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      Father Matthew O'Keefe , an Irish political priest , has been forbidden by his bishop to take any part whatever in political affairs . He had written a letter to Serjeant Shee on tenant right . Mr . Lucas , M . P ., ia a puhlic meeting at Kilkenny , mourned this interference of the bishop ; he declared , however , that he would submit , but talked of appealing to the Pope . An official communication has been received by the Registrar of Queen ' s College , Belfast , to the effect that students of the Queen ' s Colleges who have taken the degree of A . B . at the Queen's University in Ireland -will be admitted as candidates for orders in the ChuTch of Kngland and Ireland , after an attendance of one year at St . Aidan ' s College , Birkenhead , which is under the direction of the Archbishop of Canterbury .

      There are three candidates for the vacancy in the representative Peerage for Ireland . Lord Doneraile , Lord Portarlington , and Lord Talbot de Malahide . An anchor was picked up and brought in by the boatmen of Broadstairs last week , supposed to have been under water upwards of 200 years . It had the appearance of a mass of petrified iron , being entirely covered with flints of all sizes . —Dover Chronicle . The band of the French Cavalry Eegiment— " Les Guides "—have been considerably petted since its arrival . On Saturday it played at Sydenham ; on Sunday at Windsor Castle ; on Tuesday at the French Ambassador ' s ; and on Thursday at Exeter Hall .

      Amongst the certificated nurses who have just left this country under the charge of Miss Nightingale , to attend upon the sick and -wounded in the British Hospital at Scutari , is Miss Erskine , the eldest daughter of the Dowager Lady Erskine , of Pwll-y-crochan , North Wales . Her knowledge of the Welsh language will lender her aid valuable amongst the wounded Welsh . Letters from Tienna of the 17 th state that the cholera has declared itself there . One of its first victims was the young Princess Josephine Lichtenstein , neice of the Teigning prince of that name .

      The visit of Lord Canning to Paris , relative to the arrangement of a more equitable system of postage between France and England , has , it is said , succeeded to a certain extent . The postage of a single letter is henceforward , report says , to be 6 d . ( 12 sous ) either way , in place of lOd . paid at present in England , and 16 sous in France .

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      SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 4 , 1854 .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is 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 eterzial progress . —Dk . Arnold

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      LOUIS NAPOLEON AND THE UNITED STATES . His Majesty of France appears to be experiencing the bad influence of sudden and supreme success : he is committing blunders . The English , who were getting 1 into a notion of his infallibility , have , of late , been rather shocked by his anti-distillation decree , by his loose letter to the widow St . Arnaud , and b y his restless , petty , prosecutions of the unhappy press—the press of all countries—for he allows none but the courteous to cross his frontier .

      The impression he was thus producing was not rendering the nation very eager for his proposed -visit to Windsor ; and , if only for that reason , his weaknesses were greatly to be regretted . But not satisfied with outraging English public opinion , he has included the whole Anglo-Saxon race in his contemptuous indifference , and , by refusing to M . Soulo permission to pass through France , he deliberately dared to affront the United States .

      fcven the English will think that this was a great folly : and it is gratifying to hear that Lord Clarendon had the courage and common sense at once to intimate , what could only bo received us , a practical condemnation of the proceeding . Lord Clarendon , wo understand , imnvved by the fuarful necessity of conciliating our groat ally , expressed his total want of sympathy with the conduct of the French Government , and an id that whatever tho matter might leaul to as between the Government of Louis Napoleon and tine Government of the United States , England could not possibly

      take any part in the controversy . But the folly of this refusal was paralleled by a further folly in attempting to suppress all mention of the matter in France . The newspapers got their quiet caution , and were silent on the subject . What was the result ? All Paris was alive with gossip on the matter : M . Soule had concocted a revolution with Ledru Rollin , and was travelling from London to Paris as the accredited agent of the refugees . The United States had authorised M . Soule to accept this commission . There was going to be a war with the United States .

      At this moment we do not know how the matter is to result . There is no doubt tliat ; Mr . Soule found , on his return to London , that Mr . Buchanan was eager to make the cause his own ; that Mr . Mason , the American Minister in Paris , who was at once communicated with by telegraph , viewed the affront in the same light in which Mr . Buchanan regarded it ; and that a demand for the rescinding of the order to the police was at once made of the Government of France by these three gentlemen , who , fresh from the Ostend Conference , at which the resolutions were , it is believed , unanimous - , may fairly be considered as the European Cabinet of the Government of Washington ,

      Whatever the answer to that demand , it was at least becoming the dignity of the Imperial Government that the response should he prompt . But , up to this moment , we believe — -that is for a whole week—no answer ' whatever has been returned . This certainly suggests that the conduct of Mr . ' Soule has not exposed him to very grave accusations : for we may infer that if the justifications of the refusal were ample , the delay would have been slight in referring Mr . Mason to the indiscretions or the crimes—and both are

      whisperedof his colleague . No doubt , Louis Napoleon . s position became a grave one by the unexpectedly bold demeanour of Mr . Mason . Mr . Mason is reputed to have said , in effect : — " We Americans do not understand the peculiarities of Europe . You have offered us an affront : apologise for it ; open France to iny friend , a representative of my nation , or— 1 leave Paris—my Government shall cease to have relations with you . " Louis Napoleon is perfectly aware that there is still something of

      the republican element in France , and foresaw , we may assume , that it would scarcely W judicious to invite the hostility of the republican States . In fact , we have every reason to believe that Mr . Soule , a peculiarly cautious man , lias committed no indiscretion whatever ; that the Emperor allowed himself to be misled by stupid libels ; and that ho was tempted into the blunder by a purely personal inclination — in which , for obvious reasons , the family of the Emperor sympathises—to believe anything wrong of Mr . Soul 6 . However , Louis Napoleon is not one of the men who confess to

      errors ; and we can fully understand the tortures of tho week ' s suspense , while we are still doubtful of the ultimate shape which his resolution may take . Public opinion in the United States in roferetico to Louis Napoleon is precisely wlit'io English public opinion was in reference to the same porsonago about eighteen months ago . He is condemned as a military despot : aixl ho ia distrusted because it is fully believed that hi . s

      individual feelings are not favourable to tho great republic . The relations between tho two Government * have not been friendly : tho " Dillon affair " indicates bud blood : and it is not surprising that Messrs . tSoulc , Duclmiiuu , and Mason , acting at once in the full security that they wore auro of being bnckotl by tlu-ir Government and their country ? whould have received the insult to tho one , of the propriety of who . se Jino of conduct they were usNured , as a dulihorutc affront to tho United States . There

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      Leader Office , Saturday , November 4 . The following telegraphic message from Constantinople arrived at the Foreign Office at a late hour last night : —

      FROM LO R D STRA T FORD DE REDCLIFFE . " Constantinople , October 28 , at Midnight . " The captain of an English steam-transport , which left Balaklava the evening of the 2 Gth , confirms in great part the information brought this morning by a French ship , and transmitted immediately to London by way of Marseilles . It appears that the Russians attacked the forts in the vicinity of Balaklava on the 25 th . Their numbers are supposed to have been about 30 , 000 men . Tho attack was unexpected . The € ossacks preceded the

      Vienna , Friday , November 3 . Advices have been r eceived here dated Constantinople , October 23 . The Harpy had brought a Russian general and 400 wounded to Constantinople . Three Russian ships had been sunk , and five powder towers exploded . Fort Constantine had been silenced . 40 , 000 of the allies check the advance of the Russian reinforcements . The British cavalry division , under General Scarlett , had defeated 5000 Russians . Five Russian generals are reported already killed . The Russians had left Eupatoria .

      infantry . To resist them at first there wore Ottoman troops and Scotch . The ; Turks gave way , and even spiked the guns , which , seized by tho Russians , were turned against them . Tho Scotch , on tho contrary , remained ilrm in their position . Otlier forces arrived , and tho Russians were obliged to yield the ground , remaining , nevertheless , masters of two forts , from which they flred upon our troops . Three regiments of English light cavalry , exposed to tho cross fire of the Russian batteries , suffered immensely .

      " The French took part in tho a ( lair , with admirable bravery . " On tho next day , their position was attacked by a body of 8000 Russians , as well IVom tho nido of tho town as from that of lialiiklavn . They repulsed the enemy with groat . slaughter . Generally , tho loss o f tho Russians inuat have boon very groat . It ia aflirmed that the flro of the batteries of tho town had much . slackened ; and according to tho report of wounded ofllcovH , Bomo of whom huvoarrivc . il at , Buyukdc ' r « 5 , tho belief continued that HebiiNtopol would bo noon in th « hands of tho All ion . This is iiunrly wlm » t has been gathered from Hovoml persons who wore oyQ-witnosHOH of what took place .

      " Tho names of tho killed and -wounded nro reserved for tho official ocou . sion . Among tho mimes them is none of n general oflicer . ( Signed ) " Stkatfouo nit Kuucukkic . "

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      TO CORRESPONDENTS . " Horatio . "— ¥ c never answer such questions : and among other reasons , because we cannot . "W . J—Thanks for your hint . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a , press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication .

      No notice can be > taken of anonymous communications . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . We . cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 7 , Wellington-street , Strand * London .

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      November 4 , 1854 ] THE LEADER . 1041

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page 1041, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2063/page/9/