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      TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . t + * invoossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; nd when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite indenpndent of the merits of the communication . ¦ NT notice can be taken of anonymous communications . Whatver is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication but as a guarantee of his good faith . Wo cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Welliagtonstreet Strand , London , fommunications should always be legibly written , and on one side o £ the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .

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      Saturday , October 16 . MEETING OF PABLIAMENT . A Cabinet Council was held yesterday . This morning the Herald says : — " We are enabled to state on undoubted authority that the day fixed for the meeting of P arliament , for the despatch of business , is Thursday , the 4 th of November . "

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      The ceremony of conferring degrees awarded by the Senate of the Queen ' s University at the examination of the students of the Colleges of Belfast , Cork , and Galway , which has just terminated , took place on Thursday , in St . PatrickVhall , Dublin Castle , in the presence of their Excellencies the Earl and Countess of Eglinton , and a brilliant assembly . In reply to the Vice-Chancellor , Lord Eglinton added another to the many testimonials of his high opinion of the Queen ' s Colleges : —

      " It is most satisfactory to hear the statements which have been made by the Vice-Chancellor to-day as to the success which has attended the Queen's Colleges—a success which , under the difficulties that surround every new undertaking , and amid the dangers that particularly beset these institutions , I will not say has been complete , but which I consider to have been great , if we measure it with the success that has attended other institutions of the same sort within a like period of their existence . You

      have rightly said , Mr . Vice-Chancellor , that I have been a personal witness of the state of these three colleges ; for during the short time that I have been in Ireland I have bad the opportunity of visiting the three establishments , or branches that constitute the Queen's University , and which , as it were , are the three limbs to which this University supplies vitality . It gives me much pleasure to state that all the arrangements relative to them , with which I was made acquainted , excited my admiration , and met my entire approbation . "

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      Mr . Hume has addressed the following letter to Mr . C . I ) . Collctt : — " Burnley Hall , Oct . 10 , 1852 . " Dkab Sik , —Your letter of the 7 th instant only reached me yesterday , and I hasten to answer your queation . " In the first place , you aro right in using your best efforts to increase- tho number of associations for removal of the taxes on knowledge , and I think the question becomes daily xnoro and more approved of by all persons except the Whigs and Tories—both those parties oppose , as they consider government and its profits theirs alone ; and that the spread of knowlodgo endangers their monopoly of power » ind profit .

      " When I look back to tho deputation that attended Lord John Russell , of which you were ono , and hoard his declaration that ho considered the repeal of these taxes <»» ly an a question of revenue , and yet , after the evidence before the committee on that . subject , refused to do anything towards the objects which the association have in view , when ho had tho power , I must protest altogether titfuinsL tho association demeaning themselves to ask Lord John ' s assistance , now that be is out of power , and cannot do anything to aid us in the struggle . Jle will now make professions , I dare say , but I should consider them hollow 'l » d VallleleNS .

      " I consider Lord . John as not sincere an a Iteforinor both civil and ro / iqious : and , after the speech on my 'notion for reform in lHf >() , and his do-nothing policy after-\ vards , when he could have acted and could have kept the "' formers together , and have kept the Tories out of power , would not ]> tiy bint ( be compliment , that you propow . 1 wish I could look on bis speech at- Perth an honest and Nlll < : « ro -which I do not ,: and I therefore object- to the ' * " * Hot'iaf . ion demeaning itself by 1 , 1 k * course you propone . i »// . ' " certainly succeed but , it , will be against both the . "/ " //« and Tories ; and I would bold both parties cheap '" jvgni-d to | , h « . ir assistance . All Mi ,. VVhi ^ H deprecate in words the fettering of the l < 'NH ; and yet , with power in l . hoir hands , they luiooper-! j' /" ' ""' - . ' / refused to knock ojf any ono link of f . hti on-• « i'ni (/ chain , that , prevents tho Hproad of knowledge and "" ; , Vbieati ,,,, of the nation .

      tilt --.-... 1 nopo Unit l \ lr . Cobden and oilier members will ugroo ( V | " » » mo , and that , you will keep a high band , and not the vv <) great o |) j > rosning parties at a distance . ,,, „ '' 1 remain , your obedient , servant , ' <> Mr . (! . I ) . ColleU . " " Johhimi . 11 UMii . "

      Since the last despatches , the Governor-General ' s orders for the brigading of the army of Ava have appeared in the Government Gazette of Tort William and Fort St . George , and such of the troops in orders as have not already sailed are now hastening towards the points of embarkation . The reinforcements for the troops in Buririah are on a scale altogether unexpected , and will swell General Godwin ' s force to five brigades of infantry , each composed of one European and two native regiments , making , with the Sappers and three batteries of Artillery , a land force of about

      16 , 000 men . In addition to these , the flotilla musters about 3000 fighting men , with the most powerful artillery ever yet employed in land or river warfare . No cavalry has been as yet provided , the nature of tbe country having been supposed to preclude the use of that arm . It is , however , considered likely that this omission will be rectified by the despatch of a small quota of native cavalry .

      Immediately after the Governor-General s return from Rangoon , some of the Madras regiments that had been placed in orders for Burmah on General Godwin ' s original requisition were countermanded ; and from this circumstance it was presumed that the Marquis of Dalhousie ' s views regarding General Godwin ' s requisition coincided with the opinion generally entertained in India on the subject , namely , that the force demanded was out of all proportion to any resistance which the Burmese could possibly offer to our arms ; but it appears that the retrenchment that was

      anticipated has not gone further than the keeping back of one out of the three Madras "brigades originally indented for . The magnitude of the force in orders , together with the organization of a steam flotilla for the Irrawady , composed of drafts from the steamers on the Ganges , is considered an evident provision for the permanent occupation of the country ; this latter measure alone , in the opinion of the Bombay Times , " leaves no doubt as to the fact of proposed annexation , though the area to be annexed may be still a subject for consideration . " The preparations which I mentioned in

      my last , for an immediate advance on Prome by the Irrawady , are now nearly completed . The steamers , with flat-bottomed boats in tow , are immediately to take up 2000 men , and " to return for a detachment of similar strength and so on , as long as the river is practicable . " Captain Tarleton's flotilla , consisting of the Medusa , Phlegethon , Plido , Proserpine , Nemesis , and Malianuddy , with the boats of the Fox , Mozuffer , and SpJiynx , are still stationed up the Irrawady , near Prome . It completely commands

      the river , and intercepts all -water communication between Ava and the lower country . In all the country above Prome , the price of rico is reported to have risen in consequence of this blockade to fifteen times its usual rate . Though this will of necessity greatly embarrass the Burmese in their military preparations , it must also ( as the inhabitants of tho upper provinces subsist almost exclusively upon rice ) occasion a lamentable amount of misery to more than a million of non-combatants . By the latest accounts , Commander Tarleton has been relieved in the command of

      the flotilla by Captain Shadwell , of tho tSpltynx . Lord Dnlhousio was at Calcutta , with his eye on Burmah . Sir W . Gonim was at ( 'hence , in the Himalayas . Lord Falkland was at Poonnh . His lordship lias improved in health . His term of oflice expires in April , but it is rumoured that he is f , o continue among uh a year longer . Tlie chief justice , Sir Erskino Perry , retires in November .

      In the last , Overland paper it , was stated that . some seventeen criminals bail been handed over to tho Chinesegovernment , convicted , at a court held on board the United States ste ; nn-ship Susquehanna / i , of having been principals in the murder of Captain Bryson and others , and in ( he piratical captures of the American ship Robert lironmi . The principal evi ( lencens ; aiiiskthese men was that of tho American . seamen : but , this the Canton

      judges would take no note of ; consequently , on tbe second trial , only sufficient ChiiU'Ke evidence could be obtained to bring the ( 'rime home to one , who lias received u sentence of decapitation accordingly . The rest , it is said , will be scut Imek to Kokien , and released . ' Whether the Unilud States- Government will bo disposed to sit quietly under this mode of dealing with a violent outrage on the persons and property of its citizens remains to ho Keen .

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      Tbe Directors <> f the AiimI ralinii I iilumM arrymg Conveyance Company » ro fulfilling Ihc c \ pertatioiin we bad formed of them . Our reader * will ohnorvo dial they havo secured the nor vices of two of I he Mows . Ford , the wellknown earrioru of the West of England .

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      October 16 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . J ?_ _

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      (> "; 'rs iind papers b y the MnrHoillen route , in nnl , i-! , !! ° " ° n < l » u Overland Mail , were received yesterday . ^ dates me— Hombay , Sept . 14 ; Calcutta ^ Sept . 7 ; I 01 > £ Kong , AuguHt 24 ,.

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      The following is an oxl ract from : i letter addressed by Count do Montalenibort to M . Leopold do ( Jailbird , tho author of J ' oliticat . Letters on Switzerland , which are to appear on the JSOI . h of I bin month : " 1 predicted in the Chamber of Peers in IHlH . six weeks before Mm catastrophe of February , Unit tho defeat of tho Sonderbund would be tbe signal tlirougbout Kuropo for a now invasion of barbarians ; and I added that it would not bo either properly or government , but liberty , which

      would perish under the blows of the democratic horde . My prediction has been promptly and literally accomplished . At present I am only the echo of a very g eneral feeling in affirming that the great European Powers will pay the penally , sooner or later , of their cruel indifference towards Switzerland . What has passed in that country for tho last ten years will give a serious and a p ainful lesson to posterity . The hypocrisy and pitiless tyranny of those false Liberals may be studied at leisure , and with that desirtv of vengeance which " is found everywhere , but of which the primitive type is in Radical Switzerland . The apostles of democracy and of human progress may there be seen employing imprisonment ,

      exile , fines , confiscation of property , military execution , and persecution in every shape , against their oppressed fellow countrymen . Universal suffrage may be seen there proclaimed in principle , but shamefully vitiated in practice—the ' sovereignty of tbe people , ' affixed to all cantonal constitutions , but trampled under foot by the 'brothers and friends' of the neighbouring cantons . But , if I mistake not , the world will be confounded at tbe strange infatuation of that ; diplomacy which calls itself Conservative . Yes ! history will scarcely believe that France and Austria , the two greatest Catholic powers in tho world , should have permit ted a handful of demagogues to crush at their very door religion and property , justice

      and liberty , as personified in the most ancient [ Republics and the purest societies in Europe . The neutrality and hesitation of 1847 may be conceived in the midst of the dangers , the illusions , tbe uncertainties of that period , in presence of an opposition formidable by its numbers and determination , and already intoxicated at tbe approach of the triumph in which it was to be buried . But in 1852 , when all is silent , when all bend the head , when experience has proved that it only requires to advance boldly against the danger , in order to dispel it , and to place the hand on tbe monster , in order to annihilate it , nothing can excuse or explain such an abdication of the rights and obligations of a protecting and victorious Government . A man in private life , strong and

      tranquil at home , who would see from his balcony a child strangled in the street , and who would close bis window to avoid going- to the assistance of the victim , would be justly the object of general reprobation , and would deserve to bo abandoned by all in the moment of danger . Monarchical Europe , which could lately deliver the captive Kings of Naples , Piedmont , and Spain ,- which re-established even the Duke of Modena on bis throne , would probably not have suffered the pettiest Prince to be so treated ; and , if the revolution had triumphed in 1848 , we may bo certain that it would nowhere have suffered an affront similar to that which tbe representatives of public law in Europe and the oldest allies of France are now suffering beyond the Jura . "

      A letter from Shiigaglia , in the Papal States , of the 3 rd instant , mentions the execution of twenty-four political prisoners in that town . Eight were shot on the first day , six on the second , and ten on the third . They refused to accept the consolations of religion , with the exception of five . Amongst the latter was a merchant , named Simoncelli , the only one belonging to the wealthy class of society . He expected to have received his pardon up to the last moment , the brothers and nephews of the Pope having interested themselves in his favour . Before he died , lie requested the commanding officer to order his soldiers not to fire at his head , but at his breast . Tbe others marched to death shoutiiiir for Ma / . / . ini and . singing the Mar . s-ei / laise .

      Tbe governor of Warsaw lias given notice ; that the property of tbe refugee Polos abroad , who have not accepted the amnesty , will be confiscated . Tbe elections for the renewal of the grand council of the canton of the Valais , which was one of I he eanlons of the Swiss Somlcrhund , have just taken place . The liberal party have gained a small majority . Tbe Hrus . sels journals of Wednesday contain nolhing to account ; for the delay in publishing tho decrees for the reeonstitution of the Belgian Cabinet . Tbe Nation . stales that its sale at all the stations of the railroads has been interdicted in consequence of its articles against the 1 'Yench ( ioverument .

      A telegraphic despatch from Trieste , dated Oct . 12 , supplies tbe following unintelligible rumour : —Nine thousand English troops have landed near Herat ,, in ( lie Persian (» ulf ; it is supposed that the object , of the presence of those troops is to cause the Persians to respect the independence of Herat , which they threatened . " f Herat is hundreds ol miles from the Persian ( Julf . The road to it lies through <' abiil . | Tbe third annual ( list rihution of prizes in connexion wil li the Windsor Royal Association , look place yesterday in tho Home I ' ark , and wa . s at I ended by an immense

      assemblage of spectators , including all the resident nobility , gentry , and clergy , and many of the members of the royal household . At , two o ' clock I lie nucccsnI ' iiI ami unsuccessful eandidatcs , to the number of 11 <> , sat down to dinner , in a commodious booth at the back of ( ho oriental pavilions , erected by tho command of Iwr Majesty for the accommodation of the subscribers and ( heir friends . At , three o'clock Prince Albert arrived on horseback . The disl ributiou of tho prize ;* then commenced . As I he names were called tho candidates ascended ( lie platform and received their prizes from the band of the Prince , who signed a writ , ten testimonial for each .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1852, page 989, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1956/page/9/