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700 THE LEADER, [Public Affair
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Ttartav Mjtv Xxa.Lj.Lajn Jjxx-J Jilt, J. X No. Iv.
time . The more stringent lie is in resistance to popular freedom , the severer the reaction . ^ It is not long within human memory that the right of Englishmen- —their acknowledged birthright—to have arms was contested . The dominant party , that for thirty years hnd ruled , by increasing and continual restrictions , feared ' ibr itself , conscious of its misrule , and dreaded an insurrection , almost justifiable b y the continual breaches of constitutional and individual right . A change in the dominant councils forced by the nation , a reform in Parliament and continued
ameliorations , have rendered the proceedings of the time to which I allude almost impossible of belief did not some millions , still alive in this country , well remember them . What has been the result of this yielding to progress , and of banishing distrust in the people by wiser political measures ? what but that the throne of Queen Victoria is the firmest in the Avorld ; that no realm is really so free as that over which she is chief magistrate*—a realm where all may speak their minds , print their opinions , be protected in their
religious observances , be secured in their property , and live in peace . In the meanwhile our race is colonising new lands , and founding mighty empires , even at the antipodes . Commerce and wealth are marvellously increasing , and the name of an Englishman was never more respected , and all this through the people forcing the Government to reverse its former actions and pursue a course so unpalatable to the spirit of ¦ Austrian despotism and German petty kingship , that they should be in the Litany as things from which we should daily pray to be delivei'ed " hotr and for evermore . "
The alarm , of "England in danger" —it used to be " the ¦' Church in danger "—is unaccountable , except through German influence . John JBull does not- reason ; he does not boast a memory worth having , or he would recollect that when Napoleon I . threatened to invade England , had 100 , 000 men and vessels ready at Boulogne , which our navy prevented coming out , that a heavy bribe to venal Austria made her declare war against France . Napoleon marched his 100 , 000 men to Vienna , and all fear of invasion was over . Napoleon III . is our friend , his army is in Italy ,
and he has quite enough upon his hands . lie has no means of invading us ; he must pray a southeast wind ; perjure himself , and mount his army into the air in balloons to get here , and violate our alliance—things he has never dreamed about . lie knows the value of our friendship , and the tremendous weight of our power ; he is not one of the "in and in breed . " He is no fool ; and those who call him a usurper , may recollect that he appealed to the suffrage of millions in France , and was their choice , with which
we in England have nothing more to do than to remark .. that the beautiful city of Fax-is is kept at peace . Blood no longer flows in the streets , the blood of contending factions , after having had an opportunity of governing themselves ugain and again , and hating each other into anarchy . Napoleon , they said , dared not leave Paris ; he ruled it with an army—lie has left it , and with few troops , yet the houses are no longer shaken by cannon , nor personal rights violated by contending politicians . When will Austria appeal to the people by vote to settle the sovereignty of the House of Hapsburg , should its power become dubious P That principle in France is worth something .
Whence , then , the alarm of England without the shadow of danger , that a few more ships in commission might not reasonably remove , if there were ground for it ? I reply that it arises out of an attempt to raise a German , and through that an Austrian , interest here—no matter how hostile to rccdom . Every Avord that indicates friendship to the glorious cause of Italy and freedom is held to bo blasphemy , I too much fenr , in some quarters look to itThe
in this country . Let the ministry . throne itself cannot now run counter to public opinion , nor will any administration be spared that dashes the present golden cup from the lip of the toiling and A-eebom of England , to uphold the power of the" common onemios of mankind . Stern neutrality is our duty . Lot us loavo the Austriims and Germans to batten still , if it bo . their wish , in the recking sty of then * soli-willed slavery , but lot us give Italy our good wishes , Paolo .
700 The Leader, [Public Affair
700 THE LEADER , [ Public Affair
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At Roclulnlo it is intended to hold u banquet In honour of Mr . Cobdon , shortly after that « entloman ' e return to England .
Traffic Roads Through Battersea Fields. ...
TRAFFIC ROADS THROUGH BATTERSEA FIELDS . [[ communicated , ] It not unfrequently happens that we pay more attention to objects which appeal to our ' predilectionsj our passions ,.. our prejudices , or bur fears , than to those which , though less striking or attractive , are yet really more certain to affect , personally arid continuously , our convenience , our business , our pockets , or our pleasures ; and thus it seems to be at the present moment with regard to the lines of road to which Chelsea new Suspension Bridge is the key .
A very large proportion of us are mere money spinners , regardless of all but immediate pecuniary gain ; and those who are not , are generally so absorbed by the " questions of the day , " that any ¦ marauders ¦ who please may rob us , under our very noses , of what may hvee cost years of trouble to philanthropic men and a large amount of public money to accomplish . It is upwards of twenty years since the new park and bridge at Batteasea- 'helds were first proposed , and the proposal received with . a general though negative approval ; and though even now they have been but just carried out , at . an expense of upwards of , £ 380 , 000 to the public , yet their value and utility are already jeopardised , and will ' be lost this session of Parliament unless the public at ' once speak out to prohibit it . Q
Independently of the park itself and its purposes , the bridge "would be invaluable to a very largo section of the inhabitants of London , could it be used as a means of intercommunice , t on between the districts contiguous to it on both sides of the Thames , which , unfortunately , is not yet the case , from the approach on the south side being still incomplete . . The admitted necessity for increased railway terminal accommodation brought no less than five competing companies before Parliament for powers to continue " the West London Railway" from Hammersmith , round through Battersea-nehls , to the new Victoria Station in Pimlieo , and although two of these are now defunct , there are still three to "fight for the Act . "
road , from the end of the bridge southwards , may be carried imrler them at once , after which plentv ot parties , will be found to continue , it to the Wandsworth-road by more than one route .
by increasing the -traffic ' over it so as to . pay off thmoney borrowed on that security , —and with thp Commissioners of the park and bridge declaring themselves powerless "toexecute" or even " to con " tribute towards the execution of" this approach " which collectively and . officially they " state ( as their opinion ) . . would be . very-desirable both as regards , the interest of the public generally ,-and that of the owners and occupiers of lands in the nei « h bourhood " by which we may infer that they feel perhaps correctly , that the public rather than themselves ought to take the lead in endeavouring to obtain ) , — : we say that , with all these advantages ' aud incitements on the contrary side , we can scarcely understand so monstrous an anomaly as that a private trading company should , exclusively for their own gain , be allowed thus permanentl y to obstruct , and inconvenience the public .
As these new lines will not come before the private committee of the House of Commons until the reopening of Parliament , there is still time , by usinodespatch , for petitions to be got up , praying a reeom ° mittal of the selected bill , with special instructions to the committee to examine into this particular point ; and that the plans and sections may be amended so that all the lines across Battersea-fields may be kept on embankment ,. as . the South-Western and Richmond lines now are ; and that the
Victoria-This may be said to be their own affair , and as none of them presents any peculiar features of superior public advantage as compared with its rivals , it woulcl . be so were it not that the . whole ' pf them have been projected to cross Uattersea-fields , on a level with their surface , or very nearly so , and all close to the present London and South Western Railway , which is on an embankment . The obvious effect of this will be to render the completion of a southern approach to the new bridge impossible , otherwise than by carrying a viaduct over all the lines , embankment included , which , from the height thus required , will be a very costly work , extremely inconvenient when finished , and irremediably destructive of the ground as sites for firstclass residences , ' with which , were the road carried under the railways , its sides would be certain to bo occupied .
We find , from the Soiith London Journal , that this subject has already been brought before the notice of the inhabitants of Clapham and Battersoa by Mr . F . W . Beaumont , C . M . E ., of Clapham , who has also corresponded favourably with Lord John Manners , W . Roupell , Esq ., M . P ., Sir Charles Barry , and other gentlemen , copies of which were given hy the South London-Journal of hist Saturday week . As Mr . Beaumont is continuing his spirited exertions , we certainly hope thnt he w'iU be cordially and energetically supported , as he deserves to be , not only by his own neighbourhood , butby Pimlieo also , tho inhabitants of which Will be quite ns much benofitted as those on the south side of tho Thames , if not more
so . We were , of course , quite aware that the Crystal Palace Railway is already on tho surface of J 3 attorsea-flelds , and close to the embankment of tho other line at an objectionable point , but arc obliged to Mr . Beaumont for the information that this lias been clone in contravention of tho net of incorporation , and is , therefore , remediable by Parliament , if not by any less powerful tribunul ; and w \ e certainly do not ' see that the Crystal Pjilaco Hallway Company will have the slightest ground for crying out against thoir being compelled to comply with tho terms on which they obtained thoir Act , ' us being a hardship on them , because there cannot bo a doubt
that , had they on thoir dopositod sections shown thoir lino as to be on the surface of the ground , they would have boon opposed oven more strenuously tJinn , tho proposed now linos now aro , * Wo enn scarcely understand so monstrous an anomaly as that—¦ with an outcry for inoroasod brulgo accommodation , —with a bridge actually built at a , cost of 0 O . OO 0 J . to tho publio ( Indonondontly of Ha approaches )— -with 'flrst-ohiss building sites lying useloBS around and bqlonging to Battorfioa PurU , and which might , by completing tho southern approach , bo mado available as a reduction of tho cost of l ) attorsoa Park , —with a clamour for tho removal of tho toll qn tho now bridge , which might bo accoinnlisliotl
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GERMANY . [ l- 'UOM A SPECIAL , COltnKSi'O . VDENT . ] J une 1 st . Tub apparently decided neutrality , of England , and the strength - development ( Kraft-en ticivJihing ) , as it is termed by Austrian official reports , at Montubellov have produced ' a considerable- change in the public mind since my last communication . 'Notwithstanding the very favourable-reports of the Tinws , and , if we may believe the German papers ,,-the dispatches ' of-Mr . AJiJdmay , of whom is given a-biography , including an account of how lie lost his rank in the army once in consequence of a mesalliance—all served up as a sort of guarantee , I . presume ,, of his credibility ,- —the mass of the people here
give the victory to the Trench . The Austiians are now not regarded as quite so Germanic as they were two weeks ago . 'Voices are iioav and the . ii heard applying- the term Croats to them instead "of Peiitsclien , and should the French gain the first grand battlt ; your readers may rely upon it they will . meet with the welcome of vu-y distant and very poor relations at the hands of their present German brethren . The people of IIaniburg , iiior <; particularly , openly express their delight at the defeat of their oppressors of 1848 . They are not touched by any sentiments of sympathy on account of blood relationship , as is my Lord Mahnesbury , whom , by the way , I would recommend to go to school again and study history . Where did he learn that the Austriuns were kinsmen ot the English ' ? He sviripnthides with the Sardinians Austrmns
because they have n Constitution , and with Hie because—however divergent in liberty , religion , milliners ,, customs , physiognomy , & c , , & c .., —they are of tin * siinie origin . Thia is pretty language for n -statesman , nnd , indeed , doe 3 England very little credit . My astoi .-idli--ment was great when \ read that effusion , but I remembered the snying of O . vensticrnn to Ins son : My son , thou little knoweat , with how small an amount ot wisdom the world is governed . " . The motion made by Hanover in the Indernl Diet to the effect t | iat nn army of observation sboulu hi stationed on tho Jllitar , has exposed tha ""?"' "t ""^" king to much ridicule , for it . is suppowil he has Iwhm lotf to tills step by his wife ' s relations , or his Iminlnwei , i » whom it is asserted ho has placed all his confidence , nnu through whom all Court favors oro obtained . 1 > r «»»•*) * I " * ° verv deeidedlv unon the matter . She protes ed t noug'i
her Ambassador against , this assumption of « ' «"""" "i the milltovy nfihirs of the Confederation on »» " I » nr , | ? Hanover , and gnvo tho Diot < o understand « ll « fc *« f " motions \ nado hi anticipation of the events wide it li « were intended to meet would ever bu ; injwt . » tpei mousy opposed . Since this declurntion the W ! d « Ifl NnU's ml bhiwn u much less bold front ihnn tornierly , nnd »» tU ' begin to evince oa much four of Prussia us ot £ | iftn ° '' - " * four which is increased by the cloau nlHiincu of t «<> Hoynl Houses of Enghiud and Prussia . 'Ilic K- » mi princes know , nnd will iiovwfiwfiWb' -Huxoijy n . or . eh u illy not—that Pruwln lins beconio a great power tl » ourt ii tho instrumentality of Enghuul , an . at tho «* » cllft ° l tho olhor State * of aermjuiy . ' 1 'liuy r k ™* , ! j £ it wna Lord Caatloivngh ' s dfsli'o , In 1 <*! . » , to n «> o \ nil Siixonv , nnd ovuu Hanover to l » rmwlii , tint j powerful Protestant nation might bo ciynte . to o tho scuta agninst Ihu QivJIc Cnthollu «* " * on tho one sTilo , nnd tlio ltoimm Ci . lholiu . leap * l- » on tlm other . II . ) was , of eourm-, opp . m , I iy all nartluB . nnd Pniflsiii lind to bo eoiiKni \ Win " •«¦
plunder of tho scapegoat Saxony . .. 1 Tho PruHBlnu Clgiiorol WUlUn U now at A ki « , negotiating on bt-hnlf of rnwln Ibr , Ihu buj . iivi «« *• ' >' maud of tho Fcduml Army ; but tlm Aiwlv . o ««' navorlunM wjll never oousoiit t . i ilmf , } " *}' \ , . v ' tliuiurmor moot with d bovw-o tlnfi-nt . It I * . 1 " " ""/> to u'lvo thoin nu unouso for refusing' tho 1 russuin >•
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Leader (1850-1860), June 4, 1859, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04061859/page/16/
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