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A KIND of Nuisances Removal Act has been called into actual operation in the House of Commons during the week j some discussions that necessarily stood to be disposed of have been dismissed very favourably . Lord Derby has raised an episodical debate on the subject of the clergy reserves in Canada , and he has supplied a tolerably historical view of these reserves , in order to show that Parliament is precluded from surrendering them to the province . His resume will be useful , though his induction is absurd . * He seems to think because the British Parliament was
bound to provide for the Established Church at a time when that Church was dominant in England , and Parliament settled everything in the Colony , that now , when local affairs are surrendered to the management of local legislature , and the Church of England is practically in a miserable minority , Parliament is bound to uphold the
state of things as it was at the end of the last century . The debate , however , has been useful in drawing forth a full statement from both sides , enabling the British public to understand how this Canadian question of the clergy reserves really stands ; and the nett Ministerial majority of 83 last night , lays for ever , we hope , that perturbed ghost of a colonial difficulty .
The fag-end of the Maynooth debate has also been disposed of by the loss of Mr . Scholefield ' s amendment with a great adverse majority . It will be remembered that he proposed to abolish all grants like that of Maynooth ; a proposition which failed to gain the support of ninny Irish Members and others who would have voted against Mr . Spooner . Hut we may trust that the subject of Maynooth is now » shclved for the session .
Two cognate subjects involving Church and Law have also been usefully debated . Mr . Collier laid before the House an exhaustive summary of the notorious absurdities and vexations in the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts . The subject was perfectly known before , and the chief event is the fact that the Attorney and
Solicitor-General , backed by Lord Palmerston , made the most sweeping promises , which pledge them thoroughly to reform the Courts , if not to abolish them altogether . Mr . Williams drew attention to the anomalies of the probate and legacy duties , which not only inflicted very unequal taxes on particular kinds of property , but involved practical
inconveniences . He proposed to extend the tax to real property . Mr . Gladstone maintained , as Chancellor of * the Exchequer , that such an extension would not be just , since real property is already subject to imposts of an equivalent kind ; but he recognised the absurdity of the law , and in affirming that the Income-tax is the pivot of our whole taxing system , he suggested the expectation that at a future day the probate and legacy duties may be revised by a rough hand , or abolished .
Military matters have occupied some time . The Ordnance estimates have been brought forward , showing considerable increase to provide better arms for the men , better clothing , better accommodation , and fortifications on various parts of the coast . In the course of this discussion , Mr . Hume has drawn attention to a particular scandal . Certain distinguished posts of the British army have become ornamental sinecures , given for favour and not for work . Honours were heaped upon the Duke of Wellington ; and amongst these were two colonelcies of jthe Household troopsthe Grenadier Guards and the Coldstream .
Attention was drawn to the abuse by the committee of the House of Commons on Military and Naval Sinecures ; and , while a desire was felt not to hurt the feelings of the Duke , by retracting the smallest of the favours which had been heaped upon him , it was understood that , after his death , an improvement should take plnrc , and that the two colonelcies should be reserved as posts of honour , to reward " distinguished military
services . " After his death they became vacant : Lord Derby ' Government was in power , and Lord Derby , of course , must be responsible for the advice which was given to the Crown in disposing of those two colonelcies . They were not given to men who had earned them by distinguished military services , but they were given to Prince Albert , and the Duke of Cambridge . Mr . Sidney Herbert ' s explanation , that the promotion was siccordin < " to routine , does not diminish flxe scandal .
While the Peace Association , headed by Mr Cobden and Mr . Milner Gibson , was urging upon Lord Aberdeen a diplomatic movement for mutual disarmament amongst the great powers of Europe , the representative of Austria was urging upon our Government a species of demand that could be met by nothing but firm refusal , although to refuse mifht involve the necessity for armed defence . Austria , professedly acting as spokesman for France and Prussia , with Russia in the same train , demanded the expulsion or the coercion of
Mazzini , Kossuth , and other leaders of the revolutionaiy party in Europe . The Times announced this fact plainly , on Monday , and repeated it more emphatically on Tuesday . Lord Palmerston was questioned on the subject in the House of Commons , on Tuesday evening , and he replied by a piece of special pleading , which looked like a denial , though a careful examination of the terms will show that it is not so . Lord Aberdeen is more explicit : he admits that there have been " communications , " but avers that no " demands "
have yet been received . Ami he hints at the possibility of prosecutions if refugees " conspire . " Now what is " conspiracy V * Ministers may be careful to prevent actual breach of law by the levying of war within British frontiers against states with whom we are in amity ; but England must be maintained as a refuge for political fugitives ; and Ministers must be careful not to give it up or weaken it . Lord Palmerston is right in saying , that Parliament would not support any Ministry claiming powers that would act differently . Lord Aberdeen spoke under the immediate influence of Lord Lyndhurst ; whom an Austrian Ambassador has been known to extol , as the most obliging and
efficient agent for Austrian jjurposes . Lord Aberdeen ' s principal colleague speaks in more unequivocal language . In explaining that the dispute between Austria and Turkey , about Montenegro , has been closed for the present , by the intermediation of England , Lord John Itussell plainly avows his belief , that the dismemberment of the corrupt Turkish empire is only postponed ; and that when it takes place , there is most likely to be " a war in Europe . " One power will grow
too great for the rest of Europe to suiter its further augmentation , he says ; and he says so with justice . But an English Cromwell , if he lived—aye , even a Royalist Cromwell , might easily find a way of showing Russia how to follow the example of Turkey , by self-dismemberment . Meanwhile , the Christian subjects of the Porte have a will of their own ; and if the British Minister would listen to their voice , perhaps it might teach him where to find new sources of strength .
From Vienna , the telegraph continues to report every day that the Emperor has never been ill , and that lie is very much better ; while private accounts , much more consistent with each other , and with probability , aver that the blow which the Emperor received wus so severe as to have turned tho blade of a very strong knife . For many reasons it appears to be certain that he suffers
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VOL . IV . No . 154 . ] SATUKDAY , MARCH . 5 , 1853 . [ Pmce Sixpence .
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NEWSTOF THE WEEK— The Controversial Aspecta of tho Sunday Reform for the WorJnng POKTJ-ouu—PAGB late Discussion pn Secularism 225 Classes 230 ^ jj venj ng w jth the Rapping The Week iu Parliament 218 ^ f ^™^ ^^ ^^^ New-Unstamped Papers 230 ^ gj letters fromParis 221 MsSL ^ ZZZZZZ ""^ 225 OPEN COUNCIL- iett « frfaVagabW " . ' . ' . ' . " . ' . " . " . " . " !! ii . " 230 Continental . Notes ........................ -A 4 Health of London during the Week 227 The Law as to the Administration of Marnniand Kossuth : the Authen- Births , Marriages , and Deaths 227 Oatha 230 THE ARTSticity of the Proclamation 223 ^ a ^ -A J " o ^ i THLflKIS The Refugee Question 224 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- ' J ^ Treatmc ^ of Cabmen 23 t Mdlle . Luther and the Art of Acting 238 A Battle at the Cape 224 England , the Sanctuary 227 The areatment or caDmen ^ Napoleon ' s Campaigns 238 The Peace Conference and Lord Our Military Resources 228 LITERATUREAberdeen 224 . England and Australia in Competi- . COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSPorcelain Collections and Marlbo- tion for the Working-Man 229 Books on our 1 able 2 S 2 TH ^ Wa Ad verrough House 225 Report of the Oxford University An Italian Heretic 232 City Intelligence , Markets , Adver-NicaraguaandMosquitia 225 Commission . II 229 The Philosophy of Proverbs 233 tisementa , &c Z _ .
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is . the > Idea of . f ^^ fc ^ ions of Kelf ^ on * to throw down aU the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside tlu . . ^ 3 ^ tions oi ^ gioii Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development oi our apmuuui nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 5, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1976/page/1/
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