Punch (73.1877)

November 24, 1877.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 239

INDUCEMENT!

WRONG WITHOUT REMEDY.

Really the Palladium of British. Liberty, trial by
Jury, may be almost considered to be itself on its trial.
"Witness the following extract from a contemporary,
exemplifying another case'of

" Miscarriage of Justice.—The Home Secretary has
written to Mr. Justice Lush, who presided at the Manchester
Assizes, granting a free pardon to the three men, Greenwood,
Wild, and Jackson, who were sentenced by Mr. Justice Haw-
kins at the Liverpool Summer Assizes to tea years' penal
servitude for an outrage . . . at Burnley on the 1st of July last.
Three men, named Sutcliffe, Crosslev, and Mallinson, were
charged at the Manchester Assizes, on Saturday last, with
having committed the same alleged outrage. The Manchester
Jury found that no such outrage had been committed, and the
prisoners were discharged, Mr. Justice Lush intimating that he
would take steps to have the others set at liberty."

Accordingly they have received a free pardon. A
pardon, describable in popular phrase as "free, gratis,
for nothing "—for not having committed the crime they
were found guilty of, and for which they have had to
undergo several months of penal servitude!

Mistakes will happen in the best constituted Courts
of Justice, which, of course, are those wherein a British
Judge presides over a British Jury. But when they
have occurred, is not some little compensation justly due
to the sufferers from "Miscarriage of Justice"? Ot
course victims who have been hanged cannot be in-
demnified, but some amends might surely be made to
those who have endured false imprisonment and penal
servitude. Having been punished in the interests of
Society for warning to evil-doers, but wrongfully
punished, do they not deserve to be regarded as a
sort of martyrs (especially those who have actually
been executed) to the public good? In addition,
therefore, to the deliverance which the Law calls a
"pardon," equity must pronounce them entitled to
reparation to the tune of something handsome. The
indemnity, moreover, to make it the more gracious,
should be accompanied with the thanks of a grateful
country.

Cheering Financial Announcement.

"The Hon. Alonzo Money, late President of the Bank of
Bombay, who has long held a high position among the financial
administrators of the Civil Service, is about to be invested with
the control of the Daira debt."

"Going to Dine quietly at the Club? Nonsense, my dear Fellow! Money about to be introduced into the Khedive's
Come akd Dine with us ' ong fameel,' you know! Nobody but Ouk- ] Treasury! No wonder Egyptian Bondholders are in
selves, and nothing but a Mutton-Chop I !" better spirits.

THE NEXT ARTICLE AT ROME.

What is the next Article ? The Temporal Power. That is the
Article which some partisans are urging Pius the Ninth to proclaim
next. To this effect a communication from Borne appeared the
other morning in the Times. Next day it was contradicted by
Sir George Bowyer as:—

" Not only unfounded but impossible."

He adds that, in a private audience with which he was honoured
by the Sovereign Pontiff a few years ago—

" His Holiness expressed his disapprobation of the opinion that the Tem-
poral Power was, or ever could be, a dogma of faith, and condescended to
explain his reasons for such disapprobation."

Yet very likely the statement which Sir George Bowyer has
denied does really create the uneasiness he says it should not.
Two Articles have been added to the Roman creed within a few
years. People may naturally ask—some of them uneasily—" What
is the next Article to-day? What other Article does Pius the
Ninth mean to add to the Creed of Pius the Fourth ? How many
more new Dogmas shall we be bound to acknowledge ? We are
ready,'' they may say, "to credit any number of unintelligible
mysteries—c'est le premier pas qui coute. We don't care how often
we have to prostrate mere Reason. But the Temporal Power is no
mystery at all. We understand what that means. We don't like
it, and we can't swallow it." Thus if not Roman Catholics, Ritua-
lists and other Protestants on the road to Rome, may bethink
themselves, and pull up. Such considerations must give them, at
least, pause. They would like to be sure that, in case of 'verting,
they will not have possibly committed themselves to accept a matter
of politics as a matter of faith—and vote, if not fight, accordingly.

Will Sir George Bowyer's contradiction remove the uneasiness
caused by the expectation of having to take the Temporal Power as
the next dogmatic pill ? That depends. When the Pope, in a chat
with him, disavowed the Temporal Power, where was His Holiness ?
On his lesrs, or seated on an ordinary cane-bottom or other unofficial
chair ? For then he might have been expressing a mere opinion,
possibly changeable. And it may well have changed. Given In-
fallibility, and the Temporal Power seems a logical sequence. A
Papal Sovereignty must be the perfection of Government. Wanted,
a Model Kingdom for an example to all Kings and States what-
soever. What, then, could be more reasonable than for the Pope to
reconsider the doctrine delivered in a secular"seat, and, bringing
himself to an anchor in the Chair of St. Peter, pronounce ex cathedra
the Temporal Power an article of the Catholic Faith ?

Else why has Father Curci had the sack given him, having
been forced to ask for it from the General of the Jesuits, but for bis
incautiously disclosing an opinion against the policy of insist-
ance on the Temporal Power? Poor Father Curci? Instead of
requesting the sack, could he not have put on sackcloth and ashes,
and, carrying a lighted candle about the streets of Rome, have
recanted an error which, in due time, will, for aught anybody can
tell, be declared a heresy by some Pope or other ? In the mean-
while, if his present Holiness thinks of declaring the next Article
to be the Temporal Power, long may he live to consider, and re-
consider, the expediency of so doing !

wanted, memories, tongues, and teeth.

For the last triumphs of modern Chemical Nomenclature^as e.g.,
"ilsoprosylinylbenzene," and " Methyloparoxyphenylcrotonic" and
"Orthoparatolylphenylcarbonic" Acids, see Pharmaceutical Journal
November 10, 1877, p. 379.