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    THE LEADER .

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    T ) EFOE . M demonstrations and personal declara-J \) tions on that subject occupy the foremost places in the week ' s nevrs . At Nottingham , Norwich , Hawick , Ashton-under-Lyne , Kidderminster , and other places they have been busy with , the preliminary work " of discussing the Reform wants of the people and the means of best satisfying those wants when they are determined . The work makes most'favourable progress . Birmingham , always in the vaji 6 f reform movements , has sent forth an address , signed by the chairman of its JELeform

    Association , calling upon all England to co-operate in demanding a large extension of the suffrage , vote by ballot , and a more equal apportionment of members to population . At the jlawick demonstration a much larger programme was in favour , manhood suffrage being demanded as firmly as the ballot . With reference to the suffrage , Mr . Bright has addressed to the Manhood Suffrage Association of Manchester a few words that go to the heart of

    the question . The suffrage , he says , is not the vital point in the coming bills ; the vital point is the distribution of seats and members . " Unless this be well watched , you may find that you have lost the substance and are merely playing with the shadow of popular representation , " lie says . In Asliton-uudor-Lyuc the feeling isplainly for -Reform on the widest scale ; nevertheless the more moderate views of Mr . Miluer Gibson were received with marked commendation . The

    ballot , and no Reform Bill without it , is Mr . Gibson ' s battle cry ; " I hold it , " ho says , " to bo vital to the freedom of election in a country like this . " As to the sort of suffrage which ftlr . Gibson is prepared to demand , he falls short of his constituents . A rale-paying suffrage , or at all events sonic arrangement by which the voter can bo identified , he looks upon as absolutely necessary .

    While public opinion is thus organising itself , the intentions of Ministers aro kept close , no whispor of the programme of their bill being suffered to cscapo . At tho samo time , thcro is a growing sense of coafldcncc in tho honafides of tho Government , a belief that the measure to bo offered will bo really iramod with a dosiro to moot tho popular demands . Tho Liboral parly is endeavouring to rcorguniso itself for qffectivo action ; but on tho question of

    present temper , having in mind recent events in Prance , remembering the history of the Conspiracy Bill , and the late visit to Compiegne , the least said by Lord Palmerston on the subject of Reform , will be soonest mended . The publication of the Royal Proclamation has been hailed with enthusiasm by the press of India ; we have , however , to wait for intelligence of its effects upon those to whom it is addressed . It has

    been called " the great charter" India , and this magnificent title seems not to go far beyond its merits ; for it appears to provide a remedy for nearly every real native grievance , while it secures to all , from the highest to the lowest , the blessings of freedom of opinion , of justicepurely administered , and of personal respect without consideration of religious , or , indeed , of any differences of race , creed , or manners . To all but those who have murdered British

    subjects , or assisted in their murder , the promise of pardon , with oblivion of tkc past , or at least a merciful consideration of the circumstances under which the offenders may have been led to abandon their allegiance to their British rulers , is held out , and stated in terms that can hardly fail to command the confidence of all who arc not criminally beyond reach of the promised clemency . The holders of land arc promised protection from aggression ; the rights , dignity , and honour of the native princes will be respected ; every native will be protected in the unmolested excrciso of his religious faith and observances ; and he will be admitted to serve in

    burnt and their villages plundered . All classes , from the talookdars down to the poorest ryots , are included in this tremendous warning . The news from Corfu , represents Mr . Gladstone as hard at work , communicating with the authorities . On the 26 th of November he delivered a speech in Italian to a full meeting of the Se ^ nate , and frankly stated the object of his mission , which , he said , is "to examine in what way Great Britain may most honourably and . amply discharge the obligations which , for purposes European and Ionian rather than British ,

    she had contracted . " In furtherance of these ends he invites " all such information and counsel on the state of the islands and of their laws as ought to influence the conduct of the protecting Power . " The address was well received by the Senate , and there is every appearance of a desire on the part of the Ionians to tell their own story without reserve ; iii evidence of which we have the protest forwarded by the ten representatives of Corfu to Sir Edward Bulwcr Lytton , declaring , in contradiction to the statement of Sir John Young , that " the only wish of the inhabitants of Corfu has been , and still is , to be united to free Greece . " In the early part of the week there was a report , founded upon a Marseilles telegram , that the King of Naples , tired of the isolation to which the English and French Courts have condemned him , had made overtures of reconciliation . The Prench Government , it was said , had made no reply to the communication ; the English Cabinet , on the other hand , was said to have returned for answer that it was willing to renew diplomatic intercourse on

    conall offices under tho Imperial Government fov which ho may be capable , without reference to his crcod—education , ability , and integrity being tho only tests of his illness . This Proclamation was published contemporaneously on the 1 st of November at Culoultii , Bombay > Madras , and Lahore , accompanied by an address from the Governor-General announoing the formal transfer of the Government of India from tho East India Company to to her Majesty , and calling for the loyal support of all classes in India . The tone of Lord Canning ' s proclamation appears also to have been in the highest degree approved by the Indian pross .

    dition that the King of Naples should grant a satisfactory amnesty for political offences . Later iu the week a letter was reported to have bccu . roceived from Naples , containing a rdsume" of a despatch from Lord Malnicsbury , conveying tho answer of the British Cabinet . A note , dated from the Foreign-office yesterday , states the interesting fact that Lovd Malnvcsbury has not written any such despatch , and tho rest of tho story is , probably , as baseloss ..

    But while tho Royal Proclamation speaks almost wholly of peace , tho campaign has boon commenced in Oucic j and tho Cominandor-in-Chief , on takiug the Held , has issued a proclamation very difi ' prout in Jungungo , if not iu spirit , lie goes , ho says , to enforce the law , and if he is to effect that "without damage to life or property , rosistanco on tho part

    Alter straining the law to catch the Count do Montulcmbcrt , the French Government wo themselves caught in tho toils , and find that thoy cannot lawfully set their bird freo by merely throwing open tho nots and tolling him to % awny . Count do Moatalombcrt will not accept any such grace , denying to his will-not-bc gaolers the right of sot ling him frco .

    of tho pooplo nuist cease . Tho most exact discipline will bo observed by the troops in camp and on tho inarch , nud where Ihoro is no rosistance , neither houses nor crops will bo destroyed , nor will thoro bo any plundering allowed in ! tho towns and villages ; but whorovor thoro is resistance , ovou a singlo shot fired iigninsL Iho troops , no mercy will bo sho \ m to tho inhabitants , whose houses will bo

    The position of t | io Emperor is ludicrous , and his only oliimcci of gol . ting out of it readily—tho Jnw failing him—would sooiuto bo in his changing Uio" pardon , " which ho has not tlu ; ri ^ ht 10 griml ; into au amnesty , which is a pivroyiilivo not to bodbputocl , and which will oimoel not only tho , iniquitous vorilicl , but the iuiquiious prosecution itself . This is Iho course which ho is expected to take , Iu tho

    Reform it will , in all probability , net in aid of tho present Govornmont . Ono vory conspicuous sign of tho soourity iu whioh Ministers nrc working has boon givon this woolc , at tho dinner of tho llomscy Agricultural Sooioty , whoro . Lord Palmorston , while ' talking freely about himself and tho events of liia administration , had not a word to say upon tho subjoot of tho coming session . Tho country will fool uo surprise at this rolioonoo ; in fact ; , in its m >

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    REVIEW OF THE WEEK— rAOE West Coast of Africa 1343 Biographies of German Princes . 1356 FINE ARTSHome Intelligence . Egypt . 1344 oricinaL CORRESPONDENCE— New Publications 1351 Political Foreshadowings 1340 West Indies 1344 ORIGINAL g o « Kwru ™ u t . vut INDIA AND INDIAN PROQRESSGatherings from Law aud Police Mexico . ... 1344 . Prance 13 o 7 ' ° ' * !^ w Xi i-w » Courts 1341 Brazil 1344 llT r RATURE- The Last New World 1359 Criminal Ttcrnrii 134 . 1 Svria 1344 LlTERATUKt— The Proclamation lobu ir"K ..::.. y . 7 ..:::::::::::::::::::::::: mi cochiu ' eiiina .::::..: ; :..: 1344 literary chronicle of the week . 1346 Notes on indiau progress lseo Accidents and Sudden Deaths 1342 Cape 1344 Madagascar ......... ; '—'} ¥ ! £ COMMERCIALNaval and Military 1342 America ... .. 1344 Athetue Cantabngienses 1346 The ShiDDin * -Interest 1362 The Atlantic Cable ........ 1353 pUBUC AFFA , _ ^^^^^ ni ^ Bt ^ g £ ^ ^^^ . = ^ || Sarawak - — - 1361 a ^ pSaen ^ und ^ :-::: SB p ^^ =: r ::::::::::::::::::::::: SB S 2 g ? s * ; 3 KS 2 ST ! ...::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 3 S ^ S ^ JK ^ rs&s : 1355 ™ *™ f and enterta . ^ ents- * S ^^ *^ - contiSK £ s *" GENCJ 3 - . i 342 SSS ? ^ .. 1 ^!^^ .. ^ : 1356 T « fe& £ ^ &K sh ^ Ind stocks :::::::::: ; :::::::::: BS

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 11, 1858, page 1339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2272/page/3/