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Ministers have not improved , iheir position by their feats on the hustings ?» *^«^ , 9 P ecMa ^ thpy have snirked the main topic / " 'Free-trade , which occupies th & public mindj , and have ridden off on other mat |^' .- ' . ' 3 Br / Secretary Walpole , Sir Frederick TPfiesigej * , and the Marquis of Chandos , relied on antagonism to Parliamentary Reform , thus doing the beslt thing they could to restore Lord John Russell to public favour . Mr . Henley dexterously evaded all attempts to entrap him into a confession ; while the late whipper-in , Mr . Secretary-at-War Beresford , boasted of his intimacy
with Lord Derby , and declared for a moderate fixed duty . Mr . Herries was as obscure as an oracle ; but Mr . George Bankes beat all his colleagues in dexterity , showing how impossible it is for an election audience to fix a candidate who has temper and coolness enough not to heed any interruption * 6 i * answer any question . The people asked for a definite statement of his views , and he gave them a string of jokes . Mr . Christopher comes before us again , but adds nothing to his previous declaration , — -that Lord Derby will reverse the policy of Free-trade if he can , " and as
soon as he can , One thing . is very noticeable in these meetings— -the " absence of enthusiasm on the part of the . audience . There was a gloom and tameness around the hustings . It was only when a few farmers were gathered together at the market-table that the cheering was at all of the hopeful kind . The impression made on the mind » s , that the constituencies are either depressed or mdiff erent , —depressed' where favourable to any candidate , indifferent and disposed to jest where unfavourable . This is significant . The Tories alrea dy feel the weight of office .
In Ireland , Mr . Whiteside has carried the day *> y a bare majority of nine . Lord Naaa meets with determine d opposition , but anticipates a " respectable majority . " Apart from the ministerial appeals , there is a general electioneering ferment throug hout the country . ^ And the Russell interest is rising again . It is not onl
y Lord Jolm thaj will not believe in his own death , but the" Biberals" of the old school enng to him With a Widowed incredulity in Ins uceease . The meeting at his house in Chesham-Piace shows how willing they are to accept a leader wno has already kept them back s 6 many years . Country Edition . ]
Not that the party was unanimous ; more than one man , better acquainted than Lord John with the popular feeling , plainly tbld him that the old fruitless tactics would not do . Still the general body > some hundred and fifty strong , went with flum in adopting the tactics- of the Manchester League , and making the whole policy of Liberalism turnat present on'the niainte ^ ian ce of FreeVtrade Reform itself is postponed , after all Lord John ' s pains on his great work , the Reform Bill No . II . "Eerily he has discovered the extent to which that measure would have enlarged the suffrage , and
shr inks back from his own audacity . Be that as it may , Lord John adopts that mistaken policy which seeks to fight-the new Ministry on the ground where they anticipate defeat , and are almost prepared to concede ; while it lets them off on the ground where they are prepared to be obstinate , and could not escape by their own will . There is no serious alarm on the subject of Free-trade , but there is ser ious apprehension that the late Prime Minister is droppingthe subject of R eform , and that , what is worse , more ardently professing Liberals are prepared to connive at the desertion . But there is a Nemesis for all such outragers of destiny : if neither the Ministers nor the Anti-Ministers come
before the country with a leading question , a host of questions will arise to distract electoral England , and the general election may return a parliament excited to be very troublesome towards the two great dinner-parties in the State who alternate on the Treasury and Anti-Treasury benches . The calling out of the Yeomanry to exercise , is a concession to the recent call for activity in the matter of national defenceB . Recent , we say , because the interest on the subject has unquestionably died off in a great degree , and we sec little of it except the reflex surviving in the advertisements of tradesmen who offer rifle uniforms for
sale , or the meetings to petition against national defence . The public , exhausted with its effort at old English spirit , is content to await the coming of a calamity before it can be at the trouble pf any sustained exertion . Official men rejoice in that apathy of the public ; but if they were moved by a genuine ambition , they would grieve over it ; since it is only an animated people that affords opportunity for greatness in its rulers . It is a miserable charioteer that prefers to drive dull horses .
The High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire has established a case against Lord Campbell , who had made it a serious offence that a Roman-catholic sheriff
should appear with a Roman-catholic chaplain ! N *» t only does the conduct of Mr . Scott Murray appear to have been perfectly legal , and the remarks of Lord Campbell perfectly improper and coil ^ titutionally unsound , but there are precedents for the course adopted by Mr . Murray * Lord Gainp ' belj' & observations , would repeal the Relief Act Of 182 $ . o If the v Protestant religion be the religion of the judges , obviously , no Romancatholic barrister could arrive at the honours of
the Bench . Mr . Scott Murray convicts Lord Campbell of intemperance ^ and bigotry—or the affectation of bigotry . , The growing interest felt in the question of reproductive labour for paupers may be estimated from the fact , that the plan has been smartly abused by a morning contemporary , and that it has attracted a considerable number of supporters from the ranks of the clergy . The Manchester meeting , this week , is a further test of the spread and acceptance of the idea .
The calamity at Holmfirth has awakened attent ion to the state of the neighbouring reservoir , called the Holmstye ; which Captain Moody had pronounced to be unsafe . The local commissioners , in whom the management vests , had already begun to reduce the heigh t of water , and ; at a public meeting of the inhabitants , they were compelled , by the general expression of feeling , to
promise that it should be drawn off altogether j the only course really secure . Meanwhile , the inhabitants petitioned Parliament to enforce a stronger responsibility on the commissioners . To us it appears that the whole question of extensive works , where private interest and the public safety or convenience are in conflict , should be
overhauled and placed on a better basis . There ia something absurd in the presence of a government officer to look at a calamity after it has happened , or even to survey a work before calamity , if he has not power to enforce needful measures . If the pantomime of small men in large masks ( poor France being the Pantaloon ) were not
destined to end tragically , we should be disposed to laugh aloud at the gigantic buffoonery of Napolconism . Mendacity , fraud , corruption , violence , are the foundations of sand upon which a new era of prosperity is to bo autocratically raised—* the envy and admiration of misguided constitutionalism . When we read of elections being undertaken as a matter of business by that sanguinary farceur M . Romiou—of niagiMHumoufl
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Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13031852/page/1/
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