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    proposal wa 9 in a crude state . —Earls Gkanyille and Povpts supported the proposition for . adjournment . —The Earl of Derby declared it was impossible for him to acquiesce in the proposal for an adjournment for a fortnight . Their Lordships then divided on the question that the debate be adjourned for a fortnight , when there appeared— Contents 68 Non-contents .. 80 Majority —12 " The Earl of Lucan accordingly withdrew his amendment , having previously expressed his hope that some person of more influence would introduce a bill embodying the principle contained in it . - " _ _ ^ ' ^^ 4 ^** i ^

    Lord Lyni > huust moved that the House do not insist upon its amendments , observing that the opposition then offered to tho admission of the Jews was the last struggle of a desperate and expiring cause . —After a few remarks from Lord De Eos ( who affirmed that Jews are never to be found in arms for the defence of the country , and . that it is clear they regard themselves as aliens ) , the Lord Chascei ^ ob opposed tlie proposition of Lord Lyndhurst , and remarked that , if the appointment of Baron Rothschild on tlie committee nominated to confer with their Lordships wei-e meant to make an impression ¦ upon them , their Lordships had . received it with great

    composure . ( -1 lauyh *) ¦ lie considered that the reasons of the Commons were deficient in grammatical accuracy ' , and did not begin with any reason at all . —Earl 'Gr \ s"VILLE appealed to Lord Lyndhurst not to divide on the question . The Jewish question -had ; made a great advance that night , and he was sanguine enough to think it was virtually settled . ( Hear , hear . ) The division was already virtually taken , and as it was clear they ¦ were not sufficiently strong to carry the noble and learned Lord ' s proposition , he appealed to him not to divide .- — Lord LvNi > HUitST declared that , acting in the spirit of conciliation , he would not divide the House .

    The question was then put— " I hat their Lordships insist upon , their amendments to the bill ; " and that proposition was agreed to without a division . . The House adjourned at a quarter to ten o ' clock . :

    .. ; .:.. ; SEW AVRIT 3 . In the House . of Commons , on the motion of Sir WirJLOAM Jollifki :, a new writ - \ vis ordered to issue for King ' s Lynn , for the election of a- member to serve in the room of Lord Stanley , who lias accepted the office of President of the Board of Control for the affairs of India . A . new writ was also ordered for the County of Hertford , in the room of Sir Kdward Bulwer Lyttph , ¦ w ho has accepted the office of Colonial Secretary .

    [ E SJIOKESL'ISAXCE .. - . Mr . Avrtox gave notice that on' the 15 th of . June he should move for leave to bring in a bill to abate the nuisance arising from the smoke of furnaces in the metropolis . -..-. .. .... Tire CAGLIA . IU . In answer to questions from Mr . -ITea . di . am , the CiiATSCKLLOii or the Exciikquki : said that Parkc and Watt were released unconditionally , and that no compensation had as yet been made on their behalf . The Sardinian subjects who constituted part of the crew of

    the Ciigliuri are still detained ori . the part of the Neapolitan ' Oovernment . — Mr . Hoiouck ¦ ¦ wished to ask whether the compensation had been refused by the Neapolitan Government . —Tho OrAxcrci . r . OK or the Exchequkh thought it very inconvenient to answer such questions-without notice . Would the lion , and learned gentleman allow him to observe that questions of compensation and indemnity nre not matters to be settled oft" hand ? The Government believe that the compensation they have demanded for the English engineers is a just chum , and that they will be successful in obtaining it . ,

    VACCINATION . Mr . MoNSEi . r , asked the Vice-President of the Privy Council Committee whether his attention had been culled to the fact that , out of Lti . 'Ui deaths reported to have taken place , from ; iU -causes , in the quarter ending the 31 st of March , 18 uS , at lliirton-ou- 'l ' rent , Sheffield , ' and Merthyr Tydlil , -lilt were reported to have been caused by siwill-pox , and whether he proposed to introduce . any amendment of the Vaccination Act . —Mr . Addurlky said that the statement iilluded to was , unfortunately , true , and there wore other places also in various parts of tho kingdom where tho proportion of dcutli . s in tho sumo

    period of time , from small-pox , was about one-third of the whole number of deaths . Vrom all he could make out , tho spread of small-pox arises from bjid vaccination as much as from neglect of vaccination . Tho state of vaccination is such ns to create grout alarm , mid the subject had engaged his attention for . some time . He did not flunk that it would bo expedient to make tho provisions of tho Vaccination Act more stringent ; but ho believed that ( be . second clause of the Public Health Hill , which gives to the Privy Council the power to issue Tr-gul . itions in reference to thin matter ,- would meet , tho object in view . Ml ! . WASHINGTON Wll . KS , Mr . Mn . NKu ( Inssox presented a petition from Mr . Washington Wilts , editor of the Otrll . ifc J : \ aimiiur , then in custody of the Serjeuut-ut-Anns lor a libul on Mr . Clive . Air . Wilks , while still refusing to withdraw tno article altogether , retracted and neologized for that

    part containing an imputation of corrupt motives . He was not himself the author of the article , and the writer had misunderstood the information conveyed to him . The imputation having been solemnly denied , Mr . Wilks felt desirous as an honest man to withdraw it ; and accordingly lie did so , and expressed his regret that it Lad been made . Mr . Milner Gibson concluded by moving that the petition be printed with the votes ; which vas agreed to . The report on the Miscellaneous Estimates was brought up , and agreed to . sir . disi ; ai : li ' s speech at slough . On the motion that the House go into Committee of Supply , Lord Palmerston adverted to what be called the - _ .. * - ^_ - * .- *____ . * >• J % - - .. T ^*

    recent " post prandial speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Slougb . It was not surprising , observed his Lordship , that the right hon . gentleman should be elated by the spontaneous cheers of five or six hundred honest but deluded farmers , the whole of whom were in his favour . Having been accustomed of late to the cheers of a small band of well-drilled supporters ( " Hear , hear ! " and " Oh , ok ! " ) , it was natural-that he should be excited by the acclamations of an audience who thought they had before them the unflinching -champion , of Protection and the uncompromising antagonist of Freetrade . ' ( Lauglder . ) Had the speech been , made by one ignorant of national affairs and of the duties and responsibilities of a Government , it would have deserved

    nothing but compassion ; but , liaving been spoken by one who acknowledged himself the representative of the Ministry , it acquired a degree of importance . It commenced by asserting that the Government succeeded to an heritage of innumerable difficulties ; but Lord Derby had said that , on coming into office , he had found the country in every respect-in a satisfactorj' condition That was a refutation of Mr . Disraeli ' s statement . " Next , the right honl gentleman stated , as one of those difficulties , that the present Ministers found the country on the verge of war with France , that the question of peace or war was riot one of weeks' or days , but . of hours . That statement was utterly and entirely erroneous ; it was not only not true , but it was the very opposite of

    truth . [ Hear , heai \) He could' not but express his surprise that the right lion , gentleman should have made such an assertion any where , but especially at . the place and time where he did ' -make it . Did lie not know of the . gravity of the statement ?' . - Assuming it to have been true , was it a statement to have been made in a booth at . Slough to a parcel of carousing electors ? ( " Hear , hear , '' ' and cries of ¦ " Oh / " )• If it were thought necessary to awake tlie country to the deficiency-of the national defences , that House was the place ivliore it sliould T > e done .- But he again denied the truth of the statement utterly ami entirely . The right lion , gentleman spoke of this imminency of war as existing fort }' - eight hours before the change of Government : but he

    ( Lord Palmerston ) said that , at the time , indicated , the relations of the two countries were most intimate and friendly . As to the absence of the French Ambassador , the fact was that it was occasioned by a visit to France on his own private affairs ; and two days after the change of Government ho returned . He called on the right hon . gentleman to explain his assertions or retract them , Then , the right hon . gentleman , in his boasting speech , took credit for rescuing the country from a dangerous position "H-Hli . regard to the Cagliari , and for bringing the two engineers triumphantly homo . The fact was , that one of them wns set free before the present Ministry came into power ; and the other had been removed from his dungeon . As for the question of

    compensation , it was as unsettled now as the late Government had left it . (// car hear . ) The right hon . gentleman also charged the late Government with an intrigue to bring about war between Sardinia and Naples . He ( Lord Palmerston ) utterly denied that there was any truth in the assertion , (/ fear , hear . ) The right hon . gentleman boasted of the wonders which they had performed , in the way of linaiuv . He said tho late Government had left an immense deficit ( Mluisleriol cheers ) $ and that that immense deiicit , a deficit of million ? , bad been got rid of l > y simply putting a small tax on Irish . spirits , and a penny duty on bankers' cheques . Mut the truth was , tho present Government had only got rid of tho difficulty by postponing it ; they had thrown upon future years those difficulties which they shrank from encountering on this ( hear , hear ); fund next year , if they wore still in office , they would rue tho

    adjustment . It was a libel , moreover , to say that cither Lord Canning or the late Government hud advocated a policy for India of massacre and confiscation . On tho contrary , they had laid down tho principles of punishing th « guilty , sparing the innocent , and rewarding the . deserving . '' The right lion , gentleman being in a mood to attack everybody , had attacked even his own colleagues , lift luid . said thnt the only . speeches worth mom ion ing during I ho Into dobnto on India were those mndu by members who were not connected with tho Government . { I / far , hear . ) Did tho right hon . gentleman forget the able speech of tho Solicitor General —a speech which he . ( Lord Pnhncrston ) nliould uot easily forge 1 , though it was against him ? Did he : forgot tho animated s | n . 'i ! ch of the Attorney-General fur- Ireland , or tho speech of Lord Stanley , both of which , were , dcisorving of sonic ; mention by the Chancellor of tho Excheciuer V The debate had been left to members of tlie

    Government-who had no knowledge of Cabinet secrets , and who were not responsible for-what they said . The right lion , gentleman , amongst other accusations , had referred to the existence of that which had not existed since the time of Charles II ., namely , a cabal upon the Opposition side , who entertained the most extraordinary intention of displacing the Government of the day . ( " Ilear , # e « r , " and laughter . ) The only distinction between a cabal and a party was a difference of number ; but there had no doubt been a design to censure and displace the Government . The right hon . gentleman , had said that such a thing had never happened since the reign of Charles II ., and this was a statement which he did not expect from so cultivated a mind . But he would . ~ A . 11 * 1 « T ^ A * ^ - a

    tell tlie right hon . gentleman that which , was unusual ; it-was unusual , not that there should be a cabalin the Opposition , but that there should be a factious Government . ( Loud cheers , and cries of " Oh , oh /* ' )' . It was unusual that there should be a Government carrying into office all the faction which before influenced them ; that there should be on the Treasury bench a Government which published libels upon former Ministers of the Crown- —( cheers , mid " Oh , ohf' )— -whicb sent forth . to the -world and to India principles which , if carr ied into execution , would lead to the dismemberment of our Indian Empire , and which published to the "world a most insolent attack upon an officer of the Crown in another portion of her Majesty ' s dominions . " ( Loud cheers . )

    The-CnA 2 ?( CEij . ( m oftiieExchequee commenced his reply by comparing this second attack on Ms speech to the second challenge of M . de Pene in the recent French duel . Having acquitted himself well in meeting one opponent , he had to meet another , with a prospect of an endless number more to follow ; but . he hoped and believ « d this second encounter would hot terminate in the same unfortunate manner as the second duel in France had done . As regards the question of war vfith France , he had never said that the late Government had left the country on the brink of a rupture with out neighbour . What he had said was that war might , on the accession of the new Government , have been a question of days or hours . The late Government , having omitted to answer

    a despatch which was generally supposed to convey an insult to this country—having agreed to introduce a bill to alter the laws of the land , at the 'instance of a foreign Power—having , in short , truckled , basely and shamefully to that' PoVrer , had , no doubt , avoided all ehance of a rupture . On the other hand , the new Government answered that insulting despatch ; they declared that they yrexc not prepared to alter the laws of England to please any foreign Potentate ; and the House must see that , under those circumstance . * , peace or war was a doubtful question , and that the issue was not so much between the two Governments as between the irritated feelings of tlie two nations . How did Ministers act under the circumstances ? They trusted to the sagacitv

    and . naturally good disposition of the-ruler of France . They believed that , if all the circumstances -were brought before his unerring judgment—that , if the question were extricated from the influence of the parasites of both countries—he would decide as was best for the happiness of both countries ; and their confidence was not misplaced . From that moment , our relations with France have become more and more cordial , week after week and month after month . " I admit , " continued Mr . Disraeli . " tlie whole case of the noble Lord in his very words , that ' there was nothing when he went out of office which threatened war between the two countries ;' but then the condition on which peace depended was influenced by the change from a shameful and truckling

    policy wineli had been pursued by tlie late Government —a policy -which was not only not for the honour of this country ,- but , as I believe , opposed to tlie interest and advantage of France , our faithful ally . I believe no one i . s more convinced of that now than tlie ! Emperor himself ; ami this is proved by tho w . iy in which the news of the trial of Bernard was received in that country . I-Iis Majesty felt that the law of England had been fairly appealed to and administered in lii . s own case , and that t he result , though nothing could be more mortifying or disappointing , could never become a source of misunderstanding and coldness between the two countries . Iwna justified ,- therefore , in stating that wo had , in unison with the declaration of Parliament , vindicated and maintained the honour of England , without forfeiting that filliunco which , I am proud to s « y , exists with the mo * t cordial fecliug on both side * , but which , according to tho

    noble Lord , could only bo preserved by pursuing n p-olioy ¦ which th ' u country repudiated . " What was there to prevent him from commenting on the . ic facia when nddrcasing lii . s constituents ? Tlie noble Lord had >> : ihI that his ( Mr . Disraeli's ) statement was likely to un ' eel the public crvulit of tin- country ; but what really afl'eelei the public credit was a secret and servilo policy pursuit to please some foreign Power in utter ignorance of th ( character of tin * nation , and ending in totally disappointing that Power . " Tho noble Lord has ^ till n hankering after tho ease of the ( ¦' . ¦ i- . vlhiri , in respect , a which he was so reserved and silent when he sat . on thi side , of the House . ( Ifvitr , hrnr , } The noblu Lord di < not . seem unite satisfied \ uth mir Imvinu ; freed two <» f oti countrymen whom ho for months permitted to rcwaii unnoticed . ( Miitkdr ' ut / chcvr . i . ) At ln . ft , jishmm'd o the conduct of himself and his eolle . 'igiu . m , lie . uinkes m inadvertent statement to-night )> y which lie ividliua t <

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    _ No . 428 , June 5 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER , 531 ¦ r . l ¦ ¦ tf f ¦ S 4 #

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1858, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2245/page/3/