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APRIL 15, 1854. A SPECIMEN OF RADICAL LITERATURE. [WE have been favoured with a few MSS. of a somewhat curious character by the contributor who supplied us with the " Sketches of Radicals." They are the work of one or two noteable gentlemen whose portraits were in his series, and perhaps throw a degree of light on their characters which a mere description of them could not do. We select as a specimen a fragment from the Radical Historian, recovered by a singular chance at a cheesemonger's where our con tributor (with the simplicity of character which distinguishes great men*) recently spent some time in weighing the attractions of different sorts of cheese. The fine hand of the historian, however, must be seen at its more elevated process.] HISTORY OF ENGLAND.—Vot. IV.-130. CHAPTER XIX. " THis period was remarkable for the abortive failure of a movement " which promised at one time to emancipate the people, and to estab " lish on a firm foundation the Democracy of England. What " incalculable benefits would have resulted had Cade and his gallant " followers triumphed it is impossible exactly to estimate. By his fall " the world movement was retarded for centuries ; his blood cemented " the hoary s tructure of tyranny, and—(here we top Mawker a " little.) " John Cade was of what was ridiculously called, in those days, " low origin. It is pretended that there is an inherent probability " that a vigorous race will produce men who are vigorous ; that this " was the reason why the hues of Scandinavian kings believed them " selves sprung from the gods, and that the world's acquiescence in the " fact allowed a few thousands of families in Europe to establish an " order of things which subsists fundamentally, though modified, to " this day. We need not, in an age like the present, waste argument on " pretensions like this. The prejudiced called Cade low-born. Cade " was born. Enough ! " Cade was early distinguished by a singular freedom from preju " dice and largeness of view. He soon saw that centuries of mis " government—that a state of society which had enabled a few to " govern a number of men—(a clearly unnatural state of things, as " we see in observing history)--could only be changed by sweeping " measures. A vast simplicity distinguished his design. eat nce " proposed to rule himseY 1 His few and striking measures for the • This is his own remark, we desire to observe.—En. TERMS OF WOTSCRIFTIO Folt Zbt Vrto,4 : Per Annum .. .. .. .. SI 6 0 Half-Yearly .. .. .. 013 0 Quarterly .. .. .. 06 6 • • Payable in wiranee. Subscribers are requested to send their Orders through their News Agent; if direct to the °Mee, accompanied by a Remit tance. Money Orders to be made payable to Dlr. ALFRED IVs, 110, Strand, London. TO CORRESPONDENTS. his impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde- pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Ccmmunications should always be legibly written, and on one aide of the paper only. If long it increases the difilaulty of finding space for them.' Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the value and address of the writer, not ueceasarily fur publica tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. RLdji 1-rit,lo+ LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1854. POITSORIPT. (Fro* our Correspondent). PARIS, April 13. It is quite decided that the English cavalry are not to go through France. The excuse is the low ness of the Rhone, but the true cause is the fear of the effects of the brandy and wine on our troopers during a ten days' march through the south of France, where a very hot-tempered race exist, and where the heady wines would certainly create quar rels and other disgraceful scenes. This should have b een foreseen by our Government, and no t so much time lost. '; ~ n T_ I ;FRESS. " stdiness, esf thecinternal ; seqrseasy cef i England (comprising even " suc h details aa the weight* atld Merisiti - ei and the state' of (*upside) " are well known. One weaknetis be had—he foolishly assumed that "he was by birth a Mortimer. A superficial man might think that this " showed'tlisiethe people naturally honoured the name of the Mortimer " blood. A superficial man might say this, we repeat. Yes, such " might be the view of a superficial man " The movement begun by this great spirit spread censiderably. "He assembled followers. He seized Lord Say,. He was ifitent on " wholesale reforms—the destruction, of the records' and other mea sures which in this boasted age are still incoulletel At ones period, " doubtless, he hoped to triumph over all opposition, and to establish " a vast popular Government in England. " Had Cade succeeded at this point, we should htivii l 'Opcaped " many evils which still ride rampaht in the country. He *child have " changed the tenure of land. The fopulaeo would have rilrellt away " all aristocrats--from barons down to yeonreu,—a class .Which one regrets to observe has held a kind of aristocratic positi..n in its " day, and had a sort of superiority of the same kind in its humbler " degree. The land would have lalloninto ! parcel% seized, everywhere "by the agricultural classes. What unfettered prodnction, would "have followed! What an escape from the trammels of tnidition ! " There would have been no governing classes at all. The families " which had so long arrogated to themselves the rowers of the " country must have disappeared. The eifect qf aristocracy as a rist " framework of bones, determining the shape and order of tke body politic, " and protecting the internal parts of tree notion's life--(tul exproesion of " a superficial writer's) —would then have been unknown, or could not " have been brought forward as a pretext for denying wholesale " reforms. But it was not to be! Tyranny 'aml treagrin - were too " potent, and Cade was put to death. But the spirit of Cade could " not be killed. It is still alive, and walks the earth The last assertion of Mawker, we observe, has been marked " true " by our contributor ; but at this point the paper is torn, and a stain of double-Gloucester too clearly hints the destiny of the remainder of the chapter. Here Mawker drops Mat point. 1110 Y to 4f.i.st 41 ozuoY PROPOSED NEW IMPRINT TOR A CERTAIN GOVERNMENT ORGAN iorP,T Loudon: Printed and published by Wittaor ifasatsox Mter, of No. 1, rrintiag-house-squaro, at the CL! readon Press. . to too Gt nuitttoon "eialia- Nil 1 , out enjoying any of its results. Meanwhile th Governor-General appears to be acting so as t deprive the community of all the commercial advan tages of the cotintry. It is well known that the higher districts about Ave are those which produce wheat in the greatest sbundaneei wbereas the lower districts abound in rice. In the face of this„, and in direct opposition to the first pnncipleir trade, orders have been issued to the Collector of CiiiKems at Meeaday (the frontier station) that nu rice shall pass beyoud that post in the direction of Asa. This order, virtually putting a stop to al l trade between the British possessions and those of the King of Ava, sufficiently stamps the capacity of our free-trade Governor General—the appirant , for the post so worthily (?) filled by his Gamaliel, Lord Aberdeen. I may mention, fbr the benefit of the Court of Di rec tors, that one consequence of thi s order will be the importation of wheat and ether grains into this country from Bengal at a vast expense to their con • stitnetits. ' ' I Lord Dalhousie his, however," *SAO lnio move — in direct, perhaps intentie. egeoeition ko that of L or d Ellenborough in I 34. thh troops were removed from Kumla to Umbelle., in our (sign provinces, Lord Elleaborough issued au order facili tating the erection of bowies at the new station. Now that troops are being sent to Thyet Mew and Meeaday—in, comparatively speaking; en enemy's country—Loud Dalhousie has nomad orders that no facilities whatever are to be granted to officers in building houses : the consequence is, that in a country where materials are scarce (owing to the measures ri of (government), and labour dear, lievernmeat ,has monopolised all, leaving their officers without shelter and uuabls to procure any. It is timo, indeed, that the present red-tapist who, we learn from Ms friend Mr. Marshman, aspires to rule her Majesty's *Ma eda were replaced by a statesman. It is stated on good authority, both from Paris and Berlin, that there is no truth whatever in the re ported regal of Chevalier Bunsen from London. It appears, however, that a special mission is about to be sent to London, on which Prince Barclay de Tolly will be despatched by the Ling of Prussia. The Prussian Government has sent back the draft of the treaty of alliance hampered with conditions Which, if accepted, would defeat its purpose, and bind Austria to neutrality. The Austrian tallinithas refused to agree to them. j i 3 : ").1 ads tsi/. sl , li I I I I I I _ - _ At the review yesterday the English officers were well received by the mob. The administration of the French army ordnance and stores, as well as that of the navy, has turned out to have been very inefficiently conducted by Marshal St. Arnaud and M. I)ucos, and the Emperor is disgusted at it. Our administrators have surpassed them completely. It is the feeling of every military man here that our expedition is too small for its object, and that it has no chance of success with less than 100,000 men of both nations. There should be a reserve of English at Malta of 10,000, and the French ought to send 70,000 and 150 guns at least with our contingent. The gambling in the funds and other speculations in this country have reached a height that threatens a great convulsion. Every servant and porter has his coup at the Bourse. The men who stand highest in character among the Ministers are M. de Persigny and Drouhyn de L'Huys. Against them not a suspi cion of playing in the funds can be heard. It is everywhere affirmed by the best authorities that the Czar is in a state of mind which betrays his conviction of the errors he has committed. The Government affect to be reassured respecting the intentions of Austria. Some members of it are disposed to be Russian in their tendencies, and, if M. Drouhyn de L'Hvtys and M. Persigny were to leave it, we should see at Paris the same dragging policy which in England is occasioned by the pre sence of Lord Aberdeen, Lord Granville, and Mr. Sidney Herbert in the Queen's Cabinet. RANGOON. (From It Correspondent.) Rangoon, February 17. Since the date of my last letter affairs have not been mending in Burmah, We still possess merely the river communication , and the country still swarms with daeoits. They are driven, it is true, from one district, but to reappear in another ; an the it generally happens tha t our troo p s undergo ll f a tigue and privations of a desperate ounpaign with. --.1710