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ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. SUCCESSFUL KKTUKN...
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Ftlhe New Ministers Are Decidedly At A P...
In the United States Senate a discussion on the proposed tripartite convention to protect Cuha , has not only elicited the exact views qf the great democratic party regarding Cuha , but has drawn out its advanced views on intervention . Let us note also , that General Cass formally declared , that although in self-defence he had constantly attacked England for her snarling criticisms onthe character and policy of the Americans , yet he had never desired a war with England .
The French Emperor has at length received the tardy recognition of the northern powers . Reports differ as to conditions annexed . It is not likely that the Treaties of 1815 , and the " Limits of the Empire , " have escaped the notice of the powers in the negotiations that have preceded the credentials . The simultaneous and collective nature of
the credentials almost amounts to a note of preparation . The alacrity with which the Moniteur announced in a supplement the recognition of Russia was scarcel y flattering to French vanity . It cannot but be in consequence of diplomatic remonstance that the Moniteur has repudiated that treatise on the Limits of France , to which we first drew attention some time since . It is not
the less certain that the work was written and published under the inspiration , more or less direct , of the Emperor or of his intimates ; and it is not to be forgotten that , under the regime of the man whose " extraordinary genius" is nothing but a compound of obstinate silence and resolute mendacity , denials and repudiations have always preceded events . How many times was the coup d'etat repudiated and denied by the Moniteur ? In fact , the denial only adds force to the denied .
At home , a terrifically fatal railway collision , near Oxford , arrests public attention . Two trains , one laden with coals , the other with passengers , met at full speed , and in an instant they were dashed to atoms . Eight lives were lost , and a number of persons shockingly injured . The scene was like a small spot on a battle field ; engines
overturned , carriages smashed ; the dead and wounded lying about ; and in the midst a burning engine furnace . Fortunately Mr . Cardwell was present , active , and efficient . As he is President of the Board of Trade , this will be a profitable experience for him ; and the livid blaze upon those mangled bodies may light him in his future legislation .
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Election Intelligence. Successful Kktukn...
ELECTION INTELLIGENCE . SUCCESSFUL KKTUKN OF THE NEW MINISTERS . The Metropolitan Elections have terminated in the unopposed return of the new Foreign Secretary , Lord John Russell , anil the -Commissioner of Public Works , ? Sir William Molcsworth . RourrrwAHK . Sir William was nominated on Saturday in the Town Hall of Soulhwark , by Dr . Challice and seconded by Mr . Martin . The whole proceeding were over in lens than an hour . Sir William simply developed this views set forth iu his address , which we last week published . Free-trade means that , " no duties should ho placed upon the import oi * foreign produce , except lor tho purpose of raising u revenue , and that those duties should ho tho lowest hy which the requisite amount of revenue , can he raised , and that they . should he levied more from the luxuries than from the necessaries of life . Therefore , I am a
. supporter of the financial policy of that illustrious states man of whoso more distinguished followers I have liovv tho honour of being the colleague- I mean the lat . o . Sir Robert J ' ecl . ( Cheers . ) " But as the income-tax , was the price wo paid for Free-trade , which onahled Sir Robert to remove taxes pressing on industry ; so that tux , rendered as just jih possihle , must he continued . With respect to representative reform , Sir William avowed himself a linn Hiipporter of the British constitution , consiHtiug of a hereditary monarch , and two Houses of Parliament . Hut if it is to Ixi maintained , it must he repaired and amended :-
—" Now , the late elections , and the election petitions on tho table of the House of ( ! ommonn , disclose a hideout ! nee no of bribery , corruption , and intimidation ; and there is too much reason to ieiir that ninny of those discreditable and illegal acts were committed with the connivance , if not with the positive approval , of persons who were high in authority . I miy an effort must he made to put a ntop to such disgraceful proceedings , and tho quoHfcion of a , Inform Kill is one which must mid will ongugo tho early attention of her Majosty ' H Ministers . ( Loud ohoora . ) In
saying this I must remind you that I have alwajs supported an extension of the suffrage , and the projection of the elector in the exercise of his righto by means of the ballot . ( Loud cheers . ) If my memory be not wrong , 1 seconded the first motion in favour of tb « ballot , which was made by that eminent political philosopher and historian , Mr . Grote , whose name will for ever be connected , m this country , with vote by ballot . ( Cheers . ) My opinions on the ballot are unchanged . ( Cheers . ) In the present Government it is an open question , and you may rest satisfied that I shall be , as I ever have been , ready to give my vote for secret suffrage . " He hoped soon to see the disabilities of the Jews removed . He was in favour of non-intervention as the foundation of our foreign policy . He then came to colonial policy : —
" Gentlemen , it was with your sanction and approval that I have of ] ate years paid great attention to colonial questions , especially to those affecting the most important of our colonies . You are aware that great states are springing up in British North America , that immense empires are being generated in Australasia , that we have huge posessions in South . Africa , and that the foreign dominions of the English Crown are to be found in every zone and in every climate of the earth . With a wise and prudent colonial policy , I believe they may long be attached to this empire by the ties of the strongest interest and affection . I may , therefore , say , that one of the reasons which , mainly induced me to become a member of her Majesty's Government was the hope that I might , at least in some slight degree , aid the cause of colonial reform , and assist in . the development and application of the great principles of local self-gOTernxnent to our colonies . ( Cheers . )"
After a few observations , givinga brief outline of his obvious relation-to his elder and younger colleagues , between whom and himself there had been differences which had diminished year by year , and almost vanished with the repeal of the Corn-laws , Sir William sat down amid the most cordial cheering .
LONDON . Lord John Russell was respectably cheered on his entering the Guildhall on Monday . Hisproposer and seconder were UTr . John Dillon , and Mr . W . R . Crawford ; who both approved of the combined Government ; and declined to demand any verbal pledge from Lord John ; agreeing to accept his past as a guarantee of his future conduct .
As there was no other candidate , Lord John was declared duly elected . He then spoke at great length , dwelling much on the history of the Derby Ministry ; especially with reference to the proceedings of the late session which ended in its overthrow . But he added no new information ; barely recapitulating those events upon which our readers are as well informed as himself . Defending the Ministry from the charge of factious combination , he gave the following reasons for joining Lord Aberdeen : —¦
" I must fairly say that I think if I had been called upon by my Sovereign to form an administration , and I had attempted to form one as my former administration had been formed—of one party—I should not have been doing my duty to my sovereign . Never will I in any way shrink from the defence of tho men and tho measures of tho Administration over which I had tho honour to preside ; but it is one thing to break up an Administration—it is another to form a new Administration , which can calculate upon that support in the House of Commons which will enable it to give satisfaction to the country , and which will appear to foreign countries as a firm and strong Administration . Well , then , this opinion of mino I must say I have not
concealed—I have told it to many of my friendo , and to them it was generally known . Now , was it my duty to declare that I would not agree to he part of a combined Administration , unless I wore at tho head of that Administration ? I think that I should liavo been attaching an unduo importance to myself if I . had so acted ; and there worts circumstances which induced me to think that the Karl of Aberdeen—a man universally respected , who had stood hy tho late Sir Jiohert I ' eel in his measure of I'Vee-trado ( cheers ) — who had enjoyed in an important post the confidence of his Sovereign—who had been sent for hy his Sovereign on a Into occasion—was eminently qualified to preside over such a combined Administration . ( Cheers . )
Gentlemen , 1 should have been better pleased if 1 could have taken the part of not entering into office , and had given my fall and constant support to that Administration ; and tho Karl of Aberdeen was not unaware of my inclination . Hut both he on the one side , and my political friends on tho other , declared that they thought it necessary to the formation of tho ministry , that 1 should take office as one of Us members . ( Cheers . ) Having received this declaration , I thought it was my houndeii duty- anxious to see tho country in possession of an Administration which should have the confidence of the I louse of Commons— -I thought it was my duty , I say , to assent to tho proposal of
. Lord Aberdeen , to lay my name before her Majesty as one of tho Ministers . Then ? was one course remaining , to be sure , which was that all those who combined in that vol . o uhoiild Imvt ) declined to forma Ministry , and should have advised her Majesty to send again for the Karl of Derby . Kut thero was no prospect none whatever—that tho Karl of Derby , at the head of his former Ministry , would have been able to enjoy more of the confidence of the Houso of Commons Mian they have heretofore enjoyed ; and there was this to he mud , that he had already ' dissolved l ' urliament that he had already appealed to the sense of tho country , and that that very House of Commons which ho
had summoned m the name of his Sovereign hud declared against him . I'W those reasons , thoroforo , 1 havo accepted oilico in tlio prajont Administration . "
Reference was made to the income-tax , and subsequently to the ballot , from some one in the meeting-Lord John declared that he adhered to the belief that what Mr . Pitt and Sir Egbert Peel failed in accomplishing could not be performed . Injustice , he averred , is inherent in the income-tax . But unlike Mr . Disraeli , who could not find time to examine tho schedules , as to the rating question , Mr . Gladstone would " make time" to examine them ; and what can be done towards removing injustice will be done by the present Government . With respect to the ballot , here is Lord John ' s plea against it : —
" When I was on these hustings last year , a gentlemen put to me several questions , and amongst -others that question , whether I was in favour of the ballot , and I declared to him as I declare to the gentleman who addresses me now , that I was against secrecy in everything ( cheers ) —that as I was against secret trials in the courts of justice —that as I was against secret debates in the Houses of Parliament , so I was against secret votes by the great electoral body of this country . ( Cheers . ) Let me say this ,
however , that since we last met here , the elections which have taken place in various parts of the country have produced gross instances of bribery and of intimidation ( hear , hear ); and I shall think it my duty—not adopting the ballot—objecting as I shall continue to do to a secret mode of voting—to turn my mind to those other means which I think may perhaps be devised , in order , if not to extirpate , at all events to diminish those scandalous scenes that arise from the bribery and intimidation of unfortunate electors . ( Cheers . )"
Onother questions—education , Parliamentary reform , he claimed forbearance , as to the time and manner of bringing those measures forward . Being new to office , Lord John , in reply to a hope expressed by Mr . Dillon , that Englishmen would be protected abroad , said : — " And with respect to another question , which of course comes under the notice of the Secretary of State for tho Foreign Department , I think I am entitled to say that when any English subject , not joining in any conspiracy ,
or making any attempt against the Government or the internal peace of any foreign country , is injured unlawfully or wantonly , I will lose no time in bringing that case before the consideration of that foreign Government . I cannot see myself that there is any one of those Governments which is not disposed to do justice to a British subject , but this I can perceive , that the subordinates of those Governments are often entrusted with too great power to harass and vex unoffending travellers who are pursuing their peaceable vocation . "
The whole proceedings were harmonious beyond precedent ; and doubtless Lady John Russell , who sat with her family in one of the galleries , was , like everybody else , well pleased with the success of her liege lord .
OXFORD TTNIVEBSITY . Considerable mystery has attended the election of the representative for the University of Oxford ; and it is asserted , with great emphasis , that the Carlton Club has been busy in the matter . On Saturday morning the town was informed , through the medium of the Morning Herald , that the opposition to Mr . Gladstone had been abandoned ; but this announcement , like so many others in that journal , proved incorrect . It is true that Mr . Gladstone and his committee had been informed , by what they considered " competent authority , " that the opposition was withdrawn , and on that
assurance had left town ; but in the meantime , it appears " the friends of the late administration" had held a meeting , and resolved to bring forward a candidate . In the evening , accordingly , this second announcement appeared in the Standard , coupled with the name of the Marquis of Chandos . Astonished at thiH , Dr . Phillhnore , the only member of Mr . Gladstone ' s committee in town , finding the statement repeated in the Morning Herald of Monday , wrote to the Marquis of ChaiuUw , and asked him whether it was correct . The marquis replied that it was not ; hut tho journal of the Carlton Club Htill repeated vt « assertions . Tho meeting of " the friendu of tho lato administration" resolved itself into a committee , selected a neci-i > -
tury , who signed himself " C . Lempriorro , D . C . L ., " and by circulars and in the journals of Tuesday resjKit'tfuHv informed the members of Convocation that the Marquis of Chandos would he a candidate . So stood matters on Tuesday morning , the dny of the nomination . Archdeacon Donison had arrived at Oxford , glowing with his fulminufions against Mr . Gladstone , and exacting to occupy the enviable post of proposer of the Maniuin of Chandos . Kut , tho reply ,, f the marquis to Dr I hdhmore had put an end to his projected candidature - and the opposit . on were once more at sea . In fact up to nine o ' clock they had no candidate . Somebody then appears ; to have hit , upon Mr . Dudley IWvnl ' nH ' nn available person , and Mr . Archdeacon Denison was put forward to propose him .
About two hundred members of the univeisity ,,,,, fc i-i W . « M . eldoniun Theatre , mid-day , on Tuesday , and proceeds to busn . oss . |) ,, i [ IlvvkinH ( pl , ) VOHt „ , * () ri ( J " u Lutm speech , proposed Mr . Gladstone , as » statesman of the higheH ( , abilities anil accomplish ,,,,,,,,,,, dlustnous or his g ,, mul | nil , fi ( . HOrv | iui ( , ; man o ( spotlona private lifo mid conduct . " Mr . Goon ™
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1853, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08011853/page/2/
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