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      The third year in which our journal has existed commences , with a promise of ^ busy work ; and the progress already made fills uswith hope for thfe Immediate future / JN ^ » severe check in the Buccess of Louis Napoleon , ; but Liberty suffers with bpieneyesi and gazes

      steadfastly at the brief authority which displaces her for a moment . The essence and principles of freedom are better understood now by immense numbers on ihe Continent , than they were even' in 1848 j the spirit cannot be quelled ; the nations are drawing more' and more to a common term for that united action which shaUASM | up the conspiracy of the Despots ; Absolutism ^^ P : ; fiigotry are revelling in their last feast of bloods ;; , '¦?<

      The Leader has not yet * attained sucn ' an . extent of circulation and influence as to boast that it has had an active share in the achievements of the last few years ; but this we have a right to say , that the principles with which we have identified ourselves , not long since held in contempt and alarm , are now daily gaining the adhesion of increasing numbers , and are rapidly becoming the master principles of the day . We have sought perfect freedom of discussion , and have endeavoured to

      show , that such freedom needs neither to be antagonistic nor anti-religious : since we started , the impunity which we instantly realized has been an example to our contemporaries , and discussion has taken a bolder flight than it did before ; while the tribute both of friends and opponents , to our own sincerity , reaches us from all quarters , even from clergymen ! What we said on that point , at the opening of the second year , is still applicable with greater force than < $ er . We have laboured

      to turn the discussion off Sooialium rather upon its principle and the practical application thereof io present improvements , than unbh ulterior changes of society : the increase of . Association , the extended discussion of the principle among opponents , the recourse which the discharged engineers are having to its aid , attest the soundness of our method . In politics we have laboured to keep the distinction between Governments and Peoples , and to promote the alliance of nations against the allied ( Towci Editiok . 1

      oppressors of nations ; and the Anglo-American Alliance , the idea of which has risen simultaneously in different quaj ^^^^ vitbiiLthe year , and was first promulgated inithis ^ eountry by the Leader , is now afixed ] $ g §*?^^ These are jastanpe ^ M ^^ o ^ em . in those principles with which * l ^| ikve identified ourselves . ^[ mx ^ fot ^ :- ^ mi , it h now my part to announce that , in changing hands as a property , the Leader will cohtmiue ^ o inaihtajin its old principles , I believe with increased efficiency . Some difficiilties

      which have beset Our career , promise to be surmounted by the change . To pass to one of a minor kind , though vitally important for us—the irregularities of which our subscribers have had so much cause to complain in the receipt of the paper will , we believe , occur no more ; or , if in exceptional instances they should , a direct complaint to .. our office will enable us immediately to set the matter right . The change affects the editorial staff in a very slight degree : the same pens , with some

      accessions , will continue to be employed on our columns . My colleague and dear friend , G . H . Lewes , will continue to edit the literary portion , and Vivian of course will be allowed to indulge his wayward will as before . At my own request , I am permitted to resign the chief editorship to . a friend ^ t / ho has for some time worked with me in the political portion of the paper , and who has acquired the deepest interest in its welfare . I shall still , however , continue to take an active part , being

      relieved principally of certain routine duties which come little under the observation of the reader . And I trust that I shall be all the freer to devote myself to the propagation of the three principles whichnow that absolute freedom of Opinion has been practically conceded—appear to me to be most needful for the further progress of our countrynational franchise , as the means of attesting all measures with the popular sanction ; the right of \ abour to reproductive employment ; and the right

      of arms for every man , as the means of enabling the whole people to defend its liberties against aggression . Letters to myself can still be directed to the office of the Leader ; letters to the Editor will be opened by the gentleman who fills the post . Thus much of explanation was necessary for the explicitness which has won for my colleagues and myself the confidence of many readers ; but , I repeat , the modifications of the staff , all being in the nature of accessions , will make themselves apparent to the reader only in enoreased efficiency . TlIOWNTON HUNTt

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      VOLIH .--N 0 . D 5 , SATURDAfk JANUARY 17 , 1852 . Price 6 d .

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      "Tafi dne Idea which History- exnibits as evermore cteyeloping itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity- ^ the noble endeavour to . throw down all the barriers erected between men by ^ prejudice and one-sided viev ^ rand by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great bbjeot ~ the free development of our ^ mntual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      Parliament is summoned to meet for Tuesday the 3 rd of FebrUary ^—about the usual time . " Nothing has transpired as to the course which the several " parties in the State ' * will take . One rumour is , that Lord John will at once bring forward his Reform Bill ; and that the Opposition will outmanoeuvre him by bringing forward the Palmerston question on the first night of the session . Lord JFohn might set all calculation at fault

      by bringing on no Reform Bill . The general feeling is one of expectancy , without confidence or care for any one of the parties themselves . The interest excited by the Ministerial crisis is quite worn out ; most of the papers recently Ministerial are so no longer , but are neutral ; and the Ministry is for the nonce the favourite butt of the Times , which is daily exposing the inefficiency of the Cabinet and all its subordinate departments .

      Out of doors , the political movements are few . The Marylebone demonstration on the Palmerston question is postponed , to await disclosures . The Reform meetings are postponed , for the same reason . Political action is suspended ; but the prevalent ideas are , either that Ministers will attempt to evade past promises , and will need to be coerced ; or that the Whigs will be out of office , and the Liberals will once more be free .

      Such activities as the officials are guilty of exasperate and tantalize , rather than satisfy , the public . The Gazette , for example , announces that a considerable portion of the Western African coast is blockaded—evidently in revenge for the Lagos repulse . But who cares for Lagos , when we are all thinking of France , with the- possibility of war nearer home and on a grander scale ? The report that there are to be defensive camps round London is contradicted ; but not so the incessant reports that the arms and equipment of the national forces are terribly ineffective . The reception accorded to

      a passage in Mr . Roebuck ' s speech to his Sheffield constituents is remarkable : he was deprecating standing armies , and demanded a " national army "; and the cheering that followed lasted for some minutes . If the American mind has quite altered on the subject of Intervention , as the Cf / tronicle admits , the English mind is quite altered on the subject of Peace : the public only wants to know now that we can repel aggression , about which the said public is growing nervously uncertain ; and the expectation is , that the Government will draw out the national force . Meanwhile there

      is much talk , in print , of rifle clubs to train the uninitiated . Abroad are incidents which provoke questions as to the real spirit and energy of our rulers . At Florence , Mr . Mather , who was wantonly out down by an Austrian officer , still lingers under a painful wound ; and the public deoires to know what satis-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 17, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1918/page/1/