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Government has begun borrowing , but only to a small amount ; deferring a larger operation until after the Conferences . It borrows . € 5 , 000 , 000 ; and relieves the Exchequer Bill market by funding . £ 3 , 000 , 000 ; effecting hpth <^ rations . at s * price equivalent to ^ 90 Consols ^ 4 he Government ' s awn pr ice . The state of the Bj ^ mey Market and the absence of mystery precluded ; much chaffering on . the part of the moneyed men , who only deal as agents in an opeaai market .
The House of Commons was invited by Sir Joshua Walmsley to pass a resolution which would have opened the British Museum and the National Gallery on the one day of leisure for the working classes . The debate was in the main good . Some very startling truths were told in the course of it ; some extremely sensible statements of the real merits of the case were set forth by Lord Stan lev . On the other side , the arguments used wese something more than
respectable . Gentlemen contrasted the Sunday experiences of beer-drinlfing Munich , and of gay Paris with the morality professed by those who desired tp open pl&ees of art as auxiliaries to the Church . And Lord IPALMSRSTosr , telling the House that both : sides exaggerated , proposed a direct negative to' the motioa instead of an amendment ; not as a . settlement of the question , bat really the best mode of declaring the question to be unsettled . The House of Commons therefore , refused , by an overwhelming majority ., to make that very small concession to t % & liberal spirit of the day . And tiiis has happened some years after the opening of Ha , mpton Court proves that , if nbt directly condjipive . to an iesthetical morality , the concession to the working classes is harmless , and in some < 8 egree beneficial . The manifest reason for this vote is , that the middle classes , amongst whom
advantage of ?««^ e » # » sr questions between herself and . Sardinia during the Conference , to be taken upagain when convenient to Vienna . Still the Conference lias already done much to stamp the actual position of Sardinia in Euro , p £ , aud , to extend her influence far beyond the proportion -which hep territories occupy on the map . It is nod ; many years since we heard a distinguished and popular
member declare that , in the movement of society towards equality and the fusion of all classes , the day had arrived when individual influence had finally ceased , and we should no more see men stamp their own will upon the progress of events . Since that opinion we have had Louis Napoleon establishing himself ; and now we see the efficacy of personal influence in the development of that constitutional state which has had a Charles Albert for its king , which now possesses " Victoji Emmanuel , and whose head ministeris Cjvvour . A suspicion has gained ground in Germany that the Austrian Emperor has succeeded in winning over tp Mmself the French Emperor ; that Louis Napoleon is somewhat anxious to slide away from his close alliance with England , to take up with the yoixug Emperor of Austria , aiid to form an entirely new combination in . Europe . Credat Judceus ! Let Rothschild risk his millions upon that expectation , if he likes ! The supposition , however , has given rise to another speculation , and it is affirmed , with some probability , that Prussia intends to make advances towards Sardinia for the purpose of a counteracting combination . The King of Prussia once said , " It is on the Po that the Rhine must be defended . " And looking to the p ossibility that Austria might assist France in recovering the Rhine boundary , Frederick William is represented as hinting , that he would endeavour to regain Lombardy for Northern Italy , if Piedmont
There appears to be a perfect passion amongst the mothers of murdering their children , whether to be rid of » . trouble or of an expense is a debateable question TMeves abound ; the burglar and the gatotter are becoming a terror both in town and county- ; and directors' and speculators are committing suicide : but there are conspicuous cas es th $ fc s&an& quite before the front of all the ordinary crimes , manifold as thqy become . There is the Islington murder—a story , it would seem , of comparatively respectable life amongst the
middleclasses . The wife of an engraver , who lives in a well-furnished house , amongst the smaller and genteel streets of that modest neighbourhood , a woman who is at least sufficiently well off to keep a servant , brings a young girl into her house at night , leads her downjinto the coalcellar , and there coolly cuts her throat . It turns out to be her own child , born before marriage ! The probable motive for the act was a housewifely desire to save ; and the well-furnished state of the house showed the regard that the woman had for appearances . Appearances go for so much now-. a-days !
The other case is still more startling . A policeman wandering over Hanipstead-heath early on Sunday morning , finds the body of a gentleman which must have lain on the heath all night . The man had poisoned himself , but he had done it in epicurean fashion , with sugar and essential oil of almonds ; and a silver milk-jug proved that he had been able to use choice instruments for his tasteful mode of ending life . It must , therefore , be some " distinguished " man ; and truly enough it turns out to be Mr . Sadleir , the member for Sligo , a well-known member of West-end society , a director in many promising projects , a Lord oi the Treasmy under Lord Aberdeen . He had been implicated formerly in some strange election matters , had been compelled to resign his lordshipin the Treasury on account of some manoeuvre
played with a vpter afc the last election ; but lie had been open-handed , his thousands freely flowed ^ he lived in style , and he died as we have said . The inquest stands adjourned , in order that evidence may be brought forward to justify a ver * diet of . * ' Temporary insanity . " Perhaps the disease of mind was more than temporary . Mr . Sapleik had evidently become involved in commercial speculations , which might have doubledperhaps quadrupled—his fortune , but happened to go the other way . The stories afloat are not yet authenticated . He is said to have left confessions , and the public awaits with anxiety these posthumous memoirs of a successful man at the Westend .
will assist in preserving to him the Rhine . This is calculating too fast , but it is an unquestionable fact , that the force of personal character which has endowed Piedmont with a Constitution , which has made her politically independent of Rome , and which has put her in a most remarkably healthy social condition in the North of Italy , is also acquiring for her King and Statesmen a position amongst the Powers of Europe , is making her the object of compliments from Austria and of overtures from Prussia ; and the Western Powers aid her in assuming a position of practical equality at that Conference , to settle the great European question , of the day , from which Prussia is excluded . Wh ile the Russian plenipotentiaries have been travelling to the Conference at Paris , they have been amused by the way with the accounts of the blowing up of Fort St . Nicholas , at Sebastopol . The arsenal is destroyed ; the forts on the northern shore remain , but they are comparatively useless .
The question row is , why spare NicholaiefF ? And it is rather largely inferred , from the repetition of an article first published by the equivocal SidoTe , in the official Moniteur , that one of the stipulations at the conference will bo the demolition of Nicholaieff by the Russians themselves , as the officers of the Western Powers under a treaty peaco ; the interests of Sweden at Bomarsund being as much guarded a 9 the interests of
Piedmont or Turkey . The reprint from the Silicle may bo taken for what it is worth . The Paris Government knows how to play oft' one jouimnl against another — when to let Granier do Cassagnnc preach divine right , the Ddbats lecture on prudent Conservatism , and the Sidcle to blow the tamtavara on the trumpet of Imperialism , whether to the tune of / " Martbrqofc , " or ' ? Part ant pour la Syrie . " The record of crime this week is full indeed *
sect has its strongest hold , command the representation , ' 'but" that the working classes are not repvesented at all , or only in amateur fashion , by men of good sense like Sir Joshua Walmsley or Lord Stanley ,, h ^ ayihg no footing in the House , t » ecaUse they have given up any determined endeavour to obtain the suffrage which is their right . The working classes must take this question of the Sabbath into their own hands , determined amongst themselves how they will spend the day , and defy the law to prohibit tbem . That point , however , we will show forth more distinctly next , week .
The history of the week with respect to the Paris Conference is almost entirely prophetic . We have only the arrival of the Plenipotentiaries notified among the fashionable movements ; nothing q ^ cia ^ , as jtp . their co llective action ; this ,, of course is . inevitable . Count Orloff arrived the Tmi , Business will nbt begin till next week . But , already , there are signs which , if we trust them , would indicate a very interesting sequel to the Conference , whether that sequel is to be peace or ^ war . Fpr one thin g it is quite clear that the two sides at the meeting are not so far
approaching each otlier as they were supposed to fyaye done , The Russian intentions are still ^ peked in -mystery . The selection of Baron ^ VNow is regarded as a blind , and the Muscovite PjEtLpETF is probably tlie real bearer of the Imperial j wiU ,: On the other hand , there are some signs got i <| ji | fe ^ at thq Western . Powers , do not intend to i ^^ v ^*^' )^® - . ^ ' ^ h ^ 'ous mediations of Central l ^ i j ^^^ P ^ uasia , stands excluded } , Austria is f S ^^ KJ ^ S ^ JjWWl foting equality with Picd-^^ M ^^^ ' ^^' * " wn . dtawtoou' to havo pro-: f I ^ I ^ I ^^ kIII ^ I ^ ^ ^ ^ **> vain . She is oven " ' 'SW ^^^ J ^ wfefiV "' . <» ' Sardinia by a profes ^ t ''' ¦ y ^^?^^^^^ ge ? 8 ^ si 4 on «; outside the - 4 ^*^; ^ 1 s $ »|' $ ? hMy \ n the , Sardinian States ; a compumoiuY which secures to Austria the
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170 THE LEADER . [ No . 309 , Saturday ,
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Statue oit Mit . Baines . —The execution of the statue of Mr . Babies , about to l ) o ereoteel at Loads , has been entrusted to Mr . Bohues , of Osnaburtf-Htrcet . Exclusively of the pocleabal , which is to l > o of Sicilian nxarblo , the artist is to receive £ 800 for his luboiirs . When completed , the statue will bo placed in tho vestibule ot' tho new Town-hail of Leoilu-The Coinam :. —A return issued on . Saturday shows that the sums advanced laab yoi \ r from the consolidated fund lor the purchase of bullion for coinage amouteel to £ 250 , 000 , while the amount paid into the Bank of Euglimd to the account <> 1 t-ho Kxchequer in repayment of advnwooB from tho couhoHdatod fund waa £ 300 , 000 . The total amount advanced for buying bullion ainoo 1837 ii ) ol naive i » £ 4 , & 68 , C 29 , and the total amount so pud into tho Bank of England is £ 4 , 770 , 000 . A . Mm / ta IIomjUsoe . —Tho ohild of a Mr . : unl Mrs . Evans , lately at Malta , on thoir rot urn from Kgypt > foil out of a boat in which , together with bin iwrontH , > Uq was- oroepmg from Viletta to ViUorioni . Mr . Robinson , cb . uplu . in tp the forooa , w . h following m another boat , and instantly plungort into tho w « > wn < 1 rfeHou ^ d tho child , though with , groat difficulty , iy- > tno water was rough . M . v . Evann , to ovinoe bin yrutitutio , Bent thoolorKyman n olioque fon- . £ 600 , which oJ ' oouruo waa returned , Ifc affcorwards turaod out . < il » n ' t > iOfJ < j two gentlemen are rolativoB , who , in oonBOcivu »; o ol difforenooa in tb . o f « w » ily , have not tjcon oaoli otlioi einco Ijoyhood .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 23, 1856, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2129/page/2/
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