in order to make or keep it politically degraded. Virtues can never cease to be venerable and lovely, nor vices to be hateful ; but our admiration and our love of virtues may be modified, and so may our natural abhorrence of vice. Constructive vices may lessen the heinousness of real ones, and virtues may be turned aside from their fair scope and defrauded of all their worth and efficacy.  To attend devotedly to one's own private business is on all hands justly held to be a virtue; but, as PLATO tells us, he that breeds his children up only, or even firstly, to look always after his own private business, breeds them up not to be citizens but slaves. The simple distribution of natural virtues into independent, unconnected specialities is degradation : it is like confining a mechanic to makmg the wheels or linking the chains of watches, without ever allowing him to combine them into a useful motive instrument, or even know the final destination and capacity of what he spends his whole life in constructing. These specialities in virtue stop the man from being a complete man, instead of enabling him more perfectly to be one, as the specialities in mechanism prevent the man from being in any true sense a watchmaker.  This mimicking of manhood, this making of men into pieces, as it were, of men—a citizen of one, a husband of another—giving one the part of poverty to play, another that of magnificence and wealth—segregating some in solitude and gathering together others into the multitude and discipline and irresponsibility of armies—was the way to do the work of Jesuitry. It was a countermanding of the whole primeval order of our creation. But it was only a logical prerogative of jus divinum.
The Press. — 1858-05-08 (London, England)

RESCUE CF MRS. ORR AND MISS JACKSON. It was subsequent to this soteoess that Captain M'Neil, of the Bengal Artillery, attached to the Ghourkes, and Lieutenant Bogle, of the same force, succeeded in saving Mrs Orr and Miss Jackson, who have been so long in captivity. As these officers were exploring the deserted streets in front of the Ghootica advanced posts they encountered a native, who said he was one of Sir J. Outram's employes, and implored their protection for his house and property. In the course of his appeal he mentioned incidentally that he knew where the English ladies were confined, and offered to point out the place. Almost im• mediately afterwards another native appeared and presented two note=—one from Mrs. Orr, the other from Miss Jackson, imploring immediate succour, as their enemies were making search for them. The officers returned to the nearest Ghoorka post, and called for volunteers ; forty or fifty of these hardy, dirty, and loot-loving Calmneks stepped forth, and, with the native at their head as a guide, the party at a rapid rate started off on their errand of deliverance. They proceeded for more than half a mile through the silent, tortuous streets, expecting to receive a volley at every turn. when they came to a house apparently shut up and abandoned. " This is the house," said the guide. At the noise of their footsteps the owuer—Meer Wajeell Ali, Darog t of the Court—made his appearance, and began to stipulate for his property. but Captain M'Neil demanded the immediate production of the ladies, and, finding that he was resolute, the Damp led him to an obscure apartment, where were two ladies in Oriental costume in a dark corner. At the sound of the voice,—" Are, you the English ladies, and do you wish to leave this place ? " those whom he addressed were not able to reply to the officer from excessive joy, and for a moment or two they were overwhelmed with thankfulness and emotion. But there was no time to he lost. The Moulvie and his followers were known to be searching for them. The ladies, clad as they were, descended to the street, and were about to be placed on the officers' horses, when a palan quin caught the eye of Captain M`Neil in the ccurt of the house. Just as the ladies were getting into it a few budmashes, with drawn swords, sallied out from an adjoining house to attack them, but a shot from a revolver and the bayonets of the Ghot,rkas soon d.sposed of their resistance, and six o. the Duruga's retainers being lm.pressed as palanquin bearers, the party and a portion of the escort moved back as rapidly as possible to the Ghoorka post, and the poor ladies were placed io safety. At the same time some other Christians, Eurasians and descendants of Europeans, were saved by the guarct of Lieutenant Bogle, and were delivered out of the hands of their enemies. It is but just to say, however, that, although the native Christian community was so large as to form a gunj or quarter of its own, containing perhaps 300 persons, there is no reason to believe that the sepoys persecuted or murdered them. Most of them fearing illtreatment, concealed themselves.
The Press. — 1858-07-17 (London, England)

THE MASSACRE AT JEDDAH. About sunset on the 15th of June the house of the English Vice-Consul at Jeddah was suddenly attacked and invaded by some hundreds of Hadramites (inhabitants of Southern Arabia), who seized the person of the Consul, wounded him grievously, and then flung him, still alive, from the window into the street, where a mob of the same fanatics hacked his body into pieces. The house was then pillaged, the servants and two dragomen assassinated, and the archives' of the Consulate were burnt. While this horrible scene was going cn similar crimes were committed at the French Consulate. This Consul, also attacked by a band of fanatics who penetrated into the house by the windows, fell mortally wounded by several satire cuts. His wife was killed by a dagger thrust in her breast, after having defended herself courageously, killed the murderer of her husband and wounded several others. Her daughter,eighteen years old, succeeded in escaping by a secret door. In the next room were the Chancellor of' the consulate and his servant. This latter is a Mussulman, an old soldier, who formerly served in a battalion of native Algerines. These two men and the Consul's young daughter defended themselves so heroically that the murderers retreated for a moment. They soon returned to the charge, but this time employed a stratagem. A Hadramite, an acquaintance of the Chancellor's, approached him, and said, " Come out. Come with me ; I wish to save you from certain death." Confiding in these promises, the brave young man quitted the room; he was instantly struck with a poignard, which only slightly wounded him in the arm. Knocked down by the blow, his throat was seized by the assassin, and he was on the point of perishing when the Consul's daughter threw herself on the assassin, and bit him so deeply in the hand that he was forced to let go. Thereupon another of these wretches attacked the courageous young girl, and gave her a sabre cut across the face. She fell senseless, but the Chancellor, who bad sprung to his feet, inflicted a blow on the last assassin. Meanwhile, the Chancellor's servant, struggling with admirable energy against these miscreants, Hied three of them, wounded several others, and so succeeded in covering the flight of the Consul's daughter, of the Chancellor, and of a servant, who have all arrived this evening, in company with the brave soldier, at the residence of the ConsulGeneral of France, in Alexandria. While this carnage was going on all the Christians were assailed in the streets of Jeddah, and massacred. Twentythree persons succeeded in escaping under cover of the night, and, throwing themselves into the sea, swam to the English steam despatch-boat which was at anchor in the port. All the other Christians, to the number of' forty-five, have been killed and hacked in pieces. In the house of the brothers Sava twelve persons,including the three brothers, have been murdered. The number of Mussulmans who took part in the massacre is estimated at 5,000.  Aortiga 6oLocitial (lattlligtate.
The Press. — 1858-04-24 (London, England)

FRENCH— served to explain many circumstances which could not have been accounted for on any other hypothesis. The charge alleged against him in the indictment—that he was accessary before the fact to the murder of a man who was killed in consequence of the attempt made to assassinate the Emperor—could be sustained only by proof that he was a party to that scheme of assassination ; unless this was made out, the Jury could not convict. As Mr. JAMES aptly said, " If I lend n man a pistol " with which to go and defend his house at " York from attack, and I afterwards hear that "on his way thither lie has shot a matt as " Leicester with it, I am in no way respon" sible for that act." The Jury applied this illustration to the case before them, and though they could have no doubt that BERNARD was to a great extent cognizant of ORSINI'S plans, they found that it was not proved that he had full knowledge of them, and so acquitted him. But the great difficulty against which the prosecution had to contend, was the uncertainty of the law in regard to the case. It was impossible to deny that if the Jury found a verdict of guilty, that verdict would, in all probability, be set aside by the Court of Appeal, on the ground that the prisoner was not within the jurisdiction of the English tribunals on that charge. Accordingly, when the entire proceedings were stigmatized by Mr. JAMES as " a mockery and a sham," " a wresting of an Act of Parliament from its original design to serve a political purpose," it was not in the power of the Attorney-General to complain of this language, and to assert that a verdict was not sought for the purpose of trying an experiment. The susceptibilities of the Jury were wounded at the idea that they were asked to return what would, in all probability, be a nugatory verdict; and they prevented the experiment by pronouncing an acquittal. After all, it is not perhaps of much consequence that the fifteen judges will not now be called upon to decide the points of law raised by Dr. BERNARD'S defenders. It is probable enough that they would have held that he was not triable under the statute; but their judgment is not necessary to point out the deficiencies of our law with respect to domiciled aliens. These deficiencies are now known, and may be remedied by a simple enactment. which, without in any degree limiting the right of asylum, will bring refugee conspirators more completely within the control of our laws, and place them on the same footing as British subjects in respect of any attempt they may make to levy war on our allies.  I  The chief reason why we must regret the conclusion at which the Jury arrived on this important case is, that it has led to the abandonment of all further proceedings against Dr.