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      the separate colleges in turn is defended on the ground t hat if the election were left free , Trinity and St . John ' s would monopolise all the places . Is Cambridge so puerile as this ? Cannot- she i lie trusted to choose her most eminent men without reference to colleges ? If all the best men are at Trinity or St . John ' s , then Trinity and St . John ' s men ought to be elected till worthier spring up elsewhere . If there are already worthier

      elsewhere , the University ought to be trusted , and taught , to find them . Besides , Trinity and St . John ' s are rivals , and would counterbalance each other , as they do in ordinary elections . "We hope Cambridge men wiil endeavour to vindicate their fitness to manage their own affairs according to the common principles of English freedom . The Government , no doubt , means well , and it ouglit not to be ashamed to listen to advice froni those whose interests are involved .

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      THE SANITARY AN 3 > MEDICAL CONDUCT OF / rHE WAR . Our private letters from the camp in the Crimea contain very satisfactory intelligence of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commission . Our readers will remember that we directed attention to the appointment of this Commission as one of the most hopeful measures in the new administration of the war . It has lost no time in setting things in order at the hospitals at Scutari , Kulali , and Therapia . Sewers have been cleansed , trapped , and flushed ; privies have been ventilated , deodorised , and cleansed ; corridors and sick-wards have been cleansed , ventilated , and limewashed j water -supplies have been improved ; cisterns cleansed and roofed over ; hospitalyards and the streets and land adjoining- have been cleansed and reformed ; surface-channels have been made , and scores of dead animals removed . The burials of the dead have been regulated , and the grave-surfaces covered and

      deodorised . The consequence of all this energy on the part of Mr . Rawlinson and his colleagues is , that the hospitals are much healthier , and that a feeling of confidence has succeeded to recklessness and despair . So much for what has been already effected . But it is evident that this labour will be required so long as there is an army in the field , or a man in hospital , and that a sanitary staff must be permanently attached to the army in

      peace or war . What became of all the port wine and of all the quinine is a question that appears to defy solution . The same mystery surrounds the supply of " drugs" in general . " Government , " says one of our letters , " cannot be accused of not sending drugs . There is an amount enough to poison all the armies in Europe . * If the Russians / said a judicious doctor , ' would only take the pills furnished to the army , the shot and shell might be spared . ' "

      We take the liberty to suggest to some " independent" member the propriety of moving for a return of the quantity and cost of the drugs sent to the hospitals and army , as also the quantity administered or expended . " Some apothecary , " says a letter now before us , " must surely have a friend at the War Office . "

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      RELIGIOUS ARRESTS IN SAHDINIA . On the 18 th of March , the police of Nice paid several domiciliary visits , and in particular searched the dwellings of M . Leon Pilatte , and M . A . Gay , ministers of the Waldenses church in that town . They had been instructed to seize all Uiblcs and New Testaments found in the possession of the Protestant heretics , as well as any other works of . 1 religious character . The only remarkable circumstances connected with this display of Romish intolerance , is that it took place in Sardinia . Wo had thought that the government of King Emmanuel was liberal enough to dispense with religious persecution , and strong enough to forbid it .

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      " N . V . "—A TROBLEM . Ethnology fails to do its doty by us . It professes to teach us the diversities of men , and cannot tell us why tho inferior is greater than tho superior . ' Could tho exhibition of different races on Monday and Thursday give U 9 any illustration of tho obscure problem ? Could tho illuminations of Thursday night

      throw any light upon the subject ? To look at them , you would not say that those for whom the triumphal entry into the Royal Castle of the British Empire had been prepared were destined to be the masters of the world . Take the whole cortege , and there were but two objects that could command admiration—the Empress and the Dragoons . Cast them aside , and what was there in coach , or around it , that , ethnologicalJy considered , was stupendous or admirable . The pageant , like all those that are bedizened with gold , had a tawdry look . The Royal

      outridersa cross between the huntsman and the general postman- —riding backwards and forwards like men that were making- a bjjsiness for themselves , having no real duties to perform , conferred upon the procession something of the grotesque and helpless , which was almost made odious by the society of a mounted Prdfet de Police . Pietri the fox-eyed was there , in company . In the first coach sat the fair Empress , with the Elected of December by her side , and the wedded of Queen Victoria before her . The Chief Commissioner for the Hyde Park Exposition of 1851 was dressed in a Field-Marshal ' s uniform , and

      was radiant with satisfaction at the success of the marching and counter-marching to and from the railway-station . Is he a Field-Marshal ? Has he ever marshalled a field ? Did he look as if he could wield one army against another ? A very comely man is Prince Albert , suited to grace a carriage or a Royal

      Commission ; but what supremacy sits upon his brow that should distinguish him from many a well-grown man in the multitude ? As to taking his place amongst the Guards that rode round his carriage , he is not quite tall enough , and he lacks that martial air which is required for the dragoon ; though it is not needed for the " Field Marshal . " _

      The Elected of December is a pi-oblem : his ethnology is obscure . A husband without progeny , " he is an heir without a certified genealogy . After him came the Counts and JBarons that form his suite and instruments . To judge by these coachfuls , France , you \^ ou ld say , is divided into two races—one formed of thick stout men , who would be stalwart if they were notfat ; \ yhp , w ^ uld _ bejiandsome if they were not so snub-nosed ; with round faces , aurly hair , short necks , full chests ,

      and a certain heavy lightness , a serious vanity , which combines pinguity with promptitude . This is a new race in France , —the parvenus who have advanced from the Bourse to the Palace , and who invest the vulgar with the dignified . The other race belongs to a past day , but had its specimens in the coaches . It is a tall race , with long face , longer nose , sunken cheeks , and a solemnity of countenance amounting to the austere and desponding . One burly specimen of the novus homo swells

      his chest , and gazes radiantly around , feeling that he is master of the situation ; another visitor , a majestic specimen of the vetus homo , gazes with long-nosed solemnity and moveless eye upon the cheering crowd , as if the vieille noblesse were pondering the inexplicable problem of a modern mob unconstrained ! Yet tho vieille noblesse , suspected , disinherited , tried a la lanterne , still survives and asserts itself in the new regime . France is a strange

      country . Its other races , more numerous , were unrepresented in that procession . The not gigantic Gael , the irritable Breton , the semi-Spaniard of tho South , tho races who people tho great kingdom , nro not admitted to Court , and do not share its visits . France is a country peopled by ono race of ancient origin , and adulterated by others from South and East ; officered by a Frank minority from tho North ; and ruled by the Foreigner . Repeatedly has

      it occurred that " the Fifth Element , " the Italian , has been the Governor of the French . The occupation of Rome does not retaliate the oppression which Macchia . veli . 1 has put upon the Grande Nation . A Corsican subdued it , and a Dutch shadow of a Corsican can bold it in subjection . It would have been a fatal test for the English nation , had the French Emperor and his Spanish wife compared the multitude which they saw on entering London with a Paris concourse . The indolent circles of the

      labouring- class were celebrating- St . Monday ; it was a concourse of idle apprentices , recruited by the classes dangereuses , ' with a large sprinkling of the mixed population of ease and business . On Thursday , when the Imperial pair went to the Guildhall , the comparison from the Paris point of view might more fairly be made ; for London had turned out . The contrast was

      complete . That composite nation , which is ruled by foreigners , officered by Franks and manned by Gauls , —which not long since speculated upon the same march with a different kind of triumph , —could see the race whom it once proposed to conquer , and perhaps still speculates upon subduing . After and before came those Saxon descendants of the Norman

      invaders , who with the thin trace of Norman blood , seem to be losing the Norman capacity of rule ; relinquishing- the hold of aristocracy and power to the Saxon , who is incapable of producing either an aristocracy or a g-overning class . For your true Englishman lacks that love of mastering others which makes conquerors , statesmen , and " the great . " He " cares for nobody , no not he , " if nobody wiU interfere with him . He covets an allodial

      possession of the land , and he detests feudality . With that hereditary elect of peasants and Praetorians rode the aristocracy that has broken down at Sebastopol , marched the soldiers that cannot fight for want of officers ; marched also the old Saxon warrior , " the constable" in new uniform ; and on either side stood the people , that are reducing their own Government to a

      minimum , and look so jolly over the decline of their empire , because the Funds are above 90 , and factory business is increasing faster than customers . Which of those composite races has the better of it ? " WhichTis ^ ^ ultimately to rule ? Is it the Englishman , who cares for nobody , no not he ; or the Frenchman , who believes that Franco is destined to rule the world ? Waterloo failed to solve the problem : was it settled in crossing Waterloo-place ?

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      April 21 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 377

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      Tjik Foijcy-pi-aob Muki > k « . — It ha * been ascertained that at tho time of the murder or Mr . Joseph Latham by Uuranelli at tfoley-p lace , tho former was possessed of &GQI in Hank « r Kngluml notes ,. It ia surmised that at tho time ho was murdered the above parcel . was under his nillow ami that they were abstracted from there by some person during tho confusion consequent oil tho horrib o event . The numbers are known . A 100 / . and a 10 / note have been paid into the Hank of England since ' < ho murder . A reward hiw been offered for tho missing notes , or for information as to tho person who paid the two notes into tho Bank .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1855, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2087/page/17/