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      —?—A IJI HOUGH Ministers transacted the white-XJL bait dinner in the most regular manner on Saturday , the Commons hare been impudent enough to prolong their discussions , and the House will not break up this week . The impudence of the Commons in thus hindering the official arrangements will be th & more apparent when we show how clearly the duty of members

      lay before them . They had accomplished the greater part of the sessional business , they had voted all the money , and rejected several of the Ministerial Bills—quite enough to satisfy the natural malignity of man . In fact , they had tired fctomaolvca out -with work and had gone—that is the majority had gone ; leaving the House in possession of those members whose official duties or parliamentary rank is thought to entail the obligation of stopping to the close .

      Ministers even went beyond the necessity in order to fulfil their pledges to the House . For instance , Mr . Vernon Smith had promised that a statement of the Indian Finance should be brought forward ; and although he might have well found excuse for delay in advancing the measure until prevented by the close of the session , he honourably fulfilled his promise ; giving a very able resumtf of those works in India and of the state of the revenue—which might have been compiled from the Indian papers , if it had been worth while to do so .

      So long as the House of Commons sits , members will bring forwnrd their motions . Sir John Fitzgerald , for example , desired to obtain the interference of Pai-liament , or of Government , to enforce good faith in paymont of Spanish bonds —payment at least of the interest . Spain has a magnificent mode of arranging its money difficulties : it borrows money on terms of exorbitant interest , which is of course deducted from the principal in the usual way . It then finds that it

      lias not had 100 / . for every 1 O 0 / . of stock nominally sold , discovers that there is something to chaffer about , and delays ; the interest is much accumulated , Spain then " capitalizes" theurrcars , and begins again with no settled purpose whatever of accomplishing the new bargain literally . Sir Joim asked Ministers to interfere , but Lord Pai ,-MBH 6 TON declined to pay tho debts of Spain . Again Mr . Hkywooi > deaired to obtain a revision of tho Holy Scriptures by competent hands ,

      the whole of the volume being at present under the discredit entailed by the known fact , that a large number of passages are entirely distorted in sense . JBut Sir George Gkey objected to the motion , as tending " to unsettle the faith in the Bible . " We cannot conceive how a correct translation of the volume could unsettle the public confidence so much as the distinct parliamentary announcement that the text is very erroneous and misleading . We do not believe that even that announcement will unsettle public reverence for ecclesiastical institutions half so much as the strange debates upon the Bishop of London and Durham Retirement Bill , or the correspondence upon which the bill is based . We now have more of the story . Ihe two bishopa are completely superannuated ; they

      offered to resign if they were paid , the one 6000 / ., the other 4 . 5001 . a year ; Lord Palmerston at once perceived the propriety of acceding to that proposal , which permits men burdened with years to retire honourably , creates two vacancies in the episcopal bench , and opens the way for episcopal resignation . Leading members of the House of Commons resisted the measure . They find that there is no law permitting the retirement of bishops ; well , here is a law supplied . They object that to stipulate for money in resigning the offices of the Church is simony . Not at all , since the bargain is quite open . They also object to being forced into a decision without having time to deliberate ; but , replies Government , there is no necessity for deliberation : two bishops are so old that they cannot wait , our measure is quite reasonable , your own supporters have gone away to rusticate for the summer , we have the majority , and you must pass the bill . Bill read a second time .

      Even proposals to facilitate may become hindrances . Mr . Wilkinson , for example , brought forward a motion for a new standing order , fixing one hour as the maximum of duration for any one speech . The proposal is specious , but not likely to be successful , even if carried ; ¦ which is of course out of the question . "While tollingthc longest and almost

      the best speakers that they must not talk for more than ono hour , it would practically proclaim to all members whatsoever that thev were perfectly free to talk for that time . Is it not probable that wo should have a yroat increase of speakers , each man talking for exactly sixty minutes ? The proposal waa rejected by 57 to JJ ' O . Thero have been not a lew Parliamentary

      scandals this week . Lord Clabemdon has been obliged to confess , in the presence of the Peers , that Russia has dismantled the fortresses of Ismail and Reni , contrary to the treaty : the strongholds were to have been surrendered to Turkey ; but such are the independence and good faith of our Government , that no attempt will be made to compel a better observance of the treaty on the part of Russia .

      Meanwhile Lord Pajlmebstos-, having a grudge against Brazil because it resented his dictating in the internal administration of that empire , continues to preserve towards it a position of great hostility . Now Brazil has been conspicuous , first for treating its slaves with humanity , next for facilitating the emancipation of slaves , then for putting every check upon the dealing in

      slavesslave trade being prohibited , and being continued only by help of a contraband trade which has been impeded but not entirely suppressed . Brazil is a valuable customer , interchanging commerce with England ; it is governed by a constitution , and is stx'ictly an outpost of those ideas in politics and trade which we ought to support . Lord Clabendon ' s confession of our present attitude towards Brazil is humiliating .

      Lord Lucan and Mr . Villiers have been speaking at each other from their several Houses . Lord Lucan has accused Mr . Viluehs , by implication , of having been partial in the exercise of his duty at the Chelsea inquiry . Now the charge is the harder , since the Judge-Advocate was generally considered to favour Lord Lucan by allowing him a most outrageous licence in the time and tone of his speaking ; and this is how Mr , Y «* MW is repaid !

      It is the more difficult to understand why Lord Lucan should not be satisfied , since wo have the Chelsea report , which ought to be a real triumph for him . The purport of this document , indeed , has a more than poetical justice , —it has a most exact distribution of happy endings . The persons accused in tho report of Sir John M'Njax-i . and Colonel Tuixoch of not properly providing for the cavalry horses were Lord Lucan , Lord Cardigan , Sir Riciiabd AiuiiY , Colonel Gordon , and Mr . Commissary-General Fijmucr . The Lord is absolutely acquitted , the knightly General Officer shares tho perfect approval , tho simple Colonel JS neither acquitted nor condemned , the Coinrii ^ ajpy- r General is let oft" with excuses , butrtjji < V ^ fy ^**^ * home-keeping head of tho Commij ^ arUtj jiSn ^ Charles Tkuyklyan . is saddled with / t < hpre 8 p 6 » W « ' * ¦' . ' ¦ - ) * : ? t . . ¦* ¦ . i " : : ' . ' . >\ x : ^ ¥ ¦ *• ' ¦' <¦¦ :- \ ¦ : > ' > ' , t ' y * -. ¦ ' -i - . i :-v . v

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 26, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26071856/page/1/