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Ho. 508. Dec. 17, 1859.] THE LEADEE, 136...
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Ho . 508 . Dec . 17 , 1859 . ] THE LEADEE , 1369
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BOYAL ST . JAMES'S THEATRE . King-street , St . James ' s . Lessee , Mr . F . IS . Chattebton . Nearest theatre to Chelsea , Pimlico , and Westminster , the l ' arlc being- open to carriages and foot-passengers all hours of the niglif . On Saturday next , Christmas Eye , New Farce , G A IIIBALWI . Messrs . Charles Young-, Barrett ; Mcsdames Evans , and ( Vcelia Ranoe . ' To be followed by an entirely new sketch , entitled , A ' HOUSEHOLD FAIRY . Miss "Wyndhjim , Mr . 11 . J . Craven . To con elude with the . Xcw and Gorficous Pantomime of PUNCH AM ) . HTI > Y : OR , HARLEQUIN AND THE FAIKY OF THE CUY . STAL . . CAVES . Miss Lydia Thompson ^ ami'I ho Corps dc Ballet . Clowns , Messrs . l ' aul He rring 1 , and ¦ G riiriville ; Pantaloon , Mr . Parker : llarlonuia . Mr . Ash ; Columbine , Miss M . Fowler . THK PERFORMING DOGS . Seduced Trices—Pit , Is . ; Gallery , Gd . Commence at 7 . j ¦ ' , : ' .. '
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THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM . Sole Lessee and Directress , Madame Celeste . On Monday , 10 and Tuesday i > 0 of Dec . a new Vaudeville Comedietta , entitled the KEY UNDERTHE DOOR-MAT . Principal character !? , Messrs . James Yininp , . John House , & c Mesdiimo . s A . IT . Hatton , and Julia St . George . After whirfi l'AIMS AND l'LKASUKE . Principal characters by M « ssrs . "Walter Laey . J . Viiiiiigr , F . Villiurs , J . Jolnistoiw , Forester . & c ; Misses Julia St . George Kate Savillf , Xeville , Iludspcth , and JIadamc Celeste . To conclude with ST . MARY'S EVE . Madilene ( her original character ) , Madame Celeste ; Tom IJag-grs , Mr . John Rouse . . T > ox-ofHee opoh from cloven , to five daily .
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NEW WEEKLY MAGAZINE or POLITICS , LEGISLATION * LITERATURE . SCIENCE , AND ART . THE OL 1 > FASI 1 IOXED W ^ KKLY NeWSPAPKI ! , US regards mere intelligence , is-fast being superseded , and mast be replaced by that still superior .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 created an extraordinary rapidity of utterance ; aii'l such are the moans now ' offered for the circulation of news , ' that no one is content to wait for it -until . '" ' end of the week , but procures it every morning as he eats his breakfast , or rides in his railroad carriage . In compliance with this remarkable necessity , ON AMJ AFTER SATURDAY , Ttii OF JANUARY , the lo : ig established and intellectual paper , T II E LEADER , WII . I . CONSIST EXTIREXV OF O U 1 ( i IN A L A R TIOLES , BY AVKITKKei OK THE HIGHEST ABILITY IX THEIR vaiuous riritSL'iTS ; and the character of a newspaper will so fur be abandoned that nothing will be admitted but A SPECIAL . L . Y WRITTEN ANALYSIS AND RECORD or ah . the POLITICAL , JJTERARY , SCIENTIFIC , AND AUTISTIC EVENTS OF THE WEEK . The fcntuivs of a Newspupc-r will , however , bu tlius far retnincil , that a KKC < ) RD of tho most impor tant EVENTS will bo niVorded , and occasionally highly important and historical Documents will be reprinted for future rufurenec . But in recording important , ami ivinurkablo events , a narrative style ivill be adopted , and nothing will lie inserted that has not undergone such revision as to entitle it to rank with the original compositions . In truth , to use tho npt phrase of a witty modem essayist , " the paste-pot ui : d scissors will be banished from the sub-editor ' s room . " Tjih FKAHi . KBS iNDHricNvuiNCH wliicli has always characterised THE LEA 1 ) E 11 will be eontinued nnd carried out to tho extremist limit when thus issuers WBEKLy MAGAZINE ; and thoro will bo no indoolsion in treating upon all subjects , POLITICAL , CLERICAL , PROFESSIONAL , LITERARY , SCIENTIFIC , and ARTISTIC , Without distinction of purtios or persons , on sound philosophical principles \ and without submission to Theological soots or Political cliques . National Pkoukkss , in ita largost , widest , and mostcxultod sciitie , is theonly cause to bojustly udyocato . l ; nnd although , happily , tho days of revolution and violouco in England arc gono for over , thuro nro : mnny vital qiicsiiona connected . with our sooml relations still to bu inqulrod into , diaouasoil , nncl < rosolvod , Calm , fun-loss , and conscientious consideration of those is absolutely necessary for all purtios i nnd fur the welfare of tho ' imtion ; and THE LEADEIt i , \ N 1 ) SATURDAY ANALYST will amply and fully treat of till such with a deep i
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sense of the responsibility that rests on their exposition ,, and will take care to bririg the knowledge , as well as the judgment , necessary for their satisj factory discussion . At the same time entertainment will not be banished from its columns , and its writers will rather elucidate their various sub' jects with the genius of worldly observation and practical knowledge than , with the pedantry of mere , scholastic erudition . . ; . f Thk new carkeii thus designed for THE : LEADER is , indeed , only earrying out to the ' .. extreme its original intention of treating intellec-. ' tcalxy 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 commentary and powerful elucidation of the topics of the week . No expense or labour will be spared in keeping together A NUMEROUS STAFF OK ABLE , INFORMED , AND INFLUENTIAL WRITERS , who milt . 1 'ass in REVIEW , ANALYSE , and RECORD ALL THE IHPOKTAST LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS , POLITICAL EVENTS , ^ LITERARY PRODUCTIONS , * ARTISTIC WORKS , SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS ,. and SOCIAL OCCURRENCES , Ol" THIS WEEK . THE LEADER ; ANI > . . s-a . ttt : e £ : d . a . 3 Z" AktaliYSt , A ¦ WEKKXY . REVIEW AND itECORD : or POI . ITICAT ., LITEUAHY , AND ARTISTIC EVENTS , To ha . Ptihlislti'il cveri ' i Xfttitrt ! " !/ in time , for the Monthly hlnilii . and it Frhl'ii / Jkictrtihty edition will also be published in time for fite Count vy Mai ' s . PRICE FIVEPEXCE—Stamped , . SIXPENCE . A QUARTER—6 s . 6 d . per Post . ; As a'Specimen is fur more explanatory than any de- } scriptio » £ an oe ,. ' . \ sami'I . k copy of the first number of the IVeio Series , to be . published on Saturday , the 7 th of January , will be forwarded to any one sending an I order , and a postar / e stain ]) . OrriCE . —18 , CATIIKRINI-: STREET , STRAND , t LONDON . £ rw » * t . ¦•™^ ¦ WTi'M ' . lfinM- ' ^ t * ' ^* JJ " - ¦ T ^^ SC-f « "TVT ^ WnmSVXKMrr- * . i > » gr . ' ? ¥ W ¦»¦' . J nt ^ MMMWPWWWP * iWUi-l ^^ hWhJ 4-
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cannot doubt that if France had possessed , during his career , a free unfetterred press like that of England , his shallow smartness would never have been . accepted as compensation for integrity of purpose or accuracy of thought . The Imperial Government ' seems-to have been puzzled what to do with the pamphlet before us , but by first stopping , and then admitting it into circulation , it has laid itself ' open to the imputation of desiring to use that irritation against England , which it is the chief object of M . Girardin ' s labours to produce . In a country where despotism has encouraged political ignorance and demoralisation , men of the Girardin stamp are likely to be mischievous , for tyranny creates an atmosphere more favourable to the growth of vicious principles than of virtuous thoughts . jM . Girardin exhibits an
unblushing dexterity in the use of the materials which it suits him to employ . With a pretended desire for peace , he preaches doctrines that would involve Europe in prolonged and sanguinary war . Affirming a desire for free trade , he stimulates hatred against that country whose infl uence is most powerfully directed to its achievement . Wearing a cloak of benevolence , he sows the seeds of rancour . Under the forms of the syllogism he sets the principles , of logic at defiance ; and , availing himself of the cant of morality , he exerts all his insidious energy to confound the primary distinctions
between right and wrong . According to his opinion , all great public questions are at a standstill , and all diplomacy abortive , because Europe has no public law . Popular right denies the divine right of kings , which legitimacy still affects to believe in ; the rig ht of conquest denies the right of nationality , and the right of nationality denies the right of conquest . Out of this conflict all the evil comes ; and , according to him , must come , until one set of rights is recognised , without restriction , by the general- . voice . In the moral thimble-rig , which M . Girardin - works with . significant dexterity , ; :
phrases change about in meaning and position , and nationality is imputed , denied , praised , or ridiculed , according . to the varying exigencies ^ the political game . If the claims of nationality are to be respected , lie- tells us that unless Ireland is emancipated as well as Italy , Poland as well as Hungary , and all Greece , as much as a portion , of if , " inequality will be grafted on iniquity . " To render the practical recognition of nationality impossible , not . only are all conceivable and imbut ; }
practicable demands to be made In Europe , the inhabitants of Uritish India and French Algeria are to be reckoned among the " nations" . whose self-government must be secured , in order to give the people of Tuscany or the Komagna a . right to manage their own ailaiis . By way of a further blow to nationality , this pretended friend of liberty assorts that , if ha principle be adopted , nothing can be more unjust than the u nion ( sol ' ularitej between a pooplo and its government ! ¦ £ 4-
_ IJut the confusion is nut yet su / lieienLly confounded . To be consistent , M . Girardin , having demonstrated the impossibility <> f nationality , ought to accept what ho . assort . s to be ilio only alterniitivu—the opposing princip le of conquest , and towards this he inclines ; but lie must iirst make it ridiculous , by ulllrmintf that— to duny the right of conquest is to shatter tho unity of the political system in the nineteenth century , of the
as Luther shattered the Catholic unity sixteenth century ; and to expose populations to the sanio strugglos , tho smug persecutions , the same exterminations , and tho snmu wars—wars not only of territories , buHp f pnnc . nlcs—that is tosny , to wars tho most cruel , nndtho most long . The confusion here introduced « one of time , place and ciroumstance , and the writer would liavuus bclievothut we must cither ruoogniso all conquests or none ; rqvor . se ull that lms taken nlnuu since tho world begun , or reopen un era
of iwmwwlon , nml summon another " Wumiowng Jew of Victory , " as ho call * Napoleon I ., to pursue again his devastating ciu-cer . I \ . I . Clirnrdin says , if the partition of 1 ' olaud was an immense fault , and tho re-cstablwhiiiont of that kingdom iifoeuHixrv to tho security of Europe , merely ubwtainiiur from rovongmu AN atorloooanuot comprise tho whole duty of I-raneo . Jn blto manner , lie says , that if it is true Uml Hussm threatens Europe , through Constantmople , J ranoa has more to do tlmn rest miiut at homo . It Austria in Italy is a souroo of diuigor , why abandon Venice f This style of argument would reduce
THE GIRARDIN PAMPHLET . Although an active and indefatigable writer , M . Gmmlin , has contributed to produco in Franco that unfortunate condition which Wordsworth described ns " equally a want of books and men . " lie has appeared in all sorts of characters , advocating all sorls of principles , continually gaining notoriety , but never either deserving or winning ' respect . Acting upon the vulgarest principles ol tho literary ana ' political adventurer , he forced a quarrel upon ono of tho noblest mon in Franco , and tho death of Annand Carrol , lef t a stain upon his character which , judging from his subsequent conduct , ho has cared little to wipe out . JM . Girnvdin has , with all his changes , boon constant to thr things , hatred to England , support of Russia , and tho gratification of a restless vanity , inconsistent with noble uiubition or rognrd for truth . That a pamphlet by such a man should possess any importance is u proof of tho unlurtunato state of the society in which ho lives , and we . : < i i
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1859, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17121859/page/13/
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