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fliHE dark veil of the London sky was rent X by the glories that threaded the streets and burst from the parks on Thursday night , while Palmer , the elect representative of our criminal class , was gnawing the chain of convicted crime in prison . The people flocked to view the splendours in celebration of the peace , while the Emperor of the French is planning that vast scheme of " international mediation , " which is to hand over to the bureaux of Paris , London , St .
Petersburg , and Vienna , the management of the world . London was called forth to witness Queen Victoria's feu de joic for peace , while Queen Victoria ' s Ministers are brewing a quarrel with America which may embroil us in a war more deadly and destructive than the diplomatic conflict with Russia . The scene was characteristic . We had the contented enjoyment with which the people took the amusement provided for them , heedless of the national objects missed during the late contest , and of the national calamities impending through the turn that events have taken at Paris .
But the scene was enough to command attention . Memory itself can scarcely recal the most steadfast purpose , when the eyes are dazzled with a splendid gaiety and the air is filled with the sounds of a multitudinous pleasure . For such vras the fact . There was scarcely a sign to tarnish the satisfaction of the people at the amusements afforded to them ; and the amusement itself was really of a grand and beautiful character . The Government had done its best to make the display brilliant , as one of the means for reconciling the people to an imperfect pence , liy a concession to the spirit of the times , the exact counterpart of
the displays in the Green Park before Buckingham Palace , in Hyde Park before the fashionable world , was given in Victoria Park for the Bethnal Green side of human nature ; and Primrose Hill vraa made the fountain-head for those aerial displays which wore visible from the entire metropolis . The spontaneous loyalty , the advertizing instinct , the changeful passion of egotism embodied in clubs , traders , noblemen , patriots , tuvern keepers , gaming - house keepers , and others , converted all the thoroughfares to streams of light ; und at rapid intervals , for two hours in the dark , the eky was flooded with flushing fires ,
with sudden bursts of golden wheat , constellations of innumerable stars , volcanoefe of countless rockets , while in the intervals some star hung for a few moments like a new jilanet and slowly descended . Such a display could not be constructed by any one man , or even by a faw combined ; it requires a state and a community to illustrate by this magnificence what may be done by the principle of co-operation .
While gas and gunpowder were set on fire to illustrate the magnificence of the peace recently concluded—a peace which has omitted Sardinia from its benefits—the shadow in the West grows darker . We have many new evidences to confirm our continued rejiresentations under this head . We point to the conversation in the House of Lords on Tuesday last , when Lord Elgin asked an explanation touching the sending of troops to Canada , which hud been construed as the commencement of preparations for defending the British colonies aerainst the United States . lie vouched for the
friendly feelings of the Americans , if they were met in a proper spirit , at the same time that he asserted the capacity of the colonists to defend themselves if they should be attacked . Now Lord Ejxsix speaks on both subjects with high authority . He has been Governor-General of Canada , and he has witnessed -what we may consider the least favourable aspect of the Colonial character ; he found the colonists rally round the union with England as soon as they were treated with common justice . He knows their bravery , for he has
seen it . He has seen their means increasing under an improved rule . Lord Elgin is a British Peer , son-in-law of the Earl of Durham ; and he i . s , therefore , a witness uniting remarkable characters . Me has been iu the United States ; he negotiated that treaty which , in fact , established free-trade between the Union and the British Colonies ; he then saw for himself the manner in which Americans arc prepared to meet Englishmen who address them frankly . He is perfectly
been excluded from the Queen ' s councils . The only offer of place that was made to him was , indeed , remarkable . It was made by Mr . Labou cheke , the Colonial Minister , who must know what were Lord Elgin's services in America ; and he must , we know by ihe offer of the appointment , consider Lord Elgin to merit the thanks of ? the country . But to what post did Mr . Labouchere feel himself free to appoint Lord Elgin at this day , when the questions which press upon the country are our relations with Italy and Austria and our relations with North America ? It was the Governorship of Victoria , on the other side ot the world ; as if the desire were to get rid of Lord Elgin ! Again , let us observe , that Lord Elgin , thus positioned , feels it necessary to demand explanations from Government on the subject of our colonies and of our relations with the United St . ivtp . s .
We have Lord Claiikndon's reply , that the troops sent to Canada are only to replace those withdrawn for the war in the East . This is true ; but the sending of troops has not been the only evidence of some remarkable mistrust . Lord Clareni > on declares that every means of satisfaction has been exhausted , every reparation offered which gentleman could offer to gentleman , for any grievance real or imaginary that has been offered by our Government to that of America ; while he
complains that American statesmen use hostile language . We are not prepared to vindicate the language of American statesmen , still lees that of our ° own statesmen . They speak in words of studied courtesy ; but how can Lord Clabkndon assert that all the means of reconciliation have been exhausted , when the simple admission of the acts of Mr . Cramjton would carry with it all that the United States have required in the most irritative of the questions between the two
countries ? By the latent American news we have a sharp debute in the Senate on a statement ascribed to Mr . Ohami'ton , that Mr . Clayton had admitted the right of England to the possession of Kuatan . It is perfectly incredible that Mr . Clayton could have made any such statement , nnd we have no hesitation in saying that we should presume the assertion ascribed to Mr . Chami'Ton to bo untrue .
acquainted with the requirements of his order ; he is trained to judge political affairs from an English and even from a Conservative point of view ; and this is the witness who vouches for the loyal truth of the Americans and their frank friendship towards our country . Wo need not say that we could endorse Lord Elgin ' s representation ; but we do say that he in a witness who oug ht , to be trusted by the English people . It i . s rather remarkable that the nobleman so popular in Canada , nnd so popular in the United States , should have
But we doubt whether there has not been some mistake . The single word " not , " omitted fioiijuu .-reprint , would Hiiflice to explain the whole inysldr ^ . ! If there is not that explanation , wo ca ^ onl j <* «^ that Mr . Ckami'Ton ' s hccdlesdiiess , wl *^ h QfjpiQfe ' j .
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VOL ,. VII . No . 323 . ] SATURDAY , MAY 31 , 1856 . Price { ggStJ ?^ ::: SgS 2 ? -
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I S S X 0 : REVIEW OF THE WEEK- - Our Civilization 514 j Courts of Industrial Arbitration ... 519 ' THE ARTS-! SS ^ S ^^ .:::::::::::::::::::::::: 52 $ fcf ^ =-::::::::: ; ::::::: gs ti « , ¦¦ **>* ., « oroude- 6 i » ^^ 01 ™ «« a ^ fc : :::::: : :: ¥£ ^ ..==== m utera ™ .- SS ^ & ^^^ .=- it I Ireland 511 ...... arc-aioc i Summary 521 i The Peace Rejoicings . 112 public a ^ aiki > I Haxthausen ' s Russian Empire 522 The Gazette 524 I Character of Count Cavour 512 The Blazes 517 ; The Microscope 5- ? 2 The Escape of Felice Orsini 513 Palmer ' s Story—the Untold Part ... 517 , Modern Greek History 523 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSContinental Notes 513 | The Tripartite Treaty 518 , Swedcnborg on Love and Marriage 523 City Intelligence , Markets , &c G 25
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Leader (1850-1860), May 31, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2143/page/1/
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