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¦ — I 4kperial Parliament. —?—- 3fondny,...
« rreeH » nt , tl * ey were-entitled * o fifteen months pay < ra % SS &***** r bad ^ raady ~^ «" * 2 S vice-perfbrmed ; but they had © nly seteived « m ^ t * to * ^ r ^ eouia get no more—Lard . » f ^ S no indisposition had torn Splayed on the 1 ™ £ «* the Government to settfe the claims , * oth of the xrffioers and-roea of the ( foreign Oegions . There was-even an in-Snafiott to extend the geaerosity of the ^ Government beyond their engagements , to show how muoh -they ^^ appreciated the services rendered ; but , in "the course of the Settlement of the men ' claims , « any disputes necessarily arose , and , if his noble friend wera « ware of the * nfimte troubletbey had taken to adjust those disputes , h e would -uotin any way have questioned thedisposrtaon _ o £ the Go-The Government denied tbat
Ternment to -act fairly . any contract had been made with the men for engaging them for twelve morrths after the ratification of peace . Every dffieeavby whom the petition was-signed had given A receipt to the effect that he had obtained his gratuity , and had **> farther claims oa Government . —The Earl of MaixMESboky admitted that some of ias remarks had T ) een satisfactorily answered by Lord Panmure ; still , he thought , as the men had been deceived , whether by accident o-r not , that they ought to have the tfull pay . With respect to the receipts in full of all claims given by fee officers , all he had to say was that , when the Minister at War gavethose gentlemen a gratuity of three months' pay , rt was accompanied by a letter from the War-office , stating that it was given . without prejudice to any fixture claims , and the } ' gave a receipt , therefore , with that understanding . —Lord Panmdbe read a letter fromGokmels Funk and Sulzberger , repudiating as a -forgery their signature to one of the -documents in question : a repudiation which , as far as Colonel Funk was concerned , surprised Lord Malmesboky , who said he held in his hand « letter from that officer ' s ¦ solicitor , which went to a totally different effect ^ - ^ -The Earls of SAKDWiCK * : and Clakcarty made some ob--servatioos on the bad results of a foreign legion- ; and the subjeetthen dropped . ST . JAMES ' s-PARK . The Earl of JMalmbsburk" then . called the . attention of the House to the correspondence between the Treasury and the iBoaid of Works , on the subjeet of the avsater in St . Jamies ' s-parfc . On a former occasion , when he introduced 'fche subject , he was told by Earl Granv 4 Ue that theexpenditure would not be more than ll , OO < W .,. and that a saving of 90 Q / . a year would be effected by giving up the supply of water then obtained from the -Chelsea Waterworks . " Assuming that the expenditure would be 14 , 000 ? ., he then asked for certain -returns showing svhy such an -expenditure had been incurred without the sanction of Parliament . Those returns were promised six weeks ago , and the promise was renewed about three
• weeks after wards ; but the returns were not yet forthcoming , 'or , if they were on the table , they had only just been presented . However , he held in bis hand the returns -which had been made in another place on the nvotion of Sir Francis JBariug , . in which the Commissioner of Works stated that he had been besieged by applications respecting . the unwholesome state of the lake , and the miasma arising from its impurities . If there could be any justification for an outlay of 11 , 000 / . on the lake , and 4000 / . more for carrying the drainage into ; the Thames , in a . manner contrary to the spirit of the constitution , it would bo the preservation of the public health ;
but in the correspondence to -which he referred no such justification appeared . Under the rollicking rule of the noble Viscount now at the head of the Government ( Jaughtor ") , large expenses had been incurred . He ( Lord Maimeabttry ) -thought the complaints with respect to the alleged miasma rising from the lake in St . Jaraes ' s-park ought to have been embodied in the report ; but they were not . What effect had the miasma produced at Whitehall ? He hud not missed any of her Majosty ' s Ministors , or the Comptroller of the Exchequer . ( Laughter . ') He could not see any excuse for violating the constitutional rulo of not spending the public money without the consent of Parliament .
Earl Gkanviixe said the sum was but small , * md was rendered necessary on sanitary grounda ; to prove which ho exhibited bottles of water from the stream iu St . James ' s Park , to show how thick and muddy it had boon formerly , nnd'how oleitr -it 'is now . On a former occasion ho agreed that such matters ought to recoivo the sanction of Parliament ; but ho thought it was now rather too Into to make that complaint , because tho subject had received two discussions in tho House of Commons , where tho matter liucl been carefully considered ,
and Sir Benjamin Hall had explained to tho Houbo the reasons y /" hy ho undertook the work without a previous estimate having been submitted to Parliament . The House of Commons had agrood to u vote ; ao that , whether right or wrong , tin outinutla had now been sactioned . A most unfair attack had been made on Sir Oharloa Trovelya . ii , when It was said that no Tory Government could get Anything out of him . [ Lord MAiAwssnunY : 11 It is tru « . "J Did tho noble Earl mean to Bay that Sir CharloB Trovolyan was supremo V
Tho 'Eurl of MALMicsnuitv s "I stated a fact . I said that im . provarne . nta In the Foreign Oflloo , whiah I could not got from Sir Churlos Trovolyan , had boon onrriod out Binoo my noble friend hna boon in ollloc ; and I am very glad of it . Still , it is a faot . " , Earl Quanvxllb did not sny whether tho
imnrovosneote sin 4 he Foreign'Office > ef whi « h haetnoble friend spoJke wwre ei * her good or > bad ; bat be thought « ir Charles Trevely-an < 'had & right to-objectttotbeir being treated , not as a -question of Jhe Civil JSarvice , but of a Whig-ox QDorjr'Gov « mmeut . Be . ( L . oxd < GjmviUe . ) was born a Cockney ; and he felt a sympathy > with . two millions and a half of Cockneys who are not able , like his noble friend , to get away from the bad influences of London to the heaths of-Scotland or the wilds of Hampshire .- : Lord TSIon-TEAGXse thought the estimates shoiwd have been laid before Parliament last year .
CONSOUDATJKMJ QF THE STATUTES . A series of eight bills consolidating the acts isolating to . lunacy , JUbel , forgery , offences against the person , and some other departments of the criminal law , jwore read a second . time on the motion of the Lord Chancellor , and after a few words ,-from Lord CAjxpjmiil and Lord . WensleydaijE . the first of whom . thought discussion should Jbe postponed till next session , iv & ile the latter advocated immediate . procedure .
SALE OF OBSCENE PUBlilCATIOHS MJEBVaaKCION BEDL . liord Campbell moved the third reading of this till , and took occasion to refer tO'some'remarks which he had made on Messrs . Smith ami Sons , the well known jbaoik sellers , in reference to the sale of au obscene book which bad been vended at one of the railreay stations . Me had fallen into a serious error with regard to the .-subject . ( Bear , hear . ) It was the desire of « those gentlemen to supply to the public the purest and . most enlightened . class of literature , and the book he had referred to was not sold atone of their stalls . Those gentlemen did not allow immoral books to , be sold at any railway station Dyer which they had control . ( . Hear , hear . ') The noble Lord begged to acknowledge Ahe assistance which * he in the revision of
had reaeived from Lord X » yndhurst of his bill . —Lord Ly . ndhubst complained of the attack Lord Campbell had made on him on the occasion of the second reading of the bill ( for which , however , . his Lordship had since apologized ) , and added that offensive allusions were made to him in one of the volumes of JLord CampbeH ' = s " Lives of the Lord Chancellors of ¦ England , " « . copy of which volume had been sent to him ¦ by the nobleand learned lord with his compliments , -and without any of the other vohiaies . QGreat laughter . ) He should fucther . remark that , iafter bis attack on him the other night , Lord Campbell came over with a smiling face and asked bun to revise his bill . l ^ ZiOiid-laughter . " ) This he had consented to do , and he believed he had removed all the most objectionable features , making it necessary for a police officer , before lie enters a shop to
search for obscene publications , to make an oath before a magistrate of the nature of the books , & c , objected to , ¦ when the magistrate will grant or withhold the warraaat as he thinks fit . —The Lord Chancellor and Lord Wenslemoale atill thought the bill open to some abjections ; but tiiey did not oppose it . —The Archbieliop of Canterbury gave it his hearty support ; and Lord Campbell regretted , after the ample apology he liad made to Lord Ly ndhurst , that he should have used such . harsh expressions towards ^ him . He feared he had been misunderstood with ^ regard to certain words to which he had given utterance on a former occasion , and he ivouid appeal to the public as to 'whether his noble and learned friend was justified in the course which he had taken . He had not intended any offence whatever to Lord Ly ndhurst . —The bill was then read a third time , and passed .
NEWSPAPER REPORTS OP MEETINGS . Lord Campbell brought up the report of the select committee on the privilege of reports . Tho recommendation of tho committee was , that the same privileges that are now enjoyed by tho press , as regards tho reports of proceedings of law-courts , should be extended . to reporting tho proceedings of Parliament and public meetings . These meetings were defined to be meetings called by sheriffs , mayors , or meetings of public boaeds , such as the Board of Health , Town Councils , & c . It
¦ was proposed that , if there was an action brought against a newspaper for publishing the proceedings of any such meetings , the defendant might plead the-faithfulness of tho report , and that tho plaintiff had suffered no damage by it ; and , should the jury find for tho do--fendant , the plaintiff would have to pay all the costs . ( Hear , hear . ) His Lordship / concluded by stating that next session he would bring in a bill ftmndud on the resolutions of tUo committoe . ~—Tug jroporfc was ordered to lie on tho table . Their Lordships adjourned at nine o'clock .
KLKOTION COOIJJU'rmKS . In tho Housis ov Commons , the & picakior announced tho abandonment of tho petitions complaining of tho roturna for Sandwich , Chatham , Atlilono , and Sligo . OAIiWAY ELECTION . Mr . Clivk brought up tho roport of the Galway Eleotion Committee . Tho roport Htatad that Anthony . O'Mahortj' was not duly elected , ami that tho last oleotion < was void . Tho documont also'affirmed that it appeared from uvidonco takon before blic committee thmtl systematic bribery had boon wvvriod on , at tho laqt and provioua olootiona for Galway ; but tlioro v / m ¦ nojfvoQt * of the oognteuncQ of tho sitting member . ' mtB liAMIJETH COMMIl * T » IJ ) .
On tho motion of Mr . Inoham , it wna ordered tlw » t JoaopU Ti'odio , who had neglected to attend b ' eforo tluo Lambeth Election Cominiitoa uliould bo Uikon iato ouatody by tho Sorgoant-at-Anna for contempt .
XNXKA . Me u > ifiiiAiciii asked sevenal questions jwh * , » - !« pect ; to -the -rexseat newe from India , si a . ^ imjl « r character to those put in fthe Honse of Lor 4 a chv the Earl of Elleuborbugh . - ^ Jn answer fto itheee and to others fpoipa Six Jqhjs Pakington , Lord Palmsjbsxqn itttimBfaed his in « hility it » , gw *| fuller inform . atioa than had . already beeji » iade public . jG * - tVjeEnmqnt hathertp iaid ^ eceivgd only brief telggtpgthje advices ,, but the written despatches wejee ^ xipeeted jko arrive , in theoQurse , « f a few hovw , and fiie ; det » i 3 # th » s communicated woiiW he duly imparted -fe ) 4 hie House . He denied the 'truth , of various rumours to which . Mr . Disraeli had alluded ; among others , the report that the Governor of Herat lad sworn allegiance to the Shah of
. Persia . Further reinforcements were to fbe itegpatched to India in addition to the 14 , 000 men already under orders for tie East . Immediately on the -receipt of : fche Jast iotelligence , st ^ ps were . taken by Lord Panipure , in conjunction with the X > uke of Caoibridge ^ to select a CpPwnander-in-Chief in place of Generftl Aneon- The ofFej was jnade on Saturday to Sir Colin Campbell He . wjas asked how long it would be before rhe wpuld be ready . to start , to which he replied , wifiU Jus usual promptitude , " To-woxrow . " ( Loz * # cheers . ) ^ 4-ftd jbe was off by the train yesterday ( Sunday ) evening . JL telegraphic communication was then sent to Marseilles to stop -the steamer , Tv ^ hich had recently sajled ,, so _ that < 3 eneral "Campbell would not lose a single hour ip starting for his destination . —In reply to Admiral Walcott , Sir Charles Wood said that the troops = for ; India would
be sent out In hired transports . IfiE . OKPNAKCiS SURVEy . = On the order : for ^ oiug into Committee « f Supply , jLord Elcho moved a resolution , " Ttiat in the present position of the Ordnance Survey of Great . Britain ,, £ he survey on the six inch scale ought not to be proceeded with without "further inquiry , and that an-address should be presented to her Majesty praying her Majesty to appoint a Royal commission to inquire into the whole , stfb' ject of the national survey , and report upon the scale or scales on which it should be made and published . ** 'He
entreated the House not to take a hasty and irrevocable step in this matter , but to Tefer the question to a competent , tribunal—a IRoyal commission , fairly constituted . — 'Lord Palmersto-n recommended the House . not to 'be tempted into a renewal of the discussion upon this subject , after their late decision , -which the / Government had adopted , * thoagh , for himself , he thought it > an unwise one . He could not agree to the resolution ; but , -if liord Elcho would consent to strike out the iicst . part of it , « nd simp"ly ^ nove an . address to the Cro ? svn , he would not object . ^—TJie motion , was negativ ed without ia division , after a tshort discussion .
SUTKIjY . The House -then went into committee of Bupply jOH the Givil Servioe Estimates— . On tShe vote for nonconforming Mad other ministers ia Ireland , commonly called -the iBegium Donum , Mt . Baxter / moved that -the . amount should be reduced to 366 / . —This amendment -was jsup ported by M-r . Kirk , and / opposed by Mr . GaaiBiBr . " -Mr . UAixEfHELD having spoken against the 'grant , the committee divided , 'When , there appeared- —For the -grant , 117 ; -against it , 41 : majority , 76 . Some other votes -were then passed , . ending with tihe annual vote of 100 , OOGJ . for civil contingencies .
¦ Mt . Wise complained of the payment of 1000 )? . ( being given to the two messengers who brought home the peace treaties of Paris and Persia , and inquired whether 2000 ? . ior extra services during the war were paid Ap . the ¦ clepks who 'did the work . Further , lie complained of the charge of 1200 / . fpr legal expenses attending Ihe . jpurphase of Buriingtoa-iouse ; of 18 / . for a robe Jbr the Lord OLieutenant , who receives a salary of 20 , 000 / .. ; uind of tho charge of 525 , 000 / . for missions to foreignNceurjts , > articularly to PariB < and Gonstantiuople . i—iSir John of 62 / 178 d
Trelawn y called attention to the charge . s . . for tho pardon of J * hn Trost , and to several items besides . —To 111080 and various other remarks , 'Mr . Wilson replied . 'Presents had been * nado to tho American officers who went out in search of tho Erebus and Terror . It had beon usual 'to give 500 / . to the messenger who brought homo news of peace . The Treasury -gave the 2000 / . to tho I ' oreig'n-omoc , on the recommendation of Lord'Clarendon , who superintended the distribution of tho money among llio officials . ' — The vote was ¦ agToetl to .
B FUAUTDtJIJBNT'TRlWTCBBS'BUUL . Qn the 'House resuming , this bill was brought up amended from committee . Several alterations wore proposed and rojeeted ; but , on tho motion of tho Attobnwy-Gknjeral , words wore introduced i » tho 12 th clause to tho effect that tho jjaUgo shall iu ovory caao give tho party acouaod an opportunity of answering tho chnrgo whoro tho sumo can bo dono with duo rogard to tho interests of justice . TJio House adjourned at ono o ' olook . Tuesday , July Xkth .
ARMY KUUOATIOW . 1 « the Mouspor Lonos , in « - " «; er to tho Earl of HAitDWiOiuo , Lord V ^ uvnn ^ bited th « t the , Com-_* . ) .. , _ c \\\ oS asflidtoil by a oounpil of . three " omqwa , Slpre , S & ?« S ? S « tbf aubjwi « f military education Ho Said * Ui «» rc ) had signirtod his concurronoo In Jhnt reiSr ? «« l it would . be laid « p < m tho t « blo of
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Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18071857/page/3/
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