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We this day present Ho . 1 P * i J * series of articles , reviewing the question of Mutual Assurance Societies in all its bearings , and pointing put the best mode of obtaining relief froni the dangerous situation in which the Assurers in Mutual Offices are so unexpectedly placed by the Vice Chancellor Kindersley ' s Order relating to the call in a mutual company winding up in his Court . N . B . Preparations are making to pursue the subject of BANKING in all its branches , grounded on the same indisputable reports and statements as those adopted , with so much success , in the Analysis already issued . SUBSCRIPTION TO " THE LEADER . " ONE GUINEA PER YEAR , UNSTAMPED , PREPAID . . ( Delivered Gratis ) . . NOTICES TOCORRESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . ( UsWhatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the liaine and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of hisgood faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters wo receive . Their . insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ;¦ and when" omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . We cannot undertake , to return , rejected . communications . A title page and contents to Vol . 0 , will shortly be . presented to Subscribers . . : OFFICE , '¦ . *' . NO . , CATHERINE-STREET , STRAND , W . C ., The commodious premises formerly occupied by the Morning Heiiald .
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in the tumults provoked by the soldiery of Ferdinand during the first days of reaction ; and many have since perished , in the places of torment to which that paternal sovereign consigned them The few survivors of the class of clerical victims are now amongst us ; and they will be greeted with a welcome not less cordial and sincere because they adhere , in sorrow and in exile , to theological tenets from which we as a nation dissent . Of the laymen who compose the majority of the band of exiles recently landed at Cork , a fourth , we understand , were members .. of the short-lived parliament , elected in compliance with the Constito maintain intact
tution which Ferdinand swore and unimpaired in the spring of 1848 . Relying upon the ptiblic oath of royalty , and the inviolability of person and of speech guaranteed them by law , Spavanti and his colleagues , in the Chamber of Deputies , continued to discharge the duties _ . of their station for some time af ter the retrogressive designs of the Court had become apparent , af ter the press had been illegally terrorised into submitting to resumption of the censorship , and the national guard had been dissolved . Instead of deserting their posts precipitately , when danger to their country ' s newly acquired freedom threatened , or seeking personal ease and safety beyond the bec
reach of a perfidious . Court , when it had ome evident that ¦ the resumption of despotism was in its hollow heart , these truly brave and nobleminded men remained in ^ Naples , sustained each others fortitude by private fellowship , and _ daily incurred ., the' ever deepening frown of authority by assembling in the Hall of the Orvietd , set apart for the performance' of their senatorial duties . Week after week ; and month after month , these men , untrained to parliamentary habits , and uncheered by any open ;' expression of . popular sympathy , pursued their steadfast course in as exemplary a manner as the men who struggled with Charles I . in our own Long Parliament . If the issue of the struggle in their case was different , let no man therefore
attempts at partial resistance , and the evil that was likely to ensue from furnishing new pretexts for oppressive violence to those in po-vyer , caused him not only to abstain Mmself from all conspiracies and plots , but led him to dissuade others from entering into them . Disdaining flight , though of ten warned of his danger , he deemed it his duty to remain at Naples , where by his example he felt that he coidd be of most use in . cheering the spirits of his desponding friends , and , as far as in
him lay , shaming the court and its advisers into moderation . But all sense of shame had perished ; and he , against whom there was not in fact the shadow of a legal ground of accusation , and whose papers tyhen seai'ched afforded not a scrap of evidence whereon to hang a charge , was tried and condemned as a traitor upon the testimony of informers , and on documentary proofs so clumsily forged that even the procurator-general was compelled to abandon them in open court .
It is honourable to the people of the United Kingdom that they should have needed no time to consider how such men ought to he received . They are greeted with the welcome of a nationa nation which has long since heard of -their misfortunes , and their miseries , and which , being itself secure and free , mourns-, . over' -the lot of others who still lie in darkness and in the shadow of political death . As we do not possess any permanent organisation amonarst us for showing national
hospitality to those who may stand in need of it , we can only resort to such improvised' expedients as time and circumstances permit . Men of all classes and opinions , however , seem resolved to provide , during the stay of the Neapolitan exiles amongst us , whatever can contribute to their comfort and ease . In doing so , we onl y perform a duty toourselves ¦; . for assuredly in this , | as in so many other conditions , "it is more blessed to give than to -receive ' . "
speak or tlrink lig htly of their capacity or constancy . Nor let it be forgotten that the unscrupulous tyrant - ' with whom they had to deal shrunk for a considerable time before their reproachful gaze , and did not dare to suppress the parliament or to lay violent hands on its members , until the Austrians had reconquered Lombardy , until the Sicilians had been abandoned by Lord Palmerston , and the French had besieged Rome . It was then , and Only then , that the cup of x * oyal vengeance was suffered to overflow , and that the last forms and semblances of Constitutional Government were trampled in tlie dust in the kingdom of the veteran
the two Sicilies . It was then that Pope—whom . Ferdinand bad , after Judas-like embraces , dispatched at the head of a considerable force , to assist in driving the Austrians from Italy , and who but too faithfully sought to obey his instructions—was declared an outlaw and a traitor . It was then that Salicetti , who had been absent on a foreign mission during many months , and whose tendencies towards monarchic institutions were notorious , was driven to desperation by similar injustice , and induced to link his fortunes with those of the republicans of Rome . It was then that Settembrini—a man the least amenable to any
im-¦ f ¦ * . ¦ POERIO AND HIS COMPANIONS . The distinguished men who for ten long years have languished in tho loathsome prisons which the King of Naples keeps for coiivicted patriots have become our guests . For loving Italy and representative freedom , they wore , in 1849 , torn from their friends , loaded with irons , paraded in mockery before an arbitrary tribunal , and on tho evidence of fox'god documents , and perjured spies , found guilty and sentenced to incarceration in chains ibr life . A bishop and seven priests are amongst the number who , after prolonged confinement and misery , have reached this land of ref \» go for tho politically destitute : / i striking and significant answer to the two classes of bigots , one of whom continually assures us that continental libovalitun is synonymous only with hroligjon and anarchy , and tho other of whom are incessantly trying to persuade us that fidelity to freedom ifl a virtue unknown in Catholic countries , or in those connnuijudon that do not belong to the Anglo-Saxon race . A groat many more of tho Neapolitan clorgy wore identified in fooling and conduct , in 1848 , with the reforming party . fcJonio of thorn wero butchered
putation of dcmagogism , faction , or intrigue—was suddenly seized by the police , his house ransacked , his fr iends refused permission to communicate with him and ho himself without any definite charge preferred against him , flung into a noisonie gaol . Ho was known to have been the author of the memorable remonstrance addressed to the King in January , 1848 , to which were appended tho signatures of many thousand citizens , together with the ( ilite of the aristocracy and clergy . Through fear , Ferdinand yielded to' its prayer , and repeatedl y prof bused himself grateful to its promoters for havin out to him the wantsnd wishes
g pointed , a of his people . But Settcmbrini ' s crime , in thus sotting . forth tho truth , was not to bo forgiven , and wlion , tho tide had turned , ho was marked out as ' one of the first who should bo destroyed , if possible , by protracted mental and physical torture . It was then that Alessandvo 1 ' oorio betook liiniHclf to tho Culabrian hills , and there fell , heroically ooinbutting at tho head of a guerilla force against tlio mercenaries of reaction . Ilia brother , Carlo Poavio , refused to follow his example ; ho had filled several oflices succHsively in tho administration , and his punctilious senao of political honour , combined ; no doubt , with his calm discernment of tho futility of all
The Battle Of The Bill., The Impending S...
THE BATTLE OF THE BILL ., The impending struggle hy the House of Commons on the Grovenament Reform Bill is awaited with more curiosity than care by the jiublic at lar ^ e . There is no prevailing- belief that the battle will be a decisive one . Whether the bill be a good or a bad one , it is oil all hands felt that its passing would not settle the question , even for the next seven years . Both sides have , indeed , been for some time convinced that the electoral half of the question will have to lie dealt with first , and the re-distributive half of it in a subsequent session . Reflecting peopl e do not , therefore , trouble their heads , just nowabout the smallness and defects of
, the territorial map appended to the scheme . They understand clearly that no Minister , however powerful or popular , could , in the absence of pressure from without , persuade Parliament , as now constituted , to adopt any comprehensive or general change in the allocution . of seats , The shortcomings , therefore , of the Derbyite measure in this respect will not essentially mar its chances of progress ; while its abstinence from interference with numerous local and individual interests will enhance them materially . But it is not on this htIt is
point that tlje bottle will have to be foug . because , with regard to the -suffrage in towns ; the bill falls not only short of former Whig biddings , and actual popular expectations , but , what is of still more importance , of that which the least democratic section of politicians can hope will be received as oven a temporary settlement , that opposition so varied and formidable seems gathering ngainsfc the second reading . Even the exclusively Whig Cabinet , to which Lord Grey belonged , proposed in 1852 to go as far as a OL
franchise lu boroughs , though that eonHwcenwy captious nobleman now thinks / it to olyeet to any lowering of the franchise at all , unloso the concession bo clogged or balanced by sonic contrivance for increasing the power of tlui Government in the IIouso of Commons . Lord Groy was not a , member oftlie Coalition , which , m IBM , proposed uGf . franchise , but Mr . aimfotonqamlMr . Wohdd oMca then , and yet wo arc told Ilmt these right honourable gentlemen meditate saying content to a measure which docs not go even that iar . And lost of all , the cabinet exclusively ionnod . ofUrlton Clul ) Ooiiwn'iitivos has been unable to hold togothorin consequence of the conviction , on the part of two of 5 is » prominent mombors j that uo plan ought to ho propounded which did not extend materially tlio suffrage in towns . Supposing , then ,
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Leader (1850-1860), March 19, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19031859/page/17/
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