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    out of the nation . The millionaires showed him that it wouldn't do ; and when men with a million or two of their own , like Mr . Giynn . or Mr . Wm . Brovn , talk a rising barrister down about the machinery 1 > f drawing cheques , he sinks abashed—as clever Mr . Phinn did . Monday nigtt ' s debate on the Malt-tax was very dull , as all debates must be when the Government is overwhelmingly strong , and the despotic strength

    last time , gone into the House of Commons as a squire , and nob as a philosopher ; and , as people who asked after Congreve asked after the author , and not after the gentleman , so it is not surprising that Sir Edward , suddenly discovering that he has been talking : poetry all his life , and plunging at a frightful reaction of prose , does not get that attention which a squire proper , even such as a Sir John Pakington , can secure . There are still other reasons why he does not succeed . Even if his matter -tfere more

    their will . —these being Protestants who are not agile in looking after the management of capitular and other Established establishments , and guardians of personal liberty ( such as Mr . Newdegate ) , who adored the Czar of Russia eveii while he flogged the nuns of Minsk . But the most curious and inconsistent position was that taken by Lord John Russell , who sat between Mr . £ itor 6 y and Lord Pahnerston , and who , - nevertheless , talked of " the Government" having been opposed to Mr

    T . Chambers . All this did not matter , however ; it was a dishonest farce , and on . such , occasions itbe House gets as smoothly as it can out of the folly and yttJany of ;* he $ & >** ¦* and ih ^ ppcrites . of the two sHes ^ ilt beinga ^ rujlethatjlie EngUohfanaticaihaU * J * # * ? S ^ - ^^ J -SWHW i *« EiWW V ** & ^ p ^^ s ^ m h ^ % MP * $ m £ i s& ® i t &Vp matter was exemplified oh Thursday l > y the attend ance ; 10 © only prided on the question ; aiid of that 100 only 30 appeared in tie HouBe . Mr . Bright ,

    loathing the whole display , burst out into an indignant warning to the Hoiiae of <^ mm ^^ itself to be sunk mto a jynod , and not to ^ ire itself up to the wretched canters of the Spooler genus- ** pieceof ^ eclamaiion , which was ^ ell cliaered by the lil ) eral side , even byi . those who voted for the Ecclesiastical Titles Buls ^ a ^ . o ** : « f ; 4 o <^ l | ih ^ Xiberal papers have taken up Mr . BrightV cue » It is altogether inaDi > roT ) riate _ that the Hxmse of

    Cammom should aubmit to sectarian diBcasaionB . But Why ? '; SSi ^^^ ^^ a Board bf ^ ne # 6 f >* h « r w ^^ uafifli settle sectarian strife , —having no earnestness , which , iii thii c * se means no religion . And none of its Oeaders havic ^ the couj » ge to ) face ItiiereKgiousdu ^ ttlties of < the country * ithe Houseatemplorfi ^ iandri ' j SiaLesfieSTwtih

    fiuch qucsti&if **!!^^ of everyjc ^ eaitji re ^ - ^^ l ^^ imS ^ i ^^ k ' ^ i ^ bM 8 , 4 n , ii « ,: SPSfr ^ m ^^ S ^^ S ^^^^ W ^^^^ | fl ^^^^ *§^«| j % ^ the prevajwee , p ^ wWcli ^ the English communitifis is fatal to the country ; 8 pretensions tp ^ ctviiMbn . ¦ ; Saturday f **™^ y : : \ ^ t ^ * $$$ ^

    than commonplace matter , and were commonplace matter from the practical ,- instead ' of'ffohi the " abstract , essayist ' s point of view , his . manner would still be fatal to his pretensions to senatorial position . He is self-engrossed when speaking : he is not watching his audience : he is , to use Curran's phrase , not feeling their eyes : and , thus , the House seeing a man engaged in delighting , himself and not thinking , in the first instance , of them , watches him with the Interest which they would have for the attitudinising

    of an improvisatore , —never think , of him either 8 , 8 . a party leader or as . a Memoer who , like Radical individualities , has masses at ius back . Beyond this again , Si * Edward wants " deportment '' ; and " elocution . He is very scrupulous in BUiting the action to the word ; but , then , the action ' precedes the word , in a strange way , so that before he commences a sentence he is throwing his long , thin arms about as if defying the Speaker , and as heh finishes Jbifl sen ^ tence he pitches himself , sprawling , over the table .

    His voice is hideously , hardly ; monotonous-, and , {| i& result of his mental resolution to . tallr , hig ^ h art politics , even , oa a Pakington ^ theme , is that b !< e ' al- . lades to malt in the tone qlt voice' in which l&raJ Siddons mentioned a yard * of ' ribbon . 3 ^ d Speciiy the final defect , how care" ttriy ; ' maa hope . "for House of'Commons' position who dresses like a valet , with moustaches like a reporter ' s ?' ' Widiliicombe would be as successful . And adtnethirig of the kind must have struck Sir Edward <> n Monday . For the House laughed at -Mr . Henry Drummond ' a

    sneer at the ' * fancy V of the preceding speaker —( Mf » Drummond is so practical !) T--7 a ndtheiHoU 8 errr ; that is the squires Sir Eawardhad invvain a ^ n ? pted to wiq —applauded with : boisterous , emphasis tlifi ludicrous inanities of the Bimple Sir . John , Pakington-rravin ^ n with a small attorney V capacity , and , a smallbarrit ter'e yerbosity—hut < a man gifted with an available powei of ; following a pronounced nose , more being unnecessary in a party which Btarts with the general principle of keeping / what < it 'has got— £ e ., the Con * servative party . ' ' . . ¦ ' ¦ .,:

    Sir John Pakington is , in fact , leader of the Conservative party ; Mr . Disraeli is only ; the orator ; and , very often , declines , that , as on Thursday , when he had the decency x to stay away from the booby bigotry brought into play on the Convents question , and when Sir Joan Pakington took the airs of Sir Robert Peel , and gave everybody a lecture on constitutional doctrine . It was pleasant to hear—hear Sir John entreating Lord John not to set the precedent of a minority overriding the . majority , which ,

    of course , is not done in this country at , alj ; and it was as pleasant to hear ILord John assenting , insisting that a majority ought always to rule , —this being the statesman who the other day perplexed political students , and set managing electoral attorneys by the ears with the " minority clause . " The whole of that debate was very amusing , from the false pleas and funny affectations , Mr . T . Chambers had found out that the English public hadn't bitten at his bigotry , while the Irish public was beginning- to talk of civil wars again ; —further , Mr . T . Chambers had found out that lie

    was teasing the Government with which he wants to act "—and Mr . T . Chambers , backing out of a bad business , looked grim and solemn , and protested that he only gave way because of the " factious opposition" arrayed against him—that opposition consisted of Irish members , indolent and disunited . Mr . T . Chambers and his friends asseverating , that as true Liberals and Protestants , and as guardiaus of that personal liberty so dear to Englishmen , they were bound to pry into the management of nunneries , and to see whether or not young hidies were ever " confined" ( they used the phrase . with a leer quiUj ur > jtN > tlie mark of British legislators ) against

    of th « Coalition is in no way affec ted by the circumstance that all their bills are beaten or have to be abandoned . Monday ' s debate was odd in this way —that nearly all the speaking was on one side and nearly all the voting on the other , —an arrangement which indicates the acuteness of the theory of our constitution . But to do the House of Commons justice it must be admitted that the tendency was , strongly , to divide first and debate afterwards . There were

    cries of " Divide , divide , " even as Mr ; Cayley was struggling on to his legs , to make the initiatory oration : the cry was renewed on each parenthetical application he made to the bottle ( Mr . Cayley scorns oranges ) in his side pocket ; and the cry was uproarious as he Bat down—and , so on , as every sucr ceeding orator rose and resumed . Half a dozen times in the course of the night the Speaker had to boom orders to the strangers to withdrawn-half a dozen-times the : lobbies were cleared : and , so early

    ^ s nine o ' clock , when the Chamber was full with senators regathered . from dinner , the actual division was so . imminent , that if Mr . Disraeli had been one minute later in showing up that " Zugabe" Tory , the lately liberal , $ ir Edward Lytton , the Country : paprty would have had to endure the" disgrace ; in addition to that of being , soundly beaten , of being beaten without having taken- the precautionary revenge of boring their conquerors . The Tories suffer from tie circumstance of the Coalition ,

    including : all the presentable talkers , with the exception of the Manchester talkers , for it now invariably happens that Mr . Disraeli has to answer every one—^ a feat as difficult as Ducrow ' s driving , with intricate reins , fourteen horses . Hence Mr . Disraeli ' s alacrity in cultivating the juvenile Tory , Sir Edward : an ^ , on Monday , it looked highly complimentary to the brains of the lordly and squirearchiqal faction , crowded on the Opposition side , that , their two leaders , on the front bench , were two-literary , dandies :

    both of whom had commenced political life 1 as cosmopolitan Eadicals , with a partiality for blue waistcoats , long hair , and eternal justice . " But Sir Edward is not a hit as a Tory , —indeed , never could be a bit in an assembly , whefe , to all time , the practical Lumley Ferrars will be preferred to the artistic Ernest Maltravers . Sir Edward has , in several of his brilliant books , a character of the Glanville or Maltravers ca ^ te—who goes down to the House , after & moody fortnight of solitary and severe

    back library , and makes a startling speech , which is a sensation for the week—and who , after having made his speech , re-appears , frowning and sighing , no doubt to every one ' s disgust , in a blazing salon , where beauty points to him and envy stares at him . But we don't find that sort of man , in the lobby , greatly respected by the door-keeper , who is an admirable foolometer of a member ' s position with Mr . Speaker ; and , although it is perfectly demonstrable that when Sir Edward makes an oration , it ought to make a sensation , and be the senate ' s admiration and the nation ' s

    delight , yet the pitiful fact is that Sir Edward is only a grand failure . A man of intellect in a false position may not excite derision , and , undoubtedly the House is respectfully quiet for Sir Edward , lest he inspires weariness , and , as Burke was a dinner-bell , Sir Edward cannot be insulted by the suggestion that he is , in his Parliamentary appearances , neither more nor less than a gifted bore . This arises from Sir Edward not being natural , and yet not having that

    flexibility of genius which enables men like Mr . Disraeli to act . He would be a Parliamentary success , as Monlalembert is , or as Macaulay , among us , is , if he would talk out on liia own themes his own convictions in liis own language . But Maltravers having studied the world , will insist upon being practical , and while attempting to preserve the lofty altitude endeavours to ape the Lumley Ferrars tone on the Lumley Ferrara class of question ; and , accordingly , tho catastrophe is awkward . Sir Edward , in short , has , this

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    May 20 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 473

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    The PiKFKcr M 3 BN .-r-In ihe-mi ^ d ^ ag ^ gw ^ t smfln united a dozen different science ^ ana ekceliMf . in" all . f jfow we ' re funy * andtilfeni is submvi ^ . ^ " llibbiiiel AHg ^ lirWaVV sculptor , ijirohit&fc paintwi and - pofctv-oKowi weihawothe

    education of parts : fte harpcrV ) Gbg <> r tie jockey ' s knee , the etigriver ' s eye , th 6 ^ ancftns ^ oot . We prune * trte back-to oaeJaranckto get any fruit at all , and when it comes 'tis stunted . Thb J « ws . ~ It is a singular thuig ^ hat ^ forty jafeSs iu the wilderness their ^ otb ^ . jBrai ^^^ U , ^* , ' ^^ ! ^ such a tlingas cast-off rauheiit ; and ' notir for hundreds of years they have lived by tniding vk the ijlidghi ' of'civlllsea Europe , , / i ^ . -Ui ; - * . t !} "; n -: M-: < yrr ^; ' i fahr j » s £% fc 2 &&m&tB £ commodore at Dover who iwas called by tl » i «« lorsf ; A > dmlril Wholeboiws , " because ho . < &m , ^ scaped s danger by « ey « r running into it : and duriiicr ' k Verv aevawi envSvnrAmhTwUl . t C 9 i she

    — — ' Kf > Tf r — ^ —— " * w ~~ ^ < m m * yihwy * »» pi ^^ w » two French frigates , off Cherbourg ^ tinfortahAtely codld ' ildt find-his sUDperstilljost j ^ the ^ n > y er « 4 a £ ^ WUtm ^ J house in Gloucestershire was known as "Pinohpoor Oasuer and I have heard of a doctor famoks fia decimitiii g' tbw infant population , whp got thq . lgiatt | # , of ; Hei ^? ' . from < his constant * ' massacre of the Innoceiijts . " Eubope AND l MoBbc co .-- <) ribnesideof thefosi © yon see , ise&ted cravelj ^ ith hls'le ^ B crossed uiuler r m wild pjWMi tree , one ojf . the ^ ards pf the Sultan off Morocco . ^ Wfifch his great arquebus * suspended to the tree , h , e smokes his pipe , nnd looks fixeilyi toa ' cldotnily at -the soldier of tbe Provincial pf Valentia or Seville , { Who on . bis aide ) hoddfed into his aeatry-box , and leaning , on his e * rabine , throws . distrustful 1 J glance across the ditch at his nei g hboar . ' At ev ^ ry fifty ¦ paces you meet tans JSurofte and Morocoo fmbe to

    face , silently gazing on each other , in tb « persons . of their senttnals . And wJiat ideas hare they to communicate which are common to both ? In what language can they- speak which both should be capable of understanding ? Of the Arab language , tho Catholic peninsula lias never known any thing more than the words left behind in its own by the conquerors who founded the Alhambr » and the Albaycitt ; and as to Spanish , it is long since the Arab of Morocco ,, the degenerate son of those coiHiaerors , has entirely forgotten it . [ f the silence that reigns alone the line is ever disturbed , it ta b y tho report of a gun suddenly heard from the Moorbhsidf . The Mussulman soldier , without troubling himself to get up , has shot a bull on the Spanish territory , which hunger h * u tempted to trespass within flight of the fat pastures . usurped by tlie Moors fifteen years ago . —JDurrteu ' a Morocco . Cjiarms of a November Foo . —Cloudless skies for

    weeks together , are wearisome enough , and the trito excla ^ mation of the late Cuptain FothergiU , may be in point . Tina eccentric officer was returning from India , where he had served for years ; coming on deck , vlien entering the English Channel in a foggy November morning , " Ha , said lie to tlie lieutenant of the watch , " this is "what I call someT thing like ^—none of your cursed eternal blue skies hure—a fellow can boo his ' own breath now ! "

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 20, 1854, page 473, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2039/page/17/