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RtfCOKD OF THE WEEK. HOME AND COLONIAL
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" The intellectual improvement of the nation occupies ray constant care . The acquirement of additional instructors , and the completion of the scientific institutes of the universities , will be zealously attended to in proportion with the means at disposal . A new routine of instruction has been given to-the Real Schools suitable to their scientific character as well as to the duties of common- life . With regard to the elementary schools , the salaries of the teachers have been raised . To meet the deficiencies in teachers , the foundation of new seminaries is in progress . . ' "Gentlemen , —A question of wide-reaching importance demands your especial attention , and that of my Government . When , last year , I was forced to order the display of our military force , the call to arms was obeyed with an alacrity and patriotism that claims my
warmest acknowledgments . IF the organisation of our army requires a reform , it is not occasioned by any want of warlike spirit and love of country . Our military organisation was created in a time of trouble , and in accordance with the population and the financial capabilities of the State . It has been retained with the confidence induced by g-lorious success . The experience , however , of the last ten years , in which the defensive powers { WeJirJcraft ) of the people had to be put into requisition , has proved that many profound evils exist ; the removal of them is my duty and my right , and I claim your aid , according to the Constitution , for measures to enhance the defensive powers , corresponding to the increase of . the population and the development of our national industry . To this end a measure touching general military duty , and the financial
calculations connected therewith , will be submitted to you . It is not my intention to break with " the heritage of an heroic period . The Prussian army will be , as heretofore , the Prussian people with arms in their hands . It is our task , by modernising the inherited organization of our army to instil fresh ' life and vigour into it in proportion to the financial powers of the nation . Let a well-digested measure , embracing both the popular and military common weal , have your Tinprpjudicftd examination and acquiescence . It will serve as a proof to all the world of the confidence of the nation in the uprightness of my views . Gentlemen * never has a measure of such vast importance for the protection , influence , and greatness of the country * been submitted to its representatives . Upon it depends the security of the country against the vicissitudes of the future . "
In the House of Representatives Mr . Simson has been elected President , Mr . Graboav first , and Mr / Mathis second Vice--presidents for the next four weeks . The emphasis which the Prince Rfisrent in his speech laid upon the concluding words leads to the belief that the relations of Prussia with other Powers will be rriade the subject of discussion in Parliament . As might be expected , the peop le ^ not only of Prussia , but of all Germany , look with a feeling of uneasiness towards the future . It is the general belief that a war between France and the Northern Powers is inevitable , and that the longer delayed , the longer and more fatal will be the present costly armed peace . Prussians are very impatient of the neutral policy of their Government , which , during the Russian and Italian wars , was so detrimental to the country in material wealth and reputation . As ' a proof of the nervous state of the public mind , there was a report current last week , and readily believed , that the French JSmporor had seriously demanded the restoration of the " natural frontiers" France , which ineans the
annexation of the Rhine provinces . In the Federal Diet of the 12 th inst . the question of the coast defences was brought forward , and l-esulted in a motion requesting Prussia to enter into communication with the other Powers upon the" technicalities of the question , and to report to the Diet . Prussia has declined the commission , and , further , disputes the . right of the Diut to interfere in the matter . The Upper Chamber of Hanover has formed a Committee upon a motion to grant 550 , 000 t haters for coast defences , A leading personage , Count Knyphause ^ , at once declared Ins resolution to oppose ; first , because the question was strictly a Federal dnp ; secondly , because without the concurrence and military union of all the States all partial attempts to defend the coast would bo simply r idiculous . This question is more serious than it appears .
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ON " , Monday , Jan , 16 , Mr . Edwin James , M . » P ., atMarylebpno , and Mr . Ko ' upell , M . P ., at Konnin £ ton , addressed their constituents : Lord John Russell ' s proposed lieform Bill will be supported by Mr . James ; Mr . Rmpoll will demand a largo increase of the Biiffrago , and vote by ballot , —On Monday , also , Mr . G . Blenoowo was elected for Lewes , without opposition , ' in the room of the late Mr . Fitjf . roy : h » will votio for a really liberal Reform Hill , and is for the abolition of Church rates . —On Tuesday , Jan . 17 , a deputation comprising the mom bora for Middlesex and Mr . Torrons M'CuHngh ,
he was created a peer : he was a whig in politics . His eldest son , who has succeeded him , was member for Scarborough . Westminster Abbey , St . Paul's , Exeter and St . James ' s Halls , had large congregations on Sunday , Jan . 15 . The Victoria Theatre on that day was twice crowded * , a church nan ,, the Rev . Mr . Goodhart , preached-on the . stage in his robe ? . At the Britannia Theatre the celebrated disseritejv . Mr . Binney , performed the duty . The disturbances in St . George's in the East ^ continue daily . On Tuesday , Jan . 17 , one offender was fined forty shillings for insulting the Tractarian clergy j the magistrate declared the next should go to prispn .- ^ - On Wednesday , Jan ? 18 , a meeting of the National Protestant Society was held in St . Martin ' s Hall , to adopt an address to Lord Palmerston ( in reply to one in course of signature by Roman . Catholic peers arid members of the House of Commons ) praying that the Government would sanction no scheme for supporting either the temporal or spiritual power of the Pope . —On Tuesday , Jan . 17 , the annual meeting of the Birmingham Reformatory Institution was held in the Music Hall , Birmingham . The Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot presided , and spoke of the diminution of crime throughout the kingdom by means of such institutions . The Volunteer movement has been advocated by Sir John Coleridge at ; Ottery St . Mary , on Monday , Jan . 16 ; on the 13 th instant , at Kingston , by Lord St . Leonard ' s ; on Saturday , Jan . 14 , by Mr . Wickham , M . P . ; at Bradford , where Mr . Titus Salt offered a prize of £ 100 for the best marksman . A working man's volunteer corps was formed in St . Pancras on Tuesday , Jan . 17 . The Earl of Carlisle , Lord Lieutenant , retiirned to . Ireland on Monday , Jan . 16 . On Saturday , Jan . 14 , the body had been discovered of Mr . Hugh " Massey O'Grady , long missing ; lie has evidently been murdei'ed—four men are in custody on suspicion . The Resristrar- ^ enei'al ' a weekly return shows ah increase ot deaths : —the number being 1344 ; bronchitis and small pox have been very fatal . Number of births , 1938 . An important trial for libel , Bentson « . Skene , was -di'citlo . d in the Court of Exchequer , on Saturday , Jan . 14 ; on Tuesday , Jan . 17 , Mr . E . James moved for a new trial ; the application was adjourned . On Monday , Jan . 16 , an appeal was heard at the Surrey Sessions from three bricklayers , convicted by a police magistrate of intimidating 1 a workman during the builders' strike ; the court confirmed the sentence . ¦ , ' Oni Saturday , Jan . 14 , two mates of the American ship " Anna , accused of the murder of six negroes at sea , were discharged by the Isle of Wight magistrates at the requisition _ of the agent of the American Govei'nment . Particulars arrived on Sunday , Jan . 15 , of the loss of the " Flor . i Temple" from Macao to Havana on . the 14 th Oct . The captain and crew escaped in the boats , leaving 850 coolies , ( who were passengers ) behind ; who , doubtless , all perished . There was a mutiny among the coolies a few days previously—Oh the 29 th Dec , t ! i « " Flying Foam , " frtnn Cardiff to China was lost on the coast of Madeira ; captain and eight others lost . —On Thursday , Jan . 19 , one wall of the new Rainbow Tavern , in Fleet Street , fell down , seriously wounding six bricklayers at work there . The produce - '' markets of Wednesday , Jan . 18 , were steady but inactive . In sugar and coffee , no businessof importance transacted . The private contract market as regards tea , is firm . Tallow , quiet . At Liverpool , a fair demand for cotton , with rather more tone in the market , The supply of wheat moderate ; trade moves slowly : barley as before ; oats receded in value ; flour very flat nt fitf . per bnrre ' l and sack reduction on the week . The half-yearly meetings of the Commercial and City Banks wore held on Tuesday , Jan . 17 ; the former declaring a dividend of 7 , the latter 6 per mi , —At the adjourned meeting of the Great Ship Company on Ihcsday , the motion for a Committee of Investigation was adopted after much discussion , —On Wednesday , Jan . 18 , at the London ami Westminster 35 nnk ' s half-yearly ineoing , a dividend of C percent , wiih a bonus of 7 per cent , were declared . —On Thursday , Jan . 19 , Consols closed at 95 & ¦ , 95 £ for money , and 95 £ , 95 $ for the account . A furthcr decline of one-eighth per cent , took place on tho Paris Bourse ; the Three per Cents , closed at 68 80 c .
waited upon tho Homo Secretary , to urge the claims of Chelsea to bo orootod into n distinct borough . —At Pontefract , on Monday Jan . 16 , Mr . Monckton Milnos , M . P ., addressed tho Mechanics' Institute , impressing tho necessity of studying' history nnd political economy .- —On Wednesday , Jan . 18 , n deputation from tho Tower Hanilots , headpd by Messrs . Butlei ' , M . P ., niid Ayrton , M . P ., waited on ' Ule Home Secretary , to urge tho claims of the borough to bo divided into two parts , each returning two members . On Sunday , Jan . 15 , died in Xiondon , nt tho ago of fifty fivo , the wealthy Lord Londertborough . Ho sat in tho House of Commons , for Canterbury , as Lord Alfred Denieon , from 1835 to 1850 , when
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• Un . y , a , n . j . o , o announueu . ' ^ apuleou ' s determination to suppress the Society . of St . Vincent < lo 1 ' aui , the most influential clericalassociation in France : all public functionaries are . forbidden to belong to it . —Tho same day , Louis Napoleon issued hia free trade manifesto . —Lord Cowloy ai rived in Paris on Monday , Jan . 10 , and immediately had a long interview with the Kmperor . —Tho same day it wsw semi-officially announced that tho French Government considered itself bound by tho Treaties of Villafranca und Zurich : nnd thnfc tho negotiations for a Congress imvo been recommenced . —The Patrie of Jan , 18 , arm ounces that tho prohibitions will be removed in July , 18 ( 31 , and will bo replaced by protective duties of 80 to 25 per cent . The Emperor has decided to liear tho opinions of tho manufacturers before taking »» d filiaI resolution .
Tho Prussian Chambers wore opened by tho Prince II ' i&cnt on the 12 th January . The King of Sardinia , on Monday , the l < 5 th Jan ., received ( lie resignation of -Delia Marmora , Hutnawsj , and their party , and niik'd upon Count Cavour to foyrn a . ministry . —On Frldam Jan . 1 . ' ) , mx nundrocl Hungarian hiisaar . B ' ontov ' tid Oi-onionu , -who lm < l dosortod with anus mid bajytjatje , from Austrian territory , with thuir oiuoerrf . At Komo , on tho \ < Uh Jd ? i ., ' m consequeneo of thy note in tfio Monitonr of the 10 ^/* inrt ,, ft meeting of the Ourdlnnla wiw called , and tho Pope afterwardH gave a private interview to the Austrian
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0 Atf . 21 , 1 S 60 . J The Leader and Saturday Analyst . 73
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 21, 1860, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2330/page/21/
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