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consideration during the recess ; though experience tells us that next year a new measure is most likely to be brought forward . The idea of the project is , to make the Vice-President a member of the House of Commons , and a really responsible Minister of Education ; concent ««* Wg in his own person the ( tatties « pcl powew or UJft office . So far good : the subj ** will cease , to to everybody ' s business . . . .- __» hawe been sacriagtdj
More measures , however , among those which h * pe been < i * gag ing Pa * Ha * prt during the session . One of *| Rem is Mr . D «* e s Partnership Amendment Bill , with a consolatory statement , however , from Mr . Lowe , on high legal authority , that there is at present no law toi prevent a capitalist from lending money to a private trader , and to take his remunerationin proportion to profits , without incurring the liabilities of partner . Divorce Bill
The Matrimonial Causes and , described by Lord Palmerston as " a subject of great magnitude and importance , " is not to go forward this session . It will be reintroduced next session , but without the clause in the present bill which prohibits divorced persons from marrying their paramours , " a clause which he considers immoral and cruel . " One of the grand reforms that were specially anticipated at the hands of the present Government has been passed by . There was a strong expectation that when , the office of Commander-In-Chief should fall vacant , by the resignation of
Lord Hajldxnge , the office would be placed in commission , to be executed by a Board like the Board of Admiralty . This is a custom that is growing ; somebody said years ago that " England is governed by commissions . " In the present case it would also have got over the difficulty ¦ which exists from the divided authority of the War Department and the Horse Guards . If the office of Commander-in-Chief were placed in commission , it w . ould have a Parliamentary head , possibly Lor Panmbre himself , and the office would have been brought within the control of Parliament . It is quite unnecessary to point out the
natural repugnance of any royal mind to such an idea , and military men generally resent the notion . On the other hand * some of the ablest men of the official class consider the arrangement to be re-Opimjiended on many grounds besides those of getting , over the difficulty of the conflicting authority ! The Duke of Somekset is a very good representative of this class . Perhaps it is none the ¦ worse for a country that the post remains in royal and military hands , since at the present day the "bureauratic class is more to be feared than the aristocracy or the Crown . The Duke of Cambridge is made Commander-in-ChiefJ partly because he
Has long been ambitious of the post , and has somewhat laudably worked his way to it by professional exertions ; partly because the Court is said to favour his pretensions ; and partly because , for the present , he iaimderstood to be much of a mind with the new school in military matters , and quite against the old school hitherto dominant at the Horse Guards . But young Dukes grow old , the new school of to-day becomes the old school of tomorrow ; and an opportunity of reconciling the office to the gradual progress of our institutions has been allowed to slip *
The . aristocracy of agriculture i » one of the most progressive institutions of our day . The Agricultural Society has been holding its meeting at Chelnoafoud , in ; the centre of one of the purest agricultural districts ; and the meeting has been unusually successful , —the show generally satisfactory ; and the feast was graced by many distinr guiahed foreign guests—missionaries for spreading agricultural reform in other countries . There is little to demand notice abroad , except the revolution in Spain . The true nature of this has yot to be explained . The man who could best tell it , Espaktjbbo , has for
the moment disappeared . Some say that he has resigned ; otlicrs , that ho has been dismissed ; a third Btory is , that ho was told to leave the countpy in twenty * four hours ; a fourth notion is , that he will turn up somewhere amongst a newly-collected patriotic force . In a few hours , perhaps even before we goto press , bettor information may clear .. np ' tfte ' mystery . The facts already known , howwefy enable us to- guew . O'Doniwsli ,, one of the Jttosfc corrupt men in Spain—who -was sent to i-iW ^ to . malsa hi * &rtun « by * conniving at the Wt& £$ *~~ T ha camo back * ° complete his pirospewtjr By intriguing between the different factions *» qf rutting with th © sword—endeavoured to eot
up a Gov «| oment upon the basis of the Army , and failed . Herieceived Esfaktero as a colleague ; EsPAHTERCtliieing : in fact the only man whom the country traarted . He has kept the Spanish Whi <* long enougfc in the partnership to feel himself settled in business ,., and then filling the foolish ^ Queen ' s ear -with stories agaijt oTD « onneij > kicks , out EsPAffTEKo > i 0 | d rules atone ., The insurrection in Madjfc&ft hasslhjen , it is miA , stressed , bu ^ . cither insuowptio n * have brojU ^ i o ufct in Saragos ** and the more ^ SwpoTtant gpntmcorof Catalonifc . There" is but one wwnt of ? interest in tfie
American news . Kansas has been admitted as a free state , which not only settles the balance of the Free Statue without any probability of reversing the balance , but will most likely show the Slave party the futility of continuing the contest . The trial of Dove was a point of extreme interest as one of the poisoning cases , the evidence in ¦ which threw some light on Palmer ' s act , and it was supposed that the trial would throw light upon the practice of poisoning generally . It was soon manifest , however , that Dove was either constitutionally insane , or had become so by habits of intoxication .
In the criminal record of the week , the most interesting case is that of the Crown against Benson , at Cowley , in Oxfordshire . Mr . Benson is a clergyman who objects to the secular marriage of British subjects at the office of the Registrar , and tells people so married they are not married ; and he induced a particular couple , three years after they -were duly made man and wife at the Registrar ' s office , to be married again . He was prosecuted for the felonious offence of celebrating a marriage without banns or license . Baron Alderson " , however , showed that there was no case ; Mr . Benson had performed no marriage , having married those who were already man and wife ; a decision which informs the clergy that they are free to remarry those who are already married by schismatic or secular officers .
The Medical Authorities of Westminster . —An iaquest has been held on the body of a little girl who ¦ was run over on the day of the entry of the Guards , and ¦ who died , from the effects of her injuries , in "Westminster Hospital . From the evidence , it w . ould seem that the medical authorities at the hospital neglected the child ; and the jury , in returning a verdict of Accidental Death , advised that an inquiry be made by the governors of the institution . This will be done . Rotal Medical Benevolent College . —The sum of 100 ? . ljps just been forwarded to the treasurer of this institution by Mr . Otto Goldschmidt , who at the same time expresses his regret that Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt was not able to sing for the benefit of the college .
Tins Temple Gardhns . —The letter of Mr . Broome , tlie gardener of the Inner Temple , with respect to the abatement of the smoke nuisance in that locality—portions of -which communication we quoted two weeks ago—has been followed up by another correspondent of the Times , -who complains of the gas-works at the back of King ' s Bench "Walk , the refuse water of which is allowed to flow into the river ,. and , being , at certain states of the tide driven back into the sewers , poisons the ¦ whole air of the neighbourhood by noxious vapours , which injure the trees and flowers , and even penetrate into the houses .
Thb Cape Frontier . —The latest accounts from the Kaffir frontier of our Cape colonies are reassuring . Up to the 1 st of May , nothing had occurred to cause alarm . Colliery ExpLosioN . r—An explosion of fire-damp on Tuesday in Cymmer Colliery , Rhondda Valley , Glamorganshire , has been attended with fatal consequences of a most frightful magnitude . One hundred and ten men and boys- have perished ! At the usual hour in tho morning , tho men went down into tho . pit , and shortly afterwards a fearful explosion of fire-damp took place .
It is stated that a fire at one end of tho pit was known to bo burning , and' ib is suspected there must have been a firo in some othen part also , the two causing tho explosion . The appearance of the , bodies , when vio-wed by the coroner ' s jury , was appalling . They were mostly scorched to a cinder , but there was evidence of some having struggled' with their fato ^ while others would seem to have resigned themselves to despair ; Out of those who went down into tho pit in tho morning , only « ix returned alive .
Explosion at a Firework Factory . —An explosion took place on Thursday on tho promises of a flrcworkmaker near tho Bcthnal Groen-ronil . Tho building was almost entirely destroyed , and a boy who was working at tho place expired shortly afterwards in tho London Hospital from tho oflbcta of the burns ho had received . Colonicl LAicic . r—A aword—tho exact counterpart of that presented to General Williams—has beon given to Colonel Lake at a public brcakfust at tho hero ' s native town , Ramsgato . Thk Bishop of Ejceter has issued a protest against the Bishops' Resignation Bill .
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^ r Monday , July \ £ th . SHIPS OF WAR . In the KoosB . of Lords , the Earl of Haedvicke , after presenting three petitions from Manchester against the relaxation * , with respect to neutral commerce-which were yytrlft at the Paris Conferences , withdrew the notice he tin ri jjfrwnri oat the paper regarding the construction of sk $ fB > of wjw-in \ the royal dockyards , lie understood tlktwe are falling into the same blunder as that we committed in the course of thq las * war with Americathat is to say , omitting to construct ships of such a character as might be able to -withstand the kind of vessels that would be brought against us by the United State 3 in case of hostilities . Thinking , however , he had done sufficient in calling the attention of Government to the subiect , he should not pursue it any further .
The Royal assent was given by commission to several bills ; the Registration of Toteks ( Scotland ) Bill was read a third time , and passed ; and the House went into committee on
THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS ( SCOTLAND ) BILL . The Duke of Buccleuch moved the omission of Clause 12 , which provides that no parish schoolmaster shall be required to subscribe any confession of faith or test as a condition of exercising his office . The clauso was supported by the Duke of Argyll and Lord Panmure , and opposed by the Earl of Haddington . On a division , the motion of the Duke of Buccleuch was carried by 50 against 20 , and the clause was accordingly struck out .
ITALY . Pursuant to notice , Lord Lyndiiurst made some remarks on the state of Italy . Adverting to the difficulty he experienced in obtaining any information from Lord Clarendon on the subject of our foreign relations until it has ceased to be of importance , he questioned the propriety of exciting the hopes of Italy at the Conferences unless we were prepared to follow up our words by efficient action . The treaty of Vienna had strictly defined the limits of Austrian power in the Italian peninsula ; but the limits there fixed had been frequently transgressed . Of all military tyrannies , that of Austria is the most galling and the most odious . The power of that empire has spread as far as Ancona , and its troops
are now in occupation of Parma . He would not inquire whether the original entry of the Austrians into the Legations was legal , or was justified by circumstances . The fact to which he wished to draw attention was this —that the military occupation of parts of Italy beyond the Austrian frontiers had continued for the last seven years , during the whole of which time the territories had been in a state of siege and under the operation of martial law . When is such a state of things to cease ? The Austrian Government alleges that it is ready to withdraw its troops as soon as the danger of insurrection shall have passed ; but the presence of a military force has a perpetual tendency to provoke dissatisfaction , and porhapaiiiBurrcction . A man must be very credulous to suppose
that Austria would voluntarily quit possession of Italy from a sense of justice ; but she might possibly yield to the joint pressure of France and England . He did not mean pressure by force of arms , but tho moral effect which would be produced by united remonstrance . He might be permitted to say that , some time ago , ho was sanguine as to the effects of tho concurrence of France and England ; but certain events had sinco occurred , and certain symptoms had appeared , of such a nature and character as to lead him to entertain very serious doubts as to whether these hopes would bo realized . Not that there was any coolness between the two countries , or any want of energy on tho part of England ; but there were circumstances in the situation of France which led
him to doubt whether she was disposed cordially to cooperate on this subject . It was impossible not to refer to tho kingdom of Naples . He could only say in general terms that nothing could exceed tho infamy of that Government . Ho would not attempt to describe its conduct and policy , becauso any terms he could make use of would fail to impress their minds with the reality of tho evils under which tho victims of that Government now groan : lie would only refer to tho publication of Mr . Gladstone on that subject , for matters had not changed sinco then , as tho present political trial ) ¦ would show , those trials being marked by a disregard of every principle of justice and the violation of every right , and boing founded on no law , not vywi tho law of arbitrary power , inasmuch as tho constitution which
to which tho King had sworn , and in defiance of these triuls are taking place , has never been rescinded . A note had boon sent to tho King of Naples . " ' told , " continued Lord Lyndhurst , " and my noble friend will toll mo if I am right—that within tho last two <> r threo days an answer has boon received . [ Tho I *" ' •>' Clarendon made a gesture of assent . ] I sec mi ansent on tho part of my noblo friend , and I thank him for it , becauso that will load mo to anotlicr question . ( Laut / httT . ' y Is that answer satisfactory ? I am told that it in «' ~ tremoly tho reverse . I am told that it donien tho right of this country to intorfore in tho affairs of Nup lcn , and that it not only denies tho right , but positively refines to give any explanation . I will repeat tho question- 1 aok my noblo friend whether that ia tho subatunco of tho
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Leader (1850-1860), July 19, 1856, page 674, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2150/page/2/
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