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      . v QUBJECT to the friction , of parliamentary inter-0 ruptions , Lord Pamierston ' s Government is pursuing the course which it laid down , and with-, out much practical disturbance . When Lord D bbby could have beaten the Government on the question of Ministers' Money , he flinched . Proxies , which are available at other stages of a measure , are not available in committee . The second reading had been c arried by a majority of

      proxies against a majority of peers present ; Lord Clancabty accepted that as a proof that the bill had not been decided by the deliberate decision of the House listening to the arguments ; he thought that if the proxies who had voted with Ministers had been present , they might have been convinced by the arguments of his leader . Lord Derby , however , repelled the idea of disusing proxies . It would not , in fact , be very convenient for a Derb y

      Ministry , and he knows it . It would also be very inconvenient for a Derby Ministry , if Lord Derby had , in a very trifling matter , done his best to keep up those sectarian feuds in Ireland which , as Lord Stanley , he really did much to diminish in 1833 . He feaw that he might have beaten Ministers ; he tried to keep up hia Conservative repute by pretending to try to beat them on the second reading when ho couldn't : and now , on the stage when he could ,

      ho let them triumph ! It was the same in regard to the Oaths Bill in the Commons . The opponents of Ministers have lain down before them as the Hindu before the car of Juggernaut , only with a more somi-voluntary helplessness . Lord Blandford stood hard against the third reading , Sir Frederick Tiiesiger protested , but the bill was carried by a great majority . Before that , at the last stage but one , Mr . Fitz-Q 8 jaAM > had discorned an artistic blqmish in the measure . Unlike the Roman Catholic Relief Act ,

      it permitted gentlemen of the persuasion now relieved , the Jews , to cntor into the posts of Lord Chancellor , Lord Licutcnimt of Ireland , and Lord High Commissioner of the Church of Scotlandpoats connected with , Church profermont ; and Mr . IFnsssQHRAiiD proposod a sot of amendments excluding n , Jew from those offices , or from advising the Crown on ecclesiastical subjeots . It ia highly improbable that any Jow would accept suoh offices j one might almost as much oXpoot » to see Baron Lionbl » b Rothschild Archbishop of Canterbury . But Lord PAiawiMTON thought it wiser to ff ive

      way . He accepted the amendments , frustrating division in the House of Commons , and lending a new proof of his imperative desire to conciliate the House of Lords . The Divorce Bill has passed the House of Lords after all , with several amendments , some of the latest being actual improvements . The Bill no longer gives the Marriage . Court power to imprison those t

      who are convicted under its operation , and thus i is stripped of that provision which might have deterred husbands from seeking the relief of divorce , lest they should consign an unhappy woman to the imprisonment of a felon . Some of the latest debates in the House of Lords turned upon amendments proposed by Bishops , or by Peers that emulate the pietism of Bishops , in order to exclude those who are convicted under the Bill from re-marrying either

      each other or strangers under the spiritual sanction of the Church . But every amendment only served to show how preposterous it is to make such distinctions in the general law of marriage ; and how futile it is to construct a means of carrying out the distinction . "Where the House 6 f Commons has shown its independence , the selection appears to us not to have been happy . There is an immense increase iai the miscellaneous estimates ; some of the items would have been very fair subjects for reconsideration ;

      but the House of Commons has already suffered the opportunity to pass . The strangest case for inquiry challenged attention in the large Army Estimates ; among other points , the House really knew nothing as to the principle on which the Aldcrshot encampment is to be maintained . Mr . 0-urd showed that the purchase of that heath had been effected in a very imprudent manner , at a considerable price for waste land , when the Crown already has waste land of little value , and more suitable for the purpose ; ono instance is the Crown land near Portsmouth . The House dcolined to

      support Sir Henry Wiluwghby in demanding n more stringent oontrol over the oxpondituro for the now Housoa of Parliament ; but it supported Mr . William Williams in virtually refusing 60 , 000 / . towards tho park at Finsbury , in whioh it was supported by metropolitan members whose own districts are alroady supplied ! This is a moat unhappy ex ample of rosistanoo . If tho House had granted this 50 , 000 / ., it might have saved tho same sum out of Aldershot , out of ^ ho Houses of Parliament , or out of many another item whore money will bo expended without any benefit to the people of this country . But it has boon open-handed towards tho War

      Department , stingy to the people of Knsbury , and , in that perversely discriminating stinginess , it is supported by metropolitan members ! Iiord Ra . ynS : am moved for a committee of inquiry into workhouse administration , showing how abuses exist such as those which we have witnessed in Marylebone , while tbe Poor-Law Commission is ¦ een , by the fact that the abuses continue , not to

      possess sufficient power of controlling them . What is the official answer ? That such an inquiry would be ' extended over three years ! ' and , as a quicker process , Mr . Botjveme proposed to conduct it himself , single handed , and through the Poor-law Board whose very incapacity is in question ! The House supported Mr . Bouvemb , because , although it might be ready enough for the Poor-law Committee , it wants to end the session .

      Out of doors we have had the Education Conference , which set for the first and third days in Willis ' s Rooms , on the intermediate day at the Thatched-house Tavern , in sections . The second chairman at one of these meetings was the same Education Minister , Mr . William Coopisb , who made the official statement on the progress of education for the year in the House of Commons . But the out-of-doors people clearly beat the House of Commons , both in tho completeness of their

      information , and in the scope of their discussion . Prince Albert was the first chairman , and he delivered an admirable speech . Lords , bishops , and distinguished persons of all classes , adorned the platform—adorned that platform on which—Prince Albert was away— -there did not exist , sufficient tact or kindly feeling to manage the claim of Robert Owen for a hearing , without inflicting upon the aged man a species of studied insult , to which tho ridicule of the polite and ' educated ' meeting gave point !

      Tho question of cotton supply has been rendered serious by tho state of tho supply from Americu . Tho rising price has not only embarrassed the manufacturing trade , bat has mode some manufacturora turn pale with tho prospect of being unablo to continue their business , whiLo tho working classo » aro threatened with being thrown out of employment . l ? or some timo past there has boon uu effort 'to turn attention' towardsoU *« ft--cxiUc- - fiolda bosidos America j and in iho /^ o ^ Mo ^ w ^^ H" > y day , India was tho field at whic £ W ^ APc&W ^ £ "

      pointed . Various oausos wor ^ tjpf' |« giM | Me . ^ olino of a cultivation ouoo ijidi g ^ oJ& g ^ algMt ^ wo do not soo any c 001 ?' * **^!^^^^^^ ^ reasons whioh have prevented « J |^^ % lw ^^ ^

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      VOI ,. VIII . No . 379 . 1 SATURDAY , JUNE 27 , 1857 . Price { ££ — £ ^ : flS ^ - ,

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK— page Imperial Parliament ... 602 The Educational Conference 605 State of Trade 606 Accidents and Suddoa Deaths COG America ; 606 The French Elections 606 Continental Notes 607 Ireland 607 In Remembrance of the late Mr . Douglas Jcrrold 603 Oar Civilization 608 I

      Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts : 609 Naval and Military 610 Obituary 610 Miscellaneous ........ 610 Postscript 611 PUBLIC AFFAIRSThe French Elections 612 Mr . Roebuck ' s Circular 613 Tho Education Conference 613 The Duchy of Lancaster 614 Education in the Army 614

      • Something like a Majority * . 615 LITERATURESummary 616 Little Dorrit 616 Herschell ' s Essays ...,. 617 The Greek Historians 618 The EnRlishmanin Mormonland ... 618 A New Novel 619 New Editions 619 THE ARTSMadame Ristori . —Caroma 619

      ¦ Fazio ... §? 5 Her Majesty ' s Theatre 680 Rubinstein ... 680 Mr . and Mrs . Webb ' s Entertainment 620 Theatrical Notes .... exo Tho Gazette *« .. 6 » X COMMERCIAL . AFFAIRSCity Iutelligence . Markets . aiC ....... 621 ^ ¦ rwrnm k •» a » wn T * iJTiriADDV / i'D

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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 barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-aided views ; and , by setting aBiae t . ne distinction * 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 . " —Hwnbotdt's Cosmos . ¦

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 27, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2199/page/1/