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. --- . a -- --- 1 ,2,---- 7l // ---.. . ------- (---1111 ti ' t t" ~.• 1111 •N (IS rt,6l+ • .•. No. 280.—VoL. VI. LONDON, SATURDAY , S E PTEMBER 11 1858 STAMPED SIXPFNCE. • UNSTAMPED..FIVEPENCE. . , distinguished the population of Yorkshire in their endeavouring to show to their Sovereign, when iib t Vrtss. attendance upon the progress of their Queen. again She visits a centre of production, cleaner We rejoice at all this unfeignedly. It is and happier homes, inhabited by families perfectly true that under the form and mode of modelled, as far as may be, after the example working at which the English Constitution, by which She herself keeps ever before their eyes. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1858. gradual changes, has now arrived, the Sovereign has but little direct political power. The Queen shows that she, well aware of the reality o f her THE CARDINAL IN IRELAND. THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS. position and of her duties, and of her sagacious, SIXTEEN years ago, Ireland was confessed, by straightforward, and careful administration of the late Sir ROBERT PEEL, to be the "great LEEDS is the third great capital of a manufac- her powers, has freed public men from the difficult y" with which, as First Minister of the' Wring District which the Queen has visited for the purpose of giving to its municipal institutions, incubus which in former reigns was unposed upon Crown, he had to contend. Two elements corn- and to the efforts of its citizens for the advance- them by Court intrigues and by the back-stairs bined constituted the difficulty—the one religious, influences of n a r row-minded and peddling poli- the other p h y sical. The reli g ious one was the meat of social science, the aid which her M a- jesty's personal character, no less than her hig h titian. Her Majesty has kept herself exempt existence of a Popish priesthood, hostile (as all position as Sovereign of the Bridal Empire, is so from party influences and maintained her place Popish priesthoods necessarily must be) to the Protestant Sovereign of these realms, and the capable of affording. Each of these visits has above the sphere of party struggles, giving, been invested with an importance that will be frankly and unreservedly, to whatever Ministry Pr o testant institutions of the State ; the physical historical by the enthusiastic loyalty with which had the approbation and confidence of the People one was a Popish population, amounting (accord- the entire population have received her—not and the Parliament that support which is due ing to o ffi cial returns) to nearly two and a half merely of each particular town, but of all the from the Sovereign to those who are at once millions, in a state "always bordering on starva- districts within an immense circle, from the most servants of the Crown [and administrators of " tion, and sometimes dying by hundreds from influential landed proprietor and the wealthiest Public affairs responsible to Parliament. This " its effects." This starving population, spread citizen down to the humblest and most necessi- admirable and wise conduct as wearer of the over the whole surface of the land, were, r, tous artizan ; while, from the phenomena which Crown has, no doubt, had no small share in course, disloyal and turbulent—and, having have marked each of these great Royal Progresses, creating among all parties and all men that hig • h fallen so low that they could not fall to a lower the Monarchs of this and of succeeding genera- respect which has been on every public occasion depth and live, they were ready and powerful in- lions, and no less the Presidents of great Re- evinced for her Majesty as sovereign, as her struments of mischief in the hands of Popish riests and designing agitators. They were, in publics, may well take a lesson in the art of domestic life as a wife and as a mother has 1 3 fact, to the priests and to O'CONNELL the sinews ruling. Monarchs may learn how to govern a awakened the most sincere and deep-seated esteem of their strength, and few were the spots in Ire- free people in an age * in which progress is panted and affection for Her personally and apart from land where th meeeyti had n to the power terror to collect the a after; and peoples impatient of a yoke may be Her Ro y al p osition. "monster ng," strike into hearts of the surrounding inhabitants, and to enabled to perceive that monarchical organi- Nor has the beneficial influence of the Queen's beard the constituted authorities. The "great zation is not only compatible with peribet character and conduct been confined to the poll- difficulty," therefore, consisted in the union of freedom, but, wisely managed, affords the best tical men or domestic circles of England. We these t wo elements ; for the priests were power- possible instrumentality for securing to a nation, 1 sincerely believe that, in confirming and main- less without the multitude—the multitude were little formidable without the priests. peacefully and without convulsion, real and sub- taming friendly relations with Foreign Pow ers, Two courses were, therefore, open to Sir stantial material, religious, and intellectual ad- her Majesty has afforded the greatest and most ROBERT—the one, to apply himself to raising vancement. Free from the volcanic character of efficient aid ; and that the affection and loyalty the starving millions in the social scale, and to movement which has distinguished the forward which have distinguished our colonial dependen- attach them by benefits to their rulers; the other, course of France, and exempt from the uproar cies, and especially Canada, throughout the late to neglect the millio ns, and to ingratiate himself with the priests. The latter alternative was the and sometimes bloodshed which has marked the difficulties with which the mother country has one on which , for a series of years, his Whig- striding onwards of America, England, under the had to struggle, are in a very large measure Radical predec es sors had acted; and notwith- beneficent rule of Queen VICTORIA, has effected owing to the high respect with which the chil- standing that, in their hands, it had signally greater expan s i on o f h e r industry, wider exten- dren and grandchildren of Old England over failed, it was unfortunately the one which was selected by Sir ROBERT. sion of her commerce, and has made concurrently the sea regard the Sovereign, and to the affec- truer Accordingly, an additional grant to Maynooth, progress i n the education and social habits tionate esteem which they entertain towards the and the establishment of the so-called "godl ess of her population, than any other country in the Woman who rules so beneficently, so wisely, and colleges," were the measures whereby he expected world. so well the great Parent Country of which they to purchase the Roman priesthood, and, through The their influence over the starving multitude, to People of England recognize fully the are a Branch, and who in both capacities has won fact, maintain the tranquillity, if not to promote the and it is their deep conviction of its truth for Herself the highest place in the opinion of prosperity, of Ireland. In his simplicity he that has brought the Civilized World. Let not the people of them by hundreds of thousands called these measures " messages of peace." to offer to their Sovereign at Leeds the deep and England forget this, and let them show their They proved utterly futile for that • they served but to aggravate the evil :114' '' ,• earnest homage of a grateful heart. No feelin g sense of it, and their gratitude, by the more intended to cure, for they weirs' • ::• I) • . • of curiosity , no love of spectacles or grandeur, complete extinguishment of those unwise and to whom they were sent, s. b, •• • .-•,•. : - of,. no worshi • ppmg of people in high places—even if really ill-grounded jealousies which have enabled fear. Ireland became more skat ' 4 M il t •. m •-, the could have brought the great crowds mischievous men to persuade too many of our and the Premier himself; ,•• • • . 6. - '''' :•• _ together —would have had influence to have population that Town and Country had different adoption declared in the A i ef e' m ..." '" . ;..; . Produced that "t h e Roman Catholic .:•--•‘..:-. Pr e ' PT: the admirable conduct, and to have interests, and for their own political advance- educed not „ physical strength had coribt . 't ••_ ~ • ' • trf only th e enth us i as m of feeling but ment to set class against class to the injury of our b, Brit - ish Government and the Propriety—and even , w e may say, consider- industry and the retardment of our social pro- So completely did he fail irs o *gft. . s a teness—of behaviour and deli which has gress ; and let all men join heartily together in " great difficulty," that he lost offiieln ai vain LATEST EDITION.