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      The Leader.

      THE LEADER .

      Contents: .

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      ' S " K «' S " T " In Fact ' ~~~ ' ! Atu...

      ' S " K « ' S " T " in fact ' ~~~ ' ! ATURE— ~ " FINE ARTS— ' ¦ COMMERCIAL — ' ¦ """"^ SSS ™ .. *™ gsesasttss -: ¦ fs £ j 28 tf ££ . - ~ , uss ^ es ^ n-s ^ - ^ ^ £ «» ™?? - ssasssa ^ .:::::::::: - ^^ . ^^^ o -ffite ™*^ . Criminal Record 455 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- - Monday Popular Concerts 470 stocks and Shares 470 Accidents 455 The Dissolution ............... 465 Lola Sfontez . * ' ° Railway Intelligence 477 TWiinnd 455 ,-, - VT ,- *• „ I «^ ^ -,.. « ,- Joint Stock Companies 477 Naval andMilitary ......... 45 ;> I fZ ^^ RnVinVsV 405 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- General Trade Report . ... KJoa Intelligence 459 l ^^^^ ffiJ ^ No . '' 5- France . 4 , 1- Commercial Miscellaneous 477 rOREIGN . iktelmcence . Rome and the Campagr oa 466 _ _ . . PROGRESS— Continental Notes 455 The Law of Real Proper ^ 460 ' ° *™ ° £££ . . . . • ¦ 473 ' Facts and Scraps 4 . - .. S General Summary 4 D 6 Mutual Assurance—No . 3 467 i ^? ^ Efdi an " Pro gress 47 > Miscellaneous .. ¦*> : , ^ an ^ f ! .. ^ . ^ ^ -. " 458 l ^ rea ^ l ^ af ^ iieniu ^ :: ^ 1 l ^ fi & £ S &&& - ' ™ *™ " * P « - ¦ " ; ; " * — - ¦ —— ' —^ fc ^^^^ M ^^^^™^^^™^^^^^^^^^^*^™^^^^^^^^^^™^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - ' - - — —¦ . ^^ _^^»^^^^^ M ^—^^ fc ^^^^^^^^^ M ^^^ . ^^^^^^^ " ^^^^^^^^^ . ^^^—™ " ^^ " ^^^^^^^^^^ " ^^^^^^—^*^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ rfm m ' . fw . T . W

      Review Of The Week.

      REVIEW OF THE WEEK .

      -¦— . ?; —~~ ¦ The Ministerial Statement...

      - ¦— . ?; —~~ ¦ The Ministerial statements of Monday evening were pretty much like what had been expected . The movements of Lord Derby and Mr . Disraeli , with the subsequent unexplanatory explanation of Lord Derby , on the previous Friday , may have led a few persons to suppose that resignation was corir templated ; . but even in the absence of positive intelligence , the general impression , at the end of last week , was that Ministers would fulfil their threat of dissolving the present unmanageable House of Commons . To what end they have determined upon taking this extreme cotirse , is a puzzle , if the act is any other than one ofVengeance towards the Liberal majority . Neither Lord Derby nor Mr . Disraeli can be so blind to the political aspect of the country at the present moment as to suppose that any accession whatever to the Tory ranks will result from an appeal to the hustings . What that appeal will do is , clearly , to throw the responsibility of a new Reform Bill upon the Liberal party ; and we have very strong evidence of the intention of Lord Derby and his colleagues to drop the question , in the address issued to his constituents by Mr . Disraeli , in which the subject of Jieform is not even alluded to . The speeches of the Premier and of the leader of the House of Commons , though substantially the same as to the fact of the Ministerial determination , were very different , in tone . Lord Derby jvent in for an animated attack oil both Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston . 'Lord John Russell ho pictured as a man of plots and stratagems—an arch-conspirator , in fact , against the peace and quiet of all Cabinets in which he finds himself not included . Mr . Disraeli took a more temperate view of the course of events , and even admitted that his Government had met with much frank and disinterested assistance from the otUcr side of the House ; still , ho branded the Liberal idea of Reform as revolutionary , and threatening to Iho Constitution—a conclusion which Mr . Bright need hardly have taken tho trouble to protest against . One point in Lord Derby ' s speech of Monday evening has led to a stirring and important passage at arms between Lord l'almerston and the roprcsontativos of tho Ministry in the Lower House . Lord Derby flatly nccuscd Lord Pnlmcrston of disputing . tho right of the Crown to dissolve Parliament at any time ; and tho answer rcturnod by Lord Palmorsfcon sots tho flicfc of there being no absolute necessity fbr a dissolution at tho present time in a vary clear light . No man in his spnsee , Lord Palmorston said , would think of disputing tho royal prerogative of dissolving Parliament at any time of tho year ; but asJJ " such a course is only

      nooth grant ; nobody of importance , , held his ground in the face of the general desire to " get away , " except Mr . Berkeley , who has a notice on the subject of the ballot for Tuesday next . As the ballot will form one of the principal . items of the reform programme of many a Liberal borough constituency , " of course Mr . Berkeley is quite right not to give way . . The statement made by Lord Campbell in the House of Lords on Tuesday , with reference to the new Divorce Court , demands to be noticed . So great is the increase of business in this Court , he says , that the present judges are quite unable to discharge it , . Several changes in its mode of procedure , he adds , are urgently called for ,, and the Lord Chancellor agreed with him . On Thursday evening Lord Palmerston gave notice that on the next night he wduld interrogate the Government as to the position which England is to hold at the approaching Congress .. This is a very wholesome proceeding . The country knows little or nothing of the recent acts of its diplomatists , arid . if it were blindly to leave them unquestioned , it might , before long , find itself committed to a course which , it might condemn and even execrate . The fact that there has been a rumour afloat , to the effect that England has pledged herself to Austria to guarantee her in tho possession of Lombardy and Venice , is in itself a suflieicnt warrant for calling , upon ¦ Ministers to give an account of the policy they are . -pursuing . Such doubts and suspicions hang about the whole subject , that , at the early part of the present week , it seemed anything but certain that the Congress would ever assemble . One of the latest , and by far the gravest of the diiuculties that beset the course of the Congress , ... was said to be the refusal of the French Emperor to sign any protocol in which the treaties of 1815 shall be alluded to . This is , in all probability , an enormous exaggeration , if it is not altogether a fabrication ^ of , the pro-war party in Paris . But tliere is one s-iimpie and undeniable fact , which looks like a proof that the Emperor of France is determined to ruin Austria , if not in the open battle-field , b y the no less exhaustive process of a forced expenditure far and away beyond her means . Already the excessive cost of the Austrian wtir procurations are telling fatally upon her exchequer . A bcytfing petition has been sent round to all tha Italian Princes for pecuniary assistance , oil the Exchanges of Europe being closed against the thrift less insolvent . Tho cruel game of the Emperor ' of . Franco takes new spirit from tho sight of the poor Austrian Emperor ' s din tress . Day by day , wftli c-verinoronsing cnurgy , tho preparations l" > tli niival and military , are pushed forward . A letter from Paris , dated Thursday ovoninjr , ^ nv > ; i truly formidable account of tho force * a . ~ fcinlilc « l in _ tho country about Lyons . " Fnuuv , " .-nv > ilie yvritor , " even on tho uvo of the givnt innrch on MWeowv novcr not ? in motion Much an overwlk'lniintf muss ot improved artillery , such ontliUHia ^ rir : k-uionn , li-osh from Crimean und AiJgorine Iriuinplis < iifh horse , foot , and < lr » jL ( ouns , ijh ' uiv now inarsliuIlL-il between tho lthon <> nii < l thy Alps . " Ji' nil this is so , it is well that Entf lnml should bo dourly informed as to tlio course to which tfhe In to he pledged by-hov Ministoiv , nnd on Monday ov Tiiosduy evening next tlioy have promised to oxpluiu themselves , fully and completely . ^ ^

      taken by advice of the Ministers charged with the conduct of public affairs , those Ministers are called upon to consult the needs of the public service before advising the Crown to exercise its prerogative in the dissolution of Parliament . That is what Lord Palmerston meant when he said , " The advisers of the . Oowii cannot take that course without the consent of the House of' Common ' s "—

      of the House of Commons which would have to accelerate all its movements , and make itself a party to the arrangement , in fact , before the jiublic business could be placed in . sijeh a position as to suffer no injury from the stoppage and delay arising ' from its dissolution . For his own part , Lord Palmerston is glad that Ministers have thrown down the gauntlet ; and lie has addressed his friends at Tiverton in this spirit . As for Reform , he is anxious that nobody should run away with the idea that he and Lord John Russell are as one on that subject ; he entirely concurs with his " noble friend " as to a reduction of the county and borough franchise , and a transfer of seats ; but , " with regard to the particular elements of his bill , " Lord Palmerston says , " I can only say that upon those points I retain the opinions which I have upon former occasions expressed . " In his address to the electors of the City of London , Lord John Russell has laid down the basis of the Reform Bill which he is prepared to stand by . It is a moderate measure of parliamentary reform . He is ready to reduce the borough franchise to Gl . of annual value , and the oounty franchise to 10 / . The ballot he is still against , but he says " that is a question which must be decided by the growth and maturity .-of public opinion . " But why does Lord John Russell for ever linger in the rear of public opinion ? Why consent to be the drag upon the wheel of progress ? The tiltimato adoption of tho ballot is inevitable 5 no man foresees better than Lord John Russell the course of public opinion 5 but no man seems to be so little prepared to act in harmony with it . Sir James Graham looks into tho future with a steadier eye , and determines upon a bolder course of action . His address to tho electors of Carlisle sots tho real issue of the present election clearly before his own' constituency and before the country ? it is , in his own brief and emphatic language , " Reform or no reform ( a Liberal policy , or tamo submission to Lord Derby . " Spurred on by tho desire to got away to their constituonqics , the members of tho House have boon actively cloaring up whatever business cannot bo conveniently thrown overboard , or put off till next session . Tho Indian Loan Bill , read a first time in tho Lords on Tuesday afternoon , is ho advanced , that the royal assent will bo given to it on Monday next . Wednesday ovonhig flaw large sums of necessary money voted with vory little superfluous talk , Even ' Mr . Spoonor with- drew the notice of his annual motion on tho May-

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 9, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09041859/page/3/