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ENGLISH PARTIES AND TACTICS . We do not remember any Parliament in which the duties Of independent Liberal members have been more arduous , or ' their ' opportunities more important , than will be those of the House that in a few weeks will be assembled together . "We believe the Tory organs grossly exaggerate the differences of the Liberal party ,, but they are , unfortunately , sufficient to give considerable hope to the advocates of misrule . Upon the strength of its Austrian leanings , the Derby Cabinet expects the sympathy of the Homan Catholic members , and it relies on turning to account the envenomed hostility between the Palmei'stonians and the Manchester school .
advice , become a province of Russia or of France , nor , on the other hand , will the possession of Armstron g guns arid Whitworth rifles create a rage for bonrbardments or a thirst for assaults . The new House of Commons will , as a body , set aside these crotdhets , so far as they relate to our naval and military arrangements ; but great care must be taken to prevent their playing into the hands of the Whig and Tory enemies of reform . By all means let Messrs . Bright , Cobden , and Gibson lead whenever they are fit for such a position , but the Liberal members will faU in their duty if they permit all concert to drop when such leadership becomes impossible or absurd . ¦
We are glad to find town after town pronouncing its verdict in favour of neutrality , because we know that some of the Tories speculate upon the political capital they could make out of a European Avar , and we cannot forget that we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer who calls our National Debt a " flea-bite , " and seems not disinclined to play the part of that domestic irritant ^ by biting us again . It is not long since the folly of the independent members upon the China question made Lord Pahnerston the hero of the occasion , and gave us the worst Parliament known for many years .
We do nOt want any renewal of this conduct , and we trust that reasonable men will not allow the present war , or any question relating to it , to be the means of obstructing reform . We do not agree with the Manchester school in regretting that Lord Palmerston has not gone over to the Tory camp , but we shall be very happy to see them , or any one else , keep his lordship ' s foreign and domestic policy in wholesome check . This will be the more necessary , as there is a rumour that _ the-Tories contemplate accepting a defeat from him , on condition of his helping them to shelve the question of Parliamentary Reform . . .
Sir James Graham is unusually active , and has made another speech at a dinner celebrating the return of the Liberal candidates for Carlisle and East Cumberland . He sums up the position of the Cabinet with reference to the war pretty much in our own words— - " either that they have been grossly deceived , or that they have attempted to deceive us . " He regrets that in this " advanced state of civilisation " the passions of three or four me : n—uncontrolled by popular assemblies , uncontrolled by a free press—from mere wantonness , should involve the civilised world in such a war as is now taking place . " . '• ... ¦
Now , although we protest against the doctrines of Mi \ Buckle , who represents individuals as of no consequence , except as carrying out plans that the general state of society has rendered inevitable , we cannot , with Sir James Graham , throw all the blame of this war upon three or four men . English Cabinets and Parliaments did very much to exalt the French Emperor , and give him that power of disturbance which he is now beginning to exercise . English Cabinets and Parliaments did much to place the Sardinian monarch in a position that desi
encouraged him to cherish ambitious gns of territorial aggrandisement ; and English Cabinets and Parliaments did very much to sustain Austria as an intolerable tyranny , sure to be a constant source of danger to European peace . Let the ^ new Parliament be clear from some of the vices of the last , and not tolerate that adulation of despots , and that congratulation upon tho success of their plans of iniquity which former Parliaments have connived at , and which future historians will not fail to reckon in summing up the causes that enabled •? three or four in on " to wield the scourge of war .
For some purposes , and on some occasions ; the Liberals , as a body , would follow Lord John Russell ; but unhappily the Whig chief is an icy , ungenial leader , who has never managed , because he has never wished , to throw aside the narrowness of an aristocratic caste , and seek addition to his ranks by inviting the co-operation of able and honest men o f other classes , upon anything like equal and honourable terms . Such conduct is only compatible with a very precarious hold over a numerous portion of the House of Commons , arid has greatly increased the number of' members who are " independent , " not because they possess more knowledge
or a higher moral character than the average , but because they happen to live outside the social circles and family interests of the Lnnsdownes , Greys , and Russells , who show themselves leos anxious to advance princip les than to maintain a clique . Various efforts have been made to bring these "independent" members into something like order and cohesion , and tljey have failed , because " no one of their number has exhibited the combination of qualities necessary for the leader of so heterogeneous a mass . It has been the custom , to accuse the Manchester school of having split iip the Liberal party : but surely it was tho fault of
the party , rather than of the school , that hundreds of gentlemen from various districts were obliged to give up the hope of combination because they could not cflect it under Mr . Cobden or Mr . Bright . This strange dependence uppn the Manchester school is not lost sight of by the Tories , and they ore fortunate in tho occurrence of a war , which may enable ; them to turn it to oxcellent account . Go where you will , the feeling of tho country is in favour of suitablo armaments and popular means of defence — not for purposes of aggression , but as necessary aids to the
Sr eservation of our neutrality ; and yet every ay the organ of the Manchester school deplores the activity displayed in our arsenals and dockyards , and declares our navnl and military preparations to be more dangerous to ourselves than any schemes or forces that foroign potentates may cherish or possess . TUoir cry is , that if wo have arms wo shall want to use them , and that Englishmen are only peaceable when destitute of tho means of offence , The Poaco-at-nny-prico party make a great mistake in supposing their countrymen to bo as quarrelsome as themselves . The English nation will not , by acting upon their
May Carried The Bridge Of Lodi, And, As ...
May carried the Bridge of Lodi , and , as he said , felt , for the first time , that he was destined to be a great actor in the world ' s drania . In a brief period the young republican genez-al successively defeated Beaulieu , vVurmser ; and Alvinzi , and raised himself , to a level with the ' greatest com- ? manders , at an age when few soldiers-had passed the rank of lieutenant . In 1800 he effected his famous passage of the Alps , and on the 14 th June in that year nearly lost the great battle of Marengo , when the opportune arrival of Desaix and Kellerman changed the defeat into a victory that placed the whole of Italy at his command . In those days the King of Sardinia was the
ally of the Austrians ; now , the new Bonaparte has the advantage of Sardinian aid . In Other respects , matters are greatly changed , and an invader of Austrian Italy cannot expect a repetition of the vacillation and blunders on the part of the enemy which contributed , almost as much as his own skill , to the first Napoleon ' s success . The Austrian army is greatly improved , the fortresses strengthened , and the lessons of previous campaigns diligently studied . These are circumstances which make the position of Louis Bonaparte less advantageous than that of his uncle but , on the other hand , there is no European comnoxrthei
bination banded against him ; France has quarrel upon her hands ; and by the neutrality o England ^ and the consent of Russia , she has unin terrupted command of the sea . Napoleon HI enters the field surrounded by generals more thai equal in reputation to any that the Austrians can oppose ,- and nothing can reconcile the Frenci people to the new fact , that "The Empire is war , ' except a repetition of actions as brilliant as those which gave their most valued names to the bridges squares , and streets of Paris . The Austrians appear to have had their plani deranged by torrents of rain and overflow of rivers 4 but it is evident that , in their rapid advance intc Sardinian territories , they reckoned upon delays 1 in the arrival of the' French troops which
fortunately did not take , place . Count Gyulai was affirmed to have the brutality of Haynau without the skill . of Radetzky ; and by the merciless plunder of the Piedmontese , and his threats to the inhabitants of Piacenza , he has placed the first part of the proposition beyond dispute . ' In a recent pro-r clamation , he tells the people of Piacenza that " a ProvostMarshal ' sCourtis organised , and only applies one punishment—that of death ! " This extreme penalty is to be inflicted upon all who are found in possession of arms or ammunition of any kind , and upon all who take part in assemblages , whether unarmed or armed ! A more atrocious document was never issued , nor one more calculated to force the Italians to forget the risk they run , an < V throw themselves heart and soul into the Bonapartist and
Sardinian cause . The military position of Austria in Italy is remarkable for the extent of country she has undertaken to defend ; and a variety of speculations have been rife as to her object in reinforcing the garrison of Ancona , on the const of the Adriatic , in the Papal States . Without the consent of the Pope , the Austrians declared this town in a state of siege , and put out the light necessary to guide ships in its vicinity . These measures , it is said , have been abandoned in consequence of energetic remonstrances ,- but while Austria maintains a garrison there , so far away from her main line of
defence , it will look as if she hoped to obtain the aid of a German army , assisted by a naval power . Tho sympathy of the Derby Cabinet with tho Austrians has excited just alarm both hero and on the Continent ; and if we do not accept as true all the rumours that arc afloat , we want bettor assurance th , an has yet been obtained that a atriot neutrality will bo preserved . When . it is ona day asserted that an English fleet is ordered to tho Adriatic , and on another day we aro told that our Cabinet has gone out of its way to remonstrate against sending French troopa by the Mont Gems Railway , although the Swiss admit the right ot Franco and Sardinia to adopt such a course , we soo enouffh to necessitate very strong declarations ministers to tneir
his uncle , but will tho military genius come at his bidding P and will tho star of fortune shine propitiouslly upon his first fields of war f On the 20 th March , 179 G , tho First , perhaps tho only , Napoleon reached the head-quarters at Nioo , » nd , taking tho command of tho army of Italy , rapidly drove tho Austriana out of tho territories of Genoa and Piedmont , and on the 10 th
THE " NEPHEW" IN ITALY . Napoi-eon III . has issued , his first proolamation on fields renowned for the military glory of Napoleon I . Ho may run some risk from tho balls of tho enemy , and possibly La Marianne may point a musket from tho ranks of his own troops ; but his greatest porilsand his chiefeBt hopes spring from the fame of his uncle , which still blazes upon tho Italian soil . It ia easy to buy a groy coat and three-cornorcd hat , ana boots , like
of opinion in order to keep tho duty until Parliament moots , when deciBive measures may be taken , and tho loading prmoxploa of England ' s policy clearly laid down . It is satisfactory to learn that at present Austnan intrigues to inveigle Germany into her quarrel have failed ; and if wo could bo sure that English secret diplomacy would bo kept out' of ' mischief , we
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Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14051859/page/17/
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