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THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT. MINISTERIAL JWTB...
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his ticket-of-leave , so that he has not brokenhis parole . The Lord Chancellor has confirmed the Vice-Cnancellor ' s decision , and decides that Joanna Wagner must not ping ^ except with Mg ^ Lumleyj the paternal Albert t & tP Ptay gets de $ p § ir into the meshes of Chancery * Cfl ^ flabes , champion of . the Thames , has lost a boa $ * pace to Cole . And if Mr . Hamilton , as the Iris ^ jpapers aver , publishing extracts , ha ^ geclar ^ l ^ foce the Irigb Outrage Committee , that the Tenant League directs Riband aggressions , has not an Irish horse won the Derby ?
Louis Napoleon has been emulating the adventurers of the Lower Empire . He has procured the Parisians to rejoice in the presence of hjs effigy : causing his bust to be set up in the market-places of Paris , with a feast on the occasion . Government pays all the cost ; the commissary of police presides at the ball ; the military band supplies the music j and the people ; supply the enthusiasm . It is a great stroke of art to identify dancing and loyalty , since it begs the question of Parisian adhesion in the most attractive form . The blessing-machine is usejd without
scruple , and clergy are to be found who confer upon the Presidential bust so much of the sacred character . The last place in which this performance has been rehearsed is the Marche'des Innocens , familiar to our own Town in the " Chain of Events , " at the Lyceum , and the tableau at that theatre has some parallisms with the facts in Paris , besides the scene . It is in the market that the false heir of the melodrama first appears , amid the public acclamations , in the carriage which he has usurped . The difference is , that Louis Napoleon is his own villain .
With all his successes , however , he does not make half the progress that Souloiique has already attained . The Haytien Emperor has also had his imperial fete , but it has not ended in disappointment , like the Feast of Eagles . With the nobles of Marmalade and Lemonade on either side , the black chief has attained the imperial crown , and not only for himself , but for his Queen . Her Majesty was attended by her * maids of honour , " and if their complexions were black , the title has aft least a smack of royalty about it , which Louis Napoleon may well envy . He has surprised Paris , but he has not overtaken Soulouque .
A score or two of recalcitrants outweigh the constituency of seven millions , for their number can be counted and their names remembered . A government supported by Granier de Cassagnac , and deserted by Bedeau , Lamorici & re , Arago , Guizot , De Broglie , is a government condemned . His diplomatic novices are treated as interlopers at Vienna , and left shivering in antechambers at Berlin ; whilst the Holy Alliance is re-knit , and Divine Right recognised as the only safe principle of government by the three Powers carousing in
honour of their Lord Paramount , the Czar , in the palace of that Frederick William who is every inch a King—after dinner ; quite a stage-king , in fact . And what is our relation to the Fusion ? Let Malmcsbury confess . The vigorous letter of Mr . Mather shows how an Englishman spurns the money compromise for insult which a Malmeabury can imagine . But , to the shame of Englishmen , they are represented in Paris , in Vienna , wherecver Tyranny is rampant , by a Malmesbury , the compromiser , the sympathizer .
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The Week In Parliament. Ministerial Jwtb...
THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT . MINISTERIAL JWTBNTIONS . Lokd Deiuiy gave the free trade opposition in tha JIoush ov Lords an opportunity , on Monday , which they dexterously used , of extracting from himself another '<« declaration" of intention * iw » peeti « g free trade . The nominal subject under qowwJeraiiion wo » the Property Tax Continuance Bill , but about wlweh , beyond tho dry statement of Lord Dbjjbt , who moved tho second reading , Bcarcbly a word wan said . His Hpeecli coimlfltod of a kind of apology for , not introducing any fiscal measure of importance , on the ground tlmt ho wan precluded by a positive declaration , raada by Ministers early in the fteajsipn , that they wouM , mb bring in any wwure ta fUfturb or atow tk ? pw °##
financial and comj ^ rdtd ^«* i !>» n . stated that , even if they had beeO ; : | effc at liberty , circumstances would have rendered it / Jfliexpedient to discontinue the tax this year , as our fjnjflces would not beaf it—the abolitioa of # ie tax-wfi ^ Wl no | « ply absorb tfe 0 nu > lus of ne ^ fe jjjnfc leave ft deficiency . Neith ^ f coulfl he hold q |» anjr iBJFpspect ^' f | b ^ lisl ^^; . pr ' redu ^|^ '' ^ o . tia ± for a year ~ o | r f ^ rp . Bujfe jfer his « W » part . h <| fgsted $ ie contmuanqfc © f this taj- on tbi * necessity # maints ^ oing it for tb # jrapport ofriibM e » eflit . . ' ' :
The opposlti © a canie from the Peeljte Duke of Nw-CASTiiE . His speech w ^ as not hostile to the second reading , but hostile to the suspected reactionary tendencies of the Ministry , In the main it was a good defence of the free trade system—going over all the points which have been debated so very many times , and landing the reader in the pleasant belief that the country , which he defined as . ¦*« the aggregate of the classes that were contained in it /^ ehjoyed great prosperity . From the revenue returns , which showed how diminished
taxation and increased consumption had gone on in parallel lines ; from the bank returns , which proved that gol 4 had not " flowed out of the country , ^ showing , in passing , how the gold discoveries would have necessitated free tride ; from the shipping returns and the popr-Jaw returns ; from the feet of the vast importation of corn which had taken place sjn £ e 1346 ; and from the diminution in crime , he drew abundant proof and arguments showing that the country was in a high state of prosperity .
He wound up in a strain of earnest entreaty that Lord Derby would , at once and for « ver abandon Protection "as utterly impracticableand utterl y lnis ? chievous . " . v- — - « - . " Let not the noble earl suppose , " he continued , that the views even of the candidates wto , under the new designation of free-trade Derbvites ( a laugh ) , were seeking to win over the ^^ constituencies jto " Bapdification , ' ' would ayail ; All such , slippery propositions would Tie resisted to the utmost by the people , by their Jepresentatives of the Lower House , and , he was assured , by their lordships also . ( Hear , hear . ) The noble earlhad put himself forward as the champion against democratic innovations , but the noble earl was OBly that houseand in the other house
one among hundreds in , , who would resist democratic innovations of dangerous character , of which , however , there were at present not the slightest indications ip thp country . ( Hear , hear . ) The nchle lord had not a right to assume to hijnself tbpb character until he had made a clean breast upon this most important question . He felt confident that a declaration that night , or at any other time before Parliament dis * solvedjlrom the noble earl , that he had once and for all finally abandoned any intention of restoring the corn-laws , or tampering with the great commercial changes of which he was one of the advocates at the outset , would place him in a position before the people which might indeed entitle Mm to some claim of that kind ; but of this he was certain , that a conservative policy at this day was a policy of rational , steady , well-considered , and , because steady and
well-considered , therefore safe and salutary progress . ( Hear . ) He believed we could not stand still without danger ; but of this he was still more certain , that if there was anything like an attempt at reaction , then , indeed , the noble lord would forfeit the character he assumed , and he would , though unintentionally yet assuredly , be promoting that onward progress of democracy which he thought he saw , and which he was anxious to arrest . A conservative policy was a policy of progress , —to stand still was dangerous ; but a government of > reaction , however slow , was a government of revolution . " ( Hear . ) Lord Bbene « s followed , making a grumbling protection speech , partially answered by Lord WoDBHottsb , and completely demolished by Lord Aibbmabxe , who read extracts from letters on the state of the agricultural labourers , proving that thoy wore neither unemployed nor starved by free trade .
Then came Lord Quaxyij & V , who succeeded , as will he seen , in dojng what the Dujce of tfewcautle h « d failed to dp—elicit a declaration from Lord Perby , Ho taunted the Government with on unwillingness to admit , and an inability to deny , the facts maintained by the Duke < tf pewcastle . And then hfl uttered a ttrmg Qf Pr ° ^ They had clearly aright to iwTc the noble earl to define precisely the-course he intended to pursuo after tho elec lions . They had a right to expect that he wpuld Btate the eoneral principles and tendency of the measures on which foe country ww to deeidaj but no for from the country being favoured with any tonight Jnto the general wine * - pies of the pplwy which the Government mtonded to pursue , it so happened that , ¦ ometimes through appeals mode by the ordinary euoportors of the Govornment to their
constituent , popnetimes by declaration * mftde by those connected by high official position With the Government and , at other times , by speeches delivered in Parliament having diiFeront tendeomoB the ono from tha other , thaw lordablpa and the cpnetituenpie * pf the CQuntfy were left muohmoro in tho dark at the present moment aa to what policy would probably be adopted by tho Government than they-w « ro oiitho day pnwhloh thq noblo kwd * pppojata assumed the Government . ( Hoar , ) JSvory point conneefced with the presonfc commercial systom of tho country woe involved in perfect obBCUrity oe for a » the Govern , man * wer * comOWtted , "W o * it pr ww it not » nt « ndod by the Cfovornment to relievo % hQ landed mtoreafc by a di ^ ct duty on iheMnpo' ^ of "corn , or by some Indircqt mode : — op 4 ra » it the intention of Government to oontlnuo the vxmtft vow »««* nl w & w ^ W » ( iNrfww l « troaw » 4
by Sir ^ e ^^ jM ^ arl at the biidof the < 3 oW aent temade ! *^^ that very year , in the ccSS which h 4 j | ft « ed «»* the present system was iniscinV ™ th ^ , t he was sftli $ opinion that a recurrence to ^ a Aul 2 > coni for the pujpfif e § offfyehue andprotection wn ^ t / ° " I beg th *»^ ja | b | e earl ' s pardon . The nobire ^ wroAg ; in qpstiiwjne as saying thata duty on corn in J * opinion , is a saaji ^ jf pf necessity . What f stated wk ^ S distinc ^ y as | toy pw » opmiOB , ^ at for the purpose af '¦ £ * Bfweh ^ M mi ^ mg agricultural clas SesXd" 2 jS * Fg ™^* f "* 9 ** m whereby ye should be enaWed Z take off other tpkes , then , withoutinjury to the cn *?^ ™ import diitv ^^ cornlrould hiil t m P % mt wouia
an on « <™ Wn ^ uuprmuyron corn , De aesiraoie . lalun , * i i that whetherirdief iwts to be afforded to the ^ uff ^ agricultural classes by the imposition of a duty ohfiw cam was a matter which was to rest on the opinion nf ^ constituencies . In no case did I say that it was a « , w of necessity , but that , m my opinion , it was a Srawf mode ' - - of offering relief fo the' afiticultural classes ffl mt opfado ^ s % b ^ t ^ tem / fcharisa ^ sSj be left to the constatuencie ? pfthe cowfltry ; \ ni , more over , I may add , if it will giveany satisfaction to the noW « earl , my opinion is , from what I have since heard an ^
imposition of a duty on foreign corn that extensive mJZ rityr in the country , without which ; I stated to your l <* i ships' House , it would not be desirable fo ^^ unpose such , ' I duty . ( Loud crie » of ^ Hear / ' frp ^ lhTowS ; benches . ) ., ' . ;¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . - .... Lord GEA ^ viiaa provolangly but politely rejoiaed that he was glad a mistake of his should have drawn from Lord Derby &> decided . aBtatenient ; i ^ fibef that there waa hardly any topic pn which be nged address the House . ¦ ,... :
Here the debate seemed as if it would dose and there seemed some donttfe on both sides whether ' as the peers haij ^^ not been . swtfinipn | d , and JW was a kind pf untjerstaridliig ^^ witfi L ^ r 4 JJerb ^ y tfeat tbe . debate should not take place , whether it ought to proceed . Lord Geey obviated all discussion on the 8 ubject > bjr returning to Jbe jqupstion of free trade and ministerial ^ intentions , which ^ he debated it his mest vigorous feshion . The point he fixed on was sugar—what did Ministers intend to do with the sugar duties ? The corn-laws ^ w ^ re npt to be reimppsed ,
the navigation laws were not to be meddled with—but he had heard that the sugar duties were to be dealt with , another year . The Ijody of his speech was devoted to showing that thp reduced sugMr dutw had been a great benefit to the working classes , had apt lesseped ^ he cultivation of the cane , by free hibpur , and had ittpreased the Quantity consumed to a marvellous extent , For instftTice , in 1 844 ,, in tW wholo year , tnere were 4 , 145 , 000 cwfc . admitted ; in the half year ending January , 1852 , there were 4 , 038 , 000 ewt . admitted Not pnly thisbut the revenue has increased with
re-, duced duties , In 1846 , the revenue was little better than ^ 3 , 500 , 000 ; in 1851 it was £ 4 , 130 , 000 ! Xord Grey wound up by urging the Government to be frank and explicit r to end this studied ambiguity and concealment of their opinions ; state , ay or , no , their ^ real views on the free trade policy , and either acknowledge protection to be an erroneous system , or manfully attempt to carry it out . Lord Derby could not escape the reproach , either of want of judgment or wapt ot must day
candour . That was the penalty he pay sorae , and the longer he put it off the heavier it would be . Lord Dbeby accepted the challenge , but declined th « alternatives . He argued , not that benefits had not accrued to the community by the abolitioni of thei d , » er ential duties ; but that those benefits ^ teenobtmea hy measures of spoliation , and by givingrjwwj ^ Tj to ateve-grpwn , by withdrawing P rotectlP « * ° " ™ labour sugar , Frpm sugar he gh 4 ed *¦ . »* ££ neatinfl . the same arirument . TliQ consumpt pn ot cpra at
mightlaave increased , but had it not beeri ^ » . - of tlie British producer . For the rest ^ "gSran thus : ~ You have made corn cheap and bread pi tiM-ypu have , I will admit , placed ^ - * * V enjoyment of great ^^ y vXaTroSty of ^ chased that at too great * pr «» ? T ** PJ ° ^ "gl 0 m , lftbpuring man dppendfl m the PW ^ J ^ La doplover ; and if yon deprive the ^^^ l ^ prive the former of employment . « J « JJ * hardmeasures have fallen wi £ h great "y ^ dETrf * ship , and severity , on the owner * andj ** up . . Boil ; the stinmlus of necessity h" , ° ^ T' ^ iion of provwent in «« ricwlture , and t ^ by ^ no . Q the labourer hw been improved for a ttjwr "J ^ jf that been , in W »» y paws , nt ilw Jo * pr i of ^ Ho treated the pauper question ana tne w hfl in a similar fashion . Tli ^ n , terminating W « « 1 *
replied to Lora Grey s— ., t 1 l 0 QovW ' V The noble earl aaid ^ What **^ J % * f * j » ment menu to pursue t » o th « y Ijjj »? jjoW he gj J > ee-teado policy pf Sir »• ^ . gX i ** " ! ht t Earl of Derby ) had stated a * / 8 t J" ^ diBOreeUy , $% » pome might think more djrtmotl jr « JJJ *! ; f Sir ^ W had » o Wto f ^^ Xlo &^ fro ^ uadwBtondingby 0 m & g ^ g'JB Wo to **** ^/ S ? from 1842 down to 1846 . He » J « % yj by th « ' ^ policy of Sir B . J » eel - ¦• ftAJiS * *^» •** tio » of tL dutfc * upon to * J » P | KWM *
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051852/page/2/
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