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November 25, 1854.] THE LEADER. 1113
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EGYPT. Several changes have been made am...
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SPAIN. Madrid, Nov. 21. In the sitting o...
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There is still much talk of a Carlist ri...
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. Mr. Lewis Cass, tho U...
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Maksucai.. Kakvaejs has arrived.at Orlea...
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Roam.—"Wo take tho following gossip of t...
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Lokd Palmerston remains at Paris. He res...
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DEATH OF LORD DUDLEY STUART. It is with ...
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MARYLEBONE. The great borough of Maryleb...
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OUJLt YOUNG STATESMEN. LonD Stanley and ...
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November 25, 1854.] The Leader. 1113
November 25 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 1113
Egypt. Several Changes Have Been Made Am...
EGYPT . Several changes have been made among the various functionaries , and with the best intentions , the most important being that of Katib-Pacha , nominated Governor of Alexandria . The administration of commerce is suppressed ; the Pacha having declared that he will have no further connexion with commercial transactions , and that he has determined to leave trade entirely free . Artem Bey , ex-minister under Mehemet Ali , has just been nominated President of the Tribunal of Commerce . This is one of the first steps in the reform of that branch of the administration . , The peasants are to pay their taxes half in money and half in drafts upon the treasury . These have already come down from 25 per cent , to 7 and 8 per ceat ., and will soon be at par . The last measure favours in a peculiar manner the government functionaries , who were paid in paper only . But the full and entire freedom of commerce is one of those measures wMch must have an enormous extension , and which ia fact scarcely any one could formerly have expected .
Spain. Madrid, Nov. 21. In The Sitting O...
SPAIN . Madrid , Nov . 21 . In the sitting of the Cortes , to-day , the Duke de la Vittoria made the following declaration : Gentlemen , —When the whole nation resolved 5 a July last to recover its rights and to destroy the abuses which had been introduced into the government of the state , I was called on by the heroic people of Saragossa , in order to authorise and support the movement which for the same object was effected in that capital and hi the principal parts of Arragon . I went without hesitation to support and defend so noble a cause , and I eliered , in the most solemn manner , to use all my efforts in order that the national will should be accomplished . The Queen then appointed me President of the Council of Ministers , aind I accepted that charge with the firm resolution of giving . it up as soon as the Constituent Cortes should be assembled . This was one of the principal demands -which I made to the Queen , and which her Majesty admitted without repugnance . The Constituent Cortes are now assembled , and the ministry over which I have the honour to preside is about to tender its resignation , in order to leave to her Majesty full liberty of clioosing her responsible advisers , conformably to parliamentary usages . Gentlemen ,. I avail myself of tins opportunity to here declare , in the sanctuary of the laws , before God and before men , that I have no kind of ambition ; that tie only thing which forms the object of my wishes is to live as a simple citizen in obedience to the laws . This declaration was received with shouts of applause . Various motives are assigned for this act ; it is generally ascribed to policy as well as to patriotism . Jispartero ' s candidate for the Presidency of the Cortes was defeated . San Miguel is too old to occupy the place to which he was elected .
There Is Still Much Talk Of A Carlist Ri...
There is still much talk of a Carlist rising . In consequence of the late remission of two years' service , the soldiers of the conscription of 1848 are now receiving their discharges , and it is said that in the course of December the army will be diminished by no less than 25 , 000 men . On this the Carlists are reported to build their hopes .
Thk Brothers-in-law—ani > Ordkk . —It is stated that the Czar has sent to the King of Prussia one of the trophies taken by the Russians in tho Crimea . This is a . strange present to a sovereign who professes to bo neutral . If accopted , it will throw a valuable light on what tho King of Prussia understands by neutral'ty . It will bo an attestation by his acts to the sincerity of the words ho usod to tho officors of tho garrison of Stettin . — . " As long as I am King of Prusoia , the Prussian army shall not march agahmt Russia . "
Continental Notes. Mr. Lewis Cass, Tho U...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . Mr . Lewis Cass , tho U . S . Charge * d'Affairea to the Court of Homo , had an audience of tho Pope on the 10 th , in which lie delivered new letters of credence raising him to tho rank of resident Minister at Rome .
Maksucai.. Kakvaejs Has Arrived.At Orlea...
Maksucai .. Kakvaejs has arrived . at Orleans . It ia said that he intends to pass tho winter in that city .
Roam.—"Wo Take Tho Following Gossip Of T...
Roam . — "Wo take tho following gossip of the Church from tlio lottor of a ( Catholic ) fWoml , now in Homo : " On tho 8 th of next month tho Holy Father will celebrate high muss himself at St . Potor ' s , and afterwards will definitively pronounce tho Immaculate Conception of tho Mother of God . There will bo n \ oro than a hundred bishops assembled . It will bo a splendid wi « l > t . The Popo ia iUho going to consooruto St . 1 ' uuI ' h Unnillca , nnd all Lho immoB of tho bishops will bo Inscribed on a tnblot i « that churoh , which will bo one of tho fluent , in tho world when complete . Our Queen , if hIio worn Catholic , would bo Protector of St . Paul ' s . Of courso you are ftwuro that ltobort Inane WlUmrforai linn buun received by tho Pupal Nuncio at Parto , whither ho was conducted by Dr . Grant , tho Bishop of SouthwuTk . It ia
expected he will come heie to be made a priest . N " orthcote is now here preparing for Holy Orders . I don ' t know who edits the Rambler now . Capes had it again till October . Robert Wilberforce is considers ?? next in importance to Newman and Manning . He was the greatest theologian of the Establishment since Dr . Mill ' s death . Denison is now the most prominent man , though Thorpe is the leader of the remnant of the subscribers to the resolution of March 15 , 1840 . I expect the marvellous unity of the Church about the dogma of the Immaculate
Conception will astonish Anglicans not a little . There are now here the Archbishops of Westminster , of Rheims , of Prague , Capua , Lyons , the Primate of Hungary , the Archbishops of Malines , Armagh , Dublin , Tuam , Genoa , Turin , Munich , Vienna , Salamanca , Baltimore . The Archbishops of Paris and New York are expected . There will be about one hundred bishops here this winter . The first meeting takes place , I believe , tomorrow . The Bull is already prepared . Nothing is omitted to give solemnity to the promulgation . "
Lokd Palmerston Remains At Paris. He Res...
Lokd Palmerston remains at Paris . He resides at the British Embassy . He sees the Emperor daily . He dines with the Emperor's Ministers . Nobody can make out what he is at .
Death Of Lord Dudley Stuart. It Is With ...
DEATH OF LORD DUDLEY STUART . It is with most sincere regret that we publish a telegraphic despatch , received last evening from our correspondent , announcing the decease of Lord Dudley Stuart , which took piace at Stockholm on the 17 th inst . Immediately after his lordship ' s arrival in that city , about the / beginning of October , he was suddenly attacked with a complaint resembling cholera , which was succeeded by typhus fever . From this alarming illness he recovered sufficiently , in less than a fortnight , to carry on his extensive correspondence with almost his usual activity . He had a long audience of the King of Sweden , and , attended the meetings of the Chambers , where , his appearance was observed with lively satisfaction by the majority favourable to an alliance between S \ veden and the Western Powers . But unfortunately his- ' enfeebled frame was unable to resist the severity of a climate to which he was unaccustomed . He was attacked on the 1 lth inst . with an affection of the lungs , producing great difficulty of breathing , and although somewhat better on the 16 thi he became worse on the morning of the 17 th , He then perceived that his . recovery was hopeless , spoke calmly of his approaching end , and expired without a struggle the same evening . —Daily iVcu ? s .
Marylebone. The Great Borough Of Maryleb...
MARYLEBONE . The great borough of Marylebone is managed , in all electioneering matters , by half a dozen fussy fellows who are conspicuous at vestries . Immediately upon the news arriving of the death at Stockholm of Lord D . Stuart , the half-dozen fussy fellows called on one another , settled that Sir Hamilton Seymour should be invited to fill the vacant scat , and at once made the offer to that acute ambassador . Sir Hamilton is not in town : his answer has not yet been received ; but if ho accepts them , as no other Liberal will be likely to present himself , he will most likely be returned . The half-dozen fussy fellows never for a moment thought of consulting the electors !
Oujlt Young Statesmen. Lond Stanley And ...
OUJLt YOUNG STATESMEN . LonD Stanley and Sir Roburt Peel attended and addressed a literary gathering this week of the people of Preston , at tho Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge . Lord Stanley made a most effective , sensible speech . Relating tho history of the institution , ho said that it had failed in interesting tho mechanics , for whom specially it was intended ; and be usked what was tho cause of this failure as regards the working class ? Ho did not exactly answer tho question , which , no doubt , is only to be answered by the remark that the working man wants an institution which will amuse as well « a teach him ; but ho suggested some means of correcting that great evil of tho day—tho division of socioty into separate if not antagonistic classes .
We all know , wo all porcdvo thnt society in the prosout day is in many respects constituted vory difloronlly from what it was in former times . Various cannon have operated upon it ; perhaps amongst those onuson this principal nnd moat , apparent hnn boon that im > ronno of local communication which touda almost to destroy , within , at loant , the arou of this country , all Hopnmtioiit * produced by npauu . 3 Sow , on tho whole , thorn in , of coui-ho , no doubt—the man would bo insauo who duniod it ,-there ia no doubt that that iuoronnort facility of communication has boon productive of vory grunt bouotlt to tho community ; but , liko overy other bunellt in tliin world , it has its * accompanying ovils . And ono of thuau ovlls , 1 think , fa u tendency , an increased tendency , -which .
most people notice , and which has been very frequentlv a subject of discussion—a tendency to a disruption of local connexions and ties . I think we shall find , if you compare the state of society now with what it was fifty , or still more one hundred , years a « o that men in the same class , following the same occupation , though in diiferent parts of the countiv are in much closer and more intimate relation © iie with another than persons in different classes following different occupations , who reside in the same immediate locality . The tie of class becomes stronger , the tie of local proximity becomes comparatively weaker . Now , no doubt , other causes concur , though in a lesser degree , to increase that division between classes . There is among the -wealthy , perhaps , greater luxury and refinement ; there is among the working class—and I for
one don ' t regret to see it—a more strongly-developed feeling of independence , which makes them reluctant to meet those who , perhaps , they think do not meet them on equal terms ; and there is " no doubt also the pressure of severer labour upon all classes , consequent upon the increased activity of our age . But be the causes , what they may , the result , I think , is certain . And what we want to do is , what it is important to do is , to find for this severance , for this disruption of local ties , a remedy which shall be efficacious and universal . The onlv remedy which I know is , so far as it is possible , to provide common pursuits , to provide common occupations and amusements , to induce different classes to meet one another more freely , so as to make people think a littl * less of their individual place and station in society , and a little more of their duties to society .
Then , as to education , Lord Stanley seems to think we want no Parliamentary measure if classes would join in such institutions to educate one another . A great deal is said of the want of a proper supply of schools for the working classes . Now , I am very far from denying that such a deficiency does really exist . But I believe , if we came to look into the matter accurately , we should find that our first and principal want is not so much a greater number , as an improved quality of schools . Now , in this matter Parliament may do something ; whether it will is another question . Government inspectors may do a little in raising the standard of teaching ; hut , after all , neither Parliament nor
Government can do all that is wanted . The principal labour , the principal responsibility , must rest , after all , on . the parents , and upon no other persons . "Well , what you have to do , then , if you want a better system of teaching for children—what you have to do is , to overcome thy apathy and indifference of the parents . Now , of tho . su parents there ate many who were themselves brought up in ignorance , and who therefore , as a general rule , cannot be expected to have much feeling of the advantages of education . But there are many others who , having ; themselves received in their early days a more or less good elementary education , are nevertheless quite iudifferent to their children receiving the same , on this account—they say , " We were taught at school ; we
learnt . to read and write , we left school , and after we left school we found that no books were put in our way . It was only occasionally that we could get a newspaper . " We had no means of using those acquirements which we gained with so much labour at aehool , and therefore they have been comparatively useless . " I have heard that language held before now , and I cannot say it was held untruly . You perceive what I am coining to . What I desire to urge is , that if you want school instruction to bo properly valued , you must make it valuable ^ It is not valuable unless for tho boy who has left school , for the young man , for the grown man of all ages , you provide such means of continuing hid
education , ' or , at all events , of profiting by that power which ho bus gained of raiding with ease and pleasure to himself—unless you provide him with tho means of using that power which in his curly < luya he has acqxiireil with so much labour . This , then , ia the principal object of institutions of thia kind . You tnipply books , you supply classes , you give instruction by moun . s of lectured to tho adult population . Oncq interest-grown , men and women , fathers and mother ** , in this work of education , rely upon it , in a vory fuw yuurd , you will have Huch a demand for teaching improved in quality and extended in quantity , aa will compel tho puling—or , what would bo titlll better , a « would » upersodo tho passing ol a parliamentary measure on tho subject .
Ho admitted that the working man had but little time for reading and study ; but oven in that little time ho considered a great dual might ha done : and ho condemned the Sabbatarians who would prohibit intellectual recreation on tho Sunday , lie instanced cases of working niun who hud risouinto fumo ; nnd he mentioned a local horo . And if 1 vuro to mention men of tho pronont day who aro following , at leant no far iih iudimlry and energy goes , in the utops of tliomi whom 1 linvu named , 1 boliovu 1 might allude to at . louat . ono individual , an inhabitant of thiri town—n man who long wan , and 1 believe is , n member ol' tlii .-t institution—n inuu who lian obtained from tho huukn of this Institution t ho groat or part of tho knowledge which ho at pro .-ttmt i lortHciNuort—1 will not , namu him , hucutimi I bulluvu hi .-t jixiilosty i » equal to hi . t ncquin . 'iiicutti ; but 1 may muntion that ho in now Ut tho University , Is uxjiculcu to t « ko u vory hiyh degree , and
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 25, 1854, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25111854/page/9/
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