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ultimately divide the 'isthmus , such a work must await a larger development of commerce ; . while the present commerce would pay for a railway to carry passengers , gold from California , and any commodities suitable to railway < taansnofis 6 ion . 'Jibe aieutrality of the territory is guaranteed lay Gbsaat Britain and the United States . An improvement in the constauction of the Aaaerican Legation , in Has coimtrji be another esiikra . ce of the constantly increasing connexion "!* ftween the two nations . The office of Assistant-Secretary has teen created , as a means of obviating "the
inconveniences tliat have resulted from interruption of continuity when a new Minister , with a new Secretary , has taken sip the ( business tof i-lie iLegation . Of course , it was necessary to select the best man that could be found for commencing the " business of the new post ; and in Mr . Benjamin Mob ak , the Vice-Consul in London ,, who fbrmeily served in tke Legation undei * Mr . Buchanan , President Piebcsi has unquestionably fouad the very man whose knowledge of the department , of American affairs , and of English , customs , renders him the most suited for the service .
The Continent has no events to tell , except the constant struggle now going on between Governments and peoples . If peoples knew what their Governments were doing 3 and what they themselves could do , how soon the struggle -would end ! The . Emperor of Austria is making his progress amidst . SttHen subjects in the noxth of Italy , while the Parliament of Piedmont is listening to vigorous debates between the radical Bboefejuo and . the Minister
Cav . odk . Bkoetekio is for being " daringly revolutionary / 5 and heading the insurrection of all . Italy ; and he denounces the policy of Gavobb . as timid and unpractical . Cavoxjb . repH . es , by showing what has already been dona , and undoubtedly the debate itself , and the reports of it in the journals , are great facts , which are actually telling in . other states of Italy at this moment . Tebgeb . is not yet guillotined . He has appealed to tlieCourt of Cassation againsi ; his sentence ; and the forms of ^ French law compel attention to his
appeal . The trial was a strange melodramatic spectacle—all persons playing "their parts as they might in some dramatic caricature of conduct we call ^ French— Verger , performing the denunciator , 'the J-udge enacting a sort of French Jeffreys , and " the audience joining in lite chorus in an opera . TJie man ' s crime was as clear as could be ; there appears to he no oocasion for tliis labour to fulfil justice ; therefore , there is something behind , something which the Governtneat does not wish to come out .
The most stirring news from abroad is that which comes from the greatest distance . By electricity it is we learn that the English hovrc taken the fort of _ Bushire in . the island of Karrak , in 3 ? ursia ; whiLe Canton , city is awaithig bombardment .
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' THE DELKJATE QUESTION . ' TDhb following letter appeared in the Morning Star -of Tuesday : — ( To the Editor . ' ) ¦ Suk , —I thuui tthat the dlass of readers for whom the articles in tlie 8 tar are chiefly written , -will require that the subject of " ^ rOthdls , " and their ancillary evils , be anore ( boldl y treated than in the « omewhnt hasty paragraph of yoor Monday ' s « uimnary . Wo Jiopo that yon ¦ will deal with the question largel y and fearlessly . I Trtll morely offer a Tow woras upon it ; if you give tliem flpacfrm yow-CDirospBnaence'flic . y wiTl commit yon to no ajqamuwu of ja wiew winch , nevcrttieleaa , X trust to aeoyan ecpouse . ( Shall I gay , iat anco , tlmt mo one can have a deeper detestation of tlie -miscreants -who live on brothel profits than I have , or that it is equalled only "by flic
twenty . " ^ Unless » Christian ( and there are not too many jaung "Christians ) , he has , during the ten in- 1 tervening j « ars , either kept a mistress , or resorted to those hajBtffcs which Sir George Grey is asked to put down , fflere is no use—and there is folly and falsehood —in # Enki » g the truth . Shrgpose , sir , thritoft ( twentyone , lie had j wked for toe % and of < one of < be & » ighters of BtafcerfaiaSEas , and htafl ersplained , -with a gentleman ' s franfeness , tirst at presort ; he ecu . ld take only irae floor
in a -house , font that he Shad n ® doubt of liis i « come * s , risHojj'evfliyyeaT . Waaflfl theyoung people 4 e « Tlow « d j to manrfi'and fight * ar w « y upwards togdflher ? Do ' you not see the indignation , of Materfarnilias at so audacious a proposal ? But he knows better , sir . He works till thirty , and fclien is . an acceptable match , and , in the meaca ( ime , urileas checked by exceptional purity , or J » y Christian habits , he visits ' dens of vice , ' or lives with afemme entreteme . Materfamilias and her contemporary matrons know all this "perfectly-well , and are not so unreasonable as to refuse their cards and
hospitality to the man wh-ose life they have chalked out for him . Vice , unless it fee shameless , excludes-no gentleman from the society of ladies . Well , sLr , our young friend has one other alternative . He can marry ' below him' —there are always good , modest girls ready to accept him at short notice , the result is , that he has a wife who is no companion , And as lie rises in the world and mingles wrth his own class , the mistake he has made is perpetually impressed upon him , and , -with the usual selfishness of man , lie probably makes his poor little
plebeian wife comprehend it . And these are the arrangements of civilized society , 1857 years after the Christian era . I now leave the subject ia your hands , hoping that you will not deal wifh it conventionally , and that you ¦ will assure Sir De Lacy Evans and the ' parochials'who attended him to Sir Gr . Grey , that they are beginning at the wrong end of ' the delicate question . There axe deeper social evils than , the police can cure . —Your obedient servant , Jan . 19 , 1857 . In Liminb .
compassion wo all entertain for the unhanj > y victims of . the ^ yajtona- ; P , © r , BO 4 j , itf imputations fewm bo ready a ( part of controversial logic , that I may as well add that I ana IB married man , and ffhe father of children , whose marffogM , wbanevar tbeyifAcam > to form them , « liall flnd no f > pp < watf ia ^ a . JJajriflg # ai a Mia / Jet mo proceed to express my ^ onyjctioji that at lenst < ono half of the jpro-¦ etitutiontn "England Ijj ' duo to the social system created HAAtfoaterea'ty tttottMrtrons of "England , -which < TorbiGs $ » 4 | tW » y- ' The «« w » aity < rf ¦* toeeping up « pp ©« rancerf ^ T ev ^ ata ^^ a , ^ oia maprvin ^ in hla aw « eph « Q , -until W ? watjaiaea a « resnectablo' 3 noom « and , pU * iot » . . He "Way flanrily ftoMevo -ftlis at thirty , -when lio will bo vpry W « te « ft 4 <» » hjOUBfl of daugUt «* B . But fro fa a man irt
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« nrrote , sb w »< are only waiting for the morning to da \ ra to go into "FBtro ^ p olok a ( Petropaulovski ) , and commeace tfae woricf destruction . It is a Russian colony an ^ we are bound to take it or die in the attempt . My ' dear wife and-rihftfiBftn , it is late , and I require some rest before I ceroman . ee tbe work of carnage that to-morrow may brittg iTorflh . My dear , I have not set my foot on shore bnt twice since I left England , and then onlvfor a few hows on duty . —The last from your affectionate andiwBBiglbufiband , " Lauman Race . " Whe next Say Sergeant Race went into action , and ¦ was killed . In July , 1865 , the ^ widow received a letter from the Rev . Mr . Leach , the clexgj'man of Little Stoneham , in ThrfFofk , wiere she was then residing , statins
that , if she would send her daughter Alicia to the Sailors'Orphan Girls' School and Home at Hampstead the girl would be kept , clothed , and educated at the expense of the Royal Patriotic Fund , nntil she shoul d be of a proper age for a situation , when she would be fitted oat . She "therefore sent luer child to that institution , where she has continued ever since . The boy was placed a , t a similar school at Chardstock , both being conducted on Protestant principles . In the course of last October , the mother applied to Lave both her children , removed . "With respect to the school at
Hampstead , she said she had no fault to find wifcb the care taken of her daughter ; but that she wanted to place her boy in a Koman Catholic school , and "her clergyman would not provide a school for one child without the other . " She also said " she thought it quite as well to bring them up in the same faith as herself . " The b « y was accordingly removed from Chardstock ; "but the authorities at the Hampstead school refused to give up the girl , on the ground that the child herself refused to go with her mother . It was to compel them to do so that a writ of ha&eas corpus was issued , and that the question was now argued in court .
In addition to the assertion with respect to the girl ' s own dislike" to leave the school , the authorities stated that Mrs . Race had expressed in a letter her great desire that her children should be brought up as Protestants , " according to the wishes of her late husband ^ " that she . had said , on one occasion " she was one of thoae who thought there were as good Protestants as Catholics ; " that , on another occasion , she averred it " went to hex heart" to -take the girl away from Hampstead , but tlat she mus-t do so ; and tfmt it -was well known that the father was a member of the Church of
England , and had had his children baptized by a Protestant clergyman . However , it is quite clear that , in the course of last October and November , the mother made repeated applications by letter to be allowed to remove her daughter . The executive committee of the Hampstead school , on -the 8 th of Kovemoer , 1856 , replied that they had no desire to prevent the mother from , exercising her right as guardian over these children , but that , as they thought she was actuated by improper motives , they could not ia propriety give her any aesis tance . The mother replied thus : — " Hampstead , Flaslc-walk , Nov . 14 , 1 « 56 .
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE . One of those distressing cases , in which -the Batural affections are warped , atnd turned into sources of dissension by religious distinctions , was argued last Saturday in the Court of Queen ' s Bench before Lord Campbell and Justices "Wightman and Crompton . In the late Russian war , one of the marines on board the Pique was Sergeant Lauman Hace , a Protestant , who had married a Roman Catholic , by whom he had two children—John , now aged about twelve years , and Alicia , tea years and a half old . In September , 1854 , the ship was before the Russian fort of Petropaulovski , in the -extreme northeast of Asia ; and , previously to going into that unfor-; unate action which terminated so disastrously for us , Race wrote the subjoined note to his wife , the reading of which ia court drew tears from , the ey « s of many of the auditors , and caused Lord Campbell to observe . that it was the letter of a Christian , and a soldier : —
" H « r Majesty ' s ship Pique , at Sea , Aug . 25 , 1854 . "My dear "Wife and Children , —I now sit down to write a few lines to you previous to going into action . When you receive tbis I shall be no more , as it will not be sent to you if I survive . I hope you are all quite well , as I acm at the present time . My dears , I write to bid you an eternal farewell , if such is God ' s will that I am to be out off ; but I trust in Providence , . and hope I | may be spared to m « et you again ; but as we cannot all ; expect to survive to tell the tale , and I may be one that is doomed to die in defenco of my Queen and country , therefore , my dear -wife , it will be a consolation that I died in defence of liberty , and done iny best , as in duty bound l > y my oath , when I took to file profession of
arms . My dear Alicia , I have made my will to you , ; and I trust you will carry it out according to my wish , j I wish , my dear , that you will remain a widow until j the children are capable of taking care of themselves , i I hope , mydeaT , that you will not disregard this my last wiah , as I should not die happy if I thought a stepfather would bo over my babes ; but I feel confident that you will not forget my last wish . My dear wife , 11 iavo not received a letter from you , or any one else , since I left England . I should feel yory happy to hear from you before lam called into eternity : but the Lord ' B will be done : wo raiist bow to His command . My dear Ally , I am but ill prepared to meet rny Maker face to faoe , but 1 trust He will have mercy on my poor soul , and forgive / me my transgressions , as I-forgive nil men
that have done me any wrong , before I die . I have settled all my worl dly affairs as far as I can . My dear < wSfo , ldBS my dour dlrildren for mo , as a last embrace from ia . loving -father , and tell thorn that lria last thoughts wepo Sox 'them , and briug i > hom up in the fear of the Lard . My dear wife , I thin k I see poor Alicia by turns weeping for the loss of lior poor old man , and then I see her arejjoicing at life return—but , alas ; such dreams 1 My dew , I JUavc written afarowell lofter -to my mother , brothers , and siat&ra , and nil friends and relations , and I trust you will not bo forgotten by thorn . My dearest wife , 'gire my ftytng love to yomT mother and sister , and aifc yowr fkuonuj that raay befriend yo « or my dear children . May w-o allnw ^ in heaven U * ho last prayer of mo that you Ignow how to prwe , although ho will ho mi eternity whoa you receive tfhia last letter "ho over
" Honoured Sir , —I -want to know whether you wish mo to go to law about my daughter , as I went to fetch her from school yesterday . She refused to come , saying 1 can't , mother . ' As I know it ia an untruth , which she 5 s encouraged by every person to say bo . She has written , such another letter like the boy to me , which I know Bhe did not write it without being made to do it The clergyman of'the church said I was to ask one of my friends to ask a lawyer ' s advice how to get her to come home , but I have got no friends but you to ask . Is it your wish for h « r to turn against me because I am a Catholic , as she is very much altered since her last holiday ? I will / have her in spite of any one , tecauBe she is mine , as -a child of ten years old knows nothing
much about religion . As I gave her in your charge , and I wish you to give her up , and I will not leavo it to the child ' s'decision . Have her I will , or else I will die for her . I remain , your obedient servant , Axioia Race . " Under dato of the 24 th of last November the mother of Sergeant Ra « e wrote a letter , in which she said : — "I am . sure that my son-would have been most unwilling to have had hia children brought up in the idolatrous worship of the Koman Catholics . " A letter from the sergeant's brother stated that the writer did not know what the father's wishes with respect to his children ¦ were , but that he ( the writer ) desired that tlvey should not go to the Catholic school . The affidavit of the Rev . E . 1-1 . Bickerstoth , incumbent of Christ Church , Hampstcad , and honorary chaplain of the school , stated that the girl had regularly attended divine Borvico at Christ
Church , and also a Bible class ; that Bhe was a child'of quick perception , and appeared to have an educated miiul above children of her ago , so nvuch so that for six months she ha < l been a monitor , and had been place in the iirBt class , among girls twelve and thirteen yonrs of ago . He stated that on the 13 th . of November , 185 ( 5 , he rend over n paper to the girl , in the ( presence of the ladies' committee and the mother , which contained thoso words : —> A « you are old enough to judge betwixt right and wrong , and honr « said you believe y » u ore talcen away to go to another school , our duty is uiiupty to state that wo have no desire to part witli you , and would willingly permit you to remain with us . But we ano bound to iBay th « c yo \ ir mother does not ngree to this , b » t wtoh « s y » U * o , £ r . o home to her ., Now , it isow duty to say wo do not wiah to influence you otic wiy or
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he be 74 THE LEA . DER . [ No . 357 , Saturday , ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' i i ^ ^^ i ^ f ^ —^—^¦^¦^^ m ^^ I ^^^ b^^—^ W ^—^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ¦ . ¦ ^ HH ^ bi
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1857, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2177/page/2/
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