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    CliiTIIAM AND WELLINGTON ON CONCESSION:. of little

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    ' THE NE^Y COXSTITUENC1BS.

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    waited patiently till lie came out . . He could rememb er every dog l > y his face , and it only took him one interview to fix the names ot a dozen new hounds in his memory : Every dogr had its own story . This one always brought home the fox ' s head ; that one unaided had drawn a marteh . cat out of a heap of hurdles ; a third had rolled with a fox off the roof of a barn . . . His whinpers-in were wiry as Spartans , and qiute / asJjrave . One © fthemiised to be famous , not caring for losing blood , for ^ boring Aoles for his master , in bull-finches . Tom SsriTii used to say ^ ot one of them who died of consumption , he would have given ten thousand pounds to save him . It was touching when the mighty hunterwas eighty years old—an interview he had with his old w npper-in , ± ozi WiNGFiKtD . " May I make so bould , Sir , to ask , inquired the whip , ¦ ' " whether you can manage them there big places as well as you used to in old Jack o' Lantern ' s days ?" " I hear no coinplaints / ' said the Squire resolutely ; and I believe my nerve is as good as ever . "

    "Ah ! sir , " said Tom the whip , sorrowfully , " it is not so with me ; for though my sight fails me * them there big places looks twice as big to me as ever they used to . " The wish of another whip was " to be laid alongside master " in the mausoleum at Ted worth , with Ham Ashley and Paul Potter the hunters , and three or four couple of favourite hounds , "in order that they might be all ready to start again together in the next world . " It was a sad sight for fox-hunters when , in November , 1857 , Tom Smith , in plain black , rode up to the meet , and as the scarlet river of horsemen poured through the p : u-lc-gates , dismounted again slowly , and returned regretfully into his hall , never more to mount the pig-skin . . ¦ '

    . . . , We close the pleasantly-written , mai > ly hook , confident that it records the skill and courage of a true Englishman . It is no bad epitaph to inscribe over a man , that "he succeeded and excelled in everything that he undertook . "

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    T 7 EW people fully appreciate the danger over-estimating a Jt ; good , when mingled with a superabundance of the contrary . The most perilous shops to the collector are those where one decent picture is discoverable amongst amass of rubbish ; and an occasional truism from- a privileged jester iu the House of Commons or out of it , invariably passes for double its worth . The misce stultitiam consiliis . brevem" ( woifld that it were always breyis !¦) ought io be a favourite adage in England . The ordinary EJnglishman is , when at work , a hardworking-and earnest animal , and loves a little by-play and the semblance of ease . He his

    likes the nonchalance with which Pai ^ ieksion tempers exertions , and heard with secret delight Lord Melbouehe declare that he knew nothing about diplomacy , arid that he merely wished to take the common-sense view of an important political question . This mode of treatment suits equally the fun and humour of the lower Englishman , who has a secret sympathy with it ; it disavows tlie pedantry of which we all have an inordinate horror , and is aqcceptable to the " far meute" spirit of tlie higher circles , who lore . repose , or the appearance of ifc , and who are inclined to denounce as rather vulgar an excessive earnestness even in ordinary conversation . Hence our love of the easy-going and jocular ; hence our tolerance of Sibthokpe , and of those who seem anxious to step into his

    empty shoes . When Sir Robert Pjeejl held the bat one day on the Oxford cricket ground , a member of the landed aristocracy- —we think Lord Wakd , but we may be mistaken—said humorously , " Your father has just bowled us out ( alluding to the measures for Free-trade ) , and , 'we mean to bowl you out as soon as possible . " We heartily wish Sir Robert may have occasionally his one run , certainly no more " , particularly when the Emperor of the French is bowling . Such players > when they make a hit , too frequently drive the bull into tlieir fellow batsman ' s wic ? kets . Sir Robert ' s present play during his last two innings has been first to object to the defence of our volunteer corps , and next t <> move a question which juat at the moment every sensible member of the House wished to suppress—the

    inteiirtions of the X r « nch Emperor respecting Savoy ; just the one difficulty that wight lead to hostility , or the threat of it . We simply state the fact . It may be meant as a mystification ; if sp , it is on rather too serious , a subject—if seriously , the honourable member ' s own special reasons are not particularly worth discussing " . It used formerly to be said , " Quand les Francais out parld , its out fini ; quand les Anglais ont parl 6 ils commoneent . " We almost begin to fear that the adagro is undergoing a reversal by no means crcditablo to tho national character . With the French it has been far more tho word and the blow ; with the English , panic , talk—panic , talk , ajjd at last , tardily , preparation . Jtseorns that Sir iEoBERT tfEEit likes tho talk , and ridicules tho preparation , Now , 1

    ing inaction . It is not what in our private opinion We ought to do in this Savoy question , it is what the nation infallibly will do , whicji should biV considered . England , it is pretty evident , will . go to war for nothing- that is not of paramount importance , and paramount importance to English interests . = She will not , for the sake of the " French side of the mountains" tear to pieces the Treaty of Commerce , which is at once an important benefit to herself , and the strongest and most artful , though most indirect discouragement to the dangerous and almost unmanageable predominance of tlie military spirit in France—a view of the matter which most writers and debaters seem strangely to have missed . But should this not be the primary object of the Emperor , should the Treaty be merely a trap to compromise England with France so far as to prevent the former from taking up arms on a motive of generosity and honour , it is , we believe—we might almost say fear—a trap into which England would rush with her eyes openr content to sacrifice her thorough liberty of action for the substantial bait of commercial advantage ; and not now onlyv Some of our humorists have lately been comparing Savoy to an iinwilling bride , doomed to pine or to perish in the arms of an Imperial but most unacceptable lover . If the latter persists in the purpose he has expressed , England ' s final utterance on the subject may probably be found in " Antony and Cleopatra : "" Under a compelling occasion , let women die ; it were a pity to cast them away for nothing ; though , between them and a great cause , they should be esteemed nothing . " So says the cruel and ungallant Enobakbus . Whether nobly or ignobly , Enirland will allow the King of Sardinia to exchange his ' " set of attics , commanding an unequalled view of mountain scenery , i for " a good ground floor , "/ without any obstreperous , remonstrance . At the worst , we should not be making- half the sacrifices to keep the peace which we made to make it at the Treaty of Utfeehtj and at other periods of our history . It is not like a resignation of our own possession , which was offered by Stanhope , a not unpatriotic minister when Gibraltar was the stake . We have no ministers like Chatham , when , in 1770 , taking example from the annexation of Lorraine , " in some meas'u'e a pacific conquest , " he -warned England against allowing a somewhat similar annexation —that of Corsica , which , as it happens by a curious fatality , led to a good many other annexations , pacific and the contrary , by placing the BroNAPAKTES on the throne of France . As to the wish of the bride on this occasion , expressed by deputation , we believe as . much iu its sinceiity as in that of the sham Belgian deputies who at the commencement of the republican aggressions came to express their desire to be united to France . ! Not to put Algeria into tire scale against the " mountain shed , " and sav that they weigh equal , because nothing could Vary more than opinions , might reasonably do as to the relative importance of thetwo possessions and thecomparative justiceof their occupation . We only propose to give Wellington ' s opinion with regard to the occupation of the former , and the notice which he thought England should take of it .. Me said simply , " Let them have it , and say nothing- about it . " Ci ) U . tha ; m : had been a cornet , but Wellington " had been a general , and was at least quite as much interested as Chatham in England ' s honour ; hut Wellington , with , perhaps , less political foresight , had a more salutary fear of war ; he had seen more bloodshed , and , like SouLT , had a greater dread of its recurrence , and , above all , he dreaded war when England was not most thoroughly prepared or . intolerably provoked . We may be prepared now ; but , nevertheless , England most certainly will not make the Savoy business a casns belli . A calm governmental remonstrance is all the matter admits of , with as little chattering- and threatening in the newspapers or the House of Commons as possible ; let the country be spared the shame of making-herself a spectacle of impotent anger . Notwithstanding England ' s probable submission on this occasion , ib is a « well to hint to our French friends th . af she is capable of being provoked . Let France interfere seriously with important English interests—let Fiance , either with swift or tardigrade movements , attempt to advance by yards instead of by inches , and' she may depend upon it the old game would be played over again , for England would probably not be without allies . Any Whig ministry , who then attempted to temporise , or . interfere , or counsel disgrace would be kicked out of power as surely and as summarily as Mr . BmaiiT was out of Manchester , England was the slowest to begin the war of the French Revolution ; when bIic once began , nho nuver desisted till sho hud driven the French from one end of Spain out at the other , and finiHhcd at Paris the task she liud flet herself . At such « period sho would not nllow herself the innocent relaxation of even laughing at Sir Robert Pkei / s jokes . We might have preferred Mr . Rojjbuojc aa o . worthier subject for expostulation , but his clamours , often injudicious , are sometimes oi' service , and tlie Honourable baronet ' s Uvo innings tempted us to give him the preference .

    ito us , it appears that nothingcan bo more undignified than this enarling and growling about a matter for which—and Mv . Milnjjs iand S » v Rodent Pjckl l ? now ib full well—wo do not mean to fight ; and there arg , many ware who have contributed during- the last three or four yours to put their country in the same ridiculous position on the Cherbourg- and other questtfons .. Already there are , Frenchmen , and , far too mnny for our -credit , who moat sincerely believe that England oxists only by the Bufferanco of Franco ; that silly and discreditable deputation from the City of London—that " Dq not como and oat us " petition to tho Umporor of tho French—was probably bhe first thing- which added . to the numerous bees on the mantle , ono m ^ ho bonnet of Franco ; isnd we shall not put it out again by menace \ n debate , nnd bluster-

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    13 N tho new Reform Bill , fonv of our great commercial and mmuio fucturi ' ng towns are to have ono jidd > Uonal member each . Twonty-iivo enmlhir bovoughs are to b « shorn of ono nienibt-r , and three toWnn thai , have hitherto been but polling-places lor others , are to return in future ParlhinnintH ono menibor each , raw i «« r , so goad . Manchetstcr , Liverpool , Uirmijigliam , mid ^ eeda , now returnuiff two nuinbors , are to return throe nieiub « ra eiioli ; « na Guild&d , Hertford , Devi ^ o «; etc ., now wturiiiiitf two ¦ i » ioii . bor ^ are to return in future rnrlpainents ona monibor each . AM © now

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    March 10 , I 860 . ] The Leader and Satiirday Analyst . " 2 SX ' .

    Cliitiiam And Wellington On Concession:. Of Little

    of little CHATHAM AND WELWNGTON ON CONCESSION :.

    ' The Ne^Y Coxstituenc1bs.

    ' THE NEW CONSTITUENCIES .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 10, 1860, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2337/page/11/