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E^Firial Parliament. —?—Monday, July 14t...
Chanobu ^ dr . «*• hhb ^ xohwjuer said that there is tdwayB ^ JargB iimnber of app lications-addressed to members of fthe Government when vacancies occur in the cwil service , and that it -is not ouscessary to adopt-any steps to give farther information on the subject .
CAPITAL . SMmiSHMEOTS .. Mr aEwaBffiinqaired . of the Secretary of State for the Colonies , whfither , < meamires would be adopted for further mitigating the Jawsdmposing capital punishment jntfae colonies , * n conformity with the laws imposing She same punishment in -Great Britain ?—Mr . ! Labouchkre said the lawdn ^ he colonies d oes not materially diflfer from that established in the United Kingdom , except in three df 'onr settlements . With respect to Ceylon and the West . India Islands , it might be advisable to make some change . ; but , considering-that the West . Australian colonies have their-own local legislatures , they of . course must be the best judges of the-extent-to which capital punishments ought * to be carried out , and he should decline to interfere with them .
PUBLIC BUSINESS . In answer to Mr . Hadfield , Lord Paimekston stated that at that late period of the session-it was . not thought by the Government desirable to press the House to come to a decision upon the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill ; but it was their intention to introduce a bill upon the subject next session , excluding the < clause contained in the : present bill respecting the intermarriage of participes cnminis .
CORRUPT -PRACTICES PREVENTION BILL-: On the question that this be considered in committee , Mr . Henry Seskeley moved , as an amendment , that the committee be deferred for three months . The bill which was sought to be continued had served no good purpose . Instead of being a measure of reform , it was conservative of corruption . In practice -it had been found . to be inoperative for any good purpose . Bribery , treating , intimidation , and the " screw" were as rampant asev « r . Such a measure was worse than a
pretenceit was a " false" pretence—^ and ought to be rejected . —Mr . Graufurd seconded the motion . — Mr . Williams thought the former bill had been only partially successful : Mr . Ingram , on the contrary , looked on it as a great improvement on the former system . —Mr . Tite enumerated objections to the details of the present measure . ; and Sir George Gre > t having intimated that next session 'the Government would institute an inquiry into the operation of the former bill , Mr . Berkeley -withdrew his-amendment , and the bill passed through comr inittee .
{ VICE-PRESIDENT OF COMMITTEE ; OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION BILL . On the order for the second reading of this bill , Sir George 'Grey remarked that the measure had been adopted in consequence of the strong opinion which had been expressed in { Parliament in favour of appointing a Minister of Education . —Mr . Hadfield urged objections , maintaining that the . proposed Minister would confer no advantage on the cause of education . He moved .-- * hat ' the bill be read a second time that ( lay three months . — The bill was supported by Mr . Ingham , and , the amendment having been negatived without a division , it was IGad a second time .
JUDGMENTS EXECUTION , & C , BILL . On the order for : going-into ; committee on this bill , Mr . WHrCBSioE'OhjeotedtopTOceedingfuTtberatthatlate hoar , and' moved-to JioferithBJitominittee for three > months . The motion was defeated by SI to 39 . —Mr . WurrasiDKLthen again tnrged that -the-debate be adjourned ; and ' . ultimately'the'bill > was withdrawn . JEho Lords amendments to ^ the Rbforjiatobtt and iMJuaKRiAL ^ aHOOLs Binx , were rejectexl by 4 f > to ft 1 , in tfeennidst of rmweti sheering . flChe House , by 40 votes to 31 , Teruied to go iuto committee on th » Joint "Stock -Gomkanibs Windinchup Bill . tSonse otbrertbuls passed through committee , ' and the House adjourned at twenty minutes to three o'clock .
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AMERICA . Congress continues to . bo occupied with the Kansas Question . Mr . Douglas has reported on the bill for the admission of that state ' into the Union . It provides for calling a . constitutional election , * to bo held on the first Tuesday in'November ; five commiesioners to be appointed to . make . the registration of the white malo inhabitants residing in the territory . It is understood that the Senate . will not adjourn till the bill is passed . In tho XQouso of-Representatives , 'the bill to admit Kansas . as a free state under tho Topeka Constitution
has been , laid on the table by a . majority of . one . The skirmishing la Kansas still continues . Tho congressional investigation committees 'have closed their work . Itiisiunll'Ufttawl'fhttttheirepott-will be made « t'once . ^ A »» tot « eeurr * l ^« t ^! Biiniore demomitration ttt Was hington on * the * ««« inng ' * f nh 6 > 80 th tilt . Tho mob was T < wjr * Vi * letlt , bot wtm »« t tfength dispersed , and one or toro unresto wore maAe . Wr . tiTilnroro has ' toen nrakfeg pMOlMa « s a candidate Hm the ^ Presidency . At the American State Convention , bnHO . ' tMBprtafrfleld on 'the 1 st lnst ., in the case of . tho Worcester delegates , the m * lority . luu »< reported im favour of the < irjamojat . Uat . . Mr .
Cook , of'Boston , -for the . minority of the committee , made . a report in regard "to the Worcester delegates , to the . effect . that thqy differ from the conclusions arrived at by the i majority . The trial . of Brooks is indefinitely postponed , owing to the continued illness of Mr . Sumner .
* The last advioes from Buenos Ayres bring copies of the message of the'Governor of . the State to the . Legislative Assembly on the subject of the . recent negotiations for . the arrangementof the foreign debt . The message announces that-the Government of JBuenos Ayres , seeing the . necessity for satisfying the urgent demands of 'the English bondholders , has adopted a basis of adjustment suggested by the representative of the . London committee , which they , the Buenos Ayrean Government , admitted to be perfectly equitable . It has been framed , however , in accordance with the maximum resources of the country ,, and has not been accepted , except-under protest , by the bondholders' commissioner , who insisted upon other concessions , to which the Government could not accede .
I ? rom Venezuela , accounts have been received of an outbreak against Monagas , which , is alleged to have gone thus far entirely in favour of the insurgents , who are reported , however , to have seized two British schooners and to have killed two lEnglishmen . A statement has been published by the New York underwriters of the losses of American shipping during the half-year just ended . Those losses amount to nearly 3 , 200 , 000 / . — -a total said to be without parallel .
Walker , it is reported , has sent an agent to treat with San Salvador , but he vras immediately sent back without effecting anything . It is said that Walker ' s headquarters are not really known . There is no communication between San Juan and Gosta Rica . A . number of Walker ' s men have arrived at Aspinwall in a miserable condition . The British ship Eurydice is still in port . at San Juan . The Gosta Rican army lias been disbanded , and cholera is sweeping over the states . The city of Sacramento has repudiated part of its debt .
Several of the merchants and other citizens of New York have sent an address to Mr . Barclay , on the termination of his official functions , expressive of their cordial esteem and confidence . The majority report of the Kansas Investigating Committee ( says the Times New York Correspondent ) has been published . The majority of the committee say that in the earliest stage of these proceedings , before the KansasbillpassedCongress , the lodges of asecret society were formed throughout the western part'of the -State of Missouri for the purpose of making Kansas a Slave State by force , if necessary . JTheytthen give the account of the invasions of the territory in detail at each successive election—how the Missourians crossed into the territory
in armed bands hundreds strong the day or the day'before each election—how they took possession of ithe ^ polls , marching their men off in companies to the different points aB it was ; supposed they would be wanted , iu order io get- complete control of every precinct—how they drove away the election judges appointed by the Governor and not friendly to their cause ,. pointing loaded rifles at their breasts , and giving . them a few moments to decide between death and the abandonment of duty —> how they pursued them with balls as they retreated—and how , with a . violence , profanity , and brutality , given . 'in coarse detail by the report , they took possession of the government of the territory and planted the . Missouri laws there . The other aide will probably impugn these statements .
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¦ CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The funeral of "M . ' Foxtoul , the lato Minister of Public ilnstruction and Ecclesiastical Affairs , was celebrated laat'Saturday with great pomp 1 n the church of St . Thomas d'Aquin . " All the Ministers , " says tho Times correspondent , " a deputation 6 f fifty senators , all tho deputies present in Paris , the high dignitaries of the Church , and the entire corps of the University , attended it . A gun was fired every hour at the Invalides from isovon o ' clock until noon , when tho procession left tho hotel of the Ministry . A salute of fifteen guns was then fired , and-another of fifteen guns at two o ' clock , to announco tho conclusion of tho cercmonyl "
AUSTRIA . Tho Empress of Austria was eaCely delivered of a female child last Saturday morning . In connexion with tUia ovent , an extensive amnesty > has been granted to persons condemned-for political offences . Tho confiscated property of . many of the condemned 'Hungarians and Transylvaniansia < restored . kanovbr . ' The Hanoverian Ministry has experienced a great check in the Second Chamber , which 'has rejected the modifications of tho ¦ Constitution of ij 849 , proposed 'by ' Government .
RUSSIA . Tho Grand sDuko Miahael has been ¦ betrothed <« it « Wildbod . to Princoss Cecily , . -youngest « uter of the , Prince ¦ Regent of Baden . Lord . Wodehouao / was received on tho 4 th inst . by the ( Emperor . Alexander , > in , tho Puiaco » f TsarakoorfcJelo , at ia private audience . Before returning to . St . / Petersburg ,
his lordship was . driven in . one of rthe state carriages through the grounds which surround the palaee . ITALY . The suggestion for separating the spiritual from the temporal power of the Pope gains ground , especiall y in Italy , and -men continue to talk and write about the transference of the ohair of St . Peter from Rome to Jerusalem . The question is one of such singular interest , and , if settled in accordance with the wish-recentl y expressed , -might have so important an effect upon the state of Italy , and the complications arising from foreign occupation , that we are induced to make some further quotations from the pamphlet of the Abbe * Michon . He remarks that the idea of removing the Popedbmto Jerusalem has " so advanced at Rome , that last year the question df the separation of the temporal power was
formally mooted in full consistory by one ol the most eminent men of the Roman Church , Cardinal Marini , who in a remarkable address , to which . no contradiction was given , declared that the temporal power attached to the spiritual-sovereignty of the Pope > waa the great obstacle to the welfare of the Church . The Cardinal examined the question from every point . of view . He dwelt particularly on the fact that Rome , being the first Power of the world in its spiritual character , had become by its connexion -with temporal authority a j > oltry state of the ^ fourth or fifth rank ; that consequently this power only diminished its spiritual . and moral greatness , and that the spiritual power did not iu any degree exalt the petty sovereignty of which it supported the burden .
Indeed , the Sovereign Pontiff is himself so much imbued with these ideas , that in the month of December , 1854 , during the Convocation of the Bishops for the proclamation of the Immaculate Conception , and in a secret meeting at the Vatican , at which only the French Bishops were present , he expressed a wish to know from them if , in the event of being forced by political causes to quit his States , he could count on a friendly reception iu France . It is hardly necessary to say what the answer was . " France , where so many sincere Catholics are still found , would be too happy to realize the engagement accepted in her name by our venerable Bishops . " Further on , the Abbe states : — "In the course of the year
1855 , while the war in the East was in all its force , and when a complication of affairs might be dreaded in Europe , this solution was proposed to the Pontifical Government . Complete liberty of action was guaranteed to the Sovereign Pontiff at Jerusalem ; the means of maintaining in an honourable manner his high dignity were secured to him ; while a railroad from Jerusalem to Jaffa would render the communication of the Papacy with Europe as rapid as from Rome itself . " Several high authorities in the Catholic Church are quoted , to show that the Pope is at perfect liberty to transfer the seat of his spiritual government wheresoever he pleases . It is remarkable that none of the Ultramontane papers have noticed the AbbtS ' s pamphlet .
According to the Frankfort Post Zeitu / u / , the Pope has ordered the reforms suggested by the Austrian-Government to be carried out . This intelligence , however , is at war with that received from other sources . " I have seen , " says the Times Turin « oTrespondeut , " a letter from Rome of tho 5 th , which describes tho parting of the'Pope and the King of Naples on the beach at Porto d'Anzio , a few evenings before , as something quite melodramatic . The King , on taking leave , prostrated himself on the shingle his whole length , and fervently embraced his Holiness's feet , sheddingtears the while , and humbly asking his blessing . This having been accorded , his Majesty took ship for his own dominions , where he knows well how to treat Churchmen after a very different style . "
Tho Piedmontese Minister of War having-addressed a report to the King , calling attention to tho " completely defenceless" state of tho eastern frontiers—a danger which had " particularly increased since Austria , in violation of the treaty of Vienna , 'has converted Pia-. cenzainto an immense fortress "—the'lving > has issued a decree , which runsthus : —" Tho extraordinary outlay , in 185 G , of 1 , 000 , 000 livres for tho work * of fortification to be erected round the city of Alessandria is hereby authorized . Tho conversion of tho present decree into a law shall be proposed to Parliament at tho owning of the next session . Tho Ministers of Finance and War arc charged with the execution of the present decree . "
The first regiment of Grenadier Guarda in Naples has Lately . mutinied against its colonel . Tho troops being one day'engaged in gymnastic 1 oxarciaea , two of them , one of whom was of gontlo birth , requested of the master permission ito'repose , which was immediately . granted . ( When the colonel of the regiment heard this , ihe ordered each of tho two men torecoivo fifty lashed , which , in spite of all Temonstrances , woro inflicted on the offenders without tho presence of a ' eirrgeon .
Al-; though one of tho soldiers ftuntedi under this treatment , tho colonel still orderoditho Hogging to ' continue , even il tho nuui should die underit . The corporal who flogged 'tho man ihatl ten tlaaheu himself for notusing -aufnci <; nt 'Strength in inflicting tho blows . On the ovening of tho day , General Cornd . went to the barracks' to inquire into tho jcaso , and whilst conferring with tho colonel tho isoLdiers mutinied and drove out the latter with ciIoh of "JJtown with tho savage ! " Prince Franoesoa do Paola , inspector of -tho guard , afterwards ordered tho whol °
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Leader (1850-1860), July 19, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19071856/page/6/
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