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SSeofit . To reconcile the nation . - Sk burdens of our Government public writers ^ reafter will Imve to find out its positive advantSet it wUlnot be sufficient to prove that it is ^ corrupt and as ignorant as the Government © f the United States .
rtaLJfSJ perfect Government are driven to defend it _ by Sepreciatiug other Governmeats , and can only ^ for it that it is not so bad as th »» . ^ PJ }^ Sd that despotism . Its efficieney hasten in , creased , its exertions augmenied , tbcj ^ sphere ol . ^ ita duties enlarged , so as to embrace , ¦ the J ^ h ^
necessary y ^ tt ^^^^ ie ¦ _ £ 3 sga «^_§ career to a competitive examination , lhe \ « OTC J rn - a ^ o & tt ^ m si ^ . ^ ^ s ^] Sera |^ ^
vildemess is the condition pi . me g- » ™ ^ ShnbaFf a century , and far more prosperous I 1858 than in 1798 . We have , at the same time ,. a m ^ mmi s ^ sss s & 1 SBffSi-Am - and practised , *•«»**• _ » _ , Um Wepenaent Government . yjmA it «*« , ^ Wet be alleged , since our population W has doubled SStMfSSifUtaira eenturv » " *^ g i -j ___ —» ¦ : » 4 . 1 .- / . - no /> p «< : nrv ftoiiditiou oi tlie -growiu
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. _______ ~ ^ wHbin latperiod " political writers aim-ODO . . - - . _ ¦ - — : _ ^? ippn nentlv advAntageous to the people . m . aenu > «^ p . . „ _ ¦ -, ! rjniitieal writers attu-
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• THE "LEADER . [ No . 440 , Atjctst 2 ^ 1858 , 868 - •¦ -- ¦ ¦ ¦¦ > P
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Ut the ' end of forty vears , -when tears bemontt more to be entertained as to the designs of Fiance , t is discovered that about the best thin- to be done will be to demolish all these costly embrasures Keless bastions ^ d ^^ t ^ t ^ l y to cher ESoTSd ^^ for baling out the tide , when-, -- ¦ . ¦ , . i
niitics a popular outbreak -would probably have en sued . At the right moment the retrograde administration yielded , and a thoroughly liberal one -was formed , under the presidency of " the honourable and learned member for Antwerp , " as we should say . A «* eneral calm -was the immediate- consequence . * Susgeneral calm -was tne immediate- consequence . Susj ^ . « » v . ini . m .-1-. hi-Phlr would probably have en
r es ever it breaks m . What with railways on the one hand and the prevalence of a highly artiiicml Sm of industry on the other what mth the pcrfiction of projectiles which enable an assailing force ^ wits tt isssr ^ ss ^ of stron 1 places while mating ¦» anuw " . ^« - » ,. « -- ,
picions of clerical reaction and absolutist tendencies died away , and with them the bitterness of party I strife . Trusted and respected , the new Ministry I was allowed to move on its progressive course with 1 prudence and moderation . Certain small coaces' 1 sions , rather of form than of substance , were made I to France on the subject of incendiary libels against ' , the head of the empire ; concessions which , if made a 1 i •> *¦ tr * 1 " _ "V ^ T \ T ii */\ iili ] I »* " »* n nnuonn < wnniMuil ; " Vilain XIVwould have caused l
" ii the fielS , the idea has been finally renounced of " akin * a stand on the frontiers of Belgium , and the work of demolition has actually ^ egun . Ainon * the thrifty and thoughtful peop le of the TJctSands , the abandonment of the W ™ V ° }} e * | of res ^ tanee is u , questionably popular . Not « mt tliev nre tired of the national independence they Sit for £ 1830 , or that they want inclusion m \ the impevial boundaries of Bonaparlut rale ; with ] the eSn of certain fanatics among . . g » e" pnestood ? So hate Leopold because he is a P « tcstent I -tnd Liberal , and the coal-owners of . a pai-Ucnlar dStriet , who would profit bv ^ gee admission , of , the ^ produ ^ e o . then jp £ iron factories of the ire no unpal
* by M . ., genera misgiving and ill-will . The affairs of the country , in short , have been managed with prudence , honour , and success . Hence the ltogier Cabinet are popular , and no section of the Conservative Oppositions strong enough to displace them . Nor does King Leopold desire a change of hands . He is well satisfied with the present men ; but , like all liis family , he I has a love of meddling in affairs where the humour of the many ouglit rather to be consulted than his individual will , and in-which , when these happen to differ , royal obstinacv is a suicidal blunder . His Belgian Majesty has seldom erred in this way . On the point in question , however , he chose to be wilful and the result is that he has got snubbed b p
into the emp triotic waverings , we believe , exist in the hearts of thfBeVbns Thcv ate proud of their nationality ; they ai e fond of their fVeedom ; they are . content 1 Stheir Government ; and they do not ^ wishMo barter all the benefits and blessings they Tia > e Str the desperate -banee o ^ somcOiinS i tatter whicli despotism promises . But tliey know , . Wsad ^ aaitSn ^ ow ruinous and how unavailing ] wcS all the old attempts to save their open -Mid Sv ^ cbui try from an Wading arrnT such as ; W nXn ^ lL Avould launch across theJrontusr ml K ^ i gl ^ liours . They believe ^^ ^^^ & lJS ^^^ r ^^ Ostena »«« - «¦ i
y us Parliament ., and . '' baffled ' for the present in a favourite scheme . He-would insist upon-M . Homer brin ^ in * forward his sh abby and stunted plan for fortifying Antwerp . Sooner than breale up a Liberal Government on a measure not strictly speak .-in <* political , M . llogicr and his colleagues gene--, rouslv submitted to boar the temporary -weight ot an unpopularity they did not desert ; but the : maiority of the Chamber discerning where the blame really lav , rejected the project , of the King , at the -ainitiineI making it plain , by the tone of the debate and the composition of the majonly on a division , that they did not mean to censure the Ministry .
either of Antwerp or , -or «» ; — - whither the Court and Chambers could retire , and where Il ! ev xnight await succour from Prussia and n ^ t ^^^ ^ S ?
There Srt So lines of oldfeWoncd oomtmchoi t ^' fee ^ VpSS rlomurred and petitioned the Legislature that tucii hones ^ of finding breathing room in an expanded ] rSofsuburbL buildings should no be en . be d They did not object
BELGIAN FO 11 TRESSES . kvxKB . two centuries spent in building andi be' Muff , sapping and storming , multiplying , anddis-S ^ Stresses , it comes to be a question whe-SS Belgium shall have tiny fortifications at all . anf itfashiona changenot morei esseutially
^ to ^ telrfSp- tobear their full share ofthe greater burden that a wider circuit of circumvalltttion would entail , dui thev rS ably contended aK ainst the permanent , X risoTn ° enT & lb « r eivie }« f ^ g ^ JScd fflS ^ S ^ ES A . nlwert > in the Chamber of Deputies , aim «» whSL « tta » i- . «• k . ™ " , ! aC Xot „„„ „ .: «! , ii . ose of his constituent * , ine P 'P " K ttcfof "S " , opiniou " ^ Uo ^ eonUod J in favour of the more oompretaM « : pla » , « ¦
. War » , tbim society and its ideas . In the days of Louis XIV . the-glory of kmga depended upon the capture of Valeaciennes , ot the surrender ot Mons ; and the welfare of mankind was , par parenUiae , considered - as included therein . In the brief intervals of royal quarrel , diplomacy took up the theme ; mid TemDlo and Bolingbroke manoeuvred as elaborately wtk the pen to preserve the fortified towns of the Low Countries from the gripe of Trance as Marshal Saxe or Marlboroug li ever , did sword m hand . Very much the same sort of thing went on dunng {^ i ^ swiW ^ r ? . ^ feattaMaSJ ? Sur the Uno of Wder fortresses in repair , and now
| , SrSS-SHSHaf gSfiSeSsrs why t » hcn beaten , as they we o « a « ivisjo a by a wt-i ^ ff ^ JSS striking and instructive lesson ni the m 0 ikm o ou constitutional government . J . t is tins : ¦ TIms nugier Cabinet wns tonned ^ noI vcij . ^ ng : ago , upon the overthrow of one which 1 ind « I forfeited the national confidence ^ M ^ ^ , and roligioua question , into whoso meiit » it w un i necessary to enter here . So deeply « tlie nal o » i r stirred ou that occasion , that for tl » e first i "" »"" e ,. 1830 symptoms of politicul disturbance manitotod - , I ihcmsolvcS ; and had matters been , pushed to extrc-
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this articl ^ ould hav SEB ^ STOPOL , AND WHAT T 1 IE 1 ARE /¦ DQIKOi-THERE ..
Sffigs ^ S ES ?* SS & iSSa ^ SS may learn much ; especially jvlini e lesso d ^^^ Me - o f ^^^ Uhe DanuWan Pnncinaht cs by tie ^ ^ ^ and even by I hat lo » ft jc
Sinop ^ gj ™ ^ much of our bravest blood , and so iai o t j i q [ tiou of our nationa prestige , the impoit " Scbnstopol is brought Uon f . ^^ JnHons adde d the income tax we poy , and by ^ to the sum total of our nal . lonul de ^ . . If , as a nation , we are P ^ W f ^ prebending the resultsi of wtmt we do ;^ it » c ^ another of our characteristics 1 hat * t- h . u ' ness for having our inoixcy ' s w oil hWa ou ^ After the Treaty of Paris l » ad hu « ^ ^ J clever llussian dip lomatists 1 ind o « viw dcntl ^ i and Freneli repveseiitativc who duLn w , dl uiuxr eiKJiMM' ^ - > p ii . r » territories »*" the hy of the t is
| so much as geograp c ^> u ri ed they were deal ng vvith , wha ; i " | f ^ eLuuh ! fro « n the precise gain which hud nceiuccM * the expenditure of so much 1 ood l s 3 iYc trensure ? What but th » : hnt ^ «^< £ * ^ policy of Hn » ria w « s at leug ; h g ^ W / becoming a n one direction ; thnt the BlncV bta iiy neutral water , would hcnccfo ilh 1 oscn able barrier to those hands * itU Jit ^ ling towards Constantinop le anil >« ^ » rcl « the East . This would indeeil bt a ^ m . c dlS for our T iB 71 1 ^ KLl . « ftidUw colW ^ posed to fear is , thnt wo ! iw : ° . J 'f . " without attaining the object in v cw . ^ There can he no doubt that i-has ' J Ru 9 S , ( Latter of paramount »« I >?^ nee J ^ BlackB Court to keep such a domination o \«
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 28, 1858, page 868, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_28081858/page/12/
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