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pay , which had accumulated while they were in the hosp ital at Scutari , Mr . PeeI / replied that the Government could not pay the arrears , because , not having received proper returns from the paymasters of the different regiments ? they did not know what was due to the men .
WR . LINDSAY AND THE ADMIRALTY . Mr- Lindsay then rose to repeat the statements which he had made at Drury JLane Theatre with regard to the blunder of the Admiralty on the conduct of the Transport Service . He referred to the attacks of Mr . Drummond upon him with respect to his emigrant ships , and he explained the circumstances connected with that matter . He then referred to the statements which he made on the former occasion , repeated his statements ,
and produced letters in confirmation of them . Taking the Transport system , he went into elaborate details and figures to prove that money had been wasted , showing that bad ships had been taken up at a high rate of tonnage , when magnificent vessels could be got at a much lower rate . He concluded with a strong remonstrance against a member of the Government endeavouring to " filch from him his good name" by impeaching his veracity , or accusing him of having been guilty of " virulent untruths . "
Sir C . Wood in reply urged that Mr . Lindsay had very ingeniously mixed up fact with fiction . He showed that a statement of that gentleman , that Sir de Lacy Evans had said that 3000 horses were wanted for the Second Division in the Crimea , and no tonnag-e could be found for their conveyance , was quite incorrect . The Admiralty had at this moment transports for the the conveyance of 5500 horses . He then , in a very elaborate and detailed manner , dealt with the statements of Mr . Lindsay with regard to the sending of the Robert Lowe transport from Portsmouth to Newcastle for an alleged twelve tons of combstibles , showing that the ship in question belonged to Mr . Lindsay himself , and that she was sent to Newcastle to take up certain cylinders weighing seventy tons , intended to
blow up the sunken ships at Sebastopol . With regard to a vessel which Mr . Lindsay said was ordered from Woolwich to Deptford , in order that the engineer might walk on board , he showed that the reason she could not be moved was that her engines were unfit for service . Referring to Mr . Lindsay ' s emigrant ships , he went into details to show that of a number of those ships professing to have boon elaborately prepared for passengers to Australia , only one had taken any passengers at all , and she had broken down before she got to Portsmouth . In the same minute manner the right honourable gentleman dealt with every fact and statement of " the noble member , and produced , by the singular aptness of the answers to them , a great effect upon the House .
Sir De Lacy Evans explained that Mr . Lindsay had mistaken the purport of a conversation he had with him in the House with reference to the tonnage required for horses to be sent to the Crimea . After a few words from Mr . Lindsay on one point relating to the vessel which lie wished to be sent from Woolwich to Deptford , the subject dropjied . TIII 3 ItECENT NEWS FROM SKBASTOPOL . Mr . Craufurd inquired if any further intelligence had been received from Sebastopol by the
Government . Lord Talmkustox said the only despatch that had been received was that the purport of which had been made public , but if any further despatches came in during the niglit , they would be instantly communicated to the press , The House then wont into Committee on the Scottish Education Bill with which they were occupied till a late hour .
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THE FRENCH ACCOUNT OF OUR REVEKSE . Paris , Friday , Juno 22 , 7 . 30 a . m . The Moniteur announces that tho Government received yesterday ( Thursday ) , almost simultaneously , two telegraphic despatches from General Pelissier . The first , dated Juno 17 , is as follows : — " Tho combined movements agreed upon with our allies are being carried out . To-day the Turks and the brigade of Chus . seurs made a reoonnois . sance , towards Akhtiur . CJencral . Hosquot occupies the , Tchcrnaya . To-morrow , at daybreak , in concert , with the Kntf liah , I attack tho Grand Kcdan , tho TUuhikun' Tower , ami the batteries connected with them . " The other despatch is dated June IS , and contains tho following : — " Tho fittiick of to-dny w « s not successful , although our troops , who showed very tfreiit intrepidity , gained a partial footing in the IMuhikofV works . 1 was obliged to ordor a retreat ; in tho parallels . Tho retreat , took place in order , -without our being harassed . It in not possible for mo to-day to Htuto our precise Ions . " A despatch from Bucharest , by wny of Vicnnn , reasBortrt tho statement that an expedition huts been undertaken against l ' erekop .
General Andrijanow , acting substitute of the Hetman of the Don Cossacks , has published a proclamation to the inhabitants of the banks of the Don , ordering the organisation of a sort of Landsturm . Fears are expressed of the enemy " ravaging the coasts , " and the men are exhorted to take up arms in defence of the country . There is a tone of excitement and hurry in the address . General Rudiger has published an order of the day to the corps of Grenadiers and Guards , in which he gives them instructions how to proceed in case of an invasion .
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HEREDITARY GOVERNMENT . The Administrative Reform movement has at least shown our noble contemp t , for logic . The leaders are profuse in their professions of love for the aristocracy , but they cannot tolerate a privileged class . They cherish the hereditary princip le of Government with all their heart , but they must insist on having the offices of state filled by merit . This , without exaggeration , is the burden of their speeches . They wish the governing class to
have a fair start for the offices of Government , but no favour . Let the privileged , they sav , stand upon their personal merits , and we have no doubt they will hold their own . AVe have not the slightest desire to pull down the Peerage , but only to put all upon a level . The intelligent foreigner might think that there was something hypocritical or ironical here . Wo assure him that there is nothing of the kind . All is as honestly
inconsisteitf . as it is when a Radical contemporary calls upon the Crown to interfere , and , upon the Crown interfering in the only possible form , receives it with insinuations about German despotism and slaps upon the face . Mr . Lindsay intimated in one of his speeches that , so far from hating the titled classes , he would gladly himself accept an hereditary coronet for his services in abolishing family influences , and wo have no doubt that ho would bo as good as his word .
People must fairly face tho question , whether tlio hereditary principlo of government is worn out or not . AVo say this from no puerile craving for republican formulae — from no abstract hatred of an institution which has evorywhero played an important part in the education of society—much less from any moro personal antipathy to the English aristocracy in particular , whoso history , on tho contrary , we have maintained , and do nuiintain , to be a proud one for the
nation . -If the direct consequence of aristocracy , which no thoughtful man can doubt family influence in govennent tobe , hasbecoinc intoleruulo to tho country , it ia high time , if wo would avert civil conflicts and confusion , to consider tho position of tho aristocracy itHclf . It is right to do so in the interest of tho aristocrats , aa well as in tho interest of tho nation at large . If there is one thing more abject and miserable than another , it U tho struggle of power to prolong ita existence beyond tho destined term . . Lnoro
is yet time for a quiet transition , and for the incorporation into the new institutions of all the best men who have risen under the old . But the solution of the political problem cannot be deferred even for an hour . We have been happy hitherto in the comparatively tranquil and gradual character of our political development . The spirit of feudalism in England died a natural death . The Bastille was razed ; the Tower stands a reminiscence and a show . But if we would preserve this blessing , it is by foresight and discussion that it must be preserved .
To us it appears clear that the hereditaryprinciple of government , in both its manifestations , is virtually condemned . We have jealously stripped our monarchy of every remnant of political power , the Tories outdoing the Whigs in their determination to prevent the slightest revival of royal influence : and no sane man dreams that any part of what has been taken away 'will ever be restored , though frantic radicals may make protestations and appeals , which , directly their appeal is answered , they belie . Nothing remains of the sovereignty of the Tudors
but a social supremacy which is somewhat overtopped by the fine ladies of London , a Court Diplomacy , and an Erastian Church . But that social supremacy is the keystone of a false system of ostentatious luxury—that Court Diplomacy cost us the French War —that Erastian Church turns the religion of the country into an organised infidelity and hypocrisy . Introduce open negotiations and the Voluntary System , and you will take from the Monarchy the last rag of political significance . And how long do people expect the nation will clino- to Vienna Conferences
and a Church which , believes and teaches its creed in half a dozen different and contradictory senses ? 3 NTay , the very breed of royalty itself may become extinct , if justice should ever overtake the petty Uussianising despotisms of Germany . Aristocracy is in pretty much the _ same condition . Where its influence was directly felt , it has been abolished . The Lords are allowed to be coy about Jews Bills and Marriage Bills , but they must register , however been
reluctantly , any edict which has really passed in the Lower House by the AA'ill of the nation . To call them a check on precipitate legislation is absurd ; since they are no check in the case of any important question . Social aristocracy and oilicial aristocracy still remain , and we pay heavily for them both . Social aristocracy entails upon us separation of classes , pride , servility , and luxury , without any compensating advantage ; for it is ridiculous to think that our nobility keep up any standard of manners or of honour higher
than that which prevails among other educated men . To hold together tho estates of the Peers , we submit to primogeniture and family settlements , and absolutely deny to those who till tho land the possibility of over owning it . Against official aristocracy the country ia now breaking out into one vast clamour , which , though it may not carry its motions in the House of Commons , though it may even be beaten by overwhelming majorities , will never be put down again ; and if tho nWf Mtor . s do not themselvca boo tho real tendency of their agitation , that is no reason why olouror-sightcd men ahould rcluao to see
' if Providence has really nparoil mankind (; Ih > moral and intellectual effort of choosing wist- and good rulern for themselves , by ordaining , and commanding us for oyor to pronerve , a » y « tom of hereditary Bort . lcge it is well : but in this caao the theory ot divmo right is true . If , on the other hand , hereditary government ia not an overlaying law , but an institution which society needs , indeed ,
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . During the Session of Parliament ifc is often impossible to find room for correspondence , even the briefest . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because thereis nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to Jceep things fixed when all the world is by the very law o < itsereation in eternal progress . —De . Aeitold .
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June 23 , 1855 . ] THE , LEADER . 599
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Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1855, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2096/page/11/
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