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said on a former occasion, the country had set its heart, should be abandoned ; that the window tax aught not to be repealed, and that a modified I house tat ought not to be substituted in its place. The honourable gentleman's argument now is that the public credit was in danger. I think the hon, gentle man ought to have thought of that risk before ha went into 1 the same lobby on a recent occasion with my hon. 1 friend the member for Montrose. (Cheers and laughter.) !cannot suppose that the hon. gentleman, whine acute in tellect is remarkable in this house, did not foresee that the result of the triumph of my hon. friend would be the serious endangering of the public credit. The hon. gentleman now —and I am most obliged to Lim for his anxiety—insists upon preserving the integrity of the public credit and the revenue of the exchequer. On the Bth of May the honourable member for the North Riding of York shire (Mr. Cayley) moved the repeal of the malt tax. The finances of the country were put in jeopardy, the public credit of the nation was endangered as greatly on the Bth of May as they are on the 30th of Juno. Yet I find that when the repeal of the malt tax was prop - sed an hon. gentleman rose in his place and said that if the motion were to be considered on merely fiscal and financial grounds it might be easily disposed of, but that there were far higher and other considerations in connec tion with the question; and in the division in savour of this motion, asking a surrender of 5,000,0001., I encoun tered the name of Benjamin Di-racli. (Cheers and laughter.) Have we tau Benjamin* in the field? (Great lai*hter.) Is there one Benjamin vu reckless of public credit that he votes for the sacrifice at one swop of 5,000,0004 of revenue in a critical year ?—and another Benjamin who is too Kill. pulous, in similar circumstances, to throw away 1,500,0001. ? (Much laughter.) In these •• days of vacillation," to use the phrase of the hon. gentleman, surely some explanation is required ; and perhaps he, in those eloquent sentences which he knows how to form ae well as utter, will clear away so curious an inconsistency. If the house is in favour of the repeal of the tax, it is bound to negative the resolution of the hon. gentleman. (Hear.) I have not changed the opinions which I expressed in proposing the repeal of this tax, and the su , istitution of a modified house tax. I believe now, as I believed then, that it will afford a great relief to all chases in this country, and to the agricultural class not less than to others. lam as anxious as the hon. gentleman can be to support the public credit and to maintain a surplus. I think surplus enough is lett after such repeal of taxes as I have proposed. And be lieving as I do that the substitution of a house t would be adequately productive for the demands of the Exchequer, and, on the other hand, would immeasurably contribute to the health and comfort of our fellow-subjects, I should be excessively grieved if the decision of the house to-night reverses that which it recorded on a former late occasion—thus rejecting what I regard as the greatest boon of the financial year to the country. (Cheers.) The ques tion now put by the hon. member is plainly aye or no— shall the house tax he repealed; and I hope and trust that the house will by a large majority reply in the affirmative. (Cheers.) Mr. NE WDEGATE, in supporting the resolution, wished not thereby to pledge himself to oppose any measures of reduction that might be substituted fur the government measure. Air. OLADSTONE could have wished to hear from Mr. Disraeli, • more definite explanation of the course he wished to be adopted, but nevertheless intended to vote for his motion. The new conditions under which the income-tax was held rendered the resolution eminently appropriate. Ile had always disapproved of the proposed house-tax, because it premed unfairly upon large mansions, and ex empted from taxation six-sevenths of the house property in the country. He asked the house to consider the position in which the income tax At present stood. It was impossible to conceal front themselves that the proceedings of the present time had inflicted a great blow upon that tax, and that when the renewal of it came to be proposed again inthe house it would nut he without serious, and probably obsti nate, opposition from more than one party. Let the house consider what would be the line likely to be taken by the principal parties in that house with respect to a renewal of the income tax. There were large numbers of gentlemen who said that it was gromly unjust to levy an income tax at a uniform per tentage upon the several schedules of the act, and they had so far succeeded in impressing their views upon the house that they had obtained the appointment of a committee fur the avowed purpose of considering whether the imposts under the different schedules ought not to be varied. Such was the Cl/11NC of one powerful party in the house. The members of her Majesty's government were not to be looked upon as the friends, on general and permanent grounds, of the introduction of an income tax. He might indeed question the applicability of that remark in the case of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the right hon. gentleman had, not frequently, indeed, but in IMIM , given something that looked very like an ad besiou to the principle of the income tax as • permanent par. of the taxation of the country. But even if that were not so—however it might be—it was certain that when the income tax was proposed it was received by the members of the present government with the most determined opposi tion. (Ileac.) And the noble lord at the head of the go vernment had within the last few weeks spoken in terms which showed that no appointment of an unvarying and permanent income tax was to he expected from that section of the house. (Hear.) There was another party which he gathered to be of opinion that schedule 1) of the income tax act constituted an inseparable objection to the renewal of that tax. (Ileac.) Ile would say again that there was a party on the opposite (the ministerial) side who demanded that the schedules should be varied; but there were many on that (the opposition) side, of whom he was one, who would not consent to the per tentage being varied, fur they believed, whether rightly or wrongly, that apart from all considerations of policy, the house was precluded by former pledges from anything like such a variation. (Hear.) Now that the income tax bad been given up to the mercies of • commit tee. iu what condition would it be when it came out tram that committee? What was to be the conclusion ? Was it to be fora varied per centage ? If so, then it would not receive the sanction of that house. Or if it came out of the committee without such a recomtuendatiun it would be met with the hostility of a powerful party, and it might suit the Mews of other political parties to join that party. He did not undertake to calculate all the contingencies that might occur; but this much he would say, that ao impost which produced five millions of revenue was at pre sent placed in a must precarious position. (Hear, bear.) And if the income tax was in a precarious position, he would ask the house whether it was warrantable, whether it was politic, he might almost say whether it was honest, altogether to exclude from view all preparations fur a contingency so grave and so probable ns the lapse of that impost ? If that were so, what provision was the house to snake fur the public credit? They might talk, and justly, of public economy, and he thought that the house had not exceeded their duties in enforcing economy and retrenchment. (Hear, hear.) lie hoped that more might be done in that direc tion, and results would be found in arrangements already completed, from which a saving might be effected in the public expenditure. He was one who thought that they could not dispense with the income-tax, and at the same time withhold their hand from imposing any new descrip tion of taxation. And what was that to be? Ile should say, give a resource in a fair house tax, nut one to reach entirely the amount of the pre sent income-tax, but to fill up a tolerable por tion of the revenue, and he should not be afraid to meet the contingency. But the moment the government assented to a vote of the house which placed the income tax in a precarious position, they asked them ti adopt a new scheme for the imposition of a house tax, upon a basis so narrow that it never could be eligible for the main tenance of the public revenue. Disclaiming the duty, on the part of those not connected with government, of sug gesting details, he thought that members ought to proceed on the principles laid down by Mr. Disraeli, and to lay on • house-tax constructed on a broad basis. He was not pre pared to state that basis, whether it should fall on owner or copier, fellow the franchise or otherwise ; but upon the general principle he had no doubt. The present measure cut away from the reach of the house a large share of re venue at • moment when it could be ill spared. Bast he could not my that government would be justified in with draw~ing the repeals proposed by the Customs Act. Mr. i.ABOLCHERE had never regretted any vote of the house so much as the vote on Mr. Ilume's motion, though he did not think it was designed as a blow at pull lie credit. He was convinced that this house would never shrink from its duty as regarded the finances of the country, let the decision on the income-tax be what it might. It was, therefore, only a question whether they should dis appoint the nation, and disarrange the financial arrange ment for the par. Ile abstained from further reply to Mr. Gladstone, beyond reminding him that general direct taxation might often be oppressive and inexpedient. In reply to Mr. Disraeli, he said that ships built in bond would seldom be found very profitable, and dwelt upon the large orders which had recently been executed by British ship builders for foreign employers, as a proof of the prosperity of that interest. (Hear, and cries of " Divide.") Mr. HUME could not see why his motion had occasioned so much uneasiness. Ile believed that the time had come when the income tax must become permanent, but it must be made so in accordance with justice. The people out of doors were awakened to a sense of the partiality with which taxes had been laid on as regarded the rich and the poor. The house then divided— For the motion Against it 212-113 The bill then passed through committee. Sir B. HALL gave notice of a clause to extend the bill to Ireland, and Mr. HOME of a clause to include all houses above the annual value of 40s. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH BILL. On the order of the day for the third reading of this bill, Viscount EBRINGTON moved the omission of certain words from the first clause of this bill. He objected to the introduction of those words, not only on the general princi ple, but from the practical experience of those towns which were now suffering from their introduction. (Cries of " divide.") Mr. FREWEN seconded the motion, which, after a brief conversation, was withdrawn. Mr. FULLER moved the insertion of " Hastings" in the schedule. Sir W. UMBER seconded the motion. Atom ease dimession, The Mame &died : teethe amendment 95 77-18 The= tans read • third time. The Lem gaieties Dill was read a second time. the berme >ru went into committee on the County Oweete famire compensations, and the resolu lismigrisi fa` Tha gessma's Fund Bill was read • second ME& ADVANCES FOR PUBLIC WORKS. _ - - - The house went into committee on this subject, and cer tain resolutions were agreed to. MERCANTILE MARINE BILL. Mr. LABOUCIIERE moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the Mercantile Marine Act. At that late hour he would not enter into details ; but he would have the bill printed and circalated, and sufficient time would be alloWed hon. gentlemen to stituents on the *abject. After a few words from Mr. Ham's and Mr. Wawa, leave was given to bring in the bill. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH. with their eon- Lord SEYMOUR. obtained leave to bring in a bill to confirm a certain provisional order of the General Board of Health. The house then, at a quarter to 1 o'clock, adjourned. PAtr.s.—Mr. Joseph Bailey in favour of Sir F. Thcsi gees amendments, with Mr. Fendarves, ag ainst . — Colonel Chatterton. in favour of Sir F. Thesiger's amendments, with Mr. Stansfield, against—Mr. Twisden Hodges with Mr. Dalrymple, against Mr. T. Baring's motion on the chicory question.—Mr. Henry Edwards with Mr. Matthew Wilson, from the 30th of June until the 7th of July.—Mr. Sailleir with Captain Fordyce tiU 3rd July inclusive.— Mr. H. D. Seymour against Mr. Baring's motion, with Sir It. Howard, in favour.—Mr. Locke against Mr. Baring's motion, with Mr. Noel, in favour.—Sir J. East, in favour of Sir F. Thesiger's clauses, with Sir C. Douglas, against. —Mr Leslie, in favour of Sir F. Thesiger's amendment on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, with Lord F. lisllyburton, against —Dr. Power, in favour of Mr. Disraeli's motion with Mr. Wakley, against.— The Hon. J. Maxwell, in favour of Mr. Disraeli's resolutions against the repeal of the window tax,-with Mr. J. Wyld, against —Sir H. Moor, in favour of Mr. Disraeli's resolutions against the repeal of the window tax, with the lion. E. K. Coke, against.—Mr. Renton, in favour of Mr. Miles and Sir F. Thesiger's amendments, with Captain Dalrymple, against. the enwtgifS. TO CORRESPONDENTS, 4 Seeond Edition rf.l‘ei.anTees, 4 iandaT;l4tbe awns evenlnee " Gazette," is published every Tuesday enl Friday night. to Um low poet. Adrettsrementaintesded fur" The Express," Idados Erening paper, must be at the Otece, 10, Bouseriwareet, by Two o'clock us the Y) of poblseetunk HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tim DAT—Nome& 311. ...... Aftersooa. sm. TO•11011101.—Mmalar, 412. 1w Memos, 41.23 x. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 1. OCR columns are graced to-day by two curious documents. One is an appeal to the piety and charity of Italians, emanating from " The Holiness of our Low), Pope Pius IX. exciting them to contribute to the erection of a itoman catholic church in Lon don ; and the other a proclamation of the Archbishop of FLORENCE, enforcing the petition of his mister upon the flock committed to his care. The cool impudence of the two dignitaries Ikon whom these manifestoes emanate, is the first re fection awakened by their perusal " The Holiness of our Lord," who will not tolerate an English pro- testant church within the walls of his capital, proposes to have a church of his own erected in the very heart of the metropolis of England as if it were the most reasonable project in the world. The prelate who presides over the 'banish church in Tus cany, whence the persecution of Protestants is still ringing in our cars, is the first to join in the illustri ous " beggar's petition." Both, at least indirectly, ;say the English people and government the compli ment of attributing to them more of Christian for bearance than they have shown themselves to be animated by. His eminence Cardinal Wiseman is eulogistically noticed in the pontifical petition. Nevertheless it looks as if PIO NoNo did not entirely trust him; as if his holiness feared he had made the CARDINAL too great a man to rely upon his gratitude. The POPE, in fact, declares by this manifesto that he cannot rely upon the fidelity of his hierarchy in England unless they receive an Italian garrison among them. The preaccted church of " St. Peter's in London," is to be ahrays governed by a congregation of Italian secular priests, founded at Rome, that the Roman spirit may always influence the same." The priests of " St. Peters, London " are, in fact, to be permanent spies upon the conduct of the English Roman eatholics in the interest of the Roman court. This is but carrying on the game that has been played by the rulers of the Romish church from the first attempt to reform it at the Council of Constance down to the present day. In the time of LUTHER, and in the time of his great precursors, the necessity of reform was admitted within the Romish church by learned doctors and wealthy and powerful pre lates everywhere but in Italy. The wily tactics of HILDEBRAND, by constituting the College of Cardi nals the electors and permanent council of the Pore, had made the church of Rome a mere rotten borough. All power was vested in the Italian prelates ; the tribute of all kingdoms subject to the Romish see flowed into the Roman treasury. The Italian hierarchy saw as clearly as the more en lightened and patriotic of the prelates of France, Germany, and England, the benefits that would seam from a reform of the church ; but they also saw that such a reform would place the clergy beyond the Alps on a footing of equality with them selves. They hazarded the very existence of their church to perpetuate their Roman close borough system. They have only partially succeeded; even those countries of extra-Italian Europe which have remained in communion with the Romish church, now withhold their tribute, as the empty Papal ex chequer, insufficiently replenished from Italy alone, can tell ' To bring back the times when " PETER'S pence" flowed from every country of the western world to Rome, is now the great aim of the Romish court. To this end it first flattered the English Roman catholics by affecting to give them a more national clergy; and now it seeks to avail itself of their gratitude by inviting their acquiescence in the establishment of a collegiate church in London to be "always governed by a congregation of Italian priests, founded at Rome, that the Roman spirit may always influence the same." The English Romanists, lay and clerical, must be submissive indeed, if they do not somewhat resent the distrust of their fidelity implied in the proposal to establish among them a church which is always to be "influenced by the Roman spirit." But what will the Irish Romanists say to the blunder of the Archbishop of FLORENCE, who, with a knowledge of history, only to be paralleled by Archbishop LEN'S knowledge of astronomy, maintains that Great Britain was called, before the Reformation, " the island of the saints?" It is but scurvy gratitude to Ireland, for its devotion to the Ro mish see, to rob it of its most cherished title; and what is worse, confer that title on the island of the haughty Sassenagh. " The Holiness of our lord" appeals to "the charity of Italian believers, and the zeal of the bishops of Italy." His confidence in the zeal of the one and the 'charity of the other does not, however, appear to be very great. For to ensure their contributing from all Italy the sum of 6,6001. sterling, he is ob liged to offer an enormous bribe. "His HoLisiess himself, by his rescript to the holy congregation for propagating the faith, dated March 9th, 1831, has granted an indulgence of one hundred days to whomsoever shall contribute any alms to the end." Why in the states of the church alone there arc brigands enough to bring together 6,6001., and repay themselves abundantly for the outlay by the harvest of the hundred days. Surely at such a prise a much larger sum might be obtained, more nipsially as it is " Italy, for whose advantage the wok is principally undertaken." And yet, though the Protestants of England have nobribes of "plenary indulgences" to offer, did it rest with us, we might be disposed to offer terms to his Holiness to consent to his causing as many ettareirre to be built and endowed in England as be ass tin army in Italy to pay for the building and endowing • provided he consents to the build and endowing des many churches in the Papal sides as the pre- WOMB el England can Woo mow to build and We, Ibere. THE Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, as amended in com mittee, is a shade more trenchant than ministers appear to have wished. And for this we have to thank nobody but the English and Irish members, who have been most eager and indefatigable in their opposition to it. The policy of any considerable number of members leaving the house in a pet has been in bad repute ever since the Fox wings tried it. In the first place, every body laughs at it, because every body knows that the gentlemen marching out in dignified dudgeon have nothing for it but to come sneaking back in a day or two at furthest. In the second THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY ,1, 1851. place, the seceders relinquish all power—at least for the time they absent themselves—of modifying or mitigating the measure that has stirred up their bile. For example, the Irish gentlemen who squared their elbows and marched out after the interchange of some sharp words between Mr. KEooa and Lord JOHN RUMELL, and the English gentlemen who followed in their wake for no better reason than be- mime they have been humbly imitating all their - motions ever since the discussion began, must' have known that they would be obliged to return next day, ingloriously, without any mediators being sent to them, or any terms offered. They flung out of the house as a spoiled child flings out of the dining-room, because it is refused some sweetmeat on which it has set its heart; and they crept back, just as the same urchin is sure to do, though no ono takes notice of its absence, or sends for it. And it was their absence that enabled Sir F. THEMGER to carry his amendments. The state of the coming vote was well known ; it was certain that the mmisterialista and seceders combined could throw out the amendments; it was equally certain that the ministerialists, deserted by the opponents of the bill, could not. The question was not between the offended dignity of Mr. Keoou with his fol lowers and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, but between Mr. %Emit with his followers and the public out of doors (if any), whose views and wishes they represent. Having failed to defeat a measure which they affect to believe oppressive, they owed it to their consti tuents to exert themselves to keep it free of all un necessary rigour. Instead of doing this, however, they picked a quarrel on some fantastical point of honour, and marched off in the sullens, leaving the bill to shift fur itself. To Mr. KEOGH and his seceders is due the credit (such as it is) of carrying the TuEsIGER amendments: To ras Imola Georges Dwain. _ . The party opposed to the bill having seen fit in their wisdom to give their assistance to render it a little more stringent than its authors intended, the question presents itself, is it worth any other person's while to try to unsettle the decision of the committee. The bill, in the shape it has now assumed, will be found in another column, and we confess, that ex cept on one point, we sec nothing in it about which those who approve of its principle can have any ex. cure for dividing themselves and going to buffets Lord J. RUSSELL, it is true, may naturally and ex cusably feel nettled at seeing Sir F. TiIt:SKIER'S clauses preferred to his own; but to renew the struggle solely to allay this disagreeable feeling would, on his lordship's part, be as unwise and as undignified as the scrambling out of the house of the opponents of the bill was on theirs. With the ex ception of the one point above alluded to, there is nothing in the bill, as it now stands, that any one who is earnestly and sincerely indignant at the presumption of the Papal court can object to. That one point is the authority given by the second clause of the bill to private individuals to ori ginate legal proceedings, with a view to enforce its provisions. The terms of the clause would, indeed, appear to impose a check on private actions under the bill. It 19 declared that " the sum of one hun dred pounds, to be recovered as penalties imposed by the recited act, may be recovered under the pro visions thereof, or by action of debt at the suit of any person in one of her MAJESTY'S superior courts of law, with the consent of her Majesty's Attorney - General in England and Ireland, or her Majesty's Advocate in Scotland, as the case may he." This would seem to imply that any person instituting such an action of debt must first obtain " the con sent" of the law officers of the Crown ; and that consequently these officers can prevent its being brought by withholding their consent. Our impres sion, however, is that in Scotland, where the consent of the Crown counsel is necessary to allow any pri vate party to institute proceedings in what are called the " pleas of the Crown," the application for such consent is a mere matter of form, never refused. It would, indeed, be most unjust to gentlemen filling offices of such high and responsible trust to expose them to the popular odium they might at any time incur by refusing. It appears, therefore, that under the clause in ques tion any private individual may prosecute for the pe nalties imposed by the bill " by action of debt ;" that is, if successful, he may put the penalties recovered into his own pocket. For various reasons this would be highly objectionable. In the first place, it extends the sphere of activity of that absurd and mischiev ous fiction of the English law by which penalties are enforced under pretence of recovering debts. The scoundrel who seduces as innocent girl cannot be fined, her parent must sue him for compensation for the loss of her services. Thus the guilty arc often enabled to escape by technical objections, and the public sense of right and wrong is perverted. If the 100/. is a penalty, let it be exacted as a penalty, not by the quibbles and quid dities of lawyers transformed into a debt. And let the penalty be exacted at the suit of a public officer, in the name and interest of the public, not by one of the shabby body of com mon informers to replenish his own empty pockets. In the name of common honesty and common de cency, let an effort be made to expunge this mean and indecorous provision from the bill. But there is nothing to be gained by fighting against the other amendments of Sir F. THESIGER-.. there is nothing lost by accepting them. The oppo nents of the measure had it in their power to ensure their defeat, and as they did not choose to de se, really it does not appear to be incumbent es any ether person to supply their neglect. It might hen been imagined, had the solemn secession et hat week taken place before the Whitson holidays, that there was some deep-laid plot to make the mea sure as stringent as possible in order that it might become a standing grievance and a handle for agita tion. But we have reason to believe that the Irish portion of the opposition have returned from their holiday visits to their homes with a more correct se timate of the amount of irritation that the discussion has excited in Ireland, and the degree of popularity they arc likely to obtain by the course they have been pursuing, than they previously entertained. As for their English allies, they have long been aware of the nature of the sentiments they have awakes ed by their insensibility to the dignity of England. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. M. Segur-d'Agnesscau has addressed a letter to the Dfliata declaring that the Rue des Pyramides had not yet adopted the new motion of M. de Broglie for total revision. The Pays announces that the question of AM-el- Kader's captivity is on the point of receiving a satis factory solution, The leading topic to-day is the President's journey to Poitiers, which will commence to-morrow at S. The speech is expected to be of a strong conservative character, and to be confined to topics on which a good understanding prevails between the govern ment and the Assembly. The section of the Bordeaux Railway which will be inaugurated to-morrow extends from Tours to Poitiers, and includes thirteen stations, of which Chatellerault is the principal one. 'fhe section in question passes through two departments, the Indre et-Loire and the Vienne. The brie, on leaving Tours, runs on the Nantes line for a distance of 733 metres, and then branching off to the left, crosses the Cher 'by a viaduct of six arches of 20 metres span. It tficn proceeds to the valley of the Indre, which it crosses by a viaduct of 700 metres iu length and 20 in height. It next descends to the valley of the Manse, which it crosses on a viaduct of 300 metres in length and 33 in height. It next crosses the Crease over a bridge of three arches of 30 metres span. The line then enters the department of the Nienne ; passes Chatellerault, crosses the river Vienne by a bridge of five arches, each 20 metres in splin t The line then proceeds on straight to Poitiers, crossing the Auzancc over a bridge of 12 metres span in the arch. The works are remarkable for their solidity, and were formally delivered up to the com pany, a few days back, by the gfoveniment engineers. M. de Walewski, the new k rench ambassador at London, has just left Paris for his destination. Ile is accompanied by M. Serarier, first secretary of em bassy, and M. de Cabrol Moutet, an attaché. At a conference between the committee on the budget and the committee on the Avignon Railway, which took place to-day, MM. Posey and Gown explained the impossibi l ity of the treasury charging itself, at this crisis, with the cost of the railway. After a conversation between MM. Berryer, Martin (du Loirct), Jules de Lestcyrie, Victor Lefranc. and Dufaure, the question was adjourned till to-morrow. The S'A'cle reports that a sanitary congress is to be held immediately at Montpellier. Each of the Mediterranean powers will be represented at it by a diplomatic or consular personage and by a medical man. Some of them have already arrived at Mar seilles. Greece and the island of Malta will have their delegates in the Assembly. It is supposed that the great powers of the north will also take part in this congress. It is now pretty generally admitted that the peti tion-movement has been a failure. The sum total of signatures =authenticated, crosses included, will barely amount to a million, and of that million a considerable fraction neither arc, nor have ever been, nor can ever be electors. Perhaps the failure is owing to the very means taken to stimulate the movement, the active canvass of the authorities. The pressure exerted by the administration, and ha portunity of sub-prefects, employes, and gendarmes, seem in fact to have made the mass of the people colder than they would otherwise have been, and to have set their stomachs against the revision. The Assembly, in its sitting of to-day, adopted the bill for the ratification of the convention relative to literature with the Portuguese government. It then the bill for a grant of 914,345 f. for the . a rdilerranean packet-service. The house then proceeded to pass the supplementary credits for the railways from Tours to Bordeaux, and front Paris to Strasbourg. After the final adoption of M. Delcsscrt's motion for altering the existing legisla tion on savings -banks, a debate on the credit proposed for the hams of St. Cloud raised a personal question, which has made some noise. M. Frichon complained that a portion of the park of St. Cloud destined for the breeding-stud was usurped to the private use of the President. This charge was answered at great • length by M. de Lavenaye, commissioner appointed • by the government to spe ak on the subject. The t credit will be voted. The Constitutionnel contains a pregnant argument against the national guard, and one of the most sensi ble which has been yet adduced against that institu tion. It is found in the extunination of the mus kets of the national guard at Boulogne, that one out of two is useless from want of repair. If such be the case in a large town, the national guard of which has been remarked for its good bear ing and for its patriotism, conceive the immense number of muskets taken from the arsenals of the state to arm the national guards of the country, and the enormous loss which is annually entailed on the taxpayers. Wheat and flour have experienced an extraordi nary rise both in l'aris and the provincial markets during the last fhrtnight. This violent movement, which is attributed to uneasiness as to the next har vest, has produced its effect on the price of bread, which has considerably increased. Accordinii to the average of the price of flour made up on Sunday, the rise in the price of bread will be 3 centimes per kilogramme. The price during the first fortnight of the next month is fixed at 30c. the two-pound loaf, first quality, and 22c. second quality. The harvest has already commenced in the arron- ' disscment of Brives (Correze), where the crops of wheat arc excellent both as regards quality and quantity. The funds continue to improve. To-day the Fives closed at 93.110 with a rise of 30c., and closed at 56.50. _ _ _ The thermometer of Chevalier marked at three o'clock, 34 deg. of heat. SPAIN. The following telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dated June 28, has been received in Paris: " In the sitting of the Chamber yesterday, the de bate on the vote of confidence having been brought to a close, the motion was carried in favour of minis ters by a majority of 184 aga►nst 31." By the post we learn that in the sitting of the 25th, Esteban Collantes made a furious attack upon Bravo Murillo. Bertram de Us was replying when the poet closed. In the Senate there was a debate upon the floating debt, upon which no decision was arrived at. On the 26th the report of the committee on the set tlement of the debt was to be presented to the Cortes. The committee has adopted, verbatim, the report of the committee of last session. The Espano says that the question relative to the frontier between Spain and France, for the settle ment of which commissioners have been appointed, consists in the demand by Spain for the restoration of the limits settled by a treaty of 1785, and con firmed by another of 1814—France having taken advantage of the disturbances in Spain since 1830 to make encroachments within them. ITALY. SARDINIA. VW Court. OSBORNE, MONDAY, JUN' SO. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by his Ma jesty the King of the Belgians, walked early this morning in the park and grounds of Osborne. His Serene Highness the Prince Augustus of Cobourg arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon on a visit to her' ' Majesty and Prince Albert. His Serene Highness left Osborne for Claremont early this morning. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the younger branches of the royal family, and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium walked and rode as usual. The Due De Brabrant and Comte De Flandrea, attended by Col. De Moerkerkc and Sir Robert Carswell, crossed to Portsmouth in the Fairy, royal yacht, this forenoon, for the purpose of seeing Portsmouth Dockyard. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and the Prin cesses Helena and Louisa left Buckingham Palace yester day morning in an open carriage and four for a drive. The Duchess of Kent took a carriage airing yesterday. The Finance Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations had a meeting yesterday afternoon at the Exhibition. There were present, Earl Granville (Chairman), Lord Overstone Sir Alexander Spearman Mr. Cubitt, Mr. T. Field Gib ' Gibson, Lieutenant-Colonel Reid, and Mr. Edgar Bowring (Secretary). The meeting broke up at Ave o'clock. It is reported that the portfolio of grace and jus tice will be given to M. De Forest°, deputy of Nioe. The rumour that Count d'Appony is to be recalled to Vienna, and replaced at this court by M. Bruck, Austrian Minister of Commerce, is repeated. The Chamber of Deputies has voted without debate the treaty with the Zollverein, and entered upon the dis cussion of the treaty with Switzerland. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 26th publishes the law imposing a tax upon mortmain property and that of corporate bodies. ROMAN STATES. Our correspondent at Rome announces, in his letter of the 24th, that the French not having succeeded in ousting the Pope from his residence of - the Quirinal, had occupied the old Holy Office of the Inquisition, which is thus converted once more into a military nosi RENOVATION OF TEXPLZ-BAR.—Yestertlay morn- . ing, before the traffic of the day began, a number of work- tion. The procession of Corpus Domini had passed men arrived at this eminent entrance to the city, with off without any serious disturbance. The govern scaffolding, ropes, and tools, and is a short time were seen inent was in negotiation with an Anglo-Frenchcom busily engaged removing the sccamulatsd Incrustations of party, represented in Rome by the Marquis of Mont years from its exterior. The stone work is to be scraped dere for the construction a the railway from Bo and the wood painted, so as to present an aspect approxima- - tively clean when her Majesty passes through to the enter- foga& to Porto &Anzio, passing through Ancona and tainmeat M Guildhall. Rome. The point at issue is the minimum rate of DEPARTURE OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR IL ARM- interest to be guaranteed on the capital expended in trnoso, C.B.—Sir Richard Armstrong, the newly-ap- the undertaking, which is estimated at 25 millions pointed commander-in-chief of the troops in the Madras presidency, leaves England to-day for Madras of dollars. The company demands 6 per cent., while by Major Talbot, his military secretary, and iiyaccilmeupant. is Antonelli will only allow 4i. The grant bats, aide-de-camp. f or 99 yew. The company offers to pay a million The Earl of Dundonald had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Sir Robert Ferguson transacted business yesterday with the Commissioners of Railways at the Board of Trade. Mr. Baxter also transacted business with the Commis sioners._ Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re venue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Each.- quer yesterday at his official residence, Downing-street. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Canada,. of dollars down for the purchase of the land, the government undertaking to indemnify the pro prietors subsetrently. Monsignor Grassellini and Count Zacchim, of Bologna have been appointed to report upon the line, for reference to his holiness and to the Council of State. A fresh fray, the most important since the Passa tore's death, has taken place between Castel de Britti and Clagnano, in the Bolognese territory, with siz of the remaining outlaws of the Passatore's band. The brigands defended themselves in a house for sometime against a small military force, and then made good their retreat to the mountains, leaving one of their number dead, but carrying off another who was wounded. The dead robber was recognised as Felice Scheda, nicknamed Felicionc and Auguil lone, one of the most notorious of the Passatore's fol lowers, for whose head 500 dollars had been offered. His body was conveyed to Bologna, to he exposed for recognition. The rings he wore had not been taken off his fingers. Among the articles left be hind in the house by the banditti in their precipi tate retreat was a double barrelled gun of fine work manship. On the 21st the artillery of the Castle of St. Angelo fired salvos in honour of the Pope's corona tion. In the evening the palaces and public buildings were illuminated; but no lights appeared in the windows of private dwellings. Cardinal Altieri gave a splendid banquet on the occasion. NAPLES. Our Naples correspondent, in his letter of June 24, states that more than forty persons arc implicated in a trial which has been instituted to bring to punish ment all who were concerned in the expulsion of the jesuits. But no sooner were the proceedings opened than the trials were suddenly stopped by order of the government. The jesuits themselves suggested this hushing up of the matter, which they felt would only accumulate popular odium against their order. The public prosecutor demanded a sentence of thirty two years of galleys against the prisoners. But they have been suddenly acquitted although not liberated. _ _ A list of pardons for political offences is published in the official Gazette. These yruzie are, however, far from restoring to liberty the objects of the royal clemency, who, instead of suffering the extreme doom of death, or galleys for life, have hereby their sentences mitigated to 30 years of irons. The King is about to return to Gaeta for the sum mer. A large body of troops have been concentrated there for his protection and that of the Poie in case his Holiness should mediatate a second flight thither. The latter eventually is considered not impossible from the increasing uneasiness with which Pio Nono regards the French occupation, against which a second flight would be the most expressive mode of protesting. Neapolitan Fives, 1021. Exchange on Loudon, i 72. GERMANY. The government paper of Hesse Cassel, of the 28th ult., publishes three new ordinances which release military officers from their oaths to obey and uphold the constitution, lay down a new form of oath, in which the constitution is in no way referred to, and proclaim an amnesty, with many exceptions. Three or four officers, the New Frew sische kitany says, have protested against this ordi nance. The same journal says that an ordinance of the like character with reference to civil officials will in a few days be published. The following is the 3rd decree, dated 26th June, relating to the grant of an amnesty: We, Frederick William, by the grace of God, Elector, &c., " Having already, by the instructions issued through our Ministry, on the Gth of February last, to the permanent Military Court, notified that against those civil officials of the Government whose contravention of the decrees and orders of the 4th, 7th, and 28th of September, 1840, was to be attributed to mere omission, and abstaining from the execu tion of them, a legal prosecution should be averted by a report of every such case being laid before us, in order that such prosecution should be suppressed ; anil as our decree of this day furnishes us with the desired occasion to extend our pardon both to the officials above alluded to, and to those of the officers of our army who, under the influence of political excitement, allowed thems elves to be misled in their Interpretation of the terms, and their idea of the purport, of their military oath, we, in order that in the farther legal proceediugs that clemency may prevail which we can com bine with our paternal duty towards our country, decree as follows : "1. We grant a full amnesty to all civil officials for the above-named contraventions of our said decrees, that have consis'ed in simple abstinence from executing them; on the other hand, we leave the sentences of the Military Court to take their full course against all those who:— •' A. By abuse of the official functions co-operated and assisted in an active manner to extend the opposition and disobedience to the measures ordered by our before-named decrees, more, especially by threats, intimidations, or perse cution of any public servants. "B. Against those who by forbidding the direct levy of taxes have occasioned loss and damage to the revenues of the State. _ . " C. Against those who hare resisted the order of our commander in-chief of the 7th of September last, suspend ing them from their offices, and who, notwithstanding the said order, continued to exercise their official functions. "1). Against those who refused to comply with the special and distinct orders of our commander-in-chief, and proved their disobedience by sending back to him the orders trans mitted to them. -7 .lO;liticise officers of our army who without regard to the declared state of war, applied for their dismissal, but whose conduct otherwise is free from motives or acts inju rious to the service, we extend our full and sovereign pardon. On the other hand, those officers of our army who have taken part in any acts prejudicial to the service, such u holding consultations, councils, and making plans for a common course of action, ur have supported resistance to our authority by persuading their companions to act with them, are ►eft subject to the legal course of inquiry and punishment. Po remove all doubt, we expressly declare that the legal prosecution is to take its course against all who come under the above category, whether they have in the interim been dismissed the service of the state, or been placed in retire ment on pensions, or whether they are still in the public service. But we notify our disposition to extend our sovereign grace to all those who may be liable to punish. mew, but who, with a full acknowledgment of their guilt, apply for our clemency in a becoming manner. " Given at Camel, under our hand and seal, "26th June, 1841. "FREDERICK WILLIAM." (Countersigned) " HASSENPFLeO, 4 . VOLMAR, " HATNAU, " BAU311BAC11." ANGLO-ITALIAN MISSION. NEW CHURCH OF ST. PETER'S IN LONDON- THE POPE'S APPEAL TO T}IE PIETY AND CHARITY OF THE ITALIANS. Among all the foreign missions that of London presents the greatest hopes and demand. Those conversions to catholicism so frequent and remark able, that necessity which in the present day pro testants feel for instruction in catholic concerns, those efforts which the ministers of error are now making to stop the spontaneous impulse of the nation towards the truth, are strong reasons for conceiving the sweetest hopes of the immediate return of that prodigal daughter within the bosom of its affiicted mother—the Roman church. Not only is the small number of catholic churches in London a very for midable obstacle to the propagation of the catholic faith in the metropolis, but even to its preservation. Let it suffice merely to remember that of more than 200,000 catholics who are now in that immense City scarcely 30,000 can find a place to attend the holy mass on the days of festival. The Italians, there most numerous, feel in an especial manner the loss they experience from the want of a church where they might freely as semble, and without expense listen to the holy mass, whence they are exposed to the painful alternative either of entirely neglecting all religious duties, or of frequenting protestant churches. This danger of losing the holy faith is still more manifest to them, because some of their apostate countrymen, stimulated by protestant gold, are trying every means to reduce them, and have lately opened a protestant temple for the Italians, which, to deceive and ensnare the simple, has been called, and bears on its faade, the lying title of " Italian catholic church." fo remove, therefore, from the Italians the danger of perversion, and to procure for them fitting means to keep themselves steadfast in the faith, and persevering in the observ ance of Christian duties, the project has been ap proved by ecclesiastical authority of building a spa cious church in the centre of London, in a fine posi tion, in ono of the most majestic streets of the City, principally for the use of the Italians, and thence of other foreigners, as well as of the natives. In this way there will be in the capital of the British em pire a church Roman, not only in its faith and prin ciple, but also in its rites, in its ceremonies, and in the practices of sound devotion ; a church si milar in its material construction to the an cient Christian temples ; a church which, at the express wish of the Holy Father, will I be dedicated to the Prince of the Apostles, St. Peter; a church which will be always governed by a con gregation of Italian secular priests founded at Rome, that the Roman spirit may always influence the same; a church in which no payment will be exacted for admission, but which will be freely open to all, and in which will be found confessors to confess in any language and preachers to announce the Divine word in the principal idioms of Europe: a church which will have annexed to it schools for both sexes, as well as a habitation for the clergy and other indi viduals employed in the service of the church and the schools. As the spot fixed upon being freehold, and the permanent property of the church, does not cost less than 6,600 g. sterling (or more than 30,000 scudi), it is proposed that for the liquidation of this sum, as well as to provide for the expenses of the building, an expeninent shall be made on the generosity of all Italy, for whose advantage the work is principally undertaken. The holiness of our Lord Pope Pius IX. has, in his provident zeal for the good of religion and souk, by means of the holy congregation for propagating the faith, and of that of the bishops and religious orders, caused this great work to be most urgently recommended to the charity of Italian believers, and to the zeal of the bishops of Italy. Moreover, the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Cardinal Wise man, Archbishop of Westminster, Ordinary of Lon don, has equally recommended this most interesting work. And the Most Eminent and Most Reverend the Cardinal Vicar has published a second notifica tion, dated March 26, 'mai, in which he repeats his recommendation to the ltomnn charity of this same most pious object. Finally, his Holiness himself, by his rescript to the holy congregation for propagating the faith, dated March' , 1851, has granted an in dulgence of 100 days to whomsoever shall contribute any alms to this end. The appeal, therefore, is made in full confidence in the piety and generosity of the Italians, who have already the merit of having first diffused the light of the true fhith in England, to contribute according to their means towards a work so meritorious and honourable for Italy, and for the actual condition of London so urgent and necessary. Alms and donations of every kind are received in Rome by the Most Eminent and Most Rev. Cardinal the prefect of the holy congregation for propagnting the faith ; by their excellencies the Prince and Princess Doria Pamphily; by the rector of the church of the Holy Saviour, in the waves at the Sistine Bridge; at London by the Most Eminent and Reverend Cardinal Wiseman, 35, Golden-square, or by the Rev. 1). Raphael Melia, Apostolic Missionary, 51, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and in the other kingdoms and dioceses by the representatives of the holy chair, and by the diocesan bishops, who will have the good near to forward the funds to Rome, or to London, according to the directions above given. At the Printing-press of the Royal Apostolic Chamber.—Rome, TILE Aucumsnor OF FLORENCE'S APPEAL. Ferdinand by the grace of God and of the Holy Apostolic Chair Archbishop of Florence, of the Ifoliness of our Lord Pope Pius IX., Domestic Prelate, Assistant Bishop of the Pontifical Throne, Prince of the lloly Roman Empire, and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit under the title of St. Joseph : To our most beloved clergy and people, health and benediction. If all are acquainted with the happy success of the catholic apostleship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, if the numerous restorations to the bosom of the true Roman church, not only of the unlearned, of the simple, and of the poor, but especially of the most enlightened, of the most learned, amid of the most honoured personages, creates in the faithful the sweet hope that the day is not tar distant when the unity of belief will be re-established in that island which before the fatal schism was termed " the Island of the Saints;" those difficulties, how ever, arc nut so generally known which at tend that mission, nor the many obstacles which, in the English dominions, and espe cially in London, oppose themselves not only to the propagation of the faith among the protestants, but to its maintenance in the minds of converts, as well as in those of the Italians who inhabit the metro polis. In fact, the ministers of error leave 110 means untried to arrest the marvellous tendency of that nation towards catholicism, supported by certain Italian apostates, who not long since opened for their couutrymen a church, by them falsely styled catholic; some schools, which they call of young Italy ; and some rooms in which they hold nightly readings and politico-religious conferences, where the poison of heresy is given out with the most studied malice to those who come thither in good faith and in the hope of tracing there the salutary nourishment of the true doctrine. To preserve Catholics—espe cially our own countrymen—from the corruption ut impiety and error, it has appeared absolute ly neces sary to construct an Italian church in Lon don, which, for its size and central posi tion, should correspond to the spiritual wants of so many of the faithful who live there, as well as also to establish some schools for the scientific and religious instruction of young Italians. The reign ing pontiff, highly commending the noble and holy project, in his fervent zeal and unwearied care for all that interests religion and the health of souls. has desired, by means of the holy congregation for propagating the faith, to recommend its execution to the charity of the faithful, granting an indulgence of one hundred days to those allorcluig any contribu tions to such an object. We, therefore, in conformity with the will of the Holy Father, and of our most religious sovereign. order that on the Sunday precediug the Festivals of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, the very reverend parish priests do announce to the people that on the said solemn occasion a subscription shall be made towards the building of the forementioned catholic Italian church in London ; and we ro ppose that a similar collection shall also and especially be made in the churches of the religious orders of both sexes, in those of the asylums, confraternities, or other pious institutions, in such a way as may appear most fitting to those who preside over them. 'rhe sums collected by the respective collectoni shall be consigned to the treasurer of the archiepiscopal revenues charged by us to receive them, and to him may also be proffered in the succeeding days the private offerings of those who, inspired by a generous sentiment of Christian charity, may wish to take a part in so holy a work. With reference to this, I should further announce that his Holiness Pope Pius IX., at the request of certain English catholies, has deigned lately to grant an indulgence of 100 days to whosoever may recite three Ave Marais with, after each, the invocation Aa.rifiain Chrietionorum, ore pro noble, and plenary indulgence for oneday, at their own choice to whosoever shall have recited them for one entire month, provided that, having confessed and communicated, he shall pray particu larly for the catholic church of England. We trust, beloved brethren, that you will all con tribute, with such means as may be in your power (2 Cor. iv.) to the accomplishment of a work emi nently catholic, directed to the greater glory of God and of his church, to the salvation of souls, of such merit to yourselves, and of so great honour to our common country, which never was behind other na tions in its exercise of the most noble Christian vir tues. We impart to you, in the meantime, with all the effusion of our heart, our pastoral bcuediction. From the Archiepiscopal Palace, June 9, 1831. (Signed) FERDINAND, Archbishop of Florence. (Countersigned) Lem SsYrost, First Archiepiscopal Chancellor. BELGIUM. —A. company has just been funned at Brussels for tha purpose of cultivating and working 14,000 hectares of the low grounds on the banks of the Eastern Scheldt, conceded by the Dutch govern ment. 2ND BATTALION 60TH BITLF.S.—To-day this battalion is to embark at Queenstown on board the Sidon and Retribution, war steamers, for the Cape of Good Hope. ADMIRALTY, JUNE 30.—APPOINTMENT8.—Com mender : D. F. Barnett, to the Queen, vice Douglas.—Lien tenant : N. Elliott ; Assistant-Masters : D. A. Barris and H. D. Vine; Assistant-Purser : N. A. Cunning ; Clerk G. Jago; Mate : G. J. Eden ; to the Watarseitch.—Surgeon: T. E. King, M.D. ; Assistant-Surgeons : T. Hunter and J. Jeffcote ; to London.—Surgeon Superintendent: E. Nollotte, M.D., to Ilempsyche convict shm.—Clerk : T. A. P. Brooks, to Trafalyar.—Second Master: G. E. Green. to Penelope.—Second /Jester C. 0. Robinson ; Charge : Y. Lucas ; Master's-Assistant : J. W. Allen, to Myrmidon. - - • J