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    which Louis Napoleon promises his countenance and support . A grnd ball at the Luxembpinp , * yi& # »* Legigs Iative corps dancing in the fmpej ^ l presence , also contributed to the holiday displays , of regal magnificence and favour in Paris . Lqqj £ Napoleon knows how authority is § trengihen £ 4 in France , and although he does not jshine ott $ < of the saddle , he knows his place too well , not to take his stand

    occasionally in pumps . Monarchs have their liabilities as well as their privileges . George the Fourth , under pressure of paternal authority and pecuniary difficulties , married a wife whom few independent young men would have desired to appropriate ; and the Emperor was fain to exhibit the quality of his dancing with Mademoiselle Billault .

    But there is something behind the ball-room , though what we are not yet able to see . The Turkish affair , they tell us , on half official authority , is settled ; but the rumours that we hear , cause us to distrust every such reporjt . A Russian naval envoy is prowling about Athens , probably with Pansclavonian projects to promote . Persia , it is rumoured , has broken with England , and is the avowed servant of Russia . In the meanwhile , the English and French ambassadors are rushing

    to their post at Constantinople , with the speed of an Australian steam-ship , calling at all manner of bye-places , by the way . The English people , which Las so great interest at the East , is deprived of authentic information , as to the actual position of affairs ; but that it understands the subject , in its main points , is shown by tbe public meeting in Newcastle , at which the popular

    Member . Mr . J . B . Blackett , presided . In fact , when statesmen can break away from the little circles that now surround them , and go to the great body of the people , they are usually surprised at the amount of plain intelligence which they find there . Would that they could apply the lesson , and learn to know the strength which statesmen with a purpose might derive , if they would appeal to the popular spirit !

    The Overland Mail confirms the report , that the King of Ava is not dead , but defending himself , in a fortress , against a younger brother , who is for succumbing to the British , and who has the Burmese army with him . Unfortunately , the expedition against a robber chief , near Donabew , was more fatal than it was at first reported to be . It failed , and eighty-eight soldiers were killed and wounded , —among them , the gallant and lamented sailor , Captain "Loch , who , having earned a glorious name , and full of promise , was shot in this obscure but desperate skirmish , among the swamps and jungle of the Irrawaddy . On the other hand , General Catheart has wound up the Kafir war , and talks of settling the Arnatoiiis with military tenants . Macomo , who held the Waterkloof so long , Sandilli , who was neither to be captured by arms , nor allured by diplomacy into submission , Stock , Tola , Anta , and a host of lesser Guika chiefs , have acknowledged themselves beaten , ( for how long ?) and have crossed the Kei , begging for peace . Kreli , too , has sent in an ambassador , Umhala , and with him the Governor has concluded a treaty—the principal point of which is that the Kci is to be Kreli ' s future frontier . General Cathcart ' s proposed occupation of the Ainutolas , by military residents , in connexion with fortified posts , is a suspicious and altogether objectionable proceeding ; and we do not believe that Government will sanction the Governor ' s scheme . If the Cape people are to have local self-government , this provision for another Kafir war , to be fougpURjiot by the colonists , but by J'riUttk ^ jEjjyfeflEk . an awkward prevent to t ) ri | 0 R £ jMfin § ffi 8 K 9 k Hey Mg ^ ramJOfoHtpiitui S again . u u , « § ffl ^ K » gwEBle <"" 1 to 1 ) e trusted , JHNH ^ lHB 8 HL | m | i } i ) e » a . v / aA / on , him been tu kJUK £ 9 ^^^ flflPH | M % > m the lloiuluruns , on ¦^¦ H ^ HPRESH ^ w P ct creation , the copper Kin ^ RJEmK ' Thc report runs that

    the Limas peoplp fought for their town . If this be true , GenepflJ Pierce will have some dainty W » rk on hmA : $ cotlan 4 |» as tfete honour of setjfcMig our jtipnid ju $ ges an ( es&mple , jn the matter of placing r&il-V ^ responsibility ©» the right shoulders . Culp i $ Ae negjfleit of fae official * , at the Portpbellp station , on tl ^ e 5 iorth-Briti $ ? x Rai |^« y , caused « # accident , resulting in the death of a guard . The servants were properly indicted . The defence set up was , virtually , that it couldn't be helped !

    But , neither the jury nor the Lord Justice Clerk , acquiesced in that peculiarly official view of all railway accidents . The jury found the stationmaster guilty of culpable neglect and homicide , and another servant guilty of the same offences ; and the judge sentenced the former to an exemplary punishment . But , more , he gravely censured the system of management , saying , that , on another occasion , not guards and station - master should stand at the bar , but—managers and directors . This is as it should be . We observe ,

    also , that an English jury has given Miss Barlow , a governess , crippled for life , in an accident at Bootle-lane station , and thrown out of employment , 3751 . damages against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company . The continual rise of wages is becoming quite a " feature" of the news . In Banbury , the labouring men are standing out for the 9 s . a-week obtained by many of the labourers in the neighbourhood . In Norwich the shoemakers are pressing for an advance . The carpenters are doiag so in various places ; the sawyers at Portsmouth ;

    the railway porters and clerks at Liverpool . It is the same at Manchester , though they show a disposition to be more readily talked over into a compromise ; and we learn that the employes of the Great Western Railway are threatening a strike- The men on the several districts of the line have sent in a memorial to the Board of Directors praying for a rise of wages . Many of the porters are only getting from 14 s . to 16 s . a-week 5 but the memorial is also signed by the policemen and switchmen . The result is not yet announced .

    The new plan for manning the navy , made public this morning , is one of the most cheering events of the year . It is thoroughly sound in its character , promising to render the service attractive to seamen , and to remove manyof the anomalous rules that now enfeeble it . Beyond that inherent merit , it has another : scarcely is a sound plan recommended by the Commissioners , ere it is adopted by Sir James Graham , without vacillation or delay .

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    MINISTERS AT THE MANSION HOUSE . Evebt yenr the potentate who reigns eastward of Temple-bar , the lord of the Thames , and the monarch of the coal-tax , entertains her Majesty ' s Ministers on Easter Monday . Tahles are decked out in tho Egyptian Hall of the civic palace , and covered with a profuse and delicate collection of those thing * the palate most cravoth after , and tho Lord Major , in all his glory , dispenses hospitality . Last Monday was no exception . Ministers were entertained almost regally . Strangely enough the city member was not present ; hut among

    the notabilities were tho Earl of Aberdeen , Earl ( Jranville , Sir J nines Graham , Lady Graham , the Hon . W . E . Gladstone , Mro . Gladstone , Mr . Cardwell , M . I ' ., and Mrs . Cardwell , Marquis of 'Hrendalbane , Prince of Saxe Weimar , Lord and Lady A . Hervey , Lord lngestro , Lord and Lndy Wodehonse , Lord Hlantyre , Karl and Countess Airlie , Bishop of Hereford , Mr . and Mrs . Hernal Osborno , Hon . C . I ' elhaiu Villiers , M . I ' ., tho Attorney-General , tho Solioitor-Uoneral , Vice-Chancellor Wood , and all tho rank and Ille of those most celebrated in the Court of Aldermen and in the city

    generally . Dinner being over , the toasting began , of course , with the Queen , lVmeo Albert , and what pertains to royalty . Then tho Hinhop of Hereford , and than tho " Awry and Navy . " 'Hover-sing tho order of tbe toast , Sir . lames Graham responded for the latter . Ho praised the navy —protector of our commerce and guardian of our liberties—winding up with that original quotation , " Tho flag that hiis braved a thousand yours tho buttlo and the breeze . " Lord Ingestro wrid a few words on behalf

    of the ari ^ y , and ifcjae Lord Aberdeen on behalf of the Ministers . * He ^ i . not say much in substance or in extent . No ] fcfinababry was ever more interested in the welfare and prosperity of the city . The nation was prosperous ; he would not assign a cause , but we should do well to recollect Jbbat " a good Providence has blessed the efforts of man . " He will do his best to maintain pr-osperity , protect »» d extend commerce , and preserve peace . Lord Granville acknowledged the " House of Lords , " and defended them .

    Some few years since hostile feelings were shown at public meetings and in pamphlets , with titles such as— " The Peers or the People ? " " What will the Lords do ? " and others putting a question still more ominous , " What shall be done with the Lords ? " ( Laughter . ) He believed that the feeling was now entirely changed , in proof of which he might cite the tone of the daily papers , and for a defence of the House of Peers he need not go farther than the admirable speech made recently by Lord Derby at Liverpool . Lord Derby had there admitted that he could not vouch for every individual peer being a perfect model of a legislator , and one of Lord Granville ' s own colleagues had more recently made nearly a similar admission , when he said that' every peer who wrote letters to the newspapers was not to be deemed " infallible . " But they deserved well of their country , and desired to promote the good of the nation .

    The Duke of Argyll proposed the " Health of the Lord Mayor . " The present was to the Duke what it was not , perhaps , to many present , —the first occasion on which he nad partaken of the splendid hospitality of those ancient halls ; and it was impossible for him so to partake of that hospitality on that first occasion , without having great recollections brought to his mind—great recollections of the past , and stil l greater hopes for the future . He recalled those periods of our history when the liberties of the English people were founded on their municipal institutions ; and as regarded the future , he cherished the hope that the progress of commerce over the globe would contribute to the formation of a new era in the history of human affairs . He was not one of those who believed that the time had yet arrived when we might hang the bugle up in the hall , or when we should be so safe from the storm

    of human passions , as that we might turn our swords into ploughshares , and our spears into pruning-hooks , but he believed that the extension of commerce over the globe by this people , and by that other great people which had sprung from the loins of England , would finally lead to the great diminution , if not to the extinction of those wars which periodically desolate the world . It was not , however , to commerce as the pursuit of a mere selfish interest he looked for such a result . It was to the character of our merchants he looked , as setting an example to the re $ t of the world . They had before them great and noble examples of tho development of tbe English character . They had , for instance , that great man , who , having commanded the armies of England in wars , had with equal success guided her senate in peace , and , at the end of a long and glorious life , had been laid beneath the cathedral of that great city . Our poet-laureate had said ,

    Hot once or twice in our rude island a story , Tho path of duty was the path to glory . And although the most common path of glory may be war , it was not leas true that glory might bo achieved in peace , and of that sort of glory there was no brighter development than in the character of British merchants . That was a character which tho people of this country revered ; and he proposed the health of tho Lord Mayor , because his lordship concentrated in his own person so many of tho qualities which rendered tho British merchant famous all over the world . ( Cheers . ) Briefly returning thanks , tho Lord Mayor proposed the Chancellor of tho Exchequer—wishing him well out of his difficulties . Mr . Gladstone mode a pleasant

    speech in reply , thinking himself deserving some coinmiseration , applauding the system which led the pubjic to look narrowly after the national finance , and expressing Ills reliance on matured public opinion in the discharge of bis duties . Several other toasts were proposed , and tbe dinnerparty adjourned to tho ball-room .

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    DIN NEK TO Silt WILLIAM : MOLES WOltTIi . Tuvh to their " Radical Cabinet Minister , " tlje constituency of Southwark took advantage of the Easter Kecess , and gave a banquet in his honour on Thursday . Dr . Challice presided . About 250 gentlemen sat down to dinner , among whom were Sir VV . Molesworth , Jiart ., M . I ' ., tho Attorney-General , Mr . Apsloy I ' ellatt , M . I * ., Mr . Mofiiitt , M . I ' ., Mr . Oliveira , M . P ., and Mr . W . J ' ritchard ( high baililf of Southwark . ) After Uie usual touHts the chairman gave the health of Sir Wil ' mim , " who was not ; only a cabinet minister , but a radical cabinet minister . " ( Great enthusiasm . ) Sir William , responded with his usual fulness and neatncNs both of Hiihjcct and diction . After describing the proceedings of Parliament before Christmas , he came 10 the work of the new Ministry . Mrut , tho ( Jlergy Reserves Hill . " Two yt'iirs ago tho Litgiulaturo of that grout colony , which contains miarly ' 2 , 000 , 000 of inhabitants , addressed tho drown to Hubmi ' t to l ' nrliamnnt . u bill Himilnr io that now bolori ! the Jlouso of GonmiouH . Tho Government of iny noblo friend Lord John . Kusscll prominod to do ho , and woro about to do ho when they quitted office . Tho Into Government , partly animated by old and not very friendly

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 2, 1853, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1980/page/2/