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THE LEADEE. [No. 330, Saturday ^
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E^fiRIAL PARLIAMENT. —?—Monday, July 14t...
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consideration during the recess ; though exper ience tells us that next year a new measure is most likely to be brought forward . The idea ol the project is , to make the Yice-President a member of the House of Commons , and a really responsible Minister of Edweatiqa * , concentia *** in his own person the Ari & B -p # powrtftor 1 M office . So for good : the subjfcr t vill cease , to *• everybody ' s business . . „ ^ More measures , however , ham been sacrifiaaj * among those which h ** e bewMg » g ingPailmJIiiHi during the session . One of ** em is Mr . DStfu s Partnership Amendment Bill , with , a consolatory statement , however , from Mr . Lowe , on high legal authority , that there is at present no law- to > prevent a capitalist from lending money to a private trader , and to take his remuneration . proportion to profits , without incurring the liabilities of partner .
The Matrimonial Causes and Divorce Bill , described by Lord Palmerston as " a subject of great magnitude and importance , " is not to go forward- this session . It will be reintroduced nest session , but without the clause in the present bill which prohibits divorced persons from marrying their paramours , ' * a clause which he considers immoral and cruel . " One of the grand reforms that were specially anticipated at the hands of the present Government has been passed by . There was a strong expectation that when the office of
Commanderia-Chief should fall vacant , by the resignation of Lord Habmwge , the office would be placed in commission , to . be executed by a Board like the Board of Admiralty . This is a custom that is growing ; somebody said years ago that " England , is governed , by commissions . " In the present case it would also have got over the difficulty which exists from the divided authority of the War Department and the Horse Guards . If the office of' Commander-in-Chief were placed in commission , it would have a Parliamentary head , possibly . Lord Fasmcbe himself , and the office
-would have been brought within the control of Parliament . It . is quite unnecessary to point out the natural repugnance of any royal mind to such an idea ,, and ' military men generally resent the notion . On the other hand , some of the ablest men of the official : class consider the arrangement to be recommended on many grounds besides those of getting over the difficulty of the conflicting au < - thority . The Duke of Somerset is a very good representative of this class . Perhaps it is none the ¦ worse for a country that the post remains in royal and : military hands , since at the present day the bureauratic class is more to be feared than the
aristocracy or the Crown . The Duke of Cambbidce is made Commander-in-Chief , partly because he lias long been ambitious of the post , and has some : what laudably worked his way to it by professional exertions ; partly because the Court is said to favour . his pretensions ; and partly because ; for the present , he is understood to be much of a mind ¦ with the new school in military matters , and quite against the old school hitherto dominant at the Horse Guards . But young Dukes grow old , the new school of to-day becomes the old school of tomorrow ; a ** d ani opportunity of reconciling the office to the gradual progress of our institutions las been allowed to slip ..
THe aristocracy of agriculture ia one of the most progressive institutions of our day . The . Agricultural / Society has been holding its meeting at Chelmsfbrd , in the centre of one of the purest agricultural districts ; and the meeting has been unusually successful , —the show generally satisfactory ; and the feast was graced by many distinguished foreign guests—missionaries for spreading agricultural reform in other countries . There is little to demand notice abroad , except the revolution in Spain . The true nature of this has yet to be explained . The man who could beBt tell it , Erpaotbbo , has for
the moment disappeared . Some say that he has resigned ; ethers , that ho has been dismissed ; a third-story i 8 j that he was told to leave the country in twenty-four hours ; a fourth notion is , that lie will turn up somewhere amongst a newly-colleotedpatriotic force . In a few houro , perhaps even b £ f ° ' e we go to prem , better information may clear iM tno mystery The facts already known , liowdver , enable ' uB 4 tf gueAl . O'liotoix , one of the moafc corrupt men iw Spahi ^ - ^ ho ^ 80 nt to G ? bft to moke Iub fortune by conniving at the ™ 8 *!? . ~^ ? came baok * ° ° < W )? tete his pros-5 S 5 ^ vte . ^ 6 befcwoon tl » e dL & wmt factions iuq * rulmg with the sword—endeavoured to ent
up a Gowejpment upomt & e basis of the Army , and failed . Hejaeceiived Esfakteko as a colleague ; EspABTERO > Being in fact the only man whom the country tr . « B * ed . He has kept the Spanish Whi g long enougftin the partnership to feel himself settled in business ,, and then fijifngthe fooliate . Queen ' s ear - * fth sftaries agaMtu OTDWnelg kiett * out Esp ^ WEKOtanid rules ajBnea * . The insurcectfim in MadMtt has >) A | en , it ist «* 4 , st ^ pressed , buttortbher insuiViptionai lave brofliltt oijfcin Saragosp * and , the rfWto » awportant jjjwinriyqf Catalonuifc ; There * j £ but one mriht off interest in tnfe
American news . Kansas has been admitted as a free state , which not only settles the balance of . the Free States without any probability of reversing the balance , but will most likely show the Slave party the futility of continuing , the contest . The trial of Dovjs was a point of extreme interest as one of the poisoning cases , the evidence in which threw some lig ht on Palmer ' s act , and it was supposed that the trial would throw light upon the practice of poisoning generally . It was soon manifest , however , that Dove was either constitutionally insane , or had become so by habits
of intoxication . In the criminal record of the week , the most interesting case is that of the Crown against Benson , at Cowley , in Oxfordshire . Mr . Benson is a clergyman who objects to the secular marriage of British subjects at the office of the Registrar , and tells people so married they are not married ; and he induced a particular couple , three years after they were duly made man and wife at the Registrar ' s office , to be married again . He was prosecuted for the felonious offence of celebrating a marriage without banns or license . Baron ' AtDEBSON , however , showed that there was no case ; Mr . Benson had performed no marriage , having married those who were already man and wife ; a decision which informs the clergy that they are free to remarry those who are already married by schismatic or secular officers .
The Medical Authorities op Westminster . —An inquest has been held on the body of a little girl who was run over on the day of the entry of the Guards , and who died , from the effects of her injuries , in Westminster Hospital . From the evidence , it would seem that the medical authorities at the hospital neglected the child ; and the jury , in returning a verdict of Accidental Death , advised that an inquiry be made by the governors of the institution . This -will be done . Royal Medical Benevolent College . —The sum of 100 ? . has just been forwarded to the treasurer of this institution by Mr . Otto Goldschmidt , who at the same time expresses his regret that Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt was not able to sing for the benefit of the college .
___ _ The Temple Gardens . —The letter of Mr . Broome , the gardener of the Inner Temple , with respect to the abatement of the smoke nuisance in that locality—portions of -which communication we quoted two weeks ago has been followed up by another correspondent of the Times , -who complains of the gas-works at the back of King ' s Bench Walk , the refuse water of -which is allowed to flow into the river , and , being , at certain states of the tide driven back into the sewers , poisons the whole air of the neighbourhood by noxious vapours , -which injure the trees and flowers , and even penetrate into the houses .
The Capk Frontier . —Tho latest accounts from the Kaffir frontier of our Cape colonies are reassuring . Up to the 1 st of May , nothing had occurred to cause alarm . Colliery Explosion . —An explosion of fire-damp on Tuesday in Cymmer Colliery , Rhondda Valley , Glamorganshire , has been attended with fatal consequences of a most frightful magnitude . One hundred and ten men and boys have perished I At the usual hour in tho morning , tho men wont down into the pit , and shortly afterwards a fearful explosion of fire-damp took place .
It is stated tliat a lire at ono end of tho pit was known to be burning , and it is suspected there must have been a fire in some other part also , the two causing the explosion . The appearance of the ; bodies , when viewed by tho coroner ' s jury , was appalling . They Avere mostly scorched to a cinder , but there was ovidenco of some having : straggled with their fato , whilo others would seem to- have resigned themselves to despair : Out of those who -went down into tho pit in tho morning , only ¦ ix returned alive .
Explosion at a Fiitmvonic Factory . —An explosion took place on Thursday on tho promises of a flroworkmaker near tho Bothnal Green-road . Tho building -was almost entirely destroyod , and a boy who was working at the place expired shortly afterwards in tlio London Hospital from the effects of tho burns ho had received . Colonel Laiug . —A sword— -tho oxact counterpart of that presented to General Williams—has boon given to Colonel Lake at a public breakfast at tho hero ' s native town , Ramsgato . Tirm Bishop op Exirrim has issued a protest against the Bishops' Resignation Bill .
The Leadee. [No. 330, Saturday ^
THE LEADEE . [ No . 330 , Saturday ^
E^Firial Parliament. —?—Monday, July 14t...
E ^ fiRIAL PARLIAMENT . —?—Monday , July 14 t 7 i . SHIPS OF WAR . In thre HfeOBB . OF Lords , the Earl of Hardwicke , after presentingrturee petitions from Manchester against the relassattowrwath respect to neutral commerce which were mjade at * H » Paris Conferences , -withdrew the notice he hAdjijMaafliazb Hie paper regarding the construction of jd ^ pof wa «* in * the royal dockyards . He understood ttlat we are fMling into tie same blunder as that we committed in the ^ course of thKlas # war with Americathat is to say ; omitting to construct ships of such a character as might be able to-withstand the kind of vessels that would be brought against us by the United State 3 in case of hostilities . Thinking , however , he had done sufficient in calling the attention of Government to the subject , he should not pursue it any further . The Royal assent was given by commission to several bills ; the Registration of Voters ( Scotland ) Bill was read a third time , and passed ; and the House went into committee on THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS ( SCOTLAND ) BILL . The Duke of Buccleuck moved the omission of Clause 12 , which provides that no parish schoolmaster shall be required to subscribe any confession of faith or test as a condition of exercising his office . The clauso was supported by the Duke of Argyll and Lord Panmttre , and opposed by the Earl of Haddington . On a division , the motion of the Duke of Buccleuch was carried by 50 against 20 , and the clause was accordingly struck out . ITALY . Pursuant to notice , Lord Lyndhurst made some remarks on the state of Italy . Adverting to the diflScul ty he experienced in obtaining any information from Lord Clarendon on the subject of our foreign relations until it has ceased to be of importance , he questioned the propriety of exciting the hopes of Italy at the Conferences unless we were prepared to follow up our words by efficient action . The treaty of Vienna had strictly defined the limits of Austrian power in the Italian peninsula ; but the limits there fixed had been frequently transgressed . Of all military tyrannies , that of Austria is the most galling and the most odious . The power of that empire has spread as far as Ancona , and its troops are now in occupation of Parma . He would not inquire whether the original entry of the Au 6 trians into the Legations was legal , or was justified by circumstances . Tho fact to which he wished to draw attention was this —that the military occupation of parts of Italy beyond the Austrian frontiers had continued for the last seven years , during the whole of which time the territories had been in a state of siege and under the operation of martial law . When is such a state of things to cease ? The Austrian Government alleges that it is ready to withdraw its troops as soon as the danger of insurrection shall have passed ; but the presence of a military force has a perpetual tendency to provoke dissatisfaction , and perhaps insurrection . A man must be very credulous to suppose that Austria would voluntarily quit possession of Italy from a . sense of justice ; but she might possibly yield to tho joint pressure of France and England . He did not mean pressure by force of arms , but the moral effect which vrould be produced by united remonstrance . Ho might bo permitted to say that , some time ago , he was sanguine as to the effects of the concurrence of France and England ; but certain events had since occurred , ami certain symptoms had appeared , of such a nature nml character as to lead him to entertain very serious doubts as to whether these hopes would be realized . Not that there was any coolness between tho two countries , or any want of energy on tho part of England ; but there were circumstances in tho situation of France which led him to doubt whether she was disposed cordially to cooperate on this subject . It was impossible not to refer to tho kingdom of Naples . Ho could only say in general terms that nothing could exceed tho infamy of that Government . Ho would not attempt to describo its conduct and policy , because any terms he could mako uso of would fail to impress their minda with the reality of the evils under which tho victims of that Government now groan : he would only refer to tho publication of Mr . Gladstone on that subject , for matters had not changed since then , as tho present political trials would show , those trials being marked by « disregard- of every principle of justice and tho violation of every right , and being founded on no law , not oven tho law of arbitrary power , inasmuch as tlio constitution to which' tho King had sworn , and in defiance of which tlieso trials are taking place , has novor been rescinded . A note had boon sent to tlio King of Naples . " I «> n told , " continued Lord Lyndhurst , " and my nobli ) friend will tell mo if I am right—that within the last two or threo days an answer has boon received . [ The Karl of Clauhni > on made a gesture of assent . ] I seonn nH . sent on the part of my noblo friend , and I thank him for it , because that will load mo to another question . QjLauy / itci : ") Is that answer satisfactory ? I am told that it i * « 'Xtromely tho reverse . I am told that it demos tho ritf ht of this country to interforo in tho affairs of Naplon , and that it not only donioa tho right , but positively mfuaes to glvo any explanation . I will ropoat tho question . I auk my noblo friend whether that is tho substance of tho
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Leader (1850-1860), July 19, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19071856/page/2/
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