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iJ ^ j ^^ jUf ^^ kdrtfhm ^ , e ^^ -@ / 8 fai r / - ^ C 2 fP \ -C A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW . 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 . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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LORD DERBY has completed his arrangements , and , in general terms , laid down the line of policy that he intends to pursue . The distribution of offices in the Cabinet is , in the main , like that which was reported last week ; the minor appointments are decidedly good , and , upon the whole , the Derby-Diskaem Ministry is stronger , both in its composition and its position , than it was in 1852 . Lord Malmesbury is not the best medium of communication -with France ; but the French affair is , in every respect , a bad job , and Lord Dekby will obtain some credit if he can back out of it decently , or even go through it without much disgracing the country . Lord Ellenborough is peculiarly associated with an idea of power , and he understands Indian affairs better than most men in Parliament . General Peel , the new Secretary for War , is ' an officer and a gentleman , ' considerably past the middle age , but reputed to bo a man of business—and of pipe-clay . The new Secretary for the Colonies , Lord Stanley , we all know . Mr . Walpolk , the Home Secretary , is respectod , and even liked . Sir John Pakingxon is an odd Lord of the Admiralty , but a valuable member of the Cabinet . The less conspicuous posts in Lord Djskby ' s dozen arc respectably filled ; and tho minor appointments are decidedly good , introducing ' new blood' in Mr . Sotiieron , M . r . Gathorne Haud y , and Mr . A . i >» eeley . It would look difficult , especially in the management of home affairs , to keep down a certain sectarianism which appears to show itself in this Cabinet ; but Lord Derby has * so completely kept down his own . Toryism , and laid it at the feet of Reform , that ho has mado himself a good example to oncouragc tho others . His course of policy is also clear . He began his speech with apologies , like an old gentleman who is asked to sing after he has lost his voice , and fears hia songs are old-fashionod . He made a great point of that samo power , Fashion ; admitting that he would have boon inclined to stop whero ho was , but that , to oblige tho tyuEEy , ho felt hound to tuko office as it was vacant , and to ohligo tho country ho folfc bound to bo a Reform Minister , us tho country wished it . Ho omplmticjilly dopreoutod the idea that ho should start on any original course , Or any course of his own ; his aim , in fact , ifl to follow in tho linq of his predcoes * sors , with some slight modifloations , sacrifices to tho form , at
least , of ' consistency . ' Lord Malmesbury will take up the correspondence with France , and will introduce a bill , only he will consult the dignity of this country better than Lord Clarendon did . Lord Ellenborotjgh will undertake to abolish the East India Company , only he will modify the details of the arrangement . Even a Reform Bill is to be produced , though Lord Derby reserves to himself time for full consideration , and postpones it-at least till next session . The country has become so accustomed to a Reform Bill introduced ' next session , ' that it can hardly blame Lord Derby for keeping up the practice . On other matters we have no distinct information / . but there is a hint that law amendments are to be , carried on , and that public business is to be interrupted as little as possible . That is the Derby policy—Palmebsxon ' s history of England continued by Derby . The explanation given by Lord Clarendon , oxi Monday night , as to his reception of the offensive despatch from Count Walewski , answered in the main the purpose for which it was made , which was to set the late Government right with the country as far as the facts of the case were concerned . He went , however , beyond this legitimate object , and spoiled his success . To answer the French despatch in the manner demanded , he said , we ought to have been iu a position to deny the allegations contained in it , and we were not in a condition to do so , for the simple reason that we knew them to be true . "It was in England that Pianori formed the plan of striking the Emperor ; it was from London that—in an affair the recollection of which is still recent' —Makkini , Ledru Hollin , and Campanula directed the assassins whom they lmd furnished with arms , " said Count Walewsiu ' s despatch . " Now , my lords , those words nro strictly true , " says Lord Clarkndon . Arc they ? Tho evidence given in the caso referred to was given by an Italian , nnd wns sucli as would have carried no sort of weight with it iu an English court of law ; but , such as it was , it entirely exonerated Lismiu Rollin , and did not in the least assist to mako out tho caso against Maknot be forgotten , denied any participation in tho affair . Lord Clarendon , therefore , only boggod tho question , when ho assorted that Count Wajlkavski ' s swooping clmrgo was ' striotly true . ' Again , Lord Omwmwqn affirms tlint wllpro gQun ( , ¦ yfy , lkwski says , referring to tho attitude taken by skilful domagoguos' in England , "it ia
assassination elevated to a doctrine and preached openly , " the Count ' s statement is also " strictly and literally true ; " and he mentions in confirmation of his opinion the fact that the late Government have had brought under their notice " reports of inflammatory speeches made at funerals and at debating societies , where one might least expect that such harangues would be delivered . " Lord Clarendon ' s simplicity on this point is surely as doubtful as the conclusions he draws from these facts . Where could he have thought such harangues more likely to be made than at the places named by him ? But it is nonsense to pretend that such harangues have given Count Walewski the right to use the language he has used in his despatch . What Lord Clarendon has succeeded in doing is , to show that Lord Palmerston was tolerably right in the explanations addressed to Count Walewski and tQ the Count de Persigny , but that he was wholly wrong in not making those explanations as public as the offensive document which had called for them . To return to the new Ministry , it seems likely that the whole of those who have placed their resignations in the hands of their constituents will be re-elected . Sir John Pakingxon , the new First Lord of tho Admiralty , has hoen returned by acclamation for Droitwich , and he spoke for an hour and a half without committing the Ministry to which he has attached himself . Upon the whole , he weighed lightly upon the fallen Government , Perhaps the most important point of his address referred to the expected legislation on the question of Parliamentary reform during the present session : it is clear that there is no intention on the part of his leader to attempt the production of a Reform . Bill . This conclusion is strengthened by tho remarks of Lord Stanle y at King ' s Lynn , on Thursday . The speech of the new Secretary for tho Colonies is calculated to puzzle a groat many people . How ia it possible , they will say , for a man of Lord Stanley ' s advnncod state of opinion to work with colleagues such as those with whom ho is in concert at prcaontP—and tho only answer ready is , let us wait and see whether ho will work with them . Moanwhilo , there is a gallantry in the conclusion of hia speech that wjM > vm , hini , rewpcel a , ud sympathy . from tho galhint of all partios . OiisiNJ , Puuiiu , and De Runio condemned to death , and Gomez to hard labour l ' or JH ' o , tho plot of the Hue LepoUolior ^ yo ^ l
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VOL . IX . No . 415 . ] SATURDAY , MARCH 6 , 1858 . PBiCE { S ^ g ° ;;; ISL g -
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Leader (1850-1860), March 6, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2233/page/1/
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