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for an extension of the franchise , and have been ¦ willing , on any terms , to advocate Mr . Locke King ' s proposition to admit 101 . householders to the county suffrage . It was a gain to get rid of Lord Palmerston ' s Conspiracy Bill and Press Prosecutions , and likewise that his lordship should have a signal lesson , on the folly and danger of treating even a " China Parliament " with that jaunty , contemptuous impertinence that characterised his rule . It was also a matter of congratulation that the defeat of Loz'd Palmerston was not followed by an aristocratic exclusive Whig Cabinet , but
THE LIBERAL UNIOX . That Lord Derby obtained a lease of power , will be regarded by the historian of these times as an important aid to political progress . It is easy to point out the failure ' s of the Tory Cabinet , and show the folly of a liberal nation permitting itself to be ruled by a party whose avowed princip les were antagonistic to reform ; but in fact the Tory Ministry were more serviceable titan the Palmerstonian party , which they displaced . The country could not . have accepted Lord Derby ' s Reform Bill , but it is a great gain that a Tory Cabinet should have been brought to admit the necessity
that Lord John Russell should be taught that the only way of regaining power and public confidence was by consenting to a little widening of Whig narrowness and a little thawing of Whig icCi Therecent elections showed that the country Avas not disposed to rally to a mere Whig cry . It could not be charmed with the prospect of seeing Sir Charles Wood at the Admiralty , nor Mr . Vernon Smith again permitted to exhibit his incapacity to manage Indian affairs . There was weariness of Palmerston , and pome hope , but no enthusiasm , for Russell . Under these circumstances , the Tories
might have been secure for a time , if their manifest leanings to Austria , and the consequent probability of their entangling us in a war with France , had not hastened the coalition of political elements , whose discordance was their only source of strength . Between Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston there was personal rivalry , augmented by the unmistakouble dislike entertained by the member for Tiverton lor any wide- measure of Parliamentary Reform . For reasons more easily conjectured than known , the Court was supposed more favourable to the pretensions of Palmerston than of Russell , while Lord LansdoAvne and other venerable Whigs were willing to see the representative
of the house of Bedford in a subordinate place . The dispute between the two would-be premiers bade fair to keep the so-enlled Liberal party in a state of split , and Mr . Bright ' s friends did not hesitate to express tlioir wishes that the Tory negotiations with Lord Palmcrston might succeed , and that his lordship would commit nu act of political suicide by joining the Cabinet of Lord Derby . A little reflection has , however , induced various sections of the Liberals to agree to an assault on the Tory camp , and to try to agree upon the much move cliflicult questions of organising a ministry and deciding upon ( ho principled it should maintain .
MAGENTA AND ITS RESULTS . Tub bulk of the British people have received the news of the splendid French and Sardinian victory at Magenta with sincere delight . It is rare , indeed , that the most successful war produces all the advantages which its sanguinary agencies were invoked to procure , and the gains of battle are usually accompanied by circumstances that reduce their value and dispose every thoughtful mind to set a higher price upon the less showy , but more solid achievements of peace . Still , after all deductions which the most prudent
calculations can require , the battle of Magenta stands but , not only as a display of heroic courage and strategic skill , but as an event of profound and happy significance in the history of Continental Europe . Shallow minds and narrow hearts may see in the Italian conflict only a struggle between rival despots , and regard it as indifferent to humanity whether the one or the other prevails . Such , however , is not the view taken by the English nation , and no attempts to raise the evil spirit' of international jealousy or excite alarms of aggression and conquest ,, can prevent popular sympathy from rejoicing at the success of French arms , and still more at the prosperous results that have attended the outburst of Italian patriotism , which Sardinia has called forth . The battle of Magenta is a grand
step towards the expulsion of the Austrian tyrant from the Italian soil . For the sake of Italy we rejoice in this , and as Austria has constituted herself the special representative and protectress of all that is vicious and reactionary in civil government , and , more than any other existing power , has sought to debase the intellect beneath the grovelling superstition of 'Papal Rome , we regard her defeat as a triumph of civilisation and humanity over an unhallowed combination of Jesuit cunning and brutal force . Since Francis Joseph has been upon the throne , to
At the meeting which took place at Willis ' s Rooms on Monday , Lord John Russell stated that if the amendment were carried he would be ready to serve under Lord Pahnerston , or that noble lord under him , as her Majesty might desire ; and he . expressed his belief that no Ministry could hope to be permanent that did not include within it an adequate representation of the three sections of the Liberal party- ^—the Whujs , Peelites , and Independent Liberals . This frank confession , that the erroneous dogma of the all-sufficiency of the Whigs miist be cast aside , opens the door for hope , and Mr . Bright commented upon the situation with more wisdom and discretion than he usually displays . He reminded the meeting that the Reform Bill had introduced into the House of
Commons from 100 to 150 members owing no allegiance to the leaders of the two parties into which the House had formerly been divided , and yet Whig leaders had persisted in forming their Cabinets as if no such change had taken place . He understood that a different state of things was-in future to prevail , and without such change he saw no good in displacing the present Government . Mr . Bright ' s willingness to unite with the Whigs , upon condition of their exclusiveness being broken up , will meet with universal approval ; and it was a pity that Mr . Roebuck could not for once forget the part of " Dog Tear , " and concur in a course so decidedly judicious . W « do iiot differ from his condemnation of Wins
Cabinets as they have been , but Mr . Bright ' s position was distinct enough , and was quite as much a declaration of hostility against reconstructing a Whig ' -ministry of the old sort as of readiness to cooperate in forming an administration upon a much Wider basis . When Mr . Bright spoke of his unwillingness to take office , he reminded us of the old nolo episcopari joke . By all means let him gratify his ambition by taking office , should he be invited to do so upon honourable terms , but asaiiimportant principle would be recognised by accepting his aid in such a . position , let him not be unmindful of the responsibility he will incur . The Manitself
all his talents and energies have been directed build up an army which should enable him to resist the just demands of his own subjects , and condemn adjacent countries to languish under a misgovernment almost as hateful as his own . After years of preparation the day of trial has come ; his generals are outwitted ; his boasted legions are scattered ; and at a safe distance from battles , in which his Imperial and Royal opponents freely exposed themselves , he receives news of well-earned .. disaster and richly-merited- defeat . If the dull intellect of this perfidious scion of a perfidious house is capable of tracing the logical
Chester school has hitherto shown capable oi vigorous assault and vigorous self-assertion , but in office the constructive powers of statesmanship will for the first time be demanded of them , and it will be well if they be found equal to the task . If we contrast the declarations of Lord Palmerston and Mr . Sidney Herbert about the war , with the tone assumed by Lord Derby , we shall find that the former are much better exponents of the general feeling of the country on this vital question ; and in our forlorn condition , destitute of statesmen who are felt entirely worthy of confidence , there is something both safe and facetious in the idea of Palmerston balanced by Bright , and Bright in turn counter-checked , by Palmcrston .
sequence of events , he will feel that the treachery and cruelty to Hungary , with which he inaugur rated his reign , were the first links of a chain of crime leading to the retribution of an ignominious , because unjust and unsuccessful war . It is a remarkable condemnation of the Austrian Government , that it is alike incapable of military as of civil progress . In the days of the First ] Ssuioleon its forces were scattered , its combinations abortive , and its movements too late . Precisely the same blunders have signalised the present campaign ; the forces that should have defended Palestro were dancing after Garibaldi , y ho brilliant
The advantage arising from the contrast of political colours will be pleasingly exhibited by the juxtaposition of such different hues . The prospect may alarm " our old nobility , " but we hope it will teach them that talent and patriotism must be sought beyond their own order as well as within it , if stable governments are to be formed . The Manchester party may not afford the pleasantest nor the highest exhibition of their qualities ; but oligarchical exclusiveness has done its utmost to prevent the rise of statesmen from the ranks of the middle class , and our hereditary legislators will find tlieir charmed circle rudely invaded , because they had not sufficient sense and civility to invite bystanders within its pale . anxious to him
laughed them to scorn ; and their most generals made their arrangements , as if . Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel were ignorant of the existence of the Ticino , and yrcro only desirous of attacking them in their strongest positions on the Po . A low weeks ago the believers in Austrian despotism prophesied the capture of Turin , but instead of the Austrian eagle floating over the walls of the Sardinian capital , the Sardinian ensign waves proudly from the citadel of Milan ; and instead oi the shrieks of an agonised people with the spoiler in thoir homes , houses arc illuminated , and Jiappy citizens welcome the advent of the nionurcu oi
Mr . Bright ' s admirers are see supplant Lord Stanley as Indian Minister ; but this would be an experiment too hazardous for any prurient Premier to recommend . The most useful way of introducing the Manchester school to office would be to place Mr . Cobden at the Board of Trade . But while conjecture is busy as to the formation of the coming Liberal Cabinet , it is satisfactory that old party bitterness has died away ; and not only does lha country contemplate the displacement of tlic Tories without bitterness , but the general feeling would bo gratified , if it wore possible , to sec wuch men as Lord Stanley and Sir John Pakinyton associated with a Liberal Government . Tl » o old demarcations must bo abolished in appearance , as they are to u largo extent in fad , and siervlocublo talent obtained from any party or section that can honourably unite for the general good .
thoir choice . ,, ,, It is difficult to . toll what has become oi the Austrian army , and wluit soheino . i its leaders entertain , but they two retreating o . istward , and mny possibly attempt to make n stand on the AdUu , previous to a final disappearance in their great fortresses of the Miiioio . Fortunately the war ever m « urinnnysoeiiiH iiiiiIinoiJ to subside ; the debates in our Parliament will help to shew the futility ot uxpuolinu to drag EnuluniJ into the strife . KuBSia has taken the course that wo predicted , and ho iUr jroni evincing hostile designs , has circulated a state paper urging the Gorinuns to Keep still . It k probable that . suggestions will bu nuuk > to
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Leader (1850-1860), June 11, 1859, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11061859/page/13/
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