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¦ ¦ p » X 4 BAPBB OxmcJB , Saturday , July- 15 . LAST NIGHT ' S PARLIAMENT . THE HOUSE OP LORDS . THE CRIMEAN INQUIRY . Thb Earl of Lttoak brought & charge against Lord Panmure of having , wilfully delayed the Report of the Board of General Officers at Chelsea , who had inquired into the conduct of officers implicated in the report of the Crimean Commissioners , with a view to preventing its being laid before Parliament this session . Lord Pamtokb showed , \> y reference to dates , that the report could not have teen , produced earlier , and stated his intention of laying it upon the table on Monday . ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS .
Lord Wbottbsi-ey urged on the Government to send out another Arctic expedition , for the purpose of ascertaining more accurately the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions , and also for adding to scientific knowledge with reference to those regions . —Lord bTANlbt op . Axdeblkx said that it -was too late this year to send out such an expedition , and , although the matter was under the consideration of the Government , it was to be doubted whether any further expeditions of that kind were advisable . Several bills were advanced a stage , and the House adjourned shortly before eight o'clock .
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THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . The House met at one o ' clock , for an hour , and forwarded several bills a stage . The sitting was resumed at six o ' clock . THE TTPPERAEV BANK . In answer to Mr . Roebuck , the Attobset-Genebal fob Ireland said that next session a measure would be brought in with a view to punish in a more stringent manner frauds like those perpetrated in the case of the Tipperary Bank .
JAMES SADLE 1 R . Mr . Roebuck gave notice that on Monday next he should move that the member for Tipperary be summoned to attend in his place on Thursday ; and , if he did not appear , he should on a future day move his expulsion from the House . CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BILI * . On the consideration of the Lords' Amendments to this , bill , Mr . Heywood objected , to the clause introduced by the Lords , by which Dissenters are prohibited from taking any share in the government of the University ; and he moved a modification of the clause , allowing Dissenters to have that privilege , except in theological matters .
The House divided , and the motion was negatived by a majority of 93 to 71 . A second division for the rejection of the Lords ' amendments resulted in their being adopted by a majority of 90 to 73 . CtVtC SKBVICK SUTKBANKCAHOar BUI * This bill was withdrawn hy the Chancellor of the Exchequer .
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COURTS OF CONCILIATION . We have received from the National Association of United Trades a communication to the following effect : — The select committee of the House of Commons on the arbitration of disputes between masters and operatives , have reported to the House upon the question of their inquiry , together with the evidence , and ordered it to be printed . Several of the members of the committee favourable to the cause were absent at the last sitting ; Btill , they agreed to a report in favour of establishing Courts of Conciliation in this country , composed ol an equal number of masters and workmen . Mi * . Mackinnon ' s efforts have been thus far successful . Should the system be brought into general operation , ho will have gained the gratitude of the working classes throughout England .
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SrAJN . —Rumours are current of insurrections at Seville , " Valencia , Barcelona , and Snrngossa . The last of these towns is remarkable for its attachment to Espartero , and it ia ^ hought he must be in concealment there . That he was dismissed by the Queen , owing to the intrigues of O'Donnoll , and that ho did not resign , seems probable . Madrid remains quiet . Q rkkck . —The Russians having sent back to Greece the Greek Legion that they hud formed , tho Greek Governmont refused to receive tlioao troops , and demanded that they Bhould return to Odessa . Tho Cabinet of King Otho in the meantime has applied to tho English Admiral for his assistance in supporting their protest ; Civtstal Palace . —Return of admineions for six days ending Friday , July 18 185 C , including souhou ti « kct holders , GG . 420 .
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«•• ¦¦¦ •—i ^ « ^ "" ¦ " ¦¦ « ¦ "" NOTICES TO C © IUBJBJSPQM 1 > EOT » . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications * . N " o notice oan be taken of anonymous communication Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated T > y the name and address of the writer ; not necesMunly for publication , but as » Kuaranfee&o * his good &ith . During theSessioa of Parliament it . is . often impossible to find room tor correspondence , even the briefest .
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DIPLOMACY AND ITS ACCOMPLICES . A . STOBT is told in Berlin , curious in itself , but more interesting as an illustration of the system which naturally accompanies the pre ^ sent plan of secret international intercourse . It may be said that if there is an official diplomacy , there is also a diplomatic Oppose tion ; with the remarkable departure from the analogy , in the fact that the diplomatic Opposition generally succeeds better than the accredited diplomacy . "We find the story to which we refer in the Berlin correspondr ence of the Turin Hisorgimento , and in a paper published at Brussels called La JPresse Beige , __ _
In August , 1855 , the Moniteur Frangats published a letter from the Emperor 1 $ axoleon to Marshal Pexissieb , felicitating him on the victory of the Tchernaya , and saying , " I know by communications which appear to be positive that the Russian army cannot sustain during tbe winter the contest in the Crimea . " How could Louis Napoeeon know anything about the state of the Russian army ? When Heinkeldet went to tlie fatal duel , he gave " to his second the key
of a box containing correspondence , which he alluded to as comprising the evidence against those who had been traitors to their country . The Emperor ' s information and the allusion of ELEtNKEiiDEY have been explained by the new disclosures . When the Western Powers went to war with Russia , M . Majsteuffei , / the Prime Minister of the King of Prussia , announced to the St . Petersburg Goyernt ment an inexorable neutrality on the par _ of King Frederick WrLxiAM . M . Mait
TEurrJEL had reason to suppose that the effect of his despatches was counteracted in Russia ; ho set Heinkeldet , the chief of the police , one of his most faithful retainers ,, to discover the mysterious influence which kept his Government in check ; and Teouen , whose name is already known to us , was set to watch the correspondence of Gehiaoh and INTiKBTJiiJt , two leaders of the aristocratic party at Berlin . Teciien" was at first foiled by finding that the correspondence of the two statesmen did not pass through the Post-offico : but ho succeedod in
insinuating himself into the friendship of Geki-acii ' s servants , and eventually in stealing some of the Conservative statesman ' s letters , ¦ which liad been transmitted to St . Petersburg under tho cover of cortain correspondences from ladies—no uncommon means of transmitting questionable correspondence . Tho correspondence continued thus in duplicato , from tho officials and from tho Tory Opposition ; but copies of the letters wore kept for the use of tho Prussian Government . M . Teciien , however , had another market for hia . wares : he sold copios to tho French Government . Thus the machinery which was intended
by th $ reactionary Camarilla : of Berlin , to serve the purposes of Russia ,, actually assisted in the purposes of Russia ' s most effectual antagonist , France . At some future day a further light will be thrown upon the agencies which Russia has employed in . the course of the present war We have before had occasion to point ± 0 the highly probable existence of such , agencies in all quarters of the globe—in India * im the south of Europe , in North . America ; it turns out , as we suspected ^ that StbobeI / , the agent of the British enlistment in the United States , boasted of his employment under the
Russian Government ; and we have reason to believe that agents of the same Governs ment are now active amongst the extreme cosmopolitan party in . London itself . It ia possible that such agencies may on particular occasions have procured the desired ends for the Russian Government ; but there are many reasons to suppose that it is an instrument more dangerous for the -hands widen use it than for those against " whom it is directed . It is of course the interest of such persons to represent themselves as habitually succeeding ; in many cases they do not succeed , but they are the more bound by their own interests to misinform their
Governments . They are also by then ? nature a mean , unscrupulous , and cruel class ; they are under none of the ordinary obligations of patriots , gentlemen , or even of commonly honest men . There is no reason why they should not deceive their masters as well as strangers . The facilities afforded to them by their first emplovers give them opportunities of passing
from market to market , and of disposing of their wares to two or more parties at once . It is inherent in the nature of things that they should have these opportunities , and that tliey should be without a scruple to prevent their profiting by the opportunity . The story told in Berlin , therefore , is quite consistent with natural probability , and with such facts as are known to us .
The existence of this supplemental agency is the necessary consequence of the insincerity , even more than secrecy , which has become the habitual practice of diplomacy . For tliat insincerity , for a large part of that secrecy , there is no practical need . Great nations can seldom have substantial interests or definite purposes which they cannot avow to the world . The common excuse for secrecy is , that personal feelings are easily excited , and that by preserving a confidential character to earlier communications , diplomacy at last works to its own ends without
exposing those ends to be thwarted by personal irritations . This is as much as to say , -that those statesmen , or those princes , who govern countries , are swayed by the pettiest failings of our nature . It would of course be impossible for such subserviency of the great to tho paltry to continue if diplomacy conducted its debates in public . On some occasions it might be desirable to use preliminary discussions in a confidential mode , especially where the communications have to pass between men that have not positively made up their minds , and whoso conclusions , therefore , would bo
modified by further information and by the presentment of other views . But confidential communications arc distinct : from uniform and systematic secrecy . Where all communications passing between two partios aro secret , tho jealousy of any third party is naturally aroused , and a motive is created for that third party to establish an agency which will enable it to circumvent tho secret communications between tho other two . Each of tho other two is equally liable to bo rendered jealous , and tlms , while all tho atatoa of Europe aro endeavouring to conduct their negotiations tete-a-tfoe , with tho veil of
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^— There i 3 nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things flbced when all the -world is by the very lo . "w of its creation in . eternal progress . —Db . Aehoid .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 19, 1856, page 683, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2150/page/11/
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