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T HE Palmebston Cabinet has been undergoing , since its meeting with Parliament , on Friday last week , a series of shakes that threatened either to break it up , or promises tcr leave the Premier in greater independence and power— -to prevent his going on , or to give his Cabinet a morejndividual character , by stripping "it of the Coalition remains of the last Ministry . It may be said that the question which has agitated i ( L _ thus fundamentally was one inherited from the last Cabinet , and that the division which displayed Itself at the Council on Tuesday was , substantially , the difference between the last Cabinet and the present . Mr . Roebdck ' s motion for inquiry was the occasion . The most consistent adherents of Lord Abebdebn and the Duke of Nbwcastjce considered that they were bound to persevere in fesistiiigthe motion ^ because it would -be - an- in « expedient and dangerous interference with the military Executive . On the other hand , Lord Paj > mebston had already obtained a material alteration in the terms of Mr . Roebuck ' s motion , and in the proposed composition of his Committee . The altered terms imply less of an" inquisitorial interference with the Executive . The altered list of names promises , not a committee of enemies , but a composite committee of business men , likely to give a fair judgment . And to the proposition thus modified the Government assents . It appears to us that Lord Palmbrston was acting practically on the stronger ground . The motives of the three dissident statesmen must be respected . A Committee of the House of Commons to explore and disclose the proceedings of a military executive wo have always pronounced to be in itself an absurd proposition . On abstract grounds , therefore , the three dissidents unquestionably took a high-minded and a logical position . But how stand the circumstances of the case P It is evident from tbo concessions made by Mr . Roebuck , that he and those who supported him perceived how impossible it would bo to carry out their object and the war together—the war being the ultimate purpose which their object was intended to subserve . Mr . Rokbuck was in effect proposing to a traveller , while on his road through a dangerous country , that his fire-nrms , which were in bad order , should be sent to the maker ' s to bo oxamined , ' ov 6 rhaulod , and repaired . It would enable him much bettor to encounter his
enemy , —if he could have a promise against a mortal visitation in the mean while . The Commons , however , had committed themselves to stand by their propositions ; and there is in that honourable House a certain vulgar tenacity which would make it hate to give up a settled point . We have no doubt that if the House of Commons had resolved upon the meeting of parallel lines , it would refuse to rescind the resolution . But it might be thankful to any witty geometrician who couhLfind for it that the parallel lines should meet " at a point of indefinite extension ; " which is just , we presume , what Lord Palmerston has done . The Commons will proceed with their Committee * - but it will be so conducted as to avoid detriment to the actual conduct of the war . It might have judiciously turned upon another ground of inquiry— "the system "—and so be productive of incalculable advantage . If Lord Palmerston had refused the Committee , the House of Commons would have-refused his ^ Cabinet ;„ we : should . have had a final break-down , and perhaps a Derby Administration playing at Government and conipromising us with Russia . Lord Palmebston was in the right , therefore , when he persevered ; and the dissidents , we conceive , retired upon a false position . The dispute did not make itself known immediately . Some negotiations were supposed to hold out a hope that it might be brought to a close . By Wednesday night it was generally disclosed ; and late next day the resignation of Mr . CardvrEX . 1 . was added to that of his colleagues . Of course a man of Mr . Carpwkll ' s ability retires from official life only for a time ; and he does so , we suppose , only upon a punctilio . But there is evidently something in the dispute more than this simple difference about the committee . It is a respectable cause of division to allege , but there must be other reasons . In the first place it is almost inconceivable that Lord Paxmekston and his colleagues should not have come to some understanding on the subject of the committee when the Cabinet was formed ; secondly , there are well-known diversities of opinion on the subject of alliances , and of the terms upon which peace may bo concluded ; and thirdly , wo suspect there may have been diversities on the subject of fmanpe . . It was very generally bruited that Mr . Gladstone had in prospect some marvellous Arabian Nights Budget , which was to provide for tho war without increased taxes , and without loans . Now , besides tho palpable absurdity of
permitting a Cabinet to raise any amount of money requisite without borrowing it , there is the fact that the prospect of a , Gladstonian budget—no loan and a direct tax— -was becoming daily more nnpopular throughout the country , and had occasioned a settled gloom of anticipation in the City . Lord Palmerston is not the man to go to the country on an Arabian Nights budget , violently testing the virtue of every citizen with direct taxes ; and probably Mr . Cardwell supposed himself to inherit too much of the recent traditions of Mr . Gladstone to take the Chancellorship of the Exchequer , which was expected to be his new place , without a Gladstonian Budget . Lord Pa £ mekston was no sooner released from the support of these four conspicuous members of the Aberdeen Cabinet , than Report set itself to look up other candidates for him , and it was not difficult to find them . Lord Carnarvon was remembered for his , excellent liberal speech at ' ¦ thTfirst"byemHg -- of-th « -Session .-- ~ Ijord--l ! li-G 3 w -who has been an excellent and practical Governor of a place where Englishmen have not abandoned anyone of the rights which we have suffered to lapse hero—in Canada—recently made a speech at Dunfermline , in which he avowed the respect that he had acquired for the self-government of Englishmen by his colonial experience ; and he was set down as another member of the Cabinet . Lord Goderich would probably not revoke his refusal to join tho Ministry , but the offer indicated the tendency of Lord Paxmebston to look out for " new blood . " Mr . Layard also , perhaps , stands committed , for a timE , by his outspoken , earnest , and uncompromising speech on Monday , surveying the whole state of things at homo and abroad , to the position of " an independent member . " But there is one person marked out by his antecedents , by the general opinion , by tho Times , and by himself , for a high position in office ; and as he is a man of groat power and sagacity , it happens that he is an unusually good authority in his own case . We allude to Mr . Robert Lowe , who showed by his speech at Kidderminster , on Tuesday , that he would sway an opposition in this country as powerfully and ns formidably as he swayed the Opposition in Now South Wales , whoro he served an apprenticeship to Government at home ; for in New South Wales , also , they still act up to tho standards of tho British constitution , which we have forgotten . From Mr . Lowe ' s speech tho public will regard him as a man who sees tho nc-
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VOIi . VI . No . 257 . ] SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 24 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- ** g » Great Fire near Blackfriars- Military Promotion by Birth ... 183 THE ARTS'The Public Health ... 170 bridge 178 Our Prestige in Europe ... .... 184 Tho Drama in France 188 Tmnerial Parliament 170 Continental Notes .. 179 Mr . Gladstone ' s New Postal The Photograpbic Exhibition ... 189 The War 175 Handocock v . Delacour 179 Law and the Exeter Hall Views of Sevastopol ......... 189 Mr Eohert "' £ owfi at Kidder- Our Civilisation 179 Meeting ........ ™ . 185 Gallery of Illustration * . 189 ^ ninster 176 Miscellaneous 180 The "Globe" at War . 185 _ Taxes on Knowledge 177 Postscript 180 The" Stranger" m Parliament ... 186 —~~ . - The Medical Commission for the , PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... lo » Sir Chiles ¦ Napier ' and ' the ' Baitic The Position and the Prospect . 181 mmow 187 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSSsaa ! E !! i ss&sdszm , « gjgE !™ ::: *»»« -- ~
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" Tb . e one Idea which . History exhibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Beligion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . " — Humboldfs Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 24, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2079/page/1/
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