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Parliament met last night and talked over a variety of matters . Mr . Urq , uhart asked Lord Palmerston when the Russians would evacuate the Danubian provinces , and when the Hungarians would be released ? To the first question the Foreign Secretary teplied that he believed the Russians had by this time marched out of Wallachia ; and to the second , that he really could not tell . Mr . T . Duncombe wi > hed ro know when theFrench troops would withdraw from Rome ? Lord Palmerston could not say—France exercised her discretion in occupying Rome , and she must equally exercise her discretion in determining the length of that occupation . Certainly the result had not been to establish good government , but the
reverse . Mr . Hume announced that he would submit a motion to the House on Monday to prohibit the formation of a ride in Kensington-gardens . In taking the Property Tax Bill into consideration , the Chancellor of the Excheqt / er proposed a clause , which was agreed to and added to the bill , giving an appeal to occupying tenants whose profits might not be equal to the amount at which they had been assessed .
On the question that the Speaker leave the chair , and the House go into committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill , Mr . Uruuhart moved an amendment to the effect that the recent act of the Pope was encouraged by the conduct and declarations of her Majesty's Government . He was opposed by Sir Geokge Grey , seconded by Mr . Sableir , supported by Lord John Manners , who said that the policy of Lord John Russell had ever been one of favour to the Church of Rome , and of disfavour to the Church of England .
After his speech the debate almost dropped until Mr . Sadlkir spoke . Mr . Stanford , who called himself one of the most insignificant members cf the House , and declared , amidst roars of laughter , that he had been made to feel the truth of that humble estimate of himself upon more than one occasion , gave his valuable support to the motion . Sir IIarhy Inolib contended that the House should not allow its proceedings to be nullified by the amendment ; and Lord Dudley Stuart would gladly defeat the bill by a direct motion , but he objected to dispose of it by a side-wind .
Mr . Bankks "was called upon to voto " ay or 44 no" upon the amendment . Now , " ay" was tht ' truth , and he Hbould , therefore , give his vote for it . Mr . Plximi'the thought the amendment might contain some truth , but not the whole truth ; therefore he should oppose it . Mr . Risynoliis said that the Home Secretary had told them , " If you pass this resolution it will be a vote of censure upon the Gomust abide the
vemrnent , and you consequences . Now , it did not require a telescope to discover what the right hon . gentleman meant by " the consequences . " ( Laughter . ) He meant that the nation would lose the benefit of bis official services ; and even for that national calamity Mr . Reynolds wan prepared . He was determined to offer that atrocious bill of pains and penalties all the opposition in his power . Mr . Si'oonkk would vote for the amendment . Lord John Ruhskix said there was a danger that the statement of Mr . Jtankes would mislead the House : — " The honourable member Hiiid , ' IlerciB a proportion laid before the House , and I am obliged to say " ay" or " no" to that proposition . ' Now , the real question is this—A bill in introduced by the members of the . Government , and which , upon its second reading , met with the support of a fery large majority—upwardM of 430 , I believe—to 9 / J . The IIouhc having thun approved of the second reading of the bill , it is now proponed to go into committee upon the bill , and the regular question i « proposed , ' that the Speaker do now leave the chair ; ' upon which an honourable member gets up and moves a vote of censure upon the Government , which , as he sayswill aweep away the bill and the
Govern-, ment ; and honourable gentlemen who aupported the bill on the second reading take advantage of thin paltry and ahubby proceeding—{ loud erica of 4 Hear ) u , ar )—to vote against a bill which on the second reading they had supported . { Hear , hear . ) Sir , the bare technical question will not be to affirm or to deny the proposition of the honourable member for Stafford . The regular motion in , that you now leave the chair , and the queBtion you will have to put is , that those wordn stand part of the question , so that there is not the least foundation for saying that the honourable member is obliged , if he approve of that proposition , and thinks it true , to tote against the motion . ( Hear , hear . )"
He did not believe that the acts of the present Government had been at all the cause of the aggression . But he did believe that this aggression was part and parcel of a great plan aimed against civil and religious liberty in every country in Europe . ( Great cheering . ) He knew that the advisers of the Pope were the enemies of England ; and that about the time when the rescript was promulgated it was said , and said by persons who had good reason for saying so , that a measure was being adopted which would set all England in a flame , and create great disturbance among the people of the United Kingdom . Well , he believed that that was the object , and it was to counteract the liberal influence of this country in Europe , and to enforce the views and plans of those who could not bear the progress of constitutional
freedom . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Disrabli would not take advantage of the forms of the House to avoid giving a vote on the amendment . He placed the question before them on the real ground : — " Is it true , or is it not true , that the aggression of the Pope has been encouraged by the conduct and declarations of her Majesty ' s Government ? ( Cheers . ) Is it a fact or not that the First Minister of the Crown has himself , in this House , expressed an opinion that he saw no harm in Roman Catholic bishops assuming territorial titles in England ? { Cheers . ) Is it a fact , or is it not , that a Secretary of State in another place expressed his hope United dom
that the Roman Catholic bishops of the King would take their seats as peers of Parliament in the Lords ? Is it a fact , or is it not , that a number of the Cabinet was sent as plenipotentiary to Italy , and held frequent and encouraging conversations with his Holiness ? ( Hear , hear . ) Is it a fact , or is it not , that , influenced by his counsels , and animated by his presence , the Pope himself condescendingly intimated to him that he was about to interfere with the " domestic affairs of this country ? ( ' No no . ' ) ' There is something that affects England , ' was the intimation , according to the statement of the noble lord opposite , and I at the time expressed my surprise that the plenipotentiary did not deem it necessary to inquire what it was .
" Lord J . Russell : I wish to state what I did say . I observed that it had been stated that the Pope used these words , but that Lord Minto denied that he ever heard anything of the sort . ( Cheers . ) " Mr . Disk aeli : Is it a fact , or is it not , that the Viceroyalty of Ireland was in indirect communication with the Pope , and expressed affection for his person and reverence for his character ? ( Cheers . ) If these be facts , I ask whether , in the language of this resolution , the
aggression of the Pope may not fairly be described to have been encouraged by the conduct and declarations of her Majesty ' s Government ?" He denied that time was wasted in that discussion , and felt that he was performing a great public duty by voting for the amendment . Mr . Roebuck supported , and Mr . Dkedus and Sir T . D . Acund opposed , the amendment . The House then divided , and the numbers were : —
For Mr . Urquhart ' s resolution 201 Agidnst it 280 Majority for Ministers 7 ' . ) The committee on the Ecclesiastical Assumption Titles Bill was then adjourned to Monday next , to be made the lirst order of the clay . The Hellespont arrived at Liverpool yesterday from the Cape of Good Hope , with mails to the -lth of April . Sir Harry Smithwith about 2200 troops of all sorts , was
, at King William ' s Town . Having heard of the Kaffii-s ' intention to assault Fort IIar . % he anticipated their attack by moving against them . Upwards of 100 w re killed , many wounded , and a large number of cattle captured . On the part of the Biilish forces only a few rank and ( ile were killed and wounded . Colonel Miickinnon ' s patrol from King William ' s Town had made a raid on the Kaffirs , destroyed several of their kraals , and by the aid of the FmK <>« 8 taken a quantity of stock . at Sir
Some of the frontier farmers h « d length joined Harry Smith , protesting , however , thai , unless the Karats all along the frontier distiicts were exterminated , no security for life or property could be expected . hi consequence of forty-six armed Cape Mounted Rifles having connected themselves with the disaffected Hottentots at Blinkwater , about one half of that body had been disarmed , and 200 of their horses are now appropriated to the use of the levies from the western district . Three or four of the deserters from the Itifle Corps had been shot . but the band of
The Fingoes continue faithful , Hermanus , now led by his son , refuse to surrender to General Somerset . They hang about lilinkwater , and assisted the Kaffirs in their abortive attempts to rescue the Hottentot prieoners . Sandili , with the prophet Umlangeni , was safe in the fastne » se » of the Anatolas . Loyola , the T'Slambie chief , who took Tip a strong position on the Debe Neck , interrupting communications between King William ' s Town and Graham ' s Town , decamped on the appearance of a strong patrol sent to expel him . Sir Andrics Strockt'imtrom had left for Kngland . There haH been no open demonstration at Cape Town either favourable or otherwise to the ( iovernor-General , but . the feeling of the inhubituuts in ( or the adoption of some determined courae to prevent the protraction of tho war .
The inquest on the Cheshire Railway accident did not close on Thursday . Captain Laifiiu i « going to pusH through the tunnel to-day in order to watch the effects of the passago of a heavy train . An inquest hua begun at Newton Willowfl on tho body of Mr . Wilson .
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THE INCOME TAX CRISIS . Enquiry , say the hopeful , seals the doom of the Income Tax . Frank concession , say the simple , has sealed the salvation of the Russell Cabinet . Now these two averments cannot both be true . It is quite clear , from what has passed , that you cannot have at once the double luxury of a relief from Income Tax and a Russell Cabinet . We wish this to be clearly understood . The ultimate issue depends upon the public , but the public cannot secure its own interests without knowing howit stands .
In the first place , let every man of the Liberal party know that he would not have had this inquiry at all if it had not been for Joseph Hume : also , that in obtaining it , Joseph Hume acted against the advice of his own party , call them what you will , Radicals , Manchester School , or Financial Reformers . They chose to bind up this separate question , the permanent continuance of the present bad Income Tax , unamended , with the continuance of Free Trade , and the continuance of the Whig Ministry . Joseph Hume saw clearly enough that the
existence of Free Trade , which is based upon the great facts of human progress , cannot depend upon the maintenance of the weakest Government that this country has seen for many a generation , still less upon the really bad Income Tax . Bear in mind , that if Free Trade has some relation with direct taxation , it has none with a form of direct taxation imperfect and positively bad . You might as well say that the inarch of intellect depended upon the Attorney-General , or the progress of
the seasons on the Archbishop of Canterbury , lie saw , therefore , that no great or honest interest was imperilled by his declaring point-blank , as a representative of the people , that he would not tolerate the badness of that tax , for that , let us still insist , was the real question at issue . The fact that he received in his aid interested partyvotes from the Opposition , does not vitiate the truth of his judgment : it was not his fault if the Liberal Ministers chose to bind themselves to a
bad Income Tax : it was not bis fault , but theirs , if they made a blind adherence to a bad Income Tax , the sole condition of their graciously continuing to be popinjay captains of the free-trade army ; it was not Iuh treachery to free trade , but theirs , if the Manchester school chose to believe that their sacred cause depended upon the lead of the said popinjay captains—if they took Lord John for the only real and indispensable Moses . Great , however , was their indignation against the
undaunted member for Montrose : " Lauk-a-daisy me ! " cried the Manchester school , to the impassible Joseph , "ifyou have not been and upset the apple cart office trade ! " The old cry of" Keep out the Tories" was modernised into " Keep out the Protectionists , " jind Joseph was warned that if be laid u finger on the Income Tax , he would endanger Lord John , the Anti-Corn-Laws , free trade , our valued institutions , Protestantism , and heaven knows what besides .
Now , observe the event . We have been blamed for insisting upon a bolder performance of public duty by the independent members , as counselling a rash course which would endanger Lord John , &c ; and we have contended that , if Lord John were endangered by the enforcement of popular interests , it was ni « own deliberate choice ; at last , a veteran of the , " Liberal" party ventures on that courHe , and there in no end to the ridicule and abuse with
which he ia attacked by the popular leaders , who predict failure and every conceivable disaster ; but ho succeeds , and without any Hiieh catastrophe lie gains his particular point ; Lord John in Htill in , and Free Trade is not handed over to the tender mercies of Colonel Silithorp . "Ah ! but , " exclaims Home staunch Liberal , "it
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TO READEBS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it i » frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one tide of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of findings space for them . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London .
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There i 3 nothing so revolutionary , because there i 3 nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world ia by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1851, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1882/page/12/
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