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"The one Idea which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down allthe barriers erectedbetween 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 . "—Humboldfs Cosmos .
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MEWS OF THE WEEK— taqm Great ; Fire near Blaekfriars- Military Promotion by Birth ... 183 THE ARTSThe Public Health 170 bridge 178 Our Prestige in Europe ........ 184 , The Drama in Prance 188 SnerM Parliament 170 Continental Notes 179 Mr . Gladstone ' s . New Postal The Photographic Exhibition ... - 189 ThaWar 176 Haudocock v . Delacour 179 Law and the Exeter Hall Views of Sebastopol :...: 189 B & Eobert ' Lowe at Kidder- Our Civilisation 179 Meeting ............. 185 Gallery of Illustration 189 ^ minster " * ., 176 Miscellaneous 180 The " Globe" at War 185 * _ > Taxes on Knowledge 177 Postscript 180 The" Stranger" in Parliament ... 186 The Medical Commission for . the PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 189 Sir ^ h ^ es ' Napier ' andThe ' Baitic The Position and the Prospect . m a ,, ™ , ™— . 187 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSFleet * -...- ¦ 178 The Duty of Independent Mem- . § £ 3 ££ * Crayon ' s - New Sketch City " Intelligence , Markets , Ad-SaSfiSRftSffi !!^!!? : 1 ?! lA &^^^ V ^ Si G S ^ .. g ^' .. „ ..... ? 187 vehement * , * c . ¦ 190-192
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rjTHE Palmbkston Cabinet has "been undergoing , JL since its meeting with Parliament , on Friday last week , a series of shakes that threatened either to break it up , dr promises to leave the Premier in greater independence and power—to prevent his going on , or to give his Cabinet a more individual character , by stripping-it ^ f the Coalition remains of the last Ministry . It may be said that the question which has agitated it thus fundamentally was one inherited from the last Cabinet ^
" and that the division which displayed itself at the Council on Tuesday was , substantially , the difference between the last Cabinet and the present . Mr . Roebuck ' s motion for inquiry was the occasion . The most consistent adherents of Lord Aberdeen and the Duke of Newcastle considered that they were bound to persevere in r ' e ¥ istiing"ih ^ Tn ^ iib " n 7 "becattse"ilrw'ould be an inexpedient and dangerous interference with the
military Executive . On the other hand , Lord Palmekston had already obtained a material alteration in the terms of Mr . Roebuck ' s motion , and in the proposed composition' of his Committee . The altered terms imply less of an inquisitorial interference with the Executive . The altered list of names promises , not a committee of enemies , but a composite committee of business men , likely to give a fair judgment . And to the proposition thus modified the Government assents .
It appears to us that Lord Pai . merston was acting practically on the stronger ground . The motives of the three dissident statesmen must be respected . A Committee of the House of Commons to explore aud disclose the proceedings of a military executive wo have always pronounced to be in itself an absurd proposition . On abstract grounds , therefore , thg three dissidents unquestionably took a high-minded and a logical position . But how stand the circumstances of the case P
It is evident from the concessions made by Mr . Roebuck , that he and those who supported him perceived how impossible it would be to carry out their object and the war together—the war being the ultimate purpose which their object was intended to subserve . Mr . Roebuck was in effect proposing to a traveller , while on h , is road through a dangerous country , that his fire-arms , which wore in bad order , should bo sent to the maker ' s to bo examined , overhauled , and repaired . It would onablo him much better to encounter his
enemy , —if he could have a promise against a mortal visitation in the mean while . The Commons , however , had committed themselves to stand by their propositions ; and there is in that honourable House a certain vulgar tenacity which would make it hate to give up a settled point . We have no doubt that if the House of Commons had-resolved upon the meeting of parallel , lines , it would refuse to rescind the resolution . But it might be thankful to any' witty geometrician who could find for it that the parallel lines should meet " at a point of indefinite extension ; " which is just , we presume , what-Eord Palmebston has done .
The Commons will proceed with their Committee , but it will be so conducted as to avoid detriment to the actual conduct of the war . It might have judiciously turned upon another ground of inquiry—" the system "—and so be productive of incalculable advantage . If Lord Palmehston had refused the Committee , the House of Commons would have refused Jbis , Cabinetx .. we should have had a final break-down , and perhaps a Derby Administration playing at Government and compromising us with Russia . Lord Palmebston was in the right , therefore , when he persevered ; and the dissidents , wo conceive , retired upon a false
position . The dispute did not make itself known immediately . Some negotiations were supposed to hold out a hope that it might be brought to a close . By Wednesday night it was generally disclosed ; and late next day the resignation of Mr . Cabdwbix was added to that of his colleagues . Of
course a man of Mr . Caedwell ' s ability retires from official life only for a time ; and he does so , we suppose , only upon a punctilio . But there is evidently something in the dispute more than this simple difference about the committee . I (; is a respectable cause of division to allege , but there must be other reasons . In the firat place it is almost inconceivable that Lord Pajcmerston
and his colleagues should not have come to some understanding on the subject of the committee when the Cabinet was formed ; secondly , there are well-known diversities of . opinion on the subject of alliances , and of the" terms upon which peace may bo concluded ; aiid thirdly , wo suspect there may have been diversities on tho subject of finance . It was very generally bruited that Mr . Gladstone had in prospect some marvellous Arabian Nights Budget , which wajfto provido for tho war . without increased taxes , and without loans . Now , besides the palpable absurdity of
permitting a Cabinet to raise any amount of money requisite without borrowing it , there ia the fact that the prospect of a -Gladstonian budget—no loan and a direct tax—was becoming daily more unpopular throughout the country , and had occasioned a settled gloom of anticipation in the City . Lord Palmebston is not the man to go to the country onan Arabian JStiglits budget , violently testing the virtue of every -citizen with direct taxes ; and probably Mr . CARDWEiiL supposed-hiinself to inherit too much of the recent traditions of -Mr . Gladstone to take the C hancellorship" of the Exchequer , Which was expected to be his new place , without
a Gladstonian Budget . Lord Palmerston was no sooner released from the support of these four conspicuous members of the Aberdeen Cabinet , than Report set itself to look up other candidates for him , and it was not difficult to find them . Lord Carnarvon . was remembered for his excellent liberal speech at the first opening of the Session . -Lord ElksjN , who has been an excellent and practical Governor of a place where Englishmen have not abandoned any suffered to
one of the rights which we have lapse here—in Canada—recently made a speech .-. at Dunfermline , in which he avowe d the respect that he had acquired for the self-government of Englishmen by his colonial experience ; and he was set down as another member of the Cabinet . Lord Gooericu would probably not revoke his refusal to join tho Ministry , but the offer indicated the tendency of Lord Palmerston to look out for " new blood . " - Mr . Layakd also , perhaps , stands
committed , a time , by his outspoken , earnest , and uncompromising speech on Monday , surveying tho whole state of things at homo and abroad , to the position of " an independent member . " But there is one person marked out by his antecedents , by the general opinion , by the Mines , and by himself , for a high position in office ; and as he is a man of great power and sagacity , it happens that he is an unusually good authority in hia own who
case . We allude to Mr . Robert Lowe , showed by his speech at Kidderminster , on luesday , that he would sway an opposition in this country as powerfully and ns fo rmidably as ho swayed the Opposition in New South Wnlcs , whoro ho served an apprenticeship to Government at home ; for in Now South Wales , also , they still act up to tho standards of tho British constitution , which we have forgotten . From Mr . Lowe ' s speech the public will regard him aa a man who sees tho ne-
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 24, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24021855/page/1/
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