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958 THE h: B AJD E R. [Saturday
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LORD PANMURE AT ARBROATH. Stbaws show th...
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MR. HUME ON THE DISUNION OF THE LIBERAL ...
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JOHN JMtlGtllT AT BELFAST. Taking .ulvan...
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porters , they would probably have voted for him as a sensible , straightforward ; courageoutj man in all things , and a genuine Lib £ rai-y |»» ervativ & £ and not , we incline to believe , altogether hostile to the conclusions of the Commission . Ko man in Oxford doubts that the Duke was ready to face the contest . ' . So much , then , for the liberality and freedom
of thought of the High-churchmen of the Denison nuance—so much for their independence of the State . They call it " destruction" to the Church to oppose Lord Derby . Well ! This scandal is apropos : it spells in capitals Toryism and Obstruction . Oxford has burnt her ships in expectation of the Deluge !
The latest private accounts of Louis Bonaparte ' s progress disclose the abyss of ruin over which half a nation of greedy flatterers are strewing flowers for the apotheosis of crime . A towering structure on a base of sand is the Empire for which the throne and the trappings are in busy preparation , and the palaces all glittering with a fatal splendour . The Moniteur sums up the frantic shouts of the functionaries , truth registers the dreadful silence of
the populations lowering like a thundercloud behind the dense array of bayonets . In one town , decimated by transportation and exile , a shout of ' * ' Amnesty" is heard ; in another the municipal council , who voted the funds for the President ' s reception , are expelled from office with contempt , and their places filled by Republicans under sentence of proscription . But the priests ( with whom the next revolution will have a terrible account to
settle ) bless their preserver , and the Church prostitutes her Te Deums to the consecration of the national disgrace . Pretty stories are invented of the Prince taking the oar to row himself warm , to the admiration of the sailors at his skill and simplicity , and of his accepting a bouquet of roses from a child of five years old , who tells him they are without a thorn : whereupon the Prince takes her on his knee , kisses her cheek , and with a melancholy smile , bestows upon the child and upon attentive Europe the mild , but not strictly novel remark , that " every crown has its thorns , even a crown of roses . " Such are the tit-bits of French
history under the present regime . The situation becomes more threatening as the last act of the drama approaches , and the rapidity with which the man plays out his stakes betrays all the joyless desperation of a gambler . Belgium is still under menace : and Switzerland under compulsion : the Northern Powers waive all interdictions to the Empire , save those of territorial aggrandisement : but the asperity of language against England in the Government journals , renders every denouement more probable than peace . The Customs conferences at Berlin arc broken
oft by Prussia , and left to diplomacy to conclude as host it can . The Zollverein is , we may suppose , abruptly dissolved . The position of Prussia is so decisive and independent , that the recalcitrant States may probably find it their interest to acquiesce in her conditions before January , 1854 . The Paget affair is settled—in Saxony . The police have been reprimanded ; the "Government has apologized ; tributes to the energy and decision of our representative in Dresden . But has Austria been called to account for her meddling ? if she were , she might be as pliant under firm bundling as Saxony .
The principal point of interest in the news from the West , lies in an official correspondence presented to the Canadian Parliament , between Sir John Pakington and Mr . Francis Hincks , touching the disposal of clergy reservea . Formerly , when land was sold iu Canada , n certain portion wuh reserved for tb « endowment of the church . Thin
land seldom , if ever , came into usje ; it was kept waste , like land in Chancery ; and , interpoBed between the occupied estates ! it tended still further to separate nn already scattered population . By a comparatively recent Imperial Act , these lands were brought into the market , the proceeds to be distributed amongst various religious
denominations . The peoMe of the province , however , de-§ Sre that the djs | b « al of the land and the process sSgjlld be abmnut ^ Xyjyested in l ine local Legjslatur ^(; and fjpe latfe , jColonial Secretary had cbna ^ atjjed to propose iy > ill in the ( Imperial Parliament fif ^ that puffipse . ^ T $ ie present Colonp Secretary , nowever , declines to proceed with that bill > on various pretexts , but principally because he evidently thinks that by retaining the clergy reserves ,
those long-detested waste lands in Chancery , he is doing something for the good of the Church in Canada , or has the credit of so doing ! Thus , Lord Derby ' s Government not having yet established any quarrel in that particular colony , exercises its choice in identifying itself with one of the oldest and most odious abuses .
The town , however , talks much less of politics than of the Paris murder—the manslaughter of Mr . Saville Morton by Mr . Bower , both of them newspaper correspondents . An abrupt , though it can hardly be believed an unexpected , avowal by the wife of Mr . Bower , that his friend was the father of her child , drove the husband into a
frenzy ; he killed the friend with a dinner knife , and escaped to England , leaving his wife to be lodged in a madhouse . A question arises , as to the custody of the fugitive , should his retreat be discovered . Is he an offender solely against French law , and is the English law powerless to call to account a man who has slain an English subject ?
958 The H: B Ajd E R. [Saturday
958 THE h : B AJD E R . [ Saturday
Lord Panmure At Arbroath. Stbaws Show Th...
LORD PANMURE AT ARBROATH . Stbaws show the set of the wind , and a certain tendency in speech-making shows the set of a party . There has been another [ Northern demonstration ; and Lord Panmure , who , no doubt , speaks by the card , has followed up the speeches he and his chief delivered at Perth , by a similar speech . at Arbroath . The occasion was the presentation of the " freedom of the city" to Lord Panmure ; the time , Thursday week ; the place , the Trades' Hall . After thanking the people of Arbroath for the honour done him , he turned to the haunting topic . Prefacing Iris remarks by the hackneyed observation on tlie great difference between England and the continent , he asked why that was so ? Here is his explanation : — " Simply because the people themselves have seen that with their growing intelligence , their increasing capacity to govern themselves and take part in the government of their country , the rulers and advisers of tho Sovereign have been anxious to advance in progress , and confer privileges and advantages wherever they could be possibly and safely administered . Whether I speak to those who are Conservative in politics or those who are for more rapid progress in all that concerns our political career , I may decidedly say that it would be for the benofit of all that the policy of this country should continue to be one of progress . ( Cheers . ) It is in vain in this day to think of standing still . It is in vain , still more in vain , to think
of going back on the road along which we have come . As well might wo propose to lower all those long chimneys by which I am surrounded , and turn out all tho busy bees of industry that swarm beneath them , and return to the old system of tho hand-loom , as seek to retrograde in the course of policy wo ore now pursuing . As well might we think of putting down tho railways and again setting up tho old mail coach , or of superseding tho power of the paddle and trusting to that of tho old flagging sail . Such a change would not now bo tolerated ; and tho question is , nro we to stand still or go on ? Now , my notion , as one
deeply interested in tho possession and protection of property in this country , is , that if I . attempt ; to stand still I raise up behind tho dam which I erect a flood of water that will soon sweep mo and my property before it . ( Applause . ) Uut if I give free and constitutional ncopo to tho ntream to flow on in tho manner in which it may bo well and usofully directed , then I am Buro that all 1 have at etuke is safe , and I rest myself on this conviction and this opinion , that tho more tho people gain by constitutional and all freo and liberal reforms , tho less hkoly nm I to loso anything of tho stake in tho country which it lias pleased Providonco to givo mo . " ( Cheers . )
A Freo-trado digression followed , and Lord 1 ' an-Tiiuro returned to tho former subject : — " Look at Franco . During tho last few yearn she- has undergone no fewer than three revolutions . First of all hIio throw off a King who lived under tho old system , tho old rulo of Franco , and p laced another on tho throne , with Homowhat of a constitutional shadow of government . Not content with that , not many years afterwards , sho cast off that . King and that shadow of constitutional government , and rushed into a wtato of tho bloodiest anarchy , and all in tho sacred nnmo of . Liberty ; and now nho in pleased to yield hornelf up to tho doHpotiitm of ono person . Her pronn in gagged , and « vory rag of tho flag of liberty is torn from tho polo to which it once sepmod nailed , That is a Iobboh for uo . Liberty doos not conaitft in licoutiouonootf ,
accurate as the comment on the French revolution it is not worth much . What does Lord Panmure mean by saving that the republic of 1848 rushed into the " bloodiest anarchy ?" accurate as the comment on the French vevn ^ i- ;^ .-.
-H } i ¦ ¦ * ¥ . <& - '¦ nor freedom m Wjyijhifion . I believe we live under « , best system of goyerjamejrt that human means have , « T devised—where tto Crown cannot trample on the Ss rf the toeople , att 4 vW I trust the people wiuVof Attempt to teufSfe op the just privileges ofthe CrowT for be assured fhApywler the constitutional machW ™ i flie country in wbicfc sre haye the happiness to live all tl ? just claims , aft thefiur rights and proper demands of « T people-Hfcpugh from this circumstance or that they m » be checke *—must ultimately be conceded , and with ft ? rising intelligence of the great mass of the people of tV country , the political privileges enjoyed by a certain num ber of the inhabitants must soon and speedily be crma ^ ably developed . " ( Cheers . ) * * consider . If the promise conveyed in the last sentence be as
Mr. Hume On The Disunion Of The Liberal ...
MR . HUME ON THE DISUNION OF THE LIBERAL PARTY . Me . Hume has addressed the following letter to the editor of the Hull Advertiser : — " Burnley-hall , Sept . 1852 " My dear Sir , —I have your letter of the 11 th inst ., I have read the article in the Hull Advertiser , on the im-Eor tance of union among the Reformers and with the Irish liberal party . I admit that it is important for the cause of good government , and for the future welfare of England that there should be a people ' s party in the new Parliament You must know , from all my speeches and efforts , that f have been long anxious to see that party formed ; and
further , you should know that I have at the commencement of two new Parliaments attempted to form one ; but you may as soon make a rope out of the sand of the seashore . There is no common principle of adhesion among those that have hitherto been denominated Liberals , to join in the efforts which I have made to form a phalanx that would , early and late , and on all fit' occasions , take the popular cause , and support measures having the public welfare in -view , and tending to increase the power of the people in the House of Commons . After repeated trials , and after grand promises , the most noisy in their
professions have too often been the first to desert their principles , and leave the party to make , as it has always done , a miserable and shabby appearance as to numbers . I could give you lists of deserters on such trivial grounds and pretences as would surprise you , and so frequent , as almost to deter any man from attempting such an effort again . I am not easily driven off xaj path when I am confident that raj course is right and ought to be pursued , and I shall be quite willing again to make the attempt , but not on the principles you have laid down ( of tenant-right , & c . ) in the Hull Advertiser , as on all those matters there is
such a diversity of opinion that you could not muster 100 among the 654 members in the House to unite . Tho people ' s league , or party , or union , by whatever name to be called , must agree on one point , —say ballot ; and after a trial on one point proceed from step to step to other points— -all important—until the attention of the public can be fixed to the proceedings of the party . But if my experience , as regards the Irish members hitherto in the House of Commons , is to be taken , the material is not likely to be of that substance to be moulded and kept in proper position , or under the influence of any leader ; and any party so formed , of forty or fifty Irish , and fifty or sixty English and Scotch members , would soon have somo oxtravaf ? ant Droceediner from some of the Irish or other
members , which would damage and discredit tho party , and also frustrate all efforts of the party , even in tho best cause . You are all zeal and fresh from Ireland , and imbued too strongly with Ireland ' s wrongs and her sufferings , to see anything except through that ardent haze that will sometimes surround you after your intercourse with her sincere patriots and honest reformers . Nevertheless , 1 shall bo ready to co-oporato in any measures that can torward the prosperity of our common country ; and , after l have had communication with tho Irish representatives , i shall bo better able to judge what should bo done . At present , nothing , as fur as I know , has been done towards a union of Liborals who may be doubtful of tho acts oi wo Derby Administration ; and when I look to tho Jioiww professions of those who preceded Lord Derby , and noiu thoir throwing up thoir cards rather than play out in for tho popular causeby calling on the llolormor hi
game , join them , I cannot have much confidence in any '"' h they may do to promote tho union of parties , f n < IC , ' they must , I fear , bo loft to chow tho cud while u Derbyites aro committing all kinds of misgovornmMuforward thoir own cause and to benefit their support * , r , and it will only bo after a considerable time of sucli c duct that there can bo uny chunco of a people ' s party » ¦ h formed ; and , whilo tho movement must begin witn ¦ [ Radical members of tho Houho of Commons , it «" succeed until tho people out of doors , and the elector « ,, » sco tho necessity of doing their part , and of tf ivin £ " ' jfl to the small party of tho people in Parliament . u" .
nothing in this , or in any of my lottont , that you consider as private , and therefore my opinions , wl > 1 ^ J nliy ask for , are freely given . Perhaps in some parts ul W yil 0 appear contradictory for want ot tho exp lanation r | ftU to rhako tho allusions known . In you wo sliain ^ honout reformer , but toll mo how many editors w their support to a party that , aa Parliament is " » posed , can novor succeed to power ? " 1 remain , your obedient Birvnn . ' „ "JoflKi ' M JlU « Jfl . P . Collins , Kflq ,. Hull . "
John Jmtlgtllt At Belfast. Taking .Ulvan...
JOHN JMtlGtllT AT BELFAST . Taking . ulvantago of Mr . Bright ' s presence in lrt ^ tho LiboralB and Proo Xrudon of IlolfuHt , t ™ u Chester of Itho Bister l » lund , invited him to ou ™
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09101852/page/2/
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