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" What will be the upshot ? Lord John cannot appeal to the country with the slightest hope o success . Every " cry is spoiled for him . Protestantism ? That would lose Ireland , and would not gain him a vote in Ehglaild or Scotland . Par liamentary Reform ? That would provoke universal ridiciile . After his reply to Sir Joshua Walmaley , and his opposition to Mr . Locke King , the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association could hare no dealings with him . Free Trade ? That is utterly obsolete . The question is fairly settled . Any serious agitation against it would be too dangerous for the landowners , as the Times shows . |
Will Sir James Graham join the Whigs ? That is not likely . It would only damage his own high position and influence . If he had had friends and retainers enough he might form an administration . Along with the young Duke of Newcastle , Gladstone , and some of the wavering Protectionists , he might make a Very powerful Government , with ft popular policy . A Stanley Administration ! That is the bugbear ¦ which the Whigs will hold up before us . But what damage could Lord Stanley do ? He could not be powerful enough for mischief . He would be forced to propitiate the people with practical measures of reform . Surely this would be infinitely better than a self-styled Reform Government , passing bad measures with Tory assistance , or refusing to bring foward good measures through fear of the Lords .
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The Irish agitation against the Ministerial antipapal measure is becoming very warm . A meeting was held in Dublin , on Thursday , to petition against it . The meeting was nominally composed of the Roman Catholic inhabitants of the pari-hes of St . Mary , St . George , and St . Thomas , connected with the Roman Catholic metropolitan church , but the people assembled from all parts of Dublin and a great many Protestants were also present and took part in the proceedings . The chair was occupied by Mr . R . Kelly , town councillor , and among those on the platform were the Earl of Milltown # Mr . H . Grattan , M . P ., Archdeacon Hamilton , Mr . J . M . Cafitwell , &c . The Earl of Milltown , though neither a Catholic nor a parishioner of the parishes named in the
requisition—Had seized on the first opportunity of coming over to attend it , in order to protest , as an Irishman , against that which he felt would be most injurious to his country . ( " Hear , hear , " and c / ieers . ) He attended as a Protestant and a Christian , to protest against an act which he felt would be most injurious to itwhich would controvert a dogma that was preached to the members of both his faith and theirs , and which would prevent the feeling that should exist on earth of peace and good will amongst men . Although , it might render him unpopular for the moment , he maintained that the extension of the bill to which he
referred to Ireland was unwise , unjust , and uncalled for . ( Hear , hear . ) It was unjust , because whatever excuse there might have been for it in England , where , raised by what influence he would not now Btop to inquire , an outcry and an expression of surprise had certainly occurred at an act for establishing titles which for a long period had been unknown , or had lain dormant in England , there was not the shadow of an excuse for extending it to this country , where those titles had long existed This measure must be prevented , by the people of Ireland speaking through their representatives in Parliament , who must combine , and declare that no Minister , who would not do justice to Ireland should command the votes of the IriHh members upon any occasion . ( Applause . )
Ihe rnortt remarkable feature in the proceedings of the meeting was the announcement made by Archdeacon Hamilton that Archbishop Murray was at that moment preparing a pastoral to the Roman Catholic clergy of the archdiocese of Dublin to bo read from the altars on Sunday next , calling on the people " to pray against the persecution that was raised against thorn , and denouncing the nefarious bill projected by Lord John Russell . "
The final returns of the state of the poll in Bedfordshire , mlve Colonel Oilpin a majority of about three to one ovrr Mr . Houghton . The delegates sent from Shields to London to the Hoard of Trade arrived at home on Thursday evening ; and it has been resolved at once to open tlie ports and allow the "hips to no to fii > a . A meeting of the Kenmen from both nide « of tl \ e Tyne wan to be held in South Shields yesterday afternoon , when It was anticipated that the terms proposed h } the- delegates for the close of the strike will hi ' , agreed to , mid that the immense fleet of ships looked > M > in the Tyue will be manned and get to sea . The jSoiird ( Trade concedes the twenty-two regulations for the rminten . ince of discipline on board ships to tlU » seamen . 1 hey will [) c , at once crossed from the articles .
Ihe . Berlin 'Ministerial papers of the 19 th iiiRtant protm against , the endeavour * of Austria to separate Prussia ipim her leHser allies . According to the statement at tj x'rte papi > r « , tho following propositions were made to Huron MnnteunM : —1 . Thai an Executive Board of nino v < " « 'h booreiiU-d , to be presided oV * r by Autitrift . 2 . That a I ' eilrral Wur ollice he created under the Archduke AInrcuht and th « Priruie of Prussia . 8 . That a Legislative Hoard bo instituted * under the presidency of Prussia . Austria prop oHOH to enforce these plans , in aplte of the ixoteum of tho Biniiller Slates . Pmuuiu refuses to act , uuh-Hs tho smaller States consent to the nrraugoment .
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A NEW EMPIRE IN EUROPE . Austria is astonishing her friends . She outstrips the most sanguine expectations of her reactionary Confederates . Not much is positively known of the results of the Dresden Conferences ; enough , however , to elicit a universal cry of dismay . Austria proposes to incorporate the whole of her dominions , Hungary , Lombardy , Venice , and all , with the territory of the German Confederacy .
Prussia , Germany have ceased to exist . There is now only one huge Austria , an empire of Central Europe , extending from the Baltic and German Ocean to the Adriatic and the Mediterranean , and by the great channel of the Danube to the Black Sea : an empire of seventy to eighty millions of souls , embracing the whole of Germany , one-third of Italy , a lurge portion of Poland , with perhaps a Hcore of other new , ardent , high-mettled tribes . What was the crown of the Othos of Saxony , what even tho triple diadem of Charlemagne to the now chaplct glittering on the brow of the youthful Kaiser at Vienna ?
Yet such wiiH the inevitable finale of the derman reaction . ' 1 'he coexistence of Austria and Germany had , since March , 1848 , become an impossibility . Germany must , either divide and break tin Austria , or must be swallowed by it . Three different proposals wore repeatedly made to reconcile the interests of the two states . First , an entire and absolute separation . Then the admission of the Austro-GcnnuH provinces alone into the Germanic Federation ! Finally , tho incorporation of the whole of Austria , with exception of her Italian Provinces . Now Lombardy , Venice , and virtually Parma , Modena , Tuscany , and the Roman Legations arc to become German .
German nationality thus marges into the AuHtrian union . Great national interests may reconcile tlio German people to the loss of political existence : for how long it is difficult to say . Germany abdicates
her dignity . Prussia sinks at once into a mew Imperial Lieutenancy . Tiie German Princes become mere puppets , with not even the shadow of the importance of their electoral predecessors . It is an unparalleled eVent , big with unfathomable consequences . Russia herself might well be startled at her own work j but it is too late to oppose it . France and England protest ; but protests break no roan's bones . And , after all , what baa Austria done besides acquitting herself of her crushing task > What complaint can France and England prefer again * her , if she took advantage of their lack of address in securing their own share of the prey ? She only bags . the game her obliging friends have shot for her . Her allies were mere amateur
bunglers . They crushed for the mere pleasure of crushing . So Prussia in Baden and Hesse ; so France in Rome ; Austria alone has a business-like way of going to work . But the treaties of 1815?—the balance of power for ever hurled at our teeth ? Alas ! honest men had never ceased to say it i Deletida est Austria . That hybrid state was the stumbling-block of European progress . Our English diplomatists talked and acted as if the very axis of the earth hung on the skirts of the imperial mantle of the house of Hapsburg . Austria was " our natural ally , " and now it is Austria alone that kicks the beam ; Austria , that brings Europe on the very brink of a general war .
For , behold ! the new federal compact is scarcely acceded to , and already the new colossal empire thunders at its neighbours' doors . One hundred thousand men gather on the Swiss frontier . Prus * sia has a bone to pick with the Diet respecting her high Protectorate of Neufchateh Austria must needs take upon herself the police of the French and Italian cantons . Masses of troops are equally ready to cross the Ticino . Alas for Sardinian statutes and Helvetian democracies I The iron tread of barbarism never drew near with a more ominous sound .
But woe , above all , to France—distracted , craven France ! She may not have to fear the fate of Lombardy or Hungary . But let her look to Prussia ! There are depths of humiliation by the side of which the most irreparable reverses are signal trophies . The extinguisher that is now putting out the light of the Great Frederic at the Dresden Conferences has already cast its shade over doating France . France is threatened with something worse than the worst territorial losses . The Dresden scheme would isolate , blot her out , annihilate her .
Nor has she any reason to rely on the incompressible force of the popular element . Matter , we know not for how long a period , has now the advantage over spirit ; and France herself powerfully contributed to this dolorous consummation . The Dresden Conferences aim at no establishment of national unities . They build an empire , not a country . It is no question of constituted communities , of coalescing races . It is
merely an amalgamation of brutal strength : a condensation of unthinking bayonets . How formidable , time will show . Let only the project of a great federal army of 120 , 000 men be carried into effect , taking its station along the Rhine from Radstadt to Dusseldorf , with its centre at Mayence and Frankfort j only let the warlike Teuton fall into the ranks with the fiery Hun and headlong Croatian , and then it shall appear whether France herself can exist otherwise than by their mercy .
And England ? England is faithful to her Venetian policy : rotting in her lagoons—impregnable , yet not invulnerable . The fall of nations around sinks her * fathom-deep in her slough of magnificent impotence . Austria and Russia lord it over the Continent . Little hope for Kurope , except such as may arise from the quarrels inevitable amongst robbers at the division of the booty . And England ? England , always at her old business—keeps shops for " all nations . "
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LORD JOHN'S DOWNFAL . It is tottering ! a few more such blows and it is over ! Mr . Locke King invited the Commons to admit a bill extending the £ 10 borough franchise to counties ; Lord John objected to so sweeping a measure , and invited the House to wait till next session . The House went with Mr . King , and the Speaker announced a majority against Ministers of two to one : imagine the Premier ' s countenance at the ghastly sound . Lord John deprecated any proposal " to sweep away the Refofm Bill : " who proposes ' * to sweep away the Reform Bill ? iy As well propose to sweep away 1832 . What every Libej-al but Lord John does propose is , not to Stop at 1832 , but to go on to 1852 . He has the uttndst objection to doing so , " till the proper time . * ' He is " consistent , " and will not alter the Almanac which he published in the day of his youthful fame . So we are leaving him behind , He is not for finality—Oh no !—but he must be allowed time for his next reform to bud . Alone was he left , with his dismayed retainers , on Thursday night—abandoned by Conservatives and other " allies . " We hav ' e recommended the union of the Opposition against every bad Ministerial measure : the Conservatives have taught us that it is as good simply to go athay , and leave Ministers alone before any one section of the House . The defeat must be , will be , followed up . All are now convinced that the Ministry is useless , effete . It is only blocking the path against the entrance of some better Ministry ; for any would be better than the present . Already Lord John has ceased to be Premier : he is only the Obstacle General ; and Policeman Public is ordering him to " move on . " At last we are again in motion !
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There i 3 nothing 30 revolutionarjr . because there ia 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 . —Db . Arnoid .
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?— . — SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 22 , 1851 .
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TIIK BUDGET—OF "NOTIONS . " As Lord John Russell wishes ; to bo accounted a constitutional Reformer while he is planning a despotic persecution of the , Roman Catholics and is doing nothing for Reform , so Sir Charles Wood wishes to be accounted a sound and liberal financier , while he has not the heart to give anything but twopenny boons . Never did arty country exhibit such gigantic resources as England , coupled with such gigantic wants : Sir Charles is not only among those who are not willing to do the work of rendering those ;
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 22, 1851, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1871/page/11/
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