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POPULAE SELF-DEFENCE. The progress of op...
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A New Ministry On The Tapis. We Are Not ...
ones with an administration and ft policy suited to the progtess of the age . Its Success is to be calculated from the elements of its own constitution A ministry appealing , as this must , "To " Persons about to Marry '' - —a very iiuinerous class , we understand j appealing as it does " To Advertisers , "—Jthe vast interest which exercises a peremptory sway over , thejwhole press ; appealing as it does to all classes , —to the nobility , gentry ; and public in general , — -cannot but succeed in that which has been the despair of every
preceding ministry , in uniting all classes under the dominion of the national spirit , the shopkeeping persuasion . We understand that the ministry will be joined as an ally , if not as a colleague , by Mr . Eisehberg ; who , like the Duke of Wellington , carries in his pocket the signatures of half the nobility , to sky nothing of the excellent footing on which he stands with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte . Possibly , though it must be a matter of some
delicacy in the asking , Mr . Eisenberg might waive any objection that he would naturally entertain against taking the post vacated by Lord Maimesbury . This happy idea restores the conduct of public affairs to harmony with the " great facts" of the age . The Barons have had their day ; the country gentry have had their Bill of Hights , and have killed their own mutton long ago ; the Church , which took to itself what it asked for the poor , belongs essentially to a past aera ; even the merchant interest passed its zenith under Sir Robert Peel ; but the true union is consummated for our day in . the union of Shop and State .
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Malmesbury's Magnum Opus Ee-Editedit Has...
MALMESBURY'S MAGNUM OPUS EE-EDITEDIt has only been by degrees that the true nature of Lord Malmesbury's administration has become known to the English public ; even the Mather story has become intelligible , bit by bit , and it has needed constant recapitulation , in order to fit it to more developed knowledge . _ . A detachment of Austrian soldiers is passing along the street , to relieve guard ; the street is crowded , and two English youths , nineteen and seventeen years of age , endeavouring to cross the street in the midst of a crowd , pass between the band and the detachment ; while in that position ,
one of them is pushed by the sword of an officer , and then by the officer ' s left hand ; as he is getting out of the war , he is struck in the face by a second officer ; and , turning round , as any English youth would , to ask the meaning of the attack , he is cut down with the sabre . In these particulars , both variations of the Btory agree ; but there is one point of difference . He turned round , says Marshal Uadetzky , in the action of an English boxer : the civilians who witnessed the occurrence , distinctly deny that they saw anything of the kind .
It is remarkable that their evidence , which appears to have been taken , is totally set aside , whilst the report of an officer on , duty appears to be equivalent to a revelation , in the estimate of Marshal Itadetzky . But , it is stili ' more remarkable that the English Minister , the Earl of Maimesbury , Her Majesty ' s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , absolutely admits Marshal Hadotzky ' s account as final and sufficient , and , on the strength of it , pronounces the occurrence to be " an accident , " unstained by personal or national animosity .
The reason for the action of Lieutenant Forsthiiber must bo admitted as a sufficient motive . In England , wo are at first surprised to see an officer applauded for striking an unarmed man ; and Lord Palmorston relates , in Parliament , two anecdotes , showing that the possession , of a weapon has been considorod , both by a bravo Englishman and a bravo Frenchman , to bo an absolute disqualification for contest with an unarmod man ; to Lord Westmoreland , Prince Schwarzenberg reciprocally boasted of a similar fooling ; but , whon Lieutenant Forsthiibor , " fearing ot be exposed to a dishonouring intmlt , from which it necessarily behoved him to secure himself , " struck Mr . Erskino Mather " a blow on the head with the edge of his nabro , " Marahal Kadbt / lcy pronounces that "ho was perfectly right , " and that " ho absolutel y did nothing but whal , ho was nn ( ir r . p ^ lfriffi ^ * ° * ° ' . ^ ^ 1 himself from an outrage , ^ w EW SI ^ iMfcBjBts inovitublo oonrtcquoncoB . ' Wow , wo bc-J ^ fcilBcf : l ftgBlSByK ™ * no na ^ uudor the sun , not even t j ^^^ r ^ HPffi wMgbh calumniated Neapolitan nation , whoso v r 3 fBlfS £ il ^^^ MB | Hi ^ are otherwise than bravo ; and theroforo fy ^ m ^^ W ^ mE ^ ^ tko Austrian Lieutenant , backed ¦ jp 3 sK ™ r /^ ¦ ^ SjS ^^ JfcUw ' Rp ^" '
by the approval of his chief , would bis simpl y a puzzle to the English reader , if he were not informed of an absolute rule in the Austrian service , that every Austrian officer who receives a plow , must kill the man who gives it , or be subject to degradation . That is the rule , inflexible as the doom of destiny , which neither the Marshal nor the Lieutenant could gainsay ; but it is not the rule applicable . 'to '" English subjects ; and ihe surprising fact is ,, not that it should receive
ihe acquiescence of Austria , but that it should receive the submission of an English Minister , on behalf of an English subject , on territory not Austrian . For we always are to . remember- , that Mi * . Mather had not placed himself withirt the pale of Austrian laws by entering Tuscan territory ; and that , therefore , the rule of Austrian law was not to be accepted in his case , by the Minister Of thes English Government .
Anticipating the treatment which he is to receive from his own Government , Lord Maimesbury has disavowed his diplomatic agent in Tuscany , Mr . Scarlett , not because he had accepted an inadequate compensation ,- —Lord Maimesbury had already blown upon that part of the case , by liis own instructions ; not because he had mixed tip the claims of the Mathers with that of the
Stratfords ; but , says Lord Maimesbury , because he had abandoned the principle of Tuscan responsibility . Now , as Lord Palmers ton has shown , Mr . Scarlett had not abandoned that principle : he had simply waiyed its discussion ; and Lord Maimesbury had acquiesced in that Waiver . But the mixture of the two cases , which Lord Maimesbury sanctions , was , in itself , absurd ; as Lord PaJmerston demonstrates . The Stratfords had
a right to release , on the ground that they had been convicted by an illegal tribunal , —an Austrian court-martial on Tuscan territory , which has no claim to be recognised by the British Government . Lord Maimesbury ' a agent , therefore , cruelly as he has been reprimanded on wrong grounds , has gratuitously yielded an important principle in the case of the Stratfords , and has fawningly accepted a degrading compromise in the case of the Mathers ; in both respects with Lord Maimesbury's express sanction .
The case is not over yet . Lord Maimesbury has begun again ; but we are much mistaken if Mr . Mather , the sound-hearted , does not still keep a watch for Englishmen over our own English Foreign Secretary .
A Spooner-Ful At Bedtime, Occasionally. ...
A SPOONER-FUL AT BEDTIME , OCCASIONALLY . " If you flog my Jew , " cried the German postillion , " I'll flog yours : " " If you won't read my County Polls Bill a third time , " cried Lord Robert Grosvenor , " I'll move the adjournment of your Maynooth debate ; " and on that motion the House voted .
It was a critical hour , and great was the judgment needed in Spooner . Ho had much in his favour . He was the champion chosen to uphold a cause specially and avowedly favoured by Derby , though not by Disraeli ; he was utrong in tho sense of exclusive righteousness : " Dieu et mon Derby" might have been his motto . Thrice had he forced tho House to entertain tho question : and although taunted with the
inevitable necessity of leaving tho inquiry after all till " next session , " he had sucooeded in pushing it forward . In vain , practical but discreet members tried to shirk the uncomely but " Protestant" intolerance ; in vain Disraeli was forced to admit his reluctance , and to swallow it ; in vain generous politicians urged tho House openly to set tho subject aside . Thus far Spooner had succeeded .
But now came his dark hour . It was far boyond tho midnight of Monday—nearly throe o'clock on Tuesday morning . The House had been sitting , exclusively of a two-hours rest , for nearly thirteen hours , and had boon discussing every variety of subjects , including moro than o ' no Irish question . Mr . Scully was in pos-Bossion of tho jiouse , and , on a previous night , had spent thrco hours irt bringing tho history of
M ' ayhooth down to IHH ; still , theroforo , having thirty-eight recent years to work upon . Mr . Disraeli , whom it wan so doairahlb to havo present at tho division , declared that , if Mr . Scully should josumo tho debate , with all his respect for that honourable gentleman , it Ai aa hits own intention to go home ; and Ml " . Sidnoy Horbort kindly counselled Mr . Spooner not to press tho motion at that honr . But irk a spirit of obstinacy , offering a lugubrious and saintly parody on " Wo
won't go home till morning , " Mr ; Spooner insisted on keeping watch even after the dawn had streaked thth russet the proceedings of the Honourable House ; In the intoxication of the hour " the saints still determined to make a night of it ' and 103 choice spirits- out-voted the 29 sober men who were for adjourning . Butthen came the most singular proposition ever made to Parliament . The most singular we say advisedly , although * we have Lord Maimesbury ' aerojet ds lot full in our recollection
Mr . Spooner proposed to regard that vote as one " indicating the feeling of the House "—in other words , to record it historically as if it were a vote on the main question ! To such a slippery footing had the Anti-Maynooth cause sunk , that its champion asked to be allowed to consider a vote on adjournment , as a vote on the main question of the grant ! The plea advanced by Mr . IsTewdegate was , if possible , more extraordinary . " He considered that the time for fair discussion was over and
therefore , he had given notice above a week a <* o that they would take a division on the mam question . " The application of this argument to Mr . Spobner ' s proposition is strange ; but the principle involved is wonderful . Adopt it , and we should see discussions divorced from divisions —the discussion taken at one time , and t he divi sibn weeks afterwards . The next step would be for the House generally to go on discussing
throughout the season , and for the champions of any particular " cause" to take the division when it pleased them—when the House was in the mood , or the riumbers would suit . In this way every side might secure a majority . Ultimately an old suggestion might be adopted , and the division of employments might be carried out by doing all the discussion in one House , and the divisions in , the other . And it is Conservative
Mr . Newdegate who proposes the first step towards that plan for converting the House of Lords to some useful purpose ! After allj perhaps , Mr , Spooner ' s plan is the simpler : it is to take any division you please , and consider it as the one on your own motion . But the House is not yet ripe for that proposition , nor green enough for adhesion to Spooner as a leader : he , the Anti-Maynooth blaze , and the session , all go out in the socket together . As heroes of old were translated to the stars in a cloud , so Spooner is lost to the eyes of the faithful in a smoke .
Populae Self-Defence. The Progress Of Op...
POPULAE SELF-DEFENCE . The progress of opinion on the subject of national self-defence is satisfactory . Some timo since , we saw Mr . Disraeli advancing the Militia Bill as a commencement in the re-arming of the people ; Lord Palmerstbn had previously deprecated distrust of the people ; and now we find Lord Lansdowne pronouncing it " expedient that by slow degrees the people of this country should be trained to the use of arms . " Tho Duko of Wellington upholds a militia « aa a " constitutional" force , and as a needful part of a peaco establishment . And Lord Grey defends tho expediency of encouraging volunteer corps . A system of volunteer corps is a necessary complement of a militia , and is distinct from volunteer enlistment in the militia . Tho United States presents the best example of a true mihtui system — a vast majority of volunteer corps spontaneously formed ; and a militia in which any man not enrolled in a " uniform company is liable to serve . When Lord Lansdowne is "informed that even tho rocpntly raised regimonts of tho United States militia show themselves anything but qualified for active military sorvico , " somobody must bo mystifying tho Marquis . What are " tho recently raised
rogimentsP" Zaohary Taylor could toll him ot ono disqualification which tho militiamen exhibited for military routino in Mexico — they did not know when thoy wore beaten . So they wont on as if they were- victorious ; and in . tho end , singularly enough , it proved just as good ! Tho United Statos also exemplify our frequent remark , that a systom of volunteers and militm , including tho whole people , is not favourable to disorderWhero b'lio opinion and tho
ponscH-. pu flion of overwhelming physical forco are identically coincident with tho great bulk of tho nation , noitlior' faction nor invasion , noither invader nor traitor , can Hurprtao the State . The militiamen ana volunteers of the Amoriean republic have won its viotorios , dofended its institutions , voted w its elections , and guidod its policy . J- lio Union
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1852, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19061852/page/16/
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