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170 THE LEADER. [No. 309, Saturday,
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Hpse Lords Are Succeeding Admirably In S...
Government has l > egun borrowing , but only to a small amount- ; deferring a larger operation until after the Conferences . It borrows ^ 5 , 000 , 000 ; and relieves the Exchequer Bill market by funding ^ 3 , 000 , 000 ; effecting both operations at * price equivalent to £ 90 Consols —the Government ' s own price . The state of the Money Market and the absence of mystery precluded much chaffering on the part of the moneyed men , who only deal as agents in an ope-n market .
The House of Commons was invited by Sir Joshua Falmsley to pass a resolution which would have opened the British Museum and the National Gallery on the one day of leisure for the working classes . The debate was in the main good . Some very startling truths were told in the course of it ; some extremely sensible statements of the real merits of the case were set forth by Lord Stanley . On the other side , the arguments used were something more than
respeetable . Gentlemen contrasted the Sunday experiences of beer-drinking Munich and of gay Paris with the morality professed by those who desired to open . places of art as auxiliaries to the Church . And Lord Palm erston , telling the House that both sides exaggerated , proposed a direct negative to > the motion instead of an amendment $ not as a settlement of the question , but really the best mode of declaring the question to be unsettled . The House of Commons therefore , refused , by an
overwhelming majority , to make that very small concession to the liberal spirit of the day . And this has happened some years after the opening of Hampton Court proves that , if not direetly conducive to an sesthetical morality , the concession to the working classes is harmless , and in some degree beneficial . The manifest reason for this vote is , that the middle classes , amongst whom sect has its strongest hold , command the representation , but that the working classes are not
represented at all , or pnly in amateur fashion , by men of good sense like Sir Joshua Walmsley or Lord Stanley 3 having no footing in the House , because they have given up any determined endeavour to obtain the suffrage which is their right . The working classes must take this question of the Sabbath into their own hands , determined amongst themselves how they will spend the day , and defy the law to prohibit them . That point , however , we will show forth more distinctly next week .
The history , of the week with respect to the Paris Conference is almost entirely prophetic . We have only the arrival of the Plenipotentiaries notified among the fashionable movements ; nothing official as to their collective action ; this , of course is inevitable . Count Orlopf arrived the last . Business will not begin till next week .
But , already , there are signs which , if we trust them , would indicate a very interesting sequel to the Conference , whether that sequel is to be peace or ' war . For one thing it ia quite clear that the two sides at the meeting are not so far approaching each other aa they were supposed to nave done . The Russian intentions arc' still
locked iji mystery . The selection of Baron BitUNowis regarded as a blind , and the Muscovite Cj ^ loff is probably the real bearer of the Imperial | will . On the other hand there are some signs got ! f !' . " ¦ $ §! £ ' , %$ ^/ .. Western . JPoweva do not intend to WH ' i W ^& j sj ® . v . th ? treacherous mediations of Central t' ** ' ] I' ^^ P ^ i ' ; . > i . ^ ussift stands excluded ; Austria is ^;(|^^^ i ^^ tQ ^ that humiliating equali ty wit h Piedrjj ' . f' ^ i $ ijj $ & ^ f $ yrhich she i » understood to have pro'; i ' ^|?| |^^' i ^ W 9 protested , in vain . She is even '¦^ J ^^ fcf , ^! pH ent to & ardinja by n professed $$$$% M ¦&^> W * refugees resident outside the Austrian States / maf fa , chiefly in the Sardinian Spates f a compliment winch secures to Austria the
advantage of s » sj > e » $ 6 ay / questions between herself and ' Sardinia during the Conference , to be taken up again when convenient to Vienna . Still tbe Conference lias already done much to stamp the actual position of Sardinia in Europe , and to extend her influence far beyond the proportion which her territories occupy on the map . It is not niaay years since we heard . a distinguished and papular member declare that , in the movement of society
towards equality and the fusion of all classes , tlie day had arrived when individual influence had finally ceased , and we should no more see men stamp their own will upon the progress of events . Since that opinion we have had Louis Napoleon establishing himself ; and now we see the efficacy of personal influence in the development of that constitutional state which has had a Charles Albert for its king , wliichnow possesses Victor Emmanuel , and whose head ministeris Cavoitr .
A suspicion has gained ground in Germany that the Austrian Emperor has succeeded in winning over to > himself the French Emperor ; that Loiris NAPoiiEoN is somewhat anxious to slide away from his close alliance with England , to take up with the young Emperor of Austria , and to form an entirely new combination in Europe , Credat Judeeus ! Let Rothschild risk his millions upon that expectation if * he likes ! The supposition , however , has given rise to another speculation , and it is afnrbsed ,
with some probability , that Prussia intends to make advances towards Sardinia for the purpose of a counteracting combination . The King of Prussia once said , "It is on the Po that the Rhine must be defended . " And looking to the possibility that Austria might assist France in recovering the Rhine boundary , Frederick William is represented as hinting , that he would endeavour to regain Lombardy for Northern Italy , if Piedmont will assist in preserving to him the Rhine . This is calculating too fast , but it is an unquestionable fact , that the force of personal character which
has endowed Piedmont with a Constitution , which has made her politically independent of Rome , and which has put her in a most remarkably healthy social condition in the North of Italy , is also acquiring for her King and Statesmen a position amongst the Powers of Europe , is malting her tlie object of compliments from Austria aad of overtures from Prussia ; and the Western Powers aid her in assuming a position of practical equality at that Conference , to settle the great European question of the day , from which Prussia i * excluded .
While the Russian plenipotentiaries have been travelling to the Conference at Paris , they have been amused by the way with the accounts of the blowing up of Fort St . Nicholas , at Sebastopol . The ai'senal is destroyed ; the forts on the northern shore remain , but they are comparatively useless . The question row is , why spare Nicholaieff ? And it is rather largely inferred , from the repetition of an article first published by the equivocal Si & cle , in tlie official Moniteur , that one of the stipulations at the conference will be the demolition , of Nicholaieff by the Russians themselves , as
the officers of the Western Powers under a treaty peace j the interests of Sweden at Bomnrsund being as much guarded as the interests of Piedmont or Turkey . The reprint from the > Sikcle maybe takeu for what it is worth . The Puns Government Imows how to play off * one journal against another — when to let Qranicr de Cassagnac preach divine right , the D £ bat $ lecture on prudent Conservatism , and the Sticle to blow the taratarara on the trumpet of Imperialism , wliether to the tune of " Marlbrook , " or ' Partantpour la iSyrie . " The record of crime thia week ia full indeed *
There appears to be a perfect passion amongst the mothers , of murdering their children , whether to be rid of a trouble or of an expense is a debateable question . Thieves abound ; the burglar and the gavotter are becoming a terror both in town and country 5 and directors' and speculators are committiBg suicide : but there are conspicuous cases that stand quite before the front of all the ordinary crimes , manifold as they become . There is the Islington murder—a story , it would seem , of comparatively respectable life amongst the
middleclasses . The wife of an engraver , who lives in a well-furnished house , amongst the smaller and genteel streets of that modest neighbourhood , a woman who is at least sufficiently well off to keep a servant , brings a young girl into her house at night , leads her downginto the coaleellar ., arid there coolly cuts her throat . It turns out to be her own child , born before marriage ! The probable motive for the act was a housewifely desire to save ; and the well-furnished state of tlie house showed tlie regard that the woman had for appearances . Appearances go for so much now-a-days 1
The other case is still more startling . A policeman , wandering over Harnpstead-heath early on Sunday morning , finds the body of a gentleman which must have lain on the heath all night . The man had poisoned himself , but he had done it in epicurean fashion , with sugar and essential oil of almonds ; and a silver milk-jug proved that he had been able to use choice instruments for his tasteful mode of ending life . It must , therefore , be some " distinguished" man ; and truly enough it turns out to be Mr . Sadltsir , the member for
Sligo , a well-known member of West-end society a director in many promising projects , a Lord oi the Treasury under Lord iBnuniimv TT « tacl been implicated formerly in some strange election matters , had been compelled to resign his lordship in the Treasury on account of some manoeuvre played with a voter at the last election ; but he had been open-handed , his thousands freely flowed , he lived in style , and he died as we have said . The inquest stands adjourned , in order that
evidence may be brought forward to justify a verdict of " Temporary insanity . " Perhaps the disease of mind was more than temporary . Mr . Sadleiu . had evidently become involved in commercial speculations , which might have doubledperhaps quadrupled—his fortune , but happened to go the other way . The stories afloat are not yet authenticated . He is said to have left confessions , and the public awaits with anxiety tliese posthumous memoirs of a successful man at the Westend .
170 The Leader. [No. 309, Saturday,
170 THE LEADER . [ No . 309 , Saturday ,
Statue Op Mr. Baines.—Tho Execution Of T...
Statue op Mr . Baines . —Tho execution of the statue of Mr . Baines , about to bo erected at Loeds , 1 m . b been entrusted to Mr . Bonnes , of OsmiburgHtroet . Exclusively of tho pedestal , which ja to bo of Sicilian marble , tho artist is to receive £ 800 for his labours . When completed , tho fstatuo will bo | il < icod ia tho vestibule ot' tho now Town-hail of Leods .
The Coinage . — A return iasuod on Saturday shows that tlie sums advanced last yenr from tho oo-nsoliduted fund for tho purchase of bullion for coinage amoutod to . £ 250 , 000 , while tlio amount paid into the Bank of England to tho account , of tho Exchequer iu repayment of advances from tlio ooasolidatod fund was £ 300 , 000 . Tho total amount acl < vnnood . for buying bullion ninoo 1837 inclusive is £ 4 , 868 , ' -29 , and tho total amount so yaiil into tho Bunk of England , is £ 4 , 770 , 000 .
A Mm / pa Romanok . —Tlie ohild of a Mr . uiid Mm . Evans , lately at Malta , on their return from Hgyirt ; fell out of a boat in which , together with bin |> nrontfl , bu » wufl crossing from " Vllebtu to Vittoriotn . Mr . llobinaon , chaplain to tho iovooa , w . is following in another boat , and instantly plunged into tho no « , ami roaoued tho ohild , though with great difficulty , m tho water was rough . Mr . Evann , to evince his gmtifcucio , Bont theolergyman a ohoquo for £ 500 , -which , of oouiwj was roturned . It afterwards turned out that theee two gentlemon avo relatives , who , in contain noo or clifforenoes in tho family , have not seen oivolx othoi since boyhood .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 23, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23021856/page/2/
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