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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1851.
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nounced, and that Lord John Russell has ...
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We Have Received Long And Interesting Co...
refusing to reenter the service when called upon ) , was remonstrated with on the grounds that his retirement would be inconvenient to the Government , persiste d nevertheless , in his demand , and two days afterwards ; ( without being preinformed of the intended honour ) was created Mare ' chal de France , on the pretext of the expedition to Home . It appears , in conclusion , that General Vaillant was disposed to submit to the grade of Marechal ; but that his modesty would not allow of his accepting the offered pretext ,
considering the at least equal claims of General Oudinot . 1 On dit , ' that from various motives the Twenty-seventh Regiment of the line was ill-disposed to the present state of things , which ill disposition was the motive for their precipitate journey to Moulins on the 5 th of December , the day immediately following the grand military display in Paris . ' On dit , ' that several members of the Second Legion of National Guards have been disarmed on various pretexts , although that legion has not yet been dissolved . "
The report of the liberation of Cavaignac , it now turns out , was in some respects premature . It was quite true that orders were sent to Ham for the liberation of General Cavaignac ; but the General refused to accept his liberty , except upon condition that his companions in captivity should at the same time be set free . The consequence is that General Cavaignac still remains a prisoner at Ham . The Jura is placed in a state of siege . The Government has got in readiness a regular fleet for transporting the unfortunate people whom the police denounces as agitators of society . Five large vessels capable of carrying away 2000 men , whom it is intended to send to Cayenne , are in the harbours of Rochfort , Cherbourg , and Brest . Another fleet is equipped in the Mediterranean for the transportation of French citizens to Lambessa , in Algeria .
A telegraphic despatch from Vienna , given in the Kreuz-Zeituny , states that " the sisters of Kossuth will be shortly removed to Pesth . " This somewhat confirms the rumour that they have been arrested .
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Ihe Quantity Of "Christmas In Co Vent-Ga...
Ihe quantity of " Christmas in Co vent-garden Market this morning was marvellous . Ranged along the west end of the quadrangle were whole forests of firs , groves of laurel , woods of laurustinus , ivy sufficient to make any modern " specimen of Norman Gothic " look old , and mistletoe enough to have satisfied all the ghosts of all the Druids who ever lived in Britain . Men were stalking off in all directions with trees in front of them ; women walking off with multitudinous branches bunched together ; and little boys scouting under the carts for sprigs of holly and mistletoe . There was a good decil of business going on ; but one sallow , cynical , duly blueaproned dealer intimated in nasal tones that there was " too much of it , " and it " would ' nt do . " AVhether this lias turned out to be true this deponent knoweth not .
INews comes from Ireland that there is a serious split in the Catholic Dct ' i-ucc Association . On Thnrsd . iy Mr . Wiiberf ' ovco was elected JS :-crt'tnry ; and this was In Id to be : » n abandonment of the national poliuv , and substiluting in its stead a policy which has its centre in Rome . Whereupon William Keo ' gh , M . V ., G . 11 . Moore , M . i \ , Antony O'Flaherty , M . P ., Francis Scully , M . P ., Ouseley Jliggins , M . I ' ., IS'icliolas V . Maher , M . P ., and Timothy O'Jiiien , M . i \ , signed ; m address to the people of Ireliiini , cliaractei iziug the election of Mr . Wilberforce as ; m " act of ignoble folly and national degradation , " and declaring that " his election fills them with dismay and apprehension as to the conduct of the future policy of country . "
We Have Been Informed That It. Is Defi N...
We have been informed that it . is defi n itely arranged that , the situation of Inspector-General of the Cavalry be conferred upon his JJ , » y : il Highness the Duke of Cambridge , in consequence of the promotion of Lioutenant-( icneral Jirotheri . on , C . B ., and that his Royal Highness will assume his duties on the 1 st of April next . —Mornintj ( ' / ironif / c . Yestci-dniy morning at , three o ' clock a ( ire was discovered on 1 . 1 k ; large premise ¦» of Collard anil Collard at ( , 'aiinleii-town . The building , used as a pianoforte manufactory , of immense . size , and very lofty , adjoin :, the JNorth-Wchtern Railway , and stands on high ground . i eiuiaiu immense
The entrance to thin immense raiiiri ; of iiri > ii > iKi > u -..,-iu I . n ; 'c T . o nun range of premises was by means of a eaniage gateway through a KpaciouN timber yard , which adjoined the ill-fated property . In tlu- centre of the factory wjia a kind of loophole , extending from the bottom to the uppermost floor , which wan used for lowering or raising the instruments to dillcrent . portions of the works , which will account , for the rapid progress of the flames . The flooring under the first range of workshops wuh composed of eemeiete , nearly two and a half feet in thickness in
order to render it fireproof , which , to some extent , proved succesHful ; but , from the fact of there being two HtaircaseH , independent of the loophole above referred to , the flame h were drifted by the strong wind which prevailed round the different floors with unusual rapidity . With aH little delay iih possible the engine belonging to the purinh arrived , and was Hct to work ; but the water thrown on ho large u body of lire made not the least impression , ai | d the moment tlie window glass gave wuy the fire Hhot up the . loophole and Ktuii cases with such violence ; that before ; a
Krigado engine could arrive the ; t \ ve > upper floors pre - BiMited one imimiine sheet of flame-. The nprctnclc wan magnificent , flames rushing Mtenelily fre > m HH windowH , throwing a horriel light nil around , and ele-fying control . There were nine ; engine : ! at work . The ronl fell in with H thundering crush , carrying three ; floeus with it . Large flukes of burning we > od flew in all eliree-. tiems . It wun not until quite daylight that the ( ire was ge ) t . well under . The building had only been erected twelve months .
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SATURDAY , DECEMBER 27 , 1851 .
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There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...
There is nothing so revolutionary , because there 13 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 eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
Nounced, And That Lord John Russell Has ...
nounced , and that Lord John Russell has not made , but " sanctioned , " the change , lead to an inference that the act is that of the Sovereign herself . When we look to the press for enlightenment , we find it not ; and thus the most important change that could be made in the Government at such a time is effected with as little information to the public as was vouchsafed to the Parisians , when Louis Napoleon lately changed his Ministry and some other things . The secrecy in which official men are still permitted to shroud the conduct of public affairs ,, the insincerity which is the rule of official
utter-LORD PALMERSTON SUPERSEDED . The seals of the Foreign-office have passed from the hands of Lord Palmerston , and have been placed in keeping deemed safer by the other Ministers . The ablest man of the Cabinet is at large , and the Administration is to be " strengthened " by some recruiting . The precise mode and the immediate reason for the change are not known . A general dissatisfaction and want of confidence felt by the Cabinet are hinted ; but the statement that the chief objectors , the Grey section , were ignorant of the change when summoned to the Council at which it way
anance , the readiness of our apathetic devil-may-care politicians to accept professions so that they be smooth enough , the insincerity of party intriguers without the pale of office—all contribute to make a J Kg " tf mystery of what ought to be a very plain matter . The People , whose affairs are conducted for it by the cliques of gentlemen that alternate in and out of office , is left to guess at the way in which its own business is going on . It is well known , in spite of the disclaimer in the Times , that the Grey section of the Cabinet has objected to Lord Palmerston's equivocal and hazardous
career in foreign policy ; it is well known that influences exercising great power over the pure Whig portions of the Cabinet—the Grey and . Bedford sections—had formally protested jigainst him on grounds not very unlike- those ; which we have placed before our render .-., lie bad coquetted with ultra-Liberals—with Islington deputations , for instance , and Sicilian rebels- he bad " protested " against ; Austria ; lie : h ;' ., d professed to steer between the two , . supporting Constitutionalism ; but uniformly bis acts ended in a show of defeat to himself , and of victory to the : 1 > espol . s . This equivocal , hazardous steerin / ' - was of a kind to alarm timid
statesmen . Constitutionalism was all very well ; but , to anger Russia , on the one hand , and t . e > trip up Liberalism em the other , drew upon him ami his a double storm of hostilities . His redleagues < : e > uld not . feel st / rc Mi . it . be : was really trimming " the vessel of the stale" : might , he : not run it , against ; a rock ? did lie not perhaps intend , to . sail within the range of an enemy ' s ^ iins— te > sa j ] straight inte > the Russian fleet ? What , was be—trimmer or traitor ? Revolutionary or Russian ? Islington Republican or St . Petersburg Absolutist ? Who could say ? If , was , at all events , very hazardous , rather . scandalous , and altogether disagreeable to weak Whig nerves . At last it became unbearable—and Lord Palmerston " resigned . "
And who is appointed in bis place ? Karl Granville—a man of the : Liberal-Conservative order ; young , intelligent , displaying inueli fact and capacity \\\ the conduct of routine business ; undamaged hi repute any way—for lie has ne-ilbeir broken endless promises , nor committed endless indiucretionH ; Hlulleel t . e > . speak l'Yench like a native :, and well eMte : emed in Paris ; ce-rlifie-aleel to Imvt ; ' conducted the , business of the Imposition excellently , and much esteemed amongst intelligent , politicians around the : be-st dinner tables . Morn ( > f him is ne > t . recen-ded : he . has nhown hinise-lf a capable : official , a creditable commissioner ; as te > his statesmanship ^ - if , is unknown . Such is l , b « : " young noble : inan " to whom the conduct of foreign affiiir . s is intrusteel . And what i .-j to be inferred from the substitution ?
We construe it to mean this : —that wherpa 7 ~ 7 l have before stated , and the Times IST ^ Z * the Foreign Minister conducted affairs beyond tS control of his colleagues , now affairs will be con ducted by an able , straightforward junior , in con " currence with the leading members of the CabineT and on genuine Whig principles ; that , therefore whereas "England" has seemed to trim between opposite extremes " of Absolutism and Renub hcanism , henceforward the said official " Enfflanrp " will really trim . S na
Lord Palmerston ' s own position , individuallv f present is a mystery . We have no means of knowing the extent of his ties to the Diplomat body of Europe . Officially his conduct has been such as to serve the aimscand interests of that bod and he is close friends with certain of its moS distinguished members , and especially some mnS naturally devoted to Russia . Personally he is an intelligent , bold , able man , —the most distinguished in all those respects of the Cabinet which has just cast him off . He is quite capable of understanding the nature of the opening now made in Anglo European politics ; how far he is free to use it we
have no means of knowing . It is hinted that he will appear in the House of Commons next session at the head of " the Hundred Liberals , " of whom the Premier has just enraged so important a section by repelling the Manchester deputation . If the new alliance is to be made for the one part on the basis of Lord Palmerston's old professions , and for the other part on the basis of some exclusive class notions of policy , the " popular" movement will be a humbug—will be too weak to combat family compacts and organized party influences
and will end in smoke . If there were to be a genuine appeal to the nation by a set of able men with so able a man at their head , the most experienced official could not calculate the consequences . O'Connell elected for Clare , Napoleon after his Italian and German victories , Washington after the capitulation of Cornwallis , —not one was so welcome as a Leader would be to the English
People just now , enabling it to unite and act . We have no data to show that Lord Palmerston is free to take such a position , indicated for him by a contemporary . In any calculation of the future , therefore , he must for the present just be cast out of the account—except as a critic . And a tremendous critic he will be to his " noble friends "; sitting behind them in horrible judgment on their every act , errors not excepted .
Meanwhile , however , let the English People hear in mind , that if the influence and power of this country are frittered away or diverted to un-English purposes , it is the fault of the English People , which Buffers its Covernment to act in equivocation and secrecy . We are amazed to hear genuine Liberals expressing a sense that Lord Palmerston ' s dismissal is " a great blow to Liberalism " ! It is no such thing . If Lord Palmerston
is the friend t . o Progress which be has professed to \> r , if be has only been restrained hitherto by the slenvncss of others , if he has been checked by scruples against throwing off his colleagues , be can have ne ) such . scruples and obstructions now ; but , released , be , may add deeds to professions , and become really useful . If be has been insincere , bis removal is a positive gain to Liberalism , hi either . ease , therefore , Lihcrn . li . sin gains .
We note also bints of various combinations , prevented e > r contemplated : one talks of coinbinm ^ with Russia and Austria against , France , or with Franco against Austria and Russia ; while the 'I'hues hints that the : . status quo of 1 » 1 - > must foe absolutely maintained by all , or that those who are the first ; to break it , must , take the consequences . All these schemes and warnings are idle nonsense , the devices of imbecility where they are not tricks to divert the public . The status quo of IH l . > //«•*> been broken by every state e ) f Europe . Combinations with www of the great Powers , just now , would
be treachery * to Freedom and to rCnghmd : <>»« Despot , whether French , or Austrian , or JtiiHsiaii , is as bad as the rest ; and combination with either would be complicity in treason , There is but one combination that Kngland can trust—combination with the I ' enplcs of Uurope : with that combination Unglanel might deify the : l ) espe > ts of the World ; especially as she would have America with her . Any oilier combination would bo a failure , n treason . We are : not , indeed , prepared to assert ; that any man now in Downiiitf- . street is willing to < »« - part from the : routine of Court alliances : we , iully expect her Majesty to declare that she is " at
peace" —if not ' in " friendly relation . s "— with ' »» the IWcru of the Continent—those crowned
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1851, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27121851/page/12/
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