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    the dispute between the two Houses of Congress , and the Government is preparing to arrange for paying the army out of the existing resources of the department ; in other words , preparing to do without the army appropriation , for the current year . The one reminiscence of ou * -oirn Parliankftnt is Mr . Baxter circulating among his own eanstatuents , addressing , them , in tfifl-several towjjSs of the Montrdse dfsfcrfefcof bowwgJis- criticiz&gf the class of ^ bores' in the House of Commons who

    The B » Ofit stirring events have been in the region of commeece . The failure of the Rojal British Bank not only removes one of the banking institutions of tile metropolis from the field , "but subsequent cgsclosures have sho-wn that the ^ naanagecs haefcnot beeaable to awidthepooresfttemgifcations andi worst ; risks of management . They Bad

    advanaed rnoagy on sus& secuaaties as Westteinster Bonafe , au * E to , cover aa adxa » ce of 25 , <) . G&H had advanttsdj 75 , 000 / . moire a » some iron Q * cterprize . The directors and shareholders talked of winding up the affairs of the bank without an appeal to law ; but now Chancery is invoked ! In short , the breakdown exhibits the usual characteristics of an English "bankruptcy .

    Tiie case of Truss presents the newer characteristic of English bankruptcy . The bankrupt , who was making some 3500 / . a year , was paying 4375 / . on loans , the motive for whiclx does not appear . We have seen many such cases , andwithout intending to insinuate anything in the present instance—we have usually found that these apparently motiveless loans were employed in speculative enterprizes which were to make the speculator rich . Now there is no doubt that in

    many cases ventures of this kind have been successful ; many a . man receives after-dinner speeches and testimonials , and walks about amid the doffed hats of his fellow-creatures , who has gone through exactly the same tribulation with the unhappy bankrupt whose delinquencies are exposed . The unhappy gentleman at Liverpool appears to have been the sport of our system of fast money-lending . His case is treated by our contemporaries as exceptional ; we know that it represents a class , and a very numerous class .

    The conflict m the Unity General Insurance office brings important principles to the test , but the warfare belongs to a larger contest than-that which appears upon the surface . Mr . Thomas BA . nas is one of a clever and active family , who have laboured to promote the practice of insurance for a -variety of contingencies never contemplated under the old system , and . they have

    endeavoured more exactly to apportion the an ^ nual investment required for the several kinds of insurance . They were at once denounced by the old offices as unsafe ; the new offices retaliated that the old were decaying properties ; and each division has laboured for years at blasting the character of the other . Any little accident to Mr . Bayms would be nectar and anibrosia to the

    champions of the old office . An agent of the Unity lately effected an insurance at Glasgow , on the life of a lady of some property , who tad married a man with little property . The lady died ; the agent saw , ot thought tie saw , some degree of suppression in the original statement respecting the lady ' s health ; the husband was in want of money , and he consented to receive as a compromise—750 / . in lieu of 200 O / . The compromise was sanctioned by Dr . Lloyd , the physician of the Company , and approved by Mr . Bayxis

    the manager . Subsequently , however , Mr . Bayxis discovered that the lady actually died from natural causes ; that notwithstanding the casualty of her speedy death , there had been no suppression of her symptoms , and that the credit of the office would not be promoted with persevering with the compromise . Ho advised , therefore , that the whole sum should be paid . The agent was angered at this niisapprcciation of his cleverness ; Dr . Lloyd

    appears to have thought that his own character for professional ability and honour would bo tarnished by reversing the original decision ; the directors stood by Dr . Lloyd , and Mr . Baths was forced into a resignation . An appeal wag then made to the shareholders , and they , by acclamation , reversed the decision of the directors , and carried a motion for reinstating Mr . Bayi . 18 . The decision is interesting , as confirming tho principle tliat a liberal construction is almost always nearer to

    p . ttM *; juj 3 tiee than a carping technical reliance upon weak points in the case of a claimant . It is to be regjeetted . that thei-e should have been any dispute on tHe- joint , but as there tas been a dispute tie miseBief is minimized by the decision .

    have crotchets and whom he would hang , and censuring old members who do not know how to bring forward measures , the G enerals in the Crimea , and foreign affairs comprehensively . Arguing for- the doctrine of non-intervention , Mr . Baxter expressed horror at the massacre of Ciceruacchio , declared Austria to be as bad as Naples , and proposed to waste no more words or paper , but to send a fleet to the Bay of Naples , to open the gates of its hateful guard-houses , and set the prisoners free ! "Whatever Mr . Baxter , may say , if he would offer himself as a minister on the

    promise of doing that , we believe that the people of England would carry him into office within a year . : ¦ ¦ : ¦' .. ' . . ¦ . "¦ ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ '¦ '" . ¦¦¦ ¦ ' , In the meanwhile Government have announced a measure which may usefully engage Mr . Baxter in . both capacities , —that is , as the successor of Mr . Hume , cutting down our military expenditiire , and as the crusader in Naples , demanding a more efficient military policy . Since we have arrived at a ' state , of peace , ' it is a matter of etiquette that we should have a e peace

    establishment , and a notification has issued from .-the . War Department that there will be a reduction of all He regiments in the army . It will , however , not be very great . The total proportion of the army reduced will "be one-sixth , the Q , oken ' s forces in India not being included in any part of the arrangement . About six hundred officers -will be placed upon hal £ pay , principally from the ranks of ' . lieutenant - colonel , captain , and lieutenant . The cavalry regiments will be reduced to six companies in lieu of eight ; the number of infantry regiments-will remaia as it . is , but it will be reduced to one thousand men , eight hundred in . eight

    service companies , and two hundred divided , into four depot companies . The engineers and the artillery will not be reduced , — -indeed w « fully expect to find that t&ey are rather augmented than otherwise . The Land Transport Corps will b . e reorganized and partially out down . The reduction will be a means of removing from the army the diseased , the stunted , the worn-out , and the discontented . The camp system will be maintained . The forces will be permanently organized into separate * armies , ' each witTi its proper equipment of artillery , cavalry , and other arms . And the . "whole scheme includes a school for officers of ft . very high character . If the reduction in the number ofna . en . be only one-sixth , we can scarcely expect that the reduction in the estimates will be so much . Here thon is the field , for Mr . Baxter : as the besieger of Naples , he may say , Give mo transport and generals for this army , and I will use it ; and , as the lieir of Hume , he may say , Bring forward your estimates that I may reduce them . While Government is announcing the reduction of the army , the public is entertaining every Crimean soldier it can . meet at banquets here and ther , o . Sheffield followed up its annual feasting

    of itaelf -with a feasting of dragoons stationed in the town ; a distinguished cutler presenting every man -with a pocketknife . Folkestone has followed ; Ireland and Scotland jito both aspiring to fce hoste 5 n the same manner . In gcn « ral terms , ws may say that the speaking at these entertainments has ¦ . : not been of a very higli character . Tho speakers ' 4 . ' $$ * \ & hftvobecn ° ™ riavd with a sense of what ' i&'W ? e * Pecied of tliem » and tto . havo effort' without ^ V ^ awesjionding success or spontaneity .

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    BIGOTRY RAPPED ON \ THE KNUCKLES . Foikoneerila-a way , the Government has acted with e < ju « l fairness to infidels and "bigots . It ^ in i , re . collected that some time ago permission was granted to certaio . religious sects to > preach on Sundays in Victoria Park . Orthodox godliness ( as interpreted by a dozen different ' persuasions' ) and apostolical temperance ( as expounded by very loud-mouth ed teetotallers ) were free to sow their little patches of rancour , "bitterness , and egotism broadcast over th e park ; and they availed themselves of the permission . But presently there appeared on the scene eleven infidels , members of the working orders , wlio preached Atheism in language which , unquestionably , vas calculated to shock the feelings of many very honest and estimable people . We believe there can be no doubt in the minds of reasonable persons that these

    were demonstrations which should not fee tolerated in a public place ; and we ' -, think'the authorities acted very \ yisely and properly in putting- a stop to the plague of open-air preaching , making no distincti on between the godly and the ungodly . It was hardly to be expected , however , that the former w ould submit without an effort to secure for themselves exelusive liberty to ' hold forth , ' without fear of being contradicted by the . unbelieving . Accordingly , the Rev . G . T . Driffield , Rector of Bow , and chairman of the general body of " ministers of various denominations lately interested in promoting the practice of preaching in the public parks , " addressed a letter , dated the 2 nd inst .,. to Sir IBenjamin Hall , in . which the writer says : —

    "A general notice has been Issued referring to certain objectionable addresses and expressions -which have been . publicly delivered by parties in the Victoria Park , and prohibiting for the future not only the recurrence of such blasphemous and infidel addresses , but the efforts also of those parties . who , "being members of respected religions bodies , have endeavoured on such occasions to disseminate truth and to promote the cause of morality and religion . . „ . " We have now to prefer a request that you will , en reconsidering the subject , consent to make such arrangements as will permit of our proceeding with a work so obviously useful ; while , should any violation of public morality or religious feeling bo repeated by any parties , we submit that it would become your duty to repress such occurrences by all lawful means .

    "We beg , in conclusion , to express our regret that , when you first became informed of the anti-religious proceedings which you justly stigmatize , you did not intimate to us your desire that we should desist from the plan of preaching previously to issuing the notice in which , we find ourselves by implication ^ classed with blasphemers and Atheists . " To this wail , Sir Benjamin ' s secretary replied \> y intimating that the First Commissioner of "Works , although anxious to consult the wishes of the gentlemen addressing him , could not allow any more preaching in the public parks . The communication proceeds : — '

    "He ( Sir Benjamin Hall ) regrets extremely that jou should suppose that he could , even by th . o slightest possiblo implication , class those excellent clergymen , who were actuatod by the purest and tho highest motives , with those persons who mado use of tho blasphemous language which was uttered on Sunday , the 24 th ult ., in Victoria Park . Ho cannot see how tho orders issued by him can in any yvay whatsoever bear , such au interpretation . " The Government could not , consistently with justice and common sense , come to any other conclusion than that which it has promulgated . With what fairness can the Rev . ILbcnozer Cantwell be allowed to send the promenadcrs in tho parka to eternal lire , is de

    while John Brown , workman and materialist , - nied the right of disputing' his first principles?—or what can bG thought of the honesty or courage of those " excellent clergymen " who wish to havo the argument to themselves , and to " ropress" by forco of law all thoso who disngreo with them ? The readers of tho Leader know that wo do not sympathize with the opinions advocated by John Brown ; but we dislike potty tyranny and unfairness , and , on the other hand , wo arc . glad to see that the parks—the true objects of which are to invigorate tho body nnd tranquillize the mind by tho influence of Nature ' s divine calmness and benignity—arc not to bo turned into tho battle-grounds of sectB , whether theologies" anti- theological .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1856, page 866, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2158/page/2/