On this page
- Departments (3)
-
Text (14)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
<3gp ^£*r ¦r ^f^r ^ «^* *-¦?
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
^flStertlBt T ___ ^
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
> ^ rr hr f t t* *tl-rfrr t^ f d^UuHU MM U11 ft* I
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
Expensive Smoking . —Mr . Wright , CM ., Government Inspector for fhe smoke nuisance , provea that 400 , 000 ? . yearly is saved to . the manufacturers by therecent Act , Tbesicles such trifling things as soap , wear'and tear of linen through dirt , fee . He says that health will improve , and that London already looks cleaner . Sunday Drinking in Crieff . —The number of persons drunk on Sunday is as large as before the passing of the new law . The cause is just the same as elsewhere : people supply themselves on the Saturday night ; and if the , evil has been checked by shutting the dram shops on Sunday , it has increased a far -worse species —viz ., fireside drinking . —Perth Advertiser .
Superiokitt of Large Steamers . —The Great Britain seems quite to have sustained hex reputation in her outward trip to Australia . One of the passengers , Mr . B- C . Aspinall , thus describes the voyage : — - "We had a charming passage , no wrecks , no horrors—nothing but a long pleasnre-trip in a large yadht . Dancing , singing , eating , drinking , sleeping , all the way , to a most enjoyable extent . " —Morning Chronidle . A Bad Wobkman Quarbelmng with his Tooxs .- — Mr . Oobb , Chaplain to the Norwich Gaol , has , it is said , resigned . The "Visiting Justices complained that he had neglected his doty , and he showed Them his reasons written in his minute-book : —; " No surplice fit to -wear , and no service during the week whilst it is washed and repaired . ' "
Where t > oes it aiul go to ?—The total amount of gold coined from March , 1851 , till June , 1854 , is no less than 28 , 000 , 0007 . Tor a similar period of -time the coinage . during the last century has never exceeded 3 , 000 . 01007 .
Untitled Article
THE PRINCIPALITIES . IFive hundred French have gone to Bucharest and Ibraila . Colonels Dieu and Mirecourt have gone to inspect Isuktctia and Toulfcsehii .
Untitled Article
THE AUSTRIA ! ALLIANCE . Tine Daily News says— ' < A rumour was circulating in Paris yesterday to the effect that the Prussian Court had agreed to accede to the alliance of Austria , England , and Trance . The news is probably premature , although it is known that for the last week the new ( treaty has occupied the anxious attention of the rruasuin King and his advisers . "
Untitled Article
THE FLEETS . The Times says— " Admiral Hamelin lias returned to France , and haa relinquished the command in chief of the French fleet in the Black Sea . "
Untitled Article
We learn from tho Daily News that H . M . S . Duke of Wellington , and some other vessels , sailed from Kiel , on the 7 th , for England , but wove compelled by stormy weather to anchor of Kniids Head .
Untitled Article
S ' 1 > A I N . Intelligence from "Madrid of tho 2 nd inst . states that the Ministerial crisis was complete . The Duke of Victory ( Espartero ) had « dvisecl the Queen to send for MM . San Miguel , Madoz , and Olozsaga , who had voted with the majority , and to cntruat to them tho taBk of forming a Cabinet . All ( the Parliamentary chiefs and tho ambassadors of England and Franco had repaired to Espartero to « beg him to withdraw his resignation , but ho refused . IKho following telegraphic despatch is coiiununicatod by the . Morning Chnoniclc correspondent at Pavis
:-t-** Madrid , Docomltex (> . " | n the flitting of yesterday M . Madox w « h elected V ^ tyynt pf the Cortow by 170 voUw , ami M . Infanta wna elwted first vico-prcaident by 124 votoa . "
≪3gp ^£*R ¦R ^F^R ^ «^* *-¦?
< 3 gp ^ £ * r ¦ r ^ f ^ r ^ «^* * - ¦?
Untitled Article
There is nothing so revolutionary , because there nothing so -unnatural and comralsive , as the strain to keep thingsflxed when all the world is by tke very law of its creation in . eternal progress . —De . Akuoid .
Untitled Article
THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT . Why is Parliament aloufc to meet ? A Minister woxdd explain- — -To vote . money . A Tory ex-Minister would explain—To turn out the Government ; Tory ex-Ministers having reason to believe that Mr . Bright and the Pesice Party , with a . great number ; of Liberals , who are not of the Peace Party , are quite ready to join in an attempt of that kind . But , on both sides , there is a mistake as to the reasons of the meeting of Parliament . Parliament meets because the country has demanded it : and the country demanded it because the Government had broken down . That is to say ,
Parliament is called inj . not as a Legislative , but as . an Executive Power , because the country has " no confidence" in the Ministry , and conceives that "the Parliament will perform , directly , those friendly functions of assisting . and guiding the Government , which are at present discharged so indirectly , . and therefore so clumsily , by the press . For it is to be observed that , in regard to the approaching- Session , there is no thought of " those measures of progress" which we hear of in other Sessions : the House of Commons will be converted into that *< Council of War" the
idea of which Mr . Cobden so much ridiculed some few months ago ; for some months it will be a Council of War , and nothing more . It , is rery natural that a constitutional public should , in its despair of its War Ministers , summon its Parliament . But the resort is in some respects illogical . The Ministry which has broken down in the war is a Ministry of all the talents—a literal fact . It is a Ministry composed of the picked men of the governing classes ; and it is a Ministry safe from
antl-Ministerialism , because there are none to succeed it . The war is developing tho complete unfitnesa of the governing class to govern , both in respect to brains , and in respect to principle , their sympathies being very distipctly antagonistic with the sympathies of the English nation . It is a profound belief in the camp and in the fleets that the « ' gallant officers" do not mafccji great generals nor good leaders : and at homo wo see confidence in tho issue of the struggling reviving precisely at that point
when the work of conducting the war passes from tho hands of dull and ^ tightened noblos into the hands . of * ho Naemyths and Petos— tho new confidence being again deluded -because illplaced . A contemporary ( the Herald ) distinguished for \ t& bold and healthy treatment oi nil tho war topics , congratulates Lord Aberdeen on the dofence wo have « mde for himour observation , last week , having been that Lord Aberdeen had produced this result by bis cravings for peace ) ho lmd given time for
opinions to march before events , at » d had 'eon * verted the war into a revolutionary war . Perhaps this is premature : it was written before the news had reached of the sinister treaty of Vienna . But of this -we think the students < f £ public opinion will not doubt—tliat the waT has produced a conviction throughout the workmanlike mind of actual England—that our aristocracy is not equal to the war , and
that the aristocratic system , has become incompatible with a " popular" war . And as Parliament is the aristocratic system , we may , for the present , be making some mistake iu welcoming so ardently the 12 th of December-We should be : definitive in speaking of Parliament . In the Jrst place , when we talk of Parliament we merely mean tlie House © f Commons . Furthermore , we do not mean the whole of the House of Commons . "We do
not mean the one-third . of it who are abject Ministerialists , men afflicted with the philosophical conviction that in the end one Government is as good as another , and . in the mean time are disposed to make the most of the loaves and fishes offered them by those ¦ who happen to be in . On the other hand , we do not mean the other third , the -wretched partisans of Tory leaders , who , with the reckless morale and characteristic stupidity of their
class , are 'attempting , to-take ' .-advantage of an honest national indignation to oppose a Ministry which , compared with any they could make up out of their Tanks of boors and cretins , is divine in intellect and Christian in morality . We count , then , upon a new section of the representative Chamber—upon those men who are coming up , for Tuesday , thinking of their duties to their country , and not at all of their duties to parties or to classes . But it is the hue of this section in which the
Tories will seek to clothe themselves ; and the very apprehension of some such identification may modify their action . On their action depends everything ; and , though it is -a melancholy consideration thai ? vve are defending civilisation by this aid of a senate , onerthird of which alone represents the people- —and that indirectly and npt directly , by sharing in , . rather than springing from , national desires—yet it is some consolation that vve may depend on their action . The
Ministerialists are mere negative members : good to cheer . The Tories , being led by Lord . Derby , who is not reputed to be so sagacious , and by Mr . Disraeli , who i . s reputed to be only sagacious , are an opposition of account merely for number . Yet the action of this patriotic one-third , in which we strive to believe , though the numbers may be too c ' round , " can only be effective up to a certain point . It can counsel , and even coei'ce : for , emphatically , it will represent the " country . " But
it will not propose to itself to ceaso to be patriotic and to become a party ; that is , it will not contemplate becoming . a Government to carry on the wav as the country longs to see tho war carried on . Within , the one-third on which wo |) laco our hopes , are crowds of small cliques , or eccentricities , difficult of fusion into a homogeneous whole—difficult because the ci'isis has not yet presented us -with a great man commanding a lead . Thus we must bo content with incoherent patriotism ;
and , in fact , wo have a Coalition Government because the aristocracy is worn out while tho middle class is unprepared for Government . Tho House of Commons may j » ot thec , at once socuro a popularisation of tho war ; but it ; will prevent the English aristocracy playing , too carefully , tho game of tho dynasties . Tho wav , wo rather think , will , to a great ox tent , tnko caro of itself , so that tho governing classes bo not loft to themselves ; and it will bo hard if , while there is revolution abroad , wo do nob , in tho crash , get some . reforms , at homo .
^Flstertlbt T ___ ^
^ n 0 terript .
Untitled Article
Leader Okfice , Saturday , December 9 . TSE SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL . The following is from the Morning Chronicle ;—" Vienna , Thursday , December 7 . "Advices from Sebastopol , of the 27 th November , have been received here . " The siege was zealously continued . " The Russians had sunk another liner near the mouth of the harbour . " Reinforcements to the number of . 9000 , men had reached , the Allies in the Grimea . "
Untitled Article
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO " W&x aLeirtwv . " Tor a Half-Year ; £ o is o To be remitted in advance . l ! iP Money Orders should bo drawn upon the Strasd Branch Office , and be made payable to Mr . Axtsbb E . GkiiCLOWAT . fat No . ^ "Wellingto n Street , Strand .
Untitled Article
SATTJBTJAY , DECEMBER 9 , 1854 .
≫ ^ Rr Hr F T T* *Tl-Rfrr T^ F D^Uuhu Mm U11 Ft* I
HfivkXix Maim
Untitled Article
li 62 T-teiB L £ A D WH . p& . TnmixArF ,
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 9, 1854, page 1162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2068/page/10/
-