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822 THE- LEADER, . [Saturday,
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PROSPECT OF ANEW LIBERAL PARTY. We are g...
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WHAT AUSTRIAN "OCCUPATION" MEANS. The JD...
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« MR, BEBNAL, SIR." (From the Globe.) Am...
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THE CHOLERA. {From the Registrar-GeneraF...
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The cholera pnnio assumes almost incredi...
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By the latest accounts tho disease is gr...
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Livbiu'Ool, ^Auguat 30.—<Tho number of d...
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In Now York tho cholera ia on tho doorca...
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AMKRIOAN NOTES. Mb. D. E. Siqki.es > scc...
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822 The- Leader, . [Saturday,
822 THE- LEADER , . [ Saturday ,
Prospect Of Anew Liberal Party. We Are G...
PROSPECT OF ANEW LIBERAL PARTY . We are glad to find that the intellectual Liberal press of the large towns- is taking up our view of the Liberal party . We find this forcible article in the Commonwealth ( Glasgow ) : — " The notion of a new Liberal party , to be organised during the recess , for the purpose of infusing life into our politics during the next parliamentary session , is evidently gaining ground . One daily metropolitan journal urges a meeting , as speedily as possible , of the Liberal members of Parliament to adopt the necessary measures . The calculation evidently is , that the amount of pent-up dissatisfaction with the present state of things—even among those who , during the past session , have been obliged to go with the Coalition Government—is very groat ; and that any practical
proposal for rendering their parliamentary existence more useful to the country would be eagerly embraced by many who , up to this moment , have only been chafing in secret . Another Liberal London journal recommends action among the Liberals out of doors , in order to "back and increase the movement among parliamentary men . The names of members whom it would be desirable to see detaching themselves from- present combinations , in order to form tho centre of the new party , are openly mentioned . Mr . Bright , Mr . Gladstone , Mr . Cardwell , Sir William Molesworth , Mr . Lowe , Mr . Osborne , . Mr . Cobden , Mr . Blackett , Lord Goderich , and others , are adjured—some of them perhaps rather hopelessly—to consider whether , with perfect justice to themselvesj they could not r « spond to the wishes of the country , and communicate a stimulus to out politics . Are there none of bur Scotch ^ members whocould help on st > important
aniovementi ? Has not Scottish Liberalism had sufficient reason . to . bb discontented with the part it has been obliged to play under the ' "Coalition " . ' Government ? Has Scotland had her Education- Bill yet , or is she likely to haveit till soihe change in the state of parties takies place ? Mr . ; Diinlop , of Greenock , is a man from : whose' parliamentary career Scotland : naturally expected , and still expects mucli ; cbnld not he ,, and one ot ' two like hiittj take a look at the chances offered by the prospect of a new Liberal party ? " It is , indeedi / . high tirne that some movement were made . The Want of vigour in oar Parliament—of young men ; or even of men in the prime of life , to take the part of the septuagenarian Russells and Palmerstons , who , in the course of nature , cannot remain long among us—is perhaps the most ominous fact in the political condition of the country .
Almost the only men m the country who have had experience of political power are septuagenarians . Tins perhaps arwes from the noforions exclusiveness which las always characteriaed the Whig- leaders , whose principle it has been to govern the country by Mien selected from - certain ; aristo ^ cratic families , and to promote in these families by seniority of service . But the fact is one full of bad consequences . ' When the present generation of Whig or semi-Whig septuagenarians is : swept away , our Parliament Will be a class composed , or puny , aristocratic imbecilities deprived of their a ^ us tomed guidance , and a nuinber of tolerably ; able men diffused through them , but undisci p lined in tlie art of managing their inferiors , or of co-operAting with one another ; Mr ; Bright , Mr . Gladstone , and Mr . Disraeli will be the successors of the old leaders : but what traditions of Whieeism .
Toryism , or anything else , capable of regimenting the House nnder their ' guidance , will snrvive in them ? ft ia worse when we look to the juniors of these men . Where are the rising men of Parliament—the stuff of future orators and statesmen ? . The . newspaper reporters—good judges' in such a case—make aj miserable report on this head . Meanwhile ; we are going on in the old fashion—sending more aristocratic nopdks into the House , to increase the quantity of imbecility already there . If a vacancy occurs in a Scotch county , it is a Lord Haddo , the eon of the local Earl , that we return to fill it ; if a'vacancy occurs . In an English burgh b y the death of one lordj we pick . out some other lord , ) a- brother of the Duchess of Wellington , or the like , as-the natural and inovitable successor . We clearly proceed on the idea that tho Government of the conntry is the birthright of our
aristocratic iaraiuefe Legislation , like fox-hunting , is regarded as an amusement of young lords and their relations , one of the recreations provided by custom for their town-season . This will not do . Tha notion must geb abroad among constituencies that the proper men to return to Parliament are men with ideas . There was a talk tho other day of requesting Mr . Hugh Miller to stand for tho northern Scotch burghsv It was mere talk , wo' suppose , and we daresay Mr . Hugh Miller would at . once- pronounce Parliament not to bo his -clement any more than tho Town Council of Oromarty wast but we should bo glad to hear a little more tubVof that kind , and should think it a hopeful symptom . To send , the men with tho best ideas'into the place of power is a summary
definition , of tho . duty of n country that dosipes to bo weft governed . And , in tua interest of this notion , it might bo ¦ well if itwwea standing rule of liberal constituencies for somo time to como not to qlcct a lord or ailord ' s son ;/ There are exceptions , of course , and very notable ones ; but the * ule , as a goneral one , wquld be useful . " Wo can hope for little change , perhaps , in the temper of constituencies , till wo havo a now Keform Bill , Moauwbilo , should tho rudiments of a new popular Parliamentary party bo got together , , it . ought to bo apart of tho policy of that party—in addition to their n ' grcemont on thq auffmgo , tho ballot , tho educational question , and » uoh like—to establish such an outlook upon tho country at largo , as would onablo thorn to recruit their roulca with now men . "
What Austrian "Occupation" Means. The Jd...
WHAT AUSTRIAN " OCCUPATION" MEANS . The JDailt / JYetvs Correspondent at tho scat of war writes : — " It is easy for noble lords and honourable gentlemen to talk filibly or tlio Austrian occupation as a liuppy solution of this dilHcnlty , bnt they know not what an occupation' ie . pod forbid that tho English people should over know more of it thnnii'S brought to tholr cars by vague and Imperfect reports ot what tnkes plnco in diatnnt and barbarous countries .
The entrance of foreign troops into a country , no matter in what character , friends or foes , liberators or protectors , is one of the worst evils that can befal it . There is no use in trying to hide its deformity by fine speeches about friendship , alliance , common cause , and other claptraps . When a soldier finds himself in a foreign land , he is invariably insolent and brutal . If he come to protect the natives , or deliver them , lie is insolent and brutal because of his own fancied superiority and the apparent weakness of his protege . If he enters as a conquerer , ne is driven into violence by the thirst for vengeance , and . the consciousness that it is impossible to restrain his license . If the country is in that sort of neutral and contemptible position now occupied by Wallachia and Moldavia , the inhabitants are ill treated upon tile principlo acted upon by the London mobs : " they are
pitched into because they have no friends . " There is no exception to this rule . All troops are in this respect much alike . Rigid discipline and stern determination on the part of the chiefs may mitigate the calamity , but they can never . wholly ward it off . I can imagine nothing more terrible , except perhaps the sack of a besieged town , than a lengthened occupation of a province by an army whose commanders are not restrained by public opinion , and who have been long used , to deeds of barbarity . A year of the Bussian army is enough , for any country—when followed by the visit of an Austrian force for . an indefinite period , it becomes trebly oppressive and unjust . Any race more warlike and courageous than the Wallachs and Moldavians ^ would never endure it for an hour . They would rise to a man , and resist it while they had a single musket , oraaingle grain of animtinition . They would say to the allied powers , " We are guiltless of all offence in this matter ; we have had no hand in bringing this quarrel About ; we want to ( Jtursue bur occupations : in peace , to remain tranquilly in our homes ,
undisturbed by the presence of foreign soldiery . For a whole year we have uorne the burden of a foreign army of 200 , 000 men . We have had them quartered in our houses , outraging our women , damaging our property , and replying to our remonstrances by additional violence and insult , AVe have been compelled to pay their expenses . out of our treasury , because cur peasants have been dragged from their homes in winter , and compelled to drag ammunition and baggage unheard of distances through snow , and mud . You say you are pur friends , come to save and deliver- -us . Show us your friendship by leaving , us once more to ourselves , to pur own laws and government . [ Yoiir- enemies , have crossed our frontier ; follow them , like men , into their own territory , and fight it out between : you . " . . This , or something like it , is , I am certain , the language the Wallachs would use , if there existed any organ for the utterance of the national sentiments ! , This , I am certain , isjwhat every individual feels in his heart . And they are right . This Austrian alliance is a great falsehood—a great wrong—a great humbug that has destroyed whatever of chivalry there was in this KuJsso-Turkish war .
« Mr, Bebnal, Sir." (From The Globe.) Am...
« MR , BEBNAL , SIR . " ( From the Globe . ) Among the many imperfections which incessant Reformers are for ever pointing oat in our civilised arrangements , this defect in our social organisation might be admitted by the most conservative ^—that the public is provided with very incomplete machinery for the recognition of a large class of public services . Certain men live a lifetime in a public atmosphere , unostentatiously devoted—their tastes Sustaining their patriotism — to the promotion of public good ; and when such in on die it is in a repoae whioh ha » much of the characteristics of neglect —public mourning being represented in an apathetic paragraph of newspaper routine , " regret . " Thus lived the Mr ! Bernal , whose death , in such wise , we chronicled on Monday .
In this cases dome more formal yet more frank expression of sorrow ia demanded . Mr . Bernal was not only an estimable and distinguished man , "bait bis name is associated with great events in our history . This was the " Mr . Bernal , Sir , " whose name occurred more frequently in the newspapers of 1830 . 2 than even the name of William the Fourth or . Lord Grey . This was the gentleman to whom Lewd Alfchorpe , Lord John Russell , Sir Robert Peel , Lord Stanley , Mr . O'Oonnell , MrP Bhoil , Mr . John Wilson Choker , Mr . Orator Hunt , Mr , Geo . Henry Ward , Sir C , Wetherell , Mr . Warburton , Sir John Hobhouse , Sir Francis Burdott , anil Mr . Hume , personally addressed themselves , in the course of
those memorable schedules A and 15 debates , which resulted in the third xendinga of the great Reform Bills , Thte isvthe Mr . Bernal who , for fifteen years , was a chief officer of the House of Commons , and who obtained from that accurate and keen assembly of men of business the unanimous verdict , that he was the most perfect chairman of committees known to tho memory of members—a verdict which the House's experience of Mr . Wilson Patten and Mr . Bouvcrio , both able and accomplished men , havs not in tho slightest degree disturbed . This was a groat
reputation 5 the requirements of the position evidence that tho man who so thoroughly fulfilled them could not bo otherwise than a , first-rate man . But in this instance tho great popularity wjib obtained aa much by character ns by capacity . Tho clear , alert intellect , comprehensive judgment , and unerring memory , wore not more conspicuous than tho suave manners and kindly counsel so needful in a senate which , among its many pretensions , most strongly insists upon being a felicitous assembly of English gentlemen . Tho Reform Bill , for which Mr . Bornal
gave his hearty vote , and over the construction of Which he presided , effected many changes' ; but it did not in any way effect the Clubby peculiarity of the House of Commons in the sense of its feeing a body sensible to the personal influence of its elected favourites ; and , hence , it would be injudicious to regard with indifference the death , or to overlook the career , of a personage who , for so exte nded and busy a period affected so largely , and often so bene * ficially , the course of our legislation ; and , what i s perhaps of not less importance , the tone of our public life .
Mr . Bernal was happy in his position at the corner of the table : he was born for it , and he enjoyed it ia the manner familiar to those who have satisfied their ambition . But he had miserable moments to which we may sympathetically recur . He witnessed and could not arrest- —he was even in the chair , on the Sugar Bills of 1847—that West Indian legislation which profitably affected the interests of the empire , but ruined the private property of Ralph Bernal , Esq . Could patriotism further go than to require of a chairman of committees to ¦ " put the question "" Is all my income to disappear ? " Yet he did : even though , we remember , once tears stood in his eyes at the sad moment . He was also disappointed that lie
failed , in his active career , to mitigate the Vandalie inattention of the House of Commons : to those questions of art and social refinement which were so dear to his accomplished mind . But , as year after year he sat serene and stern , presiding over the grand deliberations as to what should " stand part" of eternal Bills , ine < had one compensation ' which he fully appreciated , and which may have consoled him for the loss of Rochester—he saw his son , whohadstarted . with all the advantages of the wise father ' s grand parliamentary experience , rising into the very first position—perhaps the least facile of hunian successes ^ —of a crack House of ' Commons debater : —the reward and recognition being the post of a Minister .
The Cholera. {From The Registrar-Generaf...
THE CHOLERA . { From the Registrar-GeneraFs Return . } Its the week that ended last Saturday the number of deaths arising from all causes was 2039 . In the ten corresponding ; weeks of the years 1844-53 , th & average number was 1114 , which if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1225 . The prevailing epidemic has produced an excess , amounting to 814 , above the corrected average . In the thirty-fourth week of 1849 , which ended August 25 th , the total number of deaths registered was 2456 . In thaft week the mean temperature was G 2-9 deg . ; last week it was 61-2 deg ., which is 1 * 1 deg . above the average . Fi ' om cholera the deaths in last week were 847 , while those from diarrhoea were 214 . In the corresponding week of 1 $ 49 cholera carried off 1272 persons . In the present summer its weekly progress 5 s traced in the following numbers : 5 , 2 C , , Jjy 9 , G 44 , 729 , arid 847 . In the first seven weeks of the epidemic of 1849 , the deaths were Q 22 , 42 , 49 , 124 , 152 , 83 » . In tha , t year it commenced about tha end of May , the healthiest purl ; of the year ; it began eis : weeks earlier than tlio present opidemic , arid its progress was slower ; but in the fourth week of August , as has been , shown , it had reached a hjghor rato of mortality than tha disease which now prevails has yet attained . 2783 persona )> ave already died of cholorn ; and 1706 ot tho number have fallen on the low grounds of London , out ot 505 , 119 peoplo > vl «> so dwellings are not 10 feet above tho Thames ; 705 have died out of 048 , 619 on the higher ground , extending from 10 to 40 feet above the aanio level ; and only 345 out of the 1 , 070 , 372 who live on tho ground that has an elevation wctonding from 40 to 350 feet . Tlio mortality from cholora to 100 , 000 living at the threo elevations is 287 at tho lowest , 109 at the middle , und 32 at tho highest region .
The Cholera Pnnio Assumes Almost Incredi...
The cholera pnnio assumes almost incredible proportions in some parts of the south of France . Not a day pusses without tho news of somo Government functionary , often a vory important one , lu » ving deserted his post . The manager of tho Provence , a nowBpapor printed at Aix , has wr itten a circular to hi » subscribers , informing them that all tlio editors and printers being absent in consequence of tho epidemic , tho publication of tho journal is suspended . .
By The Latest Accounts Tho Disease Is Gr...
By the latest accounts tho disease is greatly on tho docreaae . in the allied camps in tho Euat .
Livbiu'ool, ^Auguat 30.—<Tho Number Of D...
Livbiu'Ool , ^ Auguat 30 . —< Tho number of deaths from cholera in Liverpool lust week woe 80 , na compared with 20 in tlio previous wock . In othor icspects tho town is reported . aa boiny in u healthy mute .
In Now York Tho Cholera Ia On Tho Doorca...
In Now York tho cholera ia on tho doorcase . HOG died out of u population of 700 , 000 .
Amkrioan Notes. Mb. D. E. Siqki.Es > Scc...
AMKRIOAN NOTES . Mb . D . E . Siqki . es > sccrotavy of the American legation nt London , has arrived in England . The Washington correspondent of tho New York Herald , writing on the 19 th ult ., Bays : — " Wo have good authority for tho assertion that Mr . Siclctoa ia tho bearer of despatches containing instructions to our ministers at London , l ' aria , und , Madrid . It is undoratoocl that our mini » tera are directed to favour tho republican party in Spain , giving thorn aid and comfort , in consideration of some important reforma to bo introduced into tho Government of Cuba . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 2, 1854, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02091854/page/6/
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