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Fed. 7,1852.3 g Cfrg JUaftgg 331
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PAUL CLIFFORD IS ENTERTAINED AT THE TUIL...
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THE PARTY OF ORDER IN CONFUSION. Trkmk'n...
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RELIEF OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS. In England...
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Increase To The Land Forces. There Is To...
^^ T and naval purposes , and now they are i ? 2 ? for more ! If more be necessary , the very fact asking for more those who ask it , and who CTnot ^ en ^ e to provide what is wantedout fthe immense annual sums placed at their dis-Pf i tb conduct the affairs of this country at a S ^ o in ^ eased military expenditure , . ft the wLse is not necessary , how still more unfit must J w be ? We believe that it is wholly unnecessary ; nrfd that an increase to the forces is a wanton addition to the burdens of the country .
It is not easy to accoun * for such a proposition , sincethe thing wanted is ho increase , ^ but a more kist appropriation of the money actually paid . It s not more soldiers pr more arms that we need , so much as well trained soldiers and ^ better ^ arms . We are told that our coasts should be defended byships : w ell , weW ^ a ; but wherearethey l defending the Royal Familof
In the Tagus , y Portugal—into which a Prince of the ubiquitous house of Coburg has married—against the Portuguese people . To defend a Bourbon and a Coburg aeainst the Portuguese , England is left to the mercy of a spurious Bonaparte . This is an instance of wholesale diversion of means already furnished in more than sufficient abundance ; and before Ministers dare to ask for " more , " they should show that they have made the best use of
that which they have already . . There maybe one other reason . No douot , the slightest expense , which might readily be saved out of our ill-advised expenditure , would provide for the national defence , if the people were permitted to arm and be their own guard : the only reason against a complete reliance on the people must be court and official ies in the
the mistrust of our part English people , with whom those parties have so little intercourse , relation , or community of feeling . There may be the same desire to keep up a defence of Downing-street and St . James ' s against the English people that there is to defend the palace at Lisbon against the Portuguese , and ta shield the President of France against even the rough Tireeze
of English feeling . The community of feeling is not between England and its Government , Portugal and its Government , France and its Government ; but between the Governments , and against the Peoples . The remarkable Tact is that the Peoples , not resorting to a corresponding alliance , not acting * in unison , consent to pay for the armies which guard the jealousy of courts and cliques , and " keep down" the nations . A more manly and generous feeling would be more prudent ; it would be the first step to Financial Reform .
Fed. 7,1852.3 G Cfrg Juaftgg 331
Fed . 7 , 1852 . 3 g Cfrg JUaftgg 331
Paul Clifford Is Entertained At The Tuil...
PAUL CLIFFORD IS ENTERTAINED AT THE TUILERIES . In the Moniteur of Friday , the 29 th of January , a brief paragraph regaled France and Europe with the information , that on the previous evening , a distinguished and select circle , principally composed of Senators and Councillors of State , had dined with the Prince President . The London journals of the same date , outspeeding even the Moniteur by submarine telegraph , reassured the Money Market , the Clubs , and Downing'Street , with the gratifying account of a
banquet , also given on the preceding evening , to a party of forty-three guests , " almost exclusively selected from the elite of the English society " in Paris , How to account for the discrepancy ? One tune for England , another for France . Not a syllable about the " elite of the English society " in the Moniteur—not a word about Senators and Councillors of State in the London journals . But the fact remains in favour of England . It is
now confirmed , beyond denial , that the guests assembled in the grand dining-room oftheTuileries , to the number of forty-three , at the bidding of the " Man in Possession , ' were ( that we should Write 1 certain of our own countrymen and countrywomen . It is well that honest England—the Englan d of home , country , and freedom—nhould remember the , names of the " dlite of English society , - resident in Paris , " who rally round the hospitalities of Louis Bonaparte . Here thoy are : — " Tho Marquis of Baththo Marquis of Hertford ,
, U » o Marquis and Marchioness oF Douglas , Lord and J"icly Ernest Bruce , Lord und Lady Frederick Qoraon Hallyburton , Lord and Lndy Poltimore , Lord AjIolphuH Fitzelurcnce , Viscount llanelngh , Lord fUfrod Churchill , Mr . and Lady Mary Christopher , £ lr . and Mra . Bailtie Cochrane , tho Honourable hpouHor Cowpor , Viscount Clifden , Mr . Henry faring , Baronoas Dolmar , Mr . and Mrs . Cavendish , § i , 7 niul Lady Ellis , tho Honourable George Htanord Jorningham , the Honourable William 8 tuart , Mr . Augustus Paget , Mr . Corbett , Mr . and Mm .
Clarke , Lady Farquhar * . and Miss Farquhar , Miss Stuart Mackenzie , of Seaforth , Mr . and Mrs . E . Blount , and the two Mrs . Kennedy Erskine . " To this select circle , representing we really know not what elements of English society , Louisr Bonaparte was profuse of cordial and caressing flatteries . Indeed , the entertainment was-designed as a " testimony of good feeling to England . " " I believe , " says the sympathetic correspondent of the Morning Post , ' ** that he expressed to several persons present his earnest hope that they in no way
participated in the extraordinary distrust and warlike feelings which were being stirred up on the other side of the channel . He hoped that as many of them as were about to return to England to their Parliamentary duties would carry away with them a true appreciation of the state of France and French society , arid that they would assure their countrymen that there was no foundation for ideas of invasion and war . On the contrary , that France , and he himself , were animated entirely by the friendliest feelings to the British nation , and trulydesired its cordial alliance . "
Is not this very kind , very cheering , and very comfortable ? From the lips of the truth-speaking man who swore before God and man to observe his constitutional oath ; who promised to leave liberty intact at the expiration of his four year ' s term of office ! From the man whose whole life has been a conspiracy , and whose usurped power is the consummation of a continual perjury ! But the
condescension of the Prince to the gentlemen about to return to their Parliamentary duties ! We beg leave to ignore the Parliamentary influence of any of these favoured guests , the elite of English societyin Paris . The moral of the taleds , that it behoves us more than eveito be upon our guard ; for we we have the clue to the peculiar cypher in which the dear Prince President announces his gracious intentions . Let us look bade for parallels .
He would relinquish his office at the end of the four years ; at the end of the four years he extorts the decree of his own continuance for ten years . He would observe the Constitution ; he abolishes it . He would save society : he deluges it with blood . He would-respect the family : he exiles fathers and sons , leaving wives and children destitute . He would respect property : he confiscates the largest property in France . He now especially desires peace with England : it is a declaration of war .
However , the guests we are told , " were completely convinced of thePresident ' s sincerity , " and that nothing is mor * e remote from his ideas than hostility to England . Doubtless those gentlemen and ladies—the elite of English society—in Paris , assured their host of their admiration of his honesty , respect for his virtues , gratitude to the Saviour of Society , homage to the accepted Ruler of France . Doubtless they told the Man of the Massacres that the great heart of England beats in unison with his own ; that the Press of England is alien to the
People of England , who are better represented by the dlite of English Society—in Paris ; that England honours perjury , murder , confiscation ; and rejoices to find Law and Justice committed to the protection of an Outlaw , Property to the needy adventurer of King-street , St . James ' s , " the Family " to the morals of the Elyse ' e , and Religion to the Soldier of the Pope . This , and more than this , may have been poured into the Prince ' s
eat ! We do not speak of the banquet . The Poetry of the Pantry is beyond our pen . The luxury was imperial , and " regardless of expense . " We pity even more than condemn the men with English names , if not with English hearts , who paid their adorations to the sanctity of success We cannot forget that many of them , as the police reports say , really have very respectable connections . But we protest against their being regarded by our friends in Franco as a real deputation from England , authorised to form an alliance .
The Party Of Order In Confusion. Trkmk'n...
THE PARTY OF ORDER IN CONFUSION . Trkmk ' ndoub iB justice , and not to be beardedyet it is bearded . Awful is Parliament , and riot to be braved—yet it is braved . Majestic is authority , and infinitely superior to the possibility of disobedience--yet it is disobeyed . And what is more , when all these sublime potencies are bearded , braved , and bullied , they give in and submit . " Moderation " has come to mean the resolve to let any one with a stronger will go beyond you . Frunco scandalizes the lovers of " order , ' * so long as there is a" balance of parties " in the State ; but as soon as Louis Napoleon places his heel on public liberty , our constitutional conservators cry , "He is the
man ! " The Cape of Good Hope must submit to have convicts ; inexorable is the Jove-like brow of Grey to all arguments of faith and justice—until the Cape rebels ; and then the Jove-like bronr relaxes like thebrow " Mascarille , when the porters bring him to term with a long pole . . Nearer home the Olympic powers have been defied in a still more notable manner . Not long since certain , appointed servants of the working classes , who received Kossuth at Copenhagen Fields , underwent the ' transitory hot-water ordeal of popular displeasure from a particular party for the strict maintenance of order and decorum . A particular person intruded himself on the assemblage , and was permitted by his friends so to intrude
himself , although it was known that he was no longer able to keep that control upon bis actions which was requisite for the decorum of society or his own dignity . Mr . Feargus O'Connor was not excluded by the literal observance of an / rule : he was admitted to witness the proceedings , but , with some exercise of patience and assiduity , he was kept aside and moderated . Again , at the working-class banquet , his boyish vagaries were discountenanced , and gradually subsided ; aad the whole passed oft ? without any glaringly painful incident . There were cries for " O'Connor , " but the public servants for that occasion did not yield to a partial " popular clamour "; and their firmness will now be better understood than it was then .
We are reminded of these unimportant incidents , which happened some three or four months back , by a contrast now , not so unimportant . Mr . O'Connor is summoned before a Court of Justice , which permits him to make a sport of its proceedings , to hinder its business , to defy its president , and to trifle with its bar . Trfe court permits all this , twice ; and , what is far more lamentable , permits infirmity to make itself the laughing-stock of a delighted audience . That which was quietly frowned down by the working men at the Highbury festival , was made an object of merriment in the Vice-Chancellor ' s Court ! In this indulgence of a morbid eccentricity , was the judge competing with certain popularity hunters ?
The same infirmity is allowed to invade the solemnity of Parliament—tojshake hands with the Premier as a welcome home ~ after the recess ; nay , to invade the very Treasury bench , and hold down the Leader of the House to his seat while he undergoes , like Gulliver stuck in the marrowbone , the painful operation of unwelcome attentions ; and all the while the tremendous Mr . Speaker sits helpless ! At Highbury-barn M . Louis Blanc was for a few moments in Lord John ' s painful position ; but he was speedily transferred to a place where he rebarn it
mained unmolested . Yet at Highbury- was but a festive kind of . political assemblage , the authorities were but servants of the working men ; and the " party of Order , " we were told , was altogether absent ! There is a strange inverted use of language and ideas . Mr . O'Connor ' s friends , perhaps , think it more respectful to humanity in his person , that he should become the laughing-stock of a Court of Justice ; and the " party of Order " would hold Mr . Speaker , or the Master in Chancer }' , lowered , much lowered , by a comparison with the chairman of the public dinner !
Relief Of Honourable Members. In England...
RELIEF OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS . In England we do all good works by associations , and certainly we ought to form an association to improve the condition of Members of Parliament , It is painful in the extreme . To judge of a Member out of doors you would suppose him to be in a most flourishing and lordly condition : he keeps his , hat on with a high sense of prerogative , and altogether wears a certain insolence of demeanour that carries the " os sublime " beyond the sublime .
But follow him to his own House 1 It is like going to the home of the red-coated gentleman , who looks down upon poor civilians , but in the barrack is his own menial , is ordered , about , is stabled like a , horse , browbeaten , black-holed , and flogged Abroad , yaur Member of Parliament—save at the moulting tirrie of a general election—seems monarch of all he surveys ; in the House he is a galley slave , a sheep without a Martin ' s Act , a victim without a martyrology .
No Ton Hours Act for him . Committees all day , debates all the evening . , He knows his doom ; the session , says Captain Fitzroy , " is likely to be long , and occupied with protracted discussions . " But that is not all ; special reservoirs of stench are preserved , for the better taming of tho Members ; and then there is a mockery pf ' * v < mtUa , t «> n , " by which a certain Dr . Reid ia authorised ; ta subject
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1852, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07021852/page/15/
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