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"The one Idea which History exhibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human , race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development ~ " of our spiritual nature . " —Humboldt'a Cosmo * .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— »» o « , The War in Asia 633 OPEN COUNCIL- THE ARTSImperial Parliament ' . eSO i General Guyon ............ 691 Suggestions for Conscience- L'Etoile du Nord 7 < H The War ..... ' . GSS Coming Repeal of the Beer stricken Shopkeepers 699 i . ii ™ uu . , < u * OurCiTilisation ' . V . ' . ' . " . ' . " . ' . ' . ' . ' . " . ' . " . ' . ' . ' . ' . " . ' . ' . ' . !!!' . 689 ~ , Acfc : v ^ . - . vi ""•' . i GQ * LITERATURE- rvmtinnnfn . 1 'N ' otpji fis <» Government and Civil Service of » - » iwr « ..- _ ,... _ -. . , _ ' » raS ^ dMU ? £ rNem 690 India 695 Summary 70 © Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 705 mKiWou " 690 Chandernatfore 696 The Spanish Conquest in Ame- fKtwrint 691 Wife and no Wife 697 rica 700 « , 7 » l , ~ . cc . " . " " The Conduct or the War 697 Morality of Wilhelin Meister . 703 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSPUBLIC AFFAIRS— Professor Faraday and the i Twent y Years Conflict m the Tho Despatches and the Debates ... 69 ! Thames 698 ' Church 703 City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Modorn Fortification 692 What they are Saying in Paris ... 69 S The Custom of Dunmow 703 * vertisements , & c . ; 705-70
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TH E Ministerial crisis that was threatened for Monday really passed over at the end of last week , vith the resignation of Lord John Russell , which we announced in our Postcript ; and when Sir Edward Lytton ' s motion was brought forward' for discussion on Monday , the question was so completely settled , that he did not venture to carry it to a division . Before Sir Edward moved , Lord John stood up and made an explanation . His statement really added nothing to the information conveyed in the Fifteenth Part of Eastern papers , ** communications with the Austrian Government , " which the public had been perusing for the two previous days " with all the interest of a novel . " But his explanation was not without interest as another chapter in the analysis of a public man—the dissection of an eminent nobleman after political suicide , with a clinical lecture by the subject himself lying on the dissectingtable . Lord Joun told us , as any reader could have gathered from his despatches , that he went to Vienna impressed with the duty of laying before the Austrian Government that which was virtually an ultimatum from this country , requiring either the " neutralisation " of the Blade Sea , by excluding all war ships , or the "limitation" of the Kussian naval forces to four ships of the line with other vessels in proportion . Bot after he arrived nfc Vienna he underwent several conversations with Count Bcoi *—one of tfyem four hours in length—and began to perceive ptafeticability in the Austrian plan of " equipoise , " letting the other powers counterbalance the force of Russia if they pleased ; so he promised , in Count Buol ' s oiliciul chambers , to support , in Loadon , the very counsels that ho was commissioned to oppose in Vienna . Yet again , aftor his $ tura to London and much talk with his col-« to | i < ea— -cvent 8 meanwhile pursuing their course rapidly—ho began to perceive the //// practicability wtho Austrian plan . Ho assures us that he was Per fectly honest in all these opinions ; and what kijioro wonderful , if tho report of his speech be Wfially read , it will be found that ho is of nil wflw . opinions still—that he is in favour of peace 2 ?^* ° ¦^ LU 8 tr i an plan of equipoise , but sees that ' ^| irapossiblo . Thoro waa nothing in all this ^^ wjrtrt to have surprised tho House of ComtBptW ^ tbey had become familiar with tho imparw * l opinions of tho Ilamlot of the House of B * d-
fobi >—with " Finality John , " who insisted that we need no more reform , and opposed Mr . Locke King ' s 10 / . franchise as a preface for proposing a 5 / . franchise of his own—who resisted the reduction of the sugar duties , and then proposed a reduction , in order to prevent Sir Robeet Pbel from beginning his great career in carrying the Whig doctrines of free-trade . But it was one thing to find excuse for Lord Johx personally , and another to tolerate the representation of this country abroad b } ' a Minister who was for a vigorous prosecution of the war while accepting a compromise , and backed the demands of his own Government with promises to back the demands of tho opposite side . Lord John ' s proverbial itn-| pulses have le . l liim alternately with the popular j party , and then the popular party has used the Lord for its instrument , or against the popular party , and then Lord John always " retires to a I bade bench . " He has done so just now , and the I country is very much inclined to leave him there . The explanation enabled us to understand Lord John better , and enabled the country to understand its own comprehensive reasons why it aw . s tired of being represented by such a Lord , either in the Cabinet or in Count Broi . ' s official chambers . Sir Kdward Lyttox was to have moved '' That the conduct of our Minister in the recent negotiations at Vienna has , in the opinion of this House , shaken the confidence of the country in those to whom its affairs are entrusted " — that is , a censure on the Ministry because such a man as Lord John * Russell remained in it . But Lord Joux did not remain in it ; and how could Sir Upward ask the House of Commons to censure the Cabinet for having in it the man who is not there ? No doubt , by a kind of ingenious twist , it was possible still to apply to the Government a certain censure for Juicing had in it such a man as Lord John ; but the English Parliament is not good at following refinements of that kind ; from the very first the position was one that implied that inodt harassing kind of defeat in the House of Commons , an indifferent reception throughout . It would have * been better to drop it ; but Sir Edward had made up his mind to associate his name with tho train of events that drove Lord John Ri / sskll from power , tho speech was ready , and it was not in his heart to lay it on the sholf . II © persevered . It has been observed , however , that no pains in editing the composition so as to bring it to tho
present day could rescue it from its posthumous character . In the very petty and mechanical matter of tenses , Sir Edward found it impossible to reconcile the present with the past . He was continually speaking in the present tense when he should have spoken in the preterpluperfect ; speaking in the positive mood , when it should have been in the conditional . Occasionally the polished phrases became a little damaged -in imparting the due antiquity of colour . Conceived as a diatribe , the composition had to be converted into an historical essay ; and when the orator intended to denounce the Government for insincerity in its warlike language while the plenipotentiary at Vienna " sits on that bench , " he had to turn his denunciations into the complaint that the Ministry was insincere in its patriotism so long as the Minister sat on that bench " up to Thursday last . " Dates and emotion do not go well together . Sir Edward ' s doleful tragedy sounded like the celebrated song of Guy Fawk . es , where the singer tells us how the conspirators blew up the King and all his Ministers— that is how they would have done it , " jf everything had not happened otherwise . No studied " quousque tandem" could tell upon an audience , when it had thus to be delivered at every sentence with an " if , " or a " while ; " and the anachronism of the invective told fatally upon the remainder of the debate . The rescue lay in the fact that Lord Palmkrston had been made angry . Sir Edward had endeavoured to draw a distinction between Lord Clarendon , whose language , written and spoken , happens to be singularly lucid and unmistakable , and Lord Pal ^ ibbston , maintaining that while Lord Clarendon deserved credit for the patriotism and stubbornness of his bearing , Lord Palmkbstox , who ruled over the Cabinet as a whole , was responsible for tho recreant Lord John . Lord Palmerstox did not take time to reflect upon the exact meaning of Sir Edward ' s studied distinction ; ho accused him of ignorance , if he did not know thnt the language of tho Foreign Secretary must be the language of the Cabinet and of the Premier , and of malignity if he did know it . The reason for Sir Evwauo h distinction came out afterwards , wlion Mr . JJisbakm insisted that for n time tho whole Cabinet agreed with Lord JoiiN ; and when Mr . Ro « - buck , anticipating his own debate on the nftx * ni , roundly declared that there were " trai «* frfl ? intho Cabinet . In tho course of the debate some of tho traitors wore named as being Sir Chabuis
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Leader (1850-1860), July 21, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21071855/page/1/
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