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THE LEADER .
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SUBJECT to the uncertainty which , at the present moment , hangs upon all things political , in this country as well as in Europe generally , it is understood that Parliament will be prorogued ori Tuesday next , and that the dissolution will -follow two days later . The writs for the new elections will be issued on Saturday , and by the end of the succeeding week many an election struggle will have been decided . There is not any use , and , indeed , no great temptation , to count our Parliamentary chickens before they are hatched ; but the prospective gain of the Ind 3-pendent Liberals is a fact that challenges attention ; the ranks of this great party will , in all probability , absorb all . the gains of Lord Derby ' s move . Hopeless of swelling his own following to the proportions of a working majority , he determines to help the formation of a third power that shall dominate the Whigs and Palmersfconians , and fetter them as much as they have fettered the Conservatives . During the week , the work of clearing up the immediately pressing business has been steadily followed up , and some important episodes have marked the course of the Parliamentary labours . The most important of these was the discussion of Mr , Berkeley's motion on the Ballot , with the subsequent division . The object in bringing forward the motion was a very legitimate one , namely , to set before the country the exact state of Parliamentary opinion on this subject , as a guide ' for constituencies at the forthebming elections . The result of the division was as satisfactory as could have been expected ; ninety-nino went into the lobby for the motion , and one hundred and three against , Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerstoh voting with the majority of four . Qn Tuesday evening , the House was diverted , by an inquiry into the truth of certain rumours set on foot by a recent resignation from the . Admiralty BonnK Sir Benjamin Hall told the story that has found currency , and from it wo learn that- Sir . John Pukingtou ia most curiously out of his place at the head'of tho Board of Admiralty . Sir John himself frankly admitted that ho occasionally finds ) hinicioll' humbly pu / . y . lcd in dealing " with naval uHiiirs belore tho Houmo , und' that ho has sighed for an assistant in the shape of a junior lord , thoroughly up in tho duties of his office and properly qualiiiod to sit in tho House at his elbow . Tho accusation against thu First Loi ' d was , that in . Iuh endoavoura to gut a coadjutor ho had used some rather ehurp practice
towards , several of the junior lords , but notably towards Captain Carnegie ; he had demanded that Captain Carnegie should make an attempt to get himself returned for Dover , so that he might have a seat hi the House ; but Captain Carnegie finding that he would have to stand the opposing fire of Mr . Bernal Osborne ' s long-range wit , —in fact , that he had no sort of chance of being returneddeclined to venture : whereupon , said Sir John Pakington's accusers , he was quietly told her Majesty would not in the least object to accept his resignation if it were tendered—and it was . The seat at the Board thus vacated , several ineffectual attempts were said : to have been made by -Sir John Pakington to fill it , always with the same object in view . Sir John denies all the motives attributed to him , and his word is one that the House and the country too , respects ; but the fact remains , that our First . Lord of the Admiralty is , by his own confession , distressingly ignorant of the business he is entrusted to manage ; and that , as Mr . Thomas Duncombe said , " these are important times , and we ought to have at the head of our naval affairs persons conversant with those affairs . " A much-in ore agreeable subject occupied both Houses on Thursday night ; this was the passing of a vote of thanks to the Governor-General of India , the Comnuuider-in-Chief , and to the j Officers—civil , military and naval—engaged in < the suppression of the revolt ; the vote furthermore includes the troops employed under them , both British and native . Lord Derby moved the vote in tho Uf . per House , Lord Stanley in the Lower ; and the speech of the Indian Secretaiy is said to have surpassed any that he , haa hitherto made , and it certainly was marked with genuine feeling and felicitous expression . The motion in the House of Commons was seconded by the leaders of the Opposition , and ample justice was done to Lord Canning by the spokesmen of tho Government . This unanimous vote of Parliament undoubtedly expresses tho feeling of the entire country ; whatever adverse feelings may have been momentarily provoked by particular acts during the long trials of tho Indian mutiny , they have , for tho greater part , passed out of mind , and the ono predominant feeling now is , that the thanks of the nation have been well earned by ( he men to whom they wore addressed on Thursday night . Out of tho llouso , tho mast active preparations are being made for tho coining elections . Tho newspaper advertising pagoH nre filled with tuladdrysses to constituencies , and we have reports of many speeches from \\ w lips of mom or less important siieukors . At Uinningham , at Manchester , and again at Kochdale , Mr . Bright has boon expounding liin views of Itefbnn , tho most . nofablu points of his addrunse « being thoso in which , while * not pledging himself to support any bill that Lord John ltussull may bring in , based upon his CM . borough suffrage , he commends that monsure ns one to bo favourably regarded , as being a great advance upon any ¦ ofl ' ei '
made by a leader or iiora j oun jxussisu . » .-ence . His speech at Rochdale was in recommendation of . the claims of Richard Cobden , whom , let us hope , the independent electors of that place will do themselves the honour to return . There will be work to be done during the coming session of Parliament , for the well-doing of which Mr . Cobden has very special qualifications . Meanwhile , among the strong expressions of opinion that have been pronounced on the question of Reform , none have been more impressive than that ^ renounced at a meeting held at Edinburgh on Tuesday . The occasion was the annual assemblage of the deputies elected by the royal ' burghs of Scotland . Mi-. Duncan M'Laren moved that no Reform Bill Avill be satisfactory that does not provide for a large enfranchisement of the working classes , and put very forcibly the argument that even a 6 / . franchise will everywhere exclude vast numbers of workmen , except in towns Avhere rents are hi « -h . A eounter motion , limiting the franchise to 6 l ., ° \ xas rejected , and Mr . M'Laren ' s carried by a majority of twenty-eight against twelve ; . the population represented by the twelve deputies voting in the minority being about 65 , 000 , including 101 . voters ; the population represented by the majority , inclusive of 10 / . voters , somewhere between seven and eight hundred thousand—a very satisfactorily conclusive result . With regard to Foreign affairs , the prospect is very dark . The repeated deferrence b y Lord Malmesbury of his promised explanations have a disheartening effect ; the feeling is rapidly becoming confirmed that there is very little reason to hope for a peaceful settlement of Italian affairs . Yesterday ' s news seems almost to determine the question on the side of war . Austria positively refuses to become a party to the Congress , unless it is preceded by a general and simultaneous disarmament . It is not quite clear as to what this demand amounts to precisely . _ Franco denies that she ' has armed at all in consequeneo of or with any reference to tho Italian dispute , and will , thereiore , not consent to reduce her army in any degree ; " the same may be said by all the other rowers , with tho exception of Snrdinia , to which Power only the demand would apply . The four Powers would have no objection to see an arrangement for simultaneous disarmament carried out jointly by Austria and Sardinia , but that lias been before proposed und doggedly refused by tho strong-headed young gentleman who is ruled at Vienna . , At the present inoinont ., however , a very pain / u ' doubt weighs upon the whole subject . . No » lii »« is known with certainty , and even if-MjiilsUwni explanation !! are given on Monday next , . iJu . ' y will leave the public mind distrustful and uiihiiUhIkmI ? for tho British people has very small conlitUmw hi either the genius or sincerity of Hi * < lmlninnliNl . < . On Monday , however , wo may lienr the- woiwi ; and , in some respects , ( hat will ho njvU y t inmi tho anxious imcorliifiiljoH and suspicion , ^ ol ( Inpresent moment , which are wiii'iun ^ " «> ' jut ]« - inenls and hymnal hies » 'i « l way end m lcadm- us to euinn . il huiik . ' acl of monstrous uJuhIiuu lignum . the friend lo whoin we are bound by many ties ol CHteem , ink-roM , and honour ; , wo may ilnd ouieolvi'H , ut lust , the i » mtuutoi-H of weak and virtuous Austria , np . inrtl ; tho rapacity and tyranny ui ¦ despotio fcJurUinin .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 16, 1859, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2290/page/3/
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