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No. 466, February 26, 1S591 T^ 2?3
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No. 466, February 26, 1s591 T^ 2?3
No . 466 , February 26 , 1 S 591 T ^ 2 ? 3
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MR AND MRS . HOWARD PAUL .. w * rv evening ( Saturday excepted ) at : the ST . JAMES'S | * Elf ( Ent ? auc * inEiq & dillyftn their Comic and Mutfcal cSs in " iJmdoTon March 20 ( Saturday ) which will b * tho f'SvofPerformance . Tickets at the Hall ( Piccadilly entrancedand ^ titehell ' s Royal Library , 33 , Old Bondtstreet . " : —__ . — -
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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE . ( Manag-er , Mr . Edninnd Falconer . ) ENGAGEMENT of MK . and MKS . . BAR & ETc-WILLIAMS . On Monday , February 28 th , and during the week , a'Ncw Coinic Dranilu by Edmund Falconer , entitled ; XEPKACHAUN ; or , lMid Luck ' s Good Luck wjtlvGood booking After , Mr . Barney Williams , Mr . Barret , Mr . Fitzjames , Mr . Ci . Murray ; Miss Portman , Miss K . Saxon . After which THE IIOUI * AT SEVILLE Airs B WIJHamju . Mi- J . Rogers , Mr . C . Youiiff . To conclude with IRELAND AS W AS . Their Original Characters , Ragged Pat and JudyO'Trot , Mr . and by Mrs . Barney Williams . Other characters by principal members of the Company . ' . „ Prices-Private Boxes 21 . 2 s ., 1 / . 11 s . fid ., 11 . Is ; Stalls , /> s Dress Circle , 4 s . ; Upper Circle , -Is . ; Pit , 3 s . ; Gallery , Is . Doors to open at half-past . 0 ; to commence at 7 . Box-office open daily from 11 till 5 .
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A Few Copies of the Last Number of the "Leader , " contaising ax ANALYSIS OF THE POSITION OF THE JOINT-STOCK BANKS OF LONDON , on 30 th June and 31 st December , 1858 , Together with a Comparison of their Progress and respective Amounts of Profits , Increase of Capital , & c , compiled and arranged expressly for this Paper from the best authorities , WITH ORIGINAL REMARKS , Can still be had , extra copies having been struck off to meet : the continued demand . Forwarded on receipt of Six Postage Stamps . . • ¦ ' . . : ¦ —? —' \ N . B .- — -Preparations are making to purisue the subject of BANKING in all its branches , grounded on the same-indisputable reports and statements as those adopted , with so much success , in the Analysis already issued .
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J tself again to the guidance of his lordship , what is the precise benefit it can expect from espousing the shillelagh policy of always being somehow in the thick of the rowj and of always threatening " to be at somebody . " People will ask , moreover , what may be the probable cost of such amusement ; and in what condition it is likely to leavd those who indulge in it when it is over . - Considering the critical position of affairs abroad , we are not surprised at the more than ordinary reticence of Ministers in Parliament respecting them . We know , indeed , that af ter spending a day or two in London , whither he was specially summoned to receive instructions ^ Lord Cowley
was dispatched on an extraordinary mission Vienna ; and it is no secret that he was authorised to offer , on "behalf of Great Britain , a basis of negotiation between France and Austria , to which the approval of the Cabinets of Paris and Berlin had previously been obtained . The amount of concession required fi-om her by the propositions in question , cannot of course be at the present moment made known . It is impossible not to believe that it comprises something more than the mere withdrawal of the garrison of Ancona and Bologna on the one side , and that of Rome and Givita Vecchia on the other . And yet it is vain to
shut Our . eyes to the force of the reasoning on which Austria inay seek to excuse her refusal . Napoleon III . and his abettors here may not admit in so many worde d but by implication they ; are compelled to confess , that their hope and expectation is- —so soon as Central Italy is freed from the weight of foreign troops—it will rise in arms and enforce those reforms which are unquestionably right and reasonable in themselves , but which the allied courts of Schonbrunn and the Vatican have sworn to _ one another never to yield . Nor is ' this all : a fugitive
from his capital , Piiis IX , would be certain to place hiinself Under the protectionof Austria ; and front Vienna a crusade would be preached to all Catholic Christendom for his restoration to Jiis temporal throne . We must say that it were strange if the Emperor Francis Joseph and his ministers should agree , or even affect to agree , to terms calculated to lead to such consequences . That war with France and Sardinia would be amongst them is too palpable to be disputed ; but it would be war begun under infinite disadvantages , compared with the present status quo . What then ? Is the mission of Lord Cowley to be derided or denounced because we can hardly venture to count on its terminating successfully ? On the contrary , we think Lord Derby could hardly have done better under the difficult circumstances of . the case . As the ally of all the powers about to quarrel among themselves , the part of England as a good and honourable neighbour , was to tender our good offices as mediators and peace-makers . Nor should it be forgotten that , to gain time in such an exigency , may be to gain all . The French people are daily manifesting more and more unwillingness to be dragged into a speculative war for objects which nobody can ever pretend to define , but from which , whatever they be , it is quite clear that they can reap nothing but loss and peril . Six months honcc , Louis Napoleon may not feel himself to be in a condition to trifle with the national sentiment . Delay is , the refore , of much contingent value , and may possibly prove the one and only way to preserve peace . No man understands this better than the ex-Premier , nevertheless he wantonly and wilfully holds language which can have no other tendency than to stimulate smouldering passions , and to precipitate disastrous events .
' ENGLAND'S FOREIGN POLICY . IiOiu > Palmerston professes himself to bo dissatisfied with the policy of abstention and reserve in foreign affairs hitherto pursued by Ministers . Had he been in office he would long since have taken what he loves to call a leading and decided part in , the diplomatic struggle now carrying on between the absolutist Courts of the Continent . He would have lectured Austria , twitted Prussia , and told the Pope to go about his business while yet there was time ; all which would , of course , bo quite consistent with his official antecedents , and eminently gratifying to the restless and arrogant egotism of the man . Cutting a figure in political history , and taking the shine out of cautious nnd matter-of-fact . diplomatists and statesmen , is , no doubt , vastly agreeable to a nature like that of the noble Viscount , whose veteran vanity years cannot dim , and whoso hot-headed lovo of intermeddling , wherever thoro is a fray , no length of experience can cool . But the country will ask , ore it commits
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probable that they might have argued and expostulated with the Legislature for another half century at least , had not a fearful necessity arisen in Ireland for taking the matter in hand , without delay , as far as regarded those properties which had become encumbered . In the disastrous period , which followed the famine of 1847 , a great number o f landed properties became so completely waterlogged by inordinate poor rates , and enormous private obligations , as to be altogether unmanageable . Receivers under the Court of Chancery took possession of the whole of the rents obtainable from the impoverished tenants ; no Outlay whatever on
the farms or fannVbuildings was made ; the mansions- of the bankrupt -proprietors were deserted . ; lands to a great extent remained unlet ; in the absence of all confidence , the employment of labour daily grew less and less , and agriculture , in all it branches , was stricken with a fatal paralysis . Society seemed verging to actual dissolution in many districts of the south and west of Ireland ; and the Government , after having wasted millions of money in clumsy attenrpts to avert the wholesale destruction of life , became appalled at the prpspect of vast territories becoming depopulated , by being thrown altogether out of
cultivation . The case was felt to be one of the extremest urgency . The late Sir Robert Peel conceived a plan of a New : Plantation , copied from that which had been devised and executed hi the reign of James I . It was endorsed and extolled as a device full of wonderful wisdom by the then Viceroy of Ireland—Lord Clarendon ; and many well disj > qsed j > eople were led away by its plausibility . But the project came to nothing , and is how as much forgotten as Sir Robert ' s amended sliding scale , wliicli was to settle the corn-law question in 1842 , or Lord Clarendon ' s Vienna note , which was to have saved us from war in 1854 . Another , and
far different remedy , was that introduced by the present Master of the Rolls , Sir J ., Homily ,., at the instance of Mr . Pim and the late Air . Blake , and other gentlemen connected with the sistej * country . who had made the subject of land reform their especial study . It was nothing less than to enable encumbrancers to compelthe immediate sale of the estates on which they had lent their , money , and to provide for the adjudication of the rights of contending claimants to their respective shares after the land had been sold , and a solvent proprietor put in possession , instead of before the transfer , as formerly ; the inducement held out was the grant
by the Encumbered Estates Court to the purchaser of an indefeasible title . Happily for Ireland this simple and excellent plan . ) was adopted . The estates which had previously been the most hopelessly submerged by want of capital and want of employment were the first to _ rise to the surface . Owing to the dreadful depression of the period , many of them no doubt were sold too cheap at first , and great hardships were thus inflicted on individuals . But as times mended , and the value of the imprescriptible title becanic generall y understood , the price of landed property steadily rose ; and during the last four or five years it has been lusher than ever , was known before .
Then came the question , why should encumbered proper ty be thus favoured P or why should a man who had got into debt be able to sell lus estate for more than his neighbour who had not ? Nobody could pretend that this was just , and accordingly an Act was passed last session , enabling uny proprietor in Ireland to come before the Landed Estates Court , and ask to have his title investigated ? and , upon satisfying the judges regarding it , de-r manding that it should be registered as Indefensible . Sir Hugh Cairns now proposes to extend the benefit of this admirable law to England and Wales' ; and we have very Uttle doubt that if the session is not unhappily cut short by somo tfiotious proceeding , -which may render a dissolution necessary , the publio will have the satisfaction of learning that it has received the sanction of Parliament and the imprimatur of the Crown during the prcgont year .
TITLES TO LANDED ESTATES . TpTouau the time that has elapsed since the introduction , by the Solicitor-General , of his plan for tho verification and registry of titles to land , lias been as yet but brictj it has sufficed to elicit so gehernl a concurrence of approval , that little doubt can bo entertained of the ultimate adoption of the scheme . Fundamentally , it is based on the success of tlia experiment made in Ireland nine years ago , and which had its origin ^ like so many dthoru of our most valuable institutions , in exceptional nnd temporary circumstances , Wise and learned men had spoken and written to no purpose , year after vear , and generation after generation , as to the expediency of validifying titles to land estates , and oi simplifying the mode of their transfer ; but it is
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MANNING TUB NAVY . It is quite possible , wo aro all now convinced , to do too much . In Jfuct , the whole philosophy of morals may bo expressed in one phrase . > Vo aet in a hurry , from instinct and impulse , and learn after noting that wo have done wrong . To marry in hnste , and repent at leisure , is no inadequate l'opresontation of the whole course of human aH ' uire . Legislators , whatever they may boast , and what-
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 26, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26021859/page/17/
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