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    still further extension . A closer alliance in friendly feeling will be an additional consequence , not less valuable than the material results . Another effect will be to increase the activity in our own iron trade , already active . That tlie iron trade has been very fortunate indeed , is proved , by the comparatively small mischief inflicted under the speculative tampering with the trade . The demand for rails , in England , is greab , and now there will be a demand for French . jails ; the demand for coals , increased by the winter claims of London , will now be increased

    by the French claims ; and hence activity in the iron trade and its great auxiliary , will receive a new impulse . Wages , of course , must be maintained . This peculiar impulse will help to make the working-classes understand , by the force of illustration , the nature of those causes which raise or depress wages . The contrast between the iron and cotton trade , already striking , will now be rendered still wider ; and those persevering in the Lancashire strike will perceive , from the facts as well as from the explanations of other trades , how much their efforts are going against the stream of natural commerce . We understand that the

    letter in our Open Council , by Mr . John Holmes , who has studied the subject of industry deeply , and has proved his sincerity by every test , lias made a considerable impression in Lancashire , and has been extended by a special local circulation in Burnley , where the two sides are at last coming to a reconcilement , upon practical grounds of mutual inquiry . W ^ e hope that the strike will generally begin to subside . Should the " Labour Parliament , " which has been talked

    of , at a small meeting in Manchester , be convened , we trust that its debates will turn less upon mere agitation than upon practical questions , as to the causes of value ; from which the labouring classes , as well as the commercial classes , may learn the real nature of those difficulties with which they have been contending . Should it do so it will be beneficial ; should it neglect that inquiry it will be useless , if not mischievous . -

    Coals and iron , however , have brought us home too fast . Another event has occurred abroad , which we must not overlook , although , its importance has been overrated by some of our contemporaries . The Queen of Portugal is dead and her subjects , as well as her allies , are felicitating themselves on the prospect of improvements from the change . vV ^ e anticipate none . The Queen was an ill-starred specimen of royal humanity . Exposed rather than exalted , from being lifted upon a throne , and placed before the world ; a woman with passions stronger than her understanding , inclined to indulgence , and obese

    to an unseemly degree , she might have passed , in . private . life , as a good-natured , bustling person , liked , -probably , by her immediate friends , and deserving of no very strict censure . Her faults were the effect of her position . She was called to the throne in her eighth year ; affianced at that : ige , to her uncle , who became a rebel ; and sho was set upon the throne to govern at fifteen . Her reign was as distracted as her life . Let us respect the expiation . The saddest fate that can befall u woman asks for pity : in that sudden silence of the mother ' s pangs , relentless history holds its peace awhile .

    While one prmco of Coburg is busied about }\\ h new regency , another prince of Coburg , in a greater and a quieter country , has exhibited Iuh activity in promoting education . Thin time Prince Albert appeal's upon the high theatre of Cambridge- University , of which he is Chancellor , juid which ho exhibits to his young friend tho Duke of Brabant ; tho Duko being made a Doctor

    on the occasion . Tho reception of the Prince nhowod his popularity ; and lie prosorvetl a eon-Bistoncy with the whole- career that ho has irmrkod out for himself , by paying a large share , of his attention to sub joe Ls conneclnd with practical science , —mechanics expounded in a lecture- by Professor Willis , and geoloj ^ , - hv Professor ? Sedgowiok . By degrees , IV .- , . > ..,.- ; iimlvfrig ita way , and it crops m \ t in ;>' , ' firootiona .

    9 ? ho llogiatrai * , iGrcncral is explaining to us ; % J 3 ^ TOfck , moi ' fb " of ? tho laws of diolora . It ; haw J ^ wMS ^^ ® w JpWue . sH of tho land on which •^ ' mffibmmS& ° , W U «< 1 »' !>»« also a ilwliniit r * V $ ™ Sffi 3 ft % liit impViticH <> f water . Where ^ i ^ JiWP Wg * molo , va , ami exist . Tho iVwoiuw , i'WB ^ WpPmSB ^ washed o » l ; j and it \» from ^ r . fwSWf'lt ^"''*? ' uhjouk other vmimw , i ifcinaEW W IiubJot (> ( ll < " visi (; ' "" - NMrnw *

    Piety may be shown as much in keeping ^ Grod s elements pure for human use , as in sending up helpless prayeps from tke . midst of disobedience . The Begistrar Greneral confirms Lord Pahnerston . The Bishop of Manchester appears at the meeting of the Buly Athenseuta , to cavil at words , and insist upon " religious" education ; and . lie may perhaps £ ive voice to $ r sectarian preJNJ < $ i < ie which stftl commands subserviency from the Ad * ministrafton . | fut the retrograde party . is losing ground . ' It is now" ge ^ rafly understood that

    Ministers contemplate a . system o ± popular education , to be administered through the sects ; as they hope , by placing it under all sects , to render it national in its scope . Tliere are , however , great numbers , even of those who still conform and go to church , or chapel , who object to every species of sectarian administration . They do not wish to have their Positive science clipped by priestly instructors . There is still much work to do ; but we are making way , and it is consoling to observe how many , without being formally associated together , are working in the same

    direction . A contemporary has remarked that even the offence of wife-beating may , in part , be traced to a bad sanitary atmosphere . The low neighbourhood whicli breeds cholera , breeds also squalor , and with physical squalor , moral squalor—contentment under brutish conditions . The cases of wife-beating brought before the police-courts , this week , liave been remarkable for their number , but still more for their atrocity . One

    husband , who tries to kill Ms wife , with three knives successively , and , when the knife is wrenched from him , tries to tear open her wounds with his fingers , exhibits a less refinement of brutality than another husband , who obliges his wife to strip off all her clothes , to lie upon a bed , and there beats her , successively , with a stay-bone , a hairbrush , and a thick square stick , diversifying his recreations by other acts of tyranny , and by the threat that if she cried out , he would stamp upon her till she burst . There is no doubt that this

    brutality is fostered by squalor ; but it is also , perhaps , to be traced to a nervous excitement , incidental to bad living , and an overstrained work throughout the humbler population . The effeminacy of protracted peace lias its own peculiar ferocities ; and London , whose inhabitants disapprove so much of the cruelties of war , is eating its own heart with much of this domestic disease , and this nervous mania for cruel enjoyments .

    " We find , in the same blessed metropolis , objections to sacrificing life for expeditions in search of knowledge , and of those explorers who are missing in the Arctic Regions . Mr . Petermann , the geographer , is urgent to send out a new expedition , by way of Spitsbergen ; Captain Inglefield is anxious to go out with it . But the man who sits here , in tho midst of cholera and wifebeating , and disease , scruples to sacrifice life in search of science ; for the scionce is such that it cannot instantly bo sold at so much a yard .

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    OPINIONS ON THE EASTERN QUESTION . DEPUTATION TO LOUD PALMERSTON . A . deputation , conRisting of Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P ., Professor Newman , Messrs . Prout , Nicholay , HiokBon , and John Wilson , -waited upon Lord Palmcraton , at liis residence , by appointment , on tho 19 th instant , to nubmit an address lor presentation to Her Majesty , agreed to at tho groat public meeting held at tho London Tavern , in support of the independence of Turkey . Tho deputation wan vory kindly received by his Lordship , who promised to present tho address to Her Majofity , and listened attentively to various observations from tho different members of tho deputation on tho affairs of Turkey . Tho address was aa followH : —

    " To tho Queen ' s Most . Excellent Majesty . " May it please your Majesty , —We , your Majesty ' s i ' ailliful and all ' cclionnld Hubjcetn , being inhabitants of tho metropolis of Oi-ciit Britain , in public mooting in the oily of London UHHomblod , beg leavo respectfully to reproHonl ; to your Mn jeaty tlmt , the Horien of nggrenHionN on the part of the . !* ¦*¦ ' \ . 7 ' . >» > . in ( M |( , convinces uh that there oxihIk in itu cojinvutt ... cviohh not . only to nubduo Turkey , but to domineer ovor tin ; iji . i imd to extirpate nil freedom . WV ) look upon thin ua tho-truo reason why no diplomatic and

    Hotllomont of tlko ( marrol bo ^ v « ' < m Ii . ii . sHia Turkey was or 'in ]) OHnible ; unil wo lament ; that your MujeHty ' H Government , should lmvo wanted much valuable time , damage d Ilie juHteaiiHoof the Turku , indicted upon commerce moniliH of noedloHH dcprcHsion , mid ( which we regard uh the worn !; oll'ccl , of nil ) umpired univcrHtil siiHpicion of tho good faith of lOiigland in a vain oH ' ort to negotiate with an iinnerupuIoiiH and violent Power , whidb aeted wliilo wo talked , mid which , if now momentarily appealed , would onl y lici-oino mow dnngorouH on Homo oarly oeeiiHJon . Wo nnpluud ( ho ylorioiui » md patriotic npirit shown by tho

    Turkish people at the present crisis ; and should deplore any attempt on the part of your Majesty ' s Government to suppress ttyat spirit—considering the many solemn ways in which England has bound herself to maintain the Turkish independence- ^ as an act of unparalleled infamy . On the contrary , not only does the interest , but also the duty and honour of England call upon your Majesty ' s Government to render to Turkey ; Unconditionally , prompt , decisive , and effective aid . . JA doing this , we further beg leave to express our conviction , that it is equally the duty of your Majesty ' s Goverknient towards the people of this country to mspard all secret and dynastic diplomacy , and we must

    add that , in our opinion , Austria , by reason of her previous course of policy , and of her recent perfidious behaviour towards Turke ^ , ought to be regarded by us as an enemy , and not cherished as an ally ; and we further beg leave to represent to your Majesty that from , the manner in which this question has hitherto been conducted on the part of England , we can come to no more lenient conclusion than that the servants who have advised your Majesty are not equal to the emergency . "Dated , Oct . 7 . " Having handed in this document the deputation withdrew .

    LOED DERBY AND MB . HUME . The leader of the Tories and the veteran Radical were each invited to attend the meeting- held at Manchester last week , to express sympathy with Turkey . Each was precluded from attendance ; Lord Derby by illness —Mr . Hume , by the fact , that the invitation only reached him , in Norfolk , on the day of the meeting . Both have , howover , recorded their opinions on the subject under consideration . Lord Derby says —• " So far as I am informed as to the merits of the Eastern question , Hight appears to me to be altogether on the side of Turkey ; and I believe that my opinions , as to the utter futility of the pretexts put forward by Russia in justification of her acts of unprovoked aggression , are shared by the great mass of my countrymen /^ Mr . Hume goes much farther : — -

    " The invasion of territory , and the late proclamation of the Russian Governmnet against Turkey , must secure from all independent people , the strongest feelings on behalf of the Turks ; and I hope it will be proved that our Government have been consistent in the support of the Turks . If victory is to be with those who are right , the Turks must be , as I wish them to be , successful ; and it is quite possible that something advantageous to the liberty of Europe may yet spring from the hostilities now going on . " It is pleasant to find that the apostle of " economies " thinks that liberty may benefit by this righteous" war .

    MB . LA-INO AT TAIN . Our hyperborean brethren seem no less disposed to look upon war as not an unmixed evil , if waged for European liberty and British honour . In addressing his constituents at Tain , in the North of Scotland , last week , Mr . Laing took this moderate view : —_ A question of pre-eminent importance , which interested all , and which was at present uppermost in the thoughts of all , was that of peace or war . Ho had no sympathy with the advocates of a war policy for England . Our lato hwithout

    war with France had cost us quite enoug , our trying to get up an agitation in favour of another . But while we should endeavour to secure peace it might become absolutely necessary for England to go to war . There was no security for peace in Europe if . one nation , and that a very important one , should be suffered to tread undei toot stipulations which had been agreed to among nations , and so break international treaties , which it hadT pledged ltsell to adhere to . If any country was allowed , contrary to tho law of nations , to march armies into tho territories ot an adioininjr Power , such conduct must bo put a stop to . becomes

    Just as if among five individuals in a room , one outrageous , tho other four peaceable mon had no alterna tive but to take violent measures , and make him foci that it was as much his interest as theirs to keep the peace-That was the casowith regard to Russia , for atte * theyliaa escaped the horrors of a general European war tor nearty half a century , and it wns thought that the principles ot peace might never ftgain be infringed upon ua * luf 0 P *)> Nicholas stepped forward , and refusing to bojguidedcy tho counsel of the other Towers , baa entered ^ ntQ p . war the consequences of which it would bo difficult to forowi . The Groat Powers cravo the Emperor abundant

    opportunity to withdraw from tho foolish position , which JiO nau assumed . Thoy mado the means of withdrawing so easy and honourable that it might bo said they had raisea » bridge of gold for him to retreat by ; but ho sUU por » W" * in retaining those unjust pretensions and remaining m i «« province whirh ho hnd invaded , and there w now n other course but to rwort to war , and bring the fltruggw to so moody a termination , that it may eecuro us lor another half century from further violations ot tho » aw 01 tuitions . ( Cheera !) If , as aeemed probable , 1 ™™»™ J would bo nhortly Bummoned together , and Lord AP «™« ciuno down to them and showed that the 9 <> "y ' * " , " done all in their power to secure peace , and that th « y woua « be obliged either to micriiico the honour of hngUmo , oi w appeal to th « patriotism of the country to nuppor ttlim : r » u carrying out effectual proceedings agamflt RuBHift , h 0 . ^ r " K ivo the Government all the Hupport which Jay in J nowor , tm tlio reiiroHcntutivo of those whom lio iww «**

    rircBMod . ( Groat cheering . ) MKKTINd AT OLAS 00 W . ^ ( JhtBgow Iihh oxproBBOil itH opinion , 1 ieJ » . i-tHv » i »< readily , for giving vigorouH aHHiHtanco to tho n' At a public meeting , convened by tho Lord Prov » t , and attended by 3000 people , hold on Wedua « UWi iciHolutionn in fuvour of brookiutf « ' « P . ™ JJil Oziir , and trivhiK the Tmlcw immediate and material

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    1130 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 26, 1853, page 1130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2014/page/2/