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      mi -T-JgB LEADER , [ No . 43 a Jpig ^ l 7 , 1858 .

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      WlHbe NO ALTEllATION IN THE POLITICAL , LITEUABY , and artistic portion , which has hitherto secured to the paper its high positioa ; but , on the contrary , efforts will he made to add to tlie interest and efficiency of each department , by procuring additional sources of information both at home and abroad ; and by every means that a liberal outlay can command . THE FIRST ENLARGED NUMBER , containing Thirty-two Pages , WILL BE ISSUED ON S A TURD A Y N EXT 24 th instant , Price 6 d . ; To go f reeby post , 7 d-In accordance with the request of many subscribers the Advertisements will be so placed as to form a Wrapper , thus rendering the volume more convenient for binding , and offering additional advantages to Advertisers . * ^ * Early orders are requested to be gwen to the various Newsvendors in order to regulate the supply . ] * ! !? f < °

      SATURDAY NEXT ( July ^ tli ) , PERMANENT ENLARGEMENT OF " THE LEADER , " BY THE ADDITION OF EIGHT PAGES ( ONE * THIRD MORE ) , DIVOTED TO COMMERCIAL INFORMATION AND THE ADVOCACY OF ¦ ' ¦ ' MERCANTILE INTERESTS . . — - ?— . ¦ ¦¦ . •¦ This Journal , established for the purpose of advocating the principles and accelerating the progress of tlie advanced Liberal party , has so Far accomplished its mission as to have secured a wide and influential circle of readers and supporters as respects Politics and Literature . The want of an Independent and Impartial Commercial Organ has , however , long been felt in the Mercantile and Trading Circles , and the Conductors of " The Leadeu" purpose , at the suggestion of a large and highly influential Body of Commercial Men . of the City of London and Manufacturing Districts , to enlarge the sphere of its influence and usefulness by ¦ „ . INCREASING ITS SIZE EIGHT PAGES , and adding A COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT , supp lied with SPECIAL INFORMATION FROM EXCLUSIVE AND TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES . THIS ADDITION will , afford ample space for detailed and accurate information upon the condition of Commerce at home and abroad ; for a correct weekly view of the state and tendency of the various Markets , and of the Banking and Monetary interests generally , also for the publication , when required , of the Board of Trade ltcturns in the most concise and intelligible form ; and generally for the advocacy of Mercantile interests . Tariff Reform , consistent , with the true principles of 3 ? ivee Tradk ; untiring opposition to class protection , in such form as to assure Foreign Countries that England has no jealousy of tlieir Commerce and Manufactures ; a Spirit of Perfect Independence , and a fearless advocacy of the great truths of Political Econorny , in all its branches—Fiscal , Monetary , and Legislative—will be the guiding principles advocated in the Mercantile section 01 the enlarged Paper . A Department of the Paper will be devoted as a Journal of Indian Progress , opening to the friends of Indian advancement the means of advocating English Settlement , Railways , River Navigation , Irrigation , Cotton , and the various questions most essential for the welfare of India , and now exciting such deep interest in the publio mind .

      " Tub Leader" will bo found to bo tho only Taper representing tho real interests of our South Ajfricatj Colonies , now so rapidly advancing vmdor Parliamentary Government . It will also bestow special attention upon the Mercantile Marine , and will represent the interests of a profession of growing importance , and the advancement of which is ot such vital consequence to our mercantile interests . "While thus adding entirely now features , there

      ^ , Notices To Correspondents. No Notice...

      ^ , NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whateveris intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of * hisgoodfaitli . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Theirinsertion-is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quiteliidependent of "the merits of thecominunication . We januot undertake to retxmi rejected communications ,

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , a 3 the swain to keep things fixed when all the-world is by the very law of its creaoionm eternal progress . —Dit . Arnold

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      NEW ENCOUNTER OF ENGLA . ND AND AMERICA IN THE WEST . The reasons which have actuated oiu * Government in bringing forward their New Caledonia Bill are only too pressing ; but vre may entertain a hope that their action indicates a right spirit , which is far more important than the letter of any bill , however necessary that statute may be . We have every reason to anticipate that the settlement of British Oregon , so often talked about , will be accomplished very suddenly ; some portion of the territory is no doubt occupied by this time , and emigrants

      will continue to pour in "before the colony has even been christened , much less supplied ¦ with police and government . It was high time , therefore , that the Government should step in , assert the authority of tho Crown , send to it a Governor , and give it a name . They have warned it " Now Caledonia , " —a name ^ to be found iri another part of tho American main less favoured than this , and less likely to bo colonized ; but by tho time tho pressure of population carries emigrants across the Arctic circle as well as tho Equator , the old " New Caledonia " will bo able to xn * ovide itself with an alias . There has been moro than one Missouri compromise , and tho latest effected an equitable division of the broad lands west of tho llocky Mountains , between Great Britain and the United States , tho boundary-lino being no natural featuro of tho country ,

      but the forty-ninth parallel of latitude . Probably inconveniences will arise in detail from that division , but ab least it avoids the diffi . cutties which arose out of the boundary casa between Maine and New Brunswick ; and there appeared every probability that , any difficulty from that " source would "be postponed indefinitely , for no disposition was shown to settle the immense tract -which theoretically " belongs" to ua . Not that it was in any way unsuited to colonization

      Everybody who bad visited reported well from Yahcol'vjsr , who surveyed ifc from the shores of the Pacific , to Mackenzie , who pioneered the approaches of the trappeta and traders through the northern portals of the Jtocky Mountains ; and every fresh survey has confirmed the best accounts . The comparatively rapid decline of the Kocky Mountains towards the west offers a more varied ancTtempered climate ; thesoilis fertile to an . American standard ; the region is intersected "by the-highways of Naturefine rivers ; and it has Ions been known to

      possess mineral nches , from gold , which is the cash of trade , to coal , which gives carbon , to the steam lungs of commerce . The new discovery "which has excited such a sudden , rush of settlers , or diggers , is the extent aud character of the gold formation . As to the ratio of gold available for the labour of collection , we have as yet only the inost imperfect information ; but it would appear to be considerable , and it may very probably resemble the proportion already found in the southern part of the same region , California . As to the extent of the gold , thei'e is stronger evidence . It is found on the lands of'Eraser's

      River ,- which opens into lvmg George's Sound ; it is known to vein some strata of the Kocky Mountains ; it exists so far south as California ; and we .-may plausibly suppose that the whole region is really El Dorado- —a broad Empire of Gold . Can we wonder if there is a rush to it ? Can we overrate the crowds which will throng every entrance to that theatre ?

      There , from the Pacific to the Kocky Mountains , lies the one talisman which can give to its every finder , wealth , power , estimation , sumptuous living , love itself—or what passes current "by its name ; and amid the hai'd-driven labourers or adventurers of England and America , will there not be more men eager for that conquest than for distinction and promotion in India ? Of course : tlie armies

      marching East will but feebly represent the armies rushing West . No recruiting inspector , no medical officer , no magistrate will select that vaster army ; it will comprise all grades , al [ ages , all characters , sizes , and dispositions ; and in the diggings near the settlements tho burglar will settle down by tho side of the farmer . Indeed , they are probably ' there now , and no great wonder . 11 osts ready for such enterprises have been collected in New York , on the road to Mormon ' land , in Australia , and in California , on tho very border of tho new land of hope .

      Well , tho greatest of colonies have liau doubtful beginnings . Home was founded toy beaten Trojans , unsettled Greeks , questionable aborigines , and scamps of all lands ; Germany began in a manner that no policemagistrate would approve ; and antiquity only softens our own genealogy ; while in Australia wo have ourselves succeeded in

      planting a republic of felons . But most communities of tho kind Imvo not teen planted by tho sons of tho million in quite such a state of high training for mischief ; and hence tho just anxiety of our Ministers to get up a rcspectablo Government as soon aB possible . In this respect tlio position of tho territory is very peculiar . Tho Hudson ' s Bay

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1858, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071858/page/12/