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¦ ~—¦ ^ r . - ' ¦ - ¦ Parliament has met ; and , tvnile we write , is getting through its first week without a break tip of either Ministry or Commons , and that is as much as can be said . The opening was expected with a curiosity growing in force -until theevent , arid then rebuked by the ludicrous issue . The public wanted to know the causes , nature , and results of the " Ministerial crisis / ' the development of which had eliminated Lord 'Palmerstori . Of course
nothing was . to be learned from the Queen ' s speech , which , in these days , is considered to be beyond the pale of owticiem ; and criticism only pauses to say of this last , that it is the most incoherent , the most oracular , and the most empty , that a Cabinet Council ever succeeded in concocting . Neither was anything to be learned from the speeches of the movers and seconders of the address , to which no amendment was proposed : both Houses resolving , out of respect for the Crown , to echo the nonsense which Members had expressly devised for the
utterance of the Crown . Strange barbaric spectaclethe solemn meeting of fifteen gentlemen to compose fifteen paragraphs of nonsense for the lips of their royal mistress , and solemn meeting of Imperial Parliament to repeat , in its own name , with altered number , person , case and gender , the same fifteen paragraphs ! Debate begins , and Lord Stanley discloses the fact that the Protectionists still have indignant hopes ; that they disapprove of the Ministerial course in the Cape of Good Hope j and that they wholly dissent from the feeling !
oabhorrence uttered by the English press at the conduct of Louis Napoleon . Ministers concur with Lord Stanley in that untoward avowal j so do Peers generall y , with the noble exception of Lord Harrowby . After which parade of debased feeling , the Peers duly resolve to reecho the fifteen paragraphs . In the Commons , Sir Benjamin Hall drags forth « ie explanations on the Palmerston aftair ; and when they are obtained , all honest Members are aeuamed
at dragging out anything so paltry . It turns out that there was little , if any , difference between Lord Palmerston and his colleagues about the acts of Louis Napoleon ; the alleged reason ° i Lord Palmerston ' s expulsion was not his expressing approval of the coup d ' &at , but his •^ pressing any opinion at all . His triumphant reply is , that on the same day when he expressed
an opinion , an opinion was also , expressed by his censor , Lord John , also by the Lord President of "je Council , also by every other leading Cabinet Minister , also by the late Vice-President of " the Jjoard of Trade—now Secretary of State for Foreign Sn * i After **" ' therefore , expression of opinion » not the reason ; but that reason appears to be some « ' 8 like at Court of Lord Palraerston ' s free and easy i " ? , P ° ndence—which was thought " disrespeot-* " * ; and so Lord John , like a respectable houseper as ne i 8 » turns away the careless Palmerston , ( Town Edition / 1
just as the good lady in black silk gown and white apron would turn away a footman who laughs at table , or a forward minx who won't wear caps . That is the spirit of the great Ministerial crisis . And what then ? Oh 1 ^ nothing . Lord Palmerston / being out of office , has lost some of his prestige . Members are as little heedful of his broken fortunes as flies about a sugar pot jare of a crushed fellow fly . His position is not yet determined . As to the rest , Russell , Hume , and other
veteran Members , vie with the official and ex-official Peers in disclaiming the language of the English press towards Louis Napoleon , and in deprecating all that may exasperate ' " France . ' - ' They seem to be ignorant that France herself really glories in the expression of opinion denied to herself . They are incapable of understanding an honest suspicion which has made . even the Stock Exchange take up arms . Both Houses of Parliament have succeeded
in reaching a lower deep than they ever did before : they sympathize with the meanest success of the meanest adventurer that ever committed violence upon air unfortunate nation ; they show themselves wholly alien to the feeling of their own nation ; they avow a craven motive for truckling ; they enter into a paltry Cabinet squabble and Court scandal with zest . - As for business , while we write it has yet to be begun—the new Reform Bill is set down for Monday next ; the Militia Bill on the next Friday ; the Chancery Reform Bill on the subsequent Monday , with a bill to disfranchise St . Albans ; also a bill on International Copyright with France . Nothing is as yet said about the Income Tax , which ought tn fivnire at the end of the session ; but something
is said of an addition to the Army . Mr . Slaney has notified his bill for the renewal of the . enquiry into laws which obstruct the self-development of industry among the working classes ; and Mr . Sharman C rawford has announced his Tenant Right Bill ; besides a host of other announcements from private Members . A long session and a busy , some anticipate ; calculating , probably , that after all no one will muster courage to supersede the Provisional Government that now carries on affairs .
Convocation met on Wednesday , with great show of Bishops and influential clergy ; but , owing to the want of earnestness and firmness displayed by " John Bird , " alias " J . B . Cantuar , " it was prorogued on the same day—a frightful mockery of the solemn opening . There were gathered together , in full episcopal robes , Bishops of Exeter , mid Chiohester , and Oxford , and London , and St .
Asaph , and Lichfield , in the Vpper House , with " John Bird" for president . , There were the Archdeacons of Taunton , and Maidstone , and Barnstaple , and Bristol , and Bath ; in the Lower House . These reverend gentlemen devoutly prayed for heavenly assistance to guide their deliberations . They began to deliberate , accordingly , and were on the point of commg to conclusions , when "We , John Bird , &c , " put an
end to all deliberation by saying ( the solemn prayer notwithstanding !) that deliberation was of no use , as the temporal power would take no heed ; and then , without consulting the Upper House , proroguing the Assembly . Not for above one hundred and thirty years has the great fact been so plainly demonstrated that the Church is a political engine , and not a spiritual institution . But a point was made ; the end of the wedge was inserted ; Con ^ vocation did transact business , and so far made a stand against the State ^ usurpation . 'We congratulate the High Church party on its honest courage .
The strike of the master engineers goes on , in spite of their attempt to terminate it by a coup I * main . They have offered to reopen their shops to workmen who shall sign a declaration that the subscriber does not belong to any union , and never will ; but they have not found men craven enough to sigh the bond . The reception given to Mr . Coningham ' last lecture , explanatory of practical cooperation , at Brighton and Portsmouth , and the accession of the Reverend Mr . Lee at Manchester , as a public expositor of the true industrial principle , are pleasant signs of the growing opinion . And of
the same class we must reckon the spirited public meeting at Hulme , on the " reproductive " amendment of the Poor Law , for which our preoccupied space affords far too scanty a notice . But we shall have future opportunities of chronicling the revived activity of that assoication in Manchester , which may do so much to consolidate the public opinion already existing throughout- the country . Ireland presents the very opposite spectacle—an old-fashioned •* special commission" in Monaghan to cure the old evil of Ribandism by judicial punishment , breaking down in the usual way , by
the refusal of juries to convict . The conviction of two men for possessing arms is seized as a , godsend . The Sinews of war and of intrigue are considerabl y strained by the vagaries of the spendthrift Harlequin in the great' Imperial Burlesque " acting" at Paris . France " assists at" the histrionics with a grim bewildered conviction dawning upon her , that she has paid , and is paying , her money , and without the possibility of taking her choice . Financial difficulties are already become urgent , and not to be trifled with . M . Fould's parting statement was all deficit , so far as its facts
went ; the only encouraging figures were credited to hopes and expectations of what might result from increasing confidence in the existing order of things . How to retrieve popularity by decreased taxation , in the very teeth of a catastrophe only to be averted by a loan of £ 10 , 000 , 000 , is a problem even Napoleonic ideas may find it hard to solve . So widely spread u the sense of insecurity , that the very functionaries scramble for . the spoils of nn exhausted Treasury , discounting the fall of the Empire which has not yet preached its apogee . The old Party of Order , well and justly punished , protest against the confiscation of property , after having crouched $ 6 the destroyer of law * Conifer
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I \ ^ y I Th « one Idea which History exnibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of I . Humanity—the . noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided I views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Rek ^ ion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our amntUalnature . - ^ HoMBOi . 0 T ' s Cosmos .
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VOL . III . —No . 98 . SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 7 , 1852 . Price 6 d .
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Nhws of the Week— Paqe Mr . O'Connor in Court and Parlia- Political Letters 133 Portfolio—History of Parliament ll 8 merit . * 127 Jerry Sneak not Dead 132 Aspects of Death 134 Meeting of Con vocation 122 Miscellaneous 128 Receipt for a Cabinet Pudding . .... 133 Liberty of Vocation ..... ,. 13 s Letters ' from Paris .. I ' -i'i Birth ? , Marriages , and Deaths ...... 128 - The Frienda of Italy .... 132 The Arts—Continental Notes 124 Public Affairs— Reform at a Discount . 132 Vivian in Tears ... , , 137 An Attempt to Assassiuate the Doivning-slreet and England 130 Notes on War 132 The Ancient Cornish Drama .. 137 Queen of Spain , w ... 125 We , John Bird * Archbishop . &j . " .. 13 J LlTRitATURH— Opbn Coitncii . — National Defence ^ ................ 1 # > Increase to the LandE'drces ........ 130 The Cape and the Kafirs 133 Citizen Soldiers .... ,,., 138 InLramural Interments-- ' .-... ' . ' .. 125 Paul Clifford is Entertained at the Rambles beyond Railways . 134 Power of Education ........ 13 J American Intervention in Europe .. 12 ' » . ruilerie * 131 Note Book of a Naturalist .. 135 Co . vruBK . ciAt AFfairs- ^ - Pro ^ ress of Association 126 The Party of Order in Confusion .... 131 Laniariine on Waterloo 135 Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements . Tlio ° Arctic Expedition ............ 127 . Relief of Honourable Members ...... 131 Books on our Table ... 130 &c 139-140
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1921/page/1/
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