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mit to the House previously ' a £ 6 rms 3 ! estimate for thta outlay . THE MOBTAKS SUPPLIED BT MESSRS . GEISSEXL ANB CO . Mr . JklALTNs called attention to the , charge tkatitftd ! been brought against Messrs . Giissell and Co . * having supplied to the Ordnance flawed and . defective mortars He denied the truth , and justice of this , charge , aod , hel < 3 that , berth Lord Pannmre and Mr- M&nsell , the clerk of the Ordnance , had been . rash and unfair in making it . — - Mr . Monsell contended that he had ; stated nothing more than what was perfectly true . —Mr . Geobge , Dunbas , Mr . Evelyn , Mr . Alderman Cubitt , Sir John " Pakingtok , and Mr . Tkb , defended . Messrs . GrisseU , of whose business character they spoke : highly- r- * lnC « d I * ovatne thought they had not acted with , honesty and honour ; and Captain Boldero , while acquitting them of fraud , considered that they had b « en guilty of gross negligence . The motion for the adjournment having been agreed to , the House -went into Committee of Scppjuy , after a brief discussion on the subject of
Monday , April 21 st . THE cmUBENCr IN StNGAPORB . In the House of Lords , the Earl of Ai , bemarlb presented a petition from the European and native merchants of Singapore , remonstrating against the introduction by the Government of' India of the rupee as the currency of that settlement , instead of the Spanish dollar , which had been long established , and was found
convenient and : satisfactory ; The old currency of Singapore was a decimal one , " but that of the-rupee is difficult to reckon ; and has-produced the greatest intricacy and confusion . Tie Government , by paying its officers in rupees , inflicts on thenri a serious loss , as that coin is always at a discount ; aaid he therefore hoped the act ; would he repealed ;—Earl . Granvilue stated that the Home government , having felt some doubt as to the expediency of the measure , had given instructions that its effect should be closely watched .
eirURCBC DISCIPLINE . BILL . The Eobd Chancelxor moved the second reading of this bill ; which proposed that assessors ( barristers ) should sit with and act for the Bishop ; that four of these chancellors or assessors be appointed , superseding all vicars-general throughout the country ; the assessors to be appointed by two Irish Bishops , two English-Bishops , and the Bishop of London : before exercising any of their powers , tliey are ^ o subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles . The jurisdiction of the Bishops ' Court includes offences committed by clerks in holy orders * and the proceedings necessary to enforce a due administration of the . sacraments and the rites , and ceremonies of the Church . All proceedings under the
act are to be commenced within two years of the offence ; There is an appeal from the Diocesan Court to the Provincial Court , and from the Provincial Court to the JudicialCommittee of the Privy Council , —TneArchfeishop © f Canterbury opposed the bill , and moved that it be read a second time that day six . months . He made a few remarks , which -were almost inaudible . ^—The Bishop of Derry , while thinking that some of the details would require modification , approved of the bill as a whole , and read a document in its support , signed by the Archbishops and Bishops of the province of Armagh , who desired to see one final Court of Appeal for England and Ireland , in the constitution of which court the Queen ' s supremacy should
remain intact . —The Bishop of Exeter denounced the bill as involving a large unnecessary expenditure , and as depriving the Church of all power of independent action . The 15 th clause destroyed the authority of the Bishop in any given diocese , and vested it at the pleasure of the Archbishop . If the Irish Bishops did not feel the sanctity and divine right of the diocesau episcopacy , they thereby separated themselves from the Church of England . There is nothing in the office of an Archbishop which confers upon him higher episcopal authority than that given to the Bishop . Ho doubt he possesses higher ecclesiastical authority , but his origin is only ecclesiastical ; ho has not the divine origin of the Bishop . Moreover , he is perfectly irresponsible . If he transgress
the temporal laws of the country , of course he is as much amenable to punishment as any other person ; bat the laws of the Church have no authority over him , and he might be an Atheist , and even proselyte others to his heresies , and no one could prevent him . ( A laugh . *) He would invite the attention of their Lordships to the 16 th clause . That clause gave to the Church a power which the Church had never possessed—which the Church never ought to possess—which the Church never sought to possess—and which the Church would refuse to possess , unless it were absolutely forced upon it—the power of committing persons to prison for contempt . Such a blunder could not have proceeded from a mind imbued with ecclesiastical law and ecclesiastical principles . ( Hear
, / tear . ") Tho Church disclaims the power of the sword ; bat the power of committing to prison is part of tho power of the sword . The Church only claims tho power of the keys . —Tho Bishop of Bangok also opposed tho bill as being visionary , impracticable , and costly . He was followed on tho same side by the Bishop of Oxford and tho Earl of Derby . —Tho Bishop of Cashkl and tho Earl of IlAimownY supported tho bill , — -The Lord Chancellor having replied , their Lordships dividod , when there appeared—Contents , 03 ; Non-contents , 41 ; majority against the second reading , 8 . The bill , consequently , was lost . Tho House then adjourned till Thursday .
CELBIJItATION OF PKAOlfi . In tho Housn ov Cqmmows , several questions wore addressed to tho Government , having- reference ! to tho preparations for oolobmting tho conclusion of peace ; and these questions assumed tho form of a debate when tho Chanohllok OFTiirc ExoujcQU « it moved that tho House at its rising do adjourn until Thursday . Tho reply on tho part of sovorul members of tho Govormnont , amounted to this—that they had boon guided by precedent ; that there waa no in novation in making preparations boforo tho terms of the ponvn wero known j that tho ooat of the ihoworktt , tho exhibition of which would not bo confined to the wont-ond of tho town , would not exceed 8 , 000 / ., nud that they did not think it noceoanry to
eub-HEBEDTTAKY PENSIONS . Sir Francis Baring called the attention of the House to the statement made on the previous Friday night by the Secretary for the Treasury , who said that the purchase-money of the hereditary pensions , redeemed during the past year , was not voted by Parliament ,, but paid out of the growing produce of' the revenue . Sir Francis doubted whether it was legal to raise the money ; for the redemption of pensions out of . the gross revenue : without the sanction of Parliament . —Mr . Wilson said that the account was not an Exchequer account ;; and that , with respect to these pensions , it was thought that the best course would be to buy them , up , and a certain portion of them had accordingly been bought up . He-had ,. generally , strictly adhered to what had been the nmforaa custom . —Mr . Williams denounced the actiwhiah > Go vernment , had committed ;; and the subject then . dronped
' secona'time-tbat day six months . —Mr . Eveltn t > EinsaN and WfcermenSberff expressed similar views , maintaining that the-only ^ ffeetrral means of meeting foreign competition- Ss- by greatly- lowering the present dttty . T- ^ The € teM * eEii&OR-OF « He ; Exchequerpleaded ' tbe necessity bFJetimftitg" the ' present revenue . In . the event of a sprplns' < ttCTtrri&g ; jfche reduction of thfe fire insurance dfitywould ^© considered . —Ultimately , the debate -ftas adjourned . The other ^ btxsines ^ was disposed of ; and ; at a tjfnajrt 6 r ¦ past' two , the House adjourned till Thursday . •
Thursday , Aprd 23 r . ^ gypflfUqft nf ^ |^^ r q , Lord Brougham presented a petitionfroBa the-magistrates of Cumberland ^ complaining , of . the evils arising from the Scotch law of marriage . His Loidsbip . made some remarks from himself on the anoroaloua and disgraceful condition , of that law , aud said that , impossible , an end must : be put to the occurren . ee of . such cases as those which might now happen , of persons being , ni ^ rrie , d in Scotland and not in England , and of ; the . issue of that union being legitimate on the north of th 4 ^ T-Weeid ,,, and illegitimate on the south . The law . of divorce , also , is very contradictory ia the two countries * . $ & ., ) $#$ jp case of a respectable , merchant of , Ldyej ; noo ^ . - wiiCii ^ ad married in England ,, and afterwards gone to Scotland , where he obtained a divorce , which , he was assured , by
the Scotch bar and the judges , was effectual to render , bis English , marriage void ; . a . tid he , unhappily for ; him , married a second time , relying upon that , opinion ,, was prosecuted for bigamy , convicted , and sentenced to imprisonment ia England , having unwittingly readsred himself liable to seven years' . transportation , ?—Lords Campbell and Mjcnto bore testimony to the urgent necessity for a change in the law ; but the Earl of Abeb-PEeh differed from this view of the . e ,. and said that he had opposed Lord Brougham ' s bill of 1835 , and should oppose" any similar measure . He admitted , that the evil stated by the petitioners does : exist ,, but it might be remedied . without altering the law o £ Ssottend withrespect to marriage—a law which , heconeideied . to , he sanctioned . by aU experiencein , tiiat cottafcry ; , cancfcjjy the good effects it had there produced ..
FALL OB * EARS . The Earl of Malddb 3 bury- gave notice that'he slould bring forward his motion on the fall of Kars , imputing blame , to the Government , on Friday , May 2 nd ,
TBESS HAV-AT , REVIEW . Lord EAVENSwoRTif ^ caUed the attention , of the Government to the total faUure of the arrangements made by the-Admiralty forthe aecommodationiof : the Peers at the saval seview . . The idea that her Majesty , should be aocprnpaaied down the- line , by ther House of Peers was a goad one , but it hadutterly fftiled . from the mismanagement of the Admiralty , combined , he admitted , with , the breakdown of the trains ; on the railroad . They were delayed on the way ; . there were further delays at Southampton , ; and the engines of the Transit , the steamer allotted , to them ,. proved . defective . In returning , they made way enough to xun . down a > gunboat , but not to enablthem to return
enough e to Southampton . till -ten . a ' clo-ck ; and the tiller-ropes broke before * they got id . Such was the rush at the station afterwards , that ho saw a , Bishop trod a Privy Councillor take refuge in a thirdclass . carriage . Their day ' s pleasure , ended in . the . Beers and Peeresses promenading the railway ! platform late at night , with not a carriage or cab to be . got for love or money . Ho thought some explanation was required . — Earl Grantillk said that , though he had been one of the sufferers , he conld not admit that all the blame lay withithe Government , the breaking down of the locomotives being one principal cause of the delay . The stokers of the Transit , moreover , had allowed the fires to go out - —a point of detail for which . the Government could not be responsible . Every inquiry should bo made . —The
Earl of Mauhes » ubt complained that Earl Granville , in tho . midst of their difficulties , had hailed a shore boat , and deserted tho ship . Ho ( the Earl of Malmesbuby ) had to walk home at three o ' clock in the morning . — -Lord Campbell , while admitting that all the blame did not lie -with the Government , said that there had been some grosa mismanagement , which reminded them ot Balalclava . The euip was in euch difficulties on tho way back to Southampton that two of the Judges were obliged to help work at tho capstan . 1 Ho did not get homo till four in the morning , but , as ho was able to be at court at eleven , tiro cause of justice had not suffered . —After some further conversation , tho subject dropped . Similar complaints were made in the Lower House , wh « ro Mr . Stacitoro was the first to call attention to
the subject . Ho also compared the arrangements to those at Balaklava , and said that , having witnessed the arrangements of tho Government both at homo and abroad , ho desired to testify to tho oneness of tho system and tlio similarity of tho principles on which it is based , ( C / ieera and laugAfer . ') It wna not possible for the Govormneut at ho short a notice to cover tho docks ol Southampton with mud , nor woro they responsible foi tho Huashino ; but , us far as in . thorn lay , they did thoii boat to uiaUo that particular locality resemble BnlakluvE «» much as possible . ( Great cheorim / and lang / dor . ")—Various other membora loudly oxproasod their diBsatls faction , and Hovoro censure was paBBed on tho Londoi aud South Woatom Itailway . — -Lord pAijwmmsTOM eug
THE-BRITISH MUSEUM . The House resumed the discussion of the Civil Service Estimates , the first of which , 60 , 000 £ , for- the salaries and expenses-of the British Museum establishment , was moved by Lord John- Russell , who , on the-part of-tb © trustees , made -the customary statement of the transactions connected with the Museum during the past year . Mi . Moncktost MPLSES entered into some critical remarks on the present management of the Museum , which is vested in the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Lord Chancellor , the Speaker of the House of Commons , andfifteen trustees , all of whom are occupied in various ways , and therefore he did not think the management-at all ' -a satisfactory one . A report of
a commission had been issued in 1850 , and it recommended , among other things , that there should be a body , consisting of a few persons , responsible for the government of the Museum ; but the recommendation had not been adopted . The selection of Mr . Panizzi , a foreigner , to be head librarian , Mr . Milnes considered was a slight to many deserving Englishmen of distinction in literature and science , one of whom ought to have been preferred . —The Speaker ( not being then in the chair ) defended the choice of Mr . Panizzi , who was the aiext officer in position to the late librarian , and who possessed admirable qualifications for the post . As to choosing a foreigner , there were many precedents for that course . Since the formation of the library iii 1776 ,
there had been five principal librarians at the Museum ( exclusive of Mr . Panizzi ) ; and of these , two had be « n foreigners . It had also been the invariable rule to select for the post some officer already on the establishment . With regard to the patronage of tho Museum , he and Ms colleagues would have no objection to bo relieved from the burden of it . —Mr . Layard defended the appointment of Mr . Panizzi , but insisted that some reform is required in the government of the . Museum . — Lord Eloko suggested whether it would not be desirable to consider the propriety of separating tho different collections and sending the artistic and archaeological portions to the new National CUHery . —The Chancellor of tub Exchequer stated that sovcral of tho recommendations
ot the commissioners of 1850 have been carried out . — . Mr . Disraeli urged tho necuaaity of dividing tho Museum into three parts , devoted to literature , science , and arts , the present building being not too large for tho first alone . Ho defended tho choice of Mr . Panizzi against what ho called tho porsonal attack on him made by Mr . Milnes . —After some further discussion ( in tho course of which Lord John Russele- expressed his surprise tlmt Mr . Milnos should havo objected to tho appointment of Mr . Panizzi because that gentleman is a foreigner ) , tho voto was ngreed to , as well as a vote of 18 , 020 / . for tho Board of Health , after some opposition by Mr . Miouicuo , Mr . Williams , Mr . Milks , and othors , principally on the ground of tho unnecessarily large salary paid to Mr . Simon , tho medical officer . —The Ilouso then resumed .
FIKIQ JLNBUJtANOB HILL . Tho CHANOKLLan ov Tina ISxcuiCQUKR moved tho second reading of tliia bill—a measure intondod to provont tho ovaiiiou of tho duty by effecting insurances abroad , and by this moiina protecting tho English lire ofliocH ngninst foreign competition . —Mr Wilkinson woe of opinion that tho bill would not accompliah its object . It would drivo a valuablo branch of business from this country . Ho moved as « n uiuondmont that it bo read a
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Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1856, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2138/page/3/
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