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IP Parliament were only judged by last week , it would be accounted a very idle school indeed ; but if the immense duration of the session , which began in November last—if the amount of work done—if the solid character of that work , and , more especially , if the general practical tendency of the whole session be taken into view , this Parliament , elected under the Derby-Disraeli Cabinet , will be accounted one of the best that has recorded its achievements in the recent annals of the
country-There is scarcely a department that has not received important additions to its reforms ; and it is to be observed of the reforms effected under the present regime , that they bear no character of finality , but on the contrary , that they are all of them of a nature to be followed by still larger improvements . After the fallacious IVIinistry of Lord Derby and Mr . Disraeli , which was to stand or fall by the project of that novelist-statesman for " reconciling" conflicting interests by a new
species of " unrestricted competition , " and so to retaliate upon the towns the injury sustained from free-trade by ihe country , we had a Budget which has made a marked progress in the improvement of our system of taxation , and has not by any means closed the door against continuance of these improvements . The abolition of the soap duty , the gradual but rapid reduction of the tea duty , the extension of the succession duty to real pro-P ty , the adjustment of the income tax with a
to its final extinction , the sweeping from the tariff of many petty duties which still encumbered it -are reforms which will facilitate those to follow , as they themselves were facilitated by the measures of Sir Robert Peel . The improvement ° « the Customs is a commencement in departmental reform likely to be followed by others ; for the whole subject , we are well aware , baa been » mder consideration . We have great improvements for maiming the navy ; and the militia
en-I'ohnent bus been followed up by a measure for ( !» iolhng volunteers to defend our coasts at sea . i . aw reform has been well followed up ; and one J'f the last statements by the Lord Chancellor , is ° ^ report the progress made by the newly-ap-Pomted commissioners towards arranging a con-8 ° lidation of the statutes—a progress which really I » w » nise 8 to compress " the statutes at largo " " to a compass portable and intelligible for the Public as well as the profession . The India Bill , ' « ' iro m effecting all that we believe to have been
possible , nevertheless introduces an immense improvement into the central administration , infuses a knowledge of India into the Board of Directors , renders that Board more responsible , introduces a certain legislative capacity into India itself , and in short begins what must prove a much larger series of reforms . Of the colonies , to many of whom have been given long-promised constitutions
r —the Cape , New South Wales , New Zealandwith the cession of Clergy Reserve lands to Canada , it may be said , in the words which they write at the Cape , that " Government has been reconciled to the people . " Transportation abolished , arrangements have been made for establishing a new system of penal industry likely to be far more effectual as a corrective .
For next session , Ministers stand pledged to Parliamentary Reform , Ecclesiastical Courts * Reform , Education , Local Representation in connection with local rates , including something of a municipality for London ; and Sanitary Reformof which indeed considerable instalments have already been realized in the already decreed abolition of metropolitan smoke , and in the closing of metropolitan grave-yards . Private Members also carry over to next session important
reforms , such as Mr . Adderley ' s Bill to amend the correction of juvenile offenders , and several bills to improve church property , management , & c . ; besides the half official bills on the still vexed questions of land in Ireland . This rapid survey justifies what we have already said—that Ministers have done great work , and have excellently smoothed the way for doing work as profitable next session .
One of the last acts of the session has been their explanation of the state of the Turkish affair •—an explanation which we cannot characterize otherwise than as a mystification . Lord John , indeed , does not add anything whatever to our information on the subject . lie only gives an official authentication to the facts as we
understood them before , and proves , as Lord Clarendon did last Friday , that , ; Russia , was false in her pretensions to move only for certain rights in the Holy Places , when Prince Mensebikpff ' s imperious summons came upon the Porte and the Governments of France and England in the shape of totally new demands .
Lord John admits , what we have already said , that even supposing the Menschikon" affair be closed in the manner proposed by the Four Powers , there will still remain the evacuation of the Principalities ; and there is a striking change in the tone of Ministers , as Lord John , Russell speaks for
them , in comparison with the tone used by Lord Clarendon . Lord Clarendon has said , that the " immediate and complete evacuation of the Principalities would be a sine qua rion in any agreement with Russia ; " whereas Lord John Russell implies , that Ministers will regard as a settlement something respecting the evacuation , thouffh it be neither " imme <& ate" nor "
complete . " His words are : "No settlement can be satisfactory which does not include , or immediately lead to , the evacuation of those Principalities . " Thus the public is to understand that Lord John Russell , for one , would consent to a settlement not involving the " immediate and complete" evacuation of the Principalities , but only leading to that evacuation .
The signs from Turkey itself are not favourable to the supposition that Russia intends immediate evacuation ; but her preparations indicate the determination to make a protracted visit . This week the instructions from Count Nesselrode to the Consul-General at Bucharest have been published in the London papers , and in that correspondence the official is thus instructed : —
" There is , however , another question upon which wo must express our opinion beforehand to the Princes , that they may act accordingly . We allude to their relations with Constantinople and the Ottoman Government . Those relations must necessarily cease on the day upon which our troops take military occupation of the land , and when every action , every influence of tho ruling powers , must bo suspended . Another con-Hequenco of this state of things must bo tho stoppage of tho tributo which the provinces are bound to pay to the Porte . The amount , which must bo collected m usual , must be handed over to tho Imperial Government to make such use of aa it may think advisable . "
The Emperor has ordered his thanks to all the officers of his army in the Principalities , for the rapidity with which tho occupation was effected , and a small gratuity is given to every soldier . This is one of innumerable traits , showing how anxiously the Emperor ferments the anti-Turkish spirit iri his subjects . Austria has made an offer to occupy Servia ;
an offer which must be understood at present in a friendly sense , although it is evident that an Austrian occupation of Servia might be converted to the account of any of tho Powers engaged , according to the turn of events . General Prim has been authorized by the Queen of Spain to take a commission in the Turkish army , and ho has been sent to Sehumla . The Sultan has issued a manifesto to his own people , explaining how matters stand , and assuring them of a vigorous
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 20, 1853, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20081853/page/1/
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