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      ia infinitely to be preferred ? I have now , gentlemen , I trust shown that my plan is not open to the objections which have been raised against it ; but I cannot conclude without ( parodoxical as it may appear ) avowing that I am far more gratified than disconcerted at these objections . They prove how deeply Englishmen are imbued with instinctive reverence for the liberty of the subject This , like every other sentiment , may be carried to an unwarranted length . On the question before vou I think it has been so treated ; but I for one will bear in mind that personal freedom is the surest

      ever foundation of our other liberties , and that hostility to . any interference with it challenges my respect , even when it exceeds the limits of a reasonable jealousy . If , then , on calm consideration , my proposal shall bo found by the verdict of reflective men unwisely to infringe on that noble privilege , none will rejoice more sincerely than myself that I have not been taken at my word . Grateful shall I be to those who will have saved me from the lifelong sorrow of having inflicted injury where I iiad humbly hoped to suggest an important benefit . "

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      PUBLIC OPINION . The Macelesfield Courier , that lugubrious of country papers , contains the following startling announcement . People say " See the Bay of Naples and die , " we say , read the Macelesfield Courier and take to your bed : — " Many people think it impossible that England should ever again hold the rank among the nations which tt once held , or which many think it still holds ^ It must be confessed that it would be a most desirable thing to persuade foreign countries to abandon war at a time when , according to the Timestwo millions out of two millions and a

      , half of the inhabitants of London and its neighbourhood are fed with foreign corn . The inhabitants of London are bound , on pain of starvation , to do all they can to induce Government to submit to every indignity rather than defend its rights—to say nothing of its honour , ¦ which some hold cheap . If the impossibility of reviewing the Free Trade measures involves the impossibility of preventing the degradation of England , we can only say we are sorry for it , and content ourselves with adding the Moslem expression of pious resignation : ' It is the will of God ! " *

      The Northern Whig touches gracefully upon the topic of last week , the provincial visits of the Queen , comparing the progress of Elizabeth with the tour of Victoria ; ending with this question : — " Of what value were all her pomp , and pageants , and parade , to the maiden Queen , weighed in the balance with one hour ' s enjoyment of the domestic felicity that brightens the existence of her successor ? Elizabeth and Victoria—what a suggestive contrast ! The sixteenth century and the nineteenth—the times , of a surety , are wondrously changed . Does any witless mortal linger yet , who , comparing the present with the past , would wish for a return to those old troubled" boisterous days ?" The Nation commences a page of brilliant leaders with an article on the Famine Debts pointing out a way towards Irish landlord rehabilitation : —

      • ' Now , if the Irish landlords had common sense they would see that all this lies before them—and that the only way of dealing with it is by making fair terms with their tenants at onee . It is not the Consolidated Annuities Hate that is driving the people to America — thnt is only the last straw on the camel ' s back . People would readily pay any rates , if there were no rents . Hut the caincl aforesaid might quite as readily pass through the j > rovrrbial difficulty of a needle ' s eye , as a tenant live liable , with heavy and unjust taxation , to all the irresponsible and expensive burdens of Irish landlordism . \ Vhen the landlords say Tenant Right arid a 1 Hill of Particulars , ' wo will open our ears very wide to them . Now then , ppeak up , gentlemen 1 "

      Commenting on Mr . Hume s Edinburgh Kpeech , the Leeds Times quotes the passage wherein Mr . Hume says that he docs not wish to extend the suifrage as a boon , but an a right : — " On that principle the people ' s party in the house of Commons ought to take their stand ; and , while refusing no offer which will give an expansion to the suifrage , providing it be an honest and not a fraudulent expansion , their business should be to proclaim that such concessions can be only regarded as stages in advance , not as the terminus of the on ^ vard movement towardB full political emancipation . " Parliamentary lteform , what in it to be ? " is the home topic of the 1 ' restart ( lunrdian . " Let those who support the Htate , control the state" exclaims the Writer : —¦

      " We are not afraid to admit that the adoption of thin principle involves the advocacy of uni verbid suffrage , and never will political riglitcounneHH be fulfilled until univcrmil ( suffrage , in conceded . In tin ; mean time , however , we inutit . devoir our attention to what , is probable of attainment , and therefore we concur in the M'inaud now being made by the National Reform Association fur hotis < lurid ( iiiH ' r .-ige . With thin must be HKKociiited the ballot , ami what in our opinion i « equally niipojtiuil , tin 1 . uloption of compM-hi MHive « leetornl diutrict . n , in lieu of the nrriieiit scutterred and i . solat «< l constituencies . " 'loiyium speaking plain truths with manly consistency in always worth recording . TIiuh the Exeter I'lyiiKj I ' ont in blunt pit rant ; comments on French polities : -

      ' Hut why Hltould men who uphold a republican form Wi r - "" " ' J lct to 0 I 1 ° ° * itH « 'Ksi-niial eleinentH ? What right hua ,,,, y mania a republic to any that the

      suffrage shall ' not be universal ? The President was raised to his high office by the people ; and he , at the least , is only consistent when he attempts to secure to them that right which they won for themselves by the revolution . If France be determined to have a republic , let the people enjoy it to the very utmost limit ; and do not let any Government , or faction , interposeits weight and authority to lessen those blessed privileges which republicanism confers . Let the principle contended for be fairly worked out , —let the system of popular sovereignty be carried on in a truly popular manner , —and not have the farce exhibited to the world of a republic with one half of its population disfranchised . "

      In an article on the " Repayment of Advances " the advocate wittily says , " To be sure , the Times , as usual , kicks up a row , and abuses Celt and Milesian to the top of its bent . The drollery , by the way , of making Lord Lucan a Milesian , or Lord Sligo a thorough Celt—the latter being a Brown , and the former a Bingham ! " ' The liberties of the Continent have been pitched below the prescriptive standard of the Holy Alliance , and for the present appear in very hopeless plight , " says the Liverpool Albion , in a sensible paper on the Continental press : —

      " That which for the nonce seems to render the future most disheartening is the unanimous hostility evinced against the chief instrumentality by which not only political freedom has been won but advances made in every line of civilization . The popular sentiment , that the Liberty of the Prrss is like the air we breathe , without it we die , " seems reversed in the councils of the despots ; and instead of coupling a wholesome vitality with its exercise , they associate their own humiliation .

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      PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . Royalty nbideth at Windsor Castle , whence the Queen and her children walk forth in " the Homepark and slopes , " enjoying the fine autumn prospect , while Prince Albert goes shooting with Lord Granville . Altogether a pleasant contrast to drives through the Pass and among the craigs of Ballater , and deerstalking . Bloomerism . is appearing at various places , notably next week at Hanover-square-rooms , where a Bloomer ball is to be held . This is a " great fact . " So is the cost of a ticket a large sum . But "it is necessary to keep low vulgar Bloomers" out of the sacred p recincts of fashion ; low vulgar Bloomersthat is , people with no ready money , and not prepared to get into debt . It is now pretty freely circulated that at the late council only three numbers of Lord John Russell ' s Cabinet supported his new Reform Bill proposition . The other members were opposed to any new Reform Bill at all . This division in the Cabinet has caused great consternation . —Morning Herald . The Earl of Westmoreland , who reached Vienna on the J 4 th instant , hnd a interview on the 15 th with Prince Schwarzrnbsrg . The Russian minister , Meyendorf , gave a grand dinner in Lord Westmoreland ' s honour . All the chiefs of embassies were invited . Dr . Ofiile . is appointed to succeed Dr . Kidd , a 3 Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford . Anew " People ' s Hall" was inaugurated at Colchester , on Tuesday week . The chief speaker waa Professor Airy .

      The beautiful porphyry vase contributed to the Great Exhibition by the King of Sweden and Norway , which formed t-o conspicuous an ornament in the Swedish department , has been presented by his Majesty to Prince Albert . The Office of Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster , which has recently been vacated by the Solicitor-General , has been conferred by the Chancellor of the Duchy on Richard Bethell , Esq ., Q . C . The election of a representative in Parliament for thin borough ( Bradford ) took place on Tuesday , when Mr . Robert Milligan , a Liberal , was elected without opposition , there being no other candidate .

      At his audit , held last week , the Honourable It . II . Clive returned ten . per cent , to his Shropshire tenantry , a similar allowance having also been returned by him at the rent day in April last . The Knrl of Powis has likewise made a similar abatement of ten per cent , on his

      estates . Sir Horace St . Paul , Bart ., high sheriff of Northumberland , ban offered , by public advertisement , three prized , of 100 guineas each , for Essays- on Temperance . This i . s the sheriff who so , in such " nhabby " slate , met Mr . Baron Phut , and who wan accused by the Union of disloyalty ; beeau . se his Clarence wan not very brilliant , his harness only plated , and the sole attendant a foot man ! Mrs . Fanny ICcmhlo was thrown from her hxir . se at Brighton , on Thursday week . The shock wan great , but nhe courageously gave the rending announced for that evening . Dr . Li' ^ h delivered a Lecture on Temperance in the Gnat . Room , Kxeter-hall , on Mondiiy , to a liirge audience . MiH . 'l ' iaecv , an American lady , habited in the Bloomer cost tune , appeared on the plat form .

      lSloomerism appears in various parts of London ; in the Dean-street Theatre at the llorim Tavern , and in the John-Ktiect Institution . We cannot say that the cause iH at all raised by the advocacy of its-iiiir professorn . Bad taste , want , of judgment , and u certuin vulgarity , have beset the whole agitation .

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      Married , on Tuesday last , at St . Peter ' s Church , Kuton-aquare , Lord Cosmo George RuHHell , hou of the late , and half-brother of the present , Duke of Bedford , to Annie , youngest duuuhtcr of tho late John UeoiKe

      Norbury , Esq . The ceremony was performed by the Reverend Lord Wriothesley Russell The Honourable Victor A ' exandrr . ' Master of Kinnaird , eldest son of Lord and Lady Kinnaird , died at Rossie Priory , on the evening of Saturday , the 18 th instant . He was eleven years of age , having been born in 1840 . Died on Tuesday evening , at the rector's lodgings , aged seventy , John Radford , D D . Dr . liadfofd ( says a correspondent ) entered college in 1800 and took the degree of B . A . in 1804 , passing his examination under the shortlived system of the statute of 1801 . He became Fellow of his college in November of the same year as a native of Yorkshire , was tutor for nearly thirty year 3 , and succeeded the well known and eccentric Dr . Tatham , as rector , in 1834 .

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      The railway from Mestre toTreviso was opened on the 14 th instant , Field-Marshal Radctzky assisting at the ceremonies , with all his staff . A book and printseller at Pesth has been airested and sentenced to eight days' imprisonment for having in hia possession portraits of revolutionary personages . Another bookseller is now under examination for a similar offence . The Count de Thomar has left England for Brussels . It is stated to be the Count ' s intention to proceed to Portugal as soon as the Cortes meets .

      Yes ! they are all of onp Family ; we find that it is so from the Corriere Mercantile ofGrnoa , of the 17 th instant , which announces the arrival of the Duke of Leuchtenberg , at Naples , on the 7 th . ' " The Prince , " says the correspondent of that journal , in a letter dated the 10 th , " arrived in the French steamer Languedoc , and alighted with his suite at the hotel of the Russian Embassy . At one o ' clock he waited on the King , who returned his viait an hour afterwards , dressed in a Russian uniform . The Duke was likewise visited by all the other members of the Royal Family . "

      A lady of considerable beauty , and still young , died a few weeks ago , says the Constitntionnel , at the Batignolles . As she had lived alone , the Juge de Paix of the district took possession of her furniture and her effects , on behalf of the heirs . Amongst other things was a rather large collection of richly bound books . On opening one of the volumes , the Juge de Paix found a will ; in a second there was a second will , and in nearly all the others there were others . Each of these wills was of a different date , and each constituted a different person universal legatee . These legatees were all young men—officers of the army , advocates , shopmen , artists , actors , students , architects , and physicians , in short , of every profession , and of almost every class of society . Inquiries having been instituted , it was ascertained that the lady had married eight or ten years before , but being of a romantic disposition , had soon

      violated her fidelity to her husband , and having abandoned him , had indulged openly in intrigues with , every young man who struck her fancy . Her relations with each were , however , of short duration , owing to the fickleness of her disposition ; but having , it appears , a sort of monomania for making wills , she regularly drew one up in favour of every new lover . Each will thus set aside that which preceded it , but the last of all was valid . The Judge de Paix caused the person named in this last one to be sought for , and lie turned out to be a young artist without fortune . He was watinly congratulated on his good luck , and calculated on being placed in comfortable circumstances for life , the lady having- an income of . ' 50 , 000 f . a year . But a fewdays a ^ o the husband presented himself and destroyed all the aitist ' s hopes , by producing his marriage contract , which established him inheritor of all his wife might leave at her death .

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      Mr . Powers , the American sculptor , whose Greek Slave funned such a point of ulti action in the Great Exhibition , is now engaged on a statin ; of great beauty and of great , allegorical interest , both as regards his own country and the prospects of the world at large . It represents California , under the form of a beautiful female figure , of the Indian type of feature , pointing with a divining rod to a muss of auriferous quartz , which ia wkilfully dispesed so as to form the support of the statue . The voluptuous beauty of the figure , the smiling expression of her face , and the richness of her cap , bracelets

      and armlets of native gold , are sufficient to awaken the enthusiasm of these who , through avarice or through , adventurous spirit , leave nil in m arch of the tempting metal ; but here , indeed , we may say " all ia not gold that glitters "—the too often deluded hopes of the adventurers and the " deceitfulncHH of riches " are well typified by a hunch of thorns , which the enchanting ; California holds behind her back in her ri ^ ht . hand , and which in the first burst of admiration are not . visible to the gaze of the dazzled spectator . — Carresjx , ndentof Daily News at Florence .

      We Jir . ve picked up the following curious specimen of the lengths which the good genius of Puff will lead astute traders : —• " 4 . 1 , New-ut (• -street ,, I . on . l . m , October II , IH . > l . " Dear Sir , —The demand for pork lias been veiy good this week , and it « value is still lls . per < : wt . if kiiiuJI " « cI pood quality . l' 4 'gs are nhort . in nupply , but . only worth /> s . 5 M . and Oh . per himdn d ; hut I looic for u HiiduYii advance , if the weather would alicr to « keen / rout . Butter sells very ulow , and piieoi arc by no means firm . The ' Inhibition Paluce , ' as if . in termed , closes to-day , and thin will end one of the most nioimtrous pests thut ever beset a commercial countiy ; it has robbed the trade of numerous districts , and destroyed the peace of many u family : benideH ups . 'tfing ll )< l industry and productive powers of our nation .- I am , Dear Sir , f . iilhfully yours , " (< KOIMJK I ' l' . NMON . "

      Observe the unction of the tiling- K . ^ M" butter mixed up with that " lnoiuitroiiN pest , " the Exhibition . Mr . PeiiHOii ought , to have a chair of lo ) j ; ic npcciully in-Ht . ituted for him , thut his wonderful faculties may not bo loat upon an indifferent world .

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      Oct . 25 , 1851 . ] ® t > * & ** & **? lon

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1851, page 1011, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1906/page/7/