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SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1851.
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THE PRESENT MINISTRY AND THE NEXT. Minis...
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Saturday, July 5. Two More Defeats And V...
Irish members vigorously defended themselves and the policy which , in the last hour , they had adopted . Mr . Moore was especially vigorous . He said that Lord John Russell might have neglected his duty but the Irish members had not " neglected theirs . " They were delighted to see the bill as it was . ( Loud cries of 'Hear , hear . ' ) They wished to see the bill as disgraceful , as discreditable , as tyrannical , and unpalatable as it could be made . ( ' Hear , hear , ' and ' Oh ! ' ) They were pleased to find that the same penalty was attached to the introduction of bulls as to the
taking of titles . ( Hear . ) They would all be able mote or less to violate the provisions of the bill , and by the blessing of God they would violate it as often as possible . ( Hear , hear . ) If the njble lord , on the one hand , passed this measure , and so violated the liberty of the subject ; or if , on the other hand , he allowed the law to be derided and despised , then the noble lord might keep his party floating a little longer—he might a little longer maintain his position as a dexterous placeman , but he would hold his position as the hack of tue Opposition , and not as the Prime Minister of England . ( Cheers . )"
Colonel Sibthorp said that Lord John RuFsell " cared nothing for the maintenacne of the religion of the country , and as little for the maintenance of the throne . ( Laughter . ) " Lord John Russell here rose and entered into a . lachrymose explanation of the "fix " in which he had been placed by the desertion of the Irish Brigade . He then fenced a great deal with the amount ot responsibility he incurred in being a party to the passing of the bill ; ultimately quieting his conscience with the declaration that he was not responsible for the introduction of the amendments—•* against his consent and in opposition to his judgment "—but for the adoption of the bill embracing those amendments . He did not think that the bill violated religious liberty . And he finally rested the reason for the
measure on this ground . " The real aggression , " he exclaimed , " is that they ( the Catholic bishops ) pretend not to recognize any Christians except themselves—( hear , hear)—that they assume the government of the whole territory of this country ; and by their theories , which are totally different from the fact , assume also that all baptised persons are subject to their own bishops and priests , and that there are not persons belonging to the religion of this country and professing its faith . " ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Gladstone delivered a grave and energetic speech , as a solemn protest against the measure ; and ¦ when he sat down , amid IJ loud cheers , " the interest of the debate was gone . Even Mr . Sidney Heiibeiit failed to revive it . The solemn closing words cf Mr . Gladstone ' s speech spoiled the House for what followed .
" He must be content once more solemnly to renew his protest against this bill , as a bill which was in the first place hostile to the institutions of this country , more especially to its established religion , because it taught it to rely on other support th ; in that of the spiritual strength and vitality which could alone give it vigour , because its tendency was to undermine and weaken the authority of the law in Ireland — because it was disparaging to the great principle of religious freedom on which this wise and understanding people had permanently built its legislation of late yenrs—and , lastly , because it tended to relax and destroy those bonds of concord and goodwill which ought to unite all classes and persuasions of her Majesty ' s subjects . ( Loud cheers . ) ' '
Mr . Grattan s amendment was formally negatived , and the bill ordered to be taken up to the House ot Lords amid rounds of hearty cheers .
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In The House Of Lords The Opposition To ...
In the House of Lords the opposition to the Smithfield Market Removal Bill received what we hope we may call its final defeat . The motion that the standing orders be dispensed with whs carried by 70 to 22 . Lord Redesuule was the Smithneld champion .
Prince Albert Visited The Ipswich Museum...
Prince Albert visited the Ipswich Museum yesterday , where the usual kind of address was read to him ; mid he afterwards laid the foundation stone of a new Grammar School , where another address ( the third since he has been in Ipswich ) was read to him . The utmost gaiety prevailed in the town , the Prince huving quite outshone the British Association . The Knglish Committee of tho Hungarian Fund announce a " morning entertainment " for Saturday next nl Willis ' s ltooms , in aid of th . it fund . The niopraminc contains u very attractive list of performances .
leather Sivinnerton lived with her father and motherin-law , Kliziibetli Swinnerton , at Salford . 8 hc was deformed , huving a curved spine , and altogether a mckly creature . Uut these luisfortuncH , instead of causing her to be kindly treated and carefully tended by Mra . Swinnerton , only provoked her brutality to such a degree that the police ultimately interfered , and carried the poor K » rl off to the Kulford workhouse , where , in Bpite of kind treatment , ahe died on Thursday . An inquest was held yesterday . Mrs . Nelnon , a soldier ' s wife ,
who lived in the Maine house , testified to the infamous upage to which Kuthcr Swrmncrton had been subjected . Mrs , Hwinrwrton habitually and cruelly bent her daughterin-law ; made nor work exceHhively hard ; and , though Buffering from diarrhoea , confined her for days in a ( Jump noisome cellar , " not fit for a dog to lie in . " The evidence 1 h very painful and ditigUHting . All the details have not reached town , but the news—that n verdict of * ' Wilful -Murder " ngiiiiiKt \ 15 liznbe-iu Hwinneitoh was fotand—hua . been forwujdcd by elecuic telegraph .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there 13 nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Arnold .
The Present Ministry And The Next. Minis...
THE PRESENT MINISTRY AND THE NEXT . Ministerial defeats have become so common that they are accounted trifles ; the public cares little whether the Anti-Papal Bill which is ultimately carried to be systematically shelved and not executed , is the one planned by Lord John Russell after his first manner , by Lord John after his second manner , or by Sir Frederick Thesiger : the public cares little whether the House agrees with Mr . Berkeley that there shall be vote by ballot , or with the silent Ministers that there shall be no vote by ~ ballot , knowing equally that there will be none ; whether , with Mr . Tufnell , that there shall be no property qualification for Members , or with Lord John , that there needs be no property qualification , knowing well thatthe negative is a nullity and a sham . But the occupation of office by a Ministry at once
incompetent and irresponsible through weakness , is a calamity accumulating with the increase of time . The present period is " tranquil , " as the saying is ; but every week that a bad and disorganized Government continues in office , every vote that heaps fresh contempt and helplessness on that Ministry , adds to the confusion into which public affairs have got , and increases the risks already multiplying for a time of trouble . The bill of indictment that may be preferred against Ministers , not only incapacitates them from holding office , but ought to make politicians , of whatsoever party , agree on one mani fest truth—that such a Ministry should not continue in office a single day longer . Let us survey some few of the principal charges against them , taken almost at random .
They are wasting the public means in the ridiculous Kafir war , brought on by the vagaries of their own servant . Governor Smith ; the war is grievous to the colonists of the Cape of Good Hope , who remember with disgust the past alternation of coquettings and threats , which have excited without controlling the marauders on the frontier . Ministers had previously alienated the trust and goodwill of tlie colonists by the attempt , in breach of all faith and honour , to forte convict emigrants on the colony ; and yielding to resistance what they had refused to justice , they had provoked the contempt of the colonists .-
They tantalized the Cape colonists by the spontaneous offer of " an Knglish constitution "—a boon now put off , after much debating and controversy , till after the termination of the Kafir war !—of the war provoked by Ministers and not by the colonists ! They have gratuitously excited a similur feeling of contumacy in the Australian colonies , by the spontaneous offer of amended constitutions ; an offer followed up by such measures that the colonists are more discontented than pleased , and that different colonies and different classes in the same colonyas Free Settlers and Kmancipists—are set against each other , though different settlements are uniting in "an Australian League , " to agitate against the British connection .
The anger of New South Wales has been aggravated by the attempt to renew eonvietism after the promise to abandon it ; Van Diemen ' s Laud , which is weaker than Nv . w South Wales , is forced to tolerate the curse .
la Ceylon they appointed a Governor who imposed odious taxes ; who sanctioned measures of shocking tyranny in the suppression of revolt ; whom they maintained in office against the protest of the colonists , and removed after all the mischief wan done . They shielded Captain Watson , who repudiated tho famous proclamation issued Under his band in a multiplied form , threatening immediate death to persons that should hold certain property ; und in all this process they tried to stave off parliamentary censure , by statements which have since , been it luted o » information that , must lmvc been i ; i the hands of Ministers at the time
The North American colonies , whose affection it was so desirable to regain , have been asking as sistance in a measure that would be most beneficial " not more to the colonies than £ o immense numbers of English emigrants and to the trade of the empire —the British North American railway : Ministers shilly-shally , negotiate , and procrastinate . The Foreign Minister of the Cabinet interfered in the affairs of a Portuguese Jew making ext ravagant claims on the Government of Greece : the Minister professedly interfered to maintain British influence , " in defence of which he invaded our ally ; British influence was kicked out of Athene as the British Minister had been some time before out of Madrid ; and Russian influence rei gns supreme .
Italy rose against the Austrians ; a member of the English Government was sent to behave as if British support would be given to ( the patriots . British support was withheld ; and Austria reassumed the Peninsula ; Sicily falling back to the dependant of Austria—Naples . French troops occupied Rome in connivance with Austria , our Government passively acquiescing . Italian patriots sought refuge in Malta , and were repulsed by the English Governor . Turkey desires to release Kossuth , and would have done so if England had supported her against Russia : he remains in prison .
Lord Palmerston enjoys the confidence of Tiverton and of English Liberals , of the Emperor and the Diplomatists of the Allied Powers . Ministers wantonly persist in squandering the public money to maintain the mischievous African blockade squadron ; as soon as Brazil becomes diligent in suppression of the slave-trade , they subject her to humiliation and coercion . Ministers have introduced confusion into finance —maintaining the income tax , but handing it over to inquiry by a committee ; proposing a budget to be laughed at , and amending it on compulsion ; abolishing the window tax , and substituting a house tax , which is to fall on one house in seven .
They have arrayed sect against sect with their Anti-Papal agitation ; they followed that agitation up by a bill which strove to be nothing ; and under compulsion they accept a really coercive measure from their opponent Sir Frederick Thesiger . They proclaim " agricultural distress" in the royal speech , and have done nothing to alleviate it ; they have since made light ' of it , though it is getting every clay more notorious ' and deplorable . They promised Law Reform , and have done little or nothing ; Poor Law Reform , and have done nothing . '
They have consented to" hold office under continual defeats ; under the defeat by Mr . Locke King , Lord John has hinted at ^ a Parliamentary Reform Bill for " next session , " which shall give some real representation to " the working-clatses" ; under the defeat by Sir Frederick Thesiger , Ministers acquiesced in a measure of Catholic coercion , and consent to be the Executive which must , ex officio , be charged with the enforcement of that
. Endless confusion has been introduced into every department of public affairs ; the Cabinet has no strength , enjoys no public confidence , maintains no straightforward course ; it is daily bringing Government and Parliament into contempt , and every hour that it continues in office adds to that calamitous state of things . If a time of trouhle should come , it will find us with a Government so weak that it cannot " keep a House" for its own purposes ; so reckless in its language and bearing , that no one trusts it or believes in it .
It is quite evident that the first function of the Ministry which succeeds the present must be , not so much to carry on reforms or to advance the progress of the country , as to introduce order where all is disorder ; not to commence new Measures , but to place upon an intelligible footing the measures already commenced—in the colonies <>» the subject of representative government :, convict transportation , and native relations ; in foreign affairs , UiediNtinctious between
interventionandiio'iintervention , alliance ami hostility ; and nt hoiix ' , in every department . The Ministry that should undertake no other function but that of putting till these things in order , would execute the in « l ' ~ pensablo preliminary to nny future p rogress . Such a function might he performed b y almost any j > arty » whatever its speculative opinions , so lontf aH *\ could supply men of sense . It would secure the respect ami gratitude of the country ; and tli « sooner it should begin its work the better .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1851, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12071851/page/12/
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