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June 20, 1857.^ THE LEADER. ' 689
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House Of Commons. The Statues In St. Ste...
« as under the protection of England , and she had been degraded by her not having acted as the real protector of that state . Mr . Bentinck urged that it seemed to be a system ? hat this country should take no notice of any insult or offence on the part of the United States , because a certain party in the country Svhich was dependent on America for certain raw produce , always said to the Government , If you go to war with the United States We will turn you out . . The Attorney-General said that it was racomoatiWe with the law of nations to demand compensation for the losses of British subjects at Grey Town ; and a similar course had been pursued by France ; otherwise the Law-officers of the Crown would have urged that course on the Government . , Mr . Disbaelj said the opinions uttered by the Premier seemed to him unsatisfactory a nd unsound , and held out a prospect with regard to our relations with the United States , which was anything but satisfactory . He received with some hesitation the international law as laid down by the Attorney General . He thought it was not a principle of international law to bonrbard an unfortified town without a declaration of war . In this case France had demanded reparation from the United States . Lord J . Russell , said he did not agree with the Government in all the points of the case , but it was clear they could not have acted in the manner suggested by Mr . Disraeli . The American Government had borne out their officer in the bombardment of Grey Town , and that being the case , it was not competent for the British to demand and obtain reparation for the losses of the subjects of this country at Grey Town . He thought , however , that some explanation should have be « n asked as t « the attack and destruction of the house of the British Vice-Consul . -vr A . discussion arose on a motion of Sir Denham Norbeys , to alter the mode of voting on the items of the Estimates ; the motion was finally withdrawn , and the House went into committee on the Civil Service Estimates , which occupied most of the remainder of the sitting .
June 20, 1857.^ The Leader. ' 689
June 20 , 1857 . ^ THE LEADER . ' 689
The Continent. The Prefect Of The Dordog...
THE CONTINENT . The Prefect of the Dordogne , France , has suspended the Mayoi of Sargelat for having stated , in reply to a circular , that he should vote for M . Gibiat , the opposition candidate . The Prefect of the Hautes-PyreWea has suspended M . Ferre " , the Mayor of Tarbes , for persisting in his candidature notwithstanding an official remonstrance . The Archduchess Maria Louisa , sister of the Grand Duke of Tuscany , died at Florence on the 15 th . Tie Spanish Government has at last accepted the resignation of Marshal Serrano as ambassador at Paris . A . pamphlet by Louis Blanc is circulating privately , in which he strongly urges the opposition candidates who . may be elected not to take the oath . His advice i 3 th at they should not content themselves with a simplo refusal , but state their reasons—that , if interrupted , they should persist , and if threatened , resist until they are turned out of the Chamber by physical force . Then ho says the Government will either prosecute them , or it will not . If it do not , it ' will suffer a moral check , and , if it do prosecute them , the people ' s representatives will have tho glorious consolation of joining their fellow citizens , ¦ who ore refugees , in London . —Daily News Paris Correspondent .
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Ckntual CnwmAx , Court ( Yesterday ) . —Richard Kendall , a respectablc-looking young man , was Acquitted of a charge of manslaughter , arising from a fight in JVgar-atreot , Strand , on tho 80 th of May . —Joseph Civbill and Mary Josephine Cahill , his wife , were tried for cheating Alexander Duncan of 250 / ., on pretence of obtaining for him a situation in the Admiralty . 1 no roan pleaded Guilty , and was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour . Tho woman was Acquitted . Great Thundbk Storm . —At about ono o ' clock thia morning , a singularly violent atorm of rain , thunder , and lightning , burst over London . Tho thunder oraahed over the roofa of tho town with a sharp roll like that of nrtillory mixed with a fusilado of smaller arms ; and tho lightning came in groat shoots of violet-coloured radiance . At tho moment that we write , tho last fllclteringa of the atorm are intermittently illuminating the windows of our printing- office . Tho rain , though noUoating long , scorned literally like a ruBhing deluge ; wid wo Blmll not bo surprised to learn that many nervous persons wore for tho time under tho belief that tho comot had in fact como at last . Cutstal Pai , aok .--Return of admlaalona for six dnya ending Friday , Juno 19 , 1857 , including season ticket holders , 04 , 190 .
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There 13 no learned , man . « = . " « ~» much profited by reading controversies , his sense * awakened , and his . judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should ltnot , at Iea 3 t be tolerable for his adversary to write ?—MllTON
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THE BRUSSELS RIOTS . ( To the Editor ofthe Leader . ') Sir , —Even the most obstinate or obtuse of the Catholic party , whether acting only under the impulse df bigotry , aristocratic predilections , or purely interested motives , are pretty well aware , by this time , that our ' riots' are , in truth , the expression of deepseated popular feeling . The mob , properly so called , had but little to do with our disturbances ; for though little boys , working men , and juvenile students broke windows and uttered cries unpleasing to clerical ears , still the well-dressed citizens , respectable by years and social position , were present in great numbers on every occasion , looking on smilingly and approvingly . The daily meetings of the Town Council in by far the greater number of towns , and the resolutions which they have voted by very great majorities , and often unanimously , unhesitatingly condemning the law of pretended liberty for charity , plainly manifest the hostility of the middle classes to priestly encroachment . The cup has been gradually filling a long time , a nd now it flows over . Whatever may be said in favour of religious liberty in a country like the United States of America , where , except as far as the coloured population are concerned , the very air is redolent of freedom , nothing can be more obvious than the danger to liberty from the domination of the Roman Catholic priesthood over the minds of the multitude , where Romanism is practically the only religion . How is it , even well-educated persons will inquire of you , that your liberties in England appear to be in so little danger from the clergy ? Obvious as the answer to this query may be to us , to all Protestants indeed , it requires the calling their attention to the peculiar dogmas of the Roman Church , and the supposed sacred authority of its ministers , to make Belgians understand the case clearly . It need excite no surprise that the Romanist clergy , both secular and regular , should rule so effectively the rural population , more than one-half of whom can neither read nor write . An unholy alliance between the aristocratic circle of landed proprietors and the priesthood produces , of course , a power which effectually sways the ballot-box and accounts for the ' Catholic majority ' in the House of Representatives and the Senate . The rule of this party , therefore , under ordinary circumstances , would be quietly submitted to . But the long discussions in the Chamber , commented on in every public-house in the country , have convinced the bourgeoisie that they were threatened with an absolute clerical Government , far beyond what they had imagined possible . The proposed law was ingeniously contrived to absorb , by degrees , a large proportion of the property of the country . All legacies , for purposes of charity or instruction , would have come entirely under the control of the priesthood—in fact , passed into their absolute possession . They , in truth , in a land where the law enforces the equal division of property amongst children , thereby . preventing its accumulation in private hands , would have become the sole perpetual proprietors , fcvery convent and monastery , of which nearly a thousand are spread over the surface of the country , would , under the pretence of opening a school , have obtnined a fixed endowment for the promotion of ignorance and bigotry . Nothing can exceed their skill in teaching nothing , whilst pretending to instruct . All this was plain enough . Every old bachelor on his death-bed would bo cajoled into endowing ono or other of those establishments . I ho art ot employing twenty monks to inutruct a dozen children , or n dozen nuna to look after an hospital ot three beds , wns effectually taught and practised up to the period of the groat revolution of ' ' 89 , « na h « B remained amongst the traditions of tho Church . 1 ho documents of those days have been brought to light and the mysteries of clerical iniquity made obvious to tho meanest capacity . Tho timid and wavonng have been brought to see tho danger of their position and arouse themselves from their inactivity . A no priest party in tho Chamber perceive that they nave gone too far for tho present . Yours , & c , ANOCO-BiajLOB .
Notices To Correspon Dents. F. R- (Austi...
NOTICES TO CORRESPON DENTS . F . R- ( Austinfriars )—Our correspondent ' s remarks on the London University will appear next week .
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No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondent ! Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessanJy for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected' communications . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we re ceive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from rea sons quite independent of the merits of the communica tion .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive as the stram to keep things fixed when all the world is by thevery law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . Aekoid ?
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GOVERNMENT AND PATRIOTISM—A SECRET HISTORY . The committee appointed to inquire into the charges brought by IVIr . Bertolacci against the grand officers of the Duchy of Lancaster , has held its preliminary meetings . Although composed for the most part of nondescripts , it is to be watched by Mr . Coningham , who is allowed to be present , and to put questions , but not to vote or take any part in drawing up the report . We have thus one security that the inquisition will not be so managed as to stifle the truth ; but the chance is slight indeed that this genteel Judicial Committee will go to the bottom of the affair , or submit to an uncompromising scrutiny the characters of the high personages concerned . There has been an undercurrent of conspiracy , of hints and whispers , of juggles and prevarications , not among the officials only , but among certain sworn patriots who have been challenged on public grounds to expose the practice of departmental tyranny and corruption . In the first place , the ex-auditor of the Duchy has distinctly impeached Earl Gban' - ville with an offence against administrative morality in entering upon the highly paid office of Chancellor at a time when he owed large arrears of rent to the estate . We should say that this is a point easily to be solved . If Mr . Bertolacoi be wrong , let Lord GrRANViLiiE produce his accounts . Let Lord I-lAititowBY disprove the charge that ho schemed with Earl Gkanvii , le to supersede illegally the patent of a qualified officer . Let Lord Belpeii , Lord Gkanville , and Lord Harrowby together show , if they Can , that after the auditor of the Duchy had been instructed to carry out to the utmost his examination of the accounts , they did not successively seek to hide from him the ronl state of affairs ; that when Lord GrRANViLi ; K had been leniently treated as a defaulter , a screen was not held up between him . and the person appointed by letters-patent to examine and check every financial transaction connected with the Duchy , and that the auditor was not required to sign and pasa records of sales and other business with tlio details of which he was not allowed to make himself acquainted . Unless they can clear themselves of the imputations under , which they He , the truth amounts to this—that the auditor of the Duchy of Lancaator was ordered to affix hie signature to balance-sheota
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Leader (1850-1860), June 20, 1857, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20061857/page/13/
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