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    «o> SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1851.

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    TfnMu Mans.

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    There is nptiang so revolutionary, becau...

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    The Humboldt Arrived At Covvos Yesterday...

    then ordered to a third reading by the following vote , and passed : —Yeas , 33 ; nays 6 . " The resolution of welcome to Kossuth has thus triumphantly passed in the Upper House by a majority of 27 . Of course it will be adopted in the other branch in much less time than has been occupied in discussing it in the Senate . " , Kossuth has published the following manifesto to the people of the United States : — " New York , December 12 . " Having come to the United States to avail myself for the cause of my countryof the sympathy which ! had

    , reason to believe existed in the heart of the nation , I found it my duty to declare , in the first moments of my arrival , that it is my mission to plead the independence of Hungary and the liberty of the European continent before the great republic of the United States . My principle in this respect is that every nation has the sovereign right to dispose of its own domestic affairs without any foreign interference ; that , therefore , I shall not meddle with any domestic concerns of the United States , and that I expect it from all the friends of my cause not to do anything in respect to myself that could throw difficulties in my way , and , while expressing sympathy for the cause , would injure it .

    " It is with regret that I must feel the necessity of again making that appeal to the public opinion of this country , and particularly to those who profess themselves to be the friends of my cause , to give one proof of their sympathy by avoiding every step which might entangle me in difficulties in respect to that rule which I have adopted , and which I again declare to be my leading principle , viz ., not to mix , and not to be mixed up with , whatever domestic concerns or party questions . " L . Kossuth . " Kossuth ' s health is said to be much , enfeebled by the excessive labour imposed upon him of receiving and responding to the numerous addresses pouring in from almost every town and association in the American Union . Already it appears by the New York Herald , the ex-Governor of Hungary has made no less than twenty-six set orations since his arrival in New York .

    Telegraphic despatches from Washington state that on the 12 th inst . Mr . Cass , of Michigan , moved and carried his resolution , as follows : — " Resolved , —That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the Senate , if not inconsistent with the public interest , any information he may have received respecting the firing into the American steam-ship Prometheus by a British vessel of war in November last , near Grey town , on the Mosquito coast ; and also what measures had been taken by the Executive to ascertain the state of the facts , and to vindicate the honour of the country . "

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    Lord Palmerston Superseded. The Seals Of...

    LORD PALMERSTON SUPERSEDED . The seals of the Foreign-office have passed from the hands of Lord Palmerston , and have been placed in keeping deemed safer by the other Ministers . The ablest man of the Cabinet is at large , and the Administration is to be " strengthened " by some recruiting . The precise mode and the immediate reason for the change are not known . A general dissatisfaction and want of confidence felt by the Cabinet are hinted ; but the statement that the chief objectors , the Grey section , were ignorant of the change when summoned to the Council at which it was announced , and that Lord John Russell has not made , but " sanctioned , " the change , lead to an inference that the act is that of the Sovereign herself . When we look to the press for enlightenment , we find it not ; and thus the most important change that could be made in the Government at such a time is effected with as little information to the public as was vouchsafed to the Parisians , when Louis Napoleon lately changed his Ministry and some other things . The secrecy in which official men are still permitted to shroud the conduct of public affairs , the insincerity which is the rule of official

    utterance , the readiness of our apathetic devil-may-care politicians to accept professions so that they be smooth enough , the insincerity of party intriguers without the pale of office—all contribute to make a juggling mystery of what ought to be a very plain matter . The People , whose affairs are conducted for it by the cliques of gentlemen that alternate in and out of office , is left to guess at the way in which its own business is going on . It is well known , in spite of the disclaimer in the Times , that the Grey section of the Cabinet has objected to Lord Palmerston ' s equivocal and hazardous

    career in foreign policy ; it is well known that influences exercising great power over the pure Whig portions of the Cabinet—the Grey and Bedford sections—had formally protested against him on grounds not very unlike those which we have placed before our readers . He had coquetted with ultra-Liberals—with Islington deputations , for instance , and Sicilian rebels ; he had " protested " against Austria ; he had professed to steer between the two , supporting Constitutionalism ; but uniformly his acts ended in a show of defeat to

    himself , and of victory to the Despots . This equivocal , hazardous steering was of a kind to alarm timid statesmen . Constitutionalism was all very well ; but to anger Russia on the one band , and to trip up Liberalism on the other , drew upon him and his a double storm of hostilities . His colleagues could not feel sure that he was really trimming " the vessel of the state " : might he not run it nguinst a rock ? did he not perhaps intend to sail within the range of an enemy ' s guns—to sail straight into the Russian fleet ? What was he—trimmer or traitor ?

    Revolutionary or Russian ? Islington Republican or St . Petersburg Absolutist ? Who could say ? It was , at all events , very hazardous , rather scandalous , and altogether disagreeable to weak Whig nerves . At last it became unbearable—and Lord Palmerston " resigned . " And who is appointed in his place ? JKarl Granville—a man of the Liberal-Conservative order ; young , intelligent , displaying much tact and capacity in the conduct of routine business ; undamaged in repute any way—for he lias neither broken endless promises , nor committed endless

    indiscretions ; skilled to speak French like a native , and well esteemed in Paris ; certificated to have conducted the business of the Kx position excellently , and much esteemed uinongst intelligent nolitieiaiiH around the bent dinner tables . More of him is not recorded : he has shown himself a capable ollicial , a creditable commissioner ; as to bin statesmanshipit is unknown . Such is the " youm { nohlcmun " to whom the conduct of foreign alburn is inliuKted . And what is to hti inferred from , the substitution ?

    body of Europe . Officially his conduct has been such as to serve the aims and interests of that bodv and he is close friends with certain of its most distinguished members , and especiall y some most naturally devoted to Russia . Personally , he is an intelligent , bold , able man , —the most distinguished in all those respects of the Cabinet which has just cast him off . He is quite capable of understandinq the nature of the opening now made in Anglo-European politics ; how far he is free to use itwe ^ . _ ,.

    We construe it to mean this : —that wherp ^ T have before stated , and the TimesZow confT , ™* the Foreign Minister conducted affairs bevon ? «?* control of his colleagues , now affairs will be * ducted by an able , straightforward junior in * currence with the leading members of the Cabinf arid on genuine Whig principles ; that , therefor !* whereas . "England" has seemed to tri « nl £ & opposite extremes" of Absolutism and Reniih licanism , henceforward the said official " EnHan ^»» will really trim . ^ "giand Lord Palmerston ' s own position , individually af present is a mystery . We have no means of wi l ! extenA ° fAis ties to «» diplomatic

    , have no means of knowing . It is hinted that he will appear in the House of Commons next session at the head of " the Hundred Liberals , " of whom the Premier has just enraged so important a section by repelling the Manchester deputation . If the new alliance is to be made for the one part on the basis of Lord Palmerston ' s old professions , and for the other part on the basis of some exclusive

    class notions of policy , the " popular" movement will be a humbug—will be too weak to combat family compacts and organized party influences and will end in smoke . If there were to be a genuine appeal to the nation by a set of able men with so able a man at their head , the most experienced official could not calculate the consequences . O'Connell elected for Clare , Napokon after his Italian and German victories , Washington after the capitulation of Cornwallis , —not one was so welcome as a Leader would be to the English People just now , enabling it to unite and act . We have no data to show that Lord Palmerston is

    free to take such a position , indicated for him by a contemporary . In any calculation of the future , therefore , he must for the present just be cast out of the account—except as a critic . And a tremendous critic he will be to his " noble friends "; sitting behind them in horrible judgment on their every act , errors not excepted . Meanwhile , however , let the English People bear in mind , that if the influence and power of this country are frittered away or diverted to un-English purposes , it is the fault of the English People , which suffers its Government to act in

    equivocation and secrecy . We are amazed to hear genuine Liberals expressing a sense that Lord Palmerston's dismissal is " a great blow to Liberalism " ! It is no such thing . If Lord Palmerston is the friend to Progress which he has professed to be , if he has only been restrained hitherto by the slowness of others , if he has been checked by scruples against throwing off his colleagues , he can have no such scruples and obstructions now ; but , released , he may add deeds to professions , and become really useful . If he has been insincere , his removal is a positive gain to Liberalism . In either case , therefore , Liberalism gains .

    We note also hints of various combinations , prevented or contemplated : one talks of combining with Russia and Austria against France , or with France against Austria and Russia ; while the Times hints that the status quo of 1815 must De absolutely maintained by all , or that those who aio the first to break it must take the consequences . All these schemes and warnings are idle nonsense , the devices of imbecility where they are not tricks to divert the public . The status quo of l » l- >/*«* been broken by every state of Kurope . Coinbinawouiu

    tions with any of the great Powers , just now , be treachery to Freedom and to England : ont , Despot , whether French , or Austrian , or l «»»» ' in as bad as the rest ; and combination with eitm would be complicity in treason , There is but omcombination that England can trust—coinbinat' / ' with the Peoples of Kurope : with that «> " »' matI " England might defy the Despots of the Woriu , especially as she would have America with 1 " Any other combination would bo a failure , a son . We are not , indeed , prepared to assert « any man now in Down ing-street is willing to part from the routine of Court alliances : we luuy expect her Majesty to declare that nlie is peace" -if not " in " friendly relations " -with a the Powers of the Continent—those crowntu

    The Sullen Silence And Secrecy, Insepara...

    The sullen silence and secrecy , inseparable from the Absolutist form of Government , are already the characteristics of the powers that be , in France . Alleged facts come to us direct from official sources ; discussion has disappeared . The following is the result of the Presidential election , as far a 3 known , to a late hour last night . In eighty-one departments , of which the returns in twenty-three are complete , the numbers were : — Yes 6 , 011 , 000 No 709 , 000 The Bulletin do Paris eays that there is a probability of a modification in the French Ministry , by which M . do Morny would be transferred to the department of Foreign Affairs , and M . Baroche to that of the Interior .

    The Times of this morning , in a leader on French politics asserts , that the Spectre Ilouge must have been really a spectre ; a bugbear invented by the Government . The close connection of the Ulysee and the Vatican calls forth some strong description : — " We can hardly give our readers an idea of the servi-• vility with which the now power has been received by the venal portion of the French press , and by what is moro venal is till—the baser members of the liomish clergy . Black flocks of Jesuits and priests of every shade already tiWiirm over the land , and raise their insolent song of triumph ; for , as if the military triumphs of France were to be expiated by her moral degradation , she

    is first laid prostrate by her generals from Algiers , and thru east into spiritual hondage by the emisaries of Rome . Kr'i long , the Pope will exercise as absolute an authority in France , as the French Commandant in the Holy City , for by the terms of this mutual insurance of despotism the JL ' upul Government is defended at homo by a French army , and the French Government receives the blessing of Heaven from the bands of an equally numerous army of Popish priestH . The Romish clergy , which hastened to turn Republican in Mureli , 18-18 , now discovers the finger of Providence in events which threaten to plunge France once more

    into a . state of arbitrary power and media : val darkness . " A note from Louis Napoleon demands of the JSurdian Government that « h < : must muzzle her press , clone the gates of her frontier towns to political refugees , and consent without delay to such concessions to the I ' opo as may be deemed fitting by M . . Mnntalemhert and the editor of the Univers . And the ( Sardinian Government , happy example of Italian moderate liberalism ! bus actually began to comply by introducing a bill withdrawing from the jurifdiction of juries offences of the press consisting of uttacks on foreign govennnentu !

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    The Gloucester Hotel ut reenwich was , yesterduy , jueurly destroyed by fire .

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    «O> Saturday, December 27, 1851.

    « o > SATURDAY , DECEMBER 27 , 1851 .

    Tfnmu Mans.

    TfnMu Mans .

    There Is Nptiang So Revolutionary, Becau...

    There is nptiang 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 . —Dr . Arnold .

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1851, page 1232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_27121851/page/12/