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npi IE Lords are succeeding admirably in showing - - that they have the privilege of being inaccessible to reform . Whatever irregular attempts a timid Lord Chancellor may make in trying to reconcilethe House to the actual wants of the age , —whatever very moderate course Lord Grey may advise for correcting the irregularities of th-e Chancellor and the gross deficiencies of the House , the Peers that
rally round Lord Lyndhurst ave firm in refusing to be reconciled or amended . They are making a collision with the Crown , as if for the purpose of filling up time with exciting conflicts , should the Conference at Paris result in peace . It is clear that the y had already , before the present week , exhausted their precedents and their arguments : we were in as good a position for deciding on the point at the beginning of last week as at the end of this . The facts are extremely simple . The House of Lords has retained to itself the
funcby appointing a competent judge without the condition tliat his non-judicial and perhaps incompetent sons should sit in the House . We have no exact precedent for such a step ; but it would seem , from the collective effect of the precedents , that the power does reside in the Crown . Lord Lynbhurs-t , however , without any precedent , proof , or principle to support him , invites the House to a declaration of opinion that the creation of a life peerage is illegal , and that the life peer cannot sit or vote in Parliament . Thus the judicial bench of the House cannot be created except under
seats ! The reasonable objection might toe to the interference of the Secretary of State in . borough business , to "modify the regulations , pay , and uniform . Yet there are manifest advantages in obtaining some kind of unity in the action , of police over the entire kingdom . However that may be , the attempt at a police improvement has called forth a strong impulse of " local self-government , " or local self-raon-govemtnent , as the case may be . Yet more trouble has been caused to the Government by an event of the future . Mr . Layard has had standing : for some time a notice of motion
on the state of the Axmy before Sebastopol . Oa the appearance of the report from the Sebastopol Commissioners , he shaped it into what amounted to a virtual vote of censure on Government for giving promotion to those officers whom the Commissioners had had convicted of misconduct , particularly pointing , of course , to Quartermaster-General Airey , General of Division Lord LucAtst , and Brigadier-General Lord Cardigan . Aihey , who failed as Quartermaster-General in the Crimea , is
appointed Quartermaster-General at home . Cardigan , who could not contrive to get lus horses and food together in the Crimea , is made Inspeetor-General of Cavalry in the United Kingdom . Lucan , guilty of complicity in the bungling charge at Balaklava , the danger of which he did not share , gets a grand colonelcy ; and Colonel Gordon , accused of minor offences in the East , obtains a minor appointment at home : so accurately does promotion apportion itself to culpability ! Mr . Layard seemed likely to take a strong ground in the House of Commons , by the simp l *
force of the facts ; but Ministers have come across him with a diversion . They have announced the appointment of a military commission to inquire , with closed doors , into the conduct of the oKjcejatL ^ . ^^ accused by the Crimean Commissionera ^ WjaEi ^^ N . precise meaning of tlnis diversion doca jSP ^^ B ^ mS ^^ OS in tho public announcement , or in G ^^^ f ^ fl ^^ Mif -5 murk ' s " statement" to the House of Lpvlyiliy i ^^ y ' ijJM ijy ) plies a confession of weakness in some pqM ffi ®!^^^^^^™ * TJ but the design can only be silence or » ni ^ t q ^ g ^ BpSijb ^ S ^ w | ftTJ Tins year , whether it be peace or ^ F ?^^| q ^ L-J ^^ j frri will be required to meet the demands ° ^ >^^^^ r < sC ^ r £ 37 —most likely ^ inorc than waa wanted last yWmr ****^
the same conditions that have kept it in its scandalously ineffective state . If we are to have a more complete court of appeal , Lord Lyxdiiubst and his followers say , it shall not be within the House of Lords . Rather than admit such an improvement , they will mutiny against the Government and Crown . They claim to he perfectly independent of the law , for they virtually announce that they have determined to decide tlie law for themselves , and they are resolved to exclude the Peer whom the Cro . vn has added to their number . It is , therefore , a rebellion of the Lords which Lord Lyndhurst has iuvitcd . The mayors and magistrates have got up a rebellion against the police legislation proposed bv
Sir Geoiige Grey . They have held a meeting at Herbert ' s Hotel , in . Palace-yard , illustrious for the Anti-Com-lav gatherings ; as if they expected to carry tlic principle of non-protection for peaceable citizens by starting from the same point as the principle of untaxed corn for the million . The cases , however , arc not parallel . Half of the English counties have adopted tho Comity Constabulary Act s and it would not bo very oppressive if the other half of the country be required to follow the cxnmplo . The boroughs have a rather better case , though it is probable that they do not resist upon that which is renlly tho moat reasonable objection . There is little doubt that one cause of irritation amongst tho borough notables is that provision in tho new Bill which would exclude policemen from voting at municipal and parliamentary elections . Think of striking off some of the votes by which tlie alder men and councillors , with their favourite members , hnvo taken their
tion of judging in the last resort , after it had permi ' ted the judges to depart from . it . It now exercises its supreme judicial authority with Peer judges , when it has them at hand , and when it has them not , with ordinary judges , who sit nnd whisper the proper adjudication to some lay Peer , while he stands up nnd , puppet-like , delivers the oracle . There is a difficulty in multiplying the Law Lords , for those reasons : They waist be clever enouch to
have attained a great eminence in their profession ; they must be rich enough to provide for the sons that coma after them , if the peerage be hereditary ; and when they arc appointed , they must be in such condition of health as to make it probable that that they will last long enough to make it worth while to appoint them . As it is , n Law Lord cannot be created for a few years' service , except under
condition of his possessing sufficient money to provide for a long line o ^ Lay Lords after him ; for t he succeeding Peers do not relapse to the bar , nnd therefore do not ascend again to tho Bench . A temporary addition to the judicial part of the House has hitherto bceo followed by a permanent addition to the non-judicial part . The Wonsloydalc creation corrected that practical anomaly
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" The one Idea wEucn History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is tlie 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 Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one . brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—IlumbuldCs Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— page Obituary 177 The Nawab of Surafc ana the East The Danes and the Swedes ISO T •»„ ¦ ,. ,. , „ Naval and Military News .. 177 India Company 181 Figs and Pipes 187 Imperial Parliament 171 The Romance of The Timea" 177 The War 172 Miscellaneous 177 OPEN COUNCIL— ' THE ARTSWar Miscellanea .. .... 173 Postscript 178 The National Gallery—The New Burford ' s New Panorama ..... 187 I ne New Government Loan 173 Purchase 182 SSiEfiSf !^*^ . ^ .:::::::: !?! public affairs- literature- B 5 rtllS ) Marriage 8 iandDeathS .... w . . | Sr % « ffffl ..:::::::::::::::::: l ? i ^^ ^ 01 ^^ ! SSS ? i ^^\ " :::::::: ; ::::::: 111 ™ « azette • 188 An Episode of the Second Empire .. I 7 < i What i " a Conference' 180 Popular Science .... 184 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSSS ™ :::::::::::::::::: US . 5 ^{^ S ^; E ffi ^ SW ^ m ^ « tS » ^ :. ~ »
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 23, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2129/page/1/
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