Weekly Chronicle And Register (Newspaper) - May 18, 1861, London, Middlesex T IE WEEKLY AND MAY 1861 The general course of the Home when a private member proposes some cable piece of is to make a speech against and then at the last moment to with draw his trusting to the Conservatives to act in accordance with his own advice and throw out the Like a lie leaves every ball to be by the Oppo On almost for the first time this the Hume Secretary showed a proper courage in dealing with the crude proposals of private opposed Bulls providing for new trials in criminal and it was at once This is a much better course than to temporise and lose further time by the discussion a measure which evidently can come to It is the duty of a Minister to meet proposals and to rage them by giving them the honour of a second reading at the expense of the public and to the unsettling of all confidence An instructive debate on Syria in both Houses discloses rather more desire on the part of the Opposition to goad France into than we like to we are glad to ob are not disposed to give way to A pain ful discussion took place on Monday originated by on the fact that one of the members for tem and suo motu residing for a while nt n lunatic but certified by two as dangerous to himself aud his retreat and voted in the great party division oh the Budget about a week The subject is a distressing Roebuck performed a public we cannot help thinking that the interposition of the and learned gentleman was wanting in tact and and that it might have been possible to arrive at the end desired by means less open to and less likely to wound the members The plain remedy for all the abuses in the Irish Marriage pointed out by Sir Hugh Cairns and is to make the civil conditions of marriage the same for ami to leave its spiritual sanctions entirely to the discre tion of the various religious If the presence of a registrar is to be required in Catho lic let it be required in churches too if the incumbent of a parish is to keep the register let this duty be imposed on all officiating In this there is not even the ordinary fjr keeping up for here they do not any distinctions in circumstances or A Roman Catholic believes marriage to be a a member of the Church of England holds it to he a state of life allowed in the but this divergence of view can have no bearing on the hour of the day at which it may be entered A Roman Catholic considers the marriage bond except by Papal while most English Protestants now think for cient it may be nullified by Sir Cresswell whichever opinion be the motives for prohibiting its clandestine and the folly of requiring the profession of Catho for a year remain If an Englishman cannot safely contract a matri monial engagement in Scotland or Ireland with out taking the advice of a at least lei native Irishmen and Irishwomen be allowed to follow the impulses of their hearts without the necessity of examining the object of their tions in controversial The Opposition have discharged I heir last shaft at the Chancellor of the Exchequers and it has fallen wider of the mark than any of preceding The strange incongruity evinced by the party hi attacking the oldest and surest established privilege of the House of Commons must be considered as the strongest proof they have as yet given to the world of their astonishing The Opposition have dis in a very modified exercise of control over the symptoms of an ambitious tempt on the part ofthe Commons to render themselves despotic on the Single Chamber This discovery they tried to work on Thursday night as a profitable piece of The result was altogether The Commons have decided in the most unmistakeable ffay that with aud with them rest the initiative of taxation and the Peers on conclusion that in matters of constitutional right and privilege their lordships are quite able to take care of Even aroused by the blunders of Sir made no impression upon the The Opposition have broken down angle of their even than in their former en and the Ministerial Budget will but ob tain more cordial acceptance among the public from the tedious delays and weary discussions during which it has undergone the not of captious but factious and most unscrupulous Those who have the main direction of the affairs of the Literary Fund yet taken out a pa tent for great as Avas the success of the dinner of Wednesday we cannot compliment them on their discretion in the choice of a The Due DAumale may bo a very amiable and a very accomplished He may pay an elegant and compliment to our beloved Queen of these which would natu rally awake a tumultuous His father may have taught him to love and study Shakespeare and Walter and he may appreciate to the full the divine English Bard and the Great Wizard of the But why have a Foreigner in the Chair at the Anniversary Festival of an English Benevolent Institution Have we not fellow countrymen worthy to occupy such a post who have never hitherto filled it Have we not States men who are and authors who are States men A Duko who is the head of the House of and who has recently written a let which has brought fine and imprisonment upon its printer and may be one of the largest lions of the sure to attract as We that the Royal Lite rary Fund is reduced to such straits as to oblige Committee to hare recourse to such Although the guests were and the re ception of the Chairman it is a fact that very few men of political eminence j were were conspicuous by their is as wise as it is sig The Royal Literary Fund is an no way connected with Politics but why select at this moment an Duke who has recently assailed with acrimony the present regime in France The recent performance at The atre in aid the funds of the Royal Dramatic College shows how much material good can be ef by devoting energy and perseverance to a sensible and how substantially profitable the principle of mutual assistance can be if properly Next to the natural cation we feel at seeing so many worthy and emi nent members of the dramatic profession banded together for the furtherance of a most praiseworthy and philanthropic relief de come the pleasurable re that not only are actors and actresses j always ready to labour in the cause of but that they have already established a number of admirable provident institutions among It should never be forgotten that the blessings of providence and selfhelp may be secured by by professional men and artists no less by artisans and day labourers and that the means of accomplishing the great and worthy ends for which Friendly Societies were established are within the scope of all chides of At the Court of on Edwin the eminent Queens filed a petition for arrangement under what is commonly known as Tne Gentlemans 7 and 8 The learned gentleman describes himself as late of and now of Protec tion in the usual form was aud the 5lh of June was appointed for the first The lia of the learned gentleman are currently at AHD RISK IN THE BANK RATE OF directors of the Bank of at their weekly court on raised their minimum rate of discount from 5 to G per deli were very The reverse a reduction irom G tj on the 11 tli Thursdays measure been very generally the setting in pi the drain of gold to Lord is in the field asa Liberal candi date for but will be opposed by u FRANCE AND The discussion on the petition in favour of the occupa tion of Syria was continued on Wednesday in the gave a historical outline of the events in and said that the almost powerless state of Turkey obliges thi Powers to act with extreme He mentioned that preceded the occupation of Syria by French which was pro 1 until the 5th of notwithstanding some only consented to the pro on the express condition that should be the last With regard to the organisation of tie Government has weighty reasons for supposing that the proposal to appoint a Christian chief who would the whole population Mount of being only thing to ba is to execute and evacuate Syria on the 5th of the withdrawal of our troops has lamentable consequences curtain persons have a Should blood be shel because our counsels have been misunderstood we shall call Europe to witness to the immense responsibility it has It is not France who evacuates is When France supports a cause of her own her auts are Free and she does not What will now be the conduct ofthe Emperor France will not forget her With the transports which are to bring back the troops will leave six which will cruise in the waters of and will be the terror of the England is aware of and associates herself with in the Levant side by side with ours and that of And if neces sity requires other measures will he read the circular of dated May explaining which France will and con cluded by saying that France from the man date of Europe in regard t Syria recovers all her dual lie then proposed that Senate should pass to the order of the The Marquis expressed his satisfaction at the ministerial and said that he should for the order of the The of the day was then adopted almost unani there being only two The Independence Betge pledges itself to the literal correctness of tlie following statement Negotiations aru taking place between the Cabinets of Paris and and an is close at Tne Italian mint undertakes to respect the present territory and to prevent any invasion of it France inform thy Holy See of this and will to the Court of Rome its intention to its portion at and the at a definite The recognition of the kingdom of Italy by France will take place at the same The 1erseveraiiyOi of Milan announces that a priest ia the service of the reactionary bearer of com promising lias been arrested at the Roman May The Nazione of today publishes letters from asserting that the French gendarmes have seized two boxes containing coins which had been struck in Rome with tiie effigy of They were directed to the The same asserts that General Groyon lodged a complaint with Francis who denied any participa tion in the The enlistment of soMiers for the Bourbon and the vexatious interference of the continue ut It appears impossible any longer to doubt that the death of Count Teleky was un act of The pistol the ball from which he died fitted the barrel cf the and corresponded precisely with that in the barrel of the fellow the Counts secretary the of the was locked on the The Count had been long suffering under intense nervous arising from an organic The serious nature of the responsibility lie was about to incur as leader of the party who opposed thu the possibility of such a course leading to an open Hungary and probably weighed more on his mind than it could and led to the unhappy deprived Hungary of a patriot whose purity and high purpose were never questioned even by his political The Gazette of Vienna announces that if the inhabitant of the communes of whose taxes are yet in should still refuse to pay them after the requisition of special the will bo placed under try occupation until of the amount shall hive been The advices from the United States luiUn trouble and threats
