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    our Government to guarantee to his court , even against the disaffection of the colonists . When questioned on the subject lately in Parliament , Lord Glarendon confessed that Spain had broken her treaty pledges , and that Cuban Governors had profited by her bad faith ; but , he said , the Ministry of General Lersundi had promised better behaviour in future , and he claimed credit for the reformed intentions of Spain .

    Since that claim we have had two examples of Spain and her conduct towards England : a piece of ground has been given , after forty years' entreaty , in which England may bury away her dead like dogs ; and the slave trade is kept up in Cuba with as much activity as ever . Lord Clarendon appears to be a Minister doomed to express his trust in foreign potentates , only to prove the extent of his credulity at the expense of his sagacity . Very early in the Turkish affair he declared that the word of the Emperor Nicholas ,

    in disclaiming his intention of uggression on Turkey , was sufficient . Lord Clarendon has had six months' experience , and he is accused of again making experiments in reliance on the Russian Emperor . He has declared his faith in Spanish good intent , with what practical result we have seen . Under these circumstances it is that we learn the existence of a curious report in Madrid . "We are told by a correspondent of the Morning Chronicle that " M . Calderon de la Barca

    had come to some understanding with Lord Clarendon on various matters in which English interests are concerned . " This is alarming . We do not like tins " understandingf" between our mysterious Minister and the Minister of a Power which alternates between begging and repudiation . If " English interests" are concerned , why not state out before Englishmen the nature of the arrangements that are made ? England should understand the " understandings" by which she is to be pledged . But the report is chiefly interesting to us as suggesting how diplomatists , English and Spanish , are disposing of national interests at the expense of all countries , as if they were personal matters .

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    GENERAL HzUJG'S AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION . Our readers will be glad to hear that General Haug , whose proposed expedition to examine the northern part of Australia we explained in our number of 11 th June last , has succeeded in obtainin " the most important assistance towards the acco mplishment of that project . The Treasury has consented to make a grant of j £ 2500 for his expenses . Nothing , we think , can be more creditable to everybody concerned than the result of this affair . Having proved his zeal and ability in the service of his Sovereign , having subsequently

    proved a deeper political conviction and a frank sincerity in the service of European freedom , Ernest Haug has now , in the present doubtful state of public affairs , transferred his keen intellect , his good heart , and vigorous constitution , to the service of practical science . He has received material help from the Geographical Society , and especially from Sir Roderick Murchison , the president , who has not only lent that easily given tiling , his countenance , but has taken much personal trouble to bring about an enterprise manifestly so beneficial to science , and especially to Hcience as applied to the welfare of important communities . The Duke of Newcastle has

    understood his true mission as a minister , and instead of limiting himself to that signal exercise of his power , the conferring upon our most important colonies the crowning measure of their free constitutions , has now , moreover , placed his seal upon * t proposition to extend the scientific knowledge of our colonial dependencies , in this he emulates tlve intellect of Jefferson , who combined the ablest ad ministration , the most statesman-like faculty for organizing constitutions , with an enlightened patronage of scientific discovery .

    J-t is expected that General Haug will set out upon his expedition in the beginning of November , lor Singapore , whence he will proceed to tho northern coast of Australia . The most active Hteps are taken to complete tho arrangement of tho expedition within tho few short weeks allotted to the task . But the same energy which has been nhown in bringing the proposition to its present HucoesHful stage , ensures the completion of tho preliminaries as well as the vigorous prosecution of the real work on the untrodden lunda of Australia .

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    A JUDGE'S IDEA OF A JUDGE . We were mistaken in supposing that Mr . Norton would not perceive the impolicy of adding to his voluminous works on the subject of his own matrimonial vicissitudes : he has written another letter , professing to le an answer to Sir John Bailey . Into this letter we shall not enter ; we have one sole remark to make upon it . He explains that he appointed Sir John arbitrator bej tween himself and his wife ; Sir John being , to I use his own expression , " my sole legal adviser . "

    After that appointment Sir John " continued for a short period to have my implicit trust and confidence , and I at that time wrote him several letters of the most private nature . " These letters have subsequently been printed , and they constituted evidence on the other side ; but into that point again we do not enter , except to observe that Mr . Norton avows having written letters to the arbitrator , in whom he reposed his own implicit trust and confidence , in the expectation that they would be kept private , and apparently under the supposition that they were to be treated as friendly communications . Mr . Norton then saw that the arbitrator had become " completely

    infatuated by a beautiful and talented woman ; an influence , certainly , which it is not competent to us to deny on abstract grounds , for we remember the rule which is said to have prevailed in the Areopagus . " My intercourse , " says Mr . Norton , . " with Sir John Bailey then terminated . " Down to this point Mr . Norton had believed " my sole legal adviser" to be also " my friend ; " a phrase used in a manner which implies vexation that Sir John no longer acted as might have been expected from " my sole legal adviser" and " my friend . " We must remember that this implied complaint is levelled at a person whom Mr . Norton had at all events permitted to assume the office of judge between himself and wife .

    The extraordinary light thus thrown by Mr . Norton upon Mr . Norton ' s view of the judicial position is rendered the more surprising when we remember that he is himself a judge , and has to decide in questions between husband and wife . The method in which Mr . Norton acquired his position may perhaps account for the apparent discrepancy between his occupying it and his entertaining such views . He had been in possession of an office which it was proposed to abolish , and he resigned it when he became assured that he should obtain another by favour of Lord Melbourne .

    From Mr . Norton ' s own account of the affair , it ia evident that in this delay to surrender the condemned office , unless he should have a substitute , and in accepting as a provision to himself a position entailing judicial responsibilities , he regarded himself as not stepping beyond the bounds of correct regard to his own interests . The public will perhaps see reason to regret that offices involving judicial responsibilities should ever be conferred with reference to the necessities of a private

    individual , instead of being reserved for those men alone who are especially suited for the service . Some men , during the many years of occupying such a position , under whatever circumstances they might have entered it , would have rendered themselves competent to tho duties : Mr . Norton ' s letter , complaining thnt tho judge , in the case of himself and his wife , no longer acted as might have been expected from " my friend , " is dated on the 23 rd of September , 1853 .

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    THE MOEMONITES IN SOMERSETSHIRE . ( To Hie Editor of the Leader . ) Sir , —Tiie extraordinary success of Mormonism in Wales has within the past fevr weeks tempted the intrepid followez-s of Joe Smith to hazard a visit to the highly " evangelical" town of Weston-super-Mare . The treatment which they have received here may be taken , I believe , as a . very . fair-sample of what has been meted out to them elsewhere in England . As some interest may pertain to these meetings , in . illustration of the extent of human credulity and ignorance , as of the vindictiveness and tyranny of the unehristianized heart in matters of difference in religions belief , I shall , with your permission , trouble your readers with a brief outline of one or two Mornionito gatherings .

    Three or four Sundays ago I was induced by a riend to go and hear a discourse announced to be delivered in the open air , by a gentleman connected with the sect called the Plymouth Brethren . He was to hold forth at his usual place on the Lower Esplanade . 13 y some means , however , accidental or otherwise I have not learnt , when I reached the spot it was found that the Mormonites had stolen a inarch upon our Christian brother , and had succeeded in stealing away from him not only his pulpit pedestal , but the greater part of his pious orthodox hearers . The Morinonite for sometime passed muster exceedingly

    well , and with Bible in hand , found shelter and a quiet hearing through the mistake of his audience . Passages substantiating tho Jitter-day order of tho priesthood , were descanted upon with fluency , and saving a shower of grammatical blunders with considerable power for one who had never darkened the portals of priestly Oxford or Cambridge . Tho apostlo having at length sufficiently , as he imagined , strengthened tho gullibility of his auditory , proceeded to tell them that ho had been visited by an angel from God , who had directed him to go forth and preach the Gospel , and also umong the faithful to cure diseases .

    Hero an indescribable torrent of ridicule and abuse followed this announcement ; ladies poked tho apostle with their parasols ; indignant brethren foamed at tho mouth with righteous indignation ; and a Hcoro of voices in vain sought to bo heard amid tho noises and tumult of tho evangelicals . Attempt after attempt was made by the poor Morniunito to proceed with bis discourse , till at lawt Captain llowitNon , chivalrous in tho uulpit ub ia the field , succeeded in giving a death-blow to tho day ' s proceedings at Woston , by aunding these" agents of the tlevil" belter-. skolter to the bottomless part of tho bottomless pit .

    During tho week following this exhibition muiours worn rift ) that a second visit of the Mormonites would tuko place on tho ensuing Sabbath . Tho town wus declared in a Btato of siege Tracts , those powerful auxiliaries in fighting the battle of tho soots , were fiooly distributed . DonkieH and donkey-rfrivorN wore alike put in requisition to a \ ra t tho conflict . And when Sunday arrived nothing could exceed tho enthusiasm which tho 1 'lytnoutk Mrcthrot ounecially inunifoated .

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    TIIK BAItBAKIAN TURK AND THIS " ORTHODOX " CIiniSTIAN . Our vigilont French contemporary . La Prexfc , han tho following- jtwfc and well-timed trilmbo to tho conduct of Turkoy as a contrawt to that ; of HuoHia fclio " orthodox , " and ovon of hor wimtom allies , tho " civilized" Powers . Daily powerful journalfl in . tho Kuhhuui iutortmt avo Htitfmati / Jng Turkey uh " barbarian , " " Mivixgo , " "inttdol , " and thoHo officioiifl liiHtrmiientH of 'Russia who are agitating for a Christian flrook-Umpire—tho pot idea of tho Czar—aro Hcarcoly Iohh unmeasured in their vituperations against tho patriotic MuHMilman , in tho fever j > f their ad in nation for thoHo ideal Athenians who ho doftly unite Hie practice of highwaymen with the theory " of constitutional govommont .

    " The noblo conduct" ( ways tho J > reuse ) " of tho Ottoman population ban not perhaps been uufneiontly hold up to our admiration . Turkey is at this inomonfc traversing tho most critical trial that a Stalo can uxporlunco , and yet since last March—for tho last six months—thoro ban not been a symptom of disorder , not a single outbraik , not an insult against I tho freedom of Christian worship . A population ardent , ' intense , blgo « . ed , lot it be said , in » ,,, faith , attacked as it is in ils religion and in its patiiotitim , Iuih conformed with an admirable unanimity , if we may bolievo the uoufonsiou of even semi-oflicliil Austrian journals , to tho recommendations of genorouo toleration which have ornuimtud from tho ( Sultan .

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    This result is at once an honour to the nation and the government . What more or what better could have been done by any strong government , any just government , placed at the head of a Catholic , Protestant , or Greek Christian population ?"

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    GRAND " COO" D'ETAT . The solution bo often expected by our traders may coma now that a Conference for Peace is to meet — not at St . Petersburgh , not at Vienna , not at Constantinople , but at Edinburgh . And the herocB of the demonstration are to be Mr . Cobden , Mr . Miall , and Mr . Bright—any one of them a match for Prince Gortzschakoff . The modern Athens may bring forth some new notion of protecting the Greek Church , and befriending its orthodox Czar—but it was not an * old Scotch habit to preach peace to an outraged nation . Turkey , too , has its border land , and its " land debateable , " and a Peace Conference at Edinburgh -will have as little heed on the Danube as a Brahmin ' s sigh for peace would have had from Eobert the Bruce .

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    IN THIS DEPARTMENT , A 3 ALL OPINIONS , HOWEVER EXTREME , ARE ALLOWED AN EXPRESSION , THE EDITOR NECESSARILY HOLDS HIMSELF RESPONSIBLE FOR NONE . ]

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    There is no learned man but "will confess lie hat . h mucli profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment- sharpened , If . then , it be profitable for him to read , why snould it not . at least , "be tolerable fox his adversary to write .- — Milton .

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    October 1 , 1853 . ) THE LEA DEB . 951

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1853, page 951, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2006/page/15/