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      tion of Canada . The Legislative Council , hitherto nominated by the Ministry , is to he elective , in future . The change is proposed by the Government , and meets with general approval . The new American Charge d'Affaires , at Naples , is Robert Dale Owen , son of Robert Owen , tlic Socialist . The southern planters are organizing a direct trade with Europe : " to build up a southern importing market , in opposition to New York , " being part of the proposed measures . describe

      Gold , fires , steam accidents , and murlers , the latest Californian news . Some newly-found diggings are very rich , and the mines , generally , were doing very well . Several fires bad occurred : in one case a secret powder store was very nearly exploded , but , even while the fire progressed to within an inch of it , the owner , fearing the law , kept silence . But , after the fire , the fact became known , and he has been arrested . A young man , named Ackerman , a native of Southampton , ' has been hanged , at San Francisco , for murder . Two accomplices suffered with him . They smoked cigars on their way to the scaffold .

      Santa Anna makes progress in despotism . He has disarmed private citizens , suspended all legislative authority , and retains the telegraph for his own use . The army is being re-organized , and hostilities against the United States , on the boundary question , are daily threatened , and military operations against Governor Lane were reported as having been directed . A revolt of National Guards , at Vera Cruz , has been crushed . A new cargo of slaves—numbering 850—has been landed in Cuba .

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      STATUE OF C ( EUB BE LIOK Opte of the finest pieces of sculpture in the Crystal Palace was a colossal equestrian statue of Ilichard Cceur de Lion . Karon Marochetti was the artist . It is now proposed to have this work cast in bronze , and erected on some suitable site in London , as a handsome and appropriate memorial of the Great Exhibition . The most intelligent of the English aristocracy have united for the purpose of carrying out tho proposal . A meeting was held on Saturday , and many men in high

      places and of high repute were present , to countenance the undertaking . Lords Lanedowne , Clanricarde , Eglinton , Granvillo , and Canning , were the most distinguished peers ; among the commoners there were Baron Parke , Sir John Pakington , Sir Benjamin Hall , Sir Charles Wood , and Mr . Labouchere ; while Literature , Science , and Art , were represented by Mr , Maeauliiy , the Dean of St . Paul ' s , Sir Roderick Murchison , and Mr . Austen Layard . Lord Lausdowne praised the statue highly : —

      "At tho time o £ the Great Exhibition I never approached it without being struck with tho high order of merit of the equestrian statue to which this meeting relutes . I never went there without stopping to admire it , and when that Exhibition and nil its component parts were pone , there still lingered about tho place a lively , a pleasing , and a striking recollection of that most magnificent work of art . That was my impression ; but that signifies little ; but I certainly did find , on subsequent intercourse with society , mid in communication with persons of nil degrees , morn especially those who might ho considered more competent judges than myself , that thero existed a singular -I might almost uny n completeunanimity of opinion as to the merits of that Rlatue . " Lord Grunvillc , n . competent judge , also spoke warmly of the work and of its author : —

      " With regard to the fitness of the selection of tho equestrian statue bv Huron Muroehetti , you have authority and popular favour on all sides in its support . 1 believe there aro several persons present , who arc ! personal i ' riends of Huron Murocholti , but 1 think 1 may safely nay all of them havo acted in this matter , and promoted this plan , not from any feeling of that sort , hut because , we believe it would he agreeable , advantageous , mid honourable to this country . ( Cheers . ) 1 do think Unit it is a luippy accident that thin tribute of respect should bo paid to the

      genius and talent of one who has achieved a Kuropeun reputation , and who has heroine one of us by settling among us -Unit Mils tribute should bo paid at a lime when one oft lid most gallant and distinguished members of that gallunt house of which he is u subject is paying his first visit to this country ( loud cheering ) , -and that it should ho tit . a timo when tho Jiuron Muroohetti is entertaining under his own roof , as a fellow-labourer in art , Signor d'Azeglio , one of tho most distinguished men of art of his time . ( Applause . )"

      And Mr . Lnbouchere's remarks fitly completed the panegyric of tlni work . I To said" It was not the loss suitable memorial of the Exhibition that it happened to lie made with the bauds and endued with the geuiiiH of ono wiio was not a native of (» reul . Jtritain , and who , therefore , represented the catholic and generous feeling which preceded tho conception of tho ( Jrcut Exhibition , and which , he must , nay , animated tho people of that country in tlio support they guvo to it it , wiih not tho lens suitable representative of ' that feeling h << - n « une it happened to bo the work of u foreign artist 1 ' lond cheering ) , i | , would ho tin incentive to all to cull i \ ul-e the Hiinici generous nnd enlightuned lcolinga iti future times , and , ho fur from noting injudiciously or unputriotically in

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      selecting a foreign artist , and patronizing foreign art , they might depend u on it that they were best promoting the surest and most enduring interests of art in their own Country . ( Applause . ) " . # A committee was formed to organize subscriptions , and Lord Lansdowne not * inaptly remarked , in conclusion , that" England was a country celebrated for ita production of tho best and finest horses , but as yet it was not renowned for its bronze steeds . ( Cheers and laughter . ) They would soon have a bronze sire , and the result , He hoped , would be tho production of a large progeny bearing the characteristics of their admired progenitor . ( Cheers . )

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      DOINGS AT THE MANSION HOUSE

      The Lord Mayor of London has been using the resources of his position on behalf of Science and Ait . The Government plans for the diffusion of scientific knowledge and artistic taste especially require popular co-operation , and the aid of influential men in all parts of the kingdom : and the municipal institutions seem the best organizations to supply this agency . The Lord Mayor , therefore , gathered around him a host of mayors and provosts , numbering three-score , and called together to meet them the most eminent statesmen , artists , and men of science now in the metropolis . A dinner on Tuesday evening was the first occasion of assemblage , and these hospitalities which mayors can so

      well appreciate , were unsparingly and handsomely dispensed . On Wednesday , the business of the movement was transacted . In the long parlour of the Mansion Honse a conference took place . From every town of note in England , Ireland , and Scotland , representatives were present . Mr . Cole and Dr . Lyon Playfair were a deputation from the Department of Practical Art . Both those gentlemen stated the intentions of the Government respecting Science and Art . The proposed Schools of Design will be established * on a self- supporting basis : it ensures a local spirit , and makes the schools respected by the pupils who pay for instruction . For the first year of the establishment of the School , the Board of Trade will

      guarantee a salary to the teacher in aid of the fees , and will also supply models and drawings at half the usual price . Scholarships open to pupils of the local schools will be established in the London Central School . This system has already worked well ; several schools have , through it , been rendered quite self-supporting . The principle of the education in these schools , will be the instruction of children in the elementary truths of Art and Science—not the exhibition of scientific results to adults , as was the old plan . The wish of the people to know these elementary truths is now well known : in Jerinyn-strect , tho lectures have been continually well attended .

      The state of the schools , in the provinces , and the temper of the people , regarding them , were witnessed by the assembled mayors . Some suggestive statements were made . In Liverpool the working classes are steadily improving in knowledge of their separate crafts : they can now understand the most elaborate plans , nnd can criticise designs . From Glasgow comes the same report . In Dublin , tho Royal Dublin Society manages the schools of design , with good effect . In Edinburgh , the schools of design are Belf-nupporting . In Leicester and Chester nothing has been done ; and , in Hull , there lias been the same inactivity , directly

      traceable to tho clergy , who have " stopped the way . ' In all parts , however , a general wish is expressed to cooperate with tho Hoard of Trade . Mr . Redgrave , who bus had opportunities of observation , remarked that he could not agree with tho reports from Glasgow and Liverpool : he thought the workmen of this country know little or nothing of design .. After these varied testimonies , tho conference was brought to t \ conclusion , in a very municipal manner . " Como and dine with mo , " said the Mayor of Southampton , " and I'll show you Mr . Vanderbilt'H splendid yacht . " The mayors present , accepted the proposition with loud cheers .

      In tho evening , thii Lord Mayor had a conversazione , when ; tho muster of high dignities and eminent public men wan very large . Among tho list we notice the ; Archbishop of Canterbury , and tho Bishops of Winchester , Lichfield , Landafl ' and Limerick ; . Judges Oolorid ^ o , Wi ^ htinun , Tulfourd , Parke , Knight Unutc Turner , and Stuart ; Sir John llennie , Sir . lumen Stephen , Sir I . F . Herschell , Sir Charles Hurry , Professor Sedgwick , Mr . Owen Jones , Mr . Charles Knight ; the Dukes of Newcastle and Argyll , Lords Lansdowno , ISreiididhunc , Aberdeon , Grunvillo , John Russell ; t , ho Chevalier Bunsen and ( loininodoro Vundorbilf . Tho evening passed in conversation , refreshments , and u supper , ut , midnight .

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      A UN () L I ) 11 ( J ( 1 K . Aiinimi ) Hi'nic , who has become ono of us by his residence in Kngland since 1850 , i * proptirin ^ to give looUncs in London on Gornmn Liforuturo and Philosophy . Tho 1 Mb and philosophy of Hugo havo boon tho

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      subject of many biographical notices in German publications . A correct account may be found in the book entitled Die Triarier , David Frederick StrauHs , Ludwig Fuerbach , and Arnold Huge , tind ihr Kampf fur die moderne Geistesfreiheit . Kassel :. J . C . T . fiapbe , 1852 . The following is an extract from this book : — " Arnold Huge was born in 1802 , in the Island of Riigen , on the coast of Pomerania , his father being a farmer . From the school of Stralsund , he went to the Universities of Halle , Jena , and Heidelberg , where ho dedicated himself originally to classical philology , and was one of the leaders of the German Burschenschaft , or Confederation of Students , and of the Bond of Freedom and Unity of all German Races , for the membership of which lie was imprisoned for six years at Kopnick and at Kolberg , a fortress in Pomerania . .

      _ . „ , ., „ , , " In prison he translated several Greek authors , of which only the CEdipus in Kolonos has been printed . Plato ' s Philosophy he studied thoroughly , and when , in 1830 , he was pardoned by the King , he published his PJatoman JEsthetics . as a specimen of learning , in order to inteoduco himself to the Professorship of the University of

      Halle . it . " Having married a young lady of some property , he went with his wife for a year to Italy , in order to study the artistic treasures of Florence , Home , and Naples . Hut when he returned to Halle , he felt the importance of the Hegelian philosophy , and retired for two years into the country , dedicating himself entirely to the works of that great master of German science . He then-lectured on the Hegelian Logic and Metaphysics , on ^ Esthetics , and Moral or . rl Pr . 1 itir-. al PhilosoDhv ( Naturrecht ) .

      " In 1838 , he united himself with his friend Theodor Echtermeyer , and published the Hallische Talerbucher fiir Deutsche Wissenschaft und Kunst , a review in which all the independent young men of the Hegelian school combined , and which " exercised an important influence in the struggle of the period . " By this review philosophy became again a power in literature ; it ceased to be a dead letter ; and the editor could say , without contradiction , 'Our journal is apiece of the history of our time . ' lease

      " But this proud position of a philosopher did not p the King of Prussia , and some months after the death of Frederic Guillaume III ., and his philosophical and scientific Minister , Altenstein , Dr . Huge received a Cabinet's order of the new King , commanding him to print his review in Halle instead of Leipsic , and to place it accordingly under the censorship of the Prussian police . As this could not be done without destroying the journal , Dr . Ruge sold all his property at Halle , and emigrated to Dresden , where he was elected a member of the Towns Commissioners , and continued the review until

      1843 . "But when the review recognised the critical works of Strauss and Fuerbach as a progress in sciences , and when Huge declared ' progress in mankind is progress in thought and science ; thinking men rule the world ; thoughts are the most successful weapons and the most powerful batteries ; therefore principles and TKUE thoughts overthrow the rotten boroughs of bygone ages in society and religion , ' the review was suppressed as dangerous to tho Stato and the Church , a sentence which was confirmed by sixty members of the Saxon Parliament , who , at the same time , declared unanimously , that ' they had never read tho review , and did not know a word of the Hegelian Philosophy , but that they felt quite sure thnt by no other means the King and their own creed could bo saved . '

      " Dr . Huge felt so disgusted with these mean tools of despotism , that he emigrated for some years to Paris ; and when they called him a traitor to bis country , which ho could riot help calling mean and degraded , lie answered : — ' Liberty has no home , as well as Truth has none with a particular nation , and the whole globe is the only worthy monument of tho human mind , by whom it ia formed : each particular country is nothing but a flag of discord amongst mankind ; but liberty is the standard of the unity of all . ' "Ho tried now in Paris , where he resided for two years , to publish a combined German and Fro rich review ; but tho circulation as well as tho combination of French and

      German writers proved to ho imprhctieuble . Then ho retired to private life , and wroto a book , Two Years in 1 ' aris , 1 HK 5 , in which he anticipated the full freedom of mankind , which continental reality would not admit . Monsieur Guizot . ( induced by Prussian diplomacy ) ordorcd him to ( iiiil Paris . He then lived two years at Zurich , and published hiH Sawt / ichc 'We . rkA ( his own collected writings ) , in ton volumes ; and , returning to Leipsie , in Saxony , ho established a publishing oflice , 'J ) us Verbigsbureuu , ' and printed , in 1 H 1 H , in January , a new review , the Academy , n . philosophical periodical , wliich was destined to spread scientific knowledge in an artistic form amongst the people at lnrge . "In February , 1818 , when the revolution broke out , Jtugn ji . ssinled Ilium nnd his party in tho Snxon reform advancement- In May ho was elected by tho city of

      Hreslu . ii us a member of tho Frankfort Parliament ., which , in « luly , after tho election of tho Archduke John to tho central government of Germany , ¦ - --thnt is to say , after tho restoration of the old sham Confederation of Germany , — he left for . Merlin , in order to establish thero the Reform , » i nmvHpnpcr of tho democratic party in tho I ' russimi Parliament . By Uio coiiji-d' / 'litf- of the King , when the Parliament was turned out by soldiers , and the courts shut up , and the proHH destroyed , Dr . Huge lout bin newspaper - -the If . ifontt , the use oi" his printing-oflico at . Merlin , and even hm publishing oflieoof the ' Vorlugsburenu , ' at Leipsie , which , by the Nuxon authorities and by the men to whom he was obliged to < tnlrunt it , woro eonlnouted idl togolher , no thai , lu ; is now deprived of his own books which ho wrote , printed , ami published . "Ah long an JJrumon wn « not yet tmbduod by tho party

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      560 THE LEADER . [ Saturd ay ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 11, 1853, page 560, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1990/page/8/