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The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble «? T ? fv 2 t ° thro . down all toe barne rs erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions ofour S 1 t ' ' " Shi 6 idt ° C ' whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the ' free development
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"I ^ TOTHHSTG like a general election—unless were XX a bill for recruiting the suffrage \ riti . an honester life . "We shall get nothing out of the present House of Commons -worthy of the country ; it is falling hack into the regular routine of party compromises in the treatment of its finance , its rascals , or its duties . Ministers have compromised \ ritb . the Opposition by their budget , which is understood to be more liberal than they had designed it , thougli it is less liberal than that which Mr Disbaeli would have given ; that is , Ministers take off 9 L , but not the lid . which would have
been the rate under the Gladstone settlement of 1853 . In making that reduction , Ministers partially defer the decline of the duties on tea and sugar ; articles which , in the prosent state of the market for both of them , certainly required relief far more than they did last year . We have , however , discussed the provisions of the Budget in a separate paper . The compromise which Ministers have entered into has spoiled Mr . Disrahi ' s position as a champion of popular rights , and he has retreated on an abstract proposition about the necessity of readjusting- and balancing budgets , so as to remit tlie
Income-tax in 1860 . Mr . Gladstone grapples with the more practical part of the matter , and makes imself the champion of the clamorous tea-trade Mid the passive sugar-trade , in resisting the alteration of the duties . The first night on the Budget gave us little more than that dry , though clear statement which Sir Geokge Lewis had hardly voice enough to deliver , and the Members hardly patience to hear . It is , however , not a debating J 3 udget , so simple are / its outlines , so negative its character . Evidently Ministers hope that they have disarmed anything like general popular objection by the large amount of the Income-tax which they have conceded . We shall see .
Captain Scobell , one of the most promising members returned by the city of Bath , which commonly appoints some Tribune of the People , stands up for his own profession , and demands a select committee of inquiry into the naval appointments . The Army is said to be the playground of the aristocracy , we have given up hoping that the present Government will effect any reform in the system of commissions , but we used to consider the Nury a more national force , —that the rough life at sea prevents mere popinjay gentlemen from taking to
it as an amusement , and that here at least the appointments should be honest . Captain Scobell stated several cases which show that the system is not honest ; but he could not find a majority of the House of Commons to stand up for the national service . It is the same with public education . We were in hopes that the honest zeal of Sir Joh : n Pakingxon-svould draw to him , not only J ; he Manchester party , but Lord John Russeli ^ and that the complete-union of the best men from the Tory , Whig , and Middle-class parties would at last place this country on a par with the United States , and open a respectable school for every boy and girl in it . No such thing . We have been no flatterers of Mr . Cobden , but we cannot withhold from him a hearty acknowledgment of the services which he has sought to perform for his country in so handsomely joining Sir John Pakxngton , -whose frankness and manly concession to the views of others have won him the respect of the whole country . The leader of the Liberal party has not proved so strong . Lord John Russell did not directly oppose Sir John Pakingion , but hinted doubt and hesitated dislike . He seemed as if lie could not depart from the standards of the British and Foreign School Society . There is no knowing what might have been the effect upon the Ministers , if Lord John had joined the union ; it would then have been too formidable , too popular for Ministerial resistance . As it was , Mr . Cowpek , the Minister of Education , was comparatively free to suggest a moderate resistance on the score of sectarian sympathies ; so that by the passivencss of Lord John , Ministers and the Tories seem able to beat Sir Jo 3 iN Paicington and the Manchester party . Of course leave was given to Sir John to bring in his lull , if only out of personal respect for the man and of formal homage to the subject ; but the combination of parties promises little success this session . One act of common sense thcllouso of Commons has committed , Mr . Spoonkh ' s annual Maynooth motion lias been brushed aside by 107 to 159 . Even in the expulsion of its scoundrels , however , the present House compromises . Last session Mr . Roebuck proposed to expel James SadIjEIR , whose character was by that time pretty well known ; but the Attorney-G-ENkjlial pou Ireland hesitated to convict an ubseutec , —and also to vacate a Ministerial sent in Ireland , without more preparation . At last the candidates of the Tippcrary were ready , and Mr . Fitzgerald not only consents to expel James Sadlelb , but takea
the lead m doing so . Meanwhile , Jakes has got over to Paris—he has been seen there by one of bis victims , Mr . James Scully ; so that the delay has been beneficial to him . Mr . Roebuck now suggested that the House of Commons should look a little further , and see if it had not . more to do in the same line . There are two or three absentees the causes of whose absence might very well be investigated . They are in different grades of society ; the one thing common to them is that they are members of the Honourable House . Bat , perhaps , the best mode for rea-lly weeding the House of Commons , if it . can be weeded by any mode , would be a dissolution of Parliament . ¦ >
Ihe spirit of compromise which we have seen in the Commons prevails in the House of Lords , where we see Lord Brougham and the Lord Chan cellos perform eclogues on Law Hcform ; the Lord Chancellor , introducing bills , Lord Brougham ideas . The subject this time was the Consolidation of the Criminal Statutes . Everybody knows that the laws , from the extreme number of statutes , and . the unconnected manner in . which they have been composed , arc so voluminous that nobody can
understand them , so conflicting that they cannot be reconciled , and so arranged altogether that they afford traps for the use of the knavish and the injury of the honest . There have been various proposals for the purpose of reducing them , to a code , which is , however , scarcely consistent with the spirit of past legislation in this country . Our laws have been made bit by bit , we continue to alter them , and the code would be constantly subjected to amendments . It would , be Like that nuisance of which
the Italians arc so fond—a book smothered in its own annotations . A better plan is that of which . Sir FixznoY Kelly is the clearest and most constant champion , — the consolidation of the statutes . The Lord Chancellor professes to be active in this labour with the assistance of lua friend Mr . Bjbllkndun Ker . Mr . Keh is a gentleman whose work is always to be so perfect that he never seems to have finished it ; hence he liaa been exposed to the rcnroacli that lie delays the
work to prolong the pay , —a most unjust jfcjM ^ elu as Lord Brougham sh owed ; for Mr . Kmilyxtt 4 . oy & V ^ much of the work without any pay ::. B & . ^ . /^ t ) 3 ?* . zeal has not yet got us cither a c ( odifi < Stial ^ iVf ^ ^ consolidation of any considcrablcf ^ ajA ' i ^ . nldl ^ ji ; . ' •! statutes . The Lord Chancellor is , vnot ;| k ^ m ^^ , ¦> ~ - who can carry his own bills . Lqjjfjj B ^^( 8 Opf , t ' : !• ' ' C who calls himself the charge iVnJfalrm f ^ li ^ rc - '• ' ] . " ^ f-. ' ¦] forms , delivers annual speeches on tuo f ^ JQCtiAH ^ v /^
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21021857/page/1/
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