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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i 3 the Idea of Humanity—the noble e ^ aeavour 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 , havine one great object—the free development of cmr spiritual nature . "—Hnmboldt's Cosmos .
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VOL . YIH . No . 361 . ] SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 21 , 1857 . PiaoE { gggi 3 g ;™;;; Sigga ^
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"VTOTHING like a general election—unless it were XS a bill for recruiting the suffrage "with an honester life . " We shall get nothing out of the present House of Commons "worthy of the country ; it is falling hack into the regular routine of party
compromises in the treatment of its finance , its rascals , or its duties . Ministers have compromised with the Opposition by their budget , which is understood to be more liberal than they had designed it , though it is less liberal than that which Mr Disbaeli would have given ; that is , Ministers take off 9 d ., but not the lid . which would have been the rate under the Gladstone settlement
of 1853 . In making that reduction , Ministers partially defer the decline of the duties on tea and sugar ; articles which , in the present state of the market for both of them , certainly required relief far more than they did last year . We have , however , discussed the provisions of the Budget in a separate paper . The compromise which Ministers have entered into has spoiled Mr . Disraeli ' s position as a champion of popular rights , and he lias retreated on an abstract proposition about the necessity of readjusting and balancing budgets , so as to remit the Income-tax in 18 GO . Mr . Gladstone grapples with
the more practical part of the matter , and makes imself the champion of the clamorous tea-trade and the passive sugar-trade , in resisting the alteration of the duties . The first night on the Budget gave us little more than that dry , though clear statement which Sir George Lewis had hardly voice enough to deliver , and the Members hardly patience to hear . It is , however , not a debating Budget , so simple are its outlines , so negative its character . Evidently Ministers hope that they have disarmed anything like general popular objection by the large amount of the Income-tax which they have conceded . We shall see .
it as an amusement , and that here at least the appointments sliould be honest . Captain Scobell stated several cases which show that the system is not honest ; but he could not find a majority of the House of Commons to stand \ vn for the national
. It is the same with public education . " We were in hopes that the honest zeal of Sir John Pakington would draw to him ., not only the Manchester party , but Lord John Russell , and that the complete union of the best men from the Tory , Whig , and Middle-class parties would at last place this country on a par with tke United States , and open a respectable school for every boy and girl in it . No suck thing . We have been no flatterers of Mr . Cobden , but we cannot-withhold from him a hearty
acknowledgment of the services which he has sought to perform for his country in so handsomely joining Sir Join * Pakington , whose frankness and mauly concession to the views of others have won him the respect of the whole country . The leader of the Liberal party has not proved so strong . Lord John Rtjssell did not directly oppose Sir John Pakingxon , but hinted doubt and hesitated dislike . He seemed as if he could not depart from the standards of the British and Foreign School Society . There is no knowing what might have been the effect upon the Ministers , if Lord John
the lead in doiaig so . MeanwhiLe , James has got over to Paris—lie has been seen there by one o £ his victims , Mr . Jatces Scully ; so that the delay has been beneficial to him . Mr . Roebuck now suggested that the House of Commons should look a little further , and see if it had not more to do in the same line . There are two or three absentees the causes of whose absence might very well be investigated . They are in different grades of society ; the one thing common to them is that they are members of the Honourable House . But , perhaps , the best mode for really weeding the House of Commons , if it can bo weeded by any mode , would je a dissolution of Parliament .
The spirit of compromise which we have seen in the Commons prevails in the House of Lords , where we sec Lord Brougham : and the Loud Chancellor perform eclogues on Law Reform ; the Loud Chancelloii introducing bills , Lord Brougham ideas . The subject this time was the Consolidation of the Criminal Statutes . Everybody knows that the laws , from the extreme number of statutes , and the unconnected manner in which they have been coniposccL arc so voluminous that nobody can
understand them , so conflicting that they cannot fee reconciled , and so arranged altogether that they afford traps for the use of the knavish and the injury of the honest . There have been various proposals for the purpose of reducing them to a codo , which is , however , scarcely consistent with the spirit of past legislation in this country . Our laws have been made bit by bit , we continue to alter them , and the code would be constantly subjected to amendments . It would be like that nuisance of which
had joined the union ; it would then have been too formidable , too popular for Ministerial resistance . As it was , Mr . Cowper , the Minister of Education , was comparatively free to suggest a moderate resistance on the score of sectarian sympathies ; so that by the passivencss of Lord John , Ministers and the Tories seem able to beat Sir John Pakington and the Manchester party . Of course leave was given to Sir John to' bring in his bill , if only out of personal respect for the man and of formal homage to the subject ; but , the combination of parties promises little success tins session .
the Italians are so fond—a book smothered in its own annotations . A better plan is that of which Sir Trmiovr Kelly is the clearest and most constant champion , — the consolidation of the statutes . The Lord Chancellor , professes to be active in this labour with the assistance of Ida friend Mr . Bellkndkn Ker . Mr . Keb is a gentleman whose work is always to be so perfect that ho never sccim to have finished it ; hence ho liaa been exposed to the reproach that he delays the work to prolong the pay , —a most unjust ; reprw ^ ch , as Lord Brouuii am showed ; for Mr . Ki ; : K'ha ^ . fJqiie /\ »• - ; much of the work without any pfejr . ; JBtf $ ;^* ipra > : H zeal has not yet got us cither i ^ odf | a 6 [ onIS ® . r ? - consolidation of any considcralflS i 68 t £ ' 5 f " ' $$ & W statutes . The Loru Chancellor *^ i « Bft <» ljC ^ isjt « p : ] !;•; who can curry his own bills . ^ i ^ fflSJipj ^ Ba ^ . 'l ~ j who calls himself the charge d \ tjffies ' ' $ < # j $ ^ i& \ ' r > 1 forma , delivers annual speeches on thb 4 $ v $ ij $ y * #
One act of common sense the House of Commons has committed . Mr . Spooneh ' s annual Maynooth motion lias boon brushed aside by 107 to 159 . Even in the expulsion of its scoundrels , however , the present House compromises . Last session Mr . Roebuck , proposed to expel James SAnr / uni , whose character was by that time pretty well known ; but the Attorney -General ron Irkland hesitated to convict \\\\ absentee , —and also to vacate a Ministerial scat in Ireland , without more preparation . At last the candidates of tin ; Tippemry were ready , and Mr . Fitzgerald not only consents to expel James Sadleir , but takes
Captain Scodell , one of the most promising members returned by the city of Bath , which commonly appoints some Tribune of the People , stands up for his own profession , and demands a select committee of inquiry into the naval appointments . The Army is said to be the playground of the aristocracy , wo have given up hoping that the present Government will effect any reform in the system of commissions , but we used to consider the Navy a more national force , —that the rough life at sea prevents mere popinjay gentlemen from taking to
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2181/page/1/
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