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Berlin, May 24. The Gazette Prussienne s...
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Advices from Bayonne of the 23rd state t...
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The Times Of Yesterday, In Its Second Ed...
Berlin , Thursday , May 24 . Advices from St . Petersburg to the 19 th state that all the fortified harbours in the Bay of Finland had been declared in a state of siege . # ,. Seven prizes taken by the English arrived at Elsinore on the 22 nd .
Berlin, May 24. The Gazette Prussienne S...
Berlin , May 24 . The Gazette Prussienne says that the new conditions proposed through the mediation of Austria are : — A special treaty determining the number of ships , Russian and Turkish , that shall be permitted to navigate the Black Sea . France and England to have the right to maintain two ships of war each in the Bosphorus . The Porte to communicate to the Allied Powers any treaty concluded with Russia .
Advices From Bayonne Of The 23rd State T...
Advices from Bayonne of the 23 rd state that a Carlist conspiracy had been discovered at Saragossa . On the 22 nd , an ex-Carlist chief , who had entered the Queen ' s service after the Convention of Bergara , deserted with sixty men of the garrison . Troops of the line and militia had gone in pursuit . Navarre and the Basque provinces are tranquil . THE BALTIC . Letters from the Baltic state the official information had reached the British Consul at Elsinore that the Eussian government had given orders to sink all their men-of-war at Cronstadt , except eight sail ot the line . Small-pox was raging very badly on board the Duke of Wellington and the Arrogant .
Terms Of Subscription To "®!)E Scalier."...
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO "®!) e Scalier . " For a Half-Year £ 0 13 0 To be remitted in advance . ^ S" Money Orders should be draw n upon the Stkand Branch Office , and be made payable to Mr . Alpeed E Galloway , at No . 154 , Strand . NOTICES TO CORRESPON DENTS . The pressure of parliamentary matter compels us to omit several articles this week . B . A . B . —Received .
During The Session Of Parliament It Is O...
During the Session of Parliament it is often impossible to flnd room for correspondence , even the briefest . __ No notice can be taken of anonymous communications Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
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There ia nothing so revolutionary , because thereia nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law oi its creation in eternal progress . —Dit . Aknoid
The Confidence Debates. If Ceomwell Were...
THE CONFIDENCE DEBATES . If Ceomwell were alive amongst us now he would cry , not " Take away that bauble , " the mace , but " Take away that rubbish , " the House . Imagine the people ' s representatives at a time when we have a great war on our hands , when wo do not know our friends from our foes , and when there is a growing disgust among all classes at our rulers and our institutions ; imagine the elected Members of the Peoplo ' s House debating , not what they shall do , but what they shall say .
Mr . IiAYAitD had stood forward ns a people ' s man ; he had a resolution " on the state of tho nation , " ho gave way to Mr . Disbaeli . Accusing Ministers of " ambiguous language and uncertain conduct , " tho " Genius of tho Epoch " set all the paltry factions gabbling in a squabble over hall a dozen motions of resolutions studiously ambiguous , in order to some course of conduct still more studiously uncertain . 2 STo man dares lay down the expression of his real conviction . Gladstone is totally against all war as " anti-Ohrietian , "
but be has not the heart to challenge the House to affirm his resolution ' or reject it . The pure Whigs dread the war lest it rouse the nationalities—but they dare not go in the teeth of the people . Diseaeli would close with Russia to-morrow , if by so doing he could put down the people , put out Palmekston , and be the ] S " essei , eode of England . But Deebt will not stand that inroad on " the families , " and Gbanbt sympathises with Gladstone—only Debby will not speak out his mind . What can they say that is " ambiguous and uncertain "—that is the grand thing which the factions compete to discover each for itself ?
But the fault is not all with " The Parliament . " Paltry as the House of Commons is , there is no power or class in the country less paltry . Our public men forget the English people . Class division cramps our " popular" members more than the Peers . A member holds that he " loses caste" by appealing direct to the people . The people doubt themselves—repine that the House possesses power , and " petition" for their " rights ; " forgetting that , as the civil law justly judges , there is no such thing as " right" without independent self-asserted power . So Palmebston guesses what the people think ,
Roebuck reports them , Lowe formulates the report in a resolution ; but not one communes directly with the people , not one enters the House backed by the people , not one deserves from the Commons of England more power than some in the same House do from the Emperor of France—or from the Czar . Nero fiddled—but the fiddlling at all events was music : there is neither rhythm nor melody in the resolutions or speeches of the honourable House . The House , however , is what the people lets it be ; and if there are any men there who ought to know better and blush for their own impotence , they , too , share the disgrace of voluntary humiliation through cowardice .
You may think that you look down on Ministers : are you above them ? You may despise " the ambiguous language and uncertain conduct" of Palmerston : good ; take his measure , then , and easily excelspeak as stoutly and do more . That is what men of the English Commonwealth ought to do , and there is a way to do it . Unluckily avc cannot say that it can be doue without men .
The State Of Feeling In The Country. If ...
THE STATE OF FEELING IN THE COUNTRY . If the governing classes suffer themselves to fall into contempt through their mis-government of this country , it will not be entirely their own fault . They have many excuses —they are more ignorant than wilful—there is no desire to oppress . The class of
Newcastles , claiming to do what they like with their own ; of Bucking hams , ambitious to be lords of the soil in theatrical pageantry if not in reality , has passed by with the last generation . fiords and squires would do well if they could . On the average , they have not more faculties than other men , but they are not worse . They have rather the "
commendable ambition , " which Lord John liussbll patronisingly ascribed to tho Duko of Newcastle , than any wiah to be bad . Tho difficulty is that they do not know how to gratify their ambition ; and this is partly tho result of accident , partly the fault of the people to bo governed . No people can bo well governed that is not prepared to vindicate ita own importance ; because tho governors can have no respect for a tame people , no pride in ruling a tame people , and no assistance from tho resolutely-assorted wishes
of the people . The immense magnitude p i the population—a population not herding . ip tame submission like Hindoos , and not , ¦ divided into " states" like Americans—creates a physical obstruction to a mutual know ledge on the part of the different proving and classes . " Self-government" is abspV lutely impossible in so large a community ^ autocratic government we have not ; but ¦ vfre do have Tiap-kazard government , and official routine had become nearly independent J &
public opinion . Go amongst the governing classes , and you are astounded at the ignorance that they display of the governed : they have as little acquaintance with tile people as the people has of them . Tb . ey form the most erroneous conceptions . You will hear opinions confidently expressed that the shopkeeping classes , sunk in the desirfe for gain , are absolutely indifferent on fchfe subject of the war , and anxious only , for peace because it is good for trade . You will
hear them say that the working-classes are " tranquil , " and therefore " satisfied ; " that the professional classes have no objects except to gain such height in their profession as will bring them within the range of official employment . The governing classes judge the people by those straggling adventurers who come within their range , just as foreigners judge the English by the hybrids of Brussels or Boulogne . " He has no heart for the war ^ f say the vulgar of Lord Paimebston , " he ; is
only desirous of patching up an ignominious peace . " " The shopocracy , " says some associate of Lord Palmerston , " perfectly indifferent to the honour and glory of England , and is only impatient for ua to patch up an inglorious peace . " m Now it so happens that we know something of the facts in both cases , and we believe that the present crisis has had the effe ^ ct ^ of calling forth something more like an English spirit than we have witnessed for a quarter of a century at least . From the sycophants *
who represent the middle as well as the working-classes , to the governors , we h »^ 6 that deliberate lying which is only possible with voluntary ignorance . If some Habotjn Al-Raschid of Downing-street would go upon his travels in omnibus or coffee-shop in the great towns of the factory districts , or the agricultural centres , he would find one feeling and one feeling alone . It waa well expressed the other night by Mr . Eoethjck : people suspect that Government intends to cdtnpromise the war , feel excessively indignant
at the idea of such treachery , and are anxioua for an energetic advance of the British flag . It is the talk of omnibuses ,. go they to Brompton or Bayswater , to Bethnal Green or Brixton . It is tho same throughout the provinces . We have had occasion to know their sentiments in detail . Lot us take specimens . Birmingham has spoken out for itself , manfull y and early , on the subject of the war ,, ; Newcastle had been before it ; Sheffield accompanying . Hero Ministers are universally denounced becauso they aro not belayed to be in earnest when they talk of " upholding doubt
national honour . In Manchester , no , the state of politicn is thrown into great con ^ fusion by tho position of tho borough Membora . Mr . Milnjsr Gibbon and Mr . JOJW Bright posness claims upon tlio Anti-Gorn-Law party which are not to be forgotten . They ire associated with tho traditional sacrifice / of that party , and the respect tor them , cannot bo cancelled by the differences of the day . There are many people in Man * cheater who wholly dissent from the Quaker ^ ism of Mr . Bkioiit or the economiem * oj Mr . Gibson , but who would hesitate ttt come forward and . pass a vote of censure , on those Members because they like them om
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Leader (1850-1860), May 26, 1855, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26051855/page/13/
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