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"Without any sudden onset against : Ministers * their position has become daily weaker , until everybody is expecting their dissolution ,: and even their friends wish them out of their jjairi . ^ . Their increasing feebleness is' beir ^ fed > in ttie—vwy -texture and substance of themeasures whfich ^ ey produce . . The second of the larger , series , the Militia scheme , excites nothing but dissatisfaction .
It recognises ^ j « *\ - ^< ajj ^« ji «^ :- ^> f' ; i ^^^^ 0 * wMit "? ar »(»» t ment , and proposes to ittdebi ^ tiiBl ^ - ^ ' ^^' ciaiUiig out 80 , 000 young men , with a few more " next year" ! The organization is to be strictly local ; substitutes are to be allowed , but only in " * cerr tain cases . " This project , received by the House of Commons generally with an indulgence anything but flattering to Ministers , has met with
two kinds of opponents . Lord Palmerston desires to substitute for this " local militia" a " regular militia ; " of which the chief distinction would be that the latter would be removable to any part of the country , and that substitutes would be , accepted . The feeling that what Ministers propose is too confined and feeble produced a correspondent feeling that Lord Palmerston had come nearer to the exigency by proposing what Would be more energetic and general ; and although the view is an erroneous one , it caused Lord
Palmerston to be heard with evident marlcs of satisfaction . No doubt it was deference for public opinion that made Ministers enter into the affair at all ; deference for the ceconomic-peace party probably made them keep it as small as possible ; and they have been fitly repaid for their trimming : two eminent leaders of that party , Mr . Hume and Mr . Cobden , totally object to a militia ,
nnd prefer a regular paid force . We said , some months back , that if ever Mr . Cobden came into office , his first act would be to increase the Standing Army ; and verily he has forestalled our prophecy ; forestalling also that addition to it , that probably he would become Paymaster of the Forces . Evidently , he has an eye to that post ; unless ho is to supersede Lord John in comman d of the Channel Fleet .
Lord John kept back his Reform Bill until late last week ; it did not come before the public at large until Saturday ; and the brief interval subsequentl y has been busily employed in n close scrutiny of it , which is anything but satisfactory . Its actual provisions are scarcely loss unpopular than [ Country Edition . ]
its omissions .. It is found that ithe selection of new boroughs , yrith which the-old are to be pieced , will materially extend the influence of the Whig landlords ; while the = omission ^ f b all ot and of triennial patfiamentSj , is <; : -parji ^ ularly ' T disced . Many Iteformjer ^ hojie tha | Lord '^ ohn will fai l even at the second / ' rea ' alng and it is quite certain that formidable amendments " await him in
committee ; sdirie of which are ^¦ lS ^^ ^ y ^ mvi ^ .. i ( i ! t ^ afr sion for hostile coalitions . ; The Protectionist fiave ; resolv ^ t ^ We a ^ t ^ $ i ^^^ sufficient pains to ascertain -the probable working of the 51 . franchise and the Assessed-tax franchise ; which will possibly make important additions to the constituency ; but the paltry spirit of the bill is enough ' to justify the dislike and contempt which it has excited . " Indignation meetings " have already been held by Reformers , and are likely to be followed up ; and the proceedings abundantly testify the prevalent feeling .
The bill for the disfranchisement of St , Alban ' s gave rise to , two incicjletits highly characteristic : Mr . Jacob Bell stood forth , with " nervous naivetf , " and confessed his mistake in going down to St . Alban ' s at all . He spoke with excellent good feeling , as a man at once anxious to be honest , and not to make others the sacrifices to his own virtue ; but the House seemed to think him only laughable ! The other incident was the dragging out of Mr . James Coppock ' s name . It
will be remembered that Mr . Coppock was the agent who procured Mr . Bell ' s return , and that he had raised , in the mind of a local agent , an expectation of obtaining a Government situation . Ministers now disavowed all knowledge of Mr . Coppock , of promised situations , or any other implication ; although Mr . Hayter had perused Mr . Bell ' s address to the electors in Mr . Coppock ' s company !
Lord Claude Hamilton accused Mr . Roebuck of belonging to the same club as Mr . Coppock ; on which Mr . Roebuck threatened to call Mr . Coppock to the bar of the House ! And he may still make good his threat at a litter stage . Ministers came off with a majority of <) 2 , on Lord Naas ' s vote of censure respecting Lord Clarendon ' s entanglement in the Dublin World affair ; but the discussion was damaging .
What the working elasscs suffer by not being represented in Parliament wo might have named , if it had only been from two incidents of the weok—the debate on the Cuffc-strcet Savings Bonk in Dublin , and that on Mr . Slaney ' a motion
for a commission to suggest improvements m the . law of-partnership . The savings banks have always been regarded as under . Government control y ahd guarantee ; the Chancellor of the Excheque ? has used ; the funds when he was short of cash ; and Mr . Tidd Pratt is appointed to advise the depositors in savings banks , founders of benefit societies * & c . The Cuffe-street Savings Bank fails , and Ministers repudiate all responsibility ! They now say that the question has been settled
by previous debates ; but they would hear yet more of it if depositors in savings banks were more Hlrectiy represented , * They also disavow Mr . Tidd Pratt . Mr . Slaney ' s debate drew forth an excellent speech from Mr . Cobden , who admitted the right of the working classes to form industrial associations ; but the mover was obliged to put up with the assurance that Ministers would appoint a committee to revise the law of partnership —a new delay in a measure of the simplest
negative justice ! Those who oppose Mr . Slaney ' s proposition speak as if some positive concession were to be made to the working classes , and they deprecate interference or official sanction for the hazardous experiments of cooperation ; forgetting that the difficulty lies in the obstructive interference which the law already interposes . If pretenders would only carry out their doctrine to the full , they would remove many of these obstructions ; but the working classes are unrepresented , and their interests arc postponed .
The deputation that waited on Lord John Russell on Monday , respecting the very imperfect state of the sewage of the metropolis , discloses , for the hundredth time , the want of a local Council for the management of metropolitan affairs . We cannot have efficient sewers , wholesome burials , pure water , because there arc a myriad of militating jurisdictions . Surely London , with its enormous wealth and vast population , requires local representative government . Lord John will earnestly consider , and—do nothing .
To the eye that can pierce across the troubled present into a screner future , Franco , degraded as slic seems , may b ' e even hopeful of aspect . For is not that gigantic idol of Bonapartism crumbling into dust?—falling to pieces from very hollowriess V One grows sick 6 f pursuing the rank imposture , and the reckless effrontery of the desperate men who have gagged poor France , and are slowly robbing her of money and life . Read the Moniteur , and you will say , as one of the English guests at the Elyse e , that Louis Bo naparte is the typo of
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21021852/page/1/
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