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    «ltf THE LEADER. [Saturday,

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    A Batch Of Books.* It The Present Famine...

    altogether forgets the vast proportion of smokers who & ve at the same time active and 'healthy in aaaiad and body ., and even distinguished for those very qualities which , he tells us * he use of ^ tobacco destroys . AfaraaoreWealthy sad sensible laeiihod of preservingIhealth than that of ** throwing away tobacco for ever" ( though we must not be understood to veoommend the weed ) is * hat system of harmonious gymnastics taught and practised by -the Swedish poet and Athlete , Peter Henry Ling , whose fife : & nd doctrine his "friend and follower , Augustus G-eorgie , lovingly commemorates .

    ^ Domestic Cookery is oae of the most asefiiLof Messrs . Orr ' s Household Handbooks . ^ Tfeere is . a ¦ chapter on sauces which we recomnaend to the attention of the British -houspwife . " Voltaire used * o say , " The English have a thousand and one religions , and only one sauce— -melted butter . ' We tare getting out of that melancholy condition , but we are still somewhat liable to the imputation of knowing only one method of cooking oitr vegetables—4 ot Ttatter . ! Ehis Household cHaodbocik is Hfcelyrtjo xender ^ he idocpestic cookeiy of the nationmore palatable , and at ? the saiae time -more economical . ; Is it ^ aottheiw ' uVs ineterest to bring her hushaad home to dinner ? Joints will not do this wlten 4 ie honeymoon has subsided into iuitdber ' s bills . . ;•

    Home-tpucists ^^ PeflaTiltiplyiog'iiOfwr that Jthe continenthas been' done ' 'for « p naany tyears . A Handbook totfhe JPva & aflBenbyshire la ^ toMe Use of the Muxlmilllliitinexai latrge class bfitravfil lers in . pursuit cjf health 4 widrest , pt of ; the ^ pict » aes < jue , fvho may be jdie-{ wseditbCseek ^ ^ essrs . Gha ^ abers ' s depository of Instructiv e and ^ ^ ^ m « s * t ^ 2 % wc % ( flourKih ( BS TOtfc \ uaflagj |^ « tf :. 1 ^^ iswaiE ,:. ; a Memoir . jo £ ; S ^ y , oro | i u r ^ ory of ^ S ^ sichiav P && 4 paper , oil ike •^ n ^ iiM iof ^ . . ' . ;>;\ v ' " ,: ¦ , ' ¦ ' - ' ¦¦ ¦ ' ; . V ; ' . ' /¦¦¦ , \ ¦' .: ¦ ¦ - ¦ :, ' ¦ ¦ ' . : > i ^ Ejd ^^ Sianitts , H & bipy ; -i ; and jdeg & mntances * CA ^ inaa ! . spirtts vjand- > g « M > d teEoper aipe always p &^ ing ^ sbtct Tiresaipe ;' .-. cpnndent-Mr . vKates ^ e att dp 4 > etter things than : ai ^^ rv . al which , has aU tbe iaeyitabl ^ weakness of an imitatioji . ¦

    «Ltf The Leader. [Saturday,

    « ltf THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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    condition ^ existence the Ottoman EJmpire . This is the ieternaia ¦ causa of the ¦¦*&&* . N

    nought ; « y up "the urery life-blood of tl > e race amd dynasty of € ) thw » an jwas itself a seller of men . The legalised' sale of . land ; wit h itlteserf ^ ln . tEUissia as ± he idle-pretext for bMs 'trumped-up'accusation . iWestern . iiurope may . smile at these causes and conclusions , but all the diplomatic faubourg of iPera willconfirm their importance . Without 'dwelling too particularly on the host of critical questions raised at Constantinople between the Porte and the Russian Embassy from ] 840 to 1853—such as the sullen persecution oftlie < 3 reek Church—the / censorship imposed upon the religious books of the Solave populations—tho base aviaity of the iauthorities at Jerusalem yho ; pocketed the subacyiptionsof < pio « s Christians in th , e JNorth iprthe lighting of the ktraps in the Holy Sepulohror ^ -the , brigandage on tfce Asian border , and the uncertain delimitation of that border—the long-« tandn > g settlftment of ^ the Twrco ^ Fersan frontier- — -the intrigues of the Paakae in Seryia- ^ the quarrels of the Boyar ^ and Hospodars in the Danubiiin ' FrinoipalTtiea--rwe ( the " Inhabitant of Gontinei » tul Europe" ) < wiH sinioiy

    note ah undeniable fae ^ , the jpersiBtettt ihoetrlity of the British Embassy at

    The Inhabitant" now 45 l 1 tne . es at the anarchical activity of English diplomacy in ' 47 , everywhere busy in lighting the torch of revolution . In that year it seems a , grand continental alliance was on the poiut of formation for the purpose of restraining these continual conspiracies of Engl and against the repose of Europe . The religious and political complications of the Sondexbund , and the revolutionary mission of Lord Minto , su < r « estecl to Ajustria negotiations for this-alliance . But in ' 48 came thc ' llevolution l ^ : e a flood sweeping away thrones and shaking Europe to its base . Even Old JJugland felt the rebound of the shock this time . She had thought to , make experiments at the expense of others , and was struck herself . * O , a the , tenth of April the Conservative instinct of the nation saved the British Government at little cost . But the Chartist movement revealed a deep moraJ . agitation , joaenacing the . future repose of Old England . You cannpt alircays set fire 4 o your neighbour's house without danger to yourself , and the sea that surrounds you is not always wide or deep enough to serve as an impassable rampart to the ideas whose intermittent inundation overwhelws Jrom time to time the moral and material prosperity of nations .

    Although the . English Qvovernment , in thts first mon-tbs of ' 48 , moderat e ^ its activity againstiJSussia in the East , and against sopial order in Europe , it , Jieverfclxeless , applacuded the . revolution , in the hope of . disturbances abroad which w . puld iavour its material iiiterests . It fraternised with every successive faction . ia ^ Erance , j n ^ xder to ^^ justify- . to the Fa-ehch nation its alteraate cozening and buJlying of ^^ the . vdynasty of « Iujy » -A-S soon as the Chactist storm blew over , 4 t began intriguing again in Europe and in the Eastr—iiv the affair pf t ^ e jr efu ^ ees , it . dictated a refusal . to the demands of ; B . ussia and Austria , ; defied its ^ cosigners « £ the tceaty of ' 41 bv sending its fleet into the Dardanelles ^ aiid the ; Qosigners of the treaty of ' 27 by the , P . aciSco outrage , that iridelible blot ; in the . anhals of & reat -Britabni . It was rthen that " Lord

    Pfllnierstpn launched his celebra ^ Jew whp deinaniled his little bill , ^ vitli SOQ guns to bac ^ : th e extortion . " You insult the Romans , " ( apostrophises the Inhabitant ^ ' ) c | if you seek in , their annals the j Roine had we ^ nigh . eonqjiered ; the w . orld when she dared to alBrnt a prirtci ple which you .: 4 fiect . to prronounce in the fiicer-of independent states who sufler your intrigues ,.: assuredly do not fear -tjoiir arm ^ Yet tlussia , all this time , ins . ultejd at the J ? irieus and defied in the I ) ardaneUe ! S ,, hpl , d her hand , wasting . her influence ,, and allpivijig . England systeittaticjplly to ftake advantage of ier mader ^ tion- —at a time , too , vvheh there was no . 1 Continental Pspiver ; at liberty to step between her just anger aud the infatuation of the Porbe . '• . " . ' v ¦ ' V- ¦ : ¦ ¦ ... ' - ' ' ¦• . ¦ ¦¦¦'¦ ¦ .. ¦¦'¦ . ¦ . ¦ ' ' ' . ¦ ¦¦¦ " - . '¦ .. : ' " :. ' . ¦ ¦¦

    The cow / 3 . cPictat of the 2 nd of December opened a new era to France-Aft ^ r a series pf demoeratic experiments , that country , destined to be the J 3 ieatre ; of ¦; all theories , inaugurated the most coinptete expression of pei ^ - sonal ' ^ o ' vexn ' ment . ' , the wpiid lias ever seen " . Dyixasties are attached to their traditions , v and . to the principles whicli are the essence or the prestige of hereditary authority . llepresentative Goyernnients are nothing but exuaijalipnSj piore or less sincere ^ of a jnass of Interests and instincts which ¦ absorb the personality of the throne . Men like jSTapoleon I ., whp resize despotic power , neyer can shake off theif antecedents , and renaaia always the . personificatipn of their epoch ; Thus was N ^ apoleon I . i from first to last , aqrownedsoldier ; ^ app leon III ,, whose merits and capacity we ( the Inhabitant ) \ are very ; far from disputing , oavcs his marvellous destiny to an historical , souvenir and not to his merits or his capacity . Yet he felthinisejf so coinpletely mastqr of . the-situation . ' that he was able to declare the Empire to naea . ii peace , and to avow in public and in pvivate his symputbies for

    England . Ue Jcuew that France , excepting & £ eyv hot-brained Bonapartists , desired reppae , rather than glory , Lord Piilmerstpn was . accused , of committing an elourderie in precipitately expressingjhis , satisfaction at the events of December . It was only another proof of the qxtreinie ^ er ^ picacity of that statesman who has nil his Hfo deserved the . honpvir of being considered the mpst faithful expression of fcho contemporary tendencies pi' his country . He has beepi called a firqbrand ; we shall not contqst , . the . jji 8 t 5 ce of the epithet , but -we maintain that his incendiarism has always served his country . Jf his country ' s interests are opposed to those , of the continent of . Europe , is he to be jnade personally responsible for his Jide . Uty ,, to . those interests ? ' Cat homme tVJEtat , avant . d' & rehommeeU Anglaif ,

    The J } ritish , X 3 r 0 ivernment , doterminod , as usua , to make the most out of events in Fnance > tapk adviuitageof the instinctive national dread of a Bonapavtist . restpratipn to-organise the national defences and increase its armamenf ® ,. The . Goy , ei ! iiBa . ent had really no , apprehensions at all , ; it knew well enough ifictt all Europe would coalesce against any infraction of ike treaties of JSiltf ; wtULit . fore ^ a ^ the possible eventualities of the haz ardous pol icy upon which it was entering , withiFrance , and the immense ( Jifler , en « e between the auscepUbilitifis . pf a jperapnalianc ) , pf A pftx'liamentary government , between ' 40 , a » d ' 51 . It jwfts An the JSasi ; , on tho elassio spil of all anomalies the grand design . of England w . as to , be carried put- ^ t / te alliance with France against Jimma .

    ' ¦ ¥ « hiuye observed England rigorously consistent throughout with the polioy .. commanded by her -selfish , jjaercuatilo interests . Commit her tables of imports and « xpovba since ' 48 . Let us examine the state of the continent with respect to England and the Eastern , question . Louis Jl'hilippo expiatcdiis triumph in 1830 , by Iris isolation among the European thrones ; he expiated jfcia . docility , to J 3 nglun 4 by ' the catuata-opho of' . 48 . In Louis Napoleon the European sovereigns saw rnthor an i-nstrument of Providcanco than a ibrtunato adventurer . If their uttitudo towwrds him was at first ccservod , it "was never unfriendly , mot even miatrustful .

    . France miaht have taken her place in the European concert , cemented her na-tural alliances , nnd x * emnined faithful to her pacific px'Ojrrammo . Sho had but to follow the Napoleonic traditions , by which we are ifir from menning tho traditions of war and conquest and hatred of England ; but tlui grand tradition of tho Empire to which ive could have wished to $ <> e the . successor of that empire attach Mmself is a judicious ni / utem of continental alliances , fur the purpose of jwefteruing Europe from the ' aggrandising inflnottca of Great Britain . The whole conduct of England sinco 1035 * has shown ' tho farreaching sagacity of ! the first Einperor in that direction . His successor has

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 26, 1854, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26081854/page/18/