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FTuTE Ilouse of Lords having been clean swept -A and dusted at the beginning of the week , the veiy impressive constitutional ceremony of proroguing Parliament by Royal Commission was gone through , before an elegantly dressed and admiring auditory of three ladies . Until the 19 th of November Lords and Commons arc freed from the care of attending to the legislative business of their country . Neither body appears to be inclined to ¦ was te in political idleness the respite vouchsafed them by their Sovereign ; during the week , in fact , Peers and Members have been as busy as bees in summer . It has been a week of meetings , and what arc meetings without noble Lords and honourable borough and county Members to address them ? Lord Hardwicke , a Cabinet Minister , has used the occasion of a farmers' dinner for stating sonic important opinions of his on a subject which he may be supposed to have made his own—the condition of the British Navy . ¦ " It is so bad , " says Lord Hardwicke , " that it is the duty of every Englishman to use what influence he may to compel the Government to rectify the evil . Neither in ships nor in men arc we able to hold our ancient high supremacy over the navies of other countries , and were we at this moment pressed , we should find it extremely difficult to hold our own . " Opinions of grave importance coming from one who has so
lately presided at a commission or inquiry into the subject of manning our navy . At Liverpool , Mr . Gladstone performed an important service to education . After the distribution of the prizes to the successful competitors in the Oxford Middle-class Examinations , he pointed out in liis large and impressive manner the true advantages of these examinations , and the reasons why the efforts of the great centres of learning in England to take tho lead in the education of the people should bo met and seconded with grateful earnestness by the people . On all hands there arc present evidences of the prosperity of England , owing , who can say how much , to tho educational supcriorily of the masses P Nothing is more wasteful or inefficient than ignorance , and if tho farm-labourer , as Mi * . Chowlcr told us at Newark tho other day , earns his two shillings a day , and is in a vastly hotter condition than ho was twonty years ago , it is because ho is really a bettor man , move- productive , mid therefore worth more than lie then was . But ho has yet much to do for himself , and muoh lins yet to bo done for him . At tho various mooting * of tho wcok , tho Reform Bill , in which ho is so deeply interested , has boen talked about by honourable- mombors moro or loss ominontly popular . Mr . Mnssoy , at Salford , sketohed what , according to liis notions , ought to bo tho foundation of tho coming- measure ' : tho , abolition of potty boroughs j tho division of districts having a larger
number than 20 , 000 or so of electors ; an industrial or educational test—for example , deposits of a certain amount in a savings bank , membership for a certain length of time in a friendly society , or the successful passing of an examination for the civil service commissions ; a 5 / . household franchise ; and the ballot . Let Ministers bring forward a measure embodying such principles , and , says Mr . Masscy , I will give them my honest and hearty support ; but if they do not , I will join the great Liberal party in offering them a determined and j mauly opposition . On the subject of the vitality ; of one section of the party referred to by Mr . Mas- j sey , Mr . Baxter said a few pertinent words to his con- ; stituents at Arbroath on Tuesday . The " indepen- i dent party , " he said , " will be found to be in better j case than it has been for a long time past . ; and for j his own part , he is so far . satisfied with what the j present Government have done , in doing away with ; property qualification and in admitting Jews into j Parliament , that , " if they manfully grapple with the church-rate question in a liberal spirit , effect a ; reduction in the expendit ure , and propose a really progressive measure of Reform , " he will support j ! them . Mr . Headlam , on the Reform theme , ex- presses doubts as to the capacity of the Government ¦ to bring forward such a bill as one of its members seemed inclined to promise the other day—namely , | " a bill which would please all parties : " and Mr . j Ridley reserved his opinion altogether till the time j comes * for passing judgment on the Government ; llipnsiivrt . Rn lvnmli for T ?/> fnvvn ita nvr ><; r > ii + nrcai . 1
tion . and prospects ; evidently the Liberal ptib / ic is prepared to give Ministers a fair trial . Among the non-political meetings of the week , j the one assembled at St . James ' s Hall on Monday : is the most conspicuous and important . It was composed exclusively of members of the metropolitan vestries , and its object was to concert measures for putting down the practice of confession ] in the Church of England . Mr . Waii-orion , of Knightsbridgo , wns ( he prime mover of the proceeding 1 , although the recent death of his wife prevented him from being present J at tho meeting . Tho first and prinoipal speaker was Colonel Vorekor , who has mado up his mind thul " tho Tractarian party arc men with whom compromise is utterly' impossible . " The meeting agreed with him , and carriod a motion to the effect that tho Churoh of England , if it is truly tho Church of the nation , must not bo permitted to go back to " tho darkness and serfdom of tho middle ag-os . " The originators of the mooting , disappointed in certain " distinguished" coadjutors , have made the prcsonl movement specially , if not exclusively , a middle-class movement . r i'ho Social Science Congross brought its labours to a close on Saturday last , and , tho value of those labours has boon vory variously estimated . It rointuns with tho teachers of ' St . George's Hall to find a pvactioal application- fcjr their long and , \ u sovevul instances , hard lessons . Some of
them , however , have actually put the practice before the preaching—the horse before the cart—no . small improvement in fashion . The most notable topic of foreign news is the assembly of the Prussian Landtag for the purpose of giving its assent to the establishment of the Regency ! This important act will be among the last acts of the present assembly , which completes its three years' term on the 31 st of the present month . The new assembly will then be elected with which the Prince Regent will have to govern In anticipation of the coining elections , the Liberals throughout the kingdom are girding up their loins for a struggle with their old tyrants , the Court party . Several programmes have been issued , but one in particular , from a committee of electors in Silesia , has been accepted as a general model ; it sets forth in clear language the measures to be taken if the Constitution is \ o be a reality . In the mean time , the Prince Regent has addressed the Chambers , and has distinctly pledged h imself to rule by the Constitution . " The more gloomy the aspect of affairs fs in consequence of . tho Plug ' s liGalin , " he said , at the conclusion of his speech , " the higher the standard of Prussia must be raised , by the conscientious discharge of our duty and by mutual confidence . " The mission of the Empire m France appears at the moment to be anything but one of peace—its tendency seems , indeed , to be quite in a contrary rWHimi . France has three affairs on hand at the
present time—Portugal , Switzerland , and our own . colony of N ewfoundland , where her naval authorities appear to be carrying things with such a high hand as must assuredly lead to " explanations " with tho British Cabinet . Tho Portugal dispute makes no way , and the papers of Madrid laugh at tho notion of a power like France going to war with her aijoufc n mailer on which tho will of France must bo accepted as law , seeing that Portugal is quite unablo to resist . As tho quarrel stands , the Emperor Nnpolcon has scut in his " ultimatum , " demanding the immediate and unconditional restoration of the Charles-Georges and the liberation of the captain , sentenced to imprisonment by the maritime tribunal of Mozambique . On tho question of compensation , the Emperor is willing to stretch a point , and leave it to bo ' scttlod by arbitration . If it cannot be said of him , as of FalstafF , that ho is " the cause of wit in others , " it may bo said ho is tho causo of much irritation . He has sot Geneva and tho Federal Council of Switzerland almost in anna against each other on the question of tho extradition , of foreigners . Tho Federal Council had , under pressure , consented to get rid of such persons as tho Emperor of Francp desired for his own reasons to have further removed from Franco and from Jus person * " Tho order onino from him Intely for tlie expulsion of some Italians , whoso residence m CSC neva was displeasing lo him i but tho obstinate city
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1858, page 1115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2265/page/3/
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