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      The ' Leader. '

      THE ' LEADER . '

      Contents:

      Contents :

      Review Of The Week— India And Indian Pro...

      REVIEW OF THE WEEK— INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS- ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- Seven Tales , by Seven Authors .. . 1423 Latest Indian Intelligence .. 1414 Miscellaneous 1423 home intelligence . page Germany . . . 1 + 20 Trade Literature 142 a Political Foreshadowing * ...... 1408 T % fu ^ X l ^ % f ^ rG & rd 6 n ~ Italy ......:::::: 1420- Books Received . 1420 Nava ? andMiiiVaVy " V ; : ; :::: * ::: 1410 fiSymarket . ? . ?" .... " . * .. 1415 LITERATURE- COMMERCIALThe Volunteers •¦••••••••• "ft Postscript 14 lo H 21 Progress of Trada in 1859 ..... 1424 Law , Police , and _ Casualties .,... 1411 pUBL | c AFFAIRS Death of Lord Macaulay ... Ifcil Money Market and Stock Lsg ^ fSF ^ n ^^ * W Sp 5 IK' ^ Popery . 1417 The Peculiani .-Quak . nW Past <^^ f ^ i £ ^ T /// .:::: ! . lit * . V :--. - 1412 gSS ^& asfisffSSUjr iSI ¦ T ^ SiSSV Niti ^ :: j ::::: jg Joint-stockcoxnpanies i ** foheign intelligence . T » olipv of Democracv 1418 Columbus , or the New World .... 1422 1 , . Foreign Summary 1413 . . f ^ X ^ S ^^ Y ^"" lm Liberty Hall , Oxon . 1423 I ? ailway Intelligence 142 .,

      Review, Tffl Tfte 1«6, ——?¦ . .

      Review , tffl tfte 1 « 6 , ——?¦ . .

      The Present Year—Which Opened With Somew...

      THE present year—which opened with somewhat hopeful prospects to those who believed in the Emperor Napoleon ' s declarations of a loyal and honest determination to do his utmost for the regeneration of Italy—closes , leaving the friends of Ebetfyin an ominous state of uncertainty and suspense as to the future . " The grand New Year ' s reception at the Tuileries to-morrow is , therefore , looked forward to with intense interest and anxiety ; for it is considered certain that Europe will then be vouchsafed another of those oracular and terse declarations of policy for which Napoleon III . has become famous . As far as England is concerned , if we are to place any confidence in Paris correspondence of the leading daily journal , a dialogue has been permitted to become public , in which the pacific ideas and honourable policy of the master of France towards this country are insisted upon , and the unreasonableness of any suspicions as to his good faith with regard to the English alliance are somewhat loosely demonstrated . France , also , it is continued , is more practical than we think here ; war with England would produce no benefit , moral or material , to France , and is not desired by her sons . As for the increase of the French war marine , that is a development of the policy formed by ou r firm ally , Louis Philippe ; and the huge transports to carry two or three thousand men each , have been built because the merchant marine of France is insufficient to supply the requirements of the transport service . In fine , the Tories have excited this feeling against Franco , it is said , in tho hope of thereby aiding in the reconstruction of their almost defunct party ; though how that end is to be gained by tho means indicated may appear incomprehensible to many , people . On one topic connected with tho settlement of the Italian question , thc ' Impcrial policy is , doubtless , clearly indicated by the now famous pamphlet , entitled " Lo Pape ot le Congros , ' ; and the IJoly Father and his long-suffering subjects will possibly find this confirmed b y to-morrows utterances . Meanwhile , tho book itself has fallen like a bomb-shell among the plenipotentiaries and diplomatists on their way to the Congress . I irst , we hear ot tho Russian ambassador calling upon the French minister "Walewski , to inform him that , though tho Czar cares never a straw for the 1 opo , yet ho shall oppose tho " . programme " laid down in the pamphlet , as being opposed to respect for authority . Cardinal Antonelli , at Homo , sends for the French ambassador , and tolls him that tho herotioal composition has suspended tho departure of tho Popo ' a reprosontativo to tho Congress . From Vienna , couriers depart in hot hasto for Paris , as soon as Francis Josep h and . his ministers have perused the- offensive publication—witu oxpostulatory despatches for the French Government . Count Walowski , vexed , and harrassed toy these untoward results , deolares that the policy of tho pamphlet will not bo adopted by any ministry of which he is to remain a member ; last ovoning ' H despatches , howovor , inform us that the Council of Ministers have resolved not

      to disavow the pamphlet , officially . M . G-ranier Constitutionnel is instructed to say that the pamphlet has been misconstrued ; it is not intended to deprive the Pope of temporal power , but to leave him sovereign of a remnant of his former dominions , recommending him to show Christian resignation to the alienation of that which he has already lost . From Vienna the assertion comes that the story of the outbreak at Pesth , and the harshness of the Austrian measures has been much exaggeratedit is not , however , possible to deny great excitement to be existing in Hungary , nor that the Protestants of that kingdom still continue to be tyrannically and unjustly treated . Francis Joseph has publicly alluded to the rumour of his abdication , and haughtily repudiated the suggestion in the presence of a brilliant assembly of his nobles and councillors . Notwithstanding the difficulties which surround him in the administration of his own dominions , we hear rumours of his determination to support the banished Italian Grand Dukes , with money , and covertly with men for their mercenary legions as well as for the dwindling armies of the Papal States . All this is well known in Italy , and Cavour goes to the Congress to demand , in , the name of the King and people of Central Italy , the confirmation of its annexation to the sovereignty of Victor Emmanuel ; but the Piedmontese statesman , it is to bo feared lias small hopes of support , save from the representatives of England and Sweden . The last Indian mail brings us tidings of the further progress , in oriental state , of Queen Victoria ' s representative , to receive the homage of the reconquered rebels , and to reward those whom policy or loyalty have kept faithful to the dominion of England . The expedition to China is nearly ready to leave Calcutta , and preparations are made , both at homo and in . India , to make our small force as cfl ' ective as possible . Since the Peiho misfortune , wo havo found out the difference between Chinamen and Tartars , the picked troops of which latter nation will bo opposed to our own , if the information received by tho Indian Government is to be relied upon . At homo , public attention has been principally occupied by the speeches of our statesmen and veteran officers upon tho subject of national dafence and tho prospect of foreign aggression . A letter of Lord . John Kussoll to the citizens of Glasgow is worthy of attention , as indicating tho determination of that Minister to continue firm in the policy which ho has distinctly enunciated , andinwliich , if his collcaguos nva wise , they will take caro to ' givo him their best support . As for tho voluntoor movement , that cannot now fail of attaining the nOblo proportions winch its importance demands , since the most distinguisuuii men of tho land soom to y io with each other in uraing its paramount necessity , and in tho patriotic arguments which they use for making it both permanent and efficient . Peers , judges , gcnomi * , and divines havo boon advocates of tins national cause Lord Weusley dalo , after praising tho spirit jjhown in the present time , quoted tho gront Clmrlos James Fox as his authority for saying that , ii necessary , Government should bo enabled to make a compulsory levy on masse ; though the public

      spirit of Englishmen would always prevent that necessity occuring . Earl Grey , at Newcastle , with Sir John M'Neill and the Lord Advocate at Edinburgh , made spirit-stirring appeals to their fellow-citizens , and while one and all repudiate any suspicion of disloyalty on the part of our ^ magnanimous ally , " of Russia , or of any other power in particular—still that the wealth and ¦ liberties , of Britain . should remain unprotected , or insufficiently defended , is felt to be an indignity to the empire , whose heart is thus left open to the stab of any assailant of sufficient cunning and energy . The appeal made to the young men of the land is being nobly responded to , and the volunteer army is daily increasing in numbers and efficiency ; while the Government are not slow to perceive the value of this force , and are . promulgating" judicious regulations for its drill and equipment . . In this soldierly enthusiasm , combmed with the interest with which foreign , and especially Italian affairs , are studied at the present moment , the o-reat domestic question of the reform in our parfiamentary representation seems somewhat neglected . There has been one important meeting , however , this vreek in the metropolis , at which the inhabitants of Chelsea repeated their arguments in favour of that claim to enfranchisement , which is shared with them by so many other important districts ; and here Mr . Torreus ' M'Culla" -h delivered the speech of the evening , declaring that he had no confidence in the promises ^ ot Liberals more than Tories , and adroitly alluding to the public spirit and unselfishness exhibited by the volunteer movement : those men , he said , who showed themselves capable of making this sacrifice of time and money , are surely fit to be entrusted with a voice in the levying and disposal of taxes ; they were entitled to it , and would have it , or , as Mr . Bright has it , they would become extremely disagreeable . Nor must wo omit to notice tho important meetings of both Catholics and Protestants this week . In Ireland assemblages have been held to testify sympathy with the oppressed and much-pitied Pope ? and , truth to say , havo been characterised by more charitable feeling and loss disloyalty than some former ones . At one of therm the Earl of Dunravcn made u sensible appeal to tho good taste and feeling ot his audience , reminding them of their duty to their Sovereign , and . of tho liberties winch every Catholic enjoys under her rule , and tho constitution ot these realms . The important meeting of members of tho Established Church to concert measures to prevent any alteration or revision of tho hturgy s hiirhly significant , as showing tho tendency of Unit nowerful body , liku other ecclesiastical systems , to in ultra-Conservatism , which stigmatises every modification as an attempt to overturn the entiro iystem-a principle which line , doubtless , man y supp orters at pre sent , but which advanoing intolli-^ . ZS lVSonaiS ^ . events ends gloomily with tho record of another groat man departed from among us . Thomas Babington Maoaulay-poet . historian , and statesman-ofwhom it might as weti bo said as of tho friend of Johnson , that "he touched nothing whioh ho did not adorn " has died this week . It will be long before we look upon his liko again .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 31, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31121859/page/3/