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THE LEADER
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The Leader
THE LEADER
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B OTH in the metropolis and in the provinces the Ileform meetings of the week have been many , if not of the first importance . At Manchester we have had a large meeting for the purpose of founding a Local Political Reform Association , on the principles of registered manhood suffrage , -vote by ballot , triennial parliaments , and equal electoral districts—a programme not far behind tliat of the Charter itself . An argument addressed to the middle class by one of the speakers , on the sabject of political agitation , is certainly well worth the serious attention of that class , which lias
undoubtedly stood in the way of an extension of the suffrage quite as obstinately as . the classes above it . " Commercial men , shopkeepers , and working men themselves , " said Mr . Hooson , " suffer from political agitation . Working men do not like political agitation ; but the obstinacy of the middle and higher classes renders it necessary . Let the middle classes , " he said , " destroy that agitation by taking their stand upon manhood suffrage . " The feeling of this meeting , however , appeared to be in favour of
a rate-paying suffrage , and Mr . Bazley , the newly elected member , pledged himself to support that prhiciplo in conjunction with Mr . Bright . At rinsbury and elsewhere Mr Ernest Jones has been working with spirit for the adoption of the whole five points of the Charter as the only reform acceptable by the people . At these meetings various Liberal politicians have seemingly felt bound to alludo to Reform ; but have spoken in such vague and general terms that they afford no indication of the points on which public opinion is likely to
converge . Tho frequency of Cabinet Councils latterly has attested the activity of the Government , on . whose hands business is thickening . In anticipation of a time coming when small grievances will find no Ministerial car at leisure , the hop-growers of Kent and Sussex havo been at the . Chancellor of the Exchequer onco more , lo urge him . to grant the relief which he cannol ; deny their right to ask . Thcso unfortunate cultivators of the soil arc the victims of a peculiai'ly objcctionublo impost , the
maintenance of which must bring about one of two results—either the hop-growers must go on growing the bitter plant and bo ruined for their paiu s , or they must leave off growing it , and our national beverage will lose its character of perfect beer . The fixed tax , about 20 s . per hundred-weight , pressos with painful inequality upon tho various qualtics —tho choaposfc Sussex hops at 40 s . paying tho saimo amount of duty as tho highest priced Kentish hops at 120 ? . Tho hop-growers havo also tho pvcearious nature of tho produco 1 , o urgo in lelmlf of tho relief they are praying for . Tho only answer
that has been returned to them is , that the subject shall have the ¦ " anxious consideration" of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Mystery surrounds the publication of the two despatches from Sir John Young—a mystery not in the least penetrated by the suspicions and guesses of either the friends or opponents of the present
Government . Perhaps , hi spite of the active inquiry" set on foot by the Foreign-office authorities , we shall not come at the truth of the matter on this side of the opening of Parliament in January next ; perhaps not even after the recurrence of that great constitutional event . Meanwhile , the publication does not affect the merits of the question , nor has it arrested the journey of Mr . Gladstone .
An India House telegram puts us in possession of news from Allahabad to the 16 th of lhst month . The point of interest is Oude , where Lord Clyde is preparing , to commence the campaign , if he has not already commenced it . Generally speaking , the rebels are either flying before the victorious British forces , or are inactive . There has . . been one exception , in which a body of rebels , numbering twelve thousand men and twelve guns , advanced on
Siuidella , but they were beaten in several engagements , lost four of their guns and upwards of a thousand men killed . Tantia Topee , beaten again and again , and driven from place to place , was making his way to the eastward , somehow recruiting his forces in men and guns , so as to compensate for his losses , at every step he takes . The Nana is said to liavc removed well out of danger , and to have posted himself somewhere within reach of the Himalayan fastnesses .
rank , cannot rise above the grade of subadar , or lieutenant ; the second is , that under the iniquitous rule of the English , no one in authority gets " presents . " This , interesting state pape r makes known the fact that , long before the outbreak , several of the princes of the Delhi family were busily stirring up the fires of rebellion . The speech of the King of Portugal at the ¦ open * , ing of the Cortes , on the 4 th instant , has put the finishing touch to the story of the Charles-et-Georges , as it has been told in the pages of the
Moniteur . The one-mindedness of the Emperor Napoleon and Doni Pedro on the " settlement" of the difficulty , as described by that veracious organ of French official mystification , is strikingly verified by the following words of the grateful and accordant King of Portugal : —" This question-having been taken from the field of right , in -which my Government sought to maintain it , my Government having exhausted the resources in '" which , the letter of treaties authorised it to have confidence , was obliged to cede to the peremptory exaction of the delivery of that vessel and the liberation of the captain . "
In conscquenee of the absence of Count Montalembert ' s advocate , M , Berryer , at the time originally named for the trial , that absurd and wonderful proceeding is postponed until the 24 th . In the mean time , the Emperor is giving to Algeria a little of the freedom which he denies so persistently to France . On the representation of Prince Napoleon he has consented to the appointment of certain Jews to seats in the Councils-General . " The
By the Calcutta mail , which arrived on Saturday morning last , we havo a very interesting document purporting to have been issued under tho seal of the King of Delhi before his overthrow . It is a proclamation to the people of Hindostan , both Hindoos and Mahometans , who " arc being ruined under tho tyranny and oppression of the infidol and treacherous English . " A great number of charges arc brought against the British , and several of these have undoubtedly very good foundation in fact . Some of the things complained of nrc , that the nativo Princes arc deprived of their rank ; that the
Jewish native population of Algeria , " says Prince Napoleon , " is very considerable , and will show its gratitude for this mark of interest and confidence . " But a moro interesting fact in connexion with foreign news is a statement that all the great Powers , Austria included , have sent a requisition to tho Pope on the suljcct of the boy Mortara . The
Pope is asked to restore the boy to his parents ; ho answers that it is not possible for him to do so , Tho head of tho " only infallible Church" is the slave of his infallibility , and though the whole of Catholio Europe should cry shame , ho must stand by tho fanatics who have put in force tho powers of their Church—even though ho should in his heart anathematise them for their blundering
Zemindars are not absolute on their own lands , but arc liable , lo be summoned even by their slaves before the law-courts of the British ; that the merchants aro called upon to pay for schools , roads , & o . j that tho native workpeoplo soc their goods put out of market in competition with European products ; Hint religious persons aro not supported ; whereas tlw King promises to the merchant railways and steamboats out of the public treasury , cud tho workman ho propitiator with tho promise that hcshall labour for " kings , rajahs , and the rich . " Two other grievances aro specially urged : tho first is , tliat in tho army a native , no matter what his social
ovcr-ouiowusncss . This pestilent ofliciousncss is just now highly active In Ireland wo have an attempt being made to secure six orphan children by tho cvor-watchful shepherds of tho Catholic flocks . The father of those children was , iu name only , a Catholic , but their mother was a . staunch lYotcstanl , who earnestly devoted herself to the roaring of her children in her own faith . At tho instance of hor husband she consented to allow ( ho children to bo baptised at a Komiui Cni hollo olmpol ; but she consonlcd to that only en the ground that " Protostauts
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 20, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20111858/page/3/
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