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TO EEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . Several letters have been received by our publisher complaining ' of the non-receipt of papers , or the non-arrival of the Leader until Monday . We have made inquiry , and find that the errors have not arisen in our office . The Country Edition cf the Lender is published on Friday , and the Town Edition on the Saturday , and Subscribers should be careful to specify which edition they wish to receive . Complaints of irregularity should be made to the particular news-agent supplying the paper , and if any difficulty should occur again it will be set right on application direct to our office , 10 , Wellington-street , Strand , London . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one 3 ide of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . In reply to inquiries we may state that the Office of the Triends of Italy is No . 10 , Southampton-street , Strand .
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Saturday , November 1 . Yesterday the inhabitants of Marylebone met in great strengh , in the Concert-room of the Princess ' s Theatre , and voted unanimously an address to Kossuth . Lord Dudely Stuart , M . P ., presided ; Sir Benjamin Hall , M . P ., and Mr . William Williams , M . P ., together with the chief men of the borough , appeared on ° the platform . Lord Dudley Stuart has published the following letter in the Daily News and Morning Chronicle : — " Sir , —Will you oblige me by acquainting the public , through your columns , that an association is in process of formation , for the purpose of giving a practical bent to the sympathies expressed in the cause of Hungary , by assisting Kossuth in making known the true condition and prospects of Hungary and Eastern Europe , and of conveying to those countries a knowledge of the state and progress of public opinion in the West , by which their emancipation may be forwarded and achieved . " The names of the members of the committee , and the rules of the association , will be shortly published ; but in the meanwhile it is proposed to place at Kossuth ' s disposal the means of prosecuting the object which he has in view , by inviting those who were anxious to subscribe towards a personal testimonial ( which he declines ) to turn their contribution , large or small , into this channel . As temporary treasurer , I shall be happy to receive such contributions , together with communications from those disposed to join the proposed association , or to devote their exertions to forwarding its object . " Dudley Coutts Stuabt . " Lord Dudley Stuart is an honest man , but he is not the man to determine what any great political body shall do . Of course , there will be an organization to promote the cause of Hungary—we need not add the cause of Italy , the cause of the European Peoples—against the despots . Of course , thatorganizution—and it is to be hoped that it will include leading men of all classes and parties—that organization will determine on laying clown a course for itself , the objects of its own activity , and of the fund -which it will bo the means of collecting . There was also yesterday a meeting in Lambeth , and on Thur .-day at Nottingham . We have numerous and excellent addresses of welcome to Kossuth sent us for publication , which we regret to leave imprinted . I 5 ut a weekly journal has limits ; and , honour to England , it can scarcely be . said that there arc : any limits to Knglish sympathy for Louis Kossuth . THK -WORKING-CLASS 1 ) UMONSTKAT ION . Last ni ^ ht the Central Demonstration Committee met ngain at 10 , Wellington-street , iStrnnd , Mr . Thornton Hunt in the chair . A member of tho committee stated that he had , at the request of the Chairman , waited upon ivoHKiith that morning , to know whether he accepted the invitation of the committee to accept their address at a jjjreat public , meeting on Monday next . KosHuth had received him with great cordiality , expressing his ( sorrow at not having been able to give a definitive answer before , which , however , wan owing 3 ' ° his not knowing whether the Birmingham , banquet might not take place on Monday ; a point , however , which he ; had now ascertained , mid , therefore , he was in the hands of the committee , and would meet them on Monday . lie placed hiinsi If in the hands of the com in it tec and the people , hoping that tin y would deal with" him honourably and fairly . He would go to tho place appointed for the presentation of the address as lie thought best ; and the room must be strictly private in which he would receive the address , the commit let and a few friends alone being present . He would speak to the assembly from a window or balcony . The following rcHolution wj-. s then eimicd unanimously : — " That , thin committee pledges itself to resist any attemp t which might have , a tendency ( ogive ; i sectional or party character to the ; cle > ine > nst ration which it . has been appointed to organize and conduct , on hehulf of public : bodies , comprising men of all shadt s of opinion in Kuglish polities . " The Police Commissioner * have been communicated with , with the view of < li , ccting their attention to the line of route laid down for the procession , which "ill form in . Kiifl «« -U wjnar « at . eleven o ' clock , on Monday , and proceed by Keppel street Ntore-Htreet Tottenham-eouri-ioad . the Uainnwtcad road , lligli-Ktroct ) Camden-town , and the Ciinielen road , to Copcnhau ; en-houNO . A banquet will after wards take p lace at Highbury Uurn . KoHHuth Iiuh not been invited to attend , in deference to hi « expressed wiahea in that respect .
The position of the President is critical . There is a great deal of finessing among his official supporters , and the policy of the Conslitutionnel and the Patrteis occult and tortuous . Rumours in the former are circulated in the provincial , and denied in the Paris edition , of the latter . The President ' s friend , De Persigny , is accused of democratic opinions ; and even this , it is thought , is merely to dupe the Democrats . Meanwhile , the Republicans meet to-morrow at Lemardelay ' s , to consult on the state of affairs . Emile de Girardin has an article on the electoral law , from which we cut the following : —
" In spite of what I read in the reactionary journals , in spite of what I hear said in the Salle des Conferences , my conviction and and my certainty remain the same relative to the absolute and unanimous abrogation of the law of May 31 . In order to prevent the unanimous and absolute repeal taking place , the President of the Republic must do relative to the ree . stablishment of universal suffrage what he ( lid relative to the Roman expedition , after having written to M . E . Ney the letter of the 18 th of August , 1849—he must beat a retreat before a threat of the majority . I ground my conviction and my certainty on the following
figures : —Of how many members is the National Assembly composed ? Of 750 . What is the absolute majority of this number ? 376 . What was the number of votes against the law of May 31 ? 272 . What will be required to secure the repeal of the law of May 31 ? It will require that 104 votes should admit that the law of May 31 has exceeded its object ; that it is attended with more perils than advantages ; that a pure and simple abrogation , without discussion , is preferable to an irritating discussion , which a bill for modifying it would certainly lead to . Is the displacement of 104 votes , in an assembly of 750 members , an operation which presents any serious difficulty ?"
The Madrid journals of the 25 th instant , state that the Moors had taken an English brig laden with corn , which from stress of weather had put into the Bay of Bitoya . The Clamor Ptiblico mentions the same fact , and adds that two hours afterwards two English steamers and an English gun-brig left Gibraltar , bombarded some points of the coast , burned several small vessels , and inflicted other injuries on the pirates .
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The United States' Mail Steamship Humboldr , Captain Lines , arrived off Cowes this morning ; and , after landing the mails and passengers for Southampton , proceeded on her voyage to Bremen . The Humboldt left New York on the 18 th instant , and her voyage has occupied about twelve days and three-quarters . The Spanish Government has s ^ nt a special envoy to Washington . The New York Times on this subject savs : — " There is a great deal of speculation afloat
about the probable upshot of the special Spanish envoy ' s visit to Washington . All that appears to be known is that such a messenger is on his way thither ; that he goes backed up with a subscription paper bearing the signatures and counter-signatures of Victoria It ., Lord Pahnerston , and Louis Napoleon ; that a guarantee of the independence of Cuba in to be demanded ; and that Mr . Webster will have the handling of the man and the matter . "
K'mkel has been most enthusiastically received in the United States , and presented by INIr . Crittendcn to the President . This is an indication of what kind of reception Kossuth will receive . The great specie train of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company wns robbed on the 11 th of Hi ptember . The people of Panama set out in puisuit ; came up with the train ; found three guards ( shot ; pursued and captured the robbers . One or two wire hung .
The Governor-General of Canada has at length succeeded in forming a Cabinet . Dr . Jtolph is president of the Council , and the Minister will be , it is thought , acceptable to the Liberals . The new Cabinet , so far as formed , is as follows : — Inspector-General , Mr . Hincks ; President of t hcCouricil , J ) r . Rolph ; Postmaster-Gene ral , Malcolm Cameron ; Commissioner of Crown Lands , William Morris ; Attorney-General for- Canada Went , W . 15 . . Richards ; A ttorney- ( Jem ral for Canada JCast , Mr . Drunimond ; Provincial Secretary , Mr . Morin .
The ncw . s brought by the East India Mail , which brings papers from Calcutta to the 20 th of . September and from Bombay to the ' 2 nd of October , is highly important . l ) o-, t Mohammed m reported to have marched on Herat . 15 ut this is a small fact compared with another rumour that the Governor-General has ordered the annexation of a slice of territory , called the valley of the Dour , and belonging to the said Ameer . Thin seizure of lei ritory , if without the permission of Dost Mohammed , will , it i » tvtid , laud us in another Indian war .
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\ estcrduy evening n crowded special general meeting of the members of the National Freehold Land ( Society was held at . the London Tavern , in order to agree to a general revision of the rules . Mr . Kbenezer Clarke occupied the ohiiir , and the code an amended wa » , alter some ; dicussioii tiprtu several of the alteratioiiH , uminiinoimly accepted . Tin ; principal feature in the new set . of rules is tho abrogation of No . li ) , which provided that " whenever any member holding
more than one share ( should become entitled to an advance , he should have ; tho option of accepting tin ; same on all or any of liin shareH . " It was also determined Unit , the rate of intcic . it nriel n ^ cuts' chi'TgCH , hitherto u fixed one , should bo left to tho discretion of the executive committee . The society haves re-centl y purchased a freehold estate ; at . Dorking , lato the prop erty of Mr . Arthur l ) enl > y . It comprises about twenty-Heyen acieu , and will form about 200 allotmentH .
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There is nothing so revolutionary ; , "because there nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain tn keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
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THE CHALLENGE OF AUSTRIA ACCEPTED . The Alliance of the Peoples against the Despots is growing into form with a rapidity and power that the most sanguine of us could not have hoped . The danger , indeed , against which it is directed also becomes , in some respects , more formidable and more imminent : the Austro-Russian conspiracy is preparing to contend for its existence
and it will not expire without a struggle . Not that there is the slightest cause to be apprehensive if this country , knowing its own position , should make its Government act for the national interest . The fact that Austria and Russia , with their miserable bondman Prussia , are now entering upon the death fight , cannot but fill the Despots with gloomy forebodings ; and despair is a poor councillor .
As the position of Kossuth becomes more fully explained , its strictly practical character becomes more appreciated ; at the same time , in the present mood of this country , the very fact that the adhesions to his cause so multiply , will help to bring him more adhesions . The demonstration in Copenhagen-fields has formally added the great body of the working classes in this country to his followers ; its influence , we know by letters from
the North , is already felt in Birmingham , Manchester , and the immense fields of activity which those two towns represent . The middle classes have spoken out pretty freely wherever they have had the opportunity—at Southampton and Winchester : in London they are moving ; municipal clogs—which Kossuth now knows how to appreciate , cannot keep them back in Birmingham or Manchester .
The United States may be said to have pronounced , through many channels , but not the least emphatically through the noble speech of the Honourable Mr . Walker , at Southampton . We believe that we shall not be found far wrong when we say that the two great parties in America will be at one on this subject . We know that some of the Whig party have " hesitated ; but it will , we think , be found that their hesitation has been superseded . The Democratic party seizes on the
idea with a natural sympathy and a natural pride in the lead which the crusade will give to the Republic in Europe ; and it is by adopting the idea that the Whig party avoids being in a minority , and neutralizes an additional " cry . " But we do not impute the adhesion of Whigs exclusively to party policy ; far from it ; they cannot fail to see the interest of their beloved country in the general vindication of freedom ; they cannot fail to be moved by a generous sympathy for oppressed and
patriotic communities . In his unstudied remarks on receiving the address from the Friends of Italy , Kossuth , aw representing Hungary , declared that he accepted the alliance with Joseph Mazzini as representing Italy ; a declaration which will strike terror at Vienna— -ft * it means that Hungarians will no longer he available for the coercion of Italy , nor Italians for lw coercion of Hungary . It will be observed that the leaders of the combined European movement arc resting the banin of their operations on the win ])'" and naked faotH , and that their policy is as lnnic and open aa that of Austria is secret , and crooked ,
and cruel . t The astounding declaration in the Jttiu's <» Wednesday will contribute , not only to Hliake . i » tottering power of Absolutism , but still furtlici i ^ open the eyes of tho English people . " Stagnation \» the phrase applied to financial ailairs nil over in Continent ; not , be it observed , becau . se there is i . demand for money—quite tho reverse . Austria , ^ know , ban been begging . so importunately l "' ' , la . st tho Duke of Moelena became the nomi »«»» lender , to nave the credit of tho repulsed ' *«* ' ¦ £ The enormous premium on gold and « llvi : r . ' , Vienna " continues , " to use the words ol " » Times in its Sacred Column , " rapidly to advance i
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 8, 1851, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08111851/page/10/
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