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tary hospital at Woolwich , which bad recently received the approbation of Miss Nightingale . WATS AND MEAS 8 . On the motion of the Chanceli / dr of the Exchequeb , in committee of ways and means , a vote of 1 , 300 , 000 ? . out of the Consolidated Fund , to cover the Bupplies voted this session , was agreed to . The Mutiny Bill , and the Marine Mutikty Bill , were severally brought on , and read a first time . The Hoose adjourned at a quarter to six .
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It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we rn ceive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from rca sons quite indepen dent of the merits of the coinmunica"feio n * We cannot undertake to return rejected communications Communications should always be legibly written , and onone side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . During the Session of Parliament it is often inrpossible to : find room for correspondence , even the briefest ; ] ¦* < i
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THE GENERAL ELECTION " , " The Appeal to the Country" is one of Lord Ealmerston ' s jokes , and the most effective of them all ; and tke Parliament , l ) orn of a practical joke , will be an organised hoas—if the country is simple enough to be the victim of the jest . The fun of the thing ] ies in tiie attempt to get a new Parliament out of a dispute on the banks of the Canton river ,. about -which there is no practical difference ,
and which does not affect the English peojple to the extent of a penny a head ; ivhilethe English people are to undergo a huge bustle , a . disastrous interruption to business , and to forget every object that realty doe& concern themselves , will affect them for the next five or six years , and perhaps permanently injure their constitution . This looks like a very harsh assertion , but we will show that it is practically and literally true . have
The merits of the China question ceased to he in dispute . ! For our own part , we have expressed our approval of Sir Jomr Bownisra and our agreement with lord Palmerstoet in the policy to he pursued at Canton . Some differed , and of those again some differed conscientiously on a question which was open to discussion , -while others took advantage of an affected moral scrup le to attempt an attack on the Government . The Opposition- made the question a party stalking-horse ; but did . all the Liberals do so who touht
voted with Mr . Cobden i > Pew can < that Mr . Cobden himself was sincere . At Lord PALMEitSTON ' sown meeting , Mr . TjT > 'Dsay especially questioned the Premier to discover whether or not there was not some point on which ho wovild admit a question 01 Sir Joio- Bowrino ' s conduct—some detail on -which ho would open the door of reconcilement with his political friends ? Lord Paxmeuston would not yield an inch . W h ° was it , then , that made a difficulty , nntl prcvontcd a closing of the breach ? Lord G o « ekioh averred at the meeting that he did
not differ from Lord Palmkkbton aavo on that point ; yet Lord Pauwjshstoh ' s nearest friends , who could not act without his sanction , have represented tho Liberal opponents
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CHINA ( By Electric Telegraph . ) Paris , Friday night . It is officially stated that no French troops will he sent to China , beyond the vessels which have already sailed . . The Palrie states that accounts from the frontiers of China received at St . Petersburg , and published by the Journal de VAcademte , announce that the Government of Pekin is . in a state of dissolution ; that the Emperor has no cash , and is forced to issue iron coin . ; that all anoneyed men had left the city , and that the Chinese and Mantchous ate in open hostility .
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PERSIA AND INDIA . Nerimon Khan and Mirza Ebol Khan , tbe bearers of the treaty signed at Paris by Ferouk Khan , sailed on Thursday morning for Constantinople . Letters from Bombay , of the 16 th of February , received at Alexandria , mention that Colonel Jacob had Bailed for the Persian Gulf with . 1000 cavalry and a regiment of infantry . Dost Mohammed has shown himself favourable to the mission of General Lawrence . The former believes he shall be able to ma"ke Kandahar his principal residence .
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THE DANUBIAST PEINCIPALiriES . ( By Electric Telegraph . * ) Bucharest , March 9 . The Firman convoking the Divans has arrived .
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THE GOVERITMENT AND THE WAR IN CHINA . MEETING IN THE CITY ( YESTERDAY ) . A . large and influential meeting of the electors of the City of London , comprising merchants , bankers , traders , and others , 'was held this afternoon at the Guildhall ( the Lord Mayor presiding ) , "to take into consideration the decision recently come to by the House of Commons , relative to the affairs at Canton , and to express its high confidence in her Majesty ' s Government . " A resolution to this effect / was adopted by a large majority . An amendment with a contrary tendency , moved by Mr . Morley , was rejected . The proceedings pasBed off quietly . Lord Pahnerston and her ' ^ Majesty's Ministers have intimated their acceptance of an invitation from the Lord Mayor to partake of a banquet at the Mansionhouse , on Friday , the 20 th instant . Cards have been issued to members of both Houses of Parliament and other guests .
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AMERICA . According to the latest advices from the United States , members of Congress inculpated by the corruption committee had resigned . The Mexican Treaty had reached " Washington . It is asserted that there is no cession of territory , and no preference of individual claims against Mexico . It saya nothing of Tehuantepec , or of Sonora , or Lower California . Tho Mexican Government desires immediate action . According to the Tribune , tho majority of tho Cabinet has signified « strong feeling against entertaining the new Mexican Treaty , and thcro waa no present probability that it would be submitted to the Senate at all . Tho President has signed the Submarine Telegraph Bill .
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THE ELECTIONS . Dublin County . - —It is believed that two Liberals ] vni contest this county—Six Charles Donwile and Mr . ^ ReUly Dcare . Tho state of tho registry gives good Bfound for anticipating that Mr . Hamilton and Colonel J- aylor will bo ejected . Liverpool , Friday Morning—The alliance between Mr . Horafall and Mr . Tamer is so decided that tho Liberals now think of starting another candidate , in conjunction with Mr . Ewart . —Globe .
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Tip Chinksb Aim Pkhsian Wjuuj . —On Monday evening ( tho lGth ) a peculiarly interesting meeting will lie-held at Freemasons' Hall , to consider the policy of the Chinese and Peraian wars . Mr . Cobden , Mr . Milnor Gibson , and Mr . Lnynrd arc announced among tho Speakers . Crystal Palaob . —Return of admissions for six ( rays ending Friday , March 18 tli , 1857 , Including Beaaon ticket holdora , 8131 . b 1 f . 5 r
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. . . . * [ I * THIS DEPARTMENT , A 3 AIA OPINIONS , HOWEVER EXTREME , ARE .= ALtO-VED AN EXPRESSION , TUB EDITOR HECESSABU . T noZDa ' . BXtl- 3 SBLP RESPONSIBLE FOB KO 2 JE . J ^
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There is no learned man "but -will confess b . e hath , i much profited "by reading controversies , his senses awaiened , and Ms judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at J least , be tolerable fox Ms adversary to write 1—Milton
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CON VICT-CON VERTS . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ') Sir , —I read with much interest in your paper of the 7 th inst ., a letter on " Convict-Converts , " signed " W . H . W . " There is a great deal of painful truth in it , and the monstrous incongruities "which , the writer well describes , do result in part from the exigencies of a system , and the yet deeper exigencies of the human instinct . Still I think the conclusion which . the writer draws from this , and the plan of thought and action which Tie recommends , lose sight of a great truth , and involve the treatment of criminals in public and private in difficulty and almost hopelessness . Now , there is tlie great eternal fact of-..
forgiveness , full , free , absolute , and is that ever to be ignored ? No matter how hardened the sinner , no matter how enormous the sin , beyond and above all this stands the mercy which transcends it . This is the doctrine we apply in our human relationships . We feel that ho amount of wrong ought to exclude us from the forgiveness of thoae whom we have injured , that the only condition required is penitence ; and when we have to do with our higher relationships and responsibilities , when human beings " sin steeped" pass into our care , how shall we treat them ? What shall we say to them ? Surely , we are not to ignore the great fact of Divine forgiveness , without whick all is utter hopelessness . "When the vision of a past life of wrong , with its consequences here , and its inevitable issues of misery in the future , glares upon the wretched man , and he asks , How shall the sin be separated from its consequences , and by whom ?—must -we not reply , that the Great Father of Spirits , infinitely pitiful , has free , full , absolute forgiveness even now , that no rebellion , no ingratitude , can weary his boundless love ? This is God's message to man , to man tinder every circumstance , and never ought it to be withheld . Pardon to the end of life ( it may be beyond it ) is the inevitable result of Infinite perfection , and what so likely to melt the hardened heart and to produce real penitence as sucl } an exhibition of Divine love ? This , as the Rev . F . D . Maurice observes in one of his theological essays , was the
¦ The subject is one of extreme and painful interest . of immediate bearing on & large claae * and inenrectiv affecting the treatment of sta generally . I shall be glad if you think these remarka worth inserting in your paper . I am anxious to see the subject fully discussed . Yours respectfully , : C . N ,
secret of Whitfield ' s success : he preached an infinite love , as well as an infinite sin , and the heart of the Kingswood collier responded to his message . I know the difficulties on the other side of the question . I know and deeply feel the awfully ludicrous aspect which the teaching your correspondent deprecates often takes—as witness the case of the wretched man Dove . I know that pardon is not an arbitrary act which wipes away sin , on no moral grounds , and relieves the conscience from guilt without changing the heart ; that a man cannot be juggled from , a fiend into a Saint ; that the reading of the Bible and the repeating of hymns are valueless as mere outward acts . The remarks of " W . H . W . " as to the difficulties of our " heavenward" course are truethe subjection of a rebellious will to conscience , God , and right is a Iiard and life-long struggle ; but after the discipline of life has failed , then , even then , the hard nature may be faded with the power of Divine love , and re-formed , regenerated . " When he had nothing to pay , He ( God ) freely forgave him all . " It may be that the Great Future will develop remedial resources . There is that in every human being whieh , to our
eye , seems capable of indefinite improvement , and which is lost in the present from want of favourable conditions . But , leaving the future , what ia the spiritual treatment of our criminals to bo ? A man ' s guilt morally considered , I suppose , is in proportion to his conscious violation of right . Tho whole moral condition may bo low , but conscienco is disturbed only by conscious wrong . Now what is tho . case with the men whom your correspondent describes ? All evil influences have been at work upon them from infancy . Born in an atmosphere of pollution , trained in scones of unmentionable vice , where were they to find tho power to resist temptation ? Society cast them forth , and outcasts they became . Wo receive them into our prisons , and there is presented to us tho problem of their moral and spiritual regeneration . Shall wo , too , cast them out ? Shall we say , You ara too bad for us to attempt to amend ; wo can only leave you to God , and commit you thus to tho Groat Unknown JTuturo ? Surely we may do more than this . W « may appeal to the moral consciousness Intent in evory breast , to the sense of God and right , amd responsibility dormant -within . It may bo that wo shall awaken no response , it miiy bo even that we shall make hypocrites , but wo elmfl at least have done what we can .
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] NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . E . M . W . —We have received two letters from Mr E Itf Whitty , in neither of which does he impugn our criticism of his book recently published ; but aatfie first £ afa £ compamed by a threat , in case of our declining to insmtthe second , Mr . Whitty will at once perceive , we suDnogn that it is impossible for us to comply with his reouest B . 31 . P . —Our correspondent ' s second communication ' appear next week . ™
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SATXJBDAY , MAHOH 14 , 1857 .
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, There is nothing so revolutionary , because there 13 no thine , so unnatural and . convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when , all the worldis by thevery lav of its creation in eternal progress . —Ds . Abkocb .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 14, 1857, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2184/page/10/
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