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THE LEAJDEB,
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The Leajdeb,
THE LEAJDEB ,
Contents:
Contents :
Rey.Ew Of The Week- Forei^ Incidents ......
REY . EW OF THE WEEK- Forei ^ Incidents ....... . 1317 PUBLIC AFFAIRS X ^ ffi ^ d ^ d ^^?? :: !! ] £ 8 nriMP TwrrrrirPKrp „ . „ INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS- The Congress : 1321 Serials I ' M ? home IN ^ KLLIGE ^ CE . rA . GE A Yarn of the Great Eastern ,... 1321 General Literature . .... VX > 7 Political Foreshadow ! ngs 1312 Mahc tie la Bourdonnais 1317 Who Receives the Taxes ? . 13- > ~' The Shipping Interest 1313 A Aative parliament 131 S Betrogradc Italian Governments 1323 COMMERCIAL- , Dr . Livingstone 1313 . Latest Indian Intelligence 1318 Improvment in I ' rade-SancKU Ireland .. 1313 , rTTl = . , A-srr » twt ? ni ? aat \ ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- » Cotton .. W- 'S Naval and Military 13 . 14 MU & iC A ^ D THE DRAMA— Money Market and Stock Ex- . The Volunteers . 1314 I vwnm Theatre 131 ° Letters from Italy 1323 chang-e ... liW . ) Law , Police , and Casualties 1314 ^ £ ™ 84 The ^ T ////; "" :::: 1319 Germany 1334 General Trade Keport ... ,. WS » General Home News 1315 Miscellaneous Items 1319 , ITPP & TIIRF Stocks and Shares way LITERATURE— Joint Stock Coniy . i ; :: / 1-V-iO foreign intelligence . xr ^ o f ( loWnu 1 wr Railway Intelligence ¦ WJ !) ¦ ... < on /» Notes of the \ Veok 1325 . rano » n 1 p nmm ™> ini vpm vnu Foreign Summary 1310 Postscript . 1320 Schiller ' s Life and Works ... .. 1325 General Commeicial Jsews 1 A 1 U
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——? '¦ rpHE news arrived in London last night that the -L long-talked of Congress is at length summoned to arrange the complicated affairs of Italy ; that the date of the first meeting is to be the 5 th of January ; that the Emperor ' s confidential minister , Walewski , is to preside , and that it is supposed the English Government will not refuse to send a representative — indeed , one journal names Lords Gowley and Clarendon as the ministers who are to be in attendance from the Cabinet of St . James ' s . With a not inconsiderable section of the inhabitants of Great Britain there is , undoubtedly , a decided unwillingness that this country should interfere or participate in the consultations in question ; but the feeling of sympathy with the Italians and the glorious cause of freedom is far more widely diffused among us ; and by far the greater part of our countrymen , it is probable , would be glad to see the enormous influence of their nation actively exercised to save the rig ht from being crushed by the chicanery of diplomatists . Taking it for granted that this country will be represented at the Congress , the only course which can honourably be pursued by us is that declared in the famous speech of our Foreign Secretary , who has , in addition to others , been spoken of as likely to act as the plenipotentiary . The Times ( perhaps acting upon even official inspiration ) declares that the exigency demands the services of the ablest man in the country ; and , after pointing out as a parallel crisis the Congress of Verona , where England was represented by the great Wellington—passing over Lord Stratford de liodoliffe , as of too unbending a disposition — boldly intimates that Lord Palmerston himself would be the right man rightly placed . Upon this point opinions may vary ; but that tho cruel despotism may be extinguished for ever in the beautiful Italian land , and that freedom of speech and action may be * firmly established—ought to be , and surely is , the prayer of every native of this empire , whose , free institutions have raised it to the superiority which it has attained over every other on the nice of the globe . Although wo hoar no more of a proposition for mutual disarmament , and although the collection of warlike material and the building of war ships still continues in the ports and arsenals of Franco , the ruler of that country has thought fit to curb tho venomous utterances of the newspapers of his dominions against this nation ; the evils which must result from this course are pointed out in a oiroular issued b y the Minister of the Interior , who , singularly ohouglx , expressly omits from his censure those Paris journals whoso language has been considered most offensive in this country . Desirous also of being -civil to everybody , and not thinking it by any means , advisable seriously to offend the powerful body of priests , to whom in a great degree ho owes his present position , Louis Napoleon as severely { reprimanded ( through the proper channel ) sundry journalists who have , in the exercise of theiv vocation , dax'ed to critioise the
patriarchal rule of the Holy Father . While on this subject it is well to call attention to an article in the Journal des JDebats , which by its manly exposition of the absurdities of the scheme for " liberating the enslaved nationalities , " who groan tinder the . 'iron yoke of perfidious Albion , has confirmed the high opinion which Englishmen have not failed to conceive and to express , of the formerly independent journalists of France . Though "hostilities between the French and the powerful semi-barbarians ' of Morocco were thought to have been concluded , a fresh collision has taken place . It 'seems ' that - a Moorish commandant mistook the French for a Spanish pendant , and fired upon His imperial Majesty ' s ship " St . Louis . " Summary vengeance was instantly taken by Admiral Romain Desfosses , who having with his squadron completely destroyed a fort at Tetuan , and thereby vindicated the insult offered to his country ' s flag , was , by the latest accounts , proceeding to tn . e Moorish conirnandant at Tangier , to receive his humble apology for the mistakewhich is to be expiated by the punishment of the unfortunate Moorish captain . Everything being thus pleasantly arranged , the two states are as good friends as ever . The diplomatic relations which have been suspended for the last three years between Austria and Piedmont have been at length renewed , and the statement that Buoncompagni ' s appointment to the vice-royalty of Central Italy had given dire offence to Francis Joseph is contradicted . Cavour is a ^ ain foremos"t in the minds of his countrymen , and is universally demanded as their representative at the forthcoming Congress . At this same Congress we learn that thc too celebrated Antonelli will undoubtedly take his place as the representative of Pio Nono , and will of course do his utmost to prevail upon the representatives of the Catholic countries of Europe to respect the heaven-derived claims of the successor of Saint Peter . As to the promised reforms in the dominions of the Popof . a remonstrance has already been published in the Continental journals against the expectations of any great changes . One great point , the substitution of the lay for the clerical element in the administration of the Government , it is truly enough said , would , compromise the very existence of the present fabric , and the Hol y leather doos not appear to havo yot made up'his mind to become a mere " honorary" ruler . The noble proclamation of Garibaldi is , orpug hJv to bo , a complete and satisfactory reply to "* those ( few indeed in number ) who have ventured to doubt his patriotism or his loyalty to the cause for which his sword was drawn . Ho tells his follow combatants that he shall soon bo again among them , " to aid in finishing tho work so gloriously begun ; " ho declares that in the various Italian { States there exiat tho elements of an united mighty nation , and once again declares that oven should tho present revolution prove abortivo , and ho and his comrades fall in ft vain struggle , they will bequeath to future generations " a legacy of hatred ana vengeance against foreign donuna- , tion . " Tho grout Liberal demonstration at Liverpool this week was so far unsatisfactory—that out of i tho threw Anti-Corn-Law herpes whom it wns j
. \ intended to honour , General Thompson and Mr . Cobden were both absent . The third , the most appreciated of the group , John Bright , was present , and by the energy and brilliancy of his speech did his . best to make up for the absence of his less distinguished colleagues . His oj-ation recapitulated many well-worn charges against the aristocracy , who he declared to be the lust to learn ' anything .. ' The taxes as now imposed , he says , by a Parliament composed of- the upper classes , spare the aristocracy , press lightly upon the middle class , but crush the working man . Me appealed to the middle class to use their powerful influence to remove the unjust burden from those below them in the social system ; and " proposed a new scale of equitably adjusted income tax which is to be levied upon the -wealthy and thus relieve the highly-taxed necessaries of the pooc . Notwithstanding the efforts of tho " masked conspirators" who write in newspapers against him and his measures , the modern tribune declares his determination to persist in his vociferous demands for a full measure of parliamentary reform , and assures the high ones of the land that if they do not listen to his gentle pleadings , they will , ere long , have to reply to a sterner voice—that of . the great unrepresented . Other members of the Liberal side in politics have also this week been making speeches on various occasions . Mr . Williams , to the congenial audience of Lambeth , g lorified his own labours in the House in the cause of economy and purity , and declared fur uniuniversal suffrage as a remedy for our political corruption . At Bath the impetuous Roebuck demanded for the working man the franchise , -which their intelligence and Yionesty—in his opinionfairly deserve ; with his usual warmth he declaimed against all interference in the affairs of foreigners , and said that , whatever side England took in tho coming Congress , misconstruction and ingratitude would inevitably await her efforts for the general good . A startling assertion -was made in the course of this speech , —no less than . that one of the refugee Orleunist princes resident amongst us , prepared a p lan of tho weak points in ' our coast defences for the use of tho present Trench . Government , offering Ins aid to carry it into execution . Lord Stanley ' s address at Manchester may bo considered a remarkable sign of tho tunas ; the days are gone for ever when thu " dangerous classes " could be spoken of with mingled contempt . and fear ; and wo find ono of 1 ho most able and comprehensive minds of the duy inculcating in language of heartfelt eloquence thu duty of tho state and of individuals to do their utmost lor the rescue and industrial training of those uncnroa-tor ones whoso energies may by these , means bo developed into a part of tho national strength , instead of being » curse upon the lund . Tho criminal record of this weak oompriHoa offences which are happily rare in their atroc ty ; tho fearful murder by a madman In bkorcdltoli , and tho brutal manslaug hter of u child , tho details of which huvo been brought before tho public , being tho most flagrant in their wickedness , i . Uo oaufto odUbro of Sriiethurnt lias , app arently , reached its final stago ; but , in addition to those already named , tho list of offences is lamentably heavy
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 3, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03121859/page/3/
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