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THE BALTIC. The St. Petersburg journals ...
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Vienna, July 11. Marshal Kadetzky has de...
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SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1855.
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SHALL WE HAVE THE TORIES? Thk struggle f...
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LORD JANUS RUSSELL. Lobd John Russell's ...
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THE BALTIC . The St . Petersburg journals of the 6 th report that on the nisht between the 2 nd and 3 rd , the gunboats of the allied fleets destroyed a large number of Finland vessels near Grossischra ; and that on the morning of the 3 rd Krasnafagorka was bombarded for five hours , and the Telegrap h barracks almost entirely destroyed . A letter from Trebizonde in the Moniteur mentions the death of ScHAMY ^' as certain .
Vienna, July 11. Marshal Kadetzky Has De...
Vienna , July 11 . Marshal Kadetzky has demanded reinforcements for the garrisons of Milan , Verona , Venice , and other Italian fortresses . 40 , 000 men -will shortly leave for that destination . * By the last American mail we learn that Alvarez has defeated the Government troops near Mexico . A telegraphic despatch from Barcelona , dated the 11 th inst ., announces that order reigns in that city .
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SATURDAY , JULY 14 , 1855 .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because thereis nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to Jceep thinsfs fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dk . Abnold .
Shall We Have The Tories? Thk Struggle F...
SHALL WE HAVE THE TORIES ? Thk struggle for power "between the two aristocratic parties which is taking place in the form of the different want-of-confidence motions , is not an edifying object of contemplation . The only point for sensible men to consider is , what we shall gain by exchanging Whigs for Tories . There will be no change in the character or objects of the war . "We shall still be left fighting for limitations of ships , modifications
of protectorates , and the other authorised objects of monarchical diplomacy . The idea of a real crusade in favour of liberty under the leadership of Lord Dekby is simply preposterous . Mr . Diskaeli makes peace and war speeches in rapid alternation , according as the chance of beating the Government by a junction with the warlike Radicals or the pacific Radicals appears the best . lie now denounces the expedition to the Crimea as ill-advised : but no one at the time was more
active in decrying the Government for not undertaking it . It ra clear that from such minds as this , acting under the pressure of a dozen , opposite influences , no straightforward and manly counsels in war or peace can come . The probability is that if Lord Derby and My . © isitAEM have any view in the matter beyond that of riding into office on the first wave , their view is favourable to peace ; and we should not be surprised if the imitator of BoiiiNGBitOKE were to follow in the steps of hia model by crowning Alrna and Inkermau with another treaty of Utrecht .
We JUave as little confidence in Tory promises of Administrative lloform . The Tories adopted Administrative Reform in the first instance , not for its own sake , but as an antidote to tho dosiro for Parliamentary
more stupid than the RussEli-s and G-ran-TiLiiES , and so are obliged to hire a Disraeli . But the class character of a Tory Government based on " the land , " is far more oligarchical in essential respects than a Government of " Whigs , which is compelled by its very want of support from the landlords to make concessions to the Liberals on whose votes it lives . Does any one suppose that ,
Reform ; and in that sinister sense alone they are its authors . They would probably , for the sake of place , graciously grant us some scanty measure . But they would not , and could not , touch the root of the evil . The root of the evil is aristocracy : and aristocracy is the very essence of Toryism . If the Tory Ministries appear less oligarchical tbar ^ . Whigsit is because the Tory Lords are
the purity and efficiency of the public service are the real objects of the intriguers who figure in the scaudalous chronicles of the Dockyard Committee ? Does any one suppose that if Lord Derby got into power he Avould throw open the great offices of state to men of the people ? The last Tory Ministry was composed of the
common ingredients of dull Tory Lords and Corn-law Squires . Even Mr . Disraeli ' s private secretary was not a young aspirant of merit , whom a man , pretending himself to stand on his merits , might have been glad and proud to raise . iuto public life , but a younger son of a particularly exclusive Duke . It matters not whether a man be a member
of the privileged caste himself , or a hired and liveried flunkey of the privileged caste , no reliance can be placed on him for the promotion of unprivileged capacity . Through the whole of the Administrative Reform movement , and the debates arising from it , the Tory leaders have shown , that , however glad they may be to play a popular card , they shrink instinctively from earnest reformers , and from reformers whose mission is direct from the people .
On the general Radical programme which the more unscrupulous and ambitious Tpries are inclined to put forth , Ave have spoken our mind . It is pure political Jesuitism of the worst kind . The grand experiment tried by Louis Natoi / eon has strengthened hopes , which , however , were entertained before , of turning the extended suffrage against liberty-, and of crushing the intelligence of the country by its ignorance . This detestable scheme is
congenial to men compared with whom the lowest demagogue of a pothouse , if there is a particle of honesty in hia illusions , is a noble type of political morality . Fortunately in this country the case is totally different from what it was in France , and wo should see the engineer on this side of the Channel " hoist with his own petard . " In France they had got rid of their landlords and their tithes . Universal suffrage combined with landlordism and tithes would bo an institution of a
somewhat explosive kind , and produce results scarcely dreamed of in the gentle philosophy of Lord John Manners . There is one condition on which we are ready , and more than ready , to have the Tories in power to-morrow—and that is , if those who put them iu power see their way clearly to a purification and consolidation of the Liberal party , and a real hearty movement in advance for objects worth a grand political struggle . But how many men arc there on tho Liberal benches who havo tho
courage to join in such ji struggle , or a real appreciation of its ends ? Wiiat sort of scene would the Liberal camp present on the morrow of the change—one of union nnd settled purpose , or of aimless recrimination and disorder ? Do what you will in tho interest of progress with tho two aristocratic
factions ; but act with your eyes open , and remember that the stationary Whigs are weak , that the retrograde Tories may be strong .
Lord Janus Russell. Lobd John Russell's ...
LORD JANUS RUSSELL . Lobd John Russell ' s last escapade has given the coup degrace to his repute and to the British constitution as it is in Russell . " Contraries in extremes do ofteu meet , " and Lord John has always been noted for au infirmity of purpose which amounts to inflexible audaeiiy . He rushes from his resolve with a directness that nothing can turn aside , and takes flight with a rashness that no counsel can intimidate . Sydney Smith ,
whose allusion to Lord John ' s daring has often been misconceived , perfectly understood the character of the man . He did not mean that Lord John would have taken the command of the Channel fleet in the face of the Spanish Armada , or have undertaken an operation in order to effect the rescue of a martyr ; but that if it were distinctly his duty to conclude a peace at Vienna , we might expect to see him rushing to the command of the Channel fleet in order to lead au
attack upon the commercial navy of the Austrian Lloyd ' s ; or , if it were his duty as British Minister to find bread for that fleet , we probably should discover him at Guy ' s , performing the operation in question , not for the sake of the sufferer , but for his own sake , as finding there the most opposite occupation into which , as British Minister , he could rush . It must have been on this principle that ,
being sent to Vienna for the purpose of dictating terms to Russia and controlling the vacillations oi' Austria , he accepted the propositions of Count Buol , and returned to London an Austrian agent for sacrificing all the objects of the war to Russia . There is not another man iu the country whom infirmity of purpose would have terrified into an act of such imperious effrontery .
It is Lord John Russkll ' s peculiar talent to provide surprises for his friends by being always the opposite of what they expect him to be , and repaying their fidelity by betraying all their hopes . When he has been in office , lie has often postponed the measures which they expected him to carry , until he had lost
the j ) ower of carrying them ; and then he proposed them with so much determination , that lie resigned rather than give them up . The Irish Appropriation clause was a splendid means of beating the Tory party—the boast of the Whigs while they were iu power and capable of carrying it ; but never carried . Lord John was tlie advocate of free trade
but not its promoter until Peel was already coming into office , and then the penitent Whig leader offered to make a beginning , iu order to shut out Pj : el from that work which he accomplished . Subsequently , after having helped the Tory Protectionist deserters to turn Pjcel out , and being again iu oflice , in tho full possession of power , of opportunity , and of party traditions , Lord John suffered hia own Cabinet to dwindle into an
antiquarian relic , tho mere counterfeit of what it had been ; and ho who , being neither so democratic , nor so free-trading , nor so thoroughgoing a minister n « Hint old Tory , had usurped the place of Pjbkl , wns at last obliged to give way to a Promior of no greater rank than JDkimy . Lord John was rescued from political superannuation by Lord A . jjekdeen , who formed The Cabinet of tho . "Elders , with
a few recruits from the junior ranks of statesmanship . And now did Lord John repay that rescue ? He professed a most patriotic willingnoss to unite for tho purpose of rescuing the tttato from tho disgrace into which it had fallen
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Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14071855/page/8/
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