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No 506. Dec 3, 1859.] THE LEADER. 1321
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No 506. Dec 3, 1859.] The Leader. 1321
No 506 . Dec 3 , 1859 . ] THE LEADER . 1321
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SUBSCRIPTION TO "THE LEADER . " ONE GUINEA PER YEAR , UNSTAMPED , PKEPAID . ( DEtlVEHEDjGBATIS . ) NOTICES TO COJRRESPONDENTS . No notice can ' "be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whatever'is lnten ( K : d for Insertion must be aiithcnticnf-od by the name and address of the writer ; not n ^ cc ^ aarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters wo receive . Their insertion-is often delayed ,. ovrinjf to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it . is frequently- from rt ; iisons quite independent of the merits of the communication . We cannot undertake to retura rejected commuuiciitions . OFFICE , NO . , CATHERINE-STREET , STItAND , W . C .
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. ' ---: ^ " . -. - ' « There is nothing- so revolutionary , because there is nothbifj" , so unnatural and convulsive , As the strain to keep things j fixed when all tho world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold . rii ' .
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coerce the people whom they have so bravely helped . " What is wanting is that England , in no spirit of hostility to France , but with the full hope of meeting with a warm response , should declare that no Power , or Congress of Powers , bad one fraction of moral right to dictate the internal regulation of any state , nor to obstruct any nation from throwing oil' a yoke that wv .. s burdensome and adopting a form of governanent in conformity with its wisues and views . That , if this doctrine of non-intervention . should- bci infringed b y any Power , the aggrieved nation should be entitled to claim aid from any one noble enough to defend its cause and th : it whether England interfered or not
by force of arms , her strongest sympathies would be on the side of justice mid right . The less palaver , the loss argument , the better ; and the man who can deliver a plain message in the plainest words , will & pi ? ak : most powerfully to the heart of Europe , and do the most to prevent any combination of despots daring to overstep a boundary which the conscience of humanity opposes to their crimes . It is not likely that such a course would "plun » e us'into a dangerous
war . Austria would he powei-lcss , because she knows the first , appeal to great principles would not only cause the dreaded voiceof liberty to echo from Alp to Alp , but would call Hungary to arms . The sentiment would commend itself to the French nation , and the people who boast that they fight for an idea would not fail to resent the conduct of any government that sought to make them combat ligfiinst a sentiment to which every true heart would respond , and a principle which every , clear iiit ' .-lk'ct would ¦ commend . ;
Mi : Roebuck has . arrived , by a course of snarling , at the Manrht .-stPi- conclusion ,- —that we should let the Continent- ' alone . He would have us go to no Congress , unless prepared to fight for 1 ' ; r ! nciplus we espoused . This is short-wit ted and short-sightud—there is no inevitable connexion bvrtwoei'rariirmiiig and fighting ; . To uphold the truth is a constant duty—to light for it an occasional one , to be decided by careful calculation when events arise . If England had made the Russian interference with Hungary a casus belli , in all probability no breach of-the peace would have occurred , " and if it had , a much smaller
sacrifice in 184 S would have saved the larger sacrifice and dististor of the Crimean war . As a mere matter of expediency , it is safer to run the risk of being involved in a contest on behalf of great principles , than of being driven to one for sordid interests . If England falters at this time , we shall soon have fresh questions of a more danjveroiis nnture . Austria is scheming , if driven from Jtnly , to obtain compensation on the Danube , and tlie ' Fivnch Emperor is known to have _ same notions of settling that part of the world in his Imperial \ vny . 'X'he Ultramontane party long for and the
a war between England France ; Bourbonists would be clelighted to stir up any quarrel tb : it they thought they could turn to account ; and we do not si and as we ' ll as we ought with the mercantile class in France , because wo wait for rooiprosily instead of doing what they know we can allord—take off the duties that interfere with trade . Tho intellectual Frenolunnri would gladly go with us , but we offer him no opportunity 90 long as we refrain from acting as we did act on the question of slavery—determinod to maintain an idea that lie can recognise aa sound , and support a principle he knows to" be true .
THE CONGRESS . S O it seems at last that the representatives ot sundry Powers , great and small , are to hold a Congress of Paris , in the midst of January frost and snow . Former Congresses have been among the most disgraceful incidents of human history ; and when at the last Parisian gathering iM . Walewski assailed the free press of Belgium , and met with no rebuke from England ' s unworthy representatives , it was plain that what Canning denounced as the old Areopagitical spirit , still lingers in the dark corners of Courts , and the still darker recesses of the diplomatic mind . A leading contemporary is anxious that . Lord Palmerston should be the British Plenipotentiary on the coining occasion , on account of his astuteness and dexterity—precisely the qualities which , if he does go , it is to be hoped he will leave at home . Our foreign policy was never so grand and dignified as when John Milton wrotu Cromwell ' s despatches , and at no time was the low cunning of diplomacy so manfully thrust aside . En'dand has a message of joy and liberty for the nations , which wants no trickery for its utterance , and which the plainest and simplest hearted man would utter the best . It is the real , not the sham , ' doctrine of non-intervention ; the absolute right of each people to settle its internal
affairs unmolested by any extraneous power . The French intervention in Italy stands justified , on the ground of non-intervention , because it thrust back the guilty Austrian when ho meddled with what ho had uo ' authority to touch . Now , Italy ' s main difficulty arises from the imperfect recognition of her rights by France . Oavour hail to rutivu , because too Italian for the halting policy of the Tuilerios . Garibaldi has had to rusign , because
he was hindered in his appeals to the national ' patriotic feolings of his race . General Fanti was content to make mechanical soldiers of the young men who ilockod to his standard . Garibaldi , not neglecting tho discipline , esteemed the mind more than the matter , tho spirit more than tho drill , and he sought to inflame his countrymen with the noble determination to sacrifico everything for Italy , and rather perish , like tho followers of Artovefdt or ' Leonidus , than consent ; to live in Austrian chains . Victor Eimmanuol id roportod
to sympathiae with these views , but a French army is in tho land , and its master would not give his permission for an independent movement .. r ? o 9 trong has tho fueling for n groat ntiLionnl struggle grown , that it has reached ov « n tho French troops , « nd their ofliocrs report that inun who ontorod upon tho campaign as ready to fight on one side ih tine other , could not now bo depended upon ( o
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from the fate to which directorship is fast hurrying it . But even if—r-which we won ' t believe—the big ship is destined to be sucked up in the great whirlpool of jobbery , the lesson would he a cheap one'for the- public if it were fairly learnt . . We need not recapitulate how the difficulties of the speculation' " began , and how it swallowed up . £ 640 , 000 , and brought its original proprietors to the desperate resolution of selling it to new coiners at a ruinous sacrifice . Then came a prospectus of
a fresh company , " liability limited , " so the law said , but the directors placed 110 limit whatever to their own liability to drag the shareholders through all the bogs and quagmires of disorder and disaster . The prospectus stated that = £ 330 , 000 would be the utmost sum required _ to purchase the big ship and make her swim prosperously out of the " silver Thames , " which was to be a veritable golden river to the purchasers of the guinea shares . Althou g h the direction was not , in appearance , the happiest that might have been compounded , a very large portion of the sum demanded was soon subscribed , and had all the appearance of a national contribution to a public enterprise . Every class , down even to domestic servants was , we believe , represented in the proprietary list ; but when the means were at hand for a splendid' and perfectly successful experiment , the evil genius of directorcraft provided a shipwreck before it had properly completed a launch . The first duty of the board , which consisted of Messrs . W . J . lieale , the Hon . F . Berkeley , M . P ., Ik J . Campbell , William
Dargan , Herbert lugram , M . P ., William Jackson , MR , L . S . Magnus , " Dodson , Cutbill , and Cargill , was to enter into careful contracts for the : completion of the vessel , and in this they failed most egregiously , as results have shown . On the 20 th August last Mr . Magnus told the shareholders , at a'meeting , that a ' -majority of bis colleagues had entered into very unsatisfactory engagements with Mr . Scott Russell ; he assured them that the ship would not be satisfactorily finished , and predicted
that unless the proprietary intervened , the . undertaking would , within twelve months , be worse off than ever . lie proposed a committee of inquiry , which was also advocated by -Mr . Alderman l £ ose . The chairman , Mr . Hob Hoy Campbell , did not agree to this , and it was vehemently opposed by Mr . Jackson . Unfortunately , the shareholders , as is too customary , snff'erofl themselves to bo mini .: ' d by the Board , ¦ and t \ it } y did not inquire , bu ' t went blindly on . Tlion came extravagant ' feasts to thousands of
persons , and a system of expensive pulling , that made many fear the gaudy dtici . rntions of the great saloon had swallowed up , together with the champagne and chickens , a little fortune , that had better have been spent in substantial work . Mr . Magnus ' s warnings werj pooh-poohed , the ship went to sea , and tho " board" was full of loud talk about voyages to America , and goodness knows where , which was interrupted by the " collapse " oil * Hastings . Bang wont the mismanaged u jacket " --up went one of tho big funnels—glass and gilding wore ¦ smashed to shiver * , together with the board ' s reputation , and miserable stokers and pokers were scalded tcjileiichs '""• tll « ""' ootora would neither burn nor drown . The pa-as told
the truth about this great " blow up , in spite of solicitations and exhortations to pour the " oil oi fools" and falsehood over the stormy way oh that agitated the concern . Still lliu public hopod a .. root deal . Never before hail ship so sturdily resisted an explosion of such magnitude : she was well undor command of hur able captnin , and soomod proudly independent of wind and wave . The explosion may , after all , bo fortunate fur the directors , as it certainly was for the pubic , who might otherwise have been tempted to boliovo in
A YARN OF THIS GREAT EASTERN . At a moment when large sums are lying comparatively idle from the failure of tho ioint-stock company system to provide reasonable security for the inonoy committed to its care , it is instructive to examine a conspicuous illustration of tho vices belonging to virtually irresponsible boards , nnd their prodigious pow ' of bringing ontorprisQsi . to ruin and shuroholdurs to distress . Our reader * will easily porcoive that wo refer to the case of tho Groat Eastern steamship , which , instead of ploughing thoVavcs of tho Atlantic , or defying the storms of the I ndian Ocean , id stuck Hut aiToundon tho shoals of directors and contractors , and requires no bluo light * , rockets , or rovorsud ensigns to nmko it the ma . it conspicuous signal of ilistroiw . Wo deeply rogrut the disgraceful Imliiro of an enterprise which commanded haull ho Htrongly to the national prido of a maritime poonlc , and we still sinoorolv li . MW it will bo rcnouod
. 1 ° ,. i 1 m nn . 1 »» , ifc . tr \ son in 1 . 11 ( 3 11111111 ) 01 ' OX tho board , " and pufr to sea , to tho number of thousands , in an unprepared ship , which some great catastrophe might have overwhelmed . I ho trial of tho engines provoked fresh doubtd , uucl now comes tho publication of a document which m-oves that in substunco , if not in detail , Mr . Magnus and Mr . Alderman Itoso wuro quite right , and Unit ft very grave case for injury prosontd ltsolt to tho shiiroholduM . According to a report , dated ldth October , und aignod by Mus » r «* . }\* y ty " Kiilluv—for many yours surveyor * to Lloyd a—by imuuor
JMr lWcir « wn , of JJriatol , the groat sinp- , , i ,., l by Mr . Jordan , surveyor to the Liverpool uiulorwritord , —mon nil eminent , and oi good repute—tho hull of tho bhip ia not completed , and
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 3, 1859, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03121859/page/13/
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