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      TO CORRESPONDENTS . The * 'GtovBBisnto Classes . "—The Leader ; September , 1853 : DuJfngS'SioroTStment it is oft en impossible to find room for correspondence , even the briefest . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications Whatever 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 . Communications should always be legibly written .: and on one side of the paper only . If long , itancreases the difficulty of finding space for them . . We cannot undertake to returnrejected communications . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO « < 4 E $ c Seafcet . " Tor a Half-Tear „ £ 0 13 0 To be remitted in advance . rsg" Money Orders should be drawn upon the Strand Branch Office , and be made payable to Mr . Alfbed E . Gallowax , at No . 7 . Wellington Street , Strand .

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      Helfcolana ? and Lieutartant liermpriere ,-tdth ^ dctachmenf of Royal Sappers and Mine ^ , will leaveW for that island , to erect huts , and prepare other accommodation for the recruits . « . •¦« . rw , The Radnokshtbe BoRoCrGHS .--Sir ^ Qeorge Corne--wrall JLewis , son of the late Rig ht Hon . Sir T F . Lewis , M P . lias comeforwardasta candidate to fill the vacancy in the representation caused by the death of his father . In his address to the electors , the hon . baronet says : — " My political opinions , which have always connected me with the Liberal party , remain unchanged . " Admiral Dttndas has arrived in London .

      Command of the Aejiy ix Ireland . —The Dublin Evening Mail announces that " Sir Edward Blakeney , after some twenty years' service , retires from the command of the array in Ireland . He is to be succeeded m his high office by General Lord Seaton , Colonel of the Second Life Guards , and better known to the military world as Sir John Colborne . " Represextatiox of Soutii Wilts . —Mr . Sidney Herbert , having been appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies , has addressed his former constituents . There is no doubt of his return without opposition . Loss of the Hecla . —By the arrival of the Madrid we hear that it is feared her Majesty ' s steamship Hecla has been lost . She had been steaming from Gibraltar to the eastward , and on her return ran on shore . On

      the departure of the Madrid she remained m a very precarious situation , and the crew were busily engaged in getting out the stores . Riot between the Militia asd the Regulars . — Limerick has been the scene of an affray of a disgraceful description . It originated through some soldiers of the 17 th Dep 6 t having struck a militiaman . The men of the 9 th , 89 th , and 39 th Depots engaged with those of the 17 th in the melee . An investigation by the military authorities will be held .

      Affray on the African Coast . —There has been a rather serious affair between the British troops stationed at Christianburg Castle , on the west coast of Africa , and the natives of the town , who showed signs of rebellion . The batteries of the castle fired on the town , and the fire was returned . We lost one corporal and three privates killed , and had twenty-f « ur men wounded . Peace was finally restored . .... ¦ _ Militia . —The first of the militia regiments for foreign service will embark for Gibraltar and the Piraeus about the 19 th inst . . The Old Musket . —An officer of the army says , that despite the recognised value of the Minid rifle , 304 men of the 31 st Regiment are actually about to embark for the East armed simply with the old " Brown Bess . "

      The Inventor of the Screw Propeller . —We hear that M . Sauvage , of Havre , whom the French represent a $ the inventor of the screw propeller , has become insane . He derived no pecuniary advantage from the adoption of the invention in France , arid in 1846 was so poor that Louis Philippe settled a pension on him . When recently his mind became affected , the pension was found insufficient ; but the Emperor having been informed of his position , undertook to provide for him . ¦ "" "" '

      Death of Lieut .-General Hon . II . Cai » el . —This distinguished officer died a few days since at the advanced age of 85 . He was formerly in the Grenadier Guards . The deceased served under the Duke of York in Flanders , and subsequently in the Peninsular campaign . At Cadiz he held the office of adjutant-general . For his services ho received the war medal and two clasps . General Capel was a member of the noble house of Essex .

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      THE PAX . MERSTON CABINET . Will Lord PaiiMEBStok ' s Cabinet be more efficient than Lord Aberdeen ' s ? Everybody expects it—at first . Will it do all that we desire ? Certainly not . We put aside " internal improvements , " Loi'd G-eanville modestly calls them , only observing that the ministerial changes are not favourable to internal reforms of any kind , except the sanitary . Lord JqgN could at least keep up the Reform irritation ; " Lord

      Aberdeen , though bigoted against " extravagant projects , " has given a positive approval to great reforms ; the Duke of Newcastle is well understood to have no opinions or feelings adverse to the largest extension of popular rights . In their place , we have Lord Palmerston , never a lieformer per se ; Lord Pakmuee , a Whig not remarkable- for- reforming- tendencies . ; — and Lord GaANViLiiE , a Commissioner of 1851 , imbued with a desire for the peace of all nations , but not of any marked political

      convictions . The first business of Lord Palmerston's Cabinet will be thoroughly to reform our army departments and our army : will tlvsy do that ? Time will show . Lord Panmure is to have the assistance of Lord EiiiENBOBOUGn , Lord G-rey , and Lord Palmerston ; but not one of these has shown any disposition to effect that real reform which is wanted most of all—the opening of

      our exclusive system of commissions . On Thursday night the Earl of Malmesbury took some paiiis to show thajb the aristocracy —the blood relations of the Peers—in reality hold a very small proportion of the commissions . Who do hold them then ? Certainly men who can pay hundreds and thousands of pounds . Rich men , the regulations tell us ; not gentlemen by birth , Lord Malmesbury insists . Lord Cardigan says that the officers look after the comforts of the

      men—but the men have not the power wanted to look after their own comforts ; and he says the men follow their officers in battle—which proves nothing as to the efficiency of tho army for campaigning . Lord Cardigan is in lovo with his profession ; but how many officers by purchase are so ? and how many men who would bo nrdent lovers of thoir profession are kept out of commission by tho present system—men already in tho army—and still more who would go into tho

      army if they could march to commission through the ranksr ? ' Will Lord 'PAEiaJBston ' s War- Minister breakup that bad system ? We doubt it : he asks for " time /' and says nothing as to the scope of the promised reforms . ^ Will the war be prosecuted with more vigour ? At first ; but Lord Palmerston ' 8

      colleagues talk ominously about peace . Mr . G-ladstone ' s colleague and slistainer , the Economist , laments over war as detrimental to trade and a division of opinion in the present Cabinet as to the objects of the war , makes us suspicious of a premature peace . This tendency must be watched with extreme vigilance .

      It is indeed IIobson'b choice : we have not yet got out of that silly custom by which the Sovereign is expected to run the round of a given set of elderly gentlemen , sending for each till all have had a turn , and then beginning again . Perhaps it will need a degrading peace , a ruinous war , or an internal revolt , to rouse our Crown out of that dream , and to break through the political monopoly of certain families . Palmerston will not be the man to do it—until the people specifically give him the job .

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      EXAMPLES TO ENGLAND . With all our improvements , political as well as social and mechanical , we feel the want of some one thing which shall make us act unitedly as a nation . The same want appears to menace the integrity of the empire : as we give local self-government to our colonies—a gift _ which only supersedes the ¦ certainty of their taking it—we all ask where is it to end ? What is the date of the _ day at which the colonies , retaining no further connexion with the mother country , shall separate themselves and become independent communities ? The same process , though to

      a less degree , is observable in the United States ; though , with far less apparent unity of institutions , with absolute distribution of sovereign rights between thirty or forty separate States , there is still something like community of feeling . The Know-nothing movement against foreign and sectarian interests _ jrMses . a . ^ of ^ Republican Jack Cade-ism , while divisions of opinion ; threaten to sever north on the south ; and the Government , unable to discover what is the want of the entire Republic , shifts its ^ jourse and exhibits itself entirelv at sea .

      Yet our colonies are an admirable school for public men ; and we have before pointed out the advantage which is derived from studying there the Englishman and his institutions . As Lord Elgin says , they are not tlje least enterprising , not the least energetic , not the least pushing of our fellow-countrymen that set off to distant lands to improve their fortune . We have anticipated this statement and pointed , not only to the prosperity of our colonies in America , Africa , and Australia , but to the vigorous manner in . which they have defended their ri g hts , even as the colonists of tho earlier American

      colonies defended theirs . The commonwealth is the strongest power , in every colony . It is much stronger than the Crown , or than tho delegated Government of royalty . But though the English peoplo como out witli all their Bturdincss in . those rogions , they show as much keenness in businoss , and as much tractability as they do in this country . Lord witli of

      Elgin found Canada a revenue . 400 , 0001 . a year , ho left ifc with a revenue of 4 , 00 , 0 , 000 , 2 . ¦ Ho found Canada almost in , rebellion , and at his doparturo he is one of tho most popular men in tho colony . And why ? Becauso ' ho ' has found tliat they , are his countrymen . He has known their life , thefa convictions , their feelings , their determiiia-

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      Lkat > eu Offick , Satimlay , February 10 . Lord Paimerston does not go down to , Tiverton , lest his absence from London might occasion detriment to the public service .

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      Stockholm , Wednesday . It is reported from Bomarsund that the Russian Government is taking strict measures against all those who are suspected of having rendered any assistance to the Allies . About seventy inhabitants have already been arrested . Madrid , Wednesday . In tho sitting of tho Cortes this day , M . Madoz , tlie Minister of Finance , proposed not only tho salo of tho church property , but also that of the communes and of tho State against Three per Cent . Bonds , inalienable . Vienna , Friday . Tho funds have experienced to-day a considerable improvement . Five per Cent . Mctalliques , 83 £ j Exchange on London , 12 , 17 . Tuns' , Friday . Four and a Half per Cent . Rentes , i ) 5 f . 7 () c . ; Thrco per Cent , ditto , « 7 f . 80 c . ; Bank Shares , 29 , 80 .

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      Prince Stirboy has demanded that the Wallachian Divan should voto an extraordinary sum to assis the Sultan in his war oxponBcs .

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      v- ' v _ y - " •— SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 10 , 1855 .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because thereis nothing so unnatural and-convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the ' verylaw of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . ABlfoir * .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 10, 1855, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2077/page/11/