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648 THE LEADER, FLitebattt,,*.
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LITERATtrRE, SCIENCE, AUT, Etc.
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The Galway Outlay. The Picture In ." Pun...
question of linen or letters , of emigrants or provisions . As it is , England has exported Irish products , And credited her own trade returns -with the amount thus absorbed or re-exported . Sir James Graham appears as the champion' of a' monopoly . Sir Samuel Cunard , who has done far more for tfew York city than for all British America , has , according to this ancient follower of Peel , a vested interest in or on the ocean .
The pretended free-trade enemies of all . subsidies , never opposed the renewal of Cunard's contract . The Times' City article was silent enough then . But Sir James Graham has actually the audacity to complain that the Cunard grant is likely to be injured by the grant of 7 O , 00 OZ . a year to Ireland . We have said that ministers have not gained any votes by this Contract . We cannot point to one that they have
secured . < The Government exercised not the slightest influence on the Gal way election . Mr . Lever was returned on the shoulders of the people of Galway- —electors and non-electors—before the contract was signed . Is not Lord Dunkcilin , a Liberal of a somewhat malignant stock , returned with him ? We are no Tory advocates , as is well known ; but truth and honourj as well as the public . interests , demand this defence of the Galway grant at our hands .
The grant of the Galway subsidy has done more to reconcile Ireland with England , to create a good feeling , and to do good to the Irish people , than Royal visits . Crystal Palaces , Vice-Royal patronage and entertainments , and all the forced religious concessions with which Whiggery would outbid Toryism , and which it fondly claims as its own , and for itself alone . ; This , indeed , is better \ than the diplomatic appointment to a foreign court of a shrieking opponent of Saxon legislation , or the bestowal of the highest
legal appointment upon the lowest betrayer of his cpuntryfs cause . What , then , shall we say , of the money that will be eventually saved to this country by this fair purchase of Ireland ' s heart and sympathy ? What has the nation paid for the Irish constabulary ? What have State trials and prosecutions cost ? At what figure has oppression as well as repression been exercised . Turn to one little item—Lord Clarendon ' s secret service money flung away upon the worthless advocacy of hireling scribes . Thousands upon thousands have
been lavished in bribery and blood-money upon Ireland ; thousands bestowed in , charity upon victims who have had the sense to feel the full force of honest ingratitude for the alms which they never should have needed . The cost of a misgoverned country is incalculable . It is direct and indirect , and bears a compound interest . "I have agitated , " said in effect lately , a distinguished Irish Roman Catholic clergyman , " for forty years unavailinglyin the wrong direction . " That wliieh was in him the blind indignation of patriotism is now the
enthusiastic acceptance of a new era for Ireland . The Galway grant , with all that it comprehends and promises , is- the initiation of the dawn of mercantile prosperity > and social improvement in a country wliich has too long suffered from neglect and cruelty . It may be fortunate for the members of the present Government , that circumstances have forced upon them this recognition of Irish claims . They have perhaps done no more
than they could help , or tlmn has been forced upon them , by the necessities and the intelligence of the nation . They have at least escaped the disgrace of opposing such a grant j nor can they be taxed with the dishonour of misrepresenting , with the falsehood of selfish faction , and an abandoned unscrupulousness which notlxing can exceed , the most creditable deed of their opponents , one which evokes the true gratitude of a nation and commands the patriotic approval of every honest man .
648 The Leader, Flitebattt,,*.
648 THE LEADER , FLitebattt ,, * .
An Accident Has Taken Place On The Railw...
An accident has taken place on the railway from Vienna to Marbourg , by whfoh five carriages were knooked to pieces .
Literattrre, Science, Aut, Etc.
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On the subject of the import of English books into Canada , the Publisher's Circular says : — " The recent proceeding of the Canadian Legislature * in taxing the import of English books , is taken with unaccountable apathy by our press . It affects the best interests of literature , and involves a great question of right of a colony to thus injure home trade . It is no light matter that , as publishers , we find ourselves deprived , without any warning , of a market for pur books to an extent of at least 4000 ? . a year , a market that was yearly improving , and one that we natu-r rally regarded as to be depended upon . The
rpHE funeral oration upon the late Alexander Von A Humboldt was pronounced in the cathedral of Berlin , on the 10 th , by the Very Rev . Dr . Hoffmann , Bishop of the Protestant Established Church * of Prussia . On the following day his will was opened in the presence of his nephews . All his property was found to be bequeathed to his old valet , Konrad Seifferti who had served him for so many years , and accompanied him in the later period of his wanderings . Humboldt was born a comparatively wealthy man , the portion left to him by his father amounting to about 10 , 000 / . Before he readied his fortieth year all , however * had been expended on his travels and other scientific pursuits . From that time down to the present , Humboldt lived on a small pension granted to him by the Government and the profits derived from his literaTy labours . Four hundred thalers ( £ 60 ) and a most extensive library is all that he left . A great quantity of plate , presented to him on different occasions , forms the most valuable portion of Seiffert ' s inheritance .
impost amounts to a prohibition , causing to be subv stituted for the regular demand a supply of cheap reprints from , the adjoining States . The measure greatly aggravates the injustice hitherto suffered by English authors from the admission of reprints into Canada ; for whilst books under this objectionable tariff will have to pay 10 per cent ., United States pamphlets and magazines are admitted free . The Paris Moniteiir of yesterday announces that the council has instituted the Counsellor of State , M . de la Gueronniere ,, in the post of director pro tempore of printing , of ' the library , of the press , and of the street sale of publications .
The copyright of Household Words , with , the stereotype plates and stock , were sold this week by Mr . Hodgson . The property was finally knocked down to Mr . Arthur Smith ( who was understood to be acting for Mr . Dickens ) for the sum of 3 , 5501 . Messrs . Bradbury and Evans announce that , on the 2 nd of July , they will publish the first number of a new illustrated periodical , entitled Once a Week The last number of Household Words will be published on the 28 th , after which date that publication will merge into > 4 ll the Year Mound . Nothing daunted by the disrespectful laughter which greeted the' lyric in question , we hear that Mr . M . W . Balfe has composed music to the lines *• Riflemen Form , " which appeared in the Times last-week , ,
Messrs . Saunders and Otley announce the commencement of a new novel by the author of " The Heir of Radclyffe . " It is called " Hopes and Fears ; or , Scenes , from the Life of a Spinster . " M . Edmund About ' s last clever book has been seized , at the booksellers' shops in Paris , but not until many thousand copies had been sold . The Constitutionnel announces ¦ that the introduction of " La Question Romaine" was nob authorised , and that the work is to be prosecuted . As it was published in Brussels it is not easy to see how this is to be done . Perhaps the booksellers who sold it are to be tried .
Objects Being Attained, The Squadron Was...
objects being attained , the squadron was to cru l ^ in the Chinese seas , in order to watch over Amprf can interests , during the misunderstan ding then ;« progress between the English arid Celestials Accompanying the squadron in its two ' yea * , ' cruise-in the capacity of surgeon to the fleet D Wood ; who is as close an observer as he is a era phic writer , obtained the materials for this verv fresh , p leasing , and instructive book . Passing over a considerable amount of spleen , at the false anil of edical
humiliating position m officers in the United States Navy , which , if we are to believe our author ia not unlike that of English naval surgeons in the days of Smollett ; we have a panoramic series of views which leave an agreeable impression upon the mind . The voyage is given with the detail of an old itinerary , no place worthy of note bera < r omitted . Madeira , with its genial climate , delf . cious scenery , fine wines , invalids , and numerous beggars ; Ascension , with its turtles , with an introduction to a state prisoner , the King of Bonny who it appears was deprived of his hberty for the
sole reason that " British merchants wanted to buy all the palm oil at lower rates than he would dispose of it or allow it to be sold by his subjects ; therefore he was imprisoned for interfering with trade . At first he was kept upon the coast , but managing to send an order to his dominions , still prohibiting the sale on any but his own terms , it was thought expedient to send him more remote from his dominions . He himself said the English were great rascals , they shut the Emperor Napoleon up in St . Helena , and him in Ascension . " ' .
Thence to our colony in South Africa , whose wildernesses are now covered with grain fields , orchards , and vineyards , producing the most luscious wines ;• farms yielding that which is literally the . " Golden fleece" of the colony—wooly whose increase of export has gone on from a few thousand pounds' to increasing millions , and -whose progressive increase is beyond estimate , and which , must , if its various races of negroes and Europeans ever become permanently peaceful , prove the finest colony in the world . Thence into . the Indian seas , to the Mauritius , where we are a little surprised at being told of the existence of slave dealing beneath he British flag .
" These people , were originally , brought into the island by the British government as a substitute for the negro population , rendered worthless by the emancipation of 1835 . They are compelled to serve five years of what is called " industrial residence , " and the best of these men get three dollars a month wages . At the end of the five years , if they desire it , they are returned to their own country , but most prefer to remain where they are , and enter into various pursuits upon their own account . During their term of servitude they are liable to coercion , but can complain against undue severity , A reguhas st taken lace
lar slave-trade transaction ju p . A ship came in from the coast of Africa with a cargo of negroes , and they were sold at eighty dollars each , nominally for the passage money . They had been kidnapped and stolen from Africa . » Tins is an English possession . " . „ , ,, After which we find ourselves at Point de Uallo ( Ceylon ) , the first touching-place of cadets and the last stopping place in India of old Indians , which appears to be the veritable island of jewels , and crowded with " real material , ebony chairs , sofas , bureaus , boxes , canes nohly carved , and glittering masses of topaz , m we shops and in the streets , with sapphires , rubies , such
and amethysts . " As might bo expected m « town , it abounds with peripatetic vendorsi of sham jewellery , whose faith is great in the gulhbihty ^ the visitors . From \> ne of thesei the Dootor purchased a ring for one dollar and fifty cents , t « e price asked having , been twelve pounds . Arming at the " Gem of the Indies , " Pulo IWg , tw author ia in ecstaoy with its perpetual spring , ooopa-nut and palm groves , nutmojy ° ™ ™ V " its picturesque * population of Chinese , Malays , Hindoos , Maliomedftns , and Europeans . AW gem . however , is a little dimmed by the business portion of the town with ita narrow streets , ou » Smelling ditches , and its - multiplicity oi today bang Snd opium shops , all of which withAen miserably attenuated habitute are grftplnoalljr pw tured . Then Singapore—when having piwjj " trough the Gulf of Siam , the » ritavs and tuo etripei" are hoisted , the band plays YftfJJ Doodle , " and the Americans ore . " at homo i » Bangkok , the capital of the amphibious , s « m nude , double-king e d Siamese , to tho pn mtii g , oi whom Dr . Wood devotes several of his most quiunt
FANKWKIi OB , THK 0 « U ISM OJT THIS SAN JACINTO IN THIS SMAS OF INDIA , CHINA , AND JAPAN . By W . M . Wood , M . D .. U . S . N .. Sumpeon Low and Co . Leaving no efforts unmade to establish their commerce upon a firmer basis in the Eastern Seas , the Americans rested not till they hod anticipated the English , b y effecting with Japan the Perry treaty of 1852 , by whioh it was stipulated that in 1856 , a consul should take up his residence at Simoda . Accordingly , in that year , an armed squadron was equipped for tho purpose of conveying to that port with all duo pomp and circumstance , the Hon . Tpwnsend Harris , who was also commissioned to obtain , en route , a now treaty with Siam . Those
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Leader (1850-1860), May 21, 1859, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21051859/page/16/
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