Chapter 343: All Laughing, Who’s Crying?

Chapter 340: All Laughing, Who’s Crying?
The new members of Parliament were sworn in at Westminster.

The Prime Minister, Earl Grey, asked the House of Commons to speed up the discussion of the Parliamentary Reform Bill.

The Whigs try to pass the third reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Commons as quickly as possible.

Viscount Palmerston, Foreign Secretary, advises the Prime Minister in a Cabinet meeting to send troops to the rioting areas to maintain order, as the cholera epidemic and food shortages lead to the development of Swain’s Riots in rural southern England.

Viscount Palmerston: “To deal with the rioters, a degree of force is necessary.”

Sir Robert Peel, Tory leader and former Home Secretary, slammed Viscount Palmerston’s inappropriate remarks in the House of Commons and reiterated the Tory position that we are opposed to mobilizing the military to suppress the riots

Sir Robert Peel: “The Cato Street conspiracy that followed Peterloo taught us that the use of force not only fails to solve problems, but continues to inflame them. Solving problems with the least amount of violence is what governments should do, and that is why I have worked for years to repeal the Blood Act and establish Scotland Yard.”

“Viscount Melbourne, the reticent Home Secretary, after an afternoon’s discussion with Sir Peel, has decided to support the Tory position on the Swann Riots

Viscount Melbourne: “Feedback reports from around the country indicate that the riot situation is currently under control. Therefore, the Home Office is not considering moving any troops to the riot area for armed suppression for the time being.”

‘Viscount Melbourne’s extramarital affair lawsuit still burning, Judge George Norton lambasts Home Secretary’s pseudo-doctrine’

Judge Norton: “It is well known that His Excellency the Viscount does not even know where his own house is, which is why he regularly gets lost in my wife’s bed. I think, therefore, that it is not that he does not wish to mobilize the army to suppress the riots, but that, having always had a poor sense of direction, he is afraid of sending the land forces into the Channel.”

“Viscount Melbourne Goes to 10 Downing Street and Succeeds in Convincing the Prime Minister, Earl Grey, to Accept the Tory Scheme Against the Swain Riots.

“Home Office Issues Brand New Regulations Against Swain’s Riots, Viscount Melbourne Promises Rioters Light Sentences and Calls on Them to Come Forward.

All sheriffs who catch rioters will be rewarded with cash prizes and honorable mentions under temporary regulations.

After consultation between the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor’s Department, Lord Brougham, QC, agreed that domestic common law would not apply to proceedings against all rioters. Nor will captured rioters be transferred to the courts, but will be tried by a special committee set up by the Home Office on an ad hoc basis.

In order to ensure a fair, impartial and open trial, the Special Commission will be supplemented by a grand jury drawn from the community.

The prosecution of the rioters will be entrusted to the London District Attorney’s Office, which is in the process of being set up.

According to sources, in order to gain the public’s trust, the Home Office is likely to hand over the prosecution to Mr. Arthur Hastings, Senior Superintendent of Scotland Yard, who will soon take up the post of Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions in the London District Attorney’s Office, as the police officer most trusted by the citizens of London.

The Shocker! Home Office revisits local policing after London Commissioner attacked at Liverpool Docks

The Liverpool Honestman is quoted as saying that on the afternoon of the previous day, Arthur Hastings, the Special Inspector for Anti-smuggling for the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor’s Department, the Customs and Excise Department and the Central Board of Health, was attacked by three thugs of Polish origin who were armed and attacked him in the Golden Lion Hotel at the Old Docks, Liverpool.

The gunfight lasted about half a minute, and when the three thugs realized that they were outmatched, they voluntarily detonated explosives that had been planted in a horse trough, injuring three unfortunate passers-by in Liverpool, killing two of the gunmen at the scene, and the last of the gunmen succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital.

Fortunately, Mr. Hastings was far away when the dynamite was detonated, so that only the corner of his eye was opened by a stone. According to our reporter’s observation on the spot, we can confirm that Mr. Hastings, after receiving six stitches, has no abnormalities except for a slight hangnail.

The Liverpool municipal authorities have immediately strengthened the security forces in the vicinity of the Golden Lion Hotel following the attack on Mr. Hastings. Members of the Liverpool Association, led by the General Secretary, Mr. John Gladstone, also went to the Golden Lion Hotel to express their condolences to Mr. Hastings and his entourage.

And at an impromptu city council meeting held that afternoon, the mayor, Mr. Carrack, severely reprimanded the city’s sheriff and urged him to resign as soon as possible.

Great concern has now been expressed in London over the case, and an air of discontent with Liverpool has begun to fill Whitehall Street. It is believed that No. 10 Downing Street has sent a letter of inquiry to the municipal authorities of Liverpool concerning the assassination of Mr. Hastings.

The Home Office has lost confidence in Liverpool’s abysmal security forces, and in order to ensure that such incidents do not continue, Viscount Melbourne has ordered Scotland Yard to select elite officers to travel to Liverpool to take charge of the security of the Commissioner’s team.

According to one source, the Home Office is currently considering extending the success of the 1829 Greater London Police Act across the country. An as-yet-unfinalized bill is in the drafting stage, which, if passed, would authorize magistrates to create police forces and establish regular police forces modeled on Scotland Yard in all 56 counties nationwide.

A Higher Vision! Policing chaos and poor municipal administration were the key reasons why the East India Company located its shipping center in London rather than Liverpool

East India Company Board Member: My Grandfather’s Grandfather Saw That Liverpool Had No Potential.

Linus Yale, East India Company Board Member: “The idea of a second local transshipment center besides London actually existed in the last century. Liverpool was closer to the Atlantic than London, had good water and land conditions, and was backed by the industrial and agricultural centers of the country like Lancashire and Yorkshire.

If you put aside the human factor, it really is a nice place to live. But unfortunately, poor municipal administration and policing became a major deterrent to directors. Because of this, the company has been very cautious about investing in Liverpool for nearly a century.

And unfortunately, even after a hundred years, to this day, the Liverpool authorities still have not properly reflected on themselves, let alone improved the local business environment. To be honest, I am not at all surprised that Superintendent Hastings was assassinated in Liverpool.

If the Liverpool authorities and businessmen had not been so arrogant and unruly all along, perhaps the university sponsored by my ancestor Elihu Yale back then would not have been the Yale University in Connecticut in North America, but the Yale University in Liverpool.

And you know what? A big city like Liverpool, to this day, does not have a university. What does that tell you? It shows that they don’t care about education! A city full of illiterates and they think they’re quite opinionated.

You don’t hear any fine music or rhythmic poetry in the Liverpool Association, you only hear a thousand strange Liverpool accents. They can’t even speak English properly, so to a certain extent I can understand their crudeness.”

The London Businessmen’s Association suggests: councils may want to consider better regulation of local government, especially in places like Liverpool

“Liverpool Association hits back: mind your own business first! ‘Has London strictly enforced port segregation?’

London’s open-door policy on foreigners will end in disaster as Polish assassin stabs Commissioner General.

Viscount Palmerston, the Foreign Secretary, summoned the Russian Ambassador, Count Levin, for an in-depth discussion on the jurisdiction of the assassination.

Count Levin confirmed to Viscount Palmerston in person that the Governor General of the Kingdom of Poland is now Tsar Nicholas I himself. Therefore, in the matter of the jurisdiction of Polish citizens, the opinion of Russia is the opinion of Poland.

Earl Levine regretted that the assassination had taken place, and expressed his stern condemnation of the irresponsible conduct of these Polish anti-government exiles, and his condolences to Superintendent Hastings, who had unfortunately been attacked.

Count Levine emphasized that “the authorities in St. Petersburg have absolute respect for the authority of the British Government in territorial cases, and that it is not the intention of the legitimate Government of Russia and of Poland at the present time to infringe upon the sovereignty of a friendly country. It is only right that these Polish miscreants should be tried with the utmost severity. If Britain finally deports these antigovernment elements, then the legitimate government of Poland is willing to receive these traitors.”

“His Majesty’s Resolution to Suspend the Appointment of Frederic Chopin as Chief Pianist of the Royal Household, Owing to the Impact of the Assassination of Hastings.

“That Viscount Palmerston charge the Foreign Office to submit to the House of Commons a Bill for the Regulation of Polish Exiles, with a view to doing justice to Superintendent Hastings as soon as possible.

Viscount Palmerston exclaimed in the House of Commons, “Whether from the standpoint of a friend, or from that of a loyal subject of the King and a servant of the people of Britain, I will never allow those lawless Poles to put their interests above the lives of the British people! Gentlemen of the Westminster Union who petitioned for the Poles, do you see? This is a living tale of the farmer and the snake! If such an illustrious young man as Superintendent Hastings ever dies, it will be from your indulgence of the Poles!” “After the Assassination, the Westminster Union’s Position on Poland Wavered.

Mr. HUNTER, Member of the House of Commons, Representative of the Westminster Federation: “I suggest that a Commission of Inquiry be set up by the House of Commons to try that case which took place in Liverpool. It may be true that there are problems with our current management of foreign refugees, but it would not be in keeping with the liberal traditions of Britain to turn everyone away so brutally.”

The Assassination of Superintendent Hastings, Port Segregation Policy or Contributing Factors.

The Forty Days were unbearable! Chambers of Commerce from all parts of the country jointly petition the King for a relaxation of segregation

Speech by a representative of the London Dockers’ Association: ‘We, the commonest of workers, are not like the high and mighty bankers and aristocrats, who have no income for a day when we are not at work. In this we are even worse than the gang of peasants who are rioting, who at best have not enough to eat. But for the workers, a week or two without work will result in starvation, and that’s a far worse outcome than cholera!”

“Due to the turmoil in the country, 10 Downing Street decided to put the issue of parliamentary reform on hold in favor of cholera control and the settlement of the Swann Riots as a top priority.

“The Prime Minister, Earl Grey, writes to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, requesting that the Lord Chancellor’s Department, in conjunction with the Customs and Excise Department, the Ministry of the Interior and the Central Board of Health, convene a meeting to consider changes to the control program, shorten the quarantine period, and ensure that flights from ports operate normally.

Arthur leaned back in his chair and flipped through the newspapers of the past few days, one after another, the assortment of chaotic information almost bursting his brain.

As Sheriff Field had suspected, not many people actually cared whether Hastings was dead or not, but everyone was as interested in the news as a fly in a toilet.

The East India Company took the opportunity to discredit the chaotic management of Liverpool in a bid to gain more favorable policies from Parliament.

The Home Office was thinking of using the incident to further expand its power to consolidate law and order throughout the country.

The Foreign Office seized on the issue of the identity of the killers, and Viscount Palmerston turned the tables on Poland and began to seize the moral high ground by accusing those who sympathized with the Poles of ignoring the issue of national sovereignty.

And naturally the Russians were happy about this; if those Polish exiles were sent back, they would more than likely be tried much more harshly than the peasants who had taken part in the Sven riots.

As for the merchants who resented the segregation policy, the Cabinet’s willingness to consider shortening the time limit for segregation was a pleasant surprise.

After all, no matter how forgetful the Cabinet was, they couldn’t have forgotten the Gunpowder Plot, the Westminster Shooting, the Cato Street Conspiracy, and a host of other anecdotes.

The Britons, unlike the French, do not have a tradition of taking over Paris and killing everyone, but on this small island, every once in a while there are whimsical ideas about assassinating the Prime Minister, blowing up the Parliament, and taking out the Cabinet.

One day you can kill a commissioner in London, the next day you can take a knife to the Loire and the American Günther.

Therefore, the always flexible British politicians naturally understand how to deal with these things.

On the one hand, the culprits must be severely punished.

On the other hand, when it is time to make concessions, they will never hold out.

After all, no matter how many sabers the Army had, and no matter how fast the Royal Navy could shoot, when the barrel of an assassin’s gun was pressed against one’s own chest, water from afar could not put out a fire.

If Hastings’ head can fall, can’t mine?

It’s been thousands of years, and the only one who can be resurrected is, after all, Jesus.

Arthur put down the newspaper and just rubbed his face.

But he apparently forgot the corner of his eye where he had stitches, and almost rubbed his own hand in blood by accident.

Just as he was grinning and hissing and sucking in air to ease the pain, he heard Dumas’s debauched, boisterous laughter from beside him.

“Hahaha!”

Arthur slightly grimaced and sipped his tea, “Alexander, are you so happy to see me suffer?”

Dumas laughed with a cigar in his mouth and covered his stomach, “Who …… who the hell is laughing at you? Am I not laughing at our Mr. Disraeli? Ya …… Arthur, take a look at this. To say that Britain’s system is really unique! I still can’t understand how the hell this Benjamin kid got elected as a councilor.”

Arthur took the newspaper from Dumas’s hand and glanced at it, just one headline made him frown.

“The Worst Commons Maiden Speech of the Century, but Admittedly Entertaining.

Ladies and Gentlemen! Allow us to introduce you to Mr. Benjamin Disraeli, the royal jester born in King Street, London.

“The House of Commons fell into a terrible silence for three minutes, and the members stood in awe.

Mr. Disraeli may feel that instead of being an MP from a country constituency, he has become the ruler of Britain.

“It’s time the Foreign Office thought about what to do with the Yids while it considers deporting the Poles.

As our resident parliamentary correspondent reports, first-time MPs made their customary maiden speeches as the new Parliament opened.

Mr. Benjamin Disraeli, from the Maidstone constituency in Kent, received a lot of booing when he made his entrance because of his Jewish heritage.

In retaliation, Disraeli stepped up to the podium and remained silent before giving a soft grunt and saying, “I’m a Jew, but so what? I am standing here today as a member of the Parliament of Britannia. Even if you all want to accuse me of my bloodline, I do not feel that this is something to be ashamed of. For while my ancestors were already noble rabbis holding the knuckles in Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, your ancestors were still living a life of blood and hair on some unknown island.”

Seeing this, Agareth on the side just slapped his thigh and laughed, “Good boy! Now I’m starting to believe that he can be the Prime Minister in the future! Such boldness is not something that ordinary people can possess.”

Arthur saw this and just gently shook his head, “Benjamin …… I can only say that it is fortunate that he was born in England.”

Heine also nodded slightly, “If it was in Prussia, he would probably have been beaten to death. Drinking booze, to a certain extent, is indeed already a sign of civilization. Though …… not much more civilized.”

(End of chapter)