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Leader (1850-1860), 28th March 1857, Edition 1 of 2, Page 291, Untitled Article

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      In .-obedience to tho summons delivered by Black Rod , the Speaker of the Houae of Commons , accompanied by Lord Palmerston , Sir George Grey , Mr . Lowe , avid several other hon . gentlemen , presented himself at the bar shortly after two o ' clock . The Royal Assent was then given , to the following Bills : —The Speaker's Retirement , Exchequer Bills ( 21 , 049 , 700 ) , Consolidated Fund Appropriation , Commons' Enclosure , Commissioners of Supply ( Scotland ) Act ( 185 G ) Amendment , Income-tax , Indemnity , Copyhold , and Enclosure Commissions , &c . ; Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction , Lighting of Towns ( Ireland ) Acts Amendment , Customs Duties , llacehorse Duty Act Amendment , Pauper Maintenance , Extra Parochial Places , Mutiny , Marine Mutiny . The Lor . i > CHAUCKrjLOR then lead the following Speech iu the names of himself and the other

      Coniznis-Saturday , March 21 st . the prorogation ; The two Houses met for the last time on Saturday at two o ' clock , for the purpose of hearing the announcement by Commission of the Royal Assent to various bills , and of being formally dissolved . Very few peers were present in the House of Lokds , bnt some interest ¦ was excited by the presence on the Episcopal Benches , in the rear of the Bishops of London and Carlisle , of Ferukh Khan , the Persian Ambassador , who had recently arrived in London , and who was attended by his suite . The Conirriisioners—viz ., the Lord Chancellor , Earl Granville , the Earl of HarroAvby , Lord Stanley of Alderley , and the Marquis of Breadalbane—were seated upon , a woolsack immedlatelv in front of the throne .

      : — li My Lords and Gentlemen , " We are commanded by her Majesty to inform you that , in releasing you at this early period from your attendance in Parliament , it is her Majesty ' s intention immediately to dissolve the present Parliament , in order to ascertain in the most constitutional manner the sense of her people upon the present state of public affairs . " Gentlemenof ' the House ofCommons , " We are commanded by her Majesty to thank you for the liberal provision which you have made for the exigencies of the public service during the period that will elapse before the new Parliament , which her Majesty will direct immediately to be called , shall have been able to give its deliberate attention to these matters . " My Lords and Gentlemen ,- :

      { hear , hear ) , would be such a change of system as could be considered as accomplishing the purposes for which diplomatic relations were broken off . ( Jlisor , hear . " ) TREATY WITH MOROCCO . Lord Palmeeston laid on the table a treaty which our minister at Tangier has concluded with the Sultan of Morocco , bj' which great facilities are secured for English and European commerce throughout tlie dominions of that potentate . THE ELECTKIC TELEGRAPH TO INDIA . Lord PALj * rERSTON ,-4 n answer to Mr . Boavykr , stated that the protection of the line of electric telegraph in the Turkish territories is part of the general system of police established by the Turkish Government in that portion of the empire . —The Chancellor of the Exchequer added that the English Government is in no respect answerable for the construction of the telegraph , or for its protection from injury by the Arab tribes . CAPTAEST WOOD . Captain AncjiDALL , who had previously presented a petition from Captain Wood , late paymaster of the depot

      battalion at Winchester , complaining that he had been called upon with the assistance of only one clerk to discharge duties , in the performance of which two paymasters and seven clerks had afterwards been engaged , and had thus been compelled to resign , thereby losing his chance of an additional pension of 2 s . a day , moved for the production of copies of the correspondence which had taken place between Captain Wood and the War Department from the date of his appointment to the present time ; but , npon it being represented to him by Lord Palmekstox that the order , if made , would be of no value , owing to the dissolution of Parliament , the motion was 'withdrawn . ¦ - ..-:

      INSTITUTION OF SOLDIERS WIVES' AND CHILDREN AT COLCHESTER , Sir De Lacy Evans asked whether any steps had been taken to relieve the destitution of the wives and children of the soldiers wlio are quartered in the camp , at Colchester ?—Lord Paxmekston replied that lie was quite sure that the War Department had every disposition to make all practical arrangements for the relief of this distress . The members were then summoned to the House of Peers , to be present at the Prorogation , and , on their return , after hearing the Royal Speech read over , as usual , they crowded round the Speaker to bid him farewell in his official capacity . And thus terminated the brief session . .

      The Royal Proclamations officially announcing the dissolution were published in a Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday week , and the writs were issued last Saturday . . . ....

      '" We are commanded by her Majesty to express the satisfaction she feels at your having been able daring the present session materially to reduce the burdens of her people . " Her Majesty commands us to assure you that it is her fervent prayer that the several constituencies of the United Kingdom , upon whom will devolve the exercise of those high functions which by the constitution belong to them , may be guided by an alhvise Providence to the selection of representatives whose wisdom and patriotism may aid her Majesty in her constant endeavours to maintain the honour and dignity of her Crown and to promote the welfare and happiness of her people . " The Commission for tho prorogation of Parliament having been read by the Clerk at the table , The Lori > Chancellor formally prorogued Parliament until Thursday , the 30 th of next April .

      In the IXousK ok Commons , much merriment was excited by the Si'HAKttu saying , " Mombors waiting "to be sworn will come to the table . " Straightway , The O'Doxogiiuk advanced , and , amidst considerable laughter , took tho oaths and his seat for Tipperary , for which place he was elected only a few davs previously .

      NAPLES . Mr . Duncombe asked whether , since the withdrawal o the legations of France and England from Naples , any overtures had been made by the King of Naples to the English and French Governments for tho return of those embassies ; and , if so , whether those overtures were likely to be acceptable to tho two Governments ? He asked this in consequence of tho appearance in tho papers that morning- of a statement that an envoy has gone from . Paris with a view to settling the differences which exist between the Neapolitan Government and those of England and Franco .

      Lord Palmisuston replied that mo overtures , properlv so called , liad been received by tho English and French Governments from tho King of Naples since the discontinuance of diplomatic relations . An indirect intimation had , however , reached them that the Neapolitan Government was anxious to know whuthcr , if toe King of Naples were to carry into execution the convention made with tho Argentine Confederation , under which tho political prisoners now retained in the prisons of Naples were to be banished to the Argentine Kopublic , that would bo considered by the two Government * aa a substantial beginning of that more moderate system of government which tluy wished to sen established ut Naples . Speaking only for the English Government , ho ( Lord Palmerston ) did not think Unit clearing the prisons of Naples by Bonding the prisoner * into banishment in Houth Ainorica , with the intention , no doubt , of replenishing thoso prisons by moans of fresh arresta

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      THE PREMIER'S MANIFESTO . TO THE ELTiCTOKS OF TlVEltTOJsr . GentEbmen , —Parliament having been dissolved in . order that the electors of the United Kingdom may have anopportunity of expressing their opinion on the existing state of public affairs , I present myself to you as a candidate for the continuance of that confidence with which , as your representative , I hare so long been , honoured . : The question which is submitted to the judgment of the country is , which shall be the men to whose hands shall be committed the destinies of the nation , and whether that charge shall continue to be confided to the present Administration , or whetherit shall be transferred to that aggregation of hitherto discordant elements by whose combined action on a late occasion a vote of censure was passed upon her Majesty ' s Government .

      The claims of the present Administration to the confidence of the country rest upon facts and events which will form an important chapter in the history of these times . We undertook the conduct of affairs , in obedience to the call of our Sovereign , at a moment of no small difficulty , in the midst of a great war , and when those men who had heretofore been looked up to as the leaders of parties had for various reasons declined the responsibility of office , or had been unable to form such an

      Administration as was in their opinion equal to the crisis . We carried on wit li energy and vigour the war in which the country was engaged , and in hearty co-operation with our gallant allies—the French , the Sardinians , and the Turks—we brought it to a successful termination , and the result was a treaty of peace which accomplished the objects of the war , and which secured for the Allies conditions which some of those to whom I have alluded had deemed it unreasonable to propose and impossible to obtain . . .

      In the execution of the stipulations of this treaty difficulties in regard to matters of great importance arose ; those difficulties , by firmness in negotiation , her Majesty ' s Government mainly contributed in a satisfactory manner to remove , and the full attainment of the objects of the treaty in regard to the matters in whicli those difficulties related has thus been secured . At the beginning of the recent session of Parliament we announced our intention of taking off the war portion of the income-tax , and we proposed a budget which was approved by a majority of eighty votes .

      The Persian war , which had originated in aggressions and breach of engagement by the Persian Government , was put an end to by a treaty of peace concluded at Paris- Our diplomatic relations with the United States bad been replaced upon their usual footing by the appointment of Lord Napier and his departure for Washington . Papers -had been presented to Parliament explaining the reasons why the British and French missions had been withdrawn from Naples , and no notice had been given of any motion to be founded on those papers . Upon none of these matters did the Opposition deem it possible to found any successful attack on the Government . But events of much importance had happened in China , unforeseen by her Majesty ' * Government , and not the consequence of any steps taken bv them .

      An insolent barbarian wielding authority at Canton had violated the British flag , broken the engagements of treaties , offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China , and planned their destruction by murder , assaa . sinntion , and poison . The British officers , civil and naval , on the station had taken thoso measures which jjppear

      Bnt , if that course was unjustifiable , tho British Government , instead of demanding an apology , ought to make one , and instead of expecting satisfaction ought to offer compensation to the Chinese Commissioner , and this course the combined opponents of the Government , if their Parliamentary victory had instullcd them in office , must in consistency have been prepared to pursue . Will tho British nation give , their ( support to men who have thus endeavoured to make tho humiliation and degradation of their country tho stopping-stone to power ? I confidently assert that bucIi will not bo the answer that will bo given to the appeal now mudu to the electors of the United Kingdom .

      Wo offer to tho country a Government founded upon fur different principles . Abroad , it will be : our earnest endeavour to procure peace , but pence with honour and with safety , peace with the maintenance of national rights , penco with security to our f « llow-c !< mntryineu in foreign lands , At homo , our guiding principles will ho : judicious and woll-regulaU : d economy , progressive imr > ro"vemonf . in nil n » nt . fmwwrnu < iw . tui . irii »>< ir ^^ w . mi ( ion .

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      IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . . — ¦ » :

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      A PARVENU'S FUNERAL . " Even in our ashes live our wonted fires , " said Gray , when musing in the country churchyard ; and that some people who have worked their way out of poverty into riches like to blazon the fact even . on their path to the last home of their mortal bodies , or that their relations love to blazon it for them , was shown in a singular action brought at the Kingston Assizes last Saturday . The plaint iff was an undertaker , named Alexander , and the defendants were the executors of one Hayton , whose funeral Alexander supplied . The claim made for that ceremony was no less than 405 Z . ; but the defendants paid into court 225 ? ., and denied further liability .

      Hayton was formerly a person in a humble position of life , but by successful railway contracts he succeeded in amassing a large sum of money , and at his deatlij which took place in last December , he was represented to bo worth between 40 , 000 / . and 50 , 000 / . One of the defendants , Mr . Kirby , was a surgeon who attended Hayton in hia last illness , and ho - \ vas named one of the executors of his will , and engaged Alexander to conduct the funeral . The ceremony appears to have been performed in the most extraordinary and extravagant

      manner . The deceased wus placed in a brass-bound coffin , and there was a sort of " lying in state , " after the body was screwed down ; and for the expenses connected with this ceremony , among which was a charge for anew suit of clothes , a black silk scarf , and hatband and gloves for a person to " hIiow up" the company who came to ace the ' lying in state , " a very considerable sum was charged in the bill . Another item was 169 / . for " remembrances" in the sluipe of scarfs and gloves , and ' elegantly embossed carda , " which were sent to sixty-six

      persons . The defence was that the expenses were not incurred on the authority of the executors , and that it "wns absurd to supply silk scarfs and blank gloves to a numbor of ' navvies' who attended the funeral . The jury , however , returned a verdict for the full amount claimed . Mr . Alexander has written to the Times to dispute fhe accuracy of tho it « ms " brass-bound coffin" and " new suits of clothes and black silk scarf for tho man in attendance to show the cofTin . " There wore no such entries iu tho bill . " The ' navvies' who followed tho deceased to the grave wore his old confidential foreman and men , and wero ( selected by Mr . Slicllcv , one of the executors . The brothem of ' the deceased and his re-Hlduary legatees have authorized me to state they are perfectly content with my charges , and much annoyed that my hill should have been disputed by tho executora . "

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      THE GENERAL ELECTION Jtu ¦ ¦

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 28, 1857, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2186/page/3/