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      Mr. Disraeli And His Colleagues. If Mr. ...

      tween rich , and poor , influential and uninfluential , en franchised and unenfranchised , are exactly those which he did not condescend to notice . lie has taken a view of Enffli ^ HsOeieW & ccoi * a in £ ;' tb a scientific ni ^ tiidd , but It , isf artificial ; and the measures which , He has frariaed ' o ' n that view h ^ ve , broken to pieces simply beqause tjiey did not ; a pplj . Th $ r w 6 te nptf toeasives , but toy ' s ^ ; ; It is only ; in this yf & y ¦ tha ^ fte can a ^ c 6 unt ' f ^ r , the peculiar selection ; whieh he mad . e , ' el , rising Statesman , ' iii allying himself to the iProfce'ctip ' riist

      party , wMcfj . Was td him a' " territorial" ^ Mocracy / ' although it Was without any , pow ^ r fcut oymir & ti % \ land arid thf kfluejrice of health . The miktake ; ' ' ho ^ eVei ? ,, which to a mind so tech ! nologi ( ial as liisj was" as e ' asity macfe as a slip of the penV'ipvc ^ resii . e sacrifice' bf a political life ;' ~ Bf yirrae of ttidfc mistake , 'he has * c & iried liispeemiar' fadtilfies tO a . ' niaj-ket where they are * n 6 t appreciated . ' Bte lias taken Ms razors into the busi ^ e ^ s 'pfstpne & asbnry , and thb te ^ ult is tB be gathered' ftom thetacoheefiiea evidences of imperfect' alliance * between himself arid his colleagues . The only man of real coniniandirig ability' $ iin ' on & ist them , Ms ' colleagues ? but half tue uiboiuuhuxib

      adoptea nun . -iney accepted drawn on ' tie' other' Sidie betWeri him , as " ' ttie ad- ' versWy of' Sir' Robert Peel , - and theriisi elves . Althoujrhiliord ' Berby had' undertakeri to staid ; or fall Vy ^^ firiancial t >< # icy " oflus '' < 3 & vetome'iit , there is "iM % W sMhte ^ % roof 'Wit' lie ^ ks'in intim ' ate rMiiBn ^ iih His Chah 6 e | l 6 r of , We E ^ chetiukrT and man ^ stpriesr ciirreht " $ ; ' the poHticafworld ' ifloieiite / tney % 1 $ reverse ;'' The # uT ? lie may % 'left' to ctfniectTii ' e t » Mr . ' © Israeli ~ # is

      " a person' *^ calledm to frame a Budget , afc a carpentef % i ^ be called fn 'fofrariie a | box , md that he / was viewed with ' the same aiierialtibn by the polite circle around himafc t' p . e working man would . ' 'be liT a parfcy , 6 f la ' diesi arid gentlemen . His ownlariguage might be understood to echo that suggestion . In ' apologizing for' his last slashing speech on Friday night , lie threw out a hint that ' helra ' dto bear the brunt of tHe contest alone . With the generous exception of Mr . Wat

      pole , and some minor formal tributes to his abilities , there does not appear to have been any hearty support from amongst his late colleagues . The cuts which he levelled at his antagonists were not more bitter than those backhanders which he dealt' at his own friends . He evidently counts Protection ariiongst the '' obsolete pdlicie s / ' and he proclaims itsVunsuccess . Author of the policy by which Ministers were to stand or fall , it does not appear that he was able to dictate the time of their capitulation . lx > rd Darby , who seems

      to have . taken no trouble in the matter ; settled the surrender at his own convenience and very little thought seems to have been cast on the loss of the opportunity to that Statesman who had made the opportunity . And yet' it in fcaid that Mr . Bisrach remains faithful to his party—that is to say , that he is still going to work for that party which cannot support him * which cannot appreciate his refinements , wluoh cannot secure Jam his rewards ! He , condeBcends ! to associate with men amongst whomhois a person , " to , take rank under a

      , , man who , can resort , to the vulgar bullying of Lord Derby , and to bd almost of less auxsount than that reoklesft "W . B-, " who , does not know how to ihid , e his : pal toy electioneering manojuvres , jor to acknowledge thc ^ m when detected . Disraeli and I ) # rby may bo placed in exact oontraat . In a burst of pasBJon , Pisraeii assailed all roiuid ^ trans ^ yoaa ^ d . the ruloa of parliumewtory decorum , but anado his power feJt at every blow ; then recororing , with an avUatio hoxiho of go () d in

      taste , ho performs the latjt , duties of aMunuttnaniuouncixig iiis I resiana , tion with mmphcity and self-poBsepBioxi ,, and cloHiefl with a graceful apology for Juh mi « Uk (> . Ilia Chief inverts that ordor . Indifibront -oiiher to tluv opportunity or ho Ins opponont $ , contributing notlimH io ^ ho MiiUntorial puaition imMujtay jwotlxllingitJiLrcutH that Jjo kIiuII resign ,, ho porforinis hiri laafc aot irt a burHti , of vulgar , anger , and rowndly oonfowBOH Ihat liio rergajedH -. thfi ' nedewHity of wsi ^ nation uh h puraoiial aflroni . i

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      TIII <] . lATWST , H ) vSITl <> N < W THK CyjlAN , ; ¦ ¦ , ¦ . AFFiAil-K . ¦ ' ! ' : ¦ PmsarnibT Fn . r'MOTfui ' H me ^ 4 « o t » tli'W AttwrwMi OongrosM dlHoloHOrt tho aotii ' ul TiOB | lion (> f | , h « Unittxl § lwtii » towitrdW Ojilia ; and ( , | ibH 0 ' . Wur'omAin powers' whibh' haVo l ) C « n endcuVorii ^ ng tl > foreoleeo tho ctoi 6 f t ^ o Ainwlcftua on that i ^ ldttd .

      The dispute with the Captain-General , respecting the admission of the Crescent City steamer , was but an episocle in a long-continued question ; and the Presiderit' 6 message shows us that , while that episode'has riot been brought to any satisfactory conclusion , the general question of Cuba remains open , by th ! e express will of tiie United Stated , in drderto itk 6 wri rilterior , freedom of action . It is prWbable tKat the' CY ' eicent ' di ^ episdde mi ^ ht have been closed , if 'the proua Government of Spain hatd cpncedled sufficient authority to its dificer governing the island ; but he oaniiot treat with iorfeij ^ n powers , and thUB the Captain-G-eneral'eannot arrange the admission of steamers with the' President of the United States . So

      mueii . the wo ^ se for him arid Government . ' TEe rebuff given to England and France is more serious in its meaning , "Jj ' etus observe that in ' ¦ Speaking' of England , \ V 6 ' qopy that Hcenbe which substitutes ; thb-name of' our country for certain bfiicial people in Downing-street , who are the real parties to the transactions i ^ . Question . Early in thie present year , official nqtes were received from ' thfe ministers of IFrarice ^ rid England , inciting tlie ' Govei ' ninent of the United States to jpiii in disclaiming , , now and for |;! he future , all intention to optfiin possession , of the island of Cuba . ' , Th ' e jriVitatji or ^ ' must be regarded' ' a ^ . a cool brie . France , governea . ' by an usurper , is riot

      exactly the State coiripeteial ; to decide between the' ' rights of posdes / sibn or ; l , %$ iniacy ; and En ^ - larid 'ri ^ igHt have known hette ; r . than , to make ' sb ; simple proposition ^ 'Th e' qortfesporidence r '< ! ceri'tly ptLblisfliedj , ^ thoug h not completed bv the apperi ., dix '" whicK we believe ' 'to ' ¦ exist , sliows that ever since 1822 , the continued possession of Cuba "by Spain has been a matter of doubt , and even of discussiori ' l That correspondence , and its appendix , hare bpen closed , and it would have been far better to let the matter rest , than by inviting an

      idle 'disclaimer , to provoke the distinct refusal of the American Government . The refusal is rendered the more significant by the very arguments with which Mr . Fillmore accompanies it against the seizure of Cuba . These arguments show that he himself is opposed to the movement which is taking place within his own country .. He is so opposed to it , that he cannot refrain from recording * his arguments in

      his last great official document . Yet opposed to it as he is , we see that lie is unable to '« c ^ upon his own conclusion . He is unable to promise for the United States that they shall not take Cuba ; and when we couple that very proper scruple on his bwr i part , with the facts that he is the « cctdental President of the Union , that he is the President of a beaten party , and that he is' about to surrender tho Government to a man elected by a

      party entertainin g tho very opposite views , we perceive that 'his pleading proclaims the losing cause . Ho is ' a " reluctant ' witness that the determination to take Cuba is not to be resisted . In England this' subject has been discussed too much from an English point of view . Because , with our convictions at the present mormmfc ; it would be wrong in us- to seize a foreign Statewe ' doing'so , nevertheless , in practice—wo hold

      that tho Americans must be equally wrong , and wo presume that they must do ho through sheer grasping and dishonesty . Now the fact is , that a liirgo amount of earnest political zeal , almost a political fanaticism , engages a great proportion of the Americana moving in this matter . Thby arc for extending their institutidns , not only to exfult thtfirown country , but to benefit the people wlu > rcweivo them ; And recent exporienco 1 ms

      justified that pTopagnndiHin . The American mniikutions arc a boncifit to the coimtrioa who receive them ; ' and they aro viewed with eyos of dnvy by Stilton more distant than Cuba . The roeently published corresjioiulcnco hIiowh that thorn haH long btjon in Cuba a party desiring unioii -with a Htafco whore every citizen in i ' veo , jiinl Vvh (? ro ' ent'erprino prospers . ' CorrospomloTico now ]> vibliHhod in t / ho New York licraM'YvlhittM fch <> gi'and protekt of many

      " . KnglisiHYVciii - for resiHtitig tho univeTcntionof Cuba -M / ho luitioti that il wottld faoilitato tho hIjivo ( imdcj wIhWih tho vwy r ( TvorR ( t is true , linden * tho oxistfHg ' giivornm ' ent of Cuba , tho slavo'ti * tvdn i « now prbeetnlinK nt a rapid piico . Tho forf < 6 itur « of nn Atnei « imn Hhip , in thd lFnit ( i < l 8 tat « ri , for tho crirnoof Holling it to tho Hlavo trado , contrasted with tho dealing of tho Cuban (« ovem - mont , if not the ( lovornniont of Madrid , in that tralWc , Hhowfl on which wido lies tho ttlncero ttesiro for Blavo-tradc extinction . Thoro can be no doubt

      that if Cuba were annexed to the United States , the external slave trade would cease from that day . The English arguments , therefore , can have but little weight in America , where their fallacy is perceived and daily illustrated by facts ; and where tne position of our Government can be ascribed to nothing but a desire for hostility with the great Republic , whose alliance would pe the most valuable to us . So President Ei | lmore ' s arguments against propagandise ! of free' institutions read like the lecture of a man retiring into private life , and , conscious that he speaks to deaf ears . In fact , the American Republic is strong ; it has the ambition to make its power more widely felt ; and it only awaits the opportunity .

      American Souvenirs Of Napoleon Iii. When...

      AMERICAN SOUVENIRS OF NAPOLEON III . When Louis Philippe was at the height of his power , he received , accommodating himself to the situation with his usual ease , a visitor who might have embarrassed other men—an _ American lady , whom he had formerly , but vainly , invited to be Mrs . Louis Philippe , and who must have survived all regrets , if she ever had any , at not being in Queen Amelie ' s place . Louis Napoleon may , perhaps , be called upon to entertain , from the same country , ano ther guest ,. not ' so' easy to bow out . In recalling associations so pleasing , we might have hesitated to allude to this possible visit , had not the cirqii ' mstarices been published by the Brooklyn Daily Advertiser , the editor of which knew Louis" Napoleon during his residence in New York many years ago . The writer is very specific in his recollections : —

      " At that time he , " that is , Napoleon III ., now by the grace of God , Emperor of the French , " very poor and "—we write it respecting a royal person with great regret—" very dissipated . " We may , indeed , entertain some doubts respecting this assertion , since it is notorious , not only that royal persons never are dissipated at all , but that they never can have been anything but virtuous , —can have done anything that should throw- discredit on " the grace of God . " We may remember , however , that it is only an American who writes this monstrous assertion ; and

      he proceeds , with republican rudeness : — " He , " that is , the Emperor , " was notoriously p rofligate in his habits . He lived in a lodginghouse in Eeade-street , then kept by a gentleman who now occupies a high official position under the French Government . " Such are theups and downs of life S The lodging-house keeper is

      now glad to accept the favour of his poor tenant , for the lodging-house keeper is exalted amongst men , and the poor tenant has become the Dictator of a great gtatb . But let us proceed -. — - " Notoriously profligate in his habits , and without the pecuniary ability to indulge to the full bent of his inclination , the culpable propensities which characterised him , he was" —it becomes agonizing to writo these statements respecting a real emperor— " frequently expelled from certain places in which he obtruded himself . " Parisians , who havo witnessed tho most striking of all obtrusions , will hear of those expulsions with surprise ; but this wo must remember , Louis Napoleon was formerly dealing with Americans .

      " And more than a dozen times , " proceeds the American editor , "ho was tho occupant of a cell at the old tfaol in tho Park . " Hero the Yankeo libeller betrays the cloven foot . It is true , that writers havo said , even in Prance , that Louis Napoleon was once in a prison at Ham , for a discreditable' and Hanguinsvry riot at Boulogne , where ho coolly and gratuitousl y shot a lieutenant with his own hand ; but wo all know how falso

      those things are : Ham is not in France , but is a little village in the neighbourhood of'Richmond , iu England , and there is no prison near it ; and the Htory of Boulogne is about jis true as the victory which Uio English claim at Waterloo . "Wot long prior to his leaving tho United States , " continues our Amorienn editor , " he was eomnnUod bhim

      arrested " . for a iniwjemonuoiir y at the . liaroputablo house of a woman whoso establishment he often visited ; and tho wntor of Uli « article was employed professionally by him to save liim from tho threatened oonwquoiM ' -OB of lus reoldoHHiiosfl and indiscretion . " < ) f course hi * Imperial Mmjesty cannot remember those thingri . They havo been cancelled by tho Second of Doc < Mi > l > er . Tho . Iftmpftror dates from . Deeranbor , 1852 , and Loiiih Napoleon was but tho grub of tho Emperor moth .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 25, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25121852/page/11/