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Bedpath , together with the furniture , -wines , effects , & c , lave been put to auction during the-week by Christie and Manson . The sales have been rather languid . Fibes . —The firework factory of Mr . H . Darby , Regent-street , Lambeth-walk ,-was destroyed by fire at an early hoar on "Wednesday morning . The persons sleeping in the louse were rescued by a ladder ; but they had a very narrow escape . —A . serious fire has occurred on the premises of Messrs . W . H . Allen and Co ., foreign booksellers and wholesale stationers , Leaden * hall-street 5 and another in a tenement occupied by a carpenter and builder in One Bell-yard , Strand .
Gallant Conduct . —The Electra , 14 , sloop , Commander "W . Morris ( 1852 ) , which was paid off at Chatham last Saturday , has been in commission up-Trards of four years , having been fitted out at Portsmouth In . October , 1852 . During the whole time she ¦ was in commission , she was attached to the Australian station , and cruising between Australia and New Zealand . On the Morning of the 20 th of last STovember , ¦ while the vessel was on her passage from Auckland for
Sydney , she was struck by a whirlwind , which threw her on her beam-ends , and she began to fill . The ship ¦ was under all sail , except royals , ande-very one on board expected she would go down . In this emergency , a seaman , named William Stevenson , swam forward and cut the main sheet , which saved the vessel , and she again righted . The -whirlwind lasted about three minutes , and the Electra at the time was in . lat . 32 . 4 south , long . 168 ! 12 east . —Times .
The Eoyal British IBank . —Mr . Apsley Pellatt was examine ! in the Court of Bankruptcy on Wednesday . He said that le became a director of the bank in February , 1849 , and ceased all connexion with it in 1850 , at which time he believed it to be solvent . He had " n « apprehension ; " but he left in conseqn « nce of an account which " alarmed him" — -the Welsh works , for which a larger loan had . been asked . He sold his shares at three discount . He admitted that he might have acted from carelessness , without a due knowledge of the state of affairs , and with , too great a reliance on the statements of Mr . M'Gregor — indeed , he had not examined the books ; but he denied being aware of any of the fraudulent transactions , and said he was under the belief that the liability of the shareholders was limited . The case was adjourned for another week .
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Leader Office , Saturday , April 4 th . THE ONEUFCHATEL QUESTION . The conferences at Paris still go on ; and the chief demands of Prussia are now said to be—a full and complete amnesty for all wlio took part ia the rising of last September , and for those concerned in previous movements ; conservation in the Prussian royal family of the title of Prince of Neufchatel ; and payment "by Switzerland of the expenses arising- out of the recent transactions . On these conditions , it is stated , the King of Prussia will renounce his sovereignty .
The Continent. General Todleben Has Arri...
THE CONTINENT . General Todleben has arrived in Paris . A report is current at Berne that Sardinia has it in contemplation to enrol six thousand Swiss . There have been some Protectionist riots in Belgium , owing to the foolish demonstrations of the mob against free trade . A . collision with the gendarmes ensued .
Tragedy Ok Board Ship.—Some Coolies On B...
Tragedy ok Board Ship . —Some coolies on board the French ship Anais , from Swaton to Havannah , mutinied , killed the captain , supercargo , and chief mate , and ran the vessel ashore at Tonglae . The rest of the crew , with the surgeon , are safe on shore , and well treated by the Chinese , but licld for a ransom of five hundred dollars ; and the ringleaders among the coolies are in custody , and will be given up to the French authorities . —[ We received , late last night , a telegraphic despatch from Paris , announcing that the French Government has . been informed , by a communication from . Macao , that " the Chinese who instigated the Coolies to seize tho vessel have been captured . They will be tried by court-martial . The Chinese have released the majority of tlie captured sailors . " ]
WHrrruMGiON Club . —We understand that the ninth Anniversary liall of this excellent Institution will bo held this year at the Freemasons' Hall , Great Queenstreet , on Easter Tuesday , and that there will bo a large gathering to meet the staunch friend and President of the Institution , Mr . Sheriff Mechi , -who , with a party of friends , is expected to bo present . . Tiekke Suicides ( yesterday ) . —A young lady drowned herself yesterday in tho pond on Turnhamgreen . Her ; naino and the cause of the act are unknowu . ~ Anothcr young lady drowned herself in the Serpent mo river , Hyde Park . —An old man living in Tothill-street , Westminster , jumped from the thirdfloor window of tho house , and fractured his skull .
Great Loss of Litk at Sica . —A junk , from Canton , bound to Singapore and Penang , was driven ashoro on the morning of the 4 th of January , on the east conttt of Bintang , and became a total wreck . One hundred and twenty Chinosc , out of throe hundred ami forty who were on board , were drowned .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . Opes Council . —The elections have excluded all communications to our " Open Council" department ; but next week several of our correspondents' letters will appear . 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 . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of miding space for _ them . During the Session of Parliament it is often impossible to find room for correspondence , even tho briefest .
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There is nothing so revolutionary " , because there ia nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep thingsfixed when , all the world is toy the very law of its creation in . eternal progress . —Da . Arnold .
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DISHAELI—A STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP . Tuts country is always governed by a jointstock association . ; the association consisting of shareholders who bring into the concern more or Jess credit . The management of affairs sometimes passes from one association to another' . Unlike commercial companies , these political companies are rather loosely bound together-men transfer their shares
from one to another without very great difficulty ; but there is so muck esprit de corps , that each company after the other keeps up the usages of the trade , in order to protect its own interests in returning to office . At present there is a liberal joint-stoelc association in possession of the premises and business ; in 1852 there was another association ; and within that interval we have had another
company , some of whose partners were left in possession . Grovernment is thus a- sort of " Credit Mobilier , " only more " rnobilier" than that of Paris . , This Association de Credit National of coarse conducts a great deal of real business , besides that which is carried on for the profit only of its shareholders and directors ; and it is the object of each company in succession , to exhibit to the nation the vast amount of
business that it does . In order to please the fancy of the people at different times , these different companies profess to act upon opposite principles . One is " Liberal , " the other is " Conservative . " By the Liberal , we formerly understood tho party inclined to effect changes in our institutions for the purpose of correcting imperfections that originated in days when there was less intelligence and less popular influence ; and also of correcting un- » Bnglish changes made in our institutions by tho Tory party , which sympathized with despotic Governments abroad .
Tlio Conservative party , on tho other hand , derives its principles from an exclusive-Church , and from Continental traditions of kingly government ; it began with presuming tliat the King reigns by right Divine ; that tlie encroachment of popular power is to bo resisted , tho popular power diminished . We have a complete specimen of that party in tho hist Tory Minister , Lord Dmmyr , who entered office to maintain the protection of tho agricultural interest against free trade in corn ; and who , when he found it impracticable to restore protection , confessed tliat his real object was to control " the
democracy . " In their recent competitions , however , to obtain tho business of the State for themselves , these companies have encroached upon each othor ' s grounds , and it is amusing to Bee tlto advertiaoincnta which they aro now
laying before the public , with a view to retain or obtain the national business . Mr . Disbajeli ' s speech , on returning thanls for his re-election in " Buckinghamshire , is a capital exjoose of the manner in which the managers of these companies do business . Mr . DisiiJlEIiT was manager of the Association Conservatrice de Credit National , of which Lord Dejjby -was president in 1852 . The public has an idea that that Association accomplished nothing , transacted no business worth speaking of ; but its managers have ,
like railways , British Banks , and other jointstock companies , peculiar modes of making up accounts . Mr . Disbaeli now tells us that to his Association we oire friendly relations with the French HJepublic , the establishment of a volunteer militia in this country at a very cheap rate , a complete renewal of the ordnance which was in a . state of total dilapidation , the defence of this island against the encroachment of foreign despots who demanded the surrender of political refugees , recognition of the Napoleon dynasty , complete reform in the Court of Chancery ,
reconciliation with Persia without war , the opening of the Paraguay and Parana trade , protection of this country against disturbance either in the colony or at home arising from the gold discoveries , reduction of the teaduties , and the bringing of the gross revenue to account , including the cost of collection . It is true that several of these measures have passed since Mr . DisnAEinvas in office ; bat he seems to hold himself free to take credit for all the measures which he talked about ; a new hint to joint-stock companies . -Any Hugh Innes Cameron would be thus enabled to show an immense amount of
business done . But this account of work done by the company when it was in office is only given as a testimonial to prove what the company would do if it were again in office . It has been able to do .-something' for the public quite gratuitously even when it was out . It has , for instance , effected a reduction of three millions sterling in the estimates , and we are inclined to think that there is a good deal of ground for this claim . —that the estimates produced this year by Sir GriooitQE Cornkwaix 1 / ewis would have been about tliat amount larger if Mr , Disuaisli had not stuck out for a reduction , of the Income-tax and a
retrenchment ot the expenditure . Ho is " convinced that the inequalities of the Income-tax can never "bo overcome , " and he is for " getting rid as soon as possible with the Income-tax with all its odious irregularities . " It has been objected , indeed , that the Tory Company of National Credit is pledged against " Reform , " and so Lord Pjeiujy thinks , poor man ! 3 )' or ho has not got beyond tho Church-and-Stato maxims of Toryism in ' - ' the good old days when Gjcouge III ,
was King . " Mr . JJisitAXLi , however , understands " the spirit of an epoch , " and he discusses Reform with anything but hostility . It has " two aspects " , ' ho says—" moderate , " " bit hy hit reform , " and " comprehensive reform . " He is " not a bit by bitreformer , " because bit by bit reform means Whir / lieform ; which is only a reform of Tory abuses ; leaving Wing interests
untouched . " Kemembering the gront partiality and injustice of the scheme of 1 ^ 32 , " the manager of the Tory company would look to any great changes in tho representation with jio prejudice , because ho hoiievea that much of that injuatice and partiality might bo remedied . There are , indeed , two itom . s of tlio Peoplo ' B Charter which Mr . DiHHA . i > : r , T , m at present advised , thinks lie could never accept , and those are , ballot aim ! electoral < 1 » ktricte . But Jjoro ia his procrramino : ho is
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Leader (1850-1860), April 4, 1857, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04041857/page/13/
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