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T Ord Raglan Is Dead, And Buried, And Hi...
public until blood has been shed by the pohce , and a hundred prisoners have been carried up to be fined—after braving the people to escort him to church—Lord Robert Gkosvenob has , by yielding , shown that he will concede to-fear what he denies to reason . And ifce Government , whose Home Secretary set on the police , confesses that it can outrage the . people & ut not govern . It is not only the Sunday Trading Bill that causes the resentment ; it is not only * be Beer _ Ack bow under course of examination by a Committee of the House of Commons : there is something more in the popular feeling—a settled dissatisfaction , aa abiding sense tbat the people are unrepresented ; and worse than thai , a contempt for the class that has monopolised office but cannot govern , and cannot conceal its incapacity to govern . The Home Office , with its phthisical and fanatical Secretary of State * has made itself the tool of a battered beau whose attempt to coerce the consciences of the working classes provoked the people to come out and detect bishops breaking the Sabbath in Hyde Park ; on whichthe blue- coated gendarmerie of Downing-street are instructed to retaliate , by breaking the people ' s heads . And it is after all done , the Home Office has not even pluck enough to defend itself , but half promises an inquiry , which it half refuses in the next debate , and which will , no doubt , be evaded , unless the people can for once concentrate their demands upon something that can be secured immediately . " The inquiry , the inquiry "—that is what the people should now insist upon , instead of burlesquing the successful demonstration in Hyde Park with some rioting in Pall Mall . To persecute th < e clubs because a battered beau , who bas not candour enough to show his own grey hairs , has endeavoured to legislate for conscience and to play the Saint by proxy , would be poor work for " the people . " The riotous visit to the clubs would be the- commonplace mistake of following up a successful blow by a poor parody . But the inquiry into the conduct of the police will bring the ' contemptible governing set within , the grasp of the governed ; and that is the thing to insist upon . It is not that the fermenting has subsided ; the commotion is working at home , and abroad unceasingly . In America , the great Know-nothing party , after swamping every political and economical sect—Whigs , Democrats , Abolitionists , Free Soilers , States-rights men , Federalists—is broken to pieces in the endeavour to give definitiveness as well as unity to its " platform . " The Republic cannot be one , any more than the Commonwealth of this country . Our own conflicting elements will not permit us . The free-born Englishman is in five coses out of six disfranchised , and politically null ; and he will move till he gets his right . We are a commercial nation , piquing ourselves upon our integrity ; and every day discloses the extent to which fraud and reckless trading have rotted our commercial system St & arax-, Paul , and Co . appear every week at the police-court . The London Dock Company is defending itself at law , under an action for . negligence in permitting a fraudulent substitution of wines ; and the administratrix of Latham , who was murdered by Bujbanelh , appears this week litigating with Jhanbs , who lived in Latham ' s house , and in whose money proceedings the names of Ovtuuend , Guunby , and Oo . again figure . We draw no inference from a fact of which that firm possibly had small cognisance ; but it often happens in society that wo are involved in transactions of which we have not the slightest suspicion—the broad cause being the univcrsnl confusion and entanglement . And all tUo while Death demands hia duo . Th » S week , he has taken from us John Bxack , the ffifflm teii , JaMPAlrfBdiftQr . of tho Morning Chronicle whoa it was a j ^^ tt ^ M ^ p Bp !^ flS ^ Whig organ and something more ; tho
genial journalist who stood up—in his libraryfor the rights of man—after a moderate fashion . The great tax-gatherer has also called from us James Sh-k Buckingham , the Louis Philippe of the UShglish project-mongering world — the kind-hearted , intelligent , verbose , egotistical bore , wb & took Society by the button-hole , aad was pardoned by the same smiling Society ifcr his <* o ©&* natttre and his real power of amusenawat .
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . THE LATE LORD R-AGLAH . In the Hoase of Lords , on Monday evening , Lord Panmure brought down a message from the Queen , recommending the House to take steps towards making a provision for the widow and children of the late Lord Raglan . Having been read by the Lord Chancellor , it was ordered to be taken into consideration on the foliowiag evening . — In the House of Commons , Lord Palmbrstou brought down the same message , whea a similar determination was come to .
On the following evening , in the Lords , Lord Panmcre moved an address in answer to the royal message , and entered into a brief sketch of the services of the deceased general . —Earl Derby , in pronouncing a panegyric on the military and personal character of Lord Raglan , took occasion to observe that he had left his family in circumstances by no means opulent . —Lord Hakmnge , speaking on the authority of an acquaintanceship of fifty-six years , said he believed the abilities of Lord Raglan were much greater than they were commonly supposed to be . —The Duke of Cambridge , Lord Cardigan , Lord Galloway , the Duke of Beaufort , Lord Elleejieke , Lord Granville , and Lord Brougham , having successively passed eulogies on the genius of the Commander-in-Chief , the address , which was merely an echo of the message , was agreed to .
. The House of Commons having resolved itself into a committee , Lord Palmerston said it was his intention to propose , in furtherance of her Majesty ' s wishes , that a pension of 1000 / . a year be granted to Lady Raglan , and 2000 / . a year to the present Lord Raglan , with remainder to his son . In reviewing the character of the late general , he observed : — " He had that gentleness of nature , he had that conciliatory disposition , that consideration for the feelings of others which frequently and generally accompanies true courage . It was his happiness , by the manner in which he conducted his intercourse with the generals and officers commanding the troops of our allies , to cement
that cordiality , and to tie and knit together those bonds of good feeling , which now so fortunately connect , in the most intimate relations , armies which in less auspicious times knew each other only in the carnage of the field of battle . It might have happened that , with armies called upon to co-operate , which had previously known each other in opposition in the field of action , that jealousy , those various dissensions , which sometimes arise even among officers and men of the same country , might have created feelings of coldness and of incipient animosity , which would have been fatal to the great alliance which has happily been established between
the Governments and the nations of England and Franco ; but , to Lord Raglan ' s honour be it said , by hia manner of conducting his intercourse with the generals , officers , and men of tho French army , he inspired not only among his own men that cordiality towards their French comrades so desirable to exist , but he inspired also , in the minds of the troops and officers of France perfect conviction that there was the moat entire oblivion of any differences of tho past , and that from that time forward the two armies and tho two countries were animated by one identical feeling and were acting together aa brothers of tho same family and the sumo land . " ( Cheers . ' )
Lord Palmerston concluded by moving resolutions to give effect to his proposals . Mr . DrsnAKLT , in pronouncing an eulogium on Lord Raglan , observed that , forty years ago , ho eealod with his blood tho close of a triumphant ! struggle against universal empire , and that , after that long interval , it had been his fato to give Inn life to his country , in order to avert from it tho menace of a now and overwhelming dominion . Ho
seconded tho motion with great pride . —Sir Dm Lacy EVanh , Admiral Waloott , and Lord John Rubbioll , added thoir warm testimony to the panegyrics of tho previous speakers . —Mr . Milner Gibson , while expressing his opinion that Lord Raglan hud" been unfairly dealt with by tho public during his life , thought the present would bo a good opportunity for the Govurnmont to explain theiv poliay In the Bast . —Lord Pamihiuston declined on hucIi an occasion to enter
upon the discussion ; and the resolutions were then agreed ! to nern . con . Uponithe Speaker resuming the chair , Mr . Gibson again aufcerf Lord John Russell to explain to the House * 4 lether the views he now entertained were the same as those he had expressed when ambassador at'VieniKU ^ -Lord Johu Russell said he should defer , bis answer until the question of the policy of the Government was formally before the House . In the meanwhile , all he should say was , that Mr . Gibson hfcd totally misrepresented what he had said . TjrR TICKET * OF-L 13 AVE SYSTEM . Lord St . Leonards Called attention to what he characterised as the failureof the ticket-of-leave system , and to the danger to society arising from criminals being thrown back again upon their old haunts , constantly dogged by the police , and prevented from seeking on honest livelihood . —Earl Granville was inclined to think that Lord St . Leonards had exaggerated the failure of the system . Colonel Jebb , one of tho inspectors of prisons , had stated that a proportion of not less than eighty or ninety per cent , of the ticket-of leave men were gaining their bread in an honest manner . The most diligent inquiries had been made by the chaplains © f the prisons and others , about their conduct and subsequent condition ; and he was happy to say that out of two hundred and fifty-four of those men released in the year 1854 , here had been satisfactory replies respecting one hundred and eighty-nine , and unsatisfactory replies from only seventeen , the remainder not being ascertained . —The Lord Chancellor entered into some further statistics , to show that the danger to society was of the smallest kind ; and the Duke of Cambridge , in reply to a suggestion which had been made , said that h * e disapproved of admitting ticketof-leave men into the army , as he conceived it would have a demoralising effect , and would derogate from the honourable character which properly attaches to the profession of a soldier . The Accidents on Railways Bill was considered in committee , when several clauses were agreed to ; other routine business was transacted ; and the House adjourned . SDNDAT TRADING BILL . In the House of Commons , in reply to an inquiry from Lord Goderich , whether the Sunday Trading Bill would be persisted in , Lord Robert Gkosvenor said : — " Before I proceed to answer the question of the hon . gentleman , I may observe that I am rather in an awkward predicament . ( Laughter . ) No one likes to be mobbed and bullied out of a measure which was introduced with an intention that it should have an effect dissimilar to those which have been so unjustly attributed to it . I hope the House and the country will recollect that this was a measure not for tho better observance of the Sabbath—( cries of " Oh / " )—I am going to conclude with a motion , and therefore any one who wishes may answer me—this "was a measure not for tho better observance of the Sabbath ; it was a measure which interfered with no man ' s recreation , and with no man ' s religious convictions . It was a measure for the purpose of procuring as large an amount of holiday ns possible for the hard-worked and overtaxed thousands of this metropolis . But considering the late period of the session—( a laugh ")—considering that this is one of those measures which is peculiarly liable to misrepresentation and to ridicule , and that misrepresentation has been most unsparingly exercised against this measure—( hear , hear )—considering the opposition , the formidable opposition , with which at this moment I am threatened , 1 think it would not be right to keep up the irritation which at the present moment exists for the bare chance of passing this measure during the present session of Parliament . His lordship concluded by moving that the order for the further progress of tlie bill be discharged . Some strong observations by Mr . Otway upon the proceedings in Hyde Park on Sunday , and upon the conduct both of ' tho Government and the police , gave rise to a conversation , in the course of which Sir GisonoiaGuRY justified the instructions ho had issued to the police and their interference . Several members severely censured tho conduct of the police , which Mr . W . J . Fox stigmatised as ferocious and brutal ; while , « n the other hand , Mr . G . Vernon , an eyewitness , declared that , as far us ho observed their conduct , nothing could bo hotter . and more goodlumoural . —Mr . Doncomhk mentioned that ho hnil been informed that Home of the polico and soldiers had boon under arms in tho barracks in the course of Sunday . —Ultimately , tho motion for tho discharge of tho order was agreed to . EDUCATION ( SCOTLAND ) lirLL . The remaining clauses of this bill wero agreed to in committee , niter a long discussion , in tho course of which curtain amendments , referring to matters of detail , wero proposed and curried . KDTJOATION ( NO . 2 ) JMLL . On the order for resuming tho adjourned debate
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Leader (1850-1860), July 7, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07071855/page/2/
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