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In the House of Lords the announcement o...
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Lord John Russell's motion, last evening...
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THE SOCIAL LEAGUE CONGRESS IN LONDON. Th...
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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1850.
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PALMERSTON IN HIS DECLINE. Palmerston is...
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Explanations With Regard To The Recall O...
not the noble lord , when he gave his answer last night , fully aware of the contents of the letter , which wasa letter of instruction and command to the French , minister ; was" he not , in fact , aware that the Minister was recalled ? ' To this home question Lord John Russell could make no other reply than an explanation of the usual course of diplomatic usage , and an admission that the Foreign Secretary was aware of the fact that the French Minister had been recalled . "
Lord J . Russem : There are two ordinary modes of communicating such notes ; one is to read them to the Foreign Minister , giving no copy , the other is to read them and to leave a copy with the Minister . The former course was the course taken by the French Ambassador . Following , I presume , the orders he had received from his Government , and with no sort of intention of discourtesy , he read the letter in question to my noble friend , but communicated no copy of it , and my noble friend , in his statement to the House yesterday , gave what was his impression of the case .
Sir . J . Walsh : But though the Foreign Secretary had not formally had an actual copy of the despatch placed in his hands , still he was in full possession of all its contents . —{ Hear , hear ) . Lord J . Russell : No doubt the French Ambassador read to my noble friend the despatch he had received , accompanying it at the same time with such observations as he thought proper to make . A very long interview took place . { Hear , hear . )
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In the House of Lords the announcement of " a message from the Commons " had just been made , and the Speaker was preparing to receive it , when Lord Brougham started from the seat which he had just taken , and , motioning with his uplifted hand to the officer of the House to retire from the bar , impetuously shouted , " No , no , my lords . " The officer having withdrawn , his lordship called attention to the unaccountable ignorance in which Lord Lansdowne must have been kept to enable him to reply , as he had on Thursday , that M . Drouyn de Lhuys had merely left the country because his presence was
required ia the French Chamber . The ambassador was recalled , because of the grave dissatisfaction of the French Government with the breach of promises made by our Government . No doubt he should be told that his departure on her Majesty ' s birthday was an accidental coincidence . But how did it happen that M . Marescalchi , the Charge d'Affaires did not attend the official banquet on that occasion ? How was it that the Russian and Bavarian ambassadors had declined to attend ? After a violent attack on the French Republicans ,
" those degraded characters who form the Mountain , " because they had evinced no sympathy -with the cheers by which the friends of order had vehemently greeted the inauspicious communication of General La Hitte , —his lordship observed that one of three things must have happened : either M . Drouyn de Lhuys had disobeyed the positive orders of his Government ; or he must have communicated the despatch which he had received to Lord Palmerston , and Lord Palmerston have neglected to communicate it to the President of the Council ; or the President of the Council must have taken a very singular view
of its importance . The Marquis of Lansdowne had nothing to retract from yesterday ' s statement . When the French Ambassador quitted England he quitted it having neither received nor presented any formal letter of recall . If a letter of recall had been sent to the French Ambassador it could not have reached him before ho left London ; and up to this moment no notification of it had been made to the Government . M . Marescalchi had not attended the dinner because he was not invited , being only an attache . The Russian Ambassador had indisposition in his family . The Bavarian Ambassador was indisposed .
Lord UitouoiiAM again addressed their lordships , with very impressive gestures . After M . Drouyn de Lhuys left England M . Marescalchi ceased to be Secretary of Legation , and became Charge * d'Affaires . With regard to there having been no letters of recall , their Lordships were still desired to believe that M . Drouyn do Lhuys went to give information to his Government , and that there were no hostile communications between that Government and our own . But what said General La Ilitte ' s despatch ?— " We
have received , on this point , the most formal promises , which , however , have not been observed . " And what then followed ?— ?• It has appeared to us that the prolongation of your sojourn in London is no longer compatible with the dignity of the Republic . " M . Drouyn de Lhuys read ' this despatch to Lord Palmerston , and it was a recall of the Ambassador of Fiance , to nil intents and purposes . Whether it was in the diplomatic sense a formal letter of recall , he would not pretend to decide .
The Mnrquis of Lansdowxk again contended that thoro had been no letters . Lord BuououAM remarked that his noble friend ¦ was justified in his assertion ; but he also was justified in asserting that the despatch was a complete recall . After u few words from the Marquis of Londonderry : —
Lord Brougham again rose and said—I have been told by those who were present in the other House that the statement made in that House on this subject is utterly inconsistent with that just made by my noble friend .
Lord John Russell's Motion, Last Evening...
Lord John Russell ' s motion , last evening , for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland gave rise to a somewhat lively debate . The real question , he said , was , whether the time had come for its abolition . To prove that it had he referred to BradsJiaw ' s Railway Guide , which showed that the two capitals were only twelve hours apart . The office was not only useless but positively mischievous ; for while the Viceroy himself was in an anomalous position , liable to be questioned , appealed to , and insulted , without power and without respect , his levees and drawing-rooms tended to hide the splendour of the British throne , and led into
unwise expenses classes who , but for the dangerous proximity of an imitation court , would remain at home and discharge more important duties . It was her Majesty ' s intention , however , to visit Ireland , from time to time , and to have the residence in the Phcenix-park preserved , in order to give her Irish subjects no distant opportunities of paying their homage to their Sovereign . He proposed , therefore , by an Order in Council , to follow the measure now brought for wardto appoint a fourth Secretary of State ,
, who should especially preside over Irish business , but should , like all his colleagues , be qualified to discharge any of the functions of such a secretary . The ordinary powers of the Lord Lieutenant and the Irish Privy Council were to be transferred to her Majesty and the Irish Privy Council , but the judicial functions of that council would be preserved under the presidency of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland . The board of Poor-law Commission was to be preserved , with alterations , which would , however , involve no
additional expense . Mr . Gkattan , Mr . Gro g an , Sir Lucius O Brien , and Mr . Maurice O'Connell strongly opposed the motion . Mr . Reynolds declared that nineteen-twentieths of the adult population would be found opposed to this measure . It was a sacrifice of Ireland to centralization . Mr . Disraeli had always believed , until he heard Lord John Russell ' s speech , that there were some rather strong arguments in favour of the abolition of the office , but no advocate had ever so successfully demolished his own proposition as the noble lord had done . There was not a single valid reason could be given for the proposed motion . As to the appointment of a fourth . Secretary of State , with an for
equipage of clerks , and the proposed grant royal visits , he protested against both , on behalf of the ruined middle classes of England . But it was of little use protesting in presence of the existing Ministry , and , unhappily , if they resigned , the Country Party could not form a new Government . They had , unfortunately , no " practical " men . It was deplorable ; for , could they but find a " practical " Chancellor of the Exchequer who would only break clown four times in his budget—a «• practical" Colonial Secretary who would have only three insurrections in her Majesty ' s dominions at one time—and , above all , a" practical" Foreign Minister who would only deprive his Sovereign of all her allies , the party he belonged to might hope to form
an Administration . Mr . Fag an , Mr . Hume , Mr . Bernal Osmorne , and Sir Charles Wood supported the motion . The House having divided on an amendment moved by Mr . Grattan , that the motion be rejected , the numbers were—For the motion , 170 ; against it , 17 : majority for bringing in the bill , 153 .
The Social League Congress In London. Th...
THE SOCIAL LEAGUE CONGRESS IN LONDON . The late hour at which the report of the proceedings of this body reaches our hands , prevents our giving those details which , otherwise , we should have had pleasure in doing . Delegates from the principal towns in Groat Britain took part in its proceedings . Mr . Lloyd Jones presided . Among the new names wore those of Mr . George Dawson , of Birmingham , the Reverend E . II . Larken , of Lincoln , and Thornton Hunt , London . The assembly adopted many and judicious measures for concentrating public opinion upon the rising question of association . Thc ^ deliberative proceedings wore marked with business between
brevity . There was a sober proportion the measures submitted to the assembly which advantageously contrast with the vague pretensions of some modern popular congresses . The practical object sought by the assembly was tho promotion of associative labour , and unsectarian education . Disregarding the restriction of sympathy by which the same class of reformers have been heretofore distinguished , they came to the resolution of preserving friendly relations with political parties and all having congenial aims . As these intentions arc all prospective there is less necessity to enter into details , ut present . The accession of new parties taking an interest in these objects is earnest of some progress .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in its eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
Palmerston In His Decline. Palmerston Is...
PALMERSTON IN HIS DECLINE . Palmerston is going ; the active Minister who has so often succeeded in putting Europe into hot water , is waning . He has just been preparing materials for vast blue books in the contest with France about the Greek affair . In duration and elaboration it may vie with some of his greatest achievements—with the American boundary question of 1828 , or the Levant question of 1840 . It is conducted after his usual fashion , a sort of pleasant
audacity of manner , combining frankness with boldness of assertion and exorbitancy of demand ; making concessions which , by a verbal sleight of hand , are converted into reserved positions or encroachments , and constituting throughout a complicated tissue of delusion . The failure is not seen in any want of activity or zest , but it is painfully discernible in the utter futility of the successes achieved . To make this clear we must briefly recapitulate a few of the diplomatic victories .
Besides an interview with M . de Montherot on on the 2 nd of February , a series of interviews with M . Drouyn de Lhuys began on the 5 th of February , and continued to the 15 th of May . Lord Palmerston first took up the position that as the existence of Greece was not at all at stake , —as the British Government did not wish to make a conquest of " that country , —there was no necessity to inform France of the proceedings , or to admit third parties to the affair . When M . Drouyn de Lhuys remonstrated against this isolated position ,
especially as the threatened attack on Sapienza and Cervi involved a territorial question , and France had joined England in the guarantee of Grecian independence , . Lord Palmerston shifted his position and declined the friendly mediation of France on the ground that M . Thouvenel , the French Minister in Greece , " had made up his mind on the subject in a manner which rendered the part of mediator or arbitrator impossible ; " and when that hostile animus was repudiated , Lord Palmerston began to negotiate the note by which M . Drouyn
de Lhuys was to offer the mediation of France : he succeeded in making it not an " arbitration , " but " a friendly mediation "—an interposition of " good offices . " He evaded any promise to return the ships already seized , and he adjourned the question of the two islands . These achievements were effected on the 9 th of February . On the 11 th , when M . Drouyn de Lhuys asked for an official recognition of the offer , Lord Palmerston put him off with " some excuse about the slowness inherent in the manner of proceeding at the
Foreign-office . " The formal note was sent on the 12 th of February . The instructions to Admiral Parker were put off from time to time ; they were to have been sent by courier on the 7 th ; they were not sent till the 15 th ; and then , in lieu of an order for suspending coercion , the phrase was— " From the present Admiral Parker must not add to the stringency of the measures which he is now taking . " Early in the correspondence Lord Palmerston succeeded in setting forth a list of the English claims , beginning with the compensation claims of first he
Mr . Finlay and Senhor Pacifico . At wanted to " establish the position that England , having once made such claims , could not recede from them , and that the duty of the French mediator was necessarily limited to the endeavour at procuring , in a friendly manner , the terms which England was prepared to obtain by force ; or , as M . Drouyn de Lhuys phrased it , "to the passing of the accounts from the English to the Greek Government . " When M . Drouyn de Lhuys contested this position , Lord Palmerston effected a remarkable series of successes : he first obtained the compensation for Mr . Finlay and Senhor Pacifico to be admitted in blank ; then he named five thousand , or even as low a sum as four thou-
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Leader (1850-1860), May 25, 1850, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25051850/page/10/
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