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1114 THE LEADER. [Saturday.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBEE 19, 1853.
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There is nothing so revolutionary, becau...
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DIPLOMATIC BUNGLING OF THE EASTEEN" WAR....
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The Piedmontese Bandit Stella was killed in an encounter with the Royal Carabiniers , near Castino , in the night of the 10 th inst . The Nun Patroeinio , who Tor political reasons was sent from Madrid , and conducted to the frontier under escort , has arrived at Toledo . A p rizefighter , known as " Eory Gill , " was killed on Thursday week ,,. at a fight near Liverpool , by a pugilist named Donnelly . A post mortem examination proved that he had received a fracture of the lower jaw , and had been so punished on the left side of the neck as to cause eiysipekfcous inflammation , extending to and through the globus to the windpipe , and which was the ultimate cause of death . A verdict of " Manslaughter against Prank Donnelly and his abettors" was returned , but neither the principal nor his seconds , " Nobby Clark" and " Newcastle Jack , " are in custody .
Sunday is a great day for daring thieves . Last Sunday a burglary was perpetrated at Peckham , in the house of Mr . \ oung , South-street . After the family had gone to church , a young man , dressed like a dissenting minister , inquired for Mr . Young , and , being told he was out , expressed a wish to write a note to hirn . The servant g irl , who was alone in the house , hesitating at this , he seized her by the throat and carried her into the parlour , threatening to cut her throat if she made an outcry . lie then let in two men , who bound the girl hand and foot . They
made her tell where the plate and other property , to a valuable amount , were deposited , which they succeeded in carrying off . On the return of the family they were unable to get into the house , and a ladder having been procured , the servant was found tlirust into a cupboard . No clue to the burglars has yet been found . The Manchester ¦ Athenaeum had a narrow escape from , destruction by fire on Wednesday affcernopn . The fire in a large stove in the news-room had ignited the floor , but some boards having been torn up , the flames were fortunately discovered in time to check their progress .
A flock of one hundred sheep got into the Great Northern line , near Corby , Lincolnshire . The night-mail dashed through them , killing fourteen . Newcastle , in all its churches , gave " thanks" on Wednesday , for the deliverance of the town from cholera . There has been a terrible fire at 1 ' ulton-street , New York , burning down the offices of two newspapers—the ICationctl Democrat and the JKUitarj / A . rgus ; burning also sevon persons , and destroying property valued at 400 , 000 dollars . - Two cases of incendiarism occurred in Devonshire last week . As a thrashing machine was destroyed at each farm , it would seem that the spirit of machine-destroying ' is not yet dead . One of the farms belonged to Mr . Ueathcotc , Lord Palmci'slori ' s colleague at ¦ Tiverton . There have been other incendiary fires in the country .
The bill passed last session to abolish those pests of society , the betting-list houses , takes effect on Thursday week , being the 1 st proximo . Already a great many of the list-keepers have shut up their shops , and others who have taken deposits of money on horses to run in the Derby of 1854-, apprehensive of the consequences of retaining , are returning it as fast as they can , and in a few days betting houses will have entirely disappeared not only from the metropolis , but al . so from all parts of the kingdom . At the hiring fairs in the north there was a great ¦ earcity of servants ; and much higher wages were offered . At Donoastcr , good farming men readily obtained engagements at from ltil . to 12 ? ., and women at from 12 / . to \) l . por annum .
A company has just started , having for its object ( he const ruction of new docks , to bo- called the Wellington Docks , fciout . hwark , tlio entrance to which will be nearly oppo . site to the SI . Ka'herine Docks . Tlio company , in their notices of application ti Parliament , sUit . c that they intend to apply for powers to connect , the docks by a tramway or railway wifU the South-lOaslern , und the" London , [ Brighton , and South Connt , Jt lilwrfv- ' , and also to make a new street , commencing on . lanaica level and turininuting at Omngii-place , Dejiliord Lower-road . The late Great , Kxliibition building contained an area of nearly 800 , 000 Hquare icet ; tho JSJevv Crystal Palace will contain about one-fourth more , or nearly 1 , 000 , 000 squaro fitat .
. By a Into return it , nppoiirs that there Iihh boon a great incn . 'iiMj in the exportation of haberdiiHhery and millinery . in tlu : month ended the . 101 li October , 18 f > l , the value wan 1 ¦ ! . "> , i ;( 7 / . ; in the name month of lb ; V 2 , 2 () f > , 7 (>; t / . ; and in ( lit ; likt ; month of Hit ; present , yi ar fV . il , ( Ml / . It in hIiovvh flint in ( lie month ended I lie 10 th ult . j ] u . wore f ) , ' 2 l ; i , Kr > 'lll ) s . of uinmuutfarUircd tobacco imported ngaiiml . ii , H 47 , 4 !) f > ll > H . of tlm wimii month in tlio pntrodiiiir year . 'J'ho ( -xporlations were rr . sprrtivoly 77 ; i , ( i ^ -llb . i . thin year , and l , ]; U ) , 6 ( il > ll > . s . Ja . st year . A return lms just bi-Tii printed relating to the covenanted and uncovtrimnlrd civil Hcrvunls of the . Kant , India ( .. 'ompmiy . in INM 4 tin ; number of civil n < 'rvnntn in urtuul jHM ' l'orniiinro of du ( y wflM 7 f > . " } , and the unhides amounted
to l , 4 t ) , i ) 4 , 717 rujx'Crt . In iHiiii tlio number was 711 , and tho HaluridH l , lM , lH , \) 7 i ) nipem . The lowest salaries worn ; j !) 4 / . and < ir > 0 / . u-year . Soiiut wen ; nbsont from HicknoH . s , on privato allairH , or on furl <» n / r | i . Tint imioiui ( , paid in l « iiiglini ( l for niinuitics Id I ho covenanted civil wrvnntu ol Jlio KunI , . India Company in ( lie ( ir . st your of it . s ( . v ^ ablishiiinnl , Whn 7 , Hi » 7 / ., in 1 H 27-2 M , and iho nuinher nino . In IHf > ii-f >; i ( In ; annuities aniountcd (<> 2 f > ] , !> 00 / ., nnd ( , ln ; number of jmm'homm 2 <> 7 . J ii lK'Jo-2 ( t the nliHrnlro allowance in . iduglaixl wan 245 / . to Ihive jiciviohh , and in IHftU-fi . 'l i 5 ( 5 , 121 / ., f <> 7 i 5 pci-HoiiH . Tlio amount , paid in 18 ' M in England on account , of ( ho MadniH Civil Covenanted lCnl , al > lifllnuont , Annuit y Fund of 1 MIH , was U 1 , 000 / ., ( , <> 4 H porHOiw , and in IH . 'W-. 'lo , I . 'J . OOIV ., ( o 28 i > m ; onn .
It , npnearn from an ollicial document , ju : it , indued , that out of 474 , 141 ) plaints onlen'd in the (! ounly CowrtM hint year , in only 7 i ) tt caiiHo . M wits tlio asMinlanco of a jury required ; out , of which , iu 404 of tlio ciuuh'h , tlio vordiotu wore in favour oi' the parlies requiring a jury to bo mimimmed .
1114 The Leader. [Saturday.
1114 THE LEADER . [ Saturday .
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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 Ia"w oi it 3 creation in eternal prepress . —Dx . Abnold .
Diplomatic Bungling Of The Easteen" War....
DIPLOMATIC BUNGLING OF THE EASTEEN " WAR . In Count Nessclrode ' s circular , issued on the 19 th of October , by way of Russian comment on the Turkish , declaration of war , there is this passage : — " We will await the attack of the Turks , without taking the initiative of hostilities . It will then depend entirely on other Powers not to widen the limits of the war , if the Turks persist in waging it against us , and not to give to it any other character than that which we mean to leave to it . " The meaning of this passage , in the place where it occurs , is plain enough . It is a hint to Great Britain and Prance that it will depend upon them whether the war now begun shall go on as a mere incidental dispute between Russia and Turkey , to be fouglxt out by the two parties in a , friendly way , on the narrow arena of the Principalities , or whether ifc shall take a wider development , and become a question of the balance of power .
The events of the last three weeks have antiquated Count JNTesselrode ' s circular , and it is now in the waste-paper basket . The passage we have quoted from it , however , ought still to be conned over . There is a meaning in it beyond what Count Nesselrode intended . If what Russia desired Avith respect to the present war was , that it should be regarded as an incidental quarrel between her and Turkey , to be fought out on the arena of the Principalities , without disturbing more general relations , tlie Governments of France and Great Britain hare shown that they
are disposed to " widen the war" beyond those limits . They have declared that they assign to the Principaiities-qiiestion a figure so hi # h as to make it a question of the balance of power . But , on the other hand , jxist as Count JNTesselrode was anxious that the limits of the war should not be widened beyond certain limits , so there arc certain other limits beyond which even the Governments of Britain and Franco would not like , on their parts , to see it widened . The development which the Governments of France , Great Britain ,
and some other Western States would like to give to the present war in ( ho Fast is intermediate between that which Count Ncsselrode says lie desired to see given to it , and that which those moat vitally interested , 1 he peoples , desire to see given to it . Count Nesselrode , if wo may believe liia word , desired to cork the war into a very small bottle ; the Governments of France and Great Britain desire to cork it into a somewhat larger bottle ; there aro others , however , Avho desire to hoc it corked into no bottle at all , but freel the lawof fluid
y following « oxpatiation . While the present Government holds ollieo in Great ; Britain ( and , alas ! who aro to take their places p ) it is positively certain that all British policy with respect- to the war , ho lono ; an ifc lasts , will bo-directed to the object of seeing it no conducted m ., m to produce the minimum of what i . s called " democratic disturbance" throughout Europe . ^ So with the Governments of France , l . Vussia , and Piedmont , to say nothing of Austria , which holds a position ( pule peculiar iu the nu ' . ttcr . To give some kind of rebuff to Kuhsm ..
more or less coui-U'ouh as the niso may be—Uuh will be the posHine aim of these Governments with regard to tlm war . Tlio necessities of fcho . situation require this ; for Avere the ' Turku the Pariahs of tho world , and their ense never ho despicable and unreasonable , it would bo impossible for these Governments , for their own Bakes , to wish Knssia , to be the winner . But if the administration of some kind of cheek to . Russia must of necessity figure as the ' positive aim of these Governments with regard to tbo war , this aim Avill ho-iieyaliiudi / condi Honed , if wo may uho the philosopher ' s plirase , by another aini- ~ -
that of conducting the war so as to ieep down the democracies . * ¦ vm That this will be the case with , each of the Go yernments individually , who can doubt P W know what our Government is . Democracy in its dictionary is synonymous with Devil Tf needs no conjuror , either ; to know with what face Louis . Napoleon and his Government would con template the prospect of a democratic rising To Prussia , as all know , ; the . mention of democracv conveys a prophetic twinge suggestive of a process vulgarly known as royal decapitation Lastly , how anti-democratic is the Government of Piedmont , all who know anything- of that Go vernment ' s relations with the rest of Italy are well awarfi .
So much for these Governments , one by one The important thing , however , is—and we W our readers to attend to it—that these Governments are not to be taken one by one in this matter ; but-that there is good reason to believe that there is at this moment a distinct understanding , almost a diplomatic pact , betAvee . n them binding them to aid each other in so managing this war , in their respective circles of influence , as to permit the minimum of democratic uprising
m connexion with it . The Constitutionalists , the Balance-of-Power people , have su bscribed for all the shares ' of the Avar among themselves , so as to exclude disagreeable partners . This might have been anticipated ; but there are direct proofs of it . Take Hungary , for example . If the diplomatists kneAv Avhat they ' were about , if they had anything of that " large discourse" which seems to have been denied to all their kidney , Hungary ought by this time to have been in the field . Here was a ready-made magazine of power for the speedy solution of the war . A summons from
lurkey—such a summons as France and England might have permitted with a wink—would have done the . business . Yet what do we see ? While , in Asia , Circassians , and all the whatnots of tlie Caucasus , are helping the Turks to hack and hew the Russians ; while remote Affghans are nudging Persia that they may go together and help their co-religionists to beat the Sclavo ; in Europe a huge Hungarian force of insurrection , separated but by a paper wall from the scene of the war , is lying idle and unemployed . Kossuth
is still in London . How account for this ? Clearly , the diplomatists want no help from that quarter ; they want to conduct the Avar on genteel principles , to make it slide in a narrow groove , and Avould rather not have the foul company of a Hungarian democracy . Can it be true , as was reported , that the assisting PoAvers , through Lord Stratford de lledclifle , exacted a promise from the Porte that they would conduct the war so as
not to damage Austria , by creating Hungarian or Polish revolt in her dominions P The promise , if made , cannot , in the nnturo of things , bo kept , If the war lasts , Hungary , whether invited or not , must take tlie iield ; Kossuth , whether ' a Sultan ' s letter comes to him or not , must go where tho tones of his voice , heard over Hungarian churchyards , Avill call tho very dead to arms . But why this delay , but that diplomacy has paralyzed a natural movement P
In Italy tho case is even more plain , tho facts even more glaring . Italy is farther off than Hungary from the kcoiio of the Avar , but there is an underground connexion between thorn ; t \ na the natural result of tho Wallachian war , if it lasts , in a . sympathetic rising of Italian democracy . Diplomacy knoAvs this , and what is it doingP Why , ifc is guarding against tho contingency . It is paralyzing Italy beforehand . The Piedmontese Government is the immediate agent ; Franco nnd Groat Britain nvo conniving ; France is also acting directly . For some months tho PiedmontoBo Government , has been currying on a
systematic persecution against tho Maz / . iniaiiH , or men of the national party , without any hIiow oi reason connected Avith its own security . Arrests and expatriations of men of this party , or of Jtepublican non ( -intents , have been going on ftt an unexampled rate in Piedmont . Tho object undoubtedly is to disports or disable the personnel aim
of the national party , to eliminate its flower strength , to cut off the poppy-headu , against tho approaching period of action . The same thing «» going on in the other parts of Italy , especially i » tho Itoinaii States , whore tlio arrests have jtoon on an unusually largo scale , and so exclusively among the eminent' MuzzininiiH as to maUe if ' clear t-hat a Piednioiileso agency of < loriunem' < iorl
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1853, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19111853/page/10/
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