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TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . The Prite Essay on 1 John ii . 18 .-The prize has been awarded to the writer of the essay signing 8 . 6 . H . The authors of the unsuccessful essays , several of which are of great merit , may have their MSS . by applying- at our office . Dorset ' s letter received . W . J . —The Index to the first volume of the Leader will be given in our next number . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it encreases the difficulty of finding- space for them . All letters for the Editor to be addressed 9 , Crane-court , Tleetstreet , London .
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{ The following appeared in our Second Edition of last week . ' ] POSTSCRIPT . Saturday , Jan . 18 .
The Reverend Mr. Bennett, Of St. Paul's ...
The Reverend Mr . Bennett , of St . Paul ' s and St . Barnabas , has declared his determination to resign , notwithstanding , the remonstrances of his friends . He states his intention to " sign the necessary legal document on Tuesday , March 25 , " and adds , "I hope you will consider that sufficient time will thereby be given for pursuing any further course in this matter which you may deem advisable . " The churchwardens of St . Paul ' s have accordingly written to the
Bishop of London , asking him to specify what alterations he wishes made in the administration of the services . They say as their reason for asking this information , " We are determined , with the least possible delay , to take the best legal advice as to the means of trying in the Ecclesiastical Courts those questions for which your lordship has pronounced Mr . Bennett to be ' unfaithful to the Church of England . ' " The Bishop of London declines to give the information required , and there the matter rested on Thursday last .
The Daily Neios of this morning says , " it is now understood that the Government have decided upon the surrender of t \ ve window tax , and the substitution of a moderate house tax . There is reason to hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have so considerable a surplus at the end of the financial year that he can easily afford a million or twelve hundred thousand for this lon ^ - desired object . By the substitution of a house tax calculated to raise about £ 000 , 000 , for the window tax , raising about £ l , S 00 , 000 , the sacrifice of revenue will not exceed £ 1 , 200 , 000 . Such a tax will in the first instance fall much , lighter than the present window tax , and will not interfere with the construction of our dwellings . "
The Marquis of Northampton died at an early hour yesterday morning , tit Castl « » Ashby , the ancient scat in Northamptonshire . He was born on the 2 nd of January , 1790 , and , consequently , has just completed his sixty-first year . On the 21 th of July , 1815 , lie married Margaret , eldest daughter of Major-General Douglas Mnolenn Clephane , who died at liome on the 2 nd of April , 1830 . lie leaves a fiimily of four sons and two daughters , namely , Earl Compton ( now Marquis of Northampton ) , Lords William , Alwyne , and Spencer Compton , Lady Marianna Alford , and Lady Margaret Compton . For a short period he satin the House of Commons for his native county , but , being defeated at one election , he was never induced again to enter on the field of politics . He rarely
spoke in the House of Lords since he succeeded his father in the Marquinate in May , 1828 , but he was invariably present at all important divisions in that assembly , voting for Catholic Kmancipation , Keforin , tin ; Itepeul of the . Corn Laws , K'C In 18 . ' 58 , when , the Duke of Sussex resigned the Presidency of the ltoyal Society , the Fellows immediately solicited the noble M & rquifl to become the successor to the Royal Duke . His attention at th <* general meetings , uiul hlH brilliant reunions of all the distinguished men in science , literature , and art , nt Iiih mansion in l'iccadilly nre well known , and when he ; retired in 184 !) it may be safely said it wrh with the unanimous regret of not only the Fellown of the Royal Society , but a large circle of literary and Hcientiflc friends .
A young man named "William Kast , was npprehended on Thursday night , on mispicion of having caused the death of the labourer who was shot on Thursday afternoon , while heaving at a winch on board the schooner Lively , in the Regent ' s ( - ' anal Dock , Limehousc . lie had been firing at a mark in the yard behind hi * pie mines , but did not think that his gun would have carried ho far , the distance being about 2 . 00 yards . Mast was brought up for examination at . the Thames Police Oflice ? 'e : Uerday , but the evidence wus no very conflicting that . le was remanded till to-day .
Thomas Johnson , shoemaker , ( 4 iahain-streel , Islington , charged with the wilful murder of hin wile , la . sl Sunday morning , was brought up lor final examination , yesterday , at . Clcrkcn well police-coin t . The evidence w ; ih clear as to his having beaten and abused his wife a lew hoill'M previous lo her deat . li . One ol the witnesses said he HCCined to be mad drunk . The prisoner was committed OH the charge of manslaughter . A young lady , a governess in a family , and uaid to be a relative , near Shinrone , in the county of Cork , olopi'd a few duyti ugo with lh <> herd of the gentleman at whose hounc hIio wuh engUK < 'd , and it . ih wuppoHCvl has gone with him to the new world . Tho lady in « aid to be entitled to bcvcral hundred poundn in her own right .
The struggle between the President and the majority in the Assembly has not yet finished apparently . The debate was resumed on Thursday , and tne general impression was that it would not close before last night or to-day . The speech of M . de Lasteyrie , on Wednesday , appears to have been a telling
one : — . " He entered upon a complete exposure of all the facts which had reached his knowledge with regard to the society of the Dix-Decembre , the military banquets of the El ys ^ e , the reviews of Satpry , and the dismissal of General Neumayer . After giving an animated picture of the ruffianly assaults which he himself witnessed during four hours at the terminus pf the Kouen Railway on the President ' s return from Cherbourg , He asked whether that was the conduct of members ol a society of mutual aid , of benevolence ' like the institution of St . Vincent de Paul , ' as the Minister of the Interior had said ? ( Laughter . ) He then read the
prospectus of the . society , describing its organization unaer 40 founders , 280 commissaries-general , 2800 special commissaries , 28 , 000 chiefs of sections , and 200 , 000 brigadiers , who would have an unlimited number under their orders . ( Great laughter . ) It had been asked if this society was dangerous . As far as conviction or feate of heroism ^ concerned , it was certainly not formidable . But did tney think that seven or eight thousand rascals ( great laughter ) —thrown on the streets of Paris on a given day at the signal of chiefs for whom nobody is responsible , would not be a danger ? With such materials had been made pronunciamentos which had desolated and dishonoured Spain ; and days like the 15 th May had been produced in Pans . But no the Society of the Dix Decembre was not dangerous , because General Changarnier commanded the army of
Paris . " The chief speakers on Thursday were M . Berryer and M . Lamartine . The latter declared that he would stand by the flag of the Republic , and maintained that it was the partizans of M . de Remusat s proposition who did their best to crush the parliamentary system . Pour new orders of the day have been distributed ; one , by M . Sainte Beuve , is a simple declaration of want of confidence ; the . other , by M . Adelswaerd , would pronounce a new act of adhesion to the republic ; a third confines itself to the expression of regret for General Changarnier ; the fourth i 3 an accusation against the President and the ministry .
An unusually large number of persons attended the ball at the Elysee on Thursday night . The Ddbats announces that the Conferences at Dresden are nearly concluded . The plenipotentiaries have arrived at a result which appears to be definitive . On the 12 th they signed the following resolution : — " The German Confederation is reconstituted on a new basis . In place of seventeen votes , of which the old Diet was comto eleven voteswhich will
posed , the new one is reduced , be distributed as follows : —Austria , with all its States , including the Italian States , 2 ; Prussia , 2 ; Hanover , 1 ; Wurtemberg , 1 ; Kingdom of Saxony , 1 ; Bavaria , 1 ; Grand Duchy of Baden and the Two Htsses , 1 ; Saxe-Coburg , Saxe-Gotha , and Saxe-Weimar , 1 ; Mecklenbourg-Schwerin and other little States , including the Hanseatic towns , 1 ; total , 11 . The Presidency of the Diet is to belong alternatively to Prussia and Austria . The Diet will keep up an army of 130 , 000 men .
It appears from a letter in the Cologne Gazette , that Austria has contracted two loans , one of from forty to fifty millions from Russia , to be paid in silver ; and the other of 100 millions , on state obligations , at 6 per cent . In consequence of these loans , her paper issues are to be diminished considerably , and the silver currency encreased . The conferences between the Danish , Austrian , and Pridian Connni » sioner 8 at Hamburgh have been adloumed . General Tinmen has gone to Berlin for further
instructions , and Count Meosdorf , has gone to have an interview with Field Marshal Legeditsch . Count Mensdorf's journey to Hanover , or rather to Ilildenheim , must have reference to the promise of the commissioners with respect to the march of the troops . The Denmark commissioners arc waiting for dtHpatchca from Copenhagen , and also the return of the Austrian and Prussian commisHionerK . J ' our thousand dollars have been recently sent from Hamburgh to the fund for the wuccour of the Hessian officers who , from fidelity to the
constitu'kiii , have thrown up their coinmissionn . Letters from Malta make mention that about half-past two , a . m ., on tin : ( Uli instant , from a perfect calm thcie instantaneously arose a most teirilic tornado , such as is sonic times experienced on ihe coast of Africa , but fortunately it passed over in tho short space of twenty minutes , when il fell as dead calm as before , without , causing any injury either to the bquadrou or merchant shipping . At a few minuteu after seven , however , on the same morning , two very violent , shocks of an earthquake were felt throughout the iuland , and wire even perceptible on ship board in tin" harbours , where Men tries stationed ' at c < il > in-doon ; in the ship : ) of war ran in to ann \ vcr liella which they found had been ht ' t ringing by an
iuviniUle . power . . Similar confusion occtirn d in the most occupied hut . cU" and lodging-houses , in Home ol which bediooiu doors with blight fastenings were shaken open , and the waiters running in all directions to answer bells , when , iu some eases , the lodgers were found sprawling on the floors , having Ix-ea jelked out of their beds liy the first shock , and nearly frightened out of their ht'iisi's by the second . The first was a lift , or upward movement ; the uccond , immediately succeeding , a violent shake ( not an undulatory motion ) from N . W . to S . 1 < j . It was quite calm at the lime , and shortly picvious heavy rain hud lullen . No damage whatever has occurred , beyond the cracking of u few wulla in uumc old houtjet ) .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there ia nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Abkold .
Wanted, A National Party. France Is Redu...
WANTED , A NATIONAL PARTY . France is reduced to a negative ; the State is under litigation like a property in Chancery , while factions contend over it . The State is not simply divided , but it is bo split into fractions that there is no one majority ; for the majority in the Parliament which declared want of confidence in the Baroche ministry includes iu itself three or four oppositions : —
" The Minister , " says the Paris resident of the Times , " was declared unworthy of confidence b y some , because he had carried the laws of public instruction , of electoral reform , and of the press ; by others , notwithstanding hi * having carried them ; by some , because he had removed General Changarnier ; by others , notwithstanding that removal . The reasons alleged by the latter were totally different from the reasons alleged by the former . In a word , this vote of want of confidence implies a vote of nnnfidence : the blame of some implies the approbation
of others . " In such a state of the technical majority , the President has been seeking a Cabinet from the minority , which is promoted to the titular rank of a " virtual majority . ' * This is not only to stultify all Parliamentary rule , but it is really and avowedly to set the nation aside . Through the conflict of factions , France cannot act . We see in this dead lock of public affairs , threatening at once stagnation ana revolution , the consequence of that degenerate patriotism among public men which has neglected to hold up a master principle . The nation is incapacitated . No faction even can gather
to itself sufficient strength for a counterfeit public action . There is ferment without movement , contest without activity . So low has the conduct of public affairs become , that statesmen positively accept information from the Police—" the Prefect of Police , " says the writer we have just quoted , " encourages them [ the Baroche Ministry ] to remain in office , and declares that public opinion is in their favour and entirely against the Assembly : " placing " public opinion" on a level with thieves and vagabonds ! Such are the results of Guizot negatives , of Thiers empiricisms , and Louis Philippe
manoeuvrings . It is almost the same in England , though we do not know that our Ministry has yet sunk quite so low as to consult the Commissioners of Police on the national view of a Ministerial crisis . Public affajrs stand upon an even balance , like the ladder on a juggler's chin , and a trifle , such as the Russell-Durham letter , can cause as much staggering to the poor public as a cabbage stalk thrown at the ladder . Like France , the nation has become incapable of uction ; it ia capable only of " fantigue . " We are in so bad a condition that the Times'
positively anticipates the paralyzation of the Commons by the recent translation of Lord Lincoln to tho Upper House , and the possible removal of Lord Ashley ! " What , " asks tho leading journal , representative of " r « Hpet : tuble " opinion , " is the immediate prospect suggested by the recent changes r Is the withdrawal of chiefs and the decline of party . spirit to conduce to no other result than Ministerial omnipotence ? " Frightful question ! For the
" Ministerial omnipotence" dreaded by the Times ia nothing else than the omnipotence of impotence — -the absolute unquestioned power to do naught . It ih the same witli uh in England as in France : the nation , with all its wantH und aspirations , all its iriiserieK and its greatnesses , in negatived by dissension and indifrcrcntiiiiii ; even faction , « I » ljt down to unprcpon derating fragments , is neutralized , and absolute impotence rules
aupreine-The great " practical politician " whom wo huve quoted has just , undertaken an enterprise of a fantastic order muted to the nightmare catalepsy 0 * the day : teaching tho Human Catholics that the hull " dismembering an ancient Roman Catholic diocese of Ireland " ih a " Papal aggression " upon them , and , putting on an air of sympathetic loaig-
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 25, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25011851/page/8/
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