The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-18 00:00:00

iIII I EIiIAL l'A ItLIAMEN't. 110USK OF COMMoNS.—WEDNRSDAT, MAT The firr.stunn took the chair at 12 &dock. PRIVATE nUnIN P.Sfs- REPORTS CONnIDERED. -Aberdare Railway Mt Amendment (love of line and works to the Taff Vais Railway Company) ; Har row liarbour ; Forth and Clyde Navigation and Airdrie and Coatbridge Water lemla and Thirsts tbdlway of levels of hereto and Hartlepool Manse y in &interrelate, Preston, and Swett" U.); York, Nicotinic, and Berwick MONS, (lota Yolk and New matte Riilway main line Immu Prement, Mlle. ERLIC WIRINESS. PETITIONS -Ry Si, J. 11A S M ER. Irons Mint, against Health of Tow is 11111.-Mr. MI.INTE, from aPr eabyte Ann body in Itirnainglanr: an 110S1. to Llihat, fonn "'arida e; Mr. S. CRAW Minn, from Poonty 1./own; Mr. P. t•IIARTERIS, from Ilaildturoonthire CARDWELL, from Liverpool ; Sir I). DUN OAS. from Suisterttml; and Mr. GIP MAN, !eon Ouldin; in fsvour ol the Chorell Sibs Limn lOU. -t reellet.l., from ihopkeepers in 'Richton, in sour of the reniediee s)alnie the Hundred MIL -sir J. W ALM , LEI , from Leicester. agarnet sontmuntee nf grants for in Outcries", the J uggerneut aystrui.-Mr. s lIRISTOI . I I ER, from • clam in I.lmo In, coutplaitinis of the spreatl of inn mignon. e, ;net twining Pie M OAUIVID top romote temperente by prohibiting a:deo( laptops on Sundays; Mr. O. J. TIM: Eli, from it name, lincolmhire, to mom effect. - Mr. SPOONER, from Alexander t /rant, for leave to withdraw linen belied trimmest to be prevertuni reelecting turnpike retails. -Mr, WU MOnTLEI, tons VERIE, mom amend Roth.) . (3) , Mr. COWAN. from Edinburgh and other 'lmes (6) Mr. F. MAPLE. I'M= Perth and various places ) Mr. SMOLLPT Iron Ininthirtonehire and other places m 'mahout (5) ; In favour of Ersuttsg sore tor ties Chordate in Santini) SECO): REAPINt.S.- Porliamentary Electors; Memo( Wondsip Mien REPORT. -Joint Sunk Companies Pill. NO IRKS tip 310 flu s.- user si. OP Tit R ttimtv Mr. R OISE., on Mb June, to submit a motion for the repeal Of this act. Por-orrice Ai avico.-Mr. 11. tiettliKhEr, on Friday next, to move to, imam., enowing the nature of Ilse post-OMo. *creme be. hewn Dover ond the ports .1 Boslogne and O•te:..i SALit OY Pitervisuroe.--Str. BANK).* us the Pei June, to move for lone to Ming in rt bill to give additional power to inspeetore of 11tightet and me :Aims for the puristic sheeltng hinds in the silo of head ani other provlanum. FLACKS or Wolollll . SIMS NO:MX.3O Boa_-Mr. OSWALD, on going into t ottonatee On chi. hall, to move an goo action to the com mittee, to estend its operation to all prate of the United Kiugdoto. l'A ELI ENTA RI ELF:C . I'OES HILL. Sir D. L. IIVANS moved the second tootling of this bill, which hao for its of ji ct to alter and amend the rate paying, clauses of the Helot m Act. The bad result of these provisions win well known. He lie ieved the right hon merub, r nix Tamworth and the noble lord at the head of the governmi of had both at one time liven oisqualitieif in comic • quence of Vier o;ii ration. In hlorylebone, at the last elec ts in, no Ices than WOO well qualified tutors were di4mn ch eid under the iiSOIC SySteLO. Ile believed if this bill were e pswed the franchise would be extended in the best way possible. Tho question having been put, apause ensued, when Capt H %KRIS said he did not underetand the bill was to be acre. it to without diacumien. Ile wished ton cord his decided objection to it. rO. GREY said when a similar hill was befor' the house two years ago, he gave his support to i., and lie was quite prepared on this occasion to record his vote in its favour. 110 had only retrain. d from rising before treatise ktving heard no obi, etion to the measure he thought it un meet...try to say anything upon the subject. The house divided-For the second reading tid Ag cost AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS BILL. Sir F. T. BAILING moved the .word r, whin( of ibis bill, witch lituleomi Wm the other house. The principle of the bill was, that a minority of railway sharehold. re might compel the directors to have their accounts audited by en impartial party, appointed by the government aid unconnected in any way with the company. That was the whole principle of the bill. There were details rispeeting the number of share holders who must sign the requisition to the government, and as to the general mode of prates tits,/ ; but the entire ob ject of the bill was to secure a tale stretnent of a company's recounts in ease of its being desired by any of the share hold. ens To such a bill lie con d hard'. have expected any opposition. Ile understood, howsvee, that there wire bon. memin rs who yTy strongly of+ cted hi it. If Oh it objet' tires atlsch d micters of de:ail they mull urge them in rem' milted; but if they applied to the princip e, he WAS bound to s..y that he saw no distinction between radway companies and other a.rp trate bodies. lie had nu douht tnat eveidin Sky, if not to-uay, the principle must be adopted. lie should be sorry it it were not acted on to-day, fur he thought it would rot add to the credit of the house if they rejected a meanest of so simple a charazter, after the other house had shown themeelvss so ready to adopt it. ()ilia., ho, he was sure, that it they did not adopt this measure now, they would have a more atringept one passed hereafter. Mr. BANK ES opposed the bill, and intimated his intro tion, unless his views were wholty alterel by what might subsequently be said in debate, of moving that the bill be ri ad a second time that day six months. The right hon. b tronet opposite admired thst the measure was but an in stalment of the severe restriction which the nacres , " of the pubic required to he plied upon the railway system let the right hon. baronet then abandon his incomplete mea sure, and at arse bring forward the proposition which he might conader fully adequate to the necessity of the rose, .0 not injure the interest of the publte by this piece meal leg elation Mr. LABOCCHERE supported the bill. The MCMIUIt had reciivid the almost unanimms sanction of the ather branch of the legislature, nor had • ward against its pro- visions been raised there on the part of that railway in terest which always showed itself so vigilant whenever its interests were renily endangered, or eupp,siert to be endangered. The right 100. gentleman tok ewer sien to vindicate the railway eommbsion from the charge of drawi , g ularits without performing cht ties. 110 ccuhl assure the house, from his short epee! ' ence of the department, that the Libman of the (Metre of the board were neither few, nor slight, nor exempt from 'evert respon , thiiity. Ile denounced as spurious and most mischievous economy the aft , mpt to throw upon mibieters of the crown the charge of conducting the business of the country without giving them aderprate aesistanee in the there of competent officers. He hail always regarded railway companies as participating in the character of public companies in quite as full • degree as they bore a private character, and he had therefore always considered tt de sirable that there should be more government interferenceinerference in their case than woul d be proper or justifiable to companies ef a wholly priest , . charieter. He was ready to admit that the ralway companies had upon the wide conducted their affairs with much energy and ability; but it could not be denied that in many caws they had manifested • tendency to an arhitrarinese of conduct ae regarded the public which certainly par-, Lament could never have deigned to sanction. They bad, in fact, seemed to rep ad themselves as "char tered libertines," who might commit all eerie of escapades without being held liable to any supervision or eh. ek. Among other things, it was tolerably certain that the present principle of railway audit wee wholly load , grate to the protection of that large proportion of the public who were sbotreho!dere in the various lines. True, tht se parties might from time to time inspect the books, but they bad n means of comparing these with the me eouchem. eviite ap proved of the princi-le of the prop an satire, and wi•hout pledgier himszlf to the details, should cordially support its second reading. Mr. HENLEY did not conceive that either the right hon. introducer of the measure, or the goverunient, were pecu liarly in a position to impugn the accounts of the railway companies ; the right hon. baronet euring his manegement of the exchequer hail been more r t mareelile for d-ficient revenues than ;or anything else, ant the present goverunicnt hail done nothing to reflect the odium of compariemi upon the right hen. bar met in this respect. He sow nothing in this measure entitling it to the approbation of the house OT of the country. The principle promised by it was not a ready puke audit of railway compenies, hut the ills turbance of tickling scanunts by any se awn of shereholders who, from moth it curiosity, or from • desire to job. might get up an a. ! its•iun against the boby of direetnrs. Ile el that any public ground existed fur the adoption of this ineASU re, Mr. AOLIONBY supported the re. , si.ure, as mos. whole some for the public and most beneficial for the rail themselves. The publicity which it would create of accounts, a publicii which nn honest man or set of ro-n could object to, would, in itself, mice the ch.r.icirr .4 all legitimate undertakings in the eyes of the public. It was o matter of essential importance to the community to know from time to time the actual condition of the various rail ways, upon the undoubted testimony not if one of the per soon intettste t in the concern, but of a wholly impartial in- restigatnr. Mr. MUNTZ regarded this amours as only another exempla ol the mania of the present goernmi•nt for medoling with everybody sig.'s business and uot miLditig its own. The heave divided—For the second reining 100-62 311 Against it PLACER OF WORSHIP SITES (SCOTLAND) BILL. Mr. BOUVERIE said that it was 110 . . without reluumnee he unwed the second reading of this bill. The cantl: , of • few but inliaentid p rsone had, however, compelled him to take the enirree he now pursued, u those pereens had acted is a manner quite opposed to the piiicipl: a of toleration. The bill wan framed for providing sites for places of weir ship in Selland. There could be eo dolet as to the facts 411 which it was baud. They had been examined into by a committ' c, and that conittee had repoted hat there were num bers of congregations in Scotland wt r 0 we t re deprived of the ineansot a• enabling in a place of woreh'p ; and it 1 , 1101 Ulla; niroounly agreed that this state of thingsoue htte he remedied. The hon. mend} , r then proceeded to cite verioun eases of hardshi arising fau the state ot the we .ther to which con gregatiop ns and th r eir pastors had been e xpos, d durin2 late years, owing to the places where they met tor worship being with for the purpose. The evidence girt a before the emu anittee : e atoined ample details Irmo this point; awl the want of proper piaci e of wnr.hlp was not p, collar to one „met of Scotland, hut extend. d en well thrnu theta the low land., in the Maid Inds, and the Isle. of Sky, Mull, and else where. These 'Mails were essential tosnuels enabling the yous„ to understate: the extreme etmeeaity fur some measure such as the premnt. There was only an in stance i n w i.ich a disposition was manilested to afford the accessary °' s ti r for erecting a ',Nee of worthip— th it, nem. ly, ot James Hellen. At; the other pro pel. ton o' laud in Scotland had refits. d to grant sites. The number of congregatemseircumstancer was esti. mated at thirty-five. The how.- was aware ef th i ieotives which had induced them to eecede from the church ot lurid. II II it ,V4l, possible to discover a remedy for this state of things it was the duty of parliament to d.. eo, and he believed' that the bill proposed by him would provele that remedy. The bill proposed to give power to congreg itions to apply by peti tion to the nigh Court of Snsion fur a rite, and it upon in. quire the allegations of the petition. re were found correct, the slo riff of the district was to be empowered to go to the spot and to sleet a proper site r r !adding a church, the ex pellee of the whole proceeding to be defrayed by the promie toe of the soil, whose refusal to great a she hed occatiourd L THE E \ PRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1848. • levee of land under the bill wee hosed was the semi esthetes which formed tee grounds tor passing railway bills, arid if it was acknowledged in those cases, the house would readily admit that such of rinciple was 'enmity. if not more, admis sible in the cues a mite foe a place of worship. The public good w Uwe," considered predomivant over the private rights of individuals, and it was only for the house to declare that the case of the Free ehureb congregationsbtain de matided the exercise of compulsory powers to o sites for their places of worship in order to remedy the evils completned of by the numerous peti tioners in favour of the hill. Dr. Chalmers had declared that the moral well being of the people of tiootland—and an emineut eurgeon had stated that their physical well-being— depended open gratetime the /Metter of churches to the con 'menthe). w o w ere now compelled to brave the bielemency of the weather on hill sides and under Lehi, at all semens of the year. The powers which the bill would confer were admitted by fore hot jurists to be thew which could be fairly claimed by the perties—the civilians of foreign nations having declared that bites for churches and monasteries could be compulsorily obtained. Under these circumstances, he begged to mere teat th bill be read • second time. Mr. EWART accond e ed the;mution. The SPEAK ER put the question, whin several members cried " ho," w hen mein The house divided—For the second reading RO Against it On the question that the bill be committed. Mr. J. S. WURTLIiY had aided the decision to which the house had ne, though he was strougly of opinion that the objeets sought to he attained he the promoters of th e bill might be better achieve din enothee mode. Indeed, in his opinion, if the committee had never been appoiate el the ev,te complained of by thaw who gave evidence before it would have been reme.lied before the present time. It was out, in hie opieion, nee• wary to establish principles under the bill in favour of all congregations which were only sought to ho vineliceeel in (*sour of the perticuear ilea of seeeden whom it te• e sought to relieve. Cengregations, not even professing Chustianity, might, if they could only mus ter lW eh num...4e compulsorily obtain a site for their place of meeting on the property of pawns who were conscien tiously impelled to their doctrines. Having consented or the seised reading of the bill, he would only further suegest that in the committee it should ue so modihed as to confine its objects to the partieuler class of congregations whose actual nee satins had rendereel introducion necessary. Mr ELLIOTT said that no one wee more anxious , that sites should he granted to the free church congregation than hitueelt, hut certainly not in the manner proposed by the bill, which lie had voted against. The bid had one object, that of enabling et ceders from the Scotch church to obtain sites or their places of wurship. But the bill as it stood would giv. the same power to the members of any other sect, who, provided they could only muster leo in number, could compel any Wedowee r to grant. a she for a place of meet iug, whatever might be the tenets of :etch peewees. lie muse deny that there existed any parallel between the pre sent bill and a railway bill, fur each comp Awry aseuniption of la. el in the latter ease was authorised ley a specific act of perlieni. nt, whereas the measure before the house conferred a sweeping power to seize any proprietor's land, it once the clauses as they stood were agreed to. The number of Fe lei,ds to grunt sites was very smell considerieg the number or congregations who had ,assecedednd the ir cow did not justify sucti a ceuree of proceeding was contemplated by the promoters of the bill. Mr. C HMS a/Paten wished to know what the inten tions of the germane:it were with respect to the bill; as, if they intended to give it their sanction, they could not after wards refuse to bring in a similar measure to enable die ..enters, and even the Homan catbulica of In land—(oh and hear)—to claim sites, awl to obtain them CaMI U:s rely, fur their places of wer..hip. Ile objected to the entire me attire; but rather than see it meddled as theand learned member for Bute wished, he would consent to its being peened into a law. Sir G. GREY sari that the present diecussinn was 'liege thee iiregular, and must he renewed when the bil. went into committee. He thee ef re declined to state the course the g .vernment would be prepared to pursue in respect to it untie that stage eat the hell. At the same time he saw all the ' north ulties col the position, and he had said so when the corn. mittee on the free church was moved for. lie had hoped that ledge new the evils compleined of would have been SO uaediell. There were still from :Sato 40 cases, but he yet had hopes that the grievancre would be removed. lie was nut, however, prepared t• say that there might not be some inter ference of the ure called for to remove them. If the landholders we re willing to come to some arrangement in the remota of • privets bill the necessity for passing the present measure might be oleviete el. 'f he details of the bill were matter. for the consideration of the committee, and though he SaW some difficulties in the way, he did not regret that ' the house had affirmed th e principl e by so large a majority that some legisl•tive enactment was requisite to give the parties complaining a remedy for their grievances. Mr. B. COCHRANE sued that if no one else would oppose th • bill he should do an, for a more tyrannical one was never presented to ither house of parliament. A more presump tuous or prepod• rous demand than that made by the se ceders firm the church of Scotland had never yet been ad vanced. Ile should eppuse the bill in every stage. Col. THOMPSON said that as he had voted against the bil he was desirous of stating his reasons. He had been brought up amidst a class of dissenters who were at one tim greatl l'ix , uraged and opprewel, he meant the me• th e eeists, a n d be had never heard such a remedy proposed for overcoming the opposition to them and granting teem the means of pursuing their religious worship as that mu mbled in the hi 1 hetore the house. He wanted to know what excuse there was for the proceedings in favour of the climber" ot the free tch church. They had all heard of the store of the ma n co whose horse died notwithstandieg the rem( dies that were applied to keep him alive, an/ the remark that was nude to his owner, " Did you try oats f" fled any of the seceeing congregations ever tried ter result of holding their religious c aercises in their own cottages ? Was there no one member of thme congregation' who pus ssred an acre of ground to forma site f .ra church ? (Ni, no.) lie was not before uwere that that was the case, or that there was no land to be lead in those parts of the country where the congregations were without churches, e crept that which he'. need to th .-e largo proprietors who refusal to grant it fur the purpose. Still he thought that the subject was one requiring further inquiry. lie did not wish to uder(ere with refigious liberty; but he thought it wee for the interest of ✓eligious liberty that some eee i a tame, or at least some delay, • uld br intei pole el to the granting a demand of this un usual character. They had heard of pewereel establish ments, but this free church was a new etdebliahment— (hear. hear); and, looking at its present demand, he be lieved it to he, me it had been described to be, a religious ty rawly, which, if led resisted, he hoped would Le sifted to the ve ry utmost. f Hear, hear.) Mr. A. OSWALD observed that the number of congreee times in Scotland where the people were worshipping with out helloes, it appear. el, was eight. It might be right t • give relief to these congrreatien.; hut the bill weed much further, and enact' d tha' any congregation of more than 100 peewees might detected a site. Ile was not prepared to say it might not be roc. ..airy to pass such a law, bet they ought not to puma a measure so extensive and so materially altering the xiding law without full inquiry. Olen ) Ile admitted that the no was, in the case of the Ire e church, a practical grievance which parliament should remove. He felt great re-poet for the free church of Scotland, and he believed many of its members hed made very great sacrifices fir what eh. y believed to be the (boort of Christ- (beer) ; and if the hill were confined to the removal of the grievance under which that bode laboured he should not eleject to it ; but if it were pressed in its percent shape he should noose, in corn-, mittee, that its operation be extended to dissenters in all pares of Great Britain and Ireland. elr. COWAN defended the character of Dr. Chalmers e le..a. the contemptueus expressions applied to it by the hon. member tor Bridport. No one would be lessdisposed tot up ;inn a hill of this nature than he (M r . Cowan) would the &eject could be accomplished by uhy other mean. ; but se • ing that the free church had now waited five years—for it weed' he five years to-morrow Piece they had been driven out from the establishment—in the vain hope that the pruprietors would grant t' em rites fur crectieg pl ere in which to worship God, it woe time parliament interfered. He supported the sill as a measure of relief from a pr ectic tl grievance, and as the mean., of maintaining peace in Scotland. Col. MUIR though willing to support a specific and prac tical measure for mettle: who' he ad tnitted to leo a specific and taneible grievance, oleected to providing for a special cams by a ',wee ping ciactment which interfered generally with the fights of prot tiny. Mr. F. MAULI'i fetid ne one regretted more than he did that a compulsory measure should have been found nieces- Viry in this case; hut after the esp. Timm of the last five years, and when all hope was gone, that the hotly of landed prom+ tors in (initiated would volunterily comply with the wishes of that large body of their fellow-countrymen who belonged to tho free t-huicli, he raw no other means of remedying tee grievanc if the operatioe. It bad be n en of the urged hill by some hon. gentlemen that were confined to the free church, and to those parti cular cases in which a practical grievance was suffered, thee would adopt it ; while others had contended that if this principle were to apply to the free church in t:and it eeuld be extended to dissenters in all parts of th kingdom. ln Toe advocates of the measure sag no reason why it ehould not, for they held it tee b • right that every ctign•gation ! ehould have the :Acmes of worshipping God in the meaner pre scribed by their eon consciences. If teal case of prac tical grievers , e wee he he considered individually it mast he brought benere perlianonet in the shape of • private bill ; and how wee any pour congregation in the Iliehlands of Scotland to carry a private bill against a rich proprietor ? If the committee should think lit to confine the operation of the bill to the free church, undoubte ally the be troditct re of the me lour. would not oppose that el. cieion ; at the some time the free cburclt did think it no tuore than just th et the principle they alai:m:11 in their own cepa should Le t;ileneictl to all their dissenting brethren. (Hear.) He could 'pleura his hon. and gallant friend (Colonel Thompson) that he WAS etherize thee in error in supproing that land 'night be obtained for Biwa without iiderfe ring with the prop. rty of the large landed proprietore. In uo case in which the refusal of a site was complained of sou It possible for the congregating to obtain a spot of ground whereon to build • church or to obtain the commenced , sheder during the performance of divine worship unless legalities. tt/ came to their relief. (Hear, hoer ) Tbia be it remembee eel was a practical grievance toffee , ing a body which csinpric , ed almost a million of our fellow eubjeets, and though it epplie per... Aridly only to a portion of them it reu;ele el in the minds of 11. A vete slight sacrifice .en the part of the lauded pro prietwa. ould remove the difficulty ; but se wee urged that bad omecientious object:one. Why, it could be no pro te• r violatiou of conscience on the part of his e eo l .ll - • friend the Der::e of Bueelmech, for Maumee, to grant a reets fee • tenan free chureh, than it was to grant a site for a p rerb e church in cennexion with the establishment. But, tithe:it ting the existence of such comecietitious ohjictione, why should not earliassent take the responsibility Oil itself and rege ,,y, to e grievance a, he hoped they would do during the esseson , rn.f n ? akar. hear.l ohjerst , a to a.Meltie and particular S. sees being met by a fp nerd measure. , Mr. HCOTT bcd hoptol that the proprietors would hays seen the propriety of l itataisig sites places oonveniritt to seeseeding ouagicitai lone and not ieconvenient to them• selve or to the eritablished church, and had the matter been allowed to rest he hiel no dilute Cory would have dons so. (Hear.) lie believed their olj , ction in tl e first instance was that sites were de , ended in places a it the matt cobvenient to the congregations themselves, but which were shown being in justapeeition with the chutches of the establish• ment. His übje•etien to the bill wax it. geurial application, and he hoped in committee that its op. re inn ...told be limited to those perticuler cases in which tho grievance existed. ' The question that the bill he committed on Wednesday, June 7, was then par• awl nem rl to. SLAVE TRADE. Mr. HUT C m wed that Mr. Cubden he erecharged from attendance on the slave-tends commit'. e, and that Mr. Cardwell, Sir E. N. BUNION, and Viacouut Brackley be added to the commith e. Capt. PECIIELL compleined that no naval officer hail been appointed to eerie on the committee, and propowel that the sohlect should he poleponed till hemorrow, In order that the name of some bon. member coneected stitch tho naval profession might be suleeituted fur one ut those now suggested. 2dr. HUTT had not proposed the name of an naval officer y on this committee becenee of th. esprit the corps 1 1 411e 11 tie knew to oust in the nasal profession in favour of the main tenance of the African squadron. Col. THOM PSON, 114 a member of the committee, thought it would be desirable to nave a 'meal officer upon it. They were at this moment iu the thick. us to the ad. vantage of steam cruiser* in the supprewoitit of the slave trade, and wanted the Illt•i•GUICO of none OOP whit hail wee- Heel knowledge on tho whited, to assist them in their iu quiry. (Hear, hear ) Lora I'ALMEBS CON concurred lit the suirostion of the two hon. and Obeid m , inhere With rewire to the newt s proposed by his hon. friend (Mr. Hutt), it was understood that Sir H. N Buxton should be pieced on the committee, and he (Lord Palm. rat ,n) should interpose no olij.ction ; but as to the first name—that of the hon. ro. nth r for Liverpool (Mr. Carilwo that lion. geotli in would ex cute hon for saying th it ht had a strong ohjictien to his being appointed a n'euther of this enuturtee. (Hear, hear.) Now he did not mean t' say that soy British subjects were directly engaged in the else trade.; but, indirectly, he Wier.d no illeoll/liiletab!e hefty of them looked with more &voter on that trade thou he did ; and if there war any pt.r , ion of the out jt eta of this country who were indine.ly connected welt that trade more then another, it undoubt..dly was the shipping interest 'I Liverpool. (Hear, hear.) He w,s trete u ware that the merchants mid shipewners of Liverpool were red, as individu I', either directly or ind reetly mixed up with the slave trade ; but practie .Ily, owit.ir its various ramifications. there MO an Mama 0011111'11011, which perhaps it was imposethle to avoid, as in the einsignmi nt of goods to pities entraired in, /11111 which were paid for out of the profits of, that trade. For these reopens, 113111 1111111 various limiters connected with Liverpool, he thought it pi...toile that the reprearntatter art that pltin would not, Ull.lll an i l. . quiry of this kite!, le left as free to exercise his eau jade. meet as others would b... Then Liverpool was already suffi ciently re; resented in the committee by two boa gentle men, one cotevet• el with that town, and the other with Birkenhead, both art whom w. re fully c, miwtent to bring any matters ia which they or the trade of love retell telt an interest under consideration. He would, under the enema stnorest to his hon. friend (Mr Hutt), that with a view to tn. et kis (Lord Paltnerthasi ohjsettuti, and that of hie honourable anti liallaut friend, the name of some naval officer should he subetituted for that of Mr. Card well, anal he would prnp.ce too 85 1,10 of a 'talent officer who had be, n a mem)). r of the 11.11110 government us the hoe. member for Liverpool (Admiral Bowles), whose pr ictiral intorotatioil and esperierieo would, he was sure, he highly useful to the committee. With marl to the bon. another tor Liverpeol, Mesquite mire that it appointed he would give his mint. re cool I et judge' , nt en all matters brought le fire him, but what he welted to inf., wsa, that gentlemen acting 'luau local lutist lucre, could not, with the same pleasure, peseta= a duty with which theme nide, nets were in any way connected, as those who were altogether free from them. (Hear.) Mr. CARDWELL was quite prepared to take what the noble lard hail said in good part, so tar as it related to him sell ; but are most protest in the stoma. st lan guage he was justified in using, against the sweeping bill of tedictment the noble lord had thought prop r tu pre er against his (Mr. Cardwell's) constituents. Ober, he a.) The oljection against his name bring paced on ttic c 'in mate° rested, the noble lord said, on no personal coon& ra tion, her the noble lord hail admitted that he (Mr. Cardwell) might be trusted to give a fair judgment Alto the hest means of suppressing the slave trade—(hear, hearl—but the ground of the objection was not that Liverpool had any direct connexien with the slave trade, but that such tern the ramifications of vett trail" that the merchants of Engle, el in genteel and of Liverpool in partieular, er those who re presented them, were not free to give a fair opinion as to the best means of pirting it down. Nowa& hill of indictment had which he was a member, rhargieg tht d m with ne giving : en coura .thient to the slave trade by a mining the wiper of Cuba and other c , untrire, where the cultivation wits carried on by slave labour—it being manbest that the increased de mand for the produce of slew* !Abner would give an Stn v teis to the slave trade, and I, ad to increased expert* of slaves from the coast t f Africa—if 1111111 a charge— The hon. member was here interrupted by the SVILASLEII, who declared , evidently to the amuirinent of the few Ann. membeur preaent, that, it being now o'clock, the house stood adjourned. ELECTION COMM LITHE. LANCASTER. —This committee met y( sterday for the first time, Lord (•..urtenav in thi chair, in urdar to try the merits of the petition presented againm cant Wat t of Mr. Armstrong for thui borough .— Mr. Serjeant Wranghain and Mr. Merewether appeared fur the peti , ieto r, ant Mr. Serjeant Kinalake and Mr. James for the sitti: g member. — Mr. Set-Praia Wrangham opened the tam on tichalf of the lien E. H. Stanley, the uti,ueett,llll candidate, lir a case of scrutiny only.—Mr &want Kim/lake took an objection to the list of disqualified voter. , whicti had heen delivered Fy the petitioner, but the committee overruled the obj,eti.m.— Evidence having been tendered to ~how that one of the voters who had polled for Mr. Armstrong was a p a uper receiving i parochial relief, the committee adjourned till this day. that occasion he should move that the operation of the bill be extended to th e United K ngdon. The mood of the Joint Stock Companies Hell having been further considered and agreed to, Mr. MITT moved that Mr. ConDEN be discharged from attendance on the slave trade committee, and that Mr. CARDWELL, Sir E. N. Bourtri, and Viscount BRACKLEY, be added. Copt. l'Eette:t.t. having sug gested the propriety of the nomination of a naval officer, Lord PALTAKIINTON admitted its desirability, stating that he should certainly object to thu nomina tion of Mr. Csitiiwt:l.L. in consequence of that hon. gentleman's intimate connexion with the siripownens of Liverpool, who were presumed to be interested in the trade. Mr. CARIAVVIL was proceeding to reply in defence of the putties referred to by the noble lord when the hour of six arrived, and the tirEAKER quitted the chair. Toe utter inespeeity of tho fag end of the Paeiniun communists and rioters to get up even a respectable ['nettle, the complete ieolution in which they found themeelven at that head quarters of popular itimurree• tion, the Hotel de Ville, and the facility with which they were not so much put down as literally bagged and sent to prison, must have the t &et of restoring confidence in the attempts of the French to reconcile the utmost freedom of government with order and a respect for property and law. Were it not fur the treason of one individual, COURTAIS, the only serious part of the riot,:the invasion of the National Assembly, could not have taken place. The very ecandul, how ever, revealed the en. Nies of a fit commander of the National Guard, M. CLEMY,ST THOM" who resisted Ketones at the tribune, and mainly contributed in afterwards suppreseing the ['wide. Ile has been in fact appointed commander-in chief of the citizen lore* of Pan is by acclamation. This post, so long held by LAFAYETTE, is certainly one of the most im portant of the date. To !Ave found a man of energy and popularity, a staunch republican, trusted by middle, and respected by lower, claws, to fill it, is almost as great a guarantee for the future, as to have found a LAMAKTINE to wield political power. Not, indeed, that we attribute the triumph of order chiefly to individual a ffort, talent, or character. The prevalence of the middle class and of mode rate ideas in Paris and throughout France is chiefly owing to the, numbers of that class, to the mere paucity and insignificance of which the horrors of the first French revolution were chiefly owing. A numerous and overwhelming population, well clad, fairly provided, and displaying by their very looks thut their trust and prosiwet is in the industry of their own hands and heads, not in sedition or preenunciamenfees—teis is the great guarantee of order, and produces its effect, whether musquets or constable's staffs arm the number of hands. The im m nee numbers of these, poseeesed of property in France, Mile in town and country, prove the beat aasuranee that subversive acts or princeples have no chance of triumph. We attribute, 'weedily' , as, a great share of the present success, and of the facilities of this success, to the policy and patience of LAMARTINE. Ile it is who has separated the fiercely demeeeratic party into two sections, who has separated the bead frum the tail, tho brains from the trine, and who by pacify ing and winning all the eminent rexublican chiefs, has left the mere " brute part of the far tion to agitate red make maniac efforts, devoid of concert or intelligence, against the government and the national assembly. Had the NIAIittASTS, the I.etate-Itoeus4, the It ECUItT4, and the FreocoNS been repudiated sod flung to herd with the BARBE 4 anti tat Beasoutee, the struggle of Mind.ty might have been a more serious one. As it owe, the insur rectionists had not a cry. In all the dome stie policy of the government they could net make out a good grievance, not a word to serve as a rallying point for the people, and they were aceotdingly obliged to hoist as a pretext the liberties of the Pules. But that is a middle-class cry. What care the populace for Polish regeneration ? To deprive the rio:ers of all rational leaders, all presentable grievances, and cuesequently of all force, more than cou d be put down by a bloodless suppression, has been the aim and the euccesslul achievement of LAMAILTINE. In one respect, however, terve were some uuplen sant symptoms previous to the riot. Hitherto, both the Provisional Government, the Assembly, and even the people have been moderate on questions of foreign policy, and averse to war. 'fbe people declared on aeveral occasions that they had no ides of being made the instruments of military con quest. Lemetterse , him-ell has bravely withstood any war cry. But of late this tone has changed. M. BAsTIDE, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in the debate which preceded the e'titertle, seemed to speak as it war had been decided on. A few words that dropped from Lem AMINE himself were, for the first time, decidedly warlike. The clamour for Polish and Italian war se ented popular in the ass ably ; whilst tt:c people themselves, or the clubbiste who represented them, came to compel a vote of war un behalf ur Poland from the aderioly. Perhaps the quelling of the Juieute may remove many of the metres which prompted the leading men to adopt war its a necessity, us a salutary vent for the effervescence ect men and ideas in the present state. We admit, inde eel, that the French cannot miller north Italy to he re conquered by Austria. Should NEGENT and Itemereet succeed in repulsing CHARLES ALBERT, and threatening Milan, we think the French not only warranted but called upon to march over the Alps. And far from enter taining jealousy on that account, we could but ap plaud the resolution, however deeply regretting both the necessity and many of the consequences. But the French, we trust, will await legitimate provocation. War for Poland is an then and a much:more serious undertaking. The idea of entering upon it without the aid and consent of the Getinune would be sheer madness. A dee laration of war on the part of France for both Poland and Lombardy would, in all proba bility, throw Prussia as eve ll as Austria completely into the arms of Russia, and singulai ly complicate the progress of German aeauri'y and freedom. The French may propose to support their cause with the sword—nay, may hope to find allies in the smaller German states, with a new German rehire or empire in Frankfort. Bu, if French intervention be im posed, in lieu of being demanded, it will find resist ance even from the central Germans. And if an, the result of French interference would be, not to loosen, but to re-knit those bonds of despotism which have so long held mid benumbed this great region of central and eastern Europe. THE disagreement of the jury by whom Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN has ressoitly been tried in the Court of Queen's Beuch in Ireland, was a result fur which many were prepared, and which nobody possessed of common SCUP.' can consider as either extmo:dinary or important. Every popular judicature such as the jury, is nece sarily subject not only to individual caprice for the moment, nut to the all•pervading in fluence of popular fgeling. To rail against such incidental traits argt characteristics is as silly as it is vain. It denotes, indeed, au utter unb,•lief in freedom, and betrays a trembling treachery of head, and heart to all that's best and worthiest in modern civilisation. Like representation ar d the press, and every other means of aehievin; and securing rational liberty and order, the empannelling of twelve men taken indifferently from the community to try . a man for any off, tree ii;:ainst Ite m state, is liable to bring to gether persons whose inds are so dithrently c onstitub d as to forbid all reasonable expectations of their taking precisely the same view of the question submitted to them. And to get into a towering • passion because they do not happen, in sonic hpeciul instance, to agree, or to ascribe their disagreement to any deep-laid plot or wide spread conspiracy to defeat the law, is really so absurd and so demented, that until we read the ob servations of a panic-stricken contemporary we could not have supposed it possible that such doctrines would find a voice in these latter days. The Morning Chronich of yesterday bewails the disagreement of the jury by whom .Mr. was tried, in term% the most touching. It would rate the law officers of the crown severely, if tke occaslon were leas awful and the event less con• rounding. For that matter we are free to say that we think the le.eh Attorney-General was quite as t igen ours and unyielding in all technical preliminaries of the proceeding as he could well have barn, and in one or two particulars perhaps a little more than well. To for,'ive him, therefore, of laxity or lenity above that which was meet, is uncommonly like making ono a present of nothing. The plain tact is, that the counsel for the crown did all that they were buena to do. or would have been justified in doing; and the learned judge who pre/1id...el laid the law and evi dence before t.b. jury with elaborate fairness and ghe OrprviO. MAILS. The malls for Delilah North America, and tho United Sinter., will be made up en the evening of the 6 9th May. The overland made lot Gibraltar, Malta, Govt.*, the lonian Vantir, Egypt, Aden, Ctd lon, India , liong-Nong, :mil ria Southamp ton, will be math. upon the mornit4 of the •Inth May. The overland clad mills, rod Mareriller, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, (long-hung, he., will to' nixie op on the I evening of the 21th May. The inane for Vigo, ',port..., Liston, Madeira, Catlin, and Gibraltar will be male up on the ;horning of the 27th Alay. The mails for New !Muth Wale*, Van Isionasea Land, and New Zealand will he made up oil the miming ~f the diet M •y. The mails fur the Pleat ;,,mot of Africa and Aladicirn will be made loon the evening of the '(let May. The Want India Molts Imluding Bermuda, Allaran, flat mate, llotlitries New ' for Madeira , ' true, ampao, and Porto hien, anti exel n udtng thorn for Madeira, Jaem T l, Carthapena, Santa Martha, Chagos Panama, Wert Cwt ol Sooth Anna lea, nod Si, Juan-do. NICILrig6W, will be matte up on the mot ning ul the 2ml June. The made for the 1ir,47.(1., the River 1 . 1 tie, Monte Video, Pernam buco. Bahia, !nudely+, and Buenos Ayers, will be made up on the evening of the Srd June. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Thu number of STAMPS issued ty the authorities of the Stamp-otlice, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent of the number Issued to the Morning Ikrald, Morning atroisicle, awl Morning Post, ALL PUT TOLIFTIMR. In addition to the atone, imue I to the DAILY NEWS, Morning raper, there were i”Lied for the Awaits Edition, THE EXPRESS 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were issue! either to Globe or Standard, Eveaing Papers. 111011 WATFR AT Wll'l9 itumnr. TiAte 111v—MArntAw.lo,,..A.,,Am 2, aiterot , on, ettle mg. 2 I 3 two. pa.t 2; • nen.. 69 cid • 1.4 LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 18 It 4 the Ifousx of Coantovs yesterday, which met at 12 o'clock, Sir DE LACY EVANS moved the second reading of the Parliamentary lag tors BM; its object being to extend the time for the payment of rates and taxes which fall due on the Other April to the Ilth October, as entitling a householder to exercise the franchise. Capt. HARRIS moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Sir GEORGE GREY, having supported the bill before, considering that it did not interfere with the principle laid down by the Reform Bill, would also vote for it on the present occasion , On a division the second reading was carried by a majority of 33 ; the numbers, to 25.—Sir F. T. DARING moved the second reading of the Audit of Railway Accounts Bill, which proposed to enact that on a r quisition being made by a certain number of shatchulders of 2 1ny company for an audit of the accounts, an impartial person should be ap pointed by the government fur carrying out that object. Mr. BANKES moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months, not on its meti!s, but fur reasons hiving ref,rnce to the proceedings of the Railway Board. After some discussion, this stage of the bill was negatived by a majority of 62; the numbers, 100 to 38. ' Mr. BOUVERIE moved the *cowl reeding of the bill, for enabling religious bodies in Scotland to obtain sites for churches in that country. After some die , cus,irm the house divided, when the second re ading ' was carried by a majority of 63, the numbers MO to 2fi. A still further discussion citsut3 on the usual eet ;on that !ho bill be c o m mitted, which was fi x, d ir the eta of Jane, Mr. Osw.u.o intimating that on perspicuity ; but there happened to be two or three gentlemen in the box who had eyes, but they raw not, and ears, but they heard not, as their brethren saw and heard; and so after sitting in a comfortless room for fifteen hours or more, the twelve could come to no judicial unanimity, and consequently they were discharged from their unpro fitable labours. What all this practically comes to — what of guilt or innocence it proves—how such things can be by any possibility avoided—or why it ought to dishearten any friend of law and right—we are wholly at a loss to conceive. Mr. O'Bet Y.f.l has had a bit of good luck by way of compensation for the corporal punishment he underwent at his beloved native city on a recent occasion. liutwe more than suspect that he is not quite such a fool as to desire to tempt the sheriff and the balloting-box too soon again. To hope that ho will never talk any more lawless nonsense would be too much ; wo fear that having once fallen into th• habit of political dram-drinking, it will he diffi cult for a man of fetch limited capacity to get out of it easily. But the look he has had into the realities of inartyrdem is likely, we think, to prove not unin. structive. Where the poetry ends, the expense be gins; and though there have been energetic resolu tions to pay the costs of his defence, and some shillings here and there got together for the purpose, the vulgar necessities that attend a defence in the Court of Queen's Bench are, to say the least of it, very unexciting and very disenchantiag. Meantime, what says the Morning Chronicle Nwhing leas than that, because three weak or stupid men happened to be upon the jury of Monday last, grin hy jury in Ireland ought to be Artlocith abo lition! We should like to see the Secretary for Ire land, either that has been, that is, or that is impatient to be, who would have the effrontery to stand up in parliament and propose this most insolent of insane propositions. For our part, we think there is already discontent and alienation enough amongst the people of Ireland towards this ceuntry ; but if we believed it possiblo that any party in England of any mark or note seriously har boured such Islatevse2 principles as this would indi• cate, we should only look with contempt and wonder upon those Irishmen who are not repealtrs. If the few and imperfect liberties which Ireland possesses are to be menaced perpetually will suspension in this fashion, it is vain to dream of any real reconciliation or peace. To suppose their maintenance seriously en dangered would be, we are convinced, a gross and wanton libel—alike on tories, whip, and Ferlitee. Two " unprrsoodoble gentlemen"—as O'Cos N used to call certain of his mutinous followers—appear to have likewise found their way into the jury-b .1 in Mr. ME %MIER'S case. The gravamen of the charge against "him of the sword" was an "invocation of the god of battles." Flat blasphemy, no doubt, ILO highly poetical ; but whether so clearly seditious as might have been wished by an Attorney-General is another affair. We own we give Mr. ME ‘G II ER coedit for the last intentions not to commit him self, but as far as in him lay to commit others. Atter the interminable vapouring and swag gering of Young Ireland, it is highly edifying to find them instructing an orange lawyer to try and get them off, by endeavouring to make it appear that they were not in earnest, and really meant nothing for midable at all. So we suspected, and took the liberty of saying on more occasions than one ; but we certainly did not expect such shabby candour on the part of these sham heroes of a bellicose faction. Up to the very eve of the trial Nle.srs. O'Butest and :MEAGHER were re solved to admit everything, justify ev lything, and defend themselves. But they are not the first examples of worthies who, when it came to the point, have shrunk from suicide : and it is not un amusing or uninstructive to behold with what eager they have quibbled by proxy, and, by dint of professional dexterity, wriggled themselves out of the coil of the law for this time. We shall be curious to see whether Mr. MITCHEL will adopt a similar course of nimble evasion, or whet .isr we arc fir one" to find that he who loves to fi ightta others can himself be firm. Wv. confess that the result of the reform meeting at Northampton has not surprised us. There was teideutly distrust and little cordiality between the middle -dap and the operative portions of the meet ing. It is not for ns at this distance to decide who may have been originally to blame for this. Nor would it to of any use to pronounce a decision on the matter : the mischievous disunion would only have a chance of being increased by dwelling on the subject. But there is one feseure of the proceedings at the meeting which ought not to pass without comment. The second resolution proposed by the gentlemen who calks' the meeting was in favour of household suffrage, vote by ballot, equal electoral districts, and triennial parliaments. Yet a main object laboured by the mover of the resolution was to prove that equal electoral i.istricts would be inexpedient and injurious, while the seconder was equally emphatic in his attempts to prove that vote by ballot would he rat her mischievous than otherwise. Bow could these gentlemen expect the non-electors present at the meeting to believe them in earnest when their arguments were directed more against than in favour of the resolution they moved and seconded ? And how could they expect these non-electors to make concessions for the purpose of meeting half way, men in whose sincerity they had so little reason to be confident? It is of no use for the middle-class reformers to make overtures to the unenfranchised reformers, unless upon deliberate reflection they arc convinced of the propriety of the measures of reform urn which they call the latter to unite with them, and are prepared earnestly and in singleness of purpose to labour for their attainment. We do not wonder that the universal suffragists moved and milled an amendment moved and seconded after the tuition we have described. Nor do we think there was either policy or good taste in the tone in which the' gentleman who was to have moved the next resolu tion, came forward angrily, after the passing of the amendment, to declare " that it would ill become them to submit further resolutions to the meeting." I Nothing is ever gained by politicians losing their temper under an occasional defeat. In close juxta-position with the report of the Northampton meeting, which we published yesterday, is the report of a meeting held for a similar pur pose, at Oldham, wine . ' corroborates the lesson we have been endeavouring to extract from the result of the former. Oldham has as suredly the character of being the seat of as resolute and thoroueh-going radicalism as any place in Great Britain. Yet the parties who called the Oldham meeting succeeded in doing, against a chartist oppo sition, that in attempting which the middle class re formers of Northampton were defeated. And they succeeded, because the manner in which they advo creed the proposals which they submitted to the meeting impressed it with a conviction that they were eiticere and in earnest, and because they treated their opponents with proper respect.. There can be no doubt that the result of the Northampton meeting uitl be diligently need by the opponents of the new reform measure to cast dis credit upon it. The middle class reformers, whose lack of judgment has tiff e.ded such a handle to the enemy, owe some compensation to the cause they have injure d : and the only compensation they can make is to be zealous and indefatigable in promoting the movement amoug the middle classes of their town. If the rehiring to which they declare themselves friendly are expedient and necessary, they are so in dependent of the approbation or co-operation of any ci ins. The only way in which they can hope to win back the alienated non-electors is proving by their increased activity that they are sincere and in earnest. WE must be contented with calling the attention of our r.•aders to the speech.' and resolutions made at the inyorant reform in .eting for Middlesex, held you. rday. Comment, for the pre,ent, we must defer. HOLLAND.—HAGUE. MAY IS.—THE MINISTRY. —Toe Kula has confi led the p irttolio of the ministry of the interior ad interim to )I Kempenaen, member ot the second chanlicr of the states general, and of the commis-lot of the cates of the 17th of March, in place of M. Luz tc, who will r.tain ad interim the p ist of the ministry of the re. formed religion. M. K.cmpsenaen has already taken the oath ot offi re. It is geui rally reported that Boon Bentinck will be charged with the portfolio of foreign affairs, and General Voet with that of war. Baron Beat Mei has hitherto filled the pout of envoy extraordinary, and mini ter plenipo tentiary of the Netherlands, ut the court of Brusscl4. M. Storm, ineoemr of the state C011ielli•ion of the 17th March, is lik.irise to r Ike part in the miniuterial combination. Major-General Baron Jos iemi, sideole camp of his Majesty the B over o e of Ituivis his jolt arrived at cal Hague. GERMANY. PRUSSIA.—It will be I• 14 nby our corne t letter that the propmed recall of th e Prince 01 xia hIS produced elftcts likely to I. tit a dienZ t of to ace. A strong derooliqratiol, p act r ailio - ze had been made. N ext awouute may not he 06 4 : able. COLOGNE , Mtrll An stated in yesterday's eaminumeß, teri el r, script r. 'meeting the revel of the ,i 74 caused the greeted ex.atem , tit in S - din .7" n . - immense public meeting was h. Id putation was appobeed, to wait.o th.. pn.i.tee t d 4 cil, in order to indnee him to revoke • h • 0." Ahout nine o'clock p.m , tee deptioae,, number of per, Ms, puceeded to his w hi c h was guarded by double rows of c:in ' t ass. -- 17 .5 they were immediately admitted. Au, mated discussion, in the course 1 1, 4 1.1 , 4 k hood" was used with reference to the eMet toe ,1 1 41 nalnister'efrhode,that the aseemeled thoteneda.,g e s‘— ` h do any th ii.g that two popular leech re e. sideat of the e .uncil stated that he wool again before the cabinet. Count n ", — ..rhe the ministry, was present at the inn rvie.,74 - 6 - "w1,,_,1 wore then once that the inbalnent, de u ,'"wlll not comprise the entire pupuleti of the and that ministers were hour d to c 'wont :7 0 a, greet number of persons proceeded ~t ee I Prince of Prussia, and &mended the the ere s r4 . * . tl e uP l ur i ' i l u r"d t r m utY ld w" n 'in i i ii l i du t e. l it h h . he y .:r w aa e Pl r al, 7 "" ::l ani" Flm i47 7 i i i . m er .' , P l " t r. l itule"';76 :l drum. lieveral p pular speak. addresed thouaande, and urged them to dip. re , in 0e51,, - 4,. 1 'sanguinary and useless conflict Their ares....," m yth and about half- p tet t the str, It. bog L P N It will be seen by the furs-going recital tw it tio bailee.' occurred, es report• d here by pro-eas whew i r . at 1I) tern. on the llith. It is tin. th at tha e at ' , the tradi for C01...me state) apps the Prussian capital, and thence 'he repen in g eeeoa a' The • xpleriatery rescript of the m more pointedly the grounds on wine% they the King to recall the Prince of Prussia, 4.1 d e eku s - 7 th. y can only recognise the furtheneiee bi.t ie the true interpretation of tne • sehesi.f the pe pl. If I tended to increase the excitement In re. Al d u placards have beer, f,,rne along the streets ceihrei ma in• abitan.lt to sign the protest against the recall of prince. The addre,s to Ma King rut.' as I "Your Majesty,—The ministry I.lille proposed th, the Prime of Prussia (who, it is pretended, wisseett o z: land by your Hsi site ), in girder that he sa n ts, the constituent iteseronly in Ber in, awl to that etwe, - your ffiejesty has already given per exisent. - dersigned, citizens of Cologne, can wdy ea u ; ..f that step, fur they see in it the gaunt for the monarchy and the trencmillite .d f e tb,a„( 4 l people uo nut believe that the prince Cavell. I to Lw, the true interests ef the country, hut le.; sadden departure on the ever ineninoa , ni.:lxt sub, ce eery cons' quence of 'his eymp..ths w to t e e en i -iatii of tr.e lkin and 19th of Much. The peopl e ' wt ., nouneed judgment on that prams., uedes ' government they loudly and openly sit intrid 0,116 • was ha' lowa property. We ther , forc of Pe not to allow the prince to return. We 4realeue - that hie views respecting the f,rthcomi grvottratiss be so much the less taken halo eoneideretien, are ha seeing what has ham rad, and aria. writes ' with enduring character', his suceesenn to the tyre, well as any participation on his pat p Asinle." This address, during the course of yesterday self received *secret thou-and signatures. Not the least significant teen of the tie spirit twine , d by numerous young other', s privates of the re puler Pruseisn army. end e Aseociations have been formed ento,,eat theta pose of removing the grievances of to. it lasr several occasions they have forwarded enirgeti: the members of the cabinet, particulerly to th, War. This functionary has diaper., i.lof al this interference with the particular relation+ serves, and calls for the punishment of those pe shall hereafter drew up or sign petitions and &dike nature alluded to. Tnis ministerial reseript has g offence to the inhabitants in general military club or amociatien exists), patio Minister of War describes the acme a- the axe of the ante. The liberals hire warmly epeeist. the soldiers with reference to th. it right o: weight pi throw, and the peke ar,e. s of the latter fora topic at the large public me , ting which war Bat not only are the military desirous of exert rights alluded to ; they demand to know, wan upon what grounds their s,Kcial amerces art Strange as it may appear to sire: disciplinarian logne members of the war reserve of the Sib s and of the Landwehr (the former of which bodies clued out) require that the grounds for that step particularly as the Danes (.o runs the addresses net) have been put down by notional bravery-a have, as asserted, submitted—as France, whisk out as a menace, announces the most friendly • a war on account of the private interests of has become an impeasibility, inasmuch as na: to live in peace one with the other. la a the l'resident of Council of Minis+ i's is Tel minded that any member of the cabinet a " eternal and inal:ensble rights of liherte of don of association perpetrates a coup if eut must answer with his head." In a communication forwarded some time I stated that it was proposed in several infla. 'n issue so-called railway notes, wdieh sheold payment at the various stations and at the par' even in private establishmenta, It such w. re t the proprietors. Since that time the project milted to due examination, and it is no , rugs the railways in the Germanic Confederati en an in that respect—that is to say, with re ler nee such notes—and that the parliament in direct immediate attention to the subject. 'hr entire lints of German railways by the is else recommended. Tho convocation of the Prussian constit the 22nd inst. has given great offence t • nt who express the opiniou that the simultaneoes of that body, and of the parliament of the Ga federation, will tend to obstruct, if not p erm lotion of those projects of unity w jell are trawl sires of the entire people of Germsny. Be this is certain that the ,orthcomim: diet in Seri' an immense influence, not only over Pr.. confederation at large. It turns out that the " capitulation " of tke flounced in pompous terms by 'secret Giamatti simply the surrender of 3.5 insurgents without Meet), for such is the official declaration of Pfu.l, under date Kay 11, three ....our days date oo which, as it was alleged, 13,030 armed ranted unconditionally. It is certain, tweet slalreki has been taken prisoner, an, t his %elide had rendered his stay ammtpt his ger.oas for Lim. Five hundred and twenty stud- rats la presented addresses in favour of the r.',.toratine a me but 416 out of that number expreso ths such aie° will not be taken at the expert man ii.habitanta and their rights. Al in: PL , in Breslau have been forced to quit that cey as, their residence betwe.n the Elbe and the Wear, France. According to the latest accounts from Pa. body of the insurgents has sought refuge in the a large number of them is still assembled in* , Sebring with the resolution not to give up their prohali.e, however, that there will be no tura a lar,re scale. All, however, will depend on which the forthcoming constituent assembly is the one In Frankfurt will take respecting Poles Accor..ing to a Berlin correepon.l.nce in Gazette of this day, all the soldier, iu Mt-4a wilt been dismissed from the army arc ordered to re) stated, too, that the nobles are &splitting diet aeon towuds the Emperor, and that the true have forwarded to him fifty millions of suer Herr Lade ha. toren nominated hr th- Faye at Hamburg. This is the first appoint:neat North ci,rnelny. AUSTRIA.—Our correspondent *flys: The post of Minister of the Int,.gor hat to the Baron Von Wcesenberg. Pal why of Pr known partisan of the Sclavouic ran ) 1155 r . miniaterisi portefeuille. According v. the I national butkrurny is on the eye at o seu, bt erourt. THE LEVEE. The Queen held a Levee ytater u dav St. James's Palace, which was very onrerek 11cr Majesty sant ranee Albert arrives, trim Palace, attended by the ro) al suite. end 'sew Is. the L'ed 8 carard and the Lord Caartihrskirs conducted to tho royal closet. The Earl of Minto had an audienee of the: return from Italy. Sir 0. Grey h,.1 wide Majesty. The Earl of Besaborough had an as lamed hands on his appointment. Lunt J. Sim duced at an audience by the Loru Coached livered the insignia o f the ThiSlie oy the Marquis of Bute. Lord Cawley Lad as returned the insignia of the Bith wars by..- Cowley. The Rev. A. Stoplord hat an 2110 0 1. tuned the insignia of a Knight °taut CrJea hon. order of the Bath Wall by his into laver, ann. Sir E. Stoptord. Captain had deliver the ensigns of an order of linight!eatt The Prince of Prussia was pre,ot it the Duke George of Mecklenbuig Strek s was Ilintor Stephens. e d er Melt sty and Prince Albert mm li fres closet into the thrane-room. lo attend !Bettette ef the Robe , ; the Conntie ut Chi in Waiting; the Lord Steward, the Lord Ch. Master of the Horse, the Groom of le Chi the Trtmsurer of the ilou4eholil, the Chit Bari of Morton, Lord in Waiting; ,iot in Waiting to tho Prince; Col. Proatmo, Waiting ; Capt. P. Seymour, Grreou ia Prince; Col. the lion. C. Grey, E In the /ion A. Gordon, Equerry in Oa to Sih Mem*. Gordon and Crofton, w as ; e et 11 .ntoo , fa T , b w u ing fore t ig roe u diplomatic awuoju (ar,,,eoiitalrujuVa:Ctdio: t tbe wit abbe lieu it erday gadded; it the oub.of.ter, end the Led, them ferrate pfnleikrne,mi tvetiC addle t.) the Mtn ed of steles .intionl Of 1111 those pee trid add:ewer riot has gins C,l gee fele parierahrly he tate:Mop rspoole then t o! innisho: luroactl apes ova.. had j. ezor.Ssitg . 0, al OE vices an • iplintriant, the Bth wee rich bidiee that step le aridness • Avery—al i. which is iendly ti of rim* la natroae al I o sootier • s cUr~ n ' et who to Jeered C• - 'at for • tine ego fro influratiel ehoold the pantie • w, re the project kr A puirgewi. Imo° Angie 'tn. nee to the in Fraiche re. The y the rayeenn • • r !timed t • numeral , iltanrooe , of the Gerrit wt rota, tie r are now tee& . lie this alit , in Berlin otU ' Prursia, tau or! " of the Poe I German j9elle I t itr.OUL Irae ration of Grua ur Alto leter tta 0 armed Poke a, trierever, Jet • that his desire hie counvyna dente in Bel ortoriiri.in of express the he , the expcnoe of * LI tit, ?Ash • - .hat eirr and t , ' I the Weser, or; from Poses. 0 1 uge in the fag staled in tee re up their OWL no l nether •• - pond on the Lhs. mblv .eting vicnee in the ' I Ru—in who IA &reit to rrjois 11 ly ing the Freon% at the trate:eel I Ut silver warier rth. Pope Bad. wwt:uent+f slat ent toys: ati.e.or hoe We Itiekv of Pree;r s e , ) naa declieo 9 V.lheßiesie e et 0 •etrralg la • in. El. •esterdar aftehli .17 I.Utarroio I :C. %Lod •cf:.• re.:" pone of the 92 01 : 11..1 .0) Lllo l 7r, gh had an Wee! L o rd J. Sloan le ; oru Cnsurixtro.P. ware or ey Lad a s 1107: th er.ii-n by . the hal an ;Orsini is ode fairer, rl.irtirr hod al lierighthogt resent 'et the Streit s wee h s "'" ,rt pe" , a „ in* tit ee. 1 11 a iien,e--- 0. t- e e el • Ch vl4 b e tie 11w Lord Ch ao . o f h. 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