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sa ^ e 'alferatibnS fully accounted for the bad gna-Ii # e 3 they had fetfeibited . He asked if it - was true that tBX&e'tit fee' ships nad been altered by the Admiralty ; aftS " if the " reports with regard to them were true or not *?— -Jtf *' , l $ *!> rtlKrc ! B : asked if it was true that when the Ttstiteit fell fdul of Tier anchor and bored a hole in her bottom , it -i ^ as five o ' clock the next morning before the leai trafc discovered ? jSir CSArEES Wood said ft was time that these vessels were all bought of Bfessr 3 . Mare ; but they were not built In anticipation of employment in the river . They were stxrveyed by the Admiralty officers , and were reported fit " to carry troops and stores , and the only alteration required was that the screw should be made raisatole . It was true that the size of the poop was increased , but It aid not add materially to their upper weight . Sir Charles entered at length into a statement
of the estimated stability of the Transit , and the result of trials and experiments . As to the Perseverance , since the acoident which had happened she had performed her duty without the slightest complaint . No well-founded complaint had been made against the Urgent as a ship ; exception had only been taken to her engines , which , of course , were not built by the Admiralty , but by Messrs . Napier , of Glasgow , for the Eussian Government . For the . accident to the Transit off the Isle of Wight , he admitted the Master was blamabte , and he had received a severe reprimand . What happened to the Transit in the Bay of Biscay was only a common occurrence to new rigging . It got slackened , and it was necessary to set it up again . This might have been done at sea , but it was more convenient to do it at OoTunna .
TRANSPORTATION . Sir George Grkx moved for leave to bring in a bill to alter the present law , which had abolished transportation entirely . It was the same measure which was introduced in the last session . HTJDSa ^' S BAT . Mr . liABOtrcHERE moved for a select committee to inquire into the subject of the condition of the Hudson ' s Bay territory . It was a renewal of that committee which sat in the last session . JNDVSTRIAL SCHOOJOS . Mr . Adkeriey obtained leave to bring in a bill for the promotion of industrial schools . This was also a revival of a Mil of last session .
JUDGMENTS AND EXECUTION BIXiXj . Mr . Crawford obtained leave to bring in a bill , also dropped from last session , creating a uniform practice with regard to judgments and executions in the United Kingdom . The House adjourned at twenty minutes past six .
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FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER ( YESTERDAY ) . The remains of the Duchess of Gloucester were buried in St . George ' Chapel , Windsor , yesterday . The corpse was conveyed by the Great Western Railway from the Paddington terminus to the Slough station . Mounted guards of honour attended its progress , and there was a large attendance of the public . The coffin was gorgeous in crifnson Genoa velvet and gold nails , &c . ; and the coronet , borne on a cushion , was of course not wanting . Prince Albert , the Prince of Wales , and the Duke of Cambridge occupied stalls in the chapel during the ceremony of interment , which was performed by the Very Rev . Dr . Wellesley , Dean of Windsor .
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FRANCE . The Constitutionnel gives some details as to the precise object of Baron Gros ' a mission to China . It says : — " This diplomatist will have to demand from the Chinese Government reparation for wrongs peculiar to Franco alone . Among others is the murder of M , Chappedolaine , the missionary who was last year put to death under the most atrocious circumstances . Ho is also to demand a fresh treaty of commerce . The French squadron is so composed as to be able to ascend the rivers , and thus act so strongly on the Chinese Government as to compel it to satisfy the demands made' *
Speaking of a contemplated visit of Prince Napoleon to Berlin , the Paris correspondent of the Times , this day , writes : — " There is some rumour about a private mission connected with it , but of the truth or nature of which little is known . It ia , at all events , curious that such a moment aa this , with the Grand Duke still at the TuUerics , should , bo chosen for the journey . "
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AMERICA . The screw steamship Canadian has arrived from Portland , wtth advices to the 25 th ult . The America has arr ived at Halifax . From Halifax we loam that the House of Assembly has parsed the bill giving to the Now York and Newfoundland Telegraph Company tho exclusive privilege for twenty-flvo yqars of landing a submarine telograph cable from any part of Europe on any part of tho shores of Nova Scotia and Capo Breton .
A despatch from Washington states that Lord Napier approved of the despatch of a strong American naval force to the Isthmus . Ten vessels were to be despatched .
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ICARIA AT NAUVOO AND IOWA . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ' ) Sik , —You have honoured the Icarians with an article upon the subject of " Icaria" in your valuable paper of the 4 th instant . As this article might mislead your readers , I beg of you , 'as a favour , to admit also the following corrections : —Icaria is , as before , at Nauvoo and Iowa unchanged , and the part of our brethren that removed to St . Louis is but a fragment of the Icaria . When this fragment contains 174 persons , the main colony contains 239 persons , of whom 2 are absent , 18 in Iowa , and 219 at Nauvoo . Since the 4 th August , 1856 , till the 1 st January , 1857 , there have been in the Icarian community 3 marriages , 6 births , and 4 deaths .
The budget of the ninth anniversary , exhibited by the administration on the 4 th February last , signed " GeYard , " proved the general receipts from the 1 st July to the 31 st December , 1856 , to have been 24 , 128 dollars 65 cents , and the general disbursements during the same period , 22 , 433 dollars 40 cents . The inventory exhibited at Nauvoo a net proceeds of 40 , 770 dollars 97 cents , instead of last year ( 1856 ) , before the fraction left for St . Louis , 64 , 806 dollars 53 cents . The inventory of the Icarian colony at Iowa is herein not included : the works and soil of the latter are valued at 12 , 395 dollars . There are 3115 acres of land , of which 273 acres are in culture ; one-third is more or less wooded , and contains 47 various buildings in wood .
The Icarian people , which zoologists would class into the " infinitely small" ones , is composed mostly of French , who have emigrated to try communism ; that is , all work in common , and all divide in common , property is public , and lodges in the uuit of state . However little numerous they are , they form , notwithstanding , through their constitution , a nation or people ( in Europe exist but tribes , masses , or heaps of men ) , and the Icarian people is organised from without by ordinary laws , having almost no connexion with the exterior , possessing a governmental train , that ia , all property belongs to the social body or to society , nothing to tho . individual person but the right and claim upon the national , property . l
The colony thus forms a large association or universa society , or a community of property , organized upon tho basis of fraternity . The associates adopt each other for brethren and sisters . Tho aim of tho association ( incorporated by the Legislature of Illinois ) is to live and work in common , to clear and cultivate the soil , to procure the well-being of all tho associates , and , moreover , to devoto itself to tho interest of tho whole of humanity , proving by practice that communism is possible , and tho best social organisation to secure the happiness of all and everyone . Strangers from all parts of tho world are admitted , if they adopt the communistic principles , and if they aro of " ordinary utility . " Tho social capital consists of tho capital of all associates ; everybody brings
into tho society what ho is possessed of ; personal property is abolished . Thoro exists but an enjoyment or usage of such things of tho community which aro necessary . Equality ia the principle of tho community ; all aro equally well instructed , well lodged , well clothed , and well nourished . Anxiety and caro , vice and crime , aro unknown . Everyone engages himself to labour according to his power and his capacity in tho employ distributed to him . Tho community engages itself specially to enro and protect tho children , old ago , tho infirm and sick . It haa schools whore all children are
brought up and instructed in common . Poor Cabot , not far from seventy years of ago , deviated " finally" from his own principles , which ia much to bo regretted . In tho Social Contract ho says : " Tho aim of tlio association would fail , and all would bo compromised , if , distant from Franco , one party of tho laai'ians could euddouly quit tho others , abandon tho children , widows , old men , infirm and aide , diaorganiso , paralyze , nnd ruin tho society by taking from it part of itw capital . In consoquonco , tho duration of tho uocioty had no limits . All uaeociwtoH ongngo novov to quit tho Hooloty without its connont , and to exact neither ita dissolution nor its
liquidation , riot tho division of the' society . This U a eacred engagement , for without it nobody -wotfld have left JFrance to search another ecruntty at a distance of From six to eight thousand mifes . " And ho says further *• If somebody will retire from Ifoe society , he loses all his rights , and Can claim nothing , not even his contribution , neither partially nor wholty . " So much for poor dear , old M . Cabet , and his disciples at St . Louis . * I have the honour to be , &c . &c , C . C Altlhdskn , Consular T 3 nropesn Agent for the Icatian Nation , United States of America . Kiel , April 18 , 1857 .
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THE ITALIANS IN ALEXANDRIA . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ') Sir , —In this country of sand and sunshine , no t being blessed with a journal in which we can express our opinions on general matters , or bring before the eye of the public wrongs we are at times compelled to endure , we are , in cases like the one we are about to lay before you , in which private feelings have been grossly outraged by men in their public capacity , compelled to seek in the journals of other countries that exposition which we are denied in this land , that for the present we have adopted as our home . And knowing that in a ires country like England a journal like yours is always open to expose everything unjust , we have ou this occasion ventured to address ourselves to you , in the hope you will find for the following facts a place in the columns of your paper .
We do not supply you with these to increase the many divisions which now afflict our unhappy oountry Italy , but to put on their guard all lovers of religious freedom against the doings of a set of men professing to be liberals , but who are neither more nor less than the tools of that worst of all wwm , Jesuitism . Dionisio Ciatti , one of the best of Italian patriots , who , as major of a battalion in 1848 , fought nobly for the independence of his country , but whose mind could not brook the hated presence of the tyrannical stranger in his native land , sought refuge , along with many of us , in this our common land of exile . His virtues a 3 a citizen , his love and charity to his neighbours , his ardent
love of country , hi 3 unalterable adherence to his principles as an Italian patriot , and his most lively aversion to despotism and Popery ( as he himself would say , the latter being so identical with the former ) , gained for him the esteem of his brothers in exile , and also of all tree lovers of political and religious freedom who had the good fortune to be acquainted with him . Unfortunatel y Ciatti was overtaken by sickness , and being unmarried , in the brief space of five or six days he was in a state to require assistance , not of a mercenary kind like that of his landlord's , but of that kind of assistance euch as love , friendship , and charity can only give , and such as he himself had practised .
When in good health he always was surrounded by a numerous circle of friends , but his disease being a contagious one , some for fear of their health , some on account of business , some for one reason and some another , but always for some not very plausible motive , nearly all , or at " least many , scarcely even paid him a passing visit for a few minutes in tho course of the day . Notwithstanding , however , he did not want for true friends , those who truly shared with him tho noble sentiments of nationality and liberty , those who were not stupidly or Jesuitically Roman Catholics , but brother Evnngo ista who truly sympathised with the sick man . 1 uose alono _ , * u-. n ,, nf ; r ; iuf nasSarjintft . and to whom he many his untiring assistantsand to whom he many
were , times expressed a hope that , should he soon be on tlic verge of eternity , they would not allow his last moments on this earth to bo embittered by the presence of a Romish priest , because , said he , the facos of such men , covered as they are with the mask of cupidity and hypocrisy , instead of inspiring him with thoughts ot tho world to come , would recnl to his mind tho long story ot his country ' s wrongs produced by that caste alono ,, ho sufferings through them ho himself had endured , tlio persecutions , their betrayals of tho confessional , and in fact their guilt , as a body , of all aorte of wiekod . icw , prevalent on this earth . These were tlio sentiments o Dionisio Ciatti . Wo will sco how hia wishca wore carried
Ho dwelt in tho house of a poor fiddler , whom wo w II leave tho reader to judge whether ho was itf » or « ntiy afraid or conscientiously a Jesuit . Scarcely had poor Ciatti ' s illness begun to m anifest any dft » S 0 ™ " symptoma before thi « miserable semper run ol w » certain chemist ' s « hop , where Maltose mind s io < Ih t » . Ufa W abroad , discussing in tho blessings of Catholic , . the virtues of ita priesthood , and tho atill greater ¦ fi ) oiy ol tho " only true Church , " and where aro flcoiwloim .. w ajombu / a fow soi ~ disant liberal * , but whom Wo bohavj to bo a sort of vostry servants , or ruthoi' «« I «<« brokers , who , moroly for tho desire of being t «> e t £ bo exceedingly godly , arc daily exhorting poor Un -to take advantage of tho confcHHioi . nl , receive ««< " ^ T ^ J encouraging pompous funerals , and , in uu ' , ,. . mcndliil tho uso of all tho nauseous wares oil » Halo lu the holy warehouse of tho Komim Uiiuon
^ Therefore , scarcely had tho poor ucMlor made fcnotrn tho perilous » tnto of his lodger's health before it vr »
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There is no learned man but will confess lie 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 . betolerablefor his adversary to write 1—MiiTON
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TlH THIS DEPARTMENT , AS ALL OPINIONS , HOWEVER EXTBEME , AltE ALLOWED AS EXPRESSION , THE EDITOR NECESSARILY HOLDS IirMSBLF RESPONSIBLE FOK NOJJK . ]
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Cokvocation . —Tho two Houses of Congress for the province of Canterbury met yesterday ; but the proceedings "were not of general interest .. Crystal Palace . —Retutti of admissions for six days ending Friday , May 8 , 1857 , including season ticket holders , 16 , 593 .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2192/page/10/
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