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" One foot on . sea and dhe on- shore ,. to one thing constant never "—that is exactly the position of parliament men just now , with one foot in the House and oriel on the hustings . Lord John stands more upon the hustings than the floor , and he has put forth a letter to the electors of London , asking a . renewal of their favours . His programme is almost entirely retrospective . Lord Derby has met him by a remarkable declaration , that a five-shilling duty on com is " not necessary /* but only " desirable ; " that is , Lord Derby thought it desirable , and still retains that opinion ; only
lie lias now arrived at the conviction that it is not desirable under existing circumstances- —that is , in default of a great majority . So Protection is shelved . Maynooth is shelved for the season . The adjourned debate on Mr . Spooner ' s motion for a committee of enquiry was resumed early on Tuesday , and , the debate flagging , there was a motion ,
half jocose , half mischievous , to adjourn it to the Derb y day ; ultimately that ruse to leave it at the mercy of the Irish brigade and the non-sporting radicals was defeated , and the debate was adjourned to the evening ; but before it could be resumed , the House was counted out . Few high Protestants had thought it worth their whi le even to stay and keep a house . .
The Commons have forwarded the bill to continue the Poor-law Commission . On behalf of Marylebone , Lord Dudley Stuart raised a question respecting the exemption of parishes under local acts . Exempt them , said Sir John Trollbpe , and why not exempt all parishes whatsoever ? That would amount to abolishing the commission , which would involve the overhauling of the whole system ; and for that Sir John was not prepared . And no shame to him ; since nobody , is yet prepared for the next reform . The addendum was defeated by 112 to 33 . «
An amendment by Mr . Thomas Duncombe to extend the Bribery Bill to counties , was more successful . Ministers had waived Protection for co , but they stuck to protection for county bnbery , and were defeated by 100 to 70 . ^» e next Parliament is beginning to supersede e expirin g session in the general interest , and ^ dresses multiply . It is remarked that the werature of , the Protectionists is not up to the [ Town Edition . ]
classic standard . Lord Mandeyille proposes to " rebuke" evils and " unnecessary tampering " with legislation . And Mr . Swinton tells a Scotch Constituency that the Education question is
affording " peculiar facilities for the introduction of measures calculated to supply "—what ? -- < nhe existing deficiencies in the means of education in an efficient and satisfactory manner . " Surely , the root facio never had such a crop of branches so entangled ! But what anomalies may not become feasible under Protection ! Another trait of the Protectionist , movement is the prevalence of free trade supporters of Lord Derby—politicians who have so much confidence in him as to give him a blank check .
A banquet at Fishmongers' Hall excites the faint pulse of public interest . Since Peel proclaimed his newly-constituted Conservative party at Goldsmiths' Hall , the banquet rooms of the great companies have been regarded as a kind of outer council ch ambers , in which political leaders make their initial demonstrations ; but the gathering of fishmongers discloses little . The appearance of three leading men of the late Cabinet in conjunction—Lord Grey , Lord Clarendon , and Lord Palraerston , is inferred by some to signify a
secession from the old Whig ranks , and a n party to compete with the three already existing—the Disraeli-Derby , theRussell-Cobden , and the Peelite parties . Lord Clarendon was a new member , and played his part very congenially . But Lord Palmerston was evidently the guest of the night , and it is notice able that the most emphatic part of his speech was a declaration of amity and alliance with America .
In spite , if not in consequence , of churlish opposition , the Oxford University Commission have done their work thoroughly and unflinchingly . Their report is far more sweeping in its conclusions than the world of the nineteenth century had dared to hope , or the Oxford of the fifteenth , to fear . The whole document is a perfect marvel among Blue-books for clearness , thoroughness , exhaustivenessThe reforms it entertains are , in
. the bdst sense , radical : they strike at the root ot the present grievous inefficiency with far-sighted directness . An energetic professorial is substituted for an effete collegiate system : a living liberty of knowledge for a dead monopoly of statutes ; and , after a long sloth , Oxford is agwn to be taught how to teach . The question of
preparatory religious tests is not ever so distantly mentioned , but within the present framework , the thirty-nine articles being understood , nothing is . omitted to " place the University of Oxford at the head of the education of the country , to make its great resources more effectually serve their high purposes , and to render its professors fit representatives of the learning and the intellect of England . " The report , fully carried out , contains the germs of indefinite expansion . We render the Commission respectful thanks in the name of our generation . The most earnest movement , however , is that
for Australia . Last week our Postscript told how Sir John Pakington received the Yorkshire deputation , and was duly badgered by the wool-manufacturers into confessing that emigration is necessary , that emigrants are to be found in plenty , and that the Emigration Commissioners have in hand not less than . £ 318 , 000 ; the only want , he said , is ships . But as Ministers have hitherto looked for ships only at London and Plymouth , and quite lately at Liverpool , it is to be expected that vessels
will at last be discovered , " hidden in some conspicuous places ; " meanwhile the desire to ' go is becoming a furor ; and it is evident that the country itself would lend help . The parish of St . Martinin-the-Fields , long moved by a leading ratepayer , Mr . Alexander Kidgway , has resolved on a grant of . £ 1000 to the board of guardians , to be spent in the emigration of persons chargeable to the parish , but not unsuited for work in a fair market . And we shall be disappointed if this intelligent
move be not imitated elsewhere . That the disturbance of the market , by withdrawin g labour and pouring in gold , is likely to be felt , we see in the case of the United States , where provisions are rising , and the labouring classes arc beginning to ask whether wages ought not to rise too ? Although Philadelphia is not very near California , the disturbance has already reached her , and it bids fair to spread . Even under republican institutions the market cannot be kept free from derangement , while man is set against man and class against class .
In the absence of more serious topics at home ,- — for ev en the gold is becoming tedious to blase English mind , —some interest is bestowed ^ mere gossip about sham duels , rccalcitran <^ P $ nm donnas , and " nobbled" favourites . , Byf ¦ $ » latest Australian accounts , it appears that Meagher has really escaped ; but after formally : tending irf
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1937/page/1/
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