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    THE CARLTON PARTY. Tobyism: ia hencefort...

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    Bill Discounting In Parliament. The Hous...

    ecclesiastical courts . The courts , therefore , Btand utterly condemned ; but what is that Mr . FHUriiiMOBE proposes ? Only to transfer the appointment of certain judges in those courts from the Bishops to the Lord C & an-OEiLOE . " He proposes to thrust temporal judges into ecclesiastical courts , " says Mr . " G-iaddstone , " making confusion worse confounded . " The only reason why Government has not succeeded in correcting the evil , said Mr . "Wigeam , is , that Government has thrown

    over the excellent report that the Commissioners made who were appointed to inquire into the matter . " The courts , " says Mr . " Watson-, " are not courts of justice , but of injustice . " " The root of the evil , " says Mr . John Geobge Phiiiimoee , " is the nepotism of the Bishops , " and he did not believe that Mr . Gi « aj > stone was hostile to that system of nepotism . So Mr . Phillimobe introduces an excessively small measure to correct an

    enormous evil , and keeps the House debating upon a bill which will never be carried ; and all the members admit the wrong , while they charge each other and the Government with obstructing the remedy . Now these ecclesiastical courts are continually inflicting great injury , inconvenience , domestic wretchedness , and money loss upon the public , and this is the way that the Government and the members of the popular House set about the work of correcting the evil !

    It is only an example of misconduct which appears in every branch of Parliamentary business . Mr . Gladstone calls for " something to be done to prevent this incessant - introduction of bills without any adequate sense of their importance , ' - ' a laxity which " has the effect of deluding the country and of raising hopes which are doomed to be disappointed . " The SoiiicrroK-GENEEAii says that the useful measures are delayed because " the House does not devote itself to the proper charge of its functions , instead of spending so much of its time in what he would venture to

    designate unprofitable talk . " Why , then , asked Mr . Glad stone , do you encourage the form of bills which lead to no result , and still accuse the House of wasting its time iu " idle talk ? " He did not say " idle talk , " interposed IiOrd Palmebston , he said " unprofitable talk , " " in which opinion I certainly beg to concur . But , " continues the Viscount , " there is nothing offensive to the House or unduly severe in the statement that a great deal of time is passed unprofitably in the

    discusBiona of the House . " We shall never get on , says Lord John Russell , until we adopt some such measure as that introduced by 3 Jord Derby / , allowing a bill to be taken up in a subsequent session at a stage which it has reached in a previous session . But members cannot be Drought to agree even upon that ; for Lord John says that he was almost the only person who supported Lord Debbx : in the measure , which was generally unpopular . Members waste the time which they ought

    to employ in the business of the public who sent them there , in unprofitable talk ; they introduce bills which prevent the reforms they profess to carry out ; they leave " Augean stables , " like the ecclesiastical courts , unpurined , because they consume the time ia misleading each other , or in deceiving each other in sophistries ; and they do all this to prevent attacks upon nepotism . That

    38 the portrait of the House of Commons paintod by its own members ! But of all tho delusions that are put forward in , the shape of bills , those which are most discreditable are the " annual motions . " The Ballot is a meaauro upon which there may be a variety of opinions . Ah a tomporary protection agamst intimidation of a Limitod constituency , it may be useful . Wo do not propose to discuss it now ; but tho public ia

    perfectly informed on the amount of support which such a m easure will get in the House of Commons . We have no doubt that the division of Tuesday night could have been counted within a very small fraction ; and Mr . Bebkeley could have as distinctly told us that he should have 111 votes , besides the tellers , on the Monday , as he could on the Wednesday . The arguments which he brought forward respecting the degree of intimidation in Massachusetts , where the voters

    sometimes go to the ballot with banners flying to show their party , is as familiar to us as the battle of Bunker ' s Hill or the transactions of Peterloo . The question of the ballot has not been in the slightest degree advanced by what passed in the debate ; but the time of the House teas consumed ; and a process of demoralizing the political feeling of this country was carried forward by this manufacture of cant out of settled opinions . If the ballot is necessary , it is because the English people are not allowed to elect members of Parliament , but one-seventh of the people is by statute made the privileged class to elect the

    members for representing themselves . Some of that privileged class are so timid , or so pliant , that they will not select members according to their own choice , because they stand in fear of their landlords , their customers , or their ' creditors . There is no sufficient number ox that class desiring the ballot to render the parrying it in the House of Commons prolfoble : but to " bring it forward" is suppofeed to be a test of " Liberal opinions . " The member who can take to himself half an evening for the discussion , stamps himself for that year a "Liberal member , " and secures to himself a return for a Liberal

    constituency . Now , if he really desired to prevent the misrepresentation of the public , he would at once demand for the whole bodyof the English people the right of voting for their own members . Then the ballot would not be quite so necessary as it is now ; but it would be carried , we all know ; and we should have no more " annual motions" on the subject . There is one excuse for members in thus

    trifling with public interests . It is , that the people are just now not disposed to take up their own interests seriously . If they were , is it possible that we should have great constitutional questions left as a kind of joke or plaything for private members like Mr . Berkeley ? Is it possible , if the English people really resolve to settle these questions , that the representatives of the English people would be able to give each other such a character as they did on Tuesday night , and still remain members of " the People ' s House ?" The People ' House , in fact , is itself a dull joke , an established waste of time ; and it will continue to be so until tho people

    think fit to take up tho matter iu earnest . When that day comes , the members of the House of Commons , to say nothing of somo other houses , may , perhaps , be glad enough if they arc permitted to pass Sir Joshua Waimsley ' b Suffrage Bill , tho Household Suffrage Bill , or any other bill ; but then it will bo to pass the bill , for the day of bill discounting will have gone by .

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    The Carlton Party. Tobyism: Ia Hencefort...

    THE CARLTON PARTY . Tobyism : ia henceforth to havo its creed , oath , and articles . Thoro is to be orthodoxy at the Carlton . But how to secure it ? Lord Ranelaoh , once a Carlist sympathizer , has become an analytical politician , and has detected poisonous opinions in tho body of tho Tory party . His test is—tho govornmont of Lord Palmebston . Every member of tho Carlton who has at any timo joined Lord Palmisbston is to bo expelled . Considering that tho leaders of tho Carlton , in 1855 , invited Lord Palmjcusxon to join them ,

    seems hardly logical that all this fuss should be made about bad company . The Carlton was established , says the Chairman of Assurance and Land Societies for the furtherance of particular viewB . What views ? The views of Mr . Diseaelt , or Lord Stanley ? Mr . Sfooneb , or Sir John Pakington ? Mr . Whiteside , or the Earl of Debby ? W e have asked , Where is the Conservative party ? We are now forced to look for the Conservative creed . If Mr . •* * ^ 1 l 1 i 1 ^ ll » i" » «

    Spooner be a true Tory , Mr . Disbaeli is not . Let Lord Banelagh draw up an Act of Conservative Uniformity , specifying what may be believed , and what must be abjured by a sound Tory . It would be torn to shreds at the Carlton . Observe , that not only the Peelites who associated themselves with Lord Palmeeston when hejformed his Cabinet—Mr . Gladstone , Mr . Sidney Hebbeet , and Sir James

    Gbaham , with the Duke of Abgyll , the Duke of Wellington , the Marquis of Abebcobn , Lord Monck , Lord Ebnest Bbuce , and Sir Bobebt Peel , are to be disqualified for ever from being members of the Carlton ; but the proscription is to extend to those " , either by writing , voting , or stronger adhesion , " adhere to " the party to which the Club is opposed . "

    We have long seen Toryism withering mto cant ; but this foolish notion , which puzzles the leaders of the party , is a sign of weakness and irritability that proves , with extraordinary emphasis , what is the real state of things behind that new facade in Pall-mall . The King of Naples , in 1850 , said that the Lazzaronis were so disreputable in appearance that they should be walled-in in their particular quarter . Lord Banelagh , for the same reason , proposes to wall-in the Tories , who possess a sort of pride that hurts them

    in the presence of liberal men . Lord Stanley they must endure , for he is Lord Debby ' s son ; but for half his sins they would turn a political commoner into the desert . The ridiculous aspsct of their position is , that , without a known set of principles or opinions , without party cohesion , or defined political objects , they are beginning , at the loose end of their career , to insist upon uniformity . What will be the success of the Banelagh move , it is difficult to foresee . On that topic , as on most others , the party is divided . All is be

    wo can say is , that unless the Carlton - come the home of a sect , with distinct dogmas , to expel the Peelito members will bo to exhibit the Tory party in an attitude ot ludicrous spite . If there is to be a creed , let it bo published , and let us see whether Disbaeli , Stanley , Pakington , Neavdegate , Spooneb , Wiiiteside , Thesiokr , anil St . Leonabds , can sign the same articles , ami swear by the Shibboleth of the Carlton . Who does not remember Lord Debuy talking sedition on a mantelpiece , and wno expects the third Sir Bobert Peel to upset tho Constitution ?

    Tratt On Palmer. One Of Tho Witnesses In...

    TRATT ON PALMER . One of tho witnesses in the monster case at tho Central Criminal Court describes how a gentleman in difficulties can bo " accommodated" into the most frightful position to wlaon a man can ever bo driven by money trouDicB . Tho atory is so distinct from tho great question before the jury , that it may be conthese &

    sidered quito apart ; and ovcu it cntences should bo published before the > ju v should havo decided upon their verdict ou notice could scarcely allect them one way ° tho other , so that wo do wot ily ui the lace , o Lord CAMi'iiiiLL . Tho evidence ia " ™ r ; for us as well as for tho prosecution . W l » ou or not it establishes tho charge , m cither cult haw established another kind of charge ; uj

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1856, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24051856/page/14/