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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. "? Monday, May 2Gt7...
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him so long suppress an important letter from his own Government , approaches near to madness . The Government of the United States have recognized the agent of the Nicaraguan Government , sent to Washington ^ «* eral W ** f » - This is the direct consequence * f our recogmtW » of Costa Rica and its agent , wfcfc the substaafcfcl earnest of a consent to lend murffeets .
Our private letters front ijm-United StoWM' « 1 us with apprehensions even more poignant - than any which these facts could suggest . There is one person who could perhaps throw some light upon the subject , and who has never yet been asked to assist in the elucidation , —it is Sir Henbt Bclweb . He has been mentioned as one of the persons whom our Government proposed to-send to Victoria : they have not sent him quite so far—they have sent him to the Danube , as a member of the mixed commission .
The question was put in Parliament , last week , hoie it was that Ministers , could be in active alliance with Austria and at the same time in active alliance with Sardinia , both upon the ground of Italy . The evidence which substantiates the cogency of this country has come to us from several quarters . "We have proof positive that Austria has not relaxed the rigours of her rule in Italy . Felice Oksini , just escaped from an Austrian pmson , brings us living" proofs that the character of Austrian oppression is the same that it was when Goni \ ai . onieri was a prisoner , and not very different from the conduct of Naples to Poerio
and his hundreds and thousands of companions . Yet our Government is in alliance with Austria . ' Some of the latest reports represent the Austrian Government tis having entered into a compact alliance with Cardinal Viale-Phex-a , the man who negotiated the Concordat , and who , after having " done" the Austrian Government * is adopted by it in order to "do" Antoneixi , and obtain the Prime Ministership at Eome . Austria is understood to be proposing some kind of improvement in the administration of Roman affairs : just ag
some person has taken from among the ancient archives of Rome a letter by Pius IX ., making some objection to the occupation of the Legations by Austrian troops . Now we may regard it as absolutely impossible that Austria can intend any real reforms in Italy ; and if , as appears to be the case , the Governments of France and England have agreed to make Austria a joint commissioner for designing Italian reforms , instead of accepting them after their being designed by others , we may be sure that that those reforms will be annulled in
the very design . Austria has lately been trying to obtain from , Prussia the old demand , a guarantee of her non-German possessions ; and againPrussia has refused ; Prussia , it is said , being in excellent understanding with Sardinia and Russia . Now let us observe ^—we find three groups of alliance , all with some bearing upon the state of Italy : there is the position of Austria , France , and England , jointly , planning some reform for Italy , such that Austria would willingly be a partner in ; next ,. Franco , Sardinia , and England , in an alliance , where it is alt but certain that the
alliance is a matter of form rather than of fact , Eho two Powers repaying their late ally in the Crimea with words ; an alliance growing up between Sardinia , Prussia , and Russia , and a good understanding which is said to prevail between BVanco , Russia , and Prussia . France , then , is in this oftse " the fifth element , ' which has alliances aM . round , and which has , moreover , some special positwoa in Italy not yet understood . Is this plan of Vsaooe uiyleTStood at our head-quartors ? We are inolmed . to suspect that its is , although the secret is not imparted to the English public .
Manxn haa lately , given to the Italian pooplo t ^ a most eloquent and most opportune memoruBuia , } one that a people generously standing forth . to assert their rights , should not suffer
themselves to % * eonfbunded with tfi * assassin who seeks in the poniard the sole enforcement of responsibility- which the slave possesses against the despot i , ifce other , that te carry out th »« mancipatiWfc ef Itely the T ^ aStem people . afaftt < £ rally rounwlthat Halian Gowernment whicn ha « Buled its qpr » pe «^* 3 in coi ^ feratfen with that ptep le , and y ^ ch ftas appealq ^ Lto tbj » whole Italuwfc * ac « by its- « tt ) te «• well as . Units' words .
These hig h and powerfut appeals are indeed most valuable at the present day . Piedmont we may consider a 3 performing . the most important duty which has now to be performed . We only regret to doubt whether our own Government is in the same duty . Austria is professing to join in reforms . We have already explained why ; but let Englishmen note the fact which we have mentioned , that the Emperor Napoleon is proposing " international mediation" as the substitute for international conflict—a project that
will enlist many a Court . It will rally round it all the Peace men in all the countries ; but let us ask whether the Governments which profess this international mediation—in other words , an arrangement to settle questions which concern all Europe—represent the " nations" in whose names they speak ? No : it . isf a conspiracy of courts and bureaux against nations . Before we can have " international mediation , " we must have a direct appeal to the nations themselves . We await with interest to observe whether our Government falls into this premature project of " international mediation . "
The domestic business transacted by Parliament has been en suite with the general character of the work done during the session . Mr . Lowe has pushed forward his two bills on joint , stock and partnership , notwithstanding the attempts of theoretical objectors and the indifference of the great body of the House . Mr . Miall has asked for a committee of the whole house in order to move resolutions condemning the payment of money to religious bodies or religious colleges in Ireland- The House of Commons had , earlier in
the session , half consented to let Mr . Spooser take away the endowment to Maynooth , by referring it to a select committee ; but it has refused to abolish the tar greater exaction from the Roman Catholic majority of Ireland on behalf of the so-called " Established" Church . That Church , indeed , has now found an ingenious apologist in Lord Palmerston , who declares that an establishment ought to be maintained by every nation , and that it must not necessarily depend
upon the number of those who gave their adhesion to it . Since the average of men are not so wise as the wisest , Lord Palmerston might have adopted the old Tory doctrine , that the judgment of the few is the best , and that the minority ought to rule . Evidently ho thinks so in Ireland . He does not say so in England ; but his policy at present is tending to preserve the rule of the minority on the continent of Europe , and to create a gradual familiarity with the practice in England itself .
The debate ¦ which has created most , interest this week has just taken place in the Central Criminal Court . The public can feel comparatively little interest in tho fate of Italy , in the relations between , our Government and America , in its complicity with schemes for frustrating the attack upon Absolutism , but it feels tho keenest interest in the fate of the gambler , forger ,, and murderer
whoso guilt has beon so powerfully and earnostly debated by tho most learned of the law in tho presence of tho British public . Tho evidence , brought forward during the twelve days' trial was ovorwhehning . It still lacked one or two points ; but if wo arc correctl y informed , a little more time would have brought forward some further fftcts .. It has "been , reported ,, for example , wo do not pretend to say upon what authority , that a
gersoil lasv fjttfcfessed to having actually made ^ tayebni )** pillst for Palmer which brings the sCrychnuBfr in its progress one stage nearer to C ooK s Ijps- "She use of strychnine preceded by antimony inj'FJ fcL'MER ' s case is interesting , as throwing liglxfc upon the processes which the prisoner probably adopted in previous cases . For instance , iiLti »« " " « f Anne Palmer , in whose body that ! gdfaeral was found . Its exhibition for some time
appears to render the operation of strychnine much more rapid and effective . Some degree of admiration has been expressed for the firmness with which the prisoner behaved in court , for his display of self-command if notability : this appears to be a misconception . There should be nothing surprising in , the fact ; for- a man who could watch the slow death of his associate , in order to
make money by murdering him , should display insensibility to the feelings which were moving the multitude around him . What Palmer did display , however , was insensibility : he did not display any very great self-command , or anything but a certain brutal stolidity , nearly incompatible with his position as a professional man , but very consistent with the pursuits that constituted his real profession .
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . " ? Monday , May 2 Gt 7 i . THE PANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . In the House of Lords , Lord Lyndhurst gave notice he should on a future day ask the ^ Ekri of Clarendon whether the Hospodars of the Danubian Principalities are to retain their office during the inquiries of the Commissioners of the several Powers . COUNTRY POST-OFFICES . In answer to a question from the Marquis of Clanricarde , the Duke of A rgyll stated that in one hundred and three of the largest country post-offices there had been a revision of the scale of payment , and the salaries of the clerics had been increased . Ninety-nine other offices are now under revision . EXPENDITURE OF THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT . A motion by the Earl of Albehakle , for a series of returns , ten in number , of the expenditure of the Indian Government , under different heads , civil and military , was ultimately withdrawn , owing to the opposition of Earl Granville and the Earl of Ellenborolgh , the former of whom suggested that application should be made to the Board of Control . APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE HOUSE . The Lord Chancellor laid on the table a I ill to make better provision for the discharge of the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords , which had been framed in pursuance ef the recommendations of the select committee . —The bill was read a first time , and their Lordships adjourned . DISEMBODIED MILITIA . In the House of Commons , in answer to a question from Mr . Grogan , Mr . Frederick . Pi : ki . said that , when a militia regiment is disembodied , no officers continue to receive permanent pay , except adjutants and quartermasters , who retain their appointments . It' sergeants who had been promoted to tho position of adjutants and quartermasters retained their appointments , of course they would bo permitted to remain on the permanent staff ; but othors who had beon promoted , but who did not retain their appointments on the disembodiment of the regiment , would only receive the pay they were previously entitled to receive . REWAItD Ii'OR GALLANT CONDUCT . Sir Charles Wood , replying to Mr . Pai . k , mud that tho gallant conduct of Commander Norcock , two coast guardsmen , named William Pappin and Charles Henwood , and a man of tho name of Johns , son of a Fowcy pilot , iu conducting the descent of a boat down a clifl two hundred foot in height , launching her , , under circumstances of great danger , rowing to and saving tho solo survivor of a vessel wrecked clone to l'W < y , would bo rewarded . JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES KILL . On the order for going into committee on this bill , Mr . fcii'OONKK inquired tho nature of tho alterations made in tho bill , and the reasons for them . I In objected to Us principle , which he thought was contrary to l' > commercial policy of this country ; and ho moved to dofor tho committee for six . months . — Mr . Lowr . . said ho had mado no alteration affecting the principle of t . h « bill , which had beon n / Hrmed by tho ilouno ; nixl it would w wasting timo to discuss its details , which muni no reconsidered in committee . —Tho amendment was negatived , and tho House went into committee upon tho bill , clausos of which ( upwards of a hundred in number ) were- under discussion for several hours . —Tho House
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Leader (1850-1860), May 31, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31051856/page/2/
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