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porters , they would probably have voted for him as a sensible , straightforward , courageous man in all things , and a genuine ijbe ^ CartJ ^ ative $ and not , we incline to believe , altogether hostile to the conclusions of the Commission , pio man in Oxford doubts that the Duke was teftdy to face the contest .
So much , then ,. for the liberality arid freedom of thought of the High-churchmen of the Denison nuance—so much for their independence of the State . They call it " destruction" to the Church to oppose Lord Derby . Well ! This scandal is apropos : it spells in capitals Toryism and Obstruction . Oxford has burnt her ships in expectation of the Deluge !
The latest private accounts of Louis Bonaparte ' s progress disclose the abyss of ruin over which half a nation of greedy flatterers are strewing flowers for the apotheosis of crime . A towering structure on a base of sand is the Empire for which the throne and the trappings are in busy preparation , and the palaces all glittering with a fatal splendour . The Moniteur sums up the frantic shouts of the functionaries , truth registers the dreadful silence of
the populations lowering like a thundercloud behind the dense array of bayonets . In one town , decimated by transportation and exile , a shout of " Amnesty" is heard ; in another the municipal council , who voted the funds for the President's reception , are expelled from office with contempt , and their places filled by Republicans under sentence of proscription . But the priests ( with whom the next revolution will have a terrible account to
settle ) bless their preserver , and the Church prostitutes her Te Deums to the consecration of the national disgrace . Pretty stories are invented of the Prince taking the oar to row himself warm , to the admiration of the sailors at his skill and simplicity , and of his accepting a bouquet of roses from a child of five years old , who tells him they are without a thorn : whereupon the Prince takes her on his knee , kisses her cheek , and with a melancholy smile , bestows upon the child and upon attentive Europe the mild , but not strictly novel remark , that " every crown has its thorns , even a crown of roses . " Such are the tit-bits of French
history under the present regime . The situation becomes more threatening as the last act of the drama approaches , and the rapidity with which the man plays out his stakes betrays all the joyless desperation of a gambler . Belgium is still under menace : and Switzerland under compulsion : the Northern Powers waive all interdictions to the Empire , save those of territorial aggrandisement : but the asperity of language against England in the Government journals , renders every denouement more probable than peace . The Customs conferences at Berlin are broken
off by Prussia , and left to diplomacy to conclude as best it can . The Zollverein is , we may suppose , abruptly dissolved . The position of Prussia is so decisive and independent , that the recalcitrant States may probably find it their interest to acquiesce in her conditions before January , 1854 . The Paget affair is settled—in Saxony . The police have been reprimanded ; the "Government liaB apologized ; tributes to the energy and decision of our representative in Dresden . But has Austria been called to account for her meddling ? if she were , tthc might be as pliant under firm handling at » Saxony .
The principal point of interest in the Tiews from the Went , lies in an official correspondence presented to the Canadian Parliament , between Sir John Pakingtou and Mr . Francis Hincks , touching the disposal of clergy reserves . Formerly , when land was sold in Canada , a certain portion was reserved for the endowment of the church . This
land seldom , if ever , came into use ; it was kept waste , like land in Chuncery ; trad , interposed between the occupied entutes , it tended still further to separate an already scattered population . By a comparatively recent Imperial Act , those lands wero brought into the market , the proceed * to be distributed amongst various rcligioun
denominations . The peoj ^ jp province , however , des ire that the d } tj ) psal bf the land and the proceeds &puld be ftbftplutety vested ia thp local Leginfft * tv&p ; and fcfep latp polonial Secretary had eonsepted to propose a jbill in the Jmperjal Parliament fop fchat purpose . Tfte present Colonial Secretary , ftpwever , decline * to proceed with that bill , on various pretexts , but principally because he ev }^ dently thinks that by retaining the clergy reserves , those long-detested waste lands in Chancery , he is doing something for the good of the Church in Canada , or has the credit of so doing ! Thus ,
Lord Derby ' s Government not having yet established any quarrel in that particular colony , exercises its choice in identifying itself with one of the oldest and most odious abuses . The town , however , talks much less of politics than of the Paris murder—the manslaughter of Mr . Saville Morton by Mr . Bower , both of them newspaper correspondents . An abrupt , though it can hardly be believed an unexpected , avowal by
the wife of Mr . Bower , that his friend was the father of her child , drove the husband into a frenzy ; he killed the friend with a dinner knife , and escaped to England , leaving his wife to be lodged in a madhouse . A question arises , as to the custody of the fugitive , should his retreat be discovered . Is he an offender solely against French law , and is the English law powerless to call to account a man who has slain an English subject ?
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LORD PAJSTMURE AT ARBROATH . Stbaws show the set of the wind , and a certain tendency in speech-making shows the set of a party . There has been another Northern demonstration ; and Lord Panmure , who , no doubt , speaks by the card , has followed up the speeches he and his chief delivered at Perth , by a similar speech at Arbroath . The occasion was the presentation of the " freedom of the city" to Lord Panmure ; the time , Thursday week ; the place , the Trades' Hall . Af ter thanking the people of Arbroath for the honour done him , he turned to the haunting topic . Prefacing his remarks by the hackneyed observation on the great difference between England and the continent , he asked why that was so ? Here is his explanation : —
" Simply because the people themselves have seen that with their growing intelligence , their increasing capacity to govern themselves and take part in the government of their country , the rulers and advisers of the Sovereign have been anxious to advance in progress , and confer privileges and advantages wherever they could be possibly and safely administered . Whether I Bpeak to those who are Conservative in politics or those who are for more rapid progress in all that concerns our political career , I may decidedly say that it would bo for the benefit of all that the policy of this country should continue to be ono of progress . ( Choera . ) It is in vain in this day to think of standing still . It ia in vain , still more in vain , to think of going back on the road along which we have come . As well might wo propose to lower all those long chimneys
by which I am surrounded , and turn out all the busy boes of industry that swarm beneath thorn , and return to the old system of the hand-loom , as seek to retrograde in the course of policy we are now pursuing . As well might we think of putting down tho railways and again setting up the old mail coa « h , or of superseding the power of the puddle and trusting to that of tho old flagging sail . Such a change would not now bo tolerated ; and the question is , are we to stand still or go on P Now , my notion , lut ono deeply interested in the possession and protection of property in this country , is , that if I attempt , to stand still I behind the dam which t flood of water
raise up I ereca that will Boon sweep mo and my property before it . ( Applause . ) But if I givo free and constitutional scopo to tho stream to flow on in tho manner in which it may be well and usefully directed , then I am suro that all 1 have at ntuko is safe , und 1 rest myself on this conviction und this opinion , that the more the peoplo gain b y constitutional and all free and liberal reform ** , tho loss likely am 1 to lose anything of tho stake in tho country which it haw pleased Providence to givo mo . " ( Cheers . ) A Freo-trude digression followed , and Lord J ' annum ) returnori to tho former mibket : —
" Look at Franco . During tho last fow years sho has undergone no fewer than three revolutions . i 'irst of all who throw off u King who lived under tho old system , the old rule of Franco , and placed another on tho throne , with Homowhat of a constitutional shadow of government . Not content , with that , not many yearn nftorwnrds , she cast oft that K ing and that Bhadow of constitutional government , and rushed into a stato of tho bloodiest anarchy , and all in tho sacred name of Liberty ; and ' now sho is pleased to ylold horBolf up to tho despotism of ono person . Her moss is gaggod , and every rag of tho flag of liberty i « torn from tho polo to which it onco seemed nailed . That ia ) i lotion for us . Liberty docs not consist in licentiousness , nor freedom in rovolution . I boliovo wo livo under tho boot system of government that human moans havo ovor
devised-- * Wb the ptawA cannot trample on the rid , * - of the people , a « 4 where I trust the people will ™* attempt to Winfe pi > tfcfi , just privileges ofthe Cr < C * or be vsured foftfc finder ttfe constitutional machkervnf £ e country | n y Mch . ye W the happiness to live , aUtfi oat claw ftll Hw ' llur rights and proper demands of tho jeople—though frtm this circumstance or that thev m £ K 5 checked—m | ist tftfimat * Jy be conceded , and wf thfV firing mtejjjgftfj # at t % , great mass of the people of tin ! country , ffip ^ ohtioal privileges enjoyed by a certain nun ber of the Inhabitants B 4 usk soon and speedily be consider " ably developed . " ( Cheers . ) If the promisfe conveyed in the last sentence be as accurate as the comment on the French revolution ifc is not worth much . What does Lord Panmure mean . by saying that the republic of 1848 rushed into tie " bloodiest anarchy ?"
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MR . HUME ON THE DISUNION OF THE LIBERAL PARTY . Me . Hume has addressed the following letter to tie editor of the Hull Advertiser : — " Bumley-hall , Sept . 1852 " My dear Sir , —I have your letter of the 11 th lust ., and I have read the article in the Hull Advertiser , on tie importance of union among the Reformers and with the Irish Liberal party . I admit that it is important for the cause of good government , and for the future welfare of England that there should be a people ' s party in the new Parliament You must know , from all my speeches and efforts , that f have been long anxious to see that party formed ; and , further , you should know that I have at the commencement of two new Parliaments attempted to form one ; but you may as soon make a rope out of the sand of the seashore . There is no common principle of adhesion among those that have hitherto been denominated Liberals , to join in the efforts which I have made to form a phalanx that would , early and late , and on all fit occasions , take the popular cause , and support measures having the public welfare in view , and tending to increase the power of the people in the House of Commons . After repeated trials , and after grand promises , the most noisy in their professions have too often been the first to desert their principles , and leave the party to make , as it has always done , a miserable and shabby appearance as to numbers . I could give you lists of deserters on such trivial grounds and pretences as would surprise you , and so freqilent , as almost to deter any man from attempting such an effort again . I am not easily driven off my path when I am confident that my course is right and ought to be pursued , and I
shall be quite willing again to make the attempt , but not on the principles you have laid down ( of tenant-right , &c . ) in the Mull Advertiser , as on all those matters there is such a diversity of opinion that you could not muster 100 among the 664 members in the House to unite . The people ' s league , or party , or union , by whatever name to be called , must agree on one point , —say ballot ; arid after a trial on one point proceed from step to step to other points—all important—until the attention of the public can be fixed to the proceedings of the party . But if ray experience , as regards the Irish members hitherto in the House of Commons , is to-be taken , the material is not likely to be of that substance to be moulded and kept in proper position , or under the influence of any leader ; and any party so formed , of forty or fifty Irish , and fifty or sixty English and Scotch members , would soon have some extravagant nroceediner from some of the Irish or other
members , which would damage and discredit the party , and also frustrate all efforts of tho party , even in the best cause . You are all aeal and fresh from Ireland , and imbued too strongly with Ireland ' s wrongs and her suffering , to boo anything except through that ardent haze that w »« sometimes surround you after your intercourse with nor sincere patriots and honest reformers . Nevertheless , L shall bo ready to co-operate in any measures that-can lorward the prosperity of our common country ; and , after lmwn hurl w > mmiinipiit . ii , ii wif . li t , h « Irish representatives , i-*»—^ m- **
£ - *• - % J % J &m % + ^ + v *^»* Jfc »» - » m ^ •«»*^ •» * w »« - —— — — —» ¦ At ' shall bo better able to judge what should bo done . /* present , nothing , as far as I know , has been done towar » a union of Liberals who may bo doubtful of tho acts of the Derby Administration ; and when I look to tho nouuw profession of those who preceded Lord Derby , ana nu their throwing up their cards rather than p lay 0 UD game for the popular cause , by calling on the wtorraen join them , 1 cannot havo much confidence in aI j ! J ! e ( f they may do to promote tho union of parties . f » ' they must , I fear , bo left to chew tho cud while im > Dcrbyitea ojo committing all kinds of mis governmeH forward thoir own cause and to benefit their e upporiw » and it will only bo after a considerable time of much duct that there can bo any chanco of a people s party >> - ^ formed ; and , while tho movement must begin wiui Jiadical members of tho House of Commons , »• *~ 1 ib 1 i „ „ , 1 jM 1 . 1 ... -. » . ^« ,. l ,,. ^ ,. *¦ .. /* . I . wktiu and f . lm ftiOCW- ' * ° 1
boo tho noceeuity of doing their part , # nd of giving li ^ i ( J to tho small party of tho peoplo in 1 ' urliaitiont . ¦»¦ ] d nothing in this , or in any of my lotters , that y " . J () U consitlor an private , and thoreforo my opinions , w j ask for , oro freely given . Perhaps in some parts w j appear contradictory for want of tbo oxplonati <> ' r , ^ to make tho allusions known . In you wo * ^ honest reformer , but tell mo how many editors > ^^ their support to a party that , as Parliament vt no posed , can novcr succeed to power P , « I remain , your ^™^ %£$ vm * - ' E . F . OolJinB , B « q ,- Hull . "
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JOHN BUI GUT AT HKLFAS 1 . ^ Taking advantage of Mr . Bright ' * presence in . * ^ tho Lil > oral « and Free Tra 4 « r « of Belfast , tn « ^ cluwtar of . the sister Islmid , invited )»» " » « °
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958 THE L . JJJAPER . . . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page 958, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1955/page/2/
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