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"War is suspended between Ministers and Anti-Ministers . Lord Derby and Mr . Disraeli have acquiesced in 4 ; he necessity of a dissolution ; and in consideration of that acquiescence , Lord John Russell has signified that he and his will no longer obstruct public business . Meanwhile , therefore , all interest in parliamentary affairs is suspended ^ and the only wonder is that Ministers do not proceed to the dissolution forthwith , but . intend to take the usual Easter holidays . It is manifestly desirable to get the affair over as soon as possible , in order that Parliament may reassemble , and transact its business without Members whose
minds are distracted by partridges unshot or pheasants undisturbed . Some preparatives , indeed , have to be made . Lord Brougham has introduced a bill to shorten jthe legal interval between the close of one and the opening of the next Parliament , from fifty days to thirty-five . The old law was proper enough at a time when men made their wills before setting out for " Yorkshire j but although railways may have restored that practice , they have
not delayed the journey ; and there is no longer the fear that pliant Members from counties near the capital should steal a march upon remoter folks . Lord Derby has expressed * ' no objection " to Lord Brougham ' s bill . Lord John is doing something to check corrupt practices at elections ; and Mr . Disraeli still promises to distribute the four seats left vacant by the disfrarich ' isement of St . Albans and Sudbury—not Harwich , as we lately called it by anticipation .
Mr . Hume ' s motion furnished Mr . Disraeli with an opportunity of declaring , out and out , against reform , until there be a " clear necessity ;" whereon Lord John threatened him with such a " clear necessity" as carried Catholic Emancipation and the old Reform Bill . But . evidently Lord John and his friends do not consider the time yet arrived , for Mr . Hume was beaten by 244 to 89 . We shall have a look at the division next week .
Meanwhile Parliament peddles . Mr . Frewen has invited it , by resolution , to consider the repeal of the duty on hops j Mr . Disraeli has promised to take that condemned duty into consideration ; and Mr . Frewen , satisfied , has withdrawn his motion . Lord Sp , Leonard « has introduced a bill to [ Town Edition . !
simplify the rules of evidence touching the validity of wills , so that it shall come nearer to common sense ; a useful measure . " Making a smart speech , moving an inane resolution to back it x and the withdrawing it , are characteristics of that infirmity of purpose which prevails among politicians . Tuesday ' s proceedings afforded two striking evidences of this . Mr .
Monckton Milnes moved for copies of correspondence , respecting refugees in England , between the Foreign Minister and continental states . Mr . Disraeli replied , making a flippant remark about " secret diplomacy , " and then informing the House that the correspondence was nearly ready . Lord John Russell hoped that after that statement the motion would be withdrawn , and of
course it was withdrawn . Then came Mr . Anderson with a motion for copies of correspondence between our Ambassador at Constantinople and our Consul-General in Egypt relative to the quarrel between the Sultan and the Pacha . Of course he and the public wanted the information , in order that it might be known what we were doing in this matter . But how was he met ?
By homilies from Mr . Disraeli and Lord John Russell , on the impropriety of giving information , and of publishing an incomplete correspondence . All this was , beside the question , as we want to know what Government is doing . But Mr . Anderson only grumbled and withdrew , when he ought to have been silent and divided the House . From a conversation in the House of Lords , on
Tuesday , we learn that , immediately after the receipt of the intelligence of the defeat of Rosas , the English Government proposed to the French Government a joint intervention , in the view of establishing relations with the Argentine Confederacy . What relations ? Lord Malmesbury said , relations to secure the interests of Europe . Of course Lord Beaumont ; who asked for information , was satisfied with the reply . He did not caro to inquire into the basis of the intervention , and if ho had , " secret diplomacy" would have scaled up his lips . .
No very favourable view of Ministerial theories is caused by the latest news from Gibraltar , where the English authorities are imitating Louis Napoleon : only one journal is suffered to exist , and public meetings are prohibited ! Gibraltar is said to be the key to the Mediterranean : is it also the key to the Ministerial policy , as set by the late , and adopted by the present Ministers ?
A deputation from the Sanitary Association has endeavoured to wring from Lord John Manners , the new Minister of Public Works , a declaration as to the intentions of Ministers respecting the Interments Act . Last year , Parliament passed an act to abolish interments in the metropolis , and to authorize them in public cemeteries , under the Board of Health . There was some prejudice against that interference with the right of freehorn Englishmen to rot under the nostrils of their neighbours and descendants ; but there can be no
doubt that practice would have reconciled the public . The difficulty which arrested the proceedings was the paltry one of finding cash ; the technical authority to raise which Ministers withheld . The same Ministers introduced the bill to purchase two cemeteries , but that proved unworkable ; and then Lord John Russell , slighting the Board of Health , began to coquette with a private company , What does the new Ministry mean to do ?—that is the question . Lord John Manners does not say : he avowed the desire to arrive at some conclusion , and promised
attention . By what we gather from the public papers , we are left to infer that the Amalgamated Engineers are not prospering just at present . The proposal to form an auxiliary fund looks like a confession of difficulty ; and some doubts were expressed as to the possibility of raising it . We have , however , no means of judging the reality of those doubts .
The disorganized state of society continues to be exposed in that hideous crime to which we lately pointed—child murder . Parents and stepparents slaughter ing their children , emulate each other in the cold-blooded or the ferocious manner of their crime . Want and ignorance combine to pervert nature . What are we to say of the latest decree ( it seems as if France were fated to be submerged in an ocean of decrees , on whose troubled waters her
institutions are writ J ) organizing the Legislative bodies , that wo hove not said by , anticipation , again and again , to very weariness ; unless it be that nothing is omitted that can render the nullity of these poor liveried menials , the Napoleonic Legislators , more absolute , and their degradation more abject and complete . With the most scrupulous exactness they are counselled how to dress , how to be silent , and how to behave . But we note how the " tribune" is even physically abolished , that last vestige of magnificent palaver !
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VOL . III . No . 105 . ] SATURDAY , MARCH 27 , 1852 . [ Pkioe Sixpence .
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« The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is th |; Idealot , g ^^|^ S ^ S of R ^ SS ? to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting ^ aside ™ e ^ stmctions ° * aSmtuS Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great objeet-the free development ol our spiritual nature . "—Xhimholdt ' a Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1928/page/1/
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