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Black Sea—at home as well as on the borders of the world . The extremely interesting documents from America show the admirable , feeling which prevails in the Republic , aaaxl po ^ r ^ prajie our gym , assertion , that the force < M cij ( Ci ? instances , as wjefl as the increasing friendship l ^ etj ^ een America guoa England , is drawing the United States to the side of constitutional freedom in Europe . Although Mr . Everett has retired from ' Qjiiee , he naturally feels responsible' | prsustaining the admirable paper which he addressed to the British
Government on the subject of Cuba , and which Lord John Hussell had answered in a spirit of lawyerlike " reply , " rather tlian of friendly statesmanship Mr . Everett declines the conflict of wits ; and with admirable calmness supports the historical force of the previous documents , proving how natural has been the extension of the United . States hitherto , and how Ijeneficial it has been , not only to the Union , Tby rounding off its territory and preventing disturbance of its internal development , but how beneficial to the annexed States of Louisiana , Florida , and Texas . Indeed , Mr . Everett might have pressed this argument
much further , and might have shown that , if England had exercised the same spirit of conquest which she has to a certain extent wasted in the East , upon the more congenial territory of Europe , not in the shape of direct annexation , but in the shape of combat for constitutional freedom , she might have secured the most valuable outposts for her own institutions . This has yet to be done . The other paper is one by Mr . Marcy on the Kossta affair . It is a very judicious survey of the laws of the United States , afid of international laws . Virtually , Mr . Marcy represents that if Kossta , who appears in a double character , as an Austrian with a constructive American
citizenship , had been within the jurisdiction of either America or Austria , he might have been deemed within the possession of either power ; but being , as he was , in ji state not within either of those jur isdictions , assailed as he was by unwarranted violence , his rescue at the hands of Captain Ingraham constituted that species of succour which any bystander may give where lawless violence is inflicted . The law-breaking was entirely on the part of Austria , whose officer pretended to act under treaties which the Porte has formally denied , and which have lapsed since 184 . 9 , at least .
This document of Mr . Marcy is intereating in many respects , but in one especially , as showing the position of the writer . The English public is likely to be misled by information supplied from America to the most extensively read English journal , by a writer whose antecedents , perhaps , forbid his viewing affairs as they really stand . He represents General Pierce as deserted by his party , and Mr . Marcy as having become unpopular for the vigorous course that he has taken in office . Now the facts are the very
reverse . General Pierce may have disappointed particular sections of the great national party of the Union , because he has not , ift a spirit of political favouritism , placed the thousands of offices at the disposal of a clique . But not only does he represent the great body of his countrymen ; not only is the policjy of his government the policy which has been 8 i ) ontaneously organized by the citizens of the Union themselves , but his appointments in the superior offices represent every conceivable section , except the high Conservatives . It was nt first considered that Mr .
Marcy was too moderate a man for General Pierce ' s administration , and the fact that ho is viewed with favour by the WJiig party was a circumstance popularly in his disfavour . He was supposed , therefore , not to go ahead enough ; and hence , at first , some degree of _ unpopularity , and some desire , that in retiring from office , lie might mnko way for Mr . Gushing , tho present Attorney-General , in the post of
Secretary of State— -Mr . Gushing being about the most advanced politician of the whole Union , and thoroughly , we believe , participating the Bentimentfl of the " Lono Star , " to which Mr . Soule has bo eloquently responded . The course actually taken by Mr . Marcy , however , has completoly ' BatiBlioci the inost advanced part y of tho Union ; it necessarily proves that the President ih on the nainc track ; and tfyus , while the &oveminent contiimes to represent the wholo country' in its native policy , Mr . Marcy has fully recovered that confidence and popularity which
he enjoyi ^ as' % cret ; ary at War during the Mexican . conquests . It is natural that the author Of the Glory and ^ hameof ^ ng l < md- —whp entertains , for some reason which We < Ig not knowy so Ibitter a Feeling , agaanst this country , anil whose peculiar petplaacjes are not obeyed by the American Government ¦* - should represent
that { Government as vile , aa 4 should write in such way as to create iii-feejiojg between the two countries if he could . Lug is impossible for him to succeed . Events are too strong for any individual writer ; and the only result is , that the principal journal of England is supplied with American news which almost any one of its readers can refute from his own knowledge of
contemporary events . The speech in which Mr . Gladstone gave his Turkish explanation , was made on the occasion of setting up the statue of Sir Robert Peel , in Manchester , with the usual ceremony of speechmaking strangely called inaugural . If anything could add to the interest excited by the event itself , it would be found in the circumstances which attended it . Not only did the two millions of Manchester pay honour to the memory of Peel , hut they pronounced an emphatic sentence in favour of his policy . They invited the
presence of one who had gathered wisdom from the lips of that statesman * and had been entrusted with the proud task of developing his financial schemes . Mr . Gladstone may justly congratulate himself on the cheers which greeted him , for they were the spontaneous cheers of men who are too honest to express what they do not feel . Few will doubt the sincerity of Mr . Gladstone ' s remarks , when he spoke of the manifest disregard of all party considerations which formed the basis of union among Ministers , and of the influence which Peel had exercised in
sundering the mere ties of party in the House of Commons . We can sympathize with the language used hy a Cabinet Minister on the confidence which should subsist between a Government and a people . Such confidence has hitherto been accorded to Ministers , and we trust that future events may not show that it has been misplaced . Chancellors of the Exchequer are forbidden to reveal their measures before the time .
But Mr . Gladstone did not hesitate to say that the . Paper Duty might as wisely be laid elsewhere —¦ for instance , on the commodities which were packed as well as on the paper used in the package . The announcement was received with cheers , and was taken as a fresh proof that the Financial Policy of Ministers is in a right direction . Miss Margaret Cunninghame lias been liberated . As yet we know nothing of the details of her release . But as Lord Clarendon ' s remonstrance would have reached Tuscany before the present news came off , it is fair to attribute this event to his intervention .
The gentleman whose unadorned eloquence was so handsomely acknowledged by Sir Itobert Peel , did not now lend that eloquence to the occasion of erecting the statue of his approving patron , the great statesman , nor were either of the members for the city present : Mr . Bright being absent in Scotland , with Mr . Cobden , to lead the Peace Congress at Edinburgh . The eoceedings of the first day were remarkable , r . Cobden made a great speech , intended to show , first , that there was no occasion to increase our defences for fejn- of an invasion from France , because we are now in alliance with that power . Secondlythat it is unchristian to support Maho-¦ iAiaiv ! i / t 7 % + \ tMluuiivii i \
, w ' - ' r -. ** - « - » j j s ^ . p . » mn .-. m . * . r » . }«*¦/ yj \ S JL \> J , » JL ti / I 11 /" inedanism in Europe , and we should have been better Christiana if we had aided Ituesia . Thirdly , that it in the foolish and ignorant prejudices of venomous writers , of Lord Palmorston , and other persons , which attempt to lead this country into war . Mr . Bright followed up this sppeoli with the standing arguments against standing armies , militia , or warlike proceedings of any Kind . In short , tho peace doctrine , with
its-customary language and sentiments , and customary disregard of i ' uots and , the existing state of Europe , was amply developed . It would bo a fair reply if Ministers were to withdraw all the troopB from tho manufacturing districts during tho present strilco , although , indeed , tmrh a retort would be unfair : since it is evidently not Manchester or Lancashire which speaks in tlw person of Mr . Bright and Mr . pob 4 < m , for the gentlemen have beqn . obliged to leave thoir favourite county , and to seek a remoter field for their toetotal fanaticism and peculiar views ,
; pke £ && £ i& Lancashire approaches acrisis the inen have made two new movements . At Preston , ; sthey h ^ ve issued a prospectus to * establish a fio-operatiye workshop— -a factory for self " employment , jand they have sought to obtain a meetftag of delegates and of the masters . The masters <^ ajin . e ak , aeebmmodation > and there is
eye ^ profeabMity that , at the end of this week ijbye factories of Prestos and Burnley , Bacup and ^ adihain j and © . ther towns of t )^ e district , will be closed . \ iAl $ i /» ugh . ; -we . have in ; a separate paper distinctly recognised the pressure upon the cotton trade which checks the masters in acceding to the rise of wages , we cannot too strongly express our regret , that _ they . ^ cpiit ^ ue , ' ' % );; maintain towards the men a hostile spirit of reserve .
Three new accidents—as offences of a certain kind are now called—have been reported this week . A building on the Great Western Railway has fallen down under the process of building , killing one man , an 4 wounding twelve others . Various causes are assigned , hut at all events there was one cause—no sufficient precautions were taken to support the weight of the biiilding while it underwent the chances incidental to the elevation of heavy girders anij tlie -use of a machine called a derriefcrr-a spri of ierapprary crane . On the same railway , a flap , negligently
suffered to protrude from a goods' train , has cut down the pillars of a handsome station-shed at Beading , and destroyed the value of £ 2000 ; the safety pf the bunding ^ ehig thus left at the mercy of the incessant attention of tjhe persons whose duty it was to fasten up these flaps . Andthirdly , while charges of great cruelty are brought forward against ? the officers of Leicester Gaol , it turns put that the visiting justices "never knew anything about it , and could not really answer any questions on an additionalinquiry' which they
themselves invited , So much lias the spirit of '' accident" taken possessioii 6 £ the unpaid bench . Cholera stjjl casts its black shadow over England . In the metropolis , and its suburbs , we hear of a gradual increase , though the deaths , do not exceed the average mortality froin other causes . The pestilence has not yet left •• its favourite liaunts in Newcastle , GatesheadL , and neighbourhood , in earner visitations so fatally marked out for the fiercest attaeks of the disease . But
ye may safely , conclude that , for the present , we need , not fear any decided spread . TCt is more important to observe the conditions linger which It has been manifested with greatest virulence . Among the chief causes are mentioned the criminal cupidity of builders—rthe . desire to obtain tlie largest possible rental from the smallest possible surface . It strikes every one that the awful destruction of human life was all but entirely
preventable . Another notable circumstance connected with the cholera visitation , is the moral effect discernible in the devil-may-caro indifference or pitiful terror which , prevailed in Newcastle and Gateshead . Moral degradation has gone hand in hand with the terror or the actuality of death . Caution must be observed in , the ^ application ot remedies so freely , , and tpo often ao unwisely suggested . Medical advice should , be taken on the first appearance of symptoms . Vigilance , manly resistance , and self-denial , may etui preserve us :
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THE ENGLISH PEOPLE AND T HE . . EASTERN qtJESTJON . / . : ..: ¦ ,.. NOTXWG > HJLI-. A MicimNa was hold at Netting Hill on Monday , to " consider the present aspect of -affairs « i tbe r * : Europe . '' Resolutions for in ^ hy into tlio conduct o 'Miliinterf . -rtroro passed ; and in tho Bpecehefl or ovtihing their conduct wa « loudly denounced- ' Nieholay Bpoke , urging , that " public op inion , cot . j oxju-eHfldd in this coimtry , was e < jufcl to % l-evoiu ^ any other . " Mr , Urquhart also spoke at Icngen . « B avoh uaici ; t , l , at 8 t ) , 000 . -jWch « & * Jw rumour w » n » to be . Hontto Co ^ ljantin <| pl «> .. W , M m L « kfly , rnttif U « ui < l « oy woulfl t « ttW ( . i ^ minff ; l ) f ' , Wu « irmmh an o ^ xHUtionarV fom ? wwro fl ( ' , V , tta T «''' lIh publics opinion to coqtr <> l it « i ^ fcioii , or mW V ^^ (]() , I ' llWic opinion cQimtcil « s ., notl || niin , «»« A ? r , rt / ionM . ' i » f , c ui aAm , ol ' ov W ^ ji'A ,, w » » 1 oxeout ( ju v ^ rf , \ Jtff . ( wnunittflo . l ^ SLn ^^ m | lio J mmmU of , tty wjtom ftt »» the people mt \\ out , hborfcy . ^ he Qw « % E yU &n «* » trfttibn , inibrnmtion , and courage , to iuIHl nor wv
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 15, 1853, page 986, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2008/page/2/
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