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      l resumed , and the bill was reported with amendts . PARTNERSHIP AMENDMENT ( NO . 2 ) BILL . ' r . Lowe having moved the second reading of this Mr . Archibald Hastie moved that it be deferred Bix months . He urged that Mr . Lowe had not m , because he could not show , that there is a want tpital in this country , the truth being that there is a ndancy of capital beyond the needs of commerce . bill , instead of destroying , would create a monopoly apital ; and he therefore opposed it . —The amendt was seconded by Mr . Gregson . —Mr . Caudwell lorted the bill , though he thought it would require

      rovements in committee—an opinion in which Mr . tkr coincided . —Mr . Baring and Mr . Masterman » sed the bill . —After an ineffectual attempt , on the of Mr . Kirk , to adjourn the debate , Mr . Lowe deed the bill , which he said did not alter the law of nership , properly so called , but merely restricted aership within proper limits . —Mr . Hindley , Mr . k , and Mr . Horsfaix opposed the bill ; but ultijly the second reading was carried by 97 to 6 " 6 . n the motion - of the Chancellor of ti-ik Exjcter , Sir William Fenwick "Williams's Annuity ywas read a second time , le Annuities ( No . 2 ) Bill passed through

      comse . ie Reformatory Schools ( Scotland ) Bill was a third time , and passed . Tuesday , May 21 th . MOLDO- WAI . LA CHI A . the House of Lords , Lord Lvndhurst , according tice given on the previous day , put a question to Clarendon in connexion with the Dannbian Prinities . He wished to know if there was any truth e report that the Turkish Government has extended « rms of office of the Hospodars ( who , as agreed at the Paris Congress , were to be removed from posts while the commissioners of the various rs were settling the new constitution ) , and that

      ¦ ia has agreed to the arrangement . The Hospodars aown to be subservient to Austria ; and as this ry takes a deep interest in the welfare of the ipalities . ho wished to know the state of matters . e Earl of Clarendon replied that he had no ledge of the circumstances referred to , and he had l to disbelieve the alleged facts . A letter which he had ed from Lord Stratford do Redcliffe , dated the 13 th a day later than the reported decision of the Turkish ; il , made no mention of any such arrangements . — Sari of Malmesbury observed that the part of Besta which was ceded to Moldavia by the new treaty lea two fortresses , one of them that of Ismail , a of great strength , and the other of considerable jth also . It was of great importance to Turkey

      heso fortresses should be given up to her . But he with great surprise in one of the journals of that ug that the fortress of Ismail was dismantled by ussians . —The Earl of Clarendon said that those sses were to form part of Moldavia , which was cond to be an integral part of the Turkish Empire , was no understanding that they were to be dised , but that thej' were to be given up . Lord hurst asked whether the Hospodars were to conin office after their term had expired V—The Earl a . rendon said it was proposed to the Turkish plenitiaries that the Hospodars wore not to continue in when their term expired . They agreed to that rition , thinking it Avould be the best course ; but laid it might be necessary to appoint a kaimakan ce of the Hospodars .

      TROOI'S IN THE COLONIES . ! Earl of Eluin moved for returns of despatches to overnor and Lietitenant-Governors of the British American colonies on the military establishment maintained in them ; for a copy of tho report of mmissioner .-t appointed in IH . j-l to inquire into tho u ; ans of organizing the militia of Canada , and pro-; an efficient and economical moans of defence for lony ; and for a copy of any act or acts passed by arlianu'nt of Canada in pursuance of tho recomitions of those commissions . He did not wish to rasa tho Government by the motion ; but ho lit the . rumour that 1 . 0 , 000 '• troops were to be , si : ut lada was likely to create an uneasy fouling in tins d States , and induce Congress to adopt measure * icaution and defence , that would still further

      enmq tho present relations of England and America . 4 of tho very greatest importance in our < li cussion Vmerica constantly to bear in mind the fact that Fnitcd . States and Kughind possess , in the highest tion , tho advantages , such as they are , of a free 1 and that it was therefore impossible to prevent eaaurcs of ( JovornineiU being criticized , anil the moof Government , real or supposed , generous or ill , from being canvassed and sciutini / . ed . And vcr , an tho presses of tho two countries are not only and vastly influential within their own respective ; s , but uIho ( ho Haiti it to their honour ) eminently pa-J , they mo apt , in these international discussions , lies knights in the legend , to look perhaps too oxolu-1 nt tho colours on their own sido of tho . shield . He : cd tho opinion , now gaining ground , that thoro in » hoatilo feeling against England in tho United

      States . The enmity to England on the other side of the Atlantic proceeds mainly from refugees and immigrants from Great Britain ; and all the better orders of native Americans are animated by kindly feelings towards this country . He was therefore the more pained at the continuance of the enlistment controversy ; and , with respect to the questions connected with Central America , he thought we had put the most restrictive interpretation on the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty . As regarded the increase in the military force in Canada , he would not oppose it , if he distinctly understood that it was for Imperial purposes only , and not a colonial measure , or intended to supersede the colonial militia , which had answered admirably . The Earl of Clarendon observed in reply : " I must say , that as far as I am personally concerned , and I speak also in the name of her Majesty ' s Government , I do not believe that there can be the smallest doubt of our

      desire to maintain unimpaired the most cordial and most sincere relations with the United States . ( Cheers . ) I believe no man can be more convinced than we are that it is both our interest and our duty to remain in friendly relations with the United States ; and I can conscientiously affirm that nothing has been said and nothing has been done -which could create a just or reasonable feeling of irritation between the two countries . ( Cheers . ) It is our duty not to violate or infringe upon the authority of any Government ; but we have a British interest in upholding the character of the United States of America . ( Cheers . ) To maintain the laws of the United States was the chief object of those instructions which her Majesty ' s Government sent out ; and when we saw that this could not be carried without danger of

      offending the American Government—not by anj'thing on the part of our own agents , but on the part of those who assumed to be our agents—when we saw that , we immediately relinquished the whole scheme . ( Hear . ) Your Lordships will see from the papers which have been laid upon the table that there is nothing which this Government could do—which could be expected from one Government to another , or from one gentleman to another—that we have not been ready to do , for the purpose of making reparation for any offence , real or imaginary , which the United States Government might conceive we have given them . " ( Cheers . ) The Ciayton-Bulwer Treaty was prospective in all its provisions ; it did not imply that England should give up " anything she possessed at the time the Treaty was made . It was impossible to believe that an experienced and able man like Sir Henry Bulwer would take upon himself , without instructions , to abandon any portion of British territory or British rights . But the

      Government has no wish to extend its possessions in Central America . We have offered to refer the misunderstanding with respect to the Claytou-Bulwer Treaty to arbitration ; but the answer of the American Government to that proposal has not yet arrived . "Amongst certain public men in Congress , " concluded Lord Clarendon , " and amongst certain official men , language ha 3 been held , and acts have been done , which if any member of your Lordships' house , or any member of her Majesty ' s Government had held or done , would have been denounced by all your Lordships and by the public of this country as an attempt to embroil the two nations . ( Hear , / tear . ) I can assure the nob e Lord that everything shall be done on the part of her Majesty ' s Government to put an end to all unfriendly sentiments between the two countries ; and if , as the noblo Earl has been informed , Mr . Marcy and myself could really settle tho dispute in half an hour , I should be quite ready to meet him on some island half way between tho two continents . " ( I . avuhter and cheers . )

      Lord Panmukk , reverting to the military considerations involved in Lord Elgin ' s remarks , stated that the troops had been sent to Canada for purely Imperial purposes , and not in sufficient numbers to damp the energy of tho colonists or excite alarm in the United States . — After some observations by Earl Grey , who disapproved of the displays of military force on tho part of both GoverninoiiW , tho motion was agreed to , and tho House adjourned . In tho Houhk on 1 Commons , the Annuities ( No . 2 ) Bill , tho object of which is to confirm the late Loan , was read a third time , and passed . THE r ^ ATE EVICTIONS IN IRELAND . Sir Michael Shaw Stkwakt called attention to the petition of Mr . Allan 1 ' ollok , complaining of tho statements which had been made in that House of the eviction of tenant * on his estates in tho county of

      ( ialway . Mr . Tollok had two esUt . OH ; upon one , ( . ¦ mints were ovictod , but were immediately replaced in their houses , Avhero they remain , with the exception of two , who removed of their own will . On the other estate , Mr . 1 ' ollok wished tho same arrangement to be made , but he did not succeed . With the view of allowing that he had power over his own property , ho took means to eject tho tenants ; but , owing to legal difficulties , his intention was not carried into effect , and tho tenant * remain . —Mr . M'Maiio . n , who had originally brought the subject before the House , observed that ho did not make tho atatemont . 1 on his own responsibility . However , ho was still of opinion that Mr . 1 ' ollok had acted harhhly towards his tenantry . —Mr . Liduei . l , bu John 1 ' AiuNUToN , Rlr . MooKE , Mr . ArcihiialdHamtik , Sir A Cami'HKll , Mr . 1 ) iiuauhlni » , and Mr . Ellin ,

      defended the conduct of Mr . Pollok ; while Mr . Bellbw and Mr . Maovire denounced it in strong language . The subject then dropped . * ,

      TEMPORALITIES OF THE IRTSH CHURCH . Mr . Stafford made an ineffectual attempt to adjourn the discussion on the temporalities of the Irish Church , which he thought would engender a degree of bitterness and sectarian animosity very unfit for a season of rejoicing . —Mr . ifiALL ( who had charge of the resolutions referred to ) resisted this suggestion ; and Lord Palmerston , while agreeing with Mr . Stafford as to the desirability of postponing the discussion , thought it would be discourteous to expose Mr . Miall to any additional disappointment after the difficulty he had had in finding a day . —After some further conversation , Mr . Stafford withdrew the motion which he had brought forward , and the debate commenced .

      The 5 th article of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland , embodied in the Act of Union , having been read by the Clerk , Mr . Miall moved a resolution pledging tho House to consider in committee the temporalities of the Irish Church , and other pecuniary provisions made by law for religious teaching and worship in Ireland . He dwelt on the injustice of encumbering the people of Ireland with a State Church which is not that of the majority ; and then shadowed out the machinery by which he proposed to carry out his plan , and which included the establishment of a Court analogous to that for the sale of encumbered estates , with the powers of a court of equity , in wliich should be vested the fee simple in reversion ( saving existing interests ) of all ecclesiastical

      endowments by whomsoever enjoyed . He also indicated the classes of claimants to be admitted upon the funds , and the objects to which the surplus should be applied , and concluded by reading the resolutions which he intended to move in the committee . —Mr . Kirk , Mr . Newdegate ( who looked upon this as a Roman Catholic attack on the Irish Protestant Church ) , Mr . G . A . Hamilton , and Mr . Napier , opposed the motion , which was supported by Mi . W . S . Lindsay , Mr . Pollard , Urquhart , Mr . W . J . Fox , and Mr . Hadfield . —Mr . Stafford invited the Government to express their opinion on the subject ; and Lord Palesierston , towards the close of the debate , said he very much regretted such discussions as these , but that he felt compelled to vote against the motion . While admitting that Parliament has a right to deal with the property of the Church , he thought it

      would not be justified in the present instance in making the alterations proposed . A Church establishment is a part of the proper organization of a civilized country ; and , if a country changes its original creed , the property of the Church naturally goes to the new religion . He could not admit that the Established Church should always be the Cliurch of the majority ; it would be impossible , for instance , in England , where the majority ia constantly fluctuating . For these reasons , therefore , and feeling that the motion was at variance with tho engagements between England and Ireland , he should oppose it . —Mr . John M'Guegor having vainly attempted to address the House in support of the motion , a division was taken , when there appeared—For the motion ... ... ... ... 93 Against it ... ... ••• I * **

      Majority against ... ... 70 THE TUALEB AND KILLARNEY SAVINGS-BANKS . Captain D . O'Connell moved a resolution , pledging the House to resolve itself into a committee to consider an address to her Majesty , praying her to extend tho same measure of Telief to the depositors in tho lato Tralee and Killarney Savings-banks as had been extended to the depositors in the late Cuflec-atreet Savingsbank . Tho motion was seconded by Lord Cahtlerosse , but opposed by the Chancellor ok the Exchequer , on tho ground that there was no genuine claim for rcjef . After sonu ; discussion , the motion was negatived

      The House was shortly afterwards counted out , when ( in accordance with a motion carried in the earlier part of the evening ) it stood adjourned till Friday .

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      STATE OF UUKMAIJT . ( From on Indian Correspondent . ) The community at Rangoon was Homewhat startled a few duvH since by tho announcement oi a gunpowderplot , said to have been arranged by certain Dacoits to blow up tho . new-houBO of hor Majesty '* 84 th Reg huont on a given public guest night , when a groat number oi tho officers of the station might bo supposed to bo < u-Hembled there . Tbo plan was a rather ingenious on * . So fe . uful a blow n . i K ht be reasonably expected to paralyze tho military force , and advantage waa U > be taken of the confuaion to attack and plunder the Troaand do a » » u « h more damage . h po ^ blo

      HHry , , Tho scheme wia rovoalcd to the , cantonment itiaRiHtrato by a » penitmt thief . " It ia difficult to «» y whether there ever wa » my » orious intention of Uie kind . At . to undermine a woodon edifice , perched on poata ten feot above the ground , ami watched n . glit and day M guard , would ho ' no easy task . It hmii . b , however , that the project had rouUy been dlaeuased among the pwduti . us fraternity , and it . nay at any rat * «« rvo to » how the nature of the trout which they would prepare for us

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      May 31 , 1856 ] THE LEADER , " g ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 31, 1856, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2143/page/3/