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and educational nature is the same in 1855 as in 1835 . Stamped newspapers will still reign—for the value of News is its promptness—and promptness can only he secured by . the post . Unstamped newspapers , in the true sense of the term news , cannot exist without the post . There is no machinery for their transmission . We appeal to all unstamped papers in proof . New machinery of transit needs to be created before
the unstamped can compete with the stamped journals ; and no machinery can be made to r ival the post . Newspaper proprietaries need not be uneasy —the Parliament need not hesitate to pass the bill ; The alarm about it is vain . The bruited danger can be proved to be impossible . We speak from examination and knowledge of the practical details of the newsvending trade . Within a month of the bill becoming law the facts will appear as we have suggested .
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" THE STRANGER" IN PARLIAMENT . [ The responsibility of the Editor in regard to these contributions is limited to the act of giving them publicity . The opinions expressed are those of the writer : both the Leader and " The Stranger" benefit by the freedom which is left to his pen and discretion . ] It appears that there is a split in the Tory party . When that thin end of the Liberal wedge , Mr . Disraeli , got into the party , its wooden consistency was endangered : and now Sir Edward Lytton turns
up a still sharper instrument of political disseyeration . But the man who has done the real mischief is Lord Stanley . Just as Fox and Sheridan were harmless Whigs till they got hold of the Heir Apparent , -so Disraeli and Xyttori would spout and spout and spout away their finessed and epigrammatic impracticalities , but that the son of the Tory King has got into the habit of thinking that it is not absolutely necessary for a Tory chief always to be stupid , and always in the wrong .
Lord Stanley is creating the real Young England party—the nobles to become leaders , and to leadnot back , but forward . Well , in this beplushed nation , that is an arrangement which philosophic but still lord-loving Radicals will naturally be desirous to promote ; and let us thank Providence , so to speak , that the young noble who is to lead us is a clever young noble—with an intellect , robust , practical-keen * : and- conscientious .-, _ By ~~ . all-means-let liberals develop the split ; for if we get two parties out of the Tory party , one must cross over to us . And , with such an arrangement , would disappear all our liberal anxieties as to what is to become of the
Peelites . If Lord Stanley , with a hundred or so of " historic Tories" — that is what these modern Liberals are to call themselves—take an honest stand against Lord Derby and his Hudibrastic cohort of Henleys—fellows whose following he could enjoy as Falutaff enjoyed his queer company—why , then , Mr . Gladstone of course will join Lord Stanley ; and where Mr . Gladstone goes , go the Peelites ; and after the Peelites will proceed , inevitably , the Radicals . There ' s a strong Liberal party at once—ready for the next crisis , which will be when the Russian agents have succeeded in bribing the valet to intercept Lord Palmerston ' s morning Parr ' s pill .
Lord Stanley is spoken of , just now , as eccentric . But he has only been bringing out the peculiarity of his family . Of course , it looks odd in him , when the compacted Derbyites were quito ready to walk easily into power , on the approaching dissolution , to destroy the organisation by his logical liberalisms . But this is exactly what the Stanleys always do . They hate success : they like change , this " sans changer" patrician house . When the last Lord Stanley
saw that the Reform Bill hod made the Whigs happy and strong , away he went from their ranks , with a clatter that astonished and terrified . When ho found £ hat Sir Robert . Peel , in 1846 , was gojng to have an absolute coup with the repeal of the Corn Laws , off he went from Sir Robert , and so created the Protectionist party . Lord Derby is too fond n father , doubtless , to quarrel with the identity of character PQV being dUplayed byjHius dilectiaaimus meus . The great vurprise , however , in connexion with
this subject , appears to be in this—that Mr . Disraeli splits with the Henleys and against the historic Tories . Lord Stanley is likely to be Mr . Disraeli ' s Frankenstein , andj consequently , rather avoids the society of his liberal-minded monster . Why , Mr . Disraeli is a practical manl He has' found put his faculties , —what he can do and what he cannot do in Parliament . He would be not much as # i Liberal : he is a great personage as a Tory ; and he naturally prefers , when the crisis of a choice is forced by the maturing of the young Tories he has educated , to stay , as the only clever fellow among the boobies , and to decline going on in a direction where
he would be only one clever fellow among manyand , alongside a Gladstone or a Bright , not the foremost . Mr . Disraeli ' s tactique on the Newspaper Stamps Bill was in perfect keeping with all the traits of his career . It was a gross disappointment of the hopes he had assiduously excited among the promoters of the Reform : it was not even politically honourable . But it was by far the best thing for Mr . Disraeli . It might disgust a country : but Mr . Disraeli ' s country is the Conservative benchesbounded north , south , east , and west , by an impressionable person with arborial faith in " the land , Sir : "—as Cornelia s jewels were in her sons , Mr . Disraeli ' s treasures are in his Henleys . Had he
voted with the "Stanleys and Lyttons , he would have disgusted the Spooners and the Newdegates — and he means to ride into power upon the shoulders of these bigoted and organised , but not elocutionary individuals—gentlemen who regard Mr . Disraeli as they regard a French cook—as a clever artiste , to be employed for their purposes and pleasures . As an intellectual man and an historical student , he , of course , is rather pleased to see the young Tories trotting out as Liberals . But that is merely
intellectual pleasure . As a politician , he is safest in . sticking among the old Tories ; and among other reasons , because these young Liberals will be all old Tories too , when they come into their property . Sir EdT ward Lytton was poetical , on Monday , in his definition of the " true Conservative party ; " it was a definition which must have convinced Ernest Jones next morning that that gentleman ought to increase his stock of linen and get elected to the Carlton . But Sir Edward ' s poetical analysis of the genuine Conservative article was great nonsense .
It spoiled an otherwise fine , and even logical , speech : it was so absurd in tone and treatment , that the House would have caught the ridiculous and _ roared- — -ifthe ^ House had been there . But it happened that the too eager Sir Edward got up when everybody was at dinner , except the Manchester school , which has roast mutton and potatoes at one p . m . ; and the Manchester school , very hearty and hopeful about cheap newspapers , were delighted with Sir Edward , and cheered him vigorously from beginning to end—which was , the only thing that saved Sir Edward from a collapse
for his own side were sulky , and the Ministers merely stared . The speech wag a chapter of " England and the English , " modified into House of Commons style , laboriously eloquent , and happily philosophical ; — it has charmed all England in print ; it was very pleasant to listen to . Sir Edward is a man who can do anything tolerably well , for he is a persevering man of considerable talent , of unbounded ambition ; and a persevering man of considerable talent , of unbounded ambition , only requires time : and Sir Edward is becoming a fair Parliamentary speaker . On a question , half a literary one , like that of the press , ho is naturally effective ; and on Monday he made a
better speech on the question than any other man in Parliament ' could make . It is evident that , by degrees , he will bo the Parliamentary success now and then attained by the literary members : he will not be so great a success ns Macaulay , because he has a bow-wowy voice , nnd cannot keep his body stillhe is always swaying with the sentence and throwing himself into a note of exclamation after the period ; but he will be more successful than Sir James Mackintosh : —this Parliamentary success merely meaning , however , that his phrases will always be applauded , and that his opinions will never weigh . Governing assemblies want men with the governing faculty , not brilliant men : when you
want a dinner you kill your goose , not your peacock . But let us be grateful that Sir Edward is assisting in destroying the party which adopted him . The respective , position is rather hilariousthey thought they were Tories ; and he is proving to them that they are not . They ought soon to settle the question between them ; for points occur day after day of difficult decision when party organisation is gone . Last week there was the observance of the Sunday question . This week there have been the questions of a cheap press , of the independence of Poland , of promotion o unconscious democrats in the army , and of church-rates . Granted that there is a good deal of sham about half these Liberalisms : but a sham is sometimes to statesmen as serious as a reality . Mr . Phinn might nut have been placable about Poland , a country for which he has that long-range patriotism felt by some Englishmen for countries they never saw : Mr . Phinn might have considered that Bath ( renowned for overcharges and ultra-Radical politics ) was not safe without some violent Liberalism to balance the excellent 2000 J . per annum place which he got , and deserved to get , from the late Government : and , then , how would the Tories have voted ? Who would have led ? Which would have been the party ? It would not have done to say , this is a sham , and we will not countenance it . Poland is to British Liberalism what Rome is to Roman Catholicism : mystic reverence to it is expected . That fine spring afternoon on which Mr . Phinn had got possession of Parliament , I was making nay way to the House of Commons through one of the " rookeries" of Westminster ; the bright new sun was lifting the hideous filth , and mindless poverty , and seething crime of a London low neighbourhood into ghastly relief—artistical , not poorhousey ; ajid I went into the gallery" with an impression that all was not so perfectly straight with Great JBritain , though Bath is _ a well-built city , as to require the clever Mr . Phinn-to insist on the wrongs of snub-nosed- Sclavonians . But- ~ Iiad -J been a member —a Liberal member , of course , and if a Tory , the more desirous to appear liberal —I should have had to hear-hear Mr . Phinn , and if he had gone to the vote , which , awed by the possibly patronaging Palmerston , he took care not to do , I should have had to record my opinion that it was desirable for the House of Commons to pass a resolution , the effect of which might plunge us in n war so long and costly , that fifty years hence the sun might still be lighting up a Westminster " ¥ ookery " of ^^ pestilenBaT inhffmanity : Then , there ' s this Church Rates Bill : the Tories must act on that ; and they must at least select among the Education Bills—the probability being that Pakington ' s will not be found the best . So that the Tory party had better devote the Easter recess to the solution of the question—What is the Tory partywhat arc Conservative principles ? Saturday Morning . "A Stranokr . "
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There is no learned man but will confess ho batn much profited by rending controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at , •¦ least , botblerablefor his adversary to write . —Mli / ton
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THANKS OF PARLIAMENT . ( To the Editor of the Lender . ) Sik , —A noblo lord having expressed his regret that a vote of thanks by the Upper House could not be personally presented to the Earl of Cardigan bocause there was no precedent for such nn net , you will pardon mo if X refer his Lordship , nnd ins brother Peers , to the following extract from the 32 iui chapter of Archdeacon Coxa ' s " Memoirs ot the Duke of Marlborough : ""Ho ( the Duke ) landed on the 14 th of December . 1704 , and tho snmo morning experienced n cordial reception from tho Queen , to whom ho piutl ms respects at tho palace of St . James . On tho following day ho took his seat in tho House of Peers , and was welcomed by tho Lord-Keeper with an address of congratulation , and tho same day n Committee oi he Commons attended him to express thoir thanics or his great and glorious services . I- «•
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Leader (1850-1860), March 31, 1855, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2084/page/16/
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