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    Tjea.Ce With Russia, And War With Americ...

    as if be were the lowest of creatures , because he cannot keep a Pacha in order ; and we are at fault with a contractor ! The discussion called forth some of the Conservative members , who rather affected to take the part of the contractors , thinking that Ministers exaggerated . Thus challenged , tfie officials came out toth stronger details ; and we haVe evidently anotfcer case for inquiry . Properly Seated , this fraud in ? i « , ™ o ™ < w ,, rft of cannon otfght to go before the

    be able to know bow much land has been laid out in Comm « other produce ; we shall then learn from the character of fche ' census more nearly , the amount that we are likely to obtain at home ; when the harvest is reaped , be it good or bad , we shall know ftore distinctly which is the ca # ; if it is really feiiOTti the farmer Mil obtain his ^ ust pfcice ; if it is deficient , he will nave his profits out of the quanttty , wnu * e the consumer will not be deeded ; and the only persons who will We any grounds of will be tn ^

    it be told how he enriched his country ' s literature , but Transivit benefaciendo will be the truest epitaph . Tfie Sunday League-has held a great meeting in St . Martin * s-nall , and has really debated the Sabbath question ^ T-he object of the League is to rescue the Seventh day from any sectarian dictation wnats ' oever ^ The debate was rational , and the Sabbatn observance view was well supported 5 but ft wastfegativedbyan overwhelming majority ; _ it . i ^ . 1 1 ^ — .-. ^ -. U . u . o , in j-Viq nmicp t \ f flnmmnn s * wVi rv i Tf &

    Adulteration Committee how Sifting ; for it is only the same sin in another form . The Borough and County Police Bill was one ot the occasions for a grand parade . Members had to do duty for their constituents . In some cases there is a panic because the police force will , perhaps , be raised to the proportion of something under one in a thousand of inhabitants , and because the Secretary of State proposed to have a sup erintending power over the stature , pay , and equipment of the men . We see it called " army , " and one provincial joitrrial , from whom we might have expected candour , if not amenity , levels at us charges of corruption and" ignorance " ¦»__ ¦ ___ ,: ^ lAWnt-a s » ii » nJcMvurns Rrtsy ' s Bill . tuiuouv i ^« w-

    complaint ose agents wno now gwu ^ the pretence of dearth when there is no dearth , an < l who are so often deceived themselves in the attempt to deceive the public . Even the Derbyite party is converted to agricultural statistics ; though we should not wonder if some ingenious persons can find out , here again , an interference with local self-government . ^ I Local self-government ! It will be claimed next for the convict stations of Dartmoor and Woolwich I The Ticket-of-leave interest has already made its appearance on the political arena , in public meeting assembled , Mr . Henry Mayhew in the chair . It was an exceedingly creditable movement , and some important facts were brought

    HD . U . fclUJSC IUCIAHJCJ . O XLl . U * AV » . » --vm . o ^ * - " " — v" . " - "MM * w support Sir Jos & ua . WalmsLE y were cheered for their manliness in standing forward where hypocrisy is so common and so safe . It is not at all to be understood that if the seventh day were freed from sectarian dictation , it would necessarily be given up entirely to temporal pursuits . " We believe that the tendency would be the very reverse . Preachers who > aim at conscience would cease to rely on statute law , would throw a little more earnestness and true religion into their appeals , and they would draw the people to chufch better than they can drive them now . The absurdity of protection , the vitality of freedom , are perhaps not to be Ulus-1 trated in commerce alone - i ^ viij

    UCVc & llSt ? VVC »_** , The single proof of ignorance is taken from our remark * that the borough folks probably dislike the proposal to deprive the policemen of their votes . The police , says the provincial writer * are few in number , and their votes cannot be of importance . Yes they can , in a contested election , and the very proposal is to multiply the police . For our own part , the thing which we dislike most of all in public business is inefficiency . If we are to have a police let it at least be efficient for its professed purgbse . An inefficient constabulary is

    contemptout . Mr . Maybew showed that the number of relapses amongst the ticket-of-leave men , about which so much has been said , are inconsiderable in proportion to * he relapses amongst the other classes of the criminal population . He also showed how difficult it is for a released convict to obtain an honest livelihood . If he has a chance , the police dog his steps , warn his employer ; and out of sheer exhaustion of other methods , he is driven back to a trade which is more productive than the regular calling . Amongst the speakers at this meeting was iit ! iuuutcm / ui « i ^**

    \ At the annual meeting 01 xne xvuya- « , » Fund Corporation on Wednesday , the war of last year was resumed . The "' row , " that classical Caledonian , Lord Chief Justice Campbeia ,, would say , began with a vigorous assault by Mr . Dilkk . Mi . Dickens supported the assault with a slashing onslaught upon that worship of titles which is the social religion of middle-class lingland , which is for ever foisting a spurious pa-I tronage upon independent efforts of self-help , and converting many a charitable institution ^ into a paradise of flunkeys . Our readers will be at no loss to imagine with what P ^ uess jvit Mv ot tne naruest ¦

    ible , and being contemptible is disagreeable even to contemplate . But there is something else that is contemptible , and that is the popular fear of a constable . " What we should desire to see would be efficiency in every part of our pixblic organisation , police included 5 efiiciency also in the organisation of the people ; and the true reproach to our organisation is , not that we render the police effectual , consent 10

    | one wno aeciareacnat yvas , »~»~ w ^^ . which lie was sentenced ; and who shall say that such instances do not occur ? At all events the object of the meeting was in . part attained : an association was set on foot for aiding the unhappy men to recover the means of industrial occupation . But they did not ask for local self-government ; they did not claim to be allowed to manage their i . i ,: « .,: » . ™;« + v . o ; i . nwn wnv : which is the claim **¦ -

    Dickens , one . « ™\ ^ > "" nounced the * eat » lt 3 of this lord-loving propensity . No man has a better right to do so than Mr . Dickens , for among our men of letters no man more uncompromising ly represents the true dignity and independence of his calling . Mr . John TForstek followed on the same side Tvith his usual Olympian suavity . That there was something to be said on the other side was evident when a genuine man of letters , ancl one so -1 ¦»«¦_ - r > nn ** - > - > m Tin > T . T . voBP . ro defend tne iurxvtjiJEi — —

    hut that the people oe msurwca wu so to be rendered despicable . " We suspect also hat they have parted with something more important than arms , and that is the spirit of resolution and self-sacrifice ' which enables a people to maintain its independence . In Norwich there is * population of 70 , 000 : are we to -understand that itfO policemen could kee |> Ndrwkh in terror ? The j * very idea is ludicrous . But 7 © policemen might 01 in

    UWX 1 Ll-UCVXXlg *» - * u **^** - " j * that the borough s put forward for the resident thief population . The actors have at least as just a claim upon public consideration as the ill-used community of whom , we have been speaking . Why should they be ignored ? T hat is the question which they have I asked through Mr . Webster ' s great meeting at the AdelphiTfaeatre , There is a proposal to reform . ¦»_ _ i » : 4 . ;«« - oTnnr »< raf . nther charities that of

    | esteemeaas . . « ** ——> --- n status quo , which found another considerable apologist in Mr . Monckton Miln ^ s Mr . Milnes I sifted with perfect fairness and temper what We believe to be weighty and sincere obje cts to a change in the constitution , and administration of the LiWy ^ un d . The literary - world , " hke everv other " world , " has no doubt a tendency to split into sets , and is not more free than any other habitable world from petty jealousies and enmities . It is , therefore , quite conceivable that _ 1 : 1 . ™ .. « in iUstrpss micrht shrink from

    apkeep tue vagabonds jNorwicn raeuH ., may xnight therefore do good servicov , " Why ! if Norwich were really to be enslaved by 70 men , it would I certainly be a city not worth rescuing , or even thinking about . To one measure we must give complete approval ^—the bill for effecting a compulsory collection of agricultural statistics by means of the Poor Law ol tne

    unniintij , muv ^ g" - Allbyne nt I > ulwich , hitherto appropriated by a species of hereditary tea-party , has come under revision ; the property has immensely developed , and the actors ask why in an improved distribution they should not be admitted to the benefit of a charity founded by OTie of their order . The public meeting thought their claun just 5 and they must be admitted

    | Dealing to a committee composed of literon brethren ; whilst he would have no hesitation iti accentin" - assistance from a body of men far removS f ? om his own path in lif « , 11 U , JjJ * JJJ to imagine such a case ; and Mr . MiLNtts , ^ as ft man of letters , of fortune , and of liberal ¦ WP' ^ was w ^ U qualified to state it ns lie did , with excellent taste and feeling . . , The P reScr ™ Uv ?&•****>! % * HJft )

    x Commissioners . What we may call a census V ^ crops while they are growing , and ^ subsequently Vwhen they lmve been gathered , will be presented kt the proper reasons of the year . Attempts have / been made to collect these statistics by optional ueturrra , froth eleven English counties , with very partial success . The importance of having them is tne

    ! . t Nothing could be more graceful , nothing mor « happy , than the presence of Mr . Dickens in the chair at this meeting , convened to vindicate the just claims of the actors to the inheritance of an actor ' s charity . We all know how often to the cause of charity Mr . Dickhsns has , in his own per-I 1 1 ' ¦ 1 _ 1 -T _ 2-Jl _• . !• mar \ n # ¦ am *• *» f r * r » £ !**? " in tuc imuoiw /

    analoKV ot tie Aruscs xum : vu » w ., * ----a mutual institution , got up within the Profession ? he ftmds regularly distributed to "V' ^ JJ ^ claimants , according to set rules . N 0 M 01 ^ ie Literary Fund , whose revenues are derived from the Sic ;— whose aid is given for the occasion , whether temporary ox recurrent- ^ whosc . help is to be sought at all seasons—whose " clmnty' must ll Zt with a secrecy that fore / cuds social loss ¦ t buuu

    obvious , arid it was found that in many cases farniera would have been leas unwilling to supply ' the " information if their neighbours had been made to . Supply it likewise . The collection will now be equal ! 'foi ftll . It is a mistake to suppose , however , that the i , "; ' ' ,- ;' ¦ ¦ V y ^ jpt ^ fca'daA ' bo rendered available for prying into i ''; , ?^^ dition ^ and ttjean s of each particul ar farmer . 1 '" ' ¦ ' ^ 'll ^^^ einpt to ' le - aria a toon ' s address from the [ W ^ ^^ . ^^ io ^^^ e ' sl'jQr '^ p Oiatie ^ ain the . aniount of his ^^ '¦ riil '' 5 p ^^ : JW te ' toiWttfe ^ retamts . We shall

    „ | , tieciicaceu uign » u »< «« •*« «»~ — which , were he not a Charles Dickkks , he I I tniglit himself have been n David Ga , rrick or an Edmund ICean . The truth is that the national affection and esteem which make a household word of the name of the greatest of our living humourists are not more due to the delightful sway of hia geniud , than to the beneficent nctivity of a blameless life . Whenever his name shall be writ i on marble ( may the day be distant !) not only w , « l

    | of caste , and with a tenderness «« « : « ««« - I ficaUon . It must , thereforo Have a nxed habitation to be found at M seasons ; a aoorotary 1 ^ o bo for it the benoflictor-a gentleman , ™ J »* » «« «™ S clerk . And , say these champions of the lun present constitution , to copy the model qf the Artiat ' a Fund , would be to attempt for hterary men that kind 0 / self-supporting * T TJfml which has been so often attempted and nov « sue cccded j while it would certainly »? **** ™ J I Uterary Fund , as it has been , and « s » t baa lasted

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    THE LEADER . [ No . 312 , Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 15, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15031856/page/2/