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No. 435, Jttlt 24, 1858.] THE LEADER. 69...
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rpHE results of the Parliamentary assiduity of JL both Houses during the week , show how much jrork can be done in a limited time when the workers set their shoulders to the wheel in right earnest instead of talking " about and about it . " As much business was transacted in the House of Lords on Thursday evening in two hours and forty minutes as would have occupied it for a fortnight in the earlier part of the session . To be " up and away /* indeed , is now the grand object of Parliamentary existence—nothing can be permitted to
stop the way which leads to the moors , via Cherbourg . The first act of the " Massacre of the Innocents" has been performed , the victims being the Dublin Police Bill , Freedom from Arrest Bill , Superannuation Bill , and Chinese Passenger Act , all measures of importance , and all in advanced stages of progress . As far as work is concerned , the House of Lords will be ready to rise at the end of next week , and the House of Commons is very little beliind it .
Nothing but the Queen's assent to the Jews Bill is now wanting to enable the House of Commons to pass the resolution necessary for the seating of Baron Rothschild . The battle has been fought to the very end , and even beyond it ; for the beaten party Las not only " fought till the gunpowder ran out of the heels of its boots "—such desperate gallantry has it displayed—but even in death it has continued the fight and Mt its hardest hit : instead of dying handsomely , in such a way as to grace the
field of victory , it has babbled out its latest breath in jabbered denunciation of the victors , turned the last scene of the tragedy into a wild farce , and shamed the triumph of its conquerors . Mortifying result , when the antagonist against whom one has grandly struggled gives up the ghost with all sorts of fool ' s antics ! Such is the result of the fight for the admission of Jews into Parliament . Reason , justice , and common . sense are . put out of countenance in the hour of their triumph b y the irritating buffooneries of Spooner , Newdegate , and "Warren .
Colonel Thompson's taunt to the supporters of the bill to legalize the payment of travelling expenses to voters , providing no money passes between the ^ candidate and the elector , went very deep into the morals of the subject . If this arrangement were any tiling more than "bribery ill-wrapped up , " lie said , why did not some of those who urged it show their sincerity by proposing that the consolidated fund , the county rate , or anybody except the candidate should pay the money P If independence of election is worth striving for , this new form of legalized corruption should be got rid of by
all means without delay . The able-bodied voter who will not take the trouble to register his vote without he is treated to a ride in a carriage at thp expense of a candidate , is scarcely a lit person to be entrusted with the privileges of an elector ; and it would , possibly , be of service to the community at large if such men were not seen at the polling-booth at all . For the assistance of the infirm , such small carriage accommodation as would be required should be paid for out of the county rates , and would not be very burdensome . There should bo no favour given or received in the process of determining the Illness or nou-fitness of candidates ; and as to < lic
inconto which electors miiy bo put by havin ^ to walk a mile to tho polliiHj-jilaeo , they are finoutweighed by tho advantage of tlic fro Horn from temptation under which they would perform one of the most important functions of good citizenship Tho Appropriation Hill generall y passes tliroujrh the House of Commons without much discussionbut ihisycav Sir George Lewis has detected wluvt ho considers a breach of prosperity in tho measure , aud . m Iho endeavour to expose it he lms drawn
forth an explanation from the Chancellor of the Exchequer which will undoubtedly be received Avith great satisfaction , especially in commercial circles . The offence was this : the Appropriation Bill , by which the House of Commons gives the Executive authority to devote certain sums to the public service , was found to give authority for a larger outlay than that of winch Mr . Disraeli had given notice iu his estimates , the expenditure turning to
such an amount as to leave a deficiency instead of a surplus of the estimated revenue , which would be more than 500 , 000 / . too little , instead of 300 , 000 / . too much . The Chancellor of the Exchequer did not deny the discrepancy ; but he said that such a discordance between the estimates and the actual result was by no means without precedent ; and in the meanwhile the public revenue lias grown so considerable that it will more than balance the
enlarged expenditure . After the commercial disasters of 1857 the recovery was necessarily slow , and yet the first quarter of the financial year shows an excess of income over the estimated income of 223 , 944 / . ; while the collection is proceeding so well during the current quarter that , in four branches of the revenue alone—those brauches in which , to some extent , it accrues from day to day—the Customs , Excise , Stamp , and Post
offices , there was an increase in the first eighteen days 6 f the quarter— -to the 19 th of July—amounting to not less than 364 , 000 / . The Chancellor of the Exchequer , in fact ; , will be able to do with borrowing only , a million instead of two millions to pay off Exchequer bonds . The state of the revenue , coupled with the fine harvest that we may now anticipate , at once indicates a prosperous state of the national finances .
If we are to take the word of the enlightened and notoriously independent press of Paris , there is nothing in the forthcoming ceremonial at Cherbourg which the Queen of England may not countenance with satisfaction to herself and people ; there is nothing in the fact of the present Emperor of the French carrying out the intentions of bis uncle in creating a mighty naval arsenal ia the closest convenient proximity to this country , -which can warrrant the least feeling of uneasiness or doubt as to the intentions of our good ally . But as we are not compelled to take the word of writers who would say exactly the reverse if they were commanded to do so , we do not see any cause for
particidar satisfaction in the spectacle of hex Majesty taking part in tbe triumph of an . " idea" so thoroughly Napoleonitie as the completion of Cherbourg ; we do not think it even decent to ask our Sovereign to stand by while the inscri ption on the statue of the first "Napoleon , is disp layed . "What satisfaction should she feel in reading these words , spoken by tbe great conqueror in . his exile at St . Helena : "I had resolved to renew at Cherbourg the marvels of Egypt . 33 To what end had the would-be invader , baffled at
Boulogne , set his heart upon carrying out the hostile scheme of Louis the Fourteenth ' s engineers ? "What is the use of Cherbourg to Trance , if ^ France has not intentions hostile to England ? But we have only / to be constantly en garde , as far as our security is concerned . Cherbourg an accomplished fact , England and Trance—however closely allied —stand no longer on the same footing towards each other ; and apart from trust or distrust , the new relations are not calculated in any way to bring us satisfaction .
There are > however , influences at work that may in very few years , take from Cherbourg its occupation . We are anxiously looking forward to the moment when we may " hold almost instantaneous communication with America , and so bind her to us by the strongest tie that binds great states to each , other , mutual interest , * in the natural course of things it may become as absurd for Trance to think of going to war with England as it would be for Birmingham to rise in arms against Coventry . To know each other , to fall in as amicable members of one great human family , is the destiny- of nations ;
In the form of moving resolutions , Mr . Roebuck has raised the . question whether the rights of the Hudson ' s Bay Company ought not to terminate with , the expiry of its license of exclusive trading next year , the royal charter granted by Charles- "the- Second being revoked . In an excellent speech , Lord Bury , a young nobleman of great promise , has explained at once the flaw in the Company ' s charter and the fine state of the territory which tlie Company claims between Canada
the wrestlings and floutings of to-day are but childishnesses to be passed on ; the road to maturity . Tor nations to fight in case of disagreement will in due course oecome as unreasonable as the " making faces of ill-conditioned urchins . At present there appears to be no instrument more likely to help the world rapidly forward to a better understanding among its children than , the electric telegraph . The two failures which have resulted to the attempts to lay down the Atlantic cable must by no means damp our spirits , Atlantic cable must by no means damp our spirits ,
and the Pacific . The reply of Sir Edward Lytton , the Colonial Secretary , was , that he was disinclined to renew the license except for those lands which are unfitted for colonization j that the rights of the Company would be very carefully scrutinized by the law-officers of the Crown ; and . that he hoped next year to bring before Parliament an arrangement which Would be quite satisfactory , and would contribute to throw open the lands for colonization .
or for a moment make us doubtful of the ultimate success of the undertaking . Even if the third attempt should also fail , delay is the most serious consequence that can come of it . The probability is that it will fail , for it lias become almost evident tlKit the cable employed is defective for the purpose for "which it was designed , and that another one will have to be made . The expedition had th ' e advantage of fair weather to start with , and the promise of a storinless voyage . A few days will decide the rest .
The news from India is reassuring . On the 19 th of June , Gwalior was recaptured by Sir Hugh Hose after four hours' severe fighting , and the latest intelligence announces that the enemy was being pursued with cavalry and artillery . There is a report , also , that tho Ranee of Jhausi is killed . Scindia had left Agra , and , with the Central Indian fieldforce , was on his way to Gwalior . Tho recapture of this stronghold is an event of much importance ; for if the powerful body of rebels who lately seized it from their muster could anywhere hope to make a linn stand jigninst their pursuers , it was there .
But our efforts to better Puck ' s brag of putting a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes do not absorb the whole of the attention we can spare for science ; we desire to be in instantaneous communication with our relatives and friends ( not always ^ synonymous terms ) on the fur side of the Atlantic , but we want at home steam-ploughs and " cultivators , " and threshing-machines that will lake the sheaf iu at one end and deliver the corn dressed for market at the other . We want , in fact , to make the most of every inch of our cultivatal land , and to economise every tittle of
From Oudc and Rohilcund the news is of a general kind ; the former continued in a disturbed state , the latter was tranquil . Active operations have Wen renewed hy tho combined English and French forces in Cliiu . i . f ) u the ' 20 th of Mny the gunboats ol ' lhe . two forces captured ilie JWU at tho mouth of ilk : llivri . Peilio , mounting one hundred and lliiriy-eight !> 'uus . The Chinese I ' onghi stoutly , mid tin ; forts were , defomltil hv a large number oftroop ^ . The loss oh mil' cidi : appears , as usual , to have been very small ; the telegraph , however , . speaks ol the French having Mill ' e . ml severely by the explosion , of a mine .
the lorces at , our command , so that there may bo no waste , cither of muturiul or of producing ' -powcr . The Jioyal Agricultural Society ' s Exhibition at Clic'hU . r shows tho advances we have nmdo during ( lie : past . yeah The problem of the steam-plough is not vol . thoroughly worked out ; but a near approach lowarils a solution of it lias been made , and it sccma reasonable to expect fliat a very fe ;\ r years will pass bel ' tim a perfect , machine will be produced . It ia the t , ain « with almost all Iho other scientific farming implements ; invention Jims yet to curry . tlicin on n very few stops to reach perfection .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24071858/page/3/
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