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Public Meetings. Lord John Russell On Mo...
sMikin & ' ani ^ wi of ^ ar 5 iy , » na . kiiMln ? ss > of the jach The corrective of- these errors and vices is to besought , . joofcina higher decree of civilization . for a- very high degree of civilization at the commencement of the eighteenth century had been followed by anarchy and bloodshed at the closebut in the propagation of the true principles of Christianity , unperverfced by sectarianism ; Lord John gtenced at the imniense extension of the English and Anglo-American nations , and looked forward to a time;—perhaps not far distant—when our . race wilj number eighty millions of free people , ; speaking V common language , and reading the . EngJish . Bible , Shakspeare , and Milton . He trusted that the day would come when we should see realised tl » e magnificent lines of Dryden : — " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely , weary , ¦ wandering' travellers , Is Reason to tbe soul ; and , as on high Those glimmering lights discover but the sky—Not lifj'it U 9 here—so Reason ' s feeble ray Was lent , not to assure our doubtful way ^ Bur guide us upward to a better flay . And , as tho ^ e nightly tapers disappear Wli 11 Day ' s bright Lord ascends our hemisphere . So pale grows Reason at Religion ' s sight , - So dies , and so dissolves , in supernatural light . " The lecturer thus concluded : — " To each one of us—to you young mon of the United Kingdom more especially— belongs a portion of the noble task of speeding our country on her great and glorious way , by walking steadfastly in the full light of such truths as we already possess , and by hastening the noonday brightness of such as are only- dawning . Let it not be the reproach of any one of us that , born in a land where the laws acknowledge that thought and speech are free , we have yet ever lent the helping hand of custom , folly , or intolerance , to extinguish one spark of that Divine flame which we call the soul , or ever turned away f om a righteous and peaceable endeavour to loosen the
fetters that still bind it throughout the world . Some there are who shut their eyes to one truth , lest it should impair another more sacred in their eyes . But one truth can no more quench another truth , than one sunbeam can quench another sunbeam . Truth is one as God is one . Go forward to meet her in whatever garb , welcome her from whatever quarter she comes , till at last , beyond the grave , you shall hail her in a blaze of glory -which mortal eye can only strain in vain to contemplate . Truth is the gem for which the wise man digs the earth , the pearl for which he dives into the ocean , the star for which he climbs the heavens—tbe herald and the guardian of moral and political progress . " ( Cheers . )
ME , GLADSTONE ON COLONISATION . A lecture was delivered by Mr . Gladstone on Monday evening , to the members of the Chester jiiechanics' Institute ,, on the subject of " Our Colonies . " His remarks were to the same general effect as those lately delivered by him at Ha-Wardeh ; bat , towards the close , a , fresh and melajicholy interest was thrown over , the subject by a reference to the death of Sir William Molesworth , to whose efforts for colonia , l . rpfori » the lecturer b ' ore high testimony .., % Lt . Gladstone cpncluded by Enlarging on the necessity for leaving <)> ur colonies to choose their institutions , and of binding them to us by means of affectionate treatment rather than of coercion .
" ipefend them , '' , said , Mr . Gladstone , " against foreign degression ; regulata their foreign relations : these' things belong'to the colonial connexion with this country . Of the duraton of that colonial cdnriexioh let them be the judges . I say , and , moreover , I predict , that , if you leave them that freedom of judgment , " it Jis hard to say when the day frill come that they will- wish to separate from this groat nation . " { Cheers . } ' ¦ i !
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; THE REFUGEE QUESTION . A . jmjPeting , -which was largely attended , was held ; on Monday night in St . Martin ' s Hall , Long Acre , to protest against the recent expulsion of refugees from Jersey ; to warn the public against the apprehended Alien Bill ; and to denounce the present war policy . Mr . Miall , M . l \ , opened the proceedings , and contended that the recenfexpulsion of the Jersey exiles was a flagrant violation of the spirit of English liberty . He observed : — M Complete protection was what they claimed for the
Jersey refugees as well as for exiles in all coining times . ( Hear , bear . ) Englishmen would not bate one jot of their national hospitality at the bidding of any one , and deajtad that those who landed on theso shores should Wwelcomed to tbe full enjoyment of British liberty . tWe / jhuBt be no registration of political refugees , no inflictJ Bui ' veillnnce ( he . r ); , the freedom of the exile most not be placed in the hands of any Minister of the CroWn ' . These refageiee must be partakers of the pri 7 ViUfeCH -ofEnglishraon , who ' claimed to accord this hospitality « t buy and every cost . He felt confident that
if the nation was , as it professed to , be , represented" in Parliament , Parliament would scorn the idea of abridging or curtailing- in any respect the right of asylum in this country- He believed that-the alacrity with which the people undertook jthe , war with Russia sprang in a great , degree fromihe ad mirationentertained by them of the firmness with which Turkey had maintained her right to shield the exile , and had stood forward , braving the despotic Courts by which she was surrounded , and determining , in accordance with the principles of would those who had
her religion , that she never betray cast themselves upon her sympathies . ( Cheers . ) Were we to occupy a lower position in the scale of nations than Turkey , our ally ?" Letters of apology for absence , but at the same time expressing the entire sympathy of the writers with the objects of the meeting , were addressed to the chairman by Mr . Cobden , M . P ., Mr . G . Thompson , Mr . C . Gilpin , Mr . F . A- Taylor , and other gentlemen . Mr . Cobden wrote as follows : —
" Midhurst , Nov . 7 . " My dear Sir , —I cannot , I am sorry to say , take a part in your demonstration against the arbitrary treatment of M . Victor Hugo and his brethren in exile . Bat although distance from town , and other engagements prevent me from being present ; I sympathise very cordially with the promoters of the meeting . Surely such proceedings as those you are meeting to protest against ought to open the eyes of at least that part of the public which is supporting the war from a sympathy with delusion that has been
libeialism abroad , as to the gross practised on their credulity , by those who have told them that in the hands of our present Government the war in which we are engaged is a struggle for liberty . Depend on it , the tendency , both at home and abroad , ever since the peace of Europe was broken , has been the very reverse ; and give us but a few years more of war , and we shall find ourselves retrograding to the dork political doings of Sidmouth ' s evil days . " Believe me , faithfully yours , "R . Cobden . "
Mr . Washington Wilks said : — " The people were the best judges of what constituted tbe spirit of English law , and if this expulsion really took place in virtue of some obsolete enactment , all he could say was , that it was not and ought not to be the governing law of England . ( Hear . ) England had ever been a refuge from foreign tyranny . Not sixty years . ago , when the Empercr Napoleon , then at peace with us , desired to silence with despotic authority a refugee Royalist who had fled to this country , and whose writings were offensive ta him , the reply , even of the Torv Government of the day , was , ' We cannot do that .
If lie has wronged you , sue him in our courts . ' In order that this might be done the more readily , the Government lent trie Emperor tbeir law officers , und sued this refugee for libelling Napoleon , whereupon rose up the illustrious Mackintosh , demanding that England should uphold—againstl f , if need be , the world in arms' —the rights of all who dwelt here to print , and publish what they pleased , subject only tp the common chance of trial for libel . ( . Heac , hear . ) Louis Napoleon could not forgive the men whom he had so deeply injured , and therefore sought to pursue them even qn English soil . "
Mr . Wilks concluded by movingu That this meeting utters its indignant protest against the recent expulsion of refugees from Jersey , und affirms that foreigners landing in the dominion of the British Crown become at once entitled to the natural and legal right of Englishmen—a public examination and trial by jury before exposure to any penal consequences . That this meeting pledges itself and culls upon the country to resist by all lawful means the apprehended attempt to carry through Parliament an ct invalidating or restricting the right of sanctuary . "
Mf . Ernest Jones , in seconding the resolution , observed that , in a proper pjace and at a proper time , he should be ready to defend the original letter published in Jersey , and that the Attorney-General of that island had stated that it was not illegal , and that the writers could not be prosecuted for publishing it ., —The resolution was then put to the meeting , and carried all but unanimously . No other was brought forward . MEETINO AT NBW 0 A 8 TLK , A largo and most enthusiastic meeting was held in the Lecture HallNelson-streetNewcastle , on Monday , to
, * donounce tho recent act of tyranny committed by the English Government in expelling tho Jersey refugees . The chief speech of the evening waatliaLof Mr . J . Cowan , Jun ., of Blaxdon , who observed that the letter which had given offence did not appear in V'JJTomme till twenty dayfl after its fir . it publication in London , whore it had been printed in several Republican papers- It was , therefore , ho contended , most unfair to single out » poor refugee publication , and spare the rest Mr , Cowan warned tin ? country ngajnat the danger * of tho , Monttpartiat alliance , and pointed to the rumours now in circulation respecting tho probable re-enactment of tho Allen Bill . Several other
speakers addressed the" meeting , and resolutions , sympa thising with the exi en and reprobating the authorities , were unanimously carried . . ' . ' ... ¦
Victor Hugo And The Jersey „ Connetable....
VICTOR HUGO AND THE JERSEY „ CONNETABLE . Mr . John Le Neveu , Connetable of St . Clements , Jersey , has written to the JDaily JVews , to deny the accuracy of the conversation between himself and M . Victor Hugo , reported by a correspondent of that paper , and quoted in the Leader last week . The Connetable saya : — " From a feeling of courtesy , I patiently heard out what the illustrious exile had to say against authority—French , English or local . I conceived that , under existing circumstances , it would have been rude on my
part to have deprived him of the opportunity ho seemed so anxious to enjoy , of giving vent to his pent-up feelings of anger . Bat I positively deny having seated myself ,. ' with downcast eyes , ' to enter into any controversy with him , or listened to his words ' with visible embarrassment , ' or submitted to be catechised as your imaginative correspondent state ? . I formally and expressly declined entering into any political conversation wiih M . Hugo , and , in one word , declare the whole affair , as related in your columns , to have been d 4 naturee from one end to the other , and the dramatic dialogue which you have published , to be a romance . "
In answer to Mr . Le Neveu , Messrs . Charles and Francois Victor Hugo have transmitted the annexed to the Daily News : — " Sir , —We have just read a communication , inserted in your number of yesterday , the 12 th . inst ., signed ' La Nevou , Connetable of Jersey , ' and entitled ' Interview between Victor Hugo and the Connetable of Jersey . ' " Beside our father , M . Victor Hugo , and M . Le Neveu , there were present two of the Connetable ' s officers , and we two . We declare , on our part , that the conversation has been faithfully and exactly narrated by your correspondent . He has rather omitted than amplified . Here , for example , is a detail which we can add : —
' After reading to tho Connetable of St . Clement the declaration of the prosorits , whicli enumerates all the crimes of M . Bonaparte , and contains the act of impeachment emitted by the French Court of Justiee against the said Bonaparte—a declaration which is tlxe cause assigned for the expulsion—M . Victor Hugo , addressing the Connetable , said to him : Is there anything in that which is not the exact truth ? ' To which the Conne ' table replied ,- It is not always expedient to proclaim thj truth . ' ' These , sir , are the facts . sentiment which in
" We perfectly understand the - spired the letter of the honourable M . Le Neveu , and which will probably inspire others of the same kmdj to which M . Le NeVeu will understand , on his part , that we will henceforth abstain from replying-. " Discussion on the grave act that has been committed at Jersey belongs to history ; contemporaries can prily bring their evidence , to the bar . ' Public opinion will judge between the averment 01 M . Le NGveu and pur averment . " Accept , Sir , our sentiments of cordiality . ( Signed ) " Chatm . es Hugo , . " Fiiancois Victor Hugo . " Guernsey , Hauteville-house , Nov . 13 . " Felix
The following letter from M . Pyat , originally published in French by the Times , is translated by the Morning Advertiser , which has opened ita columns to every protest agajnst the violence of the Jersey Governor—the lawless Love : — . . , " Sir , —The English Government , by the expulsion of the refugees from Jersey , has rendered itself Bonapartist . It has committed an act at once of inifluityimd of baseness ; of baseness , ia not daring , or beingunuble to reach the authors of the letters , protected in . London by the , law of the country , it has fallen upon , our Jersey friends , who , it pretends to say , are living under an exceptional regime ; of iniquity , because , a » it ' is said , it has punished the innocent for the guilty , j £ we may qaljl guilty men who have exercised un un > doubted right in enlightening the English people upon the dangers of their Blliunce with Bonaparte . " The members of the Commune llevolutionnatro residing in ' Englaud , therefore , reprove this urbitrary penalty , inflicted , not upon themselves but upon others , for a circumstance of which they assumed the full an * entire responsibility . " For the Commune Rdvolutionnaire , " The Committee , ' Felix Pyat . " RONOKB . i . i m xt n -lar ^ it " G , JoOHBA ' N . " London , Nov . 11 , 185 & . **• "
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 17, 1855, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17111855/page/5/
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