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Satttbday, March 20. We Have Now Some Di...
said Ministers were a baker ' s dozen leagued together to put a tax on bread—au Amalgamated Society of chairmen of quarter sessions leagued together to raise the price of bread . He went through the rotten constituencies alphabetically / beginning A , Abingdon , and showed what small numbers and what corrupt electors they Represented ; and being iii want of the letter E , he said , when he came to Mr . Herries , oh , he represents the Marquis of Jlxeter ! He made an onslaught on the Irish appointments , showing how they were all anti-Roman Catholic , and he wound up by moving that the House should refuse the supplies .
To this sparkling and fluent charge , Mr . Whiteside offered but a faint and snarling resistance , criticising the taste which dictated Mr . Osborne ' s speech , and hinting at the soundness of his religion . The temper of the House , which was growing hot at this period , was cooled by a succession of speakers who made no great impression , and whose remarks were directed less to the personal than to the public question , which did not then happen to be at issue . But a remark of Sir Benjamin Hall called up the Earl of March , who said that the Duke of Richmond ' s rent-roll had decreased , not increased , as stated by the honourable baronet . The Earl of March then defined a " Protectionist "
as " one who supported the government of Lord Derby . " Mr . Cobden had the bad taste to dispute the question of the rent-roll of the Duke of Richmond with the son of the Duke of Richmond , amid the marked coolness of the House ; but he made a point when he asked Ministers what they intended to do with the Anti-Corn-Law League ? Mr . Wujjam Mixes made a dull ministerial speech , expressive of confidence in Lord Derby . Mr . Caei > weIiI < entered into the debate with that coolness and
dry circumspection which distinguish him ; and he fixed the question at issue , by showing that it was unconstitutional for a ministry in a minority to hoid office without appealing to the country , and insisting that the House would neglect its duty if it did not demand the fullest explanation of future policy Mr . CayIjEY carried on the ministerial side of the argument . If the farmers of England are satisfied with LordJDerby ( he said ) , what had anybody to do with it ?
Lord John Russell restated his speech of Monday , insisting on the necessity of a dissolution at great length , and defending himself on account of the meeting at Cheshain-plaee . But the main point in his speech was a word of warning to the Tories . He described the seditious state of the country in 1817 and 1819 . He pointed out how tranquillity had followed reform , and how democracy had been met and vanquished by these means .
' If , " ho continued ominously , " the noble lord now at the head of the Government means to resort to other means—if the laws that he has in contemplation arc opposed to the general sentiments of the country—and if he contemplates that those laws will require to bo enforced by other means than the present , let mo tell him that , instaad of discountenancing democracy , ho will be tho greatest f ivourer of that democracy . " ( Chocrs . ) The Chanoeixob of the Exchequeh met the
Opposition on the threshold . Their first motion , he said , is . one to stop the supplies ; that is the issue they have themselves selected , and on that we are prepared to divide . ( Loud cheers . ) Ho followed up Lord John Russell on every point . He charged him with faction , in organizing an opposition to force a dissolution , and winning support by promising to convert the late oligarchical cabinet into a broad-bottomed administration . He insinuated that both Mr . Cardwell and Lord John
KiiHsell were prepared to stop tho supplies , whereupon each denied that he had such intention ; upon Avhich Mr . Disraeli turned round with mock gravity , exclaiming—Here , sir , you see the advantages of free discussion ! Who would , he wondered , havo tho <*> urago to vote with Mr . Osborno ? He would go to the country on tho clear , distinct issue—Has the country confidence in tho present Ministry ? Taking up Lord John ' s menace about resisting democracy , he asked with triumphant force by whoso aid had tho noblo lord been able to repel democratic innovationwho had onabled him to resist Parliamentary Reform ? To those home thrusts no reply coulfl bo made , and on this ground the Minister was unassailable .
Mr . Bright made a Btout speech , leaving Lord John to' defend hitnsolf , and fighting the question simply iw between tho country and MiniHtcra , whom ho menaced . If Ministers attempted to roimpoao a duty on corn , " a 'great deal more than their corn Iiiwh would not bo « afe for six months ; " the agitation of 18 . 12 " would bo but tho whisper of a hurricane . " " If you , as you allege , broke up an * organized hypocrisy , ' " ( cheers , ) wo will sco if wo cannot break up a confederated imposture . " ( Cheers . ) A ibw words from tho Marquis of Oranby , who declared his confidence in Lord Derby , concluded tho main discussion . ; and a » Mr . Osborno withdrew his motion , tho number of men was agreed to , and tho vote on tho money postponed until Monday .
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There is notMng 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 lavr of its creation in eternal progress . —Dn . Abnold .
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to hold a bazaar for some charitable -object ; , it would compete very successfully with the dilettante charity of Belgravia . There can be no doubt that Colonel Sibthorp or Lord John Bussell could sell pincushions or mosaic ornaments , " as good as gold , " at a great rate ; Mr » Disraeli might dispose of any number of bazaarbudgets ; and Mr . Hawes might vend specimens of colonial constitutions , or missing despatches , as curiosities worth preserving . Thus Parliament might mate itself practically useful before its last days . The next best thing thatjt can do is , to pass Lord Brougham ' s bill shortening the interval between the old Parliament and the new ; adding
THE GENERAL ELECTION . Both the " two great parties in the State , " the two Parliamentary dinner parties , have given' in : the Opposition will wait , the Ministry will not keep it long waiting ; and until the end _ of the session there is to be a truce . Meanwhile , Jlat is the epithet for all things in the Parliamentary universe . The House of Commons is unburied , but already dead . It had better ,, say the genuine Conservatives of our institutions , " shut up shop . " More sanguine folks desire to put it , like the Crystal Palace , to some useful T > urr > ose : and there is no doubt that if it were
thereto the recommendation of the Morning Chronicle , that the period should be further shortened , to the length of twenty days . Fourteen days have sufficed for the reelection of the lately appointed Ministers , and , a fortiori , twenty would suffice for the election of mere private Members . The shorter the paroxysm is the better . We all know what it means . Members and Ministers , in the slang peculiar to their craft , call it " an appeal to the country ; " about as correctly as if they were to call it an appeal to the judge and
jury at a fast supper house . JLhere are , indeed , certain formalities which give to the general election the semblance of a public and national act : the Speaker issues writs—his cards inviting to the jollification ; the troops go away , lest the men be corrupted by the baa manners and bad company of the hour ; the sheriff' reads the Bribery Act—the best joke of the whole carnival ; and then the electors " go it . " An important fraction of the public , which is authorized to vote for the Members of Bellamy ' s , and is called "the country , ''
undergoes a jovial paroxysm of maccarpnic politics , beer-drinking , sovereign-fingering , speechswallowing , egg-throwing v cant-delivering , nonsenBe-shouting , bullying , bawling , brawling , ranting , tearing , chairing , colour-bearing , swearing , flaring , flaunting , vaunting , thanking , hooting ; with a ludicrous ceremony called tho show ofhands , and a more ludicrous one called polling ; and then six hundred and fifty convives , emerging from those pious orgies , como up to London , call themselves " representatives of the people , " "honourable gentlemen , " and proceed to make laws The next election will not bo a bit behind its fellows in rhodamontado and humbug ; once ,
contrary to the general usage , Ministers are not to submit to " the country" any critical proposition , but aro to appeal on tho score of character , thus turning tho electors loose for nothing particular . Can tho public , in common politeness , return any other but tho affcor-dinner declaration , that " the Ministry ia a jolly good fellow P" Some constituent members ot that jolly good follow may politically expire in tho bout ; now Members , more robust , will bo returned ; but , upon tho whole , the House will be reflected as it was . Like causes produce like effects : if wo want to create bettor Members , wo must create a bettor constituency ; and if we want to have a bettor constituency , we muat return better Members . Or perhaps the same sort might do , if we could only convince them that wo are in earnest ;
which , ebnwderihff - ^^^^^^^^ ^ great practical joke , is not easy . The nOn electors , who are most iii earnest , should ta £ * the matter into their own Jiands ; ToiuSn Smith has shown that , by thfe ancient law of th « land , the great body of inhabitants has the rifrhfc to vote at elections : why do not ; they act upon that rightP In some places , where they are mosb capable of active exertion ,- they niight nominate their own candidate , poll their own numbers fi « .
and against , carefully and honestly , elect their own man / and send him up to Iiondon , like an . O'Connell from Clare , to demand his seat . A few such elections , and the true members / or the People would not very long be excluded from Parliament .
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THE REAL KEY TO PUBLIC ( ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY . If " practical '' men would only look at the question without the prejudice that they so much deprecate in othersy they would perceive that the absence of a higher sentiment than " an enlightened selfishness . ' ^ pr the " pounds , shillings , and pence" principle , is the cause pf much that disturbs them in the way of inefficiency , waste , and obstruction to material improvement . The fault of our aristocracy is , not that it is tyrannical—it has lost the power to be that , except overits own dependents- —but that it is not aristocratic enough . It has descended to trading standards and middle class anxieties about personal advantage , instead of sticking to the high standards of its own escbcheon ; its proud traditions , and hereditary generosities . While still retaining a huge share of the government of this country , it has so conducted its part in \ lie
administration , that it has brought down the army of the nation to be a trading TprofeBsion , in which the younger sons are to finaa provision ; the church is "in danger , " because so large a portion of its weU-connected clergy have made it a mere inn for their own ease ; the y ^ rj government of this Empire , which the most ; distinguished of our aristocracy reserve to signalize themselves in , truckles to mean motives and mercenary
interests . , Thus , by the keen sight of commercial sagacity , this country at last discovers that it has been expending upon its Army nearly six millions sterling a-year , and yet it has not a force fit for a great nation . Not because the staple of the race has deteriorated—that has not yet been proved—but because the Ministers of the country have left the administration of the Army to clerks and contractors , and are satisfied if they , get off * without a formal vote of censure .
We have , says Mr . Williams , spent nearly 23 , 000 , 000 * . since the war , in ' building , equipping and maintaining 620 ships— a quarter of the National Debt—and yefc we have only 142 ships in commission , and they are notoriously undermanned . What are the steps taken to amend the last deficiency PA" reserve" of 5000 Bailors is planned by the late Ministry , and adopted by the present—a body of men to be paid a small honorarium , or retainer , every year , for tne linhilifv to sftrvft when called upon . Ihe same
kind of reserve might be a very sound measure in regard to the land-force for service at home , and Frederick Hill has demonstrated its practicability ; but its utility as respects the JNavy must bo more questionable , since the niouyca and facilities for evasion of duty at the last muse bo greater . -It is admitted by a formor Secretary of the Admiralty , Mr . Corry , that of the 500 U not more than 3000 would be available on instant need : and it is a clumsy mode of compeneat ng t . W , «™ t « m of " tmvimr off" which Captain
Scobell denounces for the thousandth time . way not , ho asks , let the men enlist for five , sevon , or fourteen years P Why not , indeed , ™ loBB f n 12 that they would notP Mr . Trelawny cmtoart * that wo ought to pay , at the outside ,. 2 , CW * " for 40 , 000 men , since able seamen can bo founu for tho merchant service at II . a-wcefc to m themselves . " „ ., . ¦ p-iolja-. Wo doubt tho strict accuracy of tins calciua tion ; but it is notoriously the fact , that the fica
men in the Navy may have more wWVf comfort in a royal ship than in a ™ rcha p nt Wy then why are they not to be obtained ? vv * do they prefer the merchant flervice P . W ^ the sorvfee of the United States \ I » ^ Cr they distrust the treatment on boar dW ^ wefl-bredofficersP Said an English sailor to » j who had flerved in America , " A man is « e *
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Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27031852/page/12/
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