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flbrfcan * otgect , he believed , might be accomplished , &oufc cost , by voluntary agency . Lord Robert Gbo ^ venoe seconded the motion . It was further supported by Mr . S . Carteb and Captain Scobe&i * and opposed by Mr . Packe and Mr . Philip HoWABP . jfr . Wau ? OI . E , in stating the views , of the Go * vernment , acknowledged the zeal and benevolence which Mr . Slaney had always manifested towards the working classes . If he ( Mr . Walpole ) thought the motion would at all contribute to the improvement of their social condition , on the part of the Government he would not resist it ; but he feared it Would be not only useless , but detrimental to those classes . The motion had two objects—to obtain information , and to
suggest specific remedies . As to the first , he doubted whether more or better information than had been already collected by Parliamentary committees could be acquired by a standing committee , or unpaid commission , consisting of two or three members , who would perhaps take up particular opinions . With regard to the other object , he thought that individuals ought not to be encouraged to look to the Government or Parliament alone for aid , instead of relying upon their own exertions ; and there was a . chance that the adoption of this motion Would encourage such an idea . With these views , he was sorry to say that , if the motion was pressed to a division , he must give a negative vote . But he was spared the pain . Mr . Slaney withdrew
the motion . The Committee of Supply consumed the remainder of the morning sitting , and in the evening the House was mainly in committee on the Itnprovement of the Jurisdiction of Equity Bill .
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The usual telegraphic despatch from Trieste , with dates from Bombay to the 12 th . of May , reached town yesterday . Nothing was known relative to the future movements of the expedition , nor of the enemy's proceedings in the neighbourhood of Rangoon . An advance of _ the British troops upon Prome was , however , regarded as very improbable . It was reported that a revolution had occurred at Ava , but the report requires confirmation . On the night of the 14 th , the Burmese attempted to retake Martaban , but were repulsed with loss . Provisions were scarce and of bad quality .
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Lord and Lady Eglinton opened the Cork Exhibition , on Thursday . The ceremony wns begun by the performance of the Hallelujah Chorus , with an organ accompaniment . Then the executive committee read an address to his Excellency , and his Excellency replied . After that the recorder of Cork read the address of the corporation of Cork , and his Excellency blandly retorted the compliments it conveyed , adding to the honour the inestimable gift of a title of knighthood , changing plain William into Sir William Hackett , by a slap with the vice-regal sword . Haying gracefully performed this office , the knightly viceroy declared the Exhibition opened , wishing it , of course , all the success it deserved .
Next came an appropriate ode composed by Mr . Waller , known to the readers of the Dublin University Magazine as " Slingsby , " sot to music by Dr . Stewart . Tjord Eglinton and his suite then paraded round the building , and retired , after an anthom , bearing the extraordinary title of " May the Queen live for ever , " hod been performed . Altogether , the opening has been most successful ; natives and visitors being in a state of oxuberant delight , In the evening there was a grand banquet , in ft spacious pavilion erected for the occasion , under the presidenco of Sir William Hackott . Cork is crowded : "H the spare beds and oxteinporo sleeping places being full .
The correspondent of the Morning Herald describes himself as being one of seventy who tonant a ballroom filled up with boxes . No . 40 converses with No . 41 , and No . 60 shrieks out , " Order , gentlemen , *> go to Hlcep ; " whereupon No . 40 complains of tho impropriet y of calling a gentleman to order in his own house Tlio conversation continues , and nobody gets lll » y attentions from " bulmy sleep , nature ' s kind nurse . "
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Wd Mamlovillo , the flifctiijff mombor for Bowdloy , was . voBtorday dot-tod mombor lor Huntingdonshire . . Our roadern vju romombor him m tho young gentleman who l'onortnod such wondorful variations on tho root faeffi Ilr propoood to " robuko ovils" in his election address . Tho olootion of noholars for tho Merchant Tailors' Bp hool J « ok pl , yoBtorday . In tho evening there was a mighty oanqnofc , followed by tho usual spooch-making , from a oom-J » » y composed of woll-known public men . The novolty ot Jo o voninff , perhaps , was tho appearance of tho Siahup of H ? * " * , who , wAh tranaatlantio fervour , informed the V Id" tU ° " ohurch of En S lwul wa 8 th 0 h 0 p ° °
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MALMESBURY AND MATHER—CASS AND INNES . Government has actually published the official correspondence between Mr . Mather and Lord Malmesbury ; though under what impulse we cannot conjecture . We know not whether Lord Malmesbury * s colleagues give him up to public contempt , or whether he himself is unconscious of what he is doing in letting any person see at one view what he nas written . We will , however , scarcely venture to characterize this remarkable set of epistles : the only safe , and indeed the only adequate description of it , will be the plainest recital of its chief points . The narration may begin with a minute by Mr . Mather . He had an interview with Lord
Malmesbury at the . Foreign O ffice , on the 4 th of March , and was there and then invited to state what he deemed redress and reparation for the outrage upon his son at Florence . Mr . Mather respectfully submitted that some marked punishment should be inflicted on the offender ; and he left it to Lord Malmesbury , who is supposed officially to represent British honour , tp ^ lecide whatjthat should be . But Lord Malmesbury looked at the matter from a different point of view : he thought
" personal reparation" should be obtained ; meaning thereby the imposition of a fine on the Tuscan Government ; and moved by the " views and wishes , " obedient to the " official commands " of Lord Malmesbury , — -who represents British honour , you will remember ,- —Mr . Mather , with the " utmost pain , " deviates from the course he had hitherto invariably pursued , of refusing to mix the personal with the national question , and names 5000 / . as a reparation . So ended the
interview . Lord Malmesbury then writes a note to be presented by Mr . Scarlett to the Tuscan Government , in which he does not scruple to say—" Tho father of Mr . Mather ( who is a minor ) is himself inclined to consider that the injury done to his son may he atoned for hy a pecuniary payment on the part of the Tuscan Government j" and that he [ Mr . Mather ] " would be satisfied if a sum of 60002 . was paid to his son . " But this representation of Mr . Mather ' s views is followed up by an
obliging suggestion : " Her Majesty s ( xovernment , however , consider that sum greater than they ought to demand of the Tuscan Government to pay . " * In a subsequent despatch , urging " roparation" from the Tuscan Government , Lord Malmesbury takes pleasure in repeating his opinion that Mr . Mather's claim is " exorbitant . " Tho course of correspondence now digrcssos to Vienna , and wo are introduced to Prince Schwarzenberg and Lord Malmesbury , reciprocating compliments , and assuring each other that , they do not believe tho outrage arose out of any foel-: «„ ,. « f << nnfi / inn . l ji . nimnnitv " or of " hatred inga of " national animosityor ot hatred
, towards England . " Tho Prince expresses a haughty regret ,-and imputes the assault to a " fortuitous concourso" of atoms . Iho . liarl accepts the regret , and the most friendly feeling emerges from tho momentary official cloud . Meanwhile Mr . Scarlett had fallon ill j and on tho 9 th of May , Mr . Barron , in his-namo , informed tho Earl of Malmosbury that Mr . Soarlott had terminated tho dispute by accepting 1000 francosconi ( about 222 J . 4 v . ) as an indemnity for Mr . Mather ; coupling with it tho release oi . the two Stratfords , who had been imprisoned for political accusations . And those magnificent
concessions were all that " could possibly be obtained by negotiation . " Information of these flagrant proceedings reached Lord Malmesbury on the 17 th of May , and four days after he wrote a despatch to Sir Henry Bulwer finding fault with Mr . Scarlett for mixing up the Mather and Stratford cases ; which , as lie very properly says , had no connexion . But although he disapproved , he would not " of course" refuse to recognise the proceedings . On the day after he had penned this despatch came letters from Florence , and Lord
Malmesbury then learned that Mr . Scarlett had abandoned the question of principle entirely , and had accepted the money compensation on account of " the importance of cultivating ( he might say restoring ) friendly relations with this ( the Tuscan ) Government , and in order to avoid the appearance of driving a hard bargain . " " The appearance of a hard bargain ! " Why , 7 iov 3 had Mr . Scarlett put the demand for reparation ? He had expressly waived the discussion of principle , and had submitted the claim to the " gracious consideration" of Duke Leopold ;
hoping that through the " known liberality of the Grand Duke , the claim might meet at once with a favourable issue ! The bargain is negotiated in private notes between the " Dear Duke " and " Dear Scarlett ; " and then publicly listening , in the condescending spirit evoked by the Britisn Minister , the dear Duke announces that the Grand Duke " influenced by a sentiment of generosity which is not to be appealed to as a precedent in similar cases , " accords—what ? that very boon of 1000 francesconi as " an act of generosity" which he insultingly hopes will draw more
closely the bonds uniting England and—Tuscany Meanwhile , the negotiation gets wind ; Mr . Mather , tne father , is indignant , and , on the 29 t& of May , Lord Malmesbury writes two despatches , as if to re-establish a better position for himself . One is addressed to Sir Henry Bulwer , explaining , in a strange and minute way , the ins and outs of Ms own private correspondence with Mr . Mather , in order to show that his letter to Mr . Mather was not written on the 24 th , though so dated , but on the 22 nd ; and that when he wrote , though the requisite despatches from Florence
arrived on the 22 nd , he was not aware " of the objectionable concession of principle made by Mr . Scarlett , and for the first time reported in those despatches . " In the other despatch of May 29 , also addressed to Sir Henry , Lord Malmesbury announces , " with great regret , " that he has " found it necessary to disavow Mr . Scarlett ' s proceedings . " So the question is all thrown open again ; but remember , British public , the affair is still in the hands of Lord Malmesbury . While Mr . Mather is vainlv appealing for
redress to national honour , which has been so lamentably loft in tho hands of such an agent as Mr . Scarlett , and such a minister as Lord Malmesbury , —while foreign countries aro learning that English subjects are but a moro expensive kind of game , about which , however , the gamekeepers for the time being aro too polite to enforce the fines , save in rare instances , —Americans aro feeling that thero is still that true protection under the star-spangled banner which was once found under tho British flag . While English subjects are left to feel their unprotected state in Florence , Borne , Hungary , and Spain , — -are left to feel that tho official class of London have far
moro community of sentiment with officials in Vienna than with free-born uncontnminatod Englishmen , —the American is beginning to taste tho swoets of conscious national power and indepondonco , onoo the luxury of the Englishman , * as it was in old time of tho j&oxnnn . But England , Hko llomo , has been ; and we hnvo not even an Emilius to put his sword into tho iscale . England is drifting into tho imporfoct tense ; tho present is for America . In the American instance , too , a plain rocital will best fetch out the contrast in tho romarkable parallel which wo trace ; parallel savoin tho real provocation given by the aggrieved man , in tho comparative shghtness of tho grievance , and in the result .
In Homo , Mr . Innos , an . American artist , rofused , —erroneously , wo think , —to lift his hat to the 1 Popo , and ho was assaulted by a French officer , and imprisoned . Tho American Minister , Mr . Cass , demandod his release , and was referred to the French authorities . Mr . Oass said that ho knew nothing of the French , but hold tho Roman authorities responsible . Mr . Innos "waa trana-
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SATURDAY , JUNE 12 , 1852 .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there is nothing so -unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . Aenold .
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# It will bo obaorvod from tho correspondence , that on nolthor side is thoro any dispute as to tho outrage—ovon Badotzki himaolf admitting it , by placing tlio primary offender , not tho fomtwi aeejwein , under wro » t .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1852, page 561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1939/page/13/
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