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      The Leader.

      THE LEADER .

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      — — - ' T ~ r ~ - «> V- Tvm . ns Wimble .. 14 INDIA AND INDIAN PROCKES 5-ttEVIEWOFWEWEEK- ™* India ., ™ cSS ^ es" :::::::::::::. " : I * Madras Irrigation - — ^ ,- *• ¦& OMB J J ^ £ : BHC 1 C * 4 CochtnChiiVa " — ff ' SJu ?" of Genius 'I " ... . 14 Iudiaih 1858 and India in 1859 ... 21 SffiHagTSSlSS'S . d - pSHS ; * ¦ § ff ^ wm ^ tfS"r ::::. r .::. i Sketch * of London Uh .,.. . 14 COMMERCIALCourts 4 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE— THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS- 1 & 58—Commercial History ......... 23 Criminal Record 5 ,, „„„ 7 Drury Lane . Covent Garden . Trade of Eleven Months 24 Ireland ................. t :- — 5 «« rmW " "" '" . " ... 8 Princess ' s & c 14 General Trade Report 25 ¦ ¦^& f ^ SS ! r ^^ =. I " S « « " S . ¦ u ^ t & IT--- ^ - g 2 §* ± r ., „* . SSTKStfS & J .=::: . & agaMfiar ~ - . r ::. - ¦;«• fJSWi ^ SK * : B ^ EB & SittSZ 8 » gSfc ^ BSa . r ? . !!^ 5 r « An Unrehearsed Interlude 20 Proverbs with Pictures 12 T T noul ts , Faott . ana Sugeos- Money Market and Stock El' mm .... — ........... .. SffiffiftSs :::. ™ -:::: S & „» r ^ m- *^ . ^^ a ^ :::::::::::::::::::::::: 3 Postscript . : 16 Our Veterans of Ib 52 .... 13 j Bio ^ DWs of ' GeriKan Princes . 19 Sharesand Stocks . ; .. 27 ' OaBtg ^ SraS ! . ^*!^ : C ^ S ^ rg ^^^ :::::::::::: II I ¦ gg ^ igc ^ oSSn ^ tion ,... « 0 i Books Received 28

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      IN the teeth of those who assert that the country care 3 nothing for Reform we may throw the little fact , that even during this week of holi-¦ days the Reform movement has known no rest , so lively is the popular feeling , so conscious are those ¦ who have Reform claims to urge that they have jnuch work to do , and after all , little time to do it iu before the opening of the next Parliamentary i session ; so serious is the interest at stake , that politics have held their way- during'the festive week in spite of the blandishments of beef , and the seductiveness of . pudding * ruincC-pic , and mistletoe . At Hull , on Monday , there was a large meeting at which the voice of the working men was heard to . advantage . Moderation was still the law , and as J Mr . Clay , one of the borough members , reminded them , they were agreeing to ask no more than had been asked by Lord Durham thirty years ago : triennial Parliaments , the ballot , a more equal distribution of representatives , and a suffrage some- ; thing short of manhood suffrage , the idea of which is rapidly losing way . Of the need for Reform , the town of lvingston-upon-Thames has furnished the latest example . It is the town next in importance to Croydqn in Surrey , and it is unrepresented , while towus like Rcigatc and Guildford send their one and even two members to Parliament . The Mcti-opolitan Boroughs Committee lias not allowed Chribt-1 mas to interfere with its proceedings , but has been active during the week with its work . The week , too , hasbrought forth Reform rumours as well as Reform activities . It is whispered—only whisperedthat there will bo no Derby Bill in readiness for the opening of the session ! A thought to which , pro- ' bnbly , a wish is father , both originating with the party who liavo the most lively interest in making the worst of nil matters for which Lord Derby and his coadjutors arc responsible . This party insists upon it that Ministers have committed an enormous blunder iu sending Mr . Gladstone out to Ionia . His position is clearly one of difficulty , and the very marked expressions which have been addressed to him hi favour of n sovc-rnncc of . tho ties which bind the sovon islands to England were not foreseen as tho probablo loading consequences of his mission . But though Mr . Gladstone can do nothing but listen to tho protests of tho Ionian Islanders , and exhort them to indulge in no impracticable aspirations , his mission will have tho i direct good eflbot of putting tho Ionian ques- ( tion iu tho clearest possible light for futuro handling . It is not in tho power of iho English ( Govornmont to consent to tho annexation of l , ho ( Ionian Islands either to tho kingdom of Greece or ' to any other European State , that is tho only - w » ww M r , Gladstone can give , and that is Sir I

      E dward Buhver Lyt ton ' s answer to the address of the representatives " of Corfu ; the Treaty of 1815 cannot be abrogated without the consent of the whole of the contracting Powers , and to those ' Powers the English Government has no thought ot appealing . The opportunity now offered to the Ioniaris is to place before the British Lord High Commissioner Extraordinary a temperate statement of whatever may stand in the way of the harmonious working of the Ionian Constitution : all i other schemes , the Colonial Secretary warns them , will prove to . be merely visionary and impracticable . Recent intelligence from Canada informs us that Lord Bury is making great way in furtherance of the object ' for which he went over there . He . spoke to a very large and influential meeting at Halifax on the subject of the proposed intercolonial railway to unite the Atlantic and PaciGc oceans . The feeling evoked by his frank and clear exposition of the advantages and even necessity for the undertaking was highly favourable to it , and his announcement thut he believed the Imperial Government would be induced to guarantee interest on the necessary capital when it was embarked was warmly received . There would , therefore , appear to be good hope of the speedy achievement of this great undertaking , the enormous commercial and political advantages of which both the Colonial Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have borne witness to . Though not the most important item of the foreign news of the week , the renewed pardon of the Count dc Montalembert seems naturally to take the foremost place . The foolish and iniquitous drama is played out ,- the lost act being a weak homage paid to public decency , outraged so grossly in November . Count Montalcmbort is pardoned , and with him the publisher of the Corresjwnd ' ant , and one of the immediate results of the persecution is that the Magazine ' s influence is doubled and trebled . As an ' cxiinvple , tho Secretary of 1 ho French Academy , Monsieur Villcmain , has just joined the ranks of its collaborateurs , and contributes an article to tho number which is to appear next week . We hear nothing further of tho reported movement of French troops into tho valley of theDappcs . The news from Italy also is scant . Ono point , however , scorns to boar upon tho question of tho probability of peace or war in that country , It is stated in privato lottors from Nnplcs that tho Government was bcliovod to have ordered an nddltionnl lovy of 1 S , 000 mon , and that thcro was groat activity iu all tho arsouals in tho manufacture of arms . Tho most reinarkablo item of foreign news is that of tho Servian revolution , begun and ondod in the courso of a fow days . Tho National Assembly , on Iho 21 st of December , oallod upon tho reigning Prince to abdicate Tho Prince consulted tho Senate , who advised him to yield to tho domaud of

      " I the popular Assembly ; but the Prance Jiesitated , i and finally put himself . under the protection of ] . Turkish troops garrisoning a , fortress in Belgrade . . ! By this act he is declared to have vacated the | throne , and the National Assembly have proclaimed ' Prince Milosch in his stead , and sent a petition to ! the Porte in favour of- that Prince . Prince Milosch I Obreuowiteh , who has before sat upon the throne I of Servia , has strong leanings towards Russia , and , ! almost necessarily , warlike tendencies against ! Turkey ; at the same time , he is the favourite of . the democratic party in Servia . ) The Irish arrests appear likely to bring Government into hot water . Already we have one part of \ the English press comparing the proceedings of the : Irish executive with the lawless tyranny of Nea-! politan despotism , and not without reason . It . is . almost impossible to conceive what the motives of ¦ the Belfast magistracy—who are suspected , of acting under order from Dublin Castle—can be , if not ' to foster the " ould hatred" of the Irish against i their rulers . An examination of one party of the : men in custody took place at Cox * k at the end of ' last week , and resulted in the committal of six ., and ; the release of the rest on bail . The principal evidence against the men wns given by the approver , Sul' livau , who swore that he himself had been a member . of the Phconix Society , and bound by an oath to i take up arms at any moment he might be called on . to aid a French and American force which . ! was oxpected to have landed in Ireland about Christmas-time for the purpose of snatching it ( from the English Crown , and erecting it into an , independent republic . He states that upon going ; to his confessor for absolution , the priest refused to ! give it to him until he had broken the secret . oath ho had taken . In . the case of the Belfast prisoners , the determination of the magistrates to conduct the examination within the walls of tho | gaol , has caused as much astonishment in England as it hns caused indignation in Ireland , At the j termination of the Cork proceedings , the solicitor for the prisoners thanked tho Bench for the entire fairness with which thoy had acted ; in tho Belfast ; police-court , on the other hand , tho advocato of tho . prisoners vehemently protested against tho unconstitutional oxorciso of magisterial powor to which , his clients arc being subjected , and he doclarod his intention to throw up his brief rather than plead in any place other than a court of justice . In the Bankruptcy Court , on Thursday , tho name of Colonel Wnugh was onoo more brought before tho public . Somo time since , there was a talk of prosoouting him , but it appoars that his oroditors have now oonwj , , to tho oonolusl 6 n that , muolras thoy would like to sco him punished , thoy eaunofc nmko up their minds to pay tho oxpousoa of a criminal prosecution out of tho oslalo . So thoy tnka their rod out of pioklo , and henceforth Colonol WaugU will probably breathe a UUlo more frpoly .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01011859/page/3/