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Oct. 11, 1851.] ]tt^'%fMteV^ 965
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MANCHESTER IN THE FLOWJ5H. Mancuichtkk h...
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GRAHAM ON ABERDEEN. How comes it, we hav...
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HOW TO LIVE. Abandoned as Protection avo...
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Kosstjth—His Friends And Foes. The Leade...
« better the paternal severities of the Empire than the fraternity of anarchists . " Now , what is the Journal that speaks in this style of presumption towards the Hero of Hungary ? The Morning Post has ever been a Tory organ . Some time since it was prominent in stating and defending the case of Russia against the Constitutionalists as well as the Democratists of Europe : it was notorious that the Editor of that day , not long past , was appointed
to be Consul-General at St . Petersburg . By whom was he , that Tory journalist ,, that defender of Russia by whom was he appointed ? By Lord Palmerston . And now the Morning Post has so frequently been the first to receive intelligence within the department of our Foreign-office , and speaks with so much authority on affairs within that department , that it ia generally regarded as the organ of the Foreign-office . That is the journal that lectures and threatens Kossuth .
But the enemies of Kossuth did not stop even there . The Globe made its seductive advances on Friday ; on the following Thursday , the Times astounded the Liberal watchers of foreign affairs with a burst of calumny , outrage , and insult against the Hungarian . It sneered at his " passage from his Turkish prison to his Transatlantic retreat , " where he Will he " consigned to Mr . Barnum ; " declared that he—he , the Bampden-Cromwell of Hungary , " annihilated" the
constitution and liberties of his country ; raked up old exploded calumnies against his private character ; and threatened , " that if the people of this country receive Kossuth as a hero and a patriot , they will render themselves an object of derision in those countries where his conduct is more correctly appreciated and his character more accurately known . " We recognize this tirade ; it is circulated in privated society , and pains are taken to spread it . But is it conceivable that it should be printed and published in the face of living history ?
The Times anticipates that its remarks will be received with ^ dissatisfaction " ! Dissatisfaction ! The word is wrongly selected . Now what is this Times that speaks thus . It is the journal that defended Haynau . Who expressed English feeling at that time—the studied Times , or Barclay and Perkins's all-unpremeditating Brewers It is also the journal which most skilfully and effectively defends and aids the present English Government . Why does it insult Kossuth and threaten the English People with derision if they speak to him . The motive appears in this sentence : —
• 'All such public marks of attention to the sworn enemies of States with which we are at peace is an unusual and inconvenient interference in the affairs of foreign countries . " " Interference in the affairs of foreign countries " —to such fineness is the doctrine of non-intervention stretched . " States with which we are at peace "— " inconvenient interference "—one almost seems to know the hand ; it reads so like a paragraph in the Queen ' s speech . And with these threats the English People , the countrymen of Hampden and of Cromwell , are to be frightened from showing fellowship with the Tell of Hungary !
One suggestion , skilfully thrown out ia parenthesis amid the easy flow of seemingly unstudied vituperation , would be too useful for it . to have been unintentional : the phrase " his Transatlantic retreat" implies that he will stop ia America : the implication is false—Kossuth visits the great republic to thank its citizens for their noble assistance , but he returns to England . The style of the Globe might have seduced the patriot into a delusion that Ins friends would be found in the polite regions of the West-end , Inn sanctuary in Downing-strcct ; but that is not the authorized style : the Post will show him where his enemies are , the Times will show him tho atrocious spirit that animates them .
But lu ; will not come amongst uh either blind or deaf . The English people is not invisible or inaudible , any more than the French . And if it was reserved for the American Government to bo foremoat in giving him practical aid , in body and means , to ( match him from captivity and restore him to action in the cause of tho Peoples of Kurope , here , too , he will lind sympathy among tho People . Ay , and help too , if that people prove worthy of itself , of its history , of its guest .
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Manchester In The Flowj5h. Mancuichtkk H...
MANCHESTER IN THE FLOWJ 5 H . Mancuichtkk hat * had its day : Queen Victoria "uh . shone upon the towrt , its houI 1 ms Undergone the rapture of the visitation .
It would be difficult for any one at a distance to imagine the tumult tof preparation . Homely manufacturers grew enthusiastic ; business men left business to sit in committee on decoration and costume ; staid fathers of families wandered about , revelling in the sight of illuminations that were to be , then sketched out only in the dull dark outline of gas-pipery ; hoarding and builded seats ; invaded market-place and chapel-yard ; arches " triumphed" over the thoroughfares of trade ; the great volcano Of industry , still rumbling and
thrilling with its myriads of engines , still casting up its countless ledgers , smiled at the coming holiday , and concentrated its vast energies on making itself handsome , glad , resplendent , for twenty-four hours . Now , why ? Where was the " use " ? Where was the profit ? The whole show would be over in one turn of the globe . The work is " unproductive . " Excepting a few who profit by "the job , " Manchester and Manchester men will be only poorer after the pageant . Why then did Manchester labour to that useless end ?
Was it for respect to ' * our most gracious Soveverink" ? Scarcely ; sintie nobody doubted Manchester's loyalty , or its appreciation Of the Monarchy at the true value ; for a most useful thing to trade is limited Monarchy . But grave respect does not require gold collars , triumphal arches , foliage , and fountains . Why these , then ? Because Manchester has a soul . Manchester has within it that which is not
content with cotton nor iron ; which cannot finally repose on coal ; which is not satisfied with the handsomest balance in the ledger ; which is not expressed in borough records , or the most sensible of political speeches ; which , in short , is not content without foliage and fountains , triumphs and pageants ; and which , to be satiated , must declare itself , be known , and recognized . Manchester , the hardest head in the country , has the wildest fit of this ornamental self-assertion ; Manchester , the most calculating , has the maddest convulsion of spending . Once a year , the aloe flowers : Manchester has been in full flower once .
Graham On Aberdeen. How Comes It, We Hav...
GRAHAM ON ABERDEEN . How comes it , we have heard it asked , that Lord Aberdeen , the Minister of all others the most acceptable to Foreign Courts , should have been " unsuccessful as a diplomatist" ? The continual taunt , and , perhaps , the solitary joke , of journals devoted to Palmerstonian Liberalism , is the friendly word of patronage bestowed upon our late Foreign Minister by Louis Philippe , alluding- to him as " ce cher Aberdeen "— " that dear Aberdeen . " Upon this almost involuntary tribute of the Royal Macaire to Scottish honesty , the dithyrambic organs
of that distinguished patriot , Palmerston , are for ever chanting the praises of their idol ; and the burden of their tune is that Aberdeen was sold to despotism , and the creature of Continental powers ; whereas , the hero of Tiverton ovations is to be esteemed the dashing champion of constitutional freedom , and , proportionally , the sworn foe , the terror , the detestation , the nightmare of all the tyrannies that take refuge under the wings of the Kaiser and the Czar . How ce cher Palmerston must laugh in his sleeve at these his friends and adversaries , who evidently know him better than he does himself .
Let us hear how Sir James Graham describes his colleague , in a speech which may be considered a Kort of prefatory Programme of an advanced Liberal Ministry , tempered by Toryism , to come into power when we shall have once more got rid of " the Family " : — " The reputation of my noblo friend , " says Sir James , " is European . He conducted the foreign diplomacy of this ' country in difficult times , and throughout the world his integrity , fidelity to Ilia engagements , love of peace , and straightforward love of truth , which at all times characterized his conduct , have won lor him tho esteem of Murone . "
Now , making all allowances for the influence of long ollicial connection and warm puruonul friendship , we do not believe that Sir James Graham has in these words advanced more than the consent of all but u few blind Whig partisans would concede to the colleague of Sir- Robert Peel . We shall not bo Huspected of any allcction lor the foreign policy of Lord Aberdeen in its temloncieu or in its alliance * . Hih respect for the ll Balance of power , " tho atutun quo , ami other comfortable European arrangements , < 1 och not altogether appeal to our warmest sympathies lint wo respect hone « ty , —conscientious , straightforward sincerity , even in an adveraary . Wo believe Lord
Aberdeen to have been an honest gentleman—even in the Foreign Office . A man of limited professions , he acted up to all he professed , without vainglory , as without disguise . He never betrayed , for he never pretended to lead , the Liberal cause . He never bore the mask of liberty to gamble away the cause of Peoples on the table of oppressors . He was not an adept at the mysteries of loaded dice and secret cards , and unconfessed accomplices , which in polite circles we call diplomatic experience . He was not , we believe , initiated into that Inner Circle which , throughout all phases of Revolution and Reaction , plays its ambiguous game .
It is because he was not a member of this Inner Circle that he was ( in the cant phrase of the " Coventry" ) an unsuccessful Diplomatist . But it is to him , and with his express consent , that Mr . Gladstone ' s letters on the atrocities of Naples were addrsssed . It is left to Palmerston , the Liberal , to hawk about in antechambers the honest indignation of the Tory statesman . We pause to inquire whether Palmerston ' s successes are to be preferred to Aberdeen ' s complacencies . But honesty is not the best policy , according to the gospel of the Inner Circle , of which the distinguished Whig patriot is not one of the least successful members !
How To Live. Abandoned As Protection Avo...
HOW TO LIVE . Abandoned as Protection avowedly is by the leaders of the Agricultural party in Parliament , the pressing question for practical Agriculturists is , what " other species of Protection " shall succeed to that which is politically extinct ? The old Agricultural maxim , " Live and let live , " has been for a time superseded by that of " Kill and Jet kill" :
the landlords are abandoned by the Members , the farmers by the landlords , the labourers by the farmers . Go to ruin , is the cry ; for nothing can help you . " Uaga famos' a Diu , " as the inexorable Genoese says to the beggar— " Go hungry to God . " But living men will not be content with that heartless decree . " What are we to do ? " is their question to the leaders ; the urge it at country dinners ; and they will not be content until they get a practical
answer . Meanwhile they have already been turning their attention to a spontaneous organization . We are aware that the idea of some new combination is existing in more than one part of the country ; Mr . Milner Gibson ' s plan of providing agricultural statistics is a step in that direction ; but the most comprehensive that we have met is that of Mr . George Pelsant Davvson . Mr . Dawson is a landed proprietor of Yorkshire ; his pamphlet , a letter addressed to his brother Agriculturists , is dated from Osgodby Hall , the patrimonial estate near Selby . He finds that the want of his class is that of " controul or self-government "; and " the other species of Protection" which he proposes is a very extensive scheme of organization : —¦
• ' Let associations for the protection of native industry be formed through the leii » th and breadth of the land . The nucleus and materials of such associations exist in every market town , and the district whoso inhabitants frequent the market . Iu many places , furmers' clubs and agricultural associations for tho discussion of the scientific points of farming already exist . TIicrc could readil y be converted into political associations ; and then there is the machinery of the New Poor-law . The Legislature itself has presented us with a principle of centralization , apt and ready for our purpose . Let each guardian and ex-oflicio guardian become the guardian
and protector of his townshi p , in the most comprehensive senso of the word . Every boardroom throughout the agricultural districts may resolve itself into a Protection committee for its own union . Each rural district , thus organized under its local committee of management , must be under the general control and direction of a county committee of management ; and each county committee of management must be subordinate to the policy and general directions of a great central committee of management in London . So that there may 1 >< : throughout tho whole country a completely organized system of uniform and concentrated action . * *¦ *
" Let tho committee-of management of enrh county , in conference with tho great central committee iu London , from time to time , and an often an need be , lix and promulgate whiit the minimum price of the different species of grunt ih to be at the next ensuing markets . The committees , constituted an they will be of tho most moderate , well-informed , and practical men amongst ua , iu fixing the minimum nriee . s , will , of course , take ; into consideration the-houmous , yield , Stock in hand , prusenf . and anticipated importations , and other ciicunihlanees which tmould regulate thoir judgment . Th <> ir object and care should bo to secure , » a far uh posaible , to tho producer , a roayonublo and .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1851, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11101851/page/9/
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