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52 T HE LEADER. [Satpbpay ^
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The now law on the press in Spain, as gi...
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PROGRESS OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE....
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length admitted that he alone was responsible for the production . He had signed it in the name of a supposed revolutionary committee , of which he was the incarnation , and had printed it himself at a private press . " The sale of some of the modern pictures of the Orleans family has taken place in Paris . They have , generally , realized very fair prices , especially those of Leopold jf tobert . Many of the pictures were much injured in the revolution of February , 1848 . While we are discussing the order system in our theatres , measures arc being taken in France to put down the system of hired claqueurs , who arrange the success of new plays . . , . . towards
The King of Prussia has taken a step restoring the original character of the Knights of St . John . Persons in future receiving the cross as decoration , are to pay 151 . entrance fee , and 36 s . yearly towards the support of an hospital . . There has been an animated debate in the First Chamber at Berlin , on the Poor Laws , the agricultural party demanding their total abolition , as an incentive to idleness and consequent pauperism . Trials for offences of the press , in Prussia , are to be conducted with closed doors . The Duke of Augustenburg has sold his estates in Schleswig Holstein for half a million sterling . The Grand Duke of Oldenburg persists in refusing to accede to the treaty for regulating the succession in Denmark and the Duchies .
The state of siege was not repealed , as has been announced , at Vienna , on New Year ' s day . Letters from Hungary complain of the insecurity of the country , caused by the numerous bands of men compelled by their outlawed condition—having taken a national part in the late civil war—to live in the forests and mountains , and lead a Kotrin Hood kind of life at the expense of their neighbours . Courts martial and executions are powerless against this evil ; the gendarmes are harassed to despair , and never encounter the outlaws without having to enter on a combat of life and death . The Austrians imagine that the object of these poor men is to get together money for a new insurrection , and never seem to think that an
honest amnesty , such as would permit the men to quit their wild way of life , might restore them to quiet homes . On the last day of the old year one of these men was hanged at Pesth . Previous to the execution he was taken about in a procession for two hours , during which he sung patriotic songs and displayed a supreme contempt for death . At the foot of the gallows an officer read a prolix statement of his crimes and sentence . The name of Kossuth occurred in this document , and had no sooner escaped the lips of the officer , than the prisoner took off his hat , and reverently inclined his head . As the fatal rope was slipped over his head , he gathered up his strength , and cried , " Magyars , keep up your pluck ; we'll give it them yet , " and died .
The reduction of the Austrian army turns out to be much like the reduction in the French army—a delusion . On the contrary , Austria is augmenting her army in Italy . Austrian Italy is in the most deplorable condition : every species of persecution , and the worst cruelties of imprisonment , torture , slow death by confinement in noisome colls , only relieved by bloody executions—such are the rewards of suspected patriotism in Italy .
The disgrace of Marshal Itadctzky , for having shown a disposition to clemency , is not confirmed by the latest accounts . A letter from Milan , in the Opiniouc of Turin , gives a rumour that the Marshal had ordered each of the Lieutenant-Governors to present him within a week with a list of the two hundred most wealthy inhabitants . For what purpose may be easily imagined . They will be accused of furnishing aid to the Italian party , and the most lenient sentence will bo confiscation . Austria wants more money , with more troops . The Portuguese Chambers wero opened on tlio 2 nd inst . by royal commision .
52 T He Leader. [Satpbpay ^
52 T HE LEADER . [ Satpbpay ^
The Now Law On The Press In Spain, As Gi...
The now law on the press in Spain , as given by royal decree , is in . some respects more liberal than had been expected , and looks like a concession to ( lie constitutional party . There are many , however , who think that the unconstitutional projects nre not abandoned , and that the real object of the coup d'etat would bo to get an absolute control of the Budget . 1 a Spain , as in Portugal , Absolutist tendencies are taking tlio form of u huge stock-jobbing conspiracy . It , in as if these royal and imperial personages were busy making a purse for an evil day at the expenso of their Mibjeetn . The new hiw and the circular of the Minister of the
Interior stale thai there are only two capital points on which no discussion can lie admitted— -Int ., tlio principle of monarchy nnd tho legitimate rights of Queen Isabella ; and , secondly , the representative principle ) considered in a fundamental point of view that is to say , the right of the nation to intervene in tho affairs of government in the way determined by the laws . What is chiolly complained of in tho new hiw is the power which it , gives to a ministry , which may bo less constitutionally disposed than the present , to liiako the freedom of tho press a mere mockery . Tho address of the Moderate Kleeloral Committee is published . It counsels the electors to vole as if tho late government of Ihmro Murillo still existed , and to have no faith in coneoHsions . Tim <» overiiineiil propones to allow electoral meet ings under certain conditions .
Tlio retention in Mu > Jaw of tho clause ciuibling the public prosecutor to throw into prison , preventively , any publisher of u journal who may be obnoxious to tho authorities , and tlio fact itself of hucIi a law being promul-K » te < l without , Mio intervention of tlio Cortes , by Uoyal docroo aro grave infractions of tho Constitutional regime . The following account of the insurrection in Montenegro i » from tho Onat-dorrcHpondtnz : -The Montenegrins huvo loft K / . uliljuk , nl ' Uir having demolished the fortifications . Tho Turks , louring Unit tho place was undermined , did not at ilrat venture , to outer . Two of i ' rinoo Daniel ' s
rolations are dangerously -wounded . The Pasha of Scutari has assumed the offensive , and Omar Paaha ( the Commander-in-Chief ) is advancing towards the mountains . The Triest e Zeitung says , that 1000 Montenegrins are still in Szabljak , and that a most sanguinary battle had taken place , in which the Turks were " mercilessly cut to pieces : " , , The Emperor of Austria has sent an aide-de-camp to d ! attaro ,. td watch the progress of the war . The Turkish Governor of Smyrna has been recalled and disgraced for his remissness in arresting the frequent and audacious piracies that have recently been perpetrated in those waters . A letter from Teheran , in the Augsburg Gazette , state 3 that the sentence of death passed on the brother of the Shah of Persia , for having been concerned in the conspiracy of Teheran , has , on the intercession of the ambassador of England , been commuted into exile .
Progress Of The Anglo-American Alliance....
PROGRESS OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE . Manchester celebrated its international festival on Friday , by a public entertainment to Mr . Ingersoll , in the Town Hall . The Union Jack and the Star-Spangled Banner , hung side by side over and around the arms of the Prince of Wales . Among the guests were the Bishop of Manchester , Mr . Bright , M . Pj Mr . W . Brown , M . P . ; Mr . Cheethain , M . P , ; Mr . Heywood , M . P , ; Mr . Hindley , M . P . ; Mr . Brotherton , M . P . ; Mr . Bazley , the President of the far-famed Chamber of Commerce ; and Mr . Turner , the President of its Conservative rival , the Commercial Association . Lancashire mustered in its great strength , and the journals publish a long list of the lords of cotton and commerce . The proceedings were much the same as those at Liverpool . The Mayor of Manchester presided over the banquet ; on his right sat the chief guest , on his left the Bishop . The speaking , after dinner , was distinguished by the same hearty sympathy of feeling , and the same broad views of international policy .
The Mayor looked upon this feast , in the presence of the representative of the United States , as tending to promote that good understanding which should ever subsist between the two nations . Mr . Bazley and Mr . Turner united in urging the necessity and righteousness of that kindly feeling and good will . Mr . Ingersoll gave his hearty thanks for their hospitable conduct . Referring to the addresses presented by Mr . Bazley and Mr . Turner , hinting at the remoual of commercial restrictions , he said : —•
" While it is true that a portion of the productions of our country is received by you without the assessment of duties of any consequence , if at all ; and while it ia undoubtedly true that there yet remains a portion of tho productions of our country which is not only assessed , but is heavily assessed , I have no complaint to make , no appeal to introduce , no suggestion even to offer , except that what you shall deem wise and proper I will deem wise and proper , and that any changes that may be made in the course of the arrangements of legislation on the part of our country in which your destinies were concerned , or your interests alone wero involved , I am sure that I can
answer for them , not only with all sincerity , but with a certainty of their being listened to , and without any hesitation or doubt as to their being approved , admitted , and acted upon . But we also know that there are two sides to every question , and that whatever may be tho view that may he taken of that important question—a question which , having been submitted lately ( as has been referred to ) to your great council of the nation , to your high impartial court , to that tribunal which for ages and ages has been filled with men of the highest honour and the greatest abilities , and with respect to which I may be allowed to say—for I have listened to and felt it during the little time that I have been in England myself—that you yourselves in tho borough of Manchester have distinguished
yourselves not less by other qualifications , than thoso referred to , und by other attributes of . duty to yourselves and respect to the world , and of considerations of what you ought to do , than by sending to the parliamentary representation of this great place , the ablest possible of your men . I have only to thank you , for a silent monitor to un all , which by any one seatod where I have boon to-day , could not have escaped notice—I mean tho union , on tho other side the room , of those two flags ( referring to a decoration , the British ensign and the American ( lag arranged aa a trophy ) , which I hope may long continue united together , as they nre at this moment , in peace and amity -- ( great applause ); and that they may be cherished in their present , and that an unaltered , condition , until the end of time . ( Applause . )"
The valley of the MiHMissipjn could supply the whole family of Adiuii with corn ; und when tho population of Kngluiid overgrows tho means of living comfortably , thcii they would find a hospitable welcome among tho hundreds of millions of acres that abound on the other side of tlio Atlantic ; and brothers , us well as friends , in thai , vast , tract , of country , lie spoke of ( . ho two natioiiH as ( , h « halves of one , Hcparatcd for a hcusoii . ChniiLriuir tho Ionic , he thus spoke ; of education : —
" You have in ICugluud soiao higher sources of education than those which are said to abound in most of our colleges and other places of education in the United States ; hut tho system of public instruction which abounds thero might probably be familiarly known to you , not perhaps without advantage . ( Hoar , hear . ) Our common schools are attended , us tar an most , slates go , by ovory child of u poor lima that chooses to attend thorn , and an education
sufficient for all the purposes of life is given ; so that there are at this moment , or rather there were two years ago , and there must be more now , 4 , 000 , 000 of individuate undergoing a course of instruction in the United Ste ™ ; ' - - speak for my own particular place of residence , Philadelphia , when I say that 60 , 000 of its poor inhabitants are educated at this moment in its public schools , without costing their parents a penny , most of them not being able to pay for them one single farthing . We have also an institution there which has once or twice been adverted to by a distinguished man in conversation since I have been in England , and which I think is worthy of being introduced to your consideration and notice . A liberal mdil t
vidual , in making his will , bequeathed a very arge sum o money , and with a margin further up on the whole of his estate , to establish a college not pnly for the poor , but a college for poor orphans ; and th at college , after perhaps expending a little more money than was abs olutely necessary to make the principal building in which the education of these poor orphans is carried on , is , I have been told by individuals from other countries , the most magnificent temple of modern times . I mean the Girard College , in Philadelphia , now in full operation , under the magnificent donation of Stephen . Girard . Education , therefore , is attended to , I believe , with great advantage ; and if any individuals in our country are not able to perform the ordinary duties of life , from want of education , it must be the fault of thei * parents or of themselves .
While I am upon this subject , there is another sort of establishment , which I think does not precisely prevail in this country , but which might be introduced to your knowledge as worthy of being known—I mean those places which , resembling your houses of industry , are called in my country houses of refuge , where the very young , exposed to the actual commission , or liable to temptation to crime , are withdrawn from evil example , and are placed where they are partially instructed in some trade , and thug secluded from evil communication and bad morals ; bound out in the country to useful trades ; and thus they become , in almost every instance , valuable members of society , instead of being liable to become the very reverse . This is an additional circumstance , as I have said , in which we have some resemblance to you . "
His peroration is remarkable as an expression of confidence in our united destiny : — " I believe that peace will continue to prevail between our two countries , because I believe there is an interest of communion and of feeling ; and that it may be so , in kindness and goodwill , is not only the wish which we all of us will exchange , but it is a sentiment founded upon reason as well as upon truth ; because there never was , I believe , from the beginning of the world to this time , a man connected with war who did not as fervently utter his sentiments in favour of peace as the mildest of all possible people in education , who never had anything to do with war or its machines . You are all perfectly aware of the
sentiments on this subject of the Duke of Wellington , who , although the success of his campaigns led to a state of things which continued for a number of yeara in the nature of peace , yet his opinions with regard to war were just as familiarly and frequently expressed as upon other subjects , and by them he kept his country from running into it . Even the great captain of the French , Na ' poleon Bonaparte , after laying down his honours at home , and becoming a prisoner for life , frequently expressed to Montholon , before ho ended his career at St . Helena , his horror at tho system of warfare , and his belief that tho true glory of
nations consisted in a system of peace and amity . I have Bpoken , I assure you , from tho inmost recesses of my heart ; I receive with tho greatest gratitude the kindness you have shown xao , and expressed for my country ; and I hope that that country and yours may long continue , in every respect compatible with the nature of things , with the actual separation by the Atlantic , with this little difference—notwithstanding our resemblance in language , literature , and laws—notwithstanding our devotion to constitutional liberty , which is , I believe , equally strong in both countries—notwithstanding theso littlo differences , that they may remain , so far as requisito for individual and individual to do , subject to these circumstances—ono and indivisible" ( Choers . )
The Bishop of Manchester took up the thread of the argument . Ho hoped Mr . Ingersoll would look with no partial eye on the indications of this country towards America . If in ono or two instances wo had appeared likely to cast censure upon some of their institutions , if remonstrances sent from this country had seemed to breathe the spirit of rebuke , we would pray him to tell his countrymen that wo wero deeply sensible that if there wero a building raised in America which was devoted to unhallowed uses , tho substratum was laid by
British hands , and we would ask liiui to recollect that tho spark which was to cause tho explosion that would blow tho superstructure to tho lour winds of heaven bud been produced by the pen of " a talented American female . " ( Appluuso . ) He referred to the two acboines of education which had been contested , to tho improved system of criminal discipline wliidi wo hud recoivod from Aincricn , und expressed his belief that , though thero wore signs of improvement in our factory system , wo might tako a lesson from Lowdl with advantage .
Hovorul other speakers , minor lights , intervened j and then Mr . John Bright returned thanks for " the moinbors of tho boroughs of Manchester und Salford . " Ho had boon thinking that thoy worp possibly in eoino danger of being misunderstood , for ono of tho Ministors from this to a foreign country hud boon oxuminod on tk committee respecting oilicial salaries , und ho insisted upon it that tho vory point of diplomacy was good dinners , and that tlio cook of an embassy was inferior
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1853, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15011853/page/4/
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