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THE LEADER .
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MR . BRIGHT appears , by his activity , determined to earn bis-right to the position which the country generally seems to have accorded to iim on the subject of Reform . At Birmingham , Manchester , Edinburgh , and now at Glasgow , he has delivered addresses surpassing in importance all the rest of the Reform speeches of other speakers put together . He is doing his work , i t is
plain ; and whatever the measure may he which he himself is preparing—whether it is destined to supersede the Government bill or not— liis prefatory labours on the platforms of the great towns cannot but have a powerful influence on the course of Ministers . In the dead silence of the leading members of the Derby party , indeed , it is already fancied that the course the Government intend to pursue
is , to a certain extent , made visible : waiting on the expression of the country ' s opinion evoked by the active labours of Mr . Bright and his party , the Government will measure the amount of amelioration to be offered in their hill . The complete silence of the chiefs of the Whig parly on the question of Reform is much more mysterious , and the disunion of the Liberals seems only to become more and more confirmed . The only shadow
of an explanation offered as to the silence of the Whig leaders is , that they too are waiting and watching the course of public opinion . In the mean time , the Tunes is nervous and irritated at the progress of that same public opinion , which it atl'ccts to regard as the opinion only of the Radical part of the community . The middle classes , it protcuds , arc being tulkcd down , and it threatens them with universal suffrage , of
which there docs not appear the smallest chance , and with the ballot ; as if tho middle classes were the . deadly opponents of secret voting . But if there is one thing more obvious than another , on the subject of tho popular demand for Purliameutary Reform , it is that the time has passed when , by raising a Cry , class could bo set against class for party purposes . There never has been a time when , tho middle nnd lower classes have felt so much
would have done away with it ; Count de Montalembcrt is acquitted of the charges of attacking the principle of Universal Suffrage , and the Constitutional rights of the Emperor ; and he is sentenced to three instead of six months' imprisonment , the fine of 3000 f . remaining unaltered . But nobody believes that the Count will suffer either fine or imprisonment ; if the pardon of the 2 nd of December is found to be informal , a new pardon , will be pronounced , either on Christmas or New Year ' sday . The results of the trial and appeal are felt
by the opponents of the present regime to be a great triumph . The witty correspondent of the Globe tells us that the pardon of the anniversary of the coup- d'etat was called a coup de grace ; but the stroke was given with a knife that has cut none but the hand that used it . One striking consequence of the persecution of Count de Montalembert is seen in the esteem in which he is now held by the proUlairc class , the artisan , the " dangerous class" jtar excellence . Another very natural result has been an extensive demand for
the famous " Debate on India , " and we arc told that this demand has been very ingeniously met by the publication of a large number of the pamphlet under ihc title of " Edni' L Rus Tabcd Nu , Par Ed Trebniclatnom , " or the proper title printed backwards . One other item of IVench news demands notice : it is a report that on Sunday last a detachment of French troops were marched into the valley of the Dappes , the Swiss valley to which claims have been set up by the Imperial Government . Great excitement is said to be felt in Switzerland at tho
proceeding , and the Swiss and Austrian presses are reported to be highly indignant ; but the story has yet to be confirmed before we can comment upon it . On tho subject of the disturbed state of Italy we have no news of great importance , but several small incidents have come to our notice in confirmation of the serious view nvc have recently taken of the condition of Italy " . Further denials have been made of the language attributed to Count Cavour on this subject . It is now said that he issued no such circular ns the one ascribed to him ; but it is admitted that the Sardinian Minister is wont to send , a monthly lithographed-circular to tho Piedmonteso
representatives abroad , and in ono of theso it is possible lie nmy have written something like the language reported . It is every day becoming clearer that it is not alone tho extreme party in Italy that is impatient of Austrian rulo j the aversion is as common to those of moderate views as to thoso of extreme views ; and both arc ngreed that - "uro Italy for the Italians , cvou at the price of to su . -. r | > yould hardly bo paving too dear . \ x European > ,. -live to the present state of tho Austria is nervously u .. . "Glaring to resist it . popular temper , and is pu " -4 her forces in Within , a few weeks sho has rycmilc * .. ' *¦ Vavin Lombftrtly by the addition of 8000 men , iu
the subject of the Clayton-Bulwcr Treaty , points out that the settlement of these differences will " wipe out the last remaining subject of dispute between the two countries , " and his tone is that of hopefulness as to the amicable adjustment of the question . Some proceedings in tho Belfast police-court , on Monday last , havo given us a taste of the feeling which is active in connexion with tho subjcot of the lato arrests . Mr . Iloa , solicitor for the accused
highly satisfactory report on the progress of emancipation . In Russian-Poland the peasants have already been set free , their forced labour being commuted into a rent-payment for lands which are to be granted to them , under conditions that will probably at some not very distant time be found to require considerable amelioration , but which at the outset will secure to the emancipated peasant a living , Avith liberty .
From America we have Mr . Buchanan ' s Message to Congress , and we are struck with the grand , simplicity of the story which the President tells of the progress of events in the United States during the past year . Nothing could be more unaffected or dignified than the language used throughout this long and elaborate resume . We refer to it at length in another ' part of the paper ; it may , therefore , be enough to remark hero , that Mr . Buchanan speaks iu the most friendly tone as lttgards England j and while pointing out the fact that there are still differences to be settled in connexion with .
pa-sons , mado an attempt to force on tho public hearing of his clients , but ho only succeeded in drawing from tho committing magistrate the fact that the Irish Government have good grounds for the course they lmvo taken , though they arc not propared to investigate tho case publicly . Mr . RcadoUvorod himsolf of an opinion Hint the " British Constitution had left Belfast this last week , " and ho further intimated that ho had considerable satiafaction in performing what ho thinks a oloar duty against tho Crown , because ho thinks it has not
events are hurrying forward . A few day ago , x < was discovered that a determined attempt had been made to burn the Austrian military forage magazine and in secluded parts of the outskirts of the cit ; several soldiers had been pelted with stones h ; unseen assailants . The latest sign of the popuk ill-will has been open insult offered at Milan to the Archduke Maximilian , while walking with his wife ; by a porter .
Turning to despotic Russia , we have a picture oi autocratic power exerting itself , not without great peril , for the emancipation and enfranchisement o the serf-millions . After a desperate struggle the party which , in the General Commission at St . Petersburg , represents the extreme views of the Emperor , has triumphed over its more timid Conservative opponents , and has given to its master a
"Mifldonco in each other , or so much inclined to Cv ., r < hoir own joint bcnolit . Tho timo of imumto lor fc _ , M ( j suuvcrs jvc demands has bocu moderate views iu .. . ln nfle of lhU - | hc tcm outlived , nnd wo have eviu .. . out CXCOi , | . iollj pcratcnoss which has , almost wu ... "ncakcrs rulod at mootings where there havo been » , holding cxtrcmo Radical opinions . Tho nows from abroad is led off by tho story of tho Count do MonUucmbcrt ' s appeal , which wus heard on Tuesday . If thoro had boon any doubt as to tho wisdom of tho Count nnd his advisers in appealing against tho iniquitous sentence pronouncod against him , tho result of Tuesday ' s proceedings
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1858, page 1403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2274/page/3/
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