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    table of the Bight Hon . Memter for Backs . These lists are printed , with small interpolations of compliment , and are incessantly recurred to in proof of the weight of ancient names attaching to the Disraeli sect But this is precisely the influence which Mr . I ) isbaeii once exerted , and which he is losing , to his own mortification and the despair of his friends . To gain it , he forgot his education , adopted the least respectable forms of Toryism , and schooled JaAyielf among men whose rank and riches ^ 5 j * n . ed their only titles to influence in the State . For this

    class he worked , wrote , spoke , and , seeing Sir JRoBEBT Peex advancing to the lead , he clung to his skirts with scarcely dignified tenacity . Sir Bobeet Peel always regarded his political claims with scepticism , and was once supposed to pass them hy with contempt . Nevertheless , Mr . DisbAeli held , on , until the true Conservative statesman separated from an impracticable party , when his ohsequioiis follower became at once his unscrupulous antagonist , and the country party , delighting in the temerity of their

    ffamin , cheered him forward , though still very reluctant to admit him to a political equality with themselves . How he won his way to that equality is popularly known . It was not by asserting the independence of his intellect , but by lowering it to tlie service of hereditary families , with , minds full of obsoletism and prejudice . In fact , Mr . Disrjlexi showed himself so pliant that it was believed he could be impelled into anything . But he has the acuteness to perceive that , although he might consent to serve the old Tory

    peerage m profitable times , their politics are now impossible . Liberalism , alone being possible , why then Mr . DisbaeIiI is more liberal than any of us , and his claqueurs promise that , if we will put him into Down-¦ ing-street ,-he witt w thoroughly reform the empire . Whereupon , ancient Toryism is shocked , Liberalism is obstinately incredulous , and Mri . DiSBAEii finds himself alone at the head of young Toryism , which composes a mere sickly sect that has been poisoned by its own lampoons . The best members of the liberalized Conservative

    party stand entirely aloof , ashamed to recognize a political leader surrounded by a band of parodists . They are not Under the necessity o £ assuring the public of their own respectability . " We have declined to follow the discussion through all its varieties , but it is manifest that the public cares nothing about it—in fact , only heard , indirectly , of the new Tory pretence , and is serenely unconscious of the

    inky bubbles that break on the surface of the Tory Helicon . " When the Scotch Tories wrote , brutally , of their thistles and diachylon plaister , and of their antagonists dying , wriggling on the points of their pens , they attracted some notice , because their violence was comparatively clever ; but Mr . Disbaeli , however talented himself , has not that advantage .

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    NEWS FOR CAYENNE . The Paris Correspondent of a contemporary is " assured that the French Government has given an order , dating from the 1 st instant , prohibiting any further transportations to Cayenne . " So that the French . Government admitB that the transportations have been going on ever Bince the coup d'&at . Certainly , however , though the political prisoners already breathing the poison of that horrible colony may rejoice to learn that no new victims are to be dragged thither , the protest that has "been mnde in the face of Europe is against cruelties practised , not cruelties that-might be practised , What alleviation is it to the hundreds of French

    citizens perishing in Guiana that they are to be left alone in their misery ? The magnanimity of the Empire is characteristic . But what will be the destination of the thirty young men now au secret at Mazas ? They are accused of a plot to assassinate the Emperor . The police admit that no documentary or positive evidence of any kind has

    been brought to light ; but they are prepared to prove— "ftfat is , to swear to—the crime . An open political trial under the Empire would be an originality , but the history of Louis Napoleon ' s conquests over such enemies may easily be written : Arrested , Accused , Condemned . That was the precedent of Angers , which is likely to be followed at Mazas .

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    There is no learned man "but will confess lie b . afch much profited by reading" controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then . it he profitable for him . to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for hi 3 adversary to write j— Milxost .

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    aptitudes of the soul , controlled only by the sentiment of human fellowshi p or equality . J Lynch law and Maine law , which are only different forms of the same spirit , afford another superb evidence of the social resurrection .-which is transacting under bur political and ecclesiastical disorganization Here you see the old order of ideas assailed in its " penetralia . What is still vital of the old order in Europe is the Judiciary . Altar and throne have ong since descended to the dust in scientific regard ! but the scribes continue to sit in Moses' seat and exert thence an almost unquestioned sway . It has long been thus at home . Out judges hav e been much more respected and respectable than our governors or our clergy , because they have represented

    the moral element in humanity , in contradistinction to its merely political and ecclesiastical interests . But now that a truer morality is dawning— a morality which proposes the utter extinction of vice and crime , ox a complete social regeneration of manthese judges are found to be as sceptical , pusillanimous , and incompetent as the rest . They did very well , so long as society was content , simply to drive a bargain with the evil-doer , or allow him so much indulgence in his bad profession as he could purchase by so much fine and imprisonment . But now that the problem is how to put a definite stop to evildoing for ever , they are absolutely useless , and must accordingly submit to have their function more

    worthily resumed by society itself . In a merely political order of things like England , a great deal of overt licence may be tolerated . People may he allowed to get drunk , to waste their property by gambling , and their bodily substance by other vices , and yet , on the whole , things prosper , because the force that keeps them together is an outward force —• that of bayonets—and is in fact rather strengthened than weakened by a moderate dissoluteness in the lives of those who are subject to it . But in a purely social order o things like ours , it will not do to tolerate these excesses , because society , disowning as it does all outward sanction , must depend for permanence onlv upon the cleanly and vigorous life of its

    members . And this guarantee is utterly lacking , so long as the laws license the dram-shop , the brothel , the gambling-house , or any other nest of vagabondage and disorder . "No doubt drunkenness , gambling , and fornication might still claim their private devotees ; but let them once become socially disallowed- —disallowed by the united action of society—and it is evident that they must rapidly die out in private practice also , by the operation of the same law which banishes disease from the body by bringing the body into improved sanitary conditions . But however all this may be , the theory of the Judiciary is that it maintain only the laws that already exist , and resolutely ignore every social necessity , however urgent ,

    not provided ibr by them . In which case , course , society is bound by its own . life to set aside the judges , or execute justice no longer by its superannuated attorneys , but at first Land . I myself have no dread of the consequences , because I believe in the Providential wisdom that guides human affairs , and never expect to see humanity taking what woodsmen call the back track , but only the onward one . My intellectual dependence , o course , is not upon Lynch lav , Maine law , or any other simply transitional and disorganizing movement , but wholly upon that great life in the soul of man which is akin to all mercy and peace and uprightness , because it is primarily thence enkindled , and which has been hitherto discredited only because that patient soul has been so long and wretchedly sacrificed to the

    mere necessities of its temporary swaddling-clothes , or the prosperity of kings and priests . It is likely that you will think and feel very differently on all this subject , as , indeed , you must do , unless you , too , are driven to regard humanity as one united life , and history as its orderly development . But if my notion be the true one , your own logic will uphold me in saying that we are essentially untouched as yot by European criticism . You may cordially denounce us ; but it is the harmless denunciation which the grub bestows upon the chrysalis or the chrysalis upon the butterfly , and which must ere long give place to the same regenerate and beatified activity . Yours , « &c , H . JParis , September , 1856 .

    TEE ORDER IN AMEEICAN DISORDER . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sib , —Allow me to address you once more , in conclusion . It will be allowed that man has got fairly pronounced as citizen in Europe , that is , as the lieir of a divinely permanent earthly order and dominion . He has been sprinkled by the Church fr om his natural or Pagan conscience , and been elevated by the State into the consequent hope of an unlimited divine blessing upon the earth . America ' s destiny , I trust , is to fulfil this hope , or make it a reality . Her mission is to develop this somewhat narrow and prejudiced European citizen into the Catholic and hospitable man , by purging , him of his merely national or political conscience , and giving him a social one , that is to say , toy commending and entitling him to the love and sympathy of universal

    man . It is precisely this solvent or purgatorial function of America which , explains "what seems to European eyes her huge disorderliness . Life is vigorous there in every sense but . the political one . We have almost no police in the European estimation of the word , because the conservative principle with us is in simple truth no longer force but freedom . Our whole conception of life or order ( and it is at bottom the English conception , having been inherited by us from you , and like all inheritances improved ) is that of an inward forco in man , a force flowing from his own spontaneous deference to infinite goodness and truth , and not from any authoritative outward imposition . This conception is of course incompatible with any permanent respect to merely political institutions , or any institutions whose sanctions derive from some outward and

    passing necessity . We have indeed inherited all these institutions in mitigated form from Europe , but we shall inevitably end by degrading them out of existence . AH formalities grow shabby with us , all mere conventionalities dwindle . Our President , for example , is no longer some great man like Mr . Jefferson , or Mr . Webster , or Mr . Clay , because these men belong intellectually to the oW or European fashion of manhood , and would be siire to rule : but , on the contrary , some very attenuate personage like Mr . Polk , Mr . Filmorc , ox Mr . Pierce , who is sure to

    duck to the popular gale , and only too happy to postpone his private manhood to the exigencies of public office . God fprbid that I should quarrel with the fact : I only signalize it to your attention as pregnant with important lessons . I have an immense private regard for Mr . Maxcy and Mr . Benton , but I should be sorry to see either of them President , because they would communicate an astringent or antiseptic virtue to the office which I am sure must be illusory in the long ran , and so obscure issues which , on the contrary , claim nothing so much as to be clearly discerned .

    No . the destiny of America is not political , nwd its keeping , accordingly , is not in the hands of any statesman wise or foolish . Were that remarkable model statesman whose presence Mr- Carlyle so profoundly desiderates to get birth at last , ho -would prove ft far more helpless and bewildered Rip Van Winkle with us than with you , because the juvenile or political conception of order , as a thing outwardly or voluntaril y imposed , is absolutoly unrepresented in our institutions . Our destiny is completely social ^ and wo are strictly incapable of any order which is not spontaneously generated , tliat is to say . v ? hich # ots nqt flow from the native instincts find

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    Fatal . Mistake . —A boy , eleven yeara old , has been poisoned by mistake at Weymouth , Dorset . The coroner's jury returned tho following verdict : —" Wo find that the deceased , Augustus Broughtcn , camo to his death from tho effe cts of n preparation of opium being administered to him instead of black draught , th « mistake having occurred through tho want of caro on tho part of John Lundio and Jamos Barrett , two servants in tlio employ of Mr . Barling , chemist and druggist ; ana tho jury alao ¦ wish to express * their disapprobation of allowing young persons in tho employ of druggists to disponsc medicine until they aro properly qualified by exporienco to do ao . " Tho Tboy who made up tho mixture was only thirteen years of ago . Tho deceased , lad wag & son of Colonel Brouchton .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 904, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2159/page/16/