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396 THE LEAPEB. [No. 422, Apbijl 24,1858...
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Miscellaneous. The Court.—The Queen Held...
evening ; Mr . Robert Baxter in the chair . Mr . Lydall ( the honorary- secretary ) read the report , which entered ¦ at great length into" the history , objects , and operations of the society , and the steps which had been adopted to secure to the people the right of making the Sabbath a "day of rest instead of desecrating it by Sunday bands , trading , newspapers , postal delivery , & c . & c The balance-sheet showed the income to have been 57 / . 7 s . 8 d . ; and the balance in hand 21 . 8 s . 3 d . The report was adopted . The new French Ambassador . —The Due de Malakofly on his arrival in London , is reported to have telegraphed to his Government the following account of his reception in England : — " We were received with great cordiality at Dover , and at London with respect , . but without enthusiasm . "
St . James ' s Hall . —The Vocal Association of 300 voices will give a Grand Performance at St . James ' s "Hall , Regent-street and Piccadilly , on Friday evening , April 30 . The programme will be of a most interesting character . Messrs . Benedict and Sloper will perform a Duet on two pianofortes , and other instrumental works of importance will be introduced . University College Hospital . —A public dinner in aid of the funds of this charity was eaten at the London Tavern on Tuesday evening . Lord John Russell presided , and stated that the institution is in want of funds . After dinner nearly 1500 / . were subscribed for .
Mb . Bright on the Naples Question . —Mr . Bright has addressed a letter-to a gentleman at Glasgow , in which he attributes the long imprisonment at Naples of Watt and Park to the insolent menaces against King Ferdinand in which Lord Palmerston and bis organs in the press indulged . It is they , he thinks , who should offer compensation to the engineers . A Local Reform League . —We are glad to learn political reformers in the metropolis are proceeding to carry out a suggestion we made' some time ago , that a Reform Association should be established in each of the metropolitan boroughs . On Monday night , an association of this character was formed on the Surrey side of the Thames , under the title of the " South London Auxiliary to the Political Reform League . "—Morning Star .
Highland Clearances . —A correspondent of the Inverness Courier calls attention to some proceedings of the Duke of Leeds with respect to a property in Rossshire , lately purchased by him . The Duke is clearing men off his estate , in order to extend his deer forests . " Within the last week or two , the tenants of two whole townships have been ordered to quit both houses and land , and , says the correspondent , " whar they are to do I know not , neither do they know themselves . "—A case o equal oppression , of another kind , is reported from Ireland . Colonel Lewis , a Protestant landholder at Inniskeen , Leitrim , has turned a man named Byrne and his family out of his house because , being a Roman Catholic , he would not let his children go to a Protestant school .
Banquet to his Excellency the Duke of Malakoff . —The Members of the United Service Club gave a magnificent banquet on Thursday evening to his Excellency the Marshal Pelissier , Due de Malakoff , at their club-house in Pall Mall . The Duke of Cambridge , K . G ., presided on the occasion , supported by the Duke of Malakoff . Covers were laid for one hundred and fifty persons , and the health of the Emperor Napoleon was drunk amid loud applause , as also was that of the new ambassador .
The Cape of Good Hope . —War between the Orange River Free State and the Kaffir tribes governed by Mohesh has commenced . The courts and shops at Smithfield , a town in the Free State , are all shut . The Rev . Mr . Moffat has left the missionary station at Kruman for Cape Town to meet Dr . Livingston . The enlistment of Kaffirs for service in India is going on Blowly , and the crops on the coloniul frontier and in British Kaffraria are likely ( it is said ) to turn out a complete failure . The Kaffir chief Pato has been tried and convicted of horse-stealing .
Tub Wbst Coast of Africa . —A slight disturbance between the natives has occurred at Bonny , which has resulted in the death of one of the chiefs and the restoration of peace . Intelligence has reached Lagos of the Niger expedition at Geba . One death occurred among the whites ; all the rest are healthy . The property pillaged from the French trader at Accra has been restored . The Monrovia treasury is in a low state . Dr . Livingston sailed for the Cape on the 81 st ult . A PASsroRT Difficulty . — A statement has appeared In our contemporary , the Morning Star , to the effect that Mr . Cowen , senior , of Blaydon , had been arrested in France , being mistaken for his son , whoso democratic
opinions and sympathies are , it seems , well known to the continental police . We believe the fact to be that Mr , Cowen , senior , who hus gone on the Continent for a few months for the bonoflt of his falling health , was detained for a short time , but not positively arrested , on the Belgian frontier of Franco , and that before his departure from London ho had experienced the greatest difficulty In getting hia passport visdd by tho consulates . The Austrian Legation , in particular , declined for Hovcrtil day » to reat satisfied with the names of some twenty members of Parliament and two or three Ministers , who were ready to guarantee Mr . Cowen senior's personal identity .
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396 THE LEAPEB . [ No . 422 , Apbijl 24 , 1858 .
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? Leader Office , Saturday , April 24 th . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . On the motion of the Bishop of Exeter , and after some discussion , a Committee was granted to inquire into the deficiency of the means of affording spiritual instruction and places of divine worship in the metropolis and other populous districts in Eng land and Wales , and especially in the mining and manufacturing districts , and to consider the fittest means of meeting the difficulties of the case . No other business was done . The House adjourned at eight o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS . THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . la answer to Mr . Gladstone , Mr . Disraeli said that the results of the Conference to inquire into the Union of the Danubian Principalities , would be submitted to the Paris Conferences , and no papers could be produced before that occurred . THE NORTH AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION . In answer to Mr . Sclater Booth , Lord Stanley said that accounts of the expedition to North Australia in its various branches had been sent to different learned Societies , but he was not aware that any general account had been printed .
THE GOVERNMENT INDIA BILL . In answer to Lord Goderich , Mr . Disraeli said that it was his intention to suspend the Government India Bill until after the discussion on the resolutions which he had proposed ; but he did not intend to withdraw the Bill . —Lord Goderich said that he should oppose that mode of proceeding , and take the sense of the House upon it . CHURCH RATES . THE INDIA BILL . OUDE . Sir John Trelawny asked if the Government would give a day for continuing the debate on the Church Rates BUI . ;—Lord John Russell expressed his regret that Mr . Disraeli had determined not to withdraw his
Govern-THB STAMP ON CHEQUES . In Committee of Ways and Means , the resolution for a penny stamp on cheques was agreed to . THE ARMY ESTIMATES . On the motion * to go into Committee of Sunnlv Captain Vivian and Mr . Drummond complained that the greater part of the Army Estimates had been passed without any statement from the Minister for War The latter gentleman made some strong remarks on the language still held in this country towards France which he urged was calculated to lead to war and he pressed the necessity of this country being prepared for it . —General Peel said that any statement he might make could only be a recapitulation of votes which had already passed . There were votes yet to be passed with reference to other subjects which might be full y discussed . —Mr . Horsman objected to this piecemeal dis- ~ cussioii of the Army Estimates without a general review of the condition of the Army .
DISEMBODIMENT OF TnE MILITIA . Colonel Smyth complained of the course taken by ihe Government in disembodying sixteen regiments of militia at a fortnight's notice , at a time when they could not obtain work , and without any'gratuity to enable them to support themselves for a time . It was an abrupt and discourteous dismissal . He hoped the Government would consider the matter . A discussion followed , in which Colonel Knox , Mr . Rich , Colonel North , and Sir De Lacy Evans took part against the disembodiment of the militia . Lord Palmerston urged that the militia was not a nursery for the line , but ought to preserve its character of a dormant force , ready to be called out on an emergency . General Peel explained that the militia was disembodied in consequence of the number of men in the regular army , and also on account of the sum voted for its maintenance being exhausted .
Lord A . Vane Tempest brought the case of the Land Transport Corps forward , and moved for a select committee to inquire into their case . After a discussion the select committee was provided . The House then went into committee of supply on the Navy and Army Estimates , which occupied the rest of the sitting .
ment of India Bill . He thought that was an unusual course , and hoped it would not be adopted , believing as he did that no resolutions would enable the Government to proceed with that bill . He trusted that the Govern ment would reconsider the course Of suspending the bill . He should be sorry to interfere ; but the Government ought to go . on either by resolution or by the bill . —Sir Erskenk Perry asked whether instructions had been sent to India that terms of amnesty , including protection to life and property , and full toleration in religion , should be held out to the inhabitants of Oude , except in gross cases of heinous crimes ; and , if not , whether the Government did not think it expedient to do so .
Mr . Disraeli , in answer to all these questions , said that instructions had been sent to India that , so far as was consistent with justice , full toleration should be given to the insurgents . As to giving a day for the debate on the Church Rates Bill , he was anxious to meet the convenience of the committee on that subject j but he did not think going into committee would lead to a settlement of that question . He would prefer the Government bringing in a bill with that view , and he should do so when the pressure of public business would allow . With regard to the India Bill , he was not aware that it was in the orders of the day . He thought that , if the resolutions he proposed were passed , it was in his power to adapt the bill to them ; but on reflection ho thought , as there was a probability of the resolutions being carried , it would be better to introduce u new bill founded on them .
Lord Palmerston thought the case taken by Mr . Disraeli was the only one open to him by tho forms of the House . Tho two courses of proceeding at once by resolution and by bill were incompatible . He supposed the order for the second reading of tho Government bill would be discharged . Mr . Bright said tho course taken by tho right hon . gentleman was clearly the most convenient , as the resolutions were intended to take the opinion of tho House before introducing a bill ; and ho thought the House was now in a far better course of legislating well for India than before . Ho advised the Government to take a similar course with a view to tho settlement of the church rate question .
Mr . Vkrnon Smith referred to tho statement of Mr . Disraeli , that instructions had been sent to Lord Canning to pursue a system of toleration towards the natives of India , and said that it must not bo supposed that that had not hitherto been Lord Canning ' s policy j ft"liacT" ' beon hia policy from " tho . "Tirst . u " Ho" hoped any instructions sent to Lord Canning by tho present Government would bo laid on tho table . Sir John Pakinoton said that whatever opinion ho had formerly expressed hypothotlcally with regard to Lord Canning , ho had since had reason to modify from information received by tho Government from India .
Mr , Disraeli said that in his remarks , on stating that instructions had been sent out to India aa to tho policy to bo pursued towards tho natives , ho had no Intention of reflecting on Lord Canning . Ho thought that thero ought to be a distinction drawn between Oudo and the reat of India on tho question of the revolt .
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THE CONTINENT . The revelations made'by General la Marmora in the Turin Chamber , concerning the negotiations between him and the Republican Government of 1848 , for French assistance in the war between Sardinia and Austria , have drawn a public letter from the pen of M . de Lamartine , strangely bitter in tone , in wnich he characterises most of the assertions of the Sardinian general , as far as he ( Lamartine ) was concerned , aj direct falsehoods . He declares he never had any relations , public or private , with King Charles Albert , except through the Marquis of Bignole , the ambassador of that prince , near the Republican Government . His policy with regard to Piedmont , he says , consisted in dissuading the Piedmontese Government from an attack on Austria , in
which the French Republic , considering itself bound by the treaty-law of Europe , could not assist them , while , on the other hand , his resolution was , in case the war should , nevertheless ' , be undertaken by Charles Albert , and a victorious march of tho Austrians into his dominions should take place in consequence , as was to be anticipated , to let the French army , which ho took early care to concentrate in tho neighbourhood , cross tho Alps , and interpose between tho belligerents are armed mediator . —Morning Star ( this day ) . The Paris Confcrenca is to meet on tho 10 th of May . Colonel Turr declares that tho report about tho treachery and condemnation of tho Hungarian Bangza , in Circassiais unfounded .
, _ It is hoped that General Vonlugo , the Spanish officer stabbed in Madrid , will recover . His wife has published a pamphlet , in which she ascribes political motives lor tho attompt ; but tho publisher has been lined lor 83 " bill " has been presented to tho French Corps Legislatif for definitely reversing to a considerable oxtent the decree of tho Provisional Government ol iip " 27 , 1848 , which rendered French citizens ilIC ° ' » 7 "" ° bo slave-owners oven in foreign countries . — JJai ( y aw Paris Correspondent . . Pending tho approaching PariH elections , nanny thousand voters have boon struck on" the lists without
M . Ronce , tho political director of the Constitulwnnd and Pay ,, has bepn dismissed from his post for tho i » riw » aboutJ $ . iglan 4 ^ n 4 . toJta ^^ paper , quoted in another column . Ho « T to receive ¦» indemnity of 60 , 000 franca .
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Tub Pulbb of France—A Now York . papo ( ° Tribune ) , of the 10 th instant , ^ ya »~ « All Fwnohjom morcial houses having funds i .. tho United State . to » J forwarded to Europe , had ordered their oorrospondenM there to make the tranamlsalon In bi a oto ^ bay on London , instead of Paris , M usual . " V" ! ™* ^ confidence , adda tho Now York journalist , In »'' I ' mnnonoo of Louis Napoleon ' s government , " in ' means of making their money euro .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1858, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24041858/page/12/
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