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    No. 428, June 5, 1858.] THE LEADEfi. ^^

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    Imperial Parliament. » ¦ ¦ - ¦ . ¦ 3fo?I...

    proposal was in a crude state . —Earls Granvil £ . b and Powis supported the proposition for adjournment .- —The Earl of Derby declared it was impossible for him to acquiesce in tlie proposal for an adjournment for a fortnight-Their "Lordships then divided on the question that the defeat * be adjourned for a fortnight , when there appeared— Contents • 68 Non-contents 80 Majority —12 Th « Earl of Lucak accordingly withdrew his amendment , having previously expressed his hope that some person of more influence would introduce a bill embodying the principle contained in it .

    Lord Lyndhtjrst moved that the House do not insist upon its amendments , observing that the opposition then offered to-the admission of the Jews was the last struggle of a desperate and expiring cause . — - After a few remarks from Lord Dk Eos ( who affirmed that Jews are never to be found" in aima for the defence of the country , and that it is clear they regard themselves as aliens ) , the Lor » Chancbixor , opposed the proposition of Lord Lyndburst , and remarked that , if the appointment of Baron . Rothschild on . the committee aiominated to confer with , their Lordsliips were tueant to make an impression ¦ up on them , their . Lordships had received it with great

    composure . ( A laugh . ) He considered that the reasons of the Commons were deficient iir grammatical accuracy , and did not begin with any reason at all . —Earl Granville appealed to Lord Lyndhurst not to divide on the question . The Jewish question had made a great advance that night , and he was sanguine enough to think it was virtually settled . ( Hear , hear : ) The division ¦ was already virtually taken , and as it was clear they-were not sufficiently strong to- carry the noble and learned Lord's proposition , he appealed to Iiim not to divide .- — Lord Lvndhl'R ' st declared that , acting in ' the spirit of conciliation , he would not divide the House .

    The question was then piit : — "That their Lordships insist upon their amendments to the bill ; " and that proposition was agreed to .-without a division . ¦ ' -. ' . The House adjourned at a quarter to ten o ' clock .

    NEW WRITS . In the House of GoamoNS , on the motion of Sir Wixliam Jolljffk , a . new writ was ordered to issue for King ' s Lynn , for the election of a member to serve in the room , of Lord Stanley , who has accepted the . office of President of the Board of Control for the affairs of India . A . new -writ was also ordered for the county of Hertford , iu . the room of Sir Edward Buiwer Lyttou , ¦ who has accepted the office of Colonial Secretary .

    THE SMOKE NUIHA 3 TCE . Mr . Ayetox gave notice that on the 15 th of June he should move for leave to bring in a bill to abate the nuisance arising from the smoke of furnaces in the metropolis . : THE CAGLIARt . In answer to questions from Mr . Headlam , the Chancrllok of titr Exchequer said tliat Parlce and Watt were released unconditionally , and that no compensation had as yet been made on their behalf . The Sardinian subjects who constituted part of the crew of

    the Cagliavi are still detained on . the part of the Neapolitan Government .- —Mr . Roebuck wished to ask whether the compensation had been refused by the Neapolitan Government . —The Chanokm-oh of the Ex > chkquek thought it very inconvenient to answer sucli questions without notice . Would the hon . and learned gentleman allow him to observe that questions of compensation and indemnity are not matters to be settled ofi'hand ? The Government believe that the compensation they have demanded for the English engineers is a just claim , and that they will be successful in obtaining it . -

    . v . Mr . Moxseli , asked the Vice-President of the Privy Council Committee whether bis attention hud been called to tho fact -that , out of 1 G 3 ( J deaths reported to have taken place , from all causes , in the quarter ending the 31 st of Mar « li , 1858 , at liurton-on-Trcnt , Sheffield , ami Merthyr Tyiltil , -119 were reputed to have been caused by small-pox , and whether he proposed to introduce any amendment of tho Vaccination Act . —Mr . Aoiwshlbv said that the statement alluded to was , unfortunately , tiuo , and there were other places also in various parts of tho kingdom where the proportion of deaths in the same

    period ol time , from smnll-pox , wras about one-third of the whole number of deaths . From all he could make our , tho spread of small-pox arises A-om bad vaccination as muob as from neglect of vaccination . The state , of vaccination issueh as to create great alarm , uiul tho subject liad engaged his attention for some time . He did not think that it would bo expedient to make the provisions of tho Vaccination Act more stringent ; but ho believed that the second clause of the Public Health Hill , -which Kivcs to tho Privy Council the power to issue regulations in reference to tliis matter , would meet tho obicct m view .

    . WAamxcrroNwu . ks . Mr . MiiiNBit ( JniHON presented a petition from Mr . Washington Wilk * , editor of the Unrlisla K . mmwcr , then m custody of the Herjeunt-at-Arins for a libel on Mr . Uive . Mr . WilkH , while still refusing to withdraw the article altogether , retracted and apologized for that

    part containing an imputation of corrupt motives . He ¦ was not himself the author of the article , and the writer had misunderstood the information conveyed- to him . The imputation having been solemnly denied , Mr . Wilks felt desirous as an honest man to withdraw it ; and accordingly he did so , and expressed his regret that it had been made . Mr . Milner Gibson concluded by moving that the petition be printed with the votes ; which was agreed to . ' The report on the Miscellaneous Estimates was brought up , and agreed to . . mr . disraeh ' s speech at slough . On the motion that the House go into Committee of Supply ,

    Lord Palmerston adverted to what lie called the recent " post prandial" speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Slough . It / was not surprising , observed his Lordship , that the right hon . gentleman should be elated by the spontaneous cheers of five or six hundred honest but deluded farmers , the whole of whom were in his favour . Having been accustomed of late to the cheers of a small band of well-drilled supporters ( " Hear , hear V and " Oh , oh ¦ ' " ) , it was natural that he should be excited by the acclamations of an audience who thought they had before them the unflinching champion of Protection and the uncompromising an tagonist of Freetrade . ( Laughter . ) Had the speech been made by one ignorant of national affairs and of the duties and

    responsibilities of a Government , it woukl have deserved nothing but compassion ; but , having "been spokfln by one who acknowledged himself the representative of the Ministry , it acquired a degree of importance . It commenced by asserting that the Governm « nt succeeded to an heritage of innumerable difficulties ; but Lord . Derby had . saifl that , on coming into office , he had found the country in every respect in a satisfactory condition That was a refutation of Mr . Disraeli ' s statement . " Next , the right hon . gentleman stated , as one of those difficulties , that the present Ministers found the-country on the verge of war with France , that the question of peace or war was not one of weeks ordays , but of hours . That statement was utterly and entirelv erroneous : it

    was not only not true , but it was the very opposite of truth .- ( Sear , hear . ') He could not but express his surprise that the right hon , gentleman should have made such an assertion anywhere , but especially at the place and tin \ e where he did make it . Did he not know of the gravity of the statement ? Assuming it to have been true , was it a statement to have been made in a booth at Slough to a parcel of carousing electors ? ( " Hear , hear , " and cries of'" Oh ! " ) If it were thought necessary to awake the country to the deficiency of the national defences , that House was the place where it should be done . But he again denied the truth of the statement utterly and entirely . The right , hon . gentleman spoke of this imminency of war as existing

    fortveight hours before tho change of Government ; but . he ( Lord Palmerston ) said that , at the time indicated , the relations of the two countries were most intimate and friendly . As to , the absence of the French Ambassador , the fact was that it was occasioned by a visit to France on his own private affairs ; and two days after the change of Government he returned . lie called on the right hon . gentleman to explain his assertions or retract them . Then , the right hon . gentleman , in his boasting speech , took credit for rescuing the conn try from a dangerous position with regard to the Cagliari , and for bringing the two engineers triumphantly home . The fact was , that one of them was set free before the present Ministry came into power ; and the other had been

    removed from his dungeon . As for the question of compensation , ifc was as unsettled now as tho late Government had left it . ( Hear hear . ) The right hon . gentleman also charged the late " Government with an intrigue to bring : about war between Sardinia and Naples . He ( Lord Talmcrston ) utterly denied that there -was any truth in the assertion . ( Hear , hear . } The right hon . gentleman boasted of tho wonders which they bad performed in the way of finance , lie siiid the late Government had left an immense deficit ( Ministerial cJiee-iv ); and that that immense detioit , a delieit of millions , had boen got rid of by simply putting a small tax on Irish spirits , and a penny duty on bankers' cheques . But the truth was , tho present Government bad onlv got rid

    of the difficulty by postponing it ; they had thrown upon future years those difficulties ' which they shrank from , encountering on this ( hear , hear ) ; and next year , if they were still in office , they would rue the adjustment . " It was a libel , •• moreover , to say that either Lord Canning or tho lato Government had ndvocated a policy for India of massacre and confiscation . On tho contrary , "they had laid down the principles of punishing the guilty , sparing tho innocent , and rewarding the dosorvhitf . " The right hon . gentleman being iu a mood to attack ovorvbody , had attacked oven

    his own colloaguea . Ho hud said that tho ' only spoeclics worth mentioning dining tho Into debate on India wero thoso made by members who wovo not connected with tho Government . (//<)«/• , hear . ') Did the right , hum . gentleman forgot the able speech of tho Solicitor Geneva ! —a speech which ho ( Lord J'ulmorston ) should i * ot easily forger , though it wan agaiimt him ? Did he forget tho Animated . speech of tho Attorney-General fur Ireland , or tho speech of Lord Stanley , both of which-were deserving of Honici mention , by the Chancellor of tho Exchequer ? The debate luid been loft to members of tho

    Government who had no knowledge of Cabinet secret ? , and who were not responsible for -what they said . The right hon . gentleman , amongst other aeeusatioae , had referred to the existence of that which-had not existed since the time o > f Charles II ., namely , a cabal upon the Opposition side , who entertained the most extraordinary intention of displacing tlie Government of tlie day . ( " Hear , hear" and laughter . ') The only distinction between a cabal and a party was a difference of member ; but there had no doubt been a design to censure and displace the Government . The right hon . gentleman had said that such a thing ; had never happened sriace the reign of Charles II .,- and this ; was a statement wlich he did not expect from so cultivated a mind . But h # would :

    tell the right hoo . gentleman tbat which was unusual j it was unusual , not that there shoukl be a cabal in the Opposition , but that-there should be a factious Government . ( Loud cheers , and cries of " Oh , eh !*) It was unusual that there should be a Government carrying into office all the faction which before influenced them ; that there should be on the Treasury bench a Government which published libels upon former Ministers of the Crown—( cAeers , .-and" Oh , oh !")—which seat forth to the world and to India principles which , if carried into execution , would lead to the dismemberment of our Indian Empire , and which published to the -world a most insolent attack upon an officer of the down in another portion of her Majesty ' s dominions . " ( Xjou < 2 c 7 teevs . ~ ) ¦ .

    The CHANCEtiiOR of tke Exchequer commenced his reply by comparing this second attack on his speech to the second challenge of IVE . de Pene hi the recent Trench duel . Having acquitted himself w « ll in meeting one opponent , he had to meet another , with a prospect of an endless number more to follow r but he hoped and believed this second encounter would not terminate in the same unfortunate manner as the second duel in France had done . Asregardsthe question of war with France , he had never said that the late Government had left the country on the brink of a rupture with our neighbour . What he had said was that war might , on the accession of the new ; Government , have been a question of days or hours . The late Government , having omitted to answer

    a despatch which was generally supposed to convey an insult to this country—having agreed : to introduce a bilL to alter the laws of the land , at the instance of a foreign Power—having , in short , truckled basely and shamefully to- that Power , had , no doubt , avoided all chance of a rupture . On the other hand , the new Government answered that insulting despatch ; they declared that they were not prepared to alter the laws of England to please any foreign Potentate ; and the House must see that , under those circumstances , peace or war was a doubtful ( Question , and tliat the issue was not so much between the two Governments as between the irritated feelings of the two nations . How did Ministers act under the circumstances ? They trusted to the sagacity

    and naturally good disposition of the ruler of France . They believed that , if all the cirenni 3 tances were brought before his unerring judgment—that , if the question were extricated from the influence of the parasites of both countries—he would deci de as was best for the happiness of both countries ; and their confidence was not misplaced . From that moment , our relations with France have become more and more cordial , week after week and month after month . "I admit , " continued-. Mr . Disraeli , " the whole case of the noble Lord in . his very words , that ' there was nothing when he went out of office which threatened war between the two countries ;' but then the condition o > n which peace depended was influenced by the change from a shameful and truckling

    policy which had been pursued by the late Government —a policy which was not only not for the honour of this country , but , as I believe , opposed to the interest and advantage of France , our faithful ally . I believe no one is more convinced of that now titan the Kmporor himself ; and this is proved by the way in which the news of the trial of Bernard was received in that country . II is Majesty felt that tho law of En gland had been fairly appealed to and administered in his own case , and that the result , though nothing could bo move mortifying or disappointing ; , could never become a source of rniaunder-81 nmling and coldness between the two countries . I was justified , therefore , in Btating that wo had , in unison with tho declaration of Parliament , vindicated and maintained tho honour of England , without forfeiting thnfc alliance which , I am proud to say , exists with tho most cordial feeling on both sides , but which , according to the

    noblo Lord , could only "bo preserve *! by pursuing a policy which this country repudiated . " What was there to p rovent him ( Vom commenting on these facts when addrcssing his constituents ? The noble Lord had s »> kl that his ( Mr . Disraeli's ) statement was likely to atiket tlu ; public credit of tho country , but what really nfVeofwl the public credit was a secret and . servile poKuy pui'suuil to please sorno foreign Power in utter ignoruiico of the character of this nation , and ending in lotally disappointing that Power . " Tho noble Lord lias still a hankering iiftcr the ease of the L-ngliuri , in veNpoct of \ v hi ' ch ho was so reserved and . silent , when ho Hat on 1-1 » m sitlo of tho House , (/ fear , hear , ) This noUlo Lord did not soeni quite miti . sflod with our having freed two of our countrymen whom ho for months permitted to remain Himoticeil . ( Miuiskriul cheers . ) At liifit , ' j ;« ha )« ie « J *>( this conduct of himaelf and his oollentfues , he mnkos nn inadvertent statement to-night Ijy wl > i < --i > J » e wishos to

    No. 428, June 5, 1858.] The Leadefi. ^^

    No . 428 , June 5 , 1858 . ] THE LEADEfi . ^^

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05061858/page/3/