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    No. 427, Mai: 29, 1858.J T H E L E A I) ...

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    THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. If the Provost...

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    CAVOUR AND ITALY. In order to appreciate...

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    CENTRAL ASIA AND BRITISH INDIA. We belie...

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    Signs Of Insanity. Cc> Tis A Mad World, ...

    servant-girls . By so doing he might beget a family that . would come between his relations and a handsome inheritance . A gentleman wlio went down to inquire about the matter , said that the girl would make Mr . Leach a very good wife—perhaps more suitable than a "lady" fresh from society- Mr . Leach , in his very sane remonstrance against the injustice of being kept in a madhouse , points out with great force that if he had seduced the girl his relations would have said nothing ; , but because he

    adopts the manly and religious course of marrying her , they call him mad ! Ay , indeed ! How many acts of real insanity , of miserable insanity , are there , exactly the reverse of those committed by Mr . Leach . How many men , poor enough in mind and body , would disdain even to give a friendly greeting , or to talk to some of their fellow-men , and simply because they are servants or labourers ? How many ruin health and purse in unholy and reckless connexions with women of the same class

    as that from which Mr . Leach has taken Ins wife ? They axe not mad ; they are simply following the fashion of the day !

    No. 427, Mai: 29, 1858.J T H E L E A I) ...

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    The University Of Dublin. If The Provost...

    THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN . If the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College had been well advised , they . would ; have kept a complete silence as to their shortcomings and delinquencies . They did maintain this silence for some time and with , some success ; but conscience doth make cowards of us all , and knowing that they had a bad cause they tried to stop all talk about the matter by censuring Dr . Shaw for writing a temperate letter to a Dublin newspaper . The Fellows underrated the apathy of the public , and the great virtue of silence . If we were the legal advisers of any close and corrupt old corporation , we should earnestly advise them to take no iioticc of any attacks . The public is a fickle audience ; it soon gets tired of hearing the best arguments without reply ; it begins to suspect that a great deal may be said on the Other side , or some Indian mutiny or foreign war comes to drive the whole question into obscurity . But let a controversy be once aroused , the public , who like a fi g ht , will listen eagerly , and will condescend to inquire into the subject for the sake of enjoying the combat . The Dublin authorities have not alone failed to silence the 3 teformers , but they have made future silence absolutely impossible . Their censure has led to a visitation , and at this visitation the whole truth must nome out .

    The visitors arc the Archbishop of Dublin , Dr . Whately , an original thinker and an unprejudiced person , and the Lord-Chief-Justice Blackburne , a man eminent for judgment and integrity . The ostrich-like absurdity of the " seven champions " of college abuses is curiously illustrated by facts that have raised a laugh in Dubliit , but which suggest the more grave suspicion that the College authorities have very little to say for themselves when they attempt to suppress discussion . In the Univcrsiti / Magazine for last month there appeared a very judicious and reasonable article stating the whole case of the College reformers . The publishers of the University Magazine ( Messrs . Hodges and Smith ) are also publishers for the University .

    and the authorities insisted that they should cease to publish the Magazine . The publishers , unwilling to lose the name and profit of " Publishers to the University , " abandoned the Magazine . Another Dublin publishing firm of equal respectability ( M'Glashan and Gill ) were about to succeed to the publication of the periodical , when one of the firm , who happens to be printer to the University , -was deterred by a threat that , in that case , he should lose the ofticial employment . We laugh and ridicule these kinds of tactics when Louis Napoleon adopts them in Paris ; but these Dublin University dona attempt in Ireland tactics as old-fashioned and absurd as arc the abuses they protect . If they have a complete and triumphant reply to Dr . Shaw , why do they fear discussion ? They surely do not nretend t

    o say he should have appealed for reform of old evils to the very men who had sustained them for years F They cannot protend to say that the public is uninterested in the prosperity of the oldest and wealthiest educational institution in Ireland . They cannot surely hope to convert a nol ) le and ancient scat of learning into a family party , where discords are to be discussed at home ? Tins was the way of making tilings pleasant which brought to eric ft he gentlemen W 1 , o acted on the silent system in the &• n tl 3 h ? - , In lhis country , where pub-M » L ? i rulc , f ccrcc -V thc exception , mi unsigned horror of public discussion is almost a

    certain symptom of something that will not bear the light . ' At thc present visitation , the College authorities talk loudly of their readiness to allow inquiry . But this present . visitation is not held at their call . It has been obtained by the reformers who would not submit to their censure . Had Dr . Shaw and Mr . Garmichacl " apologized " ( as did a scholar who had offended in like manner ) , the Board would have

    condoned their offence and have still kept all dark ; but when these gentlemen , . braved-the risks of a censure ( though fully conscious that three censures legalize an expulsion ) , this visitation followed as a natural consequence of their appeal against the sentence of the Board . The Board are now the parties indicted ; and Strahan and Paul might as well have claimed credit for submitting to an inquiry as the College authorities for replying to the charges now publicly laid at their door .

    Cavour And Italy. In Order To Appreciate...

    CAVOUR AND ITALY . In order to appreciate the full force as welt . as boldness of the speech delivered by Camillo Cavour in the Chamber of Deputies , on the . 19 th and 20 th of May , we must understand the position in which his Government is actually placed , abroad and at home . It is well Inown that Austria has been Increasing her fortifications and troops upon the frontier of Piedmont , equally against treaties and against reason , unless she contemplates some exercise of her force upon the weaker power . Hussia has , ever since her own difficulties in the East , been offering some cind of support to the Government of King " Victor Emmanuel ; but everybody knows that the aid given by Russia would depend upon her own interest at the moment : it-cannot be counted on . Trance has

    been cultivating Sardinia , -having some kind of views on the peninsula which are inscrutable ; but the dominant statesmen of France have actually prevented any kind of guarantee like that ' which Count Cavour asked from the Western Powers as the reward for the spontaneous aid so nobly given by Sardinia to them iu the East . How far , then , can France be trusted ? She would never do anything unprompted by her own purposes , . and she has too many embarrassments at home just at present to be counted upon for assistance in Italy . ¦ We know-how our own . Governments have

    played fast and loose with their pledges to Sardinia ; we have , indeed , so completely lost even moral control that Naples laughs at our intervention . Thc latest news is , that thc Neapolitan Government has at once refused the compensation claimed for Park and Watt ; and also , refusing the mediation of any second-rate power such as Sweden —who might be impartial—Naples has intimated willingness to admit the arbitration of a first-mte power , such as Austria ! What our own Ministers have done lately , we do not know ; but it is known that Lord -Malmcsburv has rather

    encouraged the idea of" arbitration " after he had talked of " mediation . " Sardinia is half pledged to take up arms in vindication of justice against Naples , and the pledge is strengthened in its moral obiigation by the expectancy , not only of the subjects of King Victor Emmanuel , but of other Italian states ; for even the Governments of many of thc duchies have shown some disposition , to take part with Sardinia in vindicating thc independence of Italy against the continued encroachments of " the Stranger , " as Austria is called from thc Alps to Cape Spartivento . Such is the position of Sardinia abroad ; a position anxious , dangerous , but not unhopeful .

    At home , there is thc same conflict of influences . The Government has great public works—a railway here , which will render profitable a beautiful vnllcy little visited for want of access , and endowed by nature with great mineral riches ; there , a magniticcnt haven , which thc first Napoleon destined to hold vast fleets , a harbour of great political and not less great commercial importance , since it , offers access for trade to Austrian Italy as well as Central Ital y ; and horc , again , a railway through Mont Corns , uniting it nlv to the railway syst cm of Europe .

    . These works arc employing great numbers of King Victor Emmanuel's subjects ; they are , with thc aid of foreign capital and foreign science , training thc Italians in such enterprises ; they arc calling out thc resources of his kingdom . tVom her conspicuous good faith in finance , Sardinia can command advances at moderate rates , and she has always managed to keep down her debt by means of an easy sinking fund ; so that mow it will not exceed 20 , 000 , 000 / . sterling , oven including thc loan which the Minister is asking as a means of

    keeping up the necessary expenditure . But he has great obstacles-to surmount ; there is the general dislike to taxes—the " vulgar impatience of taxation" which Castlereagh deplored , and which has made all peoples anxious to diminish the expenditure of a state . He lias against him the Radical party , who believe that all increase of outlay smacks of Toryism , and ought to be diminished . He has the opponents represented by the Conservative party ,-who resist the scheme because it is his . He has against him the clergy , who hate railways and all that railways beloug to ; a . nd he has the vis inertia ? , rooted especially in those country districts ,

    even of Northern Italy , recently -painted by Gallenga in colours even too deep . Some oriltiant economists Iiave suggested to the Finance Minister a confiscation of clerical property , the pr iests to be salaried by the state . In short ; , one idea'd patriots , priestridden Conservatives , old-fashioned Royalists , are willing enough to thwart , trip up , or inveigle Cavour into political blunders . Such is his position , when- he takes his stand before the elected representatives of the"Italian States , representatives who einhody the most conflicting opinions and interests ' ,, in order to vindicate the whole course of his Government , his own

    action , and the proposed loan . He defined his position with unmistakable clearness , and defended it with unflinching courage . He refused to meddle with the Church property , or to make the priests stipendiaries of the state ; the very way , he said , to destroy the beneficial influence which they exercise in society , to make them at on . ee the agents of centralized government and the spies of an alien power . He avowed his absolute conviction , " that , in the actual condition of Piedmont , it is impossible to have a national andltalian policy abroad if the internal policy be not liberal and reforming ; as it would also be impossible to follow a liberal and reforming policy at home

    without having a national and Italian policy abroad . " We intend to continue , he said , in the path of reform and liberty . But while maintaining the political position without compromise , he refused to be restrained from using the aid of those who may politically dissent from him . He had faith in the patriotism of his political adversaries , whether on the Right or Left . He had employed Count Revel to negotiate a loan in England ; and the Count fulfilled the mission to the complete satisfaction of the Ministry and that of the country ; " but lie did not return from England more favourable to the ministerial policy . " He would again employ Signor Depretis , if thc Cabinet were called upon to treat

    serious international negotiations relating to railways ; and if General La Marmora required to command an army , lie would not scruple to fill . the foremost file with the generous sons of thc brigade of Savoy . Cavour , therefore , will not allow his opponents to stir him from his political position ; he will not abate a jot of his demands upon the Chambers ; he will not waive his claims upon the patriotism of all Italians , -whatever may be their party . The speech is Conservative ; it conveys distinct moral pledges to the Moderate reformers of every state in Italy—of Lombardy as well as Venice , of Tuscany and Home , of Naples not less than Parma .

    Central Asia And British India. We Belie...

    CENTRAL ASIA AND BRITISH INDIA . We believe that all doubt is at an end as to thc continued retention of thc Herat territory by Persia . Thc Persian war , therefore , was a sham which cost two millions stcrlingj and the Persian treaty has been abandoned . In a letter published in the Daily News a statement has been made b y a writer obviousl y well informed winch demands immediate explanation in the House of Commons . The charges against the late and present Government are as specific as if they had been drawn for investigation by a Court-niaTtial , and they amount to a positive assertion that thc public has been wilfully misled as to the fulfilment , of the late-treaty bv

    Persia , that Persia is still in armed possession within the Herat , frontier , and that our representative at Teheran lias been instructed not to press for thc fulfilment of the treaty . So far , according to tho statement in thc ]) ttifj / Nines . We . have 1 o add that , after Herat had liecn abandoned by Lord Palmorston , Lord Mnlwcsbury sanctioned that betrayal , and that between the late and thc present Cabinets the objects for which two millions sterling were spent upon the Persian expedition have been absolutely cast aside . Lord Mahncsbury , no doubt ,, would have been eager to expose tho conduct of his predecessor , had his own been susceptible of explanation .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051858/page/13/