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October 30, 1852.] THE LEADER. 104 g
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THE SINIGAGLIA EXECUTIONS. The Globe lia...
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There is no ]earned man but will confess...
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THE POOR MAN versus THE PARISH DOCTOR. (...
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THE TRIALS AT COLOGNE. (To the Editor of...
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EKKATA IN "PASSAGICS FROM A HOY'S I'M'TC...
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KOT1CKH TO COUUKHI'ONDKNTfl. Tho " Kepor...
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Taxation Reduced To Unity And Simplicity...
T .,- game sum could be collected under the proposed r m at the present cost of the income tax , its ex-S would be only 1 , 220 , 536 ? . ; the saving would be 1 \' - * 72 9281 ., more than half the present cost of collec' ' j t ^ worth remarking that the customs and ex-•> the branches of the revenue the most remote from j ' ve ' ct taxation , are much the most expensive in their ejection , besides being much more burdensome in their ultimate effect . ' '
, , , The two systems of assessment we have described rffF r ° reatly in their character and results . The - 'tiv ( T or absolute system tends to the perpetuation ^ usages , and t he ag gravation of erroneous usages into ° g of long standing and difficult eradication : the ^ epartitive system , the only one susceptible of popular dminis tration , induces constant revision , and is always lending towards accuracy and justice . The absolute system leans on bureaucracy , and requires large
est ablishments of persons , dependent on the maintenance and extension of office ; the repartitive system may be worked in the main by the nominees of the ucople themselves . One places the Crown in invidious opposition to each individual of the tax-paying people j the other gives the Crown its just and graceful position of an arbiter , when needed , amongst them . One entrusts the power of denning and enforcing the claims of the State to the hands of men who , however able ,
honest , or well-disposed , have the peculiar disadvantage of office , that of seclusion from common influences ; the other commits that power ( except in extreme cases , of rare occurrence , and easy to be avoided ) to those who have the knowledge and feelings of the tax-payers themselves . One tends to a contraction of interest in public affairs , and to an official despotism in individual oases under a constitutional form for the whole ; the other tends to an active , though regulated , participation in public affairs , and to the setting up for individuals the defence of public opinion , —those true advantages of democracy which are realizable in spirit under many
forms . If the Crown has not now the same firm , unfailing , and universal respect in regard to taxation which it has in regard to the administration of justice , it may not he difficult to show that the cause lies in errors whose effectual remedy would be found in the change of system now proposed , and perhaps in that alone . In our next article , we purpose to consider the bearing and application of the system on particular classes , and in special enses .
October 30, 1852.] The Leader. 104 G
October 30 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 104 g
The Sinigaglia Executions. The Globe Lia...
THE SINIGAGLIA EXECUTIONS . The Globe lias honourably distinguished itself by being the first British newspaper to invoke indignation , upon the horrible net of judicial cruelty recently perpetrated by tho government of the Popo , in the execution of twonty . four political prisoners at Sinigaglia . We hope tho British press generally will take up tho indignant protest , and swoll it info such a tone of remonstrance as will , at least , teach tho Pope that , by such conduct , ho has a fair ehanco of bring more oxecmtcd in England , as a man of blood , than tho King of Naples himself . What are tho facts P Twenty-four men , between tho "Res of twenty and forty-six , who had been imprisoned Hince 1 . 810 for political offences , that in , for partaking , with woro or less notoriety , in tho Roman national movement (> 1 1 R 4 R-1 ) , are taken from the dungeons in which they had boon confined , and , weak and haggard as they nro , are led <• " (¦ into a public square in Sinigaglia—eight tho first day ; kix , the second ; and ten , tho third—and nro there shot by ¦ s « i . s , s Roldiern in tho pay of the Pope . They go to their ' '• 'nth bravel y and calmly , shouting for Muzzini , and winging 'ho Marseillaise . To Iho hint it was not believed that '" 'y would be executed . Most of them were working " 'n —poor warm hearted men who had gone heart and Sl "il into the movement for the liberty of their country , and ''" ° "' whom had , porliups , in their enthusiasm , done "' iiifrs that were not approved of by all the RepublicaiiH " ¦ ' ¦ i-folve . H , though ncne oft hem were accused of any crime " ¦ "'Mlnm what might hn resolved into patriotism . One " Ihcni , Simnncolli , belonging to a higher position in life ''"' i Mieothei-H , in described an a truly noble , excellent , and '""" ' ' ^ "iii ; and for him . great influence wan iikoi ! with ^ Government , hut all in vain . They were taken , till '" y-ioiir , from their prisons one moment they marched ^ ' ¦ "Ugli t he street * , shouting for Mazzini ; the next , their | j' " : " "puttered the paving-stones . Think of that -and al . 'io that ( . ho NwisH soldiers who shot the . se men are IM | ««• <> rdern to proceed to other towns , and shoot other ' ¦ ' . < "id twenties , and thirties , for the same erime , and 1 ( M ' -lie Hume circuniHtniieeH . Anemia is to he the next l"lu-t > vmited . i ; . ' , /"' ' ° '" ( l ""<> ' ¦ 'u p The Pope , the Yiearon ICarth , n ' , ' ! ,, "' ' (> l " " l *> rd . l ( , HUH Ohrist , " the good , quiet , mild ' !" ' "' '"' " » every one used to npeali well of , the man who ^ ''l ' <> act , agui ,, Ht the V \ untriuii invaders of Italy , " he-Ho "ley were ChrintiiuW Yen , it J ihh been reserved
for the domain of the Pope to show itself to be most emphatically the " habitation of horrid cruelty . " King Bomba himself has never done such an act . There is no Government on earth , besides the government of the Pope and Cardinals , that would have executed twenty-four men at once , for political offences , or for any offence whatever , after three years and a half had elapsed from the date of their alleged crime . And we , in England , who are roused , and justly , by a
single outrage , such as that on the Madiai , because it touches our Protestant sentiments , let such things happen and say nothing about them . It is not yefc too late . Other victims are in waiting to be laid out ; and a "word from England , a word from Lord Derby , may save them . If not , then , by all that is just and great in the anger of one nation at horrors transacted out of its pwn boundaries , it is time that we should have done with sneaking embassies to the Vatican , and betake ourselves to war-steamers , and the hearty tramp of British soldiers on the Papal soil .
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[ IN THIS DEPABTMENT , AS ALI- OPINIONS , HOWEVEK EXTREME ABE AMOVED Alf EXPRESSION , THIS EDITOB IfECESSAKII / T HOLDS HIMSELF BESPONSIBLE FOE NONE . ]
There Is No ]Earned Man But Will Confess...
There is no ] earned man but will confess he hath , much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and nis judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write . — Miltojt .
The Poor Man Versus The Parish Doctor. (...
THE POOR MAN versus THE PARISH DOCTOR . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Silt , —As we are again ominously threatened with a visitation of that insidious and inscrutable disease , the Cholera , and being convinced by the able and energetic manner in which you have at different times investigate d and denounced palpable evils , —as the uncompromising champion of the poor man ' s rights , —I hope you will allow me briefly to delineate the utter negligence of some parochial authorities to provide for the poor man even such medical assistance as the extremity of the case demands .
A poor man , with his wife and family , occupied a room in . i court situated in the parish of St . Clement Danes . In consequence of his having been confined to his room , incapacitated by a severe attack of erysipelas from following his employment , which was at all times very precarious , he was reduced to utter destitution . While suflering from this complaint , one of his children , a baby , was attacked with diarrhcea . I fusible to procure medical advice , for which she would bo obliged to make pecuniary compensation , the poor wife applied for sin order to secure the services of tho parish doctor . After considerable trouble , this order was obtained ; but
this public functionary came , 1 am informed by Hit mother herself , but once to see the child , and then compelled her to bring tho dying infant down to his inspection at the street-door , generously remarking that it was impossible for him to go up " all those stairs " ( second floor ) . Tho child died about a week afterwards . About thin time , tho husband was prostrated with cholera in its most , virulent ; form , purging and vomiting unremittingly , together with tho most poignant abdominal pains . In this extremity , the distracted wifli was obliged to appeal again to the gratuitous a , Ksintance of this autocratic functionary , at about , two o'clock in tho morning . Having reached his residence , her
interrogations and entreaties for aid wrre answered by n female ! replying out of tho window that , no one was at , home ! Tho excited wife explained tho precarious condition of her husband , and that , unless medical aid npeodily arrived , her husband would not live the night , out ; l > u (; all to no purpose . She then proceeded to King ' s College Hospital , imagining , of course , that them id least who would be . sure of obtaining assistance . Not ho , for she wns complacently informed , that as she possessed no regular letter , t ley hud no one they could send ! Truly humane individuals these for administering comfort to the poor man labouring under tho combined attacks of ( Unease and poverty ! Why should these men , handsomely remunerated for their
services , be allowed to contemplate their patients with such ostentatious indifference ? Why , but _ that it is imagined that they are comparatively too ignorant— - that they have no practical medium through which they can make their grievance public ? Hence this shocking and systematic neglect of duty on the part oC inhuman parochial officers , which plunges an unfortunate and oppressed class of our fellow-creatures into utter abandonment and obscurity ! Now , Sir , what are we naturally to expect will be the results of the gradually approaching ravages of the cholera , if these public functionaries are allowed to contemplate their duty with so hard and cold an indifference ? I will leave all thinking men to judge .
Hoping that in conformity with that spirit of justice which characterizes your journal , you will give this case publicity , I remain , Sir , your humble servant , A Town Readek . Carey-street , Lincoln ' s-inn-ficlds .
The Trials At Cologne. (To The Editor Of...
THE TRIALS AT COLOGNE . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sib , —The undersigned call your attention to the attitude of the Prussian press , including even the most reactionary papers , such as the Neue Preussisclie Zeitung , during the pending trial of the Republicans at Cologne , and to the honourable discretion they observe , at a moment when scarcely a third part of tho witnesses have been examined , where none of the produced documents have been verified , and not a word has fallen yet from the defence . While those papers , at the worst , represent the Cologne prisoners , and the
undersigned , their London friends , in accordance with the public accuser , as " dangerous conspirators , who alone are responsible for the whole history of Europe for the latter four years , and for all the revolutionary commotions of 1848 and 1849 "—there are in London two public organs which have not hesitated to represent the Cologne prisoners and the undersigned as a " gang of sturdy beggars , " swindlers , & c . The undersigned address to the English public the same demand which the defenders of the accused have addressed to the public in Germany—to suspend their judgment , and to wait for the end of the trial . Were they to give further explanations at the present time , the Prussian Government might obtain the means of baffling a revelation of police-tricks , perjury , forgery of documents , falsification of dates , thefts , & c , unprecedented even in the records of Prussian political justice . When that revelation shall have been made , in the course of the present proceedings , public opinion in England will know how to qualify the writers who constitute themselves the advocates and mouth-pieces of tho most infamous and subaltern government spies . We are , Sir , your obedient servants , F . En ( noils ' . V . FRiui . um . vnr . K . Al . AIM ) . W . WOIA'V . London , October 2 Sf . li , 185- ' .
Ekkata In "Passagics From A Hoy's I'M'Tc...
EKKATA IN "PASSAGICS FROM A HOY'S I'M'TC . " VJ . L .---Tiik Death oi' Quanta . ( No . 121 . ) J <" or "So Hpnke hIi « , hut her words were prut by Death , " Mead " Ho spake ( die , but her words were lent by Death . " XI . —Husphhia . ( No . l . 'W . ) J . \> r " I Hiiid Unit lovo And all large pnH . sinn fell , by dying men Might yearn or tint / upon melodious Hlringfl ;" Jteail " Alight yeniii or no / i upon nieloclioiiH strings . " XII .- AlLIADNK AND I ' lWK Hit A . ( No . 1 : 1 . ') . ) I < "of " Wiled in silver breathings <> l the Moon ;" Mead " Veiled in silver liroul liings of ( be Morn . " Ji ' or " Am \ vhrii I moved ;" Jtrail " And / r / ifiv 1 moved . " Jt ' or " I wttxt . < : i / no delight Thiil , lovers Itavo ;" Jirad " I irutitt ' tl no delight , " < Kc . /'' or " Now leuvo tlm maiden , " \ e . Mead . " Jlut lenvo Iho maiden . "
Kot1ckh To Couukhi'ondkntfl. Tho " Kepor...
KOT 1 CKH TO COUUKHI'ONDKNTfl . Tho " Keporl , of tho Society for Promoting'Working l \ len ' n AMNoeiiitions mid of Ihc ( Jooperntivo ( loiiferenee" the " War of Ideas , " by Ion- -mid several IjelteiM to t lio Open (' oimeil , unavoidably omitted I his week . llAltNUM . AND . IKNNV I j I N 1 > . A corn'spoildcllt oi tho N < -w York Musical . World writes l <> tliitt journal"Not Ion" ; ninoo Mr . Iturimiu < 'xliil > ife < l f <> me ( lit ; iiceount ciinvnt between himself and Jenny Kiiul , ami a truly miirvellous document it in . He ou » -lit to publish it entire , for ( he astonishment mid edification of tho world ^ enendly , and . singers parfu-idarly . According to tlm footings up and balances , ( he p ; irties received tho following handsome dividends utter nil evpei . se * were paid : Jenny I / iimI , : H ) H , <><)(> dollars ; V . i . I 5 . triiiini , : M ) H , ( HK ) dollars ; lotnl , <» I < M > OO dolhrs . I givo the oven thousaiKlH , nof renienihcring tho units , ( ens , and hundrodH . They arc of littlo consequence . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 30, 1852, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30101852/page/15/
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