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^ "TTTHILE awaiting the next critical news from T V India , the defences of the country and our power to attack have been the subject of searching debates in Parliament . Mr . Bentjnck . complained of the unadvanced state of the ships necessary to supply those that have been sent to China , and the absence of any reinforcement at home to supply the place of the troops sent to India . Lord Pal-MEESToif , he said , reckoned "upon the peace-atany-price doctrine , that we . must -cut our coat according to our cloth—that is , cut our army according to our estimates , and not according to prudence . About 30 , 000 men have been abstracted from the army at home to make good that of India . Even during the war the army was 50 , 000 men under the amount allowed by Parliament , from the slowness of recruiting . The troops have been sent out in merchant ships , which might be becalmed in the middle of their voyage ; and , in order to make up the amount of troops wanted in India , Government has abstracted from the forces in China , although the Chinese were waiting to feel that power of England with which they had been threatened by Mr . Consul Parkes and Admiral Seymour . The Ministerial replies to these complaints were not very direct or distinct . Lord Palmersxon confessed that troops had been sent to India , but ' steps have been taken to fill up tho gap . ' These ' steps' are more liko a minuet than the national hornpipe ; for there is no doubt that the men will not bo collected at the recruiting depdts very fast . Sir Charles Wood represents that , on the whole , sailing vessels arc as fast as steamers . The number of seamen , ho says , which used to bo 43 , 000 during the peace , is now 50 , 000 ; besides 8000 men of the coast guard and coast volunteors—those same men of whom lie boasts as the nucleus of tho Baltio fleet , and who proved sucli slow conches on board . And ns to Ohina , tho answer is , that Admiral Seymour will be quito strong enough iu marines and sailors to boat Yjsh and all Jus myrmidons . Yet tho facts remain ; wo have sent away our homo ilcot to attaok the Chinoso ; wo have woakoncd tho force at first thought nooossar ' y iu China , to make good ftu army in India ; wo aro not suro the army in Iudia is strong enough ; and for our home defences wo roly upon tho politioal state of Europe , not our own strength , which is always subject to tho possibility that worso news from India might call for n appeals to Parliament .
But the great subject in Parliament has been the Oaths ,, or Jew Question . It might also be called the JonN Hussell Question , for there was a manifest intention of shelving Lord John as well as the oaths . The deputation from the meeting of members in Palace-yard last week , reached L ord Palmerston on Tuesday ; we do not know how it was not . ushered to his presence sooner . " When the deputation was before him , however , face to face , Mr . Horsman gave the sentiments of the meeting in language as straightforward and undisguised as Cobbext could have rendered it ; telling the Premier that after the Commons had so long supported the Jew Bill by decisive majorities , the House of Lords must be made to give way ; that a member of the Cab inet could not be allowed to w ithhold his vote without betraying the true position of the Government towards the Liberal party ; and that Lord PAiiMERSTON himself had , through that mistake of Lord Harhowby , already got into a false relation with his party , which was urging him , instead of being led by him . The reply was as little satisfactory as that on the question of forces . Nor did the case improve when , on tho same evening , Lord John at last succeeded in moving the introduction of his bill . In doing so , ho explained the actual stato of tie law , and showed that his measure would bo quito consistent with past proceedings in the case of the Quakers . Mr . Pease , of Darlington , was allowed to affirm instead of swear , by a resolution of the House on tho strength of tho general law , His bill would declare the validity of oaths administered in terms binding on the conscience of tho parties to bo sworn , and would thus declare as a general law tho courso adopted iu the case of Mr . Pease . Tho Opposition was rampant with common-places ; but what did Government do P Tho whole question turned upon that , Lord PALMER 3 TON professed ' cordially' to support tho introduction of tho bill ; but ho dcolinod to pledge himself to its support iu the latter singes , and refused to give any Government night . Thus , whilo ho lent his majority for the evening , ho cfl ' ootually pi'ovoniod tho passing of the bill this sossion ; ' speaking of it in a tone of cool iudifforonoo . Leave to bring in tho bill was oarriocl bv 240 to 154 . It will not pass ; but musi , stand ovor till noxt sossion , like tho appeal to tho Houso of Lords in tho case of Miller versus Salomons , whioh has boon ponding- for yoars . Tho Lord Chancellor says that this appeal is thrown ovor for another
session by desire of the defendant in the case , — that is , by those who have officially enforced the penalty upon Mr . Salomons for sitting and voting as member without taking the oath . Unless the course taken by the Baron dc Rothschild and the City of London should create a new opportunity . In accordance with the pledge that he had given on the rejection of the Oaths Bill by the House of Lords , the Baron has resigned his seat . This affords an occasion for a leading constituency to show the state of public opinion , and there cannot be the slightest doubt of the Baron ' s re-election , either unanimously , or , if a Tory candidate should venture to risk his money and repute , by an overwhelming majority . But the real opportunity will arrive when the Baron presents himself in the House of Commons to take the oaths . Here will be the occasion for Mr . Dillwyn to move . The greater part of the other business before Parliament has not touched very directly upon politics . Lord Brougham has introduced a bill to amend the law of bankruptcy—which docs indeed want amending ; the object being to simplify and expedite proceedings , and to remove sonic obstructive or restrictive provisions of the present law . The explanation of tho bill , however / is as yet imperfect . Lord St . Leonards has brought in a bill to simplify tho title to land—at loast such is the professed object of tho bill ; but in reality it is designed to prevent a genuine reform—with tho same object whioh Lord Brougham is to bring forward—a bill for rendering tho registration of land a complcto voucher for the title to it by tho actual occupant and purchaser . Lord St . Leonards thinks that tho moasu . ro will abolish the ' beneficial complications' of tho present laws of settlement , and ho puts in his protoudod reform confessedly to prevent tho reform . Mr . Caird has brought in a bill to collect agricultural statistics when voluntarily supplied by farmers—a measure in many respects avoiding some of tho objections to tho oiUoial bill withdrawn last session , promisod this , but not introduced . Mr . "Wilson , has made an official demonstration against Lord Naas ' s Superannuation Aot Ainoudmont Bill , which would do justioo to the Civil Service—tho most heavily taxed body in the community . Government appears to compensate for its exactions upon tho liogos , and its lavislmoss for certain favoured porsona , by turning round ana screwing its o \ vn subordinates . Those areumly ex * umplos of , tho work which has boon gone t ) irougu . Oxford city has not obojed tho wish of- ^ omo of its loading mon , by eoleoting on om ' wgjfa Jlvixtg
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- « -aoe ! Imperial Parliament 69 S Election Committees 701 Accide nts and Sudden Deaths 701 State of Trade 701 Ireland 701 , America 701 The Funeral of Beranger 702 Continental Notes > 702 Our Civilization ¦ ¦ 703 Gatherings from the Law and Po-1 , 'rtn fX-ll 1 '** tc > I 7 t \ d >
Naval and Military 705 Miscellaneous ( Q 5 Postscript ' 07 OPEN COUNCILThe Educational Conference and Robert Owen 707 The Hudson's Bay Company 707 PUBLIC AFFAIRS — The Political Dilemma 70 S The SleeDers Awakened 708
¦¦ The National Gallery 709 Delusive Evidence . — The Talbot Case 710 Aii Adventure in the Provinces ... 711 Another Right Royal British Bank 711 Parties and Prospects ' 12 A Crew for the Flying Dutchman ... 712 LITERATUREI Summary . 2 ™ ! Arago ' s Scientific Biographies 713 ' ¦ Indigenous Races of the Earth 714
¦ Summer Travel i ± b India and the English 715 Anglican Theology 716 Miscellanies 717 The Gazette " 717 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS — City Intelligence , Markets , &c 717
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Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2202/page/1/
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