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    I fcHta 122 THE ^ E ADEB. >;, | No. 307,...

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    IEPmiAL PARLIAMENTMonday, FebruaryAth. C...

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    introduced by the Lord Advocate , will place Scotland under a similar control . Kot only in the metropolis , therefore , will the central executive at " Westminster possess an army . } X will also /^ ossess an army out of red uniform tnroughoutfftti tfiree of the united kingdoms , witti | j | pwer ia the metropolis , the English counties , and Ireland , if not in Scotland , of concentrating that force upon any point where it is necessary for the maintenance of order .

    Another practical measure advanced by the author of the partnership reform has had a curious and interesting treatment . Mr . Lowe proposes to abolish passing bills upon shipping , and to reform the collection of local dues ; w hich , ia many cases , are diveited from maritime uses , and employed as simple contributions towards the corporate funds of particular towns . In some cases these tolls were the gift of the Crown to corporations , perhaps as a reward for work done . The ports that enjoy

    these privileges are in many casesancient harbours , of little modern utility , such as Dover , Ramsgate , or Bridlington . Important a ^' these stations may he for postal services , or for the comfort of sea-side visitors , they have little value as harbours for the shipping of commerce . In some cases , ancient family privileges , such as those enjoyed by the Seftons , of Lancashire , have been purchased by ports . Of the local dues , about ^ 550 , 000 is devoted to purposes of utility for shipping ; while

    about « s £ 400 , 000 is used in buuding ^ pavin g , and , as the advocates of Liverpool avoirr in erecting edifices needed for cc the ends of justice" in South Lancashire . These are very proper objects , bat why they should be charged on sea-going ships it is difficult to make out . The imposts , however , find defenders . The corporations that enjoy such privileges conceive their " property" to be attacked , and those very communities that have most "bene <* fited by the extension of municipal freedom , of free , trade , and- other principles \ p . vogue , stand forth , like many corrupt boroughs , defending the

    rotten , seats in Parliament . Mr . Lowe , who is making . an honest step va > correcting antiquated abuses , is threatened with opposition from every place where the inhabitants have some fantastic right of taking money from the pockets of sailors . On the other hand , if Liverpool is against him , he las with him the whole of South Lancashire , including Manchester and the great towns . In like manner , probably , though he is resisted by Dover , Hull , or Bridlington , he would have the counties , the metropolis , and the most important commercial classes to sustain him . The admirable pair-of bills which Mr . Lo ^ b introduced , last week . to amend the law of partnership have excited an unexpected hostility . Members affected to welcome the bills ; they have since called for * f delay , " of course as a , means of defeat . The joint measure is too full ' and popular . It would abolish all restriction uppa entering into partnership with limited liability , and would secure for shareholders a real control over their own managing , officers . We shall show , next week , how truly the measure deserves popular support against those members who . oppose the iatercstB of the people in thename of the people , Mr : Ooi ., L . in : R has tried once more to get an instalment of ecclesiastical reform by transferring testatnentavy jurisdiction to the superior courts , but' / fa : e ! hasi scarcely any px'dspect of success . Sir ElOHARXi . Btstkkll , the Solicitor-general , con-^ i ^ R Jthat he desponds * . The bamlcd purpose of ^^*^| tho ^ ollective bigotry of established juris-^ t ^ l ^^^ eited with pome old Roman cement , ^^^ k ^ depbritorica of rate , four-legged and ... ' , ffl ^ ## * i »**<* nothing short of abolition will pVeyon ^ them , from worrying the private life of the

    lieges , alt & ougfc tney stand condemned by every authority likat belongs to the world of politics . Lord ;^ ENSi . Eyi > ALB , although represented only at present by his name and patent ^ has created ! a tumult in the House of Lords ; The Peers repefcan nntiereditary Lord . Be he judge of the highest standing , t & ey declare that a man is degraded by being elevated for his own * lifetime . Lord Dbbby , who is more than " the tenth transmittee of a foolish face , " the fourteenth and not

    foolish , leads the resistance , reinforced by Ly > tdktobst , St . Leonards , and Campbell , with Brougham wavering between ; while the Loud Chancellor and Government enjoy the championship of Lord Grey . There are two questions at issue . In the first place , it is desirable to have more Law Lords in the Upper House ; for , although the Law Lords say that there are enough already , we know that the number will soon be fewer , as most

    of the Law Lords would be charged high premiums by the insurance office . The Lord Chancellor following Mr . Fkasbr Maccitjeen , to whom Lord Lynphdrst had referred the question , thinks it well to admit judges into the House of Peers , although the Crown does not undertake to admit all the judges * progeny , be they judicial , judicious , or the reverse . But , secondly , the descendants of the feudal lords of this countrywho are no longer feudal lords—say that Lord

    Wensleydale may be the first of an order of life senators whom they expect to supersede the real House of Lords . It is a revolution , they cry ; and Lord Campbell , proposes to refuse Lord Wensleydale the right of taking his seat ! Lord Campbell and the Peers join issue with the Crown . If the pedple really understood the bearing of the whole question , they would rally to the support of Ministers ; for never was there a more happy fluke in the way of a great constitutional reform . We have two official manifestations this week , both of them in the direction of our improvement ; both of them , however , confess that further improvement is required . The Commissioners on the State of the Army in the Crimea have published their report . It is true that they find some of the picturesque descriptions of suffering endured by the troops to have been exaggerated . There were no regiments starving ; . no decimation of the force by disease , through the culpable laches of

    the Commissariat . But men were left without food for whole days , when food might have been furnished to them , When meat was obstructed by insurmountable difficulties , rice lay forgotten in stores . Green coffee was served out to the men , and was a minor poison causing a wholesale indisposition . Tents were kept packed up , because of misunderstandings . If the regular thing could not be provided , the Commissariat department appeared incapable of inventing a substitute , or using that which it had in hand . When one officer su g ~ gested a mode of sheltering the beasts , Lord

    Lucan threatened to put him under arrest for making the suggestion j and when another , officer proposed to march the horses down to the food , which could not be brought to them , he incurred the displeasure of Lord Cardigan , The Times remarks , and uses no exaggeration in saying so , that it seemed to b © the purpose of the two commanding officers ., whoso exploits at Bolakluva have become so monaorabje , " to destroy the cavalry division ; " and if such was their purpose , few commanders in the Crimea advanced so far towards complete success .

    Ihe other official emanation is that which has been announced aa "the order of merit , " The veritable thing turns out to differ greatly from the idea suggested by the name , It is not an " order , "

    ™^^^^^^^^^^^^ v ^^^ - ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ W ^^^ B ^^ B ^ BM ^ fcH ^ BmJ ^ ta but aj afec ^ afibn . " A bronze cross is to be conferred ) on all naval and military-persons who show conspicuous Jaipur in the presence of the enemy . In the cake ofvthe , humbler ranks , the cross is to be accompanied by a pension ; hut in the decoration itself there # ill be no difference . It will bear the words " JEfor valffur : >? The gift , however , constitutes no real enrolment ? in an order . There is no brotherhood * no > knighthood , no master , nothing of association ; no connexion between the members

    of the order except the fact that they are all named in the Gazette . The decoration , however , is of a kind that must be highly esteemed by all who can win it ; and it is really the first concession to theranks that has yet been made . Captain Scobell has tried to get an examination into" the administration of the Navy ; but , although assisted by Sir Charles Napier and Mr . Lindsav , he was successfully resisted by the officials . Mr . Osbobne can mount to the top of the Admiralty to look down into the corruptions of the Horse Guards ; but when the

    Administrative Reform Association proposes to enter the street door of his own department , Osbornb is firm . The East India Company has been banqueting the first officer of the Company ' s army , who has risen to the chief command of the army of a Presidency , General Patrick Grant . Mr . Warren , the Recorder of Hull > the eccentric Lilyboean observer , enters Parliament , as member for Midhurst . Liverpool has had its municipal

    preface of a public meeting in rebellion against Mr . Lowe ' s Tolls and Dues Suppression Bill . Among the contract trade , there have been some failures , conspicuously , we deeply regret to find , that of Scott , Russell and Co ., apparently from undertaking enterprises with too little regard for the time within which obligations were to be completed . Our ablest speculators have too little regard to the calendar and clock .

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    IEPmiAL PARLIAMENTMonday , FebruaryAth . COUNTY COURTS . In presenting to the House of Lords a petition from the corporation of Sheffield , complaining of the amount of fees exacted , in County Courts , Lord Brougham gave notice of his intention to bring in a bill to improve the administration of justice iu those courts . The Lord Chancellor stated that a bill had already been , prepared by the Government , which would , to a great extent , remedy the evil com plained of . THE CLOCK AND BELLS AT WESTMINSTER . The Marquis of Clanricaiude , in moving for copies of correspondence relating to the great clock and bells of the Palace at Westminster , complained of the coufused system and contradictory authorities \ imler which this part of the works of the now building liad been conducted . —Lord Granville admitted the inconvenience , but hoped the clock aud bolls would be complete T > y the close of the proBont year . The House then adjourned . MINISTERIAL INTENTIONS . Iii the House of Commons , Sir Geoiiou Ghey , stated that the question of church-rates had boon under consideration , but he ooxtld give no assurance aa to whether a measure would be brought iu thi « session . Should tiio House consent to allow tho measures to bo brought in , of which notice hud bcou given l > y two monabers , tho Goyemmout \ youl < l bo prepared to state its opinion at n- future period ' - —I ' answer to Mr . Hutoiiins , he stated that a woloot committee would be appointed to consider the boat modo of establishing a public voad between J'imliou iiu < l Pall-Mall . —itoplying to Mr . Wibk , ho intimatud Mint it was riot intondod to malco any ivltoration in tho tioket-of-loavo system . —Mi . Housman , in answer | ° Mr . MAaumE , montionod that tho Government ; did not intend to bring in a moasuro on tho tjulijoofc ol ministers' money iu Ireland . —Sir Q icoiwu ( "Jhi * v , _ Answer to Mr . Dixlwyn , stated that it won nob intended to alter tho law relative to violent mwawltH on women and children . LOOAIi DUES ON HIIIPMNCI . The Houho having roHolvod itself into a committee on tho act's relating : to morohnnt shipping , Mr . Lowin moved for louvo to bring iu a bill i «>»" tho abolition of posting tolls and tho regulation ol

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 9, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09021856/page/2/