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    ieed , the filthiest , vilest which man can hunger for in these days . Evidently a more generous , aationai spirit is awakening , to correct these trading enormities . The' fraud was discovered through the vigilance of the Government officials , a l most gratifying circumstance . The detection will satisfy those offi c ials that their vigilance is not nnneeded ; tondL / vit J ^ jprpbable matii

    thiscase , timely discovewea , Tfppprevenfc iftan £ others affecting the food not mij of horses , but of men , and the supplies for ^ our troops gesiMgrally . Amongst many official in )§| ovements , it ia ^ greeable to noticjg | fcn in ^< y »< in * , and eflfeigillJ&rm of waggon hospTlHs for ' life sick . In ^ ifcort , the officials , like the soldiers and the country at large , are throwing their heart into the work . Mr . Gladstone ' s Income-tax resolution has

    perty ; by low Churchmen , on the score that it might lead to Convocation ; and by Dissenters , on the scowe that ^ fwbuft ^ increase the efficiency of the Chttfch . Sof powerful is the influence of sect , that it loakes men sustain injustice in the hope of injuruBg ? an opponent ! So powerful are the rights of jfljpperty , that men . in the Legislature , before the&eyea of their ^ coiiplary , professing-faeiicf in the HESturchi will posrti * # f sacrifice its ^ tfferei |» ffice to p&z golifefc calf ! j The « immittee «* v the Irish scancrafttdebated

    s * $ h cl « fgd doors fOiterrtay , What abaMttf—wmst % it jjfiMr ^ questipB ^ T 4 e suppositiott ^ ras , that th ^ eommittee 'iBG debating the pwl tion into which it had been put by Mr . Mowbray Morris , who was brought before it as manager of the Times , to account for the article in that paper which furnished the technical pretext of Mr . Butt ' s motion in appointing : the committee . Mr . Morris appeared on Tuesday , and again on

    Wednesday- ; and on the latter day ^ ttie cross-questioning grew fast and furious . " Members seemed to think that they had a capital opportunity of learning the -way they do their business in the Times office . ; . but Mr . Morris put them off with answers which cleverly turned the questions against the questioners— -siHy ; questions that had no point to pierce the polished armour of his self-posssession , but , which cut the hands of the questioners and made them look foolish .

    Preston has been visited by n new-form of attack from the masters . When the London police were established ,, we remember seeing on the first day- * pk ) lkfemen , in a condition of triumphant ioviatity , dragging , a youths ta thestation ^ house . Being intoxicated with brief authority and something more , the poKceman had indulged himself in pro-? dknig a fight , and , gettmg the worst of it , fterre-Ajembered hi * official resources , and took up his

    antagonist for breaMog the peace ! The , policei&en ^ typifiea the toasters ; they have merged the master m the mazistratev and tave taken up five leading ; men , of the operatives' committee , on a charge of' cottfepirnflg' to undo what the masters Iia'te cettspiredto do- ' -to take away $ ie hands whom the masters have imported . The stroke is doubly infataaous— -it is malignant , and it is silly .

    passed its critical stages , -with curious conduct on the part of the Opposition . Sir Henry Willoughby was to have resisted it in Committee , on Monday , wiifcih Itn auiendanent ^ omitting certain words , so as to make the increase apply to the whole , and not id t ] pe first , six mpnit ^ of the ^ financial year . But he ^ feMered- ¦ -Ikes . EBcWis ^^ ae' ^ fe members were ]^^[| u ^ during lus laggard ataiaeiace , jfroni Bis post . He behaved Ji&flg £ on £ u $ sday- Wght , gyneo . he did appear to t ^ mm ^ m ^ Mm m&Aetii * fps owa p ** ty backed him in the ttoet extraordinary

    maaner , ~ W % Myiaaw Mr . OHadwarifiS' iiMd ^ i ^ t «^^ e «^^^^^ egree pf treacher—; : gffiffifdc&Effi ^ on * Jfe > i $ ii $ ppg ^' -iHfo ^ ^ "Wffiiijg ^ ending in an express request that feir Henry IVHIoughby should mthdrawr ? theanaeachttentj 4 e ^ a ^ al ^ nldfct embarrass J | igi £ M ^ fsuaciesand of falseideaa suggested by deliberately Wonder in the manfwhva ^ dmire his talents-a J ^ hS ^ # r ^^^^ 1 f i 1 iil > l ^ i : hi ^ < % atf ^> iii- ^ Tr < i'lTn rrf tffth

    inxO ^ er to nw ^ up a caa « agamst ¦ 88 ^ BSf ^ S ^* HS ? pjS & $ & o ^ henomeaa ui . tlie financiau uistorj :: of the country ^ including $ j ||| ^ 4 if ^^ l ^ j ^ 'jdifsgol ^ - from "Bie Sank , --arid other tareilm-« troc » beloQging ra » mow to the expansion o » f ^ Uor of the . E ^ heauer , < me . ypn in the Book of Kbgland . ^^ Exchequ ^ r aad Bank proceedings ( EUa not govern the course of monetary vicissitudes , i fMA \ %

    "rj "" " v « * MABxsA ;» jb gurcrucu uv i * iutu wuiac Mr . Disraeli bad taken a fewfects , an * had * ltered their relation to dach other , —as completely as 8 ir Walter Scott altered the" chronology of England , when he made tho -Countess of Derby alive and Active aft ^ gfce Trj » iflt |* > » y ?{ and ally for the fjSHSpose . Hfrf getting up the cheera > o £ the House against I ^ r . Gladstone for the moment . The ease Sdinpst exottee a tiuapieion that the adversity © f l > eing m o ^ positiGn hm afflicted Mr . Disraeli with ^• taLOi ^ omania- He ( && , in Ministers nothing but < K > nspirators and traitors . One walk of art is yet hamand iis per

    ^^ n , to ; a * formances in the Hoiise of Commons are beginning to decline an popular effect , it may be worth his while to consider the propriety of making his appeal to a British public through ( lie forcible medium of the drama . The «* Coalition War" might be dressed utp into a melodrame for the Adelphi , with Webster a * the " Jesuit Aberdeen , agent for Russia , " O . Smith as " Gladstone , the Owner of the Dark ^ Secret , " Mr- Keeley as " Lord Grey , a virtuous patrician , " and Madame Celeste a , s " Lord Jotn ituflsell , the Lost Patriot . '

    ; , The Attorney-General has made some improveanent on the usual course of anti-bribery measures , "b y introducing bills to > disfranchise , not entire " boroughs , but the eleoto > rs convicted of bribery before committees—in brief , taking away from the persons who abuse the " trust" of the franchise the right of using that trust . One operation of this bill will be to weed out the disposable balance in many boroughs . This is fair enough , while the franchise is a monopoly- ; but we cannot heartily approve of reforms by aigfranchisemenl . It would be far better to let the country be actually , instead of " virtually ' represented , and then these miserable bribers could not return so large a proportion of the House of Commons : they would be swamped in the true constituency .

    The debate on Mr . R . Phillimore ' s Simony L aw Amendment Bill is disastrous for the moral asp « ct of the Commons . The bill proposed to do something towards removing the shocking stain upon j the Church of England in the sale of its sacred offices . Itvras resisted by some members of the ! Church on the score tLat it would disturb pro-

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    PABLIAMENT OE THE WEEK . WATS AND MEANS . The incoTWe-tax resolution was moved in a committee o £ the whole House on Monday , and agreed to without opposition , amid great laughter . To explain this It is necessary to observe that the motion for going into committee on Ways and Means , 8 toudnrst on the orders of the day . But Mr . Layard had a notice on the Eastern question which , however , he withdrew . Calculating , probably , that some time would be occupied ty Mr . Layard , Sir Heioit WilrotTGHBY , who had a notice of an amendmeet on the paper , did not enter the House in time , and thus the resolution was agreed to unopposed .

    The next day Sir Henr y Willoughby moved his amendment ; and a dull and desaltory debate ensued upon every topic but the amendment . Mr . Thompson Ha : nkkv lectured Mr . Gladstone on the impropriety of keeping low balances ; the inconvenience of borrowing from the Bank ; and the farlse step taken last spring in reducing the interest on Exchequer-bills . Mr . WiLx . rXMs cfcfcfended the Government . Mr . Spooner talked Birmingham Currency doctrine , in which he was subsequently followed by Mr . Ca-vi / ev . Mr . Home , concurring in the denunciation of the Bank Act of 1844 , defended Mr .

    Gladdoeuments laid before them to delude the House but within forty-eight hours another set of documents . had been placed on the table giving a new aspect to esitpttmstances . He could not approvei of incfeaKeS ttx ^ tion without a clear case of necesa ty —and Idxait necessity had yet to be made out . Hepi >* ting much of what he had said in a previous del * ite ^» b « ft the imprudence of small "balances , Mr . Disrae&tdok incredible pains to show that he had been mftte rf ^ it in saying that consols had fallen one aml'ftfliflfsoofli after Lord Derby left office . He brought

    chargepover and over again against Mr . Gladstone fox- » o < Mftijg . --hfnT -with unseemly and discourteous | 1 »« teitsi , anw ^ losing nds temper because Mr . Disj ^ raeli refetfjeafo the' ^ ow balances in the Exchequer . Ripping up tlfe old conversion scheme once more , he insist ^ i thtuWMr . Gladston ^^ dd had ample warnings —beside the fall of consols , the rate of discount rose , there was a prospect of a bad harvest , there was over-trading , there was efflux of gold—all should have made even a daring young Minister of Finance , full of genius and energy , hesitate before he tampered ' with the funded and unfunded debt .

    Nor were these all the warnings . Did Mr . Gladstone read or did he not read those secret despatches which had been brought to light ? Was he acquainted with thaV " dark secret , " the proposed partition of the Turkish empire ? If he did not Teaxt ttictn he was unworthy of confidence ; if he did , -what stmarvellmts conception was that of dealing with tfaedebt in the face of a bad harvest and a prospective 5 war ! Then this great finance MiniateT proposed to- false ail the supplies for the war within the year :. Whatw ^ ould be the result ? He would have to come-dOTai and ask for a tretaendoaa loan . [ Somehody . twice cried " divide , " a most unprecedented things in Mr . Disraeli ' s latter cameear . ] ,. . . * . *

    Mr . Disraeli towards the close of his speech gave his reasons why he did" not propose a vote of wattt of confidence—and strange reasons they axel Ministers , he argued , have no confidence in eaeh other ^ and by taking portions of speeches he tried to make out "that on the Turkish question they were all divided . He then went on—and thi » may be ieksect as a specimen of the style of treatment t » which , he subjected the question : — , . -. " I would lake to know how the war is to be carried , on with- efficienifff ani success 1 > yxnen -wbxr fnwe irtt se « ie 4 wbat tfie ofeject a £ ilie war is . Tire wa * b * s beenirwaglit about by two opposite opinions in the-Cabinet . I Cheers . }

    That has led to all the vacillation , all tlie perpleodtr , all tlie fitfaloesa , alt thetknidity undau theoccawonai vsofaace tfcat have occurred . ( C % e ^» . ) If the noble lord the leader of the House—I speak my solemn conviction—had remained Minister of tifis comifry—if Qiendblft lord the Secretary of State , who is not here , bad been Minister ef thb country—» \ i Lord Derby had con tinned Minister of this country—nay rf Lord Aberdeen—I wish to state the case farrry—had been Minister of tliis country , -with a sympathising ^ Cabinet , thecs would have been no war . It is a coalition war . ( CAeerj . ) Eival opinions , contrary politics , and discordant systems bareproduced that vacillation and perplexity , that at last yow ar *

    going to war with an opponent who doea not want to flglt r and you are an willing to encounter him . ( Cheers . ') Wfcat aTTicssfora great country . { Cheers wid laughter . " ) And " this brought-about by the tqrlendid administrative talents dk the gentlemen ODDosite . ( CAier *) What , sir ^ is y « ur intei ? esfe on Exchequer-bills , or your loss of some 35 , 000 ? . compared to that ? The financial faux pa * of the Chancellor of the-Exchequer may soon be forgotten , and even forgiven . Wliafc is the value of bis couversiDn scheme compared to this duplication of the income-tax , and to- tins terrible prospect « f ¦ war , brought about by the combination of geniuses opposite me , and brought about absolutely by the amount of tbehr talents and the discordancy of their opinions ? " ( jCheer » and laughi&r . ' )

    On reform , on education , even on the question of the Universities , they were not harmonious . When they had confidence in themselves , then he would prppose a want of confidence in them I He—advised the withdrawal of the amendment . Mr . Gladstone denied that he had treated Mr . Disraeli with discourtesy , remarking that the latter was not the man of all others who was most sparing of the use of freedom in debate . And why , instead of rising , as any other man would have done , and

    complaining at once , had he nursed his grievance for a fortnight , to make it the subject of declamatory periods ? " The right honourable gentleman says her Majesty ' s Government differ upon every vital question—they differ about the Reform Bill— -they differ about . the Protestant dissenters —they differ about the Protestant cause—they differ aloot their foreign policy—they differ , in short , about every question of interest . The head of the Government , he says , has no confidence in the leader of the House of Commons—the

    leader of the House of Commons has no confidence in the head of the Governinont—the Chancellor of the Fxchequer has no confidence in nny of his colleagues , and none of his colleagues have any confidence in him—( ^ laughter )—and that being the state of tlio caso , and we , miserable and unworthy men , being here usurping tho functions and aping tlio character of ft Government —( " hear , hear , hear , "Jrovt Colonel Sibthorp , fallowed by general laughter }—the right honourable gentleman says , for these reasons , because you are bo miserable , because you are so disunited , because yon are so degraded , 1 will nt this great criais of the fortuaea of England leave you in place , where you are to govern tho destinies of tho country . { Cheers ^ Why , sir , I tell the right honourable gentleman that , if I possessed his f | reat powers of mind and oratory I would rattier have been , ailcat

    stone ' s financial policy , and curtly tren-tod of the amendment as wholly unimportant . Mr . Wilkinson and Mr . Matins commented on the financial subject in general—the latter directing his remarks against the Bank Act of 1844 . Sir Francis Baring was in favour of keeping up balances , supported the income-tax as a war tax ; and the increase of it as the lenst interference with trade . Sir Fitzroy Kelly repeated what he has said so many times about the conversion scheme of last year , and gave utterance to Mr . Disraeli ' s opinions on the balances and tho Exchequer-bills . Mr . Geacii defended Ministers .

    At tliis stage of the debato Mr . Disraeli rose to mako a " great" speech against Mr . ( jlmlsLone . lie spoke for two hours and a half , going over a variety of topics , repeating himself more than once , and dealing out sarcasms , not , however , with his usual felicity , although -with instinctive affluence . At the opening of his laboured oration he ostentatiously guarded himself from approving of tho financial propositions before the House , on the ground that he did not know whether , or for what , we are going to war . When , a fortnight ago , the House agreed to support Ministers , they did so on the faith of th explanation * of foreign policy contained in

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    266 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 25, 1854, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2031/page/2/