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      WITH one or two exceptionsMinistershavebeen singularly successful Over their opponents this week . They have beaten , Lord Derby and the Opposition of the Hduse o / Commons at every turn , and the proportion of the divisions would appear to indicate that they can command , on most occasions , a ~ majority in the proportion of 3 to 2 , or a still larger one . Nay , the conduct of the Opposition appears to imply something more than a failure of organization there . < The party ¦ Mi— In Tin Tiinlrrn np at all events for any , use ful purpose . One of its leaders has been very prominent and conspicuous in failure ; the other has avoided failure by abstaining from the more

      damaging conflicts of his party . The first struggle came upon the question of extension of the Income-tax . It was reported , that in resisting this part of the Ministerial measure , Lord Derby ' party would have the support © T the Irish Member *; but there has been some miscalculation . The debate on the first night was not only languid , but it was begua in a singular manner by an amendment from Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton ; a strange person to put forward as the leader of the Derby Disraeli party on a question of finance . Sir Edward is an accomplished gentleman , a celebrated author , and an

      Independent Member ; but on an occasion of this kind , it might have been supposed , if the late Ministers had retained any part of their organization , they would have put forward either a financier , like Mr . Herries or Mr . Disraeli himself , or representative of Ireland , like Mr . Napier . The choice of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton implies not certainly that they labour under any want in men of mark , but that they have broken up their quasi-official organization , which implies also that their hope of getting back to office is broken . A few Irish Members , spoke in this first night of the debate , and . a few Conservatives , who have before

      distinguished themselves in the debates of 1848-9 , by supporting Major Blackall ' s proposition to substitute an Income-tax in Ireland for the rate in aid , and Sir Benjamin Hall ' s proposal to extend the Income-tax to Ireland . The debate drags heavily , and now stands for a fourth night . The South Sea and other Annuities Commutation Bill has been pursued with a curious kind of resistance as it passed each stage ; the opposition statesmen declared that they would have resisted if they had known that it was about to be brought forward at that moment , but that they were always too late , except on that last occasion . And

      then , who was it that they put forward to represent them as the chosen antagonist of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ? It was Sir Fitzroy Kelly , the late Solicitor-General of the party . This choice of a spokesman to overhaul the finance of the present Ministry has attracted notice , and it is a confirmation of our view that the ex-Ministry has broken up on the strand of the Opposition benches . The choice was not warranted by any happiness in the results . Sir

      Fitzroy used the forms of the House , and various special pleadings , in the attempt either to delay the Bill , or by a side wind t » cripple it against the proposed amount of conversion ; and he failed in either attempt , his amendments negatived by decisive majorities . Thus , the Oppositionists have not been able to conceal the party character of their resistance , and yet they have displayed it only to be defeated . The Bill has passed the House of Commons , and it cannot be altered in the House of Lords ; who will scarcely reject it .

      It is understood that Lord Derby had counted upon success in a measure which might be more questionable to the view of many—the Bill to relinquish the Clergy Reserves in Canada . Our readers will remember that the lands reserved for the Established Churches of England and Scotland were given up in 1840 , and the question now is , whether the proceeds from the sale of those lands shall be reserved for the benefit of the clergy in question , or whether the colonial legislature shall do as it pleases in that matter . Lord Derby came down to the House of Lords on Monday to

      propose an amendment , which was to scatter Ministers , and to settle the measure with a truly statesmanlike blow . His amendment amounted to this : —For himself he never would Lave given up the principle of regarding these Reserves as inviolable ; but the question has been altered hy the concession of previous Ministries ; and he now proposed to fix for ever the amount of the proceeds already accruing , while he would give up both the remainder of the lands with their proceeds , and also the existing

      incumbrances . Lord Derby made a speech remarkably the reverse of clear ; he involved himself in a quarrel with the Bishop of Oxford , and used a quotation against that polished censor , telling him that " a man might smile and smile and be a villain , " so aa to draw upon himself an indignant rebuke from the Earl of Clarendon , at which the House cheered . Those who were in the House observed that Lord Derby levelled his quotation at the Bishop with a glare of eye that lent peculiar point to the words . At all events it is well understood that he expected success , and

      that he was totally dismayed when the division showed an adverse majority of 117 to 77 > The blow to the power and influence of the ex-Ministers is understood to be very severe . They have made another attempt in the House of Commons to damage the national system of education in Ireland . It will be remembered that the Earl of Derby , when Lord Stanley , took a prominent part in establishing that system , which has since proved eminently successful . We have several times stated the excellent education which

      a large proportion of the . children in Ireland received . Notwithstanding the emigration , the number in the schools continue to increase ; while the population has diminished by 2 , 000 , 000 , the number in the schools has advanced from about 490 , 000 to 520 , 000 . Mr . G . A . Hamilton was charged with the duty of trying to subvert the system before the late ministry came into power . When Lord Derby , as Premier , was first

      questioned upon the subject in the House of Lords , he let out his own inclination to grant a hostile inquiry , but afterwards he was obliged to confess that the system could not be meddled with . During Lord Derby ' s occupancy of office , Mr . Hamilton abstained from bringing forward his motion ; Lord Derby is now out of office , and Mr . Hamilton thinks that if he can destroy the system of education in Ireland , party will have gained a victory , and the Protestant and Roman Catholic sectaries will be free to carry on a

      warfareof educational competition—of whatsortwe may guess . He professed , indeed , only to ask for inquiry , but as the facts stated on the other side were not disputed , and as the motive of the inquiry was perfectly known , the House of Commons rejected his motion by a majority of 70 . Ministers , therefore failed on that ground . The defeat on the ' Jew Bill in the House of Lords , last night , is not of first-rate importance : the principal opponent of the bill avowedly regarded the Jews as politically too weak " to be propitiated / ' the people as too apathetic to be feared ; and the Peers have thus remained free in postponing justice to bigotry for brief space longer .

      ^ The chief ground on which Ministers have not maintained their success has been , that of foreign policy . When they were questioned by Lord Clanrioard and Lord Beaumont about their position in Turkey , that province whose independence is in jeopardy , with a large amount of English trade ,, they could only reply with vague assurances , and with an intimation that they are on the best footing with the States that are trying to compass the destruction of Turkey—Austria and Russia , The assurance is not very re-anauring .

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      VOL . IV . No , 162 . ] SATURDAY , APRIL 30 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      The Weak in Parliament 410 Palmerston on the Crystal Palace ... 420 stillhigher 423 THE ARTSInquiry into the Doings off the late Miscellaneous 420 "Civis Britannicus ' sum" ! " ! 423 Notes Dramatic and Musical 429 Secretory of the Admiralty .... 415 Health of London during the Week 421 English Interest in Indian Beform 424 Notes Dramatic and Mus . eai * s * Mr . GHadatone ' 8 Defence of his Bud- BirthB Marriages , and Deaths 421 "A Stranger" in Parliament 424 Boyal Academy-Private View 429 g « t 416 A Hint to the " Foreign Branch of The Botherhithe Seizure : Proceed- PUBLIC AFFAIRS the English Police" 426 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSing * at Bow-street 416 - . ~ _ T J * . .,.. „ . _ ., „ City Intelligence , Markets , Adver-Xrfstter * from Paris 417 Austrian and Busman Agency in LITERATURE— J fc aac am S ^ noJ ^ :::::::::::::::::::::::: % l **< & * nuk , 001 * ,- .. ; . 422 Books our abi 427 * . *****>** . ^^ m

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      . •' The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of . Huma ^ t 7-the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers , erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside ^ f ^ fjons o ^ engion Qoijntry , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development 01 our spiritual t&Axatey—Hum&oldt ' i Comet .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1984/page/1/