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The Leader.
THE LEADER .
Contents :
Contents :
Review Of The Week— Page West Coast Of A...
REVIEW OF THE WEEK— page West Coast of Africa . 1343 Biographies of German Princes . 1356 FINE ARTS . Home Intelzigehce . EpP' ¦ -: * g ** ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- New Publications 1351 ^ Sl ^^ S ^ dPoiice 1340 SSlco ^^ ..::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 32 e ™* 1357 »~™*^ ; X ! T" i *» Crteaikord " gg Sff ' " SSJ LITERATURE ¦^ y &^ £ ? ™ =. " = 88 Ireland ° :: """" . '" : ' . "" IS 41 &^ C ^ ::::::::::::: Z : Z ::: Z V ^ iateraiyChronicle dfthe Week . 1346 Notes on Indian Progress 1360 Accidents and Sadden Deaths 1342 Cape . ¦ . ' . 1344 Madagascar 1346 COMMERCIALNaval and Military 1342 America 1344 ^ xv ^ P ^ er ^ 3 134 S The Skipping Interest 13 S 2 The Atlantxc Caole ... 1358 p { JBUC AFFA | RS _ S ^ K ^ U ^^ SUte * IMS Genend ««& Repott 1362 The Ne ^ AiphaVet ' for India I" ::: Isel Reduction of Discounts 1353 The Odes of Horace 1349 f ^^^ C ^ Si ^"""" :::: ISte The Indian Characters 13 G 1 Our Foreign Alliances 1353 The Maiden Sisters 1349 J ™ nt btocK y £ ^ ™ fS ;;; ; £ | gg Sarawak * ••••¦— 1361 i S ^ ia ^^ dfnSnd ?^ ::: Eli && z \ - ™ ==:-z SS . g l ^ ic c e ° fets ' Foreiern ^ KsfrX !!^ .::::::::::::::::::::::::::: US ^ h ^^^ s ™ : 1355 ™ JP ™* ^ EN J ^ MuT " " cffiJF * ' ^ = ir ^ „« O 6 nti ^ ffiS o 2 f " ?! -. 1343 K . ^ .. ! . ^^ .. h - 1356 ^ t ^ SS ^ K 1350 Sl £ ^ l ^ === SS
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T > EFOIIM demonstrations and personal declara-JA ) tious on that subject occupy the foremost places in the week ' s news . At Nottjngliam , Norwich , Hawick , Ashton-under-Lyne , Kidderminster , and other places they have been busy with , the preliminary work of discussing the Reform wants of the people and the means of best satisfying those wants when they are determined . The work makes most favourable progress . Birmingham , always in the . van of reform movements , has sent forth an address , signed by the chairman of its Reform Association , calling upon all England to co-operat e
in demanding a large extension of the suffrage , vote by ballot , and a more equal apportionment of members to population . At the Hawick demons tration a nmch larger programme was iu favour , manhood suffrage being demanded as firmly as the ballot . With reference to the suffrage , Mr . Bright has addressed to the Manhood Suffrage Association of Manchester a few words that go to the heart of the question . The suffrage , he says , is not the vital point in the coming bills ; the vital point is the distribution of scats and members .
" Unless this be well watched , you may find that you have lost the substance and are merely playing with the shadow of popular representation , " he says . In Ashton-undcr-Lyne the feeling is plainly for Reform on the widest scale ; nevertheless the more moderate views of Mr . Milncr Gibson were received with marked commendation . The ballot , and no Reform Bill without it , is Mr . Gibson ' s battle cry ; "I hold it , " ho says , "to bo vital to the freedom of election iu a country like this . " As to the sort of suffrage which Mr . Gibsou is
propared to demand , he fulls short of his constituents-A rate-paying suffrage , or at all events somo arrangement by which the voter etui bo identified , he looks upon as absolutely ncoc 3 sary . Whilo public opinion is thus organising itself , the intentions of Ministers aro kept close , no whisper of the programmo of their bill being suffered to escape . At tho same time , there is a growing sense of confidence in tho lotia / ides of the Government , a belief that the measure to bo offered will be really framed with a desire to moot tho popular dounands .
Tho Liberal p ' nily is endoavouring to reorganise itself for effective action ; but on tho question of Reform it will , iu all probability , aofc in aid of tho present Government . One very conspicuous sign of tho security in which Ministers aro working has boon given , this week , at tho dinner of tho ltomscy Agricultural Sooioty , whero Lord Pal mo rat on , while talking freely about himself and tho events of his administration , had not a word to say upon the subject of tho coming session , Tho country will fool no surprise at this rotioonoo ; iu facd , in its
present temper , having hi mind recent events in France , remembering the history of the Conspiracy Bill , and the late visit to Compiegne , the least said by Lord Palmerston on the subject of Reform will be soonest mended . The publication of the Royal Proclamation has been hailed with enthusiasm by the press of India ; we have , however , to wait for intelligence of its effects upon those to whom it is addressed . It has been called "the great charter" of India , and this magnificent title seems not to go far beyond its
merits ; for it appears to provide a remedy for nearly every real native grievance , while it secures to all , from the highest to the lowest , the blessings of freedom of opinion , of justicepurely administered , and of personal respect without consideration of religious , or , indeed , ofany differences of race , creed , or manners . To all but those who have murdered British subjects , or assisted in their murder , the promise of pardon , with oblivion of the past , or at least a merciful consideration of the circumstances under
which the offenders may have been led to abandon their allegiance to their British rulers , is held out , and stated in terms that can hardly fail to command the confidence of all who arc not criminally beyond reach of the promised clemency . The holders of land are promised protection from , aggression ; the rights , dignity , and honour of the native princes will be respected ; every native will be protected in the unmolested excrciso of his religious faith and
observances ; and ho will be admitted to serve in all olliocs uudcr the Imperial Government for which ho may bo capable , without roferenco to his creed—education , ability , and integrity being the only tests of his fitness . This Proclamation was published contemporaneously on tho 1 st of November at Calcutta , Bombay , Madras , and Lahore , accompanied by an address from the Governor-General announcing tho formal transfer of the
burnt and their villages plundered . All . classes * from the talookdars down to the poorest ryots , are included in this tremendous warning . The news from Corfu represents Mr . Gladstone as hard at work , communicating with the authorities . On the 26 th of November he delivered a speech hi Italian to a full meeting of the Senate , and frankly stated the object of his mission , which , he said , is "to examine in what way Great Britain may most honourably and amply discharge the obligations which ; for purposes European and Ionian rather than British ,
she had contracted . " In furtherance of these ends he invites " all such information and counsel on the state of the islands and of their laws as ought to influence the conduct of the protecting Power . " The address was well received by the Senate , and there is every appearance of a desire on the part of the Ionians to tell their own story without reserve ; in evidence of which we have the protest forwarded , by the ten representatives of Corfu to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , declaring , in contradiction to the statement of Sir John Young , that " the only wish . of the inhabitants of Corfu has been , and still is , to be united to free Greece . "
In the early part of the week there was a report , founded upon a Marseilles telegram , that the King of Naples , tired of the isolation to which , the English and French Courts have condemned him , had made overtures of reconciliation . The French Governmonfc , it was said , had made no reply to the communication ; tho English Cabinet , on the other
linnd , was said to have returned for answer that it was willing to renew diplomatic intercourse on condition that tho King of Naples should grant a satisfactory amnesty for political ofiences . Later iu the week a lettor was roported to have been received from Naples , containing a l'dsumd of a despatch from Lord Malmcsbury , convoying tUo answer of tho British Cabinet . A note , dated from
Government of India from the East India Company to to her Majesty , and calling for the loyal support of all classes iu India . The tono of Lord Canning ' s proclamation appears also to have been in tho highest dogrco approved by the Indian press . But while tho Royal Proclamation speaks almost wholly of poaco , tho campaign has been commenced in Oiulo ; and tho Commandcv-in-Chief , on taking the llcltl , has issued a proclamation very difl'crout in language , if not in spirit . Ho goes , ho says , to
the Foreign-ottico yestorday , states tho interesting fact that Lord Malmcsbury has not written , any such despatch , and tho rest of tho story is , probably , as baseless , After straining the law to catoli the Count de jUoutalombert , tho French . Government aro theiwsolvcs caught in tho toils , and find that thoy cannot lawfully set their bird free by merely throwing open the nets and telling him to 11 y away . Count do
Montaenforco the law , and if ho in to cfl'oot that without damage to life or proporly , resistance on the part of tho people must cease . Tho most exact discipliuo will bo obsorved by the troops in camp and ou tUo inarch , and whero there is no resist unco , neither houses nor crops will bo destroyed , nor will thoro bo any plundering allowed in the towns aud villugos ; but wherever thoro is resistance oven a single shot . ilrcd against the Iroops , no mercy will bo shown to tho inhabitants , whoso houses will bo
lombcrt . will not accept any suchgrnccvlcnying * ° his wUl-not-bo gaolers tho right of sotting him free . Tho position of the Einporbv is ludicrous , and his only chauoo of gotting out of it readily—tlio Jnw failing him—would sccin to be in his changing- Hic pardon , " Which 1 » o has not I lip right to grant , into an amnesty , which is a juvrogaiivo not to be disputed , and which will cancel no ! only tho iniquitous vordict , but tho iniquitous prosecution itself . This is tho course which ho in o . xpocted , to luko . In the
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 11, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11121858/page/3/
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