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LANCASHIRE NEW MORT-TEN PER
CENT. FOR EVER !

The English, as we are told on every side, are an
eminently sensible, practical, reasoning, and rather
dull people. They calculate when they are told to
believe. They detect an imposture at a glance,
and see through a superstition as they would a
trick at cards. How their ancestors ever came to
worship stocks and stones, to offer human holocausts
in vast wicker images, or to think the mistletoe of
the oak more sacred than that of the appletree,
passes comprehension. At all events John Bull,
even in fustian and shirt sleeves, is too wise for all
this now. He understands steam engine and looms,
can calculate percentages, strike an average, and
do a sum in Rule of Three. The day-school has
banished false religions to the bats and the owls,
and the only fear is, that with so much education
to be got for the asking, and so many substantial
comforts to be earned by common industry, reli-
gion of auy kind should be voted a superfluity.
Nevertheless, it is in this England whereof to write
that Joanna Southcote and Thom were indigenous;
where mesmerism, table-turning, and spirit rap-
ping have spread to all classes ; whence tens of
thousands of Mormons are going off to the Salt
Valley; where almost anybody, if he give his mind
to it, can gain converts to anything. Fanaticism is
not to be eradicated by figures, and railways them-
selves subserve, in the pride of might, to the most
perverted forms of the spiritual element. So we are
not surprised to see the growth of a new supersti-
tion, a new craftsman's idol. The operatives of
Lancashire have discovered a new religion, and are
performing pilgrimages worthy of Juggernaut or
the Holy Coat of Treves. Their spiritual zeal
carries them beyond the vulgar considerations
of comfort or economy. Monster trains con-
vey them to the places where this new-born piety
may be refreshed by the exhortations of suitable
preachers and the devotional hymns of the new
worship. Under the cold blue sky they listen
with edifying submission to the pious raptures of
inspired teachers. Fathers, mothers, children flock
to the festival. The aged forget their crutches and
the sick their pains in this holy ardour. And what
is this new Gospel which has illumined the dark-
ness of Lancashire, and made it the Galilee of this
land ? Prepare yourself, gentle reader, for this
new and astounding revelation of the Divine wis-
dom and mercy. The awful truth which has broken
through the darkness of the ages, which has pene-
trated every heart, and warmed every soul in the
industrious north, is the eternal and immutable
necessity of Ten per Cent. more wages.
It is a sober and a portentous fact. From all
Lancashire, by ordinary trains and by special
trains, there assembled last Sunday, which appears
to have been adopted by the new religion for its
day of worship, such a congregation as never was
seen at Hoghton, we presume one of the high
places of the Ten per Cent. divinity. They who
could not come had sent their Peter's pence in the
shape of more than two thousand pounds. Their
preachers proclaimed a new era, heralded by
myriads of conversions. Preston is the favoured
city of this new church, and it may almost vie
with Rome or Nauvoo in the amount of contribu-
tions poured in by the devout Lancastrians. "Let
thousands more be rolled in," exclaimed one pious
man, " for every man in this assembly must know
the great fact, that money is the sinew of war."
Certainly if Ten per Cent. more wages is a Gospel
from Heaven, the sinews of war may be consid-
ered a great fact. The creed is developing. But
why should it not embrace all England, all
classes, all employments, and all relations ? Who
does not want Ten per Cent. more wages ? Who
will not acknowledge that money is the sinews of
war ? The millowners themselves may embrace the
new faith, for they want Ten per Cent. more pro-
fits. The clergy may sit under brothers Lawless
and Cowell, for they want Ten per Cent. more rent-
charge and surplice feei. All the functionaries
of the State, all the Army and Navy, want Ten per
Cent. more pay. We fondly hope we have our-
selves been instrumental in procuring a boon to
the common soldier equivalent to about Ten per
Cent. Let us be enrolled among the apostles of
Ten per Centism. The doctrine is easy, the bur-
den is light. You have only to believe that your
soul is safer with 225. a-week than with 205., or
with 1101. a-year than with 1001., and that the
man who will not give you the larger sum instead
of the smaller is a son of Belial. The beauty of the
doctrine is its universality, for who is there who
does not want more money, more rent, more tithes,
more salary, more commission, more profit, more
allowances and pay in one form or another ? Master
and man can worship at the same altar, even if their
prayers seem commercially incompatible. But let
Heaven settle that difficulty, and let the operative
on the one side pray for Ten per Cent. more wages,
and the master for Ten per Cent. more profits, out
of the same order.

But is there really no remedy for this delusion ?
Do we witness the veritable beginning of a new
religion, the only bond of which shall be a common
interest in an increase of pay ? Surely there are
gentlemen and there are clergymen in Lancashire
who can teach these poor dupes something better
than this, and inform them that to offer public
worship and sing hymns for triumph in a
struggle for Ten per Cent. more wages is not one
jot better than falling down before a stock or a
stone. True, two shillings a-week more wa7es
may present itself in a more lovely form than
a grim figure, all eyes, mouth, and nose, with
dog's teeth and matted hair, like the dogs of the
South Sea Islanders. Two shillings a-week may
stand for more bread, meat, and beer ; better
coats, shoes, and stockings, a larger house, and so
forth. But, nevertheless, comforts and luxuries
mount up into a very sorry idol. If operatives
may meet by tens of thousands on a heath and
sing hymns for boiled beef on Sundays, then their
betters with equal piety may offer up anthems for
turtle soup and iced punch. No one can say how
far devotees will go when they once place their
affections on creature comforts and a handsome
percentage. Certainly all this spurious zeal looks ill
for the religion of the north, and for the influence of
those whose duty it was to set the example. Is it true
that Moloch has been worshipped so long and so ex-
clusively by his more fortunate followers that the
golden contagion has spread, and the money-
making, money-spending millowner, now finds him-
self crushed by the converts to his own faith ?
The Roman critic observed, that when Homer's
chiefs went mad, their followers suffered. Is there
no such madness, no exclusive worship of s. d.
in Lancashire, that has at least infected the silly
multitude, and sent them worshipping the god of
their bettws ? We should be better satisfied of
the result if we saw something done by those who
alone can do it to strip this selfish agitation of
its fanatical guise. To ask for Ten per Cent. more
wages is allowable, and even laudable ; to insist
on it as a divine right, and to invoke the favour
of Heaven on the demand, is simply blasphemy.
Surely there are people in Lancashire whose sacred
profession, whose high social position, and whose
affectionate relations with those whom they em-
ploy, will enable them to address these fanatics
with effect. If there are none such, and the mul-
titude of Lancashire are really like sheep without
a shepherd, whose fault is it but theirs who, being
placed by Heaven in a place of high moral in-
fluence, have thought of little else but getting
their own Ten per Cent., their 100,0001. ?—Times.

IMPE RIAL PARLIA DENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.)
DISCLOSURE OF CABINET SECRETS.

The Earl of MILMESBURY referring to the ac-
cusation made by the Earl of Aberdeen last night, that
the Cabinet secrets which had been published in the
Times newspaper, had been communicated to that jour-
nal by a gentleman who had been appointed to a clerk-
ship in the Foreign-office by hi►n (the Earl of Malmes-
bury), but who had since been discharged, said that
during the whole time he had been Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, he had only nominated four gentlemen to junior
clerkships, of whom three still held their situations.
The fourth must, therefore, be the individual against
whom the charge was made, but, instead of being dis-
missed, he found on inquiry that he had conducted him-
self to the satisfaction of his superiors, and had left in
consequence of his marriage with a lady of considerable
fortune. He had further to state that a noble viscount
had this day communicated with Mr. Delane, the editor
of the Times, who said that this gentleman had
never given to the newspaper any information of an
official character while at the Foreign-office, or since he
had left it. Under these circumstances, he trusted the
noble earl would retract the accusation which he had
made.

The Earl of ABERDEEN—I am very happy the noble
earl has made this statement to the house, for I am very
desirous that this matter should rest entirely on the most
accurate foundation. My lords, you will recollect that
the noble earl who introduced this subject last night
gave, in no very obsc,ure terms, an intimation that he
imagined I was the source whence this information was
derived. Rejecting that insinuation in the most peremp-
tory manner I possibly could, I certainly did state that
it was probable—but I did not make the assertion or ex-
press the belief—that the Times newspaper had derived
its information from the gentleman to whom I alluded.
What I had heard' was this, and what I repeat is, that
that gentleman did talk of this correspondence, and of
his knowledge of the contents of this correspondence
which has been communicated to the Times. lam so
certain of this, and, though he certainly did not men-
tion it to me, I have heard it from so many different
quarters that I am quite satisfied to refer it to the gen-
tleman himself. If he says that he did not mention the
existence of this correspondence and the nature of this
correspondence, then I will confess that I have been
more deceived than man ever was. But I refer it en-
tirely to his own statement, and I am sure, because I have
ascertained from quarters that I cannot possibly doubt,
that it was mentioned with so little hesitation or con-
cealment, that the gentleman himself will avow that he
has referred to the correspondence in question. Now, I
never stated that the Times newspaper received it from
him, but in the heat of the moment, and in reference
to the insinuations of the noble earl, I certainly did
refer to a quarter from which it might possibly have
come. What was stated in one society might very well
be known in another ; and, after all, the noble earl
(Derby) stated last night that he was aware of the cor-
respondence at the beginning of the session. (Hear.)
How did he learn it ? (Hear.) Certainly not from me.
But I may say that I think it was an act of imprudence
on the part of this gentleman to talk in the way he did
about the contents of this correspondence, which he cer-
tainly had cognisance of confidentially; but, after all, I
made no charge, and I repeat that I believe the gentle-
man himself will not deny what I have stated. (sear.)
The Earl of MALIIESBURY—The noble earl has
stated that, from his own knowledge, he feels certain
that this gentleman has divulged secrets which he ought
to have kept to himself ; but I do not quite understand
the noble earl, because he says to-day he has heard this
from so many quarters that he can have no doubt upon
the subject. As to the gentleman referred to, from the
noble earl's own statement last night, it must have been
only to-day that the noble lord has learnt his name—
hear, hear)—because he distinctly told us last night,
when I asked his name, that he did not know. (Hear.)
Now, the noble earl must have been completely ignorant
of the gentleman against whom the charge was made, as
he did not even know his name. All I shall say is, that
it is a most extraordinary thing that the noble earl
should have heard a statement of such importance as
that a clerk at the Foreign-office had divulged a State
secret, and yet that ho should not have heard his name.
(Hear.) It is only to-day that he has discovered who the
gentleman is. [Lord Aberdeen here made an observa-
tion that was inaudible.] But the noble earl told me last
night he did not know the name of the gentleman who
had been a clerk at the Foreign-office. I cannot help
making the remark, that the way in which the noble
earl has brought forward this subject is not one that
does honour to your lordships' house. If any gentle-
man was guilty of a scandalous breach of duty, as charged
by the noble earl, he should have been dismissed at once
from his situation by his superiors in office (hear, hear),
and he ought not to have been shielded by any member
of the Government. I must say that the manner in
which the noble earl brought forward this subject, and
the manner in which he has closed it, is not an honour
to your lordships, or your lordships' house ; and I may
add, that this is the first time I have witnessed anything
of the kind since I became a member of your lordships'
house. (Hear.)
The subject then dropped.
TESTAMENTARY JURISDICTION.

Petitions were presented against the Testamentary
Jurisdiction bill by the Earl of HARROWBY, from the
College of Advocates ; by the Bishop of Sr. ASAPII,
from 17 or 18 registrars, who, he stated, did not object
to the bill in toto, but to certain of its details ; and by
the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, from a large body of
proctors.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, in rising to move the
second reading of the Testamentary Jurisdiction bill,
said that when this bill was read for the first tune he
drew s.) largely on the attention of their lordships that
he did not now feel warranted in entering into detail as
to the contents of the bill. On the first reading he en-
tered fully into the nature of the evils to be remedied,
and the attempts that successive Governments had made
to effect this ; he had also laid before their lordships the
recommendations of the last commission, and how far he
coincided with or differed from those recommendations.
Their lordships were pleased to receive the announce-
ment of this bill, not only with kindness and attention,
but with very general approbation ; and his noble and
learned friend, who objected to many portions of the
bill, therein differed also from the recommendations
of the majority of the commissioners. That which had
been received favourably by their lordships had not
been received unfavourably by the country in gene-
ral ; but it could not be supposed that this subject,
amid the exciting events of the present time, would
arrest much public attention ; but there were persons
whose attention was necessarily directed to it—he meant
those whose interests were, or were supposed to be,
affected by the proposed alterations. He might venture
to say that, had the bill not been regarded by them as
entitled to the favourable reception of the Legislature,
their lordships' table would have been covered with pe-
titions against the measure. He had, however, kept his
attention alive to this, and was not aware, with the ex-
ception of the petitions of this night, that any others had
been presented to their lordships. Let them examine
into the nature of the objections of these petitions. In
the first place, there was that presented by the noble
lord from York. All attempts to effect legal reform
must necessarily be attended with loss to those who had
profited, not improperly, by the system which it was
proposed to alter, and there was, perhaps, no place in
the kingdom on which the present measure would have
a more injurious effect than on York ; he was therefore
not surprised that a petition should have been presented
to their lordships from that city. This petition, if he
understood it, proposed that their lordships should con-
tinue throughout the kingdom the system of district
registrars for contentious as well as non-contentious
business. Were they to have district courts for con-
tentious business without an adequately learned and in-
telligent bar and judge, such a system would but lead
people into difficulties, and was one which he thought
no one ought to venture to propose. Lord Lyndhurst,
he thought, had made such a proposal, but, as it was
received with universal disapprobation, it was dropped.
The next was a petition presented by a noble lord
from many of the leading merchants of the city
of London, who did not propose, as in the first
petition, to continue, or merely to have a redistribu-
tion of the districts, but they proposed an entire
alteration of the present system, and to have a
Court of Probate. He did not know whether the noble
lord was present when this matter was discussed ; it was
then thought that no more inconvenient mode of dis-
posing of the matter could be adopted than to constitute
a new court, which would be occupied for 60 days in the
year, and that further occupation should be tried to be
made for it by thrusting on it the decision of other mat-
ters which had no relation to the subject-matter of its
jurisdiction. The petition proceeded to state
.that put-
ting these matters in the Court of Chancery involved
them in those delays proverbial to that court. He might
be thought a silly person, but he believed that at this
moment in neither of the superior courts of Westminster
was business more speedily despached than by the Court
of Chancery. There were, of course, cases which could
not be so, such of those of complicated accounts or trusts
which from their nature were to endure for 20 or 30
years, and unless they lasted for this period the Court
would not be performing its duty. It seemed to him that
the apprehensions of these petitioners were founded on
the erroneous—he was going to say vulgar notion—that
everything was slow in the Court of Chancery. The con-
trary of this was, however, nearer the truth. Another
petition had been presented from the College of Advo-
cates, who founded their objections on the fact that, ac-
cording to the present constitution of their body, ques-
tions of international law were nearly exclusively confined
to them, and it was said that if this bill deprived them
of one branch of their profession, it would make it un-
profitable--drive them away—and then there would be
no body left devoted to the study of the international law.
He considered that there must be some fallacy in this—
for the international law could not be an exception to
everything else in the world - if there was a demand for
it, this country would be able to produce those willing
to devote themselves to the study of it. The petition I
presented by the right rev. prelate from various regis-
trars, objecting to certain details in the bill, would meet
with consideration in committee. His noble friend (the
Marquis of Clanricarde) had presented a petition from
the proctor::, complaining that it would affect their in-
terests. With respect to this, he must repeat the ob-
servation he had already made—that in all legal reforms
there were necessarily some whose interests were af-
fected, and it was difficult to speak of giving compensa-
tion to practitioners, when their practice was affected
only because matters were put on a better footing for
the public. He considered, however, as the bill would
allow proctors, under certain advantages, to enter into
partnership with solicitors, that this would mitigate the
evils which they complained of, These were the only