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MR A 1 TB MRS . HOWARD PAUL , ^ rv ^ ning ( Saturd ay excepted ) at . JAMES'S IKfSance t a'Ftecadillrfiu their Gomic . and . Murfcal 2 s ££ < rroom " Patchwork , " unquestionably the most ^ ed fnd ^ lllS entertainment in London Twelve fion ^ aSd Imperibnations . Mrs . ; Howard Paul continue ? he ? marvellous reproduction of Mr . Sims Reeves in " Who ^^^ airest' ' and " Come into the garden Maud " which &e pr os entitle " a living photograph * !'' Morninff Representattons on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 3 . Stalls , 3 s . ; a £ n ^ s- Gallery , Is . * * * The entertainment positively ritaSsin London an Marcl * 26 ( Saturday ) which will be the listdayofperforiiiance . Tickets at tlie Hall a > iccadilly entrance ) , and at Mitcheirs Royal Library , 33 , Old Bondstreet . ' , — . .
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ROY 4 L LYCEUM THEATRE . ( Manager , Mr . Edmund Falconer . ) _ ENGAGEMENT of MR . and MRS . BARNEY On Monday , February 28 th , and during : the week , a New Comic Dramas by Edmund Fawonek , entitled the LEPRACHAUN ; or , Bad Luck ' s Good Luck with Good Looking After . Mr . Barney Williams , Mr . Barret , Mr . Fitzjames , Mr . G . Murray ; Misa Portman , Miss K , Saxon . After which THE HOUR AT SEVILLE . Mrs . B . Williams , Mr J Rogers , Mr . C . Young . To conclude with IRELAND AS IT WAS . Their Original Characters , Ragged Pat and Judy O'Trot , Mr . and by Mrs . Barney Williams . Other characters by principal members of the Company . . Prices—Private Boxes 21 . 2 s ., 11 . lls . fld ,, 11 . Is ^ Stalls , 5 B Dress Circle , 4 s . ; Upper Circle , 3 s .. ; Pit , 2 s . ; Gallery , is Doors to open at half-past C ; to commence at 7 . Box-office open daily from 11 till 5 .
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TITLES TO LANDED ESTATES . Though Iho time that has elapsed since tlie introduction , by the Solicitor-General , of his plan for the verification and registry of titles , to land , has been as yet but brief , it " has sufficed to elicit so general a concurrence of approval , that little doubt can bo entertained of the ultimate adoption of the scheme . Fundamentally , it is based on the success of the experiment made in Ireland nine years ago ^ and which , had its origin , like so many others of our most valuable institutions , in exceptional and temporary circumstances . Wise and learned men had spoken and written to no purpose , year after year , and generation after generation , as to the expediency of validifying titles to land estates , and of simplifying the mode of their transfer ? but it is
probable that they might have argued and expostulated with the Legislature for another half century at least , had not a fearful necessity arisen in Ireland for taking the matter in hand without delay , as far as regarded those properties which had become . encumbered . In the disastrous period which followed tlie famine of 1847 , a great number of landed properties became so completely waterlogged by inordinate poor rates ,- and enormous private obligations , as to be altogether unmanageable . Receivers under the Court of Chancery took possession of the whole of the rents obtainable from the impoverished tenants ; no . outlay whatever on the
the farms or farm-buildings was made ; mansions of the bankrupt proprietors were deserted ; lands to a great extent remained uiilet ; in the absence of all confidence , the employment of labour daily grew less and less , and agriculture , in all it branches , was stricken with a fatal paralysis . Society seemed verging to actual dissolution in many districts of the south and west oi Ireland ; arid the Government , after having Avasted millions of money in clumsy attempts to avert the wholesale destruction of life , became appalled' at the prospect of vast territories becoming depopvrlated , by being thrown altogether out of cultivation . The case was felt to be one of the
extremest urgency . The late Sir Robert Peel conceived a plan of a New Plantation , copied . from that . which .. -had been devised and executed in tlie reign of James I . It was endorsed and extolled as a device full of woriderfiil wisdom by the then Viceroy of Ireland—Lord Clarendon ; and many well disposed people were led away by its plausibility . But the project came to nothing , and is now as much forgotten as Sir Robert ' s amended sliding scale , which was to settle the corn-law question in 1842 , or Lord Clarendon ' s Vienna note , which .. was to have saved us from war in 1854 . ; Another , and far different remedy , was that introduced by the present Master of the Rolls , Sir J . Homily , at the instance of Mr . Pirn and the late . Mr . Blake , and
other gentlemen connected with the sister country . Who had made the subject of land reform their esj > ecial study . It was nothing less thail to enable encumbrancers to compel the immediate sale of tlie estates on which they had lent their money , and toprovide for the adjudication of the rights of contending claimants to their respective shares after , the land had been sold ; and a solvent proprietor put in possession , instead of before the transfer , as formerly ; the inducement held out was the grant by the Encumbered Estates Court to the purchaserof an indefeasible title . Happily for Ireland thissimple and excellent plan was adopted . The bethe most
estates which had previously en hopelessly submerged by want of capital and want of employment were the first to rise to the surface . Owing to the dreadful depression of the period , many of them no doubt were sold too cheap at first , and great hardships were thus inflicted on individuals . But as times mended , and the value of the imprescriptible title became generall y understood , the price of landed property steadily rose , and during the last four or five years it has been higher than ever" was known before . Then came the question , why should encumbered nronertv be thus favoured ? or why should a man property be thus favoured r or why shouia a man
who had got into debt be able to sell his estate for more tluin his neighbour who had not ? Nobody could pretend that this was just , and accordingly an Act was passed last session , enabling any proprietor in jfreland to come before the Landed Estates Court , aud ask to have Uis title investigated ,-and , upon satisfying the judges regarding it , demanding that it should be registered as indefeasible . Sir Hugh Cairns now proposes to extend the benefit of this .. admirable law to England . ana Wales ; and wo have very little doubt that if the session is not unhappily cut short by some iuctious proceeding , which may render a dissolution necessary , tho publio will have the satisfaction of lwming that it has received tho sanction of 1 arluunenfc and the imprimatur of the Crown durmg the present year . ,
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MANNING THE NAVY . It is quite possible , wo are all now convinced , to do too much . In fact , tho whole philosophy ol morals may- be expressed in one phrase , AVo act in a hurry , from instinct and impulse , and warn after acting that wo have done wrong . To marry in haste , and repent at leisure , is no inadequate representation of the whole course of human nttjurs . Legislators , whatever they may boast , and what-
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. ENGLAND'S FOREIGN POLICY . Lor # Palmers-ton professes- himself to be . dissatisfied with the policy of abstention and reserve in forei gn affairs hitherto pursued by Ministers . Had he been in office he would long since have taken what he loves to call a leading and decided part in the diplomatic struggle now cany ing on between tho absolutist Courts of the Continent . He would have lectured Austria , twitted , Prussia , and told the Pope to go about his business while yet there was time ; all which would , of course , bo quite consistent with his official antecedents , and eminently gratifying to tho restless and arrogant egotism of tho man . Cutting a figure in political history , and taking the shine out ¦ of cautious and mattor-of-fnot diplomatists and statesmen , is , no doubt , vastly agreeable to a nature Hko that of tho noble ViscouDfc , whose veteran vanity years cannot wm , and whoso hot-headed lqvo of intermeddling , ¦ wherever thexo is a fray , no length of experience can cool . But the country will ask , ore it commits
i tself again to the guidance of his Lordship , what is the precise benefit it can expect from espousing the shillelagh policy of always being somehow in the thick of the row , and of always threatening ' ** ' to be at somebody . " People will tisk , moreover , what may be the probable cost of such amusement ; and in what condition it is likely to leave those who indulge in it when it is over . Considering the critical position of affairs abroad , we are not surprised at the more than ordinary reticence of Ministers in Parliament respecting them . We know , indeed , that af ter spending a day or two in London , whither lie was specially summoned to receive instructions , Lord Cowley
was dispatched on an extraordinary mission to Vienna ; and it is no secret that he was authorised to offer , on behalf of Great Britain , a basis of negotiation between France and Austria , to which the approval of the Cabinets of Paris and Berlin had previously been obtained . The amount of concession required from her by the propositions in question , cannot of course be at the present moment made known . It is impossible not to believe that it comprises something more than the mere withdrawal , of the garrison of Ancona and Bologna on the one side , and that of Rome and Civita Vecchia on the other . And yet it is vain to
shut our eyes to the force of the reasoning on which Austria may seek to excuse her refusal . Napoleon III . and liis abettors here may hot admit in so many words , but by implication they are compelled to confess ; , that their hope and expectation is—so soon as Central Italy , is freed -from the weight of foreign troops-T-it will rise in . arms and enforce those reforms which are unquestionably right and reasonable in themselves , but which the allied courts of Schonbrunn and tlie Vatican have sworn to one another never to yield . Nor is this all : a fugitive
fj-om his cap ital , Pius IX . would be certain to place himself under the protection of Austria ; and froni Vienna a erusadewould be preached to all Catholic Christendom for his restoration to his temporal throne . We must say that it were ^ strange if the Emperor Francis Joseph and his ministers should agree , or even affect to agree ,, to terms' calculated to lead to such consequences . That war with France and Sardinia would be amongst them is too palpable to be disputed ; but it would be war begun under infinite disadvantages , compared with
tlie present status quo . What then ? Is the mission of Lord Cowley to be derided or denounced because we can hardly venture to count on its terminating successfully ? On the contrary , we think Lord Derby could hardly have done better under the difficult circumstances of the case . As the ally of all the powers about to quarrel among themselves , _ the part of England as a good and honourable neighbour , was to tender our good Offices as mediators and . peace-makers .
Nor should it be forgotten that , gain such an exigency , may be to gain all . The French people are daily manifesting more and _ more unwillingness to be dragged into a speculative war for objects which nobody can ever pretend to define , but from which , whatever they be , it is quite clear that they can reap nothing but loss and peril . Six months hence , Louis Napoleon may not feel himself to be in a condition to trifle with the national sentiment . Delay is , therefore , of much contingent value , and may possibly prove the one and only way to preserve peace . No man "understands this better than the ex-Premier , nevertheless he wantonly and wilfully holds language which can have no other tendency than to stimulate smouldering passions , and to precipitate disastrous events . ' '
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A Few Copies of the Last Number oi ? the "I / EADER , " CONTAINING AN ANALYSIS OF THE POSITION OF THE JOINT-STOCK BANES OF LONDON , on 30 th June and 31 st December , 1858 , Together with a Comparison of their Progress and respective Amounts ' 'of Profits , Increase of Capital , &d , compiled and arranged expressly for this Paper from the best authorities , WITH ORIGINAL . REMARKS , Can still be had , extra copies having been struck off to meet the continued demand . Forwarded on receipt of Six Postage Stamps . .
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N . B .- —Preparations are making to pursue the subject of BANKlNGin all its branches , grounded on the same indisputable reports and statements as those adopted , with so much success , in the Analysis already issued .
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SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 26 , 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 26, 1859, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2283/page/17/
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