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Chan 0 » uu » b ©*¦ ra » ExcHmftirBR saSA that there is alwav * * laigenauaber of appfccatioBsaddressed tomemben of the Government when vaoawaea occur in the cwil service , satd tuat it ia » ot necessary to adopt any steps to giy * further infonsaation -on the subject . CASPIXAi PtmiKHMKNTS . Mr aUrABT inquired of the Secretary of State for tie GoIobms , w * et hermeasai « s would be adopted for further Mtinff ital punishment m tne
jBiit « Ae lawaimposing eap o 5 oSr 5 i . oMformay with tbe laws imposing flw same rM » , fc ! mM »* inoGreatBritam?—Mt . Xabouc 3 HBWB said the law ia tbe colonies does not materially differ from that established in the United Kingdom , « seept in three df « or settlements . With respect to Ceylon and tbe West India Islands , it might be advisable to make some change ; bat , -considering that the West Australian colonies have their own local legislatures , they of course most be the best judges of the extent to which capital punishments ought * to be carried out , and he should decline to interfere -with them .
PUBLIC . BUSINESS . la answer to Mr . Hadfield , Lord Palmerston stated that at that late period of the session it was not thought by the Government desirable to press the House to < come to a decision upon the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill ; but it was their intention to introduce a bill upon the subject next session , excluding the clause contained in the present bill respecting the intermarriage ofpartidpes ci ~ iminis .
CORRUPT PRACTICES PREVENTION BILL . On the question tbat this be con sidered in committee , Mr . Henry Berkeley moved , as an amendment , that the committee be deferred for three months . The bill which was sought to be continued had served no good purpose . Instead of being a measure of reform , it was conservative of corruption . In practice it had been found to be inoperative for any good purpose . Bribery , treating , intimidation , and the " screw" were as rampant as ever . Such a measure was worse than a
pretenceit was a " false" pretence—and ought to be rejected . —Mr . Cbaufukd seconded the motion . — Mr . Wtt . t . tams thought the former bill had been only partially successful : Mr . Ingram , on the contrary , looked on it as a great improvement on the former system . —Mr . Titb enumerated objections to the details of the present measure ; and Sir George Grey having intimated that next session the Government would institute am inquiry into the operation of the former bill , Mr . Berkeley withdrew his amendment , and the bill passed through committee .
YICB-PKBSTDENT OB" COMMITTEE OK COUNCIL ON EDUCATION BILL . On the order for the second reading of this bill , Sir George Grett remarked that the measure had been adopted in consequence of the strong opinion which had been expressed in Parliament in favour of appointing a Minister of Education . —Mr . Hadfield urged objections , maintaining that the proposed Minister would confer no advantage on -the cause of education . He moved that the bill be read a second time that day three months . — The bill was supported by Mr . Inoham , and , the amendment having been negatived without a division , it was read a second time .
JUDGMENTS EXECUTION , &C , BILL . On the order for going into committee on this bill , Mr . Whitbside objectedtoproceedingfurtheratthatlate hour , and-moved to defer the committee for three -months . The motion was defeated by 61 to 89 . — Mr . Wiwtesidk then again urged that the debate be adjourned ; and ultimately the bill was withdrawn . . The Lords' amendments to the Reformatory and Industrial Schools Bill were rejected by 46 to 81 , in the midst of much cheering . ¦ The Hoase , by 40 votes to 31 , refused to go into committee on the Joint Stock Companies Winding-up Buju tSoms other bills passed through committee , and the House adjourned at twenty minutes to three o'clock .
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AMERICA . Coxcu&ESB continues to bo occupied with the Kansas Question . Mr . Douglas has reported on tho bill for the admission of that state into the Union . It provides for PftlTfog a constitutional election , to be held on the first Tuesday in November ; five commissioners to be appointed to make the registration of the white male inhabitants residing in the territory . It is understood that the Senate will not adjourn till tho bill i . i passed . In the 'House of Representatives , the bill to admit K > tt « Wft u a free state under the Topeka Constitution has been laid on the table by a majority of one . The skirmishing in Kansas Still continues . Tho congressional investigation ootnmrttees have closed their work . Xt'ia uaAtMtood Htutt'the teport frill be mode at once .
A * iot eoeurred 4 t m , Vilmom demonstration at Washington oa -the eronlng « r the 80 th ult . The mob was v « ry violent , but wm >« t length dispersed , and one or tmo arrests were' made . Sit . VUraore hao been mmkimg yt * » ft « 8 a candidate fa * theStorictenoy . At the American State Convention , held « t Springfield on the 1 st met ., in tho case of the Wocaestor delegates , tho majority 2 mm . reported in favour of the Etamont Uat . Mr .
Cook , of Boston , for tbe minority of the committee , made ' a report in segaxd to the Worcester delegates , to the effect that they differ from the conclusions ( arrived at by the majority . a The trial of Brooks is indefinitely postponed , owing to the icontinued illness of Mr . Sumner . The last advices from Buenos Ayres bring copies of the message of the Governor of the State to the Legislative Assembly on the subject of the recent negotiations iftUVV ADDCUlUlJ Wl VMMX 3 . 'BUC ^ C ^ l * VI-VETO - A . 'GWWU 11 lj { gVM «»»»«*«*»
fox the arrangemeat of the foreign debt . The message announces that ike Government of Buenos Ayres , seeing the necessity for satisfying the urgent demands © f the English bondholders , has adopted a basis of adjustment suggested by the representative of the London committee , which they , the Buenos Ayrean Government , admitted to be perfectly equitable . It has been framed , however , in accordance with the maximum resources of the country , and has not been accepted , except under protest , by the bondholders' commissioner , who insisted upon other concessions , to which the Government could not accede .
From Venezuela , accounts have been received of an outbreak against ' Monagas , which is alleged to have gone thus far entirely in favour of the insurgents , who are reported , however , to have seized two British schooners and to have killed two Englishmen . A statement has been published by the New York underwriters of the losses of American shipping during the half-year ju 3 t ended . Those losses amount to nearly 3 , 200 , 000 / . —a total said to be without parallel .
Walker , it is reported , has sent an agent to treat with San Salvador , but he was immediately sent back without effecting anything . It is said that Walker ' s headquarters are not really known . There is no communication between San Juan and Costa Rica . A number of Walker ' s men have arrived at Aspinwall in a miserable condition . The British ship Eurydice' is still in port at San Juan . The Costa Rican army has been disbanded , and cholera is sweeping over the sjtetcs .. ^ The city of Sacramento has repudiated part of its debt .
Several of the merchants and other citizens of New York have sent an address to Mr . Barclay , on the termination of his official functions , expressive of their cordial esteem and confidence . The majority report of the Kansas Investigating Committee ( says the Times New York Correspondent ) has been published . The majority of the committee say that in the earliest stage of these proceedings , before the ggnsft « bill passed Congress , the lodges of a secret society were formed throughout the western part of the State of Missouri for the purpose of making Kansas a Slave State by force , if necessary . They then give the account of the . invasions of the territory in detail at each successive election—how the Missourians crossed into the territory
in armed bands hundreds strong the day or the day before each election—how they took possession of the polls , marching their men off in companies to the different points as it was supposed they would be wanted , in order to get complete control of every precinct—how they drove away the election judges appointed by the Governor and not friendly to their cause , pointing loaded rifles at their breasts , and giving tliam a few moments to decide between death and the abandonment of duty—how they pursued them with balls as they retreated—and how , with a violence , profanity , and brutality , given in coarse detail by the report , they took possession of the government of the territory and planted the Missouri laws there . The other side will probably impugn these statements .
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CONTINENTAL . NOTES . FRANCE . The funeral of M . Portoul , the late Minister of Public Instruction and Ecclesiastical Affairs , was celebrated last Saturday with great pomp in the church of St . Thomas d'Aquin . " All the Ministers , " says tho Tunes correspondent , " a deputation of fifty senators , all the deputies present in Paris , the high dignitaries of tho Church , and the entire corps of tho University , attended it . A gun was fired every hour at tho Invalides from seven o ' clock until noon , when the proccssiou left the hotel of the Ministry . A salute of fifteen guns was then fired , and another of fifteen guns at two o ' clock , to announce the conclusion of the ceremony . "
AUSTRIA . Tho Empress of Austria was safely delivered of a female child last Saturday morning . In connexion with this event , an extensive amnesty has beeu granted to persons condemned for political offences . The confiscated property of many of the condemned Hungarians and Transylvanians is restored .
. Tho Hanoverian Ministry has experienced a great check in tho Second Chamber , which has rejected the modifications of tho ^ Constitution of 1849 , proposed by Government . . HUSSJLA . The Graud . Duko Michael has been betrothed at Wildbad to Princess Cecily , . youngest sister of tho Prinoe Urgent of Baden . Lord Wodehouao was received on the , 4 th ioat by the Emperor Alexander , in the Palace of TBarakoe-Selo , at a private audionco . Before returning to St . Petersburg ,
his lordship was driven in one of the state carriages through the grounds which surround the palace .
ITALY . The suggestion for separating tlie spiritual from the temporal power of the Pope gains ground , especially in Italy , -and men continue to talk and write- about the transference of the chair of St . Peter from Rome to Jerusalem . Tbe question is one df such singular interest , and , if settled in accordance with the wish recently expressed , might have so important an eflfect upon the state of Italy , and the complications arising from foreign occupation , that we are induced to make some farther quotations from the pamphlet of the Abbe" Michon . He remarks that the idea of removing tire Popedom to Jerusalem has " so advanced at Rome , that last year the question of the separation of the temporal power was
formally mooted in full consistory by one of the most eminent men of the Roman Church , Cardinal Marini , who in a remarkable address , to which no contradiction was given , declared that the temporal power attached to the spiritual sovereignty of the Pope was the great obstacle to the welfare of the Church- The Cardinal examined the question from every point of view . He dwelt particularly on the fact that Rome , being the first Power of the world in its spiritual character , had become by its connexion with temporal authority * paltry state of the fourth or fifth rank ; that consequently this power only diminished its spiritual « nd moral greatness , and that the spiritual power did not in any degree exalt the petty sovereignty of which it supported the burden .
Indeed , the Sovereign Pontiff is himself so much imbued with these ideas , that in the month of December , 18 o 4 , during the Convocation of the Bishops for the proclamation of the . Immaculate Conception , and in a secret meeting at the Vatican , at which only the French Bishops ¦ were present , he expressed a wish to know from them if , in the event of being forced by political causes to quit Lis States , he could count on a friendly reception in Trance . It is hardly necessary to say what the answer was . " France , where so many sincere Catholics are still found , would be too happy to realize the engagement accepted in her name by our venerable Bishops . " Turther on , the Abbe" states : — " In the course of the year
1855 , while the war in the East was in all its force , and -when a complication of affairs might be dreaded in Europe , this solution was proposed to the Pontifical Government . Complete liberty of action was guaranteed to the Sovereign Pontiff at Jerusalem ; the means of maintaining in an honourable manner his high dignity were secured to Mm ; while a railroad from Jerusalem to Jaffa would render the communication of the Papacy with Europe as rapid as from Rome itself . " Several high authorities in the Catholic Church are quoted , to show that the Pope is at perfect liberty to transfer the seat of his spiritual government ¦ wheresoever he pleases . It is remarkable that none of the Ultramontane papers have noticed the Abbd ' s pamphlet .
According to the Frankfort Post Zeitwig , the Pope has ordered the reforms suggested by tho Austrian Government to be carried out . This intelligence , however , is at war with that received from other sources . "I have Been , " says tho Times Turin correspondent , " letter from Rome of the 5 th , -which describes tho parting of the Pope and the King of Naples on the beach at Porto d'Anzio , a few evenings before , as something quite melodramatic . The King , on taking leave , prostrated himself on the shinglo liia whole length , and fervently embraced his Holinesa ' a feet , shedding tears the -while , and humbly asking his blessing . This having been accorded , his Majesty took ship for his own dominions , where he knows well how to treat Churchmen after a very different style . "
The Piedmontese Minister of War having addressed a report to the King , calling attention to tho " completely defenceless" state of the eastern frontiers—a danger which has " particularly increased since Austria , in violation of the treaty of Vienna , has converted l * iacenza into an immense fortress "—tlio King has issued a decree , which runs thus : — " The extraordinary outlay , ia 1856 , of 1 , 000 , 000 livrcs for the works of fortification to be erected round tho city of Alessandria in hereby authorized . Tlic conversion of the present decree into n law shall be proposed to Parliament at the opening of tlie next session- The Ministers of Finance ami War arc -charged with the execution of tho present decree . "
The first regiment of Grenadier Guards in Naples has lately mutinied against its colonel . Tho troopn being one day engaged in gymnastic exercises , two of thum , one of whom -was of geutto birth , requested of the jnaster permission to repose , which was immediately granted . When the colonel of the regiment heard this , he ordered each of the two men to receive fifty lusher , -which , in spite of all remonstrances , were inflicted on the oifendeta without the presence of a surgeon .
Although one of the soldiers fainted under thin treatment , tlie colonel still ordered the flogging to continue , oven if the mail should die under it . The corporal who flogged toe man had ten lashes himself for not using mrillclent strength in inflicting tho blows ' . On tho evening of the . day , General Corne" wcut to tho barracks to inquire into tlie case , and -whilst conferring with tho colonel tho iHoldiors mutinied and drove out tliu latter with criea of " Down-with tho savago ! " Priuco Franoesca do l ' uoln , inspector of tU « guard , afterwards ordered the wliola
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-wo THE LEADER . P ^ 0- > Saturday , « 4 ^ r 3 . ¦ : — ¦ •• -- -..-. — .- - ^
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Leader (1850-1860), July 19, 1856, page 678, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2150/page/6/
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