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1148 THE LEADER. [ISo. 449, October 30, ...
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soluLists' hope , the victim , on whom the Imperial wrath is to descend . The result will be anxiously watched , for it is evidentl y a wager of battle by ¦ wh ich extreme principles in Trance are to be . tested . The dreadful feud between the Christian , ' and Mahometan races in Turkey is being pushed on to the issue of a struggle for mutual extermination . With a continued supply of arms and ammunition poured into Candia from Greece , it will not be long before the fight commences in bloody earnest there . In . Bosnia it would seem to have commenced already . Late news tells us that in the district of Posavina the Christians have risen S 0 OO or 10 , 000
strong ; encounters with their Turkish oppressors have taken place , in all of which they were the victors . In one village sixteen Mahometans have been formally put to death , and in almost all the villages the houses of the Bevs have been given to the flames . The general home news of the week is full and variously interesting . In the criminal and police courts there have been some remarkable cases . At Guildhall , a stock-broker—but not a member of the Stock Exchange—named Oliver , has been remanded on the charge of ; applying to his own purposes 5000 / . entrusted to him for tlie purchase of certain public securities . Oliver led the lady , to whom the money belongs , to believe that he had deposited in
the London and County Bank the bonds which she had authorised him to purchase for her . He regularly sent her money , representing the quarterly dividends as they became due ; but , at length , her friends oecanie suspicious , made inquiries at the bank , and discovered that no such securities had ever been deposited there . The consequences of this discovery were , that after vainly making application for the bonds , the lady gave Oliver into custody , and he stands remanded . It is not . many days since a very similar case was brought before the Guildhall-court ; and something move than a suspicion is abroad that if the owners of bonds and other securities were suddenly to determine to inquire into the subject of their safe-keeping , very astounding discoveries would result .
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1148 THE LEADER . [ ISo . 449 , October 30 , 1 J 58 .
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The Weedon and Woolwich Inquiry . —1 he Royal Commissioners on the Army Store and Clothing system were to have met again at Woolwich on Thursday , but circumstances rendered it necessary for them to postpone their visit until Thursday next , and their proceedings , therefore , stand adjourned until then . The Submarine Telegraph . —It appears that tho wires between Dover and Calais have been fractured , probably through some ship dragging her anchor . Steamboats are now engaged in searching for the damaged portion , which , when found , will of course bo at once repaired .
Very Dear . —The Cheltenham magistrates have fined a young farmer , named Charles Cooko , 21 . and costs , for kissing a girl , named Mary Ann Ayres , on the Alstone-road . " On Circuit " at this Cape . —Sir Willium Hodges is tho judge on circuit . We hear that the first hundred miles of his journey " impressed him with horror" to the difficulties and clangers of travelling in the colony . — Graham ' s Town Journal .
The Salt Trade . —A deputation of the principal salt producers in Cheshire and Worcestershire waited on Lord Stanley on Thursday , introduced by Mr . Bramley Moore , M . l \ , to represent tho injury the trade sustains from the absence of bonding privileges in the other ports of India similur to thoso enjoyed at Calcutta . His lordship gave assurances that the matter should bo carefully looked into , and no doubt is entertained of the grievance being remedied .
The Charge against a Stooic-pealer . —Tho following is from tho Committee of the Stock Exchange : — 4 < Sir , — -I am desired to acquaint you , for tho information of tho public , that William Lemon Oliver , against whom a most serious charge was yesterday made before Mr . Alderman Carter , is not , nor ever has boon , a mombor of tho Stock Exchunge . — 1 am , Sir , your most obedient servant , ( Jeorge Lovemcss , Secretary . "
American Securities . —The position of tho market is thus , noticed by Messrs . D . JBell , Son , and Co . ;—Tho market for American securities during tho past weok has continued inactive . State stocks are scarce . Transactions hiivo taken place in tho United States Flvo per Cent . Loan , which is In bonds to bearer of 1000 dollars each , at 95 , at which price they will ylold 4 £ per cent . In railroad bonds and shares thoro is little oi nothing doing .
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POLITICAL FORESIIADOWINGS . Mr . Bright at -Birmingham . —We have this week to record a most important meeting , the occasion being Mr . Bright ' s first visit to his constituents of Birmingham ou "Wednesday . The townspeople -were summoned by the ¦ 3 f . av . or to meet him in the Town-hall at seven o ' clock , and long before that time the large hall was crowded ; not an inch of ground being unoccupied . In addition to tlie Birmingham people a great number of the hon . gentlemen ' s friends from Manchester and the neighbourhood were present . Mr . Bright , in rising to address the meeting , was received with loud and prolonged cheering . He said , " Mr . Mayor and gentlemen , if I exhibit embarrassment in rising to address you I
must ask for your forbearance , for , in truth , as I cast my eve over this great assembly I feel myself almost bewildered , and I am oppressed with a consciousness of my incapacity properly to fulfil the duty which devolves upon me to-night . It is now nearly three rears' since I was permitted , and , indeed , since I was able , to stand upon any public platform to address any public meeting of my countrymen , and during " that period I have passed through a new and a great experience . From apparent health I have been brought down to a condition of weakness exceeding the weakness of a little child , in which I could neither read nor write , nor converse for more than a few minutes without distress and without peril ; and from
that condition , by degrees so fine as to be imperceptible p . ven to myself , I have been restored to the comparative health in which you now behold me . " The hon . member , then alluded to the sympathy he had received from all classes of his fellow-countrymen . This naturally led to observations respecting the course which Birmingham had pursued in electing him as their representative ; and the speaker , in thanking Birmingham for such a great honour , repudiated the statements of those who had said that his opinions on questions of war and foreign policy had become modified during hie exile . He so far justified the view he had taken of the contest with Russia as to ask what compensation England had obtained for the loss of forty thousand lives
and one hundred millions of money , and what Europe had got for the three hunched millions which it had expended in that war . Mr . Bright then proceeded to open the question of Parliamentary Reform , which constituted the burden of his speech . He referred to the contest between the country and the Parliament on the corn-law question , to prove the necessity for a Parliament that would yield jiist measures more easily ; and he showed , by a reference to the religious classes in this country , that the House of Commons certainly does not fairly ropresent the national feeling . This was also obvious by a consideration of the way the taxes upon income and property were levied . Mr . Bright next proceeded to show how utterly unequal the
present representation was . Ho drew a comparison between certain boroughs in Yorkshire and other boroughs in that country . He also contrasted the number of members sent from Buckinghamshire with the two that were sent from Birmingham , with an equal population . Ho showed there were twenty-two boroughs in three counties sending members which hail only one-half the population of Birmingham . These facts were to be taken into consideration with another , namely , that out of every six individuals wo meet only one who had the right of voting for a member of Parliament . Well , what did they want ? He took it to be they wanted a real and honest representation for that fraudulent thing which
was called representation . The real difficulty of Lord John Russell's position , Mr . Bright contonded , w'ns that his lordship did not very well know how free representation was to exist in consonanco with the mind of the Houso of Lords . The Peers had never initiated any groat popular measure , and novor yielded of their own free will to tho demands of tho nation . But this resistance on tho part of tho Poors must bo overcome ; and looking at tho question as it afi ' ectcd tho Houso of Commons , ho was of opinion that if n statesman sat down to draw out a now Reform Bill , tho extension of the suffrage might at least bo based upon those franchises which already oxistod for parish , union , and corporation purposes . For himself , however , ho extension of the
would prefer tho widest possible sum-ago . As to tho counties there soomod to bo a kind of understanding that extension of the suffrage was not to proceed so far as in tho boroughs ; but tho 40 s . freehold qualification might bo made tho basis of considerable change . Whatever chnngos wore regarded as desirable , tho ballot , he continued to say , must bo considered as a necessary accompaniment , and one . which the state of things rendered inevitable . Mr . Bright concluded in tho following words : — "Now , I have a suggestion to make , which I hope somebody will net uppn , Tho Roformors now are moro numerous than over they wore before . Why should they not by some arrangomont havo their own Reform Bill—havo it introduced Into Parliament and supported with all tho ( strength of this groat
national party ; and if it be a bill sensibly better than the bill that is being prepared for as in Downing-strcet , why should we not , with all the unanimity of which we are capable , do everything in Olupower to pass that -measure into law ? I say that we are great In numbers ; that united we are great in strength V that we are invincible in the solidity of Cur arguments ; that we are altogether unassailable in the justice «> f our cause . Shall we then , I ask you , even for a moment be hopeless of our great cause ? I feel almost ashamed even to argue it to such a meeting as tins . I call to mind where I am , and who are those whom I see before me . Am I not in the town of Birmingham England ' s central capital ; and do not those eyes lock upon the sons of those who , not thirty years ago , shook the fabric of privilege to its base ? Not a few of the
strong men of that time are now white with age . They approach the confines of their mortal day . Its evening is cheered with the remembrance of that great contest and they rejoice in the freedom they have won . Shall their sons be less noble than they ? Shall the fire which they kindled be extinguished with you ? Why , I see the answer in every face . You are resolved that the legacy which they bequeathed to you you will hand down in an accumulated wealth of freedom to your children . ( Great cheering . * ) As for me , my voice is feeble . I feel now sensibly and painfully that I am not what I was . I speak with a diminished lire ; I act with a lessened force ; but as I am , my countrymen and my constituents , I will , if you will let me , be found in your ranks in the impending struggle . " The hoiigentleinan ' s address was received , throughout , with im mense enthusiasm .
Viscount Galway , M . P . —At the annual meeting of the Worksop Labourers' Friend Society , Lord Galway said : Since I last addressed you great changes have taken place . Of course I have strong opinions in favour of the present Government , but in one case , the admission of Jews into Parliament , I felt conscientious scruples on the matter , and therefore 1 did not vote with the Government . But I can say for the present Government that it may fairly challenge comparison with any that lias gone before it . One reason is that they have excellent officials , ¦¦ not merely men of high and noble birth , but several of them clever , straightforward , and intelligent
men . I shall say nothing of Lord Palmerston ' s Government , except that I hope the present Government may receive the same fair consideration aa they did . I think Sir George Lewis need not be afraid that they will bring forward measures ' merely for one side . It has been complained , that they have been too much dictated to by the House of Commons ; but I have yet to learn that a Government ought not to be ruled by members of the House . Mb . Boston King , M . P . —At Wellesbonrne , on Wednesday last , the hon . member for South Warwickshirt , in the course of a speech of some length , said : — . Another question in which they were much interested to lOf
was as to giving a right to vote in counties . householders . After giving the jmbject his best consideration , he had voted against the proposition . He did so for this reason—not because the 10 / . householders should not have a voice , but because he thought it would materiallv lessen tho influence of the landed m " terest in the House of Commons . In his opinion tho landed interest was not sufficiently represented in the House of Commons . And whatever change was made , ho hoped that would not be forgotten . There was one question which would bo a prominent ono next session—a bill to bo brought in by I-orrt Uill
Derby ' s Government , commonly called a Reform . As far as that measure tended to increase the number of electors amongst the honest , industrious niiddlc-clufsi ?!' , it would have his support ; as far as it disfranchised small and corrupt towns and gave members to populous counties and towns , it would have his support . 1 hey must always remember that the population , tho width , tho instruction , and education of this country was increasing and would increase . The power of tho House of Commons was greatly increased , and , in his op inion , would go on increasing ; therefore ho thought it wjis or the greatest consequence that the members of tl » o honest , industrious middle-class , who had a voico m electing members of that powerful House of Commons ' ,
should be increased also . Mn . Palk , M . P . —At the meeting of tho WoodUry Agricultural Association on Thursday , the lion , member said that tho time had arrived when the question of Keform must bo entertained by tho Houso of Common ? . Ho believed that tho agricultural interest was more involved in that moasuro than perhaps in any other that could bo brought before tho Legislature . Ho thotiyne tho time had come when the elective franchise of tnw country must bo reconsidorod in a different spirit ami m a different mind from what it was when the furmur bin was carriod , that all classes of tho community shouM uo considered , and that tho franchise should bo given to thoso who would faithfully , honestly , nncl conscientiously uso It for tho benefit of tho country . Ho oarod not iroin what side of tho House tho mensuro emanated , for » ° would give his vote to that measure which . ho believed would give tho fajroBt and largest amount of
representation ta the people of tho country . Alderman Sacomonb . —This gentleman addruasui a meeting of the electors of Greenwich < " » , lliur f . . .-J ' Ho made a declaration of opinion on extension ui i" «
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 30, 1858, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30101858/page/4/
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