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TO SEA 0 ERS AND COBBESPONDENm . « n . « n > le to ackno ^ leflg © * be m « Ml off letters we receiv « . It ffierfion S often delved , o * mg to » jtfess of matter ; Th JrXuSted it is frequently from reasons qmte indeawj" *;;" * + > , « m eritsof tlie communication . . Jfeftew & the Bdttor should be addressed to 10 , Wellingtonn 4 & oSons ' 8 Sd " always be legibly written , and on one S o « he ?» P only . If long , it iiicreaaes th © difficulty of ^^^ iwMA ^ Sctareon ^' England ' s Place and Duty pJ § S ? " ^ ppeaw complete in Nos . 110 and 111 of the ^ £ ' inowrla » t . ^ UU > V of page 480 , for « yerona , » -read « Venice . " ¦ . . ' . - ' . - „
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Saturday, May 8. In The House Of Commons...
Saturday , May 8 . In the House of Commons , on the question that afc its rising it do adjourn until Monday , Mr . Httmje eoaaplamed that the Property Tax Bill had teen read a second time at nearly two o'clock that morning , after many members had left the House , not expecting that a bill of so much importance should have been proceeded with at so late an hour j and he took occasion to say , that the House ought not to continue a bill so unjust in its operation without a pledge from the Government that they would carry out the Free-trade principle by removing all protective duties , so as to put the agriculturist and all other interests upon an equal footing . An animated but somewhat irregular discussion followed , which occupied nearly two hours . The House then went again into committee upon the Militia Bill . A division took place upon the question of filling up the second blank in the 7 thl clause with the words " fifty thousand ; " which was affirmed by 135 against 61 . The next blank was filled bythe words " thirty thousand , " the number of men to be raised in 1853 , without a division . Mr . Bei & ht moved a proviso to the clause , exempting officers and men jfrom any corporal punishment . Major Beeespobi ) objected that this distmction between the regular army and the militia would be derogatory to the former , and that no case had been made out for placing two portions of our military force under different laws . The proposition gave rise to a discussion upon the general question of flogging in the
army , which went on to a great length , and grew at last so warm as to call for the interference of the Chairman . At the close of the discussion , Mr . Waxpo : le said , the general question , whether it was advisable to do away with corporal punishment , could not be determined at that moment ; but as the Mutiny Act had passed , whereby the soldiers , of the regular army were liable to corporal punishment , the only question was whether the militia should be placed upon a better footing . He thought that the soldiers in the regular army would in such a case feel themselves degraded , and that if corporal punishment were done away with in the militia , it should be done away with in all the forces . The Committee having divided , the proviso was rejected by 199 against 92 .
The Chairman then reported progress , and obtained leave to sit again on Monday ; so that the 7 th clause is not yet decided upon . In the couree of the debate , Lord John Rttssei * made the following general reply to the observations of Mr . Disraeli , respecting the training of the people to tho use of arms . "If it were said , aa he understood the Chancellor of tho Jiixchequor had said , that it was desirable a portion of the population should be trained to tho uso of arras , then it was not only desirable , but it was essential , that thoso mon should have tho good of tho country at heart , and
" at they shpuld be men of respectable character , upon whom reliance might bo placed , not merely when tho enemy was at tho gates , but under all circumstances , as Men of loyalty and good conduct . That was an essential object which tho Houeo ought to secure , and if it wore an essential object , then ho thought the manner in which it was proposed to raise this body of men was most unsatisiaotory . He should say that this provision was of the very essonco of the bill / But then lie was told that if the House e xposed any distrust upon this point , they would bo ex-Prossmg distrust of tho pooplo of England . Now , for his P « tfL ho could conceive no answer more absurd , with
re-Rwa to a quostion of this kind , than that of saying that , "ocauso ill was supposed possible that persons would enlist »« r tho eako of the six . guineas , and then not bo forfchu « aing , that theroforo those who might eo think actually mistrusted tho pooplo of England . Why , tho pooplo of ^ nij and wore certainly divided into many different olassos , hAl ^ ° * conscientiously say that tho wholo popuwuon ol this groat country wore flt to bo trusted on ovory o « c . vs . on . » ( tear , hoar . ) * Sir Edward Buxton ' s bill to authorize treating at ^ onnt y Elections waa defeated . On tho motion that Jj bo read a first time , Mr . Cobdicn protested against TOe P rin « i plo of tho bill , wlilch , as he considered , autho-,
rized corruption . The bill was supported by Lord Galway , Mr . K . Seymer , Lord R . Grosvenor , Sir J . Tyisell and Mr . Booker ; and opposed by Mr . Roebuck , Mr ; W . Brown , and Mr . W . Williams . Sir B . Bttxtost aaid , his reason for introducing his . bill was that it was almost if not quite impossible that , according to the spirit of the rules of that House , a member could positively declare that bis election had been conducted in a perfectly pure manner . Upon a divigion the motion was negatived by 77 against 61 .:. so the bill is lost .
.News Up To The 1st Of April Arrived Yes...
. News up to the 1 st of April arrived yesterday from the Cape by the Harbinger . The Megcera had reached her destination after a passage of 77 days . So slow was her progress that the crew and soldiers were placed on half-raiiom during the last part of her voyage . She ^ iioo ^ nre ^ thxee-times during the voyage . The ships of the General Screw Steam Packet Company perform the voyage in half the time . The Eydra > carrying General Cathcart and his suite , arrived at the Cape on the 31 st of March . On the arrival of the Governor an address was presented to him , when his Excellency expressed his hope that the Constitution would do for the Cape colonists all that they expected from it .
The intelligence from the seat of war is , on the whole , satisfactory ; Sir Harry Smith had left King William's Town , entered the Waterkloof , and seemed determined to follow the enemy to the Amatola mountains , where they were assembled under Sandilli . " The principal events in Coffraria says a Cape paper , since the last steamer , -comprise some successful operations under the Civil Commissioners of Colesberg and Cradock against the Tambookies ; Colonel Percival ' s attack on Stook Camp , which he destroyed , and two severe engagements in the Waterklopf . The first was an attack on a force under Colonel YarborOugh ( forming part of General Somerset's division ) , which was . compelled to fall back on some ruins at Bushneck , after sustaining considerable loss . Colonel
Yarborough was severely wounded in the thigh , and Ms party nlaced iri imminent danger , until relieved by a squadron ot rifles under Captain Carey . The other was the successful operations in the Waterkloof against Macomo , by the divisions under Colonels Eyre and Michel , when his head-quarters , which , had hitherto been deemed inaccessible , were destroyed . The loss sustained by the enemy has been very great , and their expulsion from this quarter may be regarded as the most favourable event during the present war . Our casualties on these two occasions were —killed : Lieutenant the Hon , H . Wrottesley , 43 rd Light Infantry , and 12 rank and file . Wounded ; Colonel Yarborough , 91 st ; Captain Bramley , Cape Mounted Rifles ; and Ensign Hibbert , 91 st ( all severely ); a nd 37 rank and file "
The Caffres continue to avoid a general action , and they frequently leave their wives and families to the mercy of their opponents . The cruelty of their conduct to their unfortunate English captives is of a most horrible character , and the details give » by the Caffre women of the protracted tortures inflicted are in the highest degree painful . By the Merman , which reached Liverpool yesterday , from New York , we have news up to the 24 tb of April . Kossuth
had been well received at New Havon . A telegraphic despatch from Washington , in the New York papers , says , that— " Chevalier Hulsemann has obtained leave of absence from his Go vernment , for an indefinite period , and will shortly leave for Europo . This has been granted him in consequence of his representations that he could hold no intercourse of any kind with Mr . " Webster . Ho will , therefore , absent himself till Mr . Webstor retires from tho Stato department . The friendly relations between the two Governments are not , however , interrupted . "
Yesterday Mr. Bethel Was Heard On Behalf...
Yesterday Mr . Bethel was heard on behalf of Miss Wagner , before Sir J . Parker . Tho court was crowded to excess . Mr . Bethel asked that the order for tho eoo parte injunction might be discharged . His grounds were , that Dr . Bacher , who had negotiated the alleged engagement of Miss Wagner with Mr . Lumloy , had transcended his powers by signing a contract , containing a prohibitary clause , to which Miss Wagner and her father did not consent ; that , further , tho
contract was broken by the non-payment of tho caution money on tho appointed day , against which a notorial protost had been duty mado ; that tho phraso " England was only to be valued for tho snko of her money / ' had been so mistranslated by Mr . Lumloy , and that the original simply mount , " England rewards only by money ; " that Mr . Lumloy had also misdated an important lotter by ono week ; and bo also montiohod that Miss Wagner was seriously afteotod in hoalth by these proceedings . The further hearing was deferred to this day .
Mr. Hadfiold Has Been Rointroducod To Th...
Mr . Hadfiold has been rointroducod to th . v elector ^ ot Sheffield , and cbnsequontly Mr . Ovorond ( Tory ) will bo put up , thus perilling tho return of Mr . lloobuok . Sir F . Thosigor has addrossod tho doctors of Stamford as a " supportor of Lord Derby . " Lord Norreyn retires from Oxfordshire , taunting tho presont ministry with loading tho far mom to oxpoot a return of protective duties whon iu opposition , and now adopting a contrary principle .
A deputation from Chelsea , Kej ^ ington ^ Haxnmersmith , and Fulham , headed b y Mr . Simpson , of Jlaa ^ mersmith , and introduced by Lord Eobert Grpsvenar , waited on Lord Derby on , Thursday , to urge their claims , on the vacant seats at the disposal of Parliament . -
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The following letter is extracted from the Times of today . It has been fprwarded to that journal by Mr . William Amos , of Whitstable , who states that if was written by James Silk , one . of the crew of the brig Jien & vation . He gives it verbatim et literatim , and we follow his example : — " June the 18 th , 1851 . " Dear father and mother * these brothers and sisters , this comes with my kind love to you , in hoping to find you in good helth , as , thank God , it leaves me at presuant ; thank God for it , my dear friends . I ana going to give you a littl Account of my last voige to the North of America , in which will make you think that you not would like to bean there , my dear friends . We sailed on the 6 th . of April last
in 1851 from the port of Limerick and was favord with a fair wind from the eastward ; the 7 th of Aprill the whind still remained , wee where running with our lower and topmast studdings sail , and on the 9 th of Aprill the same wind continued , and the 10 th and the 11 , 12 , and 13 , and then wee had it very cold , and on the 14 th day in the morning wee saw a very large hice Burgh to whindward of ous , and 12 o ' clock , 14 th , wee saw as many as 6 hice Burg , and one of them we went very close to ous in which it apeared to be the High of 250 feeat , in wich there is but one third of third of them in the worter , in which makes the hice burgh 750 feat , that so , my dear friends , you might have read of the hice Burgh in the frosen reagenths , so , my dear friends , I am not Asay what I have read of , for this is what
I have sean witnissed myself , and likewise , my dear friends , Apon one of the very large burghs in which wee see there was 2 large ships on them , 1 were laying Apon hor broad broad side , and the other where A laying aa comfortable as if she was in the dock fast to her moreings . The wether was very fine and the wather very smouth , but the captain being laid up at the same time it was not ; reported to him until 8 o ' clock , And we out of sight of them , so , my dear friends , I canpt tell you whether therewas any living sould there are not . So , rny dear friendsj I eanot tell you any more About them now . I *— and 16 th . and 17 th weand contenoued , but on the 17 th wee run amonst the ice again , but that was the feald ice which came down from the river St . larance and gulf , but the ice was so thick and heavy that wee thought it would Jamed our ship together , but there wasbut alitle whind but
a bevey sea A running . But thank God there soon sprung up a fine brease , in which wee gaver all canvass we could get on her , but the sails were all frose so _ hard that wee was truble to Bend them , and the rope of our rigan , which in thair proper state was about the size of our fingers , where about 3 inches thick with the ice . wee were 15 days sailing about the the ice , but at last wee got clear of it , and in a few day we reached quback , which were the 10 th , and on the 13 th I whent to ths hospital , as I told you before , dear friends , we sailed again on the 30 th of the month , and then proceeded on our passage home , but in all passges that ever i had , this exceeded them all , for we scarce had a fine day all tho way home , for it was thick , fogy , andrainy all whe Head quick passage home , we was 26 days , in which , that was q > very good passage home , we arrived at Limrick last friday morning , " & c .
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We have received the following letter from a friend who was lately passing through Prague , on his road to the East : — Prague , Tuesday , May 4 , This evening , as I was leaving my hotel , the Blauen Stern ( Blue Star ) , to take a walk with my friend , wo saw a great bustle and crowd of people , with several police officers , on tho stairs which lead from the Porte Coehere to the upper stories , up which two ladies wore proceeding . ' A carriage and two horses stood at the door . Police officers , abounding in Austrian cities , wo did not take particular notice of their presence , but asked one of thorn who stood near , what was tho matter . " Nothing , nothing , " said he ;
" only tho hausfrau ( landlord ' s wite ) has returned trom a long absence , and the people are all glad to see her . ' Wo thought no more of it , but about nine o ' clock at night , in a cafe " , an intimate friend of my companion ' s , a retired captain of Austrian cavalry , whispered to him— "Don't you live at tho Blauen Stern P" " Yos , " was tho reply . " Was there not a great crowd and disturbance there , today P" " I didn't bco any disturbance ; there was a good deal of oxcitomont , apparently at tho return of the landlord ' s wife . " " My good foHow , that was not the landlord ' s wife , it was ' Kossuth ' s sister , and some other of his relations : they aro on their way to America ; but not a hundred people in tho town know it , besides the police , and thev don * t want it to bo known . " " And how did you
know it , you wore not there p" " Oh , I know everything . " From this , and from other signs , I believe that sympathy exists in many bosoms besides tho Hungarians , in . favour of thoso who have made a stand against that frightful tyranny which makes politics , foreign or domestic , a forbidden subjoot of conversation in Austria ; and , theroforo , conceals beneath a veil of prudential rosorvo the real sentiments of tho majority . 1 saw tho report spread through . a . small circle ufc tho calo , and 1 watched tho manner m which it was received . And this among Germans , and Bohemians—not Hungarians—many of thorn officials . There aro soveral regiments of Hungarians here , Grenadiers and Hussars , fine-looking follows .
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The Monitaur announces that M . Villomain , professor of French Eloquonco at tho Faculty of Letters of Paris , and M . Cousin , professor of Anciont Philosophy , have boon allowed , at thoir own roquost , to make good their elairnH to a retiring pension .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15051852/page/11/
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