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    THE LEADER .

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    IN proposing the health , of her Majesty ' s Minis ters , at the Guildhall -Banquet on Tuesday evening , the Lord Mayor made a good attempt to draw out the Premier on the subject of lleform , nor was he unsuccessful , although his purpose was smoked by Lord Derby . " You have thrown out a very taking bait , " said he ; " but , my Lord , we are growing older , and have learned more caution , and we will not take the bait . " It would not have been seemly , he said , on such an occasion , to " forestal announcements which will fall so much more gracefully from the lips of the Sovereign . ; " admitting by the terms of the excuse the fact that the

    all-important subject will form a prominent feature-in the speech from the Tlironc . But he went yet a little further .. " At this moment , " he said , " having oujoyed that brief period of repose which is allowed to a Minister of State , I am , along with my colleagues , actively and seriously engaged in maturing and considering the details of those measures of legal , social , financial , and political improvement which I hope at the commencement of the next session to submit to the

    impartial judgment of Parliament and the people . " Impressed with the conviction tliat under the great institutions of this country the people have enjoyed " as great an amount of civil and religious liberty , and as perfect an independence of word and action as ever did any nation on the faca of the earth , " and that the aggregate of these advantages has oixly been gained by successive ) additions and improvements in these institutions , ho " will not

    logisUvtc for the high or the low , for the rich or for the poor , but for the well-understood benefit of all classes of the people . " Of course it is just upon the question of what is for the benefit of all clussos that the groat difficulty hangs ; but the Premier ' s Mansion House speech will bo iicenplod by the country generally as- giving a positivo pledge tlmt Government are really working with tin oarno . dt endeavour to find a practical solution of the difficult problem

    rank , and order of her Majesty ' s subjects . " In theory this is unquestionably true ; but in practice ? How many Peers can Lord Shaftesbury point to who have gone into the House of Lords simply as ' " traders ? " The trader may sometimes be the " stirps" of the noble family , but before it can flower into a Peerage the root must usually be

    b uned . But we shall have enough of such arguments in 1 S 59 . At the present moment we are interested in the organisation of public opinion on . the main subject of lleform , and that organisation is making healthy progress . We are interested , too , in another question of reform , namely , in the reform of the present state of our relations with the Ionian Islands . Two

    highly important despatches from Sir John Young , Lord High Commissioner of those islands , have been published , and it may , perhaps , be safely concluded that it has been on the strength of the representations contained therein that Mr . Gladstone has been sent on his mission . One thing is made very plain by Sir John Young ' s account of the state of affairs ; it is that we are altogether de trop in these seven little islands , with their population of something under a quarter oi a million , aud their Parliament , delegated by " isolated and alien constituencies , " passing its time "in discussing quarrels between the different islands , or in the pursuit of individual

    statement we are led to conclude that he has made his way back to Julra Pattan , and that he is hold ing out there . The proclamation announcing tin change of Government had not been published nj to the 9 th of October . At the head of the foreign news of the week stands the letter of the Emperor Napoleon to his cousin , the Prince Minister for Algeria , on the sub ject of " free * -immigration .. Accepting the lettei in good faith , as an exposition of the Imperial mind speaking for itself on this vexed and difficult question , the only regret that can be felt is , that the letter was not written several months earlier ,

    before matters had been pushed to dangerous extremes with Portugal . However , it is an act of grace in the . JSmperorto state frankly that his mind is far from being- made up as to the principle of engaging Blacks . "If , in fact / ' he says , " labourers recruited on the African coast have not their free choice , and if this enlistment is nothing

    more than a disguised slave trade , I do not desire it at any price . " To come at the truth , he has directed the Prince Napoleon to make all necessaryinquiry ; and , moreover , " as the best mode of putting an end to continual causes of conflict , " the Prince is directed to come to an understanding with the British Minister on the subject of engaging Indian Coolies instead of African negroes , on which

    interests . " Sir John Young ' s statement is so clear and apparently so impartial in its conclusions , that little appears left for Mr , Gladstono to do , if not to give confirmation to the facts stated . The only reasonable course that suggests itself is , that we should cut these troublesome little islands adrift , or at least five out of the seven . Corfu , and Paxo its close neighbour , half-populated at present , uudraincd and neglected , more than pay their own expenses , and under good treatment might become , Sir Johii Young says , a garden , and its port the ceutro of the commoroe of tho adjoining countries . These he would retain as another station in tho chain with Gibraltar and Malta .

    subject the two Governments were in communication some time back . Mr . Sidney Herbert ' s late speech on the powers of tho English press has had a vast effect on the reflective mind of Trance , as well it might , by suggesting as painful and saddening a contrast as ever was looked upon . The subject has boon taken in hand by a writer in the Reeue des Deux Jloudes , and , says the Qlobe , he " has arrived , by another path , exactly at the samo point where Montalembcrt takes his stand aud views tho results

    of tho perfectly free discussion in the British Parliament , a freedom regulated only under the rules framed by each House for itself , and by tlio judgment and feeling of eaoh individual speaker . " Well , tho llevue des Deux Mondes has recoived a " warning " for saying what it is very certain that by far tho better half of Franco is feeling j and no thing can possibly do tho Government of tho Emperor more harm than this exhibition of

    in-Tho Bombay mail lias not brought any nows of great importance . Lord Clyde is , in fact , prevented IVom opening tho Oudo oampnigu until tho arrival of tho cold weather . In tho mean time tho robols aro said to bo taking advantage of his forced inactivity to ravage tho country almost up to tho walls of Luck now . Tho plan of tho Coinmauder-in-Cjkicf , howovcr , in said to bo suoh that , if successfully

    fatuutcd despotism . It is impossible that public opinion can bo long kept down by suoh means . It is nothing loss tUau an egregious blunder to prosecuto M . do Montalombert at all , but to prosooutp him as ho is to bo prosecuted on tho 17 th of this month , with the public excluded from tiio court of justice , and morcly tho sentence passed upon him permitted to be published , ia to doJiboratoJy . mine tho ground bonoath tho throno . Tho Danish Government haa oomo to ft sudden and important decision on tho affuirs of the daoluea

    earned out , thoy will huvo no ohoico but to negotiate or to enter Nepaul , thoir submission boing- assured in either caso . In tho Punjab nows there is ono terribly significant passago , it is that tho Mooltan fugitives aro all " aooouutodfor , " Many minor engagements have takon plaoo ia tlio junglo districts of Jugdosporo and Saouo , in all of which tho onomy wore beaten . Of tho movomonts of Tantia Topeo the Rooouuts leave us in sonio doubt . By ono

    . Aoooruing to Lord Shaftesbury , oac part of tho subjeot is not half so diflioulfc as it ia supposed to bo . The oxolusivonoss of the Hoaso of Lords , ho maintains , dooa not exist . When Mr . Bright spoko of tho Houso of Lords as " a proud , cxclusivo , and arrogant body , " and said that " tho inscription over then- doors should bo , ' No trader admitted here , "

    Lord Shaftosbury doolaros that Mx Bright laid down a principle whioh noithor ho , nor any other mombor of the House of Lords with whom ho is acquainted , would adopt or subsoribo to ; it is tho grand diatinction botwocn tho poorng-a of thjsoountry and the nobility of ovory other ooautry that the British , peerage ia rooruitod from " every olass ,

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    REVIEW OF THE WEEK— rvOE Cochin China .... 1215 LITERATURE— j Berar and Eastern Coast Railun « rrwTprTioRWB Sierra Leone 1215 Bacon ' s Histories and Essays ... 1219 i way P - «»; ¦ ogj s ! £ K £ ESSFi&u . iSiivvr :.:.::.::.::::::::::::::::::: SB 3 S&F& SSffirssss ;"" 1 " olos oa Indllu " sress Crimffi Record i" : "" 1212 Australia 1213 and Romance 1221 MERCANTILEIreland . i !!!! . ! .. ! ! 1213 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Jesus Christ 1221 { Order of Commercial Topics ... 1232 Naval and Military 1213 Prosesutionof M \ Montalembert 1225 Checkmate . r ,- —v ? ,, ? Ireland ' s Opportunity 1232 The Treaty with Japan ... 1213 Retrenchment and Reform 1225 Travels of Baron Munchauseu . 1222 | General Trade Report 1233 Political Foreshadowings 122 S TheEtnperor Napoleon ' s Letter . 1226 The Castle of 9 Kauto--ii--- ; ij- » v i Railway Intelligence 1233 . Biographies of German Princes . 1227 The Travels of Muugo Park 1222 Home . Colonial , and Foreign Miscellaneous 1217 Thoughts , Facts , and Suggos- THE ARTS— Produce Markets 1234 Postscript 1224 tioiw on Parliamentary Tte- Theatres and Public Entertain- Money Market and Stock Ex-FoREieN INTEI . XIGEXCE . form 1228 meats • 1222 ^ change ! - **» Continental Notes 1213 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- . . _ , _ . _ * Mn '' , Zn , * n ' t > RnCR * k * ?*" * ° r ^ lt ? ' iIm Tnfiia 1 ^ 14 France . . . ... 1215 INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS— London Gazette 1 ^ % China """'""! ' ! " !!! " !!!!! " !!!! I ! 1215 Germany " . 7 . " 7 . 7 . ' . ' .. " . ' .... " . ' 1217 The Nepaul Question .. 1230 Shares and Stocks ..., * 237

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1858, page 1211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2268/page/3/