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    & d-L 6 rdnad stepped in and seized the chief p ; indite Great Briton , who , notwithstanding his selfgovernment ; is in a normal state of bewilderment as to his governors , is always anxious for the whole secret of a Ministerial crisis . What Lord Palmereton , turned out ignominiously two years ago for ^ recognising ? our present " cordial ally /! had . comein for : what conditions our Queenliad made . with him : what conditions he ^ ma 4 e w ^ th ^ cfl ( Ueague ^ : and what policy his Ministry would propose to Parliament and jtbe teople ? mien : the variety , of * he minor Ministerial

    changes—arrangements synchronous with thejpantomime season—the GreatBriton would he disposed to receive witir gratitude some ^ formation as to British Tiistory in theserespects djuring the last fortnight . Why badLord John Russell been transported t 6 Vienna—had he been made a diplomatist beoause he had recently demonstrated such duplicity ? Why Lord Panmure—who , last night , told the Lords he was going to carry on the

    war with « ' vigour" ( pronounced vigour ) , while a very bigh-rbred gout was . twitching about his lower Jaw— -had been elevated , in his old age , to a post for which no one would have thought him qualifled when fie was hearfjr 3 Pox Mauled IVhy Lord Panmurey being incapable ^ iti imbecae had been selected _ to as ^ fligthimin thecapacity of Secretary ? Why SirErancis Baring had been made Chancellor of tie Duchy of Lancaster ? -r-one answer to , which query : might be tUit . as he broke down in two great offices , Exchequer

    and Admiralty , and as he is of the clique which has to be provided- for , no better" post could be selected for " hito than ; ttiat at which , he will have nothing to do , —his " business habits' * of twaddling from nine i . isii . to ^ fbur ivati- being only dangerous , now , to his Private Secretary , whonrthe public will pay 2500 / . per annum for being bored to that extent ? Why Mr * Bobert Lowe bad left the Treasury bench and ehsconced'Mmself , below the ^ gangway ,. in . the »»<& £

    Brights , Hpramans , - . Blacketts ,. Seymours , and Layards ? Why Mr . Layard—who doesn't seem io have the patience , to wait for some grander r 6 le than that of the , Hammonds—gentlemen of brains Who are sent on " missions" to keep close to " ' , the ' ' elbows' of ; iuiposing old Lords — had not been allowed the gratification of his humble ambition in getting the place of mental medical attendant to Lord Pamnure ? Why Lord Goderioh , a young'Lord , had not condescended to the squireahip to Mr . Sidney Herbert ? Why , Mr .

    Fitzroy had got' a ?• Bight Honourable" accession of dignity ? What was the meaning of Admiral Napier stating that 8 ir James Graham was a villain , and of Admiral ( Berkeley , in vicarious reply , announcnig that . ^ Admiral Napier was not given to accuracy , of narration ? In short , the Great Briton would have been inclined tp suppose , up ; to the moment of the rising of the curtain last evening , thai ; Parliament had met in order to give him some information as to what was going on in Great British oflthir * . But the Great Briton left out of account that

    we have now got a Premier whose Parliamentary eminence is attributable entirely to a felicitous faculty Of keeping a self-governed , but still eternally inftnjrjnf cQuntryvprofonndly in the dark as to " affairs , " W / e have had secret diplomacy and secret history before } , but at last we hare got the same man to carry 0 O both processes of public delusion . Those , how . 4 ra who have studied ^ Lord Palmer » ton , have ever i $ toa 4 ^ 1 b excutd forhia secrotivenes 8—that he hiui - Vwiw ^ erknQwi what he is about , and , on the whole , doiWOTt ' , <** »»* 'It ' s perliapi a shame that he announced Sti' policy ; lKit < tt | 1 tti but then we deserve that for appointingaMinfctw who huno policy . What do we

    want with « tatesmanship?—We merely want the war carried on with vigour . Lord Palmerston , conscientiously responding to the demand of the country , means to doisomething awful ; but , as to what it may be , why he is in ' the same state of mind as Othello in respect to the arrangement of his vengeance . . . The full House was doubtiess disappomted . With a new Ministry there are newhopes , new resolutions , new trustfulness ; the House of Commons is then in its most respectable mood-it feels national and selfrespectful ; and , at such times ; the most cautious of ourclass conspirators ; who get front rank on the Treasury bench , are compelled out of insouciance into seriousness . But Lord Palmerston takes matters quiet-|

    yjly . His first appearance as Premier ( fora very short engagement , probably ) did not hi the least shake his cynicSnerve . Thatanasculine voice was without a tremor : the audacious head was held as daringly defiant as though the assemblage were an assemblage of Urquharts ; speaking a , speech which all Europe will read in all its languages , Lord Palmerston shrank not before those representative " eyes of the world : "—above or below the occasion , he held himself and spoke with the easy recklessness vrath Which M'Cad ' s Counsel defends M'Cad on a charge of petty larceny . The matter was commensurate with the manner . In consequence of the statements in his heart

    already made ( and Lord Palmerston ^ condemns that chattery communicativeness ) by Lord Derby , Lord John Russell , and . Lord ^ Lapsdowne , he had very little to say , he observed , with regard to the formation of his Government . Every one else having failed , though , for his part , he would have acted with anybody who had succeeded , he was sent for on Saturday , and by the following Tuesday he had formed a Government . What valuable information for the House I But the House hear-heared ; in the excitement of the moment it considered it was getting at the secrets of haute poUtique . Attention deepened . Well , having formed a Government Cno matter on what principle , no

    matter what for ) he had to consider the recent vote of the House of Common *—in consequence of whichj , in point of fact , there had been a change of Government . He—aw—deplored — aw—that vote j and when the House came—aw—to reconsider the matter , he was sure that it would see that , in point of fact , it must change its mind about the Committee of Enquiry . Grave and solemn hear-hears . He told them a . lighb anecdote in his pleasant manner , with that jocose swing of the ^ rm which gives such emphasis to his good stories , When Wat Tyler was knocked down , Richard rode up to the mob and said , " You have lost your leader—I will be your leader . " " Give up the Committee , and I Feeble

    will be vour Committee , " said Palmerston . —( and abashed laughs . > r-The House of Commons felt it was being put down— ' in point of fact—( Lord Palmerston ' s favourite phrase)—like Tyler ' s mob . Then he wenton'toshoV-what he had done to carry-on the-war with vigour , and render the Committee supererogatory . Sent out -a > new army : —a new general—destroyed promotion by purchase ? The ideal ' * Sir—aw—I have sent out several hundred scavengers—scavengers , Sir—aw , to clear the camp . " This is the provident Mars of the war ; the soldiers being all dead , he guarantees a supply of vultures ! Thus is England to retrieve her reputation : our Government is to continue an oligarchy , but the old lord is to

    be tempered by the nightman . But . something more . He had selected General Simpson and Sir John M'Neile—parties whom no one ever happened to hear of—to assist the Staff in confounding confusion ; and he thought also that as so many soldiers were dying daily , it was highly desirable that — there should be more surgeons . These are the vigorous measures for carrying on the wars , Amazed—silent—House of Commons r Lord Palmerston , his voice benefiting by the exercise , growing more and . more craftily bold : his manner , availing itself of the quiet and respectful audience , more and more flexibly impertinent . Then , as to peace . There was a prospect of peace . Lord

    John Russell had gone to Vienna : and Lord John was a great statesman—indeed , he might say a very great statesman . ( Loud cheers from the Whig Jncapablat . ) The House , like the rest of the public , had seen the fact stated in the Times a day or two before ; but still Lord Palmeraton thought it the right sort of safe old news to announce—it sounded as if lie was telling the country something . And then , in beat House of Commons balanced periods , Lord Palmerston concluded his feat of statesmanlike-statement by appealing to all parties to—aw—in point of foctJBink their differences in order that ho might have avpleasant time of it . *• The noble lord resumed nis-seat amid loud cheers . "

    Mr . Disraeli rose . It was a great moment in the history of England . As Warwick was Last of the Barons , so Lord Pahnerstou is the . Last of the old Lords : the House of Commons had boen insulted : the country had been fooled : Mr . Disraeli had a splendid opportunity fbr historical criticism . But ho

    had only to observe- —exclusively thinking of his functions ias Lord Derby's Parliamentary agent that Lord Palmerston had not done justice to Lord Derby ! And , generally ; that the new Government , being just the , same as the old Government , couldn't be expected to . get On very much better : —Mr . Disraeli forgetting that " it was precisely this Government which lie had been ready to join . The fidgety irony , and feeble malice , didn't tell : Mr . Disraeli ' s vicious drawling style , which he appears to have permanently adopted , wearies , and members scarcely heard him in patience : •—his own side scarcely laughed—they miss of late that gladia - ¦ , ¦ -- - - » , - * : observi ^ xclusively thinking of his

    torial dash which made Mr . Disraeli a parliamentary personage . And after that , set in a washy series of small speeches of small men—all complaining of the noble "Viscount—^ all bewildered—all vexed —all silly . Here and there a man spoke with a voice sounding like an Englishman ' s . Mr Tom Duncombe defined what he meant by carrying on the war with vigour : he meant going at Russia with a purpose and with strength sufficient to destroy her . It was taken as a joke ; the House roared ; the Treasury bench was frightfully facetious . Mr . Horsman suggested the solemn function of an English Member of Parliament : —the House rushed to dinner .

    And , soon , one began to discover why Parliament had been recalled to sit . The House went into Committee on the Navy Estimates : twenty or thirty members kept together : Several millions voted ! A propos of the Navy Estimates , Sir James Graham was asked with respect to Sir Charles Napier ' s charges against him . Sir Charles Napier is the great Admiral of the period : with brains and manhood he has served his countrymen—he came after Nelson—and he yet raised the fame of

    England . Sir James Graham is a Border Squire , a man of bad political character , a man of mere clerky intellect , a man who , dead in February , would be forgotten in March . But Sir James Graham , intrenched among the class conspirators whom Sir Charles Napier defies , can afford to refuse explanation to an insulted Admiral—and to refuse it with the accompaniment of small sneers , amid the tittering of the degraded House of Commons . i "AStranosb . "

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    A VOICE FROM THE MOUNTAIN . \ To ihe Editor of the Leader . ') Thie Cave , North Wales , February 14 , 1855 . Sib , —What is all this outcry that I hear abroad ? What is this clamour that reaches me in my retirement , and disturbs the repose of my old age ? I am told that the Times has come out in the revolutionary line , and proposes to root up the basisiof our magnificent ^ army by abolishing the privileges of the ar ^ ist ^ i ^ y " in that ~ a " rm 5 N—thenprivilegearsir , that rightly belong to long descent and great wealth . I am told that our late disasters in the Crimea , upon

    which my neighbour the parson preaches , are referred to aristocratic mismanagement and high-born incompetence , that we must look to the populace to direct our military strategy , and to the mercantile classes to furnish transports and a commissariat by contract . I am told that the art of war is to be a matter of demagogy and a department of trade . I am told that there is a universal hue and cry against our " governing classes , " as if the multitude deserved better governors than they can get . All this proves to me that these journals , headed by the Times , and

    this " million" of . whom we have heard so much are bent on revolution ; yes , sir , revolution ! Why , I should like to know , if promotion in the army , that last institution of chivalry , is to go by merit as it is called , why should not promotion in the Legislature go by merit also ? Why should we have a hereditary House of Peers ? Why not universal suffrage and an elective Senate ? Why should promotion in the Church go by favour , and be purchasable by wealth ? Why should not this sagacious multitude appoint the clergy * and the clergy elect the bishops ? like

    I can understand a consistent radical paper the header pushing radical theories to extremes , but I cannot understand a supporter of King , Lords , and Commons , of Church and State , like the Times , putting forward such revolutionary doctrines as promotion by merit . Don ' t tell mo , sir ; I am a Church and King man ; and I tell you that this clamour of the " blatant boast , " the insurrection against authority , the pretension of the mob and the press to dictato state policy and military strategy , and prescribe military regulations , and imperiously demand the recal of this , and the appointment of that commander , will bring tho country into anarchy , destroy her power , dismember the empire , and upset our glorious constitution which tho aristocracy , in times past , won for an ungrateful people . CaIXWAX . LA . DBR LX . HWEI / YK .

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 17, 1855, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17021855/page/16/