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    PARLIAMENT.

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    when la sainte Guillotine was in full play , and heads fell like leaves ^ before the terrible breath of the atrocious Fouquier . The parts of Colette X ) ubois , a victim of . aristocratic crime in the 4 irst epoch , and her surviving sister , the Citoyehne Therese Defarge , who directs retributive action in the second and third , are played , now imposingly , now pathetically , by Madame Celeste . The vice and fashion of a wicked courtier , the Marquis de St . ISvremonde , are no less completely delineated by Mr . Walter Lucy , whose toilette scene in Act I . ( or , as we called it , Tableau II ., ) is as { rood a thing-of its hind as might be looked for at the JPrangais Miss Kate Saville , with but little opportunity for display , is graceful and expressive as Zucie Manette ; and Mr . James Vining ' s wellconceived but overwrought study of the liberated Bastille prisoner Dr . Manette , in the same act , -will , when considerably compressed , ie recognised as pathetic , and no doubt become very effective . Jeremiah Cruncher , of whom one is disposed on his every

    appearance to ejaculate , " Qve diable allait-il faire ? &c .. " is nieitlier a successful nor an agreeable excrescence ; yet not on the low comedian , Mr . Bouse—very clever in his way , but on the 'eminent author or his still more eminent abettor , be the blame , if anv , of his inappropriateness . The mise en sc&iie is admirable . Had we space we might dilate upon the completely appointed old chamber of the introduction , the elegant salon of St . Evremonde , the cabaret of St . Antoine , with its costume and dance a la Carmagnole ; and the clever revival scene of the Itevohiiionai-y Tribunal will , we opine , create a sensation among the million , who , if they have heard of the Reign of Terror , have jet no deeply-graven conception of its ^ horrors . All these detached morceaux reveal the taste of the manageress ; some of them the histrionic ability of the company : and , when the author has applied , in his department , a little judicious surgery in the way of excision here and dovetailing there , a degree of unity will result , that mav ensure for Mr . Taylor ' s drama a popularity

    worthy that of Mr . Dickens ' s novel . At the Hatmaeket , Miss Amy Sedgwick has reappeared as Mrs . Mailer in " The Stranger , '' a play—let the critics say what they . . will—fof . great and . enduring popularity . We , not long ago , hinted in these columns that in a practical age like the present , the manager ' s best chances lay in full-flavoured pathos or bathos , it was immaterial which ; and here is a case in point . A week ' s run of " The Stranger " at a West End Theatre is a sign of the dramatic times . The Haymarket audiences are as liberal of their tears to the sorrows of Mrs . Haller . as they are of their laughter to Mr . Chippendale and - Mr . Compton , and subsequently to the pantomime . '

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    rpHB public business of last Friday was more than usually ¦*• ' important . In the Lords notice was given by Lord DunflAjrNON of his intention to raise the question of the probable ^ bearing of the newly sprung up practice of turning the Theatres into places of worship oh Sundays . Lord Ellenbobough having very pertinently drawn attention to the delay in distributing the India prize money , the Duke of Argyll in excuse said Government had not yet been put in possession of the value of the " loot , " but expected to have OTer from India the information shortly , A very important return was moved for by Lord

    Brougham , on the subject of the quantity of cotton imported from various parts of the world . The motion was only made as the readiest means of drawing attention to the question of encouraging the growth of cotton in our , own colonies , and thus rendering ourselves comparatively independent of pur transatlantic neighbours , and their " domestic institution . " The Duke of Newcastle it is to be hoped intended more than a mere official reply when he said that Government proposed to give the production of cotton in our own possessions the utmost encouragoment . The Bishop oI'Oxford , Lord Overstone , and Lord Wodishouse spoke practically and to the point on this most important subject . Lord Nqrmanby , who

    is evidently resolved that . his parliamentary light shall not be hid under a bushel , put a question on the subject of a rumour relative to tlio cession of Nice and Savoy by Sardinia to France . Lord Gjkanvii . uk , as the mouthpiece of the Mjnistry , had reoeived no information on that subject ; and broadly intimated that Franco was in full possession of the objections of Her Majesty ' s Government to ainy such annexation , —Monday was productive of the introduction and discussion of more than one question of vital importanuo . The Criminal Law Consolidation was inaugurated by the Lord Chancellor laying oh the table no less than seven bills to effect this object . Lord Ohklmsford carried the first reading 1 of the Abolition of Grand BillThe of the disturbances at St

    Jury . question . George ' s in tho East was brought on by the Bishop of London , who , with great simplicity , inquired what could bo done or was intended lo bo done by Government to preserve the poaco in the church . Tho right reverend prelate and his predecessor arc accused—it need not bo said with what truth—of bein ^ indirectly ncceiwH'y to those disturbances , from their want of firmness in dealing 1 with , or rather in tampering with . tho clericaloriginator . Earl Granville knew of no oilier means th . an ft frep exercise pf the policeman's truncheon , which had been put at tho sorvico of the Tractarian clergyman . On tho motion of tho Duko of Marlborough the re . appointment of tho Committee on Church Raitos was sanctioned . —Tuesday wan comparatively unimportant , as fay ns public business was concerned . Lprd Hrougham , however ,

    obtained leaveto introduce a bill on theTransfer of land and Registration of Titles . —Last Friday ' s business in the Commons was ^ liort , but serious ; Mr . Edwin James ventilated the question of rig-lit of appeal in crjininal cases , by a reference to the Smethursttrial . SrC . Lewis vindicated the cPurse he had adopted in that memorable case ., though whether with complete success or not must be left to the decision of the judicious public . Mr . M . Milnes having brought under notice those inconceivable and accumulating barbarities jmd _ murders practised on board American ships , was assured by Lord J . Russell that ¦ negotiations' on the subject were now in progress with the American Government , Mr . Daeby G . kiffith ' s question , with relation to the designs of France on Savoy , elicited the strong remark from Lord J . Russell , that he did not believe there w ; i « any truth in the statement , that the French Emperor entertainer the designs attributed to him . A bii for the Better Management of Highways was the means of extracting « i notice-of future opposition from Mr . Bright . —Monday had its matters of special interest . The St . George ' s-in-the-East riots were brought on the lapis by Mr . Butler , who asked Sir C . Lewis if Government intended to bringinany measure on the subject . Sir C . Lewis acknowledged that Government intended to do nothing beyond lending the assistance of the police force to Mr . Bryan Kino to protect him and his Puseyite parishioners . No change in the doctrinal part of the Prayer Book was contemplated , but possibly something might be done with the Rubric , so as to give Bishops more power to deal with ceremonial offences and novelties . Mr . Danbt Seymour declared that he would himself bring in a bill on the subject , if Government delayed to deal with the scandal . Mr . IIvdfield went direct to the point . The people of England had endured this nuisance long enough . If pseudo-protestant clergymen—really popish priests in disguise ^ -continued to receive protestant money and fill protestant pulpits , the people of England would very soon take the law into their own hands . Mr , Crawford endeavoured to draw from the Chancellor of the Exchequer a declaration of the views of the Government relative to the contemplated changes in the French tariff . The Chancellor of the Exchequer , too wary to be caught , stated that on Monday next the Budget would be brought forward , and then Government would let the country know what had been determined upon with respect to the contemplated French commercial reforms . —After the Annuity Tax Abolition ( Edinburgh ) Bill had received its share of attention , Sir G . C . Lewis brought in a Bill for the better regulation of the Corporation of London , founded on the report and recommendations of the select committee . Mr . Ayhton described the Bill as a "little trumpery measure , " arid complained that it left put of sight the Corporation tax on coals . After some debate , iu which Mr . W . Williams , Mr . Alderman Cubitt , Mr . John Locke , and Sir W , Farquhar joined— the Bill was brought in . The Chancellor of the Exchequer obtained leave to bring in a Bill 6 i > the subject of the packet and telegraph contracts . The original question arose out of political and party motives , and , of course , the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was dealt with partially in that spirit by Sir J . Pakington , Sir FT . Baring , Lord J . Manners , Mr . Bernal Osborne—the originator of the question—Sir J . Nortpcotjb , and other hon . members . The motion was agreed to , Tuesday was members' night , in which private motions and bills were freely brought forward . The motion of most ijrnportance was that of Mr . W . S . Lindsay , which asked the House for a select committee to inquire into tlie operation of the burthens and restrictions affecting mercantile shipping . Mr . Lindsay , by the accidental priority of his motion , tpok the wind out of the sails of Mr , Crawfobd , who was intrusted by the General Shipowners' Society with their petition for a select committee . The curious part of this business is that neither of the lion , members profess to represent the real views of the British shipowners . Mr . Lindsay's advocacy is warmly and not over courteously repudiated by the shipping interest , and Mr . Crawford ' s countenance is only secured under conditions prescribed by the hon . member himself . After am unavailing effort on the part of Mr . D . Seymour to get the area of the inquiry enlarged , Mr , M . Gibson , pit the part of Government , agreed to the motion . ^ Several important bills were introduced and allowed * as a matter of course , to proceed trou gh , the first stage . Mr , Mellor ' s Corrupt Practices Bill , nnd his Amendment of the Election Petition Bill ; Mr . Slaney ' s Bill , Local Kate Improvement Bill , Mr , Scholefield ' s Bill to protect articlos of food from aidulterfition , were amongst tho most prominent . On Wednesday , Mr . MoM ' ahon ' s Bill to allow Appeal in Criminal Oases was discussed at length , and finall y * thrown out . The other business was proformA , and not otherwise of public interest . —On Thursday , in the Commons , the important subject of the annexation of Savoy to Franco was agam introduced by Mr . Disraeli , who asked whether tho noble lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs intended to lay before the House tho communications which had tak . cn place with reference to the allegod proposal on tho part of France to annex Savoy and Nice . —Lord J . Russell said that he had . communicated with our Ambassador in Franco , and had givoivthe subject of tho production of these papers his gravest consideration , but it would not be advisable to produce the documents referred to by Mr , Difiiuisij . Ho stated that in July last Mr . Harris communicated with Count Walkwski respecting . the supposed intention of France to , cany out the annexation , and had receiveel a reply of a most satisfactory character , to tho effect that no such intention existed on the part of tho Kmperor of tho Frenoh . On tho receipt of this announcement , the British Government directed a despatch to 1 ) 0 forwarded to tho French Government , expressing the gratification that was felt by the executive of this country at the intollig-enco received .

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    122 The Leader and Saturdayi Analyst . [ Feb . 4 , IS 6 ) .

    Parliament.

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 4, 1860, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2332/page/22/