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the measure in the Lords . And although the Duke gave his vote on the second reading of the bill as a Jew Bill , he failed to retrieve the blunder . There was no debating on the bill Avitli which we have not been completely familiar . Jn fac ^ sfche whole aflfltterest of the contest in the j&s ^ s'tfWiis an aast ( 2 ttn $ ! acal question , and the second reaaBjjpg vas rejecteS . by 173 to 139 . Another seriou ^ olitical blunder tsras committed by the Govei ; nme ^ r-a member •< $# > ii 3 ie
Cabinet was perrretofced to Nraffibliold his v 6 % i » n that critical division . The Government , therefore , has not been united on the subject of the Jew Bill Lord Palmekston cannot control his own Cabinet . The Jew Bill , of which so much is made , is an « open question' in the Cabinet . We were-told that it was to be carried by the forbearance of Opposition peers , who were to stay away , but the absentees are found on the Government side . This is a
serious mistake . Still greater was the mistake of supposing that * he measure was got rid of for the session by that vote . On the contrary , it reappears in many forms . Mr . Dillwyn speedily gave notice in the House of . Commons of a resolution that , in the case of Baron Lionel be Rothschild , the Clerk be instructed to omit that passage in the oath to which some members have objected . Lord John Russell gave noti ce of a new bill , the effect of which will be to leave each House to determine its own oaths—the '
noble Lord proposing to translate the words swear mot at all * by a special enactment into Swear as you please ! An earnest advocate of toleration proposed that the Liberal members should meet and take up the matter as one between the Commons and the Lords ; the idea was accepted ; a requisition was issued , calling a meeting in Palace-yard ; and the assembly on Thursday showed the large and important response which has been , given to the summons . . Mr . Housman was properly chosen as the chairman — the late Secretary for Ireland ,
but a perfectl y independent man . Various plans were laid before the meeting , which . was evidently inclined to adopt the course suggested by JVEr . William Coningham and others , and support Mr . Dillwyn . But a powerful accession brought with it a modification of counsel . Sir James Graham made one of his best speeches in proposing that Mx . Dillwtn should wait , allow Lord John Russell to take the precedence , and permit the Commons to try once more whether the Lords would accept a locus pcenitentiee . This course was
jidopted ; even those who were inost earnest with Mr . Dillwyn conceding for tih . e sake of . unanimity . The position of parties ^ therefore , is this : Lord Johns bill stands supported by more than a hundred members of the Liberal party , who have come forward , and of course by a large number who have not been so active . Bat behind Lord John ' s proposal to the Lords stands Mr . Dillwyn ' s proposal that the House of Commons shall take the subject into its own hands , and regulate tho administration . of the oath within its own walls ; Lord Pai »
mer-Ston being specially asked by the Palace-yaid meeting to apply the W ^ P fa ^ ° ^ CWM » et & ¦ t-ho House of Peers . Parliament scarcely knows how to trim between Government and . its own manifest publio duties . Mr . LiNDaA . y has called upon Ministers to say what they mean to do with the declaration of the Paris jQQnfef . 'ew , Ce , onr property afloat . dm-ing . maritime war , which was accented by tho seven powers there represented , conditionally accepted by General Pitsrce ' s Government , and not accepted by Mr , Buchanan ' s Government . What is to be the law P Arc we to stand by that impolitic declaration P
Lprd Jojrw soys it must bo altered j Ministers say <—nothing :, in like mawiior with the evasions of our anti-slavery treaties by Spain and ! FrQaco , ~ - Lord Palmebs ' ton intends to enforoo tho treaties 5 but ho does not toll us how . The Attorney-Genjgbal lends his oountenauco to tho principle of Sir Ebskinb I ^ er ^ x ' s Mnrriod Women Bill—giving mavriod women some control over thoir own property and earnings . —but tho House , evidently , > vill not pass tho bill . Amongat tho election oommittoes the report of ono lms obtained deserved attention—it is that of Mayo , Tho committee has prouoiuwed that Mr ,
Geo ^ ms ^ Henry Moojffi duly elected ; the election fcaving jb ^ en rendered voi d by the ^ of * undue ialfluence and spiritual intimidation . ' The report creates a new offence— ' spiritual intimidation / J&t revives ' reli gious intolerance ' ... to this extssx&-r $ K& no piiestbSoi . must henof&WKard use any MireatB derived fcgmi tlxe e-fernal : ffigtur ? with refecaace to ocontesteftf « leotions , under ^ pa ^ iof violatmtg HoMse of Conjflowpns lm ! What ls-ai&iice for thesgoosejJs sauce ( far the . -gander ; andjiEBEaUier Cow « v ^ 0 fe -arii en ahtefer paling danmaifiion round the law * in order' * o procure the return of Mr .
Moore , Mr . Sptjrgeon must take care how he meddles in the elections of Lambeth or Surrey . The report does not limit itself to the ' undue influence , ' or-exertions -of the pufiafcs ieJialloo on the men that were riotously obstructing Colonel OusEiffiY Heggins ' s voters . If the committee had only done that , there would be nothing striking in the report ; for priests must not riot any more than lawyers . But , as it is , the ' drum ecclesiastic' is henceforward prohibited as an instrument of electioneering . , _ . , , „ about the
While our public writers are talking barbarians of the Indus , our own law records show -that we have savages at home . The police inquiry in I ) ublin appears to be gradually approaching a distinct accusation of Spollen as the murderer of Little . Lord Derb y is pointing out that the nobility and gentry who take delight in sporting matters at Newmarket and elsewhere have become mixed up with the most discreditable characterspeople publicly shown to have been involved in ' disgraceful' and 'fraudulent actions ; and he begins a process of purification which can do li ttle
more than remind us how very incompetent either the Earl or the Stewards of the club are really to purify it . What will he do with the «« -convioted ? A few murders more or less in the law courts scarcely demand notice , but we must not overlook the ease of Isaac Husheorth , a man who professed to be a conjuror , and who , in that capacity , undertook to cure Kittt Littlewoqq . He ' ruled the planets , ' and seduced the girl , and then deserted her ; whereupon the judge sentenced him-to eighteen months' imprisonment , as the penalty for thus tampering with morals and cosmogony .
The Wellington Monument . —The following notice was affixed to the doors of the two . Houses of Parliament yesterday : — " The models will be exhibited to the public on Monday , the 20 th , Tuesday , the 21 st , and Saturday the 26 th of July , from nine a . m . till seven p . m . On Wednesday and Thursday , the 22 nd and 23 rd , West > minster-hall will be open to Peers and members of the House of Commons , from ten a . m . till seven p . m . After Saturday , the 25 th , the Exhibition -will be open every Monday , Tuesday , Friday , and Saturday , from nine till seven , until further notice . — Ofl&ce of Works , &c , July 13 . "
. . Suicides at Woolwich , —rAn inquest has been held at Woolwich on the body of the wife of Sergeant-Major Freeman , pf the Royal Artillery . The husband and -wife had a quarrel on Thursday week before the former ¦ went on parade about what they should have for dinner , and . on his returjn . the wife went to a cupboard where some acid was kept for cleaning gold lace , and drank a quantity of it in his presence . Tho sergeant ran for medical assistance , but before he returned his wife was dead . A verdict was given in . accordance with the facts .
Dressmakers ant > Milliners . —The Bishop of Ripon preached a sermon on Thursday -week , at Hanover jQhapel , Eegont-atroet , to o numerous congregation , on behalf of the « Society for the Aid and Benefit of Dressmakers and Milliners' and the * Early Closing Assooia ^ tion . ' The text chosen was tho 2 nd chapter of Titus , 11 th and 12 th verses—" For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men , teaching us that , denying ungodliness and woijdjy lusts , wo should live soberly , righteously , and godly , in this prosont \ y ; orld . " From these words the Right Rev . Prelate nointed * out what did not constitute conformity with the of
^ junctions they contained . Xn tho latter portion his sermon , his Lordahjp demonstrated the impolicy , as well as tho utterly unchristian character , of that system of business which involves the treatment of living , immortal agonts , as so many Bonseless , material machines . The Bishop also condomned tho conduct of those ladies of fashion to whoao thoughtlessness in giving thoir orders much of tho suffering endured by tho dressmakers is to bo traced . He implored thorn to bo more conoiderato , and to encourage those establishments In which regard { 3 paid to the comfort and welfare of tho young women employed . A liberal collection was Jinado after
tho sermon . Prxnojs Louis Napoleon and suite visited Manchester on Monday , and woro cpnduotod by Sir Jamoa Wa . tta ( tho mayor ) , tho town olork , and General Sir Harry Smith , to tho Exhibition , where ho was received by eeyoral mombors of tho committee .
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Monday , July \ Zth . THE INDIAN REVOLT . In theflBottrsB t » F Lords , the Earl of Ellenborrugh asked "WtSiaft course Government intended to take for reinforoang the army in India . He observed : — " There -was aao indisposition on . the part of either . House of Parliarosnt & »• 'grant all the necessary means to re-establish dfee < Qneeri ' £ i authority in India , and it depended upon the Shead of the Government whether or not his administration should be handed down to posterity-as the most disastrous , calamitous , and disgraceful since the time of Lord North . ( 7 / ear . ) The selection of Sir Colin
Campbell for the office of Commander-in-Chief was . - wise ; and it was to be hoped that , as had been done during the Governor-Generalship of Lord Wellesley , the head of the army would be supported by all the power and authority of the Governor-General . The temporary appointment of Sir Patrick Grant to the situation of Commander-in-Chief was also judicious ; and he would recommend that , on the arrival of Sir Colin Campbell in India , Sir Patrick Grant should act as military adviser of the Governor-General , with a seat in the Council . It was unreasonable to expect that they should have received by the late telegraph an account of the capture of Delhi ; but , by the proceedings of the mutineers , he was impressed with the conviction that
they had no one to command them who knew his business . Report stated that the disaffection was very general in Bengal ; but it was to be regretted that it had been found necessary to disband two such distinguished regiments as the 16 th Grenadiers and the 26 th Light Infantry . A larger force -than that destined for the campaign should be employed . After making necessary arrangements , there would probably be only five regiments of infantry at their disposal ; and that force , without cavalry or artillery , was totally insufficient to proceed to Allahabad , or to enter a hostile country containing 40 , 000 , 000 inhabitants and a number of disbanded troops belonging to the real military population of India—the Rajpoots . The force should . consist of nine regiments of infantry , three of cavalry , and six batteries of artillery . It would be necessary for the h
first time to send artillery belonging to te Queen s service to India , and orders should be transmitted for the construction of carriages . There should be a force on the line of the Indus and Sutlej to act in conjunction with the force at Allahabad . If the troops in China , -which he assumed to be five regiments , could be made available , that would enable the Government to have nine regiments at Allahabad , and leave at their disposal a regiment for service on the Indus . It would be desirable to employ altogether in the operations ten regiments of infantry , bus : regiments of cavalry , and twelve batteries of artillery , ibr which they should provide horses . If they reinforced the army , as he suggested , they might—subject to the accidents which befal all military operations—calculate that by the end of next April the authority of the British Government would bo again established"
. _ _ __ _ , _ , _ . ., _ Earl Granville assured the House that no details were known to the Government which had not been published in the ordinary channels of infojrm ^ wn - they must wait for the more detailed jiccounts fox . further particulars . The simple fact he had to add to previous announcements was , that the Punjab continued perfectly tranquil . Without participating in ( the gloomy apprehension of Lord Ellenborpugh , her Majesty ' s Ministers were thoroughly alive to the gravity of the situation , and were neglecting nothing , either in India or at home , which seemed requisite to ensure a prompt and permanent repression of the existing disturbances . The revolt , it was satisfactory to know , had boon limited to the native army in Bengal . The non-military population were perfectly loyal , as were tho troops of tho two other Presidencies , -whence , indeed , < the European Wgiments had been despatched for service in Bengal .
Lord Melville called attention * to the bad disciplmo which had existed for years in the Bengal army , as distinguished from those of the other Presidencies . It waa tlie worst disciplined army he had over known . On tlio other hand , the Bombay army , with whioh lie had served , was conspicuous for faithfulness and excellence . General Anson had urged the necossity of inoroaeing the European force in India ; but no attontion had been paid to Ms representations . Ho ( Lord Melville ) lioped tho Government would force on tho Board of Diroctors tlio nocossity of reorganising tho Bengal army . There wns no doubt that the disaffection had some other foundation than tho greasing of the cartridges . —Tho Earl of Albemaule said ho had a letter in his hand from Ur .
Buisfc , editor of tho Bombay Times , distinctly tr » o »» g ono of the causes of tho mutiny to tho uniform ooloction of man of high caste , and the exclusion of every other , to bo officers in tho Bongal army . In the Bombay army it is quite difibront ; they take high caato and low custo men , without distinotion .
THE SWISS LKGION . Tho Earl of Malmuosburt presented a potitiou from forty-sev ^ n ofllcera pf the Swiss Legion , complaining that tho agreement under which thoy wore enrolled by tho British Government had been violated , in rospoct of thin my . Thoy conceived that , under tho nrti ^ os ot tnoiv
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was not «»• « TE E LE 1 DE B . [ No . 382 , Joty 18 , 1857 . ¦ o / 'A- ¦ ¦ — - ' ¦ ' " ' ' ' —
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Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 674, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2201/page/2/
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