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to show his face to the county electors , and sheltered himself under Government patronage at Dover . The itching palm was emolliently salaried , and Mr . Bernal Osbobne was too zealous in the performance of his departmental duties to waste precious hours in cooking epigrams . At last the trance is over . Witli ' a wild shriek of liberty , said Mr Disraeli , Mr . Birnal Osborne broke the bonds of five years , and on Monday evening came down like a Tartar upon the Treasury benches . He talked of ambiguity , contradiction , reserve , and plain principles , as if he had never inflicted lockjaw upon himself by the painless process of a well-paid decorum . He would have no
hand-to-mouth system , no speechless Ministers , no hidden budgets , no looming Reform Bills . He ridiculed Mr . Napier ' s solemnity , compared Mr . Milneb Gibson to a lamb astride of a lion , told Mr . Disraeli that he had got up behind and jockeyed the late Premier , and informed Lord Palmerston himself that he had been somewhat careless in his riding of late . Then followed a declaration that the late Government was wrong in not answering the Walewskli letter , but that it was an intrigue and a discreditable manoeuvre on the part of tlie Opposition to affirm by a vote the opinion which Mr . Osborne himself was then avowing .
Mr . Osboune ' s personalities fell like summer ram among the members of the House . The Attorney-General for England , he said , was the political representative of the late Mr . Feargus O'Connor ; Lord Stanley was a Reforming JEneas , Lord Derby a Conservative Anchises , and some one else a political Dido . All this is very fresh and pleasant , but where Las Mr . Osuorne been for the last five years ? Where would he be for the next five years , supposing him to have returned to office ? . He would be a dumb and docile subaltern in a well-paid department , and he is not the only Liberal of that stamp in the present House of Commons .
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THE MARKET OF POPULARITY . There is a good deal of popularity in the market , and it is Lord Derby ' s privilege to make the first bids . Things are to be done which any Minister , of any party , may do ; but which , being done , would largely increase his capital . The new Premier and his colleagues seem inclined to accept some of these graceful responsibilities . They have made the son of Sir Henrx- Lawrence a Baronet , and arranged with the East India Company to grant him a pension of a tkousand a year , The late Ministers were reproached for doing nothing in the matter , so that the Tory sails have caught this little breeze . But whv notsnread the canvas more boldly , and appoint
Sir John Laurence to be Governor-General of India ? The suggestion to this effect has become exceedingly Bj pular , and there is a great chance for the Earl of isrby . Next , he might interfere in the question of the prize-money for the captors of Delhi . In Europe lie has a broad path open to him . The House of Commons cheered Mr . Disraeli when he announced that the surrender of Mr . Hodge had been refused ; but lot him carry through wisely and honourably the Cagliavi affair , and not a little of the commodity he wauts will bo forthcoming at a very low price . If the Government could manage to protect Englishmen from arbitrary arrest abroad , and miticrate the passport tyranny , any success in
that direction would oil the axles of power . Then , at home , there is no lack of favourable opportunities . Not thut great political discussions can be postponed in fuvour of minute utilities or personal acts of justice out of doors ; but the Tories want character no less than salary . They stand upon no popular antecedents , and are at present regarded us u race of rulers by accident , who have been in opposition many yours , and have really lit I lo public reputation to lose . It would , perhaps , be worth while to buy up the popularity that lias boon going begging for several months , rejected at "Whig doors , uud now offered at a great sacriiico to the JBarl of Djskby .
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MEMORIAL TO SIR HENRY HAVELOCK . The meeting yesterday at Drury Lane was a national memorial in itself , worthy of the metropolis , worthy of Havelock , worthy of the British army . The Commander-in-Chief spoke with manly enthusiasm , and Lord Lanspowne and Lord John Russell rendered the tributes of the Peers and the Commons to the renown of one of the best men and gallant soldiers that ever fought a battle . What now remains is to subscribe funds for the erection of a monument on the site granted by Government in Trafalgar-square . The Havelock effigy will stand by that of Nelson . Every city and town and the country will , if properly canvassed , contribute to the cost of a durable and splendid memorial to perpetuate the patriotic gallantry and chivalrous worth of Sir Henry Havelock , the real saviour of Lucknow .
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'HOW WJB APPLES SWIM !' An Envoy , addressing the Sultan and alluding to his master ' s concert with England , speaks of " the two Governments and the two peoples , whose common action has more tliun onco produced glorious and advantageous results to that empire whose interests God has confided to your Imperial Majesty and to your illustrious ancestors . " Who is this illustrious ally who aided us in saving Turkoy — France , of course p No . Sardinia ? No . Austria , perhaps ( she certainly gave us diplomatic and conditional assistance ) P No . It cannot bo Russia P ' Survey mankind from China to Peru , ' and discover this ally of England and friend to the Porte . In vain . Tljc speaker was the Ambassador of Prussia . Then history must bo false ; and ns to the ' red , whito , and blue' united in tho Crimea , for the lnst word read ' Prussian blue ' Tho occasion of this bit of history-making was tho presentation to the Sultan of the Black Eagle of Prussia , tho Envoy announcing at tho sumo time the recent marriage in his master ' s Royal house The Sovereigns ol Europo scorn quite anxious to hang 1 lie ^ lo" WdeTs ~ of-Clfil s ^^ Prussian Eagle is very old or chivalrous or Christian ) ; and ua a consequence we huvo England giving its highest honour , the Gurtor , to a Turk , who rejects both Testaments , Old and Now , and refusing tho honour of n scat in its Legislature to a Jow , who rejects only tho New . Tho announcement to the Sultan of the Princess Royal's marriage is a now
leaf in diplomacy at Constantinople j it results from the declaration in the Treaty of Paris that Turkey has entered into the ' European concert . ' But what if the Sultan reciprocates ? Imagine ' a malignant and a turbaned Turk' shocking the modesty of the Queen of Spain by announcing that his august master had . taken to himself a fourth , not to say a fortieth , wife !
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The English Prisoners at Naples . — A correspondence between Mr . John McAdam , of Glasgow , who writes in the name of the working men of that city , and Mr . Li . J . Barbar , acting British consul at Naples , on the subject of the imprisoned engineers , Watt and Parks , is published in the Glasgow papers . Mr . Barbar first writes , acknowledging the receipt of 20 ? ., contributed by the Glasgow operatives for the benefit of "Watt and Parks . Mr . McAdam encloses a second bill for 20 ? ., begging Mr . Barbar to assure " our poor countrymen that there is a kind , brave heart in Glasgow to represent each penny in these purposely small contributions . " He also forwards to Mr . Barbar a token of the esteem of the working men of Glasgow , in the shape of an inkstand , which , " like Mr . Barbar himself , is of real , precious metal . " The working men of Glasgow accompany this present with an assurance that , in cool , calculating Scotland , even with those who have carefully refrained from any political expression in this case , there is " a high and a holy appreciation of your fulfilment of duty in the same old , noble English spirit which distinguished the days of Cromwell . "—Morning Star . Mr . Wkstland Marston's Dramatic Beading . —< Except in very special cases a play in a lecture-room is an out-of-place and exceedingly dull affair . Griepenkerl , author of Kunstgcniiis der DeutscJien JAteratur , wrote a tragedy some eight years ago , on the subject of ' Robespierre , ' a subject which debarred Griepenkerl ' s work from a stage existence . He had , therefore , an excuse for reading the five acts of Hobespieive from be - hind a desk and a water-bottle ; and we believe that approving audiences justified his experiment . Ann Blake , on the other hand , is a five-act play which , has no disqualification for the foot-lights , save only the circumstance of its being a play in five acts . It is really a play to captivate a stage manager , and is quite remarkable for what the actors call business . However , Mr . Westland Marston has shown cause why Ann Slake shall be read instead of acted ; and last Saturday evening lie assembled round him an audience of critics , at the Beethoven Rooms , for the purpose of taking their individual and collective opinion in the matter . The elocutionary powers of Mr . Marston are considerable , and he gave a spirited reading of his drama ; but its very dramaticity is fatal to its prospects in this new field . The stage directions , though they might make a manager ' or an actor ' s mouth water , fall ludicrously flat on the general ear . Mr . Marston looks for patronage to that numerous class of persons who object to enter a theatre , but will accept theatrical amusement whenever it is offered them in ' another place . ' Our sympathy with the class in question is so imperfect that we daro not pretend to weigh Mr . Mara ton ' s qualifications for suiting its taste or touching its heartstrings . Sir Hamilton Skymouk . —It is announced that Sir Hamilton Seymour , our present ambassador to tho Court of " Vienna , is on tho point- of retiring from public life , after a service of forty years . London University . —Coimt Arrivabono has been appointed Professor of tho Italian Language and Literature at tho London University . Lord Bkayiiuookh , D . O . L ., F . S . A ., died at Audley End , tho family sent in Essex , at an early hour laut Saturday evening , after a protracted lllneatf of several months . - ^•— GoN'ruovistti'KD—Jix-KCTJONS . rroMr . — , liobort _ I ! : ttlmort _ M . P . for UerkH , has just boon appointed by tho Speaker of tho House of Commons to fill up tlio vacancy in tho General Committee of Elections . Tiih . Miudlbsbx HottPiTAi ... —His Royal Highness tho Priuco Conwort has signified his . intention of honouring with his presence tlie concert for tho bonolit of tho Middlesex Hospital , which will take place at tho now St . Jamos ' o Hall , on Thursday next .
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No . 417 , Mabch 20 , 1858 . ]_ THE LEADER , __ 281
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SIR COLIN CAMPBELL'S CAMPAIGN . flliiijDojtfWJQAMJWW ^ and has moved a division of Ins army upon tlio road to Luoluiow . For several weeks no had been noting with , a deliberation similar to that of the Duke of Wellington bo fore his second Peninsular campaign , und wo have no doubt but that the final ovent will justify his caution . It yus his object to concentrate against tho rebels in Oudo an irresistible force , armed with powerful artillery and
cavalry , and immense trains were sent to him , simultaneously , from Calcutta and from the Punjab . Stationed at Futtehghur , with his brigades threatening every point of the disturbed country , the Commander 4 n Chief remained ready , at any moment , to advance upon Lucknow , had General Outram been pressed at the Alumbagh ; but the rebels appear , in reality , to have declined the offensive for some time before Sir Colin Campbell marched to Cavrapore . In the meanwhile , operations had been successfully carried on by Sir Hugh Rose , Colonel Malcolm , and Captain Potxinger , by the Madras Column and Hyderabad Contingent , and by several other detachments acting upon the general plan organized at Calcutta . Jung Bahadoor , with his army of Ghoorkas , who have been unjustly and ignorantly ridiculed as pigmies , had marched from the hillborders to Gondah , defeated the rebels at that place , and descended as far as the river Gogra on the Oude frontier , so that the hostile territory would be invaded from two points by converging forces . The rebellion had almost ceased as a hostile movement . In several localities the enemy still clung to fortresses , or wandered iii large detachments over the country ; but in all recent instances they had evacuated their strongholds without awaiting an attack . Their only offensive enterprise had been against the British post at Bhaugalpore , where the Gwalior remnant was repulsed by tlie skill and bravery of Lieutenant Thompson and his isolated detachment . Sir Colin Campbell , having effected a junction with the Ghoorka prince and General Outram , would probably carry against tlie rebels at Lucknow not less than thirty thousand men , with upwards of a hundred guns . There is little reason to doubt that , with these , and the additional resources expected , he Will be enabled to accomplish a final victorv , and during the next cool season restore the entire " country of Oiide to permanent tranquillity .
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SHORT PARLIAMENTS . The shortening of Parliaments is a point of reform that has been comparatively neglected in recent discussions . It involves , however , a question , of the deepest importance , affecting the direct responsibility of members to their constituents . The enactment of a bill establishing triennial Parliaments would go far to regulate the electoral system , deter Ministers from capricious appeals to the country , and prevent false and exaggerated excitement . Mr . Cox , the member for Finsbury , has placed on the paper a notice of motion for leave to bring in such a bill , and we trust that the subject will be debated , if not by the Conservatives or Whigs , at least by the Liberals themselves , who may do good service by bringing on explanations and manifestoes connected with Parliamentary Reform generally .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 20, 1858, page 281, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2235/page/17/
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