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IMPERIAL TARLiAMENT . Monday , March 14 * In the House of Lords , Lord TEYXHAMgave notice that on the motion for the second reading : of the Church-rates Relief Bill he would move that it be read a second time that day six months . ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH GUARANTEES . Xdrd Stanley of Alderlet moved for copies of all contracts that had been entered into by the Oovernznent with any company or individual for the construction or maintenance of electric telegraphs . — After some explanatory remarks from the ISarl of JDonoughmqre , the returns were ordered . The Ecclesiastical Courts and Registries ( Ireland ) Bill was read a third time and passed .
THE NEW CHANCERY COURTS . The Lord Chancellor brought in a bill empowering the Court of Chancery to pay 4 , 000 / . per annum out of the suitors' fee fund , by way of rental , to the Society of Lincoln ' s-inn , the latter having agreed , upon such payment ,- to erect a building to be appropriated for the sittings of the Equity Courts in the neighbourhood of Chancery ^ -lane . After an explanation of the measure , he assured the House that this bill was not antagonistic , but mi ght even iacilitate the grand scheme for erecting new la _ w courts on the present site of Carey-street . The bill was read a first time . Their lordships adjourned at twenty minutes to six o ' clock .
In the House of Commons , Mir . Brady gave notice -that on Eriday next he would ask leave to introduce a bill to amend the qualification and registration of parliamentary voters in Ireland ^ DOCKYAKD EXPENDITURE . . ¦ < Sir J . Pakington , referring to the statements respecting naval expenditure brought forward by Lord Clarence Paget on Friday night , announced that , in justification of the department , he had thought it necessary to give instructions for the preparation of a return , showing / with all possible minuteness of detail the manner in which the money voted on account of the navy had been expended during the ast eleven years .
METROPOLITAN DRAINAGE . Replying to Mr . Williams , Mr . Titb gave some explanations respecting the course which the Metropolitan Board of Works had adopted for the construction of a system of main drainage in the metropolis . The works had already been commenced , and it was hoped that they would be brought to completion within a period of four years . The money required for the work , amounting to three millions sterling was to be advanced by the Bank of England at 3 per cent ., atad it was calculated that a rate of 3 d . in the pound would suffice to repay principal and interest in thirty years ..
TITLE TO LANDED ESTATES BILL . The Howie having gone into Committee on the Title to landed Estates Bill , a prolonged discussion arose , initiated by Mr . Mahns , respecting the workmg machinery and legal effect of the new court which it was proposed to establish , and involving also the principles wherein the privilege , of aj > arliameniaTy title was to fee granted to owners of land . Tl » e point chiefly controverted related to the question whether sufficient precautions were taken to securelitherights of possible or future claimants , and avoid the risk of committing injustice by converting vuio «?
A VlXtt WWW MHU «• Jjuui * , « n » v « . v » M « i' * *»**« e . •»**** - viduals of their equitable rights . The arguments on this question , ¦ wWch assumed an exclusively technical character , werq pursued at much length by Mr- BowynB , Mr . Hbadlam , Mr , Hap ^ ieild , Mv . Walpolb , Mr . Deasy , Lord J .. Wussbll , SirE . PHiBiiY , and many other members . The Solicixor-Oj 5 NT ) kal explained , and defended the measure , to which all opposition was ultimately withdrawn , and several clauses passed by the cominittee . Tho companion measure , entitled the Registry of Landed Estates Bill , was also considered in committee , and some clauses agreed to .
SUPPLY COMMITTEE . *—< THH NAVAL ESTIMATES . The reports of the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means were brought up and agreed to . On the order for going into a Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates , Mr . W . WttXJAnis moved as an amendment that these estimates should Tj © referrc * to a select committee . , Since the close of tho French war 2 gl millions had been granted for tho service of the navy , besides many millions off supplemental vote ? . This enormous expenditure was , ho contended , very inadequately represented by the fleet which had "be 0 ii maintained during the period ; or by the strength ana general condition off the naval forces -now at the disposal of the country . Much more strxot investigation than was now Instituted , or possible , into tho mode in which the money hod been spent , was , he -thought , essentially necessary , and a . committee ,
selected by the Speaker , appeared to him the best machinery for that purpose . He noticed particular items , and contended that Lord C . Paget had made out a ease for inquiry . —The motion was seconded by Sir it . Verxtet . — SirH . Willoughbv very much concurred with Mr * Williams , but feared that the inquiry would be too extensive unless confiriedto some salient points .. [ He recommended an inquiry how the estimates could be better prepared , — Mr . Lindsay opposed the motion . He could not see what object would be gained by referring the estimates to a select committee , which would be taking away the" responsibility of the executive . — Colonel Sykes siipported the amendment ; which was opposed by iydmiral Walcott . ;— Sir F . Baring said his objection to the motion was that he did not think it advisable to transfer the
consideration of the estimates from the House of Commons to a select committee , or to defer the estimates to the end of the session . As to an inquiry , there should be one . Accusations ought not to be made without the House having the means of knowing whether they were true or not . He referred to experiments made when he was First Lord of the Admiralty ¦ , which , though severely ridiculed at the time , had proved highly successful . —After some remarks from Mr . Bentinck , Lord H . Vane , and Lord C . Paget , Sir J . Pakington opposed the amendment , controverting some of the statements on which it was founded . The Board of Admiralty had themselves instituted a searching inquiry into the expenditure of money in the dockyards , and the results would , recommendations calcu
he believed , lead to various - lated to promote the public service , and also to exonerate the Surveyor of the Navy and other dockyard authorities from the charge of nial-administration . He hoped the House would reject the motion , which would be only injurious to that service . — Mr . Osborne said , after the charges which had been made by an admiral in her Majesty ' s service , he should not be satisfied without a committee . He disputed Lord Clarence Pagct ' s figures and challenged his facts , and pledged himself to controvert his state * intents before the committee . —Sir C . Napier recommended the withdrawal of the motion . — Mr . Jackson and Sir C . Wood having briefly spoken , the amendment was negatived without a division .
DESTRUCTION OF THE 26 TH NATIVE INFANTRY . Mr . C . Gilpin called attention to the destruction of the 26 th Native Infantry at Ujnalla , on the 1 st of August , 1857 , as detailed in a work entitled " The Crisis in the Punjaub , " by Frederick Cooper , Deputy Commissioner of Umritsur . The hon . member recapitulated the incidents of the transaction , and denounced the conduct of Mr . Copper , under whose orders the 26 th Regiment , numbering 500 sepoys , had , he insisted , been cruelly , massacred without trial or necessity . —General Thompson expressed indignant reprobation of the atrocity in question , and alluded to some other occurrences in which he said British officers
had played the disgraceful part of executioners . — Lord Stanley said it was impossible to deny that the transactioi ^ -could not be heard or read of without pain and regret , and the pain was greatly increased by the tone and spirit in which the trans-r action had been described in $ he dispatch at the time , and in a book subsequently published . After detailing the circumstances connected with the transaction , he observed that these men were insurgents , who would have joined the rebel army ; that , in the critical state of the Punjaub at the , time , a large force of disarmed sepoys being in the neigh " bourhood , a severe example was necessary to prevent similar Outbreaks , and that these facts should be taken in mitigation or palliation of the transaction . Delhi was not then taken , great alarm and peril prevailed , the sepoys of the regiment had murdered two had would
of their officers , and if they escaped beyond doubt have joined the ranks of the insurgents . The superior authorities in India , Lord Canning , Sir John Lawrence , and Mr . Montgomery , had at the time approved of Mr . Qooper ^ s act , as having been justified by necessity . At this distance of time and place it was difficult to judge fairly the conduct of men engaged in a desperate struggle , and ho suggested that the most appropriate sentence the House could pronounce on the transactions would be to pass it over in silence . —The suggestion was adopted , and the subject allowed to drop . . The House then went into a Committee of Supply , and passed several votes belonging to the naval estimates amidst a miscellaneous discussion , which chiefly occupied the remainder of the sitting . The Houso adjourned at a quarter to one o ' clock . Tuesday , March 15 . THE 8 TADE DUES . In the House of Lords , the Eavl of CfcAUBNooN asked Lord Mnhnesbury , whether the treaty with Hanover relating to tho Stadc Duos would terminate on the 14 th of August next , and whether the correspondence on the subject would Tbe laid before tho House . —Tho Earl of Malmesbuiiy replied that ,
notice having Leen given on the 14 th of August last the treaty would expire on the same day . of-August next . Negotiations were still pending on the subje c t , but if they should prove fruitless he should have no objection to lay the correspondence before the House . Some other business was then dispatched , and their lordshi ps adjourned . The House of Commons had a morning sittin g ClIVRC . il BATES ABOLITION . * " " Sir J . Trelawnv nioved the second reading of the Church-rates Abolition Bill . —Mr . Giuffith m oved , as an amendment ^ a resolution , " That any ameiidment of the law relating to Church-rates
which should exempt persons contributing to the support of some other place of worship than the parish church from the payment of the rate , at the same time that the existing machinery for the support of the fabric of the Church of England should Ibe continued in operation upon the members of her own communion , is worth y of the consideration of this House . " His speech in support of this amendment embraced a great variety of top ics , some of them new to the debate upon the question . He was interrupted by loud shouts of " Time , " " Question , " " Divide '' but
maintained Ms ground without flinching ; and took from behind him a large bundle of printed papers , wliich turned out to be reports of societies , and begged to . be allowed to read a few extracts . This proposition led to a perfect hurricane of dissent and uproar . —Mr . Si Estcocrt recommended Mr . Griffith , as he had had an opportunity , for nearl y an hour , of stating his views , to withdraw his resolution , which could l « ad to no substantial result . —At length Mr . Griffith , having occup ied the House an hour and twenty minutes , and having apparently gone throug h all he had to say , withdrew Jus amendment amidst shouts of laughter . ,
Mr . B . Hope then moved that the bill should be read a second time that day six months . The cry against Church-rates , he saidj canje from a divided and composite party ; the demand for the total abolition of the rates he traced to a political organisation which employed it as a means to an end—the destruction of Church property . He reviewed the objections to the existing system of raising the rates . and suggested , remedies , including the exemption of Dissenters , protesting against all schemes which involved spoliations—rThe amendment was seconded . by Mr . Dkedes , who wished , he said , on the one hand , to afford to Nonconformists the relief to which they considered themselves entitled , and , on the to
other , to secure to Churchmen the power carry out what they regarded as a salutary mode of maintaining the fabric of the church . — Mr . B . Osborne supported the bill , contending that the time for compromise was past . The question had been under discussion for twenty years , and many adjustments proposed , but none had proved acceptable , and no course was left for closing Hiecontroversy hut an absolute abolition of the disputed impost .- —Mr . S . Wortley declared that after much consideration he had arrived at a similar conclusion . He had always contended against the total been anxioufor
abolition of Church-rates , and s a compromise ; but he thought that all attempts either at commutation Or compromise were now hopeless . The decision upon Mr . Walpole ' sbill was a declaration that this fester would yield to no remedy mic absolute extinction . We had come to a state oi things when the existing law could not bo maintained ' without injury to the Church us weU . -M *' ? community . After , much deliberation , he > ma arrive d at tho conclusion to vote for the secomt reading of tho bill . —Mr . S . Hishmmx objected to the bill on the ground that it would perpetrate nn injustice upon the Church by abolishing the rivtc w tu-Ciroron
out providing any substitute . ro «» »™ altered their character immensely within thei ioot few years . Since a majority , in the pwwiv eonw decide whether tliero should be a church-rate or not , the whole question had changed . iiw present state of things , in his opinion , i ojw . be preferable to that which would bo brougM about if Mr . Walpoio ' s bill hod passed . w » was not , tliorofore , in a hurry to alter tlio ^ Not all who opposed Church-rates were Dissonton , tlie rates wore resisted from tho common nntipniny to a tax . Tlie bill proposed to remove an « urtico to Dissenters , and its oftcct certainly wouM •» » relieve Dissenters . But how would Ch rcbmm stand ? The real truth wns that tho Chmolioj England was parochial in tho , country and congxo gatfonal in towns . Tho nea-rost npproiwl to a » equitable adjustment of this qaesUou w « 9 ««» PJ ^ o « l * 4 > ai A llhm . nnr \ ho WOUld Ul'ffO tllilt 0 > •<»/ be to
&ce ^ d > . islVshould allowed Qotog »« £ tself , which would pitt an end to all < ^{ JX Unless some , such change was mtroauoodI into , ini bill , ho must vote against tho 8 ^ 3 ) , ^ Mr Paokk and Lord S . Mannkus spoke ¦ ajj nat uw second roadinfi of tho bljll , and Mr . . ^"" J . W ^ its flvvour . * -Sir J , Tjmhuawkv briefly wplloa , wu
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356 THE LE ADEB , [ No . 469 , March 19 , 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 19, 1859, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2286/page/4/
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