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11 The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside tns distinctions 01 iteiigion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development or our spiritual nature . "—Mumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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MFWS OF THE WEEK— p a gb More of the Melbourne 1180 How to Man the Navy ..... 1186 LITERATUREBWS 2 EZ ~ r— SS «* . * - *»* «* »— *» S ^ nrS ;; a ^ Books on our Taxes on Knowledge 1177 POSTSCRIPT 1182 Florence 1187 . PORTFOLIOLettersfromPana 1177 resTbWKii-i The Haythorne Papers 1192 Continental Notes 1178 diiri ic AFFAIRSThe City Banquet 1178 PUBLIC AFFAlRb OPEN COUNCIL— THE ARTSLord John Eussell at Leeds 1179 Britannia Growing Grim 5183 Thpatrps 1193 The Smithfield Club Show 1179 " Tenant Kight" 1184 Income-tax-A Plea for the La- A Word about the Theatres Mr . Charles Phillips in 1852 as in How Louis Napoleon is Emperor ... 1184 bourer ... iia » COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSC « =:::::::::::::::::: SS ¦ g ^ - ? - ^! - !^ M & S « £ Srjag ::: S 5 m ^ a ^ . ^ , * ,.. ^
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YOL . III . No . 142 . 1 SATURDAY , DECEMBER 11 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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THE fate attending the commercial policy of Ministers has proved , even within the week , to be extraordinary . The Budget by which Lord Derby is pledged to stand or fall , is now before the public . It was prefaced by the announcement , that it was based upon a new principle , so applied as to do justice to agriculturists as well as traders ; but the measure itself is searched in vain to discover any new principle , or anything by which a Minister could elect to stand or fall . Mr .
Disraeli has evidently consulted the interests by which his party has been supported , and he has studied to give them " boons . " He still gives them , principally , promises ; and at present his boons are these : —100 , 000 / . a year remitted to the shipping interest , in the shape of light duties ; Is . 6 c ? . per ton virtually remitted to the sugar growers , by permission to refine in bond ; 2 , 500 , 000 ? . of malt duty ; 100 , 000 / . of hop duty ; 190 , 000 / . of farmers' income-tax , remitted to the land interest : and an instalment of 4 id . per
pound remitted to the tea consumer , with a progressive reduction of the duty on that article . Per contra , the income-tax is extended down to 100 / . from industrial incomes , and 50 / . from property , which will just take in the provident
artisan , the clerk , and the widow ; and the housetax , extended down to 10 / . houses , is doubled in amount . Every section of the public is dissatisfied , and the dissatisfaction evidently grows with further examination . The shipping and sugar interests cannot be very grateful for being "fobbed off" with eighteenpenny boons . The lar gest concession , intended for land , the half of the malt tax , will benefit neither land nor consumer . The beer monopoly will keep up the
price to the consumer , will prevent any impulse *<> production , and will leave the remitted duty in the pocket of the brewer , for whom it was not intended . Mr . Gladstone has raised a formidable discussion on the vexed question of graduated fates of income tax ; and the metropolis is preparing a vigorous resistance to the extension of the house-tax . The course of the Budget ,
therefore , docs not promise to be quite smooth . Hut the most singular incident is the obstinate refusal of Lord Derby to recognise any merit in the Free-trade policy . In refusing to invite the adoption of Mr . Disraeli ' s resolution by the IIoubc ° f Lords , in resisting its adoption when moved by Wd Clanricarde or Lord Beaumont , Lord Derby [ Countuy Edition . ]
virtually disclaimed the very basis of that Budget by which he undertakes to stand or fall ! He induced the House of Lords to split down the resolution which it did adopt to the most meagre acquiescence in modern legislation . So far Lord Derby places himself in opposition to his Chancellor of the Exchequer , a defection on the part of the Premier which cannot fail to embolden the resistance now rising against Mr . Disraeli's Budget .
Some important inquiries are instituted in Parliament , pointing , however , to future rather than present results . All the Irish Tenant - Rig h ^ measures , from Mr . Sharman Crawford ' s to Mr . Napier ' s , have been referred to a select committee ; and although we do not anticip ate any vast results from the process , we cannot but trust that the question has at last been fairly put in train for settlement . Mr . Henley has amended the terms of his committee on Railway Amalgamations , which is now , if not absolutely free , at all events not literally debarred from investigating any part of the subject .
Incredible as it may seem , " W . B ., " now confessedly William Beresford , did desire to protect freedom of election in Derby I It appears that he employed the celebrated Frail for three years , at , £ 300 a year , and he had sent the agent to Derby " to prevent personation , kidnapping , and other illegal acts . " It is true that he would not allow the person whom he sent "to go loose in
the centre of the town—he must be consigned to somebody respectable . " Mr . Beresford afterwards explained , that if the agent were " loose upon society , " he " might be a prey to designing persons . " His agents had been " imprudent , " now he is the object of a " conspiracy . " A simple man is the whipper-in of the Derby Ministry ; decidedly , Frailty , thy name is IJeresford .
Amongst the many other subjects which have been before Parliament this week bus been the increase to various branches of the national forces , which proved to be not different from the anticipatory announcements last week . In proposing these additions , Ministers meet with a prompt concurrence from the Opposition , which shows how deep and general the feeling has become in favour of preparing the country to resist uggresaion .
It is the more satisfactory to observe that hearty feeling , since its practical exercise will , probably , be required . Not only i » the development of the forces in France accompanied by many signs of an impat ience to use them , but the Miuinter of Marine has convened a special meeting of deputieu
from the nautical districts , in order to tell them that England has taken the initiative in arming , and that France must keep up in the race . It is not worth while to notice the barefaced dishonesty of this representation , but it concerns us much to observe how readily our neighbours interpret every response to their own aggressive proceedings into a pretext for new advances , and how assiduously they advance and strengthen their outposts .
England has no disposition to run a race arming , but will not be content until the preparations are announced to be sufficient ; which cannot as yet be the case . The public temper indeed is the very best that can be wished . The mistaken zealots of the peace party , who have now sunk to a proper silence , may begin to learn the extent of their mistake when they note how little of panic the nearer prospect of war produces in the community . On the contrary , the general feeling appears to be one less of alarm than of reviving interest . The two leading ideas at present are ,
that the strengthening of forces or fortresses must be amply sufficient ; and that while the public money will be furnished cheerfully and handsomely for all needful purposes , it must not be wasted on Admiralty jobs or unproductive routine . The practice of converting the highest offices of the Army into retiring pensions for superannuated veterans , is attracting a public jealousy which may load to improvement . The difficulty of manning the Navy makes even official people recognise the necessity for reforms to better the condition of the men . Mr . Stafford admits as much , although
he is not yet prepared to rival the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in the efficiency of bis naval organization . That Company finds no difficulty in engaging men of the best qualifications , or in keeping them after they arc once engaged ; but then the Company devotes a great deal of trouble and money to arranging for the comfort of the men , their provision for after years , and the education of their children . The public attention , however , is alive to these points , and reforms are likely to be forced upon official people concurrently witli the increase of the expenditure .
The extraordinary jargon of eulogy on Louis Napoleon , by which the establishment of the French Empire was notified to the House of Lords , gives rise to an uneasy reflection , that a statesman who Nyinputliizcs so completely with the enemies of England , and so little with English feeling , has sonic uharc in the administration of OUT affairti , and even of our defences .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 11, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11121852/page/1/
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