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The report of M. Soule's death in a duel...
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1853.
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THE OPENING YEAR AND OPENING WAlt. Tii.k...
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LORD PALMERSTON AND THE LANCASHIRE STRIK...
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Saturday, December ."I. Tins Moniteur Of...
^ S SSr ! k |< *^^^^^ ^ jWs month ; so that , even weather permitrr W ^^^^^^ F ^ 'P would not make any demonstration tN Mj , ^ ^^^^ Tw ^ say on , Sebastopol before the middle of te £ ^ W ^ W ^ m j ' ^ La Presse states , on the authority of a ^ £ " ^^^ reletterfrom oaeof the ships of the Anglo-French ——TS ^ uadron , that the demand of the Porte that the fleets should enter the Black Sea was refused , because the fleet destroyed at Sinope was under orders to convey munitions to Circassia , and to excite Bussian subjects to re volt . Is thiscredible ? Meanwhile , the indefatigable impotence of diplomacy appears not even yet to have exhausted all attempts to make things comfortable for Russia , and to avenge Sinope by an armistice , if not a pacification . We believe , however , that events will be too strong and too swift for words ; and it may , perhaps , be found comfortable for pur Ministry to meet Parliament on the last day of January with a more striking vindication than any note or protocol . Admiral Dundas may supply a brief and telling paragraph to the Queen ' s speech .
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It is stated that Dr . Bowring will succeed Sir George Bonham as Governor of Hongkong .
M. Visconti, The Imperial Architect, Who...
M . Visconti , the Imperial architect , who designed the magnificent completion of the Louvre , and of the JRue de Rivoli , and the tomb of Napoleon at the Invalides , and who was the director of all the great public works now in course of execution in Paris , lias died suddenly .
The Report Of M. Soule's Death In A Duel...
The report of M . Soule ' s death in a duel with the Due d'Alba at Madrid is not confirmed by letters from Madrid -of the 23 rd inst .
The Weather, So Frosty Yesterday Morning...
The weather , so frosty yesterday morning at daybreak , rapidly relaxed soon after , and by ten o ' clock there was a south wind and a sudden thaw ! The skaters looked with dismay upon the rapidly dissolving ice ; when , lo ! about noon another change , the wind in the north once more , and the slushy streets and thawing snows grew hard again . What will it be to-day ?
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . " Physiology ana Phrenology" in our next . J . A . Langfoed ' s Sonnets should have a place , if in our crowded columns place could be found . We have been obliged to decline a great many verses lately from the same cause . Even for verse in type a long while space has been wanting .
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SATURDAY , DECEMBER 31 , 1853 .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , Dccauac there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to kee p things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dk . Arnold .
The Opening Year And Opening Walt. Tii.K...
THE OPENING YEAR AND OPENING WAlt . Tii . k beginning of the year 1854 presents in some respects a parallel , iu others a contrast , to the beginning of 1853 . In January last the condition of the country was not only prosperous , but it had been so , and it continued to be so . Wo began the year with a rising revenue , notwithstanding the reduction of the sugar duties and the commutation of the window-tax , with Consols at par , and 22 , 000 , 000 / . in the Bank of England , with exports showing a progressive increase ( luring the previous year over the year before it , and with everything promising n , continuance of prosperity , save only in one momentous point ; the weather had been wet , and tho hopes of a change to rescue the crops were disappointed bv a continuance of weather in which cold alternated with damp , and the gloomy sky of January , 1850 , finds its natural fruit in the dear bread of January , 1864 . It was expected that the prosperity would continue , and it ; did continue , and bus continued , notwithstanding some further disappointments . Tlie cotton trade appeared to have got well over the disturbances brought forward by false reports of a short , cotton crop in America , when there was a redundant crop ; but the export trade hud been utretehed to a point which forbade further
expansion . While the exports have enormously increased , the price per piece has greatly diminished-. The enormous emigration , progressively increasing upon an average of 300 , 000 a year , was kept up . The continued imports of gold from America and Australia stimulated trade , which was further stimulated by the demands of Australia and America upon our manufactures , especially in iron .
Other trades followed the prosperity of the great staples ; building has increased immensely , not only in London , but even in secondary and third rate towns * , and wages rose almost in all trades . The demand for a rise , however , was resisted in Stockport , and , though ultimately yielded there , it has been partially resisted in Manchester , and wholly in the district in which Preston is a centre ; and thus it happens that we have the continued strike in Lancashire . The woollen
trade has , upon the whole , been steady ; coal and iron , which were flourishing at the commencement , have received a new impulse from the reduction of the import duties in France . The flax trade is extending in the north of Ireland . The report of the American President of the universal prosperity in the Union , and of reduction of import" duties , especially that upon iron , to __ 25 instead of 30 per cent ., promises a further impulse to trade ; and thus , notwithstanding the high price of bread , and sundry new demands
upon the poor-law , the condition of the country is really sound . Perhaps at no time after a short crop has the country been really so little distressed as it is now , the poor-rates so little burdened with paupers . Consols , indeed , are not at par , but they are at § 4 £ , have been again above 95 , and are now oscillating about the level of 94 . The speculators have used immense exertions twice over to create panics and bring Consols down ; they succeeded in
reducing them below 90 , but scarcely for a moment . Notwithstanding the adverse prospects abroad , such is the sound state of trade , and such the substantial confidence in Government , Consols continue comparatively high in price , with a perfectly firm market . The dearness of bread was expected ; if the check in the cotton was not quite so much expected , it can be accounted for on causes not peculiar to the year , and general prosperity can be accounted for on still broader causes . Our
expectation has been justified by its continuance , and on the same grounds we look forward with confidence to the year now opening . Politically there has been a very serious change . As at the end of 1852 , so at the end of 1853 , -we have had a Ministerial crisis . The Derby and Disraeli Cabinet broke up , and Lord Aberdeen induced the leading men of all parts to unite in forming a national Cabinet , conservative so far as discretion went , but liberal so far as it accepted the opinions of the community at large , and the duty of accomplishing deliberately sanctioned improvements . The main function of the Cabinet was to restore that confidence in the Executive
which had been shaken by the incompetency and inconsequence , rnd detected corruption of the previous Cabinet : that purpose was answered . Lord John , hoAvever , thought himself bound to introduce a Reform Bill , and this brought to a point the difference between Lord Palmerston and his colleagues , which appears to have turned mainly on the conduct of affairs in the East . Lord Palmerston resigned his office on the 15 th December , he fulfilled tho expectation of many by " continuing" in his office on the 24 th . Tho
Cabinet is re-united , no longer for the purpose of establishing confidence in tho Executive among the English people , but for the purpose of maintaining in Europe the presence of a united Government and a united nation . Thai ; necessity is tho more urgent from the changed aspect of foreign politics . At the close of 1852 , there was some very rtligljt shadow of doubt as to the . Hf , ato of our relations' with France ; we have within the lust few days drawn closer the firm alliance which has subsisted between tho two countries ; but Lord Pnhnerston ' s continuance in office is understood to indicate that tho
Government adopts a very energetic policy in defending Turkey against " Russia . Tho scmi-Ministeriaj Times has declared that u wo are entering upon a state of war . " Russia is collecting new means of aggression from the extreme south'to the extreme north , instigating Persia" to disturb our frontiers in India , and commanding Sweden
to close her ports against us In the north . . It is . not to he supposed , however , that our own Government has bee . n idle ; it is evident that they have sought an alliance for us in Europe , amongst those states which incline to a constitutional freedom . The people of England and America are daily learning better to understand the common interest , ivhich they have in accepting theduty of being * the Champions of Freedom for the world . Our colonies , fronx Australia to North America , have received the last gifts of ' selfgovernment ; the West Indies are offered the
same , with pecuniary assistance for Jamaica f and , should our Ministers adopt a real national policy , there is every reason to suppose that they will enter upon the contest which awaits them with the support of a united empire At the beginning of the year 1853 every hope would have turned upon the maintenance of peace ; at the beginning of 1854 there is not a class which does not begin to feel resentment at the forbearance too long shown to the commo n ene ' myi The exchequer is Strong to sustain the Government ; trade is preparing to
accommodateitself to anew state of the world fora time ; and the confidence , even of the timidest class in the country , is shown by the firmness of the quotations on the Stock Exchange . The promise of a declaration of war on the part of our Government is hailed with satisfaction by the people ; and a . hope is dawning that , instead of leaving the extremes , Democracy and Absolutism , to fi ght out the weary fi ght of anarchy on the field of Europe , our Government will , unite with its natural allies —whether sovereigns or peoples —to make constitutional law respected , and to release the ' . nations which the insolent leaders of Absolutism are unjustly holding in thrall .
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LORD PALMERSTON AND THE LANCASHIRE STRIKES . The working-classes who are on strike in the North have not yet -responded to the challenge which they have received from several quarters ; —they have not yet made good their assertion * that on commercial grounds the masters would be able to pay them ten per cent , more than the
curwages . We are well aware that in again calling our friends in the North to this point , we incur the risk of seriously damaging our popularity amongst them ; at the same time that , assuredly , the masters will not consider us to be their organ or friend . But we have quite another , and higher solicitude—to establish the truth , and especially to establish that practical truth upon which al & ne the working-classes can really stand . We know that after the first fit of impatience at reading our words has passed , many who were irritated fox ' the moment will recognise the friend whose honesty prevents him from flattering ; and even if it were not so , even if the Leader depended on its workingclass readers—which it does not—wo would
sooner let it go down , a sacrifice to truth , than sustain it at the cost of aiding what we regard as delusion . It is most important " that the working classes should see with perfect distinctness the actual state of the case against them . In order that the true merits of their interest may be understood and appreciated , they ought to see the facts with the same kind of perfect distinctness with which they see n piece of sculpture—it should stand out hard , with a distinct outline , so that no man can mistake the point about which lie is talking . Wo have before us three documents , all of which must have obtained much attention from
the working-classes : they are , first , an extract from nn address to the " Master Spinners and Manufacturers of Preston ; " next , a small pamp hlet called " The Strike , a letter to the working-classes on their position and movements ; by , . " - Lancashire Man ; " and thirdly , Lord Pulinerston ' reply to the Operatives' executive council at Preston . Now although there is much in the Home Secretary ' s letter which is indisputable , it appears to us , that not one of these documents fully hits the caso . The Lancashire Man puts forward many arguments to show that tho capitalist has a right to dictate his own terms for admission to w ° ' ^ * This littlo ptiinhhk ' t in published by Mr . John Clinpn ^ jJ of tho Strand , ftiuf , by Messrs . Johnson and llawson , ^ Manchester . Wo my Jin extract of tho iiddresu , for ^ ° , ' * only aeon that pnHsiigo winch wuh published in wt tho entire atiiteuicnt has never been ecnt to us .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 31, 1853, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31121853/page/10/
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