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      Malmesbuby must be tltrown overboard , to save the Ministry ; tfoat is the due fact made evident by -the events of the week ; and it is a fact tolerably predetermined , we believe , not only by bis political opponents , but of course with more rancour by his political friends . The two scrapes into which be has brought the Cabinet , happening together , thoroughly exposed before the public , transcending the toleration of the two Houses in

      which they are debated , have settled the matter . The accidents of his position conspire with his own conduct . The personal friendship , for example , of Mr . Scarlett , in Florence , with the Duke of Casiglianp and " the other side" in the " Mather affair , " although a matter for which Lord Malmesbury cannot be deemed responsible , contributes to deepen the colour in which he has already appeared .

      Lord John Russell has taken advantage of the Mather scandal to use it as a party weapon , and condescending to appear amongst the grievance tribunes of a Supply night , he makes a grand attack upon the Foreign Administration in particular , and upon the Derby Administration in general . In the Mather part of his oration , be bad an easy task—the logic , the statesmanship , tllG Rtvlo r \ f T s > n . l UnlmnnLimt ' ii n « in « nmr » r » cifirkn the style of Lord Malmesbury ' s own composition

      , simply recited , operated as the wit and sarcasm of the reciter . Mr . Osborne supported Lord John's stead y Foot with his light Cavalry ; Lord Dudley Stuart dashed in the face of the Commons the painful contrast of American efficiency in defence of American citizens abroad : and Lord Palmerston , giving a broader scope to the debate , recorded a warning that the immediate question , involving the nominal independence of small states

      like Tuscany , virtually under the protection of | arger states like Austria , mu 3 t necessarily be handled at no distant day . The fact of the case roade out on the side of the Opposition / was to exhibit the Ministry as vulgar and inefficient , to ma ke Englishmen vexed and ashamed with their ° wn position abroad , and to prepare the mind for troublous times , when real energy will be needed .

      The retorts of Mr . Disraeli and Lord Stanley for the inefficiencies of the past Government , wore not without effect as mere debate return Wows ; but they were more than compensated by tlle ludicrous irrelevancy of Lord Granby ' s episodical thesis on Protection . ¦ Lord Malmesbury stands confessed in the matter [ Town Edition . " !

      of the convention with France * ai incapable . 01 proceeding with . Ms own plan , or of understanding bis owncase . On Tuesday , last week , bis bill was first explained in its real nature to the Lords ; under the pressure of objections made by Law Lords and experienced statesmen , in spite of his defences and excuses , he found it necessary to change his position , and to advance sweeping amendments on the Friday . On the Monday , he

      comes before the House , confessing that his previous assurances were based on a mistake , asking leave to withdraw his bill altogether , " for the present , " and begging that there might be * ' no discussion" on the subject . The House permitted him to withdraw the bill without discussing it , and he left the debate as a trespasser leaves the presence of men before whom he has made a full confession after detection .

      Mr . Anstey endeavoured to bring before the House of Commons the case of the British Missionaries in Hungary , seized by Austria ; but he did not possess sufficient hold of the House to command its attention . The House was counted out . In connexion with these eccentricities in our foreign administration , the public will note with some anxiety the announcement in the Morning Herald , — " We understand that the Government have taken means to prevent , by our naval power , any efforts that may be attempted by American

      adventurers against the Virgin Inlands . " lhe announcement is as ugly in its political aspect , as it is in its literary composition , and we hope as incorrect . To prevent efforts that may be attempted by adventurers , is not a very intelligible process ; but the exercise of naval power against Americans is a process which Eng lishmen ought not to trust to the Malmesbury Cabinet , Americans will , at all events , bear in mind the distinction which we have so often repeated to them—that Downing-street is not England .

      The presentation of a petition from New South Wales , calling her Majesty " a trustee of the public lands , " and challenging British right to tax the colony , is an historical event . It calls . Boston to mind . Most successful in mischief , Lord Derby has succeeded in spoiling Lord John ' s Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill , by preventing inquiry , except upon a joint address from both Houses . The bill was not of the best quality , but it is now simply worthless . Mr . Spooner has suffered bis Maynooth motion to b ' o bandied about by adjournments , speakings

      agSfast t ^ onvcollateral subjects , readjournments , and delays of eyjery kind , until , at last , to confess the truth , unless ' -jre were to search the journals of the House , we could not tell exactly what has become of it in technical sense : practically and avowedly he has given it up " for the session , " that is for ever , as far as he is concerned There is some movement in election affairs , still ,

      however , without any material change . The prevalent peculiarity is an overplus of liberal candidates in all quarters . Here and there we see a coalition of the two great parties in the State , who are keeping up the farce of contest in St . Stephen ' s the better to secure their reciprocal alternation in office . In Leicester , for example , Whig and Tory

      are conspiring against the Radicals , Sir Joshua Walmsleyand Richard Gardner . Sir Joshua may not go so far in social reform as we of The Leader ; but he has manfully stood his ground in an expression of Radical policy commanding the largest public assent , and a town like Leicester is bound not to see itself thwarted in securing a representative of its own views , by the combinations of

      men alien to its real feelings . A negative step has been made this week in the Jew question . Mr . Salomons , after a technical defeat , has obtained a substantial victory . After a verdict in a former action pronouncing him liable to penalties for voting in the House of Commons without having taken the abjuration oath , a new trial , in the Court of Exchequer , to enforce penalties , is defeated by the loose manner in which the informer brought his evidence before the Court . Upholding the letter of the law strictly , in the penal case , according to the true constitutional spirit of the law , Lord Chief Baron Pollock mainly

      influenced to that result . The fete of the Cork Exhibition , extremely agreeable and creditable to the City of the West , has been usefully signalized by the emphatic approbation which the Lord Lieutenant bestowed upon the Queen ' s college . He visited it in person , and expressed his approval in plain English ,

      beyond all mistake . The " godless" college indeed , supplies , in its broad and liberal education , the most powerful , as it is the most inoffensive antagonism to Maynooth ; and it is important that its practical merits should have received this public and official recognition from the Irish representative of "the last of the Conservative Cabinets . "

      The French ruler pretends to arrest a financial crisis by taxes on horses , dogs , and paper ; whilst he refuses to reduce a devouring army , and incites

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1940/page/1/