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Batepaying suffrage :. ¦ ¦ . and the Ballot are the two fundamental princi p les of Mr . Bright ' s proposal . How far will Ministers go in counter-DKU dings ? We have an impression that rather than simply adopting the . 10 / . franchise in counties which their rivals * recommended in 1854 ; they are likely to take the 12 / . suffrage enacted in 1850 for counties in Ireland , and which , their own party cannot refuse to extend to ; England and Scotland after having actual ! v imposed it by Way of compromise for
onethird of the United Kingdom . Lord John , in 1850 , brought forward an 8 ? . county franchise for Ire ^ land ; the House of Lords substituted 15 / . as the qualification ; the Commons refused to accept the alteration , and 12 / . was finally agreed to after long discussions . Taking 'their stand on this precedent the Derbyite Cabinet ^ will no doubt be strong in party debate . The difference between 10 / . and 12 / . is not enough to rouse any earnest feeling out of doors either way ; and if the lower ( jualification be carried by the opposition as an amendment , there will be no humiliation in accepting it . The ministerial choice 6 f a franchise for cities
and boroughs will probably lie between the 6 / ., contained in the Coalition Bill of 1854 , and the 51 . proposed by the Whigs in 1852 . Here , also , it is not inconceivable that the Government , anxious to make a show of Conservative caution for the sake of keeping their frightened friends about them , may at first name the higher figure , and then take the lower , if itr ^ hould be forced upon them . After the changes we saw them adopt at the dictation of their adversaries in the India Bill , anything is believable as regards their pliability in matters of detail . The same observation is applicable to every item of
the schedules , of disfranchisement and enfranchisement , if they choose to avail themselves of it . How far the result would be to destroy their Legislative credit , arid to confer upon the moderate Liberals the reputation of substantially moulding and fashioning the measure , it were premature at present to surmise . . It will be quite another affair if , instead of entering into competition with Lord John or . Mr . Bright , the leaders of the Tory party should bring forward a scheme of redistribution founded mainly upon disfranchisement , a project of a wholly different character— -namely , one biased on the principle of
inclusion and amalgamation . It is vain to shut our eyes to the fact that any extensive sequestration of seats will array against any bill , no matter how theoretically just , a solid phafanx of opposition hard to overcome without the aid of f ' pressure from without . ' * Pressure from without , then , as yet there is none ; nor will there be any if the struggle be chiefly respecting the mass of redistribution . The concession of a moderate franchise without the Ballot will , not stir popular passions very far be-r neath the surface . Mr . Bright understands this well . Hence his adoption ot household suffrage
and secret voting as the means whereby he seeks to carry his large transfer of power from the landed aristocracy to the trading towns , He is perfectly conscious that he has no chance of getting his bill read a second time this session . That is not his object . His desire is to have it thrown out , and with its rejection for a text , to begin a regular agitation like that of the League for the repeal of the corn-lawa . Rejected his bill will , of course , be ; it remains to be seeiv whether any other will be agreed to by the rival aristocratic parties in the Legislature .
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of Turkev in the ascendant 116 THE JjEAPE B > . [ No . 46 i ; Jantjabt 22 , 1859 .
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circumstance for German children that such shoulc be the custom , for it relieves the tender mind— -at least morally—from a world of trouble in puzzling but the boundaries of this inextricable conglomera tion of Lilliputian sovereignties , whose many ramifications and subdivisions . sadly . disarrange geographical science . There is no man in Germany we verily believe—ay , not Duke Ernest himselfwho could , without much pondering and research , point put at one glance , on the map of Germany the happy spot Saxe-CoburgrGotba occupies . Such a perfection of geographical ability has never yet been attained . The ambition of p uke Ernest II . , however , far from being of so limited a nature as the extend of his territory . Petty ruler though he is , his political views soar high into the clouds of dynastic aspirations . This is the Prince who fondly entertains the conviction that the Imperial Crown of Germany would by no means / find an unbecoming resting-place on his own hallowed head . This is Ernest IL , who , after the Hohenzollem dynasty declared themselves unwilling to accept a diadem from the hands of a " mud-spattered Revolution , " most considerately offered to provide the bereaved Fatherland with a new Imperial House . Some of our readers may suppose t hat we are merely in jest in so saying . " But we are only narrating sober truth . In all seriousness—as far as seriousness can apply to such an absurdity : —the Duke of Saxe-Ooburg-Gotha is an avowed candidate for the Kaisership ; and it is from Ms dominions that the political party who pursue the phantom of Imperial restoration have been saddled with the sobriquet of " Gothaers / ' - Perhaps , after all , Ernest II . is not the worst of German sovereigns- —a compliment , it must be owned , however , of no very exalted character . He has not , for aught we know , made many political prisoners , nor shot down Liberals , nor robbed the Exchequer of his duodecimo , principality to gratify personal extravagances , nor indulged in the other pleasing peculiarities and strange antics we have commented upon in the biographies of his fellowpotentates . It is true , in the early days of his ^ reign-r-which commenced in 1844 , when lie succeeded his father , Ernest I . —he had some squabbles with his pocket-Parliament ; and as even the members of that small body politic were not found contented to remain without any voice of their own , he dissolved them in due form . But for this we must not be top hard upon Duke Ernest ; for a German Prince to exist without dissolving his Parliament would be an anpmaly most difficult to
, the star was , and a palace on the Bospjiorus a $ comfortable and secure as one on the Thames , we should assuredly behold a Cpburg sufficiently unprejudiced to shave his head and swear by the Prophet , for the sake 6 f some imperial Fatima with a caliphate and a few camels ' loads of sequins for her dower . It is altogether impossible to say what transformation , political or spiritual , a Coburg would scruple to go through to become as exalted as his more fortunate cousins . During the Crimean war ; Ernest II . was busy as a bee in the hop e that the disgraceful neutrality of Prussia might be put to some good use for his own Imperialist designs . He was -then fussing about between Coburg , Paris , and London—of course , for nothing more , in appearance , than musical purposes —for , be it known , he is a mighty master ot the gentle art . But in the back-parlour meetings of the " Gotha party , " and in their terribly ennuyant gazettes , it was whispered that the Sereiiissimus was posting to and fro in search of a heavier diadem for his head and that of his beloved Alexandrine , the Baden princess , than the gingerbread one they were then wearing . J 3 ome wiseacres had even taken the trouble to lay down a plan of how Liberal Germany was to rally round the . standard of this Kaiser in embryo . The Duke Ernest , with his gwide armee of at least a whole regiment , drummers and all , was to issue a manifesto , telling everybody how the glories of Barbarpssa were to undergo a pro : cess of resuscitation from the Kyffhauser . To begin in a befitting manner the resurrection of those glories ¦ , Duke Ernest , in his quality of future German Emperor ( semper augUstus ) , was to cede the German Rhinelands to / Napoleon III ., which graceful courtesy the other was to repay by giving his power and support to the Imperial Restoration . We forget the exact part that fell to the lot of England in this pleasant arrangement . But of course , cousin Albert was not to be forgotten . These golden dreams have been dispelledfor awhile . Still , the Gptha princelet broods , with the literary knights ' . of his round table , over some deed , like this , of high romance ; solacing , in the meanwhile , his inglorious ease with the cneering performance of melodies of his owiv and his troubadours' com-Eosing . In fact , Germany , that land of sonff , ardly possesses a more ardent musician . All the hours that hang heavy on his hands during these most uneventful and undramatic times , he devotes to the muse of harmony and to the scenic arrangements in which he takes delight . We doubt , however , if he will prove himself sufficiently an Orpheus to lure the popular parties of Germany into a repetition of that paltry spectacle of Imperial revival , which the very man who once stood at the head of the Gothaers , Professor Gervinus , has pronounced to be an impossibility and an intolerable farce .
imagine . From 1848 , however , the ruler of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha conducted himself in a manner somewhat different to that of his purple-clad brethren . He cherished visions of a high political aim , and deemed it prudent , therefore , to assume a more liberal garb than he had worn heretofore . He made his Rttle jpalace the asylum of such semi-popular , semicourtfy poets as Jfreitag , the author of Soil and Haben , or as Diezel , the nondescript political writer , who , from democratic and political views , changed , chameleon-like , into Imperialist and even Ultramontane doctrines . This is the sort of political and literary society Duke Ernest II . affects . By their good offices he is content to be presented to the world as the star of the present and the light of the future , and thus , thanks to his minstrels and jongleurs , with their tinsel and mock garlands , the paltry realities of the Coburg court are hidden from the eyes of men . The ambition of the Gotha monarch will be better understood when we recal to recollection that these petty Saxon principalities have , for years past , been the nursery for European Royalty . These miniature dynasties have furnished brides and bridegrooms for all dynasties . A stock of the necessary articles has always been kept on hand , " wholesale , retail , and for exportation / ' ready for all comers , from the ice fields of Russia to the Pillar of Hercules , and pur own British Thule . The names of Prince Albert and of Ferdinand , the Portuguese Coburg , are too familiar to allude to . There is scarcely a Court , ever so large or ever so small , unprovided with that indispensable artiole—r-a Ooburg relative . Famous among races has it become for this making itself at home , No puerile consideration , as , for instance , an occasional foreswearing of creed , has ever stood in the way of any amicable family arrangement , by which a Coburg , in the language of the servanta' hal ) , cquld " better himself . " Wo have had , by turns , Coburga Protestant ) , Coburgs Cathplio , CoburgB of the Greek Church . Nay , if
BIOGRAPHIES OF GERMAN PRINCES . No . XI . ERNEST II ., AXJGTJSTUS-OHABI ^ ES'JOHN-LEOPOLD-A £ EXANPEI * rEPWARD , PUKE OF SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA . This diminutive Prince , with the prodigious long name and pretentious title , is the brother of our own Field-Marshal Prince Albert . His territorial dominions are by no means so extensive las his above elongated nomenclature might induce people tp imagine , The duchy of Ernest II . is one of those royal domains in Germany tp which applies the familiar saying ( which we have before repeated ) of the possibility , pf " putting them into a rat-hole , " or ' * carrying them away on the spies of your bootji . " : It is situated in the . centre of the Confederation , in that terra incognitawhere gepgraphy ceases , and old Chaos is to be found again . The Germans , most irreverently , call this ' confusion worse confounded" of petty states by the very explicit , though uncomplimentary , title of " the Kobbor 8 tatea , ' It is , indeed , a fortunate
The Late Thomas Belshaw^—An Appeal Is Ma...
The late Thomas Belshaw ^—An appeal is made not . only to the benevolent , but to all who are interested in the progress of arts and manufactures , in behalf of the widow and five fatherless children of this gentleman who died on the 23 rd December , aged forty-four in circumstanced of extreme distress ; in fact for many months the suffering family had often wanted the common necessaries of life . From the letter making the appeal we take the following ;— " Thomas Belshaw originated and practically carried out Exhibitions of Arts and Manufactures , at Manchester , Liverpool , Derby > Sheffield , Macclasfield , Dovonport , Hull , and other places . Ho successfully organised tho First Grout Industrial Exhibition at Bingley House , Birmingham , which possibly suggested the idea of the Exhibition of 1851 . Be that us it may , no one will deny that Belshaw ' s admirable arrangements largely contributed to tho brilliant results of that world famous undertaking . Then followed the Exhibitions of Cork and Dublin , whore his energy and talent were equally useful ; and lastly , the Crystal Palace at Sydcnham . Having been appointed Deputy Storekeeper to the Army Works Corps , it was whilst going out to the Crimea in charge of tho 3 rd Division , with which ho sailed in December , 1855 , that he met with a fearful injury which , combined with anxiety , disappointments , and neglect , lias caused his untimely death . It cannot be denied that tho country owes to this unfortunate man a deep debt of gratitude , and wo trust that the public , who have benefited so much by the work of his head and hands , will nobly come forward and administer to tho wants of his bereaved widow and five children . Subscriptions are received hy tho Unity Bank , Camion-BtreQt ; Mr . Alderman Moohi , LoatenhnU-streot ; Messrs . Elliington and Co ., 22 , Rogontatreot ; Mr . W . Donald . St . James ' * Hall , ' and "Messrs . Bradbury ana Evans , Bouvoriq-streot . " Tiik CpuNQit , of Inoia . — 'On Tuesday a mooting was hoUl at the East India House , when Colonel Honry Marion Durand , O . B ., pf tho "Bengal Engineers , was elootod a member of the Council .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1859, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22011859/page/20/
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