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REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
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THE LEADER .
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: V The Ministerial statements of Monday evening were pretty much , like what had . been expected . The movements of Lord Derby and Mr . Disraeli , with the subsequent unexplanatory explanation of Lord Derby , on the pi-evious Friday , may have led a few persons to suppose tliat resignation was contemplated ; but even in the absence of positive intelligence , the general impression , at the end of last week , w-as that Ministers would fulfil their threat of dissolving the present unmanageable House of Commons . To what end they have determined upon taking this extreme course , is a puzzle , if the act is any cither than one of vengeance towards the Liberal majority . Neither Lord Derby nor Mr . Disraeli can be so blind to the political asj > ect of the country at the present moment as to suppose that any accession whatever to the Tory ranks will result from an appeal to the hustings . What that appeal will do is , clearly , to throw the responsibility of a new Reform Bill uj" > on the Liberal party ; and we have very strong evidence of the intention of Lord Derby and his colleagues to drop the question , in the address issued to his constituents by Mr . Disraeli , in which the subject of Reform is not even alluded to . The speeches of the Premier and of the leader of the House of Commons , thoaigh substantially the same as to the fiict of the Ministerial determination , were very different in tone . Lord Derby "went in for an animated attack on both Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston . Lord John Russell he pictured as a man of plots and stratagems- ^ -an arck-oonspirator , in fact , against the 2 " > eace and < quiet of all Cabinets in which he finds himself not '< included . Mr . Disraeli took a more temperate ' view of the course of events , and even admitted that his Government had met with much frank and disinterested assistance from the other side of ' the House ; still , ho branded the Liberal idea of Reform ns revolutionary , and threatening to the Constitution—a conclusion "which Mr . Bright need ' hardly have taken the trouble to protest against . ' One point in Lord Derby ' s speech of Monday , evening has lot ! to a stirring nnd important passage ( at firms between Lord 1 ' almorston and , the ropro- ] sontatives of tho Ministry In tho Lower House . ] Lord Derby flatly accused Lord Paliuorston of disputing the right of the Crown to dissolve Par- liament at any tiino ; and tho answer returned by Lord Palmers ton soCs tho fact of thoro being no absolute necessity for a dissolution at tlxo px'esont I time in a very clear light . No innn in his senses , Lord Palmerston said , would think of disputing j the royal prerogative of dissolving Parliament at ] any time of tho year $ but aejjsuch a course is only (
! \ i taken by advice of the Ministers charged with the conduct of public affairs , those Ministers are called upon to consult the needs of the public service before advising the Crown to exercise its prerogative in the dissolution of Parliament . That is what Lord Palmerston meant when he said , " The advisers of the Crown cannot take that coiirse without the consent of the House of Commons "of the Hotise of Commons which would hare to accelerate all its movements , and make itself a party to the arrangement , in fact , before the public business could be placed in such a position as to suffer no injury from the stoppage and delay arising ' from its dissolution . For his own 2 ) art ' Lord Pahnerston is glad that Ministers have thrown down the gauntlet ; and he has addressed his friends at Tiverton in this spirit . As for Reform , he is anxious that nobody should run away with the idea th ' at he and Lord John Russell ai * e as one oil that subject ; he entirely concurs with his " noble friend " as to a reduction of the county and borough franchise , and a transfer of seats ; but , " with regard to the particular elements of his bill , " Lord Palmerston says , " I can only say that upon those points I retain the opinions which I have upon former occasions expressed . " In his addi-ess to the electors of the City of London , Lord John Russell has laid-down the basis of the Reform Bill which he is prepared to stand by . It is a moderate measure of parliamentary reform . He is ready to reduce the borough franchise to 61 . of annual value , and the county franchise to IQL The ballot he is still against , but he says " that is a question which must be decided by the growth and maturity of public opinion . " But why does Lord John Russell for cVor linger in the rear of public opinion ? Why consent to be the drag upon the wheel of progress ? The ultimate adoption of tho ballot is inevitable ; no man foresees better than Lord John Russell the course of public opinion ; but no man seems to be so little prepared to act in harmony with it . Sir James Graham looks into the future with a ' 3 toadier eye , and determines upon a bolder course Df action . Ilia address to tho doctors of Carlisle sets the real issue of the present election clearly before liis own constituency and boforo tho j ountry ; it is , in his own brief and emphatic language , " Reform or no reform ; a Liberal policy , or tame submission to Lord Derby . " Spurrod on by tho dosiro to get away to their 3 onstituoncius , the members 01 tho House have ; boon actively clearing up whatever businuiss can- i not be conveniently thrown overboard , or put oil' j till next Hossion . The Indian Loan JJill , rend a 1 lirst time in the Lords on Tuesday afternoon , is 1 jo advanced , that the roynl assent will bo given to i t on Monday next . Wednesday evening saw i argQ sums of" necessary inonoy voted with very ] ittlo superfluous talk . Even Mr . Spooner with- 11 lrew the notice of hie annual motion on tho May- I
nooth grant ; nobody of importance , , neiu his ground in the face of the general desire to " get away , " except Mr . Berkeley , who has a notice on the subject of the ballot for Tuesday next . As the ballot will' form one of the principal items of the reform programme of many a Liberal borough constituency , of course Mr . Berkeley is quite right not to ; give way .. " The statement made by Lord Campbell in the House of Lords on Tuesday , with reference to the new Divorce Court , demands to _ be noticed . So great is the increase of business in this Court , he says , that the present judges are quite unable to discharge it . Several changes in its mode ofprocedure , ° he adds , are urgently called . for , and the Lord Chancellor agreed with him . On Thursday evening Lord Palmerston gave notice that on the next nig ht he would interrogate the Government as to the position which England is to hold at the . approaching Congress . This is a very wholesome proceeding . The country knows little or nothing of the recent acts of its diplomatists , and if it were blindly to leave them unquestioned , it might , before long , find itself committed to a course which it might condemn and even execrate . The fact that there has been a rumour afloat , to the effect that England has pledged herself to Austria to guarantee her in the possession of Lombardy and Venice , is in itself a . sufficient ' warrant for calling tipon Ministers to giro an account of the policy they are pursuing . Such doubts and suspicions hang about the whole subject that , at the early part of the present week , it scorned anything but certain that the Congress would ever assemble . One of the latest , andljy far the gravest of the difficulties that beset the course of the Congress , was said to be the refusal of the French Emperor to sign any protocol in which the treaties of 1815 shall be alluded to . This is , in all probability , an enormous exaggeration , if it is . not altogether a fabrication of the pro-war party in Paris . But there is one simple and undeniable fact , which looks like a proof that the Emperor of France is determined to ruin Austria , if not in the open battle-field , by the no loss exhaustive process of a forced expenditure far and away bevond her means . Already the excessive cost of tho Austrian war preparation * are telling fatally upon her exchequer . A bogging petition has been sent round to all the Italian Princes for pecuniary assistance , all the Exchanges of Europe being closed against the thriftless insolvent . . The cruel game of tho Emperor of Fnmoe takes new spirit from tho sight of the poor Aiifc-tn ' ni ) Emperor ' s distress . Day by day , with everincreasing energy , the preparation * , bofli n rival nnd military ^ are pushed forward . A lottur Ihnn Pni'is , dated Thursday evening , gives a truly h > vmidable account of tho / breus iiMrtcniblod ui ukcountry about , Lyoufl . " Franco , " snyn the wn 1 or , " even on the ovo of tho pvutil ninrcJi on Mor'ow , never sot in motion such 1111 ovorwlidmin" mwa oi improved nrtiJIury , ninth on <) i ' uniuHf . ia JcgioiiH , frosli from Crimean and Algorino triumph * , fuioh horse , foot , and tlnitfooiw , oh ' uvo now iimrnliHllcclhetweon tho Rhone and ( ho M |> h . " IV nil Hiw is so , it ih ivoll that EnylniMl fhouhl bo dearly informed a . " to ho ' oouwo to ' whicli hIio in to be pledged by her Miniwtorw , < uul on Monday or Tuesday owning icxt they hnvo promised to explain themselves , ully and completely . . .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 9, 1859, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2289/page/3/
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