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      with which it has about as much to do as it has with the Christian religion generally ; and he says that it might be beaten \> y improving the condition of the working people , as Chartism was beaten by enabling them to rely ^ pon . the House of Commons . ! Now the people do-not rely on the House of Commons ; and Chartism is not beaten . Betrayed by its own officers , ; b » ecome tedious'l ^ prolonged contest with little jawult , Chartism . to <* r to a sullen repose ^ pnd , Uk ^ apptne giants oC *© mance ,

      rested in one form while it assumed a new activity in another . Instead of trying to get universal suffrage here , the working man emigrated to it in America or Australia ; and since Chartism was dead tie people have been emigratiog at the rate of more than 300 , 000 a year . We have said that emigration is the best of strikes , and the people are thus striking their tents as well as their vfbrk at that desperate rate . Within , five years % million and a half of people left the country ; and we are now in the second year of another period of efflux at the rate of a thousand

      cannot Ibut xejoice that at this time Oxford Reformers are freed 'fi-om tie opposition which they would have experienced at the hands of their late representative . Who shall take his place ? Such ia . iha "State of public tJpinion in the CJolleges at ©¦ ford tfSbat it would be a vain find useless attempt $ 0 "bring forward any man who could

      OOBimanll the support <* f the real Illiberal pM $ y . ^ OSero havje beeaanade to Mr . iBmmdelT Pafatt& ^ ut that ffBHtleHaaa refuses to 3 esert hi * Plymouth constituents , and the movement in his fiivour met with no sympathy from that section of the Oxford electors who object to " another Gladstone . " We do not doubt , therefore , hut that Sir W . Heathcote wxti fee the successful

      candidate . His claims are mainly founded on the fact that he has acted , on these occasions , as the chairman of Mr . Gladstone ' s committee , that he is a scholar , and that he will , to a great extent , prevent opposition ; failing a better man , we can cordially wish him success .

      a day . The working classes have been threatened that capital would emigrate . "Labour has taken the hint and gone first . If Sir James and his friends want to beat Charfism and to supersede Socialism , they had better make hast ^ while there are sgsoe people 4 eft to keep at home . ; otherwise , serily , the noaahood of the land is likely ? enougt to leaveiSxigland in quiet possession of its jjovjerxing classes , its aristocracy , its clergy , its starid ^ jg ' army , and its police ; but -without a people , 'the aspiration oST young Englacnd has . now - beconae prophetic : ; ' *^ l ^ t ikWatoai ^ ftttjing , arts and commerce die ; - . ? ^ B ^ GididviMapre ^ af own nob'dity ^ '¦ .

      One < rf thei | ad * tLoii 9 between JEngUmd and the UmtedStates has conote into activity . The Senate ^ Washington has ibden in debate upon a corre-^ pondaice betwaea the American and British <) k > Ternment 8 ^ ohtliBsubject of the ' Mo ^ qtiito'teraitdry , ^ dtere Qaeen Victoria sustains a Negro ; King ' . over itie mongrel denizens of a wretched jswampv ^ independence , against 1 h& Spaniards of ^ iewsgda > and ~ t £ i » Yankees . 8 ir John fHardiflj

      arid ifcfiv Befveirdy Johnson are cited on either part as sustaining the right of England to support 4 & 0 -Kidg of MoB ^ ttito with , arms , or as denying that position . 33 oth Governments ase rather disagreeable hingtt ^ e , and English Ministers appear likdy £ ndughv if ttrejr pursue % th « usual course in this official nflkocj to get us into enmity with the only state whose sincere friendship we could Jtrorit , and whose hostility would be a real terror

      torn . -- ' .. © OTiiamenf ^ irillaneet within a . fortnight and two days . X / ord Aberdeen ^ dinner party re fixed ; Uord Derby has issued the invitations Jo bis dinner party ; Lord John RuiselS lifts summoned Members to thejr places ; "Bill promoters , agents , and Members are coming to town , * o get through the preliminary business before actual meeting .

      its promises to be a busy session , in every Benee . Should it not be absorbed ~ in foreign affairs , and in questioning of Court intervention ,. it has ^ Reform on its"book , and abundance of railway legislation , with some questions of improvement that can ¦ cardely be postponed , such as improved control orer nfl-wtoy legislation and administration , * or University reform .

      Some of the faces long familiar at the annual meetings will no longer be seen . After nve-andtwenty-years of servitude to the Tbiyism of Oxford , Sir R . H . Inglis has retired from the representation of the University . Introduced to that position as the opponent of the great measure of Cath o lic Emanci pation , the champion of orthodoxy and obstructocracy , has resigned at a most orxtioiJ time . Sir R . H . Inglis disarms all personal , cr iticism by the genial honesty the unvarying truthfulness , and unflinching courage with whioi he has carried out the political and religioua career of his youlh . Cut , on public grounds , w «

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      PRINCE ALBERT'S CASE . We reprint the following documents from the Time : Mr . Greville i » Clerk of the Privy Council ; so that his letter has all the weight of an official document . The extracts from the journals of the House of iLords are furnished , by a different hand . Wr . GreviHe ' s letter is 4 n reply to the allegations of a Tory journal . "Some member of the Gariton Club has put forth a laboured argument to prove - ( hat his Royal Highness Prince Albert is JegaEy incapable of being a Privy XJouncillor , and he farther seems to Jay some stress -on the fact that the Prinze was merer sworn . As I happen to know something of the ^ e ma tters , I wish to prevent any misconception , on ;

      this point at least , from taking root in the public mind . An attentive examination of . the quotations front different statutes ' brought fortra . td'by flie Carlioriian critic will satisfy any one ; that they / proye ike case agaiofit himself . I will endeavour ,, nevertheless , to make it soil more clear . The acts , for natu-: ^¦ aIi ^ g Pmcd AIb ert * werectipie < l word for word from those for 3 » ttuvliaiiie Prince Leopold when he married the late ; Princess Charlotte , in virtue of which , he was made a Privy i Councillor on the 1 st of July , 1816 , with the sanction of ' iLorii Elton , then Lord Chfcnoellor . By the 1 st George I . it 1 4 b directed that no person shall be-naturalised unless m the - bill for that purpose a clause is inserted -declaring that such person shall xot thereby b « enabled to . be of the Privy *

      Liberties of tbcSubject , " or by any other act , from holding and « njaf 3 njg * n ^ office or place of trust , or from baying any grant « F land « , tenements , or hereditaments from the Cnmn ? ' * " May 3 , 1765 . "JTheTLordCMef Justice of the Court of Common Pleas delirer « iS , lii » ittiaimnoas opinion of the Judges in the following worite , videlicet : — "• * W «* r * all £ learly of opinion that an alien married to a 'King t ) f sjOreat Britain is , by operation of the law of the Crowta , £ wDi £ h is-f * rfc-of the common law ) , to be deemed as jfc « 4 fawfli % « t « VT > erso n from the time of such marriage , so as matU , be < dis » bl ? 4 by the tfkof the 12 th of King William III ., ^ entitled' * An Aokfor the ^ fttfther limitation of the Crown and better Securing the Bight&and ^ Liberties of the Subject , ' or by any ^ etfcWfcct from holding and enjoying any ofBce or place oforust , or from having any grant of lands , tenements , or hereditaments from the Crown .

      Council , Sac . In the eases of Prince Leopold , and Prince . Albert , respectively , bills were first brought in , enacting that acts for fcheir naturalisation , without the clause or particular words directed by the statute of George I . to be inserted , might be exhibited and brought into Parliament . 'The way . being' thus cleared , subsequent acts were passed in the oasd df each Pliflcey enacting that lie should 'to all intents ani 'purposes whatever be deemed , taken , aud esteemed to be a natural bora subject of this kingdom , as if be had been b « n within the realm , any law , statute , matter , or thing ) to the contrary motwithstanidnig . ' The question then reduces its « lf to this , —whether a person born out of the realm mat be made a Priyv Councillor ? In the case of

      Prince LeopdlJ , EMon was Chancellor , and Garrow and Shepherd , Attorney and Solicitor General . ; in that of Prince Albert , . Lord Cottenhatn was Chancellor , Lord Campbell , Attorney , Lori Truro ^ Solicitor € l « iieraL The opinions of the whole Carlton'Clnb would hardly prevail acamst such a legal array as I have quoted ; and those who might question the authority of the jreat Whig lawyers will hardly refuse to defer to tltat of Lord Eldon . With regard to Prince Albert not having been sworn , the person who made the remark ; is no doubt ignorant that members of the Boyal fumily . are introduced into the Council and are not sworn . I have some doubt whether siach has been the nsage with regard to every member of the Royal family , but it certainly

      has been as to the flons of the Sovereign , and to her Consort , when a Queen has been on the throne . The precedents of Prince Leopold Cthough the Princess Charlotte was only presumptive heiress ) , and of Prince George of Denmark were followed in the case of Prince Albert , both of whom were introdiuied , and took ne ¦ oaths . The lsite Duke of Sussex , whom I consulted ( in reference to Prince Albert ' s being made a Privy CounciHor ) , informed me that the usage was to consular the King ' s sons as being Privy Councillors from their birth , to be introduced into the Council when tho

      4 « ng though * fit , and that they were never sworn ; but that more remote relations were-sworn like other Privy Councillors , and that lie was himself introduced in his father's lifetime , and toofk no oath ; but subsequently , on the accession of his brothers , George IV . and William IV . ( when the whole Privy Conncil was re-appointed ") , he had taken the usual oaths . I myself administered the oaths to him and the Duke of Cumberland on the accession of Queen Victoria , but I am not satisfied that I was right , according to usage , in so doing . I am , Sir , yours obediently , " 0 . O . Greville . " "House of Lords , May 2 , 1765 . " Ordered , —That the Judges do nttend this House tomorrow to deliver their opinion upon the two following questions : — " ' 1 . Whether an alien marriod to a King of Great Britain is by operation of the cominon law naturalised to all intents and purposed ? > " 2 . Whether , if she be so naturaliaod by the common law such person would bo disabled by tlio uct of the 12 th of King William III ., entitled " An Act for the further Limitation -of tho Crown aud better securing the Ki ghto and

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      AN ORIENTAL PUBLIC MEETING . Somb time ago we printed an account of the extent to which infanticide prevailed in the Punjaub , in which it was announced that a great meeting would l > e held in . the middle of November at Umritair . The following graphic description of the meeting , written "by a lady , has been published in the Times : — " Unnritshy ^ Nov , 15 , 1853 . " The Umritsir meeting was most splendid . Every tjfcvSian in the Punjaub was there . The streetof the camp ¦ was nearly a quarter of a mile lonj ^ -axtd < € OKnoaed entirely of civilians' double-polled tents . It waa ; omkrtilated that more ihan 20 , 600 natives ^ independent of the tasual

      inha-Mtants , -were assembled at the 'fiery CJity to listen to the Gfovernor-Generars order on the subject of infanticide . On Monday . the 14 th of November , all w « re invited to come to the Durbar at 11 o ' clock . A small apartment with a fine b ^ Hiboo screen was provided for the few ladies who Were present , that they might witness the scene . It was most magnificent . There were 3 ^ 000 natives insideItihe gra nd tkemeana—30 0 were « f sufficient rank to hare chairs allowed them , -which were placed in a semicircle at the end of the tent ; at the end of thia , semicircle stood all the assembled civilians . All the old Sikh generals and rtilers were there ; and among them many hill chiefs who had never before been tempted out of their native mountains . All those who were not entitled to chairs were seated on the

      ground , and presented one huge , compact mass of human heads . " There was the most profound silence in tliis brilliant -assembly when Mr . Edtntmstone , on whom , in Mr . John Lawrence ' s absence , devolved the- 4 uty of opening and explaining-the object of this important meeting , rose to speak . He made an excellent Hhidostaiiee address , denouncing female infanticide as barbarous , orudL and nnhory ; and so powerfully did that addressinflaen . ee his hearers , that every native present signed a solemn agreement on oath never again to allow female infanticide withm the circle of his acquaintance without denooneing toeperpetratois . , " Hitherto the hill chiefs , ana many of the Sikh tribes ^ have adopted -the cruel practice of -murdering their female

      children , rather than bear the great expense « f 4 heir foolish marriage -ceremonies . Government has now limited those expenses to certain sums proportianed to the mnTc of the parents , whict Just now is viewed « s a blessing to all parties ; and all the chiefs expressed their satisfaction and de-Light at ' the new law . "You cannot imagine a more splendid « cene of Oriental magnificence than the breaking tip and separation of this vast assemblage , the chiefs mounted on -their splendid elephants , and attended by their numerous followers . * ' In the evening the whole citr , together with the

      farfamed holy tank of Umntsnywas splendidly illuminated . " At sunset , we all assembled in the camp-street , and formed so large a party that twelve elephants were borrowed from the chiefs for our accommodation : they all atood ready , tin a line , laden with scarlet and goli , their heads and trunks ' painted with different devices . The scene in tvery direction was « trange and interesting . The city was as light as day , and ^ was literally crammed with people . As our twelve elephants , with " their glittering trappings , followed each other in stately procession , it was etitieu * to -looQc back upon the long narrow streets and the tall and irregular houses , blazing with rows of lamps hi long lines , until almost lost in the distance .

      " At the entranoe of the holy tank the orowd was so dense ithat th ey looked like one Bolid iruiss . All vras as light as day . We were conducted to a position from which we could isee the whole Bquare , and where carpets and seats were prepared for us . I cannot attempt to aescribe the magnificent spectacle that met us there . The golden temples , the steps round the tank , the very water itself seemed on Are ; around the edge wene packed " 20 , 000 pecple , and the murmur of their voices came up like the roar o * the sea in a storm . ¦ " At the signal of a cannon , fireworks broke out on every side ; fountains of fire fell from the roofs and rose from boats in the middle of the tank , rockets pierced the air and fell again in showers , and fire balloons in great mimlers had the appearance of so many new stars .

      " This period was chosen for the meeting beoauae it is a great Hindoo festival , which always collects crowds at Umritsir j being connected with the worship of fire . " This is a good beginning , and the method of treating the natives worthy of all commendation .

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      PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATION . Tjie National Public School Association held their conference on Wednesday , at Manchester . The chairman was * Mr . Alexander Henry , and a largo number of influential gentlemen were assembled . Since the last conference considerable activity has been manifested beyond tho pale of the association in relation to education . The Manchester and Saliord education scheme has been brought before the

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      56 THE LEADER ^ [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 21, 1854, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2022/page/2/