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THE TENANT-RIGHT MOVEMENT. Justick to Ir...
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of Canterbury three offices of a similar kind fell to' his disposal , and he appointed as joint registrars of the diccese of Canterbury two individuals on the sole ground that they had for many years discharged the duties of the office . He ( Lord Hotham ) also knew that in 1844 , when , on the death of the son of a former Archbishop , two situations became vacant , Dr . Howley appointed to one office the individual who had previously performed the duties as deputy ; and the other situation he did not fill up , nor had it been filled up to this moment . He this state
( Lord Hotham ) wished to say that , in making - ment , he was influenced by no private motives . He was entirely unconnected with the late Archbishop , or any niember ' of his family , and had never asked or received the slightest favour at his hands ; but , having been a warm admirer of the great piety and learning , and the humility and meekness , of Dr . Howley , as well as of the firm , yet temperate , manner in which he performed his important functions , he ( . Lord Hotham ) had felt that it would be a public scandal to allow any sfain to be thrown upon the memory of so excellent a man . "
In the House of Lords last night the Duke of AkgylI / brought forward the case of Mr . Ryland , late registrar of the district of Quebec , an office of ¦ which that gentleman had been deprived under circumstances of great injustice . The noble Duke concluded his speech by moving certain resolutions detailing the hardship of the case , and expressing the opinion of the House in favour of Mr . Ryland ' s claim for compensation .
After considerable discussion , in which Earl Grey , Lord Cathcart , and Lord Oranville contended that Mr . Ryland was not entitled to any compensation , while Lord Stanley , Lord Brougham , and Lord Glenelg supported the motion of the Duke of Argyll , a portion of the resolutions were agreed to on a division , in which the numbers were : —
For the motion , 22 ; against it , 19 : majority , 3 . It was stated by Lord John Russell , last evening , that in consequence of the Queen ' s birthday falling on Wednesday next the House of Commons will not meet that day , and that the House will adjourn from Friday next to the following Thursday , for the Whitsuntide holidays .
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Advices From New York To April 27th Have...
Advices from New York to April 27 th have been received by the arrival of the Atlantic steam-ship yesterday . The political news are of little interest . A fire had taken place in the city of Mexico , by which property to the amount of half a million of dollars had been destroyed . A steam-boat on the Ohio had taken fire , by which upwards of 100 persons were killed . The Neio York Herald , referring to the Nicaragua treaty , affirms that it lays the foundation of a complete revolution in the commerce of the world , and also sows the seeds of a naval struggle between the United States and England which will surpass anything of the kind which has ever taken place in the history of the human race . It refrains , however , from publishing particulars of the treaty .
Letters have been received from Athens of April 28 th , which announce that the negotiations between Baron Gros and Mr . Wyse having been broken off , coercive measures were immediately renewed by Admiral Parker , and after a blockade of forty-eight hours , and , it is said , a menace to bombard the Piraeus , the Greek Government struck and yielded on every point . Mr . Wyse demanded that the Greek Minister should apologise for the insult to the boat ' s crew of her Majesty ' s ship the Fantome . On the 25 th the Greek Chamber met with closed doors , when the Greek minister explained that the renewal of hostilities was in consequence of the
definitive refusal of the Greek Government to admit in principle the claims of the English Cabinet , although the amonnt of the claims was nearly settled . In answer to a question as to the support to be expected from the two otlicr protecting powers , the Minister of Foreign Affairs replied that he expected none notwithstanding his pressing solicitations to that effect . A very stormy debate in both Houses ensued on a demand from the Ministry of a bill of indemnity ; both Houses refused the indemnity , left all the responsibility to the Ministers , and ptissed a formal resolution that the Government should act according
to the interests of the country , and having in consideration the iicrik which menace it at present . Thi ! English Minister accepts 108 , 068 drachmas , 30 , 000 for Mr . Pin lay , £ 500 sterling for M . Pacirico , whoso el .-iims upon Portugal ure to be referred to the Government of that country . The Greek Government agrees to deposit 150 , 000 drachmas as security for the- settlement of M . Pauifico ' s claims upon Portugal . Further accounts horn Athens announce that Mr . Wyse hud returned to that capital , and that the country was tranquil . It was believed that the Umifeh fleet would shortly depart .
At a Cabinet Council h « lrl at Berlin on the 7 th instant , it was resolved that the Congress of Princes should be opened on the 9 th . The presence of all the Sovereigns belonging to the Bund is expected , "• viih the fxception of the Duku of IIi « sso and thn J > uUe of Xiis . suu , who , it is :-, l \ iUd , wlk u- p , c- cm . ' . < 1 tV ' -m att'jncUntf by i . ' hu . v .- ; . ' l ii y huvo ihirustcd their pro :-: ie . s to uthec i 5 ovei ' vi ; ris : i .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is 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 its eternal progress . —Dr . Aiinold .
Laissez Faire Patriotism. It Is Not True...
LAISSEZ FAIRE PATRIOTISM . It is not true that it is impossible to improve the condition of the people at once in such matters as that which Lord Robert Grosvenor brought before the House of Commons last week . The people ought to know this . It would be quite possible , and not only possible but easy , to relieve the journeymen bakers from the most painful of the evils under which they suffer : as easy as it would be to secure for the body of the People access to a broad system of plain education ; as easy as to make the poor-law an effective engine for raising the condition of the people throughout the agricultural districts and the poorest urban districts ; as easy as to place our cities and towns in a healthy condition in regard to burial and drainage , our houses as to ventilation and lighting . The thing wanting in many of these cases is not practicability in the act itself , but the will . The Legislature , and those who lead the Legislature , have not the will to do it . They profess to have the wish ; but it is a wish of that faint kind that easily accepts the presumption of impracticability in quittance of its responsibility—the wish that is akin to indifference , and only serves to soothe the conscience of idleness . Without such a wish idleness would become pure malignancy ; but from that humanity revolts ; and , as " Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue , " so these philanthropical wishes without the will to act arc the homage which selfishness pays to humanity . It is not upon " the sound principles of political economy" that Sir George Grey and his friends take their stand ,, but upon the unsound principles of political economy—upon the imperfections and the crude parts . Mr . Bright opposed Lord Robert Grosvenor ' s reasonable motion for enquiry by the assertion that such enquiries would lead to Communism . What , then , if they would improve the condition of the people ? Deny the people a rescue from their wretchedness if you will , but let your denial stand either upon a bold tyranny , which sacrifices their interest to yours , or—make out your case . It is both foolish and insolent to support the refusal with a simple dogmatic assertion , that it is against " sound principles" of some kind , or leads to some " ism , " when you are bound at least to take the pains of proving the impracticability that you so glibly assert . Dogmas of a shocking order lurk in the denial . Mr . Bright taunted the journeymen bakers — " grown up men , and not ordinary men , but Scotchmen , " " persons better able to take care of themselves than any others , " with not being able to " help themselves ; " and he roundly advocated the doctrine of " Laissess faire . " Do not interpose , he said , to shorten hours or raise wages , or even to rescue the men from the " horrible dens " in which they work ; and while he deprecated interposition , he sneered at the " grown-up men " for consenting to work in such dens ! Much might be said for the doctrine of " Laisscss faire , " if it were complete . Does Mr . Bright mean it to be so ? There is interposition already , but only on one side—injainst the workmen . There is interposition in the vast complexity of laws which goto strengthen the hand of the capitalist against the poor man—to strengthen him who has against him who has not . There ia still more stringent interposition in the form of those penal laws which restrict the workman in his power of combining with his fellows , and in his power of applying Nummary coercion to his master by abruptly leaving his work . To the corresponding forces masters can resort . Were there , indeed , no law except simple police law ngain . st violence and actual fraud , then the so- ; called " political u ;; : on on lists might bo free to carry : out Laiasc / . iVwj ' u—3 wives u . s ulone . The cabling interposition is all against the i
workman , because the laWs have been made by those who represented the employing classes , and , if not formed of malice prepense , to coerce the workman , they have been so at least under ever }/ disproportioned sense of the importance attaching to the interests of the employing classes , and a very faint sense of those more peremptory and vital necessities which press upon the workmen The employing classes exclaim , " laissez faire / 3 They adopt as the principle of their faith and morals the satirical complaint of the illustrious labourer : —
" Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves , Sic vos non vobis melliticatis apes , Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis ov «* s , Sic vos non vobis nidincatis aves . " The countryman who drives the plough , the working man who prepares the food , the factory hand who makes our clothing , the bricklayer who builds our abode—each in his turn may apply what is Virgil ' s complaint as Mr . Bright ' s principle of action .
Such a state of things—dismal evils for whole classes of the community without a remedy , while other classes of the community are attaining to a Sybaritic profusion and luxury—might suffice to confute both these political sects who meet honest attempts to improve the condition of the people by the assurance of " impracticability . " Industry cannot be free when it labours not for itself , but others . The bees are under a bee-master , or the
honey would be for themselves . But is that " nonintervention " ? Political economy means , if it means anything , the science of conducting society , so that society , —that is all society , not favoured and picked specimens thereof , —shall be comfortable j arid if the great bulk of society is comfortless , it proves that the principles of political oecouomy are not sound . By their very doctrine political ceconomists of this imperfect school invert the method of arriving at the truth . Their doctrine is , not that commodities are made in order that men may live ,
but that men may live in order that commodities may be made . " Its furniture first , men after * wards . " The Bible of the shop , Which ignores the human beings that live by the shop , as it does the vermin in the cellars , making them of no- account . The imperfection of such science is monstrously proved , both by the absurdly low proposition with which it starts , and the practical conclusions to which it leads us—the helpless wretchedness of large multitudes , and the barefaced helplessness of those who profess to manage for the multitudes .
But the People should know that they are put off thus , not with reasons , but with pretexts ; with pretexts advanced by persons who have neither the honesty nor the industry to look into the reasons of their own pretexts . A better spirit is arising , faintly shown as yet , indeed , in the claims of such men as Augustus Stafford , George Thompson , Sharman Crawford , and Robert Grosvenor—• a diverse set , but all moved by this one great motive—conscience and care for their fellow creatures . These men should stir themselves to better
effect , should get at the truth , and set themselves to the task of exposing the pretexts by which the members of the Legislature from time to time put oft' their duty to the People . A still stronger spiritual influence we hope to see extending amongst all classes when the spirit of religion , freed from sectarian dogmas , shall exercise its vital power over conscience . It cannot be long before men must awaken to the impiety of using their power in denying to industry the free exercise of its own energies , to the People that victory over wretchedness which they only - ask the liberty to attempt . _
The Tenant-Right Movement. Justick To Ir...
THE TENANT-RIGHT MOVEMENT . Justick to Ireland now consists in giving Irish industry free access to Irish land . Substantially thra has always been the case . Throughout all the disturbances which have made that country a by-word among nations , the incessant grievance has lain in the increasing obstacles erected by law or aristocratic exclusivcncsH to the free cultivation of the soil . Bad as are the laws of England which refer to the sale and tenancy of land , they are
perfection itself compared with those of Ireland . We arc glad , therefore , to see that the only active Irish agitation now on foot is the one in favour of Tenant-Right . Limited as the notions are of many of those who have taken up that question , we feel satisfied thnt the free discussion of it throughout England and Ireland will be of immense benefit in leading to more just notions regarding the rights of ilia tenant and the duties of the landlord . A silent revolution is now going on in Irelund
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Leader (1850-1860), May 18, 1850, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18051850/page/9/
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