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      BBxaroM ^ The usual " July fetes" have been proceeding , in Belgium during the past week witn . great Iftr . La *; £ « d' Atrt * fifits ComrrrttneteTii . — -&r : LayaWI met hisf constituent on Wednesday evening , afc Ayle * - bury . Hifl < remarks had reference chiefly to the peace , ¦ which he regarded as unsatisfactory , and attributed the imperfect result of the war to the indecent haste of th 6 French Emperor and people to come to terms -with the Czar . Btlssiav he believed , would not , as had been anticipated , resort to fc peaceful and honest policy ; on the contrary , she had already violated the treaty by destroying the forts of Kars , Ismail , and Keni , and by cruelly treating the Tartars in revenge for their assistance to us . Passing on to the consideration of the Anglo-French alliance , he said our present position as

      regards France is utterly unworthy of this country . ^ No man was more anxious than he for a French alliance formed on an equal basis ; but he -would never consent to that alliance if the condition was a sacrifice of the interest or the honour of England . Our position at this moment with regard to France he thought exceedingly dangerous , and unless we took care it would lead us into great difficulty . He admired the Emperor of the French as much as any man , but he could not sympathize with the form of government he had introduced . After glancing at the general condition of Europe , he alluded to the appointment of the Duke of Cambridge to the command in chief of the army , of which he highly approved ; and urged the constituencies to press on Parliament the necessity for Administrative Reform . A vote of confidence in Mr . Layard wos carried unanimously ,

      with much cheering . A Faithless " Fast Majj . "—An action for breach of promise of marriage has been tried at Exeter . The plaintiff was a Miss Mary Ann Cooper , the daughter of a silk-mercer at Plymouth ; the defendant , a certain George S . Trader , a person of landed property . He appeared to be very much in love with the young lady , and wrote to her letters of passionate affection ; but all the while he was in the habit of flirting with other ladies , and would tantalize Miss Cooper by writing to her details of the attentions paid him by them—such as their applying poultices and fomentations to his ankle when he had sprained that part of his person . A married lady friend cribed as the one of the best singers he overheard in private , and as a persons who quite labours to please him .

      He professed to be very religious ; yet he said it was not " a part of his creed" to go to church , and that he made Sunday " a day of rejoicing . " In one letter , he wrote , " I wish we were married . Cheer , girl , cheer ! "Write , girl , write ! " Tti another , he said : " I shall send you your portrait . Rejoiced am I that 1 am going to have a good one—too pretty it cannot be . Mary , you know you are pretty . Girls always know . Oh , you little rogue ! I want a kiss very badly . I send you one inside the portrait . Qou won ' t see it , of course ; but send one back the same way . " Finally , he broke off the match , on the ground that the young lady was jealous , but offered her money compensation for the music she had learnt on his account . A verdict was given for Miss Cooper ; damages 200 ? ., less GO / , paid into court .

      CkvstA'l . Pai-ace . —Return of admissions for six days ending Friday , July 25 th , 1856 : —number admitted , including season ticket holders , 52 , 158 . Fkome Election . —Major 13 oylo ( Whig ) has been returned for Frome by a bare majority of one over Mr . TTichol ( Liberal ) ; the numbers being , respectively , 157 —158 .

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      _ , Leader Okficio , Saturday , July 2 G . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . THE HOUSE OF LORDS . Sevkuax . bills wore advanced a stage . A motion of Lord St . Vincunt , impugning Lord Combermcre for certain conduct with reference to the case of Mr . Dyco Sombre , was brought forward , but nothing oame of it . The Commons' Amendments to tho Lands and SicTTL . icr > Ehtatks Dill , which \ vt \ a intended to provent the enclosure of Hanipfltead Heath , was rejected on a division ' , whon the numbers wero equal—seventeen Poors voted on each side . The House adjourned at a quarter past seven .

      THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . THE CUIMKAN INQUIRY . Mr . La yard brought forward tlio subject of tbo report of the Crimean inquiry at Chclson , complaining that it had boon laid 1 on the table too late in the Hosaion , and characterized it hs very unsatisfactory . Ho nskcd if the Government wero satisfied with it , and whether they thought it didjuBtico to the army which had suffered ho much .. —Lord Paltmteiibton said the question was an unuauul one , at » it only anked for an opinion . Tlio board of general officers was to inquiro into tho report of the Crimean CommiHsionors , and to receive explivnatioiiH from certain olllcors inculpated in that report . If tho lion , gentleman hud road tho evidence , ho could form an opinion- fbr himself . It was not the intention of tluv Government to take uny further etona in tho matter . —After

      some unimportant question had been put find aonouac&d * . one or two billj were forwarded a- stage * " T * mc BisttdPS of liOitDCfisr and DrrttHAii K ? £ fciSfifi 3 D 3 ! ittr ~ Btex was read a tluYd time and passed ;

      STTMMARY OB THE ! Sfe&STON . ' Mr ; Disraeli then rose to bring forward a' motion ^ calling on the' House to consider thb manne * in whichthe business of Parliament had been- conducted during the session . He deprecated the notion of his being about to make a party motion ; but his object wag only to initiate a discussion ^ which might Bring out s ome suggestion 1 which could be made available in the recess for finding , a remedy for the existing state of things * He referred to his " having made a similar motion in . 1848 , and stated that his object in bringing forward his present motion was to endeavour to ascertain the reasons for that mode of conducting public business , which in the last tvto months had caused so much , dissatisfaction in the country . He

      urged that no Minister ought to take up a subject of agitation unless he felt that he could deal with it satisfactorily . a , There might be reasons for excusing a Government in notbriDging forward questions of importance , such as there being no need of legislation , the country being at war , or negotiations for peace being in the course of settlement ; but none of these excuses were available to Lord Palmerston . He had introduced more measures of consequence than any Minister ever did in a session . Mr . Disraeli then proceeded to remind the House of some of the measures brought before Parliament—as , the Apellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords , the Law of Partnership , of Divorce and Marriage , the Law relating to the Discipline of

      the Church , Testamentary Jurisdiction , Police , the Corporation of London , Education , Criminal Appropriation of Trust-Property , Civil Service Superaa nuation , and Agricultural Statistics—questions which involved the very principles of social life . He referred to the special recommendations in the speech from , the Throne of a series of measures . But how had they been dealt with ? He criticized the bill on the change of the mercantile law which had been proposed , but not introduced , by the Government . The measure improving the Law of Partnership , after lingering from the 25 th

      of February to the end of July , was abandoned . A similar fate awaited the attempts to improve the Poor Law . The Irish executive had been equally unsuccessful . Mr . Disraeli then touched on the various bills of importance -vrhich . hatl been lost or withdrawn during the session , and asked if that was a satisfactory state of things . The right honourable gentleman then drew a picture at length of the state of the Government , urging that Lord Palmerston had not the real support of the Liberals ; but had carried what measures had been brought to a successful termination more by means of the Opposition than by his own friends .

      Lord Palmerston vindicated his course of proceeding , alleging , as the . main , ground of his many failures , the necessity in a representative Government of imbuing the country with the advisability of measures by continued efforts , and showing that slow progress in reform is inseparable from our institutions . He showed that for general measures of importance the Government had actually had only twenty-two days during the session , and he urged that the members of the Government had manifested the greatest personal assiduity in the conduct of the business of the House . He also urged that , notwithstanding some minor defeats , on all great occasions whon real confidence in the Government was at issue , they had liad larger majorities in their favour than had been enjoyed by any previous Ministries . A short discussion followed , and the House adjourned early .

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      LATEST FROM SPAIN . Advices from Bayonne of tho 24 th inst . state that according to a letter from Saragoasa , dated tho 20 th inst ., General Falcon had held u review of 1 G , OOO men . A battalion of Royalists , which had left Tudela , revolted on arriving near tho town , and joined the insurgents . Tho Custom-house officials did the same . 15 , 000 militiamen or peasants , coming from Quinca , wero advancing to join tho Aragoncse . Nnrvacz refuses to accept tho poat of ambassador at Paris . One thousand persons arc said to have boon killed in tho streets of Madrid . The struggle at Barcelona was also extremely bloody . Tho garrison at Gorona haa rison .

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      Titk RiQirr How . Ei > waiu > Stuijtt is to bo elevated to tho peerage under tho title of Lord Kingston . Viscount GahtIjKroshk bus been appointed Comptroller of tlio Household in tho room of Lord Drunilanrig , who has resigned . Tint I ' RORocuTrox of Parliamiont will tnko placo on Tuesday by lioyal Commission . This Fourth 1 ) ka < ioon Gu / utns . —The bond-quarters of tho 4 th Regiment of Dragoon Guards , wliiflh greatly dintinguiahed itnolf in tho cavalry charge at Unlakluva , having become located at Sheffield , a public dinner in announced to take placo at tlio Cntlor ' s Hall , on Tuesday next , to givo a weloomo to tho oilieord on tho rot-urn of tho regiment from the Crimea . Tho . Karl of Cardigan will ho present at tho dinner . Sir Harry Smith has boon invited , and it Ih also in contemplation to roqucHt tho Duto of Cambridge ) to attend .

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      v THE SESSION OP 1856 . PabIiIA-Metstt met in January , and has sat , in talkative imbecility , until the end of July—for we may treat it as virtually adjourned . It has attempted nothing sincerely , and has done nothing -well . It has displayed no independence , yet its leaders have displayed no power . Whatever Lord Pai / merston has done mischievously and recklessly , he has not been whatever his Cabinet

      called to account for ; has proposed to do in the direction of reform , has been , in nearly every instance , prohibited by am adverse majority , or abandoned , or delayed until it became impossible . The Prime Minister , the flatterer of French Imperialism , haa aimed , without attempting to conceal his objeefc , at reducing the influence by degrading the character of Parliament ; and he lias succeeded . The nation has not interested itself

      in one legislative debate during the past session . And not one legislative debate has been high in tone , or serious in intention . There have been criminatory motions , by bidders for place ; but they have been mere parliamentary manoeuvres . There have been discussions on America , on Italy , on the rights of nations ; but the discussion on America was faint and paltry , that on Italy was like the rising of a damp mist , that on the prerogative of journalism in Belgium was the least respectable of all , because it exhibited the British House of Commons apologizing to foreign governments for the existence of a free British press .

      The ministerial speech at the opening of Parliament promised little , evaded all great topics , and was as insignificant as a ministerial speech could be . Still , it announced some measures , some principles of administration . It said that the Government were prepared to improve the Limited Inability Act of last session , to reform the Commercial Law of Scotland , to suppress local and passing dues on shipping . What became of these good intentions ? A little sectional clamour with

      " put down" the Cabinet proposal respect to local and passing dues ; the Limited Liability Amendments wero carried through > oth Houses mutilated and incomplete ; the Commercial Law of Scotland stands where it did . Nothing was said of Kars , of America , of the principles of peaco , of political or administrative , city and railway reform , of education , or of church-rates . But those subjects wero treated in separate debates , upon issues raised by ministerial , opposition , or independent members .

      How were they treated ? and with what result ? Tho fall of Kars gave occasion to tho Tories to sub in it a factious resolution of censure , which the Liberals refused to rocognizo , and which was rejecbed by an overpowering majority . The American debate , after many postponements , failed to elicit tho real intentions ot" the Government , and ended bj leaving thut Governmont carlo hlancho < tc embroil vie irrevocably with tho Uniiec

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      SATTJEDAT , JULY 2 & , 1856 .

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      — ¦ —^ There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as tlie strain to keep things fixed -when all the -world is by the very law of its creation . mi eternal progress ^—Dr . Asnoxjj . ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 26, 1856, page 707, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2151/page/11/