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Leader (1850-1860), 30th October 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 1043, Untitled Article

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      Tf the same sum could be collected under the proposed vstem at the present cost of the income tax , its exense would be only 1 , 220 , 5361 . ; the saving would be 1 372 , 9281 ., more than half the present cost of collec-+ - ' ' It is worth remarking that the customs and ex-• se the branches of the revenue the most remote from direct taxation , are much the most expensive in their collection , besides being much more burdensome in their ultimate effect .

      The two systems of assessment we have described differ greatly in their character and results . The positive or absolute system tends to the perpetuation of usages , and the aggravation of erroneous usages into wrongs of long standing and difficult eradication : the r epartitive sy stem , the only one susceptible of popular administration , induces constant revision , and is always tending towards accuracy and justice . The absolute system leans on bureaucracy , and requires large

      establishments of persons , dependent on the maintenance and extension of office ; the repartitive system may be worked in the main by the nominees of the people themselves . One places the Crown in invidious opposition to each individual of the tax-paying people ; the other gives the Crown its just and graceful position of an arbiter , when needed , amongst them . One entrusts the power of denning and enforcing the claims of the State to the hands of men who , however able ,

      honest , or well-disposed , have the peculiar disadvantage of office , that of seclusion from common influences ; the other commits that power ( except in extreme cases , of rare occurrence , and easy to be avoided ) to those who have the knowledge and feelings of the tax-payers themselves . One tends to a contraction of interest in public affairs , and to an official despotism in individual cases under a constitutional form for the whole ; the other tends to an active , though regulated , participation in public affairs , and to the setting up for individuals the defence of public opinion , —those true advantages of democracy which are realizable in spirit under many forms .

      If the Crown has not now the same firm , unfailing and universal respect in regard to taxation which it has in regard to the administration of justice , it may not be difficult to show that the cause lies in errors whose effectual remedy would be found in the change of system now proposed , and perhaps in that alone . In our next article , we purpose to consider the bearing and application of the system on particular classes , and in sjiecial cases .

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      THE SINIGAG 1 IA EXECUTIONS . The Globe Las honourably distinguished itself by being thn first British newspaper to invoke indignation upon the horrible act of judicial cruelty recently perpetrated by the government of the Pope , in the execution of twenty-four political prisoners at Sinigaglia . Wo hopo tho British press generally-will take up tho indignant protest , and swell )< into such a tone of remonstrance- as will , at least , teach < Ih > Pope that , by such conduct , ho has a fair clianco of lining more execrated in England , as a man of blood , than < lie King of NapieH himself . What are tho facts ? Twenty-four men , between tho : 'PM of twenty and forty , six , who had been imprisoned wince 181 !) for political offences , that is , for partaking , with

      more or ]<\ sh notoriety , in the Koman national movement "I 1 K 1-H-O , are taken from the dungeons in which they had '' t- 'i'ii confined , and , weak and haggard as they are , are led "" ' mto a public square in Sinigaglia— eight tho first day ; Sl :, the second ; and ten , tho third—and are there shot by ™ vism soldiers in the pay of the Pope . They go to their ' 'Hi ii bravely and calmly , shouting for M a / . zini , and Hinging '" M « rseil . laisc . To the last , it was not believed that would ho ted

      'W execu . Most of them were working ^ " ¦•» poor warm hearted men who bad gono heart , and ho mto the movement for the liberty of their country , and (!" . " (> whom had , perhaps , in their enthusiasm , done ^ "K * that , wore t approved of by all the Republicans S ( \ en , thoug h none of them were accused of any crime of ' ( 7 "'"¦" ,. ' ull (< lni tf ht he resolved into patriotism . One l ' l ' "' !" ' kSllllo »< wlH , belonging to a higher position in life , „'" " , , " ) lll ( " " ' described as a truly noble , excellent , and

      Hi ' ' "" ail < * ' him great influence was used with ( u " " . <' nilr " "' , but , all in vain . They were taken , all II y ~ () Ur ' ' 0 l'i ' heir prisons one momentthey marched ln-iii ' i" * ' ' "' H ( r < ' ° ' > "bouting for Mazzini ; the next , their (| "Pu ttered the paving . stones . Think : of that and mil ' . " " ' "'" ^ ' Holdiors who shot these men are ' (¦ UN '" 1 S ' ° l ' " th <> r ( owns , and shoot other Hiuie ' | " | < WOn ( l ( ' ' 1 U 1 ( ' thirties , for the same crime , and ¦ > o mime circumstances . Ancona is to bo ( lie next 1 lm "( ' VlNi | ,., |

      Ioi- . m , !" , !^ ' . llaK ( 1 ( >» e Uiisi' The I ' ope , tho Vicaron Kitrlli , in ,,,, ' „ , ! ' "' " " li <> nI ' 'huh Christ , " the good , quiet , mild 'vf ' iiNc . "" " < 1 V ( '' ' . y one used to Hpeak . well of , the mini who 1 >| iuho'V ! " " H '" " ' '''"' »« l ' ri » ui invaders of Italy , "bcl woro ChristianH . " Yes . it hut * been reserved

      for the domain of the Pope to show itself to be most emphatically the " habitation of horrid cruelty . " King Bomba himself has never done such an act . There is no Government on earth , besides the government of the Pope and Cardinals , that would have executed twenty-four men at once , for political offences , or for any offence whatever , after three years and a half had elapsed . from the date of their alleged crime . And we , in England , who are roused , and justly , by a

      single outrage , such as that on the Madiai , because it touches our Protestant sentiments , let such things happen and say nothing about them . It is not yet too late . Other victims are in waiting to be laid out ; and a word from England , a word from Lord Derby , may save them . If not , then , by all that is just and great in the anger of one nation at horrors transacted out of its own boundaries , it is time that we should have done with sneaking embassies to the "Vatican , and betake ourselves to war-steamers , and the hearty tramp of British soldiers on the Papal soil .

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      [ iW THIS DEPAKTMENT , AS ALL OriNIOTTS , HOWEVER EXTREME AEE ALLOWED AN EXPRESSION " , THE EDITOR NECESSARILY HOLDS HIMSELE RESPONSIBLE FOR NONE . ]

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      THE POOR MAN versus THE PARISH DOCTOR . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sir , —As we are again ominously threatened with a visitation of that insidious and inscrutable disease , the Cholera , and being convinced by the able and energetic manner in which you have at different times investigated and denounced palpable evils , —as the uncompromising champion of tho poor man ' s rights , —I hope you will allow me briefly to delineate the utter negligence of some parochial authorities to provide for the poor man even such medical assistance as the extremity of the case demands .

      A poor man , with his wife and family , occupied a room in a court situated in the parish of St . Clement Danes . In consequence of bis having been confined to lii . s room , incapacitated by a severe attack of erysipelas from following his employment , which was at all times very precarious , he was reduced to utter destitution . While suffering from this complaint , one of his children , a baby , was attacked with diarrha ; : t . Unable to procure medical advice , for which she would be obliged to make pecuniary compensation , the poor wife applied for an order to secure the services of the parish doctor . After considerable trouble , this order was obtained ; but

      thin public functionary came , 1 am informed by the mother herself , but , once to see the child , and then compelled her to bring the dying infant down to his inspection at the street-door , generously remarking thut it was impossible for him to go up " nil those stairs " ( second floor ) . Tho child died about a week afterwards . About this time , the husband was prostrated with cholera in its most virulent form , purging and vomiting unremittingly , together with the most poignant abdominal pains . In this extremity , the distracted wife was obliged to appeal again to the gratuitous assistance oftliis autocratic functionary , ui , about , two o ' clock in the morning . Having reached his residence , her

      interrogations and entreaties for aid were answered by » female replying out , of the window that no one was at home ! Tim excited wife explained the precarious condition of her husband , and that unless medical aid speedily arrived , her husband would not live the night out ; but all to no purpose . She then proceeded to King ' s College Hospital , imagining , of course , thai , there at least she would be Hiiro of obtaining assistance . Not so , for nbo was complacently informed , that hh she possessed no regular letter , they Inul no one they could scud ! Truly humane individuals these for administering comfort , l . o ( be poor man labouring under the combined attacks of diseiiHe and poverty ! Why flhould these men , handsomely remunerated for their

      services , be allowed to contemplate their patients with such ostentatious indifference ? Why , but that it is imagined that they are comparatively too ignorantthat they have no practical medium through which they can make their grievance public ? Hence this shocking and systematic neglect of duty on the part of inhuman parochial officers , which plunges an unfortunate and oppressed class of our fellow-creatures into utter abandonment and obscurity ! Now , Sir , what are we naturally to expect will be the results of the gradually approaching ravages of the cholera , if these public functionaries are allowed to contemplate their duty with so hard and cold an indifference ? I will leave all thinking men to judge .

      Hoping that in conformity with that spirit of justice which characterizes your journal , you will give tins case publicity , I remain , Sir , your humble servant , A Town Readeh . Carey-street , Lincoln ' s-inn-fields .

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      THE TRIALS AT COLOGNE . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sib , — -The undersigned call your attention to the attitude of the Prussian press , including even the most reactionary papers , such as the Neue JPreussische Zeitung , during the pending trial of the Republicans at Cologne , and to the honourable discretion they observe , at a moment when scarcely a third part of the witnesses have been examined , where none of the produced documents have been verified , and not a word has fallen yet from the defence . While those papers , at the worst , represent the Cologne prisoners , and the

      undersigned , their London friends , in accordance with the public accuser , as " dangerous conspirators , who alone are responsible for the whole history of Europe for the latter four years , and for all the revolutionary commotions of 1848 and 1849 "—there are in London two public organs which have not hesitated to represent the Cologne prisoners and the undersigned as a " gang of sturdy beggars , " swindlers , &c . The undersigned address to the English public the same demand which the defenders of the accused have addressed to the public in Germany—to suspend their judgment , and to wait for the end of the trial . Were they to

      give fur ther explanations at the present time , the Prussian Government might obtain the means of baffling a revelation of police-tricks , perjury , forgery of documents , falsification of dates , thefts , &c , unprecedented even in the records of Prussian political justice . When that revelation shall have heen made , in the course of the present proceedings , public opinion in England will know how to qualify the writers who constitute themselves the advocates and mouth-pieces of the most infamous and subaltern government spies . We are , Sir , vour obedient servants , J <\ Enoiols . F . FltKll . TCaUTU . K . Ai . AJtn . \\ . Woni-i ' . London , October 2 H ( b , 1852 .

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      . NOTICNH TO COltKKNI'ON DKNTH . Tho " Meport , of tho Nooicly for Promoting Working Men ' H AHMnciat ioim and of the * (' o-oprrntivn Ooni ' ereneo ' ¦ - ¦ llm " VVnr of IdoiiH , " by Ion and Movrrul ljeltorM to tho <)|)(> n Council , unavoidably omitfod ( hm week . Uakniim and Jknnv Lind . —A correspondent of the New Vork Musical World writes to that journal—¦ " Not , long since Mr . Harnuni exhibited to mo tlio account current between himself and Jenny Lind , and u truly nim-vc-lloiiM document , it , is . He ought , to publish it , entire , for the astonishment and edilication of Mio world generally , and singers particularly . According to the lootings up and balances , the parties received tho following handsome dividends after all expenses wore paid : -Jenny Kind , : i <> : S , 00 l > dollars ; I' . T . Hurnuiii , : t () H , ()() O dollars ; total , t > 10 , 000 dollars . I givo 1 . 1 m even thousands , not , remembering tho units ., tens , and hundreds . They » n > oflilile consequence , "

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      October 30 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER , 1043

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      There is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and nis judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write . —Milton .

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      EKRATA IN "PAHSAUHS J'MtOIU A HOYS KVIC . " ¦ Vir . --Tlin Dkatii oic IThania . ( No . 121 . ) J ' or "So Hpukn nli <\ Ixil her words were f > rnf . l > y DeaUi , " Jtrad " Ho npiikc hIic , lull her words were tritt bjy JX-iUh . " XI . — IIi :. Hi'KitrA . ( No . l . 'tli . ) l ? or " I said that love And nil large passion fell , liy dyin ^ men Alight yearn or vim / upon melodious Ht . rinps ;" ] ii" < td " JMi ^ hl . yearn or suit upon melodious siring . " XII . — Aiti . niNi ! and I ' li . r . nitA . ( No . i : i 5 . ) Vor "Veiled in Hilver breathing . of the Moon ;" Read " Veiled in Hilver lireutliin ^ s of the Morn . " J' \> r ' " And vlirit I moved ;" Read " A nd irhrrc I moved . " Jurr " 1 tainted no delight That lovors have ;" Read " i wiinfi'd no delight , " Ac . /''<«• " Noir leave tho maiden , " Ac . Jtrail "Jiut leave tho maiden . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 30, 1852, page 1043, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1958/page/15/