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Leader (1850-1860), 10th December 1859, Edition 2 of 2, Page 13, Ko. 507. Dec. 10, 1859.] THE LEADER. 134...

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      Ko. 507. Dec. 10, 1859.] The Leader. 134...

      Ko . 507 . Dec . 10 , 1859 . ] THE LEADER . 1345

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      THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM ivith the NATIONAL GALLERY BRITISH PICTURES , Presented by Messrs ! VERNON , TURNER , JACOB BELL , SHEKfSHANKS , & c , is NOW OPEN DAILY , and on three first nights of the week , according to the Regulations of the JITuseum . By order of the Committee of Council on Education .

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      " ~~ C R YST AL PALACE . ARRANGEMENTS for "WEEK ending SATURDAY , DECEMBER 17 th . MoNDAY- ^ -Open at Nine . Tuesday to Frxday—Open at Teh . Admission , One Shilling ; Children under 12 , Sixpence . Saturday—Open at Ten . Promenade Concert . Admission , Half-a-Ciown ; Children , One Shilling . Seasontickets' free , may be had at Half-arGuinea each , available to April 30 th , 1 SGQ . Performances daily on the Great Organ , and by the Orchestral Band . The Picture Gallery remains open . Sunday—Open at 1 . 30 to Shareholders gratuitously by tickets . ' . ~~ CRYSTAL PALACE . ACTIVE PREPARATIONS in Progress for the CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES .

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      THEATRE ' ROYAL DRURY - LANE . — PROMENADE CONCERTS . Saturday , December 10 , Mr . Mann ' s Benefit Concert . Herr Wieniaweski ' s farewell to England . Monday , last niffht of the sorios , Mr . Strange s Benefit Concert . Extra Entertainments . One Shilling .. Open at half-past 7 ; Concert at S .

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      HERR WIENIAWSKI , The Grout Polish Violinist , will take hia farewell of the British public at Drury Lane Theatre , on Saturday , Dec . 10 . One Shilling-. ' Concert at 8 o ' clock .

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      MACKXEY AND THE CAMPBELL MINSTRELS . ST . JAMES'S HALL , PICCADILLY . In consequence of tho ' very great success which has attended the engagement of the justly popular and inimitable M A C K N E Y , durinpr the past week , the Management have much pleasure in announcing that they have succeeded in securing his ser-ONE WEEK LONGER . He will therefore appear , in conjunction with the . CAMPBELL MINSTRELS , every evening Turing the present week , and on "Wednesday and Saturday Mornings at Three .

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      NEW WEEKLY MAGAZINE or , POLITICS , LEGISLATION , LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART . _ — . «> . —i THE OLD FASHIONED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER , as regards mere intelligence , is fast being superseded , and must be replaced by that still superior species of publication which is exemplified in its leading articles . The pressure of activity in all matters—but more especially in literary and political affairs , has crcatuil an extraordinary rapidity of utterance ; and such arc the means now offered for the circulation of news , that no one is content to wait for it until the ond of the week , but procures it every morning as he eats his breakfast , or rides in his ruilrond enrriuge . In compliance with this remarkable necessity , ON AND AFTER SATURDAY , 7 th OF JANUARY , the long established and intellectual paper , THE LEADER , WILT . CONSIST ENTIRELY OP ORIGINAL ARTICLES , DT WRITERS OF TUB HIGHEST ABILITY IN THEIR VARIOUS PURSUITS ; and tho charnct < ir of a newspapor will so far be abandoned that nothing will be admitted b » t A SPECIALLY WRITTEN ANALYSIS AND RECOUP OF ALL TUB POLITICAL , LITERARY , SCIENTIFIC , AND ARTISTIC EVENTS OF THE WEEK . Tho features of n Nowspaper will , however , be thus far retained , Unit « i RECORD of the moat important EVENTS will be afforded , and occasionally highly important and historical Documents will bo reprinted for future reference . But in recording important and rt'markablo events , a narrative style will ho adopted , imd nothing will be inserted that has not undergone such rovtelon as to ontltle Jt to rank with the original compositions . In truth , to

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      use the apt phrase of a witty modern essayist , " the paste-pot and scissors will be banished from the sub-editor ' s room . " The fearless independence which has always characterised THE LEADER will be continued and carried out to the extremest limit when thus issued as A WEEKLY MAGAZINE ; and there will be no indecision in treating upon all subjects , POLITICAL , CLERICAL , PROFESSIONAL , LITERARY , SCIENTIFIC , and ARTISTIC , without distinction of parties or persons , on sound philosophical principles ; and without submission to Theological sects or Political cliques . National Progress , in its largest , widest , and most exalted sense , is the only cause to be justly advocated ; and although , happily , the days of revolution and violence in England are gone for ever , there are many vital questions connected with our social relations' still to be inquired into , discussed , and resolved . Calm , fearless . and conscientious consideration of these is absolutely necessary for all parties and for the welfare of the nation ; and THE LEADER AND SATURDAY ANALYST will amply and fully treat of all such with a deep sense of the responsibility that rests on their exposition , and will take care to bring the knowledge , as well as . the judgment , necessary for their satisfactory discussion . At the same time entertainment will not be banished from its columns , and its writers will rather elucidate . their various sub- ^ ¦ j ects ¦ with the genius of worldly observation and practical knowledge than with the pedantry of mere scholastic erudition . The new career thu 3 designed for THE LEADER is , indeed , only carrying . / out to the extreme its original intention of treating intellectuall y all Public and Social matters . The abandonment of the mere news , and the substitution , of A COPIOUS SET OF ORIGINAL ARTICLES , will , it is hoped , not be displeasing either to its old Subscribers , or its new readers ; for , being newscrammed by the daily papers , it is anticipated that they must prefer to the unavoidably stale intelligence , able confmentary and powerful elucidation of the topics of the week . No BXPBH 8 E or labour will be spared in keeping together A NUMEROUS STAFF OP ABLE , INFORMED , AND INFLUENTIAL WRITERS , who will pass in REVIEW , ANALYSE , and RECORD ALL THE IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS , POLITICAL EVENTS , LITERAR Y PRODUCTIONS , ARTISTIC WORKS , SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS , and SOCIAL OCCURRENCES , OB THE WEEK .

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      THE LEADEE AND » -A . TPTXRX > . A . Y - A , 3 Sr- ^ . X-3 T » T , A WEEKLY REVIEW AND RECORD OV POLITICAL , LITERARY , AND ARTISTIC EVENTS . To be Published even / Saturday in time for tho Morning Math , and a Friday Evaning edition will also be published w » titneijTor the Country Mails . Price 4 d . ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION : PREVA . ID , TO GO FRBK » Y POST , O 1 ST 3 B <^ TO" I 3 NT 3 E 3 ^ L . 44 a Specimen in far more explanatory than any de-McripUon can bo , a sample copy of tho first number of tfie New Series , to bo published on Saturday , the 1 th of January , will be forwarded to any one sending an order , Offncn . ~ 18 , CATHERINM STUMET , STRANT > , JjONlJu ^ i *

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      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address off the writer ; not necessarilj for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letterB we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a prest of matter ; and when omitted . it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . OFFICE , NO . 18 , CATHERINE-STREET , STRAND , TV . C .

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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 is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress .- ^ Dr . Ar nold .

      The Perils Of The Congress. One Of The M...

      THE PERILS OF THE CONGRESS . ONE of the most mischievous effects upon public opinion , by which the Manchester school has , in no small degree , counterbalanced the services ¦ which it rendered by popularising the free trade principles of Bentham , Husfcisson and Villiers , has been its success in lowering the tone of thought upon international obligations , andits introduction of a morality founded upon the old interrogation , "Am I my brother ' s keeper ? " Its purely passive doctrine of non-intervention makes it a matter of indifference whether a modern Gain kills an Abel , or an Abel , in self-defence , kills a Cain , and regards the objection to killing , rather as represented by the expense of the weapon employed , and the loss of a customer for calico and tape . In the words of Mr . John Stuart Mill , it has reduced . the utterance of our public men to the " eternal repetition of the shabby refrain—We clid not interfere because no English interest was involved—We ought not to interfere when no English interest is concerned . " By thus putting English interest in opposition to human interest , a moral barrier is set up between ourselves and other countries which no mere interchange of goods can overleap . That such doctrines should have obtained so much , currency that few venture , to speak boldly against them , is one of the most curious ihcta of public psychology , and only to be accounted for by considering the precise . circumstances of the time .. The mass of the people , finding themselves excluded from political power , and suffering under a debt of ^ 800 , 000 , 000 , have grown apathetic , or tired of manifesting opinion which no beneficial notion was to f ™™ - ** ™ ?' the National Debt was only 416 , 000 , 000 ; by 1800 it had reached £ 450 , 000 , 000 , and by 1812 . £ 670 , 000 , 000 ; from whence it rapidly rose to its present amount . The greater part of the expenditure represented by these prodigious figures was inourred for a policy that culminated iiftho Treaty of Vienna—a document based upon , the unrighteous claims of potentates , to divide nations among them as if they were nothing bettor than the booty captured by a gang ; ot thieves The people of Uim country sympathised with Poland , but no good oame of it : even French " aid , said to have been oflerrpd bylaw * Philippe at the beginning of his reign , was refused . They sympathised with Hungary , ana found the liberal Lord Pnlmerston—conveniently oblivious of the Treaty of Sssathonar—making the untruthful declaration tliat England only knew Hungary aa part of the Austrian Empire , and subsequently offering congratulations on the success of that great crime , the intervention ot

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 10, 1859, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10121859/page/13/