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    litary ambition commenced the insurreca ; but middle class discontent , and peaft class poverty , uneasy despite the spiritassu . ageuien . ts of the demoralised priests , jontinning the revolt . If it prove success-, and that is the probability , the revolution mot be the replacement of one despotism the other , —turning out a female govern ' s Maire du . Palais , and giving power to oldier-dictator . The men . who commence

    i not often the men to complete such vements ; after the O'Donnells coiae the [* arteros ; and some sort of constitutionjin anttstsetm , whether the Queen remain , whether the throne comes , by dynastic ispiracy , into other hands . The proclamans of the generals speak of constitutional brm , and of the organisation of a militia , which , in such a country as Spain , would iure the people liberty— -as it would e-veii England . And Spain will do as well another country to set an European

    unple ;—Borne even , the last capital sn thought of for the initiation of rein , answered the purpose excellently- in 47 . Fortunately , as a providential prolion in guard of human freedom , peoples ee sympathies . and are partial to political micry . As Spain , successful in a revolun , would not be permitted to round the > rk in Madrid , so it may be possible that 3 idea—\ Revolt ~ did jiot commence in her rn capital . The Spanish despotism is onlv

    portion , and the weakest , therefore assailed e first * of that political system against rich England has risen at lust , and vrhich assia , in the varwe have begun , hideously presents- ^ - " by authority . " The blow ruck at St . Petersburg hit , very hard , at tenna also ; and there is a solidarity among imerillas which may account for Madrid , in e first instance , indicating sensitiveness ;—e hot sun there bringing- the blossom to a uifc soonest , May it grow .

    We have got to the fifth act of the Spanish marriages . " It would be dramatilly interesting if Louis Philippe ' s policy ould triumph , after nil ; and if only for nsiderations of poetical justice—regarding e ^ victim not with vindietiveness , but still ith a sort of hopeless pity—it Avould be easant , though but an Orleans , always afty and patient , were to succeed—to get i of one Bourbon . At the same time let i not throw all the bkme for these

    disasous Spanish politics upon Louis Philippe , bhor that intriguer , and all his kitli , our ourt ' s friends , as much as we , a nation of mily men , nro bound to do , for the Mezenin marriago lie insisted on between young abella and her cousiu , But let iis reember that our own Whigs commenced , e mischief by their traditional cant as to io " blessings of Constitutional

    Goverwent , " this cant having led to tho instiition of a female sovereign in a manly , bust , southern , and always respectable , iliion . A military i * evolt , i ' u this instance , i , ppens to mean a man ' s revolt ;—the nation ight . endure a Court ' s despotism , but not a ; uoen ' s bully ' s despotism . Yet if tliero be dynastic intrigue in the interest of Monteolhx ?

    The world is very wonry of the Bourbons , fherevor they nre , they are accursediserablo , and tho cause " of misery . Those ho trnco God ' s government of mankind will at refuse to detect tho punishment of a 11 ouso ' s" ccnturioa of crime against huanity in tho horrible < Wni < latum of tlmt totiao

    ' a representatives . The dread ol ' a Bonr-DnrJ ^ mo establishes in 3 ' Yanoo a Napoleonic aspotism ; and ovon loysvl fanatics turn with isffUHtfroni -fcho prospect of'Suoh nnilor iua io cousinly Conference nt 1 'Yohadoif would iivo provided for a grout people , hi Parma , i individual daggor nvongoB ( and society

    condemns without cmrsing the criminal ) an outraged community , the assassination being accomplished under circumstances which all but justified the deed—when the wretched Duke was slinking from his palace to defile a woman . In Naples , a Bourbon king represents all that is detestable and depraved in even kingly nature . One Bourbon the less would be a gain ; and we may await with hone something more from this Spanish revolt .

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    USEFULNESS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . Thejie is a tendency in the . sublimest institutions and in the finest instruments to degenerate to base uses . ^ Temples , get into the hands of money-changers , and the bones of Alexander stop a aask . P . erltaps the Alhambra , when Washington Irving visited it , was not the less beautiful a temple because rat-catehers advertised themselves in its

    purlieus , but it lost efiect in such mean associations . The eleplaant is , of course , the more magnificent animal , beeause he can pick up pins , as well as rend trees . But if we see him in the Zoological Gardens only picking up pins , we cease to feel respectful . Our House of Commons , it is the glory of our Constitution , is equal to ruling the world and dealing with the most wretched minutiae of popular" necessities . But , then , if the House of Commons prefers dealing itterely with the minutiae ?

    On Tuesday night Mr . S . G-reen , who appears not before to have been heard of in Parliament , and who seems to be less M . P . than Chairman of an improve"ment-in-printing-maehinery-Company , put the Government in a minority on a question of whether or not it was the legitimate function of the House to inquire into the probability of printing for one farthing that amount of

    literature which cannot now be produced for less than one penny . The division included numbers enough , with a majority sufficiently large , to indicate a decided conviction in the House generally that it was the business of the House of Commons to assist Mr . Cassel ] , Mr . Reynolds , and such like publicists , in cultivating the reading tastes—by cheapening the supply of edu

    when the House of Commons , by a clear majority , is of a decided way of thinking on a question not involving principle , it is presumption to contend against its sagacity ;—let us , therefore , only express a hope that as tho House has determined to abide within the regions of what has been insultingly called over-legislation , it will not stop short in inquiries as to tho competitive pretensions of different printers . AVe might prefer that tho House of Commons should devote itself rather

    to conducting war and organising peace , but as it takes a different view of its proper functions at this period of history , it is excusable in its constituency insisting that it should develop © its elephantine powers iu picking up all tlie available pins . If it be proper to investigate the claims of Jones ' s printing-press

    as against Smith's , thus saving . Reynolds and Cased 1 considerable experimental outlay of capital , why should it hesitate to diverge into commissions of inquiry as to what booka should be bought , what" papers should bo buI > - scribed to , what lecturer wo should patroniBO , and at what theatre least lieat and most amusement is to bo found ? There ia a

    controversy among tho youthful nuuily intellects of liho tiny ns to which of tho many patented tmirta aro the most entitled to British patronngo , and the merit h of hop ohampngno ngaintit tho ruoro established pretensions ot Allsopp aro so frequently discussed , that tho llouso of Commons would bo doing u general service by appointing a committee to report

    authoritatively . The House of Commons is no daubfc a publishing firm , which is the excuse for its intervention with respect to printing machinery ; but the House of Commons ia also a body depending for nourishment -upon special refreshment-rooms of its own , ; whA $ h has to vary its linen ; which on . Saturday afternoon must take to publie amusements or popular reading ; and obviously , therefore , the public has claims on its attention , in regard to all such matters . And if the House of Commons undertakes to superintend the moral health of the .

    multitude , should physical health be neglected ? Is the House of Commons prepared to-debate and divide on homeopathy , the water-cune , and animal magnetism ? Will the House of Commons superintend the popular diet and publish a blue cookery-took ? There can be very little doubt that if the House of Cominons perseveres in its present anxieties about everything , it will increase in what is called public usefulness . But if it leaves public policy to a cabinet and ceases to have a nobler ainbifcioo . than that of being useful , will it increase ia public power ?

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    THE BRITISH OFFICER . In Tuesday ' s Times we read the inspiriting account of the departure of a regiment for the East on the previous day : — " The senior and junior companies of the 46 th Regiment , consisting of 200 rank and file , -with 22 non-commissioned officers and drummers , marched , from the Infantry Barracks , "Windsor , under the command of Captains OToole and Hardy , Lieutenants Shervington and Knapp , and Ensigns Helyer and Townsliend , preceded , by the baud , playing Cheer , Boys , Cheer , ' and ' Jeannette and Jeannot . '

    They were loudly cheered "by their comrades in garrison , and by the spectators who lined the streets for some distance from the barracks . The men appeared in high spirits , and were accompanied to the Southwestern Railway Station , by Colonel Garrett and the whole of the officers of the regiment , except those on duty . The train , consisting of fifteen carriages , started at ten o ' clock , the inhabitants and officers giving three times three cheers , which "were , heartily answered by the troops . "

    The regiment went an its way to Southampton , to embark in a vessel winch } at Cork , would take up the head-quarters and service companies of the Sixty-third Foot , "to proceed , " say the journals , " for Constantinople direct . " J 3 ut there is an impression that the men are to go straight to Sebastopol . It is a glorious service . Officers and men might well cheer . But , stop ! Is not this the regiment in which certain officers lately trausacted battles of a kind different from that between the Russians and the Turks ? We nave an impression that recently , while the regiment was at Windsor , ouo officer persevered in " pulling about " another , —dragging him by his coat collar , squeezing his ribs , and otherwise tormenting him , for the purpose o £ forcing liim to gamble ; that the afflicted officer , who " wears a sword iu her Majesty's service , " defended himself with a pair of candlesticks ; and by those weapons brought his brother-officer to reason , and to a contemplative posture over a washlvaucl bason , in which ho sluiced hia "bleeding face . It was said at tho inquiry into these chivalrous combats that tho man who resorted to this peculiar welf-doienee had done so aftor a long string of persecution , in . tho course of which Uia brother-officers had compelled him to geb out of bed at night , aiul perform tho sword oxercitto naked . It iu not exactly said which of tho oflicera took part in tlieso , dramatic entertainments ; we supposo tho officers on duty were- oxcopted , as thoy aro iu the embarkation hcouuh ; but-, at all events , there aro more than two ollicera who can coaaont either to perform tho yart of posture-master ia that upeoienof ballet , or tho 8 tiU'xnore > disgraceful |> art ofaudiuuue . It ia thuaiofUcervd that tho regiment aeUi forth ou its gallant

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    July 22 , 4854 . ] THE LEADER . , ^ # 3

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 22, 1854, page 683, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2048/page/11/