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      ^ Th E Leade R. [No- 270, Saturday,

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      There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...

      There is nothing so revolutionary , because thereia nothing . so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to Jceep things fixed when all the world is by th . e very law of . its creation in eternal progress . —Dk . Abhold .

      • The Duty Of To-Day. The Objects Of The...

      • THE DUTY OF TO-DAY . The objects of the war are undefined to those who regard it aa a crusade for liberty and civilisation . They are undefined to those who regard it as undertaken for diplomatic purposes , always shifting as circumstances change , and perpetually reconstructed " out of the ashes of others which are floating in the air . " But to us they are defined sirnnly and sharply by the lines of the Allied armies round Sebastopol . The nation undertook the expedition to the Crimea to destroy the

      Euaeian stronghold in the Black Sea . Whether our blood and money might not ljave been better expended is another question . We stane , with the whole resources of our empire , and . in conjunction with oar ally , before the ramparts of Sebastopol ; and honour , fidelity , and policy alike require that we should persevere till we have taken those ramparts or proved that they are impregnable . All thoughts but victory are out of # he question , for the present . The Peelifces and Lord John Hussein

      have probably brought themselves to believe that they besieged Sebastopol only to coerce Hussia into granting them a paper treaty of limitation , and that this paper treaty of limitation being granted the siege may be raised . History , recalling their denunciations of the " standing menace , " will fix them with a different design . They designed , and Iiord Joun Bussem . * at least boasted of

      Ms design , to obtain from Kussia the only limitation of her power which is worth an hour ' s purchase—the actual diminution of her means of . war . But' their hearts fail them , not unpardonably , at the sight of so

      much blood and such wreck to civilisation ; and the recollection of their original design accommodates itself to their present feelings . They , however , like their colleagues who still remain in the Government , must persevere in the enterprise for which they are responsible , and not till that enterprise is accomplished can their voices be heard for peace .- overnment to be

      We believe the nresent Greally , as well as professedly , united in their determination , and undisturbed by any of those differences of opinion which it is the patriotic object of Mr . Disraeli to evoke and display to Europe . ~ No doubt there must have been discussions on the Austrian propositions , but into these discussions neither friend nor foe has a right to inquire , provided they have ended im unanimity ; and the malicious anxiety with which such inquiries have been made in the House of Commons

      merely shows that the spirit of faction reigns uncontrolled in that assembly , even iu the most extreme peril of the nation . The Government stand , it * not strong , at least united before the nation , and in the face of Europe ; they have triumphed gallantly , if not greatly , over all attempts to shatter and displace them ; they are clearly , for the present , the only Government we can have ; and , therefore , it seems our duty and interest for the present to support them . The Roman Senate gave a profound lesson of policy as well as a high example of magnanimity to after times , when thev thanked the sreneral who had lost

      Cannae for not having despaired of the Republic . The old Premier does not crush his assailants like a great man ; but he parries their furious thrusts with high-hearted bravery , showing some Euglish stuff , and verifying the Duke of Wellington ' s saying , that his dandy officers were his best soldiers . A \ e could reprobate his levity in a national crisis more cordially if it were not hypocritically reprobated by men within the House of Commons who deal themselves , at all seasons , in libellous satire and coarse invective , and who assail the buoyant old man with intolerable insults at the same time

      that they sanctimoniously exhort him to speak with the gravity of a judge . If anything is more calculated to excite a reaction in his favour than this , it is the attempt made to condemn and ostracise him for maladministration to which he was not really , though he may have been constitutionally , a party , by men who , since the facts , have sought for their own ends to associate him with them in a Ministry , and offered to act under him as leader of the House of Commons . The

      technical plea that the facts known before to all have since been legally certified by the finding of the Sebastopol Committee , is a subterfuge which only serves to show that those who use it are conscious of their offence . To offer to combine with a man in the most confidential relation , and , when he refuses , to

      take part in visiting him with infamy for things done before the offer was made , is a proceeding for which there can be but one name among men of generosity and honour ; and nothing but the forensic manner in whigh the Attobney-General put the point could have prevented its having the duo effect , even in the House of Commons .

      The late appointments , too , havo given hopes * of better things , and improved the position of « fchc Ministry in the eyes of all but those whose dreary vocation it is to growl at everything without discrimination . The mass of the nation will cheer tho Premier on in the good path upon which he seems to have entered . With our statesmen as with ourselves , the generous acknowledgment of good

      actions is quite as potent an instrument < reformation as the denunciation of bad ones The other parties are nowhere . The grei majorities on the Confidence question though they were not majorities for Goveri menfc , were majorities against anyone els The Tories are avowedly divided '; the ^ mo ] respectable members of the party refusing t commit themselves to the factious manoeuvr * which are sup-crested by the craving appetite

      and shortsighted cunning of their leade : The Peace party are impracticable . Th Peelites , opposing as ex-Mmisters the nrost cution of an enterprise which as Ministei they originated , are very wealc , if not in sinister position ; and they seem to have falle under the inauspicious guidance of Sir Ja . me Graham , whose moral weakness leads hin self alternately into panic and bravado , j combination of the three sections is as in

      possible as the accession to power of any on of them ; though , so far as ]\ Ir . Disbaem : concerned , there is no living thing wit which he would not combine to oust th occupants of the Treasury Benches . I spite of the customary malignity of part imputation , we have no doubt that th coalition against the Turkish Loan was ue premeditated and transient . It is , then , in face of a manifest necessit

      that we preach the political duty of support ing against a foreign enemy a GoverameE which its rivals are unable to replace . W have watched the struggle of parties with th coolness of bystanders , and , as citizens , w acquiesce in the result . An appeal to th people for better men , we are firmly thoug sorrowfully convinced , would not be re sponded to at this moment : the men are no ready for the people if the people is read for them . We should have the old fans

      ticisnis , the old party cries , the old attorne organisations—a two months' anarchy , scandal in the face of Europe , and no ade quate improvement . Wo must promise our selves , and try earnestly to prepare for oui selves , better things hereafter ; but for th present we must make the best of tha which our own past conduct has given uf As the Ministry has fairly survived publi opposition , we must uphold it against th attacks of personal envy and malignity ; w must treat it as tho national Governmeni

      and endeavour by generous treatment , an something of that loyalty which ought t dignify commonwealths as well as despotism * to exalt it before Europe and our enemies and to infuse into it the majesty and spirit o the nation .

      Vacancy Of Her Majesty's Opposition. The...

      VACANCY OF HER MAJESTY'S OPPOSITION . The Queen is not likely at present to sen < for" public men , for a reason which th < people should ponder . There is in reality i post which is preparatory to that of Minister and all posts of that kind at tho prosen moment are vacant ; we mean the seats ii " her Majesty ' s Opposition . " Thcro is n < such body at tho present moment . Person in the House of Commons set themselves u ] to speak in tho name of great public in tereats , and raise a pother about the domeriti of measures emanating from Ministers , or make obstructions to the passing of resolutions ant bills whenever thev can j and votes of censure havo been lavished this session . A Membo

      cannot entertain conscientious or party objections to the course proposed by Iiord Pal mekston , Iiord Joror Russeli ,, Lord Ahek diukh , or any Minister in or out of office , but he must turn round and ask tho House ol Commons to adopt hie sentiments in ft formal " vote of censure . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 28, 1855, page 716, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_28071855/page/8/