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    mtumuite tfAc * iw" men * nowfalit ©* BW 3 sissing the effects of p *> lifeteslaction *; attd' instead © f sotting their right haiaisp to liffe once * more tlie sfeauliMrds of our flreedomj they use those wHifce an * softened hands to * indite' -with tl £ er best ; steel' pens controversial letters * of oitibhftn on the * more energetic action of our BretHrefi M Amdricst'or elsewhere . Our fair

    correspondent , Ia * rfc veek—ve presume it is a wt > man , though really one cannot always tell meff firoar- w&tst&B : n < 9 w-aMlgyff—wht ) was" lost in a maze c £ scruples as ^ to the right of America to'poftsfcffrCuba , gives us an example of a very common kind . Being a practical people ^ we totally set aside the practical considerations , or we should a » & ourselves 1 what is this " annexation" which so alarms our

    tender hearts ? "What is it hut this *? The people inhaBitibg outlying provinces of an injferior ( ptoveyparkentf choose to be transferred from a Bad , "'feeble , wortHless Government , which does not secure even order , which preveafavfteedbm , and stifles-commerce , to a free Government ,, whose description briefly isj that it secures for the individualand the state

    freedom ,, power * and , prosperity . Look at Teasaa , and say . what annexation haa done for heifj t £ note t& * rescue' her- from' su&feetftm under Hike corrupt . and iingotent Gfoyerhnient of Mexico , and to unite Ear in a confederacy wdilr tne poweifuJ ^ fr ^ e , andTr ^ aperous uiii » n of tha "West £ JBaghily understood * - anaemia tdon m nothing ? more-nor less than federal Hon .

    If Englishmen would look , hard at some of line iaucifuL scruples that now paralyse their actiony the scruples would 6 * asa ] jpear like this * IfttocB la ? said respecting , the' mischief" of secret ; diplomacy ,, and ; it has , been proposed } to establfehalieagueforthe purpose of tearing open 1 tfa& veil ofr diplomacy . Ncrtr tEe veil

    easts onB f by tEe sufferance of EhgEishmen * let them ; once more cease - to make thte > grant of supplies a- ' niatteir of course , and > refuse money to GUjvernment until they Knowwliat the" money is to fee used fbr ,, and' there will Be no occasion , for any League to do . tha work o £ Ifadiament .

    Loud- Campbell has announced a bM , as yet unexplained , which threatens some further invasion of English rights—a bill to prevent unauthorised communications and deputations to foreign Governments . What does . this mean ? where is the necessity of preventing Englishmen ^ by statute ,, from communicating with whom they please ? It is tlie very rigjat of a rebel- Xt is said on behalf of the measure , that it . ia to : prevent such expeditions as Joseph Sturge ' s- to St . Petersburg : soy to restrain , a harmless

    Quaker , from a trip as good for his health- and aa hurtless to his country as a pilgrimage to I * oretto with peas in hia . shoes , a new chain is to be * put upon . , the English people ! It all cornea back to the same truth : if Englishmen ., like fresh , chains around the people ,, to keep Joseph 8 + urge in bounds ; we can only say that we prefer the Englishmen of the sixteenth century , or the English in North America , to our own countrymen at homewhom no League ean free .

    But a League may begin the freedom , if it is prepared for action , on English grounds , with practical objects—and without kid gloves .

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    felony toilet the case finiB& -withithe punish ^ ffisnf ? or Hkrriffon or iFeiciital ; Br is ( juitte evident tnafc the crime done , was not only that committed' upon * the Belgian , nor wasi Harrison the oiuy criminal ) , nor even * Madame iDenis . ; there were , others ; and what iB mare , semcFof those-others aroHihe ^ priine insMgalorBi 'to whom MJadame Denia , and Harrison wefce only agents . Even in the case Before thei ^ EngHsn Court ' , it was sltowtL tfiat there we *©

    " other girls who had been wronged much , ini J tlie" same way with Alice Leroy , and unless i the affair lie hush . ecE ud , these other . qases- also , should be Brought to justice . A Bariapaper ,, ' the Droit } 1 iSL 8 B&own that still further materials might be obtained in the JTreneh capital ,, and : amrma that our police have already been . ) \ seeking evidence tbere .. STow ^ , wnat . i&to ~ he s done witk ihsdf . evicGence E ; It might have Wen . inferred from the pj ? o-

    L cfiedinga lDuour own . eourt , ; that MadasaeDeBisi . was caBr ^ ing , onr a business of great scale ^ - —soj extensive , aa to- involve many , besides the , persons , whom we hare , already Beenj . and- evi-. denJ&g so ; profitable as to render ifeiaipossibl ©? . ta suppose- that she > is tlie only peraoni ; engag ^ d ^ m ifc Independently of , the lower , e&deE , Q £ . daalers ia > bo ; iiafftmotts mcw&m&rce ,

    . therorixuid ; be niaiwlike hecaelf whoiuveist considerable money capital ,, or a large stock of rogue's capital—criminalirigeniatj ^—in ^ i $ am& ; -biusdriess ^ JLtccording' to tfo& Brenchi / paper she ) had' an agent , vrho waa able- to > assxtme idl kinds 1 orf disguises- ; we ^ ftave seen ; rauch-men , and we affirm that a police ^ hich iflvmoit aWeto ^ track them * must be * fiir ^ mwre !

    ^ e-have the gneat ^ parito ^ tfio atory : A woman of middle agej with a putative husoand ; , take ^ a , house woufch , acano hundreds ,, if not , a , thousand < a yeau ueaik Sha employs ag 0 ntfi . in , Paris and IiofccUoL ; : ahe ^ ia able to naakd a . feee use , ofi money , aacL toibay tihat which money only oan purclia 8 e 4—aecraay aad ingeaTutyi . She e « n » cstvy ^ obj » bosmeBB ~ o £ ^ his aeale and ! Dri aknBs » fbr » Iong ? wlr 4 e without exposure ; nothing but a determined ^ woo gew EttST

    vouHg ^ nerom amongw nets ' , Iia 8 'batjfeeii' 1 * i * cwg ! i : the ^ seftresy ^ Tb % police leartife ail' the » eP t ^ ngB-.: tfcey cffli fint the nam ^ and * thefc gemsalbgy of Her 1 tictim ^^ titejr < m !* t&se ¥ mb agefitis tiirougn ; affl kifid ^ t ) f protfeiaii dia ^ tlfees '; tne ^ ' can ; ' 1 SwiPler ac ^ complices to Paris , to Brussels , toifte most secref KattotsoriESigMdR oirto ^ th ^ fTirtlest ' tjarts - of tiie dotet ! nie 4 itf . Bb ^ iiofewflifiatanaiiig W& ' ffcciKjjy in 6 veredmite coti ; cekl ^ feiit « tol t ^ aciiMg ; fug # ! ve ~ s tifacdnM tlfe oB 6 aireSt : ' r 6-

    treats , our police appears , . frain . the flct , unable to identiJy ; e « lle r me " @xeek Praiice ** or fclie "' Old' JSEupquis' **~> ^ . e y ^ Fj ^ odTo whose * demand ' , commemallyj , creates the £ u ro ] y and the Business of Madamfe Denis . f WlnJ © -such ia , tlie fact ^ tEe weed ' ikcut p ^ > not uproofed ' . Ilbi- tEe tf ^ ree ^ Erracel ^ and 1 " tEe Old" SlarquLs" are , tlie truerroota of th « Twee < 5 L Sow war must ^ ajEe , them , eUi ^ ea » ihe police . ai ^ ta staud ^ aoiu ^ i « d , oti ^^

    jor > ooauuvanee ; r , , i N ~ ay ^ con | $ cirucd and gpssip ^ have , been bo ^ for © - the police ^ , andt have ? condemuftcb the ^ inv -nocentr—unless ? anvoasy aGELst&feer bet £ ecti £ yedi . Surmise ; has * already : ^ afltefierd ^ upon the " Greek Princa - ^ ' gossip alroady- points to " thg old . Marq _ uis , " instructing'on © that he ia n&itheu marquis ^ new duk % idecounfc nor baroa . Thet& mu ^ t ^ be Born ©; re ««< 5 tt fer thi «

    aingalar inconsistency , i £ fs& owr Dfetectiveft can-t ^ ceH ^ msGn thi * ug ^ all i ^ of liondon * ^* J Pftris ^^ an j ^ UbW 3 AMceljei . TOf t ^ BelgiutD ^ andtrac ^ her : p € di ^ e--but oaimot follow ^ e&reefePrmce ^' the neigh * bonrhodd-of tiie's ^ aa ^^ feiP tl ^ dia ^ ii ^ rtfiEiib to Belgrariaf , war fssfeai tipottf w j&ffijrfe& y \ £ m f tu&lieeK % XLm&p ^ { t& f ^ fn cur peerage . € an' GSSs' reallVr be ihcoitf-? "

    ^ efcence in-tliepolloe ICitefr / fuBlfer ^ mi ^ st tioris occur . Are ti 3 tep poMe cakm ^ emM Yiatialfy ? 3 ) b tEey tale * briBfcS-tSt W &e © ainf not to speak ,: or , are they under instruct . ttona I and : if so , wha g ^ eB l W ^ i sias ^ e ^ bB . s ? The peerage of ^ hglandi and * the Drihcedoni of Greece stand' responsible for the culprit * who lurk in the Gulden Bopks of " tKe two * coaatries ..

    Meauwhile ^ tKe old Marc ^ uia ^ who probably assists the respectable eWses -of society ia keeping up appearances , would ayer , i as Ioudljf aa others , , that cases , of . this kind are . ' , ' exceptional ; " and takea hia ^ sk ara . with ; others iq hia order , " pillaraof the State , ' * i ^ u county contests- between , blua ^ and . yellow ; , or some other electioneering colaurs ^ for . the mainte * nance of great political , principles . And he would be received- at / the dinner-table and

    tea-table of any parrenui of the middle . classes- !—those great ; depositories of British morals , —as if he . were a god descended' from Olympus to graeo- tbe abode ; of humblen mortals . The English police ' are-not worse than their masters ; The nnsfchod ot making oub that society is virtuous ^ according to its own fantastical rule > consists in noticing only the observance of the rule , or the breach only

    amongst the lower orders ; while people winit at the offences of the higher , and pretend that the offences exist notr in tfaose uppetspliercs . But let us Have- out tne old marquis nnd the Greek Prince , and make therm tell how the case reall y stands . Tf they wild tell , —for truly there ib honour among Marquises , and tli ey are always ready to exchange characters with princps , 6 freek , or German , or American . '

    incompetent td its duties than 5 a Pari& police . -B «^ ifi atpolice can track one- class 6 i criminals , most 1 certafety itfcaii-trftcfe another elaas ,, Pilose very station and avocations readlsr it ; ^ m ^ rep ^ lic i ^ iaii 1 these wretc&ed 5 dealfei * can ? J feei 1 Mb great dealers in manufactures ; nl < hmoiieB ' , in verifti ; persons ih ^ tixe business * ot Madame Benis to , ve their ^ Paris' atfrw « ll as

    wieir * Bon ^ bn' Bbiisers-y and' tneyacqiiSie ; ikr cfeecP , a-sort" of ceiebrHJy ^ yet it isrnpii sur-• prisffig irhaft manjr of their "victims cdhidve with'ih ^ m in Iruslinig'up the nature of their transactions . Bat surely the-poUce are tinder no temptations , or no mstructibns , to copy

    that discretion ? In the case oiTtne Bfel ^ jan 1 —only one sample ,, remember , of a number —we have so many details that more must ' have been , available ; but why is it that publicity stops short ; ,, and does not give us . also ' those other details which arse in many respects even more easy to get at ?

    From the disclosures in Paris * and at Biberich , in . Nassau , it appeacs that , there is a . regular export , of Erench , Belgian , ; and German girls , for consumption- in- England andt America . The emigration of ign . orant Germans to- America ,, for at destination unknown to themselves ^ ia not au oovelty

    Amongst , the earliest colonists of tlie West wjere Gknmam LaboucerBj ealled : " Bedempr tioners , ! ' who ; were sold by people ,, speaking in . a language strange to theni ^ before their facea . The fia . te of the Bedemptionersi , however , wa 8 / far less lamentable- than that of these girls ; wit © might alsoj in the . cruel mockery of modern morals , be called "

    K-e-demptionersf Bince they are cast into perdition , in order that the youth of our societythe young youth and the old—majr , as the phrase goes " sow its wild oats" without disturbing institutions that are fained to go on unbroken . These girls are the Redomptionors , it has been argued "by stern moralists , for saving the fate of the more " respectable " of their sex . " We must leave America to

    WHERE IS THE OLD MARQUIS ? The case of the Belgian girl it is » aid is not yet fiuiBhed , though we very much doubt whether there will bo a public sequel . Not that the materials are at all exhausted ; tho London police are understood to be welL aware that more might bo disclosed ; so that it would bo a disgraceful compTomising of

    defend her own morals as sho may ; but we say that ifc is an inflimous complicity , for the nation , as well as for the criminals oi London , if tho worst culprits are allowed to bo kept in almdow .

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    Ajsmi . 22 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 373

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 22, 1854, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2035/page/15/