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Mr . Scully ' s plan ; whereas if the Lord Chancellor ' s survive , it is with the death of extinction stamped upon its feeble constitution from birth . Having done their work vetf kadty when thty last tried their hand , some of the d&lstituencies have been doing it over again j and wfeido not feel sure how far they have succeeded no # Ib all ease l s . Stroud , deprived of its m «* tt > er , LttlfdMdreton , b ^ the death of his father , ttie Earl of Ducie , whom
he succeeds in the Peerage , has returned to Parliament a man very useful in many matters , but especially in keeping alive the subject of Church reform , —Mr . Edward Horsman . Durham city , wliich has coquetted in so dubious a manner with Mr . Atherton and Lord Claude Hamilton , has been pondering between a Liberal and Tory , and has returned Mr . Mowbray , a Tory , and member
of a very respectable family in the neighbourhood . Peterborough has re-elected Mr . Whalley , unseated on petition . It appears that in some constituencies , one part is employed in returning the member , and the other part in unseating his return , an arrangement which appears to be profitable to nobody except the agents and those who trade in their own votes . The Tories of
Liverpool are trying to elect , in lieu of the unseated members , Mr . Henry Liddell and Mr . Horsfall , respectable Tories , well known in the North , and formerly in Parliament . Sir Henry Bulwer is named on the other side . In Sligo , Lord Palmerston , faithful to an old friendship , is supporting his friend John Patrick Somers , against his colleague , Mr . Sadleir . Clare , which was sb turbulent at the last election , that the tenure of its two members , Sir John Fitzgerald and Mr . Cornelius O'Birien > was vitiated by its intimidation , has quietly returned their old opponent , Colonel Vandeleur .
There are some causes , though not serious , of disturbance in the commercial world . The suspense in regard to the quarrel between Hussia and Turkey causes an interruption . In many operations of trade , men do not like to Venture ^ lest the method of their arrangement should require alteration , or . lest the risks should be too great . In the manufacturing districts , this dispute is complicated with the dispute about wages , and partly compensates for that movement , since it commercially dictates some suspension of activity , which the masters can convert into a show of
firmness against their men . It is much better , however , as they find in some houses of the staple trade of Lancashire , and in the other trades elsewhere , for the masters to deal more directly and frankly with their men . Another source of commercial disturbance arises from the uncertainty in the corn trade , and this has a double origin— -the stoppage of supplies from Russian ports , a stoppage which Russia is suspected of encouraging , and the anticipated demands in certain markets . As much , for example , as 100 , 000 quarters was purchased
ostensibly for France the other day , at * h advance Of Is . or 2 s . But the character of these transactions originating with a comparatively few persons , has suggested la snispicion that they are of that apecu- * lafcivo kind of which we saw so striking an instance in the iron trade lately , and of which we have had such frequent examples in the corn trade itself . If so , a fictitious enhancement of prices for the moment may ultimately be explained and avenged by catastrophes like that of a great speculator whose property has lately been handed to his creditors . l
Fallacious Reports that there are to be Turkish loans , more probable report * that Russian Railway enterprises are cheeked , and the fluctuations < of the Inoriey markets on the continent , some genuitte , some fictitious , contribute to the g ^ ttfifral uncertainty . This , however , does tfibt go into the body of English trade , which is still sound and vigorous . Australian £ oid c 6 ntinties to "come ; lihOu ' gh Wot sfo ™ pi % s m <\ it is observed that the emigrafcton ™ Australia ia ttot ^ fa do v <> ftewicrtt in the last ™ week * * 8 i * ha » been , then tire two obviouh
reasons for the jwst fact- ^ he most anxious to emigrate hav ^ Mready emigrated , and in some Wsses « f (! ipiuSfay wage r s # fttinue to yiiel I ^ iire rs ^ ^ or ^ ejtt ^ iple , in jftgHeulttiwil distii&s , 4 *! ' now 4 ^ S % ^ wag < IS ^ thali . before , We }*» Mj to atfkome Piffblk pa&&es , | fech as those ftf BushmSpfe and S § iftyfbrd j jttWhicIl the men are disking an a&iM& to 2 £ ¦ $$ & £ . $ & present t&b being 9 * . a-week . The advance of intelligence and self possession amongst the agricultural labourers is a very striking and hopeful fact .
The camp at Chobham has been doing business in earnest this week , practising extended military evolutions ; , which have displayed the resources of the veterans , tested the training of the regimental officers , tried the patience of the men , and familiarised the public to some extent with an idea of military work . There are other signs of an unpretending kind , that officers are in their -duty . We notice , for example , an attention to practical improvements } in the way of the soldier ' s eqiiipment , and in uniform . One improvement for the Indian army will be much felt by the men , the abolition of the stock round the neck , and the
loosening of the clothes about the hips and shoulders , to the manifest advantage both of comfort and efficiency . It is not only war that presents us with " pomp and circumstance /* and spectacle , and human vanity in all its glory . Chobham may have its reviews , but Royalty has its christenings j and the religious cerembny at the naming of the youngest born of Victoria and Albert was truly a gallant and barbaric show * . Not only sponsors -and
spectators , not only Kings , Princes , Grand IJukes , and Ministers * were glittering with babbles 5 but the very font and altar were bedifcened for the solemn occasion . No doubt it was a grand sight ; refined and elegant , but still barbaric ; for why should an awful rite , when , according to orthodox belief , a young soul becomes regenerate , be made to afford an opportunity for costume effects ? That Koh-i-noor has blazed on many occasions of equal pomp in illustration of other religions ! Was it consecrated for the occasion * i Still the
Queen is the supreme head of the Church , and must know best what is the true costume and ceremonial of an orthodox State-church celebration . But the Archbishop of Canterbury . — 'did he remember what simple eostume ~ effects were witnessed by those who , long , long , ago , heard these words- —" Suffer little children to come unto me ?"
We do not except to a display of costume and upholstery when a babe is named—but this spectacle at Buckingham Palace was not a simple naming 5 it Was a religious rite—^ yet so performed as to suggest few thoughts of original pious humility or human penitence . That as what we except too t the pretence , the self-deception .
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THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT . THE INDIA . BILl . Tttti " speaking , " not only on the Ministerial measure , but on the whole subject of the Indian affairs , was continued on Monday , and again adjourned . Mr . Cobden objected to the present Government of India . Its form tends to the evasion of responsibility . In its results it is unjust to ' tlio natives , and injurious to the prosperity " of India . The-present cannot 1 ) 0 called a . " double " govornnTon'tj Mr . Marahman , a groat . authority , could not explain it boforo tlio Committee . Mr . Hnlliday , an orninont civil Borvant of the Company , avowed that the present system had tho appearance ot a sham , and that under government , byl / ho Grown , the revenue of India would rapidly increase . Thon wo should simplify tho system : romovo tho John Boo und Richard Koo from India 'tis frbni oilr homo law . Wo want public opinion brought to bam ? on India aa on colonial questions ; wo could thus avoid war anil consoquont fiscal difficulty . At present . tho responsibility of -wars iaH mystery . Lord Broughton tovowa that ho wan tho author oi tho lAffglian war , while My . Herries eayB that <; ho Board of Control is not answerable for any Var in India : tho Governor-General hbine alono roapon-Isiblov Ltot thero bo a olour understanding concerning theao things . For instance , Lord Dalhouslo avows n policy of conquest in tho teeth of an Act of Parliament dookrinjv all further annexation impolitic . Thon tho Court of Dweotors has no roal power j dt an but a screen behind which tho real govormnont is ca » riod on . , Tho Board of Control might order China to bo annexed , and the Secret Cbmlmttoo of the 3 > irhftth *« ntnttiWrtirl < viit . fhn
order un ^ &J to&i colleagues or to the people of ' this country . * r % Q gMt' are made responsible to public opiiion for nrt&kmgimte public worts ; how can-. they consftuct them ] i | Mey hav $ not the power to control ^ ne ^ ommaikders of & ¥ &&& and the Governor-General by ieepuW theka-olSt ^^ s tinl in war the substance that ougnc fobe applfeoTt ( ifc || ai < i improvements ? But they are paid | o submff to th ) s fi « fciliat . ion ; they are paid by patronage Much ihev . ! i ^ mm ^ : 4 S&ong their friends . Instead ot ^ b is pi anj fl ^ pat roaage * h . o uld be tested in a minister ot the CroWtt , who Vouw tfe responsible to public opinion . By this means ajone will the natives 15 ^ largely employed . The finances of India •' cannot be separated from the finances of England . Three times within the century the
Directors have asked financial aid from the House ; and it there be a necessity our resources must be again thrown open . Honour , if nothin g else , will compel it . The deficit in the Indian debt was admitted by Sir James Hogg to bo 15 , 344 , 0002 . ; but there should be added to this 12 , 661 , 0002 ., the amoiant ^ the commercial assets realized by the Company before 1633 . Thus , the ttmount of defalcation in the current nineteen years had been twenty-eight millions of money . But what is the argument of Sir James Hogg and Sir Charles Wood ? They say that the finances of India are so bad tnat we should not willingly take the
management of them . Is there anything so "utterly indefensible ? If the Company were a real governtoent with power , leaving England alone its trade with India , it would not be objectionable , but the Government is « shadi , and ¦ viji ' cannofc escape the responsibility by putting me Government behind a screen . Our extended Empire In feidia will be a perilous inheritance to our sons . We have anneted Scinde , Sattara , and the Punjaub- ^ &ll at a loss . We are now going * o annex Pegu , and perhaps all Burma ^ and yet lord Dalhousie has declared that he looks on tb& annexation of Pegu as an evil only Isecond to war itself . If this annexation take p lace farewell to all amelioration in Indian finances .
Sir James Geahamj Swelling much on the difficulties of the Indian Government , defended in detail and with great force the provisions ; of the ^ overniaent Bill . "We propose to giv ^ b new character to the legislative council , approaching , as near as possible , to a system of representation . We infuse new life and vigour bjr making ex o-fficid raembers men of the Mghest character &rid station . We give the G ^ yernor-Genefal not only p . seat but a voice in the legislative council , and it is quite ppen for consideration whether / the discussions shall be private of not . We ptopbse to place th « artnies of the East India Company under ihe <; ommand of a general officer nominated by her Majesty . We propose to g ive a veto to the Crown in the nomination of the members of council ,
hither to exclusively in the company , and not Controlled by the Crown . We propose to separate from the Governor-Generai , and , place Under a lieutenant-governor , the province of Bengal . " ' ¦¦ ¦ ' ' " The queation of delay is a miestionof policy . Itisd grave question . Look at our Indian empire . In China there is a serious revolution ; the issue of the war in Burmah is doubtful : and in the East War overhangs us , in a menacing manner . , Against delay we have the opinions of Lord EUenborough , Lord Hardinge , Lord Dalhousie , Mr . Bird , Mi-. Herries ( the President of the Board df
Control under Lord "Derby ) , Sir John Hobhouse , Lord Ponmure , and Mr . Baring . These are authorities , but these are also reasons against delay . It must never be forgotten how slender in point of 'force is our tenure of empire in India . We must recollect always that at ia mainly an empire of opinion . Ours is not nuinerioal strength , but our position we owe to the confidence of the country in the perniancnce ^ our rule , the steadiness of our . government , and the firmness of tho-hand that grasps it . By shaking that confidence you dip turb the very foundations of our Indian empire . Is it wise wantonly to disturb thorn P .
As to the homo machinery of this Government , we have Mr . Mill ' s ovidonco that the double government gifea a great additional security for discussion and consideration . But try tho tree by its fruits . The , following are vtha benefits it has cfl ' ected einco 1883 : — " Small Crown Court established—municipal institutionsintroduced—cognizance ¦ of all suits entrusted to native judges-i-eiviliana instructed « nd examined in native languages- —liberty of unlicensed printing established . Native languages rostorod in coupts of justice ; Suttoo and infanticide suppressed ; ( rtatp lottorioa forbidden ; Blav * ery abolished ; railroads beBtun *; electric telegraph in prqgross ; uniform on 4 cheap postage jnironuuou jlook cuaraciooi ino imwuujf
. ymu aw cno r and civil servants . " 1 was associated with the DtuVe of Wellington in tho government of India in a toomeKt of tho igroatoBt danger . Wo have heard somothing , of ft question put olsowhoro , as to whether sons of horsedealerfl might not bo sent out to India . At tho time I speak of tho'Queem ' s army had mot witli g ^ eatdisastbr ; two ormieiB had mot with groat disaster ; tho ono was commande by Sir J . Pollock , tho other by General Nott . Tho disaster was Tdttnoved by them- ' -by the son of a humWe shopfceeper in tho city of London , and tho son of a publican in ft remote cor ' nor of South Wales . These two genorals riuata'in'e'd tho honotir of the Britisli arms , and preserved from doHtructi 6 n oarirrohtBritishomt ) iro .. Mvricht hon . friond
the mombor for Edinburgh lias referred to « , splendid eppooh on India made 'by Lord Ch-enviHe . K lioard ftBpooch . not inferior to that delivered by my right hon . fritmdi himsoM not twenty years ago . I < lo mot puofesa to quote bin efcaot words ; but , if I remember rightly the spirit of it , ho aoad •^ -TJndor this system you havo had men administorinc tho £ overnmorit 'of millions of sUbjootfl ; you 'havo liad * t ! iei * i Wding victorious altaolra ; you havo . had them dioiiatinfi toi'ms oifpoaco at tho gates of conquored copitalsj you havo had thorn administering tho roVohuoB ot mignty provincofij , have lio « l them residing afe * ho c « ux < tB toi tribuUny kinga ; and . yet tliCBo rapnJiiLVO iwtuttmod to thoix nativo country with littlo more Oian a decont competency , nntt ' toxhtibimaA in'fcirciuttBtttncios'ftvbn of poverty . Ah to
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Leader (1850-1860), July 2, 1853, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1993/page/2/
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