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      Miscellaneous. A-Musemkntb Of San F« An ...

      Departure of a Body of Metropolitan Police to the Sea . t of War . —A number of police-officers belonging to the metropolitan districts , specially appointed fur active duty at -the seat of -war , took their departure on Monday evening last from London , en route for Southampton , and then , for Constantinople , and finally to settle at Varna , or any other place where their services might be more required . The corps consisted of about 20 of the finest men in the force , wi . 0 , it is understood , volunteered to go uyon foreign service . A very affecting scene took place at the Waterlooroad terminus ; for as the train in which the men ¦ we re was moving out , a number of friends and young ¦ women , some of whom had been keeping company with the officers when on duty in London , and who little anticipated

      that they would have to leave the metropolis , commenced sobbing violently . It is understood that another and far larger Dody of men aie to follow those already sent off in the course of a few weeks . —Morning Advertiser . The Mormojht . es . —The last advices from the desert give very favourable accounts of the " colony which has planted itself on the shores of Lake Utah , in order to found the New Sion . Governor Young lias established relations with the Indians , and has bound the Saints to live in good understanding with the savages . The JDeseret News publishes some letters written by a Saint to her sister in New Hampshire . 4 ' I am happy , very happy , " she writes , " and I live agreeably to the will of the Lord . My liusband has six other wives , whom , he loves equally , and whom I esteem as sisters . Our children , united , are 24 in number . Peace

      is an the house . These letters must most likely be dictated by fanaticism , or extorted by force . —New York Herald . A . Long Impmsos ^ uent . —On Thursday last George Eisby , who was tried at the Lent Assizes , at Chelmsford , on the 9 ti . of March , 1835 , for the wilful murder of John SgOqner , at West Bergbolt , was discharged from Springfield Gaol , her Majesty ' s pardon haviug been received by Mr . Neale , the governor . JjUsby was committed on the 7 th of August , 1834 , and at the following assizes was tried , and acquitted on the ground of msanity , T > ut ordered Cf to be kept in strict custody -until his Majesty ' s pleasure be known . Thus , after a lapse of twenty years , a few days only excepted , he-has regained his liberty . His case and good conduct in prison having been represented to the Secretary of State , the authorities were induced to recommend his release . —Essex Standard . . ¦' . ¦¦ ¦

      754 The Leader. [Saturday,

      754 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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      Saturday, August 12. The Chief Business ...

      Saturday , August 12 . The chief business of the House of Commons , in its meeting yesterday , was to order the new writs for Canterbury , Cambridge , Barnstable , Maldon . and Hull . Mr . Thomas Buncombe offered some opposition , dividing the House on each writ , on the ground that as the Bribery Bill would , not prevent bribery , these writs for these corrupt places ought not to issue until the ballot was adopted ; Mr . Dunconibe taking for granted that sonic day the ballot witlhe adopted . Mr . Hume was more moderate ; he asked Lord John Russell whether , if this Bribery Bill should prove a failure in these cases , he ( Lord John Riiasell ) would at last consent to the ballot . Lord John distinctly declined to mtike such a pledge .

      BUSINESS FOR NEXT SESSION " . As usual , several members drew bills on next session . Mr . Thomas Chambers , irrepressible Protestant , gave notice of a motion on Convents and Nunneries . Mr , Hume , -with no thought of retirement , gave notice that nuxt session ho -would move that salaries in Government offices be paid quarterly where they are now paid half-yearly .

      CUBA THE SLAVE TRADE . In the House of Lords th « Earl of Ci-akendox , in laying on the table certain papers relating to the Starve Trade , took the opportunity of stating that during the government of tlie late captain -general of Cul > a , tho most stringent measures had been adopted to put down the slave trade in that country ; and he had every reason to believe that under the government of tho newly-appointed captain-general—Concha—tho sumo course would bo pursued , as it ¦ was the decided policy and wish of General Espartero .. He also wished to disabuse tho public mind in the United States of a notion which prevailed there , that this country was ready to enter into * conventions , for the purpose of making Cuba an African republic . He wished to give such a report the strongest contradiction .

      NEW ZEALAND COMPANY " . Xord Monthaolu presented npetition from Auckland , Now Zealand , praying for redress against the clause in tho act granting a constitution to tho Colony which imposed tho payment of a sum of 268 , 000 / , out of the proceeds of tho Crown Lands , to the JNew Zealand Company . The Dulcs of NiawcAS'i'Lia said ho was always opposed to that arrangement , and that the mutter wa . 8 under the consideration of tho Government , with a view to its correction .

      POSTAOM TO FRAN 013 . Ira answer to a . question , Viaoount Canning stated that negotiations wore in progress for tho reduction of tho rate of postage on letters between England and tfrnnce-, and Sardinia , to 0 < l , and tlmt tnq rates on newspapers to Sardinia would bo im ~ mediately reduced . The Uoubo than adjourned at a quarter past six .

      To Correspondents. Ca,U " M. A., Temple,...

      TO CORRESPONDENTS . Ca , u " M . A ., Temple , " expect us to publish such a letter iraless we kue-w his real name and address P It is impossible -to acknowledge the mass of letters wo receive . Their Insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; an . d when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of tbo merits of frho communication . No notice can bo taken of anonymous communications . Whatever is intended for insertion must bo authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . A . 11 letters for the Editor should foe addressed to 7 , Wellington-street , Strand , London . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .

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      Sattibday, August 12, 1854,

      SATTIBDAY , AUGUST 12 , 1854 ,

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      Fhere Is Notimg So Revolutionary, Becaus...

      Fhere is notimg so revolutionary , because there ts nothing so unnatural aad convulsive , aa the strain to keep thingsfixed "when all the world is by the very : law of its creation in eternal progress . —D £ . Arnold .

      The 3stew Elections. The Writs For The "...

      THE 3 STEW ELECTIONS . The writs for the " suspended boroughs " were last night moved for , ordered , and , by next "week , will be issued . These elections will take place tmder the new Bribery Bill ; and , whatever the defects of that measure the discussions , upon it , in both , Houses , will have at least so far raised the morale of electioneers that we may expect , under the combined influence of fear of exposiore , desire for economy , and craving for purityj , that the contests will be somewhat exceptionally honourable .

      In these circumstances the elections , even upon the limited franchise , will t ) e regarded as presenting genuine indications of public opinion in some of our most important boroughs . The elections will take place at a critical period : at the close of a session in . which our " public life" has been an anarchy ; at the commencement of ( if we are really commencing ) a great war , tlie ultimate objects of which are dubious ; and at the formation of alliances , the conditions of which are

      equivocal—perhaps degrading and disgraceful . It is , then , of importance that the Liberal party should be prepared . "We do not mean that the Reform Club Committee should sit daily ; that the Reform Association should hunt for candidates ; that the Ballot Society should endeavour to write an address ; or that Mr . Cop pock should

      haye interviews with . Mr . llayfcer and Ins private bankers . _ Wo simply mean that the Liberal , or Radical , electors in the different boroughs should consult with one anothor as to what they consider to bo the national interest and the Government ' s duty in respect to this war . "Wo have failed to get ; a programme either from a Liberal Government or the Liberal Government ' s Radical

      supporters : let us at least insist on pledges from Liberal candidates . Tho best sort of " public meeting " ia that which collects round a hustings ;— " resolutions" then are very real and practical things . Some bold words , honourably guaranteed , and coming from aowly-elocLotl members , would just now i ' uniiah tho Cabinet with

      that steadying guidance which they necessarily require in entering on tho Recess . Let uh hope ,- therefore , that thoao boroughs will Hponk nationally—at least intelligibly . When wo are intent on Bussia , do not lot ; us have candidates exclusively insisting that they will not vote against " progressive Reform , " " local solf-government , " or tlio u Ballot Society . " These pledges , too ; Imt , iu tho first

      place , —what sort of treaty with Russia , and what sort of alliance with Austria they will vote for . Tet as Parliament is done away with for six months , by an arrangement which seems not to astonish a people who believe that they are governed I t y representative institutions , —why new elections at all ? The treaty may be signed , and the alliance contemplated , ere our possible statesmen have taken their seats in that Senate which onl y comes in with green peas and other luxuries of the spring season .

      Results Op The Session. "We Have Had A V...

      RESULTS OP THE SESSION . "We have had a very long session . About 60 , 000 , 000 ? . of taxes have been voted ; no information has been given about the war ; and the Oxford University Beform Bill has been passed ;—these are the main facts of the very long session . The war excused no-legislation ; and " consideration for the public service , " in reference to the war , excused the no-information . The war required the voting of extra taxes ; and the fact that extra taxes were being voted explains the consistent

      indifference of the House to economy in the ordinary estimates . The excusefor everything has been that this great war was fully approved of by this great people , who were engrossed in it ; which fully accounts for the earnest reluctance of the aristocracy to pass any bill to improve the representation of the people in the House of Commons . Certainly the people are quite content with this eventless session . And undoubtedly the Government—which has been , unable to do

      anything except get ; taxes arid refuse information , and which has been beaten about twice a week by an Opposition without either principle or organisation , and by Radicals who were its most hearty and anxious supporters—and which closes the session , collectively degraded , and . in several instances individually disgraced—remains one of the strongest " Governments that have ever ruled in England . It is difficult to account for this anomalous state of public opinion ; but it is i * emarliq , ble that the public is quite indifferent to the anomaly and does not seek to have it accounted for .

      A strong Government always getting beaten ; that is the position which puzzles all through the Session ; and . which has provoked insane hopes in an Opposition ludicrously weak and yet generally victorious . Tho position , however , is not stated , thus with perfect accuracy . It will bo observed , that the Government has been omnipotent in obtaining taxes , withholding information , and coalescing with useful bun horrible despotisms in defence of civilisution ; and that the Govorament has only beeix weak , flabby , foolish , and snubbed , when it entered the field of abstract politics , touched Reforms , or attempted Progress—or what it believed

      to be Progress . The absurd misfortunes oi : tho administration may , therefore , be traced to its own misconception of its duties and its rights . The Coalition was not formed because of a pressure in tho country upon parties to carry specialities or conquer Reforms . Tho Coalition was formed at a moment of profound quiet ( for there was never any roul lenr for Free-trade—the Budget on which Mr . Disraeli went down was a Cob den—Budget)—at a moment when tho Whigs had no Kmlicnl cry to stand alone on—when tho Poelitos woro straggling nbout as useful administrators who could find nothing to advocate , — whon . the Tories had broken down biHMiuso

      they were too ingeniously attempting , at , a favourable moment of universal content , to plettso all interests too much . In a word tho Coalition was formed for the Duko ' s reasons , and for none otliors—viz ., to carry on tlw >

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 12, 1854, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12081854/page/10/