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MISCELLANEOUS. StrcsTOAT at Edentbukgh.—...
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1854.
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THE MEETING- OF PARLIAMENT. Why is Parli...
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What Is To Be Done In Persia. Some Impor...
^ K ^ nr ^ T j I 1 $$ H § k ^ 2 i a ** 0 IlB banded together against heT . A renewal of i ^ Jgo ^ q feeling "between the two greatest Makomedan ft , ' "'^ iPajjfers , created by a wise and gentle policy , will be in Jtfij tbesifenjl of far greater importance than the addition of a * / v ^ f ^ Ks Taw levies dragged up against the Russians in v or odiea . ce to the command of a terrified and bewildered > ..- ¦ Shah .
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¦ C [ « * e * lfl 2 THE LEADER . Saturday ,
Miscellaneous. Strcstoat At Edentbukgh.—...
MISCELLANEOUS . StrcsTOAT at Edentbukgh . —The cafcmen of Edinburgh are thinking of following the example of their brethren at Glasgow , and ceasing to work on Sunday . They are induced to take this step by a notion that it is religious , and taat their pay will not be reduced . Mk . Lockhaet ' s Succbssok nr the Dcchy of Xancaster . — It appears that Mr . Lockhart is succeeded , in his Auditorship by Mr . Bartolacci , - who was appointed in that contingency in HL & y last . A correspondent of the Times reminds us , that that was just the jeriod when Mr . Strutt was ejected from the Chancellorship , and suggests that the ejectment was at the instigation of Lord John Russell , who can stand a good deal , but could not stand Bertolacci . He also suggests that such offices might be reserved for literary men .
SrOSTALS BETWEEN" EnGXNE DRIVERS AND GrUAKDS . A wHstle of gutta-percha tubing las been applied to this purpose . A piece of tubing runs over the tops of the carriages , from the guard ' s van to the driver ' s box , with a mouthpiece at each end . Th « number of whistles is easily arranged . It is easily used ; the long tube is , of course , always filled with a column of air , and only- the slightest disturbance of it by the breath , through the mouthpiece , produces a sound as shrill and ear-piercing as couli be wished . Unless a guard or driver were asleep it could not fail to be heard .
JVIanufactuee pi" Paper .- —Dajtger of Unjljsuted Liaeiutt . —The writer of the City article , in . the Times , says : —" It is alleged that a method of supplying the serious want of a cheap material for paper has lately been brought to great perfection , the staple employed being the iibre of common flax . To be productive of good results , however , either to the manufacturers , the nation , or the Excise , it must be conducted on a large scale by a public company , and , although persons of capital and ability are represented to be ready to engage in it immediately , they refuse , with the prudence of business men , to commit themselves to tMs or any analogous enterprise -without a charter of limited liability . From the passive obstructiveness of the Board of Trade , such a charter , it appears , cannot be procured . "
Lord DALHOtrsns . —Ve believe we may announce authoritatively that the Governor-General has consented to retain his post for at least another year . We believe also , that even those who have felt the weight of his censure—and he has no other enemieswill rejoice in this announcement . Even they will allow that the statesman who conducted us through the Punjab ¦ war is the best ruler for the empire in a European crisis , —that the financier who converted the Five per Cents , may well face the growing difficulties of tho opium
revenue , and that the author of the Railway Report is of all men the best fitted to carry out tho gigantic improvements now in contemplation . For ourselves , we beliove Lord ''Dalhousie ' s stay to be absolutely essential to the empire . The great projects which have been started require to be matured by experience as well as intellectual ability , and the great difficulties to be faced are half obviated by the confidence the Executive reposes in the capacity of its chief . Above all , every year of his xeign consolidates that unity which is the great political necessity of the empire . —^ Friend of India .
Expensive Smoking * . —Mr . "Wright , C . E ., Government Inspector for tho smoke nuisance , proves that 400 , 0007 . yearly is saved to tho manufacturers by tho recent Act , besides such trifling tilings as soap , wear and tear of linen through dirt , & c . Ho says that health will improve , and that London already looks cleaner . Sunoay Drinking in Criicff . —Tho number of persons drunk on Sunday is us large as beforo tho passing of tho new law . Tho causo is just tho samo as elsewhere : people supply themselves on the Saturday night 5 and if the ovil has been checked by shutting the dram shops on Sunday , it has increased a fur -worse species—via ., fireside drinking . —Perth Advertiser .
Superioiutt ov Laugm Steamers . — Tho Great Britain seonia quite to have sustained her reputation in lier outward trip to Australia . One of tho pasaongorR , Mr . B . O . Aapinall , thus describes tho voyago ;— "Wo liad a charming passage , no wrecks , no Horrors—nothing but n long pleasure-trip in a largo yacht . Dancing , singing , outing , drinking , sleeping , all tho way , to a most enjoyable * extent . " —Morning Chronicle . A Bad Workman Qiuauuici-i . i ' nw with ius Tools . — Mr . Cobb , Chaplain to tho Norwich Gaol , has , it ia aaid , resigned . Tlio Visiting JiiHticos complained that lie had neglected his duty , and ho uhowod thorn hio rouaons written in hiii minute-book : —" No surplice- fit to wear , mid no Horvico during tho week whilst it ia wauhod and repaired . "
Wuiaitig i > oks it axa , 00 to ?—The total amount of gold coined from March , 1851 , till Juno , 1854 , is nolonu than 28 , 000 , 000 ^ . For n Hlmilur period of time tho coinage during tho last century hn » never exceeded fl , 0 Qa , OOOJ .
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Saturday, December 9, 1854.
SATURDAY , DECEMBER 9 , 1854 .
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There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...
There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world , is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —DE . ARNOXD .
The Meeting- Of Parliament. Why Is Parli...
THE MEETING- OF PARLIAMENT . Why is Parliament about to meet ? A Minister would explain : — -To vote money . A Tory ex-Minister would explain—To turn out the Government ; Tory ex-Ministers having 1 reason to believe that Mr . Bright and the Peace Party , Tvith a great number of Liberals , who are not of the Peace Party , are quite ready to join in an attempt or that kind . But , on . both sides , there as a mistake as to the reasons of the meeting of Parliament . Parliament meets because the country has demanded it : and the country demanded it because the Government had broken down . That is to say , Parliament is called in , not as a Legislative , but as an Executive Power , because the country has " no confidence" in the Ministry , and conceives that the Parliament will perform , directly , those friendly functions of assisting and guiding the Government , which are at present discharged so indirectly , and therefore so clumsily , by the press . For it is to be observed that , in regard to the approaching Session , there is no thought of " those measures of progress" which we hear of in other Sessions : the House of Commons will be converted into that " Council of War" the
idea of which Mr . Cobden so much ridiculed some few months ago j for some months it will Le a Council of Wai , and nothing more . It is very natural that a constitutional public should , in its despair of its War Ministers , summon its Parliament . But the resort is in some respects illogical . The Ministry which has broken down in the war is a Ministry of all the talents—a literal fact . It is a Ministry composed of the picked men of the governing classes ; and it is a Ministry safe from
anti-Ministerialism , because there are none to succeed it . The war is developing the complete unfitness of the governing class to govern , both in respect to brains , and in respect to > pr inciple , their sympathies being very distinctly antagonistic with the sympathies of the English nation . It is a profound belief in the camp and in the fleets that the " gallant officers" do not make great generals nor good leaders : and at homo we see confidence in . tho issuo of tho struggling reviving precisely at that point
when the 'work of conducting tho war passes from the hands of dull and frightened nobles into the hands of tho Nasmyths and Potos—the now confidence being again deluded because illplnoed . A contornporary ( the Herald ) distinguished for its bold mid healthy treatment of all tho war topics , congratulates Lord Aberdeen ou tho defence we havo made for himour observation , last week , having ; been that Lord Aberdeen had produced this result by his craving's for peace j ho had given time for
opinions to march before events , an-d had converted the war into a revolutionary war . Perhaps this is premature : it was written before the news had reached of the sinister treaty of Vienna . But of this we think the students of public opinion will not doubt' —that the war has produced a conviction throughout the workmanlike mind of actual England—that our aristocracy is not equal to the war , and that the aristocratic system has become incompatible with a *' popular" war . And as
Parliament is the aristocratic system , we may , for the present , be making some mistake in welcoming so ardently the 12 th of December . We should be definitive in speaking of Parliament . In the first place , when we talk of Parliament we merely mean the House of Commons . Furthermore , we do not mean the whole of the House of Commons . We do not mean the one-third of it who are abject Ministerialists , men afflicted with the philosophical conviction that in the end one
Government is as good as another , and in the mean time are disposed to make the most of the loaves and fishes offered them by those who happen to be in . On the other hand , we do not mean the other third , the wretched partisans of Tory leaders , who , with "the reckless morale and characteristic stupidity of their class , are attempting to take advantage of an honest national indignation to oppose a
Ministry which , compared with any they could make up out of their ranks of boors and cretins , is divine in intellect and Christian in morality . We count , then , upon a new section of the representative Chamber—upon those men who are coming up , for Tuesday , thinking of their duties to their country , and not at all of their duties to parties or to classes . But it is the hue of this section in which the
Tories will seek to clothe themselves ; and the very apprehension of some such identification may modify their action . On their action depends everything ; and , though it is a melancholy consideration that we are defending * civilisation by this aid of a senate , one-third of which alone represents the people—and that indirectly and not directly , by sharing in , rather than springing from , national desires—yet it is some consolation that we may depend on their action . The
Ministerialists are mere negative members : good to cheer . The Tories , being led by Lord Derby , who is not reputed to be so sagacious , and by Mr . Disraeli , who is reputed to be only sagacious , are an opposition of account merely for number . Yet the action of this patriotic one-third , in which we strive to believe , though the numbers may be too " round , " can only be effective up to a certain point . It can counsel , and even coerce : for , emphatically , it will represent the " country . " But it will not propose to itself to cease to be
patriotic and to become a party ; that is , it will not contemplate becoming a Government to carry on the war as the country longs to see the war carried on . " Within , the one-third on which we place our hopes , are crowds of small cliques , or eccentricities , difficult of fusion into a homogeneous whole—difficult because the cr isis has not yet presented us with a great man commanding a load . Thus wo must be content with incoherent patriotism j and , in fact , we have a Coalition Government because the aristocracy is worn out while the middle clnss is unprepared for Government .
Tho House of Commons may not , then , at oneo secure a popularisation of the war ; but it will prevent tlio English aristocracy playing 1 , too carefully , the game of the dynastios . Tho war , wo rather think , will , to a great extent , take care of itself , so that tho governing classes be not left to themselves ; and it will bo hard if , while thoro is revolution abroad , wo do not , in tho crash , got some reforms at homo .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 9, 1854, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09121854/page/10/
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