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      Peace Soiree At Manchester. The Customar...

      sarale lienchy' trader fueling ? , dbubttess , of the highest patriotism as regards the ; country , ^ nd of an incurable , biit for the moment , suppressed ; animosity against each other . ( Laughter . J Now takeliord Paknerston asacase mrtoint . Lord Palmerston now is a , great authority with somepeople , and they say , ' Ifhe had been Wat Minister he would have struck terror into 10 , 000 Czars ; he would not have crossed , the Pruth , and , if he had , he would . have gone back faster than he came ; . ' and every description of Inflated language is used with regard to . this experienced statesman . Now , Lord Palmerston is no great friend of liberty , after all . If he is , he has been wonderfully chxmsy in exhibiting it to the country . ( Laughter . ) A . few yeara ago there was an insurrection in Hungary ,

      and there appeared for the moment a great probability that Hungary would obtain , her independence . The sympathy of this country was almost universal—I do not mean the sympathy of the Government and its lords , hut of the people . ( Cheers . * ) Russia then entered the Principalities—Russia entered Hungary—and Turkey was advised not to object to Russia entering the Principalities . Our Minister , Lord Palmerston . refused apparently — I don't say intentionally , of course — ( laughter )—it is the easiest thing in the world not to see a thing if you don't want to see it—( laughter )—nobody

      « ould persuade him that the Russians were going to interfere with Hungary . Everybody else knew it , and his Minister at Vienna specially advised him of it . But < tid he protest against it when some of its citizens have since been heard by us with admiration ? No . But -what did he do ? He made a speech in the House of Commons on some other subject , and went out of his way for the purpose of saying that the invasion of Hungary by the Russians wad-not contrary to the law of nations ; in point of fact , he justified and sanctioned it . I don't believe that the man who does that is fit to be trusted with the liberties of Europe . " ( Cheers . )

      Me Bright then read , with severe commentary . tbe Queee ' s letter on Lord Palmerston , of February 1852 , and thought that any person holding office iifter such a letter , was- contemptible . He thought Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell were mainly responsible foe the war , as they had delivered warlike speeches . He ti * ea described some fanner civilian of I ^ rd . John Kjttsselltowa " Lord John Russell-said the other day in the House , shewing howmuch thi 3 country had done , that 53 , 000 or £ 4 , 000 men had been sent out , which was equal to on © corps ( Parmee of the Russian Emperorj and he said _ that the Russian force was equal to 800 , 000 , or 900 , 000

      mem If England was at war with Russia at an equal distance from each other , we , with our supremacy in maritime affairs ,, could have transported an equal number ofin « n . But was there ever out of Bedlam a lunacy so apparent as that the . Government should send out 50 , QO 0 men 3300 miles by sea to invade a country which has an army of 800 , 000 or 900 , 000 men ? It is stark staring madness . ( Latighter . ) It is not statesmanship , and the men who committed that blunder twelve months a * o in the swamps of negotiations have made this still more fatal blunder . I say that if the constituency of Manchester asks me to . put my confidence in statesmanship of ^ this kind . ' I am not the man at all to do their work-. " "' ( Cheers . ) ~ —— - ¦ - —

      Mr . Bright then spoke bitterly against the evils which commerce had sustained , and remarked that even the press was ' tainted . " " You know that I have never flattered either Court or Cabinet , and I will not now stoop to flatter even the people . ( Applause . ) I know that passion forms no part of reason , and can be no solid foundation for the truth . I behold the abuses in which multitudes would plunge this country . If . 1 cannot save them from itj—if they will not save themselves , —at least I will warn them of their danger ; an'd I will be no partner in deeds which I ant convinced in my conscience will receive , as they merit , the condemnation of posterity . " ( Great applause . ) It is unnecessary to enter upon the speech from Mr . Cobdkn , which followed . The speech of last week , which we gavo , thoroughly exhausted his arguments .

      The proceedings . were delayed to so late an hour that , the press were unable to give a very full account of General Thompson's speech . The present will be found as correct a version , as could bo given . MajooGonoral TuoatpsoK said : — M Manchester knew ha could bo brief . It was not given to overy man to renew his strength'like the eagle , And , after the lapse of a dozen yeara , which is weeps away so large a portion of human being * , to find himself in the same room , with the same friendly faces before him and

      around him , engaged all in awork not less important than former works begun in the same place . ( Applause . ) Ho had * heard them called a minority . Those present were not afraid of being minorities . Thoro wore omens hangngafeouft those rafters , which told thorn their minority had only to do as it luwl done before . Ho would not have troubled them after all that they had heard , if he had nob thought he might be m a position to make some contribution to their cause . We were involved in war . Who had brought us into it t What was their titlo to bring us into it ? What wore wo to do now wo wore in

      he will die too . ' — ' Probably he will , but we shall take another and another , and at last we shall find out the way . ' ( Laughter . ) This was , verbatim , the system avowed for the management of the war . They had sent a brave army to perish , and they were to send another ^ nd another , till at last they were to gain their point . They said they were gathering knowledge , and were very valuable for what they had acquired . They were studying with the utmost zeal . They had finished the siege of Troy , and they had got into the siege of Gibraltar , and when they had got through that , they were to go into the campaign of Moscow . Why , they had arrived at the discovery that after summer comes

      it ? ( Cheers . ") He desired to say by way of apology for himpftif , that he could not agree with those meritorious friends who thoug ht we might have done without it if we only chose to do so . War was like surgery : the less we had to do with it the better ; but what we had , let it be good . Whatt then , were the pretensions of the men who brought us into the war ? Compare it with surgery ; for war is a science as well as surgery . ' Did you ever perform , ah operation ?' ¦ ? Never . '—;* Did you ever witness one ? ' — ' Never . '—' On . what , then , do you build your prospects of success ?'— ' We are men of education and general reading , and there is an article on surgery in the JEncyelqpcedia Britannica . ( Laughter . )— And on the strength of that you mean to cut for the stone ?''We do . ' — ' And how will you proceed ?'— 'We shall take a patient and make incision . '— 'But the patient , will die ? ' 'We know that , so we shall take another . '— ' But ,

      winter . QLaughter and cheers . ) They had settled the invaluable fact , that if a force was sent into a stormy climate at the autumnal instead of the vernal equinox , it was very likely to be prejudiced in consequence . Would it be rational that they should be susperseded by somebody who would have all this to learn over again ? ( Laughter and cheers . ) For his own part , he was also a believer to a considerable extent in the possibility of whafr'was called international law , whereby nations should agree to unite against the wrong doer , and he had thought the case of Turkey came clearly within the law . Arid why did he mention these differences now ? Simply because he would exhort all who might / happen to agree with him to allow no such differences to stand in the

      way of acting with all who are willing to join to a certain extent . _ The right principle is , to go with every man who will go with you , and . never to divide but when you cannot help it . Supposing , then , it to be . settled that Turkey was to be helped , how had the Government gone about the work ? They took a pair of compasses ^ and found the point most distant froni the scene of action , and there they sent their troops . And when , contrary to all expectation , the Russians had been repulsed from Silistria , ~ and nothing seemed wanting but to follow them up and push them beyond the Pruth , they chose the moment , as if for the express purpose of relieving the Russians from the consequences of defeat , to transfer the troops to the Crimea , where Sir Howard

      Douglas , a good military authority , tells them now ,, and could have told them then , there would be required a force of two hundred thousand men . They sent seventy or eighty thousand men into a position where an enemy , known to possess eight or nine hundred thousand , was at liberty to bring as many as he chose , by easy marches , all the way from Moscow . Everybody , knew ^ who . knfcw anything , that the worst position into which any army could by ingenuity be thrown was , to be set to attack a fortress which they were not sufficient to invest , and which consequently kept its communications open with the- whole forces of its friends . It was literally the case he had described to his countrymen of Yorkshire , of setting a dog to draw a badger from a box , with an

      interminable succession of badgers to be put in behind . ( Laughter and . c / teers . ) The people of Manchester claimed to have some influence on the Government of tho country . They had representatives than whom it was impossible to have more energetic or able . ( Loud cheering . ) Great interests wore on their side , and they had only to set their faces like a flint against going with a multitude to make fools of themselves . ( Cheers . ) This was the commercial interest , which was suffering by the transfer of wealth and employment from those engaged in peaceful fabrics to the makers of warlike engines . For instance , ho waa told that Bradford was ' very bad , and Bradford could not find out the reason why . There waa that other great intorest , to whom the raising of tho price of bread made the difference between comfort and misery . If anybody doubted , look at the report

      from Cork , in tho Times of tho 15 th , and read of tho ' panic' which took place among tho provision dealers and agriculturists . And there was . that groat interest which was concerned in Parliamentary reform . The war had put down reform , why should not Rofarmors put down the war ? ( Cheers . ) Could there bo a bettor tinio for tho negroes of tho Constitution to press for admittance witlun its bounds ? ( C / teers . ) To do this they must uso the means , and one of tho best was ; o support the existing movement for tho Ballot . Thoro was a youth present from the Ballot Society who would gladly receive their contributions , if tho men of Manchester would lot loose Homo of the imprisoned angola . In conclusion , ho would hope to takft their opinion again on the subject of tho war in six months' time , and in tho interval may God send a good dolivoranuo from present dungurs . ( Great cheering . )

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      Contiiij^Gp^Yisptes.: The Cold Has Been ...

      coNTiiij ^ gp ^ yispTEs .: The cold has been more intense this week in- Pwia than in . London . : A BUI to call out 140 , 000 men of the class-1354 , has been adopted by the Corps Le ' gislatif . M . Pierre Dufaure , Count de Montmirail , a . retired cavalry office * , formerly aide-de-camp to the-Bwke de Nemours , was the other day convicted on the charge of having circulated false news at the Bourse , and spoken against the Emperor . He was sentenced to six months ' imprisonment and a fine of 500 francs .

      M » Eggis , a writer in a theatrical journal , was expelled from Paris the other day with unexampled haste . He had been for some time a chef ami of an actress at the Franpais , who had formerly a liaison with "his betters . " An intimation had got abroad that certain letters of hers in his possession were likely to be published . The police made a descent upon the house , seized his papers , and ordered him to leave Paria in lour hours . " The municipality of Bordeaux , in consequence of the dearness of wine , has entered into an arrangement with a company for establishing places for the sale of beer at 30 c . the quart , and it has reduced the octroi duties on beer to one-third of the former charge . The Emperor has ordered a . bust of Marshal Sfc Arnaud to be placed in the h « H of the Council-General of the Gironde .

      A tax upon paper is apprehended in Paris , which will raise the yearly subscription to every Paris journal at least five francs . A meeting of printers has been held to petition against it .

      We Deeply Regret To Hear Of The Total De...

      We deeply regret to hear of the total destruction by fire of the beautiful The ' afcre de la Monnaie , the operahouse at Brussels . la two hours it was reduced to ashes . The fire is said to have been caused by an escape of gas .

      * Baron De Koller, Austrian Ambassador A...

      * Baron de Koller , Austrian Ambassador at Hanover , is now rumoured to be the new Internnneio at Constantinople . The First Chamber of Prussia has passed , with a very large majority , the bill opening the Prussian coasting trade , on a basis of reciprocity . In the report on the bill , a complete adhesion was given to the doctrine of free-trade in its fullest sense , accompanied : "by a statement raisonne that protection in Prussia had been the

      exception and not the rule , and that where it had been adopted it had been forced upon the Government , by the legislation of other States . M . de Vaaderheydt , the brother of the Minister of Commerce , and deputy for Elberfeldt , took exception to the doctrines laid down in the report , which , he said , had been smuggled into it . by the free-trade party . " England had grown great under protection , and Prussia , had adopted that policy in her rising iron and cotton manufactures . " Toe vast majority of the Chamber , however , concurred in the doctrines of

      the report . Tho Royal House of Sardinia has been heavily afflicted of late . On the 12 th of this month , the Queen Dowager , widow of Charles . Albert , died , after a week ' s illness , at the age of fifty-five .. While the Chambers , theatres ,. - aRd- _ pub ] i « .... places were still closed out of respect to her memory , tiie Queen , who Had jusi been confined , became seriously ilL On the . 20 th , tho , day whom the Chamber was about to renew the discussion on . tba Suppression of Convents , Bill ,. th «< news of hex death arrived , aud the sitting was at onee suspended .

      All classes of the people , without distinction of opinion , expressed or silently manifested the sincerest sympathy with t & e King in his . heavy afflictions * Th « Queea > who > was justly beloved , and who was only thirty-four , tt «» tha daughter of the Austrian Archduke Reinier , sometime Viceroy in the Lombardo-Venetian provinces . Her death , caused immediately by puerperal fever , is believed to hava been hastened by grief at the death of tho Queen Dowager . But the afflictions , or at . least the- anxieties , of tho King are not yet at an end . Tha Duke of Genoa , who behaved so gallantly in tlw . wax of independence , and who , it . may be renwrafcesedy .

      visited . England two years , since , w in a , precaartou * state of health . ; it is oven foared that he is falling iata a consumption . Ho is dovoted to his profosaion as . a soldier , and chafes at hi * inability to accompuny tho Sardinian , oontingent to the Crimea . Tho Ultramontane priestly party has had the cowardly cruelty to improve tho calami ties of tho royal family , and to declare that " tho finger of God" had mada itself visible in those succe ***** - blows to the enemies of tho Church . The royal family hoa retired to tho viil * of Monoaliori . Tho Chambers have adjourned fer a Or > 1 ^ Stated that Hanover , Brunswick , Badon , and , the two H * ssos havo declared for Austria , Saxony and Wurtoraberg aro agauiat tho mobilisation of , tUo tmifttol contingentsand Bnvoria i » un < toc . M « L ...-.

      , _ _ Duko George of Meckleuburg-Strolitz , who w married to a grand duchess of Russia , and who ha * eovecai tii » c » . fiilulled missions to tho Gorman states in . Um interest of Russia , haa lately quitted St . Petersburg , « ad . us duily expected at Berlin . . ^ , Huron Ilubnor has delivered to Louis Napoleon an autograph lottor from the Emperor of Austria .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 27, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27011855/page/7/