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    the emancipation of the Jews , or on some crosstjuestion of form—for such appears to have been the fact ; and thus Ministers and ex-Ministers continued the fight over the Bribery Bills . On the whole , it was felt that Mr . Disraeli had been more successful than the other side ; for Ministers are losing ground , and they know it . The detailed measueeft . of ifee Bud $$ e& proceed without serious obstruction ., Mr . Gladstone is allowed to arrange Vis ExuSequer-bonds i and to

    carry the second reading oflUs bill , and Mr-Wilson arranges tJifc , sugfcr Asfies , and *«¦«¦» tie second reading W tis biB , 'without any ^ effecti \ e opposition . Some slight exception was taken to details in . the prize-distribution bill , abBaa ? d 3 y called the Maaakig of ^ the Sfovy BiH , irbieh contprises severaji * o * puc » ¥ esa . e ais-in the manner of distribution , tending to protect the recipient of prises from the abstraction made by agents under the name of- " expenses . " These bills have passed . ¦

    3 Pte < £ » S ^ & ^ ta undergo considerable alterations , ia committee . So eoa-« i ( lssable ,. ipd . iee . di , that , * G « av « rament intend ; to reconstruct apoiiaon of it , and then , to re-commit the Bat , so tils * ' % may be , placed ; in . a condition of better order .. Some of 4 ^» fi amendments made iDdgftendi ^> MenT ^ i » l « TO % e « n better in purpose 1 > hianinell § e % t »^ to tb-ose . ydtofo ; :: > T $ j $ k tf ' - $ && lsp * om wl * at is wanted . The Reformers at Oxford are somewhat at issue

    tofjbf t the Reformers in London . The Iiondont Reformers have stood alpof from Government ;; the Oxford Keformers have closed witli it , believiuig the J 3 aH to be imperfect , indeed , but ^^ feest jpif gr arc likely ta get . Tie koncton feiiforjneTS hare helped to carry ; sectional eleetaoqi against the Groverranent , hoping * thus to obtain immediate ascendancy of Pro-Fessors . Sectabnal election or professors , however , involves sectional election of heads ; and

    OxfordReformers desire congregational electron , believing that tibe working men . would pretty soon be liberal ; and not . thinking t ile present BtaflT ' of professors worth a real sacrifice of liberty . There is a great amount of acquiescence in the bill , testified by the late petitions ; and probably the Oxford Beformer may shrink from going to sea agaia , if Tie can get through the bill same substantial good and the promise of more . The retention of clerical monopoly , to a considerable extent , " fa of course the worst feature . The conxmissibn ., also , was bad ; but it is to be improved , wer hope , by the addition of some good liberal

    names . : On the TOconraiGJjxcEMfon of a select committee , iihe Honse of Commons has adopted several new ru ^ as , for the purpose of abridging- the formal fimdraace to business . JTor example , " blanks " left in bills are to be filled up , as a matter of course , when they are of a kind which occasions no dispute . Again , with regard to measures that are to be considered in committee of the w"hole

    House , there is not to be a separate motion for ¦ fixe" House to go into each measure successively , but the House having gone into committee once for any evening , ia to take all the measures intended for that stage on that day . The alteration will be an improvement so far as it goes ; but it is only a nibble at an enormous abuse , principally arising- from the amount of county and local business which the House keeps in its hands , and which consumes half the time of the session .

    But of course the Legislature and the larger portion of the trade of tine metropolis were sus . ponded on Wednesday , in order that a vast concourse might go down to Epsom for the purpose of seeing " ¦ Andover" win the Derby , and of witnessing the blai ^ c faces of the members wlio had betted upon " Autocrat" or u Dervish . " The state of trade again excites remark for the evidence of its soundness . Notwithstanding the defeats of Ministers , the continuance of the war hkhexto , md the probability of its longer

    continuance . Consols have risen since last week , and have maintained themselves at an unexpectedly high point . On Monday they rose from 89 J to 91 ; next day tlSey touched 91 f , and they have since remained decidedly above 91 . The reasons areobTOEHzs : from Australia we have reports not only of Canvass Town disappearing on the absorption a £ 3 £ te surplus population of adventamrawbo had flSaieJked tfcHelbournn ^ axot only of exoellenifc *'

    findings" and milky nuggets , bat of many ftwjfiR which ptosje thaiSn that regpni , as well as in Chin ^ io . £ u--rofi % . « pBin Amenta , eaasmerce will arontinu « : uninterrupted by war ; and , not less important , it now appears to be tolerably certain , that so far , the erops are Bkelyto be good and abundant ; only it Is beginning to become rather vexatious that the rain stould be so much more persevering with , its measures than . Ministers with thveirs .

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    PAIILUMEIT OF THE WEEK . Thetcb- was a great party and personal debate os M < md * y n % ht in the House of Commone , resulting in a , duatQC duel between Mr . Disraeli and Lord John Russell , in which the former appealed once more as aviorbmt personal assallaait . The question immediately before the House was scarcely debated at a& . It was BQifluag more nor less important lham tlta wftMrjwal oftha five bills disfranchistng cejitaiiiL voters in Canterbury , Cambridge , HulL Maiden , and Bamstaple . The opportunity for so much speaking arose from the fact tliat each UllJifta : to he separately withdrawn ; and consequently each member had an

    opportunity of epeafciag -on each motion . Th < e : &TXHLXE * -GmtEXAx . moved . the , diach&sge o £ tbe order for the second reading of the Canterbury hilt first ; stating as a reason that an opinion prevailed in the House , an opinion to vMeh he deferentially gave way , that the . voters proposed , to be disfranchised , were protected by the indemnify from ail consequences legislative as well as legaL Although it vouid be a great thirg to purity the constituencies , that end wxndd be dearly ; bought-at the sacrifice of public faith . Sir 1 ^ bj > eri ok Ekesiger rejoiced that such a determination had been some to ; a , ud testified to the fairness with -which the Attorney-General had

    acted . Mir . Ol Stasuey , however , tbought that Government were greatly to beeensutsed for witir drawing these bills ; . aa . thereby the . enda of justice had been defeated . TSCr . Veknon Smith said the hills ought never to have "been introduced . Would t 3 ve writs ; now bo rasaed ? Lord John Rrjs * Eiri < said in reply to this question , that he thought the writs © ugkt to be suspended until the select committee , had disposed of tb « bribery bills before them ; but Mr . George Butt held that that was no ground for delay Me . Thomas Djtngootbe here said tlutt the five boroughs ought to be disfranchised ; and he should object to any writs being issued to these delinquent boroughs .

    Han thia quiet fashion the debate was jogging en , when Mr . Dtauakt . t rose and made a shushing attack upom the entire conduct of the Government this session . He revelled in a description of the number of measures introduced and their fate in fchat House . There were seven of them . Three had been withdrawn ; three had been rejected ; and one only remained , which he hoped would be altogether defeated . The chief characteristic of these seven measures was tha . fc they either attacked toe rights of ? the subject or the institutions of the country . He enumerated them one by one—and asked whether Government had thought they could carry them ; and if not , why they had been so imprudently introduced ?

    " He considered it a great matter that the House and the country should be impressed with nil these circumstances , for they should not forget that they" bad a Government composed of man remarkably distinguished for their great abilities—( cheers and laughter )—men who wero mating enormous sacrifices both for their country and for themselves , and no man more than the noble lord himself making a greater sacrifice , for he had thrown overboard all his old . colleagues , and yas now associated with men who had formerly depreciated his great abilities . ( Cheers and laughter . ' ) But had the noble lord succeoded in the object for which he liad made those enormous sacrifices ? How did the House find those seven grout moasures at the end of May ? Of these

    most important measuros ever proposed to Parliament , three had been withdrawn , and thrco had brought defeats npon the Government . He could not holp feeling that the country hud not received that ample c » inpen 8 atioii , and that thisy would not be juetitied in saying the Government measures hud not been conducted so statesmanlike us they ought to have received , or ought to have Leon . True , they had been told that the dovernmont'had no principles , but that it had all the talents , and , consequently , they had a right to expect something from Lord John Rusacll for Lwnishing his fiionds to their present invisible position , and p lacing him upon a bench Burroundcd by men who decried his career for thu last quarter of a century . "

    The first motion was agreed to ; smd on tko second , for discharging the bill relating to Cambridge , Lord John IIcsskcc replied to Mr . Disraeli . The reformed House of Commons cannot bo depended

    upon for carrying bills , as in former times , when a Minister and his connexions could return a majority . No doubt Mr . Disraeli had felt the disap * ptnnlmeat attending want of success ; ajid Government b » a £ no felt that disappointment . Great question % immensely superior to any except Parliaxaext&ryr teStmn , had been before the House- ques > tions re 9 ta@n& to the East , upon which the Housa might fcmre f £ Nen its opinion ; and there was the question « f cnedinlitj or connivance raised by jvjj PigraeRMmselfc But then he only criticised , si jpreat ; TOMS iiis scruples that he ¦ would not disturb the GSove ^ werrt ^ testing the opinion of the Houao et 0 h £ & been

    lc , ^ a — jmqgB . e s granted , and ways and j 3 MVB 8 yf 4 um proposed , Mr . Disraeli came forward l "» nd endeavoured to defeat thoae measures for defraying the expenses of the war ; and on two occasions he was- tfefeated himserf "by majorities exceeding 100 . Therefore he and his friends had not regained the confidence of the House which they did so much , to lose wMle in office . Mr- Disraeli seemed greatly alarmed foi the constitution . Assaults on the constitution ! Well , he must be greatly relieved by the rejection of the Oaths Bill , when the only practical effect of bis vote was to exclude Jews from Parliament : —

    " The right honourable gentleman has moxe than onceieclarad feds wjsh to see the- Jews jfir t&us possession , of theprivileges which the other subjects of her" tfein'itT enaoy . He tbiaka them pacaliaxJy fitted &r . £ uoeua jjciy&g « sr-i » ao than Protestants , or Roman CathplTQB ^ . ^ raBjr jDtluar class ; but still I cannot understand his gjnat juaai&y to- see the Jews , in , the possession of those privileges , ; v&r « pmetimefl , he does not vote at all , amd Bometioi « 3 he ^ otts &r them , Mid the political convenience of- the hour « eemfl 1 ^> have overcome his attachment to the Jews . Sach is Ifee- ^ ositian of tire Government and of the right honourable gentleman . Ire £ rret that these great me& ^ nct © hav * > been ^ effeated v but -with regard to the greater question , I must repeat that this House has not shown confidence in the nght honourable gentleman * but has , both in discussion and division , shown confidence in the Gov&rnment . "

    Mr . DiSBABLi felt the taunt' conveyed in the last sentences of Lord John ' s speech , and he broke forth into a torrent of invective , rising at once and commencing to speak Ihusi- — " Th « noble lord seems to thiok that ZamflospiaBed that he lias not quitted office . ; , sir , on the contraro , Ijshauld iav . e been-iitnaaensely surpaised if he had . ( Loud laughter Jrofn the Opposition . ^ Many more defeats , n ° pcsaihle mere 3 iu miliating , and li possible more complete , must « caarbefa& the noble h > rd will fed the necessity of taking snch . a step as that . ( Cheers ^ I know the noble lord -tarwell ^ I nave sat opjoaite to him . too long j I have bhbh him too ofteaivi the same position . Many a time have I seen him experience the-most signal defeats , and I have seen him still adhere to office ¦ with a patriotism and a pertinacity which ; cannot Is too nrach admired . " ^ Gheen end lamhterS

    With respect to his not hawing taken the qpdnioii of the House on the Eastern correspondence , Lord John had totally forgotten that he did not lay the whole correspondence on -the table , tut secreted and kept back a most important postion , aad , butibr ti » allusion of a . foTeign journal ,, the people of thi » country would hsrv-e been kept in total ignorance of what had really occurred , aud would have been fla * grantly misled . " I confess , sir , 1 made a . mistake in saying that the conduct of the Ministry could only be accounted for by eonnir vance or credulity : it was too limited a view of the caBe . When we had all those papers before us , my opinion then became more complete and matured , and I say now , that their conduct can only be accounted for by connivance and cueduJUy . ( Cheers . )

    Referring to Lord John ' s allusions to Lord Derby's Government , Mr . Disraeli roundly charged him with having offered an unfair , not to say a factious ,, opposition to that Government . " He had scarcely retired from office—From whicli , be it remembered , ho was not driven by any efforts of ours , but by discomrtly quarrels with his own colleagues—when ha went into fierce opposition ; and against what ? Against the mea » sure for the establishment of the militia force n | x > n tho voluntary system . ( Loud cheers . ) Night after night the noble lord opposed that measure ; he exhausted every combination of faction ; he opposed it at every stage , < ind at last he exhausted the support and confidence of hia own friends . ( cheers . ) And now let me appeal to the House and tha

    country , what is their opinion of that measure ? Is it not recognised as one of the most successful measures that ever passed this House ? { Loud cheers . ) Is it not the safeguurd and the protection of the country at the present moment ? ( Loud cheers . ) liut is that all ? Wliat was the conduct of the noble lord and hia Manas with regard to another measure of the Government of Lord Derby ? What did they say when we proposed to reform the Court of Chancery ? They opposed our proposition with derision . ' Wliat ! ' said thoy , ' are you going to put Parliament ! into Chancery ? that muBt never bo : ' and it was nothing but the good feeling of the Housewhich the noble lord on that

    , occasion could not manage- to suit his own purpose- —nothing but the good feeling and the high spirit of the Houao which allowed ua to pass those useful measures whicli were introduced in another place by Lord St . Leonard ' s . Wao not the reform of the Court of Cliuncery a most useful ineaaurar (( -beers . ) But the country is not indebted for it to that extinguished statesman now the loader of this Houao—it ia indebted for it to that Government which , from the nrst moment it was formed , lie opposed -with every artifice . Suppose the reform of the Court of Chancery had not boon accompliahod by the Government of Lourd Derby , would you

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    506 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 3, 1854, page 506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2041/page/2/