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      THE titles of nearly a score of bills on as many different subjects , entered on the books of the House of Commons , attest the activity of the present Ministry ; whether they anticipate a long tenure of office or not , they have cut themselves out a good stiff piece of work , and they are vigorously setting about its accomplishment . The Lord Chancellor has brought in the ¦ . first instalment of the measure referred to in the Royal Speech ,

      abolishing the distinction between bankruptcy and insolvency . . The measure will retain the present distinction between traders and non-traders , and the main effect of it will be to give the creditor much greater power over the estate of the debtor than he has at present ; his facilities for the realisation of the debtor ' s estate will also be improved * and the estate will be relieved from the heavy official fees which how dip so deeply into it .

      Two of the bills introduced by independent members have special claims on the interest of the House and on that of the country generally ; these are Lord ^ Bury ' s bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife ' s sister , and Sir John Trclawny ' s bill for the total abolition of church-rates . Lord Bury ' s motion for leave to introduce his bill was carried by the large majority of 155 to 85 , indicating the progress which is being made towards a settlement of the difficulties which at present beset

      this important subject . After the decisive manner in which the House of Commons pronounced itself lust session on Sir John Trclawny ' s bill , the introduction of tho bill has naturally awakened lively hopes of its more successful passage through the Upper House . The answer of Mr . Secretary Wulpolo sets one point at rest : the bill will not be opposed by Government , if the second reading is not unduly pressed , to do which ; in the present stale of the question , there can be no necessity .

      An answer given by Sir John Pakingfon to Sir Charles Napier , draws attention to a foot which is too little considered by gontlomen asking for all sorts of returns j to prepare these returns costs no small sum of money . Tho papors asked for by Sir Charles Napier , for example , will coat tho country

      500 / . A question put to Sir John Pukington has drawn forth something like data upon which to calculate tho probable advout of the lleform Bill . " You'll bo disappointod if you expect to soo it boforo the l ? U'st Lord of tho Admiralty has niado his atatomont , " said , Mr . Disraeli to Lord . Pnlinorston 5 tho navy estimates will bo presorted on tho 35 th of the present month , said Sir John Pakinglon to Lord John llussellj " argn )/ ' wo may loolj for I ho introduction , of the $ roat nioasuro somothno early in Mwroh . The interval will not bo inactively spout « y thornQVors in tho Reform question out of the

      preparation , the latest alarm being that Russia is arming ! The speech of Napoleon III ., which was looked for as the index of the probable course of events , has not settled the question on the side of peace . It is in vain that the Imperial speaker once more declared that " Z' 2 ? mpi ? -e e ' est la paix /" The tenor of the speech is not peaceful ; and when coupled , as it is , almost universally with the manifesto of M . de la Gueronniere , it conveys no sort of assurance that war is not at this moment

      determined on . The Paris papers during the week have been busily attempting to show that war is all but impossible ; , as being utterly opposed to the known and obvious policy of the Emperor ; but against their woid we may place the curious fact that , in all the priiitsliops and booksellers ' , windows there is exposed , by tacit permission , at least of the police , a coloured map , entitled " ]\ Iap of Europe for 1 S 60 . " In this mao an entirely new partition of

      Europe is suggested : IT ranee modestly retains its present boundaries— -perhaps to reassure the rest of the great Powers as to the perfect disinterestedness of its foreign policy ; the whole of Northern Italy is given to Piedmont , Austria being compensated by the gift of Bosnia and Servia . A good many , minor changes in the present arrangement of the European sovereignties are suggested ; but enough has been noted to indicate the ideas that find .

      countenance at least in imperial Paris . A much franker mode of dealing with the events of the present hour is adopted by Count Cavour . Speaking on , the subject of the loan of 2 , OO 0 , Q 00 £ . which has just been voted , he says , " Our policy is not defiant j we will not excite to war , but neither will we" lower our voice when Austria arms herself and threatens us . " In a circular addressed by him to the diplomatic agonts abroad , he has drawn a striking picture of the war measures taken by Austria at the beginning of the present year . In tho first of entire ( Parmfa £

      days January an corps o 30 , 000 men was despatched into Italy , and for many days 't the left bank of the Ticino jiresented the appoai'tuico of n country in which war is about to break out , " and many other circumstances occurred to strengthen the like supposition . The loan . ' is avowedly , therefore , to meet the demonstrations of Austrian power , " Piedmont , " Count ; Cavour further says , " strong in her good right , and aided "by the allies which ( the justice of hor cause oun alone proouro her , is x'cady to combafc ovcry clement of disorder in tho poninsula , from whatever- cmai ' tci' it nmv conic—from Austria OL *

      from tho revolution . " This is no vain boast 5 tho loan was voted by 110 against 35 ; the fooling in Sardinia is for war , and tho Government is straining , ovcry iioi'vo to get itself hi readiness to take tho Gold . One of tho latest fuots confirmatory of this viow is that hor agonts are busily engaged iu buying horaos iu Switzerland . Austria is not turned from 'her purpose of proparing for eventualities by thopaoifio uttorauoes of emperors and queens , oontradioteel as they aro by faots apparent 10 all tho world . After providing for tho dofoiieo of hor Italian territories , eho 1 ms moved iul ' o Austria proper a very large part of tho army of

      Very little news is brought by the Calcutta mail . Tho niQst important announcement is that , tho Punjab , tho Delhi territory , the " Trans-Sutlcj " and " Cis-Sullej" - states are to form a separate Lieutenant-Governorship . By the Bombay mail , which arrived a few days earlier , wo learn that the first half of the Oudo campaign is successfully finished , what rbnmins to be dono being rathor the work of the constablo than of tho soldior . Tantiu Topee still figures as thechiof of tho rebels romaiuing in the fiold ; and once more wo have tho in

      House . Already the stream of petitions has begun to flow ; in upon the House ; and " demonstrations , " in favour of Mr . Bright ' s measure for the most part , are the order of the day . Not the least remarkable of recent occurrences in connexion with Reform is the letter of Richard Gobden , addressed to the Ballot Society , excusing himself from attending the annual dinner of that body . Mr . Cpbden draws a parallel between the course of Mr . Bright since he has taken charge of the Reform Bill , and his own course in connexion with the Anti-Corn-Law

      League . Both , he says , have been subjected to the same sort of misrej > resentation and clamorous opposition ; and he anticipates the same sort , of triumph Tor his friend as was ¦ ¦ ultimately achieved by himself . Mr . Cobdcn confirms a report which has been for some , time past . in circulation , to the effect that he is-about to visit , the United States . "I hope , " he says in his letter , " to be able to report to you that I have witnessed the operation of the ballot in that country . " His testimony , either way , will be luc-hly valuable . 1

      The news fromIonia is notable . Her Majesty has answered the Memorial from the Ionian Islands praying for annexation to the kingdom of Greece , and has refused to grant its prayer . Mr . Gladstone has , therefore , addressed another message to . the Ionian Parliament , calling upon it to set itself calmly to work for the accomplishmeut of certain necessary reforms ; but that body has taken time to

      consider what answer it will return to tho British Lord High Commissioner . The dilemma is one of peculiar difficulty ; no doubt the lonians arc perfectly iu earnest , and not at all unreasonable , in their desire to cast off the protection of England ; but , on the other hand , England is at the present moment specially bound to maintain inviolate the treaty engagements entered into by her in 181 , 5 .

      tolligonoo of his having boon fill Ion on and beaten , but it is followed by tho old announcement , that he inanngod to avoid capture A scrap of nows from China suggests tho possibility of moro intoreating nows to follow . Lord Elgin with his steam flotilla has ascended abojro Nankin , though upon what orrand bound , we aro loft in doubt . Whatever it is , tho French Ambassador and tho Chinoso Commissioners have dolayod their doparturo from Canton until tho results arc known . l ? rom tho Continent tho nows is still of warlike

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 12, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12021859/page/3/