On this page
- Departments (1)
-
Text (4)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
33ome Sintelllgranr. _—„ _
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
mean time the appeal of the Count against his sentence is to be made . Nothing lias occurred to throw light upon the relations of France and Austria ; but every scrap of news from Italy bears witness to the growing disquiet . A report is current that Count Persigny is about to visit Italy , and the conclusion most natural is that the present state of affairs must have something to do with his journey .
The publication of the Government Proclamation against Riband Societies in Ireland has been followed by results unexpected , at least on this side of the Irish Channel . Ou Thursday there arrived at Cork , under a strong escort of police , a party of fifteen prisoners from Skibberem and Bantry , charged with being members of a secret Society , the object of which is said to be to bring about an invasion of Ireland by American filibusters ! The whole of the fifteen are described as voung men of respectable position in society ; and most of them were captured , on the information of a liibandman , while they were in bed .
The miscellaneous news is very varied and interesting . " We have iiad accidents on several of the ' railways during the fogs of the early part of the week f but it is by no means certain that negligence rather than the density of the atmosphere has been the cause of these calamities . If trains are run one after the other without any care being taken to ascertain whether the lines are clear ahead , the chances are decidedly in favour of evil consequences , whether the air is bright or foggy . In the story of the Bombay , we have a very pretty
trade moral : that it is too costly to accept assistance for an old , storm-battered shi p * containing merely a few hundred soldiers , so long as the hull can be kept from going to pieces—at least , when the vessel is employed under contract with Government . Not the least important item of the news is the opening of the Smithfield Prize Cattle Show . Fat appears still to be the grand object of the breeder ' s ambition ; shape , substance , lightness of bone , he now accepts as * necessary conditions ; but fat lie will have anyhow , and for a long time to come , we fear , the foolish fancy will hang by him .
Untitled Article
Town Telegraph . —An undertaking is spoken of , called the London District Telegraph Company , for the purpose of providing the various localities in the immediate neighbourhood of the metropolis with the means of telegraphic communication . The required capital is 6 Q , 000 £ , and it is proposed to divide the City and suburbs into 11 districts , each containing 100 stations , so as to ensure that a despatch may be delivered in any part iri the course of a few minutes . Messages of 10 words are proposed to be sent for 4 d . to any place within four miles of Charing-cross . The construction , bo far as practicable , will be by the inexpensive overhouse system adopted in Paris , New York , and Brussels , and lately in London by Messrs . Waterlow and Sana .
Telegraph between Liverpool andHolykead , — - At the meeting of the Mersey . Dock and Harbour Board , it was decided that a telegraph cable should be lai between Liverpool and Holyhead , the Liverpool . end of the cable crossing the Mersey at Woodflide , in order to avoid the danger of being subject to injury by the numerous anchorages of flats and other small craft south of that point . Infant Mortality in Australia . —The resident of Victoria who wishes to feel the extent of infant mortality , can go to a graveyard . Last April , Jf walked through the Melbourne Cemetery , and read on the
headstones names of little children by the hundred . The day was one of the few i » the month of April when the hot wind blows with clouds of dust . Finding a grave with reclining slab conveniently placed under the shelter of a trc » , I shrank from the heat of the sun , and reBtod there . Presently a woman approached , whose sad face and dust-whitened mourning dress told me that she came hither not for curiosity , but , from her great love to some among the dead . Without observing mo , she hastened to a grave not far from where I sat ; it was one of those
which had arrested my attention , beceuae at the head , upon a simple tombstone , the deaths of four young children were recorded . I have witnessed many forma of grief over the dead , on land and far away upon the sea , but never before or ' since have I looked upon such agonising grief and hoplcsa sorrow as was in the fnco of this poor woman beside the grave , which had four times opened and closed over the objects of her love . She bowed her head , and , believing the solitude unbroken , poured forth her soul in prayer over the tomb of her ohUUron . ^ -iTott « eApW Word :
Untitled Article
POLITICAL FORESHADOWINGS . Mr . MiLNEtt Gibsox , M . P . —On Tuesday the right lion , gentleman met his constituents at Ashton . After alluding to the downfal of the Palmeraton Ministry , and justifying his share in that catastrophe , he said—I will do niy Lord Derby the justice to say , as a political opponent , that he has done some very good things since he has been at the head of affairs ; and that he has given utterance to a great many important truths , which we were not in the habit of hearing from our late "Whig leaders . I should like to see the new Reform Bill Lord Derby is going to propose to us . I have heard a report in London that Lord Derby , who is rather a sporting characteris going to astonish the old Whigs . lie is
* going further than they , perhaps , will follow him . Then there is my esteemed friend , Mr . Bright . I have not seen his Reform Bill . Ho is going to introduce what I have no doubt will be , coining from his hands—though it may not go to the extent of nil the Reformers' wishes in the country—a real and solid improvement in our representative system . People are not alarmed as they were at the idea of " Reform . Sir Robert Inglis predicted that if they passed the Reform Bill in 1832 , in ten years there " would be no King in England , and the Lords would be turned out of their House . Well , you have still got the throne , and a monarch upon the throne , perhaps more respected and loved than ever ~ was a monarch in England ; and you have got the
Lords' House , and 1 say what we are going to ask for is not the destruction of the House of Lords , or any interference with the prerogatives of the Queen . What lve are going to ask for is , that we may have a Commons' House as well as a Lords' House , and that the Commons' House may be returned by the people , and not nominated by the Lords ; that there may be freedom of election by protecting the voter , by giving him the vote bv ballot . I will support that extension of the suffrage which appears to meet the approval of the greatest body of . sincere Reformers , which appears the most likely to be carried , and to confer a great advantage" upon the country . I will not be deterred from supporting a moderate measure of
Reform because it may not come up to the theories of the right of the suffrage being in the man , which everybody , no doubt , whether he is Tory or whether he is Liberal , must in his conscience hold . I have put my name to a programme of . the rate-book being the register—that every man who occupies and pays rates , in fact , who has a home , shall have a vote . Whatever bill be introduced , unless the ballot he a part of it , it will be an imperfect and ineffectual measure for the purposes that are intended . Let us insist upon the ballot . It is supported by a very large proportion of the Liberal party—two-thirds—and I believe it is approved as a vital necessity for freedom of election by every true Liberal in this land .
Mr . Lowk , M . P . —The right hon . gentleman addressed his constituents at Kidderminster on Wednesday . He admitted that Lord Palmerston had fitllen from his high position in popular favour , but he believed impartial history would render to the memory of Lord Palmerston a very different measure of justice to that which had been rendered by disappointed fuctions and unscrupulous malignity . Referring to the topic of the day , he said—At the time of the last Reform Bill the most extraordinary excitement pervaded all classes , and it was felt that political matters had come nearer and dearer to them than their own private interests ; the country never felt more dismay and apprehension when it was feared the Reform Bill was in danger , and never
knowledge should have a proper amount ofhww T the country . He consideredthe working SSS ^ in great part the paymasters of the country , £ 525 in a body ^ great power , wealth , and knowledg ^ M »! such should have a due representation . Mr IWkm , told the people at Birmingham that the House of < W nions did not possess the sympathy of the country Tr the meeting would take the" trouble to look at th evidence Mr . Bright brought forward , they WOnl , i see that the House of Commons was not 1 wiser than the country generally . The people W never found when the country had been unanimous in wishing this or that to be done , that the House of Commons had resisted the demand , or set itself „« , * 1 •» , — www * ldCll 11 D against public opinion . F
The Right Hon . T . H . Sotheron Estcocrt axd Mr . D . Griffith , M . P . —At an agricultural dinner at Devizes on Wednesday the President of the Poor Law Board , alluding to the Reform question , said : — "There are two things which I observe are here stated ^ that this is a very bad time to broach the subject at all , ' and that the Conservatives aro not the proper people to bring it forward . I think that this is exactly the proper time hen thin of Reform should
w subject be brought forward for the identical reason which is assigned against itviz . that people ' s minds are not in an excite ! state . I say that this is a reason why they are capable of forming a true and impartial opinion upon the merit of any measure that may be brought forward ; and 1 believe that the measure will be conceived with an intention of placing the representation of the people upon a broad , a deep , a good , and a stable foundation ; and that it will be
judged of by the people of England with much less excitement than when a Reform Bill was proposed tweatyfive years ago . So much for the time . It is also said-Conservatives are not the proper people to bring such a measure forward ; they have always been obstructing Reform , and should therefore leave it to their opponents . Of the three great parties 1 —Conservatives , Whigs , and Radicals—I say that the Conservatives are the one that ought to bring it forward . Twenty-five years ago a Reform Bill , which has formed tlie constitution of this country since that time , was brought forward by the Whigs . We Conservatives spoke of it in very disparaging terms—in terms ¦ which I acknowledge were much more severe than the measure deserved . It was
confessedly a measure brought in by one party in the State ; that same party have twice put into the Queen ' s Speech a recommendation to Parliament to consider that same question with a view to remedy the defects which experience has shown to exist in that measure . Will you , then , leave them—the same people—to attempt again to botch their own measure ? I say nay . Another lieform Bill ought to be no longer entrusted to them , but ought to fall to one of the other two parties . I do believe that throughout the whole of England the strong majority will be prepared to trust that delicate operaiion to tlie hands of the Conservatives rather than to the Radicals . According
to my judgment , they would rather trust the bringing in of a lieform Bill to Lord Derby than to Mr . Uriglit . —Mr . Darby Griffith , M . P ., also niailc some allusion to the subject , and said he believed the country was not desirous to undertake the great organic changes or to ride upon the sea of popular expectation as it did twentyfive years ago . He hoped that whatever change might take place , there would bo a cartful consideration of the claims of all classes ; but , speaking in agricultural language , he believed they would prefer to confide their prospects and their interests to the old Derby plough rather than the Birmingham scarifier .
experienced such a thrill of triumph as when it w « a at last uccessfully carried . What , however , was the case now ? Did they recognise , any of the old features of the former crisis ? Where was the enthusiasm ? where were the crowded meetings ? where were the petitions signed by thousands ? and , more than all , where was the deepseated and heurtfelt interest that wrung every bosom with its Intensity ? "We took those things coolly now . The grievances they had suffered had pinched thorn so slightly that they had allowed more than seven years —more than the statute of limitations—to go over their heads without a Reform Bill , and still they were In a placid state of mind . After a further passing allusion to the stato of the public mind in 1832 , the right hon . gentleman said that it could hardly have escaped
ob-Viscount Palwkissto . v . —The ex Premier ins attended an agricultural meeting at Komsey , and * wteut * the companv . With the exception , however , of some remarka in pVaise ofc his foreign policy , ho ^ 1 * 1 » ot » Hude to the political questions of the day . His lordship , , itn regard to the great Reform question , was nuitosilenU He made a great point out of the old topic , the Rufliaa war , and he went ou to say how gratifying it wayo m H
feelings to perceive that the present Goyerninc nv ^ pleted the work which he and his Montis had hogun that is to sav , by the suppression of the Indian revolt , by getting « treaty with China , and by the rocon >« ment at Japan . . Ufa lordship remarked tlia , th « i jw Government had appointed tho right men { ° , ? , l X —Lord Canning , Lord Clyde , and Lord ¦ Wgm . * " having made these observation * , Lord l ' " ™ " ^ ceeded , in an able and genial manner , to < leal iU > W J of an agricultural character . Ho Jiwtiflod tho g « loj adoptodby tho agricultural societies for rqwnul »> b *
sorvation that the tone of tho people on tho subject of Reform was altered . Ho added that it suited Mr . Bright , for the purpose of gaining a fleeting popularity , to raise a feeling ngainst those whom fortune had placed in u superior position . Lot tho nation adopt Mr . Brlght's vjlows ; and if they wore successful they would drag tho Peers down to their own level . But if they were to nbolish tho House of Peers tomorrow , tlie best thing they could tlo would bo to s <; t It up again next day . He was an advocate for further improvements in tho representation of tho people based on the principles of tho Reform Bill of 1832 , varying its details to moot the improvements and wants of tho times . Ho was favourable to tho lowering of tho franchise in oountios , and ho considered that property and
labourers . . . nruton Mr . W . Milks , M . I ' . —At tho dinner of tlie . Br » m Agricultural Society , Mr . Miles said ho was flffjlnj ' ballot and universal suffrage . Hut tho quest on « . ^ tho people had become ripe for the will rage , m {•!"„ , bo b % to \ ved upon those who did not nl pn »» J" "J ^ , It . Many of thorn hnd read a speech , iwoiitlj ««'' j by Mr . Nowdegato . It showed tliat the M ™ w \ members were in a very small minority , wi •« |( j 8 same time they represented much linger co » » " ^ and a much greater amount of population limn t || 0 bors for other classes . In nny red » tribu o . i * constltuoncloa-nnd thoro must bo aiion a ro- u « t in a Itoform Bill—tho olainiH of tlnwo who linti « ^ representation must bo taken into nwpuw ,
Untitled Article
3340 THE LEA DE R . [ No . 455 , December 11 , 185 R
33ome Sintelllgranr. _—„ _
IBrmre ^ ntelltgettfe , —•— -
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 11, 1858, page 1340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2272/page/4/
-