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4 * / . ¦ sy ^ ' JY ¦ ^ rX ¦ m J § A it aft c r . POLITICAL AWD LITERARY REVIEW .
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fpHE Debby Ministry is in position , and those X members -who had to resign their seats in Parliament have been re-elected without opposition . Lord John Manneks was scarcely opposed , for the consistent Conservative who did stand forward , retired without hesitation on the requisition of his friends . From first to last the members of the new Government have passed the ordeal of the hustings with little or no questioning ; what they had to bear was of a very mild sort , as , for example , that of Dr . Lees , Aylesbury , which enabled Mr . Disbaeli to say good things that would have otherwise -waited for occasion and been lost . The feeling of the constituencies appears to have been to give the new Government a fair trial ; and if these constituencies were necessarily of Conservative leanings , they had already chosen the men now still more exalted in their eyes , inasmuch , as they appeal to the decision of Parliament itself . Of the business actually done by the Administration , we know that Lord Mai-mesuub . y lias sent an answer to the Wauewski despatch , and that a reply has been received in London . If report is to be credited there is to be no attempt to introduce another Conapiracy Bill ; it is believed that , at all events , the present Government will not move in the matter until the results of Lord Malmesbury ' s despatch have been seen , and perhaps an inquiry by a law commission . With regard to the other measures with which the late Government were pledged to deal , and which Lord Dekby was naturally expected to take up , the India Reform is the only one upon which there is likely to be legislation : upon that subject , however , Lord Eiit-ENBonouGH is prepared to submit to Parliament a very comprehensive measure . Parliamentary Reform , we arc given clearly to understand by Mr . Dishakm , is to be thrown over till next session , at which poriod it is probable that Mr . Disraeli will not bo called upon to introduce it to the House of Commons . The Ghanoem / jr ov the Exciieqper lma an ovojtp , brelkoraTalieaH , andilirows out luiita significant enough of dissolution in enso his Administration should be too closely run by the Opposition . What benefit ho supposes likely to result to hie chief is not clear . On the other side o dissolution is about the most desirable event for which the Liberals oan look forward , the ohanoos being that both Lord Derby and Lord Pa ^ eiiston would bo losers by the move .
The departure of the Earl of Carlisle from the I Vice-Royalty of Ireland was marked by circum-1 stances interesting beyond the fact of their marking the change of government . If we may trust the expressions addressed to him by the deputation from the Corporation of Dublin which waited upon him on Tuesday , the day before he returned to England , Lord Carlisle has won golden opinions from all sorts of men during liis two years' tenure of office . He leaves Ireland pledged to act for her in defence of the Lord-Lieutenancy threatened with abolition —in violation of the Act of Union , the Dublin deputation would have us believe , and in opposition to the wishes of the Irish people . In France events arc occurring that are not calculated to bring the Emperor into a steadier frame of mind than he has of late exhibited . The Moniteur makes light of the outbreak at Cha . lons . sur-Saone , on Saturday last , representing the a ffair as the insensate rising of about forty men , who attacked a small infantry station and took it by surprise , and who then went about the town shouting " Vive la Republique ! " " The Republic is pro . claimed in Paris ! " and so ou . The troops were turned out and the mob dispersed , and then followed the usual course of making wholesale arrests ; fifteen prominent leaders , according to the Moniteur , were in custody by midnight , the outbreak having commenced at abouj jnino o ' clock in the evening . But the organ of the Imperial will has so many good reasons for telling the story in its own way , that wo may reasonably object to adopt its version without question . IVas the outbreak confined to forty men P—if so , may it not have been got up by tho police , notoriously clever at suoh work ?—the object , promotion , and tho wish to exhibit their paces before tho Emporor , who is , at present , * i' the vein * for seeing dmeutes put down . By way of preface to the reply of the Frenoh Government to tho despatch of Lord MalmesuuiiY , we havo , in a pamphlot under the haud af M . » E la GuDRRONNiibiiE , tho Emperor's yiews of tho affair of tho Waxewski despatch , fKi » iob _ n 5 ay __ bp ^ . takeu __ , as ~^ fforeshadowing—the ¦» - jffioial roply . Viewed in this light , L'Enipereur Wa $ oleon III . et I * Auglotorre is not too assuring . [ t disclaims , indeed , all intention of giving off enco ; o this country ; but while doing this it repeats and ] unpliflcs all tho ' charges made by Waxewski and 1 Peivjigny , in suoh a way , too , as fixes tho common ' luthorslup of tho whole sorios of documents j ono * > thor point it also establishes , namely , that tho « Smporor remains in precisely tho same state of U
mind as he did before the Walewski despatch was produced . What will most strike London readers of this Imperial manifesto is the absurdly false estimate it makes of things appertaining to our own country . Can anything , indeed , be more ludicrous than the magnifying into ' open preaching of assassination' the achievements of the spouters at a debating meeting held twice a week at a Fleet-street tavern—it is called a coffee-house in the pamphlet , but we can never expect Frenchmen to understand pur peculiar institutions accurately enough to distinguish such nice shades of difference . Why does not M . de Persign y make himself acquainted with these by-ways of life in London ? A very little experience would enable him to assure his terrified master that the Temple Forum is really nothing more than a tavern where , twice a week , certain persons conduct a debate upon a given subject , for the amusement of casual visitors whose ferocity is yery rarely excited beyond the soothing influence of a short pipe , or a ' go' whisky . And there is no doubt that he would be enabled to report that , upon inquiry , he had found that the pamphlets about which M . de xa Gtjerbonnik . be has made such a to-do were as little known in England as English manners are in France . It , however , will be made plain to the Emperor , long before M . de PEKSiGNYcan complete his social studies in England , tbftt his danger is everywhere around him , and not in the outpourings of British lawyers' clerks , the inspired debaters of the Temple Forum . Why tremble at what a handful of refugees may do in England , when there is commotion in Paris itself * as the Moniteur tells us there was on the night of the 5 th instant P—and when seizures have been made in Paris of fifty ringleaders , and in Lyons of twenty j and in various parts of the country of arms , ammuV nition , and compromising documents P—^ and when arrests have been made of scores of native Frenchmen in each of forty departments P These are the dangers j and tho announcement by Mr . Disraeli , on the first night of the reassemblingof tho Commons , that tho * painful misconceptions ' havo . torminated-amioably-aud-honourablyrscoroely reassures us that tho Emporor has got over his worst ' misoonoeptions , ' Tho case of tho Cagliari has received UJustra Lion at tho hands of X > v . Pjiillimore , vjJbu » -A « ft ^ jivon nn olaborato opinion upon it . This ^ thjmp d' ? ^ is decidedly that the vossol has boon ^ o ^^'^ mo * ^ ; , urod and dotuincd , and that , therefore aU'f | b . ^^^ M , loquont procoodinga havo boon illcgqfl ^ on 4 a » 32 e- V- ^ lanco of tho law of nations . Suoh aiv ^ lai ^ nHEmf ^^ M J ^ ffiSf
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Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2234/page/1/
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