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WHAT A " LEAGITE COULD DO . The Eiig-lish people is at the present moment incompetent for public action . * We do not say this vdtti any desire to complain , or with any feeling of hopelessness .. We Believe that the inaction which , has seized upon&us ; has reached its greatest point , andthatiiio chkage can happen from this day which is not likely to be far the better . But the more i * we
understand how completely the inaction of the Engliah people * places . it at the ^ mercyiof sectional classes , ' private interests , political cliques , and diplomatic professions , the sooner is the nkbion likely to aroiise [ itself from its political nightmare . Indeed , it is arousing itself on the one subject of the war , and it is through -that great summons that we expect to see the life of the nation thoroughly revived . ' . ' ••¦ : ¦ "'
- Let us take some of the recent andpiore striking instances of the inertness .: ISnglaad has interfered in the case " of ^ urkejr ; but according to some politicians , who are not without a show of evidence , the professed objects o > f the war and English interests are equally sacrificed in a treacherous subserviency to Russia . There is also an idea ' that the very ' purpose for which vre enter into the contest will be sacrificed to the convenience
of particular royal families ; yet the people do not care to interfere in the matter . > Tneie is a general admission that there ought to' be a Reform Bill extending the franchise , yet no Reform Bill can be carried . The Hieform Bill proposed- by Ministers would have been an improvement upon the existing system , and its fate shows now impotent the real public suffers itself to ^ . J | jjg . All classes agree that there should be seme amendment—the very Tories do not deny it ; but each class takes its own view of the
amendment , and none has so much power aa to command the majority . A number of statesmen who happen through an extraordinary combination of affairs which permits an administration unappointed by party to be in office together , have concurred in framing such a lteform Bill as should not essentially alter the present arrangements , but yet should correot some of tne moat obvious abuses , and should really extend the franchise in a manner favourable
to further reform . The measure was not what tlie working classes could ask , —they would not have refused it ; it alarmed nobody ; it would have been a real improve-
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whom I owe much , much more tlan I can ever pay , " dtbeo , aetenramque debebo . ; " at ' 5 , St . James ' s-street , informs me that '' long coats are in vogue , and that the trousers are roller , touching just the top of the instep , and coming straight round the bottom . " " Colours are a matter of taste and discretion , but all tending to brighter hues . " " Th « appointments of sill and velvet are again visible . " Isn't that the true Nngee lingo ? A man . about town needs three auxiliaries—a tailor , a doctor , and a lawyer : the tailor
good thing that Henry Seymour , young , sensible , and a real sailor , commands the . ship , or there'd ha * been hot pitch and the devil to pay when they got to the Baltic . The very error too , for which the Times and we , recalled Sir Fleetwood —Felfew ^ Hm the China Seas 1 On Saturday I took a hairy Yankee to the Zoological Gardens . Nothing pleased him more than the hearing that "the American alligator was infinitely healthier and happier than the African monster . " Tie attendant on the fish
reports that his lively charge thrive well and spawn : all save the lobsters and sbell fish , who , crnstaceous like , and of slow habit , take their time in perpetuating their race : " the rind of a crab is composed d ' ye see of infinite layers , and is not made in a day . " I believed all I heard , being so intensely ignorant on zoology . The hippopotamus was in his baththe ant-eater under his tail , as usual ; there is a young lion seven months old , in company with a mongrel bull-dog , both intimates , and attached to each other warmly . I speak of these gardens as being accessible to all classes , humanising , and suggestive of odd contemplation—monkeys and men .
. Christmas bills are bywords as " household ills : " my bills come in , At Christmas : but it is after March that the dans come out and sit , Janitores sine motu , at my house in Chesham-place . The Society of Arts bores me more tfcan any institution into which I have been inveigled . Having spent all their funds , with a thought , like Charles Surface , o ? pawning the heir-loom pictures , this society rose all at Once from its ashes aiid embarrassments , and began a new
existence , out of debt . , Nobody used to pay his subscription : now everybody does , principally through the active donning organised by the council , by letter , card , attendant , note in their journal , personal demand at their meetings , &c , &c There is Mr . D ., the collector , who is a very death ' s-head of duns . Why hasn't Sir Peter put down dunning ? . - Combes , as usual , sold mo in the boat race . I am born for a victim for vice ! ~ . .
Disraeli was ministerial , pompous , and with but one good speech at the' Artists' dinner on the 8 th . Monckton Milnes , at the General Theatrical Eund feed on Monday , oratorised like a dramatic lecturer ; long and somnolising . T . P . Cooke made the best speech of the evening . Albert Smith was out of place : a smaller area is batter filled by his rapid picturesque sing-song elocution . Tom Taykr , a sort of admirable Criehton in everything but his dress , is deservedly popular with artists and actors . If a country cousin would like to know the ( tinner par excellence of the season , for stars and garters , solemnity and a loving cup , let him betake himself to Merchant Taylors' Hall on the 10 th of May , at a feast for the Sons of the Clergy , where Lord Mayor sits between Prince Albert aud the Primate of England , and where a bishop pronounces th * " nunc cdamus . " .
Do you suppose that Lord Grey will worry himself into the Ministry . Look to the Times , He ' s a good hack , but raw , here and there , and shies desperately . I would put a pertinacious place-hunter into a park-keeper's uniform , and make him the cicerone or custodian of the Duke of York ' s Pillar and it * corkscrew stairs . 'Twbuld be handy for my LoTd , living in Carlton-terrace . ( To my pleasant surprise , the Eykyn ( coarse-Eykyn ) Brothers wrote me from 'Change-alley that there was a dividend , at th « rate of 9 per cent , per annum , at the halfyearly meeting of the Agra and United Service Bank , held at Calcutta last Februaiy . I can't get more than 6 out of Lady M . ' s shares in any of the metropolitan banksand why ? - "
My friend John Bruce Norton has sent me his book on th « Requirements , &c , of Madras— Double government , " " Ryotwarec-Zemindaree system ; " roads , railways , canals , loans ; " Dittuin r" Jummabundy , " " Puttahs and ; Revenne , " topics of fear to an ignorant and indolent man as myself . The writer is a sound and spirited " statesman in the egg , " and will help to rout tbat old omnipotent oligarchy in Leaden hall-street ' , headed by Hogg with a largo family . Two wonderful men repose in the ' penetralia of the East India
House ; Peacock , who -wrote Headlong Hall , and John Mill , who beats Benthnm and Smith by long chalks . " Dem all civilians and all that ' s civil , " says the young Emperor of Austria . Bird writes from Vienna " of the painful feeling among the citizens that neither the burgomaster nor any other representative of the capital is to be present at the rnarriago of the Emperor , although the whole corps of officers belonging to the garrison will be permitted to possess tho church . "
Entering "Tho Prince ' s" smoking "rooms ( ^ Who is tho Prince ? and ivlmt u strnnrro lot of nobodies are to be found there !) , A , that Merry-Andrew of the London amatours , who hatca newspaper men , twigged my long coat" Omtorian "— " Hippocrates "—and so on . You , as a gentleman , will bo pleased to hear that , ore lung , tho " educated " mun of dross will again \> c to bo recognised . Every man , ciLher by himself or hia tailor , should be instructed how tu clothe himself ; there's l > cen a vilo e < iuality of late years between yovir garments and your neighbour ' s . Tina unnatuiul BtuU of tilings is nbout to cease ; " the difference in quality of innteriul will operate successfully against the cutLing system . Mines' men will bo detectable . One , tc
shields him against the weatler and want of fashion ; the doctor against the maladies of civilised society ; and the lawyer against misonderstandings with mankind in general . The week has bean dull in town , except in quiet Minis , terial dinners , —called Passion Week , ' cos there ' s no excitement—no theatres—only promenade concerts , which are unbearable without Jullieh ; and the east wind , which has congested more free livers than mine , I dare say . Lady M . has been crocheting ; by my side for the last three days in my dressing-room , whence this is written .
Thank Heaven , lo-day 1 start for the French capitalfollowiog Lord Baglau and the Puke of Cambridge , who were off , as you saw , last Monday night . The Duchess of Cambridge afterwards went , oa Tuesday , to Kew , for the Easter holidays . I saw her Royal Highness two days after the departure . The Baron saya—she spoke of her son as a mether should speak : " He is gone to fight for his country ; And my son will neither shame his rank as a prince ,, nor his birth as an Englishman . "
Only two or three regiments pass through Paris and South France—a very wise pro-vision—the Rhone is hardly navigable , from want of water ; broken by islands'and distributed over vast space . The stony mountains and dusty roads in its neighhourhood necessitate the moustache to be worn as an anti-poussiere . Les lies d'Or are pleasant , hovrover , for a pleasure-seeker . Olives , figs , oranges , roadside aloes and myrtles , in a land only ten miles east of Toulon ! The Bazaar at Drury-lane proved nuUce niagnm trernulakaties : —people don't like this charitable dodge as much as they did : one chooses to give one ' s money and ha * done with it : but not to be imprecated or implored out of it , for trumpery that's of no earthly ase but to put . behind the fin . I bought a pretty little sketch of two of the Chobham soldiers , drawn by Mrs . Felix Pryor , of Ankerwycke , who sent six to the stalls . " ¦ «_
Those of the painters whom Lady M . would drag me to visit ( you know how tenacious women are of public promises , * and I made you one last week } , were well worth the trouble of reclining in tne brougham to and from the Studios . Stanfield , the supreme of scene-painters , has a grand picture " In the Pyrenees . " Boberts , the most educated of architectural artists , will send to TrafaJgar-square two pictures of Venice — his studies at Bone are but jost transported home ; they say , he meditates a view of the UrbsUnica , thirty feet long ! Maclise is to present us with "The Marriage of Stromgbow "—vide Lingard—rich pomp , valiant figures ; mailed and femaled , as Poole used to say , in front ; swelling the triumph of the happiest hour of a man ' s life ;
and the . Omega of all , in the "background of the picture , is a distant burial-sc « ne—a constrast to check strong health and hilarity— " Nunquam animus . " " A Visit to the * Lady of the Village" by little children , has all Webster's kindly pathos and easy sentiment ; 'tis an old careworn life juxtaplaced to the fresh , hopeful innocence of childhood—the dawn and the dark ot days . Mulready with but one picture , careful and conscientious . Ward has completed his " Sleep of Argyle "—full of power and reality . "A Watering Place , " by Frith , is highly commendable . Sir E . Landseer will not be persuaded to exhibit his noble presentation of the " Return from Deer-Stalking at Balmoral . " The Council of the Great Exhibition
forms a good group for Phillips : all the portraits . are striking , save that of the greatest man there , Sir Robert Peel , the lamented . My Lord Derby is the best looking of tho batch : the gamecock and mettled racer have their types ev « n at a sitting of senators . Tbat crafty Mr : Cole is very cleverly caught . That quaint , shrewd , and hard-working artiat , Aug . Egg , deserves all praise for his picture , in two compartments , of the Life and Death of Buckingham ; the one a swinging carousal ; the other his last breath amid dirt and misery . I won ' t quote Dryden ' s lines . Creswick , O-. li-ering , and F . Dillon have all charming landscapes . J . W . Glass , who began bj shady sketches of Charles tlie First and Second periods—glimpses of lean ladies attended by lova-lorn cavaliers on weUrSbaped . atepds , and who advanced into portraits of moss troopers , Gorthg's gentlemen , and wild sportsmen generally , has a tine picture ot " Richard
and Saladin crossing the Desert , " full of life and light , brilliantly painted . This gontkman is of great promise ; lie has an instinct for equestrian portraits specially , with not very high art ; he is a lectle too old to loarn , us I hear , but tlie natural vis vivida is iu him . Ansdell Las a large snow scene with wolves attacking a traveller's horae ; tho innater , like many another horseman , is hcdj'ing himself . Son soir . I am very sleepy . 1 have had no visitors today , save a dull , radical lord , J . P . llnrloy , tho comedian . j » ud tho racing Smith . My lord made- mo list leas ; tuo second miide me Ayeiik -with laughter at his jokes ; tho third Hiilled me by his short , snappish , worldlywise chit-chut . Word * I words I words 1 as ilnmlet says , and words only mid 1 . I ' m drooping , there ' s no doubt about it , and ii ' a my French trip thut will restore to me , as my little boj Fred ways , tlie merit sanay in corpora aauu . »*¦ " * -
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3 ? here is nothing so revolutionary ,, because . there , is nothing ao unnatural ana convulsive ! as the strain . " to keep things fixed wicen all the world is by the ' T ^ My law of its creation in . eternal proare 83 . —Db . Ashoxs
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TO EEADERS AND COBBESPONDENtS . ; : V .: t It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we rert ^ lJ **^*^ 1 ™ <> " « delayed , owini ^ o a iS of matter ; and when ondtted it is frefltwnt ^ from r « - ' tionl 6 " ^^ P 611 * 1611 * of t ^ e merits of the communica-^ ° rr ? ° J ice ^ H be ^ aken of anonymous communications . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the nanw and address of the vrriter ; not fcewSsariEr for pubhcaldon , but as a guarantee ofhis ^ oodlMtfcT ^ Tv ? , ?? * undertake to return rejected communications . All letters for tne Editor should be addressed to 7 , WeuinKton-street , Strand , London . ^^ Oommunications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increascirthe difficulty of finding space for them . . - - , Erratitm Ln No . III . of "Pan-Hellenism and Pan-Slavism in Turkey . "—Third column , line 5 , " It is not only that the agitations felt in Hungary , Ao ., are the result , " rettd . " Tho agitations felt in Hungary , < tc , are not the result . "
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Leader (1850-1860), April 15, 1854, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2034/page/13/
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