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imitate irf South America the same kind of " friendly" transactions which we have disclosed in the enlistment affair . Secrecy , therefore , may prevent a closing , but cannot assist it ; P ™ 0 « y cannot prevent it , but w *^ n «^ stoona $ fcassst at once both the American pufajpr » " <* tie ^ f / 2 public to have the question settled . , *« f ^ » blouse of Commons , wliose agre ™ em * e ™ j £ ascertain the truth ojhjhes ^ jgfrwnents , ***** and leaves the wholWmatte ^ Irthe hands « Ttlie Executive , exposed as the Executive has been in North America ! If this is not *«««* < £ * " »*• " * ° do not know why Stkahak , Paul , and Bates are servitude service
now underffoinar penal . now undergoing penai . The House of Commons is parting with its control over Ministers , at the very time when the affairs of the Continent aTe becoming more embroiled than ever . There have been rapid intercommunications between the Emperor ; Nafoi < eon and the Emperor Francis-Joseph of Austria ; we gather from the Presse Beige that Ft&nce and itaBtria are quite agreed as to the course to be while it is affirmedthat iu is amrmtu
nursued in Italy ; - , our pursued m Italy ; -wnne , n *» u w Government resolves to stand by and do nothing . Ceetainly this is not the position that our public understand the Government to take . If this was the intention , then the encouragement given to Sardinia at the Conference in Paris , and by the speeches of our Ministers in Parliament , was an excitement to a course of action which might lead to an immense sacrifice of life , and , what is worse ,
of liberty in Italy . Naples is pursuing her course 6 f oppression in a manner which implies that she has no regard for the formal remonstrances of France an 3 England : does that imply that she is ctenscious of support * and does not feel any neces-# ifcy for yielding before these dramatic representations ? In Parma the people can scarcely be prevented from rising against the Austrians , because it is understood that the Government itself is in Opposition to Austria . In Lombardy there is the same impatience to mow- And , in fact , from the Alps to Naples the people are awaiting the signal .
In fact , the House of Commons is scarcely , worth proroguing ; but Ministers > object to even this amount of interruption , and Parliament . i $ to be dismissed abijut a itoonth . TbeFore the iisHial lame tfe « 24 th of this month is tike day fixed . We all Jbium , therefore , what is to become of those geos ores that now amuse the two Houses- The ivofce and Matrimonial Causes Bill , amended by Lord Lyndhubst , the Wills Bill , or any other bill , will be shuffled aside ; why should Parliament remain together when the state of parties will jiot let it legislate , and Ministers will not let it ask what the Government is about abroad P
We are referred to the state of the revenue ; and because the tables show an increase of 422 , 000 / . on the quarter , and of 4 , 100 , 000 / . on the year , we are tola that the country is prosperous , and the people contented . As to the contentment ,, there m some troth . Society is becoming Again divided into those classes who are -well to do , and who take up almost as fast as they are Wilt the high-rented bouses of the eligible districts about London , and those classes who are now showing tn < eir dfsconfcent among the miners , ( among the iron trades , among the shipbuilders , and amotur the railway hands , by strikes . It is
not that in any one of these strikes actual poverty < 5 r extreme depression of wages is pleaded ; but tfce people feet that while the " prosperity of the country' is hwrteftsing at an ettorittous rate , with the revenue and witA the power of the Executive , those > who make ife « W pro » perifcy—» -the working hands—do not get their proportion of the increase , "the people , nowevpr , are quite content to be wlihout a representation , or without any hold of power of any kind , civil ot military-, and tlirey sete the coriBequenotoss . We uhftll hear of ntore sate ** - fices of pubKo interest before Parliament meets
again . , ^ Oui" prosperity , in fact , is getting dangerous . The Times gives us a string of forty-five hew coiiijbahiet * , tfSth a collcctfvo capital of 2 ' 3 , 49 O , OOOi ! . — ftoti of Jt « 6 bA tferit abroad—creations of tho spirit of speculation , which are likely to dispose of immense masses of capital far greater tlmn any sot down in this list . Some porsons will make fabulous profits ; some witl incur fabulous liabilittes , and we » hatt hat * a GtVxik ++ for the working « W «> 9 to fittfiar by . . The XUnpcror Napob-kon ia awkwardly trying to strengthen his position , and the reverses that he few juSt experienced show that ho must rely- more imdtnpro upon extraneoxis support . Tho
Legia-* * ' lative Body / tas-eatnibited a marvellous amount of independent in refusing to let him take hold of the tensions , to distribute them with his own hand , as the first J CkPoribK did . The . Body ynplies , that , at thi » £ & although there , are no rereeseatative instifciffons , tkere is ri < # » attocrat . in PA and , that noomcanl * re it-all # feownway ^ ^ proposed latetifcput « f his mere . j * otim and magnaaMWty , LtogKrannitt allowaiw * to * Prmcesse £ « i the ] oSSmF * rify . . «***¦ one Pi * *** who might rm&ve 8000 / Sa year as the compensation for the confiscation of the Orleans property—the Duchess of Saxe-Cobtjrg . She refuses it . Montaleubebt addresses to the Emperor , through the Legislaturean eloquent-protest against spoliation . ¦
, mi ° r \ x _ i ? D .-nra Inn . Vina rtaf . Unftfl to 1 O 111 in The Count of Pakis , too , has declined to join in the combination of the Orleans family with the Count of Chambord , because the Count of 1 aris calculates that he has chances which it is not worth while to surrender . . There appears to be something strange in the chances of military fate . Sir William Williams ot Kars has become the pet of the public and he is likelto be as satiated with " freedoms
y of the City" as with cakes ; while Sir Colin Campbexl , one of the stoutest and most chivalrous knights of modern days , finds his recognition only in commercial Glasgow , where Anthoni Stebiis ; g tells the plain truth to the British public , and is cheered—yes , cheered ; hut the British public at present stops its action with cheering good things , and letting bad things go on in passive
jnditter-611 C 6 A proof of this is the trick that was almost played upon the public and upon the Queen by that "flippant official , " as the Globe calls him , Sir Richard Aibby . Lord Falmkrston had promised that the Guards returning to London , their garrison , should make a public entry , at such time and by such route as the whole metropolis migtit welcome them . But Aiket , who has been criticised , and probably hates the public , press , and everything that has passed judgment upon bun , took the matter into his Quartermaster - Ueneral mind , and resolved to snub Palmehston , ParliamentPressand Public . The public ,
how-, , ever , got scent of the matter ; the papers furnished a thunderstorm which strengthened the hands of one department against another , and Lords Palmebston and Pasmtjrb prevail over Airey . So the public -will have its pageant ; for pageants are things which it is not thought safe even for the highest power of departmental Caesars to withhold . We have already mentioned the huge mass of speculation which is breeding in London : there is the same speculation enjoying an over-growth in Paris . M . Goupy cannot recover the losses which
he sustained under the operations of" the Credit Mobilier , because he has participated in the speculation . As if to remind people in the City of what they are doing , Sir JohwJDkan Paoi , has reappeared from prison , like his own ghost , a witness to give evidence forming one of the most curious chapters in his history under the pognizancq of the Court of Common Pleas ; while the Commissioners of Chancery in Ireland have been laying bare the entanglement of poor Lord Kingston , in the case of John Sadleir , who had offered to manage the Irish peer ' s difficulties for him . The decision of the Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council on the Dtcb Sombrto will , which is set aside in favour of the rights of his widow against his vindictive charity bequests in India , may perhaps operate as a warning to the King of Oukb , who is coming with all his rupees , that Eastern potentates cannot have their own way in the tJnited Kingdom exactly as tlioy have been wont to do in the barbaric regions of farthest fn-d .
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SOOBKTY FOR iMlMtOVtNfr THB OONDITTOT * OB" THB Labouring Classes . —Tho anniversary of this Society was held on Monday , at tho i ' reemaaons' tavern , under tYio iProsid ' en'cy of Ac fcn / r * tit Shatfcesbnry . After the rt ^ Sbrt hAtt bfeon tahd , the Rov . J . ft . Owon > Mr . Slaitay , and . Mr . Twioingf spoke to a resolution which was to the ofifect that " tho meeting had heard with groat Bfttisfuo tloh of tho spreading of tho society ' s doctrines and ox-Airtple abroad and at homo , " model lodgiufr-houaea having been , or being about to be , erected in Paris , on tho boulevard Mazas ; in Doaton , United States ; in IToLart Town , Tasmania ; artel in Gottonburg , Sweden ; While similar ftociotiew have l * tely been formed in Marylobone , Hampstead , Worcester , Norwich , Lambeth , and Bath , and thoro is ovory probability of tho long-contemplated labourers' houses in tho City being constructed Wore tho termination of anotiior twelvemonth .
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/ IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . ¦ : . " ¦ ' : , ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - ¦ ? " t ,. Monday , June 80 tA . In tW " jhwws OF Lonr > s , the Royal Assent was given by 0 bi * aii « i <» tO several bills .
" . TOE NEAPOLITAN GOVERNMENT . In * 6 p % to a question from Lord Lyndhitkst , the ] £ arL « 4 Glarewdon stated that it was not yet in the BflipP'tff the Government to lay before the House the & £ respo * deno » which had passed with other Governments on . the Italian question . No reply had yet been received ft »» Naples to a note communicated to the King by the English and French Governments , but there was reason to believe that one would shortly arrive . Under these circumstances , he did not think it would answer any public purpose to lay papers on the subject before the House ; but Lord Lyndhurst might rely upon it that the Government would leave no means untried to put a stop to the occupation of Italy by foreign troops .
OATH OF ABJURATION BILL . Lord Derby moved for permission to discharge the order for the third reading of this bill , which stood for the ensuing Thursday . He said his-motives for bringing forward the measure had been so misconstrued , and the remarks which Lord Lyndhurst had made on the second reading ( of which he thought he had some cause to complain ) had so entirely deprived it of its mission , which was one of peace and conciliation , that he felt there was no chance for the bill in " another place . " After a brief desultory conversation , in which Lord Lyndhurst defended the course he had taken , and some remarks were offered by Lords Campbell , Malmesbury , and Clanricarde , the motion was agreed to .
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY ' S GRANT TO THE SUFFERERS
FROM THE FRENCH FLOODS . The Duke of Argyll , in answer to the Marquis of Clanricarde , stated that the 500 £ contributed l > y the East India Company towards the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations in France , had been sanctioned by the President of the Board of Control . — The Earl of Ellbkborough conceived that the subscriptions were illegal , and that no sanction by the President of the Board of Control could alter the case . No expenditure could be justified which was not for the
service of the Government of India ; and he ( the Earl of Ellenborougb . ) was of opinion that the moneys expended by the Company in giving dinners upon various occasions , were also illegally employed . " What would they say if the Secretary of State for "War , upon the occasion of an examination of the cadets at Sandhurst or Woolwich , invited some fifty officers to be present at the examination , paid all the expenses of their journey there and back , gave them a magnificent dinner into the bargain , and charged the expenses in the war estimates ?"
The Bankjiuptcy ( Scotland ) Bill , the Joint Stock Companies Bill , the Industrial Provident Societies Bill , and the Seamen's Savings Banks Bill , were respectively read a third time , and passed . The House then adjourned . THE AFFAIRS OP GREKCE . In the House of Commons , in answer to Mr . James M'Gregor , Lord Palmerston said that there had been no questions between the Government of this country and that of Gieece since May , 1864 . There had been a great many reports of cases relating to brigandage , but no question -which required that papeiMt should be laid before Parliament .
DESTRUCTION" OF TURKISH FOKTS BY THE RUSSIANS . Replying to Colonel Dunni ? , Lord Palmerston said it was not possible to give any official information as to the destruction of the forts of Ismail and Reni ; but , from what passed , at the Paris Conferences , the Russians conceived they were at liberty to destroy those works ; and the only effect would be , that their demolition would impose npon tho Turkish Government some expense in restoring them . On the motion of Lord Paxileiiston , tho order for the second reading of the National Gallery Site Bilx was diBcharged . RETIREMENT OS" WtffttCtfH .
Mr . Gricgroit inquired whether it was in the contemplation of Government to propose any plan for the retirement of bishops on pensions . —Lord Palmiskston replied that it was not hia intention to introduce any general nVeaBuro , but , as tho BishopB of London and Durham had signified their wish to retire , owing to infirmity , ho should have to propose a bill limited to tkoac tv ^ o cases .
6 U » RELATIONS TVITIT AMERICA . On tho order for going into Committeo of Supply , Mr . William Uuown , Mr . . Afhley Picllatt , Mr . Joseph Ewart , Mr . Cheetiiam , and Mr . SrooNicu , appealed to Mr . G . II . Mooro not to bring forward tho motion of which he had given notice on tho subject of our relations with tho United States . — Mr . Mooiuc declined to accede , and observed , uraidat much laugh tor , that tho opinion of Mr . Spooncr must necessarily luivo great weight with him upon any subject , and more especially whoii It- took the uhapo of a protest againut lilt * exciting ill-will against classes or sects of people . Conceiving tho discussion to bo necessary , ho moved : — " That the conduct of her Majesty ' s Government , in the
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Leader (1850-1860), July 5, 1856, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2148/page/2/
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