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449 THE LEADER. [No. 372,. ^atitrday,
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FUNERAL OF THE DTJCHESS OF GLOUCESTER (Y...
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FRANCE. The Constitutionnel gives some d...
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AMERICA. The screw steamship Canadian ha...
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Leadei: Office, Saturday, May 9. House O...
an < jr 1 fte alterations fully accounted' for the ba * qualities ; they Bad exhibited . He asked if it was true that these- tforee ships h . ad been altered' by the Admiralty ; and if' the reports -with regard to them were- true or not' ?* - —Jti ? r : Btenhncse asked if it was true that when the Transit fell fbult of her anchor and bored a-hole in hep bottom ; it ? was five o ' clock the next morning before the leak was- discovered' ? Sir Ch-ariies Wood said it was time that these vessels , were all bought of Messrs-. Mare ; but they were not built in- anticipation of employment in the river . They were surveyed by the Admiralty officers , and were reported- fit " to carry troops and stores ^ and the only alteration required was that the screw should be made raisable . It was-true that the size of the poop was- increased , but it did not add materially to their upper weiht . Sir Charles entered at length- into a statement
g of the estimated stability of the Transit , and' the result of trials and experiments . As to the Perseverance , since the accident which had happened she had' performed her duty without the slightest complaint . No well-founded complaint had' been made against the Urgent as a ship ; exception had only been taken to her engines , which , of course , were not built by the Admiralty , but by Messrs . Napier , of Glasgow , for the Russian Government . For the accident to die Transit off the Isle of WIgbt , he admitted- the Master was blamable , and he had received a severe reprimand . What happened to the Transit in the Bay of Biscay was only a common occurrence to new rigging . It got slackened ; and it was necessary to set it up again . This might have been done at sea , but ifcwas more convenient to do it at Corunna .
TRANSPORTATION . Sir George Gbkt moved for leave to bring in a bill to alter the present law , which , had abolished transportation entirely . It was the same measure -which , was introduced in the last session . Hudson ' s bay . Mr . EiABOiJCHEBB moved for a . select committee to inquire into the subject of the condition of the Hudson ' s Bay territory . It was a renewal of that committee which sat in the last session . INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS . Mr . Addekxey obtained leave to bring in a bill for the promotion o £ industrial schools . This was also a revival of a bill of last session . JUDGMENTS AND EXBCUTK >» BltE . Mt . Crawford obtained leave to bring in a bill , also dropped from last session , creating a uniform practice with regard to judgments and executions in the United Kingdom . The House adjourned at twenty minutes past six .
449 The Leader. [No. 372,. ^Atitrday,
449 THE LEADER . [ No . 372 ,. ^ atitrday ,
Funeral Of The Dtjchess Of Gloucester (Y...
FUNERAL OF THE DTJCHESS OF GLOUCESTER ( YESTERDAY ) . The remains of tbe Duchess of Gloucester were buried in St . George ' Chapel , Windsor , yesterday . The corpse was conveyed by the Great Western Railway from the Paddington terminus to the Slough station . Mounted guards of honour attended its progress , and there was a large attendance of the public . The coffin was gorgeous in crimson Genoa velvet and gold nails , & c . ; and the coronet , borne on a cushion , was of course not wanting . Prince Albert , the Prince of Wales , and the Duke of Cambridge occupied stalls in the chapel during the ceremony of interment , which was performed by the Very Rev- Dr . Wellesley , Dean of Windsor .
France. The Constitutionnel Gives Some D...
FRANCE . The Constitutionnel gives some details as to the precise object of Baron Groe ' s mission to China . It says : — " This diplomatist will have to demand from the Chinese Government reparation for wrongs peculiar to Franco alono . Among others is . the murder of M . Chappedeluine , the missionary who was last year put to death under the most atrocious circumstances . Ho is aloo- to demand a fresh treaty of commerce . The French squadron ia so composed as to be able to ascend the rivers , and thus act so strongly on the Chinese Government as to compel it to satisfy the demands madb . '
Spooking of a contemplated visit of Prince Napoleon to Berlin , the Paris correspondent of the Times , this day , writes : — " There is some rumour about a private mission connected , with it , but of the truth or nature of which little is known- It is * at all cvonta , curious that bucIj a moment as this , with the Grand Duke still at the TuMwwa ,. BhouUl bo chosen for the journey . "
America. The Screw Steamship Canadian Ha...
AMERICA . The screw steamship Canadian haa arrived from Portland , with advicoa to the 25 th ult . The America has arrived at Halifax . From Halifax wp loam that tho Houso of Assembly has pofieed tho bill giving to tho Now York and Newfoundland Telegraph , Company tho exclusive privilege for twenty-five years of landing a submarine tolcgrapli cable from 1 any part of Europe on any part of tho shores of Nioya , Scotia and Capo Breton .
A despatch , from Washington , states that Lord Napier approved of the despatch of a strong American naval ' force to the Isthmus . Ten vessels were to be despatched .
Convocation-.— The Two Houses'of Congres...
Convocation-. — The two Houses'of Congress for the province of Canterbury met yesterday ; but the proceedings were not of general interest . Crystal Pat , ace . — Return of admissions for six days ending Friday , May 8 , 1857 , including season ticket holders ^ 16 , 593 .
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flS THIS DEPARTMENT , AS ALL Ol'INIONS , HOWEVER EXTREME , ALLOWED AN EXPKKSSION" , THE EDITOU NEOESSABILY HOLDS Illil-SB-LF KBSrONSlMJ * SKMiNONE . l
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There is no learned- man . but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and hie judgment sharpened . If , then , it , be profitable for him io read , why should it not , at lease , be tolerable for his adversary to write ?*—Milton
Icaria At Nauvoo Ani> Iowa. (To The Edit...
ICARIA AT NAUVOO ANI > IOWA . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sir , —You have honoured the Icarians with an article upon the subject of " Icaria" in your valuable paper of the 4 th instant . As this article might mislead your readers , I beg of you , as a .. favour , to admit also the following corrections : —Icaria is , as before , at Nauvoo and Iowa unchanged , and the part of our brethren that removed to St . Louis is but a fragment of the Iearia . When this fragment contains 174 persons , the main colony contains 239 persons , of whom 2 are absent , 18 in Iowa , and 219 at Nauvoo . Since the 4 th August , 1856 , till tbe 1 st January , 1857 , there have been in the Icarian community 3 marriages , 6 births , and 4 deaths .
The budget of the ninth anniversary , exhibited by the administration on the 4 th February last , signed " Gerard , " proved the general receipts from the 1 st July to the 31 st December , 1856 , to have been 24 , 128 dollars 65 cents , and the general disbursements during the same period , 22 , 433 dollars 40 cents . The inventory exhibited at Nauvoo a net proceeds of 40 , 770 dollars 97 cents , instead of last year ( 1856 ) , before the fraction left for St . Louis , 64 , 806 dollars 53 cents . The inventory of the Icarian colony at Iowa is herein not included : the works and soil of the latter are valued at 12 , 395 dollars . There are 3115 acres of land , of which 273 acres are in culture ; one-third is more or less wooded , and contains 47 various buildings in wood .
The Icarian people , which zoologists would class into tho " infinitely small" ones , is composed mostly of French , who have emigrated to try communism ; that is , all work in common , and all divide in common , property is public , and lodges in the unit of state . However little numerous they are , they form , notwithstanding , through their constitution ,, a nation or people ( in Europe exist but tribes , masses , or heaps of men ) , and the Icarian people is organised from without by ordinary laws , having almost no connexion with the exterior , possessing a governmental train , that is , all property belongs to the social body or to society , nothing to tho individual person but the right and claim upon the national property . .
Tho colony thus forms a large association or universal society , or a community of property , organized upon tho basis of fraternity . Tho associates adopt each other for brethren and sisters . The aim of the association ( incorporated by the Legislature of Illinois ) is to live and work in common , to clear and cultivate tho soil , to procure the well-being of all the associates , and , moreover , to devote itself to the interest of the whole of humanity , proving by practice that communism is possible , and the best social organisation to secure tho happiness of all and everyone . Strangers from all parts of the world are admitted , they adopt tho communistic principles , and if they are of " ¦ ordinary utility . " Tho social capital consists of tho capital of all associates ; everybody brings
into tho society what ho is possessed of ; personal property is abolished . There exists but an enjoyment or usage of such things of the community which arc necessary . Equality is the principlo of tho community ; all are equally well instructed , well lodged , well clothed , and well nourished . Anxiety and caro , vice and crime , arc unknown . Kvoryone engages himself to labour according to his power and hia capacity in the employ distributed to him . Tho community engages itself specially to caro and protcot tho children , old ago , the infirm and sick . It has schools whore all children are
brought up and instructed in common . Poor Cabot , not far from seventy years of ago , deviated " finally" from his own principles , which is nmcli to bo regretted . In the Social Contract ho says : " Tho aim of tho association would fail , and all would bo compromised , if , distant from Franco , ono party of tho Icarians . cmild suddenly quit tho others , abandon the children , widows , old men , inarm and sick , disorganise , pnralyzo , and ruin the society by taking from it part of its capital . In consequence , tho duration of the society haa no limits . All associates engage never to quit tho society without its consent , and to exact neither ita dissolution nor -ita
liquidation , nor the- division-of * the * society . This is . a . sacred engagement , for without it nobody would' have left ? France to search another country at a distance- of from' six- to eight thousand- miles : " And ha saysfurther " If somebody ; wilT retire from fto & society he loses aU < his rights , and can claim nothing , not even his-contribu ^ fion , neither partially nor wholly . ** " So much for poor dear , old M . Cabet , and : his disciples- afe St . Louie . ' I have the honour to be , & o . & c ., € . G . At-LHUSEX , Consular European Agent for tlie loaribn Nation , United States of America' . Kiel , April IS , 1857 .
Tbe Itauans In Alexandria. (To The Edito...
TBE ITAUANS IN ALEXANDRIA . ( To the Editor of the Leader .. ) SoBy—In this country of sand and sunshine , not being blessed with a > journal ia whioli we can express our opinions on general matters , or bring- before the eye of the public wrongs we are at times compelled to endure , we are , in cases like tbe one we are about to lay before you , in which private feelings have been grossly outraged by men in thai *! public capacity , compelled to seek in the journals of other countries that exposition which we ar-e denied va > this land , that for the present we Lave adopted aa our home . And knowing that in a free country like England' a journal like yours is always open to expose everything . unjus . t , we have on this occasion ventured' to address ourselves to you , in the hope you will find for the following , facts a- place iu the columns of your paper . We do not supply you with these to increase the many divisions which now afflict our unhappy country Italy ,. but to put on theic guard all lover-s of religious freedom ; against the doings of a set of men professing to be liberals , but who ar-e neither moue nor less than the tools of that worst of all isms , Jesuitism . DioniEio Giatti , one of the best of Italian patriots ^ who as major , of a battalion in 1848 ,. fought nobly for the independence of bis country , but whose niind could nob brook the hated pr-esence of the tyrannical stranger in his native lanc \ sought refuge , along with many of usj in this our common land of exile . His virtues as a citizen , liis love and charity to his neighbours , his ardent
love of country , his unalterable adherence to his principles as an Italian patriot , and his most lively aversion . to despotism and Popery ( as be himself would say , thelatter being so identical with the former ) , gained for him the esteem of his brothers in exile , and also of all true lovers of political and religious freedom who had thegood fortune to be acquainted with him . Unfortunately Ciatti was overtaken by sickness , and being unmarried , in the brief space of five or six days he was in a state to require assistance , not of a mercenary kind like that of his landlord's , but of that kind of assistance such aa love , friendship , and charity can only give , aad such a * he himself had practised . surrounded
When in good health he always was by a numerous circle of friends , but his disease being a contagious one , some for fear of their health , some on account of business , some for one reason and some another ,, but always for some not very plausible niotiyo , nearly alL or at least many , scarcely even paid him a passing , visit for a few minutes in the course of the day . . Notwithstanding , however , he did nob want for true friends , those who truly shared with him the , noble sentiments , of nationality and liberty , those who were not stupidly or Jesuitically Roman Catholics , but brother Evangelist * who truly sympathised with the sick niaiK Those alono were his untiring assistants , and to whom ho many bo the
times expressed a hope that , should he soon on verge of eternity , they would not allow Ms last moment * on this earth to be embittered by the presence of ft Romish priest , because , said he , tho faces of such men , covered as they are with the mask of cupidity and hypocrisy , instead of inspiring him- with thoughts ol tho world to come , would recul to his mind the long story ol his country ' s wrongs produced by that casta alone , tlio sufferings through them ho himself had endured , tueir persecutions , their betrayals of the confessional , and ia fact their guilt , as a body , of nil sorts of wickedness , prevalent on this earth . These were the sentiments o Dionisio Ciatti . Wo will see how his . wishes wore carried
Ho dwelt in tho house of a poor fiddler , whom wo will leave the reader to judge whether ho was » B » orttnt V afraid or conscientiously a Jesuit . Scarcely had pooi Ciatti ' s illness beguu to manifest any d ' W ™* symptoms before this miserable scraper ran on o < certain chemist ' s shop , whoro Maltese mind sheds itflligjt abroad , discussing in tho blessings of Catholicism tho virtues of its priesthood , and the still greater gioiy m tho only true Church , " and whoro arc accustom * w asaomblo a few soi-disant liberals , but whom wo Mm to bo a sort of vestry servants , or rathor JuanU «<« brokers , who , merely for tho dusiro of being lho" « f JJ bo exceedingly godly , arc daily exhorting poor . U .. - » take advantage of tho confessional , ^ c oivc nu ul gu ^ , encouraging pompous funerals , ami , in iaci ,, mending tho uso of nil the nauseous wan * ofluM J sale in tho holy warehouse of tho . Koniau Cutlionc
Therefore , acarooly bad tho poor fiddler made kuuwa the perilous state of hia lodger's health boforo u v <
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Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09051857/page/10/
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