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MR . DALLAS , the American Minister at our Court , whose duty it was to promote a friendly conclusion of all disputes , has created a new and -wonderful burlesque upon misunderstanding between official people . The tale has been told in the journals , and it is very simple . Mr . Dallas had appointed to present an American gentleman to Her Majesty at the levee on Wednesday ; the gentleman , it is understood , was
there , waiting to be presented , but there was no Mr . Daixas to present him . What was the reason for this extraordinary desertion of Her Majesty and the American gentleman ? The Minister had been kept away by a difficulty , but it was one of his own creating . Besides the gentleman whose presentation had been notified to the Lokd Chamberlain , there was one whom Mr . Dallas brought impromptu ; by some
unaccounted oversight , this gentleman , who is understood to represent some learned body in America , had been suffered by his official conductor * to make his appearance in the antechamber clothed in a costume more suited for a farce at the Adelphi Theatre than for the Queen ' s Drawing-room . He wore a black stock , a blue coat witb . metal buttons , a yellow , or , as he says , a " white" vest , trousers of unstated colour and texture , and
boots" Boots ! " quo' be . 11 Ay , boots , " says she . The utmost consideration has been shown at o « r Court for republican punctilio on the subject of costume ; American gentlemen , we are convinced , will bear witness to this consideration shown to their countrymen . But the character of this costume challenged attention , and the visitor was stopped . Now it is very mortifying for a gentleman to be stayed at the entrance to a ceremony in which ho particularly wishes to take part ,
and we can understand the irritation of the learned American . But it is , as everybody knows , quite ensy to change any little errors of costume without delay , and the republican could st&fl have made his way into the Royal presence if Ho had followed an example which was set him on that very day . Ho would not , however , listen to reason ; ho would not qualify himself to enter ; he insisted upon his " right"' to go in . without the qualification ; ho did not even wait to hoar whether our Ministers would yield on tho nccktio
question , as they had on the enlistment question : be walked off . There was one person who had distinct duties , and who was bound to take a course consistent with common sense . It was Mr . Dallas . We are not speaking too harshly of that gentleman when we say that he must have known how doubt- ful was the costume of his friend when he came to Court . Mr . Dallas must have known that there was no absolute necessity to storm the pre- serce-chamber in St . James ' s Palace , and to bring
in that particular American citizen . He must have remembered that there was an American gentleman waiting to be presented . He chose , however , to identify himself with the preposterous claim of his inexperienced companion ; and when the ultra-American citizen retired rather than reform his dress , Mr . Dallas retired also . He thus not only excluded himself from the levee , but passed a slight upon the Queen , and upon the American gentleman who was waiting to be presented . He has passed a slight upon
othersupon his own countrymen and upon his Government . Mr . Dallas was not simply the personal introducer of a fluttered American savant on his travels—he was the representative of the United States , bound to preserve the dignity of tlie republic in his own person : he chose to become a representative of everything that is undignified , unsuitable , obtrusive , and defeated . Wo < 3 o not see how he can settle that account with the Government and the community at home . We are quite confident that Americans , whether residing across tho Atlantic or in this country , must feel
mortified . There is even a yet more serious question . Had Hicit Majksty chosen to take offence , "which she might justly have done , it would have been only a direct retaliation for the dismissal of Mr . Cbampton if the Quern ' s Ministers had dismissed Mr . Dallas . Perhaps in tho shrewdness of their statecraft they saw better . Mr . Dallas has " won golden opinions" at this Court , by the
manner in which heretofore he has copied courtly manners . It is quitts the fashion in polite circles to contrast him with other Americans , who have been more stubborn on certain difficult questions . Our Government has not been well disposed to America , her claims , or her interests ; hut / ue . i been well disposed to Mr . Dallas . To diwniss him would bo to elevate his lamentable blunder into a grave affair . A bettor use far can bo miulc of tho transaction . The American Minister ' s
. * ] 1 < < 1 . misconduct will be overlooked . JSToW-, what iniis $ follow from that treatment ? He wilt sit in ihe position of a naughty boy , who on the score of general good behaviour is forgiven for an act of silly rudeness . Mr . Dalies , therefore , will be permitted to remain at the Court of St . James , by the leniency of the British Minister . He . will continue to draw his salary , to reside " nearV ^ a Court , and to enjoy all the privileges of his > position , by the sufferance of the British Government . Is it possible that he could be otherwise than
grateful for this kindness ? Mr . Dallas , however , is charged by his Government with the duty of negotiating most important questions , on which he is bound to take a position adverse to that of the British Ministers . We need not point out how incompatible are the position which tho representative of the United States ought to preserve , and the actual position into which poor Mr . Dallas has stumbled . We have Lord Clarendon ' s reply to Mr . Marcy ' s despatches on Central America and
on CuAMjrroN . The British Minister relies , for the unflinching defence of Cbampton , upon the worthless character of those men who are witnesses against him , after being agents under him . On the proposal to settle the difficult points in the Central American question by means of arbitration , Lord Clarendon agrees ; but ho says nothing upon the suggestion that the referees should be not potentates , who are seldom learned in points of science , but scientific men . How completely would all tho difficulties of the question disappear if the points were referred to men like
Hum-BOLDT . If Ministers have obtained a stronger hold over Mr . Dallas , they have not strengthened their hold over the House of Commons . Over the Lords of course they never had any Iiold . The victory of Monday must be ascribed to tho Liberal party ; the position taken by Ministers being cm one side of tho contest . Our readers remember tho resolution carried by Mr . Wali'OI-k , last week ,
which practically meant that assistance could bfe given to the Church Education Society , a society bent upon bringing down the national system of education . Ministers did not make the slightest attempt to prevent Mr . Wah'oljs ' s resolution from being carried out by the presentation to tk ^ Quken . The address was presented , "" flS Tffifti answered in general terms signifying noting TaT In the meanwhile Mr . Fortrscuh brougj £ jj fgjjj ) ward his resolution , after much consulta ^ . jju . wR
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble ' / ' £ * endeavour to throw down , all the barriers erected between , men . by prejudice aiid one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions ¦ of . Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human , race as one brotherhood , tiavmg one great object—the free development © £ our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos . . . ! , . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ : - _ - " - , ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' :,. ¦ ¦¦
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VOL . VII . No . 327 . ] _ SATURDAY , JUNE 28 , 1856 . Price { Y $ S $ ^ 38 tg $ ? :
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. REVIEW OF THE WEEK- page Miscellaneous 609 Subscriptions for the Sufferers from Memoirs of Doctors'Wardraw And •' Imperial Parliament 602 Postscript 610 the French Inundations 614 Kitto ..,.., 61 J Jkdminlatrative Reform , 605 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- OPEN COUNCIL- cannei 0 + p America ; 605 ANavalWar 610 National Association of United THEARTS— , " 7 '! ' Miss Burdett Coutts and the Kuow- A Caution to Italy : 611 Trades . 614 TheFrench Exhibition IttfiF . " ledkeof " Common Thiiigs" 606 Sadleir ' s Art of Book-keeping 611 Kistori as Pia dei Tolomei .. ¦ .....,.. ;; 619 . The-Investiture of the Bath in the Protestant-Popery at Liverpool ... 612 LITERATURE— Egg ' s Council of War ... .. 620 . Crimea . . 606 Why is Meat so Dear ? 613 Summary . 615 Count Arrirabene ' s Iieoturos 620 Continental Notes 606 After IiOuis N " apoleon—an Empress Two Philosophers 615 _____— , , , ' ¦¦ -, ¦ Our Civilization 607 Regent ? 518 The Trade or North Africa 618 rnMMror ' iiii a . ceiibc ' ¦ ;'>' . ¦ ¦ ¦ : State Of Trade 609 Trades Unions 618 A Very Bad Book 616 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS- . _ , -.. ¦ :- - Naval and Military 609 The Sultry House 614 New Motions 617 City Intelligence , Markets , * c .....,.,, 621-
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Leader (1850-1860), June 28, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2147/page/1/
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