The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-20 00:00:00

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

At an entertainment given by the municipal body of
Southampton to the Austrian Archduke, Mr. Roebuck
has made an extraordinary speech—extrundinary as
cowing from • Liberal &shell statesman. The hon.
member's Austrian proclivities
themselves so manifest. The only interpretation which
one portion of his speech bears is that Hungarian inde-
pendence ought to be suppressed by force. As Mr.
Roebuck is to dine on Wednesday next with the
Sheffield corporation, lie will have an opportunity of
speaking more explicitly on this point.
PoLITIVAL MEXTINO Is LERDB.—On Wedneeday
evening, a public meeting, called by the Mayor, in
accord:ince with • requisition of ratepayers. was held in
the Civil Court, Leeds, to cousider the question of the
Danish Treaty of 1862, on the succession to the Crown
of Denmark, and also the desirability of some course
being adopted to preveut the frequent "counts out" in
the House of Commons. The attendance was not large.
Mr. Urquhart, whose opinions upon foreign questions
are so well known, Mr. Buxton, of Manchester, and
other gentlemen, were present; and Lord Robert
Montagu was also expected, hut being unable to fulfil
his engagements, the noble lord forwarded to Mr. F. S.
Rawn.ley, the secretary, • long letter, explanatory of
his views upon the above subjects. Speaking of "counts
out," Lord Robert said :—" ' A count out' does not
' overtake a dull and stupid speech.' I have heard many
such speeches, when no one dreams of counting the House.
I have always seen the House nearly empty when the
fate of millions of our Indian fellow-subjecta hu been
discussed; but no one tried to count out the House. I
have seen the benches deserted while millions sterling of
English people's money were being voted away ; but if
any one had moved 'that the House be counted,'
he would have been deemed no better than a foul or a
madman. A 'count out' is always preooncerted and
arranged between the leaders on each side of the House.
The Cabinet have thus virtually constituted theinselees
the rulers of the empire. Their deeds are kept secret
from the people; and even fomented and ehrouded
from the inquiring gaze of Parliament. The Queen
herself is generally shut out from the secret delira-
tions of the cabinet; and despatches have been written
in her name without her sanction. The Cabinet feel
that they rule the empire, and do not blush to affirm it
when they say, 'We sent the army there -" We made
such an arrangement with that foreign despot -" We
propose to take such and such a coulee.' The Queen is
nothing now in her own kingdom. Similarly people
talk of 'the Government of Lord John Russell,' ' the
Government of Lord Palmerston.' But no one thinks
of the Government of the Queen. When any one gets
impatient under this tyranny of cabal, and wishes to
return to the ancient order of things, and pay, to the
best Sovereign who ever adorned the throne of Enitland,
the nonest allegiance which they owe—then the cabal
on the right of the Speaker agrees with the ex-cabal on
the other side to smother these endeavours by a count-
out. It is thus that the country is crucified between
two thieves."
A FRENCH PORTRAIT OT LORD DIRBT.—Tha Landon
correspondent of the Consiitutiounel, who is su, plying
that paper with a series of Perliamentary slatches,
gives the following portrait of Lord Derby :—"Brave,
generotp., chivalrous, ass noble of the purest blood, he
disdains all Perliamentary shams, and aims his blows
direct at lois adversary. Disraeli patiently and skilfully
unravels the (issues of subtleties in which his afitego-
niats seek to envelop him. Lord Derby cuts Ifffough
the WWII: its blow, and opposes to all a proud diedain,
not to say a majestic cynicism. He is accused of: being
isA
proud. How could he be otherwise? At ter five
he was already illustrious, and now to hie pride,pt sod ,
is added the consciousness of indisputable sups: ly. 1
which lie owes to himself alone. See him in tli '1 %we
of Lords, how he towers above his colleaguetl. Tliere
are within those walls statesmen better versed than
himself in politic..l affairs, leaders who would embarrass
him in any serious question, legists far sups ' z.fcs, him
in all matters of law, and yet he stands hoed • and
shoulders above them all, and in the midst°, hUlother '
peers may be compared to Richard Cour-deii . sur-
rounded by his court. His eloquence is impetaisels, and
sometimes even passionate; his ideas disdaim,tb• ele-
gant ornaments of peripbrase. and go straight Au their
mark in all their native simplicity. Whet, -Dierael
speaks, his tone is rapid and sarcastic, his lipi are corn
pressed, the pupil of his eye contracted and' eiolfing.
Lord Derby, on the contrary, with qufrerintape and
fiery glance, seems ready to rush upon his eadildopist
and strike him to the ground. The former nnajr.epro•
pared to the knit which kills even the lion bx teiesisa-
porating attacks; the latter, to Jupiter Tonaa. ;Lord
Derby is generally reproached, and we fear cetiiftjUstly,
with crest weakness of character. He is--amodapd of
Buffering himself to be led by Disraeli, ago Lot being
pras,
unduly influenced by that deserter of all ' Un-
fortunately this opinion has been too inuc • owdr;bed
since the last unsuccessful attempt to fon 'l.:Conser-
vative Governiuent—.yes, conservative of agetie fatal
tradition which indicted on Great Britain **Wilma of
St. Helena; but destructive of everythinu-ebstoslonsti-
totes the essence of • really Conservative , casupritment
at home. -.oust l
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