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      POLITICAL FORESH ADO WINGS . Mb . Bkekelct , M . I * . —The Hon . F . W . Berkeley made a speech at Bristol on Saturday . He said , during the twenty-one years for which he had served iii Parliament , he hail from time to time heard a cry about Tory progress , but he had always found that progress to be just a sufficient move to prevent them from going backwards . " Would any man tell him that they intended to do away with the influence of tlie aristocracy , to get rid of the pot boroughs ? They would do no such thing . They might tell him that Lord Stanley had an inclination to be liberal . He replied that Lord Derby was once liberal , and evinced the same tendency as Lord Stanlev did now . lie would believe Lord Stanley to

      creased power to what was called the " territorial party" in the country ; there was no doubt as to that object . Many boroughs would no doubt be placed in the disfranchising Schedule A , and the difficulty WOuM be to determine to what new constituencies the member for the boroughs thus disfranchised should be transferred He trusted the country ^ vould firml y resist any attemnt to diminish the number of members . which the commercial party now possessed . Two other points must ha considered ; be included in a Reform Bill to make it a satisfactory measure . The first Was an extension of the suffrage—and , secondly , if an extension of the suffrage was given , it must be protected by the ballot . ^ . ^ ___ .. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^*

      Manchesticu . —A monster meeting , numbering seve n thousand men , has been held in the Free-trade Hall and unanimously voted for a resolution in favour of manhood suffrage , triennial Parliaments , electoral districts ' and the Ballot . This demonstration presented tlie artpearance of a union between the middle and working classes of Manchester on the Reform question , and while speeches were made by those who represented the operatives , such men as Mr . Bazley and Mr . George Wilson addressed the vast assembly as representatives

      of tlie other class . It was urged upon the meeting that it should go for less than manhood suffrage , in order to warrant success , and indeed an amendment was moved which would virtually have announced a compromise on the suffrage question , but it does not appear to have been pressed . Loud cheers saluted the names of Messrs . Cobden , Bright , Gibson , and Bazley . Mr . Bright has accepted the invitation to the Manchester banquet for the 10 th of December . Mr . Bazley was elected on Wednesday without opposition .

      Finsbuky . —On Tuesday night a meeting was held in the Cooper-street School-rooms . Tlie assembly adopted resolutions in favour of manhood suffrage , vote by ballot , electoral districts * and triennial parliaments . On the suffrage question , Mr . Dauby Seymour spoke , of certain limitations which might fairly be enacted , but the meeting opposed his suggestions , and Mr . Ernest Joiies spoke against them . An open air meeting was held on Sunday last in Britannia Fields , Iloxton , which was addressed by Mr . 1 £ . Jones and other democrats , and at which similar resolutions were carried .

      Tin-: Dckk ok AiuiYLi . ox Ini > ia . —At a religious meeting at Kdinburgli , the Duke said : —' " I remember at the time of the ( irstdisi-ussiun . s which took place recently in Parliament , rending with some care the evidence which was taken before the courts-martial with regard to the first -. movements of this rebellion , and-I must say that I rose from the perusal of these papers with a full conviction , that the panic with regard to the loss of caste , which panic could not have arisen if caste had not been recognised , was one of the real and main causes of the rebellion . 1 believe it arose in a real panic on the part of the high-caste Indians that something had been done or was about to be done which would sacrilice their caste . We ought not to have an army subject to such panics . We ought , if possible , to avoid having our forces raised on such a principle and under such conditions as to make them liable to fears and to

      dangers of this kind . " Kossuth on IIl-. ncauy . —On Monday evening M . Kossuth delivered a lecture on " Hungary , in connexion with the condition and general interests of Europe , ' in presence of a numerous audience , in the Mu .- > ic-hall , Edinburgh . He said : — " Nine years of woe , torture , and misery have rolled by since Hungary , deprived of her freedom , constitution , ami national existence , lies prostrate on the cold stone of political slavery . It is tlie third time now during a history of a thousand years . The first time it was under Leopold I ., in tlio sevcutecntA century . The second time it was under Joseph 11 ., «» the eighteenth century . Both times under the Ilapsburgsof course . I cannot help deriving hope and

      con-, Jidence from the fact that on each of these occasions tno lawless prostration of my country did not laat longer than exactly ten years . I trust the spirit of our ftthors has not so departed from our generation as to alJovv wo present degradation to last much longer ; only that tins time tho making up of the accounts will bo diflorent , or course . Our fathers tried compromise , and were utceived . You could as soon wash a blackamoor wnito us make Ilapsburga true to any sworn pledge of duty ami honesty . Tho remedy of royal oath ; vas tried over i nil UVMVBK 1 | A . UU AVIIIVU ^ **» m-mrj-ww- — .- ^ -- . ^ , ht ten porjuiR *

      over again . Each now oath broug nuw Tho thread of confidence ia broken , ntul no 1 < wei »» earth will knit it again . That ' s over now , but tno on jious ton years are not over yet . O Thou who niloat tho dostinioa of nations , and—long-forbearing but jiuuweighest tho tears of tho oppressed In tho Iwinntu ¦ ¦» retribution , look down In mercy on my nntivo jiiikw Grant , oh grant us but a wink of ft favourable oj-por tunity ! A wink of opportunity la all wo pray . ' ! ,, wo shall know to profit by it ao may uur " « Ml '" y , r " Towards the conclusion ojf a lengthened loeluro J > i . " »»" sutfi expressed groat aoulklonoo for the future iw w »' sldo on which Britain ' s sympathies would bo biww , from tho incroaso of tho independent Llboral nun . )< tho House of OommuiiaHo alwo uinnlialifcu Or WU" 1 L

      . England ngalnst tb , o dangora of an Austrian alliance . Sundbhi .. and .--A requisition la In courso of B'tfI 1 'I jl requesting tl » o Mayor to call a public « " »•>'' "ft" ! i \' inhnbitanta to consider tlio subject of JPurlliunoniaO

      be a Reformer -when he found him so , but never before . Thev would find the Government liberal so long as they were too powerless to be illiberal ; but when in a condition to throw off the mask , they would find that they were Tories . He considered it an unwise thing that any individual , even an individual of Mr . Bright ' s great and acknowledged talent , should attempt to carry such a measure forward . He knew the House of Commons well , and believed that any Kef or m Bill to be successful must command Government support . Mr . Berkeley then remarked on Mr . Bright ' s two speeches , expressing his admiration of the first , but stating the second to be so visionary , wild , and unsafe , that he was unable to accord it any praise at all .

      Mr . Wise , M . P . —At a public banquet at Stafford , Mr . " Wise , jr . P . j said that he would never consent to make the fleeting interests of a party of more importance than tlie enduring interests of a nation . He should like to ' see a Reform Bill before he volunteered to express an opinion on any of its details . Unfavourable to hasty legislation , to dreamy theories , or to exalted impossibilities , and bearing in mind that we had a mixed constitution of King , Lords , and Common ? , he was anxious that the varied interests of all classes in the

      country should be equally represented . That intelligence and industry , capital and labour , property and character , should " each be elements in creating a good representative institution . There were many questions- which must soon force themselves on the attention of Parliament . He might refer to pur administrative departments , where extravagance existed , and supervision was needful . No less a sum than 25 , 000 , 000 / . was spent annually to keep up the army and navy . He believed that sum to be far in excess of what -was really required to keep the -whole force in a state of high efficiency .

      Mr . Cheexham , M . P . —At the annual meeting of the Athenaeum , at Lees , near Oldham , Mr . Cheetham , member for South Lancashire , said it was quite evident there would be a wide extension of the suffrage at no very distant date . His experience of the institutions of this country and of those abroad had shown him that our institutions were of a character with -which no other land was blessed . Therefore he did , with anxiety and with great hope , knowing the character of his

      fellowcountrymen ' , look to the extension of tho suffrage , and whatever extension it might be , they , as Englishmen , would make it their great duty not to destroy , but to maintain the liberties and institutions under which they dwelt . It was often said that the institutions of England were not equal to the American , but there was no American so free as an Englishman . He did not deny the advantages which tho American institutions had within themselves ; but what did he see there and here ? Ho saw in this land that every

      Englishman might , in private or in public , by pen or mouth , 3 tatc the honest convictions of his mind without fear of tho Government or of his fellow-countrymen . That could liot bo done in America . JLct them try amongst sla-veholders to denounce slavery . In this country they could denounce tho Crown , tho Parliament , or individual member ? , and wero perpetually doing it , yot there was no fault found . He wished them to contrast tho freedom of other nations with that of this country . There was no country in Europe in wHioh property was bettor preserved , or in which there was more individual freedom . That was tho continual cry of every foreigner . Look at our religious freedom ; ovory man wns free to form his own religious opinions ; and we tolorated oven tUo Mormons , and justly so , so long as they obeyed tho law . " Wo had no persecutions hero for religious or political opinions .

      M « . GonpoM Risnow , M . P . —On Monday this gentleman addressed his constituents ot Colchester . Ho advorted to tho mutiny in India , and proceeded to discuss tho policy of tho transfer of tho government from tho Bust India Company to tho Crown . After touching on tho proceedings consequent upon the introduction of tho Consp iracy Mill , and to tho probability of a Clmrph Rate Abolition . BUI being passed in the ensuing session , ho came to tho question of'Parliamentary Reform . Ho said no doubt tho Government intended to bring forward a monsuro on the subject , nnd it was not ilillitmlt to infer that its drift was to givein-

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      acknowledge Roman Catholic baptism ; " and she told the priest plainly that " no priest or nuii should ever get a child of hers . " The children were placed at a Protestant school . In the course of time both the father and mofher died , the six orphans were seized upon as lawful spoil by representatives of the " true" Chufc ' . i , and there is now a trc-. mendb ' us struggle going on for the possession of these six poor"little souls—a struggle which-. must be carried on until the aggressive insolence of these priests , who arc forgetting the terms on which they are permitted to practise their religion in this country , lias been thoroughly put down . With the filibusters of America Mr . Buchanan

      lias come to a very complete understanding . He has issued a proclamation enjoining all the civil and military officers of the Government to be upon their guard to prevent the fruition of Walker ' s third expedition to Nicaragua , of which that redoubtable chieftain has made no secret . The Bishop of London ' s charge to the clergy of his diocese will be highly satisfactory to the gieat body of those who wish well for the Established Church ; it is in the broadest sense a popular charge , and calls upon the clergy simply to do their own duty , and not to look so constantly to legislation for the remedy for ¦ church-rate and other difficulties .

      Robert Owen , who has passed away at the age of eighty-nine , was a striking example of a man with one idea . His one idea was a great and good one , being nothing less than the perfectibility of the human kind . His life was devoted to the working out of his idea , and his life was a failure as a whole , though the world has been a gainer by his unsuccessful labours , and will -honour his memory more highly , perhaps , in the time to come than it is prepared to do at present . schools

      Robert Owen -was the founder of infant ^ in this country , and his success was striking and complete ; but lie failed when he came to apply the . same principles to the education of men and women . ; then it appeared that the docility , the orderliness * the "like views and like wants , " engendered by his system , were results incompatible with the free development of the free man , making of him a mental and moral mechanism , or , in other words , and what 1 o Robert Owen was abhorrent , a slave , or the ready victim , of a tyrant , if not a tyrant himself .

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      The English and the Fbksch at Rome . —A letter from Borne says : — " As I -write , the hardy little troopers of the Empire tramp past the street-end to the sound of their clear-blown trumpets , and an old organ-woman is grinding " God save the Queen" below the window . There are Roman troops here , certainly ; One looking dragoons , of the sort one sees in French engravings mercilessly pistolling picturesque brigands . Infantry there also are , of no very martial or cleanly aspect , and Swiss in French uniforms , and Papal Body Guards in black and yellow stockings , something between Rigoletto and a beefeater . But these are merely to make up a show . See , on St . Peter ' s Piazza , the

      men of action , the true masters of the situation , in their grey coats and red trousers , smart , active , and soldierly . There exist persons , worthy of credit , who assert that some parts of Rome are still iuhabited by Romans . It may bo so , but little is known of those remote quarters . The crown of the causeway , the pick of the street , is for John Bull , to whom has adjoined himself , in some force , liis brother Jonathan . English is spoken in the hotels , English inscriptions are on the Bhops , English goods within them ; it is an even bot that every third well-dressed man or woman you meet on the Corso is English , as are , certainly , nine out of ten of those hard-working 1 persons who industriously

      perambulate ruins , galleries , and studios , counting statues , and " doing" Rome . On tho Pincian Hill a French band plays to an English audience , and if now and then a Cardinal drives by , Ids scarlet gown looks like an intrusion among the crowd of British paletots . We are told of a Pope , but we believe in a General , and tho priestly frock gives tho wall to tho soldier ' s tunic . " The " Valub of Advertising . — Stephen Glrard saya : — " I have always considered advertising , liberally and long , to bo the great medium of success in business . And I have made it an invariable rule , to advertise in the dullest times , long experience having taught mo

      that monoy thus spent is well laid out . On this the New Orleans Bulletin remarks : " Some people , however , by their conduct , appear to think that Stephen Girard didn't know how to inalto a fortune , and think that . thoir storos aro enough known already ; these people" will continue to jog along at a snail ' s pace , and aro soon distanced by their competitors . There is skHl in advertising as in everything else . Advertisements should be changed often , and their phraseology altered , or they will bo considered as out of date . Tills is the age of lightning and steam presses . Sleepers must wake up , or they will be left behind . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 20, 1858, page 1244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2269/page/4/