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? F IVER did Government more easily and successfully carry out the policy of doing what it likes , subject to the easy condition of doing what it must , than that of which Lord Palmerston is the head . It takes up , lays down , almost as a matter of taste . Comparatively early in the present session , Lord Palmerston was extremely hot on the subject of the Jews . He brought in his Oaths Bill , and it was
carried through the House of Commons by an overwhelming majority . The Lords chose to reject it , simply because they chose ; and the Commons spontaneously offered to stand by the Government if it pleased to carry on the contest . This appeared in a great variety of ways . The meeting of members in Palace-yard formed the nucleus of an active party . The declaration of Sir James Grauam showed that the Minister would have an important accession from the lax part of his supporters . Mr .
Dillwyn was ready with his resolution , Lord John Russell was prepared with his bill , and now another ingenious gentleman has discovered an entirely new course . There is a statute , passed in the reign of William IV ., which authorizes the universities of Oxford and Cambridge , ' all bodies politic and corporate / and ' all other bodies ' having by law or usage the power of administering oaths , to substitute a declaration for an oathj and the question is whether tho House of Commons is not included
among all other bodies . Should it be so , tho statute prescribes the form of the declaration ; and it is a form which could be taken by a Jew as well as a Christian . An opposite question is , whether , after a speoifio mention of the two universities , any body higher in authority than those two , can bo regarded as included in tho working of tho bill . Mr . WjiiteaiDE thinks not j but it is a groat question whether the bill intends to enumerate ono class of bodies or three classes of bodicSj-r-namcly , the universities
for ono class , ' bodies corporate- and politic' for another , and , for tho third , all oath-administering bodies whatsoever . Tho suggestion , at all events , iuduood Lord John Hussell , Mr . Dillavvn , and the other friends of complete toleration , to try this * now plan , Lord John Rusaiaix . oonsontcd to bo tho medium for prcsonting tho idea to Parliament , and ho proposod a select committee on the subject , to consist of twenty . fivo nominated members , and all ' gentlemen of 1 bo long robo mombors of this House . ' Tho committee , thoroforo , would exceed
100 members ; nevertheless , the Opposition were not satisfied . They wished the twenty-five nominated members to contain a majority of persons opposed to the admission of Jews . Lord John , however ,, was supported by the House in nominating the members that he had chosen , who were taken with perfect equity from both sides of the House . And what course did Government pursue ? It allowed Lord John to go forward , —opposing nothing , permitting anything ; not assisting , not resisting . " We may almost say that it is tired of the Oaths question .
A fortnight ago Government was deciding that it would not meddle with the militia , which some earnest persons in both Houses wished to be called out . This week it lias introduced into the House of Lords a bill authorizing it to call out the militia during the recess , without convoking Parliament . The object is explained to be , that Ministers do not really intend to have out the general . body of militia , which has been quite sufficiently trained , but that they have some idea of embodying- the best regiments , as a ready mode of supplying the deficiency caused by the despatch of reinforcements for India .
The Government has , in fact , fallen into a course of generally conservative and quiet policy , consenting to execute those ' improvements' which the public imperatively demands . It is supported in this course by the antagonistic forces between which it stands , and we have had some curious evidences on that head this week . For instance , among the persons who are protesting against any democratic ) tendency for tho Reform Bill of 1858 is Lord Brougham ; no relation , we might almost imagine , of that Henry Brougham who , aftor speaking for seven hours , knelt upon the woolsack and implored the Peers of 1832 to pass the great Reform Bill .
Tho Government does not intend , at present , to remove cither tho National Gallery or tho Yernon collection to Kensington Gardens . Mr , Coningijam has elicited so muoh . He has also done signal sorvicc in dealing with the National Gallery estimates , and the publie encourage him in his attempts to exorcise tho spirit of jobbery from Trafalgar-square . It is somewhat in tho spirit of lames / aire that oven such subjects as drainage are treated j for wo must consider the report 6 f Sir Benjamin Hall ' s ongiuoor-roforces as boing a quietus of any plan at loust for tho present year , if not for sonic years to come . Tho re forces are Captain Galton , Mr .,
Simpson , and Mr . Bla . cklwell , —persons who undoubtedly know their business . They have condemned the design adopted by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers , as being entirely incommensurate with the requirements of our yearly increasing population . In fact , the Commissioners appear only to have provided for the population which exists , and that imperfectly . The referees demand a plan on a much larger scale , extending
over 120 square miles of country , involving the use of ' lifting' power , and entailing an expense of 5 , 400 , 000 / . 3 an outlay which might , says the report , be spread over at least five years . ^ Farewell , then , to drainage for the present . The Commissioners evidently cannot proceed with their own plans ; in the face of this censure , it is not likely that they will obtain the authority to spend between five and six millions from members of Parliament who are
anxious to pack up their gun-cases . The Thames , therefore , must continue to diffuse its zephyrs after the established fashion for some more summers . The same peculiar kind of bonhomie presides over our foreign administration . A family meeting is arranged at Osborne , where our Count Walbwski meets the Paris Earl of Clarendon , in the presence of the Queen and Emperor j and of course the common intorests of the two countries will be
discussed precisely at the moment when the English public is perusing with astonishment tho Act of Accusation brought by the Imperial Prosecutor against Tibaldi , Burtolotxi , and Grilli . The Act corresponds to our bill of indictment , as the initiative of the proceedings , but not otherwise . The case which it sets forth is that Tibalpi is tho agent of Mazzini and Ledbu Rollin for the purpose of Emperor-assassination in Paris ; that Bab ,-iolotxi and Grilli received large sums of money - —fifty napoleons apiece—to execute their duty ; that the plan was discussed by Mazzini in the presence of Ledru Rollin , who assisted in
tho discussion j that Ledru Rollin or ' St . James Stanifield , a browor , ' who acts as Mazzini ' s banker , supplied tho money ; and that Mazzini himself gave the instructions to BAiimoTTr , who was to watch tho Emporor for a niontl ) , A nd then to strike ' the blow . ' Tho positivo evidonqp , conslats chiofly of tho confession by Uajitoxotxi , a discharged soldier of tho Anglo-Iltiliun legion , who wns found by another agent of MAZzpiin destitution at York , and . who confesses < o hav ^ spont Iris fifty napoleons in Paris rccrcnl i ' ojih . There" yre also letters alleged to bo in the handwriting of fflwAW * , which allude to ' tho affair of 1 ' iiris - , ' but / TJven as stated , fc ~ I ..
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08081857/page/1/
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