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intolerant , the Plaideurs of Racine * . and the Maladz Imaginaire of Molifcre would never have been written . Bacine would have been killed by Dandin , and Molier <; by Thomas Diafoirus . The idea alone is terrible . Let us also imagine the massacre of the innocents wliieli would have been accomplished "by the Jews , had they called out all the writers who depicted them as misers and usurers . Were this idea of collective susceptibility to be adopted , duels would swell into pitched battles , and the world would soon end from want of combatants . "
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America . —The Litest news from the United States is to the effect that the question respecting the overhauling of American vessels by British cruisers was before the Senate . The accounts from the expedition against the Mormons do not indicate a favourable state of things . Mr . Justice Cor ; ERir > GE took leave of the Grand Jury of Middlesex , yesterday , in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , previous to retiring . Mu . IHckkns proposes , on the 10 th of June , to give a reading entitled "Little Dombey , " which will consist of those passages in Dombey and Xon which relate solely to the life of little Paul ,, and which Mr . Dickens lias arranged for the purpose .
T ? ire at " Waiting . —A great .-fire burst out at " Wapping yesterday morning on the premises of Mr . Ptm-les , depot for coalwhippers' tackle . Several engines ivcre speedily on the spot ; but it was not till some hours had elapsed that the flames were got under . The building was entirely destroyed , and some of the adjoining houses were injured . Accident at a Coxcert . — "A grand choral festival , " says a letter from Baden , " has brought here a considerable number of strangers , ant | t j ie town is completely full . The streets are dressed out with flags , and everything wears an air of fete . On Monday , a griind cortege was formed of the various choral societies , with
banners , and after filing off before the Gr ^ ind Duke , they marched through the streets , And proceeded to a wooden building specially constructed for the occasion . The concert commenced some time after , in the presence of the Grand Duke and a numerous auditory . Just before the end , when the Grand Duke was about to retire , a loud cry was raised . The part of tlie building- neat the passage through which the company were to go out had fallen , and buried about forty persons under the ruins . For a moment the greatest confusion and alarm prevailed , but at length order was restored , and the persons were extricated from their dangerous positions , many of them being seriously bruised . "
A Ma . x Stabf . rd to Death at Worcester . — About half-past nine v . st . on Wednesday , George Turner , & recruit , was killed in the Hope and Anchor Inn , Worcester , lie and Joseph Barnard , the ostler , were in . the kitchen of the inn . Turner attempted to take something from a plate which was before Barnard , when the latter stabbed him in the right chest . Turner fell to the ground , and remained there about two hours , when lie died , lie could not be moved , the surgeons who attended him declaring that to attempt it 'would be fatal , Barnard has been taken into custody .
M . dk Lamartine . —The ' , following noblemen and gentlemen have formed themselves into a committee to receive such subscriptions as the sympathy of this country may oflVr , to relieve M . Lamartine from his present pecuniary embarrassments : —Lord John llussell , M . P . ; Viscount Goderich , M . I * . ' ; Lord Harry Vane , DI .. 1 ' . ; Lord jMontea-ile ; ltight ITon . Sidney Herbert , M . P . ; Uight Hon . Edward Ellice , M . P . ; Sir Robert Peel , Bart , M . I * . ; Sir Edward Bnlwcr Lytton , Bart , M . P . ; II . Dauby Seymour , Esq ., M . P . ; George To-inline , Esq ., M . P . ; A . W . Kinglal < o , Esq ., M . P . ; R . Monckton Milnes , Esq ., M . P . ; Cliarles Dickens , Esq . ; W . M . Tliackeray , Esq . ; Henry Vincent , Esq . ; and A . Ilnywjird , Esq . . Lauxcii of a Poimiaimsrc Couvettk . — A new
steam corvette , built for the Portuguese Government by Messrs . Young , Son , and MaRiiaj' , hns been launched from their yard at Limehousc . The vessel , which lms been built under tins superintendence of Admiral Siutoiius , of the Portuguese , navy , is 205 feet long , H 2 } foot in brondth , 17 feet deep in hold , 1012 tons . Sho is to be propelled by two direct-acting engines of J . ftU-liorsc power . Her armament is to consist of two OS-pounders and four . ' 12-pouiuler . s . At two o ' clock , high tide , the usual ceveinoiiy of naming tlie vessel , which is culled the Sngrcs , was performed by tlie ( . ' ountcsa Lavradio , wife of tho Portuguese ) A ' mbftssiMlor . A slight delay took plnee , but , in a quarter of « n hour , tlie Sagrea glided majestically into the water . After the launch th ..
conipnny wero entertained in the " Mould Loft . " Among tlioBO present wore the Portugue . se Ambaimador , Admiral Snrtoriua , Sir Cliarles Napier , Sir W de I . ntho , Sir J . Mntheson , Colonel Perdval , and K . Muhns , Esq ., M . I" . Sunday Music ix this Paiiks . — -Tlio first performance this season of the Peoplu ' s Subscription I Jam ! will take Vi r ° 2 "J lIlC U < 1 SP « t ' 8 Park , on Sunday next , Mnv 80 th , ! «(>« , from four till six ( wonther permitting ) . To he continued every Sunday until further notico . The IWilo ' s ™» T-T ' t liniUl HlloIlI ( l hQ ^ f-s'Tporting ; and tIk , com mil too trust that all pei-Hou * r . tt . en . ling tho . pe . rfon mncos will purchase profrrim . mex , in evidence of men desire for a continuance of the musi .:.
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policy ; and thus it has " decided " the maintenance of our Indian Empire . It lias restored our finance , altliougli " facing a baud of opponents . " It lias saved tlie peace with i ' rance , which had become' " a question of hours . " It has restored our two countrymen incarcerated by Naples , without breaking the peace of Europe . Ami it has ou hand measures of legal reform , of social reform , and of constitutional improvements ; "
im-1 IE . DISRAELI IN THE SLOUGH ! OF ¦ ; EXULT . Mil . Disraeli ' s glittering diatribe against the Ministers whom he has beaten is one of the most effective speeches that , he lias ever delivered . A brilliant picture tintil we look at the back of it ; a splendid political attack until we examine the merely theatrical character of the attacking army . It-is / stage effect introduced into real life , not perhaps for the first time ,, but with the greatest known excess of unreality . In his own portrait , Mr . Disraeli is a , patriot against whom intriguers are arrayed ; the Government to which he belongs has undertaken , and ia performing as fast as its enomies will permit , all the measures which the country needs . It lias restored a " discriminating amnesty" to displace the " massacre and confiscation" which were Lord Canning ' s
provements which will bo improvements , and not mere changes . " This description of his own Ministry Mr . Dt . sra . 15 lt gives with " diHidence ; " but he appeals to his countrymen to protect the Government against that Cabal which , to keep itself in ottico , was risk in" - a war with France , avouIcI have brought " war in Italy , was entangling our finances , and was maintaining in India a policy of " massacre and confiscation" that would have lost us that . Eastern empire . For thoso infamous objects the Cabal baa used every means of corruption , it lias corrupted the
onco pure and independent press of IGngland . Leading organs now aro " place-hunters of the Cabal , and the onoo stern guardians of popular rights simper in tho enervating atmosphere of gilded saloons . " This Cabal , " tainted character , " " chooses its instruments with Pharisaical accuracy , " — in tlie Commons a man " of unimpeachable character , " in tho other House of Parliament " a still greater reputation" who " condescends to appear upon tho human stage . " Tho objoct of tho Cabal is to "loot tho Treasury * ; " and to . 'itlain that object , moving by moiuis of thoao two Pharisees in tho two Houses of Parliament , it propones « i- vote of censure on that patriotic Ministry which has done- so much , and threatens to do so much inoro ! There is something torrilic in tho forced eloquence ) with which this speech ia uttered
it is damaging , personally and politically , to all whom it touches — lord Palmebstost , Lord Shjo'tesbtjb . t , Mr . Cabdwell , Lord Canning-, all are crushed . In his own painting , Mr . Disraeli appears like the picture of a Saint who by his magic spells is discomfiting the Devil in every variety of shape . The speech looks powerful , until we ask whether it is true ? It falls to pieces as soon as we remember that it is simply falsehood ; even the truth of it is false , by its context .
How is it that " leading organs" are thus bent upon pulling down the national Government—how is it that the Pharisees make themselves the tool of a majority , in , ' the House of Commons ? The reason is , that the country is not with Mjr . Diseaeli's Government ; and it is not with him , because he is not tlie statesman that has proposed
"legal reforms" or " social reforms , " or " constitutional improvements . " He never proposed anything worth attending to in the shape of a measure . He has never desired Parliamentary reform . He has always opposed it 5 he may wish for some little change of the county franchise , in order to neutralize the old Reform Bill—not to extend it . His
party desires to enfeeble the power of the people , to abridge their rights . And the other pretexts are as false as these . Lord Casking ' s policy , questionable as it was , was not one of " massacre and confiscation ; " it is an exaggeration ludicrous in its turgidity . Mr . Disraeli ' s finance was not passed by " acclamation , " but was suffered to pass because it was upon the whole not very objectionable , . ' and in no way remarkable . He may have profited a little in
regard to Naples by the lesson read to Lord Clarejtdox ; but Lord Malmesburx is not out of that wood yet , and he is shrewdly suspected of paltering with his duty . And as to peace with France being " a question of hours , " it is an absurdity which may be pardoned in . a country editor after dinner ,, "but either disgraces the lips of the statesman , or proves that theutterer is no statesman . JNTo ; Mr . Disraeli is nothing more than a shocking humbug .
Be it so ; but what then becomes of that Liberal" party , and its leaders , wlio have so managed their own House of Commons that they have handed over the Government of this country , for three months already completed , and for some months more not yet numbered , to the supreme administration of the best-known humbug in Europe ?
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THE LAST ROYAL MAURI AGE . Lisbon has been illuminated , and is full of gaiety . On Thursday this week Doau Pedro was invested with the order of the Garlet- in ij-rand form , and on the Tuesday began a scries ot festivities , partly designed to celebrate the arrival of an illustrious lady in the Portuguese capital . That lady , tho Princess Stephanie of HoLienzollcrn , had already been going the round of attentions iu Berlin , her native place , and in England , whevo she had been stopping for a -week or so as a visitor . The lady herself had arrived in Lisbon a lew days before this holiday outburst ; but the event seenisto have passed , comparatively , without , attention . At all events , the King was too much occupied ul the moment to go on board Cor tho purpose of receiving his illustrious jrucst—who , by-the-by , was bis bride . As soon as business permitted , the youthful Monarch hastened to give the lady a courteous reception . ll _ e conducted her in his own carriage to the church , where the ceremony which constituted her Queen of . 1 , ' ort . ugal was repented , for t he King lunl already been married by proxy at . Berlin . It was observed that his behaviour ' to 'Mho distinguished arrival , " as Mr . Disraeli would caliber , was marked by dilVulencc , and his eyes , were downcast ; nevertheless he , kept \ ip an animated conversation , and altogether fiiilllleil the duties of courtly hospitality with considerable assiduity and precision . So far as thu public can perceive it , Ilu : tlcmctmoui' of the young married uouplo inverts tho
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No . 427 , May 29 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER , 515
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . W . Gr . N . — We have not lost sight of tho subject of yo ur communication , and . \ vo shall return to it ill due season . Rotal Academy . —Our third notice of this Exhibit io a in our next . No notice can bo taken of anonymous correspondence . What everisintonded for insortion . mustbeauthe > ntioated by tlie name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for imblication . tmt as a guarantee of his go . odf&ith . Wo cannot undertake to returnrejectedcommunications .
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. ¦ __ . « . . . Chere is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as tiie strain to keepthingsnxed-whenallthe -world ia by thevery law of itscreationineternal progress . —Db . A . bkoi , d .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2244/page/11/
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