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apathy , and suggestedthe inexpediency of Ministers voluntaril y exposing themselves to the contingency of a Parliamentary defeat . At the same time , the measure "VrasV *** ' many respects , ill digested and immatixye . 0 This observation applied more particularly . to the disfranchisement of so many small boroi ^ bi ; and the transfer of their members to laf |^ 1 > 6 rpughs and counties . It seemed to him thlif ; * thfere ' ought to have been a larger and more co&plete recohstniction , id order that the question might , ^ lh this respect , be settled for a very considerable time to come .
f _ Ear . lbf Abbrdeen said there was no objection ito prxidvee the returns , but he complained of t ^ e irregularity of discussing a measure- not yet before their lordships . He could add nothing to the statenient'lie had made last week in reply to the Barl of Derby , pe then stated that Lord John BusseU had postponed the second reading of the Beform Bill until the 27 th of April , and that be had done bo in sincerity and good faith . It was his nolrte'friend ' s' intention to move the second reading
oa that day ; and he repeated that the announcement was made in sincerity and good faittu If , however , he was asked whether that intention would irrevocably > e executed on that day , he must de-« SiiiiB ^ io " give any specific pledge upon the subject , ^ r , ia the present sUte of Europe , no one eouia tell what » day or an hoirr would bring forth . Bat when tte tiine ajrrived , the Government would do that which was consifltent with the interests of the country , and with a due regard to their own honour .
PABDOK POB . FHOST , WJI . I , IAHSf AND JONES . Mr . T . IhmcoMBE asked the Secretary of State Hii 0 ^ m Homes Department , whether ! it is the into ^ o ^ of her Majesty ' s Government to advise the Ceb ^ tb grant the same amount of pardon to Frost , ^ Pptt ^^ and Jonesi ; convicted of high treason in l ^ Dpthat ^ has 'been recently extended to Smith ^ . ^ Q ^ pei ^ t convictedr ; of a simiJac ofiTence in 1848 . ||| pi ^|^| Ui « m »> and Jones had snflfered banishment ^^| i | f | eje n ? yearSj ^ and he believed te was justified in A 0 ^^ li ^ 0 K ^ ^ ondiKt duriiigL the whole iof that i ? p ) moa ; li ^ lbeen , niO 8 t- ' - exemplary ; and had 'been so ¦^!^^ 0 i ^ b ^ i ^ - : G ^ in ^^ -4 itWmfi Diemen ' r Land . Mxi ^ uiu ^ dinbej therefore , hoped that the ' same mercy - whfchihad been extended to Smith O'Brien \ rould be ^ extended to themV ' . ¦ ¦ > . ¦ ¦ ¦ .- ¦ :
^ iieonnt B ^ ucsBB'toN—Sir , her Majesty , who is vahr » y * SgIad when sne can properly , and at a fitting ^ portpoity ^ temper justice with mercy , has been ^ acionuu ' y pleased to . sanction an . extension of clemency to Frost and Williams similar to that which has been extended to Mr . Smith O'Brien . iMrSl > iracoMBK--And Jones ? ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ vl ^ l ^ v ^ t ^^ KrasTOir-r ^ -Her Majesty ' s clemency wilii' ^ cdxutfiet ^ extend /^ to the three who were senteric ^ at the eametime . I may take the opportu ^^ of ^ staging 4 hat there were two other gentlenoSen who were transported— - ( ZauyAter)—at the same time with Smith O'Brien—Mr . Martin and Mr . Doheriy , who had committed but a slight offence , and whose sentence , therefore / was only . for a limited time . ' Het Majesty ' s indulgence will also be extended to them . ( Cheers . )
Law ; oF SoeoKSSiON . —Mr . Locke King's bill to alter the 'laiir of succession , and to provide that the property of a man djing ] intestate shall be divided first among bis creditors , fOQxiiiunong ^ all hi 8 children , came on for second reading on Wednesday , and gave rise to a debate . Sir John PakzngtojH , grounding his objections mainly on this , that the bill wai only the advanced guard of a democratic encroachment on our institutions , and merely a step towards a subdivision of land , moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months . - In the course of his speech he attacked Mr . Bright , to whom he imputed a desire to make division cottwtusoxy . Mr- Bbioht followed Sir John , in support of the bill . Ha denied that he wiahed to make division compulsory . He
neither approved of the law of France nor of the law of x England , typhat he did desire was to release land from " feudal restrictions , and set it entirely free ; and to make the law , la eases of intestacy , act as it might be supposed a jast v&foor . would act . and divide the estate among all the - < S % « k ' totd Lovainb attacked Mr . Bright as a Republican . ' Mr . BBiaHT denied the acousation . The views of Sir John PaJrinirton were supported by Sir Fkkderick Tkesiger , Mr . Hbnijbt , Mr . Pa . ckb , Mr . O . Staxlb y , and Mr . 'Dbumbiokd . On the other side were Mr . Monckton -Miurss , Mrf Phzhit , and Mr . V . Scully . Lori John Russell opposed th « Mil . There were , in tact , two questions—one as to the particular merits of this bill ; the other , as to the princi p le which the bill seemed to involve . The ordinary rule of the Liw was that Lands were inheritable by the eldest son , and ho could not regard this as
change of the law as tills would lead to the subdivision of landed property , and it would be a great injury to the community . Believing that such subdivision Would be most mischievous , he should support the amendment . Mr . Disraeli contended that the law recognised the distinction between personal and real property : that one branch of the legislature rested upon it ; and that it was most inexpedient to disturb the present system for the sake of some exceptional cases . Heavy public duties devolved upon the possessors of large landed properties , and public liberty had been won and maintained by their exertions . Any change such as the bill now before them contemplated would be dangerous to the community and lower the character of the country . On a division there appeared—For the second reading 82
For the amendment 203—121 The lill is consequently lost . Mutcstkbs' Money . —Every session au effort is made to abolish the unjust tax , called Ministers' Money * in Ireland . On Thursday , Mr . Fagajc made his annual motion , that tie House will , to-morrow ( Friday ) , resolve itself into a committee to take into consideration the law relating to the rate or tax called " Ministers' Money" in Ireland , with the view to repeal the same ; and farther , to provide a substitute out of the revenue of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners as a provision for the Protestant ministers in certain corporate tow-as in Ireland , in lieu of the annual sums now received by them . . Mr . Hmot seconded tie motion .
cept to lodgers and travellers ; 5 , with 6462 signatures against stoppage of wages For fines , &c . ; 56 , with 190 $ signatures , for the adoption of reformatory measures for the diminution of juvenile crime ; 105 , with 6198 signatures , against the Alteration of Oaths Bill ; 26 , with 937 signatures , for the adoption of a decimal coinage . In one instance a petition having b « en prepared and signed against opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays , some persons favourable to its being so opened sent up a counter petition , an exact copy of the ether , except that the key-word of every assertion was changed for its opposite— " unfavourable to morality" to " favourable to morality , " and the like ; and the petitions were presented by the same member .
Public Health . —Lord Harrowbyand LordSHATTESbubt made some statements in the House of Lords on Thursday , to show the necessity of absolutel y acting with vigour and decision against the aggression of the cholera . Lord Shaftesbury showed distinctly , what all our readers know , tfcat the grand attacks of the cholera has always been preceded by snefi partial , but still terrible assaults as those of last year . He also showed the connexion between cholera , filth , and impure water . Lord Gkanville intimated that Lord Palmerston , fully impressed with the impending danger , is considering wbat it will be best to do ; so that an imperative power may exist for the removal of nuisances , and local rights be respected . '
Sir John Young admitted the grievance ; but without a substitute it would be unjust to deprive the present recipients of the allowances they received . -The proposal to take the money from the revenues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners could sot be entertained , because these fnnds already belonged to the Church . As a compromise , he would propesa to exempt all houses rated under 107 . ; to continue the existing rate ' upon bouses of higher rating ,-with power to redeem ; and to exempt all houses to be built . This would exempt the great mass of Roman Catholics from the rate . The produce of the tax , thus reduced by at least 25 per cent , will be paid to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ,-who will repay the money to the present recipients . Sir John Young moved , as an amendment , that the acts relating to ministers' money in Ireland and the Church Temporalities Act ( Ireland ) be now read .
Mr . Hadmbld ridiculed the comnroinise as a paltry attempt to get rid of an admitted injustice imposed by the minority upon the majority . ' Mr . Magpire held that it was the dtity of all who were really anxious to promote the jpeace of Ireland , and to maintain the principle « f civil and religious liberty , to decline the proposition of the Secretary for Ireland . . Mr . Ckosslky would adhere to the volnntary principle , and interpose his vote to prevent those who derivet no benefit from a religious sect Mug obliged to contribute to the support of that sect . Mr . Napikk was bound in honour to support the amendment , inasmuch as it involved a proposal much to the same effect as was entertained by the late Government . Mr . John Fitzgebald supported tke motion ; and , in so doing , urged that be was not interfering with Church property , but was getting rid of a tax imposed upon the people of Ireland by an unscrupulous and intolerant legislature . After further discussion , a division was taken—For the motion 88
Against it 103 Majority fox the Government —15 Law Rkfokm . —Lord Sr . Leonard's called the attention of the House to the reports which had been made at various times by the commissions which had been appointed for the codification and consolidation of the criminal law ; On these reports bills had been framed , which had been referred to a select committee of their lordships , and on which the opinions of the judges had been asked . Those opinions , it appeared , tueretoreto
were atrongly against the measure , tie wisnea , , know the intentions of the Government as to the bills in question . The Lord Chancellor intimated his intention of referring the bills to a select committee . Lord Brougham addressed the House ( by this time reduced to four ) at great length , expressing his sorrow at the prospect of fresh delay in giving the public the advantage or a criminal code . Coasting Trade . —The bill setting free the coasting trade to shipa of all nations was read a third time , on Tuesday , amid general cheering .
Judqmkn * Executions . —Mr . Ckaufuhd obtained leave to bring iri a bill to enable executions to issue in any part of the United Kingdom under judgments obtained in any court in England , Ireland , or Scotland . The Lord Advocate concurred in the object of the bill , and would render every assistance . Mr . Napier . —I say ditto on the part of Ireland . { Hear , hear , and laughter . ) The Aworney-ueitkbal . —And I say ditto on the part of England . { Much leughter and cheering . ' ) Postal Service . —Mr . Henry George Liddkll called
attention to the delays and inconveniences occasioned try the Eresent postal communication between London and Etiinurgh and Glasgow , and moved for tlie appointment of a select committee of inquiry . This gave rise to a discussion , in which the imperfect postal communications throughout tlio country were freely commented upon ; and Mr . Wilson suggested that the inquiry should extend into the question generally , as regards mails conveyed by railways . The amendment was ultimately agreed to .
Peccant Boroughs . —On the motion of Lord John Russell , it was ordered that no warrants for now writs for Barnstaple , Cambridge , Canterbury , Hull , Maldon , and Tynemouth , be issue *! before Friday , ilie 17 th of March next . Petitions to Parliament . —Parliament baa now been sitting above a montli , and the list of petitions presented to the House of Commons up to the 2 d of March , shows tho following results : —38 petitions , with 11 , 717 BipaLures , against tho endowment of Roman Catholic gaol chaplains ;
8 , with 1861 signatures , for public inspection of nunneries ; 19 , with 7099 signatures , for tho reduction of tho tire insurance duty ; 18 , with 8362 signatures , for prohibiting tho sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday ; 81 , with 62 H 7 signatures , for closing puWichousea and beorshopa on . Sunday
oxa more feudal notion , or hold that there was no difference between land and money . It appeared to him that there was the greatest difference between the two , tho same general reasons not being applicable to tho one as to tho other . A man may spend money , and the State not suffer ; but if property be divided ana mismanaged , tho State does suffer . If tno only question was whether the present law was just or unjust , and the House declared that the giving a landed estate to the eldest son , to the exclusion of the others , was unjust , what a platform argument might bo raised for further interference I Then he must consider tho interest of the State and community , and look at what had tak ^ ff place in France und Ireland . The subdivision of land / m France bad en unfavourable effect upon cultivation ; if so , such a
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THE FLEET AND ABMY . To-sat tbe Queen reviews the Baltic fleet at Spithead . This announcement , says a letter from Portsmouth , dated Thursday , " has had the effect of bringing about a state of things , if possible , more unpleasant to the sight-seer than on the last occasion of the Royal review of the fleet . Accommodation there is literally none , even at that exorbitant scale of prices which the innkeepers of Portsmouth know so veil when and how to enforce . As to provisions , the town already suffers something of the horrors of war , though happily not arising
from & state of hostile siege , but from the effect of the more common-place action of supply and demand . The thousands of visitors who may patronise the excursion trains of the London and South-Western Railway , and Brighton and South Coast Railway , would do well to bring their c % n provisions with them—a precaution necessary as well for their own comfort as for that of those who are at present in this garrison town . At present , tbe raost ordinary kinds of provisions are procurable only at an alarming increase in price , and while the town suffers , as under a protective system , from an insufficient supply , its miseries are
further increased by the remorseless manner in which , upon the most correct principles of free trade , every dealer is determined to sell what little he has in the very dearest market . Special commissioners have been dispatched from several of the hotels as far as Salisbury , and other places in the rural districts , in order to purchase supplies of butter , eggs , poultry , 9 and other edibles of a like character . The enthusiam and crowded state of the town are even greater than at the period of the last review ; and when the excursion trains pour in their thousands , the evils of a surplus population will be experienced in a somewhat unpleasant manner . " '
lord Hardinge and a large party of his friends will be the guests of Major-General Simpson , at the Government House . Sir James Graham , and the other lords of the Admiralty , have applied in vain for accommodation at the hotel , [ and their only resource will be that of sleeping on board the Admiralty yacht . Admiral Sir Charles Napier is expected hourly , and will at once hoist his flag on board the Princess Royal , 91 , if the Duke of Wellington , 131 , should not by that time have come round from Plymouth . The division of the fleet to be reviewed is a most magnificent one , and at present consists of nineteen ships ; of this number there are—SAILING . Royal George , 121 , flag of Rear-Admiral Corry . Prince Regent , 90 , Cant . H . Smith , C . B . Boscawen , 70 , Capt . Glanville . SCREWS . St . George , 121 , Capt . Eyres . St . Jean d'Acre , 101 , Capt . Hon . H . Keppel . Princess Royal 91 , Capt . Lord Paget . Blenheim , 60 , Capt , Lord F . T . Pelham . Hogue , 60 , Capt . W . Ramsey . Edinburgh , 58 , flag of Rear-Admiral Chads . Ajax , 58 , Capt . Warden . Impcrieuse , 61 , Captain Watson , C . B . Arrogant , 47 , Captain Yelverton . Amphion , 34 , Cnptain Key . rAnm-KS . Leopard , 18 , flii fj of Admiral l'lumridge . Odin , 1 G , Cuptaiu F . Scott . Mngicieuno , V 2 , Cuptain T . Fisher . Valorous , 16 , Captain Buckle . Hulldog , 6 , Captain VV . K . Hull . Gorgon , G , Coin . A . dimming . It ia expected that by to-morrow ( Friday ) there will bo an addition to tbe fleet of the Duke of Wclliugton , screw , Ml guna ( whicU is hourly expected ) ,
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Leader (1850-1860), March 11, 1854, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2029/page/4/
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