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attention to those qualifications of the candidates which present a guarantee for their ability and trustworthiness , yet at the same time to discountenance decidedly any obnoxious activity ; such an interference is , in my opinion , the only allowable and worthy task of the high officials who have been entrusted by his Majesty with the government of the provinces-. As regards , the election of State servants for the House of Delegates , I do not think they ought to be excluded from serving their country on account of their official position , but , on the contrary , are preferable , being well-tried and practical candidates
men of business ; but before they appear as it would be as well for them to reflect whether their principles would allow them to support the measures of the Government . Those officials , likewise , whose services are indispensable in their sphere of action , would act wisely to consider whether it would not be their duty to remain at home rather than go to the Diet . For my part , I think the first question demands an answer in the affirmative . Finally , I think it unnecessary to remind you of the all-importance of this subject for the future well-being of our country , and confide the attainment of a favourable result to your exertions . —I am ,
&c ., —Flotwell . " Your readers will doubtless be inclined to smile on reading the foregoing Jesuitical instructions , which evince very confused notions as to freedom of elections . I have translated as literally as common sense will admit , but it is usually difficult to get at the true and undoubted meaning of German official documents , and this one , more than any I have met with , leaves more to be imagined than is stated . It has , however , been well received by the German press , as having at least a pretty appearance if not a reality . ¦ - . Nothing more ha 3 been said of the Ios 3 of the Queen s portfolio . It is rumoured that the Queen was in correspondence with parties connected with the Catholic Church , and that there is a probability of her renouncing the Protestant faith , which , as i ' s known , she adopted only as a convenience of marriage .
There is another rumour abroad that the Prince of Prussia was desirous that his brother the King should abdicate the throne in favour of Prinee Frederick-William . The young Prince having no antecedents would have disappointed none , and might have prevented the Royal House from sinking lower in the estimation of the people . At half-past twelve o ' clock this morning .-the fine steam-ship Hudson , which was lately built on the Tyne for the new Association called the North German Lloyd , -was totally destroyed by fire while lying in the dock at Bremenhaven , the port of the Hanse Town , Bremen . Fortunately no lives were lost , nor any merchandise of valuer for the goods sent down to the port had not been
taken on board , the vessel not sailing till Saturday . The vessel was insured to nearly its full value , via . twenty-one thousand pounds sterling in London , three hundred thousand mark ' s in Hamburg , and one hundred thousand dollars in Bremen . The material loss to the company is not great , but the accident is unfortunate for the * reputation of German steamers , following so singularly close upon the catastrophe of the Austria . It is , indeed , very remarkable that all the maritime nations of the Continent should be so unfortunate with their ocean steamers . It appears so unnatural to merchants and shareholders on the Continent , that I have positively heard
suspicions of foul play uttered . The suspicions tend to implicate their rivals ; but I mentioned in a former letter by what means the American ' steamer Ariel was near being burnt , and I would advise the underwriters to cause a most searching inquiry to be instituted before they pay their money—not for the money ' s sake alone , but for the sake of the unlucky passengers who confide in their watchfulness , and that of the owners ; but in a losing concern the owners have no great inducement to watch over the safety of their property , and it therefore behoves the underwriters to bo so much the more careful .
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POLITICAL FOBESHADOWINGS . Messrs . Miall and Pbice . —At a meeting held at Banbury , Mr . Miall and Mr . Price appeared to represent the Parliamentary Committee , and the exposition of the views of this committee waa received with great approval by a crowded assembly . Mr . Mlall , in the course of his speech , said that the committee would be prepared with a Reform Bill of their own , and he remarked that he did not know any one who could so fitly bo entrusted with their measure as Mr . Bright . The meeting seemed to be entirely of the same opinion .
on Monday night . Mr . Clayton , the chairman , an eminent manufacturer , in coupling Mr . Bright ' s health with the toast of the night , expressed his general agreement with the hon . gentleman in his views of Parlia mentary Reform . The banquet has had the effect of uniting the Liberal party in the borough . Gl asgow University ;—We understand that the members of the Conservative Club of the University have agreed to bring forward the Right Hon . Benjamin Disraeli as a candidate for the office of Lord Rector , as successor to Sir Edward Bnlwer Lytton . The Liberal Association are likely to nominate either Dickens or Thackerav . —Glasgow Daily Bulletin .
Cabinet Council . —The first Council after the recess was held on Wednesday , at three o ' clock , at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , in Downing-street . The Ministers present were the Earl of Derbv , the Eight Hon . B . Disraeli , the Lord Chancellor , the Marquis of Salisbury , the Earl of Hai-dvvicke , Mr . Secretary Walpole , the Earl of Malmesbury , the Right Hon . Sir Buhver Lytton , General Peel , Lord Stanley , Sir John Pakington , the Right Hon . J . W . Henley , and Lord John Manners . Sir Ekskine Perry and Mr . J . Wilson . — The members for Devonporr , Mr . James Wilson and Sir Erskine Perry , met their electors last week . Sir E . Perrv , in his speech , surveyed the present state of of
politics at home . After referring to the position parties , he said : many reforms were not carried out because the Liberals were not true to their own principles , but feared to carry them out . But he had no fear of this sort . Since the Reform of 1832 this country had progressed and prospered , the people had wonderfully improved in education , intelligence , and material prosperity , and he had no fear but that a larger measure of reform would be followed by similar results- Mr . Wilson congratulated the meeting that although there had been a change of Government there had been no change of measures . Indeed , such was the disorganised state of parties at present , and such the power of the liberal public opinion , that whatever Government may be in office we may be sure that liberal measures will be b
adopted . This was shown in the measures adopted y the present Government . He did not approve of the mode in which the Jew question had been dealt -with . It was a question that ought to have been settled by law , and not by a resolution of the House . If the disqualifications under which Dissenters and other religionists had laboured had been met by a resolution instead of legislation , it c ' o ' nld not have been satisfactory . This settlement was one of the ill consequences of having a Tory Government carrying out Liberal measures . It was done , but not iu the best , and therefore not in the most satisfactory manner . With the exception of such drawbacks as those , he did not mind by whom Liberal measures were introduced and carried , and by whomsoever introduced , if measures were to his mind satisfactory , they should have his support .
Sir Peter Fairbairn . —At a meeting held at Barnsley , Sir Peter Fairbairn animadverted in strong terms on the recent speech of Mr . Bright . Ho thought that a more dangerous speech was never made before a community . The object of Mr . Bright seemed to be to set class against class—the worst course which a politician could possibly adopt . He had seen this in every speech which Mr . Bright had made for the last few years . That gentleman had done a good service to the country , and , being one of the leaders of the Anti-Corn-Law League , had by his eloquence helped to bring about that issue , but since the repeal of the corn laws he had directed his eloquence into a wrong channel . Mr . Bright wished to set the working classes against the middle classes , and the middle classes against the aristocracy . But that was one of the worst things to do in a community of Englishmen . We wished to be one
family and live together in brotherly love . He eeeined to have made up his mind that the constitution of the United States was the beau idM of a constitution . But having been in Ainerica ho ( Sir P . Fairbairn ) knew that in New York they had not near the amount of liberty that one enjoys in England . If any person hold opinions which -wcro adverse tp thoso of the mob he was in danger of losing his life . Mr . Bright forgot the outrage which had been committed upon Mr . Sumner in the Senate-house of America , Could that brutal attack have been committed in the English House of Commons or House of Lords ? Could Mr . Bright forgot Lynch law ? Was ho not awnro that duels of a , most brutal character were fought iu America ? Would we have institutions like that introduced into this country ? Ho ( Sir Peter ) could not sit Bilent without censuring that speech as one of the most mischievous over uttered .
impede the working of government . If the people have anything to complain of he will listen to then- complaints , and the character of Mr . Gladstone gives every reason to believe that he will be more apt to condemn the faults of his own countrymen than to remaiu blind , to the wrongs of the natives . Should the result of his mission be the tranquillisation of the islands , it will afford a good precedent for availing ourselves hereafter of the services of our great Parliamentary statesmen on a wider sphere of usefulness than the wordy contests of Westminster .
policy of the present Ministry . Already there are symptoms of increased vigour and spirit in the various departments of the paper . Mb . Bright . —We learn from a reliable source that it is the intention of the Independent Liberal partv in the House of Commons to introduce a Reform Bui early in the approaching session , and that the task will devolve upon Mr . Bright . —Brighton Guardian . This Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone Mr . Gladstone , says the Times , has accepted the office of Lord High Commissioner Extraordinary to . the Ionian Islands and will leave England immediately for those interesting dependencies . The Ionians may see in the selection of such a man how forbearing is the spirit of English
government . ' If they were the subjects of any other European Power their affairs would long ago have been , put into the hands of some prompt old General , who at the first breath of sedition , would scud off half the Assembly to gaol . Our Government , after years of provocation , has selected a statesman of the highest repute , one eminent for his learning and eloquence and for his sympathy with the laud and the literature of the Ionians , to inquire and tp reform . He will proceed to Corfu , and , without superseding the Lord High Commissioner , will endeavour to remove the obstacles which
Mkustkkial , Changes . —The Daily Aeuis says : — " Unlike his predecessor , Lord Derby seems fully alive to the importance of stowing away his lumber , and manning as best he may every gun . It is said that Lord ] S aas is to go to Madras as governor ; and that the chief secretaryship for Ireland will probably be filled by Mr . Seymour Fitzgerald . " . Repkesentation oi' Banbury . —Three candidates are now in . the field- —Mr . Hardy , Conservative ; Mr . Pigott , Whig ; and Mr . Samuelson , an ironfounder of the town . The Jast gentleman goes as far as the Guildhall programme on Reform , and his address is far in advance of Mr . Pigott's . A . bill has appeared stating that Mr . Cobden' or Mr . Miall will come forward . So far as the former is concerned it is very doubtful . Political Reform League . —At a general meeting
of the members held on Wednesday night , was resolved that a bill embodying the programme put forth by that association should be prepared . To Mr . Henry Brooks the task of drawing up the document > vas delegated . The Members fob Edinburgh . —A meeting wa 3 held at Edinburgh on Wednesday , for the purpose of hearing addresses from Mr . Cowan and Mr . Black . Mr . Cowan said : ?« With all respect for the honesty , and the earnestness , and the English courage which Mr . Bright possesses , I must be allowed to dissent from some of the views which he has enunciated . I deprecate exceedingly the attacks which Mr . Bright has made in very strong language , particularly those against the House of Lords . of tuc
I would put it to you whether the tendency speeches of Mr . Bright , were it not for the good sense ot the British people at large—in setting class ngainst class , and in inciting the humbler classed of society against the upper classes , would not be to produce n revolution" Mr . Black said : " When I offered myscll for your suffrages I professed myself favourable to thopolicj of Lord ralmeraton ' B Government . As for as I am myself concerned , I do not regret the change of my scat from the Treasury to the Opposition bunches . k ° ° ~ men , liad Lord Palmerston been at the head of tno English Government , the Emperor would hove tnougm twice before ho would have insulted and wronged tno oldest and firmest ally of England—before ho wmiu
have contemptuously thwarted the people of tins country in thoir long-continued and philanthropic ™ orw u > abolish tLb accursed slave-trade—effort * iu wl " 7 " "; f have expended countless treasure and thousands ot mo * ( A voice , ' War again . ' ) I hoar some gentlemen »»} , ' War again . ' I hate war as much as « ny » ° £ " ° ; : But thoro are things oven worse than war . £ , '"* ... tho rumoured Government moasuro , Mr . JHacu " Wo are promisod a Reform Bill , Sn which case jusuw would not be done to Scotland if wo did not roceivo n » addition to our representatives , As Scotland li « " no 1 * " / diouw
a sixth of tho population of Eng land , wo »<» " eighty members , or an addition of twenty-sown . ^ not suppose that I argue for uniform olecttorul " ««» IItl ' lil < o the squares on a choss board 5 our roprowntuuvj system is but a human invention , anil must pa »»« " » tho infirmities of humanity ; nevertheless . It » s " >« and most offlolont of all tlio political machines tlin , Ui 1 % « boon triotl in any country . I oonftss I have a ^ "Ul ; dread of any rank or opinionated Invontor nm > 'k / porimont * upon it . My own opinion !» , tlmt tho « nU « ground on which tho franchise « un bo based , ta tfi ^ > J J in / r of property . I ani aware that 0 . 1 tliw s » J opUn . Wv « ry different . Mine I tor , . mn 1 "J » Jar . " Numerous questions wore then put to iw >
This Mounino Chronicle . —This journal has , wo are informed , entirely passed into tho hands of now proprietors . It la , wo boliovo , tho oldest dally paper in tho metropolis . It has always possossod a high character as an organ of tho groat principle of progress , nnd It has' from time to timo , during what i » ny bo culled its historical caroori been associated with some of tho groatest statesmen of this country . Tlioso who have observed tho changes that have boon slowly worUod in tho position of parties , will not bo surprised to loam that the Morning Chronicle , without any eacriflco of its consistency , Will become tho organ of tho governmental
Mb . Wxxp , M . P . —This gentleman has addrosscd his constituents at Bodmln on tho events of tho session . In regard to India ho advocated a , policy of mercy and justice , and deelarod that wo should use tho resources of India for the benefit of tho Indian people . Upon the Reform question ho expressod himself favourable to an extension Of tho suffrage which should include every taxpayer . . RaaPBESMNTATiosi of Manohicsteb . —Lord Stanley has declined to stand as the Conservative candidate for tho representation of Manchester . The only candidate at present In tho field Is Mr . Dnzloy . Tuunoojus . —/ The Llborala of thla place hold a btmquot
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! X 9 $ THE LEADER . [ No , 450 , Novem ^ rJ , 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 1198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2267/page/22/
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