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      ¦\ TOTWITHSTANDING the time devoted to j \ the vain squabble about Maynooth , Parliament has done some work this week of an important character . Although Mr . Spooner has dragged it into that old squabble of bigotry , it has not accepted his dictation . A . consciousness of his difficulty made him alter his course this year , and instead of moving for an enquiry , lie moved for a committee of the whole House ; to consider

      the Maynooth Acts , with a view to the repeal of the money grants . This motion Mr . Scholcfiehl met by an amendment , to consider all the grants for religious purposes , including the Itegium Donum ; and Mr . Lucas , who made a brilliant display of neophyte ferocity as a Roman Catholic , challenged the extension of the amendment to the Established Church in Ireland . Mr . Edward

      Miall ' s maiden speech , in opposing the motion , will be recognised by many : is an earnest and thoughtful expression of a more philosophical nonconformity . He maintained the principle that no advocate of truth could desire to g ee his truth supported by a State Endowment . On Wednesday , just before the set hour of adjournment , at six o ' clock , the House resolved , by 192 to 167 , not to adopt Mr . Spooncr ' s motion . Out of doors , some remarks have been excited by the comparative narrowness of the majority ; but it is evident that the whole of the anti-Maynooth party was mustered , while only the extreme section and bolder members of the

      opposite party thought it necessary to parade in the lobby ; Members who would reject the motion taking the opportunity of skulking , in order not to offend ultra-Protestant constituents . The work , however , was done without them , and the annual nuisance summarily disposed of . The treatment of Lord John ' s annual motion for the removal of Jewish disabilities , somewhat redeemed the character of the week's proceedings in politico-religious matters . Lord John advanced his proposition more than ever in a manner as if he intended to go through with it . The opposition was varied in its character . Sir Robert

      Ingliu was obstinate , Sir Robert Peel wildly discursive , Mr . Napier wildly suggestive , exclaiming that " they were making Christianity itself an open question . " The division did not exhibit so strong a majority as people expected—only 234 to 205 ; but it is a majority , and the

      opponents have probably mustered their whole strength to contest the matter at the very outset . The claims of the native Indians have been brought before Parliament by Lord Ellenborough , with a petition from Madras ; and although we do not learn much respecting the intentions of Ministers , the reception is , upon the whole , favourable . It seeims that Ministers intend to commence A reform at once , and not' to iedritijiue the preterit system provisionally . But they speak as if they liad not yet made up their minds as to the manner qf f proceeding- . .,.., ; .

      Mr . Milner Gibson advanced his " County Rates Bill" with better auspices than he has found in former } 'ears . Lord Palmerston accepts the principle of the Bill , —Local Representation in County Financial Boards , — notwithstanding a warning from Sir John Pakington , that in doing so he would offend the Magistracy . The measure , although far from being perfect , involves a good principle , —local management of local affairs , ' — and the principle can be further applied hereafter .

      Incidentally , some important announcements have been made in Parliament . The Divorce Commission is prepared to report in favour of ; i measure to render divorce more cheap and accessible to all classes , through a regular tribunal . The measure on secondary punishments will be submitted without great delay . Government will appoint a commission to examine into the law of limited liability ; avid we may expect a concession important to the working classes .

      The people hate the army , said the Earl of Cardigan , in reference to the Six-Mile-Bridge affair ; but he drew his instances principally from Ireland . It is true that great jealousies have existed between the People and the Army ; but the character of the times has altered , and if military nlFuirs be properly administered , there in no doubt that the jealousy will healthily subside .

      The importance ol a just administration in the military departments is now fully recognised . The further extension of the Naval and Military estimates , although it does not satisfy us that every stone , ball , or gun that would be desirable is to be provided , shows at least that the necessary attention is devoted to all parts of the subject ; and such being the case , we have no fear whatever as to the result . We only wish thut Government would at once carry out its own principles by recognising and encouraging the arming of the entire people

      in volunteer corps under proper regulations . Lord Palmerston ought to be the man to do so ; he has avowed confidence in the people , and this would test so honourable and patriotic an impulse . In the course of the debates the Peace party sustained a damaging reverse . Lord Palmerston declared to Mr . Hindley that Government did i * pt intend to prosecute those who had issued placards persuading men not / to j 6 in the Militia , because ,

      fis the moveittenti haid failed , toi . prosecute the offeftders might seem vindictive . Lord Palmerston ' s spirit in this . matter is better than . his logic . ' Carry out his reasoning , aniLtJien the pickpocket who had failed in his attempt to take your handkerchief , ought to be pardoned , lest prosecution should seem vindictive . However , the peace smashers were not left without rather a severe

      retribution . Mr . Ilindley burked a document , and then Lord Palmerston produced it . It was a letter from Alexander Somerville , whose name had been cited in the 2 > eace ' placards without his authority , and in a manner most disingenuous ; and who had challenged Mr . Hindley to make his explanation public . It seems that the Peace party cannot afford to be quite ingenuous .

      Although they cannot get up an organized peace movement in the City , Mr . Sidney Smith ' s attempt proving a ludicrous failure , another association has been established , to promote the ballot , on the instigation of Mr . Henry Berkeley , with Mr . Phinn , Lord Dudley Stuart , and Mr . Wigram Crawford , among its members . This question is in a much more favourable position this year than it has been ever before .

      The foreign news is comparatively scanty , though far from being unimportant . In the most infamous proclamations , imposing terrible mulcts on the Milanese , forbidding them to walk or whistle together in the streets , prohibiting even the singing in churches , lladctzky proclaims the terrors of the inexorable Austrian ; and thus explains jphy it is that at last the hand of —it may be , fanatical patriotism lias sought to

      avenge the intolerable wrongs upon the person of the Emperor . Count Gyulai , the military governor of Milan , adds bi . s admission : scolding the members of a deputation who interceded for leniency , because hv . bad not seen their faces before , he proclaims that the moat respectable of the Italians stand aloof from the Austrian Government ; an admission at variance with the industrious assertions of his party . As the rule in Ituly grows more cruel , bo the reports of rovo-

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      VOL .-IV . No . 153 . ] SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 26 , 1853 . [ Pjiice Sixpence .

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      " The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater" distinctness is ; the : Idea of" f ^^^^^^/^ lSoS ' to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside ttu dastmcuons o ^ H > ' Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development oi oui * v ^ - nature . "—Uumboldt ' s Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 26, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1975/page/1/