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? ll / E accuse the House of Commons of T Y breach of trust . It has acknowledged its duty to the country , only to forfeit that duty . The session is within three weeks of the close , and Ministers succeed in staving off any attempt at interference with the course they are pursuing towards America . The House of Commons has
at last been induced to move , but it has been set aside with ease , and has practically pronounced itself incapable of vindicating the public interests , of acting on behalf of the nation which it professes to represent . How stand the facts ? Ministers Agreed to a plan for enlisting soldiers in North Africa ; they permitted Mr . Joseph Howe to go out as their , agent to the United States , they placed him in communication with Mr . Cbampton . Mr . Cjramiton and he employed Hebtz ,
Stkobex , and other persons , to induce men to leave the United States for the purpose of enlisting at Halifax . The Neutrality Act of the United States forbids the enlistment of persons by foreign powers within the Union , or the " inducing" persons to leave the territory in order to enlist . Mr . Joseph Howe was authorized to proceed to the United States for the purpose of breaking the law ; Mr . Ceampton was instructed to assist him ; Mr . Howe and his agents did break the law . But our officials then tried to back
out . In effect , Ministers declared to the American Government , We did not intend to break the law , we only intended to evade it . We forgive you , cries the American Government , since on your word of honour you disclaim the intention of breaking « the law ; but Mr . Ckampton and the Consuls under him have broken it , and therefore wo shall kick them out . The English Government puts up with that treatment , but still bears a grudge against the American Government . Before the Howb expedition , Ministers were
warned that they were about to net illegally , and that the act would get us into hot -water ; a lawyer of the Union , who was consulted , stated that the proceedings would be an infraction of tho American statutes ; tho Governor-General of Canada is said I specially to have warned Mr . Cbampton of tho L effects of his conduct : Ministers , therefore , wero I deliberately misconducting themselves , getting us K into difficulties with tho Union , incurring disgrace p , for themselves , and risking tho friendship of tho two countries , the immense commerce of tho two , i
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the property of citizens in both , the employment of our factory population ; but when the question was put to them in the House of Commons , the officials said , These matters are in progress , and it is against the rule to interrupt the Executive . Thus members were silenced . The affair is now in great part over ; we have the facts before us , we have ascertained that Ministers and their agents did worse than we supposed them to have done ; but now , when they are questioned , they say , Do not meddle with this subject , because it is purely retrospective , and the interest has past . This is the way the House of Commons is always bamboozled —no other word will fit the process .
But Ministers cannot desire to bamboozle the House of Commons half so much as the House of Commons desires to be bamboozled . Notwithstanding this plan of dodging dates , Mr . Moore , who has an old grudge against Lord Clarendon , resolved to have it out with him , and brought before the House of Commons a resolution censuring Ministers for their conduct in the enlistment business . Now there are a dozen men so called
Liberals , who are extremely anxious to maintain friendly relations with America . Ministers have told those persons that if they would keep quiet , and help to keep tho House of Commons quiet , the Ministers were only anxious to avoid conflict with the United States . The baker ' s dozen of independent members have been talked over ; and on Monday night up rose Mr . William Brown and Mr . Ewart to beg off the debate . The conduct of Ministers was correctly
described by several of the speakers , but by none so correctly as Mr . Gladstone . They could not , he says , separate themselves from Mr . Cramp-ton . Mr . Gladstone , indeed , might have challenged them to produce their private communications with Mr . Crampton if they affected to separate themselves from that diplomate . For their private communications would in fact show tho real character of the instructions sent out . Mr . Gladstone , -while characterizing the conduct of
Ministers correctly , —while making them responsible for breaking tho American law and becoming entangled in a partnership with Sthqbej-, the Russian spy , —declared he would not vote for the resolution , because it was " abstract , "—because , if carried , it ought to turn out tho Government ; and ho was not prepared to find a Government in tho place ! Tho House of Commons declared , through tho mouth of Mr . Glads-tonic , that this Government is a bad Government which break *
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the laws of a valuable ally ; but the House oT Commons , the grand inquest of the nation , . the agent for the people , equally avows by its vote that it cannot help itself , and that it is quite willing to go home for the holidays , leaving that bad Ministry in office , unchecked by any debates in Parliament . The House of Commons negatived Mr . Moore ' s motion by 274 to 80 ; and that is the meaning of the division . The Government had had another success , as
we explained last week . Mr . Dallas has placed himself at the mercy of the present Ministers . If they have broken the law of the . United States , t&ey must lave equally broken the spirit of the gentleman representing the Uaited States ; and lie must be a convenient instrument , by -which they may either gain some advantage over the Union , or get up a little rupture with the Union . He , that committed Minister , is " authorized , " as Lord Palmerston has stated this
week , " to negotiate on the Central American question . " Now a large portion of the public unquestionably desires that question , which is of no English importance , to be closed at once . We assert , and shall be prepared to prove it , that opportunities of closing have been presented . Those opportunities have been deliberately passed by . Let one peculiarity in the last official manifesto on the subject bo noticed . The American Government propose to refer the questions of political geography upon which it turns to scientific men , the men whose business it baa been , irrespectively of the litigation , to ascertain how the real facts
are , in point of geography , colonization , and history . Lord Clarendon replies that our Government agrees to refer the subject to " arbitration , implying that the arbitrator must be some other power , not a scientific man to pronounce upon the facts . Now the American Government has already said that no European Government wotjW be in a position to pronounce a satisfactory judgment . While professing willingness to refer the subject , therefore , Lord Clarendon only consents to refer it in a manner which ho knows the Americans will refuse , Thia is of a piece with all
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VCXL . VII . No . 328 . ] SATURDAY , JULY 5 , 1856 . Price {^ S £ S ^ dlEg £ Sf * - ^
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I "The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humamty— the noble I endeavour " to throw dWn . all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; aad , by setting _ aside the ^ Unctions ,. ¦ .:, I of Religion , Country , and Colour to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development ; ^ ot our spiritual nature . "—Humboldfs Cosmos .
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I REV . EW OF THE WEEK- wo . Our Civilization 632 Couunissioaer ^ ffiSSSSffl ^ " : ^ -: ™ : 6 & I Imperial Parliament 626 Naval and ' Mintary "" . "' . " . ' . " . ' . ' ' . ' .. . I ' . ' . ' . " 631 What our Young Men areDoing ... 639 A Batch of Books SIS Banquet to General Williams 629 Obituary 634 Indian Officers with the Turkish THE ARTS— ' * The Story of Thomas Scholefield .... 630 Miscellaneous " 634 Contingent 639 Exhibition of the Royal Academy ... 644 ' London Vegetation and London Postscript 635 OPEN COUNCIL- Madlle . Joanna Wa ^ eF . ™ . ^ l " ThWvenue :::::::::::: ^ PUBLIC AFFAIRS- National Association of United The Last of Jenny Lind B 45 ¦ l ^ b o ^ r \ rTreity Bm :::::::::::: ^ The Be *™ to come .. 636 UT ^ ^ ; 639 ^ Gazette : •» . TheOrient :. 631 Why is Bread so Dear 1 636 LITERATURE COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS-$ Z £ ^^* ::: z =::-= & ^^ 5 !^^^ ::::::::::::::: 8 ^^^ m *^— :::::: SS «* inten se , m *** .. * c ™
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Leader (1850-1860), July 5, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2148/page/1/
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