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lordship gave notice that , on Monday , he would move that such message he taken into consideration , in order that the necessary arrangements might be effected . Lord John Hussem , also gave notice that the amendments of the Lords to the Parliamentary Franchise ( Ireland ) Bill should be considered on Tuesday , and that he meant to propose to reduce to £ 12 the qualifications which the Lords had increased from £ 8 to £ 15 . And that he should disagree with the amendment introduced by the Lords which made it necessary for an elector to demand to be placed on the registry . Mr . Disraeli announced that he , and those with whom he acted , would oppose both of Lord John Russell ' s proposals .
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Mr . Charles Pearson has unexpectedly resigned his seat for Lambeth . The writ is to be moved on Monday , and already the friends of several liberal gentlemen are urging their claims on the constituency . Meetings of electors have been held with a view to the election of Mr . Williams , late member for Coventry . The Globe of last night announces that a requisition to Mr . David Salomons is in the course of signature . Mr . D . "W . Wire is taked of in some quarters as likely to be a candidate on the liberal interest . —Daily JS ' ews .
Mr . Daniel Whittle Harvey has forwarded £ 43 Is . to the treasurers of the Peel Fund , from the officers and constables of the City of London police-force . In reply to a statement made by a correspondent of a morning paper , Mr . Harvey says , " Nothing can be more remote from the truth than the imputation of * Leo . ' The first intimation I received of an intention existing amongst the members of the force to subscribe to the Peel Fund was in the form of an enquiry , whether I , as the commissioner , had any objection to their subscribing a day's pay , such being the very ( reneral wish of its members . leased to hear
My reply was , that , while I was greatly p of the prevailing feeling among them , I considered half a day ' s pay would be ample , and that every man was to consider himself a free agent to subscribe or not . When the subscription was placed in my hands , the superintendent observed that every officer and constable had subscribed , except two , and at the same time produced to me a list of names of the subscribers , but which I declined to receive , inasmuch as it would be to make me acquainted with the names and numbers of the men who had declined to subscribe , and they will consequently remain unknown to me . "
The nomination for Mayo took place on Thursday , and a brief account of the j > roceedings , up to two o ' clock , has been received in Dublin by express . The high sheriff opened the court at half-past ten o ' clock , and the candidates entered the court attended by their respective friends . Those of Mr . Butt comprised nearly all the principal landlords of the county . Mr . Ousely Higgins was proposed , in a very animated speech , by the Honourable Frederick Cavendish , proprietor of the Mayo Telegraph , and Mr . Butt was proposed by Colonel Knox G > re . Sir Richard O'Donnfll was then put in nomination , his proposer being a Roman Catholic priest , who was addressing the electors when the express left . The utmost excitement prevailed in the town , where a large force of constabulary is concentrated on the occasion , together with detachments of the 14 th and 17 th Regts .
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On Thursday the French Assembly had recourse to a fresh ballot for electing the three remaining members of the Committee of Permanence . The intense struggle of parties caused the result to be awaited with much aiixipty . The numbpr of voters was 498 ; absolute majority , 250 . Combarel de Leyval obtained 265 votps ; Garnon , 255 ; Grevy , 248 ; Chambolle , 225 ; Bixio , 213 ; Fremy , 131 ; Delcssert , 108 . The two first alone were declared elected . Garnon is one of the candidates of the moderate majority ; Combarel de Leyval belongs to the tiersparti . The House proceeded to a serond ballot for the determination of the last member . The result of the second ballot was in favour of the moderates , whose candidate , M . Chambolle . obtained 262 votes out of 517 , while Grcvy got only 240 . Thus the Committee of Pernianonce is at last complete
Telegraphic advices from the Duchies , received in Berlin , are to the effect that the advanced posts of the contending forces had come to blows in the neighbourhood of Flensburg . The Danes retired , carrying away their killed and wounded . The Holsteiners lost twenty killed and wounded . The Kiilncr Zcitung publishes a telegraphic despatch , dated Berlin , July 24 , stating that the free city of Lubeck had hastened to ratify the treaty of prace with Denmark , and had intimated the same to the Schleswig-Holstein Staathalterschaft .
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TO THE SUBSCRIBERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE . " Mr . Buchanan , late Proprietor and Editor of the Weekly Tribune , is now on a tour through the provinces to explain to the supporters of that Journal the circumstances which have led to its amalgamation with this newspaper , and to devise measures for rendering the Leader an efficient organ of communication for
the Social Reformers of the United [ Kingdom . As he intends during his progress to give a public lecture or address in all places where the friends can make satisfactory arrangements for the purpose , communications on this matter are immediately invited . His address for the ensuing week will be , " care of J . B . Smith , solicitor , Hanley , Staffordshire . " Lancashire and Yorkshire will be first visited : afterwards , Scotland .
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POSITION OF THE LIBERAL PARTY . The Liberal party is , in nautical phrase , " in stays "—not very well knowing what course to take , is displaying the relaxed condition proper to a transition state . Mr . Cobden ' s letter to his Leeds constituents , vindicating his vote against Government on the Palmerston debate , and the banquet at the Reform Club , may be regarded as opposing signs of * that wavering state ; but , in order fully to apprehend the true meaning of the two phenomena , it is necessary to bear in mind
who they are that are making the signs . We shall speak of these things with that frankness which our readers appreciate , seeking the strength of Liberal opinions in realities , and not in pretences . Richard Cobden was the chosen leader of the Anti-Corn-law League—not the originator , for perhaps if any one man could claim that first spark it might be Archibald Prentice of Manchester ; but the leader chosen after the League was virtually made . He was mainly though not solely instrumental in directing the action of that League to its
successful issue . It cannot be said of him that he never faltered in his career , for we believe we are not wrong in saying that at one period , not long before Peel adopted the anti-corn-law policy , Cobden had spoken in terms of a disheartened tenour ; but he had worked long , and he had his full meed of praise . A large section of the people bestowed upon him a more than royal gift of pecuniary independence . After that triumph Cobden attempted various other political enterprises , which did not take very well , and even " financial reform" bids
fair to merge in a larger measure , more adapted to excite popular interest . On this point we might adopt the words of Sir Joshua Walmsley at the Wymondham meeting last week . But still Cobden has an intellect and a heart above party intrigue , and we believe that in the next popular movement —which is not yet in shape or even projected—he will be a leading man . He possesses , in an extraordinary degree , the faculty of making political and economical propositions plain to the popular mind ; he is conscientious ; and he must be considered as
representing a large section of the public . Although the promoters of the banquet to Lord Palmerston vastly outnumber Mr . Cobden in their own proper persons , their pretensions to a representative character are not quite so great as they seem . Not only were they a mere section of the great club that owns the palace in Pall-mall , but they were , it would seem , a packed body . If we are correctly informed , the collective sanction of the
club was never invited . On the contrary , it is publicly stated that the list of persons who attended the banquet was limited to the first two hundred tliat put down their names—the ardent and most forward promoters only . It was therefore nothing more than a dinner party on a large scale , the clubhouse being the tavern . We presume that the rules of the Reform Club permit minorities to make that exclusive use of its accommodations ?
If we try the party by another test its peculiarly limited character will again appear . It is well known that the apparent majority of foriy-six who voted in favour of Mr . Roebuck s motion , praising Lord Palmerston ' s foreign policy , included several who agreed with Mr . Cobden in disapproving of that policy , and we believe that , if he pleased , Mr . Cobden might disclose some curious facts as to the
means taken to " whip" the Ministerial membersmeans as unusual as they are humiliating to the party " in power . " But Mr . Cobden has mercifully forborne . We question the policy of that forbearance , which appears to us to be a converse of the intrigues that it suffers to go on ; but we cannot question the motives of a man who took so independent a course as he did on the main matter . The fact remains that the majority included a number who had waived their own convictions as a
matter of charity to the " Liberal" Goyerninen ' t ] some who acted from personal respect to Lord Johta Russell ; several who acted from personal liking for Lord Palmerston ; it was therefore a false majority , including a number which ought to haVf been reckoned on the other side . Ministerial and personal influences were used to pervert the expression of public opinion through the Commons . dissidents
It is to be presumed that these —exrcepting possibly sbme of Lord Palmerston ' s personal friends , would not volunteer to meet electibiJ agents , litterateurs , and quidnuncs at the banquet A still more remarkable absence is that of Lord Palmerston ' s colleagues . Making subtractions f&i the high Whigs , and the real advocates of progress , we conclude that the promoters of the Daiiquetj Lord Palmerston ' hosts , are a section of the Liberal party , hot representing a majority in Parliament or in the Club ; and , certainly , hot among the People—which , indeed , does not . subscribe to the luxurious mansion in Pall Mall . Lord Palmerston , therefore ) is the leader of a special section of Liberals whose distinctive faith consists in Lord
Palmerston ' s foreign exploits and home professions : and this Palmerston party does hot include a majority of the House on the Speaker ' s . right hand , of the middle class Iteforrners , or of th' e People ; it does include the election " agents and persons of that class . From these data we infer that the electidn agents are organizing a pretended Liberal movement , which is to have the effect of bringing influence to Lord Palmerston , and in some way of behefiftng the said agents , probably by bringing business at the next election . And , our present duty is to warn the Liberals that at the next election , and in
the preparations before it , attempts will be made to overawe them by cries of ' * treachery , " if they do n'ot allow themselves to be gulled by that " madness of many for the gain of a few . " m . From Mr . Cobden ' s separate movement We infer that he is awake to that other intrigue , and that he finds it too bad to be tolerated . In one passage df his speech he half exposes it . He is speaking of his resolve to enforce his arbitration principle as opposed to war , and the opportunity which the Greek affair afforded of doing so : —
" In the meantime Lord Stanley gave notice of a motion condemnatory of the conduct of the Government in the affair of Greece . No sooner was the decision of the Lords known than it was felt that the existence of the Government depended upon their verdict being reversed by the Commons . «* And now appeared the cloven foot of party in its most hideous deformity . To insure the desired result the cry was raised that the Greek motion was part and parcel of a ' foreign conspiracy . ' A large party in the Lords , with Lords Stanley and Aberdeen at their head , were
charged with forming part of a gang of conspirators , whose confederates were spread over Russia , France , and Austria . Now , that we can look back calml y at this party device , we must admire the audacity of its inventor . I confess the success of the cry astonished me . In the first French revolution it required torrents of the best blood of the country to be shed on the scaffold to lay the ghost of a ' foreign conspiracy . ' In our own history of the disgraceful latter half of the seventeenth century we find plots without number attributed by their inventors to
the agency of foreign conspirators . But they were epochs when free institutions were in their infancy . I thought we had reached a political maturity which would have enabled us to look steadily at such raw-head-andbloody-bones , and detect the scooped turnip and white sheet out of which they are manufactured . But the plot succeeded , and it was in the midst of the excitement caused by the cry of . a foreign conspiracy , by threats of dissolution , and of the resignation of the Ministiy , that Mr . Roebuck ' s motion was brought forward . "
The other party is too indiscreet to disguise this breach ; indeed , Mr . Solicitor-General Cockburn —a coarse rather than independent orator—does not scruple to widen the dissension , and to cast a word of scorn after the dissidents : — " It was to theHoufle of Commons that the honour was due of vindicating the Government , and maintaining them in office . But , alas ! in the midst of their triumph they as members of that House , were entitled to express a mixed feeling of pain and regret at the recollection that many who had been remarkable heretofore for their adhesion to popular opinions fell off and deserted—{ loud cheers )— ' Among- the faithful , fuithlesa only they , '
and , under the idea of maintaining their own consistency , sacrificing that consistency , betrayed the interests of the people of England , and the causes of civil and Teligious liberty , of civilization and humanity throughout the world , and who will have to answer to the people of England and their constituencies on some future occasion . " This , then , is the actual state of the Liberal party at present : the Whigs and mere Ministerialists are dying out , not very slowly : the election agent interest is about to try what can be done with Lord Palmerston for leader , and his
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There is nothing so revolutionary ; , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation an its eternal progress . — -Dn . Arnold .
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^^ SATURDAY , JULY 27 , I 860 .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 27, 1850, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1848/page/11/
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