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funds are down , as the funds were in London yesterday , on news getting abroad of the generally dark state of the continental horizon . We seem to have drifted long past the period to -which the Sebastopol rdifcortwijtlies , aiodyt et it may be said to suggest ^ mores , future tfi » n even present or past interest . Ctjalused as the evidence was , it is here broug ht ** something like a concentrated result * , and . inippifect as the report confessedly is -fron ^ tbe dirSfeulty of surmaoning important witnesses , and the deliberate exclusion
of military considerations connected- with , our allies , some important resulta are-diaiiracfely made out . The responsibility of the eagedf & oifr to the Crimea is fastened upon the home Government ; the confidence of success in the Ministers connected with the -war , — Lord Aberdeen , Sir James Graham , and the Duke of Newcastle , — perhaps explains tbe- want of provision for the protracted siege of Sebastopol , and the absence of clothing shelter , and medical assistance ^ which
lef t our forces to freeze , sicken , and die during the lon e -winter . But the confusion is distinctly and chiefly traced to the total want of anything like systematic subordination of one officer to a-. iother , to imperfect authority and fear of responsibility . The bad tools , the bad arrangement of the cargoes , the -want of a transport , the delays in organisation of the hospitals , are only so many specific results of that great cause . Some officers , like Admiral JBoxeb , are exonerated from much
of the blame that has been cast upon them ; but always because tie machinery , either in organisation or in actual mechanical instruments , was withheld from them ; and although the War Department has been reorganised at home , -we have yet to learn that there has been that complete reconstruction of the whole body of civil and military authorities connected with the army which can impart unity to future movements . Has it been accomplished , or lias it not ? The report of the Committee does not answer the question . It was
read with great interest ; but are we to have another report in 1856 upon the disasters of 3855 ? Excepting the Sebastopol report and the Latard debate , the Parliamentary budget is comparatively meagre . The Administrative Reformers have gained a decided step in advance . They could not , indeed , at the division on Monday night , muster more than 46 on their side against 359 : but why ? Because Mr . Diskaeli conspired
with the Government to keep out the new competitors for public favour . Mr . Diskaeli was both parent and godfather of Administrative Reformsuch is his own account . He began it when he was in office , he named it when he began ; and he now allows Lord Pajlmekston to nurse it ; but he will not allow Layaiio to adopt it . The popular party , however , is actually dictating at this moment the guiding policy both of the Government and of the ex-Govei-nment . On the
dictate of Lord Palmebston and Mr . Disbaeli , Mr . Layabd ' s motion was negatived ; and Sir Edwabd Lytton ' s amendment , generally recommending Administrative Reform , passed on Thursday undiscussed . Of course the Hun go Sound affair could not pass without notice Tho Government was challenged to explain it in tho House of Lords , where Lord Bao ugh am called aloud for retaliation and " blood . " Before proceeding to extremities , howoverjNsaid Lord Clarendon , Government would , through Denmark , demand an explanation from tho Czar .
Progress in the committee on tho bill for authorising a marriage with tho deceased wife ' s sister , and a select committee to determine what gratuity shall bo given to Captain M'Cr , unio for determining tho North-West passage , have been amongst tho actual work done . Next wcelc , Mr . Bjehkki . T ! ix is to move for a eol « ct committee on the working of the Beer Afet- —a very proper inquiry , which ought
to enlighten the House of Commons as to its domestic legislation ; And some work that stood for this session- is thrown over , such as the London Corporation Reform , and the amendment of the law of settlement There are many signs that Ministers intend an early closing of Parliamentif possible . They have made great way with their finance , and have nothing to keep the Legislature in town of « irr paramount importance .
The Oxford commemoration bus passed off gaily . The Chancellor , Lord Dekbt , laid the first stone of a new museuaiy with a liberal speech in favour of physical science . A very successful soiree was given by Dr . ActAsrrr in the Radcliffe Library , that noble building which seems placed where it is to rebuke the pedantry of exclusive mediaeval ism . The uproarious fun of the theatre , as usual , degenerated into bad manners . An unpopular
proctor was hissed before that great assembly with a pertinacity which is simply malignant ; and one of the guests , on whom an honorary degree was conferred , was treated with what we must call most inhospitable rudeness , though " our own reporter" takes it for a capital jest . We may as well inform credulous " lions" that a great deal too much is commonly made of these theatre
demonstrations . They are more explosions of the idle animalism of the university , in which the real students take no part . M . db Montalembert received an honorary degree , nominally as a member of the French Academy , really as an ulfcramontanist to please the Puseyites ; the consolation is left for Liberals , that he represents the French Opposition , and is the only independent deputy in the Legislative Corps of the Second Empire .
Socially , the opposite ends of society have "been brought together . Adversity , as it were , has made ' both ends meet in a painful manner ; as the snake which emblems eternity is perpetually feeding upon his own tail . A fortnight back there was a bank at Temple Bar , quite respectable , with a dwelling-house near it , —an hereditary bank , aristocratic in its direct succession , the title of one of its partners , and its West-end connexions ; adorned by associations with France and Italy ; the depository used by fashionable and noble proprietors of deeds and securities , personal and
corporate ; a bank so respected as to confer distinction on its clients . The bank of Strahan , Paul , and Co . was not a joint-stock bank , and therefore , of course , according to vulgar opinion , the safer ; yet it is successively discovered that this bank has bills rather copiously in the market : then , that it is hampered with Italian railways and French railways ; next a hint is whispered on Saturday that it will stop ; and on Monday the creditors find the doors closed , and learn that 20 , 000 / . was cleared away on the last day of
nnnninir . Tfc is sham work in such cases . The opening . It 13 sharp work in such cases , lhe bank is ransacked ; securities loft under lock and key are supposed to be missing ; the partners do not appear , and the creditors rush for justice to the Police Courts . Warrants are issued , and Sir John Drak Paul and his partners , Mr . Stka . ii an , and Mr . Batks , who recently commanded the entree into any drawing-room at the West-end , stand before the magistrate at Uowstreet , to take their trial under a statute which
renders them liable to transportation lor seven or fourteen years . The legends of Capel-court are here strangely mixed wilh the picturesque jissociations of continental enterprise , West-end fasliion , and historical parallels of the Fauntj-kroy kind ; only we trust less tragic . Another strnnge picture of extremes in presented by tho Court Circular . Wo do not allude to Queen Victoria ' s visit to Chatham , to sec tho wounded soldiers ; for nothing can be more natural than tho sovereign ' s visiting the humblest of her scrvants-in-nrins who have suflered in the cause of
a common country . Wo mean the ubiquity of tho philosophical Prince Ajliiujit , whom wo law !; saw moralising on tho constitution from tho banquet table of 'Trinity House , or congratulating tho tho Lord Mayor and Corporation upon opening the cnttle-marlcct which they had refused to build : this wcok wo eeo him attending tho StutinUcnl Society , and listening to inquiries into the comparative mortalities of navnl war ; and next wo find him going to learn " life" ( ft Crcnwrnc .
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Imperial Parliament . County Court Pees....
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . COUNTY COURT PEES . In the House of Lords , on Monday , Lord Brougham called attention to the tariff of fees paid by suitor in the county court 9 , which , he contended , are ex orbitant and destructive of the great purposes fn " which those tribunals are constituted , namely th administration of cheap justice in actions for debts below a certain amount . — After a brief discussion in which Lord ' s- Portman , Granville , Campbell * and the Lord Chancellor took part , the subject dropped *
RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL . The Select Committee on this 13111 was appointed on the motion of Lord Harrowbv , -when the Earl of Shaftesbury , who was nominated one of the members , refused to serve . REPORT OF THE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE . In the House of Commons , Mr . Koeuuck brought up the Report of the Sebastopol Committee , which on the motion of Mr . Disraelt , was read in extenso by the Clerk at the table , and was subsequently ordered to be printed . An analysis of this document will be found in a subsequent column .
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM . The adjourned debate on Mr . Latard ' s motion was resumed by Lord Godericu , who , replying to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ' s assertion , on Friday night that the Government has already introduced , or is introducing , all necessary reforms in the departments , observed that ministers have only adopted two measures with that object—namely , the consolidation of the War Departments and the Order in Council of the 2 nd of May ; and neither of these was likely to be efficient . Mr . Layard ' s motion did not , as was asserted by the Government , imply a
direct vote of want of confidence . —Mr . Frederick Peel replied to Mr . Layard's assertions with respect to the favouritism and family influence which he alleged to rule in army promotion . The particular instances cited by Mr . Layard vere incorrect , and his motion exaggerated the feeling of tbe country . Our prospects are now brightening , and all our calamities in the Crimea have passed away . —Mr . Drujimond , in a humorous speech , denounced the objects of the motion , and ridiculed the idea of the middle class furnishing any better statesmen than the aristocracy . The movement of the so-called Administrative Reformers was not directed against a
Government , but against a class . It designed that the administration of the country should be taken out of the hands of the class which has conducted it for years past , and transferred to shipbrokers , stockbrokers , railway directors , and Heaven knows whom . —Mr . Johx M'Gregor spoke in favour of the motion , and Colonel Lindsav and Mr . J . G . Phillimore against it . Mr . Disraeli entered into explanations as to the views of Lord Derby ' s Government with respect to Administrative Reform . That Government bad resolved to introduce great changes into the public
departments , the efleet of which would have been to make the civil service more completely a profession , and to exempt it from the influences oi' favouritism . Nevertheless , there were great objections to Mr . Layard's motion , as diverting too much oft lie public indignation from the present Government ; but the amendment of Sir Edward Bulwcr Lytton would secure the desired intention . Alluding to tbe promise held forth by Lord John Kussell , when out of office , that he would construct " a broad-bottomed Administration , " which should plate " tho men of the people in the Council-chamber of the Sovereign , Mr . Disraeli concluded by thus addressing the
House : — " What has happened V You lumed us out of office when we wer « about to givo you an exemplary measure of Administrative Kefonn . { C / tccrs and lanrj / i /<¦> : ) Have you got Hiich a reform V ( 67 / te ; v . ) You turned us out of oflicc iu u state of profound pcaoc ; and 1 declare most solemnly my conviction that our leaving <>" * ' « " hlts entailed upon you a wid war . {( . 'Jicirn . ) U < it > ' . 3 ' ° " have lout your Administrative ! Koforin , you have guineil a dangerous , not to nay disastrous , war . { Cheers . ) Whore too , in tho ( Jovenimenl , on « hroiul basis that you 1 ail
havo secured ' rWhore i . s th « Adniini . itrulion on extended urea you were promised ? {/ Jeter , hear . ) «» erc are tho men of the people in tho Couiuiil-chamoer oi me Sovereign ' ( { Cheers . ) You have not only lost what you might have gained ; you have not only gained what \ ulament and doploro— -a dangerous vnr—but . you l >» v placed in power n Government framed on a inoM . - Htrieted and exclusive \ uw \ n , and Lh < : principal orcup ""'" of your future careers will be to vote confidence in >"" who take every opportunity to trout , you with tho contumely you deserve . " { Loud cheers . )
Lord l > Ai , MiaitSTON , before entering into tm . general question , made a fuw observations > 'J 1 LI ' ^ to Mr . Layard ' H charge against him , at tho 1 mi j lane AdminiMtruUvo Reform meeting , that W jeatedwitli the sufferingH of the people , inxi vin _ them . lie denied this charge , and told Mr . J ^«»
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Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23061855/page/2/
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