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public until blood has been shed by the police , and a hundred prisoners have been carried up to he fined—after braving the people to escort him to church—Lord Robebt Gbosvenor has , by yielding , shown that he will concede to fear what he denies to reason- &nd , tfcg . Govwsasnt , Whose Home Secretary set or * the police , confesses that it can outrage the people k&t not govern . Ifcis not only the Sunday Trading $$ \ that causes tfee resentment ; it is npt ojjl £ t | se Beer Acfeaow under course of examination fey a Committee , of the
House of Commons : there is something more in the popular feeling—a settled dissatis&cfckHi , an abiding sens ^ i-fei ^ t * fe ^ peop le are unrep * esei * te& ; and worse tban / . tfaafc , a , content Jo $ . the class , that has monopolised office but cannot govern , and cannot conceal its incapacity to govern . The Home Office , with its phthisical and fanatical Secretary of State , has made itself the tool of a battered beau -whose attempt to coerce the consciences © f . the working classes provoked the people to come out and detect bishops breaking the Sabbath
In H yde Park ; on which , the blue-coated gendarmerie of Downing-street are instructed to retaliate , "by breaking the . peqple ' s heads . And it is after all done , the Home Office has not even pluck enough to defend itself , but half promises an inquiry , whicfe it half refuses in the next debate , a © . d ; -which will , no doubt , be evaded , unless the people can for once concentrate their demands : TlQf > n : sqmething , that can be secured immediately . ' ^ The inquiry , the' inquiry "—that is what the peop le should now insist upon , instead of
burlesjtjiuing the successful demonstration in Hyde ya . rjk . with some rioting in Pall Mall . To persecute ike . clubs , because a battered beau , who has not candour enough , to show lis own grey hairs , has e » de , ay . oured to legislate for conscience and to pjay . the Saint by proxy , -would be poor work for " the , people . " The riotous visit to . the clubs ¦ w , ouljd be the commonplace mistake of following ug . ^ successful blow by a poor parody . But the inquiry into the conduct of the police will bring tliejCpnteuaptible governing set within the grasp o £ the governed ; and that is the thing to insist
iffipn-. Itis ; not that the fermenting has subsided ; the co-jumotion is . working at home , and abroad unc asjngly- In America , the great Know-nothing pjusfcy ,, after swamping every political and economical sect—Whigs , Democrats , Abolitionists , Free Soilers , States-rights men , Federalists—is broken to . pieces in the endeavour to give definitiveness as . well as , unity to its " platform . " The Hepublic cannot be one , any more than the Commonwealth of this country Our own conflicting elemonts wijtl not permit us . The free-born Englishman is in , five cases out of six disfranchised , and
politically null ; and he will inovo till he gflta , hjus . right . We are a commercial nation , piquing , our ^ eltves upon our integrity ; and every clay ., discloses the , extent to which fraud and reokleaa trading hove rotted our commercial systewu St ^ AbcaUjPaui ., and Co . appear every week , a < i . the policor . court . The , London Dock Company . is defending itaelf aV law , under an action for , negligence in permitting a fraudulent substitution of wines , ; and the administratrix of Lar « AM , who was murdered by Bujbanelli , appears this , week litigating with Jjsanms , who lived in Latham ' s houso , and in whoso money proceedings
the names of Ovbwhsnd , Gu « nbx > a « d . Co . again figure . We draw no inference from a fact of which tba < j firm possibly had small cognisance ; bujb it pfien happens in society that wfl * are involved in , transactions of which wo have not the slightest suspicion—the broad causa being the universal ] conjjusion and cntanglqmont . A ^ . d all the while Death demands his duo . uiwaSM&JT ^ ' * ^ as * "con ft ' oin us John Black , the , ^^ K ^^» Vi | jK | lcTO of / . th ^ Morning Chronicle whonifc was a jJF * jJBJt $ 8 £ J $ gi jflwSKfSHRr ^ k'K organ and something moire ; thoi ¦ ¦ ¦ fj ^ w ** ' *
genial journalist who ,. sfcQod up—in his libraryfor the rights of man ^ -after a moderate fashion . The great tax-gatherer has also called from us James Sip * . Buckingham , the Louis Phim ^ pb of the Ifrg lish project-mongering world —the kindr ^ arfr ^ d , intelligent verbose , egotrfejjeal bore , wh& took Society by the button-hofe , as $ was par&jned by the sa «*« s « Hling Society $ & his goo ^ atu ^ e , and his real pow * r of amusem 8 » $ .
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THE UTB LOB © > KA LA # ,. . Ik the House of Lords , on Monday evening * Lord Panmtjre brought down a message from the Queen , recommending the House to take steps towards making a provision for the widow and children of the late Lord Raglan . Having been read by the Lord Chancellor , it was ordered to be taken into consideration on the following evening . — In the House of Commons , Lord Palmbrstpon brought down the same message , whe . u a similar determination was come to .
On the following evening , in the Lords , Lord Panmobp moved an address in answer to the royal message , and entered into a brief sketch of the services of the deceased general . —Earl Derby , in pronouncing a panegyric on the military and personal character of Lord Raglan , toak occasion to observe that he had left his family in . circumstances by no means opulent , —Lord Barpsnge , speaking on the authority of an acquaintanceship of fifty-six years , said he believed the abilities of Lord Raglan were much greater than they were commonly supposed to be . —The Duke of Cambkidge , Lord Caedwak , Lord Galloway , the i > uke of Beattport , Lord Ellesmere , Lord Granyille , and Lord Brougham , having successively passed eulogies on the genius of the Commander-in-Chief , the address , which was merely an echo of the message , was agreed to .
The House of Commons having resolved itself into a committee , Lord Palmerston said it was his intention to propose , in furtherance of her Majesty ' s wishes , that a pension of 1000 / . a year be granted to Lady Raglan , and 2000 / . a year to the present Lord Raglan , with remainder to his son . In reviewing the character of the late general , he observed : — " He had that gentleness of nature , he had that conciliatory disposition , that consideration for the feelings of others -which frequently and generally accompanies true courage . It was his . happiness , by the manner in which he conducted his intercourse with the generals and officers commanding the troops of our allies , to cement that cordiality , and to tie and knit together those bonds
of good feeling , which now so fortunately connect , m the most intimate relations , armies which in less auspicious times knew each other only in the carnage of the field of battle . It might have happened that , with armies called upon to co-operate , which had previously known each other in opposition in the field , of action , that jealousy , those various dissensions , which sometimes arise even among officers and men of the same country , might have created feelings of coldness and of incipient animosity ,, which would have been fatal to the great alliance which has happily been established between the Governments and the nations of England and France ;
but , to Lord Raglan ' s honour be it said , by his manner of conducting his intercourse with the generals , officers , and men of the French army , ho inspired not only among his own men that cordiality towards their French comrades so desirable to exist , but he inspired also , in the minds of the troops and officers of France perfect conviction that there was the most entire oblivion ol ' any differences of the past , and that from that time forward the two armies and the two countries wore animated by ono identical feeling and were acting' together as brothers ol' the same family and the same land . " CC / ieers . ~ )
Lord Palmerston concluded by moving resolutions togivo effect to his proposals . Mr . Disraisli , in pronouncing an culogium on Lord Raglan , observed that , forty 3 ears ago , ho sealed with his , bipod tl ; o closo of a triumphant struggle against universal empire , and that , after that long interval , it had been bis fate to , give his life to his country , in ordor to avert from it tlia menace of n new and overwhelming dominion . Ho seconded the motion with groat pride . —Sir I ) e Laoy Evans , Admiral Wai-oott , and Lord . John Hussion ., added their warm testimony to the panegyrics of the previous speakers . — -Mr . Milnkk Gihson , while expressing his opinion that Lord Ruglan had been unfairly dealt with by the puhlic during his life , thought , the present would be a good opportunity for the Government to explain their policy in the Bust . —Lord , Palmjkuston declined on nuoh an occasion to entor
upon the discussion ; s were n aoree&ite nem . con . m iUppn'tfee . ^ b ^ keb resuming- the cbair , Mr . Gibson iasainrasfced Lord John Russell to explain to th e llaSse wfcgther the views he now entertained were the sams-as those he had expressed when ambassador AfcPienna . TT-Lord John Rossell said he should defer hfes ^ ns wer until the question of the policy of the Go ^ ejjnment was formally before the House . In the D&eajKwaiile , all he should say was , that Mr . ( Bibson bM totally misrepresented what he had said . U iffftB ^ yiCKET-Qr-LEAVE SYSTE M . ' = Lordi St . Leonards called attention to what he characterised as the failure of tjte ticket-of-leave system , and to the danger to society arising from criminals being thrown back again upon their old haunts , constantly * e gge 4 by the police ,, and prevented from seekiqg an honest livelihoodv ^ -Bftrt Granville was incU » e « L to think , that Lord St .. Leonards had exaggerated the failure of the system . Colonel Jebb , one of the inspectors of prisons , had stated that a proportion of not less than eighty or ninety per cent , of the ticket-of leave men were gaining their bread in an honest manner . The roost , diligent inquiries had been made by the chaplains of the pr isons and others , about their conduct and subsequent condition ; and he was happy to say that out of two hundred and fifty-four of those men released in the year 1854 , here had been satisfactory replies respecting one hundred and eighty-nine , and unsatisfactory replies from only seventeen , the remainder not being ascertained . —The Lori > Chancellor entered into some further statistics , to show that the danger to society was of the sma l lest kind ; and the Duke of Cambridge , in reply to a suggestion- which had been made , said that he disapproved of admitting ticketof-leave men . into the army , as he conceived it would have a demoralising effect , and would derogate from the honourable character . which properly attaches to the profession of a soldier . The Accidents on Railways Bill was considered in committee , when several clauses were agreed to ; other routine business was transacted ; and the House adjourned . SUNDAY TBABIUG BILL . In the House of Commons , in reply to an inquiry from Lord Godekich , whether the Sunday Trading Bill would be persisted in , Lord Robert Grosvenor said : — " Before I proceed to answer the question of the hon . gentleman , I may observe that I am rather in an awkward predicament . ( LaztghterJ ) No one likes to be mobbed and bullied out of a measure which ; was introduced with an intention that it should have an effect dissimilar to those which have "been so unjustly attributed to it . I hope the House and the country -will recollect that this , was a measure not for the better observance of the Sabbath—( cries qf" Oh ! " ')—I am going to conclude with a motion , and therefore any one who wishes may answer me—this was a measure not for the better observance of the Sabbath ; it was a measure which interfered with no man ' s recreation , and with no man s religious convictions . It was a measure for the purpose of procuring as large an amount of holiday as possible for tlie hard-worked and overtaxed thousands of this metropolis . But considering the late period of the session . — Qa laygJt )—considering that this is one of those measures which is peculiarly liable to misrepresentation and to ridicule , and that misrepresentation has been most unsparingly exercised against this measure—( hear , hear ')—considering the opposition , the formidable opposition , with wliich at this moment I am threatened , I think it would not be right to keep up the irritation which at tho present moment exists for the bare chance of passing this measure during the present session of Parliament . Hisi lordship concluded by moving that the order for the further progress of tho , bill be discharged . Some strong observations by Mr . Otway upon the proceedings in Hyde Park on Sunday , and upon the conduct both of tho Government and the police , gave rise to a conversation , in the course of which Sir Gisorqh Guey justified the instructions he had issued to the , police and their interference . Several members severely censured tho conduct of tho police , which Mr . W . J . Fox stigmatisod as ferocious and brutal ; while , on the other hand , Mr . G > "Vernon , an eyewitness , declared that , as far as ho observed their conduct , nothing could be bettor and more goodminourod . —Mr . Dunoomhk mentioned that he had been informed that aomo of tho police and soldiers had boon under arms in tho barracks in tho course of Sunday . —Ultimately , the motion for tho discharge of tho order was agreed to . EUITOATION ( SCOTLAND ) niLL . Tho remaining clauses of this bill wero agreed to in committee , after a long dieoussion , in tho course of which certain amendments , referring to matters of detail , woro proposed and carried . KDIJOATION ( NO . 2 ) KILL . On the ordor for resuming tho adjourned debate
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Leader (1850-1860), July 7, 1855, page 638, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2098/page/2/
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