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great reason to doubt whether this is a permanent step . The Bank of Prance has before reduced its rate of discount , but raised it again immediately . There has long been a belief that it was about to import a . million more of gold ; and should that be so , our Bank will have to 450 ^ j ? again . At ^ WEseat , the Bank of Trance and aUthewtfhorities mTrawee are endeavouring to paint everything as mineli * s possible coulenr de rose . But "while reports of a good harvest are resolutely sent over to spread in this country , we have reason to know that' those who are best informed give reports of the very opposite kind .
In Trance , the mockery of an election is the subject of the day . It begins to-morrow , Sunday , while the Emperor is enjoying himself in daily increasing seclusion at St . Cloud . ; reminding one of the Roman emperor who was great on the violin . Two useful results may be expected from the elections ; they will disturb the stagnation of opinion in JTrance , and , to some extent at least-, enlighten Europe as to the tenure and character . of the Imperial system . Besides the political matters in the United States , to which we have alluded in a separate paper , we have advices also wliich arc not very favourable to
the crops in the West . One question which ought to have considerable interest for Englishmen has been settled . By the judgment and firmness of the King , Belgium is quieted . His Ministers laid before him a report on the state of ( he Charitable Bequests Bill , and on the feeling of the public . . It will be remembered that the bill was calculated to give increased power over charitable bequests to conventual and other ecclesiastical authorities , that it was proposed by Ministers , and suppor ted by the majority of the
elected chambers , but . opposed by the representatives of the towns ; the dissidents bein ^ supported by actual tumult in Brussels and other of the principal cities . . Ministers advised the King , first , to Suspend the sittings of the Chamber , then to pro - rogue it . They declared that the only object of their measure was to supplement public charity by private charity , and they suggested that they could take up the till again under better auspices next year . The King replies that it is not desirable to
disturb the peace of a country by questions which create hostile feelings between different parts of the population . If he had found the bill , he said , truly calculated to introduce the innovations ascribed to it by the minority , he should have refused to give his assent . And under the circumstances of public excitement he advises liis Ministers , not simply to suspend their pursuit of the measure , but to abandon it . This act of the King appears at once to have restored tranquillity to Belgium .
In the law-courts some interesting cases have been brought forward this week ; and one of the most interesting is that of the Queen verms Ebx / vm . It is a tale of heartless profligacy , cuding in condign punishment . A ' gentleman' induced a young girl to lcavo her homo , to accompany him to the Continent , in tho prospect of being his wife . She was perhaps old beyond her years , for she was not yet fifteen , and she may hare been Toady in her credulity ; yet tho letters which are produced did not give tho idea of a girl who was led awny by anything but the grossest misrepresentation of a man whom tabo "had some reason to believe .
Arrived on the Continent , however , sho discovers that ho has a wife in England , und then this girl of fifteen dctcrannatcly separates herself , and with a small sum of money , wrung from the conscience of her scduoor , is loft to her fate . Tho gontlqinuii ' tJ gaieties , howovor , did not tcrminato without a moral , for himself . Porhaps ho thought that the daughter of a . Tow , not in tho highest life , might bo oafo gameP Ho has found out his mistake . Ho does not meet with tho picturesque fato of Don Giovanni but i » sent to prison for throe . months ,
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . — - •?—% -i Mon & xg , June 15 th . ilMMOKAI . BOOKS ANI > PRINTS . In the HotTSE of Lords , Lord Campbell laid on the table , awiwoved the first reading of , a bill to ^ check the safe « nA circulation of iuiuroral books and JaSnts . The billWss fratwsd upon the Jsrlnciple of the'measureshich had been passed for putting down bet ting-houses . Tho search of houses would fee allowed upon an affidavit that the taw was violated , aijd abominable publications might be seised wad . carried way , whereas at present , after convictftttt ' of an offender , the srale went on « iore mischievously than before . The bill was read a first time .
MCreSTERS' MOtSTEY . Viscount Dosgasson presented petitions from Belfast , Maryborough , and other places , against tho Ministers ' Money Bill . The Earl of Derby : " On the motion for the second reading of that bill , I shall move that it be read a second time that day six months . " The Earl of "WieKi-OW presented a petition from the Irish Ecclesiastical Commissioners denying that they have surplus funds at their disposal , as stated during the discussion in the Commons on the Ministers' Money Bill , and declaring that their funds were totally inadequate for the accomplishment of the objects for which , by act of Parliament , they were originally destined . The petitioners prayed to be heard by counsel at the bar n < rainst the bill before the second reading .
DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE . Lord Brougham moved that the petition of Mr . Henry Bertie Tollemache , for leave to bring in a bill to declare his marriage with Amelia Madeline Louisa Sinclair , otherwise Tollemache , otherwise Power , to have been dissolved and made void as from the 3 rd day of July , 1841 ( presented on Tuesday week ) , be referred to a select committee . —The motion was agreed to . The Princess Royal ' s Annuity Bill , was read a third time without discussion , and passed . BURIAL BOARD OF ST . THOMAS ( EXETER ) .
Earl Fo-rtescue presented a petition from this body , pTaying for' an alteration of the law respecting the closing of old burial-grounds and the consecration of new ones . The petitioners stated that the old burial-grounds in Exeter were closed in accordance with the Burial Act ; but the Bishop of Exeter had refused to consecrate the new cemetery , because that portion of it used by Dissenters , which was unconsecrated , was not separated by a wall from the portion set apart for the interment of members of the Church of England .
INDIA . The Marquis of Clanricarde moved for a copy of a minute , dated April , 1856 , of Mr . Halliday , Lieutonant-Governor of Bengal , upon the state and administration of criminal justice in that presidency ; also for copies of the correspondence between the East India Company ' s Directors and the Governor-General of India respecting the introduction to the Legislative Council of the bills for the improvement of the law in India now under consideration . The Marquis accompanied his motion by some remarks on the necessity that exists for legal reform in India . —The Duke of Argyll said lie would not refuse the papers , but denied the justice of Lord Clanricarde ' s remarks . —Lord Monteagle warned tho House that the system of procrastination they had always adopted with reference to tho affairs of India would lead to the -worst possible results . —The papers wore then ordered .
INDIA CRIMINAL CODE . The EarlofiALBEMARLE presented three petitions from the merchants , planters , and other inhabitants of Lower Bengal , against tho India Criminal Code recommended by the Legislative Council . Ho said he would not trouble so thin a house with any remarks on these petitions . ( There were only nine peers present at tho time . ) TRANSPORTATION AND PENAT , SERVITUDE BILL . The report of amendments to this bill was brought up and agreed to . Their Lordships adjourned at eight o ' clock . NEWSPAPER REGISTRATION . In tho House ov Commons , Mr . Ayrton gnvo notice that on tho 18 th of July he should movo for a return relating to the oase submitted to tho law oflfioor of tho Crown respecting tho registration of newspaper * .
SUPERANNUATION ACT . Lord Naas gave notice thnt , on tho 28 rd inst ., li « should move for leave to bring in n bill to repeal the 22 ud section of tho Superannuation Aot of 1854 .
SAVINGS BANKS . In reply to Mr . Collins , tho Chancellor of the Exchequer emid that ho had no objection , if tho House wished it , to appond to tho Savings Banks Bill the regulations prepared by him for tho future management of such institutions . Uo ahould etato , however , that those regulations wore prepared with a vlow to imiiUa not now in oxistouw ; anil , in order to mnko tho motisuro work , in practice , it would bo necessary to give to tho Government power to make altomtionfl in those ruloa which experience might provo to bo oxpodiont , or to adjust thorn to the circumstances of existing banks . 11 tho Houbo ehould bo willing to agroo to ft giouso oi tlwt
nature , he would introduce one into the bill w ~ Uwren * nd , if it met the views of member , 1 * suggest that the bill should go into co ^ miS' ™ ml * that ni gH at , d be reprinted ^ theTnTeadme ^ . THE OATHS BILL . The TOsase went into committee on this bill when Ar JDEAsvupon the first clause ,-which included , !? ? " ration «» at no foreign prince , person , p'S ? £ &** - potentatefcath , or ought to have any jurtaictfo ? n ' ° * superiority , pre-eminence , or authority ealS- ° i ' spi rit **! , directly or indirectly , within S ^ S " . " moved to substitute for < ecclesiastical or smritlr iT vords ' temporal or civil / As the principle ^ o tt S was to abohsh all d . stinctions founded upon relL
us opinions , he desired that the oath to be taken bv th Koman Catholic subjects of her Majesty should be th same as that takenb y other subjects ; in short that nil members of the Legislature should be placed upon th same footing , and that their allegiance should be tried by one uniform test . —Lord Palmerston warned Mr Deasy that , if he succeeded in . altering the oath as he proposed , the change would entail the ultimate failure of the measure . —Mr . Dbummoxd desired to see the distinction in the oath abolished . —Mr . Stapleton thou « h
, agreeing with the spirit of the amendment , did not like the mode proposed ; for the disclaimer of ' temporal and civil power' would imply the existence of ' ecclesiastical and spiritual . '—Mr . Walpole signified that he must oppose the bill . —Mr . Koicbubk asked if the oath as proposed was true . It said that ' no foreign potentate had any power , ecclesiastical or spiritual , ' in England . Was that true ? ( Hear , hear . ) The Pope had no power over him ; but had not the Pope power , ' ecclesiastical and spiritual , ' in England ? Members were
called on perhaps twenty times m their life actually to swear to a lie . There was not a man who did not know that the Pope had ' ecclesiastical' power here . Why , had he not parcelled out the kingdom in bishoprics ? The English Legislature had passed a law which they dared not enforce , against the authority of the Pope . ( Hear , hear . ) And the Pope exorcised ' spiritual' power here , for he ordered a belief in the Immaculate Conception . If they knew , then , that the Pope exercised th . 'it dominion , and were called on to swear he did not , were they not called on to swear to a lie , knowing it to be a lie ? It was the duty of the House to relievethemfrom this . —Sir Frederick Thesiger was perfectly astonished at-whathe had just heard ; but was happy to be able to relieve the conscience of his honourable friend as to his having sworn
to a lie . The oath was not intended to declare a fact , but to assert a right ; and the words in question therefore denied that there was in any foreign potentate any ' legal' right or authority , ecclesiastical or spiritual . -r-Mr . Hope thought the " bill before the House did not settle , " but rather exacerbated , the irritating theological questions that exist between Jew and Christian , Koman Catholic and Protestant . —Mr . Moore said he looked upon the fact of there being a separate oath for Roman Catholics , apart from Protestants and Jews , as an honourable distinction ; but lie should like liis coreligionists to be swom ' on the trae faith of with Government
Christians . ' The noble Lord , a as strong as that of 1841 , stooped to the mean shifts of the Government of 1850 ; with the views of n great statesman , ho condescended to imitate the smallest trickster ; and with the greatest principles he mixed up the smallest questions of religious intolerance . ^ Lm cheers . )—Mr . Napier spoke in favour of retaining the oath as it now is with reference to tho ^ pe . -On a division , the numbers wore-For the amcndmciit , 83 ; against it , 373 1 majority against , 290 .-Mr . Uot . Btoi , after ' spiritual' proposed to insert 'by la * . " | s object was to declare that the Pope has no ¦ m SesiastLl or spiritual , by Imv .-Tho oomm ; ¦ itte .
ta-^ a ^ i ^^^ tr ^ make this promise , renunciation , abjtirntton , anU uoci ration , heartily , willingly , and tru y , on hc tn . ^ of a Christian : ' He desired in tins way . to J ° ^ Christian character of tho House , winch J « f JJL hitherto existed , and which was one of »^^ Mr . This amendment was supported by Mr . Si antio , , Wioraji , and Mr . Warren , nnd * £ opp «« a V WIORAN , ami Wt . ttahub" , " ••¦ - ¦¦• • ¦ p . ^ -fjoTON lr
Kmouo and Mr . Evanb .-S J oj ™ *^^ said that hitherto ho hod opposed the odn « ion J to Parliaments but his oi »»»< " »™ f J ' w ^ phoir adoliangod , and ho could do so 110 ¦ loi gcr . *¦ , mission would not un-Cbrbttan « c . tho Hom ^ fa the sense intended , is un-Chrwtlftn « ed nl ea <) presence of a few Jews there could not j M 111 % ° wliMt Lntof the character of bolnff . In ^ bjst « ' ^ sonao , a Christian assembly . " 0 « onfeh ' incd 0 . i would h « vo been bottor if Government a « l doW , retaining tho worda on tho f' . o faith ^ ^ to bo used only by Christian momboi-,, ui a » , fortll 0 flame time introduced a bill n »™ lng * » P ^« ° ' it Blood . Jews . Sill , ho folt bound to support ^ 1 ae WU « IIoBfi . —Tho amendment was likewise opposea oy , , „„„ :, man , and supported by Mr Napwu jnd Mi . ^ ^ j tlio latter of whom romarkod tlml ,, 1 ' ^ , ght bo Jews to tho Houso , tho next I » rlmo Mln » 8 W »
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Leader (1850-1860), June 20, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20061857/page/2/
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