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^ P" Not strikingly eventful in politics , the week has been one utterly damaging to the Administration in every branch of affairs . The public has been watching for some signs that the Ministry would reconstitute itself ; and , as Thursday came with a Privy Council , so came rumours that the Ministry was to be joined by Sir James Graham , Mr . Gladstone , Mr . Sidney Herbert , and the Duke of Newcastle ; but Thursday evening brought the denial of these too flattering rumours , and the
announcement that there was to be no changes in other words , Ministers could not get anybody to Join them . Their case is too desperate , They are to rub on as they can , until the session opens ; and then 1 The announcement of no change the thickand-thin Ministerialists affect to treat as a sign that no change is needed ; but others , not unfriendly to the set , already look forward to a total change of Ministry : —the Protectionists to come in and do their worst ; after which the farseeing discern sunshine , with a prospect of some popular " onward movement , " sweeping away the privileges of the aristocracy , " as the Times phrases it !
Meanwhile , the disastrous state of public affairs is now receiving an attention which grows keener every day . Papers recently Ministerial , such as the Times , do not hesitate to expose a general system of inefficiency and non-government . The Navy is detected in the acceptance of contracts from persons who supply it with " preserved meats" that are mixed with offal and garbage , and have rotted in store . Not always in store , however ; for some of the stuff has been served out to seagoing ships , and has produced sickness on board . The Megsera steamboat is appointed to take a battalion of Rifles to the Cape , and she puts into Plymouth " disabled . " The fact occasions a disclosure that the men were
huddled into the ship together with Ordnance stores for the same destination , in a manner most likely to breed sickness among the men—and thus it is that a wretched parsimony , by making a store-Bhip and a transport-ship into one , risks the total failure of the expedition . Yet the troops at the Cape are wanted more than ever : the latest intelligence is most disastrous . General Somerset ^ promenade through the Waterkloof and among the Krdmme ridgeB , is anything but a triumphal or a victorious march . Lieutenant-Colonel Fordyce , Lieutenant and six
Carey , men fell under the fire of the concealed Kafirs . The Highlanders waver , rally again immediately , and make a clean sweep of their crafty foes . General Somerset promenades for thrde days , and returns to his camp , followed by the Kafirs , who , not all dismayed by the vaunted assault on their fastnesses , enter the General ' s camp , steal the UenerarB oxen , fire on the General ' s sentries , and it was sarcastically hinted they would probably walk off" aome night with the General himself I | Tqww EomQN . 1
The Kafirs both fight and manoeuvre . Sir Harry Smith does not move ; indeed there seems to be an opinion that he cannot move effectively without more troops . Troops in the Megsera remain at Plymouth ! The attack on the negroes at Lagos , on the Western Coast of Africa , is a step of which the merits have scarcely come before us ; but , whatever its merits , its success is very doubtful . The party
under Commander Forbes made good its landing , succeeded in firing the town of the " King , " made it ' s own retreat in " good order "; but it encountered a desperate resistance , and the technical " good order " is not likely to be appreciated by the negro savages , who will assuredly think that they have-beaten off the British . On the whole , the military intelligence from Caffraria and Western Africa is not propitious .
Much discussion has arisen on the state of military affairs nearer home . Sir Charles Shaw has written to the Times , corroborating "An Old Officer of Light Division , " proving , so far as a newspaper letter can , that our Continental neighbours are four or five times as good marksmen as our soldiers- —if the disproportion be not greater . The Times backs its correspondent ; and many journals , hitherto rather distinguished for peace tendencies , now openly avow an apprehension of aggressive
war in France , and a dislike of our military condition , exposed and unprepared as that is . The Leader itself cannot be more urgent than the Times , the Daily Newsf and several other journals equally inclined to Ministers . There is * a strong feeling that the state of the national defence is far from being satisfactory ; and the elderly gentlemen who preside in Downing-street are reminded of their responsibilities . The attack pn an English officer , at Florence , suggests a call upon Ministers to enforce Lord Palmerston ' s rule—" Civis Romanus sum "—a
British subject shall be protected wherever he goes . At present , from the Amatora ranges to Val d'Arno , an Englishman seems to be regarded as fair game . Government is not exonerated from blame in those respects by divers didactic successes . Lord John Russell , for example , has succeeded in putting off a deputation from the Public School Association , with an impression that he ia in favour of secular education , though he will not pledge himself to « ny course , nor even say anything definite ; by which means , probably , he wins the advocates of public education to be his allies , without the trouble of being theirs . We doubt , however , whether such a sucoess is worth its cost in the
long run . Lord Grey has succeeded in winning the colonists of Cape Town by a new constitution , very " liberal" indeed ; but his triumph ia won at the cost of a confession that he is defeated . He adopts into his own draft the principal points of Mr . Attorney . General Porter ' s draft , wraps it all up in his own peculiarly flowery and crotchety style of
despatch , like a bonbon in a frilled paper cover , and hands to the colonists their own demands . Why not do it sooner ? Perhaps in order to afford the colonists another proof that , if a community be only rebellious enough , it may have whatever it asks . The franchise granted by this new constitution is a household suffrage , almost equivalent-in a colony to universal suffrage : now , why is household suffrage granted to the comparatively young and rough community of the Cape , and refused to the People of this country ? The differences are all in favour of England , except this
one—that the Carjfe has been more sturdy in its demands , even to rebellion . That is a valid reason , and is recognized , it appears , officially . Ireland is adding to the troubles of the day . The agrarian conspiracy in the North continues , in all the old potency of Ribandism . At Dundalk , Mr . Fortescue , brother to the Marquis of Ormonde , after having gone about with a guard of armed men , has relinquished the anxious post of resident , and withdrawn . At Armagh , a young man cannot obtain an insurance of his own life 1 At the same place , a tenant , who objects to join in importuning his landlord for reductions of rent , is waylaid , beaten , and left for dead . Sir James Emerson Tennent
describes the country—its peasantry pauperized and demoralized , its inhabitants disappearing , its local taxation exhausted , its men made reckless by want , and heated to insanity by organized excitement , and now occupied professionally in noonday slaughter . Worthy gentlemen are meeting " to consider , " are proposing an augmentation of police , and recommending that more districts be " proclaimed . " But how long have such measures been " tried ' * in Ireland , and how have they answered ? Surely it is time to study Ireland in Ireland , and to deal with facts as they are , not on a priori assumptions . Only for such a purpose we ought to have a Government ; which is precisely the organism that frowning-street cannot produce .
The" one thing that does promise strength to the country , ¦• the Anglo-American Alliance , that , it is intimated ' , ' the old Whigs , the genuine "high " Whigs are to resist ! It is too national for them . However , it js , also too strong for them . Coming it is ; and the People of either country will not very readily be baulked of a " genuine alliance , to keep Up the miserable connection with leagued despotism , which l \ aa coat this country bo much , in money—the Continent so much , in misery .
" The Lower Empire , " with new scenery , dresses , and decorations ; a serious comedy , in four epochs-On the first act terminating with a inassacre of Palet 6 ts ; the curtain ( which , were not the actors the Saviours of Society , we should have oalled Red ) descended . The first scene of the second act is the ceremony at Notre Dame ( N . B . The French stage especially affects religious chants and processions ) j the second scene , the Banquet at the Tuileries—about which there hangs a certain ominous mystery , for the Moniteuris silent , and officious .
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VOL . III . —No . 94 . SATURDAY , JANUARY 10 , 1852 . Pbice 6 d .
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Nbws OF The Wbbk— Papt National Public School Association .. 31 The Strike of the Masters 35 Organizations op tub Pnoru?— y ^ letters from Paris .................. 2 S > . The Grievances of the Omnibus The Phantasmagoria of France ...... 35 How the Time * asaaiis Working Men 40 S ^ Continental Notes ... 27 Servants 32 The Guard of Freedom .... 36 Of kn Council— ' Burningof the Amazon at Sea * . 27 The Arctic Expedition .. ... 32 Governmental Departments 36 To the Members of the National Disastrous New * from the Cape ...... 28 The Preserved Meat , of the Navy .... 33 Lit brat oil b— Charter . Association 40 The Ministerial Imbroglio .. £ 9 Military Camps round London 33 The Westminster Review 37 Health of London during' the Week 11 The Revenue ... 29 Miscellaneous ........ ...... 31 Wilkie Collins' 8 Christmas Book .... 38 Commbrcial Affairs—The Case of the Engineers 29 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 34 "Visits to Relations 39 Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , Xo * suth in America ... 30 , Public Affaiks— - Books on our Table . 39 &c 41 * 48 ¦ - ¦ ' i . » ¦ . ¦
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"Tub one Idea which History exaibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour toi throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-3 ided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Rehsfion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object— the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 10, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1917/page/1/
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