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      jatarrhal affections , and added some cases of catarrhal jphthalinia to our list ; but the admissions under this lead have decreased nearly one-half during the present week , and it is to be hoped by care and removal > f those labouring under the complaint to the Vfonastery that the disease will not extend . There ias been a decrease in the number of admissions from lever , but an increase of mortality , confined chiefly to ; he Land Transport Corps , as fourteen out of the rineteen deaths that occurred during this week took ) lace in that branch of the service alone . This corps lag . a heavier sick list than any division of the army , vhich is not to be wondered at , as many of the Euro-> eans have recently arrived in the country , and are tot yet acclimated , and the natives bear fatigue and he vicissitudes of weather , like that which we now tave , but ill . "

      More German Netjtrautit . "—Within the last ten lays ( says a despatch from Tilsit in the Daily JVcios everal lai'ge caravans of horse 3—numbering in all bout 1 , 500—have passed through this city of Russia , 'hey are fine strong animals , equally serviceable for avalry and artillery , and were purchased by the Russian government in the kingdom of Hanover , nder the superintendence of a Russian general officer , r ho also personally accompanies the transport .

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      PUBLIC MEETINGS . MR . BRIGHT ON THE WAR . . pter an interval , Mr . Bright has again opened re ( if the expression be not too military ) on the ar . On the evening of Friday week , he addressed meeting of the members and friends of the [ arsderx Mechanics' Institution ; and , after en-. rging on the virtues of penny papers , and com-Lenting on the tendency to panics , as regards reign affairs , to which the English mind is liable svidenced in the fear of Papal aggression , of rench invasion , and of Russian ambition ) —a state : things owing to want of knowledge and lought—he proceeded to discuss the question ?

      the alleged barbarism of Russia . He asked : — "Is it not a singular thing that St . Petersburg , the pital of this barbarous empire , though but a modern by , has a library which , in size , ranks the third in arope , and is said to contain 10 , 000 volumes more an the library of the British Museum ? Is it not a range thing that at the southern extremity of this jbarous empire there is a city which some wretched id sanguinai-y fanatics in this counti-y wish that the [ lied fleets should utterly destroy ; a city the undations of which were laid but sixty years ago , d which exported to this country in the year 1848 ¦ the year of famine in Ireland—more than 5 , 300 , 000 ishels of grain ? Surely there is something more

      d better than barbarism in facts like these ; and t the people of England have been supplied with 3 ntal aliment , for two years past or more , full of ejudice , full of exaggeration , and full of falsehood , d the policy they have applauded has been based misapprehensions of the grossest character . And lile they have conjured up these terrors in the East , By seem , wholly forgetful of what is passing in the est . Many of you have relatives or friends in Aniea . That young nation has a population about equal oui's in those islands . It has a great internal and bernal commerce . It has more tonnage in shipping in we have . It has more railroads than wo have , has , moro newspapers than wo havo . It has instil

      bions more free than wo have—that horrid slavery the south oxcoptod—and which is no fruit of its ititutions , but an unhappy legacy of the past . It 3 also a great manufacturing interest in different inches . That iH the young giant whoso shadow ir grows , and there is the truo rival of this country . t how do we stand or start iu tho race ? The dted States' Government , including all the governmts of all its Sovereign States , raises in taxes pro-_> ly from £ 12 , 000 , 000 to £ 15 , 000 , 000 sterling iu > year England this year will raiwo in taxes and , n » , and will expend nearly . £ 100 , 000 , 000 . This pulation must raise and will spend , probably , 0 , 000 , 000 within this year more- than that populaa will riu . so and spoud , and in America thoro is far 3 poverty and pauperism than in England . Can

      run this race on these terms and against thoHo Is ? Can wo hopo to bo an woll off as America if i produots of our industry aro thus swopt away by » tax-gatlioror , and in tho vain sohotno of waving rope from imaginary dangers ? Can poverty bo 3 oned among us , can education spread , can tho itality of so many of our population bo uprooted , i all or anything that good men look for com * to whilo tho fruit * of our industry , tho foundation nil social and moral good , aro squandered in thin uner ? Pursue tho phantom of military glory for yoars , and expend iu that timo a mim equal to all vieiblo property of Lancashire and Yorkshire , and n compare youraolf with tho United States of lorica , and where will you bo I Pauperism , crime , I political anarchy are the JogacioH wo aro proing for our children , and thero is no osoapo for ua

      unless we change our course , and resolve to disconnect ourselves from the policy which tend 3 incessantly to embroil us with the nations of the continent of Europe . It is the object of institutions like tbia , and of meetings like this , to enable us to inform ourselves on great questions of this nature , and therefore I make no apology for referring to them here . "

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      AMERICA . Congress assembled on the 3 rd of December , and adjoui'ned after four hours of ineffectual attempts to elect a Speaker . The majority of votes was in favour of Mr . Richardson , of Illinois , a Democrat . On the subject of the tariff , a Washington letter in the Ncic York Herald says : —" The Secretary of the Treasury has become converted to the theories of tho mamifacturers of wool , and will recommend the admission of the raw materials fieo of duty , including chemicals and dyestuffs in the same category . Ho does not propose to touch iron ; but tho backers of this movement iu Congress intend to incorporate , if they enn , upon tho modification a provision allowing of railroad iron to bo bonded for five years . " Tho Washington Cabinet , according to tho same paper , bus rejected Denmark ' s proposition for a capitalisation , or a tax according to tho value of tho cargo , in lieu of the present Sound dues . The Governor of South

      Carolina , in his message to tho Legislature , recommends that the law with respect to slaves bo so modified ^ as to permit coloured seamen , tho subjects of foreign nations , to romain on board thoir vessels , to bo allowed to laud whenover tho duties of tho vcshoI require it , upon their locoiving a written permit to that effoct from tho Mayor of tho port , and that whilo on land they bo subjected to tho ordinary restrictions applied to tho native coloured population . A collision has occurrod in Kansas between this Pro and Anti-Slavory parties . Throe Free-Statesmen had attempted to drive | Mr . Coleman , a Pro-Slavery nottlor from his claim near Hickory Point . A struggle ensued , which extended and led to a most ; serious condition of affairs . The militia wan called out ; tho people of Lawrence armed thornselvoH with five pieces of artillory ; sixteen houmjfi hnve boon burnt ; and , at tho latest advices , order had not boon restored .

      General Corral , aftor bin entry into Grenada , was arrested on a charge of treason , tried by courtmartial , and nhot . General Vallo has reinforced Grenada witli ono hundred and forty men . From Mexico , wo hear that the neat of Government hafi been transferred back to the capital . Alvarez was woll rocoivod on his entry to tho city . Ho declared that his bannor was " Popiilar and Representative Republio , " and disavowed all peraonal ambition .

      The New York commercial accounts state that the European news by the Atlantic created a commotion among the dealers in stocks , and large sales were made at a considerable decline of prices , there being no outside demand and no animation among speculators . Government stocks , however , had improved in consequence of the Secretary of the Treasury having announced his intention to redeem further 1 , 500 , 000 dollars at a high premium . There was no especial change in the money-market ; the demand was good at full rates of interest .

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      A CONSERVATIVE CHAMPION AND CHAMPIONESS . At the general election of 1852 , Sir Alexander Cookbum and Mr . "Wilcox were returned for Southampton on the Liberal interest ; and the Conservatives got up a petition against them , alleging bribery . The petition beiug referred to a select committee of the House of Commons , a man named Mares ton was examined to prove the bribery , but the committee disbelieved his statements , and he was indicted for perjury . Marston was brought to trial , and a Mr . Mackey , a solicitor , of Southampton , gave his services gratuitously in conducting the defence ; while another of the Conservative party , General Bullock , together with several of bis friends , got up a subscription for

      the purpose of paying all the other expenses . Marston was tried before Lord Campbell at Westminster , and was found guilty . General Bullock , however , conceived that Mr . Mackoy had wilfully mismanaged the affair ; aud he therefore charged Mr . Mackey with , having sold his client and betrayed his trust . The latter gentleman , in tho course of last December , brought an action against the General , and : obtained a verdict with substantial damages . General Bullock , however , was determined not to rest in the matter ; and , having written several letters to Lord Palmerston and Lord Campbell , he collected them into a pamphlet , together with , some others , and offered the whole to Mr . Ridgway , of Piccadilly , for publication . Mr . Ridgway , though with some

      hesitation , consented to put his name on the title-page ; but , after the pamphlet was printed , he said he must withdraw his nanie , on account of the libellous nature of the matter . General Bullock , nevertheless , circulated the pamphlet , with a paper stating that it came from Mr . Ridgway . He also induced the editor of the Hampshire Independent to publish a letter containing similar libels , upon hia promising to give indemnity in case of legal proceedings . In consequence of theso libels , Mr . Mackey , during the last few days , has brought an action against General Bullock in the Court of Queen ' s Bench . Lord Campbell , in his summing up , mado Home sever © remarks on tho conduct of the General ; and the jury gave a verdict for Mr . Mackey , with £ . > 00 damages .

      In the course of the trial , Mrs . Bullock was examined . She appears to have been a xary " strong-minded" lady , and to have managed all tho private arguing with the opposite parties . Speaking of the trial of Marston at Westminster Hull , she siiid ( in tho course of cross-examination ) : — " I was very indignant at tho res ^ lfi ^ g the trial . 1 toas taken oicf of the Hall in confu-qu > S 9 UMf , _ < jfc am very much interested about Mr . Marston . l ; tff | jg $ f £ the letter which appeared in the paper . I wroto , $ : vM # letter in the matter . I prepared the \> hm . ¦ , Qjqk ; which Lord Campbell observed , " They were Y « Cjr long ones , at all events , " and thoro was laugWOT-, Tho lady also said : — " General Bullock tYul n / rt-Miiui mo to go into the witnosH-box at tho Jii * t trial . / - cit / nic into court . " > '

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      Mil * . l'KW AND UV . U " PINE APPlJB / y Mhh . Pkw a huly who will bo most uoiuteoUily < W "' Horibod , under tlio oir < JuniHtai » eoH , by thy convenient ' epithet " guy" —has brought an action in the Comrfc of Exchoquer against a Mr . Rosonthal , to rpOoVVBjt compensation for an assault , false imprifKjntnbni / 'ftDjji ^ a sum of £ 75 , which she allowed flhe liadexpteOMbnto paying nurses and necessaries during urt Um « i » flf Mr . Kosonthal . Tho lady had formerly lived with « gentleman named Pew , who at his decease had left her a inim of £ 600 , furniture of tho value of £ 1 , 000 ,

      and . £ 200 per annum , Who OHBiimotl tho name tit Pew , and in tho year 1851 formed an acquaintanceship ' at a boarding-house with Mr . Kosmillml . At first , that gentleman was rather "dintaul ; " hut io earno noaier afterwards , ankod tho fair IW >< no niit'ht " pay his mUro-wos" to hoc , and nj > piir « -n < y got an answer in tho affirmativo , for ?¦ ' •« ' «''/ « " ^™ hoiwelf to be taken out in oarrmgjw by M ' \ " ™™™> and indulged in hopf . n .. f matrimony . / . A ig ih , 186 U , Mho wub lit UinriHgat ,,, and rooo . vy a II ^ » Mr . Wontlml , in « o .. H « , . « o »« ° » ' JV' '' ' 'Ctwo London to nun , Mm J ^ - ^ ^ t ., ! . y ° lhS ^ 7 »^ fe of tho fair I ' , '"» " « '" £ " {} £ ^ . llf t . r which , g'SS : : uf O 0 .-S , of whioh country Mr . KfiHonr . li ii w can . j ng on buHiwms an a winfr ^^ hA ™ ™ * ho lotto ™ ( which , op

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      December 22 , 1855 . ] THE L E A D E R . 1215

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      DR . WOLFF ON THE WAR . The well-known missionary and traveller , the Rev-Dr . Wolff , is at present entertaining the inhabitants of East Brent and its neighbourhood with a series of lectures on the Eastern Churches , and on other subjects connected with his travels in the East . In speaking of the Greek Church , on Thursday week , the Doctor referred to Russia , and in so doing , gave his own views on the present war , to which he is strenuously opposed , on the ground that Russia is a great civilising power , and that its Emperors , from Peter tha Great down to the present Alexander II ., have not only been wise rulers , but for the most part Christian princes , whose great object has been to raise the barbarous tribes over which they ruled from

      a state of degradation and slavery to that of civilisation and Christianity . As instances , ' he mentioned several circumstances relative to the late Emperor Nicholas I ., which he knew from personal expei'ience to be facts , and which may not be generally known to the people in England . One of these was , that through the influence of Nicholas , the two unfortunate English travellers , Stoddart and Conolly , were released from , prison in Bokhara , and might have returned again to their own country , had not Stoddart refused to ackowledge any protection but that of his own govermnent ; another was , that while at Teheran , the Emperor ordered bis own Ambassador to supply Dr . Wolff with Bibles in the Russian languages , requesting him to distribute them , amongst the

      Rus-! sian slaves and fugitives in Bokhara ; thirdly , he i mentioned the fact that thirty-six universities has 1 been founded by Nicholas during his reign . In fact of all this , the Doctor thinks it hard that he should be branded as a tyrant and des 2 Jot , regardless of the lives of his subjects and intent only on his own aggrandisement , and made to bear the whole blame and odium of the present war , whereas the Doctor affirms that the ignorance and credulity of the English people have been imposed upon , and that a fearful amount of bloodshed will lie at the doors of those who have involved us in this war . Dr . Wolff considers the late Emperor Nicholas to have been the greatest prince that the world ha 3 seen for some centuries past !—County Herald .

      The Duke of Richmond , Lord Alfred Hervey , M . P ., Mr . W . F . Kuatchbull , M . P ., the Hon . R . "W . Clive , M . P ., and Mr . Crauford , M . P ., delivered speeches in favour of the war .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 22, 1855, page 1215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2120/page/3/