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to take the Presidency of the Council ; but the offer was firmly declined , which looks as if either M . Martinez de la Eosa distrusted the intentions of General Lersundi , or the influences likely to be brought to bear upon his policy , or the presence of certain names connected with absolutist principles in his Cabinet . It is said that the Queen of Spain has become bitterly opposed to the Constitutional and Parliamentary system ., which her throne represents , and is bent upon absolute power . Amoner the watchwords of the new Ministry we find that
strangely ambiguous term , " morality" so misplaced in politics , included . This word reads like an insult to her Most Catholic Majesty Isabella . If General Lersundi intends to revive in all its ancient severity the doctrine of Ne touchez pas a la Heine , and to put a restraint on Queen Isabella ' s evening amusements , and extremely catholic propensities , he will find " morality" a very difficult principle of policy to pursue . It is thought ominous that in the midst of the constitutional professions of the new Cabinet , a -visit of homage to Queen Christina ( the pest of Spain ) , now at Araniuez , should be announced .
Great sympathy has been manifested by all classes for M .. Vahey , the late Minister of Justice , and M . Arrazola , the late President of the Supreme Tribunal , who were deprived of their offices ( though legally irremovable ) by the late Government , the latter for having voted in favour of General Narvaez , and the former for refusing to deprive the judges who , as senators , had voted independently of the Government , of their judicial offices . A deputation of bankers had offered M . Arrazola , who has no private fortune to maintain his family , pecuniary aid , which that gentleman , respectfully declined . If Queen Isabella is so ill advised as to persevere in her present unconstitutional course , it may become a serious question with all parties in Spain , why hot have the legitimate Montemolin back again ?
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The Sardinian Government has published its Memorandum , to European Governments on the subject of the Austrian confiscation of the property of Lombard refugees , legally naturalized in Piedmont , and whose naturalization had been recognised by the Austrian Governments This memorandum is drawn up with great address , dignity , and moderation . The Sardinian Government has presented a bill to the Chamber , demanding , a credit of 400 , 000 francs on behalf of the Lombard emigrants aifected by the confiscation . The Cattolico , a Genoa journal , was confiscated on the 14 tb , for an article entitled " The Victories of Novara , " and aiming at the subversion of constitutional government . On the same day another Genoa journal of the opposite extreme , the Italia Libera , was seized . The Mediterraneo has suspended its publication .
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The "Papal aggression" in Holland seems likely to create an agitation in that traditionally Protestant country , to which the excitement that followed the arrival of Cardinal Wiseman , and the Durham letter of Lord John Russell , offers no parallel . The Catholics and Protestants are so equally divided in Holland , that the struggle becomes almost internecine . The Dutch Ministry had made concessions to Protestant opinions ; it had recalled the Envoy at Rome , had undertaken to make energetic remonstrances with the Papal Court , and to place on the table of the Chamber all the correspondence exchanged upon the subject ; but nothing would satisfy the Chamber less than the dissolution of the Ministry . Accordingly , the Ministry has been dissolved , and a new Cabinet formed of a decidedly anti-Catholic tendency , as may bo judged from the fact that the new Minister of Finance led the Ultra-Protestants in the debate of the 18 th inst ., on the Papal Aggression .
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A telegraphic despatch dated Vienna , April 17 th , states that the Emperor scuds a commission , presided over by Count Rechberg , to inquire into the state of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom , and to report on tho best form of administration to bo established there . General liencdeck is to he one of tho members of the commission . There is no reason to supposo that any decided ohatigo of policy , or any sincere attempt at conciliation is intended . Indeed , such an attempt , oven if possible , would bo entirely unavailing , and it could only be considered ns a tard y and grueeless concession to the indignation of all civilized Europe . It is too late for Austria to dream of conciliating Italy .
On Saturday lust , tho Court of Appeal at Mannheim gnvo judgment in tho cano of Professor Oervimis . Tho public prosecutor had appealed against the judgment of March 8 th , sentencing GorvintiH to two months' imprisonment , an too lenient . Tho Court of Appeal cancels tho decision of tho court below , condemning the public prosecutor to pay tho costs , and orders a now process on tho charge of inciting to high treason . Tho Prussian Ifppor Chamber has in a ( it of spite rejoctod tho . Hill for tho septnnninl instead of tricimiul ronowal of tho Chambers . Tho lower Chamber had struck out Borao of tho worst clauses of this reactionary measure .
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Tho Danish Chambers liavo oneo inoro refused to ratify tho treaty of . London , regulating tho Danish succession , in npilo of tho reeommondationn of tho royal message . Tho Chambers nro dissolved , and now elections fixed for tho beginning of Juno . The mystery of tho Turkish miration is very fur from cleared up , though Lord Stratford t ) a Redcliflo bus arrived nt Constantinople . Indeed , tho latest reports aro among tlio most alarming that have yet prevailed ; including a menace of abrupt departure from that porsonugo who is rapidly approaching tho regions of myth—Princo WonoHikofl " . However , on tho 4 tli inst ., tlio long looked-for IPnrj / Rtoamor , with the Uritish Ambassador and hiu suite on board , reached Constantinople ; mid , singulm * enough , tlio lirst to finlut . 0 tin , Hritish ling vnfl tho Russian nie « m lVifmtn lying Ofv , 1 , ( , ,. if , | J (> r (] ftirntford was mot , mi hi . s * V ? bv 1 yMtl « r <> wd <» f Hriliqh ftjid Ionian fluliloots , w woll of Turks , He d ^ iiMed tlio British rpdldonto
together , and assured them of the preservation of peace . On the 7 th inst ., he had an audience of the Sultan , who welcomed him with great pleasure . On the 6 th inst .,, he visited the Grand , yizier and Prince Menchikoff . Deviating from the ordinary practice , he also went on board the Caton , and had an interview with the French Ambassador , M . De Lacour . The latter landed on the morning of the 7 th inst ., and , according to custom , briefly addressed his countrymen , who came out in crowds to meet him . His language was , however , general in . character , and no more than that of Lord Stratford , revealed the part which he was about to play . Colonel Rose left on the 7 th for Malta , and thence to England . There was a great move ment in the arsenal , and the Turks were equipping their fleet , but this is what they do every spring . On the 6 th inst ., the founders of the new bank received the firmin au ^ thorising that establishment from the hands of the Grand Vizier .
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THE GEEAT ROCKET CASE . The case of Mr . Hale , of Rotherlrithe , comes on ; in the Bow-street Police-office , this day . Originally , it may be remembered , proceedings were taken by Government under the Gunpowder Act , by which it is unlawful for any one not a dealer , at any place within three miles of the City of London , to have in his possession more than fifty pounds of powder . It was replied last week to this special charge , that in fact there was no gunpowder on the premises . This has since
been practically acknowledged by the Government itself , through the police , by the inventory which they themselves took of the goods removed , which enumerates precisely the stores we mentioned last week , and no gunpoAvder . Evidently feeling themselves weak on this point , they have now exhumed an old act of the 9 th and iOth of William III ., forbidding the manufacture of all kinds of fireworks , and which equally applies to every firework manufactory , including Cremorne , Yauxhall , the Surrey Zoological Gardens , &e . > &c .
There are several private manufactories ^ , besides Mr . Hale ' s , which have been visited and encouraged by Government for years , and which also come under the act . In fact , rockets are illegal existences by this act—they cannot exist legally anywhere throughout the whole country ( for this is not a local , but a general , act ) . What a dignified proceeding of Government ? Failing in their attempt to make a political discovery , they dig up this old , absurd , unthought-of act , which forbids the existence of rockets in the country altogether .
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THE HUDDERSFIELD ELECTION . Wednesday having been fixed for the nomination , and the day being fine , the supporters of the two rival Liberal candidates assembled in thousands at the hustings in St . GeorgeVsquare . The cry on one side was ' Goderich for ever ! " and on the other , " Starkey , our fellow-townsman . " Both having been proposed and seconded , Mr . Starkey first addressed the electors . He commenced by an exhibition of bad taste . " He had not the ' gift of the gab , ' like Mr . Mellor f the seconder of Lord Goderich ] , but in offering himself
he felt great confidence in the result , from tho fact that he was a townsman and a mercantile man , while on the other side a stranger had been introducedto them , and an aristocrat , who could have no sympathy with such people . ( Applauso and disapprobation . ) Tho other side protended to be great purists in electioneering , and why ? Because they hud spent a little fortune in unseating Mr . Stansfield for simply giving a breakfast at tho late election . Yot , had they not introduced to the electors an unseated candidate for tho vary same practices P ( Laughter and applause . )"
Defending himself from the charge that he was a recent convert to Liberalism , ho delivered an elaborate eulogy of free trade . Among his other professions were these : — " ll , e thought the more numerously the people could bo brought to . influence opinion in tho JIouso of Commons tho better , and ho was for tbo removal of \ A \ a franchise from corrupt and decayed boroughs to now and inoro populous places . If o was also for an extension of thq suffrage . ( Cheers . ) Ho was for tho ballot , and would bo content to rest tho isniuo of this election upon it , but advocated as hotter a inodo of election analogous to that by which guardians of tho poor wero choson . ( Disapprobation . ) Ho was also for an extension of education , nonintervention , as far as possible , in foreipn affairs , and a reform in tho government of India , which would insure greater prosperity to tho people of that country , whilo our commercial relations would bo aruatly pxtendtul . "
Lord Godoricli avoided the bud tnato of hia , opponent . Ho «}> oko chiefly on tlio budget , which ho said Hiirpa . SHod his expectations ; and , looking at tho incnmirc ns a whole , though there wero parts that ho could wish otherwise , ho inu . it , Kiiy that it Heemed to him n linaiicml scheme worthy of n disciple of tho Into Sir Robert 1 'eol , and , wore ho in tho House of Commons , ho should deeply regrot to endanger tho success of tmeli a measure . We haive so lately published u full statement of his political opinions , Unit they need not bo given ¦ l »<* v « , especially nfler the result- of tlio poll . Lord Goderich curried tho mIiow of IiiiikIh , and lie curried the pull . Altlloiigli tho Tories voted for Starkly , yot tho numbers wore— doderlch , ( $ 49 ; Starkoy ^ 6 ^ V
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NEW COLONIAL BISHOPS . Caixed together by the Archbishop of Canterbury , and under his presidence , a large body of bishops , the clergy , and laity met , on Wednesday , at Willis ' s Rooms , to take measures for raising contributions towards the endowment of additional colonial bishoprics . The Bishopelect of Lincoln having asked the blessing , the most reverend Archbishop referred to a statement which was made at a meeting held twelve years ago under the auspices of his predecessor , —that the spiritual wants of the colonies would require an addition often or twelve bishoprics , to be founded and endowed by the bounty of the mother-country—as a statement which would have appeared too sanguine at that time to be fulfilled , not to the extent of ten or twelve bishoprics only , but to the extent of fifteen . :
The report of the council for . colonial bishops was theii read , from which it appeared that there were now twenty-five bishoprics in the British colonial empire ; that the number of clergy ministering within the iimits of the fifteen bishoprics founded within the last twelve years had risen from 274 to 502 ; that negotiations with her Majesty ' s Government were pending relative to a bishopric at the Mauritius , and that it was thought desirable to establish bishoprics at Graham ' s Town and Natal , in Africa , at Perth , in Western Australia , and at Kingston , Canada West . Taking the necessary expenses into account , the council appealed to . the church for a contribution of 45 , 000 ? . The Bishop of London moved :-
—" That the remarkable success with which it has pleased Almighty God to bless the efforts recently made for tho extension of the episcopate in the colonies , and the happy results which have ensued therefrom , ought to be regarded as a call and encouragement to proceed in the same course , till every province of the colonial empire of Great Britain shall have its own resident bishop . " The question was not a question of episcopacy or of no episcopacy , but whether care should be taken that the episcopal church should not be without its bishops . If one lady had contributed 35 , Q 00 Z . for the establishment of one bishopric , a sum found sufficient for two , he anticipated that others would not be found wanting in Christian munificence , and he would not limit himself to the narrow margin of 45 , 000 £ ., as contingencies should arise .
The resolution , having been seconded by the Earl of Chichester , was agreed to ; and resolutions moved by the Duke of Newcastle and the Bishop of Oxford , and seconded or supported by the Bishop of Cape-town , Sir J . Pakington , M . P ., and Mr . Cardwell , M . P ., were also adopted . The Duke of Newcastle and Sir J . Pakington adverted to the necessity for an extension of the episcopate witli reference to what hud come under their observation in office . The Bishop of Oxford described it ns altogether a modern idea that the attempt should be made to set up a church with presbyters and deacons , and when there was a sufficient number of these to send a bishop . The Bishop of Cape-town , in an animated , earnest , and impressive address , explained the circumstances which rendered a division of his dlocess necessary . It stretched from the island of St . Helena to tho colony of Natal , which were 3000 miles distant from each other ; of three years he had been out of England he had been travelling two and a half ; and , though ho had travelled 4000 miles during nine months , there were continental parts of his dioccss which he had been unable to visit . > Thanks having been voted to tho Archbishop of Canterbury on the motion of the Bishop of Quebec , seconded by the Earl of Harrowby , the proceedings terminated , after an announcement that 3000 Z . had boon subscribed .
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JfES . BHECIIER STOWE IN SCOTLAND . Tub city of Glasgow did public honour to Mrs . Beocher Stowe on Friday , tho 15 th inst . A gigantic tea-party , consisting of upwards of 2000 persons , wns assembled in the ( Jity-lmll , thoro to receive and compliment tho most popular authoress of the day . Mr . M'Down 11 ivns in tho chair , and introduced their guest to the company , by whom she wan received with genuine Scottish enthusiasm— 'fin enthusiii . sin which , whon it does break out , is more vehement than that of inoro excitable and demonstrative people . Aftor Mrs . Htowo hail bowed her acknowledgment to tho mhnirSng and delighted crowd , Dr , Wnrdlaw moved the following resolution , which was seconded by Mr . llohinon , and cordially agreed to by the company : —
" Tho members of the ( JlafigoW Ladies' IVew Anti-Slavery Association ami tlio citizens of Glasgow , now asHemblcdf , hail with no ordinary satisfaction , and with becoming gratitude to a Jkiii < l ( y-prot <> cting Providence , tho snfo arrival among Uh . mii ol Mrs . . Harriet Heedier Htovve . Thrty fliol obliged by her accepting with ho much promptittulo and cordiality , tho invitation addressed to her ., nn Vivitntion . jLujtomlud \ , i > < txprons tho favour they born to her , and tho honour in which they hold hor , as tlio eminent I y-RiftouautkoroBB oi " ' Vnolo Tom's Cabin '—a . work of humWo
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§ 92 THE L E A H g R . { ftiTWaiT ,,
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Leader (1850-1860), April 23, 1853, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1983/page/8/
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