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of the bill , asked , would Government deal with the question ? Lord PAiMEBSTON said / that this was but part of the general question of the ecclesiastical courts , which the Solicitor-General was to deal with next session . " But , " said Mr . Hadfie 4 j > , w 21 - the general measure ^ include this particular point ? " " I apprehend / ' said Lord Pamiebston , ¦ « that any measure which deals with the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts must also deal with the probate of wills . " And so Mr . Hadfield was satisfied .
The Church Simony Bill shared the . fate of the other two . In vain did Lord Godebich ( on behalf of Mr . Phillimore ) ask the House to consider how shameful it was to put up to auction the right to preach the Word of God—how offices in the law and civil service could not be bought—and how old , sickly men were appointed to livings that the next presentation might be profitably sold . Mr . George Butt showed the House , that the right of lay impropriators to titles and
advowsons is " sacred ; " that it is a vested right ; and that the present supervision of the bishops efficiently prevents the appointment of unfit persons as clergymen . Sir Geobge Grey said , that he " could not see " why men should not buy the right of presentation as weil as inherit it ; and he condemned the bill as trifling and insignificant ; it only prohibited the unfrequent cases of a laymen purchasing a presentation , that he might then go into orders and present himself .
Either these arguments , or the dulness of a morning sitting , influenced members to indifference ; and seeing the general feeling , Lord Godebich politely withdrew thebill . Membeks' Oaths . —A new bill on this subject will be introduced , next session , by Lord Johw Russeii . It will riot be in tlie shape of a bill for the relief of the Jews , but in the shape of a bill to place the oaths upon a simple footing 1 , doing away both with the religious intolerance and the practical absurdity of the oaths now takin . The CsiMiNAii Law . —The digest of the criminal code is being prepared , and by next session it is hoped it will be completed , lord Lyndbttrst has printed his bill on the subject , and the Lord Chancelxoe has laid on the table of the House a digest of the lawsrelating to larceny .
Betting- Houses . — The suppression of these institutions is contemplated by a new Bill just introduced . The keepers of such objectionable establishments , betting as they do with all comers , are distinguishable from places like Tattersall ' s , ( where the betting is carried on with no person in particular , ) because the Offices bank against all comerb , and it is upon that distinction that the present legislation will be founded . It will prohibit the opening- of houses , or shops , or booths for the purpose of betting , and as it appears that the mischief of the existing vicious system arises from the advancing of money in the first instance with the expectations of receiving a larger sum on the completion of a certain event , it is proposed to prohibit the practice by distinct legislative enactment . Incdmbebed Estates in Ireland . —The
Government Bill for the continuance of the powers of the Commissioners roused Mr . Whiteside to a protest against its being proceeded with at a lato hour , but he offered to allow it to be discussed with his own bill . He also got angry , and accused the Government of never having introduced an original measure of law reform . Lord Paimeeston quieted tho learned gentleman by showing him that both bills could not bo discussed side by side as proposed , unless the Government bill wore read a second time , Mr . "VVhitesido ' a bill having reached that stage . Tho bill was then read a second time .
On the discussion of his bill for the reform of the Covets ov Common Law in Ireland , Mr . Wmitebide made another display . Tho Attounby-Geneeai , ( Sir A . Cockburn ) , simply suggested that some now clauses should bo postponed for consideration , on which Mr . Whitesido sharply remarked that this was a measure of law reform , and that Ministers wished to obstruct it . Sir Alexander CocKmtmN retorted with a calm rebuke , alluding to Mr . Whiteside ' o usual " indignation mixed with asperity , " reminding him that , though high in point of talent , he was not authorized in assuming that tone towards persons who ,
if not equal in ability , were at least his equals in conducting ; the business of the House . Tho clauses wcro then postponed .
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LETTERS PROM PARIS . [ FnoM oun own Ooiieespondent . ] Letter LXXXI . Paria , Thursday Evening , July 11 , 1853 . Before I come to the Eastern question , which continues to nbsorb public attention , let me give you a few additional details about tho nffuir of tho Opera Comiquc . Tho prospect of « uch un eventuality as waa there threatened has terrified many good , easy folk , who fancied they hud got into harbour , when , they
threw thcimolvcs into , tho arms of one man , and who now l > egin to perceive that monarchy has it « dangers « tho Republic ham . Muny people have returned to iucfta more Bnnc—I do not say more comfortable—on thia subject , iind ulreiidy turn their f » cen to a futuro beyond Uonapurte . Tho very mon of tho Bourse have become more prudent and circumspect . They arc disposed to restrict their operations , bo that it becotne . M very unlikel y that you will see any of thoBO sudden nml nmtvellouB rises in public stocks , which deluded nil tho
world of speculation . A thousand rumours have been flying about this latest attempt . The first I heard was singular enough ; it reported that the Empress had been secretly warned not to go to . the theatre that day , and that the Prince de Joinville had written her a most romantic letter on the subject ! It is also recounted , that the plot was only discovered a few minutes before the arrival of Bonaparte ; and in the following manner . A police agent had recognised on the Boulevard a refugee from Brussels , whom he had long been on the track of . With the aid of other officers he arrested him , and took him . off to
the Opera Comique , where M . Pietri , the Prefect of Police , was already in waiting . The prisoner was searched , and a dagger and two pistols found upon him : thereupon , on the pretext that he was found with arms on his person , M . Pietri gave a feigned order to have him shot on the spot . The prisoner , little doubting that the Government of Bonaparte was quite capable of such a violation of the law , made up his mind to turn evidence of the conspiracy . Inconsequence of his revelations , M . Pietri instantly gave orders to watch and occupy the entrance of the Rue
Marivaux , and to arrest all suspected persons ; which was done just before Bonaparte appeared . Such are the flying rumours ; and I think it right to add , that I don't believe a word of them . The one fact that is certain is ; the arrest of three individuals in the Rue Marivaux , and the further arrest of eleven others , who tried to rescue them . This arrest took place before the arrival of Bonaparte , and was apparently caused by the obstinate determination of the three persons first arrested to stick close to the side door by which Bonaparte was to enter . This obstinacy was considered suspicious , and led to their arrest .
Such is the simplest and most authentic version of the matter . With regard to the plan of the conspirators ,, the versions are many and various . Their , first intention , it is said , had been to fire upon the horses of Bonaparte ' s carriage as it passed through the Place de la Concorde ; but on considering the difficulty of hitting horses at full speed from a distance , they abandoned that idea , and resolved to attack the Emperor in the Rue Marivaux , and to rush upon him in a body as he got out of his carriage . They were to resist with a discharge of musketry the police who might come up fib the rescue of the Emperor : him
they were to kill , and then to carry his body along the Boulevards , shouting Five la Itepublique . * On the Boulevards they were to have been received by their whole army brigaded , and then barricades vrould have sprung up on all sides . But it seems that we must ascribe a large proportion of these " facts" to the imaginative faculty of the inventors , and that the plot disguised another game under the republican mask . The Independence Beige , a journal usually pretty well informed , has the following remark on this subject : — " It appears to be apprehended in official circles that the demagogical attempt concealed a conspiracy of a different colour . " Certain it is , whatever it may imply , that a number of priests have been arrested .
More than four hundred working men have been arrested absolutely without rhyme or reason—without even a shadow of pretext , unless it were that they had been included in former and equally justifiable arrests . At the Tuileries , as you may imagine , the excitement was intense . It was for a moment seriously proposed to shoot at once the persons arrested , and this sweeping measure was only prevented by the suggestion of M . Fould , that perhaps it would be advisable to subject the prisoners to an examination , in order to extort from them all necessary information , especially tho names of their accomplices . It was not . until after many bursts of passion , and much violent recrimination , that this advice prevailed .
M . Brault waa charged with prosecuting the examination . It is now reported that this officer is on the track of a vast organization , revealed to him aa follows . One of the conspirators seized at the Opera Comique fell dangerously ill ; ho begged for a priest to come to him ( some say this request proves that the man waa not a Republican ) , and in tho course of a confession to tho priest avowed the plot , and demanded absolution ; tho priest replied that absolution must bo conditionnl on his ( Unclosing all particulars of tho plot to-- a magistrate . The poor wretch wbb a little disconcerted nt first by this proposal , but after a moment's hesitation consented . Tho result was that ho made full
disclosures to M . Brault . So runs the report . For my own pnrt I beg leave to protest in tho name of all my Republican countrymen , pnat , present , nn < l to » omd > against such imbecility , even in extremis . A Legitimist may properly confess to a priest , a Republican never ! It
Is , however , petEevering ^ -affirmed that ¦; . Jfc Bratflfc i& on the scent of a vast Conspiracy . " vVTe shall TBodn see-He regards the plot of tto ' Opera Comique aTfntimately connected with ttofpriner affair of theHippodrome , the first having been a sort of rehearsal or pi-elude-to the second ; in other words—the ^ nspfratorsi met at the Btippodrome niorefor the pnrpose bf a ntaster of their forces than for any actual attempt . At an" events on Wednesday next the conspirators arrested at the Hippodome are to be tried ; we shall then see what turn the affiur will take .
Beyond this plot there is but scanty news . That estimable dowager Queen Christina , arrived in Paris on Monday evening last with her lover Mattaldeschi—I beg pardon — with her husband Munoz , It is , I hear , in contemplation to marry young Nape leon Jerome to one of the bastard daughters of Christina . Really there is no objection to be raised on the score of respectability . It is the common report in Paris . There has been a grave discussion a > St . Cloud about the ceremonial to be observed toward *
the ex-queen . Itwouldn'tdo at all for an Empress , the Empress of the first nation on the Continent of Europe ,, to be the first to pay the visit to a mere queen-dowager-On the other hand it would scarcely he fitting for am ex-Queen of Spain to be the first to pay a visit to oneof her subjects . Bonaparte cut the knot ; he went ? first to salute Maria Christina ; and to-day , I am told , her most Catholic and virtuous ex-majesty , Maria Christina , is to pay a visit to St . Cloud . ' St . Arnaud is still on a tour : on the tour of a bag .
man I ought to say ; he is travelling in the Bonaparte " line . " You inay have seen in your own daily papers how sedulously ho puffed that very superior article , as of prime quaUty and perfectly genuine , to the Prince of Prussia , at Saarbruck . The interview was piquant enough by all accounts . St . Arnaud went to the quarters ' of the Prince , and then arid there cavalierly expressed to his Royal Highness his ( Leroy St . Ar--riaud ' s ) displeasure at the attitude of the Northern Powers towards the Em ^ fcr or of the French ; " that it had not been all that we were entitled to expect towards
the man who , by one bold stroke on the 2 nd of Decomber , consolidated every throne in Europe aft the same time as his c % npersonal power in France . St . Arnaud then proceeded to dilate upon the eventualities which might result from the return of the preceding ^ Btate of things . It appears that the Prince did not himself reply to this point blank declaration of St-Arnaud ; but M . d'Hatzfeld , the Prussian Minister at Paris , took that task out of his'hands . In an audjencc which he solicited of Bonaparte , he assured the Emp& > ror of the feelings of thankfnl acknowledgment vtit £ fi which all the Sovereigns of Europe were moved towards " .
their defender ! I now come to affairs in the East . A new complication , which has arisen since my last , I mean , of course , the latest circular note of Count Nesselrode , has created some excitement in Paris . The petulant tone ( le ton cassant ) of this note , the recriminations against England and France , whom Russia accuses of being the instigators of her occupation of the : Principalities , the threat not to evacuate those provinces until Turkey shall have made complete submission to the terms prescribed by the Czar , and the combined fleets shall have withdrawn from the Turkish waters : all this has
alarmed beyond measure the debonair politicians who > still believed in the duration of peace . Then , again ,, tho dubious attitude ( Vattitude louche ) of Austria , the violent seizure of the Hungarian refugee at Smyrna , , within tho Ottoman territory , iri the evident intention of getting up a quarrel ; the singularly unreasonabledemand of M . de Brack , who insists on Turkey giving up to her all the Hungarian r * fagiete j exigencies which he puts forward with the threat' of inatawfly breaking
off nil diplomatic relations in the event of their refusal ; jbho march of a corj * of 2 O , OC ( 0 men to the frontiers of Servia , the concentration of troops , in Croatia ; the concentration into corps d ' armee of tho contingent furnished by Austria to the Germanic Confederation ; all thin betokens to the least farsighted the approach of the gravest eventualities . It is evident to tho moat dull ' of vision that Austria is preparing for war , and is ready to toko sides with Russia , in tho hope of a scrap of Turkey .
But if the impression created by this amazing inso--Jenco of Coupt Nesselrode ' e second note hns been vividly felt among tho people , it has been " not ' mm profound at . the TuilerieH . There it has almost > bred a civil war-The Fould party and the Persigny party have hnd a ' grand battle of it : tho orio Insiriting that Franco whb > insulted by Rupsin , tho other repudiating such an interpretation * ' Tho upshot , however , was , that the > Kmporor declared that " doubt wan no longer posBiblo , - , and that it whs absolutely necessary to look to tlifiinenns of checking the insolent encroachments o ) T Russiii . " He drew up a noto in thia sense , addressed ' .
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* A government with ho dotoHtablo and absurd , an origin as this would uuroly havo loss chance of living even than tho laat abortive ltydra of a republic , or than tho crowned Adventurism of tho conn d'UaU—Ej > .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 16, 1853, page 678, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1995/page/6/
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