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      American species in India—cf those species which are sure to find their market in Manchester . But a claim has been put forward for other countries . At the meeting of the Cotton Supply Association in Manchester , of which , we believe , Mr . J . B . Smith is the father and the organs a late member , © £ the Legislative Council of" Jfow Sfcftth Walfe » puti & a claim for Australia ; and tfe claims of" Bisftlsh Guiana and Jamaica have also been revived :. It appears to us , however , that oone of tlie persons who have been cKfccussing ^ J fcese subject ^ grapp le with the real difficulty . Even the Americans admit

      that it would not be undesirable to create an auxiliary supply from other countries , in order to keep the great machines of Lancashire going . . But it has been shownt that ia India the cultivation caanot be hoped for , unless the consumption be secured ; and how can that be in a market already preoccupied ; unless , indeed , free traders are now going in for ' protection ?' Queen Victoria yesterday distributed the crosses of the Order of Yalour—the new cross bestowed lapon the bravest of the brave . The ceremony may fee regarded as the final scene of the Crimean war . It is one of the signs of the new management of the

      British Army . In receiving the crosses from the hands of the Quee ? t , officers and men stood on an equal footing- ^ -brothers in valour . We couple this display with the hearty speech of the Ikfcke of Cambridge at the Junior United Service . He urged British officers to study their profession , and announced that he intended to do nis best to make the British officer equal in instruction to his foreign rivals . We may consider , from these outward sisn & , that public opinion , lay and professional , has tairly produced an impression on the Horse Guards ; so that with a little rabre persevering agitation , the abuses of Army mismanagement will be reformed .

      IJpott the French elections we have made our comment in another column . They are significant of a powerful opposition in Paris , and of a people stifled in the provinces . Louis Napoleon could not co exist with realrepresentative institutions . Our criminal record is eventful- and interesting . It includes parliamentary matters , for the House of Commons has had its finger in that pie this week . Certain persons stated that one Peter Johnson had come from Rochdale on purpose to bribe one Abrawam KoTHWELii ont of the way , Roth-wbxiIj being able to state something damaging to the

      sitting member , Sir AI'KXanpeb . Ramsay . At the close of last week the House took up the subject with warmth , entered quite into a chase of the delinquents , but referred them to a select committee . The select comniitt « o sat . found that the witnesses were extremely foggy in their statements , viaA matto % report that it could discover nothing , except , the fact that Sir , Alexander Ramsa-t really had nothing to do with the case of bribery . The conviction of May and Tayxob has brought out a strange tale . They are fchje two men wJio

      entered into a combination in order to . defraud Mr . Lawsok , an Irish , , cambric manufacturer . Taylor was Lawso ^' s agent $ he proposed to sell some foods to ! RCay , but objected , as May was well nown to be untrustworthy . The two men then hilt wpon- a new expedient : May put on a new avataii , purchased the goods , and ' Levanted , ' leaning Taiyxor apparently in the ^ position of a dupo , who laad only to report » ' misfortune' to his principal . Bat the point of the storylics- somewhat on one side of this criminal fraud ' . Wanted , a purchaser for tho goodis

      t / hua obtained , and one was soon fotrad in the City , where a firm purchased them at about : two-fclrirds of the ' manufacturing price . ' Vevjp severe rcfleofeionB have been passed \ ipou that firm ,, who reply that the gractice in tho City is common . 'Murder , they say ; will out . Tho murder of ! Mr . iirta ? MK at the Broadstone station seoms to have been discovered ' , jwkI the discovery is characterised

      by several otrango circumstances . Spolibn , the murderer , a painter employed at tho , station , exercised tv singula » ly cold brutality , both in tbo mode of killing his man , and in tho manner of concealing his crime—painting over tho bloody stains on lu $ jacket . But tho informer against him wan Iris wife ! xqu would suppose * that tho motive"would be some conjugal « jutwol : not at all : tH « womwv informed f ^^ ak her huHbiind iu order that he might be wlkb } 16 aoootunli for tha erime in tlu » world } , and vpWQtfi ' Sinljap ' py man , ' as & ho oaHe ^' nim , he might WBOW ^ ed ,. Wxej / entP ' ' * ¦ , '» V . " iwlji ¦ ' ¦ ¦

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      IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . —>»——Mo & da */ , June 22 nd . TH » OPIUM TRAFFIC . In the Kbpsk of Lords , the Earl of Shaftesbtjry inquiro & 'iaftether the opiniojfe . of the law officer * , had been ofta ^ teetl rejecting th » . Bgality of the . «^ i & nni teaffic in India . —Tfect Lord Comsjcellok said that -at . ease hod beea prepared and sutavttedUo the authorities ? at the Eo 8 feIndia ; BDuse for tfoeir revision It was corrected by than acaoaadSng to the » views of the facta j . but the PresidofiStoPtbe BoaixtefCautxel , and thos * . wbo thought with nftri , conceived * "that tnW facts referred to by the Earl of Shaftesbury in his notice of motion last session , should be appended to the case as it came from the India Board . The cafee -was still under consideration * .

      BREECH-LOADING QU 2 TS . Loid Panmcrb stated , in answer to Lord Ravens'wobthv thafc an invention for fabricating breech-loading cannon having been offered by an American gentleman to the Government two years since , and approved , upon examination by a committee , six specimens were ordered for further trial , anl had lately arrived in this country from America , where they had been cast at the desire of the inventor . The large gun intended for use in . the Crimean -war would not be sent out to China , - where so considerable a piece of artillery would not be needed " .

      ALLEGED GRIEVANCE . The Earl of Albermarle moved for a copy of the memorial of Frederick Bever'ey Dixon , of Cas & ewoodhouse , Dnrrow , Queen ' s County , to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland , delivered to his Excellency on or about the 13 th of Jiily , 1854 , praying for an inquiry into the conduct of David Brudenell Franks , stipendiary magistrate , who arrested and imprisoned the memorialist ' s son , a child of between six and seven years of age , in order that he might give evidence against his father and mother , and committed other acts contrary to law in connexion with the prosecution of the memorialist and his wife on a false charge of conspiracy , to murder one Thomas Brophy , of which charge they were acquitted at

      the Spring Assizes , at Maryborough , in 1854 ; also a copy of fehe memorial of the aforesaid F . B . Bixon to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury , dated 6 th December , 1856 , praying that the police tax of 174 / . 13 s . 9 d ., which had Leen levied on his property under the Crime and Outrage Act , in consequence of the said charge , may be refunded ; and also a copy of the answer of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury thereeto , dated the 1 st January , 1854 . —Earl St . Germains ( who was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland at the time ) denied that Mr . Franks had acted from any unworthy motive ; and the Earl of Donoughmore complained of such imputations being made when they could not bo proved .- — The papers were ordered .

      STATUTE LAW COMMISSION . The Loihd Chancellor called tho attention of the House to th * t third report of the Statute Law Commission . From one hundred to one hundred and fifty statutes are added to the mass of our laws every year ; and no lawyer , however eminent , could undertake to make himself acquainted with them all . It was necessary that aa attempt should bo made to systematize and consolidate the statutes upon some well-defined principle . Tho commissioners endeav * oured to divide the statutes into groups , each group embracing kindred subjects . For instance , they grouped together the statutes relating to the army and navy ; tho statutes relating to and

      revenue and financial subjects ^ those relating to England and Ireland , or to Ireland , only , or Scotland only . With regard to tho criminal laws , th « y were gone through with great care ; they had tried to conaolidato all the laws relating to indictable offences ; and the result was , that he bad eight criminal bills to which h & would ask their Lordships to give a first reading , that evening- They had thought it proper to malce some delay with regard to the laws relating to treason . The eight bats lo which ho referred applied to otiences against tha person , larceuy , malicious injury to property , forgery , offenooa against coin , game laws , libols ^ and tho law rotating to necessaries and abettors . —The bills wore read a first time .

      ROMAN OATHOLIO CIIATHTIKS . Lord Aujnotck , in moving for some returns in connexion Tvith tho property hold by Roman CatUolio charities , enlarged upon the nocossity of providing some legal' check to tho bequest of property , personal as well as real , to the Roman Catholic priesthood for roligioua purposes . —Some conversation- ensued , but tho motion waa finally withdrawn , at tho request of tho Loud CirANOKliLOR .

      MINISTERS' MONRY ( rniflLAND ) HILL . Ok tho motion for going into committco , tho Earl of CJhanoaktv remarked that tllo second reading had boon caroled by tho votes of poors who wero not pnweiit , and who know little or nothing about the eubjoot , but it wob rejeoteij by a majority of oix of tho poors present . This waa a measure for tho npollatlon of tho Church , Ho , mov « cl that tho bill flhould bo deferred for six montus . — Tho Earl of D » H « Y , though , oppoaod to tho bill , tUoutfhtt tho then state of tho Houbo ( which was thinly attended ) 'Waalol rendov Oh ® motion brought forward , to Bay tho

      least of it , injudicious . He threw the wIioIp * bilit ^ of the measure on the Governmen t ^ -Sp T ? t CL ^ Nwa » BK . withdrew his amendment but si ^ v f ° intentite of renewing it on the third reS ^ h !* Earl of Wicklow moved that the EcclesiaS " ^ he mission *!* should be heard b y counsel at the E ? - " the biOL : Se . expressed his surpris- at Sp « gaU 18 t whichi t » e Earl of Derby had withdrawn l hfa onTv ™ to t & evmeasure .-After some discussion ; this nS ? * 1011 Hegatitad without a division ; and the b 11 thl W 3 S through committee . " tlleu went Th « report of amendments on the Smoke Hum u-mo CSCotlani > Act Ambnjdmext Bill ) were broS and agreed to , and their Lordships adjourned Up

      THBKOCHDALE ELECTION COMMITTEE . In the House of Commons , Colonel French referring to the exclusion of members from the proceedincs befni the committee on the petition of Mr . Newall , which mlt on Saturday , inquired of the Speaker whether a select committee appointed by that House possessed either di rectly or indirectly , such power . —The Speaker stated that the rule had been distinctly laid down that unless the committee were a secret one , members were privileged to attend committees . BAB-EL MANDEB .

      Mr . J . White inquired whether , as the island of Perim in the Straits of Bab-el Mandeb , had been recently oc ' cupied in the name of the British Crown , the privileges of a free port had been , or would be , accorded to it ?—Mr . Vernon Smith said the question involved a misstatement of fact ; and replied that it was not intende d to make the island a free port .

      OATIIS BILL . On the order of the day for considering the Oaths Bill , as amended , Mr . Seymour Fitzgerald rose and said , he understood that the Government , which had at first signified their intention to oppose the introduction of the-clauses he proposed , had agreed to withhold their opposition . He would , therefore ; ¦ wit hont troubling the House with observations , simply move— " That porsoco professing the Jewish religion should not be enaUed to hold the offices of guardian and justices of *& e United Kingdom , or regents , or Lord Chancellor , Lord Keeper , Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal , Lord Lieutenant , & c , of Ireland , High Commwsioixer of the Church of Scotland , or any other place or office belonging to any of the Ecclesiastical Courts of Judicature in England or Ireland , or in any Courts of Appeal , or review of such courts , or in the Commissary Court of Edinburgh . "

      Lord Palmeuston said he attached no importance to those provisions , but he was ready to adopt them , because they would probably facilitate the passage of the bill . —The clause was added , as were likewise two other clauses , one transferring the presentation to benefices in right of offices held by Jews to the Archbishop of Canterbury ; the other prohibiting Jews from advising tho appointment to offices in the Established Church ,

      SUPPLY . The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply on the Civil Service Estimates . —Tho first vote , of 102 , 851 / ., to complete the sum necessary for the works and expenses of the new Houses of Parliament , gave rise to a long discussion , chiefly with reference to the allowance to Sir Charles Barry ; and Sir H . Willouqhby moved to reduce the vote by 20 000 / . ; but the propositiou was rejected upon a divkioii by 175 to 65 . —In the course of the discussion , Sir Bsmam » Hall , in reply to inquiries , admitted not only the de « y of the stone bub that , notwithstanding the B ^ vwiang process , rust had appeared on tho iron in tho » of of the building . . _ ., „» r ^ .. W ™ , la TWnct ., " trotlUfftr W 4 j

      On The pro . s . 1 . . » , « » J ™ £ , animation of the items- x * "' e ^ , .. i ,..: ! , !; ,,., SsKSSEBE ^ t the Crown revenues were properly managed , they woulil 2 jtaI 7 oO , Sii a year , wL £ a . U » . balance between receiptsand expenditure from 1803 to 1806 gave a total of only 465 , 41 ) 3 / ., or loss than hnlf n million in mtjthreo years , and tbo New Forest , Tfliich was valued by Mr . WebHtor , in 1848 , at 2 , B 8 * , 0 O 7 i , had re « »« edon y 47 , 000 / . in dye youw . —After so . no obsorvntlona ft ««» Sir H . WiLLommriY , Mr . U . aficoio , and Mr . Cowan , tho vote waa npfraed to witliout n division , Mr . tAiW , » 4 * hirn ™ in < r . « . motion ho liad uiado to reduce tho vou

      , by 1481 / ., the excess beyond that of last your . On the vote of ( WSJ / , for tho establishment of tl » t Lord Lieutenant , Mr . RoKnuoic hoped that wt'ljt time that trumpery vote would apponr upon tlio . obm inatofl . —Mr . Vii-wamb oomplnlnod of tho . torn of 1674 J for horse-racing , and movod tho reduction of tho \ olo oy that amount ; but thin was clcfoatod by 203 to » 0 . On the proposal to vole tho mun of 1500 , 745 / . for « a tlonory and |> rlntliiK i » the public dopartinonts , w . WXL 9 ON said in a few days | inpow would bo lulu oil table , giving a detail of U > o « j ItoinB under tha'li proper hoada : and tho panora wore Uitondocl to bo pnMWiou «"

      nually in future . . , T uflC Sovt-ral other votoa were ogveotl to ; imu , ®' " having roaumod , various bills wore advanood a bW . ond an adjournment took placo shortly after ono o oioom

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 27, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27061857/page/2/