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      slavery party . They are anxious for the final extinction of the Negro slave-trade ; they are jealous of Cuba and the United States ; and they propose , first , that the island shall be surrounded by gunboats , and secondly , that a free African emigration , under guarantees , shall be encouraged by France , England , and Spain . The movement is evidently designed to overwhelm Spain , and to counteract the supposed annexation projects o £ the United States ;

      and it is imagined that France will connive at a scheme which falls in well with- Lord Palmerston ' s supposed mission to put down the slave-trade by jiaval force . The Minister withheld a pledge , but seems to have nodded approval . It is fishing in disturbed waters . Walker has just returned from Central America : lus arrival , unexpected , has created a great excitement throughout the Union ; and the interest of the ' Lone Star' will be decidedly in the ascendant just at present .

      Neither France nor Spain is in a condition to join in any new crusade . Spain can scarcely keep a , Government for itself , and the Emperor is going through the work of elections to the Legislative Corps with strong efforts to render the movement a mere pageant ; while some of the boldest of the Republican and Orleanist parties are proposing to come forward as candidates , and to enter the pocket House of Commons ; of course for the purpose of imparting some real independence to its

      proceed-Indeed it is questionable how far our own Government is prepared to take up a new mission . It Jias quite enough on its hands at present . What " with French alliances , Austrian alliances ; what ¦ wi th- the Reform Bill of 1 S 5 S , and the Prussian marriage ; what with the mutiny of Indian troops *—of which we have further accounts ^ this time from Merut and Uinba . Ua— - Ministers will do well to avoid any entangling alliances with France , and Spain , and Exeter Hall , for the purpose of undermining Brazil , and seeking a contest with General Walker .

      We are frequently sneering at Austrian spies , and French police interference with domestic matters ; but the appeal hi the case of 'Evans versus Evans' discloses a practice amongst ourselves which might grow to equal any Continental espionage . A married couple quarrel and separate ; a husband sets a ' detective' to watch his wife ; the detective does his own work—whatever we may think of its delicacy—honestly enough , and

      findsnothing . But he has money ; he has women assistants in his espionage , and they return the quid pro quo for their handsome wages in the shape of the evidence wanted . They see just what it was wished they should see : and the wife is convicted of adultery . She appeals ; the character of the evidence is more closely investigated , and she is acquitted by the Superior Judge . It was all but impossible , if not quite so , that the story told against her should be true ; yet it had sent her from one court convicted and condemned . True morality can never benefit by the use of unworthy instruments .

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      S 54 THE LEADEE . _ / _[*<>¦ 377 , Satuimat

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      Monday , June 8 th . THE MINISTERS' MONEY BILL . In the House of Lords , the Earl of Donoughmoke begged to ask / the President of the Council whether he had . any objection to lay upon the table * , before the second reading of the- Ministers' Money * - Bill , a statement of the . revenue andk , expenditure of the-Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the List year , for the purpose of ascertaining whether a sufficient sum will remain in the hand * of . the commissioners to cany out the objects ' the bilL—Earl Granville bad no objection : to afford the noble Lord all the information in his power .

      THE CASE OF MR . SHEDDEN . Earl Grey called attention to a petition from Mr . W . P . R . Shedden , complaining that , by a decision of thfr Court of Session in 1803 , and of the House of Lords in 1808 , obtained in his infancy * he has beau deprived of his status of a natural-born subject of the realm . The petition also contained certain allegations against a Mr , William Patrick , a relation , who was accused of entering into a conspiracy with his brother John to deprive Mr . Shedden of some property in America , of which William Patrick was executor . He was likewise the guardian of the petitioner ; but he alleged that Mr . Shedden was illegitimate , and therefore not entitled to the property . This was denied , and a legal inquiry at New York had resulted in a verdict in favour of Mr .

      Shedden . Earl Grey accordingly moved that the petition be referred to a select committee . —This was resisted by the Lord Chancellor ( who said , with some warmth , that the course proposed was unprecedented , and who asserted that he believed Mr . William Patrick was an upright man ) , by Lord St . Leonards , Lord Campbell , the Earl of Eglimton , and Lord Redesdale , the last of whom , however , admitted that there was a case for redress by general legislation ; while , on the other hand , the motion was supported by Lord Brougham , Lord Lyndhokst , the Earl of Albemaule , and Lord Littelton . —On a division , the motion obtained 11 votes in its favour , to 19 against it ; so that it was lost by a majority of 8 . Their Lordships shortly afterwards adjourned .

      DIVORCE BILLS . In the House of Commons , Colonel Wilson Patten moved to nominate the select committee : —Mr . Walpole , Mr . Masse > -, Mr . Esteourt , Sir John Pakington , Sir John Yarde Buller , Mr . Headlam , Mr . Bonhaui Carter , Sir Erskine Perry , and Mr . Adderley . —The motion was agreed to . SLAVE TRADE . Mr . Kinnaird presented a petition signed by upwards of 1500 of the principal inhabitants of the island of Jamaica , complaining of the non-enforcement of treaties with Spain relating to the abolition of the slave trade , the consequent increase of slavery in Cuba , and the difficulty of free labour competing with slave labour in the Spanish colonies .

      CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION . In reply to Mr . Daniel O'Connell , the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the report of the Civil Service Superannuation Commission is now under the considerarion of the Government , but he could not state that any decision had as yet been come to on tlia subject . A commission was appointed last session to investigate the complaints of civil servants . The commissioners had communicated with the actuaries , and it was proposed to present their report in a supplementary document which has not yet been received .

      STATUTE LAW COMMISSION . In answer to Mr . Warren , Mr . Baines said that a select committee was appointed last session for the purpose of considering the recommendations made by the statute law commission , with a view to their adoption . He had the honour to bo chairman of that committee . They examined a number of witnesses , from some of whom they obtained valuable and instructive evidence ; but when the dissolution came on the inquiry was

      incomplete , and the committee determined to make no recommendation . They agreed unanimously to report tlio evidence without expressing any opinion on the subject . As to the roappoiiitmonl ; of that committee , the Government , after full consideration , did not think it advisable to propose it in the present session . Sovorfll members of the committee wora now engaged in other investigations ; othors of them would bo shortly engaged in election committees ; und it waa felt that the committee could not therefore re-engage in the inquiry with , any advantage . AUSTRALIAN MAILS . Replying to Mr . Addekluy , Mr . Wilson reminded the House of the terms of the arrangement entered into laat August for the conveyance of mnils to Australia , and stated that the service was in full operation , and being porforined to the satisfaction of the Government . By the contract then entered into , branch mails wore to bo established between Melbourno and Tasmania on tlio one hand , « nd Now Zealand on the othor . This part of the arrangement had boon delayed owing to somo wShapprohonsion 5 but orders had boon given to the local authorities to boo It carried iuto effect . THIS OATHS UILL . On tho order for the second reading of this bill , thoro

      was no opposition , and it was ordered » n -a ^ cifcsertng , that the bill should be reariI ! . ' T ^ MonOa ^ Sir FakDKBw ^ Tt aSi'JSS * F " inform th « House of the course he fn ^^ ° « it > th Q bill As he had ibtinSS „ * ° * ing , he offered no opposition to the secondTeaS he was apprehensive that there micht be <« vrn & - demanding from the cheer with which the S announced to the House ; therefore , henw-SSl that . m eommittee he should propose at the enI of oath to add these words :- " And I do make this imse , abjuration , renunciation , and declaration , har willingly , and truly , on the true faith of a ChrUti ( Cheers from the Opposition ., benches . }

      THE CIVIL SERVICE . On the motion for going into Committee of Sur Lard Godeuich called attention to the last report 0 Civil Service Commissioners , and urged the Govern to extend the principle of open competitive examina already introduced . If the Chancellw of the Excha would give a promise to that eflfect , he would not n his motion . —Mr .- Bass could not find in the order council any information as to who it is who nomfn the persons who are ultimately selected for exarainat with a view of passing into the civil service . Was old system of patronage still in force ?— Mr . Eicuca attention to the fact that of the 376 vacancies , wl had occurred last year , 66 onl y Avere given awa ^ competition ; and of these , 43 were given in the first months of 1856 , and only 23 in the last half of they —Mr . Malins asked for information relative to competitive examinations , as he suspected the Govi

      ment of jobbery . , The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied the Order in Council , issued two years ago , made alteration in the power or the prerogative of the Cn to make appointments to the civil service . The sub dinate appointments in some of the offices are vested usage in the heads of departments ; in the rest , they vested in the head of the Government . The Gove ment had not thought it desirable to throw the appo : meats of clerks open to public competition ; but they require that every one should be subjected to an exa nation to test his fitness ; and the results of this \ were embodied in the papers on the table . The exa tions for the __ civil service had been enforced with

      utmost strictness and regularity , according to the sj and intent of the first order . All the appointine made by the Prime Minister had been ou that princi ; and the plan had worked admirably . { Hear , hear . Colonel Svkes was strongly of opinion that , if Government desire to advance the intellectual condft of the middle and lower classes of society , the heads departments must throw a portion of the offices open public competition . — Mr . Vajjsittabt inquired on tv ' principle candidates presented themselves for examii tion?— -The Chancellor of tiik Exchequer : "Tt efficiency . " ( Laughter . ) THE ITALIAN LEGION .

      Mr . Monckton Milnes called attention to the onga , ment entered iuto with the Argentine Confederation the reception and employment of a certain number of officers and soldiers of the Italian Legion , and asl whether the authorities of the Confederation had hered to the stipulations of that agreement . —Sir Jo Kamsden stated that there had been no breach engagement on the part either of her Majesty ' s Gove ment or of the Argentine Confederation ; that a num of the Legion ( 350 men ) , about to be sent to the Ci of Good Hope or British North America , had aceep terms offered by an agent of the Argentine Confedc tion , in which negotiation our Government had in way interfered ; and that they had been subsequeni at their own request , released from their engagement !

      supply . The House then went into Committee of Supply , the consideration of the Army Estimates was prooce with . Several votes were agreed to without discuss but a good deal of desultory conversation ensued points connected with the alleged uselessnoss anU ponso of the 25-inch scale of Ordnance survey of U land , and upon the present custom of restricting pensions of naval and military officers to those wfto n lost a limb , to tho exclusion of those otherwise wow —an arrangement which was objected to by W « North , Lord Alfred Vanis Tkmpsst , Sir Chaii Naiueu , Mr . ltoisnuOK , and othors , and defended oy John Kamsukn aud Lord Palmbrstow , < " » tuo gro that " it is nooeesary to draw tho liuo eoiucwuore . . eovornl votes having boon agreod to , tho House resu and tho report of tho Committee of Supply ww wou up and agreed to . —Tho report on tho Sound Dues

      nl&o agreed to . . ., jfl The Houso thon wont into coimmltoo on tao < i Stock Companies Bii . i ,, tho clrtusou or vmui agreod to without any dlBOUfwion . FRAUDULENT TKIJSTKKS HIMOn the motion that tltk bill bo rood fl sooond i Mr . Sorjoant Kinolakio BugKuslod a ° J ?^ ' ° . T case of triMtouB who 1100 tru . it nimla for thoir own * and who prove doftmUonJ . Tliuro inny l > c > no " » oommlt fraud , mid yet tho estate mriy «*» sons bo acting ought to bo liublo o b » ° » objected to Lh . it provision In tho bill vh ^ »« £ < , „ , previous sanction of a Judgo or of tho Attornoj

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      Arrest of Mr . tJuMPHREY Brown . —The ex-M . P . for Tewkesbury and Director of the Royal British Bank , Is now in custody upon two warrants , by each of which ho is required to put in bail for 4000 / ., with two sureties for 2000 / . each . Sureties for 8000 / ., besides his own rec 6 gnizances for 80 O 0 Z ., will therefore bo required bofore he is released . The Hon . John Stapleton , M . P . for Berwick , and othors who have been arrested , have already given bail to a similar amount . Within a short time , it is bolioved , all the parties implicated will 1 ) 0 secured . Thoso -who have not yet been apprehended are under strict surveillance abroad , and will be brought to this country as soon as the necessary arrangements can bo made . A WnoLia Family Poisoned . —Two youths belonging to tho family of a miner in tho neighbourhood of Cloator Moor , near Whltohavon , have boon discovered poisoned and lying dead in their father's houso . The father , mother , and three daughters , wore found at the . Bamer ti « io eonvulscd and insensible . The wife , who was ¦ far . advanced in pregnancy , subsequently died . Nothing Certain ¦ Js known no to tho cause of tho fatality ; but M ^| , jp ^ A ^ aro in oiroulation . V . f 1 "' ' ' . . *• » « "i V'iWtoU- " , & ¦'""'* i fe # * THt ^ 'M'M ^ Htr ¦ - ¦ ' wMwfcjW ' , ¦

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      IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 13, 1857, page 554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2197/page/2/