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Easter breaks a session unmarlced by any other achievement than that of substituting for a Ministry which professed Reform without achieving it , a Ministry-which professes Protection without pursuing it . We have changed King Log for—King Log . He may look like a Stork at the distance , but go close arid you find it is nothing but a stump—frightful and frantic as seen from afar , but as dead as a Whig . It is indeed something to have got rid of the Old Man of the Sea Ministry ; and as Lord Derby has no such chance of settling down into his bed as a Russell had , the change is one for the better ; but that is all .
We are to have a dissolution before the year is out , and Parliament will probably be summoned before Christmas ; but what Ministers mean to do , they will not say . No cross-questioning can extract an avowal r they will not confess what they mean to attempt in the residue of the session ; they will not announce the policy which they intend to submit to the country at the election . They evidently dare not avow their own plans .
In the meanwhile they avoid discussion . Some important subjects have been before Parliament this week , but Ministers maintain a defensive and evasive attitude . The Kaffir war has been in discussion , on going into Committee of Supply ; but the question was one rather with the late than the present Ministry . Without so apposite an occasion as he might have had on Mr . Adderley ' s motion . Sir William Molesworth expounded the merits
of the case , and Mr . Frederick Peel defended Lord Grey ; but the interest of the points jn litigation is to a great extent superseded by « ie change of administration , both in Downingktreet and the Colony . The debate was chiefly notable for Mr . Gladstone ' s argument , in favour ° * leaving the colony and its defence to local self-government ; a proposition ill met by Lord ? j Russell ' s argument against any sudden withdrawa l of troops , which nobody proposed . Another
subject , advanced by the interpcllaofT r i ° P oaumont » has l > een the treatment in fi "g 8 ubJect » abroad and of foreign refugees J . Y country : Lord Malmcsbury ' s answer imlnid i h < 5 slloul < l not deport , from the course !>»? ' ' i " by llia Pr edeeessor—moderation and I actual independence : he should propose no uerauon of the laws , and should introduce no g m thei * ^ ministration , Lord Beaumont LfowN Edition . 7
was addressing the House of Lords on the discourteous and arrogant despatches of Prince Schwarzenberg , when death had already sealed the lips , and palsied the hand of that Austrian statesman for ever . On the whole , however , the principafrMinisters have kept out of discussion in a marked manner , within the last few days . They are preparing for the election , and profess to despise the present " moribund Parliament , " while they dread to let their real policy be detected .
Out of doors , circumstances do not favour them . Demonstrations like Mr . Cardwell ' s Freetrade electioneering speech at Liverpool , do not augur favourably for the opponents of Free-trade j still less the alliance with flaunting fanatics like the Reverend Hugh M'Neile . The election of Archbishop Cullen , of Armagh , heretofore Primate of Ireland for the Roman
Catholic Church , to the second , but more influential post , as Archbishop of Dublin , means mischief . Dr . Cullen is the leader of the ultramontane party , and he is substituted for the late Dr . Murray , leader of the Liberal Catholics , whom Lord John ' s anti-papal agitation so insanely alienated ; but Dr . Cullen will prove not less troublesome to an Orange Government , like Lord Eglinton ' s , than he would have done to the Russell Cabinet . And , to crown the troubles of the Derby Cabinet , the Revenue Returns for the year and quarter present a most embarrassing aspect for a Protectionist Ministry—a decrease of 700 , 000 / . on the year , with the very slight increase of 100 , 000 / . on the quarter j and a still more vexatious condition of the details . The Income-tax , with which they must deal in some way or other , is yearly declining ; the Revenue must be supported ; yet the chief returns are from that department of Customs which Free-trade rendered so little
oppressive , though still so productive ; and Excise , which includes the Malt-tax , object of agricultural hatred . The practical injunction of the Revenuetable is this—Stick to the Free-trade policy , don't abandon the Malt-tax , don ' t abate but improve the Income-tax . But how is Mr . Disraeli to do that and yet to retain the agricultural confidence ?
At the eleventh hour , an agitation has fairly commenced to save the Crystal Palace . In spite of official frowns , a huge concourse took possession of the building on Saturday , enjoyed a promenade , and held a meeting to protest against the destruction of the edifice ; a public meeting in the city has adopted the same view , by au immense
majority . Lord John Manners , who was so free to give up " arts and commerce , " is obdurate on the score of the building : a few lordly residents dislike it , and , whatever Ministry may be in office , social courtesy would forbid any violation of their pleasure ; so the public apathy is to be used against the public wish . There can , however , be little doubt that the Ministry which removes the most popular work of the day will effectually draw upon itself a large share of public dislike .
Schwarzenberg , the sworded Metternich of the counter-revolutionary period , has been struck from his seat of power by the fatal hand of disease . He was the man for his day . Poor Stadion took the troubles of 1848 to heart , tried to accommodate the institutions of Austria to the march of time , was slighted for his pains by all parties , went mad with anxiety , and died . Schwarzenberg had no such premature providence : he looked to the
present only ; grappling with revolution , he seized the contumacious provinces of Austria , re-bound them to their slavery , and to the past ; and restored the absolute power of his Emperor . He did it at the expense of subserviency to Russia , at an expense of bloodshed and misery incalculable ; but lie did it . In the Austrian sense he was a great man . He affected even the internal administration of England ; he repelled Lord West- l
moreland and his complimentary tea-service , unti the Whig ministry had shaken off the only man that gave it strength , against whom he had conceived a sullen enmity . If that injury to a vigorous statesman like Lord Palmerston is to have any results , the offender has not lived to endure the retribution . Stadion died in a madhouse J Schwarzenberg died in undisputed power . Louis Bonaparte leads France as a skilful husband in the honey days of illusion—dashed , it may be , with a faint prescience of future henpecking—leads the wife of his bosom , by managing to be driven the way he would go . He will
only accept a crown if he is driven to the hard necessity : accordingly , the army , debauched by donatives and influenced by souvenirs and appeals , the legion of coquins who shout at his carriagewheels for so much a day , and the innumerable functionaries of every degree , transformed for the occasion into purveyors of enthusiasm , are pumping up another free and sincere expression of the people ' s will in time perhaps for the 5 th of May , which , as a Napoleonic anniversary , will have to be celebrated . Tho reception of the magistracy , with old
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YOL . III . No . 107 . ] SATURDAY , APRIL 10 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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. i ^ e nc THEWEEK- * A&n Out-Door Relief Australia 342 The Labourer ' s Golden Dream come Claret and Olives ; »* NEWS OF THE WEEK Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race ... 343 True 347 The School for Fathers 3 * 2 History of Pf liament — g * The Case of Mr . WMston 343 Sixty Years Lost 348 Books on our Table 3 o 3 Mr . CardwelLat l ^ iverpooi ooo The Murder of Mr . Boyd ... 344 The Great Painted Window Question PORTFOLIOElection Matter 8 .. ^ .. ^ v ^ . . ^ . ^ Miscellaneous . . 344 at Hampstead 34 S Comte ' s Positive Philosophy 353 The Loss of the liirfcenneaa . 404 _ Health of London during the Week 345 The Poor thatare always at Us ...... 348 _ , JRTS _ ¦ lSSr&C" ::::: i ' :::: Z : 338 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 345 opEN COUNCIL- The Operas , 354 Continental Notes 339 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The True Peace 348 The Theatres in Easter week . 354 Mazzini and the French Socialists ... 340 Providence in History ..... 349 Burford ' s Panorama of Salzburg ... 355 TtoM-tef Strike .., Ml KS ' Zl ^ buSe "IS Th . •¦ Trid . rflle" Experiment 349 COMMERCIAL AFrAIRSTheKaffir War 341 The Church in a False Position 347 Newman on Regal Rome 350 &c . . " ° °
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¦ •« 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-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-tie free development of our spiritual nature . "—Sumboldt'i Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1930/page/1/
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