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/^ ONPUSIOISr in official proceedings — doubt \ J and discontent in the public thought—appear to be the characteristics of affairs this week . In regard to the war , there is negotiation going on -while " hostilities" are at the same time pushed forward ; couriers are passing between St . Petersburg and Vienna , and St . Petersburg and
Berlin , the different emissaries with different instructions ; a special envoy starts from Berlin to London ; and , concurrently , English ships are taking in French troops , from French ports , to be directed on-unknown points of Russian territory in the Baltic ; the public , here , watching all this , yet watching it with distrust , as unable to realise what our Government is actually intending- ^ -while rowing one way and looking another .
Government becomes more and more damaged , as the session proceeds ; and doubts of its heartiness and earnestness , in carrying on war , are seemingly justified by the evidences which it assiduously supplies , that it is playing with Parliament and carrying on " business , " which is always abandoned , without an object . A debate , injurious to the Cabinet ' s claims to good faith , impends for Monday night next , on the occasion of the vote of 17 , 000 / . for the new office of Secretary of State for War ; the public having meant
something more than the creation of a new oflice —having meant tho amalgamation of several of the old offices . And on Thursday night the Opposition in both Houses made successful attacks on tho management of the Administration in tho affair of the Irish Tenant Right bills . Certainly there is not one class , and not a single man , if it bo not Mr . Napier , who is loth to part with tho only measure that ho waa ever equal to organising—having dono that so as not to satisfywith any real roason to regret tho disappearance of those bills . Tho Tory peers and landlords , who for Opposition purposes have murmured through Lord Mnlmesbury and . Mr . Disraeli , can have no anxiety for the progress of measures which , however defective from tho tenant ' s point of view , arc much too good to suit Iriah proprietors . Tho English members have as little concern iu tho matter aa they have in the Lower Canada ' s agitation about soignouriiil tenure . On tho other hand , the Irish tenant-right members ) , such us Serjeant Shoo and Mr . Lucns , with tho boat roasona for scrupulosity , because owing their seats
to the popular agitation , have indicated candidly that they preferred waiting till the question had made more way among English members , rathsr than grasp at this " concession "—which is destitute of nearly all they ask to be conceded . Whatever-impression , therefore , has been produced to the discredit of Ministers , in connexion with the abandonment of these bills , resulted , altogether , in the first instance , from the ungraceful ' and uncandid way in which Sir John Young threw up his brief ; and , in the second place , from the
astoundingly confidential way in which Lord John Russell , in the course of his manifold explanations on Thursday , conveyed , in an enlre nous manner , hi 3 own private opinion that it was sheer folly trying to legislate upon the matter at all—thus recklessly and unkindly casting distrust on the repeated declarations of his colleagues , the Dukes of Newcastle and Argyle , that they had gone into the committee bondjide , taken up the bills licnrtily , and wished them thorough
sucfor English conscientiousness in him . But what he says is true or untrue , without reference to his own character ; and it is no answer to bis exposure of Ministerial , chiefly Lord John ' s , blundering , to point out that Mr . Disraeli is a reckless politician . The effect of his satiric criticism on Thursday night is palpable ; the House was amused ; the world laughs ; and Lord John Russell was angry , and made a poor defence . He has botched the session ; and we are not comforted , by knowing that he means to be faithful to his Reform Bill and to the principles of John Somers .
The Bribery B , ill is getting through the House with success i improved , in strictness and efficacy , at each step ; so elaborated into excellence by the committee " up-stairs , " to which it had . been referred , that the consideration arisesshould not all bills pass through a committee ' s alembic in the first instance ? We have suggested elsewhere why we doubt if this bill will produce a true House of Commons ; but its merits , within its scope , are so great , that we hear
cess . A . tendency to " shamming" earnestness was likewise detected on Monday , in the Lord Chancellor ' s affected reluctance to part with his Divorce Bill ; he had to be , as it were , soothed and coaxed into not going on : all the grave Lords and truthful Bishops who participated in the affectionate teasing knowing well that tho coyness was premeditated , and that tho bill had been doomed "by well ascertained arrangements : — tho desertion , of the Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill , which affected the state of the Ecclesiastical
with regret the general opinion that it , too , will fail of the lloyal assent this session . The Oxford University Bill has passed ; Lord Derby—painfully convinced by his career in the committee , that he has lost all his hold on the Peers , who gave him his chance and found him wanting—not even caring to appoar at all at the third stage . The Board of Health Bill , continuing the department for some yeai's , is not safe : Mr . Chadwick ' s enemies are as numerous as the evils
Courts , necessarily loading to tho abandonment of a Divorce Bill dependent upon the fate of thoso Courts . The Government could vei'y well afford to speak out openly as to what it thinks itself bound to do in this exceptional war-session : and it is obvious that all this confusion in details , foi'cing on criminations angry and hurtful , is tho consoquenco of Lord John Russell ' s failing to deliver tho usual periodical sketches of " business" and " intentions . " In former years wo have had an honest and a hearty wholesale nxassnero of tho innocents ; but , now , Lord John thinks it milder to cut his little ones up separately .
bound up with the " vested interests , ' which he has overthrown , or is fighting : and it will require all Lord Pivlmerston ' s tact to prevent tbe sanitary movement being arrested . Tho Radicals have made only one movement in the House this week on the misgovernment of India in tho Madras Presidency . It is obviousl } - logical for this political confederation to attend to the misfortunes of England's own Ilungnrys before wronging for Austria ' s and Russia ' s : and Mr . Blaclcott is to bo
applauded for his conscientious labours in creating a public opinion here , and bringing it to boar upon the East India Company . Mo failed in tho direct object of his motion , obtaining the nnpoiutment of ft commission to go out nnd enquire : ' but ho succouded in his indirect ., highly proper , win . Mr . Bright iniulo a . speech ni ^ nifiemitly vigorous : suggesting tlmt JMttiu'hcstoi traders with India , though defoatod on last year ' s India Bill , are determined to taiko tho rulo of Hindoos , and their tariffs , and tlieir capacity to grow cotton , out of
Mr . Disraoli did not , on Thursday , indicate that ho is the sort of English statesman who always keeps the nation ' s interests in view in his Parliamentary action ; and ho did nothing towards organising his party , ottering a policy , respecting a principle , or nunring power . Mr . Diwrneli is merely i \ foreigner amusing himself in English public lil ' u ; and tho English public must not look
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VOL . V . No . 225 . ] SATURDAY , JULY 15 , 1854 . [ Peice Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- * xo * Who is General O'Donnell ? 630 Divorce next Session " 661 PORTFOLIOParhament of tho Week 650 The Children of the Poor C 5 G Beware of the Dos ? 66 * Jr- ¦ I , ™ . Notes on the War 653 New Public Amusement 056 The Board of Health 663 \ man at tho "Water Cure 667 Continental Notes 653 Workpeople ' s Festivals at the The Shoe-black Brigade ' 663 THE art
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Leader (1850-1860), July 15, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2047/page/1/
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