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Harch 28, 1857.] THE LEADER. 2S5
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the residence of a slave in a free state...
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CHINA. i Thk Oi'EitATiONs at Canton.—" F...
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Meetings. Mr. Horsfall And Mr. Charles T...
-working man , and was well aware of the hardships of the present system of rating to the poor . The people of Birmingham , under the presidency of their Mayor , assembled on Wednesday night , to tho number of nearly 7000 , to hear their members , Messrs . TUlUNTZ and Scholefield , whom they had invited for the purpose . The members both defended their votes iiDon the Chinese war , but denied having given them
from attachment to Lord Palmerston . After a discussion of three hours , the following resolution was passed : ¦ " That this meeting , strongly disapproving the attempts that are being made to obtain the election of a new Parliament upon the mere question of adherence to Lord Palmerston , and "being of opinion that the principles of civil and religious liberty and progressive reform are those that should be maintained by Messrs- Muntz and Scholefield , considers them entitled , to the support of the electors
. The late members for Southampton , Messrs . B . M . Wxllcox and T . M . Weguelen , addressed a public meeting of the electors on . Tuesday evening , at the Victoria-rooms . There was an immense assemblage , including all the leading members of the Liberal party . Admiral Sir Henry Prescott occupied the chair , and the two candidates laving explained their Parliamentary conduct , a resolution of confidence in them was carried ¦ wi th the unanimous acclamations of the whole assembly . A resolution was also unanimously adopted , approving Of the foreign policy of Lord Palmerston , but urging him to pay more attention to internal reform . A meeting of the electors for the borough and district of "Waxljngi'OKD was held in the Corn-exchange , on Tuesday evening , to hear the addresses from Mr . Maljns , the late member , and from Captain Sartoris , the new candidate . Both are Liberals ; but the former condemns , ¦ while the latter upholds , our operations in China . Mr . II . "W . Wickham , the Conservative candidate for Bradford , addressed about 1800 persons at St . George ' s Hall on Tuesday night , when a resolution , pledging the meeting to use every exertion to return him , was carried without a dissentient . —General Perronet Thompson has addressed Ward meetings of the electors and nonelectors during the week . In his addresses , lie states that he is a friend and supporter of general , and almost universal reform—reform in the representation , reform in the indirect taxation pressing upon the poorer and working classes , and reform in the secret diplomacy of Government . He would vote for no money being granted fromth . epublic purse for any religious purpose ; but , regarding Mr . Miall ' s motion , he would deal with the funds which belong to the Irish establishment , and devote them alike to all denominations . He is a supporter of the ballot and the extension of the suffrage . He would reduce the 10 ? . to a 5 / . qualification , and even go to a 2 ? . 10 s . one afterwards . He is a supporter of State education , but opposed to church-rates , in lieu of which he would place a Bishop or two on half-pay . He also expresses his disapprobation of capi tal punishments-Sir Frederick Thesiger and Lord Robert Cecil , the late members for Stamford , met their constituents on Tuesday night . The former ridiculed the Government for the immense number of bills—some twenty at least —which had been introduced only to be "Withdrawn during the session of 1856 ; taunted Xord Piilmerston with yielding whenever he saw a strong opposition ; and said that his programme was of the vaguest and most ridiculously unmeaning kind . Lord Robert Cecil spok to the same effect ; and both were well received .
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The Residence Of A Slave In A Free State...
the residence of a slave in a free state doe 3 not affect his legal condition upon his return to a state where slavery is allowed by law . Thus , at one blow , all the legislation of the country , from the formation of the constitution to the present day , against the extension of
slavery , is swept away . The Secretary of the Navy has ordered the United States steam-frigates Niagara and Mississippi to be equipped for sea with all possible despatch , as these vessels have been selected to assist in laying down the Atlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland , in compliance -with , the act just passed by
Congress . The body of Dr . Kane lay in state at Baltimore . Lord Napier , our new representative at Washington , las been waited upon at the Clarendon Hotel , New York , by a deputation from the Chamber of Commerce of that city , to congratulate him on his arrival , and to express the sentiments of friendship towards England entertained bv the maioritv of Americans . His
Lordship replied in the same cordial spirit . A similar welcome was given to Mr . Dallas by the merchants of Liverpool on his arrival at that port . Walker ' s troops at San Juan have forced their way up the river , and captured a . steamer , arms , and
ammunition . . A " difficulty" at Washington , ending in the death of one of the parties concerned , is thus related by the New York Herald : —" During the immense pressure at the President's levee , Colonel Lee , a member of our city council and a clerk in the Pension-office , seized a gentleman by the collar , and charged him with picking h , is pocket . The gentleman charged was llr . David Hume , of Alexandria , a highly respectable merchant . Next morning , Mr . Hume , accompanied by Colonel James C Walker , reading clerk in the House of Representatives , proceeded to the Pension-olfi . ce to explain and satisfy Colonel Lee that he was mistaken in supposing him a pickpocket . Lee , however , was fixed in his opinion that Hume had attempted to steal his pocket-book , whereupon Hume struck him with a stick , and in-return was shot dead by Lee . The wliole affair transpired in a moment , and before any one had supposed there would be a serious difficulty . " "A private letter from Cadiz , " says the Times , " mentions that , according to the latest advices from the Gulf of Mexico , the forts of Vera Cruz had fired on the boats of the Spanish frigate Ferrolana , though war was not yet declared . The commander of the frigate demanded an explanation of this act of hostility . It is added , that the commandant on the American station had anchored in the roads , and that there were several ships of the French and English squadron in those waters . The Mexicans boast that in case of war they can count on 1 assistance from the United States . " The Buenos Ayrean Government addressed a note to i her Britannic Majesty ' s Acting Consul-General , apologizing for their note of the Gth of January , 1853 , to the Hon . Capt . Gore , enclosing him his passport , and requesti ing that both the note and the passport might be consi-; dered as withdrawn . In consequence of this apolog }' t being accepted , the English flag was salute . cl ou the 1 st l of February , and the compliment was returned by her l Majesty ' s ship Harier . 1 A disagreeable affair with respect to some black t seamen who are English subjects has occurred at Noro folk , Virginia . Two free negroes , on board the English barque Billow , were arrested in that city for being absent from their vessel without leave . The Mayor ordered that they should be flogged ; but the punishment was afterwards commuted to the payment of the costs of arrest mid the other usual charges . The captain consented ; but the English consul , Mi . G . P . R . James , the well-known * novelist , demurred on the ground of the men being English subjects . The Mayor , however , insisted , and gave Mr . James the option of paying the charges , or submitting to the punishment of the negroes . The consul , of course , paid the money , but under protest , The money-market at Now York continues active , . ¦ , e
ir It \ o is r AMERICA . The Republicans in the Senate are expressing dissatisfaction with the formation of the committees , considering that the Democrats , who have obtained a majority of five-sevenths , have too great a preponderance . Mr . Crittenden has introduced resolutions in opposition to the new maritime code of the European Powers with reference to privateering , and in favour of the complete exemption of all vessels e ' ngaged in commerce and their cargoes from seizure in time of war . It was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations . The Washington correspondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer states that tho English treat } ' has been referred to the Committee on Public Affairs , and that the determination appeared to bo to act upon it . Tho President is said to have expressed a wish that the Senate would act immediately on tho matter . The Mexican treaty has been rejected by the President . Tho Supreme Court of tho United States has pronounced judgment in the ' Drod Scott" case . It is tc the eflect that the plaintiff , Drcd , being of African blood is not a citizen of the United States , and tlKnefore nol competent to auo in a court of tho United States . Tin seven Democratic Judges pronounced for tho shivery o Died ; tho two Whig Judges for his freedom . Tho tri bunal , observes the tfew York Times , " decides that tin ordinance of 1787 , so far as it prohibited slavery from tho north-west territory , was unconstitutional ; that til Missouri Compromise , so fur as it excluded slavery fron tho Louisiana territory north of 30 ( leg . 30 n > in ., wa unconstitutional ; that Congress had no power to pro hibit faluvery from any portion of tho federal territory nor to authorize tho inhabitants thereof to do ao ; tlin negroes arc not citizens of the United States ; and tho
China. I Thk Oi'eitations At Canton.—" F...
CHINA . i Thk Oi'EitATiONs at Canton . — " Further papers" relative to the proceedings of her Mojosty ' tj naval forces-, at Canton were laid before the late Parliament a few ! days ago , and published on . Saturday . The corrcsponds ence , as may be supposed , relates exclusively to tho details of the operations of the English forces at the sea of war . The moat remarkable paper is a " notion" ( pur > porting to he ) issued by the whole district of Sing-ni , ( Sun-on ) , peremptorily prohibiting the supply of pro : visions to the " English barbarian . s . " The preamble , u < a to sneak , of tho " notice" recites that " the English out f laws , running riot in rebellion and bearing thomsclve contumaciously and insolently to Chinu , had for a eerie 0 of years committed mores crimes than hairs can b 1 plucked from the head to number ; " yet , notwithstandin , o their unbearable insolence , the Chinese Government wu n mercifully pleased , when they treated for )> caco , to ex s tond to them " extmordinuy favour , to l ' orgivo thei their past ofl ' cncoH , and to allow tlicin to trade at Vic r toriu and other parts of Hong-Kong . " Instead of r « it pouting ( as it bohoved them ) of thoir faults , " a heart < it mischief lay within ( the Engliah ) ; " " thoir cupidity yft
insatiable . " After sundry accusations of outrage and violence , the culminating offence of the English— -the attack on Canton—is denounced ; " rude as the boar , and eager a 3 the wolf , they have pushed their rebellion far . " The hi ^ h authorities of China , howaver , were still liberal and indulgent , and , in a Christian spirit ,
refused to retaliate , until at length " the brute nature" of the English , waxing more and more ferocious and perverse , they ventured the length of scaling the walls and entering the city . " They are a poison to life . Their crimes have reached the highest point . " Accordingly , a meeting of the gentry and literati of the whole district was convened on the 11 th of December , at which the supply of food Avas strictly prohibited . But the religious proselytism of the English is the last feather that breaks the back of the over-burdened Chinese camel . " Among their simple youth are some who have been
tricked by the devils into a profession or Ajnnatianny , to the misleading of mankind , the delusion of the people , and the great injury of morals . No time must be lost in burning their heterodox books and driving out botli teacher and disciples . " - —Times . Smuggling- in Chut a . —Some correspondence relative to consular interference for the prevention of smuggling in China was presented to the late parliament a few days before its dissolution . Viscount Palmerston , when
foreign Secretary of State , wrote to Sir George J 3 onlam in May , 1851 , respecting the expediency of devising ; jffectual means for stopping the system of smuggling prevailing in-China , ' arid especially , at'Shanghai . The smuggling appears attributable to the remissriess ; and . sorr . up'tioh of the Chinese authorities , and on the twofold giound of a certain clause in the treaty of Iloo-munchae , and of the omission of the China Government itself to act up to the manifest intention of the existing treaties , liord Palmerdton determined to withhold for the future all interference on the part of the British consular authorities for the protection of the Chinese revenue . The Government of her Majesty came to this decision with reluctance , but , as the Chinese authorities would not do their duty in preventing dishonest traders from defrauding the Emperor of his just dues , the British Government could no longer order her Majesty ' s consuls to do that for the Emperor which his own servants did not deem it necessary to do . —Idem . OUTBACK BY CHINESE PlKATES ON AN ENGLISH Sailor . —A n extract from a letter from " William ltae , dated Hong-Kong , December 31 , 1856 , has been communicated to the Times by the writer ' s brother . It states :- — " Last August , I took command of a lorcha in the coasting trade . I left here on the 10 th of September for Chinchew , with a valuable cargo , but when within twenty miles of that port was boarded , and after a severe struggle was taken by Chinese piratos . My mate and several of the crew were killed ; I received a shot through the leg , a severe cat on the head , and three other wounds , and was made prisoner . The vessel was taken , plundered , and ultimately burnt ; what became of the remainder of the crow I never loarnt . I was carried some distance into the interior and treated brutally . 1 shudder now to think of it . Sick , lame , and weary , I was goaded almost to madness ; my -wounds undressed , and suffere . l to remain so ; no one to assist me . I dared not complain . What little tho barbarians gave mo to eat was thrown at me . At one time , I gave all up for lost . Why they suffered mo to live bo long 1 cannot say ; but it will take too long to tell all tho horrid talo ; suilice it to say , after being a prisoner among them for nine long dreary weck 3 , suffering and enduring all tbat man could suffer , 1 at last made my escape to tho coast , and , after five clays spent in toil , pain , and starvation , ; was picked up by a vessel bound here , whero I arrived on tlio 7 th of this month in a state which may well be ; conceived ; all thut 1 had in the world was an old shirt , pants , and hat . I applied to the authorities hero and stated tho case , when a man-of-war steamer was dospatohed up thu coast , but lias since returned with no tidings , the pirates 'leaving no vestige whereby they might bu traced . I was immediately sent to hospital , whore 1 have been ever since . "
Continental Notejs. I Imance. R Thk Repo...
CONTINENTAL NOTEJS . i imANCE . r Thk report of tho Minister of fStato on tho Budget of - 1858 has been presented and road . It shows mi excess - of receipts ovur expenditure to tho amount of 25 , 000 , 000 t francs . This surplus , it is recommended , email bo ap-- plied to the redemption of tho floating debt . i Tho Monileur states that tho Emperor Napoleon hag - had an interview with M . Eacher , President of tho 3 STa-, ) tiunul Council of the Swiss Confederation . The third conference on tho ufFuira of Neufohatol took s -place at P-aris on Tuesday . Dr . Item , tho Swiss Pleni-3 potuntiury , was present for the fir . it time . What trnno Hpirud ia not known . g Father Ventura has been attracting considerable atis tcntion by his denunciation :- ! of courtly vica . His > sermon hist Sunduy in tho chapel of the Tuilories was n singularly bold . Addressing tins Kmpisror , In : said that , ; - even if his life wore moral mid edifying , it would not i- tmfficu unless hu drovo from Inn produce all who . so live . ) of wore tho contrary . Ho olworved that liin M ' ajostywns in is error if he auppojod thut hid private acts were confined
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Leader (1850-1860), March 28, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28031857/page/7/
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