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      niHE House of Lords having been clean swept JL and dusted at the beginning of the week , the very impressive constitutional ceremony of proroguing Parliament by Royal Commission was gone through before an elegantly dressed and admiring auditory of three ladies . Until the 19 th of November Lords and Commons are freed from the care of attending to the legislative business of their country . Neither body appears to be inclined to waste in political idleness the respite vouchsafed them by their Sovereign ; during the week , in fact , Peers and Members have been as busy as bees

      in summer . It has been a week of meetings , and Trhat are meetings without noble Lords and honourable borough and county Members to address them ? Lord Hardwicke , a Cabinet Minister , has used the occasion of a farmers * dinner for stating some important opinions of his on a subject which lie may be supposed to have made his own—the condition of the British Navy . " It is so bad , " says Lord Hardwicke , " that it is the duty of every

      Englishman to use what influence he may to compel the Government to rectify the evil . Neither in ships nor in men are we able to hold our ancient high supremacy over the navies of other countries , and were we at tin ' moment pressed , we should find if ; extremely difficult to hold our own . " Opinions of grave importance coming from one who has so lately presided at a commission of inquiry into the subject of manning our navy .

      At Liverpool , Mr . Gladstone performed an important service to education . After the distribution of the prizes to the successful competitors in the Oxford Middle-class Examinations , ho pointed out in his largo and impressive manner the true advantages of these examinations , and tho reasons why the efforts of tho groat centres of learning in England to take the lead in tho cduoation of the people should be mot aud seconded with grateful

      earnestness by tho people . On all hands thcro aro present evidences of tho prosperity of England , owing , who can say how much , to the educational superiority of the masses ? Nothing is more wasteful or inefficient than ignorance , and if the farm-labourer , as Mr . Chowlor told us at Newark the other day , earns his two shillings a day , and is in a vastly bettor condition than ho was twenty yoara ago , it is becauso ho is really a bettor man , moro productive , and theroforo worth moro than ho then was .

      But lie has yot much to-do for himsolf , aud much lias yot to bo dono for him . At tho various meetings of tho week , the Reform Bill , in whioh ho is so dooply interested , has boon talked about by honourable mombors more or less eminently popular . Mr . Massey , at Salford , skotchod what , according " to his notions , ought to be tho foundation of tho coming moasuro : tho abolition of potty boroughs ; tho division of districts having o . larger

      number than 20 > 000 or so of electors ; an industrial or educational test—for example , deposits of a certain amount in a savings bank , membership for a certain length of time in a friendly society , or the successful passing of an examination for t he civil service commissions ; a 5 / . household franchise ; and the ballot . Let Ministers bring forward a measure embodying such principles , and , says Mr . Massey , I will give them my honest and hearty support ; but if they do not , I will join the great Liberal party in offering them a determined and manly opposition . On the subject of . the vitality of one section of the party referred to by Mr . Massey , Mr . Baxter said a few pertinent words to his constituents at Arbroath on Tuesday . The " independent party , " he said , " will be found to be in better casc _ than it has been for a long time past ; and for bis own part , he is so far satisfied with what the present Government have done , in doing away ' -with property qualification and in admitting- Jews iiito Parliament , that , "if they manfully grapple with the church-rate question in a liberal spirit , effect a reduction in the expenditure , and propose a really progressive measure of Reform , " he will support them . Mr . Headlam , on the Reform theme , expi ' esses doubts ns to the capacity of the Government to bring forward such a bill as one of its members seemed inclined to promise the other day—namely , " a bill which would please all parties : " and Mr . Ridley reserved his opinion altogether till the time comes for passing judgment on the Government measure . So much for Reform , its present position and prospects ; evidently the . Liberal puil / c is prepared to give Ministers a fair trial . Among the non-political meetings of tho -week , the one asscmblod at St . James ' s Hall on Monday is tho most conspicuous and important . It was composed exclusively of members of the metropolitan vestries , and its object was to concert measures for putting down tho practico of confession in tho Church of England . Mr . TVcstcrton , of Knightsbridgc , was tho primo mover of tho proceeding , although the recent death of his wife prevented him from being present at the meeting . Tlio first and principal speaker was Colonel Vorckor , who has mado up his mind thufc "the Tractariau party aro men with whom compromise is utterly impossible . " The meeting agreed with him , and carried a motion to the cflTcct that tho Church of England , if it is truly the Church of the nation , must not bo permitted , to- go back to " tho darkness and serfdom of tho middle ages . " Tho originators of tho meeting , disappointed iu certain " distinguished" coadjutors , have made tho present movomcut specially , if not oxolusivcly , a middle-class movoment . The Social Science Congross brought its labours to a oloso on Saturday last , ami tho valuo af those Labours has boon yofy variously estimated . It remains witli tho teachers of St . George ' s Hall to find a practical application for their long and , jn several instances , hard lessons . Some of

      them , however , have actually put the practice before the preaching—the horse before the cart—no small improvement in fashion . The most notable topic of foreign news is the assembly of the Prussian Landtag for the purpose of giving its assent to the establishment of the Regency . This important act will be among the last acts of the present assembly , which completes its three years' term on the 31 st of the present month . The new assembly will then be elected with which the Prince Regent will have to govern . In anticipation of the coming , elections , the Liberals throughout the kingdom are

      girding up their loins for a struggle with their old tyrants , the Court party . Several programmes have been issued , but one in particular , from a committee of electors in Silesia , has been accepted as a general model ; it sets forth in clear language the measures to be taken if the Constitution is to be a reality . In the mean time ,, the Prince Regent . has addressed the Chambers , and has distinctly pledged himself to rule by the Constitution . " The more gloomy the aspect of affairs is in consequence of the King ' s health , " he said , at the conclusion of his speech , " the higher the standard of Prussia must be raised , by the conscientious discharge of our duty and by mutual

      confidence . " The mission of the Empire in France appears at the moment to be anything but one of peace—its tendency seems , indeed , to be quite in a contrary direction . Franco has three affairs on hand at the present time—Portugal , Switzerland , and our own colony of Newfoundland , where her naval authorities appear to be carrying things with such a high hand as must assuredly lead to " . explanations "

      with tho British Cabinet . The Portugal dispute makes no way , and the papers o Madrid laugh at the notion of a power like France going to war with , her about a matter on which tho will of Franco must be accepted as law , seeing that Portugal is quito unable to resist . As the quarrel stands , the Emperor Napoleon bos sent in his " ultimatum , " demanding tho immediate and unconditional restoration of tho

      Charlcs-Gcorgos and the liberation of the captain , sentenced to imprisonment by the maritimo tribunal of Mozambique . On the question of compensation , tho Emperor is willing to strotcb . n point , and lcavo it to bo settled by arbitration . If it cannot be said of him , as of Falstaff , that he is " the causo of wit in others , " it may be said ho is the oauso of much irritation . Ho has sot Gonova and tho

      Federal Council of Switzerland almost m arms against oaoh other on tho question of tho extradition of foreigners . Tho Fedoral Council had , under prcssuro , consented to got rid of such persons as tho Emporor of Franco desired for his own roasons to liavo further , romoved from trimoo and'from Ufa person . Tho order cumo from Win laloly for tho expulsion of somo Italians , whoso roaulcuco m Orenova was diseasing to him ; but tho obstinate city

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23101858/page/3/