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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1851.
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THE SITUATION. "Alarmist" is the epithet...
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THE COMING STRUGGLE IN EUROPE. The great...
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The Main Topics Debated Last Night In Th...
This proposition was vigorously sustained and as vigorously attacked . It was held by Sir F . Thesiger and his supporters that , as Attorney-Generals did not do their duty when prosecution was left to them , it became necessary to give power to the private individuals ¦ who would not suffer the law officer to sleep at his post . To this it was objected that under such circumstanced the Attorney-General would not hold himself responsible ; and it was urged , especially by Mr . BETHEia , ( the new member for Aylesbury ) , that the prosecution of a national offence ought not to be committed to a common informer . And he asked : —
" Is it m » e , is it fitting , is it charitable to put the liberties of the Roman Catholics—their happiness , their comfort—into the handa of those who are around them—to make them subject to the inquisition of spies—to put them at the mercy of every informer ? ( Bear , hear . ) Do you think that sueh a state of things will conduce to the happiness of the country ?" After ] Lord JohnRttssex . Ii had spoken in opposition to the amendment , Mr . Reynolds moved , amidst " groans , " that the chairman should report progress . Lord John thought it was unreasonable , but the committee divided on the
motion—For reporting progress , 41 ; against it , 306 . Majority against , 265 . This proceeding was followed up by a motion , also by Mr . Bbykolds , that the chairman should leave the chair . Hereupon a row began . Lord John only blandly remonstrated , and called the motion an unfair return for his kindness . But Admiral Berkeley attacked the Irish opposition with a great deal of bad temper ; declaring , in a very
ungentlemanly manner , that the rules of the Souse were made by " gentlemen" and for gentlemen , and that if " goats" came there the rules must be altered . The majority was angelio , but the minority the most factious he had ever seen . Explanations were" demanded ; and when Colonel Knox , one of the minority , complained , the admiral explained in a way which Mr . Pierce Butler thought ' quite satisfactory . " The committee
divided—For the motion , 29 ; against it , 230 . Majority against , 201 . It was now nearly one o'clock , but , nothing daunted , Mr . Reynolds rose and made another speech . The committee then finally divided on the proviso of Sir F . Thesiger—For the proviso , 130 ; against it , 166 . Majority against , 36 . The House resumed , and went into committee on the Home-made Spirits in Bond Bill . An attempt was made to get rid of the bill by a sidewind motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the Chairman leave the chair . On a division there
were—For the motion , 123 ; against it , 140 . Majority against Ministers , 17 . The House adjourned until Thursday , at half-past two o ' clock . The Property-tax Bill received the royal assent on Thursday . Some discussion took place in the House of Lords last night upon petitions presented by the Duke of Argyll on the Law of Marriage in Australia ; and Lord Monteagle on Transportation to New South " Wales . The House of Lords adjourned until the 16 th instant .
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Four More Lives Have Been Sacrificed By ...
Four more lives have been sacrificed by railway recklessness . There is an inclined plane between Brighton and Lewes , two miles long . It is eo steep that positive instructions have been issued to drivers not to go down , at a greater rate than twenty milea an hour . Yesterday , as a short train was proceeding from Brighton to Lewes down this incline , the engine ran off , falling down an embankment 30 feet deep , carrying with it the tender , a second and a third class carriage , killing on the spot three passengers and the stoker , and dreadfully wounding the driver . The Times says , " Three of the thirddims passengers , Mrs . Chatfield and her daughter , and the young man Lawrence , were thrown out and killed on the spot , but what became of the fourth third-class passenger we have not been able to learn . The unfortunate stoker waa jammed between the engine and a brick wall below , and was completel y smashed . Upwards of an hour elapse-d before those in attendance could extricate the poor fellow , whose face presented a shocking sight . "
Kk Wards To The Woukers At The Expositio...
KK WARDS TO THE WOUKERS AT THE EXPOSITION . . Inner ) , 1851 . Sue ., —Permit me , through the medium of yoiu columns , to refer the merit of originating rewards to working men in connection with Industrial Kxhibitionn to the true originators of this act of justice , viz ., to the promoters of the ltelgiiui Exhibitions . Mr . Kelvin ' s proposition ifl , I suspect , tho consequence of my ' * llitttory of Industrial Exhibitions" ( now in courao ot weekly publication ) , whorvin 1 have given mi account of the distribution of medals to working men and working- women of ltolgium . If the Executive propose to follow the honoumblo example of the ¦ Hcl gjnii Government , they would do well to consult tillable report on tho lirus . sels Exhibition of 184 <> , in which they will find n minute account of tho HyHtem devised for the fair attribution of these honourable rewards . 1 am , air , your obedient servant , W . UliANOHABT ) JlUt . HOLD .
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GUILD OF LITERATURE AND ART . HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS . —The THIRD PERFORMANCE by the AMATEUH COMPANY of the GUILD of LITERATURE and ART , in the Theatre constructed for the purpose , and first erected at Devonshire House , will take place at the Hanover-square Rooms , on WEDNESDAY next , June 18 , -when will be presented Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton ' s New Comedy , in Five Acts , entitled " NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM ; or , MANY SIDES TO A CHARACTER "; and the- New Farce by Mr . Charle 3 Dickens and Mr Mark Lemon , called " Mr . NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY . " —Tickets
( all the seats being reserved ) , 10 s . each , to be had of Mr . Mitchell , 33 , Old Bond-street ; Messrs . Ebers , 27 , Old Bondutreet ; Mr . Hookham , 15 , Old Bond-street ; Mr . Andrews , Old Bond-street ; Messrs . Chappell , 50 , New Bond-street ; Mr . Robert Ollivier , 19 , Old Bond-street ; Mr . Sams , 1 , St . James ' sstreet ; Messrs . Cramer and Beale , 201 , Regent-street ; Messrs . Smith and Elder , 65 , Cornhill ; Messrs . Keith and Prowse , 48 , Cheapside ; and Messrs . Leader and Cock , 63 , New Bond-street . Doors open at a quarter before Seven ; commence at exactly a quarter before Eight .
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There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...
There is nothing so revolutionary , because there nothing so ¦ unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the verylaw of it 3 creationin eternal progress .- —Dk . Arnold .
The Situation. "Alarmist" Is The Epithet...
THE SITUATION . " Alarmist" is the epithet cast at you in reproach , if you survey the position of Europe or of your own country , and even name its principal incidents . Such is the effeminate state of public feeling in this country , that if you simply turn men's eyes to the broad facts which lie before us , Apatby sneers at the trouble you take , or Timidity turns pale at the prospect . The practical politician of the day prefers
to rub on , and thinks it wiser to take no account of the social or political dynamics at workaround him . It is this too wide-spread effeminacy among the educated classes on the Continent which made the popular attempt of Europe too weak to stand against the comhined forces of Reaction ; and which enfeebles the people of this country , not only to aid in that popular movement , but to meet its own future with mastery over circumstance .
In this country we see a Government possessing no knowledge of the people , carrying on affairs entirely according to a routine , and rendering every public interest entirely subservient to the objects or crotchets of its own small clique . Thus the part taken by England in foreign affairs is rendered entirely subordinate to Lord Palmerston ' s system of making all foreign policies not only fit the ruling parties in the countries to which they belong , but also fall in with the plans and practice of diplomacy . In foreign affairs , cajoled by Lord PalmerstorTs " Liberal" professions , England is the unconscious
but powerful tool of that diplomacy which at once serves Absolute power and feeds upon it . In colonial affairs , the whole policy of the Ministry in bent upon cajoling or bullying the colonies into so much submission under Lord Grey ' s crotchets an shall stifle noise ; thus evading the notice of the apathetic English People , and riot obliging Ministers to give up the advantage of Lord Grey ' s presence in tho Cabinet . At home tho j ) olicy is to conceal every great public truth , but to set up a sham in . the place of each trnth ; and thus it is that
Ministers are able to stave oil all public ; movements by one grand system of mystification : Protestantism and Catholicism , Church Reform , Financial Reform , Water Supply , Parliamentary Reform , Education , Chancery Reform , Colonization , Sanitary Reform , Agricultural Dillieulties , Poor Law Reform—all these subjects , and others , are entertained and disposed of in some shape or other—are effectually rendered dormant in the shape of lllue Hook , Commission , Hoard , inquiry , . Debate , Hill , or Promise . You cannot lc ; u"ii the truth about any one of them
you may pursue any movement until it , ends in a " Ministerial measure" : that is the final bog . The continuance of this afcato of things in the beau ideal of Wliiggery . To maintain it , Ministers rely upon these re-Hoiircus . First , a standing army or class of professional arnin-bearei a , which can always suppress in detail the movements of an unarmed Peopleexcept when those movements are very general , and impelled by fierce motives . Secondly , a middlechiSH , over-grateful Uw enfranchisement , to the exclusion of tho numbers that enabled thorn to get
it , over-confident m the domination of trade ; overconfident in the duration of the existing state of things , and repaying the Whig patronage by buying up every movement . Lastly , the Whigs rely upon the disunion of the People—upon * the generally prevailing falsehood which makes men distrust each other—upon the effect of trading competition , which has set class against class ; they rely upon the long disuse of arms , which has made the People contemptible in their strength ; they rely upon the disappearance of chivalrous feelings , upon the total extinction of nationality .
And in all these things the People is helping the Whigs . That such a state cannot last , the most cursory student of history knows , unless he is besotted by the common prae-revolutionary feeling - —the dream that "it will last out our time . " But it will not . The session has been an empty form ; the Ministry itself is a despicable form ; parties are content in negation ; they agree to wait—to see what will turn up—what will come out of the next discontent . It will not be long first . Already , in many branches of trade , the roar of prosperity is abating . The woollen trade haa felt that for some months ; the linen trade is now beginning to feel
it ; and , though ribbons hold out , cottons are growing uneasy . The tailors in London can say What are prospects for the autumn ? Will they be reassured by the reproach of Moses and Son to the London tradesmen , that business is leaving them , because they do not sell cheap enough ? The carpenters of London have been too busy this Exposition season ; but they know it will not last . The Protectionists are at the end of their tether , but neither farmers nor agricultural labourers are at the end of their distress . The session is passing away ; we have reached Whitsuntide , and
journalists are casting up the empty account of measures ; the Exposition season has come and will pass away 5 parties have exposed each other ' s tricks , and stand confessed in mutual disparagement ; the Ministry is passing away , to be succeeded no one knows by whom ; and we are drifting onward to a Future additionally obscured by our own mystifications , with resources doubly weakened by dissensions , and the extinction , at least the suspension , of patriotic national feeling-. It is our consolation that we cannot sink lower , for a rougher perio d of distress holds out the hope of revived activity , and with it revived national health .
The Coming Struggle In Europe. The Great...
THE COMING STRUGGLE IN EUROPE . The great European struggle is gathering the forces on both sides for a recommencement . It is notorious , says the Morning Chronicle , that at the recent Congress in Warsaw , the three Monarchs of Austria , Prussia , and Russia " have been engaged in conceiting a plan for the effective employment of their combined military forces , in the event of
another success of the Parisian populace in May , 18 f > 2 . " There is to be no violation of neutrality , no invasion of France ; " but it is intended to organize a system of cooperation , under which the Prussian , or Austrian , or Russian army may be indifferently made available in cutting off or treading out the first conflagration which the sparks from a new French explosion may kindle on German territory . "
Hut there will he a counter-alliance . The first step has been taken in the true path to the revolution of Fiiirope . The central Democratic Committee has adopted the two ideas which are essential to the progress of popular power—the true fellowship of nations , and the principle of Association . We , who have long laboured to advance those ideas , though at posts less conspicuous than that occupied by Ledru Rollin , Darasz , Rugc , and Ma //// mi , cannot but welcome the new manifesto as a most ; important event in the inarch of popular emancipation .
The two ideas which we have mentioned as < listiriguitilung ; the new manifesto we uphold as necessary , not , only for the results which they must ultimately produce , but also as essential elements in any present , policy which would hope for . success . The organized ( loveinuu'utu of Kurope , which di < l possess . some nationality of feeling while they were ruled hy the old traditions
of chivalry , and even of superstition , have ; totally ceased to do so now that they are no more than combinations of particular families and gentlemen possessing hereditary expectations of official employment ; and the absorbing aim of their ellorts is , not only to maintain their own existence , but to keep their several countries in the state most favourable to weaken any inlluenoeK that miglit disturb tlie-ui . Hence Austria keepa down the
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Leader (1850-1860), June 14, 1851, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14061851/page/9/
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