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      THE REFORM MOVEMENT . ( To the Editor of the Leader . " ) Sib , — In a recent article upon our future Reform Bill , you say , "It is not for the Liberal party to receive the dictations of any Cabinet . " Insist upon this , and we believe the country will quickly endorse the sentiment , if only a full and impartial measure is propounded . The people ' s bill will be no bill without electoral districts ; and no bill short of an entire people ' s bill is worth another serious agitation ; let us have no instalment , whether Russellite or Palmerstonian . Advanced Liberalism is more with the non-electoral than the electoral body . Let a London or a Birmingham committee determine upon such a provision in its programme , appeal to the non-electors for supportand it must follow .

      , There is nothing that can be reasonably urged against such a division as shall give the vote to every man who has a 10 / ., or any other qualification that may be fixed upon , without reference to place or interest . No proposal would be so likely to gain increasing and permanent support , because no proposal is at once so just , generous , and disinterested ; and once the law , it settles for ever the people as leaders instead of the led . A VOTEB .

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      A WORKING MAN ON THE CURRENCY . ( To the Editor of the Leader ., ) December 27 , 1857 . Sib , —The Leader has evenstood forward ~ as the defender of the peoples , and of political , civil , and religious liberty . Its advocacy has ever been steady and moderate , which has emboldened me to trouble you with a word on the ' question of questions . ' We know how to produce wealth when we have the means ; and when those are taken from us we become helpless . The distribution is not so easily known ; but the simpler the law for the regulation of wealth the better it will be understood . ' This vexed question has to be solved by theorists and practical men of all shades of opinion . ' It is

      certain that , when gold is plentiful , trade is good , and workmen can find employment . On the other hand , when gold is scarce , trade is bad , and work not to be obtained . If the Act of 1844 be continued , the Government should guarantee a sufficiency of gold to carry on trade regularly . In the event of the run on the Bank of England having continued until the ¦ wh ole of the money had been abstracted , all trade would have been suspended , and we should have been reduced to an inconvertible currency . Whilst the Act of 1844 could not ensure the convertibility of one of the 14 million notes issued by law , I believe the country banks have the privilege of issuing 8 millions which have no representative in gold , making 22 million pounds of inconvertible notes .

      Dr . Davenantin ( 1698 ) says : " We had upwards of 14 , 000 , 000 / . in tallies , lottery tickets , bank stock , malt tickets , and securities of the like nature , that went from hand to hand . " Here , then , we have got the very sura fixed by Parliament , ' being the lowest sum possible to carry on trade with , ' which was in circulation above a century and a half ago . With our extended commerce , shipping , railroads , manufactures , population , and trade in general , no wonder that so many are on the point of starvation . It is something after the fashion of endeavouring to put a hen into its embryo shell . What we want is an extended currency , based on some secure foundation—say the Crown . If goldlovers will not give up their crotchet , let it remain as an indicator for gold , imported and exported . But let us , in the namo of humanity , have an extended internnl currency . Yours truly , 25 , Windeor-strcot , Liverpool . A . Robinson .

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      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . It is impassible to acknowledge tbe mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it ie frequently from reasons quiteindependent of the merits of the communica tion . Several communications unavoidably stand over . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence "WTiateveris intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as apuarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keepthings fixed when all the world isbythevery law of its ereationm eternal progress . —Sb ^ ekolp

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      THE STORY OF 1857 . The past year was memorable—and history will say it was rendered memorable by its disasters and its crimes . There hare been two splendid illustrations of patriotic virtue—heroism in the East , charity at home ; but both , had their origin in calamity . Deduct the tragedy , and what remains , historically , of 1857 ? Bloodshed in India , China , Persia : murder , suicide , fraud , signalizing

      our domestic annals ; the poor grievously in want at Christmas . Omit these points —the Chinese and Persian wars , the menacing diplomacy of America , the Sepoy rebellion , the grotesque antics of despotism on the Continent , the Bornean massacre , the mysteries of wickedness disclosed by the apocalypse of accident , the commercial crisis and working-class distress—and the calendar now ended would deserve little distinction in the

      did the work of legions , and no marble or gilded monument of princes will outlive their fame . Almost throughout Asia , indeed , there has been a" struggle between Oriental ferocity and "Western courage . In Persia , the conntry of cavalry , a few British regiments broke up the hosts of the Great "King ; in China , though still linked by commerce with England along a large range of coast , a conflict is approaching at one of the chief cities of the empire ; Singapore narrowly escaped , a Chinese revolt ; in Borneo , English civilization was only saved by the riotous impetuosity of its enemies . There has been a general attack—but it has been generally defeated . The title-deeds of our Asiatic dominions have

      been proved valid ; but what if the inheritance be wasted ? Is our grasp of India to be merely muscular , or intellectual and beneficent ? The year broug ht with it marvellous events , and has initiated ' remarkable agitations . The East India Company has been summoned to show cause why it should not cease to exist , but it would be rash to predict that 1858 will witness the close of its career . The Bank Charter Act , around which stand mountains of shivered lances , is in no great danger

      of innovation . The old Reform Bill is only waiting for judgment and execution . Three main lines of legislation branch off from the first of this new January ; and much of the responsibility belongs to 1857 . " We have had a dissolution of Parliament , a general election , three legislative sessions , and a Divorce Bill ; France has had a general election after her kind ; Spain several intermittent spasms , and a new scandal in the shape of a Royal Prince ; Switzerland a negotiation with Prussia ; the North a quarrel with Germany ; and Italy several of those convulsive attacks

      which , slight in themselves , seem to prove how incurable is her disease . Russia keeps heavily and Blowly upon her ancient career , the Emperor arraying the serf population in his favour ; Turkey rots ; Greece is forgotten , and Berlin marshals a phalanx of maidens in white garments to welcome our Princess Royal . We shall , this month , jostle illustrious personages at every step at the West-End ; but we have had visitors of that degreealready—a French Emperor and Russian Grand Duke at Osborne , and a French Prince everywhere , except in London .

      Two Dukes , a Marquis , ten Earls , three Viscounts , two Bishops , and five Barons have become ' coffined clay' since last December . Thirty-one Baronets also have died , and twenty-three Knights . The poor lament the kind Duchess of Glouoksxjsb ; diplomacy piles mortuary scandal over the memory of the Princess Lieven ; Baron ANDERSON is regretted by the law ; Neill , Nicholson , Wujeelku , Henry Lawkknge , Nokman Leslie , and Pabkeb , are mournfully remembered by their brothers-in-arms ; literature has lost Jekuold , Alfkejj be Musset , Bekanoeh , and . Eugene Sue ; patriotism recals the names of Manin and Javaiqnao . From the House of Commons

      nine members have disappeared . We havo welcomed homo Livingstone from Africa , Atkinson from Siberia , Bjuooke from Sarawak . America has saluted a new President ; Portugal has blessed the benevolence of her youthful King ; and tho House of Poors has exchanged-coui't ( jBies ^ vith-Barpu . MAOAWJ < AXr v-A wistful woman has made a last effort for Fbanklin , and who knows upon what her voyngera were gnzing on Now Year ' s Day P We havo taken lessons tlint should modorato our sanguine expectations ; the inertia of tho Leviathan is not yot conquered ; the broken Atlantic cable is coiled up on shore . Spuiicieon fails to draw funds for his monster tabernacle , and Hanna works no

      chronicles of the world . The new reputations that have sprung up belong exclusively to India ; soldiers and administrators have emblazoned their names , but among ourselves not a fresh sign of political-or literary promise has appeared . We have great men , and flatter or neglect them according to the fashion of the day , but they have not multiplied during the year 1857 . The time has been one of anguish and trial . Suddenly , in the east of the world , where our dominion seemed most

      secure , where English ladies sank into Oriental ennui , where English children played among white cupolas and tufted palma , the Genius of Murder possessed a hundred thousand armed men , and , for a season , half the empire was . desolate . Swarjns of savages , commanded by spectral Holagous , seized upon young girls and infants , and with wanton fury la c erated , outraged , humiliated , and slew them , so that the marble steps that beautify the banks of the Ganges were literally red nnd bright with Christian blood . This great curse fell upon our

      nation suddenly . The writing on the wall had been long visible ; but we had silenced the prophets of evil , and were only convinced of our danger when hundreds of EnglislvTvTSlnWTayTc ^ shambles . For a moment we gazed idly nt tho lurid flashes of tho storm , and the clouds that blackened about our heads ; but then came the rev elation of British valour , and , overy man doing his utmost , ' a most glorious rush to tho rescue was made by Boldiors and civilians of all classes in tho East . An army was sent from our shores ; but while forty thousand men tossed on tho sea , battalions

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      There is no learned man but ¦ will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , betolerable for hisadveraary to write 7—Muiojr .

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      Death op a Maniac . —An inquest has been hold at Bethlehem Hospital on tho body of Mr . Hugh ' Pollard -WUloughby ,-agQd . fiftyc 8 i ^ a . gentfcTO tho family of Sir II . P . Willoughby . Ho was removed to tho asylum under peculiar circumstances . In tho year 1864 , in tl » o course of a trial at the Old Bailey , ho persisted in interrupting Mr . Giflfurd , who was addressing the Court ? and ho was ordered into custody , but ultimately liberated . Afterwards , ho attempted to shoot Mr . Gifiard ; and for this he was tried and acquitted on tho ground of insanity . Tho jury returned a verdict of Natural Death .

      Tim Laboto Mariuit m Austiialia . —Tho last n'dvtces from Victoria state that tho plethora of labour is fast disappearing from Melbourne .

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      SATURDAY , JANUABT 2 , 1858

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      , THE Ii BABES . ( "No . 406 , jAsnorAKg 3 , 1868 ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 2, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2224/page/10/