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    1130 THE .LEADER. [Saturday ^

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    OPINIONS ON" THE EASTERN QUESTION. DEPUT...

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    still further extension . A closer alliance in friendly feeling will be an additional consequence , not less valuable than the material results . Another effect will be to increase the activity in our own iron trade , already active ; That the " iron trade has been very , ibrttinate indeed , is proved , by the comparatively small mischief inflicted under the speculative tampering with the trade . The demand , for rails , in England , is great , and now there ^ vill be a demand for ^ French xaib ; the demand for coals , increased by the winter claims of London , will now be increased

    by the French claims ; and hence activity in the iron trade and its great auxiliary , will receive a new impulse . ~ W & ges , of course , must be maintained . This peculiar impulse will help to make the working-classes understand , by the force of illustration , the nature of those causes which raise or depress wages . The contrast between the iron and cotton trade , already striking , will now be rendered still wider ; and those persevering in the Lancashire strike will perceive , from the facts as well as from the explanations of other trades , how much their efforts are going asainst the stream

    of natural commerce . We understand that the letter in our Open Council , by Mr . John Holmes , who has studied the subject of industry deeply , and has proved his sincerity by every test , has made a considerable impression in Lancashire , and has been extended by a special local circulation in Burnley , where the two sides are at last coming to a reconcilement , upon practical grounds of mutual inquiry . We hope that the

    strike will generally begin to subside . Should the " Labour Parliament , " which has been talked of , at a small meeting in Manchester , be convened , we trust that its debates will turn less upon mere agitation than upon practical questions , as to the causes of value ; from which the labouring classes , as well as the commercial classes , may learn the real nature of those difficulties with which they have been contending . Should it do so it will be beneficial : should it

    neglect that inquiry it will be useless , if not mischievous . Coals and iron , however , have brought us home too fast . Another event has occurred abroad , which we must not overlook , although its importance has been overrated by some of our contemporaries . The Queen of Portugal is dead , and her subjects , as well as her allies , are felicitating themselves on the prospect of improvements from the change . We anticipate none . The Queen was an ill-starred specimen of royal humanity . Exposed rather than exalted , from being lifted upon a throne , and placed before the world ; a woman with passions stronger than her

    understanding , inclined to indulgence , and obese to an unseemly degree , she might have passed , in private life , as a good-natured bustling person , liked , probably , by her immediate friends , and deserving of no very strict censure . Her faults were the effect of her position . She was called to the throne in her eighth year ; affianced at that age , to her uncle , who became a rebel ; and she was set upon the throne to govern at fifteen . Her reign was as distracted as her life . Let us respect the expiation . The saddest fate that can befall a woman asks for pity : in that sudden silence of the mother ' s pangs , relentless history holds its peace awhile .

    WJiilc one prince of Coburg is busied about liia new regency , another prince of Coburg , in a greater and a quieter country , has exhibited his activity in promoting education . This time Princo Albert ; appears upon the high theatre of Cambridge University , of which Jiois Chancellor , mid which , ho exhibits to his young friend the ! Duke of Brabant j thoDuko being mudo a Doctor

    on the occasion . The reception of the Princo showed his popularity ; and ho preserved a consistency with tho whole career that ho lias marked out for liinisolf , by paying a largo whare of bin attention to HubjeclH connected with practical pcionco , —ineclianicH expounded in a , lecture by . Professor Willis , and goology , by Professor Werltfowiok . By degrees , Positivism is -making it « way , and it crops out in all directions .

    The llegistrar General , in explaining to us this week rnoro of the laws of cholera . It has a fixed ratio with the Iowjuc . hn of the land on which dwellings arc placed : and it ; Jinn uIho a distinct relation with the iniptirilicH of water . Whore water is impure cholera can exist . The ( Uhcuro , therefore , may be washed out ; 4 i , nd . it in from our bad stylo of washing , among other cjuihoh , that wo arc rendered liable to the viwitiiUon .

    Piety may beVshot ^ i ifaiifcn , keeping God's elements purd for human use , as in sending up helpless prayers from the midst of disobedience . The Registrar : General confirms Lord Palmerston . The Bishop , of Manchester appears at the tweeting of the Btify- Atheii ^ uia , to cavil atwords ; and insist upon " religidus" education ; and . lie may perhaps give voice to a sectarian prejudice which still cominands subserviency from the Administration . Jktt the retrograde party is losing ground . It is now generally' understood that

    Ministers contemplate a system of popular education , to be administered through the sects ; as they hope , by placing it under all sects , to render it national in its scope . There are , however , great numbers , even of those who still conform and go to church or chapel , who object to every species of sectarian aamrnistration . They do not wish to have their Positive science clipped by priestly instructors . There is still much work to do ; but we are making way , and it is consoling to observe how many , without being formally

    associated together , are working in the same direction . A contemporary has remarked that even the offence of wife-beating may , in part , be traced to a bad sanitary atmosphere . The low neighbour ^ hood which breeds cholera , breeds also squalor , and with physical squalor , moral squalor- —contentment under brutish conditions . The cases of wife-beating brought before the police-courts , this week , have been remarkable for their

    number , but still more for their atrocity . One husband , who tries to kill his wife , with three knives successively , and , when the knife is wrenched from him , tries to tear open her wounds with his fingers , exhibits a less refinement of brutality than another husband , who obliges his wife to strip off all her clothes , to lie upon a bed , and there beats her , successively , with a stay-bone , a hairbrush , and a thick square stick , diversifying his recreations by other acts of tyranny , and by the threat that if she cried out , he would stamp upon her till she burst . There is no doubt that this

    brutality is fostered by squalor ; but it is also , perhaps , to be traced to a nervous excitement , incidental to bad living , and an overstrained work throughout the humbler population . The effeminacy of protracted peace has its own peculiar ferocities ; and London , whose inhabitants disapprove so much of the cruelties of war , is eating its own heart with much of this domestic disease , and this nervous mania for cruel enjoyments .

    We find , in the same blessed metropolis , objections to sacrificing life for expeditions in search of knowledge , and of those explorers who are missing in the Arctic Regions . Mr . Petermann , the geographer , is urgent to send out a new expedition , by way of Spitzbergen ; Captain Inglefield is anxious to go out writ it . But the man who sits here , in the midst of cholera and wifebeating , and disease , scruples to sacrifice life in search of science ; for the science is such that it cannot instantly be sold at so much a yard .

    1130 The .Leader. [Saturday ^

    1130 THE . LEADER . [ Saturday ^

    Opinions On" The Eastern Question. Deput...

    OPINIONS ON" THE EASTERN QUESTION . DEPUTATION TO LORD PAXMfiESTON . A deputation , consisting of Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P ., Profossor Newman , Messrs . Prout , Nicholay , HickHon , and John Wilson , waited upon Lord P ; ilmeraton , at his residence , by appointment , on the 19 th instant , to submit . an address for presentation to Her Majesty , agreed to at tlio groat public meeting' hold at tho London Tavern , in support of the independence of Turkey . Tho deputation was very kindly received by his . Lordship , who promised to present the address to Hor Majesty , and listened attentively to various observations from tho different members of tho doputation on the affaira of Turkey . Tho addrofw was as follows : —

    " To tho Queen ' s Most jSxccllent majesty . " May it ploiiRO your Majesty , —Wo , your Majesty ' s faithful and aifoetionato Bubjeets , being inhabitants of tho metropolis of G roat JMtuin , " in public mooting in tho city of London assembled , beg leave respectfully to represent to your Majesty that , the series of uggrcsRionfl on the part of the liuHmmi ' Govornmont convinces us that there exists in its cotmciln a fixed purpose not only to mibduo Turkey , but to domineer over all rfuropo and to extirpate all freedom . Wo look upon thin as tho true reason why no diplomatic

    settlement of tho quarrel between 3 tus » ia and Turkey wmh or is poHnil > lo ; and we lament that your Majesty ' s Government should have wanted much valuable time , damaged the just cause of the TurlcH , indicted u ]) ori commerce montlm of needU'HH depression , mid ( which we regard as tho worst effect of all ) inspired universal suspicion of the good faith of England in a vain oflbrt to negotiate with an unscrupulous and violent Power , which acted while wo talked , and which , if now momentarily appeased , would only become naoro dangerous on some oatly occasion . "Wo applaud Uio gloriouu and patriotic spirit shown by tho

    Turkish , people at the present crisis ; and should deplore any attempt bii tfae p & rt of your Majesty ' s Government to suppress that spirit- —cbnsidering the many solemn ways in which England has' hound herself to maintain the Turkish independence ^— as an act of unparalleled infamy . On the contrary , riot only & 6 e 3 the interest , but also the duty and honour of Epglanft call upon your Majesty ' s Groyernment to render to Turkey , ^ conditionally , prompt , decisi ve , and effective aid . Irl doing this , we further beg leave to express our conviction , that it is equally the duty of your Majesty ' s troverininent towards the people of this country * . ¦ - ' ' -i ™ ~ : i ' j-L ± 1 j -u ± ' ' J' i- - i V to discard all Secmi and d di and

    ynastic plomacy , we must add that , in our opinion , Austria , by reason of her previous course of policy , arid of her recent perfidious behaviour towards Turkey , ought to be regarded by us as an enemy , and not eherishfed as an ally ; and we further beg leave to represent to your Majesty that from the manner in which this question has hitherto been conducted on the part of England , we can come to no more lenient conclusion than that the servants who have advised your Majesty are not equal to the emergency . "Dated , Oct . 7 . " Having handed in this document the deputation withdrew . tOED DERBY AND ME . HUME . The leader of the Tories and the veteran Kadieal were each invited to attend the meeting held at Manchester last week , to express sympathy vrith Turkey . Each was precluded from attendance ; Lord Derby by illness —Mr . Hume , by the fact , that the invitation only reached him , in Norfolk , on the day of the meeting . Both have , howoyer , recorded their opinions on the subj ect under consideration . Lord Derby says"So far as lam informed as to the merits of the Eastern question , Eight appears to me to be altogether on the side of Turkey ; and I believe that my opinions , as to the utter futility of the pretexts put forward by Bussia in justification of her acts of unprovoked aggression , are shared by the great mass of my countrymen . " Mr . Hume goes much farther : —

    ' " The invasion of territory , and the late proclamation of the Russian Governmnet against Turkey , must secure from all independent people , the strongest feelings on behalf of the Turks ; and I hope it will be proved that our Government have been , consistent in the support of the Turks . If victory is to be with those who are right , the Turks must be , as I wish them to be , successful ; and it is quite possible that something advantageous to the liberty of Europe may yet spring from the hostilities now going on . " It is pleasant to find that the apostle of " economies thinks that liberty may benefit by this righteous war .

    ME . IAING AT TAIST . Our hyperborean brethren seem no less disposed to look upon war as not an unmixed evil , if waged for European liberty and British honour . In addressing his constituents at Tain , in the North of Scotland , last week , Mr . Laing took this moderate view : — A question of pre-eminent importance , which interested all , and which was at present uppermost in the thoughts of all , was that of peace or war . He had no sympathy with the advocates of a war policy for England . Our lato war with France had cost us quite enough , without our trviner to cet up an aeritation in favour of another . But become

    while we shouldjmdeavour to secure peace it might absolutely necessary for England to go to war . There was no security for peace in Europe if ono nation , and that a very important one , should be suffered to tread under foot stipulations which had been agreed to among nations , and so break international treaties , which it had p ledged itselt to adhere to . If any country was allowed , contrary to tho law of nations , to march armies into tho territories ol an adjoining Power , such conduct must bo put a stop to . Just as if among fivo individuals in a room , ono becomes outrageous , tho other four peaceable men had no alternative but to take violont measures , and make him fcol tnac it was . an much his interest as theirs to keep thq peace . h

    That was the case with regard to EuBsia , for alter they ou escaped tho horrors of a general European war for ncar $ half a century , and it was thought that tho principles ol penco might never ngain be infringed upon m J . tjttro P "; Nicholas stepped forward , and refusing to bo guided uy the counsel of tlio other Powers , has ontcrcd into a win tho consequences of which it would bo difficult to » toretu . The Groat Powers gave tho Emperor abundant opportunity to withdraw from the foolish position winch Jie nan assumedThemade tho means of withdrawing bo easy

    . y and honourable that it might bo said they had «»«» " bridge of gold for him to retreat by ; but ho still pe ™' . " in retaining those unjust pretensions and remaining in w » province ., whirh ho bad invaded , and there was now no ol her com-HO but to resort to war , and bring the »« ; fefc' ° to so speedy a termination , that it mny secure us «««• oth « r half century from further violations of *» " ^ nations . ( Choor «!) If , as seemed probable , l ' " } ™^ w /» tM i . a oilft , Hv oinnmrtned together , and liorrt Ai ) w ««< u

    cmno down i , o tiiom and showed that tho < "V ° ^ ' ™ , 3 done nil in their power to secure peace , uhd tha ^ tftov v «» be obliged cither to sacrifice the honour of H . nglniMl , uppoalto tbo patriotism of the country * o Hu wrt U «« n » j carrying out eifcctual proceedings agninut Kussia , no w give the Government all tho support which lay » »' power , as the rojwosontativo of thoao whom h" » ow " droBsod . ( Great cheering . ) MlOKXINa AT OLASaOW . Glasgow has oxpresHod its op inion , heartily «« nmdily , lor giving vigorous aHHwtniico to J «^ At a public mooting , convened by tho Jboid liov * and attended by 3000 i > ooplo , bold on Wednesdayv TOHolutionn in fovour of breaking the P »^ J * SJ Ozur , and giving the Turka uuuwduito and jnatona

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 26, 1853, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26111853/page/2/