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SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1855.
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Mm ' W&M#M*^ • : Rjrfc'- " / / ' ' ¦ ¦ • ' ¦ . Ty* '4,V / ¦ F . ¦ • ¦ ¦ ¦ . I '' ¦ L ^^B^K_^ J^.M _^^Ta^ Jklttihtt A Political And Literary Review.
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"The One Idea -Which History Exhibits As...
"The one Idea -which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men . by prejudice and one-3 ided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Huaaan race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt'sCosmot .
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HEWS OF THE WEEK— r * a * Imperial Parliament 710 Funeral of Lord Raglan 7 U " The War 712 The Police Inquiry 713 " Our Civilisation 71 S Naval and Military News 713 The French Loan 71 S Continental Notes 714 Miscellaneous 714 Postscript 715 PUBLIC AFFAIRSThe Duty of To-Day 716
Vacancy of her Majesty's Opposition 716 Palmerston on Limited Liability 717 " The Massacro at Hango" 718 Whom Shall we Hang ;? 713 New Income-tax Victims 719 Russian Policy in Western Asia 720 Mr . F . O . Ward on the recent Pollution of the Thames ; its Cause and Remedy 721 "The War in Asia" 723
LITER ATURESumxnary 723 The Future of German Philosophy 723 Essays from the " Edinburgh Eeview" 724 The Manhood of Newton 725 Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah 72 « A NTew Poem 727 THE AfcTS--The French Exhibition 727
Ristori an <& vthe English Company in Paris 728 PORTFOLIOThe Golden Age 728 Births , Marriages , and Deaths . 729 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements , & c 729-732
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50 JWB at tjrt Wnk . A DISSOLUTION has > een thought of , perhaps universally , and the week opened with soine expectation that Ministers might retaliate the surprise on Friday night by sending members to their constituents . Few punishments could have beeu more apposite or more severe , if the minority alo ^ e had been concerned ; but Government would hesitate to put the public to that
inconvenicuce which inevitably results from a dis-Bolution at harvest time , when everybodj' who is not engaged in business has his heart in the Highlands , or some other scene of delectation . Besides , the majority of the House rallied to its duty on Monday , nnd showed that it did not share in the treachery or the un-English feeling which dictated the manoeuvre of Friday night . We acquit at onte Mr . Cobden and other members of a
certain economical party , that has always , by its genius and antecedents , been alien to the war , if not adverse to it : they were an augmentative of the minority who had no mains animus of their own , although the manner in which the Tories used that Radical and economical party Was about as strong an instance of political immor ality as we remember . There were , indeed , man }' kinds of mdrality current on that notable Friday night . In . the first place , Mr . John Lewis lti-Cabdo lent the illustrious traditions of a banking
name to back the figment that the Anglo-Gallican endorsements of the Turkish note of hand in raising money waa a subsidy in disguise . " The French and English Governments have good reason to know that Turkey commands resources , Out of -which sho could pay the money , and that Her improving relations with the rest of civilised Europe arc likely to incrcaso her resources . In any case , however , the money must be had for the purpose specified—the payment of the Turkish troops : and if they arc not paid throug h the
Boltah , they will have to bo paid through our Commissioners ; for tho AJHcs cannot spare them , la oneway or other , therefore , England ami Franco « W > » < fc /« c / o , answerable for furnishing a requisite amount of money . They have reduced their ic-Bponsibility to a minimum , by making the loan the ff * ur of Turkey , and obliging tho Porto to undert * ke payment in tho first instance . Whoever pays & o money , it will bo most easily paid if raised on the cheapest terms ; and the tonne nrb rendered "fcuch Qhoaper by tho guarantee of France and England . Such is tho wltolo rationale of tho
loan-A subsidy is an advance of money in order to purchase the military aid of another power ; and we might have assisted Turkey in that way , but as little is the loan a subsidy as such a subsidy would have been a loan . Mr . Disraeli was to blame on Parliamentary grounds . No man knows better than that quondam candidate for the office of Speaker that there are understandings on these occasions , and that it would entail permanent inconvenience upon members of Parliament if
repeated breaches of the understanding prevented anybody from trusting to it . Moreover no man knows better than he , that whatever may be the particular plan most recommended by abstract reasoning , it is un-English to bring about a default in any engagement of the kind where the executive Government has undertaken a pledge in the name of tho , nation , and it is the fact that man } - of his party positively refused to follow him —deliberately refused , in spite of remonstances . He committed a worse fault than even these two .
He , being a party leader * exposed himself-without a party —incurred a failure on Friday night , to be followed up by a still more signal reverse on the Monday . For on the Monday the agents of Ministers had repaired the neglect ^ of Friday . Members on the Speaker ' s right hand were diligently whipped into their places , and a crowded array showed before Mr . Wortle y stood up and
formally expressed his regret at the occurrence of Friday night ; so that no repetition of the surprise could be thought of . Tho remainder of the debate consisted either of complaints at the surprise or the avowal of speakers , like Sir Djb Lacy Evans , that they would have attended to support the state vote iu such a ease , it' they had thought of a division ; the excuse of some financiers , that they had a
right to express and to sustain their opinions ; iviul tho angry allusion of one speaker , who stands conspicuous above the rest , at tho anomalous position into which he has drifted . Mr . Gladstosk , adopting an expression used out of doors , confessed that the House of Commons is " almost a menagerie of curiosities in matters of opinion . " He himself , late member of a War Cabinet ,
workin " for ponce !—im English statesmen , advocating acceptance of Russian terms 1 — a financier confounding subsidies and loans , and cultivating fallacies in money business ! — is , perhaps , the strangest of nil tho creatures exhibited in that menagerie . It , perhaps , most strongly shows tho feeling that prevailed at that hour , when wo find Mr . Latabd rebuking right honourable
gentlemen for trying to bring about a default as a means of embarrassing the Government ; accusing Mr . Gladstone of being " unwise , unstatesmanlike , and unpatriotic , " and telling the [ House that if the vote of the minority had prevailed , Turkey would have mourned " the sick man , " and St . Petersburg would have been illuminated . In fact , the Irish Liberal Shee , the Administrative Reformer L . atabi > , the county Conservative Deedes . the independent and patriotic veteran De Lact Evans , the decorous spokesman for the dissident Conservative Wobtlet—are men whose
very names prove that the overwhelmingmajority on " Monday night , which received , as matter of course , the report that the minority had resisted on Friday , was actuated , not by the feeling of party , but by that of Englishmen . One at least of the evenings -was wasted in a useless discussion , since Monday only unsaid what Lad been said in the first , and that , at a time
when the session is drawing to its shortest span , and several subjects of importance still remain for practical treatment . There is Limited Liability in Partnership , which Ministers are trying to carry against a band of capitalists professing liberal opinions , but in this case supporting a course anything but liberal . The Times strings up JMr . Muntz , Mr . Glyx , Mr . Wuxiam Beown , Mr . Strutt , Mr . SrooNEu , Mr . Bass , Mr . John Fousteb , Mr . Mitcueli ^ and Mr . Hastie— " all
capitalists , " who strive to prevent small capitalists from investing their money , unless they will also undertake to invest everything they have , and be ruined upon failure . Lord Palmekston roundly declares that he will prolong the session sufficiently to carry the bill ; but we somewhat mistrust these threats , since Prime Ministers can be subjected to pressure . But he is right in . taunting tho advocates of free trade , with resisting a great application of the very principle of free
trade . Another parliamentary scandal is the withdrawal of tho Tenant Compensation Bill ; and here Government has not so clear a case . Before Sir Ei > wai » i > Lytton ' s motion , various Irish members waited upon Lord P . « . mbsston , and drew his attention to tho merits of tho 14 th clause . ^™^™ VjUr then been struck out of tho bill . The elu ^&^ r ' ' - ' - ^ retrospective compensation . Lord PAjfou ^ axo » ;\ ^ was struck with tho beauties of rotrospe & fcifcnK ^}| M & pomatum for Irwh tenants , and restored W ^; j $ gkt Irish members were much pleased ; they tf ^ hM : V ^ 0 Qf " confidence" in Lord Pammbbtcw . Bu ^^ arijr — ^^^
Saturday, July 28, 1855.
SATURDAY , JULY 28 , 1855 .
Price f P ^ fivepence ( -Stamped SIXPENCE .
VOIi . VI . No . 279 .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 28, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_28071855/page/1/
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