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¦» IT was publicly remarked lately tliat the independent party in Parliament is not dead , but will show itself in renewed strength , next session ; \ and we have some promise that the reform conference to be held in London next week will give us some presage of the action which that party is to take . The manifestations that have been made i in-the provinces this week must , be regarded as preparatives towards that more central action ; and , | particularly in Birmingham , events have advanced , rapidly . Considerable interest was excited by the j knowledge that Mr . Bright would appear in re- , newed health , and would address his constituents on . Wednesday last . He did so ; the Town Hull ! being crowded to receive him . His speech , o x-1 cecdingly simple in its composition , did little more | than express his views , and that with no laboured j fulness , on the subject of Reform . But his opinion came out with perfect clearness , and he brought his j argument to a point of practical advice , lie de- j scribed the manner in which the representation is not only limited to one-sixth of the main population , but is so distributed in the constituencies as to throw a share even of that fractional representation into the particular classes , while the landowners have the House of Lords to themselves ; for as they say in the Botanical Gardens , " No dogs are admitted , " so in the House of Peers thoy put up "No traders are admitted , " As a medium between the ' prevalent opinions , Mr . Bright suggests a ratepaying franchise , wit h the ballot , as a matter of course , and a redistribution of scats . These arc the items on which tho most numerous meetings heretofore have expressed tlicir opinions . At the end of tho speoch ho advised that the Liberal party should bring forward a bill of their own , competing with tho promised Government bill . In answer to a deputation from the Birmingham He form Union , he stated that such a bill would bo actually prepared by tho conforcncc which assembles in London next week . In tho mean -while , tho agitation on tho subjoofc has boon offootunlly roused in Birmingham . Tho public mind is aotivoly omploycd in finding for itself a solution of tho problem which , year after year , and during four successive Ministries , has been shirked by statesmen and professional politicians . Ncwoasilc-upon-Tyno has pronounced itself at a groat mooting , where not a solitary M , P . appeared to shod representative lustre- on tho crowd . It was tUorp , quito agreed tliat thoro was no question about -what tho men of Nowoastla " want and intend to got , " Thoy want universal fluffmgo , and , by somo moans or other , payment of members , " so that a sprinkling of . fustian-jackets may bo Hoott in tho Houses of Commons . " Somo
| one cried , " TJic People ' s Charter . ! " " And why not ? " said Mr . Taylor , the mover of the first resolution ; " the Chartist agitation failed because Chartism became a sect , a fanaticism , a party as jscctional and as fanatical almost as the very party vT would have sought to put down , " not because the principles of the Charter were false ; for he reminded us that it originated with Mr . O'Connell , Mr . Hume , and other well-received Reformers . The object of the Northern Reform Union is , at all events , to make the representation national . We may form a good notion of the state of opinion in Manchester on the great subject . Mr . Buzlcy , the candidate for the seat left vacant by the death of Sir Jobn Potter , is the chosen candidate of the Liberal , party , and lie will go into Parliament j as the advocate of an extended suffrage , the ballot , j retrenchment , and a pacific foreign policy . At j Rcigatc , Guildford , and Leominstcr , the results , of the recent elections tell tolerably plainly the wishes of those constituencies . Mr . Monson goes into Parliament as a Liberal , helped- by Tory voters , and beating the more pronounced Liberal , Mr . Wilkinson . Guildford accepted Mr , Onslow , the Liberal candidate ; and Leominstcr returned , without opposition , Captain Hanbury , a " Liberal Conservative "—even the Conservative must be Liberalthe Tory something more than a Whig . Not only on the question of Reform has the public mind been specially active during the week . Various meetings for various purposes have made large demands upon its attention . "Better rub than rust , " said Ebonczcr Elliot , and giving practical effect to tlio axiom , the British mind has been subjecting itself to much wholesome friction . The Bishop of Oxford , has somewhat roughly stirred the popular mind in Yorkshire . A bishop almost hissed from tho platform of a religious meeting is , indeed , an unusually stirring exhibition ; but it was very nearly seen at Bradford , the other night , where Samuel of Oxford ' s late conduct in tho Boyne-hill mutter provoked a display of placards on tho walls of tho town , calling upon " tho men and womon of Brad ford 1 o assemble in tlicir thousands in St . George's Hall , to resist , in a voice of thunder , these Traetariun confessionals . " At Manchester , at Ihe end of last week , Lord John Russell gently turned the publio mind in tho direction of Ragged Schools and their national value . Better , ho says , to spend tho publio money in fitting poor children to enter upon a decent and useful course of life , than to spare it and lenvc ihcwo same children , to grow up like rank weeds amid tho filth and horriblo temptations of vicious poverty . Mr . Sidney Herbert has helped tho mental activity of Wurminstcr , ' and of London no less , by his comments on iho powors of tho newspaper pross . Thoso powors , ho thinks , would bo greatly enhanced if tho system of anonymous writing which it at present adopts woro done away j if tho writer could , bo ausvrorod—and , not
only the newspaper-writer , but the parson in his pulpit could be answered—and questioned as to I the statements or opinions he has written or spoken ; the public , he holds , would then more easily read i and accept what it now takes " with a grain oi salt , " The news from India and China is brief , but not uninteresting . A very successful attack has ! been made in Oude upon a body of three thousand rebels , posted on an island of the Gogra . On the 19 th of September they were driven but of then entrenched position by two companies of Europeans ^ the Kupperthela Contingent and some of Hodson ' s i Horse . A thousand of the enemy are reported to I have beeu slain , the artillery doing terrible execution j 011 them as they attempted to get away from the I . island in boats . They arc said to have lost two of I their leaders . The British loss was small . Froin China , we have a telegraphic despatch announcing that Lord Elgin had returned to Hong-Kong , on the 12 th of September , bringing with him a treaty which he had concluded with Japan , and which is almost identical with the American treaty . Five ports arc to be opened within a year after the treaty shall have been ratified . Cotton and woollen fabrics arc to pay an import duty of 5 per cent . ; almost all other articles are to pay 20 per cent . From abroad the chief point of news is the submission of Portugal to the demands of France in Ihc affair of the " Cluirlcs-ct-Gcorgcs . " The Monilair says that full satisfaction has been given ,- — Portugal "submitting to the just representations of the Government of the Emperor . " The official journal gives what it calls a statement of the facts , the main point dwelt upon being the fact that directions had been issued by the Portuguese Govcrnor-Gcnorul at Mozambique for tho instruction of district governors , with regard to their conduct in dealing with French vessels engaged in " recruiting" frco negro labourers , and which , while cautioning them to use great circumspection ns regards French vessels , prescribed that , in tho event of French vessels touching at a Portuguese port , the governors should limit themselves to a notification of nn order which prohibits the engagement and embarkation of colonists , and to the exaction from tho captain of n- written promise- to oomply with such order . Tho Portuguoso authorities , therefore , according to tho French view of tho matter , noted in a manner utterly contrary to thoir duty ; and tho Portuguoso Government" after a moro careful examination "—lms scon tho thing exactly in tho light in which Franco commanded thorn to sco it . Tho subject , howovor , may not yet lmvo been looked at lluully , oUJwr by Franoo or Portugal . Tho very latest intelligence lull * of a formidable raid against , tltu pross . Count Montalcmbort tho foromoot litonuy man who dares to utter his thoughts iu . Frnuoo , boiug tho champion , or as ftb-
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 30, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30101858/page/3/
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