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P AELIAMENT was prorogued on Tuesday , and to-day it is to be finally dissolved , to be replaced by a new assembly , to meet on the 5 th of May . The act of prorogation was performed by commission , the so-called Royal speech being written and spoken by Mr . Disraeli . It is , upon the whole , the most remarkable Royal speech of modern times . That no allusion -whatever should have been made in it to the state of affairs on the
Continent is not surprising , seeing the extreme difficulty in which these affairs are involved , and considering the delicacy with which it is necessary to handle them ; but that not one word should have been devoted to the subject of Reform is a very remarkable fact . The reasons assigned for the dissolution are , " the difficulties which have been experienced in . carrying on the business of the country , as indicated in the fact that within little more than a year two successive administrations have failed to retain the confidence
of the House of Commons , " and her Majesty is made to invoke Divine Providence to aid her in conducting the government of the country , " under the advice of a Ministry possessed of the confidence of her Parliament and her people . " A very few weeks will decide as to whether her Majesty ' s prayer , has been granted or not . The second , and perhaps the more important feature of the week ' s Parliamentary proceedings , was the explanation given by Lord Malmesbury and Mr . Disraeli , on Monday night , on the
subject of the present Continental difficulties . Neither Lord Malmesbury nor Mr . Disraeli , spoke hopefully of the aspect of affairs , and subsequent events have accorded with the tone adopted by both speakers . Lord Derby went beyond them both . Ho had evidently no belief in the maintenance of peace , although'determined to continue the attempts which have been made by Lord Cowley to smooth away the difficulties which have started up at every step of the way towards the assembling of the Congress . Looking to ifhe probability that thore will bo war ,
the Emperor went to the Opera Comique to see the first representation of Meyerbeer ' s new opera . The man indicated in the letter as having been drawn by lot to assassinate the Emperor , was arrested in the church of the Petits Peres , and , at present nothing more is known of him than that he is a religious enthusiast . The home news is confined , in point of interest , to the election proceedings throughout the country . Two of the most remarkable gatherings of the week have been at the London Tavern , to hear Lord John Russell explain his views on the Reform question ; and at Carlisle , to hear Sir James Graham on the
same topic . Lord John Russell s address was made especially remarkable by the arguments he used in support of his claim to be allowed an independent action . Like his friend ^ Sir James Graham , he seems to have done with notions of " finality . " He refuses to bind himself to any set programme of reform ; but he does it on a ground that is very hopeful for the country . It is a striking fact that Lord John Russell should emphatically quote those memorable words of Sir Robert Peel , pronounced by him in 1846— "I . will not be guided or controlled by my observations of 1842 . " This is surely a new starting-point in the political life of Lord John . .
At Carlisle , Sir James Graham made one of his most charactei'istic speeches ; and a vast assemblage held up their hands for him , in spite of his unreadiness to vote for the ballot ; but , then , he offered them his nephew for the other seat ; and his nephew , who is not pledged to " pin his faith " to his uncle ' s sleeve , goes in for the ballot without any reserve . In connexion with Parliamentary affairs , we have had a letter from Captain Carnegie , indignantly protesting against the statements made -by Sir John Pakington , in answer to Sir , Benjamin Hall . Captain Carnegie shows pretty clearly that ho was coerced . He admits that he accepted a seat at the Board of Admiralty on condition that he
The tenour of the public intelligence , up to Wednesday night , was favourable to the hope that , at all events , the assembling Congress was decided upon . The admission of Sardinia to the Congress , it was said , had been conceded by-Austria ; the proposition for a general disarmament had been accepted by all the Powers concerned , and a commission was to be formed for carrying out the arrangement ; but , on Thursday , the whole aspect of affairs was changed . Almost simultaneously with the publication of a telegram stating that England ^ France , Russia , and Prussia had agreed
to the terms upon which the Congress should meet , and as to the measures for carrying out the proposition of a general disarmament , we received the astounding news that Austria , utterly disregarding the other great Powers , had commanded General Gyulai to present an ultimatum to the Sardinian Government , requiring the immediate disarmament of Piedmont and the disbanding of the volunteers that have lately gone over to Piedmont . Three days were given to the Piedmontese Government to decide ; at the expiration of that time , if the demand was refused , or an evasive answer returned , war was to be declared .
Upon the receipt of this intelligence , a Cabinet Council was held at Downing-street , and the result is believed to have been the transmission of a strongly-worded ^ protest against the precipitate course taken by the Government of Austria . The effect of the news on the French Government was to induce the immediate movement of troops towards the Sardinian frontier ^ arid a part of the Army of Paris received orders to hold itself in instant
readiness to depart for the South . Even while we write , the period of grace , dictated by General Gyulai has elapsed ; the white-coated Austrian hordes may be swarming the roads towards Turin , but in forty-eight hours , or less , we shall know whether the dreadful game of war has been commenced . Woe to Austria if she has yet drawn
should endeavour to get himself into Parliament ; but that , with the Ministerial Reform Bill " like a millstone about his neck , " he found it was useless attempting to get elected for such places as Dover or Devonport . He represented his views to the First Lord , and also that he had hopes of finding an opening in some other direction ; whereupon Sir John Pakington lost patience , and told him that he had " no option , " and went out of the room to attend a Cabinet . Captain Carnegie went out to write his resignation . > The news brought by the Bombay mail is of very little importance . The great insurgent ohief-» V » T ** VV * V IIMUVA UHI « VV « JkilV gl \ 4 UV AliyV «*^ vl * » H - >^* w ^»»
blood !—but if she has not , there is yet hope that reason may win a nobler battle than ever can be won by cold steel and withering gunpowder . But , in any cose , the ' ? part" of this country in a great Continental convulsion is that of neutrality , a part from which nothing but real danger to her honour and interest ought to be permitted to divert her in the slightest degree .
In the midst of the gathering events , th ^ ero comes from Paris the report of a new attempt against the life of the Emperor , this time instigated by the seoret society calling itself the " Marianne . " Every effort has been made by the police to stifle publicity , but enough appears to have found vent to show tha ' t the police , in spite of their numbors and of the extonsivenoss of their spy-syatem , were in utter ignorance of the plot until the morning before the day on which the murderous attempt was to have boon made , namely , the day on which
tains still manage to escape capture , and the troops that have driven thorn into their retreats arc being dispersed by the Commandor-in-ChieK At Bombay , a grand publio entertainment awaits the return of one portion of the European forces . One part of tho news will bo read with intercut ; it is the account of the Nawab of Fcmickubad ' s trial for the murder oi' a number of European men , women , and children , at the outset of tho insurrection . Tug wretoh ' fl crime bus boon brought liomo to him , and he has boon condemned to bo hanged , tho sentence awaiting the confirmation oi the Governor-General , who was ftt Calcutta ,
Lord Derby has struck a note that should vibrate alarm , throughout the oounti'y . If war comes , it will be a war of passion and principle , a bloody war that will rapidly over-run its original bounds , to which ovary kingdom in Europe may , sooner or later , find itself made a party . The duty of this country , ho says , is to maintain a strict neutrality ; but , ho adds , " our neutrality , as long aa it lasts , must to a oortam extent , bo an o ^ mecl neutrality , enabling us to take our part on that side , whatever it may be , which tho honour , the interest , and the dignity of tho country may indicate as the best deserving of our support , "
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Leader (1850-1860), April 23, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23041859/page/3/
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