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    BILL DISCOUNTING IN PARLIAMENT. The Hous...

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    The Penalties Of Indifference. Liobd Pal...

    hare disgusted aud discouraged them ? Let ; U 8 counsel our working friends not to believe themselves powerless , but to confide in , their own intelligence aud character ; to use in their future movements the strength which is inherent in moderation ; to form distinct and rational objects , and _ to pursue fchem . calmly , resolutely , and in concert . At this moment not one man in the British Empire is suffering punishment for a political

    offence . . All classes enjoy a consiaeraDie amount of freedom , and facilities for enlarging and securing it . The Premier himself' t ells the people that he cannot defend them against the sectional dogmatists who interrupt their enjoyments and limit their free action , because they are " apathetic , " and will not aid in defending themselves . Certainly , his position is disgraceful to a responsible minister ; but that of the working classes is not satisfactory . Our G-overnment . is the inheritance of a few families ; our Parliament is the representative of sectional

    inl / DXCOl'i ? 5 UUJl A . \ - * JLKs ± gU . UV 11 V | -1 . Q UAUiUoif V <*> J _ LVL illiberal , and all because the English nation ••«*—does not care .

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    LORD PALMERSTON'S DARK HINTS . Abb vre to believe Lord Palmebston or Lord Mento ? Lord PAiiMEBSTON declared on Monday evening , that the British Govern-~ tnent in " 1 . 848 ftbanrlnnArl t . liA SSir > . ilin . 7 i oniiaa

    because the Sicilians refused to live under the Grown of Naples . But Lord Minto stated in the House of Lords , upon his return from Italy , that he had offered to recognizef , on the part of England , a separate Sicilian monarchy , and had indicated the Duke of Genoa as a proper king for Sicily . Remembering that this negotiation was discussed at large by the Peers , it is impossible to doubt that the Minto version is the correct one , our own Envoy admitting , that it would be difficult to justify " our stopping where we did . " That amounts to a confeseipn of a pusillanimous or treacherous abandonment by the British Cabinet of a people to whom " every encouragement "—to use Lord Minto ' s words—had been given . The ¦ jK . ing . of Naples had declined to treat with England on the subject . England , therefore , Fecofirnizinsr the virtual indeiiondonce of Sicilv .

    VXUU UV UU ^ IIIUUIWX LUVAVUO L V . > ^ -V \^ 4 Al ~ politan King . They wall take their own opportunity , and will use their own methods to subvert the illegal absolutism under which they live . By the same illegal process an Austrian invasion is creeping over Italy . The question is , when does this invasion become a breach of the public law of Europe ? Sardinia Ima rtrti : +: V « o nnwprp 4-. rt ¦ r » £ >< ai « f : ih TJic * . m . XiS

    standing with Austria , an understanding with Sardinia . France and Austria , meanwhile , transmit their suggestions to the Holy See , and publish menaces against the Revolution . We , on the other hand , have parliamentary avowals in favour of the release of Italy from foreign armaments ; we have an admission of the political claims of Sardinia ; yet , though Austria is extending her line of aggressive positions in Italy , though

    1 11 UOU 1 / KJ tlt the national iermenfc is increasing , and though the Piedhiontese constitutionalists are labouring with earnestness , and with apparenfe sincerity , to inqite all "the forces of Italian patriotism in Support of moderate objects , our Premier utters in the House of Commons a declaration that must excite and disquiet the nation , and drive the Sicilians , in particular , to despair . A despair that will induce them to cast off all hope of aid and sympathy from England . What then ? They will not , therefore , abandon their national desires , or be recons % il nrl 4-s \ 4- V » / i Afimin qI netii wnoii / " *¦» - » a s \ r 4-l- » tr % "IVT /^ rt _

    \ 4 ^ u & a ^* M . ^ m ^ m ^ j aj v ^ ^ w ^^ xs l / ^^ t w \ s ^ * s ^^ *^** j w p * . v t a ~* ^^ French Government , systematically violent and perfidious in its dealings with Italy , pays the Pope for his Golden Rose hy guarding his palace , while he imitates the policy of Obegoby the Gtbeat . The last invasion of Italy by France was accomplished with Austrian duplicity , under the Italian tricolor ; and they who remember the prevarications of OtJDINOT , of De LeSSEPS , of De CoRCELIiES , and even of De Tocqttevi : l : le , in connexion with that event , will know how to value the sympath y of Caesarism in France with Liberalism in Italy . Legitimately , the Italians can expect sympathy from England alone . But the sympathy tec offer is worse than hostility . It is a pretence and a deception . It has been so whenever we have intervened ; some scheme of delusion and sacrifice may be working even now between our Cabinet and that of Austria . The Piedmonteso senator

    allusions to Sicily for the purpose of showing that , as he abandoned the Sicilians out of deference to Austria , so , out of deference to Austria , he at the same time abandoned the Piedmontese . The proofs are contained in his despatches addressed in 1849 to Vienna on the one hand , and to Turin on the other . Since that epoch , Sardinia has recovered and improved her position , and is now in an attitude of defiance , provoked by the violence

    ot her great enemy . It has been said tnat Couut Cavoub is responsible for raising the Italian question at the Conferences , and thus creating a European difficulty by alarming the Conservative governments ; but it was Austria that raised the question , by unmasking her designs , by menacing the Sardinian frontier , and by advancing her military outposts in Italy . Sardinia replies by protests to the movements of Austrian armies . ; The state of English feeling on the subject of Italy is most anomalous . If a young lady goes from house to house in Tuscany , seeking 4-s \ -t-v -Y * r \ + ¦ *^ o 4- n ¦* - » i- 1 rw j- * 4-l- \ rx -r \ c \ f \ -rJ \ a on / 1 AniYina 4 " . i" » CUV ^

    tU UlUU ^ OttVUl / lfi ^ J Jt ' « -fc * . 4 V * VvUAVtf , , W grief in consequence , there is a vast fervour , and the Alliance , and the Hall , and Lord Shaftesbuby , and Doctor CtjmminG , are ' at work . The Foreign Minister is compelled to hold high language , and Miss Margaret or Lucy becomes a pubbc interest . But when an overpowering despotism violates the laws of Europe , allies itself with the Pbperlnm in siirmrpiss fivftrv form of relieioilS »/ trf » -m ~ r

    ^ h * v ^ ** A ^^ " * . m ^ ^ ^ # ^» w k * ^* - m ^ r ^ w ^ — — - —— — — — — - ^ -j — liberty , and makes a nation its victim , England is not only content to refrain from interference , but permits her diplomatists to intrigue , haggle and palter , to prey upon the Itah ' an nationality , to utter distortions of diplomatic history in the House of Commons , and to go on , week after week , involving iis , it may be , in French or Austrian plots , perhaps corrupting Sardinia ; at all events , dealing with the Italians without justice or candour . The Piedmontese Government will not , we suppose , flinch at the approach of the inevitable crisis . But the British Government is teaching the Italian nation , in general ; to rely upon revolutions alone , at the same time that it acts in complicity with powers that may be able to quench the revolution in blood , to exasperate the sufferings of Italy , and to Postpone her deliverance until the

    period of a universal insurrectionary war ., ,

    treated , with the Sicilians alone . Then why I _ did she permit them to be massacred ? Wliy r did , she . permit their violated constitution to i ! be superseded by a despotism so fanatic and r so cruel as that of Naples ? ci Lord PaIjMJEBston , by a direct falsification d _ of tlie circumstances , recriminates upon Sicily . He upbraids the Sicilian people for their re- I : fusal to live under the Neapolitan crown—a I : refusal that released England , he says , from i her obligations to Sicily—whereas , the agent r of his own Government not only encouraged I them to repudiate the Neapolitan King , but t proposed another king in his place . Instead tj of disavowing Lord Minto ' s act , the British h Cabinet assumed the entire responsibility , ii G % flf \ r \ ^~ v I \ i-ji ^ % ^ r \ a v f % mr yit" f ^ * # " lv s ~ i 1 * 1 ^ v n w /\ T I * a ~ •^/ 'l lti m I <«/ UtU ill 7 1 KJL

    \ VIamiani said , with truth , that , whatever night be the character of Russian or French nstitutions , the Austrian Government was iow the ' permanent representative of the lespotic principle , the moat crafty , the most langerous in Europe . She has combined the > owers of the Church and State to effect icr sole object — that of smothering the luman conscience in every province withn her sway or influence . The work of three eigns—of Maiua . Tiiehesa , Joseph , aud rjtA . NOis—has been abolished for the sake of his consecrated bond , negotiated by an Ausrian with a Roman Priest , which unites tho cad of Catholic Germany with the Popcdom i radical and unrelenting opposition to Sar-« v \ ¦ n If- irr t \ c » Tr * r \ t * * ~\ i ^ I ir 4 ' s \ skst im i \ l / i ( - / k 4-l »^ -k

    ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ft * M ^ A' ^ TILILfXlilll ^ U . Y UIICJLUUOU ^ JUIUE ] inj opposition to the resolutions of censure iHftved by Lord Bbouoham . ; . Borne members of tho House of Commons ought to obtain , if possible , a clue to this mystification . What does it mean ? Why did-Lord Palmerston make that statement on Monday ? To impose on tho public mind , or to ; justify some double-dealing plot in contemplation ? Ho denies that the British Government has entered into any engagements with Austria or Sardinia on tho Italian question ; but , in the face of so much insincerity , we have a right to bo jealous , and to ask , on what principle is the foreign policy of thiw country to De conducted ? There seem a to be an Understanding with Franco , an

    under-ILlIilUi J . U V ) 4 ( O XIKJU l / UJ V UW UWJUJIL-LU UUKJ abrogation of tho fundamental laws of Hungary , tho suppression of free opinion in Transylvania , and tho subordination of the laity to tho priesthood in all parts of , thc Empire that the Concordat was ostabished . It was to destroy the Constitutionalism of Italy , the counteracting influence of Piedmont and of Western sympathy , that Austria placed her agents , her spies , her police , her Iroopa , at tho disposal of tho Church . She knows that tho power of G reat Britain ia not likely to be displayed in defence of tho people or tho laws , flattered and encouraged by British journalists and statesmen . Sicily and Sardinia flro her examples . For we have quoted Lord PalmeitflTON ' a mysterious

    Bill Discounting In Parliament. The Hous...

    BILL DISCOUNTING IN PARLIAMENT . The House of Commons is trifling with the English people , and Government is trifling with the House of Commons . Wo do not make this statement on our own authority ; we take tho highest authorities in the House itself . We refer to the short but highly instructive debate on Mr . Joiin Geouoe PiiUjLImoue's motion for leavtj to bring in a bill to take away from all archbishops , bishops , and ecclesiastical persons , in Eng ,-and Wales , the power of appointing judges and chancellors , and vesting such power iii 4-hsi T . rM > -n nirivnifTTni ) A rlnlinf , n nrnsn n ' tir ? ¦ w

    \ J | | \ J _ g A \ J Jb f * *\ ^ S X Lik i . 1 V ^ Jiy ¦» - * ¦*¦* » - ' » * " " - ^^ ^* . * .-- ** - — - — ^ . ™ . — j — . two broad facts appear to have been indisputably established . In tho iirst place , thia bill is a paltry fractional measure , which it was a waato of time to discuss . Tho ecclesiastical courts arc sinks of corruption , antiquated rclica of fantastical jurisdiction , with a llonia , n law , a mediioval organization , practico and modes of procedure entirely discredited atid fruitful in evil ; There is not an eminent lawyer in either House that has not , in part or cu » iirely , suuetioued tho proposal , for abolishing these courts . The Loud CiiANCBliiiOH had a bill this year for beginning tho qn , tiro abolition of tho system , imd substituting a new plan for managing tho discip line of the clergy , which is ostensibly the primary object of the

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1856, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24051856/page/13/