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/ ., .. '¦ : ; ;•; THE LEADER . ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ : ;
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~ " ^ " fTlHE Legislature is engaged in the work of JL national stock-taking , with a view to a . re-distribiition-. of the gains of Progress . Whatever doubts there may be as to the sincerity with which the heads of the Government have set about the-work ' , there is no sort of doubt that the work itself is rightly demanded by the country , and that it must be done in a : way to nieet , -as nearly as possible , the justi&e of the demand . In the three nights' debate which has already taken place on the motion for the second reading of the Government bill , crossed by Lord John Russell ' s resolution , we have abundant proof that the demand for Reform is the healthy and legltih mate consequence of the . great social changes which have taken place in the quarter of a century which has elapsed since the last settlement of the Reform question , and that the representatives of the -people are both : competent and -willing to enforce the popular claims in spite of party policy or party necessities . On the first and second nights of the debate it was plain , that , while the best speaking was with Ministers , the weigh-fc , ' both of argument , fact , And feeling was against them . ^ Sir Edward Bulwer Lyttoii , on Tuesday evening , achieved an . oratorical triumph such as has not been surpassed within the present generation , if we judge by the effect it produced in the House ; " but the argument of his speech , admirably illustrated and enforced as it was , only went to show that the country has rip right to look to Conservatives for a lai'go and liberal measure of reform . His answer to the demand of the working classes is this ; by accepting Lord John Russell ' s amendment , which ' asks the House to resolve that no Reform Bill will be satisfactory to the country , if it does not ' provide for an ' extension of the franchise downwards—he says , " By accepting this amendment you commit yourself to a pledge to the working class—a pledge which you can never redeem , to their satisfaction until you have placed capital and knowledge at the command of impatient poverty and uninstructod numbers . " There was " frantic cheering" at tho enunciation ¦ of this Tory gospel , wo are told by one commentator on the events of Tuesday night ' s debate ; but tho aggregate intelligence of the country does not , and will not , ratify this maxim of « little faith . " Upon the whole , however , it is remarkable how little has he « n made of the standard Tory objection to Reform , that it is simply a demand of ** democracy ; " tho defence of tlio Conservatives is now , rather that the middle classes are committing a groat mistake in lending their countenance to the enfranchisement of the " dangerous" classes . It is ingenious . But of-all classes , the middle is best able to judge of the fitneBs of the working class to be entrusted with the franchise $ and their voice is unhesitatingly given in favour of tha intelligent working man , whoso intelligence , indeed , is ns undeniable as any other groat established 'fnct in history .
The powerfully urged advice of Mr . Walpole as well as Mr . Horsman is , that the Government bill should be allowed to make its way into committee ; once there , it may , they both affirm , he made into a really popular measure , such a one as the thouarlitfi . il watchers of progress will accept with satisfaction . Let this be done , they say , and the whole responsibility will be thrown upon the shoulders of Ministers , if they reject the modified measure . Mr . Disraeli ' s answer to Mr . Mitchell , as to whether Ministers are determined to stand by the principle of uniformity of franchise , the present basis of their bill , seems to imply their inclination to adopt the course thus pointed out to them ; he said , thatthere is nothing in the Government measure which is not open to the candid consideration of the House . Of cojirse , the other business of the House commands only secondary consideration ; it has , however , not been without interest . The result of the division on the Edinburg h Annuity Bill once more made manifest the ministerial weakness . The second reading of Mr . Black ' s bill for abolishing that piece of ecclesiastical extortion bi-ought out . a show of Government defence ; the Lord Advocate pleaded for forbearance , on the ground that he had a bill of his own in preparation , but under the advice of Mr . Bright , Mr . Black went to a division , and the result , was that Ministers found themselves outvoted by 40 votes , or 210 against 179 . By the publication of a supplement to the Gazette of Thursday evening , we have official confirmation of the news brought by all the late Indian mails , that the war in India , so fur as the forces immediately under the command of Lord Clyde are concerned , is ended . Lord Canning is to receive a Grand Cross of the Bath , and to be advanced a step in the peerage . The work , however , is not wholly finished , although the rewards are given . There arc still rebels in the field . Tantia Topee still evades pursuit , the last heard of him being that lie had escaped with 300 chosen horsemen into Hindoatan . A part of his forces wore , however , fallen upon on the 10 th of February , at Koosana , and between 200 and 300 of . them killed upon the field . From Nepaul very minute indications of the spot at which he and his companion , the Begum , are " known to bo "; but , for unexplained reasons , the two remain uncaptured . At the end of last week it became known thnt Russia had taken a decidud . and enlightened course of action on the question of the Italian dilKoultics . This couvso ia to propose to France tho formation of a Congress of tho five great Powei's , On Saturday last it was known that the Emperor of the French had g iven his adhesion to the proposal , and since then it has become known that . England and Prussia have agreed . Up to yesterday thieve had been no official notification of the adhesion of Austria ; but tho J } fo 7 iitour , of Friday , states that her adhesion has aotunlly been given , subject , wo believe , to some small conditions . Tho chief diflioulty in the way of the course proposed lies in the fact that Austria refuses to admit Sardinia to be represented in the Congress ; but it is believed that tho Eiflporor Napoleon has undertaken to see that Sardinia is effectively- represented . Tho Prince Napoleon is
named as the probable representative of Fmnce One of the conditions to the proposed Congress ia that it shall be held in some neutral state , and Aix-la-Chapelle is suggested as the most convenient , and , upon the whole , unobjectionable p lace for its assembly . Meantime , Count Cavour has left Turin , on his way to Paris , at the invitation of the Emperor . Meantime , also , preparations on both sides of the Alps are dangerously ripe .. The other clay an Austrian . patrol found itself " by accident" on the Piedmontese side of the Ticino , and the- Government of Turin has pointed out to Austria the clar .-o-er of the present crowded state of the frontier With Austrian soldiers . Vast stores of forego are collected on the French side of the Alps , and an army of at least 120 , 000 men is ready between Besancon , Lyons * and Grenoble . Whatever hope * of peace may be indulged , the attention of-the . French , Austrian , and . Sardinian Governments is not for a moment . 'diverted from the ' work of-preparation for war-A decree in the Moniteur of Tuesday is deeply interesting to the Protestants of this count * - " For some time past there has been painful < . citement among the Protestant communities oi several towns of France , in consequence of the interference of the municipal authorities with the-ri"lit ' of public worship . The Imperial will has cut the knot of the difficulty , short by order .- ! in" that , henccfoi-th , in the opening of new places of woi-ship , Catholic and Protestant shall ba . placed exactly on the same footing ; both will lave to get an order from the Government , \\\ s council of state being pledged to protect tlu religious rights of both communities . The Neapolitan exiles have many of them reached London , and nothing can exceed the sympathy which has been manifested for thorn , both . in public and in private , by all classo * . T ! i <> people of London wore prepared to have mrrk > a great demonstration in behalf of tho oiuiso f \ v : which they have endured such enormous wrouj ; and suffering ; but a part of the exiles have published a letter , in which , while cxpvo ?< sin tf tlioii * grateful sense of the . sympathy and kindness with which they have been welcomed to England , t ! iuv bee ? to decline the offered < lenion * tmtion . A second Jettor , written by another party of tW , exiles , expresses dissent from the conclusion of their companions , conceiving that , at tho i > i \> jh . mi ! - juncturo , the expression of English opinion untln subject of Neapolitan tyranny would ho of'fJu greatest service to tho cause- of Jtnlinn 0 ) ii : uic ;;> . ition . Of domestic news thoro is little that rnUa fin * special notice . The result of tho proooodi ' n ^ in the case of the Rovorondr Alfred Pooh ? n . ny bn referred to with satisfaction . Il is " hununinlilu thing when there is tho least nppennmeo of justice being denied to any applicant ; that w «« a \ vliub appeared to bo tho case with ro ^ nvd to Mr . 1 ouly . He 1 ms now obtained tho inquiry whiuh hu a . ul had been denied him , arid tho result i .-, Unit Ihw Archbishop lias confirmed the sentence pn 8 Hi ; . l upon him by the late Bishop of Lomlon . AY , ? are not disposed to question the jusliuo of Um present decision ; what we have all nlon , cm--tended for ia Mr . Pople ' s oaso 1 ms boon , nnpitrtuil and unquestionable justice .
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REVIEW OE THE WEEK HOMK ISTELIIGESCE . P \ T " q 'imperial' Parliament .... • • "S 3 Gatherings from Law and Police Courts ¦ 302 Primin nl Record 303 Accidents - - 303-If aval- and M ilitary 303 FOKEIC . N INTELLIGENCE . Continental 2 fdtes ..-. .. 303 Foreign . Summary *> 04 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEFrance , 394 The Neapolitan Exiles ..., 305 Political Meetings 3 «> 5 . . i ~ ^ i ~ i 4-4-s \* i iw \ 1 ii ^ lin - ¦ ! t < lf » ¦
LITERATURELiterary Chronicle of the "Week . Christianity in India . 3 !) 7 American Literature — 308 General Literature . ; ... ; . ... 308 Miscellanies 300 Postscript ... - 400 PUBLIC AFFAIRSTlic Reform Debate 401 The Proposed Congress 401 Crimes at ' Sea ..... v .. 401 . The Forlorn Hope 402 Street Views of Italy—N " o . 3—Leghorn—Pisa—Florence . 403 TVrntiinl Assurance Societies ...... 404
FINE ARTS— ¦ . ¦ Exhibition of the Society of British _ Artists ............... ..- ; 40 ;) Institution of Fine Arts , Portland Gallery ™ l Old Water-Colour Soeiety ........ 40 o THEATRES AND ENfERTAINMENTSAdelphi 400 Italian Operift Drury Lane ...... Pvne and Harrison Opera , Covent " Garden 406 St . James ' s Hall •* " ? Chips - .. i . . ¦ 400 Slajor Godfrey Rhodes on Tent Architecture * 0 » Crystal Palace .. — ............. 407
INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESSMimicipal Institutions 4 o . s Tsotes on Indian . ' Progress :.... . .... 401 ) Latest Indian . Intelligence 40 ' . ) COIVTMERCIALThe Trade of Two Months ...... 410 Trade'Morality . ; . . ^ .... 410 Money Market 41 <» General Trade lieport ,. 411 libme , Colonial and Foreign l'rodrice Markets ........ -v ... 411 . Stocks and Shares ...- 41 * 2 Railway Intelligence ; 413 Joint Stock Companies ..... 41 : ; General Commercial Summary .. 41 i
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Leader (1850-1860), March 26, 1859, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2287/page/3/
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