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number of twenty , over and above the inmates of a private dwelling-house , for religious worship . The act belongs to a series for putting down Nonconformists and other proscribed sects . IWs now useless except to pwrentefetKe members of the Church of England , who nmst be the most guarded in infringing state discipline , from en--gaging with each other , or witlwnembers of ofctnar persuasions , to promote evangelical movements among the heathen ., Lord Shaftesburt found no resistance to his plan for encouraging
missionary enterprise among-the- 5 , 000 , 000- heathens in England , exeepffrom the Bishops ^ who hel d a meeting in the morning on purpose to declare war against the pious Earl . However , he carried the day against the bishops , and a contest between mitred obstructives and Lord Shaftesbury is likely to revive the question as to the real power and influence of the prelates in the House of Lords . The position of Mr . Lowe perplexes people more than the peculiar treatment of the Australian Constitution Bills . The story of the bills is a
romance of Parliamentary life . In 1850 the Crown gave assent to a-bill permitting the Australian colonies to frame constitutions for themselves , under certain limitations . Lord Grey had been for some time trying to tinker the colonies , and the bill of 1850 was the enactment of a grand " peccavi . " The gracious colonies received it in very various modes ; but every one of them has treated its restrictions as sportsmen treat fences : the higher the merrier . The Colonial Bills are enacted on the steeple-chase principle , and are sent home ,
where they are duly subjected to a great shaking of the head , for their audacity ; and then they are incorporated in schedules of bills laid before Parliament , in order to sanction the greater part of the colonial enactments , with some reserve to save the Imperial dignity . Here Mr . Lows steps in , objecting-to the whole transaction . He cannot bear to see the colonies placing the Imperial
authority in contempt ; he cannot bear to see the Imperial Government interfering with local business . So , he proposes that the bills be sent back , and that the governor be empowered to give the assent to any bills that the local Legislatures may pass . There would be two very obvious results from this course ; imperial dignity would not be saved and colonial business would be hindered . No one oustht to know that better than
Mr . Lowe . It would be to get a colonial triumph at the expense of an immense colonial inconvenience . Yet Mr . Lowbj who lately tried his hand as Secretary to the Board of Control and then retired , is held to be an independent statesman , walking the hospitals of the public departments , as the study for a future professional career in high
politics . He is supposed to have had some deep design in view—something that will make him appear to the British Empire wiser than all other statesmen whatsoever . His present course , however , is so wise , that ordinary folks cannot understand it ; and they assume him to have been , like Mr . Gladstone , engaged in some wonderful Oxonian mystery , intelligible only to the initiated .
The Professorship of Civil Law at Oxford , vacated some time ago by the death of Dr . PinijL imorib , has been conferred on Dr . Travibrs Twiss . Wo owe Dr . Twiss a grudge for bringing his Puffendohfs to the aid of despotism and injustice in his pamphlets on Hungary and Schleswig Holstein . But ho is a learned and eminent civilian , and the appointment is a just one , if the Professorship is to
be , ns it has hitherto been , a sinecure and a mere decoration . Wo had hoped , however , that , the study of Civil Law having been revived at O xford in connexion with the History School , the Professorship would bo a sinecure no longer , and that the Professor would bo required to reside and superintend the working of his school . Parliament is rather at a discount just now . Ministers have succeeded in damping the
Administrative Reform movement , and the censorious motions on * the war , ' by adopting a highly warlike tone , and carrying out some show of deparfcmental ^ rafiSwns . Of thesey ~ the most conspicuous is thosrnew organisation ^ of the War Department , with a- > plan oiitexaminatfon for admitting- young men to commissions and high studentshi ps in artill&gr antfcengineerin ^ at Wbolwich ,-by . ppblic examina * H « r . If members have been active in attacking Ministers through Parliament , they have received a severe rebuke from Prince Albert ,
who was chairman at the dinner of the Trinity EldeHBtfotfaers on Saturday , and who read to such obtrusive members a lecture on the inconvenience of representative Government in warfare against an autocrat that can keep his own secrets and issue his own orders . The country , said Prince Albert , ought to have confidence in Lord Pa immersion , whose health he was drinking . So they have , said Lord Palmersxon , in returning thanks ; for he did not admit the premise—the want of support . Three questions are suggested by Prince Albert ' s admonition : Are the members . more prying than politic , when they drag out
replies that convey information to the enemy , ? Are Ministers justified in yielding to parliamentary pressure disclosures that really damage the country with the enemy ? Is the Prince Consort of the Queen exactly the person to make this appeal on behalf of Ministers from ^ the Houses of Parliament to the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House ? Prince Albert talks exceedingly good sense ; but we have yet to learn that exalted personages with royal privileges have a right to talk sense when and where they please . Decidedly it is a subversive innovation which adds dangerously to the privileges of the order .
On the other hand , of course , the same objections cannot be entertained to Prince Albert's appearance in Copenhagen-fields , as the Augur opening the new cattle-market . He is himself an authority in stock , and the example of George the Third has almost compelled the British Sovereign , by self or proxy , to combine the calling of Cincintstatus with other constitutional duties . The occasion , indeed , was the more striking ,
since the Corporation had sedulously resisted every attempt to remove the market from Smithfield . They had pertinaciously resolved to take their pigs to another market ; and now they invited the Prince to commemorate the occasion of their bringing their pigs to Copenhagen-fields . He praised them heartily for what they had endeavoured not to do ; and they departed exulting in the duty that had been forced upon them .
Crops and commerce are upon the whole in fine condition . The rain would look ugly , if it were ripening time ; but , as the short old gentleman in the omnibus says , with a beaming forgetfulness of self , "these warm rains make every thirty grow . " And the Bank has just reduced its discount from four to three-and-a-half per cent , ; which places that laggard establishment only in the rear of every other firm in the metropolis ; so that it is still safe , with something of discount yet to spare . The manufacturing districts arc improving rather than otherwise . The only check to the generally fair report is the astounding appearance of Sir John JJ / oan Paul in the Bankruptcy Court , as one of the firm of Strahan and Co . I 5 ut a firm
that is in fashionable society , and speaks Italian , is therefore , in courtesy , bound to speculate in Italian Railways , and is very likely to find its West-end liabilities compromise it with its commercial liabilities . Such incidents are l ) ut commonplace . In London the fall of one house drags others with itj . pcoplo talk a good deal ; the fewness of the shillings in the pound constitutes tho wonderment of tho day ; and then commerce goes on as before . If Paul and Co . have failed , the bank discount in lowered half per cont ., and tho Allies are getting on famously in the Crimea .
Tjijo Gallkky of J ' lh / . stkation in indo / utigublo in following up the events of tho war , -which , utmost hh soon as they occur , are bora brought piotorinlly before tho oyo of tho public . Among tho recent ml < litioiiH we notice — " Englinh Mortar . Hatfcory ; tho Iludun and Itiflo-pit . s ; General . Poliuflior ' rt Night Attack ; and Mr . Forgtisson'a New System of i . <\> rtin <; iition . " 'i'lio lecture by Mr . Stooqueler on tho Events of the War still contimififl ; and thoso who have onco heard that gontlomnn ' n clear , straightforward , and unafToetod mode of iuMt . ruetinghln audience , . will need no further guarantee that ovory requisite element iu Hiioh a dincourso in forthcoming .
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THE FBKMOY PEERiftE . The Earl / btfUERBT , on Monday , called attention 1 the circuaratancewNinder which Mr . Roche had late ] been elevated . to the Peerage of Ireland as Bare Fermoy * According to the Act of Union , the Crow has thei ppwer of creating a new peer in Irelar whenever— tliree .. of the existing peerages becon extiarct . Biit . t . intthe present case , two of the thr < titles which have lapsed have been held by or person . Lord Derby therefore contended that tl creation is illegal ; and he also objected to Mr . Jtocl as having been a very violent opponent of the Estai lished Church of Ireland , and an energetic partiss of the repeal agitation- of 1843 . H © concluded t
moving that the subject be referred to the consider tion of a Committee of Privilege . —Lord Gra . nvh . li in reply , stated that the Government had refem the question to the law officers of the Crown i Ireland , to one of the law officers in England , ar also to the Attorney-General of Lord Derby ' s a < ministration ; and they all concurred in the opinic that the creation could be legally made . He defend * the character of Mr . Roche . —A legal argumei followed , in which Lord St . Leonards , Loi Brougham , the Lord Chancellor , the Earl < Wicklow , Lord Campbell , and tlie Earl of Hari wicke , took part ; and finally the motion was agree to .
ABSENCE OF THE SPEAKER . In the Commons , at the forenoon sitting , th Speaker thanked the House for the arrangements b which his absence had been provided for during hi recent illness . He adverted to the circumstance < doubts having arisen as to whether Lord Haddo an Mr . Tite had taken the oaths and their seats accord ing to law in his absence ; and , after quoting th words of the act , declined to offer any opinion of hi own , but suggested to the House to consider wha course should be adopted lest actions might b
brought against those members for assuming thei seats without having taken the oaths in the presenc of the Speaker . —Sir George GaEr mentioned tha he had consulted several legal authorities ; and , thei opinion being that the point is doubtful , h thought a bill should be immediately brought in t prevent any legal proceedings taking place . —Thii course met with general approval ; and , in the eveninj sitting , leave was given to bring in a bill in accord ance with the suggestion . It was then brought in and read a first time .
ADMIRAL DUNDAS ' S DESPATCHES . In reply to Mr . Ellice , Sir Charles Wood said that the Government despatches to Admiral Dundaa quoted by Mr . Sidney Herbert , in the debate oi the war , would be laid on the table of the House Extracts from the answers of Admiral Dundas wouli also be produced . EDUCATION ( NO . 2 ) BILL . The debate on the second reading of this bill adjourned from the 2 nd of May , was resumed b ) Mr . Adderley , who objected to reading the bill together with Lord John Russell ' s and Mr . Milnei Gibson ' s bills , proformd , and then referring them to a select committee . The principle of a measure shoulc
always be discussed at the second reading , a com mittee not affording a proper opportunity for such dig cussion . He approved on the whole of the mensiin introduced by Sir John Pakington ; but he dissented from the new school clauses , because the existing religious bodies , if they are provided with sufficient means , will maintain schools enough , without itf being necessary to create new ones by means ol these clauses . Ho disagreed with Mr . Henley thai the proposals of Sir John Fakington and Lord John Russell would supersede the existing system . They would do no more than supply its deficiencies . The effect of the bill would be to stimulate , assist , and direct , private charity , as tho Poor-law has done . The present system of education is deficient , and never can be made complete . But from the two bills of Sir John Pakington and Lord John Russell ft satis
measure might bo struck out which would bo - factory to the country . The proposal of Mr . jUilner Gibson , that the teaching at national schools should bo entirely exclusive of religion , Mr . Adderloy conceived to bo ao utterly mistaken that lie declined to nrgU 0 it . _ Mr . Evklyn Dknison pointed out what ho conccived to be n material omission—namely , that there was no provision to enforce- nttonihinoo upon sol'oois . —Lord John Mannkks opposed the bill before tic House ( that of Sir John 1 ' akington ) , saying that no felt great pain in doing so , but that ho was convinced of tho mischievous nature of the measure , which would introduce religious contention and ui » - ordor . An educational rate would bo eoiiHiilercu burdensome ; and ifc is known that free solioolH nro sometimes worse attended than any others , WiM r \ the people do not set any great . vuLuo J'EP" " ' which they do not earn or purchase for them sij vj- Tho present system , if lot alone , would supply' * tho defects imputed to it . Two millions ol <; lul ' , nro now being educated by privato charity ; aim
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554 THE LEADER . [ SAt ™ : day ,
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Leader (1850-1860), June 16, 1855, page 554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2095/page/2/
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