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o , ~ A to abs entees , and its inevitable consequences , and ° l rvin" evil of last century , the prohibition of Irish the CV J * were duly admitted and condemned . Of course J £ Houso cheered these admissions , and pretty generally u revisions of the several measures as they were ex-1 ' * cd The first bill will facilitate improvements by the i milords themselves , providing a machinery for that purand enabling them to borrow money . The second ^ fffacilitate the making of leases and contracts , and pro-^ . \ £ or the means of enforcing them . It gives the tenant V 1 el . to make improvements himself , if the landlord will ^ ° ^ - and secures compensation . The third will simplify , 110 olidate , and amend existing laws which regulate the Nation of landlord and tenant , providing prompt remedies fV violation of contracts , withholding of rent , the burning i l ands , and other wrongs , simplifying , at the same time , the law ' of ejectment . The last bill would provide
comensation to tenants for improvement of their holdings , a ? " g portion of the land in Ireland being held by tenants f om year to year . It was not intended to interfere in my way with the tenant-right of Ulster . It was proposed to enable the tenant to offer to undertake improvements , mless the landlord chose to avail himself of the means of effecting them which , would be placed in his power ; and retrospectiv e improvements , made by the tenant before the passing the law , would be provided for by a compensation for their unexhausted value , without resorting to schemes that would lead to the compulsory adjustment of rent . Mr . Napier explained at much length and with great particularity the nature of those several measures , conceived , he said , in a liberal and generous spirit , with due regard to the ri g hts of property , and the provisions
bv which he proposed to carry them , into execution , and e xpressed his hope that by this code he might be able to give freer scope to the industry of Ireland , and work out its great resources . Mr . Connolly warmly approved of the measures . Mr . Sergeant Shee accepted the three first , but regarded the tenant-right bill as wholly unsatisfactory . Other members spoke briefly , and the bills were read a first time . Mr . SEKG-EA . Shee ' s motion for leave to bring in a bill , to regulate the relations between landlord and tenant , having been one of the orders for Thursday , intervening between the irregular conversation on Sir W . Clay ' s q uestions and the regular adjourned debate on Mr . Villiers's motion , the House in its impatience to proceed with the debate , gave the honourable member leave to bring in the bill and have it read a first time , which was speedily done
without opposition . Chukch Matters . —The Earl of Deebt , in reply to Xord SHA . FTESBXJBT , said . that Government would not deviate from the usual course with respect to Convocation ; nor had Convocation deviated from its usual course . The only difference between the present and preceding Convocations was , that the debate on the address had lasted three days , and that committees had been appointed . But he believed these committees had no power , officially , to sit during the recess . N " o doubt the archbishop , at the meeting in February , would simply present the Queen ' s reply to the address , and then prorogue Convocation . On the same clay , in the House of Commons , Sir Benjamin Hall asked three questions relating to ecclesiastical reforms . Mr . Walpole replied as follows : —¦
The honourable gentleman lias asked me three very important questions , and the most important of them perhaps is the lirst—namely , what are the intentions of Her Majesty ' s Government with respect to the reform of the ecclesiastical courts ? Perhaps I might say that the report to which the honourable gentleman lias referred is a report of 11 committee with reference to fees I aken in the courts of law , and is not a report on the whole- question of the ecclesiastical courts . Now , the honourable gentleman may possibl y be aware that the Lord Chancellor in another place has alread y intimated that extension has been given to the Chancery commission—in consideration of a paragraph in their most able report—to enable them to
consider tho whole question of testamentary jurisdiction with reference to proceedings in the courts of law , tho ecclesiastical courts , and the Court of Chancery . There in another part of tho question , relating to the ecclesiastical courts . Now , tho attention of tho Government has been wriou . sl y called to the subject , and I have no hesitation in saying that they nro unanimously of opinion that t here ought , to be a . stringent , an oxt . cn . sive , and a decided reform in . tho ecclesiastical courts . ( Cheers . ) Wishing , as J do , that this reform may be one that may be approved <> f generall y , and carried into execution and effect with tho '" 'probation of the country , [ certainly wish , for my own part , thai , no bill Khali be bronchi in until the whole '
question shall bo taken into consideration . For that reason , 1 own , the ( loveriunent have not . at tho present moment nn immediate intention of bringing in a bill , because they look wil . h groat anxiety to that , report of tho Chancery commissioners , which will probably settle tho whole question . With regard to tho second q uestion , I hardly know how to answer il ,. There are no powers , that I urn avvaro ° ' i in the Crown for preventing wlwf ; the honourable g ' " - loiiian bus ( tailed Koniish practices in our church . The best mode |> y which they can bo prevented is b y ( ho good " 'lino of tho people of l . his country , expressed , as il . has '• con over and over again expressed , ngainsl . tho introduction of any mieh novelties into our church ; and , no far as
I lie ( jovoriuncul . are concerned , ( li * \ y are as anxious as the bonourablo gonl Ionian , or anybody else can be , ( o see thai , our own church is preserved in period , purity , according '" bo princi ples established at the Reformation . With '"egard to l . ho lasl , <| iicNt . ion , which relates to episcopal in' ¦ oines , t . ho honourable gentleman is mviirn thai , they wore n «» l . l . lod by the ecclesiastical conunissionorH , hy virtue of I ho H !| . I Hunk , to which ho refers . I do not , see thai , the Go vernment , ought , to interfere wil . li l . be life incomes ot 'iny of tho bishops , but to leave the episcopal incomes in '" lure to remain an ( hey wore nettled by l . ho ecclesiastical •" oininissioncrs , in purm ' ianco of 1 , 1 m hI . iiI . iiUi to which the h "nourahl ( ! gentleman has rtiforrml . b » " i * . Haxj , : X beg , nir , to givo notico thai ,, after the
Christmas recess , I shall move for leave to bring in a bill to regulate episcopal incomes . The Cetstal Palace . —Lord Derby took advantage of the presentation of petitions on Monday , against opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays , to state that he was decidedly in favour of opening it . He said" He had no hesitation in saying for his own part that ( subject to the restrictions which the company had declared its willingness to submit to ) , far from being a desecration of the-Sabbath , a great benefit would be conferred on the people of that over-crowded metropolis , by being able to OnFfl . 111 liilf * flfiVJinfnnpna xvl-xiol * * M- \ r * i- » rk » - * v \ n-v- » -wT * -vW / -v «* - ** 4 4-V « . r « % - « «« obtain the advantages which the offered them
company , on Sunday afternoon . ( Hear , hear . ) If it were intended to have an exhibition on Sundays of articles of manufactures , machinery , or commerce within the walls , whereby the labours of a great number of persons would be required , he ( Lord Derby ) would take a different view of the subject ; but the object of the company seeking the charter was to close on Sundays the whole of tho exhibition that involved articles of machinery , manufactures , or commerce , or any exhibition of that kind . They only intended to throw open the park—the natural scenery of which was very beautiful —to the public at certain hours , which would be so
arranged that they would not keep the population of the metropolis from attending the morning service . Everything in the nature of an exhibition would be closed on Sunday . It was intended to run trains from Londonbridge to the building itself ; there would bo return tickets , by -which persons would be conveyed to the building and brought back from it , so as not to be spread over the locality on Sunday evenings ; and within the precincts of the building ground the sale of all intoxicating liquors would be prohibited . Subject to those provisions , he ( the Earl of Derby ) continued still of opinion , notwithstanding the remonstrances he had received , that far from being a desecration of the Sabbath , it would be useful . "
But the question now was whether existing law did not prohibit the opening ; and if it did , Parliament must expressly provide that the Crystal Palace should be exempted from the operation of that law which prohibits the taking of money on Sundays for admission to places of amusement . Case of Me . Paget . —Mr . M . Milnes said he wished to ask the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs a question of wliich he had given Mm notice . He was informed that on the 2 nd September last the apartments of Mr . Paget , an English gentleman , residing at Dresden , were entered by a large body of police , who insisted upon the delivery of his private manuscripts and papers ; that these were forcibly seized and carried off , and that , on a
representation being made to Mr . Forbes , the English Minister at Dresden , application was made by him to the Government of Saxony , who disavowed all knowledge whatever of the occurrence . It afterwards transpired that this outrage had taken place by an order of the Austrian Government , communicated to the police acting in Saxony . Mr . Milnes wished to know whether her Majesty's Government had received any communication on this subject ; whether any redress was demanded , and had been given , and also whether the Government had any objection to lay on the table the papers connected with this outrage ? Lord Stanley : I think my honourable friend has been greatly misinformed in the details of the subject to which he has called the attention of the house . It is true that Mr . Paget , a
British subject , who lor about two yc-nrs'has been residing at Dresden , had his house entered and bin papers seized by the police ; but it is not true , at least no information of that kind lias reached her Majesty ' s Government , that his papers were seized by the Austrian police . They were seized by the police of tho country in which ho resided . The British Minister at Dresden , Mr . Forbes , at once remonstrated with the proper authorities , and the result of his remonstrance wiis that after a short interval Mr . Pagot ' s papers were returned to him . 1 should state that the first answer that was made by tho Government of
Saxony to tho remonstrance of Mr . Forbes was , that no p apers liad boon taken from . Mr . . I'aget . That , however , was proved to bo altogether erroneous . But to that , repl y a second note of remonstrance wiim sent b y Mr . Forbes , which appeared to have produced its oiled , , for very shortly afterwards Mr . . l ' aget ' n papers were restored , and Mr . Forbes was directed to convey to Mr . J ' ngel . an expression , of regret on the part of the Government of Saxony , at what had occurred , and to state ( o Mr . I ' aget that t . ho police who had taken upon themselves to lake his papers from him had received a very severe reprimand .
County I'oi . i . h . -On the motion ot Lord Ivohkrt GitoNVHNOU , ( he Count y I ' olls Hill , limiting l . ho taking of tho poll to one day , was read a second time . Mr . Bi : ck ktt Dknison supported the second reading , suggesting , however , im improvement , winch might be made in committee , -namely , providing Tor a longer interval than one day between the nominal ion and polling days . Mr . ItoitKitr I ' ai . muu moved an amendment lo defeat the bill , but withdrew it without a division .
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A ( I ROAN FROM TIIU IMtOTHCTlONISTS . ( 'I ' d the lulilor of tho Times . ) SI it , 11 , is twelve months ago thai , you published Homo letters of mine respecting the abandonment of princi ple which I knew was to he expected from tho Chancellor of I ho Kxchoqiicr . It is now clear that I was ri ght . " Save me from my friends" may indeed be a motto for poor Agriculture . M y object in writing I Iiese lew linos is in the name of 100
Protection societies , with which I huvo associated , to protest against the supposition that the treacherous amendment , on Monday next has cither I heir consent or connivance . I li is a base desertion of principle , and an outrage on the feelings of the yeomanry of Kn ^ land . If the present , IIoiiho of Coiiuiioiim is a Free-trade Assembly , it is because Homo members of l . ho present , Government look care ellcctually to exclude real I ' rotootiouiMl , candidates nt the last election . Protectionist principloB uro now uuorilieed , and what uocurity havo wo
that the Protestant principles of the Reformation may not share the same fate under a sufficient pressure ? However widely you , Sir , may differ from my views on Protection , I believe you will allow my honest and indignant protest a place in your columns . Your obedient servant , Paul Foskett . Devonshire-place , Brighton , Nov . 20 th .
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LETTERS FROM PAEIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter XLVIII . Paris , Tuesday evening , November 23 , 1852 . The dice are loaded : don't be astonished , then , at the result of the game . The Moniteur of this morning is all radiant with joy , chanting its triumphal hymn as it complacently displays incredible lists of votes recorded . All the large towns which had distinguished themselves ever since the 2 nd of December by their hostility , have given , accordin g to the Moniteur , none but favourable votes . Paris itself , which on December 20 th had given 81 , 000 noes to 77 , 000 ayes , —Paris , which on this occasion has stood aloof en masse , and has not even taken the trouble to vote at all , —this same Paris ,
according to the scrutiny just now officially declared , finds that it has already recorded 130 , 000 Ayes to scarcely any Noes at all . Never , in fact , has a more outrageous imposture , a more unblushing falsehood , been perpetrated . Many of our friends have been , round to the different sections , taking turns in regular succession , so as not to appear to be observing matters . Wherever they went , the number of voters never exceeded 50 and 60 out of 800 and 1000 electors . Well in these very sections where with our own eyes we had seen a mere paltry sprinkling of voters , the Government of JBonajjarte lias discovered an overwhelming majority of 500 or 600 voters out of 800 and 1000 electors . Everything was admirably calculated at Paris to falsify the scrutiny .
1 . The presidents of sections were nominated ^ by the Government . 2 . The scrutineers , instead of being composed of the two youngest and two eldest electors , were likewise selected hy Bonaparte . 3 . Any person attempting to distribute tickets hearing the word Non , was arrested . 4 . Two friends of mine , Avho actually ventured to take the liberty to raise an objection against the number of votes recorded in their section , were then and there collared by municipal gendarmes , and walked off to prison .
5 . Not even the National Guard was summoned to guard the ballot-urns . The urns were deposited ( luring the night of Sunday in a room in the respective mairies , and not even the doors of the room had seals affixed , as was formerly the case , and the tickets of the Sunday votes were not counted and compared with the number of voters on that day . Nothing easier than to enter this room in the night , and " re-adjust" the number of tickets by a calculated addition . And no doubt this is just what has been done in every Mairie . In tho rural districts , fraud was still more easy . There all tht ! new mayors had been nominated by Honaparte himself . In contempt of the municipal electors , he had
chosen men sold and sworn to his service , mostly Honupurtist hirelings , and tools . Now , in the ccyintry , the mayors , instead of leaving the urns at the niairio , carry them oil * in their arms to their private houses , deposit them in their own chambers , usually without the seals aflixcd , and tllitre , in fact , ( us Victor Hugo has said , ) pass the night with them m lite-a-tAte . Such are tin ; guarantees of a true ballot , as Hnnupurte has devised I hem . Any objection is punished with imprisonment ; any journal publishing a protest , instantly suppressed . Now , as it requires the authorization of the ( ioverninent to publish ally printed writing of any kind , any other means of publicity than tho newspaper is forbidden , in default of authorization .
Wonder if you can , after thin , at the result of the ballot . It , is not France that votes ; it , is Honaparte . The result will be what lie desires it , to be : 7 , K ( J () , () 00 votes are wanted : there will be n total of 7 , 8 < i 0 , () OO votes . Don't attach any importance to that which Iiuh none . 10 very body who read the Moniteur of this morning was astonished , if one can bo astonished at anything now . The . 130 , 000 votes given by I ' mis when wo all know that scarcely anybod y lias voted created universal . surprise : the few lione . iit Monapail . isl . s were the first to regret the Miiiioiniceinent of such an impost urn ; others were indignant : no one , however , treated it jih a joke , according to the accustomed levity of the French character : all understood the seriousness of the fuo . t . The most complete indifference preceded the flection . No one cared to veril y the lints , or to gel , a voting ticket . The tickets were to bo sent by post : many did not receive , and none but functionaries cured to claim them . In tho provinces the kiuiio apathy pro-
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 27, 1852, page 1129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1962/page/5/
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