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Leader Office, Saturday, April 14. GOVER...
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THE CONFERENCES. The Wanderer of Vienna....
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THE WAR. Marseilles, Thursday. The news ...
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Miscellaneous. Colonki- Sinnrom' And Thi...
• well as the providing prpperly-constituted trausportship 3 for the sick and wounded , and hospital-ships . The letters containing these suggestions were superscribed " Pressing and immediate ; " but it is needless to say that the plans recommended were not carried out . Education j & vxsg . Jurymen . —A parliamentary return just published shows that , in Hertfordshire m 1851 , there were 422 coroners' inquests ; in 1852 , 466 ; andin 1853 , 527 ; and that in the three years just specified , 195 294 and 112 jurors were unable to sign , their names . The proportion is much larger in Gloucestershire , where , in 1851 , 422 inquests were held ; in 1852 , 46 G ; and in 1853 , 527 ; while in the first-mentioned year , 1260 ; in 1852 , 1188 ; and in 1853 , 855 jurors had a mark opposite their names . In the borough of Hereford during 1851 , 1852 , and 1853 * there were altogether 56 inquests , and the gratifying fact appears that all the jurors were able to write . Mr . Joseph Richardson , the inventor of the instruments of the Rock , Bell , and Steel Band , died on Sunday last , in the sixty-sixth year of his age .
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Leader Office , Saturday , April 14 . GOVERNMENT LOAN . The Chancellor of the Exchequer has transmitted the following notice to the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England , as a medium of communication with the Stock Exchange : — " Treasury Chambers , April 12 , 1855 . " Gentlemen , —I beg leave to inform you , and request that you will make it known in the usual manner , that Lord Palmerston and I shall be ready to see any gentlemen who may be desirous of contracting for a loan for the service of the present year , on Monday next , the 16 th instant , at one o ' clock , in order to inform them of the amount which will be Wanted , and to fix the time and the manner of the bidding ; and I hope it will be convenient to you , or one of you , to meet those gentlemen here at that hour . " I have the honour to be , Gentlemen , " Your obedient , humble servant ,, " G . CojRNEWAxr , Lewis . " The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England . "
The Conferences. The Wanderer Of Vienna....
THE CONFERENCES . The Wanderer of Vienna . of the 7 th says : — " MTDrouyn do Lhuys was presented this day by Count Buol to the Emperor , and the audience lasted upwards of an hour . The honourable Minister is to dine with his Majesty to-morrow . All the members of the Conference , with the exception of the Russians , have had long conferences with the French Minister . He has brought with him a paper on the Eastern question , drawn up by the Emperor Napoleon , and it is to be laid before the Congress . The first interview between M . Drouyn do Lhuys and Count Buol did not last less than five hours , and ho had immediately afterwards a long conversation with tord Westmoreland . "
Persons Who Can Speak English, Together ...
Persons who can speak English , together with the Danish , Swedish , or llussian tongues , nre greatly needed for the Baltic Fleet , as interpreters .
A Telegraphic Despatch From Madrid Says,...
A telegraphic despatch from Madrid says , tha * an emeule there has been put down by the militia , and that fifteen of the agitators havo been arrested .
The War. Marseilles, Thursday. The News ...
THE WAR . Marseilles , Thursday . The news from Sebastopol comes down to the 30 th of March . Conferences had taken place betweon the Generals and Admirals . The Russians had made more sorties , which had all been repulsed . They continued their fire , particularly oil the side of the Quarantine and the Malakoff . Tower . Several flrcs had broken out in Sebastopol . The Russians were fortifying thomselves on the side of the Stevemaia Fort , and were arming new battorios . Trieste , Thursday . We have intelligence from Constantinople to the 2 nd of April . It was thought that all the allied fleet would soon sail for Sebastopol , in order to cooperate in the general attack . Vienna , Thursday Evening . According to a telegraphic despatch from the Crimea , dated April 1 , tlie allied armies wore quito roady to open their lire upon Sebastopol . Brtlukkvn , March 81 . The Russians have constructed two new battories , and havo converted the ambuscades into an advanced parallel . The Allios havo also constructed two now batteries . TUo weather wns not so fine ; ic was very cold . Of sovon Russian admirals at Sobastopol , at tho commencement of tho siege , two only now remain .
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King , tho ox-detootive , liaa baen found guilty of inciting boys to steal , and lias been sentenced to fourteen years' transportation .
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO <"© jje Seated " For a Half-Year ..... £ 0 13 0 To be remitted in advance . igg" Money Orders should be drawn upon the Stband Branch Offl . ce , and be made payable to Mr . Alheed E . Galloway , at No . 7 , Wellington Street , Strand .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , butas a guarantee of his good faith . Coanmunications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paperonly . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . We cannot undertake to returnrejected communications .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there . is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the verylaw o - its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold
Are We To Have An Aristocracy ? The Time...
ARE WE TO HAVE AN ARISTOCRACY ? The Times has found it . profitable of late to write hard against ai'istocratic jobs . Most edifying to the liberal mind are its diatribes on this subject . ~ Not a baronet ' s cousin can get a place but it is down on him . The severity is such that we feel inclined to cry mercy , and remind the eastigator that it is a man ' s misfortune , not his fault , that he is born a-lord . Even Mr . Diskaeii ' s organ . has its little Jesuitical liberalisms about
plebeian " merit , and reminds you that the Tory aristocrats have often condescended to hire their political flunkeys from the untitled classes . The Daily News , of course , works away morning after morning against the " Incorrigibles" with the most uncompromising- vigour and the most unequivocal honesty of purpose : every promotion of a person whose name is to be found in the Peerage is stigmatised by its incorruptible pen . „ But what does all this come to ? Simply this , that *' aHst 7 ) ci ats' ~ 'do" ; H' 6 t" taboo their own sons and brothers . They employ the men they know . They take their
relations as their clerks and partners just as merchants take theirs . Nothing can be more natural . Besides , tho younger sons have a sort of claim upon us for political employment . We oblige them to be honourables and forbid them to dig , in order that wo may preserve tho Corinthian capital of society . It is like the claim which the younger members of tho lloyal Family have upon us for an indemnification in tho shape of pensions against tho disabilities of the Marriage Act . But for tho social restrictions which wo lay upon them , several of the present Ministry might bo thriving tailors . They who minister to tho altar must livo of the altar . The
honourables minister to our flunkey ism , and of oar flimkoyism they must livo . It is the same with all those who complain against aristocratic pride , while they respect the institution of aristocracy . Pride is tho function of aristocrats . "Whcro is the use of castes if tho distinction is never to be felt ? Wo rail against tho eftbets , and cherish or spare the cause .
Are wo to havo an aristocracy ? That is a question which Destiny lms now put to this nation , and to which she will havo an answer . Tho -answer of the Times would soon . be given , iP nny one were to attempt in earnest to " . make a radical change in our form of government . " Tho English aristocracy has
been great in » history . It has been , upon the whole , the manliest , bravest , most moral , most friendly to law and freedom of all aristocracies that the world ever saw . It has spoken and fought for liberty when the Commons were powerless and dumb . Half of its members took part in the Rebellion ; threefourths took part in the Revolution . Magna Charta and the Bill of Bights will for ever bear its name . Has it now gone the common
way of all medieval institutions ? Has it , through the general diffusion of those political aptitudes which it once monopolised , become effete for good purposes , and powerful only for evil ? If this is so , there is still time - —though but little time—to gather up its ashes into an honoured urn , and to inscribe upon that urn the names of Kunnyrnede and the Convention . And what good man , whether noble or plebeian , can doubt the justice and expediency of doing so ?
What is the English aristocracy ? Mainly the progeny of successful advocates ; a source from which , as Cablxxe says , you can scarcely expect a very superior morality to spring . If there are exceptions , they are chiefly the descendants of statesmen like Bubi / Eigh , who amassed great fortunes in the public service , while noble natures like WiiSiNaHAM served their country and died poor . There is no
very strong title to perpetuity here . As to any claims to the exclusive or even peculiar possession of high principle or honour , let the social success of Hudsos " , and the political success of Disraeli , speak for itself , We pass over more private instances of aristocratic high-mindedness , which are now coming - upon __ somewhat thickly , jmd which remind us of the sinister omens ^ ent to the House of Obxea ^ s in the affairs of the Duke de Pbaslin and M . Teste .
As to the actual power of the Peers , it has long departed . They have dropped the sword and have not taken up the pen . There is ^ nothing on which their domination as a caste can rest . There is no one quality , mental or physical , in which they are distinguishable from common men . Their huntsmen hunt better ; their gamekeepers shoot better ; their peasants fight better : and it t
seems that with all their advantages in he way of early training , almost everybody governs betters Wealth -is their last . support : and their wealth is being wasted by mortgages , and outdone by colossal fortunes made in manufacture and commerce . Is the perpetual influx of Campbei / ls , Pepyses , and IIoi / fes , with the- occasional absorption of a Jones Lloyd ,. sufficient to turn the scale ?
Wo shall bo told that the English are by naturo aristocratic , that is , they are by nature flunkoys , and incapable of transferring to nobility of character the respect which they have been taught to pay to nobility of birth . This is the lesson constantly preached by political charlatans , who glorify the ascendancy of low passions aud prejudices , which they call human nature , just as a snake might plead for the sylvan beauties of a jungle , or as tho cholera , if it had a weekly organ , might try to cast a halo round foul drains . Aud Jlunkoys
undoubtedly tho English peoplo are in all situations of life , in tho mother country and in tho colonies , at homo and abroad . The aristocratic satirist has plenty of matter for most righteous sneers at democratic tutthunting . But this servility is not u part of our nature : it is tho result of eight centuries ot national training . It is Taat vanishing from the '" ff ^ cr inindM ¦ m the lower , it is closely lmkod to hnto .
If the hour of the aristocracy bo come , then with it must conio tho hour of another institution , which is merely the social -apex of aristocracy , but tho perpetuity of -which it has never entered into tho heart oXthe ltnves
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Leader (1850-1860), April 14, 1855, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14041855/page/11/
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