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influence at elections for members of Parliament . On the game dar the noble lord would also move for leave to bring in a bill to amend tlto law relating to the trial of election petitions , and tot mercury into the exercise of corrupt practices at UOCtiqnB . On the same day the President of the PobrilaTir T *« ard trould move for leave to brine ; ia a bill to aftiradthe law relating to the removal , settlement , and eksnpafeilHy of the poor in England and Wales . On Monday , t ^| l ^ tlt rf Febrnary-. the noble lord would move for leave t 6 : ^ ring ^ in bill farther to amend the law relating to the xi ^ jfesemtation of the people in England and Wales . ( Cheers . ' ) Anil onthesame d « ytbe noble lord would move for leave to I&nigin a bill'to amend the law concerning the vacating of
¦ Mt * by members of the House of Commons . " Pom-ic Acooukts . —The House having resolved it-* stf iotpa Committee of the whole , the Cha » celix > k of the Exba ^ QCBB moTed for leave to bring in a bill on the Subject of" the public revenue and Consolidated Fund charges ^ He explained that It was not then necessary for liim * to go into the matter at any length , aB the interest of ue measure'waa derived from its connexion with a larger Stlbiect , The present practice in regard to the expenses of oolfecting . ihe revenue , and to the defraying various charges out ofthe Sums so collected , had been one which it had ^ g il ^ ttielt desirable to alter ; and las t ses sion the Go-^ ernm < bQit had pledged' itself to endeavour to devise means to
submit , fh «* e / matters to tbe House among toe estimates . T ||^ vfedge he hoped to redeem as regarded tbe Inland Bevrane , the Custom ? , and the Post-office ; and he trusted i ^^ ta bf able to deal with the great variety of charges Vj ^ jt 3 tows < wflW 5 BB of income , placing upon the Consolidated Xnij ^^ i ^ charges as'it was proper to retain upon it , and ioeludiogall others m the annual estimates . The result « i ^; ' 1 ^ an advance towards a comprehensive , clear , and IMCuTate ^ system of public accounts ^ Vjlir » Hops and mViLUAXs expressed their satisfaci ^ at the prospect of the attainment of an object for ^ l ^ h & ^ had Ionc ^ laboured . " Mr . Diskabu said that ^ h | i object . ofthei bUQ appeared to be one which the Go-^ i ^ nelit of Lord D ^ rb y bad designed to carry out , and trnilh would . be of great advantage to the country . The the
meainae . would metre every support from his side of the House . ¦ fjjtMi ^ nu g ^ en to bring in bill . ""•¦^ bd ^^^' LroHn ^ xi oy .- —Mr . Brothebtoi * made-his 4 lidiu | l inbUon tti ^ prerent the House From setting about new ^ otltfaftw'l ^ Vcwck at night . Bat his plan met with little iiiij ^ o ^^ Str ^ OHH F ^ mreTON suggested , and Lord Johst Sq ^ ici ^^ adoptedja proposition , to be carried out < tn a-future < ii f | f ^ appiouting a | committee on , the forms of tbe House . ^ oati ^ f ^ br ^ iBTatiicrtvawas defeated Hj 84 to 64 . 'f ' ^ i ^^ iaoctp ^^ wvava . —On the motion of Lord John Bussext ^ it was ordered that no new vrritsshoulcl . be issued fir . flheriistaple , Cambridge , Canterbury , HuIL Maldon , and TTOemKmthfoeforetliegtTiofMarcl ,. y
^ PW Wi | iTS . —Oto the motion of the Chancellor of ihexEiKCHKQirEB , a new writ was ordered-for the election of *^ TOg «« for the TJnivemty'of Oxford , in the room of Sir B ^ JEEpbt gils ^ Bart , who , since his ejection , had accepted the « ffice atStewardof h « r Majesty ' s Hundred of Northstead Tbe f ^^ hon . gentlennan said , he was sure the name of the llO ^ fcnnXMt ^ be rememJbezed by the House with snm ^ djfeelhigs of regret and respect . ( Cheers . ') ¦ v ^ p !^^ # iff ( M »^^ ' - -H ^ . XBitj ,, 4 aew : writs were ordered f ^ t ^ coim ^ of Loath , in the room of Chichester Fortescue , £ ^~ j * r bo , amce his election , had accepted the office of a I < ord of the Treasury ; for the soutliern division qf Stafford-JOure , in the room of Lord Lewblam , called to the Upper
House ; , for Brecknock :, in the room of C . B . Morgan , Esq ., ¦ decea « a . Oh the motion of Sir W . Joltxffe , a new writ was -ordered for tbe soutnern division of Shropshire , ia tbe room 4 > tf Bobert GKvey Eteu deceaseds : On the motion of the Earl of March , a new- wr it was iKQed . for the westejra division of the county of Sussex , in fte . roanv-of B * Prime , Esq , who , since his election , had accepted the Cbiltern Hundreds . Notices or Motion . —Two of the notices are of interest . Xord ^ ounrpir announces t hat on the 17 th he will brin g ifqrwajri a motion on education . Sir Fitzrot Kelly ( 1 ) « rEl , bntne 16 th , bring in a bill " to regulate the practice at elections of members of Parliament , and to prevent bribery , fcorrajption , and intimidation , which had so extensively prevailed : at the last general election . " ( Cheers . ')
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SITTING OF CONVOCATION . The one day ' s sitting of the Convocation of Canterbury- took place on Wednesday ; and real business fai 4 ofie . In the Upper House thirteen bishops assembled round the presidential chair of the Archbishop of Canterbury . The first business was to receive * report on the right of stipendiary curates to vote for proctors . The report decided , not that these curates—the democracy of the Church—ought not to vote , but that there were no precedents showing their legal right to vote . The Bishop of Exeter , standing stoutly by true principles , contended that the curates were as much a portion of the dioceee as the incumbents , and had as great a right to vote . In his diocese they were always summoned . However , as a matter of fact , it could not be denied that there
Bishop of Winchester offered a faint objection—an objection that did not go to a vote . In supporting the motion , the Bishop of Oxford made a speech , from wliich we extract a few passages : — ~ " He looked forward to a plan of reform arising from their own body to be laid before the Crown and the Church at lar ^ e , in order that it might be ascertained—not whether an antiquated body , with uncertain rules and an imperfect representation of tie Church , could probably undertake the great questions which were to be settled , but whether the Church of Englaud had the power , under the sanction of th « Sovereign , of settling anything for herself , or whether she was to take the humiliating attitude of saying that
either there was such a want of spritual wisdom in her community , or such deep internal discords amongst her members , that it was . impossible for her alone , of any body temporal or spiritnal of which he bad any knowledge , in anj way to provide for emergent necessities by new legislation . When they considered that the last Church law for the Ciiurch ' s regulation was something like two centuries old , and that in that time the population of England had increased , he dared dot say how many fold , he for one thought , without entering into detail , a sufficient case was made out wfcy some internal action should be needful for the Church ; but if they considered hovr the Church was cirenrastancedthat she bad definite rubrics for ritual observancesand
, that whilst to carry out perfectly the ritual as defined by those rubrics would j probably , in almost every populous district , give rise to injurious commotions and disturbances , on the other hand , the ministers of the Church were bound by the most solemn obligations to observe those rubrics and tliat ritual , and that no authority was alleged to exist anywhere for dispensing with the stringency of any one or those rubrics , they would see , that just in proportion as the ministers of the Church became more conscientious , more alive to their responsibilities , more awake to what they had engaged to perform , the joke imposed on them , by requiring them to declare that they would administer the ritual in one way , whilst they were practically obliged to administer it in
anothe appointment of a standing orders' committee and a committee to consider gravimina and re-Jbrtnanda . Mr . Archdeacon Denison did not propose his resolutions respecting the necessity of professional training for holy orders ; but he made a speech about it . Then the pTolocutor was summoned to the Upper House . He returned with the two resolutions appointing committees ; and with something of the r < ature of a command to the Lower House to nominate two sets of seven members each to consult with the bishops' committees . When it was understood that the Upper House " directed" the appointment of the members , the insubordinate spirit of Mr . Archdeacon Denison could not brook such
tyranny . He was in favour of reviving convocation , everybody knew that ; but he would not do it by a " coup cTeglise . " Aiid the Low Church party , ever on the alert , seeing Mr . Denison ' a defection on a point of form , immediately began to talk of resisting the dictation of the Upper House . Oat of doors , it would be seen , that their alleged deliberative functions were a sham . One after another , the opposition , speakers came forward —the Dean of Bristol , Archdeacon Sinclair , the Archdeacon of Ely , the Reverend Hay ward Cox , the Reverend Montagu Villiers—they would refuse to obey the Upper House . On a division , however , there , was a majority of 89 to 43 , and the committees were appointed . Both Houses were then prorogued until the 30 th June . The York Convocation met only to be prorogued . This time , however , they were admitted to the Chapter House .
ther , in the absence of any dispensing power , Became most intolerable' to the consciences of thinking men . ...... Those who disregarded -the Church's ordinances that they might meet the requirements of the time would . naturally look on the lovers of order as bigots , whilst those who observed the Church ' s strict orders would look upon them as enthusiasts ; and that instead of the Church joining harmoniously together in the common service of God , those who dearly loved her rule of order , and those who would gladly , spend their hearts' blood to save the souls 6 f those committed to her charge , she would , by keeping to an impossible rule , divide those who should be united , and introduce into her own body all the evils of the worst dissensions . And from those evils , in his opinion , might emanate evils Btili higher ; because there would arise a suspicion that these external differences were the result of a real and vital
difference of belief ; that , instead of the Church b « ing able to defend or . explain , as need might be , her doctrinal statements , she was bound by a r igid and unalterable external law to words which might be explained a wary until they meant , everything to one man and nothing to another : and persons who , from a different constitution of mind , merely saw the same truths in a different relation to other truths , would suspect each other of mutual insincerity . " Thus , instead of being able , as he conceived they could do , to ascertain the great common ground of truth from which , with the fullest confidence in each other ' s honesty , tliey could teach the same , truth in certain different relations toother truths , they would be led to believe that each ought n « t to belong to the common baud , and so would spread distrust and hatred in what ought to be the united body of Christ ' s people . He feared another evil , which he thanked God they had net yet reached .
" Dim shapes of evil possible in the future , had , when meditating on this subject , passed before his eyes—that as truth was tbe foundation of all revealed religion , and that as moral honesty and trnth must lie below every particular revelation , the time might come when even that true basis of all teaching might be endangered . For although there might be a different mode of viewing the relation as one common truth to other truths , the moment they came to the conviction that they disagreed fundamentally as to truth , it must be dishonest in them to continue united ia the common teaching body . They might agree to differ with their brethren in the modes of stating many tilings , but not as to fundamental truth . If they were to agree that the Church
might combine parties who fundamentally differed , they would be agreeing to a dishonest position ; and he thought that tli « greatest evil of all , because they would really become the sappers of the moral honesty of ' the most morally honest people whom he believed God had given to the tru . iu . ing of His CLurch . To prevent the occurrence of this evil , he thought tliere was a fundamental necessity that the Church should have the power of acting most gravely , most deliberately , most slowly , and by the fuircst possible representation ot tlie whole body , each in their respective parts—the clcrisy in their part , the laity in their part—so as to adopt her institutions and organisation to the needs of t ho existing time , and so as freely to discuss points of difference .
To this motion even the Archbishop assented ; saying , indeee , that he did not expect good from convocation , hut giving way ; * under present circumstances . " Accordingly the committee wat » appointed without dissen ' * The next mutter provoked more opposition , but it vas carried . It was the appointment of ai committee to consider and report " whether the great increase and present condition of the population docs not make sorue , and what , adaptations of the Church ' s rule needful to meet the Church's needs . " To each ot" these committees seven members of the lower House were to be added . The Jvower House met ait the sumo time as the Upper ; but it did less . The real work consisted in
were no precedents , and the report of that fact was received and adopted . The next business was the receiving of petitions ; and the next , moat important of all , a motion by the Biehop of London , for a committee to consider and report " whether' any—and if so , what—reforms in the constitution of Convocation were expedient to enable it to treat with the lull confidence of the Church of such matters us th « Queen might submit to iti deliberations . " The Uiahop of St . David ' s Seconded this motion . Strangel y enough , only the
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LOUD PALMERSTON AND BEF 0 BMAT 0 BY SCHOOLS . The great movement in behalf of the pariah children of the poor swells in volume and strength as it rapidly surges upward . Oa Wednesday there was a most remarkable gathering at the Home-office ;—a sort of essence of many public meetings set before Lord Palmerston . The deputation from tbe great Birmingham conference waited on him ; and some of the names of that deputation -will show the reader how weighty it was . There were the Earl of Shaftesbory , the Earl of Harrowby , Lord Lyttelton , Lord R . Grosvenor , M . P ., Lord Lovaine , MJ ? ., § n * J . Pakington , M . P ., Lord Calthorpe , the Hon . A .
Kinnaird , M . P ., the Hon . H . Liddell , M . P ., Mr . Spooner , M . P ., Mr . W . Brown , M . P ., Mr . Adderley , MP ., Mr . C . W . Packe , M . P ., Mr M . Milnes , M . P ., Mr . E . Greaves , M . P ., Mr . Smith Ghild , MJP ., Mr . Scholefield , M . P ., Mr . J . Ball , M . P ., Mr . H . A'Court , M . P ., Mr . Bass , M . P ., Mr . T . A . M Geachy , the Becorder of Birmingham , the Becorder of Plymouth , the Becorder of Ipswich , the Bev . J . Clay , of Preston , the Rev . Sydney Turner , of the Philanthropic Farm School , Red-hill , and Mr . William Morgan , townclerk of Birmingham , the honorary secretaries of the conference , together with the Hon . and Bev . Grantham Yorke , Mr . C . Ratcliff , the Mayor of Birmingham , the Mayor of Kidderminster , and Mr . Samuel Gurney , jun .
Sir John Pakington said they waited oa his lordship as a deputation appointed at a conference which had been recently held at Birmingham on the subject of the present state and practice of the law in this country in reference to juvenile criminals , and they were desired to submit to his lordship a memorial which lie held in his hand , and which , he trusted , would be the means , through his lordship's intervention , of calling the attention of her Majesty ' s Government to the imperative necessity for some legislative action on this important and interesting question . He would , with his lordship ' s permission , briefly state the purport of the memorial which
embodied the resolutions passed at the conference held on the 20 th of December last , in reference to the legislative action imperatively called for in our national treatment of destitute and criminal children . The memorialists stated they were " of opinion that the prevention and cure of juvenile delinquency was a q uestion of such pressing importance , that they had , irom a variety of circumstances , been led to take a deep and active interest in it , with a view to the discovery of its causes and results , and the remedies which are applicable . " The memorial then went on to say that they concurred in the resolution of the select committee of the House of Commons , " that a large proportion of
the present aggregate of crime might be prevented , and thousands of miserable human beings , vho have before them , under the present system , nothing but a hopeless career of vice and wickedness , might be converted into virtuous , honest , and industrious citizens , if care were taken to rescue them from the dangers and temptations incident to their position . " It then went on to state that every encouragement ou # ht to lie given to reformatory institutions for children convicted of crime or habitual vagrancy . They next urged that powers should bo given by the Government to counties and boroughs to contract with the managers of such institutions for the education and maintenance of criminal children , and further , that powers should bo conferred on the magifl-
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 4, 1854, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2024/page/6/
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