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628 THE LEASER. [Saturday,
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Pabliament Of The Week. The Government C...
to the upholding of which tlie Hoase ought not to pledge the honour of the country ; that the resolution , if carried , may be mischievous , can never be useful , and is both impo-Iitio and undignified . Sir William concluded by moving the previous question . " Mr . R . Phuximore contested the justice of many of the propositions of Sir W . Molesworth , bat agreed with hint as to the wisdom and expediency of the course of Government in waiving the rights of the Crown on the present occasion . He suggested the withdrawal of the motion . Mr . BoVtbk argued in . opposition to the motion , but during Ms speech the House was counted out .
THE TESTAMENTABY JT 7 BISDICTION BILX . Mr . "WAr-POi / E having referred to the fact that bills had been , introduced with reference to testamentary jurisdiction , and matrimony and divorce , and to the probability that a bill may he brought in , next year with regard to church discipline , all having reference to matters which are embraced within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction , begged to ask the noble lord the President of the Council whether , under the circumstances , he would think it right to proceed with the Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill this year , and whether it would ' not be advisable to have all the bills relating to the jurisdiction , of the ecclesiastical courts " submitted to Parliament before they
legislated upon any part of the question . Lord Johk Russbil said that since he bad been last questioned on the subject * he had been in cpmmtmicatiQfi with the IiordCha ^ ceUbr respecting it , and it had , also heen -iuacte * the dpnside ? pation of the Government , ^ ad he ^ as , ™ th ^ eibre now able to in-;» wer the question of Mr .. "W " al . pple , The Xord Chan ^ cellor had introduced into the House of Lords a bill on ; the subject qf divorce , . With respect to church discipline no pill had been , proposed ; but undoubtedly it was a matter that would receive early consideration . He found there was much difference of opinion with respect to the nature of the court to which many of those matters should be referred , whether to a branch of the jCourt of Chancery , or to
a separate court , though not resembling th $ present ^ K & esi & tical . Court ; ,,: Qn ! , cpnsideration . of this < juestibh , vrhipL w $ is"one <> f great importance , a ^ d taking also into consideration the late period of the session , the . Government had come to the determination not to proceed . at .-ipresent ; with the Testamentary Juris-. dic & oii . BIlL , SV | th aspect to the X > iyorcet Bill , the Jjord i Cljancellor , proposed to ipak §\ spuiei alterations j £ » ifoajt talk ; -Tiier 4 w * 8 pa ^ , pf it founded upon the report o ^ he divorce commissioners , not in any : way connected with " or having reference to ecclesiastical Jiiri ^ dictioa in , matters of real property , and that being a separate question , the Lord Chancellor was of opinion . that it .. inigh . t be proceeded with . Lord John RusseU reserved , therefore , any decision on that -part of the . question . .
, ECCLESIASTICAL COTNITS . In moving the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Courts bill : Lord Brougham said that the Court of Admirjilty had for some time had the power of summoning witnesses before it , of taking their evidence " viva voce , and of directing it to be reduced to writing , in such manner as the jadge of the ; court-might think ty . The obje ^ t ' of the present measure w ; as . to extend flhi s p & n . iiii % [ Ipro ' yistyri to ' the eccteBiasiWal courts , there being no reason whatever why it should not be apphed , fco these as . wej ^ as to the Court of Admiralty . The witnesses in the ;<& d . niiralty Court being generally seamen , whose . detention in this country would be fVequonthr attended with considerable
incon-VenieticeV their affidavits- were still generally used , tand * the power giyen ( . by the eatute had not been u'rid ^ r otW f SircuihiitalAces ; Tmt . so jfar ' as It had been appliOd , 3 tTh # d be' & i foiniil to -tforfc satisfactorily . ' Tphe Lojn { ± > CjaA ^ oeiioR' supported'the bill . It Svould be rus duty dui ^ rig the recess to look into the whole ; subject cf : thq ecclesiastical ' courts , witlj . a view to meqji the gross evils which existed . The interest of the debate , however , lay in the mode of dealing with' the subject adopted by the Bishop of Oxford . ¦¦ Ho assured the House that it wft 8 rrofti no ^ iint of appreciation of the need of such legMatidh that such a measure had hot before'been 5 titroduc « d ; but- the difficulties in' the way wero enormous . Such a bill was in some ' sort to punish the errcttB in doctrine' and in practice of the clergy of the Church of England—not the bishops . The
bishops would have to administer the law , to which the clergy would be subject ; and there wero tho greatest difficulties in the way of tlio bishops attempti ) ig ( legislation , without the' clergy having tho importunity- ftflly to discuss for tlicmselvos and pronounco . their opinion on the bill which was to bo Introduced . It was not for him to eay how .. ihat could : bodonG ., But , for lumaelf , ho di < l not expect to see ' ) any . legislation on this difficult and delicate oubjeof "brought to a happy conclusion until those whp ¦ we re'ttio . bo tho ( special subjects of such legislatioji shoiild'bo ablo to give Parliament tho benefit of J ^ amj ^ whfltJ tWtqrjr thought , pf weighing their argu-Baenta , « nd giving weight tothoBe worthy of weight , * ffljj ^^ SW ^ S W wjxich woro inanpHcablo ., ' Ho . fcoMovedxnany thoughtful members of tlieir lordships ' H . OU 80 wero coming to tho conviction that it would
be highly advantageous that tile clergy should have the power of discussing church questions in public , and he thought he spoke the opinion of all the members of the Ecclesiastical Commission when he said it appeared to him that the greatest possible benefit would accrue from affording the clergy at large the opportunity of expressing what they thought and felt on these subjects . He assured the House it- was not apathy , but a sense of the inherent difficulties of the subject , which prevented the bishops from bringing forward such a measure .
The Earl of Hahrowby heartily concurred in the sentiments of the Bishop of Oxford with regard to public discussions on these matters by the clergy . Parliament wanted to know what the clergy thought and-felt , and it never could ascertain that without some such arrangement as had been suggested . Perhaps the ancient machinery of Convocation could be brought into action , and he considered it more and more necessary , inasmuch as the Imperial Parliament less and less identified itself with the Church of England . The bill was then read a second time .
. ' TOE REGIDST DOSTUM . The annual debate on the vote of 38 , 7547 . for nonconforming and other Ministers in Ireland—known as the ItegxUm ' Donum—tdok place in Committee pf Supply , pia * Thursa . ay night y Mr . Bright proposed to negative the vote , and in a long and amusing speech condemned this State assistance to those who oujjht upon principle to reject it , and . who were perfec ^ abfe to provide themselves with the luxury pf religiousjorganisatioii , instead of taking hush-money 'fifono theVState . The hpnourabte member for Manchester was especittfly sarcastic upon the linen manufacturers of the north pf Ireland , who he said were able to 'do everything except to pair their own
ministers .. He sbotved that a weekly payment of one penny per head from each person enjoying the religious advantages in question would euable them to 'dispense ^ with this humiliating aid , which exposed them to the rebuke of their Nonconformist brethren in England . He did not wish to ask the coirimttteS' at once to Tefuse a grant iipori which naany ^ furidred ; clergymen wete dependent for bread , b » t jh ^^ ouJii divide upon tlie proposed addition to the tormehaUpwaace , in order to .. take a division on the . ' principle involved ^ sp Jhat , after fair notice to , the parties thjit they must pay their own clergy , the : grant might be exploded . Mr . Kirk , contended - that the . grant had . been productive of great good , and that it was indispensable to the religious interests of the Presbyterians of Ireland . After some further discussion-: Lord Joan Kussem , ¦
expressed his regret that the feligious question had been introduced by various speakers into the' debate / and said that there were two grounds on which the grant might be supported , namely , that . of contract and : that of . the fair expectation of the Presbyterians . He deprecated the mode in which the exemplary clergy of that body had been alluded to in the discussion , -and . said that the continuance of tho grant was most advantageous to the State . Bearing testimony to the good service which the Presbyterian ministers had done in promoting morality and piety , he said that he did not know that he should have proposed this as a new grant , but that as it ' had bfeen many ^ ears in existence , andliad been very beneficial , he should certainly support it . Mj :, . BBictfiT , said that the extreme difficulty that tiord , J , Iluasell hftd found in making ou . t any case at all rendered reply unnecessary . ,
The committee then divided , and the numbers wereWor > thei gxanfc , 149 ; for Mr . Bright ' a amendxnenfc , t e 2 ' ; majority for tho grant , 87 . The vote was agreed to . r' THE BOARD PT HKAMtW . In Cbttimittde ) of Supply , on tho vote of 11 , 865 / . for the ( General Board of Health , & ix GjSoiioje PjEOBtKLU cpn ^ emniing tho proceedings of the board , moved that the ! vote bered ^ uccd . by 6855 / 1 3 ^ prd . PAi « i > tDl » 9 TOiUxear , tily defended . theboard . If there had , never been a cholera visitation , the health of tho country might have been left to take care pf itself , but . that da not tho case now .
"If Brighton diitiot wiah to bo included in tho arrangofnents of tho board , thoro wpuldbo no diffloulty in excluding that town ' . In ovciry town there wcrb two riarties , known by tho two desigriations cbn-osporiding to tlioso or Whig and Tory , and almpst dividing tfio town—^ ho one ¦ was tho clean tinrty , and tnb othor was the 'dirty party . ( Loud laughter . ) Thcso word tho woll-known fiictiona . Ouo mnn would any , " I am of tlio dirty party—I liko tho dirt—1 don ' t choose to pny fyr boirig clean . '' ( Laughter , ) Now , in tho towns whoro cho dirty party prov « ilod , tho ftxrangomonts of tho Board of Health' did not urxitf v . It was not in tho Dower of tho Board
of Health to conipdl tho dirty party to submit to tho cloiiu party . ( LauffktcrT ) A provisional order could not bo issued withoafc ii preliminary proceeding indicating tho desire of a certain portion t > f tho inhabitanta tolmvothcflo nrrangomonta OBtrt . bliB ' nod , ftnd wlioro applicfttions had boon made to convert provisional brdqrb into law , tlioy could not l ) o bo convortod , ojecopt with tho consent of Parliament . In muny cases those orders had boon rojodtod by Purliamont , and that wns conclt | sivo oyidonoa tliwt tho Uoard of Health could not hnposo on ft town nrraijtjomonta which tho town might think inoouvciilWit'And'uHeleBH . " ' Ho proposed to bring in a bill to tUtor tho
construction of the board , proposing that it should continue , for two years . He would make the Home Secretary responsible for its proceedings , and the board , consisting of two paid and one unpaid officer , subject to the instructions and control of the Home Secretary . He could not agree to reduce the vote . This led to much discussion ,. and to an elaborate attack upon Mr . Edwin Chadwick , and Dr . Southwood Smith , paid commissioners , by Sir Benjamin Haxl ., and a general attack upon the board . Lord Pax-bierston agreed to postpone the vote , especially as he intended to bring in his bill the next night .
The City Chueches Removal Bili ,. —Sir J . Pakdtgton moved the second reading of this bUl in the House of Commons , on Thursday morning ; and Mr . R . Philumobe , remarking that the hill proposed to sweep away the churches of the poor because the ricn had deserted the city , and that it yeas proposed . to- do this without tho consent of the parishioners , moved tlie second reading that day six months . In this he was seconded by Mr . Haopielu , and supported by Mr . Mofb-at , Mr . Christopher , Lord R . Cecil ., Mr . Henley , Mr . Masxerman , Mr . Thomas Duncombe , and Sir James Duke , On the other side , were Mr . Thomson Hankey and Mr . Sidney" Hekbebe . Mr . Drujimosd wished to know , if consecrated ground were to be thus treated , what was toe use of the farce of consecration , and nestwhat waa the use of bishopsezcept
, , for £ he purposes of consecration . The House then divided , when the numbers were—For the second reading , 59 ; for the amendment , 143 ; majority for tbe amendment , 84 . The bill ivas therefore rejected . New WaR iMinisiby . —The Earl of Maijsiesbuby asked the noble earl at the Head of the Government whether it was true that the offices of the new department of Secretary of State for War were to be removed to tho house occupied by the Inclosure Commissioners in Whitehall-gardens , arid that the Inclosnro Gommiesibners in their turn were to be removed to St . 'James ' s-square ? Having complained of this arrangement as inconvenient , expensive , ana unnoootmaxry , tho noble earl ¦ further called attention to the state of the ForeignoiBce , in Downmg-street , which he compared , to that of old banracks from the want of repair . The Foreign Secretary
had no residence within the building , while the room in which he sat was so unsafe that , if he received company , it had to be 'propped up , ~ and he could not give a dinner because there was no kitchen . . The Earl of Abeedeen said the house occupied by the Inclosure Commissioners was the only one in the neighbourhood of Downing-street and the Horse Guards which could be found for the new War Department j whilst the house to which the Inclosure Commissioners would be removed was one which they bad themselves approved before being removed from Somerset House . , Inquiry , however , should bo made as to the amoynt of inconyenience which the change would produce } but he apprehended that two months would he sufficient tore-arrange the archives of the commission As to the state of . the Foreign-officehe weir know from
, personal experience that it was disgraceful and dangerous . The rents in the walls were quite alarming to look at . Plans for a new building were in preparation , and would be completed by the end of the , summer , but- her Majesty's Government had no present intention of applying to Parliament for a grant of public money for a new erection . But no doubt , by the time the noble earl returned to office , the place would be ftt for his reception ! ' " '" Royal Assent . —Id the House of Lords on Monday night , the royal assent was given by commission to- three public and sixty-six private bills : tho former were the Customs ' Duties Bill , the ; Excise Duties Bill , and the Hieh Treason ( Ireland ) Bill . ** Maynooth again . —The passine of the Public Rflvonnn
and Consolidated Fund' ChargeB Bill-was imperilled because Mr , Spooner hatos the Roman Catholics . On the question that tho bill do pass , describing tho placing of the JMaynooth grant upon tho Consolidated Fund as unconstitutional , he moved that all grants taken for the support of Maynopth should bo put in tho schedules of the bill , so that tlioy might come regularly every year before tho House , and bo votedor rejected as tho case might be . —Lord John Russell significantly told tho House that unless the amendment were rejected the bill would bo withdrawn altogether . Nevertheless , on a division , taken without almost any discussion , tho amendment was only negatived by 1 Q 6 to 90 . Tho bill then nassetL
Dog-Carts —Lord St . Leonakds moved the Beqond reading of tho Cruelty to Animals Bill , which , amonc other things , prohibits throughout tho country tho use of carta urawn by dpga . His allegation in support of tho 1 > 1 U was that dog-carts frighten horses , and tint dogs so employed are frequently made mad by drawing . There was a BQbor and a morry opposition to tho bill . Ijord EaMNTON' / jrarbly declared that it ia " perfectly visionary and unstable" to object that dogs are over driven mail . Wheelbarrows fiometitnqs frighten horaos . but thut ia no voason for proliitotine wheelbarrows . Tlio _ Murquis of Wisutminstkii s « ld a dog naturally stands on its toes , but doga in harnosa are forced out of that natural position only hy enduring crout nain i ra MAUtticaiiUKY tho of
^ o . pleaded cause lOOD ownoita of dog-carta in Sussox and Hampshire To thia tho Duke of AKaYi / r ., retorted that tlioro woro formerly 1500 persons using dog-carts in London , but no compensation wart given to them when tho uao of dog-carts was prohibited . Did they givo those persons compoiiHution wlion tho use of dog-carts wiw prohibited ? If they did not fiivo thorn compensation , and it they committed an act of injuatico then , it might lulrly bo argued thut thoy might commit an not of injusUoo now . ( Loud laughter . ) Ho did not admit , however , that any injustice was done to tlioso persona at that time , nnd ho did not , theroforo , concede that any in justice would bo done now .
Karl Ghanviluc took a lively viow of the subject , It i » Said dogs nro not ; bo « st » of draught ; ; but tho bill proves that tlioy are , by pronoainc to put a otop to their boing naod na Uo « ata o / ^ UjBj I jL Anything will ( ri giilon Bomohoraoa—a bird Hying out of a hedge—and if you ftro to prohibit ovorytuuig that Inghtons thorn , you may bogin with railway
628 The Leaser. [Saturday,
628 THE LEASER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), July 8, 1854, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08071854/page/4/
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