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THE WAR. The death of Lord Raglan, thoug...
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Imperial Parliament. The Late Lord R-Agl...
onivtfatf second reading of this bill , Sir John v * xxsmvx moyre & tliat tlie order *® discharged—ai comae which he pursued out of deference to the wish ^ the House , and from a belief that any present Jdecieioivon . the bill would be taken under vory disj j-gn ^ MMim circumstances . —After a brief discus- ! £ km * l > e orders for reading the three Education Hals—the Education ( No . 2 ) Bill , the Education jBiU And the Free Schools Bill—were discharged .
METJtOrOLU LOCAL MANAGEMENT BILL .. The House of Commons , on Tuesday morning , vent into committee on this bill , and discussed the MQjaiuiug clauses , with the addition of two pro-posed W S ir John Siibsllbiy , providing for the appointment Cfficlerks , surveyors , & e ., by the Metropolitan Board of Works , and for the employiug of crossing-sweepers by vestries and district boards . These clauses were agreed to .. Thirteen clauses of the Passengers Act AmenjdjcertBixl were agreed to ; and the House adjourned till the evening .
THE CRYSTAL PALACE . Sir J . Shtxley stated that in consequence of the aflvanced period of the session he did not propose to ask the House to allow him to introduce a bill to provide for opening the Crystal Palace on Sunday , Irathe-would do so at an early period of next session . REPRESENTATION OF TILE CITY OF LONDON . In reply -to a question from Mr . Walpoib , Mr . Donoombe stated that it wae not his intention to proceed with the motion of which he had given notice until the select committee now sitting had . made Iheir report .
THE ORDER OT THE BATH . In reply to Admiral Walcott . Lord Palmerston said the Order of the Bath would be conferred without reference to the projected Order of Merit , and that , in the cases of recommendations for the Order of the Bath in which death should intercept it , the names of the parties would be published , with a record of the recommendation and of the reason why the order was not actually conferred .
THE RIOT IN HYDE PARK . Sir GrEORCE Grey , in answer to Mr . Roebuck , explained the delay that had occurred in examining the prisoners taken up in Hyde Park by stating-that it was thought advisable that counsel should appear for the pro « ecution , and some difficulty was experienced in finding them .
AR 3 IY PROMOTION . After the discussion on the Queen ' s message regarding' Lord Raglan , Mr . Rich rose to more a resolution on the subject of army promotion , and was proceeding- in his speech when the House was counted out , shortly after half-past seven o ' clock . The Friendly Societies Bill was read a third time and passed by the Lords . QUEEN ' S MESSAGE . LORD RAGLAN .
On Wednesday , the report on the resolutions in theQneen ' s m essag e , recommending pensions to Lady Baglan , the present Lord Ruglun , and the next successor to the title , were brought up in the House of Commons and agreed to ; and leave was given to bring in a bill founded on the resolutions . 'This Truck Act Amendment Bill was withdrawn . —The Mortmain Bill passed through committee .
DWELLING HOUSES ( SCOTLAND ) HILL . . The ' third reading of this bill having been moved , Mr . Dcwlop proposed n clause designed to enable labouring men to become proprietors of dwellings by MOBieasy and inexpensive process of transfer . Some discussion took place on this proposition ; but the < le-CUkm was ultimately postponed , on the suggestion of AeflatANCKLLOR OF THE EXCHHQIJEK , Until the folmigday . v DIHSKNTIUtM MAUKIAUKB HILL . T 3 io House having gonu into committee on this HB » several clauses were ugrccd to , and two uddi-S ' . clausos , on the motion of Mr . Cilektuam , gcertain technical arrangements , with respect registering mul licensing of Jcwh' and Quaker a ' WiffSages , were also uflirnied by tho House . Several other bills were advanced u stage .
SHE INCRMA 6 E OV HOLUIUUH I » A V Vi % the , tHoiiao of Lords , on Thursday , tho Itoxl of jBjMWWMtoiJair expressed disapproval of the plitn * jWjr « 'i « nnounced for giving double pay to the » ol-»» W >"' Ptt Borvico m t' >« Crimea . Flo would prefer JJWpPelwtation in the existing restrictions on eulist-5 | jjfoj * hioh hc'Conwidered too Htringviit , and in many MffftHoloMB . —Lord I'ANnniitK adhered to hia jilnn , j ff 8 f | * WWMBu his willingness to modify the ^ letftiln jffiWI'Wrtent . of permitting the Holdie-r to receive at i'grelfoponco out of the additional shilling per <) ny , | raj 8 | PMiW- of field allowance . He denied that tho Iliijujps of a soldier ' s life were so great ns had l > een i !*^| P « V' » nd ( 'd « f © ndod the princ iples of enlistment .
—After a rather desultory conreiuation the subject dropped . NAVAL CADETS . The Earl of HAjtowicKE called attention to the deficient provision now made for the instruction of cadets in the Royal Navy , and suggested the reestablishment of the Naval College abolished some years ago . —Earl Granville mentioned that the First Lord of the Admiralty had been consulted on the subject , and he believed the result would be that the number of naval instructors employed in the service would be largely increased . Several bills were advanced a stage , and fclieir lordships adjourned .
NUISANCES REMOVAL-BILL . The House of Commons , at the morning sitting was occupied in committee with the details of the Nuisances Removal Amendment BUI and the Huddersfield Burial Ground Act Amendment Bill . THE ORDKANCE SCHOOL AT CAR 8 HALTON . In answer to Mrt Stirxtng , Mr . Monsell said it was not intended to keep up this school permanently , but it would be kept up for a time sufficient to allow the education of the boys now there to be completed .
THE CO . VL 3 IINES AT HERACLIA . In the evening , in reply to Mr . Ewart , Mr . Wilson * said , the quantity of coal produced at Heraclia and other places on the south coast of the Euxine had increased to 60 , 000 tons per annum , sufficient for the supply of the French and English navies in that sea ; that it was expected the price would be reduced to about 20 s . per ton ; and that the quality of the coal is very good .
THE POLICE IN HYDE FA-RK . The excesses of the police on Sunday were again referred to , on the occasion of Mr . Roebuck presenting a petition from a gentleman who alleged that he had been wantonly assaulted by an inspector and some constables in Oxford-street . —Sir J . G . Psiilimore having asked whether it was the intention of the Government to institute any inquiry into the conduct of the police , Sir George Grey said he was not aware that there was any occasion for a _ special inquiry . He had received communications from several gentlemen , stating that the police had acted with the
greatest forbearance and moderation , and that there was nothing to blame in their conduct . There were , however , some particular cases of complaint against the police . —Mr . Duxcombe , in presenting petitions from several injured persons , described- and commented on the savage conduct of the policemen . Several attempts were made by Lord Palmerston and others to prevent him from proceeding , on the ground of his being out of order ; but he persevered , by resorting to the expedient of moving that the House adjourn . Ue duclared that he was ready to substantiate the allegations in the petitions . —
Sir George Grey said that if the charges had been originally laid before him , they would have been inquired into ; but they were of too sweeping and general a character . The policemen were distinguished by number and letter , and could be identified if they had misbehaved themselves . He protested against these general charges . It was the duty of the police and the Government to give protection to the quiet and peaceably disposed . —Mr . Roebuck defended the course taken by himself and Mr . Duncombe ; but finally the motion for adjournment was negatived .
TENANTS IMPROVEMENT COMPENSATION ( iUELAND ) HILL . The consideration of this bill in committee was resumed . Clause 14 , which relates to compensation being given for retrospective improvements , gave rise to a long discussion and several divisions . It was ultimately expunged , on the motion of Mr . J . G . Phillimore , by 13 d to 102 . —Mr . Serjeant Shek hoped the Government would not goon with the bill now that its chief worth had been taken from it . He doubted , indeed , whether Lord Palmerston ever intended to pass the measure . —Lord Palmeuston said Mr . Serjeant Shee had done his best to throw obstacles in the way of the bill . Did he really wish to pass n practical measure , or did lie merely desire
to keep up a grievance for the sake of i \ hustings cry ? He would mention Thursday next for resuming the consideration of the hill . —Mr . Serjeant Shek retorted , by charging Lord Pulnierston with dealing treacherously wilh the bill ; by assorting that there was no humiliation of auy kind to which ho had not submitted for tho sake of keeping in place , out of which he had not been for forty years ; and by wondering liow a man who "lived in a glasshoufie" could havu tho presumption to charge him ( Mr . Shoe ) as he had done . —Lord Palmkkhton suid he should bo guilty of u like presumption whenever ho thought proper . Ho briefly detcuded the compromises ho had thought it neceasury , for the sake of practicability , to make with respect to tho abstract principle- of the Mil . —Tho Chairman then reported
progress . Some routine business having been got through , tho House adjourned ,
THE REVENUE . The official return for the Quarter ending June 30 th . has been published , and shows an increase of l , 005 , 575 L upon the corresponding quarter of last year . The chief figures are as follow : — VSCREASE . Customs ; £ 24 AjO 21 Excise 635 , 269 Stamps . " 54 , 942 PropertyTax 201 , 534 M isce ll aneous , 165 , 446 £ 1 , 301 , 212 DECREASE . Taxes £ 198 , 904 Post-Offioe 94 , 733 Crown Lands 2 , 000 . £ 295 , 637 Net Increase .. £ 1 , 005 , 575 The increase on the whole year ending on the 30 th . of June is to an extent still larger in proportion : it amounts to no less a sum than 7 , 741 , 588 / . as compared with the Returns for the preceding year .
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The War. The Death Of Lord Raglan, Thoug...
THE WAR . The death of Lord Raglan , though it occurred yesterday week , and was known in London on the following day , is still the latest event of importance in connexion with the war . In common with many of our contemporaries , we hinted last week that the illness of the Commander-in-Chief was likely to terminate fatally ; and those predictions have been realised . Our jaunty Government , on the night of Friday week , pooh-poohed , in its accustomed jaunty manner , the idea of the English General being in any danger , and were very lofty , by implication , with respect to the statements of the press ; it being the habit of most Governments to disbelieve anything which the newspapers assert . On the following morning , the ministerial Post echoed the disclaimer , and , with a most sonorous lecture against " alarmists , " passed on its even way . But Lord Raglan was dying at the very moment when Ministers were rejoicing over his recovery , and was already dead when the iournalist delivered himself of his lecture .
Perishing many miles away from his own home , in the midst of all the fierceness and the misery of war—without the consolation of seeing around him the beloved members of his family—with no tender hands and sympathising looks of wife or children to lighten the weariness of sickness or sweeten the . bitterness of death—with the ebb and recoil of our late sanguinary repulse yet eddying round him , and . the mortification of that failure still rankling , in his heart—there is something so truly mournful in the circumstances attending the death of Lord Raglan that criticism may well be silent , and may call to mind that , whatever may have been the deficiencies or errors of the lute general , he may justly claim , the
great merit of having carried on the military intercourse of allies , who were once bitter foes , without any relapse into old jealousies and hostilities ; and that , with sixty-seven years upon his head , he remained at his post through a season of immense trial and danger when younger men retired from the first rough attrition of war . Like Marshal St . Axnaud , ho passed away without gaining the fortress against which both were sent : unlike , him , he died , not under the light of victory , but under the cloud—though but the temporary cloud—of defeat . This circumstance alone ( not to speak of his courage and hia amiability ) should make us look with gentleness and sorrow on the memory of his liiJe .
The full accounts of our reverse on the 18 th are now published , and are not of a nature to diminish our mortification . The affair seems to have been managed with precipitation , and General Pelissier is gTently blamoil for having altered his plans with respect to continuing tine bombardment , for hurrying on tho attack , and for making other alterations in h » i « original design . There is still , however , a great deal of obscurity about the proceedings of that fatal day . By some , the English arc accused of being too Into ; while other accounts would make it appenr that we moved up sooner than we intended , in order to divert tho fire of the Redan from the French . A despatch from Marseilles , of June SO , saya : —
" Tho Englioli General Williams , accompanied by Tassif'Pacha ' has left Erzeroum to defend Kars nyainst tho Russians . It av m s expected that Kupatorm wouia shortly he attacked bv the ltussiaim . " Tliirty thousand * Russian infimtry arc wj » have joined the large cavalry force at ; ^ P " * - Accounts from the Crimea , of the 29 th uIt ., state that tho Allies lud received fresh remioreomouts . PFATH OF LOKD RAGLAN . From a despatch signal by General Simpson and communicated to tho public by Lord J ? amaure , w © learn thut—
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Leader (1850-1860), July 7, 1855, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07071855/page/3/
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