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      Me . John Frost , the Chartist , writing from New York on Juae 9 th to a Mend in London , # && *** •»*«» £ desire to return to his . natire « " * & . j £ * : «*« £ ^> £ £ S * Sr 3 = s £ 5 = srJ no " t deny his natural and touching request . State ; of Trade . — The trade reports of the various manufacturing towns for the week ending last Saturday , describe scarcely any alteration , a moderate and steady , but not animated , business being still the feature in almost all districts . At Birmingham and Nottingham , a greater feeling of c 6 nfidence has been engendered by the disappearance of insolvent firms ; but we are sorry to find that the accounts from the Irish linen markets indicate a cessation of the recent revival of activity .

      Foreign Ships and the Post-office . —A correspondence between Messrs . Sinclair , Hamilton , and Co ., and the Post-office , has elicited the fact that , according to a standing regulation , mails are not despatched by any foreign private ship that may leave this country , even although the senders may desire it . Mr . Massey , M . P . for Newport , has been appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department , m succession to the Hon . W . F . Cowper , now President of the Board of Health . —Globe . Fire and Loss of Life . —A pawnbroker ' s shop near Bermondsey-wall has been burnt to the ground . Four of the inmates perished .

      A Poor Woman , the wife of a sailor now serving in the Baltic , has complained at the Westminster policeoffice that she has been unable to obtain at the Admiralty the half-pay which her husband has transmitted to England . Many other sailors' wives , she said , were similarly treated .

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      Leadeu Office , Saturday , August 18 . ATTACK Otf THE TCHERNx \ YA—DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS . War Department , August 17 . The following important telegraphic despatches have been received from Lord Panmure : — "Varna , August 16 , 1 . 30 p . m . The Russians attacked the position on the Tchernaya this morning at daylight in great force . The action lasted about three hours , but they were com . pletely repulsed by the French and Sardinians . The Russian attack of the morning was under the command of General laprandi , with from 50 , 000 or 60 , 000 men . Their loss is estimated at between four and five thousand . About four hundred prisoners have been taken . The loss on the side of the Allies is very small . Further particulars will be sent .

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      REOPENING OF THE BOMBARDMENT . War Department . Lord Panmure has received the following intelligence from General Simpson , dated Crimea , 16 th August : — . *• .-. " General Pelissier and I have decided on opening fire from the English and French batteries at dawn to-morrow morning . "

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      THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO FRANCE . The presence of a Queen of England as a guest in the French capital ia in itself a great and happy event ; and if she were really the guest of the French nation , an event more full of good omens for humanity would scarcely have occurred in the history of mankind .

      But , unhappily , the Queen is not the guest of the French nation . By those in whoin the honour and intelligence , and therefore the nationality of France , really reside , her visit will he regarded as a cruel and gratuitous insult , a revelling in their misfortune , a ratification of their shame , a proclamation by the representative of British freedom that France is unworthy to be free .

      Others may chant their paeans in honour of the Queen ' s auspicious visit . Wo shall do her more service by apologising , ns far as our voice can be heard , for her terrible mistake . She goes , deluded by amiable visions , hoping to lay the foundations of amity and perpetual peace . She goes , unless her action bo explained , to sow the seeds of fiei'ce resentment and future war . Iiet Englishmen imagine

      the position of France to be theirs—let thorn imagine a James II . to bo successful in his designs against English liberty . With what feelings would they see the liberfcicide receive the congratulatory visit of a foreign prince ? What would bo their requital to that prince when they regained their freedom ? Have English statesmen made up their minds that it is safe to insult the ashes of French liberty — . that Frenchmen have become fantoccini for ever ? We would fain assure the friends of liberty in France that this interchange of visits means nothing more on the part of the English Court

      and the "' mass of the English people thai a generous , though thoughtless , enthusiasr for the French alliance . On bur honour "w believe this to be the pure and simple trutli We believe that England sees nothing bu the outstretched hand of a French sovereign and that she grasps it as that of a long estranged and long-desired friend . We be lieve that the internal state of France is en

      tirely lost sight of ; that no opinion is pro nounced on the legality of the presen regime ; and that the restoration of Frencl liberty would be hailed in England wit ! almost universal joy . This is not a justifica tion . Reflection and consideration are neces sary in our dealings with others , as well a good intentions . A more confirmed an < intelligent political morality would have save < us from the possibility of error . But tin friends of liberty in France are bound to tab notice now , and to remember hereafter , tha this apparent condemnation of their cause i the error , not the crime , of our nation .

      Add , too , that the illusion was one mt < which it was easy to fall . After feeling & long the unworthy suspicions and diplomat jealousies of successive French Governments after being used so long as a bugbear for th < electioneering purposes of French factions England is naturally prone to believe in tin domestic popularity and legitimacy of ; French dynasty which offers her a cordia and frank alliance . [ Let the constitutiona statesmen of France learn a lesson from thei : enemy .

      Have the mass of the French people them selves yet realised the fact that what thex have suffered to be imposed on them is z despotic dynasty , not a temporary dictator If not , let our people stand excused foi overlooking a fact which intelligence alone ir France discerns . But is there no intelligence in England i Yes . And that intelligence , though stat <

      necessity suppresses its voice , dissents n private from tho popular aberration . The best and purest or English statesmen hav < not renounced their faith * in freedom ; the } regard this efficient complicity of their nation in the designs of despotism with sad heart ; and averted eyes . Xefc any Frenchman o ; character who has lately mixed in Englisli society be our witness that this is true .

      j here are , indeed , political adventurers in this country , who pay a free homage tc that success which is their only god ; wh ( openly triumphed in tho coup d'etat , and whe from the first sought to obtain the patronag < of Louis Napoleon by constituting themselves his sycophants and bravos . But these men are as infamous among honest politicians in England as Fouud and Morny arc in France .

      The character of French journalism again and tho part which statesmen have taken k it , may lead to an exaggerated indignation ai tho sycophancy of tho English press . The journal whose wealth enables it to appear tu tho chief representative of English opinion it in fact , and professes to be , a purely commercial enterprise , conducted b y men whe writo without conviction , stockjobbers ol journalism , carrying on , without even a

      suspicion that it is immoral , a system of organised treachery towards all causes and all men . I ^ efc tho Xtepublic rise in tho mnrkctj and wo will guaranteo her a panegyric us fcrvorit as thoso which havo boon lavished on tho Emperor ; this panegyric probably is already written and in stock , to provide for tho mutability of human aflairs , and tho mortality of empires . These things ate' not regarded seriously in England . They never excite indignation , seldom oven disgust . Let France , too , pass them over with a scornful smile .

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      Paris , Friday . The moat important item in the news from Turkey ia that a strong Russian division is marching on Erzeroum , and that all the disposable Turkish forces in Anatolia are hastening towards the same place . General Canrobert has arrived .

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      Constantinople , Aug . 9 . Omar Pacha -will return to the Crimea . The insurrection at Tripoli continues . Two Turkish regiments -will be sent there .

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      A New- Screw-Pbopbllek . —Wo observed on tho river yesterday a small steamer propelled by a machine resembling 1 in its action a reaping-machine , and throwing the Water over like a cascade . How would this propeller act in a heavy sea ?

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      TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIO N TO "® &e 3 UaD « r . " For a Half-Year .......... £ 0 IS 0 To be remitted in advance . igT Money Orders should bo drawn upon the Stkand Branch Oiflco , and be made payablo to Mr . Aifked K Galiowai . at No . 154 . Strand .

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      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . No notice oat » be taken of anonymous communications . Whateveris intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of tho writer ; not necessarily forpnblication . but av aguarantecof hisgoodfaith . During the Session of Parliament it is often impossible to find room for correspondence , even the briefest . Communications should always bo legibly written , and on one side of the paporonly . I f long , it increases the difficulty of findinKspaceforthem . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .

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      ttQQ THE LEABBR . [ No . 282 , Saturday ,

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      * ^ « Fivkpence is now the price for an Unstamped copy of the Leader , and Sixpence if Stamped . X Stamped copy of this Journal can be transmitted through the Post-office to any part of Great Britain as frequently as may be required , during fifteen days from its date , free of charge ; but it is necessary that the paper should be folded in such a manner that the stamp be clearly visible on the outside . The Leader has been " registered" at the General Postoffice , according to the provisions of tho New Act relating to Newspapers , and a Stamped copy has , therefore , the privilege of transmission through the post beyond the United Kingdom on payment of the proper rate of postage .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there ia nothing so unnatural and convulsive , aa the strain to Keep things rixed when all the world is by the very law of 113 creation in . eternal progress . —Uk . Ahnold .

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      SATUBBAT , AUGUST 18 , 1855 .

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      SWEABORG . The casualties on the English side are—killed , none ; two officers and about thirty men -wounded . Tho French loss is equally trifling .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 18, 1855, page 788, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2102/page/8/