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BY many signs it lias been made manifest during the-week that we are rapidly approaching the end of the Ministerial tragi-comedy . Lord Derby's position , l > ut more obviously the position of his . phancellor of the Exchequer , is , at the present moment , barely tenable ; strength there is none in the Treasury benches , and any moment may see their occupants sprawling . Mr . Diskaexi is preparing for the fall ; Lord Dejuiy dares it . Mr . Disraeli has discovered that the straw thrown to him lry Lord John . Russell will not keep his head above water , therefore lie returns to the " \ vrcck which he had abandoned , and deter mines ' , to go down at least with 1 he appearance of gallantry . In moving on Monday evening that the House should , on Friday evening , go into committee for the consideration of the resolutions on the Government of India , he touk occasion to tell the House a bit of his mind with regard to the bill out of whieli those resolutions have sprung . The bill had been abandoned , ' murdered' Lord 1 ? ai / mekston ~ said , by Mr . DisitAKLi ; but as his hope of realizing ihc object , for which the murder was committed has become fainter and more faint , he has returned to better feelings , and , at last , has made an attempt to resuscitate the
memory , at least , of the destroyed measure . But the thing was a lifeless form , wliieh no breath could reanimate ; and which , upon 1 hc whole , it would have been more decent in Mr . Disraki . i to have left in peace . One result of his move on Monday night is plain : it is , that while he lost by it , Lord P . axmkrston" did not gain . The House , however , had no objection to liis proposal of going into committee on Friday . But with the publication of the amendments to he moved in conunitl . ee by Lord . Ioiin Hl ' ssku ,, all hope of making anything out of the Indian resolutions must have passed away from the soul of Mr . Disjiahli . These amendments expose tin : ut ter weakness of the Government resolutions , and in clVect not only set them aside , but India Kills Nos . i and 2 besides ; 1 hey may , in . fact , be taken as the outline of Bill No . : \; and , as Lord Pai . mkkston has amendments to propose , we may begin to look for Bill No . -1—or G ? Upon the chief cliuise in tin- Oaths ] ViU by the House of Lords the Ministry ha : s lost way enormously during the week ; the opposition of Lord Dkiuiy and hi . s new Lmu > Chamku . ok appearing almost reckless . - *
Again upon Locke Ivisg ' s motion for extending the franchise in counties in England and Wales , against which motion , after moving the previous question , Mr . Djskaeli had not the courage to go to a division . In both these cases , again , Lord Jun > - gained to the full all "that the Government lost : the . rejection of the 5 th clause of his Oaths Bill , giving admission to Jews into Parliament , will give him a large accession of popular sympathy ; M \ d with reference to Mr . jLockk Kixg ' s proposed extension of the franchise , his position was that of the director of the House of Commons . To Mr . Diskaeli's tattle about a " larger measure , " he answered that "a bird . in band was worth two in a bush , " and he advised the House to close with Mr . Locke King ' s instalment of the long-coming " more comprehensive reform : " the House at once accepted the advice . The church-rate question is one upon which ingenuity is put to the rack to invent evasions of the final result demanded—namely , total abolition . The latest move is that , of Mr . Pui / Li- ; n , who , it ' the dear church-rates must be given up , would substitute for tlicni , on the plea of providing for the repair of churches and the lnaintenauci ! of churchy ards , a permanent rent charge upon all property
now open lo assessment for . church-rates . One penny in ¦ Ihc pound upon all ratable properly , said Mr . Puu-kh—only one ¦ penny in the pound—Mill give all that is required for the decent maintenance of our churches and churchyards ; but he did not take any pains lo show that the effect of his proposition would he to make eliiirch-ratcsunder another name—more absolute and offensive than ever . This is the sort of " compromise " which is again and again otiered ; the only safe course is lliat of Sir . loiiN Tun law ny and his iVionls—the refusal of compromise in any shape . Messrs . tSi-ooNi' . u and jN k \ vi > v : i ; atk liave said their annual say upon the Maynooth endowment theme . The only dill'eronee bet ween the speechifying of Thursday evening and of any other evening was , that it was very much shorter and \ ery much tamer ( hail the speeches we arc wont to look for from those two supereminently Protestant orators . The House ol' Commons refused at , once to stultify itself at the request of a few ferociously conscientious religionists , and has recorded its fooling in favour of a just and liberal treatment of tlie Catholics of Ireland by a majority of 55 . Air . AltJN ' siii . i . has done good . service in defeating ( h (> plan for doing away with the . open and direct competitive system under which a youth , whether
educated at home or at any public seminary , miglit offer himself for examination for a commission' in the Hoyal Engineers or Artillery , xlocording . to the system tlie Horse Guards would substitute , no students but those educated at Sandhurst .. wojild be allowed to compete for commissions in ; the ^ t ^ P .. ' corps ; thus giving a monopoly to the : Go ^ jCfflatot school , with , manifest injury to all ti 6 : btli i ^^^^ f in the kingdom , but more especiiaUyVto the-sei ^ ejv by limiting the number of candidates . There \ pas no apology for the attempted interference . ; ,.. ; Tlie scheme of open competition had worked well ; -and the majority against Government for its retrograde tendency has decisively- marked the determinatiOi . y » f the House to preserve the system to bring about - which so hard a battle had to be fought . Thursday night ' s discussion in the House of Lords , on the . subject of our relations with Sardinia , 1 has certainly -advanced vis a step towards a more [ satisfactory standing-point in that matter . The strong declaration' of sympathy given by Lord Malmksbury is worth much , if we take him as the representative of his parly with reference 1 o foreign politics ; looked ¦ at . in that light , it all ' ords something like a proof of the unanimity of national feeling- in favour of an active co-operation with Piedmont in her dispute with Naples . The shortcomings of the laic I ' orcign Secretary have been
fetched up ; Sardinia is no longer left in doubt as to the course to be taken l > y her English ally , 'but lias been directly assured of the moral support and good offices of this country in the prosecution of her claims for the restitution of the Cagliari . Meanwhile Sardinia has been advised , even in the event of a refusal on the part of Naples , not to go to Mar , hut to call in the intermediation of so me friendly power ; and in this advice the English Cabinet is joined by the French Government . Here , at all events , we have : i real move , in the right direction . The feeling of I lie country is too earnest to admit of : my more stoppages . It does not demand of its Government—whatever that , may chance to be—a " spirited foreign policy , " of which its experiences arc not comfortable ; but it looks for frank and simple dealing in its relations -with friendly foreign powers , more especially with allies , and most of all with an ally bound to us by iutc- . rests and sympathies so closely as Sardinia is . From X'rancc rumours take , to some extent , the place of news ; these rumours ; in ; mauy and the subjects towards wliiuli they point important , and may he summed up in two words— , " grail r chan'TS . " The rule of brute force ^ is to bo re- ¦ i | ~ r "'
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Leader (1850-1860), May 1, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_01051858/page/1/
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