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      man / ' whose power is " founded upon strict cPrifidencS' in fcis ., honour and . , ijujeljtyj , ; o . jtarrbur ided by ft body-guard ; of spies ,. and familiars , who prbtect tem by unscwpulous confiscations , from , 'the dangers ^ of ; honejt journalism , ar id fyr secret ^ epprta ^ qns ^ ^ fehfexm & y & M that ^ Ii ^ er ^ pf f spepch which England worships and abandons , . ;

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      / I Pur Relations With A Merica. : '¦ •'...

      / i PUR RELATIONS WITH A MERICA . : '¦ •' - ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ KiEpdBTjis-G ; iboo ' ^^ ';¦ ¦ " " ¦ ' ; ¦ ¦ ;; n & E co ndticfc ^ bur G ^ vernniisnt with regard & the tTnifced States I ^ etextts ouc W ^ ex-« HB & ng ' what is the course they intend , or whajiTare ^ the > probabilities . In . reply t ^ ques tloris r a / fortnight ^ . back _{< ord _ P ^ - made the distin ct and catego

      MEittSTb ^ - rical statement" that' the troops sent to Canada are sent solely to $ 11 the vacancy occasioned by the war . The number , he said , would * e * riot 10 , 000 , not 6000 , but something approabhing 4000 men , to serve dsFa r iucietis fbr the pToper defence , ot the miliiaW ' nb ^ itibris there . * These troops ; are {)

      iifttf gbiri £ &> Canada ' only , but / : to ; JMI our < mdeiy-e £ teti I ded Kdr ^ h American provinces . " Iiord PAi <^ inasTOir tb : en entered into a disquisition on the expediency of leaving any population solely to the defence of the militia ; expressing the opinion , in which we perfectly concur , that a regular , army is the proper nucleus for all defensive bodies' in winch militia may form part , however excellent that militia may be . " 1 really think , " says' lord PAiiidciEBSToif , " any person who raises a err of alarm that we are going' to .

      invade the united Spates , when we' only Bending 3000 or' 4000 iiferi tb occupy the military posts ,. _ o £ jQaebec-andr-Montreal , is idly trifling , with the feelings , pfr the country . " We areriot awtere ^ * k ' jas £ JBM &" : rumour . ' ! -- ^ fr ^^ mentior ied by iord P-ai ^ eebston ever existed ; but there was a tone in the , allu ^ sions to the United States } which rendered the despatch of troops , unexplained ^ a source of uneasiness on this ' sjde , arid of irritation an

      thVTTnited States . The explanation , however , appeared for the time to be quite satisfactory . The only thing which we could regret was that the avowal " of' these . sentiments should not have accompanied the first Announcement of the act ! It is not so very long Bince significant expressions were uttered , even within the watlti of Parliament , as to the necessity of maintaining a cer tain attitude towards the tTnjted States , as to the comparative naval ' str ^ ngth bf the two

      countries with manifest allusions to d' ffeet ^ foPh we have no Ibriger oiqeasibn ^ p e ^ m ^ Tby'kgainBt l & tXeBift . l It wiasJ suCh expressions as these , however ^ unstudied , arid unau'thehticrtted , that ; natdrally created an unpleasant feeling , and appeared to be ^ he cbmmeritary upPii the military proceedings . We vqritdred to affirm , from ' our ovrri knowledge of the condition and sentiments of our ' northern cbunties , that ; 'any AdministratiPn which shoy ld . calamitously lead us into a war with tne United 1

      State * , ' would provoke * an butburst in' this cotratiryj whifcH would be fatal to the" Cabinet itself . IWehft ^ since had ^ bsitivo informa l tiow , i from Mat * cheater ' ih 'pat'tieulaf , ' moire than > tebnnrmiiig Our 6 * at ^ m enk QLbrd PXi > m ^ Jbbton ' s assurance sefem ^ d' to ha ^ ve set then © Mncosy jfeelSngs < entirely iai ? rest : ' ' ^» ihafcii »»< Mii surpriee , ' the / n ; tfc find thai ? tho ; loow » p » omi » ed letter of lA ) t < i ChAnENDb ^ is baleiwiiMiditorireaWttkda unefi ^ irieeB ?''' Wheri the

      Mxt : . CBAWB ^ oarilftvtolved Mm ^ elf ' in tecruitttteat proce « Un ^» , i tb « AtktiriQtin' © overnmenlt auggeBtediihafei h © had"p ^ venfeid nl ' tn' ^ selff 6 ro » t I ^ ing hny ! longer useful ; , nn ( l miglit beilAAvantfiigeouBly removed : " < 6 ur Ckift ^ rn m ^ tiatre ^ lied by proftia ein g to 'defckt frbifr'thti ¦ Au <\ -mi .- ' ¦ : ¦ : ¦'•'• > ¦ ¦ » i-il I - < i / ri . - ¦ : i it .-i ! >

      enlistment ; but enlistments were subsequently effected , and moreover * the connexion' of Mr . Cbampton with the proceed'Eags ¦ of the enlistment agents : was made iftore evident to ithe American . Government , who again pressed their demand for the Minister ' s recaJ . IJhis view , we were told , IJord GuaMenoon was completely to refute ; but vsrhat does his recent answer amount ito P Ifc amounts to nothing more than denying the statements which , he . had previously denied , and which have been corroborated by evidence > and it

      seeks to prove that two of the enlistment agentB ,: Hbbtz and Stbobix , were persons not to be believed on their word > Hbktz having been convicted as a swindler , - and Stbobel being an impostor- ^ a aub ordiiiate in the Bavarian army , dismissed by the Governor of Novia Scotia on account of his misconduct , and pretending to the title of " Captain" without any warrant . > Our read * era will remember that when the , subject was first discussed we denounced the more than eauivocal character of that man Stbobeii .

      We did so before he was . disavowed as the agent of the British Government . We pointed out that he had busied hiinself in collecting evidence of his near connexion with British officers , with Mr . Joseph Howjb , and with the English ^ officials . We then expressed our conviction that he intended to establish this agency , and intended to break the American law , for the purpose of getting the more ibr his " zeal" from the British Crown while he should be believed , and then of selling his employers as soon as he thought that the more profitable cqurse * . , lOur . , ( xoh

      vernment never went very heartily into the enlistment enterprise , the ; pay was not very handsome , and it soon appeared the better trade to sell us than to serve us . JHavang beep , sold , our Government tries to recover what it can by denouncmg its GT 7 I 1 «^ 5 Ilt- ? But how this exonerates Mr . Cbampton , or abplishe ^ the ; evidence against ; May , we do not see All we perceive is , that it is a pretext put . forward to refuse satisfaction . in a very small matter ;¦ < and it thus constitutes ' a new provocative to the American

      Government . , ' , ¦ : ¦ : .. ¦ . ¦• •' •¦ ¦ ¦ Conduct qi this kind , is ; fche , jnore , culpafcle on the part of the English . Government since the posture of the questions with : the United States , and the , fee l ing in that country , present : no necessity whatever ! for w i ke , preparatives or diplomatic provocatives . The questions which do exist might continue to fester for generations without giving any real rise ; for w ar , —without , more reault than , a gppd dea ) of bad temper and useless ^ slcill " among ' ^ e , diploinatic genus . It is

      sometimes thpught ]—we will not now say that ' it , has been , thoughl f so , in the present in ^ tarice— " statesmanlikej'V ' manl y /^ and , politic , to l ^ se " spirited" language , Npw ^ . towardsi such a , people , as the Americans , " spirited" language—meaning the innuendo : pf threats;—pan only nave the , effect of . / provoking irritation and , of , preventing , a , . pacific setj ' tlemerit ' . f j ) iir Ift te ^ t infqrmatipcn , from the r TJriipn eijabi ^ s us to , fiffivm ,. Ijho . t , aynqe , the proposal ^ or , referring the pentral .. ^ . uT , erjican , question to ' arbitration h ' aVbeeu nipre . gejo , ^

      rally 'considered ^ the opinion , in . faypur , of sucjh a cbursetias , dewde ' dfy ^ gained g ^ b ^ af y ^ e , belieVe ^ hat ' t ^ iis favoiirab ^ e / opjiu ' qn , j ^ as ., ^ een very much promoted py e ^ jpre ^ a > ons ^ fri end ] jy , feeliii ^ towards Aineri ^ an ^ , > jv ^ ch ( h ^ . ye e ^ n Ofi n & idA frbttti the comm , efc | iaa , ^ fcre s 9 ^ , . ^ hi ^ countr ^ f ^ om" spoft ^ ers ( hke , Mr . ^ pw . AW , BAxtb ^ . at ' Dundee ,, Mr . " Vy . Iffy ^ ob ^ t ^ ., hi , Bradfbi'd' tne ' . fiOBii ) j MA ^ hk ., }& , \ JyPndDJi , knd"Mx . < 3 ; i ^ t ) slroN ^ in . ^ arliani . , Jf ii . fwtf < 9 l the feeling of tide jpeyple , ' oiy fyp t ^ sidp ^^ o , practical' , ' irieridljjr' hnd entirely Ip ppppo ^ eyeiJ , to miBiitiiderstarimiig . Thb dimculty ., ^ 01 ^ -

      tirely one of a diplbmatic pharacter ; and if we drift" into a eostlj game of war which tvbuid wring from the British tax-payer sutiis that nP Hussian war cbuld extort , while it would baakrupt our factory district ^ \ re must ascribe the calamity ' entirely to the mismanagement of our bfllcials . '

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      ¦ . ; . . ; , ] . — ' /! ¦ . ' : - , . ' . I ) : . -,.. : 'I ¦; ECCLESIASTICAIi ¦ REFORM . Men are scourged bv their * own viees ^ betrayed by their ow * i-weaknesses . If it were not for our own foibles and meannesses , we might long ^ ince have abolished those complicated abuses which ; are called tb miiid at once by the simple words tc' Ecclesiastical Courts . " Those courts are recesses in which antiquated authorities sit' apart from the world , and waste' away every domestic comfort of families ; the property ,-the . very lif ^ , as a ^ monopoly of their own trade ; and we permit them to do it solely beeause we are selfish and mean . If we would reform the

      Ecclesiastical Co arts we must reform ourselves , or , at least , our conduct in the wnr against them . After many years of agitation and inquiry , the Executive was at last induced to move , and bills were introduced into Parliament for the purpose of amending the jurisdiction in matrimonial and testamentary affairs . What was the boon held out to ua in either case ? As regards wills , the courts which claim right to have custody of those documents regulating the bequest of property

      stored them away in closets , cupboards ^ cellars , and worse . Jiolesy where they were eaten by rate , lost , or destroyed . It < jharged us considerable suma of money for not tkldng care of our wills ; and in cases of difficulty , much larger sums for deciding against reason , common sense , or justice . Por it arrogated to itself the right of conforming to the doc J trines . of the middle ageB . or the Koman laws , instead of our own customs and regulations .

      The . Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill w oiild place the custody of wills under a properlyorganised registration , and would transfer jurisdiction in testamentary caaes to a lay court -acting according to the laws of tlje present day . So far good < The Matrimonial BiU would leave the law of matrimony and divorce exactly as it is at present' only that it would transfer the : jurisdiction ir i cases of divorce from the Ecclesiastical Court , and

      Parliament to a lay court , where the proceedings would be more direct ; , not obstructed by antiquated pleadings , more open to ' evidence , more prompt , and very much cheaper . This would be an improvement ; but the bill does not propose to give the woman any voice in the control or alienation of her own property , or the property jointly held by the family , such as she possesses in the United States , It would give her , in fact , no new right , except the right of exacting alimony , or sepai * ate maintenance for a wife ¦ when bIio is deserfced by her husband . i

      , , Even . this small boon > however , was hindered by the inapracticability of the ecclesiastical . body .,, When the Lord Chancellor introduced two bills concerning matrimony and divorce in , , 1854 , an objeotion was made that iho . ought , not to proceed ' without amending thp whole ! jurifldicliion in the matter of occlopias ^ icaj discipline- and . hence the bill of this ( year , ; enacting wew lawa for / the regulation of al of thiH

      ^ h p ^ Jergy-. ^ he principiprovieions rmqaaur / e , are-Trto igive- a proridrly qualified , law , y , cr , as a » : 4 » sso &» or iia , the Bishops' Court , ivhero a " clork ' jror cjergyman may bo tried far , ( fruije ri deptyine ^ evraneouB ritual , or persona l misconduct i ; , and to / , establish a Court of Appoal , cpnait ^ ting , of the . Privy Council , > vit ! u , the ., bi ^ hpp , aM a , t j wreaent ndinifcted to it , and ., an , Xri ^ h b is b pp 1 to' nepreflent tho si & ter kingdpm . In casos . i . of i process ngainst ft

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1856, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10051856/page/12/