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THE LEADER.
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MINISTERS have certainly kept then- own ...
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The Leader.
THE LEADER .
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* rwiri * nr the WEEK- * ' ' " ^ Miscellaneous ...... ; . 137 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- . ' . INDIA AND INDIAN PROCRESS-( REVIEW OF TH * WE 6 A Postscript ...., 138 Lord Derby ' s ForeignPolicy ...... 144 The Great National Highway ... 152 Home Intelligence . Death-blow to Orangeism in Ire- Notes on Indian Progress .... 152 political Foreshadowings ............ 133 Foreign Intelligence . lana ........... 145 India .. 153 T » he Princess Frederick William ... 133 Continental Notes . 135 Code of Bankruptcy 145 Cape of Good Hope ...:. 15 S Anniversary of the Foundation of West Indies ; ...... 1136 Scott v . Dixon .. 146 China 153 ^ he Austra lian Colonies ...... 133 America ..... 137 Thoughts , Facts , andSugges- Egypt ..... 153 Captains Burton and Speko ........ 133 Mexico .. 137 tions on Parliamentary Be- _ COMMERCIAL-} G ^ . ^^ . ™* . — ™ LITERATURE- Tf 2 Sfo *^ i * to *&« ™ ' ' SKU .. ; . 154 . Criminal Record " .. 134 Literary Chronicle of the Week . 139 Friends 147 Insurance against War ... 154 Accidents and SuddenDeaths ...... 134 Diary of Lady Morgan ............... 139 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- GeMr ^ : T « adeBeport ... „„ i . ^ .. 166 TrtSand 134 A Journal during the French Prance 148 Home . Colonial , and Foreign in 3 artlett s ' lnventionforEcono- Revolution ^ .......... .. 141 Berlin Z ^\\\\" . Z \\ Z \\""\"""\ Z \ 149 - Produce Markets 155 inisine Fuel and Consuming Lectures on Christian Dogmas ... 141 Oermanv 149 Railway Intelligence 156 Sn \ oko .......... ! . 134 The Curiosities of Food ............ 142 pimp art ^ s " *"' ,. » . >* » Joint-Stock Companies 156 The ^ te ' Henry Hailam ' . 134 The Scottish Secession of 1843 ... 143 Kt- ^ vi ¦ „ lan Shares and Stocks .... 157 The Burns ^ Prize Ode . . 135 Alfred Stauuton 143 Miscellanies < 149 Money Market and Stock Ex-Naval and M « ftary " 7 135 Poemsby the Author of "Uriel . " 143 THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS ^ change 158 A Real Romance "'" ..,.... 148 Washington Grange 143 St . James ' s Hall , Madame Tus- Bank of England 158 The Burns Centenary . ' .. 151 Books Received 143 . sand ' s , St . Martin ' s Hall , & c .... 150 London Gazette , 158
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Ministers Have Certainly Kept Then- Own ...
MINISTERS have certainly kept then- own counsel uncommonly wel l with regard to their Reform Bill ; here we are within a week of the opening of Parliament , ; and not a whisper has yet got abroad as to the views and intentions of fher Majesty ' s advisers . But whether or not they have made up their minds as to the measure which , they are . going to propose , it is pretty < evident that but : of doors the matter is all but settledj whether Mr . Bright ' s scheme is adopted in totOy or only a modification of it , as the model of the popular Reform" Bill , no bill will find acceptance by the country -without it is a thorough , a real , attempt , at least , to arrange Parliamentary representation on a reasonable basis of right and interest . There is no excitement , no extraordinary ( demonstration , either for or against the great question , for the simple reason that all' parties arc agreed as to the fundamental necessity for Reform . During the week , there have been at least half a dpzen important public meetings on the subject , and Hie harmony of the opinions represented at these meetings is at once a remarkable and highly satis factory evidence of the new spirit in which great political changes are discussed by the million . Another notable fact in connexion with these meetings is , that although Mr . Bright ' s plan was not invariably adopted , his work was referred to with the highest
possible respect , and he himself was rewarded by votes of thanks and confidence . Yesterday evening he was to deliver at Rochd , ale the last of his public addresses on . the subject of Reform previous to the opening of Tarliainent , and he comes to town immediately to commence his representative duties . He will go junto the House , carrying with him a large amount of sympathy and confidence , and accompanied by a general feeling that he has done liisbest to execute well a very difficult and onerous task .
The period just before the reassembling of Parliament is the time for deputations , inasmuch as it is the time for catching your Minislor in town , and deprived , to a certain extent , of his natural defenoo of " pressure of business . " On Tuesday , Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was besot by a deputation to present a memorial on tho part of the British and foreign Anti-Slavery Sooiety , whose promoters
an attempt to bring back the slave-trade . Labour ^ they also say , is abundant in the West India islands ; but if this is really the case , the West India planters must be all Irishmen , for into what other brains would the idea ever come Of moving heaven , and earth to bring labour from distant regions to double stock their labour-market ? Sir Edward Buiwer Lytton was not to be hurried into any expression of opinion , and the deputation was politely dismissed , with the assurance that "the matter should receive his most serious attention . " .
In connexion with colonial matters , we have news from Ionia both curious and important . Sir John Young is at the present moment on his way to England , and Mr . Gladstone has taken his place , for a fortnight , at the cud of which time his successor will have been appointed and despatched . Meantime , Mr . Gladstone , by accepting office , lias vacated his seat in Parliament , and his first business on his return to England will be to get himself re-elected . The whole course of proceeding , from the first appointment of Mr . Gladstone , has been extraordinary , but this last incident
is the most remarkable of all . What is Mr . Gladr stone ' s position to be with regard to the Government on his return ? Does lie go back to his independent position , or does he intend to take office in the Derby Cabinet ? On the 25 th of the present month he opened the Ionian Parliament , and , it is to be presumed , brought before it , at least by intimation , some of those " primary measures connected with the better administration of the islands , " which have been suggested to him by his recent observation and experience , and towards which the Ionians do not show the smallest degree of inclination .
The most recent news from India , that which has reached us in anticipation of the Calcutta and Ohina mails , suggests , more than it actually informs . The campaign in Oudo nndor tho Commandcr-in-Ohicf is being severely criticised iu India ^ one paper going the length of saying that the late movements of the British army have all beon made with tho puerile intention of attempting to awo the rebels rather than to overcome them in the field , a course at which , it says , they laugh derisively . So far from the rebels being surrounded and brought to a dooisive struggle , Nana Sahib is said to have lately orossod tho Ganges
at noon-day , at some spot botween Puttchghur and Cawnporo . This is a very different story to the one which was rooontly current , to tho effcot that tho Nana and his family had boon suing for mercy . Prom tho Continent there comes still war-talk , more or less inflated , but not insignificant . The most important of tho rumours that have conio over tho Channpl of lato is that notes , full of friondly advico as to the prosonl ; stale of affairs in Italy , havo boon addressod to Austria by both tho Prussian and English oabinots . There is talk of a diplomatic conforonoo iu London for the settleinont
of the pending' questions , and it is said that Austria has accepted this solution of one part of her difiiculties . The price of Rentes on the Paris Bourse has improved in consequence of these reports , and at the latest quotation was said to be " very firm . " No overt act of rebellion has taken place in Italy during the week , and the Austrian papers are not slow to draw from the fact conclusions favourable to the idea of the Italian populations being contented with the Austrian rule .
"For the present , indeed , there seems to be a pause i during which attention is for the most part centred in the marriage of the Princess Clotilde Avith Prince Napoleon . The Momteur has given what was possibly intended to be an indignant denial of the report , that the marriage had been concluded on the condition that France should enter into an alliance , offensive and defensive , with Sardinia ; but the Moniteur only says , that no such alliance has been entered into . The general impression , uOtu in Sardinia and in Paris is , that there has been an understanding , if not the actual signing of a parchment treaty . Feeling in Piedmont runs strongly in favour of war , and the alliance of the House of
Savoy with the dynasty of Napoleon III . is accepted as assurance made doubly sure of the support of France under all eventualities . At the present moment , there are preparations for eventualities going on . Letters from Marseilles state that daily and hourly convoys are arriving with all kinds of warlike munitions and hospital stores . In the naval yards there is great activity in the preparation of transports ; and if war is not actually imminent , it might bo , judging from the laborious exertions that aro being made to perfect all the " means and appliances of war , "
The King of Naples is not dead , and we have a striking proof of his recent vivacity in the shape of a decree establishing courts-martial as the tribunals before which political offences are to be tried-There are several articles in this precious document , the effect of which is to deliver over to the villanous lazzaroni and soldiery all those wlxQ are worth despoiling . It is thus that the Royal maniac guards himself against what- he thinks may be tho possible consequences of his late fit of clemency .
Tho week ' s domestio news is led by the announcement of the accouchement of the Princess Frederiok William , which took place at Berlin on Thursday afternoon at throe o ' clock . Iu seven minutes after , tho time of her daughter ' s safe delivery , her Majesty was informed that a grandson had been born to her , and subsequent messages assured her that both tho uaothor and child were doing well . In this country the affectionate interest whioh we take in tho wolfaro of tho Princoss Royal is one of the signs by wliioh wo may judge of tho regard in whioh Tier Mojosty is held by her pooplo . Tho Princess JJVp .
hold some extraordinary views with regard to tho labour wants of the British West Indies . Tho speakers informed tho Colonial Secretary that tho West India party , ' acting under a conditional sanotion given by the late Colonial Soorotary , Lord Stanloy , anj endeavouring to got the sanction of tho Governmoat to a wholesale immigration from India , China , and Africa . These descendants and representatives of Olarkaon ' and Wilborforoosoo horo littlo short of
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29011859/page/3/
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