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THE LEADER.
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The Leader.
THE LEADER .
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Mr. Bright Appears, By His Activity, Det...
MR . BRIGHT appears , by his activity , determiued to earn his right to the position , which the country generally seems to have accorded to him on the subject of Reform . At Birmingham , Manchester , Edinburgh , and now at Glasgow , he lias delivered addresses surpassing in importance all the rest of the Reform speeches of other speakers put together . He is doing his work , it is
plain ; and whatever the measure may be which he himself is preparing—whether it is destined to supersede the Government bill or not—his prefatory labours ¦ on the platforms of the great towns cannot but Lave a powerful influence on the course of Ministers . In the dead silence of the leading members of the Derby party , indeed , it is already fancied that the course the Government intend to pursue
is , to a certain extent , made visible : waiting on the expression of the country ' s opinion evoked by thc active labours of Mr . Bright and his party , the Government will measure the amount of amelioration to be offered in their bill . The complete silence of the chiefs of the . Whig party on tlie question of Reform is much more mysterious , and the disunion of the Liberals seems only to become more and more confirmed . The only shadow of an explanation offered as to the silence
of the Whig leaders is , that they too are waiting and watching the course of public opinion . In the meantime , the Times is nervous and irritated at the progress of that saine public -opinion , which it affects to regard as the opinion only of the Radical part of the community . The middle classes , it prctcuda , arc being talked down , and it threatens them with universal suffrage , of which tlicro docs not appear the smallest chance , and with the ballot ; as if the middle classes wore
the deadly opponents of secret voting . But ii ' there is one thing more obvious than another , on the subject of the popular demand for Parliamentary Reform , it is that the time lias passed when , by raising a cry , class could be set against class for party purposes , There- novcr has been a time when the middle and lower classes have felt so much confidonco in caoh other , or so much inclined to unito for their own joint benefit . The- time of i ' minodorutc views and subvorsivo demands has been
outlived , and wo havo cvidcuoo of this in tho tcmperatonoBs which has , almost without exception , ruled at mcotings whero there havo been speakers holding oxtromo Radical opinions . Tho news from abroad is led oil' by tho story of tho Count do Montaloniburt ' s appeal , which was heard on Tuosdivy . If I hero had boon any doubt ns to tho wisdom of tho Count and hia advisors in appealing against the iniquitous sentence pronounced against him , tho result of Tuesday ' s i > racecdiugs
would have done away with it ; Count de Montalembcrt is acquitted of the charges of attacking the principle of Universal Suffrage , and the Constitutional rights of the Emperor ; and he is sentenced to three instead of six months' imprisonment , the fine of 3000 f . remaining unaltered . But nobody believes that the Count will suffer either fine or imprisonment ; if the pardon of the 2 nd of December is found to be informal , a new pardon will
be pronounced , either on Christmas or New Year ' sday . The results of the trial and appeal are felt by the opponents of the present regime to be a great triumph . The witty correspondent of the Globe tells us that the pardon of the anniversary of the coup ( Vctatwns called a coiqi . de grace ; but the stroke was given with a knife that has cut none but the hand that used it . One striking consequence of the persecution of Count de Montalcmbert is seen in the esteem in which he is
now held by the proUtaire class , the artisan , the " dangerous class" par excellence . Another very natural result has been an extensive demand for the famous " Debate on India , " and we are told that this demand has been very ingeniously met by the publication of a large number of the pamphlet under the title of " Echii' L Rus Tabcd Nu , Par Ed Trcbmclatnom , " or the proper title printed backwards . One other item of Prench news demands notice :
it is a report that on Sunday last a detachment of French troops were marched into the valley of the Dappes , the Swiss valley to which claims have been set up by the Imperial Government . Great excitement is said to be felt in Switzerland at the proceeding , and tho Swiss and Austrian presses are reported to be highly indignant ; but the story lids yet to be confirmed before we can comment upon it .
On the subject of the disturbed state of Italy wo have no news of great importance , but several small incidents havo come to our notice in confirmation of tho serious view we have recently taken of tho condition of Italy . Further denials havo been made of the language attributed to Count Cavour on this subject , It is now said that he issued no such circular as the ono ascribed to him j but it is admitted that tho Sardinian Minister is wont to send a
monthly lithographed circular to the Pxcdmoutcsc representatives abroad , and in ono of these' it is poaisiblo ho mny havo written somothing like tho language roportcd . It is . every day becoming cleiu'cr that it is not alone tho cxtromo party in Italy that is impatient of Austrian rule ; tho aversion is as cominpn to those of moderate views as to those of extreme viows ; and bolh aro ngi-ccd that to secure Italy for the Italians , cvon at the prico of a European war , would hardly bo paying too doar . A us triii , is nervously alive to tho presont state of tho popular tonipoi" , and is propnviuff to resist ; it . Within a t ' ow wouks she has reemitod hoi forces in Lombcu'ily by tho addition of 8 Q 0 Q men . At Pavin
events are hurrying forward . A few day ago , it was discovered that a determined attempt had been made to burn the Austrian military forage magazine ; and in secluded parts of the outskirts of the city several soldiers had been pelted with stones by unseen assailants . The latest sign of the popular ill-will has been open insult offered at Milan to the Archduke Maximilian , while walking with his wife , br a porter .
Turning to despotic Russia , we have a picture of autocratic power exerting itself , not without great peril , for the emancipation and enfranchisement of the serf-millions . After a desperate struggle the party which , in the General Commission at St . Petersburg , represents the extreme views of the Emperor , has triumphed over its more timid Conservative oprionents , and has given to its master a
highly satisfactory report on the progress of emancipation . In Russian-Poland the peasants have already been set free , their forced labour being commuted into a rent-payment for lands which are to be granted to them , under conditions that will probably at some not very distant time be found to require considerable amelioration , but which at the outset will secure to the emancipated peasant a living , with liberty .
From America we have Mr . Buchanan ' s Message to Congress , and we are struck with the grand simplicity of the story which the President tells of the progress of events in the United States during the past year . Nothing could be more unaffected or dignified than the language used throughout this long and elaborate rdsume \ We refer to it at length in another part of the paper j it may , there ^ foro , be enough to remark here , thai Mr . Buchanan speaks in tho . most friendly tone as regards England j and while pointing out th ' o fact that there aro still diflbreuccs to bo settled in connexion with
the subject of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty , points out that the settlement of these differences will " wipe out the last remaining subject of dispute between , tho two countries , " and hia tone is that of ., hoper fulness as to tho amicable adjustment of the question . Some proceedings in the Belfast police-court , on Monday last , havo given us a taste of tho fooling which is activo in connexion with tho subject of tho lato cirrosts . Mr . Roa , solicitor for the accused
persons , made an attempt to forco on the public hearing of his clients , but ho onlysucecocled in drawing from tho committing magistrate the fuot that the Irish Government lmvo good grounds for tho course thoy havo taken , though they aro not propared to investigate tho enso publicly . Mr . Ren delivered himself of an opinion that tho " British . Constitution had loft Belfast this last wook , " and he further intimated that ho ' had considerable satisfaction in performing what ho thinks a oloar duty agaiust Uio Crown , bocauso ho thinks ifc Ufts not
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24121858/page/3/
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