The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-06 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMMS.—WEDIRMIDAT. FEB 5. Tbe 8 took the chair at 'even minutes before 4 o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. DICKSON took the oaths and hit teat for them ty et Limerick. formation such as Mr. Loy was AMP Mil to afford. Sir Denis Le Merchant possibly might be & very able man. (Hear, best.) Judging from the wisillsr of situations he tilled he certainly ought to be poundat • pretty general knowledge. (" Hear, hear," lbisesfar.) But what means had he of acquiring a lendarledb sea e et the routine and forms of the house, except that he had been for a shell time one of its members ? Mr. GOULBURN did not think the matter which bad been introduced by the hon. gentleman who had just sat down was suited to the present occasion. (Hear, hear.) lie was, perhaps, above all others, qualified to bear his tes timony to Mr. Ley, and to the knowledge and advantages derived from his experience, for having come into office soon after his entrance into parliament, he had been saved, by the experience and knowledge of Mr. Ley, from falling into those errors which, as a young awash. r, he must other wise have unavoidably fallen into. (Hear, hear.) He owed him • deep debt of gratitude for the information which Mr. Ley had afforded him from time to time. He had great pleasure in supporting the resolution. Lord J. RUSSELL hoped the house would allow him to say a few words in answer to the attack made upon him by the hon. member for Montrose. (Hear, hear.) Of course it was the duty of the Prime Minister to consider the quali fications of the person whom he recommended for any.par tieular office, and he would do wrong if he took the opinion of persons who had no responsibility, and disregarded bis own convictions on a matter of this kind. (Hear, hoer.) Now, his own conviction was, that he could not have made a better selection than that of Sir Denis Le Merchant. To my that he had no experience of the business of the house, was to say that which might be said of every person who filled the more important situation of Speaker of that house, who must necessarily he • person without experience in the arduous duties of that office. (" No, no.") But with to this particular office there was a recommendatiot r n a yl committee of the house, with respect to the office of counsel to the Speaker, an office connected with the house, to which a salary of 1,200/. or 1,1001. a year was attached. When this office was first created, it was one of great re sponsibility and labour, and the gentleman who filled it had been induced to leave air prospects at the bar for the pur pose of taking this situation. But the course of business in the house had afterwards changed, and another committee, I over which his right hon. friend the member fur North ampton (Mr. V. Smith) presided, recommended that the offiee should be abolished on the next vacancy, and that the salary should cease. It then became a question of consi derable embarrassment to Mr. Booth, not that he thought these duties could be dispensed with, but he felt that he held an office which stood in the way of a reduction in the public expenditure. It, therefore, seemed to him that If he appointed a gentleman fully qualified, from long habits of business, to discharge the duties of clerk to the house, and removed Mr. Booth from the Board of Trade, he could thereby effect a saving of 1,2001. or 1,1001. a year. It was' with a view to economy that he thus acted, and he had always thought that the hon. member for Montrose would support whatever promoted public economy. (Hear.) After a few words from Mr. OaANTLEY BIBILIELEY the resolution was agreed to. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—THE OF THE COMMONS TO HEAR THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. On the motion of Mr. STAPPORD, the following gentle men were appointed a standing committee to control the arrangements of the kitchen and refreshment rooms in the department of the Seijeant-at-Arms attending the house :—Mr. Stafford, Mr. Alderman Humphrey, the Earl of Mulgriore, Lord Marcus Hill, Mr. Vescy Dawson, Mr. Archibald Mastic, and Admiral Berkeley ; three to form a W o . n A r ti r ME said he wished to say a few words on another matter. Those who had, Yesterday, accompanied the Speaker to the House of Loids, would recollect the dis orderly manner in which the members had been compelled to follow him, and what danger the Speaker himself had to find his way there. (Hear, hear.) lie thought this was highly derogatory to the dignity of the house. (Hear hear.) Even when they did arrive at the House of Lord; there way not room enough below the bar to contain one quarter of the members. He happened to he the twenty fifth after the Speaker, but both sides of the bar were so filled that he neither saw the Queen nor heard her voice. (" Hear," and laughter.) It was an eternal disgrace to the house and to the country, that they had expended so much money on a place so ill-suited to carry on the business of the country. Could no means be adopted by which decorum could be preserved in future? (Hear, hear.) He recol lected that on one occasion the coat Of a member of the house, who now filled a high office abroad, had been torn— (laughter)—and that his shoulder had been dislocated. That was in the old house ; but it was as bad or worse in the new house. What he wanted was, that a committee should he appointed to consider of such arrangements as would enable them to go to the House of Lords as became their character and position. (Hear, hear.) If there was only • for a hundred members, lots might he draw NEW WRIT. Mr. HATTER moved that a writ be Wined for the bllwongh of Pontefract, now vacant by the acceptance of the olleo of one of her Majesty's Barons of the Eachequer by Mr. Samuel Martin. BOROUGH OF DUNGARYAN. Mr. HATTER stated that he bad on the previous even ing moved the issue of a new writ for the borough of Dungarees, under an erroneous perimasion that the seat had been vacated by Mr. Stied. He now moved for a so yrarsedass to stay any election proceedings being taken on the writ. Mr. ROEBUCK having interpellated the law advisers of the crown respecting the precedents to be followed in such mon, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that Mr. Shell, havios only boss appointed to an [Aro on the foreign di staff of the governasent, did nut thereby vacate C uWe iset in the house; and m the writ which had been moved Ger would bo neceoarily inoperative, the proper SOWN to adopt would be to stay further process be a su persedes:. The subject then dropped. PETITIONS PRESENTED. TRINITY COLUMN AND ST. PATRICK'S CAI I: EDNA L (Dentro).—By Mr. FRENCH, to extend the leasing powers of the fellows, and to provide foe the repairs and maintenance of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Para'. Aaoasestos.— By Mr. THORNELY, from Wolverlpimpton ; Sir R. H. - INGLIS, from Lincoln and Hants ; Lord CHARLES MANNERS, from Leicester; Mr. MACCIREOOR, from Glasgow • Mr. BROTHER TON, from Salford ; Mr. DUNCAN, frona Yorkshire ; Mr. SPOONER, from Warwick; Mr. NEWDEOATE, from Warwickshire; Sir THOMAS ACLAND, from Devon shire; Mr. DANKES, from Donetshire ; and Lord SHEL BURNE, from Caine; Mr. EVELYN, tram the parishes at Felonry, Alford, Weybridge, and the district of St. Mark's Chapel, in the county of Surrey; Mr. I'. BEN MRT, from Boulead and other places; Mr. COWPER, hosi Welwyn; Lord C. MANNERS, from Whitwiek,Cole- Ones, and Bocksninster, in Leicestershire; Mr. 0. DUN COMBE, from the nrchileaeoo and clergy of the arch deacoory of Itiehroond, Yorkshire ; Lord BURGHLEY emend numerously signed petitions), from the parishes of Welby, Barton, Coggles, North and South Witham, Ba- Corby, Swayfield, Bitchlteld, Stoke, Ounby, maLgtott. in the county of Lincoln; Mr. NEWDE GATE, from the clergy of the archdeaconry of Coventry, the inhabitants of the town and viciuity . of Nuneaton, in public meeting assembled, the congregation of Baptista of bird worth, from the inhabitants of the parishes of Barton =Heath, Stoke, Ansley, Mereden, Wilmash, and other in Warwickshire. W,'enow Tait.—For the unconditional Repeal of the Window Tax--By Lord DUNCAN (b 0 petitions), from Leicester, Somersetsbire. and various districts of the metropolis ; Mr. MOWATT, from Falmouth ; Mr. SMYTH, from York ; Mr. J. BELL (33 petitions), from bouscholders in Islington, Ilnensey, Holloway, Re. ; Mr. COLES, from the borough of Andover ; DIVETT, from the mayor, aldermen, and burgesets of the city of Exeter, and from ' ,000 inh abitants of Exeter; Mr. SM rrit, his. the inhabitants of the city of York, signed by the Lard Mayor, de.; Mr. HENEAGE, from Devisee, name' , /M l „4 littotd. L:01/NTT FINANCIAL AND AostINISTILATION &mar of—By Mr. DUNCUIT,from the Guardians of the Oldham Union; by Mr. ELLIS, from the Blahy Union, in the county of Leicester, and from Billeadon Union, in the name county ; Mr. PACER, from the Poor Law nudism of thc Morket Harborough Union, abbe counties of Leices ter and Northampton; Mr. FItEWEN, from Susses ; Col. THOMPSON, from Bradford; Mr. HENRY from Lanca shire ; Mr. COMI'TON, from Devonshire • Mr. ADAIR, from the Guardians of Cambridge Union: dr. COM l"f ON, from Fareham Union; Mr. I'. BENNET, from the Sud bury Board of Guardians, and the Stretford Board of Guardians. ADMISSION OP Jaws TO PAD, lllllNT.—Against, by Lord C. MANNERS, from Buekmice.ter. Dicta Mosortiee.—By Mr. HUME (3 petitions), from Lewes and other places, agaioat the continuance of the bible monopoly. ADV LTIMAT lON or Corere.—By Mr. CARDWELL, from Ceylon, against the adulteration of coffee. NOTICES OF MOTION. ENNISTYMON UNION.—IRISH FRANCHISE. Colonel DUNNE gave notice, on behalf of an hon. rnem- room . . a .. __ , her, that on Tuesday next he would move for copies of the to ascertain who 11116. to accompany the Speaker, that correepondenre between the Poor Law Commissioners and order might be pismerred, and that they might be able the Ennistynion Board of Guardians; also for a return of to conduct themselves ra other men, soberly and decently, the number of electors registered under the late act. and not like a mob. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) He was HOME SPIRITS IN BOND. himself knocked against the corner there, his head was Lord NAAS gave notice that he would on to-morrow (this knocked against the post, and he might have been injured day) edit the right hon. gentleman, the ChBACCUOT 14 the if a stout member to whom he felt much obliged had not itachequer, whether it was his intention to take any steps come to his assistance. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) It fur removing the duty on home made spirits in bond. was no laughing matter. It concerned the character of the (Rear, bear.) house, and it must be matter of regret that such a scene as 'WINDOW DUTIES REPEAL. that which had taken place yesterday should have been Lord DUNCAN gave notice that on the 13th of February presented to the Queen of England at the bar of the House he would submit LI motion fur the repeal of the window of Lords. (Hear, hear.) Ile thought that this matter duty. (Hear, hear.) might be left in the hands of the present committee, who SUNDAY TRADING. were perfectly competent to deal with it. (Hear.) Mr. W. WILLIAMS gave notice that, on the 11th in- The motion was then agreed to. gout, he would move for leave to bring in a bill to pre- THE SESSIONAL ORDERS. vest unnecessary Sunday trading in the metropolis and its Mr. C. LEWIS moved the usual sedional orders. vicinity. After several of them had been agreed to, LAW OF MORTMAIN. Mr. HUME said he had given notice last session of his Mr. IIEADLASI gave notice that on Tuesday, the 18th, intention to move that no money Tote should be taken after he would more for a select committee to inquire into the 12 o'clock, and that intention he should now fulfil. policy of eztending the law of mortmain so as to include In the case of a vote having been discussed before permed estates. midnight he did not propose to prevent a decision; what SUGAR DUTIES. he desired was that no new money vote should be proposed 1 Mr. ORANTLEY BERKELEY gave notice that he after 12 o'clock. would take an early opportunity of moving for a committee The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought to take into consideration the 11th and 12th Vie., c. 97, re- that it would not be wise for the house to bind itself down to speetiog the differential duties on sugar. any positive resolution on the subject. Ile hardly knew an in- LAND INSURANCE. stance in which the government had persevered in an attempt The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave notice that he to force a vote after twelve o'clock. (Yes.) He was quite would, on Monday, move for leave to bring in a bill for the sure that in his time no such thing had occurred. Whela n-got:anon of insurances affecting land in England. ever opposition had been made to a vote after that hour the PAPAL AGGRESSION. government bad given way. It wax, in fact, understood Mr. NEWDEGATE gave notice that he would move an that opposed votes should not be taken after midnight, and address to her Modest y praying for a return of the number he could not call to mind any deviation from that rule. l of addressee which tad been presented to her, together It was far better that the house should be left to ex with the slumber of signature* attached to them. revise its discretion as the occasion arose than that a rube' IRISH VICEROYALTY. should be established which might tend to impede the dm- In reply to Mr. MIITSOLDI4, patch of public business. Lord J. RUSSELL said it was the intention of the go- Mr. HUME observed that if circumstances should re ?moment to bring in a measure fur the abolition of the quire the suspension of the order, he would have no objec- Lord Lieutenancy. (Cheery) two to that being done. Mr. REYNOLDS heggeit to give notice that he would Mr. SPOONER said the vote for the College of Mays mole for a call of the house. (Cheers.) nooth had been taken at a quarter past one in the morn- FISIIF.RY OF THE BLACK WATER. ing. He should ;rapport the motion, considering it Mr. ANSTEY wished to ask the First Lord of the Ad- quite indecent to vote away the public money at such late salinity whether it was the intention of government to hours order any and what prosecutions, or preceedinm, for carry. Mr. W. WILI.IAMS said the greatest mischiefs had ing into effect the recommendations contained in the late arisen from bringing forward votes of importance after 12, report of Commander Fewer, R.N., on the illegal obstruc- and even 2, o'clock in the morning. When his hon. friend lion to the fishery and navigation of the Blackwater ; and the member for Salford (Mr. Brotherton) used to perform whether he would lay the said report, with plans, de., the onerous duty, in which he persevered for setae = before the house? there was mine check to the evil, but his hon. friemill Sir E. DARING said that, though it was true Mr. Fraser late years relaxed in hie efforts, and that was an additional bad completed hie survey end forwarded it to the Admi. reason for adopting the motion. ratty, the report was not yet complete; till the complete Sir G. GREY said there might be many cases in which report and plans had been furnished no decision would be it would he for the public interest to have a eats pried conic to. When he saw that report he would communicate after 12 o'clock. The hon. member fur Montrose said ha the result privately to the hon. gentleman. would vote for dispensiug with the rule where that MS 1194 NEW FOREST. emery. The house might he continually megegsi it db. Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY wished to know if it was (twang the question whether it were neessamy MI the intention of the government to bring in a bill for the the rule or not, and thus, even if the rule WWI ile iacluouro of the New Forest? if so, what were the Thine would be infinitesimally small. intuitions of the government with respect to the destine- Col. SIBTHORP opposed the motion. lion of the deer; whether they were prepared to take into The house then divided, when there appeared— consideration all claims of common right, and whether they For the motion intended only to retain a certain number of acres, and if so, Against it to what extent t Mr. BROTHERTON then moved, in pursuance of Lord SEYMOUR said it was his intention to bring in notice, "That in the present session of parliament no three bills respecting three different forests and he thought business shall be proceeded with after midnight ; and that it would be more convenient to reserve all details till be at 12 o'clock at night precisely, notwithstanding there moved the introduction of these measures. (lb's; hear.) may he business under discussion, Mr. Speaker do adjourn ADULTERATION OF COFFEE. the house without putting any question." The hon. member Mr. 0 RANTLEY BERKELEY wished to know from his for Montrose had used arguments which evidently applied right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether to his own motion. He was not proposing any infnnge it was his intention to introduce any measure to prevent the meat ; 150 years ago it was the rule for the Speaker to adulteration of coffee by chico d other means, so as quit the p rint at 12 o'clock at noon, and they had adopted afford protection to those who sent coffee into he country ? a similarple with respect to the Wednesday sitting. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he The rule which he proposed was, he thought, calculated would state his views generally on the subject when making rather to facilitate than to retard public business. The present his financial statement, bat with regard to the prohibition system was very prejudicial to the health of members. In respecting the use of chicory with coffee, it was not his no session within his recollection had there been so great a intention to iutroduce any m e a sure an that subject. mortality in that house as in the last, and he attributed Mr. GRANTLF.Y BERKELEY then gave notice of his this in a great degree to the fact of members having been intentions* move for leave to isitrodnee a halloo the subject. worked until past midnight. There was often a great waste JOHN HENRY LEY, ESQ., LATH CLERK OF THE HOUSE. of time after midnight, and in deciding whether the home should adjourn or not. An hon. gentleman had observed Lord J. R1:188ILL and Sir R. H. Imam la eule that h e doted in his exertions. He bad there ea the retired clerk of the Commons , had far 40 yews fulfilled oho alxuThey, intelligence , and enurt4 " with i ' v l u e l L Its. l - 0 7_ i account of the number of days and balm, as wall as the number of 11 after midnight • that the house bad set file r th ,Tu e " t ti t h e r,: h a :L ik .th.„,i e forit,welairawres:iditrimtli'llth4.l7l.cmovoedf he the last nine ° rears. The followi ng Mel the result :•••• Ay.. tmelffildear distinguished and exemplary manner in which J o h n H enry 1141 D 117 ... .. - LIPS Houna 111 Ley, Esq., late clerk of this house, has uniformly discharged lea - NS the duties of his situation durin g a long attendance of 49 1644 years at the tahle of th, house. HNC 119 —...... I..SM Mr. HUME said that, having bed frequent op tun(- 1145 1847 ....... ..... 111 ........... 916 ties of observing the admirable manner in which Mr. Ley bad 1445 . his duties, he cordially and entirely agreed with late C f roto e ; d but it was with extreme pain that he felt t eased upon 16Si to complain on the part of the public of the manner in which The only a that could be urged against his pro the prime minister had filled up the vacancy. (H ear , p os ition was t.rr:rr i en.members al& evade the rule by hoar.) He considered that every word which the noble lord speaking against time. The good gum of the house would used, such as large experience, extensive knowledge, long prevent such a bane • e from belie continued ; while ' servitude, told madly against himself, for they found that one good effect whisk he anticipated um that hon. members the person who occupied Mr. Ley's situation was a gentle. wouU be induoed roam to abridge &sir speeches, which man who had not had a single day's experience in a similar would make them mem egmemble ile dm ammtry. care. (" Hear," and laughter) He did not wish to say Mt. EWART bevies soseadoi the mation, anything against that gentleman as an individual, but a Sir G. GREY sa id th e h ouse h av i ng d ec id e d aga i ns t th e knowledge of his office would only be obtained by the motion of the boo. member for Montrose, he could sot continued practice and lonz experience which the noble muuseive that they would adopt one which went mesh lord bad adverted to, and therefore he did complain of the further. No doubt it was very undesirable that the habit meaner La which the noble lord had exercised his patronage should prevail of continuing the debate long after said (Hoar, beer) oMces of this nature should always be filled night ; but that was not the general practice, especially in up with a view to the public benefit, and when a vacancy Site earlier part of the session ; the adjournment generally occurred, due attention should be paid to the merits and . tote place about 12 o'clock. Still, if the rule were to abilities of the party appointed to it. That rule applied I adjourn every night at that hour, the business of the with double force to the office in question, for young mem- I home , would be placed. to a great extent, in the power of hers, ignorant of the forms of the house, could only make ! • minority, and the ecesion be protracted by the habit of themselves acquainted with them through the assistance of speaking against time—an evil against while bit bow the clerk at the table. (Hear, hear.) It was, there-' friend had provided no remedy. Ile would be glad to sr fore, of the utmost importance that they might be a further adoption of the salutary practice of abridging I able to apply to an o Mmr who could give them in- usielen speeches. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1851. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY could not concur in the moths; but thought, nevertheless, that no new matter should be brought on alter 12 o'clock. Mr. ANSTRY said that some measures depended for nie cea on the chance of being passed after midnight. lie had supported the previous motion because ha thought it es oeedingly improper that any of the public money should be voted away after 12 o'clock at night. Bat, on the other hand, measures of great public importance mightbe thrown over if the rule were applied to everything. One of the most important measures of last session passed through the house at 2 o'clock—lse alluded, of course, to the Engines for taking Fish Bill. (A laugh.) Mr. SPOONER supported the motion. Mr. J. REYNOLDS took a similar course, thinking that most of the jobs were perpetrated in the small hours of the night. The house divided— For the motion Against it THE ADDRESS. The Marquis of KILDARE brought up the report on the addreas. Lord D. STUART raid that not having had an op portunity of addressing the house on the previous evening, be wee anxious to say a few words in order that th= port he gave to the address might not be misund Although he did not mean to offer any opposition to dist address, be could not join its expression of satisfaction with respect to foreign affairs. lie was, of course, well pleased to find that we were at peace with 01l nations, but at the same time he should have wished to hear something more from the government respecting the manner in which the influence of this country on the continent of Europu had been preserved. In the speech of the previous year, he had seen a remarkable paragraph relating to certain differences that had occurred among the great powers in the cast of Europe, and the manner in which those differences had been accommodated through the friendly offices of her Majesty's government. The house was then told that the question relating to certain Hunga rian refugees had excited great differences among certain states in the cast of Europe, and that our government had interfered with friendly offices; and it was made a matter of congratulation that the point had been settled in a manner consentanrous with the dignity and integrity of the Turkish empire. Now, it had long been the profession of British governments, whether whig or tory, that they would sup port and maintain the integrity of the Turkish empire, and on the occasion allnded to it was felt that the demands of the northern courts to have certain refugees delivered up to their vengeance was a violation of the independence of the Turkish empire. lie should have been glad had the present speech told the world that the continued interposi tion of our friendly offices had procured for those persons so unjustly and inhumanly detained something better than tho interior of an Asiatic fortress for their present abode. (Hear, hear.) He thought it would have been more cre ditable to our government, and more agreeable to the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who had so often declared his anxiety on the subject, if he had been able to come forward and say, " We have not allowed the Turkish government to be coerced into delivering up these un fortunate men, nor have we permitted the Turks to be forced by Austria to become the jailors of that government." (Hear, hear.) It would have been most creditable to the noble lord could he have said, " Kossuth is no longer detained a prisoner against the law of nations, and contrary to the avowed desire of this country." (Hear, hear.) He (Lord D. Stuart) felt the more upon this sub ject, because it was very well known that the sovereign of Turkey had no desire to detain these poor men in captivity, seeing that they had done nothing against him or his do minions. It was notorious that the Turks had no desire to continue these barbarities, but were compelled and coerced into doing so by the representations and influence of Austria. He was anxious before he eat down to say a few words on the subject usually known as the papal aggression. Now, although he was as much attached to the protestant church as any man in the country, he was anxious, while he revs renca his own religion, to give to every man the most fall, free and uninterrupted enjoyment of his peculiar doctrines, and the full command of all internal religious regulations. (Hear, hear.) He fully admitted that the Pope's recent measures had been adopted with little courtesy towards I the government of this country. He must soy, that for such a sovereign as the Pope, the weakest in Europe, supported only by foreign bayonets, to insult the sovereign of a great country like this, by dividing her terri tory into districts, was a gross piece of insolence; and he rejoiced at the manifestations of protestant feeling which had taken place in England on account of it. Ile was glad to ass the protestant feeling of the country ; but that was a very different thing from interfering with Roman eatholies in the free exercise of their religion. To resort to penal laws would be, as the hon. and learned member for Shef field had said, a step backwards ; and he fully believed with that hon. member that the time would come when the people of this country would be ashamed of the step now contemplated. (Hear.) Formerly the Pope's power was real, and there might he some ground of alarm; but now it win a mere shadow, quite unworthy of the alarm it had created. He asked, what power did the Pope give by his late edict ? Did he compel people to goes confession, or to put their hands in their pockets for his bishops? No, thank God, he might call spirits from the vasty deep, but they did not come upon his calling. (A laugh.) Every one was hound to obey the Pope—just as far as he chose and no farther. (Hear, hear.) Why, then, this alarm ? For his part, he felt none, lie believed that truth was great and would prevail, and that there was no fear of the established church losing its terri- I tory, its titles, or its revenue. All these things were grounded in the laws and constitution of the country, and yet they were startled at the nomination by the Pope of a few titular bishops, as if it was suddenly to make the whole country Roman catholic. (Hear.) He had no such ap prehension, and, in his opinion, the House of Commons had I nothing to do with the question. lie did not care how many bishops were appointed by the Pope. Hewes anxious that in giving his assent to the address he might not be supposed as agreeing to the measures which he saw with sorrow were about to be taken, and which he considered an invasion of the great principle of toleration, while they would, he be lieved, be entirely inoperative for the purpose for which they were intniduced. Captain I'.. BENNET expressed regret that no hopes were held out in the speech of relief to the agricultural in terest. He referred in proof of the distress to a circumstanee that had recently occurred at Eye, in Suffolk, where the agricultural labourers, to the number of between 300 and 400, marched into the town armedwithclubs and sticks,and took possession of the workhouse, turning out the master, and breaking the wards and holding possession untilthey were forced to surrender by a party of shopkeepers and townsmen who had been summoned to assist, and by whom some of the ringleaders had been captured and placed in prowl for the offence. The rause of this outrage was that the labourers had been long out of work in consequence of the inability, of the farmers to provide employment for them. In that district the last year had been a most ruinous one . The blight had destroyed, to a great exptnt, the produce of the land, reducing it from 5 quarters per see which the farmers bad anticipated from the appearance of the crops in the spring, to 'l} or 2 quarters per acre. The effect of this had been to place many men of capital in such a state of difficulty and distress that they were wholly unable to employ the labourers on their farms. The question that the report be rend a second time being put, and no member of the government rising, Mr. HUME called the attention of minister, to the ques tion which had been put by his noble friend (Lord I). Stuart) on a matter in which the public out of doors deeply sympathised, and which last year commanded as much in terest out of doors as the papal aggression did now. The question which his noble friend had put was— why was the paragraph relating to the Hungarian refu gees, and the efforts of her Majesty's government to ameliorate their condition, omitted from the present speech, while the cause which had led to its insertion in the speech of last year still existed ? He thought respect for public opinion ought to extract from government some explanation, whether there was any hope for those unfortunate men who were now, at the instance of Austria and Russia, con fined in Turkey. It would be satisfactory also, if the noble lord would state the number of them. Viscount PALMERSTON—I can assure my hon. friend that her Majesty's government were not inattentive to the subject alluded to. (Hear, hear.) Communications have been carried on by her Majesty's ambassador at Constanti nople with the Turkish Divan, with the view of obtaining therelease of these persons, but I am sorry to saythat those efforts have not, as yet, been attended with that success which we could desire. Mr. HUME—WiII the noble lord state whether all the Hungarians who took refuge in Turkey are still detained there, or whether any have been set of liberty ? Lord PALMERSTON—I cannot state exactly. The number sow at Katayah is not so great as it was ; • mini derable number, about 700 I believe, who remained at Shumlah for moms time, have, I understand, lately been forwarded to Constantinople, but whether to be stationed at any place in that locality, or for the purpose of their being sent elsewhere, I cannot say. The report was *ea agreed to, and the house adjourned • sum. at a quarter part CHILD STEALING BY A FOREIGN COUNT.—About three weeks ago, a noble lady, a native of and residing in France, lost her child, a remarkably handsome girl, about five years and a half old, and heiress to a large fortune, under circumstances which left no doubt on her mind that Count —, a German, had got the child into his possession and had departed with her for London. In a state of great distraction the mother made the matter known to the Pre fect of Police, through whose instrumentality the particu lars, with a description of the parties were transmitted to the authorities in London, who directed Inspector Field, of the " detectives," to endeavour to trace out the count, and after about ten days indefatigable exertion, that diligent officer succeeded in ascertaining that the count WU living with the girl still in his possession, in a street near the Strand, and that the sum of 30,000 francs was demanded for the restora tion of the child. Mr. Field was not disposed to listen to any proposal of this kind, and adopted • plan to get pone,- sion of the child. It was arranged that he in an assumed name should have an interview with the count in reference to a bill of exchange at an attorney's office, and both parties kept the appointment. The inspector at once disclosed who he was, and that his real object in obtaining the interview was to obtain possession of the child, and within an bout afterwards she was in his care, the count haring at once' volunteered to deliver her up rather than compromise his friends with whom he was living. Mr. Field subsequently received instructions to proceed to Prance and deliver up the child to the authorities, with which instructions he complied. SEAMEN'S HoserrAL ON BOARD TAP. DEMI/. NOCOHE.—At the yearly annual court of this charity, held yesterday, it was stated that the number of patients re ceived into the hospital during the past year was 2,!74, and the number of out-patients, 1,528. The receipts for 1850 amounted to 8,583/. 14e. 6d., and the expenses to 6,501/. 5. 5.1.; and 2,081/. 9s. Id. had been invested in the Three-aud-a-Quarter per Cents. 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It neither men tioned our own, as c•ontradistinguished from Romanist ecclesiastical troubles, nor did it refer to the exist ence of the colonies. Now, both are subjects quite as important and far more interesting to Englishmen than the additional articles to the Sardinian Treaty of Commerce, or the new Brazilian slave trade law, usod to prolong the royal discourse to its ordinary Imeh. We have n conflict going on in the established church of the country, which the Prime Minister in his ' Letter to the Bishop of DURHAM announced he ' hared more than the aggressions of the Court of Rome; and we have a transmarine empire un paralleled in extent of soil, in variety of circumstances, in importance to the future welfare of the mother country, and for questions political and eco nomical, of difficult and even hazardous solution. Yet not one word has the QUEEN been advised to utter to her parliament on either. And by , this abstinence the burthen of bringing the church question, or any general survey of our colonial pos sessions, or. the condition of any particular dependency before parliament, is thrown either on the opposition or on some independent member who has courage to run counter to ministerial quiescence and his party's tactics. In either result of the omis sion there is convenience to the ministers, at the ex pense of the subject to be treated. For, taken up by the opposition, the question becomes one of party, and to save the government from its opposition attacks an unmeaning and senseless support is given to the cabinet ; or, left to the care of an independent member on the liberal side, he has to struggle against the difficulty of obtaining a day for a subject unconnected with the arrangements of parties; and against what is even worse to bear, the imputation of being an im practicable man and a disorderly person. It is not, it may be said, usual to introduce topics into the QUEEN'S speech on which some action by the executive has not taken place during the recess, or on which measures are not in preparation. But, though this may he taken as a general, it is cer tainly not the universal rule of royal speeches. It is the invariable practice of those documents to refer to the general condition of the country at the time of their delivery; and though, of CORM, the material state of the population must always form the foremost object in that condition, to omit all notice of matters actively affecting their in tellectual, moral, and religious welfare, is to convey a very imperfect picture to the legislature of the nation whose affairs they are assembled to preside over and to legislate on ; and for the QUEEN thus to address her parliament on its assembling, at a time when nearly every colony belonging to her Crown has some question or other at issue with the Colonial-office on which it looks to the im perial legislature as its court of last ap ral, is not to give the colonies a very flattering notion of the value at which they are held by the ministers of the crown. A word in the QUEEN'S speech on any of them would have shown all that they are not wholly forgotten in " our Palace of Westminster." Both the ministers is es r and the ministers in pnwe arc, there cannot be a doubt, very desirous to escape from any parliamentary discussion of the Church of England question. Accordingly, the rat of the Conner has to be exclusively that of papal aggression —that of the latter, agricultural distress. To-morrow Lord JOHN opens the measure which has to repel the court of Rome ; and on Tuesday Mr. DISRAELI intends to display the wares collected during the reccsa7for agricultural delusion in the session. The power of the bishops and the fear of the clergy re. strain the government; the apprehension of a split in their ranks alarms the opposition leaders. And thus a question which out of parliament more or less 1 occupies every man's mind, which is dividing society, and which may change the fortunes of the country, will be left by those who deem themselves alone tit to govern England to the hap-hazard of some indi vidual member having pluck enough to take it up. The Church of England question, it is sometimes argued, is not one on which legislation can accom plish any good. But the policy of a country is not, we reply, settled merely by legislation. The per fect equality, irrespective of religious opinions, on which Ireland is now governed was established much more by parliamentary discussion than by legisla tion. And what in wanted on the great question i that now disturbs England ecclesiastically s the ex pression of parliamentary opinion much more than say positive legislation. During the last fifteen years an immense change has been made in the position of the Church of England; its bishops have revived for it pretensions that in the pride of our liberalism we had previ ously deemed extinct; its clergy have attempted to make that church occupy in England the ground from which the Roman church was driven here et the Reformation ; and both have asserted for it an independence of a parliament not composed—excla rively composed of its members. Now, when it is recollected that this church, by an exclusive university system, has the complete direction of the education and the formation of the character of the higher classes of society ; and that by our paro tibial system, it possesses an organisation for unity otacticat on the lower classes which the state can not pretend to; it follows that any change in the supposed mission of such a church, that any devia tion in its sacerdotal pretensions, that any efforts to gain greater power, involve considerations of such national importance as to render their oversight by parliament an abnegation of its highest functions ; calculated not merely to degrade parliament in the estimation of the country, but to place in jeopardy the prospects of the country. The first minister of the Crown has con sidered it his duty to tell the QUEEN'S sub jects that he apprehends more danger from these changes in the church than from papal aggression; he proposes to legislate against that aggression through the minor danger; with what con sistency then can he dissuade parliament from enter. ing on the consideration of what alarms more than external assault, viz., intenial teaching? In the presence of such an announcement as Lord JOHN Itusssit. made to the Bishop of DURHAM, it is not possible for parliament to overlook the actual plight and future prospects of the church of England. And so with the colonies. However much minis ters may wish to avoid colonial discussions by omit ' ting the colonies from the QUEEN'S Speech, M r . HAULM has shown them that they can not. The want of any notice of the colonies in the speech rouses all old prejudices against the Colonial-office; it begets the belief that it has forgotten nothing and learnt nothing by the past ; that it is resolved to pursue its own headlong and opinionative system ; and the consequence is. that the Colonial-office is too naturally made the target of attack. Mr. BATLIAE is about to repeat to the House of Commons Mr. J'' , Jetb Oniylimmi - s article on Ceylon in the Q.starterly Review and Mr. ADDERLEY is whetting his appetite to eat up Mr. HAwas with the grievance of the Cape of Good Hope. The Colonial-office has something to tell parliament about the affairs of the forty colonies confided to its charge, or it has not. If it has, surely some general intimation of their state might have been thrust into the Royal Speech; a word ofcommiseration for Jamaica, of encouragement for British North America, of attention to Australasia, of notice for the Cape. of hope for Ceylon might have been graciously added without fatiguing her Majesty. Instead * there is silence ; ominous, hopeless, obstinate silence ; a silence repressive of loyalty in the colonists; signifi cant of jealousy and hesitation in the imperial govern ment. WE have kept silence on the case of the SLOASES till their trial was over. In any circumstances we would have done so as a simple art * justice to the accused. But we had a stronger motive on the pre sent occasion. The details of the alleged crime were so nauseous and revolting, that to the last we clung to the hope . that they might have been exaggerated. That the girl had been ill-used her appearance placed beyond a doubt, but it was possible that upon a sub stantial substratum of wrong a mendacious and re vengeful disposition might have built up a romance of inhuman atrocity. Now, however, the line of de fence adopted by the prisoners, doubtless by the ad vice of their able counsel, leaves no doubt as to the Lth of JANE WILIIRELia story in all its startling details. We hear it whispered that the male prisoner is en titled to a more lenient construction ; that he has shrunk from a line of defence that might have ob truded the full guilt of his wife upon the know ledge of the public. We confess we attach little im portance to such rumours, which cannot be substan tiated. If Mr. SLOANE did not actively participate in the cruelties practised on the ill-fated girl, he connived at, for he could scarcely be ignorant of, them. Public security, public morals, public deco rum, require that the perpetrator of such a crime shall not escape with impunity; and when two par ties are found so situated that one or other must have been the active offender, and one or other at least passively cognisant of the atrocity, if the less guilty party cannot, or does not, choose to establish his case, he must take the consequences: lie cannot expect to be exonerated on the simple pie Jui of anony- mous partisans. The case of the SLOANES is unprecedented in the annals of English jurisprudence, except by that of Mrs. BROWNRIGGE. And here we must remark, that, although we are nut going to complain that the pri soners have been too leniently dealt with, the pro- ceedings in court revealed grave defects in our penal law as bearing upon such offences. The reputation of the counsel employed for the prosecution, and the tenor of the remarks that fell from the bench, for bid us to suspect that there was any lack of tech nical knowledge or skill displayed in the framing of the indictment. Yet the accused were able, by pleading guilty to a minor charge, to escape the full investigation of their case. Its most atrocious features could not be examined, because the girl was not what the law considers " of tender years." An orphan, bred in the workhouse, without natural friends in whom she could repose unhesita ting confidence, with no alternative between the Ber -1 vice in which the union had placed her and being thrown upon a world of which she was utterly igno rant, JANE WILBRED was as helpless as any child. Yet she was denied the legal protection which the law extends to the child which she equalled in ignorant* and timidity. The presiding judge declared, on passing sentence, that the bench was determined to examine rigorously every case of alleged mal-treatment of servants, and visit offenders in that way with the severest punishment. This does not meet entirely the exigencies of the case: protection is wanted for the lone orphan, apprenticed by parish guardians in order to diminish the expen diture for the poor. The discussion which took place in the Central Criminal Court yesterday goes far to justify the sarcasm of BENTIIAM, that there would be no living for honest people in this coon tosmt:ati.euntr,hltrarldnarrd trv, did rogues but know how many loop-holes and subterfuges the law affords them for escaping the consequences of their misdeeds. That the SLOANES have not escaped with com parative impunity we owe less to the provi sions of the law, than to the wise and equitable sternness of the judges. Then• have been cases, and that within a short period, in which judges have shrunk from enforcing the rigour of the law to the extent that justice demands. Such cases ought not oa arc, audacity happily o : c u y ni r l to pass without animadversion ; for, without under valuing the importance of a clear, comprehensive, and systematic penal code, the sagacity and right feeling of the judges to whom its enforcement is de legated, are of still greater consequence to society. To illustrate our meaning, we need only advert to the case of OAF., disposed of some few days ago in the Insolvent Debtors' Court. It was clearly esta blished that Cott: had received from his wife before they were married, and in expectation of the mar riage, a sum of 1,600/. It also appeared that he had debts at the time to the amount of:100/. or4oo/. Yet 1,480'. of the money he received from a virtuous and confiding woman, as a proof of her devotion and reliance upon his affection, he squandered away upon l a common prostitute. More thoroughly degraded moral sentiments and utterly debased of sentiment or honourable feeling could not be shown. Yet though it was in the power of the court to have imprisonment, he was let off with eight visited the callous and unmanly voluptuary with months, of which six had already elapsed. It ignoranceocertainttvvoluptuaries. t ispnaturaloubcrpurity, s s ,e appealing t obd ) fr u Our ou brought the debasement ntst ; int n px: must be kept in mind that the hells and brothels of the metropolis have trained to a similar pitch There is but one way of protecting women against fears. Calm, unimpassioned, unbiassed regard for the safety of womanhood would of itself have dictated the infliction upon Cott: of the severest punishment the law allowed; but the ex-advocate of COUETOI• BIER took pity on him. thrceithitachs.reetaouagytneasd'hi. A POWERFUL illustration of the great argument of Mr. Pgro's full and able speech will be found in the returns from the Poor Law Board laid on the table of the House of Commons on Tuesday. From these it appears that nearly 200,000/. less was spent for the relief of the poor in England and Wales during the six summer months ending Michaelmas, 1830, than the sum spent during the same period of 1849 ; and whilst 931,328 paupers were relieved on the Ist of January, 1850, 71,183 less were relieved on the same day in 1851. Account for this as we may, there is the fact, that the destitute or unemployed poor weigh upon the country by half a million sterling lehs throughout the year than they did before the establishment of free trade. Nor is such amelioration confined to manufacturing counties. Between the first day of 1850 and the first of 1851 there was a decrease of 5 per cent in the poor of Bedford, 0 per cent, in that of Bello, and little short of 4 per cent in that of Bucks, nearly 8 per cent. in Devon, 41 in Dorset, 10 per cent. in Kent, and the same proportion in the East Riding. The greatest decrease is in Warwick, being 22 per cent.; in Leicester and the West Riding 18 per cent. ; 12 per cent. in Lancashire. What is most remarkable, however, is the great decrease in the number of the adult and able bodied persons relieved. Thus in Essex, whilst the decrease on the whole number of paupers is but 2 per cent., on the adult and able-bodied it is 0 per cent. In Bucks, whilst the decrease on the whole was not quite 4 per cent., that on the able-bodied is 15 per cent. In Dorset, whilst the de crease on the whole is about 41 per cent., that on the able-bodied is nearly 20 per cent. In N or f o lk, Northampton, Northumberland, whilst the decrease on the whole is 41, 5, and 6 per cent., that on the able-bodied is 101, 14, and 131. Warwick, 22 per cent. on the whole, is 40 per cent. on tho able bodied. Seventy thousand persona able to work, who had no work on the first day of 1830, were all employed on the same day of 1851. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone is said to be de tained at Naples by the illness of Mrs. Gladstone. Jr. Gladstone ia expected to return to England before the e.ne of this month. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Of the committee appointed to-day in the bureaux of the Assembly, on the notation Bill, two members only are in favour of the grant. In nearly all the bureaux the debate preceding the choice of a coin ' missioner was conducted in a spirit of bitter hostility to the government of the President. The following commissioners were chosen Placatory, Grevy, Druet-des-Vaux, Chambolle, Delessert, Bee, Raze, Dufour (for), do Mornay, Combarcl de Leyval, Desmarest, Quentin Bauchart (for), l'idoux, and Creton. All these names, with the excep tion of I)ufour and Bauchart, arc to be found in the majority of the 415 who joined in M. Ste Beeves vote of censure against the government on the 18th January. M. Benjamin Delessert particularly distinguished himself by the violence of his opposition to the dotation. This hostile formation of the committee is in con tradiction with the resolution adopted last night by the club of the old majority, which met in the rooms of the Palace of the Conseil d'Etat, and agreed to support the dotation both in the bureaux and in the Chamber. The result proves the impossibility of reconstituting the old majority, and the com plete rupture of the legitimists with the go vernment. The triumph of the coalition of the legitimists and the Mountain in the bureaux to-day over the government is one of the most ill-omened facts which I have had lately to record as regards the solution of the crisis. It will dispose the classes most interested in the preservation of order throughout France to believe that the only cure for the anarchical obstruction of all government, arising out of the monstrous coalition of ultra-royalists and socialists, is the empire. The most effective answer to the rejection of the notation Bill would be no doubt a national subscrip tion. A scheme is on foot for dividing the subscrip tion into contributions of 5 centimes and 50 centimes. I hear, however, that the President is opposed to the scheme of a national subscription, and has declared his intention of proposing that the amount which has barn already subscribed should be bestowed upon the poor. The number of voters in the bureaux on the ap pointmcnt of the notation Committee, was 629, of whom 387 voted for commissioners opposed to the grant, and 242 in a contrary sense. - It was known this afternoon in the Assembly that a letter had been received from Venice, which repre sented the hiuke of Bordeaux as dangerously ill. Soon after, it was affirmed that the Prince had got over the worst of his illness, and was rapidly reco vering. [The Vienna Thig, just received, also announces the dangerous illness of the Duke de Bordeaux, at Venice ; stating that he had received extreme unction, and was not expected to live.] The sitting of the Assembly was devoid of interest. The discussion was resumed, on the proposition of M. Joret, for the abolition of the ortrwx. M. Hour tier opposed the scheme in a long speech, to which M. Joret replied, repeating many of his arguments of yesterday. The proposition of M. Joret was re jected by 389 votes against 251. The funds showed, at the opening of the Bourse, an upward tendency, but so soon us the hostile dis position of the bureaux on the flotation question was known, a reaction was visible. The Fives closed at 00.85, with a fall of 10e. upon yesterday. but of 33e. on the highest quotation of to-day. The system of appointing special commissioners to speak, instead of the ministers, on the part of the government in the debates on important bills, has already began to be put in practice. By a decree of the Ist inst. M. Damns, secretary-general of the Ministry of the Interior, has been named commis sioner of the government to speak in the debate on the National Guard Bill. Various reports are in circulation with regard to a conversation held at a dinner given by General Lamoriciere, at which MM. Thiess, Cavaignac, Bedeau, Baze, Jules de Lasteyrie, Letlo, and others were present. M. 'bier is said to have expressed himself at this dinner in favour of s revision of- the constitution, but hinted that he and his friends would vote for the suppression of the presidency of the Republic, and its replacement by a directory of five members. Yesterday was posted upon the Salle des Confer ences the Tend statt ment of all the credits voted on the bud of 1850, and of those which remain to he voted. the total amounts to 1,515 millions of francs. The receipts are only 1,359 millions. hence the excess of the expenditure over the receipts for 1850 would be 1,556 millions. M. Ney do la Moskowa has addressed a lettelito the papers, stating . that his motive for assaultinglf. ltamond do la Croisette was not the professional pro ceeding alleged by that gentleman, but a personal affair, on which he will explain himself before the committee. Poe AonnunL PARIB, Fss. S. I 10 lissay. 10pattsc Wettest Levant Geis& 3 per Cents. .... 58 20 158 35 56 60 /4 2$ 59 IS 5 per Cents. 3 do. New Logos S do. do 9B 80 . ... ... ... ... 1 per Cents. Easiness ma London: at sight, 2493; 100 24 lie. Eelgian, 5. 1840 Do. 3, 1842 Do. 4y Do. 26 Piedmont 3 p.Ct 1350 83 73 ... hank Shares BotritBll.—St. Germain, 425 ; Versailles (right hank) ; 180; ditto (left bank), 172 ; Paris and Orleans, 880; Paris and Rotten, 675; Rouen and llavre, 277 50; Marseilles and Avignon, 197 50 ; Strasbourg and &tie. 16.5; Centre (Viereon), 410; Boulogne and Amiens, 232 50; Orleans and Bordeaux, 401 25; Northern of France, 481 25; Paris and Strasbourg, 368 7.3; Tours and Nantes, 252 50 , Montereau and Troyes, 100 ; Dieppe and Fccamp, 218 25; Bordeaux and Taste, 42 50. MADRID, J AN. 30.—Three per Cents., 34 9-16; after Bolan, 341 cash, 319-16 paper. Four per Cents., 13. Five per Cents., 13 ; after Bolsa, 131 pap er , 131 cas h . Coupons, 71; alto. Bolan, 71 cash. Passives, 4; after Bolan, 4 cash. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 96 cash. Exchange on London, 50.63. GERMANY. The new Holstein government entered on its func tions at Kid, on the 2nd inst. The proclamation published by Count Iteventlow and the com missioners, announcing the fact, announces also the abrogation of the fundamental state law, of the German fundamental law, and the dissolution of the Assembly. All laws made and put in force since the 24th of March, 1848, are also pronounced invalid, as wanting the sanction of the sovereign ; they are to be retained, however, provisionally at the pleasure of the government, which can abrogate or alter them as it secs good. AUSTRIA. The imperial ordinance, fixing the basis of the future administrative government of the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom, contains the following provi sions: The territory of the said kingdom will be di vided into the respective provinces of Lombardy and Venice. Lieutenants, or Statthalters, will be placed at the head of the local administration, the members of which will reside, in proportional nu m b ers , i n t h e cities of Milan and 'Venice. The Statthalters will be immediately responsible to the ministry at Vienna, to whom all appeals against their decisions must be made. An official staff for the service of this body is organised and ap pointed by the central government. Prefects of police will be appointed for the security of the two chief cities and their neighbourhoods, which officers will be immediately subordinate to the Statthalters. The Lombardian province is subdivided into the dis tricts of Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Mantua, Pavia, and Sandrio ; that of Venice into the districts of Venice, Belluno, Padua, Rovie Tre viso, Udine, Verona, and Vicenza. The administra tion of the districts will be conducted in the first in stance by delegates sitting at the capital of the dis trict, and subordinated in administrative function to the Statthalters, to whom appeals from them must be made. The duties of the former police commis sary are transferred to the delegates. The districts are still further partitioned into com munes, the administrative affairs of which will be conducted by commissaries standing immediately r below the delegates, whose orders they will execute. The presidents of the various official departments are held responsible for all that is done by the officers under them. Each functionary has to take for his guides the written law and the directions of his superior. Persons desirous of becoming candi