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THE LEADER .
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• chictkeness of pudding , minec-pie , and mistletoe . At JEull ; oa Monday , there was . a large meeting , at which the voice-ofthe working men-was heard to advantage . Moderation was still , thq law , and as Mr . Clay , one of the borough members ^ reminded them , they were agreeing to ask no more than had been asked , by Lord Durham thirty years ago : triennial Parliaments , the ballot , a more equal distribution of representatives , and a suffrage someithing short of manhood suffrage , the idea of which is rapidly losing way . Of the need for Reform , the town of ivingston-upon-Tlmmes has furnished the latest example . It is the town next in importance
' —i— + . ¦¦ IN the teeth of those who assert that the countvy cares nothing for Reform we may throw the little fact , that even during this week of holidays the Reform movement has known no rest , so lively is the popular feeling , so conscious are those who have Reform claims to urge that they have anueh work to do , and after all , little time to do it in before the opening of the next Parliamentary ^ session ; so serious 'is the . interest at stake , that politicTTiave held IJueir way during the festive week in spite of the blandishments of beef , and the
seto Ovoydon in Surrey , and it is unrepresented , while towns like Rcigatc and Guildford send their one -and even two members to Parliament . The Metropolitan Boroughs Committee has not allowed Christmas to interfere with its proceedings , but has boen aqtive during the week with its work . The week , too , has brought forth Reform rumours as well ns Reform activities . It is whispered—only whisperedthat thoro will be no Derby Bill in readiness for the 'Opening of the session ! A thought to which , pro'¦ bably , a wish is father , both originating with the party who havo the most lively interest in making the M'orst of all matters for which Lord Derby nnd liia coadjutors nrc responsible .
This party insists upon it that Ministers have canunittod an enormous blunder in sending Mr . Gl&ctetono out to Ionia . His position is clearly one of difficulty , and the vovy marked expressions which liavo been addrcsaod to him in favour of a scvernncc of the ties whioh bind the sovon islands to England"wero not foreseen as tho probablo leading consequences of his mission . But though Mr . Gladstone can do nothing but listen to tho protests of the
Ionian Islanders , nnd exhort them to indulge in no ^ practicable aspirations , his mission will have tho dircot good offoot of putting tho Ionian question in tho clearest possible light for futuro handling . It is not in tho power of tho English 'Govorntnoni to consent to tho annexation , of tho Ionian Islands either to tho kingdom of Grcooo or to any other Europoan State : that is tho only wwvor Mr , Gladstone can givo , and that is Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton ' s answer to the address of the representatives " of Corfu ;• the Treaty of l ' S 15 cannot be abrogated without the consent of the w hole of the contracting Powers , and to those Powers the English Government has no thought of appealing . The opportunity now offered to the Ionians is ' to * place before the British Lord High Commissioner Extraordinary a temperate statement of whatever may stand in the way of the harmonious working of the Ionian Constitution : all other schemes , the Colonial Secretary warns them ,
will prove to be merely visionary and impracticable . Recent intelligence from Canada informs us that Lord Bury is . making great Way in furtherance of the bbjectjof which / he " went over'there . He spoke to-a very large and influential meeting at Halifax oh the subject of thejn-oposed intercolonial railway to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans . The feeling evoked by his . frank and clear exposition of the
advantages and even necessity for the undertaking was highly favourable to it , aud bis announcement that he believed the Imperial Government would be induced to . guarantee interest on the necessary capital when it was embarked was warmly received . There would , therefore , appear to be good hope of the speedy achievement of this great undertaking , the cnormoxis commercial and political advantages of which both the Colonial Secretary aud the
Chancellor of the Exchequer have borne witness to . Though not the most important item of the foreign news of the week , the renewed pardon of the Count de Montalcmbcrt seems naturally to take the foremost place . The foolish and iniquitous drama is played out , the last act being a weak homage paid to public decency , o \ it raged so grossly in November . Count Montalcmbcrt is pardoned , and with him the publisher of tho Correspondent , and one of the 'immediate results of the persecution is . that the Magozino ' s influonec is doubled and trebled . As an example , tho Secretary q £ tllS jcrcnoi )
Academy , Monsieur Villcmain , has just joined the ranks of its collaboratcurs , and contributes an article to tho number which is to appear noxt wcok . TTc hoar nothing further of tho reported movement of Frenoh troops into the valley of theDnppes . The news from Italy also is soant . One point , however , scorns to bear upon tho question of tho probability of peaco or war in thut country . It is stated iu private let tors from Naples that tho Government was believed to havo ordered an additional lovy of 1 S , OOO men , and that thoro was groat activity in all tho arsenals in tho manufacture
of arms . The moat romarkablo item of foroign # jows is , that of tho Servian rovolutTbn , begun and onded in tho oourso of a few - days . Tho National Assembly , on the 21 st of December , called upon tho vcigning Princo to abdicate Tho Priiico consulted tho Senate , who advised him to yield to tho demand of
the popular Assembly ; but the Prince hesitated , and finally put himself under the protection of Turkish troops garrisoning a fortress in Belgrade . By this act he is declared to have vacated the throne , and the National Assembly have proclaimed Prince Milosch . in his stead , and sent a petition to the Porte in favour of that Prince . Prince Milosch Obrenowitch , who has before sat upon the throne of Servia , has strong leanings towards Russia , and , almost necessarily , warlike tendencies against Turkey ; at the same time , he is the favourite of the democraticfoafty in Servia .
The Irish arrests appear likely to'bring Government into hot water . Already We have one " part of the English press comparing the proceedings of the Irish executive : with the lawless tyranny of . Neapolitan despotism ,,.- _ and not without reason . It i $ almost impossible " to conceive what the motives of the Belfast magistracy—who are suspected of acting under order from Dublin Castle—can . be , if not to foster the " ould hatred"'of the Irish against their , rulers ,. An examination of one party of the men in custody took place at Cork at the end of last week , and resulted in the committal of six , and
the release of the rest on bail . The principal evidence against the men was given by the approver , Sullivan , who swore that he himself had been a member of the Phoenix Society , and bound by an oath to take up arms at any moment he might be called on to aid a Trench and American force which was expected to have landed in Ireland about Christmas-time for the purpose of snatching it from the English Crown , and erecting it into an independent republic . He states that upon going to his confessor for absolution , the priest refused to givo it to him until he had broken the secret oath ho had taken . In the case of tho Belfast
prisoners , the determination of the ma" - 'o 4 "" - " conduct tho exan- ;; , ^ ^^ t , l 0 ^ of ^ gaol , has caused as much astonishment in England as it lms caused indignation in Ireland . , A . t the termination of the Cork proceedings , the , soliojtoL ' for tho prisoners thankod tho Bench for the entire fairness with which thoy had acted ; in tho Belfast police-court , on the other hand , tho advooate of tho prisonors vehemently protested against the unconstitutional oxcrcisc of magisterial powor to which his clients arc boing subjected , and ho declared his intention to throw up his brief rather than plead in any plaoo other than a court of justioo .
In tho Bankruptcy Court , on Thursday , tho name of Colonel Waugh was onoo more brought boforo tho public . Some time since , thoro was a talk of prosecuting him , but it appears that his oroditors havo now Sbnxo to tho conclusion 'that , muoh * qa thoy would liko to sco him -punished , thoy cannot nmko up thoir minds to pay tho expense ' s of a criminal prosecution out of tho estate . So thoy tako thoir rod out of pioklo , and honcoforth Colonol Waugh will prpbtvbly breathe » littlo more freely .
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REVIEW OF TOE WEEK- ™* Home Intelligence . Political Foreshadowings ............ 4 Gatherings from Law and Police Courts ..... * Criminal Record ....:.. » . Accidents ' andLSudden Deaths 5 JNaval and Military 5 Dr . Livhifcstonc - ¦»—• o ° The Morality of Trade 20 An Unrehearsed Interlude 20 Miscellaneous » _ £ Postscript lb FOREIGN ' INTEILIGEKCEContinental Notes ..... 6
India ¦ . 22 China . .............. 22 Cochin China ; 22 Our Land Difficulties 22 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEPrance 7 .-Germany 8 .. LITERATURE— , Literary Chronicle of the vv . eek . 11 Memoirs of "WillliamBeckford ... 11 Proverbs with Pictures 12 Deborah ' s Diary ,....:... 13 Ballads aud Songs ....: 13 ( Our Veterans of 1 S 52 13 A Few out of Thousands ...... 13 Two Historical Dramas 14
Moses "VVimblo ... — ^* Chiming Trifles .. ; .,.... 1 * Relics of . Genius 1 ? Sketches of . London Life .. ; . 14 TH E ATRE&f AN PENT E RTAIN MCIMTS-/ Drury- x "» Lane . Covent Garden , ° /; Prince ^ 8 ' s &c . 14 * PUBLIC AFFAIRS- , . ; . ... The Pantomime of Politics ...... 17 Origin of tbeCoinplications ofl 858 17 Foreign Affairs— Past andl Future . 18 Thoughts , Facts ; and Sugges- . tibus on Parliamentary Be- q form .. . .... ..... ; ' 1 ° Biographies of German Princes . 19 Interoceanic Communications ... 20 . )
INDIAAND INDIAN PROGRESSMadras Irrigation ................. 21 India iri 1858 and India in 1859 ... 21 COMMERCIAL—1858—Commercial History 23 Trade of Eleven Months 24 General Trade Report 25 Railway Intelligence 2 * Joint Stock Companies 26 Home , Colonial , and Foreign Produce Markets 20 . Money Market and Stock Exchange 26 London Gazette 26 Shares and Stocks 27 Books Received .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2275/page/3/
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