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« The Stranger" In Parliament. [The Resp...
sm § ^^ JSSSSXS ^^^^ a ^^^^ SSSfe ¦ 5 ff **! divide the House on every vote until you tell us that you will obey us ? » . Why that would be factious : and Englishmen have ^ st that art of factiousness wherewith they won respectability ^¦ European nations . The first Minister has no measures : he never hints at a policy : when , a questaon is asked , he jauntily evades it : if he have ^ to make a speech , hecants : as a rule , he sleeps snorily on the capacious treasury bench . Granted that he Is doing some good and grand things in the war-real vigorous things-but he tells the House nothing of them ; and if you were to tell him that he wont stand unless he gets the confidence of -the House , he would replythat he can do without the confidence of the House . As to what is now doing with the war -the new supplies , the new organisation , the next campaign , - who knows ? The House will go down to Spithead to see the new Baltic Tleet- and will feel national pride m the hundred Screws —and return to town convinced that surely they will do—something . " As to the Peace , Lord John is negotiating on the basis of the Four Points ; whatjnore would a self-governed country wish to know ? Perhaps England will be . ashamed Of the Peace when it is concluded ; but we -must consider the royal prerogative . And , then , the House of Commons has its privileges : when the treaty lias been signed by all the powers , the House will have the right to ~ move for " papers" and to have a debate—in fact to have an ^ djournea debate , if it likes It is even an accident—and in political affairs there is perhaps on the whole more of accident than science—that the Sebastopol Committee did not become a Secret Committee , that is to say omipotent in procuring amusement for the mornings of a disengaged quorum , and absolutely resultless for that public benefit which is obtained by private exposure . When Mr . Roebuck entered the House last night with his resolution for secrecy in his breast-pocket , be took for granted , the members who had voted " witii ™ hfni " took"riFfcygr ' antear'th " at"thfere would--be-nosort of opposition . The morning papers , aware on Wednesday of the intention of the committee , came out yesterday without any protest ; the public were . passive , and the Government which consists of Lord . Palmerston , were rather pleased at the success of their management , effecting , thus , a more absolute sham than even they could have calculated-upon . But it was not to be so . The Peelite ex-Ministers were not afraid of laying their defence before the public ; they did not choose to allow eccentricities like Roebuck , and Layard , and Drummond to be their judges ; they had resolved to force publicity . Sir James Graham , who delights in opportunities of talking-liberalisms which at once sound well and answer his purpose , made a speech 'Which astounded the Radical Mr . Roebuck and the Liberal Mr . Layard : —forcibly and effectually heap-.. pealed to tho House to permit no Vehmgoricht " upstairs . " This was a terrible stroke ; and the way II told was a triumph to tho ex-Ministera . It compelled Lord Palmcrston , who cannot afford to be outstripped in liberality by his departed colleagues , t < . adopt Sir James ' s idea ; it urged Mr . Disraoli , i member of tho committee , to renounce in tho House an opinion which ho seems to have ontortained ir the Committee—his recantation being none tho lesi humiliating that ho found an opportunity for t deadly stab at bad-memoricd Sir James Graham fo ; inconsistency nbout local committees ; and , in th < end , after a weary conversation of four hours , it induced Mr . Roebuck , who detected tho clear convic tion of tho House , to tako Mr . Tom Duncombe ' i keen advice , and back out of his resolution . So fai something is gained to tho country ; the Duke o Newcastle , it Is understood , means to tell the who !
trath ^ howerer 'inay failures he , for a-ttttmth or two , is the victim . And , thus . -though an old Czar is dead , and a young Czar who is conscientious-reigns , « nd there ^ conse m j ^ 1 £ = ^ - ^ ttfzzr & i ^* H . i « £ nt on Lord Goderich ' s motion , on Promotion ^ he Arm " wSmot disposed to deny that the g ^ afw ^ t of England at this moment is * - *"" ££ tary Reform : and judging , by the tests of that SarSe debate , of thespirit inwhich the existing House of Commons is likely to deal with the grow- ing popular demands , one may safely predict tha £ whether we are to have peace or war , there must soon bTa Reform Bill . Lord Goderich , with a timeliness of statesmanlike perception , which justifies the high opinion expressed of him * ere when it was the fashion to laugh at him as a feeble young lord affecting sentimental 'Radicalism ™ nt £ ™* of the matter when he proposed to begin ftt tne beginning of the system , and annihilate theansto- Sic character of the army . What ^ House of Commons meant to do ^ in answer to the public entreaty to render our Government -arrangements worthy of our national pretensions to intelligence and liberality , was here to be shown : and the tone of the debate was just this-that of a club of ansto- crats , rather generous and fair , but still intensely classy , chatting an abstract point of human justice , Considering that that grand army , rotting away under the cold shade of insouciant nobility , would read every word of that debate , and would take the House of Commons as the exponent of England , it would really have-been but decent-for even sham , on- such an occasion , would be desirable- ^ if there had been a larger attendance than is suggested by the numbers of the division ^ But even the 150 or 160 who voted that " the " low" classes who constitute the ranks had no chanc ? of turning up as many compe-, tent captains as wouldjustify a ministerial intimation that ,- in future , command should , as a r , ule , be obtained by merit , and not money , condescended merely to vote—they declined to be bored by hearing the case . Lord Goderich delivered his manly , hearty , and occ asionally eloquent argument —delivered too fast , and in too high a key , perhaps , but then it takes time to make perfect speakers—to a couple of hundred men , and they listened and applauded—it was before dinner time : and the couple of hundred turned up again at midnight from the gaieties of London , and they relished for the time the felicitous conversation—that is his styleof the accomplished Sidney Herbert . But , when Mr . Herbert sat down , and Sir Erskine Perry got up they soon intimated that they were not there to hear a debate—they had come to vote and get back to their gaieties , or go to bed—and the scene , the str uggle between Sir Erskine and tho House , was one 1 ) f the most degrading to Parliament which I have ever witnessed . The be-dined young Tories roared , bawled , screeched , howled—resolute to put down a man who is only known as having carved his own way to eminence : and they did put ' him down . The House of Commons is , of course , \ right to be severe with the bore when he is mat d . propos ; otherwise tho boro would be in a perpetual state of afflicting oratory . But Sir Erskine Perry I stands high amongst the most intellectual of the now men of the last general election : his speech was earnestly wiso ; it dealt with ne w arguments m j answer to previous speakers ; it was a fair debating speech , an ornament in the debate . But ho had to 5 give way , crushed and annihilated ; ho had been so x unwiso as to talk democracy to tho army ; and his 8 persecutors roared ironical applause as ho resumed x his seat . And tho offensive hurry to get a " stoopid r question" over was so great , that even Lord Palmers 0 ton , following Sir Erskine , barely got a hearing . There wns a steady inattentive buzz all through his twenty minutes' cant . And botweon tho Hpecches of Lord 8 Godorich and Mr . Herbert thoro was an audience . barely of thirty members ; for tho most of tho time , { . only one Minister , Mr . F . Peel . That ludicrous 0 youth himself spoke to no . more distinguished
t \ J fi ^ * * | « t , p « f U a J j j j t a B J j 1 . ? i , c . that his matter was silly , his style bizarre , his manners grotesque ; the young fellow is undoubtedly an infliction 6 Whis tall stool-and of course hejits > in office , on a tall stool ; but then this rtapld getffcteman was the State on the occasion , 'talking for his Sovereign and her Cabinet , and the majority ™ £ i carried the division- ^ words , every one « df-wnWn wm be read as oracular before Sebastopol . . . . Lord Lovaine ' s speech was very peculiar , -He is aloud young lord , who , when he has made ttpl * w mind ( so to speak ) to be oratorical , eonreys , by-Abe expression of his face , a distinct idea that he is donbtful in the act of speech what to do with his legend arms . He stands rather on the mldole 6 f the floor , and talks at an imaginary disputant imthe « gnt gallery . He neverfinishes a sentence ; but then ne never begins one , -except in the middle , so-that not much harm is done . This orator was assuring the People of England , last night , that there was tftt sufficient intellect , sufficient eduction andsufficieat sentlemanly manner . in the ranks of 'the British army to justify the adoption of the addressi moved by Lord Goderich . He had been in the " service --a year or two-a erackregiment , of course-he ^ not explain why he did not ; go to «* he-Crimea ^ and SS ^ SS & j ^ s t ^ s ^^ n ^^^^ ¦^^ a tfsass ^^ The debateincluded SirDe Xacy Evans ; the , « reat soldier , still a Radical , made a speech which the English soldier ought never to forget . He was so bold , so unreserved , so honest to the . men heinas left be hind him , that he staggered-even the-Lord Lovaines , and obtained an oratorical triump h , ^ hile he spoke I don't think more than ten senators remained below in the Bmoking ^ oDm ^ ndeT ^ y voice cheered him when he sat down . -Tim speecii was based ^ S one fact-stated clearly as a ^ factby 4 irT > e Lacv Evans , after an experience of thirty - yelrs ^ TheVtlm of promotion in the Briti ^ JJW is a mockery and a swindle- ^ a man must have great connexions ^ get on . Yet 154 in favour of-murdering our armies in war-time ! _ . «« -- » Saturday Morning . ~ "ASTRAya ^ R .
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- - a GAME LAWS « NEW "S LIGHT . . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sir , —On the 4 th December last a highly respectable farmer , possessing a game certificate , walked out at nine o ' clock irf the evening , to shoot a pheasant which a younri ^ y ^ ' ^ <^' WM " l ^^ # 'f % on his own land . He accomplished the feat , and being summoned for the same before a -major-and . a parson , was sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment , and to find sureties afterwards . It seems that the representatives of the Church and the Army had by some extraordinary circumstance acquired a knowledee of one legal maxim : Cujus solum est ejua est usqueadclllra . Now as the bird ' s perch overhung another person ' s property , the bird , « J 7 * ««™ meu , was on that person ' s premises . Of course the : mere space is the property of the owner of the land but the tree , on which was the bird , was on the pri-, soner ' s own ground . So that , according * Jhe tawor , these ecclesiastical « "d mhtary jurists ^ all that ag-1 pears above the soil ( stopping just short of thestanQ is the peculiar property of the owner of thoJand -balloons , in transitu for instance . In this case the tree of course was subjected to a divided ownership , L tho root going with tho land on one side , amUhe twigs on tho other . So if my dog follows me into Smith ' s house rbv entering which I become tlie im » Sato p ° roper C t y of Smitl ) Smith may -g « « gj i and sell or keep the entire animal ; but if my aog i stands with only his forefeet beyond the threshold , r his head and foreauarters bcoom o jnerted into m « J : SveSSSStfiSAa i STtSSisSk " h To ° u t ~ f tSy ^> o "S » ionW " lU oaoh other : £ Sa £ f . —^ rs-
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Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1855, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03031855/page/15/
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