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      famous among the rulers of Ins fellowtountryirieh , the fame of his writings has made the man famous , and has imparted a Bjiecies of famousness to him in whatever position he has been . "Without anything to chow for- it , he has acquired a considerable name in connexion with India ; much more on account of what he has said than what he lias done . He will be considered , on account of that repute , to "bring some additional wisdom to the House of Lords in reference to the debates on India . As a constitutional

      historian he will confer dignity on . the discussions of the Heform Bill . As he is a thorough gentleman , in bearing , in principle , and in feeling , as he is deeply respected and esteemed by the immense circle with which he has personal acquaintance , the Minister who has advised his selection for the honours of the Crovtn gains unbounded , and not unjust , Credit for this graceful coup d ' etat .

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      LONDON OUT OF TOWN . The great world is decidedly out of town , You meet no one . Your half- ^ ay friend , the Cousin of an Irish earl , has retired into -Norton-street ,- where he means to live in strict seclusion until pheasant-shooting is over , when lie will reappear , not so hearty in appearance as a man ought to be after so many weeks of glorious open-air exercise . Somerset House Is enjoying its thirty days at the sea-side . The foreign Office is on the "Rhine . The City houses send their deputations of clerks to Rarasgate and

      Brighton . Every one who can and will enjoys himself amazingly , except IJord Paumebston , who , the Observer assures us , ia doing duty like a white slave . Some ten thousand persons , however—including Mr . IDisbaem —are quite ready to relieve him when he is tired , and do the Premiership instead , counting themselves cheap at the money . In fact , every one is away , and nobody is in London —« ' every one ' meaning about ten thousand people , and ' no one' considerably more than two millions . In a satire , which is well known ( being constantly imitated ) , we find a definition of the great world ,

      even to Miserrimus hiniself is interesting— -the administration , of the police-courts . Nor can we all follow our social birds of Paradise who eyer fly with their faces to the sun , and go where pleasure waits them . London is a vacuity , and you pant in the exhausted receiver . And so it will remain until November ; and again , according to the officially illuminated Sunday journal , only the

      members of the Cabinet ( excepting the five hundred thousand working men of the metropolis ) will . know what it is to toil in the midst ; of grouse-shooting , and fulfil arduous functions when everyone else ( with the above , and a good many other exceptions ) is clad , to borrow a phrase from Gibbon , in 'light and active attire , ' and disporting himself like a poet , or a philosopher , or a fool , as the case may "be .

      Which , being interpreted , Meaneth the vreat end of a mighty city , And about twice two thousand people , bred By no means to be very wise or witty , But to sit up when others are in bed , And look down , on the universe in pity . And what is the great world doing out of town ? Killing birds , for the most partthat is to say the gentlemen . The ladies wear round hats , canter on marine parades , and improvise little sea-side seasons , where they use up the blushes caught from the morning breeze . They dip in the foam , their footsteps are sweet on the hills , their farourite

      Herra and harpists follow them to the Town Hall . The Polygraphic Hall goes to Brighton ; the Gallery of Illustration is set down at Hastings ; little fragments of London fly off in every direction , not oven the Opera excepted . So that , the town being out of town , takea the town with it , and the metropolis is left like the Xiast Man , without sun or stars—Victohia at Balmoral , the Guards among the red deer of the Inverness-shire glens , Parliament on the moors , the Albany among the pheasant preserves , and Belgravia at the watering-places . And what to do without the Upper Ten Thousand ?

      The publishers give you nothing—they , too , have gone , and will not return until they hear the musical fall of tho leaf . The House of Lords is shut up , so that the miserable wanderer can no longer enjoy the last resource of low-spirited incapacity by turning in to hear the Lobd Ghancei . xoii g iving judgment . The courts are up ; nothing is going forward in law except that which not

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      BRITISH INDIA AND ALGERIA , The most distinguished journalists in 3 ? rance have commented upon , the Indian mutiny in a fair and even generous spirit . Those of an inferior grade , however—abject Bonaparfcists , exasperated Papists , and the John- Mitchells of spurious democracy- —have enjoyed a rare opportunity for sarcasm . France has lived to see the boasted British system wrecked in India . A word of retort with these ger * lemen . They know , perhaps , where Algeria is . During fifteen years from its occupation , France is calculated to have lost 547 , 000 men . —the rate of mortality ia the Algerian army , from sickness or in battle ,

      having been , reduced to an average for that period of one hundred a day . This army costs five million francs a year over and above the amount which , would be required for its ordinary maintenance at home , the navy two millions , the civil service two millions , the secret fund a million , —or a total of one hundred and fifty millions within , fifteen years . Take into the account the 547 , 000 men lost , the expenses of preparing stations , marching allowances , transport , clothing , hospitals , and — -as a Frencli statistician reminds us— ' shirts to bury them in , ' and we have at least a sum of two hundred francs a man . —which raises the total to three hundred and fifty millions . "What are the returns ? The Custom-house

      duties , after fifteen years of occupation , amounted to four hundred thousand francs a year ; there was uo tax on fixed property or persons , and the cattle tax is almost unproductive . In fact , ' Africa '—as the Trench call that little corner of the continent—is a penal settlement , an outlet for troublesome and dangerous men , a parade-ground for an idle army , and nothing more . It has scarcely any export trade , and aa for ifca

      cities and towns , Algiers alone has an appearance of prosperity . The traces of the Arabs and Moors uto wearing away ia every quarter . Even Oran is of the slowest possible growth . So , let our ^ French friends taunt us wlien we have lost half a million of Englishmen ia fifteen years , and occupied a great country at an unmitigated expense to ourselveB , without improving its actual condition or doing more tli an encamp among the native tribes .

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      FREEMASONS AND FORESTEBS . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sns , —In your last week ' s article [« A Word to Foresters' ] , I think your remarks good , and no doubt an inquiry -will be made as to the propriety of such a parade , bat I must ask you to withdraw the assertion that the Freemasons ' ¦ go and do likewise ' This is not the c ^ se ; except in Lodge , masons are not allowed to appear clothed in masonic costume and in justice to the body we should be . excepted from your strictures . I am one of your subscribers and much admire the policy of pointing out abuse ' but , as a Mason , I like things to l > e fairly repre ^ sented . Yours obediently , An Old F . M . Blackheath , 2 nd September , 18 S 7 .

      [ V . D . B . —Our passing allusion to the Masonic Body was simply to the something too much of conviviality , which -we have often heard complained of in Lodge itself , and which has become a byword to the profane . There is a time to turn from labour to refreshment , but whatever detracts from the dignity of the Order , or tends to obscure its noble purpose , is to us a subject of fraternal regret . —Ed Lea . dek . ~ I

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      THE FORESTERS . ( 7 b the Editor of the Leader . ) Sib , —Having observed an article in your last week ' s paper condemnatory of the Foresters , their dresses , manners , customs , &c , I trust you will insert this , in order to clear away a false impression which many of your readers may fall into with regard to those dresses , &c . . I am a Forester and have been so many years , and I beg to state that I have as little regard for a man

      dressing himself in an antiquated style as you have ; but I wish you particularly to understand that those dresses are the private property of , and bought and paid for by the wearers from their own pocket , and not from the funds ( as many casual readers would infer from your remarks ) . Those funds are strictly applied to their proper use , viz ., to assist the sick and bury the deceased members , and to provide for the widows and orphans of sucli deceased members .

      Therefore , if any member chooses to go to a tailor and purchase a suit of clothes , no matter what colour , cut , or pattern , that ia a matter which rests entirely with himself , and does not justify any public newspaper comparing an assembly of 34 , 000 working men to ' an aggregate meeting of Ethiopian Serenaders who had forgotten their lamp-black . ' Yours , &c , T . P . Cooke , S . C . It , of Court 1092 . . , Serle ' a-place , Lincolu ' s Inn .

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      856 THE LEADER . p ~ o . 38 & . September 5 , 1857

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      IN " ew Route to the Continent . —A special experimental trip has been made from Dover to Dieppe by the Royal and Imperial mail-packet Prince Frederick William , witli the view of testing the advantages of tho « route , and the celerity with which tlie passago can b y performed by swift steamers from Dover to that rastl improved and improving French watering-place . Th day was remarkably fine , tho sea smooth ; tho steame got fairly off from the Admiralty Pier at a quarter pas eight , A . M ., and , without stopping or casing , ran th . straight course of seventy-four nautical miles , past Bou logne , Rochelle , and Trcport , down the Normandy coast ) to tho pier head of Dieppe in four hours and forty-eight minutes , thus averaging nearly eighteen statute miles an hour . She remained in Dieppe harbour until a quarter to four o ' clock , started from abreast tho lighthouse at four , and ' eased her engines' on ncaring tho Admiralty Pier , Dover , within five hours from the moment of departure , having made tho two passages there and back in nine hours and forty-eight minutes , at tho avcrago rate of 8 cventeon-and-a-half statute miles an hour . — Time * . A PnrvATK TicLEonArn . —Messrs . Waterloo and Sons have connected their establishments in Biichmlono and London-wall by means of an electric telegraph , tlio wires boing carried over tho roofs of tho intervening houses . Thia is unique ia England , but seems to bo a plan worthy « f extension . Mr . Waterlow , some Umo back , suggested to tho proper authorities tho establishment of this means of communication botweon all tno police-offices and fire-brigade stations in London ; « ' \ he showed by figures , and has now proved by experiment , that the expense is but trifling . The sarno P » was proposed some yoara ago by Professor Whontstono and Mr . Chndwick ; but tho Circumlocution Oflicesocnw to h * ve stopped the way .

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      Representation op Middlesex . —A very crowded and influential meeting of the electors of Middlesex was held at tho New Globo Tavern , Mile-cnd-road last Saturday evening , for tho purpose of hearing from tho Hon . G . Byng ( late M . P . for Tavistock ) his views on tho leading questions of the day , and to adopt such measures as rnay bo thought necessary for securing his return to Parliament in the place of Lord Robert Grosvonor . Mr . Byng spoko in favour of Parliamentary reform , of -vote by ballot , and of the creation of an Indian Minister responsible to tho House of Commons for tho condition « f our Eastern Empire . Ho attributed the present revolt to bad management imd to the want of a sufficient number of English soldiers among tho natives . A resolution , expressive of confidence in Mr . Byng , wos unanimously passed . —Tho election took place on Thursday , when Mr . Byng w » s returned without opposition .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 856, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2208/page/16/