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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . Monday , July 11 . VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIA . In the House of Lobds some questions respecting the drill and instruction of volunteer rifle corps gave lise to a conversation on the subject in which the Earl of Winchilsea , the Marquis of Clanricarde , the Earl of Malmesbury , and other peers participated . Xord KiroN said it was not the intention of her Majesty ' s Government to . pay instructors for the volunteer rifle corps ; it was simply intended to SUpp ] y them with trained instructors , who would be paid and boarded by the rifle corps themselves
Neither was it designed to issue pay and uniforms to the corps of volunteer artillery , but only to supply them with guns , ammunition , and instruction . He also stated that her Majesty ' s Government had made preparations for the instruction of 25 adjutants and 100 sergeants at the school of musketry at Hythe ; who , when sufficiently trained , would be employed to instruct their comrades in the use of the Enfield rifle , which would then be issued to the embodied militia . — -Lord Malbiesburt thought artillery corps would be more attractive to volunteers , if it were xinderstood that they would not be employed out of their own counties . —Lord Ripon declined to enter into a discussion on so important a matter .
CO 0 UE IMMIGRATION . lord Brougham in presenting a petition ; called attention to the subject of coolie emigration to the British West Indian Colonies , which he contended , xmiler the operation of local acts and practices , had degenerated into something not far removed from a revival of the slave trade . The Earl of Cork inquired whether the : Government intended to bring in any bill for the better management of endowed schools in Ireland .- — -Lord Granvtlle said the Government did not intend to introduce a bill this session . The subject , however , was at the present moment under the consideration of the Government . Their lordships adjourned at six o ' clock . BED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPJH BILL ,. Iw the House of Commons , on the motion for taking into consideration the Lords' amendments on the Red Sea and Iadia Telegraph Company ' s Bill , Sir J . Graham moved as an amendment that the further consideration of the measure should be postponed for a fortnight . As the bill , in its amended shape , was laid before the House , there is a provision that the Government give a guarantee of four and a-half per cent , upon the capital paid up , and this guarantee is to extend for half a century . Such
a guarantee might , as Lord Duncan said , amount to a Government grant of 45 , 000 / . a year for a Red Sea telegraph . It was the late Government that wished to make this arrangement , with the view , a , s Mr . Disraeli explained , to ' establish telegraphic communication with India . Mr . Gladstone said the present Government were not disposed to overthrow an arrangement which might have the appearance of breaking faith with a company . The bill was agreed to in its amended shape by a majority of 47 , hut not fewer than . 130 members divided with Sir James Graham for postponement . whether the Sub
Sir S . Nqrthcotjs inquired - marine Telegraph Company had beqn permitted by tho Government to lay down any additional wires between England and Trance , and whether the permission had been given to them without requiring a ¦ surrender or modification of the monopoly recently granted by the French Government ! which gives them an exclusive right to lay down lines of telegraph between the two countrios ?—Mr . Laing stated that the company had , on application , declined to surrender their French monopoly . Thq present Government had Iu consequence at first objected to grant them permission to lay down any additional wires between England and l ? ranoo w but found that under the terms of their charter the company wore entitled to demand that privilege . This permission , he added , would only lost until the expiration of their oharterin 1862 .
Lord Grant 1 i . l . b , in answer to a question from Lord Airlie in regard to the report of the Commissioners of the University ( Scotland ) Act , said he could not give any definite reply , as the report was still under the consideration of Commissioners , and had not been yet communicated to her Majesty ' s Government . ,. , ~ Their lordships adjourned a little-after seven . greive ' s disabilities removal bill . In the House of Commons the second reading of
Greive ' s Disabilities Removal Bill , brought in as a private billi was opposed oh the ground that it involved a public question . Mr . Greive , it was contended , having fallen under episcopal censure in Scotland ou account of errors which he had not recanted , had no title to enjoy an endowment in the English church . After a prolonged discussion an amendment moved by Mr . A . Steuart , to defer the second reading for three months , was carried by a majority of 232 to 84—148 -, so that the bill , which had passed the other House , is lost .
THE PEACE . Mr . Disraeli having inquired whether the results of the interview held by the Emperors of France and Austria on the previous day had come to the knowledge of the Government , Lord J . Hussell stated that information had been received from the French ambassador in London to the effect that preliminaries of peace had been signed by the two Emperors . By a telegraphic despatch from Lord Cowley he had further been informed that the bases agreed upon were these : —That Lombardy should be given up by Austria to the Emperor of the French , in Order to its being consolidated with the dominions of the King of Sardinia . That the Federa
could not but hope , especially as there was to be a meeting that day between the two Emperors at "Villafranca , that the belligerent Powers would propose some terms by which hostilities could be put an end to . No further official infofmation , however , had been received upon , the subject except a telegrain from our Ambassador at Paris . ¦
. SUPPLY COMMITTEE . The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to . On the ordar for going into Committee of Supply , Mr Kinnaibd called attention to the propriety of securing a road for the passes of carriages andhorsesfrom Charingcross through Spring-gardens into St . James ' s Park , and asked the Chief Commissioner of Works , whether he intended to avail himself of the opportunity afforded by the pulling down of Berkeley-house , and to take steps for effecting this followed by
° reat improvement . —Lord Duncan , Lord J . Manners , reminded the House that the important question of cost and compensation should be taken into consideration—Mr . Fitzrot observed that Mr . Kinnaird should have shown the great advantage of the proposed " improvement , " and that it could be accomplished at a small cost . He ( Mr . Fitzroy ) was prepared to take issue with him upon both points . He believed the advantage would be small , and that the expense would be not less than
Sir J . Pakington asked Lord C . Paget for further explanation of the announcement he had made on Friday , since confirmed by an Order in Council , of the intention of the present Government to extend the bounty to seaman retrospectively , which he thought would establish a dangerous precedent . — Lord C . Paget said he did explain to some extent the reasons of the extension of bounty on certain conditions he could not then state the exact amount of the expense , and , as the measure would come before the House when the estimate was laid upon the table , he requested to be excused from continuing the discussion . adverted to tate
Italian States were to be consolidated into a - tion , of which the Pope would be honorary President ; and that Venice was to become a member of that Federation , under the government of an Austrian Archduke . The Emperor of the French , to whom it had been proposed that Savoy should be ceded as a compensation for the expense of the war , had declined to accept any additton to the territory of his empire . After making this announcement the noble lord expressed the hope that Lord Elcho would not , under the circumstances , persevere with the motion of which he had given notice respecting the Italian question . Lord Elcho signified his intention to abandon that motion .
Colonel Dickson having some sments which had appeared in a newspaper respecting the insignificant numberof troops , available for the defence of the country , General Peel read a return , showing that on the 1 st of June , the aggregate number- of men of all arms on actual service in the United Kingdom , including about 23 , 000 embodied militia , was 109 , 614 . Of these nearly 14 , 000 belonged to the artillery , who could bring 180 guns fully equippped into the field at a few hours ' notice , besides having 110 more in store * with all their apparatus complete to the minutest detail . — Mr . Williams commented upon the enormous magnitude and rapid increase in the military and naval expenditure [ of the country . r—The motion was agreed to , and the House , in committee of supply , proceeded to discuss the remaining votes belonging to the supplemental navy estimates .
FBEJEE ISLANDS . In reply to a question from Colonel Sykes , Lord J . Russell said the sovereignty of the Feejee Islands had teen very much pressed upon her Majesty ' s Government ; that the matter was under consideration , and no final decision had been come to . At the instance of Mr . S . Herbert , who made a brief explanatory statement , Sir A . Aoneav postponed his motion on the subject of salutes to religious processions . for series of
On resuming , the remaining business on the paper was disposed of , and the House adjourned at twenty minutes to two . Tuesday , July 12 . PRELIMINARIES OJ ? PEACE . In the House of Lords , Lord Wodeiiouse announced that the Government had received a telegraphic despatch from Verona , stating that preliminaries of peace had been agreed upon between the Emperor of the French and the Emperor of Austria . The noble lord proceeded to describe the principal bases of this agreement , which were , of course , similar to those recapitulated by Lord John Russell in the other House .
Mr . E . James , in moving a papers relating to the differences between Mr . Thomas Chiaholm Anstey and the authorities at Hongkong , made a . statement , in order , he said , that the grounds of his motion might be intelligible to the House . — Mr . C . Foktescue stated that the Secretary of State for the Colonies , having only just entered upon his office , had found it impossible to make himself master of the correspondence upon this subject . — The motion was withdrawn .
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS . Mr . Coohrane moved an address to her Majesty to instruct the Civil Service Examiners that all persons who . entered any service , or profession . prior to the 2 lst of May , 1855 , to which service or profession the present system of examinations is applicable , shall be considered eligible fox * promotion without being subjected to any examination . Ho mentioned cases in which the existing rules operated harshly , and in , criticising the system of examination , the stringency of which he condemned , ho adduced soTnao rather ludicrous examples of tho qucstions ' , put to candidates . Tho Chanckmx > h ; ol tho Exchequer , after a general defenco of the system , obseryed , with reference to tho specific obnot shown
On the motion of the Marquis of Cjlanrioarde , some returns were ordered respecting the courts of common law in Ireland , In reply to a question from the Earl of Carnarvon , the Duke of Newcastle explained the present state of the question relating to the definition of boundary and participation of debt botween the nondivided colonies of Now South Wales and Qucenstown , and described tho measures which had been adopted for tho settlement of that question . KVIDBNOE IN 0 UAN 0 I 5 RY . Lord Lyndhukst , in , moving for the appointment
of a Select Committee to inquire into the mode of taking evidence in tho Courts of Chancery and its eflects , and to report |; horcon , pointed out the different modos of procedure in the courts of common law and equity , and complained of the complicated method of taking evidence in the latter courts . He explained that evltlonce was taken by one set of persons and decided on by another , and that counsel had tho means of tampering with evidence , or , no it was technically called , " cooking an affidavit . " Ho insisted on tho necessity of taking stops to remedy tho defects of a system which ho characterised as almost useless , very expensive , and very dilatory .
ject of the motion , that Mr . Cochrano had any sufficient reasons for tho intorforonco of tho House . Lord Palmkrston said , although , like all othor arrangements , this system was Hublc to some imperfections , ho boliovod that , on the wliolo , it had tended very much to tho advantago of tho public sorvlco , whilo it have given a stimulus to education all over tho country . Ho had roprosontod to tho Civil Service Commissioners , that somo of tho questions wore open to objection j and thqanswer- —which ho thought a satisfactory one—was that tlioy woro supernumerary questions , added to tl \ o olonicntary quqstions , in order to tost tho general oflleioncy and comparative intelligence of tho young riion . / Io recommended Mr . Cochrano to withdraw tho motion . - —Tho motion was withdrawn . rAClUST AND TELBGKAriUO CONTRACTS . Tho CuANaioLLon of tho Exoiubquhr , moved the nomination of tho Soleot Committoo on Packet and Telegraphic Contraots . —' Mr , Rqubuok asked tho
The Lonx > Chancem-or , thinking that tho pvesqnt system was susceptible of great improvement , agreed to the motion . Lord Cranworth , Lord Cholmsford , Lord Brougham , and Lord Weneloydalo made a few remarks , after which tho motion was agreed to .
, Irt reply to Mr . Butlor , the Chancellor of the ExcuiEQUEii stated that no intention oxisted to bring in a bill during tho present session to alter tho prosont system under which the income tax was assossod and collected .
THIS ARMISTICE . Mr . Disraidli inauirod whether hor Majesty ' e Oovcrnment had received any offlicial intimation fYam that of Franco of the armistice agreed to between tho Allies and Austria $ whether it was a raoro military convention , or whothor it hold out any prospect of negotiations for poaoe . — -Lord J , Russell said ho had nothing to add to what ho Btfttea on Friday . It appeared on tho face of the Armistice that it wan only for military purposes j at tho same time , its duration being for five weeks , he
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** o THE LEA DEB . [ No . 486 . July 16 , 185 9 .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 16, 1859, page 832, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2303/page/4/
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