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THE LEADER .
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IF the E-efdrm fire does not burn brightly it will not be for want of fuel or attention . At Smithfield and Sunderland , at Islington and Edinburgh * at Oldbam , Huddersfield , Itugby , and elsewhere during the week , tlie flame has been blown in right earnest . It certainly can no longer be said that there is anything like popular indifference on the subject of "Reform ; and at the present rate of pi-ogression , long before the Government Bill is laid upon the table of the House of Commons , it looks as if the country would come to an understanding with , itself as to the limits of what it will demand , and of
what it will accept . Afc present the demands are large : manhood suffrage , equal electoral districts , annual parliaments , and payment of members ; but resolutions pledging meetings to support these demands arc generally accompanied by others , as at the Oldham meeting , pledging the meetings to support any measure that shall ensure the enfranchisement of a . majority of the people . At tho Hugby meeting , Mi * . Newdegate , while dealing with Mr . Bvight ' s recent Reform speeches , opened up a view of the franchise question which
suggests grave doubts of the coining Ministerial Bill , if that is to be founded upon the principles enunciated by Mr . Newdegate . According to liis view it is an extension of the county franchise that is wanting- to set matters right . Every siugle county member , ho' says , represents GG , O 12 of the population ; whereas only 22 , 052 are represented by each borough member . But , as he shows , tho anomaly goes even further ; for many borough voters claim votes in counties . * 'Argal " - —the requisite adjustment of the franchise will be , to give the counties as many moro [ members as will equalise the representation between the
borough and county constituencies . This claim of mere numbers ho further supported by reforence to tho number of bouses in towns and counties , the number being , in tho country , 2 , 050 , 000 houses against 1 , 383 , 000 in tho towns . But what is tho conclusion to which Mr . Newdcgate ' s figurestaking their accuracy for granted—point P Unquestionably to tho enfranchisement of tho rural and least-educated of the populations in profyronoo to tho moro intelligent population of town artisans . Can it bo possible that the Government mcasuro ia to bo . baaed on such a priucinlo of ' equalisation P "
made out a good case for themselves . The point upon which they dwell most feelingly is the absence of reciprocity in other countries , the trade of their own being free . Many minor grievances they put forth , as to the burdens imposed upon them in the shape of various dues , for which their vessels " receive no equivalent j" but these objections do not carry with them sufficient weight to warrant a demand for leg islative assistance to alter the general laws . Nor can they show any good cause
wliy other countries should be coerced into the adoption of a " reciprocating" system ; "to ask Parliament to reverse their steps in the great question of free trade , " as one of the principal speakers told the meeting-, "is worse than useless . " The evils under which the shipping interest are suffering arc but the consequences of an unsound system of trading : the remedy , said the same speaker , the Conservative * Mr . LiddelL " is in the adoption of a healthier system , and is in the hands of the
shipowners themselves . The recal of Lord Napier from Washington is to he regretted , seeing that he represented in America , more completely than any previous British Minister had done , that section of English opinion which is friendly towards America , and which desires to deal with the American in an . open and cordial manner .
At present , tlie motives for his recal are simply conjectural , unless we accept the semi-ofHcia assurance that it is only for promotion ; but it occurs at a moment when the relations of England with America are apparently on the verge of being complicated , and when , therefore , a plain dealer like Lord Napier would be of most servicc-r— were honest work to bo done .
In continental news , tho trial and condemnation of Count Montalembcrt tako precedence of all else in point of interest . In spite of all the precautions of tlio French Government , the English uowspapors havo been enabled to publish the very pith of all that was done and said at this amazing trial . The Count was tried for cortain passages in his famous article , which disparaged France by contrasting it
worn-out system of secret diplomacy . At home the Emperor is putting in practice one of those pieces of social economy which only absolute kings can venture upon . A decree lias been issued commanding the bakers of one hundred and sixty fowns in France to lay in a reserve stock of breadstuff equal to three months' consumption : a measure that combines humanity * with security against brcadvriots , should the price of corn go up during the winter ; and opens a very ample field for jobbery , for which the jobbers will be duly grateful .
There arc some who fancy that this imperial forethought may havd other ends in view , even that this forced provision of bread may have to do with warlike eventualities . Tho relations of tho Emperor with the Pope arc the reverse of improved by tho Mortara affair , and these relations are lively to become still less cordial , if it is true , as reported , that tho French Government lias given permission to the Jews to prosecute tho ultramontane Unioera for its ferocious attacks upon the Jewish body . Probably matters will not run to suoh happy extremes as to induce the Emperor to withdraw his troops from Home ; but tho idea of an Italian outbreak is by no means
means ? Can it be that a counsel is construed as , attacking the Government because he will not say that black is white ? Why , it is the boast of the Government that it has bartered liberty for orderand it has done so , it says , with the consent of the French people ; and that I am not here to deny . Yes , France has repudiated her own liberty . That is a fact which some people may , and others may not , regret ; but it is not rational to hold it an offence in any one to state the simple fact that liberty does not now exist . " The conviction of Count Montalembert is an outrage against the reason of the whole world , and it will provoke
universal execration . But while the panegyrist of English freedom goes to prison for the utterance of such an anti-imperial creed , the Emperor himself is in one way tying tighter the bonds of the alliance . An English and French licet is gathered together in the Caribbean and Mexican seas for combined operations , much , to the interest of America , and much to the uneasiness- of those who want faith in the nearly
with England , constituting an ouoncc under Iho law } but the Government prosecutor found ho could make little of theso passages , and theroforo laboured for ft condemnation on the ground of tho tendency ofthcwholo article , apostrophising Count Moatalombert as a man who " had laid Franoo prostrate at the foot of England , " who had " struck Franco in Uiq faco—yes , struck her in the fnee—unworthily struck her in tho faco . " Tho answer of M . Borrycr wasj that tho prosecution was " unjust , unfounded , ill-advised , and—rnsli . " What rashness , indeed , could go boyoud tho folly of giving M . Berber opportunity to give this answer to . the President , on being intorruptod and throatoncd for tue argument ho was piu'Biiing P " Have I lost my reason and conscience P Do X understand what tho Court
unreasonable Wo have signs , indeed , at the present moment of tho almost ripeness of tho popular will . Political arrosts have , within a few days , been made at Ancona ; and , although tho King of Sardinia may not havo oxprossccl himself openly before his soldiers at a review , os to tho probability of tho Piodinontoao army being soon called to per form active service , tho imsio with which Austria is developing her jjlow navy very plainly tolls tho unoasinoss with which sho regards tho presont condition of Italy , and her anxiety to bo in readiness to guard her Italian coaste . The proceedings of tho now Govemmeat of
Foremost in importance amongst tho publio meetings of tho week is that- of the North-country shipowners , who assembled at North Shiolds on Monday afternoon for the purpose of devising romedios for the present doprossod state of tho British shipping intorost . ' But the British shipowners , whatever way bo their difficulties , have not
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ReW OF THE WEEK- «« ' Po «« a » iHiMLiGBHci . Biographies of German Princes . 1291 INDIA AN ^ INWAMJROOREMHome iHTEttiOBKCE . Continental Notes 1280 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE— nitaria , 1294 . Political Foreshadowings . 1276 America 1281 France 1292 The Roman Type in India 1294 . The Education Movement 1277 Canada .... .... 1281 Germany ..... I 29 * Notes on Indian Progress 1294 9 g £ S $ Si ^ a * "i ® zi 2 xz- . m ^^^ ...::::::: — :: " ::.:: ^ ^ literature- . i 9 M commercialbert ° 1277 Nert-Graiiadi ........ - 1281 Sir Humphry Davy ' s Remains . 1284 Anti-Free-Trade Thoughts and Admiral Lord Lyons 1278 The Principality of Monaco ... 1281 A Summer and Winter in the Laws ......... ^ .... 1295 Oatherings from Law and Police dubi ir akairc- Two Sicilies - 1285 Trade of Ten Months ..... 1295 Courts . 1278 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Superb Christmas Gift Book ... 1285 Railway Intelligence „ 1296 Criminal Record 1279 Trial and Sentence of M . de _ Poetry I 285 Trade of Ten Months ( Table ) ... 1297 fra : . ! . ^ : f . ! . : . :::::::::::: SS a $ 2 £ ^ 6 zs $ z % "& * theatres and entertainments- gSs ^ SffiiSf ^ S-saass 1298 The Shipping Interest 1279 Central America 1289 Princess ' s , Strand , Covent Gar- Produce Markets 1298 ¦ Telegraphic Cables 1280 Life Assurance in India . 1289 den , &c 1286 Money Market and Stock Ex-Naval and Military 1280 Family Disunion 1290 FINE ARTS- change 1299 _ Thoughts * Facts , and Sugges- s < TciX for the Encouragement Shares and Stocks 1300 Miscellaneous 1282 tions on Parliamentary Tie- | S ° C ftKine Arts . „ . !„ .. 1287 London Gazette 1301
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 27, 1858, page 1275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2270/page/3/
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