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      There Ia No Learned Man But Will Confess...

      There ia no learned man 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 itnot , at leasLbetolerable for hisadversary to write ?—MiiTOK .

      The Reform Movement. (To The Editor Of T...

      THE REFORM MOVEMENT . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sir , Bet a recent article npon our future Reform BiU , you say , " It is not for the Liberal party to receive the dictations of any Cabinet . " Insist upon this , and we believe the country will Quickly endorse the sentiment , if only a full and impartial measure is propounded . The people ' s bill will be no bill without electoral districts ; , and no bill short of an entire people ' s bill is worth another serious agitation ; let us have no instalment , whether Russellite or Palmerstonian . Advanced liberalism i » more with the non-electoral than the electoral body . Let a London or a Birmingham committee determine upon such a provision in its programme , appeal to the non-electors for supportand it must follow .

      , There is nothing that can be reasonably urged against such a division as shall give the vote to every man who has a L 0 / . or any other qualification that may be fixed upon , without reference to place

      or interest . No proposal would be so likely to gain increasing and permanent support , because no proposal is at once so just , generous , and disinterested ; and once the law , it settles for ever the people as leaders instead of the ledv A Votejeu

      A Working Man On The Currency. (To The E...

      A WORKING MAN ON THE CURRENCY . ( To the Editor of the Leader . } December 27 , 1857 . Sib , —The Leader has ever stood forward as the defender of the pe oples , and of political , civil , and religious liberty . Its advocacy has ever been steady and moderate , which has emboldened me to trouble you with a word on the ' question of questions . ' We know how to produce wealth when we have the means ; and when those are taken from us we become helpless . The distribution is not so easily known ; but the simpler the law for the regulation of wealth the better it will be understood . This vexed question has to be solved by theorists and practical men of all shades of opinion . ' It is

      certain that , when gold is plentiful , trade is good , and workmen can find employment . On the other hand , when gold is scarce , trade is bad , and work not to be obtained . If the Act of 1844 be continued , the Government should guarantee a sufficiency of gold , to carry on trade regularly . In the event of the run on the Bank of England having continued until the whole of the money had been abstracted , all trade would have been suspended , and we should have been reduced to an inconvertible currency . Whilst the Act of 1844 could not ensure the convertibility of one of the 14 million notes issued by law , I believe the country banks have the privilege of issuing 8 millions which have no representative in gold , making 22 million pounds of inconvertible notes .

      Dr . Davenantin ( 1698 ) says : " We had upwards of 14 , 000 , 000 / : in tallies , lottery tickets , bank stock , malt tickets , and securities of the like nature , that went from hand to hand . " Here , then , we have got the very sum fixed by Parliament , ' being the lowest sum possibl e to carry on trade with , ' which was in circulation above a century and a half ago . With our extended commerce , shipping , railroads , manufactures ,, population , and trade in general , no wonder that so many are on the point of starvation . It ia something after the fashion of endeavouring to put a hen into its embryo shell .

      What we want is an extended currency , based on some secure foundation—say the Crown . If goldlovers will not give up their crotchet , let it remain as an indicator for gold , imported and exported . Bud let us , in the name of humanity , have an extended internal currency . Yours truly , 25 , Windsor-street , Liverpool . A . Kouinson .

      Djcatit Of A Maniac.—An Inquest Has Boon...

      Djcatit of a Maniac . —An inquest has boon hold at Bethlehem Hospital on tho body of Mr . Hugh Pollard __ 3 ffll 0 . nghby ., _ a BedJ % ^ tho family of Sir II . I * . Willoughby . He waa removed to tho asylum under peculiar cfrcumstancoa . In the year 1864 ,. in tho course of a trial at tho Old Bailey , ho persisted in interrupting Mr . Giffard , who waa addressing tna Court , and ho was ordered into custody , but ultimately liberated . Afterwards , lie attempted to shoot Mr .. GJifard ; and for this ho was triod and acquitted on tho ground of Insanity . Tho jury returned n vordict of WatUnral Death . Thht ILabour Maiuuct w Australia . —Tho last advices from Victoria state that tho plothora of labour is fiiat disappearing from Melbourne . »

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      NOTXOHff TO GGWBB 3 BSPOIfl > ENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge tfemssa ofjetters woifr CBive . Their insertion is often delayed , owingr to a press of matter ; and wfcen omitted , it is-foexroently from reasons quitelndepen dent of the merits of theeommuaioa tion . Several communications unavoidably stand over-No notice oau be taken of anonymous correspondence "Whateveris intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not JieeessariJy for publioation . but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .

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      Saturday, January 2, 185&.

      SATURDAY , JANUARY 2 , 185 & .

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      There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...

      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world isbythevery law of its cxeationineternal progress . —Db . Abhfoib .

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      The Story Of 1857. The Past Year Was Mem...

      THE STORY OF 1857 . The past year was memorable—and historywill say it was rendered memorable by its disasters and its crimes . There have been two splendid illustrations of patriotic virtue—heroism in the East , charity at home ; but both had their origin in calamity . Deduct the tragedy , and what remains , historically , of 1857 ? Bloodshed in India , China , Persia ; murder , suicide , fraud , signalizing bur domestic annals ; the poor grievously

      in want at Christmas . Omit these points —the Chinese and Persian wars , the menacing diplomacy of America , the Sepoy rebellion , the grotesque antics of despotism on the Continent , the Bornean massacre , the mysteries of wickedness disclosed by the apocalypse of accident , the commercial crisis and working-class distress—and the calendar now ended would deserve little distinction in the chronicles of the world . The new reputations that have sprung up belong exclusively

      to India j soldiers and administrators have emblazoned their names , but among ourselves not a fresh sign of political or literary promise lias appeared . We have great men , and flatter or neglect them accoi'ding to the fashion of the day , but they have not multiplied during the year 1857 . The time has been one of anguish and trial . Suddenly , in the east of the world , where our dominion seemed most secure , where English ladies sank into Oriental ennui ,, where English children played

      among white cupolas and tufted palms , the Genius of Murder possessed a hundred thousand armed men , and , for a season , half the empire was desolate . Swarms of savages ^ commanded by Bpectral Holagous , seized upon young girls and infants , and with wanton fury lacerated , outraged , humiliated ) and slew them , so that the marble steps that beautify the banks of the Ganges were literally red and bright with Christian blood . This great curse fell upon our nation suddenly . The writing on the wall had been long visible : but we had silenced

      the prophets of evil , amd were only convinced of our danger when hundreds of Eng'Trshwomen ] aT ~ naWdlin ^^^ shambles , lor a moment we gazed idly at the lurid flashes of the storm , and the clouds that blackened about our heads ; but then came the revelation of British valour , and , every man doing hia utmost , a most glorious ru » h to the rescue was made by soldiers and civilians of all' classes in the Exist . An army was sent from our shores ; but while forty thousand men tossed on the sea , battalions

      did the work of legions , and ? - marble' at gilded monument of princes will outlive tf & eir ! feme . Almost throughout Asia * fndieed * therer ¦ has been a struggle between 1 Oriental ferocity iai ^ d "Western courage . In IPferaia , the country of cavalry , a few British regiments broke up the hosts of the Great King ; in China , though still linked by commerce with England along a large range of coast , a conflict is approaching- at one of the chief cities of fhe empire ; Singapore narrowly escaped , a Chinese revolt ; in Borneo , English civilization waa only saved by the riotous impetuosity of its enemies . There has been a general attadi ;—but it has been generally defeated . The title-deeds of our Asiatic dominions have

      been proved valid ; . but what if the inheritance be- wasted ? ' Is- our grasp ; of India to bo merely muscular , or intellectual and beneficent t The year brought with it marvellous events ,. and has initiated remarkable agitations . The East India Company has been summoned to show cause why it should not cease to exist , but it would be rash to predict that 1 S 5 & will witness the close of its career . The-Bank Charter Act , around which stand mountains of shivered lances , is in no great danger of innovation . The old Reform Bill is only

      waiting for judgment and execution . Threemain lines of legislation branch off from the first of this new January ; and much of the responsibility belongs to 1857 . We have had a dissolution of Parliament , a general election , three legislative sessions , and a Divorce Bill ; Trance has had a general election after her kind ; Spain several intermittent spasiusr and a new scandal in the shape of a Koyal Prince ; Switzerland a negotiation with Prussia ; the North a quarrel with Germany ; and Italy several of those convulsive attacks which , slight in themselves , seem to prove how incurable is her disease . Russia keep *

      heavily and slowly upon her ancient career , the Emperor arraying the serf population in his favour ; Turkey rots ; Greece is forgotteu ; and Berlin marshals a phalanx of maidens in white garments to welcome our Princess Koyal . We shall , this month , jostle illustrious personages at every step at the West-End ; but we have had visitors of that degree already—a French Emperor and Russian Grandibuke at Osborne , and a French Prince everywhere , except in London . ten Earlthre

      Two ^ Dukes , a Marquis , s , e Viscounts , two Bishops , and five Barons have become ' conined clay' since last December . Thirty-one Baronets also have died , and twenty-three Knights . The poor lament the kind Duchess of Glouoestjsk diplomacy piles mortuary scandal over the memory of the Princess Lieten ; Baron Anderson is regretted by the law ; Neill , Nicholson , Whisker , Henrx Lawrence , NoitMAN Leslie , and Pabkek , are mournfully remembered by their brothers-in-arms ; literatnre has lost Jehboij ) , Alfred ue Musset , Bejianger , and Eugene Sue ; patriotism recala the names of Manin and

      Cavaignao . From the House of Commons nine members have disappeared . Wo have welcomed home Livingstone from Africa , Atkinson from Siberia , Buookk from Sarawak . America has saluted a new President ; Portugal has blessed the benevolence of her youthful King ; and the House of Peers has l 3 jfciTAiT gdtl ~ coxirte ^ A wistful woman has made a last effort fov Fwanklin , and who knows upon what her voyagers were gazing on Now Xeai *' s Day P " Wo have taken lessons that should moderate our sanguine expectations ; the inertia of the Leviathan ia not yet conquered ; the 1 broken Atlantic cable is coiled up on shore . Spukgkqn J ' uila to draw funds ior hiis monster tabernacle , and Manna , works no

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 2, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02011858/page/10/