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663 THE LEADER. [No. 277, SA-nnraAT,
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The. CoxDUcr ok the Poi.ick.—On Monday, ...
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between Turkey and for Europe , and the continua nce of the war , he accepted the former alternative . Now , if the Austrian proposal had been made an ultimatum , it would have amounted to insisting that Russia should be where she was before the ¦ war began , under pai & of * w * jp ; aad o , f course she must very readily have accepted an " ultimatum " of that kind . Lord John could not see this ; he c ould no t s e e t he ridi c ul e of hi s position , whea lie to
~ ™« oa T ^ loTiir » r .+ A » tiarv enforce Lord Gi »* . bebtcame as plenipotentiary to enforce Lord Om-rbbtj , oif ' arguments , and returned to enforce Count Buoi / s — alread y rejected b y hi s chiefs in the P orei gn Office and in the Cabinet ! He had " a right ' ° to uphold his own view as an individual member of the Cafciaet , but it w « s only the rig ht of "being absurd . He was continually making little well-meaning suggestions , and everybod y passed him over . He carried his peace-making so
far that he acted as go-between to reconcile peace aiwl war—the " standing menace to Europe" with the extinction of that menace—black with white . T he public cannot und e rst a nd paltering with the question of war , and is thoroughl y disgusted ; and Sir Edward Lytton only expresses the universal feeling when he proposes to declare that there can be no confidence in a Cabinet of which Lord Joecnt is a member- It remains to be seen whether
Lord Pamjebston will make it a point of honour to lower his standard to the Bedford level . In the presence of the Eastern question , to wluch is now added the Ministerial question , Parliament works at its ordinary business under a difficulty . It is hard to get up an interest on general topics ; still harder to drag the House into questions of railway accidents or Scotch education . The temper of the House , however , is not entirel y adverse t o some degree of progress ;
for it is inclined , where it does not expunge the question with a roug h hand , to let members who ape in earnest have their way . Thus the Lord Advocate does get on with Scotch education , notwithstanding amendments . The Partnership B ill proceeds , notwithstanding the shining li ghts of Liverpool . Lord Brougham pushes forward a little unostentatious bill in the House of Lords , which will do much of what Lord Derby prevented Lord Shaftesbury from doing , for it
renders the registration of places of worship a ministerial act by the Kegistrab-G-en-eral , instead of an ecclesiastical act by a prelate . Lord Lywdhuhst even has hopes of a bill to abolish the abjuration oath ! Sir William Clay ' s Churchrates A bolit i on B ill is f a voured b y M inis t ers , but is obstructed by r ea ctionaries , who talked against time on Wednesday , so that an adjournment which the y lose on division is carried by the clock . When , however , Mr . Vtncent Scuxly moves an address to the Grown requiring
examinations on admission to the public service to be open and public , the results of thoroug hl y conflicting op inions come out : Sir George Lewis and Sir Francis Baring hold literary qualifications to be no test of fitness for public work ; Sir STAiroim jNohthcote p lead s the exam p le of Franco , and the casuistical Gladstone lends to the l it e rary test the damag ing support of his refined argument ; while Lord Falmerston asks that the present system of an examination without publicity should have a fair trial . Tho House prefers by 140 to 125 the Palmebston ^ to th e Scuiuly
. The penalties of war aro coming out in a now financial demand . The French taxes and loan a r e followed by a hint f r o m our o w n G overnment that a supp leme nt al e s tim a te o f ex pe nditure w ill bo produced , and a now plan of raising tho requisite amount , whil e a T ur ki s h loan of 5 , O 0 O , 000 Z . under an Anglo-Gnllican guarantee is already in tho English market . The splendid * J & W ftH- '/ vT ^ fe ' ' ' lowever » tne certainty of fine crops from jt ^ s ^ ^ . tii , . qj . k /^ artfl of tho world , the unequivocally good ' ¦ foJP ^^ feJ ¦ ¦ ' ^ $ ^ ' ^ *|* l ° f t nc cotton crops in America , ' ¦ 'Umavw *
prospect of a rec * w * y from the bad state of the wool cropdurk ^ I | ie gpld fever in Australia , and a generalrecoveisy of credit , contribute to check the effec t of these loans b y decreasing the pressure on th © naoney market . From Yienna as wdt a « from the Crimea we have little to report . The rapprochement between Austria and Prussia advances . Count Buot projecting into space a , new circular , assures the univeise that Aasfcria intends to aUde by her p ledges , present appearances and the undue pretensions of the Western Powers notwithstanding . .... ¦
. _ , From the Crimea the Allied Generate report two things , —an effective bombardment , of the Redan , and a decrease in the disease afflicting the troops . From Asia we learn with satisfaction that the Russian army has been repulsed in an attack upon Kars . There is a war that we have too long forgo t ten —that in Spain . The report of Esfartero ' s resi g nation , superseded , not by the tears of the Queen , but by the entreati e s of O'Downeix , is followed up by the report of a weavers'
insurrection in Barcelona , ming led with some Carlist agitation in the North of Spain . Lord Ho'stden has had tan g ible proof of the C arlists , who have stopped his carriage on his way hom , € ; and if Barcelona has somewhat recovered from , the state of riot in which it was on the 28 th of last month , Spain has not recovered from that anarchical condition in which t he onl y popular Minister finds his position untenable , yet consents to hold it , and is obliged to ask a new loan from a country which is "bankrupt in means and mutinous in
spirit . With Hyde-park rioting we hope we have done . Last Sunday ' s parade of naug hty boys was a grand anti-climax which we distinctly disclaim on the part of the working classes ; and we call upon them to substantiate our disclaimer b y their own marked , absence to-morrow . The concession demanded on the two previous Sundays in the withdrawal of the Sunday T rading B ill h a d been granted . The object of the demonstration was satisfied . Even the Beer Act , which was for a
moment the pretext for more meetings , is under examination by a committee of the Commons , with every prospect that the evidence will condemn it . And Ministers , not too voluntarily , nor to o soon , but still in time for justice , have granted a commission to inquire into the conduct of the police during 1 the second Sunday . Every man who now prolongs riotous assemblages is a traitor to the working classes , who does his worst to confirm the calumny of their foes , and to justify measures of rigour .
Iwo concessions Ministers have made to the sp irit of obstruction , and the spirit of corruption rewards tliem . Charmed with tho extent to which the Commons have let him carry his measures , Sir Benjamin Haxl repays the favour by letting them off in regard to the Public Health Act , postponed till next year ; and the Thames , meanwhile , grows more absolutely and foully a sewer . Professor Faraday lately found it to bo literall y so , and he pronounces it to be
unnavigable for its pestilential properties . For another ye a r , therefore , at least the Commons are allowed to have cholera wafted under their noses b y th o ebb and flow . The ponderiug Lord Chancellor postpones his Testamentary and Divorce Bills ; the Lords are at their work divorcing the rich ; while the Clerkenwell magistrate is protecting ladies whose house is invaded b y tho friends of a husband in search of a fugitive wife ; and tho poor , who cannot enter into the refinements and ambiguiti e s of good society , go on divorcing themselves its usual .
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The. Coxducr Ok The Poi.Ick.—On Monday, ...
The . CoxDUcr ok the Poi . ick . —On Monday , a meeting took \>\ sv : v in tbe Literary Institution , Jolm-ntroet , Tottenhurn-court-roud , when a petition condemning the proceedings of Sir George Gray , and calling- upon tho House of Coinmonn to inqniro into Iuh conduct , and , if found guilty , to puniuh him , -was unaniinouuly adopted with groat cheering . Static of Tit a dm . —Tho manufacturing towns continuo to filiow , upon tjio whole , a degree of stoadincHH , tho prospects of a good harvest tending to HUHtain tho renewed fooling of eonildonco . MunehoHtor and Nottingham , however , aro exceptions to tho rule , n » ( lulncsu wtijl prevails in those localities .
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT , THJ 5 VIENNA NEGOTIATIONS . lar tlje Hoove of Lords , on Monday , E arl Granville , in answer to I « ord Lyndiitjrst , said it was the intentipn < sf > Co *« rnnient to lay on the table various papers iriatN ^ to the recent conferences at Vienna , including those relating to the proposals made by Count B * ol . —A similar declaration was made in the Common * ty iowl JPalmerston . JEWISH DISABILITIES . Lord "IiTOT > HSDRST a ^ elined to accede to the suggestion of the Earl of Dwby to withdraw his bill for repealing the Abjuration Oath ; and the second reading was fixed for Tuesday , the 17 th inst .
THE IU . 1 KOOTH COMMISSION . The Earl of Winchii . sea moved " that the recog- ^ nition of those ecclesiastical titles prohibited to the Roman Catholic prelates by the Act of 1829 , in the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the management and government of the College of Maynooth , is a direct violation of that Act ; and that an amended copy of that Report be placed upon the table of this house , with those illegal titles omitted . "—The Eari of Harrowby , wliile acknowledging that , as he had stated on a previous occasion , the insertion of the titles was improper and accidental , hoped their Lordships would not adopt the resolution . — It being the general opinion of the House that it would be inexpedient to press the motion , th e Earl of Winch ilsea , after some hesitati o n , withdrew it . The Aoch > ents oaf Railways Bat , was read a third time , and passed . PUBLIC HEALTH BILL . In the House of Commons , Sir Benjamin Hall stated that , considering the late period of the session , he thought it advisable not to persevere with the Public Health Bill this session . It would , however , be necessary to provide by a short bill for the continuance of the General Board of Health for one year . MR . BOEBUCK . S MOTION . Mr . H . Adair gave notice on behalf of the member
for Cambridge ( Colonel Shafto Adair ) , that when Mr . Roebuck brings forward his rnotioagjjfcis Colonel Adair ' s intention to move as an anie ^^ HpBt the following resolution : — "That this HousWs of opinion that the counsels which determined the expedition to the Crimea were consistent with a bold and sagacious policy , just to our allies , and commensurate with the objects of the war ; and , further , that a p e r se veran ce in a similar policy can alone afford the hope of ensuring an honourable and permanent peace . "
THE BOMBABDMENT OF CALABAR . Sir Charles Wood , in answer to Mr . Anderson , stated that the Government had received despatches informing them of th « bombardment , if they mi ght call it so , of the Old Town of Calabar , by the Antelope . It had been done at the special request of the British Consul ; and the reason assigned was that the Cliief had been guilty of infringing a treaty by whicli lie was bound to abstain from murdering persons by means of what was called the poison nut . The Consul had therefore requested the commander of tlie Antelope to bombard tho town , and he bud done so in consequence of the representations madr to him by tho merchants and missionaries thero . Sir Charles Wood was not aware that the rebuilding of the town had been forlnddon .
THE SUNDAY RIOTS . Sir Gkorge G « ev , in answer to Sir John Vakington , stated that he had given no orders that the ordinary protection of the police should be withdrawn on Sunday last . The acts of violence in IJclgrave-square , and other places , were bo sudden that the police were taken by surprise . —Replying to a further question by Mr . Addehley , Sir George Grey said that tho orders given to the police "were to hold in readiness a large reserve , in order that they might be prepared , to act wherever thore should be any disturbance . In the event of such disgraceful proceedings being renewed next Sunday , e v e ry step would bo taken by the police to resist them ; nnd the authoritius would be most happy to concur with tho inhabitants of tho district , and to receive their assistance .
STATE OF THIS BIVEIt THAMES . In answer to Mr . Walteh , Sir Bknjamin I Tali . said ho was sorry that at present there existed no power whatever , either in the Government or in any other authority , to roinedy the nuisunco which had been so justly complained of as arising from tin ' stato of tho river Thames . EDUCATION ( SCOTLAND ) MIX- ^ This bill was brought up for consideration a ^ amended in committee . Several additional amend monts wero agreed to ; one providing for inquiry by tho school committees into tho religious and morn I teaching of tho musters , in ease of complaint * ; another declaring that tho schoolmasters under flic net sliull bo entitled to tho funds for tho benefit <>!'
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Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14071855/page/2/
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