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938 TEE L E A D E B, [No, 341, SAJuaDAi.
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influence of the excitement created by Ereston Bkooks and his ferocious attack , to pay an extraordinary deference to foreign opinion , and , if present appearances , can-be trusted , they will rather sacrifice the Union than , not pursue the crusade of Abolitionism . Jtf = they tiaxomr , off this deference to foreign dictation , they "will tjast aside for the time these disturbances of faction , will seek the m « i that can barivrepresent America as the most expeitanced turfl most disCnagwhed American on the cards , ana \ the most likely to carry tl ^ Administration through in harmony with American opinion and feeling . Some Americans see no alternative except to satisfy the English Court with Millabd -Pilluoke , or Exeter Hall with Fremoot .
At home , descending from the stage of a higher political action , we have had a few interesting demonstrations , or displays . Mt . Gladstone has appeared as the spokesman in aid of the Society for the Propagation of the G-ospel in Foreign Parts , and of Church extension at home , speaking at Liverpool and at Mold in Flintshire . The great propositions of his speeches were , that in . the colonies it is only human nature if the settlers do not make a first adequate provision for the maintenance of their Church , and that Societies at home must therefore begin by assisting them . But , he said , the colonization of the Anglo-Saxon race amounts to the propagation of Protestantism and Gospel throughout the world . So that he trusted to colonization even more than to
direct ecclesiastical action . This was all eloquently said , but it is not hopeful for establishments owRr incorporated creeds I Another colonization scheme promises to she a failure , lite German JLegion 5 s invited to go to itlie Cape of Good Hope , on the easy conditions of a paid passage , an allowance of land , and a few days' military service in the year . The Legion Las been disbanded as a preparative for its emigration . But , will , it go ? Of this there is the greatest doubt . Sorae may probably take the voyage , a few may ultimately become settlers ; but many will linger about in the outskirts oi Europe , in the hope of the next war . Eeally there seems to be some prospect that their hopes may be realized .
Lord Stanley has beeh involved m another ^ species of movement , or rather wool-gathering ; though here he has succeeded in casting the wool back upon the responsible gatherers . The United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Iiiquor Traffic invited him to be one of its preachers on behalf of temperance , and to agitate for the enactment of something like a Maine X < iquor Law in this country . Lord Stanley objects , in the first place , that enactments which go against the public grain are only a premium to evasion . It is less a moral obligation to abstain from wine tlian to attend divine worship ,
yet the Jaw compelling attendance on . divine Tvorship is a dead letter ; and it is but a small minority that would compulsorily enforce abstinence . Lord Stanley , therefore , declines to be the handle in tie attempt to get a statute for regulating the dessert-table of the British family . xf we were to have a law on such subjects at all , it would appear that we Bhould look for a statute to restrain the excessive drinking of laudanum and other poisons . A case before the police-court , this week , illustrates botli the propensity to that form of drink and the facilities . A Mr . Hoctcinson has a large connexion as a drug dealer in . Derbyshire , and & shop in Brcnd-street , Ratcliffe-highway . He has wedded a wife who is now only twenty years of nee ; ho is also , to use
his own expression , " addicted to drinldng : " the magistrate described him as " verging on delirium tremens . " He travels about much . His wife is unhappy in . his absence ; unhappy , ifc -would appear , in his presence . She has lately—so it was eaidattlie polico-court—accommodated her own liabits to his . While he is wandering about Derbyshire or elsewhere , the shop is left in her charge , and the drugs were dispensed py a yyoman unloumed in chemistry , yielding to tje _ temptatiqns of intoxication , and SmiS J \ ? " 2 that » fc la 8 t she v » ries her ! tT ™ En" * * ° S 0 of ° P sufficient to kill ten people ! The public instantly renews its cry So 1 ? 1 ° ^ S raVn thB " ° P ™™ - Now it wouldbe . possible to require that all drugs should be sold wth distiact Btatement * aa to thoS nature
but if . fine set of \ drugs were enumerated in an Index e 3 ^» urgatorius as poisons , only to be sold under safe restrictions , the poison-seeking public would soon find out in the Pharmacopceia other drugs quite as deadly whirjh can be extracted from the commonest articles jn daily use , or < ft « en found among the . domestic ^ nedicioes .
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AMERICA . Tine IPrcsidentJal contwfc is now nearly absoHSng the attention- « f the citizens of tfie United States- Mr . Johnston , .-the Kno-wu «< rtfiingJPree Soil candidate , has declined nomination , and given his adhesion to Mr . Fremont , according to one account , and to Mr . Daj * ton , according to another- It is thought that the Whigs of Baltimore -will declare in . favour of Mr . Fillmore . An attempt in Maryland ( a slave-holding state ) to organize a Tiemont party , in the interests of the anti-slavery section , has ended in a riot . Mass meetings are being held in the interests of tne various political bodies , and no efforts are spared by the candidates . Placido de Castro , who has been on trial before the United States district court , charged with fitting out the-slave brig Braman , has been acquitted . California has returned to its normal state . The Vigilance Committee has disbanded , having discharged Judge Terry with a recommendation to resign . The termination of the existence of the . committee was not marked by further disasters or violence . Their forces paraded in full strength , numbering from six to ten thousand men . Many were mounted , fully equipped for cavalry service , and bearing their colours and badges . Judge Lecompte , of Kansas , has -written a long letter in vindication of his course of action in sustaining the proceedings of the Missouri border ruffians . The civil war continues , and the JEree State men have built a fort
at Laurence , said to be capable of holding one thousand men .. The state prisoners have "been released on bail ; an event which has been celebrated at Laurence by a great jubilee . Governor Geary has issued a proclamation , commanding all armed bands to disperse . Acting Governor "VVoodson , of Kansas , has been addressed by the Kansas State Central ( Free Soil ) Committee , who demanded the dismissal of the man-hunting parties in the territor 3 " . To this address he returned a reply , imputing all the calamities of the inhabitants to the conduct of General Lane and his partizans , and concluding by demanding implicit obedience to the . proslavery laws of the territory .
Matters are still in suspense in Nicaragua . All the native inhabitants have resolved to terminate their political dissensions for a time , in order to unite for the expulsion of Walker , and Don Fernando Guzman has been unanimously appointed Provisional President . Rivas and Estrada , the heads of the conflicting native factions , la-ve waived their claims so as not to obstruct the common cause . There have been no further attempts in Mexico against the Government ; but Viclaurri is endeavouring to find partizans in Zacatecas . The Government has commissioned a scientific expedition to explore the mines in the peninsula of Lower California .
The convention between England and Honduras , relative to the Bay Islands , has been published . The contracting powers " agree to constitute and declare the islands of Ruatan , Bonacca , Helena , Utila , and Barbaretta , situated in the Bay of Honduras , a free territory under the sovereignty of the Republic of Honduras *" All foreign domination is to cease , and the inhabitants are to have the right of self-government , freedom from taxation , excepting bucu . as may be imposed by their own municipality , exemption from military service , except for the defence of the free territory and wifhin its bounds , trial by jury in their own- courts , and religious 4 t
freedom . The Republic of Honduras engages not to exercise its rights of sovereignty over the islands -which are to constitute such free territory in any manner in violation of the rights and immunities specified . The Republic also engages , not to erect nor to permit to bo erected apy fortification on the said islands or any other islands in the Bay of Honduras ; nor to cede such islands or any of them , or tlie right of sovereignty over such islands , or any part of such sovereignty , to any nation or State whatever ; and whereas slavery has not existed in the said islands , tho Republic of Honduras hereby engages that slavery shall not at any time hereafter bo permitted to exist therein . "
Tho citizens of Now York , Baltimore , Boston , and other cities , have given public receptions to Mr . G . Peabody , of London , on the occasion of his return to America . This distinguished citizen of the United States , who has oxhibited , during his stay in England , the most sumptuous hospitality to his -countrymen , nnd who has clone much , to encourage cordiality of intercourse between Americans nnd Englishmen , appears to Iiave received quite an ovation in his native lnnd . Sir Honry Holland hnB arrived at Now York . Money in that city is now comparatively easy . Exchange , 109 J to lOftJ . Tha entire semi-monthly remittance from San Francisco amounted to about 2 , 000 , 000 dollars . Improvements are going on at Now York with a rapidity and splendour which seem to rival tho Napoleonic alterations in Paris . The city is also being greatly enlarged , ami marble is used to a considerable extent In building houses nnd otlier edifices .
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MK . GLADSTONE AT LIVERPOOL AND MOLD . Mr . Gladstone delivered two speeches iu connexion -witrnChorcn Missionary efforts on Monday . The second of these wasrat Liverpool , in the evening , the annual meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gosnel in Foreign * arts , held at the Collegiate Institution Tht BisluHKof Chester was in the chair , and sorae remark ! were « n * de by the I > ean . of Cape Town , who said tW ¦ " we . had -constructed , during the last war in Amali ' q -country , a fort for observation , at an expense of 40 nnn / = and called it Fort Waterloo . After the war was over he had ^ seen the Kaffirs dance upon the foundations of the fort . JJat on St . Luke ' s-day , two years since th * foundations of a school were laid , and to this thenatiwi . brought down the stones from Fort "Waterloo " In thX course of his speech , Mr . Gladstone ( after reviewinn : th ? financial position of the Society , and approving of their plan of granting monetary assistance to the elenrv of colonies in tbe first difficulties of early settlement am ? of withholding it after those difficulties are over ) made an historical retrospect , glancing back to the nerioct when the Society was started . He said : — "It -was founded at a time which , in reference to the best pur poses of our nature , I am afraid we must call an evil time , for , undoubtedly , although the Revolution of 1 G 8 S was , in the hands of God , the means of preserving to us the inestimable blessings of our civil and religious freedom , yet Ave cannot but see , not in any just relation to that re-volution or its causes , yetasatnatter of fact
, during the last century , and from its very commencement , there came in a rapid decline in the religion and morality of the British people . As the consequence of that , a great relaxation of the discipline of the Church a material lowering of the standard of its piety , and , as the last result again , or at least the necessary result of these lamentable circumstances , a great multiplication of the religious differences of the country . In full time , darkness had begun to gather in , and , while it was beginning to increase , this Society was founded by some of those who were the elect of their generation .. The men who endeavoured to stem the tide of ungodliness at home were likewise the men who endeavoured to make provision for the interests of their fellow-subjects and f el low-Christians abroad . During all those
generationsduring those dreary years of the last century—this Society never ceased from its work . " Referring to the gTeat question of colonization , Mr . Gladstone observed that Spain , Germany , Italy , and Fiance are not colonizing nations , and that England pre-eminently is . But , asked the speaker , "is it enough that you multiply the inhabitants of this earth ? Is it enough that you provide them with the meat which perishes ? Is it enough that you add wider and wider spaces to our dominions ? Is ifc enough that you exult in thinking how many races of men there are that speak your language , tliat obey your laws , that own allegiance to yc-ur Sovereign , or that , in the essential particulars of social and human life , recal perpetually the origin from -which they sprang ? Is this enough or is it not ? It was beautifully said , by a writer of great imagination , that , if you reared up men with cultivated tastes , with the knowledge and the habits of civilization , with the means of indulging these tastes , and of surrounding themselves with 1 hc
comforts of life , and if at tho same time they remained ignorant of that guidance which leads them heavenward , you were only preparing a more costly banquet to satiate the appetite of death . And that is true . Colonial empires , it is reasonable to believe , will exist—tlicir cities will be reared , and vrill be in the closest relations with you , for the network of your commerce reaches over the whole earth . You know yourselves how incessantly both its extent and its relntions are increasing ; but shall these people be people rejoicing above all things in the knowledge of the living God V That is a question which , humanly speaking , we have to answer . It is the function of this Society—it is her especial privilege—^ tliat she manages to be peculiarly wanted at that season of weakness and of infancy to which I have already endeavoured to call your attention . It is her business to prevent a fatal interval during which tho sound of the name of God should be forgotten . And well docs it know how difficult it is to restore tho
dominion of society when onc « it has been extinguished . She calls on you "to aid her in this great work . Sho shows you tho nature of the rules by which she is governed ( fiear , hear ); her voice comes to you , ruul , whilo sounding from her agents in this country , is likewise a voice that comes across every sea that conipastcs the four quarters of tho globe ; it is the voice of the settlers who live in tho colonies , your children , your brothers , your greatest and your dearest friends ( tremendous cheeriny ) ; it is tho voice of that devoted ministry which is now discharging all the spiritual duties in tho British colonies , in such n innniier as , without tho smallest desire to create an invidious comparison , I would say draws down upon them the respect and the admiration of all among whom they live . " He concluded by oxliorting tho assembly to inquire into the doings of tho Society , and to support thorn .
The meeting nt Mold , in Flintshire , in the monuntf , was presided over by tho Bishop of St . Asnpli . 'l '» c speech made by Mr . Gladstone anticipated in n 8 \ degree tho address delivered at Liverpool in the evening . Of the withdrawal of tho Queen ' s letter ho said : — " *
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04101856/page/2/
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