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      WILL Sir George Grey remember at the proper time , that the enfranchised electors of ^ TSbtthpnibeEland gave tfreir v ^ te ^ , tQy another man - —^ -f . ; $ jifr $ ^ - ^ Bt ^ tol ^^ n& ^ uchised Workmen , by subscribing to . Mi ' -wstim . oiiial , to the number of 13 , 000 , testified that they -would have been his electors ? It is usual for politicians of Sir George Grey' 3 order to presume that there must be some kind of property qualification " to test the intelligence" of the , ' voter ; will he say that ; the . property-tested voters of Northumberland showed the greater intelligence in electing his opponent ? The election was disastrous for the property-intelligence principle . The qualified electors gave their votes , and in some cases took " a consideration . " The unenfranchised gave their subscription , and however , iho ( i

      testimonial to me next time I am defeated m Northumberland . " There is a great deal of rubbish talked about tf servility / ' and it was very fairly rebuked at this Alnwick dinner . Farmers who voted on the Tory side were denounced as " subservient ; " but , littt « K , fl& : itbW " . ' !^^ ¦^ charge with generosity and spirit . He "" cited the poll , and showed that farmers for the most part vote with their landlords , a species of allegiance not worse on the . Tory than , Q | is -the Liberal side . It is an arithmetical misfortune if the Tory landlords can bring to the poll more farmers than the Liberal landlords ; but there is no peculiar virtue in coercing a farmer to Liberal principles , any more than there is in coercing him to Tory principles . Any statesman who is sincere in desiring independence for the farmers of any county , from Somersetshire to Northumberland , should make no delay in securing that arrangement which the farmers are now demanding—the Ballot . Even more emphatic on this head than Mr . Donkin ' s speech was a speech delivered with abundant energy , some time back , at a large meeting in Norwich , by a farmer noted for his terse and comprehensive eloquence . It consisted only of one sentence : — "Mr . Chairman—ladies and gentlemen—an I have got to say is , — for the Ballot . " Perhaps the Ballot would have returned Sir George Grey at the last election for Northumberland , as assuredly a national suffrage would have returned him . Another unseated member appears before the electors of lluddersiield , in the more hopeful position of a candidate . Lord Goderich—who , at Hull , became , by the vicious system of agency , complicated with practices which we know must have had his reprobation — stands for Iludderslield on purity principles . His speetth is moderate , and of a kind that the most systematic Liberalthe word having now almost a Conservative meaning— -would not shrink from adopting . But his knowledge of the interests of the great body of the people , the zeal he has shown on behalf of the working classes , and the frankness of his language and manner , will have great weight with the electors of IluddersiieUl , and will , we hope , announce his return in lieu of the unknown gentleman who is his opponent . Southwark has been entertaining its popular member , Sir William Molcswortli , at a public dinner , and so drawing from him a declaration of Ministerial policy important for its frankness and

      thoroughgoing character . The Radical has not been softened into a Whig by elevation to the Ministry ; but he is able to report to his constituents that his views are impressed upon the Ministry . He did not say so ; but if the staunch Colonial policy which he reported has found a willing and able Minister in the Duke of Newcastle , Sfcf Ij ^ liam Wilts one at the stout advocates of the policy before it became fashionable . The hopes of the Reform Bill for xie $ fc .-t . y $ a * are strengthened by ; the knowledge that ' Sir . William is to have a hand in it . A splendid banquet at the Mansion-house was the occasion for one of those formal exchanges of courtesy between the grandees of London City and the Ministers of State , which are not without their uses . Three points are very noticeable . Mr . Gladstone talked gloomily about the surplus , as he has done before , so that people are beginning to fear that if the Budget should be more sound than Mr . Disraeli ' s , it will not be so sunny . " The path of duty is the path of glory , " said the Duke of Argyle , after Tennyson , scouting the peace doctrines that have been so perverted in the public mind . And Lord John Russell was absent , an omission in the ¦ personnel of the guests which has excited some curiosity to know the reason why . Notwithstanding the generally pacific character of the banquet , it did not altogether supply that want of due authority with which the self-appointed Peace deputation went over to Paris , to carry the address of good-will to the Emperor ot the French from a mob of obscure persons—headed by a knot of more or less responsible capitalists and jobbers — in London . The address has been advertised in the Times and other journals , ami is made known to the public as such , after it has been presented . A more evasive course than that taken by its promoters has seldom been witnessed ; and , in this country , the ; document would be consequently deprived of all authority , even wore its presentation at the Tuilerics not already protested against , in repentimt hitters to the 'limes , by indignant " others , " as an impertinent subserviency which the crowd of signers who do not happen to be concerned in railway concessions , neither designed nor approved . It served , however , as a pretext for one of Louis Napoleon ' s p lausible speeches . It was followed by a far more useful and authentic : deputation of the company about to establish 11 railway across the isthmus of Punama , to

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      VOL . IV . No . 158 . 1 SATURDAY , APKIL 2 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK- Official Corruption of the Late Go- The Progressive Eise of Wages AVh LITfcKATUKt pagh vernment 321 Companies for Non-performance ... 325 Books on our Table 329 Ministers at the Mansion House ... 314 The White Slaves of the West-end 321 The ( Cab ) Stand for Freedom 325 Eichardson ' s African Diary Afl » Dinner to Sir William Molesworth 314 Journal of Kailway Accidents 321 Huddersfleld Election : a Working m !* "' ^ ' ™ < wn The Greys are a-Coming 315 Letter from the Editor of the Mer- M , M p 326 * he Comet , .... ¦ .. ¦••¦•••••¦ - **« Goderich for Huddersfield 316 „«« 322 a M , % , """" r W Tracts against Sunday Reform 331 - .. „ -r , . o-io jivimu , ............ Sunday Keforin Petitions ill Letters from Paris 316 " I can't think what possessed me J PORTFOLIOContinental Notes 317 to do it" 322 The Government and the Working- AStory ' f ^ Dress 332 Government Measures for Manning Miscellaneous 322 Man s Press . —Letter 1 &&I ¦> the Fleet 319 Health of London during the Week 324 " The Political Examiner" 328 . THE ARTSThe Burmese War 319 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 324 The Young Clergy 32 S The Easter Pieces 333 Tranquil "Appearances" at the PUBLIC AFFAIRS- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSAlTeanKotes :::::::.::::::::::::::::::: S P Z % ZTZe and * . mue opemcouncil- c % ^^ T' Market 3 j Adv lli 336 "The Chase" in California 320 J Feather 324 The Spirit Bappers 328 tisements , &c 334-336

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      "The one IdeawMch History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is , the Idea of Humamtv-toe noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside ths distinctions ot * engion Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development ot our spimuai nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 2, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1980/page/1/