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10Q0 T HE LEADER, [No. 395, October 17,1...
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A LAMENT IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The peerage...
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LORD CANNING AND THE CABINET. We believe...
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.REFORM AGITATIONS. The lost Reform Bill...
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The Social Convention. At Length It Has ...
hare more or less held the true principle—who know that increase of wealth , and the mode of rendering it most useful to the community , lie in the combination of labour and the division of employments , with an intelligent concert amongst the combined labourers in their divided employments . Ib is this good understanding :, in lieu of competition between the divided workers of a community , which enables them best to serve each other , and , through each other , themselves . This is the keystone of the arch of social
science . But although many members of the association who are impelled to urge reforms , by their training and perhaps by the bent of their faculties , necessarily treat each branch of the subject in a separate and empirical manner , we have a perfect confidence in the force of the reasoning which is inherent in the whole subject combined . "We believe that when men of so much zeal and
intellect as those who have been brought together are devoting their minds to the study , they must by degrees work out the principle in a practical form . A . t-present ,-the Social Parliament is held at Birmingham instead of Westminster : we may remember that our own political Parliament used , in old times , to be held in strange places about the country .
10q0 T He Leader, [No. 395, October 17,1...
10 Q 0 T HE LEADER , [ No . 395 , October 17 , 1857
A Lament In Gloucestershire. The Peerage...
A LAMENT IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE . The peerage and an admiring country mourn the Lord of Berkeley Castle . Kot Howabd , not "WiLBEKFOKCE , could from hia mortuary urn , have drawn more exalted lamentations than have been showered over the coffin of Earl Pitzhardtnge , famous in story . We have no nineteenth century Moschus , or there would be an elegy calling upon the damsels of Gloucestershire to weep , the dogs to hang their heads , the horses to be tearful , the castle retinue to wonder whether ever asrain there would be such
doings at the dining - table , or in the cloistered cabinets . Many places and many persons have reason to deplore the illustrious departed . Unhappily , he was of an . order not now common ; for fifty years out of the seventy-five of his life he was a distinguished public character . Town and country were dazzled by his generous dissipations , the marvellous eloquence of his objurgations , the
unity and concentration with which he prevented his relatives and dependents from "bursting into anarchy . Besides , no fox-hunter rode so boldly with the hounds . For twenty years ' Colonel Berkeley' was the topic of the club and green-room , and not Beldom of the courts of law , which knew him well on account of the fame he gathered where corypbjeans congregated , and where gentlemen were accustomed to illustrate what the
poets meant when they talked of satyrs . At first the noble scion waa a persecuted man . The Earldom of Berkeley was withheld from . liim ; also , the courtesy title of Lord Duits-I . EY ; then , after Miss Foote ' s case , in 1825 , society , in one of its uncharitable moods , stared him in the face without speaking ; so to Berkeley Castle he went , and pleasure ran riot at hia board . Many and strange are the legends relating to those mysteries of hospitality . Malice said every banquet was an orgic ; gossip talked of Memphian revels
out two English sovereigns held up an example to tlie prudish , and honoured the Cavalier Colonel . Say , was not Cheltenham delighted when its favourite obtained two peerages in succession , and the Lord-Lieutenancy of his native county ! A Whig of Whigs , he waa a prop of the administration , returned his nominees for Cheltenham and Gloucestershire ; and bargained for a reward . Their Lordships had then the p leasure of-his company in the fainted Chamber . Heraldically , however
but not often personally . It was ' . "beneath the Earl to do the duties of a peer . In Gloucestershire was his delight . Justice bewails him there . Morality sighs to 'think of his heavy affiliation orders * on ' heartless villains , ' for thus he discountenanced the impure . Profane language and drinking among the rustics were abominations in his sight " ; the genius of good ananners is grieved to reflect that he never more can inflict those retributive fines . Conviviality , again , is
saddened by the loss of one so invariably hospitable . Did he not swear by the nine gods that the great house of Berkeley should feast its friends after a fashion never before conceived ? "Was it not \\ pon that remarkable night when Berkeley Castle blazed with illumination and rang With riot , that a dish with a silver cover five feet six inches long -was placed . upon tlie banqueting-table . ? - It contained — not a marble statue , not a dwarf under a pie-crust , but such a delicacy as once
upon a time was set before the King of Puussia when he had grown melancholy . We are bound to say that no murder-was committed , and that the guests were not invited to become dainty cannibals . Without the aid of any Calepine , Serena escaped the knife . The lord of the castle had a gentle heart . Did he not appear on the stage at Cheltenham for the benefit of Miss Foote , before ' Pea-green Hayne , ' was sentenced to 3000 Z . damages in the celebrated action ? These anecdotes
are among the recoTds of patrician benevolence , and entitle the departed Earl to take rank as a benefactor of his species . The places that knew him know him no more . His affable eye will be missed by the farmers ' daughters . In Gloucestershire his name is fragrant . Purveyors of all sorts have to deplore the lost patronage of Berkeley Castle . But for many a day the Earl will be remembered as a sort of tenth-rate Hoohesteb , who , but for his noble birth , might have been a Boots .
Lord Canning And The Cabinet. We Believe...
LORD CANNING AND THE CABINET . We believe that the Cabinet has not withdrawn its confidence from Lord Canning . On the contrary , the fashion is to talk of him as the very man for the crisis . The East India Company , perhaps , holds a different opinion ; but this is not the time , we should think , which the Court of Directors would choose for coming into violent contact with the Board of Control . The Company is in need of assistance . The million sterling
borrowed from the Bank will go a very little way towards meeting the demand from India . There is a rumour that the Indian railway deposits will be applied as a temporary accommodation . The Government , we presume , would in that case promise an indemnity . Probably , some arrangement will be made , through Mr . Yerno ^ Smith , with the Treasury . We have reason to think that all
the reports in circulation as to the intentions of the Government with respect to Indian Reform are premature . The question is not one that will yet arise . No doubt it is under general consideration ; indeed , we do not anticipate any obstinate adhesion , sigainst the Bense of tho country , to the existing form of Anglo-Indian administration . It is impossible but that LordiPAiiMERSTON should have
recognized the defects of the system , and addressed himself at least to a review of the whole subject . But there is no necessity for precipitation . Parliament will not meet before February , according to prcaent arrangements . The question of a Leadenhall-street Loan may then be raised . This will open the way to a discussion ; but the utmost that can bo expected is that the party insisting upon Indian Ho form may exact a pledge that the Cabinet will reconsider tho problem of a
double or a simplified Government . Meanwhile , Lord . CANNiNQ retains his post , against the sense of tlie Anglo-Indian community , and in spite of the most earnest and , as we think solemn and impressive representations . The Court of Directors has now an opportunity of rendering the public a service . ¦¦
.Reform Agitations. The Lost Reform Bill...
. REFORM AGITATIONS . The lost Reform Bill has not been discovered ; however , we know where the Reformers are . They have not yet broken ground ; but they ' have their plans for next session , and we believe that , whatever be the pressure of Indian affairs , Parliament will be challenged vigorously on the subject of the representation . Lord John Bussell has said , " The time has come . " Those are not desultory words . Lord John Hussell is taking up a position . He has now before him the chance of uniting the parliamentary Liberals ; these , again , will have the support of a . very large public ; so that Iiord Paimeiiston ' s alternative will be to make a move
in advance of the Woburn Abbey AVhigs , or to take them into his confidence and propose the carrying of a mutual measure . Whatever the Tumours afloat , it is positive that the Premier has not , up to this moment , disclosed any parb of his intentions on the subject . All the writers who are ' enabled to say what he proposes to do are sim ply the inventors or dupes of the most empty conjectures . It is true , however , that representations continue to be urged upon the Government , and that
some of them have originated among Members of the House of Commons . " We cannot yet inform our readers on the progress of the new Manchester Idea . It is altogether in . abeyance . The initial league at the Reform Club , of course , has not held a meeting since the prorogation of Parliament . But several local worlriiig-class combinations have taken place . The tone of the provincial journals ., moreover , proves that considerable interest is felt in the question of . Representative Reform , the local Conservative writers—the
most reliable exponents of the party— -being eugaged in endeavouring to extort explanations from the Government . But tho Government maintains a dead silence , and we cannot reasonably complain that Lord Palme itsroN is at present devoting his attention almost exclusively to the affairs of Indiakeeping his left hand and eye , of course , upon the diplomacy of Europe .
Health of London- —The total number of deaths registered in London in tho week that ended last Saturday is 993 . In the ten years 1817-56 , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1007 ; but , as the deaths of last week oc currod in an increased population , it is necessary , with a view to comparison , to raise the average' in proportion to the increase , in -which case it will become 1108 . Tlie public health is therefore so far in a satisfactory state that the number of deaths last week was less by about a hundred thim would have occurred under the average rate of mortality as derived from the early part of October in former years . Tho excess of births over deaths is 37 5 . Diarrhoea , which was so prominent during the auminor , ia now reduced nearly within its and
ordinary limit . —Last week , tho births of C !) 0 boys 678 girls—in all 1303 childron—were registered » n London . In tho ten corresponding weeks of tho years 1817-50 , the Average number was ^ ' ^ iT " According to an analysis which has been made by I > r . llofcert Dundas Thomson , at St . Thomas ' s Hospitiil , tho composition of tho Southwark Company's water , taken from the stnnd-pipo at tho cab-stand opposite the hospital , was in August 1 G-28 grs . of totul impurity per gallon , of wliich 1-08 gr . was organic mutter . On tlio 7 th of September tho total amount of jjnpurity was 75-5 G gra . per gallon , and of this 5-GG gra . were organic matter . This water , in September , 18 f ) 7 , was as impuxe as tho dirty water which waa supplied to the inhabitants of London in former years , when the vrntor w « s taken from tho Thames at Vnuxhiill . —From tha
Regiatrar-GaneraVa Weekly Iteturn . . Tmc JLiv-Kitrooi . Coumti Count ' . — Mr . Josoptt Pollock , judge of tho Liverpool County Court , has been compelled to resign his office , on account of continued illhealth , arising from overwork .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 17, 1857, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17101857/page/16/
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