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his ticket-of-leave , so that he has « of broken his parole . The Lord Chancellor has confirmed the Vice-Chancellor ' s decision ^ and decides that Joanna Wagner must not « ing £ ^ xcejpf with ]^ Lumley ; the paternal Albert thiis ojufy gets decjpiflr into the meshes of Chancery . Cpornbes , champion of the Thames , has lost a boat-race to Cole . And if Mr . Hamilton , a . s the Iris ^ - papers aver , publishing extracts , haf ^ eclar fe ^ \ fifcre the Biffc Outrage Committee , that the Tenant Leagued directs Riband aggressions , has not an Irish horse won the Derby ?
Louis Napoleon has been emulating the adventurers of the Lower Empire . He has procured the Parisians to rejoice in the presence of his effigy : causing his bust to be set up in the market-places of Paris , with a feast on the occasion . Government pays all the cost ; the commissary of police presides at the ball ; the military band supplies the music ; and the people supply the enthusiasm . It is a great stroke of art to identify dancing and loyalty , since it begs the
question of Parisian adhesion in the most attractive form . The blessing-machine is used without scruple , and clergy are to be found who confer upon the Presidential bust so much of the sacred character . The last place in which this performance has been rehdarsed is the Marche des Innocens , familiar to our own Town in the ¦•' . Chain of Events , " at the Lyceum , and the tableau at that theatre has some parallisms with the facts in Paris , besides the scene . It is in the market that the false
heir of the melodrama first appears , amid the public acclamations , in the carriage which he has usurped . The difference is , that Louis Napoleon is his own villain . "With all his successes , however , he does not make half the progress that Soulouque has already attained . The Haytien Emperor has also had his imperial fete , but it has not ended in
disappointment , like the Feast of Eagles . With the nobles of Marmalade and Lemonade on either side , the black chief has attained the imperial crown , and not only for himself , but for his Queen . Her Majesty was attended by her " maids of honour , " and if their complexions were black , the title has at least a smack of royalty about it , which Louis Napoleon may well envy . He has surprised Paris , but he has not overtaken Soulouque .
A score or two of recalcitrants outweigh the constituency of seven millions , for their number can be counted and their names remembered . A government supported by Granier de Cassagnac , and deserted by Bedeau , Lamoriciere , Arago , Guizot , De Broglie , is a government condemned . His diplomatic novices are treated as interlopers at Vienna , and left shivering in antechambers at Berlin ; whilst the Holy Alliance is re-knit , and Divine Right recognised as the only safe principle of government by the three Powers carousing in
honour of their Lord Paramount , the Czar , in the palace of that Frederick William who is every inch a King—after dinner ; quite a stage-king , in fact . And what is our relation to the Fusion ? Let Malmesbury confess . The vigorous letter of Mr , Mather shows how an Englishman spurns the money compromise for insult which a Malmesbury can imagine . But , to the shame of Englishmen , they are represented in Paris , in Vienna , whereever Tyranny is rampant , by a Malmesbury , the compromiser , the sympathizer .
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THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT . MINISTERIAL INTENTIONS . Lokd DuitnY gnvo the free trade opposition in the Hottbe of Loitca an opportunity , on Monday , which they dexterously used , of extracting from himself another *< declaration" of intentions respecting free trade . The nominal Bubject under consideration was tho Property Tax Continuance Bill , but about which ,
beyond the dry / statement of Lord Derby , who moved / tho second reading , scarcely a word was said . Hi « *« lr'jA # » J | fiecch contuutod of a kind of apology for not introduc-^ j *« ^^ Sj ^ aS ^ f fltt " measure of importance , on tho ground r £ jKHB £ T" ^ Dtarir ^| s precluded by a positive declaration , mado / % g ^ f ?^~^^ Mw | pafc curly in the session , that thoy would not m ^ 3 ^ r ^ ipr meaauro to dir tntb or alter tho present
" - .:- ¦'•• . ¦;¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ .. K- ' - ' » Q * ;¦ * . / - ' rM : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ .. \ financial and con ^ erchd ly it ^ r ;' " He stated that , even if they ' ' had beejiivpeftKat liberty , circumstances would have-rendered i $ Inexpedient to discontinue the tax this year , as our Jjj || ttces would not begp it- ^ -the abolitifi ||| of ty e tax l \«^ % o | ' # lyabsorb <* M | stttplus of : n ^ j $ jg jp $ leave i defieiiffliiay . Keit ^ r covjiKI he hold ^ iplospect (^ abolishing or redu <^ thfli tax for a yea ^ # $ l * o , Bi | € fbr his own part b |> Rested the continuant ^ this tiix on ti ^ i ' : necessity 0 ? mainjbuining it ^ for tins Support or * nublto credits ' ' " l " ; !
The oppositioncamefrom the Peellte Duke of Nfcwcastue . His speech was not hostile to the second reading , but hostile to the suspected reactionary tendencies of the Ministry . In the main it was a good defence of the free trade system—going over all the points which have been debated so very many times , and landing the reader in the pleasant belief that 'the country , which he defined as " the aggregate of the classes that were contained in it , " enjoyed great prosperity . From the revenue returns , which showed how diminished
taxation and increased consumption had gone on in parallel lines ; from the bank returns , which proved that gold had not " flowed out of the country / ' showing , in passing , how the gold discoveries would have necessitated free trade ; from the shipping returns and the poor-law returns ; from the feet of the vast importation of corn which , had taken place since 1846 ; and from the diminution in crime , he drew abundant proof and arguments showing that the country was in a high state of prosperity .
He wound up in a strain of earnest entreaty that Lord Derby would at once and for ever abandon Protection " as utterly impracticable and utterly mischievous . " "Let not the noble earl suppose ! , " he continued , that the views even of the candidates who , under the new designation of free-trade Derbyites ( a laugh ) , were seeking to win over the constituencies to * modification , " would avail . AH such slippery propositions would be resisted to the utmost by the people , by their representativeis of the . Lower House , and , he was assured , by their lordships also . ( Hear , hear . ) The noble earl had put himself forward as the champion against democratic innovations , but the noble earl was only
one among hundreds in that house , and in the other house , who would resist democratic innovations of dangeroul character , of which , however , there were at present not the slightest indications in the country . ( Hear , hear . ) The noble lord had not a right to assume to himself that character until he had made a ; clean , breast upon this most important question . He felt confident that a declaration that night , or at any other time before Parliament dissolved , from the noble earl , that he had once and for all finally abandoned any intention of restoring the corn-laws , or tampering with the great commercial changes of which he was one of the advocates at the outset , would place him in a nosition before the people which might indeed entitle
him to some claim of that kind ; but of this he was certain , that a conservative policy at this day was a policy of rational , steady , well-considered , and , because steady and well-considered , therefore safe and salutary progress . ( Hear . ) He believed we could not stand still without danger ; but of this he was still more certain , that if there was anything like an attempt at reactien , then , indeed , the noble lord would forfeit the character he assumed , and he would , though unintentionally yet assuredly , be promoting that onward progress of democracy which ho thought ho saw , and which he was anxioua to arrest . A conservative policy was a policy of progress , —to stand still was dangerous ; but a government of reaction , however slow , was a governmentof revolution . " ( Hoar . )
Lord Beenebs followed , making a grumbling protection speech , partially answered by Lord WodkjrotrsB , and completely demolished by Lord Amjemaule , who read extracts from letters on the state of the agricultural labourers , proving that they were neither unemployed nor starved by free trado . Then came Lord Granviixe , who succeeded , as will be seen , in doing what the Duke of Newcastle had failed to do— -elicit a declaration from Lord Derby . He taunted the Government with on unwillingness to admit , and an inability to deny , tho facts maintained by the Duke of Newcastle . And then he uttered a string of
provocations" They had clearly aright to ask tho noblo oarl to define precisely tho course he intended to pursue after tho elections . They hod a right to expect that he would state tho general principles and tendency of the measuroa on which the country was to decide ; but so for from the country being favoured with any insight into the general principles of tho policy which tho Government intonded to pursue , it so happened that , somotimos through appeals made by the ordinary supporters of tho Government to their constituent * , flomotimeu by declarations made by those connected by high official position with the Government , and , at other timoa , by speeches dolivorod in Parliament S . ll / M . . 1 _ . * T _ At _ . - *•__ 11 11 . « ¦ different tendencies the from tho othertheir
having ono , lordships and tho constituencies of tho country wore loft much moro in tho dark at tho present moment as to what policy would probably bo adopted by tho Governmonfcthan they wore on the day on which the noble lords opposite assumed tho Govornmont . ( Hoar . ) Every point oonnooted with the present commercial eystom of tho country was involvod in perfect obscurity as far as tho Government wero concerned . Was it or was it not intended by the Government to relieve tho landed interest by a direot duty on tho import of corn , or by some indirect modo : —? or tvaa it tho intention of Governmont to continue tho proMxnt commercial pyritttt and tho alterations Introduced
** ^^^/ te ^ kf ?? ^ e head of the Govern m ^ t %$£ * **! # 8 £ * thap ¥ ** year > m * ecoSS which h « « ka « rf ^ t the present system wasmisohW thfct he was tftiU of opinion that a recurrence to a dut ' cd « jL for the J « iKwie # « P Avenue and protectioa wM r , J ° "I beg % | M > bJe ev& \ pardon . The Mbte ^ Sr wrong m qu < Hmg me as saying that a duty on corn bi m opinion , is a matter of necessity . What I stated wa ^ 5 distinctly aa toy a « m opinion , that for ^ the purnoan » f'JI ?
tof rehevMif | h « sufftwuig agricultural classes , and alsn fx lmp ^ ttog ^ he yetenue , whereby we should be enabledt " take Off Other faxes , theq , without injury to the consum an import duty on corn ^ ould be desirable . I also stS that whether relief * ras to be afforded to the sufferi agricultural classes b y the imposition , of a duty on forei ^ corn was a matter which was to rest on the opinion of ffi constituencies . In no case did I say that it was a matt of necessity , but that , in my opinion , it was a desirablo mode of dflferine relief to the agnricultural classea tv . i j
that opinion still , but I state again , that is a question to be left to the constituencies of the country ; and more over , I may add , if it will give any satisfaction to the noble earl , my opinion is , from what I have since heard and learned , that there certainly will not be in favour the imposition of a duty on foreign corn that extensive majority in the country , without which , I stated to your lord " ships' House , it Wuld not be desirable to impose such a dutyk ( Loud cries of « Hear , " from the Opposition benches . )
Lord GeaktiIXB provokingly biit politel y rejoined , that he was glad a mistake of his should have drawn from Lord Derby bo decided a statement . Alter that there was hardly any topic on which he need address the House . Here the debate seemed as if it would close j and there seemed some doubt on both sides whether , as the peers had not been summoned , and there was a kind of understanding with Lord Derhy that the debate should not take place , whether it ought to proceed . Lord Gurx obviated all discussion ou the subject , by returning to the question of free trade and ministerial intentions , which he debated it
bis most vigorous fashion . The point he fixed on was sugar—what did Ministers intend to do with the sugar duties P The corn-laws were not to be reimposed , the navigation laws were not to be meddled with—but he had heard that the sugar duties were to be dealt with another year . The body of his speech was devoted to showing that the reduced sugar duties had been a great benefit to the working classes , had not lessened the cultivation of the cane by free labour , and had increased the quantity consumed to a marvellous extent . For instance , in 1844 , in the whole year , there were 4 , 145 , 000 cwt . admitted ; in the Tialf year ending
January , 1852 , there were 4 , 033 , 000 cwt . admitted Not only this , but the revenue has increased with reduced duties . In 1846 , the revenue was little better than £ 3 , 500 , 000 ; in 1851 it was ; £ 4 , 13 O , O 00 ! Lord Grey wound up by urging the Government to be frank and explicit j to end this studied ambiguity and concealment of their opinions j state , ay or no , their real views on the free trade policy , and either acknowledge protection to be an erroneous system , or manfully attempt to carry it out . Lord Derby could not escape the reproach , either of want of judgment or want of candour . That was the penalty he must pay some day , aud the longer he put it off the heavier it would be .
Lord Deebx accepted the challenge , but declined the alternatives . He argued , nbt that benefits had noUccrued to the community by the abolition of the differential duties ; but that those benefits had been obtained by measures of spoliation , and by giving encouragement to slave-grown , by withdrawing protection from free labour sugar . From sugar he glided off to com , repoating the same argument . The consumption of com might have increased , but had it not been at the cosj of the British producer . For the rest his argument ran thus : —You have made corn cheap and bread pien-A 144 A UJAIAK 7 JL , \ J \ A 4 lltTU M ** + W \*\ f »/«•»<¦ ¦« - —» — — ^ - ^ . tno
tiAal—you have , I will admit , placed the country m eryoyment of great prosperity ; but have you . " /^ chased that at too greataprice P The prosperity ot tno labouring man depends on the prosperity of the era ployer ; and if you deprive the latter of means you aeprive the former of employment . Kecent wow measures have feUen with groat oppressiveness , j » ship , and severity , on tho owners and occupiers oi Boil ; the stimulus of necessity has , however , cause i provement in agriculture , and thereby the cpn ( 1 ! u ^ t tho labou ^^ er has been improved for a time—but wjs that been , in many cases , at the loss of the wnuiw Ho treated the pauper question and tho influx oi g ^ in a similar fashion . Then , terminating Ins sp ° c '
replied to Lord Grey : — ^ rrt . "Tho noblo oarl Boid , — ' What is the policy tto JJJ menfc mean to pursue P Do thoy intend to row . ^ X ^ eo-trade polioy of Sir B . r © ol or not f -H ^ JJ g | Vnd Karl of Dorby ) had etatod as diatwotly as ho c 0 U t ' ; t j , Bomo might think moro djstinotly than diBorooHj ' , ^ , had no intention of revorainff tho pohoy ot o * ^* u « l undoratonding by that policy tU « policy that nao m o from 1842 down to 1840 , Ho had no ^ doelre ™ l ^ . tho policy of Sir B . Pool as ovlncod In , 1848 bv « io tion < rf **• dutloi upon tht tonportotwa of to W
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1937/page/2/
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