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which such a reform will give to the development . of agriculture , by enabling the possessors of doubtful titles to raise money upon perfected security , is incalculable . But though the Royal"Speech has held its way through the ordeal of Thursday evening ' s debate ,, the men who drew it up received several very significant warnings of the sort of fight they have to prepare for . Lord Palmerst ' on ,. " eager for the fray / ' let fly several hard ' -hits even while sparring ; and Lord John Russell , while keeping himself cool and collected-,. let . it be seen that he means to come down heavily upon the Ministerial Reform measure , if it is not what he thinks it ought to . be . He , warned Ministers , too , not to be putting off the . subject ; for though the House will wait a reason- i able time , there is oiie man in it , he said , who will ' hardly be able to restrain his impatience . Mr . j Bright did not offer to dispute this statement . In the mean time , there is little doubt that Mi-: nisters will get the money they want for " there- j construction , of tlic British navy . " However strong | the wish may be in this country to keep out of war , j the wish to place at the disposal of Government j such a steam navy as will afford at once security to j our shores and weight to our diplomacy will be j equally strong . Out of the House , where , for the present , the question of Reform is debated with a surprising amount of general agreement , more schemes than Mi \ Bright's and the Times ' a have been put before the country . The last and most noticeable of these is by Sir Culling Eardley-Tnimot ; It is not a new scheme , but a revision of a scheme published by him years ago . At once conservative and progressive , it is built upon the- principle that " there , is a party now superior to all Whig or Tory thraldom —that of the nation . " The inhabited house ( with some reasonable guarantee of respectability and responsibility ) is the basis of his franchise ; he holds the . balance very fairly between Iho urban and the -rural populations , and one part of the scheme is spocially worthy of consideration 3 it is that which provides for the cession of the ballot to constituencies iu which three-fourths of Iho voters dqmnnd it . Nothing can bo more reasonable than this solution of tho ballot-difficulty ; it would give the ballot iv fair trial without pledging the country to its general adoption , unless experience should prove the advisability of that course . Prom abroad wo have , first of all , daily good acoounts of tho health of the Princess Jfoedoriok William with that of her son . From the Ionian Islands wo have news which , if not startling , is very grave . TUo Parliament has , come to a unanimous determination to doolaro for tho union of the Islands with Grooco . Thoy . had gone st > far as to ro « solvc that a committee should bo appointed to oonoovt Iho boat menus for oii ' coUug tho wishes of tlu ^ Parliament , when , a message from Mr . Gladstone
warned them of the illegality of their proceedings , and advised them to content themselves by memorialising the Queen , and they appear to have taken his advice . But difficulties are plainly thickening , and a . solution will have to be found speedily ; in the mean time , the . appointment of a soldier , to the office of Lord High Commissioner does not promise very well . ¦ The news from the Continent has , for the most part , reference to the war question . The newspapers of Austria , France , and Germany speak of peace , some of thern as if it were perfectly secure ; but at the same time , Austria , France , and Piedmont are arming for war . Dux-ing the week it has become known that '¦ large quantities of saltpetre have been purchased in London . by-the ¦ Sardinian and French . Governments , to be delivered in Sardinia . There is not much care taken now to disguise the position of France . Piedmont will not strike the first blow ; but if Austria should be provoked to strike the first blow , the most fervent wish of Victor Emmanuel will be realised , and the fight will begin , France being ready and willing to back her little ally . If rumour may be credited , France will not be the only active ally of Sardinia among the great Powers : it is said that the King is about to remarry , his future queen being the Grand-Duchess Maria Nicolaiewna , eldest daughter of the late Emperor Nicholas , and widow of the late Duke . of Leuchtenberg . Meantime , our own position appears likely to be encumbered by the trammels of diplomacy . Lord Malmesbury , letters from Turin inform us , has addressed a despatch to the Piedmontese Government , condemning in strong terms the attitude assumed by it towards Austria , and regretting this proceeding , " inasmuch as it must be followed by conduct on the part of England which it will become his duty to recommend . " It is to bo hoped that no time will be lost in bringing this faot , if it is a fact , before Parliament for nothing can bo more ^ unwarrantable thau the assumption of such a tone on the part of the English Cabinet , amounting as it docs to a menace . Count Cavour is reported to have returned a most dignified answer to Lord Malmcsbury ' s offensive communication . But whilo Sardinia and France await eventualities , Austria devotes herself to tho raising of a now loan . Proposals for borrowing another . 5 , 000 , 000 / . nro in the market , and on terms that aro far too liberal to bo worth acceptance . Austria , with a bankrupt treasury , an enormous army at homo and abroad , anxious to fight for tho maintenance of hqr military despotism in Italy , goes bogging for gunpowder and cold iron . She will toko 80 / . for every 100 / . nominally advanced , and sho will pay intorest at the rate of 6 * per cent ., with a sinking fund to make tho allurement oompleto . But tho answer is only too ready ; to furnish Austria with the meaua of making war « t °
r LISTERS have achieved a victory at the very outset of the campaign : they have put into the Queen ' s hands a well-written speech ! Truly we live in an age of wonders—an age in which almost everything appears to oe possible ! The ¦ speech is a good speech of its kind ; a kind of speech that gives nothing for opponents to lay hold of , at least nothing for them to lay hold of violently , Gn the two great points , Parliamentary Reform and the question of wai-, the speech is trimmed with ^ remarkable nice ty : it neither affirms nor denies
that war on the Continent is imminent ; and as to Reform , it is spoken of as " an amendment of the laws relating to the representation of the people in Parliament , " and the only comment made on it is that her Majesty prayerfully desires that , whatever happens to be done in the matter , may be done so as to secure the stability of the Throne , the maintenance and improvement of the national institutions , and the general welfare of the people . Not
a word more ; not the faintest hint of a bill on the way . The Reform paragraphs are placed last in the speech , as if the subject had been remembered at the eleventh . hour and referred to iu a ( lying postscript ; but Lord John Russell took nothing by pointing out that fact , for Sir John Pakington reminded him that the subject occupied exactly the same place in the present speech that it did in the speech of 3832 , when Lord John himself was Premier .
As for the bill—we have Mr . Disraeli ' s word for it—it is prepared ; but , said tho Chancellor of the Exchequer to Lord Palmerston , " you'll be disappointed if you expect to sec it before the First Lord of the Admiralty lms made his statement . " < ' Thero will be no unnecessary delay in its production , " says Sir John Pakington , " because thorc is no unwillingness ; " so that , before long , " the man ¦ who has mado himself more renowned as an orator than as a statesman , " will have his work before him .
Other measures of Reform are more unreservedly referred to in tho Royal Speech . Two or more bills aro to bo brought in by tho Government for assimilating and amending tho Bankruptcy and Insolvency Laws ; and for classifying crimes and offences in England and Ireland , with the viow of bringing them into one set of statutes , with such modifications as experience may havo suggested . Another reform of great iinportanoo is to bo cft ' ectod for enabling ownors of land in England to obtain for themselves an indefeasible ttyle to thoir estates andi interests , and for registering siioh titles with simplicit y and scourifcy . Perhaps thoro is at present no greater burden upon land thau that which ifl pointed out by . the proposed , jceinedy . ; the impetus
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 5, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05021859/page/3/
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