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TO OUR READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS . The following note has been handed to us by an old and valued subscriber .. He had received it from a solicitor , whose name we withhold , as we are indisposed to serve as an advertisement to legal aspirants in this way of business , or to run the risk of any proceedings which might be attempted
in the hope of costs . The sdlicitor in question was acting by instruction jof Messrs . Clayton and Son , of No . 265 , Strand , through whom the gentleman , so addressed , lad ordered his weekly copy of the JDeader , of which , however , he complains that he had frequently been altogether deprived , but for the receipt of which , during a period not specified , payment of 11 . 10 s . 6 d . is now demanded in this offensive manner .
" 6 th May , 1852 . "Sir ,- —Messrs . Clayton and Son have directed me to apply to you for immediate payment of 11 . 10 s . 6 d . due to them , and unless I receive this amount , with 2 * ., my charge , in course of post , I muBfc issue process from the County Court , as my clients are resolved not to lose the amount of their demand upon you . " I am , sir , your obedient servant ,
Having reason to believe that this is only one of many similar applications , we beg leave to solicit the , particular attention of our readers and subscribers to an advertisement we have felt ourflelves compelled to insert in . another part of our paper . During the first few months of its establishment , Messrs . Clayton and Son were the publishers of the Leader . When they had ceased
jo be publishers , the list of subscribers originally formed by them was not transferred to the new publisher , but was suffered to remain with them ; Jug proprietors desiring to make the change as jjttlo injurious as possible to Messrs . Clayton and won . That is the mode in which several of our oldost subscribers were suffered to continue the order to Messrs . Clayton and Son without any ^ Pocial notice as to the transfer of tho publishing oiUco . -
A » justice to those subscribers , however , we are bound to state , explicitly , that we havo no anare in sending communications like tho ono wo « avei printed , and that we cannot be answerable or tho regular transmission of papers , excepting EH aro Bent directly from our own office . [ fowN Edition . 7
The former connexion of Messrs . Clayton and Son with our publishing office makes it necessary for us to disclaim all connexion "with the recent acts of that firm , We say this without prejudice to the trade of news agents at large , among whom we are glad to acknowledge many friends who have diligently promoted the circulation of our paper ; and we believe that the most convenient way for the reader usually is to order his journal of his own newsman .
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«• The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness ^ the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . ' *—Sumboldt ' a Cosmos .
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AfTurvuFFK- pagb The Icebound Ships ........ 461 Wagner Analyzes wo portfolio—NEWS OF THt w ctiv Ninety Lives lost in Coal-mines ! ... 461 French Strychnine and English Beer 467 Cerate ' s Positive Philosophy 472 The Week in Parliament 454 Miscellaneous .. 461 The Manchester "Working Man . —A Ministers ftt the Mansion House ... 457 Health of London during tha . _ Story of Competition .... .... 467 THE ARTSChurch Matters ................. ......... 457 Week ....................... ........ .. 462 6 £ ifirCfu « iT « Hon of Max 467 The Operas 473 Letters from Paris .... ~ £ Births , Marriages , and Deaths ...... 462 Patagonia and St . Giles ' s ., 468 EoseCheri " ................. 474 Continental Notes 458 Colliery Explosions ..... ... 468 ~ Onartett ; Association 474 ^ ta taes of Sir Robert Peel ............ 459 PUBLI C AFFAIRS- . None hut the Brave Deserve the Fare 468 ^ KS ^ SfcVr . VZ 474 The Wagner Caso . ................ 459 How to Realize Protection 464 , ITeoATiibir- ¦ Boyal Literary Fund Dinner ......... 459 The Feast of Eagles ........ .. 464 UTfcKAl utt fc ^ COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSProwess of Association ...... ... 460 The Orange Thunder-Cloud ..... . 465 Scottish Criminal Trials ... 469 COMMERCIAL affaiks HenrvMayhew and the Silk Weavers 460 The Settlement of Schleswig-Holatein 465 Consumption and Travel ............... 471 Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , Gold Gathering and Wool-Gathering 461 The Convocation Movement ......... 466 A Batch of . New Books 471 &c 475-476
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YGL . III . Ko . M . 2 . ] SATUEBAT , MAT 15 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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Political adulteration almost keeps pace with trading adulteration , and amid the mass of measures made for sale , the character of the dealers is decaying past redemption . Ministers have had this week to pay the penalty of their licences . On Monday their disasters began , when Mr . Disraeli advanced his bill to confer the Parliamentary seats taken from Sudbury and St . Albans on two new county divisions , which he proposed to slice off South Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire . He found a grave and formidable opponent in Mr . Gladstone ; who discussed less the merits of the measure than the right of Ministers , in their position ad interim , thus to dispose of the representation . And on a division , the bill was thrown out by 234 to 148 . Although bearing the semblance of a "liberal measure , " it is probabl e that it would have snatched large constituencies for the agricultural or protectionist interest ; but the country gentlemen are understood not to have seen it ; they only saw that four seats were to have been conferred on the great manufacturing counties , and they Were proportionately angry . So that at the expense of an inopportune defeat , Ministers did not even win the agriculturist gratitude , Tuesday produced a scene not less disastrous to the Ministers . Mr . Spooner brought forward his long expected motion against Maynooth . Professedly it was one for inquiry ; but confessedly the object is to withdraw the grant . The Irish members challenged inquiry , and dared the party assailants of the Roman Catholics to come on . Lord Palmerston showed how totally inexpedient the motion was ; since it must either end in proving that the grant had fulfilled its object in providing education for the Roman Catholic clerical students , and then nothing could bo said against
it ; or that the grant had not answered its intended purpose , and then Protestants would be seen insisting on the performance of Catholic duties ! But Mr . Gladstone entered deep into the subject ; showed that the question was not whether "Roman Catholic students should be taught —that is settled , but whether they should be taught abroad or in Ireland ; he reminded the
House , that Mr . Spooner , who asked inquiry with a foregone conclusion , was not the person to conduct an impartial investigation ; and he explained how the inquiry could best he pursued under the guidance of a responsible Executive . The debate was adjourned till next week , having done irreparable damage to Ministers , be it decided how it may . , . ¦
Let us not forget , however , that m the House of Commons , on Wednesday , Mr . Milner Gibson renewed his debate to repeal the taxes on knowledge ; which was enlivened with an episode introduced energetically by Mr . Gladstone on the new book controversy . The motion was defeated , but the debate showed two things unmistakeably - —that the bookselling system cannot recover unaltered from the present crisis , and that the booksellers will inevitably be forced into an effective agitation for repeal of the taxes on paper and advertisements .
Meanwhile , Ministerial discussions had been transferred to the hospitable board of tho Lord Mayor , where Lord Derby made an addendum to his right honourable frjend ' s budget speech . All our political system , he said , is one of compromisesrepresentation , church , finance , throne , all : a periphrastic mode of intimating that Ministers
intend to effect a compromise between Protection and Free-trade , which neither must expect to be satisfactory . But , at the same feast , Count Walewski made a more important declaration . "At no period , " he said , " have the relations between France and England been of a more satisfactory nature , and a better understanding has never subsisted between the two Governments
as to all the questions now pending both in the old world and tho new . " Saying these words he challenged contradiction from the present Ministers ,, Lord Derby and Lord Malmesbury ; and he thus confirmed what we have before declared in the Leader . Ministers have appeared in a better light in their relations with labour . Replying to the deputation from the Society of United Trades , which has succeeded to tho Amalgamated Society
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Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1935/page/1/
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