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THE LEADER.
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The Leader.
THE LEADER .
Contents:
Contents :
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Review Of The Week- India And Indian Pro...
REVIEW OF THE WEEK- INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS- Tl ^ Frejich Auimosity . - Our ^^ Jt ^ Sia ' - ''" ¦ "" . 1 * 79 p „• , ° » e ismLiGENCE . pace Crime in the Punjab 1270 ThelfellaS Re ^ iicyand ' Frknce isf * MyFirst Travels " : i .. " ....:.:: 1 * 0 Political Foreshadowinffs 1 , 204 India as a Colony 1271 The Archi-Diagonal Kovivtl 1 * 75 Sir John Franklin and liis Com- Fdnoaf ^ n in It Hv 1 ^ 75 COMMERCIALpanions 12 » V . MUSIC ASD TUB DEAHA- Education in It . u > Iw . * COMMERCIAL Naval and Military : 320 / 5 , ^ •¦« •• , ¦ ¦ ,-l literature- Supply and Price of \\ heat .... 1 J & . J The Volunteers .: lli ( 50 Royal Opera , Drury-lanc 12 ' literature Mouey Market and Stock Ex-Ireland - . I ? ....... law ' St . Jaines ' s Hall — Monday Xotes of the Week 12 rO change . l ^ l ¦ law Police " and Casualties 1200 Popular Concerts .... ¦ ... 1271 A A lew of the kvidunevs of General Trade He-port rial General Home News .. VM 7 Princess ' s—St . James ' s—Sussex Christianity .. . ... ......... 1 ^/ Stocks aud Shares 1 > 6 1 foreign intelligence . Hall ,. l' -i 72 Timqn , and other I'oems ........ 12 , 7 Jiailway Intellis-ence l ~\ si-Foreign Summary IMS Post 8 CriDt r r Tra ^ c -Dramas from Scottish . joint sW Companies ViSl Foreig-n Incidents 1 : 270 . iostbciipt ± - < - History 1 . ' , / General Commercial News ...... 1-iSl .., „ , , _ . c-r-iiiDc New Novels : — ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- PUBLIC AFFAiKb Misrepresentation — Under- . Germany 1270 The AVakefiold Inquiry 1273 currents—Now or Never .... 1 CTS Letters from Italy . 1 ~ , < j
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mHE intelligence from the Italian Peninsular III ' C ? ¦ . ^ a JL which we hiive received this week has increased day by day in interest and importance , the decision of the Prince de Carignan'to decline the regency of the united Central Italian provinces is a significant indication of the pressure from ¦ without that the rightful king and people of Italy are subject to ; it remains to be seen whether the patriotism of the Italians themselves , and the courage and energy of their leaders , Victor Emmanuel , Garibaldi ,, and Farini , will bring them in safety and honour , through the perils which now environ , them , to the goal of constitutional freedom .. The substitution of the Chevalier
Buoncompagni as the representative of the authority of the Piedmontcse sovereign has been accepted with thanks by Parma , Modena , and the inhabitants of theRomagna ; and there is small reason to doubt that it will be considered equally satisfactory in the Tuscan parl lament . Meanwhile the French Government has made known its disapprobation of this arrangement iu terms which admit of no possibility of misunderstanding , and complains that the Sardinian Government has not followed the " wise counsels " of the Em peror Louis Napoleon ; this
is coupled with a recommendation , meant as a command , to the Pi edmontese Sovereign to annul the appointment of Buoncompagni , on the ground that neither " Victor Emmanuel nor his new subjects have a right to anticipate the decision of the cpming congress , an argument which comes with a strange grace from the monarch who has been permitted to assume the government of ono of the greatest empires in Europe without the interposition of . congress or dip lomacy to sanction the right by which he rules . The promises of the Emperor Napoleon cannot Ina forgotten . May lie hold ,. to his word . Still it would appenr that ho feels
indignant that the Italians hnve presumed to attempt a settlement of their own . atfiiirs ; and also . that ho is dotonnincd to prescribe the amount of liberty nnd the form of government which they shall enjoy . Their future is , indeed , uncertain , but their hopes nro not extinguished , though it is impossible to say whether the close of the . year may see the great kingdom of Italy an established fact , or the petty satrapies of Austria restored by the aid of Frurioo . Strange things aro said of the late interview between the Russian and Prussian rulers ; it is thought ' that those Powers , as well , indeed , ns England , are fully ivlivo to the misohiof which must arise out Of ; the French scheme of an Italian Confederation , in which Franco could not fail to have overwhelming influence ;
and if the men of Italy are united and determined , it would seem not impossible that the weight of these great European monarchies may be thrown into the seale in favour of a settlement of Italy in accordance with the wish of the Italians themselves—the disapproval of a powerful " protector " notwithstanding . ' The Opinione , of Turin , speaks with firmness ori the question . While anxious topre-. serve the valuable friendship of France , it reminds the nation that Victor Emmanuel has * entered into engagements " with . Central Italy , which his honour compels him to observe . .. Buoncompagni , however , had not gone to take the reins of" government in the Duchies , according to the latest accounts which we received yesterday ; and the important intelligence is added , that the great leader Garibaldi has resigned his command of the Central Italian forces , and is to retire to the obscurity of the island of Sardinia—it is said with the rank of Lieutenant-general in Victor Emmanuel ' s a rmy . Until confirmed , this latter rumour will be received with suspicion by the friends of liberty ; so little consistent does it appear with the character of the patriot whose self-d enial has ever been ns conspicuous as his fortitude . The Congress at which these important questions are to sock solution is casting its portentous , shadow before ; and we hear of the illustrious Antonelli as the representative of the Holy Father , while the mighty sovereign of Naples is to lend his potent influence to the settlement of the peace of Europe . The representatives of ' priestcraft , tyranny and intolerance will hardly be in time to prevent the downfall of their cherished institutions . Already in the Ilomngna the dictator Farini has suppressed the Inquisition—that record of human folly and cruelty . Will the civilisation " of our age permit its restoration ? Farini continues to fulfil , his duty as the ruler ( in the name of the King of Sardinia ) of the States of Modena , Parma , and
the Koniagnn , into the latter of which he has this week made an almost triumphal entry . Though Italian affairs , at the present moment , appeal most , strongly to our sympathy ns freemen , still the foreign news of this week is generally of interest . From . Turkey we read news of a spasmodic attempt to roinvigorato the " sick man "——reforms are to be' ' inaugurated in the Sultan ' s Civil List , in the administration of the army nnd other departments of government ; and lust , not least , sumptuary regulations have been enacted , ns to extravagancies in female attire—an example which might , with advantage , bo followed in other European capitals .
Warlike rumours , with regard to this subject and in connexion with the attitude of the Frencl Government , have again been rife ; and the increased energy in every department of the arnrj and navy id 'producing results , such as the resources of no other empire ia the world but our-own could compass . Day by day sea monsters , in the form of steam liners and new war transports , are launched , to be ready for thaetriiagle with which , according to the modern LW _ .:.:: ¦' . ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦¦ ' -, we are
threatened ;'• and the military spirit of the country has been fairly roused to repair by volunteer service the deficiency of our army . In relation to the . latter subject ; an event of the week has been the issue of a judicious circular , from that worthy soldier , the Commander-in-Chief , containing regulations which will be greeted with praise by all intelligent Englishmen , and will go fur to remove a great blot upon our administrative system . Of political , talk the week has not supplied a large crop . The Bristol charity dinners , however , gave the opportunity for party speeches from the
men of mark connected with that city . Mr . II . JBerkele 3 , at the Liberal feast , spoke manfully of bribery , and declared that it must rear its snaky head until the heel of the people' is firmly and honestly put on it to crush it ; and in this vice he honestly declared that all parties are equally guilty . He also spoke well and-lustily in praise of the manly fellows who , as volunteer riflemen and artillerymen , are coming forward to pay to their free country the duty they owe her . At the Tory meeting in the same great city was much mutual congratulation individual
upon the prospects of their party ; and on the part of Sir F . W . Slnde , great objurgation of John Bright and his nominees , the Liberal representatives of the city . Mr Arthur Way expressed but a common opinion when he said that the Derbyites would suffer the existence of the present Government until it came to a natural collapse from internal dissension ^ or from the pressure of promises of reform given too freely , but not easily redeemed . Mr . Buchanan , at Glasgow , has advocated assistance to Italian freedom in the tangible form of money forGarir-At dinner in the
baldi to buy muskets with . a important city of Cork . the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has departed so far from his usual reticence on political mftttora as to express his _ satisfaction in announcing measures of defence for the Irish " coast . Lord Formoy , at the name ( estiva ] , thou'Wit tliat Irish rifle clubs should bc ' uncourngcd as n ° tfuanl ayninst invasion . This idea of his lordship ' s will scarcely bo realised in the face oi the demonstration that has been made by the Pope ' s IrMi " subjects" at Dublin . Domestic ailiiirs this week have been more than usually interesting . Among other prominent topics the discussion at the lioynl ( iooginphical Society ns to the probable futo of Sir . John I ranklin ' s ooniiianionsT the meeting to JiirniHli forth the
episcopate of British Columbia—to which _ Miss Coutts liasi given out of her abundance a princely sum ; < ho decision to hold the next Groat Exhibition iu 1802 ; and the inquiry into the affairs ol' Greenwich Hospital , must bo noticed , ; and among the benevolent objects of the day a movement in favour of tho overworked journeyman bakers of tho metropolis deserves especial commendation . < i i i
Tho American'mails bring us tho sequel of ( ho Harper ' s Ferry rising , in tho condemnation of Brown to an ignominious dentil , after having given n , shook to tho " institutions of the Uiiitud States , neither unimportant nor unfclt . As to our own iunnudiute American business , it is to bo observed that , on the San Juan question , Lord John . Russell ' s despatches nro said to have boon marked by warmth , nnd something moro ; and that if nny unpleasant , consequences wore to occur it would not bo Uncle Sam only who is to blamo .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19111859/page/3/
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