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      THE LEADER .

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      IT was publicly remarked lately that the independent party in Parliament is not dead , bill will show itself in renewed strength next session ; and we have some promise that the reform conference to be held in London next week will give us some presage of the action which that party is ta take . The manifestations that have been made in the provinces this week must be regarded as preparatives towards that more central action ; and ., particularly in Birmingham , events have advanced rapidly . Considerable interest was excited by the knowledge that Mr . Bright would appear in renewed health , and would address his constituents on Wednesday last . He did so ; the Town Hall being crowded to receive him . His speech , exceedingly simple in its composition , did little more than express his views , and that with no laboured fulness , on the subject of Reform . But his opinion came out with perfect clearness , and he brought his . alignment to a point of practical advice . He described the manner in which the representation is not only limited to one-sixth of the main population , but is so distributed in the constituencies as to throw a share even of that fractional representation into the particular classes , while the landowners lave the House of Lords to themselves ; for as they say in the Botanical Gardens , " No dogs are admitted , " so in the House of Peers they put up

      " . No traders are admitted . " As a medium between the prevalent opinions , Mr . Bright suggests a ratopajing franchise , with the ballot , as a matter of course , and a redistribution of scats . These are the items on which the most numerous meetings heretofore havo expressed their opinions . At the cud of the speech he advised that the Liberal party should bring forward a bill of their own , competing with , tho promised Government bill . In answer to a deputation from tho Birmingham Keform Union , ho stated that such a bill would bo actually prepared by tho ooufcrcncc which assembles in London noxfc weok . In tho mean while , tho agitation on tho subjeot has boon ofl ' ootually roused in Birmingham . r lhc publio mind is activoly employed in finding for itself a solution of tho problem which , yoar after year , and during four sucoossivo Ministries , has been shirked by atatosmon and professional politioiflus . Novvcastlo-upon-Tyne has pronounood itself at a groat meeting , whero not a solitary M . P . appeared to shed representative lustro on tho crowd . It was thoro quito agreed that there was no nuoslion about what the men of Newcastle " want and intend to got . " Thoy want uuivorsal suffrage and , by somo moans or other , payment of monibors , " so that a sprinkling of fustian-jackets may bo seen , in tho House of Commons . " Somo

      one cried , " The People ' s Charter ! " " And why not ? " said Mr . Taylor , the mover of the first resolution ; " the Chartist agitation failed because Chartism became a sect , a fanaticism , a party as ' sectional and as fanatical almost as the very party ' it would have sought to . put . down , " not because ' the principles of the Charter were false ; for he reminded us that it originated with ] SIr . O'Con-; nell , Mr . Hume , and other well-received Reformers . ' The object of the Northern Reform Union is , at 1 all events , to make the representation national . We may form a good notion of the state of opinion in Manchester on the great subject . Mr . Bazlcy , the candidate for the seat left vacant by the death of Sir John Potter , is the chosen candidate of the Liberal party , and he will go into Parliament as the advocate of an . extended suffrage , the ballot , retrenchment , and a pacific foreign policy . At Reigate , Guildford , and Leominster , the results o the recent elections tell tolerably plainly the wishes of those constituencies . Mr . Monson goes into Parliament as a Liberal , helped by Tory voters , and beating the more pronounced Liberal , Mr . Wilkinson . Guildford accepted Mr . Onslow , tlie Liberal candidate ; and Leominster returned , without opposition , Captain Haubury , a "Liberal Conservative "—even the Conservative must be Liberalthe Tory something more than a Whig . Not only on the question of Reform has the public mind been specially active during the week . Various meetings for various purposes Lave made lame demands upon its attention . " Better rub

      than rust , " said Ebenezcr Elliot , and giving practical effect to the axiom , tho British mind has been subjecting itself to much wholesome friction . The Bishop of Oxford has somewhat roughly stirred tho popular mind in Yorkshire A bishop almost hissed from tho platform of a religious meeting is , iiidcod , an unusually stirring exhibition } but it was very nearly seen at Bradford , tho other night , whero Samuel of Oxford's late conduct in the Boyne-hill matter provoked a display of placards on the walls of tho town , calling upon " the men and women of Bradford to assemble iu their thousands in St . Georgo ' s Hnll , to resist , in a voice of thunder , these Tractariau confessionals . " At Manchester , at tho cud of last week , Lord John Russell gently turned tho publio mind in tho direction of Ragged Sohoola anil their national value . Better , ho says , to spend tho public money in fitting poor children , to ontor upon a decent and usoful oourso of life , than to spare it and lctwo these same childron to grow up liko runic woods amid the / 11 th and horrible temptations of vicious poverty . Mr . Sidnoy Herbert has hoi pod tho mental activity of Warminstor , and of London no less , 'by hi * s conunonts on tho powers of tho nowspapor press . Those powors , lio thinks , would be greatly onhanced if the systom of anonymous writing winch it at prosont adopts wore done away ; if tho ' writer could bo answorod—ami , not

      only the newspaper-writer , but the parson in . his pulpit could be answered—and questioned as to ; the statements or opinions he has written or spoken j the public , he holds , would then more easily read and accept what it now takes " with a grain oi ; salt . " : The news from India and China is brief , but not uninteresting . A very successful attack has been made in Oude upon a body of three thousand rebels , posted on an island of the Gogra . On the 19 th of September they were driven out of their entrenched position' by two companies of Europeans , the Kupperthela Contingent and some of Hodson's Horse . A thousand of the enemy are reported to have beeu slain , the artillery doing terrible execution on them as they attempted to get away from the island in boats . They ave said to have lost two of their leaders . The British loss was small . Prom China , we have a telegraphic despatch announcing that Lord Elgin had returned to Hong-K . ong , on the 12 th of September , bringing with him a treaty which he had concluded with Japan , and -which is ' almost identical with the American treaty . Five ports are to be opened within a year after the treaty shall have been ratified . Cotton and woollen , fabrics arc to pay an import duty of 5 per cent . ; almost all other articles are to pay 20 per cent . From abroad the chief point of news is the submission of Portugal to the demands of France in the affair of the " Charles-ct-Gcorges . " The Monitcur says that full satisfaction has been given , — Portugal " submittine- to the iusfc renresentations

      of the Government of the Emperor . " The official journal givos what it calls a statement of tho facts , the main point dwelt upon being the fact that directions had been issued by tho Portuguese Governor-General at Mozambique for the instruction of district governors , with regard to their conduct in dealing with French vessels engaged in " recruiting " frco negro labourers , and which , while cautioning them to uso pjroat circumspection-as regards French vessels , prescribed that , in tho event of French vessels touching at a Portuguese port , tho governors should limit themselves to a notification of an order which , prohibits tho engagement and embarkation of colonists , and to tho exaction from tho captain of a written promise to comply with such order . Tho Portuguese authorities , theroforo , acoox'ding to tho French view of tho matter , acted in a manner utterly contrary to thoir duty ; and the Portuguese Government" after a more caroful examination "—has aeon tho thing exactly in tho light in which Franco oommanded tlioni to sco it . Tho subjeot , howovor , may not yot havo been looked at . finally , oitlior by Franco or Portugal . The very latest intelligence tells of a formidable raid against ; tho press , Count Montalombort tUo foromoct literary man who dtvros to uttor hia thoughts iu Franco , being tJio champion , or as ftb-

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 30, 1858, page 1147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2266/page/3/