The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-23 00:00:00

deny that " the American
_system of diplomas

is more

open thau the English." If you do, I am quite at a loss
to imagine how you can justify your denial, or why you
venture to charge others with untruthfulness.

As to your second exception, the statement to which
you object as " simply and stupidly untrue," is founded
on q, speech reported to have been delivered by Prince
Albert at the annual dinner of the Trinity Association on
Saturday, the 9th of June, 18.55. On that
Royal Highness said, " It is not the way to suL

occasion his

to ;uppori, it, however ardently and enthusiastic

in war
tad,
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at the same time, to tie down and weaken the h
of those who have to conduct it. We are engaged

with a mighty enemy
You find him with all that force which unity of pur-
pose and action, impenetrable 'secrecy, and uncontrolled
despotic power have given, while we have to meet him
under a state of things intended for peace, and

for the promotion ot that very civilization, the
offspring of public discussion, of the friction of parties,
and of the popular control of the government and the
State. The Queen has no power to levy troops, nor has
she at her command but such as offer their voluntary
services. Her government can take no measure for the
prosecution of the war which it has not beforehand to
explain to Parliament. Her armies and fleets can make no
movements, nor even prepare for any, without their being
publicly announced in the papers. No mistake, however
trifling, can occur, no want of weakness exist, which is
not at once denounced, and even sometimes exaggerated,
with a kind of morbid satisfaction. The Queen's Ambas-
sador can enter into no negotiations without the govern-
ment having to defend him by entering into all the argu-
ments which that negotiator, in order to be successful.
ought to be able to shut up in the innermost recesses of his
heart. *,* * * * Gentlemen, OUR CONSITUTIONAII
GOVERNMENT IS UNDERGOING A HEAVY TRIAL, and we
shall not get successfully through it unless the country
will grant its confidence—patriotic, intelligent, and self.
denying confidence—to her Majesty,s government.

Now; Mr. Editor, if, in this ipeeiii his Royal Highness
did very plainly indicate his own preference for "auncon-
trolled despotic power" as compared with " popular control,"
so far at least as a state of warefare is concerned ; if he
did intimate the desirability of some restraint on our
present " freed An of speech and publication ;" if he did
describe " constitutional government" (meaning of course
our representative institutions) as being on its trial ; if,
in short, he gave his audience plainly to understand
that, in his opinion, they manage such matters much
better in Russia than we do in England—all of which I
contend he did, it is-for you to explain what there is either
stupid or untrue in the sentence to which you have taken
exception.

Awaiting your explanation, and hoping that you will
not again suffer your courtly zeal so far to outrun your
discretion as to betray you into indecorums of language not
generally characteristic of The Globe,

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, President,
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