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Imperial Parliament. Tote Two Houses Met...
theinealfiulablecalamities which war must bring upon the country . The-sacrifices . we have already made have , touched-the foundations of our national greats ness . andfour national duration . The financial condition , of the United States of America ,, as contrasted ¦ with that of this country , shows a balance of expenditure of 75 , 000 , 000 / . a year in favour of the former . Should the war . expenditure go on , capital , trade , population and industry , may be transferred to the United States * " The member for Southwark , the Chancellor : of the Exchequer especially , and I am afraid many other members of this House , seem to think little of taxes , and they have no patience with me if I speak of the-cost of
the war . I am obliged to ask the attention of the House for a- moment on this point . I recollect that in the life of Neeker it is stated that an aristocratic lady came to him , when he was the finance minister of Louis XVI ., and asked him to give her a thousand crowns from the public treasury—not an unusual demand in those days . Necker refused to give what was asked . The lady started with astonishment . She had an eye to the vast funds which ¦ were collected from the taxes , . and she said , ' What can a thousand crowns be to the king ? ' 3 STeck « r answered her very seriously , ' Madam , a thousand crowns are the taxes of a whole village . ' I ask hon . geailemen to consider what it is that taxes mean ? "What is it but the clothing and furniture of many a poor-family iu Lancashire or
Yorkshire ; medical attendance to many a sick wife ; the school pence of three or four little children ; hopeless toil to the father of the family , penury through his life , a cheerless old age ; and , if I may quote the language of the poet of humble life , last of all ' the little bell tolled hastily for the pauper ' s funeral . ' That is what taxes mean . The honourable -member for Dorsetshire spoke in a manner that I thought rather flippant and hardly respectful of some of us on this bench some nights ago . Let me tell him that the labourers of Dorsetshire and the weavers and spinners of Lancashire are toiling , and must toil , harder , longer , and with smaller remuneration , for-every hundred pounds that you exact in taxes from the- people beyond what is necessary for the just
and judicious requirements of the exchequer of the country . I hope , then , that I shall b & permitted to treat the question on this ground . And recollect that that which strikes down the children in the cottage attacks also the children in the palace . If you darken the homes and destroy the hopes of the population in the humble dwellings of the country , you also darken the hopes and the prospects of the offspring of our Queen , in-whom are bound up so much of the interest and so many of the hopes of the people of this country . Why should we not , therefore , disregard the small-minded ambition that struggles for place ? Why should we not by a frank , a just , and an earnest policy , restore , as I believe we may do , tranquillity to Europe , and prosperity to the country which is so dear to us ? " ( Cheers ') .
On the motion of Mr . Francis Scott , the debate was again adjourned , the next evening being fixed for its continuation . SAVINGS BANKS AND FKIENDU SOCIETIE 8
INVESTMENTS BULL . The second reading of this bill was-moved » by the Chanckllor of the Exciikqubk , when , after some discussion , the order was-discharged , on the under * standingthat a new bill on the subject should be introduced . The Friendly Societies Bill was-read a-third time and passed . CAMBRIDGE UNIVKUSITV BILL . Inithe House of Lord 3 , on Thursday , the Lord Ghancbliok , on the order of the day being read . for tbe recommittal of the Cambridge University Bill ,
explained the various amendments which he proposed ' to introduce into the measure , the general ¦ G & t & t . of which may be described as intended to render the clauses for . reforming the general body of the University of Canabridgo in unison with those contained in the- bill passed last year for the University of Oxford . In the case of Dissenters , it was proposed that tliey should b © allowed to proceed to thevdegree of Master of Arts on the understanding that ! such Masters of Arts were not to become members of the Seriate unless they subscribed the Thirfcyr-nine Articles .
After some discussion , tho bill passed through committee . The Ecclesiastical Property ( Ireland ) Bill was reaixt tliird time , and passed .
PICXITIONS IMtEHKNTKD . Maynooth Ghant . —J * y Mr . H . W . Wickham , from tho Orangemen of the township of Manningham , West Hiding of Yorkshire 5 Mr . Lindsay , from the United Presbyterian congregation of North Shields ; Mr . Checthom ,., from the vicar and tho inhabitants of Prcecot , Lancashire ; Mr . Alexander llastie , from Glasgow ; Mr . Cowan , frqm , tho General Assembly of the Free Clmrch of Spotland ,. from tho Edinburgh Young Man ' s Protestant Society , from tho deacons and curates of St . Andrew ' s Church , Edinburgh , from tho United Presbyterian chucchos of Groat Junction-street , Wick , Bridgond , and Cowgate ; all againat .
53^ The Lieame.. [Saturday ,
53 ^ THE liEAME .. [ Saturday ,
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TEEH WAR . FtmTHER successes- inthe Sea-of Afcofandin other war-localities , keep-up the happy auguries of last weefe The Russians- appear- to-be seized with a fatalism equal to that of the ^ most theoretical Mahometan ; and to make no other-resistance than the negative one of burning their shipping and stores ; Attacked withr vigour ; they fly with precipitation from the advancing enemy ; and ; we have little else to . do than to occupy each new position as it ; falls into our hands , and to write home the records of our triumphs .
Soudjak Kaleh , in Circassia , was evacuated on the 28 th of May ; on which occasion , the Russians burnt the principal buildings , and abandoned sixty guns and six mortars , having first rendered them unserviceable . About the same time , Genitchi was captured by the Allies . This exploit is thus detailed in a despatch from General Pelissier , published in the Moniteur : — " Crimea , June 2 , 10 v . w . " Advices received from Kertch , dated the 31 st of May , announce that , on the refusal of the military authorities of Genitchi , situate on the northern extremity of the tongue of land of Arabat , to give up the Government stores-and ninety vessels laden with provisions for the Russiaa . army in the Crimea , the squadron , under tho oralers ¦ of- Captain Lyons , bombarded the place , drove out the troops , and destroyed all the
. " The enemy has thus lost , in four days , an immense quantity of provisions , four war steamers , and two hundred and forty vessels : employed exclusively in provisioning the troops in- the Crimea . " In accomplishing this result , seamen arid marines were landed ; but not a man of the Allies was killed , and only one was wounded . "It never rains bttt it pours , " says the homely adage ; and therefore on the top of the news of these captures comes the int & HLgence that the
bombardment was resumed on the Gtli inst . With our two previous failures before our eyes , we are certainly not warranted in being very hopeful on that score ; yet , when it is considered that we are still nearer the walls , that our weight of metal has been greatly increased , that we are flushed with success while the enemy is disheartened by defeat , and that Pelissier is at the head of the French army , it is impossible not to admit that we have a better prospect of battering down the obdurate walls . of Sebastopol than on either of the former attempts .
General Gortschakoff must begin to feel uneasy ; but he puts the best face lie can on his reverses , and writes home to his master that , in consequence of the measures he has taken , the Allies will not be able to cutoffthecoinmunieationsof the Russian army . The following are the terms in which the St . Petersburg journals announce the occupation of the line of the Tchernaya by the Allies , and the recent successes in the Sea of Azof : — "At two o ' clock in the afternoon of the 24 th , the Allied forces appeared in : the Strait of Kertch . Near Sevastopol considerable forces of the Allied army have occupied the heights ofithe left , bank of the Tchernayay and-are establishing aifortified . camp there . " Our readers will recollect that-it was the right bank of the Tchernaya which we occupied .
Tito Russians are rapidly making redoubts on the north side of Seb : vstopol ; but they- are as yet unarmed ; Fanr regiments of infantry , each' 3600 strong ; are said by the Russians to have arrived at Perekop under General OuslmkotF ; ami General Grotenhielm is * also reported to have reached the isthmus with four regiments of light cavalry , each containing 960 men . But we must not place too much faith in these jiccounts * On the other hand , we read that General Williams 1 ms nearly completed the for . tiflcations of Erzeroum , and was then to fortify Kara . A despatch from Marseilles says that the
Russian troops which were expected at Till is had been sent off to the Crimea , and in consequence great apprehensions were entertained in Titiis of an attack by Schamyl and the Turks . Further accounts received through Constantinople relate that General MouravielJJ Coinmandeivin-Chief of the Russian detached army of the Caucasus , is in great want of reinforcements . To supply their luck r ho is attempting to raise troops by voluntary enlistment froxniamong the Armenian population . Ho is at tho eanae time endeavouring to negotiate a suspension of hostilities ^ with Schamyl .
Omar Pacha has embarked at Euputoria and landed at Kiuniesch u body of 25 , 000 picked men and forty guns . These were to bo repluced by uu ligyptiun uncl Tunisian division . Tho following despatch from General Pelissier , dated Juno 1 , ia published in the . Moniteur : — " We-have exploded two minea before the Flngntaff Battery , the second of which did much damage to tho enemy . " In tha ravine- of Careoning Bay , in advanco of our
works ,, our-engineers discovered a transverse line of twenty-four cubic , cases filled with gunpowder , each , forty centimetres thick in the inside , placed at ' equal distances , aad buried : just . beneath the sod ; each case , containing one-rfiftieth of a . kilogramme of powder & covered with a fulminating apparatus , which would e xplode by the simple pressure of the foot . These caaea have been taken up by our engineers . " < The Russians appear to be concentrating at Anapa and to be strengthening their works there . ' In the action of the 23 rd of May , the French loss was 600 killed , and 2000 wounded . The Russian killed amounted to 1500 , and their wounded to 6000
GENERAL CANUOBKRT . A special correspondent of the Daily News , writing from the Crimea , says : — " Those who have watched General Canrobert during the anxious months of our Crimean trials will always think of him with feelings of gratitude and admiration . We can never forget the time when his eye and his hand were on all points of our camp ; when he and his cortege of general officers by their daily rides almost traced out the lines which it behoved us to occupy ; when his
superior soldiership supplied him with resources for our assistance which all the wealth of Great Britain could not supply for us at the time ; when his transport took down our sick , and his men took up our shot ; when his regiments turned out to make the very roads that co nnected our lines with our depot , and when all eyes in the camp wore turned to the French commander , not as our general , but as our preserver . These are matters which none but the base and ungrateful can ever forget , and even their oblivion is a pretence . " The Paris correspondent of the same paper writes :
" I am permitted to make use of a private letter from an officer of rank which luis been shown to me , and which explains from the best source the immediate causes which led to the resignation of General Canrobert , as they are reported by his intimate friends . Long before that event , General Canrobert had strongly felt the necessity for a new plan of vigorous action , and had continually expressed his opinion to that effect to Lord Raglan . In his . view , considerations of strategy , as well as considerations relating to the health and moral of the troops , made it impossible that his army could remain long iu the lines before Sebastopol , slowl } - carrying on a siege , without the most disastrous consequences . There were two principal schemes for action . One , suggested
by the Emperor , was the sending of a number ot troops to Eupatoria , and a march from north to south to effect a junction across the Russian lines with the besieging army . Another , which was the plan conceived by General Canrobert himself , was to march from south to north—to reverse , in fact , the turning march performed after the battle of Alma . General Canrobert saw difficulties in the way of the Emperor ' s proposal , but he made great and unsuccessful efforts to induce Lord Raglan to concur in his own . Two councils of war were held in quick succession , at the second of which Omar Pacha was present . At this second council , Lord Raglan with difficulty was brought to consent to the proposition ;
but the next day he sent word to General Canrobert that he could- not spare a man from the trenches . Canrobert was so disheartened at this , that he sent on' at once the telegraphic despatch , requesting to be superseded . Tho letter describes Lord Raglan as endowed with the cit inertias to such an extent as to leave little room for any other quality . He remembers the siege of Uadajoz . He finds that he makes progress , although but slowly ; and with bulldog tenacity he is resolved , come what may , to stick by hia trenches . General Pelissier , it is naid , at once came to an understanding with him , and combined u sohemo for a more extended action on the part of the French army with the concession to Lord Kag lan that the bulk of tho English troops should remaiu in their
preaemt positions . " It is supposed by many that the misunderstanding about the lirst Kerte-h expedition was at the bottom of General Caurobert ' s secession , which , it is-asserted , was rendered obligatory by the , Emporor hiin .-u'lt , \ viio ,. lM > weven offered the general u high oi > ' » lliunu in Africa . To this offer , report says that Canrobert replied that he would rather remain wiih tin ; army in the Crimea , even if ho wore tho uniform ot a private . On quitting the chief command , General Caiirooert issued the following address to l . lie army : —
" General Ordon—Soldiers , — -General Polissior , Commander of the First Corps , assumes from this tin ) s dntu the chief command of tho army in tho Fast . ' ' ' j " ' peror , by placing at your bend a tfuuoral accustomi-a 10 groat commands , grown old in war and in tho camp , ' »»» wished to give you uu additional proof of his Hohi : » ' l ( lc > and to prepnro still mow tho successes ) -which , boliuvo 1110 , shortly await your cworgntie perseverance . leaving tho exalted position whoro circumstances nn the will-of tho Sovereign had placed mo , and whero yo maintained me , in tho midst of Hovoro trials , by yo warlike virtues and that confiding devotion with wllj ( you never ceased to honour me , 1 do not wparato "V > w )' from you ; the happiness of taking a donor share in yo » glorious fatiguos and your noWo labours hua boon gruniu
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Leader (1850-1860), June 9, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09061855/page/6/
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