Henry Parkes

Name: Australian views of England — Letter 10
Author: Henry Parkes

Australian views of England — Letter 10 (1869)

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“Australian views of England — Letter 10”, published in 1869, is a work by Henry Parkes. It explores elements such as the House of Commons, Palmerston and Cobden.

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Henry Parkes, Australian views of England — Letter 10 (1869)

“ Who may say what giants shall arise from the ranks of those favoured sons of fortune who are there trying their strength of soul in the consecrated fields of science! It was with some such feeling as this that I visited Oxford on the 2nd of this month, to see what could be seen of the bearing of the aristocratic youth of England at the Commemoration, Perhaps I was attracted, too, by knowing that the occasion was to be rendered remarkable by the bestowal of the honour of D.C.L. on the veteran Premier of England. ”

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Henry Parkes, Australian views of England — Letter 10 (1869)

“ And the announcement of Henry Taylor's name was followed by the not very complimentary enquiry, "Who is he?" I felt myself somewhat honoured by being permitted to inform a veritable Master of Arts that Henry Taylor was the author of "Philip Van Artevelde."
I think I never saw so glorious-looking a man as Henry Taylor. His head is large and finely formed, with massy silvery hair, a long waving lock in front being quite golden. His forehead is broad and lofty, his eyes full, his cheeks inclining to florid. ”

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Henry Parkes, Australian views of England — Letter 10 (1869)

“ Lindsay's motion would have been carried by a large majority.
Among that numerous body of thinking Englishmen who are strangers to the Universities, and have had their intellectual struggles for the most part outside the ancient walks of learning, there is a feeling of something like awe in approaching for the first time the classic ground of Oxford or Cambridge. There are the halls from which have issued the philosophers and statesmen whose names illumine the brightest hopes of our national history. ”

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Henry Parkes, Australian views of England — Letter 10 (1869)

“ The war spirit in the House of Commons is undeniably predominant
Parliament is now considering the case of Lancashire, and men of all parties look forward to the state of things there, as autumn and winter advance, with the most serious apprehension. In all the great cotton towns, by far the greater part of the operatives are in a state of forced idleness, without bread and without hope, and the danger of absolute ruin to the small mill-owners and other possessors of property is pressing closer and closer. ”

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Henry Parkes, Australian views of England — Letter 10 (1869)

“ The House of Commons has devoted a night to the consideration of the civil war in America, but with no result, and a very small display of wisdom. On the 18th, Mr. W. S. Lindsay brought forward a motion in favour of an immediate offer of mediation, and supported it by a speech that breathed throughout of peaceable intervention. ”

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Henry Parkes, Australian views of England — Letter 10 (1869)

“ The bill of the Government is simply to apply the principle of the Poor Law of Queen Elizabeth in extreme cases, and to enable parishes that are overburdened with their poor to claim relief from the whole of the Union. ”

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Henry Parkes, Australian views of England — Letter 10 (1869)

“ Lord Palmerston looked remarkably hale and well: as he brushed past where I was standing I could not help admiring the animal spirits mantling his cheeks—more like the glow of youth than the complexion of fourscore years. He was visibly moved by his reception, I saw him later in the day driving through Oxford, in his red gown, and he seemed as hilarious as a boy of fifteen. One negative evidence of the feeling at Oxford ought not to pass unnoticed: Mr. ”

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Henry Parkes, Australian views of England — Letter 10 (1869)

“ This abuse, however, was not received very cordially by either side of the House, even from Lord Palmerston; and when Mr. Cobden returned to the chaise on a subsequent evening, he was greeted with a deafening cheer. The quarrel is, in so many words, this—Mr. Cobden accuses Lord Palmerston of humbugging Parliament into a war expenditure in a time of peace, and when thousands of the people are starving, and that Lord Palmerston retorts upon Mr. Cobden that his peace principles would be dangerous to the honour and security of the country ”

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