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votes to support him against the 158 in favour of the coinmission-inarket ; and a fact quite as great is the noble , soldierly , patriotic speech with which S ir De Lacy Evams proved , from his knowledge on the field and his personal experience * . the unjust , corrupt , anti ^ na Js ^^ JiipoldierljRaw ^ siing of the present system . As yet we are without rappilts from Sebastepol or Vienna ; but the " indigi » a $ ion meetings' * jbeld in various parts 0 .. the ou * tey , especial ] , ? Jb the active north , show that t % e people will be very ill-prepared to view with leniency any more disastrous results of official negligence .
A voice ef another kind is rasuag . A meeting has been held at fiJancuester , confessedly the first of a series , to " prepare the public mjfld" Jor & peace on the terms now suggested by Russia ! This is confessedly the object of the speakers at that meeting—lfiadiug men in the once famous league —the Wh-soks , IJawsoks , and Ashwoj&tjhs . An organised agitation for a disgraceful peaee is commencing with , tbat party , which , equally small in numbers at first , set going the Anti-Corn-Law League . We doubt whether there will be the proportionately magnificent results ; but we do fear i and not fof
that there may be men n office , a ew them , quite prepared to tnackle to that Manchester party if it ear * make itsdf strong enough . It is uot that Russia shows any sign of conciliating this country . The Manchester men remark that her agent has been " waiting for a month at Vienna r but the Government of Russia has not been ^ waiting . The preparations ipr a war , the calling out of the entire militia , thfr aggressive movements on all parts of the frontier proceed ; and Sardinia is chastised by a Russian declaration of war , because she has joined the alliance of tbe Western Powers . Another blow tojthe Russian strength has come from the once despised Turks _ at Eupatoria ,
where Omar pacha ' slirst act is to repulse an attack of the Russian araiy in great strength . And the Emperor Napoleon , it appears now certain , -will proceed to Sebastopol , probably to take the command in person . He is eonscious , it is said , that he is responeJble for pressing the Crimean expe dition , wftd if so , his present step is at least not an ignoble way of accepting the ultimate responsibility . Interest thickens in that part of the world ; but there is no sign that " Russia "—be it Nichoi * a . s , Michabi / , or Constantine that wears the title - —yields , South or North ; and for ourselves , we only feel solicitude to learn that British statesmen Hav ^" beeiT ^ Q 5 jia ~ ta ^ iwtiSi )^ 1 ^ eir part in the North with a courage corresponding to the aroused spirit of their own nation .
Discord has broken out in another part of the world . Totally misconceiving the incapabilities ef official . coercion in the back parts of a . colony , the Goverouaent of Victoria has attempted to enforce thp fioes for gold licences ; the people burn their licences , organise themselves , and make declarations respecting the rights of English and Irish subjects ; the officer of Government reads the Riot Act ; blood ie shed on both sides , and the riot seenaa likely to become an insurrection .
" The Australian : flog , " it is said , has been raised once more ; but the statement makes us doubt whether the Australians have fixed upon their flag , or , if they have , whether the gold diggers hnow it . The flag that we have seen floating on the Thapaes displayed the Five Stars ; the '•' Southern Croea" is now raised as the standard of the Australians , though it would be quite as appropriate to the'Nbw Zealanders . We doubt whether Australia has yet , like America , found her MohaWks or her Washington .
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THE MINISTRY . Tub following is the composition of the Ministry , up to the nvosent date ^ rrf - ... JLord Palw »« 6 Ton , . First Lord of tUo Treasury . Lord CRANwo « Tir , Lord Chancellor . Lord Cjlahendon , Secretary of State for Foreign Aflium . Lord Panmube , Secretary qf State &r the War Department , v Mr . F . Peel , Under Secretary for War . Sir Gesohge Grby , Secretary of State for the Home JtepajjUaont . i Lord Joi ^ nIIubseix , Secretary of State for the Colonies , Sir G . 0 . Lawis , Chancellor of the Exchequer . Sl » - < 3 « AJW * # W 0 Q » , Vtafe U > td of the Admiralty .
Sir W . MotESiMWWW » Chief Commissioner ot Woods and Woiksu Lord G ** . NVj * tEt J ? f $ rident of the Council . Lord C | # rNiNG , X Po ? timastcr-General . Duke 4 Bf Akqyll , Lord Privy Seal . LordjpoNCAN , Lord of the Treasury , in the room of L ^ jifilcho , retired . . ^ . " ... ¦ > fi wd Sbe * nley of A-w > eri . ey , P «« $ ersfcof the 3 tfr . Vipdosr Smi ? w , President of the B « ird of x £ § Gwiusle , Lo ** -Liea 6 enant of Irejjaink upon the « eiWP » tion ofX <»« i'St- | 5 ermans . Mr . Horsman , Chief Secretary for Ireland . Mr . KEOGH , Attorney-General for Ireland . Mr . John David Fitzgerald , Q-C , ¦ bolicitor-General for Ireland . A .. The Duchy of Lancaster , and one or two other posts , are , we believe , not yet filled up .
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THE BALTIC ILEET OF 1 S 55 . Commander-in-Chief— Bear-Admiral of the Blue , the Hon . Richard Saunders Dundas , C . B . Second in Command—Rear Admiral of the Blue , Michael Seymour . Third in Command—Hear Admiral of the Bine , Robert Lambert Baynes , C . B . Captain of the Fleet—The Hon . F . T . Pelhaiu . The fleet contains one ship ( the flag-ship , Duke of Wellington ) of 131 guns ; 1 of 102 guns ; 6 of 91 guns ; 2 of 81 guns ; 1 of 70 guns ; 9 of 60 guns ; and 35 ranging from a to 51 guns ; the horse-power varying from 60 to 700 . The floating batteries are to be 5 In number , of 16 guns each ; mortar-vessels , 8 , of
1 gun each ; steam gunboats , 28 , of 2 arid 3 guns each . So , at least , says the Hampshire Advertiser , which adds : —" In addition to the naval forces of England , which are to consist of 100 steamers , France will send 5 O steam-vessels and a powerful land armament , which i * now stationed ( says Galignant ) along the coast from Calais to Cherbourg . For the conveyance of these troops and all the war ma-Uriel , the French Government have entered into a contract with an English company , the representative of which is air-present in Paris—an arrangement which will have the advantage of leaving the vessels of war to act with all their power against the great Russian strongholds in the Gulf of Finland . "
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A debate took place in the House of Lords , on Monday , on the second reading of the Criminal Justice Bill , which proposes to give Justices in petty sessions cognisance of all simple larcenies where the property stolen does not exceed 20 s . in value . At present , said the Lord Chancellor , there are some ridiculous distinctions . Justices in petty sessions can try the stealing of a dog , but not of a duck ; of peaches or nectarines picked from the wall , but not of fruit that has fallen to the ground . JLord Broucham stated some aggravated results of the present systenv in"itsrabsurd delays . 7 Sometimes prisoners . are dismissed with a nominal imprisonment of one day , because they have been in before trial
already thirty or forty days prison . Last Lent , at Aylesbury , the Lord Chief Justice had to try fifteen prisoners who had stolen property , in the aggregate valued at 12 s ., and , therefore , averaging lOd . each . Lord Brougham also mentioned cases of three men , more than sixty years of age , sentenced . at different sessions to imprisonment with hard labour ranging from four to six weeks , for stealing one farthing , one halfpenny , and one penny . In the same year , a man in his seventieth year was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour at the treadmill for stealing to the value ot threepence . Probably there was aggravation in these cases , but tliey suggest the propriety of employing , professional assistance for magistrates who have to pronounce sentence . In flve . eounties , containing a population equal
to the one-tenth of England aud Wales—namely , Somerset , Berkshire , Wiltshire , Hampshire , and Dorsetshire—out of 1500 cases tried at quarter sessions , 895 were larcenies under 5 a ., 450 under Is ., and ; 240 under lOd . In a similar proportion , it might be calculated that of 15 , 000 offenders tried annually throughout England and Wales , about 12 , 000 are tried for larcenies under the value of 5 s . By the present law , expenses are enormously increased and justice ia delayed . New writs were ordered to issue on Monday for the City of London , in the room of Lord John Russell , appointed one of her Majesty ' s Secretaries of State ; for Halifax , in the room of Sir Charles Wood , Appointed , Lord High Admiral ; for Jiadnor , in the room of Sir George Lewis ; and for For&rahire , in tjie room of Lord Duncan , appointed one of the Lords of the Treasury .
Also for the Motitroae District of Burghs , in the room of Mr . Joseph Hume . ! This writ was moved by Lord Palmeustqn , who paid the tribute of a high compliment to Mr . Hume , reversing , in his cane , what Goldsmith said of Burke , " wlio gave up to party what was meant for mankind . " The party to
which Mr . Hume devoted the labour of his life wa » Jris cpiiptryiand beyond his country the general interests * f mankind at large . Sir Joshua Walmslet said thafciMV- Hume never made an enemy or lost a daend . £ He « trusted that a grateful people would not let tbe ^ ppoifcu nity pass without a , more fitting mzmovi « lm » rthy 9 i Mr . Hume and the country . The ^ wny'Sstnmates were continued in Committee of'Suppjjf ® n Monday ; on giving rise to the usual conversations , both before the motion and in committee , Bi « . vFs »»«« kput forward the claims of Sergaw * ftffiwi ) , who * i > ad so distinguished himself , m 0 d hadvtjenn » ientio »« 4 by his General of Division . Lord PAi . MEitsjroN repealed the answer , that Lord Raglan Jiad authority to promote one non-commissioned officer in each regimeDt—the man selected in Sullivan ' s regiment perhaps being not less
distinguished . Mr . W . S . Lindsay complained of immense effort wifih little result in the transport service . He found a tennage ; of 350 , 000 tons of shipping eng aged in supplying our remnanjt of an army—a tonnage with which he would undertake to convey the whole British army in the Crimea . He described a visit to the French Minister of War in Paris , who sat in a room with a large map' on which he marked the positions of the divisions of the armies in Europe , and the same Minister had daily reports from the five directors of transport , infantry , cavalry , commissariat , and the medical corps ,: . enabling him to know the state of every department and its stores ia every place . The reply of Admiral Berkeley consisted in the remark that the veaaels employed are in the service , not only of the English , but of the French and Turkish service , and they amount to not
less than 100 , 000-men . Colonel Dunste called attention to the neglect of officers of Sandhurst in staff appointments . Out of 53 officers who have received the rank of brevetmajor , 41 were on the staff . The senior department at Sandhurst , replied ; Mr . Hardeskje , can only accommodate 15 officers , and 9 of the recent brevet promotions have been from Sandhurst . Only 9 out of 50 rejoined Mr * Otway . Lord Hothabi pointed to other defects , even in the recent arrangements of promotion ; for example , an equerry of the Sovereign can be-appointed as a general officer when he has served six years in that domestic capacity . The
want of forage , and the ill-assorted provisions for the soldiers were amongst the subjects of complaint , Mr . Layard and Mr . Dbwi > as stating particulars .. Mr . Layard found the horses literally eating each other ' s tails and manes off through starvation , standing in pickets for two or three successive days in rain , hail , and snow . The men are exhausted ; they have got on to the sick list in order to have a few hours' rest . The want of hospital room in Scutari is still a grievance ; a ship with 300 sick men made the voyage from Balaklava to Scutari in two days , and then waited ten days to land a great number of the men . An extraordinary instance of management was mentioned by Mr . Dundas ::
—" When it was found that the men on the plateau required vegetables , the steamer Harbinger was eent to Constantinople -to purchase -some . . ^—Qn-her . . return Jo Balaklava the captain could find no one to relieve him of his charge—no one would take tlie responsibility of receiving it . They remained on board until a strong remonstrance was made to head-quarters , and then an order was issued by the Commander-in-chief that the officers and men should be allowed to go on board and take the vegetables for paying for them . At that time , however , vegetables were to be had on shore , though at
a great price ; and as there was some difficulty in getting on board few pensooa availed themselves of the permission thus given . Time went on , and the great mass of the vegetables began to rot , and , further representations being made at head-quarters , another order was . issued—the order which ought to have been made at first—tlxat officers and men should be allowed to go and help themselves , without paying . TJio effect of this order was that , though a great proportion of the vegetables had rotted , yet so much of them aa could bo used at all was very soon got rid of . "
Mr . Sidney Hehbekt explained the consequences under which certain societies had given aid for chaplains in the army . Originally it was proposed to send out twelve Church of England men , four Presbyterian ministers , and eight Roman Catholic ministers—the Roman Catholics being the proportion ot about one-third , perhaps loss . Certain religious societies vviahed to send out a larger number , proposing to pay half the expense , and tho consequence was that the numbers sent out were doubled . Amongst the votes passed on those days was 3813000 / . for tho embodiment of tho militia .
,, The House having resolved into Committee on tins bill , on Tuesday , the Loud Chancellor stated that ho proposod to reduce the jurisdiction which tnc petty sessions would have under tho bill from 20 s . to 108 . ; to reduce the power of imprisonment from two lyeara to one year ; to enact that no conviction under the bill should bo attended with any forfeiture ; to include the clectivo magistrates of the City of London within the provisions of the bill ; and to givo p «" r sonera the option of having their cases sumuntiruy ( ftdjudfcu ) j ; ed on , or tried by a jury .
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1855, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2080/page/2/
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