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? TIKE a giant refreshed , Parliament has come Jj back from the Whitsuntide holidays , and it Las proceeded at once to grapple with all sorts of subjects , from the Board of Trade to the Board of County Cess in Ireland ; from the sale of poisons to the divorce of married couples . Although this is to be a short session , the number of subjects discussed , at least , is great . Nothing would satisfy Mr . HonsFALL but an inquiry with a view of
remodelling the Board of Trade—about the most harmless and the most useful of all the official departments . The very proposal evoked an outcry from the friends of Huskisson and Poui / ett Thompson , and Ihere it ended . Lord Robert Cecil wanted us to take votes at Parliamentary elections in counties and universities by means of -voting papers , as in poor-law elections ; but Government showed many reasons against thus voting- by gcueral ticket , as Ihc Conservative Lord proposed . And the attempt to convert Parliamentary
election into a really domestic institution , with paper proposals passing through the hands of the maid-servants of the country , docs not improve on further acquaintance . Paper docs not prove to be an cll ' ectual safeguard against fraud , even in the poor-law elections ; how much less in the election of honourable members ! Lord Guanvilxk ' s bill to restrain the sale of poisons by regulating their custody , their packing up , their colour , and the certificates on which they may bo sold , is referred
to a select committee , for the consideration of practical details ; the Peers not being apothecaries . And Lord Brougham has thundered down upon the House of Lords , with a protest against one of the many detestable amendments in the Divorce Bill—that one which prohibited the rc-iiiurriage of v . condemned ' party . ' Lord Brougham's speech , although delivered after the debate in the Lords , will bo effectual to prevent the consummation of that preposterous piece of Cantejujjury-Rkdissdale law .
Government hns been drawn out until it luis become quite a reforming Government ! Lcml Pal-W . MR 8 TON hna announced u bill ou Church rales , and lie -will scttlo it . Sir IFjucpkiuck Tmasiami hay virtuully intimated that the Opposition in tliu Commons dp not intend to resist tho Onths Bill . They will try once more to koop in the mi -Christ iun 'Christian' quibble whioh excludes Jews , but more
they will not attempt ; and everybody believes that ¦ the matter has been settled in the Peers . What other measures are there that have been long standing , and long wanted ? It would be quite worth while to ask Lord Paluerston to undertake them . Mr , Slaney failed to persuade cither Government or the House of Commons to appoint his ' standing committee' or unpaid commission of Notables to deliberate on improvements for the working-classes , yet improvements for the workingclasses , and for other classes too , are going on . One
of the most considerable is the increase of public parks and places of recreation . If the employing classes desire to keep their workmen in a state of allegiance not only to the Government but to the avocations of this our working country , they will continue in the course hud down by Mr . Adderley , and other Liberal-Conservatives , at Birmingham . Lord Calthokpe has given to the people of that town a new park , which the Duke of Camrrioge has opened with so excellent a speech , full of hearty sympathy for the working classes , and of good instruction for their employers .
The Court is under the sun of popularity this week . The work cleverly and kindly done by ' our cousin' at Birmingham has scarcely pleased the public more than the excellent manner of dispensing . English hospitalities to the Grand Duko Constantine at Osbornc . We may assume what the object was to oiler a royal hospitality , without pledging too much of national sympathy—to receive an Imperial Grand Duke as an Imperial Grand Duke should be received , but not to welcomo a Russian and the representative of aggressive Russia as
England should receive him ; since thai , would be to meat him in Uaynau fashion , For it is impossible to say that others than draymen might not have forgotten themselves when they saw himunless , indeed , we had played traitor to the country , and given him the run of our arsenals and porls . We urc at peaco with Russia , but not in alliance with that distant country , as Franco appears to b «; so the
hospitality thrown open to Constantino was that of Oisboruc , where ho found Ihc requisite splendour ol dinner , the full allowance of personal courtesy from hostess and host , a pleasant trip in a royal sleaiuer to look at the picturesque const of Portsmouth with its shipping , and a oourtcous leave-taking . lie has gone ! Tho English Government did not invite the Grand Duke to overhaul its armouries , as if it . were planning the noxt campaign in concert .
Everything is growing so popular amongst us that the Tories themselves do not like to be left out . ' We are no longer Tories ! ' cries the Duke of Cleveland at the Darlington dinner to Mr . Farrer . Mr . Farrer is the late member for South Durham , and it is consistent with the Conservative . party always to celebrate some 'late ' person or ' late ' event . However , on this . occasion
the gist of the speaking was , that they were only too anxious for the Reform Bill of 1858 , to which they hope to become godfathers for the express purpose of gifting it with certain endowments of their own . They want to say to the franchise , So far shalt thou go , and no farther ; to upset the Whig ' oligarchy , ' and to provide for the representation of the minority . What public-spirited , modest people those Tories have become !
If anything could really make English Tone * heartily popular in their feelings , it would be the spectacle of France at the present moment . It is peculiar . By the avowals of the Emperor's own supporters , in the press as well as in public , the coup ( Vetat is rendered permanent in its rule ; and this week he is again appealing lo the millions for the vote ' Yes or No . ' He docs not do this in
person ; he does it by deputy , in the persons of the members of the Corps Lc-gislutif , whom the elector * of France arc now invited to re-elect . There are exceptions : the Government displaces somo of its candidates , and proposes others ; and it calls upon the millions . to rally round the Emperor in order to carry on tho administration as he has administered i ( There has seldom been a manifesto more
outspoken . It is a renewal of the first proposal by 1 Elected of December , ' after a lapse of more than flvo years . And really Louis Napoleon has some right to consider that France has endorsed his decrees at least upon suflcrance . It is truo that the Army now stands confessed as his accomplice in the coup d'etat ; but there is no army in tho world more popular than thut of France ; and it is inconceivable that if nine millions and a half of men really resent the present state of things , and desire something diflbrent , they should lack either the will , tho cleverness , or tho courage to overthrow it , and establish what pleases I hem better .
Tho condition of France is mu & l . impurlanl in nunnexion with a neighbouring country . . Uclyiuiii i > in a state bordering on revolution . The clergy have for yoars boon endeavouring to iucrcaae I heir ' J ^__ trol over tho people , and espeeiall , ) t > y {' l' ^ l j ^^}^^ . 'i ' ^ . ¦ . tion of tho people , O ' overiiuieiil- haa ^ ta ^^ pto ¦ : ¦ / » ,. , compromise between opposing piirlie . s ; raif » CravlJw \ ., . ' ¦ .... . " % f- > v- ' " i ' ¦' ¦ -. ' . £ CT •*&' ¦" ¦ 5 V ^ * * . iy- . # '/** r-fS y s */ . \ J 'JLS
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06061857/page/1/
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