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Suspicion 03? A Secret Trea.Ty. ^ We Are...
SUSPICION 03 ? A SECRET TREA . TY . ^ We are totally in the dark as to the resolutions to which the Tory party may have come on the leading problems of administrative policy . It was until recently supposed , it is true , that the Tories had an organ ; but such is not the case . Lord Deeby , in Tiis place in the House of Peers , has rebuked the print which had affected to represent him , and has disavowed , in terms of indignant contempt , the pretensions it has
put forward . The account of the meeting at his house turns out to have been a gross misrepresentation , framed upon a bad report " surreptitiously obtained" from some understrapper of the party , if not from one of Lord Dehby ' s ' gentlemen . ' We are sorry tliat not one of our contemporaries is entitled to speak with authority in the name of the Tory leaders ; but it is better to be uninformed
than misinformed ; we shall at least be spared the pain of seeing our contemporaries copying at solemn length fictitious reports of private political meetings , and , in some instances , actually attributing them to Mr . DiSBAEii . \ For ourselves , we are not on speaking terms with any member of the Deiiijt or Diseaeh establishments ; we are not known down Mr . GtLadstone's area
steps ' , no crumb of official inspiration reaches us among "the perquisites of the porter ' s chair at Cambridge House . It is impossible , therefore , for us to justify by evidence the assertion made by Xord Palmekston that Lord Joiiar Uussem ,, Mr . Gladstone , and Mr . Disbaeit have secretly conspired to expel him from office ; this was , perhaps , among the indiscretions of his great speech on Tuesday evening-- —the worst indiscretion of all beinghis contemptuous treatment of Mr . Cobden . The case against Lord John IRussELLdoes not seem very clear ; that against Mr . Gladstone and
Mr . Disraeli , however , appears past doubt . Something has wrought a deplorable change in . Mr . G-xadstone ' s mind and manners . He continues to split hairs , but he no longer minces his language ; he is violent , abusive , personal ; he betrays a passionate-eagerness to thrust the ministers from their seats of power ; and lie works along a line of action exactly parallel with that of Mr . Disraeli . Mr . I ) isbaeli objects to the finance of Sir , Counewa-LIj Lewis , bo does Mr . Gladstone ; Mr . Gladstone would revert to the settlement of 1853 , so would Mr . Disbaeli . Mr . Disbaeli and Mr . Gladstone have
something to say against the estimates ; Mr . Gladstone and Mr . Disraeli are pledged to modify the tea and sugar duties ; and when Mr . Cobden moves his Canton resolution , -with the approval of Lord John Uusseix , Mr . Diseatxi supports him ; and on that point there happens to be a remarkable coincidence of opinion between the personal friond and the personal libeller of Sir Hobeet Peel . Mr . Gladstone , afc last , has his mocking-bird on the Tory benclies . "What , however , is the object of this eccentric
alliance—ambition or revenge—the ambition of place , or the revenge of jealousy ? Jealousy , so far as we can understand , and the chance of something turning up in a scramble . For what can Mr . Gladstone expect personally from his union with the Tories ? To be Chancellor of the Exchequer to a Derby Administration ? Supposing , however , a proposal of reform on the part of the AVhigs aimilar to tho proposal of 1853 , is Mr . Gladstone prepared so far to sacrifice his opinions as to resist it ?
Ab we have said , we can only guess at tho views of the Opposition otherwise than as they are expressed in Parliament , sineo tho assumption of representative authority by a contemporary print has been exposed us a falao pretence . Tho " slight and graceful
allusion" of Lord Deeby to the Established Church turns out to be the slight and graceful fabrication of a liner—not more authentic than Mr . Spooneb ' s " generous warmth , " or the ineffable servility attributed to Lord March , who was prepared to support Lord Deebt , " whatever course he might deem it expedient to pursue . " For " important" read " impertinent , " in the ease of this " exclusive communication . " _»»¦__'*» * w » ' ^ - »^ fc . ¦ ¦ . a " ^ ¦¦¦¦ ' ¦ - 4 « ^*«
Consequently , no one out of a certain , circle knows whether Lord Debby has really had any serious political conversations with Mr . GtLADstone , or whether or not he has denied the existence of the alleged coalition ; but it is certain that Mr . Gtladstone and Mr . Disraeli have acted and spoken in suspicious concert , and we are not prepared to deny the possibility of a Secret Treaty between , one politician so unscrupulous and another politician so uncertain .
The High Church party , it is said , have determined to punish Lord . Palmebston for bis Low Church appointments . The High Church is capable of such a course , no doubt ; and such an insinuation adds to the probabilities of the suspected compact . The melancholy sincerity of Mr . Gladstone , on such a point , would find a ready ally in the indifference of Mr . Disraeli .
The debateon the Chinese question , however , afforded in itself the strongest evidence that some sinister understanding had been established between the Tory Opposition and the Peelites ; they fired successively in platoons ; a Peelite followed a Tory , and justified him , and a Tory succeeded to defend the Peelite and vilify the Ministers , Sir FREDEiticK Thesigeb attaining the climax
of allcant when he burst into an Old Bailey peroration , and declared that lie should never again enjoy a moment's inward peace unless he recorded his sympathy with the poisoners , kidnappers , and assassins of Canton . The attempt to drag in Sir John" Davis as a witness against the Government was , however , a failure . Sir John Davis , than whom no more competent authority could be found , affirms that the retaliation at Canton was a
just and necessary proceeding , and shows upon what an infamous Asiatic burlesque of Jeffbeys—Commissioner Teh—LordDEBBY had lavished his encomiums . We do not here reopen the discussion so far as it affects China ; because it was not upon the merits of the question that the majority of the Opposition voted . It was faction that ruled the House of Commons on Tuesday night . But it may be observed that an address to Lord Palmebston was
immediately circulated for signature in the City of London ; and that , so far as we can ascertain , the undivided opinion of the metropolitancommercial body is in favour of Sir John Bowbing's measures . Sir John Bowbing may be an " iron-headed old rat , " to borrow a euphuism quoted by Mr . Gladstone ; but he understands the Chinese character , and knows of what value tlie diplomacy of Europe would be if applied with all its forms , revisions , and delays , to the most obstinate authorities in Asia . A detailed
history of British intercourse with China , if only commenced from 1843 , would expose the fallacies up ' on which tho vote of Tuesday evening was partially grounded . It was grounded chiefly , however , upon tho reckless immorality of tho Opposition , and against that recklessness aud that immorality the Government will appeal to the nation .
The Dark Commerce. You Never Detect Larg...
THE DARK COMMERCE . You never detect large dealings in that style of commerce which has been brought to perfection in our own day , the commerce that ia not admitted on tho Stock Exchange , without
finding that its connexions are as extensively ramified as those of tlje recognised commerce ISTot long since we noticed the case of two tailors who combined another branch of business with the making of clothes , — -who brought custom to their shop by lending money , —and who increased their tailors' bills by the charges for loans . This week we have a third tailor before us—Mr . John Baxtee IFolkard of 69 , Jermyn-street—a bankrupt . His ' account commenced on the 1 st of January 1855 . .
with a surplus of 3387 ? ., and at the end of sixteen months they closed , with liabilities to a friend who had assisted him to the amount of 68302 ., besides unsecured creditors to the amount of 8377 ? . Of those sums , the bankrupt , since his 'bankruptcy , has collected 2800 ? ., and he will probabl y realize 200 ? . more . Thus , in the back-shop part of his business , he has incurred liabilities to the
extent of something over 15 , 000 ? ., and he has recovered 3000 ? .- —one-fifth . His counsel contended that the bankrupt ' s style of doing business was not " reckless , " and we are inclined to doubt -whether , in comparison with others of the same trade , he really deserves that damnatory epithet . There is so much , competition , that it is necessary to employ attractions to the shop ; and what attraction , so great as an easy loan ?
In this case tli e tailor appears not as the harpy , but as the victim . It is the young gentlemen who are the har pies , — -the ' green ' young men who are under age . Some of these gentlemen , it appears , have been serving their country in the Crimea ; but the reason why they went is curiously indicated by Mr . Commissioner GrouiiBUBN . He was censuring the class of tailors who combine money lending with clothes' making . " Young men , '' he said , '' were tempted to their ruin , and driven abroad young men came from
the Crimea expecting to be welcomed by their friends , only to find themselves pursued by a sheriff ' s officer . " Luckless young men Mr . Goultjtjbn seemed to imply that the sheriff ' s officer should be spared ; that the tailor should put up with his loss . He gravely adopts , as a correct expression , the sarcasm of the gentleman who , pointing to his friend ' s new clothes , said , " " Who suffers ?" To enjoy is the lot of young gentlemen of high connexions ; to suffer is the tailor ' s . The wrong part of Mr . Folkabd ' s busiueaa was the employing the sheriff's officer .
A tailor must not seduce young men , —it undermines the manhood of the country . This is no figure of speech . " Was it not reckless for the bankrupt to go , as he had gone , to almost every regiment in the service and accommodate the young officers "with clothes ? The trade that he had pursued was one that carried much misery into families . " We well remember that when one regiment
was ordered to the Crimea , —and it was a regiment very high in the service , —doubt 3 were openly expressed how the officers would , be able to go ; since , iri that regiment , it \ yas supposed , every officer was so deeply involved to his tailor and other creditors that his means would be quite unable to cover the insurance of his debts . M . v . Q-ouLuintN seems to think that the fault lies entirely
with tho tailors who tempt ; that the young men—and some of them are " young" only by courtesy—have no duties of thoir own , no duties towards their parents , for whom Mr . Gouxbubn feels so much ; that if tempted , they must have clothes , borrow money , find then be spared tho sheriff ' s officer . This style of tailoring , Mr . GoTJLmniiJ says , "ia quite common in tho West-end ; it partly helps to explain how custom haa been taken from homelier tailors , who make clothes quite as good , at more reasonable prices .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 7, 1857, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07031857/page/12/
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