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reigners may purchase land in the Provinces , and acquire the rights of proprietorship under the protection of the law . It is more than probable that the opening of the I ) anube , \ p & guaran ^^ of this kiml , would fotrotajp & $ §^ £ e Mgb ^& i' &^ c provinces of Turkey enterpris || g Europeans , ^ R p , like the present British Consuljpmld try the efip ^ s of European farming underj £ j $ ie shadow qfg | p e-Crescent . Howe ^ jfc thiK ^^> randui ^ . « p the conference at Constantinople only stands In the light of a suggestion ; it may he entirely overruled by the European Commission , and it is only serviceable in telling us what the Porte is prepared
to concede . Imperial rspeeches- ^ ttfiw oficupy attention ^ and deservedly . A ^ tthe three Emperors have been making manifestoes , more or less public , more or less accurately reported . The most important of these is given to the world throug h , a private letter published by the Co * nst & ty , tiorinel—? s , channel t $ iat permits us to . ajk how . the accuracy of the report can be attested' 'by ^ ihe capacity of the reporting machinery ... However that may be , the pjoicport of the speech is probable . The Emperor represented R ^ sia .. as ha ^ ng heen . able > "; 5 F it were to for to
3 a , ^ c ; essary ? J . Tdefehd herself years come . HBifafeWi Q ^ ^ ^ reason For feting ] , as , ; Jae , d ^ d ,, . an . d . tjie son concurs in the vievfs ofShis ; £ ather ; bufe"ithejtrea € y ' of Paris has 'pb ^ ined ^ theobject ^ which it ^ was Ms ambition to ^ fetiSiH ^' iakd /•¦ i -I prefetfiihieselttteEins ^ says- Aiiix-^ the ' eouhlyyi ^ itssuccesses scarcely compeBtaatmg ^ & g feyiIs 4 Bat digc " asioii it .: j & fready inantifketbyies 5 h Moscow 'have * been closed ; and Atajs-AicDHiipr ^ et ? -throwing opearfche pbffes of -Russia to'the commerce of the world , and . the frontiers to ^ the
free circulation offoreign prsoduce * Th'isiis ^^ iniportanfc , M -tutie :-Vnib impltea -that Ai ^ JXANBEa has the ^ wll andithe insight , as well as the desire , to snaich'success- out of adversity . '/¦' . ¦ j v 3 ? he «« peech : > next m importance Us xmdivulged ; it as one wh | e ^^ BAxoj [ 3 Joseph made on < the occasion of an ecclesiastical meeting to carry iou . t certain patfes-oi the Eapal Concordat . The speech is unrepoifced , tke proceedings .. of the meeting are to beiiinreported , ; the papers are not to . discuss the subject ; ibreign _ . jourixals that . discuss it aTeto . be exduded . K-It iaiaisecret business Which , is to know the flight only in -its ^ effects .
SCheithird ! Speeoh , is apacryphaliy reported , and is ominous , if true . The JSmperor ^ A ^ owaoN , it is , said » ! has suggested to Count ( D ^ votin . ithe expediency , cff a- ; reconcilement -with , ifcome . Oredvt Judfam ^ , &<& Rqths . cpi ^ d , believe , it , ; . for it -is , a rumour rthat , can profit nobody ( except jobbers on thd Stock- Exchange . -, It reael \ es the world through the mltranpapidtioal . j «« rnaL 3 pf Italy ,, who , are always , ( reppribvngmfoafr ,. theyovrish , smd denyingtth , stubborneatifactSiiwhitib . they . dislike . This time , we ihope , the foots , are against . them .
• J ? ar imove-xaenaoing , ( because ; Jfau more authentic , ie it ^ e ^ speech ? ascribed , iby ( the J &» % News to . Count W ^ bwsubci , in the Qongveaa of Paris on the 8 th of , AprU . Ma . looked fwward . tp " , ftotur . q compl * -. qations , ' ' and , iwriiied the JBlowpotewtiwiwa tOQitchange ideas upon the eolations of , Ahe . se ' CQmpl * . cationa . J These subjects , are- ~ the . Anarchy ; . in . Greece land , tfcho : "> serious , modifications" whiob , tb , e three protecting courts should promote ; the
" anapchy , in the Ppntiflcal States , " and the hunt t ^ a , t : Austria , , mig ][^ , copy JJ > aucQ \ n tbdcawi » g Jier , troop 8 ; a singularly teuder suggestion to the E $ n gj of $ Tftp ] , e ? , that he should be Jless severe Tvith bi ^^ iab j ^ cls ; and , a demand upon , Belgium to put dio , lwa , ft ^ e . ^© 1 e , pj ; esa , ior . tb , e French'Grovepnin , Qnt * ifihtbnad ; iitiin'eccisaar > y to put down Belgium . The : ^ ast , tjitt < 3 , e « sd , jl « « , mopt menacing hint . It is TKftU . . kn . < jiwn > HtU « itH 1 th , ove are , men about X « oui 8 I < "Sa jfi ^ Ef ^ jBP iw ^ ° wei & nxtoufl to invQlvo him in fircsh / ^^ M ^^^^^^^ H ^ cftlc ! M * ' ^» would not jGw ^^ P ^^^^? ' ^ ^ "S ^^ W olYod in ftoehi qu ^ toIs . StoWaSM ^ lsI
It might ^ it ^ i ^ G ? e . if we were embroiled with America v l | p d , ap ^ aiently , it might suit Walewski if NAisijbiJEON were embroiled with Belgium . No wotiller WAi / EWSKiJ ^ gks to convn || eation » , " for ||^ iey ar | p | the shar ^^ pXQgliets ^^^^ e the thic ^? th ey ^ presee . jv % | . / , - ^ ^ ijpraau ^ g are aris ^|^ onVevery side MWfr . respe ^ to J ^§ tate o ^> ur jp-eign policy ^ f ^ OKd Ci . AHiiEgj ^ pK * was BaSl ^ wi ^ icheers wh * e 5 ||^ re -entered the House of Xiords after his return from the Paris Conference , for , personally , he is considered to , h * . ye distinguished himself ; but there is an'evident mistrust of a certain foreign policy into - "which our Goviernmeni is drifting ,
independentl y of the question of KarSjiiyhicli is hanging over and not quite disposed of by the readjustment of the Asiatic boundary . The position of our Government with regard to Italy has be come a subject of anxiety , and not the less since Lord Cjcabendon ' s reply to Lord Cl 4 . kbicar . de shows that our Ministers are prepared to act - upon official information , and , therefore , to exclude a real knowledge of the facts . Official ignorance is not justified by judicial
ignorance -since the judges have only to determine an issue upon the premises laid before them , but officials have to deal with the world as it is ; an , dLif our JVIinis ^ fcers ignore the people of Parrna , recognismg only revblutionarLeSj tTesuits , and ¦ Austrians , they certainly are not Q ualified or willing to deal with the subject' of Italy . Lord Lyndhurst has given notice that he shall call attention to the state of Italy arid the advance of Austrian troops beyond thebdunds of Austria ; ¦
Ministers have' sustained another defeat ; the : Church Discipline Bill has beeiu thrown out on the second reacting-, by 41 ' tb 33 . The Xord Chancellor confessed that this bill was introduced under a kind of compulsion . He had been told that he could not proceed with the Matrimonial and Testamentary Jurisdiction Bills , until he should ha-ve prepared the way for revising the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts by laying down a new law of discipline within the Chiirch . The bill proposes to add ~ a lay element in the Bishop ' s Coiurfc , and to add-an Irish Bishop to the episcopal committee of the 'Privy Council , if we may call it so , that is , —the judicial committee , with Bishop 3 sitting as spiritual assessors . The Bishop of Exeter , has a xival bill , an old measure now renewed . ; and Convocation haa two other suggestions . It has been made a complaint that the present bill ia constructed by Mr . Stephens-, a lawyer who ( has paid much attention to 'ecclesiastical matters , and who has been employed for this special act of authorship by the help-needing Lord Chancellor Cbanw . orth . The defence of the Lord Chancellor consisted in showing that the proposals of the Bishops and of Convocation are practically unworkable , and in arguing that we have not now to arrange the institutes of the Church of England , which are already laid down , but to detormine whether the acts of the present day conform to those institutes—a duty which , clergymen are not trained to exercise , and which is suited only to lawyers . Tho dispute upon this point ( between the clergy and . the law , appears ai the present moment to be irreconoileable , and Parliament , not prepared to arbitrate between the two sideg , prefers to do nothing . It has thrown . out the Lord Chancellor ' s Bill ; it will most assuredly throw out the Bishop ' s Bill . Lord GoDEiticii proposed a resolution , that open competition should be the condition of entrance to the public service ; and supported- —as ho was lately in extvaoting a reply on the subject of America—by Mr . Gxadstonb , ho carried his motion by 106 to 87 , against Ministers , with all the support lent to them from the Opposition side of tho House . The Court of Aldermen has made a stand against tho City Corporation Bill of Ministers
/ The af || M < Miave adopted a report upon the tnfiflsuregirguijfg against it on the grounds that it vidlates ^ operty without offering compensation by talii ^ iaiKr & yj jyarious dues and rights ; that it abc ^ ish ^ lsanciiB jnt" honours and dignities which are noi-wlt ^ ufc a practical value at the present day / puttingnothing in their place ; and that it is an uom ^ iJ 6 a % jtack up bt * the City which has always W & fo ^ wayd ' % 0 assist ; in its own improvement . When the Cro ^ n commissioner ^ asked to see the revenue returns and the title Seeds , the members
of the corporation freely showed both ; funds for the improvement of London , derived from the coal-tax , have been administered for the benefit of the whole metropolis as Tirell as the Citj ; and well administered . The act constituting the Central Criminal Court has worked well : it authorises aldermen to sit on the bench with the judges , and if the aldermen do not interfere in deliverinnjudgment , they have proved ^ useful as assessors
wnen they have been consulted on questions of commercial practice , or the apportion of punishment to different classes of offences . The common hall has been a field in which liberal principles have . found free play , and the reform cause , with : the reforming Ministers to boot , has found much support from the State . On the other hand , the City banquets have been neutral ground , in which public opinion itasbeen " able to manifest itself
in-( ( J : ' dependently of the Government . This last statement is true , and we freely g ive , our testimony . It has been at the 'Lord Mayor * 3 table that the public opinion and feeling on the subject of America have been most freely and deliberately declared , and we are convinced that those evidences of public feeling have gone far to . modexate the rash course into which Government was plunging ; There ismuch : force inthe report , and it is evident that the City municipality , which might have been the nucleus for one of the finest
municipalities that ever existed ^ is not prepared to acquiesce in its own extinction without a vigorous defence . Ajnew decision in the Court of Common Pleas has shown that the law is construed strictly against the working classes , however it may be construed liberally as respects their employers . Wm-mam Hini ^ a bill-sticker , has been , found guilty of uttering-a placard against Manuel Atkxn , owner of the Macclesfield-road Lace Factory , at Nottingham . The libel was
contained in a placard posted aboiit the town on behalf of a Working Men ' s Committee , accusing Atkin of angry and revengeful feelings , of engaging spies , and of generally mean and oppressive conduct . Atkin had dismissed two men ; they were supported by their fellow-workmen and l ) y others in the town , and this action is only one step in the course of the warfare . The injury inflicted against Atkin appears practically to be , that he and nis wife are insulted as they pass about the town , and that
workmen will not work for him . If the working men molest a woman , they disgrace themselves , a * i ( l , < teserye any evil consequences that may befal them . If Mrs . Aticin meets with threat or insult in the streets , she ought to fmd her best protectors in tho men around , -whether they are working men or " gentlemen ; " nnd -we trust that pur working-class readers will look to that duty . As for the manufacturer , he has more than protection enough from tho law . Under tho Wolverhampton decision , men ore forbidden to combine together for the purpose of inaintaining their own interests and incomes , while the masters
are permitted to combine together for the siuno purpose , and that state of the law necessarily drives working men into evasions . One charge in the placard —for which a Nottingham j ury awarded 150 / . damages against a bill-sticker — was , that Atiun employed spies among tho men : now , one incident that came out in tho dofonco was , that ho hud invited Hind to drink with him , had plied him with glasses of ale , and hai deliberately tried to pump him in order to obtain evidence as to tho issue of tho bill . Thin atnlcniont appears to us ns libellous as anything in tho i > lucard : wo find it in the examination of MakiW ' Atkin himselfl
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Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26041856/page/2/
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