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The Present Session Of Parliament May No...
any like occasion , received with more affectionate warmtli . It is one of the marked characteristics of her intercourse with her people that she inspires a personal regard wherever she goes ; and her visit to Birmingham , undertaken as it was to give eclat to a thoroughly popular jundejjfcEtlEiug , has ^ established that feeling in the stroijgest possible manner . The object was to open Aston Hall and ^ Bari ; , which the Birmingham people Jbave bought for ;» municipal museum . and plQasnxe * ground . Jftdjnce Aibxrt throws a German seriousness over the
national question of play ; and the Queen takes a pride in identifying herself with her people , their works , their glory , and their happiness ; and the people , knowing it , identify her and her power with their own life . She lesson might be read usefully in some other lands . The news from India exhibits the rebel forces unsubdued but falling back before the British . Our fiercest enemy at present is the hot weather , which is "fcruly terrific ; but our men appear to bear up even against the unconquerable sunbeams in an
almost surprising manner . It appears that , with the exception , of Calpee—which must have fallen long ere this—our commanders have to contend against no great bodies of the enemy . The war has been reduced to a war of posts , as a writer in the Globe well sajsa and fatigue and the sun are what we have most to dread encountering . "With the exception of Brigadier Wa ^ i-oxe ' s unfortunate attack upon the fort of Khodanaow , all the latest movements reported have been successful , and with Oude settling down into peace , and Rohilcund well in land , all appears to rest with time .
"While the Americaa Senate has placed at the disposal of the President extraordinary means for defending the American marine against further , outrages from British cruisers , and , if need be , of making reprisals , which would be tantamount to making war , the tone Of the Press and of the Senate itself is somewhat softened . Nothing new , iu fact , has occurred to increase the difficulty , which , stands in a fair way of being amicably adjusted . America , too , has domestic troubles on hand . New-Orleans has been in a state of revolt , not against constituted authority so much as in defence of social
order . Ifor years the Crescent City has been the theatre of outrages of the most tremendous kindj robbery and assassination being common , incidents of its daily experience . These crimes the authorities of the city left wholly unchecked , and the evil hecame so monstrous , that after the fashion set them by the citizens of San Francisco , a number of the inhabitants formed themselves into a Vigilance Committee . The Mayor opposed the proceedings of these persons , and called out the militia against them , but was ultimately compelled to resign his authority into their liands . So the matter stood when the latest advices were despatched .
A great change has taken place in the administration of an important office in Prance ; General Espinasse has been removed from the IIomc-ofliu « and M . Djelangue put in his place . The change 38 most significant . General EsriNAssE was . feared and . hated by all , who valued the civil liberty of their country , which . lie has constantly shown himself ready to trample on . The appointment of M . Djblangle is -acoeptod as the promise of a milder rule , and liope runs high in Paris . Even the Pre ss takes heart of grace and whispers , " A new phase opens itself for the administration and politics of the country , to which M . Dblawgi . e is destined to tender great services , "
Oar home news is painfully tinctured with scandal . The Belgravian " disclosures" take the lead , and , it is satisfactory 'to -know , meet with pretty general reprobation . Tho ccmrao taken by the Hon . Mr . Bailing in making a public appeal against the curate of 8 t . Barnabas for alleged scandalous proceedings iu ( connexion with the administration of auricular confession , at-the -very time whon tho case was before ithe highest ecclesiastical authority for final
adjudication , is considered to have been unwise an " unjust "in iflie extreme , and has done the high Protestant parbjc , of which Lord Siiaftesbury is one of . the leaders , no small amount of injury . In our-law-courts we hav . e a petition fora divorce s-uecUcnribe ^ strength of « , diary writteniby . a . la < ly Ytndanthe influence of ; a distempered imagination , and which many eminent ^ p hysicians declare . renders her ilidhle $ o tconfcmnd . ifact and fancy . AhoLlier
easepveseaite'a mau-wko . hastlie misfortiuxetto have succeeded to a large fortune , beset by aii anoaiynibiis letter-writer , who has set her wits to do him tall the injury possible by such means . A lady of title , a near relative , whose daughter would have Inherited the fortune but for his succession to it , is fche person whom he accuses . It is a very pretty example of the " curse of wcalih , " about which Qutat-relbow moralists say : sueh good and , as we occasionally ' discover , such rtrucitliirigs .
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Tiik Kensixgton-Gotie Estate . — -Some correspondence has taken place between the Royal Exhibition Commissioners and the Lords , of the Treasury in reference to the Kensington-gore estate . The commissioners oh the 1 st of May informed their Lordships that the pos-ition occ u pied b y them in . relation to the Government lias te n d e d s e rioasl y to interfere with the prosecution of-their p la n s for t h e ad v a n ce m ent of sci en ce and ar t , as ori ginally set for t h ,, and ' they ' expressed their readiness to repay to
Government the whole of the sums advanced by Parliament towards the purchase of the Kensington-gore estate , amounti ng to 17 7 , 500 ? ., the whole of the estate to he made , in ret u r n , the absolute property of the commissioners . To this proposal , the Treasury , on the 11 th of Slay , acceded ; s o t ha t . the conne x ion be t wee n the Royal Commissioners and the Government will be forthwith dissolved . A bill has , been brought in to give effect to this arrangement .
The Admission of Jews to Parliament , — - ^ Lord Derby lias , it is said , issued a circular announcing ; that , while his abstract opinions on the Jew question have u n dergo n e n o chan g e , he will not offer any fur t her obstacles to the admission of Hebrews to Parliament . The Church of San Z accaria , Venice . — - The or g an , £ a s tr a i ns m o r e brisk and je r kin g than I e ver met with from that instrument , except indeed in similar places , lite some ilorid drawing-room p ia n o , began to play airsrunning off into roulades and flourishes , Which had certainly uiucli more of the gay and g i dd y dance than of the anthem or voluntary in them . Any beings whomsoever , would , I feel convinced , in moving to that
highly ornamented melody , find it very difficult to abstain long from those motions -which are propor and peculiar to the polka . Indeed ^ the strain drove our own weak thoughts into so flig h ty a danc e that w e c o uld not , for the life a n d g ra v i t y of us , help thi n ki n g of i t as Santa Rosalia ' s , or Santa Lucia ' s , or S ant ' Ogata ' s Polka . Nevertheless , in common candour it sho-uld be admitted that the harmonies at San Zaccnria wore not al w a y s of this skittish , jerking , and o p eratic ki n d , for on the last occasion a pure and delicately streaming hymn to the Virg in su ddenl y rose in our ears , sung by a number of tender infantine voices ; and , on turning to discover from whom these sounds proceeded , we saw a
procession of very little girls demurely ushered , round and round the church , and offering up these deputed strains to their imaginary hea v enl y " mamma . " Their hymn , i n s m all fi n e n o tes , penetrated even into an inner and very sacred chamber of the heart , and woke tho sluggish sleepers there , and stirred them into some sweet movements , witli a sacred , a divine , indeed a mig hty power . Bellini's holiest Tnfant ( I clearly saw 1 Qlooked down on them with a yet gentler and more bonign air as they passed beneath him . San Zaocaria should then have lifted up his too absorbing book ; for the sight was a living moving text , preaching with celestial persuasiveness tho beauty of tender innocence and uneatranged humanity . I marvel he did not . —Aft Journal .
Tuk Kkprkseni'Ation op East Norfolk . —Sir Henry Stracey , of Rackheath Hall , near Norwich , has issued an mldross to the electors of East Norfolk , tho seat'being vacant by tho death of Sir Edward Jiuxton . Tho division was represented by Sir Henry Stracoy ( who is a supporter of Lord Derby ) from July , 1855 , to M arch , 1857 ; but , in the general election in tho latter month , he lost his seat . Tho lion Wonmaii Coko , brother to the Earl of Leicester , will be tho Liberal candidate .
The West Indies . —Tho last advices from tho West Indies present vory few facts of intorost . Tho islands are generally 'healthy ; trade has recently shown greater activity than it has exhibited for some time past ; and tho crops promise well . —Tlio Domomra papers report the arrival on tho morning of Sunday , the 9 th of " May , per mail atoamor Prince , of Governor and Mrs . Wodchouso . Tho reception was a vory cordial one . It was understood that tho Governor ' s mission to Vonczniola had f u ilcd of i t s obje c t , in consequence of tho present unsettled state of the country .
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . Monday , June litk . In the House of Lords , the Royal assent was river , by commission « to several bills , chiefly private . THE WAHKRUrT AND INSOLVENT LAWS The Lord Chancellor presented a petition fmm twenty ba nk ers ' firms and 3000 of the principal mer chants of London , . praying for an amendment of the bankrupt anftansolvent laws , and for assimilating the ; proceedir » gs'in bankruptcy . and insolvency . He trusted that in the course of a few . days he should be able to present to their Lordships a bill that would embody in its p r o v isions al l the amend m ents that th e com m ercial < woild in general require .
THE ASSISTANT BARRISTER FOR KERUY . The ^ Marquis of Clanricarde said he had a ' petition to present from Mr . Macdermott , assistant barrister for the coun ty of Kerry , . in . reference to the charges brought against . him-by the Earl of Donoughmoxe . T 2 ie petitioner stated tha t he h a d no t had s u ffici ent n otice to prepare himself for examination before their Lordships , and prayed that their Lordships would postpone the period indicated for his appearance before them .
THE JEW QUESTION . The Earl of 'Clancauty having given notice that upon the second reading of the Oaths Substitution Bill and the Jew Bill he should move as an amendment that the bills be read a second time tliat day six months , the Earl of Maimksbury mentioned that Loid Derby was detained fro m t he H o u se b y i n dis p osition , w hich m i ght possibl y last some days , tie hoped , therefo r e , that the further progress of the bills , which stood on the paper for Friday , might be postponed .- —The Earl of Lucan consented to the postponement , as fa r a s his m e a sure was concerned . —¦ After some further conversation , the subject dropped .
THE PROBATE AND DIVORCE ACTS . The Probate anx > Letters of Administration Act Amendment Bill , and the Divorce and Matiumonial Causes Act Amendment Bill , were respectively re-committed , and passed through committee . — D urin g a discussio n before the xe-tcommittal of the Divorce Bill , the Lord Chancellor announced that at present he could not recommend the Government to int roduce a m eas u re fo r I reland ; whereupon Lord Crah-\ vorth suggested that parties in Ireland , seeking for a divorce should come to the court established for England , and n ot to the . H ouse of L ords ; but this Lord Campbell objected t o , and submitted that a separate measure should be introduced for Ireland . MILITIA STAFFS . In answer to questions put by . the Duke of Buccleugh , ia reference to calling out and training the Militia and the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the organization of the Militia Staff , Lord J-Jardinge stated that a Commission would be appointed to inquire into the subject . The instructions to the Commission had not yet been published ; but the points involved in the Duke of Buccleugh ? s questions w ould be fu l l y investigated by the Commission . A portion of the Militia would be called out for training during next autumn . —Earl Grey wislied to Unow if the Government intended to inake the Militia an instrument for recruiting the regular armv , or whether (
haydesi gn ed it simp ly as a reserve force . — 'The Marquis ot Clanricaude hoped the a tt e nt i o n of t he " War Minister w ou l d be direc t ed t o t he s tat e of t he la w w i t h respect t o t he I rish M ilitia , which is in n hig hl y u nsatisfac t or y state . —The Duke of Cambbidge said he understood that tho inquiry by the Commission would be very full and ample . He could not concur in the idea that they were not to get any recruits or volunteers for tho Line from the Militia . The Militia force could be made moat valuable to some extent for both the purposes rcforrcil to by Earl Grey . The Militia might be kept in a comp le t e state for the defence of the country , and render valuable assistance in recruiting the ranks of the regular army . It was very doubtful whether the country would not
grudgo tho sum necessary fo r b u ilding barracks for tho Militin besides , it would take a very long time belbro tho barracks could bo erected . They still continued to receive daily large additions to the army , and tho greatest good feeling in coming forward waa cv ' m cc u l in all parts of the country . —Lord Lyttxkton protested against that view of tho Militia which regards tho force simply as a moans of yeoruiting the rogular army , ' i ho Militia ought to ha considered as a reserve force ior home service . " With regard to the statement that men are not got for tho army fast enough , the reason is to bo fou n d in t ho fac t t hat t he y a r c n ot p aid e n ou gh , >» ro not
mado comfortable enough , and havo no aulUciout prospect of a provision for their old age . Our system stands si-lf-condcmned by tho cxistenco of a bounty as a nccesflury ndjunct to rccrniting . Why should there be any nocosbity for a bounty ? TUero ought to bo aulHciont military spirit in tho country to bring men into thuiirniy , if their position thoio were inado -what it ought to bo . Tho proper system would be that tho bounty , wl »<'» 1 S now wnatod , should bo given to the soldier at the end <" his time of service instead of at tho beginning . It wftH worth consideration whethoy there might not bo a reserve established , consisting of men who had pnfl sCrt
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1858, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19061858/page/2/
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