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    Universit No. 451, yovEMBSB 13,1858.T TH...

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    Political Foinssliabcrsyings. Privv Coun...

    sperity of our common country—a themewhich I know can never be indifferent or unimportant to them . I he-Jeve that the policy best calculated to mam tarn the peace of the world is , in the first place , a firm and temperate maintenance of our own rights , and a careful deference to the rights of other nations , and all possible abstention from interference in their internal affairs . I would add a determination , if offence should unhappily arise , to refer to the friendly offices of ^ some neutral country Lastly , I hold that we should observe an un-ZcMn ' s adherence to all our treaty obligations . These are the principles of her Majesty s present Government--the principles which , when we are called upon to account to Parliament , we expect to show that we have inflexibly maintained . There never has been a moment in which our relations with France have been on a more friendly

    footing than at present , or when on both sides of the Channel there was a stronger desire to maintain that alliance which ha 3 now so long and so happily subsisted . In speaking of the present Government your Lordship has been kind enough to sketch for us a sort of programme . Your Lordship ' s advice may have been kindly tendered , but it looks exceedingly like a bait for the purpose of drawing us out in anticipation of the session . But , my Lord , we are now growing older , and have learned more caution , and we will not take the bait .. I am , along with my colleagues , seriously engaged in maturing the details of those measures of legal , social , financial , and political improvement which I hope at the commencement of the session to submit to the impartial judgment of Parliament and the people . As a Conservative Government we look with reverence

    and attachment to the great Institutions of the country , under which the people have enjoyed as great an amount of civil and religious liberty , and as perfect independence in word and action , as ever did any nation on the face of the earth . These institutions have not been the creations of a day , nor of a single generation . They have been brought to their present comparative perfection by successive additions and improvements , and they possess a flexibility which enables them to be adapted to the growing wants and wishes of the people ; I can assure you that our measures will not be framed to please this or that class , but the community at . large . We shall not legislate for the high or the low , for the rich or for the poor , but for the well-understood benefit of all classes Of the people . As the institutions under which we live are only the aggregate of successive imthat

    provements by successive generations , so I trust we shall leave our impress on them by adding other improvements which shall harmonise with , while they improve , their general character . "—In returning thanks for the army , General Peel said he must express his deep regret at the absence of the Duke of Cambridge , for he might say , without any flattery , that they were indebted to his Royal Highness for the present discipline of the arnrr , which had never been excelled at any period . —With regard to the navy , Sir John Pakington said the public had a right to expect that this great department should be managed with all practicable economy ; but they must also expect , and he hoped they would demand , that , whatever might be the necessary expense , the Government should keep the navy in a state of vigorous efficiency , and maintain with firm resolve the supremacy of England upon the sens . — Mr . Disraeli returned thanks for the House of

    Commons . The right lion , gentleman s speech contamod no allusion whatever to the politics of the day . —Lord John Russell , who waa present , also spoke , as member for the City , but said nothing of importance . Marylebonb . —On Monday a meeting was held in the Court-house , in support of the principles of the Political Reform League . The chair was taken by Mr . Nlcholay , one of the oldest Reformers in the borough . The meeting was largo and enthusiastic , and the proceedings Avero characterised by much democratic feeling .

    Siu Hestry Straoby . —The Conservative candidate for East Suffolk , who astonished the Eldon Club at Norwich by declaring his conversion to the Ballot , being invited to become a member of the council of the Ballot Sooioty , thus answers the invitation : — " I stated in my speech at the Eldon Club dinner that if the expected Reform Bill introduced tlie Ballot , and that if I were iu Parliament , I would willingly vote for it ; but I by no moans pledge myself to the Ballot if any other moans , in my viow equally oflloaolous , should bo offered to tho country . "

    Mr . W . William * , M . P—The lion , member for Lambeth , according to his annual custom , met his constituents at tho Horns Tavern , Konnington , lie reviewed the course which lie had himself pursued in tho House of Commons , and stated how much ho approved of tho Reform principles of the Guildhall Coffeo-houso inovomont . A motion was moved , seconded , and unanimously agrootl to , urging upon the honourable moinbor that ho should support tho fullest moasuro of Reform in the House of Commons * Mr . Williams doolnred that ho would do so , aa tho resolution spolco about such changes as lio was desirous to see effected .

    Mr . Charles Buxtoit , M . P . - — This gontlomnn , in his address to lila constituents at Newport , made flomo observations on tlip rebellion In India , Ho juatlilod tho appeal which ho made in Parliament

    during the last session for the exercise of greater humanity in the suppression of the rebellion in India , and inveighed with eloquent indignation against the cruelties which were perpetrated by some unworthy representatives of England . ' Messrs . Bright and Gibsov . —A banquet is proposed to be given to these gentlemen in Manchester , to congratulate Mr . Bright on his restoration to health , and to celebrate the return of himself and Mr . Gibson to Parliament . The banquet is fixed for the 18 th of December .

    Banburv . —Mr . Tancred , the present member for this borough , takes leave of his constituents . Illness , added to increasing infirmity , has induced him , he says , to retire . There are already three candidates in the field—Mr . Piggott ( Whig ) , Mr . Hardy ( Conservative ) , and Mr . Samuelson , who has just come forward on the independent Liberal interest . The latter gentleman advocates the extension of the suffrage to all ratepayers , and is in favour of the Ballot , short Parliaments , and redistribution of seats . He promises to support an extension of education and the abolition of Church-rates . The address of a fourth candidate , the Hon . M . Campbell , is expected to appear immediately .

    The Right Hos . W . E . Gladstone — Mr . Gladstone set out on Tuesday on his way to Corfu , and has left everybody to wonder what can be the particular pressure which has induced Government to send a Commissioner to the Ionian Islands with such unexpected promptitude , and what are the motives which have induced Mr . Gladstone to accept the mission . We may well be excused for wondering what motive may have proved sufficiently strong to induce Mr . Gladstone to quite his place in Parliament at the commencement of a

    session promising so much interest and importance , to serve a Government with which he has not thought fit to place himself in any political connexion , and to attempt the solution of a problem which , as it appears to rest on sympathies and antipathies rather than on practical grounds , seems to be beyond the reach and above the resources of the most inventive and able of statesmen . Perhaps , however , the only reward -which Mr . Gladstone seeks is absence from Parliament for the earlier part of the coming session . On the question of Reform he stands uncommitted . The real state of

    public opinion will be made clear by the discussions of the first few weeks , and Mr . Gladstone ltjay think that at Easter he will enter on the stage a fresh champion among weary combatants , and , like Dessaix at Marengo , give victory to the side to which he carries his support . We shall see . All we can suggest at present is , that the policy of the mission is extremely doubtful , and still more doubtful the prudence of Sir . Gladstone in accepting it . — Times . The Earl , of Shaftesbupy on the Hotjse op Lords . —At the Fishmongers' Company ' s banquet last Tuesday , Lord Shaftesbury remarked that he had something to say with reference to the House of Lords , to which bodj " it was his privilege to belong . At a great

    public meeting not long ago he observed , some very erroneous but very weighty words fell from the lips of a very distinguished orator , who , speaking of the House of Lords , said it was a proud , exclusive , arrogant body , and that the inscription over the doors of that house should be one which bore these ominous words , 14 No dogs admitted here . " Now he ( Lord Shaftesbury ) would take this opportunity of saying that neither himself nor any other member of the House of Lords whom he knew could be any party cither to the use of such an expression or to the adoption of such a principle as that

    motto might be supposed to illustrate . He believed , indeed , that every other member of the Hoxtso of Lords was as deeply convinced as he was that the grand distinction between the peerage of this country aud the nobility of every other country was that tho British peerage had been , still was , and by God ' a Mossing would continue to bo , recruited from every class , rank , and order of her Majesty ' s subjects . In conclusion , the noble Earl declared * that tho esteem of his fellowcitizens , of which ho had just received another testimony , was tho richest reward which he , as a publio man , could

    obtain . Tub MitMnKns for Shtcthfieijt ) , —A mooting of Messrs . Roebuck and Ilndflcld ' s com m it too was held on Monday , to consider tho propriety of ^ Snvitlng them to address their constituents . A resolution was proposed to tho effect that it wii 3 inexpedient to ask tlio members to como down until the basis of a Reform Bill had been agreed upon . An amendment was moved , proposing that tho members bo invited to como down as soon aa possible . Ultimately tho motion was carried , that tho members nro not to bo invitod at present . It was moved that a public mooting bo convened of tho inhabitants of tho town upon tho aubjcot of parliamentary reform before tho borough members bo invitod . TUia was carried .

    Ricuoum Agitation in titr Provinoics . —At Birmingham a mooting has boon hold to plan tho means of giving effectual aa » istanco to Mr . Bright in tho task ho han undertaken . Iu Newcastle a promising programnio of lectures , meetings , niut other Instrumentalities of agitation haa boon drawn out by tlie Northern Reform Union . Bury has given in its adhesion to tho decision of tlio London Conference Glasgow . —Tlio Lord Justice Clork lias waived hia

    claims to the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University in favour of Sir E . Bulwer Lytton , between whom and Lord Shaftesbury the contest now lies . A great Reform meeting was held at Glasgow on Tuesday night . Professor Nichol occupied the chair , and remarked on the importance of adhering to certain definite principles of Reform in the agitation of the question . All the speakers expressed themselves very strongly in favour of manhood suffrage , but at the same time exhibited a disposition to accept less if they could not get as much . A committee was appointed to arrange for future action .

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    Death Of Mr. Blakemobe, M.P.—We Regret T...

    Death of Mr . Blakemobe , M . P . —We regret to learn of the sudden death , on Sunday last , in his 57 th year , from apoplexy , of Thomas William Booker Blakemore , Esq ., of the Leys , Herefordshire , and of Velinara , Glamorganshire , M . P . for the county of Hereford . The deceased gentleman was the son of the late Rev . L . Booker , LL . D :, and assumed , by royal license , the name of Blakemore , in accordance with the will of his uncle , R . Blakemore , Esq ., in 1855 . He took an active part on the Protectionist side in the free-trade controversy , and was a strict member of the Conservative party . He was first returned for Herefordshire in September , 1850 , without opposition . He was also the author of a Treatise on the Mineral Basin of South Wales ; also a Letter , to the People on the Revenues of the Church .

    Death of De . Giffard . — -With sincere sorrow we announce the death at Folkestone , in Kent , of Stanley Lees Giffard , Esq ., LL . D ., of Trinity College , Dublin and of the Middle Temple , barrister-at-law , but who was much better known to statesmen , men of letters , and the public , as having exercised for considerably more than a quarter of a eenturj' the office of editor of the Standai'd , and having discharged that office with an amount of ability , learning , power , and fearlessness which gave his dailv writings an important influence on

    the public opinion of the country , and rendered them a great support to evangelical religion in the Church of England , the general advancement of Protestant truth , and the dissemination of Conservative opinions . Dr . Giffard was born in Dublin on the 4 th of August , 1788 , and died at Folkestone on the 6 th of the present month , having just entered his 71 st . year . Half a century of daily reading , added to a memory unusually accurate and retentive , had made his accumulation of general learning seem almost incredible in amount , and the readiness with which he availed himself of it in

    composition was one of the greatest charms of his writings . In the obduracy of his sympathies and antipathies in . politics he was a man after Dr . Johnson ' s own heart , and with him departed , perhaps , the last of the school of the Georgian political writers , who brought so great a fund of learning to the pursuit of the press . Dr . Giffard died of an excruciatingly painful disease—cancer , which he had borne with a courage that prevented those around him from perceiving the amount of bis sufferings . — Morning Herald . Death of the Dean of Ely . —Dr . Peacock , the Dean of Ely , was , on Thursday week , seized with a fit , which from the first was considered very alarming , and

    which ended fatally on Monday . Dr . Peacock was long a distinguished member of the University of Cambridge ; he was of Trinity College , and was second wrangler in 1813 , when Sir John Herschel was senior wrangler , and the names of Fallows , Romilly , Amus , and Mill followed him . He was the author of " a treatise on algebra and other mathematical works . Since his residence in Ely ho has taken a most active part , not only in the restoration and beautifying of the cathedral , but also in the improvement of the town . Tho Lotrndean Professorship ( salary about 300 / . a year ) as ivell as the deanery ( 120 J . ) is in the gift of tho Government . Mr . W . C . Macrkady has experienced a bereavement in the death , on Monday , at Sherborne House , Slierborno , of his sister .

    Thk Bishop of Oxford on the Chinese War . — The Bishop hns bpen , by ono of the Foreign Anairs Committees , asked to explain how it was he stated at Bradford that ? ' God has opened up China , " when , in the House of Lords , last session , he had denounced . God's vengeance against tho very net of opening it up . Hia Lordship returned tho following reply : —" Oxford , Nov . 2 . —Sir , —I have altered not ono of my views on tho Chinese question , nor have I expressed the slightest commendation of what I formerly condoinnocl . It ia an attribute of God ' s inscrutablo Providence that the crimes of men are made to work out tho accomplishment of His purposes , and it is no commendation of thoso crimes to accept tho condition which results in jiart from thorn as a fact in tho government of tho world . —I am , & o . —S . Oxon . "

    Thou Shalt not Commit Adui / tiihation . —UnJoi this head a correspondent of the Times aaya«—" ''} ""~ Since wo cannot buy a pounyworth of poppprmlnt losengos for our children without Ceding I 1 """ ""'" * plaster of Paris , and sinco wo cannot partake of tlio Holy Sacrament without eating sham broa . l and OrfniRIii r wine which novor camo from gm \™> «» ' * ™™? A } intermediate purchases , auoh na boer and othor noedi . 1 b , arc but roproaontutlona ' of that which they pretend to bo , id * trust that your thunders may roll lo . » . oud , , and doepfor tho more oorroct observance of , air , your obo-Ulont servant , — Elpvicnth Commandment .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1858, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13111858/page/21/