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+ TTJST before the close of Parliament the public f ) Las succeeded in obtaining some information as to the state of affairs with regard to India , her finances and reinforcements . The Government , indeed , has exercised a considerable reserve , and we cannot entirely blame it ; nevertheless several facts have come out . Mr . Veknon Smith has declined to make any formal statement on the finance of India ; and in doing so he is quite correct , since it would be impossible for him to estimate either the revenue of an empire of which one quarter is in the hands of mutineers , while the trade of the other three-quarters is interrupted or suspended ; and equally impossible to estimate the outlay , which must depend upon the extension and endurance of the revolt . The reserve , however , is calculated to excite undue apprehension . The Government of India is by no means in an insolvent condition . Even the annual deficit is rather to be ascribed to bad management than to real poverty ; and it would be overcome by a course of improvement now inevitable . And it has been ascertained in the City , that instead of being in want of immediate cash , the East India Company has surplus funds to lend . Mr . Disbaeli and others have endeavoured to obtain some information from Government respecting the new restrictions upon the Press—sweeping and arbitrary restraints that are not demanded by any military or political considerations . Hero , again , Government was resorved , probably because the case in reply was not a very creditable ono to be brought forward ; but Mr . Veiinon Smith went so far as to invite a privato interview with one of the inquirers . On the subject of reinforcements , tho statements have been more explicit . Government will continue to raiso regiments of militia as rapidly as possible , and as extensivoly as may bo needed , ltcoruitments arc going forward satisfactorily . Govern- , mont now sees tho necessity of maintaining a naval force at home , —one reason why sorow-stcamors have not been employed in tho transport of troops . Tho avowal , by the way , implies some dawning doubt as to the stnto of our relations in Europe . If it provo to be desimblo , somo portion of tho reinforoomonta may bo sent over by way of Egypt , and no doubt it would bo very advantageous if artillerymen and ongineers could bo roinforood by that route . In these explanations . Government is mani-||
festly giving way upon some points where it had hitherto maintained an air of preposterous confidence . Ifrom India , of course , we have no direct intelligence beyond that given last week . The ' heavy mails' add to the accumulated details , but do not alter the general character of the information . The Ministerial whitebait dinner on Wednesday was virtually the close of the session , although some legislative accounts still have to be wound up . No summary of the proceedings has yet transpired—we have no report of the good tilings said by the Premier
—none of the felicitations exchanged at the parliamentary successes of the year—no reprint of the opinions expressed upon opponents , or upon uncertain friends . No gentleman connected with the Press has told us what was said at that table of the Independent Liberals—of Lord John Husseix—Joun Bbigtit—the new members—the House of Commons at large—the Reform Bill of 1858—or the political fancies of the public . On these points the conversation was capital—of course . But avc arc left to safe presumption , without specific information .
Within the walls of Parliament legislative business has been gradually giving way to administrative business . Bills have been made up into bundles for committee , third reading , or Royal assent , and got through as fast as possible . The measure which has most occupied the House of Commons is the Divorce Bill , of which something more than mincemeat has been made by ' amendments' —they have made it a new measure . Tho members on both
sides who joined in creating a special opposition with reference to this measure , first of all tried to defeat it , and have since pursued their consistent course of enlarging it to such an extent that it now grants divorce or separation for causes never originally contemplated . It releases clergymen from tho ministerial duty of performing marriage for persons who liavo been divorced , and in somo dogrco tho committee rcstoros tho action for criminal conversation in a now form .
Tho Anglo-Saxon cannot give up the idea of a money fine for porsonal offences . Morcovor , a groat deal of business under tho statute is handed ovor to Quarter Sessions and tho Courts of Assizes , so that questions between husband and wife will come amongst tho ordinary business of Quarter Sessions . Imagine that for a change in our British institutions , effected under covor of those who would have defeated tho bill altogether if they could ! , No doubt they reckoned in some degree upon tho effect
produced in the House of Lords , where Lord REDESDAiiE has not been slow to announce that he should move the consideration of the Commons ' amendments three months hence . Amid the mass of railway intelligence , where we see much mistrust arising from the decline of the dividends or increase of expenditure , stand forward three great questions of commercial enterprize . We have the report of the failure of the Atlantic telegraph—that is , the failure for the season . It was indeed a daring attempt to begin the laying of the electric cable without any previous experiment
on the process , and the company is no worse position than in having been forced by circumstances to make rather a costly experiment . The cable has broken , and it is doubtful whether any large portion of it can be recovered . The best engineers always distrusted the success of this particular cable , on various grounds which it would be needless here to particularize . Several questions have arisen respecting the apparatus for laying it down , and the mode of doing so—subjects which have
been much illustrated by the experiment . We are also inclined to doubt whether sufficient allowance has been made for 'the slack , ' for the necessary bondings and windings , whether in following sinuosities of the surface , or in drifting sideways from the straight lino . Many of these data were left out of the calculations—they will now be brought into it ; and the experiment of ' 57 may bo considered to have settled tho question for ' 58 . The bond of union which the Americans show in their romarks upon our Indian difficulty will then bo substantiated
by the electric link . The noxt subject is a submarine question , but it is not quite so agreeably settled . When tho last telegraph was received from the East , it was found that tho messages had not reached their destination in the order of their original despatch—those which were sont first diet not arrive first , and privato persons got their messages boforo Government . Was it possiblo that the elcotric fluid might turn
sportive on the route , and one message overjump tho other within tho narrow channel of tho wire ? Who can deny it P Yet boforo wo assume , any such process , we might guess at somo other mode of divorsionj nnd an intercepted letter to tho Times asserts that tho Honourable F . W . Cajjooah , dqputy ^ ^ . ^^ chairman of the Submarine Tdogrnph y ^ U ^^ itX fM ) tr gave orders to Mr . T . W . Evans , »' F ;; W &« # 3 ? the instruroont-room , to transpose tho , oftafflk W & § 1 W messages . The accusation , indeed , ^ W jf . ^ dH J ; With tho very reverse of iiulliOlllWHoN ' I ^ MH Ire
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 22, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22081857/page/1/
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