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HOUSE OF COMMONS. THE STATE OF THE NATIO...
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A memorial to Sir George Grey, in favour...
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Russia was the only way to make the landed proprietors of that empire feel the pressure of the war and desire peace ; whereas , at present , their productions being just as much in . demand as ever , they not only felt no inconvenience from the war , but many circumstances caused it to be popular among them . | Ie showed that this country need not depend on Bussia for hemp or flax , there being an abundance of those products in India , and the British merchants of Russia were quite prepared to abandon their trade if it was declared unlawful . Lord Stanley of Aldjbrlet replied , urging the old topics—that the blockade would be strictly enforced , and the humane system on which war was now carried on . The House adjourned at 9 o ' clock .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS . THE STATE OF THE NATION . Mr , Layabd gave notice that on an early day he should move a series of resolutions to the effect that the House viewed with deep and increasing concern the actual state of the nation . Whilst at all times the administration of public affairs should be entrusted to those best qualified , it was the more necessary that they should be so at a moment of great national emergency . That the manner in which the interests of party-favouring influence had been consulted in preference to merit in appointments to the highest offices of State diplomacy , the army , and other branches of the public service , was opposed to the best interests of the State , and had already given rise to many great misfortunes , and was calculated to bring discredit on the national character , and involve the country in much distress . That the House would give its support to any Ministry which in the present emergency should propose to place the _ different departments on a proper and efficient basis in those respects . A number of questions were asked of the Government from the answers to which it appeared , that it was intended to associate civil practitioners with the directorship of the Army Medical Department ; that with regard to the fusees used at Sebastopol , some were made in 1853 and 1854 , but others sent from Malta were of much older date ; and that _ the Government had no intention of respiting Luigi Buranelli , the murderer of Mr . Latham . MR . IiAYARD ' s SPEECH AT LIVERPOOL . Mr . Ewart , referring to a statement of Mr . Layard ' s at Liverpool , that only one officer on the staff in the Crimea had obtained honours at Sandhurst , and that he was probably promoted from parliamentary influence , said that the Officer in question , Major Ewart , of the 93 rd , was a relative of his , and asked Mr . F . Peel whether any such influence had been used . to secure thejip ' ppintment of that office . Mr . H . Baring asked if the ~ pliblishTBd ^ t ¥ terrientB '' of Mr . Layard , with regard to the services of certain officers in the Coldstream Guards was correct . General Peel justified the promotion , without purchase , of Colonel Hardinge , the son of the Commander-in-Chief , declaring that the step was given in strict accordance with military precedent , and fell to the lot of the officer in question by the fortune of service-Mr . F . Peel denied that any undue influence had been exercised with regard to promotions in the army ; and , after recapitulating a variety of facts and instances , called on Mr . Layard to retract the statements he hazarded . Mr . Layard explained that he had designed to offer no disparagement cither to Major Ewart or Colonel Hardinge ; but , on the general question , reiterated and adhered to his condemnation of the system of favouritism on which promotion had been granted to officers in the army . The honourable gentleman spoke with great vehemence and amidst frequent interruptions , the feeling of the majority of the House against him being' very loudly expressed by derisive cheers , groans , and cries of "Oh , oh !" The Hon . C Harbtnge , Mr . Byno , Colonel Lindsay , Colonel Nouth , and Colonel Knox , also impugned Mr . Layard ' a statements . iord Palmeustow addressed some very strong observations to the House on the question , treating Mr . Layard ' s assertions as of so indefensible a nature as to demand a retractation , which he urged the hon . gentleman to give . The subject then dropped . The Loan Bill and tho Customs Duties went through committee . The rest of the sitting was occupied by a rather animated discussion of tho Education Uill for Scotland , the stage being' tho second reading . On a division the second reading was carried by a inn jbrity of 39 .
A Memorial To Sir George Grey, In Favour...
A memorial to Sir George Grey , in favour of Buranolli , on the ground of his insanity , has just been Iwroed . It is signed by John Conolly , M . D . ; William Baly , M . D ., P . R . S . ; Forbes WuibIow , M . D . j Alexander Shaw , F . B , C . 8 s and Mitchell Hervey , JF . R . C . S .
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO « ® he . Etfaliet . ForaHalf-Year * ° 1 S ° To be remitted inadvance . ' «• Money Orders should be dravrn upon the Sxbahd BrSnch Office , and be made ^ ayable . to Mr . Axpbbd * .. Galloway , at No . 7 , Wellington Street , Strand .
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NOTICES TO CO-RESP ONDENTS . A Stjbsckibeb . —Messrs . Chapman and Hall , 193 , Piccadilly . During the Session of Parliament it is . ^ n f ^ P ossible to * s » 2 ° srasft W ^^ j ?« sa ^ S 3 Fa ^ ^ SS for publication . but as a guarantee of . ^ . sgoodfaith . ^ W ^ S " unAeftX " o * Srciooted commu ,, ica « ioaS
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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 o < its creation in eternal progress . — Db . Arnold
Are We To Have An Aristocracy ? Once Mor...
ARE WE TO HAVE AN ARISTOCRACY Once more let us put thi 3 question plainly and broadly to our readers . A ^ e would fain see the people solve it , not in a spirit of personal hatred towards the aristocracy , which is merely servility inverted , and which would soon turn to envy of plebeian merit , but in a spirit of calm political wisdom . Does our aristocracy , as an institution , do good Or evil ? The time is come to solve this problem and act on the solution . To rail at this or that aristocratic appointment is idle , if not mischievous . If you have a
governing class , you must let them govern . While there is a House of Jjords , half the Cabinet , that is half the great officers of state , must" be in ~ tliat ~ H " piise;—There-is-ananswer at once to those who expect that offices shall be shared between the aristocracy and the commonalty in any proportion to their respective numbers . And if half the great offices of state must be filled by Peers , a great number of the subordinate offices must also be filled by Peers , as a school of training for the higher .
Particular offices are important , but general legislation is still more so . You cry out because an inferior man is made an undersecretary ; you do not cry out because four hundred inferior men are set to make your laws . You think it a gross evil that a Minister should make a class appointment ; you think
it natural that all measures of social and political improvement should be submitted to tho interested decision of a class . Of what use are these obscure inquiries into tho genealogy of placemen , when we all see that a Reform Bill has to pass the Lords ? "What effect of the departmental misgovernment of aristocrats was over half so
noxious as the 600 millions of debt which an aristocratic Parliament contracted under the erroneous impression that Napoleon ... I . was an enemy to their interests , when it seems all the time he was the tamer of tho Revolution , and ought to have received tho Garter from the hands of Geokoio III . ? The Honourable A . B ., a third-rato man , is appointed to tho "Woods and forests ; not corruptl y , for he has what may very well appear in the eyes of a relative sufficient qualifications . Patriot journalists immediately denounce the appointment as an
abominable job . But railway legislation ia at least as important as anything that comes under the "Woods and Forests . And who are are controllers of Railway legislation in t he House of Lords ? Are they , or can they be chosen for peculiar impartiality and fitness ? Take away the monopoly of office from the aristocracy , oblige the sons of Peers to compete on equal terms with commoners , and what will your Upper House become ? "What young nobleman , with all the pleasures of
society at his feet , will undergo the labour of a political education when , from the num ber of the competitors , he has next to no chance of ever gratifying his political ambition ? The aristocratic branch of the legislature would sink into a mere crowd of frivolous volup . tuaries . Our latter end would be worse than the first . The monopoly of political office alone has made the English aristocracy what it has been in history , that is , of all aristocracies the best , and the greatest of all save that of Eome .
Mr . Layam > moves to abolish family and party influences in the appointment to offices . That is , he moves to abolish aristocracy and parties . In other words , he moves a revolution . Let us , then , manfuDy turn our minds to the main question . " We believe that England has physically , morally , intellectually , and socially outgrown her aristocracy , and that there remains no basis of any kind sufficient to support a political caste . If this be true , nothing but a gradual and honourable abdication can avert a violent and disgraceful
fall . " We throw back the charge of revolutionary tendencies on those who are exciting a blind and aimless disaffection by railing at the effect while they keep out of sight the cause . " We throw back the charge of disloyalty on those who , with official loyalty on their lips , court popularity by sapping what they must know to be the foundations of the throne . Besides , we shall not be scared at bugbears when royalty and aristocracy fall at the feet of usurpation , and drag legitimacy through the mud in our streets . Let us all march together under the tricolor to the fulfilment of our " convictions . "
Only let us reieiFer , first , that we niiist proceed deliberately , knowing well what we intend to do ; and secondly , that good government is our end , not the gratification of personal ambition . To hold out political employment as the highest object of life to all , and stimulate : i universal craving for political places , would b e to inaugurate misery and confusion . Governors , and good governors , chosen in the best way and by our best faculties , are essential to society like good lawyers and good physicians ; but to
take a direct part in Government ought no more to bo essential to any individual than to be a lawyer or a jihysician . Morbid and misguided ambition has been the bane of political progress throughout Europe ; and it is mainly responsible for our present disastrous situation . " Wo confess we turn a very deaf ear to tho complaints of ambitious men balked of places by the governing cJass , though our ear is very open to the cry ot sufferers from the evils which tho errors ot a governing class inflict upon tho p eople .
Revelations Of The War Ministry. It Was ...
REVELATIONS OF THE WAR MINISTRY . It was not long since that wo noticed a masterly sketch of tho administration of our public service , and of the principles for a practical reform . Tlio author of this pamphlet insisted strongly upon tho necessity for consolidating tho public service to a great extent , so as to facilitate tho transfer of tho servants from ono department to another according to tho need . The evidence given by the Duke of Newcastle
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Leader (1850-1860), April 28, 1855, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28041855/page/12/
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