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September 16, 1854.] THE LEADER. Qy fi
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A NOVEMBER SESSION i That appears to us ...
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WHO IS MASTER OF THE HOUSE ? Is the Brit...
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Lord Equlntovx axd Scottish Eights . —Last session Lord Eglintoun brought the question of the so-called Scottish Bights before the Honse of Lords in such a manner as to lead most people to believe that he meant to extinguish it . They don ' t think so in Scotland , for he has been invited to a banquet by the members of the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Bights , which has been definitively fixed to come off in the City Hall , Glasgow , on the evening of Wednesday , the 4 th of October next , and will be presided over by his Grace the Duke of Montrose . Scotland ' s Need of Whisky . —If a poor fellow must ¦ work from morning to night six days of the week , and then go to church on the seventh to listen to some dismal teacher , ¦ wi thout getting any chance of a country run in the fresh air , what can be expected but what we get , namely , dull sobriety or crazy intoxication ! With a religion that denies
all Sunday enjoyment , and towns that stink as they stand , Scotland has need of whisky . Let Scotland , however , make her religion more cheerful , and her towns sweeter , and sobriety will grow of itself , and 5 a a more rapid and healthy manner than it can possibly do by the aid of all the acts the good Forbes Mackenzie could pass from this to doomsday . — Glasgow Sentinel . The Missing Income Tax Commissioner . —A Dublin paper states : — " We learn from a reliable source that Mr . Edmund O'Flaherty was lately encountered sauntering with undiminished magnificence on Broadway . Mr . Hume in ScoTLAND .-r-The veteraa reformer is in tlie norths He has been enjoying the hospitality of Sir George Sinclair , in Caithness . He is expected to be in Montrose next weei , when he will probably " address his constituents
, ine rumour with respect to his retirement seems to have been-unfounded . It is generally understood in Montarose that , \ vben lie comes , he will respectfully assure lis supporters that he intends to continue the discharge of the parliamentary duties they have imposed upon him , as long as his health will at all permit . Miss Hume ^ the poetess , accompanies her father . When he arrived at Wick , last-week ^ a salute was fired by the steamer on . casting anchor . A great crowd of people assembled on the quaysV and braes , imagining that the demonstration was occasioned by news of a victory in the East . The city of Aberdeen had resolved to confer the highest honour on Mr . Hume which it can give . Mr . Hume has received the freedom of-the burgh of Wiek .
Another Anecdote of the Bishop op Oxfomv—* ' The JJjshop of ^ Oxford having sent round to the chttrch-¦ wardens in the diocese a circular of inquiries ~ ainottg which ¦ s ras- ^* Does your officiating Clergyman preach the Gospel , and iurehis conversation and carriage consistent therjj-¦ with ?"—the churchwarden of Wallingford replied , "He preaches the Gospel , but does not keep a carriage . " A Russian Roman Catholic Priese . — The Tablet , in nmnpuncing that one Father Petcherine , a Redejmptariat Priest , - will preach a sermon for a Catholic charity , gays : — 41 Father Petcherine ' s father is a Russian nobleman of the first rank , and attached to the court of the Emperor , and is a . colojiel in the Itnperial Guards . Father Petcherine ' a course through the University of St . Petersburg was one of the most brilliant description , so much so that on th « first vacancy he was appointed to the chair of the Hebrew and
ureefc languages , ia which department lie distinguished himself as one of the first linguists of his day . Having been sent on a confidential mission of great importance into Flanders , and having to examine various works In the University of Liege bearing on -the object oi his mission , he was greatly struck with the proofs of Catholic truths which he there met with . At the same time the Redemptorist Fathers were giving a mission in the city . M . Petclierine attended their lectures , and the result was that ho emiraoed the Catholic religion , and subsequently became a member of the illustrious Order of Redemptorists . It 5 s a singular historio factr that Father Petcherino is the first convert from the Russian schisniatical Church who became a Catholic Clergyman . His example has since been followed by several . Father Petcherine studied under the celebrated SchJegol ,
The French Ex-Royal Family . —Queen Marie ArneTie , the Dulco do Nemours , the Count d'Eu , the Duke d'AJencon , the Princess Margaret , the Countess Mollien , with other members of the Royal suite , liave within the last few days returned to their temporary residence at Torquay , from a Bhort visit to Clnremont , where the Royal party attended a ceremony in commemoration of the death of Louis Philippe . Tub Houses ov Parliament . —The Houses of LprdB and Commons are now undergoing extensive alterations , preparatory to tho introduction of Mr . Goldsvvorthy Gprnoy ' s system of lighting nnd vontilivtion . The artificial lighting of the two debating chambers will bo different . In tho Commons tfio Bystcm of lighling through tho coiling , which was introduced in tho lust session as an experiment , and mot with such general approval , will bo retnine < l , its groat merit being that it throws , rays of light alone into the chamber , without rays of heat , and thus lenvea tho atmosphere of the house wholly uninfluenced . But in the Los-do there appears to ho a difficulty in . carrying tlint arrangement into operation , without extensive alterations in tho coiliuc . which
¦ vvquUJ mar its beauty , while they could only bo introduced at considerable coat : and , therefore , in pnrsuunco of tho recoinmen <]« tjon of their Lordships' comm Ittee , tho pendant lights put up by Mr . Mocson , who linn hsid charge of tho l > K « tinK « nd vciuilution of tho Iiouho for oonio time pa-Hfc , and which lights were tried iu tho clinmbor before tho closo of tho session , nro to fco ndoptod permanently , but porfeutod in a modQ by which ull products of combustion which vitiutc tl » o surrounding ntrnoaphero shiill ho curried out of tho houso . l Ho ( luylicht admitted through tho stained windows of thoir A . orU » wpa' houao is not In dm-k "weather « o good us mifflit bo « 08 ir » . i > ie , but tho oommittoo wor « reluctant to sugiMfct any altora ion of those -windows , wlioso chnraotor and ( fecoratioi ) hH ' . ? » S' * bo well accorded with tho style of tho olmmbois , win « thoy owibollishod it . l ' urt of Lllcui , however , « ro will h « i ° T ? V vontlUalon of the LowU' ohmubern 7 , SLmJh ° k lho mtm I ' "" « 8 « ' »«* recently 3 ntro . cluccd into tho Corr . rnon » by Mr . Gurney , U , great fading leatun of which is tho provision mndJlhr a nioi-o tree «» 3 direct paaaigo for the nuimly of faith air to tho homo .
September 16, 1854.] The Leader. Qy Fi
September 16 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . Qy
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There is nothing so . reyohitionary , becauae there is nothing bo unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep thjnga fixed when , aja the world is by the very lavw of its creation in eternal progress *—Da . Abnoxd .
A November Session I That Appears To Us ...
A NOVEMBER SESSION i That appears to us £ o h & the < obyiotis policy of tjie party which , standing independent of "Wiadg amd Tory cohesions , Mia enduing rather than supporting the-Opalitioa , we may denominatethe National Party ,. A reeess is a cpasfcitutional arrangement , 3 ao doubt . It was necessary to have a short session and a long recess when . , all the xaemb . ers of Parliament \ vere country gentlemen , and when conanWiiaicatipnbetwe . e . n th . e taeferopplis ^ and Xorkshire ¦ Mvtas an aflair of a ¦ vr ^ e ^ i Bat in these days , when the country gentlemen . are only a class ia Parliament , and when country ge & tlemen do not cultivate their own estates , and when railways and telegraphs \ enable Yorkshire , or Corlcshire , or Aberdeen ^ shire , g « ntlena , en to reside in London and yet carry onTorkshire , or Corkshire , or Aberdeenshire , business , a recess should be merely a vacation- By November , members of Paxlianjenfc will have had adequate relaxation . At any period it would be a logical viewthat , " a aelf-gpvernad . xiountry '' ought not to haud its affairs ovep to an irresponsible Cabinet for so long a period as six months . At the present period , with a war raging ^ and great ' diplomatic movements in . progress , it is simply silly in the nation tp allow Coyrt and Cabinet to put the House of Commons on one side .
Granted that , in the last session , Parliament did not greatly interfere with the Cabinet , and that tlie Radical party were alarming Ministerialists , Tjhe question ia not whether or not the the Government ia entitled to the confidence of the country ; we are not contemplating a November session in which the national party would oppose the coalition . "We anticipate that the Tory press will hasten to take up the cry of a November
session- ^ -and as a cry . Our present view is , that tho national party has a jnission , to recal to the Houso of Commons historic traditions , and to rernipd it of its old constitutional rights and functions . We do not oppose the Government : we merely insist that the House of Commons is bound to aid tho Government in carrying on the war , and to represent , in action , the people , by conditioning the character of tho war .
^ Members of the Government are , wo know , disgusted and indignant that so large a portion of tho press continue to comment in terms of suspicion and inuendo upon their conduct of the war . It may bo that Lord Abcrdeon , sagaciously comprehensive in his views , and despising what ho ' regnrds as tho impossible liberalism which is urged hy thoso who require that tho war againist Russia be made a war for Hungary and Poland , daily contemplated resignation bot ' oro tho storm of reproach levelled against him for tho long delay at Yarna . Ho ia a very atoicnl , cynical , Premier ; but ho cannot but groan iu presence of tho humiliating fact that n
conaklorable number of her Majesty ' s subjects regard him as acting under the combined infl ^ gnxieg of imbecility and treachery , But ths position of the Government illustrates the failure of the attempt , so palpable in a I ^ eqess ., to reconcile secret diplomacy with , free iasfcifcur tioae . IJord Aberdeen ' s object i & fcjjis / war maybe the only possible object open to Qveiti Britain to accomplish . Bufe whafc lj < s 2 $ aans is ^ essentially different from what the English people means : and hence suspicion arising out of unconfessed antagc % isnj ., The House
of Commons was greatly waiting in its duty last Session : Mr . Disraeli , as-chief of ; a Tory opposition , very adroitly took , advantage ojf the popular suspicion to lead m thie assailing criticisms on the Ministry ; and , in confer qvance , the Badioals , refusing ;' -to be bo led , backed into the abject illogj < aality which wa ^ J ia ho melancholy a manner represented bjf Mr . Hume . Xet the H <> it 8 $ i : of Qomn ^ j ^ m debates oa the vsrac , did sojaeithirig ; they induced revelation after revelation urttiy . & prf [ Jiohn Bussell was g && evening , tempitedi by
m & sure pppMLlarity psepiaEed , into speaking put boldjy , abo , ujb theKfestpueifeaof tfcejBla ^ fe Sea B . usaiatL fle ^ t being a jaeewssary coAdjition . of permanent peace , "We believe ajfpsfenaber Session would develppe still further Mindsjterial concepifcions ; and me th « : moj : e earnestly eutertain this conviction jfroxn an asauraaee that the Government has at preaent np respr lutions beyond the assault on Sebaatppol , while theresolutipn of Jtussia ^ tofight toher last rouble and her last man r . emAins unmodified by the fact that the i ^ re » ch axmj of the East has lost 70 . 00 men , and the English ar » iy pf the East 3000 men , byvthe cholera .
Our House of Commons represents . , only indirectly the people—represents , in . the first ; instance , the classes who have an , inteEesifc in . the maintenance of the exclusive sjrstei ?! of government which Lord Aberdeen fijajds sp incompatible with popular preteneions-r-rand we do not anticipate that " next sesaion . " is to annihilate secret diplomacy . But secpet diplomacy would be , in many respects , tempered just now by parliamentary debatea . Austria would not prosper so completely , by our undertaking tp detend civilisation and uphold the cause of national independence , it Parliament were sitting .
A November Session , then . It is not . a bold prediction that if November be- lost February will not be of much use to English Liberals .
Who Is Master Of The House ? Is The Brit...
WHO IS MASTER OF THE HOUSE ? Is the British public aware that it is only a lodger ? who is England ? Twenty-eight millions of people , countless millions of capital , three estates , of Peers , Church , and Commons ? Or these and the Times , and the Society for the Diffusion of Christian Knowledge—tho fourth estate ? Or these and the Crown ? Or the Crown itself—the State , the Sovereign ? Not at all . Prince Albert is the Master of the House . All the rest are lodgers . "Wo do not accept the official repudiation of the newspaper repoi't of tho speeches at tho Boulogne banquet . "Wo believe in the nowupaper report : " our reporter " never ma / cos a blunder about a great fact . We , therefore * bolievo tho simple circumstance , that kouia Napoleon propoaod tho health of our Queon , and that his Royal Highness Prince Albert , in responding , oxproaaed tho polite , and . almost inevitable , hope that lior Majesty and tho Wrench Kinporor would spooodily make personal acquaintance )—that ia , that Louis Napoleon would com © over to England on a friendly viaU . Wo can understand the uulwoument to tho official repudiation of thia import ; buL " \ vo arc quito sure that tho repu >
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 16, 1854, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16091854/page/11/
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