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table of the Eight Hon . Memlber for Bucks . These lists are pr inted , with small interpolations of comp liment , and are incessantly recurred to in proof of the weight of ancient Barnes attaching to the DiSBAELE . sect . But this is precisely the influence which Mr . I > isrRAEM once exerted , and which he is losing , to his own mortification , and the despair of his friends . To gain it , he forgot his education , adopted the least respectable forms of Toryism ^ and schooled himself among men whose rank and riches formed their only titles to influence in the State . For this
class lie worked , wrote , spoke , and , seeing Sir Robert PeiSi » advancing to the lead , he clung to his skirts with scarcely dignified tenacity . Sir Kobeet Peel always regarded his political claims with scepticism , and was once supposed to pass them by with , contempt . [ Nevertheless , Mr . Disbaelt held on , until the true Conservative statesman separated from an impracticable party , when his obsequious follower became at once his unscrupulous antagonist , and the country party , delighting in the temerity of their
gamin , cheered him forward , though still very reluctant to admit him to a political equality with , themselves . How he won . his way to that equality is popularly known . It was not by asserting the independence of his intellect , but by lowering it to the service of hereditary families , with minds full of obsoletism and prejudice . In fact , Mr . Disrajeli showed himself so pliant that ifc was believed he could be impelled into anything . But he has the acuteness to perceive that , although . he might consent to serve the old Tory
peerage m profitable times , their polities are now impossible . Liberalism , alone being possible , why then Mr . Disbabli is more liberal than any of us , and his claqueurs promise that , if we will put Mm into Downing-street , h . e will thoroughly reform the empire . Whereupon ancient Toryism is shocked , Liberalism is obstinately incredulous , and Mr . Disraeii finds himself alone at tfhe head of young Toryism , which composes a mere sickly sect that has been poisoned by its own lampoons . The best members of the liberalized Conservative
party stand entirely aloof , ashamed to recognize a political leader surrounded by a band of parodists . They are not under the necessity of assuring the public of their own respectability . " We have declined to follow the discussion through all its varieties , but it is manifest that the public cares nothing about it—in fact , only lie ard , indirectly , of the new Tory
pretence , and is serenely unconscious of the inky bubbles that break on the surface of tlie Tory Helicon . When the Scotch Tories wrote , brutally , of their thistles and diachylon plaister , nnd of their antagonists dying , wriggling on the points of their pens , they attracted some notice , because their violence was comparatively clever ; but Mr . DiSBAELr , however talented himself , has not that advantage .
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NEWS FOR CAYENNE . The Paris Correspondent of a contemporary is assured that the French Government has given an order , dating from the 1 st instant , proliibitlng any further transportations to Cayenne . " So that the French Government admits that the transportations have been going o n ever since the coxip d'Stat . Certainly , however , though the political prisoners alread y breathing the poison of that horrible colony may rejoice to learn that no new victims are to be dragged thither , the protest that has been made in the face of HJurope ia agaimfc orueltioa practised , not ewielties that might be practised . What alleviatioa is it to the hundreds of Frenoh
citizens perishing in Guiana that they are to be left alone in their misery ? The magnanimity of the Empire is characteristic . But what will be the destination of the thirty young men now au secret at Mazas ? They are accused of a plot to assassinate the Emperor . The police admit that no documentary or positive evidence of any kind has
been brought to light ; but they are prepared to proved—that is , to swear to—the crime . An open political trial under the Empire would be an originality , but the " history of Louis ISajpqleoit ' s conquests over such enemies may easily be written : Arrested , Accused , Condemned . That was the precedent of Angers , which is likely to be folowed at Mazas .
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There is no learned man . but will confess he hatli much , profited by reading controversies , his senses a-wakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write i— Miiton .
The Oeder In American Disorder. (To The ...
THE OEDER IN AMERICAN DISORDER . ( To the Editor of'the Leader . " ) Sib , —Allow me to address you once more , in conclusion . It -will be allowed that man has got fairly pronounced as citizen in Europe , that is , as the heir of a divinely permanent earthly order and dominion . He has been sprinkled by the Church from his natural or Pagan conscience , and been elevated by the State into the consequent hope of an unlimited divine blessing upon the earth ; America ' s destiny , I trust , is to fulfil this liope , or make it a reality . Her mission is to develop this somewhat narrow and prejudiced European citizen into the Catholic and hospitable man , by purging him of his merely national or political conscience , and giving him a social one , that is to say , by commending and entitling him to the love and sympathy of universal
man . It is precisely this solvent or purgatorial function of America wffich explains what seems to European eyes her huge disorderliness . Life is vigorous there in every sense but the political one . We have almost no police in the European estimation of the word , because the conservative principle with us is in simple truth no longer force but freedom . Our whole conception of life or order ( and it is at bottom the English conception , having been inherited by us from , you , and like all inheritances improved ) is that of an inward force in man , a force flowing frohi his own spontaneous deference to infinite goodness and truth , and not from any authoritative outward imposition . This conception is of course incompatible with any permanent respect to merely political institutions , or any institutions whose sanctions derive from some outward and
passing necessity . We have indeed inherited all these institutions in mitigated form from Europe , but we shall inevitably end by degrading them out of existence . All formalities grow shabby with us , all mere conventionalities dwindle . Our President , for example , is no longer some great man like Mr . Jefferson , or Mr . Webster , or Mr . Clay , because these men belong intellectually to the old or European fashion of manhood , and would be sure to rule : but , on the contrary , some very attenuate personage like Mr . Polk , Mr . Filmore , or Mr . Pierce , who is sure to
duck to tlie popular gale , and only too happy to postpone his private manhood to the exigencies of public office . God forbid that I should quarrel with the fact : I only signalize it to your attention as pregnant with important lessons . I have an immense private regard for Mr . Marcy and Mr . Benton , but I should bo sorry to see either of them President , because they would communicate an astringent or antiseptic -virtue to the office which I am sure must be illusory in the long run , and so obscure issues which , on the contrary , claim nothing so much a 3 to be clearly discerned .
No , the destiny of America is not political , nndit 3 keeping , accordingly , is not in the hands of any statesman wise or foolish . Were that remarkable model statesman whose presence Mr . Carlyle so profoundly desiderates to got birth at Ia 3 t , he would prove ix far more lielpleps and bewildered Rip Van Winkle with us than with you , because the juvenile or political conception of order , as a thing outwardly or voluntarily imposed , is absolutely unrepresented in our institutions . Our destiny ia completely social , and wo arc strictly incapable of any order which is not spontaneously generated , that is to «» y , which doet not Jlowfrop } fko nnttvo instinct ? and
aptitudes of the soul , controlled only hy the sentiment of human fellowshi p or equality . J Lynch law and Maine law , which are only different forms of the same spirit , afford another superb evidence of the social resurrection which is transacting under our political and ecclesiastical disorganization Here you see the old order of ideas assailed in its " penetralia . What is still vital of the old order in Europe is the Judiciary . Altar and throne have long since descended to the dust in scientific regard but the scribes continue to sit in Moses' seat and exert thence an almost unquestioned sway , it has long been thus at home . Our judges have been much more respected and respectable than our governors or our clergy , because they have r epres ented the moral element in humanity , in contradistinction
to its merely political and ecclesiastical interests . But now that a truer morality is dawning—a morality -which proposes the utter extinction of vice and crime , or a complete social regeneration of manthese judges are found to be as sceptical , pusillanimous , and incompetent as the rest . They did very well , so long as society was content , simply to drive a bargain with the evil-doer , or allow him so much indulgence in his bad profession as he could purchase by so much fine and imprisonment . But now that the problem is how to put a definite stop to evildoing for ever , they are absolutely useless , audmust accordingly submit to have their function more worthily resumed by society itself . In a merely
political order of things like England , a great deal of overt licence may be tolerated . People may be allowed to get drunk , to waste their property by gambling , and their bodily substance by other vices , and yet , on the whole , things prosper ,, because the force that keeps them together is an outward forcethat of bayonets—and is in . fact rather strengthened than-weakened by a moderate dissoluteness in , the lives of those who are subject to it . But in a purely social order of tilings like ours , it will not do to tolerate , these excesses , because society , disowning as it does all outward sanction , must depend for permanence only upon the cleanly and vigorous life of its members . And this guarantee is utterly lacking , so
long as the laws license the dram-shop , the brothel , the gambling-house , or any other nest of vagabondage and disorder . ' No doubt drunkenness , gambling , and fornication might still claim their private devotees ; but let them once become socially disallowed—disallowed by the united action of society—and it is evident that they must rapidly die out in private practice also , by the operation of the same law which banishes disease from the body by bringing the body into improved sanitary conditions . But however all this may be , the theory of the Judiciary is that it maintain only the laws that already exist , and resolutely ignore every social necessity , however urgent , not provided for by them . In which , case , of course , society is bound by its own life to set aside the
judges , or execute justice no longer by its superannuated attorneys , but at first hand . I myself have no dread of the consequences , because I believe in the Providential wisdom that guides human affairs , and never expect to see humanity taking what woodsmen call the back track , but only the onward one . My intellectual dependence , of course , is not upon Lynch law , Maine law , or any other simply transitional and disorganizing movement , but wholly upon that great life in the soul of man which is akin to all mercy and peace and uprightness , because it is primarily thence enkindled , and which has been hitherto discredited only because that patient soul has been so long and wretchedly sacrificed to the mere necessities of its temporary swaddling-clothes , or the prosperity of kings and priests .
It is likely that you will think and feel very differently on all this subject , as , indeed , you must do , unless you , too , are driven to regard humanity as one united life , and history as its orderly development . But if my notion be the true one , your own logic will uphold mo in saying that we are essentially untouched as yet by European criticism . You may cordially denounce us ; but it is the harmless denunciation which the grub bestows upon the chrysalis or the chrysalis upon the butterfly , and which must ero long give place to the same regenerate and beatified activity . Yours , & c , II . J . Paris , September , 1856 .
Fataii Mistake.—A Boy, Eleven Years Old,...
Fataii Mistake . —A boy , eleven years old , haa been poisoned by mistake at Woymouth , Dorset . The coroner ' s jury returned tho following verdict : — Wo find that tho deceased , Augustus Broughton , came to his death from tlie effects of a preparation of opium being administered to him instead of black draught , tlio mistake having occurred through tho -wont of care on tho part of John Lundio and James Barrett , two servants in tho employ of Mr . Barling , chemist and druggist ; and tho jury also wish to express their disapprobation of allowing young persons in tho employ of druggists to dispense medioino until they arc properly qualified by oxperienco to do so . " Tho boy who made up tho mixture was only thirteen years of ago . The deceased , lad , wag a son of Colonel Broughton ,,
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20091856/page/16/
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