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THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (From tlie Registrar ...
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cessity of checking Russia , whether she be a weak power impudently asserting pretensions to which she has no claim , or a strong powe r contemplating the absorption of Austria as well as Turkey—of Europe as well as Austria : He will be seen by his speech thoroughly to understand the necessity of reorganising , not oritjr ^ RieJHorse Guards , lint our whole system of military nand civil Government , with its aristocratic de *» y , and its political scrofula of patronage . There is no man who looks more like the maii-3 br the time than this same Robert Lowe .
Lord Debbt has been holding a meeting at Lord Egunton ' s house , to gather his scattered forces and reconcile bis followers to himself . Practically , his speech amounts to a penitent assurance that he will no more consort with Gladstone or Gbaham * but will be faithful to the Tory colours ; and the sulky meeting , it is said , relaxed its frowns under the playful cajolery of the earl . One man of the faction might now find in a national party the opportunity-for taking a leading place in the country . ; but Mr . Disbaem seems to retain a sentimental fidelity to that Quarter Sessions class in which his county amb itions have
buried him . The Ministerial crisis throws a broad shade over the proceedings in Parliament , although they have been of firat-rate importance . ' The Commons have laid before them the navy estimates and programme , the army estimates and military programme , the military reforms intended by Government , and the whole subject of blockade brought forward by Mr . GoiiUeb . In this place we can only state the results . The army will be increased to a total of 173 , 000 , exclusively of
the-Indian army . The Militia will be presseaforward to its full amount . The total estimates will be raised to 13 , 700 , 0 O 0 Z , aind 60 , 000 will be recruited during the present year . The navy will furnish two fleets in the Baltic and Black Sea , moved entirely by steam . The forces in men will be raised to 70 , 000 . The total estimate is 10 , 700 , 000 ? . Commissions will be sent out by Government to enquire into all the abuses of Transport , Commissariat , and Medical Departments , and Staff incapacities , with authority to remedy abuses . With regard to the blockade , the result of Mr . Coijcjeb ' s statement on the one side , and of Mr .
Cakdwjeuul ' s on the other , is , that the blockade has been enforced as soon and as extensively as it was really expedient ; that Russia has suffered from restriction upon her trade ; that to adopt more stringent measures towards neutrals , or prohibition of Russian produce at home , would injure ourselves and allies with a minimum of injury to Russia ; and that the question of the transit trade through Prussia must be handled on political and military grounds , with respect to the responsibility of Prussia as a power in Europe . In the House of Lords the Earl of
Exjlenbobough took the occasion for a new bill to facilitate the enlistment of older men and discharged soldiers , to point out the extension of the campaign necessary to the vigorous prosecution of the war , particularly the employment of Indian artillery and irregulars which can be spared . He advised a diversion in Georgia by means of a Turkish army with European officers , rendering effectual the hostile operations of Schamyi * and the Circassians ; and Lord Habbowbi pointed to similar recruitments * , by calling out " the oppressed nationalities . " These are good sounds to hear in TPni « IiArnf > r > t .
From Abroad we hare , really , scarcely anything to report—nothing to say , except that the signs of , movement continue without material change . Prom the Crimea , down to the 9 th instant , they otnd , better accounts , with assurances that sometfcing ; ioujrt happen shortly . From Germany , -testy m > t « s by Baron Mantbuffix , and assurances that a treaty between Prussia and the
Western Powers is about to be concluded . From Paris , that Lord Johk fcas gone forward on his mission to V ienna ; and that the Empebob talks of setting © ut for the Crimea between the 10 th and 15 tk of next month—which nobody believes . Bread slots are proclaimed in Liverpool and London , immense numbers of the working classes are thrown dot .. of ';" employment tgr the season . Tkey are soflfering horribly ! Some of the rioters may have been really hungry , needy
persons , exasperated by genome suffering . There is too much reason to suppose , however , that idle vagabonds have usurped the name of the people , have raised insurrectionary flags , and have created a riot , in order to snatch , not only bread but cash , from the till as well as the oven . The riots , of course , have "been put down ; but it would not have been so easy to put down the gigantic mass of want , if the giving of the frost had not brought a bope of relief for trade as well as labour .
Lord Clahbicabi > e has published a letter in the Daily News , contradicting the calumnies circulated against him , a propos to the late trial in the Irish Court of Chancery . Lord Gi-anbicabde is correct in saying that he had not sufficient locus standi in that court for his share of the cause to be freely investigated . He does not avail himself of his locus standi , however , inthe Daily New 3 to produce that disproof of the inferences against him , which would finally dispose of the calumny . But , in the personal history of the week , the foremost event of interest is the death of Joseph Hume .
He has gone at the age of seventy-eight , although a few years since he seemed-as hale and as able to continue work as a man of forty . Joseph " Hitme had lived two lives , and the accumulation of years helped to bring contradictions of the presumptions continually made regarding him . Asa surgeon , and an official under the East India Company , he acquired a considerable fortune , which was not diminished in later years , and he had attained to afihience and independence before half his -life had closed . His public life then commenced ,
and he did not marry until the same period . NTew to England and to politics , he began life at forty , as youths often do , on a side different from that to which he ultimately attached himself . He was a Tory . But . the inveterate desire for improvement ™ which _ made . him ^ afterwards the Parliamentary reformer , the advocate of the working-class—in their education and their recreation , as well as in their release from the tyrannical combination laws—made him become a Liberal and something more . He viewed most subjects in the material form ; could not rise to
theoretical politics ; but always desired to make things better by the rule of common sense . From this want , so to speak , of general faith in politics , —being only in public affairs a practical Christian , belonging to no sect—he was the auxiliary of more than one party , the leader of none ; and , although his support was desired by every Liberal Ministry , he was not invited fo brave , on the Treasury Bench , the retorts which some imitator of bis criticism might have levelled at his official finance . Few men , except O'Connell , have been more abused by friends as well as foes , and no man is more generally regretted .
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The Public Health. (From Tlie Registrar ...
THE PUBLIC HEALTH . ( From tlie Registrar "General ' s Jieport . ) Ik the week that ended on Saturday the deaths of 1475 persons—namely , 741 males and 734 females , were registered in London . The mortality which , since "the . cold weather set in , wrs highest in the last week of January , has in the subsequent weeks exhibited a decrease , but it is still much above tho ordinary amount . The numbers in tho last five weeks hare run thus : —1549 , l 630 > 1604 , 1546 , and 14-75 . The mean temperature in the buiAo periods baa been 28-9 , 29-3 , 29 3 , 30-9 , and ( last week ) 25 * 4 . Last week the births of 903 boys and 912 girls , in all 1815 children , were registered' in London . In the ton corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 tho average number was 1401 . «
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . TJMt "Wl«»—MINISTBUIAX , EXPLANATION . Ojt Monday , on the motion for going into committe e on the Army Estimates , . Mr . LsK » kBi >* ook the opportunity to refer to the present state of afliurs . He said , although his remarks ¦ would hove been more appropriate if given on the proposed motion of Mr . Roebuck , the fear of a compromise induced him to seize the first occasion . But it was not inappropriate , considering his great sympathy with the country and iho army , and the fact that nearly seven and a half millions were to be voted for its support . The same sum was voted last y * ar , and the army left the shore in splendid condition , and highly disciplined . Nevertheless , it had absolutely wasted away . Mr .
Layard felt quite disgraced in his own eyes that he had not , last year , more boldly and fully expressed his convictions , but he had been influenced by a variety of considerations . Then came Mr . Roebuck ' * motion , which was carried by a majority of two to one , the feeling throughout the country being so strong that they would miss the pleasure of the society of many members of the minority in future " Parliaments . The challenge was accepted . Suddenly the Government went out , and for many days no new administration could be formed-After some days had elapsed Lord Palmerston succeeded in forming an administration . * ~ What , then , did they see ? They found that administration almost identically
composed of the same individuals aa the late Government . Under ordinary circumstances , perhaps , in the straits to which the country was reduced , such an administration might have been accepted without much remark , but when they were called upon to trust to that Government the conduct of one of the greatest wars in . which this country had ever been engaged—when they were called upon to vote large sums for the support of our army redueed to but a fraction of what it had been — -when they were asked to vote confidence in the Government , it behoved the House to inquire what that Government was , and what it had done to merit the confidence of the country ? It was said , the same men did not fill the same offices now as heretofore . It -was
true some changes had been made , but others which might have been desired had not been made . They should , then , consider how-far those -members of the Cabinet who had been retained were deserving of the confidence of the country . The House was told a few nights since by Mr . B . Osborne that even he ( Mr . Layard ) had not dared to attack the right hon . baronet at the headof the Admiralty . It certainly was surprising to hear-sncli a challenge after what had passed on two occasions in that House upon two of the most important subjects which could be mentioned—the question of blockade and the question of the transport service . Had not the question of blockade been managed by the Admiralty in such a way as to cause immense mischief *
and was it not one of the causes of our present difficulties ? As to the transport service , had not hon . members risen over and over again to declare the utter confaaion and almost hopeless condition of the transport system ? He did not wish to say anything against Lord R " a " glan 7 but , " when ^ challengedritwaB the duty of every member to discharge his duty to his constituents and the country without any false delicacy . There had been serious mistakes made , which had arisen , as he had always said , and conscientiously believed , from the mismanagement of diplomacy . The management of the melancholy conferences at Vienna was a perfect disgrace to the diplomatic body . If a bolder diplomacy had been pursued , he doubted whether we should be in the present
state of war . With regard to tho diplomatic service , many appointments which were made in it were not worthy of the country . He reminded tho . * House of a transaction between a member of the diplomatic service and a noble lord who had retired from that service , whereby the noble lord who had filled the highest post in tho service , but who was from his ago past service , was appointed to a mission by what the conn try called a "job . " That was not to bo passed over in silence . He ( Mr . Layard ) had frequently asked whether a blockade existed , and was always told it did ; but months afterwards tho Government admitted by ft new order that there had been no blockade . Then it was stated that there were only 12 , 000 loft of our army , when a right hon . gentlemen immediately answered that tho number was 80 , 000 ; but afterwards it was admitted that the former was the more correct number .. Tho Government ,
however , refused to dhow any document to support the assertion . Tho country would not bo satisfied with such a mode of dealing with tho subject when they suw that our army was starving—that our men wore feeding on French bread and clothed in French garments . But some member of tho Government told them tho ftrniy was revelling in luxuries and perfectly protected from tho weather . The country was not satisfied -with those statements . Respecting tho Foreign Enlistment Bill , nil members of tho House woro called upon to bwhIIow their declarations made upon tho hustings , because they "K ' told tho bill was onoof the utmost importance , mul must be passed at once . Lord J . Russell ( then tho leader of tho Houso of Commons ) made a speech of two hours duration , to prove that tho bill was warranted both in principlo and by precodent . Ho ( Mr . Layard ) diil not voto on that bill , and ho believed that thoro were members
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 24, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24021855/page/2/
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