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A Political And Liteeaey Eeview. V ; ^
A POLITICAL AND LITEEAEY EEVIEW . V ; ^
"The One Idea -Wlncli History Extiibita ...
" The one Idea -wlncli History extiibita as evermore developing itself iaito greater distinctness is the Idea of Hiimanity—the upble ¦ ' ,-. ¦ • : 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 ' . of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldfs Cosmos . . ; . . _ J _ ¦ ' . ¦ .. *¦¦ ¦"' , .. ; ; ; " " .
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HPSE Lords are succeeding admirably in showing - * - that they have the privilege of being inaccessible to reform . Whatever irregular attempts a timid Lord Chancellor may make in trying to reconcile the House to the actual wants of the age , —whatever very moderate course Lord Grev may advise for correcting the irregularities of the Chancellor and the gross deficiencies of the House , the Peers that rally round Lord Lyndhuust are firm in refusing
to be reconciled or amended . They are making a collision with the Crown , as if for the purpose of filling up time with exciting conflicts , should the Conference at Paris , result in peace . It is clear that they had already , before the present week , exhausted their precedents and their arguments : we were in as good a position for deciding on the paint at the beginning of last week as at the end of this . The facts are extremely simple . The House of Lords lias retained to itself the function of judging in the last resort , after it had permitted the judges to depart from . it . It now
exercises its supreme judicial authority with Peer judges , when it has them at hand , and when it has them not , with ordinary judges , who sit and whisper the proper adjudication to somo lay Peer , while he stands vip and , puppet-like , delivers th < s oracle . There is a difficulty in multiplying the Law Lords , for these reasons : They must be clever enough' have attained a great eminence in their profession ; they must be rich enough to provide for the sons that come after them , if the peerage be hereditary ; and When they avp appointed , they must be in such
condition of health as to make it probable that that they will last long enough to make it worth while to appoint them . As it is , a Law Lord cannot b-o created for a few years' service , except under condition of his possessing sufficient money to provide for a long line of Ltvy Lords after him ; for tlie succeeding Peers do not relapse to the bar , nnd therefore do not ascend again to the Bench . A temporary addition to the judicial part of the House has hitherto been followed by a permanent addition to the non-judicial part . The " Wenal « ydale creation corrected that practical anomaly
by appointing a competent judge without the condition that his non-judicial and perhaps incompetent sons should sit in the House . We have no exact precedent for such a step ; but it would seem , from the collective effect of the precedents , that the power does reside in the Crown . Lord Lyndhurst , however , without any precedent , proof , or principle to support him , invites the House to a declaration of opinion that the creation of a life peerage is illegal , and that the life peer cannot sit or vote in Parliament . Thus the judicial bench of the House cannot be cheated except under the same conditions that have kept it in its scandalously ineffective state . If we are to have a more complete court of appeal , Lord Lyndhurst and his followers say , it shall not be within the House of Lords . Rather than admit such an improvement , they will mutiny against the Government and Crown . They claim to be perfectly independent of the law , for they virtually announce that they have determined to decide the law for themselves , and they are resolved to exclude the Peer whom the Crown has added to their number . It is , therefore , a rebellion of the Lords which Lord Lyndhurst has invited . The mayors and magistrates have got up a rebellion against the police legislation proposed by Sir George Grey . They have held a meeting at Herbert ' s Hotel , in Palaco-yard , illustrious for the Anti-Corn-law gatherings ; as if they expected to carry the principle of non-protection for peaceable citizens by starting from the same point as the principle of untaxed corn for the million . The cases , however , arc not parallel . Half of the English counties have adopted the County Constabulary Act j and it would not bo very oppressive if the other half of the country be required to follow the example . The boroughs have a rather better case , though it is probable that they do not resist upon that which is really tho most reasonable objection . There is little doubt that one cause of irritation amongst tho borough notables is that provision in the new Mill which would exclude policemen from voting at municipal and parliamentary elections . Think of striking off some of tho votes by which tlio aldermen and councillors , with their favourite members , have taken their
seats ! The reasonable objection might be to the interference of the Secretary of State mioxoUgb . business , to modify the regulations , pay , and uniform . Yet there are manifest advantages in obtaining some kind of unity in the action of police over the entire . kingdom . However that may be , the attempt at a police improvement ?^ s called forth a strong impulse of "local self-governmeLL , " or local self-rao « -government > as the case may be . Yet more trouble has been caused to the Government by an event of the future . Mr . La . yaRd has had standing , for some time a notice of motion on the state of the Army before Sebastopol . On the appearance of the report from the Sebastopol Commissioners , he shaped it into what amounted to a virtual vote of censure on Government for giving promotion to those officers whom the Commissioners had had convicted of misconduct , particularly pointing , of course , to Quartermaster-General Airey , General of Division Lord Ltjca . n , and Brigadier-General Lord Cardigan , Aihey , who failed as Quartermaster-General in . the Crimea , is appointed Quartermaster-General at home . Cardig an , who could not contrive to get liis horses and food together in the Crimea , is made Inspector-General of Cavalry in the United Kin'gdora , Lucan , guilty of complicity in the bungling charge at Balaklava , the danger of which he A \ A not share , gets a grand colonelcy ; and Colonel Goiidon , aocused of minor offences in . the East , obtains a minor appointment at home : so accurately docs promotion apportion itself to culpability ! Mr . La yard seemed likely to I Cake a strong ground in tlie House of Commons , by the simple foz'co of the facts ; but Ministers have come across him with a diversion . They have announced tho appointment of a military commission to ^ wj ^ ea ^ . witli closed doors , into the conduct of XfkprO ^^^^/\ ^ accused by the Crimean CommissWri ^|®^^ Iplllp Si precise meaning of this diversion do ^ XTOJ ^ Ja ^^ OTt MjUn ^ in the public announcement , or ifinI | ftK ^^ c 5 » w-O ^~** CO Minus ' s " statement" to the House ° ^*' ^^^ wf |^^^^ i [> plies a confession of weakness in som ^ p ^^ y ^ P ^ a ^ vj ^^ il fy but tho design can only bo silence oiWty ajMH ^ HBffiE ^ y J Pj This year , whether it be peace or wtojm ^ McS ^ J ^ *^ will bo required to meet the demands of the year , —most likely wio ?* e than was wanted last year .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 23, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23021856/page/1/
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