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urged that the Government would take the matter into tbeir bands , and act on any report the Committee might make .- —Mr . Masques said this was a money question , whether the expense should be borne by the parishes of the metropolis or by the imperial Government . It -was not the business of the metropolis alone which -was concerned , but the whole realm . . Lord John Manners said that he had nothing to do with the Victoria sewer , but he had received from th , e Metropolitan . Board of Works information -which showed that the sewer was defective and did not answer its intended purpose . It was stated that steps would be taken to deodorize the sewage from the
Tictoria , sewer . He did not think any very practical suggestion had been made as to what was to be done . The Government could not undertake the task which : sjine gentlemen -wished to throw upon them , as they had -no . power by law to do so . The matter was bylaw entirely in tie hands of the Metropolitan Board of Works . The ' ^ Government could not take on itself an expenditure the 'extent of which no man could foresee . Nevertheless , the question was occupying the attention of the Government , and they would produce a measure this session giving powers to some body which would settle the solution of this question . He knew that a system of deodorization had been most successfully carried out at Leicester ;
Several members having spoken , Mr . Disraeli said he thought that the discussion could not be without profit and advantage . Although the Government was not legally liable in this , there was a moral responsibility upon them from which they could not skrink , and their attention was seriousl y turned to the matter , and he believed that the time had come for action—and it -was necessary to consider whether some additional powers ought not to be given to the Metropolitan Board of Works to enable them to raise funds to carry out their , objects ... . .. . • ¦ ¦> ' . ' ¦;¦ -: " ¦ " ¦ S TENANTS * COMPENSATION ( IRELAND BILL ) .
Mr . P . O'Bbikk having asked a question of the Government aa to their intentions -with respect to Tenants ' Compensation in Ireland , a warm personal discussion ensiled between the boo ; member and Mr . M'Maguire , wbirfi was stopped by the interference of the Speaker . Taie House then went into Committee on the Govern-MEirr w India Bilju , which chiefly occupied the remainder of the sitting-.
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THE CQNTI 2 TENT . A Ministry of Algeria and of the Colonies has Keen created , and Prince Napoleon is appointed Minister . M . Delangle seems determined to make his rule as popular as . circumstances -will permit . It is said that the embargo laid on the Independence Beige by General Espinasse will be forthwith removed , and the seizures of English papers have already fallen to a -very fovr . M . Delangle lias also determined to abolish the distinction hitherto made between Government and independent journals imegard to being sold in the streets . The sale of all will be equally permitted .
M . Devienne , hitherto President of the Imperial Court at Lyons , has been appointed to succeed M . Delangle as First President of the Imperial Court at Paris . A league is being formed in Naples and the States of the Church for abstaining from the consumption of any English or Trench produce , to show the resentment of die Italians against the Western Powers for their interference in their affairs . Sami Pacha , Minister of Public Instruction , is appointed Governor of Candia , in the place of Vely Pacba , recalled . Four more battalions have left for Herzegovina .
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THE UNITED STATES . Advices received at Washington from Lieutenant B odgers state that Lieutenant Pym of the Jasper , had informed him that he had orders from the Admiralty to flearcb . for the Styx , and stop her high-ltanded proceedingrij and that the Devastation was at Havannahfor the same purpoae . Lieutenant Pym expressed tho greatest surprise that the course of the British cruisers had caused any irritation in the United Stales , and informed Lieutenant Rodgera that they were acting under no new orders , but only carrying out those issued in 1849 . The news by . tho Asia of the Derby Government having sent out orders to the West India fleet to atop the visits to American vessels lias created , a favourable impression in New York , and the difficulty was considered at an end . The Mormon war " has also come to a conclusion . Governor Cumming has entered the Salt Lake city , and been duly Installed . The Mormon settlements are broken up , and the inhabitants havo moved couth in the direction of Sonora .
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Tub Dagkniiam Mubobr . —Juat twelve years ago great agitation was caused in the public mind by the murder of a policeman on his beat at Dagonliam , in Essex . No clue could be had to the murderers ; but a woman living on tho spot recently made a statement on the Bultject , which has led to tho arrest of a man named George Blewett , who , together with the woman horself , and four others , committed tho murder , according to the statement alluded to . The man has boon examined before tho magistrates .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . No notice oan be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whfttereris intended fo » insertion mils * be&uthenticated by the name and address of the writer - . not necessarily for publication , taut as a guarantee of his good faith . Itis impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Theirinaertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quiteindependeut of themeritsof thecommunication . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications
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THE SLUMBER OF POLITICS—AND THE AWAKING ! Evebtthing except the pestilential energy of the Thames seems to have come to a deadlock , and society ia perfectly lost in the one work of lavishing 8 railing sarcasms on its own apathy and passiveness . Nothing can be done abroad or at home except to yield to circumstances , the circumstances sometimes being of the worst . In London , for example , we have the Thames niiastna ; in Belgravia they have a " confessional" and a IBabing j
in Paris , they have the Conference pretending to confer , while reserving every - substantial point j and if we have the Thames here , there have they not the Imperial Court ? If at home ' Toryism is dead , a Keform Bill has grown to be a nightmare joke , the measure threatening to come from all quarters , but never coming . On the Continent , bureaucracy is rampant . All is dead . Nothing to be done in commerce . Nothing to be done
in politics . Nothing m foreign policy , except to squabble first and concede afterwards . Such a state of things cannot last , and the question is , what will be the next form of general action ? "We are not among the despondent , least of all have we of the Leader cause to complain . If we cared to cast up the accounts during the last seven or eight years , we might find that , upon the whole , the world had come more to our standard than we had
conceded even of the ideal which we had set up . When we began , it would have been a proof of extreme democracy to talk of abolishing the Property Qualification for Members of Parliament ; yet this session the Queen has given her assent to the measure during a Tory Government . One of the six points of the Charter has been carried , and if the other five have not yet been embodied in measures to be carried , they are all
in actual contemplation , short only of " universal" suffrage . For every extensive circle of Liberal politicians has at last agreed that the suffrage , to be beneficially extended , must bo coincident with rate-paying , with residence , with burgess-ship , with ecot-nndlot , or with some other form of qualification , which amounts to saying , that everybody shall have the suffrage who can point to a permanent home and its responsibilities .
Take another teat . What has been our constant principle in foreign policy ? It 1 ms been to seek the interest , and when it is pos-Bible , the judgment of the peoples as distinct from the Courts . It is true that the foreign potentates , who are propped up by diplomacy « nd armies , and fed upon the industry of their populations , have not adopted our principle ; but indignation at the se crecies of
diplomacy , anxiety to learn Wliat the peoples subjected to the several Governments desire and want , readiness to investigate the facts are rapidly growing to be the principles upon which English politicians are united and the movement , this session , to place the ' diplomatic service under the control of Parliament , is only the first step which has alarmed old-fashioned diplomatists , and shown the advance of the new * school .
Turn to another field . Our principle has always been that , in religious matters , mankind instinctively bowed to the overruling Power of the » universe V that ideas on the subject become enlarged , and developed , and clear in proportion to the expansion of the human mind ; that the dealing with the subject in a spirit of veneration , while labouring to defend the freedom of discussion ,
contributes to make men find how far they are of accord , and thus to neutralize , dissipate , and annihilate those sectarian differences which are the manufacture of ignorance and presumption ; On these and other subjects , at a very early stage in our own career , we relied upon the readiness of this country at least to accept the principle of perfect freedom of discussion . One of the earliest difficulties
whjeh we at so early a stage had to contend with was , that our own principle almost ceased to be distinctive ; other journals soon saw the safety which we bad assumed , and proved ; and we may point at the present day to the immense enlargement which has been given to liberty of thought and expression , accompanied as it has been by a positive increase of religious feeling , and a marked tendencv to substitute accord
for discord . Even the latest struggles of sect are provoked to a great degree by the instinctive perception that in all " persuasions" the "Broad Church" is gaining ground ; to the loss of sect , and to the profit of that which is the broadest church— -the all-essential soul which resides in every church . It is this improved feeling which has elevated the conflict in Belgravia above the vulgar treatment that it would have once received ; and has rebuked sect when it has professed to speak in the name of Preedom , but has resorted to unfair measures and to tricks of
party . When so much has been done , we neither wonder nor repine at a period of repose ; but in proportion to the endurance of the repose must be the action that follows it . In proportion as men have become indifferent to paltry subjects must be the readiness to receive larger questions than those which have , perhaps , during the decade now waning , busied the faculties of professed politicians .
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OUR RELATIONS WITH AMERICA . The understanding between this country and the United States appears to have been re-established exactly upon its proper footing . It is perhaps inaccurate to represent it as having been effected by concessions on the part of England . Official concessions there may have been , it our Ministers took up a position not justified b y the facts ; but a concession of any right which this country could claim or exercise has not been granted , for it has not been asked . The danger was one entirely of what is prop erly called " misunderstanding , " and it was met bv the t > reoiaelv ( U , t . iruv r » nrw » oi . ivfi _ ft thorouch
understanding of the pomt 3 at issue , with a candid disposition on both sides to lot the facts themselves dictate the judgment . In . glancing at tho Leader ' s share in this long n-im varied controversy , we cannot but feel great satisfaction at the consistency of our own course with itself , at the corroboration which we have lmd from tho practical ijcaults , and from tho admissions even of our opponents . Throughout tlie whole course of our existence , during which there have been several active dis « ussions between "' Governments of England and of tho United Slates , wo have uniformly rested upon tho same principle *
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612 THE LEADER . fN 6 . 431 , ^ June 26 / 1858 .
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^^ \ ~ J - — - *— - — SATUEDAY , JUNE 26 , 1858 .
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Chere is nothing ao revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed-when all the-world is by thevery la-w of its creationin eternal progress . —Dtt-Aatroip
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Leader (1850-1860), June 26, 1858, page 612, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2248/page/12/
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