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YOL III No . 101 . ] SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 28 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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A week ias elapsed ; Lord John Russell , with all his Cabinet and its train , has passed off the scene , andTLord Derby occupies the ground with a new Administration . The composition of the Cabinet is in itself a curiosity : the list has undergone daily changes ; but while we write , illia is its last form : — - JFjyP ^ . l ^ rtt "" . . , . Lord JDerby . Exchequer . . . . Mr . Disraeli , Lord Chancellor . . . Sir Edward Sugden . Home Secretary . . . Mr . Walpole . Foreign Secretary . . Lord Malmesbury . Colonial Secretary . . Sir John Pakington . Lord President . . . Lord Lonsdale . Privy Seal . ^ ... Lord Salisbury . Board of Control . . . Mr . Herries . . , . ,, f Duke of Northumber-Admiralty .... .. | , Post Office . . . . Lord Hardwicke . Board of Trade . . . Mr . Henley . Woods and Forests . . Lord John Manners . The assortment of Under-Secretaries and Minissters not in the Cabinet is still more curious ; but public amusement has exhausted itself on the subject , and now awaits the development of the Ministerial policy . Lord John Russell threw up the government on Friday night ; the change of Ministry was formally announced to both Houses on Monday j and both Houses adjourned till Friday ,
to give time for the reconstruction of a Cabinet . It has proved an interval not at all too long , but still long enough for the public curiosity to die away considerabl y- Nothing is expected from the present Ministry , nothing feared from it ; but the general feeling is one of satisfaction at any change , and a hope that a Tory Ministry may stimulate the dulled faculties of Reform .
Ihe two questions immediately before the public are , whether the Ministry will press its Protectionist policy—whether it would dissolve Parliament at once ? Immediate dissolution was impossible ; tb >; Mutiny Bill , and various continuance bills , which are indispensable ; forbidding so abrupt a termination of the session ; but the
newest idea Is , that the dissolution will take place in five or six weeks' timo . As to the policy of Ministers , the organs of the party liavo been making preparatory apologies for any delay that may take place in the enforcement of Protectionist princi ples ; but no doubt much will depend on the [ Country Edition . ]
reception which Ministers meet with from Parliament , or subsequently from the country . Some of the absences in the Ministry are remarkable . Lord Lyndhurst keeps away ; though he is the only man that would have given force to the party in the Uppeir House ; Derby ' s impetuosity having no quality of sustained force .
Some Infer that I * ord liyndhurst is not sufficiently satisfied with the prospects of the party to disturb his personal arrangements . Mr . George Frederick Young is not well enough to enter office as Vice-President of the Board of Trade ; though one might have expected such an offer to restore life under the ribs of death . Lord Jocelyn publicly
and formally contradicts , as an imputation , a statement that he had accepted office under Lord Derby . Sudden political activity has followed the promulgation of the extinguished Reform Bill and the fall of the Ministry . Manchester meets in hot haste , very resolute , indeed ; bids Lord Derby to look out for squalls from the North ; and threatens to awaken , by decided passes , the " Old League " from its mesmeric sleep , and declares itself ready to subscribe quite a royal revenue , and so prevent the reimpoS . > n of the bread-tax . Yes : Reform is what it must come to—Corn
Laws or no Corn Laws ! Finsbury , Marylebone , Lambeth , and Birmingham , are manifestly of that opinion . Finsbury and Birmingham will have manhood suffrage ; the other boroughs are contented with " extension , " as the phrase goes . Lambeth , indeed , calls for a " residential" suffrage , which is a term of wide meaning .
In addition to these general outbreaks of suppressed popular feeling , we have the hearty meeting of the advocates of an untaxed press , in St . Martin ' s Hall . In fact , the week has been prolific in significant expositions of what is in the public mind . Close your ranks ; Forward !—that is the
watchword . ' Curious results of the masters' strike in the iron trades , are visible . Besides the great fact for us , that every day brings labour nearer to organization , in the form of Co-operative Association , there are" minor facts , not at all consolatory to the masters , but cheering to all others , —engineers
setting out for Belgium ; , failure of the infamous declaration policy ; generous assistance from other trades ; general sympathy of all skilled workmen ; failure of masters in obtaining hands from Scotland , and other places . Mr . Newton ' s summing up , on Monday , wns encouraging ; and Mr . Coningham ' s speech useful and instructive . Meanwhile , the coalwhippers have successfully struck
for higher wages ; , and the Hylton ship-carpenters continue as they were . Even the great pauper question is not without its bright side . The Bolton magistrates have wisely resolved that reproductive pauper-labour is better than throwing away millions , year after year , to maintain able-bodied men in compulsory idleness . " Political ( Economy" must surrender ; or , rather , false oeconomics must give place to true . It is too ridiculous to pay people for doing nothing in Workhouses , although they do such things in Public Offices .
The death of Archbishop Murray reminds us of the most grievous of the laches committed by the Whigs . The discreet and enlightened Dr . Croly was succeeded by intolerant Dr . Cullen , of Ptolemaic astronomy ; the mild and Christian Murray will very likely be succeeded by a priest of the same ultramontane stamp . If the Whigs had fostered that Liberal party among the Irish Catholics which has made so stout a
stand for the Queen ' s Colleges—if Ministerial influence had been used in friendly spirit to modify the appointments of Rome , the half of the Church , headed by Dr . Murray , might have been converted into a liberal majority . But that patriotic encouragement of true religious freedom was abandoned for the political humbug of the " Papal aggression , " and Dr . M'Hale is dictating the growth of the majority on his own side .
The latest reports of Louis Bonaparte discover him fortifying the Tuileries , and turning palace gardens into shelving batteries . The enthusiasm of his seven million constituents is becoming dangerous . Or * is he fearful of being besieged in the midst of his sanguinary splendours , by the common hate of France ? The reconciliation ( never so probable ) of the two branches of the Royal House portends a
more sudden and a more speedy struggle . How long this man may last is no more a question of years , but of months : perhaps of weeks : for , in that volcanic land , change outspceds time , and moments of a nation ' s life arc intensified into epochs . Ahtiigonisms spring up around the Dictator in rank luxuriance ; the elections even fpr a ; Legislature created after his own image , are dreaded and deferred ; so clastic has constitutional
experience made the resources of opposition . The darker the situation , the more desperate the policy , as the shadows of h rapid retribution are closing upon him , hemmed iu by sullen and noiseless conspiracies within , meiuiccil by dynastic
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28021852/page/1/
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