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rendering help , ; Sftores : <> f human beings are from tlme ; to , tfnlie flung % > : destruction , and no one ean reaau ^ i ^ m .. -3 ^ rpaxf ; Lof the coast to whjclv we refer is thaA between " $ ie ^ Lumber and the Frith « rFia $ itji two hundred miles in length j but Hhe W * u $ injf ' m question natitien chletfy tbwards the itoKfdle . of that tract . / Tnid , coast forjns the bowndtfipy of the great highway from the south of Europe to the jnorth ; during the year , 135 , 000 vessels Of ^ aU-: na tions ;|» a 3 . by , and for every day in the that 2 § 0
jEearjit ^ majJte flajjd there are pome ships on ^ u se ^ o |^ e- ^ a | i enormous risk of property off ao dangerous a , coast ., pjjiow alL this might be prevented , and easily . 3 vbL in ^ li ^ fefentee" of ; tiat , dangerous coast is the at $ sr TEfyiie ? , Jwmcfi 1 J teonild ; be converted ' into a liarbour of refifge capable of holding 1500 vessels «^ a *© rev fJfMa'J ua b ^ eii Admitted ; a Government ^ pflCi ^ > 6 a « carnwigied . plans for . removing . the . ^ d ^^ , . ^ hichaloiie closes the Tyne ; the Tyne % l ! Pi ^^ l ^ BP ^™^^^ ^ * JW » - an **» . ^ yer , haTe a ^ op ^ d the plan ; £ ncLthey have powers fo ra& fat , oOOV 1 oylocal taxation . It is not . enough . Asjnncl f as , 33 , 000 ? . will be -wanted ; aind , at th ? rate of taxation which the
Comrais-• iottfers can raise ; the . sum may be provided in twghteen ^ ok tf ^ ent ^ -years , ? during which time the ; 3 > SojpeEtoi 5 iio ) ced $ ^ r&abont Ja year ' s purchase of ^ Jtu ; h : > tlre harb ^ j ^ cq-uld be-provided . A deputa-S ^ Nfe * iMK $ ? mMm te % » e tow ? *» « 4 ™ ss ?^ i » rteJ «» # TOfc ^ w 9 ney a * once » ^^^ then ^ lhe ^ pe ^ le of t ^ e place will raise the i ^ Fltey ^ fi&y ^ n ^* be « t " very' "warmly received : the President of the ^ Board of Trade was cool , tbTe Firet Lord Of the AdmirahWtueaded war ftfik
proapects : mam ireajpn cagainst outlay . The true flteS ^^ MB BSBl ^^ of . » r any 5 g F «§ Mm % ^ j ^ e ^ i $ >?; jpws * H ' . i ^? ff ^ gtAens theZryjie fCa ^ e , since it adds the . chan . ce 6 r . an enemy to ^ the , chance , of a storm . And ^ pi&Plpn ^^ mere matter of insurance , it would be sound : pbftdy to make the wdtks as fast a 3 possible , rather tlmn to keep-theib Jiieomplete for 'twenty years ; when a
jnWBr ' s ; purchase : of tne Iproperty . at stake fe ? the » mpun ^ w $ nt $ & * / Wjbjieritfie . Tyne men who possess the harbour , and hayjer but , a iraction of interest fe # f * i | p ] r ^| HE 5 C ^^^ iU furnish , half the money . Here , most 4 ^ uredlj 9 time is money saved , delay V the shipwretk <) f argosies . StuiC ' f- -H 'f / iit qv \ l . vp \ :-:. ' . .
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parliamentary proceedings , arid too greatly scorns Lord Derby , sardonically cheered the insult , it must be confessed that the-Cabinet bench did not : look grand—not as Lord Clarendon's remorseless truthtellers should look . For other reasons beyond ihose suggested in these discussions , the Ministry has not had a happy aspect all this week . Not tp mention the disastrous circumstance on Monday of Lord Palrnerston losing his temper , and , wjtb . it , a considerable share of the admiration conditionally extended to him ( in
anticipation of tliat possible Premiership which is to climax , symmetrically a career of official promotion ) by the pious and placid middle class delegating Mr . Bright to rebuke martial jocularity in " responsible " statesmen : —not to dwell upon ( though Mr . Disraeli will fpr some time live upon ) Sir James Graham ' s indiscretions , —his last being an explanation even worse than the Reform Banquet offence , inasmuch as it " was the ungraceful explanation of a dull but spiteful old gentleman : —not to make anything of these points of the Opposition , ^—though really when
youths of sixty and seventy , with half a century of Parliamentary experience , blunder and bully after this fashion , one begins to give in to the theory that veterans are just as unfit for the chief affairs of state as for the chief affairs of war ,- ^—what are we to think of a Coalition Government , including all the talents , which so slightly impresses its subordinates with sense as to permit to a red-tapy IP . Peel , with blotter hair , ' cream-laid complexion , and sealing-wax gestures ^ to rise in the House of CommotaB—the House just at present engaged in Corruption-cure
A " StjtANGER" 1 ST PARLIAMENT . W ^ en Lord Clarendon , fatuously explaining his noxious delusions with regard to his faith in Russian diplomacy , said that he would as soon have thought of doubting the assurances of the Czar as the word of one of their lordships , their right honourable lordships hear-heared , and all the papers , proud of the superiority of the British , exclaimed " You see thtjre ! " and universally it was supposed that no one ever' did doubt the word of a peer of England . It
is yet remarkable - that a prominent political circumstance of the week is the contention , on three successive evenings , in the House of Lords , between Lord" Aberdeen and Lord Jtfalmesbiiry , as to whether the former peer of the realm had not ^ very distinctly . told a very emphatic- ^ fib . It is most remarkable that , last evening ; in the too polite discnssion , there was a clear
disclaimer on all parties * side that they credited a single word the other party Jiad been saying . Thus Lord Aberdeen , very grave , but very clever , admitted that , after the declaration of innocence hy the'Tbreign-office clerk , he could not for a moment think of continuing his ( Lord Aberdeen ' s ) insinuation vrith reference to that gentleman ; but , at the sartte time , he begged ^ to say that he bad not made the insinuation without the clearest moral
conviction of its accuracy ; and he also begged to say that ** I © wn ,-my Lords , when I said on Tuesday that I would leave it ta the gentleman himself to say whether or not he w , as guilty , I never did expect that he would have ventured to offer the denial which has now been offered . " What did this mean ? Simply that Lord Aberdeen didn't' "believe a word the young gentleman had said ; and that Lord Aberdeen was craftily and ironically apologetic . Tet the dozen ladies . present were making up their minds to
consider the young gentleman , when they met him , a martyr entitled to society ' s caresses ; Lord Derby issued a fiatical hear—hear , to give the cue ; ' and it was understood by all the two dozen right honourable peers present that notMng ,. more was . to be said . But the farce didn't end there . Lord Derby returned to his insinuation , out of which Lord Aberdeen ' s arose , and insisted , notwithstanding the blunt denials of Lord Aberdeen last Monday , that the Times could only liave got its
late surprising secret news through the instrumentality of a Cabinet Minister , i . e . of a man forfeiting his engagements to his colleagues . And Lord Derby added that as the news couldn't come through Foreign-office clerks , couldn't come from abroad , could only come from a Cabinet Minister , and had not come from Lord Aberdeen , he ( Lord Derby ) was sure something was wrong somewhere ; and , accordingly , he gave notice that if the Times sbould continue to be the most interesting paper in Europe , by
getting earlier information touching the government ot the world than can be got at even by such a gossipping noble as Lord Derby ( who , in this speech , innocently told two or three Cabinet secrets , and indicated that he had watched who dined with Lord Aberdeen , and what journalists were most frequently seen prowling about Downing-street—all his small facts telling of his petty nature ) , then he -would hnve the Times up to the bar What did this mean ? Simply that Lord
Derby was suggesting that he didn't believe tho word of Lord Aberdeen . Every one knew what it meant ; and Lord Derby ' s threat , which was delivered with an emphasis that vas passionate , would have been taken as a very serious matter , but that Lord Aberdeen , in a quiet but unscrupulously crafty way , hoarsely hear-heared the denunciation , and thus , to Lord Derby ' s astonishment , made Lord Derby sit down , looking silly . All the world agrees Avith Lord Derby that Lord Aberdeen
was not exact in his repudiation of such a connexion with the Times as might nocount for the news that journal gives Lord Clarendon as to what the British Cabinet is doing : and , not olegantly , but fprcibly , Lord Malniesbury hinted the general suspicion that our Premier would be more dignified if ho were more candid . But Lord Mnlmesbury's congenial quotation from Sancho Panza was tantamount to giving Lord Aberdeen—the lie ; and as the Ministers silently and humbly endured it , and oa Lord Aberdeen himself , who too much despises
Bills—and to defend the appointment to a colonial judgeshipof a Stonor , convicted of electioneering malpractices ? Of course Mr . J ? v = Peel , one of those distinguished statesmen who inherit portfolios and M . P .-dom for reasons with which , an enlightened countryis not particularly acquainted , perhaps because it is so Used to the Commons as well as the Lords being hereditary that it never cares to inquire , —of course Mr . F . Peel had on a Thursday , and again last night ( when , fresh from St . Patrick ' s Day festivities , a host of tipsy Irish members , cheered by . tipsy young
English members , made a raid upon him , and ; he being annihilated , upon each other ) to apologise for what he had said on Tuesday . Of course the Mr . Stonor , whose appointment Mr . P . Peel ¦ '** on the whole" refused to cancel , is to be sacrificed , and is to be kicked out , a ruined and blasted man : and Mr . F . Peel is not ashamed , and is not shy , and will week after week go on , as a crack Minister , although he thus elaborately and conscientiously demonstrates his incapacity to appreciate even so small a matter of tactique as managing a bureau in re a Stonor . Of
course the Duke of Newcastle , who is also a possible Premier , and wishes to make the acquaintance of the country , which his being a Duke renders difficult , and leaves him at a disadvantage as competing with the other possible Premiers by whom the Coalition Cabinet is crowded , —of course the Duke of Newcastle no sooner heard of Mr . F . Peel ' s <( on ' the whole " opinion in ] answer to Mr . Moore—a man Mr . F- Peel thought was of no consequence , because he sits below the gangway and talks with a pronounced Mayo accent , and entertains a Cassandraish style of political
oratory—than the Duke of Newcastle swore ( officially ) at Mr . F . Peel , and peremptorily ordered that stolid but disciplined and not sensitive young man to go down to the House and confess that lie had for once been slightly too red-ta . py—and that , in fact , in short , he had made a fool of himself . Of course the Duke of Newcastle , at once a very bold man and a very prudent man , would not rislc scandal by the retention of a Stonor : he would not give such a handle to an Opposition which U eager to prove , out of that desire which all the bad have to discover that
there is no good , that the Government is not passionately in earnest in introducing schemes for the purification of tho picked but philosophical constituency ofu country which is renowned over the wholo world for its Christianity being so much more real than the Christianity oftlieEmperorofliuasia . Stonor will , accordingly , descend from the beach , and willtaJce his place , in lieu , on that political alielf which is so admirable u stand-point for clever English barristers who have a tendency to moralise on the morality of their own , their native , land . Stonor ' s friends , Keogh and Sudleir , who have great influence with
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i :: l r .-., » , ift { t ' -f o ^ - ^ wi ^ ivj ^\\ 'i J . ; \ r ' ; - \ EH&ilET ilAtfST ^ I ^ L FAEM . Tjpe industrial farm maintained by the Guardians of , the Thanet Union is an experiment of more than local interest , and we do but observe our aninial custom in drawing attention to the continued Success of that experiment . ^ The accounts have been forwarded to us in detail , and they are more satisfactory than they were even last year . The farm has been decidedly advancing under tie culture of its ; pauper labourers . On the side of cxpenditure , we $ nd ; a total of 284 J . ; on the opposite side a total , of 400 / . ; leaving a favourable balance ^ 6 f l 25 / , ,
' But even more important than the money balance | S the moral balance . We have before noticed the effect of the farm , in operating as a . check upon p \ ere idlers , who . sought to live upon the poorrajtes in squalid dependency , without earning their bread ; -we have now another yroof of the advantage of such an institution . Under the able in-6 t £ u 6 tion of Mr . 'H . Gr . Holloway , the schoolmaster , tHe younger inmates have been trained to earn thjsir bread ; Ihis kindly manner of teaching has instilled into their minds a due sense of industry ,
typ duties and advantages ; and several of the boys ^ rbo are npw out into the world have profited by this paternal care . From what we hear of the farm , we can only hope that the Guardians will persevere in the course tliat they have pursued with so much success ; believing that their own intelligence will enable them to improve as they proceed . For
example , in the industrial farm at Sheffield , which the Union clerk , Mr . Watkinson , conducted through so many difficulties with so much ability , it was found that labour in the open air positively required , as well as earned , a better diet than that permitted in the houae . But this point , aa well as the due encouragement of efficient officers , such as Mr . Holloway , is so evident , that men whose intelligence has led them into tliis interesting experiment can scarcely miss the right course .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 18, 1854, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2030/page/16/
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