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      Tuesday is the ^ aydn ^ tvhich all politicians fix their regard , with stwit ^^ pectations of- ~ nothing ; but only a certainty iltert " ^ something lies' beyond , and probably a "gener&t ejection . As the time , advances , every party isiia ^ a state of increasing perplexity . The rapid-ftiicfgession of Cabinet Councils attests the trepidation df Ministers . . The Protectionists , too , ' have . been meeting at Burleighbouse , and have hit upon no device better than " to adopt , in all its integrity ^ the bold uncompromising line of policy opened by 4 he lamented Lord George Bentinck *'— agoing badk to the devices of a dead

      tnan and ft day dead to history ! The " Reforriri , " party , or parties , are not at all in a state of decision ; as the meetings at Edinburgh and Linlithgow may Witness . If any vigpur is to be got out of the ¦ party , it will be elicited at the approaching con-Eferenoe to be called by the Parliamentary Reformers . [ But no set of Members will meet , her Majesty with any firm resolve ; rather with the hope that some plunder in their rivals may g ive to themselves the palae strength of others' weakness . All parties enter Parliament for the session with a sense It hat

      be immediate future is more uncertain than the Uture usually is . Meanwhile , they we all preparing for the general flection , which is . expected with slight delay ; and he usual coquetries between candidates , and contituencies multiply . Among those whose courtiiup implies a speedy occasion for renewing the pion is . Mr . George Cornewull Lewis . But what he election is to be about nobody yet knows . Of : ourse Ministers will try to give their own keynote ; « course the Protectionists will try to prevent Jem , and " appeal to the country " on the George sentinck . plan . That would have the merit of > eing at least a substantive and independent course ,

      Fmc x no other party as yet shows itself prepared lotake . Ministers , it is said , count on the national defence , movement as a diversion from ordinary ffi ; .,. but li wiU Prove too strong for them . * n « y will be wholly unable to control it : it is 3 £ . «? e ^ Pec * ed that they satisfy it . When jje otock Exchange takes up arms , as it is doing , * ne money men must be in earnest ; and they will

      nav £ « £ hcw [ t ^ that , after we have been pay ng nfteen millions a year , for naval and military SSi 8 *? ' hdve not « ot effective naval and military instruments r The Rifle Clubs forming in all garters will back the Stock Exchange . A perfect abort > *? , nR up to « sk what Ministers have been Gmi rfT ls ° » what Ministers mean to do with the tXed lax ? 7- ^ h ^ can neither be spared nor toffi \ JL ? ^ e resignation of Lord Nork 5 l . T ? r in France ' nor the appointme nt of Lord Cowlev in his stead . t . W ™ , ; il L *;» t . *

      PhiKEi d ® mand fo * explanation on these heads . c c * Planation is the thing most impatiently tmliowN Kdotion / 1

      ticipated ; arid , if we must confess the truth , the public is prepared to findthat explanation uilsatisfactory . . \ : ¦ ¦" . : ., '¦¦ ' ¦ ' ' ;" .: . ' -. ' / : " . "; : . The strike of the irpn manufacturers continues , arid still imparts some uneasiness to , the commercial world . The great depression in the iron trade shows , either that the strike x > f the masters is telling very severely on the traffic in the raw mate ^

      rial , or that the trade would have been in a very languishing state , even if the masters had not disguised their slack business under their strike . The reports of a very dull state of the iron trade in America incline Us to the latter supposition . The unskilled labourers begin to grow uneasy at their suspended work . The masters continue to be obstinate , addsgtow more hostile ; witness their last circular . Altogether the situation of things is not

      promising . The industrial world is deeply stirred in other quarters . The immense emigration ( 1 , 216 , 000 from the United Kingdom in ten years ending 1850 , and principally from Ireland in the last three of those years , ) has alarmed the more enlightened ceconomists of Ireland for the future ; and the meeting convened in Dublin by . the Board of Manufacturers has resolved to encourage reproductive employment as the direet means , not only of ceconomising the labour that remains , but of arresting the continued drain . The oppression of the associated workmen in Lyons , Lille , and other towns of France , on political grounds , has alarmed the associated workmen of Paris ; who have formed

      a committee to prepare the plan' of an extensive emigration . The same measure is threatened b y our own Amalgamated Engineers . It would be a frightful day for both capitals if the threat were realized ; especially as the associated men are , for the most part , the best workmen . The accident at Whitehaven , where the sea has destroyed a large piece of the railwav wall and embankment , seems to be another cjtse in which the contract system has broken dftw-nvthrough shaving too closely to the bare necessity , and . making no allowance for known contingencies . The wall was not made strong enough , and it fails . The elaborate report of the trial trip of the Orinoco , however , proves that " public opinion" does yet

      exercise some wholesome sway , and that disasters like that of the Amazon will not recur without an effort to prevent them . But these counteractive efforts are partial and transitory : there needs some means of consolidating them , by basing thorn on a principle , and reducing them to a eystem-r-a duty for the Socialist party to perform . The principle of Concert , reconciling interests generally deemed conflicting , removes the temptation to the dishonest stinting which teaches to trade a perpetual defrauding of the public , a chronic poisoning through adulteration , and the moat frightful of calamities . Ireland is again in the throes of anarchy . Certain northern counties are hot , rather too hot for some unfortunate gentlemen , with a horrible Kibana

      conspiracy . Another magistrate , quietly walking in his garden , is fired at , as is customary in those parts > from behind a wtQl > but escapes with a skin wound . Threatening notices are freely handed about , by invisible persons , to the obnoxious . Justice , specially appointed to try the suspected , is escorted to her destination by troops of dragoons . Flying columns of soldiers hover here and there , mingled with police armed to the teeth . Justice , duly caparisoned , denounces the Riband conspiracy , and threatens the conspirators , in turn , with a Nemesis . Meanwhile , two men are arraigned for

      the murder of Mr . Bateson . This is a terrific spectacle . Landlordism and religious persecution grow into such , quite naturally . Horrible as it is , could we reasonably hope to find it otherwise ? Meanwhile , after three months * preparation , the " Arundel 'Banquet , " at Limerick , fails—Lord Arundel not present . Dr . Ryan , while he proclaims his intention of breaking the law , prudentially suggests a Concordat and diplomatic relations with Rome . Here is matter for reflection . The Decree confiscating the possessions of the house of Orleans , from which Louis Bonaparte

      was thought to have recoiled , when he was biding , it his time , like a tiger for a spring , appalled and i | amazed even those who had professed themselves $$ incapable of -amazement at any doings of the ¦ ¦' ' $ §! Dictator . Even the journals which had been lash- * ; vp ing themselves with their own tails for the last few \ v $ days , in the absence of any fresh provocation , burfet , J | out into new fury , charged with all the angers pf Af the faithless factions which for three years have ; : been p laying into the hands of the man who was ?• ¦ their instrument , and is now their master—playing v . that game of . Reaction , in which they were once the > '; :

      tyrants and are now the victims . An attack upon V \ property by the sworn Defender of Property' !^ . $$ " Religion , &c . "—one falls into humming that ; m !\ - ' $$ tune by a sort of fatal habit . Alas ! the burden ¦ W'J ' -ffy the song is now the crudest of mockeries ! Mark er ; the thermometer of our political morality . Lou'&V . ' ;^ Bonaparte has been confiscating daily for the laa ^ fi ¦ $ ? seven weeks ; but the blow fell upon the unknowfftfyi ;^ , ; perhaps on the rouges ; it was the least ' of h& ^ V ^ enormities , to be dismissed in a paragraph i'hi ^ ^ i ^ now that the lightning has seared the tall treej ( i ^* , > respectability stands aghast , and clutches feveriehfyV 1 */ at its own breeches pockets . We are not palliating " y > . | £ j confiscation' in any shape—robbery is alwaysurb ^' MK ^

      bery ; nor do we think the title of the " i nc ? Ji ^ l | Orleans by any means unexceptionable ; npi ' 'M ^ flffl we honour the motives or applaud the generoiu ^^ w disbursements from another man ' s purse ^*! T ' * J ( 8 fiBj Friend of the People M . Louis Bonaparte . ofHjtjwS only mark contrasts . ' , ¦ rl ' v ^^ gf The Ball at the Tuileries seems to have ty ^\ fe ) $$ snob-crush on an enormous scale—a 8 U ffo ^ tt «|^;^ crowd of nondescripts driven to and fro by '¦'' m ^^^ -& astroua curiosity ; if poor old Louis ^^^ Sjjmt ^ f ^; ghost could have been there invisible "h ehjjlffl ||^ have recognized many a " familiar fn ^ aflf !* ' . ' , v * Q ; '' v : ! - ' ^ pf \ • ' !¦ , i . f , 1 :.,- . . . ' . ; , ¦ ¦ :, ¦'•'• ¦ v . ' i

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1920/page/1/