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In the House of Lords the opposition to the Smithfield Market Removal Bill received what we hope we may call its iinal defeat . The motion that the standing orders be dispensed with was carried by 76 to 22 . Lord Redeadale was the Smithfield champion .
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Prince Albert visited the Ipswich Museum , yesterday , where the usual kind of address was read to him ; and he afterwards laid the foundation stone of a new Ciramraar School , where another adilrt-as ( the third since he has been in Ipswich ) was read to him . The utmost-gaiety prevailed in the town , the Prince having quite oulahoae the British Association . Upwards of 26 , 000 people visited the Exposition yesterday , and the receipts were £ 2 G 14 3 h . (>; J . The finances of the Commission are now in a moat flourishing condition , for £ 190 , 234 has been taken at the door * and by the aale of season tickets , which , added to the £ 77 , 700 from subscriptions and contracts , makes a total of £ 273 , 934 . The English Committee of the Hungarian Fund announce a . " morning entertainment " for Saturday next at Willis ' s Itooms , in aid of that fund . The pro-L > rninuie contains a very attractive list of performances .
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who lived in the same house , testified to the infainoua linage to which Esther Swinnerton had been subjected . Mra Hwinnerton habitually and cruelty beat her daughterin-law ; made her work excessively hard ; and , though suffering from diarrhoea , confined tier f > r dwvu , in « . tlarup noisome cellar , " not lit for u doj { to lie- iu , " 'JL'he « vlden . ee Is very painful and disgusting .. AH the d « tailn have not reached town , but the news—that a . Verdict of "Wilful Murder" against Illixubetlt 8 wlnn *» ton wm found—htm be « o fo * vr « i < lou ky eleolric tel «* rn » bu
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The whole story of the Ministerial agitation against the Papal aggression is highly characteristic of the party which set it going , and it has been made to answer its purpose . The Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1847 originated with Lord Lyndhurst in 1846 , and was adopted bv the Whig Government in the following year . \ Ve have before quoted at length the passage in which Lord Lyndnurst explained that a principal object of that act was , to complete the freedom initiated in the Emancipation Act of 1829 , by authorizing the admission of bulls from Rome appointing Roman
THE POOR MINISTERS TURNED INTO TYRANTS . Fob once in the Anti-papal debates the contest has assumed an aspect of reality . Indeed , if the position of parties should continue , Ministers , and the ex-Ministers who stand opposite to them , will be forced to abandon the theatrical battle of pretences , under cover of which the public business of the country is suffered to stand still . We do not know bow long the reality will be suffered to continue ; it is possible that before the words which we are now writing come before the eyes of our readers , the reality may be given up , as a thing too strong for statesmen unaccustomed to it , but even if it should be transient , it will not be a profitless work to take a note of the position as parties stand .
Catholic Bishops in this country ; Lord John Russell ' s declaration in Parliament , that it was absurd to prohibit ecclesiastical titles , has repeatedly been quoted . A draft of the bull fulfilling the intention sanctioned by the act of 1847 , and giving practical effect to Lord John ' s opinion of 1845 , was submitted to Lord Minto by the Pope in 1850 : the bull comes over to England —Lord John issues his notorious Durham letter , denouncing the aggression on the Queen , her crown and dignity—he succeeds in setting Protestant and Papist by the ears all over the country ; and all public discussions , except Lord
Duncan ' s window-tax agitation , are merged in Lord John ' s Anti-papal outburst : a measure is to be introduced into Parliament ; to act upon the instigations of the incendiary letter is found to be impracticable as well as foolish , impolitic , and wicked ; and the bill is cut down by its own author to a mere stock : he would now be glad to get oii'by passing no more than the title , as if he had carried a measure ; and all his energies in Parliament have been concentrated on the resistance to any amendment which should impart reality and foice to the bill . Its nature , nay , its very insignificancy , was disguised by studied indistinctness : thus Lord John refused to exclude
Ireland expressly ; but by making the measure applicable only to the Papal bull , which concerned England alone , Anti-Cutholio legislation in Ireland was , we cannot say avoided , but evaded . By limiting the initiative to the Attorney-General , the Whigs secured the power of manoeuvring with " forbearance , " so long as they should remain iu office , and of driving their successors , with taunts of lax Protestantism , into some false position of tyrannical conduct . So stood the measure until Friday , last week .
Throughout the previous debate * , the Irish Meinbern had favoured the manoeuvres of Ministers , b y aiding them to resittt the Tory attempts at rendering the bill effective . In th « name of a Coercion Bill , Ministers obtained rlie aid of the the Tories against the attempt * of the Iri-h members to nullify the measure altogether . Under th « banner of coercion , they marched the Torica
against the Irish ; under the banner of forbearance , limy turned round and marched the Irish against the Torica . The conduct of the Irish Members strikingly exempUAe * the polity of lfa « Liberals in general i ** to keep out ftb # Tori */ ' •***? cotwentqd to fall in with the . tricks of » party which trims between conoestuon and coefeion , pfrhern between Protestantism and Popery , shuttles between
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~ - ~ TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . i liters have been received by our publisher complaining ' S non-receipt of p . per ,, or the non-arrival of the Leader , IS Monday . We have made inquiry , and find that the errora Cl not arLn in our office . The Country Kd too . cf the Tender is publtahed on Friday , and the Town Edition on the Jturday . and Subscribers ehould be carefu to specify which Sn they wish to receive . Complaints of irregularity ahould kJ made to the particular news-afrent supplying the paper , and ^ difficul ty should occur again it wil l be « et right on ap-Icauon direct to our office , 10 , Wellington-street , Strand ,
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Two more defeats and very severe castigation were inflicted on Ministers last night . . , . . « . The sitting opened with a skirmish between bir Beniamin Hall and Lord John Russell , followed up by Mr . Horsman and Mr . Goulbum , and all about the incomes " ?• salaries " which the bishops receive , or ought to receive , under the regime of the Ecclesiastical Commission . The incident was wholly unimportant except as a prelude to the final contest on the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill . The third reading , as had previously been arranged , took place Russell then made
without a division . Lord John his final attempt to get rid of the Thesiger amendments . Permitting the preamble to retain the words which make the bill applicable to all " briefs and rescripts , " and leaving the first ( Walpole ' s ) clause untouched , Lord John RusseMi moved the omission of the words in the amended second clause , which make the publication of any bull , rescript , letter ap > 8 tolical , or Papal document of any kind , constituting archbishops or bishops of pretended provinces , sees , or dioceses , penal , and subject the publisher to a fine of £ 100 . The whole discussion , as far as the merits of the bill
were concerned , was taken on this clause . The only novelty introduced was a denunciation of the Anglo Italian Mission , " by Sir Frederick Thesigeu . Alter reading the document ( which we notice elsewhere ) , "he appealed to honourable members whether a few years ago , before we had deprived ourselves of the securities that existed by law , this country could have been exposed to those repeated aggressions and insults ? { Hear , tear . ) But after we had disarmed ourselves we were constantly subjected to attacks of
this description . { Hear . ) Obviously alluding to Catholic Emancipation . He was answered by Mr . Roebuck , who pertinently asked " whether there was anything more in the project than what was done every day , with immense applause , ' by the Society for the Diffusion of tbe Gospel in Foreign P . trts ?" The Irish Brigade left the House before the division . The question put was , that the words proposed to be left out stand part of the bill , when on a division there
were—Ayes , 208 ; noes , 129 . Majority against Ministers , 79 . Mr . FitEsm-iELD attempted to move an amendment , providing the penalty of banishment for offenders twice convicted under the act ; but he could not be heard amid the various noises proceeding from all paits . Asecond division was immediately taken , on the amendment which empowers any informer to bring an action under the bill with the consent ot the law officers of the Crown . Lord John Rubbbll , moved its omission from the bill . The House divided , when therf were—For Lord John ' s motion , 121 ; against it , 17 , 5 . Majority turainst Ministers , 51 .
The question wus then put , " That the bill do now pa » s ; ' and , before the Irish members could crowd in , tho House divided—For the motion , ' 263 ; against it , 46 . Majority , 217 . No sooner had tho bill finally passed than tho Irmh numbers rushed into tho llou . se , und the question of the title of tho bill affording a legitimate ground lor debate , Mr . Hknhy Okattan moved , in a speech of great apirit , that it be entitled " A Hill to Prevent tin ; l-. ee Kxcrcuto of the Itomnn Catholic Religion in the United Kingdom . "
lii point of fact tho sudden pnasing of the bill having taken very many by surprise , a grout dual of horcMwjHB was expressed on the subject . Sir Jamkh Uhaiiam regretted tlmt it w . ih bo , but ho suggested that no division uhould take placo on tho Title ; and that tho " gruvo responsibility" of tho further progross of the measure should be left with Ministers . Ania advice wub pretty generally accepted . The * tt » U members vigorously defended themselves and X * »!^ hcy which , m the lust hour , they had adopted . ** r . Mooiia w » e » especially vigorous . He said that £ OU John Russell might have neglected his duty Out tho Irwh . member * Wl not neglected theirs .
•• They were delighted to see the . bill a « it was . ( Loud cries of ' Hear , hear . ' ) They wished to see the bill as disgraceful , as discreditable , as tyrannical , and unpalatable as it could be made . ( ' Hear , hear * and ' Oh ! ' ) They were pleased to find that the same penalty was attached to the introduction of bulls as to the taking of titles . ( Hear . ) They would all be able more or less to violate the provisions of the bill , and by the blessing of God they would violate it as often as possible . ( Hear , hear . ) If the njble lord , on the one hand , passed this measure , and so violated tbe liberty of the subject ; or if , on the other hand , he allowed the law to be derided and despised , then the noble lord might keep his party floating a little longer—he might a little longer maintain his position as a dexterous placeman , but he would hold his position as the hack of tbe Opposition , and not as the Prime Minister of England . ( Cheers . )"
Colonel Sibthobp said that Lord John Russell " cared nothing for the maintenacne o f the religion of the country , and as little for the maintenance of the throne . ( Laughter . ) " Lord John Russkll here rose and entered into a lachrymose explanation of the *• fix " in which he had been placed by the desertion of the Irish Brigade . He then fenced a . great deal with the amount ot responsibility he incurred in being a party to the passing of the bill ; ultimately quieting his conscience with the declaration that he was not responsible for the introduction of the amendments— " against his consent and in opposition to his judgment" —but for the adoption of the bill embracing those amendments . He did not think that the bill violated religious liberty . And he finally rested the reason for the The real he
measure on this ground . " aggression , ' exclaimed , " is that they ( the Catholic bishops ) pretend not to recognize any Christians except themselves—( hear , hear )—that they assume the government of the whole territory of this country ; and by their theories , which are totally different from the fact , assume also that all baptised persons are subject to their own bishops and priests , and that there are not persons belonging to the religion of this country and professing its faith . " ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Gladstone delivered a grave and energetic speech , as a solemn protest against the measure ; and when he sat down , amid " loud cheers , " the interest of tbe debate was gone . Even Mr . Sidney Herbert failed to revive it . The solemn closing words of Mr . Gladstone ' s speech spoiled the House fur what followed .
" He must be content once more solemnly to renew his protest against this bill , as a bill which was in the first place hostile to the institutions of this country , more especially to its established religion , because it taught it to rely on other support than that of the npiiitual strength and vitality which could alone give it vigour , because its tendency was to undermine and weaken the authority of the law in Ireland—because it was disparaging to the great principle of religious freedom on which this wise and understanding people had permanently built its legislation of late years—and , lastly , because it tended to relax and destroy those bonds of concord and goodwill which ought to unite all classes and persuasions of her Majesty ' s subjects . ( Loud cheers . )"
Mr . Grattan . s amendment was formally negatived , and the bilj ordered < o be taken up to the House oi Lords amid rounds of hearty cheers .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there » nothing ao unnatural and convulsive , aa the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law or its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . AanotD .
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SATURDAY , JULY 5 , 1851 .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 5, 1851, page 631, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1890/page/11/
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