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of THE LEADER. [No 296, Saturday,
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T He Kings Continue To Visit Paris, And ...
from the moment of its promulgation . The Pope , therefore , now possesses power throughout the Austrian Emp ire which the Emperors of Germany never recognised , even in Italy , and which Hildebrand would scarcely hay ^ claime djKten he made the EMVB * 6 * g 0 ^ . £ & 3 & n * ba ^ ote ^ . What is the Austrian Emperors quidpr * quo ? He has proclaimed himself tl )^ head of a hew
crusade in the war of principles s he has made himself patron of the PDkpe and ftf all that thfe . Pope can influence ; he has secured a . corporate agency for help ing to rend er unto Caesar the things that he desires throug hout his Empire , and for procuring unto Cassar , beyond those bounds , many acquisitions , the half of which the Pope would be glad enough to take for his share .
Vigour abroad is not attended by a corresponding show of vigour at home . The winter season appears to cramp us with cold , and statesmanship seems to be hybernating . Lord Palmbrston wanted two colleagues to take the places of Sir William Moles worth , deceased , and Lord Canning , promoted to be Governor-General of India ; and there was a splendid opportunity of
bringing in some of the boasted " new blood . " The Colonies opened the way for the Earl of Elgin , and we can hardly conceive the reason why he was passed over : the Colonies would have liked him , the country was prepared to receive him well . Perhaps he was too avowedly pledged to amity with the United States . The appointment of Mr . Labouchere will provoke no hostile
feeling , but it will convey no public re-assurance he is high-minded , discreet , liberal , regular , always to be depended upon and fore-calculated—the very man for a king , or a chief clerk , but of no political use in a C ouncil of S tatesmen bound to be active and initiative . The vacancy at the Postoffice was an opportunity for one of two courses , either of which would have been popular . Some r ising statesman with power and ambition might have been lifted into the Cabinet , such as Lord Wodehouse or Mr . Lowe ; or the place uiight
have been separated from the political Cabinet , and the headship of the Post-office might have been conferred uppn its real master , Rowland Hixl . But what advantage to ouv postal communication can be derived from putting over it the Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of Glasgow University we do not see ; still less do we see the strength which a War Government can derive from allowing the Duke of Argyle to sit upon the two stools of the Post-office and the Privy Seal , unless , by a novel division of the Cabinet , the new fervours of the Postmaster-General should
counterbalance the peace tendencies of the Lord Privy Seal . Mr . Scovell having levanted , there was no opposition to the return of Sir Charles Napier as member for Soutljwark and the Baltic . According to appearances , however , his naval tribuneship in the , House of Commons will be a great practical anachronism ; ho will bring before the Xtouse the delays and official misdemeanors of 1854 , coupled with a strong support of Lord Palmbrston in 1855 , a course winch will render it difficult to
shape appropriate motions for , the session of 1856 . But as the Admiral does not ; intend to damage the Minister in possessi on , he mil probably be allowed to dramatise his Baltic reminiscences and his Graham correspondence ; among tho attractions of the season , then , we may set down the diversion to ho afforded by the Reform Club Admiral in roasting the Peelitea , and turning the tables iin . Q-tp . JiAs , Koform Club , hosts . . /"" ' If JSquthwark lias elected a . member for tbie •^ ^ l ^ at ^ V ^ lJ * tyfla elected a member for the Crimea * k" / jihq ^ id ^ ojLi ^ itfp . Wells rejects Serjeant Kinok \ : / iJ ^ rajKw | ia ;«^ io |»»;«( a ? irfff the Crimea , in order to T . fi j ^^^ G ^ tiaia ^ JiOLiPPK , who has , been , there" } " tf ^ Ww ^^ ^ f t H ' ^^ S Ww Mv . EvM Vjp o SvJ * . & ri $ f- ^ . ' : ' .-::-- ' " - -
DAViEsTrllto is ^ M p £ l | ptary Bishop of Bath and ^ ihCB , % aiid ^ he fact of th e Bishop ' s having permitted his-Secretary to do the dirty work of an , Electioneering agent has excited p . great scandal . . , * The Manchester manufacturers have- accepted the challenge of their hands , and they come forth to explain their own conduct . They allege several reasons why they cannot adopt the course suggested by the men , and why they must persevere in the reduction of wages , instead of resorting o
short time . They are undersold in Liverpool by manufacturers of neighbouring towns , who have permanently retained a lower rate of wages than the Manchester men ; and they could not adopt short time as" a means of diminishing the exports of cotton and the glutting of markets , because they have no power of prev enting the manufacture and export by some ten-elevenths of the manufacturers who reside beyond the precincts of Manchester . This is the ttrgumentum ad impotentium : the masters reply that they cannot help it ! and while they
make out a tolerable case for themselves , they almost confess that there is no ca se for the whole body of the manufacturers . They avow that as a body the m anufacturer continue to produce a larger amou nt than the markets at home and abroad require ; that if they must continue they injure the trade ; and that in order to save themselves , they must sacrifice the workpeople , if the workpeople consent to be sacrificed . These arguments are strong in excuse of the Manchester
manufacturers ; they are powerless against any better com bination of the men which might withhold the labour that the masters confessedly abuse . In short , it is the masters who are undermining the trade , and the plea of the Manchester owners is , that they , out of the number , cannot help it . But their incapacity can be no consolation for the men -who see their better policy overruled by the avidity or the recklessness of the majority of the masters . Since the contest is left on this footing , it is probable that we shall hear of a sequel
to it . In the meantime W 3 have an historical document throwing some official light upon a popular movement in the metropolis . The Sunday Trading Bill riots in Hyde Park have been immortalised by a Blue Book from the Royal Commissioners . The Commissioners whitewash the majority of the police , with a friendly covering even for Inspector
Hughes , while they condemn three of the police as peace offerings to popular indignation . That popular movement , therefore , was perfectly successful . By their combined action the humbler classes . put a stop to Lord Robert Ghosvenou ' s legislative cant ; and the policemen who obstructed the Hyde Park repeal are let off with a qualified acquittal , while the most active of their body are condemned to punishment .
We have had several public demonstrations this week . Lord Naas , at Colcrainc , the active mustersergeant of the late Tory Government , proclaims that the war must continue until we can have a real peace—not one patched up upon imperfect terms . Lord Londonderry , entertained by his tenantry and neighbours , claims for himself tha post of thoir " elder brother . " But tho grand demonstration of tho week has been that at Birmingham , where a great assemblage of national
as well as local notables attended to witness the laying of . tho first stone of the new " Midland Institute . " Tho instituto combines tho purposes of a literary and scientific institution with a , school of industrial science and art ; providing a place also for . the Government School of Design . In uliorfc , i % is a temple for the diffusion of the secular faith which at present governs our temporal interests , and progress . Prince Alihort seizes the occasion , however , for inculcating the doctrine
w b ^ n ^ n ^ l ^ Kfir . Juls to preach to the English people Tjje wofk ' i | i § fr & Hn % tells them , must not onl y take thsjUjiJeSs iffiifaib . he is taught by his predecessor in . a traae , b ^ jjniisk understand the laws which dictated tKat |^ nal ^ both that he may be enabled tocontinue tfts * progress of improvement in his own business , ajj 4 that he may be the wiser for observing the harmony of the laws which regulate the universe , from the architecture of the heavens to the making of a pin . The laws , said the PrinceI are not framed by us , they are not abitrarily constructed ; even the fine arts cannot arbitrarily nvent rules to produce pleasurable ideas . Th & laws' exist and work immortally in nature ; scieneedoes not create , but discovers them ; and philosophy cannot separate them from the Divine rule that reigns over the whole . The Prince shows the unity which exists between the subject matters . of science , art , instinct , and faith ; he teaches the
broad religion which is opposed to dogmatism , and therefore to every kind of intolerance or reaction ; and he gives to that healthy doctrine , we may say , the seal of royalty which must make it current amongst the multitudes who would otherwise receive it with mistrust . But the Prince does not only lend the stamp of royalty—he gives also a power of putting the largest truths in the most lucid language , and the most compact form .
Amid all our discords and conflicts , however , it is balm to the vexed spirit that one touch of genuine unaltered nature makes us all kin , and brings us to work at the same work . Our soldiers , in the East were uncared-for in their sicknessjust as soldiers have been ages back . Their dejected state went to the heart of womanhood , and made the emotion of sisterhood yearn to tend them . In our day , we have grown so estranged from our natural condition , that we are ashamed , of our instinctive emotions : but g entleness lends
courage to conscious duty , and , in the simple voice of Florence Nightingale , declares that brother men shall not perish untended . The Lady of our day sets forth , and ministers to the wounded—yea , plunges into the unutterable abominations of the neglected hospital . The forgotten soldier welcomes the sweet rescue , and the roughest man of " tho rail , " subdued by that angelic visitation , becomes as gentle , as thoughtful , as " pious" in the presence of the Lady , as knighthood would have been . No service has done so much to
redeem our hardened spirit . The whole country feels it , and desires , retrospectively , to share in the mission by honouring its fair leader . Hence the ' Provisional Committee" to invent and cany out some suitable testimonial ; hence the public meeting at Willis ' s Rooms on Thursday next ; at which we verily believe that every inn . n in the country will bo present , in spirit if not in body and the rooms , we know , will be all too narro . v to contain so much of us as will bo present bodily . An election to the Hebdomadal Council at
Oxford deserves to be noted for its significance as an indication of the current of op inion am that important and influential class from which the government of tho Reformed University is to proceed henceforth . The candidates on tho occasion were the Rev . J . E . Seuell , of New College , a conscientious Obstructive , and the Rev . J . E » Patterson , an equally conscicntiouy , and , we may add , a very enlightened and able Reformer . The Obstructives mustered all their forces , iuiil , we
cannot bo surprised to learn , defeated the Reformer : nevertheless MtPattekson polled the very respectable and significant minority of sixty , and it " not too much to say that these sixty votes included all that represents tho aristocracy of intellect nt Oxford . Meantime- tho Oxford Union Debuting Society ( that nursery of en / ants- terribh-s ) goes on convulsing the nation every week , by sue " debates and divisions as the following ' ™ o cute the Bunao of tho questions proposed i ' - -
Of The Leader. [No 296, Saturday,
of THE LEADER . [ No 296 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 24, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24111855/page/2/
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