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486 Wfyt Qltaiiet. [Saturday,
486 Wfyt QLtaiiet . [ Saturday ,
To Headers And Correspondents. Several L...
TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . Several letters have been received by our publisher complainingof the non-receipt of papers , or the non-arrival of the Leader , until Monday . We have made inquiry , and find that the errors have hot arisen in our office . The Country Edition of the Leader is published on Friday , and the Town Edition on the Saturday , and Subscribers should be careful to specify which edition they wish to receive . Complaints of irregularity should be made to the particular news-agent supplying- the paper , and if any difficulty should occur again it will be set right on application direct to our office , 10 , Wellington-street , Strand , London . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters -we 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 . 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 . A 11 letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London .
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Saturday , May 17 . The House of Commons went into committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill last night ; the Irish opposition having quite exhausted its obstructive tactics for the present . The amount of business actually done was small , consisting only of a committal of the bill pro forma , in order that it may be reprinted in the form to which Ministers will adhere . Lord John Russell stated that no understanding had been come to between the Attorney-General and Mr . Walpole , the mover of the stringent amendments . The next critical moment for the Whigs will , therefore , be the division on these amendments . Mr . Disraeli distinctly stated his intention of voting for them , and any amendment which would render the bill more retaliatory and severe . A small episode of some interest was enacted between Lord John Russell and Mr . Disraeli in committee , -which explains the ostensible reason why he is for retaliation . Mr . Disraeli said : — " The noble lord had told them he had no hesitation in saying the rescript of the Pope and the appointment of Cardinal Wiseman were part and parcel of a great conspiracy against the civil and religious liberties of this country . ( Hear , hear . ) Did the noble lord correct him ? He would be sorry to misrepresent what the noble lord had said . He could not believe that the Minister could make such a declaration without well weighing his words . " Lord J . Russell observed that what he did state was , so far as his recollection enabled him to say , that it was part of a conspiracy to prevent the extension of civil and religious liberty in Europe , and that the influence of this country was felt to be that of a country advocating the cause of civil and religious liberty . He certainly did not mean to say that there was a conspiracy against the civil and religious liberties of this country . " Mr . DisHA . KLi thought that statement materially altered the grounds upon which they were called upon to legislate . Would the bill before them baffle the conspiracy mentioned by Lord John ltussell ? It would not ; for it only provided for petty religious persecution . The Government had not proposed a measure equal to the emergency , as estimated by the noble lord . And it was because the amendment proposed went far to vindicate the national honour , and protect civil and religious liberty , insulted and endangered , according to the Premier , that he should vote for them . The bill was recommitted , after some discussion , for Monday . Sir 1 $ . Kali , called attention to certain irregularities in the keeping of their records and accounts , observing that he had never seen documents in nny public department in so disgraceful a state . He recommended the abolition of the Commission as useless , extravagant , and irresponsible . Lord Kiuunuton denied some of the allegations of Sir li . Hall , gave explanations regarding the rest ; defended the proceedings of the commissioners in their discharge of an onerous duty , and challenged > Sir Uenjamiii to bring forward his charges in a tangible shape . —The House adjourned at a quarter to eight o ' clock until Monday .
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The following letter has been forwarded m reply to tin . John-street memorial : — " Foreign-ofliee , May l /> , 18 / 51 . u ( sir I am directed by Viscount 1 ' almeiHton to acknowledge- the receipt of your letter of the 1 lth instant , enclosing a memorial from curtain inhabitants of the metropolis assembled at the Literary liiHtitution , Fitzroy-H ( iuare , pmyingtlH ; mterfeien ( -eoi her Miijesty ' H ( iovemmcnt in favour of the llungariaiiH detained in Turkey , and 1 am to request that you will acquaint the memorialists that , Uiis matter continues to enguge the earnest attention of lier JVIajc'Hty ' H Government . " 1 am , tiir , yourmo . st obedient servant , " II . U . Al > J > INCITON . " Thornton Hunt , Esq ., 'Broadway , IlammerBmith . "
The Queen held a Drawing-room on Thursday at St . James's Palace ; and visited the Exposition yesterday
morning . A body of exhibitors met on Thursday at Crosby-hall , and passed the following among other resolutions : — " That this meeting of the exhibitors in the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations views with regret the stringent course of policy which the royal commissioners have pursued , and are pursuing , towards the exhibitors . That this meeting feels that the free admission of all exhibitors would be just to the exhibitors , and highly conducive to the general success of the undertaking . ' They appointed a committee , and instructed them to wait on the commissioners with a copy of the resolutions . her than
The receipts from visitors rose hig ever on Thursday . The 5 s . contributions amounted to £ 2430 ; and the sale of season tickets , which still goes on prosperously , swelled the total sum taken to £ 3300 . Professor Cowper gave his first lecture to the students of King's College on that day within the building . Yesterday the money taken amounted to £ 3230 , of which £ 255 i was for daily visitors , and £ 676 for season tickets . Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton ' s comedy , Not so Bad as zoe Seem , or Many Sides to a Character , written for the benefit of the Guild of Literature and Art , was performed last night by the amateurs—literary men and painters—at Devonshire-house , in the presence of the Queen and Prince Albert . The room was filled with a
brilliant company . " The piece , " says the Times , "is one more of character than plot . " The Daily News tells us that it " is admirably constructed , " and adds that" the curtain fell amid loud and prolonged applause , in which the royal party heartily joined . " The Morning Chronicle writes that the " plot , embracing little action or onward progress , is not very clear in itself , and was made perplexingly hazy by the dim indistinctness with which , in the greater number of cases , the points were brought out . " The scene is laid in the days of the booksellers Tonson and Curll , the characters range through all ranks , and a Jacobite plot is woven up with the action . Of course the principal character is a Grub-street hack . The performance will realize nearly a thousand pounds .
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The following letter has been sent to the editor of the Morning Chronicle : — « Sir , —The Times newspaper has just been brought me , and I see in it a report of Mr . Spooner ' s speech on the Religious Houses Bill . A passage in it runs as follows : — " It was not usual for a coroner to hold an inquest , unless when a rumour lad got abroad that there was a necessity for one , and how was a rumour to come from the underground cells of the convents ? Yes , he repeated , underground cells ; and he would tell honourable Members something about such places . At this moment , in the parish of Edgbaston , within the borough of Birmingham , there was a large convent of some kind or other being erected , and the whole of the underground was fitted up with cells ; and what were those cells for f ( Hear , hear ) . '
" The house alluded to in this extract is one which I am building for the Congregation of the Oratory of St . Philip Neri , of which I am superior . I myself am under no other superior elsewhere . " The underground cells to which . Mr . Spooner refers have been devised in order to economize space for offices commonly attached to a large house . I think they are live in number , but cannot l > e certain . They run under the kitchen and its neighbourhood . One is to be a larder , another is to " bo a coalhole ; beer , perhaps wine , may occupy a third . As to the rest , Mr . Spooner ought to know that we have had ideas of baking and brewing ; but I cannot pledge myself to him that such will be their ultimate destination .
" Larger subterraneans commonly run under gentlemen ' s houses in London ; but I have never , in thought or word , connected them with practices of cruelty and with inquests , and never asked their owners what use they made of them . " Where is this inquisition into the private matters of Catholics to end ? Your obedient servant , " John IIknhv Nkwman . " Oratory , Birmingham , May 15 . " General J ) urrieu , Government candidate , has been elected representative of thn department of the Lundes . lie obtained 17 , 000 votes , and hi < competitor , M . Diiclerc , moderate . Republican , 10 , 000 . The Democrats abstained from voting . A draught petition from the University of Oxford is in circulation , praying that the Itoyal Corinninsion may be revoked and cancelled .
The Times publishes a long declaration , signed by a large proportion of the Jioman Catholic laity , apropos of the KcdeHiiiKt . icul Tides Hill . Mr . Bet hell and Mr . Tindul have been requested to withdraw from the Conservative Club . Mr . John Walter protests in a letter to the Times . William I ' amplin , the unfortunate " ill-looking man , " supposed to be concerned in the gold-dust robbery , was yesterday Inou ^ lit . lx ( oi ; ii 1 _
A shocking chai ge of < : i nelly and starvation of a young girl , sixteen years of age , named Christiana Carpenter , was preferred against , her father and stepmother , Jtohcrt and Ijouma (/ 'arprnter , yesterday , at the Bristol 1 ' oliee Court . Her appearance excited the utmost , commiseration among the auditorn , and caused a thrill of horror to run through all who saw her . Her frame was wasted to the utmost . clearer ; her fiuie , haggard and careworn , with nothing more than skin to cover the hones , was truly ghastly ; und her legs , which were not one third the natural sixe , were covered with ftorcH , the evident murks of neglect . The accuued wore remanded .
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There i 3 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 very law of its creation in . eternal progress . —Dr . Abnold .
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THE REAL AGGRESSION ON LIBERTY ; AND ENGLAND . It is surprising that Lord John Russell , with so distinct a conception of the conspiracy existing against " civil and religious liberty , " should so totally misconceive the nature of the aggression on this country . We heartily sympathize with his anxiety on the subject , and rejoice to see that his vigilance is awakened ; though he has not yet
turned his eyes upon the true point of danger . The country owes him much gratitude for the announcement which he made the other night , officially recognizing the conspiracy ; but he never was more mistaken than when he proposed the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill as the means of resisting that conspiracy . He would easily understand the nature and extent of his mistake if he would survey the actual conduct and progress of the movement .
That Rome has some expectations from the success of the scheme we can well imagine ; but the man who can discern any formidable revival of power in the Pope or his Government , must be able to see through a thousand millstones . It is quite evident that , so far from being the originator and master of the enterprise , the Pope is nothing more than an expectant , an unconsulted dependent ; nor is the conspiracy in his branch of it making any decided progress . His latest attempt to subdue Spain
was effectively rebuked by that most backward of Liberal Governments . Even in faithful and favoured Ireland , the attempt to prohibit the Queen ' s Colleges was a failure , because it was not accordant with the views and feelings now entertained by the great body of educated Catholics in that country . In England , the same description would apply still more strongly . There is no fear , therefore , of aggression from the conspiracy through Queen Victoria's Roman Catholic subjects . The very history of Lord John ' s exertions shows how difficult it is
for him to define an enemy in this direction . The Bill with which he followed up his Durham letter has been abandoned by himself—proving that his first idea of the enemy is also abandoned ; since he is not the man to surrender to popular clamour any measure which he considers essentially needed . That bill has been abandoned in favour of the totally new Bill , which is now mellowing- under a course of adjournment by the House of Commons . In fact , Lord John had been induced to approach the subject with a preconceived notion , and thus he was really operating as a diversion in favour of the conspiracy .
He has been set to resist the ^ impotent ; and , thuB disposed of , he leaves the way unobstructed for the potent . Yet , if he could be induced to take it , a moment ' s glance at the condition of Europe would display the real danger and its progress . What power is it which , us the patron and companion of Austria , has restored Absolutism in Hungary , in Italy even down to the very toe of the " Boot , " in Bohemia , in Germany ? What power continues to menace the Christian provinces of Turkey , and vindicates its authority , even in Constantinople , by forbidding the release of Kossuth ? What power , against the first advices of England , has {* iven back JSehleswitr-IIolHtein to Denmark ,
henceforth to be held b y a new tenure advantageous to the new donorj ? What power has brought Frederick William to his senses , and restored him to Absolutist councils ? What pow . er lias suppressed constitutionalism , even where it lurked , so harmless and ho tranquil , in Ilesse-Casnel ? What power iri undciHtood to have its man of straw engaged , with the best chance , in the gambling of Fiench parties for the ultimate reversion of the Republic ? Lord John RunhcII can answer these questions as well as we can : ho knows what power was thii head of the conspiracy which he denounced , and which has made such striking progress against civil and religious liberty .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1851, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24051851/page/10/
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