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November 4, 1854 ] THE LEADER, 1041
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LOUIS NAPOLEON" AND THE "UNITED STATES. ...
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Miscellaneous. According To The Northern...
Father Matthew O'Keefe , an Irish political priest , has been , forbidden by his bishop to take any part whatever in political affairs . He had -written a letter to Serjeant Shee on tenant right . Mr . Lucas , M . P ., in a public meeting at Kilkennj-, mourned this interference of the bishop ; he declared , however , that he-would submit , but talked of appealing to the Pope . A _ n official communication has been received by the Registrar of Queen ' s College , Belfast , to the effect that students of the Queen ' s Colleges who have taken the degree of A . B . at the Queen ' s University in Ireland will bo admitted as candidates for orders in the Church of Kngland and Ireland , after an attendance of one year at St . Aidan's College , Birkeaihead , which is under the direction of the Archbishop of Canterbury .
There are three candidates for the vacancy in the representative Peerage for Ireland . Lord Doneraile , Lord Portarlington , and . Lord Talbot de Malahide . The spirit of the bard of Avon , it appears , has lately been revisiting " the glimpses of the moon , " in the prosecution of his old profession of play-wright . We extract the startling intelligence from an article in the Alta California on spiritual manifestations , in trie course of which we are informed that a regular five act tragedy , consisting of some 4000 lines , has recently been written , under spirit impulse , by the liand of 3 VIr . Isaac C . Pray . It purports to emanate from the spirit of Shakspeare ! An anchoT was picked up and brought in by the boatman of Broadstairs last week , supposed to have been under water upwards of 200 years . It had the appearance of a mass of petrified iron , being entirely covered with flints of all sizes . — -Dover Chronicle .
The band of the French Cavalry Regiment— " Les Guides "—have been considerably petted since its arrival . On Saturday it played at Sydenham ; on Sunday at Windsor Castle ; on Tuesday at the French Ambassador ' s ; and on Thursday at Exeter Hall . There was a fatal accident ' on the North-Western Railway , at Tring , on Saturday . An engine on a siding waiting for the passing of the express train got partly on the rails , and could not be extricated . The express driver pulled up as well as lie could , but not sufficiently
to stop the train . The stoker of the express , alarmed at the possible consequences of a collision * either jumped off or was thrown off and killed . A coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death , " and appended thereto an opinion " that the jury desire to express their opinion that death was * caused in this case , and may be caused in other , cases , by a practice of moving engines up and down sidings in order to pump water from the tender into the engine boiler , such engines , unless very carefully driven , being liable to foul the main line . "
A . mongst the certificated nurses who have just left this country under the charge of Miss Nightingale , to attend upon the sick and wounded in the British Hospital at Scutari , is Miss Erskine , the eldest daughter of the I > o-vvager Lady Erskine , of Pwll-y-crochan , North Wales . Her knowledge of the Welsh language will render her aid valuable amongst the wounded Welsh . Letters from Vienna of the 17 th state that the cholera has declared itself there . One of its first victims was the young Princess Josephine Lichtenstcin , neice of tlte reigning prince of that name .
The visit of Lord Canning to Paris , relative to the arrangement of a more equitable system of postage between Franco and England , has , it is snid , succeeded to a certain extent . The postage of a single letter is henceforward , report says , to be fid . ( 12 sous ) either way , in place of lOd . paid at present in England , and 16 sous in France ., Mr . Trollope , son of the celebrated female- novelist of that nume , and who for so many years was connected with the post-office department in this city , haa been appointed surveyor of Belfast , post-oflice district . The gentleman who previously filled tills important post has been pensioned at tho salary of 500 / . a . year . —Cork Constitution .
lho Kcd Lodge , Pnrk-row , Bristol , 1 ms boon purchased liy Lndy Byron , the widow of tho deceased poet , and by her munificently placed lit the disposal of i \ li ^ s Carpenter for tho purpose of tho reformatory nchool .-j established by that , excellent lndy . —Ohvcefiter Journal . Tho following advertisement appeared in tho Wol-• verhamptori Chronialn : — " Lord Dartmouth begs to -express his neliiiowledgincntH of the oourteoun sense -of fair phiy exhibited by tho writer of tho enclosed — 4 A hnro having been unwittingly lulled in Put . shull-pnrk , ftiul afterwards onrriud away , half n sovereign is onrlo . soxl herein for the Karl of Durt mouth to diHpono of us ho thinks fit , '—and to givo Ilia iiBsiimnco that the hnlf-Bovercign shall bo properly applied . "
lho Princess of Wurtomburg , tho sister of IVincci Adam Ozarfcoryflld , who died im-ently , hud ohtainod a wollmaritcd reputation in Poltah lilornturo . In concert with Ivor mother hIio published a book , which became uxeisodimrly popular In Poland , namely , tho " l'k'lgrzym w Dubromilu , or tho Pilgrim of Dobroiuil , " a work in which tho history of Poland ' in narrated to children in a mont eJiny and n »< wt nttmotlvu form . Notwithstanding tho diminution of her inooino , nho w «» « till rich onotigh to found in Unllicla and to widow largely a convent of Sinters of Charily , llor will 1 m wrlttun by hur own hand , and in it nho buquontlis to hur l > olovod brother , Prince Adam Cisartoryflki , tho property in Podolia to which aho it ) entitled ,
^ M ^^ B ^^ M ^^ W ^^ a ^^ n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ BVMMMHMMMWaaiMHMaaMaMMHBMMMMMM It is now stated that the efforts of the Cornwall people to establish a Government School of Mining , at Truro , are likely to be successful . Cardinal Wiseman is to attend the great Council at Rome . Twenty-four Sisters of Charity have just taken their departure in the Lycurgue , from Marseilles , for Alexandria . A dinner to Captain M'Clure was given on Monday at Hastings , by the inhabitants , among whom the gallant captain has for some years taken up his residence . The first communications by the electric telegraph between Madrid , Pampeluna , and St . Sebastian , were conveyed on the 23 rd ult . In a few days this line is to be connected with that of Iran and Uayonne : so that we shall have direct telegraphic news from Madrid .
November 4, 1854 ] The Leader, 1041
November 4 , 1854 ] THE LEADER , 1041
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the 3 train to keep things fixed when all the world is toy the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Uis . AKNOJ-D
Louis Napoleon" And The "United States. ...
LOUIS NAPOLEON" AND THE "UNITED STATES . His Majesty of France appears to be experiencing the bad influence of sudden aud supreme success : lie is committing blunders . The English , who were getting into a notion of his infallibility , have , of late , been rather shocked by bis anti-distillation decree , by his loose letter to the widow St . Arnaud , and by his restless , petty , prosecutions of the unhappy pros , *—the press of all countries—for ho allows
nono but the courteous to cross his frontier . The impression lie was thus producing- was not rendering the nation very eag'or for his proposed visit to "Windsor ; and , if only for that reason , his -weaknesses were greatly to be regretted . But not satisfied with outraging English public opinion , lie has included the whole Anglo-Saxon race in his contemptuous indifference , and , by refusing to M . Soulo perini . ssion to pass through France , he deliberately dared to affront the United States .
Even the English will think that this was a grcmt folly : and it is gratifying to hear that Lord Clarendon had the courage and common sense at once to intimate , what could onl y be received as , a practical condemnation of the proceeding . Lord Clarendon , wo understand , unawed by tho fearful necessity of conciliating our great ally , oppressed hid total want of sympathy with tho conduct of the French Government , and said that whatever the matter might lend to aa between the Government of Louis Napoleon and the Government of tho United Statea , England could not possibly
take any part in the controversy . But the folly of this refusal was paralleled by a further foll y in attempting to suppress all mention of the matter in France . The newspapers got their quiet caution , and were silent on the subject . What was the result ? All Paris was alive with gossip on the matter : M . Soule had concocted a revolution with Ledru Rollin , and ¦ was travelling from London to Paris as the accredited agent of the refugees . The United States had authorised M . Soule to accept this commission . There was going to " be a war with the United States .
At this moment we do not know how the matter is to result . There is no doubt that Mr . Soule found , on his return to London , that Mr . Euchanan was eager to make the cause his own ; that JYh \ Mason , the American Minister in Paris , who was at once communicated with by telegraph , viewed the affront in the same light in which Mr . Buchanan regarded it ; and that a demand for the rescinding of the order to the police was at once made of the Government of France by these three gentlemen , who , fresh from the Ostend Conference , at which the resolutions were , it is believed , unanimous , may fairly be considered as the European Cabinet of the Government of Washiutrtoii . ¦
Whatever the answer to that demand , it was at least becoming ; the dignity of the Imperial Government that the response should be prompt . Bat , up to this moment , vie believe — -that is for a whole week—no answer whatever has been returned . This certainly suggests that the conduct of Mr . Soule has not exposed him to very grave accusations : for ive may infer that if the justifications of the refusal were ample , the delay would liave been slight in referring Mr . Mason to the
indiscretions or trie crimes—and both are whisperedof his colleague . No doubt , Louis ^ Napoleon ' s position became a grave one by the unexpectedly bold demeanour of Mr . Mason . Mr . Mason is reputed to have said , in effect : — " We Americans do not understand the peculiarities of Europe , You have offered us an affront : apologise for it ; open France to my friend , a representative of my nation , or—1 leave Paris—mv Government shall cease to
have relations with you . " Louis Napoleon is perfectly aware that there is still something- of the republican element in France , and foresaw , we may assume , that it would scarcely be judicious to invite the hostility of the republican States . In fact , we have every reason to believe that Mr . Soule , a peculiarly cautious man , has committed no indiscretion -whatever ; that the Emperor allowed himself to be misled by stupid libels ; and that he was tempted into tho blunder by a purely personal inclination — in which , for obvious reasons , the family of the Emperor sympathises—to believe anything wrong of Mr . Soulo . However , Louis Napoleon is not one of the men w u > confess to
errors ; and we can full y understand the tortures of the week ' s suspense , while we are still doubtful of the ultimate shapo which his resolution may take . Public opinion in the United States in reference to Louis Napoleon is precisely where English public opinion was in reference to the same personage about eighteen mouths ago . Ho is condemned as a military despot : nnd he is distrusted because it is full y believed that hLs individual feelings are not favourable to the great republic . The relations between the two Governments have not boon friendly : the " Dillon affair " iiulic-ute-j bad blood : and it is
not surprising thut Messrs . Soulu , Buchanan , and Mason , acting- at onco in tho full security that they wore sure of being biuikcwl by their Government and their country , should have received the insult to tho one , of tho propriety of whoso lino of conduct they wero assured , as a deliberate aflrout to tho United States , Theie
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04111854/page/9/
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