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10 ? a - __ % & ¦ £ ¦ . LEADER [ No . 294 , SxTvmxr .
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TfiE BLane Akctio Expedition . — -The New Toik papers contain some interesting details respecting this expedition , which , it will be recollected , was despatched fromi the United States in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions , and which , has recently returned with t&e loss of its vessel frozen op in the Arctic Sea , and of tBree men vrho died . The expedition , though failing in its great , object , made some interesting discoveries with reference to Greenland . They are thus noted : —" The real discovery of the expedition is the open Polar Sea . The channel leading to those waters are entirely free from ice , and this feature was rendered more remarkable by the existence of a zone , or solid belt of ice , extending more than one hundred and twenty-five miles to the southward . ( This sea verifies the views of Dr . Kane , as xpressed to the Geographical Society before his departure . ) The lashing of the surf against this frozen beach of ice , was impressive beyond description . An area of three thousand square miles was seen , entirely free from ice . This channel has been named after the Hon . John P . Kennedy , late Secretary of the ( American ) Navy , under whose auspices the expedition was taken . TJie land to the north and west of this channel has been charted as high as 82 deg . 30 min . This is the nearest land to the Pole yet discovered . It bears the name of Mr . Henry Grinuel , the founder of the expedition , known by his name . Serious Accident to Mb . Locke , M . P—A very serious accident occurred to Mr . Locke , M . P ., on Thursday week , while engaged in inspecting the works of a tunnel on a railway in the vicinity of Rouen . Mr . Locke , accompanied by Mr . Brassey and several other scien * * ^ gentlemen , had left Rouen in the morn * -:, fo , the purpose of examining the works- * „««? now in progress of construction . T » - , - * a railway now ¦ jn io one of the tunnel * u - " « 7 ha £ ascended a platform pWcipitated * ¦¦ "' when the scaffolding gave way , ana to tb » - ^ "whole party from a height of twelve feet „ ground . Mr . Locke sustained a severe fracture of Doth bones of the leg below the knee . The otherjgentlemen escaped with contusions Explosion on Board Ship . —Owing to gross mismanagement , a large quantity of gunpowder exploded on board the ship Abbotts Reading , of Liverpool , on the 12 th of September , while the vessel was lying in port of Valparaiso . At the time of the catastrophe , 1 , 315 kegs of gunpowder were on board , each keg containing twenty-five pounds : and these were placed indiscriminately amidst tho gVneral cargo . The entire' contents of eight kegs " « 7 < re strewn loose among the goods ; and , on some of ^ be kegs being removed , the friction set fire to tie scattered powder , and an explosion ensued of such violence » JfTo blow up the deck , to kill two of the crew , and Ser iously to injure several others , of whom four , at the date of the communication from Valparaiso , were in a very precarious state . It appears that this reckless mode Of stowing inflammable matter is very common among merchant vessels employed by the government to take out powder to our naval stations .
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XjEAbbr Office , Saturday , November 10 . WAR MOVEMENTS . Vienna , Thursday . The Bourse to-day has been rife with a rumour of a sharp engagement in advance of Tchobotar , on the road to Simpheropol , in which the Russians have suffered heavy loss . The expeditionary army of Eupatoria has pushed forward to the north , to possess itself of the double route from Adjaman Ashagi and Temesoh to Simpheropol . _ The Emperor of Russia has returned from NicholuiefF , direct to St . Petersburg , without visiting Warsaw .
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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 eternal progress . —Dk . Arnold .
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We owe it to some of our readers to apologise for several errors , both of external appearance and of verbal typography , which appeared in a portion of owr last week's impression , and which resulted from certain changes in connexion uoith our printing department having led to a temporary disarrangement .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications . Whatever is intended for insertion mast be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of bis 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 . 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 itide pendent of the merits of the communication .
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RESULTS . Consider , from a Continental point of view , the position of England . Is it better or worse than at the commencement of the war ? We flatter ourselves , but for prestige we depend , not on our own estimate of our own performances , but on the" judgment of other nations , some enemies , others allies—all rivals . The truth is not to be learned in London , but in the great capitals of Europe . " The sorry figure made by England , " is a permanent topic abroad It is to be explained by the existence of an evil somewhere , and many , who are not optimists , content themselves with a cry for administrative reform . We want a better organization of our official system ; we want a sounder basis for our army ; we want more recruits . All this we do want ; but administrative infirmity is not the only cause of our present humiliation . The reality is worse . England has been subordinated to France , and France , stifled by a Government which it does not so much detest as despise , regards English credulity , and English enthusiasm , as subjects for ridicule . How far official alliance leads to international friendship , may be learned by any one who studies the universal under-current of opinion on tho Continent . Not only in the authorised press of Germany , but wherever public feeling takes any form , in satires , pamphlets , conversations , the wnr comes to the surface , and Great Britain is taunted as a secondary and subservient power . It is frequently suggested as one obstacle to an immediate peace , that it would loavo England in the rear of France ; and that the English people could not close a war in which their last enterprise was a failure . There would be more value in this idea , had we not sacrificed position and prestige , on greater occasions than the defeat at the Redan . Wo wore suppressed in tho Cabinet before we wore eclipsed in tho field . Tho initiating power , at the outset , was in Paris . Tho Turkish question was first disturbed and forced to a crisis by tho French Government . If tho Emperor Nicholas had an apology for tho course ho took , it was tho conduct of M . Dk Lav alette . The expedition against Sobastopol
was hurried forward by a dying Marshal of France , who had a spectre in his memory , to whose recklessness Lord Raglan sacrificed his judgment and his responsibility . Lord Raglan considered the scheme untimely and ill-prepared . St . Arnaud , though when another field was in view , he declared the invasion of the Crimea a desperate enterprise , reversed bis opinion as the season ebbed away , and hurried the allied armies to an unknown coast . Step by step his impatience prevailed , and from that surrender of duty on the part of the British Commander dated the preponderance of the French in the Crimea . Finally , the French took Sebastopol . The British army , in all the operations , behaved magnificently ; but there was wanting either the genius or the sincerity necessary to success . France led the war . England failed to create a force commensurate with the exigencies of the times . How was it in 1804 , when within a year , sixteen hundred thousand men enrolled themselves in Great Britain , to accept the conflict proposed by Napoleon ? Perhaps this was inevitable . The French military organization is on a larger scale than our own . If our national character had not suffered from the sacrifice of the army last winter , and if the troops who assaulted Sebastopol had been well commanded , there might have been little reason to complain that Marshal PELissiERis Generalissimo in the Crimea . The real peril is , that our governing class , exaggerating the necessities of the French alliance , will make infamous concessions of principle . The expulsion of the refugees from Jersey was an act which the Ottoman Government , except under irresistible pressure , would not have committed . Was pressure felt , or anticipated , in this instance ? Clearly , the vindictive extradition of a few homeless exiles was intended to conciliate the goodwill—" the confidence "—of Imperial France . It might have been remembered that , what with " England " bowing to an effigy in the vault of the Invalides , doing penance at a tomb , and dancing with Persigny , conciliation had gone far enough . But imitation is admiration concrete . How could we more cordially attest our veneration of an autocrat than by accepting his lessons , and authorising a Jersey prefect to decree the expulsion of thirty-seven refugees ? The appendix of the story is dramatic . The high officials of an English island , bearing this edict to the proscribed , had not been taught that the police of Europe are copies of the mutes of Asia . Th « y submitted to tho crossexamination of M . Victor Hugo ; and M . Victor Hugo , before he obeyed the governors decree , learned that the governor ' s agent considered him an injured man , and the Emperor of the French " a criminal . " Possibly , a connection may be traced between this unhappy event , and one which preceded it . The British Government , forgetting its allegiance to tho December dynasty , had ventured upon an act of independent policy-It was the more servile to tho desires of despotism in Jersey , because it had not yet atoned for a stroke of intrigue which had been resented by tho semi-official j ournalism of France . When tho King of Naples had lashed his people almost to rebellion , tho mercy of Europe interposed after the Russian fashion . It was essential to tho tranquillity of tho Italian states that Ferdinand should suspend his whip . All that was said , was said in the interest of the executioner . The criminal ( i . e ., tho people of Naples ) was loft prostrate , bound , gagged , —only relieved , lest ho might bo tortured beyond human patience , and flogged into an inconvenient frenzy . Nothing wfts further from tho policy of tho intervening Cabinets — Great Britain acting in bland unity with Austria—than to
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LORD MAYOR'S DAY . The inauguration of Mr . David Salomons' civic reign , which took place yesterday , was shorn of the magnificence which is generally associated with the Lord Mayor ' s show . Instead of men in armour and gorgeous devices , which have sometimes exoited ridicule , the procession yesterday was of a simple and unpretending character ) the new Lord Mayor , it is said , preferring to present the sum saved ( 2 , 000 ? . ) to the officers of tlie various wards , for distributing daring the ensuing winter amongst the poor inhabitants of their respective diatriots . At Westminster Hall , tho civic authorities were received by Lord Chief Baron Pollock , Mr . Baron Parke , Mr . Baron Alderson , and Mr . Baron Martin . The Recorder presented the Lord Mayor to the learned Barons in a brief address , in the course of which he referred to the fact of his lordship being a Jew , a proof of the advance this country was making towards the establishment of the great principle of religious liberty . He adverted also » o the fact that the Lord Mayor ia n barrister , a circumstance not generally known . The Recorder , likewise , in tho name of th « Lord Mayor and Sheriffs , invited their lordships to th « banquet , to be given in the evening in the Guildhall , to which the Lord Chief Barou replied , that eomo of thft learned judges would attend . — Globe .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1855, page 1078, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2114/page/10/
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