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Departure of * Body of Metropolitan P ° " ™ the Sea * oe . Wa * . — A number ofpolice-officers . belong ^ to the , metropolitan districts speciallyappointed fo actrve duty at . the rtat of war , took their departure onMong evening last from . London « . «* te for 3 « J ^ ton , and thea for Constantinop le , and finally to settle at V * any other place wliere their services mi ^ ut tx > .. u , or The corps consisted of about 20 ^ ' -lore required , force , -who , it is imdersjtoo 1 ' - L'lo linest men in the service . A very . $ &" '' " - > voltSiteered to go upon foreign road terrt » "" ' -acting scene took place at the Waterloolyo ^ - ... iius ; for as the train in which the mea .. o was . moving out , a number of friends and young women , some of -whom had been keeping company with the officers when on duty in London , and who little anticipated that they would have to leave the metropolis , commenced
sobbing violently . It is understood that another and far larger Dody of men are to follow- those already sent off in the courser of a few -weeks . —Morning Advertiser ) ' . The Mokmomites . —The last advices from the desert give very favourable accounts of the colony which has planted itself on . the shores of Lake Utah , in order to found the New Sion . Governor Young has established relations with the Indians , and has bound the Saints to live in good understanding with the sarages . The Deseret Neies publishes some letters written by a Saint to her sister in New Hampshire . " I am happy , A'ery happy / ' she writes , " I live agreeably to the w'ill of the Lord . My husband has six other wives , whom he loves equally , and whom I esteem as sisters . Our children , united , are 24 in number . Peace is in the house . " These letters must most likely be dictated by fanaticism , © r extorted '^ by ¦ force . —New York Hefald .
A- Lono Ibcfrisonmbst . —On Thursday last George Eisbyy who was tried at the Lent Assizes , at Chehnsford , on the 9 th of March , 1835 , for the wilful murder of John Spooner , at West Bergholfc , was discharged from Springfield Gaol , her Majesty ' s pardon baying Veen received by Jin Neale , the governor . JRisby was committed on the 7 th of August , 1834 , and at the following assizes was tried , and acquitted on the ground of insanity , but ordered " to be kept 3 n strict custody until his Majesty ' s pleasure be known . Thus , after a lapse of twenty ] years , a few days only excepted , he has regained his liberty ; His case and good conduct in prison having "been represented to the Secretary of State , the authorities were induced to recommend his releasei ^^ £ ssaa Standard .
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THE WEW ELECTIOiSrS . The writs for the " suspended boroughs " were last night moved for , ordered , and , by n « xt week * , "will be issued . These elections will take place under the new IJribeiy Bill ; and , whatever the defects of that measure the discussions upon it , in both Houses , will have at least so far raised the morale of electioneers that we may expect , under the combined influence of fear of exposure , desire for economy , and craving for purity , that the contests will be somewhat exceptionally honourable .
In these circumstances tlie elections , even upon the limited franchise , will be regarded as presenting genuine indications of public opinion in some of our most important boroughs . The elections will take place at a critical period ; at the close of a session in which our " public life" has been an anarchy ; at the commencement of ( if we are really commencing ) a great yar , the ultimate objects of which are dubious ; and at the formation of alliances , the conditions of which are equivocal—perhaps * degrading and disgraceful . It is , then ., of importance that the Liberal party should be prepared .
We do not mean that the Reform Olub Committee should sit daily ; that the Reform Association should hunt for candidates ; that the Ballot Society should endeavour to write an address ; or thafc Mr . Ooppock should have interviews with Mr- Hayter and his private bankers . ¥ o simply mean that the Liberal , or Radical , electors in the different boroughs should consult with one another as to what they consider to bo the national
interest and the Government ' s duty in respect to this yar . Wo have failed to get a programme either from a Liberal Government or the Liberal Government ' s Radical supporters : let us at least insist on pledges from Liberal candidates . The best sort of " public meeting " is thafc which collects round a hustings;—" resolutions" then are very real and practical tilings .
borne bold words , honourably guaranteed , and coming from nowly-olected members , would juBt now furnish tlio Cabinet with that steadying guidanco which they necessarily require in entering on tho Itecoss . Lot us hope , therefore , that these boroughs will speak nationally—at least intelligibly . When wo giro intont on Russia , do not lob us have candidates exclusively iruiitjting that they will not vote against " progressive Reform , " or " local self-government , " or tho " Ballot Society . " These pledges , too ; but , in tho first
place , —what sort of treaty with Russia , and what sort of alliance with Austria they will vote for . Yet as Parliament is done away with for six months , by an arrangement which seems not to astonish a people who believe that they are governed by representative institutions , —why new elections at all ? The treaty may be signed , and the alliance contemplated , ere our possible statesmen have taken their seats in that Senate which only comes in with green peas and other luxuries of the spring season .
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RESULTS OF THE SESSION . "We have had a very long session . About 60 , 000 , 0007 . of taxes have been voted ; no information has been given about the war ; and the Oxford University Reform Bill has been , passed;—these are the main facts of the very long session . The war excused no-legislation ; and " consideration for the public service , " in reference to the war , excused the no-information .. The war required the voting of extra taxes ; and the'fact that extra taxes
were being voted explains the consistent indifference of the House to economy in theordinary estimates . The excuse for everything has been that this great war was fully approved of by this great people , who were engrossed in it ; which fully accounts for theearnest reluctance of the aristocracy to pass any bill to improve the representation of the people in the House of Commons . Certainly the people are quite content with this eventless session . And undoubtedly the Government— -which has been unable to do anything except get taxes and refuse
information , and which has been beaten about twice a week by an Opposition without either principle or organisation , and by Radicals who were its most hearty and anxious supporters—and which closes the session , collectively degraded , and in several instances individually disgraced—remains one of tho strongest Governments that have ever ruled in England . It is difficult to account for this anomalous state of public opinion ; but it is remarkable that the public is quite indifferent to the anomaly and does not seek to have it accounted for .
A strong ; Government always getting beaten : that is the position which puzzles all through the Session ; and which has provoked insane hopes in an Opposition ludicrously weak and yet generally victorious . Tlio position , however , is not stated thus with perfect accuracy . It will be observed , tliat the Government has been omnipotent in obtaining taxes , withholding information , and coaloscing with useful but horrible despotisms in defence of civilisation ; and that the
Government lms only been weak , flabby , foolish , and snubbed , when it entered tho field of abstract politics , touched Reforms , or attempted Progress—or what it believed to be Progress . The absurd misfortunes of tlio administration may , therefore , bo traced to its own misconception of ita duties and its rights . The Coalition was not formed because of a pressure in the country upon parties to carry specialities or conquer'Reforms . Tho Coalition was formed at a moment of profound quiet ( for there was never any real i '
for lJVoe-tracle—tho Budget on which Mr . Israeli wont down was aCobden—Budget)—at a moment when the Whigs had no Radical cry to Hfcand alone on—when tho l ? eolilcs wore straggling about as usoful administrators who could find nothing to ndvocuto , — when tho Tories had broken down because they wore too ingeniously attempting , at a favourable moment of uiuvoranl content , to please all interests too much . I a a word tho Coalition was formed for the Duke ' s roaBons , and for none others—viz ; ., to carry on tho
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Saturday , August 12 . The chief business of the House of Commons , in its meeting yesterday , was to order the new writs for Canterbury , Cambridge , Barnstable , Maldon and Hull . Mr . Thomas Doncombe offered some opposition , dividing the House on each , writ , on the ground that as the Bribery Bill would not prevent bribery , these writs for these corrupt places ought not . to issue until the ballot was adopted ; Mr . Duncombe taking for granted that some day the ballot will be adopted . Mr . Hume -was more moderate ; he asked Lord John Russell whether , if this Bribery Bill should prove a failure in tliese cases , he ( Lord John Russell ) would at last consent to the ballot . Lord John distinctly declined to make such a pledge .
BUSINESS FOR NEXT SESSION . As usua ] , several members drew bills on next session . Mr . Thomas Chambers , irrepressible Protestant , gave notice of a motion on Convents and Nunneries . Mr . Hume , with no thought of retirement , gave notice that next session he would move that salaries in Government offices be paid quarterly where they are now paid half-yearly .
CUBA—THE SLAVE TRADE . In the House of Lords the Earl of Clahendoi * , in laying on the tabl e certain papers relating to the Slave Trade , took tho opportunity of stating that during the government of the lnte captain-general of Cuba , the most stringent measures had been adopted to put down the slave trade in that country ; and he had every reason to believe that under the government of the newly-appointed captain-general—Concha—tlie same course would bo pursued , as it was the decided policy and wish of General Esparfcero . Ho also wished to disabuse the public mind in the Unitedi States of a notion which prevailed there , tliat this country was ready to enter into conventions for the purpose of making Cuba an African republic . He wished to give such a report tine strongest contradiction .
NEW ZEALAND COMPANV . Lord MoNTBAor . K presented a petition from Auckland , Now Zealand , praying for redress against tho clause in tho act granting n constitution to the Colony wliich imposed tho pnyment of a sum of 268 , 000 /; out of the proceeds of the Crowu Lnnds , to tho New Zealand Company . Tho Duks of Nkwcasti . h ) snid ho was always opposed to thnt arrangement , and that the mutter was under tho consideration of tho Government , with ft view to its correction .
POSTAGN TO iniAMOB . In answer to a quostion , Viscount Cannjno stated that negotiations wcro in progress for tho rcduo-\ J ' of ^ rate of postage on letterfl betweon England and France , and Sardinia , to Od ., and that tho rates on nowspnpord to Sardinia would bo imirtfcdiatbly reduced . Tho llouao then adjourned ut » quartor past six .
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rhere as nothing so revolutionary , ' TDecause ' there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the -world isby tie very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Arnold .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 12, 1854, page 754, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2051/page/10/
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