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agreement , they were entitled to ^ fifteen months pay ^ n addition to what they had already received for the service performed ; but theyhad only received six months Jay , and could get no more—Lord Panmuke declared that no indisposition had been displayed -on the part of the Government to settle the claims , both of the officers and men of the foreign legions . * ^ ™^ * % ™ Z donation to extend the generosity of the Government beyond their engagements , to show how much they appreciated the services rendered ; but , in the course of the settlement of the men ' claims , many disputes necessarily arose , and , if his noble friend were aware of the infinite trouble they had taken to adjust those disputes , he would not in any way have questioned the disposition of the
Government to act fairly . The Government denied that any contract had been made with the men for engaging them for twelve months after the ratification of peace . Every officer by whom the petition was signed had given a receipt to the effect that he had obtained his gratuity , and had no further claims on Government . —The Earl of Malmesbury admitted that some of his remarks had been satisfactorily answered by Lord Panmure ; still , he thought , as the men had been deceived , whether by accident or not , that they ought to have the full pay . With respect to the receipts in full of all claims given by the officers , all he had to say was that , when the of three
Minister at War gave those gentlemen a gratuity months pay , it was accompanied by a letter from the War-office , stating that it was given without prejudice to any future claims , and tliey gave a receipt , therefore , with that understanding . —Lord Pammuee read a letter from Colonels Funk and Sulzberger , repudiating as a forgery their signature to one of the documents in question : a repudiation which , as far as Colonel Funk was concerned , surprised . Lord Malmesbury , who Baid he held in his hand a letter from that officer ' s solicitor , which went to a totally different effect . —The Earls of Habdwicke and Cdancarty made some observations on the bad results of a foreign legion ; and "the subject then dropped . ST . JAMES'S-PARK . The Earl of Malmesbury then called the attention of the House to the correspondence between the Treasury and the Board of Works , on the subject of the water in St . James ' s-park . On a former occasion , -when he in--troduced the subject , he was told by Earl Granville that the expenditure would not be more than 11 , 000 / ., and that a saving of 9001 . a year would be effected by giving up the supply of water then obtained front the Chelsea Waterworks . " Assuming that the expenditure would be 14 , 000 ? ., he then asked for certain returns showing why such an expenditure had been incurred without the sanction of Parliament . Those returns were promised six -weeks ago , and the promise was renewed about three weeks afterwards ; but the returns were not yet forthcoming , or , if they were on the table , they had only just been presented . However , he held in his hand the returns which had been made in another place on the motion of Sir Francis Baring , in whioh the Commissioner of Works stated that he had been besieged by applications respecting the unwholesome state of the lake , and the miasma arising from its impurities . If there could be any justification for an outlay of 11 , 000 £ on the lake , and 40002 . more for carrying the drainage into the Thames , in a manner contrary to the spirit of the constitution , it would be the preservation of the public health ; but in the correspondence to which he referred no such justification appeared . Under the rollicking rule of the noble Viscount now at the head of the Government ( laughter ) , large expenses had been incurred . He ( Lord Malmesbury ) thought the complaints with respect to the alleged miasma rising from the lake in St . James ' a-park ought to have been embodied in the report ; but they were not . What effect had tho miasma produced at Whitehall ? Ho had not missed any of her Majesty ' s Ministers , or tho Comptroller of tho Exchequer . ( JLaughter . ) He could not s « e uny excuse for violating the constitutional rule of not spending tho public money without tho consent of Parliament . Earl Granvillb said the sum was but small , and was rendered necessary on sanitary grounds 5 to prove ¦ which ho exhibited bottles of water from tho stream in St . James ' Park , to show how thick and muddy it had been formerly , and how dear it ie now . On a former occasion he agreed that such matters ought to receive the sanction of Parliament ; but ho thought it was now rather too late to make that complaint , because the subject had received two discussions in the House of Commons , where tho matter had been carefully considered , and Sir Benjamin Hall had explained to tho House tho reasons why ho undertook the work without a previous estimate having boon submitted to Parliament . Tho House of Commons had agreed to a voto ; so that , whether right or wrong , an estimato had now boon sactioned . A most unfair attack had boon made on Sir Charles Trovelyan , whon it was snitl that no Tory Government could got anything out of him . [ Lord ftf almbsiiury : " It is truo . "J Did tho noblo Earl moan to say that Sir Charles Trovolyan was supremo ? The Earl of Malmbsijury : " I stated a fact , I said that improvements in the Foreign Oillco , whioh I oould not got from Sir Charles Trovolyan , had boon onrripd © tit since my noblo Mond lias boon in oflloo j and I * am Very glad of it . Still , It is n fact . " Ear ! Granyu . t , k did not say whether tho
improvements in -the Foreign © fliceof which liis noble friend spoke were either good or bad ; bat he thought Sir Charles Trevelyan had a right to object to their being treated , not as a question of the Civil Service , but of a Whig or Tory Government . He ( Lord Granville ) was born a Cockney ; and he felt a sympathy with the two millions and a half of Cockneys who are not able , like his noble friend , to get away from the bad influences of London to the heaths of Scotland or the wilds of Hampshire .- ^— Lord Monte aqLe thought the estimates should . have been laid before Parliament last rear .
CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATUXES . A series of eight bills consolidating the acts relating to lunacy , libel , forgery , offences against the person , and some other departments of the criminal law , were read a second time on the motion of the Lord Chancellor , and after a few words from Lord Campbell and Lord Wensleydale , the first of whom thought discussion should be postponed till next session , while the latter advocated immediate procedure .
SALE OF OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS PREVENTION BILL . Lord Campbell moved the third reading of this bill , and took occasion to refer to some remarks which he had made on Messrs . Smith and Sons , the well known booksellers , in reference to the sale of an obscene book which had been vended at one of the railway stations . He had fallen into a serious error with regard to the subject . ( Rear , hear . ) It was the desire of those gentlemen to supply to the public the purest and most enlightened class of literature , and the book he had referred to was not sold atone of their stalls . Those gentlemen did not allow immoral books to be sold at any railway station over which they had control . ( Hear , hear . ") The noble Lord begged to acknowledge the assistance which he
had received from Lord Lyndhurst in the revision of of his bill . —Lord Lyndhurst complained of the attack Lord Campbell had made on him on the occasion of the second reading of the bill ( for which , however , his Lordship had since apologized ) , and added that offensive allusions were made to him in one of the volumes of Lord Campbell ' s " Lives of the Lord Chancellors of England , " a copy of which volume had been sent to him by the noble and learned lord with his compliments , and without any of the other volumes . ( Great laughter . ) He should further remark that , after his attack on him the other night , Lord Campbell came over with a smiling face and asked him to revise his bill . ( Loud laughter . ") This he had consented to do , and he believed he had removed all the most objectionable features , making it necessary for a police officer , before he enters a shop to
search for obscene publications , to make an oath before a magistrate of -the nature of the books , &c , objected to , when the magistrate will grant or withhold the warrant as he thinks fit . —The Lord Chancellor and Lord Wensleydale still thought the bill open to some objections ; but they did not oppose it . —The Archbishop of Canterbury gave it his hearty support ; and Lord Campbell regretted , after the ample apology he had made to Lord Lyndhurst , that he should have used such harsh expressions towards ^ him . He feared be had been misunderstood with ^ regard to certain words ta which he bad given utterance on a former occasion , and he would appeal to the public as to whether his noble and learned friend was justified in the course which he had taken , He had not intended any offence whatever to Lord Lyndhurst . —The bill was then read a third time , and passed .
NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF MEETINGS . Lord Campbell brought up the report of the select committee on the privilege of reports . The recommendation of the committee was , that the same privileges that are now enjoyed by the press , as regards the reports of proceedings of law-courts , should be extended to reporting the proceedings of Parliament and public meetings . These meetings were defined to be meetings called by sheriffs , rnayorB , or meetings of public boards , such as tho Board of Health , Town Councils , &c . It
was proposed that , if there was an action brought against a newspaper for publishing the proceedings of any such meetings , the defendant might plead the faithfulness of the report , and that tho plaintiff had suffered no damage by it ; and , should tho jury find for the defendant , the plaintiff would have to pay all the costs . ( Hear , hear . ) His Lordship concluded by stating that next sossion ho would bring in a bill founded on the resolutions of the committee . —Tho report was ordered to IIg on the table .
Their Lordships adjourned at nino o ' clock . ELECTION -COMMITTEES . In tho House or Commons , tho Speaker announced tho abandonment of tho petitions complaining of the returns for Sandwich , Chatham , Athlono , and Sligo . GALWAY ELECTION . Mr . Olive brought up tho report of tho Galway Election Committee . Tho report stated that Anthony O'Flahorty was not duly oleoted , and that tho last election was void . Tho document also affirmed that it appeared from evidence taken before the committee that systematic bribery had been carried on at tho last and previous elections for Galway ; but there was no proof of tho cognizance of tho sitting member . Tim LAM 1 J 1 ETH COMMITTEE .
On tho motion of Mr . Jngham , It was -ordered that Joseph Tt'odro , who had neglected to attend boforo tho Lainboth Elootion Committees should bo taken into custody by tho Sorgoant-at-Arms for contempt .
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INDIA . Mr . Disraeli asked -several questions ( with respect rto -the recent news from India , of a similar character to those put in the House of Lords by the Earl of Ellenborough . — Ha answer to - these and to others from' Sir John Pakington , Lord Palmerston intimated his inability to give . fuller information than had already been made public . Government hitherto had received only brief telegraphic advices , but the written despatches were expect ed to arrive in the course of a few hours , and the details -ihus communicated would be duly imparted to the House . He denied the truth of various rumours to which Mr . Disraeli had alluded ; among others , the report that the Governor of Herat had sworn allegiance to the Shah of Persia . Further reinforcements were to be despatched
to India in addition to the 14 , 000 men already under orders for the East . Immediately on the receipt of the last intelligence , step 3 were taken by Lord Panmure , in conjunction with the Duke of Cambridge , to select a Commander-in-Chief in place of General Anson . The offer was made on Saturday to Sir Colin Campbell He was asked how long it would be before he would be ready to start , to which he replied , with his usual promptitude , " To-morrow . " ( Z < oud cheers . ) And he was off by the train yesterday ( Sunday ) evening . A telegraphic communication was then sent to Marseilles to stop the steamer , which had recently-sailed , so that General Campbell would not lose a single hour in starting for his destination . —In reply to Admiral Waxcott , Sir Charles Wood said that the troops € 01 India would be sent out in hired transports .
THE ORDNANCE SURVEY . On the order for . going into Committee of Supply , Lord Elcho moved a resolution , " That in the . present position of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , the survey on the six inch scale ought not to be proceeded With without further inquiry , and that an address should be presented to her Majesty praying her Majesty to appoint a Royal commission to inquire into the whole subject of the national survey , and report upon the scale or scales on which it should be made and published . " Se untreated the House not to take a hasty and irrevocable
step in this matter , but to refer the question to a competent tribunal—a Royal commission , fairly constituted . - ^ -Lord Palmeeston recommended the House not to be tempted into a renewal of the discussion upon this-sirbject , after their late decision , which the Government had adopted , though , for himself , he thought it an unwise one . He could not agree to the resolution ; but , if Lord Elcho would consent to strike out the first patt of it , and simply move an address to the Crown , he would iiot object . —The motion was negatived without a division , after a short discussion . ~
SUPPLY . The House-then went into committee of supply on the Civil Service Estimates—On the vote-for nonconfonning and other ministers in Ireland , commonly called . the Regium Donnm , Mr . Bazzder 'moved that the amount should be reduced to 366 / . —This amendment was supported by Mr . Kirk , and opposed by Mr . Gilpin .- —Mr . Hadfield . having spoken against the grant , the committee divided , when ithere appeared—For the grant , 117 ; against it , 41 : majority , 76 . Some other votes were then passed , ending iwith the annual vote of 100 , 00 ( M . for civiL contingencies . Mr . Wise complained of the payment of 100 01 . being
given to the two messengers who brought home tho peace treaties of Paris and Persia , and inquired whether 2000 J . for extra services during the war wer « paid to the clerks who did the work . Further , he complained of the charge of 12001 . £ ov legal expenses-attending the purchase of . Buulington- 'house ; of 18 / . for a robe for the Lord Lieutenant , who receives a salary of 20 , 000 / . ; and of the oharge of 625 , 0001 . for missions to foreign courts , particularly to Paris and Constantinople . —Sir John Trelawny called attention to the charge of 62 ? . 17 s . 8 d . for tho pardon of John Frost , and to several items besides . —To these and various other remarks , Mr . Wilson replied . -Presents had been made to the American officers who went out in search of the Erebus and Terror .
It had been usual to give 5007 . "to the messenger who brought home news of peace . The Treasury gave the 2000 ? . to the Foreign-office , on the recommendation of Lord Clarendon , who superintended the distribution of the money among tho officials Tho vote was agreed to . WHIB FRAUDULENT TRTOWTBHS BILL . On tho House resuming , thia bill was brought up amended from committee . Several alterations wore proposed and rejected ; but , on the motion of the Atiobney-Gbneral , words wore introduced in the 12 th clause to tho effect that tho judge shall in © very case give tho party accused an opportunity of answering the ohargo where tho same can bo done with duo rog-ara to tiio interests of justice . TUo House adjourned at ono o ' clock .
Tuesday , July 14 > t / t . ARMY EDUCATION . , . „ , „ In tho Houe-B ov Lords , in answer to the Earl of Haudwiokb , Lord Panmuum etated that tho UrnmandW-in ~ Ohiof ,. asei 8 ted by a council of throe officers , had nroparod a report on tho subject of military oducaion . So ( Srd Panmure ) had siaifled J . I 0 tf * " *™™ in that report ; and it would bo laid « l » on tho t « blo of
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Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2201/page/3/
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