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      The Leader

      THE LEADER

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- * ±° Singapore 3376 Han worth ...... 1381 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEHome Intelligence . India :.. 1376 The Two Mottoes 1381 ^^ 1388 Political Foreshadowings 1372 China 1376 FINE ARTS— Germany .... 1389 The Manchester Manifesto 1373 Coclnn China 1376 New Publications 1381 America 1390 G SSs lg 8 . ^ . ^ . ! "i ^!! " 1373 fir ; ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: % S * SJ ! £ r , *» . nd . aand . nd . an procress-Th ^ lLS ^ c .::::::::::::::::::::: UtI SsSS ^ ..::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SS . theatre andente ^ a . nments- ™ * ««* Markefc - I 39 i An Austrian Alliance 1374 America — - •<• J £ 77 The Palace of the People , Covent COMMERCIALIreland 1374 South American States ..... 1377 Garden . Drury Lane , & c .,.. 1382 shipowners ' Complaints 1392 Accidents and Sudden Deaths 1374 Central America 13 / 7 PUBLIe AFFAIRS _ Genera ? TradeSort .. 1392 SBB « SS £ E = « uTS-sr 13 ' 7 " » $ & ££ = » gHSSP ^ S Hi-n »~ .. — i 3 , 7 KSSi 5 ^ -= ™ 35 - tE ^ *¦ £ " « £ && "" ' & ^™ . ± : >» Postscript 1383 The Post-Office Directory 1381 -turns on Parliamentary B « - Londo ^ Gazette ' ...... 1394 ContSSgjNJS "™! . ^ :..... 1375 # { S & SftaBSifiS-:. V = ^ iS B ^ fogS ? German Princes ! 1387 Shares and Stocks ::: " 1395

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      fpHA . T the publication of the Royal Proclamation J _ throughout India has been attended with immediate good results , seems to be assured by the latest news from Calcutta and Bombay . Not only liave we evidence of the popular enthusiasm with which the reading of the august document was received in . the great cities , but we have the more important assurance that already the amnesty accorded by the new ruler of India has done its work well with many of tlie rebellious chiefs . In Oude , -where alone the rebellious fire still burns with

      sustained fierceness , many of the talookdars are accepting the royal grace accorded to them , and are giving up their forts , and what is more , their arms . The Rajah Loll Mahdoo Singh had given himself up and surrendered his fortress of Amety ¦; and the Nawub of JBanda had separated himself from the rebels and gone into General Michel ' s camp . But , not trusting alone to the mild influences of Royal Proclamation , both the Commandcr-in-Clucf

      . and . her Majesty ' s Chief Commissioner in Oude , Mr . Montgomery , have taken stem measures of repression against the obstinately rebellious . While Lord Clyde promises consideration and protection to all who shall comport themselves peacefully , he threatens death and destruction to all who shall venture to offer armed opposition ' . and Mr . Montgomery declares that severe penalties shall be paid by all who are discovered to have concealed anus , ammunition , or other materiel of

      war . There is very little actual fighting reported in these late communications , but what there is shows that the rebels arc fighting because they have nothing for it but to die fighting . Tantia Topee , their ono and only great leader , still fights and runs . By ' the lust accounts wo learn that he was in tho Satpopvah hills , every outlet of which was closely guarded . We hear nothing more of the report brought by the previous mail , that he had sent to inquire the terms on which ho might surrender .

      Tho news from Chiim is peculiarly , interesting , einco it conveys doubts as to the value of our late treaty . At Hong-Kong thcro is a growing feeling that tho document is worth very little after all . According to the Hong-Kong light , the Chinese Government was only acting under tho influence of temporary foars , and thcroforo not sincerely . It is said that the robols having nearly exhausted tho resources of the Government , it was not in a condition to offer a sustained opposition to tho domauds mado upon it by tho allied Powers , Tho British mind at Hong-Kong , however , lias a tendency to look at tho darkest sido iu Chinese matters , What tho next turn will bo in iho affairs , direct or collateral , of tho Ionian Islands , socnis likely to

      be a subject for speculation for some time to come . The publication of Sir John Young ' s very freespoken despatches immediately after the departure of Mr . Gladstone , was a surprise , capped by the discovery that the documents had been surreptitiously obtained and published without the sanction of the Government . These surprises were , however , small and tame compared with that of the verdict given by the jury which tried Mr . Wellington Guernsey for stealing the published documents . That a copy of the Ionian despatches was carried

      off from the table oF Mr . Miller at the Colonialoffice , and that the only missing copy was sent by Mr . Guernsey to the Daily News , was admitted by his counsel , the eloquent aud ingenious Serjeant Parry ; but what of that ? added the pleader ; where was the felonious intention ? And the juryecho answered , " Where ? " Perhaps no one of those who heard the verdict of acquittal delivered was more surprised than lucky Mr . Guernsey , certainly no one could at the moment have had a stronger sense of the " glorious uncertainty of the law" than Mr . Humphrys Parry .

      Another of those elaborate monetary statements in which France is made to exhibit a prosperity not to be discovered by any other outward visible sign , has been laid before the Emperor by Monsieur Magnc . The Empire is not only " peace , " it is prosperity ; there is no doubt of the fact—according to the Minister of Finance . Look at the funds , which , at one time , were down to CO , they are up to 73 ; railway obligations , again , they were as low

      long continuance of tranquillity will be out of the question . In Rome we have positive signs of the rising turbulence ; several arrests have been made , and the police are taxed to the utmost to watch for the least appearances of a popular outbreak . At home we have something of the same duty to perform , but under very different circumstances . The Irish itch of treason is well-nigh dissipated , but lingers still in a few young bloods . The announcement that a number of arrests had been made o young men , attached to secret societies , whose object was no less than to wrest the " Green

      Isle" from the hands of Queen Victoria , was received with surprise and not a little incredulity on this side of the Irish Channel . But the fact was soon established , and the probabilities are that Government will be found not to have acted without grounds in the steps which it has taken . There is something like a feeling of discomfort prevalent , arising from the fact that the arrested men have been committed to prison without a public examination ; but , upon the whole , we are not at present inclined to question the proceedings of the Irish Lord Lieutenant . The prisoners , according to rumour , are to be tried forthwith by a Special Commission to be appointed for the purpose .

      The Reform question is being actively debated in various parts of the land , and the labour will not be useless , , as it is supposed , Ministers are waiting upon the public voice to guide them in the final adjustment of their measure . Mr . Bright's position becomes day by day one of greater responsibility , and without some unforeseen event arises to shake tho popular confidence in ]^ L \\\) which is manifested by rcncn . tGu votes of public assemblies , ho wiii hang like a threatening sword above tlio heads of Ministers on the introduction of their bill .

      as 2 G 5 f ., and they arc worth 300 f . Every branch of the revenue has increased during the year , and the proof of real prosperity is that , instead of setting aside 40 , 000 , 000 fraucs for the liquidation of the national debt , according to the arrangement of 1 S 59 , the sum of . 60 , 000 , 000 francs will bo applied to that purpose in 1 S 60 . This pioturc of French prosperity has only one drawback : it is not to be trusted .

      At Edinburgh , on Wednesday night , he mado it quite clear as to the position he intended to take on tho Reform question , and as to tho elements of the bill he is going to prodnoe . His bill will repeal the Septennial Act , will secure tho ballot , a more equal distribution of seats , a rating-suffrage in tho towns , and a 10 / . voto in the counties . We aro not likely soon to hoar tho last of the cry , raised in tho north , that the shipping interests of England arc going to the dogs ; it has been onco moro taken up in London , and is to bo mado to echo even to tho ears of her Majesty . Tho

      ship-No event has occurred daring the week to lift tho veil which , for the present , covers the affairs of Italy ; but the probability of a rupture between France and Austria is becoming day by clay a matter of graver speculation . In Germany tho idea is a fixed one , and if the report of certain words , said to havo boon spoken by tho Prince of Prussia , may bo trusted , tho threats of an Austro-Prussinn allianco in opposition to tho protonsions of France

      are something moro than empty words . The Prince Rcgont is said to have doolarod that in tho event of war , "if Germany cannot bo one , sho shall , at all events , bo uudividod in tho struggle . " Count CavQur , also , is reported to havo sent round a circular to the Picdmontcsc representatives at foreign Courts , in which , while denying that anything has occurred to warrant tho apprehension of imiuedinl . o war , ho says that , without speedy nmeKoratiou in tho Governments of several of tho Italian States , u

      owners want tho qualified protection afforded ui " reciprocity ; " they oaunot , they say , hold up against tho unrestrained competition of foreign countries without the roimposition of differential duties and all the rost of Clio Protectionist maohinory ; and ho they have , in very humble acconjis , petitioned the ¦ Queen to issue mi Order in Couuoil depriving iho ships of other nations , not trading with t'his country on a reciprocal basis , of the froctrnding rights which they now enjoy . Thd shipping interest is tho laggard iu tho Hold , } while

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18121858/page/3/