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In the House of Lords the Inhabited Hous...
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But most solemnly do we adjure him, befo...
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" Mr. Alderman Salomons : Because It Is ...
The Chancellor of the ExcHEauER said a question had been asked , and it was pimply postponed until Monday . Sir Frederick Thesiger did not under stand what they would be called upon to discuss on Monday . He then intimated that Mr . Salomons beyond a doubt was utterly incapable of taking his seat ; that last year a " great mistake" was made in the course pursued in Baron Rothschild ' s case ; that he had gone carefully over the precedents , and had concluded that , as there Avas no difference whatever between the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and the oath of abjuration , if any member refused to take " the oaths" his seat was void , and that a new writ ought to issue .
Here Mr . Behnal Osbornb rose to order , and asked whether Sir Frederick was strictly in order if he did not conclude with a motion ? The Speaker assumed that he would conclude with a motion ; and Sir Frederick , turning upon Mr . Osborne , said : — " I beg leave , then , being instigated by the honourable member for Middlesex , to move that the Speaker be directed to issue his warrant for the election of a member for the borough of Greenwich , in the room of Alderman Salomons , who had refused to take the oath of abjuration in the form prescribed . ( Loud and prolonged cheers from the Opposition benches . )"
The Chancellor of the Exchequer expressing his surprise at this course , Sir Frederick rejoined that he had only adopted it , as Mr . Osborne seemed to think it necessary he should conclude with a motion . And he was going on to speak , when Mr . Anstey called him to order . Amidst another burst of triumphant cheering , the Speaker said Sir Frederick was in order , as he had a right to reply . After the motion was withdrawn this scene continued . " Mr . Osborne asked if it was the intention of the honourable and learned gentleman to move his motion again on Monday ? " Sir F . Thesiger : I am afraid if I answer the honourable gentleman , he will consider me out of order . { Triumphant cheering from the Opposition benches . ' )
" Mr . Osborne again rose , and , being met with cries of Order , ' asked the Speaker to state what was the question before the House ? " The Speaker ( with imperturbable gravity ) : The question before the House is , the consideration of the amendments made by the Lords in the Killamey Junction Railway Bill . ( Loud laughter . )" In the Committee of Supply yesterday various sums were voted . The Jtegium Donum was carried by 115 to 43 . Colonel Siuthokp , as usual , made some absurd and ludicrous remarks upon the vote for the expenses of the Royal Commissioners of the Exposition . He said it was a •« gross fraud , " raised
up—by whom ? for what purpose ( laughter ) ?—a little popularity to certain individuals— to one great personage , fed , clothed by this country [ the House received the remark with freezing silence ] , who had hel ped to bring unsuspecting people up from the country , who would not be aMe to pay their bills when they returned . A division took place on an amendment moved by Mr . Williams to reduce the Miscellaneous Estimates by £ 6107 , u sum including various expenses of the royal family . The amendment was negatived by G 9 to 43 . The vote of the sum required to pay the lloyal Commissioner was on a division carried by 81 to 33 . The Miscellaneous Estimates were ultimately agreed to .
702 Wbt %Ta%Tx. [Saturday,
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In The House Of Lords The Inhabited Hous...
In the House of Lords the Inhabited House Duty was read a second time , Loid Monteagi . i ; declaring that lie looked upon the exemption of houses under £ 20 and incomes * under £ lo () from taxation as " purely Jacobinical —in the abstract" !
Mr. T. Duncombe Presented A Petition Yes...
Mr . T . Duncombe presented a petition yesterday from the Society of the Friends of Ital y , prayinK thai steps might be t . iken by her Majesty to prevent the continued occupation of Home by the French troops . We learn by private correspondence from Paris that a note was on Thursday communicated to the Austrian from the Pupal Government . It requests the Auntri . tn Government , to obtain the consent of Fiance ; and Kngland to the substitution of Austrian and . Neapolitan troops for the French in Home ; and if thin nei / otiution
fails these troops are to advance on Koine ia s » urh a manner as to Rive to fh <; French a pretext for retreating on Oivila Vecehia . The note al . so reque . stH Au . stiia to insist strongly on the expulsion of the rvfu ^ veti from Hughim ] (!) or at least to demand thit t . a Htrict . burvcillanc . e lie maintained , which in tfw jtrascnt state of things the . I ' upul ( ior . cmtnent cannot iti . vlf demand ; nml , it is added , that they know perfectly in Koine thut the " loan" Jiuh succeeded . Ou ^ ht . not 1 ' ulnicisfon to he looked after under mich ciictiniHtanccu ? The FiiendH of Italy niunt keep their eye on him .
The Appointment Of Deiieial Magi Win To ...
The appointment of deiieial Magi win to the command of the army of J ' arin in regarded hh a new proof of the iilee Jixc of the JVeHident . General Magnun w «« cnga ^ e < l ia the mad con « pir . u : y which ended in the liulie .-roiiH iuvaHion of Houlogne . by l , ouh Napoleon and a ' * party of friendH . " Ho i » devoted to tlie President . The nomination at Scarborough resulted in the " hIiow of hiuultt" being in favour of Mr . Ueor ^ e Frederick Youii ^ . a poll wuu demanded on behalf of Lord Mulgnive .
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^^ SATURDAY , JULY 26 , 1851 .
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There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...
There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
But Most Solemnly Do We Adjure Him, Befo...
But most solemnly do we adjure him , before the period of inevitable further action arrives , the period of embarrassment and pressure , to consider the validity of the difficulties which will be suggested to him , the validity of the scruples which will arise to his own mind , when he is compelled to see , in all their nakedness , the influences that uphold the iniquitous system . William Ewart Gladstone is a man remarkable among the most distinguished of our country and of this day . He has long been noted for his natural capacity of mind % friends have feared that his
GLADSTONE THE WITNESS . A witness has come forth against the iniquities of Absolutism in Naples , such as never yet joined in the denunciation , and we challenge that highminded and chivalrous gentleman to take thought , at this moment , whether he will abandon the great enterprise on which he has entered , or pursue it to the end . We do not seek to dictate to him the mode in which he shall pursue it ; there is no need for such dictation , even if we had the right .
mind was even over-cultivated , and thus rendered fastidious , ultra-refined , extravagantly nice , prone to balance abstractions , and hindered in action . He had displayed much aptitude for practical statesmanship ; he is reckoned among the advisers of the Sovereign ; was the colleague and friend of the greatest statesman of our day , now departed ; and perhaps shares , most strikingly , that statesman ' s outward disposition to be over-impressed by conventions and forms ,
while , still like his friend , he is most able among our known statesmen , in dealing with the things lying under those forms . Intellectually inclined to the Conservative side , he has displayed a strong heart , moral courage , and no little decision . Among leading statesmen , perhaps there is not one that can be placed above him . With the doubtful exceptions of the Duke of Wellington , Lord John Russell , and Sir James Graham , and possibly the Karl of Derby , no man holds a higher Parliamentary rank .
Now , this man has been to Naples , hag seen , has observed , has inquired , has been impressed , and tells what lie knows , simply and plainly . He tells it in English style , as it will impress Englishmen . What is it that he tells ? He describes how the prisoners of Naples are treated ; with a noble directness that elevates the filthy disclosure to the height of the sublimest eloquence , he describes how gentlemen arc cast down to the condition of wild beasts in crowded dens ; how they arc condemned on baseless charges , got up by a class of witnesses
that in this country we should call bloodmen ; how they are condemned by venal judges pledged to condemn ; and how there are thousands of such prisoners . Now the whole of " the Opposition" of the Parliament was incarcerated or driven into exile . Mr . Gladstone quotes the constitution guaranteeing freedom , representation , and fair trial to the Neapolitans ; the oath by which the King swore " in the awful name , of the Most High and Almighty God , " to maintain that constitution atill unrc pealed .
And to whom was all this wrong done ? To men , ways Mr . Gladstone , like Lord John Russell , Sir JiuncN Graham , or Lord Aberdeen ; to a people ho mild and well disposed , that when , for four months , Naples was in the hands of its four hundred thousand ' inhabitants , not one of the more serious crimes was committed ; not one , although long hcoi'cn of vengeance might have been remembered . For be , it remembered this tale in not new , but only the witness to it . Pepe has told it . Thrice did the ( irst Ferdinand nwear , like the present , with tearn , and protestations , to maintain the constitution
-Francis swore j and the second Ferdinand keeps up the shocking practice of swearing . And for three generations of the Bourbons have the Neapolitans endured what Mr . Gladstone now describes . When the Bourbonisinpower , itisareignof Jefferies , perpetuated and multiplied ; when the People has been in power , it has been mercy , trust , kindness , even to that brutal Bourbon that" never dies . *
We are not exaggerating , we are notr colouring the Englishman may understand what Naples is from what Jefferies was ; only that our James the Second had but one Jefferies , Ferdinand has many ; and our Jefferies had no prisons ready to his hands like those of Naples . It was thus after 1812 , thus after 1821 , it is thus after 1848 , thus in 1851 . Is not this horrible ?
Now , why is it ? Could not the Neapolitans right themselves ? Unquestionably : they have done it . But then have they been betrayed by foreigners . Ferdinand the First swore to the Constitution won by the Neapolitans , went to Laybach , and returned with Austrians ; Francis playing traitor to keep open the path for the foreign enemysupplying his own soldiers with worthless weapons to make their defeat the surer . France and England both have to answer for treachery in that region .
On whom does the perjured Ferdinand , whose power maintains this horrible system of Jefferieson whom does he rely ? On Austria . Austria is ready to put down any rebellion ; and while she is busy at that work , Prussia will do the work of Austria in the North . France will fill up the gaps . And Russia is behind . Mr . Gladstone should ask himself whether this horrible system , which he so justly and nobly denounces , could subsist , if it were not for the combined powers of Absolutism . He would leave questions of government to be settled , as internal questions , between sovereign and people : are they so left in Naples ?
But there is another , and for Englishmen a more formidable question : what part has our Government taken to counteract that Jefferies system , or to uphold it ? We are forced by such facts as have come out , and by the secrecy in which the rest are veiled , to believe that our Government has practically helped to maintain that horrible system , and that it intentionally maintained the authors of that system . Is Mr . Gladstone prepared to face that question ?
He should be so . We need not labour to make him feel the misery inflicted on that beautiful country whence he has just returned ; we need not urge upon him that some nobleness is still left in her sons , some capacity for the enjoyments and the duties of life , some faculty for obeying the Divine behests in promoting the welfare of mankind ; we need not exhort him to learn the truth of the tales of Neapolitan prisons ; we need not intreat him to inquire whether there are not inhuman tyrannies also in Sicily , in Rome , in Lombardy ; we need not incite his imagination to call up the aggregate suffering inflicted in that renowned land , generation after generation , since the day when Napoleon cheated Venice
out of her ancient constitution , even as England cheated Sicily out of hers . We need not urge these reflections upon him , for his own mind will do the work better than we can ; but we do implore him to reflect upon the power which opportunity , which the gifts of God , which the dictates of his own heart , which the sympathy of Europe conspire to place in his hands ; we implore him to dare to survey the good that he might do , if he pursue his high and chivalrous enterprise , if he persist until he exposes the whole of the wrong that oppresses unhappy Italy . He has described the wrong : what would not Italy be if that wrong were removed from the land ? what happiness to millions even oi those who now live , and of those who are
to come , it that Jeileries-HyNtem were not to bo upheld and were merely to cease ? He has persevered ; be has faced the first aspect of some of those huge questions , and has not turned back ; he has tried private remonstrance with the Government of Naples ; he has ascertained , in his own case , how the claims of justice are met by the organized multiform Jctteriea of Italy ; he has braved some of the conHequencen of a imblie denunciation ; Ihj Iiuh done a great Hervico to Italy , to Europe , and to mankind ; but there is a future , and in that also is there renown for him to win —nay , let us nay rather , in that also in there good for him to do aa the friend of his race , as a servant of God .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 26, 1851, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26071851/page/10/
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