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      VOL . VIII . No . 378 . J SATURDAY , JUNE 20 , 1857 . Pbiob { ZSSJ ^^ SglSS ? __^ ^> ^ — ___ > ^_ ^ ^^^ ^ v ^ . ^ r ^ w * * v ^ w k ^ F ^ "fcT ^^ m ^

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      W ITH rather less hurry of business , a little more animation lias been thrown into the proceedings of Parliament . The first Ministerial defeat for the session is of a perfectly unimportant kind , but certain occurrences of the debates have shown a rising spirit of independence in both Houses , and it only awaits some striking event , such as mig ht still happen at home or abroad , to bring out the old feeling in either House . We do not of course

      refer to the debate upon the Oaths Bill , which was a . kind of parade , the nature of the contest being well known beforehand . Mr . Deasy put forward the claim of the Roman Catholics , and proposed such an , alteration of the oath as would relieve them from the offensive - disclaimers now imposed . He began a series of intended amendments by substituting the words ' civil and temporal ' for ecclesiastical and spiritual' in denying the authority of the Pope . But there was no getting over the case presented by Lord Pamierston : for

      his own part lie did not object to some of the alterations proposed ; but he showed , that if you presented to the Lords a bill containing a Roman Catholic change , as well as that intended for the Jews , the measure would certainly be rejected this session . The Roman Catholics have already obtained their relief ; they are now called upon to assist in removing the last disability from the Jews . The Roman Catholics are proposing a very unequal bargain : they labour under no disability—at least that is not the point raised by them j but they

      dislike the compulsion to utter certain phrases . The Jews labour under a gross disability , and the question -was , should wo delay the removal of that disability in order to make a usoloss attempt at relioving tke Roman Catholioa from a more disagreeable P Sir Frederick Thesiger proposed to rointroduco the words * on the truo faith of a Christian , ' contesting the whole principlo of tho bill in the guiso of n ' verbal amendment . ' TJioro wore somo

      other amendments—by Mr . Roebuck , who disliked tlio idea of denying tho * ecclesiastical and spiritual ' authority of tho Pove in a formal enactment , because tho authority is a fact ; and by Lord Robert Cecil , who at tho last would have roportod progross before passing tho bill through tho oommitteo . Tho decisive majorities by whioh all thoso amendments wore sot aside—by 373 to 83 in tho case of Mr . Dbasv , and 341 to 201 in that of Sir Fredewok Thesiger—showed that tho House of

      Commons had thoroughly made up its mind . Here Lord Palmerston was comp letely on strong ground . . Even the contest qver Ministers' Money in Ireland , between Lord Derb y and Lord Granville , although the majority was narrow , did not bring out the whole force of the Independent parties to which we have alluded . Lord Derb y , in fact , placed himself in a cleft stick . He bad already abolished church cess when he was Secretary for Ireland under Lord Grey ; he had winked at other

      changes , and even at sacrifice of part of the Ministers ' Money { the circumstances being exactly the same as those under which Ministers now propose to abolish this impost on certain towns . The answer to Lord Derb y was complete . He admitted the triviality of the -question , on every ground but the high ground of ' principle '—ground which he abandoned twenty-five years ago . In fact , Lord Camvbell really explains the pith of . the

      joke . It is quite evident that Ministers' Money was omitted out of Lord Derby ' s own measure of 1833 by an oversight ! But Ministers received a damaging support from Lord EllenBonoucur , who exposed the lax administration which makes the Church commission a burdensome expense ; and he showed how they might have saved the money , where they arc now going to create a deficiency by abandoning the impost . In fact , he taught them how to do their business . The Duke of

      Newcastle , too , asked for some explanations . The contest ended in tho defeat of Lord Derby . Tho defeat of Ministers in tho House of Commons took place on the grand question of the Ordnance survey , with a long debate about tho comparative merits of tho six-inch and the twentyfive inch scale for tho survey of tho whole of tho United Kingdom . The gigantic scale was favoured by the officials and by certain landowners , who thus

      obtained , through tho Orduanco , u survey of their estates . A square mile upon tho map is more than four feet squaro , giving a vory fair representation of a gentleman ' s estuto ; niul this is douo for every landowner in tho country by tho Orduanco department ; . Sir Dunham Norueys moved to rcduco tho monoy vote , virtually stopping tin ' gigantio survoy , and his amendment was carried by n net majority of ten .

      Infinitely more dumaging to Ministers , however , was tho previous disoussion oomincnood by General Peel , who called for a proper organisation of tho War departments in accordance with tho disclosures of tho Sobastopol Committee and tlio Chelsea Com . '

      missioners . Lord P-almerston pleaded that General Peel was speaking without complete information , and that much had been done since the Sebastopol and Chelsea inquiries . But the discussion called out , with peculiar animation , Sir John Pakington , Mr . Henle y , Mr . Stafford ^ Sir John Trelawn y , and chief of all , it called out in support of General

      Peel , Mr . Edward Ellicd , that eminent Whig who is connected by marriage , by long political association , and by sharing so many great struggles with the purest and most energetic of the Whig party , particularly Lord Grey . The conversation was brought . to no definite conclusion , but it drew forth a manifestation of feeling and of sympathies which will undoubtedly tell liereaf ter .

      Debates have taken place in the two Houses upon industrial schools for the erring children of the * lower classes '—those who have already rendered themselves liable to the criminal law by pilfering or . vagrancy , and who arc to be remanded to school instead of prison . Bills arc before both Houses , and are steadily making way , notwithstanding practical difficulties .

      Out of doors there has been comparatively little stir . The Roman Catholics have held another conclave , persevering with their purpose . The grand event has been out of the range of politics—the Handel festival . The East India Company , too , has had one of its meetings ; and the illegality of the opium culture has again been discussed . But who expects to wrench anything out of the East India Company ?

      Some strange movoments are observable in the Churoh—but this week we can only mention them . A deputation of the Evangelical Allianoe , returned after a visit to Prussia , in preparation of a conference at Berlin , has been received to make its report in the Guard-house of tho Archbishop of Canterbury ' s Palace at Laiwbeth . At a banquet in tho Mansion Houso , the Bishop of London glorified tho rising importance of tho ' lowest' in the Church—tho curates . And at the annual moot

      ing of tho National Education Sooioty , the sam < Archbishop of Canterbury presiding , approbation was expressed of tho withdrawal of tho Queen ' ^ letter , though it yieklod 10 , 000 / . to tho clergy ; ius absonoo being an incentive to voluntary exertion . The Churoh * of England' grows national ! The most important event has boon in tlio monoy market , whore the into of discount lias beon rcduood by tho Bank of England from 0 £ to Q per cent . Tho Bank of Franco 1 ms roducoa tho premium on gold from 0 to 4 per millo , but there ia

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- rxoE Imperial Parliament 578 The Handel Festival BSO The Funeral of Douglas Jerrold 581 Accidents and Sudden Deaths 581 Stateof Trade 582 Ireland 582 America 582 Continental Notes 582 Our Civilization 583 Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts ., 585 Naval and Military ..... 586

      Miscellaneous 586 Postscript 589 OPEN COUNCILThe Brussels Riots 589 PUBLIC AFFAIRSGovernment and Patriotism—a Secret History 589 The Lawn . Rowdyism 590 . Equalization of Poor Rates 591 Thesiffer—Defender of the Faith ... 592 Close of the Session at Brussels 592

      LITERATURESummary B 93 The Dead Secret :.... 593 Two Historians 594 A Batch of Books 595 The Illustrated Tennyson 595 THE ARTSThe Handel Festival 595 New York Exhibition of British Art 598 Olympic Theatre 596 Madame Bistori 596

      0 , es The Musical Congress at the Surrey Gardens 598 The Vocal Association at the Crystal Palace 598 The Private Exhibition 596 The Gazette ... 597 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , &c 597 >^_^ f ¦ ¦

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      "The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of _ Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barnars erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by ff . ^ mg aside the dastmcUons of Religion , Country , and Colour to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos .

      A Political Aid Literary Review.

      A POLITICAL AND LITERAEY REVIEW .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 20, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2198/page/1/