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Lord Brougham Made Another Ill-Natured A...
conscience , and the Baron having so sworn to the oath of abjuration with the omission of the words ' upon the true faith of a Christian , ' and doubts having arisen as to the legal effect of his so taking the oath , it is expedient , at the commencement of the next session of Parliament , that a bill should be introduced to declare the law with reference to the due administration of that oath ; and , further , that this House will then take into its serious consideration the subject of the oaths now administered to its members with reference to the changes which have taken place since they were first imposed by law . "
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A letter from the Earl of Carlisle to Mr . Leman , chairman of the York , Newcastle , and Berwick Railway , states that " the Queen and Prince Albert will open the Berwick railway on the 29 th of August . They will set off from Castle Howard that morning , and will sleep in Edinburgh . " The statement that the royal visit to Scotland will take place before the 20 th of August is therefore incorrect . A number of electors met Sir Charles Napier , at the Horns Tavern , Kennington , last night . In the course of a speech declaratory of his principles , he recapitulated his votes in Parliament in favour of the
ballot and for an extension of the suffrage , though on this point he did not go to the extent of some of his friends . He defended the policy of the Duke of Wellington , as to the necessity of maintaining the defences of the country , and instanced the statement of Lord Ellenborough in the Upper House to show how essential it was when Russia has now a fleet of thirty to forty sail of the line in the Baltic , while the British force is truly insignificant . A true saving to be effected was in the dockyards , where the expenditure had been at once lavish and useless . He would not pledge himself to vote for any measure to put down Sunday trading ; that would best be effected
by masters paying their men on Friday night . No man could be * made religious by act of Parliament . He would join in shortening the duration of Parliaments , but was not prepared to support a proposition for a severance between the church and state , nor for any interference with the Established Church in Ireland . On the question of the abolition of the taxes on knowledge he was not prepared to give a reply ; Mr . Henry Knight moved a resolution to the effect , that Sir Charles Napier ' s political opinions rendered him a fit and proper person to represent the borough of Lambeth in Parliament . ( Cheers , hisses , and groans . ) The motion was seconded by a Mr . Evans . Mr . T . B . Barker moved as an amendment , ' * That
the late period of Admiral Napier s appearance in the field at the present election considerably endangered the liberal interests , without any probable chance of success . " This amendment was seconded by Mr . Gedye , amidst loud groans , cheers , and general uproar . Ultimately the resolution was said to have been carried . The polling will take place on Tuesday . Mr . Ouseley Higgins , M . P . for the county of Mayo , accompanied by his friends , presented himself at the
House of Commons this morning , in order to be sworn in . The return to the writ not having been yet made , the honourable gentleman was unable to take his seat . As tne election took place on Monday , and the return was made by the Sheriff the same evening to the Hanaper Office in Dublin , the delay in its transmission seems rather excessive in these days of rapid transport ; and such a circumstance might be very untoward , or very convenient , to one or the other party , of which a member , or an opponent , might be thus " shut out" from a critical division .
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No material change has taken place in the relative positions of the two armies since the battle of Idstedt . The dispositions taken by General Willisen , Commander-in-chief of tho Schleswig-Holstein army , lead to a supposition of a speedy renewal of active hostilities . Another battle is imminent . The great question then is—Will the Danes , if victorious , follow the insurgents into Holstein , the territory of tho Germanic Confederation , without the
consent of the latter ? Martial law has been proclaimed in Schleswig , and every means are employed to fortify the position of the Danish army . In a proclamation dated the 29 th of July , the Lieutenancy of Schleswig-Holstein asserts that the army is only repulsed , but not conquered . The position lost can be regained—the painful losses sustained can be repaired . The army is animated with its usual courage , and awaits with firmness the opportunity of renewing the struggle . Nothing is yet lost , and the country hopes that every one will do his duty . A Danish journal states that a small English , steamer , accompanied by two schooners , arrived at Oopenhngon on Saturday night with 1200 prisoners on board . The same journal states that a largo Russian steamer arrived on the 30 th ult ., with several small
vessels , having on board 500 wounded . Tho anticipated crisis or schism has taken place at Frankfort . It was decided at the Cabinet Council held at Sans Souci on Saturday that the Prussian plenipotentiary at Frankfort should forthwith be recalled . This resolution was announced to the Princely College , on Tuesday , and approved of by the plenipotentiaries of Governments , who will , of course , order their agents at Frankfort to retiro forthwith .
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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 its eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
The Wild Man Of The Peerage. We All Know...
THE WILD MAN OF THE PEERAGE . We all know how impossible it is to reclaim a Gipsy ; attempts to reclaim the Red Indian are equally vain . The sons of wild races may conform for a time ; but the wild biood will show itself , and at the last it bursts out in its pristine force . This fact may account for the otherwi »« unintelligible phenomenon prominently before the public in the person of Lord Brougham . You cannot account for it on any ordinary rules , and not having caught the clue , the respectable public is simply mystified . And it is very mystifying . The public has long
been accustomed to his wandering activity ; has followed his variety , no doubt , with encreasing entertainment ; but in the past he has attacked only those who assailed him , distributing to others a generous copiousness of compliments heightened by his own great eloquence . He attacked George the Fourth ; but then the learned lawyer was counsel to George the Fourth ' s wife , and that " first of gentlemen " was a very offensive person . Lord Brougham eulogized William the Fourth , which was a natural alteration ; but why should he now turn round to attack the present Court ? Is
it only for a change ? It broke out very vehemently at the Fishmongers ' dinner . Lord Brougham allows that he is a very old Fishmonger , though " not the oldest in existence . " But the passion took a very strange turn . He was made a Fishmonger , he said , because he " opposed the Court , its profligacy and tyranny "; and because the Fishmongers are not still " opposing the Court , its profligacy and tyranny , " he imagined that they must be " ashamed" of what they did in 1820 ! "I have lived , " he said , " to hear in this room the ancient sentiments coldly responded to . " He makes no allowance for change of circumstances : Fishmongers must for ever be opposing Court tyranny and profligacy—qualities always to be presumed ; and the worshipful company is continually to be appointing him as a Fishmonger for his exertions in that line . The Company , perhaps , has an idea that the Court of Queen Victoria is rather different from that of George the Fourth ; but he imputes the change of idea simply to degeneracy : Fishmongers are not what they were in his young days .
The best of the joke is , that if there is any disposition to tyranny , it is supplied by Lord Brougham himself : he is always talking of having up newspaper editors and reporters to account for their proceedings at the bar of the House of Lords . But perhaps he wants to play Tribune of the People and Tyrant too — Henry Brougham denouncing the tyranny of Lord Brougham , and being consigned by that noble and learned Lord to the Tower ; defended by himself at the trial ; sentenced by himself ; and finishing by cutting off his own head . Why has he not anticipated all these fancies ?
But the fit assumed a stronger and more definite shape in the evening of Friday . H e attacked the Attorney-General for stopping the idle " injunction" in Chancery against the Exposition of 1851 , and then went on to display a little more of the movement of his mind when he attacked the Peers and Commons for being silenced by the very name of " Prince . " The reporters Ray that this sudden sally caused a " great sensation ; " as well it might . Lord Brougham appears to have conceived an idea that Prince Albert is a "tyrant "—though what special act of oppression that young and discreet Prince has been able to perpetrate on Lord Brougham we cannot guess . Lord Brougham ' s " surprising leap" on to the woolsack was duly admired : did he expect to soar yet higher than the woolsack , and does he bear a grudge against his successful rival—the Prince Consort ? However , distancing degenerate Whigs and Fishmongers , he carried his anti-courtier spirit further than denunciations of tyranny nnd submission at
the name of Prince , and went into a practical attack on the private finances of the Court . He more than insinuated that the Queen and her Consort are " saving " money out of the Court revenues—the Civil List and the revenues of Cornwall and Lancaster ; and he almost insinuated that the savings were not devoted to charitable purposes . The public at large is more than ever mystified . We cannot explain Lord Brougham ' s meaning ; we can only make a guess at it ; and even that guess we hesitate to avow , for all our plain
speaking , lest her Majesty ' s Attorney-General , m spite of our bona fides and our little sympathy with this peculiar censor of the Court , should feel it his duty to prosecute us for libel . And we hesitate the more , since our open speaking does not concern itself with assaults on personal character , even -of royal station . We do not share the notion ; that we should attack courts merely because they are courts . Still our readers ought , if possible , to know the tale which our guess associates with Lord Brougham ' s allusions .
It will be remembered that Prince Albert ' s father was reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg ; and Gotha . It is said that he was fond of games of chance . It is also said that other German Sovereigns , noticing diminished , value in the coinage that oozed into their states , bearing the stamp of the Saxe Coburg and Gotha currency , held a consultation on the subject . The reigning Duke died , suddenly , and thus he was prevented from taking part in the consultation . And when his youthful Prince
son ascended the throne , the neighbouring exercised a very proper spirit of abstinence towards one who could not in any way be respottB'ible . With an equally honourable feeling , however ,. young Duke resolved that the . phenomenon of indifferent coinage should no longer appear ; and his relatives , even to those , in Belgiu m * France , and England , resolved to aid him in the work . But as it was a family matter , it was not one to trouble any state about , nor could recourse be had to any public exchequer . whether this
We have no means of knowing story is true or not , but it is the one which our guess associates with Lord Brougham ' s unintelligible allusions . If our guess is fallacious , we cannot divine what he would be driving at ; if it wander near the hidden truth , then we are equally at a loss to know why Lord Brougham objects ? Especially as Lord Brougham is at bottom an excellent good fellow : so says an enthusiastic admirer writing to the Morning Post : " in his social relations , where do you meet so agreeable a
companion , so kind a relative , or so stedfast and sincere a friend ? " Thus winds up a letter vindicating Lord Brougham ' s universal knowledge on all points of law , Home and Foreign , Scotch and Colonial , his judicial administration in divorce cases , his reception of deputations , his ability to refer readers of the Philosophical Transactions to a discovery made bv him in 1797 , his defence of any humble person suffering a wrong , his patronage of the humble inventor , his scientific recreations at Cannes , and even his fitness to preside over a jury
o matrons ! So much universality necessarily implies inconsistency . Some Greek philosopher , not content with his predecessor who imagined that all existence must be included in " the One , " imagined that besides " the One" there must be " the Other " Lord Brougham realizes that progressive philosophy—there is the Universe and the Brougham ; the One and the Other .
Still the plain English mind is perplexed at such random faculties—puzzled to reconcile so much goodness to such a semblance of ill nature , 8 o much cleverness to such a waste of abilities , so much knowledge of fact with so little imagination of possibilities , so much activity with siich stationary opinions—the eloquence of Cicero mixed with the vituperative twaddle of a fishmonger . How much that your common Englishman could not do ! how much that he would disdain to do ! Strange
wayward creature , what is it ? Perhaps the whole is accounted for by a simple statement of fact which we find recorded of Lord Brougham in the Peerage * Baronetage , tyc , by the inquiring and accurate Dad ; "he is one of the drengi of Westmoreland . " We were not aware of that , and no doubt his censors generally have overlooked the fact . " He is one of the Drengi ?" How shocking it sounds . It disarms criticism at once . Though we have not the least idea what a Drengus is , wo feel on the instant that we can make all allowances for a creature so circumstanced . Mary Shelley ' s ghastly romance excites our sympathy
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 10, 1850, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10081850/page/11/
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