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    including the Radicals , who always cheer the Government now , cheered with the uproarious satisfaction of men Vho consider a matter settled . That is always the way ; Hayter jobs ; a swindle is accomplished ^ a constituency is sold ; and a country is deluded ; and then when an " Independent , " Irish or English , and whose cue it is to talk virtue , calls the attention of the House to the matter , a Gladstone or a Lord John Russell gets up , is in a position to plead total ignorance of the point , and indignantly repudiates the idea that they could ever sanction anything

    in the representative of a rotten borough going on his knees with Mr . Speaker and the clerks at the table at a quarter to lour , p . m . : for may you not be " a man of the world , sir , " and a Christian , too ? Mr . Henry Baillie , who was Secretary to the India Board , and a colleague of Mr . Stafford and " W . -B ., " quoted Carlyle to the House pf Conxmons on Thursday , and expressed his conviction that this was an age of shams—several of the . young Tories cheering the

    , A . " Sm ^ RGEB" PARLIAMENT , ra »; . Tftte 8 " . pC ( ye 9 terdjay presented Mr . Adderley artdefc-two asp ^ ts : Mr . A d 4 erley : Jt > egg ing ; to'beinfonxtsdtby Lord John Russell whether the " Prayer Soc ^ theiii ^ px" ( meaning for tfre Peace ) was to be ^ tjpojied until after the ' * first events " were fough , t M ^ 0 ye ^; ^ and . Mr . ^( tderley begging Jto , be in&rmed bjEi ^ iCJi » Y ! ernment generally whether anything was being don *} to provide for the defence of out east Ctowt ?; * This is very characteristic of the Christjan Engliahpoan , who thinis he may as well pay a

    comptiment Jo Providence , bat keeps his powder dry © eTertlleles * . : Mr , jijdderley . iias not . been the first t 9 * L * ufctffl ^ JQ- tyfa Honseathere has beejn a \ persevering attempt these three weeks tcbbore the Gorernment . into piety : and i < f 3 ||^ P&i ^ ithe ; r € a qLctance with which the CoalitM ^ . wMch cannot , perhaps , ^ itr upqn ^ acomproinise t in . the appeal t ^ Heaven , access to foe entKpiflc ^ Jlj ^ e ^ Cluistians , who beJGeTe that the Admighty , may be i ^ ucedF to : take a aipj « matid

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    jpffSBlj ^ tlea beeja i foi » gJ ^ -. whenc | Jw repm - ^ q ^ dajtiqn -to the piety m ^ b jaga uat to be jn j * hurry with what he regard */ as a agiUer $ fb ^ m * gEe an •^ mmm * ke&mn& vite&MJ&jp ^ mk&t&s * . thatif Mr . Adderleyo ai ^ j ^ r ^^^ aflaford ^ aip e , agee m $ b 8 d » i ^ ectfft ^^ ia , fiiptbi ^{; Jt& prev $ u ^ " the / n i $$#$ '&& . ; fiwbi BgMipni : Vand ^ pr ajl ^ g ^ rjirafcljr , <«>^ inWoaaI ^ , until , r ^^ vw «^; r 48 . : o ^ Bi ;^ ;^ . . 7 J # ^ l ^^ t riwrli ^ b ^ r , tho ogh at the . expense o £ Pro-^ P ^ 3 * Q ^ & 9 ? $ ^ ¥$ &&& & ft ^ SPv ' . ' * && ^ I ^ o Riisi ^ U , mighty meet the , Matter , in another way , boldly and honestly , as Lord Palmerston met ^ jB ^^ io apf the Scotch Divines * that we should e ^ reaf th 1 > ' Almighty £ 0 assist thl ^ organisation of the

    Mtifg&M . Health . As . Home ^ cretary he treated Mm ^ mzmtk "pMft j ^* S £ ^^ * j a 8 qo $ vl ^ ifcusraess to deal : and as he is supposed to i ^^^^ m ^^ m ^ p ^^ m 4 in * 3 KtQjSght , Rufsia , he migh > . b ^ s / c ^ eless . 61 <^ clUi&tto ^ r ^ Prdvldie < ice < as of suborning a German 3 lHan (^ In his ubpleasantly celebrated speech at t&ffi ClftW tftnuettGSiriNapierheclearly

    ^^ a ^ ' ^ , * tested : implicitly to the talents of the Admiral in * J | e Baltic And hia lebuke of the , *' reverend Mr . B&ghtMidnot suggest that the noble viscount would ^ ^ % ] g * eat hit ia an ordered public prayer . Beaides ] tneGba ^ litioh may have this reason for hesitatinjjj ^' go ^ they may not yet have Arnwged in the Cabinet what is to be prayed for . Is

    ffovidehce to bfe requested to prevent the status quo Tri&ite hetlMkj Or " to give us absolute peace , conditional Wthe evaciiation of the Principalities ? How can " those who liave no war policy ( which is obviously the national , if not the Governmental , condition ) draw up ; a war prayer 2 Providence , like a Minister re-< geivihg a deputation , must know what the proposition is hefore the question can be considered . These ' Are points suggesting that it would be just as well if jQhriatian M . P . ' s refrained from * being blasphemous tt » the era approaches in this enlightened age when "two or three hundred thousand Protestants will be

    Cutting the throats of a similar number of tlie adherents of the Greek Church—both undoubted followers of the Redeemer . s But there will bo a prayer : and Sturgeon , who -supplied bad hay , and Pitcher , who does a stroko of business with the enemy , wilL join in ^ it . Why not ? There ' s the House of Commons , representative of the nation : it has a chaplain , and : has prayers everyday , at a quarter to four , t . m ., and then proceeds to look after " private business" with great meekness , humility , and charity , —tlie latter being strikingly illustrated when one hon . gentleman has to aketch the character of another hon .

    gentleman , or when the leader of the Opposition deferentially inquires of the leader of the House whether he doesn ' t think that , on the whole , the Government is Idiotic—the lender of the House , out of deference to the " interests of the public service , " declining to afford any information . There ia nothing inconsistent

    remark with emphasis . And the character of the debate in which Mr . Baillie apoke is scarcely reconcileable with the prayers and pretensions of the House of Commons . But sensible people would tell the delicate-minded Mr . Baillie , who was champion of the Ceylonese until he was appointed an oppressor of Hindoos , that you must take things as you find them , — a pick-pocket philosophy very generally adopted in a commercial country . The Athenians were bored to death with the eternal information that

    Aristides was honest ; and what popularity can be expected for the public man or public writer who too frequently alludes ib the circumstance that the-House of Commons is not honest ? Chancellor Ochsenstern would have enjoyed our strangers * gallery- ; but he would not commence e very-day's life with " My son- ' - ^— , " &c . We are a great people : all mankind should rush to 2 , Fowkesbuirdings , ^ Tower-street , the inmate of which—BrK tatmia ' s Broker—advertises , with assiduity , that he can make' foreigners' British-born ' subjects—for a

    consideration ! Think , oh , Frenchmen , Germans , and Italians , of the glories of a Civis Britannicas : —you mightn't have a voW at home * but you may kick with impunity v Austrian custom-house officers abroad ! Palmerstbn would vote * against your enfranchisement here ; but if you get into a mess in Athens he will make the King - of Greece buy your four-posters . Rush' to 2 , Eowkes-buildings , Towerstreet / : it is not far fromthe South-Eastern Railwaystation : hurry to "Vienna and pull the nose of Graf Baol . That would be a career .

    It was a very interesting debate , that on Thursday , when , for the first time , Mr . Burke wasn't , and Mr . Carlyle waa , quoted—the sign of a transition era in Parliamentary life . The debate was about Mlt . Stonor , who is an ill-ttsed man , being an individual sacrificed in order ' that the maintainers of a viilanous system may keep up appearances with a rode and uniif formed public . Mr . George Moore has ruined him ; 'Why ? Honourable members said one after another on Thursday that it was mere malignity . Foolish honourable members . Mr . Moore

    belongs to the little party which was . broken up and all but destroyed by the defection of those distinguished drum and trombone of the Pope ' s brass band , Messrs . Sadleir and Keogh ; and Mr . Moore persecutes Mr . Stonor because every blow at Stonor hits the renegades whom Stonor served , and who are supposed to have served Stonor by getting him this appointment' now in question . One pities Stonor , and one also pities the renegades , and one sympawith the Duke of Newcastle , and one almost weeps with F . Peel , whose heart is obviously broken . But

    a party is a party ; it served the Coalition to ruin Stafford and *« W . B ., " and it serves the " Irish Independents" to disgust the English Peers in the Cabinet with . their Irish allies , and . to get such popularity in Ireland as will warn would-be renegades back to the patriotic ranks .. Mr . Moore may . fail , in the committee which has been granted to him , to prove his case in the technical way : but he has already succeeded in doing what lie wanted to do—produced an impression in the public mind that there ' s something wrong , and in the Parliamentary mind that it is ratlier dangerous not to be honest . Mr . Gladstone was very wrath

    with Mr . Moore , on Thursday , and ho was loudly cheered , because Mr . Gladstone is of that sort of lofty nature which cannot conceive und does not see tlie petty political villanios around him , and accordingly fancies that Mr . Moore , who all the while is acutely practical and is carrying his point , must bo a monomaniac , with the tendencies of the class who put logs on railways and gunpowder in their grandpapa ' s pipes . Mr . Gladstone , looking what ho talked about , gave the word of an " English gentleman" that there vus no grouud for the suspicion that Stonor had got his appointment because of his corrupt cleverness in returning a junior . Lord of the Treasury at bligo ; and thoMinisterialists ,

    so improper . That answers very well with the Ministerialists ; but the country is innocent , and looks at facts , when it can get them ; and the fact in this case being that a briefless barrister gets a good appointment immediately after having served in a corrupt way the Government which gives him the appointment , the country will be disposed to laugh at the conscientious vehemence of Mr . Gladstone The country will at the same time thoroughly enjoy the very different treatment of the matter by Mr . Drummond . Mr . Drutmnond regarded the motion

    as a gross and disgusting " affectation : " —Mr . Drummond , the skeleton of the House feast , suggesting that every one knew very well that there was not ths slightest novelty in the Stonor case . The House cheered Mr . Gladstone and cheered Mr . Drummond —which shows what a sensible assembly it is . The House . of Commons hates cant : and its disinclination to enjoy the Stonor case is aggravated by its detestation of Mr . Moore . Mr . Moore , of unpopular manners , and epigrammatic style , experiences also the disadvantage of being the

    member of an unpopular ( in the House ) party ; and his position is , ' therefore , on the -whole , not pleasant . I don't remember an individual being so consecutively assaultedin a debate as he was on Thursday . Mr Drummond compared him to a dwarf kicking the shins of a giant ; Mr , Vernon suggested bis , similarity to a cur of uoclean palate ; Mr . Gladstone said he was malignant ; Mr . F . Peel said that he was false , and so on . He deserved all this ; for he deliberately undertakes to destroy the Parliamentary system of governing Ireland ; and that is an offence the

    commission of which is incomparable with House of Commons' position . To do Mr .. Moore justice , however , lie seems to have the courage and coolness for the task : and not being delicate in attack , not to mind vigour in the counter-blows . In his reply on Thursday he was jaunty , and happy , and epigrammatic to the last : and , after all the denials , fixed his arrow right into the place where it will stick—in the bench of Irish members , who , in the morning , write to their constituents that Protestant England is conspiring to repeal the Emancipation Act . and , in the

    evening , go down , to the House to vote for the English Minister who can give them a place . And aa Mr . Moore is attacking the Coalition , of course he gets support from the Tory Opposition , who cheered him , witli constraint , and who put up Henry Baillie to quote Carlyle as to the deficiencies of the age . The debate , too , was not altogether , against him . Mr Lucas , one of the same party , made a telling defence

    of him , which contained even broader assertions of Parliamentary corruption than Mr . Moore himself had ventured on : and Mr . Roebuck said enough to show , that whatever the speech , might be , the motion was a proper one , and that a committee must inquire . Mr . Moore might study tact , and modify his manner : but when the House of Commons carries his motion by 3 to 1 , he cannot be going very wrong —at any rate , not for public amusement .

    Such debates are not bad preparations for the further discussion of those Bribery Bills which are to correct the political dishonesty of mere voters . Such debates fan that stench of corruption which arises from the committee- lobby into the House itself and into the nostrils of the public ; and , in very disgust and despair , we shall have political profligates consenting to decency . It is sickening and revolting , such a scene as that on Thursday , such a scene as that which took place daily far a month in Mr . Butt ' s committee lint how otherwise can you disturb the political indolence of a great people , strong and self-reliant , and with faith in the " selfgovernment" which Parliament assumes for them ? It is a pity that , just now , Admirals Napier and Dundus are more attended to than Parliament men , and that this great people is eagerly paying for a war of tlie character and objects of which it ia pro-

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    328 THE . DEADER . [ Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 8, 1854, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2033/page/16/