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    previous to going into Committee of Supply , stimulated Lord Palmerston to let off a much more startling missile in the same direction . Mr . M'Gregor called attention to the anarchy that now desolates the Haito * te # rffcsul % i ^ 'expressed his wish that the monarch should _* e compelled to reform , or , as a fifed of milder donative , if the first were impos « fle , that the " *** King should be agtfa re < h * iS to the pe ^ Ger-Talmerston of

    man Prince . To this , Lord —one the founders of modern Greece — replied by charging King Otho and his Government with evasion , corruption , and underhand treachery against the constitution , and by hinting that it would be impossible to anticipate the future policy of England and France . So that Greece is placed side by side with Naples under the shadow of an implied threat .

    . The Scotch Parochial School Bill—a step towards the secularization of schools north of the Tweed by doing away with any Teligious test for the toasters—has passed the second reading in the Commons ; and the Lords have been sitting in committee on the bill for " reformUg" the appellate jurisdiction of that House , by authorizing the Queen to appoint two Deputy Speakers , at 60 G 0 J . a year each , to assist the Lords in their judicial duties ; by allowing the House of Lords ,

    as a legal court , to sit during the vacation or at any time of year ; by imposing on the country a large additional expense in salaries and pensions ; and by hinting at a limitation of the prerogative of the Crown by declaring that the monarch may make four life peers , which is equivalent to saying that no greater number shall be created . The country will hardly be satisfied with this attempt to stave ^> fFsome reform which shall really prevent the last resort of justice being something very

    like a solemn sham ; but , in the meanwhile , the House seemed satisfied , and would not agree with Lord Aberdeen ' s protest , rising out of the depths of his nationality , against hearing Scotch appeals in a court where the majority of the auditors is composed of Englishmen ignorant of the Scotch law . His Lordship proposed a court of final appeal in Scotland ; but the feeling of the House was against him—Lord St . Leonards declaring that English lawyers are by no means ignorant of

    Scotch , law , and even the Duke of Argyll and Lord C ampbell , despite their Caledonian birth and blood , disagreeing with the suggestion . One of the most noticeable features of the discussion , however , was that put forward by Earl Fitzwilliam , wlio reminded the Peers , parenthetically , that they are not a " House , " but an Apartment : the Constitution , he said , supposes their Lordships to ait in an apartment of the Queen ' s palace , and , therefore , they have no right to touch the

    prerogative I ] yir . George Moore , by 88 votes ^ to 59 , and without verbal opposition on the part of any member , has carried his Irish Tenant Right Bill through the second reading . The bill proposes to secure to tenants the proper benefit of their expenditure , either in labour or capital , and to place restraints upon the landlords * powers of eviction .

    While our representatives are making ami unmaking , amending and augmenting , the laws which govern us , the co-ordinate process of defying all such decrees , ns well as those of higher origin , goes on aa usual ; and the law -breakers attract more attention than tho law-makers . The ground swell consequent on tho gi'and Palmer tempest of tho two preceding weeks exhibits

    itself \ fo \ $ week in tho last desperate efforts of the convict t » escape the penalty awarded him . Mr . ' ^ W'lJP'IK ;* ' J- ALMER ' solicitor , has put forth a ' ffltow'f < H | *» e condemned , on tho ground that Dr . yJBA HSM ^ r ^ Itypothesis of complete ubsorption of m ^^ m ^ ffiilt pp tho system after it has done its ^ ttrnfttK ^ jj ^ vided there be np more than in ® fflTOll ^|« gKill , is " new and hypothetical ; " and

    he therefore asks for a Government commission to test the Accuracy of Dr . Taylor ' s assertions—Palmer' * sentence , in the meanwhile , to stand in abeyaaMu The chain of evidence was otofessedly impetfect , inasmuch « 8 strychnine vdfcTio * found in < 3 ooKE ' sibody ; but ^ he weight of the otkttr testjm frfry wa »* O great fliat wB-may grant the partici | fer weakness in goestiofe , and yet vftttftin in possession of an o ^ erwhetaftng case ajpiihst the condemned man . Lord Campbell instructed the jury that it was not necessary , in point of law ,

    that the poison should have been discovered in order that the accused should be found guilty ; and assuredly , as a matter of moral conviction , the case does not rest merely on the grounds of scientific dogma . Still , we cannot refuse to any human being , under such circumstances , a fair consideration of all doubtful points . It must be admitted , also , that a strong feeling is getting abroad in favour of a commutation of the capital sentence . The convict is besieged in his prison by importunate letter-writers , who express their

    commiseration in prose and verse , and generally conclude' their communications with the polite intimation— " an answer will oblige ; " the object of course being mainly to get an autograph of the wonderful man of Rugeley . Petitions in favour of transportation instead of hanging are now lying for signature ; and , upon the whole , it seems as if the exciting bets of " Palmer against Calcraft " might be renewed . Altogether , a singular specimen of our nineteenth century virtue is here presented for the jibes of scoffers and the edification of the thoughtful .

    The police courts do not present us -with much of interest ; but in the Bankruptcy Court the affairs of the sempiternal Mark Boyd have again appeared , with their revelations of gigantic and multiform commercial vice , and the Sadleir disclosures continue . Side by side with those revelations , we have the fact of an extension of clemency

    to Mr . Bates , who , as the sham partner in the house of Stkahan , Paul , and Bates , is considered , and not unreasonably , to have shared only in a minor degree in the guilt of the two veritable partners . But what are we to think of that state of the trading world in which such assumptions of a position not warranted by fact arc of common occurrence ?

    Guilt , however , has not had it all to itself in this bright young summer weather . The week just concluded has been in many respects a week of charity . Not a day has passed without celebrating the anniversaries of several benevolent associations . Benevolence has mated with pantomine at the Lyceum . The Strangers' Homo for natives of the Orient and of Africa was inaugurated by Prince Albert last Saturday ; and on Monday the Queen laid the first stone of the Wellington College , an institution the object of which will be

    Mr . Layard , M . P ., arrived at Constantinople on tin . 20 th ult ., and has been entertained by Lord Stratford dt Redcliffe . Mr . Henry Mayhew , through his friend Mr . Rushton , has published a long correspondence between himself and Dr . Taylor , from whom he demanded an explanation with respect to the assertions on the trial ol Palmer in connexion with Mr . Mayhew . I > r . Taylor refuses to explain , but refers Mr . Mayhew to his solicitors . The di .-jpute , therefore , remains to be settled by law . Masonic Di ' jkitnkr at Oxford . —A masonic dejeuner , in honour of Mr . Beach , M . A ., of Christ Church . one of the masters of the body ( to whom a testimonial was presented ) , was given in Worcester Gardens , Oxford , on Monday . The Vice-Chancellor and the Kail of Carnarvon were among the guests .

    ffavoikrttflttttftter organization of the raw energies kerf our tftoops , and of an improved education " for officers « nd men . In a speech which won the attenti e * < ot « iembers , and drew forth courteous expreswwns fVom Lord Palmerston , Mr . Herbert exhibited the deficiency of our brave soldiers in a knowledge of those practical acquirements which fopaif $ i £ t < Qf the active potency of an army in the tiriifl , and in that capability of self-reliance which is % alf the battle in prolonged operations . He also showed—what the newspapers , ourselves included

    have shown before him—that our officers , relyin e too much on " the guinea stamp , " have neglected a theoretical knowledge of their art ; and he ventured to suggest to the House various plans for remedying these defects from which we have already grievously suffered . Ministers of course would not commit themselves—they never commit themselves except to a blunder ; but they stated that the subject is under their consideration , and that no efforts shall be spared for future

    improvement . Health of Lontk > n . —In the first week of May , the deaths registered in London rose to 1154 ; during the following weeks , they have shown a constant decrease , and In the last week of the month , which ended last Saturday , they were 1027 . In the week preceding that on which the mortality rose , the mean weekly temperature had fallen to 41-3 deg . ; in three subsequent weeks , it rose to 44-3 deg ., 61 * 2 deg ., and 53 * 1 deg . ; and last week it was 53 * 3 deg . In the corresponding weeks of the last ten years , 1846-55 , the average number of deaths was 952 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1047 . The number , as shown by the present returns , is therefore less than , but not materially different from , the estimated amount . The

    number of births registered in the week was 1578 ; and there was an excess of 551 in the number of persons born as compared with those who died . The oldest person recorded in the returns of deaths is a widow who lived in Battersea , and had attained the age of ninetyfour years . A man died from " typhoid fever and melancholia" in the Shoreditch workhouse . Seven days before his death , the police had brought him and his wife to the house from Wellington-street , Kingslandroad , both in a very emaciated state . It appears that he had gone to the docks on the morning of the 21 st ult . in quest of employment , but arrived too late to obtain it , and on returning home had attempted to destroy himself by strangulation . — From the Registrur-GeneraTs Weekly Return .

    " From Oxtobd to Komb . "—The Weekly JiegusUr and Catholic Standard of Saturday announces that two Protestant clergymen have been received into the liomiin Catholic Church . The one is the Kev , F . Temple , M . A ., Fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and hue principal of the Government Training College at Knellur-hall ; ami the other is a son of the cerebrated Kev . Dr . Arnold , ol Rugby . The New Bishop of Carlisi . k and tiik local Cemjstkry . —The new Bishop of Carlisle , taking an opposite course to his predecessor , has consi'Utwl , tfavi * tho Carlisle Journal , to consecrate the cemetery without . requiring the erection of a stone fence or any invidious barrier between the portion of tho ground appropriated to the members of tho Church of England and Hint devoted to persons who are not members of that body . H "

    to take care of the orphans of soldiers . The ceremony took place under beautiful and touching circumstances . The sun shone out with midsummer brightness and heat ; the wind came softly and balmily from the west ; and there , on the woody knoll selected for the building , and glancing over heathy soil and dark , rough moorland to the far metropolis and the wealthy viilley of the

    Thames , tho scene was rendered doubly gladsome by the bright flutter of ladies' dresses and the dare of military scarlet . Rut there was a pathos in tho thought of the many soldiers' orphans which the late war had created ; and tho ^ ui : ion ' s voice faltered as she connected the name of her son Aivrmin with tho great soldier whoso title had bcon given to the building then commenced . And so the criminal side of human nature finds

    e perfectly satisfied with boundary atones . Madame Konconi . —A gentleman , accompanied by « lady who was stated to bo the wife of Hignor lh > i » : «'"< tho singer at tho Italian Opera , applied at Marlboroiig" - street for tho advice of Mr . Binghani . Madame Ho" - coni had been t- 'upunitad from Hignor Honconi tor aoim ' time , her allowances from her husband being :. ' ¦! , <'' '' a year . A report having been spread abroad that Madame Itonconi wart dead , tho allowance wan nt <>|> i > (( 1 > nni 1 tho lady had in consequence been reduced to f-, r ' - diHtrisHH . She had come to thia country to awrt . » " ¦ ' ' claims ; but her husband refused to do anything lowmlher support , on the unfounded pica of adultery in ""'•) and nho was now in great distress . Mr . Bingliam s »" tho applicant could cither commit » v ( solicitor or "" n " apply to the authorities of the parish in which six « '"' at present living .

    its balance in active sympathy , and regardfor the necessities of others . The constitution of the nriny came before tho notice of tho House on Thursday , on tho occasion of a speech by Mr . Sidnky Hkkmkut in

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1856, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2144/page/2/