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agent P Auctioneers advertise their wares—why not Parliamentary auctioneers ? Decidedly , written bills in the window , or advertisements in the newspapers , would supply " a void / ' as the J ? ress did in journalism . Publicity is a great stimulator of price , and we do not know why , in these days of rising quotations ; boroughs should be denied their just share of the advance . It can only be because they are
not " quoted . " A shipwright can get higher wages for making ships , why not for making members P And then think of the per centage to the agent ! Let us have , then , this long-needed addition to our Parliamentary intelligence . Let us see , outside the office of the Parliamentary agent , a board , for the convenience of posting the customary announcements ; which might appear , also , as advertisements in the papers , somewhat after the following fashion : —
TO LET , for the session , a convenient TWOMEMBEKED BOROUGH . Apply to Mr . Klopfitock , or to Mr . Green , opposite . TO BE DISPOSED OF by Auction , or Private Contract , that neat and commodious borough , St . Aldreds , to the highest bidder . Apply as above . TO BE SOLD , the JSTEXT ELECTION for a first-rate Borough . The only encumbrance on the Member is the usual pledge to vote for the Ballot . With the above , a stall at the Italian Opera , Coventgarden . Apply to Messrs . Xlopstock and Co . TTERY CHEAP , a large and handsome V BOROUGH in the North Midland districts . Apply to " W . B ., " at the Noted Club-house , who has other convenient seats on his list . *
FOE HIRE OR PURCHASE , a lot of INDEPENDENT ELECTORS . Conservative gentlemen will find this a very suitable offer . Apply at the Admiralty , between the hours of three and four . As these excellent voters are under official regulation , the utmost punctuality may be relied on . A . S . can supply the same at any of the dockyards . M ESSRS . KLOPSTOCK and GREEN have on hand SEVERAL MANAGEABLE BOROUGHS , of sizes . Also SEPARATE SEATS , which their system enables them to secure for gentlemen on either side of the House . Gentlemen belonging to the opposite sides will find it very convenient to make up travelling parties of twos .
MESSRS . KLOPSTOCK and GREEN will also contract for the WHOLE PERFORMANCE of an ELECTION , on Shillibeer's principle for funerals , at a FIXED CHARGE in one sum , to be paid in advance . K LOPSTOCK and CO . will undertake to erect hustings for any Member who prefers it at an INDEPENDENT BOROUGH , to return him to Parliament not FREE OF EXPENSE , to defend his seat when the petition is presented against his return , and , whether he is returned or not , Messrs . K . and Co . undertake to send in their bill .
MESSRS . GREEN and CO . will undertake tho whole duty of PETITIONING against the return of tho above SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE . By tho perfection of their arrangements Messrs . G . and Co . are able to warrant tho petition as connecting tho sitting Member with bribery by his agents , tho connexions of Messrs . G . and Co . being very extensive . MESSRS . GREEN and KLOPSTOCK will undertake to SECURE THE SEAT for either of tho abovo gentlemen . Terms on personal application . MESSRS . KLOPSTOCK and CO . provide CANDIDATES of ovory variety of Liboral principles on the shortest notice . Messrs . Greon and Co . provide Candidates of Conservative principles on the shortest notice . Lords if preferred , or good 8 orviceablo gents .
WANTS A PLACE as apprentice in a respectable UOROUGJT , a Young Man abovo twonty-ono years of ago ; a borough of serious principles preferred . No objection to Ballot . WANTS A PLACE in tho CUSTOMS or one of tho SUPKJtIO . lt DEPARTMENTS , whero a Secretary is kept , a Steady Man , thirty years of ago , who knows all tho houses in London that uro open after midnight , cab faroH , waiters' feus , &c . lias served his timo in a FIRST-It ATE BOROUGH . No objection to Ireland or India . MESSRS . KLOPSTOCK and GREEN havo on hand , ready drawn up , petitions against tho return of any Member , only the name to bo filled up .
fi'O LET , sevorn . 1 MEMBERS , by tho session , JL on reasonable terms . VOTES by tho NIGHT at p « r dozen . Ask for VV . 3 ) ., at tho noted house . Only principals nood apply-
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A LATCII-KKY INTO PARLIAMENT FOR JMWS . Blinnim prejudice than that which dictated tho refusal of tho Poors to admit tho . lows to Parliament could not bo cited . Arguments for or nmunut tho measure cannot avail with mon who
prove themselves incapable of argument , and doggedly stick to transparent quibbles or insolent assertions . Unable to refute the argument that if Christianity is true , it can take care of itself , Lord Shaftesbury replies , Yes , but we wish , to take care of ourselves ; so that he , sitting in the House of Lords , positively fears for his own Christianity or his salvation , if Baron Lionel de Rothschild enter next door ! The Bishop of Salisbury will not tolerate men who " blaspheme " the name of the [ Redeemer : now , gentlemen do not blaspheme , and we have no right to presume that the Baron commits any so gross outrage on good manners .
They are the true blasphemers who , in the name of God , denounce whole races of their fellow-creatures , and shut their eyes to the progress which the world is making . Has it stood still for the Jews alone P Assuredly not . Jews may be found who will eat bacon , just as there are Quakers with , hats of moderate breadth ; though to judge of a man's liberality by his diet or his head covering is a very superficial method . Many a sound-hearted and sound-headed Jew will abstain from a particular meat , because it is not nonsense to respect the ancient laws of our race—laws once practically healthful , and now historically commemorative .
But the progress of right feeling and intelligence among the Jews is to be estimated by things higher than , bacon ; and the Jewish Chronicle brings us good proof when it adduces the unsectarian sympathy which is felt amongst Jews for the beneficial influences of Christianity . In that feeling Jews will contribute to the building of churches and Christian schools—would that they could secure the preaching of unsectarian doctrine in those churches ! The Jews on the Continent believe that Christians are favoured
by the special aid of God to spread themselves over the world for the purpose of banishing the superstitions and abominations of Paganism . Facts are in favour of such an inference ; but all men do not recognize the testimony of facts ; and we may ask , who have the more pious insight into the ways of Divine power—the Jews , who recognize as its instrument their " natural enemies , "
the Christians , or those so-called Christians , who cannot perceive the difference between a Jew of the nineteenth and a Jew of the first or of the tenth century P It is truly said , that persons entertaining an opinion of the Christian mission , such as that which we have cited , cannot regard the Founder of Christianity as an impostor ; but that in that respect they are on a par with numerous and increasing Christian sects .
Indeed , these gradual assimilations and these brotherly sympathies belong to the one greatest movement which is going on in religion , and which is superseding the divided interests of sect by a broader sentiment of religious unity . Even this Jew debate gives us sterling instances . Hero is a Jew , elected by Christian electors , supported in his claim to sit as a legislator among Christians , by a Christian Ministry ; the decline of sectarian antipathy to Christians is affirmed by the Jewish organ in the press ; and it is cited amongst the arguments for admitting the Jew , by the moat Christian and accomplished Bishop of St . David ' s . Such alliances will prove too powerful for the obstructive Peers .
Lord Shaftesbury avows that Ins mind is the freer , because the Jews aro politically too weak to bo cither apprehended or conciliated ; a creditable confession . It hua been said that tho Jew Bill may probably stand over until tho now Reform Bill shall havo strengthened tho Commons , so an to make thorn more decisive in their manner of putting tho claim . Another suggestion , urged upon Lord John by tho honest and strong John Bright , was , to foreo I he aequieHconeo of tho Lords by threatening either to resign or to make Peers . Tho threatened resignation , wo suspoot , would not have answered ; it ha . s boon throat to create
used up . For the JVors , no existing statesman perhaps has sniliciont resolution . But there might bo ono mode of getting out of tho difficulty , mid of getting Huron Lionel do " Rothschild into Parliament , without a wholesale creation of Peers , and without wailing until after tho passing of tho Reform Bill : it would be , to create- the foreign Baron Lionel into the English Baron , with an English name and all- —why not BaronRo ( lshiehl , of Gunnersbury ? Give a peerage to ovory Jew elected to tho House of Commons , but excluded by tho collateral effect of tho existing oath , and tho worthy Poora would boon como
round to the policy of letting their fellow-countrymen of a certain pedigree take thoir seats in " another place . "
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MR GLADSTONE AND THE CALUMNY OF ILLUSTRIONS MEN . If to be conspicuous is to be a mark for malice and folly , there are some kinds of malice and folly in whose success the many rejoice ; and the virtuous are not without some share of responsir bility for fomenting that perverse propensity . As soon as one hears of the calumny brought against Mr . Gladstone , the feeling is that of indignation , not only against the wretched man who tried to make a market out of the charge , but against the respectable observers , who laugh at the statesman ' s " awkward position , " think that " there must be something in it , " and almost nope that he may be found " guilty . " What if he were ? we might ask . Is all London , or is all statesmandom , so virtuous that he will have been the first to deviate ? Other members of Parliament , other men high in office , have talked to ladies at late hours ; and , since love is bought and sold in this multifarious market called London , there have been right honourable and honourable purchasers therein . " Oh , but Mr . Gladstone is a married man !" " Well , dealers in that market do say that tho class of consumers consists mostly of married men . " But then Mr . Gladstone is so virtuous—so ' pure '—almost a right honourable saint ! " But , O Scandal-lover , does it follow that he is therefore a hypocrite ? There is an hypocrisy of free living as well as an hypocrisy of pureism—a cant which pretends that free living is nothing but the unadulterated emanation of candour , good fellowship , and genuine manliness ; stricter life being the result only of the opposite qualities . A man may be " serious , " and yet sincere ; just as lie may be " fast , " and yet a consummately canting hvpocrite .
Besides , a man may be inconsistent : we aro all so . Suppose a statesman like Mr . Gladstono had been caug ht really tripping—what large inference are we to draw ? Would all his good qualities and good actions be cancelled by a questionable one P Certainly not . His only too refined political consistency , his close argument , his power of statement , his financial grasp and
inventiveness , would all remain the same , even if he had been detected in a practical inconsistency of the kind imputed . The value of tho Three-and-a-half per Cents , would not have been diminished ; the practical possibilities of tho Two-and-a-half per Cents ., tho convertible uses of tho Exchequer Bonds , would be untouched , although the statesman were convicted of gal-Ian trv .
It " is indeed a clumsy reasoning , which ought to bo ashamed of associating itself with such a name as Gladstone , to infer anything from all tho appearances which aro stated . Appearances aro in reality almost nothing , and from thorn nil that can bo inferred is almost nothing . Mr . Gladstono is out late at night , which is in itself a fact easily explained ; in the streets he is accosted by a young woman , possibly with a painful story ; and possibly , even should she prove an accomplice of tho false accuser , that painful story may bo true . It sometimes happens , indeed , that tho " guilt " of a fallen fellow ereaturo does not falsify tho
suffering , but is in itself one of the truest and most mournful parts of the Buffering . A man of the world cannot but know as much ; and a man who can shrink from listening to a cry of help , oven thoiufh it may be a docoy , must Jack both courage and humanity . Why hasten to tho sneering assumption then , that Mr . Gladstone- ^ was inconsistent and listening lo tho Voice of temptation , instead of tho more proper assumption , that ho was consistent , and vins listening , with a voice of manly and hopeful charity , to the voice of that helplessness which is U 1 . 0 moat pitiablo precisely because it is without voucher .
There is a reason for the baser assumption , and it is not difficult to discover . " . Respectability" is fond of drawing wide inferences , and of associating things distinct . Wild fellowH are not regular at church : a highly conscientious philosopher dissents from thedoclxino taught at church , and stays away : ho must bo — / . % an immoral dog , orien " Respectability , spending his time among Iooho company , and staying away from church , because his conscience will not bear the rebukes he would hear there . If tho last clause of tho
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May 14 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 469
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Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1853, page 469, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1986/page/13/
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