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      -which is also a failure , and will probably be soon absorbed into LaFresse as an organ of ' affairs . ' ^ This brochure is based upon one oi those absurd and insane ideas which have made a large section of the Socialists the curse of the Republican party in France . These gentlemen would simply suppress the personality of the citizen , absorb the individual into thestate 3 and convert France iuto a vast monastery , a huge phalanstery , or an immense barrack . This nation ot ours is often bien bate , but it still retains just good sense enough to understand the senseless barbarism of these pretended reformers ,

      who are , thank Heaven , overwhelmed with the ridicule they have deserved . 3 f it were possible that such idiocy could prevail—if it had the slightest chance of practical application—I , for my part , should ' pack up , ' and obtain letters of naturalization in your hospitable land . It appears that the Minister of the Interior had . refused Ms consent to the publication of this brochure . The author being a friend of M . Mocquard , the secretaire intime of the Emperor , got it read to the Emperor , who immediatelv eranted the authority to publish which the

      Minister of the Interior had refused . I cannot assure you that this story is correct ; at all events it is not impossible . Not even improbable , for it is but a pendant to the case of M . Proudhon , which occurred four years ago . For my own part , I am far from blaming -the publication ; for the only way to convict these follies is to expose them to the public criticism . As for this grotesque St . Simorden , communist monstrosity , it would have perished unknowns had not a newspaper , in want of a subject , as all our newspapers are , revealed its existence in a solemn article . "

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      PERSIA . The English ( says a despatch from . Alexandria ) are about to occupy Btohammrad and Bender Ali , two towns on the Persian Gulf . Bender-Abbaz , an important post on the coast of tb _ e kingdom of Persia , being occupied by the Imaum of Muscat , an ally of the English , -will , it is supposed , be respected by the latter . —Intelligence from Constantinople says that Russia demands from Persia leave to occupy the proTince of Mazanderan . The Persian mountaineers have pillaged tlie rich sanctuary of Meragha Whild , the garrison having gone to Feroozabad to repress an . insurrection . The fortifications of Bushire have been reconstructed by the English , who have left two regiments , and marched up the Kaub to attack Mohanxora , -which commands both the province of Pars and the road to Shitaz .

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      FRAXCE . Despatches from Berlin state that the Government meditates dissolving the Chambers , in consequence of the opposition to its financial projects . The intended assassin of the Archbishop of Matera has been arrested . The French official journal has recently published an article advocating the union of the Dauubian Principalities . An official notification states that the Government , recognizing the justice of the complaints that the date previously fixed is too near at hand , has decided that the Universal Agricultural Exposition shall not be held this year .

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      Mil / liners aj * d Dressmakers . —A great meeting to consider the oppressed condition of dressmakers anl milliners' assistants -will be held on Monday evening at Exeter Hall . The Bishop of London will be present . It is scarcely for us to say that we attach the highest importance to the movement , and expect that the meeting will be a conspicuous success . Crystal Palace . —Return of admissions for six days ending Friday , February Cth , including season ticket holders , 5858 . Wreck off IIoi ^ yhead and Loss of Like . —Tlie Sullie , Captain Giron , from Bordeaux , bound for Liverpool , -was totally wrecked near Holyhend on Friday morning . The captain , mate , and . twelve hands were drowned ; only two hands were saved .

      East Sussex . —The immediate resignation of Mr . Frewen , one of the memhors for East Sussex , consequent on Ilia being a candidate for the representation of North Leicestershire , has taken the electors somewhat by surprise . The district of Brighton and Hovo now reprcBcnts a considerable portion of the constituency , and a severe contest between the present candidates , Viscount Pevenaey and . Mr . J . G . Dodson , to supply Mr . Frewea ' a place , may be expected . Coixikuy Explosion . —An explosion has tulten place in a coal mine at Wykc , near Halifax , and four men have been killed .

      ^ mHMHHBMMiMHBBMHHMKHl ^ BBM ^^^^^^^^^^^™ meal ; and tie young persona belonging to the establishment were regaled in . a separate room with the kind of fare suited to their juvenility . Mr . Rippon presided , and received &n ovation . _

      A Woukino Man ' s Fjcstival . —Messrs . ltippon nnrt Burton , tho London ironmongers , recently gave tlieir workpeople at some print-works at Onkenshnw , Lancashire , which they have purchased , a very liberal entertainment . Two hundred of tho artisans , with the wives of auch as were married , sat down to a substantial repast , in a room which was adorned with evergreens and festoons . Tooatn , appropriate addresses , and music followed tho

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      mons , excepting the absolute Ministerialists , -who have not yet broken silence , agree to condemn the extra Income-tax . There is an almost general concurrence in the expectation that Lord Palmebston will not -work easily or pleasantly through the session . It must be confessed that the effect of Tuesday ' s debate , in both 'Houses , was

      damaging to Ministers . If Mr . Cobden or Mr . Beight had been present , the result might have been , still more serious ; hut , as it -was , the Opposition , assisted to some extent by Lord John Russell and Mr . Gladstone , displayed itself in a position of power and dignity . Mr . Disbaeii , no doubt , was rash in his declaration , concerning the Trench

      alliance with Austria , instigated by England . It was evident that part of his statement was based on information he had received , and partly on inferences which are probably incorrect in detail . ! Lord PALMERSTOisr ' s denial may have been simply categoricalthat is to say , Mr . Disraeli had accused the Government of having- connived ^ t a

      Treaty securing the Italian dominions of Austria under a Prench guarantee . Such a compact may exist , but not in the form of a treaty . It would have been more strategic on Mr . Disraeli ' s part to have crossexamined the Premier , closely and severely , in a series of leading-questions , to all of which , perhaps , Lord Palmehston might not have been able to reply with an insulting negative .

      POLITICAL PROSPECTS . The Queen has been superseded , to a great extent , by Mr . Hayter . Her Speech ., delivered by commission , contained little more than a retrospective glance at the recess , with a promise of certain Law Reforms , and an allusion "to the inevitable debates on the Bank Charter Act . It was , even more than it usually is , a vague formality . The question with Russia has been settled ; we may hope for a settlement between Prussia and Switzerland ; we

      have suspended diplomatic relations with Naples ; we have renewed our relations with America ; Siam has undertaken to be friendly ; Persia is at war with us ; the Chinese have provoked a collision ; the Bank Charter will speedily lapse , and Parliament must consider that subject ; the law is in an unbearable state of incompleteness and confusion , and needs amendment . This was all that the faint oratory of the Commissioners announced to the Lords and Commons in Parliament

      assembled . More explicit was Mr . Hayter , who , admitting tacitly that the [ Royal Speech was a sham , anticipated the debate on the Address by a sliort account of forthcoming Government measures . An inquiry into the condition of the Hudson ' s Bay Territories , a bill for enabling Ionian subjects to hold commissions under the Crown , a scheme of ecclesiastical reform' for Norfolk Island , a

      committee on the Bank Charter , new legal facilities for [ Reformatory Schools , and a substitute for transportation , are included in the Treasury programme . ISTo reference to the Income-tax , to Church-rates , to Jewish Disabilities , to an amended -representation of the people , to the local dues on shipping . The course marked out by the Government is not only destitute of the political element , but amounts to an abandonment of numerous

      measures proposed last session , and to tlie reintroduction of which the Premier was understood to be pledged . Of seven important proposals which emanated from the Cabinet in the spring of 1856 , not one was carriednot one is recommended for reconsideration . With the exception of Norfolk Island , which , it seems , enjoys an ecclesiastical government , the Hudson ' a Bay Territories , and the Ionian Islands , our colonies nnd dependencies arc left altogether unnoticed .

      Tho prospects of the year , then , so far as tho Ministerial announcements go , are confined to a few practical amendments of the law , a debate on secondary punishments , and a renewal of the Threiulneedle-street Charter , From other quarters , however , come sigua of Parliamentary activity . The Manchester party has declared the necessity of sin immediate reform in the representation of the people . All classes in the House of

      Com-In spite of Lord 'PaIiMErston ' s negative , however , it is believed that Mr . Dishaeli has caught a glimpse of certain secret negotiations between France- and Austria , approved by the British Government , and having for their object * the consolidation of Austria ' s Italian sovereignty . " With reference to the transactions in China and Persia , we do not anticipate that much ' effect ¦ will be produced by the oratory of the Opposition . The Government explanations ou those subjects were clear and satisfactory , while the criticisms of Mr . Gladstone and

      Lord John Russell were little more than objections on technical grounds , which seldom affect seriously the deliberations of Parliament . It is not expected that the contest will , in " either case , be prolonged for more than a few moaiths ; nor is it to be supposed that our operations in Persia and China , even if they take the proportions of systematic warfare upon a largo scale , will weigh heavily ou the estimates . But it is on the question of estimates that the most formidable discussions may he

      raised . Evidently the Government must be swayed to some extent by the Opposition , or be encountered by a combination of Tories , Whigs , and independent Liberals , determined on recurring to a peace standard of expenditure . If political rumours are of any value , the Budget is at this moment in an unprepared state ; the Chancellor op the Exchequer is calculating upon what terms he msry obtain the assent of the House of Commons to a continued Income-tax , and there is not too much confidence in Downingstreet as to the future events of the session .

      Tho sense of Parliament has been unequivocally declared in favour of a financial settlement on si peace scale . It is acknowledged by political leaders of every section that little increased expenditure is necessary to an improved machinery ; that it would be an irrational and dangerous innovation to keep up such forces as would enable tlie country to enter at any time upon a continental war , and . that the true policy for Great Britain to pursue is to promote the prosperity of the people at large , to maintain an eilicient administration , ami to insist upon being governed by Ministers chosen for their

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      F ebrttaby 7 , 1857 V THE LEADER . 129

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      NOTICES TO COB RESPONDENTS . N"o notice ca , n be taken of anonymous coirespondence-Whatever is intended for insertio n must be authenticated by the name-and address of the -writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee or his good faith . We do not undertake to return rejected communications .

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      SATURDAY , FEBETJAEY 7 , 1857 .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the "' strain to keep ' things fixed "when , all the world is by thevery law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . Akwoid ?— ¦ . ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1857, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2179/page/9/