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An important meeting was held at Manchester , on Thursday evening , at the Albion Hotel , called together under the designation a " social soiree , " at which was put forth hy the honourable member for the West Riding of Yorkshire a sort of manifesto , indicating the policy he and his friends are disposed to take on the leading questions which are likely to
come before Parliament during the approaching session . The parties invited to the soiree were the leading members of the committees in South Lancashire and Manchester having the charge of the registers of voters , at whose suggestion the meeting is said to have taken place . Mr . Alexander Henry , M . P ., and Mr . Brotherton , M . P ., were present , and took part in the proceedings . Mr . George Wilson took the chair .
Mr . Milner Gibson , spoke first , chiefly in favour of large reductions of taxation—the abolition of the taxes on paper , newspapers , and advertisements ; Mr . Bright , who followed him , ridiculed the No-Popery movement , and urged the importance of adhering to principle , even at the risk of unseating the Whiys . Little progress would be made in the cause of Keform if they were always trembling for the fate of a Ministry . Mr . Cobden defended the course he had
pursued last se-sion , and indicated very plainly that he will not go a step out of hU way next session to keep the Whigs in office . " I must confess , " lie suys , " that , in regard to fiscal matters , I believe the Opposition party would do quite as much in the way of retrenchment as the Whigs—I am not sure that they would not do more . " He denounced the proposed attempt to impose some restriction on religious freedom , under the j ) retext of checking Papal aggression .
"We 6 hall be told , pretty often , no doubt , that unless Government interferes the piivileges and prerogatives of the Queen of England will be invaded by the Po |> e—ii ( , t by Cardinal Wiseman . Cardinal Wiseman is a liritiah subject ; he cannot invade the prerogative of the Crown without beiii £ guilty of high treason ; and if he is so guilty let him be tried by law . But what prerogative has been invaded by the conduct of the Pope ? Not the temporal prerogative . Why , the Pope has at this moment iu hi » army a few thousand French and Austrian troops ; and I have it on the bpst authoiity , that if these troops were removed dire would be tlio dismay and speedy the flight of the whole body—Pope and
Cardinals . ( Cheers and laughter . ) It is not , then , the army of the Pope that is to threaten the temporalities of the Crown . Are the temporal prerogatives threatened by sea ? You may have a list of the entire naval force of the Pope' —it amounts to two gun brij » 8 and a tschoonrr . ( Laughter . ) Put one quarter of an eifeutivn service on the const of Sussex , it would be quite sufficient to guard the whole ial . ind against it . We are told , however , that the spiritual dominion of the Queen is to be perilled . Now , ure we as politicians , who are called upon to vote money for ordnance and for shot and shell to meet and repel the aggressive enemy that nivt'U us wiih himilar weapons—are we to forge the spiritual
artillery with whicl > we are to meet this ng ^ re . sMion ? ( Cheers . ) If we are , 1 beg you to consider how capitally wo are milted in the Mouse , of Commons for that purpose . ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) Admitting , if you plunge , that we arc , the great majority of us , eminent for our piety , how are wo constituted ? (/ . uut / htar . ) Am wi > all churchmen , owning to the spiritual authority of the Queen ? Why , about forty or lllt . y of us are Roniiin Catholics ; and , mark me , you will havo a great many more Human Catholics returned from Ireland at the next election . We have an Independent or two , wo have three or four Unitarians , and we , have a Quaker I am happy to say , and 1 wish wo had a good many more—( grout applause ); and wo have a prospect of having a Jew .
( Laughter . ) Now , is not that a very nice body of men to uphold the Queen ' s supremacy as bend of Kngland ' H ohiirch ? Jf you wanted to give iih a task in the House which should lust till Doomsday , then give ; us the task of Httltling the question of 1 'apal aggression , (( 'hears . ) I say , give it to the politicians to settle if you wunt it never to be settled ut ull . As lias been well expressed here by Mr . liright , politicians have been at . t ) i <» work already for 400 or 600 yems . They havo Iried every available means ; they have tried lire and faggot , and then runic the penal laws which went every length short of extermination . . . - Hut . there is one ti ) inutom , and almost the only symptom , which has oiuhiIouiuo in this agitation lor leligiouu disabilities , and it is thin ; the culm . uaHiivu ,
and in many respects contemptuous silence and indifference -with which it has been regarded by the great mass of the people of this country . ( Cheers . ) U « " » same tumults had oocurred fifty or sixty years ago , owing to the ignorance and bigotry of the mass of the people of this country , half the Roman Catholic chapels would have been in flames , and half their occupants' lives in danger . ( Hear , hear . ) And I thank the demonstration only for this—that it has given me , more than anything else , a conviction of the great progress that has been made in real intelligence by the great mass of the people , especially in the north of England . ( Cheers . ) I will not say so much of the south . " The whole of the speakers were much applauded , and the meeting was altogether very enthusiastic .
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The Queen gave a dramatic re presentation at Windsor Castle on Thursday , the performance taking place in the temporary theatre , which was fitted up the same as on former occasions . About eight o ' clock her Majesty the Queen and Prince Albert , with the Prince of Wales , Prince Alfred , the Princess Royal , the Princess Alice , and the Princess Helena , accompanied hy the royal dinner guests , comprising the Duchess of Kent , tae the Earl and Countess
Baron and Baroness de Brunnow , of Minto and Lady C . Elliot , the Marqui * and Marchioness of Worcester , the Earl and Countess of « ardwicke , Lady Fanny Howard , Baroness de Speth , Lord and Ladv Ashburton , the Right Honourable Fox Maule , and Colonel Wylde , entered the temporary theatre . A select party had been honoured with invitations to witness the representation . The performances were Douglas Jerrold ' s comedy , The Prisoner of War , and Planche s vaudeville , The Loan of a Lover . m _ visited
The metropolis and the suburban districts were yesterday with one of the densest fogs that has been witnessed for some time past . All travelling by the usual steam conveyances was completely out of the question . At four o ' clock in the afternoon it became so dark that it was extremely difficult to see more than a loot in advance ; the consequence was that several accidents happened both on the river and along the public roads . Near Westminster steam-boat pier , a boat containing three men and a female , who were making for College-stairs , ran their vessel against the stairs and all four were thrown overboard , and narrowly escaped drowning . At the foot of the various bridges , and along the streets , several vehicles fame into violent collision .
A public vestry was held in the vestry-room of St . Georye the Martyr , Southwark , last evening , for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning the Legislature for a total repeal of the window-duty . The following resolution was passed unanimously : —" That the window-duties are impolitic , unequal , and unjust , and ought to be entirely abolished without further delay ; that the window-tax not only operates unequally and oppressively upon the occupiers of the middle and lower class of houses , but is entirely destructive of all those sanitary improvements which have been sanctioned by the Government and Legislature . " The Government has offered a reward of £ 150 for the
discovery of the person or persons who so brutally murdered Mrs . Mary Kinder , on the 16 th instant , at Roads Fold , Chester . It is announced also that any accomplice , not biing the actual murderer , who will give such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of his or her confederates , will receive her Majesty ' s free pardon . The wife and four children of John Mitchel , the Irish exile , arrived in Liverpool on Saturday , from Dublin , for the purpose of embarking thence for Australia . Tliey were accompanied by Father Kenyon , who made the necessary arrangements for their departure in the Condor . . Seven hoys from the Metropolitan Ragged Schools were also passengers in the same vessel , which It ft Liverpool on Thursday .
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The latest , nccoiints from Paris bring no intelligence of any progress having been made in the formation of anew Ministry . It ia said , on the one hand , that M . Leon Faucher has opened negotiations with other parties ; on the other , that , the President will be obliged to form a temporary Ministry from friends , who are not members of the Assembly . It is said to be beyond a doubt that llendsburg and Altona are to be occupied by the Diot ' s troops ; Lubeck and Hamburg are also for a certain period to be garrisoned by Aurttrians and Prussians . Only about 6000 men of Austrian troops will for the moment enter Ilolstein . Frederiukaort will be occupied probably by the Dunes . No proposition han been made by Count 8 pi (» nneck at . Vienna for the withdrawal of Ilolstein from the (/ onfederation .
The statu uo ante , 1817 , is now to be the fate of Hesse ( y'assel . Kvery vestige of Liberalism , of course , disappears . The Kajf ' cUor Avitung , of January 21 , snys that , a retrograde policy i » to he immediately and vigorously adopted . livory thinsr . that has happened since Ihvl 7 is to be blotted out , uiul we are to be pushed v \ vn further back than that , period . The new election is to be abolished , and for it iu to he substituted Chambers composed as they were in the yn » r IHIJl . The lwvvs respecting the juvtirt-, leligion , and the jury ant to be Hot aside , ' or to be reduced t , o iiiHiguificuuce . At . thevny most , the institution of the jury in to bu onniiucd to tin ? crimes of ' thed ' and ' minder . ' AH political o ( lcii < : en are to be tried by other tribunals ; that in , by the ' per * nianeiit . military tribunal . ' . licnides the Commissary of Police , ILoruHteiii , the IJurgomuHter , llenkel , linn been arrested and imprisoned ; and many more arrests sue expected . "
The President of the ( j ) < rinnn Association for tl »« . Section of National Commerce , i ' rineo Felix of Jloljeulohe , haw addressed a letter to the plenipotentiaries uh * sembled in conference at Dresden , exhorting them to labour aeriously ut the accomplishment of the cuatoiua union between Austria and the rent of Germany .
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WANTED , A NATIONAL PARTY . Fbance is reduced to a negative ; the State is under litigation like a property in Chancery , while factions contend over it . The State is not simplydivided , but it is so split into fractions that there is no one majority ; for the majority in the Parliament which declared want of confidence in the Baroche ministry includes iu itself three or four oppositions : — <• The Minister , " says the Paris resident of the Times , " was declared unworthy of confidence by some , because he had carried the laws of publics instruction , of electoral reform , and of the press ; by others , notwithstanding his having carried them ; by some , because be had removed General Changarnier ; by other * , notwithstanding that removal . The reasons alleged by the latter were totally different from the reasons alleged by the former . In a word , this vote of want of confidence implies a vote of confidence ; the blame of some implies the approbation of others . " In such a state of the technical majority , the President has been seeking a Cabinet from the minority , which is promoted to the titular rank of a " virtual majority . " This is not only to stultify all Parliamentary rule , but it is really and avowedly to set the nation aside . Through the conflict of factions , France cannot act . "We see in this dead lock of public affairs , threatening at once stagnation and revolution , the consequence of that degenerate patriotism among public men which has neglected to hold up a master principle . The
nation is incapacitated . No faction even can gather to itself sufficient strength for a counterfeit public action . There is ferment without movement , contest without activity . So low has the conduct of public affairs become , that statesmen positively accept information from the Police— "the Prefect of Police , " says the writer we have just quoted , " encourages them [ the Baroche Ministry ] to remain in office , and declares that public opinion is in their favour and entirely against the Assembly : ' * placing * ' public opinion" on a level with thieves and vagabonds ! Such are the results of Guizot negatives , of Thiers empiricisms , and Louis Philippe
manceuvrings . It is almost the same in England , though we do not know that our Ministry has yet sunk quite to low as to consult the Commissioners of Police on the national view of a Ministerial crisis . Public affairs stand upon an even balance , like the ladder on a juggler's chin , and a trifle , such as the Russell-Durham letter , can cause as much staggering to the poor public au a cabbage stalk thrown at the ladder . Like France , the nation has become incapnble of action ; it is capable onl y of " fantigue . " We are in so bad a condition that thq Times
positively anticipates the parulyzation of the Commons b y the recent translation of Lord Lincoln to the Upper House , and the possible removal of Lord Ashley ! " What , " wl < n the leading journal , representative of " respectable " opinion , " is the immediate prospect Huggeated by the recent changes i 1 h the withdrawal of ehiefH and the decline of party Hpirit to conduce- to no other result than Ministerial omnipotence r " Frightful question' ! For the " Ministerial omnipotence" dreaded by the Times IB nothing else than the omnipotence of impotence —the .. ubNoluto unquestioned power to do naught .
It i » the Naino with un in Kngland Ah in France : the nation , with all its wants and aspirations , nil its iniseriuH and it . « greatnesses , is negatived by dimension and iiuliffureiitisin ; even faction , split < lowu to uripreporuleiatiiig fragments , in neutralized , and absolute impotence rules supreme . The great " practical politician " whom we havo quoted has just undertaken an enterprise of » &" ' tiiHtie order muted to the nightmare eatalepny °£ the day : touching the Roman Catholios that the bull " dismembering an ancient Kqiuiaa Catholic djoceae of Ireland " is a " Papal aggression ** upo » than , and , putting on an afar of sympathetic indig-
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TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . The Prize Essay on 1 John ii . 18 . —The prize has been awarded to the writer of the essay signing S . S . H . The authors of the unsuccessful essays , several of which are of great merit , may have their MSS . by applying at our office . Dorset's letter received . W . J . —The Index to the first volume of the Leader will be given in our next number . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it encreases the difficulty of finding space for them . All letters for the Editor to be addressed 9 , Crane-court , Fleetstreet , London .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep thing 3 fixed when &U the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —pa . Abnold .
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SATURDAY , JANUARY 25 , 1851 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 25, 1851, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1867/page/8/
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