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    supposition of those who believe that Mr . Gladstone is over anxious to return to office . Mr . IiAYAED ., again , ia bidding farewell . to liislate constituents , expresses regret that they have not thougkt him worthy to coj&inuo rtJieir regtr ^ feJitative , and intimates that The -Mf / wild rather rMl With some than stamd . with , others . Shis points ^ tjSfir . Cobden , Mr . John Bkight . isaad other tried

    jJJsifeerals who have begp . thrcKpm . jM * t , j and pu £ lip , 8 &eetings in London anisWUarlisle j&ave shown fcftiat Mr . Layakd's feeling is shared by many Englishmen . It is to be , regretted ,, indeed ,, that these meetings have been so conspicuously promoted by personal connexions of the late " Manchester party , " and by members of tke extreme JPeace party . It is not by such aid that the cast-out ' members will recover

    their position . They muy recover it by the straight and skort path . ; and that is , to take up the cause of the nbn-rejresented . The constituencies , narrowed to one-seventh of tie population , have refused to be represented by some of our most con > sistent Reformers ; the other six-sevenths would be glad to possess such representatives ; and if their real public leaders act together with those who still remain hi Parliament , unquestionably the number of the unrepresented in this country can be reduced , and the pubHc men-wlxo have been throwa out can throw themselves in . again with a stronger force than , ever at their backs .

    vantage " ^ . another man ' s disadvantage 3 he may increase tlieastock of his professional repute for " brilliancy / ' Jait he tarnishes the brilliancy of his fame insa » othcr way . Jt - ^ trd i court has bes » exemplifviag c © ur damestie institations . 'Eke ' BAjRiNGS anchflie GJq&dons are ; two families that . hVe near each other JaiLincolftSfrire , ftt . sa sufficiqati distance , however , . & > make visits tfr « p . © aily of ja ^ kisttjgal kind . &iji * eTereiice arises " between Mrs . 'Barin g and Captain Gordon . They suddenly hurry off to an hotel near the Great Western 'Railway -station , are pursued by Mrs . Gordon and friends , who fail to recover them . ; and

    Mr . Baring is desirous of accomplishing the divorc thus practically began . To do so lie is obliged to bring liis claim for damages , -which he does in the Under-Sheriffs' Court , and the jury have to name the amount . " What are his means ? " asked a juryman . " Nothing to do with the question , " answers the XJndei-Sheriff . " But we might injure his innocent -wife and family , " rejoined the jury . " A . very proper consideration , " replicates the Sheriff , "but quite out of your field . You must name the sum on evideiice . " And , accordingly , Mr . Baking must accept 3000 / . from Captain Gordon before lie can go to the House of Tjords .

    But we manage morals strangely in this country . Ill Es . eter Hall they will admit the Truviata-, they will admit even the words—among tlie singers on the p latform ; but tlie dashing love-songs and penitential wailmgs of the successful but phthisical Magdalen must not be brought home to an Exeter Hall audience . The Lost One may warble in the hall of saints , but only in one of the unknown tongues . What a commentaryon national purity and national education !

    It is not improbable tliat the apparent strength , pf the Government may cither compel it to fall back upon the more -thoroughly Liberal support , or jinay afford tke opportunity to the Liberal party for reassertnig iis own independence . Tke course itakenbytke Government implies a disposition to rely / upon a -majority in the House of Commons ., simply as a majority—as an overwhelming voting power which is to be conciliated by not contra-. dictiog the feelings of any section of it . Such a course would scarcely be consistent wi th the feeling qf the people out of doors , and if it were pursued it

    would leave tke political lead vacant for tlie independent Liberals . The actual Ministers , however , may see the gross impolicy of such a course , and may resist tlie temptation held out to them of a wholesale trimming . Should they resist , they will irritate those " moderate" men wko intend , to support them in order to convert them , into a virtually Conservative Government , and tken Lord Pakmerston- will again become the acting head of tke Liberal . party . Either way , tke united action of Liberal members in or out of the House will do more than anything can at present to restore tke strength of the popular party .

    In the Court of Arches , Archdeacon Denison kas foiled his adversary , the Reverend Ditciieb . The Judge , Sir John Dodson , has ruled that the ' proceedings against tlie Archdeacon were not commenced within the two years specified by the Church Discipline Act—a provision justly protecting clergymen against retrospective persecutions . The Archbishop of Canterbury was slow to challenge a single clergyman for his individual interpretation of doctrine in a Church of many doctrines , whore a narrow definition would convert a majority info Dissenters ; and the Court of Arches

    pronounces agamst a tardy arraignment , a combmation of slow prelacy and fast judicature , which lets tke Archdeacon escape between tke two . Perhaps the iPrivyCouncil will see tko expediency as well as -technical accuracy of Sir Johh Dodsoh ' s trouvaille . Another gladiatorial display in tlio Court of Bankruptcy , WUcro Mr . Lij ^ AMwhas gonoratlier to excess maintaining his position as a - brilliant " barrister Mr . Statleton , the victim this week , appears throughout to have intended honestly and the false posxtion into wkick ko was gradually dragged u o a kind to chaUengo tke lenient considoration of others who have not fallen into ' the B amo traps . When a professional man takes nd-

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    mere tflkoroughly in the cause of tlie masses tp * T resolution y ^ te . passed , he would afterwards emW pis ^ aiwae of future reform in a substantive motion * ffhe « P ^ mal motion and the amendment * ere tw put to ^ meeting , and the chairman declared tbf , to be , cwtfed , tfceugh the numbers appeared brett *« i * equal . Mv .. « . J . Lockhart then moved « Th ^ meeting . is of opinion that any measure of reform L , ^ trepr ^ aeatetion of the people to satisfy the coniit ™ toWJhMi at ^ contain-first , xinhbooSftL * Meatf ^ -ft-tnwe equal ct&tribution of electors to 2 *» n ; three , no proper ^ qualification for members % TarWent ; four , yote bv * allot ; fire , triennialSi meats . " XChevs . ) Sir . Bronterre O'Brien seconcfe resolution , reserving his right , he saidto bereI

    , go ^ for the whole six points of the Charter . Mr BhVh \ f declared himself to be an uncompromising Chart ?* moved an amendment in favour of annual partial t and the payment of members . Mr . Wells seconded his proposal . Mr . Hurst , who said he had been a fJoZ operative , m Manchester for twenty years , observed tint the Chartists of that city , who were likely to knowMv Bright best , had done all in their power to secure d * return at the last election . { Hear . ) The resolution as proposed to be amended wras then put and carried Mr . J . P . Adams proposed a resolution declarin g Vi 1 P meeting to be in favour of a scheme of national secular education , to be supported by the money now naid tn the clergy . This was seconded by Mr . HeiUev and carried unanimousl y- —The meeting then broke up

    FBBB EMI&RATICW . A numeroils meeting of the -workmen of Westminster was held in the Great Hall , Broadway , Westminster on Tuesday night . It was announced that a number of members of Parliament were expected to be present and that Mr . Cox , M . P . for Finsbury , would take the chair The secretary , however , read letters of apolo « V froni Lord Goderich , Mr . Lockej Sir J . V . ShelleV jfr Roupell , and Mr . Cox . Mr . Clancy , a working ' man ' was then called to the chair . The object of themeetki ' ' was to urge oa the Government the necessity that exists for rendering- state aid to the -working classes to emirate as a means of alleviating- the present distress of the operatives . Resolutions to this effect were unanimously carried .

    A CONSERVATTVE DEMOSSTKATIoif . A dinner took place at Bury St . Edmund ' s on Wednesday week , to celebrate the return to Parhament of Mr . H . S . Waddingtou and Captain P . Benuet , the Conservative members . for West Suffolk . Major Paiker presided , and was supported by the guests of the evening , Sir R . Buxton , Mr . J . H . P . Oakes ( late M . P . for the borough ) , and about one hundred and fifty of the principal yeomen and fanners of . the neighbourhood . Mr . Waddington , in returning thanks for the toast of his health , admitted that the results of the election were " not exactly such as could have been desired by the Opposition . " He spoke in favour of reduced

    tasa-.. '¦'' . ; ¦¦ ¦ . ¦ , ¦ PUBLIC MEETINGS . THE UNSUCCESSFUL PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDArKS AN 3 > THE BEJFOKM Q ] UE 8 TIO > r . A pubx , ic meeting of the working in en of London was held oil Monday evening at the C ° wper-street Schoolroom , City-road , "to express regret and sympathy with the ¦ unsuccessful parliamentary candidates at Manchester , Huddersfield , Kochdale , and Oldham , and to take the sense of the working men of London as to what reforms ought to he demanded from the new Parliament . " It is calculated that nearly one thousand persons Belonging to the operative classes were present . The chair was taken by Mr . S . Lucas , and the first resolution was moved by Mr . Wiles , as follows : — " That

    this meeting views with regret the exclusion from Parliament of Messrs . Cobden , Bright , Gibson , Bliall , and Fox , at a time when they laboured successfully in checking dictatorial power and promoting beneficial reforms in cTmrch and state , advancing popular education , substituting international arbitration for war , and an open intercourse between all the nations instead of secret diplomacy , reducing the burdens of taxation , extending free trade , and establishing amicable relations with all the peoples of the earth : and this meeting thankfully acknowledges the great services these eminent men rendered to the commonwealth , and desires to see them speedily replaced in positions of public usefulness , for which their superior talents and moral worth peculiarly

    fit tliom . " On the motion of Mr . Laurie , the name of Sir _ Joshua Walmsloy was added to the list . Some op . position to the resolution was offered hy Mr . Dickey , a Chartist , who said that Messrs . Cobden and Bright are not the friends of the working classes . Their rejection would teach them a great morill lesson . He moved an amendment in favour of manhood suffrage without any property qualification for members ; but he afterwards witUdrcw this , " for the sake of unanimity . " A person in the body of the hall , who described himself as a Spitalfickls' weaver , and who said . he could speak from

    experience of the distress of his class , denounced Messrs . Cobden and Bright for having opposed every measure introduced into Parliament for tho benefit of the working classes , such as tho Ten Hours factory Bill , Lord Robert Grosvonor ' s measure for improving the condition of working bakers , and Sir Harry Hulford ' s bill for patting an end to tho truck Hyatem . The speaker admitted that Mr . Ifax was tho best of tho persons mentioned in the original resolution . Ho concluded by moving as an amendment that the expulsion of Messrs . Cobdon , Bright , and Gibson from tho House of

    Commons was a just retribution for their opposition to measures for tho social bonelit of tlio working classes . Tho amendment found a seconder ; but , strange to say , Mr . Bronterre O'Brien came to tlie rescue of tho original motion . Ho said that Cobdon nnd Bright had nlwnys been right on tho subject of education ; they had already done something for tho people , and ho hoped wo-uld do moro . Indeed , ho beliovod that thoir exclusion from Parliament would have tho effect of cnliating thorn

    tion and economical expenditure , and hoped that the income-tax would soon be entirely abrogated . —Tlio chairman spoke to the same effect , and complained ' that "¦ the agriculturists are at present contributing very largely to the expenses of the country , building military depots , and incurring heavy burdens , which should be shared by the fundholders , " as " the great money interest does not now pay enough . " He thought our sWps of war should be sent in all directions to discover guano , to help the farmers , who are now competing with tlie world . —Mr . J . H . P . Oakes , the unsuccessful Conservative candidate for Bury St . Edmund's , intimated , in acknowledging the toast of his health , that a petition

    would be presented against the present return for tlie borough as soon as possible . —Sir 11 . Buxton said it was expected that Lord Palmerston would bring forward measures of reform , and " what the Liberal party is pleased to call ' progress . '" He warned the country against adopting hasty and sweeping measures of reform which would u degrade the eufl ' rage into the hands of tho ignorant , and introduce that worst of all tyrannies . tho tyranny of a democracy . " The immediate result ol any such measure being carried , would be the laying ol fresh burdens on the farmers . They must not be discouraged at tho present position of the Conservative party , which is only under a passing cloud . —Sir . Dobito said ho was once a staunch Conservative , avd . la

    was still ready to conserve anything that it was necessary to conserve . But Sir Robert Peel had overthrown the Conservative party , and at the present time he really did not know what were tho particular points bufuro the public . It appeared to him that Lord Palmerston was as good a Conservative as any on tho other side of ' ' »<• House . —After some further speech-making , tlio i'ompany separated .

    EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES . A erECiAt , meeting of the Metropolitan Board oi' "W ovfo was hold on Tuesday , " further to consider u report iro » l the Committee of Works and Improvement !* , on the subject of n communication from Mr . Lionel Qwbornc , C . Irespecting a design for embankment nnd improvement of tho Thames , of which ho is tho promoter , inii ' on a memorial from Messrs . Lodor , Jackson , mul Hi' ' ' tho promoters of an undertaking for the formation of fl " embankment on tho north side of tho Thames , between

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    386 THE lEADEB . _____[ lsro - 370 , B ^ tobiuy ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2190/page/2/