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    reigners may purchase land in the Provinces , and acquire therights of proprietorship under the protection of the law . It is more than probable that the opening of the Danube , is $ & goara ^ gsiof ,, tbis kind , would iatro 3 a ^^^ elii gl ## r # pc provinces of Turkey enterprii $ i % Europeans ^!!*) , like the present British Consul ^ oold try the rojpJK of European fanning « 3 ^ ig | f | if shadow q& ^ &e Crescent . Howef ^ , thi ^ j | p ^ oranduuK ^' f the conference at Constantinop le only stands ia the light of a suggestion ; it may be entirely overruled by the European Commission , and it is only serviceable ia telling us what the Porte is prepared

    It might Ijjpt % faMe ; jf we were embroiled with America ^ IP " ^ apparently , it might suit Walewski if N $ J § olj : on -were embroiled with Belgium . No w ^ iSto Waubwski looks to comjdtoations >" for ^ lfey atfS ^ the sha ^ e ^ prophets vfawhotitikte the thift ^ they | lbresee . : ¦ i ^ rtnu ^ are arisifo g on- every side \ $ j& respefcife to . toil , state of our fbjeign poUcy ^( ' 3 Liord Ci ^ ftfarcbtw was Ka 3 fe # ' w 1 t ! ft < ciieer 3 whW& 3 re-entered the House of tiords after his return from

    the Paris Conference , for , personally , he is considered to have distinguished himself : ; but there is an evident mistrust of a certain foreign policy into which ; our Government is drifting , independently of the question of Kars , which is hanging over and not quite disposed of by the readjustment of the Asiatic boundary . The position of our Government with regard to Italy has be come a subject of . anxiety , and not the less since Lord Glabendon ' s reply to Lord CiiAnricarde shows that our Ministers are prepared to act , upon official information , and ,

    there-The iafl ^ eifefh ave adopted a report upon tie 1 ?^ Bteure # |^ r | uiig against it on the grounds that it v ! o ? afes ^ operty without offering compensation by takin | £ < att % various dues and rights ; that it abolishea ^ rteSfcnt honours and dignities which aie not wltt&ut a practical Value at the present day putting fi 8 > thing injheir place ; and that it is an Unaie 1 it 0 « a 4 tt ^ ck upon the City which has always ftJCime forward to assisian its own improvement

    When the Crown commissioned asked to see tlie revenue returns and the title deeds , the members of . the corporation freely showed both ; funds for the improvement of London , derived from the cuaUtax , have been administered for the benefit of the -whole metropolis as well as the City ; and well administered , The act constituting the Central Criminal Court has worked well : it authorises aldermen to sit on the bench with the judges , and if the aldermen do not interfere in delivering

    judgment , they have proved , useful as assessors when they have been consulted on questions of commercial practice , or the apportion of punishment to different classes of offences . The common hall has been a field in which liberal principles have found free play , and the reform cause , with the reforming Ministers to boot , has found much support from the State . On the other hand , the City banquets have , been neutral ground , in "WInch public opinion has been able to manifest itself

    independently of the Government . This last statement is truej and we freely give—our " , testimony . It has been at the Lord MayorV table that the public opinion and feeling on the subject of America have been most freely and deliberately declared , and we are convinced that those evidences of public feeling have gone fat to moderate t-he rash coarse ; into which Government was plunging . There is > mucho force in the report , and it is evident that the City municipality , which might have been the nucleus fox one of the finest municipalities that ever existed , is not prepared to accraiesce in its own extinction without a vigorous defence .

    A new decision in the Court of Common Pleas has shown that the law is construed strictly against the working classes , however it may be construed liberally as respects their employers . WiiiXiAM HrM > , a bill-sticker , has been found guilty of uttering a placard against MAwuur . Atkin , owner of the Macelesfield-road Lace Factory , at Nottingham . The libel wns contained in a placard posted about the town on

    behalf of a Working Men ' s Committee , accusing Atkin of angry and revengeful feelings , of engaging spies , and of generally mean and oppressive conduct . Atkxn had dismissed two men ; they -were supported : by their fellow-workmen and by others in the town , and this action is only one step in the course of the warfare . The injury inflicted against Atkin appears practically to be , that he and hia wife are insulted aa they pass about the town , arid that workmen will not work for him . If the

    working men molest a woman , they disgrace themselves , and deserve any evil consequences that may befal them . If Mrs . Atkin meets with threat or insult in the streets , she ou « jht to find her best protectors in the men around , whether they are working men or " gentlemen ; " and we trust that our working-class leaders will look to that duty . As for the manufacturer , ho has more than protection enough from the law . Under the "Wolverhampton decision , men are forbidden to combine together for the purpose of maintaining their own interests and incomes , while the masters are permitted to combine together for the same

    purpose , and that state of the- law necessarily drives working men into evasions . One charge in the placard —for which a Nottingham jury awarded 150 / . damages nguinst a bill-sticker — was , that Atkin employed epics among the men : now , one incident that camo out in the defence was , that he hud invited Hind to drink vilh him , had pliod him with glasses of ale , and hnd deliberately tried to pump him in order to obtain ovidonco as to the issue oi the bill . This stntcnicnt appears to us as libellous as anything in the phicard : we find it in tho examination of Maki'hx Atkin himself !

    fore , to exclude a real knowledge of the facts . Official ignorance is not justified by judicial ignorance ^ since the judges have only to determine aa issue upon the premises laid before them , but officials have to deal with the world as it is ; and if pur Ministers ignore the people of Parma , recognising " only revolutionaries , Jesuits , and Austrian ^ they certainly are not qualified or . TviUnig to deal with the subject of Italy . Lord iiTNa > HiJRST has given notice that he shall call attention to . the state of Italy and the advance of Austrian troops beyond the bounds of Austria .

    Ministers have sustaitiedanother dfefeat : the Chu . rch X ) iscipliiie . ¦ Bi ll * as been thrown out on the second reading , by 41 to 33 , The Lord Chaicellbrconi ^ ssed that this ball was introduced under a kind of ; compulsion . Me had been told that he could not proceed with the Matrimonial and Testamentary Jurisdiction Bills , until he should have prepared the way for revising the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical coui-ts by laying down a new law of discipline within the Church . The bill proposes to add a lay element in the Bisliop ? s Court , and to add an Irish Bishop to the

    episcopal contnuttee of the Privy Council , if we may call it so , that is ^—the judicial committee , with Bishops sitting as spiritual assessors . The BisTiop of Exeteb has a rival bill , an old measure now renewed ; and Convocation has two other suggestions . It hasbeen made a complaint that the present bill is constructed by Mr . Stephens , a lawyer who has paid much attention , to ecclesiastical matters , and who has been employed for this special act of authorship by the help-needing " Lord Chancellor Cratstwobth . The defence of the Lord Chancellor consisted in

    showing that the proposals of the Bishops and of Convocation are practically unworkable , and in arguing that wo have not now to arrange the institutes of the Church of England ^ which are already laid down , but to determine whether the acts of the present day conform to those institutes—a duty which clergymen « . re not trained to exercise , and

    which is suited only to lawyers . The dispute upon this point between the clergy and the law , appears at . tho present moment to be irreconciloable , and Parliament , not prepared to arbitrate between the two sides , prefers to do nothing . It has thrown out the Lord Chancellor ' Bill ; it will most assuredly threw out the Bishop ' s Bill .

    Lord GoDERtcn proposed a resolution , that open competition should bo the condition of entrance to the public service ; and supported 1 —as ho was lately in extracting a reply on the sttbjeot of America—by Mr . Gi-adstonk , ho carried his motion by 10 G to 87 , against Ministers , with all the support lent to thorn from tho Opposition aide of tho House . Tho Court of Aider men has . made a stand against the City Corporation Bill of Ministers

    to concede . Imperial speeches now oecfipy attention , and deservedly . All the three Emperor * have been making manifestoes , more or less public , more or less accurately reported . The most important of these is given to the woi'ld through a private letter published by the Coitsti&icti < mnel- ** & channel that permits us to ask how the accuracy of the report can be attested by tte capacity of the reporting machineryr However that may be , the purport of the speech is . probable * The Emperor represented Kuspia , as having been . ablej if it were

    necessary , to defend . herselftibr years to come . His _ fathex , of imperishable memory , had reason foxactuigj /^ vi « ws of Ms' father ; but the ttfeaiy of Paris has bbtainedfiSseobjebt-which it T ^ as Ms ambition to •( bfE ^ hfe - ^ fl ar ^ i : pt ef ^ ' ^ i ^^ iaestris , " sayS ' 'Ja ^ k . iaqftERj i 6 to war , " for war interrupts the commerce tsiPfiae country , its-- successes scarcely compensating iEe ^ eyils ^ tliai 6 cc&sio * ir it . Already manufactories its { Sfosc <> whavei beeticltfseoV ; and AiiE&ANDEit JWdfeTStltfowin ^ open the p _ orts of Russia to the commerce of the world , arid tlie irohtiers to tiie

    free eirciilatibivof foreign pr < ydtieei This is " amp « rfcattfc , -if true : ' * it * implies that ? Ax&bxaitoeb has tE ^ wHl isndi ! the insightj as trell ? aS tlte A ^ sit ^ to siiSfeBi ' rfacees # oiit of adversity-. 3 ? he ^ peefch neisct in arnportanee ig tmairulged ; if 'iM one whieh * B BA » rdi 9 Joseph made on the occasion of an ecclesiastical meeting to carry out certain part ^ oi the Papal Concordat . T ? h e speech is unreportedj the proceedings of the meeting are to be unifejiorted , the papers are not to discuss the subject , foreign'journals that discuss it are to be excluded . It is ai secret business which is to know

    thelighitJonly in . itB effects . The ^ kird Speech da apocryphally reported , and i& ominous , if true . The Enaperor Nafoueok , it is eaidj hasisuggestedito Count Cavoxir tbe expediency Of a . re < joncileiaent with Rome . Ciredat 3 udceilsS Lest Eoxhbchxld , believe it 4 for it is a runtotirJtihat : can , prdfifiaiobody : except jobbers on the Stock Exchange * It reaches the world through the > ultratpapistical journals of Italy , who are always ! reporting , what they , wish , and . denying the stiibbaraest > faota iwhich , they dislike . TUis time , we hope , the : facts are against thorn *

    Far ; more meBiaoirigj becftuse far more authentic , is tho speech ascribed'by the Daily New * to Count WuwDBWSKt , in the ( 3 ongre » s of Paris on the 8 th of AprlL He looked forward- to "future complications , " and-invited the Plenipotentiaries to exchange ideas ttpoh' the solutions of these compHcsationa ^ Thes e subjects are—the . anatohy in Greece / and . the " serious modifications" wUich the three protecting courts should promote ; the ' * flnfli . rchy in tho Pontifical Sfcatea , " and the liint

    that Amstna , wnight copy EVanco in withdrawing heTitrcops ; a singularly tender suggestion to the l ^ ngi ^ j f Jfaples , that he should bo lesa severe with h ^(^ u 3 > jectB ; And . a demand upon Bplguim to put drtwAithelfroe press , or . tho PrencU Government might ,-. fiudi it ,, necessary to put down Belgiura . Th 0 lo # t » indeed , Ja u most raonaoing Uink . It is X »^© lftl 58 ' ®' iIi ^ t thoro » ro men about Lovxs f - ^ J ^^ I ^ S' ^^ * ^ to involvo him in fresh t ^^^^ W ^ P ^ S gkJfc . hRs , bo « 3 tv calculated , would not ^ y ^^^ fe |^|^^ W » k > tlnd , involved inkfvosh quari * els HaavasAo kt

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    386 T H E , JLE ADEB . [ No . 318 , Saturday .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1856, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2138/page/2/