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Parliament has met j and , while we write , is getting through its first week without a break up of either Ministry or Commons , and that is as much as can be said . The opening was expected with a curiosity growing in force until the event , and then rebuked by the ludicrous issue . The piiblic wanted to know the causes , nature , and results of the " Ministerial crisis , " the development , of which had- eliminated Lord Palmerstori . Of course
nothing was to be learned from the Queen ' s speech , which , in these days , is considered to be beyond the pale of criticism ; and criticism only pauses to say of this last , that it is the most incoherent , the most oracular , and the most empty , that a Cabinet Council ever succeeded in concocting . Neither was anything to be learned from the speeches of the movers and seconders of the address , to which no
amendment was proposed : both Houses resolving , out of respect for the Crown , to echo the nonsense which Members had expressly devised for the utterance of the Crown . Strange barbaric spectaclethe solemn meeting of fifteen gentlemen to compose fifteen paragraphs of nonsense for the lips of their royal mistress , and solemn meeting of Imperial Parliament to repeat , in its « own name , with
altered number , person , case and gender , the same fifteen paragraphs ! Debate begins , and Lord Stanley discloses the fact that the Protectionists still have indignant hopes ; that they disapprove of the Ministerial course in the Cape of Good Hope ; and that they wholly dissent from the feeling of abhorrence littered by the English press at the conduct of Louis Napoleon . Ministers concur with Lord Stanley in that untoward avowal ; so do Peers
generally , with the noble exception of Lord Harrowby . After which parade of debased feeling , the 1 eers duly resolve to reecho the fifteen paragraphs . In the Commons , Sir Benjamin Hall drags forth the explanations on the Palmeraton affair ; and when they are obtained , all honest Members are as hamed at dragging out anything so paltry . It turns out that there was little , if any , difference between Lord Palmerstori and his colleagues about f T acts ° * Louis Napoleon ; the alleged reason or Lord Palmerston ' s expulsion was not his expressing approval of the coup d ' elat , but his
^ pressing any opinion at all . His triumphant reply is , tjhat pn the same day when he expressed an opinion , an opinion was also expressed by his censor , Lord John , alsp by the Lord President « of *»? Council , also by every other leading Cabinet Minister , also by the late- Vice-President of the « oara of Trade-T-now- Secretary of State for Foreign is n / fi After a 11 ' tnorcfore > expression of opinion i \\* vl reaaon > but that reason appears to bo some inri a ? Court of Lord Palmerston ' s free and easy "depende nce—which was thought " disrespectkfilm " i Lord John » like a respectable houseper as ne is , turns away the careless Palmeraton , I Country Edition , " ]
just as the good lady in black silk gown and white apron would turn away a footman who laughs at table , or a forward minx who won ' t wear caps . That is the spirit of the _ great Ministerial crisis . And what then ? Oh ! nothing . Lord Palmerston , being out of office , has lost some ^ ^ prestige . Members are as little heedful ^> f his broken _ fortunes as flies about a sugar pot _ are of a crushed fellow fly . His position is not yet determined . As to the rest , Russell , Hume , and other veteran Members , vie with the official and ex-official Peers in disclaiming the language of the English press towards Louis Napoleon , and in deprecating to
all that may exasperate " France . " They seem be ignorant that France herself really glories in the expression of opinion denied to herself . They are incapable of understanding an honest suspicion which has made even the Stock Exchange take up arms . Both Houses of Parliament have succeeded in reaching a lower deep than they ever did before : they sympathize with the meanest success of the meanest adventurer that ever committed violence upon an unfortunate nation ; they show themselves wholly alien to the feeling of their own nation ; they avow a craven motive for truckling ; they enter into a paltry ^ Cabinet squabble and Court scandal , with zest .
As for business , while we write it has yet to be begun—the new Reform Bill is set down for Monday next ; the Militia Bill on the next Friday ; the Chancery Reform Bill on the subsequent Monday , with a bill to disfranchise St . Albans ; also a bill on International Copyright with France . Nothing is as yet said ( about the Income Tax , which ought to expire at the end of the session ; but something is said of an addition to the Army . Mr . Slaney
has notified his bill for the renewal of the enquiry into laws which obstruct the self-development of industry among the working classes ; and Mr . Sharman Crawford has announced his Tenant Right Bill ; besides a host of other announcements from private Members . A long session and a busy , some anticipate ; calculating , probably ; that after all no one will muster courage to supersede the Provisional Government that now carries on affairs .
Convocation met on Wednesday , with great show of Bishops and iniluentiul clergy ; but , owing to the want of earnestness and firmness displayed by " John Bird , " alias " J . B . Cantuar , " it was prorogued on the . same day—a frightful mockery of the solemn opening ; There were gathered together , in full episcopal robes , Bishops of Exeter , mid Chichester , and Oxford , and , London , and St .
Asaph , and Lichfleld , in the Upper House , with " John Bird " for president . There were the Archdeacons of Taunton , ; and Maidstone , and Barnstaple , and Bristol , and Bath , in the Lower House . These reverend gentlemen devoutly prayed for heavenly assistance to guide their deliberations . They began to deliberate , accordingly , and were on the point of coming to conclusions , when "We , John Bird , & c , " put an
end to all deliberation by saying ( the solemn prayer notwithstanding !) that deliberation was of no use , as the temporal power would take no heed ; and then ; without consulting the Upper House , proroguing the Assembly . Not for above one hundred and thirty years has the great fact been so plainly demonstrated that the Church is a political engine , and not a spiritual institution . But a point was made ; the end of the wedge was inserted ; Convocation did transact business , and so far made a stand against the State ^ usurpation . We
congratulate the High Church party on its honest courage . The strike of the master engineers -goes on , in spite of their attempt to terminate it by a coupl > main . They have offered to reopen their shops to workmen who shall sign a declaration that the subscriber does not belong to any Union , and never will ; but they have not found men craven enough to sign the bond . The reception givdn to Mr . Coningham ' s last lecture , explanatory of practical cooperation , at Brighton and Portsmouth , and the
accession of the Reverend Mr . Lee at Manchester , as a public expositor of the true industrial principle , are pleasant signs of the growing opinion . And of the same class we must reckon the spirited public meeting at Hulme , on the " reproductive " amendment of the Poor Law , for which our preoccupied space affords far too scanty a notice . But we shall have future opportunities of chronicling the revived activity of that assoication in Manchester , which may do so much to consolidate the public opinion already existing throughout the country .
Ireland presents the very opposite spectacle—an old-fashioned " special commission" in Monaghan to cure the old evil of Ribandism by judicial punishment , breaking down in the usual way , by the refusal of juries to convict . The conviction of two men for possessing arms is seized as a godsend . The Sinews of war and of intrigue are con-t siderably strained by the vagaries of the spendthrift Harlequin in the great Imperial Burlesque " now acting" at Paris . France " assists at" the histrionics with a grim bewildered conviction dawning upon her , that she has paid , and is paying , her
money , and without the possibility of taking her choice . Financial difficulties are already become urgent , and not to be trifled with . M . Fould ' s parting statement was all deficit , so far as its facts went ; the only encouraging figures were credited , to hopes and expectations of what might result from increasing confidence in the existing order of things . How to retrieve pdpularity by decreased
taxation , in the very teeth of a catastrophe only to be averted by a loan of £ 10 , 000 , 000 , js a problem even Napoleonic ideas may find it hard to solve . So widely spread is the' sense of insecurity , that the very functionaries scramble for the spoils of an exhausted Treasury , discounting the fall of the Empire which has not yet reached its apogee . The old Party of Order , well and justly punished , protest against the , confiscation of property , after having crouched , to the destroyer of law , Coneer .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07021852/page/1/
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