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the House , which we should wish to have , except Sir John Pakington's proposition , for popular education ? But PAKiNaTON himself is involved in the Russell defeat ,, and is the author of a rejected measure . If or must more liberal parties sneer either at Derby ites or Palmerstonites . We nailed the movement of the Administrative Reformers , and what have they done % Have they in the slightest degree emulated the Corn-law Repealers , who have not only carried one measure , but have influenced tie whole financial policy
There is also influence . This , however , the working classes and tfee middle classes have almost equally consented to waive ; yet they possess intelligence , numbers , and courage . Our brethren in America understand the necessity better ; they know that when a movement is to "be originated , not simply organised , it does not do to get up " a society , " with its small subscriptions and routine , but that a greater life of charity is needed—a heartier action ^—a more generous earnestness ; and the first thing they do is to brine : men of the same
of the country % We say it with , regret much more than hostility , when we say that Mr . Latabd , Mr . Lindsay , and " the L * s , " are marked with the unsuccess that adheres to Ministers . We can run tip a list of measures which , might be proposed—Public Education , Administrative Reform , City Municipal Reform , Relief of our Mercantile Marine from passing tolls and local dues , Extension of the Franchise , Army Reform- —all standing still , or moving only with a pretence of motion . Unsuccess at present is the result of every political movement , whether it originates with Ministers , Opposition , independent parties ., the middle class , or the working classes ; for the working ,
intent into personal communication . Noise , publicity , agitation , are a , t ? this stage hindrances , distractions , obstructions , not aids ; and they are avoided . Men who desire the importance of an enterprise , who have it at heart , who are prepared to make sacrifices for it , they come together ; and they prevail . This is the duty of the present day ; and until it is performed , whensoever , wheresoever , and "by whomsoever , we shall have continued inertness , political trifling , and progressive decline of national feeling , until a , disaster shall bring a nealthy but a violent and dangerous reaction . Towards that , for vrant of a chivalrous public order , we are now drifting .
THE HESHpyfARE . / T ^ " - ; 3 S | Iini 8 tr ^^ v is -brea fciBg- up y it has susta ^ 0 dj !|» esp ^ at 0 dL . ^ . djefea'ta ; c meifibers : will not muster at its call ; j ; it has lostr its hold over ih ^ flbuse of Commons ; its measures are rejeetedj ^ J & ustxat ^ j and trampled under foot ; mo party benefits by its patronage j no member is afraidI of it j it ' . "is drifting ifatp a state , of eontenxpt ; dissolution is its only chance , and ministers must dissolve forthwith , unless they desireio "be dissolved . Saich are the . anticipaT tipBisCthat , are : heard ; in , all quarters ; and the liaost ' generai Question is , WHen wilV the dissolution ^ take platee ? : * Ehe -question is prematurei because those who piut it do not think fast enough . If Ministers were to dissolve , let us ask . upon what questions they- are- to ^ dissolve % > Upon 10 iju
uutrss xs ' us-uttau . as auy uuu . e . 1 m uu « uuujuuljt . * We have no guarantee that even our foreign policy is in a more vital condition . The Turkish question has closed in a compromise with Russia ; the Italian question opens only , we fe & rj tal > e deferred : This is not an honourable position for any country . We certainly have not arrived at the end of all reforms and improvements ; and there is nothing in the character of any man now in office , or standing outside the door of office , which should make us leave our affairs to him . Yet we do so . Now , in former times , or in otter lands , has it been thought safe to leave a community without any mission ? Princes well understood State-craft when they gave their subjects something to do , to keep them out of mischief . Other communities are going aaead of us . In Australia they insist > *\ -r \ mnvt « * v « ir \ / v » + Vhm " ¦• / x ^ irn a -flpr * Ino rf > r % r \ 4 * ol 11 ~ £ X XT ATI \ J Tl JJl
wuav . vaji tiiey " go ; e uouuwry * , uuw that we have arrived at peace , wliat great public cause is so identified , with the present Ministry that- they oan say to the country , « ' Support us and tnis great principle ? " There is-none . Ministers therefore caunot dissolve . They may be proposipg little improvements , here and there j but otlier men can . propose little improvements ; and whenitis a question , not of a great piece of architecture , but of caa ^ peiiitry , we cani always com . man . d the men "by sending for them * It does not concern the country very much at present , whether it should have in office ; Pakmetoton ; , or any other possible Premier ; for if we dp ; not get much good out jof the present Ministry , neither should wo get much harm out of any other . "TOln » + ' # Vliior > f .- -than in . nTmnflrincr t "WYtft . h nrvnnlfti *
\ 7 JI & J-llCfcJLKVgJLJUIt ^ VUVA * WLXKAHX & p CtA . llA VMJ . M * * - > ¥ t / U of electing their own Governor ; we shall not keep up with our emigrated countrymen by idly and . passively envying them . In America , education is open to every child ; we shall not rnake it so by leaving it to any of the Parlia 1 - mentary tribe . There is at the present moment an evident duty before the Government of this country—to defend the outpost of constitutional ( government in , Italy . Austria threatens to extinguish it there , and she is already concentrating her troops against Piedmont , who lias not attacked her . Piedmont would , temperately and discreetly , extend constitutional modes throughout Italy . The real thing most wanted to secure success for Piedmont is the support and active aid of our Government . Our neoT > le- would suiroorfc Government there ,
requirement , is tliere that Queen Victoria should " send for'' some other person . The defeats that fcjaye been incurred ; are not ; indeed tHpse of , the Ministers exclusively ; , rather the reyerse , One of the defeats which are'reefconed iri ' tlvis Hat is the . rejpefcion of Lord John Bussbm / s education resolutions ; but that defeat as primarily the defeat of Iiord John and theliberal halfof . the "Whig party , who ought to ^ ave ' stood by Binii Ib it Lord John who lv ^ d i bQ ,. « f sent jfor V The common antioipaiur ai tnat routin je ituxx
though not in a war with America , which would at & blow arrest tlie imports and experts of Lancashire . If our Government holds back , what is the , sole and obvious reason 1 That it does not desire to support the extension of constitutional Government , or to defend its outposts . We need not be idle , then , "because we have no mission at home ; a very important duty calls us . It is to rally those men in whom the pride of country is not quite dead—who desire 4 / t oaa 11 a r \ P Knn nQT ^ rtf . l « T * rl lr /* a-r \ v \ n /« ck twif . li ^ ITI *
« i 8 , ' touowing" e , ubjm . muM . wj ^ ldj ^ dfe ^ p ^ toh a , messenger to the Earl of T $ &^ ' $ ! % i & cut Jbow > I Haa h & Iheon so succeaBljaV ' a Btatesman-I Haa he proposed any n $ ( JEJi ^ t ig ^ in office ? Is ih ^ joountry : indebted ! , to , njia ^ Houae . of . Oommons liieijtoiiant , '¦ Mfcf ' Bto ' wwjtri for- any liberalj ing ^ j ^ uet , or ^ a ^ ble , pr Qp < f ( 8 i ) , Uon ^ thw year 1 Haa ft oinglo measure emanated from that , side oft 4
% )\ f UVV + A . K > UA UMV VMIHVAIV A « VA « A . IXWIJ lJMl \>*~* 11 AWM > *** % ** , emigrated countrymen in restoring tho franchis es of our Constitution—of that Constitution that our forefathers won with so much energy and deoiaion . " The Charter P criea our working friend . But we have to get at that Charter , so that wo have something to do first . The right of electing Members of Parliament is nqfc tho sole instrument of political aotion .
The Sardinian Memorial. On One Point Con...
THE SARDINIAN MEMORIAL . On one point connected with the new aspect of Italian politics , we are as yet without positive information . How far the discussion was carried by the Plenipotentiaries can Only be known wlien the protocols are published . But it may be stated , without reserve ,- that the question , " What can one do for Italy T elicited from . Coulit Cavottr a declaration on the part of his Government , in the shape of a memorial , which ,- we believe , was laid before the Env peror , without being acknowledged formally by the Congress . The , public is not in danger of being misled , if it now receives a statement of the views expressed in that memorial . We have said that it was elicited by the French Emperor ' s interrogation . But Count Cavour did . nob leave Turin to attend i-Yk rf-k nATAA-pnee ^¦• i + Tirtnf '_ A \ i * acaamni < +. T" » caT : noli nA 1 * Q . XsOiD UUWUU v * w » fc
% JXXS ^ ^ J \ JMJLf ^ l ff JI X * JJ . \^ O \*\^ XM-X £ ^ VMUIU t ^ % - »* % ** tions might ensue as to the political condition of Italy . His memorial , therefore , may be assumed to embody the opinions of the Piedmontese Government , which , at this crisis , stands as the representative of the Italian nationality . Sardinia , then , declares that there is now developed in Europe a conflict between two principles , one represented by France and the West , tbe other by a great despotic coalition and the Bast . The question of the future is , should this coalition be attacked , dissolved , or counterpoised 1 The forces at the disposal of liberalism in the West are inadequate to destroy such a system , with Austria adhering to it , and to detach Austria , is impossible . Its prinoii ) les are hers . Bv them she has existed ; her
political instincts teaoh her to oohere to the monarchical coalition . Her Empire rests upon tho resources of three nations , historically hostile to each other , with language , interests , and tendencies perpetuating the ancient feud . Austria , therefore , exists by virtue of a Central Executive , which site maintains by keeping united under her irresistible restraint three different states , which would otherwise attain distinct political existences . This plan gives lior , as it were , the force /^• f f . Vkvao , at . nf . on nil rirVh ft . ll liiafcnrirtallv im-Ma *^^» w
\ J A VAAJL ViW WV ^ VMW ) •«•** a « x «*<«* . >* »•* ,- *•« * r ~^ — - * tf p ortant , to bo used against each other , the triple power being variably exerted for purposes of repression . Tho same principle predominates over tlxo whole Eastern coalition ; it is tho State seoret of Russia , which , employs tho Polish legions , that may not be left in Poland ,, in provinces whoro they are aliens , and naturally at' variance with fche population .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 19, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19041856/page/10/
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