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July 14, I860.] The Sdlmday Analyst and ...
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« WON BY TRICKS." *T*HERE is in London a...
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July 14, I860.] The Sdlmday Analyst And ...
July 14 , I 860 . ] The Sdlmday Analyst and Leader . 651
« Won By Tricks." *T*Here Is In London A...
« WON BY TRICKS . " * T * HERE is in London and other large towns a jovial and JL restless class of vagrants , known in the natural history of rascaldom xinder the scientific designation of " Cadgers . " Their peculiar distinction arises from the facility Avith which they assume various disguises , and all soi-ts of characters , calculated to rob mankind , first of their pity , and then of their cash . Popular imagination , with its fictions founded on fact , represents the members of this industrial fraternity as making handsome profits by their exertions , and sitting , when the day is done , round a festal board , where sirloins and turkeys give
p lace to pipes and punch , and the roguery of the morning is celebrated by all parties singing in full chorus , "A jolly old cadger am I . " We do not know whether these gentry are monarchical in their government , but they have an aristocracy proud of its plunder ; if they do not possess an hereditary peerage , it is because they have not , like their betters , discovered the means of making their wisdom descend with the property they leave behind . Should they be looking out for a sovereign , we recommend them to consider the career of a noble lord who has throughout life acted upon their principles , and who would be worthy of their crown , if he has
enough virtue to provide that " honour which is proverbially said to be necessary " among thieves . " It would be something to serve under a potentate who was , like Sea-pin and Mr . Jenkinson , rolled into one : and , if , like the last celebrated character , he should one day be brought to acknowledge that -. " the knowing one is the silliest fellow under the sun . " His followers need not fear that he wilt humiliate them by confessing , " I was obliged to turn sharper in ray own defence , and have lived ever since , my head throbbing with schemes to deceive , and my heai't palpitating with fears
of detection . " The prince of political cadgers will never come to this . " His schemes to deceive" were too spontaneous a growth to cause " his head to throb ; " and as . " detection" has never injured him , his heart has had no ; occasion to " palpitate" Tor four it should take place . The amiability of the Saturday Analyst , and the mild jnannera of our time , forbid the mention of" the . noble individual ' s name . ; and as we arc not quite sure the cadger electors-. . would give him '' their sweet suffrages , there . . might be an indelicacy in bringing it forward before ho has issued an election placard .
There are few who have been unmindful of the career of one whose early reputation ' was made by assist ; ing the Government of the-day . to-refuse ¦ any explanations . of the facts and reasons that led to the . -bombardment of . Copenhagen , and who from that day to this has lost no opportunity of shrouding the foreign poUcy of this country in the fogs of diplomatic mvsterv ' which have seldom been , cleared a wav without
revenling base deeds of reactionary trickery supported by fraudulent proteiitioii to liberal ideas . Having ¦ ¦ . early shown the right stiuTto be of service to aristocratic ( ioverninents , that could ouly exist by deluding the people—heAvas nearl y always in office . Premiers and avowed .. principles were changed , but . one man was ready to work with-all , gaining a disreputable popularity by a pretended zeal for continental freedom , and invariably betraying every party or nationality that was foolish enough
to take him at his word . When the French -Government would have helped Poland , he ! found reasons to object , and when Russia trampled upon Hungary ,, his congratulations were ready for the perjured and usurping tyrant , who had Ilaynau and Wjndisgratz for his tools . When French liberty was lost in the coup ( Ve ' tat , compliments and approbation avoio heaped , upon the . successful hero of the scone , and at a litter period the honour of England was offered up in a Conspiracy Bill , that fortunately did not become law .
It was quifce in harmony with the career thus lightly sketched , that the English Talleyrand should bo the instrument for betraying tho rights of the people , ami the privileges of tho Commons into the hands of the usurping- Lords . Had this process been carried on openly , iI ; ' might have incurred more hatred , but would have been worthy of loss contempt . It was , however , liku the rest , of the noble individual ' s csiivor , accomplished by a trick , of winch the honost portion of his own cabinet Mere , the victims , OA ^ wlL , iM i ]» oJy . U ) £ iAiLjj . WAivU < . ii '?! -.. < , > J :
the House 61 ' Commons , and tho nation at largo . The I ' eoble , confused , and unworthy resolutions which the House of Commons has adopted , were agreed to by Mr . Gladstone , by Mr . Gibson , ami by Ldnl . John Russell , i \ s affording a . means of further action during the present . Session , by which tho aggression of tho Lords could be repelled by a reversal of their illegal decision . Not one word scemw to have been said by the chief ouundcr in the transaction , that could have led any one to suspect that he contemplated moving the
resolutions in a speech which would be received throughout ' with Tory cheers , and listened to with disgust and consternati on by every honest member of the House . Mr . Bright and other Liberal members agreed to accept the resolutions , because . they were , led to suppose that they were brought forward with an . honourable intention , and they are now like Mi \ Gladstone and Mr . Gibson , smarting .. under the consciousness of having been thoroughly and dexterously cheated by the man whom ' they were silly enough to help into power .
At any earlier period of the Session this conduct would not have mattered , because opportunities would have offered to break up the Cabinet , and perhaps the Parliament also '; but it is now very late for action , and the friends of honest dealing and constitutional liberty must take care that they do not leave the cadger premier in unchecked power during the recess . It is a pity that Mr . Bright lost his wits when the fraud practised upon him became apparent , and that he delivered a speech sounding more like a funeral oration than a trumpet call . Sir John Trelawny and Lord Fermoy deserve the gratitude of the community for their zeal in recommencing the fight , which ought to rage from day to day , and from hour to hour , until it is won .
The interest of the country is inmrist akeably manifested by the numerous local metropolitan meetings that have taken place , and greater enthusiasm has seldom been exhibited than by the large numbers who assembled at St . Martin ' s Hall on Saturday night . There is , also , a wholesome sign of connected action between London and the provinces in the Conference held on Wednesday , at ' the King ' s Arms Hotel ; and if no definite arrangement for a permanent- association was then completed , it was something to find -that the reformers of Manchester , Liverpool , Birmingham , Newcastle , Derby , Warrington , Rochdale , and many other towns , had
agreed to call , upon the House of Commons to refuse iiirther supplies , except on condition of the Lords abandoning their a ggressive '¦ ¦ position , and also to take steps to turn out those members who refused to adopt an honourable and patriofcic course . The battle miry be lost in t . Iks session of Parliament , not so-much , from any real -difficulty in . winning it , as front the foilure of Mr . Bright and his immediate adherents to produce any plan of action adapted % o the occasion . We feel
too much ' indebted to Mr . Bright for his exertions on the ¦ Committee to have any desire to press hard upon him for his faults ; but . if lie can only be a powerful and dashing guerilla , neither he nor his friends ought any longer to claim for him the position of a general who has not only to lead in a .. battle , but to arrange a campaign . , Scarcely a clay ' passes . without bringing forth evidence that ' . lit e H < > u so o rizn ^ nVloTrk ^^ in the Commons , aitd has determined to struggle , ' not only to
resist , further reform , but to ' wrest . 1 Vom the wealthy manufacturers ami traders some portion of . the power thoy have already won . In this struggle the . aristocratic- order fear the working-man . Lord Hard wicko has only given expression to their ¦ fe ' elings when he declared , th ; it if the working-meit had either civil or ' military weapons—the franchise or the . riflu—they would immediately proceed-to seize the property of others—; i phrase , which , stripped of its insolence , means that they -would join the industrial capitalists' in demanding both a reduction and a , fairer adjustment of taxation . The result of this conduct of the oligarchy will be to draw the middle and working
classes into a closer union , and to compel-men of wealth who have hitherto been very moderate reformers , to increase their demands . How the Tories can expect ' , more , than a transient triumph to be followed by a , severe defeat , we eaimot -uuderstaml ¦; nor can we comprehend how so dexterous a tactician as Lord Palmcrston has ' commit ted the fatal . blunder of decisively severing himself from the ill-placed confidence of the liberal party . It may be that In- hopes that , wars and rumours ' of wars will completely occupy public attention next year—that by a hubbub of foreign politics ho will be able to smother attention to home allhirs ; but , such
expectations would indieate that his judgment is failing , a 11 " that old iige lias diminished his euninu , ir , while i | . has not brought vviiTi iITha ¥ ! iu 7 iosi y ( Vr ' jVurposn \ v iru : TT 7 i K 7 nVi < V ; ivr rif iiiitl"rliG tc ?^ off ime . , Mr . Cladstimo . is in : ¦¦ po . sil . iuii <> 1 ' extreme ih-. Iiwicy and difUcuIly- —he has been e . hcaujil by his chicl ' , and Jiiriolisly assailed as a . demaj ^ ue by I lie ' Tor / faction I lis-j . rrcaj : speech imlufuni-. u'olltlio rights ' of ( lie Commons has pleil . qecl him to action , and he will luul that it is only by nllyjuff luminore firmly with the advanced thinks ol the age , that lie will be able to n \ n \ n \ i \\ n UU \> -rM \»» a ; a parhsiin-utary l- 'U- 'ler .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1860, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14071860/page/3/
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