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CONFLICTS AND COMI'ROMISES 1* THE CABINET,
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¦\\ T 1 IKNT the present Administration was formed it was said YV to he one which , though it contained liiueh mettle ami spirit , could not be run away with . This was its . great merit in the eyes of the Court . The terror entertained at the Palace of an uncontrolled .-ascendancy in the Cabinet , on the . part of either Lord J ' almehstox , Lord J . Russell , or Mr . -Glaustoxe-, whs . profound . They had each ; and all of them given . utterance to opinions on foreign affairs at variance with dynastic hopes , of repression and reaction . The two latter had committed' themselves irrevocably to the principle that the Italians should be left thewihtand
to choose their own rulers , be - they , whosoever y -g ; if Lord Palmkkston had of late years been less demonstrative pn this head than formerly , he had gone further than any other English statesman in his professions of friendship towards the -Emperor of the FitExcii . Upon the fall , therefore , of Lord Dekby ' S administration , instead of sending for any of the inen whose ability and character pointed them out pre-eminently above other politicians as qualified to-guide the counsels , of the . State , the Queen was persuaded to commission Karl Gkanvilli :, one of the . safest and smoothest third-rate men acceptable at Windsor , to form a Government : The attempt luckily failed at the very outset ; and then , as the least of evils , Lord ' PalmeksTox was ¦ mf . msted ' with the , task . lie ' was" soon made to understand .
however , that unless he consented to have has . Cabinet packed with men of the Palace , . he had . practically no chance of becoming a second time Premier .- ' At ¦ seventy ^ fiye an ambitious ' man has not time to stickle about "' points '* . of " nicety in such matters . -The ' veteran Viscount agreed to all that \ vas exacted from him , and . .. lie had even consented to replace Lord CiAKEXDOX in the- Foreign-office ^ when Lord John interposed a peremptory veto , and imdertook that department himself . The . Coiirt' shuddered , but succumbed in that particular , consoling itself with the belief that a majority of the Cabinet would . be always able and ready to check and control the Secretary of State , should' he -propose to do or say -anything too liberal or too national in its spirit and
tendency . How far . these anticipations have been disappointed during'the tlast -ten months we are not . now about to inquire . It is enough for our present purpose to note that , so long as the three leading statesmen we have above referred to were understood to remain in accord regarding " foreign policy , their counsels prevailed , and their courtier , colleagues ventured not to resist , tlow long this passive attitude will be ' observed , if differences should arise between the d . istinguislved individuals in question , time .. only cantell . But we must confess - { hat Ave should not be surprised if the events that have recently taken place abroad , and the mode in which they have been dealt with by our Government , should
where -we had neither authority to . impose rules / nor power to punish contumacy .- . They , argued , no- doubt ,-plausibly and well , that-if Great 'Britain : had no 'intention '' of interfering resentfully on behalf ofHwit / . erHind or Savoy , it - \ va . s foolish and wrong to lay her 'flag in the liiin , for Hon .-ipnrtist . aggression to . step safely oil . On . the other hand , we vim imagine the sort of argument ' resorted to by those * who wish to s ; 'i / . e -. opportunities lor snubbing . - .. Lovis Napoi . kon , and for loosening the bonds that have hitherto held together the "Western Powers . . Lord John Kuss'ELL is probably influenced-: more !> y tin- ; --desire -to express clearly and vigorously the predominant feeling of "Parliament and of the nation , than by any sympathy with dynastic prejudices against the Elect of Seven Millions on the one : hand , or upon the other by any exaggerated fear of the eonsccuinuvs of a misunderstanding ; with France . "We believe him to be sincere in saying that ho wishes'heartily , to preserve the alliance ; but he understands well , that that can only be-done by allowing free expression to the national sentiment whenever France shall take a course which public opinion in this , country disapproves . It , was the fearless adoption of this line , of policy . that saved us from an open rupture in the affair , of the Conspiracy 3 ^ 111 - and we do . not -question that . a similar course on the present occasion ' will eventually ' prove the . wisest and the best . The . ' reply to AC . Titouvexel must- be read , meantime , . ' -as a compromise between ¦ conflicting views in the Cabinet . Its twins " * we believe , were ultimately settled by the experienced pen of the Premier , who has hail in this and other instances to assume , virtu It ; q / f / rii ,-. the duty and responsibility ! of grainl arbiter between his dissentient colleagues . The . recess will scarcely prove a holiday to Ministers ;"¦ for in the brief interval that is to elapse between the adjournment of the two . Houses aiid . their reassembling , they will have to deliberate and to decide on several questions of moment , about which they have hitherto , been : only able . to agree by . deferring them from day to day . One of the most important of 'those is the production of the lie / port of the Commission appointed last year to incmire into the necessity of Const Fortifications , and the . re . com ,-mendatiou tip Parliament of measures suggested therein . If we are not mistaken , the SSkcuetahy for AVar is all fflr laying the Report upon the table forthwith ,, and calling on the Legislature , to sanction a large expenditure on Works of national defence ; while the CiiAXCicLLOR of the -Exo-ifEQUKK / resolutely protests against a course which woulfl leave him open to tin : taunt of prematurity in the production of his Budget . The Report lias been long since ready for presentation , hut it has been 'kept back oh various ' . technical " pretexts until after Easter . WJien Parliament meets again , Mr . 1 ? ij ) n . ey ILisRheht will find k dillieult n-iw longer to . withhold it from the public gaze .
lead , ere long , to a disruption of certain bonds , that now unite together these eminent public men . It would , in point of fact , be , affectation to deny that the language held by Lord John . Russell in" 1 ' arliament towards the French Emperor with respect to the annexation of Savoy is openly repudiated by other wemhers of the Cabinet . Mr . Gladstone especially is said to object'to the utterance of any sentiment that is calculated to weaken , - as" he ' thinks , the intimate alliance with France . His reputation as a politician and as a financier are so . closely affected by ' this consideration , that we oau hardly be astonished at the excessive susceptibility lie evinces on the subject . The fulfilment of all his prophecies and the realization of all his
estimates depend on the preservation or peace— -peace ait any price . He is , therefore , o « 3 i' ] y disturbed by the ' declaration of the 'FojtKiG . N Skchetaky , that the conduct of the Ally , for the sake of whose friendship wo have just been making so many sacrifices of revenue , and risking so much financially next year , has suddenly caused us deep dissatisfaction and distrust , and that , in consequence thereof , wo mean to draw closer to other continental Powers . The utterance of sueli sentiments hns ' bcen unmistakubly approved by the country at large ; hub it has gono far to dissolve the dream of nnuneial wonder-working , in wlyoh tho Cn < vNPELLon of the- Exoiie ^ uek has for some time dwelt ; and ho is too sensitive , too earnest , and too selfreliant a man to stiile his feelings and opinions on tho occasion .
Tlio Palaco party in the Government this time hack Lord John , not because * they sympathize with bis general disposition m foreign affairs , but because they arc Bourbonists in feeling , and -p ' reier alliances with tho old Legitimist courts of tho Continent to tho entente conVmla -with Imperial France . Tho answer ' of our Government tq M . Tiioi / VEXJii / a despatch rospoeting Savoy wns very different as originally , friumxl , from that itltinmtely sent . When tho original draft , was submitted to 'the Cabinet , warm nnd prof ; meted discussion uroso us to its tonna . Mr . Gladstone nnd Mr . Gujson , as niny bo mulily i » olioYod , objected to our undertaking ; --to lecture or to scoki ,
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FTULR misfortunes of monurjchs have sometimes invited the syin-X ]) athy cf mankind .,, but ' then ; is no object , niori ! de ^ i'iv ing oi contempt thiin ; v sovtu-eign who has lost his place through misconduct , and who , instead of humbly kissing tho ' rod with which he has been righteously chastised , wearies earth and heaven with importunate aiid impious appeals . Tn this ignominious position the Emperor of Ai : sthia , tlrb I ' oim :, and the J ) uk « of . YIodkna have thought proper to place themselves ; and , instead of the worthy triad sitting in sackcloth and ashes , confessing and bewailing their manifold sius and iniquities , and expressing grnlitude that thoir power of working evil has been mltiecd within narrower limits , they behave like incorrigible mcml'ieanls ,
clamouring for pity they never showed , and for cluinlnblo holp that wo . uld b ; j prostituted in their behalf . Austria , appeals to Europe to protect the reversion she chums of t | i « . bodies and souls of the Tuscans and inhabitants of tho two Duehios ; the Pope furbisln . 'S \ ip the theatrical thunderbolts of thu . Vatican , and propels his pop-gun pellets at men who , during to be free , will dare also to laugh at the silly exhibition of iinbeeilily and rnge ; and tho . little Puke of AIodkna struts about the world ' s . stage , endeavouring to attract attention bytlio undignified grimaces of a penny-Iliiiatre ' king . There is something irresistibly ludicrous in tho "We , Francis the Fifth , Arehduko of Austria , \' v \\\ w ltr > . ynl oi "
Hungary and of Boheniin , by th <» < Jra «« of Uoi "> J ) ul « sol ALodena , s Sce ,, &e . * , " and to hear the talk about how this givaC "Wo " concentrated "our Umn \* * " retired with tho grouter part of our troops , " and did otlufi wonderful things , nil ending in a " solemn declaration , " protesting against universal siillYnge as a principle whioh . would " attack tho existonou of ova'y Uuropeau monnrohy . " While the nipivscutatives of wpru-out t . lovornnioiits and dying superstitious tlnis mako ( h ( Mr appeal to ¦ doot n ' m ' s ulteWy incon ipatiblo with human ri lil , the patriot King of Surdinm , ro-n j ) roaontiug tins spirit of tho linios , nddmsses what we may now consider tho Hufiau i ' arllainont , in manly strnius , iau . 1 calls upon
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Ariai . 7 , 1860 . J The \ Leader and Satin-day Analyst . 310
Conflicts And Comi'romises 1* The Cabinet,
CONFLICT * AND ¦ . COMPROMISES ' IN TilE CABINET .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 7, 1860, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2341/page/3/
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