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THE LEADER.
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The Leader.
THE LEADER .
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• : —~ ' : — . .- ^ .-r . Ai-nr > ir PINE ARTS— ' ' ¦ COMMERCIALREVIEW OF THE WEEK- TT ^ the We * 401 Roy a ? Academy . ; .... 50 o Au 8 tralia and India . 504 HOME INTEI . X . IGENCE . PAGE & KSJ £ wd ^ , 2 S ! t . V . " . I " . ' . ' . I ' ' ¦ 491 THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS- Money Market and Stock Ex- ^ Imperial Parliament ............ 484 Life of William Jay .. 402 Italian Opera , Coyen t-garden .... 500 Genera ! l ^ radePeDort 505 Gatherings from Law and Police A Decade of Italian Women 493 Otto Goldschmidt .. ...... 500 general iraele Report ........ ouo Courts 486 Biblical Literature in France - .... 494 New Philharmonic . 500 Home Colonial and ' FoVei ^ Pro - Criminal Kecord 48 ( 5 ' . «« . « , « Mondiiy Popular Concerts 501 S Markets ^ .. 507 Aecidents .. - ¦ * 86 ' PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Christy ' s Minstrels 501 Kaii ^ w ii telli-ence * 507 ¦ Ireland ,.....,, 480 The Coming Election s .. 497 Crystal Palace ........ ^\ Kamvay ^ ln teU ^ ence ^ ........... . W Naval and Military 480 Ayill France Disarm ? 497 Olympic ' "" ¦ '" *& Commercial Miscellaneous .. 507 „„„ . „ ¦ W-Krn , r , T T tr-wf vr James and Marylebone .. 407 Lyceum ' oyJ 1 FOHEIGN INTELLIGENCE . The Electors on Trial ..... 498 IM r , | A AMD INDIAN PROGRESS- Continental Notes - .. -.. 480 The Shoemakers Strike • 40 y ' ^^ inlSce . .. . .. 502 Postscript 400 General Summary . 487 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- Notes on Indian Progress . ... 603 Facts and Scraps - . - ¦ *§* gleS ^ el ^ nc ^? :::::::: 48 ^ France 400 Latest Indian intelligence ... . ... 504 1 Mxscellaneous 50 ^ j ' I ~ ' ^ T 7 ~ i ?
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^ r * r-iUBJECT to tlie uncertainty which , at the O present moment , hangs upon all things political , in this country as well as in Europe generally , it is understood that Parliament will be prorogued oil Tuesday next , and that the dissolution will follow two days later . The writs for the new elections will be issued on Saturday , and by the end of the succeeding week many an election struggle will have ; been decided . There is not any use , and , indeed , no great temptation , to count our Parliamentary chickens before they are hatched ; but tlie prospective gain , of the Ind 3-pendent Liberals is a fact that challenges attention ; the ranks of this great party ¦ will , in all probability , absorb all the gains of Lord Derby ' s move . Hopeless of swelling his own following to the proportions of a working majority , lie determines to help the formation of a third power that shall dominate the Whigs and Palmerstonians , and fetter them as much as they have fettered the Conservatives . During the week , the work of clearing up-the immediately pressing business has been steadily followed up , and some important episodes have marked the course of the Parliamentary labours . The most important of these was the discussion of Mr . Bei-keley ' s motion on the Ballot , with the subsequent division . The object in bringing
forward the motion was a very legitimate one , namely , to set before the country tlie exaqt state of Parliamentary opinion on this subject , as a guide for constituenciea at the forthcoming elections . The result of the division was as satisfactory as could have been expected ; ninety-nine wont into tho lobby lor the motion , and one hundred and three against , Lord John Russell nn « l Lord Pulmerston voting Avith the
majority of lour . On Tuostliiy evening , Ilio House was diverted by an . ' inquiry into the truth of certain rumours set on i ' uot by a recent resignation Ji'om the Admiralty Boavd . Sir ' Benjamin Hall told the story that lms found currency and from it wo learn that Sir » Jolm Pakington is most curiously out at hie place at tho haul of the Board of Admiralty .
made by a leader of Lord John Russell ' s influence . His speech at Rochdale was in recommendation of the claims of Richard Cobden , whom , let us hope , the independent electors of that place will do themselves the honour to return . There will be work to be done during the coming session of Parliament , for the well-doing of which Mr . Cobden has very special qualifications ; Meanwhile * among the strong expressions of opinion that have been pronounced on the question of Reform , none have been more impressive than that pronounced at a meeting held at Edinburgh on Tuesday . The occasion was the annual assemblage of the deputies elected by the royal burghs of Scotland . JMr . Duncan M'Laren moved that T ~ - U « . r . lanrioi- n-F T . rnvl -Tr » lin T ^ . llfiSfill's 1
HQUno Reform Bill Avill be satisfactory that does not provide for a large enfranchisement of the working classes , and put ' yery forcibly the argument that even a 6 / . franchise will everywhere exclude vast numbers of workmen , except in . towns where rents are high . A counter motion , limiting the franchise to 6 / ., was rejected , and Mr . M'Laren's carried by a majority of twenty-eight against twelve ; the population rej > resented by the twelve deputies voting in the minority being about 65 , 000 , including 101 . voters ; the population represented by the majority , inclusive of 107 . voters , somewhere between seven and eight hundred thousand—a very
towards several of the junior lords , but notably towards Captain Carnegie ; he had demanded that Captain Carnegie should niafce an attempt to get himself returned ' for Dover , so that he might have a seat in the House ; but Captain Carnegie finding that he would have to stand the opposing fire pf Mr . Bernal Osborrie ' s : long-range wit , —in fact , that lie had no sort of chance of being returneddeclined to venture : whereupon , said Sir John Pakington ' s accusers , lie was quietly told her Majesty would not in the least object to accept his resignation if . it ' were tendered—and it was . The seat at the Board thus vacated , several ineffectual attempts were said to have been made by Sir John Pakimrton to fill it , always with the same .
object in view . Sir John denies all the motives attributed to him , and his word is one that the House and the country too , respects ; but the fact remains , that our First Lord of the Admiralty is , by his own confession , distressingly ignorant of the business he is entrusted to manage ; and that , as Mr . Thomas Diuicombe said , " these are important times , and we ought to have at the head of our naval attains persons conversant with those affairs . "
satisfactorily conclusive result . With regard to Foreign affairs , the prospect is very dark . The repeated deferrence by Lord Malmesbury of his promised explanations have a disheartening effect ; the feeling is rapidly becoming confirmed that there is very little reason to hope for a peaceful settlement of Italian affairs . Yesterday ' s news seems almost to determine the question on the side of war . Austria positively refuses to become a party to the Congress , unless it is preceded by a general and simultaneous disarmament . It is not quite clear as to what this demand amounts to precisely . France
A much more agreeable subject occupied both Houses on Thursday night ; this was the passing of a vote of thanks to the Governor-General of India , the Commander-in-Cliief , and to the Oilicers—civil , military and naval—engaged in the suppression of the revolt ; the vote furthermore * includes the troops employed under them , both British and native . Lord Derby moved the vote in the Upper House , Lord Stanley in the Lower ; and the speech of the Indian Secretary is said to have surpassed any that he lias hitherto made , and it certainly was marked with genuine feeling and felicitous expression . The
denies that she ha , s armed at all in consequence of o with any reference to the Italian dispute , and will , therefore , not consent to reduce her army in any degree ; the same may . be said by all tlie dtlier Powers , with the exception of Sardinia , to which Power only tho demand would apply . The four Powers would have no objection to sec an arrangement for simultaneous disarmament carried out jointly by Austria and Sardinia , but that has been befbro proposed nnd doggedly rofused by the strong-headed young gentk'iunn who is ruled at Vienna . At the present moment , however , a very painful doubt weig hs upon thu whole subject . . NoUiin ; , ' is known with certainty , and even ii'Mini .-itfrinl explanations are given on Monday next , UioywN leave tho public mind distrustful and unsati * Iie < l ; for the Uritish peoplu lias very smnll ronlidcnty in either the genius or rimvrity of its diploma ! isl- * . On Monduy , howovor , wo miiy hear the woM ; and , in ooniu roiu'ds , Ilmt will l > o a , relict Iron , the anxious iineerliiinties' and rmujpieions of . the present moment , wliieh .. re warping our judgments and sympathies , ami nuiy cud in leading us to commit # oun > net of monstrous injustice against tho friend to whom we arc bound by many lie * ol esteem , inluivm , » n « l honour ; wo may find oursolves , at lii «* r , tlio protectors of wenk nnd virtuous Austria , against thy rapacity and tyranny of despotic Sardinia .
motion in the House of Commons was seconded by the leaders of tho Opposition , and ample justice was done to Lord Canning by the spokesmen of tho Government . This unanimous vote of Parliament undoubtedly expresses the feeling of the cntiro country ; whatever adverse feelings may have been , momentarily provoked by particular acts during -the long trials of the Indian mutiny , they have , for the greater part , passed out of mind , and the one predominant feeling now is , that the thanks of the nation have been well earned , by tho men to whom they were addressed on Thursday night . Out of tho House , tho most active preparations nro being nmdo for the coining elections . Tho newspaper advertising pages are filled with adaildresscs to constituencies , and wo have reports of * many speeches from'the lips of more or less important speakers . At Biriuinglium , at Manchester , and again at Hochdale , Mr . Bri ght has boon uxpoiuulinu his views of Reform , the most notable points of his addresses being tlioso in whioli , Avhilo ' not pledging himself to support any bill that Lord John Russell may bring in , based upon his KM . borough suflrago , ho commends that measure us one tb bo favourably regarded , as bonug a groat advance upon any ofier
Sir John himself fhinkly admitted that ho occasionally finds himself horribly puzzled in dealing with naval afliiii's befbro the House , and that ho has sighed for an assistant in the shape of a junior lord , thoroughly up in the duties of his office nnd properly qualified to sit in tho House at his elbow . Tho accusation against thu First Lord was , that in his endoavours to got a coadjutor ho had used some rathor sharp practice
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Leader (1850-1860), April 16, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16041859/page/3/
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