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make a profit out of the revolution by seizing the Rhine , or some other coveted acquisition . It is evident that in taking this step through its agents , the Russian Governmsnt intends to carry on the war by intrigue as well as arms , with not less malignity than ever . To pretend , therefore , that the objects of fehe contest have been gained , is a quibble th . a& . £ » % scarcely dgftejve t&e man who uses it—certainly apj ; the bulk of the English people .
The Cambridge £ has pag&ed through Qsm * mittee . The const ^ itioti i ^ ajKne-what libaasilsed ; but the noxious and absurd system of sectional election is still retained , to the detriment not only of the University at large , but , in reality , of those very injterasts wJuch it i * supposed to protect . The admission of Dissenters to the M . A . degree , though without the power of voting in the Senate , was carried against a pretty strong opposition . The Lords improve . The Bishop of Oxford said with truth that a similar advance of the wedge must follow at Oxford . The poor Thirty-nine Articles have an anxious life of it in these days .
The Spoonerites celebrated a Maynooth orgie on Wednesday , well compared by Mr . Keogh to the theological controversies which raged within the walls of Constantinople while the Turk battered them without . Mr . Keogh made rather a happy hit by pointing to the self-revelations of Protestant immorality in the Reports of the University Commission : but Protestant immorality has the advantage in the very fact of its being selfrevealed . There is probably a majority in the House . pledged to the abolition of Maynooth . But many of these gentlemen are by no means anxious to redeem their pledges , and with their connivance the subject drags on interminably . To talk to Mr . Spooler of the danger of
disgusting the Irish when we need them as soldiers , is to talk of consequences to a being who does not acknowledge them . There is one bouleversement in certain places that rather inverts our ordinary ideas of ecclesiastical affairs . In Roman Catholic Sardinia , the Royal assent has just been given to the bill which suppresses several convents , and brings those that remain under the control of the civil law . A remarkable change is noticed in the pro-clerical press , which vilified the promoters of this law while it was passing , but now assumes an air of for
courtesy , and substitutes sarcasm calumny . Evidently the clerical party feel that the reform was too strong for them . While Sardinia is making a loyal , moderate , and practical attempt to subordinate the clerical to the civil authority , certain ultra-Protestants in the House of Commons are indulging in a weekly debate for the revocation of the grant to Maynooth College — a tedious tribute to bigotry , which might succeed ; for the House of Commons will often , in a moment of heedlessness , give to pertinacity what it refuses to conviction . While these two movements are going on , — the practical and wise measure in Sardinia , and the ultra-Protestant
reaction in Ireland , —tho Bishop of London is visiting the church of St . Paul ' s , Knightsbridge , in order to " inspect the floral decorations , " of which he approves . Thus the flower of beauty becomes an emblem of discord , and British episcopacy exhibits itself in the attitude of admiringly inspecting and judiciously approving tho ball-room decorations of a half-amateur chapel . The Hath election is one of the first positive steps gained by tho Administrative Reformers . Tho two candidates were Mr . Titis , tho City Architect , and Mr . Whatici . ey , tho Queen ' s
Counsel ; neither of them men having claims upon tho citizens of Bath . Mr . Titb , however , was an Administrative Reformer thoroughgoing ; Mr . Wiiatiblmy was a protended Administrative Reformer , who took up tho City for tho nonce . Titk , " a rough diamond , " as one of his earnest supporters apologetically describes him , is elected , and is the first Administrative Reformer who enters the House in the same wcok that witnesses tho measures carried out for tho organisation of tho War Department , somewhat questionably illustrated by a batch of family appointments .
The Lord Mayor continues to go about Paris in such a demonstrative fashion as to lead the natives to suspect his sanity . On Wednesday afternoon he wivp . eji * b e Boulevards with six footmen hangling behi nd . his coach , full robes , and the sword -bea # ? er in . fete fur cap . Bets were offered freely afc the Cafe de Paris that it was a new Turkish ambassador . T ; 4 © Law Courts iiii ^ week—hig ^ an d lowpresent some curious ^ instances of evasion * . The Electric Telegraph Company has been cooyicted at S ^ ford of a liability to pay poor-rates ; which it < $ eclineii ; &s > do , because fche company djtes not " occupy ? " the lancli . "J 3 && plea fails . - on both The essential is
grounds of argument and fact . , not the occupation of the land , but the possession of means ; the occupation of the land being simply taken as a test of the means . Ev . ei » y corporation is bound to contribute towards maintaining the poor of the land ; and if the Electric Telegraph Company had evaded , it would have been only by a quibble ; but the plea was absurd , in fact . The wires do not float in air , sustained not by posts , but zephyrs , and unterminated by stations . If the company had pleaded that it was bound to pay very little rates , because , as it were , it lodges upon stilts throughout the United Kingdom , —like a peasant of the French Landes resting , —the plea would have been more reasonable . But even the
stilts , in the aggregate , must occupy enough of ground to make a very good basis for rating . The case of Monich Peter Christian at the Lambeth Police-court is filled with many a moral . Monich played the fashionable gallant ; he procured the means of seeming as if he were a man rich and open-handed ; and because he was welldressed , handsome , fluent , and adorned , everybody whom he addressed , landlord or landlady , was prepared to trust him—though he had nothing really to deposit as property , but a box of firewood . There was tact even in the selection of that material , a lower rascal would have chosen for his luggage stones with a superficial weightiness ; but Christian knew how to impart an air of veri-similitude to the fiction .
The facts of the week , however , are fertile in sarcastic antitheses done in action : Lord Derby , who never wins the Derby , has this year ominously won , O ! Palmerston , the Windsor Castle Stakes , with " Professor !" The Fetes at Sydenham have brought the glories of Versailles and St . Cloud within an easy drive of the artisans of London . All the wonders and luxuries of all civilisations , harmoniously grouped within the gleaming walls , the stately terraces guarded by eternal Sphynxes , flushed
with parterres of flowers , smiled upon by the immortal serenity of sculpture , the lavish disposition of the spacious gardens , the sudden glories of the arching waters , —surely here are imperial splendoui-s democratised by our much-abused utilitarian century ! On Saturday and on Monday last the twenty and thirty thousand ticketholders testified gladly to the triumph of that enterprise which made even the Caracalla of France ashamed of his own " public works . " The universal murmur of delight ratified the success . Politics find business were cast off for a
moment by the sterner sex : the coquetry of the toilettes rivalled tho very azaleas in colour and caprice , and lent to all the accompaniments of sight and sound a certain atmosphere of fascination . The clouds that hung over the fate of tho Palace during the long and dreary winter aro , we trust , finally dispersed . May the sunshine be perpetual I The Concert on Monday , however , had one serious defect . Only the highest notes of the highest soprano voice could be heard by
twothirds of an immense audience in that enormous salle . At an easy distance from the platform Signor Bottiosiisi ' s miraculous discoursing on his gigantic barbiton appeared like the antics and contortions of a devil - worshipper possessed . Surely this may bo corrected by a slight attention to the science of acoustics ; indued , wo hoar that tho accomplished und ingenious Mr . Ei-i-a has demonstrated satisfactorily that even the basest of voices may be enabled to penetrate to tho remotest spacos , if only properly plucwl . On Saturday tho triumph of triumphs whh for Owkn Jones , "who by hia marvellous reproduction of tho Hall of tho Aboncormgos in tho Alhuinbra , has raised a now Eastern ( . iuention , and taught Cockneys the divine de . npair of reclining witli Oriental abandonment .
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Xhb- 4 wko Houses met again on Monday after the Whitsuofcids recess . In the Lords , but little business was done : in the Commons , " honourable members " were occupied almost solely by the adjourned debate on the conduct of the war . TRANSPORT SERVICE THE MEDWAY . The Earl of-Ei . lenborough made some remarks as , to * thesnanner in which sixty-five horses were lost on board ; the Medway on her way to Balaklava . The horsep were crow . ded on deck ; and a gentleman who w . egrtftQwep-it *» ship beftjre she sailed anticipated th e 1 & 8 S which 4 ) a * l in faci- , ensued . It appeared that these horses weje placed 1 . under sheds , and that the horses themselves were in alings , which slings could only be unfastened by a man lying along on their backs . The weather came on to be extremely l 111 ¦¦
. * n- - * » ..- J severe ; the shed gave way bodily , and slid over on one side ; and the deck was covered with horses , dead , dying , and kicking ; so that if anything had gone wrong with the machinery of the vessel at that time , she must have been lost . —Lord Panmure said the loss of the horses was entirely owing to the hurricane which the vessel met with ; in support of which assertion he read a letter from Admiral Greig at Gibraltar . It was found necessary to place the horses on deck , because they were required in great numbers , and every means of sending them out was therefore made available .
ABSENCE OF THE SPEAKER . A curious specimen of our Parliamentary conventionalities was given on the announcement by Lord Palmeeston that Mr . Speaker , owing to his having sprained himself , would be unable to attend for a few days . The Premier , under these circumstances , moved a resolution providing " that , in the event of Mr . Speaker ' s absence continuing for more than this day , Mr . Fitzroy take the chair in like manner as on this day on each subsequent day during Mr . Speaker ' s absence . " Hereupon , Lord K . Cecil rose and said there had been no prayers that day ; to which , apparently , he only objected on the ground that the omission would prevent members from securing : their seats through the evening , that being
always done before prayers . At this there was loud laughter . —Mr . Fitzroy explained that there had been no prayers that evening because , in the absence of the Speaker , " there was no one to call the cbaplain in . " And again the jocund House roared with merriment . —tiir Frederick Thksiger suggested the omission of the words " in like manner ; " otherwise , there would be no prayers in the House until Mr . Speaker returned . This was a prospect so irresistibly comical , that once more the laughter burst forth . " Then we'll omit the words , " replied Lord Palmerston ; and with this amendment , and a further alteration limiting the new arrangement to a week , the resolution was agreed to and the merriment in connexion with honourable members' religious devotions subsided .
THE BLOCKADE OF THE BALTIC POUTS . In answer to an inquiry by Mr . J . G . Piiillimohe , Sir Charles Wood stated that there was not the slightest foundation for the construction put by the Russian Government in its circular upon the notice issued by order of Captain Watson , and that the officer employed by him had carried out the instructions of her Majesty ' s Government in the most accurate manner , totally at variance with the statements of the Russian Government . The principle of the neutral flag protecting the cargo had been fully carthe
ried out . Captain Watson had been requested by civil governor of Port Baltic to allow four Russian vessels to proceed to Kiga , and had answered that they were free to go , as far as he was concerned , but that he could not say whether the Commander-in-Chief of tho Fleet , who was coining up tlie ^ Itic > might not interfere with them . —A statement to the same general effect was made in the House of Lords by Earls ( jkanvim . is and Harkowijy , in answer to questions from the Karl of Albemaiile . rnosrcouTiON ov tub war— ai > . toi : uni : i > dkhate .
The debate was resumed by the consideration of Sir Francis Barinu ' b amendment of Mr . Diskahus motion . This amendment now stood as u substantive motion , to which an amendment was to be proposed by Mr . Lowjuj . Mr , MiLNHit Giiison opened tho debate by objecting to tho amendment of Mr . Lowe , as weU us to that of Sir Francis Baring ; the latter of wlncli ic considered feeble , while the former would pled /* " V ' House to very grave considerations , The . justice sit all
and good policy of entering into the wur won . exceedingly questionable ; but the country swimn i 10 act on the principle that Turkey could < lo " <> " ronjr Mr . Gibson then went over the old cluirtfcs ntf <»»™ the press of having fomented the war ; and n ' . " ml' ! , that Lord Pulincr . ston , in cngngiiiK Mr . ^ » .. ¦ write and publinh , at the expense of the nation , m clcs in tho continental and American . i <""' mllrt ; . object of which wan to ehow that the I' ^ lK-y <> ' i j Knglicih government was cNsontinlly I " . ' lll ( ' j . j done moro towards encouraging the hotl'lo tlcsifc .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 9, 1855, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2094/page/2/
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