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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IP, 1855.
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THE PALMERSTON CABINET. Wild. Xord Paxmj...
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EXAMPLES TO ENGLAND. With all our improv...
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The Foreign Lkoiov.—It Has Been Decided ...
HelifftOand ; and . Lieutenw ^ i Lcpaprier ^ , -wito A dfitacbmeKSoial Sappers and ^ ers , ^ leave ^ WooWx for that island , to erect huts , and prepare other accommodation for the recruits . THEEADNOBSHiBB BoROtTGHS . —Sir George Cornewall Lewi ^ son of the late Right Hon . Sir T . F , Lewis , M . P ., has come forward as a candidate to fill the vacancy in the representation caused by the death of his father . In his address to the electors , the hon . baronet says : — " My political opinions , which have always connected me with the Liberal party , remain unchanged . " Admikai , Duhi > as has arrived in London .
Command of the Army in Ireland . —The Dublin Evening Mail announces that " Sir Edward Blakeney , after some twenty years' service , retires from the comT mand of the army in Ireland . He is to be succeeded in his high office ^ tby General Lord Seaton , Colonel of the Second Life Guards , and better known to the military world as Sir John Colborne . " Representation of South Wilts . —Mr . Sidney Herbert , having been appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies , has addressed his former constituents . There is no doubt of his return without opposition . Loss of the Hecla . —By the arrival of the Madrid we hear that it is feared her Majesty ' s steamship Hecla has been lost . She had been steaming from Gibraltar to the eastward , and on her return ran on shore . On
the departure of the Madrid she remained m a very precarious situation , and the crew were busily engaged in getting out the stores . Riot between the Militia , and the Regulars . — Limerick has been the scene of an affray of a disgraceful description . It originated through some soldiers of the 17 th Depot having struck a militiaman . The men of the 9 th , 89 th ,, and 39 th Depots engaged with those of the 17 th in the melee . An investigation by the military authorities will be held . Affray on the African Coast . —There has been
a rather serious affair between the British troops stationed at Christianburg Castle , on the west coast of Africa , and the natives of the town , who showed signs of rebellion . The batteries of the castle fired on the town , and the fire was returned . "We lost one corporal and three privates killed , and had twenty-four men wounded . Peace was finally restored . Militia . —The first of the militia regiments for foreign service will embark for Gibraltar and thrPmcus about the 19 th inst . _ The Old Musket . —An officer of the army says , that despite the recognised value of the Minie * rifle , 304 men of the 31 st Regiment are actually about to embark for the East armed simply with the old " Brown Bess . "
The Inventor of the Screw Propeller . —We hear that M . Sauvage , of Havre , whom the French represent as the inventor of the screw propeller , has become insane . He derived no pecuniary advantage from the adoption of the invention in- France , and in 1846 Was so poor that Louis Philippe settled a pension on him . When recently his mind became affected , the pension was found insufficient ; but the Emperor having been informed of his position , undertook to provide for him .
DEATn OF LlEUTi-GENERAL-HON . JI . . CAPEL- ^^ ThlS distinguished officer died a few days since at the advanced age of 85 . He was formerly in the Grenadier Guards . The deceased served under the Duke of York in Flanders , and subsequently in the Peninsular campaign . At Cadiz he held the office of adjutant-general . For his services ho received the war medal and two clasps . General Capel was a member of the noble house of Essex .
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Leader Office , Saturday , February 10 . Lord Palmerston does not go down to Tiverton , lest his absence from London might occasion detriment to the public service .
Stockholm, Wednesday. It Is Reported Fro...
Stockholm , Wednesday . It is reported from Bomarsund that the Russian Government is taking strict measures against all those who are suspected of having rendered any assistance to tho Allies . About seventy inhabitants have already been arrested . Madrid , Wednesday . In the sitting of tho Cortes this day , M . Madoz , tho Minister of Finance , proposed not only tho sale of the church property , but also that of the communes and of the State against Three per Cent . Bonds , inalienable . Vienna , Friday . The funds have oxpericncocl to-day a considerable improvement . Five per Cent . Metalliques , 83 J ; Exchange on London , 12 , 17 . Paris , Friday . ¦ Four and a Half per Cent . Rentes , 95 f . 7 () e . ; Three per Cent , ditto , G 7 f . 80 c . ; Bunk Shares , 29 , 80 .
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Prince Stirboy has demanded that tho AVallachian Divan should vote an extraordinary sum to assis the Sultan in his war expenses .
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SATURDAY , FEBRUARY IP , 1855 .
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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 . ^ -DB . Arnoijj .
The Palmerston Cabinet. Wild. Xord Paxmj...
THE PALMERSTON CABINET . Wild . Xord Paxmjjeston ' s Cabinet be more efficient than Lord Aberdeen ' s ? Everybody expects it— -at first . Will it do all that we desire ? Certainly not . We put aside " internal improvements , " as Lord Qkaitvtli-e modestly" calls them , only observing that the ministerial changes are not favourable to internal reforms of any kind , except the sanitary . Lord John could at least keep up the Reform irritation ; Lord Aberdeen , though bigoted against "
extravagant projects , " has given a positive approval to great reforms ; the Duke of Newcastle is well understood to have no opinions or feelings adverse to the largest extension of popular rights . In their place , we have Lord Paxmebstohs" , never a Reformer per se ; Lord Panmube , a Whig not remarkable for reforming tendencies ; and Lord GB ^ NViXLE ,- ajCpminissioner of 1851 , imbued with a desire for tne peace of all nations , but not of any marked political convictions .
The first business of Lord Pai < merston's Cabinet will be thoroughly to reform our army departments and our army : will they do that ? Time will show . Lord Panmubb is to have the assistance of Lord ELLEireoKOtrGH , Lord Gbet , and Lord Pai > merston "; but not one of these has shown any disposition to effect that real reform which is wanted most of all—the opening of our exclusive system of commissions . On
Thursday night the Earl of JVUxmesbtjry took some pains to show that the aristocracy —the blood relations of the Peers—in reality hold a very small proportion of the commissions . Who do hold them then ? Certainly men who can pay hundreds and thousands of pounds . Rich men , the regulations tell us ; not gentlemen by birth , Lord Malmjesbuby insists . Lord Cardigan says that the officers look after the comforts of the
men—but the men have not the power wanted to look after their own comforts ; and he says tho men follow their officers in battle—which proves nothing as to the efficiency of the army for campaigning . Lord Cardigan is in love with his profession ; but how many officers by purchase are so ? and how many mori -who would be ardent lovers of their profession are kept out of commission by the present system—men already in tho army—and still more who would go into tho
army if they could" march to commission through the ranks ? Will Lord Pjllmeb stohf ' s War Minister break' up that bad system ? We doubt it : he asks for- ' « time , " and says nothing as to the scope of the promised reforms . ^ Will the war be prosecuted with more vigour ? At first ; but " Lord PAMCEBSTON ' ff colleagues talk ominously about peace . Mr * Gladstone ' s colleague and ; sustained the Economist , laments over war as detrimental to trade ; and a division of opinion in the
present Cabinet as to the objects of the war , makes us suspicious of a premature peace . This tendency must be watched with extreme vigilance . It is indeed Hobson ' s choice : we have not yet got out of that silly custom by which the Sovereign is expected to run the round of a given set of elderly gentlemen , sending for each till all have had a turn , and then beginning again . Perhaps it will need a degrading peace , a ruinous war , or an internal revolt , to rouse our Crown out of that dream , and to break through the political monopoly of certain families . Paxmerston will not be the man to do it—until the people specifically give him the job .
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EXAMPLES TO ENGLAND . With all our improvements , political as well as social and mechanical , we reel the want of some one thing which shall make us act unitedly as a nation . The same want appears to menace the integrity of the empire : as we give local self-government to our colonies—a gift which only supersedes the certainty of / their taking it—^ we all ask where is it to end ? What is , the date of the day at which the colonies , retaining no further connexion with the mother country , shall separate themselves and become independent communities ? The same process , though to
a less degree , is observable in the United States ; though , with far less apparent unity of institutions , with absolute distribution of sovereign rights between thirty or fortyseparate States , there is still something like community of feeling . The Know-nothing movement against foreign and sectarian interests raises a kind of Republican Jack Cade-ism , while divisions of opinion threaten to " sever Tiorth- on the south ; and the _ G : Qr vernment , unable to discover what is tho want of the entire Republic , shifts its course and exhibits itself entirelv at sea .
Yet our colonies are an admirable school for public men ; and we have before pointed out the advantage which is derived from studying there the Englishman and his instiifutions . As Lord Elgin says , they are not the least enterprising , not the least energetic , not the least pushing of our fellow-countrymen that set off to distant lands to improve their fortune . We have anticipated this statement and pointed , not only to the prosperity of our colonies in America , Africa , and Australia , but to the vigorous manner in which they have defended their rights , even as the colonists of tho earlier American colonies defended theirs . The commonwealth
is the strongest power in every colony . It is much stronger than tho Crown , or than tho delegated Government of royalty . But though the English people come out with all their sturdiness in those regions , they show as much keenness in busiuoss , and as much , tractability as they do in this country . Lord Elgin found Canada with a revenue of 400 , 000 Z . a year , ho left' it with a revenue of 1 > , OOO , OOOZ . Ho found Canada almost in rebellion , and at his departuro ho is one of the most popular men in tho colony . And why ? Becauso ho has found that they are his countrymon . He lias known their life , their , convictions , their feelings , their , detocmintv «
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 10, 1855, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10021855/page/11/
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