THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
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nuhratent But he was 1 arthe Vous and out of six such, their enemies close hi Lome, fico with matured intellect and
agonist bles as Imer nce, he has seen the necessity of carrying out in deeds that po. licy which before lurked in parenthetical adenia ansions, and be has passed the severest commentitry on his pre locessors by doing more in their policy than they did themselves. From being the leader of a clique le has become the lender of a nation. He has undertaken the function of representing the pational mind and thus reflecting the popular disposition, he is a popular as the looking-glass. Were there a national poll for the office of Prime Minister the man returned would be Robert Peek There must be something rotten in the thing called Party which can force from office the very man whom the country would choose, at the very heigin But though ejected of his popularity and power. from office, he will not be ejected from pawers His inherent own abilities are as great as ever, strength was never so free, over 80 perfectly at his own command; since he is quite emancipated train party trammels In that respect his position is without precedent. His alliances are broken; he takes up new ground, without obligations, without restraints, except the necessities involved in his newly acquired popularity.
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#corrupt stafe never whole stall of reverend officials, to the lowest grade, with some hons, trading by politics. In the
of that traffic, services for their share with the specu- ill be the gambling for the France. There is there- ance that tac conica among six candidates will be decided upon eritel a Pope, not worn out. with are possessing liberal sentiments and competent abilities, might do a good deal to re- trieve the rapidly decaying Human stato, and redeem the Papacy Ibid.
The would be king killer, Lecomte, has been gullouined. The ceremony was performed with amisual privacy; thus stripping it of that theatrical display which has made punishment a premium to such crimes. But it almost look- ed as if Ministers were ashamed of their se- verity, contrasted with the understood clement inclinations of the Monarch inself. It is said that Lecomte repented before he died: bert such repentance, after the act. proves nothing except that the morbid excitement had passed away What is wanted is an efficient influence to clicck that excitement at its beight; and the French Executive seem quite as much at a loss as ours to discover such an influence, They get no nearer to it by this empirical Biternation of mercy
ercy and severity. Probably the most apposita correction, with men who become criminal, like Lecomte, through impulse and mad pride, would be some punishment in ts nature derogatory and protected. Let sech fellows to work for life in the laundry of a con Vict stablishment, and the fate would have mom terrors for the melodramatic bravoes than the guillotine-Ibid.
rehension Mr Hume, that improvement is wanted in the mode of legislating for private and Jocal objects; the Duke of Richmond, a recommen dation of an improved system of secondary punish ments, and the preparation of a criminal code and digest. These are real, tangible suggestions of re- form; and they were handled in a real, business-like manner. Let us here do justice to a nobleman who from the prominent and peculiar part he has taken in the Corn-law controversy sometimes tempts one to do him less than justice-the Duke of Richmond: the speech with which he prefaced his motion in favour of reform in the criminal law was sensible In substance and impressive for its carwestness,
qules, would at least have permanencs priateness to recommend it. The line a only thrown out to set the example of eve ing forward with his own suggestion. --di
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GENERAL TOM THUMB AND HIS CARD
All readers of newspaper have heard her age ant equipage purchased for General Tu by his munificient exhibiters; and alm habitant of the Metropolis has an op o
minature. Duly proportioned to its tin seeing it daily. A very sumptuous tur.. the little carriage is drawn by horses pigmy scale, and coachman and footman But, somehow, though the carriage is
fashionable hours, the little General bes aver appears in his own carriage ha thus tantalized with nominal possession of the of making a figure he is never allowed as m
General Tom Thumb is not, however, in his misfortune. Our gracious Sovereign ! is similarly afflicted. She has a crown fore as fine as ever fairy tale pinced on the head. kings and queens; but how often has the be lowed to wear them? The holiday vilters ( Tower see more of them, enjoy more of them. she does. As General Tom Thumb as 4 at work, struding, singing, and sporti . edification of his visiters from morn til der while every other person in townmay to pl in viewing his elvish carriage, which h never sees-so the Queen is kept ho attaching the sign-manual to state pap, a charging the other dry details of sial contr the use of her subjects and her Ministers or n gers for the time being, while any sempste tailor may be enjoying a sight of her unech part
The national religion is in no better sahig. the beginning of last century, an immense sun w spent, the genius of a great architect and abonas. of many men were tasked for many youta, o code, truct a catedral in which the natioal refor might hamuge paid to it with gue saunaf noor national relicama joankar solemnity
small corner of my rts of the budget share and
Law Reform-the most important of almost all reforms-has long seemed hopeless, hecause too dry and too remote from the apprehensions of non-in fashionable thoroughfares, and in the lawyers to awaken a public interest. The in- inense number of law books, and their peculiar phraseology, have rendered them sealed books to the many. No man sitempts to understand the lew; but, if he can afford it, keeps n lawyer to do that for him, or lives on in ignorance. Law has hitherto been a terra incognita, visited only by law. yers, and known only from their reports. Men were shy of mending what they felt to be wrong, Now the clients are bot know so little about. looking into the matter for themselves; and all the better spirits among the lawyers are siding them. Cromwell complained, when he failed in his attempt To reform the Court of Chancery, that "the Sons of Zeruinh were too streng for him :" but this meet- He goes out of office attended by his chosen banding proves that the Sons of Zerniah are now divid. of Conservatives, properly so called the picked ed. and that many of them think, the true interest as well of the profession as the public is to assist men of the party which he formed, which has been
Law Reform-Ibid. dissolved, and which has now deposited its essential element around the nucleus that he furnishes in his own perenn, Those men are not mere servile fol lowers, swearing by Peel as an idol. they are, like himself, men brought up among Tories, who have undergone the same process of deliberate courer- sion that bas altered him: they are so many lesser Peels-a class of whom he is the type, and therefore the leader. These men include among their sUNE- ber the most able, intelligent, and influential of those who now sit on the right hand of the Speakers nor are their inere numbers contemptible,
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There is sometimes e talk of an appeal to the People" By what channel? how do you reach "the People" in order to make the appea!? Not through the constituencies, surely; for they repre. But even that limited sent the People imperfectly appeal, and even too if made by the Whigs, would not seem likely to aber the classification of parties very materially. There would now be three ties joining issue in the appeal,-the Whigs, the Tories, and the proper Conservatives; the two bat ter being separated into distinct parties by the Tory desertion of Peel. The election might perhaps somewhat increase the numbers of the Whigs, being in office. Spite against Peel would oust some few of his adherents in favour of Tories. the whole, Toryism is manifestly declining; it is growing old fashioned, and-most fatal characteris tic of all!-unsuccessful. It is unlikely that the Tories should gain at the next general election, or even bold their ground. On the contrary, we in- chine to think that in many places, Liberals and Prel-Conservatives will coaleser to return their re spretive candidates in pairs; a kind of vote-split In Mexico the United Statee seem to haveing which will, for the Grst time, ret neutralize but caught a Tartar their General on the Texan frontier is hemmed in by superior forces, and his supplies are cut off. Meanwhile, their vo- lunteers desert, and they talk of raising an army of forty or fifty thousand men by conscription. Conscription end taxation, the worst oppro briants of despotic states-such are the plea-licy out of office most he totally new. aures when wer brings to the Democratic Union! It is by some supposed that Mr. Polk is only using the Mexican campaign as a means of evoking the martial ardour of his country- men, so as to be in readiness for war with this country he is more likely to evoke a strong sense of the disagreeable incidents of war-bid
PEEL OUT OF OFFICE. Triumphant revenge for the Country party still more triumph for the place hunters expectant, and all the enemies whatsoever of Robert Peel ! The Corn Bill safe-even the venerable John Gladstone declares it to be virtually carried but als puthor is sacrificed The Corn laws are abolished, but so Peel. No doubt, some of the more pali. Vores look beyond, and, not withdrawing all Trust in the ablest man on their sido of the se hope better things of him in opposition than onco, they think that he will return to the old for which he sustained in the decade ending with 1845 controlling the Whigs when he revis- exercised a vélo, frustrated so and allowed a malinum to
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strengthen the representation of many places for all questions of present importance. So far, then, as Sir Robert Peel's sectip of the House is con.
cerned, the next election, however brought about, is likely to augment his strength.
Under these totally new circumstances, his po
He will again perhaps exercise a controlling power over the Whigs in office; but a control in the sense of compelling them to advance real measures, no! shams for rejection," and of making those mea
And sures practical-good-real steps forward. that he will be well able to do. He will in all like- likood be the leader of a party sufficiently numerous and influential to hold the balance between Whigs and l'eries; sufficiently tried in practical reforms to assay those put forth by the Whigs; and soft- cleody is earnest, should the Whigs falter, to take the work out of their hands. Ibid.
THE LAW AMENDMENT MEETING. If Beatham bad lived to see these days, he would have been glad: we mean, he ought to have been glad; for that really great man had his own share of the erigence of original thinkers-he was rarely satisfied with having his own way unless he had it in his own way. Still, we think it would have been a cordial to his benevolent heart, bad he lived to see the meeting of a society of real practical Law Re- formers, with so many members of the Upper House and so many practising lawyers making coMMON cause with sub,tantial and shrewd citizens, as (#ga witnessed at the rooms in Regent Street last Satus- day afternoon.
Lord Brougham presided; the Lord Chief Jualico was present; the Duks of Richosond, the Earl of Radnor, Lord Monteagle, and Lord Beaumont, were there, and spoke Lord John Manners, the
A COBDEN TESTIMONIAL The affirmation of the principle of the Corn-law Bill by so large a majority of the Lords, awakened a gene- ral feeling of satisfaction in the public mind. As the phrase is, men were "theakful that the measure had been placed in such a satisfactory position. The next emotion was to think of the man to whose tact,
energy, and devotion to the cause, this triumph of sound principle has in so great a measure been owing A wish is pretty generally felt that some expression of national gratitude could be devised to show how well Mr. Cabalen's labours are appreciated.
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There have been few public men to whom one.could make such an offering with more unalloyed satisfaction. By common consent, the leadership was at once yeeich. ed to Mr. Cobden when the League was first formed · and he has ever since been at once the great source of its indefatigable activity and its guiding intellect. Clear-sighted and practical, he is animated by that absorbing devotion to an opinion which alone can sue. tain a man under prolonged efforts, and by a genist kindly disposition. His apprehension of truth and his dexterity in political strategy are both instinctive. Long before the League was thought of, the "Man- chester Manufacturer" threw himself into print: there was a vein of sagacity in his first publications, and his originality and earnestness have caused every successive *ppearance he has made as a writer or speaker to he characterized by increasing precision and justness of View. In the same was he threw himself, without previous training, into the career of agitation when the League was formed; and a contagious benevolence of temper at once prompted him to be conciliatory and predisposed others to meet him in the sume moods while the singleness of purpose which had guided him right in argument, lent himi moral courage to be immo- vete whenever firmness was required An inventive:
hindelf to all emergencies, and enabled a frame far from robest to bear up under incessant excitement. Add to the qualifications, that Richard Cobden is a genuine Eng shinam in the best sense of the word,liberal and tolerant in religion, though with a strong vein of relt.
We may now add, gious sentiment, but no nonconformist: proud of his
"the same inactive state as class, yet fully appreciating the peculiar merits and beautica of the aristocratic character; with all his ardour goods can be sold. Some for commercial politics inheriting a true John Bulled goods have been sold to taste for rural sports; fearlessly frank, kindly, a man of his word-Rod the sources of his power will be fully felt. Men will the more gladly join to pay homage to the destroyer of the Corn-law because he is a likeable man; and they are more right in acting upon this en- timent than they are aware, for it is owing in vo slight degree to his being a feeble man that he has been able to do what he has done.
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There can be no doubt that the national love and gratitude will find a voice: the only misgiving arises from an anxious wish that the Cobden Testimonial may be worthy of him Testimonials have been sady
vulgarized of late. There is a Lambert Jones testimo nial, to show that the Chairman of the City Commit. tees of Taste is a fair representative of the taste of his constituents. There is Bentinck teatimcnial, to ex- press the gratitude of the class of worthies championed by the qui fem actions. There is a Hudson testing trial, to perpetuate the abjeot crawling homage pafe in this country to the most vulgar incarnation of the money-getting faculty. Again, there is a sait lack of appropriate invention in the originators of testimonials Fletcher, in oue of his plays, introduces a deviser of masques and triumphs whose one allegory is a "blue ! "Grace" pressed into the service on all occasions The range of our testimonial-devisers is nearly as limited- a diser, a piece of place, and so many huudred ur Thousand pounds.
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