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1164 T H E LEADE R. [Saturday/
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1853.
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There is nothing so revolutionary, becau...
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PEOGRESS AND DIFFICULTY OF THE ABSOLUTIS...
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Two County Divisions—East Gloucestershir...
pings not yet performed , and has cut down the rest of the sentence to six months imprisonment . The names of the members of the committee appointed to inquire into the establishment of the Post-office are : — Xord Elcho , M . P ; , one of the Lords of the Treasury ; Sir Stafford Northcotej Sir Charles Trevelyan , Assistant-Secretary to the Treasury ; , ! Mfr . E . A . Hoffay , Inspector of Naval and Military Accounts at the Audit-office . Sir John Young paid his first visit to Belfast , last week , and then proceeded to Armagh . At the former city the Harbour Commissioners gave a dinner in his honour , and in his after-dinner speech on behalf of the Lord-Lieutenant , he thus pictured the circumscribed duties of that
functionary : — " I need scarcely tell you that the weight and amount of the duties incumbent on the Irish government have been very much curtailed , and its functions greatly limited and reduced . The principal part of the functions of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland now consists in the preservation of order , and the due administration of the law . The other interests of Ireland have been happily merged in the general interests of England , and in that department receive the attention which they demand . The Lord-Lieutenant ' s functions , therefore , are now mainly confined to the preservation of peace and the administration of the law ; but I may say that , in a sincere desire for the welfare of Ireland , Earl St . Germans yields to no other man in the empire . " ( Cheers . )
1164 T H E Leade R. [Saturday/
1164 T H E LEADE R . [ Saturday /
"We Learn From The Cape Of Good Hope Tha...
"We learn from the Cape of Good Hope that a serious deficit in the revenue was likely for the year 1854 ; and that resort would be had to higher import duties to meet the deficiency . The agent of the Hoyal Australian Mail Company has informed the London underwiters , that it is intended to abandon the JLdelaide . An officer has been sent to Sydney to take such measures in reference to the ship as he may think best for all concerned . A meeting was held on Monday to commemorate the Polish Revolution of 1830 , in the National Hall , Holborn , but it resulted in a fight between two parties—the partisans of Mr . Julian Harney on one side , and of Mr . Bronterre O'Brien on the other—both put forward as chairmen . A regular fight ensued , which a policeman was required to quell . A Frenchman at length took the chair , and a series of- resolutions were agreed to , preceded by a series of French and Polish speeches .
The usual public-house lotteries at Christmas will be permuted this year , " on condition that they do not take place ja future years .-The numbers attending at the Museum of Art , at Marlborough House , during 1 the month of November were as follows : —13 , 345 persons on the public days , and admitted free ; 770 persons on the student ' s days , and admitted as students on the payment of Qd . each , besides the registered students of the classes and -schools . In the Manchester Memorial to the great Duke , the
figure of Wellington occupies the centre , and around are grouped statues of Lord Hill , Sir E . Pakenham , General Crauford , Lord Lynedoch , and Lord Fitzroy Somerset . The pedestal is supported at the angles by groups of flags representing those of English , Scottish , Irish , and Welsh regiments . The body of the monument is festooned with triumphal garlands , and the frieze is decorated with wreaths of laurel . In the spaces which intervene are panels in which the sculptor intends to introduce medallion portraits of Gough , Hardinge , Colborne , Sidney , Beckwith , and William Napior , the historian of all the great doods of the Peninsula .
Eight Copper-Plate Printers Were Tried B...
Eight copper-plate printers were tried before Mr . Justice Alderson at the Central Criminal Court , on Wednesday , for conspiring to obtain the dismissal of one Frederick Spenco from his employment . The facts lie in a nut-shell . Spence imd others were employed by the Messrs . Tallia . Some of tho men ctruck , but Sconce and others continued to work . Shortly after , Sponco was discharged , and three days fmbsnquontly obtained work a (; the establishment of a Mr . Jackson . Tho men know Spenco hnrl worked at Tallis ' H , and they hold a " chapel , " excluding him from the deliberalion . i . At the end of the weok ho was discharged . On nuking tho reason why , the foreman told him that tho men had ttaid that they should not like to work with him . Mr . Justice Alderson . Raid , that tho evido . nco failed to establish tho ciiho , and tho jury acquitted tho defendants .
On Monday last , the equestrian circus of Herr lion ?; , at , Berlin , wan destroyed by tiro . Tho structure waft formed of wood , nncl tho flames having acquired a strong hold of it , before wator in Buffioiont quantities could bo obtained , it . fi destruction was complete in lens than an hour . Throe men were working in a flax Hculching mill , at Portadown , Ireland . Ono of thorn placed a brick on tho imfoty vulvo of tho steam engine . Tho boiler exploded , killing this author of tho miHchicf , and scalding another
man . Tho New Vorlc Commercial Advertiser givos the following as a loiter from Dr . Park or , Secretary to the United States Legnlion : — "I boar what I . am assured in contained in a private letter from Peking , that IIeon Fung , tho present Emperor , on tlio 2 nd ol . Augu . sl , / led to ( jloluil , in Tnvtary , and that Princo Wei Chin , lillh brother of Taou . K ' wang , wan loft in chargo of tho empire , and fclinfc tho insurgent troops worn within Mix days of Peking at that chile . Thi . s new . s bears ninrkri of probability , nnd the u'ltiive of my information is as rolmhln us any u o can onlmnril in limaIh
y get ( . . npoulciii £ with the 'British OohhuI , thin evening , he informed mo that he heard ( ho naino iiowh two or three days sin <> o , which e (> rres |> on < lH with the time my informant statenthc , intolligenm readied iiunchy . Mr . Robertson seemed to reeeivo the intelligence with HOino doubt . I can only ; i ; iy , that I think it very likely to jprovo true , and that , Prince Wei Chin is thci man of nil olhont who would be most likely to bo called upon in take tho reins of ( Jovennr > ' > nt . lie " in tho man who in miid to have written Tiiou K nmg's nnswer to the President ' s letter , delivered in IMii , by Mr . dishing . " Dr . PurJccr ' fl lofctor in dated on tlio , 'Jrd of Sontombcr .
TO EEADEKS AND CORRESPONDENTS . The writer on the subject of Mr . Thackeray ' s allusion to Washington will no doubt have been satisfied by the letter that appeared in our paper of last week . " Rustieus" shall receive our attention . " A Jesuit Philosopher" in our next . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 7 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London . Communications should always be legibly written , and oil one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .
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SATURDAY , DECEMBER 3 , 1853 .
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There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...
There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep thin £ s fixed when all the world is by the very law oi its creation in eternal progress -De . Aenold .
Peogress And Difficulty Of The Absolutis...
PEOGRESS AND DIFFICULTY OF THE ABSOLUTIST CONSPIRACY . The contest commenced on the banks of the Danube has already , in fact , been transferred to the banks of the Rhine ; and although it is now carried on only in the form of preparations and preliminary inquiries respecting alliances to be formed , it demands far more solicitude than the contest between the Russians and the Turks . It is a contest between the North-East and the South-West . Gigantic intrigues are evidently on foot to break up the alliance of the West ,
and to place the whole of Europe at the mercy of the North . Some part of these manoeuvres appears on the surface ; another part is still understood , although not so generally seen ; and a third part diplomacy still succeeds in veiling . We fear that the object of England still is , if possible , to " hush up . " We say that we fear it , because we regard any such process as impracticable , and the attempt at it is only to waste time , to place England in an equivocal position , and to run . the risk of the necessity for much greater sacrifices than would be demanded by a policy prompt and vigorous .
If we attach the slightest faith to the report which the Vienna correspondent of the Morning Chronicle gives of a conversation with a Russian nobleman of distinction , it is because that conversation lias an internal air of verisimilitude . The Russian nobleman may be a gossip ; but the actions of his master certainly suggest the interpretation which the " distinguished" person puts upon them . Russia , he says , does not fear a twenty years' war ; she does not even mind having her ships and sea-port towns destroyed on the Black feea and in the Baltic , because
English capital would suffer , and she still possesses her army , with the prospect of establishing herself in Constantinople . Now , whatever tho Russian nobleman may say , tho . conduct of Russia for a long time past suggests such a policy . The only question is , whether sho is stronger than Europe P There is no reason to suppose that she is . The Circassians have held her in check ; the Turks have boon able to give her pause ; and tho more diplomatic intervention of England , with tho first aspect of English fleets in tho Black Sea , mits hor to all her tricks
for tho purpose of avoiding more positive action on tho part of tho West ,. It ; appears to us , that , Russia , although boasting so loudly , is conscious of hor weakness ; and if England would nso them , thero are instruments on the borders of Russia herself that might be employed to subdue , if not to break up that great empire , and givo it in pieces aH the ' reward for those who did the work .
Great as her army mn ' y be on paper , it novel brings into the field so limny as are sent ; and , as we see in Wallaehia , it is ' obliged to cripple its own forces by tho punishments of imprisonment and death necessary to check desertion , as well amongst its Russian forced conscripts and convict ; recruits , as amongst the alien tribes whom it drags into its ranks . Captain ( Slado , who has succeeded . Sir Hnldwin ' Walker in command of tho Ottoman navy , expresses his
confidence in making short work with the crazy " gun-boxes" of Russia , wherever he meets t hem . The four steam-frigates which our Government has sent into the Black Sea to push a reconnaissance along the Asiatic coast , will make further discoveries of Russian , strength . Sebastopol is regarded as a castle of cards : and Admiral I ) unaas has expressed a strong desire to try what he can do with that impregnable arsenal . British officers make no secret of sharing the Admiral ' s impatience ; for it is anticipated that the heavy guns of the forts would bring down , not the enemy , but the forts themselves . Russia is weak in her outworks and in the political tissue of the State , and she could not stand
alone . Austria is helping her tinder the guise of neutrality- —Austria , whose arrogance provokes retaliation , while her weakness invites summary treatment . An elaborate attempt has been made to show that she is not insolvent ; for her deficit last year was only 54 , 000 , 000 florins . But last year was not alone in exhibiting a deficit : there had been previous deficits of 62 , 000 , 000 florins , 55 , 000 , 000 , and even 122 , 000 , 000 in 1849 . Such is the statement in a work on the Present State
of the Finances and Currency qfjLustria , which has been put forth from official sources , and circulated in all the countries of Europe , evidentl y with the obj ect of restoring Austrian credit . Now why is that done ? because Austria , having more than once failed in negotiating a loan , is now in pressing need of money . And what are the sources which the apologists of Austrian finance represent as the means for making good her promises ? First of all , there is reduction of her military expenditure—a recent furlough of an extensive kind ; but it is well known that that furlough has subsequently been in part
countermanded , because the position of Servia at once demands and invites the preparations of Austria , either to defend her frontier or to take advantage of further troubles in Turkey for the purpose of seizing the province which Austria covets . Any extension of the war too would first bring the conflagration within Austrian dominions ; and if the apologists plead the troubles of 1849 , as the reason for the great deficit and enormous expenditure in that year , how can they assure us that 1854 will not give the same valid reasons for a further inroad on Austrian finance P Thev
cannot do it . Two other grand sources on which she reckons , are , the productive powers of Xiombardy , and the taxable capacities of Hungary . Lombardy , which has but an eighth of the Austrian Empire , has furnished a quarter of its revenue ; and under the screw of Radetzsky and his subordinates , sho is now said to be " repairing her recent loss "—that is , recovering from the effects of Austrian tyranny . The apologists of Austrian finance say , that one reason for the deficiency has been that Hungary has not contributed her share to the taxes ; and she has now to be placed under the financial screw much more severely than when sho possessed that constitution which Austrian for the
officials deride . Thus Austria depends wealth which is to sustain her credit on the two most disaffected provinces of her empire . What would any underwriter or insurance office charge for guaranteeing to Austria tho continued possession of Lombardy and Hungary ? Ino insurance would bo a heavy item in Austrian , expenditure if it could be effected . The boasted sources of Austrian strength are her ^ weakness ; and while the present system is suffered to continue , those to whom Austria is really an enemy , preserve to her the half of a revenue ol which a European war would at once deprive her . The Powers that forbear , do , in fact , give to Jicr the sinews of war for keeping down a largo portion of Europe , tlio best portion of her own empire ,
under martial law . That Austria is making preparations hostile to the Went is evident , from the countenance pivon to the ' reconciliation of tho Bourbon fn"WHenry V . of Franco , to whom tlio polite 1 J » k . c do Nemours has just been reconciled , has also Obtained the adhesion of several French generals , tho I ) uko promising his Cousin a promptr efltoration to theFronch throne . All this hasbeen dono under tho immediate eye of tho Emperor oi Ajistriawho entertains the two allied princes at ins
, own table . In other words , thoRpyahnt coiintoirevolution in Franco is undergoing aetivo }*« - paration by two Bourbons residing at tlioco " ' of the Emperor ol' Austria ,, of course with «>« connivance of Russia . A counfcor-rovolution .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 3, 1853, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03121853/page/12/
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