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Leader Office, Saturday, August 18. ATTA...
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REOPENING OF THE BOMBARDMENT. War Depart...
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SWEABORG. The casualties on the JEngliah...
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Paris, Friday. The most important item i...
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Constantinople, Aug. 9. Omar Pacha will ...
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A New Scrkw-Pkopkixeii.—We observed on t...
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO "®&e 3Ua&et." F...
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1855.
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THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO FRANCE. The presenc...
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THE LEADER . [ No . 282 , Saturday .
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• x === SSSSZS £ SS ^~ - * Mr . John Frost , the C hartist , writing from New York 2 S 2 £ 35 S ® m = ? : SSe scarcely a alteration , a moderate and steady , but not animated , business being still the feature in almost all districts . At Birmingham and Nottingham , a greater feeling of confidence has been engendered by the disappearance of insolvent firms ; but ire are sorry to find that the accounts from the Irish linen markets indicate a cessation of the recent revival of activity . Foreign Ships and the Post-office . —A correspondence between Messrs . Sinclair , Hamilton , and Co ., and the Post-office , has elicited the fact that , ^ cording to a standing regulation , mails are not despatched by any foreign private ship that may leave this country , even although the senders may desire it . Mb . Massbt , M . P . for Newport , has been appointed XJnder-Secretary of State for the Home Department , in succession to the Hon . W . F . Cowper , now President of the Board of Health . —Globe . Fibe and Loss of Life . —A pawnbroker s shop near Bermondsey-wall has been burnt to the ground . Four of the inmates perished . A Poor Woman , the wife of a sailor now serving in the Baltic , has complained at the Westminster policeoffice that she has been unable to obtain at tbe Admiralty the half-pay which her husband has transmitted to England . Many other sailors' wives , she said , were similarly treated .
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Leader Office , Saturday , August 18 . ATTACK ON THE TCHERNAYA—DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS . War Department , August 17 . The following important telegraphic despatches have been received from Lord Panmure : — Varna , August 16 , 1 . 30 p . m . The Russians attacked the position on the Tchernaya this morning at daylight in great force . The action lasted about three hours , but they were com . pletely repulsed by the French and Sardinians . The Russian attack of the morning was under the command of General Liprandi , with from 50 , 000 or 60 , 000 men . Their loss is estimated at between four and five thousand . About four hundred prisoners have been taken . The loss ^ pn the side of the Allies is very smalL Further particulars will be sent .
Reopening Of The Bombardment. War Depart...
REOPENING OF THE BOMBARDMENT . War Department . Lord Panmure has received the follow ing intelligence from General Simpson , dated Crimea , 16 th August : — " General Pelissier and I have decided on opening fire from the English and French batteries at dawn to-morrow morning . "
Sweaborg. The Casualties On The Jengliah...
SWEABORG . The casualties on the JEngliah side are—killed , none ; two officers and about thirty men wounded . The French loss is equally trifling .
Paris, Friday. The Most Important Item I...
Paris , Friday . The most important item in the newa from Turkey is that a otrong Russian division is marching on Erzeroum , and that all the disposable Turkish forces in Anatolia are hastening towards the same place . General Canrobert has arrived .
Constantinople, Aug. 9. Omar Pacha Will ...
Constantinople , Aug . 9 . Omar Pacha will return to the Crimea . The insurrection at Tripoli continues . Two Turkish regiments will be sent there .
A New Scrkw-Pkopkixeii.—We Observed On T...
A New Scrkw-Pkopkixeii . —We observed on the river yesterday a small steamer propelled by a machine resembling In its action a reaping-machine , and throw-Ing th * water over like a cascade . Mow would thla propeller act in a heavy sea ?
Terms Of Subscription To "®&E 3ua&Et." F...
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO "®& e 3 Ua & et . " ForaHalf-Year * ° ° To be remitted in advance . I ® - Money Orders should be drawn upon the Strand Branch Office , and be made payablo to Mr . Alfbbd . l . Galloway , af No . 164 , Strand .
Notices To Correspondents. T«N Nntice Ca...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . T « n nntice can be taken of anonymous communications . Whatever ^ intlmledfor insertion must be authenticated sasesss ^ sssasfite W ^& no ^ n ^^^^^
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*• Fivepence is now the price for an Unstamped copy of the Leader , and Sixpence if Stamped . A Stamped copy of this Journal can be transmitted through the Post-office to any part of Great Britain as frequently as may be required during fifteen days from its date , free of charge ; but it is necessary that the paper should be folded in such a manner that the stamp be clearly visible on the outside . The Leader has been " registered" at the General Postoffice , according to the provisions of the New Act relating to Newspapers , and a Stamped copy has , therefore , the privilege of transmission through the post beyond the United Kingdom on payment of the proper rate of postage .
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Saturday, August 18, 1855.
SATURDAY , AUGUST 18 , 1855 .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive " the strain to seep things tixed when all the world isby the very law of . its creation in eternal progress . —Dn . Arnold .
The Queen's Visit To France. The Presenc...
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO FRANCE . The presence of a Queen of England as a guest in the French capital is in itself a great and bappy event ; and if she were really the guest of ' the French nation , an event more full of good omens for humanity would scarcely have occurred in the history of mankind . But , unhappily , the Queen is not the guest of the French nation . By those in whom the honour and intelligence , and therefore the nationality of France , really reside , her visit will be regarded as a cruel and gratuitous insult , a revelling in their misfortune , a ratification of their shame , a proclamation by the representative of British freedom that France is unworthy to be free ?/ , Others may chant their paeans in honour of the Queen ' s auspicious visit . We shall do her more service by apologising , as far as our voice can be heard , for her terrible mistake . She goes , deluded by amiable visions , hoping to lay the foundations of amity and perpetual peace . She goes , unless her action bo explained , to sow the seeds of fierce resentment and future war . Let Englishmen imagine the position of France to be theirs—let them imagine a James II . to bo successful in Ins designs against English liberty . With what feelings would they see the liberticide receive the congratulatory visit of a foreign prince ? What would be their requital to that prince when they regained their freedom ? Have English statesmen made up their minds that it is safe to insult the ashes of French liberty —that Frenchmen have become fantoccini for ever ? We would fain assure the friends of liberty in France that this interchange of visits means nothing more on the pnrfc of the English Court
and the mass of the English people than a generous , though thoughtless , enthusiasm for the French alliance . On our honour we believe this to be tho pure and simple truth . We believe that England sees nothing but the outstretched hand of a French sovereign , and that she grasps it as that of a longestranged and long-desired friend . We believe that the internal state of France is entirely lost sight of ; that no opinion is pronounced on the legality of the present regime ; arW that the restoration of French liberty would bo hailed in England with almost universal joy . This is not a justification . Reflection and consideration are necessary in our dealings with others , as well as good intentions . A more confirmed and intelligent political morality would have . saved us from the possibility of error . But the friends of liberty in France are bound to take notice now , and to remember hereafter , that this apparent condemnation of their cause 13 the error , not the crime , of our nation . Add , too , that the illusion was one into which it was easy to fall . Af ter feeling so long the unworthy suspicions and diplomatic jealousies of successive French Governments , after being used so long as a bugbear for the electioneering purposes of French factions , England is naturally prone to believe in . the domestic popularity and legitimacy of a French dynasty which offers her a cordial and frank alliance . Let the constitutional statesmen of France learn a lesson from their enemy . Have the mass of the French people themselves yet realised the fact that what they have suffered to be imposed on them is a despotic dynasty , not a temporary dictator ? If not , let our people stand excused for overlooking a fact which intelligence alone in France discerns . But is there no intelligence in England r Yes . And that intelligence , though state necessity suppresses its voice , dissents in private ' from the popular aberration . The best and purest ot English statesmen have not renounced their faith in freedom ; they regard this efficient complicity of their nation in the desigus of despotism with sad hearts and averted eyes . Let any Frenchman of character who has lately mixed in English society be our witness that this is true . There are , indeed , political adventurers in this country , who pay a free homage to that success which is their only god ; who openly triumphed in the coup d ' etat , and \ vho > from the first sought to obtain the patronage of Louis Napoleon by constituting themselves his sycophants and bravos . But these men are aa infamous among honest politicians in England as Pould and Mobn y are in France . « The character of French journalism again , and the part which statesmen have taken in it , may lead to an exaggerated indignation at the sycophancy of the English press . The journal whoso wealth enables it to appear as . tho chief representative of English opinion is in fact , and professes to be , a purely commercial enterprise , conducted by men who write without oonviction , stockjobbers of journalism , carrying on , without even a suspicion that it is immoral , a system of organised treachery towards all causes and all men . Lot the Itopublic rise in tho market , and wo will guarantee her a panegyric n » fervent as those which have been lavished on the Emperor ; this panegyric probably ^ is already written and in stock , to provide for tho mutability of human ailairs , and tho mortality of empires . These things are not regarded seriously in England . They never excite indignation , seldom even disgust . Lot France , too , pass them over with a scornful smile .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 18, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18081855/page/8/
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