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THE LEADER.
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I F the Reform fire does not burn bright...
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I F The Reform Fire Does Not Burn Bright...
I F the Reform fire does not burn brightly it not be for want of fuel or attention . At Smithfield and Sunderland , at Islington and Edinburgh , at Oldham , Huddersfield , Rugby , and elsewhere during the week , the flame has been blown in right earnest . It certainly can no longer be said that there is anything like popular indifference on the subject of Reform ; and at the present rate of progression , lorn ? before the Government Bill is laid upon the
table of the House of Commons , it looks as if the country would come to an understanding with itself as to . the . limits of what it will demand , and of what it will accept . At present the demands are large : manhood suffrage , equal clectoi-al districts , annual parliaments , and payment of members ; but resolutions pledging meetings to support these demands are generally accompanied by others , as at the Oldham meeting , pledging the meetings to support any measure that shall ensure the enfranchisement of a majority of the people . At the
llugby meeting , Mr . Newdegate , while deahug with Mr . Blight ' s recent Reform speeches , opened up a view of the franchise quostion Which suggests grave doubts of the coming Ministorial Bill , if that is to be founded upon the principles enunciated by Mr . Newdegatc . According to his view it is an extension of the county franchise that is wanting to set matters right . Every single county member , ho' says , represents CG , 012 of the population ; whereas only 22 , 052 are represented by each borough member .
But , as he shows , the anomaly goes oven furthor ; for many borough voters claim votes in counties . "Argal "—tlxe rpquisitc adjustment of the franchise will be , to give the counties as many more members as will equalise the representation between the borough and county constituencies . This claim of Jmojcq numbers he further supported by rcfcroncc to the number of houses in towns and counties , the number being , in the country , 2 , 050 , 000 houses
against l , 383 ; 000 in the towns . But what is the conclusion , to which Mr , Nowdegato ' s figures- — Jinking their accuraoy for granted—point P Unquestionably to the enfranchisement of the rural and loast-cduoated of the populations in preference to tho more intelligent population of town artisans . Can it bo possible thafc' tho Government measure is to bo based on such a principle of " equalisation P" '
Foremost in importanco amongst the publio meetings of tho weok is that of tho North-country shipowners , who asscmblod at ¦ Noj ; Ui Shields on Monday afternoon for tho purpose pf dovising remedies for tho prcsont doprossod state of tho British shipping interest , But tho British shipowners , whatever may ho their diiuoulties , havo not
made out a good case for themselves . The point upon which they dwell most feelingly is the absence of reciprocity in other countries , the trade of thenown being free . Many minor grievances they put forth , as to the burdens imposed upon them in the shape of various dues , for which their vessels " receive no equivalent ; " bat these objections do not carry with them sufficient weight to warrant a demand for legislative assistance to alter the general laws . Kor can they show any good cause why other countries should be coerced into the
adoption of a " reciprocating" system ;' "to ask Parliament to reverse their steps in the great question of free trade , " as one of the principal speakers told the meeting , "is worse than useless . " The evils under , which the shipping interest arc suffering are hut the consequences of an unsound system of trading : the remedy , said the same speaker , the Conservative ; Mr . Liddell , " is in the adoption of a healthier system , and is in the hands of the shipowners themselves .
The recal of Lord Napier from Washington is to be regretted , seeing that he represented in America , more completely than any previous British Minister had done , that section of English opinion which is friendly towards America , and which desires to deal with the American in an ppen and cordial manner . At present , the motives for his recal are simply conjectural , unless we accept the semi-ofacial assurance that it is only for promotion ; but it occurs at a moment when the relations of England
with America are apparently on the verge of being complicated , and when , therefore , a plain dealer like Lord Napier would be of most service—were honest work to be done . In continental news , tho trial and condemnation of Count Montalembcrt take precedence of all else in point of interest . In spite of all the precautions of the French Government , the English- newspapers have been onnbled to publish tho very pith of all that was done and said at tin ' s amazing trial . The Count wns tried for certain passages in his famous
means ? Can it be that a counsel is construed as attacking the Government because he will not say that black is white ? Why , it is the-boast of the Government that it has bartered liberty for orderand it has done so , it says , with the consent of the French people ; and that I am not hereto deny Yes , France has repudiated her own liberty . Thai is a fact which some people may , and others maj not , regret ; but it is not rational to hold it ar offence in any one to state the simple fact thai liberty does not now exist . " The conviction oi Count Montalembert is an outrage against the reason of the whole world , and it will provokt
universal execration . But while the panegyrist of English freedom goes to prison for the utterance of such an anti-imperial creed , . the Emperor himself is in one way tying tighter the bonds of the alliance . An English and . French fleet is gathered together in the Caribbean and Mexican seas for combined operations , muck to the interest of America , and much to the uneasiness of those who want faith in the nearly worn-out system of secret diplomacy . At home
the Emperor is putting in practice one of those pieces of social economy which only absolute kings can venture upon . A decree has been issued commanding the bakers of one hundred and sixty towns in France to lay in a reserve stock of breadstuff equal to three months' consumption : a measure that combines humanity with security against bread-riots , should the price of corn go up during the winter ; and opens a very ample field for jobbery , for which the jobbers will be duly grateful .
There are some who fancy that this imperial forethought may have other ends in view , even that this forced provision of bread may have to do with warlike eventualities . The relations of tho Emperor with the Pope are the reverse of improved by tho Mortara affair , and these rplations arc likely to become still less cordial , if it is true , as reported , that tho Fronch Government has given permission to tho Jews to prosecute the ultrumontano Unioers ' for its ferocious attaoks upon the Jowish body . Probably matters will not run to such happy extremes as to induce the Emperor to withdraw his troops from Rome ; but tho idea of an Italian outbreak is by no moans
article , which disparaged Franco by contrasting it with England , constituting an ofTonco under tho law ; but the Government prosooutor found ho cquUI make littlo of theso passages , and therefore laboured for a condemnation on the ground of tho tendency of the wliolo article , apostrophising Count Moatalombort as a man who " had laid Franco prostrate at tho feet of England , " who had " struck Franco in
unreasonable , wo have signSj indeed , at the present moment of tho almost ripeness of the popular will . Politioal arrosts havo , within a fow days , been made at Ancona j and , although tho King of Sardinia may not have expressed himself openly boforo his soldiors at a rovicw , as to tho probability of tho Piedmonteso army being soon called to per form aotivo servico , tho haslo with wJiioh Austria is developing her new navy very plainly tolls tho uneasiness with which she regards tho presont condition of Italy , and her anxiety to bo in readiness to guard her Italian coasts . ' Tho proceedings of Iho now Government of
tho fnoo—yes , struck her in tho face—unworthily struck her in tho face . " Tho , answer of M . Bon'ycr was , that tho prosecution wns " unjust , unfounded , ill-advised , and—rnsh . " What rashness , indeed , oould go boyoucl tho folly * of giving M . Boiryor opportunity to givo this answer to the President , on being interrupted and throatoncd for tho argument ho was pursuing P " Havo I lost my reason and conscience P Do I understand what tho Court
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 27, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27111858/page/3/
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