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    grand "bridge at the natural transit close to th ¦ central " -, point of western London , ' Charing cross . Tnere are other reasons for this . ' : it is close to the South-Western H \ ay Station ; it -would open into the nr road which will connect all the bridge i that side ; and it would T ) e a natuiv point of crossing the river for a large j ; oportion of that traffic towards" the Lon ? j .-bridge statioi ) . " •¦ lr . ch . now chokes up iicbiorouglifares ofi % . : . ¦ ¦/ ' " ¦ , ¦ ¦ . ¦ . . . . ¦ . . . oir on the

    It ^ . ouis NAPOiiE "vsce gro und , he would say , —Sweep ^ way those old and worthless houses , coDsruct the public offices , place one bridge a ^ xainbeth and one bridge at Charing-crO f i ; and then not only would Westminster bcome what it should be , but a magnificent tl ' trict would be called into existence on , fe other side of the Charirigbridge . Sj-Benjamin Hall evidently sees what migL be done , but he must work in fear of ' ike House of Commons . He has taken ; hen , a middle course .

    Hr has invited from the architects of Engind and foreign countries three designs —tie for the new Foreign Office , one for tfe new "War Department , and one for a plan f the whole future improvement , including the communications across tlie river . These plans will be exhibited in "Westminster Hall at Easter next ; 50001 . will be distributed among the authors of the seventeen best designs in sums ranging froni 800 Z . to 1001 . ; and already there is a great eagerness to

    enter into tiie competition . The designs , indeed , are only the commencement . There will be the execution of the immediate buildings , and then th e execution of the subsequent improvements . So far good . But there is more than a chance that the whole of the said excellent scheme may be frustrated . There are local

    interests which will be as tenacious of the lumber in old Westminster , down to its condemned bridge , as the farmers were tenacious of the Corn Laws . A new free bridge would damage the property of the Hungerford suspension bridge , which would be entirely superseded . And possibly certain architects may think fit to defend the condemned design for the new Westminster-bridge .

    But that is not all . There are statesmen who are jealous of any rising- man . Sir Benjamin- Hal . l is a rising man . "We doubt very mucli , from present signs , whether lie will be supported by the whole Government . He will of course be claimed as a credit to the Government , if he should succeed . But if there should be any obstruction to his course , —if the vested interests can raise

    opposition in the House of Commons , Ministers will probably treat him as they did "M . V . Lowe , when he brought in his . sensible "bill for the abolition of local dues on shipping , —will imprison- him in a select committee , and lay him , liko the giant under Sicily , moveless beneath the weight of a parliamentary Blue Book . Th © public interest , indeed , is entirely with Sir Benjamin , but Low easily the public can be mystified ! The only question wo have is , whether the ambitious member for Marylebone will be so easily or contentedly Glenelg'd .

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    THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . " The people of England , " Mr . Koebtjck Bays nnay compel their Oovernmont to act wisely Mr . Hoebttck , addressing the Bnghton public by letter , avows his belief that a muted and independent people in the Danubian Princi palities would Wve the cause of human liberty against the surrounding barbanam of Austria , Bussia , and Turkey . But tho Government of England , ho adds , Which might be compelled by tho people to act wisoly , is controlled by tho despotic

    GoLernments of Europe . We are afraid that the member for Sheffield touches a sore truth here . The British Cabinet is blamed for every act of complicity with the Cabinets of other countries ; but is the full force of English opinion brought to bear at any time upon the foreign policy of the Administration ? If it were , there is no conceivable reason why the principles of our diplomacy should not be as liberal as tie principles of our domestic

    legislation . There is no doubt that , were the nation , willing to lose its control over the Executive , the Executive would be willing to govern without that control . Statesjnen assume naturally whatever power is conceded to them . "We , as a people , insist upon Constitutional Government , and we enjoy it ; we do not insist upon a system of liberal diplomacy , in harmony with our character , and we do not have it . Oiir Parliament is

    simply invited , when matters of foreign policy are tinder discussion , to ratify the decisions of the ^ Cabinet . We know nothing of our Ministers' intentions until they have been carried into effect . - The Brighton public could understand these points , and appeared to feel the absurdity of the position in which England is placed with reference to foreign affairs . The absurdity is strongly exemplified by the actual state of affairs in the valley of the Danube . The Western Powera have failed

    to procure the removal of the Austrian troops from the Principalities . There is a dilemma . The Commissioners say they cannot fulfil their task until the Austrian arnry has withdrawn ; the Austrian army replies that it cannot withdraw Until , the task of the Commissioners lias been fulfilled . Meanwhile they govern the provinces xipon the most arbitrary principles . Mr . Montague Scott stated the literal truth when he said " the freedom of the press was abolished ; the chiefs of the liberal party , exiles in England or France , were forbidden" to return , the Koumans who had served with the Russian

    army were brought back in great numbers ;" and , these arrangements being made , Ftjad Effendi , a Turkish agent , Under Austrian influence , " proceeded to ascertain the wishes of the inhabitants . " The palpable fact is , that Austria is conspiring with Turkey to prevent the union of Moldavia and "Wallachia . To that union , France , Prussia , Russia , have assented ; England wavers ; Turkey and Austria are hostile . The wavering of the British Government is attributable to its

    reluctance to trench upon the privileges of the Ottoman Empire . As Mr . Scholefield showed , however , the Ottoman Porte has no historical right whatever to interfere in the domestic government of the Principalities . So long as they are politically divided , so long will there be a "battle-ground of jealousy and an open field of aggression in the East of Europe .

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    LORD CARDIGAN'S CHARGE AT HOME . If officers aiul gentlemen aro to conduct their ail ' airs of honour in th o new spap ers , they should at least learn how to lonco AVitU

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    personally hated Prince Sohwabzenb : e : bg Prince Schwabzenbeegt and he were deep in a plot for murdering all the Italian patriots . The apparent contradictions are easily explained . Palmubston , bold , bad , big , is an autocrat . His Biarritz is at Eroadlands his Tuileries at Dowuing-street . How so ? ' Because the Queen , being at Balmora , ! , cannot

    exert that constitutional influence still supposed to check the rebellious treachery of the Premier , and because his colleagues are out of town . Parliament is not sitting , the Cabinet is dispersed , Her Majesty is in the Highlands , and the First Lord of the Treasury is alone , brooding Mephistophically over plans of war and ravage .

    A theory of Palmebston is wanted . At present , as popularly described , he is -unintelligible . The terror of despots , tlie contempt of statesmen , the bugbear of nationalities—can lie be all at once ? Or is it his principal object in life to degrade his countrymen ? Really , to believe certain representations would be to believe that Lord Pai ^ iee ston , at twenty years of age , conceived the design of rendering England tlie scoff ' . ' of

    Europe . Accordingly , he began- 'b y getting up troubles everywhere and failing to repress them . It mattered not to him . that ; he damaged his reputation ; he had a plan to work out , and no sacrifice was too great ; provided he could but gratify that morbid hatred of his country which is ct the intensest passion of his soul . " Thus we may account for all lie did in Syria and Spain ; it was through his machinations that the army was starved in the Crimea . He seiit Sir CirAiiXES

    . Napier to the ; Baltic . He paid Gougey . Sir James Graham took from him a -hint about the brothers Ba .: ndieba . The Pacific . o affair was concocted in the interest of liussia , Palmeeston and Nicholas being cordially agreed , beforehand , on that subject . Then , Sinope was entirely managed by Lord Palmerston . He gave the Principalities to Austria . He manoeuvred to give Ivars to Moubavieff . lie delayed the capture of Sebasfcopol . He perpetrated crimes of such a nature that some men considered ,

    themselves justified , on the occasion of " a recent trial , " in . drawing . a parallel between , the culprit who paid his debts to society at Stafford , and the culprit wh p never pays Ms debts , but flourishes in unimpeached turpitude at the head of the British ministry . At one time it was the fashion to impute every insurrectionary movement to Lord Palmerston . Now , it is equally the -fashion to ascribe to him the evils of every despotic intrigue . As onco lie was more anarchical than Mazzot , so , at present , he is more absolute than . Alexaudeii . And all from

    hatred of his country and the Turks . JNot that he is friendly to Russia , or to lYanco , or to Austria . But he lias an inborn bitterness against Turkey , and this , aided by the magic of Ijieveit , prompts him to conspire with Russia for her downfal . Observe his malignant energy with respect to Moldavia and Wallachia , Observe his obsequious concession of the Ialo of Serpents . His dislike of

    THE BIG , BOLD , OLD , BAD MAN . IiOBD Paiz&orston has an unfortunate reputation . It lias been his fate to be thought infinitely more liberal , powerful , unscrupulous , despotic , corrupt , and chivalrous than any other statesman . Ho is either at the head of a revolution or at the bottom of a

    conspiracy . In one corner , a man who knows it for a fact whispers that Palmtcuston has privately agreed to get up a war for tho sake of exterminating tho revolutionary party ; and in another , a gentleman who has tho best means of informing himself in political matters has just discovered that Lord Palmehston ia about to wreak his malico on

    Austria by stirring up a European conflagration . That the Princess Lteven bribed him is well known ; it is well known , alao , tliat the Princess Lieven did not bribe him ; lie

    a hussar policy in . the Black Sea . His deadly and vindictive feeling towards the Italian people , evinced by ' his encouragement of tho king of Naples . You may satisfy yourself that Paxm . eiiston is working tho ruin of England , uud that he has already marked tho arch of London Bridge which must bo left standing , that ho may exult , arm-iu-arin with the Now Zcalandor , over the perdition of liis country .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1856, page 974, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2162/page/14/