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      S ' NCE " ' E REVIEW OF THE WEEK- ~ n . Naval and Military 705 ^^ S & 2 n ^ -ffie " atfbSt fSM ^ ihe * i ^ r .: Z : Z " . ' " . ' •»* Imperial Parliament 60 S Miscellaneous ; 705 DSve -bvit ! enco- Xne .. _ .. „ .. 710 Anglican Theology 716 Election Committees .. 701 Postscript / w An Adventure in tbc Provinces ...... 7 ai Miscellanies ,. 717 Accidents and Sudden Deaths 701 OPEN COUNCIL— Another Right Royal British Sank 711 State of Trade ..... / 01 The Educational Conference and Parties and Prospects 712 Ireland ' 01 Robert Owen 707 A Crew for the Flying Dutchman ... 712 MJ ^ S ^ -a-Bt oi ^ s :::::::::::::::::: 702 **» h ™ w . Bay company 707 LITERATURE _ TheGaZotte 717 Continental Notes 702 pUBL | c AFFAIRS- Summary - 713 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS-^^^^^' ¦^ EZ ^ Ig Sii SKSed ::::::::::::::: ™ l iSg ^^ ffi ^^ III awonuse ™ . * *™ . . * 717

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      TV . HILE awaiting the next , critical news from India , the defences of the country and our power to attack have been the subject of searching debates in Parliament . Mr . Bjentikck complained of the unadvanced state of the ships necessary to supply those that have been seat to China , and the absence of any reinforcement at home to supply the place of the troops sent to India . Lord Paxmerston , he said , reckoned upon the peace-atany-price doctrine , that we must cut our coat

      according to our cloth—that is , cut our army according to our estimates , and not according to prudence . About 30 , 000 men have been abstracted from the army at home to make good that of India . Even during the war the army was 50 , 000 men under the amount allowed by Parliament , from the slowness of recruiting . The troops have been sent out ia merchant ships , which might be becalmed in the middle of their voyage ; and , in order to make up the amount of troops wanted in India , Go-vemment has abstracted from the forces in China .

      although the Chinese were -waiting to feel that power of England with which they had been threatened by Mr . Consul Parkes and Admiral Sur-Morit . The Ministerial replies to these complaints were not very direct or distinct . Lord Palmer .-ston confessed that troops had been sent to India , but ' steps havo been taken to fill up the gap . ' These * steps' are more like a minuet than the national hornpipe ; for there is no doubt that the mom will not bo collected at the recruiting depdts very fast . Sir Charles Wood represents that , on the wholo ,

      sailing vessels aro as fast as steamers . The number of seamen , lie says , whioh used to bo 1-3 , 000 during the peace , is now 50 , 000 ; besides 8000 men of tlie coast guard and coast volunteers—those same mca of whom he boasts as the nuolcus of tho Baltic floot , and who proved s . ueh slow coaches on board . And as to China , the answer is , tlml Admiral Seymour will be quite strong enough in marinos and Bailors to beat Yian uud all his myrmidons . Yet

      tho facts remain ; wo havo sent invay our homo fleet to attack tho Chineso ; we have weakened the forco at first thought neoossary in China , to make good an army in India j wo aro not sure tho army in India is strong enough ; and for our home dofenoos wo rely upon tho political state of Europe , not our owa strength , which is always subjoot to tho possibility thftt worse nows from India might call for new appeals to Parliament .

      But the great subject in Parliament has been the Oaths , or Jew Question . It might also be called the John Rdsseli , Question , for there was a manifest intention of shelving Lord John as well as the baths . The deputation from the meeting of members in Palace-yard last week , reached Lord Palmerston on Tuesday ; we do not know how it was not ushered to his presence sooner . When the deputation was before him , however , face to face , Mr . Horsman gave the sentiments of the meeting in language as straight forward and undisguised as

      Cobbeit could have rendered it ; telling the Premier that after the Commons had so long supported the Jew Bill by decisive majorities , the House of Lords must be made to give way ; that a member of the Cabinet could not bo allowed to withhold his vote without betraying the true position of the Government towards the Liberal party ; and that Lord PAiiMERSXON himself had , through that mistake of Lord Harrowby , already got into a false relation with his party , which was urging him , instead of being led by him . The reply was as little

      satisfactory as that on the question of forces . Nor did the case improve when , on the samo evening , Lord John at last succeeded in moving the introduction of his bill . In doing so , he explained tho actual state of the law , and showed that his measure would be quite consistent with past proceedings in the case of tho Quakers . Mr . Phase , of Darlington , was allowed to affirm instead of swear , by a resolution of the House on tho strength of tho general law . His bill would declare the validity of oaths administered in terms binding on the consoienco of tho parties to bo sworn , and would thus

      declare as a gonoral law the course adopted i , n the case of M > . Pease , Tho Opposition was rampant with common-plaocs ; but what did Government do P Tho wholo quostion turned upon that . Lord Palmer 3 TON professed ' cordially' to support the introduction of the bill j but ho declined to pledge himself lo its support in the latter stages , ^ and refused to give any Government night . Thus , while ho lent his majority for tho ovening , ho offootually provontcd the passing of the bill this session ; speaking of it in a lono of cool indifference Loavo to bring in tho bill was carried by

      2 M to 154 . It will not pass ; but must stnnd over till next session , like tho nppoal to the Houso of Lords in . tho oaso of MiLLiui versus Salomons , which luis been ponding for yoars . Tho Lord Oiiakoblloa says that this nppoal is thrown over for another

      session by desire case , — that is , by those who have officially enforced the penalty upon Mr . Salomons for sitting and voting as member without taking the oath . Unless the course taken by the Baron de Rothschild and the City of London should create a new opportunity . In accordance with the pledge that he had given on the rejection of the Oaths Bill by the House of Lords , the Baron has resigned his seat . This affords an occasion for a leading constituency

      to show the state of public opinion , and there cannot be the slightest doubt of the Baron ' s re-election , either unanimously , or , if a Tory candidate should venture to risk his money and repute , by an overwhelming majority . But the real px ^ portunity will arrive when the Baron presents himself in the House of Commons to take the oaths . Here will be the occasion for Mr . Dillwyn to move . The greater part of the other business before Parliament has not touched very directly upon politics . Lord Brougham has introduced a bill to

      amend the law of bankruptcy—which does indeed want amending ; the object being to simplify and expedite proceedings , and to remove some obstructive or restrictive provisions of the present law . Tho explanation of the bill , however , is as yet imperfect . Lord Sx . Leonards has brought in a bill to simplify the title to land—at least such is the professed object of the bill ; but in reality it is designed to prevent a genuine reform—with the same object which Lord Brougham is to bring forward—a bLIL for rendering tho registration of land a

      complete vouqher for tho title to it by tho actual occupant and purchaser . Lord St . Leonards thinks that the measure will abolish the ' bcnefioial complications' of tho present laws of settlement , and ho puts in his protended reform confessedly to prevent the reform . Mr . Cairo has brought in a bill to collect agricultural statistics when voluntarily supplied by farmers—a measure in many respects avoiding some of tho objections to tlie official bill withdrawn lust session , promised this , but not introduced . Mr . Wilson has made an officiui

      demonstration against Lord Naas's Superannuation Act Amondmout Bill , which would do justice to tho Civil Sorvico— tho moat honvily taxed body in tho oommuuity . Government nppcurs to compensate for its oxaofcions upon tho lieges , and its lavishncss for certain favoured pordous , by turning round and screwing its own subordinates . Those aro only oxamplos of tlto work whioli lms beon gone through ; . Oxford city has not obeyed tho wish of sojno of its loading men , by selecting an eminent-living „ ,, ¦ . W - '¦ I ' . , i-O ' ' v ;

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25071857/page/1/