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Disfranchisement of Truehold " Norton Street," Marylebone 1038 The Newspaper Stamp Re- PORTFOLIO— Land Voters 103-i Catholics in Municipalities ... 1038 turns 1042 Underneath .. , 1052 Reinforcements for the East ... 1034 Tho Danish Struggle 103a The Working Man and his _;.,_ -„_ ,. Odd Proceedings 1034 The Sydenham Pete.... 1039 Teachers 1012 THE ARTS- Iiord Palmerston at Itomsey 1035 The Czar's own. Account ©f his Increase of the Army 1043 Drury Lane . 1053 £he Loss of the Arctic : 1035 Mission ; 1039 China Made Useful 1044 Mr. Peto and the Kins of Den- Germany and Bussia 1039 «»-«, miiu/.ii _ mark ••. .-.. 103G Another Arctic Expedition ... 1039 OPtN council- Births, Marriages, and Deaths 105 1 Mr.Bernal Osborne iti Tipperary 1036 ¦ The Public Health 1039 Babel 1014 „„.«.-.«-.. . Mr. Urquhar-t at Newcastle 1037 Labour Movement in October 1040 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS- College 1037 The LITERATURE-l lTCO . TllB- WorW Meii^ Patriotic Fund 1040 City Intelligence, "Markets, Ad- The Late Mr- Geach. M.P. 1037 National Dcfon.ce 1040 Summary 1045 vertisements, &e. ... 1051-1050 VOL. V. 3Sro. - -2Al.JV SATUHDAY, NOVEMBEK, 4, 1854. [Pp,ice Sixpence. money—:a political comprehensiveness which Palmerston has lectured this week. He puts Wxm 4 tire Wnk. would puzzle even Mr. Disraeli. Criticising the the whole rationale of Sit in an extremely small contributions of a Gzar is serious work ; but may compass. The whole duty of man, Jie says to fFHE official telegraph, has not yet reported the We not say that the Romanoff Court Journal talks the ¦ ¦labourer, is to avoid the tobacco-shop and A fall of Sebastopol. In fact, the siege has nonsense..? Potentates should keep away fr om the ¦beer-shop* and educate his children. The turned out a much more tough affa ir than we— pens,—as Louis Napoleon has also recently ascer- oddity is, that Lord Palmerston presumed all his home-keeping and sanguine speculators — had tained. . hearers to need this atbvice, so he carries this won- imagined. Our accounts come down to the Though the political world stops whirling to derful counsel exactly to the men who do not want 25th ; at th at date the fire had been going on for watch Sebastopol— though the guns, playing in it, in order that they may tell it to the men that seven days. Should the place have been taken this great siege, have stilled the air—-yet some little do. Over a glass of good ale he tells them to in ten or twelve days, the result will be extraor- attention is being paid to the fracas between Mr. avoid the beer-shop, and they will probably chew dinary in tile annals of war ; should it hold out Soule and the French Government. Mr. Soule, his advice about tobacco over their pipes ; but he longer, the fact will not be out of the usual course. returning from London to Madrid, wislied, as supplies them with a new principle to start from Lord Raglan, we are told, had quietly determined usual, to go via Trance, but was refused permission in teaching their children. All babies, he says, to spare his army—an army not easily recruited— to pass beyond Calais : and his cause having been are born good. This frightful heresy at once re- and to take'*the place by sap and cannon. The taken up by other representatives in Europe of ceives an indignant protest, through an orthodox French attadky'it would appeal", had not. been so his Government, the demand made on the French contemporary from " One wl)o believes in the successful as the British . The obstacles raised Government is for an apology. The charge Bible," and " the father of twelve children." AV c- by the Russians to the west would require much against Mr. Soule is, that he is coalesced with leave Lord Palmerston to settle his quarrel with time and labour to overcome. With regard to revol utionists, Spanish and Trench : this he denies: his opponent " who believes in the Hiblei" and we the reports from Russia, that the allies had lost and unless the Emperor has the courage to get can imag ine the amusement of the gay Viscount four redoubts and eleven guns, we simply dis- out of his perplexity by candour, the " difficulty " contending with one who begins tliu combat by believe them. Most soldiers light well behind may be exasperated into one of a, serious inter- hampering himself so much. Tlic father of twelve entrenchments ; whether the alleged Russian national character—affecting, directly, current children accounts for Lord Paltucrstori 's doctrine attack took place near Inkennan or Balaklava, history. by presuming that Lord Pahuerston has never the result must have been achieved, if at all, Three Ministers, " to three several counties had any children himself. Such is the evidence by fighting, not manoeuvring; and we leave our born ," have been dilating upon the "topics of the with which men venture into public controversies readers to judge whether the men who failed day ." At the City of London meeting in aid of But Lord Palmerston sets the example of au- before Silistria are likely to succeed against the the Patriotic Fund, Lord John Russell appeared dacious levity — by starting, in an after-dinner soldiers either of England or France. This dis- not less as member than as minister to get the chat, such theories as this and the subordinat e belief does not extend to the assertion—that there people to subscribe for the -widows and orphans of axiom—that there must always bo encourage- was some affair. Queen Victoria's soldiers. Thus it appears that ment t o labourers' societies, because the mass of What Omar Pasha, may be doing m the Prin- the live soldiers — efficient instruments for work— men will always be very poor—as strange a doc- cipalities we know not ; but notwithstanding the are paid for out of Queen -Victoria's Ministers' trine for a Reformer as the other in for a Chris- report of the movements of Sady k Pasha on the public means, but the dead soldiers (represented tian. Who but a Viscount could thus chirpingl y Sereth, and Iskender Bey in the Dobrudschn, we by their families), who are useless, fa ll back upon dispose of the question of Baptismal Regenera- ine for one moment that Omar Pasha public charity. In such a position , it of course bo- t ion ? cannot imag r contemplates any extensive operations in Bes- camo Lord John's duty to utter nothing but the lhe state of trade still calls for attention , and sarabia. That ho sh ould resolve to have complete most obvious and universally received common is such as to justify some apprehensions for the control of tlio Danube is not wonderful , but that sense, and it is impossible for any man to execute winter ; although it must settle the e.-stnivn ganee the Turk s can retake Ismail, or overrun the ad- commonplace more abjectly than the Lord Pre- created by the Liverpool suspensions. The mail jacent country, wo do not believe. sident. The well-written letters from the Crimea nature of those disasters is now understood. Tlu 1 The Baltic Fleet is on its way homo. Sir of the private soldiers have had a most surprising fast trading ; the excessive individual speculation Charles Napier has lieen the ?<»observcd of all ob- entect. Nobody knew that our army was so civi - without capital to support it; thu rash presump- servers at Hamburgh. lized. These letters haunt Lord John Russell, and tion of certain returns in the short-eat possible Whether Austria and Russia will have recourse obli go him to tell everybody whom he meets— space of time, are proved not only by the facts, to the bloody arbitrament of anna is one question ; and his public meetings are numerous—how much but by the examination of the uoeount.s. The im- that both are preparing, in another. In the king- education has been getting on in the army. propriety of these transactions is untublis liud to dom of Poland, Russia has gathered 200,000 men Mr. Bcrnal Osborne, thu Secretary to the Ad- tho commercial mind by t ho fact of iioii-hijwcshs. facing the Austrian frontier. Austria lin.s em- miralty , bus also been talking of education—cul- Tin; largo deficiency in Mr. Oliver 's cnlntu i* battled along her frontier, from Cracow to tho tivating »n Irish Athonunnn at Clonuiel. Mr. worth ax year of sermons. Krig lun d and America O abornu'H speech was excellent Danube, 200,000 men, and 25,000 in the Princi- : but what is he are not going to break down bceniiHu a 'l!W niwli palities. Both Bides bhow great activity ; and doi ng at Clonmcl , when a Baltic ileet \» coming merchants break down. Nuvurtln 'lu.-u lli< \y arc Gallivia , an a field of war, should not bu over- hoinc—an d coming home, it may be, despite working short time in boiiki jm rt.s of the cotton looked. Nap ier, to do something "? d istricts , exports arc tliminislied by 1 ,000,000/. Meanwhile tho O.ar, i n his Court Journa l of Lord l'nhncTfiton in the great shining light on to China, and the forced conwigainu inU arc worn- St. Petersburg, in appealing to Ku.s.-iun public tho, Hubjeet of education , on which he dilutes tluui si defic iency. The tempomry depreciation in opinion—more, to Kuropeim public opinion , il>r ho eliuur ing l y to tho Labourers' Encouragement the prov ision trade- of Ainurj cu .spunks * ill fur our represents tho war aa a war against democracy Society, at Ronisuy. Tho noddy ia one which coiiHignniunlH in that direction. War is extending, and avarice, England being the centre of revolu- jiivon men premiums of i>/., or more, for work in g tuxes nniy \m increased , and all Uiohc thingn tionary and plutocratic movements, and he seoma thirty yours under tho tuune employer, whatever happen just as prudent folks, drawing in their ox- to regard himself, in a double aspect, aa chief ol wugcH that employer may give : and it in to people pcnHu.i for winter, lend atn impulse to that decline conservatism, and ns champion of man against thus benighted on commercial principles tliut Lord of trade which they thcinaelvea deplore. ' 1034 T HE LEADER . [Saturda y, A NATIONAL PARTY. probable tliat these were taken. The story is, therefore, incredible. JSEENTORCEMENTS FOB THE EAST. The Sheffield Free Press, with reference to the It is remarkable that the question of a National Party, speaks with great admirals who organised In the cenrrse of last week and during this reinforce- .L and executed the Sinope massacre, Nachhnoff and satisfaction of the proceedings of .a^National eague Kowiilef ments will have been sent out to the army in the •which *ffield , have both been wounded, the latter fatally, has been commensad att «S&e , taid which perhaps ditto the former. The force of the attack of East amounting to 4000 men. These are to make lias issued four resolutions. the Allies may be guessed from the statement, up for the casualties of the campaign, and are main top of course calcu- The four resolutions contain 'two ics : only a form of expression, but covering a substantial lated to bring up our effective contingent of the army they are a protest against Secret IDiplomae*', and for truth, that the corpses of the besieged infected the to the original number sent out—namely, 30,000 Xocal Self-Governnient. On the 'latter subject, we air ! Altogether the *iege had progressed well. in- linve no need just no* to write-; but a few words fantry, with the usual accompanying force of cavalry Lord ltaglan had determined not to waste life in a and artillery, ¦will not be amiss, on tlie practical question, how storm, if he could avoid it ; but to compel a surrender and commissariat, &c. -Indeed, to the Americans of the United States manage their by bombardment. render the army still more effective than usual, large diplomacy. additions have been made to the medical and com- We believe the folio-wing is a correct summary of their principles and practice :— missariat, and also the artillery, which even in. the field , without including the siege guns and the guns 1. The Senate or Upper House of Parliament is THE REV. MR. WHISTON. " ," , landed from the ships, is of more than -with, them the " Treaty-making Power." The President Whest a man in this country commences a contest ordinary of the Republic cannot ratify a Treaty, until it has been efficiency and power. Two regiments of the liner with corrupt corporations and secret societies, he is the 57th and 46th, have by this time j oined, to make LORD FALMERSTON AT ROMSEY. the rewards of good conduct who had not been perfectly doors. {Long continued cheering.) There never was in free from, these things. You are entitled by your good the history of the world a more honourable spectacle The annual meeting of the Romsey "' District La- conduct, and the position in which bourers' Encouragement you have placed than that which has been exhibited by the British Association" was held at yourselves, to give good advice to your neighbours, who nation. "We have embarked in a war Komsey, Hampshire, on Tuesday. and are fighting, ¦ Lord Palmerston have not been so fortunate as you have been, not so alive side by side, in honourable ambition, was the hero of the day, and gave away prizes to a with a po-wer that as you have been to your duties to yourselves, your in former periods we were only wont to met hostilely in great number of labourers. He then made unto family, and your country. It is gratifying to see them the follo wing speech:— so the field. ( Clieers.) We trust that that new com- many men who have, in the various pursuits of agricul- panionship, cemented by the blood shed in action, and " I have very great pleasure in being president of this tural industry, entitled themselves to these rewards; hut confirmed by those laurels which will be intertwined in useful institution, and it has afforded me infinite grati- there is one circumstance connected with the list of victory, w ill long endure ; and that the two great nations fication to see so many of the labourers here having, by prizemen which is peculiarly gratifying to me to think of. which are at the summit of civilization, not only in their good conduct in every possible way, earned the I mean that among you there are a certain number who Europe, but of the world —two nations most worthy of rewards which have now been bestowed upon them. It is have lived so long in the employment of particular mas- the esteem of each other—will, as the result of the unnecessary, in addressing those who have distinguished ters that you have shown that not only those who have resolution of the Government and the country to engage themselves as you have by your good conduct, to say so lived must be most deserving men, and therefore have in this contest, be for ever bound together in terms of anything touching that course of conduct which is cal- done honour to the class to which they belong, but the friendship and affection. (Tremendous cheering.)' Anti- culated to secure personal comfort and respectability, fact of their having lived so long with particular masters cipating that whatever may be the difficulties and dan- and to call down upon man the approbation of his does equal honour to those masters with whom those gers of the conflict—whether it may be long or whether nei ghbours. But, nevertheless, it is always well that labourers have so long remained." He here selected eight it may bo short, the result, can be one, that is, that the people should bear in mind general principles, though instances from the list of prizes, and continued:—" Those arms of Kngland and France reared in combat for tho in addressing you, -whom Providence has placed in the eight servants have, on an average, lived thirty-three cause of justice and truth, for the cause of liberty and labouring classes, it may not be out of place to remind years -with their respective employers—a fact which does the of national independence, not seeking conquests for you that the distribution of wealth and- poverty—the highest honour both to the employer and the employed— selfish objects, but for those of the most noble and arrangement by which there are comparatively few rich •which speaks volumes in favour of the farmers who have generous character— I cannot but feel confident that the ¦and comparatively many poor, is the condition of the engaged them, and the men by whom they have been result, come when it may, will be such as will gloriously world in which we live, and that no human institution served. I trust that next year we shall have even a larger crown the efforts which the nation has made, and -will can alter this arrangement—can make all the poor rich. assembly of prizemen than on the present occasion ; that place the honour of this country—Avill place the cha- It might be possible to make all the rich, poor, but the the example of these prizemen who go forth to the ¦world racter, dignity, and well-being of this country—upon a condition of comparative poverty is a condition which, ¦with the honourable marls of the approbation of the surer and firmer lbasis even than that on which > they by the arrangement of this world which -we inhabit, committee of this institution will serve as an induce- have hitherto stood—(great applause)—and when the must inevitably be the lot of a great portion of the human ment to others to imitate their example—that the good people will look back upon the sacrifices they have made, race; but, although it has been tlie pleasure of our Maker conduct of the labourers will more and more entitle they will feel that the result has fully justified the means in a world which is a -world of trial and transition, them to the respect and consideration of the farmers who that were used, and they, will feel that they have been and not the ultimate destiny of mankind— though it has employ them, and thus.-the two classes who so mutually rewarded by ample success for all the exertions which been the pleasure of our Maker thus to subject a great and necessarilly depend ori. each other will find their re- the Government has called upon, them to make." portion of the human race to trials and. privations to lations more and more cemented by mutual considera- enable them to. qualify themselves for that future tion and respect—a degree of things most important state which a"waits them, yet Providence has not been and beneficial to the interest of the nation at large. He niggardly in those qualities which are calculated to secure proposed ' Success and Prosperity to the Labourers of THE LOSS OP THE AKCTIC. to man that happiness which awaits those who well con- Hampshire.'" Details of the loss of the Arctic steamer have ar- duct themselves here, for all the good qualities of human At the dinner in the evening he made a charac- rived from time to time. More have been saved nature—all ttie qualities of mind—all tlie qualities of teristic speech in responding to " Her Majesty 's than was at first anticipated ; nnd no doubt more intellect, all the qualities of heart—everything that tends Ministers." would have been saved had not the officers , and crew, to dignify human nature, and to enable men to distin- " I can assure yovi that your worthy mayor has not, and the male passengers, pref erred their own safety guish themselves in the condition in which they have in any degree whatever, overrated the desire which to that of the women and children. Out of upwards been placed—-these qualities have been sown broadcast animates her Majesty's Government to promote to the of 400 only 88 h ave been accounted for. Captain over the human race, and are as abundantly dispersed utmost of their faculties that system of progressive inw Luce, the Commander, was saved, and he thus reports among the humblest as they are among the highest classes provement in every branch of our social system which it the loss to Mi\ E. K. Collins, tho chief proprietor of of mankind. You will find that all children arc born must be the object of every enlightened statesman, to the " Collins line," to which the Arctic belonged :— good. It is bad education or bad associations in early follow out, and which it is so greatly for the' interests " Dear Sir,—It has become my most painful duty to life that corrupt the minds of men. It is true that there of the country should be fully developed. In that inform you of the loss of the steam-ship Arctic, under are now and then exceptions to general rules ; there are respect, however, 1 can hardly take credit to her my command, with many valuable lives, I fear among men who are born- with clubbed feet, there are men who Majesty's present Government for any zeal or success whom must be included your own wife, daughter, and son, are horn blind, there are men who are born with personal greater than have attended the effort s of successive Go- with whom I took a last leave the moment the ship was defects ; and so also now and then it will be found that vernments for now more than a quarter of a century ; going down, without myself expecting to see the light children are born with defective dispositions; but these are for it is a remarkable and most gratifying circumstance of another day to give you an account of the heart- rare exceptions; and be persuaded of this, that the mind in the condition of the country, that whereas in previous rending scene. The Arctic sailed from Liverpool on and heart of man are naturally good, and that it depends times the labours, and the time, and the attention of Wednesday, Sept. 20, at 11 a.m., with 233 passengers upon training and education whether that goodness, which statesmen and Parliament were chiefly occupied hi con- and about 150 in the crow. Nothing of especial note is implanted at birth, shall continue and improve, or vulsive struggles for the retention on the one band, or occurred during tho passage until Wednesday, 27th , ¦whether by neglect, or bad education, or bad associations, the obtaining on the other, of political power, for the when at noon we were on the banks, in lat. 45.45, and it shall be corrupted and spoiled. Now, therefore, the last quarter of a century, and somewhat more, the at- Ion. 50.00 W., steering west per compass. first thing you would naturally infer from this is, that it tention of the Government of the day has been directed to " 1 he weather had been foggy during the day, and is the duty of all parents to see that their children art- internal, social, .and legislative improvements ; and Par- generally n distance of half to three-quarters of a mile well and properly educated—-that they are early in- liament having seconded their efforts, the greatest possible could bo seen, but at intervals of a f evr minutes a very structed, not merely in what is called book learning, in progress has been made in everything that concerns the dense fog followed by sufficiently clear weather to seo reading and writing, and things of that kind, but that welfare and happiness of the nation. The result lias one or two miles. At noon I left, tho deck for the pur- they are instructed in the precepts of right and wrong, been that although we have within no distant time had pose of working out the position of the slii p. In fifteen, that they are taught the principles of their religion , and to contend with great privations, from fa mine in one minutes I heard a cry of ' Imrd a-starboard' from tho ¦ their duties towards God and man. Now the way in place, from .scarcity in an other, and are now involved in officer of the deck. I rushed on deck , and had just got which that can be done is by the father and mother a war which requires every effort the nation can make, out when , 3 fel t a crash forward. At tho same moment I building up their course upon that which is the founda- tho greatest loyalty and contentment reign throughout saw a steamer under the starboard bow, and the next tion of all goodness in social life—I mean a liappy the length and breadth of the hind—that we hear no moment slio .struck against our guards and passed astern home. Now no homo can bo a happy one if the husband more of conspiracies and insurrections, but that the of u.s. The bows of the strange vessel seemed to bo is not a kind and affectionate one to his wife and nation seems animated by one common feeling, that literally cut or crushed off for about, ten feet , and fjecing a good father to his children. (Cheers.) For that Government is carried on for the benefit of tho whole, that aha must inevitably sink in a few minutes, and purpose ho must avoid two great rock a upon which and not for tho partial interests of individuals nnd taking a hasty glance of our own ulii p, and believing we many men in the humbler classes of li fe make ship- classes, and that those who nrct charged with its admi- wore comparatively uninjured , my llrnt impulse was to wreck —I mean the tobncoo-nhop, and the beer-shop, nistration dovote tho bent faculties of their nature, and endeavour to Have tho lives of tho.se on board thu sinking and publio-houso. The tobacco-shop ruiii.s his health, the most zealous attention , to do all that is possible to vessel. disorders his stomach, and loiula to all kinds of dis- increase the comforts of tho people, and secure, the pros- " Tho boats were cleared, and the first officer and ease. Well, if ho wore a man living in a desert inland , perity of Lhc nation. (Applause.) The present Govern - aix men left with one bout, when it, was fo und our ship dependent upon himself alone, it would be his own ment, however, has eertauily upon its hands n work of was leaking fearfully. The engines wore net to work, look out. Ho might then ruin himself, if h« pleased, and greater msponmbility, a work of deeper importance, a bilgo injections put on , steam pumps j ind the four d«ck just as ho pleH.sed \ but the labouring classes must ro- work of ktrgor—I tnist not insurmountable—diniculty pumps worked by the pas.songors and crew, and tho whip inombor that their health and strength is tho wealth of than has devolved upon any administration since the headed for land, wliioh I judged to ho about iifty miles thoir family, and if they ruin tlioir health and strengt h dosing of tho hint war. On thin occasion tluiro has boon distant. Itcing compelled to leave my boa t witli tho by intompomnc:o of any kind , they ant not merely in- no (liU' oronct! between tho Executive (Jovcrnnuint and tho fi r«t oflicor and crow to talus oaro of tliemnelvos , several juring themselves, but doing irro , iarablo dimnago to tlio^o cou ntry, except, t.liin Unit tho (.iovernment clung ineffectual attempts won.) made to check tlio leak by , to tho tho who are dependent upon thorn. So much for that great hopes of pence long nl'tcr tho country hud made, up its gutting suilrt over t ins bow, anil , llm lln^ look #'"' '>>"<> lino of tobacco, in which hoiiio men unfortunately, to their mind that war was inevitable — (ii/iucr *') — but in thai re- on uh vory fast., notwithstanding all our powerfu l meant* detriment, indulge. Hut the bcor-Hhop aiul tho publio- spect, 1 think tho country will not, find fault, with tho of keeping her free, f resolved to get tho bonts ready, hoiirto go much further in tlioir bud eoiisiirmcuees, because (Jovcriiino nt , because it wa^ clearl y tho duty of IIioho who and us lunny ladies and oliildren placed in thoni art tho habits thorn contracted not only loud to tho MR. URQUHAET AT NEWCASTLE. the wants of the working classes, and that an institution PUBLIC OPINION IN AMERICA. was needed for mental and moral cultivation. It The city of Newcastle-on-Tyne has scarcely recovered was in The position of parties in the United States is, at Sheffield that a model 3iad been founded of what they the present moment, very singular. New combina- from the effects of a great fire and explosion, than deemed necessary—a college which served no Mr. Urquhart appears making great efforts to set the t only for tions are taking place ; new designations are taking the wants of its population, but supplied an example " river," at least, alight again, and then to blow up all the place of old party names ; but party objects seem for others. The trades and guilds of the middle ages to be much the same, viz., annexation and a statu s in. England. There was a public meeting to which Mr. were colleges—they were bodies of fellow Urquhart delivered himself:— -workmen ; European politics. The state of things in New York and he thonght there was a special appropriateness in is tlms sketched by a correspondent of the 7\mes ;— " He commenced by observing that in the few moment- the phrase for their own use, which would meet with the ous •words which the chairman had addressed to them " The aspect of New York politics is more confused , cordial approval of the -working-classes. The adoption than ever. The Know-nothing Convention last week there was one expression which startled him ; he said, of the term, therefore, was deliberate and advised, and 4 the next war in -which England was ' Now he terminated a stormy session by nominating an indepen- engaged. the institution -\vas one, lie believed, fitted to unite the dent ticket made up doubted whether England would live to be engaged in , from men of all parties, and have feelings of Englishmen in the work of education. They thereby destroyed their own power. Great efforts were another war. He feared that England had entered upon did not wish their students and pupils to feel that they a ar which mi made to induce them to select their candidates from the w ght see out the best of them assembled, were merely acquiring certain branches of knowledge, but other tickets from a small beg , in which case they would have held the —a war which, inning at Bethlehem that they were scholars, and a fraternity of scholars, at balance of and Jerusalem had spread like a power. As it is, they will draw strength , thunder-cloud west- all times, as much when they were in the shop as when from the others, but not enough to elect their own men ward, till it overshadowed the plains of Europe, and they were with their teachers in the college. Another The Tribune, the Whig, or rather Fusion organ, s-ays of upon this devoted land -would fall the bolts of its fury. point to be settled had been how to husband best the the convention :— The word had gone forth—and he feared much the war little time the -working-man had to spare. Loose sets *¦ On the whole would see England rased from the rank of independent ' , we like the shape things are taking. of lectures were to be avoided, and it was thought most "We are going to have ' a chunk of a fi ght' after all, but states. He wished he could speak of a future war for desirable that they should be lessons rather than lec- the rig England. He had long been of opinion ht ticket will come out ahead.' , and had ex- tures, and that half the time occupied by each should be The Silver Grays and the many of the Anti-Maine- pressed fourteen years ago in this very town, that the " filled up by questions adapted to bring out the facts La-w Whigs who do not vote for Seymour will probably next war would be a mortal one for England ; and he already in the rnind of the vrorking-man. A third con- go with them. had pointed out that those resources, which we had dis- sideration was the choice of subjects ; and these had " The work of 'fusing' the "Whi g party of the INorth. sipated in peace, would only lead to a false expenditure been arranged so that each might take what was best in an anti-slavery party is going on with more or less of our resources in war. These words he had repeated suited to him. No one was pledged to take any par- success. In Vermont and Maine it has alread again in 1838 with reference to y been , that maddest of all ticular class of stiidy, nor was there any dictation on done, and the joint candidates put into office. In IMichi- acts, by which it was pretended that we were making this point ; yet, while the student would be able to take gan the Whigs have surrendered without terms, and war with Russia, when we marched into Affghanistan. his choice of the subjects which most interested him, the adopted the Freesoil ticket. In Massachusetts they hold We make war with Russia ! It wanted for that, heads object would be to keep up a connexion between them, out m a separate organisation, but adopt the Northern not armies^ You might as well attempt to strike a ' ' so that the different lessons might illustrate each other. principles entire. In New York they do the same, meet- necromancer. We had tlie limbs—Russians had the He briefly described, the various subjects included in the ing with, the opposition which I have informed brains. . you of in " course, and the objects tliat will be kept in view in their previous letters. Ohio, Pennsylvania , and Indian a vote The war was not meant seriously The invasion treatment. On one evening of the week there would be to-day. In the two former States the Whigs will pro- of the Crimea had been delayed till the autumn, lessons, on politics, including questions that refer to laws, bably make large gains, as they have succeeded in and— political economy, and home and foreign policy. On 'fusing' -\Vith the Freesoilers. In Pennsylvania the " Furthermore, the expedition from Varna to Sevastopol another, language would form the subject of study, and same elements of Maine Liquor Law, Know-nothingism, across the Black Sea was fixed for the week of the so of other evenings, in -which the other topics mentioned and, above all, open and gross corruption, enter into the equinoxial gales ; and, when it was too soon, what did in the Series will be lectured upon and discussed. After elements of the contest, and will influence the result. Admiral Dundas do but delay the passage for three days enumerating the various gentlemen who proposed to take As the America leaves from Boston, it is probable that —so nicely was the thing developed : and the whole part in the educational teachings of the college, and she will carry further news. platt acquired additional significance from the circum- dwelling forcibly on the many " auguries " of future " On the issue in these great northern States (Pennsyl- stance of a British minister—the son of a Russian usefulness and success, he concluded with an eloquent vania, Ohio, and New York) will depend the fate of the woman—having gone to Brussels to meet the Russian appeal on behalf of the college, grounded on its strong new Northern party. If they can carry those States General Count Woronzow when the expedition to the and legitimate claims to public supports beyond the possibility of losing, and can then agree Crimea took place, as Count Pahlen had previously- upon a candidate for the Presidency, they will go into visited London and conferred with several of the Cabinet the next election with a strength that nothing can re- Ministers when the expedition to Sebastopol was an- THE LATE MR. GEACH, M.P. sist. The Administration seemed in the removal of nounced,—all showing that the expedition to the Crimea The representation of Coventry is vacant by the Judge Branson last year to give up all hope of carrying was an insidious Russian trap." death of Mr. Charles Geach, a very able man. He New York, and to have concentrated its strength on died of " a mortification of the leg," of a character Pennsylvania and Ohio. It may be set down as certain which puzzled the surgeons. that, exoept in a very extraordinary case, whichevei WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE. Mr. Geach began life as a clerk in the Birmingham party can carry these' two States, will win the day. Ii The Reverend 1?. D. Maurice delivered an inaugural branch of the Bank of England, on the small salary of there were many candidates in the field , with strength lecture at St. Martin's H all, Long- acre, on the open- 150/. per annum. From that situation he was selected divided in various States, such might not be tho result ; ing of the college which it is proposed to establish as the managing director of the Birmingham and Mid- but with a division on two leading candidates it could for working men in lied Lion-square, and which land Joint Stock Bank, which he conducted with great hardly fail to be the case. commenced its operations this week. Both the large ability and credit. Mr. Geach was a few years since the " The California elections show an overthrow of the hall and galleries were filled with an attentive audi- co-partner in tho patent for tho railway axle-tree, a Administration, and an election of independent Demo- tory, of which a Large proportion were working men, lucrative monopoly, which, though the patent has ex- crats. I judge, from my private letters, that the elec- who manifested great interest during the delivery of pired, has continued a large source of wealth to the two tio n was one of unusual excitement. The polls were the lecture. proprietors, Mr. ueaen was a airector or tlic Crystal guarded by armed men, and even loaded cannon were After glancing at the objects aimed at in the studies Palace Company, of the Manchester, Sheffield , and Lin- planted in the streets of San Francisco. The result is pursued at the two universities, he referred to those con- colnshire, and of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham rail- said to be favourable to good order and honest adminis- templated in the formation of the new college ways, and'he was a large contractor for working power. tration, and probably we shall hear no more of failure , one of He was also which was to offer the means of education to all, and in the principal and active partner in one of to meet interest from this prosperous State. The Know- tho moat nothings inade their eil' such a way as to bring forth equally the whole man. By extensive manufactures of machinery in Staf- eetive and secret organisation felt many persons it had not been deemed possible fordshire. His habits of business and personal industry in San Francisco as they havo in the Atlantic cities." to imbue were u ncommon the working man with a t«stc for history or the line arts, , and his extensive commercial opera- There is a strong British naval force at G rey town. tions were all conducted with singular regularity and What is meant by the following:— but the college had been formed with a full consideration prudence. of this objection. Thcru was, ho believed, no class of On the last general election his return and " The Administration have despatched Commander Englishmen who ever pursued knowledge that of Mr. Ellice, for Coventry, were unopposed. His Hollins and the Princeton to Greytown and the Inde- for its own death will , sake j and though he admired the patient industry of the be deplored by his constituents of every grade pendence, ia to follow, if she has not already sailed. German, ho could not protend to imitate him. The study of politics, and his sent vill not be easily supplied. Ho Workmen have been employed night and day in getting of political questions wa.s more or less a was elected by the more Radical section of the electors, her ready for sea. necessity for the but his cou " working man, as being ii timutcly connected with his rso in Parliament was independent and tem- perate, to their general satisfaction. Annexation is on tho move. It is said by a New interests ; and might be justified ty the example of York paper that our universities, in which the politics of the day occu- 41 A treaty has actually been made with the Dom inican pied so large a share of attention. With respect to WHAT IS UEING DONE BY THE CENTRAL AS- 1 Government, by which the latter codes to the United the working man, it was too much taken for granted SOCIATION IN AID OF SOLDIEKS WIVES Stales the port of Sumann, on tho bay of that name, that his work was a thing entirely separate from his AND WIDOWS. with a strip of land. How large thin strip in wo itre not education ; and while ttiero wiih a desire to throw (From'tho Association ' cIsijj hgm 's Circular.) informed, but that is a matter of little consequence. open the universities to all , it seemed to be Tiiiiisic thounand five hundred rnothcrn, and seven thou- Th« main thing in that our slavery-extending lili hunter thought necessary to leave the labourer as ho was , sand c hildren, aro at tlii.s moment under tho vigilant Government i* to have a foothold on that island. A and that the only way in which ho was to bo taught was uaro of the nHsauiation ; one of these mothers with ten beginning will thus be made, and tho sequel of tho driiinn in tho way of lectures. These were well, but experience children, ten of them -with six children , upwards of can be pressed to it» consummation with all practicable proved how rarely tho working man made uho of their twenty with four children , upwards of fifty with three idity. advantages. There was no shumo to him in this rab , since children, liu ndrvdH with one or two children. " The ostonsiblo purpose for which wo are to inquire there was in truth no relat ion between his pursuits in tho More than two hundre d women havo been provided ftamana in doubtless for a naval Htution. " day and what ho was invited to study in tho evening. with situations or wet up in buninosfi. Again a correspondent of the Daily P/uwx nays:—¦ After illustrating this point at hoiiic length , the lecturer More than one hundred children , most of them " We have ctntiiifautory confirmation from the Sandwich detailed tho motives and «ircuinfitiiMocs connected with orphans, havo boon provided for entirely. Inlands of the negotiation of tho trouty for tluiir an- tho formation of tho college, arising in the untt instance Alread y, tho eholora nud tho Ions of tho Europa have ne xation to the United Statott. Tlio pruponal of an nex- from tho sympathy felt by himnclf and others on account made twenty-fi ve widowti, and forty-ono orphans ; how ation cmno originally from the iulaiuk General 1'lorco of tho sufferings of the working claswoa, caused by tluiir many more may not the continuance of the war add to received it with favour, ami a Mpcdul in<;ritton Kcr wart atrifo and competition with ouch other, cacli acting aa if our number ! Donations, according to ly to the American uoinmlHHioiH ir. ho wna seeking a fixed wcalo, havo despatched with the rep to deprive his follow of tl»o fruits of been granted to Home widows ; for othurn , annuities Whim the matter wan laid bufoni tho council of itUto it bin labour. Workohoptt were OHtubUnhod on associative) havo Iicon purdiaHcd. U pward* of 80,000/. ban been wuh approved by (ivory nwmbor except Prince .Alex- principles, but they wens chiefl y prized for tho Huko of received , of which 05,000/. haw been , and Paid , a high chief. Tho line they¦ placed in (lovern- ander, the heir-apiwin-nt tho discip afforded ; and oro long their promoter.-) ineut HOcuritioH , in tho hope of oMtabliHhi ng a pcrmanont Hti pulatin nH of tint truuty of annexation were definitivel y connected education with thorn, nnd Mblo mid ininctil- fund. Double tho amount will scarcel The truul.y itwlf was duly di gued, and ir» now clauses. But it w«h y moot tho uuhuh arranged. lnnooua felt that this would not inoct of widowhood that a protracted war must bring upon uh. In the, JUunda of tho American President, awaiting tho _ 1038 TH E L E A D E R. ISatvkda y, neetmg of Congress, for the ratification of the Senate. " Sir Edmund Head, our new governor that is to be, in Norton-street, both to the parochial authorities and .t is premature to speak of .the consequences which will is at present journeying in the United States, and is ex- the police, without procuring any redress, and the conse- itteoid the annexation of the Sandwich. Islands to the pected in Quebec shortly; but it is not supposed that: he quence was, that the infamous traffic had now got to United States." will immediately assume the government. Lord Klgin such a pitch, that some steps, and those determined ones, A correspondent of the Times, usually well in- is imbued with the chivalry of his order, and disdains to should be at once taken to suppress the nuisance. In for rneil, but of course liable to error, makes an esti- abandon to a successor a state not perfectly settled fact, the affair was becoming daily worse and worse, and mate of the next Congress, and of " Young America" within itself. After the recent movements of parties, an the neighbourhood was becoming thinned of the respect- in Europe:— agitation naturally remains upon the surface that must able inhabitants, who left their houses, in "which they "My predictions concerning the effect of the Nebraska obviously demand a brief interval of time before it sub- had resided for years, unable to stand it any longer. Bill upon Northern politics have been more than fulfilled. sides to a calm." His street, he might clearly say, was nothing more than Of 70 members thus far elected from the free States a street of loose women and vagabonds. (¦Sensation.) only 10 are friends of the Administration, and of these The neighbourhood was always in a continued uproar 10, ftve are opposed to the Nebraska Bill. Pennsyl- OUR CIVILISATION. and it was a common occurrence to hear cries of " Murder!" and see females rushing about half naked, vania, which sent to the present Congress 16 Democrats Ann "Wijxs, the wife of a private in the Eighth Hus- to 9 Whigs, has just elected 20 Opposition members and with their heads cut open. He in fact could not sars, now in the Crimea, left Exoter, on Sunday, for well describe the scenes that took place, and for the sake to 5 Administration. From Ohio, the Democrats have Salcombe. To save expense, although far advanced in in this Congress 12 members out of 21 ; in the next of morality, decency, and the welfare of the parish, he a delicate condition, she d-etermined to walk. She had did hope the authorities would they will have none. Wherever the ' fusion' between endeavour, to the best of with her 21., the whole of her capital in life. Near their power, to clear the neighbourhood of those houses Whigs and Freesoilcrs has taken place, they have carried Powderham, two men and three women, came upon her. their candidates by immense majorities. The Adminis- which he complained of, and which were becoming more It was dark. They dogged her to a lonely place, and then numerous every day. tration have only succeeded in Northern States or dis- began to seize and search her. The beasts took her money, tricts where no such union has been made. Enough is Mr. Sodon : How many houses of this sort are there, and not content with that, .they stripped her naked, and do you think, in your street ? knowm of the next Congress to form some idea of its were leaving her, when her cries for some garment in- pro>bable complexion ; 86 members are elected, 67 of Mr. Ferara : Fifty or sixty, if not more. duced one of the women to give her back a shift ! The Dr. Kushford said in Norton-street there existed a whom are of the Opposition. Of the 148 to be elected, night was very cold ; the poor wretch was half dead 74 are to be chosen from slave States and 74 from free. French and English clique, and there was a regular with fear ; she could not move ; and lay on the banks of traffic carried on between the two houses. No respect- Th* members from the slave States will be principally an estuary of the Exe, until some fishermen attracted by Democrats, and probably all supporters of the Nebraska able person was supposed to live in N"orton-street, and, her cries, came to her relief. She Avas taken care of, and therefore, any respectable person on a visit to a friend in Bill. It is not improbable that every member from the is recovering ; but,, when questioned on the .subject, is free States -will be in the O . that street, was immediately put down as a bad character pposition. The anti-slavery seized with fits.. Constables are on the track of the of element in the Lower House ¦will be proportionately if he- asked his way to Norton^street. One his patients miscreants. would not allow his wife to meet him (Dr. Bushford) at greater than it has ever been since the adoption of the Daniel Jones, or v Dan the Jockey," an amateur tor- Constitution ; but the strong pro-slavery constitution of his residence a short time ago, as he said she would be turer, living at Llanddarog, Carmarthen, went home put down as a prostitute if she were seen hear the street- the Senate -will prevent any Legislation on the subject. drunk, beat, kicked, and placed liis* wife on the fire ! Thus American .politics continue to move steadily and Mr. Ferara further observed that not only would it be She died ; and uncertain -whether he had killed her, the. necessary to- clear the street of the dens it contained, but rapidly towards sectionalism. But the Northern party infuriated, ruffian dropped live coals on her face ! is -weak from its very- strength, and also from the great the name of the street, in consequence of its notoriety, Mr. Wakley recently held an inquest on the body of a would have to be changed before a respectable person diversity of Interests which it represents, and a reaction woman killed by beatings of her husband. In summing may be looked for, speedy in proportion to the magnitude could be'got to live in the houses. With respect to the up, .he ventured a solution of the question as to the complaint he had, made on varions occasions, he should of the Northern party. proper punishment for the wife-beaters:— 4i The reconstruction of the Democratic party on state that the police had positively declined interfering, " Nothing," he said, " would justify a man in maltreat- as.it was -not in their power ; and when the parish soli- ' Young America' principles appears to have been begun ing a woman in such a way. He would not admit any in Europe, if the statements of the correspondence of the citor, Mr. Randall, sent one of the parish officials to give kind of provocation, no matter how great, as an excuse notice of indictment to the owners of one of the. dens in morning papers in regard to the diplomatic congress at for such conduct, for a man could easily get out of their Baden are to be reli«d upon. The Central American question, the official went inside himself, remained there way, and adopt other means to deal with tlem, if they two hours, and then came out drunk. (Expressions of question and the bombardment of Grey-town not having became ungovernable. Suqh being the case, then, he ' " succeeded in diverting the attention of the North, from surprise and disgust.) With respect to the indecent would have every man—brute, he should say—who be- sights, that were frequen tly seen, he had , on one occasion the Nebraska Bill, there would seem to- be a, purpose on haved in this abominable -way to women, soundly flogged the part of some of the politicians to again agitate the observed from twenty to thirty of the female inmates of at the cart's tail by the common hangman through the those houses dancing half naked in the street to a band broader issue of interference in European affairs. I think public streets. He was always against flogging as a tb_at the United States are prepared to stand b of music, and it was a common occurrence for thos« y the punishment, but desperate cases required desperate reme- ¦wretched creatures to appear in a semi-naked condition doctrine of no European interference with the affairs of dies to deal with them, and he feared as aa efficient check this continent. The Tribune (the organ of the Northern at the windows. In conclusion Mr. Ferara remarked to the horrible brutalities inflicted upon poor helpless that noblemen and men of rank were constant visitors at party) says of the new move : — women—and those too, generally, of the most indus- the houses. The programme of the conference as stated by our " ' , trious and inoffensive character, as trie? newspapers Mr. Hicknian said that he resided in the neighbour- correspondent, comprises the Spanish question, the Central made them daily acquainted with—there was no other hood complained of American question, and the Gibson question ; but above , and the picture was not at all over- , remedy that seemed to be left. The thing was becoming drawn by the deputation. all, the question of an increasing insolence of tone toward a national disgrace, and affecting the character of the a, Mr, America on the part of the European Governments. The After short discussion, Sodon moved, and Mr. whole country in its social aspect. A few days ago he Jacob Bell seconded, that the attention of the parish last point Is especially dwelt on as most prominent, and held an inquest in the Coldbath-fields House of Correc- its Vague character evidently suits the great Buncombe solicitor should be drawn to the brothels, and that steps tion, and he was informed that in one prison only, should be taken for their suppression. The motion was purposes of the occasion. On that all the humbug of within a mile of where they then sat, no fewer than ono carried unanimousl and Mr. Greenwell Soule" all the vacuity of Mason and all the solemn y, , the Vestry , , hundred men were under confinement for beating their Cleric, was instructed to inform Mr. Randall that ho inanity of Buchanan can have full swing, with some wives and their women." should ca-rry out the wishes of the Vestry without delay. chance of ¦finding, a response in the bosoms of all the A fellow named. John THE DANISH STRUGGLE. THE CZAR'S OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS the Bukovina, and the Danul>ian Principalities, with The struggle in Denmark for Constitutional rights MISSION. the reserves iu Hungary and Transylvania, is composed and responsible Government goes on without ces- The St- Petersburg Court Journal , of tlie 29th, pub- of 30 Infantry regiments, 10 battalions of Chasseurs, 16 sation. The king, urged on by the defeated and lishes am article worthy of notice, as it contains a sort of regiments of heavy and 18 of light cavalry, 12 irritated Ministers, on raged at the impeachment programme of Russia's policy, and announces without battalions of IBordor troops, 24: de'pfit battalions, and 25 hanging over them, dissolved the Parliament on the circumlocution the objects which Russia seeks to attain field and 18 reserve- batteries. The total is 225,800 21st. The admirable correspondence of the Morning by the present war. At fi rst it states that the demands men, with 200 field and 144- reserve guns. The troops Chronicle keeps us full y informed. Writing on the made by the Western Powers, of the Porte, in regard to are thus distributed :— In the Panubian Principalities 23rd, the writer says:— placing the rights of its subjects upon the same level, go 24,000 men (this is m«h below the mark), in Hungary " Taken aback by the vigorous measures of the Danish twice as far as was intended to be demanded by Itussia, and Transylvamia.&SyQOO mien,, in Galicia and the Buko- Parliament, while the Premier himself publicly admitted especially through Prince Menschikoff's mission. The vi»a 80,000 and in the.district1 of Cracow 63,000 men. in the House that the address ' was very moderate,' the journal cautiously avoids touching upon the fact that The forces under Ban. JelLx&hich and General Mainula Ministers held a Cabinet council on Wednesday, and Russia's supreme object was to confirm these rights consist of 25,400 troops, of the line and 70,000 Bor- most of them were inclined to throw up the game and through her own protectorate. "If," says the Court derers , with 72 guns. In the Federal fortresses in Ger- resign at oace. But the actual sjnritus rector of the J ournal , " it was the conviction of the Western Powers many are 12,800 mem. -with 24r guns. According to this ad ministratio n, the German Minister of Holstein, Count that it was essential to carry out their object, they calculation, the military force of Austria is- composed of Reventlow Criminil, was furious. He would listen to should have said, on the Prince being- sent to Con- 522,200 men, with 664 guns,. and this is probably below no opposition , would give way in nothing. The War stantinople : ' You ask too little. You only demand rather than above, the mark-. We are told that the Minister (Hansen) supported him. I am told that this the half in the entire equality.' Had tins been done, Emperor of Russia- is a. great actor. Before his sous, party advocated vigorous measures—the immediate sus- the unhappy conflict might have been avoided, and the Michael and Nicholas, left for- Bessarabia, he gave them pension of -tlie liberty of the press, the forbiddal of all ' faithless publication of the blue book' rendered super- his solemn blessing, in the. presence of the 30,000 men public meetings, and the proclamation of Copenhagen in fluous. The noble and decided language addressed by forming the reserve of the Ii&perial Guard. After the a state of martial law-. This was resisted by the more the Emperor in regard to Turkey does not reflect upon ceremony waa over; the Emperor knelt down : his sons peaceful part}', Oersted and Tillisch, while Sponneck him (adds the Cotirt Journal) ' the slightest spot as imitated his example, and. at the word of command the (the Danish vicar of Brav) was, as usual, betwixt and monarch, Christian , or ally, because the existence of the 30 ,000 guardsmen did the same. The Heriditary Orand- between. At last they haired their differences, and Ottoman rule is an anomaly, a thing deprived of vitality. Duke Alexander was daily, expected at Warsaw to agreed to the- immediate dissolution of the Commons' England was in her heart convinced of the rights and inspect the Guard Corps, whose commander ho is. The House, thus making three dissolutions by this Ministry justice of the Emperor, but concealed her own gras ping Grand-Duke Gonstwitiiie is the only Russian Prince who In the space of twenty months—an unlieard-of abuse of intentions in order to convert them at the proper moment remains at has father's- side. All the troops which were the constitution, an entire illegality. Instead of retiring to her own special advantage. Did not England, fear in the north of the empire aie on their way to the south, after repeated votes of want of confi dence, they cling to the power and unbending character of the Emperor, the and the Russian aimy befrwees the Austrian frontier in their posts, and make king and people, and law and world -would never have witnessed a union between Volhyiiia and SebastopoL in tbe Crimea will amount to Parliament their victims.. This is, of course, sheer des- Franre and England (the terrible sore in the eyes of about 400,000 men. potism. It will be ended by the Parliament not having Kussid, and its coadjutor, Prussia). England looked A letter from Ste Petersburg, of the 18 th nit., in passed any budget tor the next year: If the taxes are about for an ally which, after the object was attained, the Press of Vienna, says:-—• collected by force, it will be a. court-military revolution; might "be more easily thrown overboard than Russia. " Count Nesselrode had yesterday a long confidential the people -will rise and resist. Russia's mission is certainly great. She is called upon conversation with, the Czar at Gatchim, and shortly u Having determined on the illegal dissolution, the to sot limits to the materialism of England. France after a courier was despatched to the Russian ambas- Ministry have executed the same in the most violent holds a secondary position. She is a inere bubbling sador at Berlin, with instructions as to his conduct hi manner possible. At noon on Saturday the Ministers, political whirlpoo l ; not a durable and generally destruc- the attempts made to bring about a better understanding "with the exception of those for the duchies, appeared in tive inundation. We must light England , because she between Prussia antbiAustriti. The Russian Cabinet in the Lower- House, and Oersted read the royal procla- alone, and not France, is the focus and support of .all this note by-no means- seems inclined to make conces- mation, which disbands the Chamber. It was not en- revolutionary principles. It is not Russia, but England, sions, declaring that dfcdfesires t» follow in every circum- tirely unexpected , but it came much earlier than was who, imbued to the core with ' mercantilism,' treads stance the policy¦¦which it - has hitherto followed in the judged likely. It was received most calmly, the Speaker under foots humanity and the rights of men. It is Eastern affair ; if even Sebastopol were to fallr and the archly remarking that the Premier's name was down as llussia'-3 mission to protect Europe from the torrents of Crimea ta be-- lost, ' Russia - ' will not yield the slightest debater on a bill then on its course through the House, the West. As formerly the stream flowed from East to portion of tbe rights which aa\j ensured to her by trea- and that tb_e dissolution would of course deprive them of West—now the reverse is the case. No matter lwsv the ties in the Eastt Russia, the- note declares, is- the most the pleasure of hearing him. Not a tongue breathed causes for the war may be regarded, that between Russia powerful state in the Bast* and -will remain so in spite of the name of the kins, who is the passive instrument in and Turkey is founded ori religious grounds. Through every check;: she Father Matthew O'Keefe, an Irish political priest, has Vienna, Friday, November 3. take any part in the controversy. But the been forbidden by his bishop to take any part whatever Advices have been received here dated Constantinople, in political folly of this refusal was paralleled by a further affairs. He had written a letter to Serjeant October 23. The Harpy had brought a Russian general Shee on tenant right. Mr. Lucas, M.P., ia a puhlic folly in attempting to suppress all mention of meeting at Kilkenny, mourned this interference of the and 400 wounded to Constantinople. the matter in France. The newspapers got bishop; he declared, however, that he would submit, but Three Russian ships had been sunk, and five powder their quiet caution, and were silent on the sub- talked of appealing to the Pope. towers exploded. ject. What was the result ? All Paris was An official communication has been received by the Fort Constantine had been silenced. Registrar alive with gossip on the matter : M. Soule had of Queen's College, Belfast, to the effect that 40,000 of the allies check the advance of the Russian students of the Queen's Colleges who have taken the concocted a revolution with Ledru Rollin, and degree of A.B. at the Queen's University in Ireland -will reinforcements. was travelling from London to Paris as the be admitted as candidates for orders in the ChuTch of The British cavalry division, under General Scarlett, accredited agent of the refugees. The United Kngland and Ireland, after an attendance of one year had defeated 5000 Russians. Five Russian generals are at St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead, which is under the reported already killed. The Russians had left Eupatoria. States had authorised M. Soule to accept this direction of the Archbishop of Canterbury. commission. There was going to be a war There are three candidates for the vacancy in the with the United States. representative Peerage for Ireland. Lord Doneraile, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO At this moment we do not know how the Lord Portarlington , and Lord Talbot de Malahide. €!)e ScaDer." matter is to result. There is no doubt tliat; An anchor was picked up and brought in by the boat- " men of Broadstairs last week, supposed to have been i?or a Half-Year £0 13 0 Mr. Soule found, on his return to London, that under water upwards of 200 years. It had the To be remitted in advance. Mr. Buchanan was eager to make the cause his tgP Money Orders should be drawn upon the Stkawd appearance of a mass of petrified iron, being entirely Branch Office , and be made payable to Mr. Alpred B. own ; that Mr. Mason, the American Minister covered with flints of all sizes.—Dover Chronicle. Galloway, at No. 7,'"Wellington Street, Strand. in Paris, who was at once communicated with The band of the French Cavalry Eegiment—" Les Guides"—have been considerably petted since its by telegraph, viewed the affront in the same arrival. On Saturday it played at Sydenham ; on TO CORRESPONDENTS. li ght in which Mr. Buchanan regarded it; and Sunday at Windsor Castle ; on Tuesday at the French " Horatio."—¥c never answer such questions: and among that a demand for the rescinding of the order Ambassador's; and on Thursday at Exeter Hall. other reasons, because we cannot. to the police was at once made of the Govern- Amongst the certificated "W. J—Thanks for your hint. nurses who have just left this It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we re- ment of France by these three gentlemen, who, country under the charge of Miss Nightingale, to attend ceive. Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a , press upon the sick and -wounded in the British Hospital at of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from rea- fresh from the Ostend Conference, at which Scutari, is Miss Erskine sons quite independent of the merits of the communica- it is believed unan imous- , the eldest daughter of the tion. the resolutions were, , , Dowager Lady Erskine, of Pwll-y-crochan, North No notice can be> taken of anonymous communications. may fairly be considered as the European Wales. Her knowledge of the Welsh language will Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated Cabinet of the Government of Washington, lender her aid valuable amongst the wounded Welsh. by the name and address of the writer; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith. Whatever the answer to that demand, it Letters from Tienna of the 17th state that the cholera Communications should always be legibly written, and on has declared itself there. One of its first victims was one side of the paper only. If long, it increases the diffi- was at least becoming the dignit y of the Im- the young Princess Josephine Lichtenstein, neice of the culty of finding space for them. perial Government that the response should he We. cannot undertake to return rejected communications. Teigning prince of that name. All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 7, Welling- prompt. But, up to this moment, we believe The visit of Lord Canning to Paris, relative to the ton-street, Strand* London. —-that is for a whole week—no answer ' what- •arrangement of a more equitable system of postage between France and England, has, it is said, succeeded ever has been returned. This certainly sug- to a certain extent. The postage of a single letter is ¦ gests that the conduct of Mr. 'Soule has not henceforward, report says, to be 6d. (12 sous) either way, ¦ exposed him to very grave accusations : for we in place of l Od. paid at present in England, and 16 sous - in France. CHp may infer that if the justifications of the re- ^ C fusal were ample, the delay would have been slight in referring Mr. Mason to the indiscre- tions or the crimes—and both are whispered— of his colleague. No doubt, Louis Napoleon .s ^BHtficr tpt. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1854. position became a grave one by the unex- pectedly bold demeanour of Mr. Mason. Mr. Leader Office, Saturday, November 4. Mason is reputed to have said, in effect :— The following telegraphic message fro m Constan- IK tt lilir iffairB. " We Americans do not understand the pecu- tinople arrived at the Foreign Office at a late hour liarities of Europe. You have offered us an There is nothing so revolutionary, because there is affront : apologise for it; open France to iny last night:— nothing so unnatural and convulsive, as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very friend, a representative of my nation, or— 1 FROM LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE. law of its creation in eterzial progress.—Dk. Arnold leave Paris—my Government shall cease to " Constantinople, October 28, at Midnight. have relations with you ." Louis Napoleon is " The captain of an English steam-transport, which LOUIS NAPOLEON AND THE UNITED perfectly aware that there is still something of left Balaklava the evening of the 2 Gth, confirms in great STATES. the republican element in France, and foresaw, part the information brought this morning by a French His Majesty of France appears to be expe- we may assume, that it would scarcely W ship, and transmitted immediately to London by way of riencing the bad influence of sudden and judicious to invite the hostility of the republi- Marseilles. It appears that the Russians attacked the supreme success : he is committing blunders. can States. In fact, we have every reason to forts in the vicinity of Balaklava on the 25th. Their The English, who were getting1 into a notion believe that Mr. Soule, a peculiarly cautious numbers are supposed to have been about 30,000 men. of his infallibility, have, of late, been rather man, lias committed no indiscretion whatever ; Tho attack was unexpected. The €ossacks preceded the shocked by his anti-distillation decree, by his that the Emperor allowed himself to be misled infantry. To resist them at first there wore Ottoman loose letter to the widow St. Arnaud, and by by stupid libels ; and that ho was tempted into troops and Scotch. The; Turks gave way, and even his restless, petty, prosecutions of the unhappy the blun der by a purely personal inclination — spiked the guns, which, seized by tho Russians, were press—the press of all countries—for he allows in which, for obvious reasons, the family of the turned against them. Tho Scotch, on tho contrary, re- none but the courteous to cross his frontier. Emperor sympathises—to believe anything mained ilrm in their position. Otlier forces arrived, and The impression he was thus producing was not wrong of Mr. Soul6. However, Louis Napo- tho Russians were obliged to yield the ground, remain- rendering the nation very eager for his pro- leon is not one of the men who confess to ing, nevertheless, masters of two forts, from which they posed -visit to Windsor ; and, if only for that errors ; and we can fully understand the tor- flred upon our troops. Three regiments of English light reason cavalry, exposed to tho cross fire of the Russian batteries, , his weaknesses were greatly to be re- tures of tho week's suspense, while we are still suffered immensely. gretted. But not satisfied with outraging doubtfu l of the ultimate shape which his resolu- lish public op " The French took part in tho a (lair, with admirable Eng inion , he has included the tion may take. bravery. whole Anglo-Saxon race in his contemptuous Public opinion in the United States in ro- " On tho next day, their position was attacked by a indifference, and, by refusing to M. Soulo per- feretico to Louis Napoleon is precisely wlit'io body of 8000 Russians, as well IVo m tho nido of tho m ission to pass through France, he deliberately English public opinion was in reference to the town as from that of lialiiklavn. They repulsed the dared to affront the United States. same porsonago about eighteen months ago. enemy with groat .slaughter. Generally, tho loss of fcven the English will think that this was a He is condemned as a military despot : aixl ho tho Russians inuat have boon very groat. It ia aflirmed great folly : and it is gratifying to hear that ia distrusted because it is fully believed that hi.s that the flro of the batteries of tho town had much Lord Clarendon had the courage and common i ndividual feelings are not favourable to tho .slackened ; and according to tho report of wounded sense at once to intimate, what could only bo great republic. The relations between tho two ofllcovH , Bomo of whom h uvo arrivc.il at, Buyukdc'r«5, tho received us, a practical condemnation of the Government* have not been fri endly: tho belief continued that HebiiNtopol would bo noon in th« proceeding. Lord Clarendon , wo understand, " Dillon affair " indicates bud blood : and it is hands of tho All ion. This is iiunrl y wlm»t has been imnvved by the fuarfu l necessity of conciliating not surprising that Messrs. tSoulc , Duclmiiuu , gathered from Hovoml persons who wore oyQ- witnosHOH of our groat ally, expressed his total want of and Mason , acting at once in the full security what took place. sympathy with the conduct of the French Go- that they wore auro of being bnckotl by tlu-ir " Tho names of tho killed and -wounded nro reserved vernmen t, and an id that whatever tho matter Government and their country ? whoul d have re- for tho official ocou.sion. Among tho mimes them is might leaul to as between the Government of ceived the insult to tho one, of the propriety of none of n general oflicer. Louis Napoleon and tine Government of the who.se Jino of conduct they were usNured , as (Signed) " Stkatfouo nit Kuucukkic." United States, England could not possibly a dulihorutc affront to tho United States. There 1042 THE LEADER. [Saturday, was a challenge ; and it was accepted : but Times succeeds because It is so dishonest—that we cordially and emphatically admit that each does the subsequent demeanour of the chal- the Times is a quack, while the Morning one will do good within the reach of his own lenger suggest confidence in the issue? Louis Chronicle is the Teal, respectable thing—and hands, we repeat our firm conviction that Napoleon is a man of genius ; -with a great that the public likes quackery. Now that is emigration, colonisation, and improvement in fleet ; with a grand notion of a servile "war in neither philosophic nor true. The public does the commercial value of labour, will beat all the United States ; and doubtless, with Spain not take to anything that is bad, where it can the teachers. The question -with these phi- and Mrs. Stowe for his allies, might do a great get a better, at the same price, as in this case; lanthropists,—and we say it in no disparage- deal. Yet, if England would not be Ms ally and it is not true that the Times is more dis- ment of them,—xs one of taking down edu- in the West , in return for his alliance with honest than the other morning papers, for cation, instruction, and knowledge to the England in the East, then he knows, as -well as though the Times is absurdly inconsistent, and level of th-e working classes ; "but we believe most men, that the States could bring the Na- consequently is without vital influence, yet is that the light which can be carried to the- poleonic system about his ears in less than six it not a fact that each of the other morning bottom of a mine is not worth having. To> months. papers serves consistently shifting parties, enjoy the full sunlight of life the miner must It would not answer his purpose to bring the Peelite, Whig, and Toxy—literary service of come to the upper level of the earth with, States into Europe ; so that, on the whole, it a party being, notoriously, very dirty, aa well which he is endowed as his birthright. is not likely Mr. Mason -will be driven from his as very dishonest, work ? Certainly it must Tlie specific plans for improving education, pleasant hotel in Paris. Yet his Majesty, even be conceded to the five, that the sixth does are many- We have a Working Men's if he now beg- pardon, may only postpone what not succeed, because it is the best. The College, established by the Christian So- is inevitable. Of course he does not know— Morning Chronicle has better news and is cialists in Red Lion-square, imitating in none but those who took part in the proceed- perhaps better written—as a matter of litera- name, and to a certain extent in purpose ings can know—what was the issue of the ture—than any other morning journal, yet it and plan, the People's College at Sheffield ; conference at Ostend. But he guesses, like the does not sell 1000 copies a day. The Daily we have the President of the Council, as rest. For our own part, we cannot believe that News has as good, and more varied, news than Minister of Education, opening the Athe- three American gentlemen would meet at Os- the Times, and is carefully -written, yet the naeum for the working classes at Bristol ; we tend to talk of mere States' domestic business. Daily JVezvsis apparently not so successful as it have Cardinal Wiseman diffusing the lectures They must have had in view European polities, should be. The competition between the Times which he delivered at St. Martin's Hall in and the relations of the United States to Europe and its contemporaries has been going on since August last ; we have the unions of me- in certain contingencies of the war ; and we the reduction of the stamp from 4d. to Id., chanics' institutions, clubs amongst the work- infer, from all we see and hear, that the United twenty years ago ; and quarterly the Times has ing classes under various names for the same States Government ranks itself among the improved its position. What, then, is the cause ? purpose, and lecturers innumerable, from " neutrals," and as as prepared as Austria, or It is very plain. When the stamp was 4d. there lords to those members of the working class Prussia, or Denmark, or Sweden, to assume a were many morning papers, and their sales were who have themselves become the teachers of positive attitude—when necessary. May the nearly equal : their sales were to taverns and their fellows. All who frame these plan& , endeavour to overcome certain difficulties necessity, for the United States, soon arise ! not to the nation * Since morning papers have came within reach of which meet them at the very threshold of become 5d. in price they their undertaking. Mechanics' institutions a certain large class, merchants, and the trading are established ; but unless they be Icept up community generally, to whom a morning THE NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS— by extraneous contributions fro m patrons, or WHAT THEY PKO"VE. paper became a necessity of business. But they become subscription-rooms of the middle were not numerous, and not rich enough to Oitr interest in the last analytical return of the classes, they often fail, because the working take more than the one ; and the Times man cannot fin d the time to attend, or the number of stamps issued to London news- haying, by great enterprise, got the start, at papers is scarcely personal. These successive money, in sufficient numbers, for a sound the outset of the competition, and having and firm self-support . Projects have been, returns have, indeed, indicated our increasing maintained itself in a state of thorough effi- commercial success—-a success to be the better thrown out for permitting the -working ciency, has kept the lead . The competition classes to study at the ancient universities j. comprehended by reference to the circum- with it is now mere madness. We, therefore, stances that we are but four years old, and that but, as Mr. Maurice asked on Monday night, suggest to the managers of the other daily papers what effect can such plans have, except to we started w ith the deliberate intention to be that they should agitate for the removal of on the unfashionable and the unconventional take some very few working men from their the stamp—a reform which, making them all own class, and transfer them to the profes- side. But the absolute and conspicuous suc- cheaper, if not cheap, would enlarge their cess of the L,eader is not to be tested by stamp sional class ? In lieu, he proposes the new market. The public will observe that even the college, speciall y constructed to adapt itself. returns. "We have undergone the ordeal of all Times, appealing to all Europe, and publishing Reformers ; we are beginning already to to working men. in a capital of 2,500,000, does not sell 60,000 Its classes will be held in tho evening, its realise the Reform. In. that ordeal misrepre- copies daily : a clear indication that, nationally, sentation was the professors will jlecture in such manner as to- severest trial. Exposed to the nation knows nothing of a daily press. guide the studies in. classes and to ming the coarse criticism norant , le of the ig , and the As respects the weekly press, the public will exposition with conversational exp venomous indi nve lanations^ gnation of the interested, not fail to see that the total fi gures represent In other words, Mr. Maurice anticipates have had to submit to being caricatured in only a sale of about a million copies every that the working Advertisers' Socialist class will have very little " Hand-books " as " ," Saturday to all England ! We are far from time, indeed, for collegiato studies ; but and reprobated by contemporaries as " Andi- overlooking the circumstance -that these returns Christian 3> trusting greatly to the mere spirit of study — being so libelled merely be- do not deal with the provincial press, which, as at times not devoted to such pursuits, anxious- cause, facing- all the facts of our era, we represented in the large towns,, is her© and there to ive a new bent for working man while steadil as ourna ists g y refused, j l , to ignore the more intellectual and more efficient than the engaged at their labour, he endeavours to existence of classes and persons who believe mass of the weekly London press. But it muke the:most of that rag of time at the end neither in Society nor in Religion. Our suc- remains a fact that the London weekly press of day, and to make a low hours a week do cess is in having- largely induced the Legisla- does appeal to the whole country, that certainly the worlc of real studentship. With what ture an d Literature to face such facts :—our one-half of its sale is in tlie country, and, influence effect ? Bo tho professors the best in tho , we may say without vanity, wo whether we look to the influence nationally world, knowledge, we affirm , of arithmetic;, traco wherever printing-presses are providing or in the metropolis:, can wo contend that algebra, geometry, drawing, music, geography,. modern thought to the Anglo-Saxon race. England is a nation of political readers ? The history, constitutional law, and theology, The general indications of these stamp re- sa le of the first-class papers is very small ; cannot be convoyed in passing hours at the turns interest everybody. Two facts stand and for this sufficing reason , that so long1 as fag end of day when half tho tuno is given to out prominently : among the dai ly papors, they are subjected to tho penny stamp they questions and answers between the professor there is only one journal with a circulation must charge a high price hi order to enable and stud out. beyond the clubs, nows-rooms, and public- them to loy 1 emp first-class contributors. Lord John Russell would set no oflicinl houses ; and among the weekly papers, the How can wo listen to " educational speeches" bounds upon tho studies of working-men ; large circulations (with one exception , thai; of from our public men while a stamp h put upon would not tell them that such etudicH aro an illustrated pnper) are possessed by the tho press, to restrain reading—the onl y real " sibovo them,' 1 but ho truata to a perfect journals selling at 3d. per copy. What do education—among- the people x1 " exchange of op inion for tho correction of these facts prove ? wrong ojnniona by better. .But how can tho As regards the daily morning press, tl iove working oIusbos have op in ions without know- is proof tlmt ", as there is only ono successful, led ge, juitl they might aa wel l endeavour to there must bo an enormous amount of cap ital , TH E WO11KIN O M AN AND HIS acq uire a know ledge of nature through t ho enterprise, and time thrown away on the other TEACHERS. window of tho workshop, aa throug h tho five. The other fivo attempt to explain away TiiKitio nro several competitors lor tho o ffice fragnionlury hours which tho Working Men's th6 disparity by malign antly hinting that - the of teaching tho working classes ; but while College -will gi\o. No : such institutions arc, November 4, 1854.] THE LEADER. 1043 as we stand at present, inval uable ; but it is muster, will stand like a man, answer a ques- Do we say this in disparagement of the because they do t hat which Mr. Maurice under- tion smartly, and will be prepared to figure war ? On the contrary ; we still hold to our rates : they bring- together many, to afford in uniform as one of " the gentlemen" of the opinion that if the English people knows the opportunity of study for the compara- Carbiniers,—the admiration of the surround- what it is about, it will procure from the war tively few who can accomplish the pursuit of ing fair, and the terror, perhaps, of the that which will be worth sill the trouble and knowledge under difficulties- opposing Russian. Put those twenty men to expense. But then the English people must Cardinal Wiseman seems to us to come an adult school, and the keenest of pedago- know what it is about. The peace had lasted nearer to the truth. His Eminence has sent gues could not pull up one in the score to a too long. All classes ha-d almost forgotten us a copy of his lectures, in order to prove decent show of intellectual promptitude. Put the value of men as men. Cattle were treated that he did not, as several papers represented, the whole through military drill, and scarcely better. Labour was the cheapest thing in reeomniend a licensed colportage or pedlar one perhaps will be sent back to the awkward the country. Unless a man were annexed system, with a stamped literature specially squad. If one in the score becomes food for to property, he did but represent so many authorised for the poor, as in France : he powder, which is possible, the other nineteen shillings a week, a flea-bite in the expendi- commends that French plan for having weeded will be put into a condition to serve their ture of the capitalist ; and he had no " righ ts." and improved the literature of the poor ; tut country, to enter into the soldierly feelings of The war has shaken us out of this nightmare for England he recommends something dif- their profession, to behave with spirit on the mistake ; and great capitalists, as well as ferent—an active, not a repressive movement, field of battle, probably with magnanimity in Legislature, now know the man for the man's to produce an instructive and attractive lite- the moment of triumph, and in short to be worth. The recruiting-sergeant can tell Par- rature for the poor, such as may compete men with a real sense of life, its enjoyment liament and the manufacturer that the bounty with the bad literature, and counteract it ; and its duties. for the man ranges from GZ. to 71. 15 ; his and he specially holds up the healthier works This growing of men, however, at a rapid quotation has risen in the market. Her Ma- of fiction like Robinso n Crusoe ; or popular rate presents a population question of a pecu- jesty's Ministers will want the assent of Par- poems, like the Song of the Shirt in England, liar kind. If Ministers are determined not liament to increase estimates ; but if the or the Song of the Rhine in Germany, as to hold an autumnal or a winter session, it army is to be a more expensive one than it examples of a good, and powerful moral effect. follows that they will have the heaTier ac- has yet been, surely the English people have He rather recommends special efforts to cir- count to lay before Parliament at the usual a right to obtain concessions in return. Why culate " good" books among the poor, by period of meeting. There is no present should the ranks of officers be onl y open to giving prizes in that form, and he desiderates prospect that the war will be brought even those who can pay large sums for the pur- a parliamentary enquiry into the literature at to a provisional conclusion ; the end of the chase of commissions ? Are there no poor the service of the poor ; but he is not for beginning is not in sight. Prussia tempo- gentlemen —- are there no honourable men. compulsory or repres sive, measures. The rises, not apparently as a preliminary to paci- born amongst the trading classes—no work- Cardinal is not less liberal than, the Christian fication , but as a new treachery to prolong as ing men of high courage and faculty—-who Socialist Principal of the "Working Mens' much as possible the profitable period before have as fair a right to serve their country as College, nor than the Lord President of the actual hostilities. The Crimea looks like a the sons of the rich or the noble ? Of course Privy Council wlio relies on opinion to correct mouthful that will take some time in the there are ; and the exclusion is an injury to opinion, but he goes further in distinctly re- mastication. The enormous consignments the country as well as to the individual. cognising' the discipline of reading not di- of the French on hospital account—^sufficient Why should militia officers be exclusively dactic. for 200,000 cases; their consignment of persons endowed with a property qualifi- iBut undidactic literature must spring out wooden shoes for 200,000 meii, and all their cation, and connected with the land ? Is of the natura l tendencies of the people: it other preparations, indicate the calculation of the militia a private force for the defence of can scarcely be made for them. Defoe was a long endurance for the war. It is reckoned private property ; or is it not professedly an charmed with Alexander Selkirk's adventure, that 100,000 inen will be in the Crimea be- embodiment of Englishmen, as such, for the and amplified it in Hobmson Crusoe—he did fore all is finished ; yet we are far from having defence of their country and families ? II not seek to invent a moral tale on self-reli- reached that number yet. The reinforce- Englishmen concede new powers to G-overn- ance ; and no moral tale would be equally ments going out from this country are ment for increasing the army and navy, and read. The Arabian Niyhtsis so full of moral counted at 4000, which will malce the effective the militia,—if they give u p new sums oi illustrations, that it might almost train a number 30,000 infantry, besides the usual money for such purposes,—we m\y that they mind to the - discipline of life ; but the illus- complement of cavalry, artillery, eommis^ are more astonishing fools than we ever took trations arise out of the action ; as every true sa,riat, &c. Tho French reinforcements are the Anglo-Saxons to bo, unless they demand training of a people, in mind, body, or heart, on a larger scale, but there is evidently some that the army and tho militia be no longer rises best out of the natural action of either difficulty in mustering the numbers. In the the monopolies of tho moneyed and favoured or all of those three things. But what m eanwhile, there is tho great camp near classes. exercise is possible in the workshop, with Boulogne—a store of men so considerable as We warn the English people that there brow bent over the work ? None. What to provoke the question , why drafts are not will be something worse than tlio mere loss " short time" can be effectually and sufficiently inside fro m that body ? The answer is evi- of an opportunity if they lot this occasion enforced ? None. To leave men leisuro to dent : tho Emperor Napoleon feels that ho pass. Tho standing army is in itself the fit exercise their faculties , which is better than m ust bo prepared, should a supply of men be instrument of an arbitrary Government ; wo school learning, they unist have power and wanted in the North to protect the i-iiteresta have tolerated it too long already ; but if its independence to choose the limit of their own of Franco. We believe that stops arc going exclusive characteristic is to bo maintained hours. To that end they must not be so on in Prance to increase tho effective forces whilo its numbers aro increased , wo aro cheap. "W hatever makes labour more valu- at homo without exciting too much re- forging our own fetters. If, on tho other able turns tho windlass that raises labour mark. h and, wo obtain an opening of the commis- from the mine to thetho full ligHHit.ht, tthohe iri'renco airnip ., The samo process is going on with us. It sions to all clauses, wo po isir diminish tho the broad earth to which man was born ; is stated in a ueini-oflicial paper that within anti-national chara<:tor of tho army, aud re- anil when once ho is there, he can talk the next three months tho whole of tho Line connect; it with tho people; mid if wo profitably and independentl y with Reverend regiments will be brought up to the increased also placo tho militia on a inuro national Principal, Cardinal Legate, or Lord Pre- number authorised last session — namely, footing, wo provide for tho safety of tho sident. 1U00 men for each battalion on foreign (ser- country, and savo tho proportioned increase v i ce, with 400 in dcp At. To that end , tho to the standing army. INCREASE OF THE ARMY. bount y for each soldier lias been raisod to (\l, A. new cuinp in to bo formed at Aldersbot, for tho cavalry, and 11. 15s. for tho infantry — near (Jhobhniu , to do tho work of drilling tho " 3?ood for powder," e xclaimed a l)y-stamlor a riso of 21. • while tho (standard of hei ght: soldiers to camp lil'o, and ol" familiar ising tho as a party of recruits passed him in tho streets. hns beou reduced by an inch nil round. It public with tho ni ght of her Mujesty 'a Hor- A recruiting sergeant of Carbiniers was stsilk- wns expected that some considerable draft s vunts in livery. No objection ; onl y wo nay, ing along in the rnidat of a party of some will bo inndo from tho militia; but should that; whilo the English' neop lo tolerate un twenty ni ou or more, perfect contrasts with any great numbers bo required for fore i gn ex clusive army of p a id privities ami privilo^d himaolf ; slouch iug louts with rounded should- serv ice, tho militia itsolf will have to bo ex- ollicors, it i a creating an idol I'm- ii* o\v\i on- ers, rolling gait, stu pid countenance ; country tended ; mid alread y the recruitin^-olUcer , alavumuut. AVo should Iniw .illiiw i:uii»pn to bumpkins who wou ld take a day before they both for tho Lino and for tho mililin , iw on- balance) that-camps formed ol " tho reall y could bring their inimla round to answer a taring in to competition with the emigration national force, tho .Mililin; a nd Aldemhot question , woul d buinn upon a hor.se liko a agent; and tho farmer. The inroads nwuUi itself should be » pcr|ielnnl memorandum to half-strapped Hii 1 CHINA MADE USE FUL. widow and the orphan—in endowing Hli/B, Ajiieriea ^ schools—in JW and England are both suf- (%tt Cotmril short, in attempting to realise our civilisation. As a &*Wt frcfifi contraction of trade, the wretch- railway contractor, as in Denmark, he annexes " ? are to whole " jdeat,Jba^arians permitted impose [ I N THI8 DEFARTUKNT , AS AM. OPHnOMS , HOWEVER EXTREME , ARK nations—after all, the greatest of conquerors. ALLOWED AN EXPRESSIO N, THE EDI TOR NKCKS3AEII.V HOLDS H1M- — Napier's Baltic campaign has agw ahesBrtgfcions upon SEI-Vf BE3PONSIBLK FOR NONB.1 not been so pros- commerce. " A storm perous. He will be home in a week or two; how itt ^teap^ij' is a proverbial expression for a shall we receive him? Shall the unaccustomed bell trifling disturbance ; yet the tea-pot has be- There is no learned man but -will confess he hath, of St. Paul's toll ? When he set out he said he was come so decidedly a British institution, and much, profited by leading controversies, his senses going to St. Petersburg or . Shall we now sug- awakened, and bis judgment sharpened. If, then, it gest to him to go to ? is so essential to the best and most intelli- be profitab le for him. to read, why should it not, at least, be tolerable for hi3 adversary to write.—MiiTON — "Who gave the timid counsels at "Varna? The gible parts of our constitution, that an actual Emperor politely and politicly explains the sneer storm within that domestic lake is really a away. But what do non-imperial people say ? That the two Princes " were "meant. One of the formidable visitation. While tea continues BABEL. " two is at a high rate, notwithstanding our own re- Cambridge, who was the most obstinate of the two, (From a various Correspondence.)* for he not only would not go to the Crimea, but when duction of duty, our exports to China from he was forced to go to the Crimea, he did his best to the Manchester districts alone have fallen off — On each recurring 5th of November the Pro- prevent the Highlanders going up the heights of to the extent of more than a million sterling ; testants of the Anglican Church meet together in Alma. Why not a court-martial? Because he is a the house of our common Father, to stigmatise their Prince of the Blood—which means a Prince opposed and all because one miserable set of criminal Catholic brethren as triflers are playing " cruel and bloodthirsty ene- to blood. in puerile cup-and-saucer mies." They presume to speak of " the hellish — t Poor Walter Savage Landor! He has taken fashion at rebellion against " the Great Pan- malice of Popish conspirators," and pray to be de- wrathfully the Leader' s good-natured rebuke of his jandrum himself," who plays at Celestial livered from tlieir " enemies that delight in blood," assassinatory projects; and, in reply, he insinuates of Emperor in Pekin. Commodore Perry has, in the same breath, that solicits the blessings of the Leader what the Indian Nabob said, when asked, " brotherly kindness and charity, concord and unity." on his return to his native country, whether he after a fashion, opened Japan to the trade of This bequest of und the ying hatred and contempt has would like to go and see the House of Commons — world; but China remains closed to it. been religiously handed down, for two centuries and " What ! is that, going on still?"—" What!" says The Central Plowery people refuse to treat a half, by the wisdom and 3>iety of our ancestors, in Landor, "is theZeacfer (the kind reader is requested to us as friends ; and why should we persist in commemoration of the mad plot of half a dozen " take" the poetical license ) not gone to the knacker's punctiliously putting them, on " the footing crack-brained bigots, whom we are pleased to con- yet?" He has a wonderful equestrian performance, of a friendl sider as the accredited representatives of the entire worthy of the Bounding Brother of the Apennines, y nation ?" What do we know Church of Rome. But even if it were true —and on that horse—his Leader. Observe how he wrLtes : — of, them, w en hey h t decline to be introduced the very hypothesis is an insult and a calumny— " The Leader,, from inanition, has fallen do-vra in his to us ? "Why not take them at their word ? that the Catholics of that age generally approved of harness, and, when I would have cut the trac«s, has The Imperialists tell us that the rebels are the enterprise of Catesby, J?awkes, and their miser- given me a kick on the instep and rolled over toward able associates, there is neither reason nor justice in you Without this accident I should have thought he outlaws, scum of society, pitiful vagabonds. imputing the same atrocious feelings to the . Xiet us believe Ca- had been long ago at the knacker's. Let us hope he the Imperialists. The rebels tholics of the present day. But it is most cer- may recover yet, and be able to masticate his Eiga tell us that the Imperialists are the creatures tain that the conspirators were not countenanced oats." of an alien Court, an expiring faction, and in their nefarious design by their fellow-religionists, nor did their just punishment excite any commisera- These are wonderful antics for one horse; to such a anti-national, auti-social horde. Let us be- tion. And yet we persist in teaching our children horse there is only one can be compared—Orlando's lieve the patriots. Here all C hina tells us to keep up the remembrance of ancient animosities, dead steed, or Mr. Landor's live Pegasus. By-the- ithat the Chinese have no accredited or and afford them a strange illustration.of the injunc- by, what is the reason that animal is allowed to trot tion to love our enemies, and to pray for those and kick so> often , in that decorous manege—the effective Grovernment. Let us believe all who Daily News? What a trinity of heroes for a com- 'China despitefully use and ill-treat us. It is urged, indeed, 's account of itself. that children do not view the matter in a serious mercial journal: as a statesman, the Lord Sum- Nevertheless we know, on better than light, and that they look upon the whole affair as an merhill; as a poet, the Savage Landor ; and, as chief "Chinese authority, that there are hundreds of excuse for a holidaj-, and an occasion set apart for contributor, the Miss Martineau ! Which is the old m llions of le fun and frolic. Surely, it is rather a questionable lady? i peop , inhabiting a vast empire —¦ " Society" is talking of the Sickles v. Peabody an part fertile, and able to supply our wants proof of good taste and feeling, for the sake of a silly and barbarous amusement, thus to insult so correspondence. Mr. Peabody was wrong in being as -we supply theirs. Tlieir officials will not many thousands of our friends, relatives, and country- more English than the Englishmen in mal-a-propos treat with us, but mock us with pitiful eva- men. By all means let the labouring classes have loyalty at an American celebration ; and Mr. Sickles days of recreation had no choice but to protest against the indignity to sions of treaties. If we approach to trade, , but let them be applied as bonds his country, by refusing to rise when the Queen the myrmidons of one faction or other ap- of good fellowship and harmony, and not as means " " of maintaining ignorance and bigotry. Besides, it is was proposed before the toast of " the President." proach to attack. Arming for tie most peace- not altogether prudent to accustom the mob to the The best judge of Mr. Sickles's conduct would be fu l of purposes, we have a right to repel idea that a fire is a morsil purifier; for some day, the Queen herself, and she would probably acquit aggression by force. Probably if we were to perchance, they may preftr a reality to an effigy—as him of any intentional disrespect. The idea is do so, we might settle the civil war by intro- pious and learned men, Protestants as well as Catho- absurd : the offence Avas to Mr. Peabody. lics, were wont to do in the good old times of Smith- — The " Guides " are to be at the Crystal Palace ducing a middle term ; and if Imperialists and fi eld. If it be deemed inexpedient altogether to de- again on Saturday (to-day). Mad are those who go; Patriots cannot recognise any dominant right prive children and '" the million " of tlieir vested the business was a thoroughly stupid and unpleasant or power in. eacli other, they might at least rights in fireworks, at least let the constituted autho- one last Saturday. In the first place, you could not recognise power in the Anglo-Saxon. For rities of each place take the m atter into their own hear the Guides ; and in the next place, which is hands, and give a p worse, you could get nothing to cat, except Home, we desire no exclusive English conquest. ublic pyrotechnical exhibition by who is old. As to the Crystal Palace itself, going to subscription among the inhabitants and neighbours. Eastern, America has been before us on that ground, This might possibly awaken some ideas of the beau- it is about as wise—which only indicates an and we only invite her to concur in the pre- tiful in the minds of the spectators, and would cer- genius—as going into a big bottle —on such Satur- sent view. Nothing is so much wanted in tainly be preferable to tho vulgar nuisance of squibs days, an empty one. and crackers. ¦— What will Louis Napoleon think of the en- China as good government, where there is lightened British audience who, on Saturday, at the now no government at all : who can supply — What on earth wilL the Sabbatarians say about Crystal Palace, roared for the " Marseillaise?" I low- the Queen listening to tlio Guides play ing profane delicate an intimation of the cordiality and sympathy good government so well as the Anglo-Saxon ? but pleasing opern. strains in her palaoe.gardens Here then is a valuable import for China— on of the alliance! Why not have at once demanded " the Sunday last ? How earnestly and with what nasal Pi g !" Paxton was in the humour to refuse nothing-.. good government, in American and English moaninga will reverends of tho " Davies" stamp de- p He says that Louis Napoleon's Guides have " gone ships. It ia a commodity that would be ap- lore such wickedness in high places, and prophesy down" better than poor Sam Phillips's. But, ad- disasters to tho kingdom, after such a display of mit ing th grandeur of these G ides days, what propriately imported ia wur-suips. What contemptuous carelessness for t o " u " scruple ia there to bar us in entering the Kxetcr Hall spoutings. becomes of the education al pretensions of the Crystal Most assuredly tho moral courage of the Queen is is now but rivalling Jalhon? Yang-tse-Kiang ? The Anglo-Saxon rule, at worthy of high prai e Palace—which, at best, s , and it is to bo hoped that — Why don't the Missionaries stay at home? the worst, would bo aa improvement upon after this , &c. See, in tho current arbitration caso, what comes of tho rule of Tartar King or Chinese Mandarin. — Tho Railway Kin;? is, so say tho " City arti- sending out a healthy Christian pastor to a. Berbici) Peace and commerce might at least be cles," at last in tho Bankruptcy Court—his express fold :—despairing of tho old gunonUion of savages ha secured better than they are now. Outlets train has landed him in Bnsinghnll-street, which, by- naturally Arranges to commence with a now genera- the-by, is d ope to Cupel-court. We ought to mo- tion, made to his purpose. Aftor all, if propagation would bo found for tho commerce of New ralise on tho event ; but then, there has been so of the faith is tho business in hand, why quarrel Orleans and New York, Livorpool and Man- much moralising on George Hudson, that profundity with tho most dlL-etual inuthod? chester, and the Chinese would bo put in tho on tho subject is n. bore. Will he, as M.l\, imitate — Observe what has become of tho Forty Shilling his namesake Larpont (tho only precedent I can Freehold Movonicnt. Mr. Cobdcn pledged hiB states- way to butter themselves. Indeed no com- recal), and resign munity would benefit bo much aa that of his sent? manship that in n few years thusu Iforty Shilling — So much for the Hail way King. But what do .Freehold Societies would revolutionise tUo county China, if England and America wore to con- you say to a railway chivalry ? Mr. Poto has been elections. Not a county has yet buon won by tlicse q uer hor, colonize her, and annex her to tho honoured by tho King of Denmark, by boing received people's votes from the landocracy—not even in War- civilised world forthwith. A plun of colonioa, into the highest ordur (of course nn unpronounceable wickshire, which is n Forty Shilling Freeholder or tho princi ple of combining military and Saint) of Danish chivalry. Thut iH an ovent: a railway warren—jricrced with tho small nuisances ; and the contractor sharing tho honours of noblosao. Our novvs of tho week ia that, in Warwickshire, tho re- commercial settlement could easily bo ar- Queen might follow suit—think of Durgan or JJrussoy vising barrister hus struck 2000 of tlioso "votera olF ranged. Here, then, is an outerpriao better being Knights of the Garter. Wore knights selected thu roglstor ! than any paltry aquabblo about Groytown— fro m tho moat Itnlghtly, would not Peto bo preferred —. Wy W has published nn excellent map of tlio namely, the conquest, partition, and nnnoxu- to Louis Napoleon by tho Windsor Chapter? Poto siogo o C Scbustopol—-giving a sort of skotcli repor t of is a Knight of Chivalry : ho nwlcoa millions, aa nn how mattora stood nt tho latest dates. tion of China, between tho two groatoat com- amusement > but hia oronloymont is to anond thoao mercial nations of tho world- millions in what la ciutatl charity—in succour to tho f Soo Da ily Ncwa of Tuesday November 4 , 1 854 ] THE LEADER. 1045 very various subjects—including a rich and delightful article on the study of jCtterattttL natural history, entitled " The Wonders of the Shore," full of the poetry of science recent 4t ^ a comprehensive article reviewing speculations on Mental Clitics are not the. legislators, biit the judges and police of literature. They do Physiology, Electro-Biology, &e. ;" and an excellent political article, ia not make Iaw3—they interpret and try fco enforce them..— Edinburgh Review. which a readjustment of the map of Europe, involving a setting-up of Poland, Italy, ani Hungary, as independent nationalities, is advocated as Always among British tie most interesting of periodicals to us is the North the only final solution of the present European question. Review. It is young as compared -with h and Quarterl but the Edinburg y ; From a " notice" prefixed to this number of the Prospective Review, we it is fresh, energetic, often ori and while to the full as careful tasteful ginal, , , learn that one of its editor? the has withdrawn and polished as tli , Rev. Charles Wickstebd, e older Reviews, it is generally deeper in its thinking, and from the management on-account of ill health, leaving the care of the Review strikes in with greater effect upon the problems and tendencies of the time. to the Rev. John Jambs Taylek, the Rev. James Martineau. the Rev. Neither the EdhtburgJi nor the Quarterly, for example, could have produced John Hamilton Thom, ami % Ir. William C. Roscor ; also, that in future an (article precisely like that which appears in the present number of che the Review is to be published by Mr. Theobald, oC i'sternoster-row ; and, North British, under the title of " The Insoluble Problem." In its character finally, that " a scheme is now under consideration for enlarging the scope it reminds us of some of Sir Wili^am: Hamilton's philosophical articles in of the Review, and giving it all the variety and interest of a first-class the Edinburgh in its old days, now reprinted among his " Discussions." It Quarterly." Tlie scheme is to involve no is—what we rarel change in the relations of the y now see—a really profound philosophical paper, written Review towards contemporary speculation : it is still to be an organ of in an orthodox religious spirit. The text of the article is Mr. Cai-de- Rationalistic Christianity. " We confess ourselves," say the editors, to be wood's " Philosophy of the Infinite recentl " ," a metaphysical work, y pub- interwoven with Historic Christendom by every fibre of conviction and lished in Edinburgh. In this work the writer discusses the theories of Sir sympathy; but., as we cannot, break from its roots, so neither would we stop vV iiwa m HAsrnrox and M. Cousin as to the possibility of man's know- its development." In the present number there are six articles, all of a ledge of the infinite. ;.o These theories, as metaphysical readers know, are, theological tenor, of which the longest, and, perhaps the most interesting, some extent, , antagonistic. Sir Wiuum Hamilton holds that the Finite is a careful and thoughtful paper on Bishop Butler the author of the can have absolutel , y no knowledge of the Infinite, and, consequently, that Analogy." the natural reli " gious sentiment in man is nothing more, rationally speak i ng, Brownsoii's Quarterly Review is an American Catholic periodical of some than an eternal "pressure against an ever-resisting Negative—a very different note, published in New York, and reprinted for British circulation by a thing, however from , Secularism or Atheism, inasmuch as the Infinite, Catholic publisher in London. The editor 1Mb. ¦Shownson, we believe, known only as a. , Negative, may, even so, act tremendously on the thought. .was formerly a Unitarian minister, but is now a champion of Catholicism in M. Cousns, on -th e other hand, holds that man has a certain positive know- America. There is little in the present number worth noticing except an ledge otf Deity- ^ , sure so far as it goes. Mr. Camjewood controverts Sir article on the Know-Nothings." The following passage characterit.es the Willi am Hamilton " 's notion, and inclines to M. Cousin's. The Reviewer Know-Nothings" from the point of view of the American Catholics, and plants himself in " the midst of these various opinions, and discusses the whole states the relation in which American Catholicism seeks to stand towards question in an independent mannei', and with the strength of a master in this new and powerful movement:— metaphysics. His conclusion is indicated in the followinp; sentences : — Our readers have no need to be informed tliat there is a secret anti-Catholic Is not the true opinion a mean between these extremes ? Does it not recognise organisation throughout the Union, bearing-some resemblance to the Orange lodges of oar knowledge of the facts —finite beings and the Transcendent Being—which occa- Ireland, of persons who very appropriately call themselves Know-Nothings. The sion the difficulty on the one hand ; and on the other the impossibility of any solution party that is represented by this organisation is substantially the late anti-Catholic of their relation by human understanding ? This would account for contradiction Native American party, and is led on, avowedly or unavowedly, under the direction emerging, whenever a solution ia irrationally attempted, and teach the need for with- of foreign anarchists, and apostate priests and monks, by men of desperate fortunes, drawing our faculty of comparison and reasoning from a region for which it is unfitted. fanatics, bigots, arid demagogues, some of home and some of foreign production. The Are we ^vrong when we suppose that M. Cousin, who speaks of the " incomprehensi- party reduced to its own elements would have little or no importance, but, affecting to bility" of God, and grants that we are unable " absolutely to comprehend God," wishes be national, it is, in the actual state of the country and of national, religious, in id lis theoay to be interpreted in harmony with the principle that the Great Problem is political passions and prejudices, somewhat formidable, and demands th« grave con- fundamentally Insoluble ; and that when Sir W. Hamilton indulges his matchless sideration of ev«ry true American, and especially of every Catholic citizen. The logical ingenuity In eliciting the contradictions which follow an illegitimate applica- Know-Nothing party, taken in a general rather than in a special sense, rely for thi'ir tion of reasoning to the Infinite and Eternal, his demonstration does not touch the success on two powerful sentiments ;—the sentiment of American nationality alarmad pillars on which, the Facts themselves rest—mysteriously irreconcilable and yet known by the extraordinary influx of foreigners, and the anti-Catholic sentiment, Siecle, says :— " All our books of any repute at present have beer written destruction, these terrible sappers, whose axe threatens every b edifice of the old society y Democracy. Yesterday it was Reystaud, to-day it is Quinet, to-morrow are much superior to the Chartists of England and the levellers and equaliterian3 of it will be Michelet, another day some one else. What would you have ? other lands. The English Chartists are pushed on by hunger, not by an idea. 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