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¦ .. .: ¦ ' ¦ ' . . — T — ¦ . - . - ¦• npHE present Session of Parliament may not afford JL quite as much fun as a -pantomime , 'but it exhibits even more changes and transformations , if we may use such a figure of speech so soon after our late experience of Indian summer heat . From February to the present time the grand question , before Parliament and the country has been the government of India . Long nights of talk appeared to bring the difficult matter no nearer to settlement . The House of Commons had determined to legislate / but in what way ? The discussion of the resolutions was to settle all the principles upon which the new government of India was to be founded . Resolutions one , two , three , four , and five had been conscientiously examined from all points of view , when , on Thursday , hold ! enough ! —at the sixth , Ministers and the House agreed to have done with the resolutions , and to carry on the further discussion of principles iu Bill No . 3 ; which was thereupon at once produced , ready cut and dried , and amid a gpod deal of laughter read a first time , and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday next ! But such a audden . change of plan could not have taken place -without some very good reason . The reason appears to have been this . The House having pledged itself to the principle of a composite Council , partly nominated and partly elected , became aware , on the production of the sixth resolution , of the enormous difficulty it would have to deal with iu settling the mode by which the elected portion of the Council was to be provided ; a load of questions was found to hinge upon this onethe patronage , management of the Army , Secret Committee , salaries of the Councillors ; in fact , the very heart of the subject was found to be enclosed in the sixth resolution , and the House liad not courage to probe it , with the prospect of having to perform the operation all over again . To a certain extent , indeed , it was settled that eight of the Council should be nominated by the Crown , seven elected at first by the present East India Directors out of ¦ their own body , and subsequently by the whole of the Council itself . Wo sco how much of reality there is in this plan of " electing" the smaller half of the Council ! The remaining resolutions were set aside ; and the House onco more commences the labour of Indian legislation with Bill No . 3 . A petition from St . Mary ' s , Jamaica , presented w .
to the House of Lords on Thursday evening by the Bishop of Oxford / has opened out the question of the Slave Trade protectorate exercised by this country . The Jamaica petition complains that Spain violates the treaties under which she has bound herself to suppress the Slave Trade carried on through Cuba , and calls upon the English Government to compel Spain to fulfil the terms of her engagements '*; ' and the Bishop of Oxford , while urging the prayer of the petition , used the strongest terms of reprobation against the conduct of Spain . It is plain that the subject . of the Slave Trade generally now stands for settlement . England is left alone in her defence of the Negro , and has to decide whether she can claim to enforce her views of right upon other nations . But the lauguag-e of the Bishop of Oxford , directed as it is against a weak State like Spam , is not of a kind to help in attaining either a just or reasonable settlement of the difficult question . It is not witli Spain that the settlement of the question lies , and it is little short of cowardice to talk of coercing her to fulfil the terms of useless treaties , at the very moment when we are using conciliatory language to America , and expressing simply " regrets " at the prosecution of the French scheme of " free emigration "—which latter transaction . Lord Gjiey , iu this very debate on the Jamaica petition , described as gigantic slave trading . " It was remarked that the galleries on Thursday evening were filled with beautiful women , whoso tender emotions were freely expressed during the discussion ; but the tears of soft-hearted women will no longer serve for arguments in . this question . Moreover , it is not clear that the sympathy of our English women , which has been so warm in behalf of the Negro , has been of any great service to him . Protection has exposed liim to sufferings from which , in all probability , he would have been more secure in an unprotected ' state . In spite of the forebodings of Lord Givey , the point , of the bit-by-bit reform-wedge has been driven home : the Property Qualification Bill has passed the Lords , and only wants her Majesty ' s signature to make it law . English Members of i Parliament may now take their scats without having to undergo the mortification of procuring—or of i , accepting—a qualification which had nothing to do with their fitness to represent their countrymen > in . Parliament . With the addition of Lord i Brougham's promised measure to make members liable , under proper checks and cautions , to arrest for debt , every needful security will be given to
Parliament and to tlie constituencies for the respectability and independence of members . The next blow on the wedge will perhaps drive home the Counties Franchise Bill , "which stands at the third reading in the Lords . The House of Lords has been very active during the week , and has dealt wifch several important subjects j one of these was the organization of tlie permanent staff of militia regiments . The statements of the noble Lords andDukes who took part in the discussion onthis subject , on Kouday eve »^ ing , made it appear that , both as regards the of ^ cerg and men , the ' present ' militia system was a very costly and inefficient ineans of recruiting the army , and nothing more . Enough < was stated and . admitted to show that if the militia is to be kept as a means of national defence , it must be placed under an entirely new system . Ministers have already issued a commission on the subject ; and the sugge stions of the Peers—of the Duke of Newcastle especially—will probably , help to expand the inquiring- view of the commissioners . The Under-Secretary of State's answer to Mr . Dkasy , on Tuesday night , defines our position iu the matter of the Cngliuri . We had sent to the King of Nai \ les a note requiring a categorical answer , for indemnity to our engineers and the restoration of the ship and crew . Sardinia was at the same tiino to have presented a similar note , but it chanced that the Sardinian note was delayed for some days , and the King of Naples had handed over the ship and crew to the British authorities before the Sardinian note was ready for presentation . So far we have our own way , even , if , as the irascible father in Paul Pry sajs , " we haven't our own way of having it , " and the Sardinian representative at our court has expressed himself well satisfied . And it must be frankly admitted that Lord . Malmesbtjry has brought the affair to tins satisfactory conclusion in a way that is highly honourable to himself and to his Government . The terms of the note Averc such ns a high gentleman conscious of being in tho right , and of having the power to enforce it , would address to another gentleman of whom he had to make an imperative demand ; firm to the last degree , temperatcJicss and governed every phrase employ _ The Queen ' s visit to Birming like a summer dream—that is Any doubts—if indeed there reception she would meet w crats of tho midland capital santly disposed of ; Hek
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YOL . IX . No . 430 ] SATURDAY , JUNE 19 , 1858 . Price {^ S ™ ::: SS ^ ' -
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"The one Idea -which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—fctie lit ) bio endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our 3 pintualnature . ' *—Hwnboldt ' sCosmo * .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- i-aoe Imperial Parliament . .. 578 The Indian Revolt 581 Letters from China 583 The Orient . ; .. ........,....... ; .. 584 TheQueen ' s" Progress" 584 tfIreland 585 America ... 585 Continental Notes 5 S 5 State of Trade .............. 586 Central Criminal Court ................... 586 Criminal Record 586
Gatherings from the l » aw and Police Courts 588 Accidents and Sudden Deaths ...... 587 Obituary ... ..... 587 Mercantile Marine ...... 588 Naval and Military ...... 588 Miscellaneous ............... 588 Postscript ................... 589 PUBLIC ATFAIRSSettlement of the American Difficulty ................... 500
Signs and Warning ' s in Franco ...... 591 Spiritual Lprettes in Bclgravia 591 The Thames Pestilence .....-. 591 ThePress ' Proseciitions ..... 592 Sanitary Condition of the Army ... 592 : UTERATURE- " Summary 591 Legends and Lyrics 594 Mr . Wikoff and LordPalmcrston ... 595 Alexander the First 596 "William the Conqueror 596
oe New Novels 597 Publications and Eepublications ... 697 THE ARTS '— ' . '' . . ¦ ' ¦ ¦'" - ' ¦ . .- ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ ; . : . ¦¦ ¦ ' . - . ¦ "¦ ' ; " Tho Merchant of Venice'' at tho Princess's Theatro ..................... 897 The Operas 597 COMMERCIAL ATFAIRSTheGazette .. 597 City Intelligence , Markets , Ac ...... 597
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2247/page/1/
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