The Express. — London, England, 1852-02-28 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P. HOUSE OF LORD/ The beset met at AIM &sloth. Lord RIDINDALI rt Ilfsehee. the Lard Chertellor nee baying yet reeeivei =begyo. the beesk et hidhege the Anekkher st W the Ilakap dhoti were the EN et= 4111 % 04 . asl o llers Mimi as msey e re et Pea of Mambos sod bas,= e rsailileasTill:: Lest Tema MIMI Lei Iltwasbarn. a, FEE. 27. LORD DERBY'S POLICY. Soon after 6, Tim Earl of DERBY rose and mid—My lords, the place from which I now have the helmet: of addremiagyour lord- , sidewise oa me the aboolute duty of eudesvouring testate y sad succinctly, with as much (rankness es is due teas &sasses I have the honour of addressing, and with Ise 110,11 reserve than is imposed on me, the motives which bedewed me to accept the arduous task which I felt it my , duty not to refuse ; and also, u fir as I can, to lay before , =Lordships an outline of the course which, having un• en that responsibility, I feel it incumbent on me to adopt. But befoee l praised to that part of my subject, I enema deny myself the gratidcation, in the pewees of the noble marquis opposite, of expressing to hint, which not being here I was unable to do at the last meeting of the house, my grateful sense of the kind and friendly manner in which be then spoke of me. My lord; by any man, accepting the high office which I have now the honour to fill, such terms of cummendation could wit but be grafi fying,..buc t they are peculiarly gratifying to me_ nut only iu w a b ut my a p r'va te earliest e ll7l7.l I a have coming 1 a ccustomed (r um °e to look up with respect and admiration; fur whom, as advanc ing yean rolled on, those feelings ripened into sincere per , easel friendship ; and of whom 1 am proud and happy to my that I believe neither us the noble marquis's part, air as mine, have the circumstances which have separated , one political nations in the slightest degree tended to lawn our personal friendship. (Hear, hear.) 1 hope , this example, out of many, will show that amidst all conflicts of party in this free collate" men en tertaining opinions far room widely different than thee • which have separated the noble marquis and myself may centimes to catenate feelings of personal regard, an- , embittered by the feelings of coetentiun and of party ; and , however different the views which a erase of public duty , may compel us to estertain, there is nothing in this diversity of opinion which need isluence the personal feel fags of friendship ut English gentlemen. (Hear, hear.) , But, my lords, I have been given to uridentend—l trust, however, that the noble marquis may have bees saisiateder stood—that the noble marquis intimated, upon the eiseasion I have referred to, his intends. of shortly retiring hem the active pursuits of hat political life and of these political duties which for so lung a period be has dimities/gad with sack signal success. My lords, if differences of opiskm between any men could diminish the feel ing s of penenel friendship between Tim and any man, it would be absoistely Impossible that seek could he the case with the alibis mar- I Isis, who-1 am sure I am expressing the he= s of every individual on both sides of your ships' house has won the esteem, confidence, and , I may my the affetiou, of every one of your . lordships who have witnessed the firm, uncompromising, dignified, and yet perfectly friendly and courteous, manner , is which he has discharged his duties in this house. (Cheers.) And it may be—if the noble marquis in truth I ;attends tore ire from public life—it iney be an encourage- , /sent to future statesmen that they can point to his example I and my that, atter a period of nearly fifty years spent in the i public service, a statesman could retire with the friendship i --the warm sad cordial friendship—of his political ONO aides: with the sincere respect and esteem of his political e..nents ; and with a character unblemished by a single Malta upm his political virtue. (Loud cheers.) My lords, luting thus relieved my mind of the debt of gratitude which 1 felt to be due to the noble marquis, I must proceed to a fax more ardsous portion of the task imposed upon me. It is unnecessary that I should trouble your lord ships with any &pen. *cisme of mine, or any statement Odle dam which may have led to the downfall of the late sidesinistration. Undoubtedly, although there had been a general expectation that the iseignation of her Majesty's fate Weiler. was nut far distant, I for one so little expected bseli an event would WWI' on this particular occasion, that, lamest of your lordships are aware, I had actually gone down into the country to spend three or four days. I will , set attempt to speculate whether the particular vote ar ✓ived at on the messiest referred to, or whether others might beveled to • determination on the part of the govern- I moat, which was only confirmed by that vote, to resign lOW It was os Saturday that I read to my surprise the intelligence of the result of the division of the House of Cesuniens, and of the resignation of her Majesty's govern meat , sad as the evening of that day I bad the honour of I resolving her Majesty's command to wait on her at the at half past 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day. r a h a a c t;then to consider, not what course It was my interest, bet what course it was my public duty to take. I had to weigh deliberatelt and candidly all the overwhelming dill males of the situation—all the seta esspeneitilities of the task which I felt I must be called sa npertens. I had le weigh on the other side, se it V a le ass, the non awful respeatibility, if it could be to me, that from unigliarpsse tens myself the = l ad aneseallity, I bad int. by sty a ll ot, the Queen and the osealsy,, at the present time, without an admini stration, branar enterthy Is may be. I saw but little prospect of any abet goventsmat being speedily formed. I saw little prespeek end noble lens opposite will forgive arie ri i4z a tt I should have sees bat advantage of • ig 'pia be be Binned, within a short by the see mptlea of Ben panic duty by the whieled jest Mini. (Boor, hear.) I felt, my led; however myself unequal to the task, bow ever rest be ' that might stand In my way— ▪ ese ten rey poeitioa—dinenties teen nese who. skein ng spin" nee manly sennend • saw jority la 60 ether bean—l sag deliberately sad not ovedeekiag say sae at these awideratio:s, i r Zit that the ant duty 1 owed mg Insengss and my country was at th is tine that the gantry ßend nom be Int with. ad ea alblialhindlilL Ind eat Innen • asp eneeles• WIC ins et the esernibil. I was farienlag. et no adeneerly perters the deans I a n unmas mg k. I at ISMs sod nine hselledin ladoneed to bee Megan, seedeng her psalm enewesis to that Whet, my Mange the Wit of the hftiliillll K .• ml lie% Mg lens. rodnwd nigh anent aB nese with elan I bet hit Blebs wady te sannaisete. sad I ins =taa friagtbs ds, le ley Woe her Mindy an ithe Satinet; end in the MINN of the Bar or Ave age whisk lava sine eland. I lave beta able to Wait lona Mejearg, sad hanbal =ar s Ma jesty, • Ibt et lbw to when the wen My kirk at the saw 111 tit bang thus ountleated, I lasi it averesery net I should state began lordships bandy sad without the least re serve the teens of pain which I feel it as be. parative to uty A ss me to wen My lans, wish regard thereinter a this esawy. I an we thseet s baldly be an ana awn yen lerdsidge, sad few laden in the who Via an wanly desire to ens maintsiani the llaiigsof aineadjeen Hem) I es we that tine le sr is. et mg sib kinds air en who will on tank Bet every Wag nth. goveransat *WI be veld for the peeps* of sanwriag the rometeet new of iseerriag ante tile new Ass of vier. (Bear) In my splint that Assn et ne. swing pew width I enseena sew Inge le rte Is an te be by by the Inky eg biz egi aus lau act apereilan by swamies as hat It is not, IS the other Imsekss ag r iet wprehemi, ths most likely to be attained by these Mann theorise maw men advocate of universal dimemomeat—( if that disarmament he not ennead. at bast that walwll an ex ample should be set by this esentry of platiaa Wit in the emidition of being depnved of the Id de l4le.. (Het) bly lords, I believe race will be best migionaimel by min lathing with all foreign powers a ads, • iislibente, a sea eintory seam et evades; set in acts nen bat is words sad expression • _by adhatin With strict fidelity, is the spilt an la as . to the orstioss hawed a es by ear Wiwi Widen sad respseft as the Onset tatiorshanum et an mati= d ast ones, air= shoolate right to regales, to their *era MB awl the internal Mike et awn administration hear.)Bess, My lonia, I balm that the ommilistian ander which we have the hagglers to live is of r Mae* sable constitutions the bud nagged le enure the happiness sad liberty of the subjects of the Nam • sad I asehi be glad Indeed to see our example itself theenshent the elations of the world ; but we have no right, as a sutlers, to interfere with the peedisher Imokeak," or for this or that partienW hens o f gomernme at ether nations may adopt, be it the mini absolute deepodies—he it constitutional republie--be it ma absolute red espublic— if it is the choice of any country, so far as it asasents its own Internal government, it is the policy and the duty of DeWitt statesmen and the goverament to resegaise (Hear, hear.) My lords, I concur entirely in the *Nervations which were made with great truth and with great dignity by the noble earl the late beerstary toe the foreign departments few days ago. I think, in our con duet with foreign nations, there is fat more dignity, if we or any of our tilow.subjects have committed an injury or an injustice of which a (onion power bee a right to complain — . I think the dignified course in public as in private life is at once to offer without waiting to Masked for it, such ✓eparations es die cireanutances of the ease, and as fares one's conscience may dictate, may appear to be right. On the ether hand, I am convinced that if we have reason to com plain of *ha • midget of any foreign country, that course is plain and simple: frankly and temperately to state the eumplaint we have to make, not indulging in vituperatios end intemperance of language, but submitting equally to the honour and justice of other countries the claim we should be the first to acknowledge ourselves. My lords, I cannot but thick that, acting steadily on this pnnciple. a-it actinic on this principle alike in reference to the most powerful and the weakest of the notions with which we are I.rwiilit in contact, we may not only be melded to main t iu the lib semis of peace, but ho enabled farther to place the country in an attitude of cerdial and sincere friendship %fib most nations of the world. (Hear, hear) And the more I entertain this belief and hope that the preservation of peace and a good understanding with the nations of Europe is in the highest degree probable, strange as it may appear, I should he inclined to say that it is doubly incum bent oe the government not to neglect those preparations which in soy judgment our predeceseors have wisely •lopted fur planing this country In a position , by the inter• sal organisation of its domestic affairs, to be free from all possibility of tertian aggressi o n. I believe our naval force never WWI se • more effective state than it is in at the pre sent moment. (User, hear.) I believe for all purposes for OM& he serviese may be required—whether to guard the diem of lb s s=• whether le guard ear distant •s -reolooft sad 'es ea almost heendless extent that 11•111•11.111 WPM •••Ty •••• NBA Ills every Pft I lisbefhied the tolls eledd—l believe That the state et the mg mow gm mei elleleat Shea DMA hie -000103., mil the MOW ellem I balm do se be u Otery_s_lisin OM. SO Wee ibMll.lllllelle relestesed ;.. Br, lho MOM ski waked et Padellisa, llitebAsibr erialli meld oeseMen.le Meaner , se heavy a lesdit *di •.; gMeeks - ) Siet, naeemesess my = l a as these esiestiesee it ns are qpnis le whim OM duties, if mid spout to defend thew asentry, einagefigelk that b is neendition in which it is impeeeY•#s ground of lig' lousy to say liweip Pa& , -) The iris of this country see Imellb te a hop Needing army ; has no projects./ to extend bee= nions--aod dr lion a L ga rbe 1"1 1= to Mat We Ss— largeorgn *Ara asioney military heir. (Hear Isar.) khans to the honour and character of the lienntry—l know 'well that it this *sentry were dirmateued for • mired with Leona. sad es . a n d any essery. 3•0•1• Al. Nair* sod else es sae mesa to defend .their Mile Ired. — rosass hoover bet feel that the who* wed loyal besets that treald rush to the serer, WS* fissiAry—l meet but MI that, unless they were essepswed he the nest part of dis•lined forge* they would meet a illedmeseteesion on hems of bieeM diodveatage. (lisobilear.) Various esesdens have e a me udli nd fbu when pleyeitkes beroo have been =kei 00 moshotthg eli onothe. hue, whish Ms men t es always Mime ea he Mosel military ',rotation ; but I thiuk it is salbeleaste that there propositions have he the most peg bees made under the premise el introdiella =Nib Or the apprehension of issmills• ollsogno. _ when the grounds of apprehends. beer essa iresh t• Pais by the recruit, V for precaution Ile be entirely overlooked. Now, it appears to ese ISM le Oh Mane of proceeding there is a double disadvantage: if nioseares are taken for hastily organising a free which cannot be aggres sive, bat must be essentially of a defensive character, us the first pima, these measure* must be attended with large and • y expense; and in the next plane, the preparation wield prebibly he too late to meet the danger; whilst in the Med OM. from being Madly adapted, Use provision thmemplue would probably be inadequate. Bet there is a filleliber disesteeming, that the very feet of taking these etalentiedisary precautions at Gees MMUS, the panic sad airs which give rise to the necessity of making them ; AWL rain, tend to excite the jeslour of those foreign pewee against whose supposed intention it is necessary to porfsin Therefore, the move °madder I feel of the peace et lesespe,. this more I urge on your lordships the limper', ties nesessay of now, at this time, and sot whea the next apprehension may occur, taking the necessary measures, with due deliberation and suffinent promptitude for giving, not a large military force to the country, hut burin/ mot et: organisation and discipline which, if the moment of should arise, would command net only loyal but disciplined forces. (Bear, hear,) For the maintenance of the thin quillity of this country, no regular or irregular military force was likely to be required. On many memorable oe canons, and epos more than ens during the last three or four years, the people of this country have excited the admiration and wonder of foreign nations, when they have shown that the peace and tranquillity of England can safely be entrusted to the loyalty of the people. I believe it is not the ability of her rulers I am yore it is not the multitude of her forces—that keeps this country in a state of tranquillity and contentment ; bat • due and frank appreciation, on the part of every class of her Majesty's subjects, of the inestimable v.lue of those institutions under which they lire; and their convic tion that not more are the just prerogatives of the crown, than the tree liberties of the people, secured by the Bri tish orstitutima. (Cheers.) Under those institutions we are set oily peaceful and tranquil at home ; but under these institutions this 'sentry has ever been, and God for bid that it amid ever suss to be, a refuge fur those whom esiefsetane et say deeeriptkei may have driven to seek the Ashore( we beepitable therm (Cheers. With the die tiorbsiness end diMnatime et foreign countries we have smiths; tie de ; but wheel from them diSculties and a•sedem, exiles sad fugitives reach the shores of this country, they always have had a right to remain, and I hope we always shall continue to exhibit the same frank and rahospitality. But I say also, on the other hand, that :bounden duty of all those who choose, dying from misfortunes in their own country, here to find • sate and Mum asylum—l say it is their bounden duty not to shoe the rights given to them—not to compro =at all insets, the interests of the country has reseind Om to her hospitable arms. • imee renews against their own country, leisk ail Vtlik they ess i e s ces with comparative safety he dia under tee of the laws. I say further, it is sot only eft, but it is the of her Majesty's govern ment, withal demeediug Is a 2 = o ir e f—thaalt God, we have no Radii ward fore—st and Wanes, whisk is alms to the feelings he matry. l say it is mert Indy le Imp • guard over the stenements of finch pewees. who amr be disposed so to abuse our hospitality ; sot I toy. I 1 wq seep hestne le their Mho country oa do aof a theme posses am to the Ismiedge of her Ma s peosesiest, it le ins eight sad duty to put Mt f weimme* in pommies of the mad to pees them estame pod. (Meet. bear.) Farther farts, thaw thin. It is ass MI alt is not la the power of the British gro venom* is go ; and II lims peruse, wider say eiremenetemeay sad the. sleswer reentry, attempt to levy war *do we country, that is by law a padiahle eilkosee sad it 1 the duty to berassty's severessest to vial seek ea abase with sad exemplary pasklmest. DO Met of that Min the eye of the km se am, sipia the bewail.. ei the esontry, obis os Os me besd we eve Owed Is yedirm the duties of Beehive esl emir le eh heelis pewee, we resasChe des yeepeee—l well soy of avosies So botility, bet ef sneering the friendship, eves of these essorke with whom we are in the closest intimacy —we siesid ev , a for diet pupas! strain the law and ems stitsden of this blue tot whisk is wesembed by the law. (Hew.) My I have avowed the priendpise on which I think OW Brew MObe shield be regulated, and I will net Miele boo belles with • spostion of far purer diffieulty, eel hem oyeeMag heady apes the sub of one ommedel sad SheriMpelbo. Ice Md. low the wens tad mad sewporler ef tbe Model swum latredeeed by des Ills Ifir Z. Peek I entirely soomed of the mike of or meow deist which at tilt time he sod I selhely emceed of the prim*. why r =NA lin to sonseene % •—ele., to hewn dello ea tie yeimkel Moho et hope he tbe peoposef Ming • remise; het ma fro the of Mies a Nome simply, bet he lbe puma befog Modeles ea a even properties le the Weal to ebbe the Midas the sell ef the duty ahairi. er al est silt, of tbe esysedlinse et future Midi Moor. 1 endemed thet the Isimiple to be laid dee% la shish I essiosell, sae ef die stmt pee sable eholeies of ell the saw meeeteis whisk Mused the bast Meier domed. ladostry. A harm wee% to a cools esiot, _leo been ohm* eines theityweled mad I mom bus Mak ther, if we leek to the Meer disee. eiei sesem. time h weeimi Int beliervisMothwish is one. hi yelatef Oardple ea wiees, he rdemide end mild odds (tseer, how) Tear lemlebire will forgive me if I comm y set in detail, but If I merely semest the system while preeells with regard te the mom in this cosatry with that which I have beard heeded es the high free-trade tariff of the United States ef Affersio. That tariff Mess on almost all imports duties ems er lees extensive, duties is acme respects to a great and oppressive extent ; bet fa ahem every instance levies these duties principally end avowedly ea those articles which mainly enter into ear petition with the produce of their own oil, mad the podia" of their owe industry. My lards, we appear to ato have proceeded recently on a different principle, for while we admit, with entire freedoms, all those articles which do so ester foto competition, we load with as inordinate amount of taxation • certain small amber of articles of immense ' extent of consumption, entering directly into the necessary consumption of the masses of the community. And I beg your lordships will not lose sight of this feet, that when the whole supply of any article is furnished from • foreign country, the whole amount of the duty imposed on the import of the article falls necessarily . on the consumer in the shape of an mimeses of peso. But where you impose a duty upon articles ot w • a portion is supplied at home, and only a portion from abroad, there the mea sure of the duty is not the mama» of the increase of price, but the increase of price is duly in proportion to the small amount of foreign produce which may be excluded oy the imposition of any duty whatsoever; and which may sow sequently diminish the ripply, end thereby, to a artsia extent, enhance the price. Between those two principles I think the American system is the easiest defended, and Is least burdensome to the consumer. My lords, at the Mme time I don't shriek from expressing again, as I have on former occasions, and repeating in office what I have stated out of office, that in my individual opinion I see no ground why, from that general system of imposing duties on foreign imports the single article of corn should be made a solitary exception.lstate this u my opinion, but at the same time I have always said, and I repeat again, that it is a question which can only be solved by a reforms to • well understood and we ll expressed opinion of the intelli gent portion of the community. (Cheers.) Any possibility, any idea of dealing with a system so vast as the &uncial policy of the country, including in its range ass ealy dir ties oa foteiga imports, the customs dotes, bet do the incidents and pressure of domeedielllnd bend say any scheme so large and eateadee Ursine to be irmilig with by a government, strong not oily in the dear of the country, but of parliament, and orbited be carry, with the concurrence of parliament and of the country, measures adopted and matured with that degree of deliberation, are, and foresight which it is impossible ' any administration can give to the subject when called on suddenly to deal with public affairs at the commencement of • parliamentary session. I have said I know the position we are in. I have said that in the other house we are in a minority. I know not whether we are seabed to command • majority in favour of our view. in the hem which I have now the bosom to address; but I say the mss motives which induced me to sacrifice all other enesiderations to avoid the responsibility of leaving the meetly without • government, weigh in my mind with equal terse te Induce me to think that the public interest meld set be eserelted, at this period of the year and in the eirememere of the world, in unnecessarily interrupt ion he • mossiderable period the sitting of the other house er pertheneat. My lords, aware, then, that fur the purpose of torturing and c irrying out the policy which 1 consider to he advantageous fir the interests of the country, while I err frankly tad freely what that policy will be, and what r ay *Wow are, I contest, my lords, that, situated es we ere, we ham a much humbler, but, at the same time, art Liss ighipseling duty to perform. I avow we cannot car ma • parliamentary =lf, and I avow that, In ire h a 9 y that con , I felt it sty duty 4, - ; !.1 THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1852. with the weight of responsibility throws on me, to take the eserstast et the public a ff airs of the erialry. Hader these eir minerses her Majesty's govorseasat will have to appeal to the hebeenam d its IN sad to the petrel insial riblike m ime. y lords, khart that • the t troversial 'Peregjgljtrupting dm sod ageing the s Mit A ~ moderate . MaspoWnlik tsetgeelle et I redid . character bh, re the e ta and the WI et osAA • aced I belie •smiding all ussemseery peaty queetimie, wan apply lies to Own =eft= matey has long felt an fm llersst memores sai l i f rl: fr silaPlifraft and improving ; eseawla of social rimy der intprriag the 'on mud comfort of the pesolo-1 lawn thatorms as aminority in the Hoses of Commons, we shall set rattans) or dishonourably eon duet the government. AM, say lords, if interrupted in this mime by • mass feetim opposition, I have that cont. the goal mines it the country to believe that that helm will, at so distant period recoil upon the authors and of it. Among the measures, however, of aedai improvemeat to which I allude, I do not include one whisk her Majesty's late government thought it necessary to call the attention of parliament to. It was announced by the Ines government that they intended to introduce, and I believe they did introduce into tho other house of parliament, these Mmenres In some degree musette& with each ether. The tint far the disfranchisement of a borough seeseimmly corrupt; the second, for foci litating the somas of Rilaraimiag into and cor recting sad astroiling these corruptions in other = se a:d . the third muoure *morning a somewhat essortmest of topics, but containing, as its Maw feature, luge and extensive alterations in the elec tive meter, and die electoral districts. (Hear, hear.) With regard I. the first measure, without dealing with in dividual opesetime, I avow that rne is no man ready to go farther than I sou, and I am sure in this I speak the sense of my is checking, by all possible seem, that cm mad al system of bribery which I ass afraid to a great extant within the last Ip yeary and which is intensity of evil puts into the shade the Meal kasence by which the constituencies were previesely sestrelMd. I say no man ?hall go further thee her Ala s government is 'Mug to check that system so far as it can be ehmhedbyleghlMiee, and la seeking to visit it with eserliga puudimmmt. whoa the easel sod enormity of it he been posed. Nor de I ipotesi in a mutest that the *mem of aitatios hstredscod i n 1831 was a per igee maws, or tole of atamdmeat. I think it may have Mules ; I think there may have Mesa, sad As min, la the melee of times abases degrading a moody ; bat before yea smelt to apply a remedy, and pledge your self to a delialesplea of unsettling dist whim is, be quite mare you know the sours' you are Meet to adopt, be mai*. lied of the evils you mesa to asset, sad he mated that the messidy yea propose ft 4 2r eri i e s eau esZed to meet gad DM Ws megrims the (Bear, boar.) teyr se., !flonk Ido Meer your and if Ima is the premises eat say of them, would entreat es7abars et the ether house of parliament, and I would mikes the seriously to made? the imalgalable frager be the Ymaliberties of the eosatry, of iseemantly, ekes abler time, asthig weeyeslag nevi settiMg necking, ✓iag the sei disabled with that wideh wi `se t a the slightest rearing that dimetithetiaa by that whisk yes mopes. to substitute. Ilse Majesty's ge verwat dyes set prepare I baselly my, to premed with that maws for the redeem of the representation whisk wee beesilased by the late goerament. Os the ether head if yea will show us sabsteatlsl grievances, sem will be more ready than my colleagues and myself to meet them grievances, if we can sr the remedy that can le properly applied to meet them without, at the same time, involving further change to the constitution. I haw' eat whether I am correct is my statement, but I have beard that my noble friend—l hope to call him so, la spite et oar pelitsal differences—who immediately me ceded me, Is some maser, sad for some cause that Ira at a Ime Se immehend. ebisted together an extensive re form Is iseellemmil with as extensive education of the people. I believe, for the mimes of improving the ahem ties of the sissistry, no tratessies of the suffrage is nem may, or will have the Memel art en it. I feel, and I rejoice to feel, that the ketteg Mar emensunity at large, the conviction of all alma, high and low, rich and poor, is this—they have come to the conclusion that the greater the amount of education you are able to give and the more widely you can spread that education throughout the maser of the community, the greater chance then is for the tranquillity, happiness, and well being of the. seesetry. (Um.) But when use the ward wheselka," don't let me be misunderstood. I deal mom the mere development of the mental faculties, the mare eagelMion of temporal knowledge and mere iormelimossidbleedleglit ask may b ,which may enable a ma to keparte his astlities halite, and may give him fresh tastes and MM. mai the mans and opportunity of grati fying these tsetse and IMMO but, valuable as that may be, when I speak of editorials I meek of this alone—education involving the sultan it the egad and of the soul, laying the begs sad hismiatiss of all knowledge upon the know ledge Otis lieriPeose. My lords, I desire to look upon all these who re eareged a the work of spreading knowledge, h they be of different Christian communities to li t i t i t tlf which I em a nacre and attached member—l desire to look upon them rather as fellow rhymes than rivals, in a warfare against vies and imeorality. Bat I trust' shall sin n othing which could be offensive to any of them who be to other communities, when I say chef, ice the promotion o education sal religious knowledge, , test mainly on the exertions, the alga, indefatigable, sad enlightened exertions of the perelialedergy. My lords, hem been anxious to uoiieW the amok to which they belong, as the depository of what I Wien to he the troth' sad as the instrument and geed here and leading to still greater and noes hereafter. I say st is not only the istsweet,o* of her Ma• jeaty's governorate to uphold gad melatela thumb is all its integrity, set by penal easetweals who these who may differ from R get by violent if t languor against the rodgiess bitli of these whims eines we may deplore, has by sesseisk, __maiseisig all seemple at agree. aim epee the *Ma, Winless, add pamemiess or that chunk seam hem what quartet sod - backed with what weight it milibeeley they may be, and by lending every =wed the gommeat to nipper sad Mead its in in the mei. et its high and help ealliag—the Males thseugbeet the width end breadth of the land— Vaspeak set may et this oesetry—of that kaowledge us waist Aseivei hem the difmies the Holy , hem.) My lords, I believe that I des e V i e— lisk peelese at NNW leagth than I ought to have , and I hope ma with sada, and asinecessery freakiest—a full statement of the prissiples en which w e to set athe sinensive diftakies whisk ere i hem war • lionHaar , bass.) I hope I have minted the primipies sa whisk we propose to ceadatt the admishers tics ; Mar,* only sash listens as are set now n My lords, Ise my ems peel, mime I leek to the difwNles whisk earrouad us,—whes I leek M the maim eisease- Nome which nest emblem he glue us a dames of easesos folly amousitering the miens great ehelaglee that impede oar peek I essibee list I ma appalled by the magnitude of thiMls•Mes of the Wk which I have seallertakes ; bat I believe that the destinies of a Wide see is the hand of ea rrer-reliag Providence; and I haw Oat it sham it the of that Great Bolsi to chest Ms owe high domes C l y eaff w g e g ek e and unwoethy swam. Is he pessmes I ma selemsly declare, that an native of pemmal mildest has led me to disregard the dinenit position in whisk the ffe verameat is placed. la the mane of thell=l e ite gnat duties I have umisetakee, Is sway me, emptier; these wbhi have led me to swept 'lke a pommies* seseiderMiss at pal& duty; sad, with that feeling Is 4 stud,—with that deep conviction of the sineenity of my own motives, trusting to the guides*, mad support of higher powers them my held I have willkrab indefinites a tisk from while I the Amid have Metal_ appalled by itemegninre. dad he the period of my administration law re • r slioner. at =gisalesti I have Allied the gesseset sliest tif pemeasi Mt I shall lave anted ass of the jests ethemies being, the prometies of pease apes aseth :tarsi will amen am, the admassesest et sad orligiess ismommast of the emsstry, *all have wall emedliated to the eighty wed beam of the sovereign mid her dersiaions. (Loud deem) Berl GREY rose, but was for some mements totally in audible. Ido not intend to dwell um the several topics Memed by the noble earl. I wish to eapa few words on e= only. The noble earl has desired, with that which I expected from his, what the principle is on which the financial and commercial policy of his administration is to be conducted. The noble earl has described that principle with great clearness, and the comparison which he drew between the tariff of the United States and the tariff of this country, for the purpose of explaining it, was a perfect illustra tion. It is true, as the noble earl says, that the prin ciple which has been adopted in this country, within the last few years, has been so to improve the duties levied under the customs laws, that they fall entirely, or as nearly as poriblo, oa goods imported from abroad, which do not compete with articles produced in this country . On the other hand, the noble earl has told us that the principle lotted on in the United States is the very reverse. Ihe noble earl has told us that in the United States they do not tan some of the great articles of consumption produced allettedi—such as tea ; but that they do tax articles which me produced partly at home and partly imported from Monad, and with the avowed object of giving protection to their own produce. The noble lord SW the effect of this system of taxation is, that M relieves the people from a large amount of taxation. (Hear hen.) Upon this the noble earl bases an argument whishl seams I was not quite able to follow, but which swami M ow as the noble curl was understood to ear) was inteaded to show that the price of the article was not af fected. Now it has long been an argument with us that when you impose a duty on one article partly imported from abroad and partly produced at home, you raise the price to the consumer, not only of the imperfect article, but of that which is prodeeed at home ; and that, so far horn its being favourable to the revenue, the direct opposite is the case. You levy a very large tax upon the consumer, not one sixpence of which is paid into the revenue, of the state. (Cheers.) The article of corn is one on which • duty of the kind alluded to by the noble earl formerly ex iced. The revenue derived from that duty was very laces siderable. But the noble earl wished to reimpose the duty which previously existed. If he does so, I have no doubt he will not only Ms' e the price of the four or five million qu•rters of corn imported into ibis country, but of the much larger quantity which is produced in this country, and which dues out go into the Exchequer. Suppose that the noble earl imposes a duty of lie. per quarter on the 4,000,000 quarters imported, he will revenue a levy of 1,000,0001. to the Exchequer. But the price of the four or tharli effilliselkoi yew Wendt* 17t, • 01 ,0 for t 4. ral five times that quality grown in this country will alto rise in'inninky *same amount as that of the duty so imposed. The Mired from corn will amount to 1,000,0001.; but its ihini 6,000,0001. will be paid by the consumers. an This lei Op of the principle of • protective dues,. (absera) Op acting on the other principle, hiyeepeaVadi those 'duties which he always argued were • fftlitful tax uponossa the munity, without bringing any mosey into the hehegisereethe elan has been, as I had the plea sure of stating es the very first night of the ses sion, that within the last few yeti,' duties. have been repealed to the amount of twelve or thirteen millions, 'and that instead of the customs revenues having digs-• Dished, they have reached a higher amount. (Hear, hear.) ' lily lords. I beard with great regret, with a masteruation which I am altogether at • low to describe, that the noble earl intends to arikity this, es I think most lassoes& prin ciple of commercial and finance to the food of the people. (Cheep from the opposition, .. No, no," from the ministe rial benches.) 1 have beard with minsternation that the authority of the government is to be used fur the pur pose of imposing a tax upon the food of the country. The Earl of DERBY explained. What I did say was, that I saw no reason, in my opinion, why corn should form an exception from the customs duties, but that that was a question which ought to be settled, and which could only be settled by the deliberate judgment of the intelligent portion of the community. (Hear, hear.) And I decidedly ' stated that in reference to the great and important question of finanse that I did not intend to make any proposition on the part of her Majesty's government until the feeling of the country shall have been expressed. (Hear, hear.) Earl GREY continued—l am greatly relieved by the ex planation of the noble earl. 1 certainly had understood the noble earl to say that he utterly disagreed with what I 'cashiered the sound end proper principle of commercial legislation, but that any proposition on the subject re quired great care and preparation, and could not be pro duced in • hurry. 1 anderetood the noble earl to allude to a revision of the tomnierehd policy of the country upon the principle of protection, and that the article of corn was not to be excepted. If 1 misunderstood the noble earl 1 beg his pardon, but I still think that this part of the noble lord's speech could not be otherwise understood. (No, no.) The Earl of DERBY—I have already stated that there is a great misapprehension on the part of the noble Earl ' of what I did say, and the noble earl, therefore, proceeded to say that he felt greatly relieved by my explanation, nevertheless proceeding to argue upon that misunderstand ing, as if 1 had not already corrected it. (A laugh.) Earl GititY—l must appeal to your lordships whether this interruption is strictly regular. I certainly did under stead the sense of the noble earl's words as 1 have stated. Even now I am not quite clear that the noble earl's e'en. nation will bear any ether meaning than that which I have put upon it. 1 think the house ought to know whetherany revision of the commercial principles of legislation is contemplated by her Majesty's government or not. (Hear, hear.) That is • question on which I do not press for an immediate answer, but as one deeply interested in land, and as a member of the community at large, whose interests are so largely concerned, I do implore the noble earl to let no long time pass by before he explains distinctly and clearly the views of her Majesty's government upon this most exciting and agitating question. (Hear, hear.) Let him remember the experience of the last 10 years. The question of a tax upon the food of the people is not one to by kept long in suspense or lightly dealt with. (Hear, hear.) We are entitled to know, not to night, but within a fortnight, or on as early • day as possible, the views and decided intentions of her Majesty's government. I implore the noble earl, in justice to tho gnat interests connected with this question, which will be injured by any doubt, not to leave that doubt in existence any longer than was Aliso• lutely necessary. (Hear, hear.) Tho whole trade of the country will be influenced by that doubt, every trauxictiou between landlord and tenant—(hear, hear)—every transac ties in trade and manufactures will be greatly injured by any delay which can throw • doubt on the foundation of the commercial policy of this country. (Cheers.) I hope, therefore, injustice to these interests, we shall have, at the earliest possible moment, a clear and dial act explanation of the views of her Majesty's government. The public is justified in demanding that • government taking office should possess a policy, and distinctly avowing it should be prepared to take the responsibility of submitting it to parliament (Cheers.) Earl 0 ITZWILLIAM regretted that Lord Grey, instead of taking • comprehensive new of Lord Derby's speech, had selected one particular topic, and that the most exciting, for discussion and comment. He (Earl Fiteseilliam) had himself been one of the first parents of the agitation against the medieval system of commercial legislation : that, he thought, entitled him to say • word. The speech of the noble earl intimated that the subject of the customs laws ought to be submitted to the public for its opinion, but the advisability of revising that law was a different subject. There were many wise laws which wise men could nut un dertake to propose at all times. The corn laws had been repealed, and the public had for some years bad the advises. tags, had tasted the sweets of cheap bread, and he did not Bunk they would be inclined to submit to the manta ad ditional tax even for the purpose of revenue. (Haar, hear.) But he differed altogether from Lord Grey in the view he had taken respecting the effect of a moderate duty in raising the price of corn in general, and declared that he heard almost the whole of Lord Derby's speech with considerable satisfaction. lie was especially glad to find that the noble earl was prepared to resist the invasion of constitutional rights. for if such rights were continually attacked he be lieved a large portion of the community would come to the opinion that it wound be better to live under a mild and tranquil despotism. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE defended Lord Grey, and pressed Lord Derby for an early statement as to his preteetionist measures. The Earl of ABERDEEN was anxious to take ti e very first opportunity which presented itself to declare, as the in timate colleague of Sir It. Peel, his determination to adhere the free-trade policy of that lamented statesman. Ile thought the distinctions drawn by Lord Derby on this sub ject were shadowy and unreal, and for his part h t should oppose a duty on corn. whether for revenue or protection. The foreign policy laid down by the noble lord met with his unqualified approbation, and he might rely on his cordial " Mt:BROUGHAM, after referring to the inconvenience, in a judicial point of view, of a prolonged adjournment of the House, said, as to the convention which had arisen with regard to the duty on corn, he would not enter as the subject for an instant, although he entirely concurred in the opinion expressed by his aoble friend (Ear: Grey), and in Whom alum he he fur a moment participated; but what he had since heard from his noble friend opposite had tended to quiet his apprehension. The Earl of DERBY said be wee about to propose that the house should adjourn re Monday next, and tben ascertain whether it would be possible to pre ssed with the judicial busier hire It ; but that adjournment same take pleas en the understanding that if the house she "bey *Wit pressed only with judicial laminas or whole Nib daring the peeled that was neces sary he the rnakedes se the inentbsre of the government in the Houle of Ossmson Lead BROUGHAM—Of eserse, there is the understand that only judicial bas assn will be proceeded with. lordehips then adjourned shortly before seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY, FEB. 27. The house met again yesterday after the brief recent al lowed for the new Premier to form his ministry. The at• tendance was exceedingly numerous, and more than usually early, there being between 100 and 160 members present when the house went to prayers at 4 o'clock. In accord ance with the ordinary practice on the occasion of a change ia the ministry, the supporters of the late and the present =at ebinged places in the house—the l a te opposi pying rithe benches to the right of the Speaker's chair, the ministeal side of the house; and the late mini:ten and their supporters taking their places on the left or the opposition side. Mr. H. Drummond and Sir IL Inglis, however, did not conform to this rule but retained their old places ow the lower op position benches. Of the monition of the late government only Sir G. Orey, Mr. Cornewall Lewis, and Mr. Hayter were observed ; and the new government were represented by Mr. P. Mackenzie, Mr. 0. A. Hamilton, and Sir W. Jolliffe. Lord Palmerston took his seat on the emo . sit i ion side, nstances, h n o ezt . to emb!n ir twi no the or forms of parliament on such occasion', took their old seats, and on discovering their error, which they did by finding themselves sitting side by side with political oppo nents, occasioned much amusement by the rapidity with which they sought more congenial neighbours. PUBLIC 13USINE88. NEW MEMBER. Bir B. Ransom took the oaths and his *eat as member for East Kent, in the room of Mr. Plumptre. NEW WRITS. Prayers being over end the form of counting 40 members —the number necessary to form a house—Mr. FORBES MACK EN Z lE,u reprosenti ng the new government,of which it is understood he is to be one of the Treasury secretaries and whipper in, immediately rose and moved that Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant to the Clerk of the crown, to make out a new writ fur the election of a knight of the shire to serve in this present parliament for the county of Buckiughatn, in the room of the Right Hon. Benjamin Dis rae,i, who, since his election, has accepted the office of Chancellor of her Majesty's Exchequer. The motion was carried without observation, beyond one or two cheers from the ministerial benches. A. similar motion fur the election of a burgess for the borough of Midhurst, in the room of the Right lion. Spencer Horatio Walpole, who, since his election has accepted the office of one o f her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, was also passed in silence. 1 he next motion, for a new writ for Druit wich in the room of the Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, who has since his election also accepted the office of one of her Ma jesty's principal Secretaries of State, was received by a shout of laughter from the opposition. New writs were moved for by the same hon. gentleman, and passed without observation, fur the borough of Stamford, iu th e room o f the Right on. J. C. Berries, appointed to the Presid, ney of the B oa rd of Control for the Atfain of India ; for the county of Oxford, iu the room of the Right Bon J. W. 'lenity, appointed to the office of President of tho Com mittee of 1 Council for Trade and Plantutious ; fur North Essex, in the room of the Right lion. W. Bensfurd, appointed Secretary at War ; for Abingdon, vacant by Sir F. Thcsiger, appointed her Majesty's AtturnerDenend ; fir Colchester, in the room of Lord J. Manners, appointed First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings. The next motion, for a new writ for Purtarlington, in the room of Colonel Dunne, who has accepted the office of Clerk of the Ordnance, probably from its being unexpected, elicited loud cries of " oh, oh," and consider able laughter from the opposition. The motion fur the new writ for Kildare, in the room of Lord Noss, appointed Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was also greeted with marks of derision by the supporters of the late go,yernment,. and by loud cheers by the Irish and deers. *ow mi. %iris* ordered to issue, oa the motion albs same Lett Otfillilentitn,ifor Dublin University, in the nos of Mt. J. Napier, appointed Solicitor-General for 11.17 j for Ennl4lllen, ,vacant by the appointment of 1 W ,vacant . hitelide to the Irish Solicitor-Generalship ; fur the county of Londonderry, vacant by Mr. T. Bateson being *poi n ted a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury; for the borough of Buckingham, vacant by the appointment of the Marquis of Chandos to a similar office; for the city of Chiebester, in the room of Lord Henry Charles Gordon Lennox, appointed a Lord of the Treasury; for the Southern Division of Lincolnshire, in the room of Sir John Trollope, appointed Chairman of the Poor Law Board ; for the Northern Division of the same county, vacant by Mr. Christopher's having accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern hundreds—(a laugh)—for Donietshire in the room of Mr. G. Minikes, appointed Judge. Advocate General; for the East Riding of York, in the room of the lion. Arthur Duncombe, appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty ; for Tyrone, vacant by the appointment of Lord Claude Hamilton as Treasurer of her Majesty's Houschol , l—(hear)—and for the borough of Wenlock, in the room of the Hon. Cecil Forester, ap pointed Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. Mr. HAYTEIt, speaking from the front opposition bench, moved for a new writ for the county of Cork, in the room of Maurice Power, who since his election has been appointed Governor of St. Lucia.—Agreed to. THE REPRESENTATION OF HARWICH. Mr. BRAMSTON moved that the Speaker be directed to issue his warrant to the clerk of the crown to make out a new writ for a burgess to serve in the present parliament for the borough of Ilarwich, vacant by the deci sion of a committee of the liouse of Commons, which had declared the seat to be void. Ile was aware that the hon. and gallant member for Westminster had given notice of a motion on this .abject, but he believed it was not his intention to press it. Be that as it might, ho (Mr. Brarnston) had no wish to take the house by surprise in the matter ; and, if it was the wish of hon. members that he should do so, he was willing to defer it to a future time ; but, having been asked, as one of the members fur the county, to move the writ, he had thought it his duty to do so. Sir DE L. EVANS, though not disposed under existing circumstances to throw any unnecessary obstacles in the way of the new government, must yet be guided by the wishes of those who thought with him that the corruption which had been proved to exist in Harwich required to he met by some legislative measure. Awl since he had spoken to the hon. member for Essex, he found the reeling on that (the opposition) side of the house was extremely strong on the subject, and especially against the issuing of the writ at present. (Hear.) Under the circumstances be felt justified in moving that the writ be suspended for six months. (Hear, hear.) Mr. B. OSBORN E rose to support the amendment. He thought the house would give duo credit to the motives which induced the hon. Secretary of the Treasury to decline to move the writ. (Hear, hear.) Though it might not be known to many members on that (the opposition) aide of the house, it was, nevertheless, notorious that the present Solicitor-General was intended to represent Harwich; and he (Mr. Osborne) held in his hand an address calling upon Sir Fitzroy Kelly to go down and stand for that estimable ' place. If he felt no surprise at the hon. gentleman (Mr. F. Mackenzie) declining, on first entering office, to mesa this writ, he felt great surprise at bearing a gentleman represent ing the county of Essex, who must know the character of the place, coming down to move this writ; the more so, when he recollected that that hen. member was one of the most prominent members of the committee of 1881, which sat in reference to this particular borough. lie should support the amendment to suspend the writ for six months, and he should do so in the hope that this borough of Harwich would be wiped ftom the list of those which re turned members to parliament. ' Mr. FERGUS, as a member of the late committee, begged to state that their decision was founded on the technical error that had been committed in closing the poll before the time fixed by the act of parliament. At the same time it was impossible for any one who took part in that inquiry to say that the most fraudulent practices were not shown to have existed. It appeared that men were abducted, and that, if there were not actual bribery, treating to an extraordi ary extent took place, and that this was the general system at all elections. It was diffi cult to prove bribery before a committee, and he thought , the more dignified proceeding would be to institute au in quiry similar to that which had taken place at St. Albans. If a commission were appointed, he had no doubt the re- Ault would be the same in this cave as in that. A warm discussion ensued, in the course of which it war suggested that a commission of inquiry should be instituted similar to that in the St. Albans cue; but ultimately both motion and amendment were withdrawn, on the ground of the absence ot ministers. I'ItIVATE BUSINESS. _ . The following bills were read a second time:—City of Loudon Gas Light and Coke Company and Great Central Gaa Consumers' Company Amalgamation, and Amendment of Acts; Claussen's Patent Flax Company ; Deptford Gas ; Eastern Counties and Newmarket and Cbesterford Rail way Companies; Eastern Counties Railway (Branch to the River Nene, &c.) ; Great Western, Shrewsbury and Bir mingham, and Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Compa nies Amalgamation ; Humber Conservancy ; Kettering and Northampton Road; Lancashire and Yorkshire and York and North Midland Railways; Leeds Waterworks (No. 2) ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction Rail way ; Newmarket Railway; North British Flax Company (Cfaussen's Patent) ; Stockton and Hartlepool and Clarence Railway, and Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock Compa nies; Wirksworth Mining Customs and Mineral Courts ; York and North Midland Railway. LEICESTER-SQUARE IMPROVEMENT BILL. Mr. WAKLEY moved the second reading of this bill ; which, after some discussion, was postponed to Monday, the 15th of March. LINCOLNSHIRE ESTUARY BILL. The second reading of this bill was also postponed to the 15th of March. LONDON NECROPOLIS AND NATIONAL MAUSO- LEUM HILL. Mr. FORBES MAatiEKZlEniOved that the second reading of this bill should be postponed for a fortnight, in order that some of the ministers might be in their places. Mr. 11. DRUMMOND said he was opposed to this bill, and would not consent even to its being postponed. A direct fraud was attempted by this bill. The pro moters stated that they had got 2,600 acres of land, whams they were going to apply 2,200 acres to building purposes, and only 400 of it to cemetery purposes. Sir J. DUKE said tho real question was, whether this project was deserving of public support. He thought it was deserving the tsveurable consideration of the house. After some discussion, The house divided on the question of adjournment Ayes 92 Noss lO4 Majority against the adjournment .... 12 The bill was then read a second time. TORQUAY EXTRAMURAL CEMETERY BILL. On the motion of Mr. MACSANNON this bill was read a second time . WORCESTER AND HEREFORD RAILWAY BILL. On the motion that this bill be read second time, . . . . • Mr. SPOON Elt moved that it be read that day siz Months. Mr. C. LEWIS hoped thut the house would not take so unusual, a course as to throw out the bill on its second reading. (Hear, hear.) General LIGON supported the second reading of the bill. _ _ Mr. H. T. HOPE opposed, and Sir R. PRICE supported the biU. Two or three other hon. members spoke, and the house then divided— For ths wood reading Against it Majority —loo MANCHESTER AND SALFORD EDUCATION BILL. Mr. BROTH ERTON, referring to the adjourned debate on the second reading of this bill, which stood in tho paper as a " dropped order," said he proposed to take it on an early day after the adjournment. It had been postponed on • former occasion because the members of the government were not in the house, and the same reason applied now. Mr. GIBSON hoped that when the bill did come on it would be discussed on its merits. He was sure that could not be done now. Therefore, he hoped his hon. friend would lx it for some day after the adjournment. Mr. BROTHER'fON named the ltith March. Mr. ORISON suggested that it should be on a Wed nesday. Mr. BROTHERTON consented, and named Wednesday, the 17th of March. ADJOURNMENT OF TILE HOUSE.—THE MAY NOOTH QUESTION. Mr. F. MACKENZIE moved that the house, at its rising, should adjourn till Friday, the 12th of March. Mr. lILTME said he understood the adjournment was 'imply to allow time for the return - of the ministers. He thought an adjournment till Monday, the Bth, would have been sufficient. At all events, the returns might all be completed in a firtnight ; but before this motion was agreed to, he hoped members would be allowed to present their pe titions, many of them having bad petitions by them for several days. cllear, hear.) ' Mr. MACKE.NZIE said his motion was that the house, at its rising," should adjourn till the day he had named. Mr. SPOONER said he did not rise to oppose the mo tion, but to make some remarks on a question in same men• ' sure personal to himself, though not entirely so. At the last meeting of the 114tISC he had given notice of his inten tion to postpone his motion on the subject of the Maynooth endowment until an early day after Easter. That an nouncement had been received in a very unequivocal man ner by hon. gentlemen opposite, who seemed to infer that he bad altered his plan. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) Ile would put the hon. gentlemen out of their misery on that point. tie had not ahem: his opinion ; he hail not altered his determination; and ho saw no reason why he should do so. Ile .2ertainly did not expect to receive any opposition from the government. Ile knew not what course they might take; but it would be quite con trary to his expectation if they opposed his m o ti on. In the very last ',salon, Lord Derby, then Lord Stan ,ley, had teed these words in the House of Lords: " 1 donut hesitate to say that we ought now to consider, fully and deliberately, diapassiotiately and temp, ratelv, but at the same time firmly, the whole of the iliffieult qui stion of the relations in which the Roman eathidie sable, ts of this country stand to the crown." (Hem, he ir.) Ile (Mr. Spooner) only asked for inquiry, and an inquiry grounded upon the fact that the relations of the Winton catholic. to the crown stood in a very different position 1101 V to what they did a short time ago. Hr hail opposed Sir It. Peel's motion for thu endowment of May nouth, and had therefore nu difficulty in askiug that that endowment should cease. Ile thought these who had sup ported it after the conduct of the Roman catholic hierarchy and priests last year, would be inclined now to take the same view of the question as he did. Mr. ANSTEY rose to order. He submitted that the hon, gentleman was not in order in bringing on the question of Maynooth, and all the incidental questions connected with it, on a motion that the Mien at its rising should adjourn till that day fortnight. The SPEAKER said that the hon. member would not be in order in making any motion in reference to the May_ math question ; but on the question that the house at it. rising do adjourn to a particular day, any hon. member lead a tight to make a statement ; and it was on motions of that kind that hon. members generally took the opportunity of doing so. In fact, the adjournment of the house was fre quently moved for that purpose. Mr. SPOONER said he conceived the hon. and learned member mast have been well aware of that; for uu liu se member had taken more liberties on the !notion fur ad journment than he had dune himself. The object of the endowment of Maynooth was to provide ministers of the Roman catholic religion better inatructeal and more kindly disposed towards the state. Had that object been fulfilled Certainly nut. The late Sir It. Peel, ii, eroiso.ing this en dowment on the 3rd of June, DSO, had said—" I cannot agree that the system of education carried on at Maynooth is a matter of indifference to the legislature. I think the system pursued there is a legitimate subject fur the coo sideration of parliament, and that it would be an abandeni ment of duty were the House of Commons to avow a doc trine which would allow it to nay to the Roman catholic professor, "Ilere is your money—we are pledged to grant it; do with it as you please; inculcate, if you choose, dextrines subversive of order and injurious to m u . rality, but with that we cannot interfere:* if, (Mr. Spooner) did not anticipate opposition from the Roman catholic gentlemen themaelven. Knowing many of them intimately us he did, he was sure they were ignorant of the doctrines taught, the principles inculcated, the books used in the college of Mayuouth. If they did but give themselves the trouble to inquire, instead of taking fur granted that their private were right, there was not one of them but would cry out to have that system radically purged and brought into that state in which honourable, honest, and independent men would wish to see it. Since giving notice of his intention to bring this subject before the house, it had been his duty accurattly to examine, dili gently to search into the system of education carried on at Maynootk ; and he found that that system not only incul cated doctrines subversive of order, and injurious to morality, but doctrines completely antagonistic to the word of Ood. (" Oh," and question.) lie would only attri bute that cry of question to hon. gentlemen wincing at assertion, which they could not possibly contradict. Ile repeated that Maynooth taught doctrines completely antagonistic to the holy word of G.l. Oh, oh !") He would prove, when the inquiry took place, that it put the priest in the place of that (" Oh, oh !") It incul cated doctrines so horrible in themselves, that if the nation gave its money, authority, and weight to support that system of education, it would commit a great mitioaal sin, which if persisted in, would eittaioly draw down upon us a great national judgment. lie might be called a bigot, or dempised ; but he would nut flinch from his duty. He was prepared to prove every word he had *tiered ; and he was fully determined to bring forward his motion. lie had thought it fair to wait and see what the government did, feeling that it would not be right for him to interfere, if the ministers were ready and willing to take the matter up. But when the house met alter Easter, he most un doubtedly should bring this question under consideration on the first opportunity. Ile had been asked by the hen. member for Tralee whether he meant to bring for ward the two motions which stood in his name. Tho first was general; the second was a distinct and particular notice. Ile had given the first because he had hot then made up his mind as to the precise form in which be should submit it. Ile now meant to ask the house for a committee to inquire into the system of education carried on at Maynooth ; and he pledged himself to prove that the expressions he had used and the opinions he had given were founded on fact and could not be controverted. Ile was determined not to flinch from this; if lie did so, he should feel that he was guilty of the conduct denounced by his Redeemer—" Whosoever denieth me before men, him will I deny in the kingdom of my father in heaven." Mr. ANSTEY said that when the hon. member com menced his long discourse he had hoped he was about, at the eleventh hour, to repent of his weakness and withdraw his motion, ur else that he would propose that the h ouse , instead of adjourning for a fortnight, should sit de di, is dice* to investigate Dens's Theology and other matters. Now, it appeared the hon. gentleman would not even gone with the motion at all, but waisted to leave it to the go vernment. Mr. SPOONER said he had distinctly stated that le should bring forward his ruction after Easter. Mr. ANSTEY said the hon. gentleman, at all events, had retreated from one of his motions—that for the with drawal of the grant. If he would bring forward that mo tion, be (Mr. Anstey) would move an amendment to repeal every other religious endowment created out of public sources. (Hear, hear.) He knew that there were many on both sides the house—protestants as well as catholies— who would vote fur this. (Hear, hear.) Whether the hon. gentleman was in order in uttering the maledictions that he bud used, and in making the reference he had done to the second person in the Holy Trinity, might be doubted ; at all events, it was not in grad taste. (Hear, hear.) But perhaps it was the best course for theism. gen tleman and others on the opposite tenches to have as mush rope as possible. (Laughter.) After a few words from Mr. 11. Gitarrs:‘, Mr. NE WDEDATE stated that there was no truth in a rumour that a difference had occurred between Lord Derby and some of his supporters on the subject of Maynooth, but he believed his hon. friend Mr. Spooner intended to bring forward the question on his own responsibility. Mr. B. OSBORNE had remarked that the moment May nooth wee mentioned the new Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Hamilton) made a speedy exit from the house. The hon. gentleman had a motion on the paper in reference to the system of national education in Ireland, and he (Mr. Osborne) was anxious to know what course he intended DOW to take in regard to it, in consequence of his altered posi tion. If that motion were brought forward he would meet it by an amendment, declaring that any further inter ference by the clergy of the established church with the national system of education would obstruct education, pro mote religious discord, and increase agitation. Mr. E. hi. ROCHE thought there could be no doubt, from their past conduct, that the new ministry were hostile to Roman catholic liberty in Ireland. lie hoped Mr. Spooner would bring on his motion as early so possible, that the question might be solved. Mr. EWART suggested that Mr. Spooner should give notice at once of the day ou which he would bring on his motion. Mr. SPOONER, however, made no response, and the sub ject dropped. The motion for the adjournment till the 12th proximo was then carried. NOTICES OF MOTION. SUPPLY 01. COALS TO TILE 00% ERNMENT. Mr (1. THOMPSON to inute,ou Wednesday, March 17, for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into certain alleged frauds in the supply of coals by contract to her Majesty's dockyards and public office,. CIiFFE-STREET SAVINGS BANK. Mr. REYNOLDS, on the 18th of March, to more for an address to the crown praying for compensation to the depo sitors in the Cuffe-street Savings-bank. NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. .... Mr. B. OSBOICIE to move. u a modification of the mo tion of Mr. Hamilton on the subject of the national system of education in Ireland, that any further interference by the clergy of the established church with that system would obstruct education, promote religious discord, and iucre.oe agitation in Ireland. (Hear.) lONIAN ISLANDS. Mr. HUME, on that day fortnight, to move an ad.ln..s to her Maje►ty for the appointment oi a conimision to pro ceed to the loniaa islands to inquire into the long-coutmued discontents prevailing there. PUBLIC LIBRARIES. _ ..... Mr. EWART, on the V 18th of March, to mote for tho establishment of public libraries. CORN LAWS. Mr. VILLIERS ga;;;;fieeiiint,on as early day as ha could procure atter the new ministry had taken their st he would submit a resolution to the house ileclaritor) of its intention to maintain the policy of free trade, and to re.i.t any attempt to reimpose a duty on foreign corn. (Ileac.) NAVY ESTIMATES. Mr. MACK ENZiiis;trenttiiithot, on the 12th March, the navy estimates would be takeu up in committee of supply. HOP DUTY. Mr. FREWEN,on the 234 March, to more for the repeal of the hop duty. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Mr. HUME, on the earliest tiny he cooler proem. to bring tOrward a motion in similar terms to his motion of last year for parliamentary reform. MINISTERS' MONEY. Mr. ILEVNOLDS, on the 16th March , to move fur the abolition of mit - deters' money. INDIA. Mr. ANSTEY, on the I.2th of March, to move an ad dress to the crown for a commission to be sent to India to take evidence on the subject of that country. EoUrATION. ..... Mr. FOX postponed his motto', on the subjeet of MUM tiell to an early day after the adjournment. DROI"PEi) nOVERS - M I ORDERS. On Mr. F. MACKENZIE moving that the Parliament •q Representation Bill he prietponed, Mr. C. LEN - IS said that he proposed to adjourn the bills of the late gort rtintent till the 12th of March, to which day the house •heal a ljourned. The noble lord (Russell) would state ou that day what course he proposed to take with regard to tM se measures. PERSONAL ESTATES OF INTESTATES. This bill was read a second time. COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL. This bill was n.ad a third lime, and peseta. Thu house adjourned at half-raut 8. 01.1)11AM ALLIANCI RAILWAY.—The halt-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this undertaking was held 00 Weilnesilny, in the Oldham Town-hall. The chief busini,s, which was merely in a formal character, was the declaration of a dividend of Is. 6.1. a share. NIANCIIKSTER AND Fan' rllrola general half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was announced to be held yesterday, at Manchester, but there was not a sufficient number of shareholdeis present to form a quorum