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ipp lement to the widow ' s pension , and preicted what bas already turned out to bo true , iat the bookstalls would become acquainted with ie cumbrous publication ere long . «* After this came a general outcry against our rantry for our reception of the Emperor , whom e are also charged with taking too much au rieiix . I am obliged to defend my countrymen 1 this point , and to say that , unless we refused i take Franco herself au scrienxy there was . no lp for the matter . Strange to say , they bate e Emperor more than they love their country . very one brought forward fresh reasons for deribing France as a miserable , abject , eontemptie nation . In reality there is a certain honourde pride at the heart of all this . They prefer
ing despised to being identified with their aster ; they arc eager to proclaim themselves ives lest they should be mistaken for valets . ' If there be any serious meaning in this publition , it is that it proves how anxious the Gornment is now to throw the whole responsibility the Crimean expedition on the head of the derted general . At one time the plan was claimed r the Emperor himself . Kow , no one will adt having bad any hand in it . The fact is , the x is becoming desperately unpopular here ; and any active opposition were possible , it would : e place . Everything that passive discontent a do is done . All the railway companies , ious with the fury of capitalists—almost as rible as that of theologians—aaainst the new
:, are determined to show their hostility to the time by all safe means . It is rumoured that jy have rejected Prince Napoleon ' s advances . J begged them to organise very cheap excursion tins for the Exhibition , which , in spite of the lliance it has at last attained , still languishes for nt of public support . They may , however , be rcvailed uj > on' in the Dick Turpin style before l S-> But all questions of this kind are quite thrown o the shade by the groat discussion of the day an the comparative merits of liachel and La
stori . The general opinion is , that the latter ist , though inferior in the powers of expressing tain violent passions—as anger , disdain , and jpair—is fur more varied in her aspects than the mer . The truth is that both are very great . for Rachel , after the first season , she will pro-L > ly resume her place—at any rate , a very liigh ice—in public favour . She is now paying the nalty of certain faults of temper and conduct ich have disposed critics eagerly to accept 1 exalt a rival . Ristori is assisted in her
uggle for reputation by the story of her ronianaifeetion and early adventures with her preit husband . All unite in representing her as a > del of private virtue . The French seoai inned to imitate with regard to her our euthusm for Jenny Lind . "' Q .
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KLKGANT EXTRACTS . re following " pull" from the telegraphic sumiry of la . nt . Monday evening ' s debate iu the immons furnishes the future historian , or that ntemporary posterity , the "intelligent foreigner , " th a singular picture of our Parliamentary ckwickianisms : — 44 Lord Pulmorston , replying , charged Sir I ) . 1 J . rtton either with deliberate insincerity or gross lorancc . . . . " 7 . 0 . Mr . Disraeli speaking—The noblo lord d spoken commonplace bluster and reckless odomontado . 44 8 . 0 . Mr- Koebuck charged Lord J . Russell th having forgotten his duty to England , ti > the ousc , to truth , and to honour ; and Lord Palartston with deceit . "
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iMrKACTlOAHIl . lTY ul' K . ST . UU . lSIUNcJ A 1 NI 1 ORM TBIHTATIONAf . SVHTK . M OV COINAtlH . — Since WO liavo SO ; erod tho valuo of coins of tho sjmuo namn in various Igiia , )» ow on 11 \ v « i ox port Mint other nut ions will refrain undoing tho same ? Where thorn is a double HtaiularU of th tfohl and Nilver , they will bo compelled nKniiist their 11 to appreolato or depreciate , a * ono or other coiiu » K <> ' inu leaving tliom , iw tho United State * lmvo Uono und adolng with our Hovoreimis anil their own silver . r IY » lmvo lutoriwitioiiitl monov , t liere . for <\ appear * nlUipel her liopctheir
» . Tho United HtatoH may or may not kiv »> uii liar , or Franco the franc , as ( lieir ihomov . h of ;«•<• ¦ mii it ; but ; lior bdiiiK retntned iim the chief coin of elroulat ion , or iv-Inocl at ail at their proxont valuu in hihor . . vein * morn : m doubtful . AVo lmve nothinK t »> K' » 'n upon tliol ' ivililion already possess for tho adoption of a decimal n . vnIciii by iltln « upon tho chauoos of furthor clmuKoa in IVuuco norlca , or ottuir countries . NothiiiK c : iu he more . simple an tho doolmnllsation of our (• oIiuiko from the pomnl as » t Mida an lh « chief unit ; and it . is scarcely pcwsllilo to ceii-Ivo anything » noro oliimcrleal than tho adopt ion of any Her unit tliuit tho pound . /' . i / kv (>\ i William Jtmwu , •«> , M \ P ., in ( ho Journal nf tho Juntituto <>/ ' vlWminVs .
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SUGGESTIONS FOR CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN SHOPKEEPERS .
( To the Editor of the Leader .. ) Sir , —I have read the heart-rending case of your correspondent Mr . Holmes , that afflicted martyr to tender conscience and Sunday shopkeeping : who could read it without pity ? It would melt the heart of a millstone or an economist . What an age art thou , nineteenth century—what a centre of civilisation , O London , where heavenly-minded shopkeepers , burning to worship God , are by a tyrannous mob forced to serve Mammon !
I was about to propose that modern reward of martyrdom a penny subscription , when it occurred to me to offer a remedy earlier , easier , and more speedy of practice . This is Saturday- when Saturday night arrives , suppose Mr . Holmes should resolve to forget Mammon , say for thirty hours ; let him put up his shutters , shut his shop , and keep it shut till Monday m _ ojrning ; and perhaps in time , after so good a beginning in example , London might become an ideal Leeds . Should an } ' mob in the interval disturb the devotions , or approach the sacred threshold of his castle , I for one pledge myself to cut my order , and join him in his march , not half-way 'twixt Exeter Hall and Hyde Park , but straight up to the door of the pious Lord who represents Grosvenorsquare .
Meanwhile , anxiously awaiting the reported result of this simple experiment for the emancipation of the oppressed shopocracy , I remain respectfully , One of the Mob .
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Jtjxy 21 , 1855 , ] THE LEADER . AQQ
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There is no learned man but will confesa he bath much profited by reading controversies , his sensea awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profltabkd for him to read , why should it not , at least , betoleraolefor his adversary to write . —Milton .
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Breakfast ExTRAORDiNABr . —The ifaidsto ? ie Journal , in noticing the local swimming club , containing seventy-nine members , first-rate swimmers , &c , says : — " The first aquatic breakfast is to take place on Monday next , at seven o ' clock , when every member will be required to partake of the repast in the river . " ' Inciting to Desert fkom the Foreign Legion . — Alfred Hills , tiaewaiter at Folkestone , has been committed for trial , charged with inciting some of the men of tho Foreign Legion to desert .
ToBTfKi : in India . — " The Torture Commission ( says the Time * Indian correspondent ) has closed its labours at Madras , and has received the thanks of Government for the energy , judgment , and success with which its inquiries have been conducted . The Report cannot be made public iu tlm country before it has been submitted to the authorities in England , but the inquiry is understood to have elicited facts which establish the existence of revenue torture iu more than one district of the Madras Presidency . " This is in direct contradiction to the . statement which was published last week on the authority of a minute of the Lieutenant-Goveruor of Bengal . The Ojjtiiwaitk Tunnel ,, on the Manchester Railway , foil in on Saturday morning . Only about tea yards , however , out of three hundred were thus damaged , and no loss of life ensued .
Fatal Accident in a Pit . —Two men , employed m blasting a pit in the vicinity of Crosshouse , Kilmnrnock , wore recently killed by the unanticipated explosion of one of tho charges . — Four colliers have been killed in DunkiiilieUl , owing to some mismanagement of the engine which was drawing them up , in consequence of which they were hurled forward to u great distance . Kgyitian Discoveries . — Mr . John B . Greene , sou of an American banker , has succeeded , notwithstanding tho difUVulties attendant on Wearing away the palace of Medinet Unborn , in discovering tho celebrated Egyptian calendar , of which Chauipollion could only copy tho lirst linos ,
TmcCuors . —Wo continue to hear the most encouraging accounts of the crops , both in England and Ireland ; aiul in the latter country tho potato disease , which h « s not boon absent for the last seven years , has not yet exhibited itself . In America , likewise , tho harvest promises to bo unusually good . Tin-: Statk ok Tradk in the chief manufacturing towns , during the week that ended last . Saturday , may he doscriliod as quietly steady , being neither active nor dopivsHeil . There art * no pnrtieulnrs of interest . This Vkinoks * Czaktohinky ' s Conckrt for tiik Poi . ks took place on TuestL-iy at the mansion of tho Marquis and Marchioness uf IJreadalbano .
Tun l ' m . vr Puivatk Ham . at Ox' ) 'NDKu Xi : \ v Acr . —The Kov . K . A . Litton , M . A ., Vico-Priueipal of St . KdmnmlV Hall , proposes , under tho enabling power * of the recent act , to open a hall in Oxford for the tveqition of students . After a careful connideralion of the prohithlc- expenses , 8 ( 7 ., for tho uoudomionl your , consisting , practically , of thnuo tormn , each containing
some of drunkenness , said that out of the London population of two millions and a hal ^ the srti ^ n— as&sar'sst City Police was decidedly opposed to the act , and thought the tune for keeping open public-houses on Sundays should be greatly extended . —On Thursday , Mr . Wakley , the coroner , and Mr . George Cruikshank , the artist , were examined . The former was opposed to the act , and the latter , of course , in favour of still greater restrictions .
in giving statistics eight or nine weeks , has been fixed on as the lowest sum compatible with prudence . The Committee on the Beer Act continues its sittings . A great many police magistrates have been examined ; their testimony being generally in favour of some modification of the act , the inconvenience of which tfcey consider to be great , while there is the utmost difficulty in defining the words " lona Jide traveller . " Mderman Sir Robert Carden , however , thought there should be still further restriction . Sir Richard Mayne ,
Health of London . —The deaths of 941 persons , namely , 515 males and 426 females , were registered in London in the week that ended last Saturday . In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1845-54 , the average number of deaths was 954 . For comparison of the number now- returned with the average , the latter must be raised in proportion to increase of population ; and with this correction it becomes 1049 . —From the Heffislrar-General ' s Weekly Return . Jan IIannikPratmaster , of Amsterdam , who recently absconded -nith Dutch securities to the value of 800 / ., ¦ was apprehended on Monday in Liverpool , soon after having changed the notes at a broker ' " that town . He was taken to the Bridewell , where he contrived to hang himself in the evening . The Governor of Gibraltar and the Pbess . —
A despatch addressed to the Governor of Gibraltar , by-Lord Panmure , on the 5 th inst ., has been published . Sir R . Gardiner is informed that he appears to have " contravened the Royal instructions under which he was bound to act in several particulars , " inasmuch as he did not publish a draught of the ordinance relating to the press a month before it was promulgated , or reserve it for the Royal assent . These preliminary ceremonies might , it appears , be dispensed with in case of urgent necessity ; but Sir R . Gardiner is required to explain more fully than he has done what were the dangers he anticipated , and why such measures of prevention were of such immediate urgency on the present occasion .
Da . AjRCHXBAia ) Arnott , who attended Napoleon at St . Helena , and who was with him when he died , expired a short time since at Kirkconnel Hall , in the 84 th }* ear of his age . He published in 1822 an account of the last illness of Napoleon , who had ^ conceived for him a very strong affection . Statistical Society . — "We understand that , at the last meeting of the Council of the Statistical Society , Mr . Scargill -was appointed to the office of Assistant Secretary , vacant by the resignation of Mr . Cheshire . A resolution -was passed by the Council expressive of their great regret at the retirement of the latter gentleman .
Mada >[ e Clara Novello and the Birmingham Festival ,. —Mr . J . Alfred Novello writes to the Manchester Examiner and Times to state that the reason his sister , Madame Clara Novello , will not sing at the approaching Birmingham Musical Festival , is that the committee have not , as stated by the Manchester paper , offered her the same terms as she received at the Norwich and Liverpool Festivals of last year ( and which she is ready to accept ) , but terms such as she received when a girl before her marriage , and when she was only entitled to sing second and third-rate songs .
The CoaiaussioNERS ov Sewers have resolved that the health and welfare of the metropolis require that the sewage and drainage , iustead of being allowed to flow with daily-increasing pollution into the bed of the Thames , should bo transferred north of the river to Barking Creek , and south thereof to or below Plunistead Marshes . New Zkaxand was visited with a severe shock of earthquake towards tho latter end of July . Several iissures have opened in tho ground , and a few people have been killed . A Railway- Train from Mansfield to Nottingham was thrown oil" tho rails last Sunday , and was precipitated down an embankment . The couplings broke , and tho carriages were thus saved ; so that no lives were lost
. . _ . Marriacik with a Pkceasbd Wipk ' s Sistkk . — action is now being tried iu Scotland between the nephew of Mw lato Admiral Sir Thomas Livingstone , claiming to Ims his heir male , nml Mrs . Fenton who disputes tho ritfit of the nephew upon tho ground that fus mother wa « the sister of his fathor ' s hrst wile . II . b * met bv several pleas ; and among them by « * f ° gatiou that there is nothing in tho law _ of bc < ™" c J £ iileffitimiao the o ^ pring of such u ... arnatfo . lh « case i , exciting gloat »» t «« 8 t J" J ^ ^ Zln oonsequonco of tho ttSSS ^^ banks of tho Toes .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 21, 1855, page 699, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2100/page/15/
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