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OTJE CIRCULATION. We have been requested...
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TO BEADEBS AND CORRESPONDENTS. Several l...
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%u\nx\yl. Saturday, October 18.
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The Council of the National Parliamentar...
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The Ministerial crisis in France continu...
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Dr. (Jutzlaif, a missionary of hoiiic re...
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AGITATION AT ITS EBB. If England could b...
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Oct. 25, 1851.] ^^ Ffft G . »,»«»*» 1013...
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Otje Circulation. We Have Been Requested...
OTJE CIRCULATION . We have been requested , by several disinterested friends of the Leader , to print the Stamp Returns of the London press in the report of the Newspaper Stamp Committee . We know that we stand well , in comparison with the most respectable portion of the weekly journals ; although the return only includes the first nine months of our existence , in 1850 , and we have been increasing ever since . But we object to instituting invidious comparisons between our young success and the fortunes of respected veterans among our contemporaries . In some respects the comparison would be fallacious . ; the -value of some journals not being measured solely by their numerical extension . Those of our friends who are interested in knowing the comparative amount of our circulation last year , can see it for themselves , by getting the Report of the Newspaper Stamp Committee . This statement appeared in our last number but one—^ in a part of our paper , however , where it escaped notice ; and we have had tangible proof that others of our friends still need the explanation . We are therefore obliged to repeat the answer , and to thank those friends , many of them wholly unconnected with us , who have expressed so lively an interest and satisfaction in our advancement .
To Beadebs And Correspondents. Several L...
TO BEADEBS AND CORRESPONDENTS . Several letters have been received by our publisher complaining of the non-receipt of papers , or the non-arrival of the Leader until Monday . We have made inquiry , and find that the errors have not arisen in our office . The Country Edition cf the Leader is published on Friday , and the Town Edition on the Saturday , and Subscribers euould 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 . In reply to inquiries we may state that the Office of the Friends of Italy is No . 10 , Southampton-street , Strand . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one Bide of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .
[The Following Appeared In Our Second Ed...
[ The following appeared in our Second Edition of last week . ' ]
%U\Nx\Yl. Saturday, October 18.
Saturday , October 18 .
The Council Of The National Parliamentar...
The Council of the National Parliamentary Reform Association met last AVednesduy , and unanimously adopted the following address to Kossuth : — TO LOUIS KOSSUTH . " Your Excellency , —The Council of the National Parliamentary Reform Association offer you their sincere and cordial congratulations on your safe arrival in this country . We e 8 teem our nation honoured by your presence . Britain has often sheltered those whom tyranny had proscribed for their virtues ; but , in our apprehension , has never received a more illustrious or welcome visitant . Whilst you remain on our shores you will be the Peoplk ' s Guest ; and , when you leave them for that land where a great andgenerous nation waits to echo the shout of welcome that now ascends from the millions of these islands , you will be followed by our heartfelt aspirations for your happiness amongst our honoured brethren of the Western World . " We , and the multitudes of British Reformers whom we represent , have watched your career with the liveliest interest ; we have rejoiced in your successes , we have lamented your disasters ; but , above all , we have admired the integrity , the wisdom , and the fortitude you have undeviatingly displayed thiough a long and perilous druggie for your country ' s rights . " la unison with every friend of justice and civilization , wo have been indignant at the cruelty and vindictivencss of the influences which enforced the detention of your person when the conflict was , for the time , decided . JJut this detention , while it has rendered infamous those at whose instance it was prolonged , has added to the glory of Kossuth , by demonstrating that he . knew how to endure as well as to contend for the noblest cause iu which man can either combat or suffer . Knjoying ourselves a large measure of freedom , wo sympathize with all who labour to achieve their just political riglitn . What our ancestors did you have nobly Htriven to do . We venerate their memory , and regard vo » and your brave compatriots as their kindied . The inheritance which those ancestors bequeathed to uo in precious ; and we are endeavouring to show ourselves worth y « f it by pressing on to the full realization of the liberty of which they proclaimed the principle and laid deep the foundation . " In thtin acting cur only motive ? iH an earnest desire f "r human well being , embracing first , our fellow country- "' e n , but not confined within the narroiv boundary of our «»¦ « hind . Would you learn the object which , as an association , we hnv (> iu view ? It is to give full scope to a free and authoritative expression of the popular feeling and ? 'xpression , thut our Government may rest upon tin : »«» U'l igenoeand will of the people . Iu ibis righl « oun object we have a firm belief that we shall Hucceed . When thiw peaceful triumph shall "ave been gained , the time will have arrived when the sympath y with which the masses of our people already
share the hopes , the fears , the gladness , and the sorrow of their brethren throughout the world will no longer be suppressed in the Legislature or misrepresented by official diplomacy , but will make itself heard in tones that shall neither be misinterpreted nor disregarded . "At whatever time , and by whatever means it shall please Providence to raise your country from its temporary prostration to the possession of freedom and nationality , we feel confident that a people ' s gratitude will be yours We also feel confident that your future fame is sure ; and that mankind , tracing the results of your counsels , your exertions , and your sufferings , will consecrate the name of Kossuth , and transmit it to the latest posterity as that of the Liberator of Hungary . " On behalf of the Council of the Association , " Joshua Walmsley , President . "
"We take this as an earnest that in future the great Liberal party will not be so indifferent on foreign affairs , so easily gulled by liberal speeches , and so completely the dupe of " Official Diplomacy . " Louis Kossuth might have been still Governor of an independent Hungary , instead of an exile , had English Liberals done their duty . The latest news from Southampton , the headquarters of information about Kossuth , is that he will positively arrive in the Madrid , which is due on Friday the 24 th , but which -mil most likely make the port of Southampton on the 23 rd . The Indus will leave Gibraltar later than the Madrid , and reach
Southampton earlier ; so that next week we shall have positive news of Kossuth / s departure . Great indignation is everywhere expressed at the conduct of the Times in this matter . It is humiliating to England that her leading journal should be in the hands of men with Austrian hearts , Austrian sympathies , and Austrian opinions . But a Ministerial journal could not be otherwise and remain in harmony with the Foreign-office . A large and influential meeting was held by the men of Southwark , yesterday , under the presidency of the High Bailiff of the borough , Mr . Pritchard ; an address to Kossuth was unanimously adopted , and it was resolved to set on foot a Kossuth Fund .
The Ministerial Crisis In France Continu...
The Ministerial crisis in France continues . According to the Constituteonnel , 310 one has been sent for , no one consulted , no one solicited to form a Ministry by M . Bonaparte . The course he intends to take is to draw up a message , which will be read at the approaching meeting of tlie Assembly , laying down the basis of a new policy . " It is not for us to predict , " says the journal of Dr Veron , " what the message will contain ; we nevertheless think that we can give an exact indication on two very
important points of the Presidential programme . These two points , to which we shall confine ourselves , are as follows : —First , the President will Jay down iu very plain terms , as one of the bases of his policy , the complete repeal of the law of May 31 . Secondly , he will express with no less firmness his irrevocable resolution to maintain the policy of order , of conservatism , and of authority , inaugurated on the 10 th of December , and not to make any concession to anarchical ideas , under whatever standard they may be , and whatever name may authorize them . "
The Presse , which never forgets Leon Faucher , has the following pointed sentences . " Le President ref l & hira et flechira—( the President will reflect and give way ) . Such are the terms in which M . Le " on Faucher characterized and summed up the ministerial crisis before going to St . Cloud on Tuesday , where the President showed that il avait rcflechi et quil n ' avait pas Jldchi , that he had reflected , but had not given way . Nevertheless M . L 6 on Faucher again raises his head , and holds the dame language ;
he pretends that , iu spite of the lines inserted in the Moniteur announcing that the resignations of the Ministers and of M . Oarlier had been accepted , the Ministers will be requested by the President to withdraw their resignations . M . Leon Faucher founded this hope 011 the disturbances which have broken out ; it Sancerre , the cause of which was the arrest of a discharged mayor of the commune of Pieey . The hope which M . Leon Faucher allowed to appear must be a ray of light for democracy , the triumph of which ctiuuot take place but by patience and a scrupulous respect for legality . "
The disturbances at , Sancoire ,, iu Le Cher , have * been rather m-rious and have lasted two day . s . The Moniteur concludes it » exaggerated account of the suppression of disorder in these words , "The ( jlovcrnmenthaw wished to dare it toentertuin the idea of again raising its head . " Thin is the Inn gunge of upedugogue , not a statesman —11 rival , not 11 muster .
Dr. (Jutzlaif, A Missionary Of Hoiiic Re...
Dr . ( Jutzlaif , a missionary of hoiiic renown , died in Hong Kong on the !) th of Auguttt , having just completed bin 'ISth year . He was by birth a Pomeranian . For norm ' yearn he 1 i < ih ceased to call himself a missionary , and he died in oflicens CIiukkc seortM . ary to the . ? Supcrintcn < leney . ( Still we learn that hocoiilinued to giv » : away bibles , und exhort the Chinese to l ><* coni <> ( , 'ln ihtians , to the last . He watt a remarkable inHtnnce of I lie union of Hincere spiritual disinterestedness with a never-failing eye to the " main chance . " 1 1 i ; 1
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There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there 13 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 . —De . Arnold .
Agitation At Its Ebb. If England Could B...
AGITATION AT ITS EBB . If England could be more humiliated than she has been by her hundred resultless agitations—including that one which Lord John began with his Durham letter , and ended with his Ecclesiastical Titles Bill—it would be by the earnestness with which her " earnest" men are fighting about words and fractional distinctions , or by the gaping expectancy with which her " moderates " are looking for what Lord John ' s new Reform Bill is to give them . The delusion is as old as the hills : men of Progress and men of Retrogress make the same mistake—both fight for statutes or institutions ; only the one set fight for the institutions that we have outgrown , the
others for those to which we have not yet grown up . If " the tailor makes the man , " the institution may be said to make the nation ; but we all know that the tailor does not make the man , except in the eye of superficial fools . It could only be a cripple among nations that could be made by its institutions , as a bowlegged boy may be made to stand by the help of irons . Real vitality abhors both confinement and dependency , and will break up any building or inorganic structure that attempts to controul growth and action . The institutions of a strong nation are supported , not by their own inherent force , but by the ever recurrent will of the nation . Rotten
Parliaments lasted just so long as the vigorous portion of the English race chose to suffer them ; and when that choice altered , Rotten Parliaments fell to the ground . We did not attain our improved estate by Reform , but by the will of the nation ; Reform being merely the formal method by which England exercised its will ; the name for the new action of the body politic . It is not in any particular statute that the nation is to find strength and safety , but in the power to attain the statute . For example , it is not in the Charter that the People is to find strength and liberty , but in the power to cany the Charter . If they have not already got it , the fault lies in themselves—they are incapable of it .
This is not a literary notion ; it is a solid fundamental fact in practicalpolitics , the oblivion of which weakens the People . Not that we undervalue institutions ; we onlyrate them at their true value . Institutions are the arrangements , for the time being , by which recognized powers are suffered to carry on their action without further obstruction . The true strength lies in the will , the vigour , and the spirit of the nation . The institutions of a country never will long- remain far behind the power and resolve of its people , ( jive us the same determination that backed llampden in his resistance to Crown taxation , Cromwell in his resistance
to Crown Popery , Washington in his resistance to unrepresented taxation , and we should soon h : ivo the Charter . Let the People know their own minds and resolve to have their will « £ any sacrifice to themselves , and they would not have to await statute permission for the exercise of the franchise . They would by their very will and strength possess the franchise . Tin tiling which hinders is , not the refusal of the Faithful Commons , but the fear which haunts this working-man or that , that ho " may lone 1 iih place " if he takes a decided part in polities ; the slowness of a third to . sacrifice ; sixpence unless lie can he secure of . sonit * innnediato and
tangible retut 11 for his money . He will « ive . pence for a glass of brandy and water , but not lor ho much advancement of " '"<• People ' s cause . ' There may be excuses for thai slowness ; but such was not the spirit that | iuMt : d down the U .-istille . Our friend Julian llanicy asks us if the I arhamentary HeformciB have thrown over their ratepaying qualification ; points to many shortcomings in the . scheme of the Association ; and discusses the bold tone that charactcii / cH the language of nomo amoiiK them jib " chaff" which will not cutch
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1851, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25101851/page/9/
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