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      public opinion among the people at the present moment . For all of which , thanks in Church and Parliament ! Unhappy Turkey has already given her enemies the occasion of crying th ^ he , ^ tee-sh * ji | jf > is vain ; forthefoUoweraoflfifltfwil ^ in Nablous and other places toffee up again *?; ti * Christians who have " desecrated the Khoraj *?' Fanatic agitators h * ve k ^ pt ^^ grims awaj ^ nl Mecca , declaring worship listfSss ' while Isfeh is under a curse ; and the accidental killing of a Mussulman at Nablous by an Englishman who

      ¦ was defending his own life , created a serious djs turbance in that place . There are thoae jssho-ex . - pect that Turkey shall immediately carry out the hattee-shereef as ( Completely ^ nd with as much order as if it were a bill passed by our House of Commons . If we are not mistaken , acts of our Parliament have given rise to riots in different parts of t £ ecountry ; we can remember to have heard of revolts in Wales and Manchester , and even in Iiondon ; ye . t the progress of England was not hopeless , even in * he Lord Gkohge Gordon era . There is bigotry in Syria , even as there is in Exeter Hall , and less fear qf < Ue policeman than there is in that respectable meeting-house .

      The domestic affairs that have . engaged Parliament have -been -not important , but they have sot been wholly uninteresting . The Lobd Chan - JOsraeB is proceeding with a bill to amend the junsdictioB and mode of maintaining the county courts , taking half of the expenses upon the state by pay * ng the judges' salaries , and providing for ' the building . Mr . Robert Philuhore has been ' unsuccessful in endeavouring to obtain a new adjustment of the tithe commutation—a subject , whose interest is very limited and almost an anachronism . Mr . DitiwYN has failed to carry

      his bill for punishing wife-beaters by flogging them , some members entertaining grave doubts whether that mode of punishment will be effectual , while others manfully resist the encroachment on * he privilege of an Englishman . Before proceeding to the financial statement on the 19 th , the ChanceiJiOR of the Exchequer has done hie best to prepare the ground . On the © ne hand , he has issued reduced military and mjjy « M « i estimates ; on the other , he has asked the City for a loan of 5 , 000 , 0007 . ; measures which , especially together , imply a prompt and decided diminution of taxation .

      Ministers have been entertained by the . Lord Mayor at the Mansion House , and complimentary speeches have passed . We did riot discover in these speeches anything so pointed or so instructive as we have heard under the same roof from the American Minister , or from the members of the Law Amendment Society ; but perhaps we may anticipate ono result . Men seldom dine with a man whom they intend to kill ; and we presume that after the banquet , Ministers will scarcely proceed with the bill which is to abolish the pre-Bent municipality and to estabish * i small borough town council in its place .

      No dissatisfaction on general grounds can make us blind to a good act , in whatever quarter it may be done . Lord Wodbhoosjb has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary to Russia , and the choice is excellent . He is still a young man , he is familiar with public business , he has really studied the political questions of the day , and is a statesman in the truo genie of the word . If he has not been spoiled by ol&ee , he wiU fairly represent England before our x&ttoffd / ally * and . will intelligently watch English inJtttfMte among old enemies and new friends .

      < CJMJlftonih «» has had the opportunity of electing » jooembor , > or rather , we should say , that those P 0 O 0 OR 0 irMidelit At Cheltenham who enjoy the tiwuted privilege of 4 he electoral franchise have fltuMMn i& * r representative . There were two oandtfUfe * , Mr . F&XDwacx Bwwuunr , eon of the

      late member , and JMr ^ Haixeweli . : the votes were dWlt ^ d ir& > &&& » & & 665 , but of course the reader per * # ves # t wee which man was elected . Whom coidtjj Cheltedham elect to represent it but aBBRKDHgr ? . « . JCfltoW * 'ffuixocH has * uccumbed ^ pHPW a labout ^ # hichtKS ) uld ha-w * riedth « str < M % est | tewyer at t ^ fbar- ^ flie holdup jtff \ fais ground -4 agf s&fter dayS ^ pains fcaBften with flfce md % nant arrogjppe of LorflfLxxflWlj-end ± he % e « J twit resolute jwadnosity of Sir ffctCHAiuo Aibbt . Colonel Tclloch , who has been doing a public duty against these odds , falls ill at his post , the inquiry is suspended , Jor ja , weekji « nd for jtjhe moment the Horse < Qruaxfls jrPHfflftpb ^ -

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      - THE LEADER . [ No . 320 , Saturday ,

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      IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . y ' ¦ ' ¦ ' - . ¦ ¦• , a

      : r : Monday , May 5 th . The fnjUMBttexcited by the anticipated debate on the Treaty 0 JPMMfe » attracted an unusually large gathering of peers ^ ftptthe House of Lords ; and the galleries w . ere crojwdfecbtar a brilliant assemblage of titled ladies . " The < 6 jMt ^ ji nV # rqnt of the throne , " says the Times , " waa j $ lled withghe sons . of peers and others having the ri ght wof UfcdmiMi < QtB & > that paa ; t of the House . The standing-&SMBL at Aba tsar was /^ Iso fully occupied , while the iptllery appropriated to the . accommodation of strangers was crowded—perhaps inconveniently so—by those who had been fortunate enough to procure orders . A more impressive scene than that which the House presente d when the Earl of Ellesmere rose to move the Address lo Jier Majesty has seldom been witnessed . "

      INDIA . The Earl of At . tmemart . ie intimated that , shortly after the Whitsuntide holidays , he would move for returns of the salaries and pensions paid to the covenanted and uncovenanted servants of the East India Company , as well as to the military officers employed in the Indian service ; and at the same time would call the attention of the House to the recommendation of the Madras Torture Commissioners , that a greater number of European functionaries should be employed in the civil service , with a view to the suppression of torture , and -would submit whether an efficient European civil agency be compatible with the present lavish remuneration of the civil services of India , considering the deficient and falling condition of the revenues of that country , and the proved poverty of the people *

      DISEMBODIMENT OF THE JttUJTnA . In reply to a question from the Earl of Clancartt , Lord Panmtjke stated that it was the intention of her Majesty ' s Government to commence the disembodiment of the Militia with as little delay ae possible , and to disband the force so gradually that no great body of labourers would be thrown upon the country at one time .

      THE TREATY OF PEACE . The Earl of Ellesmere rose to move an Address of Congratulation to the Crown on the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace with Russia . The terms of that Treaty he held to be satisfactory ; the original objects of the war had been ^ gfained ; and he therefore trusted that there would be no serious opposition to the motion . It was to be hoped that Russia would now enter on a new career . When the name of Count OrlofF was first mentioned as about to take part in the negotiations for peace , he believed that those best acquainted with men and things at St . Petersburg drew a favourable augury of the result . It was in itself a favourable intimation of the character and intentions of the Czar , who , he

      hoped , might live to repair by the arts of peace the ravages of war in his vast dominions . He hailed the prospect that Russia , under his able and strong hand , might yet present a spectacle which Europe could look on without jealousy and alarm , but with sympathy and satisfaction . He was well aware that Russia might make herself more formidable by developing her internal resources , but it was impossible for nations to act on the principle that such development was to be regarded as an object of jealousy . He would maintain the opinion , which waB proved in the recent Btruggle , that a single line of railway would have been more serviceable to Russia , as a means of defence , than tho vast accumulation of cannon and military stores . But if they were to

      look with jealousy on other countries developing their resources , the world , with all Its imperfections , would Le even less fit for us to live in than it is . The time had been when the nations of Europe , and he could not exclude England from the catalogue , acted on the other view of the case , that the wealth of one nation is the poverty of another- —a doctrine as detestable as it is unaound . ( CAeera . ) Of all tho subjects of alarm , he thought this country had least reason to be jealous o ( Russia on the score of India ; and yet he had heard it stated that that was the foundation and real origin of the warlike spirit of this country against Russia . On

      that subject it was less necessary for him to speak , aa it had been ably referred to elsewhere . India might have had her own dangers ; but it was our business to roar up our Clives , our Hastings , our Wellesleys , our Napiors , and our Ellenboroughs , to meet those dangers in the council or in the field ; and , to his apprehension , Russia could not be considered one of those dangers . Having eulogized the services of th « army and navy , exulted tliti genius and devotion of Lord Raglan , Sir Edmund Lyons , Admiral Boxer , General Williams , und his English companions at Kars , and Metiers . Butlor , Nasmytli , Thomson , and pronounced a panegyric on the noble selfsacrifices of Miss Nightingale , Lord Ellesmero concluded

      by moving" That on humble Addrews be presented to her Majesty , to return to her Majesty the sincere acknowledgments and thanks of this Houbo for tho importuiit communication which her Majesty has been graciously pleased to make to thia House of the general Treaty concluded at Paris on the 80 th of March . ... To assure her Majeaty that , while wo should havo deemed it our duty cheerfully to afford her Majesty tho fullest support if H

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      Political Amnesty by the . Qubrw- — W . e have reason to bel ieve ( says the Morning Post ) that the Queen , being desirous of marking the return of peace by an r act of grace and clemency , has given orders that a full and free pardon shall be granted to all the persons now under sentence for political offences . By . this act of generosity , Mr . Smith O'Brien and his associates , together with Frost , and those who were sentenced with him , will be allowed to return free to the United Kingdom . The only exceptions will be two or three persons who broke their parole in escaping from Australia . DXNSIER AT THE MANSION-HOUSE TO THE MlNISTKBS .

      compliment to Russia for her brilliant defence of Sebastopol , and read the subjoined extract from a letter he had that day received from General Williams : — " I have already told your Lordship of General MouroviefPs kindness towards myself and my party ; but his humanity and benevolent treatment of the poor famished garrison of Kars will gain for him the respect of the civilized world , and must tend to lessen , if not eradicate , the animosity which for more than a century has existed between Russia and Turkey , especially on the part of the latter . I shall therefore quit General Mouravieff with great regret . "

      —The Egyptian hall , Mansion-house , was on Wednesday the scene of a banquet given by the Lord and Lady Mayoress to the members of the Government . Cpunt Persigny returned thanks for the toast of " The Emperor of the French ; " Sir Charles Wood and General Fox for " The Navy and Army ; " Lord Palmerston . for " Her Majesty ' s Ministers ; " M . Musurus for " The Ambassadors i" Lord Campbell for " The Judges ; " the Lord Chancellor for " The House of Lords ; " and Sir George Grey for The House of Qpmmons . " Lord Clarendon , in acknowledging the toast of his awn health , paid a

      Accidents . —Three men , engaged in repairing the roof of a butcher ' s shop in Clement ' s Inn-passage , were descending by the ladder , when it broke . Two of them fell to the ground , and were seriously injured ; the third was caught in the thigh by the butcher ' s hooks , and was extricated with difficulty . All three were conveyed to the hospital , where they lie in a precarious state . — A shocking catastrophe has occurred at one of the corrugated iron sheds at Woolwich Arsenal , where the fireworks for the 29 th are being manufactured . In drilling a hole in a rocket-case , for the purpose of adjusting the fuse , the metal became overheated , some of the powder ignited , the rocket burst , and twelve men and boys were seriously injured , three of them to

      so great an extent that their lives are despaired of . — A heavy north-east gale on Tuesday night caused the bursting of the lock-gates of the Limehouae entrance of the South-West India Dock , or City Canal . About halfpast nine , the tide in the river was nearly at its lowest ebb , tho entrance-lock as for as the inner gate waa almost dry , and on the other side of the gate in the dock there was a depth of water of some twenty feet . Suddenly , the whole neighbourhood was aroused by a crash , which was soon found to have been caused by the bursting of tho lock-gates . Those , though probably weighing twenty tons , wore smashed outwards , and

      swept an fragments into tho river , the -waters of the canal bursting down into the lock with overwhelming fury . In the torrent were swept away craft of almost every description . Some wore sunk , and their wrecks carried into the Thames , wtiilo others were thrown over each other in contusion . The rush of water continued for about ten miuutes . In oil , between seventy or eighty merchant ships wore lying at the various jetties At each side of the canal . These , as tho torrent swept along , were carried away from their moorings , and several of them sustained considerable damage through coming in collision with each other .

      Tarn PAKiiiAMEifTAKT Agent . — Ho was a clover fellow who invented the calling of tho " Parliamentary Agent , " though perhaps the inventor himself never foresaw how many occupations it was destined to include . There is no necessity for being brought up to anything in particular in order to shine in this lino . You may have run the gauntlet through every ordeal , and havo issued from all , more ox . less scathed ; it is < jf no consequence ; you arc in want of an ostensible position ; parliamentary agency opens its arms to your embrace . — Jfteatley ' t Miscellany .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1856, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2140/page/2/