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an between 50 and 60 years of ago . The cortege arrived out nine o ' clock at the court of the palace . Espavtero then glited and went up to the Queen ' s apartments , the crowd ing so thickas almost to prevent the doorof the carriage from ening . Tlie acclamations continued after his entrance to the palace , and redoubled at the moment it was thought must have arrived in . the presence of the Queen . The terval was prolonged for half an hour , and at the moment spartero made his appearance below to get into Iris carriage e Queen showed herself at the balcony . The whole of the jwd then turned towards her with enthusiastic cries of r iva la Reina ! ' « Viva la Reina Constitucional T Espartero , mding in his carriage , which had begun to move away , luted _ the Queen , crying out like the rest , ' Viva la Reina 1 * d agitating his plumed hat . The Queen , who seemed in ; h spirits , r esponded to the people and to Espartero by : ving her handkerchief . "
The correspondent of the Times ( who vrith great portunities of being descriptive has been painfully 11 ) says : —• " It appears that there were some stormy scenes within the lace daring the revolution—much opposition of opinion , d doubtless not a little recrimination . But for the King , 10 appears to have acted with a degree of ' determination at might hardly have been exjected from him , the Queen mid certainly have left Madrid . The Rianzares did all in eir power to accomplish this , and on two occasions were ar succeeding . M . Turgot is said strongly to have advised
e Queen on no account to leave her capital . The Queenother wished to take her to La Granja , although her own collection of that place might Iiave taught her that it is no fe refuge from the torrent of revolution . It was said that the ing was so exasperated as to draw his sword on the Duke Rianzares , who forthwith beat a retreat . Another on dit that during a stormy discussion as to whether or no Esrtero ' s conditions should be accepted , the Dowager Queen , 10 was violently opposed to their acceptance , forgot herself far as to strike her daughter . The Queen mast have had terribly agitating time of it , and was verv frequently in ars . "
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here is no getting any accurate news of the dis-. rbances in Patma ; and we perforce take such inforlation as the following—from the "Vienna eorre-» ondent of the Times—on "which we place little ¦ liance : —• " The chances are , that no correspondent will for some me to come have an opportunity of forwarding from Parma l account of what took place in that city on the 22 nd ; and , lerefore , some reliable information , which has to-day ached me , relative to the insurrection will row be coiiiunicated . Already , in January last , Mazzini and his staff ere particularly active in the Italian peninsula , and it was oposed that a general rising should take place last March , his plan was , liowever , vigorously opposed ly the more oderate among the friends of Italian independence , who
MOVEMENTS IN ITALY .
firmed that a successful revolution was out of the queson as long as Austria was on such a friendly 1 ' ootg with France and England . In spite of this check , [ azzini continued to agitate , and some time since iblished a pamphlet at Genoa , in which lie attempted prove 1 hut the moment lor a rising ; was most . vourable , because Austria had concentrated the greater irt of her forces in the northern provinces of the empire , id the Emperor Napoleon was so deeply engaged in the riental question that he could not possibly send reinforcelonts to Italy . Tho first symptom of the mischievous Fects of Mazzini ' s machinations was tho attempted landing aar Nice ; tho second , the assassination of the Duke of arma ; and the third , the recent insurrection . The last arvest in Italy was a complete failure , and ns the price of
im has ueen unusually high , thcro have been frequent riots uring the lust few months in various parts of the peninsula . t first the disturbances in Parma wore mere bread riots , at the aubvertJSts flocked into tho city , and simple street > ws soon assumed the character o £ political movements , avma is now in the very same position that Milan was at io beginning of last year . The gates arc completely closed , adalviml of military cordon has been drawn round the ity . All strange ^ nro placed under tho strictest ' irveillanoe , and domiciliary visits are paid to thoso orsons whoso political reputation is in bad odour . t ia expected that some of the lenders of tho Italian revoluionary party will full into tho hands of the authorities , ns
ho gates of tho city were closed on the 22 nd , . ns soon ns tho gbfc began . The affair lusted four hours , but tho troops nfforod little loss . The insurgents , on tho contrary , must avo hud many men killed , us grape nnd canister woro fired mong them , nnd four companies of thoTyrolcao regiment of idea wore engaged . Thoso lust nro all dead sliots , nnd it ia lieroforo morally cortaiu tlmt fow of tho Muzizinists who ssailod thorn from tho roofo anno down alive . Thoro hnvo lso been disturbances nt Modern ) , but thjny wera of no imortance . It is well known hero that thoro Is a conaidcrnblo Jrmcnt in Lombardy ; but iin insurrectionary movmnunt in taly nt this moment would infallibly end us miserably as id tho » patriotic" war rcconUy wa ' gtid by Oroeco against . urkoy . °
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" Homo , July 21 . '' At lust tho tragical donth of Count Uosui , in 18-18 , lias ( lotiwitli Ha tragical rejoinder . Tho only Hurvlvlnc author L ™ i " 8 SaS 3 ""?» : ;»• ., '" « opinion of tho ju . Ik « h of tho . acred Oonwlta Tribunal , WU publicly \* LXa at tho Sif / K . " * ou tl 10 ^ "'H ' or tho w » J siwt . " - ,. , . " 1 ' imtIh , Tuesday . It ia rumoured in Pm-ia that tl 1 Q French army of occulation in Itiily ia to bo reinforced " Y
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TENANT EIGHT IN IRELAND
The Council of the Tenant League have resolved to summon together , in September , a Conference of the Friends of Tenant . Right throughout the country . The meeting of the present week at once resolved itself into a preparatory Committee Meeting with this object . The . precise day has not yet been fixed , hut we dare say it will be in the second week of tho mo-nth . These annual Conferences have each marked a cycle of good or ill fortune to the cause . The first
formed the League . The second allied it with Sharman Crawford and the brigade . The third reviewed and pledged the Irish party . The fourth was not attended with very happy results . The break with the north , and that misunderstanding as to the precise terms of the new bill which has embarrassed the question so much during the last session are associated with it . It must be our aim to repair both as far as wo can at the coining meeting-, and to revise the conditions of the question and of the country together . —Nation .
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THE LAW OF MUSICAL COPYRIGHT . The House of Lords , as Court of Appeal , delivered judgment on Monday , in tho case of Jeffreys ( plaintiff' in error ) against Boosey ( defendant in error . ) The question raised at the trial was , as to the right of the assignee of a foreign author to the copyright of a work first published in England by such assignee . The learned judge directed a verdict for the defendant , in the court below on both issues , to which ruling a bill of exceptions wns tendered , and tho case was argued in tlie Exchequer Chamber in Enster , 1851 , when that court reversed the judgment ;
of the court below , and ordered a new trial . From that decision the present writ of error was brought , and the point having been argued , the opinion of the judges was taken on tho questions of law . Justices Croinptou , Williams , Erie , Wightnmn , Maule , anJ Coleridge , held that tho assignment of tho copyright was complete , nnd that tho Tilling of the learned judge ( then Mr . Hnron Rolfe ) was wrong-. Tlie Lord Chief Justice of the Common Plons , the Lord Chief Baron , Mr . Baron Pnrke , and Mr . Baron Aldorson were of a contrary opinion , Their lordships then took time to consider their judgment .
Tho Lord Chancellor now moved the juthjnionfc ot thoir lordships' houao . Tlio question turned on tlio construction of tho statutes of 8 th Anno 13 , IS ) , and of tho Mih offGco . 111 ., which hitter not extended the right of protection acquired under the former act , but did not enlarge tho class to winch that net applied . Tlio statute of Anno had burn passed witli tins view of eiieouragiiifi ; learned men , liy holding out tho inducement of a protection of thoir -works , i ho substantial question at issue wur , whether tho word " uuthor" was to bo understood ua applying to the British author only , or to authors \> t all nations . It wus hia impression that it was applicable to British
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August 5 , 1854 . j THi LEADER . 729
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ANTI-SLAVERY CONFERENCE . Aw anti-slavery conference was held this week commencing on Tuesday , at the Manchester Athenaeum , at which resolutions strongly enforcing the necessity of the immediate and total emancipation of all slaves were agreed to . Mr . Absolom Watkin presided . The preliminary resolution , which Avas unanimously agreed to , was , that all persons who believed slaveholding to be a sin and immediate emancipation to be the right of the slave and the duty of the master were eligible to be members of the conference . Mr . George Thompson denounced slavery . Mr . Thompson concluded by proposing resolutions expressive of the joy of the friends of human freedom in comrnemoratiDg the 2 Gth anniversary of the abolition of slavery
in the British colonies , and the conviction of the meeting that the results of emancipation had been generally of the most gratifying and satisfactory kind . The resolutions were agreed to unanimously . A resolution vas then adopted unanimously in favour of the -immediate , total , and universal abolition of the slave trade . The afternoon meeting of the conference was commenced by Mr . G . Thompson reading resolutions to be moved as the basis of the discussion which was to follow . These resolutions expressed a friendly and fraternal disposition towards the people of the United States , but strongly denounced the maintenance of slavery in some of those States , and particularly deprecated the idea of the acquisition of Cuba by the United States , as it would lead to the establishment of an extensive American slave trade between the slave-breeding States of the continent and the newly-acquired island territory . The
resolutions also gave the opinion of the conference that the nefarious designs of the slave power of the tjnited States would be most effectually frustrated by the immediate and entire abolition by the Spanish authorities of slavery throughout Cuba , aid the establishment by wise and Christian laws of the black population in the enjoyment of that liberty , and those civil rights , the possession of which by the people at large has ever been the best and surest guarantee of the independence , security , arid happiness of any country . Several speakers , in allusion to these resolutions , referred to the evils -which tliey had witnessed in America as the consequences of slavery . One of them said that the religion of America had permitted the circulation of the Bible among the heathens , supported by the proceeds of slave-selling ; , and the treasury of an American church was filled with the price of blood .
The speech of the Rev . W . Guest seems entitled to some attention , as a Christian ' s appeal to tlie Christians of the States . He said : — " There ave no terms that I can employ that are strong enough to express the profound grief and utter astonishment I feel , in common with all the churches of this country , at tlie attitude that is assumed by American churches in relation to slavery . I am not forgetful of exceptions to the remarks which I shall make . But while it is patent , it is a sorrow and lamentation to us all , that there are two classes of Christians in America , —thoso who dishonour themselves by silence , and those who dishonour their religion by a proslavery advocacy . Sir , I would not speak strongly were it not from tho conviction I entertain of the momentousness of the truths , and the interests that are involved . But as a
burner against a false interpretation of tho Look most dear to us , as a testimony against all oppressions and despotisms , it Tiecomcs all loyal disciples of Christianity , not only to deny that the Biblo sanctions such a system , but to publish to the world their indignant sense of the impious and daring outruge that is done to Holy Scripture when pleaded in defence of tho ntrooitios of American slavery . We have hitherto spoken to our brethren in America mildly : wo have spoken imploringl y ; but when we see , ns we now do , that under the very shadow of Christian churches this enormous extension of slavery id perpetrated ; that men sent by Christum * , among others , from tlio northern states have g iven their votes in its favour ; when we see , and ns is not unlikely , infidelity scouting a religion which is quoted in favour of the \ illiuiies of slavery ; whon wo see all ndvocates of arbitrary Government
and despotic law in Europe and throughout tho world finding a justification for their doings in tho doctrines of American Christians—then , sir , it becomes us , for tho sake of God and humanity , to rescue our religion from the miro in which it lias been foully dragged , and to proclaim our < leep , most thorough , and most intense conviction , that the Biblo , from ( i U'nesis to ltavolutinns , repudiates iwd denounces such a , system «\ a the legalised slavery of America . Sir , it iias seemed to mo most unworthy of tho judgment and candour of Aineiicun Christians tlmt they should quoto , in dofenco of their citizen sliiveholdarn , tho form of servitude that is found in tho curly boolctj of tho Bible . Was tlicro iio > tliing liko a progroHsivo morality ? Was thoro iiotliiug allowed ' because of tho hardness " of mon ' a heart ? AVua thoro no accommodation in tho wisdom of ( Joil to tho caiTiiH' and ruder stngca in tho infancy of our s |) ecic 8 ? Mr , whilo 1 cannot admit tlmt nn iuL would bo lU'fuDNiblo in tho most , advanced period of tho woilil'a history tH > m tho flimplo fact that it was permitted in tlio earliest times , and in tlio very dawn of civilisation , 1 hold , as do tlunifiundrt ill this country , that , thcro is a broad nnd most pulpiblo distinction between tho slavery that wus allowed in tlioso etu-liur ngoa and that which is legaliscul in America . Then thcro worn equal luwa fur the onsluvcd ; they enjoyed tho civil ri ^ Ut of periodic freedom ; c . icupo from unjust u « ago was expressly permitted ; mid tlio restoring of tlio fugitive was exprcHnly forbidden . Hut what is tho fact ^ villi American tdiivury p It deprives more than 13 , 000 , 000 of human beings of uvory one of theso privilugca . It uoatrova > n man
the three inalienable rights that have been made by his Maker , —the distinction and glory of his manhood , the right of property , the right of citizenship , and the right of family . It renders obedience to the commands of the decalogue , with their awful sanctions , an utter impossibility- It abolishes the obligations and duties both of parents and children . It violates the solemn sanctities of marriage . It favours and creates a necessity for heathenish concubinage , and a dis - gusting licentiousness ; it raises no voice against the enforced prostitution of female slaves , and makes it no crime for a man to sell his own children into bondage . Oh , tlie astonishment Oh , the degeneracy of Christ ' s witnesses ! Oh , the disloyaltv to truth and to God!—that Christians with the Bible in their hands should plead Scripture for a system like this Surely the plainest doctrines of revelation demand a loud , universal , and vehement outburst of reprobation against an institution so steeped in crime , and robbery , and defilement of man . I am well aware , sir , that there is a plea sometimes adduced , and which is supposed to derive its force from
what has been termed the silence of our Lora Jesus Christ , with respect to the specific sin of slaveholding- Such a defence for neutrality on this subject has ever appeared to me altogether baseless . Did Christ approve of perjury because he referred not to it in tis teachings ? Pid apostles give approbation to the barbarities of Nero , because their letters bore no testimony against them ? O America ! that ' giamt scion of England , ' as Chevalier Buusen has well called thee , we have thought that thou hadst a glorious and Kvondrous mission before thee in these latter ages as < i spectacle to these ancient kingdoms of Europe of a selfgovemed , and contented , and prosperous people . May God grant that the time may come , and may this conference among other agencies hasten it , when thy true-hearted sons shall band together with one heart , and soul , and strength , to Wipe away that which is a reproach upoii thy name , a lie on thy profession , and a dishonour and ontrage to the Christianity thou professest ! " .
Several gentlemen , referring to Mr . Guest ' s remarks upon tlie Sunday meetings , expressed some sligiht differences of opinion . The speakers at the evening meeting were the Kev . ' ¦ Dr- Beard , the Rev . W . Parkes , Mr . Parker Pillsbury , of America ; the Rev . William Wells Brown , Mr . George Thompson , Mr . J . 0 . Dyer , and the Rev . S . A . Steinthal , of Bridge water .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 5, 1854, page 729, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2050/page/9/
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