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      ness of the ' weed' to grown persons , but about its effects upon the constitution of growing boys there can be no manner of doubt . Boys are apt to learn to smoke as they "would learn to shave , "because it is * manly ; ' and we have heard of a smoking club at a certain Eton Dame ' s some years ago , the members of which were wont to assemble nightly in the back-yard for the express purpose of acquiring that virile accomplishment . But to permit the habit , or even to connive at it , would clearly be the grossest dereliction of duty on the part of the masters , and fatal to the boys and to the school .

      Mr . Morgan Thomas and sons may be pronounced entirely in the wrong ; and Dr . Goodford has clearly acted as he -was bound to act . But , for the future , we would venture to suggest , -with all deference to ihe Eton authorities , would it not be possible to abolish flogging for all boys above fifteen years of age ? We were going to say above the ' Remove , ' but an occasional genius of sixteen ¦ will be found among the ' Lower Boys . ' Elogging boys of

      sixteen and upwards is certainly not an agreeable practice , andwehave no doubt the head-master would % e glad to be exempted from the office of executioner . IVhen a boy of such an age is ' complained of , ' under ¦ present regulations he mvst be flogged : but why not ctit up Ms ¦ ' after twelves' and his ' after fours' for a "fortnight or a month , and give him a swinging translation , not a mere writing out of lines , to bring to the head-master every day at one , and at fiye on half and whole holidays ?

      Many other punishments equally severe to a young man of eighteen will readily suggest themselves , but we repeat our opinion , that a young man of eighteen is doing no good at school .

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      There is no learned mau but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write ? — Milton .

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      THE WORKING OLASSES AND THE HOSPITALS . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ") Sib , —Would not the efficiency of those excellent institutions the London hospitals be greatly extended , and at the same time a great benefit conferred on the working classes , by the establishment of a benefit society in connexion with each hospital , the members of which , in return for their weekly or monthly subscriptions , should be entitled ( in case of sickness ) to admission to the hospital , and to the advantages of

      that superior skill and attention which at present the working man can only obtain by becoming a recipient of charity ? If this suggestioa were carried out , I believe that the great majority of the working classes would , by these means , pay for their own hospital accommodation , and the bequests and subscriptions of the benevolent might be reserved for their legitimate objects—the very poorest . I am , sir , your obedient servant , Bloom sbury . W . G .

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      THE MOON'S ROTATION . ( JTo the Editor of the Leader . ) Sib , —In your last impression , Mr . " William Kenward , of Edinburgh , in his answer to Mr . Tliomaa Best , on the ^ Moon ' s rotation , has recommended an experiment which he considers conclusive . I have tested it , and consider that , so far as the water and the straw are concerned , it is very unsatisfactory . If Mr . Kenward will calmly and lucidly reconsider that part of the experiment , I think lie will perceive his error . The empty bason , I opine , is sufficient for the purpose of elucidation . The experimenter represents the Enrth , the bason represents the Moon . Mr . William Kenward says : " The bason not only moves round the experimenter , it also turns on its own centre , and has a rotatory motion , " This is literally

      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . We do not undertake to return rejected communications . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . "Whatever is intended for iasertion must . be authenticated by the name and address of the -writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith .

      correct ; but what does it prove ? Not axial motion of the Moon , but simply a relative or subordinate motion , depending on the primary motion of the Earth . Though to an observer of the experiment the Imson in being carried onco round makes one « wi ? tio 11 ' ? 1 Mr # Kenward ussert that the bason in being carried round did not continuedly present ttte name sid e to him , the experimenter ? The 8 hip l «^ i ! \ ^ lgatl 1 » Earth , to an observer on S ? fi » « S anot ' ^ llred ' bo il noticed , with a aide 25 ^? m n relati ™ revolution . But , does she ISW ***?** bottom t 0 t »» o c «^ o of conafdJril in ^ W'B or 8 Inal 1 on the Earth , considered in the mind separately , with a polar s ^ rsjs&tats ^ bKt Sim ° Fort . n . outh . " ~ " " * SSSFSSSl-.

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      FRENCH MACHINATIONS AGAINST ENGLAND DETECTED . Anew series of operations in which Prance is acting with Russia to Undermine the influence , even the territorial dominion of England , has been exposed . This useful work has been performed , — -not by the Morning Herald , which is continually detecting Xord Palmeeston and his colleagues abroad ; not by the Morning Advertiser , the champion of the nationalities in England ; not by the

      Daily JVews ^ the radical critic of Palmebston—but by the Morning Post , which has so often fulfilled the behests of the Minister , and has been so faithful to the Government of Prance . The story is simple . Russia bestows an amount of money and pains in recruiting , training , instructing , and directing a host of diplomatic agents , some in recognized offices , others without any ostensible commission ; but not the less effectually employed for that . By means of this agency

      she has succeeded in rendering Persia her obedient vassal for a long series of years . Persia threatened ^ England when Russia ha-d no European warsripon her hand . She feebly granted the request of En gland to be neutral , when any quarrel with Persia might hare drawn an Anglo-Indian army into Central Asia , and have threatened the Georgian frontier of Russia during the war . She consented to renew her intrigues against England , when Omau Pacha ' s advance towards

      Georgia rendered further forbearance useless . And by petty insults , Bhe drove the English Ambassador from her Court , when the object was to make a display of Russian influence , and to commence a series of practical aggressions upon an outpost of British India . "We have already stated the interest which this country has in maintaining Herat under the suzerainty of Dost Mauommej ) . Persia left Herat alone when Russia was too

      busy to support her ; now that Russia is disengaged in Europe , Persia endeavours to recover Herat , by blending local intrigue with a military expedition . She invested the city ; the siege was conducted by a distinguished officer of engineers—a ^ Frenchman , whose name is reported to us by the Morning Post—M . Bunx / Eit . Who lias advised the Government of Persia throughout a course so subservient to Russia ? It is M . Boub , £ e , the French Ambassador—the Tiiouvenicl of

      those parts ; who is as completely carrying out the policy of the Franco-Russian alliance as M . Tiiofvenel in Constantinople , "Wa .-lkwski in Paris , the Marquis be Moustoiii in Berlin , or the Count de Moiin y at St . Petersburg , There are , of course , many purposes in such proceedings ; they enable Russia to preserve in the East that appearance of paramount influence which she has lost in Europe . But this is a strange detection to come immediately after wo are assured of the

      continued fidelity of Imperial France to the " British alliance . The same assurances are given , although the Count de Moninr remains to conclude in Russia the same kind of commercial alliance which M . Boubjee has succeeded in concluding in Persia , after the Constitntionnel Las flung insult and accusal in the face of England ; after the Emperor Napoleon has withheld active co-operation againstRoyal Naples and has in fact assumed a totally separate

      position m Italy . We do not forget the explanation which has been put forth ; we do not overlook the excuse presented this week by the Times that the Emperor Napoxoen has been imposed upon by imperfect statements , —that he has been unwell , absent from the post of duty , and deceived by his servants . Some probability is thrown upon this account by the visit of the Count de PEESiasY to Compiegne , and the immediate effect which that visit had in altering the tone of the French

      Press . "We have already stated our adherence to the principle " ¦ Qui facit per alium facit per se "—that the Emperor cannot disclaim the acts of his accredited agents . But let us suppose the excuse to be truelet us believe that the representatives of France , in all parts of Europe , with the one exception of De Phrsigny , are misrepresenting their master . What is the avowal implied in that fact ? The Emperor , it is said , has been indisposed . We know it well j and we know the warning given by the able medical adviser who was summoned over from this

      country . It is said that his agents are acting upbn . their own interests and their own views , without reference to the policy of his State or the safety of him self as the ruler of France . Granted ; the powers of the man have been underrated ; his inventive faculties at all events were too narrowly estimated '; he conceived or compiled with others a plan of snatching power from the republican representatives of France , and concentrating it in himself . After the monarchy , after the

      republic , he substituted a purely personal government of a great country . He drew upon himself all the responsibilities of the State ; he undertook to guide it by Iris own opinion ; he acquired that power by deceiving the national Government , by surprising the capital , and coercing the entire nation . He could not command the resources of the country , save through

      the help of an agency which he purchased by the favours that he could dispense . He depended as much upon his agency as his agency upon himself . The pledges of their fidelity are the advantages he can dispose of . If they can obtain other advantages by a shorter cut , by a means independent of his continuance on the throne , the value of their investment in the Napoleon dynasty is superseded .

      If , for example , they can store up money , wealth , and tho prospect of social promotion in other places , why should tlicy lend a sentimental preference to the upholding of NapoLeon ? A large operation in shares -would be a shorter cut to their personal objects than the slow growth of an empire . "With agents turning their back upon him , the autocrat is alone ; he has all the responsibilities of tho power which he has proclaimed himself to wield—the power itself ) 8

      emlezzled by his servants , and carried oil to St . Petersburg . And thus it is that m Tehran , in Constantinople , in Naples , Paris , Brussels , Berlin , St . Petersburg , the policy carried out is not the policy of Napoleon , but the policy of the clique who weres his accomplices in the Imperial burglary . SicK > abandoned , frustrated , he knows better , but does worse " per alium ; " ho endures execration that he does not deserve , foresees a dia-

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      1092 THE L EADE R . [ No , 347 , Saturday ,

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      SATITRDAT , NOVEMBER 15 , 185 G .

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      There is uothing so revolutionary , because there is aothins so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain . . to keep things fixed when all the world is by the verylaw of . its creation in eternal progress . —De . Aenoid - ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' . - ' ¦ ¦ . ' —— - ? - ' . . ¦ .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 1092, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2167/page/12/