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rights ; and how , therefore , a candidate possessing the confidence of the entire Union would be as powerful an instrument for settling all questions of slavery , as a candidate who represents only one side in the Republic , and would be prepared to lead that side in civil conflict against the other half of the household . * - « trL __ But the most imiportaaitmjmwfa tnor WttCJ ^ - ? he intelligence which wesen # « ut , that owr > Mft India force is to be increased ** We are toRl » Ib without any instructions that gfc likely to leggjja hostilities : why the . very . ^ mq « tolication ot ** P may lead to hostili ** , esrj ^ flg ^ hyhen tfi « BB */ nips are officered by captains who axe proverbial tor their daring , and ambitious to distinguish themselves .
. . It is impossible to separate this American question from the question of Italy . Parliament , however , has shown little disposition to meddle . It has fallen in with the Ministerial ; desire to be off for the holidays ; and although the state of public business renders it probable that members will be detained in town longer than they expeet , they may still hope to get off in time for the first day of the shooting season . It is almost the only thing on -which they do agree tlfcth Government . As to the measures of the Ministry , the faithful Commons have lately taken
upon themselves to make mincemeat of them . They have disposed of divers important bills this week . The Public Health Bill was thrown over , as a . project for perpetuating and increasing jobbery ; for the House of Commons can lend itself to Gant as well as any corporation . Mr . Lowe ' s Partnership Amendment Billy which extends limited liability to sleeping partners in private firms , has been materially narrowed by an amendment which prevents the lender of capital who is repaid by profits from withdrawing it until every other creditor shall be satisfied .
The grand battle , however , has been over the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill . The Commons showed the utmost indisposition to accept this measure , for the sake of peace-making between the Government and the Peers . On the contrary , the > appearance of a compromise only rendered members move suspicious o £ a . scheme for per-2 etH » ting . the appellate jurisdiction in the Lords , who have no reaf training in such business . ^ They tf&oi suspected a plan for at once legalizing the Creation ofXife Peers , and yet limiting that prerogative : unburying the prerogative , to place it at the service of the Cabinet , in the appointment of removable judges ! By great persuaaion of
independent lawyers , far more than of the Government lawyers—who avowed their dislike to the measure—the House of Commons passed the second reading- ; bufi on Thursday voted , by 155 to 133 , for . Mr ,.. Kaxkjks Cvsnis ' a motion referringthe bill to a select committee . The select committee of course cannot , in . the three remaining weeks of the session ,, overhaul the measure 5 a its details , its effects upon the prerogative , the nature * of " the court , ther connexion , ot that court with the Peers , the proposal for three Peers to eit notwithstanding ! the prorogation of Parliament , and many other incidents arising out of the measure . The vote , therefore , as Lord Paimebston says , Bend ) $ the measure to next session .
There is * something amiss amongst the Bishops . The House of Commons declines , and successive foreign Sswtretariea / abet the refusal , to let the Bishop of New , Zwdand have a , salary . He must do his work a fWlove , " unless the colony will pay him . So there is a Parliamentary end to pious atndi witty Bishop Sat-wTw , the friend of Sro > ianY Sferara ! LoKDOi * and * Durham wish to resign , as- they feel unfitted for their duties ; and a Bill ie introduced to provide them with superannuated peri' - siongr . Mnny think that other Bishops ought to he * superannuated : but how is it that Bishops can
retire P The idea appears to be ? a > novelty ; it is supposed to militate against » fundamental princi $ W ; of the Cluirch ; and people aek why this modeBl-Iooking bill , which involves such great changes In ' # \ e constitution , is introduced " at tliis lfoW'Jfeiiittffo ' f flte aeiteibn . " Although' tbtf session ife ao late , the House of Commons haa hftditoweloetae * new member—Sir WWiLiAM WitMAM « -t-w ] iom the ? Whig proprietors of , Calno httve appointed to the House of Commons . Besides , therefore , being a General , QottnMandor nt Wdorwicfy rJ * r 6 net , arid K . C . B ., SSr > WifituM is * n ] MlkP . j and ft » ecnt ME . P . ho has figured , this wook at a Mansion Hwtose burner . He assure * ub that in Parliament he will derate
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himself to the task of maintaining the efficiency of our focces during p « see . If Sir Wiixiam does stick to tllffct dotj * be will find othersHo support him , at leHb ortsof djebrs . The Cjiwi ii entered London on Wednesday , and weoaMtelconaed by London . There appeaoed to be mm exception to fbe universal atffilaim fcy wWtffc they were gWMlrf . jU * hou ^ k « n * Horse-Guwis h « l been attk ti * show their gpnrigmg ' spiiofe an # tad by tfgjme * pcalt influewiife been peradtted •» mutiny igpunstrtfee authoritjSllf the < iiniiugiii . * HBBrtmentT-- « ie \ 3 farDepaBtiii * ii they were compelled to H « imiiNM soldiers fstfteturnby the great western highway , Parliament-street ; and at one part or another the population of London had sent its vast multitude ; . 1 jo atand '
present . ^^ Two nrenr were absent from that welcome . One of them , indeed , had already attended the soldiers at Aldershott , —Lord Hakdesge ; but there , ki the presence of the Queen , he suddenly fell to the earth , stricken by a malady which has been dedescribed as " a rush of blood to the head . " Others g ive it a more formidable name ; and although the Conamander-in-Chief is said to be recovering , we scarcely anticipate that he will resume his duties . The other was Sir Richard Aibet , who stopped away on some plea of an accident to his eyes . The pretext may be true ; but people smile , and ask whether he was afraid to face either the soldiers or the public after his vagaries as a "flippant official . ' *
Our journalists are crowing over two more " difficulties" in the United States—two more cases of personal encounter , in which gentlemen have met each other with cowhide , revolver , or bowie knife . The incidents are extremely disgraceful . Nevertheless , we cannot help noting that our calmer , and perhaps tamer gentry , is represented' this week in various courts . In one court we see a- rich lawyer bring an action of criminal conversation against the young wife ,, who has been compelled to marry him , and retracting the settlement on her . In another , a brewer
defends himself against a suit for the breach of his promise to marry a youngs lady whom he had sought out for his bride r and deserted , apparently in fear of his mamma . In a third , the bankruptcy of that " general-merchant , " CouE whose enormous swindling has involved many a City man , is again under review . And In a fourth , the well-known barrister , Richabd Dunn , is at last consigned to his proper destiny by being sent to a lunatic asylum , for adding the Princess Maby of Cambridge to the ladies whom he has pestered with his frightful obtrusions . Everybody will congratulate Miss Bubdett Cotttts .
Mr . Richard Dcnn declared Lnsanb . —Kiohard Dunn , the celebrated persecutor of Miss Burdett Coutts , was brought before the Bow-street magistrate on Thursday , upon the authority of . an . order previously issued by his worship , directing an inquiry aa to his state of mind . The proceedings ¦ were taken in consequence of some letters which were addressed to the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary . These had been submitted to the Commissioners of Police , by whom , with the sanction of tho Home Secretary , application was made for the present order to bring Mr . Dunn before a magistrate aa a lunatic at large . He appears to have been under the impression that the Princesa Mary was in love with him- In one of his letters to her , he writes : — " Do not think lightly of the difficulties of my position , one lady hunting me to distraction because I won ' t have her , and another because I wish to have her . A Christian death
were better than such a life I Ho also thought the Queen was in love with him , and ho asserted that the palace doors were thrown open to him , but ho refused M to go that way . " Dr . John Lav « r « , one of tho medical witnesses , was subjocted to a long period of " bullying , " rathor than ccoas-examination , aud -was asked to define " ethica" and " mathematics , " to repeat tho sentiments of Locke on the Human Under'standing , in special relation- to insanity , and to state what constituted a fool . Finally , with vulgn » effrontery , Mr . Dunn desired the witness' to got a looking-glass , and save himself tho trouble of tho definition . Dr . Sutherland was another
witness , and mentioned various of Mr . Dunn ' s delusions . Tho lunatic said ha had written to Lord I ' alinoraton to complain that lio could not walk the streets without being watched , and that , if this annoyance wore not put a- stop to , he would put a case of pistols in his pocket , and shoot tho first person ho met who was watching him . In a long harangue to the magistrate , Mr . Dunn assorted that ho had seen tho Earl of Minister , who hud assured him that the lady was in love with him , « nd required his worship to adjourn the case for tho purpose of examining that and other witnesses . Mr . Henry , tho magistrato , ordorod that ho should bo put undor restraint .
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . ¦
• . —?—. Monday , July 7 tk . IHl Rfcffcl Assent was given by commiss Hfbcaa «•* Xoeds , to several bills . TM * HA . WAB OF SUB AT TREATY BnVl M- lengthened discussion arose as to the Surat | lipBitjy BUI , considerable doubt being ay ft * rikither it ought to be treated as a private Otith — Lord Redksdale then moi the Dill be read second
amaMhiBHD ^ tlrat a tin ate months *^— "Shis amesdment having bein ly the Dukfr of Ahoyls , who intimated tb ; vernmewt did n # t support the Will , it was agreed to , after a discussion , in which the Di GYL . L , and Lords Clanricarde , Eixenbob Axbemarle , took part , and in which a str < was expressed that the question at issue b Nawab of Surat and the East India Compan heard and decided before the Judicial Comm ;
Privy Council . The Small Debts Improvement Act A ( Scotland ) Bilx was read a third time , and THE CORPORATION OF LONDON . Sir James Duke , in the absence of Mr . St ley , inquired whether the Government will City Corporation in passing a bill , during , session , to extend the right of voting for aid common councillors to all . occupiers within tb are on the Parliamentary register . —Sir Geo doubted the policy of passing a bill for one ol still , if the measure could be introduced at t period of the session , the Government would it .
MR . JAMES SA-DLEIB . Mr . J . D . Rtzgeraxd , in answer to M stated the steps taken on behalf of the Crowi Bfr . James Sadleir , as well as the precautions Ms leaving Ireland before the issue of thi denying in the most direct terms that he had 1 mitted" to escape by any connivance on the ] Government . If he had left Ireland , it must before the 3 8 th of June , and in consequence irregular observations made by the Master of in Ireland , who had said the law officers of I would be guilty of complicity if they did not Mr , James Sadleir . The Government was take steps for the arrest of that person till th June . Since that time , their efforts had- < active .
At a later period of the evening , in reply Fbench , Mr . J . D . Fitzgerald bore testinu high character of the Master of the Kolla in I ) repeated that the observations which had f him respecting the Tipperary Bank were irre ; that , if the person charged with crime ht country , it had been brought about by thoc tions . THE WEST INDIA STATION . Admiral Walcott inquired whether a
fever had a second time broken , out in one of on the West India Station , and whether or n < miralty contemplated removing her from th —Sir Charles Wood said the vessel referred Termagant ; but it was not true that a malig had broken out on board of her . There had cases of yellow fever , not an uncommon occ the West Indies , and the ship had been si northward , whicb -was oonBidered to be the b in such cases .
Tho order for going into committee on the PitoFKasioN Bill was discharged , on occou lateness of the session .
WAYB AND MEANS . The report of the committee of Ways and 1 brought up . On the question that it be re < agreed to , several observations were made i members on questions of current interest . Lord John Russell suggested that an should bo named for considering the comm which had takon placo on Italian affairs , and a might be expected from tho declarations mi Paria Conferences . — Sir Hicnry Willow i piUincd that the resolutions of the committee passed in tho absence of information , and call ) planation upon certain points , especially with
to tho balance of ways and means . —The Cil ov this ExcnEQUBR stated that certain ace quired to elucidate the matters roforrod to had yet prepared . — Some remarks upon the sul muido by Mr . Williams , Mr . Dibhaiilt , and Si Rahing . Tho resolutions of tho committee were agree AIU'KLLATK JURISDICTION ( iIOUHR OK * LORDS On tho order for tho second reading of this Evklyn Dknibon presented a petition from L ( loydale ( who was present below tho bar ) , pra lliat House would make such amendments in t
would leave tho Koyal prorogativo and his ri , and vote in tho IIoiiho of Lords ontiroly ima tho bill . —Tho second reading was moved bj rouNKT-GnNiflRAL , who called attention to t \ factory state- of the legal jurisdiction of I Iotibo , and cxprcsHcd hia belief that there wei
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650 THE LEABEB . [ No . 329 , Sattte
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Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1856, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2149/page/2/
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