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    B OTH in tlie metropolis and in the provinces the Reform meetings of the week have been many , if not of the first importance . At Manchester we have had a large meeting for the purpose of founding a Local Political Reform Association , on the principles of registered manhood suffrage , vote by ballot , triennial parliaments , and equal electoral districts—* a programme not far behind that of the Charter itself . An argument addressed to the middle class by one of the speakers , on the subject of . political agitation , is certainly well worth the

    serious attention of that class , which has undoubtedly stood in the way of an extension of the suffrage quite as obstinately as the classes above it ; *' Commercial , inen , shopkeepers , and working men themselves , " said Mr . Hooson , " suffer from political agitation . Working men do not like political agitation ; but the obstinacy of the middle and higher classes renders it necessary . Let the middle ¦ classes , " he said , " destroy that agitation by . taking their stand upon manhood suffrage . " The feeling of this meeting , howevex * , ai ) pearecl to be in favour of

    a rate-paying suffrage , and Mr . Bazley , the newly elected member , pledged himself to support that principle in conjunction with Mr . Bright . At Finsbury and elsewhere JSIr . Ernest Jones has been working with spirit for the adoption of the whole five points of the Charter as the only reform acceptable by the people . At these meetings various Liberal politicians have seemingly felt bound to allude to Reform ; but have spoken in such vague and general terms that tlicy afford no indication of the points on which public opinion is likely to

    conthat has been returned , to them is , that the subject shall have tlie " anxious consideration" of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Mystery surrounds the publication of tlie two despatches from Sir-John Young—a mystery , not in the least penetrated by the suspicions and guesses of either the friends or opponents of the present

    Government . Perhaps , in spite of the active ' inquiry" set on foot by the Foreign-office authorities , we shall not come at the truth of the matter on this side of the opening of Parliament hi January next ; perhaps not even after the recurrence of that great constitutional event . Meanwhile , the publication does not . affect the merits of the question , nor has it arrested the journey of Mr . Gladstone ..

    An India House telegram puts us in possession of news from Allahabad to the 16 th of last month . The . point of interest is Oude , where Lord Clyde is preparing to commence the campaign , if he has not already commenced it . Generally speaking * the rebels are either flying before the victorious British forces , or are inactive . There has been one exception , in which a body of rebels , numbering twelve thousand men and twelve guns , advanced on Sundella , but they were beaten in several engagements , lost four of their guns and upwards of a thousand men . killed . Tantia Topee , beaten again and again , and driven from place to place , was

    making his way to the eastward , somehow recruiting his forces in men and guns , so as to compensate for his losses , at every step he takes . The Nana is said to have removed well out of danger , and to have posted himself somewhere within reach of the Himalayan fastnesses . By the Calcutta mail , which arrived on Saturday morning last , we have a very interesting document purporting to liave been issued under the seal of the King of Delhi before his overthrow . It is a proclamation to the peoplo of Hindostau , both Hindoos and Mahometans , who " arc being ruined under the tyranny and oppression of the infidel and treacherous English . " A great number of charges arc brought against tho British , and several of these have undoubtedly very good foundation ia fact . Some of the things complained of arc , that the nativo Princes aro deprived of their rank ; that the Zemindars avo not absolute on their own lands , but arc liable to be summoned even by their slaves before the law-courts of the British ; that tho merchants aro called xipon to pay for schools , roads , &o . j that tho nativo workpeople see their goods put out of market iu couipctitiow with European products ; that religious persons avo not supported ; whereas tlw ) King promises to the merchant railways and steamboats out o , C tho public treasury , cud the workman ho propitiatos with tho promise that hesliall labour for " Jkiiigs , rajahs , and tho rich . * ' Two other grievances aro specially urged : tho first is , that in the army a native , no mat tor what his sooial

    rank , cannot rise above the grade of subadar , or lieutenant ; the second is , that under the iniquitous rule of the English , no one in authority gets " presents . " This interesting state paper makes known the fact that , long before the outbreak , several of the princes of the Delhi family were busily stirring up the fires of rebellion . The speech of the King of Portugal at the opening of the Cortes , on the 4 th instant , has put the finishing touch to the story of the Charles-efc-Georges , as it has been told in the pages of the

    Moniteur . The one-mindedness of the Emperor Napoleon and Dom Pedro on tie 4 f settlement" of the difficulty , as described by tlat yeracious organ of French official mystification , is strikingly verified by the following words of the grateful and accordant King of Portugal : — " This question having been , taken from the field of right , in which my Government sought to maintain it , my Government having exhausted the l-esourciBs in which the letter of treaties authorised it to have confidence , was obliged to cede to the peremptory exaction of the delivery of that vessel and the liberation of the captain . "

    In couscquenee of the absence of Count Montalembert's advocate , M . Berryer , at the time originally named for the trial , that absurd and wonderful proceeding is postponed until the 2-Ath . In the mean time , the Emperor is giving to Algeria a little of the freedom which he denies so persistently to France . On the representation of Prince Napoleon he has consented to tho appointment of certain Jews to seats in the Councils-General . " The Jewish native population of Algeria , " says Prince Napoleon , " is very considerable , and will show its gratitude for this mark of interest and confidence . "

    But a moro interesting fact in connexion with foreign news is a statement tliat all tho great Powers , Austria included , have sent a requisition to the Pope on the subject of the boy Mortara . The Pope is asked to rcstoro the boy to his parentsj lie answers that it ia not possible for him to do so . Tho head of tho " onl y infallible Church" is thq slave of his infallibility , and though tho whole of Catholic Europo should ciy slmme , he must stand by the fanatics who havo put in force tlio powers of their Church—oven though ho should in his heart anathomatiso them iov tlioir blundering ovcr-ofiiciousness .

    This pestilent offlciousness is just now highly active . In Ireland wo havo an attempt being mado to secure six orphan children by tho ovor-watohful shepherds of tho Catholic flocks . Tho father of these children wits , in name only , a Catholic , but their mother was a staunch lVotostnnl , who carneatly clovo . t , ed ncrsolt' to the rearing of her children in her own faith . At tho inaiauco oC liov husband sho consented < o allow tho children to bo baptisod at a llomau Catholic chisel j but she oonsontccl to that only on the ground that " Protostants

    verge . The frequency of Cabinet Councils latterly has attested the activity of the Government , on whose hands business is thickening . In anticipation of a time coming when small grievances will find no Ministerial car at leisure , the hop-growers of Kont and Sussex havo been at the Chancellor of the Exchequer once more , to urge him to grant tlio relief which he cannot deny their right to nsk . Thcso unfortunato cultivators of tho soil aro tlie

    victims o £ a peculiarly objectionable impost , tlie maintenance of which must bring about one of two rcsults-r-cithor the hop-growors must go on gvo wing the bitter plant and bo ruined for their pain s , or they must leave off growing it , and our national boycrago will lose its character of porfect beer . Tho fixed tax , about 20 s . per lnuidred-wcigh . i ; > presses with painful inequality upon the various qualtics —• the oheapost Sussex liops at 40 s . paying the satao amount of duty as tho highest priced Kentish hops at 120 s . Tho hop-growcrs have also tho precarious naturo of tho produce to urgo in behalf of tho rolief thoy aro praying for . Tho only answer

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 20, 1858, page 1243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2269/page/3/