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"The one Idea -which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanifcr—the noble endeavour to throw down , all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development
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rjpHE Conservative Peers have made a very pretty A quarrel out of the Wets'sleydale case . Whatever Way have been the intention , of Ministers ia creating Lord Wensleydale a peer for the term of his natural life , the avowed reasons for the measure are quite sufficient to justify it . The House of Lords claims toibe the highest judicial authority
in the kingdom . At present there would he many reasons against superseding the authority of the Lords in . that regard , hut nothing is more notorious than the incapacity of the Lay-Lords to exercise the judicial function , or the small force of Lords learned in the law to adjudicate in the name of the House . " More Law Lords ! " that is the
grand want , if the House of Lords is to continue giving judgment which the public can respect . When the ancient Law Lords tell us that they want no more assistance , we perfectly understand the meaning of the assurance . All very old gentlemen resent the being helped ; they wish the
bystanders to Assist in making them believe that they are as efficient as they have been when young . We not only require Law Lords to be appointed for the purpose of taking the places which will be vacated shortly , but also for the purpose of ndtliug immediately and permanently to the number of the . order in the House . It is advisable that the most
experienced , aide , and independent judges should be selected for that purpose . It has not proved to bo the rule that the cleverest lawyers secure the largest amount of heritable property . If Scarlett left ' h fortune , Ebskink died poor , and if Storey founded a property , Jjuffbrson died a bankrupt ; and tbc list of diverse fortune might bo infinitely extended . We might illustrate the ease well by
the netual sons of Law Lords now holding scats in the Upper House , but it would be invidious to bring forward the individual names . A birth of fctuiper Peers hna happened when the Ministers "ftd exercised some discretion in creating Poors who couhl manifestly be enabled to transmit fortune with hereditary title ; hut , if we require to pick out the best lawyers now living , wo must necessarily cense to regard the question of money
and so , with our eyes open , create a larger number of Pauper Peers . Whether this would help to sustain the particular character of the House of Lords , it is for the Committee of Privileges to determine . They have easier questions before them , and yet they prove to be quite incompetent to settle those easy questions . : i ? or . example , there are many precedents , which have already been debated in the House of Lords , establishing the fact that the royal prerogative has been
exercised in the creation of life peerages—in ancient times for men , in modern times for womenquite sufficiently to prove that the Law Lords cannot establish the illegality of the act . When they begin business in Committee of Privileges , what must they do but recommence a laboi-ious consideration of those same precedents , in a language which they could neither understand nor read . Just as the Hungarian Senate has left off debating in Latin , the
British Senate begins law Latin as a variety for its debates ! This proved really too dull a joke , and the committee adjourned for six days in order to have the impracticable precedents translated , perhaps also to gain time in the hopes of finding out how to back out of the difficulty of proving Ministers in the -wrong . Lord Cjvmpbeli . tried to get Ministers themselves to back out , by suggest - ing , OXi Friday lust , th » t they aluould render the Wensleydale peerage hereditary ; that is , that
they should tacitly confess themselves guilty , and adopt the dictum of Lord Campbell , and his coadjutors . Ministers were too cunning to be ca \ ight by that trap , and they stood out . The Conservative Peers have , therefore , placed themselves ixi the ludicrous predicament of resisting the royal prerogative in orde «* to preserve the House of Peers from being rendered useful and perhaps from
being popularised j so that they resist nix ancient authority on the one hand , and modem improvement on the other . "When popularity and precedent are longuctTtogcthorit will be very difficult for any combination of Law Lords to defeat the conibuintion . Lord Wknsjmeydajuib seems most likely to tnkc hia seat in the very midst of the lawyers who now declare that they will not admit him . Lord CAMPmau distinctly warned the Loud
Chancellor , and formally explained his warning to the House of Lords on Tuesday , that "when he heard of the creation he determined e < to make a row about it in the House of Lords . " The discussion on Tuesday fully deserved the epithet which Lord Campbell -prospectively applied to it ; and probably , when Lord Wensleydale appears . I , ovd Campbell will be prepared for an extension of the " row" into that more intense form called a " shindy . " If Ministers are promised a victory over the oppugnant Law Lords , they are decidedly threatened with defeat in a more distant , but not less conspicuous ground—Centra ] America . It is true that American feeling . as represented in the last accounts ,
does not lead us to expect any disposition on that side to make a war business out of the enlistment question . If there has been any subterfuge in the matter of the apology , probably the Americans will be satisfied with the retribution involved in the exposing the subterfuge . At all events , there is no practical operation going on , which calls for further interference on their part , and it will probably turn out that the balance of discredit will not lie on their side ; although Mr . Cushing has done his best to make a set-off against the bungling in England . Central America is the ground onl which our Ministers enn proceed to actual defeat . If they were to accept the American interpretation of the
BuMVEn-CLAYTON treaty , it would enaole ' them as a matter of good luck to withdraw from the territory . No doubt , as a simple matter of power , they can hold their ground in Honduras and the Bay Islands , at least for some time ; but they will do so at the expense of maintaining themselves in a neighbourhood thnt would become excessively troublesome , if not dangerous . It is perfectly absurd to require the Government at Washington to hold back the adventurers who are crowding into Nicaragua . We have been aible to drive back Russia from Turkey , because the Govornmcnt \ vj ( Mr' 3 na ^ in ^^ the encroachments , and wo can ahj ^ j ^ tjpTiapTn . '> ... , «^' 7 ^ government answerable for its acts !**? tfi | kd ^ twft U ' , V ' Russians had simply thronged inta ^ th ^'^\» rk * slV > \ "' : dominions , «& individuftla had grah ^ aUv ^ cpiiife ^ j '*' : ,.-, « possession of the soil , had aa graduamr ^^ i ^ M ^ s i .--the Turkish or Greek occupants , no reina ( S ?^^ Kncc , - •'¦ - *' ' ^ ** ? r ^' : ~ yj 3
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 16, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16021856/page/1/
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