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Imperial Parliament. "? Monday, May 2gt7...
tkeuti resumed ,, and the bill was reported with amendments .. FARTNJSRSKEP AMENDMENT ( NO- 2 ) BILL . Mr ; Lows , having 1 moved the second reading of this bill Wbv . Ajrc-iuwali * Hastie moved that it be deferred for ' si * months . He . urged that Mr . Lowe > had : not shown * , because hJe could not show , that there is a want of capital infchfe country , the truth beingrtbat there is : a redundancy of capital beyond th & needs of commence . Th & htik- instead ; of destroying , would , create a monopoly q £ capital ; aud he therefore opposed it . —The amendment was seconded by Mr . Guecison . —Mr . Cardwell
supported the bill * though he thought it would require v nprowemeuJtS : in committee—an opinion in which Mr ; BAXTER coincided * . —Mr . Bajjing . and Mr . Mastbbman opposed the bill- — -After aii ineffectual , attempt , on the part of Mr . Kirk , to adjourn the debate , Mn Lowe defended ! the ; bill * which he said did . not alter the law of par tnership , properly so called , but merely restricted partnership within proper limits . —Mr . Hindley , Mr . KlBK , and Mr ; Horsfall opposed the bill ; but ultimately- the-second reading was carried by 97 to 66 . On . the : motion of the Chancellor of the . Exchbquek , Sir William Fen wick AVilliams's Annuity BHiL was . read a second time . The Aiw * uotes ( No . 2 ) Bill passed through committee . The . Reformatory Schools ( Scotland ) Bill was read a thiaxi time , and passed . Tuesday , May 27 th . StOLDO-WALLACHIA . In the : House : of Lords , Lord Lyudhukst , according to notice gLven on the previous day , put a question to Lord Clarendon in connexion with the Danubian Principalities . He wished to know if there was any truth in the- report that the Turkish Government has extended the terms- of office- of the Hospodars ( who , as agreed upon at the Paris / Congress , were to be removed from then : posts wliHe , the ; commissioners of the various Powers were settling the new constitution ) , and that Austria has' agreed to the arrangement . The Hospodars are known , to be subservient to Austria ; . and as this country takes a . deep interest in the welfare of the Principalities , he wished to know the state of matters . —The Earl of Clarendon replied that he- had- no knowledge of the circumstances referred to , and be had reason to disbelieve the alleged facts . A letter which he had received from . Lord . Stratford de Redcliffe , dated the 13 th inst ., a day later than the : reported decision of the Turkish Council , made no mention of any such arrangements . — The Earl of Malmesburv observed that the part of Bessarabiai which was ceded to Moldavia by the . new treaty includes two fortresses , one of them that of Ismail , a place of great strength , and the other of considerable strength also . It was of great importance to Turkey that these fortresses should be given up to her . But he read with great surprise in one of the journals of that morning that the fortress of Ismail was dismantled by the Russians . —The Earl of Clarendon said that those fortresses were to form part of Moldavia , which was considered , to . be an . Integral part of the Turkish Empire . There was no understanding that they were to be dismantled , but that they were to be given up . Lord Lxndhurst asked whether the Hospodars were to continue in office after their term had expired ?—The Earl of Clarendon said it was proposed to the Turkish plenipotentiaries that the Hospodars were not to continue in office when their term expired . They agreed to that proposition , thinking it would be the best course ; but they said it might be necessary to appoint a kaimakan in place of the Hospodars . TROOPS IX TIIIC COLONIES . The Earl of Elgin moved for retiu-ns of despatches to the Governor and Licutenant-Covemors of the British North American colonies on the military establishment to be maintained in them ; for a copy of the report " the commissioners appointed in 185-1 to inquire into the best means of organizing the militia of Canada , and providing ? an olliciont and economical means of defence for the colony ; and for a copy of any act or acts passed by the Parliament of Canada in pursuance of the recommendations of those commissions . Ho did not wish to embarrass the Government by the motion ; but he thought the rumour that 10 , 000 troops wore to be sent to Canada was likely to create an uneasy feeling ia the United States , and induce Congress to adopt measured of precaution and defence that would Ktill further
complicate the present relations of England and America . It was of the very greatest importance in our discussion with America constantly to hear in mind the fact that the United States and England possess , in the highest perfection , the advantages , such n » they are , of a free prosn ; and that it was therefore impossible to prevent the measures of Government being criticized , and the motives of Government , real or supposed , generous or illiberal , from being canvuHsed and scrutinized . And moreover , as the presses of the two countries are not only free , and vastly influential within their own respective spheres , but aluo ( he said it to their honour ) eminently patriotic , they aru apt , in these international discussions , like the knights in the legend , to look perhaps too exclusively at the colours on their own nido of the shield . Ho deplored the opinion , now gaining ground , thatthero ia a Btray hostile fooling against England in tho United
States . The enmity to England on the other side of the Atlantic proceeds mainly from refugees and immigrants from Great Britain ; and all the better ordejs of native Americans are animated by kiadly ; feelings towards this country . He was therefore .-the-more pained at the continuance of the enlistment controversy ; , and , with , respect to the questions connected with Central America , he thought we had put the most restrictive interpretation on the Clayton-Bulwer- Treaty . As regarded- the ; in-. crease ip . the military force in . Canada ,, lie would not oppose , it , if he distinctly understood that , it wag ., for ; Imr perial . purposes only , and nob a colonial measure ,, or , intended to supersede the colonial militia , which , had answered admirably .
The Earl of Clarendon observed in reply : ; " I . must s . ay , that as far as I am personally concerned , and I speak , also in- the name of her- Majesty ' s . . Government , I do not believe that there can be the smallest doubt of . our desire to maintain unimpaired the most cordial and moat sincere relations with the United States . ( Cheers . ) I believe no man can be more convinced than we are that it is hoth our interest and our duty to remain in friendly relations with the United States ; and I can conscientiously affirm that nothing lias been said and nothing has been done which could create a just or reasonable feeling of irritation between the two countries . ( Cheers . ) It is our duty not to . violate or infringe upon the authority of any Government ; but we have a British
interest in , upholding the character of the United States of America . ( Cheers . ) To maintain the laws of the United States was the chief object of those instructions which her Majesty ' Government sent out ; and when we saw that this could not be carried without danger of offending the American Government—not by anything oil the part of our own agents , but on the part of those who assumed to be our agents—when we saw that , we immediately relinquished the whole scheme . ( Sear . ) Your Lordships will see from the papers which have been laid upon the table that there is nothing which this Government could do—which could be expected from one Government to another ,, or from one gentleman to another—that we have not been ready to do , for the
purpose of making reparation for any offence , real or imaginary , which the United States Government might : conceive we have given them .. " ( Cheers . ) The Ciayton-Bulwer Treaty was prospective in all its * provisions ; it did not imply that England should give up anything ~ she—possessed at the time the Treaty was made . It was impossible to believe that an expe * - rieuced and able maa like Sir Henry Bubver would , take upon himself , without instructions , to abandon any portion of British territory or British rights . But the Government has no wish to extend its possessions in Central America . We have offered to refer the misujnderstand' - ing with respect to the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty to arbitration ; but the answer of the American Government to that proposal has not yet arrived . " Amongst certaiu
public men in Congress , " concluded Lord Clarendon , " and amongst certain official men , language has been held , and acts have been done , -which if any member of your Lordships' house , or any member of her Majesty ' s Government had held or done , would have been denounced by all your Lordships and by the public of this country as an . attempt to embroil the two nations . ( Hear , hear . ) I can assure the nob e Lord that everything shall be done on the part of her Majesty ' s Government to put an , end to all unfriendly sentiments between tho two countries ; and if , as the noble Earl has been informed , Mr . Marcy and myself could really settle the dispute in half an hour , I should bo quite ready to meet liiin on some island half way between the two continents . " ( Laughter and dwers . ) mili considera
Lord Panmtjur , reverting to the tary - tions involved in Lord Elgin ' s remarks , statttd that the troops had been sent tp Canada for purely Imperial purposes , and not in sufficient numbers to damp the energy of the- colonists or excite alarm in the- United States . — After some observations by Earl Gjoky , who . disapproved of the displays of military force on the part of both Governments , tho motion was agreed to , and the House adrjourned . In tho IIou . se of Commons , the Annuities , ( Nio . 2 ) Bill , the object of which is to confirm tho lato Loan ., was read a third time , and paused . THE LATE EVICTIONS IN IRHLAND . Sir Michael Shaw Stewart called attention to the petition of Mr . Allan Pollok , complaining of the statements which had been made in that Houao of the eviction of tenants on his ostutea iu thu county of
Gal way . Mr . I ' ollok had two estates ; upon one , tenants were evicted , but wcro immediately replaced in their houses , where they remain , with tho oxcuption of two , who removed of their own will . On the other estate , Mr . I ' ollok wished tho same arrangement to be inado , but he did not succeed . With tho view of showing that ho had power over hia own property , ho took moans to eject tho tenants ; but , owing to legal difficulties , hin intention was not carried into eltect , and the tenants remain . —Mr . M'Mauojn , who bad originally brought the subject before tho House , observed that ho did not make tho statements on hia own responsibility . However , he was still of opinion that Mr . Pollok had acted harshly towards hi * Umuutry . —Mr ,. Liddkll , Sw John Pakinuton , Mr . Mooui ; , Mr . Archibald IIah'MW , Sir A . Campukli ., Mr . Diiummokd , aud Mr . Ellih ,
defended , the conduct of Mr . ? ajlok ; . while Mr .. Bkliew and Mr .. Ma ^ ui « b denounced ) it Amstroag language The subject then dropped * TEMPORALITIES OF THE IRTSH ; CHURCH ; Mr . Stafford made an ineffectual' attempt to- adjourn the discussion on the temporalities of ^ the Irish Church , which he thought would engender a degree of bitterness and sectarian- animosity very unfit for a season of rejoicing . —Mr ; Mtall ( who had charge of the . resolutions referred to ) resisted this- suggestion ; and Lord' Palmerston , while agreeing with Mr . Stafford as to the desirar bility ¦ of postponing the discussion , thought it would , be discourteous- to expose Mr . Miall'to any additional disappointment af ter the difficulty he had' had in finding a day . —Af ter some further- conversation , Mr . Stafford withdrew- the motion which he had brought forward , and the debate commenced .
The 5 th article of the Union of Great Britain and Iceland , embodied-in the Act of" Union , having been read by the-Clerk , Mr . Miall moved a resolution pledging the House to consider in committee the temporalities of the Irish Church-, and other pecuniary provisions made by law- for religious teaching- and' worship in- Ireland . He dwelt on the injustice of- encumbering the people of Ireland with a State Church which is not that of the , majority ; and then shadowed out the machinery by which he proposed to carry out his plan , and which included the establishment of a Court analogous to that for the sale of encumbered estates , with the powers of a court of equity , in which should be vested the fee simple in reversion- ( saving existing interests ) of all ecclesiastical !
endowments by whomsoever enjoyed . He also intttr cated the classes of claimants to be admitted upon the funds , and the objects to which the surplus should be applied , and concluded ' by reading the resolutions which he intended to move in the committee . —Mr . Kirk , Mr . Nbwdegatb ( who looked' upon this as a Roman Catholic a * taek on the Irish Protestant Church ) , Mr . G , A . Hamilton , and Mr . Napeer , opposed the motion , which was supported' by Mr . W . S-. Lindsay , Mr . Pollard , Urqtj-; heart , Mn W . J . Fox , and Mr . Hadfield .- —Mr . Stafford invited the Government to express their opinion , on the subject ; and' Eord Pai ^ ebierston , towards the close of the debate , said he very much regretted such discussions as these , but that fie felt compelled to vote against the motion . While admitting that Parliament has a right to deal with the property of the Church , he thought it , would not be justified hi the present instance in making the alterations proposed . A Church establishment is a part of the proper organization of a- civilized country ; and , if a country changes its original creed , the property of the Church naturally goes to the new religion . He could not admit that the Established Church should alwaj-s be the Church of the majority ; it would be impossible , for instance , in England , where the majority is constantly fluctuating . For these reasons , therefore , and feeling that the motion was at variance with tho engagements between England and Ireland , he should oppose it . — Mr . John M'Gregor having vainly attempted to address the House in support of the motion , a division was taken , when there appeared—For the motion ... ... ... 93 Against it ... ••¦ »•• 16 a Majority against ... 70 TISE TRAXBB AND KELLARNHY SAVINGS-BANKS . Captain D . O'Conneli / moved a resolution , pledging the House to resolve itselF into a committee to consider an address to her Majesty , praying her to extend tho same measure of relief to the depositors in tho late Tralee and Killarney Savings-banks as had been extended to the depositors in the late Cuflee-street Savingsbank The motion was seconded by Lord Castlerosse , but opposed by the Chancellor oh- the Exchequer , on the ground that there was no genuine claim for r . e-| 0 ft After some discussion , the motion was negative d by 54 to 39 . *
.... , _ . „__ , _ , „_ Tho House was shortly afterwards counted out , when ( in accordance with a motion carried in tho earlier part of the evening ) it stood adjourned till Friday .
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STATE OF BUItMAll . ( From an Indian Correspondent . ) Tins community at Rangoon was somewhat startled a few days biuco by the anuQuncciuwU of a gunpowderplot , said to have boon arranged by certain Ua *<» t « to blow up tho moss-bouse of hex Majesty ' s 84 th Reguneafe on a given public guost night , when a great number of tho officers of tho station might bo supposed to be assembled there . Tho plan w »» a rather i » ig « mo « B ow > . So fearful a blow , wight bo reasonably expected to paralyze tho military ferae , aud . advantage- wo * to fee taken of tho coufusiott to attack u , ad plwwlo * the lwiar s and do as much moro damago as poaa bl *
ury , Tho Hcuouio was rovealed to the c < w * Qiim « nt > maei * - truto by a » p « iUeut tbirf . " U i » aWfoutt to « ay vOi « tu « r hero over was any «** ious intou ^ n f *• kj £ A -to undermine a . wooden edtfke , pMoKA on *™ t * toxtH * above tho ground , and watched nig ht and d » y by ft guari vouW bo ni «*« y W * U . it hc ^ h , XTli ££ tho project had really V « o » duwu ««« d «» £ « £ * g £ datiouH fraternity , w * l tt ^ « M «^ " «*• ^^{ JTZ the nature of the treat which thoy would prepare for us
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Leader (1850-1860), May 31, 1856, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31051856/page/3/
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