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JtjNE 7, 1856.] , THE LEAD E H. 5t? ,
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. -—?—Monday, June 2n...
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Jtjne 7, 1856.] , The Lead E H. 5t? ,
JtjNE 7 , 1856 . ] , THE LEAD E H . 5 t ? ,
Imperial Parliament. -—?—Monday, June 2n...
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . - —?—Monday , June 2 nd . In -the House of Lords , on the motion of the Duke of Ar & yu * , the Reformatory School ( Scotland ) Bill , the object of which is simply to remedy certain defects in the machinery of a bill passed in 1854—was read a second time , without discussion . NIGHT SIGNALS AT SEA . Lord Dcjxcannox asked if the Government intended by any measure to compel coasting vessels , or vessels sailing in the Channel by night , to exhibit lights , and whether the Admiralty had under consideration any ior
Mr . Moncktout Milnes believed that there is a fair prospect that the system of brigandage will be put an end to . The House then went into Committee of SUPPLY . On the first vote ( 3 , 461 / ., for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ) , Mr . Williams divided the House , as he conceived that the Established Church ought to pa-y its own commissioners . The division showed 166 for the vote and 66 against it . A discussion arose on the vote of 16 , 022 L , for the Charity Commissioners , when Lord Palmerstoit , in answer to Mr . Mowbeat , said that Sir George Grey intended to bring in a measure ( though probably not this
wrong in the management of companies , but who are in the minority , are unable to avert ruin . He instanced the Tipperary Bank as a case in point . —On a division the clauses were affirmed by 42 to 32 . ' The Public Health Supplemental Bill ana Sir William Fbnwiok Williams ' s Annuity B 1 L x , were both read a third time , and passed . Tuesday , June 3 rd . APPELLATE JURISDICTION ( HOUSE OF LORDS ) BULL . On the order of the day in the House of Lcuu > s for going into committee on this bill , the Earl of Abjeswsen suggested that all Scotch appeals should Jbe removed from the jurisdiction of the House , and referred to a court of final appeal for Scotland , composed of -nersons
new plan oi nignc sigmus sailing snips . — i ^ ora Stanley of Alderley stated that the whole subject was under consideration by the Admiralty . —The Earl of Hardwicke doubted the expediency of compelling both ships and steamers to observe the same regulations . After getting through some merely routine business , the House adjourned . In the House of Commons , Lord Sandon took the oaths and his seat on his election for the borough of Lachfield , in the room of Lord Waterpark , resigned . APPELLATE JURISDICTION . The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved that a message should be sent to the House of Lords to request their Lordships to communicate to that House a copy of the report of the select committee appointed by their Lordships on the Appellate Jurisdiction . —Agreed to . MOLDO-WALLACHIA . Lord Palmerston , replying to some questions put by Mr . Roebuck , stated , with respect to the Commission
session ) for the purpose of carrying out the schemes recommended in the reports of the Charity Commissioners . —Several members objected to the unnecessary magnitude of the vote , and to the expenses incurred in the administration of charity suits , which , it was alleged , bsd been multiplied greatly of late years by law officers for the sake of costs ; but ultimately , on a division , the House affirmed the vote by 146 to 40 . The next vote was 1 , 911 / . for the Statute Law Commission , when Mr . Locke King complained that no reform in the shape of consolidation or codification had resulted from the Commission . He objected to the appointment of Mr . Bellenden Ker , who had but little experience in the statute law , and who did not give all his time to the duties of the Commission- —Mr . Bainics denied that private friendship ( as had been suggested ) had anything to do with Mr . Ker's appointment . The commissioners had done much in the way of preparation for acts of Parliament ; and several measures for the consolidation of divers laws were being considered . —This testimony
of weight and authority ; though he admitted that this was a rather " revolutionary" proposal . As regarded Scotland , the appellate jurisdiction exercised l > y the House is an act of usurpation . The most eminent English lawyers are ignorant of Scotch law , and despise it ; and even Lord Erskine had declared in his ( Lord Aberdeen ' s ) presence , thirty years ago , that he was " ignorant of Scotch law as if he had been a native of Mexico . " Owing to this ignorance , a Scotch appeal had been regarded as a kind of lottery . His viewa ori this matter were , he admitted , not popular in Scotland ; tut he believed they would gain ground . It was surprising to him that so sensible a people as the Scotch should submit to a tribunal foreign to , and comparatively ignorant of , their law . The Earl of Derby , replying to -the observations of Lord Aberdeen , said that , although , on the committee , he had stated the ease of Scotch appeals as constituting one of several objections raised against the existing system , he had carefully abstained from committing himself
U |; puiutcu iu scifiic . klit : iuiiu ui vjruvciiixucut ui me i / auubian Principalities , that England , France , and Turkey reserve to themselves the power to give to their Commissioners such instructions as might seem proper . The Commissioners would not proceed to the discussion of any business until the Divans should be convoked , which would not take place till the evacuation of the countries by the foreign troops has been completed . The Russians , however , could not evacuate that part of Bessarabia which has been ceded to Turkey until the settlement of the new line of frontier ; and this would be a work of time . It would not be expedient to pro- i duce the instructions which had been framed for the I English Commissioners . MILITARY MONUMENT AT SCUTARI . Mr . Roebuck wished to inquire whether there had been any public competition among the sculptors of this country in regard to the monument to be erected at Scutari , in memory of those who had died there . —The Chancellor of the Exchequer said he believed an agreement had already been entered into with Baron
| was confirmed by Sir Fitzroy Kelly , who stated that seventeen or eighteen bills , resulting from the labours of the Commission would shortly be laid on the table of ihe House . The statutes were to a great extent alread y consolidated , and indexes of obsolete and repealed statutes had been made . —After a great deal of discussion ( in the course of which Lord John Russell expressed himself dissatisfied with the progress that had been made by the Commission , and suggested that , in imitation of the system pursued by the first Napoleon , reports-should I be prepared by the commissioners , and afterwards subrnitted to the judges for correction ) , the vote was carried by 70 to 54 , notwithstanding what Mr . Locke King called a conclusive reason against adopting it-rviz ., that it appeared , from a return just made , that there was then a balance in the hands of the commissioners of 3 , 0291 ., and that there was no reason why they should add to that amount . A vote of 21 , 842 / ., for fees , salaries , and compensations , payable under the provisions of the Patent Law Amendment Act , and another for 13 , 500 for the Board of
to any of those objections . He did not think any case had been made out with respect to Scotland , such as would legitimately call for a change in the existing jurisdiction . Lord St . Leonards denied the assertion of IiOrd Aberdeen that English lawyers are ignorant of Scotch law . It was most unfortunate that , in support of this assertion , the noble Lord should have mentioned the name of Erskine as one who professed to know nothing of Scotch law . That Judge was himself a Scotchman , and therefore ought to have known something of the laws of his own country . A lawyer could not attain eminence at the bar without being practically acquainted with Sootch law ; and he ( Lord St . Leonards ) was of opinion that , without such knowledge , no man ought to be placed on • the woolsack . The Scotch agents are wel ^ iware that English barristers make themselves masters of Scotch cases , or they would not be so desirous of engaging them , to conduct the appeals from Scotland . He ( Lord St . Leonards ) had great practice in Scotch cases at that bar , and a Scotch agent came to him and asked him to 4 i H W . ^^ A V V VI * . 4 -4 rit ¦ unaartaue tne ami snouia in
MarochettI for the erection of the work in question . — Mr . Roebuck said he thought he might gather from the reply that there had been no public competition . STATE OF GREECE . On the order for going into Committee of Supply , Mr . James M'Gregor , pursuant to notice , called attention to the state of Greece , and , pointing out its lawless condition , desired to hear from Lord Palmerston some explanation of the policy , or the degree of coercion , he meant to bring to bear on the Greek monarch and Government . That Government had as yet made no progress towards establishing the constitution which , no doubt , the noble Lord designed should bo established ; and he believed the Premier would bo doing the greatest service to Greece itself by exercising a degree of coercion Which , by improving the system of administration , would enforce the fulfilment of existing obligations . He hoped to hear that ( he definite object of that occupation was to compel the court of Greece to lessen its extravagant expenditure and to discontinue its corrupt practices ; or , if this object could not be secured , he hoped Lord Palmerston , who hncl made the King of Greece , would feel it consistent with his duty , and with the in-* n * . r * a + r \ F tliw m \ iintrv tr > n > ilimf' liiiii jimiin to thfi
nosi-Fisheries , Scotland , were agreed to , after some opposition by Mr . Williams and others , who thought the votes unnecessary . The House divided on the latter vote , as Mr . Williams declined to withdraw his opposition to the vote for the North of Scotland Fisheries Board , although an assurance was given by Mr . Wilson that the vote would not again appear in its present shape . The report of the . commission of inquiry would decide whether the board would be dissolved or continued upon a self-supporting principle . The vote was carried by 102 to 39 . Progress was then reported , and the Plouse resumed . PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS ( SCOTLAND ) HILL . The debate on the second reading of this bill , adjourned from the 25 th of April , was resumed by Sir James Ferguson , who supported the measure because it did not alter the present state of things with respect to religious teaching . He suggested , however , that tlierc i should be a provision in the bill which should make it compulsory on all schoolmasters to be of eome definite Christian persuasion . —Mr . Comwino Bkuck would not divide the House on the . question of the aecond reading , ¦ though he was opposed to the bill , but would endeavour ' J- „ _ -. »»_ ..., * ., ] ,.. it , a 1-1 a * ori unf 4-s-t rm i w % + /\ S * S * t \ t 111 I T-+ f » rt SMt 4 " M rt IXlfLlaKJ ll \ % i IV < U » V vwiihiiiuhwu wm vjkw
* an cases , ne nave a oner every case . Now , that did -hot look like alarm on the part of Scotchmen that their interests would suffer in the hands of English lawyers . No man admired more than he did the ability and learning of the Scotch advocates at the bar ; but , at the same time , Tie objected to a Scotch Judge being brought up to take part in the appellate jurisdiction . The Duke of Argyll thought that the observations of Lord Aberdeen had been greatly misunderstood ; fcut still he feared they would damage the bill . Seveiwl witnesses from Scotland , who were examined before the committee , strongly urged that there should be by law one Scotch Judge always present in that House . He confessed he entered upon the consideration of the question with every disposition which national feeling could prompt to sustain it ; but lie thought Lord Aberdeen would agree with him , that it was the impression of the committee that that was not the remedy w'hich they could adopt . As regarded the creation of a new tribunal in Scotland , there was not one witness in favour of the proposition : all were desirous of preserving the power of appeal to the House of Lords . The Karl of Wicklow -thought the bill contained -,.-. .. „!» 4 * 1 .. , k *¦ «¦> nn ikKi / int iikitniliil 1 . m * fl ¦ f A MI ^ nifT . T . WAlf If I
tion in which he found him—namely , that of a Gorman prince . Lord Palmkrstox replied that the Piraeus had been occupied by l'rench and English troops in consequence of measures of aggression against Turkey , to which the Government of Greece was accessory . But unfortunately that measure on tins part of France and England had not resulted in any improvement either in the system of Government or the internal condition of tho country . Tho truth was , that the Government and Court party , ever since tho accession of King Otho , had endeavoured to got rid of tho check of constitutional forms by corrupt and indirect means ; and the king had evaded tho engagement , ho whs under to fj ive to hia subjects a representative government . At length , in 1843 , enmo the insurrection which extorted from him those institutions which he hud been unwilling to tf ive ; since which time , no efforts have , boon np ; ued for corrnpting , by bribes , first the electors , and then the olected ; ho that tho Greek Parliament is now but a shadow of the substance . Ah the guarantee of the . debt . is common to tho three Powers ( Eng land , I ' ranee , and Russia ) , it had been held that , no one Power is entitled to enforce ita own chum . it . would not be possible to anticipate the future policy of England and France with respect to Greece .
, li \ J IfVI ^ UUUU A * I 4 G . J « fcy measure as it « tood . —Mr . JJi-acicuukn , Mr . Macicik , and Air . Joiinhtonjc , also diasonted from the bill , on tho ground that the abolition' of tho religions test for schoolmasters would lmvo the effect of secularizing tho education of the people of Scotland . —Mr . Hi . acic defended the bill , and observed that the best guarantee for religious teaching in to be found in tho religious principled of the . Scotch . —The Lori > Advocate , having gone through tho clauses of tho bill , observed that the Presbytery would Hlill retain a superintendence over tlio schools , and assorted that there in ample security for religious teaching , though not of a sectarian character . — After some further discuuHion , of a rather rambling nature , tho bill wttB reud a second time . JOINT-STOCK COMTANUCS JULU This bill was read a third time , and passed . —Iu ( ilacus . siiitf the added clauses , Mr . Hknijs y moved that . id , 47 , and 48 should be loft out . Tho clauses related to tho appointment of inspectors by the Board of Trade i <) look into the accountw and ascertain the insolvency of companies . Such a duty aw that , Mr . Henley thought , ought to be left , to the parties immediately c . oneumod , and not , imposed on a public oflico . —Mr . Lowe , on tho other hand , argued that , for want of such a law us thuso j clauses would cstiibliMb , " parties who suHpect MomcthiiigJ
take upon himself-to assort that tho universal voice of Scotland in in favour of apponls being decided hy tho IIouho of Lords . —The Marquis of Lanhdownk supported tho hill , but remarked that tho resolution of the House which excluded Lord Wenflloydalc was only an expreflnion of opinion , and could not havo the force of an Act of Parliament . — Lord Fitzwilliam conceived th »* the House had got into a diflioulty from which it-couUJttot be extricated by the present bill . —Karl Guanvilmc said the Government had thought it desirable to coino to a satisfactory arrangement of tho matter in dispute , but they did not admit that they were wrong in tho course they had originally proposed , and still lean that any resolution of the House could bind tho Crown . —The 3 C « rl of Dkuhy having complimented tho Government on % hv > fairness with wliich it . hud acted , the floune went into committee , tho various clauses of tho measure -were agreed to , and tho bill was reported . The < > xi < -oiu > University Uii ^ was road a third time , and passed . Tho Commons wore unable to " make a House . " Wednesday , June Atfu THE AUTJIOIUZKO VltlWION OJ ' TIW , 1 > IAM'H < Mr . Hif . YW <> ov > , in tho Houhic oi > - Commow . tfavo notice that , on Tuesday , tho lbtof July , he would move an
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Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1856, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07061856/page/3/
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