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* Monday , February 25 th . THE . APPfiUJMPfc <' a $ imiSDICmON OB THE HOUSE OF LORDS . Loto IjfotfJHUKST , in the House or Lords , gave noticfe that , unless some other noble lord should make a motiott' on the subject , he Bhould in a few days call the attention of their Lordships to the state of judica ture in that House , with a ¦ view to applying a suitable remedy .
COMMITTEE 0 J ? PRIVpiEKlES . Lord Redesdale brougHt up' tlie report of the Committee of Privileges on the Wensleydale Life Peerage , -when Lord GKAjfViiiiiE declared that the Government had no intention of again dividing the House on . the question . The position of the Government was one of no little difficulty , inasmuch as a large majority of the House had declared the illegality of that which the law-officers of the Crown pronounced to be legal ; but they desired to consider the question in the calmest light , and they relied on a corresponding feeling on the part of their Lordshi ps . Lord Wensleydale would put himself entirely in the hands
of the Government , and would not attempt to take his seat until time had . been given for due consideration . —Lords Campbell and Debby expressed their great satisfaction with the assurances given by Lord Granyille ; and Lord Derby stated h 5 s opinion that it would facilitate the further consideration of the question , if the Queen were to create Lord Wenaleydale an hereditary peer , The introduction of life peerages he thought would be highly injurious . As regards any good resulting in the way of greater facility in the discharge of judicial duties , the remedy would probably be worse than the disease . He concluded by giving notice of Ms intention on Thursday to move for a select committee to consider the expediency of
making provision for the more efficient discharge of . the duties of the Souse as a Court of Appeal . —The Marquis of Lansdowne congratulated the House on the temperate tone which the discussion had assumed . Nothing could be further from , the desire either of himself or of his colleagues than to impair the hereditary -character of the House , ¦ which he regarded with great veneration ; but the ereatibiirof a few peers for life would not affect that principle . Their Lordships should recollect . that there is another prerogative growing in force every ctay , the prerogative of public opinion , which would be sufficient to override both the prerogatives of the Crown acad the privileges of that House , if either of them were strained beyond their due limits .
After some further discussion , in which Lords Maxmesbtjry , Brougham , Campbell , Grey , Gbanville , and others , took part , the report of the committee was received .
TJ . SJL 4 . IOA . In the HpusE op Commons , Mr . La . bouohere , hi answer to Mr . Duncqmbe , stated that he" had no objection to lay on the table the paper 3 explaining the circumstances connected with the proroguing of the Legislative Assembly of Tasmania , by Sir Homy Young . The Government had sent out instructions which would jn -event a recurrence of the like interference with the legislative functions of the colony for the future . Mr . Labouohere was of opinion that the Governor had committed an orror of judgment in putting himself in opposition to the Legislative Council , on a point in respect to which he was in the wrong , and he ( Mr . Labouohere ) had stated his opinion to the Governor ; but he could not say whether the Governor was wrong in proroguing the Council .
COMMISSION UPON THE CRIMEAN REPORT . Mr . Roebuck gave notice that , on Friday , on tho motion for going into Committee of Supply , lie would move the following resolution :- —»" That to appoint ft commission of general officers to report upon tho report of Sir J . M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch is to substitute an iaemoient for a very efficient means of investigation , and that such appointment will tend to strengthen an opinion already prevalent that tho veal purpose of such proceeding ia to shelter incompetence , and to excuse the misconduct of those by whom various departments of our army have been subjeotod to tho command of proved incapacity . " Tho imports of the Committoe of Supply , and of tho Committee of Ways and Mba-nh , wore brought up and agreed to .
In a Committoo of Ways and Means , on tho motion of Mr . Wilson , a resolution was i . greecl to for a gmnt upon tho Consolidated Fund for the amount of the Supplemental Estimates .
LOCAL DUBS ON SHIPPINO TiU . h . Sir Fiiederiok TjukbiuEii moved to dofor tho flooond rending of this bill for flix months . 'Iho principle in-volvod in tno measure— that of taking away oo-rporato property without oorripenaiitiou—tended to shako the security of all exioh property . The first portion of the bill , relating to panning tolls , which mo not private property , did not call for ; opposition ; no * did tho fourth part , ooncorntag olmritiea . But groat Injustice characterised the so < oond part , whioli proposed to trftnafor all rates , duos , duties , and import ta upon
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to withdraw the bill , ^ nd to recommence the consideration of the subject " in select committee . " * Mr . Mdntz dashec } in amongst the currency on Thursday night , and Birmingham had a revel in the House of Commons . JPb . e h ^ ourable am&gailant member bearded aH ^ t&ie ''< b OJ |^ ceIlors '' 'Of th | e £ Exchequer , past , present , andffttjfcure , and called them roundly to account fo ^ their * . stupidity and tteason
They had not yet beefcable ^ Ke says , to . answer the question , " What Is a pound ? " Nor has any currency given to that question a practical answer since the days of William the Conqueror . At that day , he says , "§ pound of silver was worth a pound . " Mr . Mumtz , we presume , would propose to revive that silver age . He wishes to make money " cheap , * and to have a pound worth
a pound . If he were tq » bring in a measure consistent with the laws of Wilham the Conchjeror , every cabman would expect a nugget , or at least a pfe . ee ; . of paper ; for Mr . M * jntz seems faithful to tfe Birtaing ^ of silver la ^ jft ^ pte ^ exact equiv alents of each other , if we will only call them hy the same naine . H ow much of this controversy wpuld * e ; sp ^ ea | as 5 | r . JBk ^ cj ^ Cfk ' retnarked , if foul sovereigns Were niad « e frotipi an exact onnce of gold ;
andywe may addi if ^ e £ c . i sQV' ^ reign ^ ere ; 'called : the quarter-ounce , and ; i&acle the unit . The slightdiscrepancy between th > e name aad thething , although we know very well that we mean something less than a quarter of aa ounce , constitutes an obscurity iftjt ' w £ ^\ ini ! ad 3 r ^ d ~ i $ ' £ n % bpportunitjr in-which the Binnirighaui ^ iupscipl ^ has bicc ^ Htoniprtal . All l ^ ifE ^ M tAHS oKthe tattle Shilling ; ; party came forth mstrengthi ; Me ' MitsHrzESi the Spooners , the NeWi > E ( 5 ^ te ^ . The CHA ^ rcELtofe of the
of Sos ^ l . 3 |^ . ^ S « 4 ^ ERT INGKAM > a native of , the Lindplh ttfwiiij , anyone of the most successful > men of ^ pr day . TheifbRD Mayor has been hospitably entertaittittig Mr . Buchaktan —in his absence * for the Araterican ^ Minister h ad a peremptory invitation on the same" day to dine with the Queen . At the Maiision- ^ house Mr . Cobden said some excellent things , which will show to America what is real English feeling ; and will tell reckless men at home what would be English risks in a war with the United States .
While administrative reform is arrested at headquarters , the want of it has been allowed to accumulate the most frightful and disgusting miseries in a metropolitan workhouse . St . Pancras is the scene . Hemember that the officers * . there have to deal with a people in a state of peculiar need and weakness—with the debilitated , the sick , and the insane . We find , then , the out-door poor patients crowded into pens , in such an atmosphere , and for so long a time , that the women who come for bread , faint from exhaustion , and numbers are Icepl ; until half-past three o ' clock before they can b " e released . In the sick ward , ten male patients
and twb women are lying on the ilodr ; in another the children-are so crowded , that cutaneous disease spreads by contact ; and the air is charged with 1 * . 1 , 4 or 2 " 75 per cent , of carbonic acid gas . From this workhouse , so inadequate to its purpose that the very insane ward is crowded , many are entirely excluded . Niggardliness is the avowed cause of this inismahagetiatent ; but the new Board of Guardians , which has helped to expose the condirion of the house , is responsible for its improvement What , however , is the defence of the poorer classes when such a state of things can arise to continue through successive years ?
ExciSEQU er showed himself foif the sake of decorumj hutil ^ RiJMBiQjjNpjiije banker and wit , is the proper p ^ liwicra ^ Bte |>* 6 p ^^^^ uTO ajE ^ stopper . Aivthur TbifNGadvise ^ ; lhat- ihe clferk of the Convention ; of . ;| P ^ syshoMa \^ irast ' '' liu . uikstand down the ; ihroalb of the first > ri ' an that shpixld talk about coin , and Mri Brummokd prescribed the same application to people titter the Muntz malady . Mr , Muntz repudiate ^ " the pill , and the House repudiated his motion l > y 116 to 58 .
The question of Marriage Law and its judicial treatment was brought before the House of Comjmo ^ s on Thutaday night , by Mr : J . G . Philli-• jSitoRiBi " - . .. who narrated the painful story of Mrs , TALfiOT . We slialV have' to deal with that subject and some others next week . The House declined to reopen a subject j « aicially decided , and the motion was withdrawn . It was stated , however , distinctly , that a Divorce Bill had been hitrPduced into the House of Lords , that in the course of the next month , at the second reading , witnesses would be examined on oath as to the truth of the statements ; and' that at last we are of
' hkely to have j ^ redress injustice . be ; hoped that there is no doubt aa to the prosecution 'of 'the Divpvce Bill , but that it will be pressed to its final stage . There are a few parliamentary elections going forward , but ; they are not of a kind to call forth any political feeding / They will be decided almost
^ entirely by personal considerations . Mr , Sadleik ^ having Vacated Sligo , three' or four gentlemen have f ^§! tQd ; and'tliie simple question is , who has raus-;;(; ti ^ d the largest amount of individual and local ^ IS ^^ 7 A& a tribute t 0 fcllc coun try gentlemen ' -ft ^ lfe ^ o ° uao of Lovds / by bringiwg a £ ^ $ !^ f " wcruit to' their ranks , Sir Wijo-^ fll . ^ aip ^ Hf . JiBw been created Lord Avk-• ;^^ P ? ' ^ e »^ 8 ^ cceeacd ' by his son , Mr . Om . » Kr * H ^ WM ; in the hereditary position ^ s member f ^ Butift ^ hi ^ ; which opem the gatofi
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194 T H jS LEADER . [ No . 310 , Saturday ,
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Heahph of . London . —The returns of the London registrars continue to show a very satisfactory state of the public health . In th . o week that ended on Saturday , the deaths of 1 , 062 persons , viz ., 541 males and 521 females , were registered . In the corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was 1 , 200 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1 , 320 . Hence the deaths returned last week were less by 258 than would have occurred in the present population under the average rate of mortality at this period of the
year . The six epidemic diseases which contribute more to the total mortality than auy others in the same class , with , the exception of cholera at particular seasons , were fatal last week in the following order : —Typhus qaused 57 deaths ; hooping cough , 40 ; scarlatina , 28 ; measles , 17 ; diarrhoea , 11 ; and amall-pox , 10 . Eight deaths from typhus were returned from Islington West , the sub-district ia wluoh the Fever Hospital is situated . Hoxton and Haggerstono seom to suffer from it to some extent . Mr . Upjohn , the
registrar of Pentormlle , states that hoo ping-cough lias lately beeu very prevalent ia his district ; hut in the London districts generally it was less fatal last woek than is usual in the month of February . Twelve children died £ of croup , one of purpuva , one of intermittent fever , two of infantile remittent fevor . One person diod of influenza , and one of rheumatic fever . Last week , the births of 886 boys and 983 girls , in . all 1 , 818 children , were registered in London . In the ton corresponding weeks of the years 1846-66 , the average number was 1 , 564 . —Front the Itegistrm ' -Qcneral ' s Weekly Jkt'wrn ,
A STRAwaia Story from Malta .. —" A lady , well leuowu in Maltose society , " anys tho Malta Beacon , t ( the wife of one of our most respected follow-oitizons , who has herself a eon in the Turkish Contingent , ia accused , of haying entered iuto n plofc to betray tho city of Tripoli , and the garrison of our Turkish ally , into the hands of tho x'ebel Qhouraa . Tho ludy In question is well known in Malta for her liberal
Bymnathies . Tho documents disclosing this plot hiwo been brought to light , i \ ti <\ his Exoollenoy tho Governor was written to , to know who and what tho l « . dy wne , and we believe that she has already boon sent for to tho palnce three times upon the Bubjeot . " —It is aaid that tho Turkish Government has come to a oompromiBo with Qhoumn , honourable to both pnrtiea . f ho pretensions of the rebel Itavo been ao knowledged , and ho has been reinstated aa governor of hie native province .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1856, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2130/page/2/
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