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    4g4 THE LEADER. [JS"o. 320, Saturday,

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    PouticaIj Amnesty bt the Queen. — We hav...

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    public opinion among the people at the present moment . For all of which , thanks in Church and Parliament ! Unhappy Turkey has already given her enemies the occasion of ciying ; thaAthe ** tee-she « afi is vain ; forthefoUowersof !« alr <> B «« rnave beettfbUBd inNablous and other places to * & e up against fine Christians who have " desecrated the Khoratfc /* Fanatic agitators have kept jSgrims away fiom Mecca , declaring worship useless while Isfem is of

    Tinder a curse ; and the accidental killing a Mussulman at Nablous by an Englishman who was defending his own life , created a serious dis turbance in that place . There are those who expect that Turkey shall immediately carry out the hattee-shereef as completely and with as much order as if it were a bill passed by our House of Commons . If we are not mistaken , acts of our Parliament have given rise to riots in different parts of the country ; we can remember to have heard of revolts in Wales and Manchester , and even in

    London ; yet the progress of England was not hopeless , even in the Lord Geobge Gobdon era . There is bigotry in Syria , even as there is in Exeter Hall , and less fear of the policeman than there is in that respectable meeting-house . The domestic affairs that have engaged Parliament have been not important , but they have not bees wholly uninteresting . The Lord Chan-CBULob is proceeding- with a bill to amend the jurisdiction and mode of maintaining the county eotirts , taking half of the expenses upon the state

    by paying the judges * salaries , and providing for the building . Mr . Robert Phtllimore has been Unsuccessful in endeavouring to obtain a new adjustment of the tithe commutation—a subject whose interest is very limited and almost an anachronism . Mr . Dillwyn has failed to carry hfe bill for punishing wife-beaters by flogging them , some members entertaining grave doubts whether that mode of punishment will be effectual , while others manfully resist the encroachment on tfcfc privilege of an Englishman .

    Before proceeding to the financial statement on the 19 th , the Chancellor of the Exchequer has done his best to prepare the ground . On the one hand , he has issued reduced military and naval estimates ; on the other , he has asked the City for a loan of 5 , 000 , 000 / . ; measures which , especially together , imply a prompt and decided diminution of taxation . Ministers have been entertained by the Lobs Mayob at the Mansion House , and

    complimentary speeches have passed . We did not discover in these speeches' anything so pointed or so instructive as we have heard under the same roof from the American , Minister , or from the members of the Law Amendment Society ; but perhaps we may anticipate one result . Men seldom dine with a man whom they intend to kill ; and we presume that after the banquet , Ministers will scarcely proceed with the bill which is to abolish the present municipality and to estabish a small borough town council in its place .

    No dissatisfaction on general grounds can make us blind to a good act , in whatever quarter it may be done . Lord Wodehodsb has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary to Russia , and the choice is excellent . He is still a young man , he is familiar with public business , he has really studied the political question /? of the day , and is a statesman in the true « en # e of the word . If he has not been spoiled by offifQe , be will fairly represent England before our restored ally , and will intelligently watch English int «* estfl among old enemies and new friends .

    QhetjbeaJJMua has had the opportunity of electing a member , or rather , -we should say , that those persons vetident at Cheltenham , who enjoy the Umxted ; privilege of tke electoral franchise have « h < Mon their repveaoataikive . There were two can-4 i 4 Mta « , Mr . FjuawucK Bnuur , eon of the

    late member , and , Mr . Halujweu .: the votes were dWES | i into 8 t * 5 * md 665 , but of course the reader peratifcves < once which man was elected . Whom coufti Cheltenham elect to represent it but a Bbskebbt ? CdLaanef luxxocu has succumbed trades a la- ' boiur which would have tried the strongest lawyer at the bar—tne holding * of his ground day after day against men with t & e malignant arrogaaee of Lord JLucaw , and the coal b * t resolute animosity of Sir Rjchard Airbt . Colonel Tolloch , who has been doing a public duty against these odds , falls ill at his post , the inquiry is suspended for a week * and for the moment the Horse Guards triumphs ..

    4g4 The Leader. [Js"O. 320, Saturday,

    4 g 4 THE LEADER . [ JS " o . 320 , Saturday ,

    Pouticaij Amnesty Bt The Queen. — We Hav...

    PouticaIj Amnesty bt the Queen . — We have reason to believe ( says the Morning Post ) that the Queen , being desirous of marking the return of peace by an act of grace and clemency , has given orders that a full and free pardon shall be granted to all the persons now under sentence for political offences . By this act of generosity , Mr . Smith O'Brien and his associates , together -with Frost , and those who were sentenced with him , will be allowed to return free to the United Kingdom . The only exceptions will be two or three persons who broke their parole in escaping from Australia . Dinner at the Mansion-house to the Ministers . —The Egyptian hall , Mansion-house , was on Wednesday the scene of a banquet given by the Lord and Lady Mayoress to the members of the Government . Count Persigny returned thanks for the toast of " The

    Emperor of the French ; " Sir Charles Wood and General Fox for The Navy and Army ; " Lord Palmereton for " Her Majesty ' s Ministers : " M » SitiSiirus for " The Ambassadors ; " Lord Campbell for " The Judges ; " the Lord Chancellor for " The House of Lords ; " Sir George Greyvfor " The House of Commons . " Lord Clarendon , in acknowledging the toast of his own health , paid a compliment to Russia for her brilliant defence of SebastopoL and read the subjoined extract from a letter he had that day received from General Williams : — " I have already told your Lordship of General MouraviefFs kindness towards myself and my party ; but his humanity and benevolent treatment of the poor famished garrison of Kars will gain for him the respect of the civilized -world , and must tend to lessen , if not eradicate , the animosity which for more than a century has existed between Russia and Turkey , especially on the part of the latter . I shall therefore quit General Mouravieff

    with great regret . " Accidents . —Three men , engaged in repairing the roof of a butcher ' s shop in Clement ' s Inn-passage , were descending by the ladder , when it broke . Two of them fell to the ground , and were seriously injured ; the third was caught in the thigh by the butcher ' s hooks , and was extricated with difficulty . All three were conveyed to the hospital , where they lie in a precarious state . —A shocking catastrophe has occurred at one of the corrugated iron sheds * t Woolwich Arsenal , where the fireworks for the 29 th are being manufactured . In drilling a hole in a rocket-case , for the puppose of adjusting the fuse , the metal became overheated , some of the powder ignited , the rocket burst , and twelve men and boys were seriously injured , three of them to so great an oxtent that their lives are despaired of . — niht caused the

    A heavy north-east gale on Tuesday g bursting of the lock-gates of the Limehouse entrance of the South-West India Dock , or City Canal . About halfpast nine , the tide in the river was nearly at its lowest ebb , the entrance-lock as far as the inner gate waa almost dry , and on the other side of the gate in the dock there was a depth of water of some twenty feet . Suddenly , the whole neighbourhood was aroused by a crash , which waa soon found to have been caused by the bursting of the lock-gates . These , though probably weighing twenty tons , wore smashed outwards , and awept in fragments into the river , the waters of the canal bursting down into the lock with overwhelming fury . la the torrent were swept away craft of almost every description . Some were , sunk , and their-wrecks oarried into the Thames , while others were thrown over each other in confusion . The rush of water continued

    for about ton miuutes . In all , between seventy 01 eighty merchant ships were lying at the various jetties at each aide of the canal . These , as the torrent swept along , were carried away from their moorings , and several of them sustained considerable damogo through coming in collision with each other . The Parliamentary Agent . — Ho was a clover fellow who invented the calling of the " Parliamentary Agent , " though perhaps the inventor himself never foresaw liow many occupations it was destined to include . There is no necessity for being brought up to anything ' in particular in order to shine in this lino . You may 1 have run the gauntlet through every ordeal , and have I issued from all , more or less scathed ; it iu of no conse-; quonce ; you are in want of an ostensible position ; par' liamentary agency opens lta arms to your umbrace . — Bontiet / ' a MiaotUany .

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    IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . ¦ ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦¦ —?—Monday , May 5 th . The intBWBt , excited by the anticipated de bate on the Treaty rf Poaoe attracted an unusually large gathering of peers tothe House of Lords ; and the galleries were crowded ! Igr a brilliant assemblage of titled ladies . " The space in front of the throne , " says the Times , " was filled with the sons of peers and others having the right of admission , to that part of the House . The standingroom at the bar was also fully occupied , while the gallery appropriated to the accommodation of strangers was crowded—perhaps inconveniently so— by those who had been fortunate enough to procure orders . A more impressive scene than that which the House presented when the Earl of Ellesmere rose to move the Address to her Majesty has seldom been witnessed . "

    INDIA . The Earl of Albkmarlk intimated that , shortly af ter the Whitsuntide holidays , he would move for returns of the salaries and pensions paid to the covenanted and uncovenanted servants of the East India Company , as well as to the military officers employed in the Indian service ; and at the same time would call the attention of the House to the recommendation of the Madras Torture Commissioners , that a greater number of European functionaries should be employed in the civil service , with a view to the suppression of torture , and would submit whether an efficient European civil agency be compatible with the present lavish remuneration of the civil services of India , considering the deficient and falling condition of the revenues of that country , and the proved poverty of the people .

    DISEMBODIMENT OF THE MTLITIA . In reply to a question from the Earl of Clancartt , Lord Panmube stated that it was the intention of her Majesty ' s Government to commence the disembodiment of the Militia with as little delay as possible , and to disband the force so gradually that no great body of labourers would be thrown upon the country at one time .

    THE TREATY OF PEACE . The Earl of Ellesmere rose to move an Address of Congratulation to the Crown on the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace with Russia . The terms of that Treaty he held to be satisfactory . ; the original objects of the war had been gained ; and he therefore trusted that there would be no serious opposition to the motion . It was to be hoped that Russia would now enter on a new career . When the name of Count Orloff was first mentioned as about to take part in the negotiations for peace , he believed that those best acquainted with men and things at St . Petersburg drew a favourable augury of the result . It was in itself a favourable intimation of the character and intentions of the Czar , who , he

    hoped , might live to repair by the arts of peace the ravages of war in his vast dominions . He hailed the prospect that Russia , under his able and Btrong hand , might yet present a spectacle which Europe could look on without jealousy and alarm , but with sympathy and satisfaction . He was well aware that Russia might make herself more formidable by developing her internal resources , but it was impossible for nations to act on the principle that such development was to be regarded as an object of jealousy . He would maintain the opinion , which was proved in the recent struggle , that a single line of railway would have been more serviceable to Russia , as a means of defence , than tho vast accumulation of cannon and military stores . But if thoy were to

    look with jealousy on other countries developing their resources , the world , with all its imperfections , would be even less fit for us to live in than it is . The time had been when the nations of Europe , and he could not exclude England from the catalogue , acted on the other view the case , that the wealth of one nation is the poverty of another—a doctrine as detestable as it is unsound . ( Cheers . " ) Of all tho subjects of alarm , he thought this country had least reason to be jealous of Russia on the score of India ; and yet he had heard it stated that that was the foundation and real orig in of the warlike spirit of this country against Russia . On that subject it was loss necessary for him to speak , as it

    had been ably referred to elsewhere . India might have had hor own dangers ; but it was our business to rear up our Clives , our Hastings , our Wellcsloys , Napiors , and our Ellonboroughs , to meet those dangers in the council or in tho field ; and , to hia apprehension , Russia could not be considered one of those dangerH . Having eulogized the services of the army and navy , exalted the genius und devotion of Lord Raglan , Sir E dmund Lyons ' , Admiral Boxer , General Williams , und hia KnglMj companions at Kars , and Messrs . Butlor , Nusinyth , and Thomson , and pronounced a panegyric on tho noble selfsttcrifices of Miss Nightingale , Lord Kllceinerc concluded

    by moving" That an humble Address bo presented to her J \ injeaty , to return to her Majesty the sincere acknowledgments and thanks of this llouso for tho important communication which hor Majesty haa been graaoiiHly pleased to make to this House of tho general Treaty concluded at Paris on tho 80 th of March . . . . To uHBuro nor Majesty that , while wo should havo deemed it our duty cheerfully to afford hor Majesty tho , fullest support u «

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10051856/page/2/