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      Dec. E, 1851.] &F)E &R<I&Rr. U59

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      To Headers And Correspondents. Al Letter...

      TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . al letters have been received by our publisher complaining of the non-receip t of papers , or the non-arrival of the Leader , until Monday . We have made inquiry , and find that the errors have not arisen in our office . The Country Edition of the Leader is published on Friday , and the Town Edition on the Saturday , and Subscribers should be careful to specify which edition they wish to receive . Complaints of irregularity should be made to the particular news-agent supplying the paper , and if any difficulty should occur again it will be set right on application direct to our office , 10 , Wellington-street , Strand , London . In reply to inquiries we may state that the Office of the Friends of Italy is No . 10 , Southampton-street , Strand . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . All letters for the-Editor should be addressed to 10 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London .

      {The Following Appeared In Our Second Ed...

      { The following appeared in our Second Edition of last week . ]

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      Begg, A "Free Church Deputy From Edinbur...

      Begg , a "Free Church deputy from Edinburgh ; the Keverend R . Burgess , rector of Upper Chelsea ; and several other clergymen . The Earl of Shaftesbury , in his opening speech , quoted Mr . Gladstone to show that " in principle the grant to Maynooth is wholly vicious , and will be a thorn , in the side of these countries as long as it is continued . " Mr . Colquhoun quoted the Rambler ( not that of Dr . Johnson , but a modern namesake , published in London , -which advocates Roman Catholicism ) , to show that the duty of persecuting heritics is still taught by the Church of Rome . The same doctrine was also taught in the Univers , the organ of the Ultramontane and Jesuit party . It was only a few months

      Saturday , November 29 . As was to be expected , the Anti-Maynooth Demonstration , atFreemasons' -hall , yesterday , was numerous and enthusiastic . The hall was crammed with the members and friends of the Protestant Alliance , who listened with great interest , apparently , to five hours of oratory on the subject from the Earl of Shaftesbury , President of the Alliance , Mr . Colquhoun , the Reverend Dr . Tidman , Sir Culling Eardley , the Reverend IT . Close , of Cheltenham ; the Reverend C . Prest , a "Wesleyan minister ; the Reverend Dr .

      ago since a writer in that journal expressed his regret that Luther had not shared the fate of John Huss , and that there had been no pious and politic Catholic monarch in these days ready to put down the Protestant Reformation by a religious crusade . Sir Culling Eardley showed that in Prance the late Ministry had made itself the tool of the Jesuits . One of the last acts of Leon Paucher was the sending of a circular to the Prefects of Departments , enjoining them not to allow the Protestant version of the Scriptures to be colporteured . Resolutions against the aggressive and persecuting movements of the Church of Rome , especially on the Continent , and in favour of the immediate repeal of the Maynooth Endowment Act were passed by acclamation .

      The second annual general meeting of the National Freehold-Land Society was held last night at the London Tavern . The chief speakers were Sir Joshua Walmesley and Mr . Cobden . The latter , in replying to the attacks which have been made upon the freehold-land movement by certain parties , augured much good from them , as he had generally observed that such attacks were followed by immense popularity . Some of the newspapers lound fault with

      these societies ; because , although they enabled a poor man to buy land out of his tmvinga , he could not sell it agniu if lie wanted the money back . The same objection might be brought against many insurance and provident institutions . It appeared , from the report read by the secretary , that of £ 230 , 000 received during the past year by freehold-land societies , this society received £ 90 , 137 , that out of 16 , 000 new members , this society obtained 4231 , and out of 2 . 3 , 000 new shares , 9831 were issued by it .

      I He Follo Wing Letter Is The Sequel To ...

      I he follo wing letter is the sequel to the correspondence which we published in the Leader of last week : — 7 , Hiiru . siilc-Btruct , GhiHgow , November 27 , 1 H & 1 . Diu aSni , —1 huve to acknowledge the receipt , through Mr John Arnott , of conic » of the Leader of the lfith and -- <»! y to mo in your note . Your explanation ho rcudily given , in to me perfectly "lUiHl ' uotory , 1 do not think thut the committee could « : <>« KJHtontl y with the dignity of Democracy , und the ™« l > oct duo to their illustrious guest , have acted otherwiae tl they did .

      ,,. , ° quite ugreo with you in your opinion of the lie 1 | UrCei ° 1 < l ottr K O'Connor ; but 1 am quite aatib--u that for Homo time pant his mental energies have been tuning , and uny ttUeinpt to keep him before the public

      in this condition is certainly as cruel to him as it is injurious to the interests of Democracy . There are , however , men who cannot conceive of Chartism as distinct from Feargus O'Connor , and , of course , they are not to be convinced by any explanation that may be given . Others , without this prejudice , have another equally mischievous that of looking upon all endeavours to make our principles respectable and respected as treason to the cause . From neither of these parties can the committee expect approval . But there is besides these a third party less numerous perhaps than the others , yet daily increasing the men , who , let Carlyle say as he will , will give a future to Democracy they are with you , and will record their verdict iu your favour . I remain , with much respect , yours truly , Thornton Hunt , Esq . James Watt .

      The French Assembly Adopted In Its Sitti...

      The French Assembly adopted in its sitting of Thursday the bill which prolongs until February , that is to say , until after the vote on the new electoral law , the powers of the municipal and departmental councils . On the same day the committee on the Council of State ' s Bill adopted , after a hot debate , the 2 nd clause of the 1 st article , which makes it high , treason in the President to provoke the violation of the 45 th article of the constitution , which prohibits his reelection . The question was then mooted whether the wording of the clause should be left as settled by the council of state , or whether the means of provocation , such as bribery , intimidation , promises in case of reelection , and euch like acts , should be specified . On this part of the question the committee came to no decision .

      The Lords Commissioners Of The Admiralty...

      The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have just issued advertisements , inviting proposals from parties willing to contract for conveying her Majesty ' s mails fortnightly , between England , Gibraltar , Malta , Alexandria , Aden , Ceylon , Madras , Calcutta , Singapore , and Hong-I ^ ong ; and every alternate month between Singapore , Batavia , Swan Itiver , or King George ' s Sound , Adelaide , Port Phillip , and Sydney . The contracts embrace a complete revision of the whole mail service between this country , the Mediterranean , Egypt , India , and China , and are intended to supersede and replace

      the contracts already in . existence , which are performed by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , and which expire in 1852 . The ^ Lords of the Admiralty also propose to incorporate in this contract a stipulation for the conveyance of mails between Singapore and Australia , in correspondence with the outward mail packets from England . A Privy Council will be held at Osborne House at the close of next week , for the further prorogation of Parliament , which stands prorogued proformd to the 14 th instant .

      A collision , attended by very melancholy circumstances , took place on the London , Brighton , and South Coast Kailway , at about a quarter past ten o ' clock on Thursday night , at a place named Ford , two miles from the town of Arundel . At the Ford station , the above line of railway crosses the river Arun by means of a wooden bridge , which , for the convenience of vessels passing up and down the river , is constructed so as to open in the centre . In order to make it as light as possible , only a single line of rails is laid down , signalmen and pointsmen being properly stationed to prevent accident . On Thursday night the seven r . wc . down train from London , leaving Brighton at 9 . 30 , having called at 10 . 5 at the Arundel station , was

      proceeding towards the Ford viaduct . The signal was then up , indicating that another train was passing over the single line of rails , and this signal would seem to have been observed by the engine-driver of the down train , but who , supposing the other train would be ofF in time , did not stop his own . The consequence was , that he came into violent collision with the up luggage train before the whole of it had got off the bridge , only the engine , tender , and two trucks having done so . The shock was frightful ; goods trucks and their contents were in many instances wholly destroyed , and the pussenger train carriages seriously damaged . The guard ' s vun was overturned and crushed to atoms , the guard himself , named Burgess , escaping ,

      extraordinary to aay , without the leaet injury . The down train hivd but few passengers in it , and of these , although nearly all of them were more or less bruised , non were seriously wounded . The persons in charge o the goods train also escaped unhurt ; but the stoker of the down train , named Martin , was so dangerously wounded that there in no hope of his recovery . The eiiKine-driver of the down train , John Peinberton , from whose subsequent conduct there is reason to believe that tho accident was attributable to his negligence of the signals , is nluo not expected to live . He entirely escaped injury from the collision , but after it he made two desperate attempts on his life . In the first instance , he attempted directly after the collision to cut his throat ; but was prevented by v Burgess , the guard of his train .

      Peinberton , however , suticeeded in « o wounding himself that no hope ia entertained of his uurviviug . Burgess then put him in charge of a pemon on the spot ; but from this person Peinberton soon made his escape , uud again attempted to destroy hjs life by plunging into tho river Arun . Burgeas , who had been assiduously attending to the wants of tho unfortunate stoker Martin and the wounded passengers , immediately jumped into the river uftcr Peinberton , mid after much difficulty and a struggle Hiicceedud in bring ing him on shore . A pilot engine having arrived at the scene of the accident a few hours after its occurrence , the passengers were conveyed on to their destination , none of them being no injured aa to necessitate their being left behind , but they did not reach Portsmouth till near six o ' clock y esterday morning , seven hours beyond their time .

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      " Saturday, December 6, 1851.

      " SATURDAY , DECEMBER 6 , 1851 .

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      There Ia Nothing So Revolutionary , Beca...

      There ia nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing ao unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law oi ita creation m eternal progress . —Db . Arnold .

      Chambers Of The Elyse'e And Preyed On Th...

      chambers of the Elyse ' e and preyed on the vitals of France . It is well that the civilized world should learn to what a traitorous and ignoble usurpation France has succumbed , if , indeed , she has succumbed . It is not three years since M . Louis Napoleon , in the face of the Constituent Assembly , representing ten millions of free electors , swore before God and man to observe faithfully the Constitution and the laws . On the 10 th of December , ' , the Chief of the Executive laid down his powers before the majesty of the national will . Five millions of votes had carried to power the man

      THE CATILINE OF THE LOWER EMPIRE . Ale a jacta kst . The die is cast , and on the hazard of that die is thrown the peace of France , the freedom of Europe , the progress of Humanity . The long lie is now complete , and the Era of the Caesars is inaugurated at last , by perjury as foul and treason as contemptible as the gang of heartless swindlers into whose hands the destinies of a glorious nation have fallen . The Era of the Caesars is uRhered in by the violence of midnight burglars let loose by the debauched and hungry gamblers who for three years have swarmed in the

      antewhose name had obscured from his country s gaze the miserable conspirator of Strasburg and Boulogne . General Cavaignac even anticipated the moment of resignation , and by that one act of dignity and self-sacrifice atoned , in some degree at least , for the iniquities of a brief and sanguinary Dictatorship . Nothing in his career of power became him like the leaving of it . So noble an abdication would have pardoned even more flagrant tyranny . M . Louis Napoleon may have been carried to power partly by the brutish

      ignorance of peasants driven like sheep to the poll to vote ( as many of them did ) for the return of the Emperor , who was not dead , to their belief . But it was the faults of his predecessor , and the written opinions and promises of the Prisoner of Ham , the professions of a large and earnest social faith , of compassion for the people ' s sufferings , of an ambition to amend their lot by a new organization of labour , that made the masses , failing in heart and hope , stamp their hearts on their bulletins , and name a name associated with patriotic glories and patriotic misfortunes .

      M . Louis Napoleon was elected President of the French Republic . What has he done in these three years past to fulfil his promises to ameliorate the social condition of the People , to organize labour , to encourage association , to respond to the hopes of the Revolution , which restored him to his country and to a life of activity ? What are the fruits of his tenure of power ? He has handed over the national dignity abroad to the caprices of despotism ; he is the avowed lacquey of the very tyrannies the groat Napoleon crushed and humiliated ; he has converted French soldiers into sbirri

      of Priests and Cardinals , to do the dirty work of obscurantist terrorism ; he leagues with tho autocracies of Vienna and St . Petersburg against the oppressed Peoples ; for a riband or a star he sells the past traditions of the French Democracy , and abjures the Republic ; he sends ships to assist the Nero of Naples , and troops to restore the l \> i > e . He in in all places and at every moment the mannikin of monarchies , whose favour he craves and whoHe pomp htiapes . And at home ? Every form of freedom effaced—every conquest of tiro Revolution suppressed ; the whole country bound in a network of police spies and gendarmes ; thought , speech , writing , made a crime , when not a servitude .

      M . Louis Napoleon lias been all his life a conspirator and nothing more ; ho will die a » ho hati lived , a conspirator against law and liberty . If he ever breathed a thought in behalf of liberty , it was like all his acts a miserable falsehood . If he oncp followed a liberating army , Heaven knows 1 he hoa wince more than atoned for the youthful folly by

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1851, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06121851/page/11/