The Express. — London, England, 1852-06-17 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE. OF CONIMON3.—WEDNESDAT, JUNI 16. TM tiritabea teak the chair at 12 o'clock. VATE BUSINESS. _ _ Adams' Estate Bill was conaiilered as amended, sad agreed to. Klwe: &irate Bill and 82aiding's Eotate Bin were real A woad time. Die %%Raball Water Works Bill and the Grand untie. Lon Water Work. were read a third tune and paaavd. I': I'ETI 1 lONS PItESEN PAPIUm.—Ity Sir E LMER, front aseciety . in Kent ; and Mr. HANDCASTLE, from Col chester, to favour of free distribution of to literary societies. INTIMPIIMANCI.—By Mr. L. IIEYWORTIL three po tations, tor inquiry into the causes, practices, and cense qiiences of. Islamic-non or Neteneatas.—Be Mr. HARDCASTLE, ' front Camberwell; Mr. BATESON; from the city of Deny, numerously signed; and Mr. LACY, from Camberwell; praying for • government inspection of nunneries. THE COUNT OUT ON ICKSDAY.—IIiE LAW OF DIVISIONS. Mr. ANSTEY, in fining the 29th of June for his motion is reference to the repulsion of the free church MISPiOUSIieII from Frith, and on which he bad been counted out on the previous night, wished to ask the opinion of the Speaker cue e point ot order. It would ho ?cambered that when an host. and leaned fn. sad of has (Mr. V. Seally) was speak ing on the Maynouth debate, at a morning tatting mune days before, the Speaker left the chair at 4 o'clock pre cisely—the hour of adjournment fined by the standing order under which the morning swinge were held ; but yester day, when the Chance-Her of the Exchequer was speaking on a govemment ball, he was allowed to go on until o o'clock, though hit (Mr. Anstey) had stated there was plan to count out in the evening. Ito wished to know from the chair, how it was that at 4 o'clock an indepeadent member of the house wee prevented addrewing the house by the Speaker's leaving the chair, while a member of the Revetment was allowed to car y on the government busi ness till fie'elock. In the seat pl me, he demurred to • decision of the Chairmaa of Ways and Means by wind . ' three friends of hi. were compiled on a recent occasion to r e c o rd their rules against an ameadmeat of has in Cumulative of Supply. The there hon. gentlemen no goestion being present at the time of the daemon ea one of the corridor. ast the hones owed. red they bad a right to have the question pat to them again, sail to have tiNir rutril recorded according to their •.ew., met. sal I I sewed's* to the geographical pea- Nese the wrephs is which they happened to be at the time when the d.vi.ion was called, but the Chelsea of Ways and Mean. hasang as inquiry discovered that the door of the corridor was not locked, decided, on the math.. mty ally right lion gentleman the au mina liar the Cad wanity el Cembridge, that all members within the home, arming all basing the pewaibelity of acme, were bound to vote. and their votes wire accordingly seconleal, nut secaed tan to the., own views, but recordang to the side of the house . at which they happened to be. Then with regard to what look plan on the previous evening. Ile stated at the cum rammement of his odder., whin introducing lass motion, that aiialatete were, as rumour .1:10. endeavouring se meat est the home, fur the polio.re of aides* dnemiess en Lard Malmesbury'. caniluct. ,Cheers) Aud when tee • count" took also, the Speaker stopped at 37, though the hosiourabie measlier tor Montrose Brow his attention to the fact that there were three mutton hiding themselves behind the chair. Ile (Mr. Aafitry) also eltiltareeresi to draw the attention et the right boa ourab'e gentleman to the fact that there were 'eve sal supporters of the government behind the chair, bat when the Speaker turned round to count them they bad withdrawn into the ante-room, where, according to the preTllol4ll decision of the Chairman of Ways and Means, they ought, nevertheless, to Love been counted, sad when the bows rue he (Mr. Amoy) was about to Marin that the Series:it-at- Arras be directed to bring them to the table. What be wanted to know was, had the chair on power and hal the house no power to compel menihen to attend at the table to be toward, when they were actually within the bowie, in the same way as the chairman of committees, it appeared, had power to compel them to vote ; and if then was no such power, he would gave notice that as a future day he would sneer for the ap poistneent of a committee to consider the subject. The SPEAKER explained that the rule under which the business was suspended at 4 o'clock, applied only to thee* days other than Wednesday., when the house nett at 12 o'clock, whereas yesterday the house met at one o'clock. As te what occurred in the committee of the house to which the hen. and learned member had alluded, not har k* been informed of all the loco, lie could not airs ea opinion ; but the rule o' the house in regard to divisions was, that no member was allowed to vote unless he was present to hear the question pat, and before the question was pat for the daemon, it was the duty of the Serjeant to clear the lobby. It had occurred since he had had the Mame to All the °Nee he now occupied, that after putting the question a member had been found in the lobby, and in that nue he had called the member to the table and asked him if he had h. and the question put, and upon his answering that he had not, he directed the Sergeant to open the door and the member withdrew without voting. With regard to the " count out" an the preview evening, the hon. and learned gentleman must DIP aware that when any member took notice that forty men bees were not present the house was not competent to transact any business, and no member was permitted to out drew the house until it was ascertained that the required number to constitute a house was present. The doors were not lucked, and until the Speeker was actually counting any member lad • right to withdraw ; and, if there wens hundred members in the lobby, the Speaker had no poem to compel their attesdasee. (Hear, hear.) And he meet be permitted to say that ho was irregularly interrupted by an hon. member (Mr. Hume) directing his attention to 'entwines' behind It,. chair, when. according to the rule, of the hoe.,, no member had a right to speak while the Speaker was counties. (Hear, bear.) In consequence of that in'erruotion, however, tie counted the house twice over. (Hear, hear.) The rule of the house, as it now stood, was t hat no member could be counted unless he war actually within the house at the time ; and neither the chair nor any bon. member had the power to compel the atteedaacsof any other member while the house was being counted. Mr. BERNAL esseiderecl it highly important that some rule should be laid dews us regard to the noting of mem bers who were not actually within the four walls of the house when the division was called, and who had not beast the question put. Formerly there was • rule, or rather an understandiag, that all winabers ant actually in the body of the house, but within the purlieus, heir g any part of the house which could be locked io, should be obliged to vote. Oa the °realign which had been alluded to, when he our acting as chairman of the committee of supply, he thought as this was a sew home, that it would be better to take the = of the committee as to what should he dose, and lee that the three hen members In emetics Amid h g e= li te the table, sod asked if they had heard the question put, sand U they had net, that it should be re passed tin them, leaving them to Me either cm way or the ether, me they piessed. That seggeerdon, however, dad am SO Mom with the hawse, and the right hoe. member kr Cambridge University (Mr. Goulburn) and the ben. Mar her Ibr Dover , expvessed an opinion t hat that sauna 'ogle ant to be takes, sad the votes of those hon. geatinne ware roperdol on the side on which they were. (Mew.) Now, however, if he saluted accurately what bad filles ear s t i t u rtor. it wa• moseeary not only that She maim be within the walls of the house, but that he should her the giantism put, end upon beineamo wen be ray whether be had Sword it or not, should he mower in the ve, be should be allowed to withdraw without waling. (Hear, hear.) He shook! be glad if such were the spines. ef the Speaker that it should be declased, in order Hied the oesetles might be Loft desidod. Wk. MUMS adoi ear what lb. right Ira._ pestle am hod now stated, est I. (Mr. Hare) was a lilts ins ister, bet arias three arabere behind the chair who Ind art bra eseatot whoa the amber yofwet was bind to be IS, it was wily aerial that he nee ld all arras. to the frt. (Mear s bear.) Darks theft throe asabsea he saw st lawn II Mr SOW* the gir der. awl s as he rateaded, within the Mess. It was intyartaot that the gaieties Amid be MOO ow kr ail what was the rile la la each eras. runway, whoa a division tote pins, the dere were leaked, and the division took plasm he the laser, galas on either side of the Mow or softiies r ray - voted aye w ao ea the reeks. He remembered 10 years ago, slaw he wee ma of the tel lers fie • division, the late Mr. Wilherfarso bed ladled he what was thee called Soitsaca's pewit. That was the spec* behind the Speaker's chair—C.loer, hese," and a laugh) —and when the numbers were dielaired attention was called to the feet that a member who was pessont bed sot bees counted, whereupon Mr. Wilberforce was milled to the table, and Gibed if he had heard the gao wks. end ea Marawarrlag " No," the clerk was directed to rood Or astir. awl, levier Irani it, he was then asked bow be would veto—. aye" or " —sad as his replying " so:: the vase wee ao needed.Theran of the aid Iron our, that all reehere should be counted who ware w 'this the hoar et the tires of patting the gratlea. Ho had formerly eonsiehred that the rules of the Uwe wars severely osuiplieeted, but Ids exparienes bad Mee taught him that wsthuot those rain sad ardor it read be impassible to carry es the hearse (Haar, boar.) He suggested that a foroittr should be aporard neat session to lay down rules to prevent such an occurrence as took place lest night. (Hear, hear.) He regretted to be obliged to emplaia et the " count oat " on 'snowl grewada„ far be bed eons dome aa the grinimee owning serially is bras the debate ages a air inewanisi sad importer qoarlon fa raferear le the dlelnief widish was le have bra bret forward by a woissetart -eg in the arse of Lora .Ire The SPIAM KM remelted that the ruts reldali I the old Hems el Hanemems wasnet agglisebbM i tto ll ossest. The nibs if &Mem was Wally earns NM from what it our ia the old brass, whose swam sorely crossed the biome when a division /Mk pines enseediag a. they Med spr or am At that Mas s teek U weeehisa win In the by or la the Spotesea obrabet at the Mrs et the divides wise net allowed ft veto, but Wm wee a Mammon the Speriaes ars whom U member Win wins oho onnwed, they wore Owed awes le the groat bones then was se werepooling rear. sad the Mere were required fee tears nor la. Ho eineened that it was deelealie sere rule aboeM be laid arara, bet he thought the hams meld be of weans that no areabor should he requited late solemn be hod beard the raster put, and that preview tea divi des lie rat Arms should see that the Weise were clewed. ( leaar.) Mr. AN STIT gave astir that tormarrow (die day) he week' mow thee when ihe boats was sward We &want at.Arme be dewed to Irk the suleide door, and tiro all ,_ s • 7, ntemben found withia . well as those who wen: ;le The subject theoldro Mr. WA I.POLe, in afaer fa Sir J. Tv nib., stat that the Itunie.unieu had received information ut sys• teinetic infringements of the factory act, in the easjiluyruent of females at certain fictories In Glourceershire, and added tint • sub•inspectur hid been cant down t inquire and to I 1111: MISSING STEAM-SIII PRKSWENT. Mr STAFFORD, hring questiuto,l by Mr. ILBEIDSELEV. lobe: dot that were proceeding to discover, it I possible, to what steam- vessel the pertimsof wreck washed up on the coast of Banff had belooged, but that as tar as had been yet ascertained there was no reason to suppose they had formed part of the President. Mr. IL BERKELEY, referring to the portions of wreck washed on shore on the coast of Banff, asked whether any steps had been taken to discover whether they formed part of the ill-feted President ? Mr STAFFORD said it was true portions of the wreck of a large steamer had been washed ashore near Bane, and the Admiralty had taken steps to ascertain if possible what vessel they had belonged to. They had instituted Jaquith:, by means of an experienced officer who had carefatly exa mined the scantling of all the timbers, and hail communi cated with the builders of all the large steam-ships which had been lost of late years. There was some difficulty of course in identifying the wreck, it being impossible to sap whether the scantling had been reduced by the amlcu of the waves or not. Communications had already been re.. ecived from mistral ut the builders, and others were ex pected ; but at present the prevailing opinion was that the pieces of wreck in question had formed no part of the Presi dent. When the inquiry was complete, he would lay the result on the table. (Hear, hear.) ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCLAMATIONS-THE ROYAL PROCLAMA'T'ION. Mr. KEOGH-1 rise for the purpose of putting a ques tion to the right hon. gentleman the Secretary for the Home Deportment, of which I have given notice. Iwe in the papers of this morning a royal proclamation addressed to those clauses of the Relief Aet which were introduced into it from some very old acts, end directed against the habit of Homan catholic ecclesiastics wearing the dress of their orders in politic. Those clauses have remained dormant ever since the passing of the Relief Act. The government of the Duke of Wellington did not press them, the govern. awn. of Earl Urey did not peas them, the government of Lord Melbourne did not enforce them, and the government of Sir II lied did not coronet them; sod I believe I am right in saying that this is the first time any intention has been ennoanceel of putting that met in force against Roman catholic ecclesiastics. (Hear, hear.) I observe in a mora ine journal, conducted with great ability, which defends the acts of the present government, and is generally supposed to be its organ—l allude to the Morning Herald— I observe in that roper the following observations in eeferenee to this proclamation This is an act by which the government, in the immediate prospect of an election, dares to offend a large class of religionists. We need not my that Sir Robert l'eel, in hie whole life, never once was guilty of such a piece of manhood. And what earnest pro testant, ought to do is to take tan that those who mean honestly to carry out the laws do not suffer for their manli ness and sincerity in en doing." Now, sir, having reference to the approaching dissolution of parliament—having re ference to the announcement on the part of the governmeut organ and the facts I have stated, I wish to put to the right hon. gentleman these questions—tint, is it intended to pethlisk this proclamation in the Inib!ito Gavite, and thereby ice it the same effect in Ireland as it will have in lgegieed ? (Hear.) Is that intended by her Majesty's pearammet ? (Cheers.) Mr. HUME—A proclamation does nothing. Mr. KEOGH—My hon. friend the member for Montrose ens • proclamation dues nothing, and in this case I am aware it has no legal effect. (" Hear, hear," front Lord Naas.) My noble friend opposite clearly does not apprehend the d - stinction. (Hear.) But there are eases in which pro elamations are at cessary to give effect to the law, as untie r the ('rime and °titre T Act—(hear)—but, as I understand it, this proclamation is intended to prevent the politic being taken by surprise in reference to the revival of a dormant act of parliament. Nor the question I have to put is, whether it is intended to give the same publicity to this proclamation in Ireland as has been given to it in this country, by publishing it in the Dublin Gazette, and that ' being done, woether it is then the intention of her Ma jesty's government, with that manliness and sincerity for which this newspaper niece them credit, to direct the Attorney-General in Ireland ( ~ nd I am glad to see the right hon. and learned gentleman in his place) to prosecute Roman catholic ecclesiastics in that country for doing that which they hive been permitted without observation and without punishment to do ever since the year 1829, by every government, or whether the issuing of this proclamation is merely intended u a set off to the dropping of the May moth debate ? (Livid cheers.) Mr. WALPOLE—Before I answer the two questions the hoe. and learned gentleman has put to me, I think it right to state, on the part of the government, that I am not responsible nor is the government responsible, for any pet- Reuter observations contained in any particular newspaper. [Mr. Keogh: But it is their organ.] I think it right to state to the house, also, that the hon. at d learned gentleman has not accurately, because; not fully, explained the law in regard to this subject. Now the statute of Geo. IV. applies to two purposes--to It -man catholic ecclesiastics wearing the habit of their order, and to ecclesiastics celebrating the rites and ceremonies of their religion in other plasma than those of private worship. Having explained this matter, in order that the facts may be clearly understood in reference to the law which her Majesty's government think it right to enforce, I will proceed to answer the two questions which the hon. and learned gentleman has put to me. First, the hon. and learned gentleman asks me tf we an going to pub lish a similar proclamation in the Dublin Gault* to that which has appeared in the Lcmdoes Gazette! Now my answer to that is, that two months ago the government received in formation of processions of Roman eatholies taking place in Ireland, in which a Roman catholic bishop took part, and the moment we heard of those processions, which I believe to be entirely new, we sent an intimation—l may call it a friendly intimation—to the bishop, pointing his attention to the statute of Geo, IV., and stating that we believed he had taken part in such processions inadvertently, and without any intention of violating the law, and that under these circumstances we should take no further motive of those proceedings, but that we hoped the law would not be vio lated in that way in future, or that if it was, we should feel it oar duty to take notice of it. (Hear.) Sines then we barn not heard of any repetition of these offences in Ire land, and not having heard of it, we do not wish to give a more special warms; is Ireland than is contained in this I ,proclausation. which applies to all her Majesty's subjects, or to ism a Mailer porderatioa in Ireland after the pri• rate weraiag we lave se ghee, unless a similar occasion shoa:d arise. (lieu hear.) dad now, with regard to the snood question. The Ma. mad learned geatiensen wishes to know whether we a ski to eaters a hen which he nye Ms Ida Menait kr snarl bee mot beam diemant, be the hen Mile ammo to the 'iamb* af the genera meat WO/111 hall or a way portlier amme—M, that Iles= midwife, ran gars to revive thine pnereisme &keg the guide higliways of this emirs which bad boa dam away with for time hundred yam, „akar beer.) These an the wade taken down ▪ erillomr—lbat May were grog to de the by marching Mm 0111 w to veep with Mum aad million, is honour Mlnd et the hest et the Viola Mery. And pearrioa eihlib ibis toodeatedea woe oartieularly who% I am halbepsda owed lip wooled inir miles ekes the higloseidi..4oll h mated et Ile , =ibms110111“11 cad Makin at thir Ad; =rearing with Arm et •Ikodeeo epos ihre. and Wise et the Virgin end es Woe eassoloned so sea Immerse to elhous ho lt eahlests, dna all did Wok is dela to to ppm' en viola tive et km la ilds mom An Oat. I meet Lea ibis that Awe wee ea Meal dew eta Wes& of pease Lead I ea nee thee bash tab home sad the oforky wit ammo et the iamb eft ipmedemetlea, in ewe we owe Not, whMe we we fee nalateia for *easy membbe et the Seem oaths* vale m the undis turbed iattypwat ikYpel rights, cad the Aal sad free Meta al lb rellorisal salaam, we axe deteinised at the eeM NM to we that the law is observed-4eboses)—or, it ertalsemood, that it will aseessarily diem lowa paneh =ft spa these who, after this wank& shell wilfully Wisp the lew—inbesee)—nose it is *views that the everisoli*Let sash inlidaesemate of the law hosed of allaying Wigs= dillwelesei=leuresee then mate. rially, end may bemuse la of the public peace. (Loud cheers.) _ _ • COUNTKAATES BILL. This bill, after some diersadas co the second clause, pared throtsgh consoles, tad w ordered to be reed • third time to-day. BISHOPRIC OF CHRISTCHURCH (NEW RBA- 14112)) DILL. The debate on the seormdrueling reamed, Mr. ADDERLEY 'splodged the nature of the bill, which, he said, had been obetrueted in its course by over- Battery and over-abuse. Its object wee Moldy this,—that, whereas the Bishop of New Zealand (Dr. lays) having found that his dioceses had become eo populous as to ren der it impusaible for him adequately to discharge the im portant functions of his °face, had Pent home, for the purples of subdividing it, a partial resignation of his patent ; but, there being a technical infor ==i the deed of resignation, this bill had been le under the instrument valid. He (Mr. Ad. Mien MB eared to ezpunge any word in the bill to which BB Buelefiest was taken ; hut Mr. Anstey had ins stud that, lerrad Bishopric of New Zealand," in the preamble. the weeds, " • see in New Zealand in communion with the church of England," should be substituted; but the At ' torney•General, as guardian of her Majesty's right., had Sileeeted to this alteration. This was the only point at rem The A TTOIiNEY-OKNERAL gave • similar espies*. Ron of the object and necessity of the bill (which wu sr a government m NNNNN (,), but more fully and technically. Mr. HEYWORTH opposed the bill generally, and nieeel I the further adjournment of the debate. Mr. ANS TE Y ssid the bill involved the rheas queries if the Q 114.1 1 .11 eoclasisatieal supremacy in the colonies, which she did not passer unless under some legislative enactment; but this Nil would indirectly legalise the later eine of her prorograire there, and opals this door to the hes troduction ni the tyranny of the eeelesi.eitical laW. sad virtual courts. In the course of Mr. A 's ech. The CHANCELLOR of the ExcitEQUER rose to order, obeirvitnt that, as he understood that the motion for adjouring the debate had been made in order to afford Mr. Anstey an opportunity to make another speech upon the bill, he inquired of the chair whether this was not an ene mies of the strict taloa the house ? THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1852. THE ,EXP. The SPEAKER wilt of opinion that it was, and iea *essed upoa the bona the amenity of a strict observance ,gif its rules. • fat J:PAMINGTOICihmiI i r supported the bill, and Hstrongly Mr. UME ur int postponement until the opinion of the colony could *ken. The house thin dividrd— For the adjournment AirainA it 1 .1 llO —79 The house unmedlatelj . dirigd again oa the second reading— Ayes Nee VEI4IIIIEB BILL. --- -- -- - --- - --- Sir DE L. EVANS moved the second reading of this bill. Ile explained the object of it to he to enable joint parishes to adopt Debhouse's Act, which at present they cannot do, the want of which power had been felt in the ease of the joined parishes of St. Margaret'. and St. John's, West minster, and Bt. (Sloe's and St. Osorge's, Bloomsbury, who were desirous to adopt Ilobbouse's Act, but in the present state of the law were unable to do so • The ATTORNEY - GENERAL onpoen] the bill, in the first place, henna the bill, though introduced as a public bill, applied only to four parishes, and the mode of remedy ing the defect which ought to have been adopted was to have introduced a private bill. Another objection to it was, that St. George's was a much richer parish than St. Ours'., in which the great majority of the paupers in the two parishes resided, and in like meaner St. Margaret's was richer than St. John's ; and if Hobboute's Act were adopted great injury would be lone to the inhabitants of St. George's and St. Margaret's. He moved that the bill be read a second time that day three months. The bill was supported by Mr. T. l)uncombe and Mr. name ' and opposed by Mr. Henley and Mr. Walpole. The house then divided: For the second reeding 2G Against it B6—GO The bill was consequently lost. MR. FRARGUB O'CONNOR. WALIToLith Mr. brought up • report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the allegations in the petition of Mini O'Connor, sister of Mr. F. O'Connor. The report stated these allegations were true ; that it ap peared, by the evidence of Mr. Lawrence end Dr. Tweedy, that they had visited and examined Mr. O'Connor, and had each certified that he was a proper person to be I confined. The petitioner had requested Dr. Tuke to re. ceive her brother into his private asylum at Chiswick. and he had agreed to do so. She stated that she was the nearest relative of Mr. O'Connor in England, and hail signed the requisite order for enabling Mr. O'Connor to be pticed in that asylum. The committee had required an undertaking that Mr. O'Connor should not be removed from Dr. Tuke's asylum without the authority of the house, and they had given such undertaking. Ceder the circumstances the committee recommended that Mr. O'Connor should be die charged hem the custody of the Sergeant at Arms, end be given into the care of Di. Tuke. (Iles, hear.) The report was received. Mr. WALPOLE—I beg leave to move that Mr. O'Connor be discharged from the custody of the Sergeant at Arms without payment of the fees. Mr. HUME hoped no time would be lost in making ar rangements for Mr. O'Connor to leave the house. WALI'OLE said that arrangements had already been made for that purpose. Mr. HOULBURN asked whether the agreement as to Mr. O'Connor not being removed without the authority of the house, applied merely to the present session or to a future parliament ? Mr. WALPOLE said the agreement was a verbal one, and only applied to this parliament. The motion was then agreed to. PARISH CONSTABLES DILL. Atter a conversatiou on this bill, the committee thereon wee COlr ea ßCPT over rlt . ACTICES AT ELECTIONS (No. 2) BILL. The ATTORNEY•OEFIEWAL said he should move that the committee on this bill be iced for that day three months. It was most unreasonable in its provisions. It only contained two cliuscs—one empowering actions for bribery to be brought in county courts ; the other directing that a county, city, or borough should be taxed by a rate to defray the expenses of auy inquiry that might be directed into the circumstances of an election. The bill had been introduced about two o'clock in tho morotng or it would never have come before the house. Mr. ANSTEY defended the provisions of the hill, hut said he did not attach much im➢ortance to the second clause. It being within a minute of cm o'clock the house divided— For the committee on the bill Against it The house then adjourned. erorrws. sive. be accounted for. Their ecclesiastical staff, their increase of chapels, their provision of monastic homes, are all a you exaggeration, when coin• pared with the religious wants of their present num bers: they arc clearly, obviously, notoriously aggres- All that is plain enough ; but then they have a legal license to he aggressive; nay, on religious grounds, aggression may by . them be considered - a duty. On the other hand, it is our duty to repel aggression— hut not by persecution. Now we may have persecu tion under the guise of enforcing existing laws quite as easily as in any other shape. That, indeed, is its most popular and common form. It was such persecution which the Doman catholics endured be fore the enactment of the 10th GEORGE IV. And when we reflect that this proclamation is issued by the government of a party which opposed the enact ment of that statute—which subsequently resisted its spirit—which refused to Ireland for years a proper franchise on the ground that it would increase the power of the Roman catholic party—and which is now encouraging Mr. Sroosizit's attack on May nooth ; it is really hard to believe that the motive which animated and advised that party is not the old "No popery," persecuting one. At all events, such is the turn which the government journals give it. Before advising the QUEEN to issue a proclamation of the sort, ministers must, of course, have collected a large body of facts whereon to found their recom mendation to her MAJESTY. These should be made public. Mr. WALPOLE last night talked about pro cessione—and danger to public order—let the fullest 'particulars be given on these points. The Roman ca tholic community are now warned that the practices and offences proclaimed " endanger the peace and security of the QUEEN'S dominions." They, whose ceremonials and costumes are thus said to be so full of hazard and danger to the realm, have a right to ask to be told how and why they are so. And we protestants, who are thus startled with the informa tion that we are sleeping over a volcano, must be in formed in what consists our safely. Does the danger announced lie in the habits, dresses, ceremonies, and processions now proolaimed ; or in something " within that passeth show ?" And will the mere suppression of public displays dissipate and dispel this new popish plot which, on the eve of a general election, Lord DERBY has so fortunately discovered ? These are questions which it concerns the good name and fame of the loyal Roman catholic laity—and the repose in security at night of all protestant% —to have answered. We may smile at Mr. IlEsair DaesistoNu's announcement of a coming civil and religious war; for past experience has taught us that on him, at least, the prophetical afflatus does nut largely fall. But w hen a royal proclamation terminates by plainly telling the country that the Roman catholic clergy are guilty of " offences, • • whereby the peace and security of our dominions may be endangered," the announcement becomes a senous matter. Parliament, it is obvious, must be told how. Nothing can be worse than for a government on slight grounds, or for personal purposes, to precipi tato any domestic discord between classes ; but, above all, a religious discord. To resent an external insult and assault is a very different thing from pro yoking internal disquiet and animosity. And ministers must, of course, be prepared to show that the necessity for issuing this proclamation was un avoidable; and that a mere ordinary Police Notifica tion would have been wholly insufficient to have met the emergency. Otherwise they will have to rest liable to the suspicion of having misled their sovereign for the unworthy purpose of gaining a few votes at the general election. Let us wait, therefore, for information and explanations, before clapping our hands, as the Times does, at this strange proclamation. Lord DENBY promised a large and comprehensive inquiry into the whole subject. lie cannot have advised the issue of the Proclamation without having materials at hand to explain it. ' ITALY. TILE CASE OF EDWARD MURRAY. I sent for to the Elyse° to be cons sect. It is said that both Prince Jerome Bonaparte and General d'Hautpoul, the grand referendary, made serious objections to the President against the ap pointmcnt of M. Laurent de Ardeche, who has ratted from red republicanism to imperialism, bat they were answered that this appointment was made with a view tu conciliation. It the democratic party is to be conciliated, certainly favour shown to a deserter from their ranks is b idly likely to procure this re• suit. !d on this sub- The Corps Lcgislatif met to-day in the bureaux only, Although the motion made in the house on Monday for the extension by one day of the time allowed for consideration of the bill on the new taxes was rejected by a small majority, the members who complain of the precipitancy with which that mea sure is urged on have gained their point. The bu reaux met yesterday, according to the decision of the house, but separated without electing a committee, adjourning the examination of the bill - till this day. this morning the following committee of fourteen has been chosen to report upon the sumptuary law: MM. Farart, Pougerard, Schneider, Do Kergolay, Due &Uzi's, Due d'Albufent, Baron do Bussteres, Baron de Ravine!, Oncel, Haller-Classarede, Comte FriaTeric do Legrangc, Boissy d'Anglai, Desmaroux deGaulmin, Deladoucette. The following committee upon tho Councils- General and Municipal Election Bill has also been elected : MM. le Baron de St. Germain, le Comte de Chanterac, Dubois (d'Angers), de Romeuf, and Fansjiev. It is in contemplation to propose to the Legislative Body a bill for tho abrogation of the decree of Oeto her IS, DOS, on juries. This decree was as follows: Art. 347 of the code of criminal instruction shall be mudi fled as follows : The declaration of the jury against the RC cu,rd shall be made on the principal fact, ou the aggravating circumstances, and on questions of excuse or discernment, by a majority of more than seven. The deeluration id the jury must announce this majority of more than seven with out specifying the exact number, and this on pain of nul lity. The declaration of extenuating circumstances may be made by a simple majority. The delegates of the paper manufacterers, MM. de Causen, Illauchet, Mauban, J)ufay, Fermin Didut, Gratiot, Montgolfier, Ituulhnc, 1/ouinere, Krautz, Arnault, and Mathias, have just published a memo rial against the proposed duty on paper. According to the calculations made by them the new tax would not yield more titan three millions per annum, in stead of the ten millions estimated by the govern ment. The delegates of the printers are also pre paring a memorial against the tax. The statutes of the Sucii'lt.' via Credit Faacier, authorised by the decree of the *Pith March, last have been submitted to the Council of State, the constitu tion of the company being definitive by the allocation of 20,000 shares. 'I he largest shareholder is a Polish count, M. Branicki, who has 3,400 shares, next cornea the MM. Bartholony, who have each 1,3(0; MM. Pereire, 790 ; and MM. Fould, de Gernniny, Leon Faucher, and a number of Polish gentlemen, who have more than 2,400 shares. The company pro poses to lend only on brat mortgage, but not to admit to the benefit of loans, manuMetories, theatres, mines, quarries, or property belonging to several persons, unless all the owners take part in the loan. The amount of the luau cannot exceed the half of the value of the property mortgaged, and only one-third when planted with vines or wood. The maximum of the loan to one person cannot exceed one million. The company creates obliga tions fonciers of 1,000 fr., which may be sub divided into compares of 100 fr. It reserves to itself the right to fix the annual interest, but it is thought that it will be one centime a day for com pares of 1001 r., or 3fr. 65e. a year. rhe com pany reserves to itself the right of uniting to it other companies formed for the same object, but the company may be dissolved after the loss of half of its capital. MM. Drouyn de Lhuvs, A. d'Eichthal, and - Wolowski are to prosecute the affair before the Council of State. M. Wolowski has been, it is said, already appointed director, with a salary of lS,ooofr., and M. C. Laurent, formerly attached to the Mahlon Baudon, will be sub-director, with a salary of 12,000 fr. I understand that a proposition made by the government, to add an ob jectionable clause to the statutes may possibly have the effect of preventing the definitive formation of this company. It is proposed that the government should have power to dissolve the company in case of fraud. This is considered wholly inadmissible by the founders. They contend that the courts of law have sufficient power to repress fraud, and they are un willing to enter upon a large financial undertaking it they are to be subjected to the arbitrary will of a minister. At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. fell 10e., closing at 100.35 ; the Threes fell 5, and closed at 70.10. Bank of France shares fell 7.50. The railway market was inanimate. Marseilles rose 5; Northern, 3.75; Orleans and Central, 2.50 each; Rouen, Havre, andßordeaux, 123 each. Tours and Nantes and Lyons fell 1.23 each. ROME, JUNIC 10. Murray is still in prison at Ancona. His wife left Rome a few days ago with her child, for her native city of Loreto, where she will be within a few miles distance of her husband. She was supplied with the necessary funds by the generosity of the British consul and the contributions of some private individuals ; indeed, the British residents have shown themselves extremely ready, throughout the winter, to afford pecuniary relief to the female participators in the consequences of this lamentable affair. Mrs.iMurray, senior, still remains here, to await the decision of her son's lot. General Lind say, who has taken much interest in the case, and has had several communications and personal inter views with Cardinel Antonelli on the subject, is just returned to Rome. The remonstrances of Mr. Moore, the British con sul at Ancona, have not hitherto availed to procure a change in Murray's place of confinement. He is still in the same unwholesome cell, and the prison authorities affirm, as an excuse tor their refusal to place him in a more airy situation, that the prisons arc so full that it requires great in genuity /to pack the wretched tenants in at all suitably. They have consented however to make some alterations in the cell; so as to render it less objectionable, until Monsignor Amici, the Papal Commissary, returns to Ancona, when application will be made directly to hint by the consul. Mr. Moore has not yet been allowed to see Murray with out the presence of the director of police, the autho rities stating that they have received no orders from Rome to that effect. TO CORRESPuNIMPITS. A evened Edition ..t "1 he Eipteon," costalaing , he saran yonder, Oarettv," Is yolidlehed every Tonality and Yriday night, la Woe tor poet ..lrett , enws*•inlonded for " The EApretei."Lasilon Evening paper hr It the Mike, 10, VonvevieeAveet, hy Two Ago& os tltr day of yoldireliols. HIGH WATER AT I.ONI/ON BRIDGE . u..—Yacht, lb. 44.. Altersurs, H. 1.. T.rozaow—lkeslag, U. 21a. Anemias. 2b..11.. LONDON, THURSDA Y, JUNE 17. TUE proclamation for the suppression in public of the costumes, ceremonies, and processions of monastic and religious orders belonging to the Roman catholic church, is both a serious and a suspicious document; —serious as involving an alteration in the spirit in which the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act has hitherto been carried out, suspicious in regard to the precise time at which it has appeared. In either view, it needs explanation from the ministers of the Crown. It has come upon the public by surprise It is not a measure of police which was very obviously required or loudly demanded ; it may indicate and prepare the way for measures of substantial inter ' ference with freedom of religious worship and ob servances ; and, without explanation, there is nothing to show why—if absolutely necessary—it might not have been safely postponed for a month, when it would at least have been free from the imputation, now sure to attach to it, of being another elec tioneering device of a government wanting a parlia mentary majority. That the Roman catholic priesthood—encouraged tithe in fi delity of so many ecclesiastical traitors of church of England—are inclined to aggression, and even occasionally offensive aggression, is true enough. In most of oar considerable towns, they are raising chapels, presbyteries, religious bathes, and nunneries ; and when or whence the money comes to pay for all this is a greater puzzle than how Frenchmen daily dine so hand somely in Parisian cafes. They have converted low dancing-rooms into sacred oratories; they crowd together in small and inconvenient houses near their chapels; they issue into our streets in long black gaberdines and broad-brimmed low-crowned hats ; and altogether they are a coarse, ill-favoured, imper fectly-washed, and diesgreeable invasion. But so are many political refugees; nay many sound pro testant. are dirty and repulsive enough in their looks. That the Roman catholic clergy are numerous; that they are sinister in their aspect; that they are troublesome from the tail of dirty boys that follow them, acd that they are suggestive of the grand cru sade Rome is carrying on against religious freedom, is, however, no sufficient ground for persecuting them; and the margin between proclamations and persecutions is in such matters apt to be very slender. All this disagreeable show represents a real dan ger; but not because priests walk the streets, parade themselves ostentatiously, and look askance. But because every ono of these men is a soldier at once of a despotic religion and of a foreign court ; eager to gain converts to the one and subjects fee the other. And the way to meet and resist them and to drive them back, is not to exhibit any fear or apprehension of their success on a large scale ; but to diffuse educa tion—to extend popular enlightenment—to cheapen books and newspapers—to expose and refute the priests' teaching—to beat them in argument—to appeal to past history to prove in what thew triumph, if they got one, would end—and to show how they are connected and allied with (and probably paid by) foreign des potism out of the realm, to disturb our domestic peace. Now the least show of persecution, of substituting legal force or violence for reasoning, will,all experience testifies, indispose a very large proportion of the community to the nee of the better weapons against what, we repeat, is a real danger, and induce many to sympathise with those so attacked. The spirit of the statute to which ministers in the proclamation have appealed was one of peace and conciliation; it is a hazardous policy to convert it into the work of repression and police. It was meant to be the Magna Charta of the political rights of our Roman catholic fellow subj ects; it is dan gerous work to make them hate and detest their Bill of Rights. The policy of Rome in these displays—which , are increasing rapidly in France as they are gradually oozing out in England —is to accustom and to familiarise people to the ceremonial part of the 'tarnish faith—to induce them (after the novelty is destroyed, and their repugnance to such shows is gone) to inquire into the doctrines of the church which indulges in them. Then, no doubt, the super. subtle Cardinal thinks his game will be easily caught. On no other principle can these large im portations of Itomish ecclesiastics, out of all propor tion to the amount of our Roman catholic population, RANCE. rAILIS, WELING4DAY DOMINO I sent you yesterday a full report of the proceed ings before the Section du Contentieus of the Coun cil of State on the Orleans question. The decision of the court will not be read until Saturday. In the , meantime, I hear that the government has carried the day, and that the con/tit raised by the prefect of the Seine has been admitted, by a majority, however, of one only, nine members of the Section du Conten tieux having given their votes against the competence of the tribunals in the case of the seizure of Neuilly and Monceaux, and eight in favour of the right of the judicial power. When it is reflected that this minority receive, as councillors of state, a salary of one thousand pounds sterling per annum, which hangs from the good pleasure of the head of the state, it will be seen against what potent considera tions of interest they had to wrestle in order to main tain an independent resolution; and hardly a doubt can rest on any reasonable mind that the question would have been decided by a court perfectly inde pendent of the executive power in favour of the claims of the Orleans princes. M. Maigne, the go vernment advocate, argued in a way that seemed to waive the application of the decree of confiscation to the domains of Neuilly and Monceaux, the seizure of which by the state first raised the question before the courts of law. For the decree of January 22 applies to the property included in the donation of the King to his children on August 7, 1830, whereas part of Neuilly was bought by Louis Philippe after the date of the donation. The words of M. Maigne on this part of the question being important, I shall quote them here. Ho says: We wilt not go however so far as to demand from the council the confirmation of the arreN de cenflit in all its putts. The Princes of Orleans claim to be proprietors of part of the domains of Neuilly and Monceau'. To wit: fur the domain of Neuilly u heirs of the king their father, who brought it after August 7, 1830; for the domain of Nou mea: as heirs of Madame Adelaide, who was the joint pro prietor thereof with Louie Philippe. Now the decree of Jae. 22 oi.ly applies to the estates comprised in the done lien 01 August 7, 1830. As to the estates of which the Prince of Orleans claim to be proprietors in virtue of here ditary right, they evidently escape the application of this decree, and according to our view the arrete confi,st is wrong in pretending to withdraw from the civil jurisdiction the cognisance of disputes which may arise with regard to them estates. The definitive conclusion to which the government 1 1 advocate proposes that the Council of State should come is stated at the end of his speech as follows : ler these reasons we deem that the erred de conifi: of April,2B, 1842, ought to be confirmed, inasmuch as it unseises the judicial authority of the cognisance of demands wkich aim at discussing the legality of the decree of Jan. 22, 1852, or ' at determining the sense and reach thereof, and regulating its execution with regard to the princes of the Orleans family. We deem that the said arrete de comffit ought for ell other rummies to be annulled. This is the question upon which the vote whose result is above described was taken. The decision of the Council of State will not be made public until it has been revised and approved by the Prince Pre sident. I mentioned some time ago the arrival of Said Pacha at Paris. On Monday this Egyptian fugitive was entertained at a banquet at the Elysee, where several ministers and high functionaries were pre sent, and where he was treated with the greatest distinction by the President. You are aware that Said Pacha is the son of Mehemet Alt, and therefore, uncle to the present viceroy of Egypt. Letters from Alexandria state that this guest of Louis Napoleon lies under the gravest accusations. His palace of Shernaul, near Damanhour, has been searched by Abbas Pacha, and his servants and friends, to the number of a hundred persons, accused of having conspired with the revolted tribes of the desert, are at this moment imprisoned at Cairo. Nor was the capture of these retainers of Said Pasha ef fected without a desperate resistance, and an armed conflict, in which much blood was shed. The soldiers of the viceroy found, in the precinta of the palace, a vast quantity of arms and ammunition, and six pieces of cannon. Sir Henry Bulwer has left Florence for Rome. It is thought that the object of the British envoy to Tuscany is to clear up tho case of Murray, and, if possible, procure his reprieve. Tho authorities received orders in all towns except ing Paris to take part in the procession of the Fitte- Dieu. It is said that Dr. Veron pretends to have in his possession the manuscript of an article of M. Chattier de Cassagnac, corrected by the Prince Louis Must- Icon, and that his obstinacy in holding out against warnings of the minister of police and communiques of the 31oniteur, arose from this circumstance. It is reported that a government journal is going to be established on a scale equal to that of the largest London papers. M. La Cluerroniere has been PIEDMONT. The Gcnoa Oaz.Ue of the 12th announces that public tranquillity has been completely restored at Truffarello, and that the junction of the two railway lines, connecting Genoa with Turin, was effected on the preceding day without further opposition on the part of the inhabitants. GERMANY. BERLIN, Jess 13. Itisvery true that the Prussian arguments employed in the declaration just published on Zolverein policy may be very easily refuted; for, in fact, they do not con tain the real and only tenable reason for Prussia's resistance to the coalitionists' demands. Why does not Prussia boldly and frankly say, "I will not ne gotiate for a customs union with Austria, because it is absurd to think of two rival great powers having a common exchequer, and being dependent on each , other for the determination of their commercial I policy and foreign alliances. It would be not less absurd to propose an amalgamation of the Prussian and Austrian armies, or the appointment of conjoint ambassadors: and I will not negotiate for a com mercial treaty with Austria before the renewal of the Zollverein, because, if I did, the minor Zollverein states, some of whom are in Austria's interest, would attempt to dictate terms; whereas, after the signing of the Zollveruin's treaties, I can freely reject, with out being threatened with seeession,whatever proposal displeases me." This would be equally plain and unanswerable, and, till Prussia speaks out plainly, it will hardly succeed in settling the matter. The Dresden Gazette concludes :—" A peremptory de mand for a speedy decision is not expressed ; the declaration contains only one passage in which allu sion is made to the necessity of having time for the requisite administrative arrangements in case an agreement for renewing the ZollveTh n ,,, of Nevertheless, I, can testify that this p a ; sage is the one on which the government here lay s most stress. The form of the declaration is softenil down as much as possible ; but it certainly was th e intention here to make the opposite party fully u n , derstand that Prussia leaves them no alternativ e bu t unconditional acquiescence in its programme w secession from the Zollverein, which luitcr eventuality Prussia is fully prepared f w. The coalition states, however. cannot loeg persist i n taking Prussia's polite form of expressing itM tf, t e i indecision. They must BOUII see that their demand., are thoroughly rejected. But it is very &min: whether they will then abide by the I tarinstadt solutions, which provide, in such ca se , t h at the Zit! • verein be regarded ns renewed among theues•be, without Prussia and Hanover. Popular opinio n the coalition states, especially among the conuenid, classes, has so loudly and unanimously remonstrithi against the Darmstadt resolutions, that it is a etr., tion whether the governments will have the couriia•, or even the power, to enforce them. On the effi r hand, popular opinion in Prussia goes strongly vine M. von Manteuffel. Hurl he at the commencens b: made proposals tin• altering the Zollverein's syste, ;• and thereby himself endangered the continuanii that union, he would have loaded upon himself odium; but, by keeping entirely on the deli he throws the odium of provoking a breach on • opposite parties, who are the aggressors, gains the credit of preserving ut least the main p,•• of the Zollverein from being made over to Atwt.. The Hanoverian government has refused to a railroad from Osnabruck to the confines ut burg, which the Oldenburg chamber demand-, one of the conditions for its acceding to the tr. • the 7th September. This refusal may be hist by narrow-minded disinclination to promote ti burg's commercial interests; for Hanover is veri row-minded in such mattera • the greater part public there are still infected the old nation ono loses what a neighliour may gain. But i• possible that the refusal may have a far del nit' import. The Hanoverian government may to keep the full rutiticution of the trusty of the 7!!i of September still in suspense, in ordi r to Nag iin between Prussia and Austria for its Whence pending Zuliverein conflict. But after the spi n ;; shown by the Oldenburg Chandler it will probaliir waive the point rather than endanger the union Prussia. And, should a difficulty arise, Pru-i, must solve it by giving the money fur the railroad 4 question. The Frankfort Post &dung, of the 11th, ears: Count de Bunt Sehatemstein, Austrian Minister 'of F.. reign Affairs, has had delivered t• Baron Manteuffil a Teets, dated the 23rd ult., announcing to him that all Iteglliel relative to the commercial and customs' qumtion wrr broken off. This note was written in reply to a despiei M. de lilaatcuffel, who had requc.ted a positive di e:ary tion. Thu cabinet of Vienna has also declared to the scrnmcnts of the coalition of Darmstadt that it ',lli 1.1 longer negotiate with Prusida. lIANOVER. The declaration of the government on the claim of tho equestrian order to special constitutional loges, was made on the 12th, in the sitting of the committee of mediation. The government ,h e li ;l ,, to grant peculiar privileges to the chevaliers, hr. proposes to endow the entire body of great bed proprietors, without distinction of knightly ra; .'. with a specific representation in the Met. NIONTE VIDEO. An examination of the debates in the Chamkri, reports of which come by the last mail, is calculated to restore confidence in a settlement of points in dis• pute between the Banda Oriental and the Brazilian government. For, in the first place, it seems that Oribo had written to his friends, who constitute a majority in the Chambers, wholly disapproving of the policy they appeared at first inclined to pursue; and next the (limbers had, after a long discu,ion, accepted as laws binding on the state the decries issued previously to their election by President Sau rez, which related to the domestic affairs of the re public. .I.brtiore, then, they arc equally bound by his arrangements, mid conventions with foreign coun tries, which at first they were inclined to dispute. And if so, the whole difficulty, in principle at Irv., will disappear; for Brazil is quite willing to recon sider any objectionable details in the treaties. AUSTRALIA. The following is an extract of a private lore. dated Stanley-street, Melbourne, Chri,tmas, 185 l : Tell the starving thousands in England we will them a cordial welcome here. We want labourers. Cora over unit help us. Our crops are rotting on the ground 14 want of hands to gather them. Our thousands and tee. of thousands of sheep are going unshorn tor the same reason. Our flocks and herds are being boiled down merely for the (at, becau.c we have nut sufficient population to eat them. Our public buildings, roads, bridges, and works of all Lind are suffering fur want of workmen. The quantity 0(101 that is being dug up is truly astonishing; one ship that but just sailed from this port to London took three tons weigh: of gold, all of which has been dug principally by labounno men. Mr. Jones got about 501. in five weeks. I have not been yet, for I don't like to give up what I am doin.t. send you a small lump of gold ; it is from the Bunning. yong district, about 60 or 80 miles from Melbourne. It wcs given tome for • shirt.pin, but you can either get apm put to it or sell it. You will see there is a bit of the stone vowing to it. Many people here have pins put to theta just as they find them in the earth. lam truly sorry to say that intemperance prevails to a great extent. Many of the gold-diggers are squandering their money like dirt. They think no more of 51. than if 'it was • sutpence. Every one coming here should be a teetotaller. Mrs. Chisholm's plan of emigration is an excellent one Captain Chisholm is now in Melbourne, engaged in the same work. We had a very hot Christmas day. I think the weather glass was 115 in the shade. What a contrast to you! We had leg of lamb and green peas for dinner. and plum pudding and cherries afterwards. We thought of you, and spoke of you all at the time. You would all do. Tinkers, tailors, barbers, bakers, coachmen, muckmai, carpenters, masons, mantua-makers, cooks, drapers, bonnet- builders, shopmen ; indeed any men but lazy men. Re member, it is a land of gold ! RELEASE OF MR. O'CONNOR.—Yesterday the tom mittee reassembled at 1 o'clock, Mr. Walpole in the chain and ezamined Dr. Tuke on the proposed committal of Mr O'Connor to his care at Chiswick. Dr. Tuke stated that fill the necessary arrangements had been mark by the friends of the unfortunate gentleman fur that purpose, and that he and Miss O'Connor would give an undertaking that Mr. O'Connor should not be removed from the asylum with"at ' the sanction of the house. The committee (as will be sees by our parliamentary report) having reported this to the house, an order of the house directing that the member fur Nottingham be discharged from the custody of the Sa ges's:it-at-Arms was placed in the hands of eaptain Gossett, who, with Inspector Beckemon, proceeded to execute it forthwith, accompanied by Mr. Bell and Dr. Take. The latter, addressing Mr. O'Connor. very cordially told hie that he had obtained the permission of the Speaker to permit him to go out and dine with him and some friends at Chiswick. " Oh," said Mr. O'Connor, " I'm delighted. You've got leave, have you ? You're a good fellow — you're a brick. Tell them to save my dinner here. Let's be off." They then proceeded along the river corridor into the principal courtyard, where. with Inspector 13eckerson, they entered Dr. Tuke's brougham. and drove along Palace-yard just as—at a few minutes Wt six o'clock—the stream of members passed through Palace , yard. Mr. O'Connor, leaning forward, recognised wveroi members, and saluted them with vehement gestures. Prior to leaving his prison apartments he discharged his score with the " kitchen," amounting to about 6/. for the w, rk, out of a 201. note, saying to the person he paid, jocular!. " There, take that, you ruffian ;" and in settling with the barber who daily shaved him, said, " Ah, you're a h" fellow, fine eyes, fine hair, line head, and all for a shilto: —there, take that, you ruffian." During his confinement he has written several orders fur the vtranger's and has consumed a quantity of snuff. The only thing of vale' besides some notes and a carpet bag in his poasession, es , port of ornamental brooch to secure Scotch marls, with an inscription purporting that it was presented by persons scribing themselves as "the fema:e chartists of Aberdeen. THE MlLlTlA.—Yesterday a government bill was printed to suspend the general and subdivision meetings relating to the militia until the 4th October, 15.53. 97 a proviso, proceedings may be had during such sir:pension by an order in council, should they be necessary. d THE NIGHTINGALE.—Otto Goldischmidt, I•:'l..an Madame Ooldschmidt (Jenny Lind) have arrived at Fen' ton's Hotel from Liverpool. POWER OF VEsTRIES TO MAKE 111611 WAY.. - -M the usual weekly meeting of the Vestry of St. Pascoe , li- J. E. Wright, Esq., in the chair, Mr. Manning moved tha t the vestry should adopt the act 5 & 6 Wilbert' IV., car. 51 '. to consolidate and amend the laws relating to highway. and , to elect a board for the management and repairer highdPl s j within the parish. Mr. Manning rontenitisl that the Weal • act gave the vestry no power to rase more than one penny in the pound, whereas the vestry during the last yea r h O, one item of 5,9201. in addition to the one penny in In, pound. The parish of St. Pancras was the only one in th th , metropolis that was not under tb is act. lie trusted vestry would at once see the propriety of . it animot.o , Y adopting the resolution. The resolution was worded ! Mr. F. 11. Smith, and, after a long discussion, the motion was put and lost by a majority of 23 to 3.