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      Iiousk Of Commons. I'Jtcrhia. Iii Answer...

      tary hospital at Woolwich , which had recently received the approbation of Aliss ^ Nightingale . WAYS ASV BDEANS . Orl the motion of the Chanceljlor of the Excheqtjee , in committee of "ways and means , a -vote of l , 300 , O 00 £ out of the Consolidated Fund , to cover the supplies voted this session , was agreed to . The Mutiny Bill , and the Marine Mutiny Bill , were severally "brought on , and read a first time . The House adjourned at a quarter to six .

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      China (By Electric Telegraph.) Paris, Fr...

      CHINA ( By Electric Telegraph . ) Paris , Friday night . It is officially stated that no French troops will be sent to China , beyond the vessels which have already sailed . The Patrie states that accounts from the frontiers of China received at St . Petersburg , and published by the Journal de I'Academie , announce that the Government of Pekin is in a state of dissolution ; that the Emperor has no cash , and ia forced to 3 ssue iron coin ; that all moneyed men had left the city , and that the Chinese and M ahtchons are in open hostility .

      Persia And India. Nerimon Khan And Mirza...

      PERSIA AND INDIA . Nerimon Khan and Mirza Eliol Klian , the 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 sailed 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 make Kandahar his principal residence .

      The Danttbian Principalities. {By Electr...

      THE DANTTBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . { By Electric Telegraph . ) Bucharest , March 9 . The Firman convoking the Divans has arrived .

      The Goyeenment And The War In" China. Me...

      THE GOYEENMENT 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 tlie House of Commons , relative to the affairs at Canton , and to express its high confidence in her Majesty ' s Government . " A resolution to this efifect was adopted by a large majority . An . amendment with a contrary tendency , moved by Mr . Morloy , -was rejected . The proceedings passed off quietly . Lord Palmerston and her Majesty ' s Ministers Lave 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 . .

      America. According To Tho Latest Advices...

      AMERICA . According to tho latest advices from the United States , members of Congress inculpated by tlie 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 says nothing of Tehuau tepee , or of Sonoxa , or Lower California . Tho Mexican Government desires immediate action . According to tho Tribune , tho majority of tho Cabinet has signified a strong feeling against entertaining the now Mexican Treaty , and there ¦ was no present probability tliat it would be submitted to tho Senate at all . The President has signed tho Submarine Telegraph Bill .

      The Elections. Dubmk County.—It Is Belie...

      THE ELECTIONS . Dubmk County . —It is believed that two Liberals w » u contest this county—Sir Charles Domvilo and Mr . « _ lieilly Dearo . Tho state , of tho registry gives good gr ound for anticipating that Mr . Hamilton and Colonel A aylor will bo ejected . LrvEnrooi ,, Friday Morning . —Tlio alliance between Mr . Horflfall and Mr . Turner i 8 g 0 decided that tho Liberals now think of starting another candidate , in conjunction with Mr . Ewart . —Globa .

      Tina Chinese Ani> Pkiuhan Wars.—Oil Mond...

      Tina Chinese ani > Pkiuhan Wars . —Oil Monday ETW ^ V Cth ) a l > ecullM » y interoBtintf meeting Tyill Sa Chin Fre ? " \ » 8 ' IM 1 > to connidor tl . e policy of b eakers W « wl nro announced among tho Ckt otau PAr . Acic — Return of admissions for six diiy * ending tfri . lny , March VMU , 1957 , including eoaaon ticket hoUWs , 8 d !) l . b

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      ¦ ¦ ¦ ? rjH THIS DEPARTMENT , AS ALL OPINIONS , irOWBVEB EXIKEHJB , ARE AU / OWKD AN EXPuasSIOlT , THE EDIIOK NECESSARILY UOLBS-H 1 MSELP XESrONSIBlE FOB NONE . ]

      There Is No Learned Man But -Will Confes...

      There is no learned man but -will confess he hath raucfci profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and Ms judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least . be tolerable for his adversary to write ?—Milton-

      Convict-Converts. (7b The Editor Of The ...

      CONVICT-CONVERTS . ( 7 b the Editor of the Leader . ") Sik , —3 read with much interest in your paper of the 7 th last ., a letter on " Convict-Converts , " signed " W . H . W . " There is a great deal of painfal truth in it , and . the monstrous incongruities which the writer well describes , cfo 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 he recommends , lose sight of a great truth , and involve the treatment of criminals in public and private in difficulty and almost hopelessness . Novr , there is the 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 no amount of wrong ought to exclude us from the forgiveness of those 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 which 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 under 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 such an exhibition of Divine love ? This , as the Rev . F . D . Maurice observes in one of his theological essays , was the secret of Whitfield ' s success : he preached an infinite love , as well as an infinite sin , and the heart of the Kings-wood collier responded to his message . I know the diffieulties 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 lieart ; that a man cannot be juggled fromaliend into a . Saint ; that the reading of the Bible and the repeating of hj-mns are valueless as mere outward acts . ^ Tho remarks of " W . IL W . " as to the difficulties of our " heavenward" course are truethe subjection of a rebellious will to conscience , God , and right is a hard and life-long struggle ; but after the discipline of life has failed , then , even the *? , 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 develoj ) remedial resources . There is that in every human being which , 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 is the spiritual treatment of our criminals to be ? A man ' s guilt morally considered , I suppose , is in proportion to liis conscious violation of right . Tho whole moral condition may bo low , but conscience is disturbed only by conscious wrong . Now what ia the ense with tho men whom your correspondent describes ? All evil influences have been at work upon them from infancy . Born in nn atmosphere of pollution ,

      trained in scenes of unmentionablo vice , where were they to iind the power to resist temptation ? Society cast thorn lbrth , and outcasts they became . We receive them into our prisons , and there is presented to us tho problem of their moral and spiritual l-cgelicrution . Shall rrc , too , cast them out ? Shall we say , You arc too bail for us to attempt to amend j we can only leave you to God , and commit you thus to tho Groat Unknown Future ? Purely we may do nioro than this . We may aippeal to the moral consciousness latent in every breast , to tho sonso of God ami right , and responsibility dormant within . It may bo that wo shall awaken no response , it may ho even that we Khali make hypocrite * , but -wo shall at least have- done what wo can .

      The subject is one of extreme and painful interest of immediate bearing on a large class , and indirectlv affecting the treatment of sin generally . I shall f > l glad if you think these remarks worth Inserting in your paper . I am anxious to see the subject fullv discussed . Yours respectfully ' ' ___ c / n .

      Notices To Correspojrdents. ~~ E.M. #"W....

      NOTICES TO CORRESPOJrDENTS . ~~ E . M . "W . — "We have received two letters from Mr E \ r Whitty , in neither of which does he impugn our c ' ritirfcm of his book recently published 5 but as tfie firat wH f ? companied by a threat , in . case of our declining to iuserfc the second , Sir . Whitty will at once perceive , we suppos ? that it is impossible for us to comply with his request B . R . P . —Our correspondent ' s second communication will appear next week . u mu

      It Is Impossible To Acknowledge The Mass...

      It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters ' w ™> ceive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and -when omitted , it is frequently fromrea sons quite independent of the merits of the cominunica-VTo cannot undertake to return rejected communications Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space tor them . During the Session of Parliament it is often impossible to find room for correspondence , even the briefest .

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      Saturday, Maeoh 14, 1857.

      SATURDAY , MAEOH 14 , 1857 .

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      ¦ ¦¦ . ¦ - ? ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . There Is Nothin...

      ¦ ¦¦ . ¦ - ? ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . There is nothing so revolutionary , because there ia n . othine , so urqaatural and convulsive , as the strain to "keep things fixed wiien . all the world is hj thievery lav of its creation in eternal progress . —DjuAkkoii .

      W ¦ ¦ The General Election. " The Appeal...

      W ¦ ¦ THE GENERAL ELECTION . " The Appeal to the Country" is one of Lord PaIiMeestcxn ' s jokea , and tee most effective of them all ; and the Parliament , born of a practical joke , will l ) e an organised hoax—if the country is simple enough to be the victim of the jest . The fun of the thing lies in the attempt to get anew 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 people to the extent of a penny a head ; Tvhile the English people are to undergo a . huge bustle , a disastrous interruption to business , and to forget every object that really does 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 .

      The merits of the China question have ceased to be in dispute . For our own part , we have expressed our approval of Sir John Bowrijstg- and our agreement with Lord Palmerston in the policy to bo 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 scruple to attempt an attack on the Government . Tho Opposition made the question a party stalking-horse ; but did all the Liberals do so who doubt

      voted with Mr . Cobden ? Pew can that Mr . Cobden himself was sincere At Lord Palmers ton ' s own meeting , Mr . Lindsay especially questioned the Premier to discover whether or not there was not some point on which ho would admit a question ot Sir John- Bowiung ' s conduct—some detail on which he would open tho door of reconcilement with his political friends ? Lord Palmisrston would not yield an inch . W » ° waa it , then , that rnndo a difficulty , iind prevented a closing of the breach ? Lord Goni :-

      111011 averred al ; the meeting that ho did not differ from Lord PatvmeusxON save <> u that point ; yet Lord Palmf / iistcn's nearest friends , who could not net without ; hi * function , have represented the Liberal opponents

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 14, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14031857/page/10/